"All that matters is to be on a path, to be constantly moving toward the top--one measured, controlled, and strictly supervised step at a time--passing diligently through specific "abodes and stations" along the Way, each of which is marked by an ineffable experience of spiritual evolution, until one finally reaches the end of the journey: that moment of enlightenment in which the veil of reality is stripped away, the ego obliterated, and the self utterly consumed by God."