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 in 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 averse. 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 you must be able to realize a symbol for a symbol and be able to penetrate the inner substance that 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 the actual experience of “aliveness,” the more transparent the symbol becomes. The farther they are from the experience, the thicker 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 the 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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