overpowered amid the splendors of Infinitude, I can say nothing. Height on height beyond the penetration of finite vision, I see the dim outlines of a deific universe; I feel the flood-tides of Divinity flowing down through all the avenues of my immortal being. I hear peal after peal of archangel elequence ringing through the endless archways of the empyrean, evermore sounding into my ears the name of God, God, God! I am silent, dumb!"

Philo, asserted in the most positive manner the masculinity and femininity of God and the sexual order of creation. He repeatedly represented Wisdom as "spouse of God and mother of all things;" and he further says, "We may rightly call God the Father and Wisdom the Mother of the universe." Also according to Michelange Lanci, the Egyptian Hieroglyphs, interpreted in the light of Egyptian theosophy, taught that both the male and female principles inhered in Deity, spirit and matter, as father and mother. Indian Gymnosophists also admitted, in the most ancient periods, the duality of the Divine Existence. Abraham, a dissatisfied, ambitious Brahmin, inaugurated the worship of a unitive masculine god. Moses built upon the same rock; hence his masculine, blood-thirsty, retaliatory laws, founded upon "Thus saith the Lord." And the popular Pauline Christianity of the past eighteen centuries, is Judaism, only sparingly galvanized.

The paternity and maternity of the Divine Nature, the fraternity of human souls, originating from the same primal fountain, and the progressive evolutions of all the races, are truths that will bloom into wider acceptance as the ages ripen.

The manifestational order of the past demonstrates that God-the Divine Energy-was. The fixedness of law and the uniformity of Nature's processes, prove that God now is. Yea, "of him, and through him, and to him, are all things, to whom be the glory forever." Looking from the mount of vision, we behold Deity enthroned everywhere in majesty and splendor-a holy presence, which is the innermost light and life of all lives. Springing from the paternal and

maternal Source, and divinely allied therewith, upon the loving bosom of God we recline and rest, with a trust so beautiful and a confidence so deep, that nothing can disturb the calm.

CHAPTER XXVI.

THE DIVINE IMAGE.

"In me God dwelleth;

I in Him and He in me!

And my yearning soul he filleth,
Here, and through eternity."

Divine and unitive in purpose are manhood and womanhood! In the "divine image made he them." The expression is oriental. Hillel and other scholarly Hebraists may have seen the substance under the symbol.

Man, the crown-flower of Nature's formative forces, stands erect a polished shaft upon the summit of earth's granitic-paved pyramid. In him are focalized the refined and sublimated ultimates pertaining to the whole. Stars may waltz and whirl through space; but they cannot think. Planets, to the music of immutable law, may polka across tesselated floors in the temple of the eternal; but they can neither reason nor love. Man and woman alone, essential equals of a perfect circle, walk forth in the divine image; but this image does not consist in physical formation, for God is not, as we have previously shown, a shaped personality outside the visible universe, rolling and guiding astral worlds mechanically as school-boys roll their hoops; but is Infinite Spirit, containing the elements of all forms, the principles of all forces, and the attributes of all intelligence, acting by unchanging methods for the highest good.

The divine image in which man is made consists in those original constituents and principles that constitute him an eternal individuality. At the inner basis he is essential spirit, clothed secondarily with a spiritual or soul body, and rimmed with a grosser physical organism. Trinal in constitution, with crowning brain-organs inviting angel guests, man is a perfect structure. The spiritual nature-" Keystone" to the moral arch-seals with eternity's seal both his divinity and immortality.

The basis of man's immortality is deific substance. As a conscious spirit in the innermost, he is incompounded and therefore indissoluble. Having in spirit neither a beginning nor ending, he is eternally past and eternally future-ever living in eternal life. Neither burial in the placenta walls of maternity, nor burial in the human organism, nor burial from sight, can effect the essential real.

The animal having only a portion of the primary elements of life, having a less number of brain-faculties, and unconscious of its relations to the original fountain of being, is comparably an imperfect structure. Logic cannot legitimately affirm of a part what it does of a whole; neither will philosophical minds, conversant with the results of analysis and critical exegesis, claim-for entities and individualitiesdestinies to which they never aspired. These statements admitted, animals, as such, are not immortal. There is, however, no annihilation; no absolute loss in the universe. When the grazing animal dies, earth crumbles to its native earth, and the spiritual substances, disintegrated, pass into the great vortex of spirit, to be elementarily re-incarnated for use in higher forms.

That human beings dwell in distant countries or islands, with no conceptions of God, or of worship germinal or expressed, is not merely doubted, but denied. If such people exist, not only their location, but their deplorable position, is susceptible of proof. When those Spanish conquerors reached Mexico and Peru, the historian, Prescott, says they found there an "abiding faith in God and immortality."

Roman Catholic Jesuits, fired with a missionary enthusiasm, visiting China, Thibet, and the distant islands of the ocean, found everywhere the religious idea firmly rooted. The North American Indians, when first discovered by European explorers, had their religious ideas of God, worship and heavenly hunting-grounds. Dr. Livingstone, the English traveler, penetrating into the interior of Africa, brought home this report: "There is no necessity for beginning to tell even the most degraded of these people of the existence. of God, or of a future state, these facts being universally admitted.

* * * *

On questioning intelligent men among the Bakwains as to their former knowledge of good and evil, of God, and of a future state, they have scouted the idea of their ever having been without a tolerably clear conception on all these sub. jects. They fully believe in the soul's continued existence apart from the body, and visit the graves of relatives with offerings."

Unfolding humanity in every country and condition-worshipful, aspirational and conscious of vast capabilities for progress-has within itself the prophecy of a future as endless. as golden.

Admitting true the old legend of man's creation, or rather hurried improvisation from the "dust of the ground," and woman's from "Adam's rib," when in deep sleep, the position would afford no logical basis for the affirmation, that mau was made in the "divine image." Philosophy, older than traditions, goes beneath symbols. Listen to its divine voice!

All known substances are composed of some sixty-five simples called primaries, because first found in the rocks. These rocks, from pulverization and the attritions of ages, result in soils. From these soils-spirit the motive forcevegetables are evolved, which still lift and more thoroughly refine the primates, aiding them to become sufficiently attenuated and potentialized to sustain animal organizations. Man's physical constitution is the grand reservoir of all the