Let him see how it embraces all that is true in the other
bases suggested, is their summation, and rationalises their precepts.
He will find that Morality is no longer dependent on the maxims of great
Teachers--though indeed they proclaimed its changeless laws--nor on the
imperfect resultant of individual experiences, nor on the happiness of
some only of the great human family, but that it inheres in the very
nature of things, an essential law of happy life and ordered progress.
Then indeed is Morality founded on a basis that cannot be moved; then
indeed can it speak with an imperial authority the "ought" that must
be obeyed; then it unfolds its beauty as humanity evolves to its
perfecting, and leads to Bliss Eternal, the Brahman Bliss, where the
human will, in fullest freedom, accords itself in harmony with the
divine.
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MYSTICISM
Mysticism cannot be spoken of as a basis of morality in the sense in
which Revelation, Intuition, Utility and Evolution are bases, for it is
valid only for the individual, not for everybody, for the true Mystic,
the dictates of the Outer or Inner God are imperial, compelling, but to
any one else they are entirely unauthoritative.
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