“What I know, I know;
And where I find place for my foot,
I plant it firmly there.”
So I bring my religious experiences to the common stock of religious facts, because I believe it would be a good thing for 288 the world if more people spoke to it of their knowledge of unseen realities. What I have heard in the silence is not for me alone. I must tell my message in the open place for all I reach, to hear and consider.
I know everything that science and creeds and set forms can say against such experiences. Science, which affects to dote on the material, is everywhere brought up short by impalpable but adamantine gates of which God alone holds the key. It is as inscrutable and mysterious as any spiritual occurrence or event. What scientist can yet disclose, how the green bud becomes the rose?
As to outward rites and ceremonies at set times, they are useful to many, but we
“... may not hope from outward forms to win,
The glory of the Life whose fountains are within.”
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“... Councils, doctors, priests,