GIFT OF 
 
 r* 
 
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 
 
 AN INTERPRETATION 
 
 THE CONSTITUTION OF 
 THE SPIRITUAL UNIVERSE. 
 
 REV. GEO. CHAINEY. 
 
 " If there be a messenger with him, an inter- 
 " preter, one among a thousand, to show unto 
 " man his uprightness: Then he is gracious unto 
 " him, and faith, Deliver him from going down 
 " to the pit: I hrve fcund a rarsom." 
 
 Job 33- 'z.i, '*4 
 
 CHICAGO: 
 STOCKHAM PUBLISHING CO. 
 
Entered according to Act of Congress, 
 in the year 1900, 
 
 BY GEORGE CHAINEY, 
 
 In the Office of Librarian of Congresi, at 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
TABLE OP CONTENTS 
 
 Page 
 
 A Foreword 7 
 
 Command- 
 ments. 
 
 1 The Law of Light 19 
 
 2 The Law of Revelation .... 29 
 
 3 The Law of Knowledge. ... 39 
 
 4 The Law of Might 49 
 
 5 The Law of Counsel 61 
 
 6 The Law of Understanding . 69 
 
 7 The Law of Wisdom 83 
 
 8 The Law of Holiness 91 
 
 9 The Law of the Manifest. . . 99 
 10 The Law of the Unmanifest . 109 
 The Law of the Law, or The One 
 
 Thing Needful 121 
 
 An Afterword 127 
 
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A FOREWORD. 
 
 GOD is. He who is sup- 
 posed to be unknowable, is 
 ready to be known. To know 
 God is to have intercourse with 
 the mighty company of the 
 Celestial Host in dream and 
 vision without loss of conscious- 
 ness or of intelligence of the 
 world without. God is a mul- 
 titude as well as one. He di- 
 vides Himself that we may re- 
 ceive Him according to our 
 capacity. These divisions are 
 many. The greatest, how- 
 ever, are the sacred seven 
 spirits of Light, Revelation, 
 Knowledge, Might, Counsel, 
 Understanding and Wisdom. 
 These seven, operating as one, 
 constitute Holiness. When 
 this Holiness of the Heavens 
 
A shall be fully ex- 
 
 POREWORD. pressed in the 
 Holiness or Wholeness of man's 
 life in time, God will be re- 
 vealed. This is God as the 
 Lord the Manifest, who is the 
 neighbor or perfect grace and 
 companion of God as the Un- 
 manifest. These divisions are 
 the greater Gods or Angels of 
 every religion. The true relig- 
 ion includes every expression 
 of its life. This interpretation 
 of the law, as embodied in the 
 ten commandments, that gov- 
 erns the seven-fold life of God, 
 and its method of transfer into 
 the life of man, is but one 
 branch plucked from a mighty 
 tree whereon is food for all. 
 The value of these words is not 
 in themselves, but in their 
 power to hold a light and 
 show the way to this Tree 
 8 
 
A of L i f e . This 
 
 FOREWORD. . , 
 
 tree is Revela- 
 tion, bearing its twelve manner 
 of fruits, the twelve gifts, rep- 
 resented by the twelve tribes 
 of Israel, and the twelve Apos- 
 tles of the Lord. These are 
 also Gods and are to be known 
 and possessed as living com- 
 panions in the day of the Lord. 
 "And it shall come to pass in 
 "that day, that the light shall 
 "not be clear, nor dark; but 
 "it shall be one day which 
 "shall be known to the Lord, 
 "not day nor night: but it shall 
 "come to pass, that at evening 
 ' ' time it shall be light. " 
 
 This is the union of the day 
 and night of conscious intelli- 
 gence in sleep, and intelligent 
 conscious sight, hearing and 
 touch of the Spiritual Host when 
 awake. This is the Tree of 
 
A Life, guarded 
 
 by Cherubim - 
 those grasped. Cherubim are 
 composite figures, representing 
 the four great divisions of life 
 in spirit and body, soul and 
 mind. These are respectively 
 the four cardinal points of East 
 and West, North and South of 
 the new state of existence that 
 lieth four-square. To live here 
 is to rightly divide and hold all 
 things together of interest of 
 both the natural in the spiritual 
 and the spiritual in the natural. 
 This equal interest of matter 
 and spirit, time and eternity, 
 intelligence and goodness, man 
 and God, is the stone long re- 
 jected of the builders, now to 
 become the head of the corner. 
 Here all things of the heavens 
 and the earth meet and mingle. 
 It is by searching out and 
 
A knowing these 
 
 FOREWORD. things that men 
 live. Man's future is on earth. 
 The victory over death will 
 come through a state of equi- 
 librium between the principle 
 of waste and supply, by which 
 death will be discharged from 
 the service of life. The only 
 power that can redeem the 
 flesh from corruption and per- 
 petually renew the body's life 
 is the fruit of the Tree of Life, 
 partaken with the leaves, that 
 are for healing, for the leaves 
 denote intelligence of the vision. 
 This is the law that must be ful- 
 filled. All shall arrive. The 
 Spirit in Time will be faithful 
 to the Spirit in Eternity, and 
 never will the Eternal Spirit do 
 for man what man can do for 
 himself. "And it shall be in 
 "that day, that living waters 
 
A - s h a 1 1 go out 
 
 -from Jerusalem, 
 * * half of them toward the former 
 -sea, and half of them toward 
 -the hinder sea; in summer 
 -and in winter shall it be." 
 In these writings the sea and 
 water represent consciousness, 
 the feminine state, and the land 
 intelligence or the masculine. 
 The former sea is the first state 
 of consciousness in revelation 
 from the spirit as a mystery. 
 The hinder sea is the spiritual 
 consciousness made one with 
 the consciousness of the body's 
 life. The summer is the heat 
 of the mind and the winter the 
 white purity of the soul's per- 
 fect goodness in the union of 
 each in all and of all in each, of 
 man in God and of God in man. 
 Then will God be as visible in 
 all the objective world as He is 
 
A realizable in the 
 
 spiritual. 
 
 This is the goal. This is the 
 purpose God purposed when He 
 resolved to make man in His 
 own image. This purpose has 
 never changed, nor ever halted. 
 We are speeding to this end, as 
 swiftly as justice to both God 
 and man will permit. The only 
 evil is the absence of the spirit- 
 ual from the natural, or of the 
 natural from the spiritual. 
 When each shall be filled with 
 the other, the perfect law will 
 be fulfilled in the perfect beati- 
 tudes of grace. Then evil will 
 be no more. 
 
 The ten great commandments 
 are the constitution of the spir- 
 itual universe. They are the 
 absolute conditions under which 
 the Divine Being passes into the 
 nature of man. They are the 
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A discovery of God 
 
 to God. God 
 here communes with Himself 
 and reveals to each division of 
 His own Spirit the destiny im- 
 posed upon each by virtue of its 
 relation to the whole. The first 
 seven commandments concern 
 the Sacred Seven of Light, Rev- 
 elation, Knowledge, Might, 
 Counsel, Understanding and 
 Wisdom. The eighth pertains 
 to the Holy Spirit the full oc- 
 tave. The ninth is the law of 
 the Lord the Manifest. The 
 tenth the law of God the Un- 
 manifest. They contain the 
 whole law that is to be further 
 expanded and illustrated in the 
 method of its work. In them 
 is the very essence of the full- 
 ness of life and knowledge. 
 
The Law of Light. 
 
First Commandment. 
 
