They abide in the Place of Safety.
Strength and joy are their companions ;
What enemy shall overcome the redeemed !
And not departing from Good they dwell in the
Have they not slain the supreme enemy, even self! House of Happiness.
Have they not taken his stronghold even their own From what, then, are we redeemed ?
hearts !
From what are we saved, and where is our salvation
Yea, they have purified their hearts, and the impure ?
cannot overcome the pure.
We are redeemed from self and passion,
Out of the black night !
From sin and sorrow,
Out of the fierce war ;
From unholiness and unrest,
Out of the confusion and the conflict have the
Even from these are we taken away,
redeemed come;
We are saved from lust and hatred,
And now they dwell in the Light ;
From pride and vanity,
They abide with peace, and darkness and strife are From covetousness and envy,
no more.
Even from these are we drawn away.
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We are saved by the Truth ;
By the practice of Truth,
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By the knowledge of Truth,
All things are proportionate ;
And by the power of Truth.
All circumstances are just;
Our salvation is from the Truth.
All events are of causation.
In Truth we rest.
He who has received the Light of Truth sees all
Truth is the Redeemer of the world.
things in their right relations.
All things are ruled by causation;
Truth as Reconciler
All things are of the nature of causation;
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There is nothing which is not contained in cause
and effect.
TRUTH is the Reconciler of Extremes.
Cause and effect are one :
It neutralises all opposites.
The Divine Law is one
It harmonises all discords and contradictions.
Out of chaos into Cosmos have we come;
It brings back to us harmony and peace.
Out of confusion into harmony;
When we were in error we saw all things as
Out of bewilderment into peace perpetual.
erroneous.
There is good in all things.
Yea, when we were blind to our own error we saw Out of evil comes suffering;
error in all else;
Out of suffering comes sorrow;
We saw good as evil, and evil as good ;
And from sorrow is lowly wisdom born.
Light as darkness, and darkness as light;
Though the night be long, the Morning comes;
But now we have plucked out the eye of error from And with it comes sunshine and singing.
ourselves, we see the Supreme Good.
Though the world be in its long night, the Great
Truth reconciles man to man;
Day will dawn.
It reconciles man to the universe ;
Lo ! we behold the splendour of its Light !
It bestows upon him the knowledge of the Good
There are no more any enemies ;
Law;
All are our own, our beloved;
It reveals the hidden justice in all events.
Both them that bless and them that curse all are
In error is unrest, and anger, and perturbation.
friendly to us.
Trouble and turmoil is ever with him, who sees
The inward enemy being overcome, all outward
injustice, confusion, and contradiction;
foes have vanished away.
