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GOLDEN TEXT "Out
of Egypt have
my
Son."
EXPLANATION OF THE LESSON.

The student must understand in the beginning of his work that the Bible is a symbol of the true meaning of the Truths as The birth of Jesus and the birth of Christ Jesus taugh them. Jesus was the man of are entirely separate and distinct births. The Christ is the flesh IN whom the Christ was to be born.
real idea or
understanding of what
is
God
is,
and where
God
is.
The
Christ
in
every
man and woman, every boy and

is
girl,and
the Christ
WITHIN YOU
of Jesus
is
what Jesus taught.
The
birth
that taken in the Written
and born
at
mixed with the birth of the Christ so Word the two are supposed to be one the same time. Jesus was a great teacher, and
Herod was
a great king.
destroy
Herod represents the material forces, which are ever ready to all good, and Jesus is the representative of the good
is
I
that cannot
be destroyed. He darkness "Out of Egypt have
the Light that
comes out of
called
my
son."
LESSON
First
I.
Chapter of Matthew,
1.
1st to
16th verses.
Verse
Question
Who
were the wise men?
What do
East.
they represent?
The awakened They came from the Question What the phrase? Answer The of the New Born Sun of the Ancients
Answer
soul.
is
significant in
birth
arose in the Eastern horizon.
Jesus Christ
is
the symbol of the
which
Verse
New Born
is
Sun, which he taught as the Christ, the Son of
God
born into each Awakened Soul.
2.
Question
is
Where
is
is
he that
is
born King of the
Jews?
Who
the King of the Jews? the King of the Jews.
Answer
The Christ
Question WHERE
Verse
3.
IS
HE?
DO YOU KNOW?
the
Question Why was Herod,
king of Judea,
troubled?
Answer
The
reign of the
represents wickedness.
GOOD.
the
All evil
is
new king was at hand, and Herod He was an evil king. All evil fears troubled when the Christ is born within
Kingdom
4.
of the Heart.
Verse
the people together.
"He gathered all the Chief Priests and Scribes of He demanded of them WHERE Christ
SHALL BE BORN."
Why did he demand the Christ? and Scribes of the people Answer The
Question
chief Priests
are the
accumulation of the rulers of the

evil to
flesh
and the world.
Were
KNOW WHERE
5.
Christ
is
born he would be destroyed.
They demanded
Verse
Christ
the Christ to destroy him.
Jesus was
born
in
Bethlehem of Judea, but the'
was not
6.
yet born.
Verse
verse.
The promise
of the Christ to
come
is
given
in this
Jesus was born, but a "Governor
SHALL come
that
shall rule the people Israel."
Verse
7.
Have you ever harkened
to
the voice of Herod,
the evil king that rules you?
What
does he ask?
He asks what time the Question Why did he do Answer That he might know
Answer
this?
star appears.
his dwelling plase.
Evil does
not
know
8.
the Christ.
It
seeks only to destroy.
Verse
This
is
the betrayer of every Soul.
The
illusions
of the powers and
wisdom
of the
flesh.
Verse
9.
What
did the wise
men do when
they heard the
king?
Answer
This
is
They departed.
the departure of the soul
and the illusions would destroy the birth of the new king Christ. After the awakened soul turns away from evil and illusion the Star, which is the Christ born WITHIN you IN you, the flesh of
from the temptations of evil and promises of the material desires which
you, the
Verse
STABLE
11.
of a
KING.
treasures and gifts of gold
Question
What do the
us
and frankincense and myrrh represent?
Answer
Christ
All the
is
All the
purity and truth of the soul.
When
the
born
WITHIN
we
lay
all
our treasures
at his feet.
THOUGHTS
who
and
DESIRES
of purity, righteousness
and goodness are the gold and frankincense and myrrh of the
Ancient Wise men,
age.
were the
AWAKENED
souls of that
Verse 12.
Question
Of whom were they warned?
God WITHIN them, which they knew and warned and protected them from turning back into darkness and illusion.
Answer
recognized,
The
Did they obey? Answer They departed

Question
birthright, the
to
their
own
country,
their
own
home
of the Christ.
is?
Do you know
Verse 13.
child Jesus to
where that
Question
Why
was Joseph warned
to take the
Egypt?
Answer
Egypt
the great Saviours were taught the Truths there. Jesus
symbol of the
symbols of the
was the home of the Ancient Truths. was New Born Sun taught by the mysteries and
Osiris, the
All
the
the
God
of the Egyptians.
would seek him even to destroy him forever, and Egypt held the knowledge which was to give him life and power to save his people.
evil hosts
The
Verse 14.
Question
Why did he go by
night?
it
Answer This is the night of the Soul, the tomb wherein awakens to dawn or enlightenment. The Soul must start darkness on its journey for Light.
Verse 15.
in
Question
How long did

It is
they remain in Egypt?

vibrations.
Isis.
Answer
Until the
came
is
destruction of
all evil
Egypt represents darkness.

1
the veiled
"OUT OF EGYPT HAVE CALLED MY SON."

darkness
soul,
light,
Out of
which
the
from mother of
Isis,
the Christ
is
born within the
Christ.
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THE BEGINNING OF MIND OR MENTAL HEALING.

Golden Text.
paths straight."
''Prepare ye the
way
of the Lord,
make
His
John the
Water
is
Baptist
came baptizing with
water.
the
symbol of Mind.
the Christ, because the
He was,
Mind
is
therefore, the forerunner of
the Builder of the Soul
the
finder of the Christ.
"Prepare ye the
way
of
the Lord,
make
His paths straight."

it
Mind
is
the builder of the Soul and
prepares
for the concepto
tion or reception of the Christ.
John here warns them
make
"the paths straight."
Only
straight, sincere,
pure thoughts can
make
straight paths,
and these are the only paths for the Lord,
or Christ.
"Repent
ye, for the
kingdom
of one
of heaven
is at
hand."
His was the voice

wilderness of
crying in the wilderness
in the
error and illusions and
wrong
thinking, living,
and teaching.
There was very
little
difference in the accepted teachings of
those days and now.
The Pharisees were
great
spiritualists,
it
and produced phenoproduced

at this
mena
to even
greater extent than
is
day
They, built the temples
and synagogues, and they worshippe
where they might be seen and heard.

ligious worship a great
They made
all
their re-
show and with many ceremonies. They

is al-
were very orthodox, and the orthodox religion of to-day
most
identical
with the Pharisees.
They
believed in the prestrictly
existence and immortality of
the soul.
They adhered
to the "traditions of the elders," and held to the literal interpretation of the
Law
of Moses, just as
sects, divided,
all
orthodox do to-day.
There were
for
many
contending, striving
more
material gains
else.
and self-glory and self-righteousness than
anything
All classed as a
whole were
as they
are
to-day, those
who
as
had wandered away from the
TRUE
teachings of the Ancients,

it
who did not live much divided and

Many
knew
they
of these
the Truth and
knew
not.
They were
of to-day.
antagonistic as are the

to John, attracted
many
by
came
his teachings.
They
the law of
phenomena, and were of negative
natures, yet
came
to an
it.
acknowledgment of the power of the Mind,
and accepted
This water baptism taught by John
is
the Baptism of Mind.

in this
Mind or Mental Healing has accomplished wonders

age.
It
has attracted
all
sects
and
all
people.
Yet John ad-
mitted a greater teacher was to come.

"I
indeed baptize
you with water unto repentance; but he

is
that
cometh
after
me
mightier than
I,
whose shoes
am
not
worthy to bear; he
with
Fire.
shall baptize
you with the Holy Ghost and
With the Mind we

away.
repent.
Repentance means the turning

evil
If
We
do not repent of an
IT.
deed until we
FORSAKE
wicked
act,
IT TURN AWAY FROM

and
are sorry
we commit
for a time, but
do the same thing or something*
equally as bad
we have
not
REPENTED.
We
cannot attain purity, and
goodness, and Truth until
we
do repent TURN
evil thought,
AWAY FROM
it.
EVIL.
If
we
repent of an
we
stop thinking
it,
Stop thinking
or locates where
and
it
will
stop coming.
It
never lingers
it is
not welcome.
As long
as
you hold an unit
kind, selfish, angry, envious, evil thought,
you have made
welcome.
It
cannot enter where
it is
refused.
Where
is
the
DOOR
IS
CLOSED.
wrongly.
The way
Just as
to repent, therefore,
to refuse to think
John warned the Pharisees and Sadducees:

fruits
"Bring forth, therefore,

u
meet for repentance."
And THINK
NOT TO SAY WITHIN YOURSELVES

still
we
have Abraham to our father."

This means that they cannot repent and
old, uninterrupted, literal
follow the same

for the teachings
If
meaning of the law;

a
of
Abraham had become
symbol worship
it.
in the flesh.
they
repented, they must forsake
They must forsake
it if
they brought forth
fruit.
Good
deeds are
fruit.
Good
thoughts produce good deeds
and are retained by the Soul.
The Holy Ghost and
Fire
comes
after repentance
and turning
OF THE MIND
the
away from
the material laws of the flesh
or
o*
Law
of Abraham.
Fire
The Holy Ghost and

Water, because
It is
it is
Baptism
is
greater
is
than Mind
of the Soul.
that
The Soul
the
LIFE of man.
that part of
man
LIVES.
This baptism of the Christ or Soul gathers the wheat

is
which
up the
goodness and
Truth
into
the garner, and
burns
chaff
evil.
Jesus came to John to be baptised by him. John

here of his
is
doubtful
own
teachings.
Though
Jesus
knew
all
that
John
taught, ye he also
tion of
all
knew
that love,
and harmony, and co-operagreater strength and
material
laws gave
power
to
them
both.
it
Jesus said: "Suffer

to fulfil
all
to be so
now;
for thus
it
becometh us
righteousness."
John could not have known him
had he refused to have acknowledged him.
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THE TEMPTATION OF JESUS.

Golden Text
"Thou
shalt
worship the Lord thy God, and
Him
only shalt thou serve."

also, into the
Jesus was lead,

terial desires
wilderness of the errors of
ma-
and
illusions.
The wilderness here

of the worldly
is
is
the material, the flesh, the
DESIRES
The
things.
He was tempted
of
the devil.
devil
the
man
of sin, of materiality, of deception, of greed,
of
lust,
and of
all
wrong.
these things.
Thus Jesus was tempted of
We
read where he had just been baptized or developed
men-
tally as far as
man
could attain.
He
possessed
great concen,
tration, for
was he not tempted
to turn stones into bread?
He
was hungry, the material within him was clamoring

obeyed, but
it
to be
was
also
SELF
calling out to
him
to minister
unto
it.
Here was the
test.
If
he could turn stones into bread,

influence over other things? the
greatest
how
He
much
greater
power could he
could gain much.
He could become
phenomena
the temp-
producer the world had ever

tation
known. He RESISTED
by declaring that man could not
live in the material alone
but must live by the
word of God, and God does not become
material desires and longings.
Then again he
attained greater
power
in
mentality.
He
attained the pinacle of the
Temple.
What
temple?
is
The temple which
the
body
And
tried to
his
mind tempted
him
lift
the temple of the Christ.
the desires of the flesh again
weaken him.
all
When
he had absolute control of the
body through
laws for his
mental laws,
why
should he not use these
own
benefit, to
himself up to the highest point
among men?
tempting the
If
Thus he
reasoned.
But he knew the
flesh
was
God
within him.
Many
of us are so tempted.
God
we
be God, and has given His angels charge concerning
us, if
KNOW
Why
whom
we know
God
should
as
God, why not
attain the heights of
the world?
we
not have the highest place? Could
we
fall if
the powers of the angels of righteousness?

are
But for
we arguing
thus
for SELF or for
self-
LESS?
So Jesus
said:
''Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God."
And now we
read how, as he developed
more and more,
the
temptations were greater.
He
er,
realized
all
that he
might do.
He was
possessed of powall
mighty power, so much so that the kingdoms of
the
world
bow
to him. able to control them.

to
He was
He could
rule over them.

All he
He
to
was powerful enough
make
his
all
himself a king.
had
do was to abuse or misuse

This
It is
power.
face in development.
It
is
a temptation
we
the crossing of the roads.
is
where the
flesh
spiritual leads
entirely
away from
the flesh, or
where
triumphs over the
spiritual.
Here
It is
is
where many,
many
fall,
and have
fallen.
where leadership gains the control of Mastership.

is
The Master
one
who
has served, and struggled, and
is
will-
ing to go on serving for love of good and humanity's
sake.
Leadership
is
too often
swallowed up
in
vanity and self-glory.
"Thou
shalt
worship the Lord thy God, and
Him
only shalt
thou serve/'
Jesus turned
away from
all
the
alluring, tempting,
dreams
of power and
greatness.
"Then
the devil leaveth him, and behold the angels
came and
ministered unto him."

All forces
and vibrations of good gathered around him.

into Galilee
"Then he departed
and began to preach."
"And
saw
the
people which sat in darkness (spiritual darkness)
great light;
and to them which

is
sat in the region
and shad-
ow
of death light
sprung up."
Those
in the region
and shadow of death were those soul

is
which were nearing destruction. Death

soul.
the destruction of the

It
The developed
those
soul cannot see death.
lives
forever.
And
who
allow the lusts and temptations of the materialin the
ity to
overcome them were
shadow of
death.
He taught
and de-
them Truth, and they saw the

p arted, repented of
evil.
light of life, of Truth,
We
The
find
him organizing.
all
Note that
live,
he called immediately followed him.
earnest seeking student
WILL
follow.
There were no reckoning and guesses, no disputation.
They knew
Scoffers
the Truth, and desired
it.
have pointed to them as ignorant and uneducated
fishermen.
They were
fishermen, but
in life.
remember the
great souls
do not seek the easy places
Development comes only through

with
life.
struggles and experience
The hardship and

Truths.
the
toil
of this
life
open our eyes to
many
When
flesh,
it
the soul
is
seeking for reincarnation or rebirth in the
seeks the souls in
harmony with
its
own.
Now we have
men and
world,
the secret of one great law.
The man who
desires to
know and
understand
men's hearts must be able to understand the

the humblest of this world.
least of the
We
do not speak against education, but education cannot
develop the Soul.
They were uneducated

in their
lives,
in the text
books of
colleges of that time
but had gathered greater

in
knowledge through experience and perhaps

ence.
former
exist-
But they
left
immediately
all
material gain and seeking and
followed after Truth,
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THE TRUE HIDDEN LAWS.
"Where your treasure
is,
there will
your heart
"Take heed
heaven."
that ye
do not your alms before men to be seen

is
of them; otherwise ye have no reward' of your Father which

in
When we do
another,
good deed, or when we show

have
it
a kindness to
we
like to
appreciated,
We
want
to be recog-
nized as having done
good, and so
opportunity to do these things
many of where we feel
us watch for the
they will
shine
for us and give our true character to the world.
But the world would not long remember, and even
if it
did,
some one
take our
else
with another deed could easily outshine us or
place.
The world does not know good

our
deeds.
We
We We
only
know
within
own
souls whether the deed
we have
committed be good or bad.
We know
our
MOTIVES.
if
know whether we have done
a thing for self or for others.
know when we
Jesus
truly sacrifice for others,
and
we do
is
so, as
commanded, we
care not whether the deed

if
ever recog-
nized or not by the world
we have
it
recorded in our soul.

is
The Soul
and what
is
the
Book
of Life.
do,
It
the Recording Angel,

all
we
think,
what we
and what we say are
writ-
ten in that
Book
of Life.
We
need not sound a trumpet before us when we do good.
We
must do
it
for the soul's sake and not for the sake of oth-
ers' praise
and approval.
This
alms,
is
what Jesus means when he says "When thou doest

left
let
not thy
hand know what thy
right
hand doeth."
Care not for the praise,nor the glory, nor the commendation
you expect
to
get,
but do the good because

to
YOU WANT TO
right, or
DO
IT.
You must want
do that which
is
you
will
never accomplish anything in the Spiritual.
We
are
taught
how
is
to pray.
Prayer
is
desire,
it is
also a
vibration, for desire
vibration or
if it is
current of thought.
Any
kind of prayer
not
self
is
acceptable
sincere
and
earnest.
is
We need
INNER
and
fer-
go into a dark room to pray.
The
closet
the
THE
And
SOUL, where
as
the desire
is real,
and
true,
if
vent.
we pray we must
are
forgive others
we
forgive
ourselves.
We
that
praying to the
God WITHIN,
not to the
clouds and sky, to an imaginary Being.

IN,
We
must pray
WITH-
knowing
we have
or
the
power
to be
what we
will to be,
feeling that
God
our true
self.
Good is all power, and that the power is Then we will know that we must forgive or we
cannot be forgiven.
There are a
their
lot
of
people
who
are
constantly boasting
to
of
power and goodness.
They wish
else,
make
people think
they are better than anyone

crites fast,
and so they
fast as the
hypo-
by pretending
to
do one thing and thinking another
within the Soul.
Do
not pretend to be better than you

it
are.
Good
will
grow
rec-
no matter where
is
planted; and
God
always knows and
ognizes the seeds
and flowers of goodness.
The world may

recognize the
never know, but the

Pearl of Great Price,
God
within the
few
will
it
no matter how deeply
is
buried in the
rubbish and trash of the thoughts of the world.
The God
that recognizes
good
is
the
God WITHIN
all
of
us.
We
know
to
the false
from
the true, the
good from the
false, if
we wish
and
rust
know and
seek to
know.
earth,
"Lay not up for yourself treasures upon

doth corrupt
where moth
and where thieves break through and
steal."
"But lay up for yourselves treasures
in
heaven, where neither
moth nor
and
steal."
rust
doth corrupt and where thieves break through
"For where your treasure
is,
there will your heart be also."

If
Your
treasure
is
what you love most.

else,
it is
you love the things
of the world more than anything

the heart.
All the things of the
us,
the secret treasure of
world
die,
they decay, and are

builded up and
taken from
stored
while the heavenly desires are
away
in the
souk
We
is
cannot build Soul of a Christ by
desires for the worldly successes
and
gain.
If
For the
light of the
body
the eye.
is full
the eye sees the
good
and loves the good, the body

ual eye
is
of light because the Spirit-
open.
evil,
"If thine eye be

ness.
If,
is
thy whole body shall be

is
full
of dark-
therefore, the light that
IN
THEE
the
is
darkness,
how
great
that darkness."
All the evil
thoughts
is
and
It
desires of
mind and
soul are
dark.
The Soul
dark.
cannot see the light of Truth and
goodness.
It is
not
necessary to dwell
all
constantly on the necessities of
life.
We
have
sufficient
unto the day thereof.
We
all
pros-
per according to our faith.
You
The
will
say: "Behold
the faith of
the rich
man, without
thought of soul or heaven."

rich
man
all
prospers
according to the faith he has within
himself.
We
prosper in our real desires.
The
rich
man
prospers of the worldly joys and pleasures because he believes
within himself the power
is
to attain to that.
The godly man
should have
trate
all faith.
We
need not, and should not, concenriches, for if we do we we should have enough faith
our faith on the accumulation of

soul, but
are liable to forget the
to provide for ourselves.
"Seek ye FIRST the kingdom of God and His righteousness and ALL these things shall be added unto you."
Seek
within
God
first
and keep
Him
always
first.
Have
faith
yourself to
realize that
you have
always.
all
WITHIN
The
he needs.
enough you the
POWERS
knows he
prosper in
daily needs,
that will
will
keep you
righteous
man
will
not suffer, that he has

peace, in
He
righteousness, in
happiness, in power, in
and the greater the power and the

will prosper.
God WITHIN
the greater
you
You cannot
prosper as the worldly
man
because his faith
within himself, while strong,

his treasures are liable to be
may
not be of a lasting faith, and

in a single
swept away
day.
is
But the prosperity

taken away.
and power of the Godlike
man
never
His treasures are in heaven, where thieves do not

steal, for there are
break through and

honesty or heaven.
no
thieves in goodness,
in
There are no
real.
evil
thoughts to break
and
tempt him away from the
God
justly.
adds
all
that
we
need.
No
righteous
man
suffers un-
His inheritance
can never be taken
away no matter
what happens.
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Golden Text
"All
things
whatsoever ye would that

is
men
should do to you, do ye even so to them; for this

the prophets."
the law and
The prophets and
all
the ancient wise

to
men
taught this law.

to
As ye would that men should do

for
it
you do ye even so
them;
do, for
will
be done to
YOU
again whatsoever
YOU
good
you
shall reap
whatever you sow.
We
all
desire
things.
WE MUST
or barley.
therefore
sow good
things.
No man would sow wheat and

and we
are
expect to have a crop of oats
Therefore, the thoughts
we sow grow
into the grain
bound
to reap
from every thought we

act
think, every
word we speak and every
we commit,
transaction, cheats another so
The man who,

that
in a business
the other's
family will
suffer,
MUST
expect that
in a
month
or a year
something
will turn up.

will
Some one
else will
cheat him, so that
HIS family
be taken.
THAT
IS
THE
LAW.
"Judge not
that ye be not judged."
hastily
Did you ever judge anyone
and then regret your
act?
You
certainly have.
feel called
When you
analyze your
yourself
if
upon
to pass
judgment upon another,

Ask
unless
own mind and

are really
thoughts toward that person.

just.
you
and truly
Judge no
man
you
KNOW. Do
you know, or do you
guess, surmise, or sus-
pect?
Have you ever given anyone
the least chance to suspect
you? The pure minded, pure souled person always thinks pure
thoughts of
all
persons.
He does
not judge openly.

first
"And
the
first
without sin must be the

first
to cast the stone."

is
Therefore, read self

if
and find out
if
every thought
true,
there
is
no weakness
All
WITHIN
weak.
yourself that might cause
you
eye,
to stumble.
flesh is
Look within your own
within
self,
and "cast out the beam within thine own eye, and
then thou shalt see clearly to cast the mote out of thy brother's
eye,"
When we
arise in
suspect or think
wrong of
another,
we should
Does
it
stop
and consider where the suspicion comes from.

our own mind?
individual
this
not
The mind, our own
mind,
is
the creator of every
thought we think. Remember

bor, friend, or
when you judge your
neigh-
your enemy.
They may be judging you.
Give the
rights.
best
you have
to give.
God
gave every
man
equal
What
Every
right
have we to
limit
one and give much to an-
other?
man
gives to himself
anyway.
We
are not the
giver to others.
We
are not the creators of other souls.
Every
man must
er's rights
create for himself,
and when we trespass on anoth-
we have broken
like to be
the law.
We
have not done to him
as
we would
This
is
done by.
"Enter ye
is
the straight gate.

is
in
at the
straight gate
for wide
struction,
the gate
and broad
the
way
that leadeth to de-
and
many
there, be that
go
us.
It is
in thereat."
There are
many
illusions
and snares to blind

is
This broad gate that
leads to destruction
it
the
SELF.
broad and wide because
demands much and absorbs much.

It is
the
enemy
that sets itself

is
up
as
goodness and Truth and
blinds us so that our soul
hidden.
The
It is
soul
is
the
REAL.
It is
the living part of us.

it
the heaven or the hell for us, for
accumulates and ab-
sorbs every created image of the mind.
"Beware of
ing, but
false prophets,
which come to you

wolves."
in
sheeps cloth-
inwardly they
are ravening
tell?
How
can
we
know them?
"By
How
can we
their fruits ye shall

tree
know them."
good
fruit,
"Every good
bringeth forth
5
but a corrupt
tree bringeth forth evil fruit/
By
their
works you
shall
know them,
A A
hate.
good, pure mind brings forth good, pure, unselfish deeds,

will not
The good man
condemn
a liar
and then
lie.
true prophet does not teach "thou shalt not hate"
and then
He does
not do the things he
condemn
in others.
Some-
times
we have
him.
to associate with a person a long while before
we
know
Even then we have no
right to judge.
see
if
We
fruit
must
is
investigate our
own
vineyard
fit
first
and
our
own
in
good condition and

spect.
to give
to others or for others to in-
"Every
tree that bringeth not forth
good
fruit is
hewn down
and
cast into the fire."

is
Every thought of the mind

the soul or saves
it,
cast into the

is
soul
It
destroys
for the
soul
self.
the
It is
receiver or retainer, the
dwelling place of our real

devils.
If
the
home
of gods or of
is
we
are
good and think good, the soul

is
good.
If
we
are
bad and think bad, the soul

is
bad.
The mind
the leader, the builder and the maker.
"Not every one thatsays unto

to the
me
Lord, Lord shall enter in-
kingdom of heaven; but he

is
that
DOETH
No
the will of
my
we
Father which
in
heaven."
We may
not think the things
we
say.
matter what
say, if
we do
not obey
the laws of the prophets, and do unto

if
others as
we would
be done by,
we do
not do the will of
God
which
is
righteousness,
we cannot
attain the Christ, the
kingdom
of heaven.
We may
leaders
be able to do wonderful works,
may
call
ourselves
and prophets, but we must do the

ourselves closely
will of
God
within
reflection,
we must examine
whether
it
and find our

it is
is self
or self-LESS, whether
for worldly gain or
Immortality.
We
must build on the Rock of Truth, for "Whosoever hear-
eth these sayings of mine, and
DOETH
them,
will liken
him
unto a wise man, which
built his
house upon a rock."
"And
the rains descended, and the floods came, and the winds
beat
blew, and
upon
a rock."
that
house and
it fell
NOT;
for
it
was
founded upon
The house
the Christ.
is
the Soul.
You
are
the
builder.
The rock
is
Be not
like the foolish
man which
fall
built
upon
the sands and
"when
house,
the floods
it fell
came and
the winds blew and beat

thereof."
upon
that
and great was the

is
The sand
the flesh, the illusions and desires of the flesh and
of evil and materiality, and rain

are
and the winds and the floods

pitfalls
the evil
temptations and the snares, and the
and
illusions of the
world and of
evil.
When we
fall,
build
the Soul full of
these thoughts
it
is
sure to
and we have not
built wisely, for
wisdom
desires
life.
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a
am
THE POWER OF UNDERSTANDING.
"I
not
come
to call
the righteous but sin-
ners to repentance."
"And he
entered into a ship and passed over and
came
to his
own
city."
"And
behold, they
brought to him a
man
sick of the palsy,
lying on a bed; and Jesus seeing
their faith, said
unto the sick
of the palsy: Son, be of good cheer, thy sins be forgiven thee."
"And
This
behold, certain of
the Scribes said
within themselves,
man
blasphemeth."
their
"And Jesus knowing

evil in
thoughts
said,
Wherefore think ye
your hearts?"
their
Not knowing the Christ, they knew not that he knew

thoughts.
There are
many
we
of
us yet with just a taint of the
Scribe within us, for
think
we
think
as
we
please and pre-
tend to be
as
we
please and
manifest a likeness to the Christ.
But the
CHRIST knows
evil.
the good thought

find this a great
from the
evil-,
and
he rejects the
And we
Truth when we see
and know the Christ.
How many
of us doubt
when we
profess to see?
Because Jesus made greater claims than they knew or even

demonstrated, they began to doubt and accuse him.
The world
changes very
little.
The worldly minded,
spiritually blind
tc
scribes of to-day
cannot understand the power of the Christ
forgive sins, just as they understood in the time of Jesus.
We
er,
tell
them to-day
that Christ lives,

old,
and has the same po wand they mock us and
and even greater power, than of
deride us and say "Blasphemers."
The Orthodox
arise in
jealousy and
scorn and say "Blas-
phemers, heretics and fools."
But
let
them show
their faith
by
their works.
?
They cannot
forgive sins.
that a
Why
They say even now

is
man who
says he can forgive sins
a liar.
Why?
know
not
Because they
where Christ
is,
where
his
power,
are
and what
it is.
They read and understand not because they
blind to the Truth.
They worship
the letter and not the
spirit.
They
God.
unite
men
to the churches, but

is
do not unite
their souls to
No man
is
it
united to
God who
thinks evil in his heart.
No man
is
united to Christ
is.
who knows
not where the Christ
and what
No man
of Christ.
is
united to
God who
to Christ
limits
and doubts the power
No man
phemer.
is
united
who
calls
him
a liar
and
blas-
WILL BE WITH YOU ALWAYS EVEN UNTO THE END OF THE WORLD."
He
said: "I
The world
orate in
progresses in every other
line,
wh> does
it
deteri-
knowledge of Christ?
should
Why
God grow
less
and
all
things else increase?

decrease, but
John the
increase."
Baptist said: "1
MUST
HE SHALL
die.
The
Christ can never

all
die.
all
His power can never

hearts, all minds,
He knows
thoughts,
and
his
power
is
unlimited and perfect even to-day.
And he
said
unto them "Whether

arise
it
is
easier to say,
thy sins
be forgiven thee, or to
and walk?"
The world does not

as to claim the
object as
much
to claiming
power of
self
power of Christ
Scribes.
Such were the
Men
create
great inventions, they
discover wonders in the
scientific world,
terial,
and would mould
their inventions into the
ma-
and the world looks on, and wonders, and worships, and
believes in the
man
himself.
But when he delves into the Spiritual, which the world can
not and will not
see, that is
blasphemy.
that the
"But that ye
may know
arise,
SON OF MAN HATH

SINS, (then
saith
POWER ON EARTH TO FORGIVE

the sick of the palsy,)
he to
take up thy bed and go unto thine
house."
And he
"And
Matthew
arose and departed to his house,
as Jesus passed forth
from them he saw
man named
sitting at the receipt of
custom; and he saith unto him
follow me; and he arose and followed him."
"And
hold
it
came
to pass as Jesus sat at
meat
sat
in the house, be-
many
publicans and sinners
came and
down
with
him
and
his disciples."
"And when
the Pharisees
saw
it,
they said unto his disciples,
Why
eatest
your Master with publicans and sinners?"

a
Now
Matthew was
prominent
man
in the land.
He was
collector of taxes at the
custom
offices,
and the Pharisees questhis
tioned not the character of Jesus
when
man was
called,
but
from the highest to the lowest followed and the publicans and
sinners came.
Then they found
fault.
What sort of a religion was this that would accept sinners and down to meat with them, thus placing them on an equal sit
basis with
all
other fellows?
The
religion of the Pharisees
was
not
so.
They were above

the temple
the publican and the sinner.
The doors of
wherein they
worshipped looked not into the soul,
but into the material position.
"And Jesus
said unto
them, They that be whole need not a
physician, but they that are sick."
"BUT
I
GO
YE AND LEARN
WHAT THAT MEANETH.

for
I
will
have mercy and not
sacrifice;
am
not
come
to call
the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
,And the
aside,
sinners came, but
the Pharisees and Scribes stood
unable to see what the sinners could see
THE CHRIST,
their souls
and they came to him because they knew him, and

responded to the promise for mercy.
They looked within and heard
the Voice of the Master.
The
Pharisees
looked without; and saw only a
man
with a
strange voice, a strange doctrine, and a strange Soul.
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hem
of his garment,
Golden Text
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Matthew
9; capter 14;
"If
may
but touch the
shall be' whole."
EXPLANATION OF LESSON.
We
And
find Jesus very successful

is
in his teaching in this lesson.
His power
as
increasing.
his character closely in this lesson,
we study
we
learn
the secret of his success, also of his power.
Every one
UNDERSTANDING. who came to him Jesus KNEW.

came clad
in
When
the Pharisees
purple and fine linens, Jesus

all
read beneath
ALL
outward covering,
to see
PRETENSE.
it.
No
evil
was too thick for him not
through
HE READ THE
He knew
SOUL.
When
the
the
sinners came, he
read in like manner.
SICK
soul,
from the
self-righteous soul.
The
sick soul stands a chance of getting well, of being healed,

its
but the soul wise in
own
conceit and self-righteousness

it
is
far
worse than the common, everyday sinner, for

blinded by
its
shuts
itself
is
out
own
illusions,
while the ordinary
sinner
blind
ed by the sins and temptations.
The one
(the Pharisee's soul)

is
is
greedily
absorbing
itself
it
while the other
searching for the
REALITY
for which
is
starving and suffering.
And
Jesus knew,
Jesus
LOVED.
Jesus
Verse
UNDERSTOOD.
14 "Then came
to
him
the disciples of
fast
oft,
John, saying:
Why
not?"
do we and the Pharisees
but thy disciples fast
Verse 15
"And Jesus
will
said to them,
Can
the children of
is
the
bridechamber mourn as long as the bridegroom
with them?
But the day
come when
the bridegroom shall be taken
from
them, and then shall they fast."
What does mean? to do without, Answer To

Question
fasting
fast
is
to refuse
to take or eat.
They
fasted as a duty to their religion.
They were without
the
bridegroom
the Soul, the CHRIST.

mental, and
Jesus here does not refer
to the material fasting, but to the spiritual.
They
did not
know
They
what he meant, because they did not understand him.

were
material and
understood
only the material
and mental laws.
With Jesus and
the Disciples
fast,
they
had the Christ
the
Bridegroom, and need not
but the Scribes and Pharisees
had him
not,
and
fasted.
Verse 16
In this
verse
we understand what
The
spiritual
(it
the whole garfit
ment must be made new.

terial
cannot
into the
ma-
any more than the material can

that the
into the spiritual. This
means
FIED,
BODY,
verse
as well as the
SOUL, must
be
PURI-
cleansed,
MADE NEW.
is
Verse 17
This
symbol of the body and Soul

full
If
we keep
the old sinful
body always
of sin
it
cannot hold to
the
the spiritual soul,

sinful body.
and the Christ soul cannot
HOLD TO
into
"But they put new wine (soul)

and both were preserved."
new
bottles
(purified bodies)
Verse 18
there
"While
a
he spake these things unto them, behold,
came
is
certain ruler,
and worshipped him, saying,
My
daughter
even
now
dead; but
come and
lay thy
hand upon
her and she shall live."
This
man came and worshipped
him, believing in him, and
trusting him.
Question
What vibrations were

LIFE.
in
motion?
father loved
Answer LOVE and

also loved Jesus,
The
much.
He
and Jesus loved much and understood.

raised the
Do
you know that each time Jesus
dead the currents of
Love were concentrated and only transferred?
The
father only desired

it
life
and
love,
and Jesus
It
KNEW
life
the
power of Love that

restore.
would
restore Jife.
gives
and can
Love
is
BUILDER.
creates,
LOVE
never destroyed a soul.
Love
builds,
save,
protects.
LOVE
when
IS
ALWAYS
SAFE.
Verse
19 Jesus
the
never once refused
help was asked.
He followed
Verse
man, and so did

behold, a
his disciples.
20 "And,
woman, which was
diseased with
an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him and touched

the
hem hem
of his garment.
Verse 21
the
"For she
said
I
WITHIN
herself, If
may
but touch
of his garment
shall be
whole."
this
if
The
vibration of
faith
and love touched
woman, and
she would
WITHIN HERSELF
be whole.
(her Soul) she realized
she but possess-
ed even a touch of absolute
PURITY
in those
and
TRUTH
Verse 23
It
was customary
days for the people to
make
a great
demonstration of grief over the dead.
They had
place of the
a place set
apart,
which was
called the "wailing
Jews," and people were hired by the mourners to
assist
them
in
giving proper feeling and demonstration to their
grief.
"And when Jesus came unto

minstrels and the people
the ruler's house and

a noise
saw the
making
Verse 24
He
said
unto them, Qive place, for the maid

to scorn."
is
not
dead but sleepeth.
And they laughed him
Their vibrations of display

broken.
Verse
which supported death were
25 "And when
will
all arise
the people were put forth, he went in
and took her by the hand, and the maid arose."
And we
body,
if
from the dead, from the

spirit
sinful soul
If
and
will
we
but allow the Christ
to touch us.
we
become subjected
hand and
"If
1
to his will he will
come and
take us by the
lift
us to Truth and Life.
may
but touch
the
hem
of his
garment
shall
be
whole."
If
we but come near enough

us and
to Christ
us,
and Truth, even

be whole.
though only the hem touches

small desire will
lift
we
shall
draw us
nearer,
and then
One we may
be of good comfort for
we have
accepted a part of him.
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ers are few."
Matthew 9th Chapter; 27th Verse

truly
plentiful, but
the labor-
Even before we come to

that even
this lesson
you
will
have noticed
among
his disciples Jesus'
fame spread more because
of his works than of the Truth he taught.
The reason
is
very
simple and
plain.
Man
believes
more
readily
what he
see,
sees with the material

is
eyes than that
which he cannot
because he
spiritually
blind to the Truths he taught.
We
a
do not read
in
one instance where he was impatient with

see
them. He
knew they could not

in the flesh
when
see;
blind.
We know why
man
And
born blind
cannot
and some of these are
not as hopelessly blind as

those
some who
are blind spiritually.
who were
blind in the flesh
were able to regain
sight far quicker than
were the Pharisees and Scribes.
The reason why.

