Castle Crags, n. California
We are concerned not only with the realm of outer manifestation but also with the inner realm of the heart where man’s peace is found as an extension of God’s peace–if the hardness of the world has not already destroyed therein the tender ministrations of God’s love. And it is to the remnant of the children of God upon earth that we dedicate ourselves, and to the preservation of the tender mercies of our God. Strident voices ring throughout the land condemning mankind and even condemning God. Yet the Son of man came not into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. We cannot say that there are not injustices upon earth which men should forthrightly denounce; for humanity’s inhumanities are legion. But He who spoke long ago saying that men should love justice also said that they should love mercy. Just as mercy is to be found in divine justice, so divine justice is to be found in mercy. When the transgressions of the world are tallied, when every jot and tittle of the law is fulfilled, when the quietude of the Presence is borne at last in the hearts of all then will men possess that gift which wise men of old held above all: “With all thy getting get understanding.”... The relinquishing of the memory and consciousness of iniquity, the replacing of the penurious sense of sin with the abundant sense of virtue, recognition of the universal image as the reality of every man, meditation upon the Christ consciousness, purification of one’s motives in the will of God--these rituals are sufficient for rekindling the magnificent mercies of God within soul that will keep consciousness free from the oppression of sin. The sense of sin is not the scourge of God nor is it the prompting of divine conscience.
(by Ruth Hawkins)
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