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The Fifth Lesson: Patanjali’s Yoga System.1221
Special Message V.
We continue this month the consideration of the Axioms of Truth those
symbols whereby we seek to enter into an understanding of the nature of
Truth. By the employment of these symbolic Axioms, we may be partially
able to picture to ourselves more clearly the nature of Truth, in our relation
to it. We now invite you to consider the two following Axioms of Truth, and
what follows.
vii. We may consider truth by means of the symbol of Love. We know that
there is an All-Love, just as we know that there is an All-Good. The highest
regions of our being convey to us this report and message. And truth,
being the only possible source of Love, must be the All-Love. There is
nothing else to be the All-Love but truth. Truth is more than All-Loving: it
is All-Love itself. There can be no real Love outside of, or apart from, truth.
All real Love must proceed from, be expressed, manifested or emanated by
truth. All else is Untruth.
viii. We may consider truth by the means of the symbol of Life. We know
that there is life in the universe, for we see it on all sides, and our reason
informs us that it must proceed from a common source. Truth being the
only Being, Existence and Substance, must be the only thing that can possess
the All-Life. Truth is more than the possession of All-Life; it is All-Life itself.
There can be no Life outside of or apart from truth, for there is nowhere
else, or anything else, from which Life could have proceeded. And all the
Life apparent to our perceptions must have been manifested, expressed or
emanated by or from truth. All other Life is Untruth.
The above statements concerning truth are what is known as The Axioms
of truth. That is, they are Statements of Truth, which are self-evident to any
mind that will earnestly consider them, and do not need proof or argument.
These Axioms contain the report of the highest planes of the Mind of Man,
as well as of his Reason. They constitute the Basic Principles of the Science
of Truth, and as we proceed we shall have frequent need to refer to them.