Those born blind
those
telling
are surrounded
by those who can
see.
And
by
who
in.
see
are constantly
all
reminding them of their
loss
them of
the beauties
and
possibilities of
the world
they live
Hence, the blind

desires to see.
man knows
the world
he
is
missing something, and he
The majority
of
can
see, in a
material sense, and
the blind are few.

It is
the reverse with the development of the spiritual.
There are few

fore, the blind
who
can SEE, and
many
are blind.
There-
cannot believe.
He does not
desire sight because

loss.
he cannot be brought to the realization of his
"And when Jesus departed Verse 27

followed
thence,
two
blind
men
him, crying
us."
and saying, Thou
son of
David, have
mercy on
They were
i-n
materially
blind, but they
KNEW
and had
faith
Jesus' power.
Verse 28
For "when
to
lie
was come
into the house, the blind

1
men came
him; and Jesus said unto them; Believe ye that

this?
am
able to
do
They
comes
said unto him,
Yea Lord."
When
LIEVES,
the Christ
if
it
to the soul, or the house of Spiritual
blindness,
the soul
responds,
COMES TO HIM
and BE-
will receive sight.
They
believed and received sight.
Verse 29
"Then
it
touched he their eyes, saying,

IT
ACCORD-
ING
TO THY
so
is
FAITH BE
always.
UNTO YOU."
RECEIVE ACCORDING
And
WE
TO
OUR
FAITH.
Verse 30
"And
their eyes
were opened; and Jesus straightly
charged them, saying, See that no
"But Verse 31
fame
man know
it."
they,
when they were
departed, spread abroad
his
in all the
country."
to do, and
all
And
so ought
It is
we
those
who have
received spir-
itual sight.
ial
far greater cause for rejoicing than the materis
"Behold, they brought Verse 32
blindness, for spiritual blindness
death.
to
him
dumb man,
pos-
sessed with a devil."
There are
many
they
spiritually
dumb
also.
They do not speak

cannot, or will not,
Pride forbids some.
what
little
know
of Truth.
Some
speak for Truth.
There are
many
reasons.
Fear of opposition forbids another.

forbids others.
Fear of
If
worldly opinions
Are these not devils also?
you have them,
CAST THEM OUT

Verse 33
"When
and then you can speak.

the
devil
was
cast
it
out, the
dumb
spake,
and the multitude marvelled, saying,
was never
so in Israel."
They marvelled
at his
power because they
KNEW NOT
THE SOURCE.
less,
They
all
did not
things.
and knoweth
his
know God, that God is limitThey knew not where God is.
their e>es.
And even
great
power did not open
Blind and
dumb
were cured, yet they were not cured.
Verse 34
"But
the
Pharisees
said,
He
casteth
out devils
through the prince of the devils."
How
like the
very like
all
the world, the self-righteous world.
How
many.
orthodox creeds.
Depart from the creed and dogmas,

devils.
and you are dealing with
This
is
the reasoning of
Besides this, the self-righteous never sees his

evil.
It
own
blindness and
is
Verse 35
"And Jesus went about
always
in
some one
else.
all
the
cities
and
villages,
teaching in their synagogues, and
preaching the gospel of the
kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among

the people."
It
made no
at
difference
what they accused him
of,
how
they
laughed
him, or scorned him, nor
haw
all
they
the
dispised
him.
NOTE
THIS.
He went about doing
good he could,
healing, teaching, loving, sympathizing.
Verse 36
tudes he
fainted,
And
this is the reason:
"When
he
saw the multi-
was moved with compassion on them because they

as sheep
and were scattered abroad,
having no shep-
herd."
He
understood, did he not?

faint,
He knew they were
suffering
worn and
and were drinking the poison of the world of
illusions, of false beliefs
which could not
lift
them up from
their
condition.
Verse
is
37 "Then
is
said he
unto his
disciples,
The
harvest truly
plentiful, but the laborers are
few."
of the harvest pays far
The reward
great.
The Lord
evil
more
all
than the evil one.

that
The
one does not
pay.
He
takes
you have and gives you death and

else
destruction.
He has
nothing
to give.
It is
Do
Work,
not follow in the lure and glare of
his promise.
false.
God
See and
alone
is
Life.
therefore, for the laborers are few.
UNDERSTAND.
and the
SPEAK
and
let
DEVIL WILL FLEE. Go
preach, go teach,
not the accusations and the scorn of the world keep
you
dumb.
Cast out the devil and you will be

loves only
its
filled
its
with joy.
love
is
The world
able
own.
Even then
change-
and leads to death.

sees only the world.
The world
The
blind sees darkness.
Follow the Lord of the harvest.
The
laborers are few.
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Golden Text "And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake; but he that endureth to the end shall be saved."
This
for in
it
is
one of the strongest lessons of the
New
Testament,
we have
the direct personal injunctions of Jesus to his
disciples.
First
he called them together and gave

preach.
them power
to heal,
teach
and
They had not
as
yet attained
any great
power from their own enlightenment. The power they now had was the transferred Êth power from the Soul of Christ.
After they
received Illumination
After
they drew upon their
own
souls for power.
Illumination
and baptism of
Fire, the
power was poured into each soul, and they were never dependent upon another for guidance and assistance. This was the first time that he, sent them out to heal, teach and preach. Heretofore, though in his presence daily, they had not gained
Christ
sufficient
enlightenment to be
able to bear the message:
This
should be carefully followed by every Truth bearer.

start
Too many
out who are not properly equipped, who have not received power from the Master who guides them, or who knowing too much cannot be taught and go out teaching without authority.
No
done
person should
attempt to teach until
he has been thor-
oughly trained.
Tell the story of the Truth,
how much
it
has
FOR YOU,
and what
it
can do, but
make no
effort to set
yourself up as a leader and a teacher until
you have been thor-
oughly prepared for
it.
The
harvest
truly
is
plenteous and the laborers are few, and

all
many
teachers are needed, and a place will be open for
who
OBEY.
act
You must
from
learn to obey yourself before

others.
you may ex-
obedience
The
disciples
spent their time in

the Master
study andtraining, and
when they were ready

sent
forth,
SENT
THEM OUT.
Verse
5 ''These
Go
twelve Jesus
and commanded
them, saying,
city of the
not into the
way
of the Gentiles and into any
Samaritans enter ye not."
Verse 6 "BUT GO RATHER TO THE LOST SHEEP OF THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL. Why did he command them thus? The Gentiles and the
Samaritans were shut out.

taught his
but
Why?
lost sight
Far back where Abraham

of the Gentiles in a sense;
own
people,
we
in separation
of the
family of Noah,
we
will find that a
number
of
the Gentiles were led into Egypt.

race were Gentiles.
In fact,
all
na-
tions outside the Semitic
The Gentiles of
Asiatics.
knew the Truths, so did many of the The Jews were the most material, flesh loving people
the Egyptians
of
that
day.
Their religion was nothing but
Hence, they
were farthest
symbol and ceremonies. away from Truth of any nation.
They were
the Negatives.
backsliding, being led
They were always

they were the
away by
divers lusts
and strange people, and losing sight of the Truth. Therefore, LOST SHEEP, and needed what the others alVerse 7
ready possessed.
"And
as
ye go. preach, saying, The
Kingdom
of
Heaven
is at
Verse 8
"Heal
hand."
the
sick, cleanse the
lepers, raise
the dead,
cast out devils, freely ye
have received,
freely give."
They were
with his
able to
do
they were sent out.
all that he told them them to do before He gave them power. They were filled
own
thoughts, his instructions.
He
also tells
is
workman
All that
them to not provide for themselves, for "the worthy of his meat."
earn in the healing, cleansing and helping people
of.
we
we
are
worthy
should
Many seem
to think that a religious
healing
always be
free.
Yet
he
tells
work or them they are
worthy of
their
meat.
People should not give something for

expect something
for
nothing, neither
should they
nothing.
Spiritual benefits are the hardest to obtain of any,

er of the Spiritual really has' the hardest
and the teachany.
work
is
it
of
There
no work no matter how perfect and found fault with.

is
so difficult to
prepare and present to the people, and

beautiful
it
is
always being
Verses 11-14
He simply gives them instructions for introducBut he

tells
ing the work.

ceive
them,
"Whomsoever
shall
not
re-
you, nor hear
your words, when ye depart out of that
home
or city shake of the dust off your feet."
He does not refer to material here, but the dust of opposition and persecution. When we shake off anything we thrust it from us, we let it go, and this he advised them to do, not to
oppose and persecute in return, but to be forgotten and forgiven.
Verse 15
let all
these evil thoughts
"Verily,
say unto you,
it
shall
be more tolerable
for the land of
Sodom and Gomorrha
in
the day of
judgment
than for that city."
Sodom and Gomorrha

and awful
lusts,
perished because of
their materiality
but not
because of the rejection and persecu-
tions of the Truth.

it
had not been sent

Verse 16
They had never received the word because They had never developed to the them.
send you forth as sheep in the midst of
as
state of receptivity, being able to understand.
"Behold,
ye,
wolves;
be
therefore, wise
serpents
and harmless as
doves."
Verse 17
"But beware of men, for they

"And
you
ye
shall be
will deliver
you up
to the councils, and they will scourge
in their
synagogues."
Verse 18
brought before governors and
kings for
tiles."
my
sake, for a testimony against
them and the Genall
This
is
not against
all
Gentiles, but against
nations which
the Truth
scourge and
mock them.
Gentiles.
Not
all
the Gentiles
knew
but they were of
the ignorant
classes, for
the Ancient
Men
of
Wisdom were
them.
All
And every Jewish

were taken
leader learned
into
from
the great
leaders
Egypt-Moses,
Joseph and Jesus, before they ever taught the people.
"But when they deliver you up, take no thought Verse 19 how or what you shall speak; for it shall be given you in the same hour what ye shall speak."
"For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Verse 20 Father which speaketh IN YOU."
They were led and guided by the Spirit through Jesus. If they had not obeyed, think you it would have guided? If they had thought that they knew what to say, and would outline their program, they would have failed, as we of to-day so often do when we refuse to obey the Master who leads us.
Verse
death,
21 "And
the brother
shall deliver
up the brother to
and the father the child, and the children shall rise up against their parents and shall cause them to be put to death."
This must not be taken
in the literal sense.
The death
here
is
not material death but of the soul.
to
the soul refuses to be saved, it must be delivered up death, for brother, nor parent, nor children can save the soul that refuses to save itself.
its
When
"And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's Verse 22 sake; but he that endureth to the end shall be saved."
The world always

true
hates
those
who
conception shall be saved.

If
of
God.
if
But those
represent the Christ, the who endure to the end
we
cling to the Spirit,
we obey and
follow righteousness
we
shall save ourselves
"But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye Verse 23 into another; for verily I say unto you, ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel till the son of man is come."
from the
soul's death.
And this was true. Their Illumination was given to them long before they had preached in every city, but it was after the Crucifixion that they were baptized with the Spirit or Fire, which is the Son of Man Sun of Man, for the Soul is the Sun of the body, and is indeed the Son or sun of man.
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"Whosoever, therefore,
will
I
shall confess
me
beis
men, him
confess
also before
my
Father which
in
heaven."
This lesson
ciples.
is
a continuation of Jesus' instructions to the dis-
In the
following
verses
in the
we
will
find
many
great laws
which have been taken

gians.
literal
sense
by many theolo-
Jesus speaks very plainly, however, and very simple, direct,
and to the point.

In
Notice here that he addresses the multitudes.

direct
teaching
them personally he was always very
and
simple.
He
we
illustrated his
words
to
make
his
meaning
clearer.
And
learn in this lesson that the spiritual Truths can be imparted
in the
very simplest language.

put the spiritual into
it,
cannot
Many complain and say they language, but we see here how
Jesus did do
see
it
and
how
it
can be done.
We
is
can
tell
what we
and know, and only those
who
are able or ready to receive
can see and know, and any language

are spiritually deaf,
of no effect to those
who
ed
dumb, and
blind.
But that has nothillustrat-
ing to do with the language used.

in
The Truth can be

as
as
simple and
direct a
lies
way
anything
else,
but the
matter of understanding
receptiveness.
with the individual's readiness and
Verse 24
"The
disciple
is
not above his master nor th ser-
vant above his lord."
When we grow
are not disciples
ter sets us free.
above our master, or think we know enough
without his assistance,
we
are placing ourselves are not willing to
above him.
until the
We
when we
obey
mas-
Verse
25 'it
is
enough for the
disciple that
If
HE BE AS HIS
have called the
shall they call
master, and the servant as his lord.
they
master of the house Beelzebub,
how much more
them of
his
household ?"
The
disciple
must be
as his Master,
Is it
and he
will
attain his
Adeptship
and Christhood.
not
enough for us
above him?
to be as
Christ, without trying to set ourselves

all
Perhaps we
do
not, but
many
of us do.
We
think
selves
think
we know more Truth than can

yield
be taught
us.
set
We
our-
we can
up
now and
then to the
flesh,
and then
as Masters.
This cannot be done.
We
must follow
the Master.
Who Who
If
is
the Master of the house?

the Master of
is
YOUR
it
house?
believe Beelzebub (or
the world calls this Truth
you
you?
prom-
ise of devils)
what does
call
Verse
26 In
this verse
we
are cautioned not to fear.

is
"Fear
them
not, therefore; for there
nothing covered that shall not
be revealed, and hid that shall not be known."

All the
Truth and mysteries

in
is
shall
be revealed to those
all
who
fear not and search on
the Christ, and
shall
be
made
known,
"What Verse 27
In understanding.
for understanding
1
given as
in
we
desire
and develop.
tell
you
darkness, that speak ye in
light."
"'And what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the house
top."
This
is
the
INNER
voice,
which
is
the
knowledge given
It is
to
It
the Soul through the Soul of the Christ.

is
never spoken.
given in the ear silently, and

Verse 28
"And
kill
is
the Soul or Spirit speaking.

kill
fear not
them which
fear
the
body but
is
are
not
able to
the soul; but rather
him which
able to
destroy both soul and body in hell/'
No man
The
can destroy the soul but the soul
itself.
material death never destroys the soul

is
The
soul lives.
Who
able to destroy both soul
and body?
Only our own Mind and

and do that which
Verse 29
is evil,
Soul. Therefore, fear only to think
malicious, unkind and untrue.
The
Spirit of
fall
God
is
even
in the
sparrow, for "one
of them shall not
to the
ground without your Father."
The same
father
is
WITHIN you YOUR FATHER.

not, therefore, ye are of
"Fear ye Verse 30
many
sparrows."
within us
valuable.
more value than
Being of more value,

is
we have more power and

That
is
the Spirit
are
developed far more.
why we
more
Verse 32
" Whosoever,
1
therefore, shall
confess
me
before
is
men, him
heaven.
will
also
confess before
my
Father which
in
To
confess
is
to accept, to accept
is
to believe
and obey.
The
Christ confesses us
when we
confess
him, for we then

is
bear his image, his likeness, his goodness, which

er,
of the Fath-
for the Christ
is
the Soul of
God, and we
are
before the
is
Father when we
take on the Christ.
Confession
acknowl-
edgement.
We
acknowledge Christ when we confess him.
Verse 33
will
If
1
"But whosoever
my
Christ, refuse to
shall
deny
me
is
before men,
him
also
deny before
Father which
in
heaven/'
we deny
BECOME AS THE
MASTER,'
we have
not acknowledged him; therefore, he cannot acknowl-
edge us as his own, and

er without the Christ
we cannot we
bear the image of the Fath-
acknowledgement.
if
We
must
live,
think
say and do
fess or
as he
would do
in
confess him.
We
either con-
deny him
what we
are daily
think, say and do, daily.
Our
There
confessions
is
manifested in the
life
we
live.
nothing covered within the soul that shall not be
reis
is
vealed and nothing hid that shall not be known.

the betrayer or saviour.
It
Our
all
soul
that
gives out
all
that
is
good,
bad.
All
things are
revealed unto the Christ, for

all
we
either
confess or
deny him before

all
people, and
when we develop
our shortcomings
the Christ Soul
our
his
failures,
our
faults,
are revealed to us
by
power, and
we
are able to
overcome
the flesh and
all
evil
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Matthew, 10th chapter; 34th verse to close of chapter.
"He
is
that taketh
not his cross and followeth
me
is
not worthy of me."
This lesson
disciples.
but a continuation of the instructions to the

readily see
In
it
we can
how
carefully Jesus prepared
them
for their work, and
how
he advised and warned them of
the temptations, and trials they were to meet with. Let us consider
this lesson
carefully,
and gather the knowlhe includes

all
edge he has imparted to them and to

shall
us, for
who
and
obey through the word.
These lessons
are as strong
abiding to-day as they were then, and
we
will realize this
more
and more
as
we develop
in righteousness
and Truth.
We We
to
are the Soul Builders.
want Soul Knowledge, the knowledge

as Christ,
that will enable us
become
who was
io
the Master Builder.
We
cannot
af-
design,
and plan, and build
ter the designs
and plans of
own way when we build another. Therefore, we must

our
it
in-
spect the pattern closely
and follow
stick to
as correctly as
we
can.
To
be successful
is
we must
our model.
This
often very hard to do.
There are so
many
obstacles
and
difficulties to
overcome and become reconciled

and followeth
after
to,
but "he
that taketh not his cross
me
is
not worthy
of me."
We
are
not worthy of
life if
we
will
not
work
for
it.
No
man
will
is
worthy of bread
for
it.
if
he
is
too lazy, or careless, or indifferis
ent to
work
And no one
worthy of the crown
if
he
not bear the cross.
It is
oftentimes hard.
Jesus said:
1
''Think Verse 36
came not
Peace
is
not
am come
to send peace on earth;
to send peace but a sword."
not of the earth, and peace will not dwell in earthly
longings and desires.
The sword
is
to rend the earth, to tear
it
away from
and peace
the material so that the soul
may
attain
its
freedom
in the spiritual.
Verse 34
"For
am come
to
set a
man
at
variance against
his father, and the daughter against her mother,
and the daugh-
ter-in-law against her mother-in-law."
Verse 36
hold."
"And
man's foes
shall
be they of his
own
house-
This would seem very strange indeed,

literal sense.
if it
were taken
in the
Who
are the foes of a
man's own household?
Who
are the
father and daughter and the daughter-in-law.
The members
hold.
of your
body
are the
members
is
of your houseof
This father of the household

that rules
the
member
your
is
body
you and causes you

dearly,
to sin.
The daughter
every
the
evil that
you love
and
it
includes
member
is
of the
household
kin, but
is
unto the
least, for a
daughter-in-law
the least of
sin,
always one of the family.
Therefore, every
from
greatest to least,
is
must be
cast out,
overcome, repented
of.
Repentance
"He Verse 37
me
is
TURNING AWAY FROM.

that loveth father or
mother more than
me
is
not
worthy of me, and he that loveth son or daughter more

not worthy of me."
than
We
can
now
understand what this verse
means
in
its
true
sense.
These are the members of the household, and the housethe body.
hold
is
"Therefore,
we cannot
love the body
more
than Christ and be worthy of him and his heritage.

Verse
39 "He
that findeth his
life shall lose it;

it."
and he that
loseth his life for
my
sake shall find
To
desire
find the Spiritual or Christ Life

life,
we must
if
lose
all
the desire
of the sensual, material, earth

for the
illusions of
and
we
lose
love and
the senses and
the material for the
sake of attaining the Christhood

Verse 40
receiveth
If
we
you
shall find Life eternal.
"He
that receiveth
receiveth me, and he that
me
receiveth
him
that sent
me."
we
receive the messengers of Christ,

is
we
will receive Christ

is
and to accept Christ
to accept
God,
for Christ
the Soul of
God the true conception of "He that receiveth Verse 41

a righteous
Life.
a prophet
in the
name
of a
prophet shall receive a prophet's reward;
and he that receiveth
man
in the
name
of a righteous
man
shall receive a
righteous man's reward."

If
we would become prophets and

rewarded.
is
desire
it
in Christ's
name
of
we
will be
If
we
desire righteousness in the
name
Christ,
who
we
we
a righteous
man, we
name, or
will
be rewarded.
Truth,
The
things
tain
if
desire in Christ's
in the
we
shall atdesire.
receive or
become receptive
to the
thing
we
We
able,
must become
positive or at variance to the evil or undesir-
but receptive to the object or thought desired.
Verse 42
little
"And whoso
little
shall give to drink

in the
unto one of these

of
a disciple,
ones a cup of cold water only

I
name
verily
say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward."

of these
One
be, if
ones
is
one
who
has not attained
much
in
ithe Christ,
but no matter
how
him
small the Christ in any one

to drink of
may
Life
we
as a disciple give
the
Water of
we have added to our own spirituality and likeness to the FathThus are we rewarded. If we help others to grow the very er.
least,
we
also
grow and
attain.
"He
that taketh not his
cross
and followeth
after
me
is
not
worthy of me."
If
we
will not follow as Christ leads us

desire,
we cannot
attain.
attain
what we
and are worthy only of the

evil
desire.
We We
cannot serve two Masters,
and Truth, and be worth of
Truth and Christ.
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Matthew, 11th chapter; l-16th
verses.
Golden
face,
Text "Behold
Baptist
send
my
messenger before thy
which
shall prepare the
way
before thee."
John the
was the forerunner, or messenger, of the
Christ, sent to prepare the
way
for him.
John baptized with mental laws, mental healing and teaching. He was followed by the Son of God, who would baptize with Fire. The Soul is Fire, and when we are baptized with the Soul of Christ we have rerepresents
the Mental Teacher.
John
water, and water
means mind.
He
baptized with Mind
ceived the baptism of the Holy Ghost, or Fire.
But John seems to doubt
his
own
teaching, for he sends
two
of his disciples to Jesus and said unto him:
Verse 3
"Art thou he
that should come, or
do we look for
another?"
John saw the Spirit descend in the form of a dove whi^h sat upon Jesus, and he heard the voice of the Spirit proclaiming him "This is my beloved son in whom am well pleased," and
I
yet John, in prison, doubts.
Verse 4
"And
Jesus said
unto them,
Go
and shew John
again those things which ye do hear and see."
Verse 5
"The
blind
receive their sight, and the
lame walk
the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear and the dead are raised
up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them."
Verse 6
"Blessed
is
he whosoever shall
not be oifended in
me."
John, as a mentalist, demanded manifestation
and works,
and that
is
why
Jesus gave them
his
work
in healing as a wit-
ness and proof of his Sonship.
We may
is
develop great mental powers and
yet not develop
the Christ Soul.
We
build soul with every thought, and
Mind
the Builder, but not until
we
are baptized with Fire
have we
attained Sonship or Soul-ship.
John knew not the

Jesus alone taught
but this
not true.
nations.
it
Fire
baptism.
It
was not given

Initiates
yet.
openly.
Some
one
teachers claim that Jesus
taught these Truths against the law of the

is
and Adepts,
currents and
In every age
is
prepared to teach the

these
it
Truth to
all
The world demands

and seasons, or
vibrations at
certain times
would have been
destroyed long ago.
hand when the vibrations of Truth must be preached throughout the world, and for the same reason that Jesus taught. The coarse, heavy, sensual and material Therevibrations must be purified or the world is destroyed.
The time
is
NOW
at
fore, ''blessed
is
he
who
shall
not be
offended in me, for
it is
Salvation and Life."
Vene 7
unbelief.
In
this verse
Jesus wonders
\*ent ye
tfte
at
John's doubt and
He
says,
"What
out into the wilderness for
to see?
reed shaken with
wind?"
with varying winds, as John,
Mental laws are easily shaken

the greatest of teachers, proved.
He was
a Mentalist.
Let this
be a warning to you
who
are not
so great as he.
Follow but
not be misled
one teacher; do not run
after strange gods,
and be sure that you

See that
follow the things of the Soul, for then you will
by mentalists who know not the things of the Soul.
you
are a disciple
who
leads others to the Soul Science also.

lifts
Verse 8
Yet
Jesus
him above
the
material.
John's
plane was Mental.
"What went
ye out to see?
A man
clothed in soft raiment?
Behold they that wear
soft clothing are in kings' houses."
The kings in kings' houses were of the material, and John was more than material. He was above all the material laws
and
desires.
Was he prophet? "For that he of Verse 10

Verse 9
a
is
"'Yea,
more than
a prophet.
I
whom
face,
send
my
it was written, Behold which shall prepare the
way
before thee/'
knew the laws of John. He understood also why John doubted. The imprisoned mind is swayed by doutful thoughts. John attained all that mind could attain. He expected Jesus
Jesus
to assist him, but Jesus understood the law, and that the Mental
live, even as the Soul teachings must live even though the teacher's work was ended. Jesus knew his time was coming also, that each teacher must follow the others, as their teachings would follow each other.
teachings would
Verse 11
"Verily
say unto you,
among them
that are born
of
women
there hath not risen a greater than

is
Notwithstanding, he that
greater than he."
least in
John the Baptist. the kingdom of heaven is
We may
of Soul
is
develop
great mental power, but the

Brilliancy
development
are not Soul
greater.
and
intellectuality
Builders unless guided into the right channels.
Any mind can

In-
develop Souls of wonderful brightness, beauty and Truth.

tellect
has not
is
much
to
do with
it,
for an ignorant
man who
until
has soul
"And from the days of John the Baptist Verse 12

suffereth violence,
greater than the intellectual
man
without soul.
now
the
it
kingdom of heaven by force."

Verse 13
and the violent take
"For
all
the prophets and the law prophesied until
John."
Verse 14
"And
if
ye receive
it,
this
is
Elias
which was for
to
come."
When
the prophets and the law
prophesied, the
kingdom of
heaven was of the future.
No man
hand"
openly preached that the
"kingdom of heaven
is
at
as did
John and
Jesus.
When
they preached this Truth in such a simple, satisfactory way, and

in direct opposition to
the expectations of the Jews,
who had
looked forward to a material, earthly

a
God
for themselves alone,
kingdom and a king and then violence was manifested. God
within mortal
man was
shock to the Jews, as
it
is
to the
Or-
thodox of to-day.
Yet they consider not that
God
is
an unexplainable, mysteri-
ous thing, far beyond their solution.
The mysteries of death is satisfactorily solved by many, but few know the mysterious Force that throbs through their being
and creates them into
to violent, material
life
and
vitality.
The kingdom
within John and Jesus suffered violence by force.

death.
of heaven Both came
This unveiled
mystery of taking
"the
kingdom of heaven by violence" should now be underElias
stood by the student.
"This
is
which was for to come"
the
reincarnation of
greater in this
the Soul of Elias, the great prophet.
John was
Old Testament Age, for he preached the hand," and knew it was at hand. The Christ and at he "time his coming in the Old Testament was only a prophecy, a vision
age than Elias in the
of Truth, and not the Truth manifested and lived.
Verse 15
"He
I
that hath ears to hear
let
him
here."
Listen with the Soul in the
name
of the Soul and receive the
Soul's reward.
"Behold
prepare the
send
my
face,
which
shall
way
before thee."
Purify the mind.
Create thoughts of love, purity and right-
eousness, and this will prepare the Soul for the Christ, or king-
dom
of heaven.
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"Take my yoke
and lowly
upon you, and

and you
me;
unto
am meek
in heart,
shall find rest
your soul."
Jesus understood the thoughts of
able, fault-finding" people,
all
hearts,
and the changeevery good thing
who would
criticise
and place
"For Verse 18
a stain
upon
the name. the Baptist
John
came
neither eating
nor
drinking, and they say,
"The Son of Man came eating Verse 19

man
Thus every
He hath
a devil."
and drinking, and
they say, Behold a
gluttonous and a winebibbler, a friend
of publicans and sinners."
teacher must bear the criticism of the mutlitudes
of darkened minds.
"But wisdom
is
justified of her children."
These
are but tests to the souls
great Truths
and Mysteries.
to generalship.
fight an
won
to
his
way
who are chosen to represent the A weak, cowardly soldier never No man would follow such a one.
enemy, and we have our captain
When we
who
the
go out to
lead us,
we want
the
one
who
is
brave, staunch and true,
will not
weaken and waver and turn about and run when
enemy
appears.
And
there are
many
battles of the
will
Soul against the
flesh that
we must
the
encounter.
We
win
if
we
follow
him who went
way
before us and proved to us that the battle can be won.
Verse 20
"Then
began he to upbraid the
cities
wherein
most of
not."
his
mighty works were done, because they repented
He accomplished works
that never have been equalled by

Yet, notwithstanding
all
any
his
man
or
woman
his
before or since.
his
power,
all
efforts, all
love, they repented not.
They
continued in their evil ways.

Therefore,
we should
not become impatient and discouraged
when we
fail
to succeed in our work.
Jesus met with the most heartrending failure and discourage-
ment and
persecution, but he
to live
went on demonstrating and giving
example how
and do under such circumstances.
And what
did he do?
in his
He continued
work.
He spent
greater efforts and
dem-
onstrated greater love and power.
Verse 23
"And
thou Capernaum, which
art
exalted unto
heaven, shall be brought
down
in
to hell; for
if
the mighty works

in
which have been done
thee had
this
been done
Sodom,
it
would have remained unto

Hell
is
day."
the soul that will not
the suffering and destruction of

to
awaken
and
the Truth.
These souls continue breaking laws,

so,
suffer for
having done
blind
even while exalting oneself above

suffer
sinners.
The
law breakers must

is.
no matter how
good he pretends
Verse 24
to be or thinks he
Sodom was not blessed
as
Capernaum. They had
not the Truths demonstrated in their midst.

terial in a
Sodom was ma-
material age.
Capernaum was
material in a spiritual
age.
Yet
Capernaum
evil,
set itself
up unto heaven.
It
pretended to be
above the
ner
is
but was self-righteous and self-exalted.
sin-
easier to bring to repentance
and Truth than the
intellec-
tual self-righteous
man.
Verse 25
"Jesus
said,
thank
thee,
O Father, Lord of heav-
en and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise
and prudent and hath revealed them unto babes."

Babes are teachable and can be
led,
but those wise in their

mysteries of the
own
conceit will
not learn.
Therefore, the
laws of heaven and earth are hid from those

the right to
know them
as a
little
or
who
is
think that
to
If
who have abused they "know it all."
To become
teachings,
child
become
willing to accept the

are pure, clean,
and obey the laws.

childlike
so,
we obey we
wholesome and
Verse 26
sight."
and near to the Father.

Father,
for
it
"Even
seemeth good in thy
Verse 27
"All things
him."
is
are delivered
unto the Christ, and no
man knoweth the Son but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son
will reveal
When
Son, and
to us.
Christ
DEVELOPED WITHIN
us
we
are a
Son
of
God, and the Son knows the Father, and the Father knows the
we cannot know God
unless the Christ reveals
him
Verse 28
laden,
"Come unto me,

I
all
ye that labor and are heavy
"Take my yoke upon you Verse 29

am meek and
souls."
and
will give
you
rest."
and learn of me; for

shall find
rest for
lowly in
heart;
and ye
your
To
those
who
are laden with the
desires of
the flesh and
its
illusions,
the Christ will relieve
you of those burdens and the
soul will rest.
Learn
of
him.
Learn to be meek and lowly
in heart.
Do
not exalt thyself above learning of him.

places of the
He
is
not in the high
word, but he
is
in the
low
places.
He
and
is
WITHIN
the
humble heart
that does
not worship
self,
self-glory,
and the praise and glare of the world.

is
Verse 30
The yoke of Christ

suffers for
easy.
He does
not pile on
us.
burdens, but thrusts aside the burdens that evil lays upon
No man
Man
doing right in the end.

all
suffers
only for wrong doing, and his burdens

the right
come
from the wrong he has committed or
not committed.
NOTE.
All those
who
are legalized to teach the great

is
Truths, of which this lesson
but a part, are such as have
gone the way before you, and they are therefore able to
teach you.
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day."
Matthew, 12th chapter; l-10th
Man
is
Lord over the Sabbath
The
Pharisees were watching every
word and
action of Jesus
that they
might
find fault with him.
They
did not
find
fault with his
work
as
much
with
his
teachings.
He taught something they could not understand,

criticise
and they were prone to

selves
everything different from them-
and
their teachings.
in
The Jewish people were

clannish and material.
the beginning selfish, narrow, for the
They were always looking out
easy places.
acteristic
is
They
still
did not like to
work
or struggle. This charin
dominant within them
very
many
cases.
They
are, as a race,
watching for bargains and to get the better
of others in a deal.
Verse
To
pluck the corn, or rub
it
from the
ear,
on the
Sabbath was forbidden by the precepts of the Elders, and was

considered equivalent to threshing.
ciples
And
as Jesus
and
his dis-
walked through the corn they "hungered and began to
pluck the ears of the corn and to eat."

