Useful Suffering
A man, a woman, in this Work, must learn by self-observation that what they seem to be, what they pretend to be outwardly, is not what they are internally. Realizing this, they begin to suffer from the sense of contradiction. This is useful suffering. The outer and inner must conform eventually and become one—a unity.
Conscious vs. Mechanical Suffering
This Work is Esoteric Christianity. People imagine they have something to sacrifice. There is only one thing they have to sacrifice and that is their suffering. A man or woman in this Work must eventually begin to know what Conscious Suffering is compared with Mechanical Suffering.