A New Year's Message from Thane
In the Fourth Way series of lessons Thane discusses some of the outcomes that follow those who tap into esoteric knowledge and learn to re-program their sense of identity (emphasis added) :
"They practice the kind of behavior that goes with the re-programmed image until it becomes second nature.
"They work to bring others to the same level of awareness.
"Those people who are fully conscious - incessantly recycling, reprogramming the image of the Self :
increasingly become beautiful;
they increasingly are life-loving;
they are increasingly energetic;
they are increasingly gallant;
they are responsible aristocrats, no less.
"They are proud, yet respectful of all life; they are well mannered, not insistent.
"They are pleasant to live with; they are generous, and they always know by some pipeline to the cosmos the right thing to do at the right time.
"Thus, they carry a self-assurance that cannot come out of the [motivational psychology] type of self-assurance.
"They are conscious that every bit of esoteric knowledge gained must be measured by responsible action.
"In other words, they are conscious of their privileges and know that those are always paced by duty :
taking care of others;
care; care of others, at one level or another
"There's all sorts of ways to take care of others in The Prosperos if someone wants to go far enough to find out".