"What have you truly loved up to
 now; what has drawn your soul aloft;
 what has mastered it and at the 
same time blessed it?” Set up these
 revered objects before you, and
 perhaps their nature and their sequence
 will give you a law, the fundamental
 law of your own true self. Compare
 these objects one with another;
 see how one completes, expands,
 surpasses, transfigures another, 
how they constitute a stepladder 
upon which you have clambered 
up to yourself as you are now; 
for your true nature lies not 
concealed deep within you, but
 immeasurably high above you, 
or at least above that which you
 usually take yourself to be."