Religion: Christmas 1945

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The practical aspects of these questions would be settled in time, in the world's way, by able men, purposeful men, shrewd men, perhaps ruthless men, and always confused men. There would be Babels of planning and organization, pyramids of policy. But these would come to no more than all those that had gone before unless, as on this day of Nativity, 1945, man felt within himself a rebirth of what some have called "the Inner Light," others "the Christ within." They would fail like all the rest unless man achieved the ultimate humility and the power implied in one of the Bible's most peremptory commandments :

Be still, and know that I am God.