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“We aimed to become men, already very different from ordinary men in the kind of knowledge we possessed of ourselves, in the understanding of our position on the ladder of possibilities and in the acquisition of a permanent centre of gravity. This phrase, that was often used in the “school” means that the idea of attaining unity, consciousness, a permanent “me” and will . . . would one day become more important to us than anything else. We would then have within us, our “Guardian Angel,” and would understand the significance of this expression.”

–Louis Pauwels in Gurdjieff