KEY TO LESSONS IN EARTH LIFT FRANKLIN E PARKER Phil 7069.16.50 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY OLAN VART VES ISTO EMIA ECCLE INN TAS CHRIS KOVO LESIAE NOV. N FROM THE ESTATE OF HANNAH P. KIMBALL OF BOSTON JUNE 23, 1922 CHRISTIAN WISDOM CHRISTIAN WISDOM A KEY TO LESSONS IN EARTH LIFE BY FRANKLIN E. PARKER Divine character is the crown of life, studded with jewels of worthy acts and radiant with the spirit of God THE UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE, MASS. Phil 7069.16.50 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY FROM THE ESTATE OF HANNAH P. KIMBALL JUNE 23, 1922 Copyright, 1916 By Franklin E. Parker Boston, Mass. All rights reserved by the author Dedicated To the interest of Humanity, with veneration for Omnipotent God through the blessings of Truth, as taught by the Christ Spirit within us Then it matters not who is your kith or kin Seek the guidance of God, who dwelleth within Recognized as the true voice of Conscience Supplication May the blessings of heaven sanctify the conscientious effort of mortals, when by that effort they seek the direct guidance of Divinity within their own soul, in preference to serving the importance of a selfish Personality in some other soul Where the abomination of hero worship is eliminated forever CONTENTS Page cu . . . . . . . 10 oras yslel . . . . . . . . 13 14 15 16 18 21 25 26 20 A universal prayer . . . . . . . . . . . . Spirit and matter ... Atoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Spirit and matter summarized ... The conception of a solar system .... The birth of a planet system ...... Constellations. ..... Premature dissolution of a planet. .. Magnetic and electric sun ...... Planet adjustment . . . . . · · · · Atmosphere . . . . . . . . . . . .. Geology. Professor Denton ... Composition of the earth crust ... Oxygen. Citations . . . . . . . . .. Professor Bose .. The trinity of Divinity . . . . . . . Soul conception. A Soul Atom ....... Soulmates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Soul nature. The physical nature .. Sex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Soul trinity · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Soul expression. ··· · · · · · · · · 12 Incarnations . . . . . · · · · · The divine Spark .... Reincarnation . Animal Souls. Domestic Souls . .. Conquer self ... The pedigree of mortal. Evolution : The key of evolution · · · · · · · Era. Kingdom ...... Degree. Circuit . . . Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Evolution. · Physical conception ... · · · · · · · · · · · · · 33 35 36 38 39 40 41 43 46 47 50 CONTENTS Page 59 . . . . . . . 77 80 S1 . . 83 89 . . 100 . Physical form · · · · Summarized ................... Progenitors · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Seven root races · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · .. Seven continents ... First root race .... Second root race ............. Third root race ....... Prenatal conditions. Sex separation Animal ... Sex separation. Human ............. The divine spark ... · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Ape . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Race color . · · · · · · · · · Mammal . . . . Fourth root race. Atlantean Age ............ Atlantis . . . . . . . . · · · · · Atlantean kings . . . . . . . . American and European customs Bible ......... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fifth root race ...· · · · · · · ·... Sixth root race .................... Seventh root race . ... Physical nature. Film ..... The complex body of seven ............ Seven incarnations .. Nerve system. Brain .............. . Seven ganglia :::::: ::::......... Sympathetic system for the astral . ......... Astral eye and retina ...... .......... Brain ....................... Heart : ....... :.. :::::........ Blood circulation. Lacteals and food . Liver. Spleen. Lungs · ... ····· · · · · · Kidneys. Solar plexus ......... Sex function............ Physical conception ................ Soul inception · · · · · · · · · .... Germs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Teeth. The views of Plato ............ Astral body . . . . . . . · · · · ·. Christian Science . . . . . . . . . · · · · · · · · · · Will power. Thought · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Aura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 102 104 105 106 108 109 110 112 112 116 118 119 120 122 123 125 126 127 128 130 131 133 135 138 CONTENTS si . . .. 156 161 . . . . Colors. :: 162 165 167 168 170 . . : . . . . . . . . . . . 174 . 176 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 . . . . Page We do not seek in vain 139 Death. Beyond the Parting .........· · · · · 140 Radium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Astral. Dr. Tuck. .................. 149 Atmosphere. Mediumship ...... ........ The underworld ......... : · · · · · · · · · Suicide ............ ........... The theatre and church.. Magic · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gautama Buddha ............ Esoteric . ...· · · · · Secret doctrine ...... 172 Bible reference · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Jesus ......... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Apostles ... 178 Paul ...... 179 Apocalypse ...................... 180 Spirituality. .. 183 Theology ...................... Jew · · · · · · · · · · · 188 Mind cure ...... 190 Historic selections .... ................ 191 Personal spirit messages . ............... 196 Christianity ...................... 198 Review of reviews .... 217 Prophets . ............. 225 A few historic events .. . . . . . . . . 227 Bible review . ... i 229 Faith . . . . . . . . •• Moses. The wrath of God .............. 231 The heart ....::···· · · · · · · · · · · · · Jewish customs. ................... Jesus ... 240 The Rosicrucians. Caba 241 The arcanes . . . . . 242 · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Solar force ...................... 246 Levi ....... 247 The tenets of Masonry .. 249 The lost word. · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 251 The confessional ... 252 Three degrees of Masonry ............... 253 Three initiations of Masonry .............. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 . . . . 233 239 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 . . . . . . The conessional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 xii CONTENTS Page 259 . . Quotations from modern Freemasonry ...... Modern Freemasonry ................. The Crusaders .... The Knights Templars. ················ Summary. ........... The Masonic requiem .......... 265 267 268 271 274 . . . . A UNIVERSAL PRAYER O thou! Omnipotent God who ruleth on high, guide our thought and impulse unto thee in earnest prayer. Teach us thy bidding, that the footprints of our thoughts pilot the weary wanderer to rest upon the wisdom of thy love. Bestow thy blessings upon us, that the Christ spirit within burst forth as with an outstretched hand, and up- lift some wayward soul who has stumbled in the dark through the misery of distress, to sink beneath the gloom of despair. Help us to raise the unfortunate soul beyond the blind- ness of ignorance and the oppression of fear, that we learn to reverence the grace of thy loving touch and truthfully understand the profoundness of thy wisdom. We ask it to honor thy name and glory in thy work. We implore thy reverence for repentant souls, with pity for the unrelenting that the shadow of remorse rebuketh their wickedness until through the atonement they seek to honor thy name. We ask it in the name of humanity for the humblest of thy servants. O thou! our Heavenly Father, help us to conquer Self, the selfish personality within that meaneth weakness in the flesh. Inspire our minds to teach the world through the divine spark that self-reliance is the keystone and birthright of all humanity as a universal blessing and protection, when free from the cowardice of superstition and fear. CHRISTIAN WISDOM Guide us with thy divine wisdom in the reconstruction of our Constitution, that it shall honor thee in each and every act, that as humble servants we realize the sublimity of Independence as meaning freedom for the flesh to honor thee and unshackle humanity from the fetters of serfdom embodied in a political, financial, or social sense. Perfect us in the truth until humanity understands and appreciates with sincerity the sacredness of honor and the moral obligation of righteousness. Climbing the ladder round by round that maketh us worthy to enter into thy understanding and receive the blessing of thy benediction,.“ Well done, thou good and faithful servant.” We ask it in thy name for the sake of all humanity and the humblest of beings that dwelleth beneath thine Infinite Eye. CHRISTIAN WISDOM : SPIRIT AND MATTER There are two distinct elements in existence, both relat- ing to Divinity as Coöperative, Coexistent, and Eternal. One is Spirit. One is Matter. Spirit is Omnipotent God recognized as the divine spark or Christ spirit within the soul of each and every mortal. Soul is the spirit essence with a magnetic and electric nature. There is but one spirit essence infinitely individualized throughout the universe and recognized on earth as the individual soul of mortal, when reaching the human con- dition. Matter is solid or fluid organic magnetism and a point of crude electricity that is outlined with substance. It is infinitely differentiated throughout the universe known as form. Omnipotent God or Divinity is the divine spark or Spirit. Soul is “Spirit or Divine Essence.” Matter is form. Substance is the outline of form. Spirit is the power of expression. Matter is the form of conveyance for that expression. All things have their origin within the Spirit Realm. The spark of Divinity within our soul can be compared only to the purest of electricity, as electricity is the power of Omnipotent God. CHRISTIAN WISDOM ATOMS Creation is revealed through the law of atoms. As creation is revealed through the mighty atom, then a thorough sifting of this principle is absolutely essential, so that mortal can appreciate the fundamental basis of all construction. All atoms possess both the magnetic and electric princi- ples in some proportion to each other, outlined in form with substance. Atoms never cease in their motion as they forever obey the law of attraction. Exhausted or depleted atoms are revivified and put in circulation again. There are two kinds of atoms in the earth life. One is the Soul Atom. One is the Atom of Matter. A Soul Atom is the spirit essence of a magnetic and elec- tric nature with equal parts. The Electric essence has a positive nature. The Magnetic essence has a negative nature. The Atom of Matter is composed of “organic magnet- ism.” with a point of crude electricity as the seed center of organic life outlined with substance. The electric element gives the atom organic life until depleted. CHRISTIAN WISDOM After an atom has become depleted from the loss of organic magnetism, the shell or substance that remains is gathered up by the atmosphere and thrust beyond its limit. There countless numbers of atomic shells are held in a helpless condition until revivified by a comet or spirit torch from the electric sun. When revivified they have the power of attracting and being attracted to perform similar duties in the organic construction of natural law. Matter is composed of atomic substance and organic magnetism energized. Evoluting through myriad princi- ples of form development consistent with the soul develop- ment it conveys. Matter in itself is a gross element subject to refinement or grading — from a dense or crude formation to an almost invisible ethereal tissue. There are five states of matter. Solid. Liquid. Gaseous. Astral. Spiritual. Matter feels “pressure not pain” as it grows by draw- ing away from pressure, but is subject to decay or dis- integration. Matter in itself is devoid of intelligence and therefore not responsible for acts committed through its agency of form. Matter is the outline or form by which a personality can be expressed and become distinct as a part of your in- dividuality. CHRISTIAN WISDOM It is the structure which outlines a division between en- tities and all known things. The refinement of matter depends upon the soul prin- ciple or quality of soul essence which is transported on its onward path to perfection. Organic magnetism is an invisible flame, the electric nucleus of which, being the central point, coalesces the elements of substance and magnetism in equal proportion, making a perfect atom of matter. This little flame of magnetic principles generates heat through the electric agency within the atom, completing the battery from which the nature of worlds is formed. The organic magnetism in an atom is of an amber hue. Heat. The electric nucleus of the atom is white. Light. If mortal did not possess this magnetic and electric bat- tery there would be a void, as the coalescing of these two forces produces all light and heat. The Atom of Matter has an eternal existence as the “covering of form” for conveying the spirit and soul to eternity. Form is regulated according to the quality of organic magnetism and soul development. There is nothing lost or totally destroyed, as all forms change from gross to fine with a grading to absolute purity. The act of dissolution reacts only to a fresh creation. CHRISTIAN WISDOM Without matter Divinity could not express the divine principle within an individual soul, as matter is the expres- sion of form with soul as the impetus. This proves that matter is a most essential and con- venient commodity for all purposes. In fact it is indispensable to eternity. Matter in the mineral formation is crude and dense. Matter in the vegetable formation is pulpy and pliable. Matter in the animal formation is heavy and fibered. Matter in the human formation is finer fibered. Matter in the astral formation is refined and weblike. Matter in the celestial formation is ethereal tissue. Matter in the divine formation is almost invisible. The divine spark has a covering of invisible matter. The soul has a distinct covering of ethereal matter. The realms have a covering of refined matter. The electric sun Sirius has a covering of refined matter. The magnetic sun Osiris has a covering of energized matter. The planets are a body of crude matter within them- selves. The physical body is a covering of matter within itself. Atoms of matter have principles of development that correspond to the soul atom, but of a cruder nature. The electric element in matter is only a minimum ratio of inferior quality. While the soul atom has the electric element of a spirit essence in a more uniform proportion. CHRISTIAN WISDOM SPIRIT AND MATTER SUMMARIZED Spirit is the divine spark of Omnipotent God. On earth it is identified as the Christ spirit centered within the soul and therefore a part of the human body. Wherein the responsibility of an individuality is estab- lished and the spirit essence of the soul through this divine guidance reaches the perfection of Wisdom and Love. Soul is spirit essence comprising the magnetic and elec- tric nature. The Negative magnetic essence of the soul is Sympathy and Devotion. When perfected through the Spirit ruling it is Love. The Positive electric essence of the soul is Light and Power. When perfected through the Spirit ruling it is Wisdom. Matter is form comprising organic magnetism and sub- stance energized. Organic magnetism is Heat and Passion. Substance is Outline and Strength. Each mundane planet has a spiritual counterpart, called a Realm, that is located beyond the north pole or 82 de- grees latitude in the higher atmosphere. 10 CHRISTIAN WISDOM THE CONCEPTION OF A SOLAR SYSTEM A solar system is the creation of Infinite will. It is created through the agency of the electric and the mag- netic sun as a soul center. The union of this soul center with matter forms the body. One element expresses the positive electric nature, while the other element expresses the negative magnetic nature. By uniting the electric and magnetic essence they be- come as soul mates or one in the seed with the soul power of expression. Through the law of attraction this soul seed comprising the magnetic and the electric sun in embryo is wedded to substance and matter both solid and fluid. It is by coöperating with substance and matter that form is given to the power of expression in the eternal evolution of propagation and destination. The result of this union from natural law consists of 12 globes from crude matter called planets, and their counter- parts of etherealized matter called Realms. The auxiliaries attendant to complete a solar system are the 12 constellations. They are the residue or component parts from each planet expressing the 12 fixed character- istics of a solar system. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 11 THE BIRTH OF A PLANET SYSTEM The birth of a planet system originates from the wed- ding of spirit and matter, after the magnetic and electric seed that generates through matter has fulfilled its func- tional duties to the fundamental principles of natural and divine law. Existing forever within the vast ocean of spirit and mat- ter in the higher atmosphere are numberless seeds that generate a magnetic and electric flame of spirit essence called soul atoms. This is the elementary construction of all souls. They attract atoms of matter with an invincible force until the seed is sufficiently clothed to form a perfect union of spirit and matter. These perfect atoms are attracted to each other and cling with tenacity as one and inseparable until the size of a small orange, when they become the visible nucleus that establishes the material seed of a sun from which a solar system is constructed. The magnetic and electric flame of spirit essence that forms the original seed is in reality the soul formation of a sun. The magnetic essence is negative and the electric essence is positive. : United they are as soul mates. Owing to the enormous size which a sun reaches, a mul- tiple of soul essence is necessary to form a sun seed and produce the required effect. 12 CHRISTIAN WISDOM The proportion of soul essence and matter is adjusted to meet the demands of nature. The “individual atom of soul essence” is sufficient for an infant soul. But the acquisition of the divine spark in the human soul gives a soul the responsibility of an indi- viduality from within as the internal ruling. While the “soul essence in a sun atom” is devoid of the divine spark within and accordingly the responsibility of an individu- ality. The sun is operated on by divine law from without as the external ruling. This miniature ego of sun seeds, by attracting and holding matter as it revolves with great rapidity in the ocean of spirit and matter, increases in size and power until it reaches a state of maturity necessary for propagation. It is the visible accumulation of matter gathered around this sun seed that produces the external body of the sun, from which all organic forms are created. The sun body at this period of propagation is similar to a soft, smooth globe composed of solids and fluids evenly mixed. The outer surface is somewhat harder, like a shell, while the inner part with the sun seed is soft and pliable. The sun seed and pulp, by a rapid interior motion, is loosened from the outer shell until the outer, shell cracks open, when gradually the inner part with the sun seed escapes, causing a separation from the outer shell. This is the final struggle, completing a planet birth. By the law of attraction this outer shell, which is cast off by the sun as a planet birth, gathers itself together at a central point in order to radiate and become a round globe. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 13 This same prenatal condition of hardening the outer sur- face of the sun body continues until the surface of the sun cracks open again to become a separate globe. This is repeated until the shedding process has evolved 12 planets, which is the full quota necessary to complete a planet system. When a planet at birth gathers itself together from a rotary evolution to become a globe, the residue or frag- ments thrown off from each planet is carried to the outer surface or circumference of the planet system and there deposited as a constellation, retaining for all time the unchangeable characteristic of its nature. CONSTELLATIONS As there are 12 planets each with a distinct characteristic of its own, so there are 12 constellations, each one bearing a separate characteristic that corresponds to the identical planet of which it is a part, where each constellation pre- serves its original unchangeable characteristic to the end. With the planets it is different, as in the course of cycle progression they become seasoned with the different in- fluences from each one of the constellations in order to complete a perfect development. Through preordained law the planets after birth repel and attract each other at a fixed distance. Regulating their position to the path or orbit they occupy and the cycle or distance from the sun with which they are identified in the evolution of planet progression. Comets are gross electricity and substance. They gather atoms that are partly useful and attract them until large enough to form a planet, after being re- vivified by the electric sun influence. 14 CHRISTIAN WISDOM PREMATURE DISSOLUTION OF A PLANET As the 12 realms are permanently established at the birth of a solar system, it is not absolutely imperative that these original 12 earth planets shall be kept intact and their * original form preserved, as the fragments or atoms can be drawn together after a premature dissolution or com- bustion and revivified or established at a later period for habitation. As nothing is lost in the original planet system every- thing in time is worked out to a state of perfection or poise. The greatest inconvenience, however, is manifested to the original souls of a planet whose planet is missing in the constellation orbit. They are forced to occupy a for- eign planet for the physical expression of an earth pil- grimage. Unless a soul is born on the planet of its original birth in matter it has no direct inheritance or claim to promi- nence of a material benefit. It also places a realm as hors de combat, not having an original counterpart planet through which to operate. As, for example, the moon planet is passé for habitation, there- fore all the original moon souls are forced to dwell on a foreign planet for physical expression as the Moon Realm has no working counterpart at the present time. Souls whose birth is foreign to a planet seldom reach any material prominence on that planet as the prestige be- longs to the original owners of the land. That is why the original earth souls are dominant on earth in a material sense. Spirituality being universal and foreign to No planet, all souls have an equal chance spiritually on any or all planets in the same solar system. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 15 MAGNETIC AND ELECTRIC SUN After a planet system is thoroughly established gradu- ally the electric or paternal element within the sun body yields up its positive spiritual essence to preside over the spirit counterpart of the planets known as the realms. Whose abode is in a higher ether beyond the north pole. In separating these two elements within the sun seed known as the magnetic and electric essence the distinct action of each influence is regulated by establishing two separate suns and two separate solar systems. The magnetic sun with its body of gross matter and substance, centered within the 12 planets, and the electric sun with its body of etherealized matter, in touch with the realms complete the two systems. The ratio of essence in the Electric sun is Two thirds Electric essence. One third Magnetic essence.. The ratio of essence in the Magnetic sun is Two thirds Magnetic essence. One third Electric essence. When the electric essence separated from the magnetic essence and departed from the original sun body, the elec- tric essence clothed itself with a body of ethereal substance and became an eternal sun of exact shape as the magnetic sun body in our planet system. Previous to the electric essence dissolving union with the magnetic essence the sun body exhibited no light of its own. It did not shine. 16 CHRISTIAN WISDOM It was similar to the divine spark dwelling within our own soul when we bury Divinity deep within our material desires. Divinity cannot shine because we are so dense there is no opportunity for reflection. It is now the invisible electric sun Sirius, as counterpart or soul mate to the magnetic sun Osiris in the planet system. Although apart from each other in point of position, the electric sun supplies the rays of light and the organic mag- netism of the magnetic sun supplies the heat. This coöperation or magnetic and electric union forms a perfect battery for heat, light, and power. The electric essence is light and power. The magnetic essence is sympathy and devotion. The organic magnetism is heat and passion. PLANET ADJUSTMENT At this period of evolution there is a scarcity of water and atmosphere. In order to produce a change it is neces- sary to bake or squeeze the planet until the water is ex- tracted from this evenly mixed mass of solid and fluid. As the planet is in close proximity to the magnetic sun the intense magnetic heat effects the change by causing a thick vapor to surround the planet some three miles in thickness. When a planet is hung in space like a fiery drop or a gaseous sphere, it is subject to the external influence of the solar heat and the internal influence of gaseous atoms. Gradually the planet contracts a certain amount of solar energy which forces it to move in a circle, where a rotary motion is established. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 17 This is the origin of planet rotation on its axis. The centrifugal action forcing the water to the atmosphere, and the fluid condition revolving, hardened the surface in contact with the atmosphere. While the internal heat dried up the moisture, making a planet void and hollow. From the vapor, air was evolved, introducing the four component parts of fire, air, water, and earth. As a planet matures it récedes from the magnetic heat of the sun and the vapors cool, provoking storms and electric flashes which shatter the rocks and level the soil in a marked degree by leaving a planet more evenly balanced in physical construction. According to the laws of nature the chemical elements are adjusted first, then vegetation comes to view. As the waters are incessantly but gradually changing their bed, there is left a rich formation of soil suitable for a prolific growth of vegetation. After intermittent periods of organic struggle as a natu- ral development the animal kingdom is established, which gradually merges into the semi-human and savage mortal whose culmination on earth is a human being of refined matter. The grading of atmosphere adjusts itself according to the distance from the magnetic sun and the influence of the electric sun. The atmosphere under the magnetic sun becomes oxy- genized, while the atmosphere under the electric sun be- comes etherized. 18 CHRISTIAN WISDOM ATMOSPHERE The fluid air we breathe which surrounds the earth is called atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, transparent, compressible, and elastic. It is a mixture of 20 per cent oxygen and 79 per cent nitrogen, with i per cent hydrogen - a purely magnetic or physical compound adapted for dense physical organisms. The atmosphere is about 300 miles thick and merges into etherized air through the agency of hydrogen. By ascending 1000 miles beyond the atmosphere you reach Borderland or the shores of the Realms in the spirit world. As a scientific citation - Balloons have risen 8 miles. Aurora or daybreak begins at 37 miles. Twenty miles up, the atmosphere is a mixture of i per cent argon, 14 per cent oxygen, and 85 per cent nitrogen. This shows that nitrogen is the refined form of oxygen or the dissipating magnetic element that merges with hy- drogen — the cruder form of ether as an electric agency. At 100 miles the oxygen has become thoroughly dissi- pated in nitrogen, which in turn is absorbed by the hydro- gen and the result is an etherized air. This is the beginning of the space paths that lead to the spirit realms of earth. gen and the resul: which in turn become thoro CHRISTIAN WISDOM GEOLOGY PROFESSOR DENTON All matter when analyzed is reduced to four elements. 1. Carbon 2. Oxygen 3. Nitrogen 4. Hydrogen Magnetic Magnetic Magnetic Electric Solid Liquid Gaseous Solid or Gas Earth. 1. Water. 2. Air. 3. Fire. 4. Although the chemist bases his calculations on atoms or molecules, never has one been isolated, weighed, or defined by science. Carbon is an element that is found in all organic com- pounds of a non-metallic and combustible nature. Oxygen is eight ninths water, one fifth atmosphere, colorless, odorless, tasteless, forming one half the solid crust of earth. Nitrogen is four fifths atmosphere, colorless, odorless, and tasteless, being non-metallic and incapable of support- ing organic life. It is a constituent of all physical tissue, animal or vege- table. Hydrogen is the lightest known quantity, it being 11,000 times lighter than water, very abundant, and inflammable. Colorless, Odorless, Tasteless. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 21 and in of animals and Water is the most important in tissue of animals and plants, while the human body is two thirds weight in water. Colorless, Odorless, Tasteless. Ether pervades all space, even the interior of solid bodies, as the means for transmitting heat and light. It is mostly hydrogen on earth and a mirror by which all thoughts and acts are reflected, except when anxiety im- pairs the reflection. Ether in the atmosphere comes from the soul vibration that is thrown off by mortal. There are immense amalgamations of gases thrown off from planets similar to our earth planet. These fuse and become solid as mineral, which burn across the air and develop into shooting stars. COMPOSITION OF THE EARTH CRUST S 50% Oxygen 10% Slate — Porcelain 150% Quartz (25% Silicon (12% Carbon (25% Mineral {20% Iron A SCIENTIFIC REVIEW (DENTON) At one time this planet was a volcanic globe, the thin crust being in continual motion by the internal heaving tides. Ages passed and the rocks thickened. Volcanoes and Earthquakes of to-day are but shadows of a once mighty host that are destined to disappear. 22 CHRISTIAN WISDOM The earth planet was first fire made, being crude and shapeless as a mass of iron. The water covered the face of the earth, washed the. rocks, and ground down layers of sediment until a founda- tion was securely laid. It was subsequently shell made and so on. The central heat of this planet is no scientific dream, but a stern reality. The more geologists become familiar with the earth crust the more evidence there is of fire. Nearly all active volcanoes are near oceans. At one time the earth was a volcanic planet with a thin crust, and from the continual internal heaving, volcanoes and earthquakes prevailed. Finally the crust hardened and the internal heat subsided until to-day active eruptions are counted as few in comparison with the thousands extinct. The ocean volcanoes produce islands and continents. The temperature of the earth steadily increases with the depth. At a depth of 60 feet a thermometer would show a uni- form heat throughout the year. For every 50 feet add one degree. This has been tested from Siberia to the torrid zone. A well in Russia was 17 degrees at 50 feet and at 388 feet it was 26 degrees or one degree to every 40 feet in descent. A 1500-foot coal mine in England increased one degree to every 59 feet mine in Cornwall has An 1800-foot mine in Cornwall has a permanent heat of 100 degrees. Even in the coldest day of winter it is only half a mile from mid-summer weather. 24 CHRISTIAN WISDOM If coal mines are 2000 feet deep they must have formed forests on continents that were previously covered by oceans and the water preserved and petrified the carbon within them. When this continent was thrown up by up- heaval it brought them to the surface. We all know that trees do not have roots 1000 feet deep or long. In Jovello, Mexico, a mass of lava 1600 feet thick has not cooled off in a century, showing how long it must have - taken the earth to lose the intensity of heat. There are seven classifications of animals. 1. Radiata. Raylike and circular. Starfish, sponge, coral, sea eggs. The oceans contain 10,000 species of Radiata. Although animal, they resemble plants with the principle of feeling. 2. Mollusca. Soft bodies with shells and nerve center, heart, veins, and colorless blood. Cuttlefish, oyster, snail, scallop, clam. 3. Articulata. Joints with an external skeleton. Worms, crabs, beetles, flies with symmetrical bodies. 4. Vertebrata. Backbone with an internal jointed skele- ton. Fishes. 5. Vertebrata. Reptiles. 6. Vertebrata. Birds, animals. 7. Vertebrata. Mammals. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 25 There are six classifications in the vegetable kingdom. 1. Seaweeds. 2. Mosses, liverworts. 3. Ferns. 4. Firs, cycods. 5. Palms, lilies. 6. Birch, walnut, and all plants having seeds with two lobes. OXYGEN (ORGANIC MAGNETISM) Silicon and oxygen make quartz. Ground quartz makes sand. Sulphur resembles oxygen and comes from volcanoes. Aluminum united with oxygen makes pure clay. Crys- tallized it is sapphire. Charcoal is nearly all carbon. Crystallized it is diamond. Phosphate of lime makes bone. The physical form is clay. Sand is 50 per cent oxygen. This is a scientific deduction. Gold is electric fluid of golden hue the same as the sun, but mixed with copper it acquires firmness and density. Copper is Magnetism. CITATIONS Gladstone claims that the earliest known fossil continued in a chain where every link was welded to the crustacean, then fish, reptile, frog, animal, mammal, and mortal, com- pleting our physical growth. The continuity of nature in both race and land evolution is never broken. 26 CHRISTIAN WISDOM The first vegetable forms were known as seaweeds, but during the Carboniferous age following the fishes the earth was a wilderness of moss and ferns without grains. The first fossils give reason to believe that life com- mences in the simple forms in the ocean. This is scientific reasoning and research. Fossil remains of fruit in London resemble the date and cocoanut. The remains of tropical trees were found in Vermont. The earliest remains of reptiles resemble fishes. The earliest mammal was a small insect-eating animal found in Germany. Oil was found 2300 years ago and quoted by Herodotus. The Egyptians used asphaltum to embalm bodies, show- ing that petroleum existed. In fact the Dead Sea had as- phaltum floating on its surface. SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY PROFESSOR BOSE The true test that life exists in any form of matter is its sensitiveness to external response. A bar of iron is as sensitive and irritable as a human body and can be killed or poisoned in a similar manner as the human body. Life pervades all nature, either organic life or soul life. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 27 A human body possesses a soul, and the killing of a human body is in separating a soul from that human body. So it is with metals. When you drive out the soul you kill the life of the metal and nothing but matter with sub- stance remains. Metals have an organic makeup of certain principles the same as the human body. The residue is pulp or a petri- fied condition of substance. If any part of our body is pinched the nerves transmit that sensation to the brain through the electric force of the soul essence vibrating under the pinch. As the mind operates through the brain the mind alone feels the pain inflicted upon any part of our body. This is proved by the fact that no pain is felt by us if our mind is deadened through the nerves by the applica- tion of chloroform. The Galvanometer is a well known and very delicate scientific instrument for detecting the pressure of an elec- tric current. It is constructed with a needle on a pivot, and the faint- est electric current will cause a deflection of this needle. If at any intervening part of the electric current bearing on the human body the galvanometer be applied and the end of the nerve pinched or otherwise irritated, immedi- ately the needle of the galvanometer will deflect, showing that the irritation of the nerves produced a current like that of electricity. All metals show visible signs of sensitiveness when twisted or tapped. The greater the irritation the greater the signs of sensitiveness. Every single peculiarity in the animal matter is a simi- lar reproduction from the metal kingdom. 