 EXODUS XX : i, 2, 3, 
 
 am tft 
 
 bv0Mjfet tfc^^ 0ut 
 , 0ut 0f the 
 
THE LAW or Thefirstcommand 
 
 LIGHT. . 
 
 prescribes the 
 law of Light. Man cannot re- 
 ceive God in His fullness at the 
 beginning. So God divides 
 Himself for the purpose of 
 transmission. God is both the 
 one and the many. Of the 
 many, the first God must be 
 the operation of the Spirit as 
 Light. The Lord who speaks 
 is Jehovah. He is the First and 
 the Last. He lightens from the 
 Heavens and rains upon the 
 earth. He makes or causes all 
 things to come to pass. He de- 
 livers the spiritual Host of liv- 
 ing truths from the narrow state 
 of mind and brings them out 
 into the larger life of the mu- 
 tual relations of spirit and 
 body, soul and mind. Of the 
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THE LAW OP first) the begin- 
 LIGHT. f ..? 
 
 ning of all things 
 
 in Light, it is said: "Thou 
 shalt have no other Gods be- 
 fore me." The spiritual life in 
 man can know nothing com- 
 pletely at the first. All Divine 
 life in man begins with the first 
 flash of light, dividing itself from 
 the darkness, prompting to wor- 
 ship and to seek the source and 
 cause of life. Before this, man 
 has no place in the world of life, 
 save in the mere form that has 
 been evolved and prepared for 
 such awakening and reception 
 of the varied intelligence with 
 consciousness that makes the 
 character called man . There is 
 no other beginning in either the 
 race or individual. No one can 
 climb up by any other way. No 
 one by force or intellectual seek- 
 ing can enter into the later qual- 
 
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THE LAW or ities of God's life 
 who does not ap- 
 proach them through simple 
 religion. 
 
 Light as Religion, comes be- 
 fore any philosophy or creed. 
 Without Religion there can be 
 no other acquaintance with God. 
 He who is not religious in this 
 primary sense is temporarily 
 color-blind, or like one who is 
 without any ear for music. To 
 take the word of such concern- 
 ing God and the soul, is like 
 taking the judgment of one coi- 
 or-blind in art, or appointing 
 one without an ear for harmony 
 as a teacher or critic of music. 
 Such defects are not irremedia- 
 ble. In another embodiment 
 the missing part will be found. 
 All shall arrive. Time will not 
 fail until that which is lost is 
 found. But there can be no 
 
UGHT 
 
 ment in spiritual 
 
 life that does not rest upon sim- 
 ple religion . ' * Thou shalt have 
 no other Gods before me." This 
 is the first and the last. This is 
 the first quality and in its com- 
 pleteness the highest. There is 
 nothing superior to this feeling 
 of the heart in its hunger for the 
 cause and source of all life. All 
 the strange ways of religion will 
 be justified at the last. Man is 
 to know and approve in religion 
 of the very nature of God. 
 Those who criticize and reject 
 religious light and feeling as a 
 moral defect, or as the survival 
 of barbaric ignorance and su- 
 perstition may in other things 
 do good work. But for them 
 there is no further advance; no 
 higher ideal or God, until they 
 have entered the kingdom of 
 
THE LAW or Light and learned 
 LIGHT. to hunger and 
 
 thirst for God, as the source of 
 all life. It is only by much 
 ardent devotion in the spirit of 
 Light, worshipping God, even 
 in the darkness of the mind, 
 that we are prepared to enter 
 the larger cycles of God's life in 
 man. In the finality of Light 
 man will know that the One in- 
 cludes the All. Then Religion 
 will embrace and hold all Re- 
 ligions. Then all the Mighty 
 Host of spiritual forms will be 
 the messengers of the One God 
 and Father of all. The com- 
 plete man can have no God that 
 is not the God of Gods and Light 
 of every enlightenment. Such 
 will have interest in every form 
 of religion that has touched the 
 hearts of men with wonder, love 
 or praise towards a power 
 
 23 
 
THE LAW OP greater than 
 LIGHT. themselves. The 
 
 most exclusive is the only in- 
 clusive. The complete man will 
 see that each changing ideal in 
 Religion has been beautiful in 
 its own place and time. He 
 will see that such change must 
 continue until in all our world 
 all shall see and know, know 
 and see the All in the One and 
 the One in the All : Man in 
 God and God in Man. 
 
The Law of Revelation. 
 
Second Commandment. 
 
 EXODUS XX : 4, 5, 6. 
 
 irtialt not make unto tkee 
 ant) 0m f en im*g* , or ang likened 
 0f tti)tkiu0 tknt ij8i in S^av^n ^ft0v^ t 
 or tkat i in th^ ^Hrtk Ireiu^tk, ov 
 tkat i^ in tke wate* wntl^r tk^e j 
 kou i&k^lt not how down 
 to tkm t not mve tkem: for 1 tk* 
 l^otd tkg (Sod urn n jenlou^ 
 Siting the iniquity of tke 
 upon tke rhiUvnt unto tke tkint 
 fourtk flenetntion of tkem ttot Imte 
 me; %n& skewing merea unto tkou- 
 0wtd0 of tkem tknt love me, and 
 keep m 
 
THE LAW or The second 
 REVELATION. CO mmand in this 
 constitution of the spiritual uni- 
 verse relates to the Spirit of 
 Revelation. While Revelation 
 is the greatest of all mysteries, 
 even this mystery is finally to 
 be added to the kingdom of the 
 known. While the beauty of 
 the form of Revelation is the 
 beauty of absolute perfection, 
 such beauty is only to be fully 
 enjoyed after man has found it 
 to be but the ever changing ex- 
 pression of the dear life of a 
 personal God. Revelation is 
 never a fixed quantity. It is a 
 language perpetually expanding 
 by the drawing out of the things 
 of Eternity and the drawing in 
 of the things of Time. After 
 this there will be still a law of 
 29 
 
THE LAW OF change and ex- 
 REVELATION, pansion in the 
 growing capacity of man to ex- 
 plore still further into the depths 
 of the infinite love and wisdom 
 of God. While Revelation is 
 full of the things in heaven and 
 earth and of the water, or con- 
 sciousness, beneath man's in- 
 telligence, there are none of 
 these to which the Spirit of 
 Revelation can say: "Be my 
 complete embodiment." There 
 may be the highest perfection 
 in the unity of spirit and body 
 or of soul and mind, and yet 
 then the capacity of life will be 
 subject to eternal growth, and 
 its attainments stretch far be- 
 yond the power of this might- 
 iest of all languages to reveal 
 in any one form. 
 
 The mightiest speech of Rev- 
 elation is the symbolism of the 
 30 
 
THE LAW OP cherubim-those 
 REVELATION. , 
 
 grasped, c o m - 
 
 posite forms that represent the 
 four fold nature of spirit and 
 body, soul and mind. But these 
 are only the guardians of the 
 Tree of Life. Should these be 
 converted into a creed, a definite 
 conception or form exhausting 
 all perfection, we would but give 
 our affections to the doorkeep- 
 ers of the mansion of life, in- 
 stead of passing within to the 
 company of the King and Queen 
 and the feast of life's abundance 
 of all good things. 
 
 He who causes all things to 
 be, is a jealous God. True jeal- 
 ousy is never cruel. Divine 
 jealousy holds in reserve the 
 best for the best. Only the 
 fullest and most universal in- 
 telligence can have the joy of 
 the cosmic consciousness. Be- 
 31 
 
THE LAW OP fore any one can 
 REVELATION - know the fullness 
 of the Unmanifest he must be 
 true to the law of the Mani- 
 fest. Those that hate and turn 
 away from the great labor to 
 know and to do the will of God 
 must suffer disappointment and 
 affliction, until they learn to love 
 all the way as well as the end 
 thereof. 
 
