"What have I done for others?" "What is my attitude towards others?" "What seeds of trouble and sorrow and unhappiness have I sown that I should thus reap these bitter weeds?" Let him seek within and find, and having found, let him abandon all the seeds of self, and sow, henceforth, only the seeds of Truth. Let him learn of the farmer the simple truths of wisdom. TOC Published By SelfMasterySojourner.com 39 The Reign Of Law The petty little gods have had their day. The arbitrary gods, creatures of human caprice and ignorance, are falling into disrepute. Men have quarreled over and defended them until they have grown weary of the strife, and now, everywhere, they are relinquishing and breaking up these helpless idols of their long worship: The god of exclusiveness and favoritism. The partial god who gratifies all our narrow and selfish desires. The god of revenge, hatred and jealousy, who gloats over the

The god who saves only the creatures of his particular special creed. Such were the gods (miscalled by us God) of our soul's infancy; gods base and foolish as ourselves, the fabrications of our selfish self. And we relinquished our petty gods with bitter tears and misgivings, and broke our idols with bleeding hands. But in so doing we did not lose sight of God. Nay, we drew nearer to the great, silent Heart of Love. Destroying the idols of self, we began to comprehend somewhat of the Power which cannot be destroyed. We entered into a wider knowledge of the God of Love, of Peace, of Joy. The God in whom revenge and partiality cannot exist. Te God of Light, from whose presence the darkness of fear and doubt and selfishness cannot choose but flee. We have reached one of those epochs in the world's progress which witnesses the passing of the false gods; the gods of human selfishness and human illusion.

The new-old revelation of one universal impersonal Truth has again dawned upon the world, and its searching light has carried consternation to the perishable gods who take shelter under the shadow of self. TOC Published By SelfMasterySojourner.com 40 Men have lost faith in a god who can be cajoled, who rules arbitrarily and capriciously subverting the whole order of things to gratify the wishes of his worshipers and are turning, with a new light in their eyes and a new joy in their hearts: to the God of Law. And to Him they turn, not for personal happiness and gratification, but for knowledge, for understanding, for wisdom, for liberation from the bondage of self. And thus turning, they do not seek in vain, nor are they sent away empty and discomfited. They find within themselves the reign of Law: That every thought, every impulse, every act and word brings about a result in exact accordance with its own nature.

That thoughts of love bring about beautiful and blissful conditions. That hateful thoughts bring about distorted and painful conditions. That thoughts and acts good and evil are weighed in the faultless balance of the Supreme Law (and receive their equal measure of blessedness on the one hand, and misery on the other). And thus finding they enter a new Path, the Path of Obedience to the Law. Entering that Path they no longer accuse, no longer doubt, no longer fret and despond; for they know that: God is right, The cosmos is right, The universal laws are right, And that they themselves are wrong (if wrong there is), And that their salvation depends upon their personal acceptance of Him and deliberate rejection of that which is evil. TOC