Light On The Path and Through the Gates of Gold

ciousness may be regulated in order that the sensation which is most agreeable is the one that is experi

nius, an inventor, one inspired; but he is only the crown of a great mental work created by unknown men about him, and receding back from him through long vistas of distance. Without them he would not have had his material

exorably shut. It does but need a strong hand to push them open. The courage to enter them is the courage to search the recesses of one's own nature without fear an

f what is to be looked for beyond the Gates. But only those who desire to go that way read the meaning hidden within the words. Scholars, or rather scholiasts, read the sacred books of different nations, the poetry and the philo

thought that which does not exist in the man who studies. This is of course an evident fact known to all real students. But it has to be especially remem

but remain inaccessible simply because there is no man ready to read the first page of any one of them, becomes the conviction of all who have studied the subject sufficiently. For there must be the continuous line all through: we see it go from dense ignorance up to intelligence and wisdom; it is only natural that it should go on to intuitive knowledge and to inspiration. Some scant fragments we have of these great gifts of man; where, then, is the whole of which they must be a part? Hidden behind the thin y

century,-Is life worth living? Surely it is sufficient to spur man to new effort,-the suspicion that beyond civilization, bey