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TWENTY-THIRD TALK 459 through the causal body on a lower plane. But, at all events, what the Monad knows, we must assume he knows with certainty and conviction; and similarly even the ego either knows a thing, or does not know it and knows that he does not know it. You see the great trouble down here, in this world of the personal- ity, is that half the people who know nothing what- ever about things are persuaded that they know all about them. That is the harm of most of these religious difficulties. People who know nothing about things are nevertheless clamorously insistent that others shall believe that particular delusion that happens to occupy their minds. The ego is never like that; if he does not know, he knows that he does not know. * He is not deceived about things, but he may be ignorant about certain things. That is quite clear; you cannot always depend upon the voice of the ego. That voice is conscience, you know. It is the voice of the ego, and you had better follow it, because it is the highest that you know ; but it may be quite wrong. In hiltory we find all sorts of atrocities committed with the approval of the con- science of the people. They persecuted, burned and tortured for conscience's sake. Well, an ego who recommends to them such ideas as those is certainly an ego as yet distinctly ignorant on many important points. Remember Bishop South's celebrated reply to a dissenter : lt By all means follow thy conscience, but take heed that thy conscience be not the conscience