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The Path of Perfection and Purification

Each emotional reaction, thought, opinion or tendency, even the smallest personality trait, is a luminous ray which is invisible to you, but belongs very personally to each individual being. In the same way, the fixed and yet eternally moving spiritual laws, which pertain to every possibility or modality of outer or inner reaction, also create such luminous threads. Wherever your personal rays agree with those of the spiritual laws, you fulfill your life and you are in harmony and bliss. Wherever personal rays deviate from spiritual laws, you find yourself in disharmony. This causes the difficulties which you so often, and so erroneously, believe to be blows dealt to you by fate. The more you remove yourself from the roots of the difficulties by covering them up and pushing them into the unconscious, the more difficult it will be to perceive the connections and to dissolve, or pull out, the flawed roots. If you wish to be happy, you have to go to the flawed roots within yourself. This “radical” approach, this going to the roots is the path of perfection or purification, or the healing of the soul—whatever you may call it. You who seek contact with God’s world for this purpose—and without this contact purification is not possible—will receive the greatest support and guidance and everything will develop in the best way for you. You will indeed be in good hands.

To follow this path, you also need outside help and advice so that you can remove the first stones which block your way to contacting God’s world. The purpose of outside help is to make inner help possible, or, to put it another way, help must first come through outer sense perception to bring about autonomy of the inner perception or intuition. Outside help can be given by a human being who has already reached a higher level on this path, or through one of God’s spirits. But outside help is not enough—and it must not be thought to be enough; it is only an impetus, only the seed which has to ripen into fruit through your own work. You must achieve a breakthrough to your inner self.

You know very well that it is not possible to accept something, no matter how illuminating, because somebody says it is so; it is especially not possible when there are personal, inner, unconscious resistances to it. All the truths of Creation, all the spiritual laws—everything that humans are at all capable of comprehending—have to be experienced personally to become genuine inner knowledge and so be applied in a personal, productive way. Only by following such a path as this is inner knowledge and the personal use of it possible. Insight into any truth can occur only when you have established personal contact with the world of God, at least to a degree, and such contact can only come when you have achieved a breakthrough in your soul to the higher self.

Whoever asks God, “Show me the truth” and then opens himself or herself to the truth will always receive an answer. But you so often do not dare to take this step. You cover up what is most important, push it aside, and busy yourself with worries and petty concerns. You forget what is most essential. Yet the worries are trifles, superficialities, viewed from the perspective of total truth. Summon up your inner will for truth and open yourself to it! Ask God for the recognition of His truth.

If you sincerely wish to perfect yourself—and therefore first to know yourself—then, as you go on, you will receive the necessary spiritual help. It will come to you in an ever expanding way. It will alternate between outside guidance and recognitions and insights which will also serve as answers and signposts.

- Quote taken from Pathwork Guide Lecture #7 Asking for Help and Helping Others