The aspirant no longer feels that he is a citizen of the temporal world, but he is not yet a citizen of the spiritual world. When the water in the lock reaches that of the river above, the upper gates may be opened and the ship may sail out. No one can lift another who is not himself upon a higher level. In what part of his life cycle is man closest to God. Whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap, but the reaping is not always in the same life as the sowing.
Man is born time after time into earthly bodies.
Some people are rich and some poor, some healthy and sick, and the poor and sick sometimes do not appear to have done anything in this life to deserve their fate. The law of cause and effect draws together people who love one another. We will meet again with loved ones who have died. When the mist in the air at the time of Atlantis condensed and the basins of the earth were filled with water, and people were driven to the highlands, some people found they could not live in the highlands. In the next great world transformation, some people will find that they cannot enter into the new age kingdom.