We have to be people who vindicate the power of the human race to produce greatness.  There are no absolute truths in life and what is morally right varies from person to person or from society to society. It is only a delusion on our part which makes us suppose that the World is bad. And the only real progress is the removal of delusion. The Universe is eternally the same and eternally perfect. The movement is only in our minds. If someone could have a sufficient insight into inner parts of things, one would be a prophet and would see the future in the present as in a mirror. God has given us a rational nature and will call us to account for it. Without denying the authority of Scripture, people should reason about the Bible as precisely as civilians do about the Constitution under which we live. God has a moral perfection. It is not because his will is irresistible that we obey, but because his will is the perfection of virtue that we pay him allegiance. We cannot bow before a being, however great and powerful, who governs tyrannically. People discover God not only through Scripture and rational inquiry, but also through consciousness. In all higher actions the soul has a character of infinity and sin is the ruin of God’s noblest work.  #RandolphHarris 1 of 5

A belief in the parental character of God and the dignity of human beings provides an ideological base for humanitarian efforts. God’s nature is infinite and therefore surpasses all attempts to define or limit it. Hence, we cannot know, in rational terms what He is. Since humans cannot discover any truth except by revelation, morality should be based on following nature, except when guided by the divine light. We possess the requisite sense for gaining knowledge, whether we can distinguish illusions and dreams from veridical experience, and whether we can, in view of the enormous variability of sense experiences, determine which ones correspond to objective states of affairs. Some people do not have the abilities to possess adequate or certain criteria that enable them to distinguish truth from falsehood. Many believe things mainly as a result of passions and social pressures, not reasons and evidence. Hence, we should accept that some people function as beasts and not as rational beings. Hence, if God reveals genuine principles to us, then we should be sure to make sure our ways are godly. Everything else is only dreams and smoke. #RandolphHarris 2 of 5

Examine all questions freely and dispassionately, keep prejudice and emotions out of all decisions, develop a universality of mind, and reject any decisions that are in the slightest degree dubious. This skeptical method is of greater service to religion than any other there may be. It leads us to reject all dubious opinions until our minds are blank, naked and ready to receive the divine revelation on faith alone. The complete skeptic will never be a heretic, since is one has no opinions, one cannot have the wrong ones. If God pleases to give one information, then one will have true knowledge. Until the skeptic receives the revelation, one should love by a morale proviso ire, following nature. One ought to live as a skeptic and a noble savage if one has no divine guidance. Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen. If our desires seem to be experiencing disappointment right now, it simply means that they are being purified. #RandolphHarris 3 of 5

Every hope or dream of the human mind will be fulfilled if it is noble and of God. However, one of the greatest stresses in life is the stress of waiting for God. There are times when it seems as if God watches to see if we will give Him even small gifts of surrender, just to show how genuine our love is for Him. Once we are totally surrendered to God, He will work though us all the time. The first thing I must be willing to admit when I begin to examine what controls and dominates me is that I am the one responsible for having yielded myself to whatever it may be. If I am a slave to myself, I am to blame because somewhere in the past I yielded to myself. Likewise, if I obey God, I do so because at some point in my life I yielded myself to Him. Therefore, when the darkness of dismay comes, endure it until it is over, because without it we will not have the ability to experience things that are inexpressibly wonderful and pleasant. Live constantly knowing that only God can and will judge us, and walk in the knowledge of the holiness He has given you. This will provide one with hop to reach the truth, for truth is not always discovered by reasoning, but sometimes by some inner light, a kind of feeling (sentiment), perhaps what is called the heart. #RandolphHarris 4 of 5

So, with that being said, as long as we are coming from an honorable place and know that our heart is one filled with love, sometimes we need to use it to make decisions, and that is how the noble savage is developed. The soul belongs only to people who have lived in a state of cultural primitivism far from the contamination of society.  This means true human nature, which is intrinsic, objective, normal, healthy, or universally valid. The “savage” is the romanticism and idealization of a nostalgic revelation the golden years of childhood, where the soul is yearning for the simplicity of the past. We are reinforcing the sense of individuality, where we can express an absence of all distinct thoughts and feelings, a kind of mystical union with that God who is nature itself. The creative quality manifests the spirit of life and brings unity with humanity, or love and makes one the moral being one is. It enables one to embrace all things and Heaven and Earth as one body. Whatever is produced in one, that is, whatever is inborn in one, is one’s nature. In its original state, tranquil state, human nature is neither good nor evil. If prudence consists in wishing well to one’s self, young flirts are as prudent as antiquated souls. #RandolphHarris 5 of 5