Time

When they knew they would be leaving, they prepared priests and priestesses to carry the energy of the stars and continue the wisdom teachings over time.

Over time, ET genetics diluted.

Religions, with their dogma, replaced the true teachings from the stars, and humankind entered a temporary metaphorical sleep until a time in the distant future when it would be time to awaken.

Because Sirian energy has been very influential in the development of Earth, how does this ancient energy affect your planet in current times?

In the past few years, Sasha and I have given you much information about the very early times on Earth when Pleiadians and Sirians trained new humans.

The teachings were brought to Earth primarily during Atlantean times, but they also thrived in later cultures you know of as ancient Babylonia, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and many others.

Because they were introduced during very separated third-density times on Earth, the polarized environment supported this energy to thrive.

As we mentioned, your Galactic Family left the planet for a time.

As time went by and the ETs did not return, the gene pool began to dilute.

Prime Creator began experimenting with creation a long time ago in this universe for the purpose of greater self-exploration, self-gratification, and self-expression.

M: Yes, it was a long time ago.

(This has happened several times.) Keep in mind that Vegans had already done some genetic tinkering on Earth.

The Vegan signature was already on Earth during that very ancient time.

25,000 years ago, Atlantis and Lemuria, the two highest civilizations of the time, battled each other over the direction of other civilizations on the planet.

At that time, Mars was almost like an Eden, but conflicts created much instability.

These creator gods raided Earth approximately 300,000 years ago–the time period, historically speaking, that you would call the beginning of human civilization.

This is merely the time period that you, in this present day, are taught was the beginning of civilization.

During my time, these beings would manifest before me as brilliant white light, materializing as I conducted my work.

My time was spent in solitude, deep within a cave system where I conducted my most sacred operations.

From time to time, the power structures of Avalon would seek my guidance, and I would emerge from my cave to offer counsel.

There was something so profound about that time, a beauty in the principles they upheld.

She traces the origins of Avalon to the Lyra system, describing it as a paradise planet and noting that many people have fond memories of it. Attempts to recreate Avalon occurred during the Arthurian times in the British Isles, influenced by figures like Merlin, who she believes was a starseed or extraterrestrial visitor.

According to Dowling, Jesus spent a lot of time in the mystical East where he learned esoteric methods from the masters, while rebelling against the caste system.

Much of his time was devoted to the cause of Prohibition.

Early in life, when but a mere lad, he had a vision in which he was told that he was to "build a white city." This vision was repeated three times with years intervening.

It requires our Solar System a little more than 2,100 years to pass through one of these signs, and this time is the measurement of an Age or Dispensation.

Exact Time of the Beginning of an Age.

About the time of the rise of the Roman empire the sun entered the sign Pisces, the Fishes, and the Piscean Age began, so that early in this Age Jesus of Nazareth lived.

In the establishment of their great institutions John the Harbinger and Jesus both introduced the rite of water baptism, which has been used in some form in all the so-called Christian Churches and cults, even to the present time.

"In course of time the protoplast, the earth, the plant, the beast, the man sold out their birthrights unto sin; but Christ was present to redeem.

"Twelve times in every revolution of the sun this christed Love of God is made full manifest in flesh upon the planes of earth, and you may read in Akasha the wondrous lessons that these Christs have taught to men; but you shall publish not to men the lessons of the Christs of ancient times.

"A thousand times be said to men: 'I came to show the possibilities of man; what I have done all men may do, and what I am all men shall be.'

"Time never was when man was not.

"If life of man at any time began a time would come when it would end.

All finite things will cease to be, because there was a time when they were not.

"The bodies and the soul of men are finite things, and they will change, yes, from the finite point of view the time will come when they will be no more.

"Man is a thought of God; all thoughts of God are infinite; they are not measured up by time, for things that are concerned With time begin and end.

Once blessed in the name of God; twice blessed in the name of Holy Breath; thrice blessed in the name of Christ; for you are worthy, and will bear a son who shall be called Immanuel.16. His name is Jesus, for he saves his people from their sins.17. When Joseph's daily task was done he came, and Mary told him all the words that Gabriel spoke to her, and they rejoiced; for they believed that he, the man of God, had spoken words of truth.18. And Mary went with haste to tell Elizabeth about the promises of Gabriel; together they rejoiced.19. And in the home of Zacharias and Elizabeth did Mary tarry ninety days; then she returned to Nazareth.20. To Zacharias and Elizabeth a son was born, and Zacharias said,21. Most blessed be the name of God, for he has opened up the fount of blessings for his people, Israel.22. His promises are verified; for he has brought to pass the words which holy prophets spoke in olden times.23. And Zacharias looked upon infant John, and said,24. You shall be called the prophet of the Holy One; and you will go before his face, and will prepare his way.25. And you will give a knowledge of salvation unto Israel; and you will preach the gospel of repentance and the blotting out of sins.26. Behold, for soon the Day Star from on high will visit us, to light the way for those who sit within the darkness of the shadow-land, and guide our ways to the feet of peace.

1. The time was nearly due for Jesus to be born, and Mary longed to see Elizabeth, and she and Joseph turned their faces toward the Judean hills.2. And when upon their way they came to Bethlehem the day was done, and they must tarry for the night.3. But Bethlehem was thronged with people going to Jerusalem; the inns and homes were filled with guests, and Joseph and his wife could find no place to rest but in a cave where animals were kept; and there they slept.4. At midnight came a cry, a child is born in yonder cave among the beasts.

He thought, perhaps, the priests were plotting to restore the kingdom of the Jews, and so he said within himself, I will know more about this child that has been born a king.9. And so he told the magian priests to tarry in the city for a while and he would tell them all about the king.10. He called in council all the Jewish masters of the law and asked, What have the Jewish prophets said concerning such a one?11. The Jewish masters answered him and said, The prophets long ago foretold that one would come to rule the tribes of Israel; that this Messiah would be born in Bethlehem.12. They said, The prophet Micah wrote, O Bethlehem Judea, a little place among the Judean hills, yet out of you will one come forth to rule my people, Israel; yea, one who lived in olden times, in very ancient days.13. Then Herod called the magian priests again and told them what the masters of the Jewish law had said; and then he sent them on the way to Bethlehem.14. He said, Go search, and if you find the child that has been born a king, return and tell me all, that I may go and honour him.15. The magians went their way and found the child with Mary in the shepherd's home.16. They honoured him; bestowed upon him precious gifts and gave him gold, gum-thus and myrrh.17. These magian priests could read the hearts of men; they read the wickedness of Herod's heart, and knew that he had sworn to kill the new born king.18. And so they told the secret to the parents of the child, and bid them flee beyond the reach of harm.19. And then the priests went on their homeward way; they went not through Jerusalem.20. And Joseph took the infant Jesus and his mother in the night and fled to Egypt land, and with Elihu and Salome in ancient Zoan they abode.

They found them and they brought them to Zoan.6. Now, Mary and Elizabeth were marvelling much because of their deliverance.7. Elihu said, It is not strange; there are no happenings; law governs all events.8. From olden times it was ordained that you should be with us, and in this sacred school be taught.9. Elihu and Salome took Mary and Elizabeth out to the sacred grove near by where they were wont to teach.10. Elihu said to Mary and Elizabeth, You may esteem yourself thrice blest, for you are chosen mothers of long promised sons,11. Who are ordained to lay in solid rock a sure foundation stone on which the temple of the perfect man shall rest--a temple that shall never be destroyed.12. We measure time by cycle ages, and the gate to every age we deem a mile stone in the journey of the race.13. An age has passed; the gate unto another age flies open at the touch of time.

She said, All times are not alike.

Today the words of man may have the greatest power; to-morrow women teaches best.2. In all the ways of life the man and woman should walk hand in hand; the one without the other is but half; each has a work to do.3. But all things teach; each has a time and a season for its own.

The sun, the moon have lessons of their own for men; but each one teaches at the appointed time.4. The lessons of the sun fall down on human hearts like withered leaves upon a stream, if given in the season of the moon and all the stars.5. To-day one walks in gloom, downhearted and oppressed; tomorrow that same one is filled with joy.6. To-day the heavens seem full of blessedness and hope; tomorrow hope has fled, and every plan and purpose comes to naught.7. To-day one wants to curse the very ground on which he treads; tomorrow he is full of love and praise.8. To-day one hates and scorns and envies and is jealous of the child he loves; tomorrow he has risen above his carnal self, and breathes forth gladness and good-will.9. A thousand times men wonder why these heights and depths, these light hearts and these sad, are found in every life.10. They do not know that there are teachers everywhere, each busy with a God- appointed task, and driving home to human hearts the truth.11. But this is true, and every one receives the lessons that he needs.12. And Mary said, To-day I am in exultation great; my thoughts and all my life seem lifted up; why am I thus inspired?13. Salome replied, This is a day of exultation; day of worship and of praise; a day when, in a measure, we may comprehend our Father-God.14. Then let us study God, the One, the Three, the Seven.15. Before the worlds were formed all things were One; just Spirit, Universal Breath.16. And Spirit breathed, and that which was not manifest became the Fire and Thought of Heaven, the Father-God, the Mother-God.17. And when the Fire and Thought of heaven in union breathed, their son, their only son, was born.

These are Elohim, creative spirits of the universe.20. And these are they who said, Let us make man; and in their image man was made.21. In early ages of the world the dwellers in the farther East said, Tao is the name of Universal Breath; and in the ancient books we read,22. No manifesting form has Tao Great, and yet he made and keeps the heavens and earth.23. No passion has our Tao Great, and yet he causes sun and moon and all the stars to rise and set.24. No name has Tao Great, and yet he makes all things to grow; he brings in season both the seed time and the harvest time.25. And Tao Great was One; the One became the Two; the Two became the Three, the Three evolved the Seven, which filled the universe with manifests.26. And Tao Great gives unto all, the evil and the good, the rain, the dew, the sunshine and the flowers; from his rich stores he feeds them all.27. And in the same old book we read of man: He has a spirit knit to Tao Great; a soul which lives within the seven Breaths of Tao Great; a body of desires that springs up from the soil of flesh.28. Now spirit loves the pure, the good, the true; the body of desires extols the selfish self; the soul becomes the battle ground between the two.29. And blessed is the man whose spirit is triumphant and whose lower self is purified; whose soul is cleansed, becoming fit to be the council chamber of the manifests of Tao Great.30. Thus closed the lesson of Salome.

1. Elihu taught; he said, In ancient times a people in the East were worshippers of God, the One, whom they called Brahm.2. Their laws were just; they lived in peace; they saw the light within; they walked in wisdom's ways.3. But priests with carnal aims arose, who changed the laws to suit the carnal mind; bound heavy burdens on the poor, and scorned the rules of right; and so the Brahms became corrupt.4. But in the darkness of the age a few great masters stood unmoved; they loved the name of Brahm; they were great beacon lights before the world.5. And they preserved inviolate the wisdom of their holy Brahm, and you may read this wisdom in their sacred books.6. And in Chaldea, Brahm was known.

Men saw him as the One, the causeless Cause of all that is, and he was sacred unto them, as Tao to the dwellers of the farther East.17. The people lived in peace, and justice ruled.18. But, as in other lands, in Persia priests arose imbued with self and self desires, who outraged Force, Intelligence and Love;19. Religion grew corrupt, and birds and beasts and creeping things were set apart as gods.20. In course of time a lofty soul, whom men called Zarathustra, came in flesh.21. He saw the causeless Spirit, high and lifted up; he saw the weakness of all man appointed gods.22. He spoke and all of Persia heard; and when he said, One God, one people and one shrine, the altars of the idols fell, and Persia was redeemed.23. But men must see their Gods with human eyes, and Zarathustra said,24. The greatest of the Spirits standing near the throne is the Ahura Mazda, who manifests in brightness of the sun.25. And all the people saw Ahura Mazda in the sun, and they fell down and worshipped him in temples of the sun.26. And Persia is the magian land where live the priests who saw the star arise to mark the place where Mary's son was born, and were the first to greet him as the Prince of Peace.27. The precepts and the laws of Zarathustra are preserved in the Avesta which you can read and make your own.28. But you must know that words are naught till they are made alive; until the lessons they contain become a part of head and heart.29. Now truth is one; but no one knows the truth until he is the truth.

With good destroy the bad; with generous deeds make avarice ashamed; with truth make straight the crooked lines that error draws, for error is but truth distorted, gone astray.8. And pain will follow him who speaks or acts with evil thoughts, as does the wheel the foot of him who draws the cart.9. He is a greater man who conquers self than he who kills a thousand men in war.10. He is the noble man who is himself what he believes what other men should be.11. Return to him who does you wrong your purest love, and he will cease from doing wrong; for love will purify the heart of him who is beloved as truly as it purifies the heart of him who loves.12. The words of Buddha are recorded in the Indian sacred books; attend to them, for they are part of the instructions of the Holy Breath.13. The land of Egypt is the land of secret things.14. The mysteries of the ages lie lock-bound in our temples and our shines.15. The masters of all times and climes come here to learn; and when your sons have grown to manhood they will finish all their studies in Egyptian schools.16. But I have said enough.

1. Elizabeth was blest; she spent her time with John, and gave to him the lessons that Elihu and Salome had given her.2. And John delighted in the wilderness of his home and in the lessons that he learned.3. Now in the hills were many caves.

1. Matheno and his pupil, John, were talking of the sacred books of olden times, and of the golden precepts they contained, and John exclaimed,2. These golden precepts are sublime; what need have we of other sacred books?3. Matheno said, The Spirit of the Holy One cause every thing to come and go in proper time.4. The sun has his own time to set, the moon to rise, to wax and wane, the stars to come and go, the rain to fall, the winds to blow;5. The seed times and the harvest times to come; man to be born and man to die.6. These mighty Spirits cause the nations to be born; they rock them in their cradles, nurtures them to greatest power, and when their tasks are done they wrap them in their winding sheets and lay them in their tombs.7. Events are many in a nation's life, and in the life of man, that are not pleasant for the time; but in the end the truth appears: whatever comes is for the best.8. Man was created for a noble part; but he could not be made a free man filled with wisdom, truth and might.9. If he were hedged about, confined in straits from which he could not pass, then he would be a toy, a mere machine.10. Creative spirits gave to man a will; and so he has the power to choose.11. He may attain the greatest heights, or sink to deepest depths; for what he wills to gain he has the power to gain.12. If he desires strength he has the power to gain that strength; but he must overcome resistances to reach the goal; no strength is ever gained in idleness.13. So, in the whirl of many-sided conflicts man is placed where he must strive to extricate himself.14. In every conflict man gains strength; with every conquest he attains to greater heights.

May I not go at once and wash?26. Matheno said, 'Tis well, and then they went down to the Jordan ford, and east fo Jericho, just where the hosts of Israel crossed when first they entered Canaan, they tarried for a time.27. Matheno taught the harbinger, and he explained to him the inner meaning of the cleansing rite and how to wash himself and how to wash the multitude.28. And in the river Jordan John was washed; then they returned unto the wilderness.29. Now in Engedi's hills Matheno's work was done and he and John went down to Egypt.

If I could make a multitude of children glad upon this day I would be greatly pleased.17. Now, there are many hungry boys and girls in Nazareth who would be pleased to eat with us this feast and share with us the pleasures of this day.18. The richest gift that you can give to me is your permission to go out and find these needy ones and bring them here that they may feast with us.19. Joachim said, 'Tis well; go out and find the needy boys and girls and bring them here; we will prepare enough for all.20. And Jesus did not wait; he ran; he entered every dingy hut and cabin of the town; he did not waste his words; he told his mission everywhere.21. And in a little time one hundred and three-score of happy, ragged boys and girls were following him up Marmion Way.22. The guests made way; the banquet hall was filled with Jesus' guests, and Jesus and his mother helped to serve.23. And there was food enough for all, and all were glad; and so the birthday gift of Jesus was a crown of righteousness.

