What is the spiritual meaning of the ladder?

Get down from the heights of physical thinking and start to climb the ladder of spiritual thought.

See in your daily lives the opportunity, not of startling the world, for the world forgets you tomorrow, but of creating something, which will stand for all time, something, which will make others say—

There goes a good steward!

Comprehensive as the spheres may be, stupendous as the marvels to be unrolled before your wondering eyes, I say that only are these things there by the quietly sustained effort of those doing their daily tasks—the monotony of life transformed into the radiance of the Spirit by God. 

Yes—you see now that life, the trivial round, is a bigger thing than you thought, and I want you to bear in mind always that by doing your task as well as you can, you are also seeking God, seeking God and finding Him too, if the heart is kept right with Him.

The Zodiac, the Christ Messenger