and passes through the second Gateway toward his final peace.
Clothing his soul with the colorless Garment of Humility, he bends all his energies to the uprooting of opinions hitherto loved and cherished. He learns to distinguish between Truth, one and unchangeable, and his own and others’ opinions about Truth, which are many and changeable. He sees that his opinions about Goodness, Purity, Compassion, and Love are quite distinct from those qualities themselves, and that he must stand upon those divine Principles, and not upon his opinions. Hitherto he has regarded his own opinions as of great value and the opinions of others as worthless, but now he ceases so to elevate his own opinions and to defend them against those of others, coming to regard them as worthless. As a direct result of this attitude of mind, he takes refuge in the practice of pure Goodness, unalloyed with base desire and subtle self-love, and takes his stand upon the divine Principles of Purity, Wisdom, Compassion, and Love,
