For some men are able, and some are unable, to receive the true light of knowledge.

But man's fate depends on his knowledge.

The wise man becomes hereafter what his knowledge has prepared him to be.

Not every spirit is fitted for immortality, but only the spirit of them that have wisely desired it, or, rather, not desired it; for every desire must have been extinguished before one is fitted for this end.

Hence, with advancing belief in absorption and pantheism, there still lingers, and not as a mere superfluity, the use of sacrifice and penance.