Page 427 - THE SILENT HEALING POWER By DR. MURDO MACDONALD-BAYNE

WHAT WE KNOW IS RELATIVE,
THE UNKNOWN IS REALITY*

“Make Love your aim, and than set your
heart on spiritual gifts.” l Cor. 14: 1.

Are we not continually striving for an intellectual conception of the

Truth, so that we can come to a conclusion? If we come to a conclusion we
will never understand, for conclusions are a hindrance to understanding.
To reach that which is Real—the Uncreated, which alone is Creative,

we must first put away all knowledge, all conditioned memory, all conclusions.
In this alone is there freedom from the conditioning of the past, from beliefs,
ideas etc. We can never realize the Timeless through time.

Can the mind ever be free from conditioning, from influence, from
imitation? It can only be free from this conditioning through understanding
what this conditioning is. Thought, which is a result, cannot understand that

which is not a result.
It is because thought cannot understand that we come to conclusions,
thus we build a wall around ourselves. If we can understand what knowledge
is, what thought is, we will not be bound by it, nor shall we come to conclusions

that prevent understanding.
It is comparatively easy to renounce the physical, the things of the world,
but it is much more difficult for the intellectual to put away his creations of

the mind.
But without the abandonment of these mental creations, can the Real
which is beyond and above all creations of the mind, be experienced? Unless
we can put away all our speculative thinking about Reality we will never

realize Reality. Reality is only experienced when the mind is in perfect repose,
when all thinking has ceased to be.
The perfect reflection can only be seen upon the lake when there is

perfect calm on the surface, so it is with the mind, the mind must cease to
create out of its own accumulations so that that which is Uncreated—
Love-Wisdom, which alone is Creative, will be experienced.

We now see that accumulation and conclusions do not make for wisdom
but only sustain the stupid self. A mind weighed down with accumulated
formulations is incapable of following the swift movement of Life, is incapable

* See Notes page 430
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