_b._ Social life and service. _c._ Knowledge as mere show; or as power.] SEVENTEENTH MEETING _Aloofness and Creation_ I. SEEING LIFE AS A SPECTATOR, FROM GOD’S POINT OF VIEW: _a._ The collective personality: 1. Psychological fact: We are often outside ourselves in tense moments. 2. Getting far away from oneself in self-criticism and judgment. 3. Our reasonableness in crises. 4. All heroism is self-forgetfulness for the sake of the whole. II. RESULT IN ACTION AND CREATIVE LIVING: _a._ Partnership with whole, or God: 1. We can see and use our personal life as part of whole. 2. We can get above our own sorrow and pain, and use them. _b._ This aloofness from self, or being the _One_, is the root of all morals: 1. Some know this, and make laws; the others are forced to obey. _c._ Aloofness is collective experience, or memory, whence we grow toward the good. We live in all time and space. III. PERSONAL RESULT OF OUR CLUB’S WORK: _a._ Drawing judgment from the whole. _b._ Drawing strength from the whole. _c._ Training our lesser desires to serve the whole aim and desire of our life. _d._ How shall we attain to fulfilment in our personal life? 1. Money, health, power, etc., as certificates of creative value, to be used for new creation. * * * * * Transcriber’s Notes: Hyphenation and archaic spellings have been retained as in the original. Punctuation and type-setting errors have been corrected without note. Other corrections are as noted below. Page 37, and he saw that an ==> and we saw that an Page 91, God,” I answered ==> God,” she answered page 93, so; but a word itself ==> so; work itself Page 104, a sense of duty ==> a sense of unity Page 236, different from each one ==> different for each one Page 266, if the operator always ==> is the spectator always End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Seekers, by Jessie E. Sampter