(BELIEF AND KNOWLEDGE (2) [continued(9)][: The Quality of Truth])[14th April 1987]

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The wonderful thing about these* Qualities is that they are immanent**, i.e. apparent without great searching, even though clouded by the nature of the Observer. I said*** that Love is perhaps the easiest to identify, but there is another which pervades our lives so completely that they become, in the end, insupportable without it: that is, Truth, which I suspect is the Ultimate Quality at the Centre of the Circles**** and of everything else: the Absolute Truth, Holy Spirit of God, the Spirit. This is why Truth is essential to the inward search, and is indivisible: unless we seek for Absolute Truth both as our objective and as our underlying method of searching, we will deceive ourselves; unless we speak Truth in all matters to others, we will spread confusion which in the end will return to confuse our own perception.#

Truth in ourselves will help us, by our understanding of it, to recognise it (or detect its absence) in others, which is important in many respects: throughout this discussion, statements have been qualified 'if made truthfully'#*, and that is something we have to judge in the light of our own understanding of Truth as manifested in the external world, in personal character, in thought, and in the inner search.

In the light: Truth is a great light, a Clear Light, welling up from the Centre, which it is, illuminating us all – Mind and Body, Religion and Science – from within, which is why we all (including Scientists) seek it within; and in the absolutely Clear Light of Absolute Truth when we shall find it, all else will fade away.#**

*[See last previous entry.]

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****& at +C~? ref.IV.145. <891001>

#(This is why I have profound reservations about Teachers who lie in order to educate: revelation my be withheld, but truth must never be betrayed, because it is indivisible.)

#*[See last previous entry, fn2.]

#**{cf.S&C :15-1} [All references to S&C are almost certainly to the full paper version.]

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