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PRIEST. Did he not say: "Go, tell the Church."
NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH. It is not a question of words! Besides those words
don't refer to what we call "Church." It is the spirit of the teaching
that matters. Christ's teaching is universal, and includes all
religions, and does not admit of anything exclusive; neither of the
Resurrection nor the Divinity of Christ, nor the Sacraments--nor of
anything that divides.
PRIEST. That, as a matter of fact, if I may say so, is your own
interpretation of Christ's teaching. But Christ's teaching is all
founded on His Divinity and Resurrection.
NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH. That's what is so dreadful about the Churches. They
divide by declaring that they possess the full indubitable and
infallible truth. They say: "It has pleased us and the Holy Ghost." That
began at the time of the first Council of the Apostles. They then began
to maintain that they had the full and exclusive truth. You see, if I
say there is a God: the first cause of the Universe, everyone can agree
with me; and such an acknowledgment of God will unite us; but if I say
there is a God: Brahma, or Jehovah, or a Trinity, such a God divides us.
Men wish to unite, and to that end devise all means of union, but
neglect the one indubitable means of union--the search for truth! It is
as if people in an enormous building, where the light from above shone
down into the centre, tried to unite in groups around lamps in different
corners, instead of going towards the central light, where they would
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