gives him light to leap all barriers and break the chains that have so long held him captive, and, waking, he is free; a child born again of the Spirit, he has found God and now learns that God is the crowning feature of the Spiritual, as man is of the physical world.

Now for the first time he finds repose and consolation within the Temple of Truth, whose eternal gates are ever open to invite the weary and erring pilgrim to enter in and refresh himself at the perpetual fountain of undying Spirit Love. He who once drinks of these waters will never again find an uncertainty in hope of immor tality, nor are there strewn about the court-yard of this temple the mutilated limbs of truth, but colonnade and court are of purity, harmony, and crowned by the blessed virgin of Truth herself.

Man must be disappointed with the objective and lesser things of life before he will listen and stop to comprehend the true Life and the value of his Soul. This earth life, with its noisy ambitions, its selfishness, and its mean passions, is so poor and base.

As the macrocosmic will of the solar system consciously or unconsciously evolves forms, so does the will of microcosmic man. If we form a concrete or even an abstract idea in our mind, we give it a shape, and create an existence, with an atmosphere, which may become either subjective or subject and even material according to the means applied for that purpose. Every thought creates a subjective form, which may be seen and perceived not only by the originator of that form but also by another person endowed with the inner sight and the faculties of Soul perception.

Forms are the symbols of ideas. The objects by which we are surrounded are but the representations of ideas, either from God or Man, representing the growth of the world. They are the allegories which constitute the dream we call life. Those who can understand the true meaning of surrounding objects understand nature. As ideas progress, forms become more refined, for low ideas are symbolized by low, coarse forms. Exalted, unselfish ideas are embodied in refined forms.

Every emotion that arises in man may be combined with the astral forces of nature and create a being, which may be perceived by the persons to whom it is sent, if they have cultivated their inner sight as an active entity. It is through these hidden ways that the Hierophant is enabled, through his intense emotion and desire, to see or give orders to a certain person, even at a great distance. He projects himself from the physical body and becomes conscious and visible at any distance, with those he desires to reach.

Desire results from attraction. Attraction from the separation of two substances analogous in their essences and properties. The more the thoughts, desires, selfishness and the lower propensities clinging to the sphere of desire are concentrated, the more dim and shadowy will become the serene image and Spirit light above one, till it is lost sight of altogether; but if the aspirations and thoughts dwell in the Love universal, everything is made effective by Will. Then life and action rise above the sphere of self, clinging to the pure ideal which grows more distinct and substantial until the innermost self and Soul are united with and attuned to Spirit, and are free from earthly attractions. Now one can look down upon all that which remains below and behold it as it is in truth only the shadow of its own reality.

To recognize the purity of the Divine spark within, is true adoration. To attempt to realize it, true meditation. To exert this Will to bring one's self into perfect harmony with it, is inspiration or prayer; to express that prayer in acts, is to make it effective. True prayer is always efficacious on the plane on which it is made to act Prayer on the physical plane consists in physical works. Prayer on the astral plane purifies the emotions through the action of Will, softening and thereby illuminating mentality through the emotions of universal Love. In the realm of intellect, study is prayer and leads to knowledge. Thus the higher Spiritual aspirations lift man out of the turmoils and burdens of matter, and bring him to an attunement with Spirit and nearer to God.

This self-satisfied entity called modern society, which plumes itself on appearance and heritage, is like an old hag covered with cosmetic to cover up all imperfections, but they remain, and under all this masquerade of modern conventionalities, falsehood and deception exist. The only difference in methods of money-making in this modern age is that some are more notorious than others. Banks, Insurance, Stocks, Railroads, Municipal Governments, in truth, nearly all modern methods of conducting business, just escape being criminal, and when one of their managers is brought up occasionally before Modern Justice by some victim brave enough to cry out, Modern Justice often becomes a question of money. Ambition, vanity, pride, deception, and hatred live upon the labor of millions, making human beings victims of circumstances beyond their power to control. It appears almost a necessity at times for the poor to become criminals to live.

