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In relation to esoteric work there is no credit. Payment is strictly in advance. It’s another ‘inexorable’ cosmic law.

If you are reading this, it means you have paid to read it, and I’ve paid to write it. But what and how do we, or have we paid? And how do we calculate how much to pay, especially if we’re naive to the price? Coming to the four lower centers, each center pays in its own way. There’s an instinctive-moving centered payment, an intellectual and emotional payment. All four centers are active, even if we believe they’re passive, in receiving an impression.

“Not the smallest idea can become one's own until one has paid for it.” Peter Ouspensky

Simply, payment is the effort we make to gain what we want. In relation to self-remembering, more often than not, we’re naive to the efforts required to pierce imagination or relinquish an identification in any or all of the four lower centers. This is where school is a necessity, because everything in a school is structured for creating the third state. Aristotle is quoted as saying, “We learn to do by doing.” In a school, we learn to pay by paying. Another way of saying this is the more we remember ourselves, the more we are able to remember ourselves.

Payment is a privilege ~ Helaine Feivelson

When we understand what’s at stake, that conscious evolution leads to conscious life, any payment demanded from us that leads to self-remembering, becomes the means to immortal higher centers. Even so, payment is exacted only to the extent we are able to make it. Thus, rather than demand payment all at once, our being dictates our ability to make the necessary efforts, and we arrive at consciousness little-by-little, making greater and greater efforts, consistently accruing experiences of higher centers until we are ready to inhabit eternity.

In the nineteenth century Walt Whitman offered us the sum of his experience on the subject of payment: “The same inexorable price must be paid for the same great purchase.” And six hundred years earlier Jallaladin Rumi gave the only reply possible, “What a bargain, let's buy it.”

You’ve paid, one way or another, to read this and other posts. Have you received what you paid for? Only you can answer that. When you know the answer, payment ends and valuation begins.

Charles R.

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