It seems to me that truth was never shut; that it was always opened up, for truth is one and it is everywhere.10. And if we open up the windows of our minds the truth will enter in and make herself at home; for truth can find her way through any crevice, any window, any open door.11. The rabbi said, What hand is strong enough to open up the windows and the doors of mind so truth can enter in?12. And Jesus said, It seems to me that love, the golden cord that binds the Ten Commands in one, is strong enough to open any human door so that the truth can enter in and cause the heart to understand.13. Now, in the evening Jesus and his mother sat alone, and Jesus said,14. The rabbi seems to think that God is partial in his treatment of the sons of men; that Jews are favoured and are blest above all other men.15. I do not see how God can have his favourites and be just.16. Are not Samaritans and Greeks and Romans just as much the children of the Holy One as are the Jews?17. I think the Jews have built a wall about themselves, and they see nothing on the other side of it.18. They do not know that flowers are blooming over there; that sowing times and reaping times belong to anybody but the Jews.19. It surely would be well if we could break down these barriers down so that the Jews might see that God has other children that are just as greatly blest.20. I want to go from Jewry land and meet my kin in other countries of my Fatherland.

shall that which has been made say of its maker, He is naught, I made myself?14. Or shall the pot speak out and say to him, who made the pot, You have no skill; you do not know?15. But this will not for ever be; the time will come when Lebanon will be a fruitful field, and fruitful fields will be transformed to groves.16. And on that day the deaf will hear the words of God; the blind will read the Book of God's Remembrance.17. And suffering ones will be relieved, and they will have abundant joy; and every one that needs will be supplied; and it will come to pass that all the foolish will be wise.18. The people will return and sanctify the Holy One, and in their heart of hearts, lo, they will reverence him.19. When Jesus had thus read he put aside the book and said, You masters of the law, will you make plain for us the prophet's words?20. Now, Hillel sat among the masters of the law, and he stood forth and said, Perhaps our young rabboni who has read the word will be interpreter.21. And Jesus said, The Ariel of the prophet is our own Jerusalem.22. By selfishness and cruelty this people has become a stench unto the Elohim.23. The prophet saw these days from far, and of these times he wrote.24. Our doctors, lawyers, priests and scribes oppress the poor, while they themselves in luxury live.25. The sacrifices and the offerings of Israel are but abomination unto God.

They only sacrifice that God requires is self.26. Because of this injustice and this cruelty of man to man, the Holy One has spoken of this commonwealth:27. Lo, I will overturn, yes, I will overturn, it shall be overturned, and it shall be no more until he comes whose right it is and I will give it unto him.28. In all the world there is one law of right, and he who breaks that law will suffer grief; for God is just.29. And Israel has gone far astray; has not regarded justice, nor the rights of man, and God demands that Israel shall reform, and turn again to ways of holiness.30. And if our people will not hear the voice of God, lo, nations from afar will come and sack Jerusalem, and tear our temple down, and take our people captive into foreign lands.31. But this will not for ever be; though they be scattered far and wide, and wander here and there among the nations of the earth, like sheep that have no shepherd guide.32. The time will come when God will bring again the captive hosts; for Israel shall return and dwell in peace.33. And after many years our temple our temple shall be built again, and one whom God will honour, one in whom the pure in heart delights will come and glorify the house of God, and reign in righteousness.34. When Jesus had thus said, he stepped aside, and all the people were amazed and said, This surely is the Christ.

The vile in heart who want to cover up their guilt with holy smoke of piety are ever loathing drunkard, thief and courtesan.23. This loathing and this scorn is mockery, for if the tinselled coat of reputation could be torn away, the loud professor would be found to revel in his lust, deceit and many forms of secret sin.24. The man who spends his time in pulling other people's weeds can have no time to pull his own, and all the choicest flowers of life will soon be choked and die, and nothing will remain but darnel, thistles, burs.25. And Jesus spoke a parable: he said, Behold, a farmer had great fields of ripened grain, and when he looked he saw that blades of many stalks of wheat were bent and broken down.26. And when he sent his reapers forth he said, We will not save the stalks of wheat that have the broken blades.27. Go forth and cut and burn the stalks with broken blades.28. And after many days he went to measure up his grain, but not a kernel could be find. 29. And then he called the harvesters and said to them, Where is my grain?30. They answered him and said, We did according to your word; we gathered up and burned the stalks with broken blades, and not a stalk was left to carry to the barn.31. And Jesus said, If God saves only those who have no broken blades, who have been perfect in his sight, who will be saved?32. And the accusers hung their heads in shame; and Jesus went his way.

There is no power in grief to mend a broken heart.12. The plane of grief is idleness; the busy soul can never grieve; it has no time for grief.13. When grief come trooping through the heart, just lose yourself; plunge deep into the ministry of love, and grief is not.14. Yours is a ministry of love, and all the world is calling out for love.15. Then let the past go with the past; rise from the cares of carnal things and give your life for those who live.16. And if you lose your life in serving life you will sure to find in it the morning sun, the evening dews, in song of bird, in flowers, and in the stars of night.17. In just a little while your problems of this earth-round will be solved; and when your sums are all worked out it will be pleasure unalloyed for you to enter wider fields of usefulness, to solve the greater problems of the soul.18. Strive, then, to be content, and I will come to you some day and bring you richer gifts than gold or precious stones.19. I'm sure that John will care for you, supplying all your needs; and I am with you all the way, Jehoshua.20. And by the hand of one, a merchant, going to Jerusalem, he sent this letter on its way.

He is part of everything for he has been a living thing on every plane of life.5. Time was when man was not; and he was bit of formless substance in the moulds of time; and then a protoplast.6. By universal law all things tend upward to a state of perfectness.

So mind may manifest as worm, or bird, or beast, or man.8. The time will come when everything of life will be evolved unto the state of perfect man.9. And after man is man in perfectness, he will evolve to higher forms of life.10. And Jesus said, Barata Arabo, who taught you this, that mind, which is the man, may manifest in flesh of beast, or bird, or creeping thing?11. Barata said, From times which man remembers not our priests have told us so, and so we know.12. And Jesus said, Enlightened Arabo, are you a master mind and do not know that man knows naught by being told?13. Man may believe what others say; but thus he never knows.

If man would know, he must himself be what he knows.14. Do you remember, Arabo, when you were ape, or bird, or worm?15. Now, if you have no better proving of your plea than that the priests have told you so, you do not know; you simply guess.16. Regard not, then, what any man has said; let us forget the flesh, and go with mind into the land of fleshless things; mind never does forget.17. And backward through the ages master minds can trace themselves; and thus they know.18. Time never was when man was not.19. That which begins will have an end.

If man was not, the time will come when he will not exist.20. From God's own Record Book we read: The Triune God breathed forth, and seven Spirits stood before his face.

(The Hebrews call these seven Spirits, Elohim.)21. And these are they who, in their boundless power, created everything that is, or was.22. These Spirits of the Triune God moved on the face of boundless space and seven ethers were, and every ether had its form of life.23. These forms of life were but the thoughts of God, clothed in the substance of their ether planes.24. (Men call these ether planes the planes of protoplast, of earth, of plant, of beast, of man, of angel and of cherubim.)25. These planes with all their teeming thoughts of God, are never seen by eyes of man in flesh; they are composed of substance far too fine for fleshy eyes to see, and still they constitute the soul of things;26. And with the eyes of soul all creatures see these ether planes, and all forms of life.27. Because all forms of life on every plane are thoughts of God, all creatures think, and every creature is possessed of will, and, in its measure, has the power to choose,28. And in their native planes all creatures are supplied with nourishment from the ethers of their planes.29. And so it was with every living thing until the will became a sluggish will, and then the ethers of the protoplast, the earth, the plant, the beast, the man, began to vibrate very slow.30. The ethers all became more dense, and all the creatures of these planes were clothed with coarser garbs, the garbs of flesh, which men can see; and thus this coarser manifest, which men call physical, appeared.31. And this is what is called the fall of man; but man fell not alone for protoplast, and earth, and plant and beast were all included in the fall.32. The angels and the cherubim fell not; their wills were ever strong, and so they held the ethers of their planes in harmony with God.33. Now, when the ethers reached the rate of atmosphere, and all the creatures of these planes must get their food from atmosphere, the conflict came; and that which the finite man ahs called, survival of the best, became the law,34. The stronger ate the bodies of the weaker manifests; and here is where the carnal law of evolution had its rise.35. And now man, in his utter shamelessness, strikes down and eats the beasts, the beast consumes the plant, the plant thrives on the earth, the earth absorbs the protoplast.36. In yonder kingdom of the soul this carnal evolution is not known, and the great work of master minds is to restore the heritage of man, to bring him back to his estate that he has lost, when he again will live upon the ethers of his native plane.37. The thoughts of God change not; the manifests of life on every plane unfold into perfection of their kind; and as the thoughts of God can never die, there is no death to any being of the seven ethers of the seven Spirits of the Triune God.38. And so an earth is never plant; a beast, or bird, or creeping thing is never man, and man is not, and cannot be, a beast, or bird, or creeping thing.39. The time will come when all these seven manifests will be absorbed, and man, and beast, and plant, and earth and protoplast will be redeemed.40. Barata was amazed; the wisdom of the Jewish sage was a revelation unto him.41. Now, Vidyapati, wisest of the Indian sages, chief of temple Kapavistu, heard Barata speak to Jesus of the origin of man, and heard the answer of the Hebrew prophet, and he said,42. You priests of Kapavistu, hear me speak: We stand to-day upon a crest of time.

Six times ago a master soul was born who gave a glory light to man, and now a master sage stands here in temple Kapavistu.43. This Hebrew prophet is the rising star of wisdom, deified.

There is no beauty left, and when the harvest time shall come the gathers will find no fruit.10. The pruner said, Content yourselves with what you think, and come again at harvest time and see.11. And when the harvest time came on the busy neighbours came again; they were surprised.12. The naked stalks had put forth branch and leaf, and heavy clusters of delicious grapes weighed every branch to earth.13. The gatherers rejoiced as, day by day, they carried the rich fruitage to the press.14. Behold the vineyard of the Lord!

the earth is spread with human vines.15. The gorgeous forms and rites of men are branches, and their words are leaves; and these have grown so great that sunlight can no longer reach the heart; there is no fruit.16. Behold, the pruner comes, and with a two-edged knife he cuts away the branches and the leaves of words,17. And naught is left but unclothed stalks of human life.18. The priests and they of pompous show, rebuke the pruner, and would stay him in his work.19. They see no beauty in the stalks of human life; no promises of fruit.20. The harvest time will come and they who scorned the pruner will look on again and be amazed, for they will see the human stalks that seemed so lifeless, bending low with precious fruit.21. And they will hear the harvesters rejoice, because the harvest is so great.22. The priests were not well pleased with Jesus' words; but they rebuked him not; they feared the multitude.

1. The Indian sage and Jesus often met and talked about the needs of nations and of men; about the sacred doctrines, forms and rites best suited to the coming age.2. One day they sat together in a mountain pass, and Jesus said, The coming age will surely not require priests, and shrines, and sacrifice of life.3. There is no power in sacrifice of beast, or bird, to help a man to holy life.4. And Vidyapati said, All forms and rites are symbols of the things that men must do within the temple of the soul.5. The Holy One requires man to give his life in willing sacrifice for men, and all the so-called offerings on altars and on shrines that have been made since time began, were made to teach man how to give himself to save his brother man; for man can never save himself except he lose his life in saving other men.6. The perfect age will not require forms and rites and carnal sacrifice.

In many villages he tarried for a time and taught.11. At last he reached the pass, and in the Ladak city, Leh, he was received with favour by the monks, the merchants, and the men of low estate.12. And in the monastery he abode, and taught; and then he sought the common people in the marts of trade; and there he taught.13. Not far away a woman lived, whose infant son was sick nigh unto death.

1. A Caravan of merchantmen were journeying through the Kashmar vale as Jesus passed that way, and they are going to Lahore, a city of the Hand, the five-stream land.2. The merchantmen had heard the prophet speak, had seen his mighty works in Leh, and they were glad to see him once again.3. And when they knew that he was going to Lahore and then across the Sind, through Persia and the farther West, and that he had no beast on which to ride,4. They freely gave to him a noble bactrian beast, well saddled and equipped, and Jesus journeyed with the caravan.5. And when he reached Lahore, Ajainin and some other Brahmic priests, received him with delight.6. Ajainin was the priest who came to Jesus in the night time in Benares many months before, and heard he words of truth.7. And Jesus was Ajainin's guest; he taught Ajainin many things; revealed to him the secrets of the healing art.8. He taught him how he could control the spirits of the air, the fire, the water and the earth; and he explained to him the secret doctrine of forgiveness, and the blotting out of sins.9. One day Ajainin sat with Jesus in the temple porch; a band of wandering singers and musicians paused before the court to sing and play.10. Their music was most rich and delicate, and Jesus said, Among the high-breed people of the land we hear no sweeter music than that these uncouth children of the wilderness bring here to us.11. From whence this talent and this power?

1. Four-and-Twenty years of age was Jesus when he entered Persia on his homeward way.2. In many a hamlet, town and neighbourhood he paused a while and taught and healed.3. The priests and ruling classes did not welcome him, because he censured them for cruelty to those of low estate.4. The common people followed him in throngs5. At times the chiefs made bold to try to hinder him, forbidding him to teach or heal the sick.

But he regarded not their angry threats; he taught, and healed the sick.6. In time he reached Persepolis, the city where the kings of Persia were entombed; the city of the learned magi, Hor, and Lun, and Mer, the three wise men.7. Who, four-and-twenty years before, had seen the star of promise rise above Jerusalem, and who had journeyed to the West to find the new-born king;8. And were the first to honour Jesus as the master of the age, and gave him gifts of gold, gum-thus and myrrh.9. These magi knew, by ways that masters always know, when Jesus neared Persepolis; and then they girt themselves, and went to meet him on the way.10. And when they met, a light much brighter than the light of day, surrounded them, and men who saw the four stand in the way declared they were transfigured; seeming more like gods than men.11. Now, Hor and Lun were aged men, and Jesus placed them on his beast to ride into Persepolis; whilst he and Mer led on the way.12. And when they reached the magi's home they all rejoiced.

A light not comprehended shown about, as though some mighty spirit overshadowed him.2. A magus noted this and asked him privately to tell from whence his wisdom came, and what the meaning of the light.3. And Jesus said, There is a Silence where the soul may meet its God, and there the fount of wisdom is, and all who enter are immersed in light, and filled with wisdom, love and power.4. The magus said, Tell me about this Silence and this light, that I may go and there abide.5. And Jesus said, The Silence is not circumscribed; is not a place closed in with wall, or rocky steeps, nor guarded by the sword of man.6. Men carry with them all the time the secret place where they might meet their God.7. It matters not where men abide, on mountain top, in deepest vale, in marts of trade, or in the quiet home; they may at once, at any time, fling wide the door, and find the Silence, find the house of God; it is within the soul.8. One may not be so much disturbed by noise of business, and the words and thoughts of men if he goes all alone into the valley or the mountain pass.9. And when life's heavy load is pressing hard, it is far better to go out and seek a quiet place to pray and meditate.10. The Silence is the kingdom of the soul which is not seen by human eyes.11. When in the Silence, phantom forms mat flit before the mind; but they are all subservient to the will; the master soul may speak and they are gone.12. If you would find this Silence of the soul you must yourself prepare the way.

1. A flowing spring that people called the Healing Fount, was near Persepolis.2. And all the people thought that at a certain time of the year their deity came down and gave a virtue to the waters of the fount, and that the sick who then would plunge into the fount and wash would be made whole.3. About the fount a multitude of people were in waiting for the Holy One to come and potentise the waters of the fount.4. The blind, the lame, the deaf, the dumb, and those obsessed were there.5. And Jesus, standing in the midst of them, exclaimed, Behold the spring of life!

Why does he bless this spring to-day, and then to-morrow take his blessings all away?7. A deity of power could fill these waters full of healing virtue every day.8. Hear me, you sick, disconsolate: The virtue of this fount is not a special gift of God.9. Faith is the healing power of every drop of all the waters of this spring.10. He who believes with all his heart that he will be made whole by washing in this fount will be made whole when he has washed; and he may wash at any time.11. Let every one who has this faith in God and in himself plunge in these waters now and wash.12. And many of the people plunged into the crystal fount; and they were healed.13. And then there was a rush, for all the people were inspired with faith, and each one strove to be among the first to wash, lest all the virtue be absorbed.14. And Jesus saw a little child, weak, faint and helpless, sitting all alone beyond the surging crowd; and there was none to help her to the fount.15. And Jesus said, My little one, why do you sit and wait?

Why not arise and hasten to the fount and wash, and be made well?16. The child replied, I need not haste; the blessings of my Father in the sky are measured not in tiny cups; they never fail; their virtues are the same for evermore.17. When these whose faith is weak must haste to wash for fear their faith will fail, have all been cured, these waters will be just as powerful for me.18. Then I can go and stay a long, long time within the blessed waters of the spring.19. And Jesus said, Behold a master soul!

1. In Persia Jesus' work was done and he resumed his journey towards his native land.2. The Persian sage went with him to the Euphrates; then with a pledge that they would meet again in Egypt land the masters said, Farewell.3. And Kaspar went his way unto his home beside the Caspian Sea; and Jesus soon was in Chaldea, cradle land of Israel.4. In Ur, where Abraham was born, he tarried for a time; and when he told the people who he was, and why he came, they came from near and far to speak to him.5. He said to them, We all are kin.

It is no more the fruitful land that Abraham loved so well; the rains come not as in the former times; the vine is not productive now, and withered are the figs.10. But this shall not for ever be; the time will come when all your deserts will rejoice; when flowers will bloom; when all your vines will bend their heads with luscious fruit; shepherds will again be glad.11. And Jesus preached to them the gospel of goodwill, and peace on earth.

