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The acquisition of Knowledge, however, is not without danger. It can make conceit

flow into man's feeble heart; and conceit makes any esoteric evolution impossible. The
path which leads to Knowledge is narrow and borders a precipice. Only Personalities in

possession of an adequately developed magnetic center may venture on this path

without running too big a risk. This is where the law that Jesus enounced enters into

force: for he that hath, to him shall be given; and he that hath not, from him shall be
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taken even that which he hath .
Knowledge is only an intermediary temporary stage and cannot be deified. Love alone

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reveals the divine nature: it proceeds from God, for God is Love . Gnosis is the staircase
that leads the faithful (Fidel) to Christ's palace, to the Kingdom of God. In this sense it is
the Precursor-Spirit that presides over the esoteric work undertaken by the Forerunners

– the work which should open the doors to the Era of the Holy Ghost, just as John the

Baptist's work was to make straight the paths leading to the Cycle of the Son.

The efforts accomplished under the sign of Knowledge must fulfil two essential
conditions.

The first one is that they be oriented in the right direction. For this, esoteric work

must lead towards a liberation from the lie without which it is not possible to accede to

the Era of the Holy Ghost. The forerunners cannot fail in this domain, where the rule

that Christ formulated enters into full force: no man having put his hand into the
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plough, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God . If this

28 Matthew, XII, 25, 29; Mark, IV, 25; Luke, VIII, 18-19, 26.
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I John, IV, 7-8.
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Luke, IX, 62.