And suppose this all to be true, how can he demonstrate the fact, or transmit the experience to another; and particularly if that other declared to begin with that, "the whole process is absurd and impossible"? Nor is mere credulity here a highway to knowledge. It is merely the opposite pole of incredulity, and both are begotten by ignorance. Analogy and the basic principles and laws of scientific psychology are very different matters indeed. They point in this direction like a theorem in mathematics. The principles and laws being grasped and apprehended, the solution becomes only a question of _work_; and at every step the law is verified, "Backward and forward it still spells the same." What is this but the _methods_ of Natural Science applied to Psychical Science upon the basis of the Unity of Natural Phenomena and Universal Law? 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. Its results are our _real_ possessions, our "treasure in heaven" that nothing can ever destroy. Life and Death may ebb and flow, and come and go; but _we_ may, if we will, go on forever; or we may turn the other way and go down to death. _Some day_ every human soul will elect, choose, and decide and then start on the journey, North or South. This is the meaning of Soul, of Individual Intelligence, of Rational Volition, of Personal Responsibility.