Happy Birthday Sagittarius
John Jocelyn - Meditations on the Signs of the Zodiac
Sagittarius – The Archer
Sagittarius, the Archer, is the sign that beckons to higher places and to higher places and to higher realms. It produces experts at adventure and ardent aspirants to the Spirit of truth. To Sagittarians, life opens out as a journey – a journey toward a distant though definite goal. This ninth sign of the Zodiac is the third and last of the fiery triplicity, giving fiery enthusiasm. In this third common sign, as in the other three common signs, there takes place the development of thought, for use in this life or in a future incarnation.
Sagittarius is aptly symbolized by a figure that is half horse and half man, the man aiming his arrow toward the sky. This indicates the man who is not only rising above and transmuting his animal-like physical nature, but one who is aiming to reach divinity; is goal is heaven-high. This image symbolizes also the link of the spiritual consciousness, which is brain-free and supra-physical, with the lower consciousness represented by the horse, the symbol for the intellect, the mode of consciousness dependent on the physical brain. Ideas and ideals are forged in this fiery sign of mental light and are made ready for reception by the intellect, creating spiritual intelligence, thence to flow into daily living.
As a result, the evolved Sagittarian realizes the illumination of the intellect by the light of the Spirit, and in this fact the time-space function of the brain becomes lighted by the Christ-forces of truth and love. Thereby the body, soul, and spirit of man are coordinated in the Sagittarian to such a degree that the intellect translates the heavenly light, so that the normal life of these natives is one of joyous, buoyant, aspiration and perennial optimism. They have what might be called ‘soul bounce’. Through this they are able to inspire others with good will and cheer, sparing no pains to bring healing and hope. They are completely confident, as was St. Paul, that ‘All things work together for good to them that love God’. (Romans 8:28)
The symbol denotes the Ego emerging from its animal-like state, taking on the shape of a noble form and erect posture, feeling the forces of the ‘I AM’ flowing through it and directing its aspiration toward the stars. The sign is a dual one, as are all the common, mental signs, and in its best expression it exhibits the delight of devotion, aspiring to live on the earth with consciousness of the spiritual world, which vivid dreams and sometimes actual vision have made valid. When man has conquered or transmuted his desires, his life of feeling and emotions, as a result of his life in the preceding sign Scorpio, there can sound out of his soul the power of truth, for Sagittarius stands for the Spirit of truth. In his Epistle to the Romans, chapter 8:5-9, St. Paul wrote about two kinds of mind:
They that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. Be ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
The ideal is to spiritualise the earthly, physical personality, which is prone to materialism, and so to realize the work of Scorpio in its regenerative action; then to attain the goal of God through the Spirit of truth. The Spirit-mind of Sagittarius is the mind of Christ-truth. This very sensitive sign of the Zodiac, along with the ninth house, indicates acute sensitivity and receptivity to states of spiritual cognition, whereby Sagittarians get the elevation and perspective which is cosmic or Christ-centered. All men at some time must reach the status of a Christed soul, and this occurs as man takes on the mind of Christ-truth and translates in his body and brain the light of heavenly realms. This is the sign par excellence for this marvelous convergence of all types of consciousness to lift and light the soul and make the man not only more than an animal but also more than an average human being.
When the Christ-mind lights the soul, we see in some phase and degree the manifestation of superior powers, for the bridge between earthly, physical, brain-bound man and the brain-free spiritual Ego in touch with truth. Body, soul, and spirit are coordinated in the man who lives in the Spirit-mind phase of Sagittarius; hence some element of creativity flowers, as well as the power of prophecy. Scorpio gives incisive insight; Sagittarius, expansiveness and foresight. Let us impress forcefully on our minds the fact that, until the intellect becomes illuminated and made spiritually intelligent, man remains bound to his Moon-moulded brain, which is selfish and separative; thus darkness reigns in varying degrees. It is Jupiter that prepares the soul to take in and use the Christ-mind light, for Jupiter is the planet of cosmic thought and divine wisdom, and it is the ruler of Sagittarius. When we have first brought clear thought to bear on a problem and have worked on it patiently, then Jupiter beings help us during sleep, so that on waking we find a solution or grasp a new truth.
