====== The Inner Life ======
== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | JANUARY 1935 ==
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==== TWO MANDATES ====
By Helene B. Backus
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“YE SHALL know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” Take note of that sentence for it decrees two things. The first is important because it is something that is required of us. The second is equally so, but its importance lies in the fact that nothing is required of us.

“What is truth?” asked Pilate centuries ago, when Christ was brought before him. Down through the ages men have continued to ask this question, and now, we, of this century and especially of this generation believe that we are beginning to know what truth is.

Truth is that which never changes. It is the permanent wholeness back of all delusive illness, disease, and suffering. It is the eternal supply behind poverty; the everlasting perfection underlying temporal, negative, and material conditions.

Truth cannot be separated. It is impossible of separation or discontinuation and would manifest steadily in us, through us and to us, if we did not impede its progress.

Truth cannot be compassed in any one church, one teacher, or one book. It overflows the Bible. To encompass, segregate, or possess the whole truth in one person, place, or thing would be impossible; because the entire truth is infinite. Only One has ever been known to have had such knowledge of truth, and even He declared that some things were not known to Him. “But of that day and that hour knoweth no man; no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.”

We can know the truth about anything that concerns us or our problems to the degree that we need to know. We can know the truth to the amount we can contain and use it. That much is given us or flows through us; then as we absorb it we grow, and we shall be given more and more until the perfect man in truth appears.

As the truth manifested in Jesus, the Christ was revealed. And as Christ, the Man of Truth, was uncovered, He merged or became One with the Father, and was Infinite, transcending all earthly or human sight.
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