We can enjoy Beethoven without knowing how to read music; we can love the stars in complete ignorance of astrophysics; and we can be a good neighbor without knowledge of either God or our own origins. But she who reads music will see patterns and hear motifs of which others are blind and deaf; he who knows a red giant from a hot blue sees variety and history where others see no more than a featureless variation of light; and those who perceive the reality of heavenly parents, or an eternal past, and of an educative purpose in our mortality just may find the catalyst they need to persevere in
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