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in knowledge.
He may make mistakes and suffer all sorts of agonies as a result. But he
learns from his misses as well as from his hits, and he progresses. The man who is
afraid to follow desire crucifies his life and stunts his growth. It were better
for the individual to follow his desire and afterward repent, than
to crush his desires and repent for a lifetime under the false
impression that the universe unjustly gives to another that which should have
belonged to him. There is just
one kind of growth - growth in wisdom. We hear of children
"who grow up in ignorance." We likewise hear that the earth is square and the
moon a green cheese. Children can no more grow in ignorance than
they can grow in a dark and air-tight case. All growth, mental, moral,
spiritual or "physical," is by increase in in-telligence; i.e., by recognition
of more truth. All things exist in a limitless sea of pure
wisdom waiting, waiting to be understood. As fast as this universal
wisdom is used it becomes in-told - intelligence - recognized
wisdom. We breathe in wisdom and grow in intelligence. All growth,
mineral, plant, animal, man or god, conscious or unconscious -
ALL growth is by this process. It is DESIRE that makes us breathe.
Everything cries out for more, more! - it cannot define always what it wants,
but it wants, with insatiable craving. It is more wisdom the
whole creation groaneth and travaileth to get. "Give me more understanding
or I die!" - the visible eternally cries out to the Invisible.
Desire is the ceaseless life-urge of all things, from amoeba to archangel.
Desire is "Immanuer' - God with us - God in us to will and to
do."
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