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GOLDEN TEXT "Out
of Egypt have
called
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.
understanding of what
real idea or
The
Christ
the Christ
The
is
in
every
is,
and where
man and woman, every boy and
WITHIN YOU
is
God
is.
girl,and
what Jesus taught.
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
of Jesus
birth
God
is
that taken in the Written
and born
at
Herod was
a great king.
Herod represents the material forces, which are ever ready to

all
good, and Jesus is the representative of the good
destroy
be destroyed.
He
darkness "Out of Egypt have
that cannot
is
I
called
LESSON
First
Verse
Chapter of Matthew,
1.
Question
Who
the Light that
1st to
my
comes out of
son."
I.
16th verses.
were the wise men?
What do
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
East.
significant in
birth
arose in the Eastern horizon.
Jesus Christ
is
the symbol of the
New Born
which
Verse
Sun, which he taught as the Christ, the Son of
Question
2.
Who
Jews?
Answer
Where
he that
is
is
The Christ
the King of the Jews.
is
DO YOU KNOW?
HE?
IS
Question Why was Herod,
3.
born King of the
the King of the Jews?
is
Question WHERE
Verse
God
born into each Awakened Soul.
is
the
king of Judea,
troubled?
Answer
The
GOOD.
the
All evil
Kingdom
Verse
new king was at hand, and Herod

He was an evil king. All evil fears
troubled when the Christ is born within
reign of the
represents wickedness.
is
of the Heart.
"He gathered all the Chief Priests and Scribes of

He demanded of them WHERE Christ
4.
the people together.
SHALL BE BORN."
Why did he demand the Christ?

and Scribes of the people
Answer The
Question
chief Priests
accumulation of the rulers of the

evil to
KNOW WHERE
They demanded
Verse
Christ
5.
Verse
verse.
6.
and the world.
are the
Were
born he would be destroyed.
is
the Christ to destroy him.
Jesus was
was not
Christ
flesh
born
in
Bethlehem of Judea, but the'
yet born.
The promise
of the Christ to
come
Jesus was born, but a "Governor
is
given
in this
SHALL come
that
shall rule the people Israel."
Verse
7.
Have you ever harkened
the evil king that rules you?
What
He asks what time the

Question Why did he do
Answer That he might know
Answer
to
the voice of Herod,
does he ask?
star appears.
this?
his dwelling plase.
not
know
Verse
8.
the Christ.
This
is
of the powers and
It
Evil does
seeks only to destroy.
the betrayer of every Soul.
wisdom
of the
flesh.
The
illusions
Verse
9.
What
did the wise
men do when
they heard the
king?
Answer
They departed.
This
the departure of the soul
from the temptations of evil

and promises of the material desires which
is
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
STABLE
you, the
Verse
11.
of a
Question
KING.
What do the
treasures and gifts of gold
and frankincense and myrrh represent?
Answer
Christ
is
purity and truth of the soul.
All the
WITHIN
born
THOUGHTS
All the
us
and
we
lay
all
DESIRES
our treasures
When
the
at his feet.
of purity, righteousness
and goodness are the gold and frankincense and myrrh of the
Ancient Wise men,
who
were the
AWAKENED
souls of that
age.
Question
Verse 12.
Of whom were they warned?
The
God WITHIN them, which they knew and

warned and protected them from turning back into
darkness and illusion.
Answer
recognized,
Did they obey?

Answer They departed
Question
to
birthright, the
home
Do you know
where that
Verse 13.
Question
child Jesus to
Egypt?
Answer
their
own
country,
their
own
of the Christ.
is?
Why
was Joseph warned
to take the
Egypt
was the home of the Ancient Truths.

was
New Born Sun taught by the mysteries and
All
the great Saviours were taught the Truths there. Jesus
the
symbol of the
the
symbols of the
The
Osiris, 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
Question
Verse 14.
Why did he go by
night?
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.
Question
Verse 15.
Answer
Until the
How long did
destruction of
Egypt represents darkness.
It is
they remain in Egypt?
all evil
vibrations.
the veiled
Isis.
"OUT OF EGYPT HAVE CALLED MY SON."

1
darkness
soul,
came
which
is
from
mother of
light,
the
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THE BEGINNING OF MIND OR

MENTAL HEALING.
Golden Text.
''Prepare ye the
way
of the Lord,
make
His
paths straight."
John the
Water
is
He was,
Mind
is
Baptist
the
is
therefore, the forerunner of
the Builder of the Soul
way
of
the
the Lord,
the builder of the Soul and
tion or reception of the Christ.
Only
"the paths straight."
make
water.
symbol of Mind.
"Prepare ye the
Mind
came baptizing with
straight paths,
the Christ, because the
finder of the Christ.
make
His paths straight."
prepares
it
for the concep-
John here warns them
straight, sincere,
to
make
pure thoughts can
and these are the only paths for the Lord,
or Christ.
"Repent
ye, for the
kingdom
His was the voice

wilderness of
of one
of heaven
is at
hand."
crying in the wilderness
wrong
error and illusions and
in the
thinking, living,
and teaching.
There was very
little
difference in the accepted teachings of
those days and now.
The Pharisees were
mena
to even
great
spiritualists,
greater extent than
They, built the temples
it
is
and produced phenoproduced
at this
day
and synagogues, and they worshippe
They made
where they might be seen and heard.
their re-
all
show and with many ceremonies. They
ligious worship a great
were very orthodox, and the orthodox religion of to-day
most
They
with the Pharisees.
identical
existence and immortality of
believed in the pre-
They adhered
the soul.
is al-
strictly
to the "traditions of the elders," and held to the literal interpre-
Law
tation of the
many
There were
for
of Moses, just as
else.
All classed as a
whole were
had wandered away from the
who did not live

much divided and
Many
of these
knew
the law of
they
came
to an
and accepted
as they
TRUE
knew
the Truth and
it
to John, attracted
not.
many
antagonistic as are the
came
by
They were
as
of to-day.
his teachings.
phenomena, and were of negative
They
natures, yet
acknowledgment of the power of the Mind,
it.
the Baptism of Mind.
is
Mind or Mental Healing has accomplished wonders

It
who
to-day, those
are
teachings of the Ancients,
This water baptism taught by John
age.
more
contending, striving
sects, divided,
and self-glory and self-righteousness than
material gains
anything
orthodox do to-day.
all
has attracted
all
sects
and
people.
all
in this
Yet John ad-
mitted a greater teacher was to come.

indeed baptize
"I
that
cometh
after
me
worthy to bear; he
with
you with water unto repentance; but he

is
mightier than
whose shoes
am
not
you with the Holy Ghost and
shall baptize
Fire.
With the Mind we

away.
We
Repentance means the turning
repent.
do not repent of an
IT TURN AWAY FROM

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

u
it is
meet for repentance."
fruits
NOT TO SAY WITHIN YOURSELVES
we
have Abraham to our father."

This means that they cannot repent and
meaning of the law;
old, uninterrupted, literal
Abraham had become
of
symbol worship
repented, they must forsake
They must forsake
Good
deeds are
follow the same

for the teachings
in the flesh.
If
they
it.
they brought forth
it if
Good
fruit.
still
fruit.
thoughts produce good deeds
and are retained by the Soul.
The Holy Ghost and
OF THE MIND
the
Law
Fire
away from
after repentance
and turning
the material laws of the flesh
Water, because
it is
that part of
Fire
Baptism
of the Soul.
man
that
is
greater
The Soul
is
the
than Mind
goodness and
chaff
evil.
Truth
o*
LIFE of man.
LIVES.
This baptism of the Christ or Soul gathers the wheat

is
or
of Abraham.
The Holy Ghost and
It is
comes
into
the garner, and
burns
which
up the
Jesus came to John to be baptised by him. John

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

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

Golden Text
Him
"Thou
only shalt thou serve."
Jesus was lead,
and
terial desires
also, into the
the worldly
devil
of
is
lust,
the
and of
He was tempted
of
wrong.
all
these things.
tration, for
man
could attain.
was he not tempted
He
possessed
great concen-
to turn stones into bread?
was hungry, the material within him was clamoring

obeyed, but
it
was
also
SELF
greater
test.
If
He
to be
to minister
he could turn stones into bread,
power could he
could gain much.
influence over other things?
He could become
producer the world had ever

tation
calling out to
him
it.
Here was the
much
men-
read where he had just been baptized or developed
tally as far as
unto
The
the devil.
of sin, of materiality, of deception, of greed,
Thus Jesus was tempted of
We
DESIRES
the material, the flesh, the
is
things.
man
ma-
wilderness of the errors of
illusions.
The wilderness here

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

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

to
make
do was to abuse or misuse
It is
is
a temptation
we
his
all
away from
spiritual.
He could
rule over them.
himself a king.
All he
had
He
to
power.
face in development.
the crossing of the roads.
entirely
the
to him.
was powerful enough
This
all
the flesh, or
It
is
where
where the
flesh
spiritual leads
triumphs over the
Here
It is
where many,
is
many
and have
fall,
fallen.
where leadership gains the control of Mastership.
The Master
is
one
who
has served, and struggled, and
is
ing to go on serving for love of good and humanity's
Leadership
"Thou
is
too often
swallowed up
in
vanity and self-glory.
worship the Lord thy God, and
shalt
will-
sake.
Him
only shalt
thou serve/'
away from
Jesus turned
of power and
"Then
all
dreams
alluring, tempting,
the
greatness.
came and
the devil leaveth him, and behold the angels
ministered unto him."

All forces
and vibrations of good gathered around him.
"Then he departed
"And
saw
ow
people which sat in darkness (spiritual darkness)
the
great light;
and to them which
of death light
Those
and began to preach."
into Galilee
is
sat in the region
sprung up."
in the region
and shadow of death were those soul
which were nearing destruction. Death
The developed
soul.
And
those
ity to
who
p arted, repented of
live,
It
lives
forever.
in the
shadow of
death.
He taught
light of life, of Truth,
and de-
evil.
him organizing.
Note that
The
the destruction of the
soul cannot see death.
overcome them were
find
is
allow the lusts and temptations of the material-
them Truth, and they saw the
We
and shad-
all
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
do not seek the easy places
remember the
in life.
Development comes only through

with
great souls
struggles and experience
life.
The hardship and
the
toil
of this
life
many
open our eyes to
Truths.
When
flesh,
it
the soul
is
seeking for reincarnation or rebirth in the
seeks the souls in
harmony with
its
own.
Now we have
the secret of one great law.
The man who
know and
desires to
understand
men's hearts must be able to understand the
men and
least of the
world,
the humblest of this world.
We
do not speak against education, but education cannot
develop the Soul.
They were uneducated
colleges of that time
in their
lives,
in the text
books of
but had gathered greater
knowledge through experience and perhaps
in
former
exist-
ence.
But they
left
immediately
all
material gain and seeking and
followed after Truth,
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THE TRUE HIDDEN LAWS.

Golden Text
"Where your treasure
is,
there will
your heart
be also."
"Take heed
that ye
do not your alms before men to be seen
of them; otherwise ye have no reward' of your Father which

in
is
heaven."
When we do
another,
we
good deed, or when we show
like to
have
nized as having done
We
appreciated,
it
want
many of
where we feel
good, and so
opportunity to do these things
a kindness to
to be recog-
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
some one
else
take our
place.
only
know
if it
with another deed could easily outshine us or
The world does not know good
within
our
own
We
deeds.
souls whether the deed
we have
committed be good or bad.
We know
know whether we have done
a thing for self or for others.
know when we
Jesus
commanded, we
The Soul
we
ten in that
We
is
the
think,
Book
our
truly sacrifice for others,
MOTIVES.
and
if
care not whether the deed
nized or not by the world
and what
did,
Book
if
we have
of Life.
what we
do,
it
It
we do
is
We
We
so, as
ever recog-
recorded in our soul.

is
the Recording Angel,
and what we say are
all
writ-
of Life.
need not sound a trumpet before us when we do good.
We
must do
and approval.
ers' praise
This
alms,
what Jesus means when he says "When thou doest
is
let
for the soul's sake and not for the sake of oth-
it
not thy
left
hand know what thy
right
hand doeth."
Care not for the praise,nor the glory, nor the commendation
you expect
DO
to
You must want
IT.
YOU WANT TO
but do the good because
get,
do that which
to
you
right, or
is
will
never accomplish anything in the Spiritual.
We
how
taught
are
vibration, for desire
kind of prayer
is
acceptable
is
Prayer
to pray.
vibration or
if it is
it is
also a
current of thought.
Any
sincere
THE
SOUL, where
self
vent.
And
we pray we must
as
We
ourselves.
the desire
are
knowing
feeling that
our true
that
God
self.
we have
the
and
forgive others
praying to the
power
is
the
true,
if
we
God WITHIN,
We
to be
We need
earnest.
closet
is real,
clouds and sky, to an imaginary Being.

IN,
and
The
go into a dark room to pray.
not
desire,
is
and
fer-
forgive
not to the
must pray
what we
INNER
WITH-
will to be,
Good is all power, and that the power is

Then we will know that we must forgive or we
or
cannot be forgiven.
There are a
their
lot
of
people
by pretending
to
constantly boasting
are
They wish
power and goodness.
they are better than anyone

crites fast,
who
else,
to
make
and so they
of
people think
fast as the
hypo-
do one thing and thinking another
within the Soul.
Do
not pretend to be better than you
no matter where
it
ognizes the seeds
is
planted; and
God
Good
are.
grow
always knows and
never know, but the
God
Pearl of Great Price,
no matter how deeply
few
rec-
The world may
and flowers of goodness.

within the
will
will
it
is
recognize the
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
we wish
from
the false
know and
to
the true, the
good from the
know.
seek to
"Lay not up for yourself treasures upon

and
doth corrupt
rust
false, if
earth,
where moth
and where thieves break through and
steal."
"But lay up for yourselves treasures
moth nor
and
in
heaven, where neither
doth corrupt and where thieves break through
rust
steal."
"For where your treasure
Your
treasure
is,
there will your heart be also."
what you love most.
is
of the world more than anything

All the things of the
the heart.
taken from
We
souk
in the
light of the
body
is
great
If,
they decay, and are

builded up and
and
gain.
is full
If
the eye sees the
good
of light because the Spirit-
open.
"If thine eye be

ness.
the secret treasure of
die,
the eye.
is
and loves the good, the body

ual eye
it is
cannot build Soul of a Christ by
desires for the worldly successes
For the
you love the things
while the heavenly desires are
us,
away
stored
else,
world
If
evil,
thy whole body shall be
therefore, the light that
is
IN
THEE
is
of dark-
full
darkness,
how
that darkness."
is
thoughts
All the evil
The Soul
dark.
is
and
dark.
desires of
It
the
mind and
soul are
cannot see the light of Truth and
goodness.
life.
necessary to dwell
not
It is
We
have
all
sufficient
constantly on the necessities of
unto the day thereof.
We
all
pros-
per according to our faith.
You
will
say: "Behold
the faith of
the rich
man, without
thought of soul or heaven."
The
rich
himself.
man
We
all
prospers
according to the faith he has within
prosper in our real desires.
The
rich
man
prospers of the worldly joys and pleasures because he believes
within himself the power
should have
trate
is
The godly man
to attain to that.
We
all faith.
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
yourself to
POWERS
knows he
the greater
you
righteous
man
He
will
he needs.
happiness, in power, in
God WITHIN
will prosper.
man
prosper as the worldly
his treasures are liable to be
may
because his faith
not be of a lasting faith, and
swept away
in a single
and power of the Godlike
But the prosperity
day.
man
is
never
His treasures are in heaven, where thieves do not
taken away.
break through and

honesty or heaven.
steal, for there are
There are no
tempt him away from the
justly.
all
peace, in
within himself, while strong,
adds
The
always.
enough
you the
faith
WITHIN
and the greater the power and the
You cannot
God
Have
first.
you have
not suffer, that he has
righteousness, in
daily needs,
always
keep you
that will
will
prosper in
Him
realize that
all
that
we
His inheritance
evil
no
thieves in goodness,
thoughts to break
These
and
real.
need.
No
righteous
can never be taken
man
suffers un-
away no matter
what happens.
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THE JUDGMENT THE GOLDEN RULE.

Golden Text
"All
whatsoever ye would that
things
should do to you, do ye even so to them; for this
is
men
the law and
the prophets."
The prophets and
the ancient wise
all
As ye would that men should do

for
it
you
will
be done to
therefore
sow good
We
Therefore, the thoughts
and we
bound
word we speak and every
The man who,

that
the other's
month
or a year
cheat him, so that
all
YOU
we sow grow
things.
into the grain
from every thought we
think, every
we commit,
act
in a business
family will
something
do, for
good
desire
them;
to
expect to have a crop of oats
or barley.
are
taught this law.
things.
No man would sow wheat and

to reap
men
you do ye even so
again whatsoever
whatever you sow.
shall reap
WE MUST
YOU
to
transaction, cheats another so
suffer,
MUST
Some one
will turn up.
HIS family
will
expect that
be taken.
THAT
in a
else will
THE
IS
LAW.
"Judge not
that ye be not judged."
Did you ever judge anyone
You
hastily
and then regret your
act?
certainly have.
When you
analyze your
yourself
if
feel called
upon
own mind and
you
are really
to pass
judgment upon another,
thoughts toward that person.
Ask
man
unless
and truly
just.
Judge no
you
KNOW. Do
you know, or do you
Have you ever given anyone
pect?
guess, surmise, or sus-
the least chance to suspect
you? The pure minded, pure souled person always thinks pure
thoughts of
"And
the
there
within
first
no weakness
is
to stumble.
not judge openly.
without sin must be the
first
Therefore, read self

if
He does
persons.
all
All
and find out
first
to cast the stone."
every thought
if
true,
is
WITHIN
yourself that might cause
you
weak.
Look within your own
eye,
flesh is
and "cast out the beam within thine own eye, and
self,
then thou shalt see clearly to cast the mote out of thy brother's
eye,"
When we
suspect or think
wrong of
another,
we should
and consider where the suspicion comes from.

arise in
bor, friend, or
Give the
you have
rights.
What
right
other?
Every
man
we have broken
for wide
struction,
like to be
and
illusions
it
anyway.
We
the law.
"Enter ye
is
the
is
equal
We
are not the
Every
have not done to him
the
SELF.
in
way
go
there, be that
and snares to blind
leads to destruction
man
and when we trespass on anoth-
and broad
many
neigh-
done by.
the straight gate.

is
gave every
are not the creators of other souls.
er's rights
the gate
the creator of every
one and give much to an-
limit
gives to himself
create for himself,
is
God
to give.
man must
we would
is
when you judge your
this
have we to
We
giver to others.
many
not
They may be judging you.
your enemy.
best
mind,
individual
thought we think. Remember
This
it
our own mind?
The mind, our own
as
Does
stop
us.
It is
at the
straight gate
that leadeth to de-
in thereat."
There are
This broad gate that
broad and wide because
demands much and absorbs much.

It is
the
enemy
that sets itself
blinds us so that our soul
is
up
hidden.
as
goodness and Truth and
REAL.
The
soul
It is
the heaven or the hell for us, for
the
is
It is
the living part of us.

it
accumulates and ab-
sorbs every created image of the mind.
"Beware of
inwardly they
ing, but
How
know them?
"By
which come to you
false prophets,
are ravening
can we
their fruits ye shall
"Every good
their
works you
we
good
shall
but a corrupt
fruit,
know them,
good, pure mind brings forth good, pure, unselfish deeds,
The good man
can
know them."
tree bringeth forth evil fruit/
By
How
wolves."
tell?
bringeth forth
tree
sheeps cloth-
in
will not
condemn
a liar
and then
lie.
true prophet does not teach "thou shalt not hate"
He does
hate.
times
we have
know
him.
condemn
not do the things he
and then
in others.
Some-
to associate with a person a long while before
Even then we have no
own
investigate our
vineyard
good condition and
fit
and
first
We
right to judge.
see
our
if
own
we
must
fruit
is
in
to others or for others to in-
to give
spect.
"Every
and
Every thought of the mind

the soul or saves
is
for the
soul
dwelling place of our real
self.
devils.
we
good
tree that bringeth not forth
fruit is
hewn down
cast into the fire."
are
If
we
it,
are
cast into the
is
We may
is
destroys
home
of gods or of
is
good.
If
bad.
the leader, the builder and the maker.
me
kingdom of heaven; but he
Father which
It
good and think good, the soul
"Not every one thatsays unto

to the
the
It is
bad and think bad, the soul
The mind
soul
receiver or retainer, the
the
is
is
in
Lord, Lord shall enter in-
that
DOETH
the will of
my
heaven."
not think the things
we
say.
No
matter what
we
say, if
we do
we would
others as
which
not obey
be done by,
we do
if
we cannot
righteousness,
is
the laws of the prophets, and do unto
not do the will of
God
kingdom
attain the Christ, the
of heaven.
We may
leaders
and prophets, but we must do the
we must examine
whether
call
will of
God
and find our
ourselves closely
or self-LESS, whether
is self
it
may
be able to do wonderful works,
it is
ourselves
within
reflection,
for worldly gain or
Immortality.
We
must build on the Rock of Truth, for "Whosoever hear-
eth these sayings of mine, and
unto a wise man, which
"And
DOETH
them,
will liken
him
house upon a rock."
built his
the rains descended, and the floods came, and the winds
blew, and
upon
beat
founded upon
The house
house and
that
it fell
NOT;
for
it
was
a rock."
is
You
the Soul.
the
are
builder.
The rock
upon
the sands and
is
the Christ.
Be not
like the foolish
"when
the floods
house,
it fell
The sand
man which
came and
the winds blew and beat
and great was the

is
fall
the evil
fall,
that
thereof."
and the winds and the floods
temptations and the snares, and the
illusions of the
When we
upon
the flesh, the illusions and desires of the flesh and
of evil and materiality, and rain

are
built
world and of
build
the Soul full of
and we have not
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THE POWER OF UNDERSTANDING.

Golden Text
"I
am
come
not
to call
the righteous but sin-
ners to repentance."
"And he
own
entered into a ship and passed over and
came
to his
city."
"And
behold, they
brought to him a
lying on a bed; and Jesus seeing
man
sick of the palsy,
their faith, said
unto the sick
of the palsy: Son, be of good cheer, thy sins be forgiven thee."
"And
This
behold, certain of
man
"And Jesus knowing

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

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

find this a great
from the
evil-,
and
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.
changes very
little.
scribes of to-day
The worldly minded,
The world
spiritually blind
cannot understand the power of the Christ
tc
forgive sins, just as they understood in the time of Jesus.
We
er,
them to-day
tell
that Christ lives,
and even greater power, than of
old,
and has the same po wand they mock us and
deride us and say "Blasphemers."
The Orthodox
jealousy and
arise in
scorn and say "Blas-
phemers, heretics and fools."
But
let
them show
They cannot
their faith
is
and what
says he can forgive sins
men
unite
No man
No man
They worship
No man
it
is
united to
where
his
power,
do not unite
God who
are
spirit.
their souls to
thinks evil in his heart.
who knows
not where the Christ
is.
God who
united to
is
is,
the letter and not the
to the churches, but
united to Christ
is
and what
where Christ
not
They read and understand not because they
it is.
blind to the Truth.
is
man who
that a
know
Because they
God.
Why?
a liar.
They
their works.
Why
forgive sins.
They say even now
by
limits
and doubts the power
of Christ.
No man
is
united
to Christ
who
calls
him
and
a liar
blas-
phemer.
WILL BE WITH YOU ALWAYS EVEN UNTO THE END OF THE WORLD."
He
said: "I
The world
orate in
Why
progresses in every other
line,
wh> does
it
deteri-
knowledge of Christ?
should
John the
God grow
less
Baptist said: "1
and
all
MUST
things else increase?

decrease, but
HE SHALL
increase."
The
Christ can never
He knows
all
die.
thoughts,
all
His power can never

hearts, all minds,
die.
and
his
power
is
unlimited and perfect even to-day.
And he
unto them "Whether
said
be forgiven thee, or to
The world does not
Such were the

create
thy sins
and walk?"
arise
much
object as
to claiming
power of
self
Scribes.
discover wonders in the
great inventions, they
scientific world,
terial,
easier to say,
power of Christ
as to claim the
Men
is
it
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
"But that ye
blasphemy.
may know
that the
SON OF MAN HATH
POWER ON EARTH TO FORGIVE

the sick of the palsy,)
arise,
SINS, (then
saith
he to
take up thy bed and go unto thine
house."
And he
"And
arose and departed to his house,
as Jesus passed forth
Matthew
from them he saw
sitting at the receipt of
man named
custom; and he saith unto him
follow me; and he arose and followed him."
"And
many
hold
and
it
came
to pass as Jesus sat at
publicans and sinners
meat
came and
sat
in the house, be-
down
with
him
his disciples."
"And when
Why
eatest
Now
the Pharisees
saw
it,
they said unto his disciples,
your Master with publicans and sinners?"
Matthew was
collector of taxes at the
prominent
custom
man
offices,
tioned not the character of Jesus
when
in the land.
He was
and the Pharisees questhis
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
not
all
other fellows?
The
religion of the Pharisees
was
so.
They were above

the temple
the publican and the sinner.
wherein they
The doors of
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
will
GO
WHAT THAT MEANETH.
YE AND LEARN
have mercy and not
for
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,
and they came to him because they knew him, and
their souls
responded to the promise for mercy.
They looked within and heard
The
Pharisees
the Voice of the Master.
looked without; and saw only a
man
strange voice, a strange doctrine, and a strange Soul.
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"If
Church
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of
Matthew
of the
26
may
verse.
but touch the
hem
of his garment,
shall be' whole."
EXPLANATION OF LESSON.
We
find Jesus very successful
His power
And
as
in his teaching in this lesson.
increasing.
is
we study
we
his character closely in this lesson,
learn
the secret of his success, also of his power.
UNDERSTANDING.
who came to him Jesus KNEW.
Every one
When
the Pharisees
ALL
read beneath
came clad
in
purple and fine linens, Jesus
outward covering,
was too thick for him not
to see
all
PRETENSE.
through
it.
No
evil
HE READ THE
SOUL.
When
the
SICK
The
sinners came, he
the
soul,
from the
He knew
read in like manner.
self-righteous soul.
sick soul stands a chance of getting well, of being healed,
but the soul wise in
its
own
conceit and self-righteousness
worse than the common, everyday sinner, for

blinded by
its
own
illusions,
it
while the ordinary
shuts
is
itself
sinner
is
far
out
blind
ed by the sins and temptations.
The one
(the Pharisee's soul)
while the other
is
is
searching for the
starving and suffering.
greedily
absorbing
REALITY
itself
for which
it
is
And
Jesus knew,
Jesus
LOVED.
Jesus
UNDERSTOOD.
Verse
14 "Then came
Why
to
him
do we and the Pharisees
John, saying:
the disciples of
fast
but thy disciples fast
oft,
not?"
Verse 15
"And Jesus
Can
said to them,
the children of
bridechamber mourn as long as the bridegroom
But the day
come when
will
is
the
with them?
the bridegroom shall be taken
from
them, and then shall they fast."
What does
mean?
to do without,
Answer To
Question
fasting
fast
They
bridegroom
to take or eat.
to refuse
is
They were without
fasted as a duty to their religion.
the Soul, the CHRIST.
Jesus here does not refer
to the material fasting, but to the spiritual.
They
did not
were
mental, and
understood
know
They
what he meant, because they did not understand him.

material and
the
only the material
and mental laws.
With Jesus and
the Disciples
Bridegroom, and need not
had him
not,
Verse 16
and
they
In this
verse
we understand what
The
spiritual
any more than the material can
means
that the
FIED,
cleansed,
Verse 17
we keep
BODY,
verse
the old sinful
the spiritual soul,
as well as the
(it
cannot
the whole garfit
into the
ma-
into the spiritual. This
SOUL, must
is
be
PURI-
symbol of the body and Soul
body always
full
of sin
and the Christ soul cannot
"But they put new wine (soul)
(purified bodies)
the
MADE NEW.
This
sinful body.
had the Christ
but the Scribes and Pharisees
fasted.
ment must be made new.

terial
fast,
and both were preserved."
it
If
cannot hold to
HOLD TO
into
new
the
bottles
Verse 18
"While
came
there
daughter
is
he spake these things unto them, behold,
now
even
My
and worshipped him, saying,
certain ruler,
come and
dead; but
lay thy
hand upon
her and she shall live."
man came and worshipped
This
him, believing in him, and
trusting him.
Question
What vibrations were
Answer LOVE and

also loved Jesus,
in
The
motion?
much.
He
and Jesus loved much and understood.
Do
LIFE.
you know that each time Jesus
father loved
raised the
dead the currents of
Love were concentrated and only transferred?
The
father only desired
power of Love that
Love
restore.
Love
is
would
LOVE
protects.
creates,
KNEW
and Jesus
love,
restore Jife.
BUILDER.
save,
builds,
it
and
life
gives
It
life
the
and can
never destroyed a soul.
LOVE
ALWAYS
IS
SAFE.
19 Jesus
Verse
He followed
the
never once refused
man, and so did
20 "And,
Verse
when
help was asked.
his disciples.
woman, which was
behold, a
diseased with
an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him and touched

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

minstrels and the people
Verse 24
He
said
saw the
the ruler's house and
making
a noise
unto them, Qive place, for the maid
And they laughed him
dead but sleepeth.
grief.
Their vibrations of display
not
is
to scorn."
which supported death were
broken.
Verse
25 "And when
the people were put forth, he went in
and took her by the hand, and the maid arose."
And we
body,
if
will
we
all arise
but allow the Christ
become subjected
hand and
"If
from the dead, from the
lift
may
spirit
to his will he will
sinful soul
and
we
will
to touch us.
come and
If
take us by the
us to Truth and Life.
but touch
the
hem
of his
garment
shall
be
whole."
If
we but come near enough
though only the hem touches

small desire will
lift
us and
be of good comfort for
NOTE.
us,
shall
nearer,
and Truth, even
One
we may
be whole.
and then
accepted a part of him.
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Matthew 9th Chapter; 27th Verse
Golden Text "The harvest
Church
of the
to close of chapter.
truly
plentiful, but
is
the labor-
ers are few."
Even before we come to

that even
among
this lesson
you
Man
have noticed
fame spread more because
his disciples Jesus'
The reason
of his works than of the Truth he taught.
simple and
will
is
very
plain.
more
believes
eyes than that
what he
readily
which he cannot
see,
sees with the material
because he
is
spiritually
blind to the Truths he taught.
We
do not read
them. He
a
man
in
one instance where he was impatient with
knew they could not
born blind
in the flesh
not as hopelessly blind as
And
those
who were
sight far quicker than
see
when
cannot
see;
some who
blind.
We know why
and some of these are
are blind spiritually.
blind in the flesh
were able to regain
were the Pharisees and Scribes.
The reason why.

Those born blind
those
telling
who
see
them of
they live
are constantly
all
by those who can
are surrounded
see.
reminding them of their
the beauties
and
possibilities of
And
loss
by
the world
in.
Hence, the blind
man knows
he
the world
can
is
missing something, and he
desires to see.
The majority
of
see, in a
material sense, and
the blind are few.

