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January 25…Philosophers commit their gravest error when they are misled into the fallacy of abstraction, the practice of focusing the attention upon one aspect of reality and then of pronouncing such an isolated aspect to be the whole truth…. (42.6) 2:7.5Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:…Your science is engaged in the agelong contest between truth and error while it fights for deliverance from the bondage of abstraction, the slavery of mathematics, and the relative blindness of mechanistic materialism…. (141.6) 12:9.5
***Richard E Warren
January 26…Intellectual self-consciousness can discover the beauty of truth, its spiritual quality, not only by the philosophic consistency of its concepts, but more certainly and surely by the unerring response of the ever-present Spirit of Truth…. (42.7) 2:7.6Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:…If you do not reject this spirit, even though eternity may be required to fulfill the commission, “he will guide you into all truth….” (382.1) 34:7.1
***Richard E Warren
January 27…Happiness ensues from the recognition of truth because it can be acted out; it can be lived. Disappointment and sorrow attend upon error because, not being a reality, it cannot be realized in experience…. (42.7) 2:7.6Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:…The beauties of the spiritual values of truth are more pleasurable and uplifting than is the phenomenon of evil…. (2076.4) 195:5.13***Richard E Warren
January 28.…Divine truth is best known by its spiritual flavor…. (42.7) 2:7.6Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:“…Taste and see that the Lord is good!” (41.1) 2:6.3
***Richard E Warren
January 29…The discernment of supreme beauty is the discovery and integration of reality: The discernment of the divine goodness in the eternal truth, that is ultimate beauty. Even the charm of human art consists in the harmony of its unity…. (43.1) 2:7.8Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:…The supreme beauty, the height of finite art, is the drama of the unification of the vastness of the cosmic extremes of Creator and creature…. (646.4) 56:10.3***Richard E Warren
January 30…As civilization progressed, and since religion continued to pursue the same unwise course of overemphasizing the goodness of God to the relative exclusion of truth and neglect of beauty, there developed an increasing tendency for certain types of men to turn away from the abstract and dissociated concept of isolated goodness…. (43.2) 2:7.9
Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:…The modern age will refuse to accept a religion which is inconsistent with facts and out of harmony with its highest conceptions of truth, beauty, and goodness…. (2083.1) 195:9.5***Richard E Warren
January 31…The overstressed and isolated morality of modern religion, which fails to hold the devotion and loyalty of many twentieth-century men, would rehabilitate itself if, in addition to its moral mandates, it would give equal consideration to the truths of science, philosophy, and spiritual experience, and to the beauties of the physical creation, the charm of intellectual art, and the grandeur of genuine character achievement…. (43.2) 2:7.9
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Complementary Quote:…Religion reaches out for undiscovered ideals, unexplored realities, superhuman values, divine wisdom, and true spirit attainment. True religion does all of this; all other beliefs are not worthy of the name…. (1781.1) 160:5.5
***Richard E Warren
February 1…The religious challenge of this age is to those farseeing and forward-looking men and women of spiritual insight who will dare to construct a new and appealing philosophy of living out of the enlarged and exquisitely integrated modern concepts of cosmic truth, universe beauty, and divine goodness. Such a new and righteous vision of morality will attract all that is good in the mind of man and challenge that which is best in the human soul…. (43.3) 2:7.10
Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:…But true religion is alive. Intellectual crystallization of religious concepts is the equivalent of spiritual death. You cannot conceive of religion without ideas, but when religion once becomes reduced only to an idea, it is no longer religion; it has become merely a species of human philosophy…. (1120.4) 102:2.7***Richard E Warren
February 2…Truth, beauty, and goodness are divine realities, and as man ascends the scale of spiritual living, these supreme qualities of the Eternal become increasingly co-ordinated and unified in God, who is love…. (43.3) 2:7.10
Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:…God is not a hypothesis formulated to unify the human concepts of truth, beauty, and goodness; he is the personality of love from whom all of these universe manifestations are derived…. (2095.8) 196:3.24***Richard E Warren
February 3…All truth–material, philosophic, or spiritual–is both beautiful and good. All real beauty–material art or spiritual symmetry–is both true and good. All genuine goodness– whether personal morality, social equity, or divine ministry–is equally true and beautiful…. (43.4) 2:7.11
Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:…Goodness is living, relative, always progressing, invariably a personal experience, and everlastingly correlated with the discernment of truth and beauty…. (1458.4) 132:2.7***Richard E Warren
February 4…Health, sanity, and happiness are integrations of truth, beauty, and goodness as they are blended in human experience. Such levels of efficient living come about through the unification of energy systems, idea systems, and spirit systems…. (43.4) 2:7.11Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:…Health, mental efficiency, and happiness arise from the unification of physical systems, mind systems, and spirit systems. Of health and sanity man understands much, but of happiness he has truly realized very little…. (1097.7) 100:4.3***Richard E Warren
February 5…Truth is coherent, beauty attractive, goodness stabilizing. And when these values of that which is real are co-ordinated in personality experience, the result is a high order of love conditioned by wisdom and qualified by loyalty…. (43.5) 2:7.12Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:…By the time of the attainment of Paradise the ascending mortal’s capacity for identifying the self with true spirit values has become so enlarged as to result in the attainment of the perfection of the possession of the light of life…. (1458.6) 132:2.9
***Richard E Warren
February 6
…God’s doings are all purposeful, intelligent, wise, kind, and eternally considerate of the best good, not always of an individual being, an individual race, an individual planet, or even an individual universe; but they are for the welfare and best good of all concerned, from the lowest to the highest…. (47.6) 3:2.8Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:…There is no such thing as a “chosen people.” The rule of the Most Highs, the overcontrollers of political evolution, is a rule designed to foster the greatest good to the greatest number of all men and for the greatest length of time…. (1488.2) 134:5.4
***Richard E Warren
February 7...The full appreciation of truth, beauty, and goodness is inherent in the perfection of the divine universe. The inhabitants of the Havona worlds do not require the potential of relative value levels as a choice stimulus; such perfect beings are able to identify and choose the good in the absence of all contrastive and thought-compelling moral situations…. (52.2) 3:5.16Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:“…A wise man is occupied with the search for truth, not in seeking for a mere living. To attain the perfection of Heaven is the goal of man….” (1453.2) 131:9.4.***Richard E Warren
February 8…The will of God is divine truth, living love; therefore are the perfecting creations of the evolutionary universes characterized by goodness–nearness to divinity; by potential evil–remoteness from divinity…. (52.5) 3:6.2Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:“…God is so positively good that there is absolutely no place in him for negative evil….” (1429.1) 130:1.5***Richard E Warren
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