The spiritual vision of reality comes to one as the result of dedicating his thinking and his living to the service of God, as the result of his consecration to good and of lifting his thought from sense to Soul. This vision comes as the answer to one's desire to know the holy things of God.
Although one's vision of reality may seem limited and faint, if one will turn his thought from matter to Mind, from sin to holiness, the heavenly view will grow clearer, higher, wider, and in time the full revelation of the verities of being will unfold. From the mount of vision he will then become conscious of the infinitude of Mind and the glories of reality.
Jacob began his earthly experience as a deceitful mortal. But after struggling and wrestling with the arguments of material sense, he saw the unreality of pleasure and pain in matter, and the light of Truth and Love dawned upon him. In a dream there came to him the vision of "a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven" (Gen. 28:12). On this ladder Jacob saw "the angels of God ascending and descending."
