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				  Basic Tenets by Shirra Meiklejohn-Wilson, M. A. R. | go 
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			The first and foremost thing that human beings need to be 'saved' 
			from is themselves as well as their ignorance about what they do and/or 
			the effects of their own behavior upon their sphere.
 II. 
			  Human beings do not need to be 'saved' from the slings and arrows 
			  of life itself. Life is a pain factory. Human suffering is food. 
			  No one gets out of suffering; not God, not Jesus, not anyone. Life 
			  hurts. Being in The Work hurts. Living on any level hurts. People 
			  hurt themselves as well as others all the time. III. 
			  Humanity needs to be 'saved from their enslavement to the opinions 
			  of other people. People need to learn how to think for as well as 
			  how to act from themselves. Humanity needs to learn how to convert 
			  mechanical suffering into consciousness. IV. 
			  Human beings need to be 'saved' from their all-pervasive assumptions 
			  that freedom comes from the lack of discipline. Freedom is attained 
			  by only those people who earn it. V. 
			  Human beings need to be 'saved' from their belief that having faith 
			  in God and/or in the salvation of God's grace will, in any way, 
			  be transferred onto themselves simply because they hope and/or believe 
			  that it is possible.  VI. 
			  Human beings need to be 'saved' from their belief in tomorrow. There 
			  is no tomorrow. Tomorrow is merely today in extension. Change is 
			  not necessarily progress. Because things change does not mean that 
			  they are progressing. VII. 
			  Human beings need to be 'saved' from their collective delusion concerning 
			  the fact that what they say, think, feel, as well as do, does not 
			  matter. It does matter. Every effort as well as non-effort, by each individual, is being recorded, 
			  whether the individual believes in this fact or not.
 VIII. 
			  Human beings need to be 'saved' from the illusion that they already 
			  know what is necessary to know. The truth of the matter is that 
			  no one can 'do'. What passes for doing merely ties the individual 
			  onto the web of futility more securely. IX. 
			  Human beings need to be 'saved' from their unending illusion that 
			  they love and/or feel positive productive emotions at all. Nine-nine 
			  percent of all humanity is unable and/or possibly incapable of any 
			  form of any true selfless actions. The human ego demands its due. 
			  The ego finds it almost impossible not to take pride in its position 
			  or effects. The unredeemed ego also finds it almost impossible to 
			  accept responsibility for the ego's own faults, weaknesses or endless 
			  delusions about itself.  X. 
			  More than any of the above, Human beings need to be 'saved' from 
			  their chronic illusion that they believe and/or serve any of the 
			  needs or purposes of the sacred realm. The number of true adepts 
			  worldwide is marginal, while the number of individuals that assume 
			  their future is secure is legion.
 
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