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ous discernment between the true and the false, becomes singularly naïve, especially in
the "mystical" domain. This lack of balance affects us in conformity to the law: credulity
is inversely proportional to faith. In other words, the weaker our faith, and
consequently, the weaker our pure emotional feelings, the greater our credulity, which
often assumes the most grotesque forms.
In this mechanism, we may note the usual game of the General Law: to give the man
who is in search of the Way, the impression that he is there already. This is the Devil’s
trump-card, and the one he uses the most often, to mislead the inexperienced seeker
and to make him deviate from the straight and narrow path that leads to eternal Life.
Jesus, the Master of esoteric Tradition, says:
How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour
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that cometh from God only ?
When we accept the "glory of men", even though we may believe sincerely that we
are on the Way, we fall immediately under the sway of the law of Equilibrium to which
Jesus made an allusion when he said of the Pharisees, who pray in the streets, they have
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their reward .
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The ideas developed in the present Introduction, have been grouped together in
order to reply to various questions by readers of the first volume of
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John,V, 44.
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Matthew VI, 5.