Is Dean Allowed to Post?

2006-7-24 18:10:00

My Friends,

I am letting a post (Am I allowed to post?) of Dean's through for two reasons.

  1. Entertainment value.
  2. So you can see the tone of his posts that have been rejected.

This is the last post of his with such negativity that I will approve.

Until Dean decided he was enlightened there was no one complaining about our judgment in moderating as we were only rejecting about one post a month. Even then the writer often acknowledge that it was a good thing we rejected the post.

Dean's posts have not been rejected because he was such overwhelming wisdom that we cannot deal with it but because they are a distraction and people are complaining.

The easiest thing to do would be to boot him off, but for now I've decided to keep him on and let him post if he abides by the purpose of this list and the general cooperativeness that the group as a whole is looking for.

On at least two lists I know about Dean posted this about me because he perceives me as so repressive:

Dean:

JJ is making Hitler look like a saint.

Now what does this say about Dean? He comes to a list where the purpose is to learn from someone worse than Hitler.

Obviously he thinks it's his mission in life to fight me, but do we need that here? I don't think so.

If he approaches this list as a helpful student then his posts will be accepted. But if he sees himself as some righteous enlightened avenger then he should go find an enemy who wants to fight him.

Speaking of freedom I found this great quote from DK on the subject. Enjoy:

But remember that there is no freedom except in making free choice and in serving. The idea of freedom can itself constitute a prison. There are no free souls anywhere, except those who of free choice imprison themselves and find themselves within and by the law of service. You can leave this particular group, but if you are to grow at all, you will find yourself inevitably within some other group for service. You can drop the responsibilities which you shouldered when you joined this group, but you cannot escape the shouldering of other responsibilities. You can pass out of this group of brothers, as far as the outer plane linking is concerned, but you have already established links with them which cannot be broken by any personality activity or line of action, for they are soul links and must at some time be recognised. It is the service, the responsibility, and the group work which counts and lasts; the fluctuations and reactions of any personality can delay, but they cannot negate success.

Basically, fundamentally and essentially, you are pledged to the service of the Plan somewhere, somehow, some day. The fluctuations and indecisions and questionings of your personality do not really matter in the long run and in the light of soul activity, but they do matter in time and space and temporarily, where your band of group brothers are concerned.

So feel free, my brother, but be quite sure that it is not a freedom demanded because group affiliation irks you. The more your soul grips your personality, the less you will be concerned with the problems of isolation and of freedom. Feel free, but be sure that it is not a freedom demanded because the steady discipline of occult training frets a temperament still essentially mystic. The more your soul grips you, the more your mind will awaken, and feeling (in the personal sense) fades out. Feel free, but be sure that it is not a freedom demanded because the sense of failure to organise your time and reduce your personality to rhythmic living hurts your pride. The more your soul grips you, the more assuredly you will learn to use time as a responsibility.
Discipleship in the New Age, Vol 1, pg 289