The Pickwicker, Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 1939 Page: 10
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Jesus said unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the
life. John 14:6 a.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. - Keats.
The fact that we are so near materialism ourselves renders
extremely difficult our perception of those abstract but definite
spiritual elements about and within us. As a general rule when
we speak of truth, immediately the mind associates the thought
with mathematics, science, or some other mere form of ex-
pression of the real essence itself; or if we mention beauty,
usually into the mind there comes a vision of words formed
exquisitely into meter and rhyme, or of harmonious colors
on canvas or in the heavens, or perhaps of perfection in facial
features and in stature. We are, in fact, so accustomed to think-
ing of everything in terms of that which is physcially sensed
that at times we find it difficult, if not impossible, to realize
the essential fact that the expression is not the essence, the
creature is not the creator, the body is not the soul. It is
because of this lack of proper perspective that we have come
to view beauty, truth, life, and God as separate and distinct
entities as poetry, science, flowers and religion ate separate
and distinct entities. Since God Himself is generally manifest-
ed in diverse materials or in what we have come to recognize
as different forms, we have thought of the Power itself as
being multiple. But let us try for a moment to cast aside the
weight of materialism and to permit the spirit to judge for
itself its own element without impediment.
It was the Hebrew Messiah, God incarnate, very divinity
itself which said, "I (God) am the way, and .the truth, and the
life." Here the identity of God with all truth and all life is
unmistakable. Since, therefore, truth is God, truth itself is
immutable, everlasting, having existed forever "unquenchably
the same", unaffected by human knowledge or ignorance of
its nature. We do not wonder, then, that the Preacher exclaim-
ed when he saw into the real character and infinity of things,
"That which is hath been long ago; and that which is to h'
hath long ago been......There is nothing new under the sun."
Can we say, then, that the poet, the musician, or the painter is
a creator? In no sense; true he represents to us truth that is-10-
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