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THE ROBERT E. COWAN COLLECTION
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
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C. P. HUNTINGTON
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Key to the Kingdom,
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Heaoen upon Earth.
SAN FRANCISCO:
LEADER PRINTING Co., 532 COMMERCIAL STREET.
1891.
TO MY CHILDREN.
THIS LITTLE WORK IS DEDICATED TO MY FOUR DEAR
CHILDREN WHO HAVE UNREMITTINGLY SUSTAIXKD ME
FOR YEARS, BY THEIR DILIGENCE AND HAPPY HEARTS.
THE APPELLATION, "SPIDKK" WHICH THEY GA\
ENDEARED ITSELF TO ME, AND I THOUGHT TO PARTIALLY
REPAY THEM, I W< TLD WEAVE OK SPIN* A SIL\
THAT IT MIGHT UNITE US MORE CLOSELY TO HIM WE
LOVE, AND WHO IS OUR SrSTAINKK IN TRUTH, FOR IN
HIM "WE LIVE, AND MOV1., AND HAVE OUR BEING." HE
GIVES Al.I. THINGS FKI-1-I.Y I-oK THE ASKING.
MAMA.
PSALM LXII.
Truly my soul wniteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.
He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly
moved.
How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? Ye shall be slain all of you:
as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies:
they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.
My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.
He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.
In God is my salvation and ray glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is
jn God.
Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him; God is a
refuge for us.
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and man of high degree are a lie: to be laid
in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set
not your heart upon them.
PREFACE-
The spider taketh hold with her hands and is in kings' palaces.
— Prov. xx x: 28.
Dilligence hath its reward. We write this epistle to those who
are weary of creeds and dogmas, and who have not yet found the
kingdom of heaven within. Our weapon of defense is knowledge.
We could not write unless we had the standard. We do not tear
down, for in the inner meaning of His Word we find all things are
necessary to operate upon the mind in its feebleness. As wisdom
opens the door into the kingdom called heaven, we ask you to
seek, if you would find the key. The work of reformation or
regeneration must be actualized in the individual soul, then we
cross the Jordan and enter the land flowing with milk and honey.
It is a truth, not as we read of in Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage's book.
He reads to his party of Christ's baptism in the Jordan, and goes
into the river with a candidate to immerse his body. He tells us
this symbol has been used in all ages to divide heaven from earth.
The doctor goes on to say he reported to no particular denomina-
tion of Christians (quite liberal). We go further, for we know it is
not the dipping of ones body into a river that converts the mind
from a state of ignorance to one of enlightenment. We know that
water in all its forms is expressive of creative power, and we
also know that the symbol as used by Dr. Talmage or any other
person must in time wear itself out, for the law holds good; the
shadow must pass away. "The heavens declare the glory of God,
and the firmament showeth his handiwork: day unto day uttereth
speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge." All things
speak to us when we can reason, and think, compare and form
similitudes. It is the meaning of Adam. We are to stand firm on
our feet, with God to guide us.
The commercial world has its rules and measurements to guide
and govern the mind, that all who adhere to them may work in
harmony. The time is at hand that the least shall be greatest.
The spiritual has not as yet set and fixed rules firmly established,
nor can it have until the cry goes forth for equity and justice. Then
comes the awakening, for the soul is crushed, and cries out as did
Saul, "What wilt thou have me do?"
The law through Moses came, then the prophets were sent to us,
but now we want the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,
which gives us the standard, the true rock of reason. It is then we
are blest by the new dispensation, for the truth sets all free, every
tribe, tongue and nation.
The tfods of our fathers we cannot adore;
It's the River of Water, of Life we explore.
And our minds then unfold according to law;
\Ve leave all in kindness, but truth we adore.
We admire Japhet, but love Shem, ami we know in time that
Japhet will come into the tents of Shem to dwell. God hears our
prayer, and we send the "Key" to open the door that all may enter
the eternal kingdom and be forever and -. If we are faith-
ful over a few things, He will make us ruler over many, and our
joy will be complete. Thus the spider, as the smallest, gets into
the highest place — the palace, and weaves a web to catch the wise
ones.
Remember the little child state, and be ye not puffed up with
vain glory.
Heaven is that which is wrought, established. Begin now to
reconstruct. The soul is the center, and as your mind unfolds, the
light will shine for you as it did for Paul, but like Paul you may
not be on the right path, although joined to the straightest sect or
religion. Adieu, we leave you with the "Key."
The Key to the Kingdom
OR.
Heaoen upon Earth.
This planet as a seed or soul was sent forth by
His word and represents Elohim as motion, which
caused the nebulous mass to become detached,
and to revolve around some previously created
center. It took ages to bring about a state of
perfection in the order of planets, still unproduct-
ive of life.
Then, as the planet became sufficiently cooled
and encrusted, the power of God again went
forth, and each order and kingdom were suc-
cessively established, the mineral, vegetable and
animal.
The animal most nearly resembling the human
was selected as our forerunner, and the soul of
man was sent from the realms of perfection to
begin the work of regeneration. It has been going
on since Adam, and yet we are not able to read
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"our title clear to mansions in the skies." We
should be willing to hear all things pertaining to
our creation and perfection. We must in time
be perfect, as God is perfection. There is within
us an innate desire to know God because we em-
anated from the deity.
The human body as a microcosm or little world
is an image of the macrocosm or great world.
Whatever principles of science have been dis-
covered in mechanics, chemistry, hydraulics,
hydrostatics, botany, electricity, etc., are perfectly
portrayed in the functions and uses of the human
frame.
Thus the body is the temple of sciences, both
physical and philosophical.
Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter
when a cold-hearted selfishness has taken posses-
sion of mind. Matt. 20: 5.
As the people of Israel had to pass through the
desert before they could arrive at tin- land flowing
with milk and honey, so we, as their representa-
tives, have had to pass through all the signs and
forms, parables and allegories, that have been
given to us from time to time, to prepare our
minds that we might in time gain the promised land.
Israel means one who prevails with heaven; and
heaven is a state of consciousness reached through
the mind if a cold-hearted selfishness has not taken
possession of us.
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Then Israel leads us to the land flowing with
milk and honey, which types food for the soul.
On the other hand "The harvest is passed, and
the summer is ended, and we are not saved."
Jen 8: 20.
What does salvation consist of? This is our
work. We desire to prove God's wisdom in all
things; and to make clear to those who are broken-
hearted the way unto salvation.
God said in the beginning, "Let there be light."
It was a prophetical fiat. The light of the Logos
or Word is here awaiting recognition, but who is
prepared to receive it?
Let us dispossess our minds of the cold-hearted
selfishness that has taken possession of us, and
acknowledge the dreary march through the desert;
turn not to man; seek God, for the light or reason
will guide you safely through, follow Him who
calls Himself "Lord of the harvest," and who tells
us that we may reap life everlasting if we will fol-
low Him.
Then if any man shall say unto you "Lo! here
is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall
arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall
show great signs and wonders, insomuch that, if
it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect."
We have been granted a pleasure in finding
what perhaps you have not found — the meaning
of Christ, the Messiah, or Anointed One. It is
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He who has been burnt of all impurities, one on
whom the power of God has descended, to remain
in wisdom, love and truth.
The soul's relation to this nature, if a thing of
reality and not of mere profession and belief, must
be made known in cell-growth and organic action.
Whereas, I was blind, I now see; I was sick, and
I am healed; I was ignorant, and now I am com-
mencing to know; I was weak and enfeebled, and
now I am strong and full of power; and blessed
above all things else, what has been done unto me
I can also do unto others.
This must be the true declaration of each one
who has received, and is having developed, that
germ whose presence in the soul imparts health,
wisdom, unselfishness, virtue and power, as surely
as light emanates from the sun.
Sickness of body, selfishness of mind, impurity
of heart cannot exist where the order of Christ
has established its rule.
Thus we are looking for great signs and
wonders, and cannot be deceived, for we know
what Christ means, and are trying to demonstrate
the nature in our everyday life.
Therefore, we desire to assist in the work of
reformation or regeneration, for we now see h<
it is brought about, and know the darkness at the
beginning comprehended not the light.
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The light is to come to us as our minds are un-
folded, and the method whereby this work is
accomplished we will in our little book try to set
forth; which we call the ''Key," because we know
the key to the kingdom of heaven was given to
Saint Peter. We have learned what Saint Peter
represents. We will give you the benefit, and
that we hope the door to the eternal kingdom will be
opened for you while it is yet day.
We recognize God in one of His manifold ways
as a power going forth which at first appears as
nothing, for we cannot see breath or life when it
enters a body that He has designed to in time
become perfect. As the flower unfolds, we
admire it the more, because we behold its beauties
and see the nature of God operating through law
and order. Then we adore God for His kindness
in giving us a mind capable of perception, which
faculty we know is the first to be developed,
because we find in our study that perception cor-
responds to Jacob's first son Reuben, and then each
son bears a correspondence to the highest work
that man can attain unto — that of unfolding the
mind as God from the beginning intended, viz.
first to be able to gain a knowledge of Him through
the outer form or exterior of all that exists, and
then to enter into a closer relationship, for He has
prepared the way for us to get out of the wilder-
ness that we are now in.
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John advances as the forerunner to declare and
make ready the way. We find some minds no
longer satisfied with feeble symbolism, and cry out
as did John, "Make ready the way!"
The shadow of good things must pass away
that the sunlight of truth may enter.
Jesus confounded and humbled the wise men
by showing them their ignorance. So we find
we must confess that we do not know, before we
can learn anything.
We propose to lead you to the soul of the Bible,
but cannot lead you unless like the wise men in
the temple you wish us to tell that which you do
not know.
(\Ye have large works that treat on the o
shadowing sul>j<
The Saint Peter theory as having the keys to
the kingdom we now understand, as being neces-
sary to hold us until the Jesus conies to the
temple to open the door, (which is done by the
faculties being developed.) and in no other way can
we enter into the kingdom, but through the door
of the human understanding. This is why Jesus
confounded the wise men. He came from God,
and was the pattern or type for humanity to follow.
We cannot know all things until we come in con-
tact with the Logos or speak. The (iod within
speaks when your mind has been built or fashioned
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to hold the Holy of Holies, as is given in the
account of the building of the temple (in 1 1 Chron-
icles). Jesus was born of lowly parents. There
were no schools for Him; He was compelled to
work; but we find Him, nevertheless, in the temple
among the so-called wise men. The mean-
ing of Jesus is to save, to make whole, to complete,
a germ from the Highest to complete man in the
image and likeness of his Creator. It is a prin-
ciple set as high as God for us to adore and to wor-
ship in our lives. We must fast and pray to obtain
it; we must overthrow the rule of appetite and emo-
tion, and erect the standard of justice and law.
Our greatest enemies are within, and Jesus can-
not be born even in the manger.
We begin as truth seekers to know God, and
as the mind unfolds we perceive the tree of knowl-
edge. Good and evil, old states and conditions
must pass away, for the new Jerusalem is to come.
We begin our work in the garden of Eden, and
find Adam means the earth; this we cultivate.
Eve is the receptive nature in man. Thus we
have two natures as dual beings, positive and
negative — repulsive and attractive. The mind is
the God's greatest work. We deal exclusively
with soul or mind. The soul of man was at
first conjoined to the soul of a beast, and this is
where we begin to reason. In our line of thought
we go back to primitive man, follow him up from
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generation to generation, and find him to-day only
partially formed and fashioned in the image of his
Creator. We are to be in time a little lower than
the angels crowned with majesty and honor.
To go on unfolding the Japhetic or intellectual
nature to the exclusion of the Shemitic or spiritual
would prove disastrous, and we are now beginning
to hear the voice of one crying in the wilderness
"Make ready the way!" Jesus at an early age
expressed wisdom. He is the embodiment of
wisdom. Once, standing in the door of the car-
penter's shop He watched a great storm gather
which darkened the heavens, and its fury swept
down the valley. Then- were two houses, one
it took, for it had been built upon shifting sand,
the other, which remained, He noticed had a rock
foundation. Therefore, when He grew older, He
said to the people who followed Him, "\Yhoso-
r hrareth these sayings of mine and doeth
them, 1 will liken them unto a wise man, who built
his house upon a rock: and the winds blew, and
beat upon that house, and it fell not: for it was
built upon a rock. And every one that heareth
these sayings of mine and doeth them not, shall
be likened unto a foolish man, who built his house
upon the sand, when the storms came this house
fell, and great was the fall thereof."
\Ve see that Jesus remembered all things; He
made use of all things; He was alive to all things;
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and this is the state that pleases God. We are
not alive (in the spirit) but sleeping. The earth
has overcome us. We must overcome the earth,
Adam. We must cultivate the faculties, and they
will in time bring about harmony and perfection.
We must not only hear of His sayings but we
must do them, or like the man who built his house
upon the sand, we will fall far short of what God
has designed. To be a little lower than the angels
requires us to watch and pray. This we would
do if we were wise, but our wisdom is likened unto
the doctors in the temple.
The Bible was created by God for the purpose
of holding us together in what is called spiritual
things; we know the Bible has done its work in
this line. We further know that very many
minds have unfolded in the intellectual nature and
cannot understand the Bible. This we also rec-
ognize as a natural state, and as we called for
more light, we have obtained it through the
channel opened by Jesus, who said: "I go to
prepare the way. '* A small ray has been per-
mitted to shine across our paths blessing us, and
we desire to extend the blessing, for we know it
is more blessed to give than to receive. We desire
to awaken an interest in all who are dissatisfied or
restless as we were until" we found the golden
key to the kingdom of heaven. We recognize
the Bible's outer meaning or surface as the husk
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which the swine did eat, and the interior or soul
of the Bible as the manna sent from heaven. The
choice is ours. God has given both freely.
