THE REAL AND THE FALSE

 
In the material world every bit of money counts. In the subtle wold every ounce of energy counts. In the mental world every force of thought counts. In the Beyond-State only God counts, and in the Realm of God-man everything counts as nothing and nothing counts as everything. This is the domain of the mind. There is also spiritual science which deals with the beyond-mind state. Material science brings results through the intellect, spiritual science through love. When love is fully experienced, the source of spiritual science, which is God, is realized and all else is then discovered to be illusory.

Spiritual science based on love alone is beyond mental understanding. It is full of apparent contradictions which love alone can face and overcome. Whereas material science enhances the ego-life, spiritual science annihilates it, and leads into the 'I-am-God' state of becoming God. In fact, the end of all human questioning is God — the core of existence and the one and only Reality.

In the glow of a new-born love or in the warmth of newly caught enthusiasm one must also try to acquire other qualities. Hope should be fortified by courage, which can accept failure with equanimity; enthusiasm should be harnessed by the wisdom which knows how to wait for the fruit with patience. Idealistic dreams about the future should be counter-balanced by a sense of the realities of the present; and the glow of love should allow itself to be illumined by the free and unhampered play of reason.