Gnosis in a Hundred PagesPage 98 of 100 · Part VII

Part VII · Living it

The lamp and the key

The whole book in one page: you are asleep, the selves keep you asleep, the energy wakes you, the night shows you, the Being waits, and the light is for giving.

Read to me

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A small lamp and an old key resting together on a wooden table.

Here is the whole book, in one breath.

You are asleep, and that is good news, because what is asleep can wake (Part I).

What keeps you asleep is a crowd of selves living in one body. Each can be caught, understood and asked to go (Part II).

The finest energy you have feeds them or frees you. Kept and raised, it becomes the light you see by (Part III).

A third of your life happens at night. You can remember it, and slowly wake inside it (Part IV).

Behind the selves and the nights is the one who has never been asleep: your Being, reached in stillness, prayer and practice (Part V).

What you find is not yours to keep. It is for giving (Part VI).

And all of it is lived, one morning, one impression, one evening and one night at a time (Part VII).

A lamp shows the way. A key opens the door. This book has tried to be a little of both. The walking is yours.

Of all the practices in these pages, keep at least one, every day, for the rest of your life.

Try this

  1. Look back through the eighteen practices of this book.
  2. Choose the one that has helped you most.
  3. Promise yourself to keep it every day.
  4. Write it down, and the time of day you will do it.

In the old words

“As light illuminates the dark, may your awareness expand brightly to make the unknown, known.”

Beyond DreamingGene Hart
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