him; and these, in obedience to the leadings of his Spirit, will be gathered together in one place upon earth. The business of their lives will be to serve God and to keep his commandments; and when they have established everything around them in holiness to Yahveh, they will experience the power of his mind and will, through which they will have dominion “over the fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." This will constitute God's kingdom on earth.

Such are the objects and methods of the Esoteric Fraternity, and only those who have established these conditions within themselves should think of uniting with the Fraternity-only those, at least, who are making the effort to establish those perfect conditions, and who are determined that nothing great or small shall defeat their purpose.

ANOTHER'S VIEW.

RY MARTHA SHEPARD LIPPINCOTT.

Would we could see another's soul
As we can see our own!

'Twould save us many sad mistakes,
Were such a power known.

How often we misjudge some one,

Because we cannot see

Their hearts; but as we feel our own.

We think so theirs must be.

Could we but step right in their place
And feel as they would feel,
Our sympathy would be aroused,
Their souls would seem more real;
We then would less misunderstand,
And others' hearts we'd know-
A sympathetic cord would bind,
And others' feelings show.

The man who is pure in heart, whose sole desire is to understand the Father's will, is rich indeed: he will be blessed not only with the riches of earth, but with the eternal glories of the kingdom of heaven.

AN ESOTERIC VIEW OF GOLD AND SILVER.

By analysis it has been proved that in Gold may be found the potentialities of all the other metals, which by an orderly process of natural law, makes it the acme of mineral production, or the acme of all that had gone before it in the effort to manifest visibly upon this Planet.

Through a recognition of the same law of fulfillment, we may see vegetation perfecting itself in its various species. Among the feathered tribes the Eagle stands out as King of Birds, a symbol of Freedom, Unity and Universality. When we come to the animal kingdom we recognize in the Lion an acknowledged type and perfection as King of Beasts, a creature representing the fulfillment of all that had previously taken place in Evolution.

When we come to Man, we comprehend the perfection of Divine Ordinance in manifestation, Involution becoming evolved by which a being both Natural and Divine, made in the image of God, conscious of his powers, having and holding the potentialities of all things both animal and natural, visible and invisible, human and Divine-a universe within himself; Nature's crown. Yet upon the physical plane of his expression depending upon something outside of himself for life, and the power to sustain that life.

Now where and in what shall we find this something not contained in man at his present ratio of development?

Leaving our planet Earth, and reaching into space for more knowledge of this great law, we find the Sun representing the center of our Solar system, the generator, or father of all physical energy-and by spectrum analysis demonstrating that it contains the potentialities of all substances, man included. The Sun has not only the power to sustain itself, but also the power to give and sustain the life upon this planet, and it is reasonable to presume that it sustains the life of the whole Solar system, of which we are a part. There is only one condition back of Sun as far as we know, and that is the power and potentiality of the Sun of Suns, the God and Giver of all. So far we

have marked five culminating points of growth, each one demonstrating something more than all the rest.

In Gold, then, we see the possibilities of the Lion and the Eagle: in the Lion and the Eagle the possibilities of the Man; in the Man the possibilities to give or sustain life as well as receive it, to become a Sun of God; and in the glorious Sun, the central unit, the grandeur of perfected Oneness. No wonder, then that the Sun from all time, through all ages has been considered the symbol of Light, Life, Spirit and Divinity: the Osiris of the Egyptians; the Chrishna of the Hindoos and Ormadtz of the Persians.

In the Solar system it is the prime standard of all things, from it and by it all things are known and measured. In symbol it is the positive, electric, masculine creative force of wisdom and understanding, of Omnipotence and Omniscience. Symbolism is the form which Man has used to express some principle which he has found existing within himself, in Nature around him, or in the Universe.

Symbols are the manifested conscious expression of a Universal Law, made visible in form by Man, for Man's convenience, concentration, concealment, perpetuation and use. The Pyramid of Egypt, for instance, is a colossal symbol or monument to the Sun and the Sun of Suns, and stands out from the dead Past in its awful silence and perfected architecture, the standard of all knowledge and a way to all wisdom.

