continuous advancement, or to live according to the truth and to do things as they ought to be done. But how are we to know these things? The person does not and cannot know; in fact, the average person is in a state of more or less confusion, and confusion is liable at any time to misdirect or misplace. Therefore it is not possible to learn to do these things properly by doing what the person pleases to have done. We all know too well that the guidance of mere personal desire leads to darkness, disorder and pain, the reason being that the person was not created to dictate to the mind. In consequence, whoever permits the person to rule or to lead, and who blindly follows the desires of the person, will invariably go wrong.

We shall know how to establish order and how to do things as they ought to be done when we know the truth, understand the principles of life, and follow the light of the soul at all times --- never asking what we would like to do, but what is the best thing to do, because what is best we shall like the best when we find what it really is. And most important of all we should do with joy whatever the present moment may require. When we begin to follow the soul and begin to work toward higher and greater things we shall find that everything coming into life comes for a purpose, and also that the superior state of existence always follows when such purposes