July 2d.  The part of the organism which begins to get out of correspondence with the Organic Environment is the only part which is in vital correspondence with it.  Though a fatal disadvantage to the natural man to be thrown out of correspondence with this Environment, it is of inestimable importance to the spiritual man.  For so long as it is maintained the way is barred for a further Evolution.  And hence the condition necessary for the further Evolution is that the spiritual be released from the natural.  That is to say, the condition of the further Evolution is Death.  Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 249.

July 3d.  The sifting of the correspondences is done by Nature.  This is its last and greatest contribution to mankind.  Over the mouth of the grave the perfect and the imperfect submit to their final separation.  Each goes to its own—­earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, Spirit to Spirit.  “The dust shall return to the earth as it was; and the Spirit shall return unto God who gave it.”  Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 249.

July 4th.  Few things are less understood than the conditions of the spiritual life.  The distressing incompetence of which most of us are conscious in trying to work out our spiritual experience is due perhaps less to the diseased will which we commonly blame for it than to imperfect knowledge of the right conditions.  It does not occur to us how natural the spiritual is.  We still strive for some strange transcendent thing; we seek to promote life by methods as unnatural as they prove unsuccessful; and only the utter incomprehensibility of the whole region prevents us seeing fully—­what we already half-suspect—­how completely we are missing the road.  Natural Law, Environment, p. 256.

July 5th.  Living in the spiritual world . . . is just as simple as living in the natural world; and it is the same kind of simplicity.  It is the same kind of simplicity for it is the same kind of world—­there are not two kinds of worlds.  The conditions of life in the one are the conditions of life in the other.  And till these conditions are sensibly grasped, as the conditions of all life, it is impossible that the personal effort after the highest life should be other than a blind struggle carried on in fruitless sorrow and humiliation.  Natural Law, Environment, p. 257.

July 6th.  Heredity and Environment are the master-influences of the organic world.  These have made all of us what we are.  These forces are still ceaselessly playing upon all our lives.  And he who truly understands these influences; he who has decided how much to allow to each; he who can regulate new forces as they arise, or adjust them to the old, so directing them as at one moment to make them cooperate, at another to counteract one another, understands the rationale of personal development.  Natural Law, Environment, p. 255.

July 7th.  To seize continuously the opportunity of more and more perfect adjustment to better and higher conditions, to balance some inward evil with some purer influence acting from without, in a word to make our Environment at the same time that it is making us—­these are the secrets of a well-ordered and successful life.  Natural Law, Environment, p. 256.