The twelve sons of Jacob represent active
agents at work outwardly (in the early history of
man), but when the mind has unfolded to perceive
the wisdom of God in delivering us out of the
land of Egypt and out of the house of bondage,
then we read the soul of the Bible and our souls
glorify God. We are just commencing to learn
of spiritual things, we are at the foot of the golden
ladder; we have become as the little child; we
have entered the straight and narrow path but
we know it leads to the eternal kingdom.
Man does not yet know himself, hence, this
state that we call unrest. We will go back to the
time of Noah and lead the mind into a new chan-
nel of thought (and yet it is as old as the world
itself). Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham and
Japhet. These three sons are closely related to
us because we receive their natures. Shem gives
us the nature we call spiritual. It was this line
that brought forth David and Jesus. If we desire
to become perfect we must unfold this nature.
It is worth all of our time aud study to please
God for He tells us to "seek first the highest
kingdom, then all things needful shall be added
unto us. " The Shemitic nature is to be un-
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folded and then we reach the top of the golden
ladder, for heaven is a state of consciousness to
be gained here and now, when we know God.
Do you not see great wisdom here displayed?
God called us long ago but we were not ready
because we could not understand His laws conse-
quently could not obey them. We have been
held by the signs and forms, parables and allego-
ries, until our Japhetic nature has been developed
and we cry out for more light on our darkened
paths. Peter denotes a rock and Jesus said the
church was to be built upon this rock which is
Reason.
Peter stands ready with the key to open
the door into the kingdom when you are pre-
pared to call on him through reason. It will
point out to you the true way as, " I am the vine,
ye are the branches. " It is knowledge that gives
us power in all of our undertakings in life, and we
put forth every effort to obtain in the material
knowledge whereby we may add to our resources
but here we are in the nineteenth century often
confused, perplexed, and annoyed if questioned as
to who is God.
This little work is not to create inharmony, ex-
cept as Paul said to grieve you in a godly way.
Then let us try to understand God for He is our
foundation, the Rock of Reason, and we build
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upon it. We find the names given to God are all
expressive of natures separate yet united. We
learn and are familiar with God through His
names first, and then through His works and
ways which denotes His nature in all things.
Thus it is pleasure and profit combined that leads
us into the kingdom of heaven.
" Except ye become as a little child ye cannot
enter the kindgom. " Why this statement is true
is this : The little child nature is pleasing to God
for He said "let the little ones come unto me and
forbid them not. " The little child nature is not
full of pride, selfishness, passion or notions that
holds its mind in pervesity. It is the nature that
wants to know, to learn, to be taught, to be
guided, directed and ruled, as is given by the
meanings of law.
Except ye are born from above ye cannot enter
into the kingdom of heaven. Why is this true ?
To be born from above means to know, for above
means the head, and we cannot know except as
the faculties are developed which bring about a
perfect mind.
We must recognize God in creation, for all is
His handiwork. The mind of man being His
greatest work, it has necessarily taken longer for
us to reach the truth in this line of thought than
in the Japhetic line. It has taken thousands of
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years, or since the beginning, to prepare us for
the Light of the Logos or Word which was at first
shown in man by his ability to think and then to
make known his thoughts in words, as the mean-
ing of the Word or Logos is to number and order.
As we see it declared in all of the different forms
of the universe, every thing in its kind, from the
lowest to the highest state, each perfected in its
order, so do we recognize the necessary means
or method whereby man's mind was to be brought
up into a state of knowing its Creator and giving
Him the praise and the glory that we often give
to man.
The serpent was more subtle than anything
God had made. The meaning of the word (to be
naked) proves the unadorned state of the mind.
As we represent this nature it will be readily seen
that it is God's opponent, for it is evil, or unfin-
ished, imperfect, while God is perfection. This low
state represented by the serpent is our greatest
enemy and requires all of our wisdom and power
to subdue and bring it under control. It will be
necessary to study the nature of God to become
familiar with the working of His divine plan and
to perceive the truth in all things. This requires
an effort on our part, and, if we read the Bible
aright, we will find that God has made provision
for this state of transition from lower to higher
things. (We care not for the murmur of the mul-
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titude should they be pleased to say we are wrong.)
The God that we worship in spirit and in truth is
the true and living God.
When the earnest seeker finds the truth in
relation to the Deity it will have erased from his or
her mind a personal God, for these names (new
to us) Elohim, Jehov;ih, and Klshida do the work
of establishing our minds as they could not other-
wise be established, hence, we overcome a part
of the serpent in our nature through a desire to
learn of Him who knowing of the desire has
given us the low nature represented by the ser-
pent to overcome, and we obey the- law which
liberates us from the enemy. Adam and Eve
represent the positive and negative, creative and
receptive powers of the mind. As we advance
in this new line of thought we find all things made
clear to the mind for it is seeking and finding the
truth which sets it free from doubt and fear. Then,
full of faith, we go forth to do His biddin
we realize the Master has come and know that
the conqueror, truth, reveals all things, that man
is not yet ashamed of his nakedness, is still
apparent. It is his ignorance, animalism, selfish-
ness, immaturity, and imperfections that still hold
him from a consciousness of his Creator. He is
immured in matter, (the garden of earthly delight,)
and he does not yet reason that these pleasures
are not to last; he is simple and ignorant as yet.
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This state, which we recognize as death, is to be
overcome by experience as the ripened fruit of
our search for spiritual things. We know God
gave his only begotten Son to save humanity and
read the method whereby this state called Son is
to be brought into our lives. The meaning of
Son is one perfected, one made whole, one in
whom all of the faculties have been developed or
rounded out, a perfect mind. This state pleases
God and this is why He sent His Son that we in
time may be the many brethren, Christ the first.
We are to follow in His footsteps. By overcoming
or resisting in the physical we gain strength, so
in the mental, if we overcome we must expect a
reward. The great difficulty at first is to watch
and pray that we may not send forth one thought
in the wrong direction, for the serpent is ever
ready to allure us until we have become strong in
our determination for spiritual things. We must
bear in mind that God is the ruler of a world of
intelligence, and when we direct our thoughts to
Him through His angelic ministers we will be
prepared to receive an answer from Him. But
we must turn from the old and enter the new way
of thinking and doing, i.e. first to know God
through his works and ways in creation. Although
it is a pleasure, there are many temptations, for
we are very apt to follow Japhet instead of Shem
in our studies. The Will is the faculty represented
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by Asher, which means to guide, to direct, to be
firm, to go forward, to prosper, to succeed. In
the Scriptures we find the will used synonymously
with life and soul, thus indicating as man thinketh
so is he; or as he wishes so is he drawn toward
the same nature outwardly. Man is a dual being,
and having in his nature the two opposites he is
subject to captivity, until he is established in
spiritual things. The Bible contains a mine ,of
wealth. If we are not satisfied or nourished by
its outward meaning, remember the pure gold is
hidden in the etymology of the Hebrew and
Greek.
We 'have been growing toward this state of
wanting to know God from the very first. It
could not present itself to us in thought and deed
before but it now appeals to our reason and
are not afraid to speak for the truth sustains us.
God would not leave us in the wilderness.
Joshua (the same meaning as Jesus) is selected to
lead the chiklrenlof Israel across the Jordan into
Canaan.
The children I of Israel are those who desire the
pure gold. Crossing the Jordan means that we
leave or pass away from the lower nature and
then we are prepared to enter the promised land
— the understanding of law and obedience to
truth.
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We are told that Joshua commanded the sun
and moon to stand still. This is necessary in our
work. If we would conquer our enemies we must
do what Joshua did, only he represents the out-
ward working of a law, and we learn to know in
our natures of the warlike tribes, Philistines, Amo-
rites, Jebusites, Moabites, Hivites, etc., and that
these tribes are ruling us. If we would cross the
Jordan, we must put them to flight. If we would
progress, we must conquer the enemies.
The sun is the outward sign or form of our
soul. As the moon shines by reflected light we
find it represents the intellect, and knowing the
soul is the source and center of life and light to
our little world, we realize the command given by
Joshua, "Sun, stand thou still on Gibeon, and thou
moon in the valley of Ajalon!" for we understand
the truth of this statement. We know the intel-
lect often holds us, and we must cry out to be
delivered. When the Jesus principle has been
established there will be no more contention and
doubt; but while the five senses hold us the five
kings, Joshua cannot deliver us, and he com-
mands the sun and moon to stand still.
When mental order is brought about, the mind
represents as do the heavens a pleasure to behold.
In Judah is God known; "His name is great in
Israel." Judah means faith, and when we develop
this faculty to glorify God, Israel will lead us into
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heaven or Salem, where the tabernacle is. The
meaning of Salem is complete, made perfect and
whole. This is also a state to be reached in our
unfoldment.
David means one beloved of the Lord, and the
psalms that he gave from the fullness of his soul
have held us and sustained us as food; but we
must awaken to a consciousness as did David, and
represent the same state; then we too will be
beloved of the Lord.
God is no respecter of persons. He would not
have sent His only beloved Son unless He knew
we could gain the same state that He represented
as being one with Him. He opened the way for
us to follow in the direct path straight and narrow,
for it leads us unto eternal life.
"What does it profit a man if he gain the whole
world and lose his own soul?" Our souls must be
saved, and xvhen we turn from the old way of
reading the Scriptures and enter the new, then
we realize the growth as never before, because
we are dealing with axioms.
Let us not grow faint-hearted, for all souls are
to be saved. We desire to prove that now is the
accepted time. We are told in Gen. 9: 27, Japhet
should be enlarged and dwell in the tents of Shem,
proving that the Japhetic nature in time would
seek the spiritual or Shemitic; but Canaan was to
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be the servant of servants, proving the Hamitic
nature to be the lowest; and our time is wasted
when we develop Ham to the exclusion of Shem.
Thus it is that we find the Shemitic nature to be
the one that God called us to unfold first.
We read that Cain killed Abel. Abel rep-
resents the higher spiritual nature of man, and
Cain means anger, passion, jealousy. This is the
nature that kills Abel — a breath or spirit. When-
ever a higher inspiration or desire is not actualized,
because of some ruling, earthly, selfish passion
or ambition, then it is that Abel cries from the
earth to God for vengeance that is sure to come.
And so we find in all the books of the Bible (for
it is the history of the human soul), and in each
person a state or condition reached in or to be, as
states we must pass through before the Sabbath
day or state of peace comes, which Sabbath
denotes.
There are many mansions prepared for us in
our Father's house. According to our stage of
soul growth, will we find the mansion that we
may enter; but bear in mind, progression is the
law, and we are constantly learning in higher
things. By obeying His laws and precepts, by
having proper respect for all His agencies, we
know that God is pleased with us.
We do not find fault with anything that tends
to unfold the mind, because God operates in this
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way to reach us. Even miracles have been used
in developing the mind, and we will give a few
instances where miracles have been performed.
(We quote from a writer whp has no belief in
theology.) In speaking of miracles, he says he
might write a book of miracles were he to relate
the hundredth part of all that takes place every
year, nay, every day, in Italy — Bohn's "Rome in
the Nineteenth Century," edition of 1852. In the
second volume, beginning at page 226, there is
an account of some Roman miracles; within one
month three great miracles happened in Rome.
An image of the Virgin opened her eyes. She
was carried away, and certain priests who were
supposed to have been in her confidence on this
occasion were shut up in prison. A Madonna
spoke to an old washerwoman to whom she im-
parted her discontent at being so much neglected,
and her chapel left in such a ruinous and dirty
condition, while so many other Madonnas, no
better than she, had theirs made as fine as hands
could make them. This news spread like wild-
fire, and thousands may be seen every day crowd-
ing to this little oid chapel about four in the after-
noon, the hour at which the Virgin addressed the
washerwoman, not only the lower class of people,
but crowds of well dressed people and handsome
equipages of all sorts. The throng is daily, and
presents the appearance of a fair. A chair at the
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corner of every street which leads to the chapel
has a white cloth spread over it with a picture of
4 the Madonna, and a plate is awaiting your dona-
tion to beautify her chapel. The luck that has
come to this Madonna for opening her mouth has
caused disgrace to fall upon the others, and some
have gone so far as to say this Madonna was born
with a silver spoon in her mouth. As if one
Madonna scorned to be outdone by another, there is
an old, dirty, cobweby Virgin in the Pantheon which
has lately begun to work miracles, and has drawn
such crowds to her shrine that an unhappy stranger
can scarcely get in to seethe building. Italy seems
always to have been the land of superstition, and
the pagan miracles that are upon record at least
equal the Roman Catholic, both in number and
absurdity. Every page of Livy and Plutarch
abounds with them. Not a year ever passed with-
out two or three oxen speaking, though we nevef
hear any of their sayings. Now even a Madonna
but rarely makes use of her tongue, and oxen
have entirely given up talking. However, it is a
different thing hearing nonsense that was credited
years ago, and seeing it before one's eyes; and
when I behold crowds flocking to kneel before
these talking and winking Madonnas, I cannot
help asking myself if this is really the nineteenth
century?" This writer goes on to state in the
month of February, 1858,, the Virgin Mary
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appeared at Lourdes to a little peasant girl who
could neither read nor write. She was sent to
gather brushwood for fuel, for her parents were
very poor. She kneeled to pray at the grotto of
Massabielle, and all at once the Virgin Mary
manifested herself to her, and within fifteen days
there were as many as five thousand spectators
present in the morning when this little girl (Bern-
adette Soubirous) came to interview the Virgin.
No one ever saw the Virgin except Bernadette.
Where there were no signs of water before, a
spring of pure clear water came gurgling forth,
pouring out a hundred thousand litres a day.
