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. Religion has the unpleasant habit of meddling in the personal problems of people, when it should be far above all petty concerns, dedicated to great and enduring principles. Discipline is living up to what one knows, and not forcing oneself to live beyond one's understanding and philosophy. When the organization of the Earth's surface had been accomplished, waves of Life descended from the ethers and took upon themselves physical form.