 The imperfection of every- 
 thing that is eternal rests upon 
 the long travail of the Spirit in 
 Time. This must continue until 
 the third or fourth generation. 
 Nothing is perfect until it has 
 reached the fourfold state. 
 There must be at-one-ment of 
 spirit and body, and of soul and 
 mind. Nothing short of this 
 can content the mighty love of 
 God. God is jealous for His 
 children. He will not allow 
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THE LAW Or them even to 
 
 REVELATION. , ^, 
 
 cheat themselves. 
 
 Whenever we are content with 
 the part, He sends into the ob- 
 ject of our love, some stroke 
 of affliction that reveals its 
 incompleteness and causes us to 
 take up our journey to the end 
 purposed for us from the begin- 
 ning. These are the mercies 
 that are shown to those who love 
 and keep God's commandments. 
 The great Spirits of the Elohim 
 never bow the knee to Baal- 
 lord or master. They never 
 force upon man anything. 
 These all love and revere the 
 long travail of the Spirit in Time 
 to bring forth the perfection of 
 God in full honor and justice to 
 man. No matter how often we 
 may think to transcend this law, 
 the great love and jealousy of 
 God for our final good will find 
 33 
 
THE LAW Or us Qut The 
 
 REVELATION. 
 
 true heart of God 
 
 will never be content until He 
 has bestowed His very best 
 upon all the worlds that He has 
 created. 
 
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The Law of Knowledge. 
 
Third Commandment, 
 
 EXODUS XX : 7. 
 
 $h0u tfhatt n0t tafee the name 0f 
 the i^rtd tfeg (S0^i iw vain; f0y the 
 Iprffl wtitt 0t h0M him 
 that tafeeth hfe name in vain. 
 
mand of this great 
 constitution of the Spiritual 
 Universe pertains to the Spirit 
 of Knowledge. The name is the 
 character. The character is 
 never represented by word 
 alone. No fullness of speech, 
 out of the fullness of conscious- 
 ness, will ever express the per- 
 fect character of truth. While 
 Spiritual Knowledge is pre-em- 
 inently a state of consciousness, 
 it is not perfect until the mys- 
 tery of life is fully married to 
 the strength of intelligence. 
 There may be an intellectual 
 grasp of things in their uni- 
 versal relations that is not one 
 with life, as well as a fullness of 
 consciousness apart from the 
 unity of intelligence. Neither of 
 
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THE LAW OP these states can 
 KNOWLEDGE. be regarded as 
 
 guiltless. Each is crooked or 
 onesided. The work of the 
 Spirit of Knowledge will not be 
 complete until the spiritual 
 state of knowing is married to 
 that which comes of the long 
 labor of man to search out the 
 natural law and facts of the ma- 
 terial world. 
 
 There is a Divine Realism 
 as well as a Divine Idealism. 
 There is a possible speech that 
 is true to the material facts as 
 well as to the eternal beauty 
 and glory of the moral sense. 
 Moral beauty in its utmost 
 strength and perfection alone, 
 without intelligence, will rust 
 and crumble away in time like 
 the strength of iron. We shall 
 never be immortally strong until 
 God's strength touches man's 
 40 
 
THE LAW OP strength. When 
 KNOWLEDGE. 
 
 to live in us and we feel to 
 know, we do not know in the 
 perfect sense, unless this feel- 
 ing of the poet is allied to ex- 
 actness and loyalty to the laws 
 of chemistry, the facts of grav- 
 itation, the geography and his- 
 tory of the material world. 
 Such knowledge comes both by 
 Time and Eternity. It is of all 
 man's striving as well as of 
 God's giving. 
 
 As Revelation increases man 
 will at first incline to trust this 
 great and beautiful speech too 
 much for knowledge. The 
 forms of men, the facts of his- 
 tory, the elements of nature, 
 and the physical divisions of our 
 globe will live therein; and yet 
 these things cannot be trusted 
 from the material standpoint 
 41 
 
any more than 
 KNOWLEDGE. . J 
 
 the science, 
 
 geography, and history of our 
 earlier Revelations. This is the 
 thing that has to be learned in 
 regard to Knowledge. This is 
 the growth in man for which 
 this Spirit must wait before the 
 spontaneous utterance of the 
 Spirit's life can be perfectly free 
 of guilt. c When we have fully 
 absorbed nature; when we know 
 the limitations of both the in- 
 tellectual and conscious divi- 
 sions of life, and have brought 
 the two together into a just and 
 equal marriage, then will the 
 poetic beauty of the heavensin 
 spontaneous song clothe the 
 dry facts of material knowledge 
 with the moral beauty and 
 sweetness of the soul's life. 
 
 These are the laws of God 
 that must be kept, because 
 42 
 
they are the lim- 
 
 THE LAW OP 
 
 KNOWLEDGE. 
 
 God has proscribed to each di- 
 vision of His Own Spirit in the 
 interest of the whole. To ap- 
 ply these to man's actions alone 
 is but the playful ignorance of 
 our world's childhood. As soon 
 as we become men we shall put 
 away these childish things. 
 
 43 
 
The Law of Might. 
 
Fourth Commandment. 
 
 EXODUS XX : 8, 9, 10, n. 
 
 the 0#hlwth day, t0 
 
 it Ju% $** ** Jftatt than 
 and d0 #tt tfey writ: ^ut 
 the ^v^wtfc jflajj ij$ tft^ ^btath 0f 
 th^ Iprtrt th 0: in it thou 
 nat 40 any w0ffe t th0u, 
 nor thy dHttflhtet, tbg 
 nay tha tn^itetVKttt, n0t 
 w0tr thy ^ttawji^v thut %# within tht) 
 
 in $\x &%%$ the 
 heaven ^nd e^tth, the #e, 
 ^U that in them te, nfl tested the 
 seventh fl^tj : wthetef0te the ffetf 
 the sabbath 4ug m& hul- 
 it* 
 
THE LAW OP The fourth com- 
 mand of this unal- 
 terable constitution of the Spir- 
 itual Universe governs the con- 
 duct of the Spirit of Might. The 
 usual idea of the Sabbath has 
 about as much to do with this 
 constitution as children playing 
 at marbles. The One Labor 
 along whose path of arduous 
 toil Divine Love has placed 
 bowers of rest, is the Mighty 
 Labor to bring the heavens and 
 earth, eternity and time, God 
 and man, together into one all 
 comprehensive, divided, and yet 
 undivided intelligence and con- 
 sciousness of being. While this 
 is the task of each division, it is 
 in the central life of the fourth 
 the connecting link of the 
 upper and lower triads that 
 49 
 
THE LAW OP the greatness 
 MIGHT. of the task is 
 
 found. The word sabbath spir- 
 itually means host. On the 
 fourth day are made sun, moon, 
 and stars. The mind of God 
 consecrated the seventh day to 
 rest, because ' ' in six days the 
 Lord made heaven and earth, 
 the sea and all that in them is, 
 and rested the seventh day." 
 The sixth day is the toil to un- 
 derstand. After anything to be 
 done is clearly understood the 
 mind has rest in its creative 
 task. 
 