If there is a sign calculated to take on the Spirit-mind of truth, it is indeed this ninth sign of the Zodiac. The Archer is the path of pure thinking; hence that acute mental spiritual acumen possessed by all evolved souls in this sign, which is extremely volatile. So extremely volatile is Sagittarius as a spiritual, mental force, and so vast its velocity that, whenever these natives still live in the lower phase of this sign, they become addicted to physical speed, and they make the high-speed records, in athletics, in automobile racing, and in the air. In movement, the Sagittarians dart like an arrow and are fleet of foot. Especially when this sign is on the eastern horizon of the nativity are they fast, sprightly walkers, fond of hiking and mountain climbing. Sagittarius rules the thighs and the pelvic region, especially the hips and the sciatic nerve, and some say the muscular system, all of which have much to do in propelling the body through space.
When we understand the acute spiritual sensitivity of this ninth sign and the ninth house, we can see that few can make the grade demanded by its highest phase, for it shows the man become free of his lower nature, with the personality being used for Christ’s sake. When the personal side is still stressed, the Archer is given over to excessive activity and ruinous restlessness that can break down the physical body not accustomed to bear the higher mental-spiritual currents. It is those who have not yet made their way to the domain of the Spirit that resort to mere physical speed and seek to make and to break records. The spiritual urge is diverted to physical use, instead of being made to express the Spirit mind. In any case, there must ever be ascension and new peaks to climb.
In connection with Sagittarius, we must observe the great love for the out-of-doors and for outdoor sports, which it gives. Incidentally, we may note that it is primarily in the field of sports that the fine factor of fair-play is known. This fact, that the concept of fair-play should prevail in sports and not in other departments of life, deserves being pondered. Were fair play introduced into all human affairs, then we would have brotherhood much sooner. The idea of fair-play and its realization emanate from this Jupiter-ruled sign. Although it extends now only to sports, it will increasingly reach out to all human affairs – to industrial, racial, governmental, national, and international relationships.
Like Aries and Leo, the other fire signs, Sagittarius has extraordinary vitality. In Aries, it is as dynamic as Mars; in Leo, it is the very life of the Sun. In Sagittarius, ruled by Jupiter, it is often sustained by one’s spiritual being; hence Sagittarians continue on their way when many others have fallen by the wayside and dropped out of the race. That which is ‘vital’ speaks of life – it connotes the ‘liver’ – and no one could be a liver of life, or move or think in a physical body, without the warm arterial blood and the liver, which are ruled by Jupiter. What a vast network the arteries are, extending throughout the entire organism, providing channels of nourishment! As the blood makes its extensive journey through the arterial system, so the Sagittarian feels at home on all the highways of the world. No place is too remote for this great adventure. Assimilation, physical and spiritual growth could not take place without this benign planet of spiritual being, Jupiter, and its sensitive sign, Sagittarius.
Those persons who are the most pleasant, with buoyancy of soul, the most sane, with true optimism and joy ungushing and real, are balanced Sagittarians. The reason for this buoyancy is that Jupiter also rules the two adrenal glands, which may be called ‘poise producers’. They turn the tide of flooding, morbid feelings and emotions, which have rise in the Moon, or in the forceful, discordant Mars, or the gloomy melancholic, and inhibitive Saturn. The action of the adrenals, through Jupiter’s rule, pours power into the heart, to maintain the blood stream against all such insidious negation.
Although Sagittarius is not the ruler of the heart, which is Leo’s domain, it holds the key and secret to that organ of love, for Jupiter furnishes the vital arterial blood to the heart, and we know that ‘blood is a very peculiar essence’. No life is possible for man without the blood, a spiritual substance in which the Christ has vantage. Just as an engine without steam or gasoline remains inert and useless, or an electric motor dead without current, so man’s heart would be lifeless without the blood supply, for the heart is not a pump as is commonly supposed. Thus there is a valid vital relation of the heart and Leo to the blood and Sagittarius.
