‘The spirit speaks to the human being in the heart. This is why anyone, who is longing for the Gnosis, will also strive for true, sevenfold purification of the heart. The emotional life, together with the mental life, will absolutely change in the person who sincerely and perseveringly strives for such purification. Then the light consequently can “make its abode in him”. From that moment, everything he undertakes will be wholly in accordance with this sevenfold purification of the heart. Then the human being is “pure” in everything he does. Only then will the human being enter “into the domain of the good”, as Hermes calls it: into the state of true growth of the soul.’ J van Rijckenborgh