The self transforming relationships of these four ideas.

Maurice Nicoll states that the center of gravity of Will is in the Emotional Center—the part that is the object of the Work to awaken. Instead of Will being stern resolve, there is a new emotion entering this familiar situation—it is a unity of things rather than a splitting up. 

Another aspect of this many-sided idea of Will is that it is “infinitely flexible.” In the familiar horizontal plane of time, cause is in the past, and effect follows. But causes can be in the future. I think I see where Maurice is going here: if our Will and our Aim are quietly and actively patient, our Work is towards a possible cause of transformation in the future. If we plant the Aim deep in the soil of the Emotional Center and do not disrupt it with the constant talking of the Intellectual Center, it can bear fruit in the future. I feel that M is touching on my Aim of Living from Good here.

Following the trail deep into volume 4, Maurice does a short riff on Will, Being, and Structure.  First, he asserts that Will and Being might be closely related, might even be different aspects of the same thing, and that a person’s Being must show itself in their Will. Commentaries, p1494 

Maurice reminds us that we often will negative aspects of ourselves, such as anger, and this is essentially willing anger into our Being. Finally, he says, “One may know all about esotericism and all about this Work without ever willing it and without ever doing it. When the Work is not willed, Being cannot change. Change the Will, and Being will change. But it must be knowledge of a certain kind … willing ordinary life-knowledge will not do this. Knowledge that can change Being comes down from those belonging to a higher level who have changed their Being—from the Circle of Conscious Humanity. 

To seek and get that knowledge, to study and know that knowledge, to will that knowledge and to do that knowledge changes Being. Maurice goes on to add, “If you begin to will in a new way, new Being will result, and new Being in turn will result in new willing.” Commentaries, p1496

Logion 67
Yeshua says...
If you come to know all,
and yet you yourself are lacking,
you have missed everything.

Page numbers for Maurice Nicoll refer to Psychological Commentaries on the Teachings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Eureka Editions:2020) unless stated otherwise. 

All quotations from the Gospel of Thomas are from Lynn C Bauman, Ward J Bauman, Cynthia Bourgeault, The Luminous Gospels (Praxis 2008)

Read the Impression introducing the Gospel of Thomas.