Friends of humanity, ye who have never needed to steal that ye

might live, ye whose money has made you respectable! what tenderness of heart, what gratitude can be expected of a man who is holding the wolf of hunger by the ears? The loaf of bread first, then show him the light.

What means all this disturbance and unrest? Is there any significance at all in the movements of large bodies of men, animated by a common thought, directed by intelligence, above all based on absolute justice?

Is a new deluge coming upon us? How many thousands of good deeds and pure thoughts lie cramped and crippled. Behind hot and weary brows, the very Soul is compressed in this mad rush and struggle for bread. Oh the pity of it, that the aspirations of life should wither and fall so low. Surely if men would but think they would feel constrained to give each other room on this fair earth, for 'tis but a breath of time, these so-called years, when the form of which men are so selfishly careful, finds only a few feet of earth, a forgotten mound soon worn down again to the common level. But this mad age runs wildly over everything, building its own judgment day to end in suffering, pain and death. Oh that mankind would be warned in time lest in this matter they be found warring against God.

It is neither just nor philosophical to name the dejection and unrest which so often exist in the Soul and are mirrored in the face of the poor man jealousy or envy. It is not these, but it is the burden of heavy life, a perpetual drag. Even to those who are placed beyond the reach of immediate want, the struggles of life are hard enough, but when to them is added the burden of wrestling for the commonest necessities of life, then indeed is it a torture to live. The condition of the ant by the wayside is far better, for he is conscious of no neighbor who wallows in indolence while he goes hungry. So long as this fiend of selfishness stalks abroad in our midst can any true religion or Spiritual light lay claim to Justice or right? No power can overthrow this monster of impudent hypoe risy, but Spirit Truth, or old Father Time, who is indeed an honest fellow though slow, will balance up the account of the last century by some great calamity and deluge of suffering to all humanity. Even now, at times, Mother Earth rebels at the deep scars men make, and in convulsions throws aside her creeping populace. God is just and Nature balances His accounts. been said that only through pain and suffering is man made to halt in his mad career to think and meditate, and only through affliction and death does the human Soul rise into eternal Life.

We do not claim that mankind are all of the same species — far from it; some are for one branch and pathway of life, some for another. The architect, the sailor, the mechanic, the farmer, all have their necessary callings. Let all live in peace, and not devour each other, as the birds that sing in the trees, or the frogs that croak in the marshes, each to his natural vocation and element. To ask or expect the frog to fly in the air, the bird to lie in the pool, is an injustice and reversal of nature.

Misapplied virtues become vices, and well directed vices are virtues. An emotion is either a virtue or a vice according to the manner in which it is applied. Something more than a man's nature is shown in his acts, and error is not always the result of want of education, but often a lack of power to comprehend the Truth. A profound man thinks more easily than he talks; a shallow, weak one talks more easily than he thinks.

Misanthropy is starvation of the heart. It is the heritage of riches. This aversion to humanity grows and grows as man gains possession of wealth and power, and is usually the rock on which his bark is wrecked. He who has outrun the large majority of God's creatures in the struggle for bread, by fleetness, or cunning, or the help of heritage, feels in his heart, and shows that he feels so in his acts, that the great horde of humanity has no right to be poor; that poverty is a crime which debars them from the right to a little room in which to live, but God is just and all His accounts are balanced with interest by dear old Time.

The faith of man in man is broken because we do not worship the True God, and some of the most lamentable errors which have been taught mankind are the misconception of God and the misunderstanding of man. General confidence can only exist where man has faith in Spirit. Could the heart of humanity beat tenderly toward the fallen and the unhappy! could men but understand each other! An unhappy man needs double love and charity, and twice is he blessed who is able to bestow these. At some time in earth's history Spirit Light is coming very near to man; in this new era the old religion of Spirit Truth, the unity of man, must not be lost.

Dear Pilgrim of the Illuminati, the great and rich have plenty of friends; be thou the friend of the poor.

He who gives but one drop of water to the poor unselfishly, it shall be unto him a living fountain in paradise.

Then again modern society trains men to the repression of the sensibilities and sympathies, the expression of which is considered