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Chapter 104
Three Things
By Khurram Ali Shafique
Does the sixth lecture match the sixth stage of your journey?
Excerpt from Lecture VI
Humanity needs three things today—a spiritual interpretation of the universe, spiritual emancipation of the individual, and basic principles of a universal import directing the evolution of human society on a spiritual basis. Modern Europe has, no doubt, built idealistic systems on these lines, but experience shows that truth revealed through pure reason is incapable of bringing that fire of living conviction which personal revelation alone can bring. This is the reason why pure thought has so little influenced men, while religion has always elevated individuals, and transformed whole societies.
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Rationale of the sixth stage of your journey explained through excerpts from the sixth lecture of the Reconstruction