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THE FOURTHWAY MANHO E-JOURNAL Volume 56 June 25, 2019 |
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THE NATURE OF GROUP, SCHOOL WORK and MISSIONARY WORK; FRICTIONS IN GROUP WORK ARE NECESSARY FOR PROGRESS By Professor Dr. Tan Man-Ho (An excerpt from the original work, Real World Views, Book 8, by Professor Dr. Tan Man-Ho entitled "To Know, To Understand, To Be; The 'I's and 'it's of Man; Commentaries, Thoughts and Aphorisms on the Social Life of Man," April 1977 - September 1977 Discourses, Chapter 6, Section C & D: "The Nature of Group, School Work and Missionary Work," pp. 180~187)
1
I am interested in organizing a study group
which is the first step in the preparation of the future work in line with
the long-term mission to the Great Sociocosmos and of great value to all its
sociocosmic entities. Small batches of research groups of 2 to 7
individuals are being set into motion to collect data, find more ways to
self-perfection and strengthen this great group body. 2
Groups must be understood at a
higher level and have leaders,
overseers,
visible and invisible ministers.
The strength of a school lies in doing the number is secondary. When
a group becomes visible, it means it has strength. 3
Mentally projected future scenarios now and move
into this scenario as you create the frontier of the new real world.
The whole process is the realization of all your predetermined missions,
purposes, goals and objectives. And all your three centers must be
pointed in one direction as you coat
your Is with this material fortune of your group and corporate identity. 4
What is the use of two persons staying together
unless they work
together and discuss amongst themselves to achieve goals? The fourth
way may have to proceed by preparing the mind and for the whole being to be
set in a predictable manner. 5
Every piece of
doing should
be done consciously; otherwise, it is not
doing at all
just happenings.
There will be happenings!
Never mind about the things to be done, so long as it is
school doings
from the conscious you. The work
involves subjecting a person under different situations conducive for
changing being-states. A matured group
characterized by similar-dimensioned brain, authority-at-different-levels,
socio-function-in-different-categories and stabilized standard norms these
are the 4 cardinals of group at work in any organization. By
developing consciousness, these cardinals will stand in opposition to one
another, now uniting now separating. In the end, the group becomes a
place for quarrelling
and irritating
‑ this is the sign of development within a group. A group can turn
into a self-quarreling school where
papa,
mama, sons and daughters never agree with
one another and even as you shall see they become very calculative both in
money and labor (work).
And these vibrations are transferred by the beings themselves, that is,
working on their centers.
6
A school can withstand tremendous
amount of criticism, a tremendous amount of scolding and punishment. 7
Even for man or woman it is the same.
When they enter a school, perpetual work programs continues to the last day
of their life. So, long as a person drift with the wind, he becomes an
automaton. He has to be schooled again. He has no program but
his body harbors all kinds of Is. 8
A group is the coming together of individuals, a
meeting of the minds at a sufficient degree of vision, philosophy and
understanding that they have individual and group tasks and goals to
accomplish. However, a group can develop internal contradictions as it
carries on for some time and external contradictions with other
groups as
they meet.
Essence group and personality group are different in that the former has
higher and more centers integrated, matured and are based on higher
interests, while the latter has lesser involvement of centers contact,
immature and are based on superficial interests. Time and distance cannot
easily affect an essence group. Personality group is easily forgotten
and disappears with distance and time ‑ out
of sight out of mind.
In real essence, there can be no real contradiction but as it acquires more
personalities contradictions set in. And in personality, esotericity
cannot be created. It must be understood that an esoteric circle
cannot accept many members. In life
circumstances, you must know which group you are working or playing with
and many of them pour from the empty into
the empty. When a group actively
seeks expansion it draws in its planetary
neighbors into its orbit of influences
through regular communication, reciprocally feeding on the products and
services of one another visibly and invisibly. The
higher the group mission is, or the more esoteric the group is, the fewer
will be its real members. Jesus Christ cannot maintain an esoteric
member of 10 members (disciples) although he has millions of followers by
now. Marx only wanted 12 essence members (followers) ‑ the really
esoterically committed ones. Gurdjieff probably has 8. If he
goes on wasting time with others, he will become instead of being the
highest C
influencer, transformed gradually into a B influencer and in time even lower
than that. The higher the level, the greater will be its ability to
disappear into any groups at any level. 9
If a C influence is thoroughly visible,
it might be destroyed rapidly. 10
People whose basic Is are different and even
antagonistic cannot form a proper group. In this sense people with
weak I crystallization is even better than people with strong I
crystallization or (strong culture for example) ‑ because some of these
wrong crystallization are difficult to erase. But people without I
can still be fished out just like people with Is. They have become
visible for the fisherman, whether they have Is or not.
11
Being of the wrong type is good for the work if
they stay together. Wrong types produce friction and the friction
produces the heat that would boil the group to steam.
12
Never be in your life to impart fourth way
knowledge too insistently. Very few can really come into it without an
inner crisis. Only those who are
seeking and searching for something are useful and may have the possibility
of coming into the Way.
So, whenever you come across a person, you must find out whether he is
really seeking for something, and if so, what is it? If a person is
satisfied with everything, you can forget about him for the
way.
