If a man or woman wants to develop their True Self, knowledge alone is not enough; he or she must also work
to change their being. Only, change of being is so difficult that it would be
almost impossible if knowledge were not there to help.
So knowledge and being must grow side by side, though the one is quite separate from the other.
Neither one alone can give right understanding because
understanding is the resultant of a simultaneous growth of both.
The Fourth Way teaches through the way of understanding.
One of our aims is to teach the practical application of the Work
in order to bring a man or woman to the Third State of Consciousness through their own work and efforts.
This change in Being and Understanding enables a person to learn how
to make conscious use of the experiences of life, and to find real meaning of life in all that one does.
There are many obstacles which keep us asleep and under the laws of our sleep,
therefore we begin with that which is closest to us and easiest to verify...