“Faith is the soul’s intuitive conviction of that which both Reason and Conscience approve.”
Genuine faith rarely wavers or changes, because it is an evolution, a “growth of the soul,” a spiritual experience, and it becomes the “dominant chord” in the symphony of life, determining Harmony.
It is in this deliberate and discriminative sense that I have used the term conviction in relation to the Master and his “Great Work.” He never dogmatizes, nor undertakes to “indoctrinate.”
In answer to a question on some deep and perplexing problem of the soul or of the spiritual plane, he replies, “So far as we know, it is so and so.” “A new experience, or an added light, may alter our conclusion.”
The average individual scarcely realizes what absolute sincerity, with no motive save Love of Truth, and beneficence to man guided by clear intelligence, and dominated by the rational Will, means, or can accomplish.
These are the natural powers of the human soul. There is nothing mysterious or miraculous about them, more than in the art of music of a Beethoven or a Paganini, or in gymnastics and the winner of the Marathon.
| “To shape and use, arise and fly, The reeling Faun, the sensual feast, Move upward, working out the beast, And let the ape and tiger die.” |
My conviction is strong, and my Faith unwavering.
“The great and peaceful ones live, regenerating the world like the coming of spring: and having themselves crossed the ocean of embodied existence, help those who try to do the same thing without personal motive.” (“Crest Jewel of Wisdom.”)