Few Americans of the present day have the slightest idea of how fortunate they are in that they are living in the greatest, freest nation that ever existed, despite its many shortcomings. Neither are they aware that America, "the land overshadowed with wings," is at the crossroads, one leading to greater freedom, both individual and universal, and the other to the most abject and degrading serfdom, as a result of failing to accept full responsibility for the management of their personal and Governmental affairs so that these may harmonize with the ancient prophesies.

A still lessor number are aware that the history of America, from its very beginning, to the end of its days, whether for good or ill, is told in its Seal; while only the very few know that their own destiny is irrevocably interwoven with the destiny of America; America, the last trying chamber for human Souls, and that when this trial is over, either heaven or hell will reign supreme. Few care because they selfishly think only of themselves; they forget the future welfare of their sons and daughters.

An old saying has it that "familiarity breed contempt." As a corollary to this, there should be another maxim: "We are blind to that which we see too frequently." Most Americans, even though the spirit of America dwells within them, are actually only dimly aware that the great Seal of the first actually free country in the world shows an eagle, a constellation of stars, an olive branch, and a set of thirteen arrows. This is the seal we all know. Symbolically, the eagle "overshadows" the land by its protective wings, but only as long as man proves worthy of such overshadowing or protection. Man has the power to destroy the "Eagle" that overshadows or protects him.

The constellation of stars indicates that the founders of America accepted the absolute law that has governed the "drama of heaven" since the beginning of the world and must be accepted and obeyed in this new world. The olive branch is the symbol of peace and friendship held out to all who are willing to forget and completely root out from their consciousness, the degeneration of old worlds and elect to live in the spirit of the new world.

The thirteen arrows are symbolic of the wars which are part of The drama in the heavens, and the wars that must be waged against all evils, as well as the evil individuals, if man's freedom is to be maintained. It is each and every citizen's personal responsibility to eternally fight against these individual and universal evils. (1)
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(1) For the symbolism of the ages see The Mysteries of Osiris; Ancient Egyptian Initiation. Philosophical Publishing Company, Quakertown, Penna.
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There is the prophetic reverse side of the seal; uncut, because the time is not ready for the prophetic fulfillment, which was known to few others than the Philosophic Initiates, prior to its profane and premature use on the American one-dollar certificate.

Several attempts have been made to cut this reverse side of the seal, but in each instance, an invisible hand or force, restrained the effort. At the time of the Chicago World's Fair, this reverse side was ordered cut together with the familiar obverse side as an object of display, but those in charge, wholly ignorant of its meaning, and (also ignorant) of the spirit of America, questioned: "What a peculiar design! Why are we given this inartistic design?" And this White Stone, symbolic of the nation's destiny, as of the nation's true Souls, was once again rejected.

The Soul of America is betrayed and is in travail. Foreign inimical hordes are given almost unrestrained access into the country without a thought as to whether or not they are ready to throw off the gross, degrading, destructive evils of the old world and invest themselves with the spirit of the new, with a whole-hearted willingness to obey America's fundamental laws.

Nor is that all! They are given high places; usurping the rights and privileges of those more capable, born Americans wholly imbued with the true American spirit.

This helps bring about the gradual degradation of all that is Truly American; so much so that the "eagle whose wings overshadow America," is Gradually Folding Her Wings and Withdrawing Heaven's protection. The time has come when a full knowledge of the two-fold seal and all it stands for shall be made known to the people, so they may accept and be protected (saved); or ignore and be damned (swept into the sea of oblivion) - as have been other nations before America - because they permitted foreign invasion and the adoption of destructive ideas to take the place of the constructive ideas which had made them great.

America must awaken! She must be awakened by one means or another. Her own safety and the welfare of her own people must be protected against all foreign spawned ideologies born as the result of selfishness and defiance of God Himself and all His Laws; Laws which, throughout the eons, have preserved the world and the Drama of Heaven, though the peoples of nations unnumbered have perished as a result of their own disobedience and degradation.

America, its people individually and collectively, must become valiant and now henceforth stand before the world as exemplars. They must be leaders and promulgators of a new and equitable system of ethics, religions inculcations based on sound material and spiritual truths, and a citizenship that is honorable and noble; a justice and generosity to their nations that is unquestioned (but without the weakness of cowardly compromise lacking all honor and fairness to her own people), and emphasize the possibility of brotherhood based on individuality, personal freedom and obedience to laws that apply universally.

