knows that his heart substance is that of the Infinite Heart, and that they beat as one Heart, he is in a blessedness beyond telling.

Loving bliss and joyous gratitude, these are the expressions of man, when from the Mountain of Transfiguration he views the landscape o'er and sees the perfect expression of God everywhere and realizes that it is one Eternal day, one continuous Life, one peace unending and joy forevermore.

Then the Soul of man sings a song sublime and his heart responds with love divine to Love Divine. Man stands alone with God in the consciousness of immortality, and in the Sublimity of the Eternality of the All-ness of that which is.

Amidst green pastures and fields of golden grain and flowers of different hues growing along the path and birds singing their sweet songs and the rivers flowing peacefully and the sky's deep blue,-this is the picture of contentment upon which the illumined man looks and exclaims, "How sublime!" Yes, this is Sublimity itself! and the Sublimity of the Glory, Beauty and Greatness of God abides in the heart.

We would that all men attain unto the Illumined concept of Sublimity quickly, that the Kingdom of Heaven speedily become established upon the earth, "Even as it is in Heaven.”

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CHAPTER V

"JESUS SAT BY THE SEA-SIDE.'

HE same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea-side. St. Mat. 13:1.

"And great multitudes were gathered unto Him, so that He went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. St. Mat. 13:2.

Jesus having come from His place of abode "Sat by the sea-side." This place is symbolical of the place where two expressions meet.

When the multitude discovered where Jesus was, they gathered about Him and He went into a ship and sat.

When Jesus sat in the boat upon the water, He had stepped from one expression, or dimension, to another. He had launched out upon the deep, and from this place He could teach the message of the Father to the people.

The multitudes stood on the sea-shore, which is symbolical of the shifting sands of time; but Jesus, when they called for Him to teach them, moved out from among them, and sat in the boat upon the water. Water is symbolical of Life Eternal, and from that separate state of concept He could look into the minds, hearts, souls and bodies of the assembled multitude and see what each one desired.

To the Spiritually hungry He gave crumbs of Spiritual bread; to the Spiritually thirsty He gave the Water of Life; and the physical man who was infirm, if they called upon Him, He healed; and to the Soul

who was still bound in the grave-cloths of illusion until it seemed asleep, Jesus spoke the potent words which would awaken man. He told them they must "Know the Truth."

Thus we see that Jesus addressed the four-fold nature in man, according to the requirements of the man. Jesus, with the eye of vision, easily discerned the needs of those who came to Him.

As Jesus sat in the boat and taught the multitudes, He was consciously in another dimension from them. If He had stood on the sands of the sea-side as the multitudes did, He could not have assisted them,—even as Jesus Himself said, "If I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto me." Thus we see that Jesus' desire was to lift the people up from the teachings of Moses' dispensation into the next dispensation. In doing this, Jesus did not condemn Moses, as no one would think of condemning the rosebud because it was not the full blown rose; but He showed wherein the scriptures prophesied of Him, Jesus,-who came to fulfill the Law and the Prophets.

Neither would the enlightened Jesus condemn the first dispensation because it was not the second.

As Jesus sat in the boat, He talked to the multitudes from His Divine concept. In that state He was conscious of the divine power within Him and that He was God made manifest.

Jesus' message was to the man living in the concept of his personality and believing it to be himself, that he might awake and learn to pass from one dimension in his own concept to another, to pass from personality to individuality.

As man stands upon the shore of time, all things are fleeting to him and the sands under his feet are ever shifting and his body subject to the whim of every passing breeze. If it is pure and refreshing, he has health;

if cold and bleak, man becomes afflicted by it and finally he gives up the struggle and sits despairingly upon the shifting sands which lie along the shore of the Water of Life, not knowing that there is anything but sand.

If man awakens as he sits here, and listens to the one who is in the boat, to the one who has stepped from the shore of time to the Water of Life and is in the understanding of Eternity, and can catch the deeps of the milk in the message given, he will perceive, that the one in the boat passed over from those shifting sands of one dimension into the other dimension of deep Reality without passing through death.

It is so easy for the carnal man's body to become heavy and sluggish when the mind loses hope and man sits down upon the shifting sands, carried about by every wind of desire that blows. Death seems such an easy door to the heavy-laden carnal man who knows naught of that other dimension of Life and Being and Eternity; but the one sitting in the boat knows and understands the two states. Jesus, being in the higher, having passed through the lower, understandingly taught the multitudes the way whereby they could escape from the unstable conditions within and around them.

"Jesus sat by the sea-side." He had come out from His home in the higher realms, that He might give the message which the Father desired the children of men to have, so that they could find their way back to their lost inheritance,-their Father's House-the Home from which Jesus came when He took birth among the men of earth to be the Way-Shower, the Teacher and Saviour.

Jesus proved the divineness of the message which He was giving by the signs following, in which He proved His Love for His fellowman by healing their diseases and comforting those in distress.

The boat in which Jesus sat was launched out from the sandy shore where the people were standing, and the state of His understanding was far beyond the mul

titudes, but His desire was to lift all men unto His height.

Jesus Christ was the man and the message which He gave was from the Infinite Heart. That message was for all men, as they arrive at the place where they can hear the greatness and completeness of the message of Love sent to the men of earth from the Father-Mother, that man may learn that there is Redemption full and complete, not only for his Soul after it withdraws from the physical body, but for the body also. Jesus told them that flesh and blood could not enter heaven. Then it is clear that there is something to be done from the time man sits among the multitudes upon the shifting sands and believes his body of flesh and blood is himself, until that time when man stands a Conscious Redeemed Son of the Living God,-redeemed and at Home in his Father's House.

The Father, speaking through the lips of Jesus, when He saw a Soul who had arrived at the awakening season, spake the vitalizing words which awakened them.

The loving Father within Jesus, seeing the afflicted ones, healed all who called for it. He unbound the dumb tongue that it might be free to sing praises to the living God.

When the multitudes had followed Jesus, seeking to glean the golden grains of Truth as they fell from His lips, so anxious that they might learn the message that they looked not after their material welfare, and when they had been with Him some days without food, the Father within Him, which is forever at-one with the Omnipotent One, fed the people.

Jesus, sitting in the boat upon the water, was living and His Mind and Heart functioning far out in the Infinite Heart. He, being understandingly there, could let the Father's Love flow through Him to bless, feed and heal those who came close enough to the fountain to touch the hem of His garment.