Verse 2
The Pharisees
we commit
is
said:
"Behold thy
disciples
do that
which
is
not lawful on the Sabbath day."
We
will learn in
development, and
in
doing good, that every
deed that
subject to criticism
by those who
differ
with us in our views.

so that
But we must understand and expect

that ihe
this
we may know
good invariably meets with op-
position and criticism
from
evil.
"But Jesus Verse 3

Verse 4
eat the
said,
Have ye not read what David

that were with
did
when he was an hungered and they

u
him?"
did
How
he entered into the house of
God, and
shrew bread, which was not lawful for him to
eat, nei-
ther for
them which was with him
but only for the

own
priests."
They overlooked
teachers, but they
ers.
the short comings of their
leaders
and
were ready to detect the flaws
in other lead-
We
find this always true.
Verse
5 "Or,
have ye not read

priests in the
in
the law
how
that
on the
Sabbath days the

are blameless.
temple profane the Sabbath and
Verse 6
"but
say
unto you that
in
this place
is
ONE
greater than the temple."
He
here
refers to
the
is
God WITHIN
the
him, to the developed
Soul, or Christ, which

It is
Son of God.
according to the dictates of our
our duty to obey the
Law
is
Conscience.
as
The Conscience
obey
it
the Voice of the Soul and so long

sinning.
we
truly
we
are not
Of
course, this has
reference only to the Voice of the Developed Soul, for in
many
people the Voice
is
dead.
"But Verse 7
they had
if
ye had
known what
ye would
this
meaneth,
will
have mercy and not

the guiltless."
If
sacrifice,
not have
condemned
known
that the Spiritual
WITHIN man was pure
and
guiltless of
wrong, they would not condemn the material.
They
broke a material law, not a Divine Law.
Verse 8
"For the Son of Man
is
Lord of the Sabbath day."
Christ cannot
sin.
is
Christ cannot break a law.
The man who
clean,
wholesome and
true
may make
mis-
takes in the material sense, but he does not break a Divine
Law
when developed
into
the understanding of the Christ
and the
Law
He
of Christ.
will
do that which
is
right
under the Divine Law.
None
nor
other rules him.

it
No
matter what the world

is
may
think
how
may condemn
him, he knows he
if
Lord even of
Divini-
the Sabbath day, and that the deed

ty cannot be sinful nor harmful.
in
harmony with
The motive,
questioned.
the desire and consequences of the deed
is
to be
A
it
necessary, harmless act does not
condemn any man when
is
committed.
All this does not
mean
that the developed Soul
can commit
an act
which would be wrong to the undeveloped.

ear of
The law concerning the plucking an

bath was not a Divine Law.
urally to those
It
it
corn on the Sablaw, and natit
was
man-made
was not
who
believed
to be sinful to
do so
a
was
a sin
but the Developed Soul
knew
that
it
Divine
Law
and therefore
it
was not
a sin to him.
Many Laws supposed

tiate
to
be Divine are not such.
The
Ini-
knows how
to judge each
law and he can no more break

ignorant
Divine
Law
without suffering than can the most
human.
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How many
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m
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shall the Gentiles trust."
in his
Matthew, chapter 12th; 10-21
name
of us are, also, afflicted in like manner, in a spir-
The hands were made
to use to
work
with, but
some of do not use them much
to accomplish Spiritual work.

all
We
must
learn to put Spirituality in
our work, or we
may
find ourselves possessed of a

useless hand.
WITHERED MIND,
a
the helpless,
Verse 10
ered.
"Behold
they
there
was
man who had

Is it
his
hand with-
And
asked him, saying,
lawful to heal on the
Sabbath day? that they might accuse him."
The> would
willingly suffer another to continue in affliction
and suffering rather than to see him made whole by one whose
teachings did not conform to their
own
laws and
beliefs.
We
meet with the same antagonism and

time.
selfishness at the present
Verse 11
"And he
said unto them,
What man
if
it
shall there be
fall
among
you, that shall have one sheep and
into a pit
on the Sabbath day, will not lay hold

Verse 12
"How
is it
on
it
and
lift it
out?"
much
then
is
man
better than a sheep?
Wherefore
lawful to do well on the Sabbath day?"
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material matter
which was a
loss to
them
in a material
sense they could understand.
This thus
illustrates the unrea-
sonableness of
many
of the material laws held by the vast
ma-
jority of people.
Verse 13
"Then
said he
it
to the
forth;
man, Stretch forth thine

and
it
hand.
And he
stretched
was
restored whole,
like as the other."
This
man obey
the Divine
command.
If
he had not stretchit?
ed rorth his
Stretch
hand, think you he would have regained use of

thine
forth
it
hand
also
the withered
it
spiritual
until
it
hand,
and
see
to
that
you do not draw
back
is
made
and
whole, and you will no longer judge the acts of others, for you
WILL
thine
KNOW
soul.
that
you have but
to look
after thyself
"Then the Pharisees went Verse 14

how
What do
the Pharisees represent?
own
out and held a council
against him,
they might destroy him.
Selfishness, prejudice, egotism,
and self-righteousness.
EVER SEEK TO DESTROY THE CHRIST. Watch them WITHIN YOU.

These
Verse 15
"When
Jesus
knew
it,
he withdrew
himself from
thence; and great
multitudes followed
him and he
HEALED
and
the
THEM We must
Christ.
ALL.
do the same when the Pharisees of
selfishness
assail
self-righteousness, egotism and prejudice begins to
We
must
Verse 16
"And he charged them that they should
WITHDRAW FROM THEM.
not
make
him knovn."
Verse 17
"That
it
might be
fulfilled
that
was spoken by
Esaias, the prophet:"
Verse 18
"Behold
my
servant
who
have chosen;
my
be-
loved, in
whom my
soul
is
well
pleased;
will
put
my
spirit
upon him, and he
shall
shew judgment
to the Gentiles."
These are the words of God, spoken by the prophet. Blessed

are
we when
the Soul of
God
is
well pleased with us.
And we
to the
learn here that
he was not a
God
of the
Jews only but
Gentiles as well.
Verse 19
"He
shall not strive or cry; neither
shall
any
man
hear his voice in the streets."
The
voice of Christ
It is
is
WITHIN.
It is
SILENT
is
to the mate-
rial ear.
heard by the Soul, and the mind
made
to un-
derstand.
Verse 20
"A
bruised reed
shall
he not break, and smoking
flame shall
victory."
he not
quench,
till
he sends forth judgment unto
The
bruised reed
is
the bruised Soul, or neglected Soul.
The
smoking flame represents the Soul almost burned out by the

fires
of evil desires and deeds.

is
But when the Christ comes to
judge, the evil

desires are put
broken away from the Soul.

fires
The smoldering
it
out by the
of the Soul as
stands before
the judgment, and then puts on Christ, which
is
"And Verse 21
The
Christ
is
victory.
in his
name
shall the Gentiles trust."
for the world,
ALL
nations,
and
all
nations
have trusted and always

Christ.
will trust in the
name
of Goodness, or
They
they
will
recognize
the
power of God no matter how
evil
may
become.

of
of the
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Matthew, 12th chapter; 22-31st verses.
m
is
Golden Text
"He that
me
we have
not with
me
is
against
me; and he
that gathereth not with

In this lesson
sin,
scattereth abroad."
the
much
preached about unforgivable

sin that
for
you have no doubt heard much about the

for.
men
commit and never forgiven

Here
is
where Orthodoxy comes against
a stone wall.
literal sense.
The
The
Scriptures cannot be understood in the

Spirit
and the Word, instead of the

also,
Word
alone.
We
must have the Word

it
but
we must understand
it
the
meaning which
intends
to veil, or
where
shall be accepted,
in the literal sense.
All the Bible
is
written in
symbols, and only those

u
who
are
given understanding can understand.
But we can never underfood for
stand without the development of the Spirit, for the

the children
Verse
22 "Then was brought unto him one possessed with

and dumb; and he healed him, insomuch
both spake and saw."
all
must not be given
to the dogs."
a devil, blind, deaf,
that the blind
"This work caused Verse 23
and
dumb
to believe in him;
and they

said, Is
"And Verse 24
not this the
Son of David?''
the Pharisees
were afraid that the people
would believe, and they assailed and accused him of being possessed with devils also."
The Pharisees were capable of producing

omena, and
Spiritualists
spiritualistic
phen-
are controlled
by disembodied
spirits.
They, therefore, believed Jesus was a medium

of
after the order

belief.
other Spiritists, and

the Pharisees
the accusation
it
is
based on that
"When
Verse
saw
they said, This fellow doth not cast
out devils but by Beelzebub, the prince of devils."
25 "And
Jesus
KNEW
THEIR THOUGHTS,
itself is
and
said unto them, Every kingdom divided against

to desolation;
brought
and every
city or
house divided against
itself shall
not stand."
Verse 26
"And
if
Satan cast
out Satan, he
is
then divided
against himself;
how
then shall his kingdom stand?"
When we
not
cast
begin to throw evil
thoughts and
desires
evil.
it
from us
It
they do not stand.

itself
We know
If
it
evil
cannot destroy
cannot stand;
will
out.
does,
it
is
divided,
scattered.
Verse 27
"And
if
by Beelzebub
cast out devils
by
whom
do your children
judges."
If
cast
them out?
Therefore, they will be your
none but the
evil
had power
to cast out
devils,
then those
of the Pharisees
who had
cured obsessions, and

diseases, then
the prophets,
whom
they worshipped, healed
they themselves
were controlled by the same
evil.
SELF JUDGES SELF.

Verse 28
the
"But
"Or
if
cast out devils
by the
Spirit of
God, then
kingdom of God has come unto you."

else
Verse 29
how
can
one enter into a strong man's

first
house and spoil his goods, except he
bind the strong man,
and then he
Evil
is
will spoil his house.
strong and holds fast to his
kingdom within
the Soul.
1
No man
er
can enter and destroy him until he binds him, and ev
will not destroy evil

is
nor spoil the house of evil

that can
is
Greater pow-
"He Verse 30
If evil
the only
power
overcome the
lesser
power.
that
not with
me
is
against
me; and he
that gathereth not with
me
it
scattereth abroad."
flee
were with him

it
would not
from him.
If
it
were
with him
would
cling
and not
scatter.
This lesson also teaches us that

er,
we can
follow but one teachstill
one
leader.
We
It is
cannot run after strange gods and

also a lesson to us that
cling
to the truth. a truth

it is
when we have found

it.
"Wherefore, Verse 31
Ghost
our duty to try and help others to

I
say unto
you,
ALL manner
unto men."
of
sin
and blasphemy
shall be forgiven
unto men, but the blasphemy
against the Holy
shall not be forgiven
What
is
blasphemy against the Holy Ghost?

is
Blasphemy
rejection
is
and accusing the Christ of
evil.
Christ
we must remember
hate,
the Soul of
God, and every vibration of

is
envy and malice toward the Soul
blasphemy.
If
This
it
not forgiven unless

rejection
men
cast
it
from them.
will
they continue in
and hatred of good, Christ

is
never
come
to them.
The Holy Ghost

Christ.
the awakening of
the Soul powers into the
IF
MAN NEVER AWAKENS HE

is
IS
LOST AND UNit is
FORGIVEN.
This
one of the
sins that
is
unforgivable, because
nev-
er forgiven.
NOTE.
Those
who
desire
to
know more
of the "casting
out devils" and obsession, should read "The Gods."

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Church
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verses.
Golden Text "For by thy words thou

by thy words thou
shalt be condemned.''
Matthew, chapter 12th; 33-43
shalt be justified,
and
We know
heart.
If
that
he that controlleth his tongue
is
greater than
he that taketh a
city."
The tongue
is
the representative of the
the heart of
man
is
wicked, he betrays himself by the

is
words he speaks.
The tongue
the betrayer and the deceiver.

his heart
Man
he
speaks fair words and deceive many, while in

hate and plan to
may
wound and
a
destroy.
"Whosoever speaketh
be forgiven
word
against the
Son of Man
against the
it
shall
him; but
whosoever speaketh
Holy
Ghost
in the
it
shall not
be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither
world to come."
understand that
We
own
and
for
if
we
are
the creators and savior of our
selves.
We
reject
and hate the thing we speak against,
we
stand against the Holy Ghost
we cannot
sins.
be forgiven,
we
forgive our
own
we
evil
deeds and
We
cannot for-
give ourselves unless

ing with the Christ.
are in Unity,
Oneness and Understand-
Verse 33
else
"Either make the
tree
good and
his fruit good; or

is
make
the tree corrupt and
his fruit corrupt; for the tree
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known by
his fruit.
Cast out hypocrisy.
Our
fruit betrays us
anyway.
All
the
world knows us by what we are to-day

words.
Verse 34
by our deeds
how
and our
"O, generation
to deceive
of
vipers,
can ye being evil
speak good things; for out of the abundance of the heart the
mouth speaketh."
Evil
is
able
and speak
things.
is
fair
and beautiful words,
but
it
cannot speak
good
The
heart rules the tongue,
and
in the
is.
unguarded moments
when we
betray
what the
heart
Verse 35
"A
good man out of the good treasures of the

forth
heart bringeth
good
things;
and an
evil
man
out of
the
evil treasures bringeth forth evil things."
We
true.
all
have known some person

did
whom we
we
believed
good and
Why
did
we
all
believe in
them?
believed were evil.
And we have
known
persons
"But Verse 36
men
of judgment."
Why
we
believe they were evil?

I
say
unto you, that every
idle
word
that
shall speak, they shall
give an account thereof in the day
The day
that Christ
is
awakened within
us,
and
as
we begin
to judge ourselve
and
see ourselves as
evil
we
are,
every wasted day,

act rise
every
idle
word, every
deed and
unkind
up before
us as witnesses
the false
against us, and the Christ as the judge

true, the
knows
"For by thy words thou Verse 37

Words
are strong.
from the
good from
the evil.
shalt be justified,
and by
thy words thou shalt be condemned."
They
are thoughts spoken.
The
heart
produces every word we speak.

Verse 38
In this verse they ask
him
for a sign.
These were
the Scribes and Pharisees.

thee."
"Master,
we would
see a sign
from
Verse 39
"And "For
he answered
and said unto them, An

after a sign;
evil
and adulterous generation seeketh
and
there shall
no sign be given to
Verse 40
it,
but the sign of the prophet Jonas/'

in
as
Jonas was three days and three nights

the
the whale's
belly; so will
Son of Man be
three days
and
three nights in the heart of the earth."
The
burial of the flesh
and the resurrection of the Christ.

the whale of disobedience,
When Jonah was

self.
swallowed by
he was awakened to the demands of the Divine
WITHIN
all
him-
He would not
obey.
His disobedience grew until

fear.
the real
fear
good was swallowed up by disobedience and

and disobedience
the
left
When
him, he was awakened to the Truth and

the suffering that follows broken laws.
power of God and
Verse 41
When
Jonah accepted the God and obeyed he

to Truth; but the world has
brought
many men
grown so wick-
ed and material that the Christ could not arouse but a few.
Verse 42
"The
Queen
of
the
South
shall rise
it;
up in judgfor she
ment with
this generation
and
shall
condemn
came
from the uttermost
part of the earth

a greater than
to hear the
is
wisdom of
Solomon, and, behold,
Solomon
here."
The Queen
the desire
for
of the South
was an
earthly, material queen, bui
Wisdom and Truth brought
her
out from the
most material conditions, and the wisdom of Solomon was not

the perfected and Everlasting Truth and
Wisdom
of the Christ.
Solomon and
the
prophets attained
wisdom and knowledge,
but none gave to the world the Christ in flesh.
sr~^

of the
Church
of Divine Illumination,
n
Matthew, 13th chapter, 43rd verse to
D
close.
Golden Text
which
er."
is
"Whosoever
is
shall
do the
will of
sister
my
Father
in
heaven, the same
my
brother and
and moth-
The
description of
the
persistency of
the unclean
spirit is
true and plain in this lesson.
We may
in casting
fails
it
have but one deplorable

out
it
sin,
and when we succeed

return.
all
will
make every
place,
it,
effort to
it
When
it
in
gaining
in
its
former
will will
draw
spirits (or
thoughts)
harmony with
and
come with added

Mind and Soul.
an effort
subtle
strength and zeal to gain entrance within the

It is
seductive and subtle, and the
man who makes
to attaini perfecton
must be always on guard against the

spirits.
temptations of the divers

Verse 43
When the unclean
spirit is
gone out of
man, he
walketh through dry places, seeking
rest
and findeth none.
The
evil spirit is the restless lonely spirit.

spirits
Good
bring peace and
rest,
even though the world
is
troubled and
we have many
troubles
and cares of the world.
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Do
not mistake the word

spirits,
spirit here.
We
do not mean the
dis-
embodied
but
us.
mean
the spirit of
thought which dwells
every day within
"Then he Verse 44
I
saith,
will return into

is
my
house from
it
whence
came
out; and
whence he
come he
findeth
empty,
swept and garnished."
The house
is
clean,
is
purified, but he has

effect
gained his former
hold by being
the mind.
able to
an
entrance into the thoughts of
This
sual,
is
the
mind
drifting
back into the channels of old sen-
greedy and wicked desires even for an instant of time.
Verse 45
"And he goeth out

more wicked than
last
it
and taketh with himself seven

they enter in and
first.
other spirits
himself, and
dwell there; and the
end of that
man
is
worse than the
Even so
This
shall
is
be unto the wicked generation."

subtility of the spirits
warning against the
we
allow
to creep into our
minds and
souls.
For instance,
man
has been unclean to a certain extent and

all
he makes up his mind to turn away from his condition, we
know by
experience
how
the thoughts
will
and desires to do the

to us time
wrong thing we have done
come back
If
and
again, and always with a diffent excuse.

sire
we
it
allow this de-
or thought
it
to dwell within us for a time
has
gained an
entrance, then
accumulates others perhaps not quite the same

it,
but in harmony with

partners with
it
and we are weakened, then

last
it
brings
first.
it,
its
It
and the
state
is
worse than the
may
when
be the
love of drink and the turning
away from
formed.
with
not,
the result
that another
and worse habit

allow
the
is
Do
turning from
evil,
It is
another and seemingly
lesser
evil to
tempt you.
same old
spirit
of
DESIRE
ap-
pearing
in a different guise to deceive

is
you.
There
but one
way
if
you
desire to free yourself
from any
bad habit.
First seek
something good that you
desire,
some
and
work
that
you
desire to accomplish, then turn the thoughts

evil
desires
from the
u
and use them for the accomplishment of
the good.
Verse 46
While he talked to the people, behold
his
,,
mother
and brethren stood without desiring to speak with him.

Verse 47
"Then one
my
said unto him,
Behold thy mother and
thy brethren stand without desiring to speak unto thee."

Verse 48
"But
is
he. answered
and said unto him that told

are
him,
"For Verse 48
which
is
Who
mother and who

whosoever
my
brethren?"
will of
shall
is
do the
my
Father
in
heaven, the same
my
brother, and sister
and
mother."
It
has
been claimed
that Jesus
is
disowned
his
mother and
Far from
disciples,
brethren on this occasion, but this

it.
not the Truth.
In
speaking to the multitudes, and in teaching the

refer to himself
Jesus does not
as the flesh but as the Christ
WITHIN
His
him.
in
mother believed
him and knew

and gave him
the Christ, for
she
CONCEIVED
the Christ
birth.
She remem-
bered his words and "pondered
them
in her heart."
She was
Christ
is
not only the mother of Jesus, but also of the Christ.
always born of
shall
a Virgin
(pure mind) Soul, and

in
whosoever
the
do the
will
of the Father
heaven
may become
mother of
er
is
a Christ, or the brother, or the sister; but the

is
moth-
the nearer, for she
the Soul of the Most High and gives
birth to His seed.
Those who
to him,
desire
him
as
ac they
came
desiring to even speak
may become
who
near to him as they desire.
And
the
Christ will acknowledge

all
you
in
the
way
as he
acknowledged
will
those
did the will of the Father then.
He
stretch
forth his
hand say "Behold
my
mother and brethren."

of of the
Church
Divine Illumination
m
are
D
verses.
see;
Matthew, 13th chapter; l-23rd
Golden Text "Blessed

ears, for they hear."
your eyes, for they
and your
"Great multitudes gathered to Jesus, so that he went into

ship and the multitude stood on the shore."
No
In
lesson
was ever given which was
clearer than this lesson.

select
examining ourselves we too often

vices, or
our virtues and
overlook the
we have
not
developed the Christ in the
place of self to the extent of being able to see our shortcomings
our
evil or vices.
is
Self
the serpent that

purified or
until
it
must be
lifted
up
into the Christ.
It
must be
will
never be
lifted up,
and we cannot
desires, wishes,
know him
we
lift
up the gross elements,
secret desires
and longings, and
TRANSMUTE
self,
it
them
into purity
and goodness and Truth.

Then, again, when Self judges
selects
the
deeds
is
we
have done which the world approves

world, and the world
of,
because Self
of the
its
knows
its
own and does
not judge
own
with harsh judgment.
When
the Christ judges Self and the world,
all
the Self, self-
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ishness,
self- righteousness
it
and self-love
is
thrown out
cast
away, and
is
lifted
up
to a purer, better, higher state.
The
Disciples asked Jesus in this lesson the
question:
"Why
speakest thou unto
them
in
parables?"
it
Verse 11
"He
them
answered and said unto them, Because
is
given unto you to

en, but to
know
the mysteries of the
kingdom of heav-
it is
not given."
shall be given,
Verse
12 "For
whosoever hath to him
and
he shall have more abundant;
but whosoever
hath not
from
him
shall be
taken even that he hath."

at all to the
This does not refer

things of this world.
to the Spiritual
accumulation of the material

devoted entirely
spiritual.
All of" Jesus' lessons are
perceptions and
accumulation of the
"Seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they
understand."
Whoever has
the slightest understanding of
the spiritual ac-
quires greater understanding, and the least sight of the spiritual

is
developed into greater
sight.
Material ears are

its
dulled to the
spiritual
Truths and material eyes to
preception.
Verse 15
"For
this people's hearts are
waxed
gross,
and their
lest
ears are dull of hearing, and

at
their eyes
THEY
heart,
have closed
any time they should see with
their eyes their
and hear with
their
ears,
and should understand with

1
and should be
converted, and
should heal them."

such today,
There are
it,
many
who
hearing the Truth
flee
from
preferring to stay under the old laws of the letter and not of
spirit,
the
and many love
sin so well they will

it.
not
come
to the
Truth because they must forsake

Verse 16
But the
"For
eyes and ears of the true, earnest, sincere
seeking disciple are indeed blessed.
Verse 17
verily
say
unto you that
many
prophets
and righteous
see
men have
desired to see those things
which ye
and have not seen them, and to hear those things which ye
hear and have not heard them."
What was
it
they had seen
and heard which the "prophets

see
and righteous men desired to
and hear and did not?"
It
was the voice of the

the perfected Christ
Christ,
and the works of the Christ, and

earth, in the flesh,
upon the
slain
among men.
The Lamb
that
was
from the foundation of the world

and giving
it
come
ed
to
to Life, demonstrating
Life,
and was manifest-
the world
It
that
destroyed
in the beginning.
Truth
is
Life.
cannot be totally destroyed.
And
this
was what they
desired to see
and hear but did
not.
Verse 19
seeds that
Now
he explains the parable of ths sower.
The
fell
by the wayside and the "fowls came and devour-
ed them up" are the
words of the kingdom which are taught
and are not understood.
When
the
Word
is
not understood
fruit.
it
cannot be accepted, and, therefore, cannot bear any
And
those seeds
fall
away and
the evil thoughts devour
them
so that the soul cannot receive them.
And "some
earth,
fell
upon stony
places,
where they had not much
and forthwith they sprung up because they had no deep-
ness of earth."
"And when
the sun
was up they were scorched; because they
had no root they withered away."
The stony
places are those
who have no
when
he
root in themselves,
but endureth for a while, for

ariseth
tribulations or persecutions
is
because of the
offended
Word by and by
This
offended.
He
is
because he looks for personal gains through

Spiritual.
is
development of the
meant
for those
who
for-
would seek development of

says but a few
a teacher,
and
when some enemy
words against the teacher condemn him and
sake him.
These are
in
false to
themselves and to their teacher.

stony ground.
There
is
no depth
them
it is
Students want worldly success, and
come
to the
Truth
as did
Simon, the
sorcerer,
who BELIEVED and was
baptized with
the water of Mental baptism;

tles
and when he saw that the Aposhe
had greater power he offered them money because
thought to make
money by
the
same power.
the soul
The power
must be
of
God
is
not given for money, because
AWAKENED
And he
by
its
own power and

by
not for any mait.
terial gains.
desired to profit Self

fell
Verse 23
Then "the seeds

who
and glory.
among
thorns, and the thorns
sprang up and choked them."
These are the people

sires for gain
will
not cast out greed and the de-
"But he that receiveth seed into Verse 23

Word and
bringeth forth
the
good ground
which
also
is
he that heareth the
understandeth
it;
beareth fruit, and

sixty,
some an hundredfold, some
some
thirty."
These are the true seekers and students.

the Truth for
seekers
after
Those who want

it.
the
good they can do with
These are the
who
follow their Master and obey him,
who do
not run
strange gods, and
who do
not
mix
their instructions as
does the drunkard with his drinks.
These are those of

ye
first
whom
Jesus thought
when he
said,
"Seek
added
the
kingdom of heaven and ALL things
will be
unto vou."
Divine Illumination

of
of the
Church
m
Golden Text "Then
sun
in the
m
shall the
d
verses.
Matthew, 13th chapter; 23-46th
righteous shine forth as the
kingdom of
the Father."
in parables,
Jusus always spoke to the multitudes

out a parable spoke he not unto them."
"and with-
The Truth has always been
written
and spoken
in
symbols
and parables by the Ancients and Great Teachers.

this
They
did
because the
ears that
were not dulled to
spiritual sense
would hear and understand, while the profane could not understand, and, therefore, could not misuse or destroy
it.
The parable
of the sower of the
good seed he explains
to his
disciples in simple
"The Verse 28
the
and plain language.

field
is
the world;
the
good seeds
are the
children of
kingdom; but the
tares are the children of the
wicked one."
The
children of
the
kingdom
are
those
who
are willing to
accept the Christ,

flesh.
who
turn from the evil and the laws of the
The
children of the tares are those
who
cling to evil
and
will
not accept the Christ.
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Verse 39
The
the
enemy
is
that
sowed them (the

the world;
tares)
is
the
devil; the harvest
the end of
and the reapers are
the angels.
The
that
devil
is
thoughts and desires of

us; that
evil
and wickeness
hold.
dwell
WITHIN
all
we accumulate and
and hold
it
We
accumulate
that
we
love
best,
within
is
the soul, the har-
and when the Christ comes

vest
WITHIN
the soul, then
the end of the world. "As, Verse 40

it
therefore, the tares are
gathered and burned
in the fire, so shall
"The Son of Man Verse 41

Now, we know
when
be in the end of the world."

shall
send forth
all
his angels,
and
they shall gather out of his kingdom
things that offend and
them which do iniquity."

that
the Truth
is
manifested to
us,
and
we know and
all
accept Christ,
we do
accept and give entrance to
his
angels,
which
are purity
and goodness and Truth, and

souls)
all
we
gather out of his
kingdom (our
things that offend
and them that do iniquity.

Verse 42
"And
of
shall cast
them out
into a furnace of
fire;
there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth."
The furnace
Fire
soul,
fire is
the baptism of
tear the evil
the Holy Ghost, the
of God.
When we
tares
from within our

this
we
tear out the things
we have loved and sown, and

is
gives great pain; and, again, there

see
pain and suffering, for
we
our wickedness and
evil.
Verse 43
the
"Then
have
shall the righteous shine forth as the
sun
in
kingdom
of their Father.
Who
hath ears to hear
let
him
hear."
When we
that
is
cast
all
the evil and wickedness
from us then
which
is
righteous within us shines forth, and

all
we know
see.
it
righteous, and
those
who know
righteousness will
Verse 44
"Again,
the
kingdom of heaven
which when a
is
like
unto a
treasure hid in a field; that

hideth,
man
hath found he
and for joy thereof goeth and

field."
selleth all that
he hath
and buyeth that
When we
it is,
discover the
kingdom of heaven, and know what

all
we
joyfully give
up
the evil desires that

all
we have loved
and possessed, and we give

soul.
evil
the best within us to the Christ
We
we
think as he bids us think, and as

the good, and shine
we know good from

good-
think
forth as the sun in
ness.
Verse 45
little
The Christ Soul

and
at
first
is
the pearl of great price. These

the illusions of the senses
pearl.
pearls that shine
glitter in
are not
It is
worth the great value of the Christ

hard for us
to realize the cost and value of

realize
it
the
it
kingdom
is
of heaven, but
all
when we do
all
we know
it.
that
worth
that
we
pay,
that
we
give up to attain
We may
to us, but
have an
ambition that
to
is
seemingly of great value

the
when compared
its
the value of
kingdom
of
heaven
to
it
loses
greatness, for
we
oftentimes allow ambition

in seeking for
it
overcome the
better part of us,
and
become
do for
oblivious to the
others.
good and kindness we may be
able to
Pearls of
ambition shine
at
us in their dazzling brightness,
but
if
they cost us the price of our soul, or of
any
soul, they
lead us to death.
It
is
better to
have the one pearl of Truth and Righteous-
ness, a clean, upright soul,
which
lives eternally,
than
all
if
the
pearls the
world can give;
"For what
will
it
profit a
man
he
gain the whole world and lose his
own
soul?''
"

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of the
Church
Divine illumination
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Golden Text
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d
close. in his
Matthew, 13th chapter, 47th verse to
A prophet
is
not
without honor save
own
country and
in his
own home."
among
all
Jesus was treated with greater respect
people than
he was among
his
own
people.
He came from
all
the ranks of
the
humble and towered above

this arous-
the great ones in
wisdom and understanding, and
ed their criticism, anger, envy and jealousy.
They were envious and

had attained something
jealous because they realized that he
far
beyond them.
We
as
are not jealous of anyone, unless

not.
we
is
feel
that they
fear.
have
something that we have
Jealousy
born of
to those
As long
we
feel assured that
we
are superior
around us we
in
have no jealousy, but when doubt of ourselves creeps
then
we
fear that
what we have may be taken from
us.
In this lesson
we can
realize the cause
and source of jealousy
and envy.
It is
born of ignorance and undevelopment.
When
we
realize that the
God
within us gives us as
will vanish.
us.
much
It is
as he gives
others, then jealousy
and fear
torments
but a nightis
mare, an
illusion, that
strong
person
not
jealous;
If
it
belongs to the weak.
We
can see
why
in this lesson.
they had
known God
they would have
rejoiced to see His
works manifested by one
whom
they had always known.
On
was
the contrary, they were offended.
Verse 47
"The
kingdom of heaven
is
like
unto
a net that
cast into the sea
and gathered of every kind."
Remember
that the soul
GATHERS
It is
all
that
is
sent to
it
by
of
the mind, both good and bad.
like a net cast into a sea
thought, and gathers

Verse 48
all
vibrations flowing into that sea.

it
"Which when
"So
shall
it
was
full
they drew to shore, and
gathered the good into the vessels but cast the bad away."
Verse 49
gels shall
be
at
the end of
the world.
The
just."
an-
"And Verse 50
angels of
Christ
come
forth,
and sever the wicked from the
shall cast
them
into the furnace of fire; then
shall there be wailing
and gnashing of teeth."
The
goodness and purity come with the
AWAKall
ENED
when we begin
Good,
is
to judge ourselves of our deeds

evil
and works; when we sever ourselves from the hold of
thoughts, words, deeds and actions, and cast them into the Fire
of the Soul
evil
God, or
is
consuming
fire,
and
all
the
within us
TRANSMUTED
said unto
when
the end of
the evil or
the world shall come.
Verse
51 "Jesus
They
them, Have ye
understood
all
these things?
"Then Verse 52
is
said unto him, Yea, Lord." said he unto them, Therefore every Scribe
which
instructed into the

is
kingdom of heaven
is
like
unto a
man
that
an householder, which bringeth out of his treasure

old."
things
new and
bring
We
old
out the
new
evil.
within us and
cast out the old
the
"And when Verse 54
man
of flesh and
he was come
unto his
own
country,
he taught them in their synagogues, insomuch

astonished, and said,
these
that they
this
were
Whence hath
this
man
wisdom and
mighty works?"
all
They
came out
Like
to hear
him and
to criticise,
and not for
Truth's sake.
many
of today, they
fault
come
to see the teach-
er out of curiosity
and to find
and
criticise.
Then, when
they saw that he

tonished and
had that which they had
not, they
were
as-
were jealous and began to accuse and condemn
him, to sneer and
make
light of
him.
Had he been
There
like
them
they would have admired him, but they could not
admire that
is
which they could not
see.
Neither do we.
it,
lot of
good where we cannot

not because
it is
see
simply because
WE
Is
are blind
and
not there. not this the carpenter's son?
Verse 55
er called
u
Is
not his moth-
Mary, and his brethren James, and John, and Simon,
and Judas?"
Verse 56
"And
man
his sisters, are they not all with us?

all
Whence
then hath this
these things?"
Why was he above them, he who had been one THEY did not know and could not understand. They were blind to the great Soul WITHIN him.
Verse 57
of them?
"And
it is
he did not
many mighty works

at this
there be-
cause of their unbelief."
And
those
thus
everywhere even
day, and even

are willing
among
who
are seekers after Truth.

lines
They
to accept
anything along the material

thing to give
where they
may
to
it.
gain some-
them power
to acquire
more or
to attain
gain success,
without having to give up too

cess
much
is
Give us
it
suc-
and power but not religion
the cry.
And
we
is
because
they are blind to the fact that the greater

the
attain in religion,
all
more
will be
if
added unto
sincere
us.
We
are
worthy of
material
blessings
we prove
and
true.
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of the
Church
Divine Illumination
Golden Text "They need not depart; give ye them to

In the beginning of
this lesson
Matthew, chapter 14;
l-21st verses.
eat."
we have
the history of the
violent death of
John the
Baptist.
This
It
is
nothing but the death of mental laws of healing.
is
not Divine, and, therefore,

it
when
in
the hands of
the
wicked
is
destroyed.
Herod, the king, was a wicked man.
He was
a worldly, material
man, and
a ruler
falls into
over
the
many
as
wicked as himself.
such
This
it
When
the mental
hands of
it.
is
sooner
or later destroyed by their violent use of

fatal fall of
is
the
symbol of the
it
mental healing and teachthe evil can use, and

it
ing, because
is
an
instrument which
must be
replaced by the
things of the Soul, or Soul Healing,
which cannot be used by the wicked.

In the teachnigs of Christ
it
was
different.
He was not
de-
stroyed.
He
rose
from the dead and taught them afterwards.

forty days, manifesting the Divine
He was with them
power
he gave to the world that accepted him.

Christ's teaching
and healing
will not yield to the
demands
and laws of
evil as will
mental or mind teachings.

The
Êth, or
Soul Healing, can
only
be
attained
through
purification of evil.
We
see
about us today the gradual falling
of the mental teachers.
No man
It is
can abuse the Divine Laws.

evil.
is
It
out of the reach of the
is
never attained by the
evil.
The law
He
of obedience
is
the
only law that
mortal
man
can break.
tact with
not divine, and he has never
come
let
into con-
Divine Laws until after he obeys.

he builds.
rhe laws for ourselves.
Then
him take
care
how
We
There
make
We
build
is
and break the

our
sight.
state
laws we
create,
and we obey that which
best in
are three
laws Divine, Mental and
Material.
Each
is
we
attain brings us
under each of these laws.
Man
not under
Divine law until he attains a part of Divinity.

Verse 13
"And
when Jesus heard

him on
of
it
he departed thence
the people heard
by ship into
a desert
place apart; and
when
thereof, they followed
foot out of the cities."
When
Jesus heard, he
All
departed from the vibrations of vio-
lence and evil laws.
good departs from
evil
surroundings.
it.
Evil cannot
"And Jesus went forth Verse 14

We
seek that
make
use of good, and thus destroy
and saw a great multitude
and was moved with compassion towards them, and he healed

their sick-,"
which we love most.
If
we
love Truth,
us.
we
seek
it,
and
it
will
have compassiod on us and heal

effort to attain that
We
want.
all
will not
If
make any
which we do not
we
desire the Christ
we
seek him.
Then we
attain
things.
And we
success
If
attain only according to the faith
and love
we have
If
for the thing
we
seek.
we love
we
seek the things that
we
think will bring
us success.
we
love
money we
seek the
things that bring
money, not
realizing
that in the
attainment of the Christ
we
GAIN ALL THAT
WE HAVE NEED
The
OF.
Disciples
Jesus had no lack of anything.
had money
to
supply their needs, for

bare what
we
read that "Judas had the bag and
was put
therein.''
Again,
when
the Master told
them
th^t one shall betray him,
and he gave the sup to Judas.

said unto him,
"They thought
that
that Jesus
had
Buy
those things
we have need
of
against
the feast, or that he should give something to the poor."
They could not buy

\*
unless they
had the money, and they

But
ould
not have
had the bag unless they had money.
Judas "bare what was put therein."

