Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Message of the East, Vol. 5
Christ says: What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his own soul The conquest which any human being seeks in the external world is in significant in comparison with that which lies within his own self; and until he has conquered his inner kingdom, all outer conquests must be ?eeting and uncertain, for his own unwise actions may at any moment cause his ruin. Even though the world may regard him as a conqueror, even though he may consider himself invincible, he is not a conqueror in the spiritual sense so long as he is willing to give his soul life in exchange for any material advantage. He may gain the whole world, but it will profit him nothing. In all the lofty spiritual messages of the great teachers one ideal stands out above all others, that each one must rouse himself and bring out what is best in him. He must learn to stand up and hold himself above nature for a man who constantly obeys nature like a bond slave gradu ally loses the power of independent action and life sooner or later must prove joyless and burdensome to him.
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