It is
the reverse with the development of the spiritual.
who
There are few
He does not
cannot believe.
fore, the blind
many
can SEE, and
are blind.
desire sight because
he cannot be brought to the realization of his
"And when Jesus departed

Verse 27
followed
him, crying
mercy on
us."
They were
blind, but they
materially
two
KNEW
blind
men
David, have
son of
and had
faith
Jesus' power.
i-n
For "when
Verse 28
men came
to
am
do
able to
When
LIEVES,
They
if
it
OUR
They
this?
comes
the soul
said unto him,
so
to the soul, or the house of Spiritual
responds,
COMES TO HIM
"Then
it
touched he their eyes, saying,
FAITH BE
is
always.
IT
and BE-
WE
ACCORD-
UNTO YOU."
RECEIVE ACCORDING
"And
their eyes
TO
were opened; and Jesus straightly
man know
charged them, saying, See that no
"But
Verse 31
fame
And
Yea Lord."
FAITH.
Verse 30
his
will receive sight.
TO THY
And
into the house, the blind
believed and received sight.
Verse 29
ING
was come
lie
him; and Jesus said unto them; Believe ye that
the Christ
blindness,
in all the
so ought
itual sight.
ial
loss.
thence,
and saying, Thou
There-
It is
they,
when they were
it."
departed, spread abroad
country."
we
to do, and
all
those
who have
received spir-
far greater cause for rejoicing than the mater-
blindness, for spiritual blindness
"Behold, they brought

Verse 32
sessed with a devil."
is
death.
to
him
dumb man,
pos-
There are
what
little
many
spiritually
know
they
There are
speak for Truth.
dumb
many
Some
"When
They marvelled
THE SOURCE.
the
devil
at his
dumb
all
great
his
you have them,
If
and then you can speak.
They
and knoweth
worldly opinions
Fear of
was
out, the
cast
and the multitude marvelled, saying,
And even
Pride forbids some.
Are these not devils also?
forbids others.
CAST THEM OUT
less,
cannot, or will not,
reasons.
Fear of opposition forbids another.
Verse 33
They do not speak
also.
of Truth.
it
was never
things.
spake,
KNEW NOT
power because they
did not
dumb
so in Israel."
know God, that God is limitThey knew not where God is.
power did not open
their e>es.
Blind and
were cured, yet they were not cured.
Verse 34
"But
the
Pharisees
said,
He
casteth
out devils
through the prince of the devils."
How
very like
all
orthodox creeds.
like the
and you are dealing with
Depart from the creed and dogmas,

devils.
This
is
the reasoning of
own
Besides this, the self-righteous never sees his

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

the people."
It
made no
difference
what they accused him
him, or scorned him, nor
laughed
at
NOTE
THIS.
haw
He went about doing
they
all
of,
how
dispised
they
him.
the
good he could,
he
saw the multi-
healing, teaching, loving, sympathizing.
Verse 36
tudes he
fainted,
herd."
And
this is the reason:
"When
was moved with compassion on them because they
and were scattered abroad,
as sheep
having no shep-
He
He knew they were
understood, did he not?
worn and
suffering
and were drinking the poison of the world of
faint,
which could not
illusions, of false beliefs
lift
them up from
their
condition.
Verse
is
37 "Then
unto his
said he
plentiful, but the laborers are
The reward
is
than the evil one.

that
nothing
God
else
alone
See and
one does not
let
dumb.
Do
to give.
It is
is
pay.
He
takes
destruction.
all
He has
not follow in the lure and glare of
false.
Life.
and the
Work,
therefore, for the laborers are few.
DEVIL WILL FLEE. Go
preach, go teach,
not the accusations and the scorn of the world keep
Cast out the devil and you will be
The world
loves only
its
own.
filled
Even then
its
The world
love
is
change-
sees only the world.
blind sees darkness.
Follow the Lord of the harvest.
NOTE.
These
Lessons
The
are
you
with joy.
and leads to death.
The
more
UNDERSTAND.
SPEAK
able
evil
harvest truly
of the harvest pays far
you have and gives you death and
his promise.
and
The
The
few."
The Lord
great.
disciples,
laborers are few.
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verses.
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
is
one of the strongest lessons of the
we have
it
New
Testament,
the direct personal injunctions of Jesus to his
disciples.
First
he called them together and gave
and
teach
preach.
They had not
as
them power
yet attained
to heal,
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
souls for power.
After
own
they drew upon their
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:
should be carefully followed by every Truth bearer.
This
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.
start
No
person should
oughly trained.
done
attempt to teach until
Tell the story of the Truth,
FOR YOU,
and what
it
can do, but
yourself up as a leader and a teacher until
oughly prepared for
The
many
harvest
truly
he has been thor-
how much
make no
it
has
effort to set
you have been thor-
it.
is
plenteous and the laborers are few, and
teachers are needed, and a place will be open for
all
who
OBEY.
You must
from
obedience
act
learn to obey yourself before
The
others.
when they were ready
study andtraining, and
you may ex-
spent their time in
disciples
the Master
SENT
THEM OUT.
Verse
5 ''These
Go
them, saying,
twelve Jesus
not into the
way
sent
forth,
and commanded
of the Gentiles and into any
Samaritans enter ye not."
city of the
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.
own
taught his
people,
number
we
Far back where Abraham
lost sight
of the Gentiles in a sense;
family of Noah,
of the
in separation
but
Why?
we
will find that a
the Gentiles were led into Egypt.
of
race were Gentiles.
tions outside the Semitic
In fact,
knew the Truths, so did many of the

The Jews were the most material, flesh loving people
the Egyptians
day.
na-
all
The Gentiles of
Asiatics.
of
that
Their religion was nothing but
were farthest
Hence, they
They were
symbol and ceremonies.

away from Truth of any nation.
the Negatives.
They were always
backsliding, being led
away by
divers lusts
and strange people, and losing sight of the Truth. Therefore,

LOST SHEEP, and needed what the others al-
they were the
ready possessed.
"And
Verse 7
Heaven
Verse 8
ye go. preach, saying, The
as
"Heal
the
sick, cleanse the
cast out devils, freely ye
They were
able to
they were sent out.
with his
He
own
of
have received,
lepers, raise
the dead,
freely give."
all that he told them them to do before

He gave them power. They were filled
do
thoughts, his instructions.
them to not provide for themselves, for "the

worthy of his meat."
also tells
workman
All that
we
Kingdom
hand."
is at
are
healing
is
we
earn in the healing, cleansing and helping people
worthy
should
of.
Many seem
always be
work or
them they are
to think that a religious
free.
Yet
he
tells
worthy of
People should not give something for
meat.
their
expect something
should they
nothing, neither
for
er of the Spiritual really has' the hardest
no work
no matter how perfect and
found fault with.
so difficult to
is
Verses 11-14
work
nothing.
and the teach-
Spiritual benefits are the hardest to obtain of any,
of
There
any.
prepare and present to the people, and

beautiful
is
it
it
is
always being
He simply gives them instructions for introducBut he
ing the work.
tells
them,
"Whomsoever
shall
not
re-
your words, when ye depart out of that
ceive
you, nor hear
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
"Verily,
for the land of
say unto you,
let all
it
Sodom and Gomorrha
shall
these evil thoughts
be more tolerable
the day of
in
judgment
than for that city."
Sodom and Gomorrha

and awful
lusts,
but not
tions of the Truth.

it
had not been sent
perished because of
their materiality
because of the rejection and persecu-
They had never received the word because

They had never developed to the
them.
state of receptivity, being able to understand.
"Behold,
Verse 16
wolves;
be
doves."
Verse 17
ye,
send you forth as sheep in the midst of
therefore, wise
as
"But beware of men, for they
to the councils, and they will scourge
Verse 18
kings for
"And
my
shall be
ye
and harmless as
serpents
you
will deliver
in their
you up
synagogues."
brought before governors and
sake, for a testimony against
them and the Gen-
tiles."
This
is
not against
scourge and
mock them.
but they were of
Wisdom were
them.
All
all
Gentiles, but against
Not
the ignorant
Gentiles.
the great
all
the Gentiles
classes, for
And every Jewish
leaders
all
were taken
nations which
knew
the Truth
the Ancient
Men
leader learned
into
of
from
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
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."
death,
This must not be taken
The death
here
is
in the literal sense.
not material death but of the soul.
When
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.
to
its
"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

conception
shall be saved.
true
If
we
we
of
But those
cling to the Spirit,
shall save ourselves
who
those
hates
God.
if
represent the Christ, the

who endure to the end
we obey and
from the
follow righteousness
soul's death.
"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."
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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Golden Text
Church
Divine illumination
of
of the
verses.
"Whosoever, therefore,
will
confess
me
shall confess
my
also before
Father which
beis
in
heaven."
This lesson
In the
ciples.
a continuation of Jesus' instructions to the dis-
is
following
verses
which have been taken
in the
we
find
will
literal
sense
many
great laws
by many theolo-
gians.
Jesus speaks very plainly, however, and very simple, direct,
and to the point.

teaching
In
Notice here that he addresses the multitudes.
them personally he was always very
direct
and
simple.
He
we
illustrated his
cannot
make
put the spiritual into

it,
and
how
it
meaning
who
clearer.
And
dumb, and
ing to do with the language used.

in
as
simple and
direct a
matter of understanding
receptiveness.
lies
can
tell
what we
are able or ready to receive
can see and know, and any language

are spiritually deaf,
We
can be done.
and know, and only those
who
ed
his
Many complain and say they

language, but we see here how
very simplest language.
Jesus did do
it
to
learn in this lesson that the spiritual Truths can be imparted
in the
see
words
is
of no effect to those
blind.
But that has noth-
The Truth can be
way
as
anything
illustrat-
else,
but the
with the individual's readiness and
Verse 24
"The
disciple
not above his master nor th ser-
is
vant above his lord."
When we grow
above our master, or think we know enough
without his assistance,

are not disciples
we
when we
are placing ourselves

are not willing to
above him.
obey
We
mas-
until the
ter sets us free.
Verse
25 'it
is
enough for the
master, and the servant as his lord.
The
must be
disciple
do
not, but
We
think
many
and he
as his Master,
and Christhood.
Is it
above him?
we can
selves
up
yield
attain his
to be as
Perhaps we
of us do.
we know more Truth than can
think
will
enough for us
not
Christ, without trying to set ourselves

all
shall they call
household ?"
his
Adeptship
have called the
they
If
how much more
master of the house Beelzebub,
them of
HE BE AS HIS
disciple that
now and
then to the
be taught
flesh,
and then
We
This cannot be done.
as Masters.
We
us.
set
our-
must follow
the Master.
Who
Who
If
is
the Master of the house?
is
the Master of
the world calls this Truth
ise of devils)
Verse
them
YOUR
what does
26 In
call
it
this verse
we
house?
you
believe Beelzebub (or
are cautioned not to fear.
not, therefore; for there
prom-
you?
is
"Fear
nothing covered that shall not
be revealed, and hid that shall not be known."

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

is
given in the ear silently, and

Verse 28
not
"And
able to
fear not
is
to
never spoken.
It
It is
the Soul or Spirit speaking.
them which
the soul; but rather
kill
knowledge given
the
kill
fear
body but
him which
is
are
able to
destroy both soul and body in hell/'
No man
The
can destroy the soul but the soul
The
material death never destroys the soul
Who
is
able to destroy both soul
Only our own Mind and

and do that which
Verse 29
The
of them shall not
The same
Spirit of
father
and body?
Soul. Therefore, fear only to think
God
to the
fall
soul lives.
malicious, unkind and untrue.
is evil,
is
even
in the
sparrow, for "one
ground without your Father."
WITHIN you YOUR FATHER.
is
"Fear ye
Verse 30
many
itself.
not, therefore, ye are of
more value than
sparrows."
Being of more value,

within us
is
we have more power and

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

er,
for the Christ
Father when we
edgement.
We
is
the Soul of
God, and we
take on the Christ.
and obey.
is
of the Fath-
are
Confession
before the
is
acknowl-
acknowledge Christ when we confess him.
Verse 33
will
If
also
"But whosoever
we deny
we have
my
deny before
say and do
Our
as he
deny him
MASTER,'
in
bear the image of the Fath-
We
must
confess him.
We
acknowledgement.
if
what we
are daily
we
think
live,
either con-
think, say and do, daily.
manifested in the
we
life
live.
nothing covered within the soul that shall not be
vealed and nothing hid that shall not be known.

the betrayer or saviour.
bad.
him
heaven/'
in
BECOME AS THE
we cannot
would do
confessions
is
is
before men,
not acknowledged him; therefore, he cannot acknowl-
er without the Christ
There
me
deny
Father which
Christ, refuse to
edge us as his own, and
fess or
shall
things are
All
confess or
It
gives out
all
are revealed to us
the flesh and
all
our
by
that
is
good,
revealed unto the Christ, for
deny him before
the Christ Soul
all
Our
all
failures,
his
people, and
our
faults,
power, and
we
all
we
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Lessons
are
soul
that
is
is
either
when we develop
our shortcomings
are able to
overcome
evil
re-
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Matthew, 10th chapter; 34th verse to close of chapter.
Golden Text
after
me
is
In
it
is
but a continuation of the instructions to the
we can
how
readily see
how
for their work, and
them
not his cross and followeth
that taketh
not worthy of me."
This lesson
disciples.
"He
carefully Jesus prepared
he advised and warned them of
the temptations, and trials they were to meet with.

Let us consider
this lesson
edge he has imparted to them and to
us, for
abiding to-day as they were then, and
and more
We
We
to
as
we develop
in righteousness
who
are as strong
will realize this
and
more
and Truth.
want Soul Knowledge, the knowledge
that will enable us
who was
We
become
as Christ,
and plan, and build
ter the designs
and plans of
spect the pattern closely
be successful
This
and
we
all
are the Soul Builders.
design,
To
he includes
These lessons
obey through the word.
shall
and gather the knowl-
carefully,
is
the Master Builder.
our
and follow
we must
stick to
often very hard to do.
difficulties to
it
as correctly as
we
af-
in-
can.
our model.
There are so
many
overcome and become reconciled
that taketh not his cross
cannot
own way when we build

another.
Therefore, we must
io
and followeth
after
me
is
obstacles
to,
but "he
not worthy
of me."
We
are
not worthy of
life if
we
will
not
work
for
it.
No
man
work
ent to
will
worthy of bread
is
for
he
if
too lazy, or careless, or indiffer-
is
And no one
it.
is
worthy of the crown
he
if
not bear the cross.
It is
Jesus said:
oftentimes hard.
''Think
Verse 36
came not
Peace
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
is
The sword
longings and desires.
away from
and peace
is
to rend the earth, to tear
may
the material so that the soul
attain
it
freedom
its
in the spiritual.
Verse 34
"For
am come
to
set a
man
variance against
at
and the daugh-
his father, and the daughter against her mother,
ter-in-law against her mother-in-law."
Verse 36
"And
man's foes
shall
own
house-
were taken
in the
be they of his
hold."
This would seem very strange indeed,
if it
literal sense.
Who
Who
man's own household?
are the foes of a
are the
father and daughter and the daughter-in-law.
The members
of your
body
that rules
evil that
kin, but
from
you and causes you
you love
household
is
dearly,
unto the
and
it
least, for a
members
is
the
to sin.
includes
is
must be
of your house-
member
cast out,
member
is
your
of
The daughter
every
daughter-in-law
always one of the family.
greatest to least,
Repentance
is
the
of the
the least of
Therefore, every
sin,
overcome, repented
of.
TURNING AWAY FROM.
"He
Verse 37
than
are the
This father of the household
hold.
not
body
that loveth father or
mother more than
me
is
worthy of me, and he that loveth son or daughter more
me
We
is
can
not worthy of me."
now
understand what this verse
means
in
its
true
These are the members of the household, and the house-
sense.
hold
we cannot
"Therefore,
the body.
is
more
love the body
than Christ and be worthy of him and his heritage.
39 "He
Verse
loseth his life for
To
that findeth his
my
sake shall find
for the
desire
we must
Verse 40
receiveth
we
me
him
we
that sent
is
to accept
God the true conception of

"He that receiveth
Verse 41
all
love and
the material for the
receiveth me, and he that
me."
receive the messengers of Christ,
and to accept Christ
the desire
lose
lose
shall find Life eternal.
you
that receiveth
receiveth
we
if
the senses and
illusions of
"He
and
life,
sake of attaining the Christhood
If
it."
find the Spiritual or Christ Life
of the sensual, material, earth
and he that
life shall lose it;
God,
we
will receive Christ
for Christ
is
the Soul of
Life.
a prophet
prophet shall receive a prophet's reward;
man
a righteous
in the
name
name
in the
of a
and he that receiveth
man
of a righteous
shall receive a
righteous man's reward."

If
we
we would become prophets and
will be
rewarded.
who
Christ,
is
If
we
a righteous
things
we
desire in Christ's
tain
if
we
receive or
We
must become
able,
in Christ's
desire righteousness in the
man, we
will
name, or
in the
become receptive
name
name
The
be rewarded.
Truth,
we
thing
to the
of
shall at-
we
desire.
positive or at variance to the evil or undesir-
"And whoso
shall give to drink
ones a cup of cold water only
verily
One
in the
unto one of these
name
of
a disciple,
say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward."

of these
ithe Christ,
be, if
it
but receptive to the object or thought desired.
Verse 42
little
desire
we
little
ones
but no matter
is
one
how
as a disciple give
him
who
has not attained
much
small the Christ in any one

to drink of
the
Water of
in
may
Life
we have added to our own spirituality and likeness to the FathThus are we rewarded. If we help others to grow the very
er.
we
least,
"He
also
grow and
attain.
that taketh not his
cross
and followeth
after
me
is
not
worthy of me."
If
we
attain
will not follow as Christ leads us
what we
desire,
we cannot
and are worthy only of the
cannot serve two Masters,
evil
attain.
desire.
and Truth, and be worth of
Truth and Christ.
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Matthew, 11th chapter; l-16th
face,
which
John the
Text "Behold
my
way
messenger before thy
before thee."
was the forerunner, or messenger, of the
Christ, sent to prepare the
John
verses.
send
shall prepare the
Baptist
Church
ination,
Golden
of 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 rethe Mental Teacher.
represents
water, and water
He
means mind.
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.
"And
Verse 4
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
me."
"Blessed
is
he whosoever shall
not be oifended in
John, as a mentalist, demanded manifestation
and that
why
is
Jesus gave them
his
work
and works,
in healing as a wit-
ness and proof of his Sonship.
We may
develop great mental powers and
We
the Christ Soul.

is
yet not develop
build soul with every thought, and
the Builder, but not until
we
are baptized with Fire
Mind
have we
attained Sonship or Soul-ship.
John knew not the

Jesus alone taught
it
Fire
baptism.
Some
openly.
is
Truth to
In every age
not true.
is
Initiates
and Adepts,
prepared to teach the

these
and seasons, or
certain times
vibrations at
one
The world demands
nations.
all
yet.
teachers claim that Jesus
taught these Truths against the law of the

but this
was not given
It
it
currents and
would have been
destroyed long ago.
NOW
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
fore, ''blessed
is
at
who
he
shall
offended in me, for
not be
it is
Salvation and Life."
Vene 7
He
unbelief.
to see?
this verse
In
says,
"What
Jesus wonders
\*ent ye
reed shaken with
tfte
Mental laws are easily shaken
who
one teacher; do not run
John's doubt and
wind?"
with varying winds, as John,
He was
the greatest of teachers, proved.
be a warning to you
at
out into the wilderness for
are not
a Mentalist.
so great as he.
after strange gods,
and be sure that you
follow the things of the Soul, for then you will
not be misled
by mentalists who know not the things of the Soul.
you
are a disciple
Verse 8
Yet
who
Jesus
Let this
Follow but
See that
leads others to the Soul Science also.

lifts
him above
the
material.
John's
plane was Mental.
"What went
ye out to see?
Behold they that wear
A man
clothed in soft raiment?
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
"'Yea,
whom
is
send
my
way
before thee/'
face,
more than
a prophet.
it was written, Behold

which shall prepare the
I
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
women
of
say unto you,
among them
that are born
John the Baptist.

the kingdom of heaven is
there hath not risen a greater than
Notwithstanding, he that
is
least in
greater than he."
We may
of Soul
great mental power, but the
develop
Brilliancy
greater.
is
and
development
are not Soul
intellectuality
Builders unless guided into the right channels.
Any mind can
develop Souls of wonderful brightness, beauty and Truth.

tellect
has not
has soul
much
to
do with
it,
for an ignorant
man
greater than the intellectual
is
without soul.
"And from the days of John the Baptist

Verse 12
kingdom of heaven
by force."
the
it
"For
all
"And
if
Verse 13
John."
Verse 14
suffereth violence,
In-
man who
until
now
and the violent take
the prophets and the law prophesied until
ye receive
it,
this
is
Elias
which was for
to
come."
When
the prophets and the law
"kingdom of heaven
is
at
prophesied, the
No man
heaven was of the future.
hand"
kingdom of
openly preached that the
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,
God
for themselves alone,
who had
kingdom and a king and

then violence was manifested. God
looked forward to a material, earthly
within mortal
man was
shock to the Jews, as
to the
is
it
Or-
thodox of to-day.
Yet they consider not that
God
an unexplainable, mysteri-
is
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
life
and
vitality.
The kingdom
of heaven
Both came
within John and Jesus suffered violence by force.

to violent, material
"the
death.
mystery of taking
This unveiled
kingdom of heaven by violence" should now be under-
stood by the student.
"This
Elias
is
which was for to come"
the
reincarnation of
John was
the Soul of Elias, the great prophet.
greater in this
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
that hath ears to hear
Listen with the Soul in the
name
let
him
here."
of the Soul and receive the
Soul's reward.
"Behold
prepare the
send
way
my
face,
which
shall
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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Golden Text
for
am meek
"Take my yoke
and lowly
upon you, and
in heart,
and you
learn of
me;
shall find rest
unto
your soul."
Jesus understood the thoughts of
able, fault-finding" people,
and place
a stain
upon
"For
Verse 18
all
who would
hearts,
criticise
every good thing
the name.
John
came
the Baptist
He hath
drinking, and they say,
man
neither eating
nor
a devil."
"The Son of Man came eating

Verse 19
they say, Behold a
and the change-
and drinking, and
gluttonous and a winebibbler, a friend
of publicans and sinners."
Thus every
teacher must bear the criticism of the mutlitudes
"But wisdom
of darkened minds.
These
his
way
When we
who
the
And
way
the
enemy, and we have our captain
one
who
is
brave, staunch and true,
weaken and waver and turn about and run when
appears.
there are
we must
the
who are chosen to represent the

A weak, cowardly soldier never
No man would follow such a one.
fight an
we want
will not
enemy
and Mysteries.
to generalship.
go out to
lead us,
to
justified of her children."
are but tests to the souls
great Truths
won
is
many
encounter.
battles of the
We
will
win
if
Soul against the
we
follow
flesh that
him who went
before us and proved to us that the battle can be won.
Verse 20
most of
"Then
began he to upbraid the
wherein
cities
mighty works were done, because they repented
his
not."
He accomplished works
man
or
power,
woman
his
all
that never have been equalled by

Yet, notwithstanding
before or since.
all
his
They
love, they repented not.
his
efforts, all
any
continued in their evil ways.
we should
Therefore,
when we
not become impatient and discouraged
to succeed in our work.
fail
Jesus met with the most heartrending failure and discourage-
ment and
persecution, but he
example how
And what
to live
went on demonstrating and giving
and do under such circumstances.
did he do?
He continued
in his
He spent
work.
greater efforts and
dem-
onstrated greater love and power.
Verse 23
"And
thou Capernaum, which
heaven, shall be brought
down
which have been done
in
would have remained unto

Hell
and
thee had
this
to
the Truth.
suffer for
sinners.
The
good he pretends
Verse 24
so,
in
Sodom,
it
the soul that will not
even while exalting oneself above
law breakers must
to be or thinks he
Sodom was not blessed
material age.
the mighty works
day."
suffer
no matter how
is.
as
Capernaum. They had
not the Truths demonstrated in their midst.

terial in a
exalted unto
These souls continue breaking laws,
having done
blind
if
been done
the suffering and destruction of
is
awaken
to hell; for
art
Capernaum was
Sodom was ma-
material in a spiritual
age.
Yet
Capernaum
above the
ner
is
evil,
set itself
up unto heaven.
It
pretended to be
but was self-righteous and self-exalted.
easier to bring to repentance
tual self-righteous
man.
and Truth than the
sin-
intellec-
Verse 25
"Jesus
said,
thank
O Father, Lord of heav-
thee,
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
own
conceit will
not learn.
led,
but those wise in their

mysteries of the
Therefore, the
think that
who have abused

they "know it all."
to
become
willing to accept the
If
we obey we
laws of heaven and earth are hid from those
know them
the right to
To become
as a
little
or
who
child
is
and obey the laws.
teachings,
wholesome and
Verse 26
childlike
"Even
are pure, clean,
and near to the Father.

Father,
so,
for
seemeth good in thy
it
sight."
Verse 27
"All things
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
him."
will reveal
When
Christ
is
DEVELOPED WITHIN
us
we
are a
Son
of
God, and the Son knows the Father, and the Father knows the
Son, and
we cannot know God
unless the Christ reveals
"Come unto me,
ye that labor and are heavy
to us.
Verse 28
and
laden,
will give
you
all
rest."
"Take my yoke upon you

Verse 29
am meek and
lowly in
him
heart;
and ye
and learn of me; for

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

places of the
word, but he
is
in the
low
He
is
places.
in heart.
Do
not in the high
He
and
is
WITHIN
self-glory,
Verse 30
the
humble heart
that does
not worship
and the praise and glare of the world.
The yoke of Christ
is
easy.
He does
not pile on
burdens, but thrusts aside the burdens that evil lays upon
No man
Man
suffers for
suffers
us.
doing right in the end.
only for wrong doing, and his burdens
from the wrong he has committed or
NOTE.
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All those
who
Truths, of which this lesson
the right
all
come
not committed.
are legalized to teach the great

is
but a part, are such as have
gone the way before you, and they are therefore able to
teach you.
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Matthew, 12th chapter; l-10th
Golden Text "The Sun of
n
verses.
Man
Lord over the Sabbath
is
day."
The
might
that they
They
did not
find fault with him.
work
fault with his
find
and they were prone to
and
criticise
as
much
with
his
easy places.
is
They
still
in
the beginning selfish, narrow,
They were always looking out
clannish and material.
acteristic
everything different from them-
their teachings.
The Jewish people were
They
action of Jesus
He taught something they could not understand,
teachings.
selves
word and
Pharisees were watching every
did not like to
work
or struggle. This char-
dominant within them
are, as a race,
for the
in
very
many
cases.
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
which
We
is
The Pharisees
"Behold thy
disciples
do that
not lawful on the Sabbath day."
will learn in
deed that
said:
development, and
we commit
is
in
doing good, that every
subject to criticism
by those who
differ
But we must understand and expect
with us in our views.

so that
we may know
that ihe
from
position and criticism
"But Jesus
Verse 3
good invariably meets with op-
evil.
said,
Have ye not read what David
when he was an hungered and they

u
Verse 4
eat the
How
that were with
God, and
he entered into the house of
them which was with him
They overlooked
but only for the
the short comings of their
own
were ready to detect the flaws
teachers, but they
did
him?"
shrew bread, which was not lawful for him to
ther for
this
did
eat, nei-
priests."
leaders
and
in other lead-
ers.
We
find this always true.
Verse
5 "Or,
Sabbath days the
have ye not read

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

It is
we
the
our duty to obey the
Conscience.
as
is
God WITHIN
truly
obey
we
it
Son of God.
Law
The Conscience
him, to the developed
is
according to the dictates of our
the Voice of the Soul and so long
are not
sinning.
Of
course, this has
reference only to the Voice of the Developed Soul, for in
people the Voice
"But
Verse 7
is
many
dead.
if
ye had
have mercy and not
known what
sacrifice,
ye would
this
meaneth,
not have
will
condemned
the guiltless."
If
and
they had
known
guiltless of
They
that the Spiritual
WITHIN man was pure
wrong, they would not condemn the material.
broke a material law, not a Divine Law.
Verse 8
"For the Son of Man
is
Lord of the Sabbath day."
Christ cannot
sin.
Christ cannot break a law.
may make
mis-
takes in the material sense, but he does not break a Divine
Law
The man who
when developed
Law
into
true
and the
the understanding of the Christ
of Christ.
He
will
None
nor
wholesome and
clean,
is
how
do that which
is
No
other rules him.

it
right
may condemn
under the Divine Law.
matter what the world
him, he knows he
the Sabbath day, and that the deed
in
if
may
think
Lord even of
is
harmony with
Divini-
ty cannot be sinful nor harmful.
The motive,
the desire and consequences of the deed
is
to be
questioned.
A
it
is
condemn any man when
necessary, harmless act does not
committed.
All this does not
an act
mean
The law concerning the plucking an

bath was not a Divine Law.
who
urally to those
believed
and therefore
was not
it
Many Laws supposed

a
knows how
Divine
Law
It
it
knew
but the Developed Soul
tiate
can commit
that the developed Soul
which would be wrong to the undeveloped.
was
ear of
man-made
to be sinful to
that
it
corn on the Sablaw, and nat-
do so
was not
was
a sin
Divine
Law
it
a sin to him.
to
be Divine are not such.
to judge each
The
law and he can no more break
without suffering than can the most
ignorant
human.
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Golden Text "And

How many
in his
name
of us are, also, afflicted in like manner, in a spir-
some of do not use them much

must
shall the Gentiles trust."
The hands were made
itual sense?
We
verses.
with, but
to accomplish Spiritual work.
learn to put Spirituality in
find ourselves possessed of a
work
to use to
all
our work, or we
WITHERED MIND,
may
the helpless,
useless hand.
Verse 10
ered.
"Behold
And
they
there
was
man who had
asked him, saying,
his
hand with-
lawful to heal on the
Is it
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
meet with the same antagonism and

time.
Verse 11
among
"And he
said unto them,
laws and
Verse 12
Wherefore
"How
is it
much
then
is
We
selfishness at the present
What man
you, that shall have one sheep and
on the Sabbath day, will not lay hold
beliefs.
on
it
man
if
and
it
shall there be
fall
lift it
into a pit
out?"
better than a sheep?
lawful to do well on the Sabbath day?"
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which was a
material matter
sense they could understand.
sonableness of
many
them
loss to
This thus
in a material
illustrates the unrea-
of the material laws held by the vast
ma-
jority of people.
Verse 13
"Then
And he
hand.
said he
stretched
it
to the
forth;
man, Stretch forth thine

and
it
was
restored whole,
like as the other."
This
man obey
ed rorth his
Stretch
and
command.
If
he had not stretch-
hand, think you he would have regained use of
forth
to
see
the Divine
thine
also
the withered
you do not draw
that
it
hand
it
back
spiritual
until
it
it?
hand,
is
made
whole, and you will no longer judge the acts of others, for you
WILL
thine
KNOW
own
you have but
that
to look
and
after thyself
soul.
"Then the Pharisees went

Verse 14
how
against him,
What do
out and held a council
they might destroy him.
the Pharisees represent?
Selfishness, prejudice, egotism,
and self-righteousness.
EVER SEEK TO DESTROY THE CHRIST. Watch

them WITHIN YOU.
These
Verse 15
"When
thence; and great
THEM
We must
Jesus
knew
it,
himself from
he withdrew
multitudes followed
him and he
HEALED
ALL.
do the same when the Pharisees of
selfishness
self-righteousness, egotism and prejudice begins to

Christ.
We
Verse 16
must
assail
and
the
WITHDRAW FROM THEM.
"And he charged them that they should
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
upon him, and he
soul
shall
well
is
pleased;
shew judgment
put
will
my
spirit
to the Gentiles."
These are the words of God, spoken by the prophet. Blessed

are
we when
the Soul of
God
he was not a
learn here that
is
And we
well pleased with us.
God
of the
Jews only but
to the
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
rial ear.
It is
derstand.
Verse 20
It is
SILENT
heard by the Soul, and the mind
"A
flame shall
WITHIN.
is
bruised reed
he not
quench,
shall
till
is
to the mate-
made
to un-
he not break, and smoking
he sends forth judgment unto
victory."
The
bruised reed
is
the bruised Soul, or neglected Soul.
The
smoking flame represents the Soul almost burned out by the

fires
But when the Christ comes to
of evil desires and deeds.
judge, the evil

desires are put
is
broken away from the Soul.
out by the
of the Soul as
fires
the judgment, and then puts on Christ, which
"And
Verse 21
The
Christ
is
in his
name
it
is
stands before
victory.
shall the Gentiles trust."
for the world,
have trusted and always
The smoldering
ALL
nations,
will trust in the
name
and
all
nations
of Goodness, or
Christ.
They
they
will
may
recognize
become.
the
power of God no matter how
evil

of
of the
Church
Divine Illumination
n
Matthew, 12th chapter; 22-31st verses.
Golden Text
"He that
that gathereth not with

In this lesson
sin,
me
we have
not with
is
me
against
is
scattereth abroad."
much
the
preached about unforgivable
you have no doubt heard much about the
for
commit and never forgiven

Here
is
Scriptures cannot be understood in the
The
Spirit
We
must have the Word
and the Word, instead of the
intends
men
a stone wall.
The
it
sin that
for.
where Orthodoxy comes against
meaning which
me; and he
also,
but
to veil, or
literal sense.
Word
alone.
we must understand
where
it
the
shall be accepted,
in the literal sense.
All the Bible
is
written in
Verse
must not be given
are
But we can never under-
stand without the development of the Spirit, for the

the children
who
symbols, and only those
given understanding can understand.
food for
to the dogs."
22 "Then was brought unto him one possessed with
a devil, blind, deaf,
that the blind
and
and dumb; and he healed him, insomuch
dumb
both spake and saw."
"This work caused

Verse 23
all
to believe in him;
and they

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

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

other Spiritists, and
of
"When
the accusation
saw
the Pharisees
it
after the order
based on that
is
phen-
spirits.
belief.
they said, This fellow doth not cast
out devils but by Beelzebub, the prince of devils."

