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stick to their own nose; they have enslaved themselves, they have brought upon themselves the effect of their own actions. The Kaballah says, "When it is written 'the anger of Tetragammaton will be kindled,' 'My wrath is kindled,' etc., it is understood to refer to Microprosopus" (or the god in the heart of man).

In this case it is Lord Jehovah showing this vision, not God Almighty, but the Great Lord in charge of physical conditions. The Lord Jehovah calls for the Destroying Angels, and they come from the way of the north, the way of the physical, each with a destroying weapon in his hand. Through the physical, or the personality, will destruction come. He then sent a scribe ahead of these destroyers to put a mark upon the forehead of all who sigh and cry over the abominations done in the land, all who have the higher ideal, who have developed the higher mind; and the command goes forth to utterly destroy all who have not this mark upon the forehead. To put it in other words, all who fail to develop the higher mind, and the higher ideals, will bring destruction upon themselves, as the cart follows the horse. It is but the natural effect of the misused energy. The destructive angels but symbolize the working out of natural law. "And it came to pass that I fell upon my face and cried, and said 'Oh, Lord Jehovah' (or Lord of Justice), 'wilt Thou destroy all of the residue of Israel in pouring out thy judgment upon the people?' And He said, 'The iniquity of the House of Israel is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood' (of innocent animals as well as people) and the city' (world) 'is full of perverse judgment.' (That has a distinctly modern sound, and might have been written yesterday.) 'For they say Jehovah hath forsaken the land, that Jehovah seeth not. I will bring their way upon their heads.' (Now note it is their way that is to be brought upon their heads.) 'As they sow so shall they also reap. '" Yet reading such passages as this, Christians of today deny the law of cause and effect, or Karma.

And the man with the inkhorn reported what he had done; that he had marked the ones to be saved, had noted the development of the higher mind. And the physical destroyers went forth to destroy-note that they are physical destroyers and can destroy only the physical. By a natural law by the misuse of the great creative force of the universe that is constantly poured out upon

man to be by him passed on to others in blessing, in unselfish service, the selfish one consumes himself, and his physical body pays the penalty before the time it should have lived.

Occultism explains the way this acts, and the new chance given the person by a reincarnation in a new body in which he may redeem his past; but the time will come when the stubbornly perverse will be left behind, they will fall asleep not to waken for millions of years hence, when the planet again reaches the vibration to which they respond. This law is demonstrated in the west, or in any new country, on the Physical Plane. When the western ranchman turns water upon the cactus land, very often a very fine quality of hay will appear, grass that has never been seen in that locality in historic times. When the soil is plowed the first time, if the land is neglected the next year frequently the most luxuriant goldenrod appears. When the proper conditions are provided the seed that is in the earth germinates, and so it is with these egos; they will lie unconscious until the planet comes into their vibration again, or until nature forces transport them to some other planet where they find conditions favorable to their manifestation. This is as near destruction as humanity can ever get, and this is purely the result of their own actions, the direct effect of the causes that they have set in motion, that have lowered their vibrations until they can not respond to the higher rates of speed. There is no suffering in this state, simply unconsciousness, so the length of time causes no inconvenience to the ego.

High vibrations shatter the vehicles of one who is sensual, or selfish, so that when the whole planet vibrates at such a rate all such vehicles will simply disintegrate, leaving only the permanent atoms. This is probably the Day of Judgment spoken of in the Bible, and this also is the event referred to in this vision of Ezekiel. The six men with weapons mean the experiences of the six races which will purge and purify, or kill and disintegrate the bodies.

In Chapter x he continues: "I looked, and, behold, in the firmament, over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them, as it were, a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne," evidently a symbol of the Christ, the Bodhisattva; and he tells the man clothed in white linen, significant

of purity, to go between the wheels of the cherubim (the rounds of humanity), and take coals of fire and scatter them over the city; that is, scatter the fire of spirituality generated by humans, over the people. The cherubim are symbolic of the four rounds of humanity. The great wheels have wheels within wheels; the rounds have races within, and the races have sub-races; so here are wheels within wheels. The wheels are full of eyes, the eyes of humanity, and the cherubim have four faces. As the Hebrew made of man a quaternary, so these faces are: cherubim or the stage of innocence; second, man or mind, maturity, realization; third, lion, or strength, courage, development of the higher mind or soul; and fourth, eagle, or spiritual aspiration. "And the spirit of the Lord rested upon the cherubim, and they went and stood by the east gate of the Lord's house." Humanity stands at the gate of intellect, while the glory of the Lord rests upon them, waiting to enter the Temple of the Living God. And the cherubim traveled always straight ahead, the tide of evolution is ever onward ever upward, we are told.

