truth
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- truth (132:3sec). See also gospel; honesty; lying; Spirit of Truth; truth, beauty, and goodness
- always has advantage over error (102:6.7)
- ascension plan characterized by giving t. to others as soon as it is acquired (30:3.9)
- authority of t. is spirit indwelling its manifestations (159:4.7)
- believers should
- allow t. to strike into heart with living roots (151:2.2) (177:5.2)
- base life on highest consciousness of (110:3.7)
- be mighty in promulgation of t.; stand in vigorous defense of t. (178:1.14-16)
- believe t. despite all appearances to contrary (133:1.4)
- enhance t. by passing through personal experience (176:3.7)
- feed roots of t. with spiritual communion and social service (178:1.13)
- follow t. wherever it leads, and regardless of conclusions it reaches (3:5.10) (103:7.5)
- freely receive; freely give (159:1.5) (176:3.10) (193:0.5)
- give milk of t. to babes (133:4.2)
- not doubt t. after being scattered by persecution (181:1.6)
- whet appetites of associates for t. (48:7.16)
- best criticized by revelation (103:7.8)
- concept not inherent in physics (195:6.11)
- creating new pictures out of old facts is artistic triumph of (48:6.33)
- defined as
- able to be acted out, lived (2:7.6)
- always a revelation (56:10.9) (101:4.3)
- always relative and evil-contrasted (132:2.3)
- autorevelation by indwelling Adjuster; epochal revelation by some celestial agency (101:4.3)
- best known by spiritual flavor (2:7.6)
- coherent, replete, symmetrical, divinely real, beautiful, good (2:7.4,12) (44:7.2)
- defined only by living; cannot be imprisoned; dies in human formulation (34:6.6) (132:3.2) (180:5.2)
- divine t. is final, uniform, and universal (2:7.3)
- experienced when spirit is permitted to reign in soul (130:4.10) (180:5.2-3)
- felt most in adversity (48:7.18)
- finite maximum of experience (117:1.7)
- gospel of fatherhood of God and brotherhood of man is greatest (195:10.21)
- inconcussible, adaptable, radiantly alive (48:4.18) (48:6.33) (118:3.2-3)
- intellectual foundation of religion (56:10.10)
- known by those who do the divine will (101:10.6) (102:1.1)
- living spirit relationship of all things and beings (2:7.2) (56:10.13)
- man’s effort to discern God in mind (56:10.2) (130:4.10)
- possessed only by exercise of faith (132:3.5)
- relative and expanding, lives always in present (2:7.1-3) (79:8.8)
- time-space comprehension of supreme concepts (56:10.18)
- value-realization of God-consciousness, divinity (0:1.17) (111:3.7)
- drives out serious error (102:6.7) (132:0.4) (141:6.2)
- false teachers frightened by new revelations of (155:6.6)
- God is source of (1:2.1)
- hidden from the wise, revealed to babes (144:8.8)
- historically
- Buddhism taught relativity of all t. (94:11.4)
- Chinese worship of t. stimulated research, exploration (79:6.11)
- difficult to perpetuate t. prior to printing (93:7.4)
- Pilate’s question regarding t. (185:3.5)
- humor lessens shock of unexpected t. (48:4.18)
- hunger for t. essential to enter kingdom, salvation (170:2.22) (170:5.13) (193:2.2)
- hunger for t. is a revelation (102:3.12)
- Inspired Trinity Spirits impart t. superconsciously (19:5.7-9)
- iron band of so-called unchanging t. (48:6.33)
- Jesus embraced t. no matter what the apparent source (126:3.8) (155:6.2,12)
- Jesus lived and was the t. (100:7.2) (130:1.1) (180:3.7)
- Judas failed to love t. with his whole soul (179:4.2)
- made accessible by Adjuster and Spirit of Truth (101:6.4)
- makes men free (52:5.4) (101:6.10) (141:7.6) (143:1.4) (162:7.2) (194:2.2) (194:3.5)
- man gradually backing into (88:4.5)
- maximum imparted to mind of perfect poise in body of clean habits (110:6.4)
- ministry of Paradise Sons (56:10.17)
- more t. we know, the more t. we are (118:3.2)
- old and true vs. new but false (147:7.3)
- one is not reckoned as possessing t. until he has shared it with others (25:4.12) (94:6.6)
- purifies (182:1.5)
- seekers for t. rewarded now (140:5.7)
- sincere pursuit of t. leads to God (131:1.6) (195:6.17)
- Spirit of Truth. See also Spirit of Truth
- is personification of t. (34:4.5)
- unerringly responds to t. (2:7.6) (103:7.8) (142:5.2)
- will lead us into all t. (34:7.1)
- sustains the universe (131:4.6)
- warnings
- argumentative defense of proposition inversely proportional to t. contained (48:7.30)
- confusing when dismembered or too much analyzed (195:5.2)
- do not discount t. because of apparently human source (155:6.2,12)
- do not seek to promulgate t. by secular laws (16:7.9) (153:3.5) (178:1.12)
- do not slight t. accompanied by obsolete ideas (102:1.3)
- Lucifer and Caligastia did not abide in t. (67:1.2)
- man’s understanding of t. only relatively true (115:1.2)
- mistake always to frankly speak one’s mind (180:5.5) (181:2.21)
- no celestial assistance until we act on t. we have (48:7.9)
- no creed is uniquely The Truth (92:3.4) (92:7.3)
- presentation beyond capacity causes confusion (137:7.14)
- reckoning required according to what given (176:3.7-8)
- right in fact can be wrong in t. (48:6.33) (143:6.1) (189:2.6)
- service of t. no substitute for religious experience (196:3.23)
- sometimes error so great that rectification by revelation inadvisable (48:6.32)
- t. does not resent honest examination or criticism (90:4.9) (146:3.2) (153:2.11)
- t. is not boundary line of self-righteous exclusiveness (155:3.3)
- t. not lived up to becomes darkness (139:12.8) (180:3.2)
Cross-references
- See also gospel
- See also Spirit of Truth
- See also honesty
- See also lying
- See also Spirit of Truth
- See also truth, beauty, and goodness
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