Who Shall See God?
Around the Year with Emmet Fox
April 1
“… for they shall see God.”
In this wonderful Beatitude we are told exactly
how this supreme task is to be accomplished
and who they are who shall do it.
They are the pure in heart.
Purity, in its full and complete sense,
is recognizing God alone as the only real Cause,
and the only real Power in existence.
It is what is called elsewhere in the Sermon “the single eye.”
Note that Jesus speaks of the pure in heart.
The word heart in the Bible usually means
that part of man’s mentality that modern psychology knows
under the name of the “subconscious mind.”
This is exceedingly important because it is not sufficient for us
to accept the Truth with the conscious mind only.
At that stage it is still a mere opinion.
It is not until it is accepted by the subconscious mind,
and thus, assimilated into the whole mentality,
that it can make any difference in one’s character or life.
“… as he thinketh in his heart, so is he”
(Proverbs 23:7).
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