 The rest of the Divine Mind 
 is the perfect adaptation of the 
 heavens to the earth. Each is 
 made for the other. Without 
 the inception and stimulating 
 power of Revelation there would 
 be no intelligence. Without 
 intelligence to search, to ob- 
 50 
 
THE LAW OP S erve, and finally 
 to clearly .com- 
 prehend, the life of vision would 
 but waste its sweetness upon 
 a barren desert. Without the 
 land, the great sea would be but 
 a shoreless waste and empty 
 void; while withoutthe sea from 
 which to draw the treasures of 
 rain, the land would remain but 
 a vast and treeless desert of 
 barren rocks and drifting sands; 
 so would be intelligence and 
 consciousness without each 
 other. So would man be with- 
 out God and God without man. 
 While these great divisions 
 are, in the ultimate perfection 
 of all things, to perfectly know 
 each other, there is to be no vio- 
 lation of this mutual relation and 
 independence. Along the path 
 of this toil there will be periods 
 when the heavens seem silent; 
 5* 
 
THE LAW or an d others when 
 MIGHT. the intellectual 
 
 life is wholly subdued by the 
 mighty force of Revelation. 
 But from time to time the per- 
 fect relation and ministry of the 
 two will be seen and known. 
 Then will Rest be found . Then 
 will the spirit of man be as the 
 Spirit of God in its quiet con- 
 fidence and certitude of the final 
 good and perfect salvation of 
 every soul. 
 
 The idea of the Sabbath even 
 in its literalness is never one of 
 complete cessation. Works of 
 necessity have always been al- 
 lowed. The true Sabbath is a 
 time when man works of neces- 
 sity. Destiny and exertion have 
 come so close together that they 
 act in perfect concert. The ' ' I 
 ought " has seen and embraced 
 the "I would." The pain of 
 52 
 
THE LAW or duty has been 
 MIGHT. swallowed up in 
 
 the life of pleasure. The day 
 and the night, the heavens and 
 the earth, have come so close 
 together that there is no fur- 
 ther struggle to come into touch 
 with each other. Effort has 
 ceased to be painful in its en- 
 tire spontaneity. While toil 
 and suffering remain they are 
 still states of rest and quiet 
 waiting upon God in Time, with 
 equal confidence of God in 
 Eternity. Everything that is 
 mightily understood adds its 
 quota to this growing rest. In 
 the green tree there is no fur- 
 ther struggle to draw life from 
 the dead. 
 
 Sons and daughters, maid- 
 servants and manservants, 
 states of intelligence and con- 
 sciousness both of the spiritual 
 
 53 
 
THE LAW or and the natural, 
 MIGHT. , ~, 
 
 have rest. There 
 
 is rest even with the cat- 
 tle, the further toil to under- 
 stand. There is rest also for 
 the stranger the ecclesiastical 
 state in Religion. In the right 
 relation of the heavens and the 
 earth these cease to strive with 
 violence, reaching to a feeling 
 of confidence and universality 
 of expectation touching the 
 final good. Though Revelation 
 bring pain of reconstruction 
 it is welcomed with gladness. 
 Though the moral and intel- 
 lectual nature set loftier heights 
 in front to be scaled, it is with 
 calm confidence that the sum- 
 mit is attainable. Though our 
 rest is divided by many enlarge- 
 ments of the creative power, 
 each cycle brings us nearer to 
 the everlasting Rest remaining 
 
 54 
 
THE LAW OP to the people of 
 MIGHT. God. This Rest 
 
 will come when all the Liv- 
 ing Host of the heavens have 
 place in the normal and intelli- 
 gent self-consciousness of the 
 most highly cultivated state of 
 man upon earth. This is the 
 goal towards which all our feet 
 are set in the ways of God. 
 When we stand on the summit 
 of Time overlooking Eternity, 
 our feet will no more know 
 weariness and our hands will 
 never again fall listless to our 
 sides. The things of the Spirit 
 and of nature will fit so closely 
 together that each will contin- 
 ually renew and keep perfect 
 the life of the other. 
 
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The Law of Counsel. 
 
Fifth Commandment. 
 
 EXODUS XX : 12. 
 
 thy fath^ and thy nwth- 
 e* : that thy day# mas he long ttpw 
 the land which the l^ffl thy <S0d 
 rjiveth thee, 
 
THE LAW OP In the sweet coun- 
 sels of God the 
 law of existence is revealed. 
 Such life, in truth, will have but 
 a short life, unless it is honor- 
 able both to the heavens and 
 the earth. Should God speak 
 to man direct, writing His will 
 every night in fiery letters across 
 the sky, He would glorify Rev- 
 elation but dishonor man's in- 
 i 
 
 telligence. In communing 
 with Himself, God has discov- 
 ered the just relation between 
 Himself and all men. The im- 
 mortal state of truth must in- 
 clude alike the fullness of man's 
 intelligence and of Divine Re- 
 vealing. Nothing can remain 
 stable that has not reached to 
 the dual state. We must have, 
 at last, the faculty to live in 
 
THE LAW or the vision of 
 COUNSEL. God and at the 
 
 same time attend to the busi- 
 ness of the material world. If 
 we sacrifice the common for the 
 uncommon, the profane for the 
 sacred, we have not yet learned 
 the law of immortal life. At- 
 tention to every earthly duty; 
 prudence, foresight, and care 
 for material interests are also 
 sacred duties when married to 
 spiritual devotion. 
 
 The land that God has given 
 to be finally possessed of the 
 spiritual people, is the earthly 
 state found in the heavens, and 
 the heavenly naturalized in the 
 earthly. Nothing is final that 
 is wanting on either side. The 
 conditioned is to be made bear- 
 able by the absolute and the 
 absolute understandable by the 
 conditioned. This is the land 
 
THE LAW Or flowing with 
 
 COUNSEL. . , 
 
 milk and honey. 
 
 This is the state out of which 
 all the earlier law and onesided 
 degrees of Religion are to be 
 cast. We must learn to do our 
 best and at the same time have 
 perfect trust in the help of God. 
 We must learn to seek God in 
 the natural as well as in the 
 spiritual. The consciousness 
 of earth is the wife of the intel- 
 ligence of the heavens, and the 
 consciousness of the heavens 
 the spouse of the intelligence 
 of the earth. Each is dual. 
 This mother is both above and 
 below. While we have two 
 fathers and two mothers they 
 are in the ultimate but one. 
 The Divine law rests upon the 
 equality of the male and female. 
 Anything short of equal honor 
 between these is of a mortal 
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THE LAW OP strain. This 
 equal balancing 
 of all things will be the ripe 
 fruit of Time and of Eternity. 
 God honors man by giving to 
 him the labt>r of Time, and man 
 honors God in giving to God all 
 that is forever, From God 
 comes all inception. He is the 
 primeval and the final, the be- 
 ginning and the end. That 
 which lies between pertains to 
 the co-operative life between 
 God and man. Nothing shall 
 reach the end that is not blessed 
 alike of God and man, honor- 
 ing both father and mother. 
 
 6 4 
 
The Law of Understanding. 
 
Sixth Commandment, 
 
 EXODUS XX : 13. 
 
 ja'halt not full. 
 
THELAWOP There are 
 
 UNDERSTANDING. many de _ 
 
 grees of spiritual life that are 
 born to slay and dispossess. 
 But those who live by the 
 sword shall also die thereby. 
 Those that slay shall also be 
 slain. But not so the true 
 Understanding. To this por- 
 tion of Himself, in its awaken- 
 ing in the life of humanity, 
 God has said the word: ' * Thou 
 shalt not kill." Those who 
 understand, looking out over 
 the world of ideas and feelings 
 and seeing those that are to be 
 slain, see at the same time 
 other states and feelings, that 
 are following swift on their 
 footsteps with the Divine im- 
 pulse to slay; for thus is evil 
 given to evil. 
 
