grow weaker, and the man loses the strength necessary to go on. As the body is sustained and invigorated by material food, so is the spirit strengthened and renewed by its own food: meditation upon spiritual things.
He, then, who earnestly resolves to find the Kingdom will commence to meditate, and rigidly to examine his heart and mind and life in the light of the Supreme Perfection that is the goal of his attainment. On his way to that goal, he must pass through the three Gateways of Surrender. The first is the Surrender of Desire; the second the Surrender of Opinion; and the third the Surrender of Self. Entering into meditation, he will commence to examine his desires, tracing them out in his mind, and following up their effects in his life and upon his character; and he will quickly perceive that without the renunciation of desire a man remains a slave both to himself and to his surroundings and circumstances. Having discovered this, the first Gate, that of the Surrender of Desire, is
