The first aim of any aspirant to esoteric knowledge is to become awake, and so responsible for his own actions. While a man is asleep he is a machine. A good way to illustrate how much asleep one is is to try to say every hour on the hour, “I am”, at the same time remembering exactly what one is doing; then at night before going to sleep, endeavour to bring to mind what was being done each hour on the hour through the day. If this is done consciously and honestly it will demonstrate very forcibly where one stands. Many people will see only one hour in a day, others may do it reasonably well for a day and then forget it for a week.

As well as laws from above, man lives under laws from the Earth, one of which is the law of accident which completely influences mechanical man. It causes him to marry who he does, have his children, get his job, and suffer unconsciously in manifold ways. Only when he wakes up can he begin to get free and come under the law of fate, which is from our Father the Sun. To understand the laws of fate and accident, the dimensions in which they occur must be established. Bodies operate in the third dimension, thoughts in the fourth and spirit in the fifth, and man can live in these three dimensions simultaneously. The law of accident relates to bodies, or the third dimension, and implies the existence of choice; the law of fate operates in the fifth dimension, where there is no choice.