1
00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:05,120
Speaker 1: Truth made manifest upon the lofty summits of the truth,

2
00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:09,519
where clouds and darkness are not, and where rests eternal splendor.

3
00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:16,719
Their abiding joy awaits thy coming. Be watchful, fearless, faithful, patient, pure,

4
00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:21,480
by earnest meditation, sound, the depths profound of life, and

5
00:00:21,559 --> 00:00:25,679
scale the heights sublime of love and wisdom. Truth is

6
00:00:25,719 --> 00:00:29,359
rendered visible through the media of deeds. It is something

7
00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:33,039
seen and not heard. Words do not contain the truth,

8
00:00:33,439 --> 00:00:37,240
they only symbolize it. Good deeds are the only vessels

9
00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:41,719
which contain truth. It has been frequently said that being

10
00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:46,640
must precede doing. Being always does procede doing. But being

11
00:00:46,719 --> 00:00:51,119
and doing cannot be arbitrarily separated. A man's deeds are

12
00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:55,000
the expression of himself. Acts are the language of reality.

13
00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:59,159
If a man's inner being is allied to truth, his

14
00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:03,119
deeds will speak get forth. If with error, his deeds

15
00:01:03,119 --> 00:01:07,120
will make manifest that error. No man can hide what

16
00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:12,079
he is. He must necessarily act, and every time he acts,

17
00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:16,480
he reveals himself in the light of reality. No man

18
00:01:16,519 --> 00:01:20,959
can deceive humanity or the universe, but he can deceive himself.

19
00:01:21,439 --> 00:01:27,920
Deeds of purity, love, gentleness, patience, humility, compassion, and wisdom

20
00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:32,840
are truth made manifest. These qualities cannot be contained between

21
00:01:32,879 --> 00:01:35,799
the covers of a book, but only the words which

22
00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:43,000
refer to them. They are life deeds of impurity. Hatred, anger, pride, vanity,

23
00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:47,680
and folly are error making itself known. A man's deeds

24
00:01:47,719 --> 00:01:51,599
are the publication of himself to the world. Truth cannot

25
00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:56,599
be comprehended through reading, but only by correcting and converting oneself.

26
00:01:57,359 --> 00:02:01,040
Precepts are aids to the acquirement of wisdom, but wisdom

27
00:02:01,079 --> 00:02:04,840
is acquired only by practice. If a man would know

28
00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:08,400
what measure of truth he possesses, he should ask himself,

29
00:02:08,879 --> 00:02:13,800
what am I? What are my deeds? Men dispute about words,

30
00:02:14,199 --> 00:02:17,680
thinking that truth is heard and read. Truth is neither

31
00:02:17,759 --> 00:02:21,560
heard nor read, it is seen. Good deeds are the

32
00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:25,520
visible embodiments of truth. They are the messengers of knowledge,

33
00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:29,639
angels of wisdom. But the eye of error is dark

34
00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:31,120
and cannot see them.