However, our denial and opposition detracts nothing from the fact or the Majesty of the Creator. What can we, as human beings, give the Almighty Creator that is not already His? In spite of our self-avowed importance in Creation as individuals or as specie, the Creator does not need us for His existence. He has always existed and will always continue to exist and our denials can only bring harm to us. Indeed, as indicated in the Grail Message, if He were ever to withdraw His Sustaining Power, we would cease to exist. We need Him in the absolute, both now in our existence in the World of Matter and eternally if ever we reach Paradise as conscious human spirits. We should be grateful that the longing for the recognition of God does not leave us in peace.1 The persistent urge to recognize and serve the Will of God is a gift, a flame we received as we issued from the radiation of the Almighty Creator Himself and which if we keep pure and tend, will lead us to ultimate recognition and fulfilment.
There is no fulfilment and no freedom without the Truth! Only the Truth can set us free3 – free from unsatisfied and unfulfilled life; free from slavery to evil and to the Darkness. It will release within us the joy and peace that belong only to the Light, liberate us from the World of Matter and save us from eternal damnation. Nobody and nothing else can set us free.
What is Truth?
We need to be very clear however about what the Truth really is. Since our life literally depends on our relationship to the Truth we cannot afford any vagueness. We are not talking about Truth as a form of speech or as a concept of right or wrong but of Truth in the absolute. Absolute Truth is not a concept. It is reality.
Unfortunately, as with all that is real and sublime, we have difficulty in understanding it, primarily because as long as it cannot neatly classify and label anything, the intellect is unable to accept such as real. The brain functions on the principle of compartmentalization, and only within very limited scopes can it build a comprehensive picture. This scope is further limited within very small aspects of our material world and is greatly influenced by individual capabilities. Reality for most people therefore has many faces, and it is only at higher less restricted levels that these may converge into one absolute Truth.
Thus, we are prepared to accept as real, facts derived from our observations and interactions with nature (which at a structured level we call science) without realizing that these facts only contain small aspects or splitting of Truth and that it is the Truth behind these facts that is real. Facts actually are just limited evaluations of things as we understand them or as they appear to us at any particular time and not surprisingly, facts can be completely overturned as we come to know more about an issue; But because they appear tangible and are things the intellect can deal with, we are quite satisfied to hold them as real. Reality however should be more enduring.
What can be more real than the immutable Laws that govern the whole of Creation, the observations of which give us our objective and provable facts? The adamantine Laws that support and uphold everything, that has manifested in the same perfect way since the beginning and will always remain the same to all eternity, the very laws on the observation of which science itself is based. We ourselves are permeated by these Laws, live in them and are sustained by them. These Laws therefore offer higher concepts of reality than the various facts, derivations and deductions that provide us with the solid tangible things on which we had always based reality.
These immutable Laws are manifestations of the eternal Truth. Their experiencing and expression are not limited by time for they are eternally unchanging and are present at all levels of Creation. We in the World of Matter, within limitations largely imposed by our intellect, however can only take out of timeless Truth the experience of the moment out of which we then form our own reality. Thus, it does happen that our appreciation of Truth also infinitely changes depending on how we stand in our intuitive perception from moment to moment, which alone offers real experiencing. Only as we clarify our intuitive perception do we become capable of perceiving the absolute that lies far above the Worlds of Matter. Our degree of appreciation of It however detracts nothing from the Truth so that unlike facts, Truth remains eternally unchangeable.
If we understand that the facts, which can readily be proved in a physical sense, are only those that contain fragments of Truth, it becomes easy to understand that it is only the Truth underlying these provable facts that is real and that the concept of fact and proof are but subjective human ways of relating to the Truth. Truth is indeed the only provable reality, the proof of which is our very existence, but the difficulty remains the limitations in our ability to present this proof as factual documentation as demanded by science. Once we come to terms with these limitations, which are linked with the capacity of our brain, we reach a reasonable position to objectively recognize the Truth.
The quest for proof is an intellectual malady that afflicts many of present day humanity. It casts man in the unpleasant role of a ferret forever burrowing in the earth; unable to lift his head to the Light he knows is above and around him. He seeks what is spiritual and of the Light with the wrong implement – with his intellect rather than his intuitive perception, the vital tool of his spirit.
Not surprisingly therefore, the definition of Truth in human word has remained impossible for centuries. The reality of the Truth, the absolute Truth, has been carried too close to our essence from our origin that an intellectual definition remained impossible. When the embodiment of Truth, Jesus stood before him, Pilate’s spirit stirred in His presence. Pilate felt the force and reality of the Truth but still could not put it into words. He raised the question that has and continues to trouble many “What is Truth?”3 But as documented in the Bible he did not wait for an answer, perhaps because already the answer had been given in full clarity.
What do we understand by these words of Christ – “I am the Truth?” How do we explain our disastrous belief that Christ came to the earth to be sacrificed, so that His blood would wash away our sins, when He Himself defined His Own Mission as the bringing of the Truth to humanity? What can be more explicit and more opportune than this statement made at the most critical period of His earth life “…In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this reason I came into the world, to testify to the Truth. Everyone on the side of Truth listens to me.”3
Perhaps it is not surprising that we hear and do not understand, that we see and do not perceive, for the spirit has become so confined by our preoccupation with Matter as to be unable to receive what is directed at it. The human brain hears and sees but it goes no further and so in real terms we have not grasped anything; and so it will remain, as long as the indolent spirit is satisfied to remain a captive of its own tool – the intellect. Spiritual reawakening is the prescribed necessity. All the more so now that, in the fulfilment of the promise of the Father and the hope held out to humanity by Jesus Christ the Son, the knowledge of the Truth has for the last time been brought to humanity. Opportunity missed now may never come our way again.
Christ on earth embodied the Truth. His declaration, confirmed by the Eternal Father, that He is the Truth incarnate; on earth to anchor the Truth in the dying spirits of men as the only help at their extreme need, is clearly documented. He tells us that He is the Way to the Father, the gate to the Truth; that He is the source of the Life flowing to us from the Father and that He is the embodiment of the absolute Truth. He clarifies this further when He tells us that He is One with the Father and that at the end of His Mission, He will return to the Father and we will not see Him again i.e. He will no longer incarnate in the World of Matter. This is different from His teachings and admonitions about the Spirit of Truth, the Son of Man. The next and last incarnation of the Light on earth will be the Son of Man.
Christ tells us that the Spirit of Truth will also come from the absolute Truth, the Father; that He will come from the same origin as Christ Himself and that in His Word we will recognize His origin in God. In this context let us remember what was revealed to John the apostle about the word – “In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word was God”3. We know that Christ is the Word incarnate, but He tells us that the Spirit of Truth, the Son of Man is also the same. He tells us that when the Son of Man comes, He will bring the Truth in its completeness, and that He will remain with us