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true Good and Beautiful, and the superiority of
spiritual things over material.
The language of the great teachers and masters
of wisdom sounds strange indeed to one who has
not made the first steps. It speaks from a height
to which few attain, and of a height beyond,
towards which the teacher is himself still striving,
Hear Plato: ¢ When a man proceeding onwards
from terrestrial things by the way of rightloving,
 once comes into sight of that beauty, he
is not far from his goal. And this is the right
way wherein he should go or be guided in his
love. He should begin by loving earthly things
for the sake of absolute loveliness, ascending to
that as it were by degrees or steps, from the first
to the second, and thence to all fair forms ; and
from fair forms to fair conduct; and from fair
conduct to fair principles, until from fair principles
 he finally arrives at the ultimate principle
of all, and learns what absolute beauty is. This
life, if any life at all is worth living, is the life
that a man should live.
The right choosing and using of goods is
Wispom. © Wisdom is the principal thing, there-