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of the Atonement are cast into outer darkness; that is, hell; it is the spiritual man cast out from the spiritual presence of his Maker and who partakes of the nature of the natural man-which is contrary to God's spiritual nature. He describes with great glory how all who avail themselves of the Atonement and have the mind of the natural man, destroyed within their spiritual consciousness-souls-shall live with God. They have been resurrected to life eternal, and the death sting of the serpent has no power over them.

"And death and hell were cast into a lake of fire. This is the second death and whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire." Of course, this is spiritual death-this is hell-and those who have not had their names written in the Book of Life are God's children, who lived for the natural man with his lust and carnal mind dominating their lives and prevailing in their spiritual consciousness-souls-and have not had the nature of the natural man destroyed in their spiritual natures by the power of the Atonement. They have not overcome Sex Lust-Death-and are spiritually dead. They have no consciousness and realization of God as Spirit and Life. The spiritual senses of their Souls are dead and they connot commune with God as Spirit.

"And I, John, saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem -the City of Soul Purity-coming down from God out of heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” Here, John used the law of lust between the sexes-the most consuming and binding tie of the natural creationto illustrate Christ's love in the spiritual world for the Redeemed. The New Jerusalem had no Temple thereinit is not material but spiritual. It is the City of Soul Purity. The thoughts of the senses and the carnal do not enter there. "And I saw no temple therein for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the Temple of it." Here the material creation had passed away and Spirit had triumphed over matter-life over death-and God and His Son and the Redeemed are the New Jerusalem -the City of Spirit, Light and Life. All that is unreal is excluded from that city of soul purity--reality, spirit and life. The Bride should be pure a virgin. None but the pure in thought and who have overcome Sex Lust

in thought, can be the Bride of the Lamb and enter this City of Spiritual Purity.

In Rev. 22: 2 the Tree of Life is described. It is the same Tree of Life that was in the Garden of Eden, but now the Flaming Sword which turned every way, as we are told in Genesis, to keep man from partaking of the Tree of Life after he had yielded to the law of lust and taken into his spiritual nature the soul-the mind of the carnal man-the serpent-is removed, that he may partake of the Tree of Life. This Flaming Sword which was the lust and the carnal mind of the natural man in the spiritual consciousness-soul-of the spiritual man after he had yielded to the law of lust-the serpentis now destroyed by the power of the Atonement-the quickening power of God as life and the redeemed may partake of the Tree of Life. The redeemed partake of the Christ; who is the Tree of Life, and in this city, they think again; they think not the thoughts of the flesh, the unreal and the serpent; but they think the thoughts of spirit, which is reality and life. The thoughts of the serpent do not enter the consciousness of the soul, in this city of spirit and life. There is no death there. It is the City of Soul Purity, and the Soul that is pure has overcome every thought and desire of the Serpent-Sex Lust -Death-and has Life-the Life of the Father, through Christ, and thinks the thoughts of the Christ and the mind of God.

John concludes the description of the Holy City and the triumph of Spirit over matter, and life over death with these words: "And there shall be no night there," meaning, of course, that the material creation-the physical man with his carnal mind and lust-represents night and that Spirit represents day; and, that the material creation has passed away, and all is Day-all is Light. "For the Lord God giveth them light and they shall reign forever and ever.

APPENDIX.

That those who read this Work may know who the Author was while living, and that he was not insane, a mad man or a fool, we herewith give some extracts from a few of the letters sent to the President of the United States to have him appointed to the Federal

Bench of the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals in 1910. From letter of George H. Thorne, Assistant Attorney General of Colorado: "He is learned in the law and his wide knowledge gives him an unusually broad and sound view of the philosophy of law and government."

From letter of ex-Governor R. B. Glenn, North Carolina: "He is a man of ability and learning and commands the highest endorsement from both Bench and Bar."

From letter of General A. J. West of Georgia: "He is a lawyer of acknowledged ability, a student of great research, a gentleman of high standing, and an Author-a man of unusual talent and strict integrity."

From letter of General Julian S. Carr of North Carolina: "He is an attorney of great ability and a student of great research and high personal character.”

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From letter of Charles Sanford Olmstead, Bishop of Colorado: "Have formed a high opinion of his acuteness as a thinker and qualities as a man."

From letter of Professor J. W. Gaines, Dean of Shorter College, Georgia: "He is a man of irreproachable character and rugged honesty."

Many, many, many more letters of similar nature which went to the White House from leading men from all parts of the country could be quoted-but these must suffice.

WORD PERSONAL AS TO PART THIRD.

Since this Work, as revised, went to press, the ideas of Part Third have come into and unfolded in the consciousness of the Author. He ordered the Work held that they might be reduced to paper and made a part of the Book as revised. Since the First Edition of this Work came from the press, some two years ago, frequent inquiries have been made of the Author in which the question has often been asked, "How are you going to 'replenish the earth,' if the sex relations be a sin?" The answer to this question is to be found in Part Third of this volume. If the relation of the sexes be not a sin, the fruition thereof would never die. If this creation here were of God's mind and His conception, it would not

be afflicted with all manner and nature of suffering and disease, and death as the finality.

God is perfect, and does not create anything that is imperfect. The imperfections of this mortal creation, disease and death, are conceived by the mind of the lust of the flesh and are not conceived of and by the mind of God. If men would cease to sin-to indulge the mind of the lust of the flesh-mortal conception would cease. This creation would end, and the spiritual conception of the mind of God would be revealed, and the kingdom of Satan would be at an end, and the Kingdom of God would be at hand. THE AUTHOR

CONCEPTION, THE NEW BIRTH, AND
RECAPITULATION.

Spiritual conception was the original and Divine Plan of the Divine Mind. Conception is the act of creating a concept. A concept is an idea—an image; man is not matter; man is mind, and was conceived in the Spiritual Image of God; and as spiritually conceived was the Child of God, the Spiritual Father. Man is the spiritual concept of God-a spiritual entity, as conceived and beheld by God in the holiness of his own being. Man is an idea. Idea means to see. Man as idea and the spiritual concept of God is a spiritual entity, and God sees and behold him as the perfect reflect and image of His own infinite and perfect being. All conception was intended originally to have been spiritually conceived, and all increase a spiritual increase. Man had to be spiritually conceived to be the Child of God, who is Spirit. None are the Sons of God, except those that are spiritually conceived. The soul conceived by the lust of the flesh bears the image of the mind of the lust of the flesh, and must be reconceived by the Divine Mind before the soul becomes a Son of God. God is the All and the Only Source of Life-and life can only be spiritually conceived, for the soul to be a Child of God-a Child of Life the soul must be spiritually conceived. The "Heavenly Hosts" the angelic creations (for there are many) were conceived spiritually. "When the morning stars sang together, and all the Sons of God (Angelic Hosts) shouted for joy?" (Job 38:7). "Bless the Lord, O my soul, O Lord my God, Thou art very great; Thou art clothed with honor and majesty; Who coverest Thyself with light as with a garment; who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain; who layeth the beams of His chambers in the waters; who makest the clouds His

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