through the elemental kingdoms of the Buddhic, Mental, and Astral planes of matter, and enters the human body. It is looked after during this stage by the great Lord Jehovah. The Hindoo calls this Great One the Manu, the ancient Hebrew called him also Noah and Moses. He is allegorically shown as guiding the race up to the time when man reaches the place where he says, "I am tired of the husks of desire, I will arise and go to my Father." The Lord Jehovah has assisted him to gain a perfect body in which to manifest, containing a brain of almost unlimited possibilities, and He has provided the child race with an environment that will develop this intellect that lies dormant, within him. We note that He ever tries to keep spiritual teachers among His young races, and also tries to make their experiences as little painful as possible to give the needed lessons. Remember how He pleads, as Moses, for the children of Israel when they sin. He provides them with a simple code of morals (if read literally, and the child race ever reads literally), that develops the moral nature and cultivates the intellect. At last, however, the day comes when the IHVH (the God), in the heart of man, ever crying for fuller expression, impels man to say "I will arise and go to my Father." Then it is that the Lord Jehovah, Manu, Moses lays his hands upon Joshua, Jesus, or whoever may happen to be serving in that department, the second stage of the development of man, symbolized by the letter H, signifying the creative love wisdom of the higher planes. The work of this stage is to train the man to build up a soul, or causal body, fit for the birth of the Christ Child in his heart, for the Christ is ever of immaculate conception, descending as a dove of peace from above, and vivifying the latent spiritual atoms of the inner IHVH, so they may become active.

The "I," the Hebrew letter "Yod," symbolizes the third stage in the development of man, and is represented to us in perfection of manifestation by the Great One whom we call the Christ. There was a day in our Scripture, however, when the entity whom we know as the Christ had not yet attained the exalted height that He now occupies, and His advance along the line of promotion is shown in some of the allegories.

As Jacob He had conquered with God, and received His new name; in the first of the Moses allegories we find Him incarnating as the brother of the Manu (Moses), and serving as priest Aaron,

in the second, or H department of work. The two take Hebrew (Heber, passed over) parentage (or those who had passed over the line into the new fifth race) of the priestly caste (the tribe of Levi). River symbolizes wisdom, while Pharaoh is a symbol of power, or dominance, and the daughter of the king is a class of the inner or Mystery work of the time, a manifestation of the H, the creative love wisdom. The double meaning of the symbols is plainly seen here. Moses is an incarnation of the Great One come into the flesh to assist man in his development, but he is also just as truly a type of humanity in the development of the physical, mental and moral natures of the vehicle he occupies in that incarnation. The Kabbalah says Moses was perfect from his birth, and Theosophy says the Manu was perfected on the Moon Chain. This idea is brought out by the Kabbalah in the numerical significance of Moses, 345, or God's back; while God's face is 543, and the sum of God's back and God's face is 888, or the number of the Christ. This indicates that humanity and God perfectly harmonized makes a Christ; the perfect union of God and man. Spirit the positive pole, and matter the negative pole is perfectly balanced. All is God. "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one God," says Moses; "There is no God but God," proclaims the Mohammedan; "The Lord, before and beyond whom there is no other," affirms the Zoroastrian; "One only, without a second," says the Hindoo; "In Him we live and move and have our being," says the Christian; "The Father and I are One," says the Christ. Many selves all fragments of the One Great Self, subhuman, human and superhuman, and therefore destined to perfection, and when that perfection is reached we shall have unity, Christ, 888.

Stop a moment and see how much is expressed by those three figures. The quaternary symbolizes the perfected physical, the Trinity the perfected God, and duality is a symbol of the Second Logos, so in these three figures we have the dual quaternary, repeated three times, the perfect Trinity, the perfect physical united in the Wisdom of the Second Manifestation of the Trinity.

We will keep in mind that the symbols have the double meaning of referring to the typical experiences of humanity, as well as of giving those of the entity incarnated in the body that we call Moses. It is significant that the Hindoo word signifying this individual is Manu, or man, and we have just shown that the

Hebrew Kabbalah shows this same conception by the number 345. For the sake of simplicity and because of lack of space we will handle Moses in the singular, leaving it to the reader to trace the similitude of the experiences of the Great One to that of the race in general.

Keep in mind that not only the man, but the fifth root race is meant by Israel or Jacob, Jacob the race unregenerate, Israel after the spiritual develops; Judah, symbolic of the Jews, Esau and Ishmael and their descendants the fourth and a half root races, the race between the old Atlanteans and the new fifth root race, and that any of them may be called Hebrews, or those who crossed over into the new race. Pharaoh stands for the dominance of the physical, and Egypt means the Physical Plane except when referring to Mystery work, then it stands for the home of the Great White Lodge. When "in bondage to Egypt," then the Physical Plane is meant, but when the party voluntarily "goes down into Egypt," then the White Lodge is sought.