No other land has been the homeland of such mighty men of thought as grace your scrolls of fame.13. A host of sturdy giants of philosophy, of poetry, of science, and of art, were born upon the soil of Greece, and rocked to manhood in your cradle of pure thought.14. I come not here to speak of science, of philosophy, or art; of these you are the world's best masters now.15. But all your high accomplishments are but stepping stones to worlds beyond the realm of sense; are but illusive shadows flitting on the walls of time.16. But I would tell you of a life beyond, within; a real life that cannot pass away.17. In science and philosophy there is no power strong enough to fit a soul to recognise itself, or to commune with God.18. I would not stay the flow of your great streams of thought; but I would turn them to the channels of the soul.19. Unaided by the Spirit-breath, the work of intellection tends to solve the problems of the things we see, and nothing more.20. The senses were ordained to bring into the mind mere pictures of the things that pass away; they do not deal with real things; they do not comprehend eternal law.21. But man has something in his soul, a something that will tear the veil apart that he may see the world of real things.22. We call this something, spirit consciousness; it sleeps in every soul, and cannot be awakened till the Holy Breath becomes a welcome guest.23. This Holy Breath knocks at the door of every soul, but cannot enter in until the will of man throws wide the door.24. There is no power in intellect to turn the key; philosophy and science both have toiled to get a glimpse behind the veil; but they have failed.25. The secret spring that throws ajar the door of soul is touched by nothing else than purity in life, by prayer and holy thought.26. Return, O mystic stream of Grecian thought, and mingle your clear waters with the flood of Spirit-life; and then the spirit consciousness will sleep no more, and man will know, and God will bless.27. When Jesus had thus said he stepped aside.

And Jesus did accompany him.4. The masters went in haste; and when they came to Delphi, great excitement reigned.5. And when Apollo stood before the Oracle it spoke and said:6. Apollo, sage of Greece, the bell strikes twelve; the midnight of the ages now has come.7. Within the womb of nature ages are conceived; they gestate and are born in glory with the rising sun, and when the agic sun goes down the age disintegrates and dies.8. The Delphic age has been an age of glory and renown; the gods have spoken to the sons of men through oracles of wood, and gold, and precious stone.9. The Delphic sun has set; the Oracle will go into decline; the time is near when men will hear its voice no more.10. The gods will speak to man by man.

Apollo, with the highest masters of the land and many people from the varied walks of life, stood on the shore to see the Hebrew sage depart; and Jesus said,20. The son of man has been in many lands; has stood in temples of a multitude of foreign gods; has preached the gospel of good will and peace on earth to many people, tribes and tongues;21. Has been received with favour in a multitude of homes; but Greece is, of them all, the royal host.22. The breadth of Grecian thought; the depth of her philosophy; the height of her unselfish aspirations have well fitted her to be the champion of the cause of human liberty and right.23. The fates of war have subjugated Greece, because she trusted in the strength of flesh, and bone and intellect, forgetful of the spirit-life that binds a nation to its source of power.24. But Greece will not for ever sit within the darkness of the shadow land as vassal of a foreign king.25. Lift up your heads, you men of Greece; the time will come when Greece will breathe the ethers of the Holy Breath, and be a mainspring of the spirit power of earth.26. But God must be your shield, your buckler, and your tower of strength.27. And then he said, Farewell.

He said,2. The circle is the symbol of the perfect man, and seven is the number of the perfect man;3. The Logos is the perfect word; that which creates; that which destroys, and that which saves.4. This Hebrew master is the Logos of the Holy One, the Circle of the human race, the Seven of time.5. And in the record book the scribe wrote down, The Logos-Circle-Seven; and thus was Jesus known.6. The master said, The Logos will give heed to what I say: No man can enter into light till he has found himself.

What I have said, that I have said; I will be true to them, to God, and to myself.20. And then the tempter left, and Jesus was again alone; but in a little time a white- robed priest appeared and said,21. Well done!

These priests are criminals just hid away.8. They boast in sacrificial rites; they offer to their gods, and burn them while alive poor birds, and beasts; yea, children, women, men.9. And now they keep you here, and, at a certain time, may offer you in sacrifice.10. We pray you, brother, break your chains; come, go with us; accept of freedom while you may.11. And Jesus said, Your little tapers show the light you bring.

1. When other certain days had passed, the guide led Jesus to the Hall of Mirth, a hall most richly furnished, and replete with everything a carnal heart could wish.2. The choicest viands and the most delicious wines were on the boards; and maids, in gay attire, served all with grace and cheerfulness.3. And men and women, richly clad, were there; and they were wild with joy; they sipped from every cup of mirth.4. And Jesus watched the happy throng in silence for a time, and then a man in garb of sage came up and said, Most happy is the man who, like the bee, can gather sweets from every flower.5. The wise man is the one who seeks for pleasure, and can find it everywhere.6. At best man's span of life on earth is short, and then he dies and goes, he knows not where.7. Then let us eat, and drink, and dance, and sing, and get the joys of life, for death comes on apace.8. It is but foolishness to spend a life for other men.

I will go forth and find that child, that woman and that man, and give them help until my life's blood all has ebbed away.23. I call it pleasure when I help the helpless, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, heal the sick, and speak good words of cheer to those unloved, discouraged and depressed.24. And this that you call mirth is but a phantom of the night; but flashes of the fire of passion, painting pictures on the walls of time.25. And while the Logos spoke the white-robed priest came in and said to him, The council waits for you.26. Then Jesus stood again before the bar; again no word was said; the hierophant placed in his hands a scroll, on which was writ, PHILANTHROPY.27. And Jesus was a victor over selfish self.

I did not know that such entrancing beauty and such queen-like loveliness were ever found among the sons of men.11. I did not know that voice of angel ever graced a human form, or that seraphic music ever came from human lips.12. For days he sat entranced; the current of his thoughts was changed; he thought of nothing but the singer and her songs.13. He longed to see her once again; and after certain days she came; she spoke and laid her hand upon his head.14. Her touch thrilled all his soul, and for the time, forgotten was the work that he was sent to do.15. Few were the words the maiden said; she went her way; but then the heart of Jesus had been touched.16. A love-flame had been kindled in his soul, and he was brought to face the sorest trial of his life.17. He could not sleep nor eat.

In honour of their chosen son we celebrate the great Passover Feast.4. And then he said to Jesus, Brother, man, most excellent of men, in all the temple tests you have won out.5. Six times before the bar of right you have been judged; six times you have received the highest honours man can give; and now you stand prepared to take the last degree.6. Upon your brow I place this diadem, and in the Great Lodge of the heavens and earth you are THE CHRIST.7. This is your Passover rite.

1. In every age since time began have seven sages lived.2. At first of every age these sages meet to note the course of nations, peoples, tribes and tongues;3. To note how far toward justice, love and righteousness the race has gone;4. To formulate the code of laws, religious postulates and plans of rule best suited to the coming age.5. An age had passed, and lo, another age had come; the sages must convene.6. Now, Alexandria was the centre of the world's best thought, and here in Philo's home the sages met.7. From China came Meng-ste; from India Viyapati came; from Persia Kaspar came; and from Assyria Ashbina came; from Greece Apollo; Matheno was the Egyptian sage, and Philo was the chief of Hebrew thought.8. The time was due; the council met and sat in silence seven days.9. And then Meng-ste arose and said, The wheel of time has turned once more; the race is on a higher plane of thought.10. The garments that or fathers wove have given out; the cherubim have woven a celestial cloth; have placed it in our hands and we must make for men new garbs.11. The sons of men are looking up for greater light.

They seek a Gob not made with hands.12. They see the beams of coming day, and yet they comprehend them not.13. The time is ripe, and we must fashion well these garments for the race.14. And let us make for men new garbs of justice, mercy, righteousness and love, that they may hide their nakedness when shines the light of coming day.15. And Vidyapati said, Our priests have all gone mad; they saw a demon in the wilds and at him cast their lamps and they are broken up, and not a gleam of light has any priest for men.16. The night is dark; the heart of India calls for light.17. The priesthood cannot be reformed; it is already dead; its greatest needs are graves and funeral chants.18. The new age calls for liberty; the kind that makes each man a priest, enables him to go alone, and lay his offerings on the shrine of God.19. And Kaspar said, In Persia people walk in fear; they do the good for fear to do the wrong.20. The devil is the greatest power in our land, and though a myth, he dandles on his knee both youth and age.21. Our land is dark, and evil prospers in the dark.22. Fear rides on every passing breeze, and lurks in every form of life.23. The fear of evil is a myth, is an illusion and a snare; but it will live until some mighty power shall come to raise the ethers to the plane of light.24. When this shall come to pass the magian land will glory in the light.

this Egypt of the dead!13. Our temples long have been the tombs of all the hidden things of time; our temples, crypts and caves are dark.14. In light there are no secret things.

Lo, God is Thought, and Thought is God.18. Then Vidyapati wrote the second postulate:19. Eternal Thought is one; in essence it is two--Intelligence and Force; and when they breathe a child is born; this child is Love.20. And thus the Triune God stands forth, whom men call Father-Mother-Child.21. This Triune God is one; but like the one of light, in essence he is seven.22. And when the Triune God breathes forth, lo, seven Spirits stand before his face; these are creative attributes.23. Men call them lesser gods, and in their image they made man.24. And Kaspar wrote the third:25. Man was a thought of God, formed in the image of the Septonate, clothed in the substances of soul.26. And his desires were strong; he sought to manifest on every plane of life, and for himself he made a body of the ethers of the earthly forms, and so descended to the plane of earth.27. In this descent he lost his birthright; lost his harmony with God, and made discordant all the notes of life.28. Inharmony and evil are the same; so evil is the handiwork of man.29. Ashbina wrote the fourth:30. Seeds do not germinate in light; they do not grow until they find the soil, and hide themselves away from light.31. Man was evolved a seed of everlasting life; but in the ethers of the Triune God the light was far too great for seeds to grow;32. And so man sought the soil of carnal life, and in the darksomeness of earth he found a place where he could germinate and grow.33. The seed has taken root and grown full well.34. The tree of human life is rising from the soil of earthy things, and, under natural law, is reaching up to perfect form.35. There are no supernatural acts of God to lift a man from carnal life to spirit blessedness; he grows as grows the plant, and in due time is perfected.36. The quality of soul that makes it possible for man to rise to spirit life is purity.

Men only gain the heights by helping others gain the heights.6. The steed that leads the way to spirit life is Love; is pure unselfish Love.7. Matheno wrote the sixth:8. The universal Love of which Apollo speaks is child of Wisdom and of Will divine, and God has sent if forth to earth in flesh that man may know.9. The universal Love of which the sages speak, is Christ.10. The greatest mystery of all times lies in the way that Christ lives in the heart.11. Christ cannot live in clammy dens of carnal things.

Though carnal man will prostitute its sacred laws, symbolic rites and forms, for selfish ends, and make it but an outward show, the few will find through it the kingdom of the soul.15. And when the better age shall come the Universal Church will stand upon the seven postulates, and will be built according to the pattern given.16. The time has come; I go my way unto Jerusalem, and by the power of living faith, and by the strength that you have given.17. And in the name of God, our Father-God, the kingdom of the soul shall be established on the seven hills.18. And all the peoples, tribes and tongues of earth shall enter in.19. The Prince of Peace will take his seat upon the throne of power; the Triune God will then be All in All.20. And all the sages said, Amen.21. And Jesus went his way, and after many days, he reached Jerusalem; and then he sought his home in Galilee.

1. And John went down to Jericho; there he abode with Alpheus.2. And when the people heard that he was there they came in throngs to hear him speak.3. He spoke to none; but when the time was due he went down to the Jordan ford, and to the multitudes he said.4. Reform and in the fount of purity wash all your sins away; the kingdom is at hand.5. Come unto me and in the waters of this stream be washed, symbolic of the inner cleansing of the soul.6. And, lo, the multitudes came down, and in the Jordan they were washed, and every man confessed his sins.7. For many months, in all the regions round about, John pled for purity and righteousness, and after many days he went again to Bethany; and there he taught.8. At first few but the honest seekers came; but, by and by, the selfish and the vicious came with no contrition; came because the many came.9. And when John saw the repentant Pharisees and Sadducees come unto him, he said,10. You children of the vipers, stay; are you disturbed by news of coming wrath?11. Go to, and do the things that prove repentance genuine.12. Is it enough for you to say that you are heirs of Abraham?

But men are slow to comprehend this doctrine of the Christ.21. And Peter said, I cannot speak for any other man, but for myself I speak: I will leave all and follow where you lead.22. And then the others spoke and said, You have the words of truth; you came from God, and if we follow in your footsteps we cannot miss the way.23. Then Jesus and the six disciples sat a long, long time in silent thought.

His mother, Mary, lives on Marion Way.3. The ruler said, Tell him to come up to the synagogue, for I would hear his plea.4. And Peter ran and told to Jesus what the ruler said; but Jesus answered not; he went not to the synagogue.5. Then in the evening time the ruler came up Marmion Way, and in the home of Mary found he Jesus and his mother all alone.6. And when the ruler asked for proof of his messiahship, and why he went not to the synagogue when he was bidden, Jesus said,7. I am not slave to any man; I am not called unto this ministry by priest.

They are but certain kinds of thought made manifest, and I can manifest that thought, and water will be wine.11. He called the servants, and he said to them, Bring in six water pots of stone, a pot for each of these, my followers, and fill them up with water to the brims.12. The servants brought the water pots, and filled them to their brims.13. And Jesus with a mighty thought stirred up the ethers till they reached the manifest, and, lo, the water blushed, and turned to wine.14. The servants took the wine and gave it to the ruler of the feast who called the bridegroom in and said to him,15. This wine is best of all; most people when they give a feast bring in the best wine at first; but, lo, you have reserved the best until last.16. And when the ruler and the guests were told that Jesus, by the power of thought, had turned the water into wine, they were amazed;17. They said, This man is more than man; he surely is the christed one who prophets of the olden times declared would come.18. And many of the guests believed on him, and gladly would have followed him.

1. The Jewish paschal feast time came and Jesus left his mother in Capernaum and journeyed to Jerusalem.2. And he abode with one a Sadducee, whose name was Jude.3. And when he reached the temple courts the multitudes were there to see the prophet whom the people thought had come to break the yoke of Rome, restore the kingdom of the Jews, and rule on David's throne.4. And when the people saw him come they said, All hail!

behold the king!3. And Jesus spoke a parable; he said, A king had vast domains; his people all were kin, and lived in peace.4. Now, after many years the king said to his people, Take these lands and all I have; enhance their values; rule yourselves, and live in peace.5. And then the people formed their states; selected governors and petty kings.6. But pride, ambition, selfish greed, and base ingratitude grew fast, and kings began to war.7. They wrote in all their statute books that might is right; and then the strong destroyed the weak, and chaos reigned through all the vast domain.8. A long time passed, and then the king looked out on his domain.

Her home was down in Jericho; her husband was the keeper of an inn; his name was Asher-ben.5. Now, Asher was a Pharisee of strictest mien and thought, and he regarded Jesus with disdain.6. And when his wife confessed her faith in Christ, he drove her from his home.7. But Ruth resisted not; she said, If Jesus is the Christ he knows the way, and I am sure He is the Christ.8. My husband may become enraged and slay my human form; he cannot kill the soul, and in the many mansions of my Fatherland I have a dwelling-place.9. And Ruth told Jesus all; and then she said, What shall I do?10. And Jesus said, Your husband is not willingly at fault; he is devout; he prays to God, our Father-God.11. His zeal for his religion is intense; in this he is sincere; but it has driven him insane, and he believes it right to keep his home unsullied by the heresy of Christ.12. He feels assured that he has done the will of God in driving you away.13. Intolerance is ignorance matured.14. The light will come to him some day, and then he will repay for all your heartaches, griefs and tears.15. And Ruth, you must not think that you are free from blame.16. If you had walked in wisdom's ways, and been content to hold your peace, this grief would not have come to you.17. It takes a long, long time for light to break into the shell of prejudice, and patience is the lesson you have need to learn.18. The constant dropping of the water wears away the hardest stone.19. The sweet and holy incense of a godly life will melt intolerance much quicker than the hottest flame, or hardest blow.20. Just wait a little time, and then go home with sympathy and love.

and in a moment pain was gone; the fever ceased; the maid was well.4. And then the people brought their sick, and they were healed.5. But Jesus did not tarry long in Jericho; he went down to the Jordan ford where John was wont to teach.6. The multitudes were there and Jesus said to them, Behold, the time has come; the kingdom is at hand.7. None but the true in heart can come into the kingdom of the Holy One; but every son and daughter of the human race is called upon to turn from evil and become the pure in heart.8. The resolution to attain and enter through the Christine gate into the kingdom of the Holy One will constitute discipleship, and every one must make a pledge of his discipleship.9. John washed your bodies in the stream, symbolic of the cleansing of the soul, in preparation for the coming of the king, the opening of the Christine gate into the kingdom of the Holy One.10. John did a mighty work; but now the Christine gate is opened up, and washing is established as the pledge of your discipleship.11. Until this age shall close this pledge shall be a rite, and shall be called, Baptism rite; and it shall be a sign to men, and seal to God of men's discipleship.12. You men of every nation, hear!

