February 2
Companions of the Way (Evening)I saw no temple therein, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the Temple of it.
IT is the effluence of a Presence, which alone can create in us and keep in us a clean heart. . . . Ritual and sacrament are to the living God but as the wick of a candle to the light thereof. They are given to reveal Him, and the process is not perfect unless they themselves perish from the thoughts to which they convey Him. . . . Unless we are able to forget our ritual in spiritual communion with the very God, and to become unconscious of our organisation in devout consciousness of our personal relation to Him, then ritual will be only a means of sensuous indulgence, organisation only a machinery for selfish or sectarian ends. The vision of God—this is the one thing needful for worship and for conduct.