hosts, and worshipped him. And while I yet looked, there went out from the right side some who derided that man, some who smote him, but others worshipped him. And I saw at the time that these worshipped him, that Azazel ran and worshipped, and having kissed his face he turned himself and stood behind him. And I said: "Primeval One, Strong One, who is the derided and smitten man worshipped by the Gentiles, with Azazel?" And he answered and said: "Hear, Abraham, the man whom you have seen derided and smitten, and again worshipped, that is the Salvation (Pardon) from the heathen to the people which is to come of thee, in the last days, the twelfth hour of the son of wickedness. But in the twelfth of my year æon of the last days. I will raise up this man which you saw from your seed, out of my people, and him shall all follow, and they shall be added as they are called of me, and as they change in their decisions (repent). And those whom you saw going out of the left side of the picture, having worshipped him, are these: Many from the Gentiles shall rely upon him; and others which you saw, from your seed on the right side, some deriding and smiting him, others worshipping him, many of them shall be offended in him. But he shall put to the test, in the twelfth hour of the end, those of your seed who have worshipped him; but in that hour of the end, there will be a shortening of the æon, because of wickedness. Before the son of the righteous commences to grow, my judgment cometh over the dissolute Gentiles, through the people of your seed, separated for me, In those days I shall bring ten plagues over all creatures of the earth, through evil, and sickness (tribulation), and the sighs and the sorrows of their souls. Even these I bring over the generations of men which are upon the earth, because of the anger and vileness of their natures, wherewith they anger me. And then there will be righteous men left out of your seed, a select number, hastening, in the glory of my name, to the place which has before been prepared for them, and which you saw desolate in the picture; and they will be planted there, to dwell, through sacrifice and gifts of righteousness and truth, in the won of the righteous, and in my name they shall rejoice ever-more; they shall destroy those who destroyed, and shall deride those who derided them; and those who abuse them will be spit upon and defamed before me, while they shall look upon me with gladness, rejoicing with my people,

and receiving those who turn to me in repentance. Behold, Abraham, how much you have seen, and hearken to what you have heard, and know what has been taught to you. Go, labor with my inheritance, and I am with you forever."

XXX.

While he was still speaking I found myself on the earth. And I said: "Primeval One, Strong One, so soon am I bereft of the glory in which I was above, and my soul longs to know so much in my heart,-so much that I have not learned." And He said to me: "That longing of your heart I will tell to you: you have sought to see the ten plagues which I have prepared for the Gentiles and which I had before prepared at the passing of the twelfth hour upon the earth. Hear, as all I shall make known unto you, so shall it be: the first calamity shall be great need; the second, conflagration of cities; the third, destruction, pestilence of animals; the fourth, hunger over the whole world of its species; the fifth, destruction among its rulers, earthquakes and destruction by the sword: the sixth, the multiplying of hail and snow; the seventh, wild animals shall be its grave; the eighth, hunger and pestilence will bring about its downfall; the ninth, punishment by the sword and flight in sorrow; the tenth, an uproar of voices and destroying earthquakes."

XXXI.

"Then shall I blow my trumpet from on high and send my Chosen One who has a fullness of all my power, and he shall call together my despised people from the nations, and I shall burn with fire those who have derided them and who have domineered over them in this æon. And I shall make those who have covered me with derision, also a derision in the coming æon, for I have prepared them as food for the fire of Hades, and for unceasing flitting about in the sphere of the Under-World, beneath the earth, their bodies filled with worms. For those of them who have chosen my will, shall behold the righteousness of the Creator, and those who have openly kept my commandments shall rejoice with great rejoicing over the destruction of those men who have abandoned me and followed idols and committed deeds of murder. And corruption shall overtake them in the body of the Evil Worm, Azazel, by the fire of whose tongue they shall be burned: for while I waited

for them to come to me, they loved and praised the stranger, and followed him with whom they were told to have no part, but the Mighty Lord they have deserted."

XXXII.

"Therefore, hear, Abraham, and see, behold your seventh generation shall go with you, and they shall go into a strange land, and be made servants unto those who shall do evil unto them, as one hour of the æons of godlessness; but of the nation by whom they are made servants, shall I be the judge."

