From CALISTHENICS September , 1979

CALISTHENICS September , 1979

Statement of Purpose

The reason to be of the groups is to participate in the Christ Impulse that was launched into humanity's conscious level about 2,000 years ago. The task is two-fold. One aspect is the adjusting to human level of that part of the Impulse already working on the so-called higher levels and now intended for human expression also. The other aspect is to render this operative within mankind. This implies participation of unseen as well as seen beings, the group being a small but needed part of the whole action.

Within the action of the groups, one can distinguish three aspects:

The Logoic Action, which comprises the sounding of the word the opening of new avenues in the human time/space related life, the generating of the basic directive life energy within which all participants cooperation is taking place.

The Brotherhood aspect that develops the avenues, means and shapes as well as the dynamics which allows the impulse/impulses to be operative within humankind.

The participants aspect whose task it is to operate the action within Humankind. This implies the selfless and still difficult task of incarnating the principle/principles in that specific way that will allow others to follow wherever they are.Depending on Soul maturity, degree of initiation and development, a participant may be engaged in one or two or the three aspects. Which implies the ability to handle more and more responsibilities. It is expected from the prospective participant that she/he feels deeply the hope/need/willingness for service, and that imply readiness for committment . All the action of the groups being a volunteer work, it is expected from the prospective participant that she/he has the maturity for accepting to work with no desire for personal reward of any kind. The she/he has the maturity needed to be work-centered with no thought or desire for self-centered acquisitiveness. This implies the maturity to approach the ongoing action as work to participate in, definitely not as a teaching to be received. Thus the prospective participant will prepare herself/himself to give freely of her/his energies on any level, according to her/his ability to be committed and a code of honor to be respected.

I have just a few comments to make on that last part, you realize is not that easy to accomplish. As we have seen in the past, we can distinguish the aspect of survival when you are on earth from the aspect of your reason to be on earth, or your reason to be incarnated. Survival is linked with acquisitiveness, reckoning and calculations. Your reason to be on earth is always a gift -- always. Without any exception. So it's not an acquisition. It works in another way.

For instance, it is expected from the prospective participant that she/he feels deeply the hope/need/ willingness for service.

Now many people have the feel for service. Few, very few realize what it means. There is that service which is related to acquisitiveness, the art of survival on earth That kind of service is needed. But there is that other service -- your reason to be on earth -- and that's very different. It requires the awakening of that part of your consciousness which is not calculating -- not wanting to grab -- not wanting to reach. Be it wealth -- materially speaking; be it wealth -- spiritually speaking. So it implies a readiness for committment . In your wishes many people are are ready for comitittment -- many, many people. When the action comes, it's another story. Meaning, the committment has to be real, and not only a dream.

It is expected ... that she/he has the maturity for accepting to work with-no desire for personal reward of any kind.

This is one of the greatest stumbling blocks. I would say that one-hundred percent of the particpants that fail to continue fail because they work along the line of acquisitiveness, and feel that they don't receive what they are looking for, or the reverse, they don't perform as they think they ought to, which is a kind of calculation too. Sometimes the fault is on us, sometimes they take it -- In both cases, It's misleading. It means they have failed to realize what is asked for and what is put into action.

It is not the usual consciousness . We do not mean to criticize the usual consciousness. You need it for survival anyway. So you cannot skip it. But there is something else.

That she/he has the maturity needed to be work-centered with no thought or desire of self-centered acquisitiveness.

Imagine , you act for the sake of the action and whatever is involved in it. And you do not ask anything for yourself. Even when you work on yourself , as a sample of mankind. A situation. Not for you. Do you realize the freedom you would live in? Instead of having that constant pressure that you feel in your head or your feelings of wanting to reach, to get this, to get that. And when you get it, it's never sufficient. If some of you still have the dream that one day you will reach it -- well forget it. Of course I say it, I happen to be a little bit older than you, in many ways, not only physically, so I still say forget it. I have gone through it also.

This implies the maturity to approach the on-going work as work to participate in, definitely not as a teaching to be received.

Believe it or not, (this is for the newcomers) I've said this many times, and we have participants following since, well I don't know, maybe seven or eight years, who still continue to listen as if it were a teaching. Why? Very simple. From childhood on, you learn to follow teachings. You begin with school, and everything depends on that. So you have a really hard time and this can easily be understood. Get rid of the teaching/learning syndrome and start working. Following a teaching is wanting to get something. Of course I tell you, give you some hints on, how to do somethiAng , and I expect you to do them. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. Why do them ? Because we have a task to accomplish, and we have something to set into motion, and one of the things is to create a new man. This requires a lot of selflessness, because you are work-centered, and the work is not easy. With all the pressure of civilization around you, based on an old form, and you are on the threshold of something. You have to work for that. It's definitely not easy. Have no illusions. But once you have gotten into the movement, to say that it is not easy is not correct either . You will find that some actions are beautifully easy, and easily beautiful. And, so long as beauty exists. we cannot speak of difficulty, because beauty outweighs difficulty. Difficulty is something to do and we do it. Of course if you start calculating and entering into considerations, then you get lost. Then it is difficult. The main difficulty is to cross over from that acquisitive awareness into your reason to be on earth, which is a gift to mankind.

So the prospective participant will prepare to give himself/herself to give freely of her/his energies on any level, according to her/his ability to be committed and a code of honor to be respected.

A code of honor to be respected -- this is one of the least known aspects. A code of honor to be respected means, in a way, that you have become reliable, fully - completly. If you have some illusions. I have to say there is no possibility of higher spiritual work without being reliable. Just plain none. There is much too much responsibility involved. Now, some people are naturally realiable ; but some people are not, and those who are not have to make an effort. It's very easy to understand why you have to be reliable. I will come back on that later on.