To digress, but vital to our thesis: late in the afternoon of July 14, 1776, the New Continental Congress " Resolved, that Dr. Franklin, Mr. J. Adams and Mr. Jefferson, be a committee to prepare a device for a Seal of the United States of America."

The committee was identical with the one that had drawn up the Declaration of Independence, except for the omission of Robert Livingston and Roger Sherman. The Declaration itself had been signed about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and Congress desired to at once complete the evidence of the independence of the United States and its people, by formally adopting an official sign of sovereignty and National Coat of Arms.

The coat of arms of England, the mother country, illustrated the union of Judah's lion, with the unicorn of "Lost Israel" (2) in accordance with the science governing Heraldry. The young republic, born out of the throes of religious persecution more than as a result of the sufferings of unjust taxation, was through, finished, with thrones and crowns. It was ready to blaze a new path, under the shadow of the eagle's wings, through the forest of the new world in the cause of liberty, which should express her descent from the spirit of the Christian peoples of all nations and open a door for all who sought help and shelter upon her shores.
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(2) This has no reference whatever to the Jewish people either in part or whole.
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In early colonial days, a knowledge of Heraldry was considered an important part of education, just as throughout the ages, it was necessary to have an understanding of symbolism which indicated a knowledge of the governing Law of the Universe and the Drama of the ages and their effect on humanity, individually and collectively. It was through William Barton, son of the rector of St. James Episcopal church of Philadelphia, learned in Heraldry, and Baron Prestwich, of England, that the designs expressive of America's destiny were developed and drawn.

The two sides of America's seal express in Heraldry the countless ages of the evolution of man. This evolution had its beginning even before the time of the so-called or misinterpreted "fall" of man. The seal symbolizes man's progress in Egypt (eagleland - America's actual fatherland) where, for a time, a wondrous race incarnated to build an unexplainable and inconceivable monument as a symbol of, and memorial to, the knowledge imparted to her by the more Ancient Atlantis.

The ancient memorial or altar, the Great Pyramid, unites in a blaze of glory with the later building of King Solomon's temple, as a prophecy of the coming of a master-teacher, the Nazarene. He should be trained, taught and initiated in the "eagleland" and bring into manifestation the human-spiritual temple, perfecting the son of man into the Son of the God, as a fulfillment of ancient prophecy; that in this same Egypt, there should remain an altar where Light should shine in the land of darkness. Another prophecy by Isaiah, in symbolism, connected the land of Egypt (eagleland) with the land overshadowed by the wings of the Eagle" (America), where there is an altar (statue of Liberty) upon which is burning the light of freedom for all who accept the law and are worthy of their freedom.

"In that day [during the life of the Nazarene] there shalt be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord. And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord." __Isaiah 19:19,20,

This great Pyramid, an altar at the center of the earth (symbolic of man's spiritual or Soul center), recognized as a temple of the highest initiation, was emblematic of the perfect man; four-square, of body, mind, spirit and Soul Its white copestone symbolizes the attainment of Immortality or Cosmic Consciousness. It represents the measure of the earth as well as that of the Universe, as also the evolution of physical man through those countless ages of reincarnation now drawing to a restricted time.

"The last Cumæn Song now comes," wrote Virgil and prophesied that a race should arise which would be the offspring of all races, except those who isolated themselves, and bring about the end of the ages of iron (war); ushering in the Golden Age; an age of honor, personal responsibility, and obedience to the Divine Law.

It was therefore fitting that the mottoes upon the reverse side of our seal, above and below the pyramid, should be taken from Virgil, Annuit Coeptis - "Prosper us in our daring," and Novus Ordo Seclorum - "a new and select order." It is well to constantly keep in mind the term Select, because it is only the obedient, hence the "select" that may, or can, reap the benefit of the Reacting Law.

In this immortal concept the day of freedom dawned upon earth and with it, misconception. Few, indeed, recognized that only those are worthy of freedom who hold freedom so dear that they are willing to fight for and give their life for it in order to preserve it. In this spirit, a poet of the American Republic wrote: "And the infinite cycle of ancient Atlantis was (has) begun anew."

In Central America there yet stands a companion pyramid, "key" to the connection of Atlantis, Egypt (eagleland) and America (land of the Eagle), hence Arcane and the Magian knowledge of the past.