Then the spring drew thousands upon thousands
of pilgrims every year. Millions of money have
been spent there by the pilgrims. The miraculous
water is bottled and sent all over Europe, where-
ever there are Roman Catholics. The church has
bought all the property in sight for miles about
Lourdes, and it has been improved and made very
attractive. A large handsome church, costing
two millions of francs, has been built from the
contributions of pilgrims, and the miracle business
is in a most flourishing condition there now. In
September, 1877, the miracles of one pilgrimage
which began in August is given. There were
about twelve hundred pilgrims upon two railway
trains, one following immediately behind the other.
Twenty-four were healed; the lame, blind and deaf
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were cured, and their names given. The number
of pilgrims who arrived at Lourdes during the
week ending Sept. 22, 1877, according to the
"Palerin" (newspaper) of that week, was five
thousand six hundred and five. The writer further
adds it is the believers who make the miracles,
and not the miracles that make the believers.
Miracles are always possible wherever the people
are sufficiently ignorant and superstitious. The
first condition for the happening of a miracle is
the existence of believers.
The Protestant church, which embraces the
most intelligent portion of mankind, says there
has been no miracle in the world since the time
of Jesus. Centuries ago miracles were abundant,
because people were ignorant and could be made
to believe in them, but nowadays miracles are
generally out of style. We would not quote from
this writer unless it were to take a lesson from
witchcraft and miracles, as we do from all things
which tend to hold the mind and impress us with
wonder workings.
It is the manner in which we see, or take from
any or all things that are sent to open our eyes,
or the blind state. Remembering that we were
once dumb, it is not at all strange to us that God
has prepared ways and means to operate upon
the dumb state or beast that often holds us in the
earth.
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The plan for our salvation is the one that we
know the least about; and yet we think that the
name Christian is sufficient to cover our multitude
of sins. Do we not see in the churches people
who are as ignorant of God and His laws as we
find outside the church?
God abominates ignorance. It is darkness, the
opposite to God who is light.
Were we not made to see these things we
could not enter the vineyard to do our work.
But when we cast our eyes over the world an
on every hand distress. Rich and poor are here
alike, for God is the Maker of all. Then it creates
in our mind activity, motion; the power of God
enters into us, and we must tell the truth.
There is a way unto salvation, but it will not
come to us; we must seek it. Then we hear the
words, "hide not your light under a bushel, etc.,"
and we will try to reach one soul, for we know-
there is more rejoicing over one sinner who
repenteth than over the ninety and nine just ones-
What does repentance consist of? We must
understand that we are doing a wrong before we
can repent. While we are satisfied with our state
we cannot repent, because we do not know that
we are wrong in being held by other minds besides
our own. We are wrong — other minds cannot
repent lor us, other minds cannot expand for us,
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other minds cannot atone for us. God calls us
to Him, "All who are weary come unto me."
Perhaps you have not thought it was you; you may
think if you are in the church it means the church,
or the way to Him is through the church. If you
are yet helpless, it may be that you cannot depend
upon yourself, but do you ask the church to sup-
ply you with material food, or do you expect that
your bills will be paid by or through the church?
Remember we are only reasoning now, to-
gether. Jesus called the twelve on the mount
and this is what we desire to do. The mount is
a state for us to reach in the enfoldment of the
mind, where we can reason with our disciples (or
faculties) and here we find a Godly work to per-
form because Jesus opened the way and whatever
He has done we may do. Therefore you see we
are only trying to draw you up higher, and again,
as Paul said, If we confuse or annoy you let it be
for a time only, because if you are capable of
reasoning for yourself you will find God within.
"Ask what ye will in my name that will I give
unto you. "
Then if your mind is ruffled because you are in
the church and cannot see the wisdom of God in
all things, stir up the soil in your nature and per-
haps you will find yourself growing. When in
time you weigh the words of Him who prepared
the way unto salvation and you will find
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your mind stronger because you are doing the
work for yourself, whereas formally you had it
done for you.
On the same principle do we find the physical
supplies us with strength. Use all of your
powers. We cannot afford to slumber or sleep
away this life. God is activity, motion; we must
take hold to live. " Man does not live by bread
alone, but by every word which proceedeth out of
the mouth of God. "
Here you may see that a mind prepared to
draw from the- fountain head does not live on the
husk. The true bread of life is in your soul; you
must put forth the energy that God has given to
you and be guided by Him who tells you to ask
what ye will in His name.
Then you will grow and the tree of life will
flourish because the roots have touched the living
spring. It is hard to part with old friends, but
harder to separate ourselves from notions or ideas
that have rooted themselves into our very lives.
If we watch and pray (when once we desire to
repent), then the angels will assist us and the
battle is won. Then said he unto me: "Fear not
Daniel; (judgment) for from the first day that thou
didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten
thyself before thy God, thy words were heard and
I am come for thy words. " You see an angel
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comforts Daniel, and although he was in the lions'
den, the beasts did not devour him. Judgment
will always sustain you when God is the judge.
What greater miracle than this can we ask, for
we read that Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon,
sent for Daniel and found him in matters of
wisdom and understanding ten times better than
all the magicians and astrologers that were in all
his realm.
But the king was not at first ready to have
Daniel brought to him. The magicians
satisfied him. The time came that he had to call
upon Daniel, and so it may be in our lives; we
may not be quite ready to have judgment passed
upon us. Have we yet called upon Daniel
(judgment) ? You see the Bible is the history of
our souls, and we cannot afford to lose time in
conjecture with the magicians — we want the
truth.
We know that He numbers and orders accord-
ing to grade. Perhaps in this way you may find
the grade to which you belong, and as you learn
of the method whereby God calls us higher, you
too will call upon His name and receive what you
ask for, provided you do not ask amiss.
Satan himself is transformed into an angel of
light. When we use judgment, then it is that
Satan is changed from evil to good. (Evil and
good are the same in the etymology of the
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Hebrew). Thus we know that man ought always
to pray that the mind may be established in that
which is good. We do not coerce — our work
does not admit of it. We say stand by thyself;
with God to guide thee, there is no ill that can
betide thee.
A writer has declared that truth should be
shouted from the housetops; but are we as yet
ready to receive it from the pages of a quiet little
book? We know in time all will see face to face
because it is written in our history, i John iv.
We find those who speak of the world are in the
world; it is the world who heareth. We are of
God; he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is
not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the
spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. He that
loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love. If
we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and His
love is perfected in us. Whosoever shall confess
that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him
and he in God.
We have no fear, for perfect love casteth out
fear. We love the human family as a whole and
desire to do His will, for it is He who hath sent
us to bind as frontlets before the eyes His com-
mandments. The first commandment we do not
obey. Deut. xxxii:i-4 : " Give ear, O ye heavens
and I will speak : and hear, O earth, the words of
my mouth. He is the Rock, his work is perfect :
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for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and
without iniquity, just and right is he. He kept
Jacob as the apple of his eye after he found him
in the wilderness or desert land. The Lord led
Jacob, but he tells us it was him alone who led
him, there was no strange gods with him. . Then
Jacob was fed with honey from the rock and the
pure blood of the grape. "
Jeshurun forsook God who made him and
lightly esteemed the Rock of salvation. This
state did not please God and He said: "I will
hide my face from thee Jeshurun and see what
your end shall be." For the nation was void of
counsel, neither was there any understanding in
them. Their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of
the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of
gall, their clusters are bitter. Their wine is the
poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed
up among my treasures? To me belongeth ven-
geance and recompense. Their foot shall slide
in due season; for the day of their calamity is at
hand, and the things that come upon them, make
haste.
"For the Lord shall judge his people, and he
shall say, where is their rock in whom they
trusted ? where are their gods? I kill, and I make
alive; I wound and I heal. See now that I, even
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I, am he, and there is no god with me. For I lift
up my hand to heaven, and say I live forever. If
I whet my sword I take hold on judgment. "
We are told to set our hearts unto all the
words that Moses gave to us, for they are not
vain. They are our life and our days shall be
prolonged in the land whither we go to possess.
We must cross the Jordan to the land here
promised, and find that all our sins are forgiven,
even though they be as scarlet, it we are baptized
through Mis word which is law.
Therefore we must obey the law in all things,
There are mediums in our midst who are doing
the work for some minds, or what witchcraft and
magic has done for others, but we have developed
Daniel and find that we belong to the tribe of
Israel and cannot serve false gods. We know
that (iod is light and we reason in this way: If
God sent 1 lisonly begotten Son to save humanity
and then gave us the Bible as the history of the
race, we should he willing as Jacob was to be led
out of the wilderness, and then we are fed upon
the honey and blood of the grape, for we recog-
nize God as all powerful, and because we have no
false gods to take from the true and living God,
He gives us judgment and we can discern the
truth.
By the breaking of the Bread of Life the whole
multitude are fed. The thoughts are here repre-
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35
sented as the multitude, and you may see God's
wisdom in holding your mind by loaves and fishes
until you are ready to leave the false gods that
now hold you. As Paul said if the epistle grieved
you to godliness it has done its work, for this is
His plan to lead us to salvation. Truth is stranger
than fiction and the beauties of creation are
on every hand were it not for our cold-hearted
selfishness we need not take our flight in winter,
but obey His laws and live. Law is the manifes-
tation of the power of God through forms. Mind
is the product of soul-power made known through
the faculties, and by its highest use we become
united in consciousness with that Supreme Being
whom law points out, and by whose instrumentali-
ties we are forever and forever to be led and
ruled. The command to love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart, mind, might and strength, and
thy neighbor as thyself, has not been understood,
consequently, we could not live up to it. It is to
have no life but in the knowledge of the laws of
God, obedience to them, and the giving of all that
one has or is, that the brothers' s soul may be un-
folded. Since creation's dawn upon this planet,
there has been but One who obeyed the law, but
we would not feel satisfied with our life work un-
less we saw a tending toward this state, for we
know what has been done by One, even the Son
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of God, may be done by all. He was the first of
many brethren yet to be.
We become interested in all souls who are
searching for the truth. Patience and persever-
ance overcome all difficulties; it requires these
two requisites in our nature. If we would suc-
ceed lay aside all that conflicts, or those ideas or
notions that have held your mind from His pres-
ence, (i Cor. 1-29). Let us determine (as did
Paul) not to know anything among us, save Jesus
Christ and him crucified. It we want to demon-
strate the spirit of power our faith cannot be in
men, but in the power of God. \Ve are told and
hly realize the hidden wisdom which God or-
dained before the1 world. This it is that he de-
sires us to possess. He tells us had we known it
Jesus would not have been cruciried for He was
the Lord of Glory. Again He tells us, " Kye
hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have en-
tered into the heart of man the things which God
hath prepared for them that love him. " But God
hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit; for the
Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of
God.
God works upon the mind of man, building it
higher and still higher that he may commune with
his Maker in spirit and in truth, for the mind in
time becomes established and it knows God and
how the desire or prayer is to be answered for it
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is sent direct to Him who has prepared the way.
This is soul communion. We are not in a state
to commune with God through His angelic mes-
sengers, until we are ready to take up our cross
and follow Him. The faculty represented by
Benjamin must be developed for we cannot un-
derstand our Father's plan until we have brought
forth conscientiousness.
As Benoni was born into the world through
great suffering and pain, so through the labor and
travail of the soul is this faculty evolved which
condemns us for ignorance and imperfection.
Then through contrition and repentance we are
brought into submission to a higher law of thought
and action. On the same principle is it that we
cultivate the soil; we must plough deep and har-
row well to reap a bountiful harvest, (all things
being equal.) So do we find some souls more ad-
vanced or cultivated than others, and these prin-
ciples being offered to such a soul (one prepared)
proves the seed has fallen upon good ground as
in the parable. It is the eye that sees and the
ear that hears that benefits by the inner meaning
or soul of the Bible. We are told that Mary
brought forth Jesus and she knew not man. Was
it a miracle ? If so, can it be explained ? We
will give you the true meaning of Mary. The
Virgin Mary represents the female, receptive
state which was first personified in Eve, and
through which all higher mental power has come,
when it has been impregnated with germs from
unseen realms above. A virgin signifies that
which has been set apart, consecrated to a special
purpose. Mary denotes fullness and rebellion.
We know the state that brings forth Jesus Christ
is a state in the soul which rebels at the rule of
symbols and signs and refuses all states or condi-
tions which are ruling the earth to-day through
physical, intellectual and moral unfoldment as we
find religious or secular things given or dissemi-
nated to the people through the churches. Mars-
rebels and the Holy Ghost comes upon this state
of the soul, the power of the Most High over-
shadows this state and the Son of God is brought
forth that which is holy and good. Joseph, the
husband of Mary, represents, as his name indi-
cates, the masculine positive, organizing construc-
tive power of the human soul. This state of
mind does not know, cannot understand that
interior receptive condition which Mary personi-
fies. We are through with the signs and forms
or else we could not understand the mission of
Jesus the Christ. Christ declared to Nicodemus
that until other souls had been begotten and born
from above (which is the mind unfolded that it
may know and understand spiritual things) we
could not apprehend the laws of the kingdom
called the highest or heavenly. " Marvel not that
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I said unto thee, ye must be born again," St. John
iii 17, and Christ knowing of our credulity left
these words that we might in time read and un-
derstand: "If ye believe not what I tell you
concerning earthly things, how shall ye believe if I
tell you of heavenly things ? No man hath ascended
up to heaven but he that came down from
heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven."
The soul is a part of deity, consequently Jesus, as
the Son, or first fruit, came down from heaven.
