the people whispered, They have been with Jesus.'" The body is a great mirror, reflecting the state of the soul, and therefore not to be despised.

To overcome all things as Jesus overcame is the light and life of true Christian mysticism, the work of the Holy Spirit; all else is astral; and the hour is approaching when its mighty Babylonian fall is decreed, and its reign will be gone forever. Christ says, "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end." This completes the circle. Is there any other religion or philosophy which is not elliptical, which has not something left out? The climax of language is reached when we read what Jesus sent through his angel to Saint John, the mystical revelator, in the twenty-first chapter of Revelations.

In the third and the eighth chapter of Proverbs is given a picture of the female principle of Deity, and as we uplift our eyes to this resplendent womanhood, the motherhood. in God with the fatherhood is calling on us, as no other voice can call, to "come up higher; work for woman." It calls woman to a remarkable destiny, as joined to the incarnated Most High, to Christ Jesus, for the regeneration of the race. Following this light around the whole world we shall become blessed, radiant, crowned with many crowns.

But shall woman go forward alone? Shall not man share this glory and blessing with her? Can she not be an instrument in helping him escape from his terribly intense activity in the accumulation of wealth? She desires the divinity and elevation which flow from the Christ-refined home, the love to God and one's neighbor, wherein both love and gospel reign, rather than the luxuries which come from the enslavement of man to the mammon of unrighteousness. To woman this message has come, and not in vain. As surely as the white cross has been planted on our flag-this highest mystic symbol of equality (preceding the crown) so shall all nations move forward and upward. There shall be no more want and poverty, but peace and plenty throughout all lands.

As this light is so closely related to the Order of Melchizedek, in fact coming through it, it may be interesting to many to hear a few words concerning that order. Mrs. McPherson, a distinguished literary mystic of Scotland, says: "There have been three utterances of Melchizedek, Genesis, Psalms, and Hebrews, in the Bible, and the fourth utterance is now at hand." As this order was organized in 1872, her prophetic saying is verified. In the working of this Order of Melchizedek the fourth light has been placed in the north, which means woman. In Masonry the north is still a place of darkness. Thus we see the progressive character of the Order of Melchizedek concerning woman as she will be under the full glow of this universal light. The equality is established; the even cross has its completion, around which the circle, the Omega, can be drawn. Plato affirmed that God geometrizes; thence this white even cross must move around the globe.

I approach this fourth utterance with awe and reverence, and any word of mine is powerless to convey all that is meant by Melchizedek. This power is spirit, and emanation from Deity; its very essence is eternal. If the greatest preacher, Saint Paul, did not convey fully to us all the prophecy of the fourth utterance, I deprecate criticisms of my feeble tongue. It remained for Saint John the revelator to look down the stream of time and give us the consummation of the ages, the paradise again restored to earth, into which the power of evil shall not enter. Immortal youth awaits the race. Unto you, women, I call again to make yourselves ready; for, "Behold, the bridegroom cometh," and through you, as transformed within this divine union with Jesus Christ, the only light and life, a race shall be born with whom God will dwell and go no more out forever. Sickness, sorrow, pain, and death, the last enemy, shall be destroyed; there shall be a new heaven and a new earth, wherein shall dwell righteousness.

THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED

ADDRESS BY ELLA DIETZ CLYMER OF NEW YORK.

When Jesus spoke to his disciples concerning his second coming, he described the suddenness of it as comparable to the lightning" which cometh out of the east and shineth even unto the west; so," he said, "shall the coming of the Son of Man be."

Is the light in the east of which we think to-day that swift symbol which is indicative of the Lord's sudden appearing? Jesus rebuked the hypocrites of his day because they understood the physical signs of the face of the sky, and of the earth, and yet saw not the spiritual significance of the time in which they were living.

"The judgments of the Lord are just and righteous altogether;" and this great land which he has given to us for our inheritance, rich in all mineral wealth stored in the earth for man to appropriate to his legitimate uses-do you not know that the Lord will ask us to render an account of this stewardship? America is rich in all that is needed to bring comfort to the physical nature of man; is she also cultivating that spiritual wealth which alone can bring comfort to the heart and soul? Man is a complex being; "he does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." His soul must be fed; and in this age of the world the soul-hunger is increasing daily as the friction of civilization develops more and more the spiritual consciousness of mankind. To those who are watching, many signs appear indicative of a change in the race

itself.

The growing interest in psychic phenomena in all countries and among all peoples shows that the race is rapidly discovering within itself a new set of faculties, a new species of power; thought-transference, hypnotic suggestion, and occultism in various forms are absorbing the attention of many, and are becoming popularized with other phases of

science in these democratic days. The question before us is, What use will the race make of these newly discovered powers? They are instruments of spiritual warfare which may be consecrated to its uplifting, or desecrated to bring about its downfall. The greatest production of a nation is its noble men and women. The greatest promise to Zion was that it should be said of her, "This man was born in her." No nation can be really great without the quality of ideality in the individual and in the race.

I verily believe we are even now entering upon an era of this world's history more important than the earth has ever witnessed since our Saviour Jesus Christ was born at Bethlehem; for the destruction of Jerusalem which followed after his first ministry on earth was but an epitome and a type of the destruction which is doomed to come upon all governments or institutions of any kind founded upon force, and not upon the divine attribute of love to God and man.

The watchers on the mountain-heights proclaim the dawning of a new day. There are streaks of morning redness in the sky which declare that "the Son of Righteousness shall rise with healing in his wings." The light in the east to-day is the light of the world, "the light which lighteth every man which cometh into the world." The commandments which Jesus gave to a few fishermen in the land of Judea nearly two thousand years ago have become the standards by which kings must rule; for in the commandment, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy strength, and with all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself," is concentrated all the wisdom of the ages-wisdom which, if carried out in the governments of the world, would speedily transform this earth into a paradise.

"The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us," and that dwelling of the Godhead in the flesh of humanity was in itself the prophecy of the reconstruction, purification, and redemption of mankind, and its final restoration to all the powers and attributes of sons and daughters of God.

It behooves women of this present day to study the part which woman enacted so nobly eighteen centuries ago.

It has been truly said that woman knew her Saviour. Jesus is called the "desire of women" and the "desire of nations." The Blessed Virgin accepted her election at the hands of God, exclaiming, "Be it unto me according to thy will."

Women followed their Lord through his life, and ministered unto him of their substance; no woman denied him, no woman betrayed him. Pilate's wife protested against his condemnation, while the daughters of Jerusalem wept. At the foot of the cross stood three women and one man John, the beloved disciple, most loving and feminine in his nature. Mary Magdalen, first at the tomb, beheld him after his resurrection, and proclaimed the joyful tidings to his disciples. Are not these significant facts that we should do well to ponder? Seeking to know God's will to us in this our day and generation, what may our ministry be in his second coming to the earth? Are we waiting, like the Blessed Virgin Mary, until the Lord shall regard the lowliness of his handmaidens? May we seek to know the will of the Lord, and to do it in the coming days of trial; and by our visions of the heavenly Jerusalem may we inspire the hearts of men with that divine faith which may remove mountains. O women of this bountiful land! unto you are committed unseen treasures which you should bring forth for the world's uplifting. The spiritual forces of the universe are at your command, through your power to ally yourselves with the Son of Man, Immanuel-"God with us." That is the name that we should seek to know him by; and we should make our houses of earth so pure, so sanctified, that he may dwell in them as he dwelt in the home at Bethlehem.

Is this a heavy task that is laid upon us? He said, "My yoke is easy and my burden is light." Is not the world Can we not bring down Jerusalem - the and let its holy walls encompass this fair

weary of sin? vision of peace