4 SKETCHES OF GREAT TRUTHS

and the answer is given by that short sketch of
the beautiful story of the Creation. Every thing
is God's thing, belongs to Him and is in His
plan of the making of the World. We are put
in charge of His things. You may think that
the story is a legend, an allegory or a parable.
Yes, that may be so, but a legend is always
founded on a truth, an allegory and a parable
veil a truth, and behind this story is the truth of
evolution and God's plan is evolution. To-day
I want to take specially the practical side of
Theosophy, next week I will talk a little further
of God's plan. Every one of God's things was
put into man's charge, and we have replied to
what are God's things. If we seek to be wise
in these things, then we shall seek to understand
our charge, and try to fall in with God's plan
and work with Him. " My son get wisdom and
with all thy getting, get understanding " was
said by Solomon the Wise—and here we have a
vicious circle, for we must understand to enable
us to become wise and we must be wise in our
understanding. We cannot become wise unless
we understand, neither can we understand
unless we become wise. The secret is this,
in looking after God's things we either work
as faithful stewards looking after them as
His things or we are faithless and try to get