October 20th.  No matter what may be the moral uprightness of man’s life, the honourableness of his career, or the orthodoxy of his creed, if he exercises the function of loving the world, that defines his world—­he belongs to the Organic Kingdom.  He cannot in that case belong to the higher Kingdom.  “If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”  After all, it is by the general bent of a man’s life, by his heart-impulses and secret desires, his spontaneous actions and abiding motives, that his generation is declared.  Natural Law, p. 393.

October 21st.  The imperious claim of a Kingdom upon its members is not peculiar to Christianity.  It is the law in all departments of Nature that every organism must live for its Kingdom.  And in defining living for the higher Kingdom as the condition of living in it, Christ enunciates a principle which all Nature has prepared us to expect.  Natural Law, p. 395.

October 22d.  Christianity marks the advent of what is simply a new Kingdom.  Its distinctions from the Kingdom below it are fundamental.  It demands from its members activities and responses of an altogether novel order.  It is, in the conception of its Founder, a Kingdom for which all its adherents must henceforth exclusively live and work, and which opens its gates alone upon those who, having counted the cost, are prepared to follow it if need be to the death.  The surrender Christ demanded was absolute.  Every aspirant for membership must seek first the Kingdom of God.  Natural Law, p. 394.

October 23d.  Until even religious men see the uniqueness of Christ’s society, until they acknowledge to the full extent its claim to be nothing less than a new Kingdom, they will continue the hopeless attempt to live for two Kingdoms at once.  And hence the value of a more explicit Classification.  For probably the most of the difficulties of trying to live the Christian life arise from attempting to half-live it.  Natural Law, p. 396.

October 24th.  Two Kingdoms, at the present time, are known to Science—­ the Inorganic and the Organic.  The spiritual life does not belong to the Inorganic Kingdom, because it lives.  It does not belong to the Organic Kingdom, because it is endowed with a kind of Life infinitely removed from either the vegetable or animal.  Where, then, shall it be classed?  We are left without an alternative.  There being no Kingdom known to Science which can contain it, we must construct one.  Or, rather, we must include in the programme of Science a Kingdom already constructed, but the place of which in Science has not yet been recognized.  That Kingdom is the kingdom of god.  Natural Law, p. 397.

October 25th.  The goal of the organisms of the Spiritual World is nothing less than this—­to be “holy as He is holy, and pure as He is pure.”  And by the Law of Conformity to Type, their final perfection is secured.  The inward nature must develop out according to its Type, until the consummation of oneness with God is reached.  Natural Law, p. 403.