What Is the Point of the Work?
People often think the purpose of the Work is to become a super healer or teacher or magician, and really impress their friends. Or they think it is to finally become good, to save a wretch like me. Or to gain happiness or peace of mind. While some of these things may be side-effects of years of Working (I don't know about the "good" part ...), none of them is the purpose of the Work.
To learn the purpose of the Work one first must know what she is. What am I? An expression of Life full of talents just waiting to manifest, and with lots of baggage that is not Life.
Where Am I and What Is Going On? In the physical world, but not of it. Where God and Goddess (Initiative and Resistance, Spirit and Matter, "X" and Awareness) are forever uniting in creation, and also being thwarted in uniting by contrived resistance (erroneous thinking, misunderstanding of the purpose of living, idolatry of the sensational). What can I do? Wake up! See what you are, see what you just think you are; discover error, lift the veils; be Free To Experience existence on the earthly plane. Develop!
The purpose of the Work is simple: To evolve into all that I AM.
From FTE, Vol. II, No. 2
