kept burning like a lamp in the heart, for without its radiating light no way will be seen in the darkness; one will find no pathway out of self. As the flame increases and burns with a steadier light, energy, resolution, and self-reliance will come to man’s aid, and with each step, his progress be accelerated until at last the Light of Knowledge will begin to take the place of the lamp of faith, and the darkness disappear before its searching splendor. Into his spiritual ken will come the Principles of the divine Life, and as he approaches them their incomparable beauty and majestic symmetry will astonish his vision and gladden his heart with a gladness hitherto unknown.
Along this pathway of self-control and self-purification—for such it is—every soul must travel on its way to the Kingdom. So narrow is this way and so overgrown with the weeds of selfishness is its entrance, that it is difficult to find; and, being found, it cannot be retained except by daily meditation. Without this the spiritual energies
