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Some Mistakes Corrected Are there several codes?
Is the essence of morality one everywhere or various, as men conceive it?
Is morality a creature of rules and regulation and human formulations?
Is it not rather the soul of right, or the conscience of right, implanted or breathed into humanity, and into the universe by the Infinite Creator?
What is moral law?
Who shall define it?
What authority shall interpret it?
It goes without saying that whatever it is and wherever it is, it is obligatory on all. But where will yon search for it outside of
yourself.
Is it something independent of your consciousness, lying somewhere hidden, waiting to be discovered?
It is not found within you, where shall you look for it?
Fichte, the German philosopher, says that the formal law of morals is this:
"Always act in conformity with your convictions of duty (obey your conscience).
The rule includes two others; first, try to understand clearly what your duty in every matter is then, when you are convinced what your duty is do it, for the sole reason that you are sure that it is your duty."
Spiritualism, as I understand it, adopts and emphasizes this law, even as Jesus did - in his sermon on the mount - and as all good Christians do when they truly interpret him.
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