Lessons in Truth

Second Lesson

their sickness, trouble, and unhappiness through spiritual means. One class requires that every statement made be proved by the most elaborate and logical argument before they can or will receive it. The other class is willing at once to "become as a little child" A reference to Matthew 18:3, implying a state of openness, humility, and trust required for spiritual growth. and just be taught how to take the first steps toward pure understanding (or knowledge of Truth as God sees it), and then receive the light by direct revelation from the Good. Both are seeking and eventually will reach the same goal, and neither is to be condemned.

If you are one who seeks and expects to get any actual knowledge of spiritual things through argument or reasoning—no matter how scholarly your attainments or how great you are in worldly wisdom—you are a failure in spiritual understanding. You are attempting an utter impossibility: that of crowding the Infinite into the quart measure of your own intellectual capacity.

"The natural man original: "natural man"; a biblical term from 1 Corinthians 2:14 referring to a person governed by their senses and intellect rather than by the Spirit. does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned."

Eventually, you will find that you are only beating all around on the outside of the "kingdom of heaven," though in close proximity to it, and you will then become willing to let your intel-

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lect take the place of the "little child," without which no man can enter in.

"No eye has seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has [not will] prepared for them that love him. original: "Eye hath not seen..."; 1 Corinthians 2:9. The author emphasizes "has" to suggest these blessings are a present reality, not just a future promise.

"But God has revealed them to us by his Spirit."

"For what man knows the things of a man, except the spirit of man which is in him? Even so, the things of God no man knows, but the Spirit of God." original: 1 Corinthians 2:11.

For all those who must wade through months and perhaps years of this purely intellectual or mental process, there are today many books to help, and many purely metaphysical metaphysical teachers Educators within the "New Thought" movement who taught that thoughts and beliefs shape physical reality and health. who are doing noble and praiseworthy work in piloting these earnest seekers after truth and satisfaction. To them we cry, All speed!

But we, believing with Paul that "the foolishness of God is wiser than men," and that each soul has direct access to all there is in God, are writing for the "little children" who are willing at once, without question or discussion, to accept and try a few plain, simple rules, such as Jesus taught the common people, who heard him gladly—rules by which they can find the Christ (or Divine) within them-