“Illumination is a state of conscious at-one-ment with the Universal Principle—man’s participation in Truth. The methods by which illumination may be achieved are called disciplines. Discipline is the specific directing and controlling of personal action. Discipline results in complete self-mastery. All discipline must be effortless—yet actual. Spiritual development is not the result of a desperate effort to be good. It is rather an inward realization of right which transmutes the whole nature into the likeness of Truth.”