28 CHRISTIAN WISDOM Professor Bose has proved that metals not only go to sleep, but are subject to being poisoned or killed similar to a human being, plant, or animal. The effect of heat and cold in extremes produces similar results in both animal and metal. The identical poison which kills both animal and metal is itself endowed with life and can also be killed. The three kingdoms of mineral, vegetable, and animal are but one in organic principles and it matters not which kingdom the soul passes through. The soul is as sensitive in one kingdom as the other. Soul progression is regulated according to the density of substance and matter repre- senting the external makeup. A lump of earth - a vegetable growth or a piece of metal — all possess the undeveloped principles of organic magnet- ism as does the animal or mortal form. They cannot give visible expression to the external be- cause they have no opening or organs through which to manifest. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 29 THE TRINITY OF DIVINITY SOUL, BODY, AND PLANET GROWTH The Trinity of Divinity embraces the three cardinal prin- ciples essential to express the Infinite power of Universal Law. Soul growth. Body growth. Planet growth. These three expressions are conceived through the two fundamental elements in existence referred to in the open- ing chapter as Magnetism and Electricity Classified as Spirit and Matter. Spirit, represented by the individual soul as spirit essence, expresses the refinement of the electric and magnetic es- sence with Intelligence. Matter expresses the density of the electric and magnetic principle known as form without Intelligence. Both are capable of the highest refinement consistent with their nature. They cooperate through the varied forms of evolution, where reincarnation from inception to perfection records a perfect growth. In order for the Spirit or divine spark to individualize itself in unlimited number, souls are created for that ex- pression. 30 CHRISTIAN WISDOM - As the soul requires a covering or instrument through which to operate, a body is constructed for that purpose. As the body requires a place for action and expansion to multiply, planets are constructed for that convenience. First is soul growth. The soul from infancy is guided by the universal law of organic nature through instinct and will power, while evo- luting to the human form. On reaching the human kingdom the soul has evolved from the infant stage to a point of manhood, where the Spirit or divine spark becomes a living part within each and every soul. Instinct merges into a higher understanding and the will power surrenders to a divine inheritance. When this last is accomplished and the individual soul essence has blended with the divine spark within it, a spiritual matur- ity is realized through a perfect unfoldment of Wisdom and Love, as the soul dwells in the light of Divinity forevermore. Second is body growth. The body is a vehicle or covering through which the soul can operate and express itself. The organic principles within the body are developed with the spirit principles within the soul on corresponding lines of consistency for a mutual growth. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 31 Third is planet growth. The solar system of planets and their auxiliaries represent the physical abode and scene of action for organic develop- ment and soul growth. The refinement of terra firma or matter is exquisitely consistent with the vibrations that operate through the organic structure, from a soul progression to a soul depression. This is the Trinity of Divinity wherein the soul, body, and planet conditions are all coöperating and coexistent. The growth is directly or indirectly through the In- finite power of Universal Law. The soul undergoes three distinct periods of develop- ment in its individual unfoldment of the magnetic and electric principles, called Soul Trinity or Trinity of the Soul. According to ancient research these magnetic and elec- tric principles have been enumerated as numbering 12 mag- netic and 12 electric or 24 complete. The exact number of subdivisions is not imperative, being purely a matter of personal interest or curiosity. SOUL CONCEPTION Souls are first conceived in the spirit realm as an atom. A SOUL ATOM Twinlike in construction they possess an electric and a magnetic essence comprising two individualities in one. CHRISTIAN WISDOM THE SOUL NATURE The positive soul is called the soul of Man. The negative soul is called the soul of Woman. THE PHYSICAL NATURE The positive physical form is called the Male. The negative physical form is called the Female. The positive soul can inhabit a negative physical form called the Female. The negative soul can inhabit a positive physical form called the Male. Both natures are corresponding, except that one is of the spirit, while the other is of matter. As matter is the vehicle for the visible expression of Spirit, then the inter- change of sex conditions is a definite conclusion to express both soul natures in each individuality from a point of per- sonal experience. Recognizing the fact that the male physical form has positive principles and the female physical form has nega- tive principles, how can the positive soul of man, possess- ing two thirds positive and one third negative nature, real- ize what a negative nature implies except by passing through a visible expression of the magnetic essence? As matter is the visible means for spirit expression and the female form a construction of matter, how can the positive soul of man realize or recognize the negative na- ture except through a personal communion or living expe- rience in the female form, where it is prominent in that personality? 34 CHRISTIAN WISDOM The same law applies to the one third positive nature within the soul of woman when her soul occupies the male form for an opposite experience. As a consistent conclusion it is quite evident that souls must occupy opposite sex forms to blend the ratio of es- sence within their own soul and attain a perfect under- standing with an eternal respect for each other. Is consistency then such a bewildering fact for cultured minds to grasp and absorb without a scientific indorse- ment? As these two soul natures in infancy grow together, first by developing the magnetic principles from the grain of sand to the animal form, all the magnetic principles of the soul are opened by the one magnetic principle called In- stinct. While the soul is evoluting to the animal form the mind is unable to develop more than instinct. The reason is that, before the human form can be approached or the mind blossom instinct into understanding with the electric prin- ciples, it is requisite for the divine spark to become a per- manent part within the soul. It is absolutely impossible to acquire intelligence, wisdom, or understanding through any other source except by communion with the Christ spirit or divine spark. The inception of the divine spark within the soul essence in matter is the establishing of an individuality in mortal, and a personal consciousness of possessing eternal life with the responsibility of one's acts. When a soul has evolved to the human condition, that soul is sufficiently prepared to receive the divine spark from Omnipotent God acknowledged as the Christ spirit within us. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 35 At this point of development the spirit enters the soul as a permanent abode to insure eternal life, eternal knowl- edge, and to establish the responsibility of that individual ego. These corresponding soul natures of positive and nega- tive complete a soul atom when united. SEX Sex belongs to the planet or astral life in a physical body. The male body is positive and electric. The female body is negative and magnetic. The quality of magnetic or electric force is graduated by physical inheritance and soul development. Soul belongs to the spirit world in any body. The soul of a man is positive and electric. The soul of a woman is negative and magnetic. The character of the magnetic and electric essence is graduated by soul understanding or unfoldment and never by inheritance. Substance, although devoid of visible life or feeling, has an eternal existence. As life is motion from within, then existence is motion from without. 36 CHRISTIAN WISDOM SOUL TRINITY RESPONSIVE, RESPONSIBLE, REVERENT These are the three distinct periods of soul growth ex- pressing Soul Trinity or Trinity of the Soul. First period. The Responsive soul is expressed in Soul Infancy by the brain through Instinct and Will Power. Second period. The Responsible soul is expressed in the Soul of Mortal by the brain through Intellect and Will Power. Third period. The Reverent soul is expressed in Soul Maturity by the Mind and Spirit through Inspiration. The Responsive soul is where the soul at birth responds to the vibrations of instinct and will power. It is where the Soul Atom, generating a magnetic and electric essence, enters the planet soil in the mineral state, where progression is by organic law through the vege- table and animal state as it develops the lower magnetic principles of the soul first. As the laws of nature are part of the universal plan, then all infant souls evolute under this primary adminis- tration. They are guided indirectly through preordained law that has been established by the Creator as natural or planet law. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 37 It is an external magnetic condition that is governed through organic or planet ruling which operates from Pleas- ure to Pain and is often recorded as the Primal school- masters of inflexible Law. The First period is the Instinct of Impressions. The Responsible soul is where the soul at manhood is in touch with Divinity. Where instinct has blossomed into the mind principle of understanding or intellect. Where the soul atom has reached the human condition and the divine spark is introduced as a permanent part to create the responsibility of an individuality through un- derstanding. It is apparently a human existence where mortal is given a name and place in the Universe as a part of the whole. Where the soul growth is directly through the divine spark or Christ spirit. From Gratitude to Greed. The Second period is the Intuition of Intellect. Instinct of the First period is but the shadowy prepara- tion for understanding in the Second period. While intuition and understanding are but the prepara- tion for Wisdom in the Third period. Will power is the positive electric essence of the soul atom that clings with tenacity in the Second period until the spirit awakening raises mortal above the planet ruling to a point of wisdom. The Reverent soul is where the soul at maturity is a part of Divinity. Where intellect and will power culminate with a radi- ance of Wisdom and Love through communion with Di- vinity at all times. 38 CHRISTIAN WISDOM Where the soul atom has developed every magnetic and electric principle through the divine spark and the mind blends with an expression of blessedness that unites the trinity of spirit, will power, and mind. Where peace and harmony reign supreme and you live with Divinity through an eternal understanding evermore. Where the soul becomes a saviour or divine being ex- pressing the spiritual nature of soul mates as the Image of Omnipotent God. The Third period is the Inspiration of Wisdom. The wedding or reunion of soul mates as one and insep- arable forevermore transpires in the seventh sphere of the Realms. That is your permanent wedding day to eternity and the only one. SOUL EXPRESSION Soul principles during the 12 incarnations are developed through countless rebirths in the planet system and per- fected in the spirit realm. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 39 THE 12 INCARNATIONS First incarnation is expressed through the Mineral form. Second incarnation is through the Vegetable form. Third incarnation is through the Animal form. Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth in- carnations are through the Human form. Eleventh incarnation is through the Astral or Occult form. Twelfth incarnation is through the Celestial form. In the stages of soul unfoldment every succeeding prin- ciple which is unfolded retains the preceding principle. The first step of soul unfoldment is by opening the pas- sage of one principle called the sense of feeling or pressure. From the grain of sand through myriad rebirths the soul evolves to the vegetable form as moss or a blade of grass, then to the fern, shrub, plant, and tree life, where the soil, coming in contact with stronger magnetic vibrations, be- comes identified as a species of animal growth. At first it is the form of an animalcule and then a worm. As a worm more principles are opened. Tasting: The Palate. Gripping: The Mouth. " Moving: The Feet. Seeing: The Eyes. Excreting: The Throwing Off. Generating: The Reproducing. When the mind principle of intellect is opened the human form is established through the divine spark. When the mind principle of intellect is opened and only partially developed in the human form the soul is respon- sible only in proportion to the degree of intellect. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 4 SOUL EXPRESSION REINCARNATION COMPARISONS Can Divinity teach an infant soul the wisdom of respon- sibility at birth? No! Then instinct is a natural course and the practical method of preparation. Can mortal teach a babe to realize or understand in in- fancy before the organic structure of the brain is properly developed? No! Then it is impossible for a soul to understand in its in- fancy before the fundamental soul principles are properly opened. Can a babe digest strong nourishment or solid food be- fore a physical development is accomplished? Can an infant soul digest too strong an understanding of Divinity before a spiritual development is accomplished? If a babe is not legally responsible for its acts before physical manhood is reached Can you expect to hold an infant soul morally responsible before the human form is reached? Is not the human form the physical expression of man- hood for the soul? Are not these comparisons convincing proofs that a gradual preparation is the natural law of evolution and imperative with all things eternal? Do not these citations prove the necessity of reincarna- tion in order to acquire a natural growth and perfect understanding ? A Preparation! A Realization! A Confirmation! 42 CHRISTIAN WISDOM Does it not dispel the illusion and absurdity of a spon- taneous growth as possible for a perfect or reasonable understanding? Understanding is a gradual unfoldment as the keystone of self-reliance, and self-reliance is the practical individ- uality of the soul. Without the self-reliance of a clear understanding souls are in servitude to idolatrous customs in some form of expression, as universal law is based on equity and not on partiality or personality. The expression of Legal Law is based on the equivoca- tion of Universal Law. Is it safe or sound? The deeper you consistently think the more you realize. The more you realize the more self-reliant you become, as self-reliance is the corner stone of emancipation. Unless there is a clear understanding you will never reach the realization of emancipation. Without a realization you are simply in line with the processional automaton, who is nothing more in life than a vacant stare. Then Wake up. The instant your mind principle of intellect conceives the divine impression of what is right and what is wrong, that instant your soul is completely responsible. The divine spark within your soul will hold you to the - precepts of eternal judgment through universal law. There is no evasion, but adjustment or poise, with the seasoning of experience that is tempered by remorse and atonement. . Take your time, but a word to the wise is sufficient. CHRISTIAN WISDOM ANIMAL SOULS DOMESTIC Souls progressing from the domestic animal condition to the human form develop instinct into understanding more rapidly than a soul coming direct from the wild animal condition. The magnetic essence of their soul, being in touch with the higher vibrations from human associations, naturally absorbs the reflection. Both conditions, however, are perfectly consistent with the divine plan to promote soul poise, from the extreme of self-indulgence to self-control. The souls of domestic animals progressing to the human form with a mild and placid nature require a stern experi- ence to develop the principles of self-reliance and self- defense, as a preparation to cope with the combativeness of cruder natures that exist in the human form. It is here that mind development helps the domestic ani- mal soul to realize the necessity of strengthening the will power with determination and discretion. WILD Souls passing from the wild animal condition into the human form are slower in developing the mind principle than those coming from the domestic animal form, as the magnetic essence of their soul is in touch with the lower vibrations and naturally absorbs the cruder reflections of instinct. 44 CHRISTIAN WISDOM Souls of wild animals passing to the human form require a firm but gentle experience in submissive seasoning and harmonious influence to assist them in acquiring a peace- ful attitude of poise. Continued experiences and the mirrored reflection of their own nature cause them finally to realize the necessity of self-control with a proper use and not abuse of magnetic passion. Although the animal form opens up passages of the mag- netic principles, it is only through the guidance of the divine spark in the human form that a complete realization of their true purpose is understood. The souls of wild animals in the human form require a much longer time on the same mother planet in rebirths before they bow to Divinity. The mind principle of instinct is slower in developing than the mind principle of reason with understanding in the souls of domestic animals. The souls of domestic and wild animals after a third in- carnation in the human form on the same planet realize and recognize the Omnipotence of Divinity. The ultimatum of both is the same - a perfect under- standing. When the use and not the abuse of magnetic principle is understood mortals can fortify the soul with a resolu- tion to endure persecution and organic passion without Ainching. The extremes of the two natures, wild and domestic, are gradually drawn together, resulting in perfect poise, as perfection tempers all souls alike in point of moral understanding. 48 CHRISTIAN WISDOM The organic or physical body apart from the soul is nothing but matter of a planet inheritance and subject to the same laws of nature as a planet. When the refinement of matter through the law of evo- lution is accomplished, then matter comes under a higher vibration called spirit law, and the laws of nature identi- fied with matter become secondary to the spirit law. Be- cause, when the soul essence is completely under the spirit law, then the power of mind over matter is clearly under- stood and fully appreciated. This is the main point at issue — to demonstrate the inseparable companionship of spirit and matter in some comparative degree of unfoldment or refinement, as their companionship is one and inseparable forever. The vital question is which one shall preside over your individual destiny - Spirit or Matter. To effect a clear understanding of this essential point a diagram or chart is necessary to guide the initiated and present to view a comparative system or method of growth. In order to accomplish this task an ideal construction can be made practical, providing the fundamental princi- ples are firmly grasped and their relationship to each other properly applied. As mortal is the physical representative of a soul on earth and soul the paramount purpose of Divinity, then the soul of mortal on earth is the most important feature to be considered at present. As a prelude to guide the investigator, souls are com- posed of two distinct elements, one the positive electric element and the other a negative magnetic element envel- oped with an ethereal texture of refined substance. CHRISTIAN WISDOM At birth, when the soul is embedded in crude matter, the principles involved in these soul elements are undeveloped. For a citation or comparison take the seed of an oak. When it is planted in earth the principles are involved in the seed, but they do not show forth until the tree appears above ground as visible through a development of material evolution. Both the seed and the soul possess hidden principles which are visible only through the law of evolution and unfoldment. It is an undisputed fact that all souls at their conception and birth possess undeveloped soul principles. The next point is to describe the modus operandi and the means employed to bring about the development of soul principles. Owing to a severe state of churning and chaos during the early stages of material evolution, a planet is phys- ically unfitted for habitation. This condition continues until a gradual subsiding through a satisfactory adjustment of the fiery elements permits the introduction of a preparatory physical course termed the elemental form. There are three initial features suitable for the ground- work of soul solution as a key to decipher this Universal Law. 50 CHRISTIAN WISDOM THE KEY First is three degrees of Descent — for the soul in matter. Second is one degree of Struggle — for the soul in matter. Third is three degrees of Ascent- for the soul in matter. Previous to the descent of the soul in matter while a planet is in the process and throes of construction, the spirit fathers assigned to guide the destiny of undevel- oped souls and planets prepare, in the astral, physical for- mations suitable for each structure known as the seven organic classifications of nature or eras of organic growth. External forms. MATERIAL EVOLUTION 1. Mineral Form 2. Vegetable Form 3. Animal Form ) These are the three Through degrees of descent } the in matter. | Laws of Nature. STRUGGLE OF SPIRIT AND MATTER 4. Human Form. One degree of vital struggle in matter. SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION 5. Astral Form These are the three ) Through 6. Occult Form } degrees of ascent } the 7. Celestial Formin matter. J Spirit Law. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 1 5 THE KEY - Each one of these classifications is a world centered within itself. They consist of formulas identical in mathe- matical construction that regulate each and every era through the law of evolution, either material or spiritual. Evolution is an eternal law that signifies the gradual preparation and the gradual separation in any degree of unfoldment. The mathematical formula giving a lucid description of each term governing these organic classifications or eras of form is as follows. ERA The period in which one special form predominates. An era is a cycle of time representing one of the seven distinct organic forms of a physical nature. The dominating era is named from the visible appear- ance of that specialized form on whatever planet it occurs. 1, Mineral. 2, Vegetable. 3, Animal. 4, Human 5, As- tral. 6, Occult. 7, Celestial. KINGDOM The separate forms in each era. A kingdom is one of the seven physical forms of nature identified with each and every era. They exist side by side in rotation, but only prominent in their own era. First, Elemental. Second, Elemental. Third, Elemental. Fourth, Mineral. Fifth, Vegetable. Sixth, Animal. Sev- enth, Human. 52 52 - CHRISTIAN WISDOM CHRISTIAN WISDOM- STAGE The physical growth of each separate Form. A stage is one of the seven grades of physical growth or steps of organic refinement in each kingdom. First; Archetypal. Second, Dense. Third, Denser. Fourth, Substantial. Fifth, Refined. Sixth, Finer. Sev- enth, Perfected. DEGREE The subdivision of growth in each separate Form. A degree is a subdivision of seven in each stage as a minor preparatory step of physical growth in each stage of form, synonymous with Sixty seconds make one minute. Sixty minutes make one hour. Seven degrees make one stage. Seven stages make one kingdom. ROUND OR CIRCUIT A round is a circuit of the seven kingdoms in each stage. This makes a total of seven degrees in each kingdom. Seven kingdoms equal 49 degrees in each stage or a total of 343 degrees in each era. 54 CHRISTIAN WISDOM Seven degrees make one stage. Seven stages make one kingdom. Seven kingdoms make one era. Seven eras make a physical completion. The mineral era is the first organic form in nature, where the initiated soul first descends into visible matter. The first class progenitors descend with the archety- pals of the mineral as a liquid vapor and condense them into concrete forms. It is where the first elemental king- dom reaches the densest form on stage D and the highest type on stage G. The second and third elementals with the mineral kingdom remain as films in texture. The vegetable, animal, and human creations, being in embryo, remain in the atmosphere waiting their turn for visible production. The vegetable era is the second organic form in nature, where the second class progenitors continue the archetypal work in the vegetable and the second elemental kingdom reaches the densest form on stage D and the highest type on G. The animal and human embryos exist within the atmosphere. The animal era is the third organic form in nature, where the third class progenitors continue the archetypal work in the animal and the third elemental kingdom reaches the densest form on stage D and the highest type on G. The human embryo dwells within the atmosphere. The human era is the fourth organic form in nature, where the fourth class progenitors continue the archetypal work in the human and the mineral kingdom reaches the densest form on stage D and the highest type on G. It is the first physical conception of the human form. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 55 The astral era is the fifth organic form in nature, where the fifth class progenitors continue the archetypal work in the astral and the vegetable kingdom reaches the highest type on stage G. It is the first physical conception in refined matter of the third elemental as an astral human form. The occult era is the sixth organic form in nature, where the sixth class progenitors continue the archetypal work in the occult and the animal reaches the highest type on stage G. It is the first physical expression in refined matter of the second elemental kingdom as an occult human form. The celestial era is the seventh organic form in nature, where the seventh class progenitors continue the arche- typal work in the celestial and the human reaches a state of material perfection on stage G. It is the first physical expression in refined matter of the first elemental kingdom as a divine human form. On whatever planet a soul enters as the initial birth that soul is recognized physically as the offspring of that planet. If a soul is created by the ruling spirit of the moon planet that soul is classified as a moon soul. If created by the ruling spirit of earth it is known as an earth soul and so on. 56 CHRISTIAN WISDOM EVOLUTION Souls after the initial birth in the mineral or first era pass to the vegetable era and then to the animal era, where the secrets of evolution are made manifest to mortal.at the present time through historical reference. Up to the time of the human era little can be said of any historical events that transpired in preceding eras. But the endless law of evolution and its mathematical formulas are conclusive enough to govern the attitude of any reason- able student. As each era is based on the same mathematical conclu- sions, then the routine is similar and varies only as each one evolutes to a more refined and intellectual plane of development. Therefore the mineral, vegetable, and animal eras are left for the student to conjecture in conformity with the mathe- matical laws of nature that govern material evolution. When the earth was in its animal era of evolution the moon planet had reached a human state similar to our fourth root race. It was a premature growth of intelligence, as the moral status of the physical was inadequate to balance the two - conditions. Consequently a moral degeneracy or physical collapse resulted. It was about that time that the animal souls from the moon planet incarnated on the earth planet and formed the principal part of our advanced animal creation in the animal era. 58 CHRISTIAN WISDOM First era is governed by a magnetic Fire condition. Second era is governed by a magnetic Air condition. Third era is governed by a magnetic Water condition. Fourth era is governed by a magnetic Earth condition. Fifth era is governed by an astral Water condition. Sixth era is governed by an ether Air condition. Seventh era is governed by a spirit Fire condition. PHYSICAL CONCEPTION As all physical formations for each organic structure were conceived and prepared in the spirit realms by the spirit fathers, they were promoted by the progenitors who were instrumental in having these forms produced and es- tablished on earth. In transmitting the embryos from the spirit realms to earth the atmosphere surrounding our planet became preg- nant with these filmy forms until the arrival of the proper time for their physical or visible birth. As the human race commands our immediate attention with a keener sense of interest and investigation than the preliminary outline of creation, we can safely continue in this imperative mission by applying the fundamental prin- ciples to the human era as a sacred duty to Divinity and the welfare of our own individual soul. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 59 PHYSICAL FORM The human era opens with the archetypal of mortals being brought to earth. These wondrous types of beauty show the paramount issue of mortals when they reach perfection. Descent is slow with multiplying and densifying until they touch terra firma and the progenitors are satisfied that the earth is ready for the predominance of mortal. As the density of the earth expanded with the advent of each root race, the earth appeared larger in exterior, less dense, and more hollow, which naturally divided the waters so that the land and water became more evenly balanced. - The dense magnetism of the earth being softened, the soil in time became prolific and refined. The one significant feature attached to this fact is that land which naturally appeared at the north pole, called Sacred Land, was the birthplace of each kingdom and every human race, no matter to what locality their destination may have led after birth. As we approach the human era (which is the develop- ment of the seven root races) a short synopsis is in order governing the stages of growth, which will assist the stu- dent in realizing the methodical law of evolution. There are seven stages of physical development Archetypal. Dense. Denser. Substantial. Re- fined. Finer. Perfected. attached to each one of the seven kingdoms First Elemental. Second Elemental. Third Ele- | mental. Mineral. Vegetable. Animal. Human. in each and every one of the seven eras į Mineral. Vegetable. Animal. Human. Astral. 1 Occult. Celestial. which is automatic and systematic in routine. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 61 PROGENITORS There were seven classes of progenitors or advanced souls who served as leaders. The First, Second, and Third classes came from Neptune as the intellectual or electric teachers. The Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh classes came from the Moon element as the physical or magnetic teachers. They were directly under the supervision of the spirit fathers and represented the filmy or astral forms of matter classified with the seven kingdoms of form. They prepared and propagated these conditions in the archetypal for the young souls who were progressing to occupy when the time for the different eras came to pass. They appear on earth only in the human as rulers of matter in the archetypal. They do not incarnate in the physical form as leaders until the fourth root race, then as ancestors or molders of mortal. The first class progenitors were high spiritual beings who reached the human stage in the mineral era and the physical body in the fourth root race. They brooded over the embryo forms of the first root race by nursing the growth of the human organism, where the electric vibrations pulsed with energy this envelope of matter, until the time for molding them into the physical organism. The moon progenitors, having conquered matter on the moon planet, possessed a mastery over the organic or physical powers. They were not ex-moon souls progressing, but moon souls who had already progressed. 62 CHRISTIAN WISDOM At the end of their evolution on the moon planet they were awarded magnetic or occult powers not greater than physical instinct or shape. They have under their dominion vast hosts of nature spirits or elementals who are the workmen, while the pro- genitors are the planners. The seven classes of progenitors or progressed souls rep- resent the filmy forms in each of the seven kingdoms. The seven classes of human souls enter these filmy forms when they become physical and represent common human- ity or souls progressing. Each of the seven classes has subclass forms in each of the seven kingdoms as well. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 63 SEVEN ROOT RACES · There are seven root races in the human era, beginning with the archetypal form in the human kingdom. Each root race has as well seven subraces. Each root race is easily identified as being prominent in developing one of the seven senses. First root race Second root race Third root race Fourth root race Fifth root race Sixth root race Seventh root race Hearing Feeling Seeing Tasting Smelling Intuition Inspiration Ether Air (Flood) Fire Water (Flood) Earth Air Fire At the dawn of new cycle conditions the self-existing come first. They were divine beings as the “ seed manus of the coming races. The “root manus” is in the beginning of the first sub- race. The "seed manus” is the germ of the seventh subrace that precedes the first subrace of a new root race. The first appearance of living beings came through the spontaneous production of organism. Protoplasm is without structure or organism that takes in nutriment and reproduces by division. Physical nature when left alone in the creation of animal and man has failed. Nature can produce the chemical, vegetable, and animal forms, but in man intelligent powers are needed outside his skin and animal life. 64 CHRISTIAN WISDOM racemandwa newatmosphere.pelled them Every new cycle for a planet produced a new skin, a new race, and a new atmosphere. The laws of evolution compelled the moon fathers to pass through all the forms of life. But at the end of the third era (animal) they were called upon to incarnate and per- petuate form. SEVEN CONTINENTS There are seven root races and seven continents. Each root race was developed under a new continent that appears just previous to the birth of each root race. Sense Continent First root race . . . . Sacred Land Second root race . . . Hyperborea Third root race . . . Lemuria Fourth root race . . Atlantis Fifth root race . . . Europe Sixth root race ... America Seventh root race . . Sacred Land Form Protoplasm Semi-Astral Astral-Human Human Human-Astral Astral-Occult Occult-Celestial Sound Touch Sight Taste Smell Intuition Inspiration PHYSICAL EXPRESSION FIRST ROOT RACE The first race was self-born or the astral shadow fórms of the first class progenitors. They were similar to a film with the sex functions un- developed, as the body was devoid of all understanding. They correspond to the materialized forms seen issuing from the body of a medium. . They were indestructible shadows not affected by any element. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 65 The first class progenitors projecting these shadow forms from their bodies brooded over them at a distance external to the physical protoplasm and operated on it with their influence, thereby shaping the physical organs in embryo. The development of hearing or sound was the sense iden- tified with this root race, as magnetic fire is the first impact to which consciousness in the physical responds. The forms were moon colored in appearance, both mam- moth and bulky. They drifted about passively, but re- sponded more to the electric than the magnetic vibration, while multiplying came by the budding process which graduated through the seven subraces. Adam and Eve were types of the seventh subrace in each root race as the nucleus for a new root race. In all the root races There were seven classes of Progenitors as Teachers. There were seven classes of Advanced Souls as Leaders. There were seven classes of Souls Progressing as Hu- manity. . During the latter part of the first root race more land appeared above the water, forming a second continent called Hyperborea. It occupied an area known as North Asia, Sweden, British Isles, Baffins Bay and Islands. The climate was tropical, with physical forms of a golden yellow expressing two types. 