Which shall be supreme in our affections—divine Principle or human personality? This is the decision which every individual must make who would demonstrate Christ, Truth, in the way of Jesus' appointing.
To work out one's own salvation, to become "kings and priests unto God," demands spiritual understanding and steadfastness. The blind faith that trusts in persons for the fulfillment of its hopes must be replaced by an active spiritual understanding of God, Life, divine Principle, unerring, unchanging Love. And this ever-available divine Principle must be daily lived and loved, and proved to be All-in-all.
The human tendency to worship person instead of Principle was rebuked even in the beloved disciple John. Following on Christ Jesus' revelation of events which would take place in world thought, both before and after the coming anew of the Comforter, we read (Rev. 22:8, 9): "And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things. Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God."