The source of the mystical teachings of the New testament could offer no other interpretation of the symbolism of the young republic, than the ancient pyramid, its copestone and glory, significant of the descent of the New Jerusalem, for the one side; and the eagle, and the ever-repeating thirteen of Manasseh, thirteenth (lost, "torn away") tribe of Israel, and the son of Joseph "the Britons," who was separated from his brethren in Egypt, in the "parting asunder" of northern Israel from southern Judah, never again to become part of Judah, and the first to cross Europe in the search of the legendary "isles afar off," to re-establish the ancient Gentile throne of "Israel" at Tava in Ireland.

The hitherto rejected reverse side of our great seal is now in full view of these United States. It is to remind the people that from the beginning they were called to a Great Work, as offspring of a mighty Manasseh, whose history began in Genesis and will culminate in America, and by whose stripes the world must be "healed," and will be "healed," despite the many and inglorious betrayals of those who have set themselves up as the leaders of our/the peculiar people of the Eagle.

The legend tells us that Joseph, betrayed as we have often been, and cast off by his own people, married the daughter of the Priest of the temple of On, in Egypt. Today, as an eternal symbol until the time of the placing of the copestone upon the pyramid, one pillar of that ancient Temple stands in London, while its mate stands in New York. These are vivid, and should be constant reminders to us, of our unbreakable connections with ancient Egypt, and with Europe, and our father Joseph, as an Anglo-Saxon culmination. As a result of this union, and between these two pillars, must al the world - in Biblical language - pass into Ephraim or Shiloh.

Professor Tuttton, an eminent symbologist, understood these ancient mysteries fully and indicated this in his statement: "The whole Bible is written in the stars; both the Law and the Gospel, while esoterically the entire story of man is set forth upon the sea of Manasseh. The obverse side is Israel (3) under the New Covenant, as the hope and outcome (victory) of Christianity. The two sides reflect each other and cannot be separated."
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There is a possibility of England's betrayal and by forces within, in which event, America would be compelled to stand alone. This possibility, aye, probability, was clearly indicated in the poem ascribed to Merlin, King Arthur's Court, on the constellation of the thirteen stars:

"When the cock (France) shall woo the Dove (America)
mother and child shall cease to love (Rebellion of her colonies)
When the cock (France) shall guard (France's aid) the eagle's nest
The Stars (our constellation of 13) shall rise in the West
Then seven and sex shall make but one (E Pluribus Unum)
The Lion's might shall be undone."

This prophecy has been rapidly coming to pass since the second world war. The English, the Anglo-Saxons, have permitted enemies within her borders, many of her own race, to gain control of her finances and institutions and replace what might be correctly termed Druidic Christianity by a Godless atheism. Unless the English wake up, the "lion's might" will certainly be undone, and the old saying: "There always will be an England," will be proven unfounded.

The stars upon our seal are set in the form of a six-pointed star or the double triangle, symbolic of the perfectly balanced man. After the downfall of Egypt, this was called Solomon's seal; but ages before that it had its place in the temples of the Greater Mysteries, indicating that the physical man and the spiritual man had attained equilibrium, and that the "son of man had indeed become the Son of God."

At each point of the star was placed the symbol of an Order which symbolized Arcane wisdom, and because of the presence upon the altar within, no man might enter into the Holy of Holies, or innermost chamber, with safety to himself, save he who had attained to Philosophic Initiation.

The special or spiritual symbol of America, aside from the pyramid and eagle, is the white rose, identical on its meaning to the white stone of legend and primitive Masonry. The constellation of thirteen stars was in early drawings set in a wreath of white roses, showing that the early designers were fully aware of future American individual spiritual development.

The design is now drawn in white clouds, showing that this spiritual nature of America is beclouded, or under a cloud, for the moment. These clouds or shadows, symbolizing the confusion of the present era, will gradually be replaced by bright sunshine; symbol of Light; enlightenment, clear perception and understanding.

Solomon's Temple was the design of the perfect man. Perfection is the ultimate of every man, unless he chooses ignoble defeat. The Bible, like the Arcane teachings of the Greater Mysteries, tells us of the three-cornered copestone which was prepared to finish the pyramid and the temple, but was rejected, and later became the headstone of the corner. Genesis tells us on one Joseph, the keeper of the "stone of Israel."

