and the unweaving of its structures from this grasp of death, is the task of the hour. The natural man has his life on the surface of things,and is a colored air-bubble in the human form. Up to his present state, Evolution, has pushed man blindly on and even against his will, now he must work consciously and intelligently toward the next step on Creation's Altar-stairs, the plane of sinless, transfigured manhood.

Death is a catastrophe not contemplated in the primitive organism of that wonderful Creation made in the divine image, male-female, and endowed with power of rule over all creatures of earth, air, and sea. When Christ's redemption shall be fulfilled, there will be no sepulchres; sin subverts the primal forms of soul-existence, and sick-chambers, death-rooms, and grave-yards follow. We suffer here from evil's deflorations, yet our true life, not lost, is but deferred. The age of the one-twain humanity is as much the result of the force of evolution, as the age of the Amphibians. The signs of its advent, everywhere proclaimed, are everywhere around This is the end and object of the millions of years of slow development on our orb.

us.

Far back, before we made the body in which now we move,-before the spirit took on enfleshment, we were bi-sexual souls. Then came the “fall” into matter; we were bemired, and clothed in "coats of skin." The race was no more in oneliness, male-female, but the Eve was taken out of Adam. Each spirit, prior to its descent into the world, consists of psychic counterparts united in one being. When the Psyche enters nature. its two elements are sundered and animate different bodies. In the next stage of evolution they will be again and forever blended, and constitute. one celestial body and one divine Soul. This is the re-discovery of the Truth of Man. We have termed him natural, but he is not natural, he is phantasmal. He is but the effigy of a man who has filled himself with animal interiors. He has taken the mere appetite-life of the brute into himself, and adopted it in room of his true humanity. He is a lust, in the human image, on the skin of the universe. Men in nature are commoners together in the Kingdom of the beast.

According to the early traditions made known to Plato by the Magi of Egypt, the primitive mankind were androgynous. Said Socrates, in Plato's dialogue of the Banquet, "The first men were endowed, each of them, with four arms, four legs, two faces" etc. Other early myths hint at the same experience. It was, indeed, a common belief in the time of_remote antiquity, that the first mankind were created male-female. The Genesis-legends teach the same truth; we read that the Adamic man first stood forth as a binary creature, with the woman of him involved in his structure. She was then evolved, and led through his frame until she appeared as a separate being in nature. Thus leaving the interiors of man, when she became permanently outwarded to him by lusting after the apples of animal generation, the "Fall" or relapse into the nature-state occurred. Animal proclivities generate human depravities. "Sin entered, and death by sin." This fated experience of being mired in matter, plucks from the soul its wings and leaves it all a worm. But all life runs in cycles, and all states have their ending. Now this cycle of the dear bought "knowledge of good and evil" closes, and dawns the kingdom of God or the age of Saturn. The spiritual surfaces of the planet are brightened all over by the feet of watching angels, the soul is learning to operate through the gastric juices by a spiritual Alchemy, and the sensories of the

human system are reviving from the dormancy of ages in those organisms where the process of the higher vivification has begun.

"This is the Mystery of Christ; the bliss in strife;

The resurrection's power; God, wrought in man to Life."

Reproduction is lifted into regeneration. It is no longer a begetting of others from ourselves, but a begetting of ourselves from ourselves. Out of our past animal selves, we are born again into the higher un-self. Generation goes on within us, instead of by means of us. We beget ourselves or rather we are begotten anew of the Divine, who says "Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten Thee." He lives, and we live in Him. It is of the true man, not of the animal creature that God spake when He said "Let us make man!"

anew

One word more. The new state is not perfection, but freedom from hindrances; there is yet ignorance to surmount, moral weakness to master, ideals to touch and hold, the Divine One to be ever nearer approached and more completely enjoyed. When the new race is unfolded, woman will be co-equal, but interior, both in one body, but she having the power to come forth to manifestation. The Leader, two-in-one, beckons us on, and thousands following his guidance are striving towards the bi-sexual state. The men who, after being put out of the way, the race claims most proudly for its own, are those who held the gifts of Arch-nature, and were the servants of its blooming, fruitful, deathless evolution. Chief among them all was the Archetypal Genius of the race the martyred Androgyne of Galilee. NEMO.

HYGIENIC LAWS.

(BY WM. A. ENGLISH, M. D).
Number Two.

