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Lessons in Truth

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Bondage or Liberty, Which? - Statement of Being - Thinking - Denials - Affirmations - Faith - Definition of Terms: Chemicalization, Personality, and Individuality - Spiritual Understanding - The Secret Place of the Most High - Spiritual Gifts - Unity of the Spirit - Glossary of Truth Terms - Index - Contents -

SPIRITUAL GIFTS

Eleventh Lesson

It is very natural for the human heart first to set out in search of Truth because of the "loaves and the fish" (Mt. 15:36).

Perhaps it is not too much to say that the majority of people first turn to God because of some weakness, some failure, some almost unbearable want in their lives. After having vainly tried in all other ways to overcome or to satisfy the want, they turn in desperation to God.

There is in the heart of even the most depraved human being, though he would not for worlds have others know it, an instinctive feeling that somewhere there is a power that is able to give him just what he wants; that if he could only reach that which to his conception is God, he could prevail on Him to grant the things desired. This feeling is itself God-given. It is the divine Self, though only a spark at the center of the man's being, suggesting to him the true remedy for all his ills.

Especially have people been led to seek Truth for the reward, for "the works themselves" (Jn. 14:11), during the last few years, since they have come to know that God is not only able, but willing, to deliver them from all the burdens of their everyday life. Everyone wants to be free, free, free as the birds of the air --- free from sickness, free from suffering,

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