The Essence has to respond to those stimuli, let’s say, with work. It has to put also its part of efforts, and many times of super-efforts, because one thing is that we have the inner stimulus, which is worth a lot, which comes from the Father, and another thing is that we have willpower to respond to those efforts

We must persevere at all costs on this path. The impatient ones will abandon this path very quickly, because the knowledge of ourselves is a lengthy task that takes a lifetime, but it is not in vain. Valorizations of the Gnostic Inner Work