“Before the white throne, are Purity, Perfection, and Bliss. They are
before your minds. In search of these things, consider that nature is
pure, and the perfection and bliss, after which you are seeking, may
be found in the adaptation of things to other things. This is the law
of mind. It will not attain perfection and bliss, without observing
this law. All things must harmonize to insure peace. The ignorant are
unhappy, because they do not adapt their conditions and themselves to
each other. The surrounding circumstances control them against their
happiness. They allow others, and even elect others, to judge them, and
ignorantly acquiesce in their decision, however unwise and unnatural
may be their judgment. Those whom they elect to decide the right and
wrong for them, are often wholly ignorant of the conditions upon which
nature suspends the harmony of cause and effect. They are incompetent
to render a righteous judgment, because they do not understand what
is right. Erring, in regard to what is right, they enter a judgment
in error. The error falls upon those whom they judge. The whole is
wrong. No mind can surrender the judgment of itself into the hands of
another, without jeopardizing its own happiness. It is this mistaken
policy which has robbed humanity of its birth-right. It has assented to
a common error, that no mind is capable of determining its own good,
without injustice to others: or, if capable, it would be dangerous to
the welfare of the majority to allow mind a decision in that which
personally concerned itself without the concurrence of others.
“The perfection of this circle will harmonize with bliss. The bliss
of one is the bliss of all. The purity of one is the purity of all.
The agreement of this circle is the wisdom of all. Each mind will be
its own judge, and perform its own work. Each mind will aid each.
That which is natural do; and that which is unnatural you will not
do. You can not do wrong, because you perceive that all wrong is a
contradiction of nature, and injurious to the doer. You can not do
wrong, because you are incapacitated to wrong yourselves. You can not
do wrong, because wrong is contrary to your judgment. You will do
right, because right injures no one. It is the judgment of ignorance
which injures another. It is the judgment of weakness which inflicts
wrong for wrong, and renders evil for evil. None but oppressors will
be cruel, vindictive, or unjust. Oppression is the power of folly. It
is the work of tyrants. It is the wrong of ignorance. Governments are
impure. They compel the ignorant to do wrong. They violate the laws of
nature. They impose burdens on the poor, and grant favors to the rich.
They levy contributions on property to give honor to the indolent. They
make laws for the people to restrain the enjoyment of mind; and they
punish crimes, which their laws have made, without mercy. They refuse
instruction from heaven, because heaven is not a monopoly adapted to
their selfish wisdom.
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