In the prayer of the Christian church there is a sentence, "Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven." This gives a great key to metaphysics. It gives a hint to the seer that His will, which is easily done in heaven, has difficulty being done on earth. Who stands against His will? Man. Where lies the will of God? In the innermost being of man. And what stands as an obstacle? The surface of the heart of man. This means struggle in man himself. In him there is the will of God and in him there is an obstacle. In the sphere within him is the will of God, as in heaven; where there is an obstacle to it, that is the earth.

By this prayer man is prepared to remove the obstacle which stands before the will of God. How can we distinguish between these two aspects of will: the will of God and the obstacle, which is the will of man? It is easy for a person with a clear mind and open heart to distinguish, if he only knew the secret of it. For to that which is the will of God his whole being responds, and in doing His will his whole being becomes satisfied. When it is his own will, then only one side of his being is satisfied perhaps for a certain time, and then comes a conflict in himself. He himself finds fault with his idea or action; he himself feels dissatisfied with his own being. The wider the scope in which he sees his idea or his action the more dissatisfied he will become.

When in this manner, by the ray of intelligence, one sees life, one begins to distinguish between his own will and the will of God. The kingdom of God which is in heaven then comes on earth. It does not mean that it disappears from heaven, but it only means that heaven not only remains as a kingdom of heaven, but even earth becomes a kingdom of heaven. The purpose behind all creation is that heaven may be realized on the earth. If one does not realize it on earth, he cannot realize it in heaven.

One may ask what I mean by heaven. Heaven is that place where all is the choice of man and everything moves at his command. Heaven is the natural condition of life. When on earth life becomes so entangled that it loses its original harmony, heaven ceases to exist. The motive of the soul is to gain in life the kingdom of heaven which the soul has lost. Nothing one attains in life will give that satisfaction which can be attained by bringing heaven on earth.