Doubts and hesitations often accompany you in preliminary stages of the spiritual path. Plenty of questions come up, questions such as βIs the path I follow not some sort of fraud contrived to draw me into some unpleasant affair?β … Many are afraid of getting caught up in a spiritual circle and having the surrender their will and freedom to a so-called-spiritual-leader. In this excerpt, The Master clarifies how doubts and hesitations on the spiritual path turn towards fear and darkness and not towards light and love.