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Which is to say, do not seek the letter of the way of Illumination. Do not
look for forms and ceremonies and rules and systems, but look for that
which is clean and pure and good wherever it may be found.
In St. Paul we have fulfilled all the points that characterize those who
have been blessed with the great Illumination.
His broad outlook upon humanity, which refused to see evil or to condemn
where formerly he had been noted for his zeal in bringing to condemnation
all whom he believed to be heretics; his conviction of immortality; his
humility, as far as personal aggrandizement was concerned; the great light
in which was revealed to him the truth; the annihilation of the idea of sin
and death; the realization that systems and laws and methods of worship and
giving of alms and all the by-paths which formerly he had deemed necessary,
were as naught compared to the great illuminating, all-embracing power of
Love--the Savior whose kingdom should sometime be established upon
earth--the time being when cosmic consciousness should be general.
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