66 CHRISTIAN WISDOM SECOND ROOT RACE The development of feeling or touch was the sense iden- tified with this second root race. In fact it is well to admit that in the embryo are all the hidden senses which are developed only as the law of evo- lution unfolds their usefulness. The first class of progenitors remained external to the second root race bodies, but nearer than in the first root race. It was a closer period of adjustment. When the time matured for the second root race the nature spirits or elementals built around these primitive forms denser particles of matter like heavy fiber. They were coarse featured without bone, forming a shell-like ex- terior or existence of form, where the outside body of the first race became the inside body of the second race. formie spitit time It was oviparous or egg method and emitted small round nuclei developing into egglike vehicles which gradually hardened. After a period of gestation it broke and the infant forms issued forth unaided, as do birds of the air at the present time. It was called the budding process. These bodies produced exudation of sweat as a vital fluid, the drops of which served as an extraneous vehicle to gen- erate a form. It was the first attempt of physical nature at building human forms of semi-astral monsters. These shadow forms prepared the intermingling of psy- chic and magnetic forces, which tempered the physical body suitable to receive the soul from an animal condi- CHRISTIAN WISDOM 67 tion to one of intelligence and will power as an electric awakening. They were of two types. The first type was where the sexes were concealed or undeveloped, where multiplying came by budding. When the forms became densified this method of pro- duction was impossible and the second type of small bodies extruded like beads of sweat, which gradually separated into form. This second type in time showed slight signs of sexual- ity as androgynous or both sexes equalized in one. The ex-moon souls of the first class entered these phys- ical bodies of the second root race, while the ex-moon souls of the second class completed one human subrace. The ex-moon souls of the third class completed the ani- mal kingdom and the ex-moon souls of the fourth class completed the vegetable kingdom. Although a great deal of this “ vital fluid” was scattered to the winds by the sweat process, some of it was utilized by nature through the “astral mating” of the human and animal. This created the “mammal prototype” at the close of this second root race, which was physically produced and permanently established in the third root race. The animal below the mammal creation was formed by nature spirits and elementals from the animal kingdom of the third animal era as vertebrata and then mammal. The first flood came at the end of the second root race. In the early subraces the elders guide the younger humanity by instinct with unerring care and devotion. 68 CHRISTIAN WISDOM THIRD ROOT RACE Approaching the third root race more land appeared as the Himalaya peaks arose to view from out the watery depths, with Mongolia, Thibet, Ceylon, Australia, Siberia, and the Gobi Desert, which created a new continent known as Lemuria. Lemuria was christened the cradle of humanity, wherein human instinct or the shadow of intellect slowly appeared. Identified with the third root race was the compact of fire, air, and water, making the human form crude and clumsy, although with sufficient intelligence to generate a mortal being. At first the physical organism was inert and ignorant, drifting about like a rudderless boat, although to an astral influence it was fairly responsive, but, when the organic magnetic principles were developed through the separation of the sexes in the third subrace, then the physical organ- ism responded like a flash to the flow of animal magnetic instinct and the electric essence of the soul was powerless to check this organic magnetic impulse. This left the lower intelligence of magnetic vibration full sway to dominate and guide the next stage of physical evolution known as Passion. It is the mount of all mounts for mortal to surmount in point of discretion. Not until the soul received the birth of the divine spark within its soul did the higher electric soul principles gradu- ally develop. These electric soul vibrations were gradually imparted to the physical organism on corresponding lines until mat- ter was refined and the soul reached an intelligent recogni- tion of the divine spark as its supreme guide, with the understanding of an ultimate unity with Divinity. CHRISTIAN WISDOM It was in the third root race that the physical sense of sight was developed through the organs of vision. Every class and family in the beginning was hermaphro- dite, with one eye situated in the middle of the forehead. The two eyes were a later development in both animal and human, although but little used until reaching the seventh subrace. On reaching the fourth root race this one eye receded and became the pineal gland in the physical form. It was the organ of astral or clairvoyant vision in some and intui- tion or impression in others. It is curious to note that this “one central eye” was in reality a spiritual organ adapted to the “mental sight " of a developed soul rather than the crude organism of the physical expression. It responded to electric instead of magnetic vibrations, for when the incoming humanity reached the fourth root race the one central eye disappeared from physical view. The mentality of humanity was not in touch with the higher vibrations of the astral world, but adjusted to the lower magnetic vibrations of the physical body. The two external eyes of physical limitation were suffi- cient to meet the requirements that govern the physical senses. The third root race had three types of physical growth. The first type was the same as the sweat born. Evo- luting from the first subrace the form became denser in the second subrace, where the sex scarcely showed within as the conditions were androgynous or of equal sex. CHRISTIAN WISDOM The language was confined to cries expressing pleasure or pain. The second type was in the third subrace, which evolved double sex organs, birth taking place by breaking the envelope. The forms were fully developed like birds of the air, being able to walk about. They were hermaphrodite, with a language that con- sisted of monosyllables. The third type was in the fourth subrace, where birth was produced by eggs. But in developing from the egg one sex would predominate, either as an individual male or an individual female form. As this process continued babes became more helpless, and by the end of the fourth subrace the infant could no longer. walk at birth when liberated from the shell. By the end of the fifth subrace human beings were born under similar conditions that exist to-day. In fact the human race of to-day is produced on identical lines that correspond to the early stages of the root races. PRENATAL CONDITIONS The first root race in the Film condition was the same as a One month prenatal babe of to-day. The second root race in the Weaving condition was the same as a Two months' prenatal babe of to-day. The third root race in the Sex condition was the same as a Three months' prenatal babe of to-day. The fourth root race in the Form condition was the same as a Four months' prenatal babe of to-day. The fourth month established the prenatal babe, the same as the fourth root race established the human condition. . CHRISTIAN WISDOM 71 When the time arrived for generating this third root race the progenitors of the second and third classes were selected as the most adaptable. They responded by promoting physical forms of strength and beauty through the radiance and intelligence of their own being. The first class progenitors did not refuse to incarnate, as often quoted and roundly censured. It was not the allotted hour for their physical appearance, but for the second and third classes, as the first class had a higher mission to perform later on. It must be remembered that, in order for the first class progenitors to have reached that point of eminence and be worthy of the position, it was absolutely imperative for them to respond at a moment's bidding to do the hum- blest service for the greatest good. To cast a slur on advanced souls who have won their way through self-sacrifice and devotion is beneath analysis or consideration except to enlighten the doubtful student. A personal inspection, however, will quickly convince the most skeptic student of the utter absurdity and stupidity of such a statement. The third root race was composed of earth souls, ex- moon souls, and advanced souls from Neptune as leaders, teachers, and progenitors. The early savages responded by instinct to the guidance of the progenitors and built cities containing temples of worship. The Holy City still remains as a testimonial of their service. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 73 As the seven classes are at different stages of evolution, the more electric the soul power the more rapid is soul progress through the seven kingdoms of form. All classes possess this electric soul principle in varied degrees of unfoldment. The lower ones fall further be- hind, owing to the fleetness of the more advanced souls, although in time all souls will develop an electric soul power of sufficient resource to meet the requirements of any emergency. The moon souls incarnated in this race as follows. The first and second classes worked in the human form exclusively. The third class reached the human in the closing sub- races. The fourth class finished in the animal form and entered the human kingdom in the fourth root race, which made the Atlantean age strongly of moon souls. The fifth, sixth, and seventh classes climbed up, so that in the fourth root race all souls had outlived the three ele- mental kingdoms. They are at present souls progressing in the mineral, vegetable, and animal forms of our present root race and will not reach humanity until the astral or fifth era, as human forms of inferior type are no longer produced by nature in the human era. The lower classes of moon souls that touched humanity in the seventh subrace were the narrow headed. They were not ready for the divine spark, being con- trolled by the animal instinct. Some mated with ape-like animals, and from that union sprang a half human and half animal race. 74 CHRISTIAN WISDOM Later on some of this ancestry bred with the most de- graded Atlanteans, and from this union came the anthro- poid ape, who will not reach the human form until the sixth and seventh subraces of our fifth root race and will enter humanity in the astral era. The moon ancestors were those who represented and led the human conditions during the second and third eras as a preparation. Finally their shadows evolved in the early fourth era for the benefit of those who followed on in their footsteps. As a citation' to prove the irresponsible condition of a soul previous to the entrance of the divine spark, the tiger and donkey or the hawk and dove are each pure as the other because each one follows its own instinct. The tiger and hawk kill with the same degree of un- concern as the donkey eats the thistle and the dove a grain of sand. The same characteristics are carried over in the human race between the strong and the weak, until the apprecia- tion of a governing influence from the divine spark equal- izes conditions and a realization of equal rights or respect for one another establishes the righteousness of humanity. The midway point of evolution is where the astral proto- types begin definitely to pass into the physical expression. Previous to sex separation all forms were astral matter resembling pulp. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 75 SEX SEPARATION The two most important epochs in the annals of organic growth and soul unfoldment are the separation of sex and the entrance of the divine spark in the soul of mortal. First was the period of sex separation in the animal form, which was followed by s'ex separation in the human form. Second was the entrance of the divine spark within the soul of mortal after the separation of sex conditions. The first is a physical epoch. The second is a spiritual epoch. In the evolution of “sex separation” the vehement force of “sex passion” is thoroughly developed, as before the period of sex separation all was peace and harmony. The third subrace that preceded sex separation in the human is regarded as the spiritual ancestry of our present generation. The separation of the human sex became gradual in the fifth subrace as the third type was produced by the egg process, within which the human infant matured. Gradually the egg was retained within the mother and the child was born as at the present time, feeble and helpless. In the sixth and seventh subraces the individual sex pro- duction was universal. From the entrance of the divine spark within the soul instinct is gradually unfolded into understanding through the light of reason. ANIMAL SEX SEPARATION In the animal form sex separation occurred near the close of the animal or third era. CHRISTIAN WISDOM THE DIVINE SPARK The divine spark entered the soul of woman in the fourth subrace and the soul of man in the closing subraces. Those unfitted for the divine spark . received it in the fourth root race. When the student stops to consider the nature of a soul that is progressing from the animal kingdom to the human form, it is only natural to assume that a soul must inherit the animal reflection of “ animal desire ” from whence it so recently departed. Admitting this to be an established fact, then a soul mated through a physical “sex desire” in transit through the animal kingdom would find it impossible to express other than the same animal nature when evoluting to the human form. Is not this reflection the test or turning point that modifies “animal instinct” to “human intelli- gence"? How could human intelligence be brought about through the reflection of animal instinct except by controlling this “magnetic flame” of animal energy with prudence and understanding through the divine spark within the soul? It was certainly a critical stage where the marvelous wisdom of the divine plan shines forth to enlighten the bewildered student. Another indisputable fact is that “energy” exciting the sexes is the most difficult test to solve and subdue. In the animal kingdom it is free and unchecked. In the human kingdom it is guarded according to soul understanding and the wisdom of experience. Therefore the most essential consideration is to dispose of the exces- sive flow of animal magnetic inheritance. 78 CHRISTIAN WISDOM It is a sensitive and subtle link to weave or master and can be accomplished only by a thorough understanding of the divine spark within one's own soul. The master mind is ruled through the spirit. As a prelude to establish this extraordinary truth it is necessary to refer to the baptism of the divine spark within the soul of mortal. There are two classifications of souls. One is the positive soul of man. One is the negative soul of woman. Each one is a separate individuality. When a soul is passing through the animal form, that soul is called an animal soul. When the same soul has reached the human form, it is called a human soul. The vital difference between a human soul and an animal soul is this — the soul of an animal has never been baptized with the divine spark within, possessing only the magnetic and electric soul essence, whose highest qualification of in- telligence is the instinct of external attraction. When the animal soul passes to the human form in the fourth subrace as savage or serf, the negative soul of woman receives within her soul the baptism of the divine spark first. The positive soul of man does not receive the divine spark within his soul until the closing subraces of the third root race. In the fourth root race (Atlantis) most human souls had received the divine spark within their soul when entering the human form. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 719 As like attracts like it was then that the mating of human beings was in accord with natural law. The purpose of this divine plan is as follows. In order to avoid the excess of magnetic slag being car- ried over to the human kingdom by the transmission of the animal soul, the positive male souls progressing to the human form in the fourth and fifth subraces were per- mitted to “mate” with the large female mammals, thereby producing a half human and half animal species called the ape. This method proved successful in curbing the intensity of animal energy coming to the human form. In the follow- ing sixth and seventh subraces the human males were at- tracted to the human females, as the divine spark within the woman had beautified her appearance and prepared the soil for a richer sowing, which practically established humanity in the fourth root race. Picture the overwhelming flow of animal desire in the animal nature “ without ” the “ divine spark” to create a conscience or responsibility, where the instinct of external attraction is a predominant factor. Is it not reasonable to expect that an“ animal soul” in the “human body” without the divine spark centered within it would continue where it had left off in the animal life? Was it such a sin then for “ primitive man” without the divine spark to mate with the mammal type of female ani- mals or was it a natural conclusion to be expected when like attracts like? Is not the gradual preparation and a gradual separation the true law of evolution as a perfect understanding ? 80 CHRISTIAN WISDOM Was not the human soul better prepared to receive the divine spark within — after an outlet had been prepared to dispose of the crude and dense magnetic slag through the ape — than it was before? The consistency of why the negative soul of woman re- ceived the divine spark first was to prepare the soil for a real humanity. Her condition applied to the blood or soil for the child to mature in and her soul needed a pure electric vibration. The positive or male soul possessed the seed that re- quired purging and pruning before the law of evolution demanded a perfect union. As the pulp of the animal body decreased the instinct was more acute. The animal has an astral body that survives the physical body but a short time, as the soul of an animal reincarnates in a higher species. APE Here is where the human male without the divine spark mated with huge mammals and developed the ape species. acquin the de sou This was in accordance with the laws of nature to dis- pose of the dense magnetism clinging to the soul of man, acquired in the animal kingdom through the separation of sex in the animal era when as an animal soul.. The male soul, being positive, would naturally be more tenacious in clinging to a habit. The mothers of these apes were large and ungainly. Being boneless mammals there is no trace of them left. The ape is a speechless animal whose soul is forced to incarnate in a higher animal form before entering the human kingdom. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 81 The gorilla and chimpanzee were a still later develop- ment from the lower ape mammal. The real anthropoid ape, who resembled man, came on Atlantis when the fourth root race renewed these conditions. The lowest Australian savages were not products of the ape, but human fathers and semi-human mothers whose souls were without the divine spark. Australia is one of the most ancient lands above water and the native wild men of Borneo were a half animal tribe called Tasmanians, now extinct. The degenerate Australians were the only direct descend- ants of Lemuria at the close of the third root race. RACE COLOR The race that gave birth to the fourth root race came from the fourth subrace of the third root race when the color was modified to a light yellow. It was this class who became inoculated with magic and sin. Finally the brown and white races appeared, which with the yellow race form the bulk of humanity to-day. In the fourth subrace Will Power of the soul was strongly developed. In the fifth subrace human instinct or a lower principle of the mind was developed. Language could not develop until the divine spark had entered the soul, as the divine spark is the power of reason- ing and inspiration. 82 CHRISTIAN WISDOM In the sixth subrace the Lemurians built rock cities of lava and the first city was on the island of Madagascar. Some of the people were civilized and some were savage. Wherever a black race of negro is found it is a strong indication of Lemurianism or animal descent. Through the upheaval of earthquakes and volcanoes the continent Lemuria in time was scattered into numerous islands. It was in this age that the earth's axis tilted, changing the climate and disposing of the second and early third root races. When Atlantis appeared the continent Lemuria was de- stroyed and most of it at the present time lies under the Indian Ocean. MAMMAL Mammals are animals that suckle their young and are grouped into 12 divisions. 1. Man Ape. 2. Ape. 3. Bat. Mole and Hedgehog. Cat, Dog, Bear, Lion. Whale, Porpoise, Seal. 7. Rat, Hare, Beaver, and gnawing animals. Anteater. Toothless. 9. Elephant, Horse, Hog. Thick skin. 10. Cattle, Camel, Deer. Cud chewers. II. Kangaroo, Possum. Pouch. 12. One excretory orifice like a bird. (New Holland.) At present they are recognized as Hog, Ox, Horse, Ele- phant, Rhinoceros, etc. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 83 FOURTH ROOT RACE ATLANTEAN AGE The Atlantean continent of the fourth root race was slowly rising when the continent Lemuria of the third root race separated and became submerged. This continent embraced Africa, North Asia, China, India, North America, Ceylon, Burma, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Spain, Italy, Greece, Abyssinia, Scotland, Ireland, South America, and all islands in the Atlantic and Mediter- ranean oceans. The inhabitants 'were mostly copper colored, ranging from giant to dwarf. Other races in this period were brown, red, black, yellow, and white. The lower forms when reaching humanity in this fourth root race were crude and called narrow headed. However, recent critics in their shallow review claim they were neglected by their advanced brethren and in consequence became the source of a terrible lesson to hu- manity — when the high despise and neglect the low. This was not so, but the working of experience in the physical body, called the law of Karma or natural law. As the law of Karma is evolution working naturally through the undeveloped soul, it would be “mockery in mourning” for the high initiates to sustain the burdens of others or cloak their iniquities from view and thus impede the natural growth of that soul. Remember that soul growth is a personal conquest ac- quired through self-respect and not the crutch of another's support to bear or bury your burdens. 84 CHRISTIAN WISDOM You alone are responsible and you alone will pay the penalty, as neither Jesus nor Divinity can assume your indebtedness. When those in authority exercise a recognition of moral and divine law, that recognition will be protection and en- couragement enough for even the lowest of humanity in any age to foster and follow. When advanced souls neglect to honor Divinity with a moral obligation toward humanity, that desertion is to Divinity and not to the ignorant or narrow headed. . However, the reflection they cast upon mortal is self- evident when the vibrations reach the mentality of crude humanity. The only lasting remedy is a recognition of re- spect for the divine spark within one's own soul. That is the positive panacea. As the fourth root race added the sense of taste to the physical, they became prominent as epicureans of pungent taste all through the Atlantean age, where powerful stimu- lants answered to the developing sense of taste, as they were unable to detect or even distinguish a delicacy of refinement in flavor. Putrid food was acceptable as delicious and filth was in no way objectionable unless offensive to the sight. The first of this race were descendants of Lemuria. It was substantially a human period when the men took wives fair to see and entirely human, though mentally they were limited to a material instinct. Later on this physical worship of personal appearance became rooted in phallicism or sex worship. In the giant races it provoked the shedding of human blood as the result of man realizing that the wife and daughter of his brethren were fairer than his own to look upon. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 85 It was a race who were first to sacrifice to the god of matter and self-worship, with an inborn knowledge of ma- terial things through the art of sorcery. There was a large variety of mortals, from the semi-divine teachers to the narrow-headed ape-like mortals. The wild men of Borneo, with their animal cries like giant apes of dull instinct, were a feature of the early subraces. Some of these moon progenitors, who developed robust and magnetic bodies, mated with the inferior females and thereby produced a progeny of a lower type. That is apparently so, but on serious reflection proved to be a higher calling, as the electric issue from the pro- genitors, mixing with the lower magnetism of the females, helped to purify these conditions. The seed sown in the physical would in time raise the magnetic races to a higher standard. It was a self-sacrifice to taint their own condition for the welfare of a future humanity. As the fourth root race was the point of struggle between the material and spiritual, a separation arose between the divine and those intoxicated with magnetic sensation. The purer electric element went north and the coarser magnetic element journeyed south and west. They worshiped matter in preference to spirit and be- came the later Atlantean fathers. It was in this race that matter reached its densest state in the human form. The first subrace drifted north and dwindled in size. 86 CHRISTIAN WISDOM The second subrace journeyed south and intermarried with the Lemurian descendants. The third subrace included the advanced Neptune and Moon progenitors, after the first and second subraces were practically swept away in the convulsions of nature that destroyed most of Lemuria. They were a tall, handsome race of bronzed complexion, with well-knit frames and steel-like muscles that could twist a bar of iron with ease. They were free from nervous shocks or physical torture, as the nervous system was strong but dense. They lacked the sensitiveness of a refined nature, but possessed wonderful recuperative powers, as their rock-like flesh healed rapidly when bruised or cut. It was in this third subrace that there appeared the greatest of astronomers, who constructed the zodiac and handed it down to the later Atlanteans, who in turn passed it along to the Egyptians. They were proficient in chemistry and air ships, with the use of subtle forces and elementals. Gold was used for decorations and deadly vapors as an implement of war. Education was universal and adapted to the conditions of the student, as each province established a central col- lege to spread knowledge of all advancement. Those who were too aged for manual labor were used as teachers to instruct the young. Those of minor intelligence were adapted to tilling the soil and manufacturing purposes. The government supplied food and clothing for all. 88 CHRISTIAN WISDOM As these Atlantean kings increased in power and the spirit fathers withdrew their influence, the nations fell into a weaker grasp, where changes were introduced in religion - as worship was exchanged for luxurious feasts and daz- zling spectacles. Jupiter. Later on the moon souls built a new temple with a rival emperor. They summoned to their aid the powerful mag- netic elements of the lower astral world to receive the offerings of the people, who were clad in glittering guise. The offering of slain animals was introduced, then licen- tiousness and lust of all kinds followed in spectacular and bloody sacrifice. It was the negativeness of the moon souls under the posi- tive personality of a Brahmin ruling, where “ vengeance is mine” saith the Lord. The next downward step came when the chiefs pro- claimed themselves gods and the spiritual praise was turned to carved idols of the Azures. It became the great super-physical power of elementals, which increased during the closing subraces. The brown and yellow Atlantean giants became steeped in Karmic magic and lingered down to the time of Moses as terrible sorcerers. These secrets in nature have become secret only in our fifth root race, as in the fourth root race the knowledge was public property. Souls were not permitted to enter the human kingdom from the animal form after the fourth subrace of the fourth root race, as the door was closed for that era. This is a most important point in each era, being a pivot- ing point of evolution. Advanced souls in the fourth root race were the first race to develop intuitive perception in the fourth subrace. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 29 ATLANTIS In the Atlantic Ocean, opposite the mouth of the Medi- terranean Sea, there existed a large island known in history as the lost Atlantis. It was an island that flourished until 9600 B. C., when in a convulsion of nature the island was submerged and nearly all the inhabitants perished, as but few survived to record the facts. Uranos, a moon soul and descendant of the Titian fathers, who were prominent at the close of the third root race, was the first known king of the human race on earth. He ruled over Atlantis in the fourth subrace of the fourth root race, which was recorded as the Titian empire of the Atlantean age. The Titian empire included the island of Atlantis and adjacent isles, with colonies extending from the Gulf of Mexico up the Mississippi River, the Pacific coast of South America, the Mediterranean Sea, the west coast of Africa, Europe, Australia, Asia, Persia, Arabia, Egypt, and India, in fact all the available land not under submersion. It was a powerful and populous empire that extended from Peru to Egypt. To the reasoning mortal it was a self-evident fact that Atlantis was a chosen country for the progenitors of the human race and was selected as the most available head- quarters for the advancement and cultivation of humanity, wherein the soul of mortal could unfold the soul prin- ciples of understanding while evoluting through the phys- ical conditions of the fourth root race. 90 CHRISTIAN WISDOM Such being a definite conclusion, Atlantis was the region where the inferior soul of mortal could rise from a state of barbarism to a point of human cultivation through the teaching of progenitors or superior souls. These preparatory steps were essential in order to initiate inferior souls as civilized beings, when they followed in the footsteps of their superiors later on as heirs and relatives in the physical forms already established in the root races. As the law of evolution is the only reasonable method for a perfect soul growth, then the soul must accede to the natural laws of nature even from the soul's primeval in- ception in matter. They evolute through the varied forms that are con- sistent with the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Up to and approaching the human condition the soul guidance has been under the vibration of magnetic princi- ples both soul and physical. On entering the human form souls are just budding the electric soul principles. Therefore an intermediate physical step must be recognized and established in order to dispose or remove the excess organic magnetic slag that would naturally cling to inferior souls when they leave the wild animal habitation for the human kingdom. This is accomplished, as previously described, in the fourth subrace of the third root race. The irrepressible male mortal mates with the female mammal to propagate an intermediate physical species known as the ape. This prepared an outlet for the excessive flow of animal slag that would otherwise destroy the human physical effect and continue the characteristics of the animal spe- cies indefinitely. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 91 Gradually these gross magnetic characteristics are suffi- ciently refined to permit the introduction of the divine elec- tric spark and the human characteristics are permanently adjusted, beginning in the fourth root race. It is at this critical period that the cultivation of the human race developed through the leadership of superior souls until the close of the sixth subrace in the fourth root race, when the sudden withdrawal of these advanced souls from incarnating in the flesh as race leaders compelled the inferior souls of mortal to assume the forsaken leadership which was their birthright. Unfortunately the summit of cultivation reached by supe- rior effort was lost through the gradual adulteration of degenerate mannerisms from these inferior rulers and the cause of humanity was suspended for ages to come in the throes of chaos and confusion by Brahmin and Melchizedek. Through a lack of poise and the exercise of wisdom these inferior souls were unprepared to appreciate the responsi- bility of their power or the ability to resist the magnetic flow of overwhelming force, and the inevitable crash through greed and strife terminated the abuse of their op- portunities in the closing subraces of the fourth root race. The resurrection from these ashes is still an enigma for future generations to sift and solve. According to the review of historical critics, these pro- genitors or superior souls were over-confident in feeling that their mission of initiation had been thoroughly exe- cuted and permanently established, and were somewhat premature in withdrawing their leadership from the service of humanity. That it was a part of the divine plan unknown to mortal I do not question, but this I do know as a self-evident fact - the gradual preparation and the gradual separation are the only true and logical law of evolution. 92 CHRISTIAN WISDOM Otherwise a revolution is precipitated that sooner or later spells disaster, with a realization that an“ ounce of preven- tion” is worth a pound of cure. The history of our fifth root race, so forcibly expressed in ancient history and biblical translation under the rem- nant Atlantean heirs, is open to all honest investigators who are earnestly seeking a rational solution. For the past, usually chronicled as veiled in deep mys- tery, is easiiy penetrated by the ordinary consistent thinker if permitted to think-or courageous and persistent enough when free from the crushing influence of creedal customs that are governed by Jupiter. As the preceding analysis is a sufficient portrayal relat- ing to the human organism and soul growth, the next im- portant consideration is to enumerate the conditions and the alignment of rulers who were instrumental in promot- ing the Atlantean age in the fourth root race. ATLANTEAN KINGS GENEALOGY The Titian fathers were progenitors from the seventh subrace of the third root race. Their descendants were the Titian kings of Atlantis in the fourth subrace of the fourth root race. Uranos was the first king, with five chosen children who presided over certain domains of territory as follows. Titian, Spiritual: China, Greece, Rome. Oceanus, Spiritual: America, Peru. Atlas, Spiritual: North Africa, Egypt. Cyclops, Occult: Asia, Arabia, India, Persia. Chronos, Occult: Italy, Sicily, Spain. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 93 Chronos had three chosen children. Poseidon: Europe. Zeus: Asia. Pluto: America. Poseidon had ten chosen children as ten kingdoms of Atlantis. Gades, Ampheres, Evaemon, Antochlion, Elasipysus, Mneseus, Mestor, Azoes, Diaprepes, Atlas. Zeus had six chosen children. Hermes, Hercules, Apollo, Dionysus, Athena, Demeter. Enoch was the first born in Genesis, 24,000 years ago. Noah was a grandson of Enoch, who was a descendant of Hermes. Noah was the best qualified earth soul to direct progress- ing conditions at that period. This is historical reference, over which I assume no re- sponsibility whatsoever. In time Uranus was deposed from his throne, it being the custom in those days, and retreated to Italy. He was succeeded by his son Chronos, who in turn later on was likewise dethroned by his own children - Poseidon, Zeus, Pluto. Chronos or Saturn, as he was called, established industry and social order with peace, pleasure, and plenty. It was known in Italy as the golden age during the fourth subrace. Later on the separation of this immense Titian empire was divided between Chronos's three chosen sons — Poseidon, Zeus, Pluto. