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Posted on: Tuesday 27 February 2007 10:23:32 am

The spiritual values of greatest importance may well be those that lift us out of our self-centred preoccupations. Self-interest benefits no-one, including oneself, so interdependent and interrelated has human society become. Separateness and selfishness are human glamours, based on lack of vision and understanding and due, now, to be transcended.

The "sacrifice of selfishness" would release new values into national and international life. It could end the arms race, now perpetuated by the power and profit motive, and lead the way towards world disarmament and world peace, visioned and provided for in the Charter of the United Nations.

The sacrifice of selfishness would encourage inclusive attitudes of mind, enabling all parts of society to share in and contribute to the growth and prosperity of the whole. It would promote responsibility and concern for wholeness in attitudes and actions. A new perspective would emerge on life and its true values.

The sacrifice of selfishness would increase the bonds of understanding between the peoples of the world, through the practical substitution of international cooperation, mutual tolerance and sharing between peoples and nations. It can liberate the men and women of all nations from limitation and restriction into freedom from fear and from want, freedom of speech and of worship, and freedom to expand mentally and spiritually.

There is today a growing tide of aspiration towards better ways of life for all peoples everywhere in the world. Human consciousness is opening to spiritual impression and to the realisation that there are desirable spiritual values to be built into every aspect of life, superseding the materialism which has controlled humanity for centuries. These values concern essential attitudes of mind and heart which determine actions and create the physical circumstances of daily life.

The task (of the New Group of World Servers) is, through meditation, to establish the knowledge of and the functioning of those laws and principles which will control the coming era, the new civilisation and the future world culture. Their emphasis will be upon:

The Law of Right Human Relations -- The Principle of Goodwill

The Law of Group Endeavour -- The Principle of Unanimity

The Law of Spiritual Approach -- The Principle of Essential Divinity

Adapted from <Discipleship in the New Age Vol. 2> by Alice A. Bailey

The struggle to put these laws and principles into practice can revolutionise our ways of thinking, of loving and acting, in our immediate community life and in relation to the One Humanity.