In conclusion we can only repeat what has been told and retold many times by all inspired ones, of whatever creed and race; namely, think and act always from the inner Self, cheerfully taking the consequences of your choice.  Let not the opinions of the illusory world of the senses balk and thwart you.  Let not the “worldly-wise” swerve you from your ideal and your faith in the final goal of your earthly pilgrimage—­the attainment of spiritual consciousness in your present personality; this is the meaning of immortality in the flesh Doubt not this.

Make love your ideal; your guide; your final goal; look for the inner Self of all whom you meet.  “Learn to look into the hearts of men,” says the injunction in Light on the Path; dismiss from your mind all the accumulation of traditional concepts and prejudices that are not grounded in love, and above all falter not, nor doubt—­no matter what seeming hardships you encounter in your earthly pilgrimage; they are but the Indian-clubs of your soul’s gymnasium—­Experience.  “Meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat these two impostors just the same.”

Triumph and Disaster as seen with the eyes of sense-consciousness are both illusions; but don’t for this reason cease your work.  The phrase “you must work out your own salvation” is true.  So also, you must be willing to do your part in working out the salvation of the world; salvation means simply the realization of the spiritual Being that you are—­the attainment of that state of Illumination which guarantees immortality.

Experience teaches one important lesson:  Our sense-conscious life is filled with symbolic language if we have the inner eye of discernment.  An unescapable truth is symbolized in our daily life by the evidence that we get nothing for nothing.  Everything has its price.

Immortality godhood, will not be handed to you on a silver salver; neither can any one withhold it from you, if you desire it above all things.  And, altho’ it has its price, yet you can not buy it.  A seeming paradox, but the Initiate will see it all clearly enough when the time comes.

  “He who would scale the Heights of Understanding
  From whence the soul looks out forever free
  Must falter not; nor fail; all truth demanding
  Though he bear the cross and know Gethsemane.”

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The discouraged student says to himself:  “If Truth demands such sorrow and sacrifice as this, I will not serve her.  It is a false god that would so try his devotees.”

Have you not said it?

The toll you pay is not to the Divine Self within, but to the “keepers of the threshold,” that guard the entrance to the dwelling place of the Illuminati.

Earthly lodges and brotherhoods are symbols of the higher initiations.

There is a common mistake in the idea that the invisible states of consciousness are chaotic, or radically different from the visible.