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 95 Atlas, a Jupiter soul, the son of Poseidon, succeeded his father and was known as the supreme ruler. He governed with excellent ability and advancement, being the last of the advanced progenitors to maintain a. satisfactory standard. From the ruling of Atlas a gradual deterioration was perceptible, especially in historic comparisons. The solution is plain, for Atlas was a Jupiter soul, which gave Brahmin the opportunity of an opening wedge to se- cure a foothold on the customs and ruling of humanity. Gradually the Brahmin code of a selfish personality has become dominant, until to-day the crisis has been reached and the dawn of a righteous future is fast approaching from the overthrow of Brahmin in the spring of 1916. As an interesting fact it is well to note that these ancient kings were quite pronounced in possessing unlimited fami- lies of miscellaneous unfoldment. The children who were not designated as “ chosen rulers ” or “superior beings ” played an equally important mission by commingling with inferior and common races. This was to multiply the cause of humanity with a graded populace and establish the intermediate classes of organic magnetism as a preparation for the entrance of all souls in the human form, with a grading from the serf condition to a superior type of mortal. The ancient kings, being advanced souls with a progres- sive purpose, encouraged virtue and scorned vice. But, from the intermingling and initiating of undeveloped souls into their families and followers, gradually that purified condition began to fade. When the excess of crude magnetic physical qualities of human nature secured the upper hand of their spiritual purpose, then virtue was buried in greed and strife. 96 CHRISTIAN WISDOM So in our time it is only history repeating itself in a different age, with corresponding opportunities and cor- responding results. Who then in their saner moments can doubt the truth of Atlantis existing in a primeval age of civilization and evoluting until a remedy is effected with refinement and understanding? When the great Atlantean continent in part suddenly dis- appeared, an enormous gap was left, which was as quickly replaced by the receding waters that had previously cov- ered the deserts of Sahara, Brazil, etc. This completed the American and European continents and established as well the great Atlantic Ocean as it is to-day. What is now Sicily at one time lay deep beneath the sea until it apparently arose 3000 feet above the sea level. The Australian archipelago, strictly speaking, is nothing but the mountain tops of a submerged continent, reaching from India to South America, called Lemuria, where the human race originated until the fourth root race. The original Australians are proof of this fact, where the irresponsible mortal and animal mated to produce a semi- human species. The Atlanteans represented two distinct races. One was a dark brown, reddish race akin to Central America, Peru, North Africa, and Egypt, being mostly souls of the earth origin. 98 CHRISTIAN WISDOM They produced powerful monsters with brute strength and cunning, who were used as bodyguards or messengers. This established two forces, one representing the mag- netic or material power and the other representing the electric or spiritual force. The magnetic power, being augmented in numbers, was an early indication of Jupiter ruling, which represented the undeveloped or progressing earth souls who were drawn to physical matter and easily dominated in morals and cus- toms by the Brahmin code. When the golden temple was destroyed the Jupiter ele- ment ruled, as after this event sorcery spread in all direc- tions and the coarsest stage of materiality was reached, which is conspicuous to this day in the European war. The religion of Atlantis was the sun worship of Sirius, with the sacrifice of fruit and flowers. It was also the primitive religion of America. The Hindus, Egyptians, and Peruvians also worshiped the sun, as sun worship existed until the time of St. Patrick. The Gauls and Goths were a religious people who loaned money with the proviso that it was redeemable after death. The fifth subrace were earth souls called Semitic giants, of brutal force, with a turbulent and quarrelsome nature, who became the seed of the present' fifth root race. The sixth subrace was born after the first Atlantis submersion. The seventh subrace or Mongolian earth souls developed from the Turanian giants of the fourth subrace, and from these came the inland Chinese, but not those of the coast or Japanese, as they evolved from a later extract. The Malays, Thibetans, Hungarians, Finns, Eskimos, and Red Indians have Mongolian blood in their physical body. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 99 Many of the seventh subrace went to Asia Minor and Greece. They became identified in the development of the second subrace in the fifth root race, known to history as Phoenicians. The majority of humanity to-day is descended from the seventh subrace of earth souls, who were renowned for their magic power and wickedness in defiance of the spirit guides. It was the degenerate descendants of the seventh subrace that built the first pyramids. They knew the coming of the floods and constructed sub- passages and retreats to preserve their mysteries. The pyramids of Egypt were not built alone by bone and muscle or apparatus. They were raised by those who un- derstood and could control the elements, so that the stone lost its physical weight and floated, being guided by the touch of a finger to place it in position. The second flood or deluge ended the fourth root race as the fifth root race was budding. It is the fate of all conti- nents when the magnetic goodness is extracted from the land without a proper restitution or a return in worthy liv- ing by mortal with respect for Divinity. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 101 _ 101 BIBLE The Bible does not include the Negro, Chinese, Japanese, Finn, Australian, or American Redmen. The Bible refers chiefly to the Aryans, Cushites, Phoe- nicians, Hebrews, and Egyptians. How can the Bible be a universal book of Divinity with so many nationalities omitted? If Divinity is universal as a part within each and every human soul, then how can Divinity be divided by neglect- ing the other nations unless parallel teachings on identical lines are substituted ? If Divinity did not authorize the Bible as a universal prop, who did? and how responsible are they as universal leaders? If the Bible has inconsistent and unreliable teachings, how can cultured souls bow to the iniquity of credulous anecdotes when the avenue of investigation and consistent reasoning is free to all who dare honor the truth by openly confessing the same? The processional and professional automaton of to-day is but the shadow of fading antiquity floating on, as the approaching dawn of reason will unlock the opportunity of a truly righteous soul and genuine Christian soldier. Then wake up and take notice. 102 CHRISTIAN WISDOM FIFTH ROOT RACE As Europe at this period was the continent to achieve distinction, the fifth root race was purely a European development. It was prominent in unfolding the sense of smell, which completed the five physical senses in common with all humanity at the present time. Humanity of the first subrace was yellow, brown, black, red, and white, as the moon-colored feature had entirely disappeared in the deluge of the fourth root race. The Hindus under Gautama Buddha (Jesus) were pro- genitors of the fifth root race with mind development of intellect as their all-absorbing purpose. Buddha was unquestionably responsible for the progeny of earth souls in the fifth root race in Central Asia. The first subrace, called the Aryans, emigrated to North India, where they received an understanding of the zodiac. The second subrace, called Semitic, went to Arabia, As- syria, Afghanistan, Syria, Babylonia, Egypt, and Greece. The third subrace was Ionians, Persians, Arabians, and Egyptians. The instructors of the third subrace were forbidden the worship of planets or star angels as a consequence of the abuse which had occurred in connection with them. It was an inclination to idolize materialism instead of spiritualism. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 103 The wise men of Persia, called magi, followed chemistry more than astrology or astronomy, on account of agricul- ture, to which the Ionians were devoted. The fourth subrace, called Keltic, was led by Orpheus and settled in Greece, France, Italy, Ireland, Scotland, and England. This subrace witnessed the final destruction of Atlantis 11,000 years ago. The fifth subrace, which is our race at the present time, will decide whether the earth planet will live or run out and perish as did the moon planet. At present they are spreading all over the visible world - North and South America, Australia, Europe, Africa, New Zealand, and all known parts, but they shall pass away and the sixth subrace rise where North America stands to-day. The sequel is Neptune leaders, moon teachers, and earth souls progressing to establish a universal brotherhood, as- sisted by the worthy souls of other planet origin. It is approximated that each family race lasts about 3000 years and each subrace lasts 21,000 years, making a total of 150,000 years for a complete root race. This computa- tion has been applied to the earlier root races, but the introduction of each physical sense to each root race diminishes the time in accordance with the degree of elec- tric soul force that circulates in the atmosphere. At present the estimation is computed from various angles which are purely speculative and governed by condi- tions of time. Americans are the germ seed of the sixth subrace, as each subrace overlaps the other. 104 CHRISTIAN WISDOM The process of preparation for the sixth root race will last through the sixth and seventh subraces of the fifth root race. The last remnant of the fifth continent will not disappear until after the birth of the sixth root race, which will grad- ually outgrow the heavy flesh conditions to a more astral body. The Formarians settled in Ireland from Asia about 3000 B. C. Ireland knew of the Atlantis submersion, but was not affected by it. The mariner's compass came from Atlantis to Arabia. SIXTH ROOT RACE The sixth root race will be identified with an American development, as America will be the continent to promote intellectual and moral soul growth. It will be prominent in developing the sixth sense of intuition, a higher, clearer mind unfoldment of reasoning with a perfect understanding. This race will possess a perfect form, with the higher intellect of keen reasoning. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 105 SEVENTH ROOT RACE The seventh root race will be identified with the original continent called Sacred Land. The seventh root race will be prominent in expressing the seventh sense of inspiration. This is a divine guidance to complete the senses through the instrument of an astral human organism. The physical molders of the astral organism of the fifth astral era will be the intellectual builders of Neptune. 106 CHRISTIAN WISDOM PHYSICAL NATURE FILM Fundamentally the atoms of man and animal are the same, with the exception that man has a living Divinity within his soul. Spirit essence is the soul life until the human form is reached, when the divine spark gives to the soul spirit life with a mind development. Organic life is a temporary or secondary power of phys- ical force from the crude electric nature called hydrogen. A film is the root of all form and the small fly that stays for an hour is the nearest thing to film that has life within it. Every organ is a castle and in the seventh sphere the power within it shines without. Spiritual protoplasm is electric fluid. Material protoplasm is organic magnetism. Science divides the periods as follows. 1. Primordial epoch. Shell, mineral, seaweed. Marine life. 2. Primary epoch. Fern, forest, fish, reptile. 3. Secondary epoch. Chalk, mammal, animal, bird. 4. Tertiary epoch. Placental mammal. 5. Quaternary epoch. Mortal. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 107 Sea monsters are the result of evil conditions that arise from ground covered by oceans which were formerly con- tinents and peopled by degenerate magnetic mortals. This is the method by which the laws of nature scatter the evil influence in the atom, while the soil is being re- plenished with magnetism from the oxygen in water and electricity from the hydrogen in water that is characteristic of the ocean. It is a cleansing process for the Atom of Matter, which is not responsible. The cleansing of the Soul Atom through remorse is held strictly accountable. With the increasing temperature of organic heat mortals die first, while insects and reptiles are the last to expire. Primitive man of the fifth root race was divided into three pronounced types. Europe: Aryan or Caucasian. Asia: Mongolian. Africa: Ethiopian. All the physical organs of the human body are coils of substance and, unless the astral is filled in to become ethe- real, the weight at death sinks the whole body back to earth as earthbound. Each part of the human body can be produced by seed in the astral, as the root is within the seed. The human body is composed of solid and fluid. Fluid being more abundant in youth, it gives softness and pliancy to the flesh. In old age the flesh is dry and hard. 108 CHRISTIAN WISDOM The human skeleton has 208 bones. Thirty bones in head: skull 8, face 14, ears 8. Fifty-four bones in body: ribs 24, spine 24, hips 4, tongue i, chest I. Sixty-four bones in upper limbs. Sixty bones in lower limbs. THE COMPLEX BODY OF SEVEN There are seeds of races and seeds of vegetation, but in reality it is a quality of organic magnetism. There are seven bodies that make up the human body, each one of which is capable of separation; but when united it is complete within itself and called the complex mortal. 1. The outer skin or epidermis, ruled by Venus. 2. The inner skin, ruled by Venus. 3. The veins, ruled by Jupiter. 4. The arteries, ruled by Jupiter. 5. The nerves physical, ruled by Moon and Mercury. (Brain.) 5. The nerves astral, ruled by Neptune and Herschel. (Mind.) 6. The muscles, ruled by Mars. 7. The bones (skeleton), ruled by Saturn. The magnetic sun supplies the hydrogen for the organic life of the physical body. Constitution. This is a distinct ruling from the astral body, as the astral body occupies the space between the atoms in the human physical body. Between all atoms there is space, recognized as being porous. The human body has 12 centers. 1. Hand power. 7. Breathing power. 2. Feet power. 8. Seeing power. 3. Speech power. 9. Hearing power. 4. Excretive power. 10. Feeling power. 5. Generative power. II. Tasting power. 6. Digestive power. 12. Smelling power. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 109 SEVEN INCARNATIONS The seven incarnations in the physical human structure for the soul are as follows. 1. Pleasure, ruled by Venus and Jupiter. Magnetic. 2. Wealth, ruled by Jupiter and Venus. Magnetic. 3. Power, ruled by Mars. Magnetic. 4. Atonement, ruled by Saturn. Electric and Magnetic. 5. Enlightenment, ruled by Sirius (sun), Mercury, and Neptune. Partial under- standing. Electric. 6. Unfoldment, ruled by Sirius, Herschel, and Neptune. Perfect understanding. Electric. 7. Wisdom, ruled by Sirius and Neptune. Polish. Electric. . After the third incarnation of the soul in the human body the soul begins to realize that there is a spark of Divinity within itself. Air The four elements of the physical body are 1. Oxygen Water Magnetism 2. Nitrogen Magnetism 3. Carbon Earth (pulp) Magnetism 4. Hydrogen Fire Electricity The human body has four vital organic centers. 1. Heart: Soul and divine spark. 2. Brain: Mind. 3. Solar Plexus: Passions, also the astral in Christian Science healing. 4. Sex organs: Seed of germination. NERVE SYSTEM The nerve system is composed of two distinct rulings for coöperation and unity. One is for the physical and one is for the astral. 110 CHRISTIAN WISDOM The cerebro-spinal or brain and spinal cord, including the five senses of intellect, is for the physical body. The sympathetic ganglion of nerve cells, filled with ex- crement, is for the astral body to draw from. A portion of the nerves start from the brain base and run to the eye, ear, and tongue, while another and a larger part spring from the spinal cord and run down the back- bone over the body and lower extremities. One part produces feeling or sensation. One part produces motion. Both kinds are widely distributed over the body. Those that spring from the spinal cord have two roots, one uniting with the back and one uniting with the front part of the cord. When you cut the back root the connecting part becomes numb, without feeling, although it has motion. When you cut the front root the connecting part becomes palsied, without motion, although it has feeling. An effect produced on the brain or mind through a nerve is called sensation, the same as hunger, thirst, pain, heat, cold, or sympathy. A strong sensation is the feeling of emotion or passion from the extreme of pleasure to pain. BRAIN The brain is a mass of nervous matter made up of three parts — the cerebrum, cerebellum, medulla oblongata. The cerebrum is the larger part at top of the skull. The cerebellum is the smaller part at base of the skull. The medulla oblongata is at the top of the spinal cord, like a bulb as a support, and furnishes nutriment for the brain. 112 CHRISTIAN WISDOM SYMPATHETIC SYSTEM FOR THE ASTRAL The sympathetic system for the astral consists of a series of nerve stations extending on each side of the spine from the head, terminating at the end of the spinal column. The number is estimated at 49, although seven are recog- nized as predominant factors. They are called involuntary and act while asleep or awake, forming a knotted chain except at the neck. These knots are composed of medullary matter, with each ganglion or knot as a center, that connects with branches to all the internal organs. They are called enunciators for the astral body to work through as a connecting link between the soul and the physical body. The sympathetic ganglion of nerves preside over nutri- tion and secretion for the astral nature. The brain nerves preside over motion and sensation for the physical nature. Protoplasmic vapor is the original in cell substance, which moves along the nerves almost as a part of them and yet separate, which is moderated and adjusted by electricity. THE SEVEN GANGLIA OR NERVE STATIONS OF THE SYMPATHETIC SYSTEM. 1. Sacral or rectum, at the base of the spine. 2. Prostatic or sex organs. 3. Epigastric or solar plexus. (The umbilical cord.) 4. Cardiac or heart and lungs. 5. Pharyngeal or throat and larynx. (The highest of sympathies.) 6. Cavernous or front of brain between the eyes. 7. Pineal or base of brain back of the ears. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 113 Nerves are as materialized electricity which branches through the body and carries sensation with messages out into words. A nerve is a string of electric atoms, whether in a human body, along the trunk of a tree, or running down a frog's back. The whole system of nerves is atomized electricity com- bined in a little sheath. The nerves carry the mind, whether instinct or intel- ligence. If the nerves were all taken out of bodies, there would be no transition of intelligence, for things would be mere toadstools or pulp. Nerves are conductors of force from one earth condition to another. In mediums they are nerve rails buried deep within the flesh so as to keep steady and flash back an unseen mean- ing by impulse, either in talking or writing. The coils of ganglia lie dormant until roused to activity through external forces, which energize the slow magnetic pulp nature with emotion and passion until acted upon by the will power, which is the electric essence of the soul. Herein lies the secret of conquest, for he who can con- quer the will power of self is greater than he who taketh a city. The coils of ganglia are physical avenues for the develop- ment of soul magnetic principles through the astral body. In the early stages of incarnation they are subject to ex- ternal rulings through instinct and the electric influence of a crude will power until the experience garnered from in- carnations and rebirths evolves an intelligent soul able to cope with the organic magnetism of the physical structure. To bear no cross is to wear no crown. 114 CHRISTIAN WISDOM The seven ganglia in the human body to a primitive soul are loose and slack, but to a seasoned soul they are tense and vibrant like the strings on a harp, having molded them into character and poise. In the early stages of soul unfoldment, when the soul was sheathed in the physical body, the organic magnetism composing the physical body was predominant. This was due to the five physical senses that corresponded and coöperated with the undeveloped magnetic principles in the soul essence. As the magnetic principles are developed first, then the magnetic conditions are supreme in organic law. When the organic magnetic physical influence is ex- pressed from an external force, the internal soul influence can be expressed only from a spirit desire of understanding. As the soul in youth is ignorant and unseasoned, these external and magnetic forces must be brought into moral subjection and reason before spirituality can be considered, much less understood or appreciated. It is the nerve sys- tem of vibrations that plays the important part as a soul enunciator through the visible expression of the human structure. In arousing the soul to activity by external impressions the vibration created is transported by soul tubes running along the marrow, from the spinal terminus to the base of the brain and acted upon by the mind principle according to the degree of mental unfoldment. If undeveloped mind it would be through instinct and graded from that to a spiritual awakening. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 115 The currents of the soul and the channels they pursue are called tubes. The three principal ones originate from the base of the spine and extend to the base of the cranium or skull. At this point one branches to the front in con- junction with the sixth or cavernous ganglion between the eyes, while the other branches to the back of the brain in conjunction with the seventh or pineal ganglion. The direct current continues on to the top of the head, called the open door, where the vibrations pass out as ac- cepted or rejected thought. The three soul currents form a cross in the brain. A soul vibration, passing along the spinal marrow through each of the five ganglion stations en route, takes on a corresponding influence from a sympathetic ganglion. This causes a surging sensation that is due to an in- creased voltage until it reaches the brain, where the soul vibration branches, as the case may be, and passes out at the open door in the cranium with accepted or rejected thought. The seventh or pineal ganglion is a small conical dark- gray body situated in the back of the brain behind the extremity of the third ventricle in a groove between the nates. 116 CHRISTIAN WISDOM ASTRAL EYE AND RETINA It is supposed to be an organ of spiritual vision when used by higher soul forces and is termed the third eye of the seer as keen perception. What is seen by the physical eye is reflected on the retina, and it is on the retina that the astral eye through the pineal gland sees the reflection as well. A spirit occupying the body of a medium can see the reflection on the retina in the same way. As the soul vibration reaches the brain the psychic colors are seen in the higher psychic unfoldment and there follows a clear consciousness of understanding. The perception is exalted above the five senses to realize Universal Law. The fifth ganglion (throat) is directly related to the lower creative centers, shown by the change of voice in puberty and castration. (Soft.) The sixth ganglion (called cavernous, between the eyes in front for intuition) is related to the cerebro-spinal axis and the five senses. It is an electric force which subdues the magnetic influ- ence of the spinal system, being a point of auric light where the color reveals the spiritual status of each individual. If the light is golden yellow it is good and spiritual. If the light is dull red or green it is gross and material. The seventh ganglion or pineal gland, at the base of the brain back of the ears, is pliable, being the focal point of all the forces in the nerve system and of the aura. It is here that they come to an equilibrium, where reigns the mystic silence of inspiration and exaltation. The pituitary or gland organ of unknown function that supplies the mucus for the nasal membrane is also a crea- tive organ for the brain. 118 CHRISTIAN WISDOM BRAIN The optic, ear, and tongue nerves begin at the base of the brain. The nerves are acted upon by external forces that trans- mit sensation to the brain, which in turn forces the muscles to act. The brain is the temporary or physical registering organ of memory, but not memory itself, as the soul is the seat of memory through the divine spark. The brain embodies sensations to every part of the sys- tem, and by examining certain muscles or organs one can tell which spot in the brain is affected. Every cell in the brain is a piano key to some part of the body, and by turning the scalp skin, then passing over the key and at the same time touching the body at the point of disease, a response is evident. The insanity cure comes under this law. The brain is understood in the spirit world, for insanity can be cured with mind pus, where the diseased parts which afflicted mortal on earth are restored. At death the brain organ becomes pasty by closing the connecting doors that existed when life was present — be- tween the pineal organ of perception and the pituitary gland. The brain of high intellect is of silver yellow. The brain of low intellect is of grayish yellow. Each minute portion of the heart corresponds to parts of the brain, and wherever there are nerves you will find cor- responding blood vessels. The system of blood vessels is an exact picture of the nerve system like unto a shadow. 120 CHRISTIAN WISDOM The heart has four lower cavities and three higher divi- sions, being seldom lost except by dynamite. The heart is a hollow muscular organ to keep the circu- lation of blood in the organic life. BLOOD CIRCULATION Vital air comes through the aorta. Arteries are round tubes more muscular than the veins. The right side of the heart flows blood to the lungs through the veins. The left side of the heart flows blood to the system of arteries all over the body. The passage of blood from the left side of the heart through the aorta and arteries to all parts of the body and back to the right side is the greater circulation of arteries. The passage of blood from the right side of the heart through the veins to the lungs and back to the left side is the smaller circulation of veins. Pulmonary veins bring dark purple blood from the lungs to the left side of the heart after it is made red and vital by meeting atmospheric air in the lungs. LACTEALS AND FOOD Capillaries are vessels between the ends of veins and arteries that carry the red blood from the arteries and take the living particles out of the blood to vitalize the body. It is then passed along to the veins and carried to the lungs for purification. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 121 Lacteals are small vessels in the bowels that convey the chyle or fatty matter of food to the blood by a large vein connecting with the right side of the heart. Chyme is food. Chyle is the goodness extracted, which is taken up from the bowels by the lacteals and gradually changed into blood. It is then carried to a large vein in the lower part of the neck after going through the lungs and being poured into the blood to become material from which our bodies are hourly transformed.' Food is digested with gastric juice that resembles spring water. It flows only a certain amount and when one is sick the flow is diminished. A cheerful disposition produces this juice, showing that harmony of being is one of the secrets to retain physical health as well as an efficient will power. The brain requires more blood than any other part of the system. An active brain is conducive to long life. Some food makes blood and tissue, while other food makes fat. One tenth part of foul air vitiates the blood and causes dizziness. Jesus' blood was the same as all others in order to have breathed oxygen. Earth is a blood planet with low pulse of electric fire. Anger acts on the blood. Passion. Fear acts on the nerve. Solar plexus. 122 CHRISTIAN WISDOM Mother love is due to blood magnetism or a physical relationship, while soul love is based on justice and honor with a universal understanding. Anger rouses the secretion and produces bile, which poisons the physical system and disharmonizes the men- tality by draining the system spiritually. LIVER The liver takes carbon (magnetism) out of the blood to make bile for digestion and change the blood on its way back to the heart. SPLEEN The spleen is the reservoir for surplus blood of the liver. It is an organ formed to pass off poisoned conditions from a deranged liver. All that the liver fails to perform is taken up by the spleen and accomplished. LUNGS The lungs lie on each side of the heart as a repository organ to introduce oxygen into the system and remove carbonic acid.. The lungs come into existence by the alternate working of the positive and negative pranas — blood as the mag- netic, nerve as the electric. Nobody is in exact health unless the electric and mag- netic beat in regular order. VISDOM CHRISTIAN WISDOM . 123 Muscles are bundles of fiber, 500 in a body, that obey the will power. All muscles and bones are mere projections of the nerve cell. The occult is governed by will power and not Divinity. KIDNEYS The kidneys lie one on each side of the backbone like a kidney bean. They are used for passing urine to the bladder and for taking away the worn-out particles con- taining nitrogen. SOLAR PLEXUS The physical center of the nerve system is the solar plexus, which is situated back of the stomach. It has an action on the physical body that is similar to the action of the magnetic sun on the planet system. It radiates a magnetic force which is organic life and is positively a link between the physical and the astral bodies. It obeys the slightest suggestion from the brain and is sometimes called the emotional brain, having such a re- sponsive nature. In fact any startling event or fear will create a sudden sinking at the pit of the stomach. The sinking sensation implies that the brain has com- municated to the solar plexus a thought expressing fear, grief, or violent emotion of a depressing nature and the opposite of joy. If the brain is active it will often feel a depression, as it causes the nerves of the solar plexus to collapse or be- come flat and inactive. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 125 There is no necessity of discarding doctors or medicine. Use them sparingly as possible, but place more reliance in nature, sunshine, fresh air, pure water, and rational food than is the custom. Alternate the exercise in proportion to the invigoration. Breathe deeply and keep your thoughts busy with pleasant subjects connected with some humanitarian purpose or special activity of healthy mentality. There is a certain class, however, who appear as a mix- ture of selfishness, indolence, and conceit, whose delicate nerves are nothing but spleen. As the business world has no patience with such models, they are quickly brushed aside for those who are brave enough to do their own thinking or keep their burdens to themselves. SEX FUNCTION Sex exists only in the physical and the astral worlds. The abuse of sex function is a terrible crime and by natural law helps to destroy the personality. The animal world, with simple instinct to guide it, has seasons of procreation, while during the remainder of the year the sexes become neutralized. With human beings, however, there is no prescribed law except the limit of exhaustion. Why human beings are not restricted is to teach them the necessity of self-reliance and the folly of excessive abuse, as the divine spark will teach one reason and self-respect. Whereas the animal, with only instinct as a guide, if not restricted by nature, would abuse the privilege and termi- nate the physical issue of reproduction. 126 CHRISTIAN WISDOM As sexual action is identified with the spinal cord of sympathetic ganglia and gray matter of the brain, it exerts a corresponding response in the medulla oblongata and pineal gland in proportion to the degree of activity ex- pressed or suppressed. Males are not as sensitive as females, for the females, being negative, require the honor, respect, and protection of the male, that is, when the male realizes and recognizes that the female is but the soul mate of some male soul. When the males do recognize their true position to females they will bear the same respect for all women as they would have for their own soul mate and thus avoid the penalty of soul damnation from the abuse of a grave responsibility. Until then the male element will pose only as an animal reflector in the human form. PHYSICAL CONCEPTION The generating seedlike animalcules are drawn as by in- stinct to the female egg, and together they pass to the fallopian tubes and then to the ovaries. If an egg is found in a healthy condition, immediately the fluid contents commingle to generate a nucleus for conception. The umbilical cord takes the oxygenated blood from the mother to the foetus, and there two arteries take the used-up blood from the child to the placenta or after-birth. The umbilical cord is connected through the placenta with the receptacle in which is fructified the embryo of the race. (Astral cord.) Although a babe is fully formed in seven months, it re- quires an additional two months for strength and consoli- dation to complete the period of parturition of 280 days. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 127 SOUL INCEPTION During the first three months of physical conception the soul hovers around the female and enters that physical body in a hypnotic state. It is withdrawn at intervals to prevent suffocation and give the soul strength until birth in the physical. Three months previous to birth the soul is permitted to realize past failures, as the realization of this fact rebukes one with a feeling of contrition and a determination to improve the future. But at birth the touch of earthly at- mosphere disperses these memories and promises, as all recollections of the soul are then suppressed in the physical body. If the earth conditions of customs and environments are moral and uplifting, then the soul reflections and promises shine out as a warning to correct past failures and establish soul progress. It is from the pain of this organic shock that the soul of an infant body cries out at birth. . This will register the exact moment of physical birth from which to compute a horoscope. The physical body may resemble in appearance the mother and father. If possessing a stronger individuality than either, it may impress this upon the body and the child resemble neither parent. of Karma are ftus at some time ands to com- As seeds of Karma are stored up in the soul from past personalities, they confront us at some time in the future For fulfillment, with a settlement of all demands to com- plete a perfect adjustment. The only possible relief is to honor Divinity with a soul respect and moral obligation to humanity that will elevate and purify all conditions. 128 CHRISTIAN WISDOM As the responsibility of an adviser is great, few mortals who pose as leaders and advisers to humanity appreciate the wonderful importance of responsibility in their chosen position, especially when they inaugurate customs and establish environments for the undeveloped souls to pass through on earth. If the customs are moral and uplifting, the result is blessedness for the promoters. If the customs are degenerate, it is a scathing rebuke for the offenders. A word to the wise is sufficient in the public expression of moral sentiment. GERMS There are two kinds of germs in a physical body. One is the electric or white germ for the astral body. One is the magnetic or red germ for the physical body. Male germs are seeds that live for years, helping to build the man. Female germs are a milk germ never developed unless by mating with male seeds. As male and female germs are continually floating in the air, they are ready to be breathed into the nostrils while conditions and currents are being prepared. Should a swarm of male germs locate in the cerebrum, by the use of reason and principle in mating they would become loosened and rush along the nerves as balls of fire. At the same time the milk germs would rush from the female breast until the activity of attraction would find a means of descent that would unite them to fulfill the work- ings of natural law. