No Guru can take the responsibility; no scripture can promise this redemption; no altar can, with its divine blessings, make the lower the higher. The lower must necessarily be trained slowly and steadily to accept and come under the influence of the discipline of the higher.
In this process, the teacher, the scripture, and the houses-of-God, all have their proper appointed duties and limited influences.
But the actual happening depends upon how far we ourselves learn to haul ourselves out from the gutters of misunderstanding in ourselves.
We are considered as both our own friend and our own enemy.The lower in us can raise itself to the attunement of the Higher, but the Higher can influence only when the lower is available for Its influence. To the extent the lesser in us surrenders itself to the influence of the Higher, to that extent; It can serve the lower as a great friend.
But if the lower refuses to come under the influence of the Diviner in us, the Divine Presence is accused as an enemy of ourselves.
The potentiality for improvement, the chances for self-growth, the strength to haul ourselves out from our own misconceptions, are ever open for employment. But it all depends upon how we make use of them.