This is the language but it cannot fully express
the action; for the soul must, like Mary, be pre-
pared or rebel against the confusion of ideas and
notions and want the truth, for the highest over-
shadowing cannot come until the virgin is pre-
pared to receive the Word of God . (This is the seed
that falls upon good ground). Prepare then the
way unto salvation; many are called but few are
chosen, for the Virgin Mary state has not come
to the soul. The many brethren are yet to be,
and the world is now in a state to receive them
for the selfishness and cold-heartedness is creating
inharmony and injustice. The church militant is
the church triumphant. We must find the true
church before we can have peace. The mind
must be in a harmonious state and this state can-
not exist separate and apart from the whole truth.
Jesus came to save the world from the chaotic
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state that we are now in, but we must do our part
to give birth to the Prince of the World, then the
principality and the power is ours, for that which
is born is called good, the Son of God. The
meaning of son is to have life, that which has been
gradually formed, constructed or completed.
Then a Son of God is a soul that has been gradu-
ally formed and when completed it knows its
Father and obeys His will.
The oneness which indicates a union is to be
brought to every soul, for we are upon our jour-
ney toward the heavenly kingdom and it depends
wholly upon our will. Shall we take the straight
and narrow path that leads to salvation or light
which illumines the mind ? (as fast as we turn
toward it, the truth). Or do we prefer the chaotic
state, which is darkness or death ? for it is the
opposite of life and light. We would urge the
former but if the soil is not prepared our desire
could not be fulfilled.
We, who are permitted to work in the
vineyard, must do our work according to the
command that we love one another as He hath
loved us, and greater love can no man show than
this, that he is willing to lay down his life to save
his fellowman. In times of war when men are
called upon to save their country they respond.
Although man may be an infidel he will sacrifice
himself for his country's good, but this is a feeble
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state crying out for liberty. The liberty that
comes to the soul when the mind is unfolded is
the highest form of liberty, because it is the truth
that sets us free from ignorance, which is sinful to
the eye that can perceive it. "You shall know
the truth and the truth shall set you free. " We
realize all religion to be a step toward the great
center or Creator. This we desire to reach in
the way that is good. The mind must be un-
folded before it can be operated upon by the
higher orders. The truth will shine at times more
brightly than at others and when the desire to
know God is uppermost in your mind be true to
the desire and place yourself in such relation
(mentally) that the angels may impress you, that
you may be led into green pastures and. beside
the still waters. As your soul is restored you
will recognize the higher powers are leading you,
keeping in mind to be a Son of God and heir
to the highest kingdom, you must please your
Father in all things. This will be your saving
power for you cannot serve two masters. You
will find the straight and narrow path at first
difficult to follow, but it leads you up and on in ways
of pleasantness, where all your paths are peace
you will find truth stranger than fiction the glorious
stories of old will be verified in your everyday life.
You, like the beloved Son, will know that it is more
blessed to give than to receive, and as you gather
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the gems, so will you scatter them. The soil is
being prepared. We must obtain the word of
God that we may sow in due season, for the har-
vest will be in keeping with the well-tilled soil;
and He who watches over all and calls himself
Lord of the harvest is the one we strive to please.
Not as those who worship in temples built by
man have we fear. We always rejoice giving no
offence in anything, that the ministry be not
blamed. By pureness, by knowledge, by long-
suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by
love unfeigned. By the word of truth, by the
power of God, by the armor of righteousness on
the right hand and on the left. As unknown,
and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we
live; as chastened, and not killed. As sorrowful
yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many
rich; as having nothing, and yet possessin
things. O ye Corinthians, our .mouth is open
unto you, our heart is enlarged. l;or we are the
temple of the living God; as God hath said I will
dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be
their God and they shall be my people. Where-
fore come out from among them, and be ye
separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the un-
clean thing, and I will receive you. And I will be
a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and
daughters, saith the Lord Almighty — 2 Cor. 6:
3, 6, 7, 9; 10, ii, 1 6, 17, 1 8. Paul wrote to his
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dearly beloved, the Macedonians, and rejoiced
that his epistle or letter had caused them sorrow
because the sorrow was turned to repentance,
and he called it a godly manner, for godly sorrow
worketh repentance to salvation not to be re-
pented of; but the sorrow of the world worketh
death. The letter was written by Paul to estab-
lish in the minds of the Macedonians faith, and
that his greatest desire was to bring them nearer
to God. So with this little work sent out to per-
form its mission as the key to the kingdom. It
may offend some but we shall rejoice if by it ye
are made sorry after a godly manner, that ye may
receive damage by us in nothing, for this kind of
sorrow worketh repentance not to be repented of.
We have gone through the battle, we have fought
the good fight and we know whereof we speak.
We speak all things to you in truth and trust that
you may be prepared to receive it, that your joy
may be full. We thank God who has put the
same earnest care into our heart as was given to
Titus, for we, like him, have accepted the exhor-
tation and come forward of our own accord to ar-
rest your minds in the whirl of our modern
Babylon. As the tribes of Judah availed them-
selves of the permission given by Cyrus to return
to their own country after the captivity, so we de-
sire faith, which is Judah, to be restored and lean
upon the One who calls us unto Him as the way
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to salvation. Let us be free in our thoughts to
range at will over all that has been and now is
preparing the mind to establish the true temple,
the real temple, the temple that is built by Solo-
mon, (a state of peace) for the indwelling of the
Holy Spirit. This we find as recorded in 2 Book of
Chronicles the dimensions of the temple, furniture
of the temple, induction of the ark. Solomon
blesseth the temple. His prayer at the consecra-
tion of the temple, his sacrifices, God's promises
to him and Solomon's buildings, etc., speak in
language plain to those who can hear that it was
God's pleasure to have the Bible written as it has
been to hold us together as a conserving power
until the mind was prepared as is given in Chron-
icles, that the place called the interior or ark of
the covenant could be discerned by man through
the unfolding of his faculties, and his mind capa-
ble to reason and commune with the true and
living God. This has required time and time is
still necessary to unfold the mind of the masses,
but we have, like Paul, advanced the epistle that
may grieve you, but still it is to do its godly
work. Science unfolds the mind, law establishes
it. Then let God who is the maker of law send
into your mind the light that is to light every man
who cometh into the world in darkness. And yet
some of us who are in the darkened state called
Egypt, cannot see, because we have a heart like
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Pharaoh's hardened and we refuse to let our
thoughts turn in the right direction. Pharaoh
wanted miracles performed before he would listen
to the law giver, Moses, and so it is to-day; we
will call for any and all things before we will bow
to the law, putting off until to-morrow as did
Pharaoh saying if the Lord will only take away
those things that we do not admire. We must
admit our perverse nature holds us, but if ye re-
pent and overcome the kingdom of heaven is at
hand. It is within reach of us as God's children;
then let us worship from the true temple and
please Him who hath sent the law first through
Moses, and then engraves them upon .the tablets
of our minds. Gad (memory) serves us now and
we cannot forget what he has told us. Then
Asher (the will) is obedient to his Father and we
are happy because we are loved by the Father
for we obey His commands. Deut. iv: 9:
"Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul
diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine
eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy
heart all the days of thy life; but teach them to
thy sons and thy sons' sons. " As the voice was
heard in the midst of the fire in Horeb, so may
we look for the truth in the midst of our trials
(if we are not like Pharaoh). As the Lord spoke
out of the midst of the fire so will he again
speak to those who hear his word, for he de-
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sires us to get through with the signs and forms,
the likeness of anything he tells us not to worship
even the sun, moon and stars. He tells us not to
serve false gods. He has brought us Jout of the
iron-furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto Him a
people of inheritance as we are this day. If we
persist in our hard-heartedness we are to be scat-
tered among the heathen and serve gods the work
of men's hands which have no life, for they can-
not see, or hear, or eat, or smell, and they are
an abomination to the Lord our God, who has
brought us out of the land of Egypt and out of
the house of bondage. Out of heaven He made
thee, hear His voice, that lie may instruct thee.
For the voice as of consciousness (Benjamin)
must deliver thee to thy Creator. It may appear
to you that the whole world is right and this little
(apparently) insignificant book is wrong (perhaps
constructed upon supposition) but we will turn to
the tables as Moses gave us the law engraved on
tablets of stone, so do we find in our hearts the
truth written as ordained by Him who con-
structed the law and it is through our study of the
Law of Laws that we are enabled to send forth this
little weapon of defence for we are sustained in
the work through the laws of God. We desire to
place you in the way that in time you may go
forth and do His bidding. The city built upon a
hill cannot be hid; neither should men light a
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candle and place it under a bushel, but in a candle-
stick where all may see and glorify their Father
who art in heaven. Be earnest if you would know
God, for to see God is to perceive His laws; to
conform to them is to obey Him. This under-
standing is the only lasting source of power; and
all laws are alike divine whether governing the
physical, intellectual or spiritual nature of man.
Law means to lay a foundation, to put straight, to
regulate, to point out, to teach, to guide, to rule.
The times now are not greatly in advance of the
time these words were written.
The Acts Chap. 28: 26-27 saying, " Go unto
this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and
shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see and
not perceive. For the heart of this people is
waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing,
and their eyes have they closed, lest they should
see with their eyes and hear with their ears and
understand with their hearts and should be con-
verted and I should heal them. Think you the
miraculous water at Lourdes has the savingpower
that is within your own soul that God has given
to each of his children when they obey His laws
and commandments, first as they were given to
Moses and now in the constitution of man speak-
to him that he may know good from evil, right
from wrong, that he may cleave to one and hate
the other, then he transforms the one he hates,
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Satan, into an angel of light for he knows that all
things were created for a wise purpose and the
least should be greatest as it bows around the
throne of God, for no flesh shall glory until it
serves its Master.
"All things shall fade and pass away, but my
word shall remain with you forever. "
My word wherein thou hast been instructed
proves the certainty of all things. Japhet is en-
larged but Japhet must dwell in the tents of Shem
before we can come into an understanding of
God.
The Turk, the Roman Catholic, and the
Protestant each think they are right and so they
are; but progression is God's law and to remain
in the wilderness displeases Him. Thus we know
unless we advance in knowledge we are not pleas-
ing to our Father. There is an incentive or
motive power that urges us on, and we know that
God leads us, for it is the straight and narrow
path we tread.
To investigate the foundation of our beliefs as
a rule we will find that we know very little of them
except as we are led by other minds. As the
world is made up of many men, so do we find
their various minds have led them into byways
and ditches, but now God calls and tells us to
come in, the table is spread, the feast awaits us.
St. Matthew xv: 7. Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias
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prophesy of you, saying, "This people draweth
nigh unto me with their mouths and honoreth me
with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But
in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines
the commandments of men."
Jesus asked Peter if he was yet without under-
standing and it would be well if we should ques-
tion ourselves, Are we not drawing unto God
with our mouth ? Are we not worshipping in vain?
Is our heart not far from God ? Have we the
faith represented by the woman of Canaan who
cried out to Jesus to save her daughter who was
possessed of a devil. He told her it was not
meet to cast the children's bread to the dogs, and
yet she was willing to eat the crumbs that fell
from the rich man's table and because of her faith
her daughter was made whole. — St. Matt, xv: 21.
It is faith we admire in others, but lack faith in
ourselves because Judah has not been developed
Abraham represents this faculty developed. He
was willing to give up Isaac. We read in Gen.
xxii: 9: Abraham built an altar and laid the wood
in order and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on
the altar upon the wood. And Abraham stretched
forth his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
And the angel of the Lord called him out of
heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham! and he
said, Here am I. And he said, Lay not thine hand
upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him;
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for now I know thatthou fearestGod, seeing thou
hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from
me.
And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked,
and behold, behind him a ram caught in a thicket
by his horns; and Abraham went and took the
ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in
the stead of his son.
God told Abraham because he was willing to
give his son; he would multiply and bless his seed
which should be as the stars of heaven. The name,
) means pleasure, joy, laughter, delight.
Now God tried Abraham to see how strong his
faith was, and when He asked that Isaac 1><
riluvd and Abraham was willingly preparing to
give him, then the rani as a substitute was
in time for God was not going to ha\
given bodily. This story represents the working
of the mental principles or faculties. In life we are
held by the joys, laughter, pleasure and delights of
the world. They keep us from God and truth,
that it is wrong to keep Isaac with us, but like Abra-
ham, if we desire the blessings given by God, we
must be willing also to separate ourselves from
.the earthly pleasure and joy to receive the highest
reward. The ram represents strength and power,
it signifies a shoot or horn which is a symbol of a
higher state being brought to the mind, a conscious-
ness of spiritual joys. In the thicket represents the
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wild, prolific growth arising from our lower nature
into which God has entered as a shoot or power,
because, we are through faith in the soul, willing
to give up our choicest in the earth (or Isaac).
God works this way to build up the mind. We
follow him in his works. Faith is the guiding star
to rule and direct us into a knowledge of God.
Those who possess the strongest faith must be
nearer to Abraham as their father for he was to
be the father of many. The father or cause of
elevation, and all the nations of the earth were to
be blessed, because he obeyed the voice of God.
Do not forget that we are dealing with facts. (You
may not see as clearly now as you will in time.)
If you determine to know or have the faith that
Abraham represents then you will be blessed and
the blessing will prove more wonderful than any
miracle that could be performed, for you will be
able to read aright the book of nature, which is
God. As you read it all things are manifest, for
God is in you operating through law and order.