In the sphere of consciousness, Jupiter represents the divine mind and cosmic wisdom. To approach this wisdom, the intellect alone is inadequate, regardless of how indispensable it is in ordinary earthly life and regardless of the marvelous advance it has wrought in the achievements of civilization. The Jupiter qualities of devotion and reverence are pre-requisites if one is to advance toward an understanding of cosmic wisdom, thereby becoming spiritually intelligent. It is in the sensitive sign of the Centaur, the Archer, that man transcends the light of the mere intellect and reaches out beyond the senses. When the illusory appearance of material existence is pierced, the truth is found that makes man free. Rightly does St Paul say: ‘Be not conformed of this world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.’ (Romans 12:2)
With the advent of the radio, there arose a new art, that of tuning in and listening in. This allusion to listening in on the radio is apt for the sign Sagittarius, for it is in this power of the renewed mind, the Christ-mind, that man, consciously or unconsciously, listens in to his higher spiritual being. To listen in, in this wise, means no longer to conform to the world, but to be transformed by renewing one’s mind, which then knows the will of God and attunes to the consciousness of the Christ, whose divine mind transcends one’s intellect and informs one truthfully. Thus, as we grow in soul evolution, we may take from Sagittarius this gift of God, which is true spiritual intelligence and the Christ-consciousness, whose light is the spirit of truth and the wisdom of love. Then man’s intellect no longer swamps him with error, fear, and falsity. This spiritual intelligence is the result of the intellect attuning itself and listening in to the Spirit-mind, the Christ-mind. When this is achieved, man realizes the plan of God for mankind and for himself, and he treads the Path; he now travels consciously on the long, arduous evolutionary journey to ultimate Christhood. Indeed, Sagittarius beckons to higher goals, and the highest is complete Christhood.
Human beings must grow in soul quality if they would evolve and grow in the sense of the Spirit, for it is not merely a process of listening in that is involved but right attunement and selection. Not all persons can take in the light which Sagittarius supplies to those who love God with deep devotion. Some are reckless and yield to the Centaur’s vice, which is rebelliousness, like that of the wild horse, and sometimes lawlessness, even to discard all ethics. Others support and expound erroneous teachings. The sorry thing today is that many people still listen in to the false prompting of the lower realms of the desire or soul world; thus they live and move in selfishness and perpetuate systems that serve ‘the prince of this world’ and not the Lord of love.
As the first sign Aries allows one to say ‘I am’, and the fixed, second fire sign, Leo allows one to say ‘I will’ so the thought-maturing third fire sign, Sagittarius allows one to say ‘I see the way that leads to a conscious goal’. Sagittarius serves human evolution through the power of the renewed mind. Its exoteric keyword is ‘I seek for food’ whereas the esoteric keyword is ‘I see the goal’. Thus the Sagittarian must seek for food and, through various vicissitudes, come to a place where he can see the goal. One difference between Sagittarius and Gemini is this: Gemini knows not for certain where its many activities may lead, whereas Sagittarius has the inspiration and the inner confidence of a definite aim and goal that prompts him to action. The Archer ever keeps his eyes on the goal.
Without his thinking faculty, man remains animal-like. So long, however, as thinking is limited to materialistic concepts, it remains grounded; man does not see his divine goal, and he does not attain to that elevation that extends his horizons to include Spirit realms with their cosmic perspective. Observe the truth of these words, taken from The Old Commentary, and how they relate to Sagittarius:
“The Sons of God shot forth like arrows from the bow. The forms received the impulse (of mind) and lo! A god was born. The tiny babe knew not the great event’.
Few as yet know of the cosmic goal that lies ahead of man’s long future evolutionary journey. Those who see the goal know that man himself is to become a cosmic being, not in the materialistic sense of space travel as an astronaut, but as a cosmic creator in the spiritual process of world-becoming. Not until a sufficient number of people come to know the mightiness of mind illumined by the higher Christ-mind light, will mankind find its true place and will fear be banished. A flood of feelings swamps people in times of crisis, yet out of the very sorrows of the Earth is the new orientation taking place that makes men and women see the real and approach the truth. This meditation is written with one major purpose in view – to contribute to a new orientation of mind and soul, so that those who read might realize the boundless potential of the renewed mind, the Spirit-mind, that attunes one to the ‘good, acceptable, and perfect will of God’ (Romans 12:2), the directing idea in the evolution of man and Earth. Once the Spirit-mind is known and active in the soul, the flooding force of fear or feeling, and the pain, become neutralized or cancelled. The Christ-mind can never be fear-filled; it can ‘never be found wanting in presence of mind or in calm penetration of all situations of life’ (Rudolf Steiner Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment chapter V111) Without some degree of this Christ-mind, there is bound to be in man an immense imbalance, which amounts to what may be called insanity. Without this Christ-mind, man journeys through life without proper direction and lacks the divine goal that the Archer confers.
