Man #1,2,3 and Christianity

Regarding the recent emails on this subject I mentioned the obvious fact that Man #4 would have to have development in all three areas (Man #1 Eastern Orthodox type; Man #2 Roman Catholic type; and Man #3 Protestant type) and think about this: we who share a connection with the Work kind of have that: The Work afterall is Eastern Orthodox in origin, when you really trace it to Christianity. The Work is #4 Man level, but I mean 'what it is' as a category or type of teaching it is more E.O. So we have that level. Then, we connect with Roman Catholic art and music and architecture, right? I mean, we can see and understand that level just as we can see and understand the various practices of the 'desert fathers' of the Orthodox teachings in the Eastern Orthodox church. Then (and I may be farthur down the road on this) we can understand the intellectual Protestant approach to the Bible and doctrine and all that. So, that is having development in all three - Man #1,2,3 - which enables an entrance into the Man #4 level (among other things that enables that)...

But it has to be said that the Man #3 type is the more difficult to acquire because it requires more directed effort and attention. Yet ironically, and ultimately, I think one finally ascends to the Man #4 level via higher division of emotional center, ultmately. But obviously once you get development at all three levels it then all coalesces into one thing (and this is explained too by the fact that higher divisions of centers are similar in that they all require more directed effort and attention to be developed). And I can also see, among the Man #3 types, a more well-rounded development, too, the Puritans afterall had alot of the ascetic practices type things down and also the education in influences associated more with emotion, etc., etc., etc...

Another thing about this: once a Christian truly enters the Man #4 level they by default leave the church level (which is associated with the three branches). Like the order of the Templars they go from 'church' to more universal 'temple'. 'Temple' is as Christian as church, as a thing. In the Bible, I mean.

Another thing that can be observed: alot of very doctrinally-oriented Protestants convert to Roman Catholicism (or if they don't go that far they begin to soften towards it and be tempted in that direction). One can see this as a strictly Man #3 with no - or little - development in Man #2 or Man #1 levels inwardly desiring to get that development. They want the music and the architecture and the art and the EMOTIONAL elements and so on. (And then the ones that leave everything and go to become some kind of hermit/monk and practice spiritual disciplines are the ones seeking the Man #1 level in terms of religion.)

So, as a Man #4 (let's say) one can survey the field below and see it more clearly using the Work language.

There's also alot of demonic false doctrine being pushed at all levels and I get caught up in exposing that and assuming that motive all the time (when I shouldn't, but it's legitimate in many cases nevertheless) and that is needed spiritual warfare and active discernment, but if you consciously stay at the Man #4 level and survey from there you can see more and avoid becoming negative...