You are not wanting to be purer than others, but only gathering purity that you may spread it in every direction, and most joyous when your own purity lifts someone from the mire, who is trampled into it under the feet of the world.

You want to be wise.

You do well; for wisdom is a splendid possession.

But why?
In order that you may look down on the ignorant and say: "I am wiser than thou," as the pure man might say: "I am holier than thou"?
Oh no! but in order that the wisdom that you gather may enlighten the ignorant, and become theirs and not only yours.

Otherwise it is no spiritual thing; for spirituality does not know "myself" and "others"; it only knows the One Self, of whom all forms are manifestations.
We dare not call ourselves spiritual until we have reached that point which none of us as yet has reached, for to reach it means to become a Christ.