the many brethern, are all sons of the same Living God, Eternal in the heavens.

He will come again, we are told, "in clouds" (of suspicion) "and great glory" (which will be seen only by the psychic, however). Only as we have developed the Christ vibration in our own souls, will we be able to recognize Him when He does come, for be sure, beloved, in the hour that ye least expect will He appear, and unless we have our lamps trimmed and burning we shall not see who the Great One is, that passes by. Watch, beloved, for the day is at hand, and remember that always before He has appeared in the form of some oppressed people. Watch, I say unto you, WATCH, for the day is at hand.

CHAPTER XII.

THE VISIONS OF EZEKIEL.

As we glance back into the dim mysteries of the past we are often startled to see a brilliant star shining against the dark background, and almost invariably we find that he who sends forth this unusually strong radiance has the reputation of having been either a seer, a prophet, or perhaps both. We note that the tendency of man in all ages has been to bow in awe before supernatural gifts, so much so that the oracles of the different religious systems controlled the affairs of the nations. Kings were crowned or deposed, nations rose or fell as the oracle dictated, and individuals frequently were guided in all of their dealings by the prophecies of the local oracle.

We are inclined to indulge in a smile at this, and attribute it all to pure superstition, but, if as Occultists tell us, great souls came from Venus in such guise to instruct infant humanity at one time, then such a state of things is understandable, and it helps us to fathom the reverence of the Oriental to this day for the dirty holy man that tempts the Westerner to kick him into the sea for a much-needed bath. It is a psychological fact, that the human mind is incapable of originating anything, and receives only what he perceives from experience, or brings through from the higher planes, building after the pattern given him in the Mount (or the higher planes), and this reverence must be the outgrowth of some racial memory. That this memory dealt with facts can hardly be denied, for error dies before long. The sacred books of the earth have come from the hands of individuals, that, in their own age, have impressed the world with their unusual psychic powers, and their real unselfish devotion to the welfare of humanity, and these messages have provided man with food for thought during the ages. To be sure we read of sporadic cases of the lower plane medium making a temporary sensation,

yet, as in our own time, such manifestations make no permanent impression upon the race. The records that have stood the test of time, are those that have come from the higher planes, and because of their origin they appeal to the higher nature of man in a way not to be misunderstood.

In Ezekiel we have visions given at various times during a period of twenty-two years. We note, Chapter 1, 1, "Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, and the fifth day of the month," that thirty, the spiritual triangle, has been added to the quaternary, the physical, and it takes place in the fifth race. It will be remembered that the triangle stands for the perfect spiritual development, when topping a quaternary, or the perfected physical.

Ezekiel seems to have been one of the captives of Babylon and was stationed on the river Chebar. Whether the bondage was a real physical experience or a symbolic one, the reader may decide for himself. Babylon means "Gate of God," and Chebar means "long," so symbolically it may mean that he was resting beside the long river of wisdom that flows by the Gate of God.

He was a priest of Judah, or of the Jews, and one cannot help wondering whether he understood what he wrote, or whether, like Daniel, he would have exclaimed, "I wrote but I understood not."

As I turn the pages of these allegories, I feel that there are depths of meaning that I am not sounding, strains of music too delicate for my ears as yet, and I hand you my conceptions in all humility, simplying saying: "It looks so to me.' If you explore you may open vistas that will rival mine as the diamond outshines the quartz crystal in brilliancy; but such as I have I give you. To me it is grand, mysterious, a wonderful testimony of the Master's goodness, that I see so much as I do. As all Scripture has seven distinct meanings suited to guide man upon each of his seven planes of development, it is good for us to use our intuition to discover as much as we can of this hidden meaning. In this way alone will we develop the most wonderful of the faculties that the Trinity has placed in our kingdom.

