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with your whole heart, soul, sense, and thought — full 

 of love and confidence. If you possess such a faith, 

 God (Wisdom) will not withhold His truth from you, 

 but He will reveal His works to you credibly, visibly, 

 and consolingly." 



" Everything that happens takes place through the 

 will of the Supreme. Conscience is the state which we 

 have received from God, in which we should see our own 

 image, and according to the dictates of which we should 

 act, without attempting to discover reasons in the guid- 

 ance of our life in regard to morals and virtues. We 

 should do that which our conscience teaches, for no other 

 reason but because our conscience teaches it. He who 

 does not burn himself will not be burned by God, and 

 God provided him with a conscience into which he may 

 put his implicit trust. To learn from others, to accept 

 the opinion of others, to act in a certain manner because 

 others are acting in that way, is temptation. Therefore 

 faith in the things of the earth should be based upon 

 the holy Scripture and upon the teachings of Christ, and 

 it will then stand upon a firm basis. Therefore we shall 

 put the foundation and the corner-stone of our wisdom 

 upon three principal points, which are : first, Prayer, or 

 a strong desire and aspiration for that which is good. 

 It is necessary that we should seek and knock, and 

 thereby ask the Omnipotent Power within ourselves, and 

 remind it of its promises and keep it awake ; and if we 

 do this in the proper form and with a pure and sincere 

 heart, we shall receive that for which we ask, and find that 

 which we seek, and the doors of the Eternal that have 

 been closed before us will be opened, and what was hidden 

 before our sight will come to light. The next point is 

 Faith : not a mere belief into something that may or may 

 not be true, but a faith that is based upon soul- know- 

 ledge, an unwavering confidence, a faith that may move 

 mountains and throw them into the ocean, and to which 

 everything is possible, as Christ has Himself testified. 



