Arrogance about intelligence and contempt for the human race

Frederic asks whether, if all the races of the universe were ranked from most stupid to most intelligent, humanity would sit near the bottom.

The Wonders say no, and discourage ranking them at all.

He then admits that part of him despises the human race and asks whether this belongs only to the ego and personality or extends to his other incarnations.

They answer that it is his ego personality in the mind: his mind has judged many things and built an ego personality reflecting those judgments, and because of his upbringing and judgments there is an arrogance in him about his own intelligence.

He is discovering that many people are, as he calls them, stupid - unwilling to see beyond themselves, unwilling to choose for themselves, insisting on letting governments and others choose for them - which contradicts everything he has judged as beneficial, leading him to ask why others do not do as he does.

The reason, they say, is that everyone differs through their own judgments, fears, personalities and egos.

Working on himself from compassion rather than arrogance, he would see that it is fine for people to be who they are and to make their own choices, including choices that may attempt to impinge on him - and it is then his own choice whether to allow that.

His difficulty, they observe, is that he does not want anything to impinge on him because he would then have to say no to someone, and he prefers to go through life without saying no, while simultaneously disagreeing with the rest of the world and wanting to be left alone.

They tell him not to let his arrogance eclipse his compassion: he is a loving, compassionate being toward his family and those close to him, and opening a little would show him that every human being is in a way part of his family.

Frederic asks whether the arrogant part is deeper than the ego; they say no, and that asking is itself an attempt to justify the arrogance - adding that there is nothing wrong with arrogance as long as he sees it as a useful tool for navigating the world.