The Struggle Is Real

Liberation from this nature-order means disconnecting our consciousness from its bondage to powerful illusions. Although we work to free our consciousness from these illusions, the struggle itself is very, very real.

As we proceed with our determined efforts to walk the Path of Return to a Good End, we will find that there are obstacles and hindrances sprinkled liberally before us, like boulders. Some of these obstacles are small boulders that lie in our way. We can just kick them aside or pick them up and throw them as far away from us as strength will allow. 

Other boulders are medium-sized and a bit too heavy to lift and throw. These we can carefully step around to avoid, so as not to be tripped.

Then there are boulders that are as tall as an adult human being and wider than an automobile. They are so wide in fact, that we cannot get around them. They stand squarely in the middle of the Path, threatening us with their sheer weight and immovability. We find ourselves unable to proceed any further on the Path. What are we to do? What can we do?

It is here that we must rely upon our understanding of the Path. The Path to Liberation is not something that we can walk alone. If things were that easy, we would have succeeded in liberating ourselves hundreds of incarnations ago. We, as personalities, will not be able to do anything about these boulders. You see, the "boulders" represent our past karma, our old habits, our deep-rooted egocentric desires. These are things that are firmly anchored within the I-being itself and are therefore difficult for the I-being to remove. "We are reminded that "the I cannot liberate the I".

And so, we must wait on the help that has been promised to all sincere candidates, the help that is always at our disposal. Always with us is the inexhaustible strength of the power-field of the Universal Gnosis, the Chain of Brotherhoods, and our fellow travelers on the Path. We must recognize our helplessness in the face of such huge obstacles and know that the Power of the Rose will bring to us a solution to all such obstacles on the Path. One day we will look up, wipe away our tears of bitter defeat, and realize that the huge boulder has been removed. We will then pass safely and continue upon our Journey.

Such is the Path of the True Way. Such is the liberating Path of Return.

~ g

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