Lawsonian Religion

CHAPTER 37

SELFISHNESS, ROOT OF EVIL

Selfishness is the root of all evil.

Selfishness is caused by the innate vanity of a creature, human or otherwise, who thinks that it must live, even if everything else throughout Space must perish.

The less natural talents a creature has for producing tangible results, the more selfish characteristics it acquires.

The desire of human beings to get something for nothing through selfishness has led them to become crafty and deceitful in their dealings with one another until cheating has now become a cherished art that most everybody practices.

Cheating one another has become so prevalent among human beings, and its subsidiary evils have multiplied to such an overwhelming extent that the natural reaction has resulted in a suffering, miserable human race as a whole.

The mind of man, when under the control of Disorgs, uses the intelligence God gives it for selfish purposes.

But, that is where the soul must do its duty to God by directing intelligence into unselfish channels.

The difference between good and evil is the difference between unselfishness and selfishness.

The mind of man, when under the control of Menorgs, uses the intelligence God furnishes for unselfish purposes.

A poorly developed brain will stifle the pleadings of the conscience and use intelligence as a selfish weapon with which to cheat others.

So the battle within the mental system is continually carried on between the Disorgs who breed selfishness and the Menorgs who breed unselfishness.

Genuine happiness is derived from serving others, not oneself.

Therefore, a little less selfishness on the part of all of us; a little less jealousy that others may succeed as well as ourselves; a little more big-heartedness in which we want others to enjoy the same luxuries that we do; will go a long way toward the establishment of a worthy human race in the sight of God.

You can only please God by kind acts toward other living creatures who are also doing their part in making the utilization of everything without the loss of anything a positive proceeding throughout eternity.

When mankind, acting as a unit, learns how to manage itself, then God will not only allow mankind, as a unit, to manage the Earth, but He will also allow mankind, as a unit, to assume greater power in the management of the Solar System and other great cosmic formations.

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