The Way of the Seven Fold Secret by Lilias Trotter

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Truth is one, unchangeable, eternal, and to your
minds, 0 our brothers, the search for it is long, and few
can say that they have reached it. But we who have
found Christ can tell you that we have found the Truth
even as we have found the Way. We can rest in Him
in the content of revealed certainty.
Let us give you a similitude from your own science
of Algebra, that you, the Arabs,* discovered many centuries
ago. By this science you chase the truth of numbers,
so to speak, through many questions, but when you have
found it, you know that you have found it and you are at
rest. And you also discover that the answer sets at rest,
in one moment, all the questions that you raised on the
way. When you have found the one great answer, youask
no more. That one answer proves all the rest. You
know that in this matter of numbers, you have found the
truth.
In like manner, when the soul finds Jesus, all the
questions that troubled it sink away. He is to us God's
unspeakable Gift of heavenly certainty: and he says to
thee, my brother, who dost weary thyself with much seeking,
"Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heaV,1/ laden,
and I will give you rest. "i" Come as desert travellers to
the well, as the boat into the harbour. He is the Truth.
But Truth is not only an eternal fact in the spiritual
world, it is the bearing of that fact on the facts that
concern us down here, and in this lies for us progress in
learning it. It is even as the sun that is one in the heavens
but that multiplies himself into a thousand little suns in
the ripples of the water below, if the day is cloudless.
* This will apply to the Arabs for whom the book was written.
t Mat. I I. 28.