NEXT STEP IN EVOLUTION 



highest morality of the natural 

 man to the lowest round in the 

 kingdom of the spiritual man is a 

 stupendous one. John the Bap- 

 tist was the greatest of those born 

 of women — greatest of those in 

 the kingdom of the natural man — 

 but the least in the new kingdom 

 of the spiritual man is greater than 

 he. 



God broods over every soul, 

 waiting, ever waiting, for desire, 

 for invitation. Seeking begins 

 and continues growth in the inner 

 kingdom. It is the first and last 

 round in the ladder that Jacob 

 saw, and all the intervening 

 rounds. As a man seeketh, so he 

 becometh. The one thing needful 

 is not the power of logic, or the 

 courage to step out on the conclu- 

 sions of syllogisms; it is right 

 dispositions, intention, choice. 

 The willingness to heed the inner 

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