The answer was expressed in the system taught by G and O can be found clearly expressed in Christian thought in specific teachings, for example, certain people will recognize the following diagram, Figure 2 from P. D. Ouspensky's  'In search of the Miraculous.'  The Christian form of this truth was recently put differently by Eugraph Kovalevsky, a Russian bishop in the esoteric tradition who was in Paris at the same time as G,. (He described this reversal of the energy flow as follows:) "Having voluntarily stopped taking divine food, the human spirit has sought another food, another form of breath, and has turned towards the level of the psyche, giving birth to our civilizations as it did so. ... The psyche, the soul, is already weakened at the spiritual level, because this is itself deprived of the divine salt, of the divine food, of "blood"; so the psyche is deprived of its proper food, which should come from the spirit, because the spirit no longer feeds it, but feeds off it instead."

"At these times the psyche turns towards what can provide a certain dietary supplement.  It takes refuge in matter.  So we see that strange phenomenon of a complex world, the world of the psyche, caught up with the elements - which leave it hungry and arouse negative emotions.  Diseases inevitably appear.  The spirit, saturated with  activity of the psyche, brings anxiety; how can a soul which eats its body not set loose diseases!  What then can we say of the body which, instead of being the sun, the radiance, the nourishment of the cosmos, turns towards the cosmos in a way that uses it more and more!  Matter, finding nothing lower than itself to serve as food, becomes anaemic; the doors of destruction and death open before it; the only food offered is nothingness." ( Eugraph Kovalevsky - A Method of Prayer for Modern times - Praxis Institute Press - Newbury, MA, 1992)