13
It is no use staying in a school if you do not
want to BE.
14
Groups are notes, RE-sociocosmic
stopinders, in the Great
Sociocosmic Ray of
Creation. There is no point
imagining a group that can truly represent humanity for they function for
themselves within the paradigm of the group purpose of existence. The
non-esoteric groups never work on themselves all roundedly, but only talk
and show their defective sides everywhere they go.
15
My special interest lies in this when observing
a prospective learner ‑ the possibility of being able to develop, the
ability of being able to work together and lastly, to learn from him.
16
Can you collect people who cannot do and
will not do anything ‑ but already very busy with their self-will and
excretions? Anyone who wants inner development has to isolate
himself from ordinary people, just to
avoid being pulled by automatic mass psychosis. This isolation
is a prelude to real future contact with them.
17
Suppose a group wants to conquer a region
X. All it has to do is to strategically spread propaganda about this
region. Assuming wherever possible that a certain Mr. W (but actually
this Mr. W = an ordinary lame
goat) has being constantly oppressing and
punishing unjustly its people, and you know what
we, the
group, are so fueled with fire over this
something that
we cannot
wait the slightest moment to get rid of Mr. W and take our own region.
But Mr. W does not really exist. Region X is concealed to many people
and so
. Well! You can give a hundred and one reasons when the
chicken is in your table dish.
18
It is essential to bring together differences
into a work group for inner work but not suitable for a group that wants
productivity and immediate delivery of goods and services. Actually
many activities have been going on unseen. People talk a great deal
about the past. You need to quietly sense and see the real world again
in the midst of the noisy talk.
19
For serious essence work, it is no
use creating a group that only operates in personality. If there is to
be a group, there is to be some essence links. Even couples and kin
might not have enough essence contact. Personality and even
professional unity is unsafe.
20
Learn to discipline the body to
work.
Your life is always a part of work
but the trouble is that the work
becomes more and heavier when your three centers could not coordinate with
one another. Work
is also an I. Without work Is,
conscious effort is lost. And he does everything mechanically.
It started off with group work
that the New
World Order can be realized. A
reverse is possible if humans behave entirely mechanical again.
21
The first line is
work on oneself,
the second line with friends
and the third line, for the school.
In the third line, there will also be the 1st
and the 2nd
lines.
22
When instructing a group whose members are
from various cultures everywhere, it is essential to run the group using the
common sense rule of seeking for the shared values and reducing potential
conflicts. There should be no lording or exploitation. They come
sincerely to work for themselves and the welfare of humanity in general.
We are facilitators. You can get into a small group and work on
something for
this something
could be useful to humanity later.
D. FRICTIONS IN GROUP WORK ARE NECESSARY FOR PROGRESS
1
In life circumstances, it is impossible to be
free from friction.
2
Type is inner not outer. Type is due to
the emergence of the inner into the outer. It depends on how the
number of conscious or automatic types you can issue. Type is
crystallization. After staying with a person for some time, you can
sense the type and strength of each separate crystallization present in his
inner world.
3
Move along with groups and establish connections
with the good essence beings. Each person corresponds to a particular
type suitable for a specific or group of functions. Do not attempt to
choose one type. Put antagonistic type together. They help inner
development and social changes. If possible, change a
few of them into other types.
A way to enter a group is through mimicry!
4
Either you give only when they want it or you
create a condition that would lead them to want it, and you give it.
The more you understand, the more you enter the
work.
In the work,
your inner world attitude to everything will change.
5
Now when speaking on the
work, it is a
very long process. A family can become the
work.
Our relation to beings of the same or opposite sex is a perpetual
trialectical motion.
6
What type of beings should be connected to a
fourth way being? One who is also very interested in the fourth way
and is very willing to work on it. Such a person can become essencely
connected to the fourth way being. If one has another kind of interest
or other Is, what is the use of living together in a fourth way group? If we take a couple, can the relationship be
harmonious if the Is are antagonistically different? No. But
for fourth way work such frictions are very necessary.
7
Another type of people who can enter the
way is a
disappointed person who could listen and appreciate essence value. Can you know whether
the relationship is right? The lower too must not have a strong
self-will. She must be a learner. What about tests? Almost
all the time and everywhere! Can you know who is higher and who is
lower? He who has gone through inner being-partkdolg duty is the
higher. In face of the higher forces, the lower must be passive.
If it is unable to do so, it will be farther away from the
way.
8
Always and everywhere, develop the inner
contradiction of a social group or an organization engaging in the
work.
This antagonism is the hidden or suppressed unliberated
libido of a
sociocosmic entity that needs the friction to spark off creativity. It
is most likely that the good elements could be alchemized from such a
friction and the bad elements are transformed into good ones.
Imbalances are improved through the work.
When there is no such contradiction and friction, there is no growth.
9
I was of course very curious about these what
are called being-colleagues who on talking to me always and everywhere observe
me with curiosity, and to look at me as if I am a weird planetary specimen
in the laboratory. No wonder, these creatures, talk in the manner as
if they would do when they are making a dissection
of other beings in the laboratory. I do not know whether I am the
cause of their behavior or they are the right candidates for the
work.
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