world to the realms of the spirit. The seer and the prophet are now at their best, for to them the veil has grown almost transparent, and into their heart of hearts that divine light is shining which shone during the golden age. Ripened by the years, these unique individuals draw inspiration from that mysterious planet which, in vast and undiscovered orbit, revolves far outside of Neptune. To speak precisely, they are guided by the solar hierarchy having charge of that hidden world until, in the immeasurable ages to come, it shall have evolved its own rulers.

We have followed the ideal human being through the biblical years, the three score and ten of his appointed life. Now, as he enters upon what is known as borrowed time, the periods of seven years no longer are his to develop and mature in. He has come into the cycle of tens; therefore let him begin to set his house in order, for henceforth the sun forces which helped his three-fold growth, are drawing him away from the earth. From his seventieth to his eightieth year, the solar hierarchy that presides supreme over the physical world, reverses the process whereby it assisted the development of his physical body, and so the man is aging.

If one in his eighty-first year cling to life, then, until his ninetieth year and after, the solar hierarchy that rules supreme over the moon is drawing upon his astral body. The old man's will is vacillating, and easily he is led into matters

which once his better judgment would have denounced. From his ninetieth to his one hundredth year, one is in the third period of ten years. Therefore the solar hierarchy sovereign over Mars is drawing on his desire body. Now he knows of his days that there is no pleasure in them, but mere animal love of living may carry him even to the century mark, that boundary set to normal human life.

Despite the penalty, one may struggle on through another ten, those years of unnatural longevity when the solar hierarchy sovereign over Saturn is drawing on his brain mind until in intellect he becomes a mere child, and perhaps even less. Should one attain the phenomenal age of one hundred and ten, it would be well-nigh impossible for him to continue, because the solar forces, operative since the expiration of his alloted three score and ten years, will then have pulled upon that material part, his entire lower quaternary.

The ages of the antediluvians have been greatly exaggerated. Those ages as given in Genesis were confused, or mis-translated, or tampered with, or, what is not improbable, they refer occultly to the life periods of the Lunar Fathers. Never since the middle Atlantean period, when the human race was most material, has the life-span deviated much from the years as above given. Still we grant the possibility of life's extension to the years indicated by the figures 120, or 130, or even 140. Any one

reaching the extreme, has done so despite the fact that the immortal triad has successfully resisted the solar forces with which it corresponds. Of such a one it can be said that he has survived his ten periods of seven, and his seven periods of ten. We do not deny that even then history can furnish instances of a greater age, for always there are exceptions which prove the rule.

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HEATHEN GODS

HEN certain Eastern masters first assured their students in the West that thoughts are veritable things moulded by the human mind from the substance of the mental plane, the statement was questioned by more than a few. To-day the Mental Scientists, and kindred cults, teach this truth concerning thought, together with many other truths, most of which were taken without acknowledgment from the ancient wisdom of the

Orient.

The original teaching in respect to thoughts was an under-statement rather than an over-statement, for these often are more than mere things. To illustrate: the spirit likenesses sometimes appearing on photographic plates are of two kinds; first, those of deceased beings whose astral shapes are visible because clothed in a plasm from the body of some medium there, and, second, the likenesses

of living or deceased persons shaped by the mind or minds of one or more of the company, and then clothed in like manner. It is difficult and sometimes impossible to separate the two kinds of photographs, for the faces of these thought forms are usually filled with a certain life resembling that of veritable beings.

The ancient Atlanteans created malignant thought forms; these, filled with a semblance of life, persecuted the enemies of the adapts in the black art. But, more diabolical than such constructions of the ingenious and scheming mind, were the thought forms moulded gradually by ignorant and superstitious peoples urged on by a fanatical priesthood. Many heathen gods owed their origin to such methods.

Concerning idols, though every heathen temple held images of various gods, none but the ignorant regarded them otherwise than as means of concentration, for it was evident that while Moloch, for instance, was represented by a hundred idols, he, himself, was a unit and apart from them.

Of monstrous shapes gotten from a thousand misconceptions of the Divine, and embodying the very essence of jealousy and vindictiveness, those heathen gods dominated their worshippers as never man has dominated his fellows. Abnormal products of human thought, they exhibited certain vampire traits for, during the debasing rights of an appropriate worship, they drew from their

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frenzied priests, and the swayed multitude around, a certain semi-physical plasm which rendered them visible to the psychic sense of members of the inner circle as hideous, terror-inspiring caricatures of human kind.

Men are prone to selfishness, and to a forgetting of the Author of all good, and so in most ancient times, Jehovah-then the regent of this planet— commanded that altars of sacrifice be lifted in his name as a perpetual reminder that cheerful giving calls down a blessing from on high. As for the vampire gods, when semi-materialized during the rights of their worship, they so nearly approached the state of veritable beings that the odor of burnt offerings, especially of burning human flesh, was both agreeable and nourishing. What wonder that, because of such abominations, Jehovah issued the emphatic command: "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."

THE TRUE MISSION OF JESUS

BEHOLD

H. P. B.

EHOLD the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment in the earth. Jeremiah xxiii, 5. And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not least among the princes of Juda; for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people