Light On The Path and Through the Gates of Gold

rt as the beasts do in theirs, and scepticism which is death,-then it is that in fact, if he will but look, the Golden Gates are before him. With the culture of the age within him and assimila

ch surround it, but much more because man does not realize that this is ac

; he never actually reaches it, for it eludes him at the final moment. This is because he endeavors to seize that which is untouchable and satisfy his soul's hunger for sensation by contact with external objects. How can that which is external satisfy or even please the inner man,-the thing which reigns within and has no eyes for matter, no hands for touch of objects, no senses with which to apprehend that which is outside its magic walls? Those charmed barriers which surround i

brain, which concern ourselves only, and the phantasmagoria of daily life, in which others also are concerned. This rule applies also to the larger case. It concerns no one but ourselves that we live in a nightmare of unreal horror, and fancy ourselves alone in the universe and capable of independent action, so long as our associates are those only who are a part of the dream; but when we desire to speak with those who have tried the Golden Gates and pushed them open, then it is very necessary-in fact it is essential-t

search of yet another step, why should he not find it? There is nothing to make one suppose the pathway to end at a certain point, exce