It was because of the Mafian or Holy Grail teachings that the Britons crossed Europe to Ansareth, Land of Betrothal (Esdras 13-11) in search of a land where they might keep God's worship pure and undefiled. Hence, through Joseph, who was separated (cast out, sold) by his brethren, we inherited the White stone of all Israel; the copestone of the pyramid, and of Solomon's temple, that rock upon which the Initiate Nazarene reminded Peter he should build God's church; the rock or foundation of spiritual unfoldment within each individual, and against which in the ultimate, the gates of hell should not prevail. What this true church really is, is made plain in:

"My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ [the Christos] be formed [awakened] in you." __Gal. 4:19

The one single word offers us the key to the entire mystery of "the Church" and of man's ultimate goal. "To travail" is to suffer in giving birth. This birth is "in" or within us. It is the "unless ye are born of the spirit as ye have been of your mother's womb," you shall in no wise be able to enter the "kingdom of heaven" of Biblical and mystical lore.

This being the Law which governs the universe as it governs the Drama of Heaven, it was in keeping that an Englishman, a Master of Heraldry, should give to the young republic, during its struggle to separate from the mother country, as does the child from its mortal mother, the design for not only the "work" of the true Christic or Christos church, but also the design for the Great Seal which would express the whole future of the new country's work as a world leader and exponent of the teachings of the new church and of the Holy Grail.

The All Seeing Eye looking down upon the ancient pyramid symbolizes America, the Eaglet of "eagleland," and all she is to mean to the world, if she does not permit herself to be betrayed by the degrading and destructive ideologies of decadent European and Asiatic countries and utterly selfish traitorous leadership in our own country. This emblem, the eye, is as ancient as man's appearance upon the earth, being found upon the Egyptian, Greek and Chaldean monuments, while the Arabians looked upon it and named it the "Highest and Holiest ‘name' of God," and with hushed voices, whispered: ‘I am that I am."

The triangle about the eye stood, from the most ancient days, as the emblem of the Trinity: Osiris, Isis and Horus, progenitors of humanity; Father Mother (Holy Ghost) and Don. It is the seal of the eternal Law of The Three; of the Universe and the watchful guide to those who awaken and walk in the Light:

"I will instruct thee and teach thee in the Way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye."
__Psalms 32:8

The legend symbolized by the pyramid is esoteric, given in numbers, measures and weights. In these may be read the history of ages already completed, and the prophecy of those yet to come. Throughout all past ages, each with its leader, runs the legend of the "stone Kingdom cut out without hands," the inner kingdom of heaven. The last and greatest of all, might have been the Master Nazarene, had he not been betrayed by his own people, as is England, the "land of Joseph" and the Grail, being betrayed today. Unless Americans, in rapidly-increasing numbers, become imbued with the spirit of America, and awakened to the Christic church, a similar fate may also befall America.

Ancient architecture, heraldry, and the Drama of Heaven, are all telling the people of America of their possible destiny - material and spiritual - no less than their responsibility. As the head, body and limbs of the great image, made of different metals, represented each Messianic age - a new interpretation of truth, and an empire directly relating to some manifestation of that truth - so must America represent the White stone, and be a nation fashioning itself according to the Divine Pattern, until it shall have attained to the Messiahship (spiritual leadership) over all nations, overshadowing all that has proceeded it.

This cannot be accomplished until each citizen shall throw aside the veil of ignorance and superstition, and see no longer as through a glass darkly, but face to face; when Judah shall no more be permitted to vex Israel: nor Israel envy Judah, but labor in harmony that the Lord's Law be fulfilled. If this be not done, both may be destroyed as have been many nations before them.

The time spoken of by Isaiah, the prophet, has come. It is a time when the learned (intellect-ual) cannot read the "book" because it is sealed - as Greek - to them; nor the unlearned because he is unlettered. Yet shall the "book" be undealed, because the ancient "Arcane" wisdom applies to the individual who is willing to work in obedience to the Christic Law in his personal quest of the Holy Grail; in drinking of the cup of unselfishness; in his love for his neighbor and the stranger within his gates; in his loyalty to his family and his country, and his stubborn, but holy, insistence that destiny's prophecy shall not be set aside.

Each and every one may be the fortunate heir to this glorious inheritance, but must seek the white stone which crowns the pyramid, within himself, by the full development of his body, mind, spirit and Soul; the holy Trinity of each sone of man who has become the Son of God.

