Selections from Chapter One in "The Great Work:

[QuestforEudaimonia]

A Vital Message for All Mankind" by Hoshaiah Akakêsios.

- "For the sake of Divine and Harmonic Order, a Veil was required to divide all Mankind: one on the side of Light and the other, (not of darkness, but) of dimness. Indeed, it is by this plan at Their (Secret Kings) hands that man has a ground to play upon in the long, ordained game of acquiring experience (Life)."

- "The pertinent, ultimate question surely arises thusly: Why has knowledge been kept in this way? Why has the Truth not been given over freely by the Powers, and Secret Kings, and Mystics, and Unseen Priests who vow to preserve it (Truth)?

Know and understand that the world revolves in Cycles unseen, imperceptible to most men. Before even the time of Atlantis (last Golden Age) and Lemuria, the Great Island was destined for destruction: Darkness was prophesied to certainly come and befall them. The Flood was inevitable. For a Golden Age (just like a Dark Age) is a temporary thing. Yes, even at the Height of Divinity, when knowledgeable, torch-bearing civilizations flourish with the Light and no Darkness is foreseen, the civilization is destined to fall; but, in every case, the people of the Age are unaware (of this fate).

But I, Noah, who saved man and his records from the destruction of the Great Deluge, knew of these Cycles. Yes, I, a King within the Melchizedek Order, foresaw the arrival of Darkness when the others (Atlanteans) could not. Blinded were they through the sin of Pride, arrogant, certain (that) the Empire of Light could never waver, never be brought down."

- "Forced are the Souls (existing here) to endure the suffering of mortality, fogginess, cloudiness, and pain. For, the Lifesparks (which are Living Souls) of this universe come from its (universe’s) creator, Yaldabaoth. And, due to their origin, man is, from the very moment of conception, a Spark of Light trying not to extinguish, seeking survival through the overcoming of the Dark universe surrounding it (the Soul)."

- "If, in his material, constantly-changing universe, man cannot, himself, change; he is trapped perpetually (here) through the prisoncell of Time."

- "If mankind is permitted to not rise and fall (by choice) in his own time-lengths and eras, it is impossible for him to evolve: Souls have no hope (whatsoever) in returning to the SOURCE OF ALL.

Matter shall dwell in this small creation bound by Time forever until the hour has ultimately come when every piece of Yaldabaoth’s world will reconcile: it is the moment when every single thing rises to the Place of Peace where the FATHER OF ALL rests in Harmony. Until that moment comes (when everything Returns), this existence of yours is subject to change."

- "The ALL is the Order of GOD HIMSELF, for GOD is also HIS own CREATION. Orderly beyond pure, immaculate laws is the ALL and GOD both. Now, infinite in infinite magnitudes are the lesser Orders within the ORDER OF ALL–the PROGRESSION OF EXISTENCE."

- "Matter is not truly solid and limited (by time, and energy, and momentum, and velocity); on an infinite rope does man’s small universe lie, and, in the likeness of Light itself, the Endless Rope is one Incomprehensible Wave with measureless, limitless wavelengths and energy."