missed the essential point of all his Knowledge, the recognition that the Law of Power is one with the Law of Love, and so, desiring to separate the Divine Power from the Divine Love, and to grasp the one while rejecting the other, he finds that the very Laws of which he has made himself master by his Knowledge overwhelm him with their own tremendousness and by their reflex action become the servants who bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. The Divine Power can never be separated with impunity from the Divine Love and Guidance.

Subjectivity

The parable of the unjust steward [Luke 16:1-13 --- Ed.] is based upon the Law of the subjective nature of individual life. As in all the parables, "the lord" is the supreme Self-evolving Principle of the Universe which, relatively to us, is purely subjective because it acts in and through ourselves. As such, it follows the invariable Law of subjective mind, which is that of response to any suggestion that is impressed upon it with sufficient power.

[I have discussed this subject at greater length in lectures 4 and 5 in my Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science].

Consequently, "the lord" does not dispute the correctness of the accounts rendered by the steward but, on the contrary, commends him for his wisdom in recognising the true principle by which to escape the results of his past maladministration of the estate.