MONEY AND SENSUALITY.

Money is the symbol of sensuality. It secures the gratification of the flesh. It types the religion of the senses. Judas Iscariot was a devil and he typed the sensual. He was symbolic of sensuality and money. He carried the "bag." He was the treasurer of the Apostles. The "bag" was the money changer. In the Garden of Eden when man indulged the senses-the lust of the flesh-he was turned out into the earth, into the consciousness of the senses, and was told by the sweat of his face he should live. That is, he should feed the mortal, the senses— carnality and lust from the mortal. Money types the power of the mortal. It secures food to feed the sensual and to dress and to adorn the pride of the sensual. Acts 19:24-28; Matt. 15: 22-20; Mark 12: 38-40; Mark 14: 9-11; 1 Tim. 6: 7-10; Luke 6: 21-26; Luke 12: 15-34; Luke 16: 13-23; James 5:1-5; Matt. 26: 14-47; Mark 14: 15-43; Luke 22: 3-44-47; John 13:36; Matt. 27:5; Acts 1: 18; Matt. 28: 11-15; Acts 4: 23-27; Acts 5: 10.

The carnal within man desires money, because with it, he can gratify the sensual. The carnal within a woman desires money, because she can adorn the sensual. The sensual within the male desires money, because he can grant the sensual of the female every gratification, he can adorn the sensual within her and this enables him to hold her. Because the male is sensual and possesses that which will adorn and gratify the sensual within the female, the female will submit to the male. The vanity within the female is the sensual within her. Her sex pride is sex and sensuality, her vanity is within the lust and sex senses. The avarice and greed within the male is the sensual within him. He is avaricious because he is sensual. The little child before it comes into puberty is not avaricious, it is not selfish. It will give you anything it has

after it gets through playing with it. It would rather please than to disappoint, but when it comes into puberty and the sensual develops, it becomes avaricious, it desires money and power. The child becomes selfish at the age of puberty. When the male becomes mature, sex powers become essentially sensual and selfish. When the female comes into maturity sexually, she becomes essentially vain and frivolous, she is sensual and it takes money to gratify her sensual desires. All wealth and commerce is based on the sensual within man. Society and governments are founded on the sensual. When a man becomes old and his sex powers have decayed, when he becomes non-sensual, he has no desire for greed and avarice, if he has become spiritual and overcome the sensual, in his mature years. But if he has lived for the sensual in his mature years, in old age he is selfish. It is written in the soul. As sensuality in thought departs from his soul, greed and avarice depart from him. The Christian, who has overcome the sensual in thought, and has been anointed by his Father, has received the gift of his Father as life, is not avaricious. He is not selfish and filled with greed, hence Jesus said after he became the Christ, after he had overcome the sensual and had been anointed by His Father and received the gift of His Father as life, that, "The Son of Man hath not where to lay His head.' He had no earthly home after He became the Christ, and He needed none, for He was a citizen of His Father's Kingdom. His home was not in the senses, but in Spirit life. The Early Christians, after the resurrection of the Christ and on the Day of Pentecost, sold all of their holdings and earthly possessions and held all things in common. As the Holy Spirit came upon them and they received the gift of God as life, the selfishness of sensuality and the senses departed from their souls. The greed and avarice of the senses were lost to the consciousness of the soul, hence they sold all and held all in common. Acts 4: 23-37; Acts 4:10. The true Christian is a true Socialist. "He that hath and seeth his brother in need hath not the love of God within him." He is living for the gratification of the senses and not for the life of the soul.

Judas Iscariot betrayed the Saviour for money. Judas Iscariot was the symbol of the serpent. Sensuality

is daily betraying the Christ within every man. The senses betray the soul. The Christ within the man Jesus was the God mind within Him; the Mind of the Father which He reflected as the Son of the Father. The senses betray the life of the soul. Judas Iscariot is within every man. The sex and lust senses of man is the Judas Iscariot within him. The Christ is within every man-the soul made in the image of God-and as the Christ overcomes the senses, as the soul overcomes the lusts of the flesh, man becomes the child of God. The sensual within man is every moment betraying the soul, and casting it out from the presence of God-out of the Garden of Eden. Judas Iscariot after he betrayed the Saviour went out and hanged himself. The sensual within man is self-destructive. All sickness and disease are within the senses the carnal mind. The Judas Iscariot within us is every moment destroying us. All the disease and crime to which man is heir is the Judas Iscariot within him. Money types this Judas Iscariot within men. It secures that which gratifies greed, avarice, vanity and lust. After the Christ had risen from the grave the guard returned into the city and accepted money from the priests, elders and scribes to report a lie as to His resurrection. For money they said that they had fallen asleep and that Jesus' disciples came and stole the body of Jesus while they were asleep. For money, man will lie and steal. He will betray the Christ within him and be false to the Christ within him, in order that he may gain that which will gratify the senses and the lusts of the flesh-the sensual within him.