They tarry for a time at Jacob's well and Jesus teaches a woman of Samaria.

And multitudes went out to Jacob's well.6. When Jesus saw them come he said to those who followed him, You need not say, It is four months before the harvest time;7. Behold, the harvest time is now.

Lift up your eyes and look; the fields are golden with the ripened grain.8. Lo, many sowers have gone forth to sow the seeds of life; the seed has grown; the plants have strengthened in the summer sun; the grain has ripened, and the master calls for men to reap.9. And you shall go out in the fields and reap what other men have sown; but when the reckoning day shall come the sowers and the reapers all together will rejoice.10. And Philip said to Jesus, Stay now your work a time and sit beneath this olive tree and eat a portion of this food; you must be faint for you have eaten naught since early day.11. But Jesus said, I am not faint, for I have food to eat you know not of.12. Then the disciples said among themselves, Who could have brought him aught to eat?13. They did not know that he had power to turn the very ethers into bread.14. And Jesus said, The master of the harvest never sends his reapers forth and feeds them not.15. My Father who has sent me forth into the harvest field of human life will never suffer me to want; and when he calls for you to serve, lo, he will give you food, will clothe and shelter you.16. Then turning to the people of Samaria, he said, Think not it strange that I, a Jew, should speak to you, for I am one with you.17. The universal Christ who was and is, and evermore shall be, is manifest in me; but Christ belongs to every man.18. God scatters forth his blessings with a lavish hand, and he is not more kind to one than to another one of all the creatures of his hand.19. I just came up from Judah's hills, and God's same sun was shining and his flowers were blooming, and in the night his stars were just as bright as they are here.20. God cannot cast a child away; the Jew, the Greek and the Samaritan are equal in his sight.21. And why should men and women fret and quarrel, like children in their plays?22. The lines that separate the sons of men are made of straw, and just a single breath of love would blow them all away.23. The people were amazed at what the stranger said, and many said, The Christ that was to come has surely come.24. And Jesus went with them into the town, and tarried certain days.

1. The Christines turned their faces toward the land of Galilee; but when they reached the city of Samaria, the multitudes pressed hard about them, begging them to tarry in their city for a while.2. And then they went up to the synagogue, and Jesus opened up the book of Moses, and he read:3. In thee and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blest.4. And then he closed the book and said, These words were spoken by the Lord of hosts unto our father Abraham, and Israel has been blessedness to all the world.5. We are his seed; but not a tithe of the great work that we were called to do has yet been done.6. The Lord of hosts has set apart the Israelites to teach the unity of God and man; but one can never teach that which he does not demonstrate in life.7. Our God is Spirit, and in him all wisdom, love and strength abide.8. In every man these sacred attributes are budding forth, and in due time they will unfold; the demonstration will completed be, and man will comprehend the fact of unity.9. And you, ruler of the synagogue, and you, these priests, are honoured servants of the Lord of hosts.10. All men are looking unto you for guidance in the ways of life; example is another name for priest; so what you would that people be, that you must be.11. A simple godly life may win ten thousand souls to purity and right.12. And all the people said, Amen.13. Then Jesus left the synagogue, and at the hour of evening prayer he went up to the sacred grove, and all the people turned their faces toward their holy mount and prayed.14. And Jesus prayed.15. And as he sat in silent mood a voice of soul spoke to his soul imploring help.16. And Jesus saw a woman on a couch in sore distress; for she was sick nigh unto death.17. She could not speak, but she had heard that Jesus was a man of God, and in her heart she called on him for help.18. And Jesus helped; he did not speak; but like a flash of light, a mighty virtue from his soul filled full the body of the dying one, and she arose, and joined her kindred while they prayed.19. Her kindred were astonished and they said to her, How were you healed?

1. Herod Antipas, the tetrarch of Paraca and of Galilee was dissipated, selfish and tyrannical.2. He drove his wife away from home that he might take as wife Herodias, the wife of one, a near of kin, a woman, like himself, immoral and unjust.3. The city of Tiberius, upon the shores of Galilee, was Herod's home.4. Now John, the harbinger, had left the Salim Springs to teach the people by the sea of Galilee; and he rebuked the wicked ruler and his stolen wife for all their sins.5. Herodias was enraged because the preacher dared accuse her and her husband of their crimes;6. And she prevailed on Herod to arrest the harbinger and cast him in a dungeon in the castle of Machaerus that stood beside the Bitter Sea.7. And Herod did as she required; then she lived in peace in all her sins, for none were bold enough to censure her again.8. The followers of John were warned to speak not of the trial and imprisonment of John.9. By order of the court, they were restrained from teaching in the public halls.10. They could not talk about this better life that Herod called the Heresy of John.11. When it was known that John had been imprisoned by the tetrarch court, the friends of Jesus thought it best that he should not remain in Galilee.12. But Jesus said, I have no need of fear; my time has not yet come; no man can stay me till my work is done.13. And when they asked why God permitted Herod to imprison John, he said,14. Behold yon stalk of grain to perfectness, it is of no more worth; it falls, becoming part of earth again from which it came.15. John is a stalk of golden wheat; he brought unto maturity the richest grain of all the earth; his work is done.16. If he had said another word it might have marred the symmetry of what is now a noble life.17. And when my work is done the rulers will do unto me what they have done to John, and more.18. All these events are part of God's own plan.

The year of jubilee has come; the time when Israel shall bless the world.6. And then he told them many thing about the kingdom of the Holy One; about the hidden way of life; about forgiveness of sins.7. Now, many people knew not who the speaker was: And others said, Is not this Joseph's son?

1. In Nazareth Jesus taught no more; he went with his disciples up to Cana, where, at a marriage feast, he once turned water into wine.2. And here he met a man of noble birth whose home was in Capernaum, whose son was sick.3. The man had faith in Jesus' power to heal, and when he learned that he had come to Galilee he went in haste to meet him on the way.4. The man met Jesus at the seventh hour, and he entreated him to hasten to Capernaum to save hi son.5. But Jesus did not go; he stood aside in silence for a time, and then he said, Your faith has proved a healing balm; your son is well.6. The man believed and went his way toward Capernaum and as he went he met a servant from his home who said,7. My lord, You need not haste; your son is well.8. The father asked, When did my son begin to mend?9. The servant said, On yesterday about the seventh hour the fever left.10. And then the father knew it was the healing balm that Jesus sent that saved his son.11. In Cana Jesus tarried not he went his way with his disciples to Capernaum, where he secured a spacious house where, with his mother, he could live, where his disciples might repair to hear the Word.12. He called the men who had confessed their faith in him to meet him in his home, which his disciples called, The school of Christ; and when they came he said to them,13. This gospel of the Christ must be proclaimed in all the world.14. This Christine vine will be a mighty vine whose branches will comprise the peoples, tribes and tongues of all the earth.15. I am the vine; twelve men shall be the branches of the stock, and these shall send forth branches everywhere;16. And from among the people who have followed me, the Holy Breath will call the twelve.17. Go now and do your work as you have done your work; but listen for the call.18. Then the disciples went unto their daily tasks, to do their work as they had done, and Jesus went alone into the Hammoth hills to pray.19. Three days and nights he spent communing with the Silent Brotherhood; then, in the power of Holy breath he came to call the twelve.

would you destroy us by the Word before our time?

1. The feast time came and Jesus and the twelve went to Jerusalem.2. Upon the day before the Sabbath day they reached Mount Olives and they tarried at an inn before Mount Olives on the north.3. And in the early morning of the Sabbath day they went in through the sheep gate to Jerusalem.4. The healing fountain of Bethesda, near the gate, was thronged about with people who were sick;5. For they believed that at a certain time an angel came and poured a healing virtue in the pool, and those who entered first and bathed, would be made whole.6. And Jesus and the twelve were standing near the pool.7. And Jesus saw a man near by who had been stricken eight and thirty years; without a hand to help he could not move.8. And Jesus said to him, My brother, man, would you be healed?9. The man replied, I earnestly desire to be healed; but I am helpless and when the angel comes and pours the healing virtues in the pool,10. Another who can walk, steps in the fountain first and I am left unhealed.11. And Jesus said, Who sends an angel here to potentise this pool for just a favoured few?12. I know it is not God, for he deals just the same with every one.13. One has no better chance in heaven's healing fountain than another one.14. The fount of health is in your soul; it has a door locked fast; the key is faith;15. And every one can have this key and may unlock the door and plunge into the healing fount and be made whole.16. And then the man looked up in hopeful mood and said, Give me this key of faith.17. And Jesus said, Do you believe what I have said?

You all will know that you are sons of God, and by the sacred Word, may do the works of God.46. When you have come to life, that is, have come to realise that you are sons of God, you who have lived the life of right, will open up your eyes on fields of life.47. But you who love the ways of sin will, in this resurrection, stand before a judgment bar, and be condemned to pay the debts you owe to men and to yourselves.48. For whatsoever you have done amiss must be performed again, and yet again, until you reach the stature of the perfect man.49. But in due time the lowest and the highest will arise to walk in light.50. Shall I accuse you unto God?

Man cannot make an image of the Infinite in force.12. And when men make a God of stone or wood or clay they make an image of a shade; and they who worship at the shrine of shades are shades.13. So God in mercy said, You shall not carve out images of wood, or clay, or stone.14. Such idols are ideals, abased ideals, and men can gain no higher plane than their ideals.15. The God is Spirit men must worship if they would attain a consciousness of God.16. But man can never make a picture or an image of the Holy Breath.17. The name of God man may not speak with carnal lips; with Holy Breath alone can man pronounce the name.18. In vanity men think they know the name of God; they speak it lightly and irreverently, and thus they are accursed.19. If men did know the sacred name and spoke it with unholy lips, they would not live to speak it once again.20. But God in mercy has not yet unveiled his name to those who cannot speak with Holy Breath.21. But they who speak the substitute in idle way are guilty in the sight of God, who said,22. You shall not take the name of God in vain.23. The number of the Holy Breath is seven, and God holds in his hands the sevens of time.24. In forming worlds he rested on the seventh day, and every seventh day is set apart as Sabbath day for men.

The Holy Breath would say, Resist not him who would deprive you of your goods.18. He who would take your coat by force is still a brother man and you should gain his heart, which by resistance cannot be done;19. Give him your coat and offer him still more and more; in time the man will rise above the brute; you will have saved him from himself.20. Refuse not him who calls for help and give to him who asks to borrow aught.21. And if a man shall strike you in a fitful, or an angry way, it is not well to smite him in return.22. Men call him coward who will not fight and thus defend his rights; but he is much the greater man who is assailed, is smitten and does not smite;23. Who is maligned and answers not, than he who smites the smiter and reviles the one who slanders him.24. It has been said in olden times that man shall love his friend and hate his foe; but, lo, I say,25. Be merciful unto your foes; bless those who slander you; do good to those who do you harm and pray for those who trample on your rights.26. Remember, you are children of the God who makes his sun to rise alike upon the evil and the good, who sends his rain upon the unjust and the just.27. If you do unto other men as they do unto you, you are but slaves, but followers in the way to death.28. But you, as children of the light, must lead the way.29. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.30. When you do good to those who have done good to you, you do no more than other men; the publicans do that.31. If you salute your friends and not your foes, you are like other men; the publicans ahve set the pace.32. Be perfect as your Father-God in heaven is.

Is it comprised in what a priest or officer may say?5. Is it the scroll on which the officer or priest has written the permission for the two to live in marriage bonds?6. Is it the promise of the two that they will love each other until death?7. Is love a passion that is subject to the will of man?8. Can man pick up his love, as he would pick up precious gems, and lay it down, or give it out to any one?9. Can love be bought and sold like sheep?10. Love is the power of God that binds two souls and makes them one; there is no power on earth that can dissolve the bond.11. The bodies may be forced apart by man or death for just a little time; but they will meet again.12. Now, in this bond of God we find the marriage tie; all other unions are but bonds of straw, and they who live in them commit adultery.13. The same as they who satisfy their lust without the sanction of an officer or priest.14. But more than this; the man or woman who indulges lustful thoughts commits adultery.15. Whom God has joined together man cannot part; whom man has joined together live in sin.16. Upon a table of the law, the great lawgiver wrote, Thou shalt not steal.17. Before the eyes of law a man to steal must take a thing that can be seen with eyes of flesh, without the knowledge or consent of him to whom the thing belongs.18. But, lo, I say that he who in his heart desires to possess that which is not his own, and would deprive the owner of the thing without his knowledge or consent, is in the sight of God, a thief.19. The things that men see not with eyes of flesh are of more worth than are the things that man can see.20. A man's good name is worth a thousand mines of gold, and he who says a word or does a deed that injures or defames that name has taken what is not his own, and is a thief.21. Upon a table of the law we also read: Thou shalt not covet anything.22. To covet is an all-consuming wish to have what is not right for one to have.23. And such a wish, within the spirit of the law, is theft.

1. The law has said: Thou shalt not lie; but in the eyes of law a man to lie must tell in words what is not true.2. Now, in the light of spirit law, deceit in any form is nothing but a lie.3. A man may lie by look or act; yea, even by his silence may deceive, and thus be guilty in the eyes of Holy Breath.4. It has been said in olden times: Thou shalt not swear by thine own life.5. But, lo, I say, Swear not at all; not by the head, the heart, the eye, nor hand; not by the sun, the moon, nor stars;6. Not by the name of God, nor by the name of any spirit, good or bad.7. You shall not swear by anything; for in an oath there is no gain.8. A man whose word must be propped up by oath of any kind is not trustworthy in the sight of God or man.9. By oath you cannot make a leaf to fall, nor turn the colour of a hair.10. The man of worth just speaks and men know that he speaks the truth.11. The man who pours out many words to make think he speaks the truth, is simply making smoke to hide a lie.12. And there are many men with seeming double hearts; men who would serve two masters at a time--two masters quite adverse.13. Men feign to worship God upon the Sabbath day and then pay court to Beelzebul on every other day.14. No man can serve two masters at a time no more than he can ride two asses at a time that go in different ways.15. The man who feigns to worship God and Beelzebul is foe of God, a pious devil and a curse of men.16. And men cannot lay treasures up in heaven and earth at once.17. Then, lo, I say, Lift up your eyes and see the safety vaults of heaven, and there deposit every gem.18. Where moth and rust cannot corrupt; where thieves cannot break in and steal.19. There are no safety vaults on earth; no place secure from moth, and rust and thieves.20. The treasures of the earth are but illusive things that pass away.21. Be not deceived; your treasures are the anchor of the soul, and where your treasures are your heart will be.22. Fix not your heart upon the things of earth; be anxious not about the things to eat, or drink or wear.23. God cares for those who trust in him and serve the race.24. Behold the birds!

If you condemn, you are condemned.5. When you show mercy, men are merciful to you, and if you love in such a way that carnal man can comprehend your love, you will be well beloved.6. And so the wise man of this world does unto other men as he would have them do to him.7. The carnal man does good to other men for selfish gain, for he expects to have his blessings multiplied and then returned; he does not stop to note the end.8. Man is himself the field; his deeds are seeds, and what he does to others grows apace; the harvest time is sure.9. Behold the yield!

The Measure of your worth lies in your service unto men.11. There is a way that leads unto the perfect life; few find it at a time.12. It is a narrow way; it lies among the rocks and pitfalls of the carnal life; but in the way there are no pitfalls and no rocks.13. There is a way that leads to wretchedness and want.

Behold, you are exalted now, but you shall be abased;36. For if the mighty works that have been done in you had but been done within the cities of the plain--of Sodom and Zeboim--they would have heard and turned to God; would not have been destroyed.37. They perished in their ignorance; they had no light; but you have heard; you have the evidence.38. The light of life has shown above your hills and all the shores of Galilee have been ablaze with light;39. The glory of the Lord has shown in every street and synagogue and home; but you have spurned the light.40. And, lo, I say, The judgment day will come and God will deal in greater mercy with the cities of the plains than he will deal with you.10. And surely he who comes to save would be dishonoured if he came beneath my roof.11. If you will speak the Word I know my servant will be well.12. And Jesus turned and said to those who followed him,13. Behold the captain's faith; I have not seen such faith, no, not in Israel.14. Behold, the feast is spread for you; but while you doubt and wait, the alien comes in faith and takes the bread of life.15. Then turning to the man he said, Go on your way; according to your faith so shall it be; your servant lives.16. It came to pass that at the time that Jesus spoke the Word the palsied man arose, and he was well.17. And then the Christines went abroad to teach.