Verse
25 "And
KNEW
Jesus
THEIR THOUGHTS,
said unto them, Every kingdom divided against

to desolation;
not stand."
Verse 26
and every
"And
against himself;
When we
not
cast
itself
scattered.
Verse 27
out Satan, he
We know
out.
"And
do your children
is
brought
itself shall
then divided
then shall his kingdom stand?"
begin to throw evil
they do not stand.
itself is
house divided against
Satan cast
if
how
city or
and
If
if
thoughts and
evil
does,
it
it
cannot stand;
by Beelzebub
them out?
cast
desires
cannot destroy
from us
evil.
it
cast out devils
is
It
will
divided,
by
whom
Therefore, they will be your
judges."
If
none but the
of the Pharisees
whom
evil
had power
who had
to cast out
devils,
cured obsessions, and
they worshipped, healed
were controlled by the same
diseases, then
then those
the prophets,
they themselves
evil.
SELF JUDGES SELF.

Verse 28
the
"But
if
cast out devils
by the
Spirit of
God, then
kingdom of God has come unto you."
Verse 29
"Or
else
how
can
one enter into a strong man's
house and spoil his goods, except he
first
bind the strong man,
and then he
Evil
strong and holds fast to his
is
No man
will spoil his house.
will not destroy evil
er
is
the only
that can
that
that gathereth not with
with him
it
would
overcome the
not with
is
me
were with him
If evil
would not
it
and not
cling
to the truth.
a truth
We
leader.
it is
It is
and blasphemy
from him.
flee
If
we can
Ghost
were
follow but one teach-
say unto
still
cling
when we have found
also a lesson to us that
it
scatter.
it.
ALL manner
you,
of
sin
unto men, but the blasphemy
shall be forgiven
is
shall not be forgiven
rejection
we must remember
unto men."
is
and accusing the Christ of
the Soul of
not forgiven unless
men
cast
it
is
blasphemy.
is
from them.
and hatred of good, Christ
The Holy Ghost
evil.
Christ
God, and every vibration of
envy and malice toward the Soul
rejection
me; and he
blasphemy against the Holy Ghost?
Blasphemy
hate,
power.
against
our duty to try and help others to
against the Holy

is
is
lesser
cannot run after strange gods and
"Wherefore,
Verse 31
What
me
the awakening of
will
If
This
it
they continue in
never
come
to them.
the Soul powers into the
Christ.
IF
MAN NEVER AWAKENS HE
IS
LOST AND UN-
FORGIVEN.
This
is
one of the
sins that
is
unforgivable, because
it is
nev-
er forgiven.
NOTE.
scattereth abroad."
This lesson also teaches us that
one
the Soul.
Greater pow-
nor spoil the house of evil
power
"He
Verse 30
er,
kingdom within
can enter and destroy him until he binds him, and ev
Those
who
desire
to
know more
of the "casting
out devils" and obsession, should read "The Gods."

Divine Illumination
of
Matthew, chapter 12th; 33-43
verses.
Golden Text "For by thy words thou

by thy words thou
We know
that
he that taketh a
heart.
Man
The tongue
man
in the
We
own
it
and
if
we
him; but
shall not
greater than
the representative of the
is
the betrayer and the deceiver.
word
his heart
destroy.
against the
Son of Man
whosoever speaketh
against the
it
shall
Holy
be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither
world to come."
we
understand that
selves.
for
is
wound and
hate and plan to
be forgiven
and
wicked, he betrays himself by the
The tongue
"Whosoever speaketh
Ghost
is
is
speaks fair words and deceive many, while in
may
he
he that controlleth his tongue
city."
words he speaks.
shalt be justified,
shalt be condemned.''
the heart of
If
Church
of the
we
We
reject
are
the creators and savior of our
and hate the thing we speak against,
stand against the Holy Ghost
forgive our
give ourselves unless
own
we
evil
deeds and
are in Unity,
we cannot
sins.
be forgiven,
We
cannot for-
Oneness and Understand-
ing with the Christ.
Verse 33
else
make
"Either make the
the tree corrupt and
tree
good and
his fruit good; or
his fruit corrupt; for the tree
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is
known by
his fruit.
Our
Cast out hypocrisy.
fruit betrays us
world knows us by what we are to-day
anyway.
All
by our deeds
the
and our
words.
Verse 34
"O, generation
of
vipers,
how
can ye being evil
speak good things; for out of the abundance of the heart the
mouth speaketh."
Evil
but
it
and
is
good
cannot speak
is.
"A
Verse 35
heart bringeth
is
and beautiful words,
fair
The
things.
unguarded moments
in the
heart
and speak
to deceive
able
heart rules the tongue,
when we
what the
betray
good man out of the good treasures of the
good
forth
things;
and an
evil
man
out of
the
evil treasures bringeth forth evil things."
We
have known some person
all
Why
true.
did
And we have
Why
did
we
we
all
known
good and
believed
them?
persons
we
believed were evil.
believe they were evil?
"But
Verse 36
men
believe in
whom we
say
unto you, that every
word
idle
that
give an account thereof in the day
shall speak, they shall
of judgment."
The day
that Christ
to judge ourselve
every
idle
us as witnesses
the false
and
word, every
is
awakened within
we
see ourselves as
evil
deed and
and
us,
are,
unkind
as
we begin
every wasted day,

act rise
up before
against us, and the Christ as the judge
from the
true, the
good from
"For by thy words thou

Verse 37
knows
the evil.
shalt be justified,
and by
thy words thou shalt be condemned."
Words
are strong.
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."
Verse 39
"And
he answered
Verse 40
"For
the whale's
see a sign
from
and said unto them, An
and adulterous generation seeketh
no sign be given to
we would
"Master,
and
after a sign;
evil
there shall
but the sign of the prophet Jonas/'
it,
Jonas was three days and three nights
as
the
belly; so will
Son of Man be
in
and
three days
three nights in the heart of the earth."
The
and the resurrection of the Christ.
burial of the flesh
When Jonah was
swallowed by
the whale of disobedience,
he was awakened to the demands of the Divine
WITHIN
him-
self.
He would not
His disobedience grew until
obey.
good was swallowed up by disobedience and

and disobedience
the
left
brought
When
the real
When
fear.
fear
him, he was awakened to the Truth and
power of God and
Verse 41
all
the suffering that follows broken laws.
Jonah accepted the God and obeyed he
many men
to Truth; but the world has
grown so wick-
ed and material that the Christ could not arouse but a few.
Verse 42
ment with
"The
Queen
this generation
from the uttermost
the desire
for
and
the
South
shall
a greater than
of the South
was an
up in judg-
shall rise
condemn
part of the earth
Solomon, and, behold,
The Queen
of
it;
for she
to hear the
Solomon
is
came
wisdom of
here."
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
Solomon and
the
prophets attained
Wisdom
of the Christ.
wisdom and knowledge,
but none gave to the world the Christ in flesh.
sr~^

of the
Church
of Divine Illumination,
Matthew, 13th chapter, 43rd verse to
Golden Text
which
heaven, the same
in
is
"Whosoever
do the
shall
my
is
close.
will of
brother and
sister
my
Father
and moth-
er."
The
description of
the
the unclean
persistency of
spirit is
true and plain in this lesson.
We may
in casting
fails
have but one deplorable
it
out
it
gaining
in
thoughts)
will
its
make every
former
place,
harmony with
in
it,
sin,
and when we succeed
effort to
it
and
will
draw
will
strength and zeal to gain entrance within the

It is
seductive and subtle, and the
to attaini perfecton
spirits (or
Mind and Soul.
man who makes
an effort
subtle
spirits.
When the unclean
gone out of
spirit is
walketh through dry places, seeking
The
all
it
come with added
must be always on guard against the
temptations of the divers

Verse 43
When
return.
rest
man, he
and findeth none.
evil spirit is the restless lonely spirit.
Good
spirits
troubled and
bring peace and
we have many
rest,
even though the world
troubles
and cares of the world.
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ALSO RIGMT5 OF TRANSLATION.
Do
not mistake the word
embodied
spirits,
but
every day within
us.
mean
"Then he
Verse 44
whence
came
do not mean the
will return into
whence he
is
dis-
thought which dwells
the spirit of
saith,
out; and
We
spirit here.
come he
my
house from
findeth
empty,
it
swept and garnished."
The house
clean,
is
hold by being
purified, but he has
is
able to
an
effect
gained his former
entrance into the thoughts of
the mind.
This
sual,
is
mind
the
drifting
back into the channels of old sen-
greedy and wicked desires even for an instant of time.
Verse 45
"And he goeth out
other spirits
more wicked than
dwell there; and the
Even so
This
shall
is
last
himself, and
end of that
man
they enter in and
worse than the
is
first.
be unto the wicked generation."
it
warning against the
minds and
to creep into our
For instance,
and taketh with himself seven
man
subtility of the spirits
we
allow
souls.
has been unclean to a certain extent and
he makes up his mind to turn away from his condition, we
know by
experience
how
and desires to do the
the thoughts
wrong thing we have done
will
come back
again, and always with a diffent excuse.

sire
entrance, then
it
may
be the
the result
when
it
it,
and the
last
state
is
gained an
that another
and worse habit
evil,
allow
pearing
in a different guise to deceive
but one
way
if
the
you
brings
first.
away from
is
formed.
spirit
of
its
It
it,
with
Do
not,
another and seemingly
same old
tempt you.
It is
it
worse than the
love of drink and the turning
turning from
is
has
and we are weakened, then
evil to
There
it
allow this de-
accumulates others perhaps not quite the same
but in harmony with

partners with
and
to us time
we
If
to dwell within us for a time
or thought
all
lesser
DESIRE
ap-
you.
desire to free yourself
from any
First seek
bad habit.
work
you
that
desires
something good that you
desire,
some
desire to accomplish, then turn the thoughts
from the
and
and use them for the accomplishment of
evil
the good.
u
Verse 46
While he talked to the people, behold
and brethren stood without desiring to speak with him.

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

Verse 48
Who
him,
"But
is
my
mother and who
"For
Verse 48
which
in
is
and said unto him that told
he. answered
whosoever
are
shall
heaven, the same
my
do the
my
is
brethren?"
my
will of
Father
brother, and sister
and
mother."
It
been claimed
has
that Jesus
brethren on this occasion, but this

In
it.
disowned
mother and
his
Far from
not the Truth.
speaking to the multitudes, and in teaching the
Jesus does not
WITHIN
refer to himself
disciples,
as the flesh but as the Christ
him.
mother believed
His
is
CONCEIVED
in
him and knew

and gave him
the Christ
them
bered his words and "pondered
the Christ, for
She was
in her heart."
not only the mother of Jesus, but also of the Christ.
always born of
shall
do the
mother of
er
is
will
(pure mind) Soul, and
a Virgin
of the Father
in
heaven
Christ
is
is
whosoever
may become
a Christ, or the brother, or the sister; but the
the nearer, for she
she
She remem-
birth.
the
moth-
the Soul of the Most High and gives
birth to His seed.
Those who
to him,
desire
him
may become
as
Christ will acknowledge

all
those
forth his
who
ac they
came
desiring to even speak
near to him as they desire.
you
in
the
way
as he
did the will of the Father then.
hand say "Behold
my
And
the
acknowledged
He
will
mother and brethren."
stretch

of the
Church
Divine Illumination
of
Matthew, 13th chapter; l-23rd
Golden Text "Blessed
are
verses.
your eyes, for they
see;
and your
ears, for they hear."
"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.
examining ourselves we too often
overlook the
vices, or
we have
select
our virtues and
developed the Christ in the
not
place of self to the extent of being able to see our shortcomings
our
evil or vices.
Self
is
must be
the serpent that

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

Then, again, when Self judges
self,
have done which the world approves

world, and the world
knows
its
it
of,
selects
the
because Self
own and does
deeds
is
not judge
we
of the
its
own
with harsh judgment.
When
fjll
the Christ judges Self and the world,
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ishness,
The
and self-love
self- righteousness
away, and
it
is
up
lifted
Disciples asked Jesus in this lesson the
speakest thou unto
Verse 11
"He
en, but to
Verse
them
them
know
cast
question:
"Why
parables?"
in
the mysteries of the
it
is
kingdom of heav-
not given."
it is
12 "For
whosoever hath to him
he shall have more abundant;

shall be
answered and said unto them, Because
given unto you to
him
thrown out
is
to a purer, better, higher state.
and
shall be given,
but whosoever
from
hath not
taken even that he hath."
This does not refer

things of this world.
at all to the
All of" Jesus' lessons are
perceptions and
to the Spiritual
accumulation of the material

devoted entirely
accumulation of the
spiritual.
"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
spiritual
Verse 15
"For
There are
dulled to the
preception.
waxed
gross,
THEY
their eyes
and should understand with
converted, and
it,
their eyes
any time they should see with
ears,
its
this people's hearts are
ears are dull of hearing, and

at
Material ears are
sight.
Truths and material eyes to
their
and their
have closed
and hear with
heart,
lest
their
and should be
should heal them."
many
such today,
who
hearing the Truth
flee
from
preferring to stay under the old laws of the letter and not of
the
spirit,
and many love
sin so well they will
Truth because they must forsake

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

the perfected Christ
The Lamb
come
ed
that
slain
the world
Life.
It
that
earth, in the flesh,
and giving
destroyed
it
and hear but did
Verse 19
seeds that
Now
fell
Life,
and was manifest-
in the beginning.
And
cannot be totally destroyed.
desired to see
among men.
from the foundation of the world
to Life, demonstrating
to
this
Truth
is
was what they
not.
The
he explains the parable of ths sower.
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
Word
the
is
not understood
cannot be accepted, and, therefore, cannot bear any
And
It
and the works of the Christ, and
Christ,
upon the
was
and hear and did not?"
see
those seeds
fall
away and
it
fruit.
the evil thoughts devour
them
so that the soul cannot receive them.
And "some
fell
upon stony
places,
where they had not much
and forthwith they sprung up because they had no deep-
earth,
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
but endureth for a while, for

ariseth
He
because of the
is
offended
when
root in themselves,
tribulations or persecutions
Word by and by
he
is
offended.
because he looks for personal gains through
development of the
Spiritual.
would seek development of

says but a few
who have no
This
a teacher,
is
and
meant
for those
who
when some enemy
words against the teacher condemn him and
for-
These are
sake him.
There
is
no depth
in
false to
them
themselves and to their teacher.

stony ground.
it is
Students want worldly success, and
Simon, the
sorcerer,
come
to the
who BELIEVED and was
Truth
as did
baptized with
and when he saw that the Apos-
the water of Mental baptism;
had greater power he offered them money because
tles
thought to make
The power
must be
of
money by
God
is
AWAKENED
And he
terial gains.
Verse 23
the
same power.
not given for money, because
by
its
own power and
desired to profit Self
Then "the seeds
he
among
fell
by
the soul
not for any mait.
thorns, and the thorns
sprang up and choked them."
These are the people

sires for gain
who
will
not cast out greed and the de-
and glory.
"But he that receiveth seed into

Verse 23
is
he that heareth the
beareth fruit, and

sixty,
some
Word and
the
understandeth
the Truth for
after
who
it;
which
also
some an hundredfold, some
bringeth forth
thirty."
Those who want
These are the true seekers and students.
seekers
good ground
the
good they can do with
strange gods, and
who do
not
mix
These are the
it.
follow their Master and obey him,
who do
not run
their instructions as
does the drunkard with his drinks.
These are those of

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

of the
Church
Divine Illumination
of
Matthew, 13th chapter; 23-46th
verses.
Golden Text "Then
righteous shine forth as the
sun
in the
kingdom of
shall the
the Father."
Jusus always spoke to the multitudes
"and with-
in parables,
out a parable spoke he not unto them."
The Truth has always been
and spoken
written
and parables by the Ancients and Great Teachers.

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

field
is
the world;
kingdom; but the
the
good seeds
are the
tares are the children of the
wicked one."
The
children of
accept the Christ,
the
who
kingdom
are
those
who
are willing to
turn from the evil and the laws of the
flesh.
The
children of the tares are those
who
cling to evil
not accept the Christ.
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and
will
Verse 39
The
enemy
devil; the harvest
sowed them (the
that
the end of
is
tares)
the
is
and the reapers are
the world;
the angels.
The
devil
is
WITHIN
dwell
that
accumulate
thoughts and desires of
the
love
and when the Christ comes
and wickeness
we accumulate and
us; that
we
that
all
evil
and hold
best,
WITHIN
it
within
the soul, then
the end of the world.

"As,
Verse 40
We
hold.
the soul,
is
the har-
vest
gathered and burned
therefore, the tares are
in the fire, so shall
be in the end of the world."
it
"The Son of Man

Verse 41
send forth
shall
they shall gather out of his kingdom
all
and
his angels,
things that offend and
them which do iniquity."
Now, we know
we know and
his
all
we
when
that
the Truth
we do
accept Christ,
angels,
which
gather out of his
are purity
is
manifested to
and
us,
accept and give entrance to
and goodness and Truth, and
kingdom (our
souls)
all
things that offend
and them that do iniquity.

Verse 42
"And
shall cast
them out
into a furnace of
fire;
there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth."
The furnace
Fire
of God.
soul,
we
of
fire is
When we
the baptism of
tear the evil
tear out the things
our wickedness and
Verse 43
the
"Then
kingdom
tares
from within our
we have loved and sown, and
gives great pain; and, again, there

see
the Holy Ghost, the
is
this
pain and suffering, for
we
evil.
shall the righteous shine forth as the
of their Father.
Who
hath ears to hear
sun
let
in
him
hear."
When we
that
is
which
is
have
cast
all
the evil and wickedness
righteous within us shines forth, and
righteous, and
all
those
who know
from us then
we know
righteousness will
see.
it
Verse 44
"Again,
kingdom of heaven
the
and for joy thereof goeth and
hideth,
and buyeth that
When we
it is,
we
we
up
the evil desires that
all
he hath
we have loved
the best within us to the Christ
all
we know good from
think as he bids us think, and as
think
hath found he
selleth all that
kingdom of heaven, and know what
discover the
joyfully give
We
soul.
unto a
like
field."
and possessed, and we give
evil
man
which when a
treasure hid in a field; that
is
the good, and shine
forth as the sun in
good-
ness.
Verse 45
little
pearls that shine
are not
kingdom
worth
all
the illusions of the senses
glitter in
first
it
that
we
have an
pay,
loses
its
overcome the
oblivious to the
pearl.
to realize the cost and value of
when we do
all
that
we
ambition that
when compared
to us, but
heaven
at
of heaven, but
We may
to
and
the pearl of great price. These
is
worth the great value of the Christ

hard for us
It is
is
The Christ Soul
to
greatness, for
realize
it
give up to attain
is
we
that
it
it.
seemingly of great value
the value of
better part of us,
we know
the
the
kingdom
of
oftentimes allow ambition
and
in seeking for
good and kindness we may be
it
become
do for
able to
others.
Pearls of
but
if
ambition shine
at
us in their dazzling brightness,
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,
pearls the
world can give;
which
lives eternally,
"For what
gain the whole world and lose his
will
own
it
than
profit a
soul?''
all
man
if
the
he
"

Matthew, 13th chapter, 47th verse to

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own
country and
A prophet
is
close.
without honor save
not
his
He came from
own
among
all
people than
people.
the ranks of
the great ones in
all
in his
own home."
in his
Jesus was treated with greater respect
he was among
Church
Divine illumination
of
Golden Text
of the
the
humble and towered above
wisdom and understanding, and
this arous-
ed their criticism, anger, envy and jealousy.
They were envious and

had attained something
We
far
we
beyond them.
we
are not jealous of anyone, unless
something that we have

as
jealous because they realized that he
not.
we
feel assured that
Jealousy
born of
is
are superior
to those
fear.
fear that
what we have may be taken from
In this lesson
and envy.
we
It is
we can
in
God
others, then jealousy
and source of jealousy
realize the cause
illusion, that
within us gives us as
and fear
torments
will vanish.
us.
then
us.
born of ignorance and undevelopment.
realize that the
mare, an
As long
around us we
have no jealousy, but when doubt of ourselves creeps
we
have
that they
feel
much
It is
strong
When
as he gives
but a night-
person


is
not
jealous;
If
it
they had
known God
why
in this lesson.
rejoiced to see His
they had always known.
the contrary, they were offended.
Verse 47
was
can see
they would have
whom
works manifested by one
On
We
belongs to the weak.
"The
kingdom of heaven
Remember
GATHERS
that the soul
the mind, both good and bad.
thought, and gathers

Verse 48
like
is
unto
a net that
and gathered of every kind."
cast into the sea
all
It is
all
that
sent to
is
by
it
like a net cast into a sea
of
vibrations flowing into that sea.
"Which when
was
it
full
they drew to shore, and
gathered the good into the vessels but cast the bad away."
Verse 49
gels shall
"So
come
shall
ENED
angels of
Christ
at
shall cast
the end of
them
The
the world.
an-
just."
into the furnace of fire; then
and gnashing of teeth."
shall there be wailing
The
be
and sever the wicked from the
forth,
"And
Verse 50
it
AWAK-
goodness and purity come with the
when we begin
to judge ourselves of our deeds
and works; when we sever ourselves from the hold of
all
evil
thoughts, words, deeds and actions, and cast them into the Fire
of the Soul
God, or
within us
evil
is
Good,
is
TRANSMUTED
consuming
when
fire,
the end of
and
all
the
the evil or
the world shall come.
Verse
51 "Jesus
They
these things?
"Then
Verse 52
which
man
that
things
We
old
is
is
bring
them, Have ye
understood
all
said unto him, Yea, Lord."

said he unto them, Therefore every Scribe
instructed into the
kingdom of heaven
is
like
unto a
an householder, which bringeth out of his treasure
new and
man
said unto
old."
out the
of flesh and
new
within us and
cast out the old
the
evil.
"And when
Verse 54
he was come
unto his
own
country,
he taught them in their synagogues, insomuch

astonished, and said,
these
Whence hath
man
this
were
that they
wisdom and
this
mighty works?"
They
came out
all
Like
Truth's sake.
many
fault
and not for
to criticise,
of today, they
and to find
er out of curiosity
they saw that he
him and
to hear
and
come
to see the teach-
Then, when
criticise.
had that which they had
him, to sneer and
make
Had he been
him.
light of
they would have admired him, but they could not
which they could not
it is
er called
Is
Neither do we.
see.
WE
not this the carpenter's son?
Is
see
it,
like
them
admire that
There
simply because
good where we cannot
Verse 55
as-
were jealous and began to accuse and condemn
tonished and
not because
were
not, they
is
lot of
are blind
and
not there.
not his moth-
Mary, and his brethren James, and John, and Simon,
and Judas?"
Verse 56
"And
then hath this
man
all
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
"And
Whence
his sisters, are they not all with us?
of them?
many mighty works
he did not
there be-
cause of their unbelief."
And
those
thus
who
it is
everywhere even
anything along the material

thing to give
them power
lines
is
more
blessings
will be
if
added unto
we prove
sincere
may
more or
to attain
the cry.
they are blind to the fact that the greater

the
are willing
where they
much
and power but not religion
day, and even
They
to acquire
without having to give up too

cess
at this
are seekers after Truth.
us.
We
and
true.
are
to
we
gain some-
gain success,
Give us
it.
And
among
to accept
it
is
suc-
because
attain in religion,
worthy of
all
material
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In the beginning of
violent death of
This
It
is
John the
it
destroyed.
is
He was
sooner
is
is
the
When
it
is
in
the hands of
the
man, and
the mental
a ruler
over
falls into
the
many
as
hands of
or later destroyed by their violent use of
symbol of the
ing, because
when
Herod, the king, was a wicked man.
a worldly, material
it
must be
the history of the
nothing but the death of mental laws of healing.
wicked as himself.
This
we have
Baptist.
not Divine, and, therefore,
is
wicked
such
this lesson
eat."
fatal fall of
mental healing and teach-
instrument which
an
replaced by the
it.
the evil can use, and
it
things of the Soul, or Soul Healing,
which cannot be used by the wicked.

In the teachnigs of Christ
stroyed.
He
rose
it
was
different.
He was not
de-
from the dead and taught them afterwards.
He was with them
forty days, manifesting the Divine
power
he gave to the world that accepted him.

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

The
Soul Healing, can
Êth, or
We
purification of evil.
see
only
be
through
attained
about us today the gradual falling
of the mental teachers.
No man
It is
can abuse the Divine Laws.
out of the reach of the
The law
evil.
how
We
we
is
never attained by the
only law that
the
man
mortal
come
not divine, and he has never
Then
into con-
him take
let
he builds.
make
laws we
There
is
is
It
Divine Laws until after he obeys.
tact with
care
of obedience
He
can break.
evil.
We
rhe laws for ourselves.
and we obey that which
create,
are three
laws Divine, Mental and
our
best in
is
Man
sight.
Each
Material.
under each of these laws.
attain brings us
and break the
build
is
state
not under
Divine law until he attains a part of Divinity.

