Excerpt from, The Gospel of God’s Love, ‘Seek the Truth’: I want to tell you that when humans learn the truths of the Father, they will become happy and wise. The truths have in them only those principles that create happiness and wisdom. I know that people believe many things because of their being ancient, but such basis for truth does not itself, because of being old, afford any certainty that what is accepted contains truth.
Truth is a thing very old, and existed for many thousands of centuries before the times these ancient writers lived. In fact, those days of the writers in comparison to what had gone on before, are as yesterdays. Therefore you will see that the declarations of those writers should not unquestioningly be received as having authority merely because they are ancient.
Truth of those days, and of the long ages prior thereto, and for the present time are all the same; as truth never changes, or assumes new forms, no matter what the conditions of mortals may be as to intellectual or spiritual development. They may be revealed today and are constantly being revealed as time progresses; they should be accepted with as much credence and satisfaction as any truths that were disclosed in ancient days. Human beings are just as suseptible now to the reception of truths, in their spiritual perceptions, as they were in times of Abraham and Moses.
The mind of man was given to him to be exercised in the way of investigation and search, and never was it contemplated in his creation that the time would come when he should accept anything as the ultimate truth and cease his inquiries. For truths are so many and great and deep that, so far, in the mortal universe, man has acquired only a smattering of these truths. And to rest supinely in this acquirement, under the belief that there is nothing more in existence that man may know, violates and subverts the very object of his creation.
What was believed centuries ago is still believed today, causing stagnation of the intellect. People must seek and accept or reject as their own conscience and reasoning powers dictate. And therein will be freedom of mind and of will, as well. The soul has been smothered in these dogmatic beliefs and as a consequence its develoment has been slow and knowledge of things spiritual has not come to them. Amen