eart
Shall turn to truth and goodness as the plant
Turns to the sun. A thousand unseen hands
Reach down to help you to their peace-crowned heights,
And all the forces of the firmament
Shall fortify your strength. Be not afraid
To thrust aside half-truths and grasp the whole."

There is a great law in connection with the coming of truth. It is this:
Whenever a man or a woman shuts himself or herself to the entrance of
truth on account of intellectual pride, preconceived opinions,
prejudices, or for whatever reason, there is a great law which says that
truth _in its fullness_ will come to that one from no source. And on the
other hand, when a man or a woman opens himself or herself fully to the
entrance of truth from _whatever_ source it may come, there is an equally
great law which says that truth will flow in to him or to her from all
sources, from all quarters. Such becomes the free man, the free woman,
for it is the truth that makes us free. The other remains in bondage,
for truth has had no invitation and will not enter where it is not fully
and freely welcomed.

And where truth is denied entrance the rich blessings it carries with it
cannot take up their abode. On the contrary, when this is the case, it
sends an envoy carrying with it atrophy, disease, death, physically and
spiritually as well as intellectually. And the man who would rob another
of his free and unfettered search for truth, who would stand as the
interpreter of truth for another, with the intent of remaining in this
position, rather than endeavoring to lead him to the place where he can
be his own interpreter, is more to be shunned than a thief and a robber.
The injury he works is far greater, for he is doing direct and positive
injury to the very life of the one he thus holds.

Who has ever appointed any man, whoever he may be, as the keeper, the
custodian, the dispenser of God's illimitable truth? Many indeed are
moved and so are called to be teachers of truth; but the true teacher
will never stand as the interpreter of truth for another. The _true
teacher_ is the one whose endeavor is to bring the one he teaches to a
true knowledge of himself and hence of his own interior powers, that he
may become his own interpreter. All others are, generally speaking,
those animated by purely personal motives, self-aggrandizement, or
personal gain. Moreover, he who would claim to have all truth and the
only truth, is a bigot, a foo