1. Now, many women who possessed much wealth, and abode in other towns of Galilee, implored that Jesus and the twelve, together with the masters from the foreign lands, would thither go and preach and heal.2. Among these anxious ones were Mary Magdalene, who was obsessed by seven homeless spirits of the air, which had been driven out by the Omnific Word which Jesus spoke;3. Susanna, who owned vast estates at Cæsarea-Philippi;4. Johanna, wife of Chuza, one of Herod's court;5. And Rachel from the coast of Tyre;6. And other from beyond the Jordan and the sea of Galilee.7. And they provided ample means and three times seven men went forth.8. They preached the gospel of the Christ and they baptised the multitudes who made confession of their faith; they healed the sick and raised the dead.9. And Jesus wrought and taught from early morn until the day had gone, and then into the night, he did not stop to eat.10. His friends became alarmed lest he should fail from loss of strength, and they laid hold of him and would, by force, have taken him away to a place of rest.11. But he rebuked them not; he said, Have you not read that God will give his angels charge concerning me?12. That they would hold me fast and suffer not that I should come to want?13. I tell you, men, while I am giving out my strength unto these anxious, waiting throngs I find myself at rest within the arms of God,14. Whose blessed messengers bring down to me the bread of life.15. There is a tide just once in human life.16. These people now are willing to receive the truth; their opportunity is now; our opportunity is now,17. And if we do not teach them while we may, the tide will ebb;18. They may not care again to hear the truth; then tell me, Who will bear the guilt?19. And so he taught and healed.20. Among the multitudes were men of every shade of thought.

They were divided in their views concerning everything that Jesus said.21. Some saw in him a God, and would have worshipped him; and others saw in him a devil of the nether world and would have cast him in a pit.22. And some were trying hard to lead a double life; like little lions of the ground that take upon themselves the colour of the thing they rest upon.23. These people without anchorage of any sort, are friends or foes as seemed to serve them best.24. And Jesus said, No man can serve two masters at a time.

show us a sign and then we will believe.9. I was not sent to earth to buy up faith as men buy fish and fruit and rubbish in the streets.10. Men seem to think it quite a favour done to me when they confess their faith in me and in the holy Christ.11. What does it matter unto me as man if you believe or disbelieve?12. Faith is not something you can buy with coin; it is not something you can sell for gold.13. Once Mart, a beggar, followed me and cried, Give me a silver piece; then I will believe in you.14. And you are like this beggar man; you offer to exchange your faith for signs.15. But I will give to all the world one sign as surety that the Christ abides with me.16. You all have read the parable of Jonah and the fish, wherein it is recorded that the prophet spent three days and nights within the stomach of the mighty fish, and then came forth.17. The son of man will spend three days and nights within the heart of earth and then come forth again, and men will see and know.18. Behold, the light may be so bright that men cannot see anything.19. The Spirit light has shown so brightly over Galilee that you who hear me now are blind.20. You may have read the words of prophet Azrael; he said, The light shall shine out brightly in the darkness of the night, and men shall comprehend it not.21. That time has come; the light shines forth; you see it not.22. The Queen of Sheba sat in darkest night and still she yearned for light.23. She came to hear the words of wisdom from the lips of Solomon, and she believed;24. And she became a living torch, and when she reached her home, lo, all Arabia was filled with light.25. A greater far than Solomon is here; the Christ is here; the Day Star had risen, and you reject the light.26. And you remember Nineveh, the wicked city of Assyria, which God had marked to be destroyed by shock and flame unless the people turned and walked in ways of right.27. And Jonah raised his voice and said, In forty days shall Nineveh be razed, and her wealth shall be destroyed.28. The people heard and they believed; and they reformed and turned to ways of right, and lo, their city was not razed; was not destroyed.29. You men of Galilee, I tell you that Arabia and Nineveh will testify against you in the judgment day.30. Behold, for every one to whom I speak has in him all the fires of God; but they are lying dead.31. The will is bridled by the flesh desires, and it brings not the ethers of the fires to vibrate into light.32. Look, therefore, to your soul and note, Is not the light within you dark as night?33. There is no breath but Holy Breath that e'er can fan your fires of life into a living flame and make them light.34. And Holy Breath can raise the ethers of the fires to light in none but hearts of purity and love.35. Hear, then, you men of Galilee, Make pure the heart, admit the Holy Breath, and then your bodies will be full of light.36. And like a city on a hill, your light will shine afar, and thus your light may light the way for other men.

you build the tombs of prophets and of seers; they whom your fathers killed; and you are parties to the crimes.26. And now behold, for God has sent again to you his holy men-apostles, prophets, seers; and you are persecuting them.27. The time is near when you will plead against them in the courts; will spurn them into prison cells, and kill them with a fiend's delight.28. I tell you, men, the blood of all the holy men of God that has been shed from righteous Abel down to that of Zacharias, father of holy John,29. Who was struck down beside the altar in the Holy Place--30. The blood of all these holy men has made more red the hands of this ungodly generation.31. Woe unto you, you masters of the law!

1. Now, when the feast was finished Jesus with the foreign masters and the twelve, with Mary, Miriam and a band of loyal women who believed in Christ, went to a place apart to pray.2. And when their silence ended Jesus said, Be on your guard; the leaven of the Pharisees is being thrown in every measure of the meal of life.3. It is a poison that will taint whatever it may touch; and it will blight the soul as sure as fumes of the Diabolos; it is hypocrisy.4. The Pharisees seem fair in speech, but they are diabolical in heart.5. And then they seem to think that thought is something they can lock within themselves.6. They do not seem to know that every thought and wish is photographed and then preserved within the Book of Life to be revealed at any time the masters will.7. That which is thought, or wished, or done in darkest night shall be proclaimed in brightest day;8. That which is whispered in the ear within the secret place shall be made known upon the streets.9. And in the judgment day when all the books are opened up, these men, and every other man, shall be a-judged, not by what they've said or done,10. But by the ways in which they used the thoughts of God, and how the ethers of eternal love were made to serve;11. For men may make these ethers serve the carnal self, or serve the holy self within.12. Behold, these men may kill the body of this flesh; but what of that?

the flesh is but a transitory thing, and soon, by natural law, will pass;13. Their slaughter only hastens nature's work a little time.14. And when they kill the flesh they reach their bounds of power; they cannot kill the soul.15. But nature is the keeper of the soul as of the flesh, and in the harvest time of soul, the trees of life are all inspected by the judge;16. And every tree that bears no fruit of good is plucked up by the roots and cast into the flames.17. Who then shall you regard?

We are the temple of the Holy Breath.9. We need no more a tent within the wilderness; no more a temple built with hands.10. We do not seek the Holy Land, nor yet Jerusalem.11. We are the tent of God; we are his temple built without the sound of edged tools.12. We are the Holy Land; we are the New Jerusalem; Allelujah, praise the Lord!13. And when the song was done the multitudes exclaimed, Praise God.14. And Jesus said, Behold the way!15. The sons of men have groped for ages in the darkness of Egyptian night.16. The Pharaohs of sense have bound them with their chains.17. But God has whispered through the mists of time and told them of a land of liberty and love.18. And he has sent his Logos forth to light the way.19. The Red Sea rolls between the promised land and Egypt's sands.20. The Red Sea is the carnal mind.21. Behold, the Logos reaches out his hand; the sea divides; the carnal mind is reft in twain; the sons of men walk through dry shod.22. The Pharaohs of sense would stay them in their flight; the waters of the sea return; the Pharaohs of sense are lost and men are free.23. For just a little while men tread the wilderness of Sin; the Logos leads the way;24. And when at last men stand upon the Jordan's brink, these waters stay, and men step forth into their own.

1. And Jesus left the multitudes and went with his disciples up to Mary's home; and as they sat about the board to dine he said,2. My little flock, fear not; it is your Father's will that you shall rule the kingdom of the soul.3. A ruler in the house of God is servant of the Lord of Hosts, and man cannot serve God except by serving men.4. A servant in the house of God cannot be servant in the house of wealth; nor in the synagogue of sense.5. If you are tied to lands, or bonds, or wealth of earth, your hearts are knit to things of earth; for where your treasures are there are your hearts.6. Dispose of all your wealth, distribute it among the poor, and put your trust in God, and you nor yours will ever come to want.7. This is a test of faith, and God will not accept the service of faithless one.8. The time is ripe; your Master comes upon the clouds; the eastern sky is glowing with his presence now.9. Put on reception robes; gird up your loins; trim up your lamps and fill them well with oil, and be prepared to meet your Lord; when you are ready, he will come.10. Thrice blessed are the servants who are ready to receive their Lord.11. Behold, for he will gird himself, and will prepare a sumptuous feast for every one, and he himself will serve.12. It matters not when he shall come; it may be at the second watch; it may be at the third; but blessed are the servants who are ready to receive.13. You cannot leave your door ajar and go to sleep, and wait in blissful ignorance of the fleeting time;14. For thieves will surely come and take away your goods and bind and carry you away to robbers' dens.15. And if you are not carried forth, the Master when he comes will not regard a sleeping guard as friend, but as a foe.16. Beloved, these are times when every man must be awake and at his post, for none can tell the hour nor the day when man shall be revealed.17. And Peter said, Lord is this parable for us, or for the multitudes?18. And Jesus, Why need you ask?

God is not a man that he should show respect for one and cast another off.19. Whoever will may come and gird himself, and trim his lamp, and find a turret in the tower of life where he may watch, and be prepared to meet the Lord.20. But you, as children of the light, have come, and you have learned the language of the court, and may stand forth and lead the way.21. But you may wait, and think that you are ready to receive the Lord, and still he does not come.22. And you may grow impatient and begin to long for carnal ways again, and may begin to exercise your rule;23. To beat, and otherwise maltreat the servants of the house, and fill yourselves with wine and meat.24. And what will say the Lord when he shall come?25. Behold, for he will cast the faithless servant from his house; and many years will come and go before he can be cleansed, and be thought worthy to receive his Lord.26. The servant who has come into the light, who knows the Master's will and does it not; the trusted guard who goes to sleep within the turret of the tower of life,27. Shall feel the lash of justice many times, while he who does not know his Master's will and does it not, will not receive the graver punishment.28. The man who comes and stands before the open door of opportunity and does not enter in, but goes his way,29. Will come again and find the door made fast, and when he calls, the door will open not,30. The guard will say, you had the pass-word once, but you threw it away and now the Master knows you not; depart.31. And verily I say to you, To whom much has been given, much is required; to whom a little has been given, a little only is required.

The signs of the times.

1. Now, after they had dined, the guests and Jesus all were in a spacious hall in Mary's home.2. And then Lamaas said, Pray, tell us Lord, is this the dawn of peace?3. Have we come forth unto the time when men will war no more?4. Are you, indeed, the Prince of Peace that holy men said would come?5. And Jesus said, Peace reigns to-day; it is the peace of death.6. A stagnant pool abides in peace.

The prince of peace must first be prince of strife.11. This leaven of truth which I have brought to men will stir the demons up, and nations, cities, families will be at war within themselves.12. The five that have been dwelling in a home of peace will be divided now, and two shall war with three;13. The son will stand against his sire; the mother and the daughter will contend; yea, strife will reign in every home.14. The self and greed and doubt will rage into a fever heat, and then, because of me, the earth will be baptised in human blood.15. But right is king; and when the smoke is cleared away the nations will learn war no more; the Prince of Peace will come to reign.16. Behold, the signs of what I say are in the sky; but men can see them not.17. When men behold a cloud rise in the west they say, A shower of rain will come, and so it does; and when the wind blows from the south they say, The weather will be hot; and it is so.18. Lo, men can read the signs of earth and sky, but they cannot discern the signs of Holy Breath; but you shall know.19. The storm of wrath comes on; the carnal man will seek a cause to hale you into court, and cast you into prison cells.20. And when these times shall come let wisdom guide; do not resent.

We may not bring again to live these men, but we can succour those who looked to them for daily bread.6. You stewards of the wealth of God, an opportunity has come; unlock your vaults; bring forth your hoarded gold; bestow it with a lavish hand.7. This wealth was laid aside for just times as these; when it was needed not, lo, it was yours to guard;8. But now it is not yours, for it belongs to those who are in want, and if you give it not you simply bring upon your heads the wrath of God.9. It is not charity to give to those who need; it is but honesty; it is but giving men their own.10. Then Jesus turned to Judas, one of the twelve, who was the treasurer of the band, and said,11. Bring forth our treasure box; the money is not ours now; turn every farthing to the help of those in such distress.12. Now, Judas did not wish to give the money all to those in want, and so he talked with Peter, James and John.13. He said, Lo, I will save a certain part and give the rest; that surely is enough for us, for we are strangers to the ones in want; we do not even know their names.14. But Peter said, Why, Judas, man, how do you dare to think to trifle with the strength of right?15. The Lord has spoken true; this wealth does not belong to us in face of this distress, and to refuse to give it is to steal.16. You need not fear; we will not come to want.17. Then Judas opened up the treasure box and gave the money all.18. And there was gold and silver, food, and raiment in abundance for the needs of the bereaved.19. A lawyer said, Rabboni, if God rules the worlds and all that in them is, did he not bring about this storm?

and were they slain as punishment for some great crime?26. And Jesus said, We cannot look upon a single span of life and judge of anything.27. There is a law that men must recognise: Result depends on cause.28. Men are not motes to float about within the air of one short life, and then be lost in nothingness.29. They are undying parts of the eternal whole that come and go, lo, many times into the air of earth and of the great beyond, just to unfold the God-like self.30. A cause may be a part of one brief life; results may not be noted till another life.31. The cause of your results cannot be found within my life, nor can the cause of my results be found in yours.32. I cannot reap except I sow and I must reap whate'er I sow,33. The law of all eternities is known to master minds:34. Whatever men do unto other men the judge and executioner will do to them.35. We do not note the execution of this law among the sons of men.36. We note the weak dishonoured, trampled on and slain by those men call the strong.37. We note that men with woodlike heads are seated in the chairs of state;38. Are kings and judges, senators and priests, while men with giant intellects are scavengers about the streets.39. We note that women with a moiety of common sense, and not a whit of any other kind, are painted up and dressed as queens,40. Becoming ladies of the courts of puppet kings, because they have the form of something beautiful; while God's own daughters are their slaves, or serve as common labourers in the field.41. The sense of justice cries aloud: This is a travesty on right.42. So when men see no further than one little span of life it is no wonder that they say, There is no God, or if there is a God he is a tyrant and should die.43. If you would judge aright of human life, you must arise and stand upon the crest of time and note the thoughts and deeds of men as they have come up through the ages past;44. For we must know that man is not a creature made of clay to turn again to clay and disappear.45. He is a part of the eternal whole.

There never was a time when he was not; a time will never come when he will not exist.46. And now we look; the men who now are slaves were tyrants once; the men who now are tyrants have been slaves.47. The men who suffer now once stood aloft and shouted with a fiend's delight while others suffered at their hands.48. And men are sick, and halt, and lame, and blind because they once transgressed the laws of perfect life, and every law of God must be fulfilled.49. Man may escape the punishment that seems but due for his mis-doings in this life; but every deed and word and thought has its own metes and bounds,50. Is cause, and has its own results, and if a wrong be done, the doer of the wrong must make it right.51. And when the wrongs have all been righted then will man arise and be at one with God.

The wheat and tares grow close together in the soil, and while you pull the tares you would destroy the wheat.34. So we will let them grow together till the harvest time.

The evil things of men are all consumed in fire; the gold survives.17. The inner kingdom of the soul I may explain in parables:18. The son of man goes forth and scatters seeds of truth; God waters well the soil; the seeds show life and grow; first comes the blade, and then the stalk, and then the ear, and then the full wheat in the ear.19. The harvest comes and, lo, the reapers bear the ripened sheaves into the garner of the Lord.20. Again, this kingdom of the soul is like a little seed that men may plant in fertile soil.21. (A thousand of these seeds would scarcely be a shekel's weight.)22. The tiny seed begins to grow; it pushes through the earth, and after years of growth it is a mighty tree and birds rest in its leafy bowers and men find refuge 'neath its sheltering boughs from sun and storm.23. Again, the truth, the spirit of the kingdom of the soul, is like a ball of leaven that a woman hid in measures, three, of flour and in a little time the whole was leavened.24. Again, the kingdom of the soul is like a treasure hidden in a field which one has found, and straightway goes his way and sells all that he has and buys the field.25. When Jesus had thus said he went alone into a mountain pass near by to pray.

Torment us not before our time.14. And Jesus said, What is your number and your name?15. The evil spirit said, Our name is legion, and our number is the number of the beast.16. And Jesus spoke; and with a voice that shook the very hills, he said, Come forth; possess this man no more.17. Now, all the hills were filled with unclean animals that fed, and carried forth and spread the plague among the people of the land.18. And when the evil spirits begged that they might not be driven forth without a home, the master said,19. Go forth and take possession of the unclean quadrupeds.20. And they, and all the evil spirits of the tombs went forth and took possession of the breeders of the plague,21. Which, wild with rage, ran down the steeps into the sea, and all were drowned.22. And all the land was freed of the contagion, and the unclean spirits came no more.23. But when the people saw the mighty works that Jesus did they were alarmed.

