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ture, due to their nature, upbringing, or personal experience. The diffusion of Gnosis

has, however, exceeded all expectations. The elite amongst whom this book has
aroused an interest, has therefore proved to be quite large.

The present Introduction is addressed to those correspondents who have

encountered problems of a general nature, and even more so, to those who are

concerned with our Aim and Work. These two points are correlated, and represent two
sides of the same question.

The problem is well situated in a very old maxim quoted in the Gospel according to St.

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Luke, which says: "The labourer is worthy of his hire" . It is to be found in the passage
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where the seventy disciples are sent forth "as lambs among wolves" to proclaim to the
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world that "The Kingdom of God is come nigh unto you" .
Which is to say, that, in the esoteric domain, as in any other secular enterprise, man

earns his salary for the service he renders. However, the worldly life that one leads, that

which is subject to the "A" influences, leaves one the possibility of acquiring wealth
without contributing any effort; through speculation, for example, or by all sorts of

underhand or fraudulent methods which do not violate the limits chalked out by human

law. The General Law accords quite a broad margin of tolerance to human beings

working thus, under the suzerainty of the "A" influences. It is of them that it is written:
The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. And we

must not forget that this was how Jesus concluded his

3 Luke, X, 7; Matt., X, 10.
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Luke, X, 3.
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Luke, X, 9.