d to designate an organization
of men in social or commercial combination.
In union there is strength; but in partnership, or in clubs, there may
be no quality of union, although there is the outward bond of
fellowship. "I shall look into this" we say when we want to know more
of a subject than appears on the surface. We want to know the within.
We want to fathom the interior meaning; to get below the surface, or
the appearance of it. This is the other word of vital import--the word
_within_. We see it everywhere like a signpost directing our footsteps
toward home.
The Master Jesus said that the immortal kingdom was within, but the
Christian world evidently has not believed Him. He also told those who
would listen to Him, that there was but one commandment that was truly
spiritual, but as he did not come to destroy anything that existed,
but only to transmute it, He paid no attention to the commandments
already in vogue, but contented Himself with a repetition of the one
and only commandment of the Father-Mother God Principle which begat
him: "That ye love one another."
Now we are being told from the housetops and from the streets and
through all the channels of the physical senses to look within. That
which you are--not what you appear to be to the eyes of the
sense-conscious--but that which you are in your interior nature, is
what counts to you. The writer who writes because he is paid to write
salable stuff, harps upon the necessity for "efficiency" in the
commercial game; but when the word is impartially considered
efficiency consists in the long run in reliability, and reliability is
measured by one's honesty; integrity; square-dealing; wise
judgment--interior qualities all. It matters not whether the skin be
white or black or brown or yellow or green; whether you are of
imposing stature or but four feet tall; it is what you are within that
constitutes true efficiency.
So the kingdom whatever it may be whether of heaven or hell; of love;
or of power; or of ambition; the kingdom is within. The source of your
power is in the interior of your nature.
If we go to slang, which offers the line of least resistance to the
Cosmic Law, we find that the cue has been given over and over again to
those who are interiorly awake to receive it. "You are not in on
this," has been said to one who was left out of some supposedly
desirable thing; or "you are not _in_ it," meaning that you are not up
to the required standar
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