Let us begin at the eighth Chapter of Ezekiel. Ezekiel sat in his house on the brook, Chebar (long), and the elders of Judah, or the most evolved egos of the Jews, were with him. Ezekiel was a priest of Judah, but you notice that it is not the priests that are

with him when he gets into a sufficiently high vibration to get a vision of the higher planes, but the most highly evolved of the tribes, the elders. He was taken to the Temple in Jerusalem (peace) by the Lord Jehovah, who is not only the Lord of the Physical Plane but also acts often as Great Initiator.

The Jews were a people chosen of Lord Jehovah to act as the priestly caste, and they are given the care of the oracles of God, as St. Paul tells us. They were not Israel, but they were Israel's sister, and they had been false to their trust; they had rebelled against the Lord Jehovah, they were stiff-necked.

Now note the vision: "Son of man, lift up thine eyes. And I lifted up mine eyes, and behold northward of the altar, an image of jealousy." The "North" gate of the Temple, symbolic of the physical, controlled by jealousy. In Verse 14 we find the women sitting by this same gate "Weeping for Tammuz." Tammuz originally a god symbolizing the Second Logos manifesting in the flesh, but at this time greatly degraded by phallic conceptions of the people, and worshipped by rites of feasting and physical gratification, was tempting the motherhood of the people to turn from the north gate intended only for the entrance of consecrated physical nature, while within the Temple itself stood a huge image of jealousy, blocking the way even though they should turn that way. Truly a sad picture of the carnal desires of the race.

"Son of man, seest thou what they do, even the great abominations that the House of Israel do?" Remember the House of Israel means the fifth root race, not the Jews. The Jews are spoken of as Judah.

Jerusalem means "peace," and the Temple is symbolic of the spiritual consciousness of humanity. Take the larger view of this vision and you will perceive that it applies full as well to our own time as it did to those more ancient days. Do we not find jealousy and sensuality shutting people out of the higher planes of consciousness?

'And he brought me to the door of the court, and when I looked behold a hole in the wall, and he said, Son of man dig now in the wall, and when I had digged in the wall" (wall symbolizes the extent of the consciousness of the individual or race), "behold a door. And he said unto me, Go in and see the wicked abominations that they do here, and I went in and saw all

sorts of creeping things, and all sorts of idols of the House of Israel, and the elders of the House of Israel." Remember the elders of the House of Judah were sitting with him while he was seeing this vision, and for that reason may infer that they were not of this sort. So in this hidden room (the inner consciousness of the race) he saw all of this sensuality and materialism, and found that they were led in their depravity by their elders, those who should have been their spiritual leaders. Here they all were offering incense (worshipping) the idols of their own imagining. 'Then he said to me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the elders of the House of Israel do in the dark, every man in his chambers of imagery for they say there is no Jehovah (Jehovah of Hosts, the God in the heart of man). "Jehovah hath deserted the Land" (the inner consciousness).

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Have not many of our own people lost the idea of God within and of Justice, forgetting the great law of compensation, and upholding the substitutionary nature of the sacrifice of Christ in spite of His Own words, 'With what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again," and St. Paul's "Be not deceived, God is not mocked; whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap"? Certainly they are worshipping idols of their own imagining. "He said, "Thou shalt see yet other great abominations that they do.' And he brought me to the inner Court of the Lord's House, and behold, at the door of the Temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs turned toward the Temple of the Lord" (or the Holy of Holies holding the Ark of the Covenant, the type of the perfect man, placed in the west, typical of the destiny of the race, toward which the worshipper was supposed to face while at prayer). These men had turned their backs upon this ideal, and were worshipping the sun towards the east gate, or the sun of the intellect, the lower mind. In other words they were materialists.

"Oh Son of Man, is it a light thing that they commit these abominations? They have filled the land with violence" (going against nature) "and have turned again to provoke Me to anger" (or to force Me to act as though I was angry). "They have put the branch in their nose. The ancients often used a forked stick to hook in the ring in the nose of a captive to lead him; hence the expression, they have put the branch, or the hooked