 69 
 
THE LAW OP While Un- 
 
 UNDERSTANNNQ. derstanding 
 
 is commanded not to kill, yet it 
 is a great warrior. The victories 
 of peace are greater than those 
 of war. Those who seek no 
 proselytes often win the most 
 converts to what they teach. 
 Those who bide fast in their 
 own convictions, yet draw all 
 men unto them. While this 
 Spirit never attacks it is ever 
 ready for self defense. The 
 one thing most essential to 
 Understanding is the sacred- 
 ness of the individual. There 
 is nothing essential in asso- 
 ciated life that is inconsistent 
 with personal freedom of inter- 
 course between man and God. 
 In the laws of the world the 
 right of self-defense is regarded 
 as above the law. He who 
 kills another in preserving his 
 70 
 
THE LAW OP own life from 
 UNDERSTANDING, violence is 
 not regarded as one who slays. 
 Nations in the defense of the 
 aggregate interests of a people 
 individually and collectively, 
 take life in war and in the ad- 
 ministration of justice. This 
 is not to kill, but to make alive. 
 He who dies in battle is not 
 slain. On whichever side, the 
 right or wrong, the warrior 
 falls, he is not murdered. Such 
 are so full of life that for them 
 death is but a swift change 
 from one form of consciousness 
 to another. Such deaths are 
 removed far from those that 
 are slain without thought or 
 realization that death was near. 
 The ideas and feelings that 
 are slain in voluntary and conse- 
 crated defense of right and 
 truth, fall with honor; while 
 71 
 
THE LAW or those that are 
 
 UNDERSTANDING. slain unex . 
 
 pectedly, by intrusion of those 
 who would have all men think 
 and feel alike, die before they are 
 ready and these are murdered. 
 
 The true Understanding will 
 never proselyte. Those who 
 understand will nobly serve 
 truth, but never will they seek 
 to make converts thereto. 
 What they have is freely given 
 for all to take or to let alone, 
 and those who pass by, preoc- 
 cupied with other things, are 
 also the children of God as well 
 as those who find help and 
 sweetest consolation therein. 
 
 Many cannot teach save by 
 making disciples. The work of 
 those who understand is to set 
 men free and to turn each to the 
 light that burns within. The 
 true teacher, when he shall ar- 
 72 
 
THE LAW OF rive, will have 
 
 UNDERSTANDING. no followers. 
 
 Those who claim to follow will 
 be his worst foes. While the 
 Spirit that gives Understanding 
 is non-aggressive yet is it strong- 
 ly armed against aggression. 
 To resist intrusion is to be a true 
 friend to those who intrude. 
 There is no true health or se- 
 curity as long as man does not 
 reverence the sacred principle 
 of personality. In the crowded 
 places of progress each should 
 be protected in this respect. 
 The jostling and dispossession 
 of the crowd wherein each 
 struggles for himself is heedless 
 of this sacred right. When peo- 
 ple go in crowds the one is lost 
 in the many. There will be no 
 crowding nor haste nor pushing 
 away of others in a world of 
 understanding. The nations 
 
 73 
 
THE LAW OP will come 
 
 UNDERSTANDING. 
 
 tional agreements, that will 
 make the most of their com- 
 bined powers and yet leave to 
 each the fullest freedom for self- 
 development. Association for 
 any purpose will be brought into 
 harmony with personal whole- 
 ness and integrity and every 
 man will see in each the rep- 
 resentation of all. The under- 
 standing will give place to the 
 fullness of all natural and spirit- 
 ual activity. 
 
 No one can communicate 
 understanding. While mind 
 may instruct mind, Under- 
 standing cannot communicate. 
 This is always personal. It is 
 a state of both consciousness 
 and intelligence. It is the con- 
 sciousness of the unconscious. 
 It is as free from effort or com- 
 74 
 
THE LAW OP municable- 
 
 UNDERSTANDING. ness as the 
 
 beating of the heart. You un- 
 derstand because you must. It 
 is that which is and cannot be 
 denied, nor affirmed for another. 
 This does not kill. It never in- 
 trudes. It never slays. It comes 
 into possession only where there 
 is no one else to make a claim. 
 It takes the empty house from 
 which the one-sided spirits have 
 gone. It never comes to the 
 selfish, to the irreverent nor to 
 the undeveloped in natural ex- 
 cellence and completeness of 
 nature. It cannot be acquired 
 by any lust for the spiritual 
 that ignores anything that is 
 natural. It depends upon no 
 trick, no practices, no consent 
 of mind. It comes at the right 
 moment as the result of all that 
 is noblest and best like the per- 
 75 
 
THE LAW OF fume of the 
 
 UNDERSTANDING. flower Qr ^ 
 
 ripeness of the peach. It is a 
 power to sleep and to keep 
 awake; to wake and yet to 
 sleep; to live and to let live; to 
 act and yet remain passive; to 
 see and to know; to know and 
 to see. 
 
 The Spirit of the Under- 
 standing is the Physician of 
 God. It is the healing or 
 making whole that is Divine. 
 It is the awakening into con- 
 sciousness of the unconscious. 
 This cannot slay nor be slain. 
 This gives time and place for 
 every divided state. For it, 
 the sun stands still and the 
 moon goes not down. It no 
 more intrudes upon others than 
 does the silent spirit that tends 
 to the beating of the heart. 
 While those states of mind 
 76 
 
THE LAW or that try to 
 UNDERSTANDING, break in upon 
 this power may be slain this 
 Spirit is guiltless of the deed. 
 The blood of those who do vio- 
 lence here is upon their own 
 heads. Then the all-healing 
 work of Raphael, Physician of 
 God, will be complete. 
 
 In the finality of truth there 
 can be neither slaying nor slain. 
 The immortal truth will be the 
 sure harbinger of man's immor- 
 tality upon earth. 
 
 77 
 
The Law of Wisdom. 
 
Seventh Commandment 
 
 EXODUS XX: 14. 
 
 not wwntft 
 
THE LAW or The best is for 
 the best. The 
 wisdom of heaven is for the 
 wisdom of the earth. The per- 
 fect life of the skies can only be 
 a destroyer to all that is imper- 
 fect below. The absolute law 
 that governs the life of wisdom 
 is expressed in the word that 
 may not be broken, "Thou 
 shalt not commit adultery." 
 The word of the Lord may not 
 be broken . What God has said 
 must come to pass. God never 
 transgresses His own nature. 
 Other Spirits, like Knowledge 
 or Revelation, may commit 
 adultery. These may be re- 
 lated to states of consciousness 
 belonging to others . The Spirit 
 of wisdom is only known by its 
 own consciousness. 
 83 
 
THE LAW Or .... , .. 
 