Verse 15
"And
when
is
it
was evening
place,
his disciples
is
came
to
him, saying, This
a desert
and the time
now
past;
send the multitude away that they
may go
into the villages
and
buy themselves
victuals."
The
desires.
disciples
were yet looking
after the material needs
and
Verse 16
give ye
"But Jesus
to eat."
said unto them,
They need not
depart;
them
Jesus
seeking
knew what they had need

life
of.
This multitude were

is
and health and strength, and that
why
he healed
them.
search.
They sought him, and he gave them
the reward of the
Verse 17
"And they said unto him, We have but

little
five loaves
and two
fishes."
They had but

occurred to them
service.
to give so
vast a crowd, but
it
had not
THAT WHAT THEY HAD

know
would be of any
They
did not
that the multitude were not hun-
gry for material things but for the things of the Spirit,and that
one Master has enough of the Spiritual food to feed vast multitudes
"He Verse 18
and to
satisfy millions of true seekers.

said,
Bring them hither to me."
BRING WHAT YOU HAVE TO THE CHRIST AND YOU WILL BE ABLE TO FEED THOUSANDS.
Do we
realize
the importance
of this sentence?
Verse.
19
"And he commanded the multitude

two
disciples to the multitude.''
to
sit
down on
the grass, and took the five loaves and
fishes,
and looking
up
to heaven, he blessed and brake and gave the loaves to his
disciples,
and the
The
fishes,
being of the waters, represent the Mind or Spirit;

bread, being of
success
while the loaves of

material needs or
the material, teach us that
must
go, in part, with the Spiritual.

spiritual.
We
must teach mankind both the material and the
Verse
25 "And
they did
EAT
and
WERE
is is
filled;
and they
full."
took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets
He
that takes
up the Knowledge that
taught and
;
EATS
same
(follows) he
is filled
(he becomes successful)

still
and of
this
Knowledge
that
is
taught, there
remains as much, or even

it
more; for two can follow

diminish.
just as
well as oae, and
does not

of of the
Church
Divine Illumination
Golden Text "O

doubt ?"
Matthew, 14th chapter; 22nd verse to the

thou of
little
close.
faith,
wherefore didst thou
We cannot We read that

find
find
one instance where Jesus sent any one away.
he healed ALL.
that
We
read where he encourages us

use of
it.
to bring the least
we have and make
And we
him always giving
others blessings, hope, peace and health.
On
and
no occasion did he ever complain.
We
him
do not
find
one
morbid, negative taint within him.
He gave
in
LIGHT
at all.
and LIFE
HOPE.
There was no darkness
How many of us in tilling the multitudes emulate him and Light? Do we do all our work cheerfully? Do we send the least in the kingdom away hungry? Do we allow the minds
to
become boisterous and wild when the Christ can
still
them?
THE CHRIST WITHIN
"And Verse 22
Verse 23
US.
constrained his disciples
straightway Jesus
to get into a ship,
and to go before him
unto the other side
while he sent the multitude away."
"And
when he had
sent
the multitude
away, he
went up into
a mountain apart to pray; and when the evening was come, he was there alone."
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Verse 24
But the ship was now
in the
midst of the sea,
tossed with waves, for the
wind was contrary."

just to try
We
are often sent out
on the storm-tossed seas

f
our
strength.
When we
bring our gifts to

multitudes,
the Christ, and are ac-
cepted, and are able to feed
we
are
sometimes
cast
into greater channels to try our faith

In fair
and strength.
weather, accepted
and
blessed,
we need not
fear, for
we
ing
are
always strong when we do not
fear; but in the
midst of
bearfind
the troubled seas, with the wind against us and the
waves
down upon
strong or
all
us,
THEN
is
our strength
are.
tried.
Then we
how
give
how weak we
But once accepted, and we
we
have, even though but small loaves and two fishes,
the Christ will not leave us ever alone, for
Verse 25
"In the fourth watch of

on the
sea."
the night Jesus went un-
to them, walking
No
sea can
be so rough
it,
and troubled that the Son of
God
cannot walk upon
"And when the Verse 26

How many
Verse 27
and without sinking.

disciples
It is
saw him
walking on the
sea,
they were troubled, saying,
a spirit;
and they cried out
for fear."
times have
we
seen
him on troubled
still
seas and felt
he was but a phantom of hope and
feared.
real-
And yet how many times have we heard and

is
ized that there
no need of
fear, that all things are
possible to
them
that
LOVE HIM AND TRUST HIM
WHO DWELLS
proof,
WITHIN.
Verse 28
And
felt
Peter,
who would
ever
demand
if it
and
who was me come
always sure of himself, said: "Lord,

unto thee on the water."
sure of support.
said,
be thou, bid
Peter seemed very brave as
long as he
Verse 29
And Jesus
"Come, and when
Peter
was come
down
out of the ship he walked on the sea to go to Jesus."
Verse 30
"But when he saw the wind boisterous,

beginning to sink, he
cried, saying,
HE WAS
Lord, save
AFRAID; and
me."
Verse
31 u And
immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand
caught him,
FAITH
O THOU OF WHEREOF DIDST THOU DOUBTS

and said unto him,
fear.
LITTLE
We
need not
No
faith
sea can
overcome us
if
we depend on
ours.
the Master
if
we understand
the
power which may be
We
are
weak and
forsakes us
when
all is
turmoil and
strife.
Verse 32
ed."
"And when they came to the ship the

depend on him, when we take
will cease.
wind
ceas-
When we
faith will
his hand,
which
is
the power of Truth and Right, the winds
The
and
true
always prevail over the
Verse 34
"And
strifes,
and
cares,
fears.
when they were gone
over, they
came
into
the land of Gennesaret."
Verse 35
"And when the men of

all
all
that place
had
KNOWL-
EDGE
of him, they sent out unto

that
the country round about
and brought unto him

Herein
is
were diseased."
that the Christ
faith.
They knew
was
in their
midst; that he
had come to them, for they had knowledge of
him.
Verse 36
the
"And
his
besought him that they might only touch

as
hem
of
garment, and
many
as
touched were made
perfectly whole."
True knowledge, though

garment"
sorrow.
will
at first small,
even "the
hem
of his
heal
all evil, all
diseases, all pain,
and
grief
until
and
Even though we cannot

all evil,
attain
Christhood
we
we
overcome
will
yet the touch or the
acceptance of his Truth

leave us, for
make us know how we
whole.
Diseases and sin will
are cleansed.

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Matthew, 15th chapter; l-21st

plant
that
my
heavenly Father hath
not planted shall be rooted up."
Again the Scribes and Pharisees followed

desire to find fault with every act he
If
after
Jesus with the
and
his disciples
commit.
we watch
ourselves carefully
in
our development of the

still
Christ,
we
will find the

fault.
same
old Scribes and Pharisees

all
per-
suing and finding
We
see
what we can
see,
and those
who
he
see
always the faults

If
in other
people cannot see only what

looks
sight
sees.
sees.
we look through
a great
faulty glasses, everything
wrong, and
of the eyes
If
many
people's eyes are faulty.

heart.
The
comes from the

good
it
We
see
what the heart

It
the heart sees
will see
good everywhere.
does not
matter
how
high or
how
low, the bad heart will always see bad
no matter how much good there
may be. And the evil heart When Christ enters within man, always sees evil in good. He may sacrifice, he may acthen evil sees him all wrong.
complish great good, but
evil
always persecutes and finds room
somewhere
to find fault.
Now,
this
time they found
fault with
the disciples because

ate bread.
they did not wash their hands
when they
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You
will find that
they were never able to find fault with the
works, but with the material.

see only the material.
And
The
this is
at
because
they could
short-
They picked
duties.
left
the failures or
comings of the material
Scribes and Pharisees ob-
served the material laws, but
out the Spiritual.

are so scrupulIt
And you
usually find
it
so
among many who
ously precise about the material, are lax about the spiritual.
is
not necessary to neglect the material for the spiritual, howevfor
er,
man
should be well balanced

people
in both.
Verse
8 "These
draweth nigh
unto
me
with their
is
mouth and honoreth me with

from me."
This
is
their eyes, but their heart
far
pose and not poise.

is
How many come

right, far
honoring with
words when the heart
"But Verse 9
far
from the
from Truth?
in
vain do
they worship
of men."
is,
me; teaching for
doctrines the
commandments
A man who knows

false teacher.
not where Christ
nor what he
are those laws
is,
is
The commandments of men
which
are not
from Divine Illumination
WITHIN
man.
Illumination
makes
err
'
plain
the law which
must be followed,
after
and we cannot
nated.
It is
from the Divine path
being Illumi-
the Light that never
Verse 11
to the
"And he
defileth
is
fails.
said unto them,
Not that which goeth
in-
mouth
man, but
that
which cometh out of the
mouth;
this defileth."
The mouth
the deceiver of the real

is evil.
man.
Fair
words
it
can speak when the heart
These come from the heart
OUT
of the mouth.
Verse 12
"Then
came
his
disciples,
and said
unto him,
Knowest thou
this
that the Pharisees were offended after they heard
saying?"
Jesus pointed out to them where they erred in the keeping of
the Divine
Law
"Honor
them
he
thy father and

aright.
mother," and they
knew
which
up."
that he judged
Vere 13
"And
answered them
and
said,
Every
plant
my
heavenly Father hath
not planted
shall be rooted
Do you know what these plants are? Have you any planted WITHIN you which God has not planted? It shall be rooted
up
if
you have.
Verse 14
blind,
"Let
if
them
alone;
they
be
blind leaders of
fall
the
and
the blind
lead the blind
both shall
into the
ditch."
The
blind cannot see.

it,
Those who are blind
to Divine
Law
cannot follow
fall
and those
who
follow them will stumble and

the flesh
with them.
All material
desires of
LEAD THE
this parable
BLIND.
Even the
disciples
were yet unable to understand
for Peter said, "Declare unto us the parable."
Verse 16
"And Jesus
said, "Are-
ye also yet without
under-
standing?"
Verse 17
at
"Do not ye
into
yet understand; that
what entereth
out
into
in
the
mouth goeth
the belly, and
is
cast
the
draught?"
Verse 18
"But those things

adultries,
who
proceed out of the
mouth
come from
Verse
the heart; and they defile the
man."
19 "For
out of the heart proceed
EVIL
THOUGHTS
witness, bias*
murderers, fornications, phemies." "These are the things which Verse 20

in his heart
If
file
thefts, false
defile a
man; but
to
eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man."
Every thought the Mind plants grows; and as
man
thinketh
SO
IS
HE, and those thoughts grow.

defile,
they are evil they

the heart.
but the material laws cannot de-

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Church
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Golden Text
When
Truth,
Matthew, 15th chapter; 21st verse to

"
close.
Be
it
unto thee even as thou wilt."
At the close of this chapter

titudes with the seven loaves
we have
the feeding of
little fish.
the mul-
and a few
the multitude clung to Jesus he did not send any

faint.
away
hungry nor
He had compassion on
all
who
Life,
seeked the
who
are
anhungered for the Bread of

with
and those
who
fear.
"continue
him" without anything
to eat need not
Christ always feeds.

is
Christ
always compassionate and willing to help those

Christ sees and knows.
the
false
who
need help.
Christ
knows
and untrue
who come
tempting and
finding fault
ing.
from those who come
in sincerity
and Truth seek-
Verse 21
coast of
"Then
4,
Jesus went thence and
departed into the
Tyre and Sidon."
Verse 22
And behold
woman
of
Canaan came out of the
same
coast and cried
unto him, saying, Have mercy on me,
Lord, thou son of David;

a devil."
my daughter is grievously
vexed with
Canaan, we must remember, was

this
a Gentile
province, and
"And he Verse 23
ples
crieth after us."
woman was
a Canaanite, or Gentile.
answered her not a word, and

saying,
his disci-
came and besought him,
Send her away, for she
The
disciples did not yet
know
the Master nor that the Christ
was the
Life within
man which awakens and
responds to the
cry of those troubled and distressed.
They
did not recognize the cry, and the hunger, and the long-
ing of the
woman's
soul,
nor that she did not

are
ask for herself*
but for another.
When we
awakened we hear and recog-
nize the cry of the soul in
all
others.
said,
I
Verse 24
"But he answered and

The Jews were
They were
am
not sent but un-
to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

Israel represents the
disobedient, blind sinful children of the
whole world.
ent of that day.
the most
material and disobedi-
repeatedly failing, losing and go-
ing into materialism and
flesh serving,
and that
is
why
Jesus
came
to teach
them
because
to Egypt.
they were
lost.
the lost.
They were
not the chosen, but were the
The
Gentiles were the teachers of the Truth, and taught Jesus
when he was taken

and
all
Egypt was the Gentile region,
the
Wisdom
of
the Ancients
was known
to the
Egyp-
tian Masters.
There was no personal preference of the Jew or
Gentile, as the
Jews would have us

all
believe.
The Egyptian
their col-
Masters accepted
men
as students,
no matter what
accepted on
all life
or, creed, or nationality.
A Jew was
equal basis
in
all
with their
own
people.
God
is
within
and being
be
and preferring only His own.
How
could one
preferred
above the other only except in development of

Verse 26
"But he answered and

it
God?
said,
It is
not meet to take
the children's bread and to cast
to dogs."
Jesus
was not refusing her the food here
as
some
believe.
This was only a

Verse 27
the
"And
test to try
her faith.
she
fall
said,
Truth, Lord, >et the dogs
eat of
crumbs which
from
their master's table."
She recognized the Master.

She knew
whole.
Verse 28
This
woman knew
the Christ.
the lowest and the humblest
could eat and be
made
"Then Jesus answered

is
and said unto
her,
wo-
man, great
thy faith; be
it
unto thee even as thou

that very hour."
wilt.
And
her daughter
was made whole from
We
that
all
reap the reward of our faith.
WE
may
all
attain all
we ASK
right faith.
FOR if we have the right understanding and the We can pick up the crumbs from the Masters and
if
become whole, and

are
we
are willing to eat of
the
crumbs then
wish of our
we worthy
to be filled
and
attain the greatest
hearts.
We
must not ask amiss.
God
does not
Christ,
answer
an
imperfect prayer.
believing.
We
must ask of the
and
in Christ
Verse 30
those
"Then the
multitudes
came
to him.
There were
others,
that were
lame, blind, maimed, and

at Jesus' feet,
many
and
they cast
them down
and he healed them."
These people
CONTINUED
eat,
with him, glorifying God, and
he had compassion on them.
and had nothing to

blessings.
They were with him three days but they did not ask him for material
They asked only to be healed.

bestows
all
But
God
that
man
needs.
Faith and love in the
work never goes unblessed, for their necessary material hunger was also satisfied, and they ate and had all they wanted.
Master's
And on every
double blessings.
healed but
occasion the
It
multitudes were sent
away with
"Seek
pays to seek the Christ.
We
are not only
ye
first
we are blessed in all ways. the kingdom of heaven and
We
all
never need.
things shall be added
unto you."

of of the
Church
Divine Illumination
Matthew, 16th Chaper; l-13th Verses.
Golden Text
"Take heed and beware of the leaven

a sign
of
the
Pharisees and Sadducees."
"The
him
Pharisees and Sadducees
came, and tempting desired
that he
would shew them
from heaven."
The
lieved
Pharisees were used to producing

it.
phenomena and
of
spirits
be-
They were much given

They
to the study
and
spiritism.
believed that Jesus' demonstrations of
power
was from
the spirit world.
That
is
why
they believed that he
cast out devils
through Beelzebub, the Prince of Devils.
There
of
is
a vast difference in the
power of Jesus and the power
many
professing mediumship.
Jesus produced no
phenomena through
the agency or assist-
ance of
spirits.
All his
works were of Divine Law.

by no disembodied
spirits
He used
of the as-
no
tral
other,
and was
assisted
world.
baptized
He
with the Holy Ghost and with Fire, and these
were the only agencies he employed.

is
This
is
not spiritism.
It
development of Divinity, of Sonship and Unity with the
Spirit of
God.

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|&
Verse 2
"He answered and

it
said unto them,
When
red."
it is
even-
ing, ye say
"And Verse 3
is
will be fair weather, for the

in the
sky
is
morning,
it
will be foul
weather today,
can
dis-
for the sky
red and lowering.
ye hypocrites, ye
cern the face of the sky, but can ye not discern the signs of the
time?"
Material signs, which the material eyes could see, they
see,
could
not.
but
the Christ nor the sign of

his
the Christ they
knew
They knew not
works and manifestations, and could not
distinguish between Divine
"A wicked and adulterous Verse 4

and there
shall
Law and
spiritualistic
phenomena.
generation, seeketh after

it
a sign,
no sign be given
but the sign of the
prophet Jonas."
Wickedness always
see without
desires a test.
It
wants something
it
can
development of the Soul.
They wanted
a great
manifestation
brought to their vision without going to the

it
trouble of giving up any wickedness and evil to see
"And Verse 5
or do
it.
when
his
disciples
were come to the other
side,
they had forgotten to take bread."
Verse 6
"Then Jesus
said unto them,
Take heed and beware
of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Saducees."

Materiality, the ordinary bread
see,
which the physical eye could

giv-.
was
all
they could understand yet, although Jesus had
en them power to heal.
They had forgotten

ing,
the previous lesson on giving
and
receiv-
and that the power within, though small, was capable of
giving
more than was
necessary.
They
also forgot
how
often
they had drawn upon him for strength and necessary assistance
and he gave them far more than they had need
of.
Such
is
human
faith
and weakness.
We
see
the power, and
we know
it
is
within us feeding us,
protecting us, giving and
sustaining us, and yet
we doubt and
do not obey from fear and weakness.

Verse 11
it
"How
is it
that ye
do not understand that
speak
not to you
concerning bread, that ye
should beware of the
leaven of the Pharisees and the Saducees?"
Verse 12
"Then
understood
they
how
that he
bade them
not beware of the leaven of

Pharisees and Saducees."
bread, but of
the doctrines of the
He knew how unbalanced they were
in
the spiritual sense,
and by association with the opposition they were not yet able
to
understand
the
difference
between Divine
Law and Power
and the phenomena-producing Pharisees, and the antagonism
and
infidelity of the scientific Saducees.

is
Just here
ido
where
many
students are led
wrong today. They

from the
not
know
Law
the leaven of the Pharisees and Saducees
Divine
not
of Truth.
They want something they can SEE,

see the true
understanding that the physical eye cannot
spiritual.
The Divine
in
see the
Divine or use the
man must be developed before he Divine Law and demonstrate it.

seeking for
can
True, pure, honest, sincere

Christ will enable
er
is
the Real Power, the

All other
you
to see and use Divinity.
pow-
of evil and an illusion.
No Divine man
needs the power of
spirits or
of
scientists to
develop him to Divine sight and hearing. This comes with the development of the Soul
ed Soul of the Christ.
the awaken-

1~of
Church

of the
God."
m
u
m
Thou
are the Christ, the
wm
Matthew, 16th chapter; 13 to 21st Verses.
Golden Text
Son of
the
living
We
have here the famous confession of Peter.
This confession has been the cause of
much
contention
and
argument between the Sectarian denominations, and between the Catholics and Protestants.
especially
The Catholics claiming

of heaven.
that absolute
authority
and
power
were given over to Peter; that he held the key to the kingdom
Now we know there is but One Rock, ONE foundation on which to build the Church of Christ, and that Reck or foundation is Christ, the Christ which is the true Conception of the
one God, the
God WITHIN man.

heaven were given to
confess the Christ.
Peter but they are
also
The keys
given to
of
ALL who
of the U
I
The "key
Jesus said
WILL
kingdom" were not given at that give them the keys." Later he
time.
told Peter
"WHEN Thou art converted strengthen thy brethren." Peter was weak and a coward at the moment of trial, and he
received
no more power or authority than any other

all
disciple,
for they were
baptized
at
the time with Fire,

fire sat
or
the
Holy
Ghost, for "cloven tongues as of
upon
EACH
of them,"

and they
ALL
spake
Peter
in other
tongues and
as strong as
all
were told to
"go
not
and preach."
establish as
did.
was not
Paul,
He
did
as
many Churches and
did not lead as
many
Paul
We
read where Peter's cowardice and bigotry
overcame
him
again,
and he was rebuked by Paul for

failure to live
his instability, pre-
judice,
and
up
to the law.
Verse. 13
'"When
Jesus
came
into
the
coast
of
Caesarea
say that
Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying,

1
Whom do
say that
men
the
Son of man am?"
Verse. 14
"And they
some
Elias;
said,
Some
thou
art
John
the Baptist;
and others Jeremias, or one of the
Prophets."
In the question asked
by Jesus of
his disciples
we have
the
key to the knowledge held by the

If
men and
masters of that time.
Jesus did not believe in Reincarnation,
WHY
also
DID HE
ask
this question?
In the
answer made by the
disciples,
we
have the proof

<
that the people, both the -learned
and
unlettered,
believed
in
Reincarnation for
all
the prophets mentioned were dead, and IN
ORDER THAT JESUS COULD BE ONE OF THEM HE WOULD HAVE HAD TO BE REINCARNATED AS SUCH.
This cannot possibly be contradicted, and
this the thought that
it
if
you
will
only give
to
deserves
it
will help
it
you much
be.
make
your future
as
God
intended that
should
"He saith Verse. 15

am/" Do
unto them, But

he was?
whom
say
YE
that
YOU KNOW who
Flesh and blood cannot reveal the Christ to
you or any other
man.
The Father WITHIN,

Church we
It is
the Life,
the
the
Soul
ONLY
That
is,
can
acknowledge, accept and
KNOW
are
Son of God
building.
if
The Soul
is
the
ALL
is
we
in
are to live in the
Beyond.
in
the one that will be

it
"bound
heaven or loosed
heaven."
If
founded on the
Rock of
Truth, the Christ of God,

of
necessity
it
will stand forever
and such must

the
be
the
Church
of
Soul,
finds
or
Church of
Divine Illumination, for when

reached the Soul and found
plished
it,
man
the
Soul he has
be
and that can only

has,
accom-
though and by illumination. He
therefore,
found
living
the Temple, for
God
said,
"Ye
are the
Temples of the
God."
There can, therefore, be but one Church, the Church
of Soul or Divine Illumination.

If
any church
it
is
founded on the knowledge and laws of

fall,
flesh
and blood
of the
must eventually
for flesh
and blood are not
kingdom of heaven.
The law
it.
of the flesh
would
prevail
against the soul and destroy
It
leads
away from
did
Christ
and
NOT
to
HIM. Thus
Peter, as a
man
of flesh,
not
receive
"the keys of the
kingdom
of heaven."
is
The Father WITHIN him, which
the
Christ,
or
God
WITHIN EVERY
man, held the keys of the kingom.

heaven
unless the
We
cannot unlock the doors of

us.
Christ
unlock them for
When we
This
attain the perfected Christ, or rather,
to
make
it
plainer, the perfected Soul,

is
we have
attained the seventh Heaven.
the highest the Soul can
know.
It is
WITHOUT
be-
ginning and without end.

It is
"Jesus Verse 17
thou
unto thee, but
to be God-like-ness-God's
said to
Image
perfect.
him on
his confession:
"Blessed art
it
Simon Barjona;
for flesh and blood hath not revealed

is
my
Father which
are the
in
heaven."
As
God
it
said,
"Ye
Temples of the LIVING God "or

Soul of
Peter
heaven,
was the Illuminated
which revealed
Christ to him. He,through long suffering and long training had
reached Illumination, and,

Christ.
therefore,
SAW
and
KNEW
the,
Illu-
The
Christ can be
known
only by the Spiritually
minated.
All
men
can simply believe
in Christ,
but only
the
Developed Soul can

Verse 18
"Upon
is
KNOW
this
him.
I
rock
will build
it."
my
church
and the
gates of hell shall not prevail against
This Church
The Illuminated
find
Soul.
The Rock
is
the Christ
which we
but the
MUST
WITHIN.
of
It is
not an outward
the
Temple,
build
Temple
of the Living God.
It is
Temple
by
Solomon without sound

must build
this
hammer. Each man and woman
Church or Temple, and the foundation must be

Priest
is
Spiritual Illumination and the
the
Developed Soul.
this
Nothing
in
heaven or earth can
prevail
against
Church,
to
and the Soul thus Illuminated

earth except
will
not again need to return
by
its
own
desire in order to
become
Savior
of
mankind.
Verse 19
"And
will give
unto thee the keys to the kingdom

bind on
earth shall
of heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt
be
bound
in
heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt lose on earth shall
be loosed in heaven."
If
we
it is
bind or live evil
it is
bound within the Soul.

If
If
we
loose
evil
loosed within the Soul.
we bind good
it
is
bound
the
life
within the Soul.

of man.
It is
The Soul
is
the thing that lives.

it
It is
heaven or
hell;
is
whatever we
MAKE
hell.
it.
Heaven
it
NOT
the Soul world as
many seem
to think.
One
mis-
may
be in the Soul world and yet be bound in
Soul world
and heaven are thought to be the same by ignorant and

guided people. There
is
a vast
trial
difference
between them.
the
sifting
it
The
Soul world
in the
is
simply the
chamber,
will
ground,
can
Beyond. There the Soul

it
find
whether
go
onward or whether ment

for the
must return
to earth to suffer just punish-
wrong committed.

of of the
Church
Matthew, 16th chapter; 21st verse to the
close.
if
Golden Text
whole world and
What
is
"From Verse 21
disciples
lose his
man profitted own soul?"

a
he shall gain the
that time forth began Jesus to
shew unto
suffer
his
how
that he
must go unto Jerusalem, and

and chief
priests
many
killed,
things of the elders
and
scribes,
and be
and be raised again the third day."
Jesus
knew
all
that
would come upon him, and he
told
the disciples on one occasion that they also
would
suffer
much
because of him
not of him
as Jesus, but of the Christ.
The development
and we
Cross.
suffer
of the Christ brings us
many
It is
persecutions,
many
things in
many
ways.
the
way
of the
We
seem crossed on every hand.

spit
We
are laughed at,
mocked, jeered and

all
upon by
the contempt of
others, but
if
these persecutions are but tests.

a Christ.
We
must be strong
we
would be
change.
Christ
is
not the symbol of weakness and
He
is
the
God
of the living, the hopeful, the cheerful,
and
is
not the
God
of the dead.
struggles lead us to
if
All these bitter
the Illumination of the

life
Soul.
death.
We
are "raised again"
we demonstrate
and not

Verse
saying,
22 "Then
Be
it
Peter took him, and began to rebuke him,

thee, Lord; this shall not be."
far
from
Peter
saw no higher than the grave.

not
He was not
of
flesh
yet lllumi"
first
nated, and did
know
that the
man
must
die
and be "raised spiritual."

Verse 23
"But he turned and said unto

art
Peter,
Get thee
be-
hind me, Satin; thou
an offense
to me, for
thou savorest
not the things that be of God, but those that be of men."

Peter in
his unenlightened
condition would
have held him
from
his resurrection.
He understood only
as a
with spiritual understanding and perception.

of flesh would have destroyed the Christ, then
flesh
To
man and not save the man

The
take
as today.
must
die,
must be
crucified, so that Illumination
may
place within the house of Christ.
Verse 24
will
"Then
me,
said Jesus
let
unto his
disciples, If
any
man
come
after
him deny
himself, and take
up
his cross
and follow me."
We
is
have to deny
SELF many
is
times over and again.

to eternal
bitterness,
life;
It is
the Cross that takes us to the Christ and

the wilderness of strife;
it
but
it
water of
the
Marah
Springs;
the Soul.
but
it
leads to the land of
Promise, to the
home of
Verse 25
"For whosoever
will
save his
life shall lose it."
it,
and
whosoever
shall lose his life for

life,
my
sake shall find
To
and
think of the material
and of ambitions and desires

life.
of the flesh are losses.
Self cannot give
To
DENY
eternal.
self,
LOSE
the
DESIRES and
Truth
is
ambitions for the glories of the

in Christ brings
life
material,
"For what Verse 27
and
desire for
man
profitted
if
he shall gain the
whole world and

in
lose his
own
soul?
or what shall a
man
give
exchange for his soul?"
And what does
it
profit?
What
He
LIFE.
is
is
man
without a soul?
nothing.
He
is
as
one dead.
He has no
heritage of
Why
what
should a
man
If
consider
it
worth while to
live
the
life
that leads to death?

will
it
he should gain every kingdom on earth

dies
sees,
profit
him when he
and leaves and

all
it
all
behind?
will-
He knows nothing only what he

o-the-wisps, that vanish
he sees are
when death comes.
Man
gives illusion and vanity in exchange for his soul.
Verse 27
'Tor the Son of
Man
shall
come
in the
glory of
his Father with his angels, and then he shall reward every
man
according to his works."
Our works
count for or against

soul.
It is
us.
It
is
all
accumulated
and stored up within the
pure, and clean, and whole-
some, or moth-eaten and rotten.
"Verily Verte 28
in his
It is life
or death.
say
unto you, there

till
be
some standing
here which shall not taste of death
they see the Son of
Man
coming
kingdom."
of the Christ brings
The coming
all
death to
all
that
is
mortal;
that
is
worldly and corrupted.
K3**5r

of
of the
Church
Matthew,
7th chapter; 1st to 14th verses.
Golden Text
Arise,
"And Jesus came and touched them

after six
and
said,
and be not afraid."

1
Verse
"And
days Jesus taketh Peter, James and

a high
John,
his brother,
and bringeth them up into
mountain
apart."
Verse 2
"And
was transfigured before them; and
his face
did shine as the sun, and his raiment
was white
as the light."
He could not have been

ples,
transfigured
before the other disci-
nor any other place, for he took them "apart" where there
were no antagonistic or destructive vibrations.
These three
there
disciples
were developed beyond the others, and
was harmony and love between them. There would have

great^
been a
before
demonstration and persecution had this taken pla:e

all
many, but
the
greatest
works of Jesus were accom-
plished in
the Silence, in
secrecy and before a few, not before
the multitude, for he did not seek glory and praise.
His power
was WITHIN, and
only those
who were
Illumi-
nated within could see Verse 3
"And behold there
him Illuminated
or transfigured.
appeared unto them Moses and
Elias talking with Jesus."

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This was not a materialization seance. They were not brought

to earth.
The
spiritual
vision of Peter,
James and John was

Realm of the
illuminated to the extent of

Spiritual. In the
seeing into the Soul
fourth verse
we again
find Peter
swerving from the
Soul sense into the material obligations.
He would
monuments.
eye could
accept the old prophets and build to
them material
He wanted
to
produce something the material
see.
" While Verse 5

This
,,
he yet spake, behold a bright

a voice
in
cloud over-
shadowed them; and behold

said,
is
out of the cloud

1
which
my
beloved Son
whom
am
well pleased; hear
ye him.
cloud overshadowed
THEM
and they heard
a voice.
This
was the voice of the

but the voice
Spirit.
Peter
desired a material building, that Christ

is
commanded them
the Son, and
should be followed and not the prophets of the material age.

''Christ
is
"And when the Verse 6

is
the Son; hear ye him."

disciples heard
it,
they
fell
on
their
face and were sore afraid."
This
Spirit.
the "Dweller
of
the
Threshold"
the
fear of the
Verse 7
Arise,
"And
Jesus
came and touched them and
said,
and be not afraid."

need have no fear when we hear the voice.
It is
We
the
voice of the Christ

of the cloud."
WITHIN
as
the Soul which
is
"the voice out
Verse 9
"And
they
came down from

from the dead."
the mountain,
Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no
man
until the
Son of Man be
risen again
Note the word "again"

dead."
in this phrase, "risen again
from the
Is
there
more than one
resurrection?
Yes.
The
first
death
is
the
resurrection
or illumination of
is
the
Christ within the Soul of man.
The second death

all evil.
It is
the final
triumph over the
flesh,
the world and
the supreme
man
of God, the illuminated, perfect Soul, which isSonship.
Verse 10
"And
his disciples asked
him
again,
Why
then say
the scribes that Elias
Verse 11
"And Jesus
restore
all
1
must
first
come?"
unto them, Elias truly
shall first
said
come and
"But Verse 12
listed.
things."
say
unto you that Elias
is
come
already,
and they knew him

they
not, but
have done unto him whatsoever

also the
Likewise shall
Son of Man
suffer
of
them."
John the
Baptist
was the
restorer of
the lost Mental Laws.
Manifestations and
phenomena were
as high as they
had
attain-
ed
in that age.
They were seeking enlightenment among

it
the
disembodied
souls, not realizing that
was impossible
can only
to
com-
municate with souls above them.

with souls on
We
communicate
in
OUR OWN
souls.
plane
those
who
are
harmony
and
with our
own
The
self-righteous, bigoted Pharisees
Scribes could not attain to any great heights; hence the letter of the law
was
authority, for the Spiritual law
was
lost to
them.
prepar-
John
ed the
the Baptist
was the reincarnation of
Elias.
He
way
for the Christ
by preparing the Mind, turning the

meet for repent-
minds away from the

ance.
evil to bring forth fruits

,
"The Verse 13
John the
disciples
understood that he spake unto them
of
Baptist."
ON
HRISTIG
OF
MAN
A BOOK
HE MILLIONS

of of the
Church
Divine Illumination
Golden Text
and
it
Matthew, 17th chapter; 14th verse to

"If ye
close.
have
faith as a grain of
mustard
seed,
ye shall say unto this mountain remove hence to yonder place,

shall be
removed, and nothing
shall be
impossible unto
you/'
The
disciples
tells
were not entirely successful
in their Healing,
at-
and Jesus
them
WHY.
They, of course, had not yet
tained Sonship or Mastership.
They were not poised and
illu-
minated.
Jesus explains to them that only through prayer and fasting

is
power
UNLIMITED
mode
gained.
He does not mean

the only
for
them
to stop eating, as
some
believe
is
of fasting, nor in prayer as
we
often pray with-
out poise or concentration.

Fasting
desires
here represents
the giving
up
all
earthly longings,
and temptations.
is
The prayer
Verse 22
Desire.
Absolute power
is
given only through
concentrated Desire and right
"And while they abode

Son of Man
THINKING
and LIVING.
Jesus said unto
in Gallilee,
them, The
men.'
,
shall be betrayed
into the
hands of
Verse 23
'They
shall kill
him, and the third day he shall
be raised again.
"And they were exceedingly
sorry.'
They were sorry because they
did not understand.

Jesus, for the Christ
is
He
says the
Son of Man, the man

by
evil.
not
crucified except
When we
in
is
destroy
evil,
the Christ within
us
we have
crucified
him
shame and
but
when we
cru-
cify the
man
of flesh the Christ
alive HE IS RAISED.
They were
sorry because they did not
know beyond
the flesh
and even yet they did not understand him.