We know why the Bible tells us that man should
read as he runs. The book is open, nature re-
veals all things. The spirit discerneth all • things,
it is the letter that killeth; therefore, if we desire
to liberate our spirit that it may penetrate all
things, we must go about it in an orderly way and
unfold. If Dan (judgment ) has been de-
veloped and we have the desire to know God
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then we read aright. Make a wise selection of
some teacher that has been more fully de-
veloped than yourself. For a time be a pupil
with the desire to become a teacher. It will not
be long until you find yourself absorbing all that
your teacher has to give, and you may ask
questions the teacher cannot answer, for you have
proved faithful. Those who are faithful over a
few things God has said He would make ruler
over many. He now tells you to enter into the
joys of His kingdom.
The joys of the Lord are all ready prepared.
We find the Lord of Creation or Lord of the
Harvest is consciousness. Why can wo not en-
ter into the joys ? Because we are not conscious
of the way though all things tend toward it. But it
is left for man to reason or to unfold his mind when
he may by so doing be a little lower than the
angels. God will crown him with blessings and
honor. Man has the opportunity to reach the
state that we know Jesus represents. One with
God Jesus could do nothing without His Father.
We admire his advanced mind, and yet only look
on and admire, which brings these words to our
remembrance.
Galatians iii : i : "O Foolish Galatians, who
hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the
truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been
evidently set forth, crucified among you ? This
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only would I learn of you. Receive ye the Spirit
by the works of the law, or by the hearing of
faith ? Are ye so foolish ? Having begun in the
Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh ?
Have ye suffered so many things in vain ? if it be
yet in vain.
He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit
and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by
the works of the law or by the hearing of faith ?
Know ye therefore that they which are of faith,
the same are the children of Abraham. And the
scriptures, foreseeing that God would justify the
heathen through faith, preached before the gospel
unto Abraham saying, In thee shall all nations be
blessed. "
It was given to Abraham to demonstrate faith.
The Law was given to Moses to hold us until our
minds were ready or as we read in Gal. iii 119,
Till the seed should come to whom the promise
was made; and it was ordained by angels in the
hand of a mediator. Further, now a mediator is
not a mediator of one, but God is one. Is the
law then against the promises of God? God
forbid. The law was our school-master to bring
us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
But after that faith is come, we are no longer
under a school-master, for if we be in Christ then
are we Abraham's seed and heirs according to
promise. If you can understand the importance
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of faith and desire to embrace it you are a de-
scendant of Abraham. Test your faith and then
you will know, for the blessings will be bestowed
upon you. Paul tells Peter he is afraid he has
bestowed labor in vain upon him. He tells us
we observe days, and months, and times and
years, but he fears we do not observe the fullness
of this time when God has sent His Son into our
hearts, crying, Abba, Father !
When this state comes to the soul we are no
more a servant, but a Son, and if a Son, then an
heir of God through Christ.
"Am I therefore become your enemy because I
speak the truth? — Gal. iv: 16.
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do
ye not hear the law ? " — Gal. xxi.
Abraham had two sons, the one by a bond maid
the other by a free woman. He who was of the
bondwoman was born after the flesh, he of the
free woman was by promise. Now we are the
brethren of Isaac and of promise, for we find the
truth in relation to the Bible account of the hand-
maid or bondwoman. Hagar belonged to the
earth, or was lower than Sarah, which her name
implies (to wander and flee), while Sarah means
(to establish in order, placing in rows, a power
that adjusts and presides.) Thus we find in our
study that this story of Abraham having two wives
was necessary for us to look upon as all the rest
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of the Bible as the means of holding the mind of
man, until the high priest, Melchizedek, meaning
the king of the just, should come forth and estab-
lish his rule for the mind is now prepared to con-
tinually offer up on the altar which was said to be
in the plain of Mamre, Gen. xiii: 18, but which we
find to be strength, by which we may overcome
all the lower conditions in our nature and turning
our thoughts to God we gain renewed strength as
we advance for we realize now why Abraham was
called to battle. The nature called the animal
must be subdued. We go to battle again and
again for Cain in the beginning represented this
low state that some of us have not yet controlled.
Cain is called a Lord murderer. It is this nature,
Cain, that holds us in the earth. God did not want
Cain's offering. Neither does he to-day, but
Abel's offering was acceptable, for he is spoken
of as a keeper of sheep, and he gave of the
firstlings of his flocks. The sheep are spoken of
as firstlings, because the meaning of firstling is
something begotten and born whose nature is not
to be changed, proving God is pleased with a
perfect state.
Cain killed Abel, but the highest must feed the
lowest. The work goes on in the mental states
and conditions by which we are surrounded.
When the Cain has been brought up and Shem
rules, then the freedom of the will is exercised and
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directed- into the highest channel. "The light is
slowly coming," although we seethe blind leading
the blind, and know that they will all fall into the
ditch; still the survival of the fittest is assured, for
the promise is made to the seed of Abraham. If you
desire to find the truth, and be led through faith,
then do as we have done, seek, for the door will
be opened, but you know it will not open until
you knock.
It is the germ of the nature we call (iod within
our souls that wants to he freed. It has tired of
the signs and forms, parables and allegories; it has
absorbed all the life or nourishment that they
contained. Religion is now dry as a husk; there-
fore, we hunger and thirst for righteousness, and
know somewhere there is food called the Bread
of Life or Manna; it is sent from heaven.
Heaven is a state of consciousness. \Ve try to
bring you face to face with the truth, and all who
cry out as did Saul of old shall be delivered.
All the work that has been going on and now
exists has been to bring us where we can see that
the son of the bondwoman cannot be heir. It is
the son of the freewoman. Gal. iv: 31.
So then, brethren, we are not children of the
bondwoman, but of the free. Gal. v: i. Stand
fast, therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ hath
made us free, and be not entangled again with
the yoke of bondage.
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Paul wrote from Athens, and said he found an
altar with this inscription, "To the unknown God
whom ye ignorantly worship; him do I adore."
Don't you think Paul would have as good cause
in this latter day to say that we ignorantly worship?
But we have every advantage now to know.
The Holy Ghost saith, to-day if ye will hear His
voice, harden not your hearts as in the day of
temptation or provocation in the wilderness, when
your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my
works forty years; wherefore I was grieved
with that generation, and said, They do always
err in their heart, and they have not known my
ways: so I sware in my wrath, They shall not
enter into my rest. Take heed, brethren, least
there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in
departing from the living God. But exhort one
another while it is called to-day, lest any of you
be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
We find the meaning of sin is a missing of the
mark, a state that is changeable, a nature that can-
not endure, unripe or immature. You see God is
not pleased with this state. He tells us to exhort
one another while it is yet day, for we may depart
from Him through sin. How can we tell whether
we have an evil heart or not, when we do not
know God or the Holy Ghost who tells us to hear
the voice if our hearts are not hardened. We are
in the wilderness where our fathers were, and God
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is grieved and said they always erred in their
hearts, for they have not known me.
The meaning of wilderness is (turning to the
mind), a state that is not yet harmonized, but is
being prepared to banish the tempter and receive
through affliction judgment, the Logos or reason.
There must be a revolving and turning before
there can be love and harmony introduced into
the mind, one must be stirred to the innermost
depths of the mind in the state called a \vildern<
The ram carpe through the thicket or growth of
mental disorder, and so God is at work in the
wilderness, trying to prepare our minds for
law and order to be established, instead of the un-
godly state we find to-day, or the wilderness
where our fathers were when God said you do
not know me.
First Timothy, sixth verse: "But they that
will be rich fall into temptation, and a snare, and
into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown
men in destruction and perdition; for the love of
money is the root of all evil: which while some
coveted after they have erred from the faith, and
pierced themselves through with many sorrows:
but thou, () man of God, flee these things, and
follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love,
patience, meekness, Fight the good fight of faith,
whereunto thou art also called, and hast performed
a good profession before many witnesses. Charge
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them that are rich in this world that they be not
high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in
the living God, who giveth us richly all things to
enjoy; that they do good, that they be rich in good
works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate,
laying up in store for themselves a good founda-
tion against the time to come, that they may lay
hold on eternal life."
Eternal life is here and now, when we under-
stand life's work, or the orderly method of God
in creation. God gives us ways and means as
perfect in their appointments to our salvation as
law and order manifest themselves in their rela-
tions. If we are not fully prepared to see, in
other words, Rheuben, the first faculty has not
been developed. Let us strive to come into an
understanding of God through H is works and ways.
He wants us to unfold all the faculties of the mind.
As this is the time, to-day, that the Lord hath
appointed for us to enter into the covenant, let us
not be of that generation that grieved Him, He
who so patiently watches over us, and who tells
us to exhort one another daily while it is called
to-day, for God knows our weaknesses. We are
told if we will hold steadfast to the end we shall
be made partakers of Christ. The meaning of
Christ is a soul that has been brought forth through
the trials and tribulations that have been placed
upon it to soften its nature that it may be prepared
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to receive the Word of God. Christ has been
•called the first born of many brethren yet to be,
for in Christ we find the fulfillment of all the laws
and commandments, types, symbols and proph-
esies. King David marks a state in the mind
when it recognizes God through the proper
channel, and he tells the angels to bless the Lord,
those who excel in strength, that do his command-
D
ments, hearkening unto the voice of God.
1 )a\ id is beloved of the Lord (begotten, sen:
state of the mind that must sing praises unto its God,
for it realizes God's mercy endureth forever. The
temple is built by Solomon (peaceful). \\ e
build the mind from a low to a higher state when
we find the Hible has a soul, and through its rightful
meaning we come in contact with God .test
handiwork, THE MIND OF MAN.
And we declare unto you glad tidings, how
that the promise which was made unto the fathers
God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in
that He hath raised up Jesus again as it is also
written in the second. "Thou art my son: this day
have I begotten thee." The Acts xiii: 21-31. When
we see a soul whose apparel is all virtue, wisdom
and power, whose every product in word and deed
puts upon itself a form adapted to the necessities
of the highest humanity, whose garments are like
the ones we know He wore, colored or dyed in
affliction, this soul will represent itself as a Jesus.
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There will be no need to advertise the Messiah
has come, but we will wait patiently for the coming'
of Christ in humanity, which constitutes a perfect
mind. This state is called My Son. It pleases
the Father, for the faculties are developed, and
the mind, like David's, sing praises to God its
Creator.
The temple is here finished, and peace is
brought by Solomon. The interior court where
the Holy of Holies is kept is the ark. The mean-
ing of ark is the highest place for the sacred
manna (in the soul) where His word sustains
us. And Solomon said he put the covenant of
the Lord that he made with the people of Israel
into this ark. n Chron. vi: 37-38.
Yet if they bethink themselves in the land
whither they are carried captive, and turn and
pray unto thee in the land of their captivity,
saying, "We have sinned; we have done amiss,
and have dealt wickedly;" if they return to thee
with all their heart and with all their soul in the
land of their captivity, whither they have carried
them captives, and pray toward their land, which
thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city
which thou hast chosen, and toward the house
which I have built for thy name, then hear thou
from the heavens, even from thy dwelling-place,
their prayer and their supplications, and maintain
their cause, and forgive thy people which have
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sinned against thee.
A prayer made from this place will be answered.
We must consider the difference between knowing
and thinking that we know. The meaning of
thought is to number^ to reckon, to complete.
You see we must know how to pray from this
place that Solomon has built.
"Hear thou from the heavens." We find the
meaning of heaven to be a state that is perfect,
finished, blest, made whole, completed, established,
extended, uplifted, fashioned or wrought. We
see the wisdom of God in concealing the true
meaning of the Bible until now. We could not
have- understood he-lore the meaning, and we find
even now man so immersed in the wilderness that
it is difficult to lead him out. The meaning of
day is a cycle of time to be run, that something
ma)* be accomplished. Thus, when we read to-
day hear my voice, it has taken ages for us to
hear the Word of God correct.
We need only to glance over the whole as we
view a panorama, and marvel at the scenes as they
have been portrayed by our state called infancy, and
now recognize even a few who are ready to follow
Him, the Way, the Truth and the Light. All of
the Bible proves this assertion (when we can see).
Galatians v: 19 to 26. Now the works of the
flesh are manifest, which are these, adultery, forni-
cation, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry,
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witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath,
strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders,
drunkenness, revellings; and those who are held
by the above actions are not to inherit the king-
dom of God.
But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace,
longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meek-
ness, temperance; against such there is no law,
and they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh
with the affections and lusts. If we live in the
spirit, let us also walk in the spirit. Let us not
be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another,
envying one another. If we think ourselves
something, when we are nothing, we deceive our-
selves. We are to bear each other's burdens, and
with God to aid us, we may cast them at His feet.
We trust the very little that has been given as
a homeopathy remedy in this little work may
awaken an interest in all who will take time to
peruse it. It took a long time for us to give old
allopathy (creeds and dogmas) a farewell shake, but
we found ourselves being left behind, for the car
of progress goes rapidly forward with its load of
human freight or minds quickened into life and
activity through the constant whirl of a busy day,
but the night-time comes to every soul, and it is at
this time our little book may be picked up with a
desire to kill time. We trust that you will not
kill the Spirit or the Holy Ghost that calls out
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"To-day hear my voice." Like John the Baptist
crying in the wilderness we would make ready
the way for Him who is to come after, whose
shoes we are not worthy to unloose. This is the
spirit we have in sending out this "Key," for it
will unlock the door to any one of the
many mansions that you may be prepared to
enter.
When you come into a full understanding of
laws and principles, you will sing, I would not
live always; I care not to stay. Hut until you do
come into a full understanding you will find it is
the storm afu-r storm that develops you,
be ready to meet all things, for you can under-
stand why God sends all things to you for your
good. Hlrssings arc in the etymology of the
Hebrew the same as cursing.
All is from the creative power to unfold your
possibilities. Thus you thank God for sending
that which draws you nearer unto Him. "I am
the vine; ye are the branches." If we do not bear
fruit we are to be cut off and cast into the fire.
