Found in, The Gospel of God’s Love, pages 47, by John.
“I desire to write upon a subject that may prove to be of interest to you and others who may read my message. I will say what I desire in short sentences, so the truth may be understood at a glance.
“When you are sure that you have discovered or have had revealed to you a truth, let it sink deep into your soul, so that it will find such lodgment as will cause you to realize that this truth is a reality, and a thing that must not be forgotten or neglected in its application to your daily life on earth.
“When you have found that the truth fits some particular condition of your mind’s experience, adopt it as a criterion for determining what your course of action shall be.
“When you have thus adopted it, let it always remain with you as a guide and monitor in determining what your belief as to the particular thing involved shall be.
“When you have thus received this belief of the mind, encourage and feed upon it until it becomes a thing of established faith.
“And when this faith has become part of your very being, you will find that the accompaniments of such faith, in the way of longings and aspirations, will become things of real living existences, which will result in actual knowledge.
“When such knowledge becomes yours, then you have solved the problem of what is true and what is not. And when you have solved this you will become a person who, when you utter this knowledge of truth, you will speak as one having authority. Such was the process by which Jesus became the possessor and authentic expositor of the great truths that had never before been known and declared by any person.
“Of course, these various steps which lead to this great knowledge of truth must be taken gradually and with increased confidence. In all this, the help and influence of the Father are necessary, and such help comes only in response to sincere, soul-aspiring prayer.
“Prayer must arise from the soul of mortals, and the response must come from God – there is no other means by which this knowledge can be obtained. All knowledge of things spiritual, coming in any other way, cannot be relied upon, for there is only one Source of such knowledge.” Amen