Anyone who desires to serve should understand that his or her work will be useful and have meaning if the impulse to serve originates on the higher mental plane � the realm of higher energies � on which are generated those creative processes that translate into our daily world as manifestations of the Plan. This is what is known as �subjective work,� and it presupposes a definite orientation toward one�s higher polarity, or Soul, in order to be a conscious creator capable of manipulating matter according to the Laws and necessity. 

We arrive at this stage of evolution through the grace of experience, which leads us to an understanding of the Plan, to the development of our own capacity and possibilities as builders, and to the knowledge of the world of energies. It especially leads us to recognize that we are part of an important, vital process that is both obligatory and universal. 

A sense of universality distinguishes the true server and indicates that the focus of his or her attention has shifted from the small circle of the personal I in order to embrace an ever-widening compass. This occurs via a process of mental elevation and expansion that enables us to overcome any limitation. We approach universality to the degree that we can overcome our attachments, our desires and our egotism, and cease fixating on the lower self in order to extend our awareness to the group, humanity and the world. Then we are liberated from the glamor of the temporal and enter into the consciousness of the eternal.

When we succeed in expanding our awareness, we discover our true selves as important members of the human family, as cells in the body of a larger entity and as part of a system of energies that condition and stimulate us to become conscious participants. It is in this conscious participation, in this voluntary acceptance of our role in the eternal cosmic drama, where our work lies as true servers, servers who are truly active elements in the process of manifestation, in the expression of the laws and the completion of the Plan.

Even with our extremely limited grasp of the Plan, we perceive that it includes spiritualization, perfectibility, and a return to the purity of our original being. This original state of being is hard for us to imagine on this plane, but its potential is felt as so completely inherent to us  that we are impelled to achieve it in spite of our ignorance and apparent inferiority. That potential is our force, and we have recourse to it when we decide to tread the path of return and its consequent life of service. Treading the path is, in reality, a creative and participatory action, an expression of that aforementioned universality. To tread the path is to build a road toward a higher consciousness, toward becoming that consciousness, toward the refinement of our matter and toward enlightenment. It is the building of a stairway that ascends toward the center from which we emanated.

This is real work, done by the �Real Self,� with real aims and materials. It is a subjective work that must gestate in the world of causes and meaning in order to precipitate later as an effect in the concrete, objective world. As servers, it is necessary for us to recognize the fundamental importance of this subjective work, as well as the role of the mind with its mechanisms for action, its handling of mental matter, the construction of thoughtforms and their vitalization, and the manifestation of thought in such a way that an effect is produced according to the Law and in compliance with the Plan.

The establishment of a network of light for the spiritual revitalization of humanity must be seen in this way, as real work, more than just an aspirational impulse. It is necessary to build, in mental matter, a system or network of energy distribution of a higher vibratory quality that, intrinsically, has the virtue of vitalizing and stimulating to higher states of being those that are found in its framework.

Everything that exists rests in this energy network � the energy of Agni, the energy of Cosmic Fire � and manifests in gradients of energy on a scale whose beginning and end cannot be conceived. For now we have access to only a minuscule part of that spectrum, but the conditions under which we have been created include the promise � one that can be verified � that some day we will attain total perception of it. 

When we penetrate the subtle world via our mental work, we vitalize that network and stimulate its vibration. And that is why it is so important that our thoughts be pure and our intention noble, and that we act as true servers, linking the world of Souls and the world of men, so that the stimulation we evoke continues to be on an ascending track demanding spiritualization on its unstoppable march toward Singularity and Synthesis.

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