The Christ within the soul, when man has overcome senses and the sensual, is true to the soul and will not betray the God-nature within the soul for the sensual. God's command to the Children of Israel was to "Walk in His ordinances and statutes." His "ordinances and statutes" are spiritual. His command is for man whom He made in His image to overcome the sensual. To walk in His "ordinances and statutes," we must walk in the foot steps of truth, in the conscious realization of God as life and overcome the sensual. The soul that walks in the “ordinances and statutes" of God, has overcome all avarice and greed and lust, for such a soul has overcome the sensual. He is a Christian. The Decalogue is a declaration of the

law of life and the law of death-sex and non-sex. The same Divine Mind that said to the man made in God's image, "Thou shalt not covet," said, "Thou shalt not commit adultery. Covetousness-sin-sensuality and money are one in essence. Christianity is generosity— the abolition of greed from the soul. The Christian is he who has overcome covetousness and sensuality. His capital is spiritual and not monetary. His investment is life and not death. "Thou canst not serve God and Mammon"-the spiritual and the sensual, at one and the same time. Overcoming the sensual is life. Covetous

ness is spiritual death.

The Master said, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, thy mind and thy soul, and thy neighbor as thyself," and upon those two commandments hang all the law and the commandments. This is the essence of the Law of Life and the Decalogue of Mount Sinai. The same command that said "Thou shalt not steal," said, "Thou shalt not covet." He who loves the Lord, God, with all his heart, mind and soul, has overcome the sensual, and having overcome the sensual, he has overcome greed and avarice. He does not covet anything that his neighbor has and loves his neighbor as himself. Where the sensual prevails in the soul, avarice and greed dominate the soul as spiritual death. The soul that has overcome the sensual has overcome greed. Love is the law of that soul and such a soul has life. He is the child of God and loves all of God's children as His brethren. There cannot be any spiritual life within the soul, until the soul has overcome covetousness and the sensual. The soul must overcome the senses to know God.

Jesus, when He went up to Jerusalem, found the Jews in the Temple, making merchandise of the House of God and He took a scourge of small cords and drove them out of the Temple and poured out the changers of money and said unto them, "Take these things hence and make not My Father's house, a house of merchandise" (John 2: 1421). The Temple was symbolic of the body of the Christ. It was the House of God. In the Mortal Temple of the man Jesus dwelt the Christ, that overcame the sex and the senses of the man Jesus. The Temple in Jerusalem was symbolic of the body of the Christ which overcome the material body, and the lust and sex

senses of the man Jesus. These merchants within the Temple were making merchandise of the appetites of the senses. They had converted the Temple of God into merchandise. Men are daily doing this, yielding the spiritual unto the senses of the physical, and money secures that which gratifies the senses of the physical. The mortal mind is deceptive.. It is the essence of deceit and of insincerity. It betrays now and deceives then. The senses have no truth within them, and the lust and sex senses of the flesh are continuously-continually betraying and deceiving the soul. "He also that received the seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word and care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word and he becometh unfaithful." (Matt. 13: 22; Mark 4:19; Luke 8: 14). The Master here defines the word and the lust of the flesh. The Word is God-the Divine Mindthe all life of the universe and he who is living in the conscious realization of the Word is a Son of the Father and has the life of the Father; but he who is living in the consciousness of the lust and sex senses and for the lust of the flesh, is spiritually dead. The Master here uses riches, money, as the symbol of this spiritual death of the soul, because money secures that which gratifies the lusts of the flesh. "And behold one came and said unto him, good Master, what good thing shall I do that -I may inherit eternal life, and He said, Unto Him, why callest thou Me good? There is none good but One-that is God, but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. And he saith unto Him, which?" Jesus said, "Thou shalt do no murder, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness, honor thy father and thy mother, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." The young man said unto Him, "All these things have I kept from my youth up, what lack I yet?" Jesus said unto him, "If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast and give to the poor and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come and follow me." But when the young man heard that saying he went away sorrowful for he had great possessions. Then said Jesus unto his disciples, "Verily I say unto you, that a rich man shall hardly enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. And again I say unto you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to