The Great Awakening - Awaken, Empower, Ascend

The phrase "The Great Work" figures prominently in esoteric literature. Most often it is used to refer to some sort of divinely sanctioned process of soul evolution or soul tempering. That is, and according to priests, masons, and other brotherhood members, the point of your existence is to develop, evolve, and eventually pass some stupid cosmic test. If you don't pass it, you fail, go to hell, don't pass go, try again at a lower level, or just vanish in evolutionary dust. If you pass then the space ships come to get you, St. Peter welcomes you through the pearly gates, you survive some big shift in consciousness, you reconnect with "the all," etc.

In order to mask the sheer silliness of the idea, they attach a grandiose phrase to an otherwise pedestrian idea, surround it with a labrynthian maze of Rocket Science, season it heavily with EPMO, and drown it in the overload symbols of an ungrounded right brain.

In my work the Great Work refers specifically to the work of ascension. This is neither a moral nor evolutionary task but a technical challenge. A summary is provided in The Book of Life: Ascension and the Divine World Order. A more complete accounting is provided in my Book of Light, all volumes. You'll also find mention of The Great Work in the Halo/Sharp tarot system, and especially in the cards UNIVERSE and THE WORLD.