GOODNESS IN ALL
And Philip said, Must men and women suffer in the flames because they have not found the way of life? And Jesus said, The fire purifies. The chemist throws into the fire the ores that hold all kinds of dross. The useless metal seems to be consumed; but not a grain of gold is lost. There is no man that has not in him gold that cannot be destroyed. The evil things of men are all consumed in fire; the gold survives.
[From The Aquarian Gospel (116:13-16) by Levi H. Dowling]
The essential takeaway of this passage is that goodness is in all.
We suffer for one reason: because we do not understand reality. The lessons and experiences we go through may be painful. Yet, they are not to be understood as punishment but ultimately as the agent that brings the pure to the surface.
The metaphor of grain of gold helps explain that while our impurities will be destroyed, our pure will stay unblemished.
