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intelligence; is the foundation and background of the universe. Truth is but
one though men call it by many names. Truth is God divested of the idea of
personality. Truth is not material; neither is it mere energy, as the physical
scientists conceive it; neither is it mind, as men understand the term. Truth is
Spirit and nothing else. Spirit is Truth and nothing else. Truth and Spirit are
identical. All else is Untruth.
Just what Spirit is, is impossible of expression in words, for words are
designed to express relative things, and the Absolute cannot be expressed
or defined by relative terms. As Spinoza has said, “To define God, is to deny
Him.” Enough to know that Spirit Is. You will remember the words of Jesus,
who said: “God is Spirit.” There is no qualification in the sense of asserting
that God is a Spirit, that is, one of a number of Spirits. The statement is plain,
positive and unmistakable in its assertion. God is spirit, itself. That is, that
God and Spirit are identical. There cannot be two Spirits any more than
there can be two Gods. And there cannot be two Truths, any more than
there can be two Spirits, or two Gods. For God, and Spirit, and Truth are
identical—merely words to represent and symbolize the one Reality. Other
than Truth, there can be only Untruth.
Spirit—God—Truth! These are the three terms expressing the one idea.
The words Spirit or Truth are preferred by many metaphysicians to the
term God, for the reason that the latter has become confused in the minds
of many who have used it, and who imply the existence of the attributes,
qualities and natures of personality to God. Truth is the conception of God
in His highest aspect—His aspect of Being, divested of the attributes and
qualities of personality, which have been added to Him by many people
who dwell upon the plane of personality, and who fail to perceive Him in
His transcendental Being.
Truth is that which Is, and Spirit is that which Truth is. Truth is Spirit; and
Spirit is Truth. There is no Spirit but Truth; and no Truth but Spirit. These are
axioms which must be learned and realized by you before you may enter