What does a person who has not yet seen the four walls of his own village know of the North Pole? If we talk with him he cannot understand. How can one understand what the ocean is like if one has before one only a little tank of water? Friends, to see the planets we must raise our heads. Therefore that spiritual direction that is working in the whole cannot be imagined by one whose whole life has been spent in worldly things. This is a subject which is studied by initiates who are trusted with life's mysteries. They are plain things, but called mysteries because the sneering world is always ready to laugh at what it does not understand.