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 129 A child formed under these conditions would partake of the cerebrum and tend to be learned, though easier to be- come insane than one of a lower germ seed. Germs are live atoms that act as builders and destroyers. Sometimes the builders are in advance, sometimes they are behind, and at times they balance. Unless nature was so regulated all the molecules would be at a standstill, while fat, muscle, and nerve would putrefy. It is well to remember that an excess of red germs will disease and rot the physical body. As all shapes are constructed from atoms, it makes a great difference what metal comes into the blood, for chem- ical formation shows the class. Reincarnation is an advanced stage of physical growth corresponding to soul unfoldment. Rebirth is having a new physical body for the soul to round out principles of the last incarnation on the same planet, only under new conditions and environments. There are countless rebirths for a soul in the physical form, which diminish as each one of the seven incarnations in the human is reached. Embodiment is similar to rebirth, with the exception that a soul is born on a different planet from the last one it occupied. Flesh on earth is water and pulp, while the corresponding condition in the spirit world is light and fiber, that in ap- pearance resemble a web. 130 CHRISTIAN WISDOM THE VIEWS OF PLATO isction of way on this read the li proce th Knowing Divinity at the en ima Plato records the human desires as being chained down like a wild beast near the solar plexus. The solar plexus is like the handle to a pump or a lever for the physical action of the heart, as the heart plays on the solar plexus the same way one would manipulate a violin string. Knowing that this organic principle would not listen to reason, Divinity formed the liver to connect with this lower nature so that the energy proceeding from the in- tellect could be mirrored as images. The liver is the reflector of the brain in the solar plexus region, so the heart serves as the reflector of the higher intellect or psychic consciousness. The corresponding spirit reflector in the brain is the pineal gland, while the generative organs fulfill the same function in the lower division. That is why the allusion is made to the kidneys and the loins. Plato considered philosophy a knowledge of the true nature of things that are eternal and unchangeable and not of the temporary or changeable, being the product of our reasoning, which, partaking of the divine nature, by con- templating the innate ideas and comparing them with their copies in the visible world, can attain that true knowledge of things which is called philosophy. TEETH As souls progress, the teeth represent a power that radi- ates light in the seventh sphere. The teeth after death turn to enamel, having only a touch of enamel in the earth life. The palate is a storage battery for the spirit body and an embryo for a future tongue. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 133 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE The real secret of Christian Science healing is based upon the underlying principle of trying to harmonize the physi- cal body through the electric soul essence of an abnormal will power that is devoid of soul sympathy. Why? Because the shading of sympathy is measured from the extremity of pleasure and pain. As Jesus realized pain in the expression of his sympathy for all humanity, how can Christian Scientists claim a Christian healing when they absolutely deny the existence or presence of pain in any form of expression? This so-called healing (or relief) is accomplished through the electric essence of a positive soul bringing the physical nerves under subjection to the will power, as a personal physical relief and not through any spiritual understanding of soul unfoldment. It is only a temporary relief for that personality. But, when the effect is accomplished through a universal soul sympathy, it is a permanent adjustment for the soul and body with a universal enlightenment for all future per- sonalities. This hypnotic relief of Christian Science physical condi- tions for one personality (that is devoid of soul understand- ing through a cold, unsympathetic will power) can be com- pared only to the cold storage preservation of organic matter, where the physical condition is in a state of tem- porary preservation only and not a permanent condition as a future soul protection. For when the warmth of soul sympathy (or the voice of conscience) awakens the soul to a stern reality, the cold storage preservation will vanish like dew before a blazing sun. Why? Because decomposition (or remorse) will quickly expose the truth of a weak-kneed understanding. The umbilical cord that joins the astral body to the phys- ical body is a most important consideration. 134 CHRISTIAN WISDOM As a citation I wish to comment on a prominent Theo- sophical theory to this effect. When the original soul occupant of a physical body has reached a certain age, it is claimed that another soul foreign to that physical body can take up a permanent abode within that mortal body and the original soul occupant depart in peace. This is not only an impossible theory but a perishable law, as no other soul can usurp the ownership of an um- bilical cord that united the astral body to a physical body except the original possessor at birth. Furthermore, if this was possible to accomplish, it would establish suicide for the original soul owner who deserted the physical body, or murder for the soul who had driven out the original soul owner of that physical body against the will, either one of which would be detrimental to the holiness of Christian etiquette. When the umbilical cord connecting the physical body to the astral body is severed, it means instant death to that physical body and not an active relay station for other souls to manipulate or claim a permanent ownership. There are no exceptions to Universal Law. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 135 WILL POWER Will power is the electric essence of the soul. Will power is that principle within us which has the power of accepting or rejecting the external or internal reflections through its channels of communication. Will power in the physical is represented through the heart. Mind power is the magnetic essence of the soul. Mind is mentality or the channel for the individual soul to express itself. Mind in the physical is represented through the brain. THOUGHT Action proceeds from thought, as thought is the source of action. All our thoughts are impressed upon the mind and operated through the brain. - A powerful thought is deeply impressed upon the mind, while weaker thoughts wear off, although the impression of a powerful thought is often rubbed off by a counter thought. An angry thought prompts one to bad action, but reason sometimes intervenes as a counter thought and argues against it. The stronger a counter thought of repentance acts, the more quickly and effectively is the impression effaced. But, if the thought has reached a point of action, then the thought is deeply rooted, which would require the sincerity of repentance before such an impression could be thor- oughly eliminated. These thought impressions are called seeds of Karma, with a constructive purpose that is similar to the seed of a tree in the process of development. 136 CHRISTIAN WISDOM Desire is the result of external impression, while philos- ophy is the result of internal impression. Curiosity comes first. Meditation comes next. Realization comes last. Through curiosity and meditation the mind is assuming only the consistency of the soul, as the soul vibrations are as yet only awakening a mind development of under- standing. When realization is reached the mind can then grasp a clear image of the sixth sense, called intuition, which ap- peals to the mentality with satisfaction and contentment. The mind is developed through two channels. One is the organic or magnetic, expressing instinct. One is the spiritual or electric, expressing intelligence, which is carefully graded through intermingling with every possible shade from instinct to wisdom. The sensation of eating endures just so long as food is on the palate, for the mind alone enjoys that sensation. If we can control the mind with fixed ideas and princi- ples, the restless mind becomes fixed in calm repose. If these fixed principles are not universal truths, then a change to repentance or atonement will follow, as the re- lief is acquired only through a temporary state of physical hypnotism. We feel no pleasure in eating when the mind is away from it, being similar to the physician's drugs that cover the mental perception with a dark veil, so that the patient may not feel the pain of an operation on the body. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 137 By remaining rigid or positive one can become impervi- ous to feeling and master pain without realizing it through an abnormal will power. The Yogi were masters in this respect, but it hardened their nature with too much positiveness, as not to feel within their soul true pity or sympathy was to develop too much Self and suppress the spirit power of poise. • To recognize the spirit is to realize pain when one is sincerely in sympathy with humanity. If Jesus had so desired, his will power could have en- dured all misery without a visible expression, but as his Spirit control was greater than his self-control, the truth of his feeling was expressed in his countenance on the cross. O, you Christian Scientist! if in sympathy with human- ity, do you feel no pain? Or is your self-control for per- sonality greater than your spirit control for Divinity and humanity? If one constantly keeps in view the fact that the physical body is only the earthly home of the soul and the soul as centered within the astral body, one will be able to subdue but not eliminate the sensation of pain in the physical body. The joys of the realms are reserved as a fitting reward for worthy acts performed on earth, and the joys therein are but finer forms of material happiness called Nirvana. Nirvana is but the harmony of a righteous understanding. 138 CHRISTIAN WISDOM AURA Aura is the radiance which permeates and envelops our physical body in an oval shape and extends one cubit (18 inches) outside of our physical body, visible to the spirit and psychic sight only. It is full of spokes like shoots of radiance that emanate from a center. Aura is soul radiance vibrating through the astral form, where every human impulse corresponding to the tempera- ment of the person is indicated by color and shading, sometimes sensed or felt rather than perceived, but visible to the clairvoyant and psychic. The human system is like a harp, and when the nerve vibration has enough of the astral element, the result is sound. Thought impressions called character of the soul are re- flected on the aura as hidden pictures of human conduct, which reveal the past, present, and future history of a human soul to those who can decipher them. From the aura these characters are reflected again upon the ether, which receives the impressions and keeps record of each external and internal event in nature. The ether is the storehouse of records for all human and natural vibrations. It is from this storehouse of all mental records that the true clairvoyant draws the inspired messages and revela- tions of spirit return. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 139 The rays of prana surround the sun in which move all the planets. It is called the magnetic sun vibration. The rays of prana as they fall on the different organisms are reflected back to the higher (electric) ether, where our smallest action, on whatever plane of existence, receives an everlasting record called the recorder on the ecliptic. WE DO NOT SEEK IN VAIN When thoughts awaken memories dear, To guide our impulse bright and clear, We seem to feel without a fear Departed souls are hovering near. And as our yearnings seek to find Communion with another mind, The way is clear, the pathway bright For those who walk within the light. Departed souls, where'er thou art, Gleam out and to us here impart The life that tends to make us pure, As free from taint and thought impure. Unfold to our bewildered gaze The realms above, whose golden rays Will thrill our hearts and voices raise To shout Hosanna! God be praised. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 141 Familiar forms we meet and greet, Their voices murmur soft and sweet. 'Tis welcome in that promised land, Where love is linked from strand to strand. Why should we fear to face the test, When God is love, who knoweth best? Make pure our hearts with thoughts supreme, For worthy efforts gain esteem That reaps reward from seeds we sow, Through God, from whom all blessings flow. The usual method by which the soul of mortal leaves the physical body at death is for the astral body to pass into the volume of air that fills the human frame, and in this way the soul air enveloped passes out through the mouth. This is the common process by which most souls leave the physical body at death. But souls of a spiritual development can pass out through the open door at the top of the head, as their astral body is of a finer texture than the majority of astral bodies at death. The thought predominant in that supreme moment of death exerts a powerful influence on the destination of a soul when leaving the physical body. The earthbound souls are overcome by the change and remain quite inert for a time, although when they do re- cover, a full realization of rapid transit dawns upon them. They find the astral life to be of greater torment than earth life, as the digestion of past experiences awaits their coming. As ye sow so must ye reap. 142 CHRISTIAN WISDOM Life is not a fleeting fancy, Mirrored free from earthly debt. Life is true to what you make it, When you sin you pay the debt. This is eternal law. When the dead body of mortal comes in touch with the earth vibrations, the shock to that soul departing from the physical body is regulated by the character of that soul in life. The greater the shock to the astral body the quicker the soul is released from the clinging influence of the earth body. A crude soul would scarcely feel the shock, but the astral body would be held in bondage to the decaying in- fluence of the earth body with pain and suffering until that body had thoroughly decomposed and become disintegrated. A spiritual soul would feel no pain, but snap the earth vibrations quickly and the body disintegrates without the slightest reflection of pain or remorse. Why? Because that soul returned to earth more purified vibrations than it borrowed at birth. It is the purified souls who cleanse the planet soil from which future generations build their physical bodies. When you abuse the gifts of nature allotted at birth you pay for the ingratitude with intense suffering and remorse in the astral life after death. When you return to nature a body of purified soul con- . ditions you reap a reward of the blessed, for those who are pure in heart shall know God. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 143 It is quite an easy matter to compute the “ temperature" of your own conditions at death by reviewing the nature of your own acts during life. Are you alive to your own conditions ? As a guilty conscience needs no accuser, your acts will follow you to the grave and there find you out, where the scales of justice do the weighing. For life is not a mock parade, Where sinners are forgiven. All sinners pay their debts in full, And thus they are forgiven. Never until then. To preach that Jesus could forgive the sins of others was a direct violation of divine and consistent law. No conscientious mortals would expect and much less accept empty honors thrust upon them stained with sin, or seek favors that had not been honestly earned. As forgiveness is but a screen for sin, then usurpers would clutch at any convenience or consideration in order to screen their failings, irrespective of their unworthiness — with any port in a storm. Conscientious souls who never shirk or shrink from pay- ing a personal debt would insist on a complete payment before they could conscientiously consider themselves eli- gible of being classed as worthy beings. Would you or could you brazen the blush of shame, to sail under false colors, if you knew the penalty was soul damnation? Do you conscientiously believe that Jesus would encour- age usurpers and by so doing foster crime? Has Jesus fallen so low in your estimation as a fence for sinners? Think it over, but think beneath the surface clean down to the roots and secure an “under” standing as a reliable evidence to build upon. 144 CHRISTIAN WISDOM Use your own common sense based on consistency, and not the dogmatic inconsistency of theology rooted in the selfish schemes of subtlety. If you cannot break a law in the spirit world without paying for it, you certainly cannot break a law on earth without paying for it. The marked difference is this — in spirit life you pay the debt instanter, while in earth life you pay at the finish, if not before. But the finish you cannot escape, as there are neither freaks nor misfits in the halls of justice or divine law. After leaving the earth life you appear for a short time. much the same as when leaving earth. But the instant you learn heavenly wisdom or realize your mistakes, then you grow young and beautiful - not as in childhood, but as in maturity. What you gain by leaving earth is a lighter (astral) body and the privilege to work for merit instead of money, with a deeper insight into Universal Law. For souls who pass to Borderland with imperfect astral bodies the physicians in spirit life create the defective parts that are subject to the astral life. The first query when souls pass to Borderland is as to how much magnetic fire they have brought over. If souls are below 100 pulse motion, that shows that a material life has been lived regardless of Universal Law. Souls with less than 100 pulse motion cannot exist in the fifth sphere. When souls pass to the spirit side after a long illness, many weeks may intervene before they realize that death has occurred. They are sent to hospitals and given distilled remedies to raise their magnetic vitality. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 145 In the lower spheres magnetism is given in the liquid form. In the higher spheres one smell of the extract is sufficient to increase the vibration. In the fifth sphere there is more spirit than body and the ails diminish. RADIUM The day will come when drugs can be set aside and the physical system cleared of its clogs by radium. At present radium has a commercial value of $2,000,000 per ounce. Radium is a crude form of crystallized electricity known upon earth as hydrogen. It is absorbed from the atmos- phere by the mineral gases and crystallized through the shooting star as it falls to earth. The mineral of convey- ance is principally iron. The scientific acceptance is known as the mineral pitch- blende. After extracting the radium from the mineral the mud that is left affords a means of applying radioactivity to a diseased surface, which is superior to pure radium in many ways. Pure radium is too intensely active, being extremely difficult to concentrate upon any point without affecting the surrounding tissue. The muds are applied as plasters or in baths and are governed by the thickness of the plaster or the amount used in the bath. Water modifies the activity and produces a milder action. 146 CHRISTIAN WISDOM DEATH On entering the astral life almost the first duty is to rest awhile, then bathe and eat. As a perfect simile, take the earthly newborn babe, which is first washed and then fed. This shows that the lower earth life is identical in ex- pression to spirit life, except that the earth life is under magnetic conditions, while the spirit life is under the elec- tric conditions of ether. Food in planet life is ripened by the magnetic sun Osiris. Food in spirit life is ripened by the electric sun Sirius. Spirit food and fruit exist on spirit vines and trees, which can be plucked and eaten as desired. Spirit souls in the spheres talk, walk, eat, dress, float, and work — with the accent on work. Clothes are worn for modesty and adornment. Heat or cold makes little difference, although at first it feels cold. This is due to the ether. If you require a change of clothing, you think it into being. When spirits are first approached they talk back the same as a human being, but when they find it is not com- pulsory a mental exchange is adopted. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 147 Departed souls have certain lanes or highways they travel, usually the straightest line between centers of popu- lation, and those who meet do so without ceremony. Work is not compulsory in the lower spheres unless progression is desired, as stealing is a lost art and private property an earthly bauble. · Sex distinction in the astral is a reality as on earth, though the expression is not the same. At times reincarnation is foreseen and planned. Again a soul is swept away to begin life anew at another mother's human breast, where the life is not foreseen. Some are born to destiny and some are born to experience. In the astral a drunkard is a self-damned soul, who clings to mortal and tries to sop the fumes from the physical body. As a fragrant remembrance live as long as you can, but when you must die, let go, as it is easier for your astral body to cut the earthly tie. . Flesh is never carried over to the spirit side, as the astral veins flow magnetism instead of blood and the air is ether instead of oxygen. The air or atmosphere is as full of curious bodies as are the oceans of earth. Most souls go to the second and third spheres. The ministers of the gospel seldom reach above the second sphere, because most of the preaching is devoted to the dropping of old habits and creeds. In the realms there is no deceit except what is brought over, for it shows in the flame of your eye and the lines of your face as to the sincerity of your work. The readiness with which the soul can recall the past after death depends on the density of the elements by which the soul was surrounded on earth. Inventions come to the brain of mortal, while asleep or awake, like an electric shock. Impressions. 148 CHRISTIAN WISDOM The forming of solid substance from the invisible gases and again resolving them to mix with the boundless ele- ments is taught in the higher spheres. This is to acquire a complete understanding for the ap- plication of creative force in making worlds when one is eligible as a spirit father. On earth the male seeks the female, but in the spirit world the soul of woman seeks the soul of man. The first lesson that advanced soul mates learn is to share each other's incarnations by separation. That is, where one watches over the other in earth life as a guardian angel to influence the brain of the other with impressions, as if awaking suddenly from a dream. It is seldom that soul mates incarnate at the same time and are known to each other, although it is permitted at times to accomplish a special purpose that could not be effected when alone. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 149 ASTRAL DR. TUCK Dr. Wadsworth Cecil Tuck in a spirit communication has authorized me to say: There is no quarreling for position in spirit realms as none are pompous or above another. The one who has the better sense begins to shine in the orbs, on the brow, chest, and hands, as over this shining one has no control. It comes by godliness, as the color light is the purpose working to the surface and showing who is nearer to the fulfillment of the divine law than another. Souls do not seek for gold, but only the glory of illumina- tion, that they may take higher places and become useful in the grand development of mind and spirit power. Endeavors of the past are not lost in death, for it is then they become apparent. Astral bodies come from earth all bruised and our mis- sion is to heal them by soothing balms and magnetic aid. At death souls are not asked what title they bore on the earth plane, but whether they were of any righteous value to others. Entrance to the spirit world is confusing at first, as one feels rudderless and unprepared. Space paths and currents surrounding the earth are dense with disembodied souls. Souls that bring over a diseased brain too far gone are sent to the islands near the constellations. They are called gnomes or elfs and are many years fad- ing out that personality. A soul body of coarse or crude shape can rise only to the air islands beyond earth. 150 CHRISTIAN WISDOM To raise a soul when passing over into animation is a delicate feat, as a miscue will hold one entranced for months. Souls after death are identical in appearance as at death and grow younger when they realize their mistakes. This applies to the first, second, and third spheres. Souls as- cending to the fifth sphere soon take on the appearance of maturity and retain it. . Garments tell the grade of soul standing in spirit life. A soul enjoys the pleasure of spirit life so long as its term of merit lasts. At the expiration of that time souls are reborn for more experience or as teachers. Intensely wicked or selfish souls are punished by a term of suffering in the underworld, at the conclusion of which the purged souls are called to Borderland and prepared for a rebirth on earth. If the spirit of repentance is not absolute and fails fully to purge the sin away, another sentence is imposed as a further cleansing to the underworld soul until the appeal has the ring of sincerity. The rulers of the underworld are celestials and the re- gion of their ruling is situated within the bowels of our earth or otherwise designated as purgatory. Earth prisons tend to corrupt more than correct, as those in charge are not earnestly imbued with sympathy, justice, or mercy. In the astral houses of correction perfect justice is tem- pered with mercy and sympathy as the ruling is always ideal. Prisoners are dealt with according to their misdeeds that are reflected on the aura, a true copy of which is found in the books of ether, from which items are credited to each individual soul when paying debts or being weighed in the balance. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 151 What we accept in our soul affects the formation of our astral body the same as bad air or impure food would affect the physical body. The astral coming from the human body can be picked to pieces like a rose and every part made a self-existing atom. It is well to know that every part of the physical body has a use, as all the physical organs are simply cells or coils of substance for some particular quality of expression. The astral body when it first comes over is a mass of vaporish substance which emits certain flames or corusca- tions of light. These flashes are the rate of vibration which that soul has obtained in soul color. On earth the physical body is fearfully condensed and inferior, working slowly in the dark. If mortals could realize the future glory of every organ as the power in it is revealed, they would try to save every organ so as to become angels of light. The astral body brings over many impurities and many weak spots that have to be strengthened and magnetized. Hidden in each nerve or cell there is a mighty principle to be worked out. If the loose men and women could only see the result of their practice on earth reflected in their astral body, and realize the length of time it would take to renew any worn-out principle, they would quit for the sake of their future welfare. Out of the physical body is evolved an astral body, pro- viding you have accumulated enough spirituality in your earthly career. Otherwise a coarse crude condition is de- veloped that degenerates to space or the underworld. 152 CHRISTIAN WISDOM There are millions who by abusing themselves are un- able to enter the realms and are forced to earth or near by, while some remain in the air islands, the underworld, or as earthbound in the elemental form. On entering spirit life mortals find that they are wonder- ing how it all came about, being clothed with a conscious form and some of the elements from the physical body they had laid aside, although with a broader sense of freedom than before, as the conditions are lighter and travel made easier. One is strongly impressed with a consciousness that a covering of the earth plane was left which was needed no more. It is difficult to know what one can do in a new world, as the first thought is to get established with a purpose. It is more important to get acquainted with the guides and helpers than with those of one's own kin. Relatives seldom assist as much as in earth life. They are generally limited to love and sympathy, which is not sufficient to establish one or secure a foothold of self- reliance. As one lifetime is not enough to develop all the qualities within a soul, Divinity has ordained that each soul seed shall be planted over and over again by creating a fresh soil for each time a soul is reborn or reincarnated. No mortal ever lives through exactly the same experiences a second time, but is always given a new creation that is governed by astrological conditions and soul development. Some souls mature faster than others as digestion with some is slow. They remain a long time or at least until their thought circulates freely enough to digest and desire improvement on their last experience. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 153 There are no minds on earth so obstinate to new methods as are the medical minds. The physicians are of more value than the ministers in the spirit world. In fact they are the only ones who can raise the astral body to a working form. No one can be a physician in the spirit life unless one understands and loves the work by caring for the race. It is thus that hundreds of physicians who pass out of earth life soon find this out in spirit life and seek some other occupation. In earth life people acquire a name and fame by being pushed onward through the influence of their friends, but in spirit life it is merit for service that is well deserved. When my time comes I shall return to earth under a different name and circumstances. Still I shall be the same old sixpence, although coined from a different mint or parents. Our mission here is to prepare souls for their next in- carnation or physical rebirth. As souls come over from earth bruised and battered, we heal them by administering soothing balms and lotions. Experience on earth is soul food which is digested over here, and from the nature of this food the soul develops. According to your experience so will be your soul growth. As a warning be careful of your experience, which is soul food to be digested. Souls in Borderland through remorse dress in black or gray, while evil thought will produce spots on the garment. Garments are made according to conditions, although advanced souls can create them at will. Spirit food of any kind does not produce seed, as seed germs are left entirely in the earth life. 154 CHRISTIAN WISDOM Love is the grand power of progression which gladly sacrifices for the righteousness or blessedness of another. God is seen only through the manifestation of his power in the spheres. When glasses in telescopes are fine and large enough to discern particles of ether, the veins of astral bodies and silken boats that sail the etheric atmosphere or air sea can be seen with mortal eye. In Borderland the sign language is used by employing the tongue, eyes, and fingers, which is called intuition. In Borderland there are churches with creeds as on earth, but finding no hell, souls learn that heaven is reached only by honest deeds and useful labor. All creeds outgrow themselves as they reach Borderland and the higher spheres. Some of the ministers in the astral life, who thought while on earth there was no such thing as spirit return, were somewhat surprised when I described the white mass of nerves as materialized electricity which branched from my body and carried sensation and messages out into words. They saw my pink magnetic fire stream out and attach itself to the magnetic vibrations from the medium's white nerve cord (life line) and then pass along into typewritten words. It is the same on earth when the senses or thoughts operate through the nerve system and find an outlet for ex- pression through the fingers in writing and are recorded in words. It is a natural process to establish a complete line of communication, whether on earth or in spirit realms, either as a spirit communication, intuition, inspiration, telephone, or telegraph. It is all in the transmission of vibration. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 155 As progression is compulsory in the spirit life, then souls who loiter by the wayside as self-satisfied in repose are forced back to earth life for more experience. They are swept away and reborn to a new condition in earth life. Spirit return is useful because one learns the difference between spirit and matter and how one element regulates the other from a point of eternal coöperation. In returning to earth one can descend only to within 100 miles and thus avoid the whirl of a planet. Continuing on by swift descent in the under air (which is similar to albumen that envelops the yolk of an egg), one drops light as a feather and absorbs the material conditions. If one should become folded in flesh subject to pain, it would hold one for days, as flesh is a terrible tangle. When a soul in the spirit world is working through a me- dium on the earth plane, it becomes as flesh for the time being. When visiting earth and other planets, transit is by air ships. The air ships in space follow pneumatic currents or atomic tubes and are safely guided from sphere to sphere. But should one of these air ships touch the atmosphere of a planet, it would dissolve instantly. 156 CHRISTIAN WISDOM ATMOSPHERE MEDIUMSHIP Earth is surrounded by a dense moisture including all that rises. The atmosphere at 20 miles is mostly oxygen 14 per cent, nitrogen 80 per cent, showing how oxygen becomes dissi- pated in nitrogen. At 100 miles altitude there is no oxygen, but mostly hydrogen, while at 1500 miles altitude it is mostly ether. This discloses the fact that oxygen is graded to nitrogen and hydrogen is merged into ether. Oxygen is the magnetic element. Ether is the electric element. The magnetic predominates on earth. The electric predominates in the spirit world. A planet influence affects the atmosphere through the atoms which mortals breathe into their physical organism, as a ruling planet can act on the physical body and the nature of the atom produce the result. It is as difficult for spirits to see the outside of anything materially as it is for earth people to see the inside or invisible spiritually. Mortals see the material through the eye of the physical body, while departed souls view the material through the internal or astral body. It is similar to mortals looking through a pair of opera glasses, but in reality they see with their own physical eyes. