The pineal gland controls the flow of mental energy from the Ego to the physical brain. The law of compensation or Karma, which is simply the principle of cause and effect applied to the individual destinies of men, decrees that as we sew, so shall we reap. Those who are ready for knowledge need no encouragement, and all the encouragement in the world is useless for those who are not ready. Illumination should never be regarded as a solution to personal problems in the sense that it brings with it any improvement in the temporal state. Illumination should never be regarded as the end of the mystical life, but rather the true beginning of it.
Illumination is the proving of that which is believed.
In the end these three men are going to depart this life to a larger universal existence in which banking, surgery, and geology have no significance. They float along on the surface of the phenomenal existence accepting without question the commonplace as real. Most people die without discovering what life really is. Philosophy teaches rather that by the living of the mystical life the human being becomes not great in himself, but only a channel or instrument through which universal Good may flow into the world. Philosophy teaches man not that he shall be great or that he may possess virtues or high estate.