The Fruits and the Necessity of Remembrance
The root remains hidden; the fruit makes it appear.
Remembrance becomes necessary when the fruits contradict the names.
Why does poverty exist if money exists?
Why do so many people remain without care if medicine exists?
Why do answers fall short if we accumulate so much information?
Why do we remain far from the Truth if we possess so much knowledge?
Why do wars continue if governments, authorities, and laws exist?
Why do we seek God as absent if so many religions and temples exist?
The Forms have grown.
But the functions they promised to serve remain captive.
Money did not originate wealth.
Medicine did not originate the capacity to care.
Science did not originate the Truth.
Government did not originate Order.
Religion did not originate Presence.
Teaching did not originate the capacity to understand.
When a Form takes the place of the Source, it can increase its size, its authority, and its prestige while that which its Name promised to deliver continues to be lacking.
Therefore the measure is not the Name.
The measure is the fruit.
This Altar also must appear.
It can work intensely and have lost the first Love.
It can endure pressure without selling its fidelity to fear.
It can preserve true words while secretly making a pact with that which it denounces.
It can multiply works of service and tolerate within a voice that dominates.
It can possess a reputation of being alive while its Presence has gone out.
It can have little outward strength and yet keep a true Door open.
It can declare itself rich, complete, and awake while its self-sufficiency keeps the Word waiting outside.
These seven mirrors do not classify others.
They contemplate one same person, a community, and this Work.
They ask whether Love continues to be the Origin of the work; whether fidelity remains when fear arrives; whether Discernment also examines what happens within; whether service preserves integrity; whether reputation corresponds with the present Life; whether perseverance depends on outward power; and whether surrender is complete or only preserves sacred language.
The journey is:
LOVE → FIDELITY → DISCERNMENT → INTEGRITY → VIGILANCE → PERSEVERANCE → SURRENDER.
The word of the ego needs to impose itself.
The Word of the Word can be contemplated.
The word of the ego manufactures followers.
The Word of the Word awakens responsible Consciences.
The word of the ego uses fear, guilt, or superiority.
The Word of the Word restores the capacity to understand, choose, serve, and repair.
An intention called good is not absolved from hearing its consequences.
An isolated harm may proceed from a limitation or an error.
A persistent harm demands contemplating the Form more deeply.
Is it a correctable accident?
Is it a deviation from the function?
Or does the structure need to produce that harm in order to remain?
Remembrance begins when we stop justifying the fruit through the prestige of the Name.
By their fruits we will recognize the root.