Verse 24
"
and when they were come to Capernaum, they
that received tribute
money came
to Peter
and
said,
Doth your
Master pay tribute
?" the
Many do
not quite understand
meaning of
this part of
the Scripture, and
why paying
tribute
was
necessary.
Jesus chose
Capernaum
as his
home
after his ejection
and
ill
treatment of Nazareth.
Capernaum was
(
Roman
city.
The
Jews were but
a small
colony and very poor, but they were

Jesus'
obliged to pay the temple taxes where ever they lived.

greatest
works were accomplished

sermons preached
there.
at
Capernaum and most
of
his greatest
Verse 25
said:
Peter
take
came
to
Jesus for the money, and Jesus
"What
earth
thinkest
thou, Simon, of
whom
do the kings of
children or
the
custom or
tribute, of their
own
of strangers?
Verse 26
saith
"And Peter
saith
unto him,
Of
strangers.
Jesus
unto him, Then are the children free."

tribute
The
Jews.
money was
Jew
for the support of the temple of
the
Jesus was a
ger, but
after the flesh, and, therefore,
was no
stran-
they considered
him
as
one because he differed
from
them
in their faith.
Although he was one and yet

civil
stir
different he
obeyed the law of order and of the
authorities
who
ruled.
He was not
Here
violent,
and did not
up violence and
strife.
we have another
instance where he willingly submitted
to injustice to keep the Great
Law
of
Silence
supreme and un-
disturbed.
Many today would
refuse,
and would arouse con-
tention and animosity over a few coins.
But the Christ understood the law of the
just
and the unjust;

silence,
and to preserve the law of piece and goodness and
he
would
willingly
lose
the
material good
give
I
it
up without
complaint for the greater good.
We
many
money
all
have often faced
this
problem, and
wonder how
concerning
of us have
been willing to be used unjustly
matters to
keep the Great
Law
of Peace
and Silence
undisturbed?
Sometimes we
are treated so for a test.

best.
We
If If
do that which we love

love
we
money more than

more we
peace
we
will
contend for
it.
we
love peace
will
will
submit to injustice and
let
it
go
as Jesus did.
The unjust
pay the
price for the injus-
tice.

of of the
Church
Divine Illumination
Golden Text "Except ye be converted and

children ye shall not enter the
Matthew, 15th chapter;
1st to
10th verse.
become
as
little
kingdom
in
of heaven."
These words of Jesus were made

of
the disciples as to
answer to the question

in the
whom
is
the greatest
kingdom of
heaven.
They thought
then, as
now, that the Soul World was the
kingdom of heaven.
The kingdom
of
heaven
is
on the earth
in
in a very,
very few
the Soul
souls and in a very
few souls
the Soul World, for

life here,
World
is
but a continuation of this
but in a SPIRIT-
UAL STATE. THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN OF THE SOUL.

Verse 2
IS
A PURIFIED STATE
and
Jesus
is
called
little
child unto him,
sat
him
in
the midst of them,
and
said:
little
''Whosoever, therefore, shall humble himself as this

child the
same
the greatest in the
kingdom of heaven."
worldly
The
lusts
child
is
pure, innocent, and trusting, and the
and
desires are
unknown
to
it.
It
is
small in a material

way, and does not seek material gains and material
desires.
And whosoever
in the
shall
become AS
THE CHILD
his
is
the greatest
kingdom of heaven, because

and gains.
Soul
is
purified of greed
and
lusts
Verse 5
in
"And whosoever
receiveth me."
shall
receive one such
little
child
my name
This means those
who
shall
purify the soul receives within
the soul the Purity and Truth, and purified desires and trust of the child receives Christ, for Christ
"But whosoever Verse 6

in
is
pure, holy and sacred.
shall offend
one of these
little
ones
which believe
me,
it
were better for him that a mill-stone

and that he were drowned
in the
were hanged about

depths of the sea."
his
neck
To
and
offend
is
to
wrong and harm
purity, innocence
in the sea
and
truth,
it is
better for
one to be drowned
than to destroy
at-
Purity and Truth IN
HIS
OWN
tempt to wrong or harm,
SOUL, or to another who is pure

to
wrong, or to
and trusting/
is
Be
careful that
its
you bring harm

deeds.
none and your soul
not
harmed by
"Woe Verse 7
own
unto the
world
because of oifence, for
it
must needs be that offences come; but
WOE TO THAT MAN

the
BY
WHOM THE
OFFENCE COMETH."
suffer not as
this
is;
Therefore, the wronged

suffer.
wrong doer must

a
frail,
And we understand from
what
foolish
to
thing the revenge and hate of

the evil
man
for greater
woe comes
doer than he
is
able to give another.
We
bring suffer-
ing and death
upon our own

if
soul through
it.
Verse 8
Wherefore,
cast
thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut

thee.
It is
them
into
off
and
them from
better for thee to enter
LIFE
halt
or
maimed, rather than having two hands or
two
feet to be cast into everlasting fire."
If
the hands will do evil deeds and

it
the feet will
walk
in evil
ways,
is
better to be
without them, and keep the soul pure,

destroy the soul by their evil propensi-
than to keep them and

ties.
These are the material desires that must

better,
be cast out.
It is
you
see, to
do without the material NECESSITIES even

all
and be pure and holy than to have

comfort and be impure and
Verse 9
evil.
that
is
necessary for
"If thine eye
offend thee, pluck
it
out
and
cast
it
from
fire."
If
thee, rather
than
having both eyes to be
cast into
hell
the eye sees sensual and the gross, and loves to look
upon
the gross
see
and the
vile, cast
the lustful eye out.
It
is
better to
but
little
good than
to see a lot
of
evil.
The
lustful eye
harms and
destroys, while the purified eye brings LIFE.

of
of the
Church
Divine Illumination
Matthew, 18th chapter; 10th to 21st verse.
Golden Text
"Where two or three

1
are gathered together in
my
name, there
if
am
in the
midst of them."
Jesus says
His
we
gather together in
HIS NAME.
name
is
Righteousness, Truth and Sincerity, and
we must
be righteous
if
we
gather together in his name.
Many
enough.
praise
people have
thougth that the
gathering
together
is
They come with unclean minds and

self-
selfishness, self-
and
absorption, and
self,
self- glory in their
hearts seeking
something for
material gains.
something they
is
may
be able to turn into
This
NOT
in
HIS NAME.
"Not everyone
the
that saith unto
me
Lord, Lord shall enter into

that doeth the
kingdom of heaven, but

Father which
is in
that he
WILL
of
my
heaven."
Neither can you reap of the heavenly things until you do the
will of
heaven.
Verse 10
ones, for
I
"Take heed that ye

my
despise not one of these

their angels
little
say unto you that in heaven
do always
behold the face of
Father which
is
in
heaven."
Ignorant orthodoxy of some sects preach hell
and death to
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u
,
babes and children.
The
is
angels of heaven are the pure souls of gods, and a child
pure physically, mentally and morally.
Therefore, the gods
of childhood are purity, which the material, the child spiritually

beholds.
We
its
hold that which

is
we
are.
The
child holds Purity, because

If
mind
pure and fresh from the Soul world.
we
despise
purity in any form
we
are alien to
it.
There are a few

are
men and women (and we thank God
they
few)
who
despise children.
Why
do they?
is
The answer
easy.
If
they love the fresh and pure and in-
nocent they would admire the

bol of purity.
symbols, for the child
is
sym-
Verse 11
lost."
"The
Son
of
Man
is
come
to save that
which
is
"How Verse 12
is
Jesus came to save the
lost ones, the soul that

if
had
fallen.
think ye,
man had
an hundred sheep
and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine and goeth into the mountains and seeketh that which
gone astray?"
Verse 13
"And
if
so he find
it,
verily
say unto you, he
re-
joiceth
more of
that sheep than of the
ninety and
nine that
went not astray."
We may
away from
be almost whole, and have but one sin that lead us

the Father, and
when we
find
that evil within us

rejoice
that keeps us
out from Sonship

all
and home, we
us, for
more
over-
than
we
rejoice over
the
good within
we have
come
the sin that kept us astray.
We
have seen such men
and
women who
were
big, true,
generous and kind-hearted, but whose one weakness or material
blindness kept
"Even so Verse 14
little
them away from Truth.

it
is
not the will of your Father that one
of these
ones should perish."

all
The good would be

Perhaps
bitterness
a
good and not one soul
perish.
misunderstanding between you and a brother keeps
between you.
Do
if
your part
perish.
in
Truth and
as a child
of
in
God
so that
YOU
do not
Become
reconciled to
him
"For whatsoever Verse 18

in
If
thought and well wishes
he will not become a friend.

ye shall bind
on earth
shall be shall
bound
heaven, and whatsoever ye shall
loose
on earth
be loosed in heaven."
you bind good on earth you have bound good
in
heaven
and purified
YOUR
soul,
and
if
you loose good
to the earth,
(become negative and material,) you

of heaven.
will be loosed or cast
out
Here
is
that great
mystery which
is
attributed to Peter,
and
upon which the Church
is founded. ONLY TO YOURSELF DOES THIS LAW APPLY AND NOT TO OTHERS.
Verse 18
"If
two of you agree on

it
earth
as
touching any-
thing that they shall ask,

er
shall be
done for them of
my
Fath-
which
is
in heaven.*'
But take care what you
ask.
The Father
in
heaven does not
comply with an
evil request.
Jesus delivered
those
the whole
lesson to his disciples
and not to
who were
NOT
his disciples,
and not to the hypocrites
did he promise anything.
He says
to us to gather in
HIS NAME,
in
Truth and Rightshall be given.
eousness, and
what ye
shall ask in
HIS
NAME

of of the
Church
Matthew, 18th chapter; 21st verse to the
close.
Golden Rule
unto you,
if
So
likewise shall
my
heavenly Father do also

his
ye from
your hearts forgive not every one
brother their trespasses."

In this lesson
ness.
we
it
learn the value of the great gift of forgive-
Perhaps
is
the hardest lesson of
all
to learn.
We want
we do not
to be forgiven for our evil deeds ahd blindness but
have compassion and patience for those
who do wrong and
wrong
us
who owe us debts of gratitude and kindness.

him how many times he should forgive
a brother
Peter asked
who had
sinned against him.

to think there
He thought "seven times" enough.

a limit to patience
He seemed
was
and that "for-
bearance ceases to be a virtue"
when
the sin
is
committed again
and again. But Jesus

said, "I
say not unto thee until
seven
times, but,
until seventy times seven."
One
hundred and forty times does require great patience and

faith," for
it
no wonder they prayed "Lord increase our
is
hard
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to
have
faith in
one
who
continues to abuse and hate
us.
Then Jesus
Verse 23
illustrated
why
forgiveness
is
necessary.
like
"The Kingdom of
would
heaven
is
unto a certain
king, which
TAKE ACCOUNT OF
when he had began
HIS SERVANTS."
reckon, one
"And Verse 24
much?
Verse 25
to
was
brought unto him which owed him ten thousand talents."
Quite a number of
sins, isn't it?
Do we owe
the Father so
But the man could not pay.

He was very
far
There was not much
good
in
him.
from owning much goodness.

fell
Verse 26
"The
servant, therefore,
down and worshipped

and
I
him, saying, Lord, have patience with

Verse 27
me
will
pay."
"Then
the Lord of
the servant
was moved with
compassion, and loosed him and forgave him his debt."
How many
ise
beg for mercy in the same way?

will be
We
will
prom-
"The same servant went out and found one of Verse 28

fellow-servants
and think we
good, but
we do
like the
man
did.
his
laid
which owed him an hundred pence, and

throat, saying,
hands on him and took him by the
Pay me
what thou owest."

This
man owed him
a small debt
compared
to
let
what he owed
his Lord, yet
he would not "loose him nnd
him go," but

thoughts un-
kept on hurting him.

til
He kept sending him
evil
he should leave him alone.

Verse 32
"Then
his Lord, after he
had
called him, said
unto
him,
thou
wicked
servant,
forgave
all
that
debt
because
thou desireth me."

Verse 33
"Shouldst not
I
thou also have had compassion on
thy fellow-servant, even as
had pity on thee?"
Had he
a right to ask for that
which he would not give?
Verse 34
"And
till
his
Lord was wroth, and delivered him to

all
the tormentor
"So Verse 35
you, IF
is
he should pay
likewise
shall
that
was due unto him."
unto
my heavenly Father do also YE FRON YOUR HEART FORGIVE NOT

cannot, or will not, forgive
every one his brother their trespasses/'
Because
we
and purify our and we are
own
souls
we
still
owe
that
much
to the Father,
tormented by the desires of our
OWN
to
Soul for peace until we
do forgive.
It is
the
hardest lesson for
some
learn,
and
it
is
perhaps
their biggest
debt they
owe
themselves, for
when we cannot
is
forgive
we
are full of bitterness
and hate, and to hate
a great
debt for
it is
most poisonous.
SOUL^CIENCE
AND
SUCCESS

of
of the
Church
Matthew, 19th chapter; 16th verse to the
close.
Golden Text
"If
thou
wilt enter
into Life keep
thou the
Commandments/'
The preceeding
isfactorily
part of this chapter cannot be explained sat-
without the
is
sex law and mysteries being explained,
and
as that
will
forbidden and dare not be given out promiscously

at
we
the
have to forego any attempt

the higher JEth
explanations; however,
the understanding
student in
can attain
through
Jesus
his Drills.
tells
the
rich
young man, who has come
to ask
him
if
what good thing he must do
to inherit eternal Life, that
he
would enter
into Life he
must keep the Commandments
HE
MUST OBEY.
This young
man was
moral man.
He had kept
the law
and the prophets from "his youth up," yet he knew he lacked one good thing, and he desired to know.
He had not committed murder, nor

thing,
adultry, nor stolen anyin all his life,
and had not
lied,
nor cheated anybody
and
had honored
his father
and mother and

qualities for
his neighbor.
great
many good
one
man
to possess, yet he
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was out of the kingdom
and why?
He loved money; he
and luxuries, and Jesus said to
Ah! here was the stumbling: block.

loved his material comforts
him:
"Sell that thou has
and give to the poor and thou
shall
have
treasures in heaven, and
come and follow me."

sorrowful, for he had great
But the young

possessions."
man "went away
He could not
separate himself
from
his treasures
and give
all
his soul to the poor, starved Christ
"Then Jesus Verse 23

that a rich
WITHIN
enter
him.
I
said to his disciples, Verily
say unto
of
you
man
shall hardly
into the
kingdom
heaven."
It is
hard for them to see beyond

ease and
selfish desires
and comforts.
They loved
the
power
that
money
gives
more than
they love the power that the Soul can give.
His "Then who can be saved?" Verse 26 "But Jesus beheld them and said unto them, With
Verse 25
disciples said,
men
this
is
impossible, but with
God
he
all
things are possible."
The man
of
the world, and
who
has given himself over
to the love and worship of

gains,
the temporal
powers and material

a Christ; but
CANNOT
is
see the
power of the Soul of
when God
developed within
man, the God
in
him
sees the
power and glory of God, and with the God
in
him
AWAK-
ENED
poise,
"all things are possible."
He can SAVE HIMSELF.

it
Verse 27
Peter, who found

who
lacked
such a great struggle to attain
and
understanding, asks:
shall
"Behold we have
therefor?"
forsaken
all
"And Jesus Verse 28

ye which
the
and followed thee; what

said unto
we have
1
them, Verily
in the
say unto you
that
have followed
shall
sit
me
REGENERATION,
his glory, ye
when
Son of Man
in the
throne of
also shall
Israel."
sit
upon twelve
thrones, judging
the twelve tribes of
The Regeneration
fulness
is
the cleansing of
the Soul
from the
sinis*
and
evil,
and Sun of
Man
sits in
the
SOUL OF MAN
the
SUN OF
are,
HIS
BODY
the throne of
glory THE
SOUL.
There
according to Astrological teachers, twelve, parts of
man
that correspond to the twelve signs of the Zodiac.

Israel
The name
means DISOBEDIENCE,
for the Israelites
were ignorant and disobedient. These twelve points of

the twelve tribes that are disobedient.
In
man
are
Regeneration,
when
the Christ
tribes.
sits
on the throne, we are able
to judge these twelve
Verse 29
"And
sisters,
every
or
one that hath
forsaken houses, or
brethren, or
father, or mother, or wife, or children,

shall receive an hundredfold,
or lands, for
my
name's sake
and
shall inherit everlasting life."
This does not

as
mean
It
to fail or refuse to support our families,

ties
some
believe.
only means that the

it
of
the flesh
must
not be so strong that

to the Master's
keeps us from our duty
and obedience
commands.
ASPIRATION
PERFECT!

of
of the
Church
1st to
last
17th verses.
shall be
first,
Golden Text "So the

for
and the
first last;
many
shall be called but
few chosen."
before us
There are
tained as
many who have gone

a state of
supreme
Sonship as
who have not atsome who come to a

life.
realization of the duty
and
obedience to the Christ late in
Those who come
late
and work
first
who comes
but the
last
early.
The
may attain just as much as he may not have so much to give up,
may
love the
most and work even harder and be
more
sincere
1
and earnest.
the
Verse
that
is
'Tor
kingdom
of heaven
is
like
unto a
man
an householder which went
out early in the morning to
hire laborers into his vineyard."
Verse
2 "And
when he had agreed with

his vineyard."
at
the laborers for a
penny
day he sent them into
These were they

Truth
who come
the
first
break of the
dawn
of
"He went out about the third hour, and saw others Verse 3
These are those
in their hearts.
Others sometimes wait, for
standing idle in the market place."
who do
nothing for Truth; they are
idle,
but

when
the Christ comes, and they
know
him, they obey and go
to work.
Verse 5
lost,
And
the
householder,
who
is
always seeking the

blind,
the idler, those
who
are
unsaved and
"Went
wise."
out about the sixth hour and ninth hour and did like-
Verse
6 'About
idle,
the eleventh
hour he went out and found

them,
others standing
idle all the
and he
saith to
Why
stand ye here
"They Verse 7
u
day?"
said,
Because no
man
hath hired us."
No man had gone

Salvation.
to
them with
the message of
Truth and
He
is
saith
unto them,
Go
ye also into the vineyard, and what-
ever
right that shall ye receive."

is
The way
always open from youth to old age, from the

till
dawn
"So Verse 8
There are
of
morn
the eleventh hour, even until the sun sets.
when even was come,
the Lord of the
vinetheir
yard said to the stewart, Call

hire,
the laborers and give

to the last."
last
them
beginning from the
first
many who come

the Western
who
attain as
much
as the
first.
We
of
World
are given
just as
much
en-
lightenment or illumination as the Eastern Adepts, or even the

Ancient Wise
Men
of
old
who have come
first,
IF
WE
work
and do the Will of the Master.
The
great curse of this
day
is
that
seekers
want
to run after
many
cessful
Masters and there are so
many who, when
they see a sucthe clothing
work accomplished,
of
will
deliberately steal
it
(name)
such work
and use
to clothe their
own
falsified
teachings.
Verse 9
Thus,
when they came
that were hired about the

a
eleventh hour they received every
man
penny.
Verse 10
But when the

" And
first
came, they supposed that they

likewise
should have received more; and they
received
every
man
a penny.
Verse 11
the
when they
received
it
they
murmured
against
good man of the house/'

likeness to selfishness?
Did they not manifest some
They expected more then other should have, because they

had "borne the burden and heat of the day."
Seldom do the ones who come
first
received as
much
is
as
they
who come
last for
the one
who FIRST
teaches Truth
seldom
honored but nearly always persecuted and stoned while they
who come
Verse
after
him
receive his reward and honor.

I
13 "And
he answered and said, Friend
do thee no wiong;
didst not
"Take Verse 14
all
thou agree with
me
for a
is
penny?"
1
that thine
and go thy way.
will give
unto them even as unto thee."
We
work
for the
same
glory, the
same Christhood and
Mastership, and shall
we complain
Perhaps
it
because they
who come
trials
after
us attain as
much?
takes
more work and
and
burdens for us to earn Mastership.

that the fault
is
We
often lose sight of this,
not in the Master but
WITHIN OURSELVES,
first
thus
it
often happens that "the last shall be
and the
first
last."

of of the
Church
Golden Text "Whosoever

be the minister."
Matthew, 20th Chapter. 17th Verse to
close.
will be great
among you
let
him
The
rule.
disciples
were
at
times very
really
ambitious
and wanted to
Very few of them
understood the Divine Law,
and
were judging the greatness of Christ by their ideas of material

greatness.
They wanted
to
have the
best place
and the highest,
and he
whom
Jesus seems to have loved best, he
who
under-
stood the teachings and loved his Master best, and
who Leaned
on Jesus, was always nearest to

exceptional favor.
his Soul,
he wanted to bet given
These two brothers, James and John,

to
sit
who
Jesus loved, desired
one on
his left
hand and one on

certain classes.
his right.
This
of
is
custom
are
yet in vogue
among
The
guest
honor
given the places next to the host or hostess.

Verse 22
"But Jesus answered and
said,
Ye know not what

I
ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that
shall
drink
of,
and be baptized with the baptism that
am
baptized with?"
Were
they able to drink of the Life of Christ?

able to be baptized with the Soul of Christ
Were they
the Fire?
with

They
Verse
of
said
"We
are able."
23 " And
sit
he saith unto them, ye shall indeed

I
drink
my
cup, and be baptized with the baptism that
am
baptized
with, but to
to give,
it
on
BUT
IT
is
prepared of
my right hand, and on my left, is SHALL BE GIVEN UNTO THEM my Father."

the
not
for
mine
whom
They were
able to drink of
cup
of the
Cross
the
and of
height
Christ and were able to be baptized with Soul, but of their
sonship depended
It
on the development of the Father

in
within them.
attains
cannot be given
any other way.

place.
He who
It
most
will inherit
the most important

flesh,
cannot
be given by the Master in the
wen though
he loves much.
If
If
He must
give to
the faithful through the Father.
they dethey are
velop, they are rewarded according to their worth.

faithful,
much
is
given.
If
they are
they
is
faithless,
even that which
they have
may
be taken.
If
use the Christ
power
right-
eously more power and glory

it,
given.
They themselves earn

it
and are worth
it.
The Master cannot give
of himself.
Jesus gave
them power of himself, but THEIR Illumination
came
after the Cross, then their
power and glory came accord-
ingly as each deserved.
And we must
called one
recall that
the beloved disciple

in excess of
inherited the
glory of Love Divine, even
the others.
He was
hand of
of the "Seven Sons of

the Mystery
it,
Thunder," which proves to

sits
those
who know
that he
his
on the
right
Christ.
He earned
and proved
worth through Love.
Verse 24
This
caused
much
indignation
among
the^rest of
the disciples, because they wanted a high place also.
Verse
25 "But
Jesus called them to him and said, Ye

the Gentiles (all the
know
that the princes of
nations) exercise do-
minion over them, and they that
are great exercise authority
upon them."
Verse 26
"But
it
shall not be so
let
among you;
but whosoever
will be great
"And whosoever Verse 27

"Even
but
to
as the
among you
him be
the minister."
will be chief
among
you,
let
him
be your servant/'
Verse 28
tered
Son of Man came not

his life a
to be minis-
unto,
minister and give
ransom
for
many."
To become
for self
Christs
we must not
receive nor expect to receive
power and
glory, but
we must GIVE, and
give the best
we have
Then
give the Christ

are
Spirit to the high
and the low.

blessed.
we
able to
sit
near
him and be

of
of the
Church
Golden Text "Behold, thy

and
sitting
Matthew, 21st chapter;
1st to
12th verses.
king cometh
colt the foal of
unto thee meek,

an ass."
rest
upon an
was held
It
ass
and a
The
ass
as the
symbol of peace and of

into Palistine
by the
Hebrews.
was introduced
by Abraham.
The
Hebrews were ignorant of the meaning of the symbols of the

Egyptians,
of the sun.
who
held the horse
above the
ass
and
as a
symbol
The horse
Eyptians
represents
a
might and power.
The
Osiris of the
was
god of might and power, and was the same
God
that Jesus taught, but the
Hebrews did not understand the
meaning of might and the power of the sun.
They
did not
know
that the
Sun of
the Egyptians
was
symbol of the great Light

Life,
the Light
We
that
had the power of
and thus controlled the world
in its course.
Therefore, they accepted the gift of Father Abraham, a

of flesh, as
man
they reckoned him.
must not forget
that the
Hebrews believed him the Giver of

of the people.
their
Laws and
the leader

They worshipped
material and could
the
law and the man, and

flesh,
as they
were
not see beyond the

himself worshipped.
a gift of
rest.
thev saw not the
God
that
Abraham
The
ass to
them was
Abraham, and was
their
sym-
bol of love, and peace, and
They had
to
have something
flesh for a
they could
bol.
see,
something material and of the
sym-
Verse 2
"Jesus
colt
sent
two
disciples,
saying unto
them,
Go
into the village over against you, and
straightway ye will find
an ass
and a
with her;
loose
them and bring them unto
me."
Verse 6 ed them/' Verse 7
"And the
disciples
went and did
as Jesus
command-
"And they brought the

and they
a
sat
ass
and the
colt
and put on
them
their clohes
him thereon."
Verse
in the
8 "And
way."
very great multitude spread their garments

trees
way, others cut branches from the
and strewed
them
"And Verse 9
in the
the multitude that went before and that fol-
lowed
cried, saying,
Hosanna
to the
Son
of David; blessed
is
he that cometh
est."
in the
name
of the Lord;
hosanna
in the high-
Do you know why

him?
It
the multitude followed
him and
praised
was because they had
all
witnessed
king.
his power,
and they
believed that he
would make himself

the physical and
They adored
his
material,
it
and accepted him

if
in
popularity and
power when
looked as
he might rule
over them; but as a Christ or the Spiritual King they could not
see,
and
KNEW
like
not and had not, they would not accept
him
or pay homeage.
They were
many
at this
day.
When we
we
we
are great,
are,
are popular with the
world and with the multitude

all
and they
for
will
honor us
the more, not for
what
but
what others think of us and for the power we
manifest.
They saw the

v
exterior, the
man, the physical Jesus and the

the
God
like
unto curruptible
man" was
God and King
they
wanted and worshipped.

"All the city
was moved, and

is
said,
Who
is
this?"
They
said:
did not say this
the Christ, the
Son of God, but they
"This
is
Jesus, the prophet of Nazareth of Gallilee."

see,
They worshipped only what they could

King that came
in peace,
and not "the

life
and
rest,
and promise of
eternal."
of

of the
Church
Matthew, 21st chapter; 12th to 22nd verses.
Golden Text
shall receive."
If
"Whatsoever
thing,
is
ye
ask in
prayer believing ye
you
it
desire a
and concentrate on that
desire,
you
of
draw
us
to you.
This
asking in prayer believing.

really thinking
Many
to us
say
we BELIEVE, without
whether we be-
lieve
with absolute desire or not.
The wish
that
comes
is
the one sought for ardently
and
in earnestness
without a single
doubt of
Jesus'
its
being realized.
to
power
do good, and
his
power of
healing,
all
came
it
from
the intense desire to
do good and heal

it;
all.
He
desired
so strong that he accomplished
and we
will
accomplish what
we DESIRE.
It is
not what
we
say
we
desire,
but what
we DESIRE
in the
Soul, and concentrate our
mind upon.
into
"Jesus went Verse 12

out
the
all
the
temple of God,
and
cast
them
that sold and
bought
in the temple,
and overthrew
tables of the
money
chargers
and the
seats of
them
that
sold doves.'
Do you
realize that the
Dove
is
the
emblem
of purity?
These people sold doves (purity).

The temple of God, where
is it?
Do you buy
doves?
and
sell in
the temple of
God, and do you
sell
This verse
is
very
clear.
clear,
but
if
we think
few moments
it
becomes more
Verse 13
shall
"And
he said
unto them,
It is
written,
my
it
house
a
be called the house of
prayer but ye have
made
den
of thieves."
Our
make
every
lies,
it
bodies should be
a
house of prayer, but
many
in
of us
steal
den of thieves.
of
We
us.
allow evil to
come
and
bit
good within
There
is
the thief of drink, of
of adultry, fornication, sensuality and lust after the mater-
ial
things of the world.
But Jesus the Christ can overthrow them and

out that buy and
sell in
cast
them
all
God's temple.
lame came to him
in the
"And Verse 14
Verse 15
the blind and the
temple, and he healed them.
"And when
the Chief Priests

did,
and Scribes saw the

IN
wonderful things that he
and the children crying
THE
sore
TEMPLE,
saying, hosanna to the
Son of David, they were
displeased."
Evil
is
always sore displeased when the children of the tem-
ple realize the Christ
"And they Verse 16

And
and proclaim him king.

said
unto him, Hearest thou what these
say?
of the
Jesus saith unto them, Yea, have ye never read, out

hast perfect praise?"
mouths of babes and sucklings thou
Those who acknowledge the Christ
"Now, Verse 18
it
are the babes of Christ.
in the
morning
as he returned into the city
he hungered."
Verse 19
to
"And when he saw
a fig tree in the
way, he came
and found nothing thereon but leaves only, and said unto
it,
Let
no
fruit
grow on
thee henceforth forever.
And
presently
the tig tree withered away."
This
sires.
fig tree is
but the symbol of the illusions of material de-
They
fruit
are flourishing,
and
at a distance
give the appearlet
ance of
and
life,
but they are not.
Hence,
ALL MA-
TERIAL ILLUSIONS WITHER

This
is
AWAY FOREVER.
saw
it,
the real
meaning of
the fig tree parable.

disciples
"And Verse 20
saying,
when
the
IS
they marvelled,
HOW SOON
how
soon
it
THE FIG TREE WITHERED

away when we SEE
its
AWAY."
Aye,
withers
snares,
its
vain promises, and

It
its illusions.
is
is
thus with
material success.
No
matter
how
great,
is
it,
if
there
nothing in
man
but this success.

is
All success
combut
if
it
mendable, provided
success
is
there
also a
Soul growth with
only of the material and of the mind, then today

glory, as the
tree in all its splendor, but
lives in all its
tomor-
row
withered. Verse 21 "Jesus answered and

it
is
gone
said
unto them, Verily

shall not
say
unto you,
this
if
is
you have
done the
faith
and doubt not ye

but also
if
only do
which
fig tree,
ye shall say unto the

cast into the
sea,
it
mountain be thou removed and be thou

shall be
If
done."
faith in the Christ
we have
and doubt not we can

cast
it
cast
away mountains of
into the seas of
materiality,
and we can
from us
far
past Karmas, and "All
things
we
desire in the
Christ believing in the good, believing
in the fruits of life
and
not the illusions of material desires,
we
shall receive
abundantly
which includes
all
things.
DIVINE
MYSTERY

of
of the
Church
Golden Text "By what

and who
Matthew, 21st chapter; 23rd to 33rd
verses.
authority doest
thou these things;
gave thee this authority ?"
The
Pharisees and Scribes were not yet able to see or realize
that Jesus'
perstition.
power was above
the material laws, or
laws of su-
They wondered
at the
physical demonstrations, but as they
had no souls they did not understand the power of the Soul
that
it
was
far
above the physical and mental laws.
And
they
began to get curious and to wonder.

to realize that he
Perhaps they also began
"And Verse 24
1
DID
possess
power above them.

I
Jesus
f
answered them,
will
also ask
tell
you
one thing, which
ye
tell
me,
in
likewise will
you by
what authority
do these things."
closely they questioned him, Jesus never lost
No
poise.
matter
how
He kept
the great
Law
of Silence
off
intact.
They
ento
deavored
many
times to catch
him
guard, or force
him
commit
souls,
himself, but he
READ
their tiny, miserable, deceptive
and knew
they were hypocrites
who
only wished to argue
and entangle him.

ALL RIGHTS OF TITLE AND MATTER RESERVED^ ALSO RIGHTS OF TRANSLATION.
Verse 25
"And
it;
he
asked
them, "The
baptism
of
John
with,
whence was
from heaven or men?

If
And they reasoned

heaven, he
themselves, saying,
we
shall
say from
will say
unto
us,
why
did ye not then believe

if
him?"
Verse 26
"But "And
not
we
say of men,
we
fear the people, for
all
hold John as a prophet."

Verse 27
tell.
they
answered Jesus, and

tell
1
said,
We
cannot
And he
said to them, Neither
you by what authority
do these things."
If
they did
the
know
the
power of Mind, how could they
know
power of Soul?
it?
The baptism of John, whence was
From heaven
or of
men?
John was
a Mental
teacher.
He
baptized
with
Mind.
Is
Mind baptism of heaven or of men?
Mind
will die.
It is,
therefore, not immortal.

it
But the seeds (thoughts) of purity and goodness
sows
live
and are of heaven.
The baptism
that
John taught was of
heaven, for he taught the laws of purity and truth and the recognition of
the
power of Soul.
the pure and
All
mental laws are not of
heaven.
Only
those that recognize
and confess
the soul live.
Verse 28
"But what think ye;

first
a certain
man had two

work today
sons,
and he came to the

vineyard."
Verse
and
said,
Son, go
in
my
29 "He
answered and
said,
will
not, but afterwards
repented and went."
The mind
leads and
it
builds.
The
soul desires, and with the

evil.
mind we repent
Verse
turn
away from,
stop thinking
30 "And
he came to the
said,
1
second, and said likewise,
and he answered and
go,
sir,
and went not."
Many
say this mentally and pretend
it,
but do not build pur-
ity within themselves.
Verse 31
" Which of them twain did the

The
first.
will of the father?

I
They
said unto him,
Jesus saith unto them, Verily
say unto you, that the publicans
and harlots go into the king-
dom
of
God
before you."
Why?
Because too
much mind
of the self-righteous and those
who
know
so
much
they cannot learn from others will not build the
soul, but those
who
are despised
and shunned long within the

therefore the desire
soul for better conditions and associations;
counts.
The mental "know

sire
it
all"
does
not go, but the ones that de-
betterment will go.
Verse 32
"John came
seen
to
you
in the
way
of righteousness,
and ye believed
not, but the publicans

it,
and harlots believed him;

not afterwards that ye
and ye when ye had

might believe him."
repented
When John
better than
demonstrated the works of a pure and godlike

believe that
man, they would not

their
purity and
goodness were
desiring and
own
bigoted
ways of material
thinking.
The
lesser
ones believed, and
attained fellowship
with the
Christ and Unity with the Soul.

