THE LIGHT ACQUIRED BY THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE MYSTERY

THE LIGHT ACQUIRED BY THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE MYSTERY

With any great or central truth, such as the mystery, Christ and the church, a light must be acquired which could not be so in any other way. Every truth has its own light and special practical effect. Many a one aims at a practice to which he does not attain, because the truth, and the power of it, which could guide and help him into it, is not in his heart. In the same way one betrays his ignorance of a truth when he acts in contravention of it. At all events the truth is not really there, or the conscience would have been soiled by a distinct departure from it. Now there is a manifold light connected with the mystery which cannot be acquired in any other way but by the knowledge of it.