Hatonn on Success and Failure
In my efforts to document the novel concepts communicated through Confederation conscious contacts, I often chuck portions that deserve more attention than I’m giving them. This is one of those sessions, especially the opening monologue which gets into the perfect nature of our illusion, how especially tailored to our lessons it is. This is all designed to feature the service relationship in relief. Those of Hatonn say,
Many are the laws of love which you have discovered, and for that we congratulate you. But we tell you that you have only scratched the surface of your own consciousness. We tell you that there is a vast geography beneath the surface of your knowledge of yourself, and in this area of yourself lies an understanding that goes beyond comfort, beyond the physical body, beyond the physical life that you know. How can you seek less, my friends, even for one day?
We do not ask you to lose your sense of humor, to deny yourself any comfort that you may find pleasant. We ask only that you see the place of these things and the importance of these things relative to the real business of your lives: finding and sharing the truth that is within you.
And then what should happen but that the instrument should doubt this perfection! At the very moment Hatonn mentions the business of life, regret at a life lived less than perfectly comes to the fore. It’s a very human thing, I think: the spirit complex makes the ideal thinkable in a way that it’s so seldom liveable.
Hatonn picks up on this directly and addresses it in such a concise and targeted manner that I really want to hone in on it. It all has to do with a sense of proportion; that the same perfection they describe earlier in our physical environment is baked into the conveyance of service. One gets a sense of the kairos of service here, how it’s a matter of the proper timing of the service and not just the love behind it.
When we bring this rhythm into our hearts, we shall have no more doubts about the meaning of service because it will no longer be ours in the first place. And that takes a lot of the pressure off!
We find within this instrument regret that she has, during this day, failed to be of perfect service to one of her own species. And we say to you in this regard, yes, you must share what you know, but if you cannot share what you know you must not regret your lack. For if what you know is incomprehensible, then to attempt again and again to share it is, as it says in your holy works, to throw pearls before swine. They cannot understand; they will only sicken on such a diet. Thus, allow yourself only to desire to know the Creator in yourself and others. But if the moment has not come for you to be able to demonstrate a teaching, then, my friends, it simply has not come. You were not sent out into the world to change those who were not ready. You must only see in them the possibility that exists for them to, at any time, as you call it, to become aware of that which you may know; thus, never shutting your heart against another, you may bide your time, as you say, and plant those seeds of information, those thoughts of love, when they are asked for, not before.
The important thing, my friends, is to remain untouched by success or failure in contact with others. You do not know in a true sense what your manifestation may have been to another, for that is not in your saying within another’s experience. You know only what you feel, and that you have as much control over as you do over yourself as a whole. Therefore, let you heart be glad, let your tongue be honest, and let your thoughts dwell upon the Creator. More than that you cannot do. Less than that you should not do.