_The religious sense is the well-being of the soul._ For the soul as such grows in and through the growth of its various senses,--its own growth being reinforced by the growth of each of these when Nature's balance is kept, and retarded by the growth of one or more of them when Nature's balance is lost,--and in proportion as its own vital, central growth is vigorous and healthy, its power of apprehending reality unfolds itself little by little.

That power is of its inmost essence.

When reality, in the full sense of the word, is its object, it sees with the whole of its being; it is itself, when it is at the centre of its universe, its own supreme perceptive faculty, its own religious sense.
If this is so, if the soul in its totality, the soul acting through its whole "apperceptive mass," is its own religious sense, it is abundantly clear that the path of self-realisation is the only path which leads to knowledge of God, and through knowledge of God to salvation.

For self-realisation is the only scheme of life which provides for the growth of the soul in its totality, for the harmonious, many-sided development of the soul as such.

I have often dwelt on this point.