Real Friends Transcend 'Good and Bad Books'

Real Friends Transcend 'Good and Bad Books' - (4727)

Real friends are hard to find in Gnosis. A person may leave Gnosis and the friendship ends. A person may come into disrepute with another in Gnosis for some reason and the apparent flower of friendship withers.

There are really only the rare few that keep a constant line of friendship going no matter what the external circumstances are...

It is fair to say too, that when a person leaves Gnosis they in time usually stop working on themselves and so there is less in common, and their influence may not be all that motivationally positive for our work. Especially which is usually the case, those who leave Gnosis are bitter and if we love the work we don't have to subject ourselves to such impressions that harm what we love. So a natural and normal distance appears.

Also if the person who is still in Gnosis enters into disagreement with someone else and we find that the disagreement is very egocial we don't need to allow our good feelings and actions towards both people to be affected. So some wise psychological isolation is normal and natural.

However, to drop or change our line of friendship is circumstantial and pendular and there is more egoical values than conscious values in the friendship.

We know that the consciousness holds a value from inside of ourselves and is firm and strong enough to hold it despite pressure from outside. What is of the egocial in us is relative and dependent and easily succumbs to unfavourable external or internal pressure.

End (4727).

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