"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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