The base of the Pyramid is a perfect square. Upon that square we mark our five points already referred to. Gold representing the angle for latent qualities held in Earth; the Lion, that angle from whence springs the fire and creative elements of love and life; the Eagle, the angle of freedom of choice, generation and regeneration, water (In ancient charts this angle was always marked by an Eagle's head-later it became the Scorpion.); Man, the angle, or angel "made in the image of God," spirit, air, from whence come the symbols of the four great elements of natural forces, earth, fire, water and air, and the four prime gases, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and carbonic acid.

Rising from this centered base are four perfect trines, culminating in our fifth point the central fire, where we must locate the bountiful Sun.

The apex of the Pyramid was crowned with a stone, unlike

any that had been previously used, and we are told that it was a puzzle and vexation to the builders of that marvelous Mount. It had five sides and five corners, or sixteen angles, and when placed on any of its flat surfaces, there remained always one angle pointing upwards. That this stone was intended as a symbol of the Sun of Suns or Deity, we have but to refer to the consonant letters and their numerical values of the Hebrew sacred name, which equals sixteen angles. The square of the base measures 90 degrees from angle to angle, the sum of which multiplied by four-because of its four sides, gives us the sum of our standard measurement for space and time, the circle of 360 degrees.

From this it is not difficult to see how we have circled our square and squared our circle. Purely an esoteric symbol.

Again, from this square and circle crossed at the angles of 90 degrees, and 45 degrees, we get the double cross, symbol of manifestation and the symbols of the circle, square, triangle and cross give us the basic principles of a standard wisdom, the knowledge of which heips Man, as no other can, to unfold the mysteries involved in this mighty structure, the Pyramid. The word itself signifies Mount of Fire, and in the element of fire we recognize the essence of all life force, the Sun of Suns. It was this essence that the fire worshippers reverenced and preserved in their forms of worship. It is this Mount, this Pyramid that stands today, ready to reveal to us, and prove to us out of the depths of its secret, silent chambers, the wonders of a Universal Law, that it may be applied to science, religion, mathematics, geometry and the progressive status of Man. When Man is old enough, wise and pure enough to understand and rightly use the precious gems of wisdom held in these saered chambers, they will be revealed to him.

The plan or construction of the Pyramid is based upon the apparent and actual motion of the Sun, together with the united revolutions or orbits of the Moon or Earth, and all the planets including the precession of the Equinoxes, every known cube, every known angle, the original forms of all letters and numbers, every known principle being herein contained, and capable of demonstration.

It is a wonderful fact to consider right here that particles of earth are cubical and particles of fire pyramidal. That the trine is the symbol of spirit, while the square is the symbol of manifestation.

Out from the angles of this square, the base of the Pyramid, are born the four original signs, spoken of in Genesis, which with their principles involved were to be "signs for the seasons, days and years," which were to preserve for successive ages this wondrous knowledge.

The stars of the constellations, Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius, as they were then posited in relation to our earth geographically and the equinoxes, occupy the four corners of our square, and through their esoteric meanings become landmarks and beacons of Light to the earnest aspirant, who on hands and knees is willing to seek in the “rubbish of the temple" for the Truth. Taurus. Leo, Scorpio or the Eagle, and Aquarius, regenerated Man, are spoken of in the Apocalypse as the "four Cherubim” and we are told that “R. A. the Sun God dwelleth Between these Cherubim" and thus marks the central point of our square, or the apex of our Pyramid. The science of Astrology, otherwise the Astro-logos, word or wisdom of the stars, is a science that can show forth this Truth in its entirety, and there is good reason why it should have been termed throughout all ages, The Divine Science; for an esoteric comprehension of the Pyramid and the twelve signs of the Zodiac, with the seven planets of our Solar system will show the basic principles of every religion that was ever known upon this planet. It is the only science that can demonstrate the relationship of religion and science, and harmonize science with religion. It is the only science that preserves our standard and holds the potentialities of all the other sciences, and thus it becomes, with the Pyramid of Egypt, a perfect living structure, capable of giving to us the Old Light joined with the New.

Astronomically the Sun is the center around which all else gravitates in this Solar system. At noon of each day observations are taken at a prime meridian that determine the position of the earth and all the planets in their relations to each other, the rising of the Sun, the noon hour and the setting thereof; the exactness of the day and night, summer and winter; the ebb and flow of tides; phases of the moon; periods of time and space that enter largely into our daily lives, although no thought is given to them by the world at large, who accept these things as a matter of course, because they are regulated for them without trouble. The Metonic cycle, for instance, is a period of time from which the Golden Number for every year is taken;