It is in this manner that America will realize her destiny as "the city set upon a hill," a "star that shall never set," but become the Light that shall light the world; because the true church of the eternal Christos - the Christ within man - for whom there is "travail in birth until Christ be formed in you" (man), shall have become established and be the sanctuary for al l her people.

The State is the edifice; the church must be the spirit.

The rise and fall of nations and people has been in exact ratio to their acceptance of the Laws interpreted by their great spiritual leaders, or their efforts to think, desire and act, in attempted defiance fo them. We use the term "attempted" for the reason that though uncountable millions have made ever effort to live outside of the Law, none have thus far succeeded and all have passed into the "limbo of things forgotten." This illustrates the trite, will-known old saying: "The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine."

Nearly two thousand years ago the world as a whole had come to a sorry pass. Selfishness was rampant. God was all but forgotten. Men lived by greed and at the expense of one another. The few were the masters, spiritual and material, of the many, and only a few were able to recognize the light of God. t was a time, very much like our own today, when selfishness and desire for conquests were the ruling passions.

Then, as always happens in exemplification of the eternal Law, there came one who was to walk upon the shores of galilee; a just and honorable Man; one without selfish motive; one who did not seek to establish an earthly kingdom, but instead, a heavenly kingdom on earth in which all who so desired and were willing to make the effort, might enjoy the good things of earth.

He talked of God as none other had before him. He proclaimed God to be the Father of all creation; the supreme Being of the Universe; the Maker of heaven and earth, and of man in His own image. This young man, this native of Galilee, the Nazarene, preached the Fatherhood of God, and the possibility, not the certainty, of the Brotherhood of Man and the Immortalization of the Soul of Man.

This Master-teacher manifested greater love, more wisdom and courage than had ever before been found embodied in the body of any man. He possessed the desire to serve mankind as had none other before him. He taught the simplest, grandest and most sublime doctrine, or concept of life, that ever fell from human lips. Yet, despite the services he was ready and willing to render to his fellow men, and the Soul-inspiring doctrine he taught, the people of his day, except for a very few, misconstrued His teaching; ridiculed his concepts and finally crucified Him.

The great Galilean was wise! His wisdom and understanding were beyond the comprehension of the men of his day; because then, as now, simplicity had no power to excite or incite. Only the complex holds men enthralled, foreseeing the things that were to come, he prepared the way so that, should his ministry and teachings be rejected, they would be preserved and passed on to a succeeding age, the Age now upon us.

Guided by that rare foresight with which he was peculiarly gifted, he placed his "Mantle" upon St. John, his beloved disciple who, in unselfishness and mystic foresight, had followed the Master along the path to his own Regeneration. After the passing of the Nazarene, St. John became the spiritual leader.

Recognizing the abominations of the day and seeing that the people were far from ready, far from showing a willingness to follow the Exalted Life as taught by the Nazarene, he was grieved so deeply that he returned to the Island of Patmos. There the beloved Disciple visioned the future and prepared for the people of future centuries the most Soul-inspiring, most Arcane of all books of the New Testament - Revelation.

This book, Revelation, was bound by seven seals and commanded not to be opened, that is, fully understood, until the beginning of the next New Age - the Age now upon us. This book, filled with prophecies already coming to pass, and with spiritual knowledge which the people, because of personal selfishness, are not yet willing to accept, has been the mystery of past centuries.

Both the laity and the clergy have attempted to bread the seals of this great book and reveal its hidden secrets; interpret its prophecies, messages and remedies for the many evils rampant, but have failed because they have not been willing to accept the Law; that of strict personal responsibility; or, as so simply stated by the Nazarene:

"Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall [must] he also reap." __Gal. 6:7.

Men have always sought the easy way; still seek it; a back way into the kingdom of heaven; the abode of righteousness - rightness.

The book of Revelation is the book of the Law of the new World for its government. Being the book of the New Age, it is hardly possible for those who hold fast to the erroneous beliefs of the old age and its corrupting interpretations of the Law, to see clearly and be able to interpret it correctly.

It was because of these false concepts, these misleading teachings, that God permitted St, John to glimpse behind the veil and see the things which were to come to pass as a result of defiance of clearly worded Laws for man's behavior toward both God and his fellow men. St. John went even further and told, in simple language, what man must do to save himself. Reduced to the simplest terms, his Revelation concerned the attainment of Soul or Cosmic Consciousness, and the final accomplishment whereby the son of man becomes the/a Son of God.

