Perceiving this, the seeker sees that although he has freed himself from the baser passions and desires which enslave mankind, he is still in bondage to the fetters of opinion; that although he has purified himself with a purity to which few aspire, and which the world cannot understand, he is still defiled with a defilement difficult to wash away,—he loves his own opinions, and has all along been confounding them with Truth, with the Principle for which he is seeking. He is not yet free from strife, and is still involved in the competitive laws as they obtain in the higher realm of thought. He still believes that in his opinions he is right and others wrong; in his egotism he has even fallen so low as to bestow a mock pity on those who hold opinions the reverse of his own. But now, realizing this more subtle form of selfishness by which he is enslaved and perceiving all the train of sufferings that spring from it, having also acquired the priceless possession of spiritual discernment, he reverently bends his head
