Your Highest State

Running like a gulf-stream through the sea of time, comes the affirmation that God has manifested Himself to man, and the best men have affirmed it most persistently. 

Wherever this affirmation has made its way, the icebergs of scepticism have disappeared, the temperature of virtue has risen, and the sweet fruits of charity have ripened. 

If the belief be false, then a lie has blessed the world, and the soul is so organized that it reaches its highest state of development in an atmosphere of deception; for it is a fact that man is purest, and woman most virtuous where belief in God's manifestations is most intense and real.

-O.P. Gifford

 

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