06/01/2026
MOTIVATIONAL MONDAY
BEING ABLE TO DISTINGUISH TRUTH FROM ERROR
Today’s message is one that was a game changer for me that I’d like to share with you.
Everyone would like to think that they know themselves, or that they’re a pretty good judge of character, but yet; we just can’t seem to get a hold on our lives, the choices we make, the friends or partners we choose, always in some sort of drama; we just can’t seem to get it right.
Well, what I’m about to share is changing my life, and everything starts and ends with me (self). You’re gonna need courage enough for truth in order for this to work, you’ll need courage to look at self, because we can only fix/change ourselves, we don’t have the power to change others.
So here’s to the game changer of your life.
Again, Elihu met his pupils in the sacred Grove, and said:
“No man live unto himself, for every living thing is bound by cords to every other living thing.
Blessed are the pure in heart; for they will love and not demand love in return. They will not do to other men what they would not want other men to do unto them.
There are two self’s; higher and lower self.
The higher self is human spirit clothed with soul, made in the form of Allah. The lower self, the carnal self, the body of desires is a reflection of higher self, distorted by the murky ethers of the flesh.
The lower self is an ill and will pass away; the higher self is Allah in man and will not pass away.
The higher self is the embodiment of truth, the lower self is truth reversed and so is falsehood manifest.
The higher self is justice, mercy, love, and right; the lower self is what the higher self is not.
The lower self breeds hatred, slander, lewdness, murder, theft, and everything that harms, the higher self is the mother of virtues and the harmonies of life.
The lower self is rich in promises, but poor in blessedness and peace; it offers pleasure, joy, and satisfying gain, but gives unrest, misery, and death.
It gives men apples that are lovely to the eye and pleasant to the smell, their cores are full of bitterness and gall.
If you would ask me what to study, I would say yourselves; and you well have studied them; and then would ask what to study next; I would reply, yourselves.
He who knows well his lower self, knows the illusions of the world, knows of the things that pass away, and he who knows his higher self, knows Allah; knows well the things that cannot pass away.
Thrice blessed is the man who has made purity and love his very own, he has been ransomed from the perils of his lower self and is himself his higher self.
MHK, Chapter III, Divine Instruction 1-16
Submitted by Sister T Britt-Bey
Temple No. 71, Washington DC