Verse 13
"And
by ship into
when Jesus heard
thereof, they followed
When
him on
Jesus heard, he
lence and evil laws.
make
Evil cannot
of
place apart; and
a desert
it
he departed thence
when
foot out of the cities."
departed from the vibrations of vio-
good departs from
All
the people heard
evil
use of good, and thus destroy
"And Jesus went forth

Verse 14
surroundings.
it.
and saw a great multitude
and was moved with compassion towards them, and he healed

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

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

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

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

Verse 15
"And
him, saying, This
when
it
was evening
a desert
is
place,
send the multitude away that they
buy themselves
The
came
his disciples
and the time
may go
is
now
to
past;
into the villages
and
after the material needs
and
victuals."
were yet looking
disciples
desires.
Verse 16
"But Jesus
them
give ye
said unto them,
depart;
to eat."
knew what they had need
Jesus
They need not
of.
This multitude were
and health and strength, and that
seeking
life
them.
They sought him, and he gave them
is
why
he healed
the reward of the
search.
Verse 17
and two
"And they said unto him, We have but
fishes."
They had but

occurred to them
service.
five loaves
They
little
to give so
vast a crowd, but
THAT WHAT THEY HAD
did not
know
it
had not
would be of any
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
and to
satisfy millions of true seekers.
"He
Verse 18
said,
Bring them hither to me."
BRING
WHAT YOU HAVE TO THE CHRIST AND YOU WILL
BE ABLE TO FEED THOUSANDS.
Do we
Verse.
19
the importance
realize
of this sentence?
"And he commanded the multitude
the grass, and took the five loaves and
up
two
to
fishes,
sit
down on
and looking
to heaven, he blessed and brake and gave the loaves to his
and the
disciples,
The
fishes,
disciples to the multitude.''
being of the waters, represent the Mind or Spirit;

bread, being of
while the loaves of

material needs or
We
success
must
the material, teach us that
go, in part, with the Spiritual.
must teach mankind both the material and the
Verse
25 "And
they did
EAT
and
WERE
spiritual.
filled;
and they
took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets
He
that takes
(follows) he
Knowledge
up the Knowledge that
is filled
that
is
taught and
(he becomes successful)
taught, there
more; for two can follow

diminish.
is is
still
just as
full."
and of
EATS
this
same
remains as much, or even
well as oae, and
it
does not

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Matthew, 14th chapter; 22nd verse to the
Golden Text "O
thou of
little
faith,
close.
wherefore didst thou
doubt ?"
We cannot
We read that
find
one instance where Jesus sent any one away.
he healed ALL.
to bring the least

find
that
him always giving
On
We
read where he encourages us
we have and make
We
no occasion did he ever complain.
HOPE.
And we
it.
others blessings, hope, peace and health.
morbid, negative taint within him.
and
use of
He gave
There was no darkness
in
him
do not
LIGHT
find
one
and LIFE
at all.
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
THE CHRIST WITHIN
"And
Verse 22
to get into a ship,
still
them?
US.
straightway Jesus
constrained his disciples
and to go before him
unto the other side
while he sent the multitude away."
Verse 23
"And
when he had
sent
the multitude
away, he
a mountain apart to pray; and when the evening

was come, he was there alone."
went up into
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Verse 24
But the ship was now
tossed with waves, for the
We
are often sent out
When we
strength.
on the storm-tossed seas
bring our gifts to
are
multitudes,
into greater channels to try our faith
we
midst of the sea,
wind was contrary."
cepted, and are able to feed
In fair
in the
weather, accepted
and
just to try
the Christ, and are ac-
we
are
sometimes
we need not
fear, for
fear; but in the
midst of
blessed,
always strong when we do not
down upon
how
strong or
give
all
we
us,
THEN
is
how weak we
cast
and strength.
the troubled seas, with the wind against us and the
ing
our
our strength
tried.
waves
bear-
Then we
find
But once accepted, and we
are.
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
to them, walking
No
sea."
be so rough
sea can
cannot walk upon
it,
and troubled that the Son of
God
and without sinking.
"And when the

Verse 26
sea,
the night Jesus went un-
disciples
they were troubled, saying,
saw him
a spirit;
It is
walking on the
and they cried out
for fear."
How many
times have
we
seen
him on troubled
he was but a phantom of hope and

Verse 27
feared.
And yet how many times have we heard and
ized that there
them
still
seas and felt
is
no need of
fear, that all things are
LOVE HIM AND TRUST HIM
that
real-
possible to
WHO DWELLS
WITHIN.
Verse 28
who was
me come
And
Peter,
who would
ever
demand
always sure of himself, said: "Lord,

unto thee on the water."
long as he
Verse 29
felt
if it
proof,
and
be thou, bid
Peter seemed very brave as
sure of support.
And Jesus
said,
"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,
AFRAID; and
beginning to sink, he
HE WAS
Lord, save
cried, saying,
me."
31 u And
Verse
O THOU OF
WHEREOF DIDST THOU DOUBTS
FAITH
need not
the Master
We
Verse 32
No
fear.
overcome us
sea can
we understand
if
weak and
are
strife.
LITTLE
and said unto him,
caught him,
We
immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand
we depend on
power which may be
the
when
forsakes us
faith
if
all is
ours.
turmoil and
"And when they came to the ship the
wind
ceas-
ed."
When we
depend on him, when we take
the power of Truth and Right, the winds

faith will
always prevail over the
"And
Verse 34
his hand,
and
strifes,
when they were gone
cares,
which
The
will cease.
and
true
fears.
came
over, they
is
into
the land of Gennesaret."
"And when the men of
Verse 35
EDGE
of him, they sent out unto
and brought unto him

Herein
is
Verse 36
the
hem
of
that
KNOWL-
had
the country round about
were diseased."
They knew
faith.
was
that the Christ
in their
had come to them, for they had knowledge of
midst; that he
him.
all
that place
all
"And
his
besought him that they might only touch
garment, and
as
many
as
touched were made
perfectly whole."
True knowledge, though
at first small,
garment"
will
sorrow.
Even though we cannot
overcome
all evil,
make us
know how we
will
heal
all evil, all
diseases, all pain,
attain
yet the touch or the
whole.
even "the
Christhood
of his
grief
until
and
we
acceptance of his Truth
Diseases and sin will
are cleansed.
hem
and
leave us, for
we

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Matthew, 15th chapter; l-21st
Golden Text "Every
verses.
plant
my
that
heavenly Father hath
not planted shall be rooted up."
Again the Scribes and Pharisees followed

desire to find fault with every act he
If
we watch
Christ,
we
ourselves carefully
will find the
suing and finding
who
he
see
sees.
a great
all
how
good
high or
it
what we can
see,
still
heart.
per-
and those
people cannot see only what
faulty glasses, everything
will see
how
commit.
his disciples
our development of the
We
see
looks
The
people's eyes are faulty.
comes from the
the heart sees
see
in other
many
and
Jesus with the
old Scribes and Pharisees
we look through
If
of the eyes
matter
We
fault.
always the faults
wrong, and
If
same
in
after
what the heart
good everywhere.
It
sight
sees.
does not
low, the bad heart will always see bad
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.
no matter how much good there
complish great good, but
somewhere
Now,
evil
always persecutes and finds room
to find fault.
time they found
fault with
they did not wash their hands
when they
this
the disciples because

ate bread.
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You
will find that
they were never able to find fault with the
And
works, but with the material.
They picked
see only the material.
comings of the material
usually find
because
they could
the failures or
short-
Scribes and Pharisees ob-
out the Spiritual.
left
among many who
so
it
at
The
duties.
served the material laws, but
And you
this is
are so scrupul-
ously precise about the material, are lax about the spiritual.
is
er,
It
not necessary to neglect the material for the spiritual, howev-
man
for
Verse
should be well balanced
8 "These
in both.
draweth nigh
people
mouth and honoreth me with
me
unto
with their
their eyes, but their heart
is
far
from me."
This
is
words when the heart
"But
Verse 9
doctrines the
far
makes
not where Christ
and we cannot
nated.
err
plain
honoring with
from Truth?
me; teaching for
of men."
is,
The commandments of men
Illumination
nor what he
are those laws
WITHIN
the law which
from the Divine path
is,
is
which
man.
must be followed,
after
being Illumi-
'
the Light that never
Verse 11
"And he
mouth
mouth;
defileth
fails.
said unto them,
man, but
that
Not that which goeth
in-
which cometh out of the
this defileth."
The mouth
is
the deceiver of the real
can speak when the heart
is evil.
man.
Fair
words
it
These come from the heart
of the mouth.
Verse 12
"Then
Knowest thou
this
right, far
they worship
from Divine Illumination
are not
OUT
from the
vain do
in
A man who knows
to the
is
commandments
false teacher.
It is
How many come
pose and not poise.
came
his
disciples,
and said
unto him,
that the Pharisees were offended after they heard
saying?"
Jesus pointed out to them where they erred in the keeping of
Law
the Divine
knew
"Honor
that he judged
Vere 13
"And
my
which
thy father and
them
aright.
answered them
he
mother," and they
heavenly Father hath
and
Every
said,
not planted
plant
shall be rooted
up."
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.
"Let
Verse 14
blind,
and
them
the blind
if
they
alone;
lead the blind
be
blind leaders of
both shall
the
into the
fall
ditch."
The
cannot follow
fall
Those who are blind
blind cannot see.

it,
with them.
and those
who
All material
to Divine
Law
follow them will stumble and
desires of
LEAD THE
the flesh
BLIND.
Even the
disciples
were yet unable to understand
this parable
for Peter said, "Declare unto us the parable."
"And Jesus
said, "Are-
"Do not ye
yet understand; that
Verse 16
standing?"
Verse 17
the
at
mouth goeth
draught?"
Verse 18
the belly, and
"But those things
come from
Verse
into
ye also yet without
who
out
into
in
the
mouth
man."
EVIL
THOUGHTS
thefts, false
witness, bias*
out of the heart proceed
murderers,
fornications,
phemies."
"These are the things which
Verse 20
adultries,
what entereth
cast
proceed out of the
the heart; and they defile the
19 "For
is
under-
defile a
man; but
to
eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man."
Every thought the Mind plants grows; and as

in his heart
If
file
SO
IS
man
thinketh
HE, and those thoughts grow.
they are evil they

the heart.
defile,
but the material laws cannot de-

Matthew, 15th chapter; 21st verse to

"
Be
it
titudes with the seven loaves
who
faint.
who
are
and a few
the mul-
little fish.
He had compassion on
all
him" without anything
away
who
seeked the
Life,
and those
to eat need not
Christ always feeds.
Christ
always compassionate and willing to help those
is
Christ
knows
finding fault
ing.
Verse 21
coast of
who
Christ sees and knows.
need help.
the
false
and untrue
from those who come
"Then
who come
in sincerity
Jesus went thence and
tempting and
and Truth seek-
departed into the
Tyre and Sidon."
Verse 22
same
the feeding of
anhungered for the Bread of

with
"continue
fear.
we have
the multitude clung to Jesus he did not send any
hungry nor
Truth,
close.
unto thee even as thou wilt."
At the close of this chapter
When
Church
Divine Illumination
of
Golden Text
of the
4,
And behold
coast and cried
woman
of
Canaan came out of the
unto him, saying, Have mercy on me,
Lord, thou son of David;
my daughter is grievously
vexed with
a devil."


Canaan, we must remember, was

this
woman was
a Canaanite, or Gentile.
"And he
Verse 23
ples
province, and
a Gentile
answered her not a word, and
came and besought him,
saying,
his disci-
Send her away, for she
crieth after us."
The
disciples did not yet
was the
know
the Master nor that the Christ
man which awakens and
Life within
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
When we
but for another.
nize the cry of the soul in
Verse 24
ask for herself*
awakened we hear and recog-
are
others.
all
"But he answered and
said,
am
not sent but un-
to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

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

and
the most
repeatedly failing, losing and go-
Wisdom
the
tian Masters.
Gentile, as the
of
Jews would have us

all
men
or, creed, or nationality.
own
was known
the Ancients
Egyp-
people.
A Jew was
God
is
The Egyptian
believe.
no matter what
as students,
and preferring only His own.
within
How
accepted on
all life
"But he answered and
could one
the children's bread and to cast
it
said,
It is
to dogs."
their col-
equal basis
and being
above the other only except in development of

Verse 26
to the
There was no personal preference of the Jew or
Masters accepted
with their
Egypt was the Gentile region,
to Egypt.
be
in
all
preferred
God?
not meet to take
was not refusing her the food here
Jesus
This was only a

Verse 27
"And
crumbs which
the
she
Verse 28
"Then Jesus answered
man, great
is
her daughter
We
that
all
thy faith; be
we ASK
We
if
Verse 30
wo-
And
wilt.
that very hour."
WE
may
all
attain all
the
crumbs then
attain the greatest
wish of our
are willing to eat of
and
God
must not ask amiss.
We
"Then the
that were
they cast
we
to be filled
imperfect prayer.
believing.
her,
made
FOR if we have the right understanding and the

We can pick up the crumbs from the Masters and
we worthy
those
and said unto
unto thee even as thou
was made whole from
become whole, and
hearts.
it
the Christ.
could eat and be
reap the reward of our faith.
right faith.
are
woman knew
This
the lowest and the humblest
whole.
eat of
their master's table."
She recognized the Master.

She knew
believe.
Truth, Lord, >et the dogs
said,
from
fall
some
as
her faith.
test to try
multitudes
came
Christ,
at Jesus' feet,
CONTINUED
and
an
in Christ
There were
to him.
many
lame, blind, maimed, and
them down
These people
must ask of the
answer
does not
others,
and
and he healed them."
with him, glorifying God, and
They were with him three days

but they did not ask him for material
he had compassion on them.
and had nothing to

blessings.
But
God
eat,
They asked only to be healed.

bestows
all
that
man
Faith and love in the
needs.
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.
first
It
multitudes were sent
pays to seek the Christ.
we are blessed in all ways.

the kingdom of heaven and
healed but
ye
occasion the
unto you."
We
all
We
away with
are not only
never need.
"Seek
things shall be added

of
of the
Church
Divine Illumination
Matthew, 16th Chaper; l-13th Verses.
Golden Text
"Take heed and beware of the leaven
of
the
Pharisees and Sadducees."
"The
him
Pharisees and Sadducees
that he
The
lieved
would shew them
They were much given
it.
They
was from
There
is
many
ance of
to the study
of
spirits
That
is
why
be-
and
power
they believed that he
a vast difference in the
power of Jesus and the power
professing mediumship.
spirits.
other,
phenomena through
All his
and was
the agency or assist-
He used
works were of Divine Law.
assisted
by no disembodied
spirits
of the as-
world.
He
baptized
with the Holy Ghost and with Fire, and these
were the only agencies he employed.

is
phenomena and
through Beelzebub, the Prince of Devils.
Jesus produced no
tral
from heaven."
believed that Jesus' demonstrations of
the spirit world.
cast out devils
no
a sign
Pharisees were used to producing
spiritism.
of
came, and tempting desired
This
is
not spiritism.
It
development of Divinity, of Sonship and Unity with the
Spirit of
God.

ALSO RIOHT5 OF TRANSLATION.
|&
Verse 2
"He answered and
ing, ye say
sky
will be fair weather, for the
it
"And
Verse 3
for the sky
said unto them,
is
in the
morning,
red and lowering.
it
When
is
it is
even-
red."
will be foul
weather today,
can
ye hypocrites, ye
dis-
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,
the Christ nor the sign of
but
They knew not
his
the Christ they
Law and
"A wicked and adulterous

Verse 4
and there
not.
works and manifestations, and could not
distinguish between Divine
a sign,
could
knew
generation, seeketh after
no sign be given
shall
phenomena.
spiritualistic
but the sign of the
it
prophet Jonas."
Wickedness always
desires a test.
It
wants something
They wanted
development of the Soul.
see without
manifestation
can
a great
brought to their vision without going to the
trouble of giving up any wickedness and evil to see
"And
Verse 5
side,
it
when
his
disciples
it
or do
it.
were come to the other
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,
was
all
which the physical eye could
they could understand yet, although Jesus had
giv-.
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
human
We
faith
see
of.
Such
is
and weakness.
the power, and
protecting us, giving and
we know
it
is
within us feeding us,
sustaining us, and yet
we doubt and
do not obey from fear and weakness.

Verse 11
it
"How
not to you
is it
that ye
do not understand that
speak
should beware of the
concerning bread, that ye
leaven of the Pharisees and the Saducees?"
Verse 12
"Then
understood
not beware of the leaven of
they
how
bread, but of
that he
bade them
the doctrines of the
Pharisees and Saducees."
He knew how unbalanced they were
in
the spiritual sense,
and by association with the opposition they were not yet able
understand
to
the
difference
between Divine
Law and Power
and the phenomena-producing Pharisees, and the antagonism
and
infidelity of the scientific Saducees.
Just here
not
ido
Divine
not
is
know
Law
where
many
students are led
the leaven of the Pharisees and Saducees
of Truth.
see the
The Divine
in
Divine or use the
is
you
see the true
man must be developed before he

Divine Law and demonstrate it.
True, pure, honest, sincere

Christ will enable
from the
They want something they can SEE,
understanding that the physical eye cannot
spiritual.
er
wrong today. They
seeking for
can
the Real Power, the
to see and use Divinity.
All other
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
of the
Church
wm
Matthew, 16th chapter; 13 to 21st Verses.

u
Golden Text
Thou
are the Christ, the
Son of
the
living
God."
We
have here the famous confession of Peter.
This confession has been the cause of
much
contention
argument between the Sectarian denominations, and

between the Catholics and Protestants.
The Catholics claiming
authority
that absolute
and
especially
and
power
were given over to Peter; that he held the key to the kingdom
of heaven.
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
The keys
given to
God WITHIN man.

heaven were given to
of
ALL who
The "key
Jesus said
of the
U
I
Peter but they are
also
confess the Christ.
kingdom" were not given at that

give them the keys." Later he
WILL
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
for they were
all
baptized
at
the time with Fire,
Ghost, for "cloven tongues as of
fire sat
upon
or
EACH
disciple,
the
Holy
of them,"


ALL
and they
and preach."
We
him
again,
judice,
in other
tongues and
Peter
was not
as strong
many Churches and
establish as
did.
spake
up
failure to live
'"When
Jesus
Paul
as
overcame
his instability, pre-
to the law.
came
the
into
of
Caesarea
men
say that
coast
Whom do
Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying,
the
not
did
many
did not lead as
and he was rebuked by Paul for
Verse. 13
He
Paul,
read where Peter's cowardice and bigotry
and
"go
were told to
all
as
Son of man am?"
Verse. 14
the Baptist;
"And they
some
Some
said,
thou
say that
John
art
and others Jeremias, or one of the
Elias;
Prophets."
In the question asked
by Jesus of
If
we have
his disciples
men and
key to the knowledge held by the
Jesus did not believe in Reincarnation,
the
masters of that time.
WHY
DID HE
ask
this question?
In the
answer made by the
that the people, both the -learned
Reincarnation for
all
we
disciples,
and
also
have the proof

<
believed
unlettered,
in
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
your future
as
God
it
it
intended that
"He saith
Verse. 15
am/" Do
deserves
will help
it
should
unto them, But
YOU KNOW who
if
you
you much
The Soul
is
the
the Life,
KNOW
Church we
are to live in the
Beyond.
heaven or loosed
in
are
It is
heaven."
to
make
whom
say
YE
that
he was?
The Father WITHIN,
acknowledge, accept and
only give
be.
Flesh and blood cannot reveal the Christ to
man.
will
the
ALL
the
you or any other
ONLY
Soul
Son of God
building.
it
is
if
we
"bound
in
That
the one that will be
If
can
founded on the
is,
Rock of
Truth, the Christ of God,

of
be
necessity
will stand forever
it
Church
the
man
Divine Illumination, for when

reached the Soul and found
it,
finds
the Temple, for
God
"Ye
said,
the
are the
Church of
Soul he has
the
and that can only
though and by illumination. He
plished
or
Soul,
of
and such must
accom-
be
therefore,
found
Temples of the
living
has,
There can, therefore, be but one Church, the Church
God."
of Soul or Divine Illumination.

If
any church
and blood
it
is
founded on the knowledge and laws of
must eventually
The law
kingdom of heaven.
of the
against the soul and destroy
NOT
HIM. Thus
to
"the keys of the
it.
It
Peter, as a
kingdom
for flesh
fall,
man
We
When we
is
of flesh,
did
Christ
not
and
receive
is
the
Christ,
or
God
heaven
unless
the
Christ
us.
attain the perfected Christ, or rather,
plainer, the perfected Soul,
This
away from
prevail
man, held the keys of the kingom.
cannot unlock the doors of
unlock them for
would
of heaven."
The Father WITHIN him, which
WITHIN EVERY
of the flesh
leads
flesh
and blood are not
we have
the highest the Soul can
to
make
it
attained the seventh Heaven.
WITHOUT
know.
It is
Image
perfect.
be-
ginning and without end.

It is
to be God-like-ness-God's
"Jesus
Verse 17
Simon Barjona;
thou
unto thee, but
As
said to
God
heaven,
it
my
said,
him on
"Blessed art
for flesh and blood hath not revealed
Father which
"Ye
his confession:
are the
is
in
it
heaven."
Temples of the LIVING God "or
was the Illuminated
Soul of
Peter
which revealed
Christ to him. He,through long suffering and long training had
reached Illumination, and,

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

Verse 18
"Upon
rock
this
This Church
Temple
but the
The Illuminated
is
MUST
find
WITHIN.
must build
of
and the Soul thus Illuminated
mankind.
by
its
"And
Verse 19
in
the
own
is
the Christ
is
Temple,
Temple
the
prevail
will
by
build
Developed Soul.
against
Church,
this
not again need to return
desire in order to
become
Savior
to
of
unto thee the keys to the kingdom
will give
of heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt
bound
The Rock
not an outward
It is
Priest
heaven or earth can
earth except
and the
church
Church or Temple, and the foundation must be
this
in
the
hammer. Each man and woman
Spiritual Illumination and the
Nothing
but only
it."
Soul.
It is
of the Living God.
Solomon without sound
my
will build
gates of hell shall not prevail against
which we
in Christ,
him.
bind on
earth shall
be
heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt lose on earth shall
be loosed in heaven."
we
If
evil
it is
bind or live evil
within the Soul.

of man.
It is
Heaven
may
it is
bound within the Soul.
loosed within the Soul.
it
The Soul
heaven or
NOT
is
hell;
If
we bind good
the thing that lives.

it
is
whatever we
the Soul world as
we
It is
loose
bound
is
MAKE
many seem
be in the Soul world and yet be bound in
If
it
the
it.
to think.
hell.
life
One
Soul world
and heaven are thought to be the same by ignorant and
mis-
guided people. There
The
Soul world
in the
is
a vast
simply the
trial
Beyond. There the Soul
onward or whether
ment
is
for the
it
difference
chamber,
will
must return
wrong committed.
find
between them.
the
sifting
whether
it
ground,
can
go
to earth to suffer just punish-

of
Matthew, 16th chapter; 21st verse to the

u
Golden Text
whole world and
What
how
disciples
his
many
killed,
man profitted
own soul?"
a
is
lose his
"From
Verse 21
that he
knew
that
all
and chief
shew unto
priests
and
suffer
and be
scribes,
would come upon him, and he
not of him
The development
and we
many
suffer
We
Cross.
of the Christ brings us
things in
spit
many
upon by
these persecutions are but tests.
would be
a Christ.
change.
He
is
not the
the
God
All these bitter
We
Christ
God
would
told
much
suffer
as Jesus, but of the Christ.
ways.
seem crossed on every hand.
mocked, jeered and
Soul.
he shall gain the
and be raised again the third day."
because of him
and
if
must go unto Jerusalem, and
the disciples on one occasion that they also
is
close.
that time forth began Jesus to
things of the elders
Jesus
all
Church
of the
is
many
persecutions,
the
are laughed at,
the contempt of
We
way
It is
We
of the
others, but
must be strong
if
we
not the symbol of weakness and
of the living, the hopeful, the cheerful,
of the dead.
struggles lead us to
are "raised again"
if
the Illumination of the
we demonstrate
life
and not
death.


22 "Then
Verse
saying,
Be
Peter
it
far
Peter took him, and began to rebuke him,
from
thee, Lord; this shall not be."
He was not
saw no higher than the grave.
nated, and did
not
know
man
that the
of
flesh
yet lllumi"
must
first
die
and be "raised spiritual."

Verse 23
"But he turned and said unto
hind me, Satin; thou
an offense
art
Peter,
to me, for
Get thee
be-
thou savorest
not the things that be of God, but those that be of men."

condition would
his unenlightened
Peter in
have held him
He understood only
as a
with spiritual understanding and perception.
To
from
his resurrection.
of flesh would have destroyed the Christ, then
must
flesh
die,
must be
man and not

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

is
the wilderness of strife;
Springs;
but
the Soul.
Verse 25
whosoever
To
"For whosoever
LOSE
the
and
whole world and
is
lose his
exchange for his soul?"
Marah
home of
life shall lose
life.
it,
and
it."
To
DENY
self,
ambitions for the glories of the

in Christ brings
man
own
it
and of ambitions and desires
Self cannot give
Truth
the
Promise, to the
sake shall find
but
life;
bitterness,
save his
my
life,
DESIRES and
desire for
"For what
Verse 27
in
will
shall lose his life for
think of the material
material,
water of
is
leads to the land of
it
of the flesh are losses.
and
it
to eternal
It is
profitted
soul?
if
life
eternal.
he shall gain the
or what shall a
man
give
And what does
What
He
is
man
it
without a soul?
He
nothing.
is
profit?
as
is
He has no
one dead.
heritage of
LIFE.
Why
should a
man
that leads to death?
consider
worth while to
it
dies
He knows nothing only what he
sees,
will
it
profit
o-the-wisps, that vanish
Man
the
life
he should gain every kingdom on earth
If
him when he
what
live
and leaves
and
it
all
behind?
he sees are
all
will-
when death comes.
gives illusion and vanity in exchange for his soul.
Verse 27
'Tor the Son of
Man
come
shall
glory of
in the
his Father with his angels, and then he shall reward every
man
according to his works."
Our works
count for or against
and stored up within the
soul.
some, or moth-eaten and rotten.
"Verily
Verte 28
say
us.
It is
It is life
in his
The coming
all
that
is
all
is
accumulated
or death.
unto you, there
here which shall not taste of death
coming
It
pure, and clean, and whole-
till
be
some standing
they see the Son of
Man
kingdom."
of the Christ brings
worldly and corrupted.
death to
all
that
is
mortal;
K3**5r

of
Matthew,
of the
Church
7th chapter; 1st to 14th verses.
Golden Text
"And Jesus came and touched them
and
said,
and be not afraid."
Arise,
Verse
John,
"And
his brother,
days Jesus taketh Peter, James and
after six
and bringeth them up into
a high
mountain
apart."
Verse 2
"And
was transfigured before them; and
did shine as the sun, and his raiment
He could not have been

ples,
was white
transfigured
his face
as the light."
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

demonstration and persecution had this taken pla:e
been a
great^
before
many, but
plished in
all
the
the Silence, in
greatest
works of Jesus were accom-
secrecy and before a few, not before
the multitude, for he did not seek glory and praise.
His power
was WITHIN, and
nated within could see

Verse 3
only those
him Illuminated
"And behold there
who were
Illumi-
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
The
to earth.
spiritual
vision of Peter,
James and John was

Realm of the
seeing into the Soul
illuminated to the extent of

Spiritual.
fourth verse
In the
we again
swerving from the
find Peter
Soul sense into the material obligations.
He would
He wanted
monuments.
eye could
to
he yet spake, behold a bright
shadowed them; and behold

This
ye him.
produce something the material
see.
" While
Verse 5
said,
them material
accept the old prophets and build to
is
my
beloved Son
a voice
in
whom
cloud over-
which
out of the cloud

1
am
well pleased; hear
,,
cloud overshadowed
was the voice of the

but the voice
THEM
and they heard
Peter
Spirit.
commanded them
a voice.
This
desired a material building,

that Christ
the Son, and
is
should be followed and not the prophets of the material age.

''Christ
is
the Son; hear ye him."
"And when the

Verse 6
disciples heard
they
it,
fell
on
their
face and were sore afraid."
This
is
Spirit.
Verse 7
Arise,
the "Dweller
"And
Jesus
of
the
Threshold"
the
fear of the
came and touched them and
said,
and be not afraid."
We
need have no fear when we hear the voice.
voice of the Christ
WITHIN
the Soul which
It is
the
"the voice out
is
of the cloud."
Verse 9
"And
as
they
came down from
Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no
the mountain,
Son of Man be
risen again
Note the word "again"

dead."
man
until the
from the dead."
in this phrase, "risen again
from the
Is
more than one
there
resurrection?
Yes.
The
first
death
the
is
triumph over the
man
flesh,
The second death
the world and
all evil.
It is
the
the final
is
the supreme
of God, the illuminated, perfect Soul, which isSonship.
Verse 10
"And
his disciples asked
must
the scribes that Elias
Verse 11
come and
"And Jesus
restore
"But
Verse 12
say
first
said
again,
Why
then say
come?"
unto them, Elias truly
unto you that Elias
not, but
Likewise shall
listed.
him
shall first
things."
all
and they knew him

they
or illumination of
resurrection
Christ within the Soul of man.
is
come
already,
have done unto him whatsoever

also the
Son of Man
suffer
of
them."
John the
Manifestations and
ed
in that age.
disembodied
was the
Baptist
restorer of
phenomena were
as high as they
had
attain-
They were seeking enlightenment among
souls, not realizing that
municate with souls above them.

with souls on
OUR OWN
own
The
with our
the lost Mental Laws.
souls.
plane
it
We
was impossible
who
com-
communicate
can only
those
to
the
are
in
harmony
self-righteous, bigoted Pharisees
and
Scribes could not attain to any great heights; hence the letter of
the law
John
ed the
was
authority, for the Spiritual law
the Baptist
way
was the reincarnation of
for the Christ
minds away from the
of
John the
lost to
Elias.
He
them.
prepar-
by preparing the Mind, turning the
evil to bring forth fruits
ance.
"The
Verse 13
was
meet for repent-
disciples
Baptist."
understood that he spake unto them
ON
OF
MAN
HRISTIG
A BOOK
HE MILLIONS

of
Church
Divine Illumination
Matthew, 17th chapter; 14th verse to
Golden Text
of the
have
"If ye
close.
faith as a grain of
mustard
seed,
ye shall say unto this mountain remove hence to yonder place,
and
shall be
it
removed, and nothing
shall be
impossible unto
were not entirely successful
in their Healing,
you/'
The
disciples
and Jesus
tells
them
WHY.
They, of course, had not yet
They were not poised and
tained Sonship or Mastership.
at-
illu-
minated.
Jesus explains to them that only through prayer and fasting

is
power
UNLIMITED
He does not mean

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

Fasting
desires
here represents
the giving
and temptations.
The prayer
is
Desire.
Absolute power
concentrated Desire and right

Verse 22
them, The
men.'
up
"And while they abode

Son of Man
given only through
is
THINKING
and LIVING.
in Gallilee,
shall be betrayed
Jesus said unto
into the


hands of
Verse 23
'They
him, and the third day he shall
shall kill
be raised again.
"And they were exceedingly
sorry.'
They were sorry because they
He
Son of Man, the man
says the
crucified except
us
we have
cify the
by
him
in
is
not
the Christ within
destroy
shame and
of flesh the Christ
They were
Jesus, for the Christ
When we
evil.
crucified
man
did not understand.
evil,
but
when we
cru-
alive HE IS RAISED.
is
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
"
money came
that received tribute
Master pay tribute
Many do
not quite understand
the Scripture, and
why paying
Capernaum
Jesus chose
Doth your
the
meaning of
this part of
was
tribute
as his
home
necessary.
after his ejection
Capernaum was
treatment of Nazareth.
Jews were but
said,
and
to Peter
?"
Roman
and
ill
The
city.
colony and very poor, but they were
a small
(
obliged to pay the temple taxes where ever they lived.

greatest
works were accomplished
his greatest
Verse 25
Peter
"What
said:
the
sermons preached
earth
came
thinkest
take
at
Capernaum and most
of
there.
Jesus for the money, and Jesus
to
whom
thou, Simon, of
custom or
Jesus'
tribute, of their
do the kings of
own
children or
of strangers?
Verse 26
saith
"And Peter
saith
unto him,
Of
strangers.
Jesus
unto him, Then are the children free."
The
tribute
money was
for the support of the temple of
the
Jews.
Jesus was a
ger, but
Jew
was no
stran-
one because he differed
from
after the flesh, and, therefore,
they considered
him
as
them
Although he was one and yet
in their faith.
obeyed the law of order and of the
He was not
Here
violent,
and did not
we have another
up violence and
ruled.
strife.
instance where he willingly submitted
to injustice to keep the Great
Law
Many today would
disturbed.
who
authorities
civil
stir
different he
of
Silence
refuse,
supreme and un-
and would arouse con-
tention and animosity over a few coins.
But the Christ understood the law of the
just
and the unjust;
and to preserve the law of piece and goodness and
would
willingly
lose
the
material good
give
it
silence,
he
up without
complaint for the greater good.
We
many
all
have often faced
of us have
money
this
problem, and
been willing to be used unjustly
matters to
keep the Great
Law
of Peace
wonder how
concerning
and Silence
undisturbed?
Sometimes we
We
go
are treated so for a test.
do that which we love
money more than
If
we
love
If
we
love peace
as Jesus did.
tice.
best.
more we
The unjust
peace
will
will
we
will
contend for
submit to injustice and
pay the
it.
let
it
price for the injus-

Divine Illumination
of
Matthew, 15th chapter;
10th verse.
1st to
Golden Text "Except ye be converted and

kingdom
children ye shall not enter the
These words of Jesus were made

of
Church
of the
the disciples as to
whom
is
in
become
as
little
of heaven."
answer to the question
the greatest
in the
kingdom of
heaven.
They thought
then, as
now, that the Soul World was the
kingdom of heaven.
The kingdom
heaven
of
few souls
souls and in a very
World
is
on the earth
is
in
in a very,
very few
the Soul World, for
the Soul
but a continuation of this
life here,
but in a SPIRIT-
UAL STATE.
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
OF THE SOUL.
Verse 2
Jesus
called
the midst of them,
and
little
IS
A PURIFIED STATE
child unto him,
and
sat
him
said:
''Whosoever, therefore, shall humble himself as this
same
child the
The
lusts
child
and
is
is
the greatest in the
unknown
to
it.
little
kingdom of heaven."
pure, innocent, and trusting, and the
desires are
in
It
is
worldly
small in a material


way, and does not seek material gains and material
And whosoever
kingdom of heaven, because
in the
and
his
Soul
is
the greatest
is
purified of greed
and gains.
lusts
Verse 5
in
THE CHILD
become AS
shall
desires.
"And whosoever
my name
receive one such
shall
child
little
receiveth me."
who
This means those
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
which believe
me,
in
were hanged about
shall offend
one of these
little
ones
were better for him that a mill-stone
it
his
pure, holy and sacred.
is
neck
and that he were drowned
in the
depths of the sea."
To
and
offend
to
is
wrong and harm
one to be drowned
better for
it is
Purity and Truth IN
HIS
tempt to wrong or harm,
Be
harmed by
its
own
SOUL, or to
another who is pure
to
unto the
world
thing the revenge and hate of
doer than he
ing and death
Verse 8
them
off
is
cast
man
this
is;
if
not
it
wrong doer must
what
soul through
frail,
foolish
woe comes
We
to
bring suffer-
it.
thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut
them from
thee.
It is
better for thee to enter
maimed, rather than having two hands or
LIFE
two
feet to be cast into everlasting fire."
or
the
for greater
into
halt
is
WOE TO THAT MAN
able to give another.
upon our own
Wherefore,
and
and trusting/
because of oifence, for
suffer not as
And we understand from
the evil
at-
OFFENCE COMETH."
Therefore, the wronged

suffer.
truth,
wrong, or to
none and your soul
must needs be that offences come; but
WHOM THE
and
than to destroy
deeds.
"Woe
Verse 7
BY
in the sea
OWN
you bring harm
careful that
purity, innocence
the hands will do evil deeds and
If
walk
the feet will
in evil
better to be
without them, and keep the soul pure,
than to keep them and
destroy the soul by their evil propensi-
ways,
is
it
ties.
These are the material desires that must

better,
you
see, to
and be pure and holy than to have
from
than
all
that
is
necessary for
evil.
offend thee, pluck
"If thine eye
thee, rather
It is
do without the material NECESSITIES even
comfort and be impure and

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

of the
Church
Divine Illumination
of
Matthew, 18th chapter; 10th to 21st verse.
Golden Text
my
"Where two or three
name, there
Jesus says
am
we
if
in the
are gathered together in
midst of them."
gather together in
HIS NAME.
name
is
Righteousness, Truth and Sincerity, and
be righteous
if
we
His
Many
praise
gather together in his name.
people have
thougth that the
gathering
They come with unclean minds and
enough.
and
self-
something for
absorption, and
self,
material gains.
is
NOT
in
that saith unto
the
kingdom of heaven, but
my
Father which
is in
may
together
is
selfishness, self-
self- glory in their
something they
This
"Not everyone
we must
hearts seeking
be able to turn into
HIS NAME.
me
that he
Lord, Lord shall enter into

that doeth the
WILL
of
heaven."
Neither can you reap of the heavenly things until you do the
will of
heaven.
Verse 10
ones, for
"Take heed that ye
despise not one of these
say unto you that in heaven
behold the face of
my
Father which
is
in
their angels
little
do always
heaven."
Ignorant orthodoxy of some sects preach hell
and death to

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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
hold that which
mind
its
is
purity in any form
There are a few

are
few)
Why
we
The
are.
child holds Purity, because
pure and fresh from the Soul world.
who
we
are alien to
If
we
despise
it.
men and women (and we thank God
they
despise children.
do they?
The answer
is
easy.
they love the fresh and pure and in-
If
nocent they would admire the
symbols, for the child
is
sym-
bol of purity.
Verse 11
"The
Son
of
Man
is
come
to save that
which
is
lost."
Jesus came to save the
"How
Verse 12
had
lost ones, the soul that
think ye,
if
man had
fallen.
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
is
gone astray?"
Verse 13
joiceth
"And
more of
if
so he find
it,
verily
that sheep than of the
say unto you, he
ninety and
re-
nine that
went not astray."
We may
away from
be almost whole, and have but one sin that lead us
that keeps us
than
we
come
We
when we
the Father, and
out from Sonship
rejoice over
all
the
find
that evil within us
and home, we
good within
us, for
rejoice
more
we have
over-
the sin that kept us astray.
have seen such men
and
women who
were
big, true,
generous and kind-hearted, but whose one weakness or material
them away from Truth.
blindness kept
"Even so
Verse 14
of these
The good would be

Perhaps
is
it
good and not one soul
all
YOU
Do
of
God
in
thought and well wishes
so that
do not
your part
if
in
Truth and
Become
perish.
"For whatsoever
Verse 18
bound
as a child
him
reconciled to
he will not become a friend.

ye shall bind
heaven, and whatsoever ye shall
in
perish.
misunderstanding between you and a brother keeps
between you.
bitterness
not the will of your Father that one
ones should perish."
little
on earth
loose
shall be
on earth
shall
be loosed in heaven."
If
you bind good on earth you have bound good
YOUR
and purified
soul,
and
if
you loose good
(become negative and material,) you
in
heaven
to the earth,
will be loosed or cast
out
attributed to Peter,
and
of heaven.
Here
is
that great
mystery which
is
is founded.
ONLY TO YOURSELF
DOES THIS LAW APPLY AND NOT TO OTHERS.
upon which the Church
Verse 18
"If
two of you agree on
thing that they shall ask,

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

Matthew, 18th chapter; 21st verse to the
Golden Rule
unto you,
So
likewise shall
ye from
if
Church
of
of the
my
close.
heavenly Father do also
your hearts forgive not every one
his
brother their trespasses."

