of the Christ, the Chief Priest, who was to become the absolute spiritual life and complete power over the fleshly man. The Holy of Holies is the Inner Temple the presence of God-He who is in the Holy of the Holies is in the presence of God-only the soul that has had the death sting of the serpent removed can see God-can enter the Holy of the Holies, and such a soul is a priest of the Most High God. When the Chief Priest-the Christ-died in His fleshly nature as the man Jesus on the Cross, He triumphed in His spiritual nature absolutely over the fleshly man. Spirit triumphed over matter; life over death, and when the veil was rent in twain every child of God made in God's image could enter the Holy of Holies, i. e., into spiritual life and light and God's spiritual nature and see God.

The Crucifixion on the Cross was the completion of the reality of which the Jewish Priests, with their formalities and sacrifices, were but shadows and symbols. When Jesus died on the cross in His fleshly nature, these symbols and formalities passed away without virtue. When Jesus died upon the Cross, the fleshly man was conquered by the spiritual man, Spirit triumphed over nature, Life over death, and every child of God-the spiritual man whom God created in His own image could enter into the Holy of Holies, into spiritual Light and Life, into God's spiritual kingdom, and become a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek; Perfect Spirit-perfect Light-perfect Life; God's child made by God in His own image. The priesthood is within us all, and every man must become a priest to see God. The Soul must overcome the sensual to know and see God face to face, and such a soul is a priest.

The Soul sees and realizes God as Spirit through the Spiritual Senses; and for the Vision of the Soul to be realized in Consciousness and the Soul to come into the Priesthood of eternal life and see God, the Soul must overcome Sex Lust-and the Material Senses. The true and real Priesthood is the Soul overcoming Sex Lust-Death-and every Soul that overcomes Sex Lust, Death-as did the Christ, shall live and rule, with Him, as the Child of God. Priesthood is life, and none have life, except those who have overcome Death-the serpent-and they shall have life eternal and be priests in the kingdom of God.

THE IMMACULATE AND SUPERNATURAL CONCEPTION-THE CRUCIFIXION-THE RESURRECTION ATONEMENT - BAPTISM-CONVERSION AND REGENERATION, AND THE TRINITY.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

This is the cardinal question of Christianity. It is the issue. Upon it the truth of Christianity stands or falls. Was Jesus conceived and born of Mary without a natural father? If so, then He was no mere man; He was not human but Divine, and was what He claimed to to be, the Son of the living God. If He had a natural father and was conceived as the other members of the human family, then He was a fraud and the Christian system is a falsehood and untrue.

Man-made theology and the so-called scholastic theologians have confessed themselves out of court; they have confessed judgment to the agnostic and aethestic world, by claiming that marriage is an holy institution and one of the sacraments of the church, and that the human birth is holy and spiritual and sacred. If marriage be a sacrament of the church and human conception and the birth of the natural man sacred and spiritual, then there was no need of Jesus being miraculously conceived and man needed no redemption.

All admit as a historical fact that Jesus Christ existed; no sane man of impartial judgment who has investigated the evidence will deny this as a fact. If man's natural birth is spiritual, Jesus was no more spiritual than any other man. If marriage be a spiritual institution, human conception and birth holy and spiritual, then man needs no Redeemer, and every man is as much Divine as Jesus the Christ.

We deny that marriage is a spiritual institution, and natural conception and birth spiritual,, but contend that

natural conception and birth originates in the power of the lust of the flesh, and are contrary to everything that is spiritual and to every law and nature of God's spiritual kingdom.

Therefore, when the spiritual man whom God made in His own image, yielded to the lust of the fleshly man, he took the nature of the darkness of the fleshly man into his spiritual consciousness. He partook of spiritual death and needed redemption, atonement and salvation. The soul made in God's image tasted of death and must be returned to life to know God.

We contend by authority of revelation and by natural law that Jesus Christ was conceived and born without a natural father. While we have revelation as our authority for His divinity, His divine nature is sustained by natural law. Natural law sustains His divinity with as much authority as revelation. Wipe out all revelation, destroy the Bible as a book of inspiration and give us His teaching as matter of record and we can sustain His divinity by natural law.

