"God is within us and outside of us, and we can say the same thing of our higher self. Most human beings are not conscious enough to feel the presence within themselves of this sublime entity that is all-light, all-love and all-power. The prime work of a spiritualist is to look within himself for every sign of this presence, while knowing that this is his true self. It has been said, 'Know thyself.' If man truly wants to know himself, he has to know himself up above, in the divine world. Until he is aware of his existence up above as a particle of the Deity, he will not know himself and will lack all the divine qualities. To know oneself means to have found oneself by having found God. By finding God, man finds love, light, freedom, joy - and not only does he find these within himself but also within all human beings and also in animals, plants and stones. When man finds God within himself, he discovers him everywhere, in the whole of nature, and this is truly to 'Know thyself.'"