In this lesson
ness.
Perhaps
we
it
learn the value of the great gift of forgive-
is
the hardest lesson of
to be forgiven for our evil deeds ahd blindness but
have compassion and patience for those
wrong
us
we do not
who do wrong and
who owe us debts of gratitude and kindness.
Peter asked
who had
We want
to learn.
all
him how many times he should forgive
sinned against him.
He seemed
to think there
a brother
He thought "seven times" enough.
was
bearance ceases to be a virtue"
a limit to patience
when
the sin
is
and that "for-
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
no wonder they prayed "Lord increase our
faith," for
it
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is
hard
to
have
one
faith in
Then Jesus
Verse 23
who
illustrated
continues to abuse and hate
why
forgiveness
"The Kingdom of
king, which
would
heaven
necessary.
is
TAKE ACCOUNT OF
"And
Verse 24
when he had began
unto a certain
like
is
us.
HIS SERVANTS."
was
reckon, one
to
brought unto him which owed him ten thousand talents."
Quite a number of
Do we owe
sins, isn't it?
the Father so
much?
But the man could not pay.
Verse 25
good
in
He was very
him.
Verse 26
"The
servant, therefore,
fell
"Then
the Lord of
down and worshipped
me
him, saying, Lord, have patience with

Verse 27
There was not much
from owning much goodness.
far
and
will
pay."
was moved with
the servant
compassion, and loosed him and forgave him his debt."
How many
ise
We
beg for mercy in the same way?
and think we
will be
good, but
we do
like the
will
man
prom-
did.
"The same servant went out and found one of

Verse 28
fellow-servants
which owed him an hundred pence, and
hands on him and took him by the
throat, saying,
his
laid
Pay me
what thou owest."

This
man owed him
his Lord, yet
compared
to
what he owed
he would not "loose him nnd
let
him go," but
He kept sending him
evil
thoughts un-
kept on hurting him.

til
a small debt
he should leave him alone.

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

Verse 33
"Shouldst not
thy fellow-servant, even as
Had he
thou also have had compassion on

I
had pity on thee?"
a right to ask for that
which he would not give?
Verse 34
"And
his
Lord was wroth, and delivered him to
he should pay
was due unto him."
the tormentor
till
unto
my heavenly Father do also

YE FRON YOUR HEART FORGIVE NOT
"So
Verse 35
you, IF
likewise
all
that
shall
every one his brother their trespasses/'
Because
own
souls
is
we
we
cannot, or will not, forgive
still
owe
that
much
tormented by the desires of our
and purify our
to the Father,
OWN
and we are
Soul for peace until we
do forgive.
It is
the
hardest lesson for
their biggest
forgive
debt for
we
debt they
owe
some
most poisonous.
learn,
themselves, for
are full of bitterness
it is
to
and
it
is
perhaps
when we cannot
and hate, and to hate
is
a great
SOUL^CIENCE
AND
SUCCESS

of
"If
Church
Matthew, 19th chapter; 16th verse to the
Golden Text
of the
thou
wilt enter
close.
into Life keep
thou the
Commandments/'
The preceeding
we
as that
will
the
is
forbidden and dare not be given out promiscously
have to forego any attempt
student in
through
Jesus
sex law and mysteries being explained,
without the
isfactorily
and
part of this chapter cannot be explained sat-
the higher JEth
at
explanations; however,
can attain
the understanding
his Drills.
tells
the
rich
young man, who has come
what good thing he must do
would enter
into Life he
him
to ask
to inherit eternal Life, that
must keep the Commandments
if
he
HE
MUST OBEY.
This young
man was
He had kept
moral man.
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,
and had not
had honored
great
lied,
his father
many good
adultry, nor stolen any-
nor cheated anybody
and mother and

qualities for
one
in all his life,
and
his neighbor.
man
to possess, yet he

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was out of the kingdom
and why?
He loved money; he
Ah! here was the stumbling: block.
and luxuries, and Jesus said to
loved his material comforts
him:
"Sell that thou has
and give to the poor and thou
treasures in heaven, and
have
come and follow me."
man "went away
But the young
shall
sorrowful, for he had great
possessions."
He could not
from
separate himself
WITHIN
his soul to the poor, starved Christ
"Then Jesus
Verse 23
you
that a rich
man
and give
his treasures
him.
said to his disciples, Verily
shall hardly
say unto
kingdom
into the
enter
all
of
heaven."
hard for them to see beyond
It is
They loved
ease and
power
the
and comforts.
selfish desires
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
men
this
disciples said,
The man
the world, and
of
to the love and worship of
CANNOT
gains,
when God
God
impossible, but with
is
is
see the
he
things are possible."
all
who
has given himself over
the temporal
powers and material
power of the Soul of
man, the God
developed within
power and glory of God, and with the God
ENED
poise,
and
forsaken
Peter, who found

who
all
lacked
that
when
said unto
have followed
Son of Man
shall
him
in
sees the
AWAK-
such a great struggle to attain
and followed thee; what
ye which
the
it
understanding, asks:
"And Jesus
Verse 28
him
in
He can SAVE HIMSELF.
"all things are possible."
Verse 27
a Christ; but
sit
me
shall
"Behold we have
we have
them, Verily
in the
in the
therefor?"
say unto you
REGENERATION,
throne of
his glory, ye
also shall
sit
upon twelve
thrones, judging
the twelve tribes of
Israel."
The Regeneration
fulness
the
and
evil,
SUN OF
is
and Sun of
Man
BODY
sits in
HIS
the Soul
the cleansing of
the
from the
sin-
SOUL OF MAN
the throne of
is*
glory THE
SOUL.
There
man
are,
according to Astrological teachers, twelve, parts of
that correspond to the twelve signs of the Zodiac.
The name
means DISOBEDIENCE,
Israel
for the Israelites
were ignorant and disobedient. These twelve points of

the twelve tribes that are disobedient.
the Christ
sits
In
on the throne, we are able
man
Regeneration,
are
when
to judge these twelve
tribes.
Verse 29
"And
brethren, or
sisters,
or lands, for
my
every
or
one that hath
forsaken houses, or
father, or mother, or wife, or children,
name's sake
shall receive an hundredfold,
and
shall inherit everlasting life."
This does not

as
some
believe.
mean
It
not be so strong that

to the Master's
to fail or refuse to support our families,
only means that the

it
ties
of
keeps us from our duty
commands.
the flesh
must
and obedience
ASPIRATION
PERFECT!

1st to
Golden Text "So the
last
many
shall be called but
supreme
tained as
Those who come
but the
more
sincere
that
is
late
and
may
first,
and the
first last;
who have not atsome who come to a
before us
Sonship as
obedience to the Christ late in
life.
may attain just as much as he

may not have so much to give up,
and work
The
early.
last
Verse
shall be
few chosen."
a state of
realization of the duty
who comes
17th verses.
many who have gone
There are
Church
of
for
of the
first
love the
most and work even harder and be
and earnest.
'Tor
the
kingdom
of heaven
an householder which went
is
like
unto a
man
out early in the morning to
hire laborers into his vineyard."
Verse
penny
2 "And
day he sent them into
These were they

Truth
when he had agreed with
who come
in their hearts.
the laborers for a
his vineyard."
at
the
first
break of the
dawn
of
Others sometimes wait, for
"He went out about the third hour, and saw others
Verse 3
standing idle in the market place."
These are those
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
And
the idler, those
lost,
"Went
who
householder,
the
who
unsaved and
are
always seeking the
is
blind,
out about the sixth hour and ninth hour and did like-
wise."
Verse
6 'About
others standing
idle all the
hour he went out and found
the eleventh
idle,
and he
saith to
them,
Why
stand ye here
day?"
"They
Verse 7
said,
No man had gone
to
Because no
man
them with
the message of
hath hired us."
Truth and
Salvation.
u
He
ever
saith
is
unto them,
ye also into the vineyard, and what-
right that shall ye receive."
The way
dawn
Go
of
always open from youth to old age, from the
is
morn
till
"So
Verse 8
the eleventh hour, even until the sun sets.
when even was come,
hire,
beginning from the
There are
first.
We
first
who
last
World
the Western
vine-
them
their
to the last."
many who come
of
the Lord of the
the laborers and give
yard said to the stewart, Call
attain as
are given
much
just as
as the
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
many
cessful
great curse of this
day
Masters and there are so
work accomplished,
(name)
of
such work
is
that
seekers
want
many who, when
will
and use
they see a suc-
deliberately steal
it
to run after
to clothe their
the clothing
own
falsified
teachings.
Verse 9
Thus,
when they came
eleventh hour they received every
that were hired about the
man
penny.
Verse 10
But when the
first
came, they supposed that they
should have received more; and they
man
every
received
a penny.
Verse 11
the
likewise
" And
when they
received
it
murmured
they
against
good man of the house/'
Did they not manifest some
likeness to selfishness?
They expected more then other should have, because they

had "borne the burden and heat of the day."
Seldom do the ones who come
who come
last for
the one
received as
first
who FIRST
much
teaches Truth
is
as
they
seldom
honored but nearly always persecuted and stoned while they
who come
Verse
after
13 "And
didst not
him
receive his reward and honor.
he answered and said, Friend
thou agree with
"Take
Verse 14
me
for a
that thine
is
do thee no wiong;
penny?"
and go thy way.
will give
unto them even as unto thee."
We
all
work
for the
Mastership, and shall
us attain as
much?
same
glory, the
we complain
Perhaps
it
takes
burdens for us to earn Mastership.

that the fault
thus
it
last."
is
same Christhood and
because they
more work and
We
not in the Master but
who come
trials
after
and
often lose sight of this,
WITHIN OURSELVES,
often happens that "the last shall be
first
and the
first

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

greatness.
and he
They wanted
whom
to
have the
best place
and the highest,
Jesus seems to have loved best, he
stood the teachings and loved his Master best, and
on Jesus, was always nearest to
who
under-
who Leaned
he wanted to bet given
his Soul,
exceptional favor.
These two brothers, James and John,

to
sit
one on
yet in vogue
his left
among
hand and one on

certain classes.
who
Jesus loved, desired
his right.
The
This
guest
of
is
custom
honor
are
given the places next to the host or hostess.

Verse 22
"But Jesus answered and
said,
ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that
and be baptized with the baptism that
Were
am
Ye know not what

I
shall
drink
of,
baptized with?"
they able to drink of the Life of Christ?
Were they
able to be baptized with the Soul of Christ
the Fire?

with
of
said
Verse
23 " And
my
with, but to
is
are able."
he saith unto them, ye shall indeed
cup, and be baptized with the baptism that

sit
BUT
to give,
it
"We
They
my right hand, and on my left, is

SHALL BE GIVEN UNTO THEM
my Father."
on
IT
prepared of
They were
am
able to drink of
cup
the
of their
attains
It
most
cannot be given
be given by the Master in the
He must
in
mine
for
whom
and of
height
the
flesh,
He who
any other way.
the most important
will inherit
not
on the development of the Father
sonship depended
within them.
baptized
Cross
of the
Christ and were able to be baptized with Soul, but
drink
place.
wen though
It
cannot
he loves much.
the faithful through the Father.
If
they de-
velop, they are rewarded according to their worth.
If
they are
faithful,
give to
much
they have
may
is
given.
If
be taken.
they are
they
If
eously more power and glory

it,
and are worth
Jesus gave
came
it.
is
faithless,
even that which
use the Christ
power
right-
They themselves earn
given.
The Master cannot give
it
of himself.
them power of himself, but THEIR Illumination
after the Cross, then their
power and glory came accord-
ingly as each deserved.
And we must
recall that
the beloved disciple
glory of Love Divine, even

called one
those
who know
Christ.
the Mystery
He earned
Verse 24
in excess of
of the "Seven Sons of
This
it,
caused
much
He was
the others.
Thunder," which proves to
that he
and proved
inherited the
his
sits
on the
right
hand of
worth through Love.
indignation
among
the^rest of
the disciples, because they wanted a high place also.
Verse
25 "But
that the princes of
Jesus called them to him and said, Ye

the Gentiles (all the
minion over them, and they that
upon them."
know
nations) exercise do-
are great exercise authority
Verse 26
"But
will be great
it
among you;
shall not be so
among you
let
him be
"And whosoever
Verse 27
but whosoever
the minister."
will be chief
among
you,
let
him
be your servant/'
Verse 28
tered
"Even
unto,
but
as the
to
Son of Man came not
minister and give
to be minis-
ransom
his life a
for
many."
To become
for self
power and
we have
Then
Christs
we must not
glory, but
give the Christ

are
we
able to
sit
receive nor expect to receive
we must GIVE, and
Spirit to the high
near
him and be
give the best
and the low.

blessed.

of
Matthew, 21st chapter;
1st to
Golden Text "Behold, thy

and
sitting
The
ass
upon an
ass
was held
as the
Hebrews.
and a
12th verses.
king cometh
unto thee meek,

an ass."
colt the foal of
symbol of peace and of
was introduced
It
Church
of the
rest
by the
The
by Abraham.
into Palistine
Hebrews were ignorant of the meaning of the symbols of the
who
Egyptians,
above the
held the horse
ass
and
as a
symbol
of the sun.
The horse
Eyptians
God
represents
was
might and power.
The
Osiris of the
god of might and power, and was the same
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
symbol of the great Light

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

of flesh, as
they reckoned him.
We
Hebrews believed him the Giver of
must not forget
their
Laws and
man
that the
the leader
of the people.


They worshipped
that
The
Abraham
ass to
law and the man, and
not see beyond the
material and could
God
the
them was
bol.
Verse 2
see,
They had
rest.
sent
two
disciples,
me."
Verse 6
ed them/'
Verse 7
them
"And the
in the
them
disciples
and they
8 "And
sat
flesh for a
sym-
sym-
them,
saying unto
Go
straightway ye will find
them and bring them unto
went and did
ass
as Jesus
and the
colt
command-
and put on
him thereon."
very great multitude spread their garments
way, others cut branches from the
in the
trees
and strewed
way."
"And
Verse 9
lowed
loose
"And they brought the
their clohes
Verse
with her;
colt
their
have something
to
something material and of the
"Jesus
and a
thev saw not the
Abraham, and was
a gift of
into the village over against you, and
an ass
were
himself worshipped.
bol of love, and peace, and
they could
flesh,
as they
the multitude that went before and that fol-
cried, saying,
he that cometh
Hosanna
in the
name
to the
Son
of the Lord;
of David; blessed
hosanna
is
in the high-
est."
Do you know why
the multitude followed
him and
praised
him?
It
was because they had
believed that he
They adored
his
all
witnessed
would make himself

the physical and
popularity and
power when
and they
king.
material,
it
his power,
and accepted him
looked as
if
in
he might rule
over them; but as a Christ or the Spiritual King they could not
KNEW
and
see,
not and had not, they would not accept
him
or pay homeage.
They were
When we
we
are great,
we
are,
but
like
many
day.
at this
are popular with the
and they
world and with the multitude
honor us
will
all
the more, not for
what
what others think of us and for the power we
for
manifest.
They saw the

v
God
like
exterior, the
unto curruptible
man, the physical Jesus and the
man" was
the
God and King
they
wanted and worshipped.

"All the city
They
was moved, and
did not say this
is
said,
Who
the Christ, the
is
this?"
Son of God, but they
said:
"This
is
Jesus, the prophet of Nazareth of Gallilee."
They worshipped only what they could

King that came
in peace,
and
rest,
see,
and promise of
and not "the

life
eternal."

of the
Church
of
Matthew, 21st chapter; 12th to 22nd verses.
Golden Text
"Whatsoever
ye
ask in
prayer believing ye
shall receive."
you
If
draw
it
say
us
thing,
desire a
This
to you.
is
and concentrate on that
we BELIEVE, without
The wish
the one sought for ardently
doubt of
Jesus'
from
its
and
you
Many
of
whether we be-
really thinking
with absolute desire or not.
lieve
desire,
asking in prayer believing.
that
comes
to us
is
without a single
in earnestness
being realized.
power
to
do good, and
the intense desire to
his
power of
do good and heal
so strong that he accomplished
it;
and we
healing,
He
all.
will
came
all
desired
it
accomplish what
we DESIRE.
It is
not what
we
say
we
Soul, and concentrate our
"Jesus went
Verse 12
out
the
all
them
that sold and
tables of the
money
desire,
but what
we DESIRE
mind upon.
into
the
bought
temple of God,
in the temple,
and the
chargers
and
realize that the
Dove
is
the
seats of
emblem
cast
and overthrew
them
sold doves.'
Do you
in the
of purity?
These people sold doves (purity).

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

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

did,
and Scribes saw the
and the children crying
saying, hosanna to the
IN
THE
Son of David, they were
sore
displeased."
Evil
is
always sore displeased when the children of the tem-
ple realize the Christ
and proclaim him king.
"And they
Verse 16
said
unto him, Hearest thou what these
say?
And
of the
mouths of babes and sucklings thou
Jesus saith unto them, Yea, have ye never read, out
Those who acknowledge the Christ
"Now,
Verse 18
in the
morning
hast perfect praise?"
are the babes of Christ.
as he returned into the city
he hungered."
Verse 19
to
it
"And when he saw
a fig tree in the
way, he came
and found nothing thereon but leaves only, and said unto
it,
no
Let
grow on
fruit
And
thee henceforth forever.
presently
the tig tree withered away."
This
fig tree is
They
sires.
ance of
but the symbol of the illusions of material de-
and
are flourishing,
and
fruit
life,
but they are not.
TERIAL ILLUSIONS WITHER

This
the real
is
meaning of
"And
Verse 20
when
the
HOW SOON
saying,
give the appear-
at a distance
Hence,
let
ALL MA-
AWAY FOREVER.
the fig tree parable.

disciples
saw
they marvelled,
it,
THE FIG TREE WITHERED
IS
AWAY."
how
Aye,
soon
it
vain promises, and
there
mendable, provided
success
is
man
is
If
how
its
great,
All success
Soul growth with
if
com-
is
only of the material and of the mind, then today
it
there
is
glory, as the
also a
it,
tomor-
tree in all its splendor, but
gone
which
if
you have
is
done the
faith
said
unto them, Verily
and doubt not ye
fig tree,
but also
if
mountain be thou removed and be thou

shall be
snares,
if
unto you,
this
matter
but this success.
withered.
Verse 21
"Jesus answered and
it
its
but
lives in all its
row
No
material success.
nothing in
is
away when we SEE
its illusions.
thus with
is
It
withers
shall not
say
only do
ye shall say unto the

cast into the
sea,
it
done."
we have
faith in the Christ
away mountains of
into the seas of
materiality,
and doubt not we can
and we can
past Karmas, and "All
Christ believing in the good, believing
not the illusions of material desires,
which includes
all
things.
we
cast
things
we
cast
from us
it
far
desire in the
in the fruits of life
shall receive
and
abundantly
DIVINE
MYSTERY

of
Matthew, 21st chapter; 23rd to 33rd
Golden Text "By what

and who
The
Church
of the
verses.
thou these things;
authority doest
gave thee this authority ?"
Pharisees and Scribes were not yet able to see or realize
power was above
that Jesus'
laws of su-
the material laws, or
perstition.
They wondered
physical demonstrations, but as they
at the
had no souls they did not understand the power of the Soul
that
it
was
far
above the physical and mental laws.
began to get curious and to wonder.
DID
to realize that he
"And
Verse 24
one thing, which
what authority
No
matter
deavored
commit
many
Jesus
f
ye
me,
in
will
also ask
likewise will
tell
you
you by
closely they questioned him, Jesus never lost
the great
Law
times to catch
himself, but he
and knew
power above them.
answered them,
tell
they
do these things."
how
He kept
poise.
souls,
possess
And
Perhaps they also began
READ
of Silence
him
off
intact.
They
guard, or force
en-
him
to
their tiny, miserable, deceptive
they were hypocrites
who
only wished to argue
and entangle him.

ALL RIGHTS OF TITLE AND MATTER RESERVED^

Verse 25
"And
whence was
it;
he
us,
why
Verse 26
we
If
say from
shall
did ye not then believe
"But
if
we
say of men,
baptism
John
of
And they reasoned
from heaven or men?
themselves, saying,
unto
them, "The
asked
heaven, he
with,
will say
him?"
we
fear the people, for
all
hold John as a prophet."

Verse 27
And he
tell.
"And
they
answered Jesus, and
said to them, Neither
tell
said,
We
cannot
you by what authority
do these things."
If
they did
know
the
know
not
the
power of Mind, how could they
power of Soul?
The baptism of John, whence was
From heaven
it?
or of
men?
John was
a Mental
He
teacher.
baptized
with
Mind.
Is
sows
live
Mind baptism of heaven or of men?
Mind
will die.
therefore, not immortal.
It is,
But the seeds (thoughts) of purity and goodness
The baptism
and are of heaven.
that
it
John taught was of
heaven, for he taught the laws of purity and truth and the recognition of
heaven.
power of Soul.
the
Only
the pure and
All
mental laws are not of
those that recognize
and confess
the soul live.
Verse 28
"But what think ye;
and he came to the
first
and
said,
a certain
man had two
Son, go
work today
sons,
in
my
vineyard."
Verse
29 "He
answered and
said,
will
not, but afterwards
repented and went."
The mind
leads and
mind we repent
Verse
turn
30 "And
it
builds.
The
away from,
stop thinking
he came to the
and he answered and
said,
go,
sir,
soul desires, and with the

evil.
second, and said likewise,
and went not."
Many
say this mentally and pretend
it,
but do not build pur-
ity within themselves.
Verse 31
They
" Which of them twain did the

The
said unto him,
Jesus saith unto them, Verily
first.
dom
God
and harlots go into the king-
say unto you, that the publicans

of
will of the father?
before you."
Why?
Because too
know
so
much mind
much
of the self-righteous and those
who
they cannot learn from others will not build the
who
soul, but those
are despised
and shunned long within the
soul for better conditions and associations;
therefore the desire
counts.
The mental "know

sire
it
all"
does
not go, but the ones that de-
betterment will go.
Verse 32
"John came
and ye believed
to
you
in the
not, but the publicans
and ye when ye had
seen
it,
repented
way
of righteousness,
and harlots believed him;

not afterwards that ye
might believe him."
When John
demonstrated the works of a pure and godlike
man, they would not

better than
their
own
believe that
bigoted
purity and
goodness were
ways of material
desiring and
thinking.
The
lesser
ones believed, and
attained fellowship
Christ and Unity with the Soul.

It
was
And
all
through the desire of the Mind.
these desires
BUILD SOUL.
with the
THE
NOmEDGE
LiTTHtRt
Be: Li|

of the
Church
of
Matthew, 21st chapter; 33rd verse to
Golden Text "The stone the
close.
rejected, the
'builders
same
is
become the head of the corner."
Who
and what
are the builders
is
The Soul
builders and the Christ.
The Soul
that turns
away and
the stone?
will
not accept the
the builder that rejects the stone, which
Christ
is
head of the
"the
is
Corner."
The corner
stone
the most important.
is
head, and this Christ
whom
the wicked
the leader.
It is
refuse,
is
the
The
corner
stone of the building of the Soul.

It
holds the seals of
life
"There was
Verse 33
a
vineyard, and hedged
press in
it,
and of purity and of

a certain householder,
it
and
let it
out to
vine
husbandmen
a far country.
The householder
husbandmen
which planted
round about, and digged
and build a tower,
and went into
liberty.
is
God. The vineyard
are those
"And
Verse 34
who
when
sent his servants to the
are in
the
is
the
world.
The
it.
time of the
husbandmen
fruit
drew
near, he
that they might receive the


fruit of it."
These servants are the messengers of good

ets
and the Truth, which
sent to
is
all
will of the
husbandmen
proph-
to obtain
the fruit of the soul.
"And the husbandmen took
Verse 35
his servants,
and beat
one, and killed another, and stoned another."
The
rejection of the true conception of
God.
Men who
in
with-
" Again he sent other servants more than the
first;
them by
Verse 36
will
God
not accept righteousness destroy the good servants of

clinging to evil and wickedness.
and they did unto them likewise."
They became even more wicked and
material,
and refused
Truth again and again.

Verse 37
"But
they will reverence
This
is
my
all
he sent unto them his son, saying,
son."
the Christ.
Verse 38
among
of
last
"But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said
themselves, this
the heir;
is
come
let
us
kill
him and
let
us seize the inheritance."
Verse 39
"And
caught him
they
and
cast
him out
of the
vineyard and slew him."
Time and again

from
that
brings
are
men
which destroys and
them health and
to
take up that which not only
success, but
and again they
but time
given an opportunity to turn away
reject
it,
until
but one chance and they even destroy

to turn to the good, the flesh will
which bring Immortality;
do
at last
that.
all
they
When
in its
power
are given
the desires
to destroy
these desires for the good.
Verse
what
40 "When
will
the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh,
he do unto those husbandmen?"
the
If
good
is
Nothing can save
soul.
On
the other hand,
within then
it
if
means
is
awakened and God dwells
destruction
husbandmen, which
the Soul
to that
it.
the Soul
said unto
wicked men, and
When
it
man
destroys the wickedness, and
"They
Verse 41
those
rejected
finally
him, he will miserably destroy
will
him
will
it
vineyards unto other
out his
let
shall render
awakens
lives.
the fruits in their season."
turn to the Truth and will
bear fruit and accept the Christ.
Thus
same
the stone which the builders rejected the
is
become
the head of the corner.
Verse 43
shall be
"Therefore
say unto you, the kingdom of
taken from you and
given to a nation
God
bringing forth
the fruit thereof."
Man
can reject the Truth and the good until
destroyed
from him
He has then no hope,
him.
in
of himself,
and that which he
it
will be utterly
for he has thrust
it
rejected will be accept-
ed by other souls that desires LIFE.

Verse 44
"And
broken, but
whosoever
on whomsoever
it
shall fall
on the stone
shall
it
fall
will
shall be
him
grind
to
powder."
If
itself
the soul fails to

assunder.
Christ will
It is
awaken and
broken and
be ground
and know
soul,
and
ALL
out and LIVE.
will see
down
will not accept
him
will die, but those
it
thrusts
who
accept
to the innermost recesses of their

all
the evil
within and will cast
it
THE HIGHER

of
Golden Text "Behold,

my
Church
Matthew, 22nd chapter;
and
of the
fattening are
1st to
15th verses.
have prepared
killed,
and
all
my dinner; my oxen
things are ready.
Come
unto the marriage."

Jesus likens the
made
kingdom of heaven
to a "certain king
which
marriage feast for his son."
Verse 2
"And sent forth
them
his servants to call
that were
bidden to the wedding, and they would not come."
The
real
is
always the
best.
The
illusions
and drawing pow-
ers of the flesh are but dreams.
Man
with
all
material, that
is
his reason
its
and foresight cannot
pleasures are but short lived.
see
beyond the
Everything that
done for the body must be done again and again.
and
It
It
drinks
thirsts again.
and hungers again.
eats
Nothing
is
lasting, yet
men
body overcomes mind and

desires of the
The good
sleeps
and
is
drowsy again.
allow the body to rule them. Their

soul,
and they are but slaves to the
body.
things, the real
soul they refuse, sacrifice
Truth and
It
things, the life
and peace of the
and "will not come" to the law of
Life.

