ABSTRACT
In one sense we may say that there is no perfection, for perfect thought, perfect feeling, are not perfection, till manifested in activity. Thought, sentiment, activity in life dictated by thought and sentiment, these form the perfect will. But activity is development, succession of events; it is never-ending. Through fresh and fresh phases of activity, of life, the eternal purpose is being manifested. There is ever development of God’s eternal purpose; there is ever attainment or preparation for attainment by work. The most desirable circumstances which any being could be in, would be circumstances willed by perfect goodness, wisdom, by Omnipotence, for the purpose of furnishing to that being means and inducement to attain perfection. Perfection attained by work, by communicating and receiving, this is the best possibility to any being. The Almighty himself would not conceive His existence righteous or satisfactory, if it were confined to willing, to contemplating, to feeling. ‘My Father worketh and I work’. And by this work is all conscious being for ever being enriched, or preparing for enrichment.
