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The Strongest Wish Of A Vast Number Of Earnest Men And Women To-day Is For A Basis Of Religious Belief Which Shall Rest, Not Upon Tradition Or External Authority Or Historical Evidence, But Upon The Ascertainable Facts Of Human Experience. The Craving For Immediacy, Which We Have Seen To Be Characteristic Of All Mysticism, Now Takes The Form Of A Desire To Establish The Validity Of The God-consciousness As A Normal Part Of The Healthy Inner Life.

Let None Of Us Delude Himself By Supposing That Honesty Is Always The Best Policy. It Is Not.

There Is No Law Of Progress. Our Future Is In Our Own Hands, To Make Or To Mar. It Will Be An Uphill Fight To The End, And Would We Have It Otherwise? Let No One Suppose That Evolution Will Ever Exempt Us From Struggles. 'you Forget,' Said The Devil, With A Chuckle, 'that I Have Been Evolving Too.

It Is Useless For The Sheep To Pass Resolutions In Favor Of Vegetarianism, While The Wolf Remains Of A Different Opinion.

No Word In Our Language - Not Even "socialism" - Has Been Employed More Loosely Than "mysticism." The History Of The Word Begins In Close Connexion With The Greek Mysteries. A Mystic Is One Who Has Been, Or Is Being, Initiated Into Some Esoteric Knowledge Of Divine Things, About Which He Must Keep His Mouth Shut.