BY DR.R; SWINBURNE CLYMER
ALL RIGHTS OF TITLE AND MATTEL RESERVED
ALSO RIGHTS OF THAN SLATION.
Again the
king: sent for those
Again and again Truth
is
bidden to
come
to the world, and the world will not accept
"But
Verse 3
made
they
to the marriage.
demonstrated, taught and manifested
light of
it,
it.
and went
ways,
their
one to his farm, another to his merchandise."
The world always makes
light of
Truth; turns away after the
material (farm), their merchandise (trades).
Ancient
Wisdom
They mock
sible for
We
see
them
of the Initiates and they call us fools.

sneer
it,
them
it,
is
above
"And the remnant
and he sent forth

burned up
is
We
guarded.
cannot
us.
took his servants and entreated
it."
do not teach a
do.
the king
his armies
heard thereof he was wroth;
and destroyed those murderers and
their city."
We know
and that
this
is
God,
vindictive, revengeful
that
no violence belongs
to
as the ortho-
God
nor heav-
symbol of the destruction of the Souls of
THEY DESTROY THEMSELVES BY

JECTION OF THE CHRIST PRINCIPLE.
the
pos-
the Truth.
"But when
Verse 7
en,
is
spitefully/'
They persecuted
dox
they see only that which
can see only as far as our vision
They mocked
We
but
to see.
above that which
Verse 6
Give people the
wicked.
Materiality
illusions.
therefore
Verse 8
and greed
But good
"He
will
will
RE-
soon destroy the victim of their
always destroy the
saith to his servants,
evil
sooner or
The wedding
is
later;
ready but
they which were bidden were not worthy."
Verse 9
"Go
ye, therefore, into the
as ye shall find bid to the marriage."
highways, and as
many
The Truth
is
not
for one, not for
one nation only, but for
everybody.
Verse 10
gathered
"So those servants went out
together
all
as
many
into the
highways and
found, both bad and
as they
good; and the wedding was furnished with guests.
The Truth
may
is
partake of
manifested to
ding garments, that
is,
all,
good and bad, and the bad
good have had
that the
all
if
they wear wed-
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."
Verse
He was
crite,
bad, not pretending to
in thither
"And he
saith
unto him, Friend,
how
earnest thou
And he was
not having a wedding garment?
less."
a hypro-
KNOWS.
but the Christ awakened
Verse 12
He was
be good.
he
speech-
"Then
Verse 13
hand and
foot,
the
king said to the servants, Bind
and take him
away, and
cast
him
him
into utter
darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

All
hypocrisy and pretense must be cast out.
The bad may be
cleansed and
the wedding garments of
become pure enough
the Christ, but
to
wear
the hypocrite or pre-
tender cannot come.
There are
many who mix
in
with the true followers of the
The people may be
Christ
who
fooled,
by these pretenders, but they cannot
are not true.
fooled,
inherit the
and are
kingdom
of Christ by outward pretense and inward evil.
Verse 14
"For many
Those who
are called, but
are true, sincere
few
and abide
in
are chosen."
Truth are chosen.

Matthew, 22nd chapter; 15th to 23rd
Golden Text ''Render

and unto
God
verses.
unto Caesar the things that are Ce-
the things that are God's."
Pharisees seemed to feel assured that in
The
some
subtle
and did not judge them by
their
outward appearance
and demeanor. These hypocrites came to him seemingly
They even paid him extreme
most friendly manner.

calling
way
cause Jesus to blunder, but the Master read men's
they could
hearts,
Church
of
sar's;
of the
him
Master, and
in the
courtesy,
used the most flattering words, think-
ing they could hide their thoughts and motive of the heart.
Verse 16
"They
sent out unto
odian, saying, Master,

the
way
of
God
we know
him
their disciples with Her-
that thou art true, and teachest
in truth, neither carest
thou for any
man,
for
thou regardest not the person of men."
Quite
could
a subtle
resist,
and
and
in this
"Tell
Verse 17
ful to give tribute
Jesus
Roman
was
rule.
yet
It
flattering speech.
One which
manner they propounded
us, therefore,
few
men
the question:
what thinkest thou;
Is
it
law-
unto Csesar or not?"

in
Capernaum, and the
was necessary,
city
therefore, to
was under the

pay the

tribute
money
for the
support of
Roman
or Jew,
was obliged
Caesar's
image and superscription.
Verse 18
"But
why tempt
lacteries,
age,
to
pay
ye me, ye hypocrites
KNEW
their purple
and
also
said,
linens with the ply-
fine
flattering
THEIR SOUL.
no matter how he came. He
and
their wickedness,
?"
though they came fauning,
JESUS
citizen,
The penny bore
tribute.
Jesus perceived
Though they wore
and every
civil authorities,
and paying hom-
He knew
knew
the hypocrite,
the soul that
was weary
of sin and strife with the flesh.
This was the secret of his power.
man, for he new what was
He
pearance.
by
a friend or
in
that
man."
any should
He
testify of
not go
did
by ap-
did not need a testimonial or a reference written
He saw through
sympathizing neighbor.
veil of pretense, and
was never once deceived by
"Show me the
Verse 18
Jesus understood and read
"He needed not
of men.
the souls
tribute
money.
the
it.
And
they brought
unto him a penny.

Verse 20
"And he
said unto them.
Whose
is
the image and
superscription ?"
"They
Then
said he
unto them.
Render, therefore, unto Caesar the things
which
are Caesar's;
and unto
Verse 21
said
unto him.
God
Caesar's.
the things that are God's.
Caesar was a great king, but he was wicked,

ial.
The
that
and mater-
penny and the gain the world,
material
Render unto
belonged to Caesar.
give back
evil
to evil that
therefore,
evil the things that
which belongs
to
it,
are evil;
but give unto
Goc
which belongs to God.
They marvelled
were great
men
at
these words, and went their way.
of the Pharisees and Herodians.
These
They were
smart men, the learned, and held the high places.
the
They knew
image and superscription, but they did not know
Caesar's
God's.
God's image stood before them
dealing out
mercy and knowledgs, but they knew him
They could but

ceeded
in
man
see the
overcoming
in subtle
not.
whom
Jesus,
Truth, love,
they had not suc-
and wary questioning and de-
ceit.
They were defeated

Wise
in their
own
every turn.
at
Professing to be wise they became fools.
ed.
They were
dealing
with a Master in Mind and in Soul, but
they could not see what they
We
We
knew
not.
only see what we are after
all.
judge others really by our
own
Our
eyes
may
be defective, and
seek to enlighten them

is
foolish hearts were darken
conceits, their
or
criticise,
sight.
while
we judge
we may
others and
find that the fault
our own; that we are deceived, and blinded, and led astray
by the great
Had
our
brilliancy of
they
known how
own wary mind.

puny
small and
their
dwarfed souls were they would have known
little,
narrow,
much more than
they thought they knew.
They were
we
see
how
a perfect illustration of
it
blinds
the
heart
egotism and conceit, and
and
holds
men from
the
truth.
harlot, a publican, or a sinner,
bigoted, conceited
of
God
mind
that
cannot teach him.
is
knows
not half
so
much
as hopeless as a
that even a
Son
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TEACHINGS
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of
Church
of the
Matther, 22 chapter; 23 verse to close.
Golden Text
"Thou
thy heart, and with
all
shalt love the
Lord thy
thy soul, and with
all
God
thy
with
all
mind,
and
the
law
thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."

Jesus said
"On
these
two commandments hang
all
and the prophets."
When we
These are the commandments of love.

with
the heart and Soul and mind,
,all
heart and the soul, and
we
we know we have
love
purify the
attained
God
mind
the
that
the
all
law and the prophets teach us.
Then when we
is
the
are perfect in the first
commandment which
and the greatest we know to "love our neighbor
first
as
ourselves."
This
is
hard thing to do some times and mortals
able to gain a very great part of
it.
As long
neighbor by mortal sight and law and vision

his defects, his failures
we put on
much
we
we know
akin to us, and he
is
are
not
ue judge our
will
and reason to not love him.
the Soul of a Master
indeed very
as
always see
But when
that our neighbor
is
our brother whether
bad or whether good and we then learn to look upon him

brother.


as a
Verse 23
They
"The
same day the Sadducees came
Jesus.
to
did not believed in a resurrection of the Soul, and said to
him."
Verse 24
"Master,
Moses
children, his brother shall
man
said, If a
marry
his wife,
and hath no
die,
and
up seed un-
raise
to his brother."
Verse 25
first
"Now, there were with us seven brethren; and the
when he married
a wife, deceased,
and having no
issue left
his wife unto his brother."
Verse 26
"Likewise the second
also,
and the third unto the
seventh."
Verse
Verse
27 "And last of all the

28 "Therefore, in the
she be of the seven, for
Verse
29 "Jesus
wife died also."

resurrection
whose wife
shall
married her?"
all
and said unto them, Ye do
answered
err,
not knowing the Scripture nor the power of God."
This part
of the Scripture
understanding the Scriptures
The Sadduucees
did not
They thought, and think

rection,
be
by
when
a great
is
very simple.
it is
know what
day of resur-
up from
and
The philosophy
The
their graves
good together and the bad, and
a great personal Being they call
state.
the ressurrection was.
yet, that there is a great
the dead shall rise
set apart, the
problem to many, but
of the
resurrection
is
judged
God.
no such confusing
Ancients teach
AWKENING
the
will be
will
of the Soul and
its
rebirth into the Christ, or Master.
Thus, as Jesus
nor the power
The passing
is
of
said,
"Ye do
err,
not
knowing
the Scriptures
God."
of the soul
not resurrection, for
from the body
many
seen the ressurrection, and
into the Soul world
souls pass over which have never
some never
will.
They do not marry
Soul world, for the soul simply
in the
prepares for reincarnation.
Verse 31
"But
as touching the resurrection of the dead,
have
ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,"
Verse 32
Isaac,
am the God of Abraham, and the God of

God of Jacob. God is not the God of the dead
"I
and the
LIVING."
but of the
Who
are the Living?
Many
are in the flesh
who
are
dead to God.
Therefore,
who
are the living?
What were Abraham,

They were Godlike
obedient men.
men and women
Therefore, the living

dient;
and Jacob?
Isaac
and the resurrection day
is
the
are
Godlike
and obe-
day the Soul becomes
Godlike and obedient.
They were astonished

were the
infidels of
at this doctrine.
that day,
The Sadducees, who
had never heard any teachings
like this before.
The Churches from
God
ped the
the beginning have sought and worship-
of the dead.
There
is
no God of the dead. They
have no God, but darkness and destruction; and God, the

Creator,
not the
is
God
of darkness nor of destruction.
"While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus

Verse 41
asked them:"
Verse 42
son
is
think ye of
the Christ?
Whose
he?"
They
The
"Saying, What
said unto him,
Christ to
blood of David.
One God.
"The son of David."
them meant the descendant of the

It
did not
mean
flesh
and
the true Conception of
the
They could not
see
beyond the
flesh,
the
how
material, so
could they understand a Christ beyond that?

Verse 43
spirit call
hand
The
till
unto them, How, then, doth David in
him Lord, saying:"
Verse 44
right
"He saith
"The
till
Lord said unto
make
Lord, Sit thou on
my
thine enemies thy footstool."
Christ said unto
make
my
my
Soul, Sit thou
on
my
right
hand
thine enemies thy footstool.
Obey, keep
faith with the Master
put beneath the
feet.
until all evil
is
subdued-

of the
Church
of
Matthew, 23rd chapter;
Golden Text "He
13th verses.
1st to
that
is
the
among you
greatest
shall
be
your servant."
There
a vast difference in the greatness of the soul
is
The world
greatness of the material ambitions and influences.
an influential
call
man
great,
and the
without regard to soul or
spirit.
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.
dent;
world
him
calls
The
great
man who
can
ual.
The
great.
ually great
great.
But he
is
in
man
is
the
spiritual
live,
great
and think, and
man
in the
nowise great
man
serve,
and
worldly sense
dies.
Christ
is
not necessarily
who
one
material needs and pleasures of
necessary for
him
to serve in the spirit
must take the position of servant

one
in
The
the Spirit.
above the master
Verse
die for others
The
is
spirit-
man LIVES.
servant of
lessen
The
of great soul.
waits on the
far
in the Spirit-
who
is
in all things.
in a household,
servant
serves and
others, but
who
is
it
If
it
is
one
does not
great in soul
is
without soul.
"Then spake Jesus to the multitudes and to
ciples,"

ALL RIGHTS OF TITLE AND MATTER RESERVED!

his dis-
"Saying, The
Verse 2
and Pharisees
Scribes
in
sit
Moses*
seat."
They
up
themselves
set
the law, and in the
as teachers of
synagogues.
Verse 3
observe
you observe,
whatsoever they bid
"All, therefore,
but do ye not after their works, for they say
and do;
and do not."
They were
They taught
hypocrites.
their hearts,
and
what they preached, and,
practice
were not true disciples of the

Verse 4
"For
borne, and lay

will not
they bind heavy
much
pay,
of Truth.
burdens and grievous to be
their fingers."
a teacher or preacher
much
reverence,
Who
gave nothing in return?
therefore,
shoulders, but they themselves
remove them with one of
Did you ever know

work,
Law and
them upon men's
in
Their teachings were good,
in secret did evil.
but they did not
law of Moses, but
the
They were wicked
they did not obey that law themselves.
from
did
who
exacted
his followers
much
but
who
work, only when the
not
multitudes were watching them, and that only in the ceremonious and
showy
These people are
part?
You have known them.

Verse
they
5 "But
make broad
all
all
of
the
same
class.
They promise much, but do nothing.
their
works they do
their phylacteries,
to be
seen of
men;
and enlarge the borders of
their garments."
Verse 6
"And they love the uppermost rooms
and the chief

Verse 7
seats in the
at the feasts,
synagogues."
"And greetings
in the
markets, and
to be called of
men, Rabbi, Rabbi."

Praise and self-glory, and worldly
Among
teach
these
are
power they seek and claim.
the Black Magicians,
who
many, but do not even follow the
they teach.
claim
little
much and
Truth
in
what
Verse 8
"But be ye not
even Christ, and
ter,
Call no
man
for one
called Rabbi;
your Mas-
is
are brethren.
all
Master until you
know
he
is
a Christ, a
Son
of
the living God, and teacher and doer of Truth.
Verse 9
one
is
"And
This has no
many
no man your father upon the
call
your Father, which
who
teachers are called spiritual fathers,
which
father,
purified
and
These
least.
awakened
is
call
"Neither
Verse 10
is
but one
your mind and soul are
His likeness.
in
ye called
be
are not fatherly
not father. There
WITHIN you when
is
for
whatever to our earthly parents, but
reference
or heavenly in the
earth;
heaven.
in
is
Master;
one
for
your
is
Master even Christ."
Do
he
is
and
illuminated
luminated
and
mankind, then
ters
every
not follow
attains
is
who
remember
talks
is
shall
No one can
who seeks to
To humble
exalt self
oneself
seeks
is il*
to benefit
There are none Mas*
this,
NO MASTER EVER
He who
is
a Master does not
shall exalt himself shall be abased;
humble himself
exalt self
unrighteous soul
selfish,
the soul
no Master.
"And whosoever
Verse 12
and he that
himself Master until
When
the Christ.
CALLS HIMSELF A MASTER.

he
calls
a Master in Christ.
but the Christs, and
talk;
who
pure, humble, helpful, and
is
it
teacher
is
shall be exalted."
and become
worthy
destroys the real

dies,
to
and
is,
become
self,
disciple.
And he
the Soul, for the
therefore, abased.
receptive
and meek
in the
attainment of the true, the soul-beautiful, and the love of righteousness.
and
its
The
evils
true
and
He who says
Truth."
soul
is
exalted above
all
the carnal world
lusts.
"I
am
a Master,
is
a liar
and knows
not the
THE
4^| IRRECONCILABLE

of
of the
Church
Matthew, chapter 23rd; 13th to 25th
Golden Text "These
verses.
ought ye to have done, and not to
leave the others undone."
The
Pharisees worshipped to be seen of
and brought
their tribute to the temple,
cinnamon; but they omitted to worship
was
It
right
These
ple.
and
for
just
them
are the things they
leave the others undone.
It
have given material things.
gifts
of anise, mint and
in the Spirit
and Truth.
to bring the gifts to the tem-
ought to have done, but not to
would have been
have given righteous judgment,
to
men, and they paid
faith
They gave
for
better
them
and mercy, than \o
to be seen of
men, and
cared not for righteous judgment, mercy and faith.
Verse 13
"Woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites;
for ye shut
ther go
to
go
them
for ye nei-
that are entering
in."
it
did not
was.
know
the
kingdom
of heaven, where
it
was,nor
Instead of this they taught the traditions and doc-
men, which shut up the heaven against men, and could
trines of
not
yourselves, neither suffer ye
in
They
what
up the kingdom of heaven against men;
show
the true
Verse 14
way
to those
"Woe unto you
who
sought the Truth.
Scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites; for
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widows homes, and
ye devour
for a pretense
make
long; pray-
ye shall receive greater condemnation."
ers; therefore
Dishonest men, teachers
and
honest, truthful
sincere, bring
demnation than they
The law and
and pretenders,
who
pretend to be
to themselves greater con-
give.
justice
meet out to others returns back to
they
the soul of the giver.
Verse 15
"Woe unto you
and land to make one proselyte, and when he
ye compass sea
is
made
make him twofold more
ye
the child of hell than your-
selves."
proselyte
They were
who
is
who
Gentiles,
accepted
who
one
turns from one religion to another.
were not born of Jewish parents, but
the Jewish religion
They were allowed
to
worship standing
who
There were some
the temple.
and were not circumcised.

in the outter courts of
accepted circumcision, and
these were admitted into the inner court of the temple.

these terms are symbolic, but the
In the Osirian philosophy
Jews followed them

Verse 16
"Woe
soever shall
shall
literally.
unto you ye blind guides, which say who-
swear by the temple,
it is
nothing; but whosoever
swear by the gold of the temple, he
"Ye
Verse 17
fools
and
blind, for
is
a debtor."
whether
greater, the
is
gold, or temple that sanctifieth the gold?"
man may
This the same teaching that
sin
with the body (the
temple), and then pay with gold for sanctification and the forgiveness
of
sin.
If
the soul
is
pure, the
temple
is
pure; and
gold cannot purify nor cleanse from sins the evil body, but the
pure body purifies
"And
Verse 18
all
the material needs
whosoever
shall
we must
use.
swear by the
nothing, but whosoever sweareth by the gifts that

is
guilty."
Verse 19
"Ye
fools
and
blind, for
whether
altar
is
is
upon
it
it
is
he
greater, the
or the altar that sactifieth the gift?"
gift,
An
evil gift is
a good
given upon an evil
The
altar.
Soul gives; so one

Verse 20
altar
is
and
it
upon
what the
not greater than the other.
swear by the
therefore, shall
altar,
things thereon."
all
All are the same.
gift
the Soul, and the gifts are
is
"Whosoever,
sweareth by
and a good
altar,
If
the altar
clean,
is
all
things thereon are
clean.
Verse
eth by
21 "And
it
and him that
the temple
If
whosoever
is
evil.
Verse 22
throne of
he that
God and by him
To swear
to a thing
admit heaven,
is
mind and
truth, but
"And
swear by the temple, swear-
DWELLETH THEREIN."
pure, the
sworn purity and
shall
is
if
soul are pure; and he has
he
evil,
has sworn himself to
heaven, sweareth by the
swear by
that sitteth thereon."
to admit
it,
to believe
to admit the throne of
God
therefore, to
it;
and him that
sit-
teth thereon.
Heaven
a purified
is
swears by, or admits the throne of
God.
Verse 24
low
and when the Soul
state of the Soul,
God WITHIN
"Ye blind guides, which
it,
strain at a gnat
it
admits
and swal-
a camel."
The worship
self-exalted
of the spirit
Pharisee.
He
is
too
much
for the self-righteous,
criticises, rejects
and
scoffs at the
simple truths of God, yet swallows (believes) the fairy
and traditional errors and symbols of the Elders.
many around
us today, the
word Occultism, and

Sanctuary, the
so-called leaders,
who
tales
There are
scoff
at
the
will not accept the teachings of the Inner
purification of the Soul in Truth, humility
sincerity, yet they believe the
monster
God
of the
Jews and
and
the
symbols, instead of the Spiritual interpretation and the philoso-
phy of Jesus and
the Ancients.
f-

of
Church
of the
Matthew, 23rd chapter; 25th verse to
Golden Text "Blessed
close.
name
he that cometh in the
is
of the
Lord."
The
upon
blessings of
who come
all
Fire
Fire.
is
heaven are many, and they are poured out

to be baptized of the
the Holy
the Soul, and
Holy Ghost and with
Ghost
is
the Sunship, or
Sonship, or the Christ.

Verse 25
ye
make
you
"Woe unto you
Scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites, for
the cup
clean the outside of
are full of extortion
This
is
and
and
platter, but
within
success.
pretended righteousness, the pretended, clean mind
and soul; but within the mind dwells the the thoughts of extortion
and excess, of corruption and
evil,
and
the cup and

"Thou blind Pharisees, cleanse
Verse 26
the Soul
this
the inside of
is
platter.
WITHIN
the cup and platter
first
that the outside of
that
which
is
them may be
clean also."
Purify and
and think
cleanse the
will be
All the outside

is.
It
mind and
soul,
and
all
you do, say
pure and clean.
works
will
manifest what the
inside actually
always does.
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Verse 27
"Woe unto you
ye are like unto whited sepulchers, which, indeed, appear beau-
outward but within
tiful
dead men's bones and
are full of
all
uncleanness."
There are
who
many handsome men, and many

very beautiful outwardly, and
appear
NOT ABLE TO
are
SOUL,
but
mind and
who
soul.
the souls of
are
to
hypocritical and
so,
men, but within ye
who
unlean
in
thought,
was never deceived by such.
He saw
men, and he read them
"Even
Verse 28
deceive those
AND READ AND SEE THE
SEE
vile,
Jesus
women,
beautiful
aright.
ye also outwardly appear righteous un-
are full of hyprocrisy
"Woe unto you

Verse 29
cause ye build the tombs of
and iniquity."
Scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites, be-
the prophets and garnish the sep-
ulchers of the righteous.
Verse 30
fathers
"And
we would
say,
ye had been in the days of the our
If
been partakers with them
not have
in the
blood of the prophets."

Verse 31
"Therefore, ye
be witnesses unto
yourselves that
ye are the children of them which killed the prophets."
They knew no
They
called
him
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."
was the same they used
iniquity.
;
Verse 33
"Ye
for themselves
blindness,
serpents, ye generation of vipers,
evil
how
and
can ye
escape the damnation of hell?"
How
can the ignorant of truth, the blind and material escape
from the condemnation of

destroy the soul?
their
own
laws and thoughts, which
Verse 34
men and
wise
fy,
"Wherefore, behold,
them from
in the footsteps of
ets.
Verse 35
shed upon
and
cruci-
to city."
beliefs
and blindness, they would
who
their fathers,
"That upon you may come
-the earth,
shall kill
your synagogues, and
shall scorge in
city
In their bigotry, false
low
send unto you prophets and
and some of them ye
scribes,
and some of them ye
persecute
killed the old
all
fol-
proph-
the righteous blood
from the blood of righteous Able unto the
blood of Zacharias, son of
Barachias,
whom
between
ye slew
the temple and the altar."
Righteousness
body, and
is
it
destoyed and cast out from the soul and the
is
the blood of the prophets, in
symbolism
as well
as in the literal sense."
Verse
upon
36 "Verily
say unto you,
all
these things shall
And every
other generetion that rejects the Truth.
"O
Verse 37
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou
prophets and stonest
would
them
that are
the Soul
the Christ
is
how
rejected
often
as a
would
hen
not.
unto you desolate."
and stoned from the Soul,
desolate and lost.
"For
Verse 39
till
is killed,
is left
the
killest
have gathered thy children together, even
"Behold your house

Verse 38
When
that
sent unto thee,
gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye
forth
come
this generation."
say unto
ye shall say, Blessed
you, ye
is
shall not see
he that cometh
me
in the
hence-
name
of
the Lord."
Christ
is
not seen
with' Fire (Soul)
except by
those
who who
and the Holy Ghost (Christ).
are
baptized
SoulScience
AND
SUCCESS

of
of the
Church
1st to
12th verses.
no man deceive you."

Golden Text "Take heed
"And Jesus went out and departed from the temVerse

that
ple;
and
his disciples
came
to
him
for to
show him
the build-
ings of the temple."
Like
who
who admire
all
take pride in
the beautiful structures of the earth, and
them, the disciples showed Jesus
all
the
won-
derful works, the carvings and furnishings of the temple.
Verse 2
things?
"And
Verily
said unto
Jesus
them, See ye not
say unto you, there shall not be
all
these
here one
left
stone upon another that shall not be thrown down."
beauty and
All the
the
temples, churches
wonderful works of the material things,
and
cites, will
crumble and decay,
time every stone shall be thrown down.

with
hands, and
It is
In
the temple built
Only
will not
endure to the end.
disciples
seem to have understood
the Soul
endureth forever.
Verse 3
"The
ing in this
his
mean-
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.
"And
Verse 4
man
heed that no
"For many
Verse 5
and
Christ,
and said unto them, Take
answered
Jesus
deceive you."
shall
shall deceive
come
in
my
name, saying,
am
many."
Many what?
Men who
Many men.
own minds; men who have no
"And
Verse 6
but the end
We
is
ye shall hear of
all
thoughts, motives
pressure
upon the
to pass;
Purity
lifts
it.
The
the
up; evil
evil
towns and
town and
down.
cities
where the
cities
atmosphere
presses
and
The atmosphere
atmosphere.
and physical
mental, moral, spiritual

uplifting.
upon
earth.
are under heavier pressure than
evil is
come
and deeds are gloomy, heavy
they create a heavy
dark, and
things must
was ever destroyed except by
understand that no world
produces
wars and rumors of wars;
not yet."
the vibrations from the evil souls

Evil
illusions of their
proof, and can give none.
ye be not troubled, for
see that
by the
are led away*
is
pure and
Purity
is
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
able to control
is
not
Ten righteous men could have save Sodom, but

be found, and the evil overcame
Verse 7
"For nation
shall
with the
ten could not
of destruction.
against nation, and
be famines, and
brought
and wickedness of the people, for
ning of sorrows.
fire
atmosphere.
kingdom
pestilences,
in divers places."
All these great troubles are
tions
it
shall rise
against kingdom; and there
and earthquakes
few righteous
yet, for the
and purify the evil-charged
about by the
all
evil condi-
these are the begin-
Verse 9
shall
"Then
shall they deliver
you; and ye
kill
you up
be hated
shall
of
to be afflicted,
and
nations for
my
all
name's sake/'
The Truth and
the Christ are hated and destroyed, and have
The message
been from the foundation of the world.

of the Christ have been stoned
day by
and the Black Brothers,
evil
bearers
and persecuted, and are to
who have always
this
persecut-
ed righteousness and the Christ.
10 "And
Verse
then
shall
many
offended and shall be-
be
tray one another, and shall hate one another."
And
this
Teachers
manifested
is
who
at this
much
claim
day and age very
and betray the Truth
are offended
through greed, through desire for fame and

of the world and
Verse 11
its
"Many
praises
false
plainly.
self
and for riches
and worship.
prophets shall
arise,
and
shall deceive
many."
They
strife
are here with this generation.
There
is
contention and
between teachers, leaders and students because of
known by
The
false doctrines.
Truth
able to prove
not by any outward demonstration but
it,
is
the
true.
their
true are
WITH-
IN the Soul.
Verse 12
many
"And
shall
wax
because
iniquity shall
abound the love of
cold."
False and ignorant teachings, produce evil, and even
the
student
teachers.
is
sincere
he
is
often
led into error
though
by these
false
Finding no Truth he turns away, believing nothing*
and thereby losing
"But he that
all
shall
that he
had believed.
endure unto the end the same shall be
saved."
Go
on seeking Truth.
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
the
power of your own Soul.

of the
Church
of
Matthew, 24th chapter; 13th to 32nd
Golden Text "But he that
shall
verses.
endure to the end the same
shall be saved."
In this lesson the
Master warns the disciples of the great
er-
ror in following false Christs and false teachers.
You
ask what a false Christ
God
or conception of what
tion of
What
The
ception
Ghost.
He taught
God.
true conception
the Soul of
is
Jesus taught the true concep-
is.
God?
The
the Fire of the Soul.
God.
God's Soul
is
true
con-
the Fire, the
Holy
can be proven.
It
Verse 14
all
is
false Christ is a false idea
the true Christ and manifested him.
the true conception of
is
is?
The Gospel
of the
the world for a witness to
all
Kingdom
shall be
preached in
nations; and then shall the end
come."
God
God is
not
is
LIFE.
He
personal Being "like unto corruptible

is
duces and creates.

ple of the
the
This
Kingdom.
ESSENCE
is
the
Word
The chance
will be given to all; then will the
Verse 15
"When
of
of
absolute,
and
knowing
the Gos-
is
the
true
God
end come.
ye, therefore, shall see the
desolation spoken of by Daniel
man."
Life, the Fire that pro-
the prophet
abomination of
stand in the holy


(Whosoever readeth let him understand).

