When a person decides to do the WORK OF THE FATHER, the first thing he must understand before anything is that he must be sincere with himself to analyse: Why he is in these studies of Gnosis? What impulse him to start studying Gnosis? Has he understood that the life he is leading is mechanical? Has he understood how the laws of involution and evolution work?

Has he stopped to analyse what the causes or motives are that take us to involution or to the "second death"? Has he understood what a race is with its 7 sub-races? Has he studied what the Master Samael teaches about the age of gold, silver, copper and iron? Does he have a clear concept about what Kaliyuga is?

There are a series of things which will allow us to arrive at the conclusion that we are at the end of the race; that we are at the end of our opportunities of comings and goings; that there is no more time; that man is facing what he has been doing through different epochs.

Don't forget, dear brother, that there is a maxim that says: "He who plans what he is going to do tomorrow, cannot correct tomorrow what he should have done today."

When we understand that we are under the responsibility of making a radical change in our mind, in our emotions and in the way we act, 'the impulses will continue being born in us which will permit us to create develop an element of change within.

We need a real and just change that is not a question of poses, nor self-adulation; we have to base ourselves on facts and no more than that. This element of change permits us to think and act on our own conviction avoiding gregarious conduct which gets us to imitate what we hear and what we see.

This element of change is a mathematical point from where the Consciousness acts to make any decision in relation to our work.

This element of change is what permits us to have the capacity to transform our impressions. This element of change is what permits us to have alert perception, to be alert to "different" things and is what permits us to change the form of thinking and feeling.

If you, dear reader, are interested in these studies, don't start dreaming about powers and wisdom that are ideas from "the roof up' think first about making a change that will permit you to be serious in your work, in your thoughts and in your emotions.

When you learn to be serious, sincere and responsible with yourself, The WORK will indisputably be done. If we continue like puppets managed by criteria and the will of others, we will continue being the same. This is for men and women who want to be free.

A radical change in our lives takes us to self-knowledge; in other words it allows us to see ourselves as we really are. With this we can stop thinking that we are integrated people with our Being while we don't even possess a permanent centre of gravitation that permits us to manage ourselves without copying the life of others, the procedures of others in order to act and do things.

It is indispensable to produce an element of change in ourselves if in truth we aspire to self-realization.

The real man must prepare himself physically and spiritually to face the most difficult moments which will be frightening and are soon to come that have ever existed in humanity before.

Good intentions have no value; it is not enough to want to be a good person; one has to incarnate that good person and that person is no other than those conscious values virtues, of the Being.

When we have peace, the Egos that are good are in action. These are the Egos that like peace. But when there are conflicts, those Egos fascinated by war and conflict come to fore; when we are praying, those Egos, lovers of prayer appear but when we are in front of a humorous scene, the Egos of humour appear in us and we end up telling jokes with a double sense.

When we are face to face with a woman with good sentiments, she inspires us with the beauty of life, with purity and goodness.

But if we are face to face with a woman of licentious ways, Egos of lust and lasciviousness are expressed in us.

If we attend a meeting where they speak of transformation and regeneration, we feel the need to regenerate but if we are in a place where people are drinking liquor with women and problems we are sure to see Egos competing in the conversation flowering.

This is more than sufficient for us to analyse if in truth we are prepared to have peace in the midst of war, to love our enemy, to feel pleased in the face of something we don't like, to sustain our doctrinary thesis when everyone persecutes us.

Dear reader, it is only by producing an element of change in the most profound part of our Consciousness that we will be able to be firm and faithful to the WORK OF THE FATHER.

V.M. Lakhsmi (excerpt from “Light in the Darkness”)