Watching Point 256

256 — WATCH lest you accept the suggestion that error is growing, while you are not; when the reverse is the truth. The claim of error is stationary.

If you had some puppies, and every time you gave them food, rats came and ate out of the dish with them, thus stealing part of their food, you might imagine them talking to the rats as follows: “We are so little that you can steal our food now, and we cannot help it; but it won’t be for long. We are growing, and growing fast, and you are not. Soon we will have the mastery, and then your depredations will cease.” So you can say to error, “You may seem to have the floor now, but it won’t be for long! I am growing and you are not! Soon I will be able to realize your nothingness.”