There are three lines of Work: (1) work on oneself, (2) work in regard to relationship to other people in the Work, and (3) finally work that helps the Work in general. The first two lines are really all to do with conscious relationship, which, as I said, is based on mutual understanding through the study of a system such as this Work which enables you to speak to one another in the same language and not in terms of Babel.

Now in this Work, as it was once taught, we learn that before we can have something we must earn the cash to pay for it. In this Work we pay beforehand. How? By working on the Three Lines of Work—work on yourself, work in connection with others, and work for the Work itself. What is work on yourself? It is, in my case, work to make Dr. Nicoll passive. What is work with others ? It is exactly the magic power of external considering. What is work for the Work itself? It is to see, to understand, what we are trying to do, what direction is being given, what will help the Work itself.

The Work has three lines of work in it, work on yourself, work in connection with other people in the Work, and work in connection with the Work itself. Unless these three lines are satisfied, at least provisionally, your aim will lead nowhere. There are three aspects to all Work aims.

The third line of Work is—for us at present—to help the Work in general and try to see what is required of us and not talk wrongly or harm the Work. Right valuation and right attitude to the Work belong to the third line, but they enter into everything, because unless one has valuation and right attitude one will work neither on oneself nor with others nor for the Work.