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and, wandering on, he met an old man, who looked sadly
at him, appreciating his earnest and worthy effort, but
pitying his mistake, and said: "My friend, the temple
you seek stands in the midst of the place you have left."
May we not expect something like this to greet us
as we finish life's journey here, thinking to find our
heaven at the end of our faithful toiling to attain it?
Shall we have to learn then instead of now, that our
heaven is within us? If we listen to the voice of the one
who knows, we will have no reason for any delusion.
Heaven is now and always "within you -- at hand."
Heaven is God's presence, and God's presence is the
Truth which we may know and accept at this moment as
now and here; and knowing this Truth, shall make us
free.
Truth never changes; it is "The same yesterday, today and forever." It fills the universe of God, hence all
Truth is here and now, and all that is true is eternal.
There is no new Truth. Man may gain new ideas of
the Truth, and revelation of God must bring new ideas
to us, but this does not alter one iota of the Eternal
Truth.
Truth must contain many things new to us, and these
new things must be among the "many things" that Jesus
could not tell to his disciples, but promised that the
Spirit should reveal them as soon as they could be received.
Why then be afraid of a new idea of Truth? Why
hesitate to accept something that has not been "seen"
or "heard" before by us? It is written, "Eye hath not
seen, ear hath not heard, neither hath it entered into the
heart of man, what God hath prepared." -- I Cor. 2:9.
We have not yet conceived of the things that Truth.
