Conceptual thinking is hard to the many. To contemplate upon the formless and therefore the Transcendental Essence is given but to a few. The majority needs some grosser expression of the Pure and the Infinite, for their mind to conceive It and their intellect to contemplate upon It. These symbols of the Eternal Ground, the Supreme Truth, are called idols. Thus, an idol represents an ideal. When we do not know the ideal which a given idol represents, it is ...
