THE PATHWAY TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF TRUTH

Life consists of a duality. This duality is based on the principle of the law of cause and effect.
As in the law of cause and effect is the spiritual reality as well as the physical reality in the duality of man.
In the law of cause and effect, the cause manifests into the effect.
Similarly, in the duality of man, the spiritual reality manifests into the physical reality.
Man operates from the spiritual reality to the physical reality. The physical realm of man is a reflection of his spiritual realm.
But since the fall of man from the Garden of Eden, man has been engulfed by a lie which make belief that he operates from the physical realm to the spiritual realm. Nothing could, however, be further from the truth.
The misconception of the facts of  our priority in the two realms is caused by our ignorance, whose hallmark is error.
Today, man is coming to find the midway between the hell of ignorance and the heaven of truth. In this vital realization of  the midway between the two extremes is found the purgatory of transmutation.
This purgatory is not a speculative purgatory beyond the grave, but it is a real purgatory in the centre of our being.
The purgatory transmutation is operated by a separating and purifying fire, which works to sift the base metal of error and leave the gold of truth in its wake.
It is not until the temptation of man culminates in sorrow and deep perplexity that he strenuously strive for deliverance only to find that his thraldom is in himself and that instead of fighting against outer circumstances, he must alter his inner conditions. 
The temptation that must befall man is the crossroad between noble and base desires. The noble desire is attained in the focusing his mind on higher things in his endeavor to the attainment of truth while the base desire is the evil spirit that enslaves man to the law of sin in the lower realm of self.
The causation of the noble and base desire is clouded in the prevailing ignorance of man's mental knowledge of the journey to the truth, which he must make.
It is in the struggle of mind that man wakes to the realization that he must deal with inner conditions.
This realization, in turn, brings about the knowledge of the mental cause of this evil that is otherwise known as temptation, and the knowledge of the mental cause of temptation leads to the transmutation of thought, and the transmutation of thought leads to the deliverance of the bondage of error into truth.
The preliminary struggle of mental causation, which eventually leads to the necessary deliverance of the bondage of error is the pathway that leads to the knowledge of truth in the life of man.