The Work can only be done within incarnation. The game must be played from within the arena. After and before, from the sidelines, one can review and plan and study - but it is in the physical incarnation that the Work is done, the Stone is crafted, the Grail is found, the Temple is constructed, the Rose is brought to flower upon the Cross of time/space. Only within this world is the Soul tested and able to conquer and re-discover and establish it’s divinity and royalty.
Like a hermit crab who must move from shell to shell… without the shell the soul is homeless
The Stone of the Philosophers’ must be found/created in and through this physical vehicle and experience - then the aura is crystallized and the soul is fixed, and you take with you all that you have learned….
The school of this world, this universe(ity) ensures that the lessons and being is completely and totally learned