FOREWORD

help you, unless you take hold of the matter yourself and work out your own salvation. You cannot get true mental or spiritual teaching by simply paying a certain amount for a course of lessons and doing nothing yourself. You must bring something to the teacher before you can take anything away. You must work up to an understanding before the teachings of another will do you any good.

The teacher may make a suggestion that will open up a line of thought for you, or he may point out a way that has proved of value to him, and thus save you much time and trouble. But you must do the real work yourself.

A teacher may be so filled with the truth that he will overflow, and you will get some of the overflow. I believe that truth is "catching." But even so, unless you make that truth your own by living it out and applying it to your needs, it will do you no good. And so long as you are content to "sit at his feet" and play the part of the "disciple," you will not grow one inch. You will be merely a reflection of the teacher, instead of being an individual.

We need a reminder original: "jogging up" on this point every once in a while, "lest we forget." A reference to Rudyard Kipling's poem "Recessional," cautioning against pride and forgetfulness of spiritual duties. It is so easy to have