They need it all to serve the race.27. The time will come when God will let you have your way, and you will do to me what Herod did to John;28. And in the awfulness of that sad hour these men will fast.29. They who have ears to hear may hear; they who have hearts to feel may understand.

1. The Christines prayed in silence seven days; then Jesus called the twelve aside and said,2. Behold, the multitudes have thronged about us everywhere; the people are bewildered; they wander here and there like sheep without a fold.3. They need a shepherd's care; they want a loving hand to lead them to the light.4. The grain is ripe; the harvest is abundant, but the harvesters are few.5. The time is also ripe, and you must go alone through all the villages and towns of Galilee and teach and heal.6. And then he breathed upon the twelve and said, Receive the Holy Breath.7. And then he gave them each the Word of power, and said, By this Omnific Word you shall cast spirits out, shall heal the sick and bring the dead to life again.8. And you shall go not in the way of the Assyrians, nor Greek; you shall not go into Samaria; go only to your brethren of the scattered tribes.9. And as you go proclaim, The kingdom of Christ has come.10. You have abundantly received, and freely you shall give.11. But you must go in faith; provide yourselves no crutch to lean upon.12. Give all your gold and silver to the poor; take not two coats, nor extra shoes; just take your wands.13. You are God's husbandmen and he will never suffer you to want.14. In every place you go search out the men of faith; with them abide until you go from hence.15. You go for me; you act for me.

They who receive and welcome you, receive and welcome me;16. And they who shut their doors against your face, refuse to welcome me.17. If you are not received in kindness in a town, bear not away an evil thought; do not resist.18. An evil thought of any kind will do you harm; will dissipate your power.19. When you are not received with favour, go your way, for there are multitudes of men who want the light.20. Behold, I send you forth as sheep among a pack of wolves; and you must be as wise as serpents and as harmless as the doves.21. In all your language be discreet, for Pharisees and scribes will seek a cause for your arrest in what you say.22. And they will surely find a way by charges false to bring you into court.23. And judges will declare that you are guilty of some crime, and sentence you to scourgings and to prison cells.24. But when you come to stand before the judge, be not afraid; be not disturbed about the way to act, the words to speak.25. The Holy Breath will guide you in that hour, and give the words that you shall speak.26. Of this be full assured; It is not you who speaks; it is the Holy Breath that gives the words and moves the lips.27. The gospel that you preach will not bring peace, but it will stir the multitudes to wrath.28. The carnal man abhors the truth, and he would give his life to crush the tender plant before the harvest time.29. And this will bring confusion in the homes that were the homes of stagnant peace.30. And brother will give brother up to death; the father will stand by and see men execute his child; and in the courts the child will testify against the sire, and gladly see its mother put to death.31. And men will hate you just because you speak the name of Christ.32. Thrice blessed is the man who shall be faithful in this coming day of wrath!33. Go now; when you are persecuted in a place, go seek another place.34. And when you meet a foe too great for you, behold, the son of man is at your door, and he can speak, and all the hosts of heaven will stand in your defence.35. But do not hold your present life in great esteem.36. The time will come when men will take my life; you need not hope to be immune, for they will slay you in the name of God.37. Men call me Beelzebul and they will call you imps.38. Be not afraid of what men say and do; they have no power over soul; they may abuse and may destroy the body of the flesh; but that is all.39. They do not know the God who holds the issues of the soul within his hands, who can destroy the soul.40. The Christ is king to-day, and men must recognise his power.41. He who loves not the Christ, which is the love of God, before all else, can never gain the prize of spirit consciousness.42. And they who love their parents or their children more than they love the Christ can never wear the name of Christ.43. And he who loves his life more than he loves the Christ cannot please God.44. And he who clings to life shall lose his life, while he who gives his life for Christ will save his life.45. When Jesus had thus said he sent the twelve away by twos, and bade them meet him in Capernaum.46. And they went out through all the towns of Galilee and taught and healed in spirit and in power.

1. The Christine master spent a time in prayer and then he called the foreign masters, and he said to them,2. Behold, I sent the twelve apostles unto Israel, but you are sent to all the world.3. Our God is one, is Spirit, and is truth, and every man is dear to him.4. He is the God of every child of India, and the farther east; of Persia, and the farther north; of Greece and Rome and of the farther west; of Egypt and the farther south, and of the mighty lands across the seas, and of the islands of the seas.5. If God would send the bread of life to one and not to all who have arisen to the consciousness of life and can receive the bread of life, then he would be unjust and that would shake the very throne of heaven.6. So he has called you from the seven centres of the world, and he has breathed the breath of wisdom and of power into your souls, and now he sends you forth as bearers of the light of life, apostles of the human race.7. Go on your way, and as you go proclaim the gospel of the Christ.8. And then he breathed upon the masters and he said, Receive the Holy Breath; and then he gave to each the Word of power.9. And each went on his way, and every land was blest.10. Then Jesus went alone across the hills of Galilee and after certain days he reached the coast of Tyre, and in the home of Rachel he abode.11. He did not advertise his coming for he did not come to teach; he would commune with God where he could see the waters of the Mighty Sea.12. But Rachel told the news and multitudes of people thronged her home to see the Lord.13. A Grecian woman of Phenecia came; her daughter was obsessed.

He did not come to Tyre to heal; he came to talk with God beside the sea.16. And Jesus said, Lo, I was sent not to the Greek, nor to Syro-phenicians; I come just to my people, Israel.17. And then the woman fell down at his feet and said, Lord, Jesus, I implore that you will save my child.18. And Jesus said, You know the common proverb well: It is not meet that one should give the children's bread to dogs.19. And then the woman said, Yea, Jesus, this I know, but dogs may eat the crumbs that fall down from their master's board.20. And Jesus said, Such faith I have not seen, no, not among the Jews; she is not serf, nor dog.21. And then he said to her, According to your faith so let it be.22. The woman went her way and when she came unto her child, lo, she was healed.23. And Jesus tarried many days in Tyre; and then he went his way and dwelt a time in Sidon by the sea.24. And then he journeyed on.

In Lebanon hills and vales, and in its groves he walked in silent thought.25. His earthly mission fast was drawing to a close; he sought for strength, and what he sought he found.26. Mount Hermon stood beyond, and Jesus fain would kneel beside that mountain famed in Hebrew song.27. And then he stood upon Mount Hermon's lofty peaks, and lifting up his eyes to heaven he talked with God.28. And masters of the olden times revealed themselves and long they talked about the kingdom of the Christ;29. about the mighty works that had been done; about the coming conquest of the cross; about the victory over death.30. Then Jesus journeyed on; he went to Cæsarea-Philippi, and in Susanna's home he tarried certain days.31. And then he went through all Decapolis to give encouragement to those who knew him as the Christ, and to prepare them for the day of Calvary.32. And then he went to Gadara, and many friends were there, to welcome him.33. And Chuzas steward of the house of Herod Antipas, was there, and Jesus went aboard the royal ship with him and crossed the sea, and came unto Capernaum.34. And when the people knew that Jesus was at home they came to welcome him.35. In just a little while the twelve apostles came and told the master all about their journey over Galilee.36. They said that by the sacred Word they had done many mighty works; and Jesus said to them, Well done.

1. The twelve apostles now had reached the stage of spirit consciousness, and Jesus could reveal to them the deeper meanings of his mission to the world.2. Next week the great feast of the Jews would be observed, and Matthew said, Shall we not gird ourselves and go unto Jerusalem?3. But Jesus said, We will not go up to the feast; the time is short and I have many things to say to you; come you apart into a desert place and rest a while.4. And then they took their boats and crossed the sea, and came into a desert place near Julius Bethsaida.5. The people saw them go, and in vast multitudes they followed them.6. And Jesus had compassion on the anxious throng, and he stood forth and taught them all the day, because they sought a light and were like sheep without a fold.7. And as the night came on the twelve were doubting what the multitudes would do, and Thomas said,8. Lord, we are in a desert place; the multitudes have naught to eat and they are faint from lack of food; what shall we do?9. And Jesus said, Go to and feed the multitudes.10. And Judas said, Shall we go down and buy two hundred pennies' worth of bread for them to eat?11. And Jesus, Go look into our larder and see how many loaves we have.12. And Andrew said, We have no bread, but we have found a lad who has five barley loaves and two small fish; but this would not be food enough for one in ten.13. But Jesus said, Command these people all to sit upon the grass in companies of twelve; and they all sat down in companies of twelve.14. Then Jesus took the loaves and fish, and looking up to heaven he spoke the sacred Word.15. And then he broke the bread and gave it to the twelve; he also gave the fish unto the twelve, and said, Go to and feed the multitudes.16. And all the people ate and were refreshed.17. There were about five thousand men, a company of little ones, and women not a few.18. And when the people all were filled the master said,19. Let not a crumb be lost; Go to and gather up the pieces of the bread and fish for others that may want.20. They gathered up the fragments and they filled twelve baskets full.21. The people were bewildered by this wondrous act of power; they said, And now we know that Jesus is the prophet that our prophets said would come; and then they said, All hail the king!22. Whne Jesus heard them say, All hail the king!

he called the twelve and bade them take their boats and go before him to the other side;23. And he went all alone into a mountain pass to pray.24. The twelve were on the sea and hoped to reach Capernaum in just a little time, when all at once a fearful storm arose, and they were at the mercy of the waves.25. And in the fourth watch of the night the wind became a whirling wind, and they were filled with fear.26. And in the blinding storm they saw a form move on the waves; it seemed to be a man, one spoke out and said, It is a ghost, a sign of evil things.27. But John discerned the form and said, It is the Lord.28. And then the wind blew not so hard, and Peter, standing in the midst, exclaimed:29. My Lord!

1. Now, Jesus took the twelve and with them crossed the sea at night and came unto the borders of Decapolis,2. That he might find a secret place where, all alone, he could reveal to them the things to come.3. They went into a mountain pass and spent three days in prayer.4. Then Jesus said, Behold, the time is near when I will walk with you in flesh no more.5. Lo, I have taught that he who counts his life of so much worth that he would give it not in willing sacrifice to save his brother man, is worthy not to enter into life.6. Lo, I am come as pattern for the sons of men, and I have not refrained from helpfulness.7. When I had passed the seven tests in Heliopolis, I consecrated life and all I had, to save the world.8. In the Judean wilderness I fought the strongest foes of men, and there I reaffirmed my consecration to the service of my fellow man.9. In troubles and in trials I have wavered not; when false accusers came, I answered not.10. God gave the saving Word to me, and I have often spoken it and healed the sick, drove unclean spirits out, and raised the dead.11. And I have shown you how to speak the Word; and I have given you the Word;12. In just a little while we turn our faces toward Jerusalem, and one of you who hear me now will then betray me into wicked hands.13. The scribes and Pharisees will bring false charges up and hale me into court, and, by consent of Rome, I will be crucified.14. Then Peter said, My Lord, it shall not be.

It would not be a sacrifice of life.23. But we are masters of the things of time.

Who do they think I am?23. And Matthew said, Some say that you are David come again; some say that you are Enoch, Solomon, or Seth.24. And Andrew said, I heard a ruler of the synagogue exclaim, This man is Jeremiah, for he speaks like Jeremiah wrote.25. Nathaniel said, The foreign masters who were with us for a time, declared that Jesus is Gautama come again.26. James said, I think that most the Jews believe you are the reappearance of Elijah on the earth.27. And John spoke out and said, When we were in Jerusalem I heard a seer exclaim, This Jesus is none other than Melchizedek, the king of peace, who lived about two thousand years ago, and said that he would come again.28. And Thomas said, The Tetrarch Herod thinks that you are John arisen from the dead;29. But then his conscience troubles him; the spirit of the murdered John looms up before him in his dreams, and haunts him as a spectre of the night.30. And Jesus asked, Who do you think I am?31. And Peter said, You are the Christ, the love of God made manifest to men.32. And Jesus said, Thrice blessed are you, Simon, Jonas' son.

1. When Jesus, Peter, James and John were come unto the city's gates a multitude of people thronged the way.2. The nine apostles who went not with Jesus to the mount, had tried to heal an epileptic child who was obsessed waited for the coming of the Lord.3. When Jesus came the father of the child knelt down before him and implored his help.4. He said, My master, I beseech that you will look in pity on my son, my only child; he is an epileptic child and suffers grievously.5. Sometimes he falls into the fire and is burned; again he falls into the water and is like to drown; and many times a day he falls, he grinds his teeth, the foam pours from his mouth.6. I took my child to your disciples, and they failed to give relief.7. And as he spoke a servant brought the child before the Lord (the child spoke not, for he was dumb), and instantly he fell upon the ground, he foamed, he writhed in agony.8. And Jesus said, How long has he been troubled thus?9. The father said, From infancy; and we have sought in many lands for help, but found it not; but I believe that you can speak the Word and heal my son.10. And Jesus said, Faith is the power of God.

The great lessons that are learned in life come through the failures that are made.22. As the disciples sat in thoughtful meditation Jesus said, Let these words sink into your hearts:23. The time has nearly come when you must bear your load alone; that is, without my presence in the flesh.24. For I will fall into the hands of wicked men, and they will slay me on a mount beyond Bezetha wall.25. And men will lay my body in a tomb where, by the sacred Word, it will be guarded and preserved three days; then I will rise again.26. The twelve were sad; they did not understand, and yet they feared to ask him to reveal the meaning of his word.27. Next day the Christine master and the twelve began their journey of return, and soon were in Capernaum.

The officers were filled with fear; they seized him not.36. And Jesus said, lo, I am here but for a little time and then I go my way to him who sent me here to do his will.37. You seek me now and you can find me now; the time will come when you will seek and will not find, for where I go you cannot come.38. The people said, Where will he go that men can find him not?

1. And Jesus stood again within the temple courts and taught.2. A master of the law was sent to question him that he might find a cause to censure and accuse him of a crime.3. He said, Lord, tell me what to do that I may have eternal life?4. And Jesus said, You know the law; what does it say?5. The lawyer answered, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, with all your mind, and you shall love your neighbour as yourself.6. And Jesus said, Lo, you have answered well; this do and you shall live.7. The lawyer said, My neighbour, who is he?8. And Jesus said, A man was going from Jerusalem to Jericho, and lo, he met with robbers on the way, who beat him, robbed him of his goods, and left him bleeding by the way.9. A Pharisee was going down that way; he saw the wounded man; but then he had no time to lose; he passed by on the other side.10. A Levite came and saw the man; but he was loath to soil his sacerdotal robes, and he passed by.11. A lawyer on his way to Jericho observed the dying man, and then he said, If I could make a shekel I might help the man; but he has nothing left to give, I have no time for charity; and he passed on.12. And then a stranger from Samaria came that way; he saw the wounded man; his heart was touched with pity, and he stopped, dismounted from his horse,13. Revived the man, and placed him on his horse and took him to an inn and charged the keeper of the inn to nurse him back to strength.14. He gave the keeper all the money that he had and said, Your charges may be more than this, but care for this unfortunate, and when I come again I will pay all; and then he went his way.15. Now, master of the law, which of these four was neighbour unto him who fell among the thieves?16. The lawyer said, The man who showed him mercy; he who cared for him.17. And Jesus said, Go on your way and likewise do, and you shall live.18. Now, Jesus, Peter, James and John went out to Bethany where Lazarus lived.19. And Mary sat at Jesus' feet and heard him speak the words of life while Martha served.20. And Martha called, but Mary would not leave the Lord to help her serve.21. And Martha said to Jesus, Do you not care that Mary makes me bear the burdens of the serving all the day?

And Lazarus said, Teach me to pray.2. And Jesus said, The prayer I taught the twelve to pray while we were up in Galilee is one acceptable to God; and when you pray just say,3. Our Father-God who art in heaven; holy is thy name; thy kingdom come; they will be done on earth as it is done in heaven;4. Give us this day our needed bread;5. Help us forget the debts that other people owe to us, that all our debts may be discharged;6. And shield us from the tempter's snares that are too great for us to bear;7. And when they come give us the strength to overcome.8. And Jesus said, The answer to your prayer may not appear in fulness in a little time.9. Be not discouraged; pray again and then again, for God will hear.10. And then he spoke a parable; he said, A housewife was alone at night and, lo, some guests arrived, and they were hungry, having had no food for all the day.11. The housewife had no bread, and so at midnight she went forth and called a friend and said, Loan me three loaves of bread, for guests have come, and I have naught for them to eat.12. The friend replied, Why do you trouble me at midnight hour?

the parents or the man himself?4. And Jesus said, Afflictions all are partial payments on a debt, or debts, that have been made.5. There is a law of recompense that never fails, and it is summarised in that true rule of life:6. Whatsoever man shall do to any other man some other man will do to him.7. In this we find the meaning of the Jewish law, expressed concisely in the words, Tooth for a tooth; life for a life.8. He who shall injure any one in thought, or word, or deed, is judged a debtor to the law, and some one else shall, likewise, injure him in thought, or word or deed.9. And he who shed the blood of any man will come upon the time when his blood shall be shed by man.10. Affliction is a prison cell in which a man must stay until he pays his debts unless a master sets him free that he may have a better chance to pay his debts.11. Affliction is a certain sign that one has debts to pay.12. Behold this man!

