Speaker 1: The original simplicity. Life is simple, being is simple, The
universe is simple. Complexity arises in ignorance and self delusion.
The quote original simplicity of Loyltz is a term expressive
of the universe as it is and not as it appears.
Looking through the woven network of his own illusions, man
sees interminable complications and unfathomable mystery, and so loses himself
in the labyrinths of his own making. Let a man
put away egotism, and he will see the universe in
all the beauty of its pristine simplicity. Let him annihilate
the delusion of the personal pronoun i, and he will
destroy all the illusions which spring from that eye. He
will thus re become a little child, and will revert
to original simplicity. A man succeeds in entirely forgetting annihilating
his personal self. He becomes a mirror in which the
universal reality is faultlessly reflected. He has awakened, and henceforth
he lives not in dreams but in realities. Pythagoras saw
the universe in the ten numbers. But even this simplicity
may be further reduced, and the universe ultimately be found
to be contained in the number one. For all the
numerals and all their infinite complications, are but additions of
the one. Let life cease to be lived as a
fragmentary thing, and let it be lived as a perfect whole.
The simplicity of the perfect will then be revealed. How
shall the fragment comprehend the whole? Yet how simple that
the whole should comprehend the fragment. How shall sin perceive holiness?
Yet how plain that holiness should understand sin. He who
would become the greater, let him abandon the lesser. In
no form is the circle contained, but in the circle
all forms are contained. In no color is the radiant
light imprisoned, But in the radiant light all colors are embodied.
Let a man destroy all the forms of self, and
he shall apprehend the circle of perfection. Let him submerge
in the silent depths of his being, the varying colors
of his thoughts and desires, and he shall be illuminated
with the white light of divine knowledge. In the perfect
chord of music, the single note, though forgotten, is indispensably contained,
and the drop of water becomes of supreme usefulness by
losing itself in the ocean. Sink yourself compassionately in the
heart of humanity, and you will reproduce the harmonies of heaven.
Lose yourself in unlimited love toward all, and you will
work enduring works, and shall become one with the eternal
ocean of bliss. Man evolves outward to the periphery of complexity,
and then devolves backward to the central simplicity. When a
man discovers that it is mathematically impossible for him to
know the universe before knowing himself, then he starts upon
the way which leads to the original simplicity. He begins
to unfold from within, and as he unfolds himself, he
enfolds the universe. Cease to speculate about God and find
the all embracing good within you. Then you shall see
the emptiness and vanity of speculation, knowing yourself one with God.
He who will not give up his secret lust, his covetousness,
his anger, his opinion about this or that, can see
nor know nothing, He will remain a dullard in the
school of wisdom, though he be accounted learned in the colleges.
If a man would find the key of knowledge. Let
him find himself. Your sins are not yourself. They are
not any part of yourself. They are diseases which you
have come to love. Cease to cling to them, and
they will no longer cling to you. Let them fall away,
and yourself shall stand revealed. You shall then know yourself
as comprehensive vision, invincible principle, immortal life, and eternal good.
The impure man believes impurity to be his rightful condition,
but the pure man knows himself as pure being. He also,
penetrating the veils, sees all others as pure being. Purity
is extremely simple and needs no argument to support it.
Impurity is interminably complex and is ever involved in defensive argument.
Truth lives itself a blame. Tameless life is the only
witness of truth. Men cannot see and will not accept
the witness until they find it within themselves, and having
found it, a man becomes silent before his fellows. Truth
is so simple that it cannot be found in the
region of argument and advertisement, and so silent that it
is only manifested in actions. So extremely simple is original
simplicity that a man must let go his hold of
everything before he can perceive it. The great arch is
strong by virtue of the hollowness underneath, and a wise
man becomes strong and invincible by emptying himself. Meekness, patience, love, compassion,
and wisdom. These are the dominant qualities of original simplicity.
Therefore the imperfect cannot understand it. Wisdom only can apprehend wisdom.
Therefore the fool says, no man is wise. The imperfect
man says, no man can be perfect, and he therefore
remains where he is. Though he live with a perfect
man all his life, he shall not behold his perfection.
Meekness he will call cowardice, patience, love, and compassion. He
will see his weakness, and wisdom will appear to him
as folly. Faultless. Discrimination belongs to the perfect whole and
resides not in any part. Therefore, men are exhorted to
refrain from judgment until they have themselves manifested the perfect life.
Arriving at original simplicity, opacity disappears, and the universal transparency
becomes apparent. He who has found the indwelling reality of
his own being has found the original and universal reality.
Knowing the divine heart within all hearts are known, and
the thoughts of all men become his, who has become
the master of his own thoughts. Therefore, the good man
does not defend himself, but molds the minds of others
to his own likeness. As the problematical transcends crudity, so
pure goodness transcends the problematical. All problems vanish when pure
goodness is reached. Therefore the good man is called the
slayer of illusions? What problem can vex where sin is not?
O you, who would strive loudly and rest, not retire
into the holy silence of your own being and live
therefrom So shall you, finding pure goodness, rend in twain
the veil of the temple of illusion, and shall enter
into the patience, peace, and transcendent glory of the perfect.
For pure goodness and original simplicity are one