A summing up on this subject of the Work and Christianity

The Work is like theology where you constantly have to go back and reiterate the basics. Then you sound like - to some - you never knew the basics, or that you're not aware that you are going over old, well-known things.

Let me sum up this subject I've been stumbling over too long:

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The ideas, practices, and goals of the Work can be done without the foundation of regeneration by the Word and the Spirit, but it will ultimately just be screwing around leading to emptiness or parlor games or worldly groups focused more on sex and money and power than provoking and extending limits.

The ideas, practices, and goals of the Work done on the foundation of regeneration by the Word and the Spirit become (with the Word of God though an extra-biblical language) the substance of progressive sanctification and the means and environment of spiritual warfare.
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