The Work and the Gospels: Instructions for the Third Force

Both the teaching of Christ and the teaching of the Work are about the Third or Neutralizing Force, which renders Personality passive and Essence active. They are descriptions and instructions concerning it.

What I want you to understand is that there is something being said here about what the Work calls the formation of the Work-Triad by means of which Personality is made passive. By means of what the Work opens our eyes to, we see what all these and other statements in the Gospels, which seem so difficult to understand, mean. They are not an end in themselves.

They are instructions about how to make Personality passive enough so that Essence can grow and Real I or Master can enter. For the Master cannot enter Personality. Once Real I enters, the Work-goal is reached. The means and methods of reaching it can then be laid aside."

Maurice Nicoll, “The Neutralizing Force of the Work" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 5 p. 1646)