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Vol. 1, The Inner Life
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The Law of the Inner Life
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Perfection
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Vol. 1, The Inner Life
The Law of the Inner Life
Perfection
It is in this stage that his progress culminates and comes to its fullness; and Christ has spoken concerning this in the words: "Be ye perfect, as your Father in heaven is perfect." When that stage arrives, it is beyond all expression. It is a sense, it is a realization, it is a feeling, which words can never explain. There is only one thing that can be said, that when a person has touched that stage which is called perfection, his thought, speech, action, his atmosphere, everything becomes productive of God; he spreads God everywhere. Even if he did not speak, still he would spread God; if he did not do anything, still he would bring God. And thus God-realized ones bring to the world the living God. At present there exists in the world only a belief in God; God exists in imagination, in the ideal.
It is such a soul which has touched divine Perfection that brings to the earth a living God, who without him would remain only in the heavens.
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