Let us look at Sagittarius in the light of the law of the Lord: then we shall see why few can express its positive power so high and holy. Most souls are not by any means clear of the subtle and often loathsome toils of their insidious personalities. To seek the higher life and not to surrender the personality wholly to the law of God, which is one’s destiny as duty, is to court danger of no mean kind, for when spiritual and occult work is commenced without purity of purpose, the lower forces are stirred up in the person, and he can with ease descend along the left-hand path. When one obeys the call and command of his own destiny without hate, heat, sorrow, or resentment, then that soul is truly philosophical. Sagittarius produces a mind given to philosophy. Not all Sagittarians are devoted: yet, when this quality of devotion is joined to philosophy, we observe that beautiful phenomenon of a man truly religious, an individual in love with love and literally embodying in himself and in his daily deeds the law or will of God. Would that there were many more such souls on Earth today, to raise it sooner to Christ-light!
One such soul was Abraham Lincoln, who had Sagittarius rising, with Saturn and Neptune conjunct the Ascendant. True vision that makes a man a seer and prophet comes out of a soul that loves truth and honesty – marked traits of Abraham Lincoln, who earned for himself the sobriquet ‘Honest Abe’. His apt anecdotes, always on tap, clearly reveal that he was a Sagittarian philosopher. Another strong influence of this sign manifested in his ability to dream true dreams. Thus did he foresee his own death. Sagittarius like Gemini, is strong in speech but weak in silence or listening. The Sagittarian, having what amounts to clairvoyant thought, is loathe to hear one through to the end of the sentence or statement, for he knows beforehand what the speaker has in mind. So would he spare and cut short the speech of others, even though this often annoys. It is because of this clairvoyant-thought faculty, along with a free, frank, outspoken, and straightforward expression – in contrast to Scorpio’s secretiveness – and a large sense of detachment, the result of an unconscious sense of the universal, that the Sagittarian so often uses words as darts, hitting what is false and weak in others. He knows the vulnerable spots in the human character and exposes them, which as often disturbs or destroys the dignity of people who live in their personalities. So detached, and yet attached to a sense of truth, are Sagittarians that they actually intend no hurt in their outspokenness, exposing what is false in others. It is done simply to unmask the little personal lives of others, so that the light of Spirit-truth and the level of the universal might be sought and secured. Thus they instinctively search for and espouse the truth and easily detect lies and errors calling for adjustment, much as water seeks its own level.
Although the Archer never misses his mark, because of the clairvoyant quality of his thought, no one is more sensitive than he is to harsh words, which wound him far more severely than physical blows. And no more righteous indignation is seen than that exploded by Sagittarians in a veritable torrential velocity. Well do I remember one whom I had made conversant with the truth that the spirit of man is eternal – its exists before birth and after death – and that reincarnation is a reality. She gave vent to fiery indignation because the church to which she had always belonged did not teach this truth about the reincarnating Ego.
The souls of most Sagittarians are moved in an unconscious, if not conscious, manner by the intuitional forces of the light of truth that is beyond and above the brain organism. As a result, idealism is constantly carried as a current. Because of this lofty quality of mind and ideals, Sagittarians not only resent innuendoes and accusations that would not cause a ripple of comment from other sign members; they are aroused to a fury of righteous anger in the degree in which their ideals have been degraded. As the natives of the fixed bestial signs, Taurus and Scorpio, ruling the creative voice forces and the generative organs, tend to abuse the sex function and to squander sex forces, so they must seek to transmute their desires, so do the natives of the two signs following these fixed signs – the common signs, Gemini and Sagittarius – wantonly waste their vocal forces in irrelevant and incessant speech, often mere garrulous chatter. To those intimate with the forces of the Zodiac it is seen that the natives of these two mental signs must seek to converse and control the forces of speech, so that the innate wisdom of love may flower. Sagittarians are fond of all forms of racing and need to be on their guard lest their tongue, too run a race. One of the chief exercises they should set for themselves is to bridle or control the tongue, thus making speech a feeling for truth.
