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drew from them and left them to themselves. This is exactly the reason why the Holy Ones are not with you to-day and do not manifest themselves to you.

If you wish the manifestation of the guidance of the Holy Ones, and recognize the purpose for which the worlds were made, you will readily see what position you should occupy, but if your mind is not able to grasp that, then you have only to consecrate your life to God with an earnest, honest desire to know his will in order that you may do it. Then your mind will be impressed with the law of righteousness. (See the instructions of the Christ in regard to the law of righteousness.) This law of righteousness is not in regard to the relation of man to man, for that was the standard of righteousness that existed with the early Israelites, when it was "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth;" but the righteousness that Christ taught is the righteousness of God toward all his creatures. That is to say, if you consecrate your life to God, it means that you have given yourself without reserve and can truly and earnestly pray as the Lord taught his disciples to pray, "Our Father, let thy kingdom come and thy will be done on earth, [in me] as perfectly as it is done in heaven." Take into consideration the full scope of these words, try to realize it fully and then enter into it with all your heart and desire. It will then be manifest to your mind that to set up the idol of your imagery in your heart (See Ezekiel xiv.) means, in place of seeking the will of God and following the guidance of his Spirit, that you have set up an object toward which you desire to work even though it contravenes the guidance of the Spirit. If you still persist, when you seek God, to hold to the idol that you have set up in your heart, remember the words of God through Ezekiel: "I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people." For, if you follow your own idols, or ideals, then will the Holy Ones withdraw from you and will leave you to the mercy of

dark spirits who will come and personify, imitate, those Holy Ones that have been with you, and they will lead you step by step, deceiving your intellect, deceiving your consciousness, until you have been led so far down into darkness that you are hopelessly involved for this life.

We know of several persons, who, through this very setting up of their idols in their hearts, have been taken possession of by elemental intelligences. These elementals made them believe that they were happy, that they were going in the right direction, that they were some great personages, while all the time they were miserable; the body was diseased and they were in a horrible nightmare. On the other hand, the one great point required by the Spirit is obedience, not arbitrary, thoughtless obedience, because, if you earnestly seek God and follow the guidance if his Spirit, the holy Brotheroood will be so near you that they will reflect upon your consciousness the reasons for obedience, and if you err, it will be through your own dominant, perverted, will, and even then they will not abandon you at once to the evil, but they will strive with you as long as there is any hope, but if you persist, then they will leave you to your own way.

Thus remember, the one desire of your heart when you consecrate your life to God is this-to know in order that you may do the right. This is the foundation, and you must be absolutely earnest and honest in the pursuit of this foundation principle, and if you are, then nothing can mislead you, and the Holy Ones will never permit you to be deceived, for they love you with a love transcending the love of a mother for her child, the love of a bride for her husband, or the love of the. husband for the bride. There is no love on earth that is so pure, so strong, so enduring, as the love of the Holy Ones for the children of earth who desire to know God and to do his will. Therefore, we repeat, consecrate your life to God, seek righteousness above all things, and you will be brought to

know; as God said by the prophet Isaiah, "Thine eyes shall see thy teachers; and thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, this is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left."

While we have been trying to impress upon your mind the ministration of Holy Ones, remember that these always come to you as angels, messengers of God, that Jesus the Christ, who took on him the seed of Abraham, who was a high and holy one before he did so, is the door, the means of entrance into that Eternal Brotherhood for the people of this planet, and truly did he say, "I am the door of the sheep. All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out and find pasture." Again he said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber." If there were not other ways of obtaining occult powers and a consciousness of the souls that inhabit the spirit side of life, Christ would not have spoken of those who climb up some other way, but there being another way, he came to inform, to instruct, to guide his people, through his angel messengers, into the way of immortality.

Those who climb up some other way are never accepted as members of the Eternal Brotherhood; they may gain certain powers, and many do gain powers, but they use them for their own selfish purposes, and verily, they have their reward, which is a temporary gratification, and a reaction of great sorrow, pain, and regret. But you who enter that Eternal Brotherhood through Christ, are introduced to the Father, to the Elohim, the God of the planet earth, and we wish to say to all who are seeking oneness with the Father that, if your life is united to the Christ and you love him because of his goodness, gentleness, and careful effort to lead you to know the Father, then will the love of God, the Father, be thrown around you so

that the words of the Lord by Moses will be justified in your case, namely, "For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.” For, rest assured, there is no mortal whose love and faithfulness can be half so enduring as the love and faithfulness of God through his angels to you. And know also the truth of the words of the Lord Christ, "My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine." For, if you have the will to do his will-notwithstanding all things else in life may be to the contrary-then will you have with you the whole army of the heavens and the power of the Infinite, so that nothing can prevail against you for a moment.

Divine peace be with you.

force in to-day to rival or We linger in the ruins of the and shelter and organs, nor

"We cannot part with our friends. We cannot let our angels go. We do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in. We are idolaters of the old. We do not believe in the riches of the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence. We do not believe there is any recreate that beautiful yesterday. old tent where once we had bread believe that the spirit can feed, cover, and nerve us again. We cannot again find aught so dear, so sweet, so graceful. But we sit and weep in vain. The voice of the Almighty saith, 'Up and onward for evermore!' We cannot stay amid the ruins. Neither will we rely on the new; and so we walk ever with reverted eyes, like those monsters who look backwards."

PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE.

By L. D. N.

The growth and development of our modern civilization may be considered as a distinct cycle, from its first beginnings in the chaotic and discordant elements of the Middle Ages in Europe to the culminating point now reached, when the added elements, called into existence during centuries of intense activity and tireless progress, are passing beyond control, and threaten to resolve themselves into a chaos even darker than that from which our civilization was evolved.

This has been the history of each great race in the past; for, hand in hand with every effort made toward so-called civilization, has gone a train of evils that was powerful enough to counterbalance any good, and, sooner or later, has swamped the nation receiving the benefits of civilization.

Humanity the humanity of the twentieth century-stands on the edge of an abyss which, as the cycle draws to a close, perceptibly yawns to receive it; the forces that have led man into his present dangerous position are coalescing and combining for his ultimate overthrow.

Many of the units of society are in the position of a cripple without a crutch, blindfolded, and compelled to cross over a raging torrent on a single unstable plank.

Scientific research has been the principle factor in upbuilding the present civilization; and, having begun in a revolt against the senile theologies, with their nature-hating creeds, it took an ever increasing trend toward materialism.

Science rejected the creeds of priest-craft, but absorbed its cant, intellectual tyrany, and selfishness. Materialistic science

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