results, which are failure, disaster, exposure, and destitution, can no longer enter into and form part of his experience; this not merely because he has risen above the lower forms of selfishness in himself, but because also, in so rising, he has developed certain powers of mind by which he is enabled to direct and govern his affairs with a more powerful and masterly hand.
He, however, has not yet travelled far, and unless he exercise constant watchfulness he may at any time fall back into the lower world of darkness and strife, revivifying its empty pleasures, and galvanizing back to life its dead desires. Especially is there this danger when he reaches the greatest temptation through which man is called to pass—the temptation of doubt. Before reaching, or even perceiving, the second Gate, that of Surrender of Opinion, the pilgrim will come upon a great soul-desert, the Desert of Doubt. Here for a time he will wander around, while despondency, indecision, and uncertainty, a melancholy brood, surround him like a cloud,