The abominations of desolation is called Babylon.
places.
is
symbol of wickedness, of greed, of
the
The Babylonians were
the flesh.
thieves,
and
evil
all
is
evil stands in the soul
man
holds
thoughts
"Then
all
Verse 16
let
plunderers, murderers and
the abomination of
of men,
Babylon
materiality, of lust, of
WHICH
When
desolation.
IS the holy place, for
in his soul.
them which be
in
Judea
flee
into the
mountains."
Judea represents Truth.
from
safety
Verse 17
Let
them which know Truth seek
all evil.
"Let him which
is
on the house top not come down
to take anything out of the house/'
Take nothing out from
down and
the Soul that
is
Do
good.
not
come
desire anything material.
Verse 18
"Neither
let
him which
is
in the field return
back
to take his clothes."
The
the harvest field
field is
Return not to
of the Christ.
material things.
Verse 19
them
"And
woe unto them
that are with child,
and to
that give suck in those days."
This
is
the travail of the Soul giving birth to the Christ.
brings suffering and great agony to the material.
Truth feeds
the, Soul, the child.
All
who have
It
The milk of
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.
Verse 22
should
no
is
the tearing of the Soul
from the
desires of the
"And except those days should be shortened there

flesh
be saved;
shall be shortened."
but for the
elects'
sake those days
The
great terrors of the breaking
away from
the old
and
life
its illusions.
The coming into a realization of the Christ and his judgThe student must be protected by the Master at this
ment.
and realization or he cannot endure.
stage of development
is
more than mortal
severe, but are swift
Note carefully:
"Then
Verse 23
and soon passed.
any
if
Christ or there believe
trials
and
It
tests are
The student stands
or
and
shall
show
man
shall say
unto you, Lo, here
shall arise false Christs
great signs
25 "Behold
and
false
and wonders; insomuch
were possible, they shall deceive the very

Verse
is
not."
it
"For there
Verse 24
it
These
as he himself will to do.
fall,
ets,
can stand.
flesh
prophthat, if
elect."
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
one way to the Christ
NOT
one door
to the
day, but there
is
only
sheepfold, and that
through phenomena or so-called wonders, often the
is
tricks
of false teachers or disembodied ghouls and vampires.
Verse 26
is
"Wherefore,
in the desert,
ber, believe
IN
it
if
they shall say unto you, behold he
go not forth;
behold he
is
in the secret
cham-
not."
CHRIST IS NOT A MAN IN A DESERT PLACE NOR

THE SECRET CHAMBERS OF A MOUNTAIN, as some
There are a few
TRUE
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
claim.
man
is
Christ
Christ.
is
the
of
Man
be."
The Son
Soul
tion
is
his
or
Sun
Sun.
of Man, what
Lightning
is
is it?
It is
his Soul.
ILLTMINATION.
Man's
Illumina-
comes from the Masters of the East and of THE MASunto the West.
The Truth first came to the Eastern
TERS
and
lands,
is
the
is
now
The Truth
Illuminating the Western world.
Son or Sun.
Vsrse 28
"For
wheresoever the carcass
is,
will the
-there
eagles be gathered together/*
The
carcass represents the Truth, as
This
eat of the carcasses.
we know how
the eagles
but symbolic of the gathering of
is
the hungry for Truth.
Verse 29
shall the
light,
"Immediately
after the
sun be darkened, and the
and the
stars
tribulation of these days
moon
shall not give her
from heaven, and the powers of
shall fall
the heavens shall be shaken."
Mind
represents
mind
the material
heaven.
will
All the desires of the
All'
the
not give
mind
glories
and brightness of
light to the
shall be
awakened Soul
shaken even to the brightest
star of its ambitions.
Verse 35
Man
in
"And
then
shall
heaven, and then shall
and they
shall
see the
appear the sign of the Son of

all
the tribes of the earth
Son of Man coming
in the
mourn,
clouds of
heaven with power and great glory."
The mind
will
know and
accept the Christ, then
of evil of the earthly illusions shall

in the
Mind
in
power and Glory.
mourn when
all
the tribes
Christ
dwells

of
Matthew, 24th chapter; 32nd verse to the
close.
lk
Watch, therefore,
Golden Text
doth
come."
your
Lord
hour
Verse 32
branch
mer
33 "So
Verse
that
it
The Truth
in
know
for ye
what
the
fig'
tree;
when
fruit,
ye
know
that
a parable of
and putteth forth
not
his
sum-
nigh."
is
know
"Now, learn
yet tender,
is
Church
of the
is
likewise ye,
when ye
shall see all these things
near, even at the door."
The Christ conception
here.
po vwer and wonders.
its
all
is
This
is
is
being taught
the "putting forth of
leaves."
The ripening
of
summer
to look for the Truth,
is
nigh, for
and the minds of
the world
many
are
is
beginning
shaken from
the false beliefs, opinions and heresies of the unenlightened.
Verse 34
not pass
We
Verily,
till
all
has ever
GENERATION
Fire
is
say unto you, this generation shall
the second
known
the greatest
since
shall not pass
till
awakening the
the days of Jesus.

all
coming of the Christ
relig-
THIS
these things be fulfilled.
the Soul
baptism of
and Holy Ghost.
Verse 35
shall
these things are fulfilled."
are at the threshold of
ious world
This
verily
"Heaven and earth
shall pass
away, but
my
never pass away."


words
Mind and
LIVE.
away, but
shall pass
flesh
"But of that day and hour
Verse 36
my
not the angels of heaven, but
We know
within us
the words of
not, nor
knoweth no man
no,
Father only."
do even the gods know; but the Father
knows when me
"But
Verse 37
TRUTH
as the
are purified
and acceptable.
Noah
days of
were, so shall
also the
coming of the Son of Man be."
The Soul of man awakened.
"For
Verse 38
and giving
in
marriage,
and feasted and made merry; but when
flesh ruled
RULED
all
God
was destroyed.
flesh
"And
knew
not
away; so
shall
also the
Verse 39
them
that were before the flood they
the days
day that Noah entered the ark."
until the
The
as
and drinking, marrying
were eating
flood
until the
coming of
came and took

the Son of Man
be."
He
will take
when
it
Verse
away
is at its
40 "Then
taken and the other
The good and
Every man
Good shall
ally.
that
is
material,
and of the
flesh even,
two be
shall
in the field;
the one shall be
left."
the bad, the spiritual and the desire of the flesh
shall dwell within
self.
all
zenith.
man.
This does not mean two men, especi-
has a chance to choose, and chooses for himbe taken, and
accumulate with good.
will
Evil will be left or destroyed.
Verse 41
one
"Two
shall be
Good
light
will
women
be separated from
and Christ, the other
es.
Verse 42
shall
taken and the other
may
"Watch, therefore,
your Lord doth come."

"But know
Verse 43
be
grinding
at the mill;
the
left."
evil.
be
One woman may
left in
for
ye
choose
darkness. She choos-
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
up."
Man
know when
does not
Soul.
If
not choose evil and
illusions,
its
44 "Therefore,
Verse
as ye think not the
and the
the evil
knew
he did know, and
flesh
destroys his
would
the consequences, he
would
but
cling to the Truth.
be ye also ready; for in such an hour
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
There
no pretense
at
is
best to be
passes into
always prepared and not only
"Who then
Verse 45
meat
If
accumulated
dssires.
therefore,
at certain hours.
whom
household, to give them
his
due season."
in
the Soul
makes Christ
the
ruler over
all its
desires,
it
is
and wise servant of the Father.
faithful
Verse 46
cometh,
"Blessed
is
that servant
whom
his Lord,
when he
shall find sd doing."
The servant of Christ

"But and make him servantover
Verse 48
Verse 47
is
unto you, that he shall
blessed, for "Verily
ruler
if
my
It is,
and wise servant,
a faithful
is
Lord hath made ruler over
his
rts
judgment.
the final
all
say
his goods."
shall say in his heart
that evil
Lord delayeth his coming,"
Verse 49
"And
shall begin to smite his fellow servants,
and
to eat and drink with the drunken,"
Eat
who
and drink with those
the flesh.
Verse 50
"The
when he looketh
aware of,"
Verse 51
"And
lord of
live
that servant
not for him, and
shall
cut
on the
him
portion with the hypocrites; there
in
shall
lusts of evil
come
an hour that
in a
he
is
and
day
not
asunder and appoint him his

shall
be weeping, and gnash-
ing of teeth."
Evil does not rule always.
The Soul
will demand
It
will be
at
some
It
cannot escape the Judgment.
time, at a day
recognition, and
white or black.
is
and an hour not known,
recognized by
its
own
deeds.
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of
1st to
14th verses.
Golden Text "Behold the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to

meet him."
The Christ
vine
is
Verse
gins
is
ready; the Truth
ready; go you and meet

1
"The
which took
is
ready; the Soul of the Di-
it.
kingdom of heaven
their
is
unto ten
likened
lamps and went forth
to
vir-
meet the bride-
groom."
The word of Truth comes

meet Truth, sooner or
Verse 2
Verse 3
took no
All
"And
"They
later,
five of
oil
to everybody.
Every one must
and either accept or
them were
wise,
and
which were foolish took
reject
it.
five foolish."
their lamps,
and
with them."
The Soul can
have Soul.
wayward and
give Light;
lustful after the material,
to the bridegroom, for
there
is
no
but
foolish
and
it
cannot light the
way
if
there
if
no
desire for
in their vessels
with their
oil
is
the attainment of the Christ.
Verse 4
"But
the
wise took
oil
lamps."
The wise know
that
without desire for Truth the Soul can
not attain Sonship and Unity with

oil
there can be
Verse
and
no
the Father, for without the
light.
5 "While
the bridegroom tarried, they
all
slumbered
slept."


We
through
until the soul
sleep
all
many
ages in
sleep because of
no
Verse 6
"And
Some have
incarnation, and
different stages of
desire for the attainment of
Some
and knowledge of Truth.

they are foolish and
awakened.
is
WILL
at
slept
still
Immortal Life
never awaken.
It is
because
not.
midnight there was a cry
made, Behold
the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him,"
The
cry comes to
We
all.
all
hear
it
sooner
We
or later.
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
hear
it
the lusts and desires of the flesh.
7 "Then
Verse
all
those virgins
arose,
and trimmed the
the lam ps."
We
for
all
arise
and make ourselves ready to receive something
Even the
self.
foolish,
who know
not what
they should
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.
or would
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
beyond
drink everything they want to
want
to do.
eousness, yet
existence, they expect to
peaceful,
They
hymns.
sing
teach
work.
the foolish
They
Verse 8
oil,
prepared
all
for our
drink, and
do everything they
They break every law of health, love and rightwhen they come to die, or throw of the mortal
go to heaven, a place beautiful and

walk golden streets and
for them, and
teach celibacy, and
marry
secretly;
they
in the
blood.
This
their
that the
soul
is
is
are the foolish virgins.
The
lamps
These are the
foolish said
are
unto the wise, Give
us. of
your
gone out."
words of Truth presented
to them,
and they
who do
begin to seek knowledge from those
Verse 9
Then they
They cannot understand.
cannot receive them.
understand.
"But the wise answered, saying, Not
be not enough for us and
so; lest
there
ye rather to them that
you; but go
and buy for yourself."
sell,
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
They
knowledge.
teach, because they
ask others
go to those authorized to
do not want to come under the Laws. They
are not willing to
who have
thinking that they
received, but are not
can obtain
knowledge
The
without coming under the law.

to seek
from them
authorized to teach,
in
an
illigal
truly wise will
have to
that are authorized, that
manner,
tell
them
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
The Masters can show you
velop your soul or think for you.

the
way and
they cannot
yourself.
Verse 10
protect
you from the
accept the Christ for
"And
while
they
evil
must do
that
in
with him to the mar-
and the door was shut."
Those who know and

is
YOU
went to buy, the bridegroom
came, and they that were ready went

riage,
along the journey, but
you.
are ready to accept
him; and the door
often closed to the foolishness of the ignorant and unenlight-
ened
It is
very bad to put
velopment, for
are the foolish virgins.
never come.
off the
when we
day of enlightenment and deit may be too late, and we
are ready
NOW
is
the day; for
tomorrow may
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and he
shall
31st.
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be iven,
shall
have abundance; but from him that hath not
away even
be taken
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Matthew, 25th chapter; verses 14th to
Golden Text
of the
shall
that he hath."
Whatever we have we seek more of it. If we have knowwe seek knowledge and more is given, for our under-
ledge
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
is
is
because
Verse 15
was given
every
We have the story of

five talents, to
man
how
the talents
that "one
another two, and to another
according to his several
one;
to
abilities."
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
Talents represent ability.

to
If
must use
make grow, or accumulate.

and
"He that received the
it
it
Verse 16
five talents
with the same, and
We
perfect.
we can
made them
know full well that study,

we know very little, and
improve; we can become more
all
If
went and traded
five other talents."
practice,
use
what
and use makes

little
perfect in the
we have,
little,


even
if it is
labor
manual labor we can do

is
There
necessary.
is
provement, no matter what
"And
Verse 17
it
better
by
practice,
and
ALL
not one thing unnecessary for imit
is.
likewise he
that
had received the two, he
also gained other two."
"But he that received one, went and digged
Verse 18
He would have much, but he would

not capable, so he did nothing
It is
and
better to try,
Verse 19
"After
in the
money."
earth and hid his lord's
fail,
at all.
He thought he was
not.
He accumulated
than not to try
at
nothing.
all.
a long time the lord of those servants
com-
eth and reckoneth with them."
The Soul
sees
what
"And
Verse 20
me
behold
faithful servant;
make
had received
five talents
Lord, thou
came
delivereth
have gained more besides them
more."
"His lord
Verse 21
will
that
talents, saying,
five
five talents;
five talents
has done or accumulated.
so he
and brought other

unto
it
said unto him,
Well done thou good and
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
him and was
over what
therefore, he
faithful;
was
good there was
able to rule over
in
all
within his soul.
Verse 22
"He
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
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
man
This
He was
ing that
was
and went and hid thy talent
afraid,
there thou hast that
lo,
is
in
thine."
It was self and selfishness.

would give more than he received, not realizwas for HIMSELF the talent was given.
betrayed his blindness.
afraid he
it
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
one
else besides self.
It is
tle
a little
thus with
that
who
many
They
students.
are faithful to the
little
will receive the
"His lord answered and

Verse 26
said
ed and sinful servant, thou knewest that

not,
not follow the
will
given them, and thus receive no more.
is
and gathered where
all.
unto him,
1
lit-
While those
Thou
reap where
wick-
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
it
can yield good
exchangers, and
ceived mine
Verse 28
to
be,
"Thou oughtest,
own
then
at
for
if it will,
therefore, to
my
have put
coming
my money
should have
re-
with usury."
"Take,
him which hath
therefore, the
talent
from him and give
it
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
then
all is
Verse 30
if
the one last remaining spark
is
destroyed
lost.
"And
cast ye the
unprofitable
servant into outer
darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
The Soul
mains.
He turned
thought
stroyed
is
We
it
best,
all
never destroyed as long as one good thought
see
what the man did with
to himself, as
and not
he had.
his
HE THOUGHT,
as his lord
told
him
re-
one good thought.
and did
to do.
as he
And he
de-

Matthew, 25th chapter; 31st verse to
and
all
the
Church
of
Golden Text
of the
" When the
holy angels
close.
Son of Man
shall
come
with him, then shall he
in his glory
sit
upon
the
throne of his glory."
This
the
is
RECOGNITION
and
REALIZATION
of the
Christ within.
Verse 32
"And before him
shall he gathered all nations;
and
he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth

his sheep
from the goats."
Verse 33
"And he
the goats on the
The
left
shall set the
sheep on his right hand and
hand."
Christ will be the judge
when he comes.
judgment when he enters within us and takes up

us.
The good
in
our souls
the sheep are divided
Verse 34
hand,
"Then
Come
will
from the
shall
ye blessed of
his
face the
abode with
be separated from the
evil, as
goats.
the King say unto
my
We
them on
Father, inherit the
his right
kingdom
pre-
pared for you from the foundation of the world."
Truth has been from the foundation of the world.
and doctrines and theories of
men
Creeds
are not Truths; neither are


The
they Scripture.
Truth.
has been
It
gians and
BOOK the
Book
unable to understand
it
it,
has been rejected by some,

as Philosophy.
Wisdom,
of Ancient
who
are
The
Bible
the
Philosophy of the
composed
is
Egyptians, and has been copied from the original symbols.

the Philosophy of
is
men, who only

Verse 35
is
and
me
drink;
It
doctrines and creeds of
not
spiritual ignorance.
was an hungered, and ye gave meat;
and ye gave
athirst,
me
Old, and
err in Windless
"For
of
so grossly misrepresented by the theolo-
priests that
of the Symbols
THE
means
Bible
was
was
and ye took
a stranger,
in."
Verse 36
visited
The
naked,
"Naked,
me;
was
and ye clothed me;
in prison,
Christ within
sick,
and
we
feed
we
take IN the Christ, and
the Soul, give
Verse 37
thee
an
"Then
Verse 39
hungers,
Is
this not
thirsts, is
plain
and ye
to drink, clothe
we
stranger,
When
enough?
and heal
it,
then do
inherit Immortality.
shall the righteous say, Lord,
and fed thee?
hungered,
drink?"
it
sick,
and ye came to me."
the flesh
in prison.
was
"Or when saw we thee
or thirsty
sick, or in
when saw we
and gave thee
prison and
came
to thee?"'
how the
when we knew him not. What
hard to realize
Is is
we
just as
feed the
pity
the unfortunate
was
Christ
did
that
situated within us
benefit
and help them,
Christ within and awaken him,
for as
him?
just so
Ah,
do we
we THINK
so
do we BUILD.
Verse 40
Verily
"And
the King shall answer
and say unto them,
say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done
the least of these
my
brethren ye have done
it
it
unto one of
unto me."
Kindness, good will and love open the door to Christ.
When
we
and manifest love and good
love others
knows us and
Christ, and he
"Then
Verse 41
shall
we manifest
will
accepts us.
he say unto them
Depart from me, ye cursed, unto everlasting
on the
hand,
left
prepared for
fire,
the devil and his angels."

All evil
is
by the Christ,
always cast out and rejected
Christ does not dwell in evil and does not recognize

ishness, thoughtlessness
Verse
I
was
42 "For
athirst
Verse 43
ye clothed
The
me
was
and unkindness as righteous.
me no
a sranger
drink."
and ye took
not; sick and in prison,
me
and ye
not
when
or
how
"Then
Verse 44
saw we
naked, and
in;
visited
me
not."
cannot
materialist, the selfish, the sensual, the evil,
or realize
self-
evil,
was an hungered and ye gave me no meat;
and ye gave
"1
for
see
they reject the Christ.
shall they
thee an hungered, or
answer him, saying, Lord, when

athirst, or a stranger,
naked,
or
or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?"
Verse 45
"Then shall he answer them,
unto you, Inasmuch as ye did

these
my
We
brethren, ye did
it
it
saying, Verily
not unto one of
the
cannot shut our heart and
refuse
one brotherhood, one family,
all
Force, of the
same
least
of
not to me."
sympathy,
kindness,
generosity and patience to even the least of humanty,

are
say
begotten
of
for
the
we
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.
of
all
all;
humanity.
He loved
all;
he gave and benefited one as
God
is
no
respecter of persons.
Jesus recognized the
he healed
much
all;
tie
he strengthened
as the other.
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Golden Text
of the
will
1st to
29th verses.
keep the passover
at
thy house
with
disciples."
We
have the discription of the passover
means the passing over of
the Soul
in the text
from the
evil
book.
It
Sonship
into
and Christhood.
Jesus himself kept the passover.
flesh,
and
Son of Man must be
after this the
In the beginning of the lesson,
Lazarus,
him
who
Mary Magdalene,
came and annointed

possessed with seven
and Jesus
cast
them
out.
woman the selfwoman whom Jesus
She was
and loved, because she loved much and gave much.
brought the best

ter.
the sister of
woman
She was the
righteous and unenlightened scorned, but a

pitied
crucified.
Jesus raised from the dead,
for his burial.
devils,
the purification of the
It is
she had and gave
She knew what they knew
learning.
Verse 14
"Then
all
without
not,
stint to
and were
the Mas-
a long time
one of the twelve/called Judas
went out unto the chief
She
Iscariot,
priests."
"And said unto them, What

Verse 15
will ye give
me


and
him unto you?
will deliver
And
they covenanted with him for
thirty pieces of silver/'
Did he know the Christ?
See the Soul of Judas Iscariot!
Here one of the twelve taught personally by Jesus, and he was

still
darkened,
would
money more than
loved
still
than the Christ or
Judas
Life.
was one who knew the
Iscariot
laws and could use them.
He healed and
name
a Black Brother.
He was
of disciple.
taught, and wore the
that through
Mary Magdalene,
Judas sold him for
the scorned, gave her Soul to the Master.
Verse 20
He
Soul for the gold that was more precious to him
sell his
money, and
the Christ.
envy and jealousy.
"Now, when the even was come, he
sat
down
with
the twelve."
Verse 21
you
"And
that one of
The
Christ
one
who was
you
is
high priests of
as
they did
black,
said, Verily
say unto
shall betray me.''
betrayed
evil,
he
eat,
many
times into
of wickedness and vice.
who knew
always betray, his teacher.
the hands of the
knew
Jesus
that
not good and hated good would
He could
see the
Soul of Judas, as
he saw the Soul of the Magdalene.

Verse 22
"And they were exceedingly sorrowful, and began
every one of them to say unto him, Lord,
"And
Verse 23
hand with me
They
all
ate
he
answered and
in this dish, the
same
is it
said,
He
I?"
that dippeth his
shall betray
me."
from the same dish with him, and
as
he answer-
ed them they were unable to understand, with the exception of

Judas, for Judas
knew he had
already bargained to betray him.
"The Son of Man goeth

Verse 24
but
it
woe unto
had been
Perhaps
that
better
a fear
as
it
was written of him;
man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed;

for that man if he had not been born."
and misgiving came
to
Judas
at
these words,
for he said, ''Master
He
I?"
is it
unto
said
"Thou
him,
hast
said."
Judas represents
and which
forces antagonistic to good,
all
seek to betray or destroy the good.
Verse 26
blessed
Take,
"And
as they
and braked
it
my
eat, this is
it
were eating, Jesus took bread and
and gave
to the
it
accept the good, the Christ,
we
eat the
When we
Life.
Bread of
which
Life,
of.
"And he took the cup and gave thanks, and
Verse 27
it
is
Drink
to them, saying,
"For
Verse 25
many
shed for
Blood
the
is
did not give
is
my
of
it."
blood of the new testament which
Symbol
He gavs
of Life.
of the flesh did not give
any way except
life in
and manifesting the
onstrating,
gave
for the remission of sin."
The blood
Life.
this
all
is
we can
indeed the b*ody of Christ, and the only sustaining body

partake
said,
body."
was merely the symbol of the Bread of
It
and
disciples,
Life
life.
and he gives
Jesus the flesh
and dem-
in his teachings,
of
life
a true Christ, a
Son of
God, Sun of Good or Righteousness.

Verse 28
"But
say
unto you,
of the fruit of the vine until that day
you
in
my
Did he
will not
when
drink
drink
henceforth
it
new
with
Father's kingdom."
refer to the material
wine they drink?
No; he referred to the wine of Life which Christ would drink

with them
when they were
the Soul
the
drink
is
it.
Verse 30
into the
fruit of
the vine, the wine of
"And when they had sung
Mount
Life to
all
who
hymn, they went out
of Olives."
The hymn which they sung

the "Great Paschal Hallel," or
of Psalms
This Illumination of
Illuminated.
cxiii to cxviii;
or
after the last earthly
Hymn
supper was
of Praise, which
Psams 113
to 118.
consists
Chrjsthood
Atfo

of the
Church
of
Matthew, 26th chapter; verses 31st to 37th.
Golden Text
"Watch and pray,
tation; the spirit indeed
is
that ye enter not into
willing, but the flesh
temp-
weak."
is
Jesus understood that they were desirous of Truth, and willing to obey in the Spirit, but they were not
and the
flesh
desires of the flesh.
"Then
Verse 31
fended of
from the
yet freed
me
unto them, All ye shall be of-
said Jesus
this night; for
it
is
written,
will smite the shep-
herd and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad."

Verse 32
"But
after
am
risen
again,
go before you
will
into Galilee."
Galilee
recognizes the
Verse 33
fidelity
ways
awakened Soul. It is then the Soul sees and

Christ and the powers of the unseen worlds.
the
is
Here we read Peter's great promise of

which was broken before the dawn of day.
felt
sure of
so
himself, but in the
tests
and
faith
Peter
he often
al-
failed.
However, we have never read that he was discouraged. He

continued in the new faith with energy, and after his Illumination
none were stronger and more enduring than

promised,
all
deny thee."
is
"Though
But the
always weak and
the
should die
"flesh
is
he.
weak," and we find
unstable, but
we
And
with thee, yet will
think
it is
it
so yet.
strong
not
It
before
trial.

they
I

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."
And he prayed, "O my Father, if this cup may not

away from me except drink it, thy will be done."
pass
was the man of
Jesus
Christ
born unto
is
flesh in
all flesh,
Judas represents the
fied flesh.
whom
the Christ
evil of
the flesh, the dark side
or self-destroying Black Brothers; while Jesus

fied,
was born.
but Jesus was the awakened, puri-
and which accepts the Christ
is
as Father
the flesh puri-
and Light of
his
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.
the fear that the flesh might
that awaited him, but in
The cup
fil
came and
After he had prayed
"Rise
that doth betray
Verse 47
and received strength, he
them:
said to
Verse 46
staves,
him.
of weakness did pass so that he could go on and full-
his mission.
twelve,
fail
and
let
us be going; behold, he
is at
hand
me."
"And
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
Jesus
multitude
of
evil,
the chief
and elders of the people."

"And forthwith he (Judas) came to Jesus, and
Verse 49
priests
kissed him."
"And and
Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore
said, Hail, Master,
Verse 50
thou come?
Then came
they,
and
laid their
art
hands on Jesus,
and took him."
Even
after the betrayal thrust, Jesus called this
How many
give one
ousy and
of us could or would?
who hounded
still call
How many
man
"Friend."
of us could for-
us to the death through spite and jeal-
that one friend?
Jesus did.
Verse 51
"And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus

hand, and drew his sword, and struck a ser-
out his
stretched
vant of the high priest and smote off his ear."

Verse 52
"Then
sword into
Jesus unto
said
place; for
its
all
up again thy
him, Put
they that take the sword shall perish
with the sword/'
who
words, those
In other
their violent
by
evil,"
He
returned
through
Jesus taught the law of "non-
and he obeyed
resistance to evil
emy
"Friend."
are violent will perish
and deeds.
acts
it.
He
called the en-
gentleness, kindness
and forgive-
ness for evil.
"Thinkest
Verse 53
thou that
Father, and he shall presently give
cannot
me more
now pray
to
my
than twelve legion
of angels?"
Verse
it
54 "But how
shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus
must be done?"
How
could he
manifest
no death unless he
Verse 55
"In
laid
that
eternal,
life
How
yeilding to material death?
down
immortality, without
could he prove that there
is
his life?
same hour
said Jesus
to the multitude,
Are ye come out against a thief with swords and staves for to
me?"
take
Evil and wickedness always

It
was night
Light.
Verse 56
forces, the violent, the
"But
prophets might be
and
works under cover of darkness.
all this
fulfilled.
rabble, the evil
against the
was done that the scriptures of the

Then all the disciples forsook him
fled.
A few
hours before, they
declared
all
themselves willing to
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
who
are
is still
betraying the weakness of the
weak forsake
strong as the Christ
know
the Christ, but
those
flesh,
and
who
are
the true conception of Life will stand
firm and invincible as did Jesus.
.u
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(IP V| THEIR
TR
TEACHINGS
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1

of
Matthew, 26th chapter; 57 verse to the
Golden Text
on the
right
Church
of the
"Hereafter
close.
Man
ye see the Son of
shall
hand of power, and coming
sitting
in the clouds of
heav-
en.
"And
Verse 57
away
they that
had
hold on Jesus
laid
where the
to Caiaphas, the high priest,
led
him
and elders
scribes
were assembled.''
Verse 59
"Now, the
and
chief priests
They recognized
no wrong.
mitted
him and had
They knew he manifested
they none.
At the
"And
Verse 61
last
said,
came two
did not
know
red to his resurrection.

ple wherein
the
power and
this
they perse-
Thus
it is
today.
found
false witnesses."
This fellow
it
said,
in three
the temple of
am
The
that he
veil
able
to destroy
days."
God, nor
They thought
they worshipped.
all
to death."
witnesses came, yet
false
the temple of God, and to build
They
For
to seek false witnesses.
60 "Though many
Verse
him
They knew he had com-
his superiority.
taught a Truth none possessed or knew.

cuted
and
elders,
council, sought false witness against Jesus to put
that Jesus refer-
meant the Tem-
of the Temple, that
NOTEJThESELeSSOWS ARE CbPYRfGTHTED

which held the
soul,
was
on the day of the
rent in twain
cruci-
fixion.
Verse 62
"And
the high
and said unto him,
arose
priest
What
Answerest thou nothing?
is
which these witnesseth
it
against thee?"
Verse 63
"But Jesus held
answered and said unto him,
thou
tell
And
his peace.
I
the
high priest
adjure thee by the living
us whether thou be the Christ, the
God
that
Son of God."
Christ could not reveal himself only to those enlightened by
These were the material elements, the dogmatic,
the Spirit.
the traditional, the blind to the Truth.
Verse 64
1
say
on
"Jesus
said unto him,
unto you, Hereafter
the right
Thou
hast said: nevertheless
ye shall see the Son of
hand of power, and coming
Man
sitting
in the clouds of
heav-
en."
was revealed
It
to this
man
later the
Christ, although in his blindness

falsely of
power and glory of the
and ignorance he accused him
blasphemy.
Verse 65
"Then did they
spit in his face,
and others smote him with the palms of
"Saying,
Verse 68
Prophesy unto
us,
and buffeted him,
their hands."
thou Christ,
who
is it
that smote thee?"
Did Jesus abuse the power he possessed by being goaded

to a demonstration of
the mighty
things he could
glory of triumphing over his enemies?
subdue
of
their
mockery with
today have
Silence and
power unbroken, and
sel
came unto him,
lee."
He kept
do and
did not
some
teachers
the great
Law
Thou
of
attained greater power.
Peter sat without in the palace, and a

saying,
the
He
did not.
signs and wonders, as
attempted to do.
"Now,
Verse 69
He
in-
also
dam-
wast with Jesus of Gali-
Verse
70
"But
he denied
them
before
all,
saying,
know
not what thou sayest."
had promised to be true
Peter
not the weakness of the
flesh,
nor the meaning of eternal
until
tion,
We
life.
and Peter was not yet
the material
the desire for
do not
stand what Immortality means to us
knew
death, but he
life,
nor under-
realize
until after the Illumina-
Illuminated, and
still
clung to the
flesh.
And
and once again, he denied that he knew Jesus
again,
then the "cock crew."

Verse 75
"And Peter remembered
said unto him, Before the cock
and he went out and wept
crow thou
shalt
was pain
he was big and true, brave
We
him.
his
WAS. He
We
really are.
self
we have
and strong, but when the
weakness and cowardice.
we
think
thrice,
and he saw
to him,
himself not as he thought he was, but as he
he realized
me
deny
who
bitterly."
blundering weakness
All his
the words of Jesus,
are very
much
cannot see above
self,
And we
different
and
the>
thought
test
all
came
are like
from what we
wonders of that
learned to love.
Peter's salvation
derstanding of
came through
that bitter
himself as he was, and
trial,
and the un-
not as he had idealized
himself to be.
knew and
Jesus
that the
self
was
wound
recognized his
power of the material

a
power
to cleanse
self
weakness, but he also
for great good, although suffering

it
from
its
knew
transmuted to the Higher
evil stain.
opened the

of Divine
Matthew, 26 chapter; verses
Golden Text "Whom

abbas or Jesus, which
will
Barabbas was a robber, a
The multitude
and Truth.
and
bas,
Verse
is still
Church
Illumination,
1st to 20th.
ye that
called Christ
is
of the
thief.
release
unto you; Bar-
?"
Jesus was a giver of Life
rejected Jesus
and perferred Barab-
doing the same thing today.
8 We
read
that,
"When
Judas, which had betrayed
him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself,
and brought again the

and
elders."
and jealousy hid the Truth from him.
Judas' greed, envy
He
thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests
did not
lease of
realize, until
Jesus, that he
only person
tion
who
the Christ, and not as a
of
through with
to a horde that
Evil
is
the
its
is
that to
him
betrayer.
have given ourselves
"What
me?
man
mocked him,
in to
He
realized the rejec-
of power.
as evil
saw
victim, he
despised
same old
re-
had brought to bondage and death the
could have saved him.
the priests and elders

it is
he saw there was no hope for the
always mocks when
that he
had sold
for his treachery

It
its
Then, when
HIMSELF
and weakness.
does not stand by us after
we
hands, but always reminds us
See thou to that!"
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are Copyrighted

Verse 6
ple,
"And he
down
cast
the pieces of silver in the tem-
and departed, and went and hanged himself."
He was
the murderer and destroyer of himself.
Verse 11
"And
Jesus stood before the governor; and the
governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews?
And
Thou
Jesus said unto him,
sayest."
"And when he was accused of the

Verse 12
elders,
In this
is
silent in
persecution and
false accusations, of
He was
Pilate marvelled."
brought to him;
and spoke
in this
and
was
this
the governor and judge of
the
first
to
come who
acted
manner.
Verse 13 "Then said
many
and
This one thing he held most sacred.
ridicule.
"And
one great power, that of being able to keep
mockery and
the face of
all
chief priests
he answered nothing."
Pilate
unto him, Hearest thou not
how
things they witness against thee?"
Verse 14
"And he answered to never a word; insomuch that
the governor marvelled greatly."
This was Jesus'
through
it
and supreme
greatest
test;
and he bore
with the demeanor and fortitude of the Son of God.
They were
eagerly watching and hoping for one flaw, one sign
They used
of weakness, but were baffled.

their art, to
provoke and sting him into
all
their
a retort, but
power,
all
he "reviled
not again."
Verse 16
lease
"Now
at that
unto the people a prisoner
whom
"And they had then

Verse 17
rabbas."
Verse 17
"Therefore, when
Pilate said unto
them,
Whom
Bar abbas or Jesus, which
governor was wont to
feast the
is
they would."
a notable
they
will
re-
prisoner called Ba-
were gathered together,
ye that
called Christ ?"
release unto
you;
Verse 18
For he knew
that for
envy they had delivered
him."
from the beginning
Pilate struggled
believed
spite,
He knew he was the victim of envy and
him.
in
but Pilate, as
are
accumulated forces of
"And
Verse 19
seat, his
many
evil
today, was
outweighed by the
and materialism.
when he was
down on
set
wife sent unto him, saying, Have
with that just man; for

a
to release Jesus, for he
judgment
thou nothing to do
many
have suffered
the
things this day in
dream because of him."

