Compiled from TT by Annegret Liebig, Oct. 2012

Dear Temple-sisters and –brothers, dear friends,

Acceptance has a lot to do with HARMONY, HARMONY inside and outside ourselves. How we experience a situation is our own responsibility. We are always tested at our Achilles heal, our weakest spot. According to our frame of mind there may be more of them. Our condition varies. We are permanently asked to do our actual best. At times that can be more or less. But still this “more or less” has consequences. The same situation is put in front of us once more.

“This is a Universe of Law and Order. If a single one of the Universal Laws could be broken by man with impunity, manifestation of Spirit in man and Nature would cease. While the forces of evil aroused to action by man`s efforts to break or suppress those Laws are overruled for his growth and development, the laws themselves are Eternal and Irrevocable. When man fully recognizes this fact, and understands and lives in perfect HARMONY with those laws, he becomes like God – All-Powerful.” (TT II, p. 24)

This is the final aim. Until we are there, we still have a lot of steps to go. I think it  is cheering, that all the bad things we do, knowingly and and often not knowingly,  in the final result serves us to make us able to understand the Law and to yield ready obedience. So I will not regard it as a punishment when I get the same lesson innumerable times, so I may see my mistake. Its more like a private lesson. That does not mean that I do like it. But perhaps it helps to want to avoid this fault. But it´s not eluding displeasure that should be our aim, but to choose the right thing because we want to do our best. It helps to remember not to work against something but for something.
Back to HARMONY that includes acceptance. In the dictionary Duden HARMONY is defined thus: “1) joining, fitting together, agreement, accord, union, 2) in educational art: symmetry, the balanced, quiet, moderate, regular proportion of all parts concerned 3) melodious sound of several sounds and chords in a musical movement.  To HARMONIZE is described thus: vote, mutual adjustment, bring into accord.”

We are looking for the themes, where we are able to agree, and that are best for everyone.

“This spirit of UNITY shall prevail independent of race, color, nation, organization, creed or caste of any kind. Utter selfishness is the great obstacle in the way of development. In our great greed for all and everything that can be of service to us individually, we pass by Love, Mercy and Justice, and grasp at every hope as a drowning man at a straw, regardless of what it may have cost others to extend a helping hand to us. If we perfectly realized the law of supply and demand we would be more careful. It is exact in its action. If one gives us something that is of great use and benefit to us, by that giving he has created a demand on us which, if we do not supply to the best of our ability, nullifies the gift a