Theos-Talk Archives (October 2006 Message tt00154)

The Great World Religion, embodied in its highest form, is called Truth. 
It is presented in this cycle, in part, as the Teachings of the Temple. 
Designed by the Masters of the Great White Lodge to help the humanity of 
this age, the work of the Temple of the People is not optional -- it is 
essential, providing help of a lasting quality to every problem -- 
spiritual mental, moral, material. The value of this help is not in 
theoretical concepts, but in the direct, matter-of-fact cause and effect 
relation of an ideal to its most material expression, however incomplete 
or distorted that expression may seem to be.

This help requires no waiting, no qualifying, no training, no vast 
expenditure of means, no mass conversion of people. Neither does it 
require the contacting of illusive Masters in remote and inaccessible 
seclusion, nor unnatural initiations or ceremonies or rituals of daily 
living. On the contrary, the Temple represents a truth that the 
fulfillment of any need, great or small, is nearest the need itself. The 
Teachings point out the relation of suffering to all healing -- 
spiritual, mental, and physical. It points out the relation of hunger 
and deprivation to the fulfillment of the need by bodily food or 
spiritual sustenance. The supply has never failed, though it has often 
gone unused, abused or unrecognized. The most abstruse problem in 
science or philosophy will be better understood as it becomes related to 
the good of all humanity.

-- Harold E. Forgostein
Fourth Guardian in Chief
http://www.templeofthepeople.org/thetem.htm