*image by Ben Harubin

This will not turn you into a particular something,
a Christian, Jew, or Buddhist, for to do so would stop
your journey, and prove your death.

 

While ordinary life is involved in a gradual, mechanical growth,
the Work is an abrupt break with lower level, life-produced regions,
and relatively independent of the old growth.

Once a man begins to See, he must be prepared to objectively embrace
the ordinary appearances of life, or else begin working for This as though
tomorrow had already left the station.

The ordinary cannot forgive the ordinary; hence, men must look to gods
and the dead for imagined relief. (The Alert might also note that man's
nervous-system-I cannot and need not be forgiven for being what it is.)

The notion to, "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's,"
is in part the lesson of apparently agreeing with ordinary life's
passing necessities. It is to give up silly struggles, square up
useless debts, pay off the taxman-of-life.

The Alert should not refer to the constant electrical activity
at the upper end of the nervous system as "I think," but rather
call it "the-thinking."