She had seen Jesus
him
as he was, recognized
as the Christ,
and accepted him.

This was a powerful
that
which
his
own
John who made an

or personally, and
the flesh was to
man
availed
Spirit
Christ.
would
message, and
influenced Pilate to do
it
disciples forgot to do, with the exception of

effort to join
made an
him.
appeal to
John knew
him
die, to
be overcome, and
nothing
Jesus the flesh
live,
the
the govern-
for Jesus' sake, but
all
the intervention of
must
die,
so that the
Soul become a Christ, or the Soul of
~W

of
Church
Matthew, 27th chapter; 20th to 45th
Golden Text
of the
"What
shall
verses.
do then with Jesus which
is
called Christ?"
How many
of
have answered
it
us have asked ourselves that
question, and
the purified flesh which held the Soul, or Christ.

fied
because he yielded not
sinfulness of
flesh of Jesus,
was
puri-
were purified?"
will ask
between the desire for
demands and
body
to
evil.
All purified flesh
the
attain this condition
Why,
flesh
he had
of
and when we
You
test
his
the multitudes
Christ.
if it
Jesus
He was
with the crucifixion of the flesh?
then,
For
this
is it
we
is
attain the
necessary to crucify the
reason only
It
was
a final
a physical life or the life Spiritual.
preferred to remain in
the
the physical he could not
If
have
attained Adeptship or Christhood.
Verse 24
"When
Pilate
saw
but that rather a tumult was

his
that he could prevail nothing,
made, he took water and washed
hands before the multitude, saving,
blood of
We
this just person;
am
innocent of the
see ye to it."
have experienced the same opposition and confusion
when we
try
to point out to
the material lustful minds


the
Truth and splendor of the Christ.
made
Pilate
all
efforts to
induce the multitude to recognize the Christ, but without avail.
He was not
persecutor, but the judge of the Christ,
the
and
he judged rightly within himself.
"Then answered
Verse 25
be on us and on our children.
And
to
the people and said, His blood
was so and remains unchanged
it
ism which are the
and
all
"
many
Material-
and snares of the world
subtle illusions
Barabbas, the robber,
all flesh.
to this day.
preferred,
is
and
set free
go on robbing and destroying, while the Sun of Righteous-
ness
is
cast out.
Verse
29 "And
they put
upon
it
when they had
his head,
crown of thornes,
a reed in his right
hand; and
knee before him, and mocked him, saying,
they
bowed
Hail,
King of the Jews."
Verse 30
and
platted a
the
"And they
upon him, and took the reed and
spit
smote him on the head."
And
all
this,
innocent
and
suffering, he neither
murmured
nor complained.
Verse 31
"And
the robes off

led
from him and put
him away
If
after that they
had mocked him, they took

his
own
raiment on him, and
to be crucified."
we should
see a mortal
man, even though he
crime, suffering and scourged and jeered
and sorrow for him; but we

der and destroy the soul
as blindly
at,
and
within us as the
is
guilty of a
we would
feel pity
as unfeelingly
mur-
multitude attempted
to destroy the Christ.
Verse 32
to
"And when he was
drink mingled
with
gall;
athirst,
they gave him vinegar
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
Are
to drink?
vinegar and
we with
the multitude that gives the
who
or the Christ
gall,
will not drink of
their bit-
terness?
Verse
36 "Sitting down
"And
Verse 37
"THIS
This purified
And
To
flesh,
they saw.
and served
laws, so
there."
his his accusation written
which
is
the King above
sense he
was
all
evil flesh.
and mocked him the

a
man who
differed
elders in the traditions of their belief.
This
They were man-made men, and worshipped
man-made
god.
They
could not see beyond man.
but the material, and would naturally
with them.
him
THE KING OF THE JEWS."
their material
from them and the

is all
IS
up over
he was dying they reviled
while
more.
set
they watched
lived under
man-made
They conld
see
condemn
that differed
all
nothing
~1
~1
~T

of the
Church
of
Matthew, 27th Chapter; 45th Verse to close
Golden
in
text
"And behold
the veil of the temple
was
rent
twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake,
and the rocks
rent/'
This was the cause of the

malice,
envy and
in his
angry and tear up the earth
wrath "like unto corruptible man."
violent nor destructive.

as Jesus
of
hate,
destruction. Christ never destroyed anything,
God become
neither did
temple
accumulated vibration
was through
God
all
forces are
all silent,
and the
God
serene,
is
not
calm,
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
of the sanits
Verse 55
which
"And came up out of
resurrection,
many
bodies
slept arose."
their
and went into the holy
city,
graves
AFTER
his
and appeared unto
many."
The Souls of
flesh,
these saints
appeared
bodies of the flesh never arose,
and not the bodies of

it
was the body of the
Soul which appeared. This must not be taken
in
the
sense.


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
this
was the Son
of God."
They
did not
know
that Jesus' Thoughts, his
and forgiveness saved that part of the earth from
love, Truth,
pressure of the accumulated evil
would have sunk
Evil thoughts are
with
there
all evil,
would have become so heavy
as did Atlantis before that.
heavy and where
town or
against the
gigantic pressure
city
is
infested
Unless this
earth.
relieved by th counteracting currents of purity
that city or
God
otherwise the
thoughts the atmosphere of that place becomes heavy,
evil
is
law and love
His currents of righteousness,
total destruction.
counterbalanced those of hate, crime and
the earth
of
vibration
town destroys
itself as
has nothing to do with
only saves God, for
it
is
did
God
it.
is
and goodness,
Sodom and Gomorrah.

cannot
save
impossible to conjoin
evil
God
God and
evil
and save both.
55 And many women
Verse
which followed Jesus from

a
It is
noteworthy
fact that the
the last to leave him, the
Woman's
nation
is
perfect love
this:
as
the Jews.
served a
it
off
him."
were always more
than the men. They were
fear,
but perhaps the expla-
were not considered
among
the
power and
Jews and they counted her
Among
the
Egyptians
and other
woman's sphere was considerably higher than
The Jews' laws were
all
man made. They
man-made God.
They were
and
trials
without
insignificant.
Gentiles nations,
among
is
women
afar
to greet him.
first
Women
strength in those days
presence
Galilee, ministering with
throughout his
faithful to Jesus
were there beholding
material and
pleased their senses to
could not see above the
make man and
the
material
Image of
man
Lord of
God made man
all.
way
according to their
of thinking
and few men have gotten above the crude story of creation and
the beginning of men.
much demonstration
After so
forces,
Jews began
the
MIGHT
arise
to fear.
of
Unseen,
the
They began
that
to fear
Jesus
from the dead.
Now the next day that followed the
Verse 62
but natural
preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees
day of the
came
together
to
Pilate,
Verse
63 Saying,
Sir,
we remember
while he was yet alive, After three days

Verse 64
Verse 65
it
last error shall
Pilate said,
sepulchre
come by
lest his discspies
him away; and say unto the
dead; so the
people,
He
be worse than the
Ye have
said,
will rise again."
Command therefore that the
sure until the third day,

steal
that the deceiver
a watch;
is
risen
be
made
night
and
from the
first.
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
Soul seeking the resurrection.

perceive the
the
Material
power nor the entrance of
purified flesh.
Christ
man
away from
cannot
see
the
nor
Life into the Soul of the

of
Golden Text
tizing
them
"Go
in the
Church
of the
1st verse to close.
ye, therefore,
name
and teach
all
nations, bap-
of the Father, the Son, and
the
Holy
the
Holy
Ghost.''
Father represents the Divine
Positive Principle;
Ghost, the Receptive, or Negative; and the Son

the union of Father and Holy Ghost
The Holy Ghost

Father
Mind
the Soul.
in
Purity, Truth or
ty,
the Fire with
When
God,
the
the Soul
which we
Mind
is
Truth and God, and retains them.
are baptized; the
the Christ born of
creates
receives
the result of
the Divine Flame.
it is
Mind or Creator; the Son
the
is
is
is
in the
Image of
vibrations of Puri-
its
This
is
the Christ, the
Resurrection of the Divine Image.
Jesus did not teach that he alone was Divine, or was the only
person
who had
DIVINITY
or desired
Verse
the right to claim that inheritance.
OF ALL MEN AND WOMEN
if
they
He taught
WILLED
it.
u
1
ward
the
other
Mary
In the
first
end of the Sabbath,
as
it
began to dawn
to-
day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the
to the sepulchre."

Verse 2
"And behold there was
angel of the Lord descended
from the door and
the stone
"His
Verse 3
ment white
as
sat
upon
rolled
it."
and
lightning,
like
his rai-
snow/'
him
for fear of
the keepers did shake and be-
dead men."
as
Verse 5
"And the angel answered and
Fear not ye, for

Verse 6
know
"He
see the place
that ye seek Jesus
not here; for
is
of
is
the
is
which was
women,
crucified."
risen as he said.
for
one of us
flesh,
the tomb
and that there
IS,
EACH
of
life
the Lord
the place of
demonstrated what Life

resurrection
he
said unto the
Come
where the Lord lay."
Do you know
sires
for the
from heaven and came and
countenance was
"And
Verse 4
came
a great earthquake;
which he
The
no death?
is
when we
in
put aside the de-
and seek the Christ, not among the
dead, but in the living Truth.
Verse 7
"Go
quickly, and
tell
the disciples that he
from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you

there shall ye see him;
"And
Verse 8
with
fear
word."
Verse 9
sus
"And
as they,
All
have told you."

quickly from
went to
hail,
tell
not knowing.
his disciples, behold, Je-
and they came and held him
Before they followed
Now
10 "Then
they
me."
Sun
blindly seeking but
KNEW.
said Jesus
unto them, Be
brethren that they go into Galilee, and
see
his disciples
the Christ, the purified, the Illuminated, the
of Righteousness.
my
the sepulchre
and worshipped him."
He was now
tell
risen
into Galilee;
and great joy; and did run to bring
feet,
Verse
they departed
met them, saying,
by the
lo,
is
not afraid; go
there shall they
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
into a mountain,
disciples
where Jesus appointed them."
"And when they

Verse 17
but some doubted.
saw him, they worshipped him,
,,
They doubted because they were not

Spiritual eyes were not yet opened,
Day
Truth unto the
went away into Galilee
fully Illuminated. Their
and some were not sure of
when they were
all
Illumi-
came and spake unto them,
saying,
of Pentecost,
nated and cleansed with his Spirit and Fire."

Verse 18
All
power
"And Jesus
is
"Go
Verse 19
them
in the
This
me
given unto
name
in
ye, therefore,
and teach
in earth."
all
nations, baptizing
of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost."
came
the Force Christ
is
heaven and
on
to send
earth.
It is
the
the Illumination of the Soul.
Verse 20
"Teaching them to observe
things whatsoever
baptism of the Soul
all
have commanded you; and,
lo,
am
with you
always, even
unto the end of the world."

Christ
If
is
with us always, even
why
should we look for another?
up
kingdom
of
Life
Life
is
main
purified
man.
always within
us,
call
No man
will
himself Christ.
come and
Christ
is
set
the
The Soul of the Living God, and the

and
always
will
be as long as
we
re-
true to the faith.
Therefore, as
let
and
in earth
unto the end of the world,
all
nations
Living Christ.
have taught you, go
know
the
TRUE
YOU
faith.
into the world
Not
and
dogma, but
>,
III
,.

of
of the
Church
Special International Lesson

u
By what
who gave
authority doest thou these things; and
thee this authority." Matt. 21st chapter. 23rd Verse.
After Jesus had been healing the sick and teaching the
demanded
doctrine in the Temple, the Pharisees and Scribes
him by what authority he was doing
that day, nothing was supposed to be done
sanction of the established
of
these things.
and Scribes, the orthodox of
the Pharisees
In the eyes of
pure
unless
Church and man-made
it
had the
laws.
Far rather would they that these poor sufferers should die
miserable death than that they should be cured by
had not received
their authority
from them.
Jesus asked them the question which they could
because they themselves had no authority
man and man-made
institution
They knew nothing
else
had
However,
not answer
which
that
had given them.
know anything
healed as best they could and
none
except
of the spirit and but very
Soul of man, nor did they
who
those
of
its
little
of
powers,
the
they
whatever they could not heal
a right to heal.
as
all
men know, men and women
left
the establi-

BY DR.R; SWINBURNE CLYMER
shed church
in
order to follow the teaching of Jesus for
hearts they
knew
than
of
that
GREATER
And
same
and Scribes because he could
Pharisees
things than they with
many
Brother, after
in their
must be greater
that the authority of Jesus
all
their
man
we
are
centuries
do
given authority.
in
exactly
the
position that the people were at the time of Jesus.
Bishop Ludden, of the Chatholic Church, had instructed the
warn
Clergy to
people
their
the
against
"Superstitions of
Healing."
The Bishop, according to the Syracuse

24th, 1911, made this statement:
'The
Herald, issued June
clergy were directed at
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
have been
ish Catholics
in the habit of
so-called healers, although

sin against the first
the
it
is
forbidden
greatest
sin.
Many
fool-
having recourse to such

to
all
Christians as a
commandment, "Thou
shalt
have no other gods before me."
What
is
a grievous or
grievous or
forms, but
that
sin,
although
REAL
the only
There can
mortal sin?
it
may
sin either
take
against
be
one
but
many different
God or man is
which our Conscience forbids us to do.
The
LY
mortal
clergy
same
the
who
follow Bishop Ludden are taking
position
as did
By what
time of Jesus.
EXACT-
the Scribes and Pharisees in the
authority do you cure these pure suf-
fering people?
There
obey, and
is
but
one authority
that authority
which the
TRUE
healer must
comes from God, through
his
own
Developed or Illuminated Soul.

Jesus, through the instructions he
thus Illuminated, and
power
to heal
and
this
to teach.
the Pharisees were in
had received, had become
Illumination brought
with
it
the
This was his authority, and though
identically the
same
position as are the
asked the same question of
Catholic clergy of the present, and
Jesus as
lowed
I
now
the right,
healing
although
that
believe
many
knew who was
people
asked, the
it
must
true healers
then, but
as Christ did
who do
gradually follow those
right
and
fol-
true Jesus had to suffer.
is
now
the
now
suffer
as then the
real
for their
people will
work, and
in the cen-
remembered in. name only as

the Scribes and Pharisees now, and the healers, the Illumi-
turies to
are
come
the clergy will be
nated Souls, will have the following.
There
no question but thousands of

the same thing is true of the
is
frauds, but
so-called healers are

clergy,
and
it
im-
is
possible to destroy the false without destroying the true.
The
He need not fear

denunciations, even though made by the clergy,
in the good time coming will even things up.
Law
need not
true healer
persecutions or
fear.
for
God's
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?
hundred
must be borne
Would
mind.
in
the clergy rather that these millions that go to healers
after
authorized physicians
and ministers have
die?
No doubt
the
but
that
is
should always remember that

law, and
that
away from
and
all
though they may
healers
who might
way
look
"they
failed
at
it,
should
but they
things are under the absolute

get
cure
many
them,
of the
it is
weak
to stay
they, the clergy
their church, that will eventually be forced to
pay the pen-
alty.
Further.
to consult
"The law
is
plain.
No one
is
free in conscience
one who, without properly constituted authority,
at-
tempts to heal by prayer or by the laying on of hands."
Who made
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
law?
teach such a 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
can
and
who
How
who
can the church, any church, say
not free in conscience to do a thing?
No
individual conscience, and
SOLUTE
right to follow that conscience.
No man
Such
has a right to do that which

a right to say
a ruling as that
what another
made by
in the
the
present century
they, one and
all,
to think
for
men were
All
will hurt another,
clergy
is
is
and
simply a boom-
it
to be
made.
becoming too well read
and enlightened to obey such foolish mandates
commencing
is
can know,
shall or shall not do.
erang that will destroy the church that allows
Mankind
man
they were given the AB-
given an
no man has
free
is
living
know, the conscience of another.
or claim to
are
so written.
as this.
themselves, and to
have equal opportunities with
They
KNOW
all
Tis said: "Him whom the gods would destroy

make mad," and truly this would seem to be true.
that
other men.
they
first
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
FIRST
cast the
stone at
3 "And
Verse
a
"He that
woman
the midst
Verse 4
without
"They say unto him, Master,

very
5 "Now,
Verse 6
with
In
CAUSE
you,
let
HIM
this
in
woman was taken
act.
Moses
Law commanded US that
in the
they said,
such
THOU?"
tempting him, that they might
But Jesus stooped down, and
to accuse him.
FINGER
his
THEM
"This
among
when they had brought her
should be stoned; but what sayest
have A
sin
and Pharisees brought unto him
the Scribes
taken in adultry; and
in adultry, in the
Verse
is
HER/'
wrote on the ground, as though he heard
not."
the time of
questions.
The
They were
So
it is
Jesus, this
men who gave
dictated to the people as to

lieve, just as the
as
one of the most important
today.
Scribes and Pharisees

the
were the leading
men
of the day.
the religion to the people.
what
to believe
orthodox of today, those
They
and what not to be-
who
claim to follow
the Christ, dictate.

ALSO RIGHTS OF TRANSL/VTION.
These Scribes and Pharisees condemned those caught

try,
and they
condemned
also
in adul-
who were known
those
all
prostitutes, like the vast majority of the present day, they

all
is
It
is
indictment
terrible
practically
to
having to do with
guilty of
men, with
all
do with
this class of
women.
of this enlightened century that
few exceptions,
are guilty of
women, and what makes
this class of
as
were
this
having
a
crime
the very fact, and one that cannot be contradicted, that those
men who
We
condemnation of these women

do with them.
are the loudest in their
who had
are the very ones

are
supposed to
live in a Christian century, a
me when
condemning the
say that
women
fallen
time when
supposed to be followed, and none
Jesus are
the teachings of
will contradict
to
all
who
those
are foremost in
are called Christians,
and they
themselves claim to be such.

they
If
class of
were Christians, would they
women?
Would
this
What
lifer
did Jesus
Did he condemn the one who had committed adultry?
do?
That
is
the great question.
man
there a living
Is
thought that
will
that
all
to
they have
men
has given this subject any
answer to
do with
if
she
call
this,
themselves Christians?
and that
These
is:
men
obey the teachings of Jesus, but
prostitutes
in sheep's clothing,
a prostitute
there such a thing, consid-
is
our nation
of
be Christians, to
to
who
Then why
but one
There can be
profess
today
admit that there could be
not patronized?
ering
wolf
do with
be found with them, or would
they
they be found helping them to a better
was
have to
and rend
and then they turn,
like the
her.
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
The time
do the nations
will
come, and
perish.
is
not
far distant,
when
marriages will be recognized by the laws of every

will
mean that man
will be
ARD THAT WOMAN

a
woman
is
accused of
accused of the same
IS
natural
state.
That
JUDGED BY THE SAME STANDJUDGED.
wrong doing,
thing,
and
what
will
It
the
is
mean
man
that
when
guilty will be
more, the
act will be
LEGAL AND BINDING MARRIAGE.
recognized as a
1
do not condemn
absolutely, but
that there
legal marriage.
recognize
also
man and woman
takes place between
it
natural,
marriage, and that this marriage
a natural, sacred
is
positively and
God-given Law
uphold
the
the minute that they
know
each other.
God
smiles
any such
never recognized
cannot be
there
upon
all
any such thing

children with
thing as "illigimate," for
as an
the
God
illigimate child.
same
smile, for
He knows
that there can be but one natural, sacred marriage, and that that
"man knows woman."
marriage takes place when
The time
coming when the

will do so.
is
and when she
Why
should the
man
feted
be
Are they not, before God, equal
woman's
and the
until she
with
man
demands
she can never have equal
which she demands that she
her
most awful of white slave
Wherein
is
ranks there
trade.
Its
man,
that
he
acts,
and
if
God
one
is
so-called Christian, to
loves
her,
only
is
slave trade,
taking place the
condemn
man
her the next.
steals a
young wo-
he betrays her trust in him and
or whether
then leaves her to her fate?
between these
only that
it is
most respected members
the difference, whether a
sells her,
equally guiltless
the white
against
own
patronize the prostitute one hour and
man and
shall be
rights, for
will receive.
The church preaches loudly

forgetting that within
Woman demand
most sacred of God's laws,
woman
that
this fact
woman condemned?
in all things?
rights, but she ignores the
and
must recognize
state
does not see
any difference
worse than the other
make
to betray
an
innocent
it
is
for a
girl believe
and leave her to the tender
mercies of the so-called Christian world.

Is
there a living
soul
who
is
either prostitution or the white
week
IF
if all
foolish
the so-called Christian world
ALL MEN
WHO
enough
slave trade
to believe that
could exist for one
condemned
it?
CALL THEMSELVER CHRISTIANS
WOULD HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH
PROSTIA
TUTESSO-CALLEDHOW COULD THERE BE

TRADE
IN
WHITE SLAVES?
Answer
that ye Christian law
makers.
There should be
just
TRADE
EXIST.
did Jesus answer the
guilty?
Verse 7
himself,
let
him
Was
hearts
laws, but
as Christian
why put the horse

men demand this
orthodox,
"So when they continued
and said unto them, He that

first
why men
cured the
back
class of
who
themselves were
asking him, he
is
without sin
lifted
up
among you
cast the stone at her."
there a stone cast?
they
in
THAT LONG WILL THE WHITE SLAVE
women,
What
strict
So long
of the cart?
knew
of the present
white slave
uses her and then
NO.
that every
And why? Because
one was
make laws
guilty,
and that
in their
is
just
man who seconcerning him who
to punish *he
and says nothing
condemns her and makes her an
outcast.
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
him
cast the first stone."
"He
that
is
ROSIORUCIAN BIBLE LESSONS.

Rosicrucian Interpretation of the
Scriptures.
m.
THE COMING WORLD.

Scientists
new world forming
covered a
They
come
cluded that
dis-
in the sun.
reckoning, wondering and guessing as to the out-
are
of the
have
(practical material scientists,) claim to
"phenomenon/' they
it
will bring
call
it,
and have
about con-
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
new world forming
says that the
stroy the earth.
in the
sun will not de-
"Divine law never sent destruction upon any
world by contact with another world. Each world creates

It
sustains
itself
itself
by
OBEYING
Divine Law.
DESTROYS
by disobeying Divine Law."
This
new world
will locate in a sphere of its
peopled by those in harmony with

will be a
It
It
itself.
is
harmonious world
the
new Heaven and
its
This
is
he
who
It
will
be
It
a world of enlightened Souls.
earth Jesus
which John, the beloved prophet and

elations.
own.
laws and Vibrations.
gives the
told us about and of
disciple, described in
message
"Hear
ye and
obey."

Rev-
ALL RIGHTS OF TITLE AND MATTER RESERVED K'

ALSO RIGHTS OF TRAN5LATIO N
These words are from the "Great
"Hear ye and obey/'
They
White Throne."
The Philosophers
words of Wisdom.
are the
of old obeyed.
They knew Divine Law could not be

demands of
suit the
the material.
The Soul must obey

If
twisted and turned to
we understand
will
if it
the
Law
attain Life.
we would
of Life
be
more eager
to obey.
We do not realize what Life

We struggle here with the viel of
is.
edge of the senses leading
us,
illusions, of the false
knowl-
and are handicapped by their
laws.
We
If
time only.
exist for a
we form and
live in the real of
again in a purer and
This
why
is
highest, or
is
no one
will live
state.
different age or
stage of
and then
retro-
Soul ever attains perfection or comes to the
realiz-
attains to a certain extent
God
ation of the true Conception of
THEN
we
always advancement from the lowest to the
the Soul
No
grades.
more enlightened
there can be
There
creation.
Divine Desire,
(which
the Christ)
is
and
descends back into destruction.
The Soul
reaches the stage
when
it is
given the opportunity
to choose through a whole existence whether
ness to Light, and
it
prefers the dark-
it
when
it
chooses
refuses,
it
is
attains equilibrium only
the Light.
It
If
will follow
it
is
given
blackness by
When
its
Black Magic or White Magic.

its
chance
many
own Soul and
the Soul desires Truth
Flesh, the world,
times
and
given
Mind.
it
will
go on upward.
and the devil cannot hold
it
back.
If it at-
even the knowledge of Christ,
the Christ, or
tains
cannot
it
retrograde or descend into the "bottomless pit."
The Soul
the Soul
that has
Judas
Iscariot
knew
he
power
God
even
rejects
it,
is
worse than the
the laws, and he gained reputa-
cannot open
obey and to
Judas saw himself not
We
all
not the Christ, and
ately refuses to
He
and
is
as treasurer of the
the eyes of
company,
had not the
Jesus himself
WITHIN
awaken him because the power was
to
and
was taught
He was prominent
tion as a healer.
self,
it
but this Soul has never attained Christ or Mastership.
first, "
but
knowledge given
the
turns back, and "the last state
that
one
who
him-
deliber-
see.
as he was, but as
he thought he was.
did not realize the great error he committed until too late.
"DESTROYED HIMSELF"
DESTROYED HIMSELF. We
read that he
He
Christ.
by betraying the
do, or
all
we
save
ourselves.
It is
We
up
to us.
do not need
We
can be honest and true
to steal, or
or "covet anything that
We know
we
CAN
is
lie,
or
if
we want
to be.
cheat, or bear faise witness,
our neighbor's."
be true
if
we WILL.
Every
man and woman knows
this.
Every
man and woman knows
that their sins are
found
out,
and yet they go on thinking to deceive.

Evil does not prevail.
never did except for a time.
It
God
ruled always, wisely and well, and will rule unto the end
of the world.
If it
keeps
If
is
are
it
upon
its
equilibrium
destroyed,
it.
it
is
it
will stand.
destroyed by the evil Souls of
men who
By
the vibrations
and currents of the Black Brothers
who
will not see the Light.

It
will
New
never be destroyed by the
The New World
is
for
those
who
Truth and Righteousness more than

can give them.
this
World.
are Light,
world and
who
its
desire
pleasures
ROSICRUCIAN BIBLE LESSONS.

Rosicrucian Interpretation of the
Scriptures.
__
_n
THE JETH WORLD.

The world was long
w_
THE JETH BODY.
in accepting the
Mind and of Magnetism, and
it
wonderful works of the
will slowly
respond to the
awakening of the Soul.

But
it
respond because
will
it is
the written as well as the un-
written law.
It is
written in the
It is
sealed in the
Book
of the Ages.
hand and
physical and mental law
in
men's foreheads, for where the
prevails, the
law of the Soul and of
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.
Few have found
the Soul and
power of mind was long
know
its
powers, just as the
in darkness.
Jesus taught the development of the Soul.
He was
The
upon
It
the
first
to
sound the trumpet of the Spiritual Age.
seeds were planted hundreds of
unfruitful
years ago, but they
fell
soil.
has been taught by the Ancients for ages, but the material


and mental were not

its
know and
developed to
sufficiently
accept
power.
The
physical has always been strong.
and stage of existence
In every age
has grown strong and
it
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
the increase, and the material will
But
it
and
spirituality are
its
on
less.
Divine law that with each new
is
must have
grow
race, the physical
day.
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
then with the close of that era
it
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
The Egyptians have hidden
since.
the secrets, which have remained
secure and fast for ages.
They were hidden because
the physical and mental could not
develop and continue with the Spiritual.
They knew physical powers which
knew
are yet
the mental powers which are yet
few the
Initiates.
unknown.
unknown
And they knew Truths
yet
All the worlds before this
This world
Neither
is it
is
world were the same.
not the mental world.
in its first
mental age.
except by the
unknown
to the few.
They
except
It is
the mental age of this era.
With
the opening of the Jewish laws, the Truths were taught
and demonstrated
the
powers of the great unknown mani-
fested.
Many
learned Spiritual Truths
fluctuated,
rose,
it
gleamed
it
the advent
of Jesus' teachings,
demonstrated above
MORE
forth like
Law through
tenable Truth, as the Divine
With
and demonstrated them.
all
It
beacon Light as
ages,
all
all
time.
was accepted and
it
physical and mental.
It
was accepted
than now; so were the mental laws and teachings.
Men
away, and the wise ones held
drifted
always be
And
fast.
it
will
so.
There are three stages
in
every age.
This world has existed through more than three stages.
Lemuria and
and mental laws were developed then even be-
Spirituality
yond
Atlantis experienced the same.
this continent.
They were
They
physical, mental and spiritual.
lived through
mental and
many
ages and stages of
the physical,
spiritual.
They were developed by
Fire (Soul) as
we
will
be destroy-
ed.
They were
the enlightened
same knowledge and

India and
We
as they
are not
we
above nor are we
man
are attaining enlightenment.
attained, for
attaining greater Spiritual
they attained
know
in the flesh.
will the
end come.
to
and then
HOW?
sense that
in the
Egypt experienced the same changes.
knowledge than they

possible for
worshippers of the Divine
We
all
that were
will attain as
much
The new World forming
is
the JEth World, and
ent world should be destroyed the Fire, as
who have
developed the JEth Body
will
if
the pres-
foretold, then those
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.
DEC
1913
Div.

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EXPLANATION OF THE LESSON.

man and woman, every boy and

what Jesus taught.

mixed with the birth of the Christ so

that taken in the Written

Herod represents the material forces, which are ever ready to

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

the King of the Jews.

Question Why was Herod,

born King of the

the King of the Jews?

born into each Awakened Soul.

new king was at hand, and Herod

"He gathered all the Chief Priests and Scribes of

the people together.

Why did he demand the Christ?

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 evil king that rules you?

He asks what time the

the voice of Herod,

his dwelling plase.

of the powers and

seeks only to destroy.

the betrayer of every Soul.

did the wise

they heard the

the departure of the soul

from the temptations of evil

and the illusions

treasures and gifts of gold

and frankincense and myrrh represent?

purity and truth of the soul.

Of whom were they warned?

God WITHIN them, which they knew and

Did they obey?

was Joseph warned

was the home of the Ancient Truths.

the great Saviours were taught the Truths there. Jesus

would seek him even to destroy him forever,

Answer This is the night of the Soul, the tomb wherein

How long did

Egypt represents darkness.

they remain in Egypt?

"OUT OF EGYPT HAVE CALLED MY SON."

Dr. R. Swinburne Clymer.