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if we do not want to receive the truth we will not obtain it, because it rests in the spirit, and the spirit is a power that exercise the universal law of attraction ; it attract the mind that corresponds to its vibration.

how shall we learn the truth ? by learning to know that it is good.
how can we become convinced of it's goodness ? by feeling its goodness within ourselves.

rational man need no other certificate for the truth but its own appearance. there can be no difference between speculative and practical knowledge. knowledge can only be attained by speculation, if the speculation is accompanied by experience. those who want the truth must practise it; those who cannot practice can only lead to doubtful opinions.

man can have no actual desire for a thing which he does neither feel or see, and which he therefore not know.
how can we love a thing of which we know not whether it is good or not, wether it will benefit or injure us, if we approach it. many followers of religions profess to love the creator, and have not the remotest conception of what the creator is. many profess to love christ and despise and reject him if they meet him in the person of one in whom the christ principle has taken form.

we can only love that which we know that it is good, because we feel it to be so ; and where else could we feel the presence of the creator except within our own heart ? to learn to desire the creator means therefore to enter a mental state in which we can feel the presence of the divine principle within our own heart; to learn to know the creator means to know our own divine self.

to know that a thing is good, is to desire it; for it is a law acting within the constitution of man, no less than among the planets, that we should be attracted to that which we feel to be good and be repulsed by that which we feel not to be good. a strong desire to be good, cause man to perform good actions.
man is a product of his thoughts and acts ' if he thinks and acts good, he becomes good.

in an occult sense ''wiling'' is identical with "feeling" ; for the substance of the will, if infused with consciousness of the spirit, feels and manipulate it's object. willing knowing, and acting are ultimately identical ; because we can only will that we know, and we can only know that of which we have an experience.

the only way to obtain true practical knowledge of spiritual truths is to develop true power of spiritual perception by practice of truth, in other words, the awakening of the inner consciousness to recognition of the truth existing within oneself. only a mind which has been purified from all selfish desires, and is filled with a strong determination to learn the truth and nothing else but the truth, is thereby ''duly and truly prepared'' to enter the temple of wisdom.
the adept who have succeeded in uniting his consciousness with the centre of the universal mind, can from thence survey the infinite all, and the mysteries of nature are open before him. he who has brought his whole being into consonance with the universal mind can mentally enter into the very centre of things and recognise their character.

to enter a state in which universal truth may come to our direct perception, no intellectual labour but spiritual development is required. we must become master of our thoughts and desires, and be able to sink our thoughts into the invisible centre of all.

we do not have to go far to go in search of that centre, it exists within the heart of each human being ; for the soul of each human being is an exact image of the soul of the universe, and as the great spiritual sun exists in the centre of the universe, likewise the image of that sun exists within the heart of each human being. if we only permits this divine light to shine within our own soul, we will know the truth, for the truth is only one, and the one exists within our own heart is identical with the one existing within the centre of the universe.
if we desire to see the the eternal light of the spiritual sun existing within the heart, the realm of the soul must not be clouded by material desires. we must by the power of our will dispel the fogs and mists created by vapours coming from the material plane.we must become our own masters in our own house. to do this requires effort and perseverance.

there is a method, by which we may, without any active effort, obtain that which we desire, and this is that we should desire nothing exept what the divine spirit desires within our own heart.