The
next questions is, how do things come
from life? How do the things that we see
come from the things that we do not see?
Thae things that we see must be real because
we see them. To say they are not real
will never explain them nor answer any
question about them. God's work is not
a world of illusion but one of divine
realities. The truth must not explain
away things that we see. It must explain
what they are. We are living and experiencing
varying degrees of consciousness and conditions.
Only when the why of living and of our
experiences is understood will we know
the least thing about the truth. Jesus
did not say that things are illusions.
He said that we must not judge from the
standpoint of the seen but must judge
righteously or with right judgment; and
He meant that we must get behind the appearances
and find out what caused it. So let us
not in any way fool ourselves nor allow
ourselves to believe we have always been
fooled. We are living in a world of realities.
Whatever we have experienced is a reality
as far as that experience is concerned,
although if we had had a higher understanding
of life, the unpleasant experience might
have been avoided.
WHAT
LIFE IS
IN
the first place, what do we mean by life?
We mean that which we see, feel, hear,
touch or taste, and the reason for it.
We must have come into contact all we
know of life. We have already found what
life is or we could not have had any of
these experiences. "In the beginning
was God" or life. Out of this life which
is, everything which is is made. So life
must flow through
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