Your Manifestation "Technique" is Your Ritual Propriety

Confucius greatly admired the sage, though he never met one. He read plenty about them, though. THAT was his study. Confucius' The Great Learning was, well, Confucius' great learning from that study. All through The Analects of Confucius, Confucius is concerned with the authoritative person, the sage, and ritual propriety.

The sages Confucius admired were the ancients who had ordered their kingdoms. THAT was Confucius' goal: to order the kingdom. The ancients had done it through ritual propriety. When it came to sacrifice, speech, or relationship with others, the ancients displayed a rectified cultivation of themselves in their behavior. Serious, severe, self-controlled. They used THIS to lead their kingdoms to order rather than threat of punishment for infractions.

Now we are in a kingdom of manifestation. I do not mean for greed's sake. The ancients did it for the love of the people: beneficently. We find that everything without is within (Goddard attributed Blake, though Moses and Jesus taught the same thing). We are the operant power, and to do requires our participation. To cultivate ourselves, to rectify our thought and behavior, is to undertake whatever technique is used with seriousness, severity, and self-control. Sorry, it sounds like I am preaching, but it is observation. If we are going to exercise mind towards manifestation, well, as Jesse Mason used to say, "The only way to do it is to do it."

If we ourselves do not do, nothing contributive is done. Manifesting is not for our looking pretty, but for ordering the kingdom. We do not have to tell anyone. If we are serious and severe, they will see and order themselves aright.