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But beyond this is the larger freedom, the freedom to love each other, and all the world, because we differ in perception of Truth. Truth is one, and we are one in Truth. In this unity of spirit we meet. and the thought of the beautiful hymn of Samuel Longfellow is ours:
"The seekers of the Light are one;
One in the freedom of the Truth;
One in the joy of paths untrod;
One in the Soul's perennial youth;
One in the larger thought of God."
In this freedom the New Jerusalem has descended from the realm of the Ideal and become the actual freedom of earth; freedom from pain, sorrow, poverty, envy, disease and death; this is proclaimed from the citadel of Humanity, and the lion of Mammon lies down in peace, with the lamb of Love.
What more is there for us? God is just. All his promises are true for him that believes. "Come up higher!" is the call from the Mount of Transfiguration. "Come and see in our midst not only Moses and Elias, but Jesus and John, Buddha and Confucius, Franklin and Paine, Emerson and Whittier, Darwin and Spencer, Beecher and Ingersoll." But since we have not only preserved but perfected our humanity, the cry lengthens "Come and see also all who have ever lived and loved; all in whose hearts you have place, and who have place in yours!" We live in that realm where they live and one with God, we are one with them also. In our emancipation they rejoice, for as we enter where they are, they enter into that realm where we are, and two hitherto severed conditions of love and thought become one. Our victory is their victory, for Heaven is perfected only in the redemption of earth. Only when the angel of the Resurrection proclaims