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 159 THE UNDERWORLD The underworld is the abode of degenerate souls who pass out of life from an earth existence as a malicious culprit or the victim of temptation through ignorance or degraded environments. Not having acquired enough of the soul spirituality to ascend beyond the oxygen of earth, they sink to the im- moral weight of their own personality. “The center of our earth, being space with a muddy, slimy bottom and dense atmosphere, is inhabited by souls who were thoroughly selfish and used others as a stepping stone to gain a material advantage.” Glüber from the Realms in 1912. In the underworld or earth interior there are three grades or zones. The lowest or first grade is black as night, resembling the surface of a dried-up ocean. It is inhabited only by degenerates, suicides, murderers, or thoroughly selfish and low-principled mortals. With a coarse, crude astral body resembling shadow, they grope their way along the cliffs or hollows, where no light is seen except the illumination from the higher spirit guardians, who are sent as saviours to uplift them through a realization of their depraved condition. They sense others on the same plane as themselves, but not those who are above them. They can hear the voice of messengers sent to uplift them, but see them not, as nothing but darkness and ob- livion pervades their dungeon. The distance between this lower south pole zone and the middle equator zone is greater than the distance between the other zones. It has an atmosphere of compressed oxygen (humidity), with a meager proportion of nitrogen and hydrogen in order to sustain the conditions. On entering the middle or equator zone there are long 160 CHRISTIAN WISDOM fields of short grass or stubble and shrubs with leaves, where dwell a few of the lower animals and reptiles. It is in this equator zone where souls understand that being better releases them from the bondage of iniquity, for by creating goodness through a repentant desire they blend in harmony with the law. The light resembles mist for the night and twilight for the day. (Heat lightning.) Souls from the lower south pole zone progress to the center equator zone, where a slight improvement gives them hope and encouragement when they realize and grasp the opportunity. It is a rude awakening from the despondency of the lower south pole zone condition. Passing from the equator zone to the north pole zone is a shorter distance, with a finer grading of atmosphere to meet the improved conditions. The rays of the sun penetrate the earth crust, enabling . souls to see each other for quite a distance. There are trees and vegetables, and as a great many of the mechanical element inhabit this zone, they build crude houses and gather together in groups according to like conditions and obtain an insight relative to Divinity. Some have risen from the lower zones, while others came direct from an earth experience. Not having progressed enough to reach Borderland, they sink to these lower conditions of evolution. They remain in the north pole zone until an earnest ap- peal or expired sentence releases them to the privilege of a rebirth on earth. The atmosphere between this north pole zone and the earth crust is about go miles thick, while the earth crust is measured at 100 miles, although varying somewhat at different points. Only souls of the underworld from the higher zone are permitted to visit the earth surface, unless the others are accompanied by a guardian angel as a sense of relief or enlightenment. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 161 Those of a higher zone can descend to a lower zone, but those of the lower zones can rise or visit only through the law of progression. There are two fundamental principles to remember. One is self-respect. One is respect for others. Self-respect, if firm and poised, will prevent a young person being led astray by suggestion. Respect for others, if cultivated, will make one truly considerate of everybody's rights. With solemn piercing eyes the guardian angels appear to the astrals in the dim light of the underworld, and each soul is held as in a trance by the keen yet gentle gaze of these spirit guides, whose voice they can hear, but cannot see. These shadow souls are as transfixed, listening to the spirit voices pleading with them, until a ray of hope re- wards their effort. Sometimes it is a long weary wait before a crystallized condition can be softened or reached, but patience and perseverance of the spirit guides win in the end. SUICIDE Whatever trouble suicides seek to escape from, exactly the same trouble, only increased twofold, will greet them in the astral world. Should the physical body be forcibly cast off, life will continue on with the same problems and perplexities, only heavier. No one can escape from life problems. One has them to solve, either with or without the help of the physical body. But without the physical body it would be as difficult as the building of a house without the proper tools. 162 CHRISTIAN WISDOM Life and its lessons cannot be destroyed. Suicide is not a way out. Suicide is only a way deeper in. Progress of communication in the underworld is by live wires of vibration, but on reaching the atmosphere they become invisible. The extradition of souls from the underworld to Border- land in the spheres was closed on March 1, 1916, for a term of 28 years or one cycle of Saturn. As a warning, compose yourself first before retiring, as an angry or disturbed mood is liable to draw you in touch with the lower forces, who cling like tentacles to express their lower thoughts in physical acts. FRIENDSHIP The basis of true friendship should be communion of the soul, which is spiritual, and not companionship of the physical body, which is Bohemian. It is a curious fact that a fellow can be an attentive friend to a young lady of Bohemian habits who is not par- ticular about trifles, but in choosing a wife he will find that true manhood is rather particular in selecting a maid of moral worth. There is stanchness and stability in a healthful soul of clean habits that responds more graciously to Puritan grace than it does to Bohemian freedom. THE THEATER AND CHURCH As a rule the stage is confined to the display of tragedy · or corruption, which exposes the weakest and meanest 164 CHRISTIAN WISDOM The Idol of the Theater is the Power of Gold established by the manager. Who With cunning art will strut the part, A meek and moral mission. But let the public fail to pay, That moral part is missing. The Ideal of the Stage is Personal popularity without the perfect character, established by the actor. For When lips they meet to sip or dine, If honor reigns 't is joy divine. Unless with honor lips are sought, The pleasure it is dearly bought. As a quiet comparison The Idol of the Church should be the Power of God, established by the deacon. But As deacon of the Sabbath school He preaches God on Sunday. Who giveth much, but with a string, To pull it back on Monday. Bargain Day. The Ideal of the Pulpit should be a Perfect character without the price of popularity, established by the minister. But When souls unite in honest prayer, If truth prevails then God is there. Unless with truth you preach and pray, The devil himself will rule the day. O conscious soul! how near does the present stage and pulpit approach even the shadow of righteousness? I have sounded them both from rind to core, And nothing but conscience will ever restore. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 165 MAGIC Unless a clairvoyant is an adept, through ignorance one will mistake the astral visions of the second sphere for celestial influences, as did Swedenborg and others. Every sound in the visible world has a corresponding sound and color in the invisible world. Therefore unless a prayer is pronounced mentally, the prayer is subject to more disaster than benefit. Divinity is reached only spiritually, not physically. Magic is coeval with the third root race through the development of passion in the sex separation of creative organs. That is why the true alchemist took aged women for companions. Woe unto mortal who would selfishly seek to develop occult powers for personal benefits (ambition or revenge), for terrible Karma will surely result to the dabbler in magic. The corner stone of magic is an intimate and practical knowledge of magnetism and electricity. This includes their qualities, correlations, and potencies, with a familiarity as to their effect on animal and mortal, also their qualities in plants or minerals. This is the concrete secret. Magic is a dual power of a magnetic or electric nature, and for one to gain a personal understanding to master the laws of nature one is unquestionably endowed as a magi- cian at birth. Many a chemist knows that essences can both heal and kill. There is not a poison but can be used for both pur- poses, from the harmless wax to prussic acid. It is a realization of this knowledge which makes a genuine oc- cult initiate. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 167 COLORS The three fundamental colors on earth are Red: Physical. Blue: Astral. Yellow: Soul. In acknowledging your immortal spirit as the inner and eternal life you establish the true science of electric magic, as divine magic requires holiness of the soul. The kings of Egypt were all initiated into the mysteries of medicine. Paracelsus, well versed in magic arts, would have re- vealed them to posterity but for the hand of an assassin. Freedom from the occult or magnetic magic is acquired only by being a deep thinker or reasoner along spiritual lines. There is no jury so cruel as the censure of your own soul when the feeling of responsibility in a moral sense awakens the “magic ” of wisdom within you. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 169 Buddha refused admission to none as candidates, but secrecy was imposed in the final mystery except to those who were worthy, without the distinction of race, caste, or wealth. Buddha was not exempt from teaching his body the world's secrets, like any other mortal, before he could teach the people. Then how could Jesus, who was only a later edition of Buddha, teach the people without a simi- lar preparation in a new body? Buddha was opposed to accept all that you heard as the truth, and to believe only what you really understood. Buddha's teachings included purity and wisdom, advo- cating that any virtuous mortal could reach the truth by self-perception without being subjected to any order of Imitators or Initiators. Buddha preached that it was better to have a belief in the future as a preventative to crime, for otherwise those who believed in personal extermination at death would not hesitate to commit any crime. Buddhism was resurrected in 700 A. D. with two schools. One was for the esoteric of the North. Electric. (Spiritual.) One was for the exoteric of the South. Magnetic. (Material.) At present the teaching has become obsolete, except in the monasteries of Thibet. The malicious persecution of Brahmin (or a relentless retaliation), as he is prone to express it, has thoroughly succeeded in undermining and perverting the righteous pur- pose of Buddha and Jesus in the past toward humanity. But with the excommunication of Brahmin from our earth planet at the present time and in the future, the soul of mortal henceforth should rise in accord with one supreme effort and reëstablish the omnipotence of Divinity within the soul of each mortal as the only reliable guide to a righteous understanding of gratitude. 170 CHRISTIAN WISDOM . It is the birthright of every human soul on earth to know Divinity and live within the precepts of his law. Otherwise the ruling powers on earth are a blasphemy to Divinity, as the exemplification of a selfish personality or soul rot. Every nation of antiquity had its traditions, based on the Aryan secret doctrine, and each one proclaimed an Initiate or God. ESOTERIC “ It should be observed that in the esoteric teaching dead matter has no place.” Apocalypse. This is thoroughly inconsistent, as all atoms that are depleted from the loss of organic magnetism are but shells of dead matter and have to be revivified before they can be recognized as live matter. The substance of the shell is the same, and if recognized while active, it must be recognized while inactive. It is indispensable with a place and therefore always in use somewhere. “ The mind should be regarded as the real man.” Apocalypse. Mind is but an instrument for soul expression — that is, tempered by the divine spark or the will power of an in- dividual self according to the soul development — with a recognition of Universal Law. Mind could represent the will power of self as one per- sonality or mind could represent Divinity as universal. It is the power behind the mind that determines the quality of the mind. According to ancient lore the soul has been classified in four divisions. 172 CHRISTIAN WISDOM SECRET DOCTRINE SELECTIONS Secret Doctrine admits the fundamental identity of all souls with the universal soul. The law of analogy is the first key to the world problem. A perfect soul without the divine spark incarnated in a perfect physical body would be only a beautiful and un- conscious being without mind development. Secret Doctrine is based on an archaic MS. known as the book of Dzyan, written in Senzor and known to all priests and initiates of prominence. The most ancient Hebrew book evolved from it. Senzor is Jupiter language. The Pentateuch. Hermes. China's primitive Bible. Book of concealed mysteries.' Chaldean book of numbers. The Vedas. The book of Dzyan embraces the evolution of earth and mortal with a history of the root races from the first to the fifth root race. It is written in Sanskrit, which was a testimonial of the Atlantean Age. Sanskrit is Moon language. When mortals shall have become sufficiently spiritualized they will know there never was a great world reformer who had not appeared during earlier cycles under another name. This accounts for the unity of Abraham, Elijah, Buddha, and Jesus. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 173 The great reformers or teachers first appeared as one of the individualized powers called an archangel or saviour. They would reappear clothed in matter as sages, who taught the various races and sacrificed themselves to be born under various reincarnations for the good of human- ity at critical periods. Matter, according to the early divine teachers, appeared in lumps like curds of whey in thin milk and was known as the seeds of future material worlds. As the primordial form of everything is spheroidal, then water is the base and source of everything manifested in the physical. The first archangel who sprung from out the depth of chaos was called Lucifer, a Neptune soul of the first root race. Our present solid earth began by being a ball of liquid fire and protoplasm. So likewise did mortal, for each physical atom has seven planes of existence. • The shell of matter is substance. Secret or Occult Doctrine rejects the “nebular method” of our sun being parent of the planet system. Secret Doctrine advocates a theory that all the planets in our system are formed from eternal substance of world stuff and that our sun detached itself earlier from the mass of matter as the elder brother. If the nebular theory is not thoroughly consistent with the “workings of nature” in physical mating, can Secret Doctrine supply the correct issue of prenatal existence and planet birth beyond the mere suggestion of a detachment? Such a vague description of so important a fact is in- conclusive to consistent law, as consistent law demands a complete explanation or silence. 176 CHRISTIAN WISDOM JESUS Jesus was a bright youth who lived at the time of Herod and Pontius Pilate. The plan of salvation was an entirely man-devised scheme under a Jupiter influence from the astral world, as Divinity from the Celestial Realms had nothing to do with it. Jesus was one of the spirit fathers instrumental in form- ing this earth planet from atoms of Rurue, a planet now extinct, of which Jesus was a native born. One third of Rurue helped to form the present earth planet. The souls of Jesus creation at the present time are mostly of the brainy or intellectual class, who are educated in language, but minus in moral obligation toward each other, which is the passport of righteousness. This unfortunate condition demands the incarnating of advanced souls from other planets as leaders to uplift fallen humanity. For the predominance of wealth through the power of Jupiter is too self-evident in the souls of Jesus creation. It is also well to remember that from whatever planet a soul originates, that soul has a birthright prefer- ence in the material benefits of that planet. The solution of Jesus walking upon the water was that Jesus appeared before his disciples clad in the astral body. Jesus was seen clairvoyantly standing on the water spirit- ually but not physically. When others tried it physically they failed, as it was a physical impossibility for Jesus or anyone else. His purpose was to establish self-reliance among mortals as the first law of principle, for Jesus preached that all are gods when worthy. “ Kneel to your God and do not make a mockery by kneeling to me." CHRISTIAN WISDOM 177 The father who was physically responsible for the birth of Jesus was Zacharias, the high priest of the temple. He was also the father of John the Baptist through a marriage to Elizabeth. Mary, the temple maid, was the mother of Jesus. She was in a trance condition at the time of her contamination and knew not. Afterwards Mary married Joseph, whom the Church has recognized as the legal father of Jesus. This only proves how unreliable legal law is from which to compute authentic facts. In the Bible Jesus is called the son of man 85 times and a man 70 times. This is quite a declaration that distinctly emphasizes the fact of Jesus' physical parentage and destroys the Immacu- late conception of Brahmin's perversion. After the crucifixion the body of Jesus was taken from the cross at midnight and placed within a cave. In the morning the stone was rolled away, when Joseph and Nicodemus brought the body of Jesus, which was still in a trance state, to the home of Joseph. Shortly after Jesus came to and had them place their hands in his side to prove his mortality, and as a further proof he ate with them. Jesus veiled his body to visible sight at the ascension, but his astral body rose before them in full view. The unseen occult forces in the astral have the power to “ veil an object” from the physical view of any human being through the mediumship or agency of a living magnetic mortal. After that Jesus jour- neyed to Bombay and Thibet, where, according to records, he lived and died in one of the Himalaya monasteries at an advanced age. Jesus was then known as Saint Issa, and a reverence for his personality was deeply expressed in the embalming of his body and the preservation of his writings. According to historical records at Hindustan, Jesus lived long after his crucifixion. Some day in the near future, when the gratitude of mortal has overcome the importance 178 CHRISTIAN WISDOM of a selfish personality, the proof of his writings will be brought to light and the truth of his sayings established. When a realization that Divinity is the supreme part of each and every soul and that eternal blessings come only through the righteous coöperation of souls, the curiosity of mortal will materialize through the spiritual desire of mortal. 12 APOSTLES The power of spirit ruling bestowed upon Jesus was also extended to the Apostles in proportion to their ability or sense of understanding, with the one exception of Judas Iscariot, who refused the blessing and as a sequel paid the penalty of death in the throes of remorse. It is well to assert that a Jupiter influence controlled the physical or- ganism of mortals at that age, through a brain depression of fear or low mentality, while the personal influence of Jesus was a soul vibration whenever he was able to pene- trate beyond the physical ruling, as a planet ruling pre- dominates over the masses in the human age, according to the environments of prevailing customs. 1. Peter, son of Jonas, was rebuked by Jesus for being overbearing. 2. Andrew, brother of Peter, was also a disciple of John the Baptist. 3. James, son of Zebedee. 4. John, son of Zebedee. The beloved John who wrote . the Apocalypse or book of Revelation on the Isle of Patmos, being the last Apostle to pass away. 5. Philip. 6. Bartholomew. 7. Thomas was slow to perceive—the doubting Thomas. 8. Matthew wrote the gospel and the Lord's Prayer. 9. James, son of Alpheus, was a cousin of Jesus. 10. Lebbeus or Jude. II. Simon. 12. Iscariot, son of Simon, who betrayed Jesus, was under the Jupiter influence of a selfish personality. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 179 PAUL Paul was the only disciple who fully understood the teachings of Jesus, although they had never met in the physical face to face on earth. Paul was an Initiate and soul mate of Jesus. Paul and not Peter was the real advocate of the Christian Church. The conversion of Paul was the blessing of Divin- ity through the power of illumination and not the spectacu- lar performance of an individual rebuke on the part of Jesus, as inserted by religious demagogues. It was a soul awakening or the bursting of material bonds through a realization of divine radiance from within. Paul's apparent blindness was the development of spirit- ual mediumship. Paul was honest, brave, and sincere and was persecuted by Peter, John, and James because of his proficiency in philosophy, although Paul did not hesitate to rebuke Peter to his face. All history shows that corruption is grounded in the so-called upper classes, with the Church as a pliant tool, followed by the press, then political and legal bodies. Palestine was undoubtedly the most favored spot for religious events. The Salt Sea. The Sea of Galilee (fishes and tempest). River Jordan (scene of Jesus' baptism). Mt. Olivet (sermon). Mt. Calvary (crucifixion). Mt. Nebo (burial place of Moses). Mt. Hermon (transfiguration). Mt. of Blessing (where Joshua wrote the law on stone). 180 CHRISTIAN WISDOM APOCALYPSE “ Through corrupt political influence and the ultimate dominance of a selfish and decadent priesthood the Chris- tian society in the early centuries lost the esoteric truth and in place there grew up dogmatic theology.” Apoc- alypse. Briefly speaking Theology is but the idolatry of subtle perversion. he moral com humanity pen or cloak of being “ Secrecy has always been maintained regarding the sacred science from those morally unworthy to receive it. If it had been written in clear language it would have undoubtedly been destroyed.” Apocalypse. For those who express an exalted faith in Divinity and his eternal principles, this subterfuge or “cloak of fear” to screen the truth from humanity rebounds like a boom- erang. The moral cowardice of authors in presuming to assume that they are the specialized subjects eligible to dictate and interpret the establishing of Universal Truth (by the deceptive snare of symbols and threats) deserves but the recompense of rebuke so richly deserved in the harvest of scoffers and skeptics reaped in the sowing from present and past ages. For as they sow so shall they reap. As a warning let each author emphatically proclaim with loyalty and courage the truth of his own convictions in vivid simplicity. If the expression of truth by an author is destroyed or shelved pro tem, remember that other souls will continue on from the gathered fragments and beautify that truth. Remember that truth when crushed to earth will rise in all its glory, even as deception will sink in all its misery. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 181 The fear of losing their own personality is what authors really dread more than the extinction of truth, as they know that truth is eternal. Authors who would hesitate to sacrifice their own per- sonality to emblazon eternal truth are unworthy of a last- ing heritage in the hall of fame. Divinity depends upon no One individual for support in the visible expression of universal law, but welcomes any or all individual efforts. If the merits of authors fail of due recognition on earth, there remains before them the opportunity of future in- carnations to complete their purpose. An honest effort is never effaced, but is glorified in all things eternal. The Apocalypse was intended as a keyboard of spiritual unfoldment to emphasize the evolution of soul growth through an understanding of universal and cosmic law. “The God eternal is not considered as incarnated, but as overshadowing man on earth.” Apocalypse. The superficial conception of Divinity as being external and overshadowing mortal on earth can be compared only to the arctic chill of a distant companionship. It would require countless rays of external vibrations direct from the Universal Sun to the physical form of mortal. As the exposed influence of Divinity in the atmosphere of oxygen is too intense for the external flesh of organic magnetism to withstand, it would be an impossible theory. The flesh of mortal cannot endure the direct electric power of Omnipotent God. It is too intense and withering. That is why the influence is modified and protected from consuming and scorching the flesh, by being a living part of the soul enveloped within the soul essence. The soul essence softens this marvelous electric power where Divinity at all times is a witness and judge to each and all our acts. The overshadowing or external process would place mortal only in the light of a puppet as the harp of a thousand strings to be played upon. Divinity acts in the silence from within. Divinity does not reach 182 CHRISTIAN WISDOM down to us except through his teachers or as a part within each human soul. When you are sincerely honest your desires will reach Divinity in vibration at any height, for the divine spark within your soul will project a sincere prayer to realms that are unknown to mortal and there find Divinity beyond the Apex. If Divinity overshadowed mortal externally, Divinity would be sharply criticized as a very incompetent “manip- ulator,” judging from the “inadequate performances” of the unlimited pupils on earth at the present time. N.B. Christian Science, please take notice! tind Dayer ne sach CHRISTIAN WISDOM 183 SPIRITUALITY The higher spiritual unfoldment is preceded by a rigid discipline of abstemiousness.. This is possible only for one who has attained a high state of mental and physical understanding. Mortals who are gross and sensual must master the mag- netic impulses and concentrate their faculties with reason- ing. If successful the spiritual awakening illumines the soul and the mind expresses righteousness and understand- ing characterized as the sacred trance of seership. Proficiency of intellect acquired through the divine lead- ing will conquer the physical senses and lead to a knowl- edge of spiritual realities, culminating in the emancipation from the physical existence when the seven incarnations have been properly fulfilled. The Spiritual trance is conscious understanding. Electric. The Psychic trance is usually accompanied by uncon- sciousness or semi-consciousness. Magnetic. The result is acquired through many years — not only one life, but a series of incarnations and rebirths until suc- cess is assured. Each soul from its initial stage retains the knowledge of experience gathered from one personality with another. With this memory the soul is in truth immortalized be- fore its final liberation from the many cycles of reincar- nation. By penetrating into the fundamental, the true seer has progressed beyond the fabric of material and psychic glamour. Things in nature and supernature are seen as they really exist, with the understanding that all forms of the external nature are but primary symbols of external ideas. To possess a depth of spiritual understanding one must lead a pure and virtuous life, the sublimity of which is graduated accordingly. 186 CHRISTIAN WISDOM When once the soul of mortal has caught a glimpse of supernal truth, that soul can never rest content with the world of matter or worship at the shrine of mere intel- lectualism. Although the will power misunderstood and misapplied is a menace to soul salvation, it is also the indomitable force that conquers the organic magnetism in matter. When mortal becomes carnal and irredeemably degener- ate, it means the obliteration of that personality with an indefinite isolation from consciousness that leaves a deep- dyed scar upon the soul. Does it pay? CHRISTIAN WISDOM 187 THEOLOGY In baptizing a woman with child is the unborn child also baptized by the act? The clergy in their response say No! it would be an impossibility, as the one who is being baptized must be a consenting party. If this is true, which seems quite reasonable and beyond doubt, how about the infants and heathens that are bap- tized? Can they give an intelligent response of under- standing or is their consent a forced acknowledgment through the compulsion of ignorance? Branded! as you would a herd of cattle. If there is neither religion nor righteousness in this clannish act of compulsion, why is the practice permitted on innocent souls who are incapable of expressing an in- telligent response to exert a personal resistance against the slavish servitude of customs that are founded on fear? Remember that parents do not own or create the soul within a body. They simply produce the physical organ- ism — that is all. Then why should a soul in the “bondage of physical infancy” be forced to accept upon its soul“ im- pressions of branded obligations” that some time in the future will rankle in disgust and destroy the “soul possi- bility” of a real religious understanding when the physical body has reached a state of maturity? Compulsion is not conversion, but the idolatry of barren customs, for which innocent souls must suffer. As a warning from the spirit world, beware of placid smooth-tongued followers who profess to believe everything without actually knowing anything. In other words, automatic repeaters. 188 CHRISTIAN WISDOM JEW Technically speaking Jew is a term that is applied to the physical organism for earth souls who are slowly working their way to the light of reason — from the density of ignorance to a realization of moral and Universal Law. The Jew organism originated in the fifth root race as a descendant of Shem, the son of Noah, representing earth souls as a lower grade of humanity. They are more prominently identified, however, under the family ties of Abraham and Jacob. They rejected the book of Enoch because it referred to the coming of Jesus, who in reality is their spirit father. When they realize the ingratitude they have heaped upon Jesus their repentance will know no bounds. The present Jew race is an artificial Aryan organism born in India of Caucasian blending, from the emigrating of those who had sought refuge in Chaldea. The Cabala originated with the Egyptians and Chaldeans. St. John was a Cabalist and a Jewish teacher. It is well to remember that all the teachers and initiators were not spiritual. Many were on the material plane as leaders of lower humanity. David, the father of Solomon, was a chosen Jupiter soul under Brahmin, to whose selfish personality the Jews firmly cling, with the tenacity of a bull pup, in preference to Abraham or Jesus, their spirit father. Moses was a Rurue soul whose teachings under Brahmin the Jews have idolized and worshiped without righteous reasoning or even the consistency of crude common sense. A remarkable miscue for shrewd people with a reputation of being clever. Oi! Oi! “ Moses plainly taught that only earth and water can bring forth a living body.” Koran. This means a natural and not a supernatural birth or immaculate conception. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 189 Peter was an earth soul of Jewish birth who had not the preparation of soul understanding eligible to become a leader. Neither did he establish the Latin church at Rome, although he was prominent in connection with it. The Rishis were initiates or advanced teachers of the Vedic period. Moon souls. There were two schools in Hebrew scriptures. The Elohistic or Esoteric seers. Spiritual. The Jehovistic or Exoteric rabbis. Material. Remember that spirituality is locked up within the inner nature of each soul, ignorant or intelligent, and none can turn the key except through an individual effort of honest desire. Then is not soul unfoldment worth more to one than having the brain and body hypnotized by the Church in worshiping the lust of wealth or fear of Divinity after death? Wake up, thou blighted bud of the dark ages, and blossom forth with the knowledge of a soul understanding and a self-reliant nature. Fear and slavish servitude to mammonism are the first indications of ignorance and sin. 190 CHRISTIAN WISDOM MIND CURE “ Christian Scientists have stumbled upon the effect of a physical relief without understanding the cause, which they attribute to a personal union with God. Whereas it is simply the effect of an occult principle ages old.” To be candid, it is based on the rudderless will power of a selfish personality. “New sects of mind cure with their incorrectly outlined practice as copyists and a limited opportunity to study have rushed headlong in their feverish desire to achieve a commanding result.” Those who are successful, however, owe it more to the innate ability of their magnetic healing power than the chosen Messiah of special delivery. To sit for Yogi with a superficial purpose is fatal for the student, who will either develop undesirable medium- istic powers within or become disgusted with the occult results. It is the inward value of self-respect that bears fruit in the outward poise. Do not fear in the presence of any one either mortal or immortal, for fear is the unit of destruction. Then why should an honest person fear, with Divinity the spirit of self-reliance that is universal to all and a part within each and every human soul? 192 CHRISTIAN WISDOM Apollo was a Titan father known as the spiritual light. peries of questionth or falsity net Socrates. Cicero was a patron of sibyls or mediums and his quo- tation on sleep is worthy of acceptance: “In sleep the soul is vigorous and free from the senses and cares of the body which lies prostrate. When the soul of man is disengaged from corporeal impediments and set at freedom in sleep, it beholds these wonders which, when entangled beneath the veil of flesh, it is unable to see.” Socrates, who lived between 469 and 400 B, C., had a perfect method of reasoning and instruction through a series of questions that would lead the pupil to perceive and admit the truth or falsity of a doctrine. Socrates came from the planet Socrates. Plato and Pythagoras derived most of their knowledge and philosophy from the Bible of Hermes and Socrates. Plato kept secret the law from the multitude, speaking in enigmas. Why? Because he was under the sodalian oath of secrecy, which is anything but a righteous principle for a spiritual man of a fearless temperament. * Plato knew history, but refused to impart it. Although Plato had been a Titan father, the moral cour- age of his soul was unable to rise above the physical ele- ment of his body to proclaim the truth and shame Brahmin. His sympathy for the weak was greater than his service to Divinity. Pythagoras claimed that numbers are the fundamentals of the universe and a key to cosmic or solar consciousness in mortal. Orpheus was recognized as the dawn of Greece. Pythagoras was recognized as the daylight of Greece. Plato was recognized as the setting sun of Greece. Socrates was the master of Plato. Plato was subsequently St. Paul. 194 CHRISTIAN WISDOM Janus was the “ two-faced Roman god of religion,” con- spicuous as the temple of Janus, under the Brahmin code. Hercules was a Greek. Samson was a Jew. The prayer of the Initiates was as follows: Hand to forehead, saying To Thee belong Hand to breast, saying the kingdom, Hand to left shoulder, saying justice and Hand to right shoulder, saying mercy Then joining hands, saying throughout the generating cycles. “In the early Christian Church the word Christ was used as a synonym expressing the solar principle in mortal.” The Sun Osiris. “ That which is called the Christian religion existed among the ancients from the beginning of the race until Jesus came in the flesh, at which time it was called Christianity.” True religion existed in both Rome and Greece prior to the Christian era and during what was termed the pagan period. This Plato and Socrates admired as principles of truth and justice. “ Ancient philosophers hold that the relation of the Creator to his creation has been the same in all ages, and the brotherhood of all his creatures is superior to creed and religion and will unify them when once apprehended." “ The man who does not think cannot know and becomes the slave and property of other minds." “ The man who thinks wills to know and tends to become the expression of Divinity within.” “Prayer or concentration on the Highest source man is capable of imagining is a path to wisdom found.” De Villars. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 195 Occult science is under the direction of Jupiter and Saturn. Saturn creates the melancholy depth of fear or strain of seriousness without the true understanding, which in real- ity is artificial profundity. Jupiter gives the dominating pomp of superiority with a clannish smile and subtle reserve, which in reality is super- ficial sincerity. “ The mission of Saturn has been to bridge the gap be- tween the mortal and the immortal natures of man in the evolution of the races and to bring events to a crisis that their truth may be learned and experiences transmuted into that truth which is the reality of Justice, bringing divine realization and spiritual progress.” But alas! how ignominious a failure has been the real mission of Saturn in courting the tribute of a colossal ingratitude. Precession of the equinox is where the electric sun Sirius, coming in conjunction with the magnetic sun Osiris, establishes a change of constellation ruling every 2100 years. As there are 12 constellations and each constellation possesses an individual characteristic, then each conjunc- tion of the two suns would produce a new constellation ruling. A cycle of the equinox would be a circuit of the 12 con- stellation rulings or approximately 25,000 years. Jupiter in conjunction with Saturn has been dominating the past cycle of the equinox, which expired on May 29, 1916. Brahmin, the spirit father of Jupiter, was the pre- eminent ruler. