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Date Posted: 12:07:33 11/25/03 Tue
Author: a kriya yogi - 21 Oct 2003
Subject: The Unseen Church


The Unseen Church
by Paramahansa Yogananda

On the soil of Eternity, I built an Unseen Church where all might worship. Here, under the blue dome, illumined by sun, moon, aurora, milky way, and wisdom lights, are gathered the assembled star families, island universes, solar systems, and the little earth with its millions of families of many religions.

Every day, during the vesper hour, the flying angels of thoughts soar over Infinity, calling mute and noisy Beings to forsake their age-long slumber and join the Cosmic Service of awakening.

The altars of one rhythm, united hearts of commingled lives, of molten gold of Cosmic Union, and electrified matter, were dimly burning with His gentle, enchanting Presence.

The comets arrived and shed their joyous tears of light; the stars poured their twinkles at His Feet of Eternity, and the prodigal souls shed tears of repentance for age-long forgetful wanderings. All the blossoms of the earth opened the cork of petals and loosened their liquid fragrance on His omnipresent altar.

The dew of devotion from the heart of all true tears meekly, but steadily, flowed over His feet of forgiveness. Love, hate, light and gloom, wisdom and ignorance, good and bad, all thronged into the Church of all Creation.

Then a silent sermon of the Infinite was heard in the Silence—a silent song of mirth filled the chalice of all lives. A silent smile of light drove the hidden gloom away from all.

Under the silent spell of His Sermon, love embraced hate, light hugged gloom, wisdom transmuted ignorance, good charmed bad, many religions embraced His one Faith of Truth, many hearts dissolved into one altar of Heart, many loves became His One Pure Love, and many souls became One Spirit.

And all of them sang with one voice the chorus of one religion, one life, one truth, one goal, one devotion, one love, and One Spirit.

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