This do for seven times and you shall see.22. The man was led unto Siloam; he washed his eyes and spoke the word, and instantly his eyes were opened and he saw.23. The people who had seen the man for many years sit by the way and beg, were much surprised to see him see.24. They said, Is not this man the Job that was born blind, who sat beside the way and begged?25. He heard them talk among themselves; he said, Yes I am he.26. The people asked, How were you healed?

who opened up your eyes?27. He said, A man whom men call Jesus, made a salve of clay and put it on my eyes, and bade me say a word and wash in Siloam seven times; I did as he commanded me, and now I see.28. A certain scribe was passing, and he saw the man and heard him say that Jesus, by the Word, had opened up his eyes.29. He therefore took the man up to the synagogue, and told the story to the priests, who asked the man about the miracle.30. The man replied, I never saw the light until to-day, for I was blind from birth.31. This morning as I sat beside Siloam, a man I never knew put on my eyes a salve that people say he made of clay; he bade me say a word and bathe my eyes in water seven times; I did as he commanded and I saw.32. A lawyer asked the man, Who was it opened up your eyes?33. The man replied, Some people say, His name is Jesus and that he came from Galilee; but others say, He is the son of God.34. A Pharisee came up and said, This is the Sabbath day; a man who does a work like this, regarding not the Sabbath day, is not from God.35. Some of the priests were much amazed and said, A wicked man could never do a miracle like this; he must possess the power of God.

1. The time had come for the return of the three score and ten whom Jesus sent abroad to preach.2. And Jesus, Peter, James and John began their journey back to Galilee.3. They went up through Samaria; they passed through many villages and towns, and everywhere the people thronged the ways to see the man the seventy had told about; and Jesus taught and healed the sick.4. And when they reached Capernaum the seventy were there; and they were filled with joy; they said,5. The Spirit of the Lord of hosts was with us all the way, and we were filled.6. The power of the sacred Word was manifest in us; we healed the sick; we caused the lame to walk, the deaf to hear, the blind to see.7. The very devils trembled when we spoke the Word, and they were subject unto us.8. And Jesus said, As you were going on your way, the heavens were bright with light, the earth was bright, they seemed to meet and be at one; and I beheld, and Satan fell as lightning from the heavens.9. Behold, for you have power to tread on serpents and on scorpions, and these are symbols of the enemies of men.

You do not show our host the courtesies of life.26. When men are bidden to a marriage feast they should sit in the lower seats until the host shall place them where he wills.27. You may, unbidden, take the highest seat; but then a man more honourable may come and when the host shall bid you rise and take a lower seat that he may honour his more worthy guest, you cannot help but blush for very shame in your humility.28. But if you take the lowest seat and then are honoured by your host and asked to take a higher seat, you are esteemed an honoured guest.29. In this event we note a principle in life, That he who would exalt himself shall be abased, and he who humbles low himself shall be exalted in the sight of men.30. Then Jesus spoke to all the guests; he said, When any one of you would make a feast it should not be for friends, or kindred, or the rich;31. For they consider such a courtesy loaned out, and they feel called upon to make a greater feast for you, just in the payment of a debt.32. But when you make a feast invite the poor, the lame, the blind; in this a blessing waits for you, for well you know that you will get naught in return; but in the consciousness of helping those who need, you will be recompensed.33. And then he spoke a parable; he said, A wealthy man prepared a feast; he sent his servants forth to bit his chosen ones to come; but they desired not to go, and they formed such excuses as they thought would satisfy the would-be host.34. One said, I have just bought a piece of land, and I must go and prove my title to the land; I pray to be excused.35. Another said I must go down and prove my ownership in sheep that I have bought; I pray to be excused.36. Another said, I have been married but a little time and so I cannot go; I beg to be excused.37. Now, when the servants came and told the man who had prepared the feast that those he had invited would not come,38. The man was grieved in heart; and then he sent his servants forth into the streets and alleys of the town to bring up to the feast the poor, the lame, the blind.39. The servants went abroad and found the poor, the lame, the blind, and brought them in; but there was room for more.40. The host then sent his men of arms to bring by force the people to his feast; and then the house was full.41. And God has made a feast for men.

1. The Lord was standing by the sea; the multitudes were there and one stood forth and said,2. Does God bestow rewards as men bestow rewards, for what is done?3. And Jesus said, Men never know what other men have done, this life is such a seeming life.4. One man may seem to do a mighty work, and be adjudged by men as worthy of a great reward.5. Another man may seem to be a failure in the harvest fields of life, and be dishonoured in the face of men.6. Men do not know the hearts of men; God only knows the hearts of men, and when the day is done he may reward with life the man who fell beneath the burdens of the day, and turn away the man who was the idol of the hearts of men.7. And then he spoke a parable; he said, The kingdom of the soul is like a man who had a vast estate,8. And in the morning time he went down to the market place to search for men to gather in his grain.9. He found three men, and he agreed to give to each a penny for his service for the day, and sent them to his field.10. Again he went down to the market place the third hour of the day and found five men in waiting, and he said, Go down into my field and serve, and I will pay you what is right; and they went down and served.11. He went again; it was the sixth hour of the day, and seven men were waiting at the stand; he sent them to the field to serve.12. And at the eleventh hour he went again; twelve men stood there in seeming idleness; he said to them, Why stand you here in idleness all day?13. They said, Because we have no work to do; no man has hired us.14. And then he sent them to his field to serve.15. Now, when the evening came the man said to his steward, Call the labourers from the field, and pay them for his services.

the kingdom is at hand.7. And then he spoke to his disciples and he said, The seasons of the son of man are past.8. The time will come when you will wish above all else to see again one of these days; but you can see it not.9. And many men will say, Lo, here is Christ; lo, there is Christ.

Do not forget Lot's wife.19. Whoever tries to save his life will lose his life; whoever freely gives his life in serving life will save his life.20. Then comes the sifting time.

I fast two times a week, and I give tithes of all I get.36. The publican came not a-near; he would not lift his eyes to heaven, but smote his breast and said,37. O lord, be merciful to me; I am a sinner in thy sight; I am undone.38. And now, you men, I say to you, The publican knew how to pray, and he was justified.39. The Pharisee knew how to talk, but still he went away condemned.40. Lo, every one who lauds himself shall be abased, and he who does not praise himself shall be exalted in the sight of God.

If you are the Messiah that the prophets said would come, will you not tell us now?4. And Jesus said, Lo, I have told you many times, but you believed me not.5. No man can do the work that I have done and bring to men the truth as I have brought the truth who did not come from God.6. What I have done and said are witnesses for me.7. God calls, and they whose ears have attuned to hear the heavenly voice have heard the call and have believed in me; because God testifies for me.8. You cannot hear the voice of God, because your ears are closed.

You take these men whom God has given me into your haunts and try to poison them with sophistries and lies, and think that you will snatch them from the fold of God.10. I tell you, men, these men are tried and you can snatch not one of them away.11. My Father who has given them to me is greater than you all, and he and I are one.12. And then the Jews took stones to throw at him and cried, Now we have heard enough; away with him; let him be stoned.13. But Joseph, member of the great Sanhedrim of the Jews, was in the porch and he came forth and said,14. You men of Israel, do nothing rash; throw down those stones; your reason is a better guide than passion in such times as these.15. You do not know your accusations to be true, and if this man should prove himself to be the Christ, and you should take his life, the wrath of God would rest upon you evermore.16. And Jesus said to them, Lo, I have healed your sick, have caused your blind to see, your deaf to hear, your lame to walk, and cast out unclean spirits from your friends;17. For which of these great works would you desire to take my life?18. The Jews replied, We would not stone you for your works of grace, but for your vile, blasphemous words.

your friend in Bethany is sick, nigh unto death: his sisters urge that you arise and come in haste.3. Then turning to the twelve the master said, Lo, Lazarus has gone to sleep, and I must go and waken him.4. And his disciples said, What need to go of he has gone to sleep; he will awaken by and by?5. Then Jesus said, It is the sleep of death; for Lazarus is dead.6. But Jesus did not haste to go; he stayed two days in Araba; and then he said, The hour has come and we must go to Bethany.7. But his disciples urged him not to go; they said, The Jews are waiting your return that they may take your life.8. And Jesus said, Men cannot take my life till I have handed unto them my life.9. And when the time shall come I will myself lay down my life; that time is near, and God knows best; I must arise and go.10. And Thomas said, Then we will also go; yes, we will offer up our lives and die with him.

This man is doing many mighty deeds, and if we do not stay him in his work, all men will look on him as king, and through the Romans he may take the throne, and we will lose our place and power.39. And then the chief priests and the Pharisees in council met and sought a plan by which they might put him to death.40. Caiaphas was the high priest then, and he came forth and said, You men of Israel, do you not know the law?41. Do you not know that in such times as these we may give up one life to save our nation and our laws?42. Caiaphas did not know that he was prophet, speaking out the words of truth.43. He did not know the time had come for Jesus to be offered up a sacrifice for every man, for Jew and Greek, and all the world.44. From that day forth the Jews conferred together every day, maturing plans to put the Lord to death.45. Now, Jesus and the twelve did not remain in Bethany; but in the hills of Ephraim, upon the borders of Samaria, they found a home, and there abode for many days.

Why did you drive the merchants from the temple yesterday?15. And Jesus answered them and said, If you will answer what I ask, then I will answer you; Was John, the harbinger, a man of God, or was he a seditious man?16. The scribes and Pharisees were loath to answer him; they reasoned thus among themselves:17. If we shall say, John was a prophet sent from God, then he will say,18. John testified for me, that I am son of God, why do you not believe his words?19. If we should say, John was a bold, seditious man, the people will be angered, for they think he was a prophet of the living God.20. And so they answered Jesus and they said, We do not know; we cannot tell.21. Then Jesus said, If you will tell me not, then I will tell you not who gave me power to drive the robbers from the house of God.22. And then he spoke a parable to them; he said, A man once made a feast inviting all the rich and honoured people of the land.23. But when they came, they found the door into the banquet hall was low, and they could enter not except they bowed their heads and fell down on their knees.24. These people would not bow their heads and fall down on their knees, and so they went away; they went not to the feast.25. And then the man sent forth his messengers to bid the common folks, and those of low estate, to come and feast with him.26. These people gladly came; they bowed their heads and fell down on their knees, and came into the banquet hall and it was full, and every one rejoiced.27. And then the master said, Behold, you priests and scribes, and Pharisees the Lord of heaven and earth has spread a sumptuous feast, and you were bidden first of all;28. But you have found the door into the banquet hall so low that you must bow your heads and fall down on your knees to enter in, and you have scorned the king who made the feast, refused to bow your heads and fall down on your knees, and you have gone your way;29. But now God calls again; the common folks and those of low estate have come in multitudes, have entered in unto the feast and all rejoice.30. I tell you, men, that publicans and courtesans go through the gates into the kingdom of the God of heaven, and you are left without.31. John came to you in righteousness; he brought the truth, but you believed him not.32. But publicans and courtesans believed, and were baptised and now have entered in unto the feast.33. I tell you now, as I have told you many times, The many have been called, but chosen are the few.

He spoke in parables; he said,2. A man possessed a vast estate; he planted out a vineyard, placed a hedge about it, built a tower, installed the press for making wine.3. He placed his vineyard in the hands of husbandmen and then he journeyed to a distant land.4. Now, in the vintage time the man sent forth a servant to receive and bring to him his portion of the fruitage of the vines.5. The husbandmen came forth and beat the man; laid forty lashes on his back and cast him out beyond the vineyard gate.6. And then the owner sent another man to bring to him his own.

Show me the tribute money that you speak about.5. The man brought forth a piece of coin on which an image was engraved.6. And Jesus said, Whose image and whose name is on this coin?7. The man replied, 'Tis Cæsar's image and his name.8. And Jesus said, Give unto Cæsar that which is Cæsar's own; but give to God the things of God.9. And they who heard him said, He answers well.10. And then a Sadducee, who thinks there is no resurrection of the dead, came up and said, Rabboni, Moses wrote that if a married man shall die, and have no child, his widow shall become his brother's wife.11. Now, there were seven brothers and the eldest had a wife; he died and had no child; a brother took his widow for his wife, and then he died;12. And every brother had this woman for his wife; in course of time the woman died;13. Now which will have this woman for a wife in the resurrection day?14. And Jesus said, Here in this plane of life men marry just to gratify their selfish selfs, or to perpetuate the race; but in the world to come, and in the resurrection day, men do not take upon themselves the marriage vows.15. But, like the angels and the other sons of God, they form not unions for the pleasure of the self, nor to perpetuate the race.16. Death does not mean the end of life.

its temples and its shrines are clothed in such magnificence!3. And Jesus said, The city is the glory of my people, Israel, but, lo, the time will come when every stone will be cast down, and it will be a hiss and byword for the nations of the earth.4. And the disciples asked, When will this desolation come?5. And Jesus said, This round of human life will not be full until the armies of the conqueror will thunder at her gates, and they will enter in, and blood will flow like water through the streets.6. And all the precious furnishings of temple, court and palaces will be destroyed, or carried off to deck the palaces and courts of kings.7. Behold, these days are not at hand.

Let him who is upon his house wait not to enter in the house to gather up his wealth, but let him flee.17. And he who labours in the field must not return, but leave his all to save his life.18. And woe to mothers with their little children in that day; none shall escape the sword.19. The tribulation of these days cannot be told in words, for such has never been since God created man upon the earth.20. The conqueror will carry many of the sons of Abraham away as captives into foreign lands, and they who know not Israel's God will tread the highways of Jerusalem until the anti-Jewish times have been fulfilled.21. But when the people have been punished for their crimes, the tribulation days will end; but lo, the time will come when all the world will rise, like gladiators in a ring, and fight just for the sake of shedding blood.22. And men will reason not; they will not see, nor care to see a cause for carnage, desolation, thefts; for they will war with friend or foe.23. The very air will seem surcharged with smoke of death; and pestilence will follow close upon the sword.24. And signs that men have never seen will appear in heaven and earth; in sun, and moon, and stars.25. The seas will roar, and sounds will come from heaven that men can never comprehend, and these will bring distress of nations with perplexity.26. Hearts of the strongest men will faint in fear, in expectation of the coming of more frightful things upon the earth.27. But while the conflicts rage on land and sea, the Prince of Peace will stand above the clouds of heaven and say again:28. Peace, peace on earth; good will to men; and every man will throw away his sword, and nations will learn war no more.29. And then the man who bears the pitcher will walk forth across an arc of heaven; the sign and signet of the son of man will stand forth in the eastern sky.30. The wise will then lift up their heads and know that the redemption of the earth is near.31. Before these days shall come, behold, false Christs and poor deluded prophets will arise in many lands.32. And they will show forth signs, and do a multitude of mighty works; and they will lead astray the many who are not wise; and many of the wise will be deceived.33. And now I tell you once again, When men shall say, The Christ is in the wilderness, go you not forth.34. And if they say, The Christ is in the secret place, believe it not; for when he comes the world will know that he has come.35. For as the morning light comes from the east and shines unto the west; so shall be the coming of the age and son of man.36. The wicked of the earth will weep when they shall see the son of man come down upon the clouds of heaven, in power.37. Take heed you, O take heed, for you know not the hour nor the day when comes the son of man.38. Let not your hearts be overcharged with sensuous things, nor with the cares of life, lest that day come and find you unprepared.39. Keep watch at every season of the year; and pray that you may meet the Lord with joy and not with grief.40. Before those days shall come our Father-God will send his messengers abroad, yea, to the corners of the earth, and they will say.41. Prepare you, O prepare; the Prince of Peace shall come, and now is coming on the clouds of heaven.42. When Jesus had thus said, he went with his disciples back to Bethany.

Now, you shall teach to other men what I have spoken and am speaking unto you;9. Teach them to pray and not to faint; to be prepared at every moment of the day, for when they least expect him, then the Lord will come.10. A man went to a distant land and left his house and all his wealth in care of servants; five to guard his house and five to guard his barns and herds.11. The servants waited long for his return, but he came not, and they grew careless in their work; some spent their time in revellings and drunkenness, and some slept at their posts.12. And night by night the robbers came and carried off the wealth from house and barn, and drove away the choicest of the herds.13. And when they knew that much of all the wealth that they were left to guard had been purloined, they said,14. We cannot be to blame; if we had known the day and hour when our lord would come again we would have guarded well his wealth, and suffered not the thieves to carry it away; he surely is at fault because he told us not.15. But after many days the lord returned, and when he knew that thieves had robbed him of his wealth, he called his servants and he said to them,16. Because you have neglected what was given you to do, have spent your time in revellings and sleep, behold you all are debtors unto me.17. What I have lost by your neglect, you owe to me.