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 197 Seven has many suggestions. Seven stages has the life of mortal. Seven days the moon changes. Seven months teeth appear in children. Seven months a full-grown babe is formed. Seven years teeth are shed by children. Fourteen years puberty commences. Twenty-one years mental faculties develop. Twenty-eight years full physical strength is developed. Thirty-five years passion is developed. Seven colors are: Purple, yellow, green, blue (2), red (2). Black is dense magnetism. White is the absence of color. Electric. - - Magnetism shows the denser colors until purified by the electric principles to a clearer shading. 198 CHRISTIAN WISDOM CHRISTIANITY By a “ seemingly” wise dispensation of Providence the infancy of the Christian Church was veiled in obscurity until the faith of Christianity was well rooted and their numbers multiplied. The gradual abolishing of Mosaic ceremony offered an excellent shield for the Christians to protect their cause from the pagan world. When the destruction of the temple at Jerusalem by Titus in 70 A. D. took place, the Christian element removed their quarters to Pella, where they were convalescent for some 60 years. It was the evolution of ancient customs from the idolizing of false gods to a higher conception of faith. The Nazarene church at Jerusalem was founded 40 days after the disappearance of Jesus and promoted under the personal supervision of his Apostles. The doctrine was received as the standard of orthodoxy by those who did not dare to think or reason for them- selves. They were shackled like submissive lambs that strongly resembled the characteristic chain step as they fell into line. The first 15 bishops of Jerusalem were all circumcised Jews, and the members over which they presided united the teachings of Moses and the doctrine of Jesus as ordained by the Apostles. A series of predictions had long preceded the expected arrival of Jesus, who was heralded as a king or physical conqueror rather than as a spiritual prophet of soul understanding. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 199 It was through the advent of Jesus that the doctrine of baptism was substituted for the initiation of blood. The earthly customs were modified to a milder form of outward expression through the magnetic vibration in water, which is not so dense or crude a form of magnetism as would be the vibration from a clot of blood. I admit that the baptism of water on the top of the head is far more edifying than baptism from the fumes of liquor inside of the head, which is so conspicuous in Masonic and social gatherings of public prominence. Both conditions, however, are merely exhibitions of childish sym- bols in material display and not the manhood of soul de- votion in silent prayer. Every privilege that could raise the converts or exalt their devotion was reserved for followers of the early Christian Church. All humanity was permitted and even solicited to accept the opportunity offered, first as a favor and then as an obligation, for it became the sacred duty of a new convert to proclaim the blessings received and warn others that 'a refusal was criminal disobedience to a benevolent but all-powerful deity. Such compulsion through fear was not the conviction of honest teaching or intelligent under- standing. The persecution of the Nazarene Christians by the Jews continued from the time of Jesus until the ruin of Jerusalem. The Nazarenes were protected in a measure through the ignorance of the pagans in their contempt for the Jewish synagogue. It is self-evident that the religion of Moses (1400 B. C.) should have been restricted to a certain time that governed conditions of a crude physical growth and not soul growth, as it did not emphasize the immortality of the soul, which is the most essential factor in any eternal doctrine of re- ligion. When Moses destroyed the tablets of Joshua, Moses humbled his Jewish followers to the fires of perdi- tion under the Brahmin yoke. However, had the Jews shown a spark of gratitude to the memory of Abraham or Jesus, their spirit father, the 200 CHRISTIAN WISDOM Jews would have remained centered as a deserving people and not scattered to the four winds in 136 A. D. and cen- sured as the rot of all nations in a spiritual and moral sense. The Jew Nazarenes respected Jesus or the Messiah as a teacher of virtue and religion, although they adhered closely to the ceremonies of their pagan ancestors. The Jew argued that if the Divine Being, who is the same through- out all eternity, had designed to abolish the sacred rites of Moses, the repeal would have been as spectacular and solemn as in the beginning. Wiseacres! Divinity is not spectacular in blowing fuses, but of a universal simplicity that is eternal. All contortions and solemn mockery are but tempting bait for the selfish personality of a Brahmin, hook. And when you realize you are caught, it will burn with a scarlet shame and the caustic sting of remorse. The early Christians considered that the idolatry of Paganism was the worst enemy of religion, as the Christian frowned on excessive pleasure or the worshiping of but one God. This made the convert Jew a choice mixture from the pagan authority of Moses to the spiritual teaching of the Apostles as the basis of early Christianity. It was a compromise that even to this day requires the minutest filtering, as compromise in any sense means a subtle form of adulteration or else perversion. The Nazarene Jew, who laid the foundation of the early Christian Church, soon realized that the increasing forces from the ranks of polytheism had rejected the Mosaic ceremonies and were brought under the banner of Jesus. This release of the Nazarene church from the bonds of the synagogue was accomplished only after many trials and tribulations. “ Christ was an appellation given to Jesus. It is synonymous with the Hebrew Messiah.” CHRISTIAN WISDOM 201 The title of Christian was first applied to the disciples at Antioch in 43 A. D. Acts xi. 26. When the Apostles passed away the episcopal bishops ruled for 100 years, with each branch society having a separate maintenance, but bound in purpose by the ties of “faith and charity” without a deeper insight of under- standing, as faith is only an infant crutch for the feeble thinker. Then faith is a crutch We need in our youth — Till knowledge appears As the manhood of truth. Alas! it is sad but true that humanity even at this late date is struggling in short pants or nursing at the infant bottle of faith, where the avarice and subtlety of the church capitalist and lesser lights have dwarfed the soul of mortal to a dim and inconceivable future from a Christian stand- point. Jesus never intended that one should cling to his apron string like a sucking babe, but instead put forth the efforts of resolution and self-reliance through the honest convic- tion of a worthy soul. Sympathetic pap is for pups in the infant stage, but not for man or woman in the matured age. The bishops who took the place of the prophets showed a spiritual decline and material advance. The prophets were inspired through a spirit power to elevate humanity, while the bishops were imbued with the power to emulate a personality which was restricted to creed and ceremonial flourish. Branch societies of this Nazarene Christian church were established in the cities of Rome, Antioch, Alexandria, " Ephesus, and Corinth. 202 CHRISTIAN WISDOM - - - - - - - - - - - As the church of Rome was built in honor of Jupiter, the pagan god of luxury and wealth, it could not have honored the hallowed name of Jesus, who had denounced luxury and wealth. Even to this day the Catholic followers worship on bended knee the “ blessings of Jupiter" under the nom de plume of emergency. (Money.) The ideal quotation of Jesus (“ Unless ye become as little children ye cannot enter the kingdom of heaven") has been misapplied and interpreted by these devoted saints as meaning an Eternal Childhood on Earth! And in con- sequence they have naturally appropriated the customary creedal toys of Jupiter (pomp and wealth), while the growth of virtue in a true Christian soul is stifled or • snubbed as a foreign intrusion. . O ye of the spotless robes! human nature will evolute either to the bloom of manhood or rot in decay. But remember this — the present generation, with its “ cultured facilities,” is best qualified to calculate the tons of fertilizer prepared from the present customs of religious worship, that is destined to decorate the sarcophagus of modern Christianity at an early date. As the radiant diamond is plucked from a dingy mine or muddy mire, the up-to-date Christian church is evi- dently trying to imitate nature in being plucked from the mire. But there is a remarkable difference in the sparkle! Should you question the truth of my comparison, take it to any “Jew”-eler and he will instantly detect the margin in value. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 203 The church of Rome became the most influential and popular Christian church, with St. Peter as the first bishop of the Christian faith. In 43 A. D. St. Paul established the first Gentile church at Antioch. In 52 A. D. St. Paul went to Jerusalem to a council meeting. In 60 A. D. St. Paul was seized and cast out of the temple at Jerusalem, where the Jews attempted to kill him. I In 63 A. D. he appealed to Caesar and finally reached Rome. In 66 A. D., when Rome was enveloped in flames for six days, which destroyed the greater portion of the city, á report became current to the effect that Nero was the cause. This so incensed Nero that he immediately retali- ated by accusing the Christians and was instrumental in the arrest of Peter and Paul, who were thrown into the Mamertine dungeon. On June 29, 67 A. D., Paul was be- headed and Peter crucified with his head hanging down- ward. This was apparently permitted, so that the “favored patrons” of the Christian Church could preserve their martyrdom and thus escape the personal calumny of pagan fury or Brahmin spite. Finally the slaughter became so beastly and atrocious that even the populace demanded that the persecution should cease. The prevailing worship of Rome at this period was paganism or the idolatry of mythology seasoned with sumptuous splendor and wanton waste. In 70 A. D. the Christians, heeding the warning that Titus of Rome would besiege Jerusalem, withdrew in safety to the city of Pella. As Solomon's temple has been the theme of many heated discussions, appended is a short synopsis of authentic facts inserted for the consideration of future generations. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 205 The early Christians were a mixture of the poorer classes or outcasts and those easily susceptible to superstitious terror, where parables and threats prevailed. It was a haven of refuge for religious outcasts or weary wanderers with no place to lay their heads, as many of the eminent saints were abandoned sinners. They were earth souls slowly advancing through the glimmer of unfoldment, where the catacombs of Rome were prominent places of refuge in time of persecution. As the institution of prophets in Christianity became useless (from ingratitude), their powers were withdrawn and the sacredness of their office abolished. For the public functions of religion were transferred to the bishops and the trailing clergy. In fact the entire body of Christian followers refused to hold communion with any of the gods of mankind or Roman gods, except Jesus. This the pagans keenly resented, as also the secrets of the Christian Church. This aroused their jealousy by accusing the Christians of depravity and false dealing under the cunning cover of secrecy. It was the same old stigma of secrecy that poi- soned humanity in past ages and will continue in the future as the rot of social evil. The Roman pagans were loath to consider a future, although the early Christians submitted to the authority of Roman government by confessing that legal institutions of war and justice were necessary for the times, but absolutely refused to take any active steps in defense of the empire. This exposed the Christians to the open censure of pagan reasoning as to who or what will protect your homes from intrusion. As a sequel to this method of reasoning, St. John, the last of the Apostles, was banished from Rome in 80 A. D. to the Isle of Patmos, where as the beloved John he was impressed with the book of Revelation. 206 CHRISTIAN WISDOM As an established Catholic fact, St. Peter is recorded as the first christian pope of Rome in 40 A. D., he was fol- lowed by Linus in 65 A. D. and Cletus in 78 A. D., hold- ing the distinction until 90 A. D., when Clement the First made his masterful declaration, which has been sneeringly ignored by those who followed on in authority. The Catholic quotation of Clement, a Neptune soul, was: “Let us approach God in purity. Let us look to Jesus Christ our High Priest at the right hand of the father, as Jesus was sent from God.” The reference of Clement to God was Divinity, as God was the popular term in use at that time, while the term father was meant for Melchizedek, the spirit father of Jesus, who had taught Jesus to believe that he (Mel- chizedek) was the Divinity. It was a delusion that Jesus and his followers have paid dearly for ever since and will continue to until the error is thoroughly erased and the truth transplanted as the birthright of each and every soul. As evidence to stamp the cunning of Catholic doctrine, why did the Catholic authority repudiate Arius when he had the moral courage or true Christian spirit to proclaim the truth of Clement's teaching — that Jesus was not Di- vinity, but a divine messenger in the flesh, as in fact all are when worthy to be called a righteous prophet? Was not Arius presenting the divine truth of Clement's teaching — that Divinity is supreme within us all and not Jesus, as Jesus was only a mortal of the flesh trying hard to express a message in all sincerity and truth, but under the yoke of Brahmin and Melchizedek instead of the divine influence of Omnipotent God? Then the Pagans were no more idol or hero worshipers, than were the Catholics or Jews. The Jews worshiped Moses, while the Catholics idolized Jesus (in name) as the equal of Divinity with an immacu- late conception. When Constantine coincided with Athanasius was he not showing his true colors as a pagan at heart, with all the subtlety of Catholic cunning that debarred even a vestige of Christian sincerity to defend the truth of Arius? CHRISTIAN WISDOM 207 Was Clement the First a mockery to Divinity as the accepted pope of Christian faith or was the Roman Catholic creed one colossal bubble of Brahmin inflation? The original Christian faith through its followers has honored the teachings of Clement the First as authentic, although the Pagan or Catholic faith has trampled on his authority by accepting the arguments of Athanasius, which were in direct contradiction to the fundamental principles of accepted Christianity. Hero worship and money worship through the laws of Constantine estab- lished a financial contribution as the keystone of Catholic security for a “future power of protection.” But alas! it was not the doctrine of Jesus. This was in direct violation to Christianity and a snub to the teachings of Jesus. For Jesus had renounced all material wealth with an implicit trust in his father as a power of protection. The New Testament was written in the last half of the first century. It was mostly an arrangement of letters from the author- ship of Paul, Peter, John, James, Matthew, Jude, Mark, and Luke, compiled in book form and framed with the cus- tomary guilt seasoning that is proverbial in a creedal personality. The Gnostic who flourished in the second and third cen- turies blended with the Christian faith many sublime but obscure tenets of the invisible world. As a lamentable fact the Christians were subjected to a continual seesaw condition that existed among the em- perors in the Roman Empire from the reign of Nero. First the pagan element of persecution would flame out and then a consideration would be shown the Christian fol- lowers, until the edict at Milan (313 A. D.) in the time of Constantine. This practically established the Catholic faith of Christianity as a permanent power of creedal distinction. The so-called Catholic creed is not the universal mean- ing of the word Catholic but a Roman or Pagan mixture that is preëminent in a selfish personality. “ Personality” is for the material expression or “physi- cal possession” of mammon and earthly power, while “Spirituality” is a universal expression for “soul progres- 208 CHRISTIAN WISDOM sion” of eternal truth as the blessedness of divine understanding Quoting from historical facts, Marcion about 145 A. D. recorded the first collection of the New Testament, which included one book of the gospel and ten epistles by St. Paul. Accepting this date as fairly authentic, if St. Paul wrote the ten epistles and died about 67 A. D., then the New Tes- tament was virtually in use during his time, although of a fragmentary nature that was minus the careful grooming or linked in special rotation, as at the present time. That the New Testament was a direct issue culled from the life of Jesus is unquestioned by safe and sane mortals. It was adopted by the Apostles soon after the disappear- ance of Jesus, but seasoned to suit the social and later as a commercial convenience for those in power. It is simply absurd to convey the idea that Jesus resorted to parables or in any way countenanced the practice of secrecy or deceit in his teaching a righteous brotherhood. That belongs to the crude imitator who is labeled Creed, with the specific purpose of Monopoly and not Brotherhood. The honest intention of Jesus was devotion to the wel- fare of human souls and not a direct contradiction to him- self, for his doctrine was simple and free from the creedal mystery of secret ceremonials or gorgeous pomp. of human Strine was sims or gorgeous CHRISTIAN WISDOM 209 It is well to note that the pagan church had a college of pontiffs with a pagan pope called Papa, who wore the miter and was considered infallible, identical with the pro- cessional Catholic pope of Rome. Were they not peas from the same pod with a tie that binds? Pagan models with the Christian cloaking or Jupiter cuisine with the Brahmin flavoring. During the close of the second century, when the cor- ruption of the pagan priesthood became intolerant, the more considerate priesthood tried to check the increasing tide of depravity by uniting the books of the New Testa- ment and serving to order theological seaweed. This the subtlety of the Church considered advisable to adopt as a pro tem solution to meet the emergency. Poor starving souls of humanity, how quickly they ab- sorbed the religious bait and were soon corraled as sheep within the shepherd's fold, little dreaming that the leaders were only conspiring against the liberty and birthright of their own soul unfoldment. This is easily understood and accounted for when one realizes the scheming methods of crowned heads, where one is pitted against the other through the creedal strife of avarice and greed, while the people pay the price in bloodshed and sorrow. The distant curfew tolls the knell of parting day and records their souls as fettered in bondage to the lust of mammon. O ye of the spotless robe and flowing tongue, what an ideal foundation of Christian brotherhood for coming gen- erations to emulate and perpetuate that echoes within the annals of religious tyranny. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 211 his head, poor soul! he would have been spurned as a pauper and denied the absolution of a mass. O ye of the spotless robe, how can you follow Jesus unless you are all paupers in the wealth of mammon? But alas! statistics have recorded you as monarchs in the lust of mammon and paupers in the fold of Jesus. The fourth century was notable for ushering in Con- stantine (a moon soul), the son of Emperor Constantinus, a Servian, who before entering Rome in 312 A. D. hesitated between Paganism and Christianity. But on viewing the vision of a cross in the sky that was encircled with the words, “ In hoc signo vinces,” or translated, “In this sign shalt thou conquer,” Constantine decided to cast his fate by proclaiming himself a Christian protector. From that time henceforth the roots of Christianity prospered in creed as sown from illusion and not illumination. Constantine was the first emperor openly to espouse the cause of so-called Christianity, while every bloody victory produced some marked benefit to the Church with a stain on the soul of mortal. Owing to the rivalry in customs of pomp and splendor at Rome, Constantine decided to establish a new capital where Catholic faith was immune. He chose a city on the Bosphorus that was later renamed in his honor, called Constantinople, so that he could con- veniently rule the east and west — not religiously, but commercially. This was a strategic move, as it diminished his opposi- tion at Rome and increased his power of concentration at Constantinople, where he surrounded himself with bishops and the customary trooping of ecclesiastic bric-a-brac. 212 CHRISTIAN WISDOM Constantinople was originally founded in 658 B. C. by the Greeks and called Byzantium, but it was rechristened on May 11, 330 A. D., as Constantinople by Constantine. In 1453 A. D. it was conquered by the Turks, who re- named it Stamboul, when the turban was exalted in place of the tiara. Constantine attempted to blend Paganism and Christian- ity with sufficient tact to advance his own political policies, for he served the purpose of a tilt board in seeking to main- tain an equilibrium with Rome on one end and Constanti- nople on the other. But such a diplomatic masterpiece was never successfully accomplished, as shallowness and artifice court eternal shift and unrest, with no peace for the wicked. Constantine also provided the Church with a law to in- herit property. It was a clever scheme of capitalization that ignored a testimonial of gratitude to Jesus or divine worship. For Jesus distinctly emphasized the fact that all should renounce their material wealth and follow him in righteousness. Hark, ye of the spotless robe, and remember this! Lofty spires and gilded crosses are excellent bait for a spider's web, but they never were the magnet of Jesus' teaching. As the outward splendor of the Church increased, the inward purity vanished, for power and wealth were tre- mendous incentives to join the Church from other denomi- nations. It is the same old story where you reap the harvest of ignorance and fear from the seed of a sainted delusion. This you can best judge for yourself through the mirrored customs of the present day, where a lack of con- fidence in a “future existence” shows up the ignorance of superstition as the governing hand for souls that are des- tined to the shock of a rude awakening. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 213 Future tyrants were encouraged to believe that the in- nocent blood they shed in a long life of infamy and terror would instantly be washed away in the waters of regenera- tion, as the sacrament of baptism was supposed to convey a complete expiation of sin and restore the soul to its original state of infant purity, with the promise of eternal salvation. So much depravity prevailed within the Roman Empire at this period that many of the inhabitants became terror- stricken and fled to Theibad, Egypt, prominent among them was St. Anthony. They were identified as hermits, although when banding together in brotherhood the title of monk was conferred upon them in consequence of their habit in dress, which consisted of a long dark gown with cowl attached. The sisters who banded together in similar attire were designated as nuns. They established a doctrine of prayer and humility as a means of accomplishing more good in the silence than by battling in the midst of temptation and sin. It was truly a meritorious calling, like an oasis in the desert, that was deserving of praise when freed from the bondage of Church ceremonials. Associated with these conditions in Egypt was a priest called Arius, who braved the censure of the Christian Church by openly confessing, in opposition to the professed doctrine, that Jesus was not of the beginning or the equal • of God, although Arius honored Jesus as the noblest of all created beings. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 215 This a feeble a na silent commu Then woe betide the “crafty Christian” or “subtle creed” that would attempt to divorce the soul of mortal from reaching a universal understanding and realization of this God-given birthright, which is the relationship of Divinity within to the soul of each mortal and not a creedal distinction of pulpit eminence for the chosen few to bloat and bluster. This “outward exhibition” of display as faith in God is only a feeble and shallow pretense of religious worship. If Divinity is a silent witness to all our secrets, then Divinity alone is able to commune with our soul and guide us with unerring care — that is, when we honestly under- stand and sincerely desire the consciousness of divine dictation. Divinity cannot force the way. It is for you to make the honest, conscientious effort and Omnipotent God will surely respond. Atonement is the open door that leads to the wisdom of Omnipotent God. Then creed is only a subtle perversion or “separation from Divinity in thought” – that is, classified as sector theological denomination and not the consistent doctrine of universal truth. Mortal! the only followers who recognize creed are the automatic processional of a non compos people. When the Christian followers called themselves a Catho- lic creed it was a direct contradiction and blasphemy against the Divinity within the soul, as it placed them in opposition to the Divinity within the souls of their so-called enemies or heretics, where “ Vengeance is mine” was in constant use. Oye of the spotless robe, is not the spark of Divinity in one soul a part of the same Divinity that is within each human soul, when you recognize Divinity as within your heart instead of the personality of a weak intellect? 216 CHRISTIAN WISDOM Can the spark of Divinity within one human soul be an enemy to the same Divinity that is in each human soul? It is not such a strenuous puzzle to sift and solve when your honesty is deeply rooted in the sincerity of your heart instead of the shallow intellect of a selfish personality. As proof glance at the spectacular array of spangled creeds that are now in vogue, where the avarice and greed of a meek and wily religious potentate are to separate the Divinity within from the soul of mortal, like a bone of contention that is thrown to a pack of snarling dogs, wherein the animal and not the spiritual nature is devoutly worshiped. For a fitting testimonial take the “sacred crusades” as a glaring example of perfidious distinction, where a guilty soul needs no accuser. 222 CHRISTIAN WISDOM During the stampede of 526 A. D. the bishops and clergy remained intact to become the chief counselors and ad- visers of the ruling monarchs, for conditions were swayed like a seething mass with “ vengeance is mine saith the Lord,” where strife for the mastery of a selfish personal- ity was the ruling passion, which has been mirrored so exquisitely through the endless chain of predominant popes. An Italian hermit called St. Benedict, wishing to pray as a recluse rather than struggle with bad men and women in dens of vice, formed a band of monks wearing a long dress with hood. They lived a simple life of constant devotion by voicing seven prayers at regular hourly in- tervals throughout the day and night. It was called Benedictine and many bethels of monks were inaugurated as places of safety and refuge in times of persecution. A good and pious man called A. Gregorius was chosen pope of Rome in 590 A. D. He was firm in the belief and knowledge that no patriarch was justified in claiming a distinction above the rest or to be called a preëminent bishop. Whether this reference includes Jesus of Nazareth the courtesy and consideration of the Catholic Church have wisely omitted in the sacred anecdotes of Catholic history. Pope Gregory was considered a competent man for his time, as the wisdom and judgment of his management did much to force the Romans to acknowledge the pope as head of affairs in both state and church, especially after his death, which occurred about 604 A. D. Poor benighted Christianity, how it fluttered and strug- gled between the idolatry of wealth and the reflection of pagan rituals, until the fabric of superstition created by the Catholic creedal faith was assaulted by a crowd of daring fanatics, who from the twelfth to the sixteenth century assumed the role of reformers and were universally recog- nized as Protestants during the reign of Charles the Fifth in 1529. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 225 Personal monopoly is soul rot because it is lacking in universal principles and therefore unworthy the coöpera- tion or guidance of Divinity. Universal monopoly is soul growth because it honestly deserves the coöperation and guidance of Divinity by the self-sacrifice of personality as a mutual benefit to all humanity. Peace and harmony are the climax of divine reason and a permanent understanding. PROPHETS It is supremely self-evident that the general construction of original intelligence from which the Bible was composed included the common welfare of human souls who were evoluting to a spiritual understanding of righteous law as a public custom. That the intelligence was propagated by the celestial forces and conveyed to the prophets, who were the spiritual mouthpiece or physical telephone for messages to mortals on earth, was unquestioned by even the crudest specimen of understanding. That the intelligence was imparted for a soul under- standing of spiritual enlightenment as an eternal benefit, and not for any temporal advantage of personal conquest, is also a paramount fact. The celestial advisers knew wherein righteous law de- mands that self-reliance shall be the keystone to each and every human soul to govern the temptations of the phys- ical organism. They realized that a soul conception of righteous law must be preached and practiced before the natural evolu- tion of the higher soul principles could operate as a mutual benefit to all mankind. 226 CHRISTIAN WISDOM This was the sacred duty of the prophets — to voice the pleadings and instructions of the celestials to mortals, where Divinity should be the supreme part of each and. every soul as the righteous law of brotherhood, where the selfish personality of mortals is sacrificed in the unit of each for all and all for each when worthy. . But alas! the sacred intelligence of the celestials has been perverted by parables and misconstrued through the conspiracy of malefactors for a personal prestige. While the reflection stands as a colossal tombstone to rebuke the ingratitude of trusted mortals who pawned their soul for the lust of mammon. Ignorance and evasion of righteous law through the prevailing influence of planet force is the root of evil; this tested the sincerity of those in power and gripped their mental organism to dwarf the soul in the anguish and agony of remorse after death. Friends, the purpose of the prophets was a sacred and indispensable mission of self-sacrifice. It was blasphemed by the selfish impostors of creedal ties, who substituted bishops and ceremonial flourish as the vanguard of a selfish personality and two-horned imper- sonation, called the Red Devil, whose supreme pleasure is , to undermine the brotherhood of righteous law and the sacredness of Divinity within each soul. In other words, it was a pleasurable pastime for the hypocritical review of cultured humanity, who are pin- nacled as the saints of heaven in flowing robes with jeweled brow. But what a difference between the simple grandeur of sacred value due the prophets of old and the peacock parade with saintly veneer of worthless rot, emphasized as the fuddled fools of a cultured crop in this molten age. This gorgeous display was conspicuous in the Brahmin caste of a Jupiter ruling, where the king and pope can do no wrong. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 227 A FEW HISTORIC EVENTS B. C. 2948 Birth of Noah. 2650 Chinese Empire founded. 1996 Birth of Abraham. 1897 Birth of Isaac. 1837 Birth of Jacob. 1729 Joseph sold into Egypt. 1571 Moses born. Died 1451. 1491 Departure of Israelites from Egypt. 1491 Law given to Moses from Mt. Sinai. 145. Joshua leads Israelites into Canaan. 1120 Death of Samson. 1095 Saul king for 40 years. Died 1056. 1048 David king for 40 years. Died 1015. 1042 The ark removed to Jerusalem. 1015 Solomon king. Died 975. 1012 Solomon built temple. 906 Israel afflicted with famine predicted by Elijah. 897 Elijah translated to heaven (astral). 895 Miracles of Elisha the prophet. 776 Olympic era. 753 Rome built. 721 End of kingdom of Israel. 658 Byzantium founded. 624 Hilkiah (she) discovers book of law in the temple. 605 Jeremiah's prophecy of 70 years' captivity. 586 Nebuchadnezzar destroys Jerusalem. 586 End of kingdom of Judah (House of David). 580 Jews captive in Babylon until 539. 559 Persian Empire founded by Cyrus. 539 Babylon taken by Cyrus and united to Persia. 536 Cyrus allowed Jews to return home. 535 Rebuilding of temple. 515 Dedication of second temple. 468 Death of Aristides. 468 Socrates born. Died 399. 429 Plato born. Died 348. 356 Alexander born. Died 323. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 229 BIBLE REVIEW Has God a personality? God has a personality that is universal to all those who can reach the understanding. Noah was a Rurue soul. Noah was the pioneer soul of the first subrace of the fifth root race on the European continent. Noah was also Melchizedek, known as the spirit father of Jesus. Noah begat Shem and Shem begat Abraham. Abraham was a Rurue soul. Abraham next appeared as Elijah, then as Gautama Buddha, and last as Jesus in the masculine organism. Jesus was the soul mate of Paul. “Melchizedek (according to Hebrews vii. 2, 3) was priest of the most high God, unto whom Abraham gave a tenth part of all. He was first known as king of Righteousness and then king of Peace. Without a father, mother, or descent, he having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like unto the son of God: thus abideth a priest continually. Now consider how great this man was unto whom even Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.” When will mortal realize the subtlety of profound cunning? TEMPTATION Quoting from James (a Rurue soul), chapter i, verse 13: “Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempt- eth he any man.” Then why “ Lead us not into temptation,” which is em- phasized so adroitly in the Lord's Prayer? 230 CHRISTIAN WISDOM However, if the Lord was intended for Melchizedek in the Lord's Prayer, it was certainly wisely applied, as Mel- chizedek has led humanity into the depth of temptation and humiliation. Otherwise any reference to Divinity was ludicrous in the extreme. FAITH According to Hebrews xi. 1, “Faith is the substance of realizing of things hoped for, the evidence or assurance of things not seen.” Substance is neither understanding nor divine intelli- gence. When faith is guaranteed with the assurance of di- vine and universal intelligence, faith will cease to be the mockery of blind confidence in vogue to-day. Martin Luther was converted to God by “The just shall live by faith.” Romans i. 17. With faith honored as blind confidence and destitute of practical knowledge, when does intelligence get even a chance to establish the laws of Divinity as a reliable guide to reach humanity? “One of the fatal stumblingblocks to faith is the prefer- ence of honor from men instead of honor from God.' Kindly note the reference to men, which is always used in preference to mortal or humanity, as mortal would in- clude both man and woman. In fact man has been a Jupiter trademark to rule or ruin, with woman as a relish or side order. It is little wonder that woman suffrage is grossly throt- tled by a Jupiter influence, for Brahmin had a fear of being deposed or forced to acknowledge the equal rights of All humanity. As you sow so shall you reap. For humiliation through remorse has been the harvest of Brahmin and Melchizedek in the final reaping of their sowing. 