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• The realisation of Truth consists in the ability to translate symbols, whether natural or conventional, into their equivalents; and the root of all the errors of mankind consists in the inability to do this, and in maintaining that the symbol has nothing behind it.
• there is an inner side to things, and that until this inner side is known, the things themselves are not known.
• it is impossible for a man to grasp the import [2]of his own relation to the universal, and it is this relation which constitutes all that is signified by the word "Truth."
• He is denying that principle of "Growth" which is the root of all life, whether spiritual intellectual, or material, for he does not stop to reflect that all which he sees as the outer side of things can result only from some germinal principle hidden deep in the centre of their being.
• Expansion from the centre by growth according to a necessary order of sequence, this is the Law of Life of which the whole universe is the outcome,