FOR reasons previously given, it will be evident that one requisite of suitable food is, that it shall readily absorb saliva; hence, food that is already saturated with moisture, (as new bread, hot biscuit, griddle cakes, etc.), though it may be called light, on account of being permeated by small cavities, caused by the gas which accompanies the rising or fermenting process, is apt to become doughy or soggy, during mastication, and is not as suitable for nutritive purposes as food that is moderately dry, so that it will absorb a fair amount of saliva. This forms our objection against mush, which, being already surcharged with water, to which milk is frequently added, is usually swallowed almost as soon as taken into the mouth, and before the saliva has had time to mingle with it. Care should be taken to eat mush very slowly.

Gruel, milk, and all fluid food, should be taken in small sips, thus allowing sufficient time for a due admixture of saliva with it.

Milk is the natural food of the infant, yet the movements of the lips and cheeks, as it slowly labors to secure its nourishment causes a liberal flow of saliva to mingle with the lacteal fluid.

We should take even water, in small sips, and never swallow it in heedless hast, as is too often done.

The excessive use of salt in nearly every article of food prepared by most cooks, irritates the mucous membrane of the stomach, and causes unnatural thirst, not only for water, but for various other drinks also, including fermented and distilled liquors, tea, coffee, etc.

Were such lavish use of condiments discontinued, and our food masticated slowly, and in small mouthfuls, so as to insure perfect insalivation, we should find that good, ripe fruits, eaten freely with our meals, would, by their juices, supply nearly all the fluid needed by the system, except in very hot weather, and when perspiration is excessive, and even then, by sufficiently increasing the proportion of fruit, little or no drink would be needed.

The unreasonable use of condiments by the American people tends to blunt the sense of taste so that the finer flavors of natural food cannot be detected, and creates such a false or preverted habit of taste, that hardly anything satisfies it, unless these irritating substances are supplied to such an extent as to mask all the delicate flavors of simple food. Again, these stimulating substances excite the appetite to an abnormal degree, so that more food is taken than the system actually needs, and the waste of vital force, consequent upon disposing of this surplus of worse than useless food, together with the drink that is required to quench the abnormal and feverish thirst, is a dangerous drain upon the energies of the physical system. It is not so much the quanity eaten, that nourishes our bodies, as it is the amount that becomes thoroughly digested and fitted to take its place in the ever moving current of blood, from which all the tissues and secretions are supplied.

If by stimulating our appetites with condiments and pampering our sense of taste with delicacies and savory compounds, we overload the stomach, the gastric juice will not, like the saliva, respond to every demand made upon it by our foolish desires, but, on the contrary, will cease to flow, after a sufficient amount has been poured out for digesting all the nutriment the system requires at one time, seemingly, and the surplus remains as a source of irritation and disease.

Though we have power thus to prostitute our faculties and functions to the mere gratifications of sense, we are not always prepared to meet the consequences that must inevitably result from such a course.

Perhaps the worst feature of the case we have been considering, is, that the uncontrollable thirst excited by the excessive use of salt, is the cause of a very large share of the intemperance that exists in our land to-day. The philosophy of this, in as follows: - the immediate stimulating effect of highly salted food seems, for a time, to promote digestion, but as the activities of the stomach have been thus raised above the normal level, and an extra supply of nerve-force taken from the general fund, to meet this forced demand, they soon sink just as far below the natural level, as they have been raised above it, and when this critical point is reached, what a "goneness" there is in the pit of the stomach, and the suffering mortal then feels the imperative need, not only of drink but of stimulating drink, to "brace up" the exhausted gastric energies.

Let any one eat a full meal of salt fish or corned beef, and they will understand how this thirst would work upon a man who had an appetite for intoxicants, or upon any one with a weak or very sensitive stomach. It is strange indeed, that American housekeepers do not have a clearer perception of the rationale of dietetics, than they usually manifest.

It is just as much our duty to obey physiological, as spiritual law, and one is as divine as the other. "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap" applies with the same inflexible and perfect justice to the physical department of our being. as to the spiritual.

The laws of the universe- being divine are the only channels through which Infinite Love flows to us, and perfect love must be in exact accord with perfect justice.

Faith, unless anchored to these perfect laws, will bring us sore disappointments; and it must not only be conjoined with works, but as St. Paul said, "Add to your faith *** knowledge."

(Our next article will contain some suggestions on the selection of food.)

ROADS TO IMMORTALITY.

(CONTINUED.)

COMPARISONS WITH THE BIBLE.

EVEN as Truth is eternal, so is the man who has cognized the Truth in his interior. But few seek it within themselves, and therefore men generally remain far from the conviction of an everlasting life. They presume to make assertions or denials with mere words, but do not attain to realization, and therefore cannot rise to the plane of faith.