The material universe is produced by the law of lust-sex-is it's creator and its destruction-which is anti-spiritual and contrary to the laws of the spiritual universe, therefore there is no harmony between Spirit and matter, between the physical creation and the spiritual creation; they are in conflict with each other. Man born of natural parents takes into his spiritual consciousness the law and the nature of lust which is darkness to his spiritual light and is death unto his spiritual nature, -the soul. The spiritual man made in God's image, manifested in the flesh, by passion and the law of lust, inherits and innately takes into his spiritual consciousness the law of lust and the carnal mind of the physical man. The soul becomes conscious of the serpent and dies. He cannot see with perfect spiritual vision nor hear with perfect spiritual ears, nor understand with perfect spiritual understanding, he is not in perfect harmony with the spiritual nature of his Maker.

Therefore Socrates, Plato, Confucius and Buddha and all of the great mental and spiritual minds of the human race, who were born of natural parents, by the law of passion and lust, could not teach absolute spiritual truth and understand with perfect understanding the

spiritual nature of God. They could not see God face to face. They reached nearer spiritual perfection than the great masses of the human family and therefore were not understood by the carnal mind of the rest of the human race. But they could not understand absolutely the spiritual nature of God. Their spiritual understanding was imperfect, due to the sting of the serpent. They were not perfect spiritually. They were manifested in the flesh by the law of passion and lust and their spiritual natures were not in absolute harmony with God's spiritual kingdom and spiritual laws. Jesus was the only Teacher that ever taught absolute spiritual truth and understood it with absolute spiritual understanding. Infidel, agnostic, materialist and atheist, all admit that His teachings were the highest standard of truth ever given to the human race. The agnostic and the infidel will admit that His teachings are of such a perfect nature that the human cannot live up to them, or fully understand them. The agnostic and the atheistic world admit that His teachings were the best code that ever was given to the human race to govern and regulate the human family.

Moses, nor the Prophets, whom it is claimed, and correctly so, were inspired, never understood spiritual truth or taught spiritual things as did Jesus the Christ; because in their human nature, they were conceived by the power of lust and therefore could not be absolutely in harmony with spiritual laws and the spiritual truth, while the spiritual man existed in the material man. In every age of the world, men in bondage to the serpent, and crying out to be free from the flesh, have created in their minds Immaculate Conceptions and Resurrections. The Soul in bondage to Sex Lust-Death, realizes that there must be a Spiritual conception and a resurrection-restoration to life-before the Soul can come into the complete image of God and have Life.

Jesus' teachings were contrary to all human nature and to the carnal mind. Every truth that He taught and every principle which He declared to be divine truth were contrary to human nature and to the human mind. The human mind could not understand Him and could not comprehend His teachings, and human nature was and ever will be at war with the truths which he taught. His teachings could not be understood by the Scribes and the

Pharisees and the priesthood; they were in conflict with what these men taught, with their lives and human nature. There is no compromise with the truth that Jesus taught and human nature; the human man and the human mind will ever be at war until the end of time with His teachings, and why? Because He was divine-He was Spirit manifested in the flesh without the law of lust and sexual passion; and the human man with his carnal mind conceived in lust and passion is of the opposite nature and cannot understand spiritual things nor enter into the state of spiritual consciousness of the Christ' who was absolute Spirit. The Christ was Spiritually conceived, and Mortal Man conceived of Sex Lust can not understand the Truth He taught. The Soul must be Spiritually conceived-overcome Sex Lust-Death-to understand the Truth of the teachings of the Christ.

Jesus had not the learning, nor the scholarship of the great thinkers and spiritual minds of the world. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, Confucius and Buddha and other great spiritual and mental teachers of the world, were the perfection of all the learning, mental training, and moral comprehension of great civilizations, yet none of these men approached or approximated the teachings of the man Jesus; all of their teachings had some of the human nature and the human mind in themthe serpent. And why? Because they were Spirits manifested in the flesh by the law of lust and passion and therefore could not enter into a state of absolute spiritual consciousness. Human nature and the carnal mind, lust and passion of the flesh, entered into their state of spiritual consciousness, and therefore their lives and their teachings were imperfect. The death sting of the serpent was within their souls.

Every truth that Jesus taught is absolutely at issue with human nature and the human mind-the serpent. Human nature never has and never can be reconciled and made to harmonize with His teachings. The Christ and the serpent will not harmonize one is life-the other is death. The carnal mind never has and never will understand His teachings.

We are taught in the 12th chapter of Leviticus that the mother of a natural child, after conception and birth, had to make sacrifices for the conception and birth