E. Minds may not lose the truth, when they never have found it. Thou
hast not yet found the truth. Thou hast learned some facts. Facts
are the wisdom of nature as revealed to mind in parts. The truth is
the infinite whole, and is incapable of being divided into parts.
Minds sometimes call facts truths; but we teach that truth, which is
infinite, so far, and no father, as it has been made known to us. Thou
hast been taught the truth in part, and what remainest for thee to
learn, is what thou hast no knowledge of. It is ignorance in thee, as
it is in us. This truth is the infinite harmony and wisdom of God in
the universe. All revelation of that wisdom, is true to thy happiness;
because thy mind is not discordant with nature, only as thy ignorance,
or education, hath perverted it. Thus, the revelation of wisdom,
agreeing with thy happiness, is true to thee, and what is true to thee,
as cause and effect, will never be false, because it is governed by an
immutable law.
M. Then, thou wouldst teach that truth is eternal and error not.
E. Truth is true to the good of mind eternally, because it is in
harmony with the relation of cause and effect. Error is in harmony only
with ignorance. Ignorance is the absence of knowledge. It is the mere
thing of childhood--the infancy of mind in its eternal progress. But
when the infant becomes the philosopher, it puts away childish things.
The swaddling clothes of the babe will not truly cover the grown man.
They are true to the infant, like the Mosaic covenant of forms to the
Jewish people; but they cover not the wants of enlarged sympathy for
the great brotherhood of mind. The infant people required protection,
and their wants were supplied. They asked only what they received. The
minds of this circle have sought for no more than they have found. They
have sought to establish their own wisdom, in opposition to the wisdom
of a higher circle; and they have found, by experience, the avails of
their search.
M. Then minds can find what they seek for?
E. They can find the degree of wisdom which they seek for. They can
generally find whatever opinion they prefer, because they will prefer
only an opinion agreeing with their measure of wisdom. All which
disagree with their degree of reform in wisdom is wrong. Nothing to
them is right, but the righteousness in them. They seek for nothing
more.
M. How, then, can they progress in wisdom.
E. As others influence them by instruction, as we have sought to do
unto thee.
M. Then thou wilt go on; I like thy philosophy.
E. Thou wilt see a philosophy in thy progress which will satisfy thee,
that thy errors are of no service to thee.
M. I am now satisfied of that, but what are my errors?
E. Thou wilt not receive all we wish thee to hear alone. When thou wilt
call thy friends together, who sympathize with thee, and who have no
opposition to wisdom, nor fear of instruction, we will visit thee, and
say unto all what thou mayest apply unto thyself.
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