If we do bear fruit we will be operated upon by
the angelic ministration and purged that we may
bear more fruit. This state pleases the Father.
Ephesians 1 1: i, 2.
And you hath He quickened who were dead in
trespasses and sin, wherein in time past ye walked
according to the course of this world, according to
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the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that
now worketh in the children of disobedience.
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and
that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God. The
whole plan of salvation consists of knowing.
Knowledge gives us power, and the gift of God
as given to us is knowledge. In the Bible we
find the mind is spoken of as the understanding, and
we are cautioned with all our getting to get under-
standing. Simon who answered Jesus was called
blessed, because he knew when asked the import-
ant question, "Whom do men say that I am?" If
it were simply answering the one question that
made Simon blessed, we would not recognize in
the answer a blessed state, but we find that Simon
denotes the understanding, and know the voice
that tells Jesus "Thou art Christ, the Son of the
living God," is to vibrate in every soul in time,
for it is a state of consciousness never to be cut
off, against which the gates of hell cannot prevail.
It is the Rock of Ages, or Rock of Reason, or the
Pearl of Great Price. There are so many ways
of expressing the nature when it is understood,
and still few understand the nature because it has
not been as yet unfolded, but this is the whole plan
consummated. To know means to obey the laws
as written through ages in the different natures of
man.
He who went away has come again; in other
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words, Christ has arisen from the dead. \Ye
must remember that it has taken all these ages to
bring about the state represented by Christ. Hie
work was commenced in Adam or Genesis, when
the world was niade by God's creative hand in
Exodus, the Hebrews marched to gain the prom-
ised land, I .eviticus contained the law, holy, just and
good, Numbers record the tribes enrolled, all sons
of Abraham's blood, Moses in Deuteronomy records
God's mighty deeds, brave Joshua into Canaan's
land the host of Israel leads, in Judges there re-
bellion oft provokes the Lord to smite, but Ruth
records the faith of one well pleased in her sight.
Ruth ist. [6 verse. And Ruth said, "Entreat
me not to leave thee, or to return from following
after thee; thy Lord is my dod." We find all that
has been given in Bible history, all ancient and
modern history has been given to man that his
mind in time could express itself as Simon of old
did: "1 know thou art Christ." This is accom-
plished when the brain structure has been fully
developed, and we have the eyes that the Bible
speaks of as spiritual; we are able to discern, dis-
criminate, distinguish the difference between in-
tellectual and spiritual things. Rheuben (percep-
tion) has been developed to glorify God and God
only.
Thus the first faculty must be prepared to do
its father's bidding, before we can marshal the
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other eleven brothers (or faculties), that we may
in time present an orderly train of thought which
is pleasing to God.
The survival of the fittest in the race for life
may be understood when we begin this God-like
task of pleasing our Father. The question of
who are the fittest we may leave with Him who
reads the heart, and as we cast our burdens upon
Him, in fact we have no burdens, when we read
our title clear, because it is love to God that bears
us on and up in the life work set before us.
There is no race except as we would put ten
thousand inharmonious thoughts to flight, and
leave the Ego master of the battle-field. Our
work is subjective; we are in the right line to
reach the fountain head. We care not for the
morrow; to-morrow takes care of itself. The Bible
is the grandest book ever written. In time we
hope to read it fully from its interior or soul.
Swedenborg saw there was a deeper meaning
than that implied by the letter. He called it
reading between the lines. The power that man
in time will inherit will cause him to read aright
the Book of Books. This state will be reached
through the intellect (Japhet) being developed and
resting wholly in the spiritual (Shemitic) nature.
To come in contact with the Lord of Lords or
King of Kings requires a nature as is given by
Jesus the Christ, and it 'is to this end that we
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should know all things. Jesus was given; He
came to save us; He died that we might live; and
yet we are told that the Messiah is to come again.
This we know to be a truth; but we also know,
not as before in One Individual, The Messiah,
The Anointed One, is He who has been prepared
to do His Father's Will, He who comes from a
lowly state born in the manger, and lives a life of
sacrifice. He who pleases God, and in time re-
ceives the just reward, joined or united to his
Father, through obedience to His laws and pre-
cepts. In spirit we are one with God. God
the Father (the creative center or life), God the
Son (emanating from the Father), and God the
Holy Ghost (the Divine Spirit or breath, the air
we are sustained by). His agent, for the spirit
draws its life from the soul or center of crea-
tion's God.
We must think in the Shemitic line to evolve
or unfold the spiritual nature. We know
thought moves the world, but we do not send out
the right thoughts toward the Creator, or we
would show a higher state or nature. The poor
millionaire does not know God. His god is in
the earth, and he cannot be made to see that he
is poor, because he has not a state in his nature
for spiritual things. We should pity not blame the
poor blind millionaire.
(The millennium means the thousand years of
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Christ's reign upon the earth.) We know full
well if the Spirit of Christ could be embodied
in humanity, that the millennium would be now,
and therefore we are millennarians, for we believe
this state must come to the fittest who will survive
in the race for life.
God gave us the earth and the fullness thereof,
but man's nature being perverse by his soul com-
ing in contact with the animal nature, it has caused
him to act and to do as we see him from the
earliest stage of growth in Adam up to the pres-
ent day. God saw that we would need a mediator
between earth and heaven (the lowest and highest
states), and He prepared One, Jesus, (which
means to save, to make whole, one in whom all
the faculties are developed). Consequently He
knew His Father, and His Father knew Him.
We have the same privilege, or else God would
not have sent His Son to lead us unto Him.
Look well to your .thoughts. The meaning of
thought is to number, to reckon, compute. Thus
we may in time regulate our minds if we watch
and pray to do His Will. To know God we
must think rightly. To think right is to do right;
and to do right pleases Him who watches over
us and numbers the hairs of our head.
The River of Water of Life we will then drink
and be nourished by as He ordained 'from the
beginning, for he said, "Let there be Light."
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The mind must be prepared to do the work as in
Adam, (to reason, to think, to compare, to liken,
to form similitudes.) We begin in Adam, for
the earth must be tilled, cultivated and made
ready for the Tree of Life. The garden of Eden
is hedged in that fruit may be raised. The mind
must be hedged in from the world, as it is in the
state called Babylon (relating to spiritual things,)
signs and forms, parables and allegories hold the
minds of those who are not capable of under-
standing God. The most unfolded minds are in
a chaotic state, for they reason from the intellect,
and cannot see with spiritual eyes, because the
Shemitic nature has not been developed. We
hope you will consider this epistle as sent to
and call upon God to enlighten you. If, like
Paul, \vc have offended, we trust as did he, for it
is with a godly fear we write. If God be with us,
who can be against us? It is God that justifieth.
Then give unto Caesar the things which
Caesar's but unto God the things which belong to
Him, for He is jealous and watches with love and
tenderness lest we be cast into the bottomless pit,
(ignorance or darknes
\Ye must be willing to sacrifice those things
that hold or bind us to the earth. In the Hebrew
sacrifice signifies, in the order in which it is
made, processes of soul growth that were to be
perfectly made known- in the life of Christ, and
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ultimately in all humanity. As Abraham, was willing
to sacrifice Isaac, it brought his soul into a higher
state, for faith was established, so may we be
brought up by the gradual death of the ruling
animal nature, by the transmuting action of
fires of affliction and tribulation, by the gift of
God in overshadowing the soul, inserting in it
germs of life and giving to it laws and precepts of
a higher nature.
Paul acknowledged to King Agrippa that he
lived after the most or straightest sect of his
religion, a Pharisee, and while living the life he
thought he ought to do many things contrary to the
name of Jesus of Nazareth. He tells the king
that he shut up many of the saints in prison, he
got mad, blasphemed and persecuted in every
synagogue, but on his way to Damascus at mid-
day he saw a light from heaven, above the bright-
ness of the sun. It shone about him and on those
who were with him. They all fell to the earth and
Paul heard a voice in the Hebrew tongue say,
Saul, Saul, (Saul is the same as Paul) why perse-
cutest thou me ? Paul answered and said, Who
art thou, Lord ? And he said, I am Jesus whom
thou persecutest; arise, stand upon thy feet; for I
have appeared unto thee for this purpose: To
make thee a minister and a witness both of these
things which thou hast seen, and of those things
in which I will appear unto thee, delivering thee
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from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto
whom now I send thee, to open their eyes and to
turn them from darkness to light, and from the
power of Satan unto God. The Acts xxvi: 5 to 1 5.
Pharisee means dissimulation, and the meaning
of dissimulation is hypocrisy; therefore, we find
Paul not in the right path although joined
to the straightest sect of religion. The meaning
of Paul is a state asking or desiring (born of the
tribe of Benjamin). He possessed conscientious-
ness and desired to please God. He almost per-
suaded King Agrippa to be a Christian, and Paul
said, would to God not only thou, but all that hear
me would become as I have been convinced that
all the work has been to bring us into a state of
knowing. The Jews expected Paul to fall down
dead because a viper took hold of his hand when
he gathered some wood fora fire; his hand was not
even swollen; he was not harmed; then the
Jews called him a god.
The meaning of viper or serpent is hissing
muttering, that which never goes straight. It resists
Truth, Right and Justice on which God insists,
therefore, the viper could not stay upon his hand
for Paul desired to please God.
In Paul's time we find they were, as in this day.
Some believed the things which were spoken, and
some believed not. Thus they scattered or de-
parted when they could not agree among them,
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selves. (The Acts xxviii: 24.) If we desire to
know how far we have advanced in relation to spir-
itual things, let us question how much we know con-
cerning God. We may be, like King Agrippa,
almost persuaded to be a Christian, but we must
know to be a Christian we should live the life. It
is not alone belonging to the stratghtest sect for
we may be Pharisees also.
There is a way out of the wilderness or else
there would not have been a wilderness for God
does not oppress. It is man's perverse nature
that is oppressive.
We, like Paul, must see the light in the heavens
and hear the voice, before we know that we are
persecuting Jesus.
We know heaven is a perfect state of the mind
and the light that Paul saw was in his mind and
Reason called out, Why Saul dost thou persecute
me? When he was convinced it was Jesus he
stood upon his feet, which means a foundation,
permanent advancement, progression.
WThen we hear the voice we will stand firm for
the foundation is truth. The understanding has
been opened, "We know thou art Christ. " But
the garden must be hedged in. The silent work-
ing of the power of God will bring all the lower
nature under control, that the temple, the mind,
may be established. Then as you contemplate
the workings of His divine laws, your soul re-
74 THE KEY TO THE KINGDOM,
joices as did Paul and you would like to convert
all to the truth. When the lamb and the lion lay
down side by side, the millennium has come, for
these natures harmonize. Paul denotes a state of
soul growth which asks or desires spiritual things.
The Key to the Kingdom may help you to
enter. The way is open and you are here in-
vited to join us as Paul invited King Agrippa, and
all who heard him that day. Paul told Festus
(when he was accused of being mad) that these
things \\cre not done in a corner, or hiddgn from
us if we have the desire to seek or knock at the
door.
Much learning does not make us mad when the
thoughts are directed to God through the Shemitic
nature. \Ve know people go mad who are called
religious and Paul acknowledged himself to be
mad, when in the straightest sect of religion, but
the- light that came to Paul on his journey revealed
all things and he had much learning, lie was a
servant of Jesus Christ. Paul tells us that the
wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all
ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who
hold the truth in unrighteousness, for man does
not give to God the praise. Man is not thankful
to God; he becomes vain and his soul is accord-
ingly obscured; he professes himself to be wise
when he is a fool; he changes the glory of the in-
corruptible God into an image made like to cor-
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ruptible man. Man has changed the truth of
God into a lie, and worshipped and served the
creature more than the Creator, who is blessed
forever.
God causes the ungodly to be punished.
We are now moving toward the truth with rapid-
ity, our intellects are being developed but we are
also in a restless state because there is none that
understandeth, there is none that seeketh after
God. They are all gone out of the way, they are
together become unprofitable; there is none that
doeth good, no not one. (Rom. iii: u.) It is
time we were awakened to a realization of
our situation and put on the armour of faith, put-
ting our houses in order with our lamps trimmed
and brightly burning. There are many in our
midst whom Jude describes as speaking great
swelling words, who admire men's persons because
of advantage. But we are cautioned in these last
times who should be mockers and walk after their
own ungodly lusts.
The sensual have not the Spirit of God in them.
It is only God our Saviour who can keep us from
falling and bring us into His glory, where we
shall be filled with exceeding joy. I am the
beginning (Alpha), and the ending (Omega), which
is, and which was, and which is to come. This
voice or spirit was heard by John on the Isle of
Patmos and when he turned to see the voice that
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spake to him, he saw as we read in Revelations
that which caused him great fear and he fell as
dead. But the right hand was laid upon John.
The meaning of hand is the same as memory,
(to grasp, to hold, to fashion and hew, to yield
power, an agency strongly exerted, to guide, to
direct, to be firm to go forward, advancement).
We find this to be the office of Gad (memory).
One of the faculties, John, remembered when the
right hand was laid upon him. John was told
to write the things that he had seen, for tl
should come to pass hereafter.
The meaning of seven is (fulfilling a covenant
bound by an oath). We are to come into this
covenant that He has made with us. His laws
are to be fulfilled, and the seven stars are to be
unfolded in the mind (the candlesticks represent
the faculties, i We are to give forth light; the
words would burn as a furnace if we suppressed
them. Hide not your light under a bushel,
but put it in a candlestick that it may give light
unto all who are in the house.