Whether or not man believes in god or a Divine Law, the fact remains, and cannot be denied, that the prophecies made so many centuries ago are being fulfilled. The die is cast; the great work of cleansing the world and chastising man has been in progress for some time. Our works, our exemplification of religious teachings, or system of education, our relations one with another, and, especially, the moral behavior and religious culture: in short, our entire outward demeanor as a civilized people has been:

"Weighed in the balances, and found wanting." __Daniel 5:27.

Many who are making every effort to be just ans within the Law, are watching, with broken hearts, the Law's fulfillment. The "unjust," the decadent - and their number is legion - are "running to and fro" to find a way of escape from the wrath of God; that is; the Reaction of their own actions; the "reaping of their own sowing." Their frenzied efforts are of no avail, since they can find no place to hide.

The wrath of God is within their own being, and from this no one can escape. This is part of the great tribulation spoken of by the lowly Galilean, the Nazarene.

"For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be." __St. Matt. 24:21 (4)

It is further written:

"And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountain;

"And said to the mountains and rocks, fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

"For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?" __Rev. 6:15, 16, 17.

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(4) See The Spiritual Interpretation of St. Matthew. Philosophical Publishing Company, Quakertown, Pa.
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The word "wrath" which contains within itself the element of destruction, could readily be construed to envisage the atom bomb. The destructiveness of this bomb is not as great as that of the evils present within man himself. If man is destroyed, such destruction will be brought about by the internal "wrath" or Reaction of personal evils. The atom bomb will be merely the instrument by which the destruction is accomplished. There is nothing for the just to fear; these will be protected by the identical Law of Reaction which will destroy the unjust.

God is not a destroyer. God does no hate. God does no seek to revenge Himself upon even the most wicked of those created by Him. God is not in wrath. A liberal translation of the term means that God, in the beginning, set into operation a Law which, bu its Reaction, punishes or destroys the evil - all that is evil; while it "blesses" or saves the just by this same reaction.

Those who have permitted themselves to become decadent, whether individuals or nations, are under this "wrath" or Law, and simply "reap according to their sowing." Those who have truly made effort, or are making effort to be just, to live "within" the Law, will not feel this reaction of justice unto destruction, bu instead, the blessings contained in, or part of, the Reaction or sowing.

Religion, which is a combination of teaching moral, natural and Spiritual Law, cannot be separated from the government of individuals and nations. Church and State can be separated, and should be, but religion and State cannot, because the Spiritual Law is the complement of statutory law; one supplements the other. The debasement or abuse of one will destroy the other. Love of God, love of family, love of country and obedience to Law, are one and the same thing. Abuse the one and we degrade the other. The end is destruction - reaping the Reaction of our acts, or the "wrath" of God.

"Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! For the devil [universal evil] is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time." __Rev. 12:12.

At first thought it would appear unjust that the inhabitants of the earth should all be under to dominion of the devil, but when we remember that "man is not sufficient unto himself," but is related in one manner or another to the whole, we are also made aware that "the innocent are made to suffer with the guilty," because they cannot immediately be separated.

This explains why the people of an entire nation may be made to suffer as a result of the acts of foolish, weak or criminally inclined so-called statesmen. The people are guity to the degree that they allow these selfish, self-centered and often criminal leaders to continue in office. The are under the same Law that informs us that the sins of the father shall be visited upon the children unto the third generation. Evil permitted is as great, and brings the same penalty, as evil committed. This is a Law we all too frequently forget.

How accurately St. John described the times and conditions of our day! Truly the "devil," or more correctly, personified evil, is loose upon the earth. All who have watched the passing of earthly kingdoms and have given serious though to the conditions universally prevailing throughout the world today, cannot help but recognize that this condition prevails in most instances because the nations themselves are decadent, while in others it is due to lack of statesmanship and fealty and loyalty to the country.

We repeat: Religion, which should be a manifestation of the church, and loyalty to, or love of country, are interwoven and inseparable. The freedom of man is impossible in a subjugated country, whether such subjugation to a foreign country or traitors within the county. Where there is lack of personal freedom, man is a slave, and a slave, indicating a weakling, is never a man, hence cannot become the Son of God. The church - churches of all denominations - should recognize this fact and instruct the people in God's Law without bias, without favor and without fear.

These are truly the "last" days of the old dispensation; They are the days of the death struggle; not because they will mean the end of the world - men destroy themselves and their fellow men, not the world - but because the olden times are passing, and since no man, Biblically speaking, should "put new wine into old bottles," certainly God cannot be expected to do so.

