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THEOSOPHY
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truth is a little different from your own? Why what a poor thing truth would be, if you or I could grasp it all, if you or I could see it all, if you or I could speak it all. Truth is infinite as God, and who shall declare His powers ? Every truth is a ray from Him, as every beanty is a ray of His Beanty. Everything that is fair and lovely is but a broken fragment coming from His light. Why should we hate? There is more that unites is thai separates ns. The things that separate are external—the skin, the hair, the color, the race, the bowing towards east or west. The special names and labels that we give to universal truths-are these things to separate the sons of God, the heirs of immortality, the Gods-in-the-making, who have but one hope, one life and one Self?
Is not the world fairer for the different faiths ? Do we not know more truths, because so many have spoken differently? If a man has a truth to speak that others know not, let him speak it out. Let us listen. It may be that God has shown him some glimpse of His light to which our eyes are blind. Do not silence him. By silencing him yon may be silencing the very voice of God. There is no such thing as a heretic. There is only the eve that sees the truth in a little different way, that we may learni and make our truth the richer becanse our brother has told us something that before we did not know. Religion, I have thought sometimes, is a mighty crown which is to crown humanity in days to come. When a crown is being made for some Imperial coromation, does the jeweller choose jewels only of one