It
was
all
through the desire of the Mind.
And
these desires
BUILD SOUL.
THE
NOmEDGE
LiTTHtRt
Be: Li|

of
of the
Church
Golden Text "The stone the

become the head of the corner."
Matthew, 21st chapter; 33rd verse to
close.
'builders
rejected, the
same
is
Who
are the builders
and what
is
the stone?
The Soul
The Soul
builders and the Christ.

that turns
away and
will
not accept the

is
Christ
is
the builder that rejects the stone, which
"the
head of the
Corner."
The corner
stone
is
the most important.
It is
the leader.
is
The
head, and this Christ
whom
life
the wicked
refuse,
the
corner
stone of the building of the Soul.
"There was Verse 33

a
It
holds the seals of
and of purity and of

a certain householder,
it
liberty.
which planted
a
vineyard, and hedged

it,
round about, and digged

and
let it
vine
press in
and build a tower,

a far country.
is
out to
husbandmen
and went into
The householder
husbandmen
God. The vineyard
is
the
world.
The
are those
"And Verse 34
who
are in
it.
when
the
time of the
fruit
drew
near, he
sent his servants to the
husbandmen
that they might receive the

fruit of it."
These servants are the messengers of good

ets
will of the
proph-
and the Truth, which
is
sent to
all
husbandmen
to obtain
the fruit of the soul.
Verse 35
"And the husbandmen took
his servants,
and beat
one, and killed another, and stoned another."
The
rejection of the true conception of
God.
Men who
will
not accept righteousness destroy the good servants of

in
God
with-
them by
Verse 36
clinging to evil and wickedness.
" Again he sent other servants more than the

material,
first;
and they did unto them likewise."
They became even more wicked and

Truth again and again.
Verse 37
and refused
"But
last
of
all
he sent unto them his son, saying,
they will reverence
my
son."
This
is
the Christ.
Verse 38
"But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said

is
among
themselves, this
the heir;
come
let
us
kill
him and
let
us seize the inheritance."
Verse 39
"And
they
caught him
and
cast
him out
of the
vineyard and slew him."
Time and again

from
that
are
men
given an opportunity to turn away

to
which destroys and
take up that which not only
brings
them health and
success, but
reject
it,
which bring Immortality;

at last
but time
and again they
until
they
are given
but one chance and they even destroy

to turn to the good, the flesh will these desires for the good.
that.
all
When
power
the desires
to destroy
do
in its
Verse
40 "When
the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh,
what
will
he do unto those husbandmen?"
If
the
good
is
finally
rejected
it.
it
means
destruction
to that
soul.
Nothing can save

the other hand,
it
On
if
the Soul
is
awakened and God dwells
within then
"They Verse 41
the Soul
destroys the wickedness, and

said unto
will
man
lives.
him, he will miserably destroy

let
those
wicked men, and
out his
vineyards unto other
husbandmen, which
shall render
him
the fruits in their season."
When
Thus
awakens
it
will
turn to the Truth and will
bear fruit and accept the Christ.

the stone which the builders rejected the
same
is
become
the head of the corner.
Verse 43
shall be
"Therefore
say unto you, the kingdom of
God
taken from you and
given to a nation
bringing forth
the fruit thereof."
Man
can reject the Truth and the good until

in
it
will be utterly
it
destroyed
him.
He has then no hope,

and that which he
for he has thrust
from him
of himself,
rejected will be accept-
ed by other souls that desires LIFE.

Verse 44
"And
whosoever
it
shall fall
on the stone
it
shall be
broken, but
on whomsoever
shall
fall
will
grind
him
to
powder."
If
the soul fails to

assunder.
It is
awaken and
broken and
will not accept
him
it
thrusts
itself
will die, but those
who
accept
Christ will
soul,
be ground
down
to the innermost recesses of their

all
and
will see
and know
the evil
within and will cast
it
ALL
out and LIVE.
THE HIGHER

of of the
Church
Golden Text "Behold,

and
Matthew, 22nd chapter;
1st to
I
15th verses.
have prepared
and
all
my dinner; my oxen
Come
which
my
fattening are
killed,
things are ready.
unto the marriage."

Jesus likens the
kingdom of heaven
to a "certain king
made
marriage feast for his son."
Verse 2
"And sent forth

is
his servants to call
them
that were
bidden to the wedding, and they would not come."
The
real
always the
best.
The
illusions
and drawing pow-
ers of the flesh are but dreams.
Man
with
all
his reason
and foresight cannot
see
beyond the
material, that
is
its
pleasures are but short lived.
Everything that
It
done for the body must be done again and again.

thirsts again.
drinks
and
It
eats
is
and hungers again.

lasting, yet
It
sleeps
and
is
drowsy again.
Nothing
men
allow the body to rule them. Their

soul,
body overcomes mind and

desires of the
and they are but slaves to the
body.
things, the real
The good
things, the life
and peace of the
soul they refuse, sacrifice
and "will not come" to the law of
Truth and
Life.
NOTE-These Lessons are Copyrighted BY DR.R; SWINBURNE CLYMER

ALL RIGHTS OF TITLE AND MATTEL RESERVED ALSO RIGHTS OF THAN SLATION.
Again the
king: sent for those

is
bidden to
come
to the marriage.
Again and again Truth
demonstrated, taught and manifested

it.
to the world, and the world will not accept
"But Verse 3
they
made
light of
it,
and went
their
ways,
one to his farm, another to his merchandise."
The world always makes
light of
Truth; turns away after the
material (farm), their merchandise (trades).
Give people the
Ancient
Wisdom
it,
of the Initiates and they call us fools.

sneer
it,
They mock
sible for
but
they see only that which
is
pos-
them
to see.
is
We
see
can see only as far as our vision

is
guarded.
We
cannot
above that which
Verse 6
"And the remnant

the Truth.
it."
above
us.
took his servants and entreated
them
spitefully/'
They mocked
"But when Verse 7

and he sent forth
burned up
their city."
They persecuted
the king
heard thereof he was wroth;
his armies
and destroyed those murderers and
We
dox
en,
do not teach a
vindictive, revengeful
God,
to
as the ortho-
do.
We know
this
is
that
no violence belongs
God
nor heav-
and that
wicked.
symbol of the destruction of the Souls of
the
THEY DESTROY THEMSELVES BY JECTION OF THE CHRIST PRINCIPLE.

Materiality
illusions.
RE-
and greed
will
will
soon destroy the victim of their

evil
But good
always destroy the
sooner or
later;
therefore
Verse 8
"He "Go
saith to his servants,
The wedding
is
ready but
they which were bidden were not worthy."
Verse 9
ye, therefore, into the
highways, and as
many
as ye shall find bid to the marriage."
The Truth
everybody.
Verse 10
is
not
for one, not for
one nation only, but for
"So those servants went out

all
into the
highways and
gathered
together
as
many
as they
found, both bad and
good; and the wedding was furnished with guests.
The Truth
is
manifested to
all
all,
good and bad, and the bad

if
may
partake of
that the
is,
good have had
they wear wed-
ding garments, that

Verse
put on the Christ.
11 For "when the king came in to see the guests saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment."
He was
crite,
he
bad, not pretending to
be good.
He was
a hypro-
but the Christ awakened
Verse 12
in thither
"And he
,
KNOWS.
how
earnest thou
saith
unto him, Friend,
not having a wedding garment?
And he was
speech-
less."
"Then Verse 13
hand and
foot,
the
king said to the servants, Bind
him
and take him
away, and
cast
him
into utter
darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

All
hypocrisy and pretense must be cast out.

cleansed and
The bad may be
become pure enough
to
wear
the wedding garments of
the Christ, but
the hypocrite or pre-
tender cannot come.
There are
Christ
fooled,
many who mix

are not true.
in
with the true followers of the

fooled,
who
The people may be
and are
by these pretenders, but they cannot
inherit the
kingdom
of Christ by outward pretense and inward evil.
Verse 14
"For many
are called, but
few
in
are chosen."
Those who
are true, sincere
and abide
Truth are chosen.

of
of the
Church
Matthew, 22nd chapter; 15th to 23rd
verses.
Golden Text ''Render

sar's;
unto Caesar the things that are Ce-
and unto
God
the things that are God's."
The
Pharisees seemed to feel assured that in
some
subtle
way
they could
hearts,
cause Jesus to blunder, but the Master read men's

their
and did not judge them by
outward appearance
in the
and demeanor. These hypocrites came to him seemingly
most friendly manner.

calling
They even paid him extreme
courtesy,
him
Master, and
used the most flattering words, think-
ing they could hide their thoughts and motive of the heart.
Verse 16
"They
God
sent out unto
him
their disciples with Her-
odian, saying, Master,

the
we know
that thou art true, and teachest
way
of
in truth, neither carest
thou for any
man,
for
thou regardest not the person of men."
Quite
could
a subtle
and
flattering speech.
One which
few
men
resist,
and
in this
manner they propounded
the question:
Is
it
"Tell Verse 17
Jesus
us, therefore,
what thinkest thou;
law-
ful to give tribute
unto Csesar or not?"

in
was
rule.
yet
It
Capernaum, and the
city
was under the

pay the
tribute
Roman
was necessary,
therefore, to

money
for the
support of
civil authorities,
and every
citizen,
Roman
Caesar's
or Jew,
was obliged
to
pay
tribute.
The penny bore
image and superscription.
Verse 18
"But
Jesus perceived
?"
their wickedness,
and
said,
why tempt
ye me, ye hypocrites
Though they wore

lacteries,
their purple
and
fine
linens with the ply-
though they came fauning,
flattering
and paying homthe hypocrite,
age,
JESUS
KNEW
THEIR SOUL.
also
He knew
no matter how he came. He
knew
the soul that
was weary
of sin and strife with the flesh.
This was the secret of his power.

the souls
Jesus understood and read

that
of men.
"He needed not

in
any should
did
testify of
man, for he new what was

pearance.
man."
He
not go
by ap-
He
did not need a testimonial or a reference written
by
a friend or
sympathizing neighbor.
He saw through
it.
the
veil of pretense, and
Verse 18
"Show me the
was never once deceived by

tribute
money.
And
they brought
unto him a penny.

Verse 20
"And he
said unto them.
Whose
is
the image and
superscription ?"
Verse 21
"They
said
unto him.
Caesar's.
Then
said he
unto them.
are Caesar's;
Render, therefore, unto Caesar the things
which
and unto
God
the things that are God's.

evil
Caesar was a great king, but he was wicked,

ial.
and matertherefore,
are evil;
The
material
penny and the gain the world,

Render unto
belonged to Caesar.
give back
that
to evil that
evil the things that
which belongs
to
it,
but give unto
Goc
which belongs to God.

at
They marvelled
were great
these words, and went their way.
These
the
men
of the Pharisees and Herodians.
They were
smart men, the learned, and held the high places.
They knew
Caesar's
image and superscription, but they did not know
God's.
God's image stood before them
dealing out
not.
Truth, love,
mercy and knowledgs, but they knew him
They could but

ceeded
ceit.
see the
man
Jesus,
whom
they had not suc-
in
overcoming
in subtle
and wary questioning and de-
They were defeated

Wise
ed.
in their
at
every turn.
foolish hearts were darken
own
conceits, their
Professing to be wise they became fools.

dealing
They were
with a Master in Mind and in Soul, but
they could not see what they
knew
not.
We We
Our
only see what we are after

judge others really by our
eyes
all.
own
sight.
may
be defective, and
or
criticise,
while
we judge
others and
seek to enlighten them

is
we may
find that the fault
our own; that we are deceived, and blinded, and led astray
brilliancy of
by the great
our
own wary mind.

puny
their
little,
Had
they
known how
small and
narrow,
dwarfed souls were they would have known

they thought they knew.
much more than
They were
a perfect illustration of
it
egotism and conceit, and

holds
we
see
how
blinds
the
heart
and
men from
the
truth.
A
of
harlot, a publican, or a sinner,
is
not half
so
as hopeless as a
bigoted, conceited
mind
that
knows
much
that even a
Son
God
cannot teach him.
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of
of the
Church
Matther, 22 chapter; 23 verse to close.
Golden Text
"Thou
all
shalt love the
Lord thy
all
God
with
all
thy heart, and with
thy soul, and with
thy
mind,
and
thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."

Jesus said
"On
these
two commandments hang
all
the
law
and the prophets."

These are the commandments of love.
with
,all
When we
purify the
attained
love
God
the the
the heart and Soul and mind,
we
mind
that
heart and the soul, and
we know we have
all
law and the prophets teach us.
Then when we
is
are perfect in the first
commandment which
as
the
first
and the greatest we know to "love our neighbor
ourselves."
This
is
hard thing to do some times and mortals

it.
are
not
able to gain a very great part of
As long
as
ue judge our
will
neighbor by mortal sight and law and vision

his defects, his failures
we
always see
and reason to not love him.
But when
is
we put on
the Soul of a Master
we know
is
that our neighbor
indeed very
much
akin to us, and he
our brother whether

as a
bad or whether good and we then learn to look upon him

brother.

Verse 23
"The
same day the Sadducees came
to
Jesus.
They
him."
did not believed in a resurrection of the Soul, and said to
Verse 24
"Master,
Moses
said, If a
man
and
die,
and hath no
children, his brother shall
marry
his wife,
raise
up seed un-
to his brother."
Verse 25
first
"Now, there were with us seven brethren; and the

a wife, deceased,
when he married
and having no
issue left
his wife unto his brother."
Verse 26
seventh."
"Likewise the second
also,
and the third unto the
Verse
Verse
27 "And last of all the 28 "Therefore, in the

all
wife died also."

resurrection
whose wife
shall
she be of the seven, for
married her?"
Verse
29 "Jesus
answered
and said unto them, Ye do
err,
not knowing the Scripture nor the power of God."
This part
of the Scripture
is
a great
problem to many, but
understanding the Scriptures
it is
very simple.
the ressurrection was.
The Sadduucees
did not
know what
They thought, and think

rection,
yet, that there is a great
day of resurand
will
when
the dead shall rise
up from
their graves
be
set apart, the
good together and the bad, and

God.
will be
judged
by
a great personal Being they call
The philosophy
state.
of the
is
Ancients teach
the
no such confusing
of the Soul and
its
The
resurrection
AWKENING
err,
rebirth into the Christ, or Master.
Thus, as Jesus
nor the power
of
said,
"Ye do
not
knowing
the Scriptures
God."
from the body
into the Soul world
The passing
is
of the soul
not resurrection, for
many
souls pass over which have never

will.
seen the ressurrection, and
some never
They do not marry
in the
Soul world, for the soul simply
prepares for reincarnation.
Verse 31
"But
"I
as touching the resurrection of the dead,
have
ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,"
Verse 32
Isaac,
and the
am the God of Abraham, and the God of God of Jacob. God is not the God of the dead
but of the
LIVING."
Who
Many
are the Living?

are in the flesh
who
are
dead to God.
Therefore,
who
are the living?
What were Abraham,

They were Godlike
Isaac
and Jacob?
obedient men.
men and women
is
Therefore, the living

dient;
are
Godlike
and obe-
and the resurrection day
the
day the Soul becomes
Godlike and obedient.
They were astonished

were the
infidels of
at this doctrine.
The Sadducees, who
that day,
had never heard any teachings
like this before.
The Churches from

ped the
the beginning have sought and worship-
God
is
of the dead.
There
is
no God of the dead. They
have no God, but darkness and destruction; and God, the

Creator,
not the
"While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus Verse 41

asked them:"
Verse 42
God
of darkness nor of destruction.
"Saying, What
think ye of
the Christ?
Whose
son
is
he?"
said unto him,
They
"The son of David."

flesh
The
Christ to
them meant the descendant of the

It
and
the
blood of David.
did not
mean
the true Conception of
One God.
They could not
see
beyond the
flesh,
the
material, so
how
could they understand a Christ beyond that?

Verse 43
spirit call
"He saith
unto them, How, then, doth David in
him Lord, saying:"
Verse 44
right
"The
till
I
Lord said unto
my
Lord, Sit thou on
my
hand
make
thine enemies thy footstool."
The
till
I
Christ said unto
my
Soul, Sit thou
on
my
is
right
hand
make
thine enemies thy footstool.

faith with the Master
feet.
Obey, keep
until all evil
subdued-
put beneath the

of
of the
Church
Golden Text "He

your servant." There
is
Matthew, 23rd chapter;

that
1st to
is
13th verses.
greatest
the
among you
shall
be
a vast difference in the greatness of the soul
and the
greatness of the material ambitions and influences.

call
The world
spirit.
an influential
man
great,
without regard to soul or
dent;
A man may attain a high plane; he may be a king or a presihe may rule and govern many, and this is the man the He may be heartless and soulless, still the world calls great.
calls
world
ual.
him
great
great.
But he
is
is
in
nowise great
in the Spirit-
The
spiritual
live,
man
in the
the
man
of great soul.
The
is
man who
great.
can
and think, and
serve,
and
die for others
The
great
man
worldly sense
dies.
The
spirit-
ually great
man LIVES.
Christ
is
servant of
not necessarily
one
who
serves and
it
waits on the
material needs and pleasures of
others, but
If
is
necessary for
him
to serve in the spirit
in all things.
it
one
must take the position of servant

lessen
far
in a household,
does not
is
one
in
the Spirit.
The
is
servant
who
is
great in soul
above the master

1
Verse
ciples,"
"Then spake Jesus to the multitudes and to
who
without soul.
his dis-

ALL RIGHTS OF TITLE AND MATTER RESERVED! ALSO RIGHTS OF TRANSLATION.
Verse 2
seat."
"Saying, The
themselves
Scribes
and Pharisees
sit
in
Moses*
They
set
up
as teachers of
the law, and in the
synagogues.
Verse 3
"All, therefore,
whatsoever they bid
you observe,
observe
and do;
but do ye not after their works, for they say
and do not."
They were
hypocrites.
They taught
the
law of Moses, but

in
they did not obey that law themselves.

their hearts,
They were wicked
and
in secret did evil.
Their teachings were good,

therefore,
but they did not
practice
what they preached, and,
were not true disciples of the

Verse 4
"For
Law and
of Truth.
they bind heavy
burdens and grievous to be
borne, and lay

will not
them upon men's
shoulders, but they themselves

their fingers."
remove them with one of
Did you ever know

work,
a teacher or preacher
who
exacted
much
much
pay,
much
reverence,
from
not
his followers
but
who
gave nothing in return?
Who
did
work, only when the
multitudes were watching them, and that only in the ceremonious and
showy
part?
These people are
all
of
the
same
class.
You have known them.

Verse
They promise much, but do nothing.

works they do
to be
5 "But
all
their
seen of
men;
they
make broad
their phylacteries,
and enlarge the borders of
their garments."
Verse 6
"And they love the uppermost rooms
at the feasts,
and the chief

Verse 7
"And greetings
are
seats in the
synagogues."
in the
markets, and
to be called of
men, Rabbi, Rabbi."

Praise and self-glory, and worldly
power they seek and claim.
Among
teach
these
the Black Magicians,
who
claim
much and
in
many, but do not even follow the
little
Truth
what
they teach.
Verse 8
ter,
"But be ye not
all
called Rabbi;
for one
is
your Mas-
even Christ, and
are brethren.
Call no
man
Master until you
know
he
is
a Christ, a
Son
of
the living God, and teacher and doer of Truth.
Verse 9
"And
call
no man your father upon the

is
earth;
for
one
is
your Father, which

reference
in
heaven.
This has no
whatever to our earthly parents, but
many
father,
teachers are called spiritual fathers,

least.
who
are not fatherly

is
or heavenly in the
These
call
not father. There
but one
which
and
is
WITHIN you when

in
your mind and soul are
purified
"Neither Verse 10
Do
not follow
is
is
awakened
be
His likeness.
Master;
for
ye called
one
is
your
Master even Christ."

every
teacher
who
calls
himself Master until
he
illuminated
and
attains
the Christ.
When
the soul
is il*
luminated
and
is
it
pure, humble, helpful, and

is
seeks
to benefit
mankind, then
ters
a Master in Christ.
There are none Mas*
but the Christs, and
remember
this,
NO MASTER EVER
is
CALLS HIMSELF A MASTER.

talk;
He who
a Master does not
"And whosoever Verse 12

shall
he
who
talks
is
no Master.
shall exalt himself shall be abased;
and he that
humble himself
shall be exalted."
No one can who seeks to

selfish,
exalt self
exalt self
and become
worthy
self,
disciple.
And he
destroys the real

dies,
the Soul, for the
unrighteous soul
oneself
is
and
is,
therefore, abased.
To humble
eousness.
to
become
receptive
and meek
in the
attainment of the true, the soul-beautiful, and the love of right-
The
true
soul
is
exalted above
all
the carnal world
and
its
evils
and
lusts.
He who says
Truth."
"I
am
a Master,
is
a liar
and knows
not the
THE
4^| IRRECONCILABLE

of
of the
Church
Golden Text "These

The
Matthew, chapter 23rd; 13th to 25th
verses.
ought ye to have done, and not to
leave the others undone."
Pharisees worshipped to be seen of
men, and they paid

of anise, mint and
their tribute to the temple,
and brought
gifts
cinnamon; but they omitted to worship

It
in the Spirit
and Truth.
was
right
and
just
for
them
to bring the gifts to the tem-
ple.
These
are the things they

It
ought to have done, but not to

better
leave the others undone.

to
would have been

faith
for
them
have given righteous judgment,
and mercy, than \o
have given material things.
They gave
to be seen of
men, and
cared not for righteous judgment, mercy and faith.
Verse 13
"Woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites;

up the kingdom of heaven against men;
yourselves, neither suffer ye
for ye nei-
for ye shut ther go

to
in
them
that are entering
go
in."
They
what
it
did not
know
the
kingdom
of heaven, where
it
was,nor
was.
Instead of this they taught the traditions and doc-
trines of
men, which shut up the heaven against men, and could

the true
not
show
Verse 14
"Woe unto you
way
to those
who
sought the Truth.
Scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites; for
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ye devour
widows homes, and
for a pretense
make
long; pray-
ers; therefore
ye shall receive greater condemnation."
Dishonest men, teachers

honest, truthful
and pretenders,
who
pretend to be
and
sincere, bring
to themselves greater con-
demnation than they
give.
The law and

Verse 15
justice
they
meet out to others returns back to
the soul of the giver.
"Woe unto you
ye compass sea
is
and land to make one proselyte, and when he

the child of hell than your-
made
ye
make him twofold more

one
selves."
A
who
proselyte
is
who
turns from one religion to another.
They were
Gentiles,
who
to
were not born of Jewish parents, but
accepted
the Jewish religion
and were not circumcised.

in the outter courts of
They were allowed

the temple.
worship standing
There were some
who
accepted circumcision, and
these were admitted into the inner court of the temple.

In the Osirian philosophy
these terms are symbolic, but the
Jews followed them

Verse 16
"Woe
literally.
unto you ye blind guides, which say whoit is
soever shall
shall
swear by the temple,
nothing; but whosoever

is
"Ye Verse 17
swear by the gold of the temple, he

fools
a debtor."
is
and
blind, for
whether
greater, the
gold, or temple that sanctifieth the gold?"
This the same teaching that
man may
is
sin
with the body (the
temple), and then pay with gold for sanctification and the forgiveness
of
sin.
If
the soul
pure, the
temple
is
pure; and
gold cannot purify nor cleanse from sins the evil body, but the
pure body purifies
"And Verse 18
guilty."
all
the material needs

shall
we must
use.
whosoever
swear by the
is
altar
it
is
nothing, but whosoever sweareth by the gifts that

is
upon
it
he
Verse 19
"Ye
fools
and
blind, for
whether
is
greater, the
gift,
or the altar that sactifieth the gift?"

evil gift is
altar.
An
given upon an evil

altar
is
is
altar,
and a good
gift
upon
a good
The
the Soul, and the gifts are
what the
Soul gives; so one

Verse 20
"Whosoever,
it
not greater than the other.

therefore, shall
swear by the
altar,
sweareth by
and
all
things thereon."
If
All are the same.
the altar
is
clean,
all
things thereon are
clean.
Verse
eth by
If
it
21 "And
is
whosoever
shall
swear by the temple, swear-
and him that
DWELLETH THEREIN."
mind and
if
the temple
pure, the
soul are pure; and he has
sworn purity and

evil.
truth, but
evil,
he
has sworn himself to
Verse 22
"And
is
he that
swear by
heaven, sweareth by the
throne of
God and by him

to a thing
is
that sitteth thereon."

it,
To swear
teth thereon.
to admit
to believe
it;
therefore, to
sit-
admit heaven,
to admit the throne of
God
and him that
Heaven
is
a purified
state of the Soul,
and when the Soul

it,
swears by, or admits the throne of
God WITHIN
it
admits
God.
Verse 24
"Ye blind guides, which

of the spirit
is
strain at a gnat
and swal-
low
a camel."
The worship
self-exalted
too
much
for the self-righteous,
Pharisee.
He
criticises, rejects
and
scoffs at the
tales
simple truths of God, yet swallows (believes) the fairy
and traditional errors and symbols of the Elders.
There are
scoff
at
many around
us today, the
so-called leaders,
who
the
word Occultism, and

Sanctuary, the
will not accept the teachings of the Inner
purification of the Soul in Truth, humility
and
the
sincerity, yet they believe the
monster
God
of the
Jews and
symbols, instead of the Spiritual interpretation and the philoso-
phy of Jesus and
the Ancients.
f-

of
of the
Church
Golden Text "Blessed

Lord."
Matthew, 23rd chapter; 25th verse to

is
close.
he that cometh in the
name
of the
The
upon
Fire.
blessings of
heaven are many, and they are poured out

to be baptized of the
all
who come
is
Holy Ghost and with

is
Fire
the Soul, and
the Holy
Ghost
the Sunship, or
Sonship, or the Christ.

Verse 25
"Woe unto you

and
Scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites, for
ye
make
clean the outside of
the cup
success.
and
platter, but
within
you
are full of extortion

is
This
pretended righteousness, the pretended, clean mind
and soul; but within the mind dwells the the thoughts of extortion
and excess, of corruption and

platter.
evil,
and
this
is
the inside of
the Soul
the cup and "Thou blind Pharisees, cleanse Verse 26

the cup and platter
first
that
which
is
WITHIN
that the outside of
them may be
clean also."
Purify and
cleanse the
mind and
soul,
and
all
you do, say
and think
will be
pure and clean.
All the outside

is.
works
will
manifest what the
inside actually
It
always does.
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Verse 27
"Woe unto you
ye are like unto whited sepulchers, which, indeed, appear beautiful
outward but within
are full of
dead men's bones and
all
uncleanness."
There are
many handsome men, and many

very beautiful outwardly, and
beautiful
women,
who
are
appear
deceive those
who
NOT ABLE TO
but
SEE
AND READ AND SEE THE

unlean
in
SOUL,
who
are
vile,
hypocritical and
thought,
mind and
soul.
Jesus
was never deceived by such.

aright.
He saw
the souls of
"Even Verse 28
men, and he read them

so,
ye also outwardly appear righteous un-
to
"Woe unto you Verse 29

Verse 30
men, but within ye
are full of hyprocrisy
and iniquity."
Scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites, be-
cause ye build the tombs of

ulchers of the righteous.
the prophets and garnish the sep-
"And
say,
If
ye had been in the days of the our
fathers
we would
not have
been partakers with them
in the
blood of the prophets."

Verse 31
"Therefore, ye
him
be witnesses unto
yourselves that
ye are the children of them which killed the prophets."
They knew no
They
called
father above the father of
the flesh and evil.
Father, and followed in his footsteps in blind-
ness and ignorance, admitting
no higher thought, and manifest-
ing the same ignorance and Unbelief.
Verse 32
It
"Fill
ye up the measure of the father."

for themselves
was the same they used
blindness,
evil
and
iniquity.
;
Verse 33
"Ye
serpents, ye generation of vipers,
how
can ye
escape the damnation of hell?"
How
can the ignorant of truth, the blind and material escape

their
from the condemnation of

destroy the soul?
own
laws and thoughts, which
Verse 34
wise
fy,
"Wherefore, behold,
scribes,
send unto you prophets and

shall kill
men and
and some of them ye

shall scorge in
and
cruci-
and some of them ye
your synagogues, and
persecute
them from
city
to city."
beliefs
In their bigotry, false
and blindness, they would
fol-
low
ets.
in the footsteps of
their fathers,
who
killed the old
proph-
Verse 35
"That upon you may come

Barachias,
all
the righteous blood
shed upon
-the earth,
from the blood of righteous Able unto the
blood of Zacharias, son of

the temple and the altar."
whom
ye slew
between
Righteousness
is
destoyed and cast out from the soul and the
body, and
it
is
the blood of the prophets, in
symbolism
as well
as in the literal sense."
Verse
36 "Verily
say unto you,
all
these things shall
come
upon
this generation."
And every
"O Verse 37
would
I
other generetion that rejects the Truth.
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou
that
killest
the
prophets and stonest
them
that are
sent unto thee,
how
often
have gathered thy children together, even
as a
not.
hen
gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye
"Behold your house Verse 38

the Christ
is
would
is left
unto you desolate."
When
the Soul
is killed,
rejected
and stoned from the Soul,
desolate and lost.

I
"For Verse 39
till
say unto
you, ye
is
shall not see
me
henceof
forth
ye shall say, Blessed
he that cometh
in the
name
the Lord."
Christ
is
not seen
except by
those
who who
are
baptized
with' Fire (Soul)
and the Holy Ghost (Christ).
SoulScience
AND
SUCCESS

of
of the
Church
no man deceive you." Golden Text "Take heed "And Jesus went out and departed from the temVerse
that
1
1st to
12th verses.
ple;
and
his disciples
came
to
him
for to
show him
the build-
ings of the temple."
Like
all
who admire
the beautiful structures of the earth, and

all
who
take pride in
them, the disciples showed Jesus
the
won-
derful works, the carvings and furnishings of the temple.
Verse 2
things?
"And
Verily
I
Jesus
said unto
them, See ye not

left
all
these
say unto you, there shall not be
here one
stone upon another that shall not be thrown down."

All the
beauty and
wonderful works of the material things,
the
temples, churches
and
cites, will
crumble and decay,

It is
In
time every stone shall be thrown down. with

hands, and
will not
the temple built
endure to the end.
Only
the Soul
endureth forever.
Verse 3
"The
disciples
seem to have understood
his
mean-
ing in this
symbolic speech, for they came to him privately,
saying, Tell us
when
shall these things
be,
and what
shall be
the sign of the coming, and of the end of the world?"
The end
of the world
was predicted
then,
and
it
was not un-
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derstood any better then than now, even by the disciples.
Verse 4
"And
Jesus
answered
and said unto them, Take
heed that no
Verse 5
Christ,
"For many
man
deceive you."
shall
come
in
my
name, saying,
am
and
shall deceive
many."
Many what? Many men.

Men who
are led away*
by the
illusions of their
own minds; men who have no
"And Verse 6
is
proof, and can give none.
ye shall hear of
all
wars and rumors of wars;

things must
see that
ye be not troubled, for

not yet."
come
to pass;
but the end
We
Evil
understand that no world
was ever destroyed except by
the vibrations from the evil souls
upon
it.
thoughts, motives
and deeds are gloomy, heavy

atmosphere.
and
dark, and
they create a heavy

pressure
The atmosphere
towns and
cities
is
produces
upon the
earth.
The
evil
cities
are under heavier pressure than
the
town and
where the
pure and
is
mental, moral, spiritual

uplifting.
evil is
and physical
up; evil
atmosphere
Purity
lifts
presses
down.
Purity
light;
heavy.
Violence
and carnage, bloodshed
and destruction, create
heavy atmosphere, and. these mixed with the
sensual, lustful,
envious, malicious, angry thoughts bring sure destruction.
When
are
wars begin the end
is
not
yet, for the
few righteous
atmosphere.
ten could not
able to control
and purify the evil-charged
Ten righteous men could have save Sodom, but

be found, and the evil overcame
Verse 7
"For nation
it
with the
fire
of destruction.
shall rise
shall
against nation, and
kingdom
against kingdom; and there
be famines, and
pestilences,
and earthquakes
in divers places."
All these great troubles are
brought
about by the
all
evil condi-
tions
and wickedness of the people, for
these are the begin-
ning of sorrows.
Verse 9
shall
kill
"Then
shall they deliver shall
you up
of
to be afflicted,
all
and
you; and ye
be hated
nations for
my
name's sake/'
The Truth and
the Christ are hated and destroyed, and have
been from the foundation of the world.

of the Christ have been stoned
The message
bearers
this
and persecuted, and are to
day by
evil
and the Black Brothers,
who have always

be
persecut-
ed righteousness and the Christ.

Verse
10 "And
this
is
then
shall
many
offended and shall be-
tray one another, and shall hate one another."
And
manifested
claim
at this
day and age very
plainly.
Teachers
who
much
praises
false
are offended
and betray the Truth

self
through greed, through desire for fame and

of the world and
and for riches
Verse 11
"Many
its
and worship.
arise,
prophets shall
and
shall deceive
many."
They
strife
are here with this generation.
There
the
is
contention and
their
between teachers, leaders and students because of
false doctrines.
Truth
is
known by
true.
The
true are
able to prove
it,
not by any outward demonstration but
WITH-
IN the Soul.
Verse 12
"And
wax
is
because
iniquity shall
abound the love of

though
false
many
the
shall
cold."
False and ignorant teachings, produce evil, and even
student
sincere
he
is
often
led into error
by these
teachers.
Finding no Truth he turns away, believing nothing*

all
and thereby losing
that he
had believed.
"But he that
saved."
shall
endure unto the end the same shall be
Let nothing, money, friends, foes, home, or parents, keep you from the Truth. Try the Spirit's teachings. Prove them and prove to yourself, not through spirit control, nor by simply believing what some book teaches which does not hold definite laws, but prove by
lovers, or
Go
on seeking Truth.
the
power of your own Soul.

of
of the
Church
Golden Text "But he that

shall be saved."
In this lesson the
Matthew, 24th chapter; 13th to 32nd

shall
verses.
endure to the end the same
Master warns the disciples of the great
er-
ror in following false Christs and false teachers.
You
tion of
ask what a false Christ
is?
false Christ is a false idea
or conception of what
God
is.
Jesus taught the true concep-
God.
is
He taught
the true Christ and manifested him.
What
The
ception
the true conception of

is
God?
The
true
true conception
is
It
the Fire of the Soul.
con-
the Soul of
God.
God's Soul
is
the Fire, the
Holy
Ghost.
can be proven.
u
Verse 14
all
The Gospel
of the
all
Kingdom
shall be
preached in
the world for a witness to
nations; and then shall the end
come."
God God is
is
not
personal Being "like unto corruptible

is
man."
LIFE.
He
the
ESSENCE
is
of
Life, the Fire that pro-
duces and creates.

ple of the
This
the
Word
of
absolute,
and
is
the Gostrue
Kingdom.
The chance
knowing
the
God
will be given to all; then will the
Verse 15
"When
end come.
abomination of
ye, therefore, shall see the
desolation spoken of by Daniel
the prophet
stand in the holy

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places.
(Whosoever readeth let him understand). The abominations of desolation is called Babylon.
symbol of wickedness, of greed, of
Babylon
is
the
materiality, of lust, of
the flesh.
thieves,
The Babylonians were

all
plunderers, murderers and

desolation.
and
evil
is
the abomination of
When
evil stands in the soul
of men,
WHICH
IS the holy place, for
man
holds
Verse 16
thoughts "Then
all
in his soul.
let
them which be
Let
in
Judea
flee
into the
mountains."
Judea represents Truth.

safety
them which know Truth seek
from
Verse 17
"Let him which

"Neither
all evil.
is
on the house top not come down

is
to take anything out of the house/'
Take nothing out from
the Soul that
good.
Do
not
come
back
down and
Verse 18
desire anything material.

let
him which
is
in the field return
to take his clothes."
The
field is
the harvest field
of the Christ.
Return not to
material things.
Verse 19
"And
woe unto them
that are with child,
and to
them
that give suck in those days."

is
This
the travail of the Soul giving birth to the Christ.
It
brings suffering and great agony to the material.
The milk of
Truth feeds
the, Soul, the child.
All
who have
attained Christ-
hood know the suffering it brings. "But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter Verse 20 neither on the Sabbath day." Winter is the symbol of darkness and barrenness. The SabIt Flee not from the Lord's day. bath day is the Lord's day. is the Day of Judgment. "For there shall be great tribulations, such as was Verse 21
not seen since the
beginning of the world to
this time; no,
nor
ever shall be."

