The purpose of life is to seek and experience God and the book is about the search towards this experience. Individual effort as well as grace are both necessary for spiritual progress. Many of the writings in the book at first reading seem obscure and fragmented. Some of what at first sight seems obscure will be clarified if the reader becomes aware of its esoteric meaning. The obscurity and fragmentation is certainly, in part at least, intentional; the reader is being asked to look at some problem in an unfamiliar way, so that we are teased or goaded, rather than logically let into understanding. The paradoxical obscurities, fragmentations, prose, poetry, quotations, parables and wisdom tales are all there because the underlying message is genuinely inexpressible. They are there to 'allure' the mind in order to manifest the truth to you by the power of the Holy Ghost. And by the power of the Holy Ghost you may know the truth that exists outside of the human condition.
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