Not until one dimly realizes the speed of the Spirit – or, better, the all-permeability of the Spirit – can one understand the immense mutability and indefatigable activity of Sagittarius, which often leads to ruinous restlessness in the undeveloped souls in this sign, for it produces an inner speed that presses the body on beyond endurance. It is the spiritual pressure within that makes these natives ‘seek for food’ and after seeking, ‘see the goal’, for they have an innate hunger for the spiritual worlds, unless they live wholly in their personality – the carnal mind – and are moved by selfish ambition rather than by aspiration. It is this pressure bearing down on the personality that produces love for travel, especially for long journeys and voyages, which are ruled by this sign, as well as for cosmopolitan concepts and an interest in foreign countries and peoples, from whom they usually gain great benefits.
Snobbery is not the vice of these open-minded, free, expansive individuals, even though they are fully aware of enormous inequalities in evolutionary progress. Although they are tolerant, they have little patience with narrow-minded views. Sagittarius must be realized in the sense of its vast expansiveness, for it is as wide as the world and needs plenty of space for its activities. It gives a will to conquer new worlds, to open new areas of thought, and to acquire an ever-expanding consciousness. With a consciousness as universal as that conferred by this sign, it small wonder that Sagittarians show such a large sense of freedom and independence. This is also the result of the expansive Jupiter. In the soul of the Sagittarian there dwells, either consciously or unconsciously, the innate realization of his sonship with God, and this idea, dream, or vision, no matter how vague, is carried within as a constant craving to be at some time satisfied. This sign rules religion, hence Sagittarians have a natural sense of religious intelligence and are for the most part the pillars of the church. Ministers are often strong in the Archer, whose upward-directed arrow symbolizes aspiration to divine purpose. As Sagittarius rules the sense of taste, its natives will be moved to manifest a compassion in the degree in which they have ‘tasted of the Lord’.
In a world built up by critical, egotistic, and separative forces, criticism is condoned and accepted. However, all those spiritually aware and serving the Christ, thereby making the lunar forces serve the solar light, know what a vice gossip is, and how it is made worse by the press that panders to it. Were the world to cease worrying and cease holding spite and malice through gossiping, and were it no more to have curiosity about the concerns of others, then friendship would flourish. In virtue of their love of fair play and their world-wide interests, evolved Sagittarians are not addicted to worrying, nor concerned about other people’s affairs in the sense of curiosity or of purveying malicious talk or gossip. With the unevolved, it may be otherwise. To know the forces of every sign of the Zodiac and thus to be all things to all men, to know how to abound and how to be abased in the manner of St. Paul, implies a close intimacy with the plan of god, and one establishes this knowledge of soul and spirit through the variety and vicissitudes of many lives. Many secretly or openly declare their wish to be teachers, but only those devoted to God in heart, in mind, and in soul, who have taken the impress and impulse of Jupiter through the sign Sagittarius, can ever hope to be true teachers of men, no matter whether their present nativities show planets in this sign or not, for to be fit and able to teach in the sense of the Christ, the teacher at some time must have acquired the touch and the wisdom provided by Jupiter.
The Sagittarian or Jupiterian teacher is much desired, for he has that inborn empathy that knows the individual need of the pupil. He does not teach by telling; he is the true educator because he educes – draws out – answers from the pupil, who thereby learns to think for himself; he educes the teacher within the pupil. Moreover, the teachers in this sign lack the prejudice that is all too common in teachers, and with such a rare fragrance – for perfume it is to be without such fault – a rapport can be readily established between teacher and pupil. All those who would serve the world and themselves in true redemption, and thus salvage souls, must have the expansive, all-embracing forces of Jupiter. Each triplicity of the Zodiac gives flow and force to some quality of consciousness. There are four triplicities and four elements: earth, water, air, and fire. The earth signs call out that condition of consciousness that is connected with physical reality. The perfection of physical experiences is the result of wise life in these signs. The water signs bring man the realization of the consciousness concerned with the feeling and sensations, so that the imaginative forces become perfected and made amenable to the Spirit. The air signs bring about an expansion of consciousness through thought and mental forces, so that the human being as a soul is seen apart and distinct from the sensual, physical, personal man. In air signs, man comes to consolidate thinking and, through concentration in thinking, he brings to maturity the wisdom that may lead to a knowledge of God. The design of man’s divinity is realized through the avenue of the air signs. The fire signs confer the kind of consciousness that affects the will to be and that makes man say, ‘I am that I am.’ Out of the fire signs comes the dynamic directing idea.