THE MYSTIC CHAIN.

There is a mystic force running through and governing all nature,—— matter, mind and spirit; like a golden chain it links all things together, and through man it passes to Divinity. This force governs every func tion, faculty, attribute of man's existence; therefore when he learns to govern completely his own nature and body, he is well on the road toward being able to send out his mandates for the control of all things.[ED.

Here then we rest; "The Universal Cause
Acts to one end, but acts by various laws."
In all the madness of superfluous health,
The trim of pride, the impudence of wealth,
Let this great truth be present night and day;
But most be present, if we preach or pray.

Look round our world: behold the chain of love
Combining all below and all above.

See plastic Nature working to this end,
The single atoms each to other tend,
Attract, attracted to, the next in place

Formed and impelled its neighbor to embrace,
See matter next, with various life endued,
Press to one center still, the gen'ral good.
See dying vegetables life sustain.

See life dissolving vegetate again:

All forms that perish other forms supply,
(By turns we catch the vital breath and die.)
Like bubbles on the sea of matter born,
They rise, they break, and to that sea return,
Nothing is foreign: parts relate to whole;
One all-extending, all-preserving soul
Connects each being, greatest with the least;
Made beast in aid of man, and man of beast;
All served, all serving; nothing stands alone;
The chain holds on, and where it ends, unknown.
ALEXANDER POPE.

HOW SHOULD WE LOVE OURSELVES?

We are told to love God with all our heart, with all our mind, and with all our strength, and our neighbor as ourselves. In what measure, then, and how should we love ourselves? We love God in proportion to our understanding of his attri butes and laws. The savage is conscious of him in the material realm only, as in the forces of nature,--the lightning, the wind, the rain, and the sunshine. As man rises in the scale of evolution, he recognizes higher attributes, and his soul reaches out to and loves them. Why does he see these higher qualities? God never changes-he is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever. It must be, then, that man, by incorporating these higher qualities within himself, forms an ideal of the ultimate toward which he is growing, and thus clothes his God in his own being; for it is evident that we cannot comprehend that of which we have no conception, and we cannot conceive of anything that does not exist in ourselves. Man is the epitome of the universe, but only to the extent that he is conscious of it can he manifest it in the external life.

It is accepted that the soul is the result of our experiences, as beat is the soul of the fire, resultant from the combustion of its component elements. This we recognize as our individuality, ourselves. We love this in proportion to our realization of ability. The man who does not recognize his ability, does not trust himself: he is filled with defined and undefined fears. He lives from the opinions of others; he is fenced in by superimposed ideas and prejudices-he lacks individuality. He worships his terrible God through fear born of ignorance, and his life is characterized by a lack of love; he spends his days a stunted creature of circumstance. But the man who recognizes in himself abilities and powers, is able to lay hold upon the law of life, and, with every step, adds to the circle of his being higher truth. And as the horizon of his own being widens, he is drawn closer and closer to the Author of that being by a love which

an ever clearer perception of the divine attributes kindles to renewed ardors. Let us then pray to be shown the power that resides in us, that we may stand forth as sons of God, joint heirs with Christ; for not until we have this understanding, can we claim a oneness with God.

THE MOUNTAIN-TOPS ARE GLEAMING.

MRS. GEO. B. HUDSON.

Peace that passeth understanding
Fill the chambers of our breast;

He that giveth songs at night timə
Maketh all our work a rest.

Joys supernal we discover
As we journey toward the goal
Of the life that hath no ending,
Toward the true home of the soul.

Red sea crossed and upward tending
Toward the life that is to be;

Old gray earth and Heaven are blending--
Truth indeed shall make us free.

Onward, onward, ever onward,
Till all sin and death are passed;
Prodigals are turning homeward
To the Father's house at last.

Vices are distorted virtues, virtues inverted through misdi. rected force.

They are an evidence of power rather than of weakness, like fire that has broken from its barriers and consumes rather than

warms.

We should not deal with vice as weakness, but should teach the vicious to recognize and wisely apply the energy that has been scattered.

When weeds are brought under cultivation they often be come our favorite garden flowers.-CHARLES B. NEWCOMB.