Tonight we celebrate the 3rd night on the celebration of St. Michael. tonight we celebrate the Three Disciplines. The Discipline of Desire, of Action, and of Assent.

The Discipline of Desire, is the virtue of living in harmony with the Nature of the universe as a whole.

The Discipline of Action, is the essential virtue of living in harmony with the community of all mankind, which means benevolently wishing all of mankind to flourish and achieve “happiness” the goal of life.

The Discipline of Assent, the goal of this discipline the “inner citadel” because it involves continual awareness of the true self, the faculty of the mind responsible for judgement and action, where our freedom and virtue reside, the chief good in life.

So on this day, we light the three candles to symbolize the discipline that a happy life entails....