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condition, to the highest state of existence, and cannot reach this unless they obtain possession of the three things necessary, right belief, right knowledge and right conduct. The right belief is, really speaking, not that there is no passing through forms after death, but the soul keeps progressing always in its own nature, without any backward direction at all. We have expressed this in clear language without any parables or metaphors, but when we preach these truths to the ignorant masses some story or picture might be necessary for them, and after that the explanation of the real meaning, as we have an allegory in the Pilgrim's Progress. It is just like reaching the Celestial City in that book, but we must all understand that these things are parables. Others may need music to assist their religion, but when we understand the esoteric meaning which underlies all religions there will be no quarrelling and no need of names or of forms, and this is really the object of all religions.
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