indifferent to the needs of the material and ethereal bodies in order to give more seriousness to the activities of the soul. The incentives to act come from the soul; if we ignore our true selves, if we ignore the spiritual nature of the soul, our activities become illusory. Immersed in this ignorance, the being believes to find his own interest in that of the material and ethereal bodies, and it is thus that, life after life, he continues to act in vain, to waste his energies. It is only when he cultivates the knowledge of his true identity that his spiritual soul activities begin. And we name soul liberated even at the heart of matter, the one who accords his acts to the nature of the soul.

One reaches such a level by taking refuge with the Lord, He who always transcends matter. When the conditioned being cultivates spiritual knowledge and prays the Lord to free him from the clutches of forgetting his true identity, he, in his infinite mercy, removes the veil of illusion that covered him, so that 'he can realize his true identity. The soul thus realized then finds its natural, original and eternal condition, and thus engages in the service of the Lord, freed from all material conditions. All this is accomplished by the will of the Lord, through his external powers, or even directly, through his internal powers.

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When the illusory energy withdraws and the incarnate being, by the grace of the Lord, is enriched with full knowledge, the light of spiritual realization springs in him and he settles in the glory of his true self.

Forms, Names, Entertainment, Attributes, Companions and Energies of the Supreme Lord, who all partake of the Absolute, are no different from Him. Its absolute energy, for example, acts in proportion to its omnipotence.

Unique, it manifests itself in three different ways, as internal, external or marginal energy, and the Lord in his omnipotence can accomplish all that 'He wills through any of these three energies. Thus, of his will alone, He can transform external energy into internal energy; Likewise, this external energy serving to illusion those who desire it, can, by the grace of the Lord, remove the weight of its influence, when the conditioned soul repents of its faults and takes the penitential path. This same energy can still, from this moment, contribute to the purification of the being who progresses on the path of spiritual realization.