The two-edged sword is the same as in Eden,
to protect the Tree of Life. The meaning of
sword (lays waste, and would seem to work harm,
to cut, to fashion, to form, to hew). These mean-
ings are given to us in the Hebrew etymology,
and it is through this channel that we have been
led to the soul of the Bible, but it is concealed
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from us until we put forth as did Saul of old, the
cry, "O God, what shall I do to be saved?" The
prayer will be answered; for God helps all those
who help themselves. We are told the devil will
cast some of us into prison that we may be tried,
but if we are faithful unto death we will receive
the crown of life.
"He that hath an ear let him hear what the
Spirit saith unto the churches." Rev. u: 29.
"He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the
second death."
To him that overcometh will I give to eat of
the hidden manna. Rev. n: 17.
To him who overcometh and keepeth my works
unto the end, to him will I give power over the
nations. Rev. 1 1: 26.
I come quickly and my reward is with me, to
every man according as his works shall be.
He that testifieth these things saith, Surely I
come quickly. Amen.
"Amen" is the Hebrew word for "faith," which
it defines as the union of the mind of man with
God through knowledge of law and obedience
thereto.
We would not take up this work of His unless
somewhat prepared to enter into the interior or
soul of things. We do not profess to know
much more than the first letter of the alphabet.
But from Aleph we took our first lesson.
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Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every
founder is confounded by the graven image: for
his molten image is falsehood, and there is no
breath in them: for the pastors have become
brutish and have not sought the Lord: therefore
they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall
be scattered. Jer. x: 14 to 21.
In our work we must know of the first and the
last. Simon (the understanding) serves us as the
foundation or rock that our church may rest upon;
if the winds blow and the storms beat against this
foundation it remains firm or sure.
The people who were in the valley while Moses
was on the mount writing the Laws remained longer
than a few days. The meaning of clay (in the
etymology of the Hebrew) is a time set apart to
perform a certain work, a full cycle, that the work
may be completed. We read in Genesis the
world was created in six clays, but know it took
ages. Some good people will not question
or try to find out for themselves what the
Bible really does mean, but take it for granted
that Ciod (whom they do not know) is all power-
ful. They say if the Bible was written by God it
satisfies them, for they cannot doubt Him (whom
they know not ot); if the Bible reads six days,
of course they (dear souls) believe it. (Ignor-
ance in this case is bliss), but we do not think it
folly to be wise, for the Bible reiterates again and
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again that wisdom is the principal thing to get
hold of. "With all thy getting get understand-
ing." Prov. iv: 7.
So it is we start out on our mission, having
only learned the first letter in the Hebrew (Aleph),
which denotes in its primary sense the subdued
nature of the animal. The letter was drawn
from the face of an ox. We cannot advance in
spiritual things until the animal in our nature is
subdued; and Jesus personified this statement.
Paul tells us we worship an unknown God, and
we cannot deny his statement until we know what
the true God is. The soul of the Bible was pur-
posely concealed from us, in other words, we were
not ready to read the Bible aright before now.
In this we see the wisdom of God. The outer
meaning of the Bible proves, as the statement
given by Paul, we are worshipping ignorantly; but
Paul got the light, and he knew the truth; there-
fore Paul was not afraid to tell it, even to King
Agrippa.
It does not require one to wear long, flowing
garments, or to imitate the look in the oxen's face.
Neither will give you the light Paul saw; and it is
this light that God speaks of as coming to every
soul that is in darkness. Your Free Will, com-
bined with Understanding, (Asher and Simon,
faculties of the mind) will take you into the
pleasant pastures and beside the still waters that
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David enjoyed, because God loved David, the
God that loved Paul.
Paul planted, and Appolos watered; it was for
God to give the increase. So with our work,
we do our part, and leave the rest with Him
who reads the heart.
In parting with the "Key," let us represent it
as worthy of consideration. St. Peter has been
(and now is to some) a symbol, the predecessor
or outward of the coming power, but when we like
Peter, are received into fellowship with Jesus, and
receive the new name, Cephas — a stone, because
he was firm and unyielding in righteousness, a
rock, the human understanding, then we enjoy
the fellowship as given by Jesus, for it opens the
understanding, and we cannot deny our Master.
Although there may be Herods who cannot
favor us, we know their house is left to them
desolate, and they cannot see Jesus until the time
comes when they shall say, "Blessed is He that
cometh in the name of the Lord." \Ye take the
same ground that Jesus did when asked 'is it law-
ful to heal on the Sabbath Day:'" We do our
work as then; when duty calls us we are ready.
Again we take the position of the poor woman
who desired to fulfil in the largest measure her
obligation to God. We cast in our mite and desire
no eye but His to fall upon it. Our contribution
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i
is small. But we know "The hour has come
when the Son of Man should be glorified."
"If any man serve me, let him follow me; and
where I am there shall also my servant be; if any
man serve me, him will my Father honor."
''Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness
overtake you; be the children of light."
If we were not in the state called darkness
there would not have been so much said about the
light. It is the light that was first sent, but the
darkness comprehended it not. Now we are try-
ing to assist the darkened mind that the truth
may flash in upon it as with Paul when on his
journey, he was crucifying Jesus, the Light of Rea-
son illuminated his mind, he saw his error and
asked Gocl to forgive him. Let us be true to our
highest state; if convinced that we are in the dark,
seek diligently for the pure gold thrice proven.
Ask what you will in my name; that will I give
unto you. Where is the church that can save
your soul? It is a means unto an end, but it is
not the end. I am Alpha and Omega, the begin-
ning and the end. Give God all the praise, all
the honor, all the glory, and you are His Son,
then your mind like His dearly beloved can read
all things. You are one with God.
Our principal object in sending this "Key" for-
ward is that all of God's children may be en-
lightened and blest through spiritual knowledge.
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We would assist each of His children to enter
the kingdom if it were possible. The way is now
open, and if you have the desire to know God or
the truth, you will be set free, as the writer of this
little work is each day made to realize more fully
the wonderful workings of the creative power of
God. This state goes on when we direct our
thoughts into the highest channel (the spiritual),
and 1 I is words made manifest, "1 send my Son to
save tin- world."
Jesus has come to the mind that can cone
[esus as a pure life; we must Live It. The king-
dom is then established upon the earth; it has
always been in heaven. H is an expan
something beaten out, broadened, made to hold.
Thus the: mind is through the intellectual nature
unfolded and dwelling upon spiritual things Japhet
rests in time in the tents of Shem. Gen. ii: 5.
The mind is led from signs and forms to the
truth through the etymology of the Hebrew and
Greek, as given by Ghesenious, Parkhurst and
others. God's orderly method in creation is then
made clear to the eye that can see, and you enter
unto the kingdom.
Unto Shem also, the father of all the children
of Eber, (the meaning of Eber is crossing the
river) the brother of Japhet the elder, even to
him were children born. Gen. x: 21.
Water in all its form indicates creative power,
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energy or motion (in the etymology of the He-
brew) . Then we read that Eber's children crossed
the swift, flowing river in the Jordan (overcoming
their low nature thereby), or they were instructed
in spiritual things and delivered by Joshua, whose
name means the same as Jesus. Joshua saved
the children of Israel, who are to forever praise
Jehovah for the great wealth bestowed upon them,
possessing blessings of wisdom and health.
To be a son of God and heir to the eternal
kingdom, we must be the children of Shem (or
spirituality); then all confusion is banished from
the mind, the wilderness is passed, and the manna
from heaven sustains us. This is God's promise.
Gen. ix: 27.
This is the covenant, saith the Lord, if ye keep
my commandments, I will be to you a God, and
ye shall be my people. Ask what ye will in my
name, that will I give unto you.
Let us ask for more light or reason, which God
declared in the beginning was, but the darkness
could not comprehend it. Adam and Eve were
naked, but were not ashamed. Gen. ii: 25.
Why? Because they could not reason; their minds
were very low or feeble. This state was naked «r
unadorned.
We are now beginning to reason, as we have
partially cultivated the garden, and Adam, the
earth, gives us this product, reason. It is the
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light of the Logos, word or speak that was at the
beginning; it was God and is God. Now we see,
our eyes are open; we understand and perceive
our nakedne
Banah (house) means the same as Son (in the
etymology of the Hebrew). The temple or house
mind is not yet complete; thus reason cannot be sent
forth. That this is the rock or stone that was
laid at the mouth of the den, which the king scaled
with his signet, there can be no doubt, for Dan
denotes judgment, and the lions did not hurt
Daniel, because (iod said, Fear not Daniel, for
from the first day that thou didst set thine heart
to understand and to chasten thyself before tin-
God, thy words were heard. The angel said, ;
man greatly beloved, fear not, peace be unto thee,
stand upright and fear not Daniel. Thus he
overcame the lions in the den. Because lie had
faith in God he was to be steadfast forever, and
his kingdom is not to be destroyed; he is to have
dominion unto the end. This is what (Dan) judg-
ment will do for us, when we like Daniel set our •
hearts to understanding God. This state worketh
wonders in the earth, for men tremble and fear
before the God of Daniel. He is the living God.
*Thus, if the low state should peep and mutter
know their eyes are not yet open, they cannot discern good
from evil, right from wrong.
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He that overcometh shall inherit all things, and
I will be his God, and he shall be my son. Rev.
xxi: 7.
This passage does not give us reason to think
that sin (ignorance) is to be overcome or pardoned
by the prayers of another. There can be no
doubt that ignorance in time will be overcome.
Our salvation is assured when we know God.
Then in this glorious age of reason why not ask
for more light concerning spiritual things. All
things are promised to those who overcome ignor-
ance.
We reiterate the Bible is the travail of the soul,
or the history of the human family, as it began in
Adam and was perfected in Jesus the Christ.
Then let us admire wisdom, even in the little
ant, who is wise and prepares its meat in the
summer. Prov. xxx: 25.
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but
of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth
and acbideth forever. Peter i: 23.
Let us ascend once more together on the mount
with our twelve principal faculties developed to
praise God. We like Paul understand (through
our ignorance) we worshipped the unknown God.
We were thereby held in the signs and forms,
by parables and allegories, isms and creeds, but
we now see, know and understand that they were
all as necessary in the unfoldment of the mind as
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the various means or grades are offered to
the child until it can reason for itself.
Reason is God. This is our rock, and eternal
is its foundation. The soul of the Bible has given
us the truth. The husk was necessary, for we
have been in the low or swine state, but now we
desire to be sons of God ami heirs to the Eternal
Kingdom; therefore we are called to partake of
the hidden manna, the Bread of Life, that which
sustains the soul.
To eat of the Tree of Knowledge- we must obey
His Will in all tilings. Kxodus 2;,. The an.
that He has sent to bring us into the place which
He has prepared, we must obey. We are not
to provoke him, for he will not pardon our trans-
gressions. God's name is in this angel. We are
told if we obey the angel's voice and do all that
God speaks, then our enemies and adversaries
are to be overcome by God. This angel is to cut
off forever the Amorites, and the Hitties, the
Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the
Jebusities; these are our enemies (our evil or
wrong thoughts, desires, appetites and propen-
sities). They are to be utterly overthrown, and
their images broken down. Then we may wor-
ship the Lord our God for he blesses our bread
and water. He takes away sickness from our
midst. He tells us this work is to be done little
by little not in one year, (well we know this to be
OR HEAVEN UPON EARTH. 87
a truth), lest the land become desolate, and the
beasts of the field multiply against our higher
nature before it is fully established. God will
put these tribes to flight just as He does all of
His work gradually; then the angel leads us to the
fountain head, for we no longer wander in confu-
sion. Simon (the understanding) is developed,
and "we know it is Christ." This is the sum
and substance of our life, to acquire knowledge,
and with all our getting we are told to get under-
standing. To reconstruct or rearrange the ma-
terial that we have now at hand will keep us for a
time busy; regeneration or a new birth cannot
come to the individual mind until it is through
with signs and forms as we find them to-day in
the churches. We must know God in truth, the
high and mighty Gocl who numbered the heavens,
and ordered the earth, who created all things for
a wise purpose, who made man in the image and
likeness of Himself, (how far are we now from the
Perfected One?). The mind of man was to be
gradually built, then it calls out to know God and
finds the true temple, then develop perception
(Rheuben) to see. It was from the beginning
ordained that we should be led just as we have
been until we know through perception (our
first faculty) that the true temple (the
mind) was built without the sound of a ham-
mer. All things are made clear to the eye that
88 TIII-: KI.Y TO TIIK KINGDOM,
can see and the ear that hears. The cold-hearted
selfishness must be overcome by love to God and
man. We are one family; He is our Father; the
brotherhood is bound by Christ who gave His
life to save ours from ignorance, which is sin and
death. Let us on our journey heavenward do as
]rsu> did, call all men brothers. He said to those
who told Him that His mother and sisters were
waiting outside the temple for Him, It was those
who did the Will of His Father who were His
sisters and 1 lis mother. Can we not draw near
to God in this same spirit of truth, and do His
Will then in return we know all things for
Simon is unfolded within us, and our visit to the
mount will always give us strength, beams'-
reason with the twelve (not one or two facu!
The state of consciousness that Jesus posse-
we may also enjoy, when we like.1 Him are will-
ing to do our Father's bidding. Jesus came to
fulfil the Law, not to destroy it. He brought us
grace and truth. When the understanding
(Simon) is developed you will see all thing
they are; God directs us in the highest chan-
nel when we obey His voice, which comes from
the interior or Ark of the Covenant. John
makes ready the way for Him who is mightier, as
John baptizes with water, but Christ baptizes
with the Holy Ghost; let us get out of the wilder-
ness in this enlightened age and not grope about
OR HEAVEN UPON EARTH. 89
in the dark, following strange or false Gods, pro-
voking the true and living God with our ignor-
ance. Our philosophy or science is not new (but
as old as the world;) it was laid with the founda-
tion of the world; it is the Logos or Word that
was at the beginning; it is reason the same that
was thrown in upon Paul's mind as he was on
his way to Damascus; it outshone the brightness
of the sun; he was told to stand upon his feet and
go forth as a minister to turn all with whom he
came in contact from darkness to light, and from
the power of Satan to God, that they might re-
ceive forgiveness of sins. This is what our New
(or old) Philosophy will do for those who are
ready to turn from the creeds and dogmas of the
present day that hold the mind in darkness. We
must reason and think for ourselves that we like
Paul may obey the voice of Jesus. Light will
rule prejudice or darkness out of existence; follow
Him and Him only if you would be truly happy.
