If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.

Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.

The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.

God is not a dead equation!

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.