Above All We Have To Go Beyond

Obedience Is Detachment From The Self. This Is The Most Radical Detachment Of All. But What Is The Self? The Self Is The Principle Of Reason And Responsibility In Us. It Is The Root Of Freedom, It Is What Makes Us Men.

The Main Theme Of The Bible Is The Restoration Of Humanity And, Through Humanity, Of The Whole Of Creation To Its Original Harmony.

There Is A Beautiful Expression Of This In The Chandogya Upanishad: 'there Is This City Of Brahman, (that Is The Body), And In This City There Is A Shrine, And In That Shrine There Is A Small Lotus, And In That Lotus There Is A Small Space, (akasa). Now What Exists Within That Small Space, That Is To Be Sought, That Is To Be Understood.' This Is The Great Discovery Of The Upanishads, This Inner Shrine, This Guha, Or Cave Of The Heart, Where The Inner Meaning Of Life, Of All Human Existence, Is To Be Found.

I Had Made Myself The Center Of My Own Existence And Had My Back Turned To God.

In His (christ's) Surrender On The Cross All The Pain And Agony Of Mankind Was Concentrated At A Single Point, And Passed Through From Death To Immortality, There Is No Pain Of Any Creature From The Beginning To The End Of Time Which Was Not 'known' At This Point And Thus Transmuted. To Know All Things In The Word Is Thus To Know All The Suffering Of The World Transfigured By The Resurrection, Somehow Reconciled And Atoned In Eternal Life. It Was God's Purpose Which He Set Forth In Christ As A Plan For The Fullness Of Time, To Unite All Things In Him, Things On Heaven And Things On Earth'.