He who cannot believe in immortality, must walk over many paths before attaining certainty, therefore no true religionist will take offense at our resorting in the present treatise, to means secured outside of the Christian Religion in order that the seeker may be lead to his goal. "Desire to receive the Spirit, aspire for rebirth in the Spirit!" This is the doctrine of the wisdom of all religions, and especially of our sublime Christian religion, the founder of which Himself said, Mark III, 28, 29: "Verily I say unto you, all sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme: but he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation." The above idea lies at the bottom of this treatise. To seek the genius of the Spirit, to awake it, to draw it forth from its coverings of the flesh, to individualize it from the vanities of the world, Mohrland uses every available means as he knows that through the Spirit everything can be discovered and attained, but without the Spirit the life of man is a dead seed that will never germinate, much less bear fruits of Eternity.

Fielding, Mohrland's disciple, had first tried everything to lead his friend, thirsting for Truth, to the well, by doctrines of faith; but this was ineffectual because of the crust of worldly wisdom and skepticism and so he was compelled to have his disciple experimentally wander through all the windings of life; first to kindle in himself the immortal spark and then to fan it into a blaze, before he could attain to the conviction of faith. True faith is the pillar of Christianity; but it must lead to the cognition of the Spirit, to regeneration; otherwise it is an evil, a false seed from which wickedness, superstition and confusion arise. For man can accustom himself to believe silly and nonsensical things, while the facts of Christianity require the awakening of the Spirit that reveals the Truth

to us.

There are people who believe the fables of Indian fairy-tales; but they materialize the Spirit, and would like to use it for worldly ends: they obtain nothing thereby, and visibly drift toward perdition. The belief in finite Spirit, in an Eternal Providence, a Redemption in the flesh, is the

indispensable condition for attaining that perfection of life that Christ requires of believers.

Christ gives his followers two other vital powers, for gaining immortality, or, as he calls it the Kingdom, of Hope and Love. He who reaches out for immortality has a love for it and will finally realize its substance in himself. He who loves Immortality, desires it; he who has been for a long time desiring a thing, finally hopes for it. Love and Hope develop the inner man who at length comes forth into life in the full power of Faith.

The Christian Religion first leads us nearer to Eternity through the exalted doctrines of love, and finishes her work by the power of faith. Faith is the never-failing seed from which grows the fulness of all life, all happiness, and immortality.

The precepts given by Christ concerning the Power of Life, are so exalting, practical and plain, that we are often astonished that we see them so seldom applied, and hence perceive adherents of Christianity lanquishing in constant anguish and doubt, sorrow and misery, struggle and combat, poverty and sickness, whilst in the strength of faith there is contained the remedy against all the evils.

Where is the man or woman not kindled to holy rapture at reading those verses that give so full assurance against all distress? (Math. VIII. 5-13, 24-26. Ix. 2, 27-30. XXI. 20-22. Mark v. 25-29, 34. vi. 5, 6.)

It is easy to see that another faith is here meant than that we see in common life, and among theologists who only seek the literal meaning. Faith here appears as a power of life, filling us with a Divine light. A А man who truly believes, is as conscious of that agent as of his other interests in life, and seeks to satisfy and exercise it. Not a mere blind belief is meant here, but that conviction which we realize as living in ourselves. All actions have their purpose, in conformity with which their proofs are revealed. If the purpose is good, then the action is good; if not then we are on the wrong track. The purpose of faith is to generate the everlasting life in us, that which renews man, and calls him to a right existence in regeneration.

He who does not plainly realize the regenerated life in himself does not possess it, whatever he may read, write, or speak of it.

To read the Bible is not sufficient, the true task consists in entering into its meaning, and incorporating that meaning into ourselves as a seed, and thus planting ourselves for the word of God and for eternity.

The Bible is a work of the Holy Ghost, but it is not the Holy Ghost itself. Those therefore to whom the Bible is everything, are very much mistaken; the Bible must only guide us and we must realize its teachings in ourselves by practice.

He who believes that the Word of God is in the Bible, believes rightly; but he who thinks this belief is sufficient, deceives himself and perishes, because he did not seek the living Spirit in himself.

The Bible shows us the way; Christ is our example. We should walk according to the former, and imitate the latter in all the relations and conditions of our life.

To fulfill the commandments of Christ is good; but all his teachings regarding conduct are only the preparations for the higher goal, the retion of the Spirit and Regeneration.