{Research and Development [continued(6)][:] Detachment and Attachment}[12th July 1987]

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In this* connection, what is the difference between Temperance (or Self-control) and Ordination? – they being the starting-point of Inner and Outer Circles**? I think that the answer is that although they have much in common (like the Circles), Temperance is basically detached and Ordination is basically attached. Ordination organises the Self and/or the Outside World with some selfish or Outward purpose in mind, and is thus an exercise of the Will; Temperance controls the Self and detaches it, to a degree, from the Outside World, in order to open the individual to the Inner World, i.e. ultimately to the Divine Will.

The distinction is relative and fairly subtle: it is easy to think yourself on Temperance (or Love) when you are on Ordination (or Pride), which is a particular danger for me at the moment. Motivation is significant: not simply its presence (as personnel managers like {(or seem)} to imply, but what it is***. The Virtues probably become even more detached*** as they proceed round the Inner Circle; the Vices possibly become even more attached**** as they proceed round the Outer Circle. I am not sure about this.

*[See last previous entries.]

**[respectively, in this connection. Note that here a Virtue is being compared to a Principle (or Quality?), so the comparison is not quite between equivalents. See immediately following paragraph.]

[As to the use of the terms Principles &/or/vs Qualities, see [Redbook4:63][19870820:1800k]{Circle Relationships [continued] – Resonance}[20^th August 1987], including main footnote. <20160806>]

***[i.e. what it is motivation towards, presumably. <20160806>]

****i.e. from or to the Self & the Outside World.

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