The Seekers

Name: The Seekers
Author: Sampter, Jessie E. (Jessie Ethel)

Sampter, Jessie E. (Jessie Ethel)

Philosophy and religion -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States

_c._ Creation is Self-expression, is endless, higher rebirth:

        1. All action reveals the actor.

        2. Life is a drama, in which we feel ourselves to have
        equal prominence with others, and conscious power of
        control:

            α. We cannot help having influence.

            β. Let us shape our influence for the whole.

                           THIRTEENTH MEETING

            _Self-fulfilment Through Overcoming Limitations_

I. ENVY, ITS NARROWNESS AND BLINDNESS:

    _a._ Every man serves me who does for me what I cannot do for
    myself:

        1. Each one fills out my shortcomings.

    _b._ Use, instead of coveting.

II. SELF-REGULATION IN DESPITE OF SELF:

    _a._ The moral sense of beauty, an intellectual sense of
    completeness, makes us regulate and suppress our desires:

        1. Hence we make laws which are substitutes for
        understanding love.

    _b._ The substitutes necessary until love conquers, are:

        1. Justice.

        2. Honesty.

        3. Duty.

        4. Binding by promise.

        5. Obedience.

    _c._ Conventions, their changes and their convenience.

III. SOME VIRTUES CHANGED BY LOVE’S DEMANDS:

    _a._ Revenge, the first expression of Loyalty:

        1. Our admiration for such expression in its own early
        time.

    _b._ Pity, the developer of Feeling:

        1. Degenerates into Weakness and Impotence.

        2. Is an Insult:

            α. A strong man does not pity himself. Should
            not pity other strong selves.

        3. Strong Sympathy, and our common Working for the great
        Happiness, should replace pity.

    _c._ Reverence for special people, with Fear:

        1. Self-reverence means reverence for all selves.

        2. Reverence the old—and the young, too.

        3. The reverence with love replaces the reverence with
        fear.

                           FOURTEENTH MEETING

    _Loyalty, and Conscious Allegiance to our Individual Aspiration_

I. PATRIOTISM; ITS MEANING:

    _a._ We are children of all we can love and serve:

        1. The growth of loyalty, from the family to the world:

            α. War as a fighting for peace.

    _b._ Patriotism in its growth, like all progress, must include
    the small in the large, though in seeming disloyalty:

        1. Disloyalty to one’s country cannot be loyalty to the
        world.

        2. But wholesome criticism often seems disloyal:

            α. The loyalty of revolutionists.

II. CONSCIOUS CHOICE IN SELF-DEVELOPMENT:

    _a._ Know what you want most to be.

    _b._ Eliminate whatever interferes with your choice; make life a
    work of art, not a haphazard photograph.

        1. Concentration.

        2. Choose and subordinate your studies for their worth
        to you.

        3. Prefer friends to acquaintances.

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The SeekersSampter, Jessie E. (Jessie Ethel)

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The Seekers

Sampter, Jessie E. (Jessie Ethel)

Philosophy and religion -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States

_c._ Creation is Self-expression, is endless, higher rebirth:

        1. All action reveals the actor.

        2. Life is a drama, in which we feel ourselves to have
        equal prominence with others, and conscious power of
        control:

            α. We cannot help having influence.

            β. Let us shape our influence for the whole.

                           THIRTEENTH MEETING

            _Self-fulfilment Through Overcoming Limitations_

I. ENVY, ITS NARROWNESS AND BLINDNESS:

    _a._ Every man serves me who does for me what I cannot do for
    myself:

        1. Each one fills out my shortcomings.

    _b._ Use, instead of coveting.

II. SELF-REGULATION IN DESPITE OF SELF:

    _a._ The moral sense of beauty, an intellectual sense of
    completeness, makes us regulate and suppress our desires:

        1. Hence we make laws which are substitutes for
        understanding love.

    _b._ The substitutes necessary until love conquers, are:

        1. Justice.

        2. Honesty.

        3. Duty.

        4. Binding by promise.

        5. Obedience.

    _c._ Conventions, their changes and their convenience.

III. SOME VIRTUES CHANGED BY LOVE’S DEMANDS:

    _a._ Revenge, the first expression of Loyalty:

        1. Our admiration for such expression in its own early
        time.

    _b._ Pity, the developer of Feeling:

        1. Degenerates into Weakness and Impotence.

        2. Is an Insult:

            α. A strong man does not pity himself. Should
            not pity other strong selves.

        3. Strong Sympathy, and our common Working for the great
        Happiness, should replace pity.

    _c._ Reverence for special people, with Fear:

        1. Self-reverence means reverence for all selves.

        2. Reverence the old—and the young, too.

        3. The reverence with love replaces the reverence with
        fear.

                           FOURTEENTH MEETING

    _Loyalty, and Conscious Allegiance to our Individual Aspiration_

I. PATRIOTISM; ITS MEANING:

    _a._ We are children of all we can love and serve:

        1. The growth of loyalty, from the family to the world:

            α. War as a fighting for peace.

    _b._ Patriotism in its growth, like all progress, must include
    the small in the large, though in seeming disloyalty:

        1. Disloyalty to one’s country cannot be loyalty to the
        world.

        2. But wholesome criticism often seems disloyal:

            α. The loyalty of revolutionists.

II. CONSCIOUS CHOICE IN SELF-DEVELOPMENT:

    _a._ Know what you want most to be.

    _b._ Eliminate whatever interferes with your choice; make life a
    work of art, not a haphazard photograph.

        1. Concentration.

        2. Choose and subordinate your studies for their worth
        to you.

        3. Prefer friends to acquaintances.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

The Seekers

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