DIVINE

Moral truth can be conceived in thought. One can having feelings about it. One can will to live it. But moral truth may have been penetrated and possessed in all these ways, and escaped us still. Deeper even than consciousness there is our being itself, our very substance, our nature. Only those truths which have entered into this last region, which have become ourselves, become spontaneous and involuntary as well as voluntary, unconscious as well as conscious, are really our life that is to say, something more than property. So long as we are able to distinguish and space whatever between truth and us we remain outside it. The thought, the feeling, the desire or the consciousness of life may not be quite life. To become divine is then to the aim of life. Then only can truth be said to be ours beyond the possibility of loss. It is no longer outside us, not in a sense even in us, but we are it, and it is we.