filled the place. So we understand that the breath of God means the Spirit of God,-the Soul given to mankind.

Now, what was the sin of Satan?

Eden means, in my mind, Heaven; "Adam and Eve," the race of men and women banished from Heaven to this earth. The story says: "Banished from Eden "-Heaven. The tree of knowledge of good and evil, which they ate of, was the sin of creating: that is, they had a child after their own image. I do not believe that God said, “increase and multiply and fill the earth," for this reason: God never commanded evil and sin to increase. All animal nature, in which there is power to increase and multiply, have in them, evil and sin. Search and see! Can you find any living thing or being in which there is not sin and evil? Do you think that God has told us to increase and multiply that sin and evil? Eve was punished in the story of the creation; in this way : "In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children." And her first child was not born in Eden, also he was a murderer and a liar. Christ said, "Satan was from the beginning a murderer and a liar." Cain lied in his offering to God, and murdered his brother.

The punishment to Satan's descendants in the flesh. is the necessity to increase and multiply in the

flesh, as all flesh does, and will do to the end of the world (Only those who have strong souls can overcome the flesh). Christ has told us that at the end of the world there will be marrying and giving in marriage. The curse of increasing sin remains to the end of the world and is only excused by Christ's blessing marriage at the marriage at Cana. He sanctified it by His presence and afterwards gave the limits which alone would receive His blessing. The limits you will find in what He says about divorce and marriage.

At the marriage in Cana, which Christ honored with His presence, He also showed the first sign of His power. The turning of water into wine has a deeper meaning than the mere fact of the water being made wine. All of Christ's miracles and words. had a spiritual meaning, and those spiritual meanings it is our duty to search out. We may not be able fully to search out all the meaning, but as we have advanced in knowledge in other things so far beyond those who lived years ago, so should we advance in knowledge of spiritual things, and not remain exactly where they were in such knowledge.

The word of God is the word spoken by Christ, and also by the Prophets-such as the ten Commandments, which Christ confirmed. But, as I said before, it is Christ's words which I take as my guide

in these thoughts. Therefore, I think this water means baptism, the wine a new and stronger life. This marriage, then, was different from all marriages before it, for they were only carnal, the same as all animal life. As the weak water was turned to strong wine, so the weak human nature was turned to strong nature, and the marriage was raised on to a higher plane. Now I go back to the origin of sin. We have a way of calling this earth "God's world," yet Christ said that the Prince of this world had nothing in Him, that is, in Christ. This world is Satan's. When Christ was tempted by Satan, Satan showed him all the glories of this world, and said, "all these things will I give thee, for that is delivered unto me and to whomsoever I will I give it." Therefore, this world is Satan's, the kingdoms and the glory of this world, and the power, all are Satan's, and the lie of Satan was in that he said he could create good the same as God. (Read the story of Adam and Eve.) Satan hid from God, for he had created evil-for look at the race he created, are we good or evil? Satan was a murderer, for he created death—nothing on this earth lives, all things die. Satan could not create a Soul, he created nothing but sinful flesh. God gave us the Soul. This is the reason of the never ending battle between animal life in us and the soul in us. The

animal life we get from Satan, and it must die. God never made evil and sin. The soul is from God and can never die, it must conquer in the fight and overcome the animal in us, that is, overcome Satan.

Satan being once in heaven had within him the life that cannot die; he was reduced on this earth after the fall to a living pulse of life. Science tells how slowly that pulse emerged through the lowest life up to mankind, and mankind slowly emerged from animal life only and animal inclinations, until it was fit for the growth or the life of the soul-that spark of life which lived in Satan and lives in his descendants, which we all are. When God breathed on mankind, the spark received life and became a living soul, and cannot die. Our bodies of flesh and blood we get from Satan; hence the sin in us and in this world, hence the suffering in this world from which none are exempt, hence the power and triumph of evil and sin, the inclination to evil and sin, evil thoughts, which cease not to war against the soul so long as the soul is imprisoned in the flesh. And when mankind turned to God for help in this struggle, in His great compassion for these ▸ struggling atoms of the life once in heaven, He sent to us His Son. Christ called Himself the Son of God in the same way that He used many earthly things to make plain His teachings to those who

heard Him. His strong Spirit was the son of God. His body, like ours, being of mankind, was the son of mankind, yet without sin, being born only of a pure virgin. He was a pure, strong Spirit or Soul from God, sent, and willing to come and dwell in the body of flesh, to show to all mankind that the spirit within them was able to conquer the flesh if they took the way He showed them. He says, "I am the way." Being in the flesh He was tempted by Satan the same as we are-for the flesh is Satan--but Christ conquered in the flesh all the temptations of the devil-for in that flesh dwelt the strong Spirit of God. He died as all flesh must and does die. I also believe that that flesh being so purified by the Strong Spirit of God, "saw not corruption," and so was not given to this earth and to the Prince of this earth, who is Satan. The sin of Satan, as I have said before, was the art of creating, expressed in the story of Adam and Eve, the serpent, and the fruit eaten. We are told no child was born in Eden, and sin and evil are always being created on this earth.

Christ often tells his disciples that He (Christ) is not of this earth. He tells them that they are from beneath (that is, of this earth), that He is from above, that is, from Heaven. Christ also tells some of His hearers that they are of their father the Devil. He even says this to those who claim