The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.

In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.

Psychologically speaking, all states, whether their content is religious or non-religious, are organically determined.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.