When the mind touches this basic stratum of consciousness, the Real, the universe becomes an open book wherein we may read, see, hear, and sense and feel the real Word of God uttered by and through all forms of life, animate and inanimate, around and in us.

True knowledge is the sensing and realization of an inner light back of every fact. This light can only be known by actual identification with it, mentally and spiritually. In other words, to truly know, we must become the thing which we wish to know. We must again become identified and unified with its inner light and spirit. Therefore, real knowledge and wisdom can never be gained by mere study of printed books. Knowing this, the Wisdom back of the Temple points out and suggests to the student of life and its mysteries, the great fundamental, moral and spiritual truths on which the Cosmos, the Heavenly as well as the earthly man, is built. It is pointed out that on this divine plan, each one is the builder of his own soul, and the architect of his own immortality.

-- Temple Teachings, Vol. 2, page 266