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The wise person knows that often it is only through separating oneself from the apparent flow of worldly life that true understanding can come. There are obstacles which must be dissolved before progress can be made. The sage knows how to disperse illusion with purifying waters of understanding. |
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Then, purify thy mind if ye would meditate. How? Depending on what is thy concept of purification! Does it mean to thee a mixing up with a lot of other things, or a setting aside of self, a washing with water, a cleansing or purifying by fire or whatnot? Whatever thy concept is, be true to thine inner self. Live that choice ye make—do it! not merely say it but do it! Purify thy body. Shut thyself away from the cares of the world. Think on that as ye would do to have thy God meet thee face to face. "Ah," ye say "but many are not able to speak to God!" Many, you say, are fearful. Why? Have ye gone so far astray that ye cannot approach Him who is all merciful? He knows thy desires and thy needs, and can only supply according to the purposes that ye would perform within thine own self. Then, purify thy body, physically. Sanctify thy body, as the laws were given of old, for tomorrow the Lord would speak with thee—as a father speaketh to his children. 281-41 Study to show thyself approved unto God, rightly divining the words of truth, keeping self unspotted from the world. Though the world hate thee, be not of the world. Though things, conditions, appearances, may grow as to be red, dark, black—if thine heart, thine soul is founded in Him, the dawn shall come! 792-1 . . . do not look or seek for the phenomenon of the experience without the purpose, the aim. Use same as a criterion, as what to do and what not to do. Not that it, the simple experience, has made or set anything permanent! For there is the constant change evidenced before us; until the soul has been washed clean through that the soul in its body, in its temple, has experienced by the manner in which it has acted, has spoken, has thought, has desired in its relationships to its fellow man! 518-2 . . . keep the self unspotted from the world; that is, do nothing physically or in thought—that you’ll be ashamed to present to thy Maker or to the woman you love. Don’t be ashamed, and don’t ask others to do something that you would not do yourself nor to be something that you are not yourself. Then keep the self unspotted from the world. This should not be as your system or policy but it should be your religion. For all that you may know of God is within yourself. What are you doing about it? What are you doing with it? 3689-1 | |
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