Generally speaking, we think of such a gathering as this as a ‘‘retreat.’’ But in Religious Science a spiritual retreat really is a “spiritual advance.” We should acquire a greater consciousness in uniting our thought with each other in a common cause and purpose for which we work, and upon which our whole practice is based: a consciousness of the Presence of God within everything and everyone. Our spiritual advance, then, is devoted to a deeper awareness, a higher perception, and a greater realization of spiritual Truth, the reality of a Divine Presence, whose impulsion is love, and a Universal Principle which acts as law.
