App. I. they were certainly Danites, and possibly some of Simeon and Asher, as these three tribes were on the south of Palestine, near to Egypt, with the Mediterranean coast near their border. The Danites were the shipowners of Israel. "Why did Dan remain in ships?" (Judges 5, ver. 17). Dan and Simeon were protected by the territory of Benjamin, which was at that time part of a separate kingdomthat of Judah. The King of Assyria therefore could not attack Dan, Simeon, and Asher, without going through the territory of the kingdom of Judah, and probably members of these three tribes had a chance of escaping. 5 Eldad, an eminent Jewish writer, tells us that: "In Jeroboam's 10 day, 975 B.C., Dan refused to shed his brother's blood, and rather than go to war with Judah, left the country, and went in a body to Greece, to Javan [the British Isles], and to Denmark." Professor Tanner, M.R.A.C., F.C.S., who has specially studied the subject, in 1873 read a paper at a Conference held in Kensington 15 Palace Gardens, in which he said: "Careful historic research has also shown that about 580 B.C. there. arrived in Ireland a Hebrew prophet [Jeremiah] and the princess of an Eastern monarch [Tea Tephil, having with them, amongst other sacred treasures, a remarkable Stone [Jacob's Stone, known as the Coronation Stone], the 20 possession of which was believed to convey a promise of a perpetual sceptre.' 30 Interesting Evidence. "An Ulster prince had just been chosen as Hermoun-elect, to reign over Ireland. Thus Eochaid was crowned Hermoun of Tara, and the seat of government at this time took its 25 new name of Tara-a Hebrew word signifying 'The Law of the Two Tables.' There appears to have been a complete Hebrew revolution effected at the time the Stone, the Seed Royal, and the Standard of Judah were set up. For it is not alone in the name of the Stone (Lia Fail, the Stone Wonderful), in the changed name of the place from Lothair Groffin to Tara, and the Standard itself (the Lion of the tribe of Judah), that we have Hebrew words and indications, but the Iodhan Moran (Chief Justice of Ireland), the Ollam Folat (the Prophet), and the Rectaire (the Judge), were not only Hebrew names or things, but they were, as all existing on the same spot, indicative of the introduction of an entire Hebrew system and of the unhesitating confidence and obedience with which all these things, persons, and offices with strange names were accepted, and allowed to supplant the national institutions and nomenclature, and have continued in use to the present time."‡ ISRAEL IN THE LATTER DAYS. Unless we understand the history of the Israelites, it is impossible to correctly comprehend what is going to happen at the end of this evil dream-world in its final political and religious developments, or even to * After Naphtali was taken captive, Asher would be unprotected and would probably flee by sea. + "Ollam Fola of Tara, the prophet and legislator of King Eochaid. . . . The figure of Ollam Fola is even now to be seen, with that of Moses and other great legislators, in the Grand Hall of the Four Courts in Dublin" ("The Ten Tribes," by Col. Garnier, pp. 99, 100). Dr. Kelly, Professor of History at Maynooth, says: "The time of the existence of Ollam-Fola had, by the balance of deduction of the most learned and dispassionate of their scholars, been reluctantly admitted to be brought as near to the time of the Prophet Jeremiah, without mention of his name, as if they had been working to bring out such result." Exception has been taken to some of Professor Tanner's statements; for instance, that the lion had any connection with Ireland. 35 40 45 59 App. I. Page Line 28 Is. 27: 13 interpret the Bible correctly, and so gain the enormous advantage of its wise instructions of how to deal with the events now happening and about to happen, by recognising and scientifically destroying evil through the realisation of Truth and Love as 285 5 omnipotent and omnipresent. The Bible is full of references to the actions of the Israelites in the latter days. For instance, the references to those "on the holy mountain" are prophecies with regard to the lost ten tribes, namely, those who know how to pray rightly by realising God. Again, the description of the final material 10 battles, shows not only the races involved, but the victors in the fight and how the end is brought about, namely, by the action of God due to the dawn of spiritual understanding and true mental, spiritual activity, conferring on man his rightful dominion over all the earth. "England is the policeman of Europe," it has been said. Some think 15 that this temporal power which she has wielded since obtaining the mastery of the seas, as foretold in Rev. 16, ver. 3, is declining. 51 At the period therein referred to, the Gentile navies, consisting of thousands of vessels, and hundreds of thousands of men, were taken and destroyed in the victories from the Armada to Trafalgar, which 20 left England the undoubted mistress of the seas. 399 6 33 389 34 525 There seems to be no reason to believe that England's mastery of the sea is declining. It is not so nakedly evident as it was in the period after Trafalgar, but, for all fighting purposes, it remains much the same. Our nearest rival was Germany. Our relative 25 strength may be said to have been as three to one against them at sea. But our relative power against France in times of peace was very rarely greater than this in the past. After 1840 it was certainly much less. In the old days the effective navies were Great Britain, France, Holland and Spain. To-day the effective navies are: 30 Great Britain, America, Japan, France and Italy. France, Holland, and Spain did once combine against us; but in any future war against England, the navies of other countries might safely be regarded as eliminating each other. The more Continental nations enter into shipbuilding competition, the stronger becomes our 35 power-not our relative power to the navies of the world, but our actual battle power. Any Triple Alliance, if they attacked us now at sea, would only lay themselves open to a combination of the British fleets with the French and American, and possibly the Russian. The American Navy, for fighting purposes, may be ranked 40 second strongest. If all the Gentile Powers of the world combined, a very unlikely move, the fleets of Israel would still, even on paper, hold the supremacy. Their real war value is, of course, immensely 383 superior in personnel, and in possession of dockyards and strategic bases. 