in the Father and the Father in Me," and, referring to His works, He said, "The Father within Me, He doeth the works." He understood this; while those who have a lesser degree of Light find it necessary to "seek, ask and knock" until they, too, attain the fullness of "that Light which lighteth every man who cometh into the world."

Let us stand in imagination at the dawn of creation; yea, let the mind reach beyond the dawn into the darkness which covered "the face of the deep," and then the dawn, as creation sprang forth from the Womb of the Infinite, and the Light shone over land and sea; seeing this as the mind of man can imagine it.

This darkness which was over the face of the deep is incomprehensible until, as the morning light approaches, the curtains of night begin to drape aside, then roll back as a scroll as the full light of the sun sends its golden rays so bright and clear that they penetrate the darkness; and, lo, all is Light.

Man, as he "Seeks, Asks and Knocks," comes more closely into the understanding of God, Aum, and steps so strongly into the Light that he sees he lives, moves and has his being in it; then, that he is filled with it; and the darkness that was over the face of the deep gradually is dispelled from his mind.

In the outer reckoning of things it is a long journey for the Soul from the time it becomes conscious that it is looking outward and begins to partake of the fruit that grew on the Tree which was in the midst of the Garden (of which Divine Wisdom had forbidden it to eat), until it reaches the place on the Path which leads through experience, where the Light of God again becomes so strong that the curtain is drawn aside and the Soul pierces the darkness with clear vision and understanding, and knows God, Aum; and, creation as it is; and man, the manifestation of God, as he is.

When man became conscious that he was in the Garden where the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge

were, he moved peacefully along into the evening whence his mind was enough confused to feel that he was separated from God; and, in this dulled condition of his mind, he perceived God walking in the midst of the Garden and calling, "Adam! Where art thou?" The Infinite Intelligence knew where man was; knew, also, the change which had come into man's mind through the vibrations becoming lowered by his looking away from God, the Source of his being, to outer things. But man did not comprehend this; therefore, he continued looking outward until there was such a distance in his consciousness between himself and the Father that he was removed from the Garden of Eden and a Flaming Sword placed between him and the Tree of Life. This Flaming Sword is the Light of Truth, the Light that is Truth.

No man, after he has partaken of the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, which brought men into the school of earth-experience, can again come unto the Tree of Life until he is pierced by that Flaming Sword, and can understand it and handle it with Love and Wisdom.

When man has reached the place where he "knows the Truth, " and knows that he is "lighted by that Light which lighteth every man who cometh into the world," he will have passed through the school of earth's experience and come from the state of the Adam-man unto the glorious Light of Jesus the Christ.

We read, "As in Adam all die, so in Jesus Christ all are made alive." Adam represents the Soul as it, through the lowering of its vibrations, finds itself in the Garden of Eden and the vibrations low enough to have caused man to lose the consciousness of Bliss which he enjoyed in the higher state of concept, or vibration. Man in this state began to depend upon himself for happiness, food and raiment and all that belongs to this, his life of separation.

As man ate more freely of the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, he passed further into the

self-will and, finally, he endeavors to depend upon self for the ability to live and enjoy life. Thus the carnal mind was formed; and, in time, the thoughts and desires of the selfishness in it caused man to become conscious of the outer mind only; and mankind has walked down the centuries, becoming as barbarous as it was possible for this carnal mind (the Adversary) to make him. The Divine Man, whom God created, has become encased, as it were, with this carnal concept; the outer and the inner of it (the conscious and subconscious); but the Divine or Super-conscious man remains, and is the man which God created.

As long as man lives under the sway of the carnal mind, which is the mind of earth only, he cannot see the beauty, sweetness and glory which is in the two-edged sword (the Light of Truth) which guards the Tree of Life.

It is not in the Desire or Will of the Father, the Creator, that man should live forever in the carnal concept of himself; therefore, he is not permitted to come unto Eternal Life consciousness until he is born again.

Jesus Christ, in answer to Nicodemus' question, said, "Ye must be born again."

A Prophet of God, letting the voice of the Infinite speak through him, said, "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh nor whither it goeth." So man, in his carnal state, cannot tell the Rhythm and Action of the Law and Love of God. "Ye must be born again." Jesus also said to Nicodemus, "Ye must be born from above.

As the carnal mind and its expressions in man are of the earth, earthy, so the God-man, the one "created in the Image and likeness of God," is of Heaven, Heavenly. Man's quickening, also his new Birth, comes from above. Then God sets His seal upon him, and the vibrations of his being are so quickened and raised that the things of earth and the love of worldly pleasure can no longer

influence him or hold him in bondage. Then his eyes are turned upon the Flaming Sword, and he, guided by the Holy Spirit, which comes into his being at the New Birth, will come unto and into, and, finally, will become that Light and consciously stand, not only near the Tree of Life, but he, too, is a tree of Life and, knowingly, stands in the midst of Paradise, a Redeemed Son of God. He has then finished with earth's experience for himself; but he now is ready and prepared to assist those who are living in the carnal man's concept of themselves and the earth.

The Soul in Paradise dwells in perfect bliss and remains in that state until he chooses to desire to know how it might be to be other than Blissful. It is as an innocent babe, filled with the ecstasy of resting on the Father's Bosom and covered and surrounded with His Love. But, when the Soul has partaken of the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and has moved out on the path which leads through carnal experiences and travelled thereon until it has pressed to its completeness the wine-press of woe, heartaches and sorrow, which express in sickness, old age, death and poverty; then, like a tired child, it pauses long enough to consider; and, in this consideration, it discerns that these glittering desires, which man seeks to achieve, are only shadows, which change as the sun rises and sets; are only the will-o'-the-wisp, leading man further into the marsh of the carnal man's will and ways.

When man has reached this point on the path and realizes he has eaten to his full of the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and turns and faces the Flaming Sword and, through prayer, seeks to learn the Father's will and, through Prayer, Devotion and Love, desires to lay down and cast aside his own selfwill, (the carnal mind), and come into the concept of his Divine-Self, which is God individualized, he reaches the Paradisiacal state again and is then no longer the

innocent babe on the Father's Bosom, but a Redeemed Son.

As long as man's bark is on a placid sea or calm lake, the sky blue, the sunshine clear and warm, he is content in carnality. If one should speak to him of God, perchance he will say, "There is no God. Nature is all I see, and nature's laws I have learned, and know the seasons as they come and go with their seed-time and harvest.' "However, there will come a day to every Soul when the quiet summer day will come to a close and the evening shadows of autumn gather around and, by and by, the storms of winter.

A Redeemed Son of God, one who has passed over the path which leads through experience and has the full Light of Truth, sees the clouds, storms and wintery blasts, but is not disturbed by them; because he is vibrating in the Love and Warmth of the Presence of his Heavenly Father. He, thus endued, can assist those who are still lost in the maze and confusions which surround the path that leads through carnality and the school of experience.

No man is a Redeemed Son of God until he has passed out from Paradise, partaken of the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, which stood in the midst of the Garden, passed through the school of experience, been born again and partaken of Life Eternal and thereby become a conscious redeemed Son of God. How long a time this requires for a Soul "No man knoweth, not even the Son; but the Father." None will be forever lost; no, not one!

Some may loiter a long time by the side of babbling brooks, or in the shade in the midst of green pastures, or stop to gather the tender flowers of spring-time, or the more sturdy ones of summer. Some may, through the Law of Cause and Effect, find themselves in barren places, and the chains, which they themselves have forged, bind them until "They have paid unto the very