In the first fire sign, Aries, man’s consciousness is riotous, unless it is given direction. Its marked feature is rash, wild, outflying impulse, and a mind instinctive with spontaneity. Riotous rapidity that leads to excess is the mode of Aries whenever there is no fully self-directive consciousness. In the fixed fire sign, Leo, the power of will accompanies the self-consciousness. The characteristic consciousness of Aries is transmuted and matured in Leo till harmony and stability result, head and heart being balanced and cooperating. The power that nourishes and sustains the soul stems from the vital generative forces of Leo. As man’s consciousness is differentiated in Aries and brought into a state of harmony in Leo, these forces are resolved into that distillate of mental force in Sagittarius that brings release to the light of heaven. In this sign of the Spirit-mind – where the only guide and the one Teacher may be found, the Christ, who is the law and fulfillment – there takes place the sublimation of consciousness and the perfection, which are the fruit of right transmutation.
Evolution provides the power to progress by ever taking on the new. Sagittarius promotes the sublimation of the soul by correlating the intellect with the Spirit-mind and, through this union and transmutation, a bridge is built from the brain-bound personality, living in its physical form, to the higher spiritual being and to that spiritual realm that is the source of all ideas. Thus Sagittarian is a prophet, and these souls, when evolved and Christ-elect, may reach into the realms of real religion, art, truth, and tone, where the poetry of the one philosophy eternally pulse in the divine rhythm of God. Through such artistic creativity Beethoven set down his symphonies, for he had his Sun, Moon, and Mercury in Sagittarius. His contemporary, Joseph Haydn, another master composer, had Sagittarius rising, with Uranus therein, and also the dynamic Mars. The marked features of the Sagittarian may be discerned in the last of that long line of musicians, Carl Maria von Weber, who so brilliantly expressed in tone the ethereal of the fairy world and what the world calls romantiscism, in his Oberon, Der Freischutz, and other works, especially in his Invitation to the Dance.
In this freedom-loving, fiery sign of the seer, we see the marked mode of the Spirit-mind consciousness, that connects one with truth through the mind of Christ, and this in the degree provided by the soul’s purity, aspiration, and devotion. The Spirit-mind manifests through the higher being called by St. Paul ‘the Lord from heaven,’ which then expresses in the personality; but not till the personality is subordinated and consecrated to God, can the Christ-mind appear. For most people, to acquire the mind which was in Christ Jesus, the lessons are long and the journey arduous. Sagittarian is the seer of the goal, and his is the elevation that forever allows a further expansion of consciousness and the vision of still more distant goals. Once a goal is reached, another is seen. In fact, this is the sign wherein the forces of relationship move upward in evolutionary expansion, for Sagittarius relates one to the Christ-truth and the teacher within, working as a leaven, to realize the onward advance, the soul-progressive journey. This occurs as a result of a right relationship – the linking of the intellect with the sense-free Spirit working in the soul. It has been truly said by a prophet, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish’. The quality of true vision animates the Sagittarian who is mature, balanced, and evolved, as was Abraham Lincoln.
The evolved Sagittarian strives for perfect perspective by securing views that portray the widest possible picture, floodlighted by the Spirit. He may spend years of his life in reaching a goal, only to see another, for truth is infinite and moves forever forward and upward. Thus we see why Sagittarius gives inspiration and aspiration – an eternal spiralling journey – and why those who are negative in this sign move simply in vicious circles, rather than in ascending spirals of an ever forward and upward evolution.
Let food be sought the sheep to feed,
Who would be pastor knows the need,
Who would God’s highest riches reap
Lives in the light and feeds his sheep.
How few have yet truth realized,
Engrossed, enamored, hypnotized
By earthly forces and the form
Which separate and bring the storm.
To love the truth is Christ to know,
His is the life and way to go;
If you would know the truth that frees,
Then learn of him, he holds the keys.
All those who seek shall find the way
Which brings return upon the ray
Of Christ who is the loving whole,
For all mankind the living goal.