 WISDOM. Wisdom is by 
 its very nature, 
 a unit. It is in itself an abso- 
 lute identity of the cosmic con- 
 sciousness with universal in- 
 telligence. It is the union of 
 Time and of Eternity, of mat- 
 ter and of spirit. The material 
 life is long a stranger to the 
 spirit. Time is long inhospit- 
 able to the Eternal. Time may 
 not know the full secret of 
 Eternity as long as there is any- 
 thing to be achieved in its own 
 department. God has set metes 
 and bounds about the divisions 
 of His own nature. Each is 
 governed by its own law. 
 These laws are such as make to- 
 gether a perfect whole. These 
 are the sum of all excellence. 
 To know the meaning of these 
 ten words of life is to know the 
 general meaning of existence. 
 8 4 
 
' I" Devolution 
 
 of religious life 
 the idea is never wholly con- 
 crete, never a perfect har- 
 mony of the within and the 
 without, until Wisdom's rest is 
 found. Here no strife can en- 
 ter. Here is no envy of or seek- 
 ing what belongs to another. 
 In Light our consciousness may 
 be seized by Revelation; or in 
 Revelation it may be invaded 
 by Knowledge, while the Intel- 
 ligence still clings to Light or 
 Revelation. Here the apples 
 of discord are eaten. In the 
 life of Wisdom all is peace and 
 harmony. No sounds of war 
 are heard. Every man sits 
 under his own vine and fig tree. 
 The things revealed within are 
 one with the consciousness 
 without. Wisdom is no prop- 
 agandist. It makes no prose- 
 
 85 
 
THE LAW OP lytes. It is sat- 
 isfied with its 
 own. It is the child of the 
 heavens and of the earth. It 
 holds the lyre and pours fourth 
 melodious song. It knows the 
 past and the future. It beholds 
 the relation of every part to the 
 whole. There is fullness above 
 and fullness below. There is a 
 consciousness of the uncon- 
 scious and an unconsciousness 
 of the conscious. Things once 
 wholly unknown become known 
 and the things known have rest 
 in the unknown. 
 
 86 
 
The Law of Holiness. 
 
Eighth Commandment. 
 
 EXODUS XX: 15. 
 
 not 
 
THE LAW OF The Law of Holi- 
 ness, or Whole- 
 ness, is perfect contentment. 
 This Spirit is the full octave. 
 All is given and all is received. 
 The Law of its life is expressed 
 in the words: "Thou shalt not 
 steal." This is what God has 
 said to His own strength. In 
 the Holy Spirit there is no try- 
 ing to do today what belongs 
 to the tomorrow no trying to 
 take from another what has not 
 been honestly bought and paid 
 for in the great law of universal 
 exchange. In Holiness, intel- 
 ligence beholds itself in the 
 qualities of the soul, and these 
 in turn look with joy upon their 
 own reflection in the strength 
 of the mind. The Spiritual is 
 seen in the material and the 
 91 
 
THE LAW OP material in the 
 HOLINESS. Spiritual. For 
 long such wholeness seemed un- 
 known to men. We are con- 
 tinually disturbing the serenity 
 of the present moment, by try- 
 ing to penetrate into that which 
 is to come. There is a possi- 
 ble contentment and satisfac- 
 tion with every moment, with- 
 out being false to, or in any way 
 neglectful of, the law of growth. 
 The Holy Spirit is called 
 Gabriel Strength of God . The 
 Strength of God is in the One- 
 ness of past and future, with 
 the present moment. When 
 man shall reach to this great 
 accord between Time and Eter- 
 nity, he will feel himself to beat 
 once in the center and the cir- 
 cumference, and in perfect 
 equality of mind and affections 
 towards both the attained and 
 92 
 
THE LAW or the attaina ble. 
 HOLINESS. What has been, 
 
 was good; what is now, is bet- 
 ter; and what shall be will be 
 best of all. 
 
 Holiness does not the less en- 
 joy the good and the better, be- 
 cause there is a best. In this 
 Spirit there is true order and 
 relationship; and Time has full 
 respect with Eternity. It is 
 this Spirit of true contentment 
 that must complete even the 
 work of the Spirit in the long 
 travail of Time. This One 
 must come after and lead into 
 all truth of both the Manifest 
 and the Unmanifest. 
 
 To be in touch with this 
 strength of God is to be strong, 
 cheerful, serene, nonchalant, 
 persevering, and yet restful; 
 careless and gay and yet earnest 
 and thoughtful. It is only in 
 
 93 
 
THE LAW or suc h company 
 
 HOLINESS. , u r , 
 
 with Gods 
 
 strength that man truly finds 
 his own, and does works of 
 wholeness and finality that take 
 from none butgive to all. This 
 strength is in any life a secret 
 and ever present source of com- 
 fort, and so this Spirit is called 
 also The Comforter. 
 
 He who would thread the 
 long pass over the heaped up 
 mountains of the fullness of the 
 Spirit's life must carry with him 
 this knowledge of the resting 
 places by the way. There is 
 such rest after every great 
 achievement in the labor to un- 
 derstand and be wise in the ways 
 of God. Blessed are all those 
 who can be glad today without 
 doing wrong to the tasks of to- 
 morrow. These do not steal. 
 
 94 
 
The Law of the Manifest. 
 
Ninth Commandment. 
 
 EXODUS XX : 16. 
 
 mm jtatt n<rt faw tote* witntw 
 thtj 
 
THE LAW OP ItistheMani- 
 THE MANIFEST. , ,, , . ,, 
 test that is the 
 
 neighbor of the Unmanifest. 
 The Life of God in Time may 
 not bear a false witness against 
 its neighbor the Life of God in 
 Eternity. The One shall love 
 the Other as Himself. 
 
 There can be no final satis- 
 faction or perfection in the 
 heart of man until all that can 
 be known or seen within shall 
 be equally seen and known 
 without. But the method of 
 this knowing and seeing must 
 not do away with the necessity 
 of human toil. We must not 
 flee this task of drawing out 
 until it is achieved as much by 
 the labor of Time as by its own 
 inherent tendency and seeking 
 for visible expression. 
 99 
 
THE LAW OP W h e n t h e 
 THE MANIFEST. heavens preSs 
 
 upon us for interpretation, we 
 must not lay aside the necessity 
 of human toil. While the be- 
 ginnings and endings are with 
 God, man must have share in 
 all that lies between. 
 
 The labor of the Spirit in Time 
 is by no means complete in the 
 manifestation of the Eternal 
 Thought of God. That would 
 leave all that is best but a cold 
 and dry abstraction. How- 
 ever beautiful life may be within 
 we must have an equal beauty 
 without. 
 
 All the work that is being 
 done in the world, for material 
 improvement and perfection of 
 things of use and beauty, is an 
 essential ingredient of our final 
 state of perfection. The Spirit 
 that is born of God has also 
 
THE LAW OF descended into 
 THEMANIPEST. the lowest 
 
 parts of our earth or natural in- 
 telligence. God is working in 
 all the mole -like gropings of 
 scientific investigation as truly 
 as He is descending upon us in 
 the bright visions of the trans- 
 forming heavens. 
 
 The final state of perfection 
 must include many Octaves of 
 Holiness. Every division of in- 
 telligence and consciousness 
 must be slowly assimilated 
 each to the other before we 
 can know the full unity of the 
 heavens and the earth. 
 
 Spiritual perfection alone 
 would be only a Barmecidal or. 
 imaginary feast. Though the 
 vision is real and these forms 
 are the Eternal Thoughts of 
 God yet are they to both God 
 and man imperfect until they 
 
THE LAW OP a re marr ied to 
 
 THE MANIFEST, ., . 
 
 every possible 
 
 grace and material counterpart 
 that is subject to improvement 
 in time. But Time is faithful. 
 The Spirit will not abandon its 
 task. 
 
 The knowledge of heaven 
 and all its meanings could not 
 content us without our own 
 earth evolved to perfection and 
 all its dear familiar ways. 
 
