the husband, "it shall be to us like a herald of Love, bringing peace to sorrow. It shall indeed be to us our sweet Mollie: uniting and bringing gladness."

Thus through the avenues of the senses do messengers of beauty and fragrance carry peace and comfort to the distracted and sorrowing soul. Above the soil of evil, blossoms grow, only waiting for the hand of knowledge to pluck them, to adorn the brow of Understanding whence happiness eternal springs. May this flower be in the homes of all, for with it is a perfume, ever-abiding, and a pleasure which changes not, nor decays. It is the blossom grown from the seed of a good act, whose fragrance mollifies the frenzy of passion. It is the blossom, fadeless, faultless, and becoming to the brow of those who pluck it.

The flower which retains its sweetness and beauty forever; prudence, hope, faith, charity, peace, and good-will, are enfolded in its pure heart, and all are exhaled as fragrance spiritual from its leaves of pearly whiteness; and all, through the roadway of the senses, reach the sea of the human mind.

THE CRY OF THE EGO.

MRS. MARGARET B. PEEHE.

I LIVE, but the where is unknown;
I know, and I love, and I pray;
My life is forever alone,

And alone it remaineth for aye.

Who knoweth the way that I came?
Who seeth the way I shall go?

The whence, and the where, and the why

Of the soul, where is one who can know?

I wander where stars burn like fire;
I dive to the depths of the sea;

I follow each inner desire,

And find in the All-but the One.

Who knows me, or sees me, or touches
The outermost rim of the I?

Who can tell where I dwell in the day,
Or in dreams, to what realms I can fly?

I look from my windows to find

A friend in the neighboring Soul;
But the walls of the Ego rise high
And between us eternities roll.

When and where shall this longing find rest?
This solitude cease to appall?

When the Ego in harmony blest,

Vibrates with the breath of the AN.

PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION FOR REACHING THE HIGHEST GOAL OF HUMAN ATTAINMENT.

MAN, in order to think correctly and to have realities appear real to his mind, must have a correct idea of his surroundings and relatedness, because our mentality is affected, not only by everything in the earth, but also by the planets; and intellect is limited by the scope of its knowledge of surroundings. The nerve fibers of the brain are, like the sunflower, ever turning towards the source of light, when left free to act; but they are wholly under the control of the will, so that if a wrong conception of the source and nature of any of the relations in life should make a confused or false impression upon the mind, it may prove so strong in its influence, that if we should think that we had before us some liquid the taste of which we knew full well, but on taking it found it was something entirely different, even though something of which we were very fond, it would be unpleasant to us at first. A gentleman with whom we were dining in his quiet home, was very fond of chocolate as a drink; the cook, knowing this, made coffee for the others and chocolate for him; he smelled the coffee, and really thought his cup was the same; and when he tasted it he shuddered and set down the cup with the exclamation: "What is that!" When informed it was his favorite drink he stopped a moment and then said: "Well, it is not good when I think coffee and drink chocolate.

How many times in the experiences of our life have we been on our way to some well known place the idea of which was clear in our mind, and, being busily engaged in thought, missed our way and arrived at some other, but equally well known place; and for the moment, how the brain reeled; how strange all looked to us! On close observation we would discern that the peculiar feeling in the head was caused by the movement of the brain-organs, that they actually had to change their position before we could become conscious of the realities of the situation. Another very marvelous effect of the thought being out of harmony with the facts is seen in the case of "getting lost" in the woods. A person is very liable to travel in a circle from right to left (because the right lobe of the brain and body is governed by the external and active force of the earth and the movement of the heavenly bodies; planets and moon all run around from right to left; and the left side being the negative, acts as a pivotal centre to revolve around). While in that condition, how strange everything appears! the sun seems to set in the wrong place; the moon rises in the north or west; if they happen to come to a familiar creek or river, it runs up-stream; and even the song of the birds sounds strange and unpleasant; and if in their wanderings they come in sight of their own home, they will not recognize it. So strange is the effect of the inharmony with the facts, that they soon become so bewildered that they will not know a friend who might find them, but will fear him and flee from him as if he were a wild beast. And many times it has occurred in such cases that when they have been captured by their friends and taken to their families they did not recognize even their own children, and were actually insane.

