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Letters on Occult Meditation - Letter XI - The Resultant Life of Service
1. The Motives for Service These motives are threefold in the order of their importance: A realization of God's plan of evolution, a sensing of the world's dire need, an apprehension of the immediate point of world attainment, and a consequent throwing of the total of one's resources into the furtherance of that end. A definite personal goal of achievement, some great ideal - such as holiness of character - that calls forth the soul's best endeavor; or a realization of the reality of the Masters of the Wisdom, and a strong inner determination to love, serve, and reach Them at all costs. When you have this intellectual grip of God's plan, coupled with the strong desire to serve the Great Ones, in physical plane activities will come the working out. A realization next of one's innate or acquired capacities and a fitting of those capacities to the need appreciated. Service is of many kinds, and he who wisely renders it, who seeks to find his particular sphere, and who, finding it, gives effort gladly for the benefit of the whole, is the man whose own development proceeds steadily. But nevertheless the aim of personal progress remains secondary.
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