0 RELIGION OF THE SOUL 
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the superspiritual rule of its spiritual life; it must 
know the merit of its existential station and the 
honor deriving from the choice of good actions as 
well as the debasement following the choice of evil 
actions. 
Thus the fundamental meaning of the wills self- 
consciousness is the consciousness of conscience. Only 
in the eternal mirror of conscience does the self- 
conscious will see its actual form and capacity. 
The fact that our religious and psychological 
sciences have thus far keen unable to explain this 
essential problem of knowledge accounts for our 
failure to understand the first principles of life, and 
our consequent inefficiency in religious actions. 
Every man, without any exception, has the ex- 
perience that the oftener he looks into the holy mirror 
of conscience, the more plainly he sees the mights of 
God and the more palpably he feels the religious 
might which holds, enlightens and leads his soul. 
Why is the soul’s will self-sentient? 
The soul’s will is self-sentient Eecause it must feel 
the del'ght of its existence for worthiness, the delight 
of all its good deeds, thoughts and sentiments, as 
well as the shame and depression resulting from 
evil deeds, evil thoughts and evil sentiments. 
The main interest of the will is in its self-sentiency.