====== The Inner Life ======
== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | NOVEMBER 1934 ==
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==== APPROACHING TRUTH ====
By N. S. E.
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THE WAYS to truth are as varied as are the seekers of truth. When all arrive at the ultimate truth it will be the same to all, but no two start from exactly the same point. All the time, however, those who proceed sincerely on the quest will be drawing closer together, although no two ways are exactly the same. Only when the perfection of pure truth is reached will all ways merge into one.

That perfection will not be reached in this life. In future ages a perfected and purified race may be able to demonstrate the fullness of truth on earth, but until that time shall come a life of perfect truth can be reached only through an open grave which is the doorway that leads to the goal of human perfection.

But that does not prevent us from seeking such a measure of truth as we are able to understand. If we ever hope to attain perfection in truth we must strive for it as light is given us, and ever seek for further light. And each must follow his own way in the striving and the searching. Every man is different in disposition and nature. No two persons can see the same thing exactly the same way.

It is a great mistake to try and follow some other way than the one for which a person is fitted. One can not travel far in the shoes of strangers. The judge on the bench may well have a different conception of the way to truth from that of the farmer in his field, yet each will be right for him as he sees it. The same is true of the teacher at his desk and the laborer at his task. All of these are of equal importance in the scheme of truth, and eventually all will arrive at the same point, if they follow their various ways with faith and perseverance.

A good way to illustrate this is to imagine a gigantic wheel from the hub of which a countless number of spokes radiate to the rim. The hub is the truth and the rim is human life. The spokes are as the various way from the outer circumstances of life to the central truth which is the true objective of human life.

For each person seeking this objective there is an individual spoke fitted for his needs. Having found the one fitting him, as he
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