There is nothing to prevent any of us from starting on this upward journey of the soul, if we choose; and never till we do, shall we really begin to know, to realize our birthright, and progress toward the realm of eternal day.
The science of ethics, the basis of morals, is the starting point, the first step; and leading the life, the way. And there is no climbing up some other way. So said the Master of Galilee, and so say the real Masters in all times.
When Jesus said, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life,” he doubtless meant that these were all in him, and he at-one with them.
When Jesus said, “I and the Father are one. No one cometh to the Father but by me,” he doubtless referred to this at-one-ment as the only way by which the natural man—Adam—could become the Spiritual man—Christos.
When he said, “The kingdom of heaven is within you,” he undoubtedly meant that “heaven” is a condition, a harmonic state, and not a place.
We undoubtedly create our own “hell” and our own “heaven,” and people them with “devils” or with “angels.”
True Science and true Religion clasp hands, and are like the two hands of the one body of Truth. They check each other, supplement each other, harmonize each other.
Superstition and blind dogma are the enemies of true Science; Religion—never.
Science and Religion are the handmaids of Truth; because both are the children of Divinity, the agents of Light and of Eternal Progress for Man.
This building of character, this growth of the soul, this Harmonic of Evolution, is a matter of work; of personal endeavor, of valid, real, personal experience.