You remember the five and twenty men we found worshipping the sun in the east, with their backs toward the west where sat the Holy Place containing the Ark of the Covenant, with their faces toward the east; they were worshipping the intellect. Ezekiel is told to prophesy against them, and he tells them that because of their iniquity the streets of the city, or the planet, will be strewn with the slain, "whom ye have laid in the midst of it"; their materialistic teachings have caused this lack of spiritual development, they teach the people that the time is not yet near to build houses (purified vehicles). This teaching has caused a great many to be rendered unfit for further progress, and they must be left behind as the wave of evolution rolls on. They are flesh, or physical, and this city, or planet, is the caldron. But ye (who are left behind) shall be brought forth out of it," he says; that is, in due time you will be brought to some place where you can finish your evolution.

"Ye have feared the sword" (revealed truth, the law), "the sword will I bring upon you," saith the Lord Jehovah. The law of cause and effect will bring upon them the things that they merit, and they will learn the truth. "And the word of the Lord came unto me saying, Son of man, thy brethren, the men of thy

redemption, thy kindred, and all of the house of Israel, all of them, are they to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem" (the Jews) "have said, get you far from the Lord, for unto us is given this land for a possession" (we are the chosen people).

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"Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Whereas I have removed them" (the Israelites, the Aryan race proper) "far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them a sanctuary, for a little while in the countries where they are to come. That is, Lord Jehovah will be their sanctuary or their protection and guide, for awhile in the countries where they are to come, because they will be upon the purely Physical Plane. "Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, I will gather you from the peoples, and will assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel." Remember that we learned that the land of Israel was the extended consciousness given Jacob by his struggle with the angel (his higher self) and becoming conqueror with God, or conqueror over matter, the Christ consciousness. When he had attained this consciousness and had conquered the lower nature, as symbolized by the withered thigh, then, and not till then, did he become Israel, and enter into his inheritance. ("I will bring thee again to this land.")

So the prophesy goes on, "And I will give you one heart" (they shall enter the universal Christ vibration), "I will put a new spirit within them" (the Spirit of Christ) "and I will take away the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh" (the Christ Spirit is one of compassion), "that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances to do them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people" (they shall recognize the law of cause and effect as an active agency in the land); "but as for those whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way upon their own heads." Is not that a clear statement of Karma? Their way upon their own heads. They are not punished by an angry God, but by the natural effects of their own actions.

In Chapter XII it says: "The word of the Lord also came unto me saying, Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house" (he was a Jew). "That have eyes to see and

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see not, and ears to hear and hear not, for they are a rebellious house. "Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee thy stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight. It may be that they will consider though they are a rebellious people. He was, in other words, to go out from them, or seek a higher plane of consciousness openly, make no secret that these things are possible, and telling them why it is desirable, so that they may be led to think. "Dig thou through the wall in their sight." (Wall is a symbol of the limitation set by the consciousness of the race.) They came to this stage of evolution through the gates of the physical (the north), the spiritual (the south), and the intellectual (the east). The gates were to enter by, but evidently this temple is not an earthly one, for the gates are not to go out by; he is to dig out through the walls to take his things out. He must transcend the evolution of the rest, taking his things or his consciousness through the wall he should do so openly or in sight of the rest, "but cover thy face that thou see not the land, for I have set thee as a sign for the house of Israel.”

He was to make every endeavor to attain the higher consciousness, be perfectly frank about the advantages of such a course, but he would, after passing through the wall of the natural evolution of the race, find himself blind upon the higher plane to which he attained, for a time, but he was being pushed in his development for an example to the race. In the morning, he says (after he had attained) the Lord asked him if Israel had asked him "What doest thou?" And because of their indifference to the example set, because of their stiff-neckedness, they shall stay upon the Physical Plane and reap the ripe Karma that is waiting for them.

Here is enunciated one of the great occult laws, the law of Karma, or of action and reaction, cause and effect; for Karma is simply the result of causes that we have ourselves at sometime set in motion. Karmic vibrations, like all vibrations, travel in circles, reacting on the plane below the one on which they are sent forth. Physical Karma is often paid by the death of the body, astral or emotional Karma reacts on the Physical Plane, and mental Karma on the Emotional Plane. Suppose a man sends out a strong malignant vibration or thought form to some one. The nature of that thought form is to find the party toward

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