n brief, religion was a heritage descending from father to son,
ancestry to posterity without investigation of the fundamental reality;
consequently all religionists were veiled, obscured and at variance.

Praise be to God! We are living in this most radiant century wherein human
perceptions have developed and investigations of real foundations
characterize mankind. Individually and collectively man is proving and
penetrating into the reality of outer and inner conditions. Therefore it
has come to pass that we are renouncing all that savors of blind
imitation, and impartially and independently investigating truth. Let us
understand what constitutes the reality of the divine religions. If a
Christian sets aside traditionary forms and blind imitation of ceremonials
and investigates the reality of the gospels, he will discover that the
foundation principles of the teachings of His Holiness Christ were mercy,
love, fellowship, benevolence, altruism, the resplendence or radiance of
divine bestowals, acquisition of the breaths of the Holy Spirit and
oneness with God. Furthermore he will learn that His Holiness declared
that the Father "maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good and
sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." The meaning of this
declaration is that the mercy of God encircles all mankind; that not a
single individual is deprived of the mercy of God; and no soul is denied
the resplendent bestowals of God. The whole human race is submerged in the
sea of the mercy of the Lord and we are all the sheep of the one divine
shepherd. Whatever shortcomings exist among us must be remedied. For
example those who are ignorant must be educated so that they may become
wise; the sick must be treated until they recover; those who are immature
must be trained in order to reach maturity; those asleep must be awakened.
All this must be accomplished through love and not through hatred and
hostility. Furthermore His Holiness Jesus Christ referring to the prophecy
of Isaiah, spoke of those who "having eyes, see not, having ears, hear
not, having hearts, understand not," yet they were to be healed. Therefore
it is evident that the bounties of Christ transformed the eye which was
blind into a seeing one, rendered the ear which was formerly deaf,
attentive, and made the hard, callous heart tender and sensitive. In other
words the meaning is that although the people possess external eyes, yet
the insight or perception of the soul