“To exercise the Being-Partkdolg-Duty means that we not allow intellectual concepts to pass through our mind in a mechanical manner; in other words, we become cognizant of all the intellectual data that come to the mind. How do we become cognizant of that data? It is done by means of meditation. So, if we read a book, we should meditate on it, try to comprehend it.
We must become cognizant of all the activities of our emotional center. It is unfortunate to see how people move under the impulse of emotions, in a completely mechanical manner, without any control whatsoever. So, we must become self-cognizant of all emotions.
The habits and customs of the motor center. We must become self-cognizant of all our activities, of all our movements, of all our habits, and not do anything in a mechanical manner. We must become lords of our instincts and subdue them. We must comprehend them in-depth, integrally.
We must transmute the sexual energy. We transmute our creative energies by means of certain alchemical procedures.
Obviously, our life unfolds harmoniously, when we fulfill in this manner the Cosmic Duty or Being-Partkdolg-Duty and we live in harmony with the Infinite, in agreement with the Great Law. Thus, we will be able to reach old age full of ecstasy; we will be able to attain Mastery and perfection.”
– Samael Aun Weor, The Erroneous Functions of the Five Centers
In order to fulfill our cosmic duty we must remember where we come from, that we are not alone in this life, that everyone is connected and we have a responsibility and obligation to help other human beings while honoring God within.
Our cosmic duty is fulfilled through conscious works and voluntary sufferings. Conscious works means to practice waking up, being present, observing ourselves, and transforming the basest aspects of our personality into the essence of the soul.
Voluntary sufferings means to put others first without expecting anything in return. To learn to love others, and to dissolve our own ego.
“…During my studies of the fundamental cosmic laws, I learned that these sacred substances ‘abrustdonis’ and ‘helkdonis’ are precisely those substances which enter into the formation and perfecting of the higher being-bodies of the three-brained beings- that is, the ‘kesdjan body’ and the ‘body of the soul’- and that the separation of the sacred ‘askokin’ from the two other substances proceeds when beings, on whatever planet they may be, transmute these sacred substances in themselves for the forming and perfecting of their higher bodies, by means of conscious labor and intentional suffering.”
-G.I. Gurdjieff, Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson