The One Thing Which You

This Is Criterion By Which The Church Is To Be Judged, Not By The Forms Of Its Doctrine Or Ritual, But By The Reality Of The Reality Of The Love Which It Manifests.

God Has Graced Every Tradition With Insight Into The Divine Mystery, From The Most Primitive To The Most Sophisticated-each Has A Gift To Bring To The World.

...the Need To Overawe People And Demand Obedience From Them Is Powerful And Seductive. It Is A Part Of That World That The Kingdom Of Heaven Is Not Of.

This Was The Very Purpose Of Creation That Each Unique, Individual Being Should Participate In Its Own Way In The Divine Being, Should Realize Its Eternal 'idea' In God, Should 'become' God By Participation, God Expressing Himself Through That Unique Being.

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'.