The New Age with its dispensation is progressing as so fully and clearly indicated by the destruction taking place, as well as by the advancement of science which as yet is purely material and mostly for the benefit of selfish interests. Those of us who have attained to the age of fifty or more years, through having witnessed al the changes, find it almost impossible to reconcile that which was and that which now is.

Despite man's evil or selfish intent, the change of the age grows apace, while the "devil" is busier than ever, destroying and trying to save something for himself. Decadence and personal dishonor, or lack of honor, are his weapons in trying to accomplish and destruction of the entire human race. The bow and arrow as a fighting weapon has passed away.

The old wooden fighting vessels have been replaced by "monsters" of steel; and puny, arrogant, self-willed, and therefore, easily led man, influenced by the spirit of the "beast," has perfected every conceivable weapon to annihilate the human race by killing, starving and poisoning, and, unfortunately, seldom solely with the intent to save and protect the righteous, wherein he would be justified.

Under the new Dispensation, everything possible shall be done to save the elect, i.e., the just and righteous - those who obey, or who are in the spirit of trying to fulfil the Law.

"And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved; but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened." __St. Matt. 24:22.

This is authority for the use of any means necessary for the protection of the just; that is to say, for those in the right. In order that the days of destruction be shortened, men's minds have been capable of devising instruments for the purpose. To be sure, the "devil" and his cohorts will have copied these instruments, but to lesser degree and belatedly, so that in the hands of the "righteous" or "elect," these weapons will prove most successful.

It has always been the tenet of the Church of Illumination that God does not destroy anything, however evil it may be. Man destroys himself, as does all evil, by a Reaction of the Law. Effect follows cause, and this effect is the nature of the cause. This Law was frequently mentioned by the great teacher, the Nazarene:

"Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." __Gal. 6:7.

In no wise does this quotation even suggest that God does the sowing or harvesting for man, but that man sows and, as he sows, so will he reap - be his sowing good or ill. Let us no longer be the "blind leading the blind,' but let us open our eyes to truth and fact, and act accordingly.

That the truly innocent, and the righteous are protected by the Law, is made so clear that all may understand:

"Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent: or where were the righteous cut off?
"Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity and sow wickedness, reap the same." __Job 4:7,8.

This emphasizes the exactness of the Law. It is the duty of the church to teach this Law as it affects every man, woman and child in the world. Not by faith alone, not by prayer alone, is man saved, but by the manner of his sowing. Faith is necessary to incite action; prayer is necessary because it reconciles the spirit with God, but to work according to the faith and the prayer, is the Law.

All who are foolish enough to believe otherwise will find when too late that the reaping is in truth of the nature of the sowing. Job knew only to well that man suffers for his ill will and his mis-deeds. He also knew that there could be not Law if the truly innocent, and the truly righteous lacked protection. Why, then, does most, if not all, of mankind suffer in some manner and to some degree?

The answer is readily understood and very plain, if we are honest with ourselves. How many times during each day do we think, desire and commit deeds we know to be unjust, unfair or unrighteous? Let us answer ourselves honestly and frankly.

For centuries uncounted, man, as a direct result of his own acts of selfishness, greed, vice, weakness, self-exaltation and arrogance, has violated the Divine Law. He has enslaved his weaker brethren; whereas he should helped them to freedom. He has crushed his fellow-man down into the dust, whereas he should have raised him up. He has starved him whereas he should have fed him...He has murdered where he might have preserved life. He has attacked his brethren instead of defending them. This has set man against man, not in just competition, but by every foul means at his command; his every act motivated by creed, selfishness, greed and vice.

Throughout the centuries, man, with the exception of a few, has danced the "dance of death." He has danced to the music of defiance of all Laws possible for for him to evade by one means or another. How he is called upon to pay the price, and what a price it is! The indebtedness is almost greater than most can pay and the most guilty pay the heaviest penalty.

The price of the "tribulation" will demand their health, their wealth, their success, their fame, their pride, and in the paying, they will not place the blame where it rightly belongs, upon themselves, but on all and sundry; being unjust even unto the last. Whether they will accept the truth and fact, or deny it, none shall come out of the "tribulation"until he

"Has paid the uttermost farthing." __St. Matt. 5:26.

This is the Law. Were it otherwise, then the Law could be set at variance and it would not be Law.
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