The inner meaning of the Bible tells us the
Garden of Eden stands for the physical system
controlled by the soul of man; all that is related
of it must describe different parts and functions
of the human body.
Thus the river of Eden stands for the stream
of vital power, nervous energy, which governs
the performance of the organic functions of the
body.
QO THE KKV TO THE KINGDOM.
This river has its rise in the nerve centers of
the brain, and from thence it is parted and
becomes into four heads; that is, it distributes
power to the four fundamental departments of
the animal economy. Circulation is represented
in the Bible, Gen. ii, as the river Pison and called
the first river, compassing- the whole land of
Havilah Respiration, is represented by Gihon the
second river mentioned in Genesis- as that which
compusseth the whole land of Ethiopia. Diges-
tion is represented as the third river Hid-
dekel, which goeth toward the East of Assyria;
the fourth river is Generation and in the Bible is
called Euphrates, (L. of E. ) \V<- would not here
refer to these rivers except to prove our assertion
that man as yet knows nothing of himself (sub-
jectively), consequently can not know God. As
the infant po innately the attributes of
manhood and yet cannot make them known till
after many years. So it is with man; from his
primitive state it has taken a process of growth
and extention to bring the mind where it may
stand alone with God. \Ve ha\ feeble
in the race that we have not understood law; how
then could we conform to it? \Ve have blindly
worshipped water, fire, trees, mountains and men,
but now we must develop our understanding and
say as did Simon of old, "I know thou art the
Christ." This state gives us peace, joy and ever-
OR HEAVEN UPON EARTH. 9!
lasting pleasure. This state pleases. God and He
blesses us for striving to learn of Him through
His works and ways in Creation; then science
will shake hands with religion and all men are-
brothers because we could not believe like
Thomas, until we put our hand in the hole in His
side. It caused hard feelings to exist as Paul
stated to King Aggrippa. We were thrust into
prison and left to starve as we could not see or
think like those who essayed to be Christians, for
they belonged to the strictest sect as did Paul,
until his eyes were opened by the light of Reason.
All men will be as brothers in time, but the
change will come gradually as each soul feels the
fire of affliction; it melts or softens the cold heart-
edness toward our fellow men; we must look upon
ourselves as souls sent here to clo a work to
become Sons of God and heirs to the kingdom of
heaven; then we extend the right hand of fellow-
ship.
If the prayer from each soul can go forth to
Gocl for light and 's sent from the interior or
Ark of the Covenant, (no formulated prayer for
the unfolded mind) then the light will come
and we will be Pauls seeking to draw all men
to God. No house of worship is needed by Paul
he worshipped in spirit and truth. It would be
well if we could take some of our costly edifices
reared skyward and built for the exterior worship-
92 Till-: KEY TO TIIK KINGDOM,
of God, as was inscribed on the altar in Athens,
To the Unknown. It would be well we say,
to turn the same into free homes, educate the
poor, feed the poor, then you may lead the poor
to God; scatter the gold, God gave it freely; the
bread of Life is of much more value and this you
receive in return. Jesus said, "The poor ye have
always with you. We should understand that
he meant the nature of man was yet so low or
poor that we always have an opportunity to do
better, this state Jesus loved because He brought
it up higher each time He expressed His nature.
Then let Jesus speak in all our actions and the
poor we will befriend. God is the Father of both
rich and poor. If we are covetous the sin will
fall upon our heads. Vengeance is mine, saith
the Lord.
\Ve should be ready to enter the promised
land our rightful inheritance. God's gift to man,
a mind at rest because it knows Gocl and is
happy. Love to God will cause us to extend our
hand to the neighbor and assist all souls to the
highest state in existence, which is to know our
Father, through obedience to His Will we enter
the Kingdom of Heaven for a Son of God and
heir to the highest kingdom, will represent Im-
manuel, God in the flesh. The entire process of
regeneration consists of refusing evil and choos-
ing good as a principle of life.
OR HEAVEN UPON EARTH. 93
This work can be better performed when we
understand God's plan for our redemption. It
must be admitted that there is more pleasure in
possessions acquired through individual exertion
to obtain the same, than if we have possessions
bestowed upon us gratuitously. Thus the law of
compensation holds good in all departments of
our lives, but more especially in the Spiritual is it
understood. We know it is more blessed to
give than to receive, for the giving constitutes a
law and the blessing is sure to follow.
The Bible was created to lead man from his
infant state in Adam, up to the perfect state
Jesus the Christ.
We claim no one can worship God as they
should (which is to overcome ignorance), to .have
fixed and stamped upon the mind the orderly
process by which all life has come forth from that
eternal creative cause made known in the names
of Elohim and Jehovah. It is to know the way
by which the life of God has gone forth, entered
into and become a part of everything that has
existence. It is to understand and obey the laws
He has written through ages of development in
the physical, intellectual and moral natures of man.
This prepares the way for a knowledge of Christ,
which principle must be embodied in our lives to
have power from the Most High, (L. of L.)
The iniquity or ignorance of the parent shall
94 THE KEY TO I I IK KINGDOM,
descend to the children from generation to gen-
eration, whereas, if the parents have overcome
their ignorance by a life guided and governed by
the Anointed One, as love to their fellowman,
etc., then health, virtue and goodness are trans-
mitted to the offspring. In time the low, selfish
nature will be overcome by the highest, which is
God.
"Let us give to Caesar those things which be-
long to Ca -sar, but unto God the things that
belong to God."
It has required these long years ( 1 800) to
build the mind of man (God's greatest work),
where it may now unflinchingly speak the truth
as God ordained it should in time know the truth
and free itself \Ye have as religionists, ist, Jews,
7,931,080; 2nd, Christians, 380,000,000; 3rd,
Mohammedans, 200,000,000; 4th, Brahmins, 177,-
000,000; 5th, Buddhists, etc., 450,000,000, accord-
ing to statistical writers is the present religious
population of the globe. Then this population is
divided into twenty or more denominations, prov-
ing conclusively man is not yet able to see face to
face or he would be worshipping from the temple
built without the sound of a hammer; then all
would see alike from the true temple. 1 1 Chron.
2. The building of this temple has taken all these
years, when now a few, a very few, from out of the
many religionists are prepared to read the Book
OR HEAVEN UPON EARTH. 95
of Books understandingly. If we are ready to
take up the cross and follow Him who is the way,
the truth and the light, then we enter the city of
Jerusalem. Solomon means peaceful. This state
leads us; our work is subjective, and we must read
aright the Word of God to worship in truth.
This state can only be reached when we have
outgrown or have no further use for any of the
religions that man has established upon the earth.
All things have been necessary, but progression
is God's law, and we advance to make use of our
free or individual Will, guided by His Will who
tells us to come unto Him for the true rest our
soul craves; we find it, and bow to our loving
Father's Will for establishing our minds as like
Solomon we also ask God for wisdom and knowl-
edge above all else, and our prayer is answered;
we now understand something of the mind of
man.
"Man lived upon this planet and delved into the
earth before he was able to read the record
written in the rocks by the finger of the Almighty,
telling of the gradual processes employed, and
the immense periods of time required in its forma-
tion. It no longer seems incredible, as otherwise
it might, that learned theologians and philologists
should have critically analyzed and compared every
word and letter in the original Scriptures, and yet
never caught a glimpse of the real significance of
96 THE KEY TO THE KINGDOM,
those root etymologies which in the Law of Laws
are shown to reveal the same orderly method of
creation in the domain of Mind that Geology un-
folds in the realm of matter. The heavens have
been searched and the component forces and
factors of earth and air and sea, closely invest-
igated and carefully classified, disclosing the many
and mighty fixed principles operating through
nature in all its forms.
For the performance of this work, grand and
necessary as it has been, intellectual perception
is all that has been required; but for the dis
and apprehension of the Law of Laws, a spiritual
perception is essential. All things an- made clear
through a study of these works. The origin of
man and his evolution, the reason of the dill
ences of races, languages and religions, the true
nature of the new birth and redemption, the con-
dition of the disembodied soul, heaven, hell and
probation after death are presented so that the
method of God in the progressive creation of
man is as easily understood as the first principles
of science. All the labor and striving of men and
nations in the past, as portrayed in every depart-
ment of human history, are shown as an out-
wrought expression of the inworking of the
Divine Power, preparing the foundation, broad
and strong, in the physical, intellectual and moral
natures of man for the glorious superstructure,
OR HEAVEN UPON EARTH. 97
the spiritual, which brings Christ universal into
the souls of men." (Quotation from Law of Laws.)
We must free ourselves from all doctrines to
adore the true and living God in nature. God
reads the heart; He knows His sheep and we
know our shepherd; therefore we do not swell
the number as Religionists. We cultivate the
spiritual garden (the mind) and destroy the tares
and thistles least they choke out the Word of
God (which means to number or order all things
according to grade.) God is Law and we must
live by law to please the Maker of Laws. The
soul of the Bible was purposely concealed until
now, when some minds are strong enough to de-
mand the meat or food prepared and found in the
etymology of the Hebrew — all we require to open
our spiritual eyes. We then receive and are
born from above (the head) or the Mind is un-
folded and we see all things clear, not trough the
glass darkly. This is Simon Peter, the Under-
standing, the Key to the Kingdom of Heaven a
state of consciousness which we enter into while
living on earth.
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It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things
from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus (one
who loves God), that thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein
thou hast been instructed. St. Luke i: 3, 4.
W. M. R. DIMOND.
98 TIIK KKY TO
FROM OBJECTIVE TO SUBJECTIVE.
We find in our study that Jacob's twelve sons
Went off as the tribes, thus history runs.
As twelve tribes of Israel they go to explore
The land and the sea; but now we implore
The mind that is ready to reason and think,
To turn their thoughts into the garden, this link
As in Eden, we cannot deny, faculties are broadened
If with God we abide; we reason and think
As never before, for all is made clear if the mind will explore.
We would not prevaricate, why should we try?
We now know the reason, the where and the why,
For God does enlighten the mind, if 'twill turn
From the signs, forms and symbols, if willing to learn
Of His orderly method, as seen in creation
Where all is made clear, and with due admiration
We behold God in all things; we now find the truth,
All that is established, and all have a worth,
From the least to the greatest, from man unto God.
The mind now unfolds; by His blessed mode
We are slowly prepared to reason and think
For ourselves; then we find the long missing link
Through churches established. They all do their work
For those who require them; we will not shirk
The way God has opened; we follow His plan.
It leads to salvation, and man unto man
Cannot give this great gift; it is God's.
When you seek, you shall find.
This we know through His Word, and thus speak our mind.
OR HEAVEN UPON EARTH.
THE TWELVE PRINCIPAL FACULTIES OF THE
MIND.
Rheuben is perception, to see or to know,
Simon, understanding, in truth it is so;
Levi, association, this faculty links,
Judah, with Abraham, faith it represents;
Dan stands for judgment, to choose, to decide,
Napthali, crafty, let it not abide;
Gad, which is memory, labors to pierce,
Asher, the will, let its firmness ne'er cease;
Issiacher is selfish, let it be denied,
Zebelurn is social, have pleasure, not pride;
Joseph, constructive, is laden with thought,
Benjamin, conscientious, the spirit has wrought.
LET THERE BE LIGHT.
Let us throw forth these twelve great lights;
They will illumine the mind; our nights
Would be both dark and drear,
If 'twere not for constellations though faculties here;
For we have turned to look within
And find the truth; we know that sin
Is that which changes, can't endure;
Which truth opposes, and will secure
In time, as ignorance is evil too,
And perishes, but this we know,
That God created Man or Mind
To be spiritualized, though still we're blind.
THE FIRST FRUITS.
As each soul unfolds like a flower,
And turns unto God with a prayer,
'Twill know the true God from that hour;
Creeds, signs and forms then disappear.
IOO THE KEY TO TIIK KINGDOM,
Let us stand firm and fast by our Maker,
The God of our soul, which is He
Who's awakened; it slept as a creature,
But now we sing praises to Thee.
Then direct your thoughts to the Godhead;
Seek early and late till you find
Your Saviour within, for in your head
Is the soul; it's imprisoned by mind.
God gave it to you, then return it;
The Father was pleased with but One.
It was Jesus, the Christ, and He teacheth
The love of His Father as Son.
God sent His dear Son as a pattern
Or type; shall wre follow His plan?
Then kill God's opponent, old Satan,
For this is the work given man.
We find that our earthy is Adam,
Its opposite known to he 1C \
The garden of lulen with culture
Brings forth divine product as seed.
The seed that was thrown by the wayside
It fell on the soil; 'twas prepared
And bore at the harvest an hundred;
God watched it, and with us He shared.
Oh, let the good seed scatter freely,
Prepare then the Adam or earth;
Let Eve do her part to receive it,
When in the new life we have birth.
Except ye are born from above then,
Which means in the Head, for we know
We cannot commune with our Father
While dwelling on earth or below.
Then stir up the soil in your nature,
Let God speak to you from the soul;
Dominion you'll have o'er the creature,
As written by Him on the scroll.
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