Swing The Axe!

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In your daily life you are in many ways so remarkably dynamic. Very often, in your daily life, you go all out. If you direct for once your dynamics upon this attainment, then within a few months you will experience its salutary effect. The great life-giving things do not come to you by themselves, as in a land of El Dorado. You will have to fight for them. You should work out the breakthrough in inner self-activity, by attacking yourself unsparingly in the characteristic features of your dialectic being.

Often we discover in a pupil stone-hard, incorrect traits of character, whereas in other respects he is such a good pupil. That is because he spares himself. Because he simply accepts those undesirable, hindering qualities. Because he perhaps thinks them pleasant or finds them necessary.

Now we tell you: swing the axe into your own life without mercy and keep your criticism of others to yourself! Do not think or talk of somebody else any longer but control yourself continuously and unscrupulously. That is your task. Then you go your Path of the Rosycross up to the Hill of Golgotha. There the Path ends, with the perishing of the old natural consciousness and a resurrection on the Third Day.

From "The Glorious Resurrection" The Gnosis In Present-Day Manifestation - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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Many obstacles are strewn about the Path of Return, but one of the greatest stumbling blocks is ourselves. We sometimes forget that this Process is a 24-hour task, an unceasing work. The aeons of this nature are constantly probing, searching for our weak spots and working to activate the natural tendencies that lie embedded within the lipika of our I-being. We can be doing so well and then, just like that, we will respond to the probing and off the rails we go. The Road is hard, hard, hard and not for the faint of heart.

"But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and it makes me a captive to the law of sin which is in my members" Romans 7:23

We are our own worst enemy because we tend to allow certain of our negative behaviors to continuously manifest themselves without ever getting to the root of the issue. Why do I keep responding to certain stimuli? Why is my reaction crafted in such-and-such a way? What must I do to eradicate this behavior once and for all? These are tough questions, which many are hesitant to ask and even more reluctant to answer.

But ask and answer we must. If we wish to offer any assistance at all to this Process, we should first start with being brutally honest about our faults and then being fiercely diligent about trying to eliminate them. Start at the root! Swing the axe again and again and again! We should not concern ourselves with our brother's faults, but work with laser-like focus to eradicate our own.

"For if you live after the flesh you will die, but if you, through the Spirit, subdue the deeds of the body, you will live" Romans 8:13

Until the Tree falls,

~ g
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