Be mindful of what you worship. False Idols, Deceptions and Lies.
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“Decide for yourself?”
The clock in the steeple of time has struck the hour for a great struggle in all the civilized world. Politics, Capital and Labor have declared war. The mental world is being convulsed from centre to circumference. The question arises in the minds of all : ” What position shall I occupy in this matter ? ” for none can wholly escape its influence. There is a great people who have in word or in fact, dedicated their life to God and humanity by virtue of the maturity of their souls, —though they may be unconscious of it,—aim being to unite the leading minds of all departments of advanced thought in a concerted, practical effort to increase light, multiply knowledge, and intensify soul-life, to the end of making the individual superior to earthly conditions and mortal environments, thus hastening the triumph of mind over matter through experimental knowledge and personal conjunction with God as the true Omnipotent and Luminous Soul of the Universe.
When there are a number of such human instruments that have ultimate possession of these higher attainments so that God’s mind can find perfect expression through their organism, then God’s will, that rules all things, will also find perfect expression through them ; and they, having come into order and harmony with the Divine law, God will, through them, bring order out of disorder and harmony out of chaos.
Let it be one, two, three, four, or a hundred and forty-four thousand—the number given to John at Patmos, that “would be the first ripe fruit of the earth.” —Ripe fruit implies growth, development, unfoldment and
maturity.
But though we understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and have not love,” we ” are nothing.” Love ” bear-eth all things and undoeth all things,”(if thereby a great good is to be accomplished,) but “whether there be tongues they shall cease ; whether there be knowledge it shall vanish away.” Follow after love, and desire spiritual gifts.” Attainment in love, and the creation by love of an earth manifest in a spiritual life or social order, is the highest goal of human attainment for divine humanity. It is not desirable that we should multiply words of hate, fear and ignorance.
It is needful that we make of ourselves reservoirs of boundless sympathy and active good will,—a good will that will penetrate even the hardness of chaos, suffering and deception, indifference, greed and selfishness. To live in peace and hope is not only within the individual spirit, and it is not only our highest wisdom to unfold it within each of ourselves, individually, but we can have no better nor higher aim than to work for its actualization in society for the sake of the divine.
How we can best do this work, each individual must decide for each one’s self?
