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concerned. What makes all the difference is your capacity to persist along a path. Looking at the lives of a number of great masters, one discovers that they did not necessarily start at a high level. Sometimes they had to face far greater obstacles than those you may find on your way. But they persisted, persisted, persisted... to the point where no obstacle could resist and huge enlightenments opened to them. 'Supernatural persistence' is one of the most essential qualities a seeker can develop. The people who seem to get into high states of consciousness without having to go through any spiritual discipline are usually people who have gone through long and intense processes in their former lives. Whatever level you may be at, it is by constant attention to all the aspects of the practice that success will come to you.
"Those who say they will die first and then rise are in error. If they do not first receive the resurrection while they live, when they die they will receive nothing." (The Gospel of Philip, Tranlated by Wesley W. Isenberg, in The Other Bible, Harper and
Row, 1984, p.96)

1.7 Why delay?
Start the practices as you read the book.
In terms of self-transformation, tomorrow means never. Whatever can be done, do it right now. Wasted time is known by God.

1.8 Play with the techniques
If so many sages have striven towards spiritual enlightenment, it
is because it is the greatest fun one can have on Earth. If your views on spirituality are grim and austere, then you are completely missing the point. The most enlightened masters I have met were men and women who laughed a lot. So please, be really serious with the Clairvision techniques: play with them. If you can get as involved and serious as a child who is playing (and if you persist) then your chances of success are great.

1.9 Remain relative
One of the fascinating discoveries that results from understanding
the writings of highly enlightened people is that they have seen the world in completely different ways.
In the Indian tradition for instance, take the Jnanis and Sri Aurobindo. In the works of Sri Aurobindo, the world is presented


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