Tribulation
flesh.
is
the tearing of the Soul
from the
desires of the
Verse 22
"And except those days should be shortened there

flesh
should
no
be saved;
but for the
elects'
sake those days
shall be shortened."
The
great terrors of the breaking
away from
the old
life
and
its illusions.
ment.
The coming into a realization of the Christ and his judgThe student must be protected by the Master at this
and realization or he cannot endure.
can stand.
It
stage of development
is
more than mortal
flesh
These
trials
and
tests are
severe, but are swift

fall,
and soon passed.
The student stands
or
as he himself will to do.
Note carefully: "Then Verse 23
if
any
it
man
shall say
unto you, Lo, here
is
Christ or there believe
Verse 24
ets,
it
"For there
show
I
not."
shall arise false Christs
and
false
prophthat, if
and
shall
great signs
and wonders; insomuch

elect."
were possible, they shall deceive the very

Verse
25 "Behold
have told thee before."
False beliefs and false teachers in the spirit world, and in this
world, will strive to keep the Neophyte from advancing. Great

signs and
wonders
are manifested at this
day, but there
is
only
is
one way to the Christ
one door
if
to the
sheepfold, and that
NOT
through phenomena or so-called wonders, often the
tricks
of false teachers or disembodied ghouls and vampires.
Verse 26
is
"Wherefore,
it
they shall say unto you, behold he
in the desert,
go not forth;
behold he
is
in the secret
cham-
ber, believe
not."
IN
CHRIST IS NOT A MAN IN A DESERT PLACE NOR THE SECRET CHAMBERS OF A MOUNTAIN, as some
There are a few
Christ
claim.
teachers of the Christ, but no Son of God. He will not be a man, but a man may teach what the Soul of God is, if he knows. Only the Masters KNOW. "For as the lightning cometh out of the east and Verse 27 shineth even unto the west, so shall also the coming of the Son
TRUE
man
is
Christ.
is
the
of
Man
is
be."
The Son
Soul
tion
his
or
Sun
of Man, what
is it?
It is
his Soul.
Man's
Sun.
Lightning
is
ILLTMINATION.
Illumina-
TERS
comes from the Masters of the East and of THE MASunto the West. The Truth first came to the Eastern
lands,
is
and
is
now
Illuminating the Western world.
The Truth
will the
the
Son or Sun.
Vsrse 28
"For
wheresoever the carcass
is,
-there
eagles be gathered together/*
The
carcass represents the Truth, as
we know how
the eagles
eat of the carcasses.
This
is
but symbolic of the gathering of
the hungry for Truth.
Verse 29
shall the
light,
,
"Immediately
stars
after the
tribulation of these days
sun be darkened, and the

shall fall
moon
shall not give her
and the
from heaven, and the powers of

All'
the heavens shall be shaken."
Mind
represents
heaven.
will
the
glories
and brightness of
the material
mind
not give
shall be
light to the
awakened Soul
All the desires of the

star of its ambitions.
mind
shaken even to the brightest
Verse 35
"And
then
shall
appear the sign of the Son of

all
Man
in
heaven, and then shall

shall
the tribes of the earth

in the
mourn,
and they
see the
Son of Man coming
clouds of
heaven with power and great glory."
The mind
in the
will
know and
accept the Christ, then
all
the tribes
of evil of the earthly illusions shall
mourn when
Christ
dwells
Mind
in
power and Glory.

of
of the
Church
Matthew, 24th chapter; 32nd verse to the
close.
Watch, therefore, Golden Text doth come." your Lord hour

Verse 32
lk
for ye
know
not
what
"Now, learn
a parable of
the
fruit,
fig'
tree;
when
that
his
branch
is
yet tender,
and putteth forth
ye
know
sum-
mer
is
nigh."
Verse
33 "So
it
likewise ye,
when ye
shall see all these things
know
in
all
that
is
near, even at the door."

here.
The Truth
its
is
The Christ conception

This
is
is
being taught
wer and wonders. po v

of
the "putting forth of
leaves."
The ripening
summer
is
nigh, for
the world
is
beginning
to look for the Truth,
and the minds of
many
are
shaken from
the false beliefs, opinions and heresies of the unenlightened.
Verse 34
Verily,
all
verily
say unto you, this generation shall
not pass
till
these things are fulfilled."

the greatest
since
till
We
are at the threshold of
awakening the
relig-
ious world
has ever
known
the days of Jesus.

all
THIS
GENERATION
This
Fire
is
shall not pass
these things be fulfilled.
the second
coming of the Christ
the Soul
baptism of
and Holy Ghost.
Verse 35
shall
"Heaven and earth
shall pass
away, but
my
words
never pass away."

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Mind and
LIVE.
Verse 36
flesh
shall pass
away, but
the words of
TRUTH
;
"But of that day and hour

my
not, nor
knoweth no man
no,
not the angels of heaven, but
Father only."
We know
within us
do even the gods know; but the Father

are purified
"But Verse 37
"For
knows when me
as the
and acceptable.
were, so shall
also the
days of
Noah
coming of the Son of Man be."
The Soul of man awakened.

Verse 38
as
the days
that were before the flood they
were eating
until the
and drinking, marrying
and giving
in
marriage,
day that Noah entered the ark."

and feasted and made merry; but when
The
flesh ruled
God
RULED
them
be."
all
flesh
Verse 39
"And
was destroyed.
knew
shall
not
until the
flood
away; so
also the
coming of
came and took the Son of Man

flesh even,
He
will take
it
away
all
that
is
material,
and of the
when
is at its
zenith.
shall
left."
Verse
40 "Then
two be
in the field;
the one shall be
taken and the other
The good and

ally.
self.
the bad, the spiritual and the desire of the flesh
shall dwell within
man.
This does not mean two men, especi-
Every man Good shall
has a chance to choose, and chooses for himbe taken, and

will
accumulate with good.

grinding
at the mill;
Evil will be left or destroyed.
Verse 41
"Two
women
shall
be
the
one
shall be
will
taken and the other

be separated from
left."
Good
light
es.
evil.
One woman may
choose
and Christ, the other
may
be
left in
darkness. She choos-
Verse 42
"Watch, therefore,
for
ye
know
not what
hour
this, that if the good man of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken
your Lord doth come." "But know Verse 43
up."
Man
Soul.
does not
If
know when
its
the evil
and the
flesh
destroys his
he did know, and
knew
the consequences, he
would
not choose evil and

Verse
illusions,
but
would
cling to the Truth.
44 "Therefore,
be ye also ready; for in such an hour
as ye think not the
Son of Man cometh."
The time comes when man does know. When he passes from the threshold of this life, he recognizes wherein he has The voice of Christ is then heard, when the flesh is failed. giving way and is fast loosing its hold. The Soul comes forththe only
living thing,
and
at
passes into
rts
accumulated
It is,
dssires.
There
is
no pretense
the final
judgment.
therefore,
best to be
always prepared and not only
Verse 45
his
"Who then
at certain hours.
is
a faithful
and wise servant,
whom
Lord hath made ruler over

in
his
household, to give them
meat
If
due season."
the Soul
makes Christ
the
ruler over
all its
desires,
it
is
faithful
and wise servant of the Father.
Verse 46
"Blessed
is
that servant
whom
his Lord,
when he
I
cometh,
shall find sd doing."

is
unto you, that he shall
The servant of Christ over "But and make him servant Verse 48
Verse 47
ruler
if
blessed, for "Verily

all
say
his goods."
that evil
shall say in his heart
my
Lord delayeth his coming,"
Verse 49
"And
shall begin to smite his fellow servants,
and and
to eat and drink with the drunken,"
Eat
and drink with those
who
live
on the
shall
lusts of evil
the flesh.
Verse 50
"The
lord of
that servant
in
come
in a
day
not
when he looketh
aware of,"
Verse 51
not for him, and
an hour that
he
is
"And
shall
cut
him
asunder and appoint him his

shall
portion with the hypocrites; there

ing of teeth."
Evil does not rule always.
It
be weeping, and gnash-
cannot escape the Judgment.
The Soul will demand

It
at
some
time, at a day
is
and an hour not known,

its
recognition, and
recognized by
own
deeds.
will be
white or black.
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Golden Text "Behold the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to

meet him."
1st to
14th verses.
The Christ
vine
is
is
ready; the Truth
is
ready; the Soul of the Di-
ready; go you and meet

1
Verse
gins
"The
it.
kingdom of heaven
is
likened
to
unto ten
vir-
which took
their
lamps and went forth

to everybody.
meet the bride-
groom."
The word of Truth comes

meet Truth, sooner or
Verse 2 Verse 3
took no
All
Every one must

reject
it.
"And "They
later,
and either accept or

wise,
five of
them were
and
five foolish."
which were foolish took
their lamps,
and and
oil
with them."
have Soul.
The Soul can

there
is
give Light;
it
but
if
foolish
wayward and
lustful after the material,
cannot light the

there
is
way
to the bridegroom, for
no
oil
if
no
desire for
the attainment of the Christ.
Verse 4
lamps."
"But
the
wise took
oil
in their vessels
with their
The wise know

oil
that
without desire for Truth the Soul can

the Father, for without the
not attain Sonship and Unity with

there can be
no
light.
Verse
5 "While
the bridegroom tarried, they
all
slumbered
and
slept."

We
all
sleep
until the soul
is
awakened.
Some have
slept
still
through
many
ages in
different stages of
incarnation, and
sleep because of
no
desire for the attainment of
Immortal Life
It is
and knowledge of Truth.

they are foolish and
Some
not.
never awaken.
because
Verse 6
"And
WILL
at
midnight there was a cry
made, Behold
the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him,"
The
hear
it
cry comes to
all.
We
all
hear
it
sooner
or later.
We
when slumbering deepest in the illusions and desires of the flesh. The soul wearies of its burdens of earth, and it cries out when its night is darkest. The wise hearken to the cry. The fool does not listen, but goes on in blindness, clinging to
the lusts and desires of the flesh.
Verse
7 "Then
arise
all
those virgins
arose,
and trimmed the
the lam ps."
We
for
all
and make ourselves ready to receive something

foolish,
self.
Even the
who know
not what
they should
or would
receive, when they hear a great Truth is to come. They expect to benefit by it, although they have made no preparation or made themselves worthy of anything.
beyond
They have no desire beyond benefit of self. They see not They give no light because they have no desire. self. But they expect to inherit as much as anyone else. Just as some so-called leaders believe, that they can live on earth to They make gourmands of themselves, killing suit themselves. and eating flesh; they think all manner of evil thoughts; they
drink everything they want to
drink, and
do everything they
want
to do.
eousness, yet
They break every law of health, love and rightwhen they come to die, or throw of the mortal
prepared
for them, and
existence, they expect to
peaceful,
all
go to heaven, a place beautiful and walk golden streets and
sing
hymns.
They
teach celibacy, and

soul
is
marry
blood.
secretly;
they
their
teach
the foolish
that the
in the
This
is
work.
They
u
are the foolish virgins.
Verse 8
oil,
The
foolish said
are
unto the wise, Give
us. of
your
for our
lamps
gone out."
to them,
These are the
words of Truth presented
and they
cannot receive them.

Verse 9
They cannot understand.
Then they
so; lest
begin to seek knowledge from those
"But the wise answered, saying, Not

you; but go
who do
understand.
there
be not enough for us and

sell,
ye rather to them that
and buy for yourself."

not the law for the wise ones, or those
It is
who have
desired
knowledge and gained it, to give what they have to the foolish and ignorant those who will not give up the material and flesh to attain it. There are those who think if they read books of some one else that they are able to know; that they have
knowledge.
ask others
They
are not willing to
teach, because they
go to those authorized to do not want to come under the Laws. They

received, but are not
who have
authorized to teach,
in
thinking that they
can obtain
knowledge
an
illigal
manner,
tell
without coming under the law.

to seek
The
truly wise will
them
from them
that are authorized, that
have to
sell.
know all to begin with, beknow nothing. If we grasp the least grain of true development, we soon know that great desire and hard work alone brings us the Unfoldment of the Soul. No one can deThese foolish virgins think they
cause they
velop your soul or think for you.

the
The Masters can show you

evil
way and
protect
you from the
along the journey, but
they cannot
yourself.
accept the Christ for
you.
YOU
must do
that
Verse 10
"And
while
they
went to buy, the bridegroom

in
came, and they that were ready went

riage,
with him to the mar-
and the door was shut."

are ready to accept
Those who know and

is
him; and the door
often closed to the foolishness of the ignorant and unenlight-
ened
It is
very bad to put
off the
velopment, for
when we
are ready
is
day of enlightenment and deit may be too late, and we

the day; for
are the foolish virgins.
NOW
tomorrow may
never come.
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Matthew, 25th chapter; verses 14th to
Golden Text
and he
shall
"For unto every one that hath

that he hath."
31st.
shall
be iven,
shall
have abundance; but from him that hath not
be taken
away even
ledge
Whatever we have we seek more of it. If we have knowwe seek knowledge and more is given, for our underis
is
greater every time we gain more.' If we have not, it we do not seek for every one that seeketh findeth,no matter what we seek. And if we have not and do not use what we have and seek none then we soon lose all that we have. If we have no knowledge and seek none we become indifferent to We retrograde and become less. all knowledge.
standing
because
Verse 15
We have the story of

five talents, to
the talents
how
that "one
was given
every
another two, and to another

abilities."
one;
to
man
according to his several
Talents represent ability.

to
If
If we have great ability and desire do much more is required of us then of those who have less. we have great knowledge, power and understanding we
it
must use
Verse 16
grow, or accumulate. and make "He that received the

it
five talents
went and traded

and use makes
little
with the same, and
made them
five other talents."
We
perfect.
all
we can
know full well that study, we know very little, and improve; we can become more
If
practice,
use
what
we have,
even
perfect in the
little,

if it is
manual labor we can do

is
it
better
by
practice,
and
ALL
labor
necessary.
There
is
not one thing unnecessary for imit
provement, no matter what

Verse 17
"And
is.
likewise he
that
had received the two, he
also gained other two."
Verse 18
"But he that received one, went and digged

money."
not.
at all.
in the
earth and hid his lord's
He would have much, but he would

not capable, so he did nothing
It is
He thought he was
nothing.
at
all.
He accumulated
better to try,
Verse 19
"After
sees
and
fail,
than not to try
a long time the lord of those servants
com-
eth and reckoneth with them."
"And Verse 20
unto
The Soul
what
it
has done or accumulated.

that
so he
five
had received
five talents
came
and brought other
talents, saying,
I
Lord, thou
delivereth
me
five talents;
behold
have gained more besides them
five talents
"His lord Verse 21

make
more."
said unto him,
Well done thou good and

1
faithful servant;
will
thou hast been faithful over a few things,
thee ruler over
many
things; enter thou into the joy
of the lord."
This
man obeyed and watched

faithful;
over what
good there was
in
all
him and was

Verse 22
therefore, he
was
able to rule over
within his soul.
had received two talents came and have said, Lord, thou delivered unto me two talents, behold gained two other talents beside them." "And his lord said unto him, Well done good and Verse 23 faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things,
also that
I
"He
will
make
thee ruler over
many
things; enter thou into the joy
of the Lord."
good within him than the first man, but he obeyall he had, and he inherited a place in the kingdom equal with the first man. "Then he which had received the other talent Verse 24 came and said, Lord, know this that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou
He had
less
ed and watched over
hast not strewed.''
Verse 25
the earth;
"And
was
afraid,
and went and hid thy talent

is
in
lo,
there thou hast that
thine."
This
man
it
He was
ing that
afraid he
It was self and selfishness. would give more than he received, not realizwas for HIMSELF the talent was given.
betrayed his blindness.
good in him, and he was given a chance with those that had much, and he could have inherited as much but SELF swallowed up the little good he had and he blamed some
He had
a little
one
else besides self.
It is
thus with
is
many
students.
They
will
not follow the
lit-
tle
that
given them, and thus receive no more.

little
While those
who
"His lord answered and Verse 26

and gathered where
1
are faithful to the
will receive the
all.
said
unto him,
1
Thou
1
wick-
ed and sinful servant, thou knewest that

not,
reap where
sowed
had not strewn."
Christ does not sow wickedness, but he reaps the good from where he has not sown nor strewed, and no matter how evil
the heart
may
Verse 27
to the
"Thou oughtest,
"Take,
own
be,
it
can yield good
if it will,
for
therefore, to
at
have put
I
my money
re-
exchangers, and
then
my
coming
should have
ceived mine
with usury."
therefore, the
talent
Verse 28
to
from him and give
it
him which hath
ten talents."
He should have allowed the little good to remain even if it would not grow, and not have allowed his selfishness to destroy all; for if a little good remains in the soul it will have
it
another chance, but
if
the one last remaining spark
is
destroyed
then
all is
Verse 30
"And
is
lost.
cast ye the
unprofitable
servant into outer
darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
The Soul
mains.
never destroyed as long as one good thought
re-
We
it
see
what the man did with

as his lord
his
one good thought.
He turned
thought
stroyed
all
to himself, as
HE THOUGHT,
told
and did
as he
best,
and not
him
to do.
And he
de-
he had.

of of the
Church
Golden Text
and
all
Matthew, 25th chapter; 31st verse to

" When the
close.
Son of Man
shall
come
in his glory
sit
the
holy angels
with him, then shall he
upon
the
throne of his glory."
This
is
the
RECOGNITION
and
REALIZATION
of the
Christ within.
Verse 32
"And before him

"And he
left
shall he gathered all nations;
and
he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth

his sheep
from the goats."

shall set the
Verse 33
sheep on his right hand and
the goats on the
hand."
The
Christ will be the judge
when he comes.
We
his
face the
judgment when he enters within us and takes up

us.
abode with
evil, as
The good
in
our souls
will
be separated from the
the sheep are divided
Verse 34
"Then
from the
goats.
shall
the King say unto
them on
his right
hand,
Come
ye blessed of
my
Father, inherit the
kingdom
pre-
pared for you from the foundation of the world."
Truth has been from the foundation of the world.
Creeds
and doctrines and theories of
men
are not Truths; neither are

they Scripture.
Truth.
It
The
Bible
means
THE
BOOK the
Book
of
has been
priests that
so grossly misrepresented by the theoloit
gians and
has been rejected by some,

as Philosophy.
who
are
unable to understand
of the Symbols
it,
The
the
Bible
is
composed
of Ancient
Wisdom,
Philosophy of the
It
Egyptians, and has been copied from the original symbols.

is
the Philosophy of
Old, and
is
not
doctrines and creeds of
men, who only

Verse 35
athirst,
err in Windless
I
and
spiritual ignorance.
"For
was an hungered, and ye gave meat;
was
and ye gave
me
drink;
was
a stranger,
and ye took
me
in."
Verse 36
visited
"Naked,
I
and ye clothed me;
was
sick,
and ye
me;
was
in prison,
and ye came to me."

hungers,
this not
thirsts, is
The
naked,
Christ within
sick,
the flesh
Is
stranger,
and
in prison.
it
plain
enough?
it,
When
then do
we
feed
the Soul, give
to drink, clothe
and heal
we
take IN the Christ, and
we
inherit Immortality.
Verse 37
thee
"Then
shall the righteous say, Lord,
when saw we
an
hungered,
and fed thee?
or thirsty
and gave thee
drink?"
Verse 39
to thee?"'
"Or when saw we thee

did
sick, or in
prison and
came
how the when we knew him not. What

Is is
hard to realize
Christ
was
that
situated within us
benefit
him?
Ah,
just as
we
pity
the unfortunate
and help them,

for as
just so
do we
so
feed the
Christ within and awaken him,
we THINK
do we BUILD.
Verse 40
Verily
I
"And
the King shall answer
and say unto them,

it
say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done
unto one of
the least of these
my
brethren ye have done
it
unto me."
Kindness, good will and love open the door to Christ.
When
we
love others
and manifest love and good
will
we manifest
hand,
Christ, and he
"Then Verse 41
is
knows us and
shall
accepts us.
he say unto them
on the
fire,
left
Depart from me, ye cursed, unto everlasting

the devil and his angels."
All evil
prepared for
always cast out and rejected
by the Christ,
evil,
for
self-
Christ does not dwell in evil and does not recognize

ishness, thoughtlessness
and unkindness as righteous.
Verse
I
42 "For
"1
was an hungered and ye gave me no meat;
was
Verse 43
athirst
and ye gave
me no
drink."
was
a sranger
and ye took
me
not
in;
naked, and
ye clothed
me
not; sick and in prison,
and ye
visited
me
not."
see
The
materialist, the selfish, the sensual, the evil,
cannot
or realize
"Then Verse 44
Verse 45
when
or
how
they reject the Christ.
shall they
answer him, saying, Lord, when

athirst, or a stranger,
saw we
thee an hungered, or
or
naked,
or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?"
"Then shall he answer them,

it
saying, Verily
say
of
unto you, Inasmuch as ye did

these
not unto one of
the
least
my
brethren, ye did
it
not to me."
refuse
We
are
all
cannot shut our heart and
sympathy,
kindness,
for
generosity and patience to even the least of humanty,
we
one brotherhood, one family,
begotten
of
the
same
Force, of the
same
parents.
We should feel toward all humanity as if toward a brother. We must recognize that we are brothers and sisters, and not
strangers and foreigners to each other.
Jesus recognized the

all;
tie
of
all;
all
humanity.
He loved
all;
he healed
he strengthened
he gave and benefited one as

is
much
as the other.
God
no
respecter of persons.
THE HIGHER DEGREES OF

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of of the
Church
1st to
29th verses.
at
Golden Text
my
disciples."
"j
will
keep the passover
thy house
with
We
have the discription of the passover

the Soul
in the text
evil
book.
It
means the passing over of

and Christhood.
from the
into
Sonship
Jesus himself kept the passover.

flesh,
It is
the purification of the

crucified.
and
after this the
Son of Man must be
In the beginning of the lesson,
Mary Magdalene,
the sister of
Lazarus,
who
Jesus raised from the dead,
came and annointed

possessed with seven
him
for his burial.
She was the

cast
woman
devils,
and Jesus
them
out.
She was
righteous and unenlightened scorned, but a

pitied
woman the selfwoman whom Jesus

a
and loved, because she loved much and gave much.

she had and gave
all
She
brought the best

ter.
without
stint to
the Mas-
She knew what they knew
not,
and were
a long time
learning.
Verse 14
"Then
one of the twelve/called Judas

priests." will ye give
Iscariot,
went out unto the chief
"And said unto them, What Verse 15
me
and

will deliver
him unto you?
And
they covenanted with him for
thirty pieces of silver/'
See the Soul of Judas Iscariot!
Did he know the Christ?
Here one of the twelve taught personally by Jesus, and he was

still
darkened,
sell his
still
loved
money more than

Judas
the Christ.
He
would
Soul for the gold that was more precious to him

Life.
than the Christ or
Iscariot
was one who knew the

taught, and wore the
laws and could use them.
He healed and
name
of disciple.
He was
a Black Brother.
Mary Magdalene,
the scorned, gave her Soul to the Master.
Judas sold him for
money, and
Verse 20
that through
envy and jealousy.

sat
"Now, when the even was come, he

as
down
with
the twelve."
Verse 21
"And
is
they did
eat,
he
said, Verily
say unto
you
that one of
you
shall betray me.''
The
Christ
betrayed
many
times into
the hands of the
high priests of
evil,
of wickedness and vice.
Jesus
knew
that
one
who was
black,
who knew
not good and hated good would

see the
always betray, his teacher.
He could
Soul of Judas, as
he saw the Soul of the Magdalene.

Verse 22
"And they were exceedingly sorrowful, and began

is it
every one of them to say unto him, Lord,
I?"
that dippeth his
"And Verse 23
all
he
answered and
said,
He
hand with me
in this dish, the
same
shall betray
me."
as
They
ate
from the same dish with him, and
he answer-
ed them they were unable to understand, with the exception of

Judas, for Judas
"The Son of Man goeth Verse 24

woe unto
that
better
a fear
knew he had
already bargained to betray him.

as
it
was written of him;
but
it
had been
Perhaps
man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed; for that man if he had not been born."
to
and misgiving came
Judas
at
these words,
for he said, ''Master

said."
is it
I?"
He
said
unto
him,
"Thou
hast
Judas represents
all
forces antagonistic to good,
and which
seek to betray or destroy the good.
Verse 26
blessed
it
"And
as they
it
were eating, Jesus took bread and

it
and braked
and gave
to the
disciples,
and
said,
Take,
It
eat, this is
my
body."
Life.
was merely the symbol of the Bread of
When we
which
is
accept the good, the Christ,
we
eat the
Bread of
Life,
indeed the b*ody of Christ, and the only sustaining body

partake
of.
we can
gave
Verse 27
it
"And he took the cup and gave thanks, and

Drink
this
is
to them, saying,
"For Verse 25
many
the
all
of
it."
my
blood of the new testament which
is
shed for
for the remission of sin."
Blood
Life.
is
Symbol
of Life.
He gavs
Life
and he gives
The blood
of the flesh did not give
life.
Jesus the flesh
did not give

onstrating,
life in
any way except

life
in his teachings,
and dem-
and manifesting the
of
a true Christ, a
Son of
God, Sun of Good or Righteousness.

Verse 28
"But
say
unto you,
will not
drink
drink
henceforth
it
of the fruit of the vine until that day
when
new
with
you
in
my
Father's kingdom."
Did he
refer to the material
wine they drink?
No; he referred to the wine of Life which Christ would drink

with them
the Soul
is
when they were

the
fruit of
Illuminated.
This Illumination of
Life to
all
the vine, the wine of
who
drink
it.
Verse 30
into the
"And when they had sung

of Olives."
hymn, they went out
Mount
The hymn which they sung

the "Great Paschal Hallel," or
after the last earthly
supper was
consists
Hymn
of Praise, which
to 118.
of Psalms
cxiii to cxviii;
or
Psams 113
Chrjsthood
Atfo

of of the
Church
Matthew, 26th chapter; verses 31st to 37th.
Golden Text
"Watch and pray,

is
that ye enter not into

is
temp-
tation; the spirit indeed
willing, but the flesh
weak."
Jesus understood that they were desirous of Truth, and willing to obey in the Spirit, but they were not
flesh
yet freed
from the
"Then Verse 31
me
Verse 32
and the
desires of the flesh.
said Jesus
it
unto them, All ye shall be ofis
fended of
this night; for
written,
will smite the shep-
herd and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad."
"But
is
after
am
risen
again,
will
go before you
into Galilee."
Galilee
the
recognizes the
awakened Soul. It is then the Soul sees and Christ and the powers of the unseen worlds.
faith
Verse 33
fidelity
Here we read Peter's great promise of which was broken before the dawn of day.
so
sure of
himself, but in the
tests
and
al-
Peter
ways
felt
he often
failed.
However, we have never read that he was discouraged. He continued in the new faith with energy, and after his Illumination
all
none were stronger and more enduring than

promised,
he.
And
they
I
"Though
But the
should die
is
with thee, yet will

it
not
It
deny thee."
is
"flesh
weak," and we find
so yet.
always weak and

trial.
unstable, but
we
think
it is
strong
before
the

Verse 36
"Then cometh
Jesus with them unto a place
call-
ed Gethsemane, and he saith unto his disciples, Sit ye here while

I
go and pray yonder."

pass
And he prayed, "O my Father, if this cup may not away from me except drink it, thy will be done."
I
Jesus
Christ
is
was the man of

born unto
flesh in
whom
the Christ
was born.
all flesh,
but Jesus was the awakened, purievil of
fied flesh.
Judas represents the
the flesh, the dark side

is
or self-destroying Black Brothers; while Jesus

fied,
the flesh purihis
and which accepts the Christ
as Father
and Light of
being.
prayed he realized that his own flesh was also He had given much of his strength in healing and in teaching, and we read that he "sweat as it were great drops of blood falling to the ground." And as he prayed for the cup of weakness to pass from him, we believe it did pass, for "an anHis fear was not in death gel appeared strengthening him."
And
as Jesus
weak.
that awaited him, but in
the fear that the flesh might
fail
him.
The cup
fil
of weakness did pass so that he could go on and full-
his mission.
After he had prayed
and received strength, he
came and
said to
Verse 46
"Rise
them:
and
let
us be going; behold, he
is at
hand
that doth betray
Verse 47
twelve,
staves,
"And
me."
while he
yet spake, lo, Judas,
one of the
came and with him a great multitude with swords and from the chief priests and elders of the people."
was surrounded by
a
Jesus
priests
multitude
of
u
evil,
the chief
and elders of the people." "And forthwith he (Judas) came to Jesus, and Verse 49
said, Hail, Master,
Verse 50
kissed him." "And and Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore
art
thou come?
Then came
they,
and
laid their
hands on Jesus,
and took him."
Even
after the betrayal thrust, Jesus called this
man
"Friend."
How many
give one
of us could or would?
How many
Jesus did.
of us could for-
who hounded
still call
us to the death through spite and jeal-
ousy and
that one friend?
Verse 51
stretched
"And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus

hand, and drew his sword, and struck a ser-
out his
vant of the high priest and smote off his ear."

Verse 52
"Then
its
said
Jesus unto
all
him, Put
up again thy
sword into
place; for
they that take the sword shall perish
with the sword/'

In other
their violent
words, those
acts
who
are violent will perish
through
and deeds.
evil,"
Jesus taught the law of "nonit.
resistance to evil
by
and he obeyed
He
called the en-
emy
"Friend."
He
returned
gentleness, kindness
and forgive-
ness for evil.
Verse 53
"Thinkest
thou that
cannot
now pray
to
my
Father, and he shall presently give
me more
than twelve legion
of angels?"
Verse
it
54 "But how
could he
shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus
must be done?"
How
manifest
life
eternal,
immortality, without
is
yeilding to material death?
How
could he prove that there
no death unless he
Verse 55
"In
laid
down
his life?
that
same hour
said Jesus
to the multitude,
Are ye come out against a thief with swords and staves for to
take
me?"
works under cover of darkness.
rabble, the evil
forces, the violent, the
Evil and wickedness always

It
was night
Verse 56
against the
Light.
"But
all this
prophets might be
fulfilled.
was done that the scriptures of the Then all the disciples forsook him
themselves willing to
and
fled.
A few
hours before, they
all
declared
go with him to the death, but the Dweller on the Threshold, the betrayer of the weakness of the flesh, was too strong for the flesh was too weak, and they fled from the Christ. This
same
those
old Judas
is still
betraying the weakness of the

the Christ, but
flesh,
and
are
who
are
weak forsake
those
who
strong as the Christ
know
the true conception of Life will stand
firm and invincible as did Jesus.
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of the
Church
Matthew, 26th chapter; 57 verse to the
close.
Golden Text
on the
en.
"Hereafter
shall
ye see the Son of
Man
sitting
right
hand of power, and coming
in the clouds of
heav-
Verse 57
"And
they that
had
laid
hold on Jesus
scribes
led
him
away
to Caiaphas, the high priest,
where the
and elders
were assembled.''
Verse 59
"Now, the
chief priests
and
elders,
and
all
the
council, sought false witness against Jesus to put
him
to death."
They recognized
mitted
his superiority.
They knew he had coma
no wrong.
They knew he manifested

For
power and
they persetoday.
taught a Truth none possessed or knew.

cuted
this
him and had
to seek false witnesses.

false
Thus
it is
Verse
60 "Though many
At the
last
witnesses came, yet
found
they none.
"And Verse 61
They
did not
came two
false witnesses."
said,
I
said,
This fellow
it
am
able
to destroy
the temple of God, and to build
in three
days."
that Jesus refer-
know
the temple of
God, nor
that he
veil
red to his resurrection.

ple wherein
They thought
meant the Tem-
they worshipped.
The
of the Temple, that
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which held the

fixion.
soul,
was
rent in twain
on the day of the
cruci-
Verse 62
"And
the high
priest
is
arose
it
and said unto him,
Answerest thou nothing?

against thee?"
What
which these witnesseth
Verse 63
"But Jesus held

I
his peace.
And
the
high priest
answered and said unto him,
adjure thee by the living
God
that
thou
tell
us whether thou be the Christ, the
Son of God."
Christ could not reveal himself only to those enlightened by

the Spirit.
These were the material elements, the dogmatic,
the traditional, the blind to the Truth.
Verse 64
1
"Jesus
said unto him,
Thou
hast said: nevertheless
say
unto you, Hereafter
ye shall see the Son of
Man
sitting
on
the right
hand of power, and coming
in the clouds of
heav-
en."
It
was revealed
to this
man
later the
power and glory of the
Christ, although in his blindness

falsely of
and ignorance he accused him
blasphemy.
Verse 65
"Then did they
spit in his face,
and buffeted him,
and others smote him with the palms of
their hands."
"Saying, Verse 68
Prophesy unto
us,
thou Christ,
who
is it
that smote thee?"
Did Jesus abuse the power he possessed by being goaded

to a demonstration of
in-
the mighty
things he could
do and
the
glory of triumphing over his enemies?
He
did not.
He
did not
teachers
subdue
of
their
mockery with
signs and wonders, as
some
today have
attempted to do.
He kept
the great
Law
of
Silence and
"Now, Verse 69
came unto him,
power unbroken, and
attained greater power.
Peter sat without in the palace, and a

saying,
dam-
sel
Thou
also
wast with Jesus of Gali-
lee."
Verse
70
"But
he denied
before
them
all,
saying,
know
not what thou sayest."

Peter
had promised to be true

flesh,
life.
until
death, but he
knew
life,
not the weakness of the
the desire for
the material
realize
nor the meaning of eternal
We
do not
nor under-
stand what Immortality means to us

tion,
flesh.
until after the Illuminastill
and Peter was not yet
Illuminated, and
clung to the
And
again,
and once again, he denied that he knew Jesus
then the "cock crew."

Verse 75
"And Peter remembered

bitterly."
the words of Jesus,

shalt
who
said unto him, Before the cock
crow thou
deny
me
thrice,
and he went out and wept

All his
blundering weakness
was pain
to him,
and he saw
thought
himself not as he thought he was, but as he
WAS. He
And we
all
he was big and true, brave
and strong, but when the
test
came
he realized
him.
his
weakness and cowardice.
are like
We
think
we
are very
much
self,
different
from what we
really are.
self
We
cannot see above
and
the>
wonders of that
we have
learned to love.
Peter's salvation
came through
that bitter
trial,
and the un-
derstanding of
himself to be.
himself as he was, and
not as he had idealized
Jesus
that the
self
knew and
power
recognized his
self
weakness, but he also
knew
power of the material

a
transmuted to the Higher
was
for great good, although suffering

it
opened the
wound
to cleanse
from
its
evil stain.

of Divine of the
Church
Illumination,
Golden Text "Whom

abbas or Jesus, which
is
Matthew, 26 chapter; verses

will
1st to 20th.
ye that
release
unto you; Bar-
called Christ
thief.
?"
Barabbas was a robber, a
Jesus was a giver of Life
and Truth.
bas,
The multitude
rejected Jesus
and perferred Barab-
and
is still
doing the same thing today.

read
that,
Verse
8 We
"When
Judas, which had betrayed
him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself,
and brought again the and

elders."
thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests
Judas' greed, envy
and jealousy hid the Truth from him.

he saw there was no hope for the
re-
He
did not
realize, until
lease of
Jesus, that he
had brought to bondage and death the
only person
tion
who
could have saved him.
He
realized the rejec-
of
the Christ, and not as a
man
of power.
Then, when
the priests and elders

it is
mocked him,
victim, he
as evil
always mocks when
through with
its
saw
that he
had sold
HIMSELF
we
to a horde that
despised
him
for his treachery

It
and weakness.
Evil
is
the
same old
betrayer.
in to
does not stand by us after
have given ourselves
its
hands, but always reminds us
"What
is
that to
me?
See thou to that!"
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Verse 6
ple,
"And he
cast
down
the pieces of silver in the tem-
and departed, and went and hanged himself."

the murderer and destroyer of himself.
He was
Verse 11
"And
Jesus stood before the governor; and the
governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews?
And
"And when he was accused of the Verse 12

he answered nothing."
is
Jesus said unto him,
Thou
sayest."
chief priests
and
elders,
In this
one great power, that of being able to keep
silent in
the face of
ridicule.
mockery and
false accusations, of
persecution and
This one thing he held most sacred.

