individual, demonstrates esoterically a concentration of force, typical of Divine possibilities, equalization, perfect balance, equanimity and power; such was the example of Jesus, and Mary the Virgin, the type of perfect womanhood, Ideal Motherhood. There are many individuals as well as nations that are trying to equalize this force upon our planet at the present time. Expression of this shows in our homes, our communities, and our present struggle over the currency question of our nation today, a question that has turned the eyes and interests of all nations of the Globe upon us, forcing the American people to assume not only a standard of barter and exchange, but a mightier moral standard of action, of one force positive in its nature and holding the power, and the other force negative in the danger of its oppression, demanding equal rights, demanding a more righteous code of civilization.

Gold is the standard for all exchange: Silver is the moral of that exchange. Gold is the means by which all exchange is made; Silver is the principle which keeps the standard of that exchange pure and undefiled. Gold is the symbol of the rich, the powerful; Silver is the symbol of the people. The most perfect Government will be maintained where both metals are used harmoniously with a correct knowledge of their intrinsic values. The pendulum has been swinging from one extreme to the other extreme during the last nineteen years of the Cycle of the Sun, seeking a means of equilibrium and ultimate balance. Expression is also seen in this great problem by the effort on the part of Woman, representing in symbol the negative of the microcosm, assuming her place and equality with man, the positive order of humanity. Just so far as Man becomes negative and Woman becomes positive until that central point of unity is reached and a perfect equipoise established, just so far will humanity have gained an Universal harmony, which will restore in time the equilibrium of Natural and Divine force, and bring Man back to his original standard; an Image and a Son of God.

As the Sun and Gold are symbols of the positive force, so the Moon and Silver become the symbols of the negative Principle. The Moon showing the power of possibilities, the deepened shadows of her passivity revealing with greater clearness the life energy given by the Sun.

The Moon is negative and feminine, magnetic and receptive;

she is the mirror of wisdom and perceives understanding, the Mother of all Nature and Natural resources.

As the Sun is the symbol of Plutocracy, the Moon is the symbol of the People; as the Sun generates fire, heat and electricity, so the Moon acts and re-acts upon the waters of our earth, producing cold and all magnetic receptive conditions. It is well known that water is Electricity's best conductor, and the great generating medium of Nature's forces, no life being possible without moisture.

The Moon by her magnetic, conserving powers, rapid motion, and generating possibilities, is the conductor of all the various diversities of expression in Mother Earth and Man. The Ancients were in possession of so much knowledge concerning the Moon's influence that they gave to her the most honored titles. She was Isis, Omnia of Egypt, as the Sun was Osiris. She was the Indian Isa and the Grecian Ceres; she represented to them in her various phases the symbol of all the forces expressing in nature and in the human race. As the Sun was to them the symbol of spirit, so the Moon was to them the symbol of soul. She was, therefore, called "Isis," or "Is-is," which means Being, Existence, and to unveil “Isis," means the revelation of all the natural forces as they unfold into the Divine, hence the mysteries of manifestation and soul development. The Moon was Diana, Minerva, Proserpine, she was Mother, Mere, Hua. She was Gen-isis, and the second chapter of the Old Testament reveals the process of creation and generation, disclosing the germs of birth, life, death or sleep. As the Moon controls the great waters of our globe-and the fact is brought to our minds that our bodies are five-sevenths liquid, may be better understood how and why these bodies are so susceptible to the changes of weather and still more to the subtle planetary influences permeating our atmosphere.

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Astrologically the Sun and Moon govern the fluids of the body; the Sun the red corpuscles of the blood, the positive vital energy; the Moon the white corpuscles, the negative, sympathetic fluids, both of which unite to form the complete life

currents.

According to science, every atom in one's body is in direct sympathy by the Law of Attraction with every atom of the Universe. Links in the chain pass down the ages through these wonderful symbols. The moral of all this tumult upon

our planet at this present cycle of change is, that the soul of humanity, represented symbolically by the Moon and Silver, and the negative principle Woman, is striving to meet the Spirit of God, represented by the symbol of Gold, the Sun and the positive principle Man, in order that an equilibrium may be established, an Universal Brotherhood and Love may come upon our race, and that the American people, under their Golden Eagle, symbol of regeneration and spiritual activity, shall ultimately become the central point of Unity, Peace and Power.-GERTRUDE DE BIELSKI in The Hermetist.

