Speaker 1: Truth made manifest upon the lofty summits of the truth,
where clouds and darkness are not, and where rests eternal splendor.
Their abiding joy awaits thy coming. Be watchful, fearless, faithful, patient, pure,
by earnest meditation, sound, the depths profound of life, and
scale the heights sublime of love and wisdom. Truth is
rendered visible through the media of deeds. It is something
seen and not heard. Words do not contain the truth,
they only symbolize it. Good deeds are the only vessels
which contain truth. It has been frequently said that being
must precede doing. Being always does procede doing. But being
and doing cannot be arbitrarily separated. A man's deeds are
the expression of himself. Acts are the language of reality.
If a man's inner being is allied to truth, his
deeds will speak get forth. If with error, his deeds
will make manifest that error. No man can hide what
he is. He must necessarily act, and every time he acts,
he reveals himself in the light of reality. No man
can deceive humanity or the universe, but he can deceive himself.
Deeds of purity, love, gentleness, patience, humility, compassion, and wisdom
are truth made manifest. These qualities cannot be contained between
the covers of a book, but only the words which
refer to them. They are life deeds of impurity. Hatred, anger, pride, vanity,
and folly are error making itself known. A man's deeds
are the publication of himself to the world. Truth cannot
be comprehended through reading, but only by correcting and converting oneself.
Precepts are aids to the acquirement of wisdom, but wisdom
is acquired only by practice. If a man would know
what measure of truth he possesses, he should ask himself,
what am I? What are my deeds? Men dispute about words,
thinking that truth is heard and read. Truth is neither
heard nor read, it is seen. Good deeds are the
visible embodiments of truth. They are the messengers of knowledge,
angels of wisdom. But the eye of error is dark
and cannot see them.