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ADORATION

Images on the altar,

Or imagined within :

We pray to them,

But do they answer?

The wise tell us how important adoration is. So we kneel before

altars, give offerings, and make sacrifices. In our meditations, we are

taught to see gods within ourselves and to make supplications to receive

power and knowledge. This we do with great sincerity, until the masters

say that there are no gods. Then we are confused.

The statue on the altar is mere wood and gold leaf, but our need to

be reverent is real. The god within may be nothing but visualization,

but our need for concentration is real. The attributes of heaven are

utopian conjectures, but the essence of these parables is real. The

gods, then, represent certain philosophies and extraordinary facets of

the human mind. When we devote ourselves to gods, we establish communion

with these deeper aspects.

The thought that we are worshipping symbolism may make us

uncomfortable. We are educated to accept only the tangible, the

scientific, and the material. We doubt the efficacy of adoring the

merely symbolic, and we are confused when such reverence brings about

genuine personal transformation. But worship does affect our feelings

and thoughts. When the wise say that there are no gods, they mean that

the key to understanding all things is within ourselves. External

worship is merely a means to point within to the true source of

salvation.