sheep of the house of Israel"; they sought "them that were nigh" (Eph. 2:17); they sought "a people near unto God" (Ps. 148: 14), but Paul was specially commissioned to preach to them "which were afar off "(Eph. 2:17). All truth is of God. "I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the Lord; and I will heal him. But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it can not rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked" (Isa. 57: 19-21.)

The literature of the Bible, or rather the fundamental principles of the Scriptures, were given to the people of the world by the resurrected. They are the organs of the Holy Spirit; they of this high and holy fraternity teach the same doctrine; or rather, the Spirit hath spoken the same doctrine through them. Truth is a manifestation of the Spirit; truth is given by the Spirit. "All Scripture is given by the inspiration of God" (2 Tim. 3: 16).

The coming of the Kingdom of God, the realization of His kingdom in the soul of man, is a central idea of the sons of God, of the resurrected; but the day and hour when this high and holy state of consciousness is realized in the soul of man, is not known even to the angels of Heaven, neither to the son of man, “but the Father only" (Matt. 24:36; Mark 13:32; Mal. 3:1). "Therefore be ye ready, for in an hour that ye know not, the son of man cometh" (Matt. 24: 44; Luke 12: 35, 36; Eph. 6:14). The great are they who realize the Kingdom of God while abiding in the flesh. "But I tell you of a truth, there are some standing here, which shall not taste death, till they see the Kingdom of God" (Luke 9: 27; Matt. 16: 28; Mark 9: 1).

The fundamental principles of religion taught in the

New Testament Scriptures are identical with those of
the Old; they are in harmony with all truth; for truth is
of God. "Order is Truth," said Thomas Carlyle.
Truth is revealed in the divine order. All the faithful
revelations of science are aids to religion; for truth is
indispensable to human salvation. It is the truth
that makes the Mind and soul of man clean (John
15:3). It is the truth that liberates man from the
thralldom of ignorance, and makes him free. "Know
the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (John
8:32).

What is religion for? The end and aim of religion
is the perfection of the Mind and soul of man. Man,
Manas, Mentality, is put into the human soul, "into
the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it" (Gen. 2:
15). Man is made in the image and likeness of his
Creator; and is given dominion over all below him, over
all things in the animal world (Gen. 1:26; Ps. 8:6);
and thus he is made a co-worker with God (1 Cor. 3:9),
in the attainment of his own perfection. The word of
God is given that "ye may stand perfect and complete,
and in accord, with the will of God" (Col. 4:12;
Gen. 17: 1; Matt. 5:48; Lev. 11:44; 19: 2). Truth is
revealed in the divine order; and when the soul of man
is attuned to the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of
Order, then it is that he makes manifest the will of
God. The truth of religion, the verity of the divine
word, is not a matter of speculation, for it is taught
and demonstrated in the lives of the resurrected, in
the lives of the just. "Because that which may be
known of God is made manifest in the lives of the
just; for God hath showed it unto them" (Rom. 1:19).
"Moreover, as for me, God forbid that I should sin
against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you: but I will

teach you the good and the right way: Only fear the Lord, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider what great things he hath done for you" (1 Sam. 12:23, 24). The resurrected are they that live and teach "the good and the right way." "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me" (John 14:6).

The Scriptures teach that God hath committed all judgment unto the Son, unto the Mind of man. Man is endowed with the capacity to judge, to choose, between good and evil, between life and death. “I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I set before you life and death, good and evil: therefore, choose life, choose good" (Deut. 30: 15, 19). The weal or woe of man depends upon the use he makes of the mentality God has given him. He that is faithful to his light shall have more; but he that is unfaithful shall have his light taken away (Matt. 25:29; Rev. 2:5). Mentality is given that man may make his soul the chaste temple of the living God. "If any man defile the temple, him shall God destroy" (1 Cor. 3:17). Every rational being is charged with Heaven imposed duties. Man is godlike or satanic, according as he chooses. Man is to take counsel of God, and not of Satan. "Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou worship " (Matt. 4: 10; Deut. 6: 13). "For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son," unto the Mind of man (John 5:22; Matt. 11:27).

It is the Law that fixes responsibility; it is the Law that points the way of life and of good; and of evil and of death. "I had not known sin, but by the Law" (Rom. 7:7). "Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth

the Law: for sin is the transgression of the Law" (1 John 3:4). Every observance of Heaven's Law is rewarded, and every transgression is punished. "Think not that I shall accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?" (John 5: 45-47). The Law bespeaks the divine order to which every human soul should conform. "The Law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple" (Ps. 19:7). The testimony is the revelation of the Law. The Law is revealed in the life, and in the words of the resurrected. "For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me." Moses wrote of each and every human soul. "To the Law and the Testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light [wisdom] in them" (Isa. 8:20).

He that believes in the high and holy possibilities of Man, and lives worthy of his godlike capacities, is destined to attain to the higher life, the spiritual life; but he that persists in leading a false and wicked life, is destined to unutterable woe. "He that believeth on the Son [he that believes in the divinity of his own mind, and lives worthy of it] hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not on the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him" (John 3:36; 6:47). He that is faithful to his own soul, to "the inward man, is renewed day by day" (2 Cor. 4: 16; 3:18). Man has as much faith in God as there is virtue in him. "The righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith" (Rom. 1:17).

Wisdom says that God is Good,
That He is known by what He is.
Let man from wiles and conceits flee;
And seek by righteousness to see.

Paul tells us that man is a co-worker with God in the perfection of his own life, and in the moral uplift of others (1 Cor. 3:9; 2 Cor. 6: 1), "but God giveth the increase." Paul would have us know that it is the Spirit of God in the souls of men that is to reform the world. "By the grace of God I am what I am: and His grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; for I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me" (1 Cor. 15: 10). It would seem that Paul established many religious societies, or churches. Speaking in an outward sense there are many churches, but in an inward, and spiritual sense there is but one Church, but "one fold," and one Shepherd of the sheep. The Church, the true Church, the Church invisible, is not an organization of the world. It is a fraternity, a brotherhood. It represents that great body of persons carnate and disincarnate who have so far lived above the sensuous carnal spirit of the world as to be organs of the Holy Spirit. They of this fraternity "are no more strangers and foreigners to the Kingdom of God, but fellow-citizens with the saints." They of this brotherhood are likened to a temple "fitly framed together"; and thus they "are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit "(Eph. 2: 18-22). "I will declare Thy name unto my brethren; in the midst of the Church [the congregation, the fraternity], will I sing praise unto Thee" (Ps. 22: 22). "But ye are come unto Mount Sion [the Church, the fraternity