THE GREATEST VALUE TO BE OBTAINED FROM READING THE BIBLE IS FOUND AFTER YOU SET IT DOWN. [caps mine RJS] The book is a collection of writings that act as a pointer. It is not pointing to itself, but to the truth of the life that you are. To realize the truth, the Christ of your being, you have to drop all external aids, abandon even your belief in a personal self, that the Divine may been realized as your true Life. Otherwise, you will remain a captive of the natural mind, which has no capacity to know the things of the Spirit.
~Frank Johnson