FOREWORD
THAT WHICH IS is not a book intended to be
read at a single sitting. He who would judge this work
by a hasty perusal will do himself an injustice. He will
have missed the opportunity of an introduction to the most
important individual in his
universe--Himself!
Today's market is being glutted with books
dealing with the personality and with the mind; books from the
physical and the metaphysical viewpoint, but to what
avail? Lack, confusion and frustration seem on the
increase, both on the personal and the national plane.
Higher human evolvement is advanced as the means of ending the
involvement of our world, now split into two camps. One
side is struggling to maintain personal autonomy. The
other is determined to eradicate every tendril of the
individual, by believing in the power of a state to police
body and mind.
Ideas know no geographical
boundaries. Iron curtains cannot shut them out, nor keep
them within limits. Because of this, we find ourselves
in the midst of a cold war, which is a long way from being
static or cold! No battle line ever knew so much
conflict, such intense struggle, such paralyzing fear and
confusion as sweep across this globe of ours today. Old
standards for judging, weighing, evaluating personal, national
and international policies and plans no longer work. New
standards are adopted, but are found wanting, because
civilization finds it hard to perceive how grossly uncivilized
and unenlightened it is.
Duality underlies our human conceptions in
every field of thought and action. For each
positive, we have a negative; for each thrust forward, we have
a counter opposition; for every right, we assume there is a
reverse, a wrong. This "law of opposites" is our
undoing. Duality prides itself on offering a freedom of
choice; choice of bondage, but never Liberty, never Freedom
from choice, duality!
Physical force is not Truth's antidote for
anything. To attempt good sportsmanship, or fair play
toward evil is folly. The acknowledgment of evil as if
it were present, real, or capable of maliciously negating
Good, God, is not only unwise, but it dishonors God, Infinite
Intelligence. In Truth, contradictions cannot
exist. A pure fountain does not bring forth "both sweet
and bitter water." (Jas. 3:11) One cannot serve two
masters, for he "will hate the one, and love the other; or
will hold to the one, and despise the other." (Matt.
6:24)
What is the answer to our global
dilemma? Is an all-out war the solution, or will this
but sow the seeds of civilization's ultimate collapse?
Can councils of state solve the problem? Can the
individual citizen do aught to help in this major issue?
Will metaphysics, mind-science or any other form of human
thought-taking, assist in bringing peace to the race of
man?
From every corner of the planet goes up
the cry from leaders and followers alike: Wherein have
we failed in our appointed tasks? Who is to blame?
Why has not God, The Almighty intervened? Are we
forsaken? Is the church helpless? Have education,
science and prayer been wasted? Is Armageddon upon
us? Have we reached the end of the world? Has God
grown weary of our weaknesses, our follies, and turned Its
face from us? Is oblivion, final vacuity, our
destiny?
Metaphysics -- an attempted
spiritualization of human thought, a guiding and guarding of
mental process -- is not the way to Peace. Politics,
individual growth of personality or unfoldment, moral control
are not the answer. There is but One "Way," and that One
"Way" is already established. It takes neither time nor
personal effort to bring It to pass, for It is already at
Hand. Storming It as a human being, a personality, an
individual mentality, will not open the doors.
God is the sole and only
One. There can be no other, for God is Infinite, hence
All-Inclusive. There can be nothing besides God, the One
and Only Identity.
This work does not offer a panacea to
humanity. It does not claim it can cure the wrongs of
civilization, politics, theology, education or personal
problems. It does not condemn any cult, organization,
system. It states that God is All. This
Truth, being Infinite, leaves the field to Spirit only.
If some wish to differ, they are at liberty to do so, but it
is with Truth, the very Wholeness that is their own Being,
their Self-Identity, that they take issue. They will
offend no one except themselves.
Whatever this volume may mean to one
depends wholly upon himself. If one reads it and gets
nothing, he will be no worse off than when he picked it
up. If it unfolds something of One's Self that is fresh,
challenging, inspiring, it is because he has been truthful
with that Self. The Truth intends to be neither
offensive nor defensive, proselyting nor apologetic. Its
sole intention is to state Its point of view as clearly and
irrefutably as possible. All or any are free to accept
or reject It. If the statement is Truth, neither
acceptance nor rejection will alter it.
Any writing lies within the framework of
words. A view that is off the beaten track is sometimes
handicapped because the words used call forth a definition not
currently in vogue. In the interest of clarity, it is
possible our style of presentation is unpleasing, that
repetition is noticeable and annoying, that a logical
development in sequence has been ignored. If this is
your reaction, lay the book aside until a more "convenient
season," (Acts 24:25) for we would not torment you "before the
time." (Matt. 8:29) Wait, if you must, until trouble is
so focused, so sharp, as to be almost unbearable. Then
read, and like the one who could not a t first see the forest
for the trees, you will discover the Revelations are no longer
obscured by the style or garments in which the ideas are
presented. It will be their content that says to the
troubled heart: "Peace, be still!" (Mark 4:39)
As is found in Habakkuk 2:2 -- "Write the
vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may
run that readeth it." This is It. Amen.
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