creature.

Wearing the mantle of petulance, anger, and intolerance, is the most dangerous of all the lower animal impulses, being terrible monarchs of habit and unripeness; it is a flame in the blood; harmony cannot unite with it. It is best not to demean and belittle yourself, but to permit a warm glow of light to pass from yourself to your fellow beings.

If you can get the "voice" and feel the harmony, you have the whole secret of mental illumination. Whenever you reach this harmony it will obey your will better than a child. It requires a pure life, a complacent and harmonious demeanor.

You are planted here in matter, and after being planted, there is a freedom of will given to you to clothe these entities as you see best. In creating an atmosphere around these human Souls or Deific babes is that liberty which you have. It is entirely within yourself. Man creates his own heaven or his own hell, according to his aspirations or thoughts.

The hour of regeneration having reached the student, or having found his dominant, which he alone can do, he must broaden and speak only in others. He must look for the good in everything; not the evil. In endeavoring to look for the good, he will warm his heart. Everything that exists in any man is tinged with the mannerisms or habits of his soul. You are tinged with it all around you, within and without, and if the ambitions and impulses of your being have patterned after modern civilization, you must turn about, throw this all

away, endeavor to lift up the Soul to an independence over the physical body; then you will know your morrow rising, a Soul regenerate out of the objective world of Sense. Every man's morrow has not yet come to him; many fall asleep in darkness, but in the fulness of time reach their morrow. If you ripen a regenerate power of Soul-illumination during this life, you will know your morrow here during this life. When mankind findeth this, then life will defy death; man then can command his going out or his morrow, to rise into the Spiritual, or subjective world. Through his own Will he can liberate his Deific Life-Spark from its temporary perishable investment, but this is a difficult thing to attain.

It is under the command and power of the will to become mentally illuminated. To be made perfect is to receive the breath of the angels.

This was to the Rosicrucians known as regeneration; to the Egyptians it was known as the holy flame, Zeus. To be said to die is simply to leave the clay so that we can rise. When the life-spark is liberated it goes on its journey. I do not know whether you are aware that according to the Bible a man, by his will, lived from three hundred to a thousand years. He lost his dominant when his consciousness grew into flesh. Rosicrucians claimed the same. first thing is to find that dominant in your nature which is your heritage. There is a claim among the Rosicrucians that we have a "moral." It is that which makes "the impossible possible; " it is that which is involution rather than evolution.

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You must remember that the power which isolates into individuality is much greater than that which is isolated. If you can hold yourself from the decay of matter, it is that which has been attained by few, but it is attainable. Power is only escaped and renewed rest; thus, here, impossi

bility alone makes possiblity possible. A contention is now being carried on by the oldest cult minds of the East, as to what mode will be the best to impart the difference between generation and regeneration, to the seeking world of humanity which is now calling for light, more light. It is really to control this body by your will. This might be said to be the first step towards regeneration, -the second must be through mental illumination, and your higher loves. From my knowledge of things, I can see no other pathway which is safe.

Frequently, in a student's reaching the dominant note, there will be some pet human theory or pet idea, brought about by culture of the intellect, which is quite superficial in spiritual things, that is apt to close the doorway of mental illumination and block his farther progress. Remember, friends, it has been written in many tongues, through long ages, that the ways of the Spirit have been taken from the wise and superficially learned, and been given "to babes; those who are willing to come down and be as children.

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Take heed therefore that the light you is not darkness. If it is for praise and worldly affairs, it is darkness. I know it is very hard for us Americans to forget self. If you hear a preacher speaking ill of another, he reflects his own interior soul, so with all other individuals. Well here is a little cult; I do not come before you to speak in the usual occult ways of theosophical speakers. The text of the cult reads, "Until thou hast eaten of the bread of fire, thou shalt not be touched by the spirit and lifted up." This with out explanation is about as clear as mud, and I am forced to reply in similar manner to the question on the subject in reference to Ezekiel's Wheel, and regeneration as represented by the man and the virgin rising out of the waters of objective ex

istence: these higher occult thoughts have never been given to classes or numbers of individuals at once, they have always been imparted to the student when alone and secluded from the world, after years of spiritual understanding and development, then given by his patient instructor, provided his mentality and thought has not been able to catch these Divine Truths, unless orally expressed, then only are they thus given. "Why?" you inquire. Friends, there is an immutable law, that man in his animal objective sense will not or does not comprehend. It is this: "The True end of a process cannot be identified with the process."

There will be a time when some of you will reach these thoughts, and fully understand them. I have not the permission, and I am not gifted to impart them to you, as a whole class, so understandingly, but that it would be dangerous to some. take up your time by clothing them with mysticism, is not the office of any instructor.

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I have looked over some instructions imparted to me, some time since, in other lands, to revive and compress my thoughts and friendly impulses on these hidden subjects, and possibly your instructor, after a time, will be permitted to give you their fuller import; for this is the secret which giveth death to unregenerated man; therefore I am not able to frame them in my mind when in the presence of an audience; or rather, the instruction given me from wiser heads than mine runs thus: "Close thy mouth, lest thou shouldst speak of this (the Great Mystery); close thy heart, lest thou shouldst think aloud; and if thy thought or heart has escaped thee, bring them back to their silent places in our holy sanctuary, for such is the object of our alliance."

I want to speak a little on this regeneration, the flame of fire which

comes to the soul. It taketh away thy selfish animal life. Thou art touched by the spirit and lifted up. It is the difference between generation and regeneration.

