SINCE PILATE UTTERED these words, they have radiated their effect world-wide, and maintain their grip on men.

Many, filled with longing, seek the Truth in order to raise themselves up by It, to find in It a firm foundation for spiritual upwardstriving.

The wish, deeply sensed within by many, for values which are imperishable, to which they can trustfully cling, is nothing other than the search for Truth.

What then is Truth? Truth is unchangeable and imperishable, allows no deviation, no arbitrary acts. Truth is eternal!

But where does earthman find the opportunity to come in direct contact with the Truth, in order to investigate It and experience It in reality?

Here it is just as the proverb says: “He cannot see the forest for the trees.” In other words, he stands right in front of the Truth, is even constantly surrounded by It, and does not see It.

It is Nature that proclaims the Truth to man. Its Laws have the hallmark of Truth. They are immutable, always have the same effects: like the harvest coming from the seed which greatly multiplied. From a grain of oats only oats can ever grow, and always the seed is multiplied in the process. That, for example, is a Law of Nature, a part-effect of Truth.

Hence Goethe’s utterance: “Nature is always right”, because with its Laws it is part of the eternal inflexible Laws of Creation. In them God, Who is the Truth, manifests His Will.

The human spirit too is subject to these Laws. If he sows evil thoughts, they will return to him some time in like manner and greatly multiplied. He will then perhaps suffer from “blows of fate”, which he inflicts upon himself through his wrong actions, through non-observance of the Creation-Laws. Thus he brings about his own misfortune!

On the other hand, good thoughts will bring him joy and peace. That is a simple truth which is already expressed in the Biblical words: “What a man soweth, that shall he reap”.

Thus earthly and spiritual seeds are subject to the same Law of Sowing and Reaping!

A human spirit can never behold God, Who is enthroned at unapproachable distances. But through his spiritual origin he has the ability to investigate and recognize God’s Will in the Laws of Creation, hence also in the Laws of Nature.

Thus to modern man Nature, which he so grossly pollutes and harries, can be a great help if he will form his concept of God anew on the basis of the Truth he has found.

This will lead him ultimately to the true recognition of God, to the divining of His Infinite Wisdom and Goodness!