THE REALM OF THE SPIRIT
Posted 2 April, 2008 in As Bill See's It
In ancient times material progress was painfully slow. The spirit of modern scientific inquiry, research, and invention was almost unknown.
In the realm of the material, men’s minds were fettered by superstition, tradition, and all sorts of fixed ideas. Some of the contemporaries of Columbus thought a round earth preposterous. Others came near putting Galileo to death for his astronomical heresies.
Are not some of us just as biased and unreasonable about the realm of the spirit as were the ancients about the realm of the material?
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We have found that God does not make too hard terms with those who seek Him. To us, the realm of spirit is broad,roomy, all inclusive, never exclusive or forbidding to those who earnestly seek. It is open, we believe, to all men.
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1 comment to “THE REALM OF THE SPIRIT”
Fred Joiners, April 5th, 2008 at 2:57 am:
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Wonderful site.
I found the following to be inspiring from the Big Book;
“Actually we were fooling ourselves, for deep down in every man, woman, and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there. For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself.”
PP 55.
Brilliant. Once having found where my personal Higher Power resided I became free of the bondage of alcohol and from then on my Spirit continued to awaken.