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saying, "Thy sins and thy iniquities, will I remember no more." He sighing says, "Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth." He does not realize that the chastening means the purifying from all doubts and clouds, and an uplifting into Light! He does not know that all the "Scourging" comes in the clouds of the valley, because Love would draw us above them. "To him that overcometh (which is, 'cometh up over') will I grant to sit with me in my throne." -- Rev. 3:21. This one does not "Forget the things that are being left behind," though it is written, "Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old." -- Isa. 43:18. So his progress in consciousness is hindered.

We meet another steadily pressing upward, and we hear him joyfully singing, "I will look unto the hills whence cometh my help. Who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly. I have set the Lord always before me. I shall not be moved. Thou wilt show me the path of life; in thy presence is fulness of joy," and we notice as these words are uttered, that the upward progress of this one, is rapid and easy; we remember it is written, "The joy of the Lord shall be your strength." And all who catch the echo of this rejoicing one, are strengthened to push on.

As we go higher, we see that all the other hills and mountains begin to disappear, as we are being exalted above them. All the hills of difficulty, which once arose so threateningly above us, now seem to be leveled, when looked down upon from this highest of mountains. Also as we look, the very valley we left is lifted up, and is seen no more as a valley! Now is the prophesy of Isaiah understood, "Every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill shall be made low." -- Isa. 40:4. Fulfilled when the soul has reached the heights of Pure.