Gospel of One; Letters of Aul

Hi Everyone, namaste:

We are now on paragraph 4 in chapter 5 of the First letter to the Orinthians from the book "Gospel of One; Letters of Aul."

"Previously I wrote to you about not getting involved with the sexually promiscuous.  I didn't mean that you should avoid outsiders completely.  You'd have to retreat to a remote part of the country to do that.  However, my point is that when some of your own community members are promiscuous, or cheat people, or get drunk or stoned, you shouldn't ignore their behavior.  You just can't go along with it, fearing confrontation.  We can't try to regulate the whole society, but within our community we want to have people who really understand the life of oneness.  We want people who will live the golden rule.  We want people who are mutually helping each other.  Sometimes we need to clean house and find out where everyone stands."

Commentary: Even when a group of people are organized around high spiritual principles and guidelines, there will eventually be people with ulterior motives who come around to take part in the activities. This is a difficult situation because we can't see ulterior motives until later on.  Also, some people have the ulterior motive of seeking power, so they get into leadership positions, and then they start calling the shots, so to speak, and the whole original purpose of the group is undermined. That's why it's good to have open and honest communications between members of the group.