Eternal Truth
 

Eternal Truth
Wisdom can only become available to you as and when you are mentally and spiritually equipped to receive it.

Knowledge cannot alter truth. There is no wisdom that in any way alters the truth of any teaching. What was true in the past is true today and will be true tomorrow. Truth is constant and eternal. You can add to wisdom, you can add to knowledge, but you cannot alter eternal truth. The world has all the truth that it requires for its essential purpose - the fundamental truths of kindness, service, love. It knows what it should do in order to become a better world.

All that is necessary for personal growth, progress, unfoldment, and evolution has been made known throughout all the generations. All the great teachers, the instruments of spirit who have added their lustre to the world, have taught truths that were similar in basis. Each came to reveal the spiritual nature of man, to draw attention to the eternal qualities possessed by every human being. Each taught of the infinite soul, the divine spark, the portion of the Source resident within all human life.

Each taught those principles which, if adopted and followed, would enable that Source to have a greater expression. Each made it clear that living according to spiritual ideals would banish all the fear, misery and sadness which has needlessly afflicted this planet for far too long.

Love thy neighbour as thyself, give service to those who need it, help the weary and the thirsty, heal the sick, comfort the mourner, visit those who are ill - these are the truths that have been taught a long time ago.

Never mind what others say. Simple truths of the spirit will stand forever. They will answer every test that reason demands. They are simple, so simple, that they can be grasped and understood by any ordinary individual. These are the truths that will prevail - simple, eternal truths, founded on the eternal, natural laws of spirit.

Mankind require no popes, no archbishops, no priests, no clergymen, no churches, no temples, no synagogues. Enunciate simple truths and, given the instruments, these truths will continue to permeate every form of society, so that all men can be free in body, mind and spirit.

How few of us really know the simple truth about ourselves? That we are spritual beings? . . . and what is important is not what happens materially, although it has its place, but what happens to us spiritually, to our nature, our eternal nature.

All things of matter will fade away and become absorbed in the dust of which the earthly world is made. Ambitions, desires, the acquisition of wealth, all these are of no account, but you will always remain as a spiritual being, and your richness will be what is contained within your own nature, no more and no less. That is the lesson to be learned in all earthly life. If you learn it, you are wise -  because you have found yourself and, having found yourself, you will have found the Source of all life.

Man has at his command all that is necessary for his growth and for his spiritual equipment. There are many sacred books, there have been many teachers, many inspired men and women who have caught glimpses of the inner life and each in his own way has interpreted what he has seen. But, unfortunately, the simple truth which has been revealed from the higher aspects of life has been overlaid.

Men have built on it edifices of doctrine, of dogma, of creed, of ritual, of ceremony. A whole bulwark of theology has been placed on the foundation of simple spiritual truth until now the foundations are completely forgotten.

When all else in the world of matter has been understood, explored and explained, there still remains the natural laws of the Great Spirit which no man has ever completely explored or explained. They are infinite in their conception and in their application. Seek only the truth and all else shall be added unto you.

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