When you have understood an essential truth, use your will to put it into practice, in the knowledge that this is the only real way to understand

"The Creator gave us a will, so that we would make it the instrument of our higher nature and place it at the service of a high ideal. We must begin by understanding some essential truths. When you have understood an essential truth, use your will to put it into practice, in the knowledge that this is the only real way to understand it.

It’s easy to spout truths; anyone can read the works of certain sages and repeat parrot fashion what they find there. By doing this, they may even win the respect of those people who are so blind they can’t see how weak and feeble they are inside. But fooling the blind isn’t much of an achievement! In any case, there are others who cannot be fooled: the luminous entities of the invisible world. And what’s more, it’s precisely these entities whose esteem we need to gain, and we will gain it by applying the truths revealed by initiates. These truths are weapons; we will never find better ones to help us triumph over life’s difficulties, but we need an arm to make use of them; in other words, we need the will to put them into practice."