these powers, and learned how to use them as weapons against himself in his holy warfare, he now emerges from the Desert of Doubt, the mists and mirages of illusion vanish from his pathway, and there looms before him the second Gate, the Gateway of the Surrender of Opinion.
As he approaches this Gate, he sees before him the whole pathway along which he is travelling, and, for a space, obtains a glimpse of the glorious heights of attainment toward which he is moving; he sees the Temple of the Higher Life in all its majesty, and already feels within him the strength and joy and peace of conquest. With Sir Galahad he can now exclaim:
“I . . . saw the Grail,
The Holy Grail . . .
. . . And one will crown me king
Far in the spiritual city,”
for he knows that his ultimate victory is assured
He now enters upon a process of self-conquest altogether distinct from that which he has hitherto pursued. Up to the present he has been overcoming,