 God shall have true witness. 
 He shall be expressed in the 
 perfection of form as well as of 
 mind. He shall be seen in all 
 that is natural and material as 
 well as in all that is spiritual and 
 celestial. Never will content 
 abide in our hearts until human 
 grace and beauty honor and 
 clothe the Spirit, even as Divine 
 Grace and Beauty honor and 
 shine through our human lives. 
 
 102 
 
THE LAW OP God shall have 
 THE MANIFEST, glory in che 
 spirit and body, the soul and 
 mind. He shall be seen and 
 known in all that is. He has 
 created nothing in vain. Every 
 hour of toil and every pain 
 endured have added something 
 to the Manifestation of the Di- 
 vine. 
 
 The Glory of the Manifest is 
 that it is the glory not of God 
 or of one life of miraculous 
 beauty and superhuman 
 achievement but that it is at 
 once the sum of God's giving 
 and of all man's striving and 
 suffering to receive and embody, 
 in both form and substance, in 
 all the many lives and genera- 
 tions of our great human broth- 
 erhood. 
 
 To come to God through 
 Christ the Lord, is to grow 
 103 
 
THE LAW OP God - like by 
 
 THE MANIFEST. virt ueof all the 
 long travail of each in all and 
 all in each. By this striving 
 man grows into both human 
 and Divine fellowship. There 
 is no other way, truth, or life. 
 Everything less than this is a 
 false witness. "As for me, I 
 will behold thy face in right- 
 eousness : I shall be satisfied, 
 when I awake with thy like- 
 ness." 
 
 104 
 
The Law of the Unmanifest. 
 
Tenth Commandment. 
 
 EXODUS XX: 17. 
 
 n0t JC0wt tlwj 
 , thou ^Imtt not 
 
 0* hi^ man- 
 
 M# 0x t nor hi^ K#^ t n0r 
 that 
 
THE LAW OP THE The tenth and 
 UNMANIPEST. l ast command 
 of this perfect constitution of the 
 spiritual world pertains to the 
 Unmanifest. Here the neigh- 
 bor is the Manifest. God in 
 Eternity will not set aside any 
 of the labor of the Spirit in the 
 travail of Time. 
 
 God is jealous for man's per- 
 fection. This is the jealousy of 
 Infinite Love. The only way 
 in which God can satisfy this 
 love is to give to man every pos- 
 sible honor and glory in the 
 work of creation. 
 
 God could not create in any 
 other way. Having all Him- 
 self, He will keep that all con- 
 cealed until man has received 
 and had part in the growth of 
 every true excellence in himself. 
 109 
 
THE LAW OP THE A U the hiding 
 UNMANIFEST. of God and 
 all the long travail of the world 
 and all the labors and sorrows 
 of human existence, as well as 
 its joys and possessions, are the 
 means by which the character 
 of humanity that is to be the 
 essence of immortal life is be- 
 ing slowly unfolded. While it 
 is our part to struggle against 
 all that seems to us evil; to be 
 forever at war with ignorance, 
 want, pain, and sorrow; yet 
 were it not for these things to 
 subdue, the finer qualities of 
 sympathy, friendship, love, 
 strength of will, loyalty, com- 
 passion, daring courage, ad- 
 venture, and the high excellence 
 of heroic action, could never be 
 ours. Had God created these 
 without our help, by any other 
 method, He would have coveted 
 
THE LAW OP THE and taken 
 
 UNMANIPEST. , 
 
 possession of 
 
 what infinite justice and perfect 
 being had bestowed upon His 
 neighbor the operation of the 
 Spirit in Time. 
 
 We are continually asking 
 God to do for us what God 
 must deny, or cease to be the 
 just and jealous God, careful 
 for the highest good of all His 
 children. We are continually 
 breaking, in our hopes and most 
 virtuous endeavors, either the 
 law of the Manifest or of the 
 Unmanifest. But because God 
 is God, both in Time and Eter- 
 nity, no one ever did break 
 through these limits that He has 
 thrown around His own being, 
 in reality. These things stand 
 fast. The Divine intent will 
 yet become the Divine accom- 
 plishment. 
 
THE LAW OP THE Thisisthelaw 
 that must be 
 
 fulfilled even to the uttermost. 
 God comes into being through 
 these ways. To draw out the 
 vision of the Law from the very 
 Heart of God is the work of the 
 Spirit of Counsel. To bring this 
 Law into actual embodiment is 
 the work of the Manifest the 
 full travail of the Spirit in all 
 men and in all time until by 
 the increase of our manly pow- 
 ers we scale the heights and win 
 the Eternal City. 
 
 The great victory of the Spirit 
 in Time will be the complete 
 understanding and embodiment 
 of the life and power of Reve- 
 lation in man's normal intel- 
 ligence and consciousness of 
 being. 
 
 The highest excellence of the 
 Spirit can only shine through a 
 
THE LAW OP THE pure and per- 
 UNMANIPEST. f ec t body. 
 
 The sweetest love and beauty of 
 the soul's grace can only be given 
 to the noblest strength and most 
 universal range of a cultivated 
 intelligence. We often see in 
 human growth and progress 
 faults instead of virtues. It is 
 better to be ignorant of God and 
 to bravely confess such ignor- 
 ance, than to basely conform to 
 a popular faith and to weakly 
 leave to God the work of im- 
 provement in himself and the 
 world that God has bestowed 
 upon man. Neither God nor 
 Truth is injured by denial when 
 those who deny are sincere and 
 doing their best to know and do 
 the right. God's mercy is to- 
 wards those who deny, as well 
 as to those who affirm. 
 Did Godbreak through and re- 
 
THE LAW OP THE yeal Himself 
 UNMANIPEST. 
 
 to any man 
 
 outside of the order of nature in 
 which we all are placed, He 
 would at once surrender the sov- 
 ereignty of the worlds. It is 
 because the greatest boon He 
 can give to us is the full respon- 
 sibility of searching and finding 
 God that there are times when 
 the noblest and best of earth for 
 a little while find themselves 
 without God. Were it not for 
 this, God would be a lawless 
 despot, whom we might fear but 
 never love, and against whom 
 it would be wiser to inaugurate a 
 strong rebellion than to weakly 
 submit to selfish power. 
 
 When man has discovered 
 the fullness of God's gift he will 
 find its greatest benefaction in 
 this law of the Unmanifest,that 
 gives to man in Time every pos- 
 114 
 
THE LAW OP THE sible p r i V i - 
 UNMANirEST. i e g e a n d 
 
 share and fruition in the works 
 of the Creator. 
 
 Without this, man's complete- 
 ness is unthinkable. There 
 can be no perfection for man 
 destitute of self respect and in- 
 dividual merit. Should God 
 do at any time for man what 
 man can do for himself, He 
 would break this law of His 
 own Infinite Being. This is 
 the Law of the Unmanifest. 
 
The One Thing Needful. 
 
The Law of the Law. 
 
