The worth of self must be understood and realized in relation to the whole. This provides for and fosters self-affirmation as the appropriate good, but a self-affirmation of Life wherein one affirms self as part of the whole, which is the Way of Life. This is quite different from, and moves well beyond, the egoism of an eistaa and the pragmatism of Yilanè cities. It is more like the warm relationship of efenselè within the seaborne efenburu, where such peaceful cooperation and harmony seem natural. But it is natural and without conscious consideration. Though unremarked until now this Order has existed since the Egg of Time.

We can know this Order and understand it because there is a correlation of rational order between the workings of the developed mind and the order of all things in the domain of the Spirit of Life. The laws of our nature are part of the pervasive order of the Way of Life. It is an illusion to think of personal uniqueness in the sense of individual isolation. Each individual is equal in being part of the whole. Individuality is real, but individuality only within the equality in belonging to the City of Life, being part of that city as a Yilanè is part of a physical city, not as separated entities. Our minds are limited instances of the Spirit of Life as expressed through thought; our bodies are instances of the Spirit of Life as expressed through extension; our lives are instances of the Spirit of Life as expressed through affirmation of life.

Insofar as we understand these interrelationships of minds to minds, of bodies to bodies, of lives to lives, our minds are enlarged and in this way lose their limitations and the restrictions manifested when we tend to consider them uniquely ours. By knowing and understanding this Order and living in accord with it, we become affirmers of that Order and of life.

SEVEN

Daughters of Life are enabled and obligated, by the recognition and understanding of that Order and in loyalty to the Spirit of Life, to live for peace and affirmation of life.

Once seen, known and understood, the newness, strangeness and beauty of this Way and Order of Life and of Efeneleiaa may tempt us to suspend our activities and reside only in meditation or ecstatic enthrallment of the vision. Thus did I live until I became aware of the dangers of this isolation. For to do this only would be to overlook and ignore the way that each of us can benefit self and others and fulfill self and whole. This may be accomplished by working peacefully with others in cooperative harmony to affirm Life.