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own "world" of tribulation. This one is so full of his own good opinions that he can not clearly distinguish the voice that says, "In my way is peace. Be of good cheer; I have come up over --- so may you."

This one does not yet know that the "chastening" means the purifying of every self thought from the way into which it has wandered. He does not know that the "scourging" comes from leaving the true path, and trying to walk in a way after his own opinions.

Another progresses slowly as if burdened. This one is carrying with him in his ascent a remembrance of the valley's "clouds and shadows." So engrossed is he with clinging to these burdens that he can not hear the voice above saying, "Thy sins and thy iniquities will I remember no more." He spends much time sighing over past mistakes, and thinking to atone for them by suffering, ignorant that every step upward takes him further from those mistakes. This one does not "forget the things" that are being left behind though it is written, "Remember not the former things, neither consider the things of old." Forget what you once seemed to be and press on to the heights of Pure Consciousness where all is seen as Perfection, says the voice above; but this one hears not and his realization is labored and hindered.

Another presses steadily upward and he is