And then he gave them heavy tasks to do, and bound them to their posts with chains, where they remained till they had paid for all the goods their lord had lost through their neglect.18. Another man locked up his wealth and went to sleep, and in the night time robbers came, unlocked his doors, and when they saw no guard, they entered in and carried off his wealth.19. And when the man awoke and found his doors ajar and all his treasures gone, he said, If I had known the hour when the thieves would come I would have been on guard.20. Beware, my friends, beware!

and be prepared at every hour, and if your Lord shall come at midnight or at dawn, it matters not, for he will find you ready to receive.21. And then, behold, a marriage was announced, and virgins, ten of them, were set apart to meet the bridegroom when he came.22. The virgins clothed themselves in proper garbs, and took their lamps and sat in waiting for the watch to say, Behold, the bridegroom comes!23. Now, five were wise; they filled their lamps with oil; and five were foolish, for they carried empty lamps.24. The groom came not at the expected time; the virgins were a-weary with their watch and slept.25. At midnight came the cry, Behold, the bridegroom comes!26. The virgins rose; the wise ones quickly trimmed their lamps and went forth ready to receive the groom.27. The foolish virgins said, We have no oil, our lamps burn not.28. They sought to borrow from the wise, who said, We have no oil to spare; Go to the merchant men and buy and fill your lamps and then come forth to meet the groom.29. But while they went to purchase oil, the bridegroom came; the virgins who were ready with their lamps all trimmed went with him to the marriage feast.30. And when the foolish virgins came the door was shut, and though they knocked and called aloud, the door was opened not.31. The master of the feast exclaimed, I know you not!

and in disgrace the virgins went their way.32. Again I say to you, and you shall say to them who follow you,33. Be ready every moment of the day and night, because when you expect him not, the Lord will come.34. Behold, when he will come with all his messengers of light, the Book of Life, and that of Records, shall be opened up--the books in which the thought and words and deeds are written down.35. And every one can read the records he has written for himself, and he will know his doom before the judge shall speak, and this will be the sifting time.36. According to their records men will find their own.37. The judge is Righteousness, the king of all the earth, and he will separate the multitudes as shepherds separate the sheep and goats.38. The sheep will find their places on the right, the goats upon the left, and every man will know his place.39. And then the judge will say, to those upon the right, You blessed of the Father-God, come unto your inheritance, which was prepared for you from times of old.40. You have been servants of the race; and I was hungry and you gave me bread; was thirsty and you gave me drink; was naked and you gave me clothes;41. Was sick, you ministered to me; and was in prison and you came to me with words of cheer; I was a stranger and in your homes I found a home.42. Then will the righteous say, When did we see you hungry, thirsty, sick, imprisoned or a stranger at our gates and ministered to you?43. And then the judge will say, You served the sons of men, and whatsoever you have done for these, that you have done for me.44. The judge will say to those upon the left, Depart from me; you have not served the sons of men.45. I was hungry and you gave me naught to eat; was thirsty and you gave me naught to drink; I was a stranger and you drove me from your door; I was imprisoned and was sick, you did not minister to me.46. Then these will say, When did we thus neglect to care for you?

You should not throw such wealth away.9. But Jesus said, You men, be still; let her alone; you know not what you say.10. The poor are with you constantly; at any time you can administer to them; but I will not be with you long.11. And Mary knows the sadness of the coming days; she has anointed me beforehand for my burial.12. The gospel of the Christ will everywhere be preached, and he who tells the story of the Christ will tell about this day; and what was done by Mary at this hour will be a sweet memorial to her wherever men abide.13. And when the feast was over Jesus went with Lazarus to his home.14. Now, in Jerusalem the priests and Pharisees were busy with their plans to seize the Lord and take his life.15. The high priest called a counsel all the wisest men and said, This deed must be accomplished in a secret way.16. He must be taken when the multitudes are not a-near, else we may cause a war; the common people may stand forth in his defence and thus pollute this sacred place with human blood.17. And what we do, that we must do before the great day of the feast.18. And Ananias said, I have a plan that will succeed.

No man can reach my Fatherland except he comes with me through Christ.20. If you had known and comprehended me, then you would know my Father-God.21. And Philip said, Show us the Father and we will be satisfied.22. And Jesus said, Have I been with you all these years and still you know me not?23. He who has seen the son has seen the Father has revealed himself.24. Lo, I have told you many times that what I speak and what I do are not the words and works of man;25. They are the words of God, who lives in me and I in him.26. Hear me, you faithful men: He who believes in me and in my Father-God shall say and do what I have said and done.27. Yea, more, he shall do greater works than I have ever done, because I go to him whose works we do, and then I can reach forth my hand in helpfulness.28. And in my name, through Christ, you may petition God and he will grant you your request.29. Do you believe what I have said?

We seek for Jesus, one who calls himself the Christ.7. And Jesus answered, Here am I.8. And then he raised his hands and with a mighty thought he brought the ethers to the state of light; and all the orchard was aglow with light.9. The frenzied men were driven back and many fled and tarried not until they reached Jerusalem; and others fell upon their faces on the ground.10. The bravest men, and they with hardest hearts, remained, and when the light had paled, the Lord again inquired, Whom do you seek?11. And Ananias said, We seek the man from Galilee; we seek for Jesus, he who calls himself the Christ.12. And Jesus answered him and said, I told you once before; but now I tell you once again that I am he.13. By Ananias, Judas stood; but in a moment he had gone and coming up behind the Lord he said, My Lord; and then he kissed him as a sign that he was Jesus whom they sought.14. And Jesus said, Do you, Iscariot, come and thus betray your master with a kiss?15. This thing must need be done; but woe to him who does betray his Lord.16. Your carnal greed has seared your conscience and you know not what you do; but in a little time your conscience will assert itself, and in remorse, lo, you will close your span and take your life.17. Then the eleven came, laid hold of Judas and would have done him harm; but Jesus said,18. You must not harm this man; you have no right to judge this man; his conscience is his judge, will sentence him and he will execute himself.19. And then the mob led on by Malchus, servant of Caiaphas, laid hold of Jesus, and was binding him with chains.20. And Jesus said, Why do you come in dead of night with swords and clubs to take me in this sacred place?21. Have I not spoken in the public places of Jerusalem?

But this I say,17. The time will come when you will see the son of man upon the throne of power and coming in the clouds of heaven.18. And then Caiaphas rent his clothes and said, Have you not heard enough?

I will approve of any judgment you may render in this case.38. Now, Pilate and the tetrarch had been foes, but the experience of this hour destroyed their enmity and they were friends in after days.39. When Jesus had been brought again to Pilate's court, the Roman Governor stood forth before the accusers of the Lord and said,40. I cannot find this Nazarene to be a criminal as charged; there is no evidence that he should suffer death; so I will scourge him well and let him go.41. The Jews cried angrily, It is not meet that such a dangerous man should live; he must be crucified.42. Then Pilate said, I bid you wait a little time.

1. Now, Judas who betrayed his Lord, was with the mob; but all the time he thought that Jesus would assert his power and demonstrate the strength of God that he possessed, and strike to earth the fiendish multitudes and free himself;2. But when he saw his master on the ground and bleeding from a score of wounds, he said,3. O God, what have I done?

I have betrayed the son of God; the curse of God will rest upon my soul.4. And then he turned and ran with haste until he reached the temple door; he found the priests, who gave to him the thirty silver pieces to betray the Lord, and said,5. Take back your bribe; it is the cost price of my soul; I have betrayed the son of God.6. The priests replied, That matters not to us.7. Then Judas threw the silver on the floor, and, bowed with grief, he went away, and on a ledge beyond the city's walls he hanged himself and died.8. In time the fastenings gave way, his body fell into the Hinnon vale and after many days they found it there a shapeless mass.9. The rulers could not put the price of blood into the treasury, and so they took the thirty silver pieces with which they bought a potter's field,10. Where they might bury those who had no rights to lie within their sacred grounds.11. And there they put the body of the man who sold his Lord.

The body is the manifest of soul; but soul is soul without its manifest.16. And in the realm of souls, unmanifest, the Lord went forth and taught.17. He opened up the prison doors and set the prisoners free;18. He broke the chains of captive souls, and led the captives to the light;19. He sat in council with the patriarchs and prophets of the olden times;20. The masters of all times and climes he met, and in the great assemblies he stood forth and told the story of his life on earth, and of his death in sacrifice for man,21. And of his promises to clothe himself again in garb of flesh and walk with his disciples, just to prove the possibilities of man;22. To give to them the key of life, of death, and of the resurrection of the dead.23. In council all the masters sat and talked about the revelations of the coming age,24. When she, the Holy Breath, shall fill the earth and air with holy breath, and open up the way of man to perfectness and endless life.25. The garden of Siloam was silent on the Sabbath day; the Jewish soldiers watched and no one else approached the tomb; but on the following night the scene was changed.26. At midnight every Jewish soldier heard a voice which said, Adon Mashich Cumi, which meant, Lord Christ arise.27. And they supposed again that friends of Jesus were alert, were coming up to take the body of their Lord away.28. The soldiers were alert with swords unsheathed and drawn, and then they heard the words again.29. It seemed as though the voice was everywhere, and yet they saw no man.30. The soldiers blanched with fear, and still to flee meant death for cowardice, and so they stood and watched.31. Again, and this was just before the sun arose, the heavens blazed with light, a distant thunder seemed to herald forth a coming storm;32. and then the earth began to quake and in the rays of light they saw a form descend from heaven.

For I am risen from the dead, first fruitage of the grave!17. And Martha ran and brought the chair in which the Lord had ever loved to sit, and Jesus sat down on the chair.18. And for a long, long time they talked about the trial, and the scenes of Calvary and of the garden of Siloam.19. Then Jesus said, Fear not, for I will be your boon companion all the way; and then he disappeared.

I conquered death, I stamped upon him and arose;14. Brought immortality to light and painted on the walls of time a rainbow for the sons of men; and what I did all men shall do.15. This gospel of the resurrection of the dead is not confined to Jew and Greek; it is the heritage of every man of every time and clime; and I am here a demonstration of the power of man.16. Then he arose and pressed the hand of every man and of the royal host, and said,17. Behold, I am not myth made of the fleeting winds, for I am flesh and bone and brawn; but I can cross the borderland at will.18. And then they talked together there a long, long time.

In one short breath he told the story of his mission to the sons of men, and then he disappeared.32. The magi said, Some time ago we read this promise, now fulfilled, upon the dial plate of heaven.33. And then we saw this man who has just demonstrated unto us the power of man to rise from carnal flesh and blood to flesh of God, a babe in Bethlehem.34. and after many years he came and sat with us in these same groves;35. He told the story of his human life, of trials, sore temptations, buffetings and woes.36. He pressed along the thorny way of life he had risen and over thrown the strongest foes of God and man; and he is now the only master of the human race whose flesh has been transmuted into flesh divine.37. He is the God-man of to-day; but every one of earth overcome and be like him, a son of God.

It was the evening of the first day of the week, and on the morrow all would turn their faces toward their homes.23. The eleven apostles all were there: the doors were closed and barred, and Jesus came and said, Peace be to all!24. And then he said to Thomas, Friend, you do not know that I have risen from the dead; the time has come for you to know.25. Come here and see the nail prints in my hands, the spear wound in my side, and talk with me as you have often talked with me.26. And Thomas came and saw and then exclaimed, My master, and my Lord!

And then he talked with them a long, long time.4. And the disciples asked, Will you restore the kingdom unto Israel now?5. And Jesus said, Be not concerned about the governments of men; the masters will direct.6. Do that which has been given you to do, and wait and murmur not.7. All power in heaven and earth is given unto me, and now I bid you go to all the world and preach the gospel of the Christ, the unity of God and man, the resurrection of the dead, and of eternal life.8. And as you go and preach, baptise the people in the name of Christ.9. They who believe and are baptised shall rise up in the newness of the life of Christ, and they who disbelieve shall rise not in the newness of the life of Christ.10. And you shall give to men the power I give to you.11. They who believe and are baptised shall heal the sick; shall cause the blind to see, the deaf to hear, the lame to walk;12. Shall cast the unclean spirits out of those obsessed; shall tread on deadly serpents and be not harmed; shall pass through flames and not be burned; and if they drink a poisonous draught it shall not kill.13. You know the sacred Word, which is the word of power.14. The secret things that I have told to you that may not now be told to all the world, you shall make known to faithful men who shall in turn reveal them unto other faithful men.15. Until the time shall come when all the world may hear and comprehend the words of truth and power.16. And now I will ascend to God, as you and all the world will rise to God.17. Behold, upon the day of Pentecost you all shall be endowed with power from on high.18. But here you shall remain till then in holy thought and prayer.19. Then Jesus went to Olivet, and his disciples followed him, and in a place not far removed from Bethany, he met the Marys and Salome;20. Met Martha, Ruth and Miriam; met Lazarus and a host of others who had come from Galilee.21. And Jesus stood apart and raised his hands and said,22. The benedictions of the Holy Ones, of the Almighty God, and of the Holy Breath, of Christ the love of God made manifest.23. Will rest upon you all the way till you shall rise and sit with me upon the throne of power.24. And then they saw him rise upon the wings of light; a wreath encircled him about; and then they saw his form no more.25. But as they gazed up into heaven two men, in robes of white, appeared and said,26. You men of Galilee, why gaze you thus so anxiously upon the ascending Lord?

1. The fact that Jesus had arisen from the dead was not denied by many of the rulers of the Jews.2. And Pilate gave an order that the followers of the Nazarene be not molested in their worship any place in his domain.3. The day of Pentecost was near at hand and every one was looking for a manifest of Spirit power.4. Now, in Jerusalem the eleven had met to choose a man to fill the place of Judas who betrayed his Lord.5. And Peter said, the Lord called to this ministry twelve men as twelve foundation stones on which the Christine temple should be built.6. This Judas who betrayed his Lord, has gone to his own place beyond the veil.7. Of him the prophet wrote: His habitation shall be desolate; no man shall dwell therein; his office let another take.8. From those who have accompanied us from Gigal, where the harbinger baptised, until this day, shall one be chosen to complete the number twelve, to fill the place from which our brother by transgression fell.9. And then the eleven spent a long, long time in prayer, and when they cast their lots, Matthias, from the valley of the Nile, was chosen for the place.10. Matthias was an Israelite indeed; but he was learned in all the wisdom of Egyptian schools, and he had taught the mysteries of Mizraim in Jericho.11. He was among the first to greet the harbinger; among the first to recognise the Nazarene as Christ, the son of God;12. He had been with the Christine band in all their journeys in the land of Galilee, Judea and Samaria.13. A messenger was sent who found Matthias, and he came and joined the eleven, and for a time the twelve were lost in silent prayer.14. The Christines who had come from Galilee and places in Judea, about six score, were there, and Peter told them of Matthias, and how, by lot, he had been chosen an apostle of the Lord.15. The Christines all were glad and praised the name of God; and Miriam sung a song of praise.16. These are the names of the apostles of the Lord; Peter, john and James; Philip, Andrew and Nathaniel;17. Thomas, James the son of Alpheus and Simon Zelotes; Matthew, Jude, the son of Alpheus and Matthias.

how is it that they speak in all the languages of earth?10. And Peter said, You people of Jerusalem, and you live beyond the city's gates; Peace be to you, and all mankind.11. This is time that holy men of old desired to see, by faith they saw this hour, and now they stand with us in ecstasy.12. The prophet Joel in olden times told of the things you see and hear.

In the old ones' time, it is said that … (trying to remember) the path that the moon walked and the path that the sun walked were more harmonious than they are now, and the path of the stars too.

For at one time a certain number of the moon's cycles always coincided with a certain number of the sun's cycles.

It is said that there were 12 moon cycles for one year, exactly, all the time, every year.

And then one time something happened.

It was a very terrible time.

Many people were killed and it was during that time when most of our knowledge was lost.

D: Something definitely must have happened at that time.

But after the first time when the Earth shook and there were lights in the sky, the wise man thought the sun was rising where it should set and setting where it should rise.

No one could keep track of time then, for all the movements of the stars and the path of the moon were backwards.

How can you keep track of what time is passing?

And then it does not say how longbut after a period of time something else happened.

And they said, "We need a light for night time, too." So they made the moon.

And time passes, and later on if you decide you want to play another round of the game you are born again.

And they said, "We need a light for night time, too." So they made the moon.

And time passes, and later on if you decide you want to play another round of the game you are born again.

Every time the sun comes up these lakes start shrinking." And so another spirit said, "Why don't we do something really wild.

But other times, if it is just a general situation and you are not sure who could best handle it, you address all the spirits in general.

At this point in your time, anyone who has any American Indian in them would have a little bit of the Old Ones' blood because it was eventually spread throughout the American Indian peoples.

And these ceremonies, they keep the times of the year in the proper places, and help the years to pass, one year to the other, in the flowing cycle of life: the harvest, the spring.

At this time, since the nights are getting longer and the work of the summer is about done, we start teaching the children of the village the things they need to know.