A new immediacy has arisen; it is the facts of the spiritual world that now appeal to him as urgent and immediate.

"All that has hitherto been considered most immediate, as the world of sense, or even the world of society, now takes a second place, and has to make good its claim before this spiritual tribune....

That which current conceptions treat as a Beyond ...

is now the only world which exists in its own right, the only true and genuine world which neither asks nor consents to be derived from any outside source." This new immediacy is the deepest possible immediacy, it is an immediacy of experience where the self comes into contact with its own vital principle--the Universal Spiritual Life--and brings about a fundamental change in the life of the individual.

The inner life is no longer governed by sense impressions and impulses, but the outward life is lived and viewed from the standpoint of the inward life.
But a new immediacy is not all that follows in the train of the negative movement--on the contrary, the highest possible rewards are gained, for freedom, personality, and immortality are all brought within the range of possibility.
Once a human being decides for the highest he is on the highroad to complete freedom.