correspond exactly with those which appear in my frame, I conclude that the Maker of my body is the Author of that book.

We must remember that the truths of every known science are not man made; they are discovered. "Order is Truth." The office of science is the discovery of the divine order. All truth is of God. The truth Man is godlike to the extent that

is the Word of God.

his soul is attuned to the truth. Jesus, praying for his disciples, said: "Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth" (John 17:17). Diminution, atrophy, and death are the result of animal pleasure, indulgence, and license. Evil is deformity; it is unnatural. The glory, and power, and freedom, and enlargement of the life of man is represented in the soul's conformity to the divine order. When the soul is made perfect, when it is attuned to heaven's law, it is the organ of truth. "To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth." It is the duty, the first duty, of every rational being to live worthy of the truth; for this is the true mission of man, and of every man, male and female; for "God created man in His own image male and female."

CHAPTER II

NOAH, HIS ARK, AND THE FLOOD

Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God (Gen. 6:9).

IN the sixth chapter of Genesis it is written, that "Noah was a just man," and that he had three sons: Shem, Japheth, and Ham, and that the earth was filled with violence. "The end of all flesh is come before God; for the earth is filled with violence by the children of the flesh; and behold, God will destroy them with the earth" (Gen. 6: 13). The body of man is animal; it is of the earth; and it is doomed to destruction. "And the Lord God formed the body of man of the dust of the ground." The physical body is not the man; it is but a garment. The children of the flesh are they who live the animal life. Carnality makes for death; spirituality for life. Religion is founded upon the idea that there is a kingdom of life, intelligence, truth, unity, and justice, a spiritual kingdom, that transcends the animal kingdom of the world. "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight" (John 18: 36).

Noah was a just man; he was inspirational; he lived above the spirit of the animal world; and like all the just, he was capable of receiving a message from the spiritual kingdom. "By faith Noah, being warned of

things not seen as yet, prepared an ark to the saving of his house, by which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith” (Heb. 11:7). Every human soul which is just and upright before God condemns the spirit of the world; and is the heir of the righteousness which is by faith. When the human soul is perfect it is consciously related to the spiritual kingdom. "But I tell you of a truth, there are some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Kingdom of God [till they are consciously related to the Kingdom of God] (Luke 9: 27; Matt. 16: 28). "The just shall live by faith. . . . Because that which may be known of God is made manifest in their lives" (Rom. 1: 17, 19). The just are conscious of the Kingdom of God; therefore, "they live by faith."

"Noah by faith, prepared an ark [his soul] to the saving of his house, being warned of things not seen as yet. Every one who would escape the fury of the deluge, that envelops the whole earth, must prepare an ark, he must make perfect his own soul; this is the only ark that will withstand the deluge, that will bring man to an eternal haven of rest and peace. The ark in an outward and physical sense is the human body; in a more inward and psychological sense it is the human soul, and in a still more interior sense it is the human heart. Jesus had a marvelous power of stating the ultimate truths of human nature. "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God" (Matt. 5: 8). The heart is the life center of the individual. A man is as good, or as bad as his heart is. "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he."

"A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou make in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third

stories shalt thou make it" (Gen. 6: 16). The Kingdom of God is the kingdom of Light; it transcends the animal kingdom. The window of the ark is at the top; the light comes from above. The three stories of the arkthe lower, the second, and the third, like the three sons of Noah: Ham, Japheth, and Shem, represent the three principles of the human soul. "And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark; they shall be male and female" (Gen. 6: 19). Clean beasts were to be taken by sevens, and beasts that are not clean by two; and fowls of the air are to be taken by sevens (Gen. 7:2, 3).

Seven, like the number three, indicates perfection. It would seem, that the fowls, a symbol of mentality, correspond to the third, or upper story of the ark; the clean beasts, which represent life and purity, correspond to the second; and the unclean beasts to the lower. In a word, the clean fowls and beasts, that are admitted by sevens, correspond to the head and heart, and the unclean beasts, that are admitted by two, to the lower principle of the soul, the seat of the carnal nature of man. Seth and Japheth represent the head and heart, and Ham the carnal nature of man. This allegory, like many others in the Scriptures and in other ancient literature, is intended to tell, and does tell the story of the human soul; it first tells the nature of the soul, and then proceeds to tell the mode and manner of its evolution.

The soul of man is the permanent, the abiding, the containing self; and it may be made either a garden of virtue, or of vice; it contains the eternal attributes of personality, to wit: reason, self-consciousness, and selfactivity; it may exist with or without its body of flesh. The lower principle of the soul relates man to the

animal world; the upper principle of the soul, the mental, which Plato calls the directing and measuring principle since its office is to govern the soul, like the middle principle, relates the soul of man to the spiritual kingdom-the kingdom of life, intelligence, truth, unity, and love, the kingdom that transcends the animal kingdom of the world. The son of man, the mind of man when lifted up, when freed from all earthly contamination, "partakes of the Divine Nature, and thus attains to a consciousness of the Kingdom of God (2 Peter 1:4). "Man is related to whatever he knows," said Pascal; and Tennyson in his Ulysses sang: "I am part of all that I have met."

"The soul of Man" contemplates the expression; it "is The Man," the Mind, that governs. "Let us make Man in our own image, after our own likeness, male and female: and let them have dominion over all flesh, over every earthly thing" (Gen. 1: 26, 27). "Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet" (Ps. 8:6). The soul of man is the permanent, the abiding, and the containing; it is an ark that contains something of all that is in heaven and earth; it is the ark that contains something of every living thing; and above all animal life it contains man, the image and glory of God, and over and above all it is the temple of the Holy Spirit (2 Cor. 6: 16). "The roots of all things are in man, says Emerson in his essay on History.

"By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, and fearful of unpreparedness, prepared an ark [his soul], to the saving of his house; by which he condemned the world, and became the heir of righteousness which is by faith." The first duty of Noah, and of every rational being, is the perfection of the soul, the