All this illustrates and explains why it is that the majority of people cannot perceive the plainest truths relative to natural law; all their brain fibres are polarized to certain things which they believe to be one thing, when they really are quite another. The brain of the majority of human

ity is in the condition of the man lost in the woods, and we might as well talk to an insane person on those important matters as to such. And we are prepared to say, from the illustrations of this law of order and disorder and its effects upon the human mind, that until we can come to a proper understanding of the methods, instrumentalities and ultimates, not only of our own life but of all creation, we shall remain in the same deluded and insane condition as we are now.

Man is an epitome of the Universe; all its magnetic and electric forces focalize in and act upon and through him. His brain is a delicately organized instrument upon which all the mind-forces of the Universe play and through which the planets of the solar system express themselves, — for all the worlds and suns are but the mind-organs of the Infinite through whose influence and power Creation is carried on in the world. Man has volition only in selecting among the different influences, which he shall be controlled by; for the perfectly orderly mind can sense all these and recognize their harmony, and by the recognition of their harmonious uses. is enabled to understand these different influences, and because he knows what they are, can restrain the one and accelerate the other so that all may be brought under the guidance of an orderly will.

What we want most of all, is to know our relations to the Universe and the ultimates towards which everything tends, by virtue of an absolute and undeviating law. This knowledge obtained will place us in harmony with all the forces; so that truth will appear true, and the understanding will be orderly, and as soon as a fact is suggested the mind will at once apprehend its relations and uses in the economy of God's great

nature.

"How can this be accomplished?" ask some; "must we take what you say about it as true and then measure everything by the rod you give us?" I answer: No!!! Truth is always self-evident when we give ourself time to stop and think. We will herein make a statement in brief, and you will do well to accept the wise words of the Bible,-to" prove all things and hold fast that which is good." To prove a thing, an unbiassed jury is prerequisite: your own reason and intuition is judge and jury on all matters of Divine Law. Therefore we present the following for your consideration, and promise you that, if you remember what we here give you and then go to nature, carrying it with you as a measuring rod, and observe its methods with an honest and earnest desire to know the truth, that you may live in harmony with nature and the God of nature, then your mind will be illuminated, so that, no matter what we may say, you will know the truth for yourself.

The statement is this. First, there is a Universal Mentality, and all natural law is the law of that Mind. Second, that Mind controls all things; the planets are His mind-organs through whose movements thoughts are formed, the form and nature of which find expression in every organized substance on earth,-in plant, animal, and man. Third, there was a purpose in that Mind, and an object to be attained, by creating the earth and its occupants, which purpose finds expression in the words of Gen. I. 26, and was embodied as representative of its incarnate expression in the Man Jesus. Fourth, the method applied in the work of Creation is the operation of the male and female principles of generation and evolutionary development through all forms of existence, from the atom to water and water-animals, the ashes of which form earth. whilst their spirit (or soul) is the

life of vegetation; progress moves on from that to insect and animal and, lastly, man; and man through the same original, positive and negative principles regenerates himself, transmuting the grosser elements of life into finer and yet finer, until he is sufficiently refined in his inner substance to sense the substance of the original Spirit of God. Then being like God in substance, he becomes one with him in will, wisdom, knowledge, understanding, and power, and is able to control that life by his unity with the Supreme Will. This was the thought that went forth into space, endowed with all qualities and the power to cause the elements to condense and endow each atom with the inherent power to continue working in that direction through all forms and changes until it shall ultimate the above design. For elaboration see "The Seven Creative Principles".

When this thought is accepted and the mind is able to apprehend it, then after having been "lost" these many thousand years we have found our way back to the Eden of the morning of Creation, having gathered knowledge by experience that will enable us to appreciate and continue in it, never more to "fall.”

