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THIRTY-EIGHTH
DAY
RELATIVITY OF MAN’S CONCEPTION OF TRUTH
Spirit loq. Truly Love is what you and most men
need, deep, inspiring, in-artificial Love, moulding your lives and giving birth
to your action on a higher plane than it has yet arisen to. Neither shall you
fail of attaining this, if you keep ever in mind the most high you can see, if
you resolutely direct your souls to that which most truly expresses
God in all you behold.
Grope and feel your
ways. When you cannot see clearly, when the soul is blinded, not from lack of
light, but from the mists of its own imperfections, throw out new landmarks, new
signals of distress, new calls for help. Bear in mind ever that the God man
worships is a subjective God, an image only of that Glory and Love which exist
truly as God. Even is this so to us, who are ever advancing towards a purer and
clearer conception of That which IS.
Dogmatism, by which we
mean final definition by man of that which is
undefinable, this truly is a hindrance to man’s advance in the spiritual.
The spiritual is the
direction in which man is not developed, in which there is infinite scope for
his development, because it is the only direction in which he can manifest that Law of Evolution, of individuation
towards God, the nature of
which we have tried to describe to you.
We have told you that
all final definition by man of his conception of God, ministers not to his
growth. Truly conception by man of God, and definition of that conception must
be, but man needs to learn what we are
(p. 75)
learning and have learnt; that this
conception remains a purely relative, an ever advancing, ever changing
conception, and must do so to keep pace with Truth.
The unloosing of the grave clothes in which you have bound your aspirations
after the true, the everlasting, the imperishable fact underlying and accounting
for All, must precede the resurrection of these
aspirations, and the reconstruction of your Churches and of yourselves, on a
basis consistent with your growth. To this end we work.
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