Fulfilling a Task with a weaker fellow human being
A person trained in contact with God’s spirit world will know which relationships to keep and which to give up. The stronger you are, the better grounded in your path, the smaller the danger that you can be harmed by lesser developed beings, and the greater your opportunity to help and influence them.
However, people’s first reaction is to do that which is easiest: those who can still be harmed spiritually through contacts with less developed souls are usually still at a stage where these contacts will not be unpleasant to them, and so they do not wish to give them up. They persuade themselves that they can help with what they have already gained, yet they are not truly capable of giving such help and will, instead, be weakened. Rather, they ought to seek out contacts which will strengthen them.
On the other hand, people who can no longer be harmed, for whom these disharmonious contacts are but tests through which they can strengthen themselves, are in a state in which these contacts feel like sacrifice; they want contact only with kindred spirits and avoid those who do not give them pleasure. They are inclined to apply what was true for them before, but should no longer apply in the same way, namely, that contact with people of a lower development is harmful. Here one can sometimes make a mistake by not fulfilling a task with a weaker fellow human being, when one could do it. If the soul of someone who has already progressed quite far on this path is still unhappy, if there is something that makes it restless despite its already accomplished spiritual work, the cause could be the avoidance of an unpleasant contact with somebody one was meant to help, the avoidance of a soul with whom one could have fulfilled a task and learned from it. You see, the rule is not always the same. Think about this when you are not entirely happy; avoiding a task with a person of lower development may be the cause of your unhappiness. The soul of a highly developed person is very sensitive; a lack of harmony is its way of telling that something is not quite right. However, do not jump to the conclusion that you are necessarily in the position of a higher developed person, just because that idea suits you and you don’t want to give up control.
- Quote taken from Pathwork Guide Lecture #7 Asking for Help and Helping Others
Teachings of Eva Pierrakos' Spirit Guide
Conditions in the Spiritual WorldsHow to Begin on the Spiritual Path
Three Levels of Spiritual Laws
Knowledge must never remain Theoretical
Life as one Link in a Long Chain
Longing for God
Self-awareness and Examination
Completing Life Tasks
Hardship is self created
Willpower
Suffering and self pity
Selfish happiness
God's Love
The Path of Perfection and Purification
Fulfilling a Task with a weaker fellow human being
Disharmonious Feelings
Hell and Heaven are Within
Being and Doing: Self surrender
Happiness and Mundane Fulfillment
Causes of War
Focussing on the Other
Doubt, Faith and Outer Proof
Q&A with Eva Pierrakos' Spirit Guide
The souls in the lower spheres are supposed to suffer much pain. How is it then that Lucifer, who is the worst of all evil spirits, does not seem to suffer? Is this just?Why is it that one feels abandoned by God, that one finds oneself without assistance from the higher spheres just when one goes through the most difficult times?
I would like to ask you, what is the difference between the Indian and the Western concepts about the continuity of life after death. Which one is right? Is it true that there is nothing after death, as the Indians say, that after repeated incarnations the soul finally returns to nothingness, that the individual personality does not survive? Or does personality and individual consciousness remain in existence in some form?
I would like to ask a question of scientific interest. A scientist friend told me that humankind has already once before reached a very high state of development, perhaps higher than what we have today. I mean this in the material and not the spiritual sense. He says that atomic energy was definitely known at that time, hundreds of thousands of years ago, when the world was destroyed in a catastrophe. Is this true?
I just read a book by Prentice Mulford which almost completely agrees with your teachings, but there is one thing which I do not completely understand. He says that one should not preoccupy oneself with the negative, especially not with one’s own faults; such preoccupation creates more negativity. It is enough to identify the negativity and leave it at that. You, however, taught us not only to confront our faults, but also to fight them. Yet in order to fight them we have to think about them every day. Here I find a contradiction between your teachings and the book.
A friend of ours who is a follower of Rudolf Steiner’s teachings said that there are not only two “kingdoms,” heaven and earth, good and evil, but three. According to this concept the earth is ruled by a being that is not Lucifer or the devil, but Ahriman, who is the ruler of matter and who is supposed to be more dangerous than Lucifer. Is this true?
I struggle with this problem again and again. If God has a Plan of Salvation for us, and if we have fallen away from God because we entered the wrong path, not the divine, why did God make His Plan of Salvation so complicated and so terribly difficult for us? I know that it is necessary for our development, but it still seems too hard.