Question
As you know, many people consider a spiritual answer to their problems when a material view of the world can no longer solve them. This means the spiritualist muddle suddenly becomes a trick of the ego, another lie disguised as holiness, and I identify with that.
I am a young man of eighteen, and two or three years ago I began reading treatises by Hermes, Pablo, Flamel… and was enlightened by this spiritualist deception called alchemy. Gradually, the work began to take shape, and all unconscious repressions became conscious, perhaps somewhat too abruptly (I was aware of the danger; that is all I can say).
Since then, the only master who gives me an illuminating, unifying vision between my material reality of drugs, women, and nightclubs and the other pole of long nights at home reading alchemical treatises.
This dichotomy is strange, and even more so to my eyes.
Under these circumstances, the only solution my mind can envision is transcendence: neither the material nor the spiritual pole, simply letting both poles merge into one another, and if I am not mistaken, this approach is very close to enlightenment.
Then another problem arises:
How can someone attain enlightenment when they became interested in the spiritual world only after raising their ego so high that the fall was painful enough?
Anonymous
Answer from Master Kosen
I do not know what enlightenment is, and I doubt I clearly know what the ego is either. I have kept traces of my painful falls. We are like blades, heated red in the coals, folded, hammered, plunged into cold water, then sharpened enough to cut through every doubt.
Such are the students of the Great Work.
Kosen