Page 494 - THE SILENT HEALING POWER By DR. MURDO MACDONALD-BAYNE

JANUARY 1955

all the rubies and fine gold, the prophet tells us, and when we know it, we
know that it is so.
What is wrong with most people is that they are ruled by what has

been told to them by others who do not know themselves. Few people use
their Divine gift of reason inherent in all, their minds being full of concepts
they are thus giving expression only to memories and ideas instead of living
in God now, and knowing that it is God who is living in them now.

Most people say that they believe in God but do not know where He is.
Now how can they be sure of such a God? When I ask these people where
God is, they look up into the sky and say up there somewhere. Fortunately

the present generation is not so gullible as their parents were, they want to
think things out for themselves and this is the beginning of the revolution.
Most people are slaves to tradition in thought and religion with the

result that the world is still perpetuating its ignorance. Young people, if they are
at all alive, are full of revolutionary ideas. They must be, otherwise they are
already old. The old are those who want to settle back, they want security

in their souls, in their work. They want certainty in ideas, in relationship, in
things.
If you are young there is a spirit of enquiry which makes you want
to know the truth of anything, of any political action, left or right, of any

religion whether east or west. But if you are bound by tradition or what
another says, you will never be generators of the world, or creators of a
new civilization expressing the Truth.

What is essential for old and young is to live fully and completely. To
live fully and completely there must be freedom which is not the acceptance of
any authority. There can be freedom only when there is virtue. But virtue is
not imitation, virtue is not ethics. Virtue is creativeness. Creative living comes

only through freedom, which itself is virtue. Virtue cannot he cultivated and
that which is cultivated is not virtue nor does it come through practice. Virtue
comes through freedom and freedom comes through understanding.

Maturity does not come with age, maturity comes with understanding,
there can be no understanding when we seek an ideal. There can only be
understanding when we ardently enquire.

Merely passing examinations is not education, any fool can pass
examinations, it only requires a certain type of mind. But to earnestly enquire,
to search out Life, and understand the whole basis of existence requires a

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