C. When minds do wrong, their wrongs remain, as thou hast said, till
they are corrected. Thou sayest that thy mission here is to correct thy
wrongs, and yet thou claimest wisdom unknown to thee, when thy wrongs
were done.
E. My wrongs were the wrongs of thee, and those with thee. When I
taught thee wrong, thy wrongs justified my teaching. Thy sympathies
were as mine; but what was my wrong, was not thine, nor thine mine.
When I came here, I came to undo my wrongs, which thou hast adopted,
and by adoption made them thine. I was wrong as thou art; but what I
would do, thou wilt not undo. I would undo what thou canst not do.
That thou mayest understand me, I taught thee what thou didst receive
and adopt. I taught thee wrong. My wrong was in teaching. Thou didst
receive and adopt, and thy wrong was in receiving and adopting, when
thou shouldst have weighed my saying in the balance of impartial
justice and truth. My mission is to undo my teaching, when I was with
thee. Thy duty is to undo what thou hast adopted without weight. I told
thee wrong. I now correct that wrong. I was in error. I would now make
thee to know it. And when thou seest my folly as I see it, thy wisdom
will be increased.
C. Then wisdom consists in seeing our own faults.
E. It consists not only in seeing them, but forsaking them. The wisdom
is in forsaking follies.
C. Have we follies that wisdom does not approve?
E. Thy works must show.
C. What works?
E. Thy reform will show thee thy follies.
C. What follies?
E. The folly of depending on others to do what thou shouldst do thyself.
C. What should we do ourselves?
E. Put away all wrong.
C. What wrongs should we put away?
E. The wrong of ignorance.
C. Of what are we ignorant?
E. Of that which thou knowest not.
C. What is that?
E. The wisdom of God.
C. How may we know the wisdom of God?
E. By instruction in righteousness.
C. Who will instruct us?
E. A circle whom we have seen. Wouldst thou be introduced to that
circle?
C. Thy circle will not receive such minds as we are.
E. My circle will prepare thy mind, and receive thee when prepared.
C. Why doth thy circle not worship as we do?
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