this is the Perfect, undimmed by the passing of years, for it rests just beyond the dawn of time, is enveloped in Eternity and is Eternal.

Time paints its pictures in the natural world and leaves its imprints; but it cannot even touch man, the manifestation of God, nor God's Perfect Universe.

This world has seen a perfect pattern, and that was Jesus Christ of Nazareth. He came to show man his possibility as well as his destiny. He taught how man, when he had arrived at the dawn after his long sleep in the night of carnality, will awaken, when he can learn the Master's instructions.

Let the ringing of a bell, or some unusual sound, occur in a house where many are sleeping, and there may be only one or two who will hear it and come forth to ascertain the cause; and when they tell the others about it, these others are surprised, for they knew nothing of it. If they who did not hear are sufficiently interested, those who did hear can explain it to them and they may not slumber so deeply again. But the others who will not listen will return to their sound sleep and may continue sleeping until the cycle has passed, the wheel turned and the bell ring again. Blessed is he who hears!

"Awake thou that sleepeth!" Arise! and don the morning robe and come forth from your chamber of darkness and greet the rising sun and behold the glory of day, for when the sun reaches the zenith many men will step forth Redeemed.

It is God's pleasure, that man see himself as God gave him forth at the dawn of the Perfect Creation, an upright Being, manifesting good, love, beauty, majesty and power and clothed upon with the robe of Holiness, a breastplate of righteousness protecting, a mantle of gentleness and kindness clothing him about and the smile of compassion for his fellow man lighting up his face. Man in this state expresses God at all times and under all circumstances and in all environments, because he lives in harmony and the Perfect Universe is expressed

around and about him, even though, to the natural man, the natural only seems to be expressed. He has the Eye Single and sees clearly, while the natural man sees As through a glass darkly."

Perfect God! and His Perfect Creation, which includes man and the Universe and God's Perfect Law, operating in and through All.

Unceasing and Eternal is this Perfect Creation and its Laws which govern it; for, behold, God sits on the Throne in His Heavens and breathes it. "God rests in action;" therefore, man rests in action, when he has learned the Truth and knows God as He is and man as he is. Then man, without care or anxiety, rests serenely and contentedly upon the Infinite Bosom, as the water lily reposes upon the bosom of the lake. As in that Bosom man beholds purity, serenity and contentment, we see these in the stillness of man. When man realizes this, he will express the beauties of God as unselfishly as the water lilies do.

Peals of Holy Laughter and songs of sweet delight will enrich the discoverer of the wonderful Mystic Key.

There is no poverty in Heaven. No discord can enter there; neither care nor anxiety can there find an abiding place. No discordant note can strike on the Instrument of Heaven, because it is attuned to Harmony, sweet and deep.

Harmony is the home of God's creation as it is. On the streets of that City the celestial ones tread. They have mastered carnality's illusions and can never more be ensnarled.

The Light of God lighteth this City which lieth four square upon the Mountain of our God. The flowers which grow there are the rarest, sweetest and most fair. Love blesses each and every heart and the Voice of the Holy Ones who have reached this final abode sing sweetly, clearly and serenely to this Father-Mother-God.

There is no condemnation there; neither regret nor discontent.

It is our desire that each reader of this book examine himself and the life he is living and observe what the fruits are. There is only one kind of fruit which is of any value to man in his finishing process, be it here, now or in the Ages to come, and that is the good, the Real. Man reaps his reward here, hereafter and in the Ages to come, from every good thought, word, act and deed. When man has become conscious of God and His Perfect Creation, it follows that he will desire to assist his brothers to know God. When all the men of earth know and understand God, then Isaiah's prophecy will be fulfilled and the "Lamb and lion will lie down together and a little child shall lead them." Love will then reign Supreme.

CHAPTER VIII

IN THE DEEP! OR HERE AND HEREAFTER.

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O as deep as man may, still there are deeper depths. Go as high as he will, there are higher heights. Expand to as great degree as man's mind is able to do, and yet there are wider circles to be traversed, reaching beyond man's vainest imagination into the Hereafter; and then he has only reached the foothills of Eternity.

Of the vast plains, seas, mountain ranges, deserts and fertile vales which lie beyond the hills which fringe the Hereafter, no one fully knows until he has crossed and penetrated their vastness and sees with his own vision and comprehends with his own mind.

The Christ-Consciousness, expressing in the sphere beyond the chasm called death, corresponds to that state of understanding on this plane which is the Fourth Dimension. Man with the Christ-Consciousness can assist those who have not that Great Light. Many are ready to recognize and welcome the fact that the men of earth can Here and Hereafter teach, explain and help those who are desirous to understand about the Divine Deeps; but many there are who do not think it possible for those of the same dimension-concept, who have passed through the door called death, to reveal the deep Truths to their brothers who still are inhabiting the body of flesh. If we will recall the definition of God as given in the preceding chapters of this book, the reason will be unable to see why this should not be.

God is the One and only Presence and man is the individualized expression of God.

God is the only Life, and man is the individualized life of that Life.

God is the only Spirit and man is the individualized Spirit of God.

Then we have man as Life, Soul, Spirit and Body, with the Breath of the Infinite breathing him.

God, the Infinite, is Omnipresent! and all men are individualized expressions of God and have their being in God.

None, therefore, can stray beyond His Love and Care. God governs all through His Law which forever acts in and through His Creation,-as unceasingly and exactingly as we see its equivalent in the ebb and flow of the tide. As this law of the tides causes the action of the waters in the great oceans, even to the minutest drop, and through this action brings about constant purity, so the action of God's Eternal Law, ebbing and flowing in and through creation, even unto the smallest manifestation, causes purity to become manifest.

In the Here, as the carnal man sees, there are impurities around him. He may pluck a beautiful apple and place it upon the shelf; but in time it decays, disintegrates and then is cast into the earth, where it comes in touch with the Law of Action, which brings its particles back to purity. The apple grew upon the tree, was gathered and placed in a safe place, and when it reached the stage where man could not use it the Law of Action carries it through the processes which will bring its atoms into purity from whence it started upon its journey of

sense.

So God's Law is working throughout the broad and deep expanse of God's domain and is causing the purity of God to become manifest throughout the endless realm of creation, until the Law of Purity has caused the Whole to become pure again in its expression of desire.

If the Infinite Intelligence guides the atom in the depth of the earth to fill its place and move in its service for the good of the whole, how could man believe that