15 38 23 The real and final mastery of the world, however, is an absolute 38 17 mastery, because it is entirely mental, spiritual. The habits of truth- 100 40 App. I. fulness, justice, order, and last, but greatest of all, love, have made Great Britain what she is, and will keep her at the head of the world, as the final battles are waged: the invisible battle of Armageddon, the destruction of evil through the power of right thinking, and the more material struggle shortly to be commenced, unless the thoughts can be destroyed. The wealth of character that distinguishes the English-speaking race can no more be hidden nor trodden underfoot than can the heavens, because it is God-given, it is the real man breaking through the mist, it is of God. Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true The Control of the Destinies of the World for Good. The control of the destinies of the world that the lost ten tribes, the English-speaking races, with their brethren, are assuredly to 15 have at the miscalled "end of the world" is absolute, because it is the control of good over evil, the final, permanent end of evil and limitations of every kind and description. We each of us must exercise dominion over evil, and so establish our birthright with the object of helping our fellow-men, whether of our own race or of 20 other nationalities and other religious views. On the very Arms of England are the words: "Dieu et mon droit ["God and my right"]. What right is this? It is the birthright. The children of Israel in these latter days are proving and will continue to prove to the world the value of right thinking, the power 25 of Mind as the Principle of good and spiritual life, demonstrating the power of God. "Thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God" (Is. 43, ver. 1, 12). To-day the following prophecy, as you will have seen, is fulfilled: 30 "Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God" (Hosea 1, ver. 10). 35 The Glorious Destiny of the Children of Israel. We have to fulfil our destiny as declared to Moses on Mount Sinai. when through his realisation of God he apprehended the truth so clearly as to even hear its human expression in the following words: "If ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye 40 shall be a peculiar treasure a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation" (Ex. 19, ver. 5, 6). Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified" (Is. 49, ver. 3). If we keep the covenant and continually think good, namely, that man is spiritual and perfect, we become steadily better, and ultimately become the instrument 45 through which all evil is finally destroyed by the knowledge of truth. It is a glorious fact that those of the English-speaking race are heirs to 66 "King John." THE GLORIOUS DESTINY OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. App. I. and undoubtedly will be the first recipients of the magnificent promises still due to the descendants of Abraham. Upon them is conferred the joyous privilege of dispensing the satisfying riches of scientific truth to the world, and so bringing to all mankind "the 384 32 5 peace of God, which passeth all understanding" (Phil. 4, ver. 7). In this way they bless, and in return are blessed by, those to whom they impart the knowledge of Truth. 397 12.45 Victor Hugo wrote, in his eulogy of England: "Over that sea, in calm majesty, lies the proud island whose existence consoles 10 me for a thousand Continental crimes, and vindicates for me the goodness of Providence. Yes, yes, proud England; thou art justly proud of thy colossal strength-more justly of thy god-like repose. 398 13 Stretched upon the rock, but not like Prometheus, and with no evil bird to rend thy side, rests the genius of England. He waits his 15 hour, but counts not the hours between. He knows that it is rolling up through the mystic gloom of ages, and that its chariot is guided by the iron hand of destiny." Jesus, it may be recollected, said: "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel" (Matt. 15, ver. 24). He knew that 20 at that time the world was not ready for his teaching, but that when the world was unselfish enough, then the lost ten tribes, the English-speaking race, would understand what he was teaching, act upon it, and this suffering world would disappear for ever in an awakening to eternal bliss. 25 30 173 15 3 Let every man who claims the title "man," claim also his right of permanent and perfect existence, and fall into the ranks in this 401 25 final fight, the ranks of right thinking, and its consequent right 393 doing. This will ensure the rapid attainment of that permanent universal peace which always must follow right thinking. 68 7 4,29 Since the above was written, I treated to obtain accumulating 167 proof of the fact that we are the lost ten tribes. It will not be surprising to those who have understood what has been said that at 168 20 once, in a so-called miraculous way, I came, for the first time, across Captain B. de W. Weldon, an English officer, who had been able 35 to set this question at rest through his special experience and 403 28 military knowledge. The workings of divine Principle are shown 405 when it is mentioned that he had never given an hour to the elucidation of the prophecies of the New Testament, and equally no 528 time had been lost by me through trying to do what had been so 40 efficiently done by him with regard to the Old Testament. Captain Weldon has written a book called "The Evolution of Israel," in which he gives details of the wanderings of the lost eleven tribes, and shows that the principal movements of these tribes and many important dates are prophesied in an unmistakable manner. * Published by Harrison & Sons, 4, Pall Mall, S.W. 285 11 281 14 See Note V on page 606. Or lesser breeds without the law- For heathen heart that puts her trust And guarding calls not Thee to guard- 25 30 Value of Historical Evidence.-Previously it has been shown 35 how what we call history is merely an apparently periodical repetition of events happening all at the same time, and which individually are only counterfeits, or taken as a whole are re-counterfesances of actual facts in the real world, called heaven. These periodical repetitions enable us to check our readings of the prophecies, and so accurately foresee future troubles. Taken in time, the evil thoughts can then be easily destroyed. * Copied, with Mr. Kipling's permission, from the "Times" of July 17th, 1897. 40 |