Pilate marvelled."
"And
all
He was
was
the governor and judge of

first
brought to him;
in this
and
this
the
to
come who
acted
and spoke
Verse 13 "Then said
manner.
Pilate
unto him, Hearest thou not
how
many
things they witness against thee?"
Verse 14
"And he answered to never a word; insomuch that

greatest
the governor marvelled greatly."
This was Jesus'
and supreme
test;
and he bore
through
it
with the demeanor and fortitude of the Son of God.

eagerly watching and hoping for one flaw, one sign
They were
of weakness, but were baffled.

their art, to
They used
all
their
power,
all
provoke and sting him into
a retort, but
he "reviled
not again."
Verse 16
lease
"Now
at that
feast the
governor was wont to

they would."
re-
"And they had then Verse 17

"Therefore, when
them,
unto the people a prisoner
whom
a notable
prisoner called Ba-
rabbas."
Verse 17
they
will
were gathered together,

I
Pilate said unto
Whom
is
ye that
release unto
you;
Bar abbas or Jesus, which
called Christ ?"
Verse 18
For he knew
that for
envy they had delivered
him."
Pilate struggled
from the beginning
to release Jesus, for he
believed
spite,
in
him.
He knew he was the victim of envy and

are
but Pilate, as
many
today, was
outweighed by the
accumulated forces of
evil
"And Verse 19
and materialism.
set
when he was
down on
the
judgment
seat, his
wife sent unto him, saying, Have

I
thou nothing to do
things this day in
with that just man; for

a
have suffered
many
dream because of him."

She had seen Jesus
as he was, recognized
him
as the Christ,
and accepted him.

This was a powerful
that
message, and
it
influenced Pilate to do
which
his
own
disciples forgot to do, with the exception of

effort to join
John who made an

or personally, and
the flesh was to
him.
John knew
the govern-
made an
appeal to
him
for Jesus' sake, but
die, to
be overcome, and
Jesus the flesh
all
the intervention of
die,
man
Spirit
availed
nothing
live,
must
so that the
would
the
Soul become a Christ, or the Soul of
Christ.
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of
of the
Church
Matthew, 27th chapter; 20th to 45th
verses.
is
Golden Text
called Christ?"
"What
of
it
shall
do then with Jesus which
How many
have answered
us have asked ourselves that
question, and
with the crucifixion of the flesh?
Jesus
was
puri-
the purified flesh which held the Soul, or Christ.

fied
He was
because he yielded not

the multitudes
his
body
evil.
to
the
demands and
is
sinfulness of
flesh of Jesus,
of
All purified flesh
the
and when we
k
attain this condition
we
attain the
Christ.
flesh
test
if it
You
will ask
Why,
then,
this
is it
necessary to crucify the

:
were purified?"
For
reason only
It
was
a final
If
between the desire for
a physical life or the life Spiritual.
he had
preferred to remain in
the physical he could not
have
attained Adeptship or Christhood.
Verse 24
"When
Pilate
saw
that he could prevail nothing,
but that rather a tumult was

his
made, he took water and washed

I
hands before the multitude, saving,

this just person;
am
innocent of the
blood of
see ye to it."
We
have experienced the same opposition and confusion

try
when we
to point out to
the material lustful minds
the
Truth and splendor of the Christ.
Pilate
made
all
efforts to
induce the multitude to recognize the Christ, but without avail.
He was not
the
persecutor, but the judge of the Christ,
and
he judged rightly within himself.

Verse 25
"Then answered
many
all
the people and said, His blood
be on us and on our children.
"
And
and
to
it
was so and remains unchanged

subtle illusions
is
to this day.
Material-
ism which are the

all flesh.
and snares of the world

preferred,
Barabbas, the robber,
and
set free
go on robbing and destroying, while the Sun of Righteousis
ness
cast out.
Verse
29 "And
it
when they had

and
platted a
crown of thornes,
hand; and
they put
they
Hail,
upon
the
his head,
a reed in his right
bowed
knee before him, and mocked him, saying,
King of the Jews."
Verse 30
"And they
this,
spit
upon him, and took the reed and
smote him on the head."
And
all
innocent
and
suffering, he neither
murmured
nor complained.
Verse 31
"And
after that they
had mocked him, they took

his
the robes off

led
from him and put

to be crucified."
see a mortal
own
raiment on him, and
him away
If
we should
man, even though he

at,
is
guilty of a
feel pity
crime, suffering and scourged and jeered
we would
and sorrow for him; but we

der and destroy the soul
to destroy the Christ.
as blindly
and
as unfeelingly
mur-
within us as the
multitude attempted
Verse 32
to
"And when he was

with
gall;
athirst,
they gave him vinegar
drink mingled
and when he tasted thereof he
would not drink."
When
our soul
cries
out to us in hunger and athirst what do
we
give
it
to drink?
gall,
Are
we with
the multitude that gives the

will not drink of
vinegar and
terness?
or the Christ
who
their bit-
Verse
"And Verse 37
"THIS
This purified
36 "Sitting down
set
they watched
him
there."
up over
his his accusation written
IS
THE KING OF THE JEWS."

which
is
flesh,
the King above
all
evil flesh.
And
more.
while
he was dying they reviled

sense he
and mocked him the

a
To
their material
was
man who
differed
from them and the

is all
elders in the traditions of their belief.
This
they saw.
a
They were man-made men, and worshipped
and served
laws, so
man-made
god.
They
lived under
man-made
nothing
could not see beyond man.
They conld
see
but the material, and would naturally
condemn
all
that differed
with them.
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Church

of
of the
Matthew, 27th Chapter; 45th Verse to close
Golden
in
text
"And behold
rent/'
the veil of the temple
was
rent
twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake,
and the rocks
This was the cause of the

malice,
accumulated vibration
of
hate,
envy and
destruction. Christ never destroyed anything,
neither did
God become
angry and tear up the earth
and the
is
temple
in his
wrath "like unto corruptible man."
God
serene,
not
violent nor destructive.

as Jesus
God
all
forces are
all silent,
calm,
was through
his struggles, his trials, his persecution.
Evil laws return to the senders and evil alone reeks destruction
and violence.
Verse 52
"And the graves were opened; and
many
bodies
of the sanits
Verse 55
"And came up out of

and went into the holy
these saints
which
slept arose."
their
city,
graves
AFTER
his
resurrection,
and appeared unto
many."
The Souls of
flesh,
appeared
and not the bodies of

it
bodies of the flesh never arose,
was the body of the

in
Soul which appeared. This must not be taken

sense.
the
literal
Verse 54
Now when the centurion,
and they that were with
him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that
were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly

of God."
this
was the Son
They
did not
know
that Jesus' Thoughts, his
vibration
of
love, Truth,
and forgiveness saved that part of the earth from

His currents of righteousness,
all evil,
total destruction.
law and love

otherwise the
counterbalanced those of hate, crime and

pressure of the accumulated evil
would have become so heavy
the earth
would have sunk
as did Atlantis before that.
Evil thoughts are
heavy and where
town or
city
is
infested
with
there
evil
is
thoughts the atmosphere of that place becomes heavy,

gigantic pressure
against the
earth.
Unless this
is
relieved by th counteracting currents of purity
and goodness,
that city or
town destroys
itself as
it.
did
Sodom and Gomorrah.

cannot
save
evil
God
has nothing to do with

it
God
God
evil
only saves God, for
is
impossible to conjoin
God and
and save both.

Verse
55 And many women

noteworthy
were there beholding
afar
off
which followed Jesus from

It is
Galilee, ministering with
him."
fact that the
women
were always more
faithful to Jesus
throughout his
first
is
trials
than the men. They were
the last to leave him, the
to greet him.
fear,
Woman's
nation
is
perfect love
without
but perhaps the explaa
this:
Women
were not considered

the
power and
strength in those days
among
Jews and they counted her

the
presence
as
insignificant.
Among
Egyptians
and other
Gentiles nations,
woman's sphere was considerably higher than
among
the Jews.
The Jews' laws were
all
man made. They

material
served a
man-made God.
material and
They were
and
it
could not see above the
pleased their senses to
make man and
the
Image of
man
Lord of
all.
God made man
according to their
way
of thinking
and few men have gotten above the crude story of creation and
the beginning of men.
After so
forces,
much demonstration
Jews began
to fear.
of
the
Unseen,
to fear
but natural
that
the
They began
Jesus
MIGHT
arise
from the dead.

day of the
together
to
Verse 62
Now the next day that followed the

came
Sir,
preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees

Pilate,
Verse
63 Saying,
we remember
that the deceiver

I
said,
while he was yet alive, After three days

Verse 64
will rise again."
Command therefore that the

lest his discspies
sepulchre
be
night
made
and
sure until the third day,

steal
come by
him away; and say unto the

last error shall
people,
He
is
risen
from the
dead; so the
Verse 65
it
be worse than the

a watch;
first.
Pilate said,
Ye have
go your way, make
as sure as can.
Verse 66
And they
went,
and made the sepulchre
sure,
sealing the stone; and setting a watch."
But no
man
has power to seal
the
Christ
away from
cannot
see
the
Soul seeking the resurrection.

perceive the
Material
man
nor
power nor the entrance of
Life into the Soul of the
purified flesh.

of
of the
Church
1st verse to close.
Golden Text
tizing
"Go
ye, therefore,
and teach
all
nations, bap-
them
in the
name
of the Father, the Son, and
the
Holy
Ghost.''
Father represents the Divine
Positive Principle;
is
the
Holy
Ghost, the Receptive, or Negative; and the Son

the union of Father and Holy Ghost
the result of
it is
the Divine Flame.

are baptized; the
The Holy Ghost

Father
is
is
the Fire with
which we
is
the
Mind or Creator; the Son
the Christ born of

in the
Mind
in
the Soul.
When
the
Mind
creates
its
Image of
Purity, Truth or
ty,
God,
the Soul
receives
vibrations of Puriis
Truth and God, and retains them.
This
the Christ, the
Resurrection of the Divine Image.
Jesus did not teach that he alone was Divine, or was the only
person
who had
the right to claim that inheritance.

if
He taught
DIVINITY
or desired
OF ALL MEN AND WOMEN

u
In the
they
WILLED
to-
it.
Verse
end of the Sabbath,
as
it
began to dawn
ward
other
the
first
day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the
Mary
to the sepulchre."

Verse 2
"And behold there was

from the door and
sat
a great earthquake;
for the
rolled
angel of the Lord descended

the stone
from heaven and came and
"His Verse 3
as as
upon
it."
countenance was
like
lightning,
and
his rai-
ment white
"And Verse 4
Verse 5
snow/'
for fear of
him
the keepers did shake and be-
came
dead men."
"And the angel answered and "He

I
said unto the
women,
Fear not ye, for

Verse 6
know
that ye seek Jesus
which was
crucified."
is
not here; for
he
is
risen as he said.
Come
see the place
where the Lord lay."

the place of
IS,
Do you know
resurrection
sires
is
the Lord
the tomb
is
in
which he
demonstrated what Life

for
and that there
no death?
The
EACH
flesh,
one of us
when we
put aside the de-
of
the
life
of
and seek the Christ, not among the
dead, but in the living Truth.
Verse 7
"Go
quickly, and
tell
the disciples that he
is
risen
from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you

there shall ye see him;
lo,
I
into Galilee;
"And Verse 8
fear
have told you."

quickly from
the sepulchre
his disciples
they departed
with
and great joy; and did run to bring
word."
Verse 9
sus
"And
as they,
All
went to
hail,
tell
his disciples, behold, Je-
met them, saying,

feet,
and they came and held him
by the
and worshipped him."

the Christ, the purified, the Illuminated, the
He was now
Sun
of Righteousness.
Before they followed

they
blindly seeking but
not knowing.
Now
KNEW.
unto them, Be
not afraid; go
there shall they
Verse
tell
10 "Then
said Jesus
my
brethren that they go into Galilee, and
see
me."
They obeyed, also,

they saw him.
If
as the
women obeyed
the Lord's angel, and
they had not obeyed, think you they would
have seen him?

Verse 16
"Then the eleven

,,
disciples
went away into Galilee
into a mountain,
"And when they Verse 17
where Jesus appointed them."
saw him, they worshipped him,
but some doubted.
They doubted because they were not

Spiritual eyes were not yet opened,
fully Illuminated. Their
and some were not sure of

all
Truth unto the
Day
of Pentecost,
when they were
Illumi-
nated and cleansed with his Spirit and Fire."

Verse 18
All
"And Jesus
is
came and spake unto them,
saying,
power
"Go Verse 19
them
in the
is
given unto
me
in
heaven and
and teach
in earth."
all
ye, therefore,
nations, baptizing
name
of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost."
This
the Force Christ
came
to send
on
earth.
It is
the
baptism of the Soul
the Illumination of the Soul. Verse 20 "Teaching them to observe things whatsoever
all
have commanded you; and,
lo,
am
with you
always, even
unto the end of the world."

If
Christ
is
with us always, even
unto the end of the world,
why
up
a
should we look for another?
No man
will
come and
Christ
is
set
kingdom
of
is
in earth
and
call
himself Christ.
the
Life Life
purified
man.
us,
The Soul of the Living God, and the

and
always
will
always within
be as long as
we
re-
main
true to the faith.

I
Therefore, as
let
all
have taught you, go

the
YOU
into the world

a
and
a
nations
know
TRUE
faith.
Not
dogma, but
Living Christ.
>,
,.
III

of of the
Church
Special International Lesson

u
By what
authority doest thou these things; and
who gave
thee this authority." Matt. 21st chapter. 23rd Verse.
After Jesus had been healing the sick and teaching the
pure
of
doctrine in the Temple, the Pharisees and Scribes
demanded
him by what authority he was doing

In the eyes of
these things.
the Pharisees
and Scribes, the orthodox of

unless
it
that day, nothing was supposed to be done
had the
sanction of the established
Church and man-made
laws.
a
Far rather would they that these poor sufferers should die
miserable death than that they should be cured by
those
who
had not received
their authority
from them.
not answer
that
Jesus asked them the question which they could
because they themselves had no authority
except
which
man and man-made
institution
had given them.

little
They knew nothing
of the spirit and but very
of
the
Soul of man, nor did they
know anything
of
its
powers,
they
healed as best they could and
whatever they could not heal
none
else
had
a right to heal.
all
However,
as
men know, men and women
left
the establi-
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shed church
hearts they
in
order to follow the teaching of Jesus for

that the authority of Jesus
in their
knew
of
must be greater
than
that
Pharisees
and Scribes because he could

all
do
GREATER
And
same
things than they with
their
man
are
given authority.
in
Brother, after
many
centuries
we
exactly
the
position that the people were at the time of Jesus.
Bishop Ludden, of the Chatholic Church, had instructed the

Clergy to
Healing."
warn
their
people
against
the
"Superstitions of
The Bishop, according to the Syracuse 24th, 1911, made this statement:
'The
clergy were directed at
Herald, issued June
the semi-annual conference, on warn their people against these modern (healing) superstitions which are assuming frightful proportions in the community, and make it plain to them that the practice of
Tuesday, to
consulting such healers constitutes a grievous

ish Catholics
sin.
Many
fool-
have been
in the habit of
it
having recourse to such

to
all
so-called healers, although

sin against the first
is
forbidden
Christians as a
shalt
the
sin,
greatest
commandment, "Thou
There can
be
but
it
have no other gods before me."
What
is
a grievous or
mortal sin?
one
grievous or
mortal
the only
although
may
take
forms, but
that
REAL
sin either
against
many different God or man is
which our Conscience forbids us to do.

clergy
The
who
follow Bishop Ludden are taking

as did
EXACT-
LY
the
same
position
the Scribes and Pharisees in the
time of Jesus.
fering people?
By what
authority do you cure these pure suf-
There
obey, and
is
but
one authority
which the
TRUE
healer must
his
that authority
comes from God, through
own
Developed or Illuminated Soul.

Jesus, through the instructions he
had received, had become

with
it
thus Illuminated, and
this
Illumination brought
the
power
to heal
and
to teach.
This was his authority, and though
the Pharisees were in
identically the
same
position as are the
Catholic clergy of the present, and
asked the same question of

right
Jesus as
now
asked, the
people
it
knew who was

must
real
and
fol-
lowed
I
the right,
that
although
is
true Jesus had to suffer.

suffer
believe
many
true healers then, but
now
for their
healing
as Christ did
now
as then the
people will
in the cen-
gradually follow those

turies to
who do
the
work, and
are
remembered in. name only as the Scribes and Pharisees now, and the healers, the Illumi-
come
the clergy will be
nated Souls, will have the following.
There
is
frauds, but
no question but thousands of the same thing is true of the

need not
fear.
so-called healers are

clergy,
and
it
is
im-
possible to destroy the false without destroying the true.
The
true healer
He need not fear denunciations, even though made by the clergy, in the good time coming will even things up.
hundred
persecutions or
for
God's
Law
Does the clergy recognize the fact that not one in an even will go to a healer until AFTER authorized physicians That is a great fact that and priests have failed to help them?
in
must be borne
mind.
Would
after
the clergy rather that these millions that go to healers
authorized physicians
and ministers have

the
all
failed
it,
should
die?
No doubt
that
but
that
is
way
get
"they
look
at
but they
should always remember that

law, and
things are under the absolute
though they may
many
them,
of the
it is
weak
to stay
away from
and
alty.
healers
who might
cure
they, the clergy
their church, that will eventually be forced to
pay the pen-
Further.
to consult
"The law
is
plain.
No one
is
free in conscience
at-
one who, without properly constituted authority,
tempts to heal by prayer or by the laying on of hands."
teach such a law?
Did God make it? Did Jesus ever Has the Church, no matter what the name, And what if, after such as have the right to make such- a law? been authorized by the Church or constituted authorities, fail to Shall the poor, miserable sufferer then give up and sufcure? fer and die in misery, or shall he go to one whom he believes
this
Who made
law?
might cure him?
Did
God
ever
say that
because one cannot
cure the sufferer he shall not go to another?

find
it
No where
is
can
so written.
How
can the church, any church, say
who
free
and
who
is
not free in conscience to do a thing?

or claim to
No
living
man
All
can know,
know, the conscience of another.
men were
given an
individual conscience, and
they were given the AB-
SOLUTE
No man
Such
right to follow that conscience.
has a right to do that which

a right to say
will hurt another,
and
no man has
what another
the
shall or shall not do.

is
a ruling as that
made by
clergy
simply a boomto be
erang that will destroy the church that allows
it
made.
Mankind
are
in the
present century
is
becoming too well read

as this.
and enlightened to obey such foolish mandates
They
that
commencing
all,
to think
for
themselves, and to
KNOW
they
they, one and
have equal opportunities with
all
other men.
first
Tis said: "Him whom the gods would destroy make mad," and truly this would seem to be true.
The more than seventeen million of American people, among them many of the best and most enlightened Catholics, who now go to healers for treatment prove that no longer is unreasonable church authority feared.

of
of the
Church
SPECIAL LESSON.
THE SAVING OF THE NATION.

St.
John, chapter 8th.
Golden Text
cast the
"He that
stone at
is
without
sin
among
you,
let
HIM
FIRST
HER/'
and Pharisees brought unto him
Verse
a
3 "And
the Scribes
woman
Verse 4
taken in adultry; and
when they had brought her

this
in
the midst
"They say unto him, Master,

very
act.
woman was taken

such
in adultry, in the
Verse
5 "Now,
Moses
in the
Law commanded US that
should be stoned; but what sayest

Verse 6
"This
THOU?"
they said,
tempting him, that they might
have A
with
CAUSE
not."
to accuse him.
But Jesus stooped down, and
his
FINGER
wrote on the ground, as though he heard
THEM
In
the time of
Jesus, this
as
one of the most important
questions.
So
the
it is
today.
The They were
Scribes and Pharisees
were the leading

to believe
men
of the day.
men who gave
the religion to the people.
They
dictated to the people as to

lieve, just as the
what
and what not to be-
orthodox of today, those
who
claim to follow
the Christ, dictate.
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ALL RIGHT5 OF TITLE AND MATTER RESERVED ALSO RIGHTS OF TRANSL/VTION.
These Scribes and Pharisees condemned those caught

try,
in adul-
and they
also
condemned
all
those
who were known

women.
as
prostitutes, like the vast majority of the present day, they

all
were
guilty of
It
having to do with
indictment
a
this class of
is
terrible
all
of this enlightened century that

are guilty of
this
practically
men, with
few exceptions,
having
a
to
is
do with
this class of
women, and what makes
crime
the very fact, and one that cannot be contradicted, that those
are the loudest in their
men who
are the very ones
who had
Jesus are
I
to
condemnation of these women do with them.

time when
We
are
supposed to
live in a Christian century, a
the teachings of
will contradict
supposed to be followed, and none

say that
all
me when
fallen
those
who
are foremost in
condemning the
they
women
are called Christians,
and they
themselves claim to be such.

If
were Christians, would they
have to
1
do with
this
class of
women?
Would
they
be found with them, or would

lifer
they be found helping them to a better
What
did Jesus
do?
Did he condemn the one who had committed adultry?

is
That
Is
the great question.
there a living
will
man
today
who
is
has given this subject any

a prostitute
if
thought that
admit that there could be
she
was
not patronized?
that
all
Then why
of
there such a thing, considcall
ering
men
our nation
themselves Christians?
There can be
profess
to
but one
answer to
prostitutes
this,
and that
is:
These
men
be Christians, to
to
obey the teachings of Jesus, but

and then they turn,
her.
like the
they have
do with
wolf
in sheep's clothing,
and rend
The nation, all nations, are now at a place in their history when they must take a different stand concerning this question,
for unless they
do the nations
come, and
will be
perish.
is
The time
will
will
not
far distant,
when
state.
natural
marriages will be recognized by the laws of every
That
mean that man

is
JUDGED BY THE SAME STANDJUDGED.

and
It
ARD THAT WOMAN

a
IS
will
mean
that
when
woman
accused of
wrong doing,
what
the
is
man
guilty will be
act will be
accused of the same
thing,
more, the
recognized as a
1
LEGAL AND BINDING MARRIAGE.

legal marriage.
I
do not condemn
I
uphold
natural,
it
absolutely, but
also
recognize
the
positively and God-given Law
that there
is
a natural, sacred
marriage, and that this marriage

the minute that they
takes place between
man and woman

any such
the
know
each other.
God
there
never recognized
thing as "illigimate," for

illigimate child.
cannot be
any such thing

children with
as an
God
smiles
upon
all
same
smile, for
He knows
that there can be but one natural, sacred marriage, and that that
marriage takes place when
"man knows woman."

state
The time
is
and when she
coming when the will do so.
must recognize
this fact
Why
should the
man
be
feted
and the
woman condemned?
Are they not, before God, equal
in all things?
Woman demand
equally guiltless
it is
woman's
and
with
rights, but she ignores the
most sacred of God's laws,

shall be
rights, for
until she
demands
that
woman
man
she can never have equal
only that
which she demands that she
will receive.
The church preaches loudly

forgetting that within
against
the white
is
slave trade,
her
own
trade.
ranks there
Its
taking place the
most awful of white slave
most respected members
patronize the prostitute one hour and
condemn
her the next.
Wherein
is
the difference, whether a
man
steals a
young wo-
man and
sells her,
or whether
he betrays her trust in him and
then leaves her to her fate?
God
is
does not see
any difference
it
between these
acts,
and
if
one
worse than the other
is
for a
man,
that
so-called Christian, to
make
an
innocent
girl believe
he
loves
her,
only
to betray
and leave her to the tender
mercies of the so-called Christian world.

Is
there a living
soul
who
is
foolish
enough
to believe that
either prostitution or the white
slave trade
could exist for one

it?
week
IF
if all
the so-called Christian world
condemned
ALL MEN
WHO
CALL THEMSELVER CHRISTIANS

PROSTIA
WOULD HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH

TRADE
IN
TUTESSO-CALLEDHOW COULD THERE BE

WHITE SLAVES?
Answer
that ye Christian law
makers.
There should be
of the cart?
strict
laws, but
So long
as Christian
why put the horse men demand this
in
back
class of
women,
just
THAT LONG WILL THE WHITE SLAVE

orthodox,
TRADE
What
guilty?
EXIST.
did Jesus answer the
who
themselves were
Verse 7
himself,
let
"So when they continued

is
asking him, he
lifted
up
and said unto them, He that

first
without sin
among you
in their
is
him
cast the stone at her."
Was
hearts
there a stone cast?
NO.
And why? Because

guilty,
they
knew
that every
one was
and that
just
why men
cured the
of the present
make laws
to punish *he
white slave
and says nothing
man who seconcerning him who

outcast.
uses her and then
condemns her and makes her an
There is but one way to save the women of our nation. That way is to make all motherhood sacred, for all motherhood IS sacred. There is no hint in Nature that Motherhood any way disgraceful, and nowhere can it be is shameful or in
found where the Master condemned the mother.

without sin
let
"He
that
is
him
cast the first stone."
ROSIORUCIAN BIBLE LESSONS.

Rosicrucian Interpretation of the
Scriptures.
m.
THE COMING WORLD.

Scientists
(practical material scientists,) claim to

in the sun.
have
dis-
covered a
new world forming
They
are
reckoning, wondering and guessing as to the out-
come
of the
"phenomenon/' they
it
call
it,
and have
about con-
cluded that
will bring
about the destruction of this world.
One of the ^th Brotherhood knew of the formation of the new world in the sun years ago, and has waited for the scientwise men (?) to break the news to the world. its
He
says that the
new world forming
in the
sun will not de-
stroy the earth.
"Divine law never sent destruction upon any

itself.
world by contact with another world. Each world creates

It
sustains
itself
by
OBEYING
Divine Law.
It
DESTROYS
It
itself
by disobeying Divine Law."
This
new world
will locate in a sphere of its

its
own.
will
be
It
peopled by those in harmony with

will be a
It
laws and Vibrations.
harmonious world
a world of enlightened Souls.
is
the
new Heaven and

This
he
earth Jesus
told us about and of
which John, the beloved prophet and

elations.
is
disciple, described in
who
gives the
message
"Hear
Rev-
ye and
obey."
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"Hear ye and obey/'
These words are from the "Great
White Throne."
They
are the
words of Wisdom.
The Philosophers
of old obeyed.
twisted and turned to
They knew Divine Law could not be

suit the
demands of
the material.
if it
The Soul must obey

If
will
attain Life.
we understand
the
Law
of Life
we would
be
more eager
to obey.
We do not realize what Life We struggle here with the viel of

is.
illusions, of the false
knowl-
edge of the senses leading

laws.
us,
and are handicapped by their
We
If
exist for a
time only.
live in the real of
we form and
Divine Desire,
state.
we
will live
again in a purer and
more enlightened
no one
This
is
why
there can be
is
different age or
stage of
creation.
There
always advancement from the lowest to the

attains to a certain extent
highest, or
the Soul
and then
retrorealiz-
grades.
No
Soul ever attains perfection or comes to the
ation of the true Conception of
God
(which
is
the Christ)
and
THEN
descends back into destruction.

reaches the stage
The Soul
when
it is
given the opportunity

it
to choose through a whole existence whether
prefers the dark-
ness to Light, and

the Light.
It
it
attains equilibrium only
when
it
chooses
will follow
it
Black Magic or White Magic.

its
If
is
given
its
chance
many
times
and
refuses,
it
is
given
blackness by
own Soul and
Mind.
it
When
the Soul desires Truth
will
go on upward.
it
Flesh, the world,
and the devil cannot hold
back.
If it at-
tains
the Christ, or
even the knowledge of Christ,
it
cannot
retrograde or descend into the "bottomless pit."
The Soul
the Soul
first, "
that has
the
knowledge given
it
and
rejects
it,
is
that
turns back, and "the last state
is
worse than the
but this Soul has never attained Christ or Mastership.

Iscariot
Judas
was taught
all
the laws, and he gained reputaas treasurer of the
tion as a healer.
He was prominent
company,
but
he
knew
to
not the Christ, and
Jesus himself
had not the

him-
power
self,
awaken him because the power was
WITHIN
who
and
God
even
cannot open
see.
the eyes of
one
deliber-
ately refuses to
obey and to
Judas saw himself not
as he was, but as
he thought he was.
He
did not realize the great error he committed until too late.
We
read that he
Christ.
He
"DESTROYED HIMSELF" DESTROYED HIMSELF. We
by betraying the
all
do, or
we
save
ourselves.
It is
up
to us.
We
can be honest and true

lie,
if
we want
to be.
We
do not need
to steal, or
is
or
cheat, or bear faise witness,
or "covet anything that
our neighbor's."
if
We know
Every
we
CAN
be true
we WILL.
this.
man and woman knows
Every
man and woman knows
that their sins are
found
out,
and yet they go on thinking to deceive.

Evil does not prevail.
It
never did except for a time.

ruled always, wisely and well, and will rule unto the end
God
of the world.
If it
keeps
is
its
equilibrium
it
it
will stand.
If
it
destroyed,
it.
is
destroyed by the evil Souls of
men who
are
upon
By
the vibrations
and currents of the Black Brothers
who
will not see the Light.

It
will
never be destroyed by the

is
New
who
this
World.
are Light,
The New World

can give them.
for
those
who
its
desire
Truth and Righteousness more than
world and
pleasures
ROSICRUCIAN BIBLE LESSONS.

Rosicrucian Interpretation of the
Scriptures.
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in accepting the
it
w_
THE JETH WORLD.

The world was long
Mind and of Magnetism, and
awakening of the Soul.
But
it
THE JETH BODY.

wonderful works of the
respond to the
will slowly
will
respond because
it is
the written as well as the un-
written law.
It is
written in the
sealed in the
Book
of the Ages.
in
It is
hand and
men's foreheads, for where the

law of the Soul and of
physical and mental law
prevails, the
righteousness also prevails.
As the mental prevails over and controls the physical, so does

the soul prevail over and control both physical and mental.
The Soul
is
the leading Light.

the Soul and
Few have found
know
its
powers, just as the
power of mind was long
in darkness.
Jesus taught the development of the Soul.
He was
The
upon
It
the
first
to
sound the trumpet of the Spiritual Age.

years ago, but they
fell
seeds were planted hundreds of

soil.
unfruitful
has been taught by the Ancients for ages, but the material

BY DR.R: SWINBURNE CLYMER
and mental were not

its
sufficiently
developed to
know and
accept
power.
The
physical has always been strong.
In every age
and stage of existence
it
has grown strong and
weak.
The world was always more
or less physical, and these con-
ditions will remain unto the end.
You
say,
and
it
is
true, that mentality
and
spirituality are
on
the increase, and the material will
grow
less.
But
it
is
a
its
Divine law that with each new

day.
race, the physical
must have
There are three stages of every age.

In
all
time, through
all
time,
from the very beginning, the
Spiritual has been taught and demonstrated.

It
has gained in every age over the physical and mental, and
it
then with the close of that era
was held by the few.
Egypt, the birth place of the world's knowledge, once understood and accepted, lived, taught and demonstrated the Divine
Law
as
it
has never been demonstrated
since.
The Egyptians have hidden

secure and fast for ages.
the secrets, which have remained
They were hidden because
the physical and mental could not
develop and continue with the Spiritual.
They knew physical powers which
are yet
unknown.
They
knew
the mental powers which are yet

Initiates.
unknown
yet
except by the
except
few the
And they knew Truths
unknown
to the few.
All the worlds before this
world were the same.
This world
Neither
is it
is
not the mental world.
in its first
mental age.
It is
the mental age of this era.
With
the opening of the Jewish laws, the Truths were taught
and demonstrated
fested.
the
powers of the great unknown mani-
Many
learned Spiritual Truths

it
and demonstrated them.

a
all
It
fluctuated,
rose,
it
gleamed
forth like
beacon Light as
ages,
all
tenable Truth, as the Divine
Law through
time.
With
the advent
of Jesus' teachings,
all
it
was accepted and

It
demonstrated above
physical and mental.
was accepted
MORE
Men
than now; so were the mental laws and teachings.

drifted
so.
away, and the wise ones held
fast.
And
it
will
always be
There are three stages
in
every age.
This world has existed through more than three stages.
Lemuria and
Spirituality
Atlantis experienced the same.
and mental laws were developed then even be-
yond
this continent.
They were
They
physical, mental and spiritual.
lived through
spiritual.
many
ages and stages of
the physical,
mental and
They were developed by

ed.
Fire (Soul) as
we
will
be destroy-
They were
the enlightened
worshippers of the Divine
in the
same knowledge and

India and
sense that
we
are attaining enlightenment.
Egypt experienced the same changes.

above nor are we
attained, for
We
are not
attaining greater Spiritual
knowledge than they

possible for
as they
they attained
all
that were
man
to
know
in the flesh.
We
will attain as
much
and then
will the
end come.
HOW?
The new World forming
is
the JEth World, and
if
the pres-
ent world should be destroyed the Fire, as
foretold, then those
who have
developed the JEth Body
will
simply be transferred
to that world.
If
this
world
is
not destroyed, then
it
is
optional with the
yth Children whether they will go there or stay upon this material
world, which will be
stili
more
material than now.
NOV
191*
One copy
del. to Cat.
Div.
DEC
1913

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EXPLANATION OF THE LESSON.

man and woman, every boy and

what Jesus taught.

that taken in the Written

be destroyed. He darkness "Out of Egypt have

the Light that

were the wise men?

arose in the Eastern horizon.

the symbol of the

Sun, which he taught as the Christ, the Son of

born into each Awakened Soul.

born King of the

the King of the Jews? the King of the Jews.

Question Why was Herod,

the people together.

accumulation of the rulers of the

and the world.

born he would be destroyed.

the Christ to destroy him.

Bethlehem of Judea, but the'

Jesus was born, but a "Governor

shall rule the people Israel."

Have you ever harkened

the voice of Herod,

the evil king that rules you?

his dwelling plase.

seeks only to destroy.

the betrayer of every Soul.

of the powers and

did the wise

they heard the

and frankincense and myrrh represent?

purity and truth of the soul.

Of whom were they warned?

Did they obey? Answer They departed

was Joseph warned

the great Saviours were taught the Truths there. Jesus

How long did

they remain in Egypt?

Egypt represents darkness.

"OUT OF EGYPT HAVE CALLED MY SON."

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THE BEGINNING OF MIND OR MENTAL HEALING.

came baptizing with

therefore, the forerunner of

the Builder of the Soul

finder of the Christ.

His paths straight."

the builder of the Soul and

for the concepto

tion or reception of the Christ.

John here warns them

"the paths straight."