Where you hear a noise of a babbling multitude, you can only shake your head and pass by. It would be as impossible for noisy people to radiate and to heal by the spirit as for them to fly. Silence is spirit; noise is pain!

It is quite unfortunate that some instructors in Metaphysics, Theosophy, and Spiritual development, make claim to be the chosen ones, as alone holding the key to the Spirit world. Remember, friends, the ways of the Spirit are open to every man. Neither God, Angels, or Spirit gives to any man or woman a monopoly, although many of our friends feel so. To become illuminated and enlightened, you must forget self and all men's opposition. In your focalization desire earnestly for Divine wisdom and love, and it will come to you. Everything will come to a man who in silence and patience can wait. When I told you that "everything comes to a man that in silence can wait," Itold you the truth.

Most men have inequalities of chacacter which produce discord within themselves. They thus deprive their interior and exterior of that harmony which the dominant chord of nature would bring.

Friends, begin at home and strive to understand yourselves. Permit me to endeavor to-night to introduce you to yourself. Make study of your impulses and desires. Matter transmits force, but does not originate force. It is, for a time, the recepta cle of power, but not the power of itself. Remember, All Pure Force is invisible. He who can attune his fundamental note with the Divine Harmonies has the light to understand Spirit, and the power to command the powers invisible. It is

only through your higher impulses that this great universal soul can unite with you.

Ask gently and lovingly. The secret is to ask in love and silence. This is the pathway to truth. I have told you before, in my lessons, that every individual who strives to continue these molecular vibrations, will succeed. Now, it is a higher principle of this molecular vibration that is to create round about yourself an unselfish atmosphere of vibration, for the universal good of all things.

Every magical effort stands in need of the higher octaves of vibration, through either the atmosphere of Love or of Wisdom, or else a unitation of these two impulses in their higher sense, and always keep before your mind, except you get in the right relation of kindred feeling towards your fellow man, you cannot reach the Primal Splendors of Natures Divine Harmonies. It is one of the most lamentable and unfortunate things of this civilized age, that in place of a warm loving-kindness to man, which, as a religious duty and Divine Truth, should lie at the foundation of all intercourse with our fellow-man, mistrust has become the first condition of judgement in the world at large

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"I will pour out my Spirit upon you," reads the Word. It is almost impossible to instruct a class and talk of the difference between generation and regeneration unto them. That is the whole difficulty, and it must be brought about that there are certain periods or seasons in every man woman's life when nature shows them that generation is one of God's laws. But there is a time in these lives when regeneration begins and is given to mankind for his ripening of Soul and mental illumination. "Behold the hour of your regeneration is at hand" reads the cult.

Impress upon your minds that all love and human affection comes from the celestial, where, in its purity, all

that be knowledge to you? No! Then if we cannot impart knowledge what is the use of writing and talking the things we know? To suggest thought that, if acted on in the way of experiment, will greatly facilitate experimental knowledge.

As an illustration of this fact we will take for an example, a person who has studied and thoroughly learned book-keeping at college. A business firm employs that man, he immediately finds that he really does not know how to keep books. He must learn it experimentally, ere he knows it; so, with everything; one who knows all about a thing can do no more than impart the theory.

There are many who are in search of Occult knowledge, they are reading books of every description, and some are applying the methods of drill to develope Psychical powers by a purely intellectual process. Some injure their health, others draw aronnd them "Elementaries" (souls of men and women of low, sensual order), others the "Elementals " (the basic forces of nature.) In either case it results disastrously, in that it always leads to evil doing; here many will be mystified as to how to obtain knowledge and experience. I will therefore state the conditions necessary to True attainment in a few words, the same being a summary of the previous instructions.

First, there must be a love of pure and exalted Spirituality, an earnest desire to become pure and exalted above the ordinary physical existence; there must be at least, an ideal of a Spiritual State of the purest and most exalted nature, to which you aspire. Second, there must be a willingness to sacrifice any or all things of the ordinary sphere of life, if necessary, to attain such a state.

That ideal then forms a base for action, it being the chief desire. Then, all that we read or hear is governed by its usefulness to aid us in

that attainment. When one is actuated by Love for some definite ultimate, then there will be no undue respect to persons; for the only thing you will then be looking for and desiring will be such knowledge as will aid you in that pursuit. If it is truly a pure aspiration of the higher Spiritual Self, then almost unconsciously every breath will be characterized by the soul's yearning and prayer, "Oh, for wisdom! Oh, for wisdom, that I may know the truth! Keep this ever active within you until it becomes the soul's constant desire; then, when you read books, do it as the miser performs his labor; he always has the Dollar uppermost in mind, and anything that does not bring it, he has no interest in. So should you read, and when you find the pure gold for which you ever labor, you immediately appropriate it to your own interior consciousness; for as soon as your mind takes the above attitude you will begin to recognize that within your self resides "the Spirit of truth," that is able to judge all things. Much time should be spent in contemplation, or, in other words, silent musings upon subjects relative to the object you wish to attain. It is well to have such literature at hand as you feel attracted to from an inner consciousness of its uses, and only when you feel free to do so, read, and ponder word by word. Sometimes to read a single sentence, and close the book and think it over, will prove most profitable; be led as far as reason will admit, mit,in view of the object in mind, by these inner impulses, in all such

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The questions, "What am I here for?" "What is the object of the creation of the world?" are also subjects that we should meditate on a great deal, and perhaps, after a time, you may come to the same conclusion that the writer, with many of the ancients, has ancients, has come to, namely, to