A MAP OF LIFE to consider in what lies the happiness that comes from the soul itself. Like that which comes from the body, it always results from a proper functioning of a faculty. The intellect knows truth and is happy in the knowledge : the will loves goodness and is happy in the love. The soul of man sees and rejoices in beauty — beauty of sound, beauty of colour, beauty of form, — above all, beauty of spirit. In heaven all this is carried to its very highest point. The intellect, whose property it is to possess the knowledge of truth, now knows God Himself, who is supreme Truth. The will, whose property it is to love goodness, is now in immediate contact with God Himself, who is supreme Goodness. The whole soul is therefore functioning at its very highest, and happiness is the inevitable result. Our imagination may find in this statement-— that the happiness of heaven consists in the direct knowledge and direct love of God — a doctrine that it feels to be deeply unsatisfying. To the ordinary man, such a description of heaven seems far too spiritual, too remote from the kind of happiness that springs to his mind the moment he starts to think of happiness at all. It is, therefore, well to analyze just one stage further what happiness involves. In looking at a sunset or in listening to a piece of music, the soul of man may be lifted, if only for the moment, to an absolute ecstasy of happiness. Yet no man can go on endlessly looking at the same sunset, and an endless repetition of the same piece of music might 32