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-=====Wisdom and Discrimination=====
+**[[Sun Papers]]**
+====== Wisdom and Discrimination ======
+== SUN PAPER NO. 57 | SEPTEMBER 1933 ==
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 IN THIS Paper we are going to give you the benefit of some very unusual and illuminating letters recently received.
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 After making a rough draft of the answers to the questions in Paper No. 45, I set about typing them. It took me several days to find the time to finish, and when I did I was no longer satisfied with them. Not that I was ever truly satisfied, but on it seemed the best I could do; now it doesn’t seem so. Of course I can see (and did then) that I have fallen short of the perfect answers in most every question. You will be able to see from them as I do that my difficulty lies in translating into action the Truths I know. That is probably the case with all, and still, with the Light that has been given me, it seems I should have reached the goal by now. Yet I know I have sought only the King-
 From my present point of view it seems I have written many words, when a few simple statements would have contained the necessary truth. Also I see much of self in the answers—desires, aspirations toward Spirit, it is true, but indicating lack of realization of the Good which is here and now. Of course that is the True Consciousness, and I do abide in it often; but the answers will serve to show you how I shift from the highest to the less high.
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 I understand the purpose of Suffering, the joy of dying in the self, of victory through Nothingness; I know the blessedness of Vicarious Suffering and Death, and how through it Salvation is won for others.
 I know that all Paths lead to God; that each soul is his own Path; and that all phases and forms of Truth are good and necessary.
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 I can see that we can enjoy every “material” thing spiritually—but not spiritual things materially. It is wonderful!
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 ====WISDOM AND DISCRIMINATION====
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 AND NOW we wish to talk with you about Wisdom and Discrimination, the highest attainments of the human soul and which can be acquired only through the fullest unfoldment of the Love Consciousness.
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 If you can only realize it, few even now are able fully to comprehend the great significance of its Message, which is first, to bring you nearer mind to a full recognition of You, its Divine Teacher—the Comforter within; and second, to teach it without the prejudice of a doubt when You speak, and when self or some other voice that is seeking to mislead and deceive you.
-This, we are finding, is the great need at this particular time: for as disciples approach the Kingdom, the
+This, we are finding, is the great need at this particular time: for as disciples approach the Kingdom, the enemy becomes more subtle and more determined in his efforts to prevent them reaching it. On the other hand, it is absolutely necessary that every soul be so cleansed of every taint of self, and at the same time will have gained sufficient Wisdom and have developed the faculty of Discrimination, that nothing can tempt them, cause them to doubt or be misled in any way from the straight and narrow path that leads to the Kingdom.
-enemy becomes more subtle and more determined in his efforts to prevent them reaching it. On the other hand, it is absolutely necessary that every soul be so cleansed of every taint of self, and at the same time will have gained sufficient Wisdom and have developed the faculty of Discrimination, that nothing can tempt them, cause them to doubt or be misled in any way from the straight and narrow path that leads to the Kingdom.
 Remember, you cannot enter and abide in the Kingdom until you have met and conquered every temptation that the enemy can bring to you, and you may be sure there will be everything that will thoroughly test your Wisdom, Discrimination and Strength of Will, as well as prove that there are no qualities of self still remaining.
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 Yet to be Master of self is not sufficient. It must come first; but it is not all—self must lose itself, must merge into the Christ Self, and become One with You, a Son of God.
-Those who have not truly found that Self, that All-loving, All-wise Something within, which always knows and will always point them the true way, when they can make self and its desires stand aside so they can listen and hear what Its quiet, gentle voice says, have failed to gain something most precious, something greater
+Those who have not truly found that Self, that All-loving, All-wise Something within, which always knows and will always point them the true way, when they can make self and its desires stand aside so they can listen and hear what Its quiet, gentle voice says, have failed to gain something most precious, something greater than all the occult powers of the greatest adept in the world. For they have not yet found the Comforter, the Blessed Christ within, Who knows all things, has all powers, and will lead them unto all Truth. It is He alone that leads all true disciples to and establishes them in the Kingdom.
-than all the occult powers of the greatest adept in the world. For they have not yet found the Comforter, the Blessed Christ within, Who knows all things, has all powers, and will lead them unto all Truth. It is He alone that leads all true disciples to and establishes them in the Kingdom.
 Many are turning to occult orders and teachings these days, because of the wonderful things in them held out, the attaining of marvelous powers and the teaching of them how to become adepts. But do you remember what Jesus said of John the Baptist, the great Adept?
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 Until one knows that Voice and can get quiet enough to hear it, one can easily be fooled; and many are being greatly fooled these days, and many more will be fooled in the days to come—until through disillusionment, suffering and sorrow they unfold their Christ Nature, gain sufficient Wisdom and acquire Discrimination, thereby entering into the Impersonal Love Consciousness—that of the Comforter Within.
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+[[Sun Papers]]