Remember what's unusual...

Remember what's unusual with both the Work AND Christianity, i.e. unusual when it is actually experienced:

With the Work it is development of Magnetic Center. It is that development that culminates in the appearance of 'Observing I'. That development with B Influences, climbing the mountain of them, and also getting a basic balanced development of all centers. And then the difficult baptism of leaving the confines of the illusions of the General Law.

With Christianity it is similar; it is the 'dying to the law' that separates real regenerated believers from the various 'Village of Morality' Christians. (Regeneration by the Word and the Spirit itself is the main thing.) Dying to the law is very similar to the baptism of awakening to and leaving the General Law. All the same friction is involved with family and friends and strangers and the mass of humanity in general. But it's unusual to get above vanity, worldly pride, and rebellious self-will. That is unusual, when it happens.

One might have to conclude the two things above are the same. In a real way they are. But I think one can have the latter without the former, but not the former without the latter (to a real degree). The Work just gives a real language for it all that is at the practical level. The Work also demands one 'see' and then actually practice what Jesus teaches (the two great commandments, for instance) for sanctification. Not to save yourself, but what is built upon the foundation of justification and salvation. There is reward at the final judgment. It involves degree of development. All who are justified by faith alone in Christ alone by grace alone are vindicated at the final Judgment even if they don't develop AT ALL on that foundation. But those who do are rewarded nevertheless. In heaven it's said that some are larger glasses than others, but everybody's glass is full to the brim. It IS a Kingdom with government responsibilities. And vertical development happens as well, once there, no doubt...