 54. Evolution |
Know then it is not that judgment is passed here or there. For know that God looketh upon the heart and He judgeth rather the purposes, the desires, the intents.
For what seekest thou to lord (laud) in they life? Self-intent? Know ye not that it was selfishness that separated the souls from the spirit of life and light? Then only in the divine love do ye have the opportunity to become to thy fellow man a saving grace, a mercy, yea even a savior.
For until ye have in thy own material associations known thyself to be the saving grace to someone, ye may not know even the whole mercy of the Father with the children of men.
Then it is not of rote; it is not ritual that has made for those influences in thine own experiences; but in whom, in what hast thou put thy trust?
He has promised to meet thee within the temple of thine own body. For as has been given, thy body is the temple of the living God; a tabernacle, yea, for thy soul. And in the holy of holiest within thine own consciousness He may walk and talk with thee. How? How?
Is it the bringing of sacrifice? Is it the burning of incense? Is it the making of thyself of no estate?
Rather is it that ye purpose! For the try, the purpose of thine inner self to Him is the righteousness. For He hath known all the vicissitudes of the earthly experience. He hath walked through the valley of the shadow of death. He hath seen the temptations of man from every phase that may come into thine own experience; and yea, He hath given thee, "If ye will love me, believing I am able, I will deliver thee from that which so easily besets thee at any experience."
And it is thus that He stands; not as a Lord but as thy Brother, as thy Savior; that ye may know indeed the truth that gentleness, kindness, patience, brotherly love, beget – in thy heart of hearts, with him – that peace, that harmony. Not as the world knoweth peace but as He gave: "That peace I give you; that ye may know that thy spirit, yea thy soul, beareth witness with me that ye are mine – I ma thine," even as the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit.
Even so may thy soul, thy mind, thy body, become aware of that which renews the hope, the faith, the patience within thee.
And until ye show forth in His love that patience, ye cannot become aware of thy relationship with Him. Even as He has given, in patience ye become aware of being that soul – that seeketh the Father's house that is within even thine own consciousness.
