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PROFESSION OF FAITH
I
The first principle is the idea of being – I AM! This affirmation is indisputable: one cannot
doubt his own existence. But this idea alone does not suffice; it must be completed by the idea of
action and progress. I am! And I will be! Always more and better. Life in me is conscious. The soul is
the only living unity – the only monad, indivisible and indestructible in matter, for it exists but in
ourselves. The soul remains invariable in its unity, through thousands and thousands of forms –
bodies of flesh, which it constructs and animates for the needs of its eternal evolution. It is always
changing; by the qualities acquired, and the progress realized, growing more and more conscious and
free in the infinite spiral of its planetary and celestial existence.
II
Nevertheless, the soul belongs only half to itself. The other half belongs to the universe of
which it is a part: that is why the soul cannot know itself entirely, save in studying the universe. The
pursuit of this double knowledge is the reason and the object of its life – of all its lives, death being
but the renewing of the vital forces necessary to a new step forward.
III
The study of the universe demonstrates, in the first place, that the action of a superior
Sovereign Intelligence governs the world. The essential character of this action is duration, by the
mere fact that it perpetuates itself. It knows no limits, and is absolute – Hence – Eternity.
IV
Eternity, living and acting, implies life eternal and infinite – God the first cause – the
generating principle – source of all life. We say eternal and infinite, for ‘unlimited in duration’ leads
mathematically to unlimited in extent of time.
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