Imagine a slender wall that runs as a boundary at the far limits of your consciousness. To one side lies all that is known to you, to the other lies all that is as yet unknown. By using your gifts of reason and understanding wisely you will cause that wall to recede and will feel the pleasure of treading new ground. If however you are wedded to cold logic you will waste much time examining the ground before the wall, and if you are not careful the wall will become a barrier that serves not to protect you from your weaknesses but from your strengths. Insight and logic are uneasy friends.
Many place great store by books they consider to be holy and they are even prepared for violence in argument over those they consider to be more holy than others. My friend, all books are holy, just as all men who cause them to be are holy. For thought which transcends the physical and seeks for a name by which it shall be known is an act of divinity. This may be quite likely a heresy to those whose beliefs have been formed by others and then followed with slavish devotion, but it is nevertheless so.
There will always be large numbers of those who lack vision of the true reality, but they have yet to realise their purpose and see only jars of grain as the harvest of their life. That which they do not feel does not seem to exist. If it cannot be crushed in the hand then it must be crushed from the mind. The songbird does not see the worm beneath the sward and yet it listens for its winding tread because it has always known that it lies hidden within its own peculiar world. In turn the worm has never seen the bird in flight and yet they are destined to meet.
We have come to this world with a dark cloth about our eyes and we must stumble many times, clutching at those about us for support, for although we are led we do not see clearly. Some do indeed have the clarity of vision and can see beyond, whilst others would seem blind through ceaselessly and fruitlessly staring. The soul may be given the gift of pure water and fertile soil to create a richness of greened gardens luxuriant with life and startled with colour yet another given the same will see only the fundamentals for making mud.
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