"I
have a feeling that there is, running through all things, a steel
rod of Truth... That if we could find it, uncover it, lay it bare,
that life would be made more understandable. If one could only put
it into words then so many of our perplexities would be solved. It
would be a sort of magic staff to help us through life. Is there
such a steel rod?"
"Call
it a steel rod if you like. But there are many facets to the rod
of Truth, and what is Truth to a man at one stage of his
development is not truth to him at another.
There
is a spine to the body of Truth which constitutes our Life, but it
cannot be put into words! The most we can do is to try to put
before our mind's eye a picture, woven in semi-metaphorical
language, that will help us to visualize and to understand the
workings of the Laws of God; to try to understand those aspects of
the Laws of God as they affect us in our tiny corner of the
Cosmos. But at the best our understanding must be very small
because of the limitation of our minds."
"I
would like to dig beneath the surface of things, to find out what
theory of music underlies the whole harmony. But the symphony is
so vast ... where can we begin?"
"Contemplate
the Rays."
"What
are the rays?"
"In
a moment I will tell you, but first I should lay down before you
the bone elements of which the spine of Truth is made.
The
spine of Truth is the Law of God. It is the sweet-working,
inexorable Theory by which all Harmonies are made.
The
Law has certain aspects.
There
is the Law of Love which runs through and encompasses all things.
It is the Law of Love or of Magnetic Attraction. We have it
demonstrated in the physical world in electricity, in wireless
telegraphy and so on.
Enclosed
within this Law are the Laws of Cause and Effect, and of Trial and
Error.
These
are the elements of which the spine of Truth is made. Upon the
inevitable working of these Laws is the web of Live woven ... By
the inevitable working of these Laws is the web of Live woven with
perfect Justice, with perfect Mercy, with perfect Justice, with
perfect Mercy, with perfect Love.
The
web of Life is the Mind of God as He manifests Himself in our
small corner of all space.
Now
you said to me 'What are the Rays?'
The
strands of the web of Life are the Rays.
The
Rays are as numberless as the diverse expressions of life. The
Rays are individual frequencies of the Light-Love-God. The Rays
are God.
Imagine
the setting up of a giant weaving loom. Set it up with a thousand
strands, a million strands. Each strand is made of a different
color, a different shade of a different material, of different
texture: silk, cotton, wool, and so on. These are the framework of
the finished tapestry. These are comparable to the Rays.
The
Rays are God, the thoughts of the God-mind, the stuff of and upon
which the web of Live is woven.
As
each germ of life arrives on this planet, from the very first
unicellular life, so are these individual God-rays open to that
germ. They offer themselves freely to the germ for acceptance, for
it to take, to use, to build with ... to build itself."
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