Just over a year after starting Gnostic classes Edith and I were married, this meant practicing Alchemy, the exercise that has the real power of transformation.

I hoped that at some time I may start the spiritual path, I had read a bit about this in the book The Perfect Matrimony by Samael Aun Weor, the founder of modern Gnosis, it was one of three books that had been translated into English at the time, it didn’t have much information about the path itself, but enough to outline the early stages. It was said that the path is universal, it’s alluded to in many different myths, legends and religions of the world, it was shown in the life of Jesus and modern Gnosis explains how to walk it. I didn't know if it would be possible to start it, or even if it existed, but I would try different exercises and see how I went, it seemed to be too distant to be achievable, but worth trying.I had read a lot of New Age ideas that had said there were many paths to enlightenment, but Gnosis was saying that there was only one. Enlightenment itself also seemed to have different meanings, I knew for sure however that I would have to find out from my own experience which was true, and that the only way I was going to find out if there was one sole path and what enlightenment meant, was if I explored thoroughly and objectively within myself, stood by my own experience, got on a path and reached at least some stage of what could be described as 'enlightenment'. To see if the Gnostic path was actually true I would need to follow the 'map' of directions, which were the different techniques and exercises and see if they led where they said they would lead.

We moved to Bristol in England to start a Gnostic centre and a couple of students of ours let us run classes at their home in Cardiff.

I had taught myself to observe my emotions during the day, to analyse them in the evening, and to look into my dreams to see them in action in the dream world and to see if I could get any extra information about them in the way of teachings. I was having quite a lot of dreams related to anger, in which I was always angry, of course I could see this anger during the day. In one dream however, I reacted with anger towards a person and instead of him getting angry to me back, he smiled serenely and spoke in an apologetic way, this completely diffused my anger, I understood that there was another way to act with an angry person, that I didn't have to respond with anger, I could change and so I tried to be more like the person I saw in the dream.

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