232 CHRISTIAN WISDOM personified. O thou of the flowing tongue and silken robe, hast thou a withered conscience? The recent dethronement of Brahmin, known as the su- preme ruler of the Positive element on earth in past ages, and the coronation of Jesus in the realms as the supreme ruler of the Negative element on earth took place in the higher spheres beyond the Apex on March 1, 1916, sur- rounded by a council of spirit fathers from the different planets, with the exception of Jupiter and Saturn. Henceforth the destiny of woman on earth will be under the guidance of Jesus and his council, subject to the dis- cretion of divine wisdom through the Titan fathers. Exit Brahmin and Melchizedek. For woman will rise to heights untold and complete the moral mission of man, so long neglected and basely abused. When the rulership of man has proved to be an igno- minious failure and sunk to the fathomless pit of degrada- tion through the personality of greed and lust, it is time for Divinity to show a righteous indignation and scathing rebuke by protecting future generations from a repetition of prostitute ages. “My son, keep thy father's commandment and forsake not the law of thy mother.” Proverbs vi. 20. Was Jesus obedient to his parents or was he tempted by the call of Melchizedek, his spirit father? “ Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.” Hebrews V. 5, 6. It sounds good, but is it within reason to the dictates of Wisdom? CHRISTIAN WISDOM 233 THE HEART “I the Lord search the heart according to the fruit of his doings.” “ The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.” Jeremiah (a Rurue soul) xvii. 9. Jesus said, for out of the heart proceed evil thoughts and blasphemies. Matthew (a Rurue soul) xv. 19. How about Jesus and Paul? Were their hearts wicked ? Is it the heart or the power back of the heart that rules? Is not the heart a channel for external communication or else a center of action for Divinity to operate from within? “ The Lord seeth not as man seeth, for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.” I Samuel xvi. 7. These Lords are none other than the spirit fathers, who can look only on and not in the heart. For Divinity is within and does not require any outside assistance from the spirit fathers to judge a soul, as Divinity is a direct and competent witness within the soul to each and every act performed “God's judgment is by the heart.” Luke (a Moon soul) xvi. 15. “God's kingdom is within us.” Romans xiv. 17. “ Are not our hearts naturally open to receive the gospel? No! God must open the heart.” Acts xvi. 14. How? From within and not from the lure of external deceptions. Brahmin was the “ I am that I am ” and not Divinity, as Divinity works in the silence without a brazen tongue or a trumpet's blast. The three kings of all Israel representing Jupiter souls and expressing a perfect type of the Jupiter ruling under the power of Brahminism were Saul, David, and Solomon. Saul was a Jupiter soul, handsome and proud, but a dis- obedient monarch, as he sought the life of King David and finally died a suicide by his own hand. 236 CHRISTIAN WISDOM “ As a proof that Elijah was human he prayed that he might die, as must all mortals who are clothed in the flesh.” 1 Kings xviii. 4. “ Elijah all through his life was opposed to idolatry and for the honor of God.” This evidently angered Brahmin, as it was in direct op- position to the expression of Solomon's wisdom, whose idolatry of the flesh and the importance of his own Jupiter personality was the paramount issues of his ruling. As Solomon was a pronounced Mason, would his moral status be recognized to-day as the honor of a Mason, or are Masons to-day a chip of the old block? However, I fear the Masonic regalia of to-day screens the rogue of deception from public exposure with as much secrecy and security as did the purple robe in the past protect Solomon from public censure. Not only as “ Elijah but as Gautama Buddha ” did Jesus court the wrath of Brahmin when he exposed and ridiculed the Brahmin code of selfish personality. It was in reality the sequel of why Jesus failed to raise humanity with a universal understanding of righteousness. Brahmin opposed Jesus. For when Jesus on the cross cried out, “O Father! why hast thou deserted me?” (meaning Melchizedek), Brahmin concluded the tragic ceremony with “ Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” Melchizedek was under the strict surveillance of Brahmin and powerless to aid Jesus. It was the Master's voice (Brahmin) commanding his followers to lie down in fear of the lash. Had Jesus appealed to Divinity as the Father instead of Melchizedek as the Father, history would have related an event worthy of eternal distinction. Poor soul, Jesus knew not. Jesus was truly a noble and worthy soul of the negative type and not strong enough to oppose the Brahmin ruling of a false and revengeful doctrine, or wise enough to seek Divinity as the Universal Father beyond the Apex of the spheres. For the wisdom and love of Divinity were not restricted or confined to Asia Minor, but were universal blessings 238 CHRISTIAN WISDOM Cyrus was a Jupiter father and Persian king who allowed the Jews to return to their own country, after 70 years' captivity, in 536 B. C. Cyrus united Babylon as a part of Persia. His coming was prophesied by Isaiah. Cyrus sent Ezra and Nehemiah, governors of Jerusalem, to rebuild the temple. Nehemiah was a moon soul. Ezra was a Rurue soul and a priestly descendant of Aaron, a Jupiter soul. It was quite a remarkable fact that Daniel, a Moon soul, Jeremiah, a Rurue soul, Ezekiel, a Jupiter soul, all of Judah, were residents of the same territory for about ten years. Deborah was an earth-soul Jewish prophetess. Judges iv. 4. The witch of Endor was a Rurue-soul prophetess in the time of Saul. Queen Esther was a Jupiter soul and a clever Jewess, who saved her people from the Persian tyrant Haman, a Rurue soul, by marrying Ahasuerus in 474 B. C. Hilkiah, a temple maid and moon soul, found a book of Moses while cleaning the temple in 624 B. C., showing that the law of Moses had been neglected and despised. The Chaldeans were Jupiter souls and inhabitants of Babylon. Salt, besides being savory, has the qualification of pre- serving things from corruption, due to the hydrogen or electric element that is present. It is evident that the book of Moses lacked salt. 240 CHRISTIAN WISDOM JESUS The sermon on the mount was addressed to the disciples of Jesus. After the resurrection Jesus appeared to Mary Magda- lene, a Rurue-soul follower, and Mary the mother of James. Jesus last appeared to bless his Apostles. “ And it came to pass that while Jesus blessed them he was parted from them and carried up into heaven.” St. Luke xxiv. 51. John the Baptist was a Mars soul and was six months older than Jesus. John preached repentance for remission of sins through Jesus and baptism as an outward sign or public confession. John baptized only with water. Jesus baptized by the spirit essence. Acts i. 15. Who was the bride? The Church or people of Jesus. John iii. 29. Who was “we”? Jesus and his spirit father Melchize- dek, not Divinity. “ The Father and I are one ” was Jesus and Melchizedek. The reapers were the angels in the astral. The harvest was the judgment. The poor in spirit were the weak or humble-minded. The merciful were kind to the poor and afflicted. THE PREDICTION OF JESUS “For there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, neither hid that shall not be made known. Therefore, whatsoever ye have spoken in the darkness shall be heard in the light and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops." CHRISTIAN WISDOM 241 QUOTATIONS AND COMMENTARIES FROM THE ROSICRUCIANS BY THE BROTHERS “ The Rosicrucians are a people with whom I must make you acquainted. The best account I know of them is in a French book called Le Comte de Gabalis. “ According to these gentlemen the four elements are inhabited by spirits, which they call salamanders, sylphs, nymphs, and gnomes." Alexander Pope, 1711 A. D. “When a thing is hidden away with so much pains, merely to reveal it is to destroy it.” Tertullian. In answer to the above quotation I am thoroughly con- vinced that any truth hidden in mystery destroys the re- spect or right of protection under those conditions, as by the act of perversion all righteous recognition is obliterated. Truth can never be effaced. Then why should the beauty of truth be perverted or veiled in mystery? As truth is a divine birthright for the soul of mortal, woe betide the mortal who would attempt to mystify the divine judgment of truth, for the day of reckoning is close at hand. Parker. CABALA “A superstitious devotion to the mysteries of the reli- gion which one professes.” Emerson. “A secret science of the Jewish rabbis to interpret the hidden meaning of the Pentateuch (five books of the Old Testament) with esoteric doctrine.” “It assumes that every letter and number of the Scrip- tures contains a hidden meaning.” Webster. 242 CHRISTIAN WISDOM THE ARCANES The Cabala is the sacred book of the Jews, an occult interpretation or key to their Scriptures, and contains an explicit revelation of the art of communicating with spirits. Ancient tradition claims an unbroken chain of transmission through the Initiates to the Hebrews of to-day. Its inner mystery has never been written, but imparted orally to the disciple. In its original form the system of esoteric Masonry was identical with that of the Cabala. This was in Ragon's time, before Solomon. “ The Cabalist used symbols to conceal the principles of natural philosophy from the ignorant." “ The Cabala practiced through the four elementals." “Out of the will power of the Supreme Being originated a force whose exponents are the 15 letters of the alphabet. The' vowels a, e, i, o, u were the five phases of the supreme Godhead Brahma.” It was the Senzor language, not the Sanskrit. Brahma was not Divinity, but a Jupiter spirit father, who controlled the astral conditions on earth and in the atmosphere. “The philosophers' stone was a term used by Cabalists to denote the supremacy of wisdom esoterically or the transmutation of baser metals into gold exoterically." 244 CHRISTIAN WISDOM The four elemental conditions are fire, air, water, earth. “ Souls in these elemental astral conditions would com- municate with mortal by message or prophecy. Souls clothed in these elemental conditions in the astral form were classified accordingly.” Electric, salamander, fire or ether, open to the higher forces. Electric, sylph, air or atmosphere, controlled by Jupiter. Magnetic, nymph, water, controlled by Saturn. Magnetic, gnomes, earth, controlled by Saturn. “The earth is filled nearly to the center with gnomes, mostly under the Saturn ruling.” Mortals receiving the communications were called sibyls or prophets. To-day they are called mediums, clairvoy- ants, psychics, and in rare cases inspired teachers. The higher soul intelligences of spirit power operate from the third sphere in the Realms, recognized as the salamander and sylph conditions, where they voice the pleadings and warnings from the spirit world to mortal. . through the sibyl or prophet on earth. When the lower order of elementals communicated with the lower order of magnetic sibyls or psychics on earth, the result was the same as to-day, of a questionable nature, which has shaken the faith of mortals in the truth of spirit return at the present time to its very foundation. But it is owing to the ignorance of mortals in not being “pre- pared” with the fundamental truth of spirit communica- tion more than to the abuse of a sacred opportunity through unconditioned instruments. In the Atlantean Age this truth was a universal and primary school education that was honored by law and reverenced with gratitude by humanity. To-day the gluttony of selfish desires by mortals has per- verted the intelligence of spirit return until the truth is condemned as a gruesome mystery, that exposes the cul- tured pedagogue of to-day as a base ingrate to the highest and noblest channel or opportunity of communication ever offered by divine law. Parker. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 247 “Man through initiation becomes a law unto himself by virtue of communion with the Lord within, and this ex- perience of truth is superior to creeds or faith.” LEVI “ Leviathan signifies the solar force directed upward through the spine by the priests of the tribe of Levi for regeneration." “ Accurately speaking, Leviathan is the solar force mani- festing in the nervous system.” “When the solar force is directed upward it passes through an opening at the top of the head called by the Brahmins the door of Brahma' and by the Christians the ‘ door of Jesus,' which is visible to the seer as a tongue of brilliant flame.” Clairvoyancy. “ Until a man is able to govern his lower nature in sex relationship he has not passed that stage in the evolution of spirit development typified by the ancients as the slay- ing of the lion or dragon.” “After passing through the centers of the sympathetic nerve system the positive and negative currents of solar force meet in the forehead, where their balance registers, so that the initiate can sense whether the balance is per- fect or whether a positive or a negative current predomi- nates.” “This power to sense and govern the currents is called the double bridle of Leviathan.” “ The adept kings of Egypt bore upon their foreheads the sacred serpent as emblem of this bridle, to signify that they had achieved this power.” “ The sons of Levi were priests." 248 CHRISTIAN WISDOM AL RAKIM “Al Rakim meant inmates of the cave. Rakim means the external manifestation of the solar principle in man, evoluting through the seven ganglia in its external manifestation.” KATMIR “ Katmir is the letter T added as a continuation of the solar principle in mortal.” “No sincere effort to solve God's mystery passes un- heeded by the silent watcher within." COMMENTARY The only mystery is man-made mystery in the subtlety of perversion or parables. Parker. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 249 THE TENETS OF MASONRY The oldest expression of Masonry is found symbolized in the pyramids, proving that the principles of Masonry existed about 16,000 years ago in the Atlantean Age and was recognized as the ancient order of the sun. Ragon, who is acknowledged as the accepted founder of Masonry prevailing to-day, was under a Neptune influence. He established the sacredness of Masonry to protect the principles of brotherhood by initiating undeveloped souls through a clearer understanding of their duty to Divinity and a moral obligation to humanity. Ragon was an initiate who lived at the time of David; although his name has been erased from modern editions of ancient history his memory still lives within the annals of Masonry. After Ragon had established the spiritual fundamentals necessary to promote honesty, loyalty, and truth, Hiram Abiff, known as the widow's son, under the moon influence, assumed the oath of allegiance and continued the primal forms of the present order as Ragon's successor. The forms of rituals were modeled on Egyptian symbol- ism expressing astrological conditions of time and work- manship. Masons were governed by introspection or a self-exam- ination from within to test the value of their devotion and sincerity. Briefly speaking, the basic principle of Masonry was to initiate mortal through a clearer understanding of the responsibilities becoming a Mason toward a fellow being, with a realization according to the degree of soul growth and the opportunity offered to prove it. This was done to protect the growth of a soul when coming in contact with the lower order of magnetic influence. 250 CHRISTIAN WISDOM The three great lights in Masonry are the Holy Bible, the square, and the compass. These are interwoven in the three degrees of initiation which constitute a Master Mason. In justice to Ragon and Hiram Abiff, before entering into the details of initiation it is well to introduce a short synopsis recording the assassination of Hiram (or rather Aram) Abiff, as the facts will place Masonry where it belongs — free to the inspection of fair-minded and truth- loving people who are interested in the “moral welfare” of human souls and not in the expression of physical pleas- ure or a business enterprise of tinsel toys. Although the Bible was created for the welfare of hu- manity, it became an instrument in the hands of schemers and tricksters, where all civilization shows evidence of class oppression and human suppression in the truth of spiritual expression. In Solomon's time the methods of Masonry sought to conceal its work by secret rites, which angered the priests to such an extent that they demanded the confessional. Masonry in the days of Babylon was recognized by the laboring class because the privileged class became deca- dent and oppressive. The most essential point in Masonic ritual is based on the tragedy of Aram Abiff, who was quoted in the Bible as a workman living at the time of Solomon. It was the custom of Aram, the Grand Master, while the workmen were at their noonday meal, to enter the Sanctum Sanctorum or Holy of Holies and offer up a de- votion to the ever-living God on high. It is recorded as a climax to his regular devotion that one day after Aram had offered up the noonday prayer and performed the trestle-board duties he was met at the south gate of the Sanctum by Jubela, who demanded from him the Master Mason word, Agla. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 251 This was a sacred word known to three men — Solomon, Aram Abiff, and Hiram of Tyre — and spoken only when these three men were together. THE LOST WORD The Master Mason word was Agla. A was the positive force. G was the negative force. L was the objective force. A was the first cause. This signified the first cause in triple aspect, that is synonymous with the Hebrew Al. Agla was the triple force within the Sun, symbolized by a triangle within a circle. ☺ “It was the sacrificial word pronounced by the first cause of the Brahmins with a purpose to open the human consciousness to the oneness with Divinity.” It is whis- pered to the candidate in the Royal Arch Chapter degree. Neh-Mah-Mihah is a substitute for Agla. — That is, it is for the inferior brother Mason of three degrees, who is “content or forced” to remain at the foot of the ladder. On refusal of Aram to impart the word, Jubela gave him a violent blow across the throat with a 24-inch gauge, at which Aram fled to the west gate. Here he was accosted in the same manner by Jubelo, who, on being refused, struck Aram a severe blow with a square across the left breast, at which Aram fled to the east gate. Here Ju- belum delivered the fatal blow on the forehead with a gavel, from which Aram soon after expired. Jubela, Jubelo, Jubelum, the three Mason ruffians who assassinated Aram, were arrested. While in confinement pending a trial they became con- science-stricken and admitted their guilt through a detailed confession, which is used at the present time in the order of exercises for the initiation of candidates. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 253 Jubelum. “Oh that my body had been severed in two at the midst, my bowels burnt to ashes in the center, and my ashes scattered to the four winds of heaven, that not the least track or trace of remembrance remain among men or Masons, so vile and perjured a wretch am I. “ It was I who smote the fatal blow.” Jubelum had smote Aram with a mallet, which is sym- bolized in the third degree. THREE DEGREES OF MASONRY The first degree of Masonry was a symbol of 24 hours with a rule 24 inches long. It represented humanity wishing to fraternize as a brotherhood for the coöperative benefit of each other. This allegiance allowed the candidates one month for consid- eration as to whether they were conscientiously fitted to assume the responsibility of a stronger obligation of moral trust. At the end of one month, if the advanced brothers con- sidered them worthy of promotion, they were admitted to the second degree, which represented the four seasons or one year with an iron square. This gave the candidate one year in which to consider his moral and mental status as being worthy of advance- ment, that would render him eligible for the third degree or Master Mason. This third degree represented a life membership of devo- tion to God and humanity. It is a serious undertaking of eternal obligation, when the soul of a Mason understands and realizes the future penalties for broken vows. 256 CHRISTIAN WISDOM The second degree is also interpreted as meaning the second assassin, who represents the pope, aiming the square of steel at the heart of the victim as the tyranny of the Church over humanity. Quoting from past and present records, this square evi- dently was a measurement of crooked corners cut on the bias by Ananias, where the trusty level, now rusty, is very much needed to true up these blind corner conditions by demanding a more accurate accounting both as to the material and the spiritual results, providing the worshipful master can sacrifice the time from his worshipful prayers and exalted devotion in the Sanctum Sanctorum or Holy of Holies. The second initiation was intended as a moon condition from the rulings of a self-examination by the candidate.. Brother, is all well within your soul? Are you consid- erate of the obligations to God and humanity, with a moral respect for the welfare of your dear brother's soul mate or companion? When the candidate is asked from whence he came and whither he is going, the natural response is, “In search of more light." FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY Faith! with its mystified symbols and secrets that mock from the depth of a yawning abyss. Hope! with its gilded honors on social stilts, where sin is immune from the legal frock. Charity! with a quick response and a copious flow, but reserved, don't you know, for the family flock. As charity begins at home, it is thoroughly consistent with the secrets of Masonry; their strongest precept is to keep everything reserved, with strict orders to let nothing escape you, dear brother, outside of the family flock. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 257 Verily, I say, this is indeed a marvelous symptom of brotherhood. But alas, what can you expect when one is under the occult sway of a “regulation oath” that only undermines the courage of moral manhood; where a per- sonal communion through the spirit of Divinity within the soul is absolutely ignored and the hope of soul salvation through liberty and conscience is morally crushed and sniffed to the winds? As the worshipful ceremony is concluded at the festive board, the presence of Divinity is somewhat obscured midst the smoke of revelry and the gluttony of feasting, while the curtain call rings down the final tableau in their devoted devotion to the Holy of Holies or the Hollow of Hollow stomachs. THIRD INITIATION The third degree or Master Mason represents the ex- treme points of the compass, being applied to each side of the naked breast of the candidate at initiation. “As the most vital points of man are contained between the two breasts, so are the most valuable tenets of Masonry contained between the two extreme points of the compass." These are virtue, morality, and brotherly love (for the brethren). It was originally intended as the polish of a Neptune in- fluence or the paramount issue of Ragon's teaching, which was — Brother, what is your supreme purpose in life? This Blue Lodge or third degree represented the Sanctum Sanctorum or Holy of Holies from Solomon's temple at Jerusalem, with the punctual threat of extinction that cor- responded to the Catholic threat of excommunication. In fact how similar were the Masons in their tyranny toward humanity under the title of Brotherhood for the Brethren to - Catholicism for the Catholics. 258 CHRISTIAN WISDOM The third degree was also a graduating test that estab- lished a Master Mason, although the degree chain has been elongated with precious links from time to time, embracing social seclusion and personal pomp. This was for the vanity of financial distinction or the inflation of a self-emulation in the fraternity – that is, for the brethren who could pay for the ascension. The links of ascension in "going up” were as follows: Fourth degree: Mark Master. Fifth degree: Past Master. Sixth degree: Most Excellent Master. Seventh degree: Royal Arch Chapter. The total number of the inflation is limited to 33, as 34 would signify combustion under the orb of Herschel. A careful conclusion will fully demonstrate that specialized interests dominate the soul of ruling mortal, where the Crown, Church, and Masonry have established a perfect system in their Trinity of Tyranny to crush the spiritual growth of humanity. The toleration of monopolized customs would seem almost incredible in a classic age, were it not for the in- cessant flow of historic crime, which is an indisputable evidence of tyranny and spirit oppression. 260 CHRISTIAN WISDOM “ Freemasonry trains a Mason to consider religious, so- cial, and political institutions as passing phases of human evolution and to study reforms for Masonic progress.” “ A belief in the existence of God and a future life, which include secrecy, symbolism, and equality of Masons, in the lodge called the Book of Constitution.” “The true Masonic method is that the lodge is a common ground for men of all types and opinions to meet when accepting Masonic principles. It does not interfere with party politics, as it excludes political and religious discus- sion from the meetings.” “Masons are bound to defend the ethical foundations of human society whensoever they are assailed.” “ The Masonic cry is for light and that Masonry is a science of ‘morality’ veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.” Mackey. Would this ethical appeal annoy or disconcert the lustful ceremony of morbid folly that is emblazoned at the Shriners' festive board, where the high and mighty Mason is challenged on his honor as to his moral obligations of conscientious manhood to serve God and humanity? Mark you! not as a human being of common clay, but as an exalted Master Mason, feathered with a peacock's pride, where his little red cap is a reminder of the cardinal's red cap. Family ties. “Freemasonry was instituted chiefly as the result of religious quarrels under ecclesiastical authority and social conditions, which prompted the better element to recon- struct society on a purely human basis.” “ The ancient lodges had ceased to exist and the new lodges began as “convivial' societies, while the Masonic spirit developed slowly and was not a complete revival of the old Masonic system.” Modern or speculative Masonry dates from the Grand Lodge of England, June 24, 1717, but the essential organ- ization was not completed until 1722, by the new Book of Constitution and the three degrees of apprenticeship, fel- lowship, and mastership. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 265 MODERN FREEMASONRY “In 1738 papal opposition was started by Pope Clement the Twelfth from a feeling of jealousy at the growth of Masonry.” The opposition based their claim on four reasons. 1. “It was unsectarian. 2. “ There was secrecy. 3. “There was oath of fidelity with a penalty for viola- tion of the obligation. 4. “ There was danger to the state and spiritual health of soul, contrary to public order." The Catholics claimed that Masonry had an ultimate pur- pose to overthrow the whole religious, political, and social order based on Christian institutions and establish laws of pure naturalism. "In view of these conditions the Catholics since 1738 are under penalty of excommunication by the pope and are strictly forbidden to enter or promote in any way Masonic societies.” Anything in doubt is referred to the Holy See. “ Catholics claim that Freemasonry undermines Catholic faith in life by promoting religious indifference, as Free- masonry is naturalism opposed to super-naturalism.” As one good turn deserves another, possibly the fervent Catholics were overanxious to repeat the “ loving torture” they administered with sacred devotion to the Knights Templars of the holy crusade by wiping them out a second time and thereby removing a thorn in the monopoly of ignorant souls through a subtle faith, a grasping and greedy monopoly to honor the name of Jesus, for blessed are the pure in “heart.” “In the United States the characteristic tendency is toward the public display of temples, processions, and feasts, where the Masons on this continent have gone mad reaching after high degrees and grand titles.” 268 CHRISTIAN WISDOM THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS The Knights Templars were of humble origin as the earliest founders of military orders, with a marvelous growth and a tragic end. They were called “poor” knights from the temple of Jerusalem or poor fellow soldiers of Christ. In 1118 A. D. Hugh de Payne, a French knight of Cham- pagne, together with eight companions, took a solemn oath before the Patriarch of Jerusalem to defend the Christian kingdom - physically, not spiritually. They posed as Christian followers overflowing with reli- gious passion and a strong personal desire for material achievement, wearing a long white habit with a blood-red cross. Their initiation was by secret rites, which were held in the chapter, where they renounced all the pleasures of life to accomplish their purpose with a “blind obedience” in all things. They were lions in war and monks in the chapel, as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. How remarkable that history should repeat itself in the present era of Knights Templars, where the bleeding red cross of “holiness” has been substituted for the subtle black cross of “ diplomacy,” from the cowl to the frock. But alas, both are recognized as undesirable methods to bait the hook of “blind obedience,” as one leads to the modern method of baptism in stagnant waters, while the other was the ancient baptism in rivers of blood. Brother, arise from the shallowness of thy perversion and bathe in the crystal waters of spirit intelligence that flows with eternal truth. Let the family skeleton of selfish “personality” cease to mock in hollow tones by the regeneration of an awakened soul with a universal purpose. 270 CHRISTIAN WISDOM bership ” and wash their crimson garments in the holy water of Catholic absolution, so that the saints could in- augurate a “temporary shelter” called the Order of Hospitalers. The lion or “ blood element,” with a little red cross, who remained loyal and active Knights Templars from the sifting, were publicly accused of denying Christ, spitting on the cross, and worshiping an idol. Hands up! such a cute little trick for saints who were anointed with holy water and absolution. As a speedy preventative to preserve the “ chastity” of the Roman Catholic church, Philip the Fourth took the initiative in 1307 A. D. and ordered the arrest of all active Knights Templars in France, where they were accused of the most atrocious crimes, backed by an overwhelming flow of evidence. Poor little Christian soldiers of the Catholic church, for at the trial most of them (so history has recorded) admitted their guilt to the charges of outrage and were fed as fuel to the flames at the altar of the burning stake. “For vengeance is mine saith the Lord.” What a glorious ordeal of extermination for pious Chris- tians to glory in and “profit” thereby in the sequel. Finally, with the united effort of King Philip the Fourth and Pope Clement the Fifth, the power behind the throne, the Order of Knights Templars was completely suppressed in March, 1312, and the “pyramid of wealth,” after being thoroughly absolved from scarlet taint, was turned over to the purified monks of blind obedience, called the Order of Hospitalers, as the only remaining heirs to the property, to be used strictly in the “ethical defense” of holy places. Safe in the arms of Clement the Fifth. It was where the little red cap took the little red cross under its sheltering wing of paternal affection. What was the skeleton in the closet? Why money, the root of evil. Like the dust of an earthy to-day the Order of Hospi- talers soon faded to the sepulcher of memory, but the finan- 272 CHRISTIAN WISDOM From the foregoing facts it is plain to be seen that the religious and sacred rites of Ragon and Abiff were muti- lated and perverted even from the time of Solomon by in- culcating terror-stricken oaths of secrecy and servitude whereby the soul of a Mason was fettered. It withered the expression of an honest conviction and deprived him from taking a definite action against a wayward or villain- ous Mason in Masonic standing, of which there are many, while a mortal who is devoid of a social protection from Masonic law is persecuted to the legal limit without con- sideration of any kind. Does this attitude of clannish distinction and permanent evasion to punishment appeal to the spirit of manhood and justice in your soul as worthy of a divine inspection? Can Divinity make a separation between souls coming under Universal Law? When Divinity is a part of each and every human soul is it even tolerant to one with an ordinary spark of human intelligence or “legal ” justice? Admitting a man is not a Freemason, would you fail to honor with justice the spark of Divinity within that man when Divinity is a part of each human soul, even though you are under the Masonic oath of a selfish protection that shouts liberty and conscience for the upliftment of human- ity in one voice and brotherhood for the brethren in an- other voice? Can you desert any soul when all have the spark of Divinity within the soul? Brother, if you still persist in this clannish distinction of insignia, the reflection will singe the inflated importance of your own individual self with a profound sting of re- morse unless the callousness of hypocrisy has thoroughly deprived you as a Mason of all moral decency or respect to even the fringe of judicial justice. CHRISTIAN WISDOM 273 How can you intelligently have a brotherhood except it be a universal brotherhood of souls (not the physical body), as you know that Divinity is a part within each human soul? Then the greater the number of societies into which you divide humanity the greater will be the unrest of Divinity within each mortal until all souls are brought under one Universal Law of Divinity. As Divinity has no secrets in divisions or against him- self, the spark of Divinity in all will be restless until all come under the peace and harmony of one understanding. Brother, why not examine yourself from within to see if there is left the remnant of hope to purify the decay of a selfish union, typified as the brotherhood of man under the seal of Divinity, with liberty and conscience as your altar in the Sanctum Sanctorum or Holy of Holies? Remember that atonement is the open door leading to the wisdom of Divinity and not the idolized and cherished customs of specialized physical benefits for the gratifica- tion of self. Never was knight-errant offered a more sacred oppor- tunity to emblazon the power of Divinity and the truth of righteousness than through Freemasonry. This was a sacred mission that the saints might envy and glory in, where the purity of their purpose merited the harvest of a perfect sowing to swell the army of the Lord, and such a noble army, of which the Crusaders never dreamed. But, when the responsibility of trust and a sublime un- derstanding of Divinity are substituted for low comedy and the freakish maneuvers of degenerate mannerisms, then Masonic forms will some day be cast in the melting pot or precipitated in obscurity, and from the ash heap of tinsel toys will rise the regeneration of a deserving brotherhood with purity and solemnity. This would be worthy of eternal glory and pregnant with confidence, love, and understanding, instead of the slavish servitude with fear and trembling through igno- 274 CHRISTIAN WISDOM rance and superstition as the symbolic mystery of soul rot. When Masonry closed the north gate of the temple it excluded the only hope of soul salvation, as the east, west, and south gates represented the magnetic or material trimmings of a physical personality. Then open the north gate to your temple as the electric gate of spiritual unfold- ment and dedicate it as the entrance to an eternal soul understanding, where the glory of God abideth with thee forevermore. Brother Masons have been warned repeatedly that unless they pay more attention to the pure, simple, and beautiful symbolism of the lodge and less to the gold tinsel and fine feathers of Scottish rites and templarism, the craft will be shaken to its very foundation through the handwriting on the wall. SAPERE AUDE – DARE TO DO RIGHT THE MASONIC REQUIEM When truth is crushed and conscience hushed, That brands you with dishonor, Can Masons claim a sacred name Without respect or honor? Freemason! Aye, that honored name, 'Twas paved with good intention, For men to tread in virtue's path, And keep them from transgressi ht But do they tread in virtue's pat As righteous in their calling, And would they dare expose S Or grant an overhauling? Be loyal is their sacred theme Be loyal to a brother, And should one sin, why cov To screen a "loyal ” brother - - -