(MORALITY AND ETHICS [continued(9)])[19th April 1987]

[Redbook3:210][19870419:1050g](MORALITY AND ETHICS [continued(9)])[19th April 1987]

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What about everything else?* If there is no neutral ground between selfishness and selflessness,** we cannot simply apply the test to actions we think might be immoral on some other basis. Everything must be considered as selfish or selfless, and examined for the absence or impurity, or purity, of Love in the motivation for doing it. Even the salaried job, and the washing up.

Perhaps this is why – Love being at the female side and end of the Circles – women are so much inclined to perform menial tasks for no reward, and in the job and in the home are so easily exploited?

So far as salaried employment (or for that matter self-employment or business)*** is concerned, a genuine love of the work, such as scientific research, for 'its own sake', may be a love of Truth: I suspect all 'love of work' is at root a love of something else. If it is for the love of wife and family, or people in general, that**** seems to be self-less; {if} it is for the love of money or power or even position, or even sometimes# of community or Nation (depending what is really involved), that**** seems to be selfish.

*[See last previous entry.]

**{(per [[Redbook3:205-206][19870418:1030b](MORALITY AND ETHICS [continued])[18th April 1987][final para]]p.206 )}

***It seems strange to classify such activities as moral or immoral: what is being said is that like more obviously moral and immoral matters, they have implications for the future of the Soul.

****[{Underlining} added later.]

#{(cf.[[Redbook3:207][19870419:1050d](MORALITY AND ETHICS [continued(6)])[18th April 1987][f?]]p.208)}

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