Moses drawn out of the river of Wisdom by the orders of a daughter of Pharaoh, a class of Mystery work, comes to the point that he realizes the bondage of Egypt (or the flesh), and in trying to protect the Hebrew (develop the characteristics of the new race), he kills the Egyptian, or possibly conquers his lower nature. Such a radical step is not understood by those about him, and he is made to feel that his life (his spiritual life) is in danger if he remains among the crowd, so he betakes himself to a well of wisdom. Jethro, a priest of Midian, is this well of wisdom, who has just what Moses is after. He understands the sciences of the higher planes, which are called his "seven beautiful daughters.' Moses studies with him and marries, or masters one of them so perfectly that he is given that part of the work to carry on himself, for we are told that he herded Jethro's sheep on the hillsides. He taught his people on the spiritual heights.

An ancient Hebrew book says that Jethro was an incarnation of the essential spirit of Abel, which shows the reverence in which this man was held, for name Abel means spirit, breath, and indicates the nature of the man who could be conceived as being an incarnation of him.

When on the mountain of spirituality, Moses hears the voice of "I AM THAT I AM" from a burning bush. As bush sym

bolizes a teacher, and as burning would indicate spirituality, it may mean that it was a great spiritual teacher through whom Moses received his call to service, although it is not at all necessary, for one so highly evolved as Moses could have communed personally with higher forces.

He is told to remove his shoes, as the ground whereon he stands is holy; the Oriental always removes his shoes before entering a temple, so this is a symbol of reverence. He is called to service of a new kind in Chapter 6-3, El Shaddai IHVH of higher planes, explains that he has hitherto appeared to the people only in his power aspect, exacting only their obedience to physical laws, but now the time has come for them to realize the fuller significance of Jehovah, and He is about to reveal His love and wisdom aspect. Heretofore the VH aspect has been in control, Spirit has been descending and gathering vehicles about Himself ready to manifest, but now the time has come for Spirit to start upon its homeward journey toward the GOD who sent it forth. Spirit ascending calls upon thee, Moses, to assist him to get out of the bondage of the flesh.

"But," says Moses, "how can I with uncircumcised lips do this thing?" This body is now thoroughly awake as to the great ego that it holds, and the great work he has been doing throughout the ages. How can I, who have worked in the physical vibration to enable Spirit descending to gather about itself proper vehicles in which to manifest? How can I do this other work that will tend to undo much that I have done? I have taught man to gather to himself material necessities; now he must be taught not to prize the very things for which he has trained himself to exert his greatest efforts. This new work belongs to the H, or love and wisdom department of the work. How can I do the two? So the Voice tells him to get his brother Aaron (an incarnation or type of the one we know as Christ), and he will attend to this part of the work, but Moses is to show that the perfected physical recognizes that this is the natural destiny of man, and is to lead the race to a strong moral understanding that will help the priestly offices of Aaron to be effective.

Moses, we are told, was four-score years old, a perfected quaternary, or physical, and Aaron was four-score and three, a quaternary topped by the triangle, or the spiritual triad.

Aaron, although he is the entity whom we call the Christ today, served in that incarnation in the capacity that Jesus is serving in today, that of teaching man to purify his vehicles and build up his soul preparatory to the birth of the Christ Child in his heart, or the First Great Initiation.

Moses starts to do as commanded, and here we have that incomprehensible passage, when read literally, in Ex. iv, 24, "And it came to pass on the way, at the lodging place, that Jehovah met him and sought to kill him." Then Zipporah took a flint and circumcised her son, so He let him alone. Strange, very strange, that God should seek to kill one who is starting to do just as he has been directed to do; surely none will gainsay that this must be an allegory hiding some esoteric secret.

But if we accept Zipporah as a method of scientific instruction in unfoldment, according to old-time Mystery work methods, then the two sons begotten by her would simply be students, or Initiates. Let us look at the meaning of the words a moment. Zipporah—“little bird," a bird is a symbol of the creative energy of the Trinity. "Gershom, "-we find that the Gershomites were the priestly family descended from the son of Levi.

Now remember that Moses sat himself down by the well of wisdom, and the seven daughters (called the Shining Ones in some ancient books) came to draw, to water their father's flock, or they came to give of the water of wisdom to the people. There were other teachers who opposed their system, but Moses upheld them. Some esotericists claim that Jethro's daughters were the seven sciences, some that they were the science of mastering the seven planes. At any rate, they referred to learning of some kind, undoubtedly. So this passage in the fourth chapter, 24 to the 27th verses, may easily mean that when Moses started to do God's bidding, the Jehovah within himself said to him, I will kill your lower nature, and he struggled to have that done, and, at the same time, taught Gershom, or the priestly class of the people, the science of purification according to the system of Zipporah. Circumcision was always a symbol of purification.

"A bridegroom of blood art thou because of the circumcision," she is represented as saying; that is, thou shalt bring the people, humanity, people of blood, Physical Plane people, up to the point of purification. Thou art a bridegroom of humanity upon the