SEPARATION

One should begin with separating all these in oneself. Those who have detached themselves from everything worldly become whole, eternal.

The one who has entered on the Spiritual Path has to separate in oneself the true, eternal, and valuable for life in the highest eons from the false, which belongs only to this world.

Then one has to cultivate in oneself the first and get rid of the second. Those Who have accomplished this become eternal in the Divine eons.

The importance attached to earthly things is a great delusion, for they divert our thoughts from the One Who is eternal to that which is transient. And in this case, the one who hears about God does not perceive (behind this word) the Eternal, but thinks about the transient. In the same way, behind the words the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, the Life, the Light, the Resurrection, and the Community people do not perceive the Eternal, but think about the transient unless they have already cognized.