To Guidance, as well as to me, this is the old metaphor of climbing the stairs instead of taking the elevator. It's a never-ending process by which people who wish to be more involved with themselves and their own spiritual growth can justify not stepping up to the plate, not taking a swing at the ball, and certainly for never making any home runs.

We all have a thousand ways of stalling, of not doing what it is we came here to do, of not saying saving the planet and Creation is more important than saving myself and my family. In the end it all comes down to the only issue involved at the heart of all things – self-will vs higher will.

If you have read the Creation story from Volume One of Where Were You Before The Tree of Life? you will understand that Lucifer and the darkside are based in pure Self Will with no regards for Higher Will. That is what darkness is --pure self-will, and those involved with pure self-will are the dark ones of the planet, and we've all been there done that.

This was the original flaw in this corner of Creation too, creating out of self-will instead of out of higher will. When Lucifer returned to His Family it was without judgement –the true prodigal Son --for he was created self-will, he did not choose it. The dark hierarchy are those who chose self-will over higher will just as we must choose one or the other each and every day of our lives, from lifetime to lifetime throughout eternity until we finally come to the simple realization that life IS about service to others as well as to ourselves and our families. Service to life IS service to ourselves and to our families.