A correct understanding of the above statement will destroy the fallacious doctrine of dying and going to heaven, and will also make the belief in re-incarnation a necessity; for if the soul of man is developed from and through the lower forms of life, then it must live many lives in many bodies. Again, if evolution is a law of nature, then the only process must be through experiences in one's native earth. But if man's soul progresses on the other side of life, why not the souls of beasts? Now if you say they do, then what is the use of man's existence at all? why do not the souls of animals develop into angel-men, without all this struggling, troublesome existence of man? No, it is clear that evolution is the law and that all development is by experience, and that the immature soul of man can no more grow or develop in the spirit-world or ether above and around the earth than a beast, and that the soul of the beast, in order to grow, needs the elements of earth as much as a plant. That being so, it is necessary that all souls not having developed in this life into a spiritual consciousness must return to be born as children and develop through the experiences of other lives. God's laws are very just; many an aged man is heard to say: "O that I had my life to live over! how different I would make it!" Divine law answers: "You shall have it ;" and while we do not remember our former life, yet the development of actual knowledge remains. This is expressed in the fact that we see children in our present age knowing as much as mature men of one hundred years ago; we may, if we disbelieve this, find reasons for it in parental conditions etc. ; yet all these things work together and no one thing is all the truth. It is believed by the majority of humanity now, that these souls cannot come into the body save when planetary conditions are favorable, and then that they will not be attracted to the persons through which they are born unless there is a common bond of sympathy in their conditions.

This again necessitates another belief, viz. that there are ages of development through which time all souls or all but those who through occult knowledge make the superior attainments must re-incarnate until the end of the age, when the planets will come into positions that will produce mental conditions that will turn the minds of the most mature toward the Divine laws and methods of attainment, and will give them a desire to reach the high goal. And all those who do, will be gathered together in

one place where they will form one body in perfect harmony and unity of thought, feeling, and action; and through the spiritual powers and knowledge possessed by them they will never die, but when their body is sufficiently refined they can transmute it to soul-force and leave the earth at will. But there are evidences that such will remain in the body through one entire age before they will have completed their work. Jesus is reported to have said "He that eateth of the bread that I shall give him shall never die, but have ‘age-lasting' life;" and because Jesus said to his disciples that "there are some standing here that shall not taste of death until they see the Kingdom of God come with power," there are many now, even among the professed Christians, who believe that the "beloved" disciple John is still living in the body on earth, and if Dr. Hartmann's book, called "Among the Rosicrucians" and Dr. Phelon's book, called "the Future Rulers of America" are founded on facts, then there are some reasons to believe that there are those who have reached such a state of development that they are no longer necessitated to die and re-incarnate but through having knowledge of Divine law will continue to live until the earth is redeemed from ignorance, sin, and death.

These thoughts will serve as a guide-board marking the way that sages and prophets of all ages have gone over and that has led them to conditions of true sanity. But such have always been accounted insane by the rest of the people; see Isaiah LIX. 15. “He that departeth from evil is accounted mad" (marginal reading). We must expect that the stigma of insanity will be thrown upon us by those who do not regain their primeval sanity. Go into an insane asylum and talk with the patients, and in many cases they think that they are the only sane people and all others are insane. The same holds good in this age and condition, where not one in ten thousand have anything like a correct idea of their own nature and the relations of their life to the world and the universe.

It is found by those who have studied Solar Biology carefully, and thoroughly compared human life with its exposition of the same, that it creates an orderly condition in their mind enabling them to understand and perceive natural law in a purer and more comprehensive light; we regard it as a God-given means to bring men to rational intelligence, seeing ourselves as others see us.

This being the (Libra) number, and the mental quality of this twelfth part of the year being the Perception of Knowledge we deem the above in order in this issue.

Now having given directions that will enable all who have the aptitude of mind to utilize this centralized thought,we will endeavor to give a few simple rules to aid those who do not readily see the utility of the above.

The prior articles have given directions to still the senses and listen to the voice that speaks only in the soul and, through it, illumines the intellect; but in order to have that illuminating guidance we must desire knowledge for its use, not for self but for others. If you desire knowledge for yourself only, you are selfish and that will put up a barrier against all inspirations. What we want is to be co-workers with God; the thought that formed the world to make man like itself is the leading one in all nature; that being so, if we wish to come into the inheritance intended for us, viz., to have "dominion," to dominate over all God's Creation, we must enter into His labors as faithfully and with as much zeal as though it all depended on our own personal effort. And in these efforts we recog