INVOCATION.

LYMAN W. DENTON, M. D.

O Thou eternal One, the only Good,
Spirit invisible, almighty Power,

To Thee we bow our hearts one thoughtful hour,
As we have often in thy presence stood

In humble attitude of prayer with feet unshod.

"Tis thus the highest thought, with deepest awe
Uplifts the soul above earth's sordid care,
And leads the humble contrite one to where

He feels and knows there is a God of law,
With might to rule the universe without a flaw.

And still a hand so tender, true and kind,
With touch that thrills and fills with confidence,
We feel to firmly grasp our own; and hence,

That awe is overlaid with love; we find

In spite of awe Thy wondrous peace fills all the mind;
And from the heart leaps forth the joyful cry

"Abba, Father! Thou art now our own!

In heaven, on earth, Thou art not far and lone,
But near and dear throughout eternity

To all Thy little ones- —whoe'er, where'er, close by."

Then unto Thee! yes, unto Thee, we pray,
Our hearts to full incline unto the right;
Through all earth-darkness be our light,

A lamp unto our path, unto our feet a stay;

With Thy approving smile illume our upward way.
-The Light Bearer.

A PARALLEL.

As we, in our present state of unfoldment, are not able to deal directly with principles on account of their being in the causative state, beyond the cognition of the physical senses, but have to observe them by their effects, it becomes necessary for us, in order to study any given principle, to search out an object in the material world, which, in the phenomena of its movements, gives physical expression to the various phases of that principle, and by this means we deduce the law. It would not be possible thus to trace the cause in the effect were it not for the fact that, according to the mystics, "as above, so below," and "as below, so above," which is to say that the laws governing the higher realms of nature and of life are identical with those governing the lower; and that analogous phenomena do not proceed from parallel laws, but from the same laws dealing with different substances in different states or conditions and under different circumstances.

In order to make a practical application of this statement, that its truth may be verified and its utility discerned, I have chosen an object in the "below," which I shall describe and endeavor to show that the laws governing the selection of its elements, their combination, and the subsequent effects, together with the difficulties arising in the nature of the elements and the character of their environment, are identical with those governing the highest manifestation of life that we are capable of knowing,-the Christ life.

The object selected is the electric battery, composed (as we are aware) of a glass jar filled with acidulated water, in which is placed a zinc casting at the top and a copper plate at the bottom, the two being connected by a copper wire covered with gutta-percha and extending above the surface of the liquid. Its action is as follows: as soon as the connection is made between the copper and zinc, the acid in the water attacks the

zinc and consumes it, more properly, "burns" its particles, thereby releasing their energy, which, in the form of the elec tric current, passes through the water to the copper plate, thence through the wire to the zinc, thus producing a continuous circuit, as may be proven by placing an ordinary pocket compass under the wire extending above the liquid, when the needle will be deflected from its position north and south and tend to set itself at right angles to the wire, which it will not do unless a current is passing.

Between the parts of the apparatus just described and the elements that go to make up the Christ life we may trace the following correspondence: the negative pole, the attractive force (copper plate), answers to the truth; the zinc (that which contains the energies) to the physical body; the acid corresponds to the desires, which act upon the physical body and set free the energies; and the water to the attention, which acts both as a polarizer of the energies and also as a conductor. The jarwhose function it is to contain the other elements, preserve their proper relations to each other, and to isolate them from everything else-takes the place of the concentration, which likewise holds the attention (water) and the desires (acid) in their proper spheres, maintains the correct relations between the other elements, and isolates, or insulates the whole from all else. These elements, when wisely placed unite in forming a battery of great power, capable of doing much good work in the world.

The action of this battery and the causes which bring it into existence may be thus described: when an individual has reached a point in his evolutionary unfoldment where his perceptives are sufficiently refined to enable him to discriminate between good and evil in the broader sense of the terms, he begins to be attracted to those thoughts which, when expressed in acts, result in permanent good. Such thoughts are truths, and are referred to in a general way as "the truth." These true thoughts, then, become the negative pole, the attractive force, that incite the individual to action. When his attention becomes fixed of such, the desire arises to know it, to express it, one upon to experience it. The attention traverses its various branches, perceives its phases, discriminates as to the means to be em