Guide quotations relating to applying Pathwork principles and
fulfilling the Pathwork task at the individual and community levels

 

"It is your task to uncover this divine substance, to free it of these God‑opposed layers which rob you of your unity with yourself and with God."  (20: God: The Creation, p. 4)

"Until now, this emphasis was directed exclusively toward your individual fulfillment.  Now a new phase has arisen where your own inner expansion has readied you to realize that individual fulfillment is the necessary basis for fulfilling a task in cohesiveness with the total movement that sweeps your world.  In other words, more is and must be at stake than your individual fulfillment ... Your individual fulfillment, which cannot exist to the extent you are unpurified and alienated from the truth of your inner processes, is the most important thing, and at the same time there is something much more at stake.  Perhaps I can put it in the following way: you can only find total individual fulfillment if you serve a greater cause ... You have found that this very service enhances your fulfillment, just as this service requires you to be a fulfilled and happy person.  You are beginning to experience that fulfillment of the self lies in the service.  And the service can only be executed through self‑fulfillment ... The individual is only apparently opposed to the whole." (223: The Era of the New Age and New Consciousness, pp. 2-3)

"This particular path will and must create further such communities.  And as these communities grow and begin to function better and better, this will be the model, a new model for world governments, for conducting humanity's business in every area of life.  It will gradually infiltrate." (AD3: Guide Session for the Washington Group, p. 3)

"I very rarely make predictions, but if I do, they have a purpose ... If you build and work in a community that lives in this honesty, in this truthfulness, in this intimacy of self‑revealing as you really are, not as you want to appear; it must create greater spiritual power centers.  It is such a rarity in this world that it will draw power in the spiritual sense, not in the worldly sense.  This power will have its effect, and one day the difficulties and frictions that are inevitable in such a venture at the beginning will have taught you the necessary lessons.  By handling obstructions in a truly honest, open, self‑revealing way according to the principles of this path as you have learned and tried to put into practice, you will set an example for world government.  It will come, perhaps in years, but most of you will live to see it right here on this earth.  Little by little politicians and people of influence will be drawn into this circle, perhaps first seeking work on themselves, and thus bring into the world a new approach.  It is a task that will set examples."  (209: The Roscoe Lecture, p. 4)