PUPIL: From what you say it would seem that man's only reason for knowing limitation of any kind is his own lack of understanding. Is man to blame because he does not know?

MASTER: No man is to blame for what he does not know. But surely all persons will suffer because of not using what they do know! And they shall keep right on suffering until, like small children, they learn from experience.

PUPIL: It seems "strange," to say the least, that each of us must learn to find his own fuller Life in his own way. Why did not God compel His idea (man) to understand from birth that Life is Joy, and Joy is Freedom, etc...?

MASTER: Please think for just a minute! Would there be any freedom, any liberty, in that kind of person? Such an individual should be a mere automaton with no sense of liberty at all! God forbid that any of us, His children, become robots!

PUPIL: It seems to me that most people feel life is entirely made up of a constant round of prosaic and homely activities which we are obliged to follow: To the shop, or office we go. We toil and slave, and go home again, all worn out and cranky. We sleep, maybe, then arise to repeat it all again for years until in God's mercy we die. There can be no real joy in that kind of life; but to most of mankind that is all. Still this is not all, is it?

MASTER: Indeed that is not all, not even for the darkest and most limited of persons. However dark, spiritually and materially, a person may be, deep down in his soul there is a conviction that Life holds his desires fulfilled somehow, somewhere, sometime! He feels also that if he only knew how he could find a way! Some feel that the real joy of liberty can come only after putting off the body at death. this is not the case, however, everything that life (god) has to give is here in our midst, and right now!

As we humans advance in knowledge, either from study or experience, or both, we overcome one law of limitation after another by finding the higher and greater law of which all lower laws are but partial expressions.

At length we see clearly before us, as our ultimate goal, this Truth:

"Nothing less than the perfect law of liberty
-not liberty without Law, which is anarchy
-but liberty according to law!"

When man learns the Law of his own Being, he will specialize it in all of his ways and will have found his true place. Thus will he bring into form all of the desires of his heart; then will he know the real art of living!