“Tell Mr. Kendal the philosophers have perceived the truth in fragments.
This is to be the whole truth, as far as it can be understood on your
plane. It may sound, at moments, like a patchwork of philosophies,
because all—or most—of them have some truth. He will help you in this. He
found the truth in spite of philosophies, and it is part of his work to
help others find it because of one—a philosophy not dreamed, but lived
and proved and known. Therefore, not a philosophy, but a faith.”
The next day, we dined with friends of that Anne Lowe for whom I had
asked the first night Mary K. came to me, and from her long messages to
them, a few may be quoted.
“... It has always been easy for me to reach you, because you never
doubted that I was there. Doubt is one of the things we cannot reach
through. Doubt, bitterness, grief—all these are destructive forces.” To
a statement that they had felt deep grief, she returned: “You have not
had the kind of grief that would shut me out. You have shut out some
helpful forces, but you will do that no longer. It is because the force
may reach you through me that I can come. We are the same purpose, and
I can reach you freely. We can always reach those who are very near and
dear. Sometimes people are dear to us there who are not really near us
here. They do not need us, nor we them. It is an ephemeral relation. Love
lasts eternally. Please don’t ever forget that.... Listen to me. I cannot
always reach you as directly as this, but just as soon as you learn to
read my thoughts, as I now read yours, a messenger will not be necessary.”
Briefly she explained to them the eternal significance of the Great
War, the united purpose of Germany, and the failure of the Allies, thus
far, to comprehend the essence of unity. Elizabeth, one of her friends,
mentioned that it was like her to drop personalities for great issues,
and she replied:
“The reason that I told you the thing I did about the great purposes and
the eternal conflict is that I want you to realize a little of what it
is all for, and to help you recognize the great ends toward which your
problems lead. Build, build, never cease to build. Unite yourself to
anybody who is of your purpose. Keep as clear as you can from entangling
yourselves with forces of disintegration.”
Miss S——, a teacher, and a stranger to me, was present, and after a
little her brother took control of the pencil.
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