My writing today is not about religion, creed, or whether you have formulated a statement of your belief about God. My writing is meant to probe that stage of your development that allows you to know what you have personally come to realize in your own life about the relationship between you and the Divine.
Are you one whose mind has
thought it impossible to know anything about God, or to use that knowledge if
you had it? If you are in that situation, your entire internal condition is one
of confusion. You are at the primordial state where no spirit of order has
begun to move upon the waters of chaos. Your elements of being are there, but they are disordered and neutralizing.
Have you advanced to the stage
where you realize that there is a ruling and organizing power, but beyond this
you are ignorant of its power? Then the unknown seems to you a terror,
naturally adverse to you. Your inner fear propels you to propitiate this
external power, rather than to see it as the center of your own being.
At every stage of your
development, from lowest ignorance to highest intelligence, you are the exact
reflection of the level you have reached in your perception of the Divine
Nature and your relation to it.
As you approach the full
perception of Truth, the life principle within you will expand. Little by
little, the things that you hold in your mind that bind and limit your growth
will fall away. That is why it is urgent that you be able to realize a symbol
for a symbol, and be able to penetrate to the inner substance which it
represents.
The only true way to experience
life is by consciously experiencing its “aliveness” in yourself, and then
endeavoring to translate that experience
into terms that suggest an idea to others that becomes an understandable symbol
to them.
The nearer those you speak to
have approached to the actual experience of “aliveness,” the more transparent
the symbol becomes. The farther they are from the experience, the thicker is
the veil that hides the meaning of the symbol from them.
The object of sharing with
others your own continually developing growth and awareness of the meaning of
the symbols all around you is to move forward with fuller translation of the
symbols into clearer statements for which the symbols stand.
The ultimate lesson to be
learned is that symbols are merely symbols and not the very Truth itself.
There is enough indication from
the outside of some things that give a fair sense of their inside. But this can
never be the whole story. This outside-only approach is what the mentally lazy
who cannot think for themselves use to suggest that all that can be known about
the thing has already been made known. They also suggest that any further
investigation of the thing will somehow destroy Truth.
Their fallacious argument—based solely
on sophistry and close-mindedness—reveals their ignorance of the very nature of
Truth. Truth can never be destroyed! In addition, they show their ignorance of
the Law of Growth, which everywhere—whether in macrocosmic
space or microcosmic place—always pushes forward into unlimited forms of
expression that are always expanding and never reaching an end anywhere.
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