 EXODUS XX : 18-26. 
 
 an the ywylt tfaw the thwi- 
 $, anfl the lightning, and the 
 0f the tntwpet, m\A the m0wn- 
 taiw m0hin0: and when the people 
 it, theg tem0 
 wfl thejj 
 
 th0u with wiof t ^nfl we 
 hew: hut let n0t $v& ^pe^fe with 
 ttiof t lt$t we 4ie 
 ttttto the pe0pie t <geny 0t: 
 ijSf e0me t0 pr0t r e j)0u, M* that hi# 
 fear tnag Ire Href0fe j)0w f aee^, that 
 jje #iw n0t g^nd the pe0ple 5t00d 
 afav 0ff t and |W0^e^ drew wear wnt0 
 the thieh flat* fetter where 
 
 gwfl the f 0r #aifl unt0 
 hw^ th0w ^Itatt ^atj twt0 the ehil- 
 4ren 0f Israel, |Je have ^eew that K 
 have talhed with j)0w fr0m heavew* 
 
n0t mtikt with me 
 , ntitbtf tfuttl p mnfe* wnto 
 
 JJ0U 
 
 thy ftutttt 0ff ^vinfljS?, wd thjj 
 
 whm 
 
 name f will r0m^ ttnt0 thee, m& K 
 will Uf itf tto^ gtttfl if th0u wilt 
 me an ato* 0f ^t0ne t tbou 
 
 if th0u lift wp thy t001 wp0n it, th0w 
 Jt^tpUuteflit. gdthe 
 00 wp ftjj ^tep^ wnt0 miwe 
 
THE ONE THING The one thing 
 NEEDFUL. needed in the 
 
 world, is a joyous and intelli- 
 gent state of intercourse be- 
 tween the heavens and the 
 earth. It is possible for man 
 to see and to hear and to be 
 near to the heavenly state, 
 and yet to be almost over- 
 whelmed with the majesty and 
 greatness thereof. When the 
 people saw these things they 
 removed and stood afar off. 
 The great spiritual Host within 
 retire and hold back waiting 
 for Moses, the Spirit of Coun- 
 sel, drawn out from the waters 
 of consciousness by human 
 worth, to be their interpreter. 
 This holding back produces in 
 the religious world a like state 
 of shrinking and fear of this 
 
THE ONE THING g rea t mystery 
 of Revelation. 
 
 There is a long time when man 
 is overwhelmed with the idea 
 of any such close and intimate 
 intercourse with God. But 
 man must conquer fear. God 
 comes in these dark and mys- 
 terious ways that the spiritual 
 life may be proved and made 
 perfect by coming into just re- 
 lation with man's intellectual 
 and moral nature. Without 
 this darkness and liability to 
 misconception man could have 
 no honorable part in the work 
 of creation. Without this fear 
 and dread within and without, 
 there would be nothing ade- 
 quate for the awakening and 
 development of the noblest 
 qualities possible to mankind. 
 By this relationship and 
 mutual service of the heavens 
 
THE ONE THING to the earth 
 everything is 
 
 possible. The right relation of 
 the two is the very wisdom by 
 which God creates. By this 
 intercourse the whole nature of 
 man is subject to transforma- 
 tion until spirit and body, soul 
 and mind so long separate 
 states of intelligence and con- 
 sciousness are drawn together 
 into a perfect unity. The one 
 thing all men most need to 
 learn in the religious life, is 
 that such intercourse is pos- 
 sible and open to all upon the 
 same terms. "Ye have seen 
 that I have talked with you 
 from heaven." This is to see 
 that this way of life is not 
 merely a thing of the past, but 
 a fact within the reach of man 
 today. In this dual life there 
 must be one ideal kept in view. 
 123 
 
THE ONE THING With this life 
 there must be 
 
 no more Gods of silver or of 
 gold. Silver is the Under- 
 standing while gold is the Rev- 
 elation. The ideal of existence 
 is not to be one or the other 
 but of the open life and con- 
 tinual exchange and intercourse 
 between the two. Revelation 
 must rest upon intelligence. 
 This is the altar of earth. This 
 relation is the very name or 
 character of the Lord. Where- 
 ever there is such intercourse 
 there is the blessing of the 
 Lord. The spiritual offerings, 
 the flocks of vision, are to find 
 place in man's life through the 
 intelligent apprehension of 
 their meaning. 
 
 An altar of stone is a recep- 
 tion of Revelation in the moral 
 consciousness. To lift up the 
 124 
 
THE ONE THING tool upon the 
 NEEDPUL. stones is to cut 
 
 and shape and fit together sep- 
 arate states of consciousness as 
 the measure of life's attainment. 
 This is to pollute the moral na- 
 ture by divorcing goodness from 
 intelligence. These two are to 
 be free to pervade and influence 
 each other. The north and the 
 south, as well as the east and 
 the west are to come together. 
 To go up by steps upon the 
 Divine Altar is to make the es- 
 sential of Religion an acquaint- 
 ance with some system of log- 
 ical sequence. Then life rests 
 upon creed and system instead 
 of upon individual intelligence 
 and consciousness . Then is re- 
 ligion put to shame by the nak- 
 edness of the abstract without 
 the concrete, and the truths re- 
 vealed unclothed with personal 
 125 
 
THE ONE THING Hf e and experi- 
 ence. The one 
 
 thing needful is a continual in- 
 tercourse between the people of 
 the heavens and the people of 
 the earth, based upon a correct 
 apprehension of the order and 
 relation that may not be trans- 
 gressed between Revelation and 
 Intelligence. The full recogni- 
 tion of this law and acceptance 
 of this life will do more for our 
 growth and happiness than all 
 other things ever known, or de- 
 sired put together. Man is made 
 for God and this is the only way 
 we can come into our Divine 
 inheritance. 
 
 126 
 
AN AFTERWORD. 
 
 In closing, I would emerge 
 for a moment from the imper- 
 sonal into the personal. I thus 
 greet you and pass on to re- 
 main in spirit with you forever. 
 These words are the abiding 
 strength of long nourishment 
 with the hidden manna. I 
 have seen the King in His 
 beauty. Mine eyes have looked 
 on unutterable things. I see 
 the things that are to come. I 
 have felt God's heart beating in 
 mine and His dear eyes looking 
 through mine. I am glad for 
 myself and for all. I have 
 nothing in truth that is not 
 mine and thine. Are you sat- 
 isfied ? Let go my hand. I 
 will not detain you. Is there, 
 however, a sense of amazement 
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AN and confusion in 
 
 AFTERWORD. 
 
 the many voices of 
 the hour ? Listen. Perhaps I 
 can bring you a word that will 
 reduce them all to harmony. 
 Do the ways before you seem 
 many and divergent ? Look 
 closer and you will see the foot- 
 prints of the Lord in them all. 
 These many divisions of the 
 Spirit are the essential ele- 
 ments of its unity. God could 
 not be one and not be many. 
 He is not only the people but 
 also the things of this bright 
 expanse. After innumerable 
 visions the Infinite Voice spake 
 in my heart and said: I am the 
 car on which you ride ; I am 
 the ship on which you sail ; I 
 am the many mansions in 
 which you reside ; I am the 
 the path beneath your feet ; I 
 am the speaking bird or beast ; 
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AN I am the voice that 
 
 AFTERWORD. 
 
 speaks and the 
 book you read, and all the 
 other ways from which you 
 draw out the meaning of the 
 Word. This interpretation of 
 the Ten Commandments, the 
 Mighty Law is the fruit of 
 much intercourse in sight, hear- 
 ing and touch with the Living 
 God. This is but a leaf out of 
 a larger work of many volumes, 
 explaining the Bible from Gen- 
 esis to Revelation, and disclos- 
 ing the mysteries of life and 
 death. Those who from this 
 specimen of the word would 
 know more should address the 
 author or publisher of this 
 brochure. God is with His 
 People. His People are my 
 People, and thy People. They 
 are this Mighty Host ready 
 to enter and dwell where there 
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AN 
 AFTERWORD, 
 
 is the natural in- 
 telligence and the 
 moral consciousness ready to 
 receive who alone can give 
 peace on earth and good will 
 among all men. Written in 
 the joy of their peace and the 
 abundance of their love to all. 
 
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