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Let us look at this a little more closely, with its appropriate methods. The path on which the faculty of pure reason is used predominantly, is, as just said, the path of the metaphysician. It is the path of the philosopher. He turns inwards, ever seeking to find the Self by diving into the recesses of his own nature. Knowing that the Self is within him, he tries to strip away vesture after vesture, envelope after envelope, and, by a process of rejecting them, he reaches the glory of the unveiled Self. To begin this, he must give up concrete thinking, and dwell amidst abstractions. His method then, must be strenuous, long-sustained, patient, meditation. Nothing else will serve his end; strenuous hard thinking, by which he rises away from the concrete into the abstract regions of the mind; strenuous hard thinking, further continued, by which he reaches from the abstract region of the mind up to the region of pure reason, where unity is sensed; still by strenuous thinking, climbing yet further, until pure reason, as it were, opens out into the supreme Self, until the Self is seen in His splendor.