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THE SANCTUARY OF THE SILENT HEALING POWER

operation of the Cosmic Law of transition from one form to the other. When
we understand this we see within ourselves the same Law in operation.
In the ordinary sense in the mind of man, good is that which gives

pleasure, bad is that which gives pain, whether outwardly or inwardly, whether
inside or outside the skin. That is a fact, is it not?
Pleasure is what you want, so obviously you call it good. What you
do not want you call bad. Don’t let us fool ourselves and spin a lot of words

about good and evil or God and the Devil. If God is, the Devil cannot be,
therefore it is the non-existence of the Devil that makes up the Devil. God
being Infinite there can be none other than He.

Experience is essential to your freedom. Through experience you begin
to realize what is behind the individual. Without experience you would be
dormant, asleep in your limitation; yet experience without discernment and

continual adjustment in the present is but a repetition of error, which brings
frustration and misery. But through continual adjustment, through experience
and understanding, there is freedom.

We say we do not want war, but we encourage all that breeds war.
Being conditioned we create a society after our own likeness and having
created such a society it turns and exploits us, so it is again the vicious circle.
There can only be a sane society when we ourselves are sane, and this goes

for all governments and councils, national and international.
You may laugh, but we are insane! For all are not clear thinking
human beings, we are unbalanced therefore our society is unbalanced. The

whole world is caught-up in the appalling catastrophe of antagonism and
conflict that leads to war and destruction and we are the same.
A sane person does not want to break it up, he sees the cause of
antagonism and conflict, and begins to dissolve it, first in himself. Not until

he dissolves it in himself can he help others to do so. To say it is my country
and I must protect it, is not finding the cause but adding to the conflict.
Therefore it is not a new plan or a new council we require to make

us sane, but to know what we are in ourselves. What the matter with us is,
that we are caught-up in imitation. We wave flags, we listen to speeches which
have no real understanding in them. We just become stimulated through

imitation which has all the indications of insanity.
Many people rebel against past experiences; they fight, they strug-
gle and become emotionally upset, this is the way to frustrate the present

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