William Segal

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When speaking of the search for the Absolute Self, William Segal (1904–2000) drew from many traditional and literary sources: the Upanishads, the Old and New Testament, Eckhart, Shakespeare, and, especially, Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, whom he had known.

The Work, for him, is ever expanding, lawfully, on its own, as emanations from its origin gain energy and strength. It encompasses more as finer, more penetrating vibrations spread over more. This was his expansive vision of consciousness.

The Work, as he conveyed it, seeks awakening to a force of uncompromising rigor and precision. Only in this fashion is one’s presence the master of the situation yet still a servant of God. Ultimately, he taught, the atom of Hydrogen 1—the divine spark in the soul, as Eckhart says—must prevail. The more diligently and creatively one seeks it out in its eternally new and present form, the more complete a human being one may become.

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