It is plainly demanded of us
that we should assist God's universe in its way towards perfection;
if we refuse, and set a drag on the majestic Wheel, we are ourselves
crushed in its progress. Here is where our Church errs in the
present generation. It is setting itself as a drag on the Wheel.
Meanwhile, Truth advances every day, and with no uncertain voice
proclaims the majesty of God. Heaven's gates are thrown open;--the
secrets of the stars are declared,--the mysteries of light and sound
are discovered; and we are approaching possibly to the time when the
very graves shall give up their dead, and the secrets of all men's
hearts shall be made manifest. Yet we go on lying, deceiving,
cajoling, humbugging each other and ourselves;--living a daily life
of fraud and hypocrisy, with a sort of smug conviction in our souls
that we shall never be found out. We make a virtue of animalism, and
declare the Beast-Philosophy to be in strict keeping with the order
of nature. We gloat over our secret sins, and face the world with a
brazen front of assumed honour. Oh, we are excellent liars all! But
somehow we never seem to think we are fools as well! We never
remember that all we do and all we say, is merely the adding of
figures to a sum which in the end must be made up to the grand
total, and paid! Every figure tells;--the figure 'nought'
especially, puts an extra thousand on the whole quantity! But the
light in us being darkness, how great is that darkness! So great
that we refuse to look an inch before us! We will not see, we will
not understand,--we utterly decline to accept any teaching or advice
which might inflict some slight inconvenience on our own Ego.
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