resplendent when the jewel is lifted from the casket, that all of the facets may be seen at once. So with the Word of God, one age gets this view, another that, according to their evolution. In each age many different rays are discovered, all true, but all different, for not until the end of the ages will all of these be revealed, and the great Jewel lifted from the casket that the race with purified eyes may be able to see it in all of its glorious reality. Until then we may each add our mite to the light thrown in upon this wondrous gem, looking forward to the time when we shall be deemed worthy to be given a fuller view.

Because of the loss of the Mysteries to the Christian Church, occasioned by the worldly ambition that sprang up in that body, there is much confusion in the mind of the average Christian as to what is meant by the Second Person of the Trinity. If asked he will usually reply, "Why, Christ, of course, meaning the Man we know by that name.

We have tried to show in a preceding chapter, that the Great Trinity sends forth a triplicity of manifestations that manifest upon each plane, and at last gets down upon this dense Physical Plane, being transmitted through many different agents, for. thus does "He temper the wind to the shorn lamb"; "wind,' His great force, and "shorn lamb," the lamb that was slain from the beginning of the world, or the spark of the Trinity embedded in the heart of every man, shorn of his heavenly estate until the end of the age of evolution. This is not a Biblical quotation, but the symbolism is the same.

"All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made, we are told in John 1, 1, and this refers to the great conception of the Second Person of the Trinity, the creative love wisdom aspect of God, in whom all of the universes live, and move, and have their being; but upon our own planet we have One that to us is more understandable, who gives to us this baptism, in whom we live, and move, and have our being, whom the Christians speak of as God, but whom the Theosophist calls the Solar Logos, a manifestation of this same creative Wisdom; and then comes that Great One who is closer still to us, who translates to us as much of this wondrous spiritual power as we are able to stand; this is the God Man, Christ, the great mediator between God and man. Many, many times has He

incarnated in the flesh to help man to evolve, and we are what we are very largely because of His efforts. Because He is the perfect manifestation of this Trinity of forces that are latent in all mankind, and because He is one of our own humanity, He stands a perfect example of what we may all become, because of the Spirit inherent in us all, but He is not the Great Second Person of the Trinity. He is a manifestation of that force upon our lower plane, in the best form to assist mankind, a form that we may understand. He it was who entered the body of Jesus at the Baptism, and used the body three years.

The Lord Jehovah, Jesus, and the Christ represent to us the Holy Ghost, Son, and the Father, in their manifestations upon this planet. These three Great Ones come into direct contact with the race upon the lower planes, and contact man upon each of the three planes of his consciousness, the Physical, Moral, and Spiritual, according to the division of the work they are handling, as has been explained. This is repeated because it is so important that the reader keeps this distinction clearly before him.

With this conception well in mind, it is easy to see that none of the statements made about our Christ in Scripture are contradicted when examined by the new light shed upon the subject, but, upon the contrary, all becomes reasonable and luminous. Even as the Great Second Person of the Trinity, the "Word" of St. John, was the first begotten of the Father, so also was our Christ the first begotten of our race, to manifest the Father, the first born among many brethren. Even as the sun has always been the symbol of the great God, so has this symbol been always used to signify the Great Representative of that God among men, consequently the prophet says: "The Sun of righteousness will come with healing in his wings" (or rays). He is the "bright and morning star, "the first star in the race to appear in its full brightness. He is the "way, the truth, and the life,' in the sense that he has shown us by attaining, that the Divinity within us, as the Divinity within Him, is the way, the truth, and the life. "I am come in My Father's name, and ye receive Me not," he tells us in John v, 43. "Believest thou not that I am in the Father and the Father in me? The words that I say unto you I speak not from myself: but the Father abiding in Me doeth His works."

11. "Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me: or else believe Me for the very works sake.

12. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth in Me, the works that I do, shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto the Father." John 14. (He becomes one with Him.)

St. Paul tells us, Gal. iv, 19, that he "travails in birth till the Christ be born in the hearts" of his followers, showing that he recognized this inner potential Divinity that they must awaken into life to attain. Also in Romans VIII, 14 to 18, he brings this out clearly.

So, dear Christian reader, do not be alarmed, lest any of the great conceptions that you may have entertained of the Great One will be disturbed by this investigation. Our Christ is far greater than you have dreamed of His being, unless you have been investigating along this line, because the Christians have lost the sublimer conception, and they have degraded the Great Second Person of the Trinity through lack of intelligent comprehension of the real immensity of the scheme. All additional light thrown upon the subject reveals Christ in His true exalted position, and all illumination makes it easier for Him to manifest His love to man, thus helping us to attain. He and Master Jesus (and the other Masters) represent to us the great Will, and Love and Wisdom aspect of God, even as the Lord Jehovah represents the activity aspect.

In saying that I find evidences of other incarnations of the Christ in the flesh in the Bible, I am agreeing with many of our most intelligent ministers of Christianity, and a few of them have been courageous enough to come boldly out with the statement. The Rev. Robert Stuart MacArthur, pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, of New York City, said in a Christmas sermon preached in 1909, as reported in the newspapers: "The Son of God honored the world with frequent temporary incarnations before becoming the child of Mary in Bethlehem." ***"The incarnate Word was the God-Man, having two names united in one personality." Jesus and Christ, the two names, or two individuals, united in one body. It is very apparent to the close student of philology that the Bible teaches the doctrine of reincarnation, and now the time

seems to be ripe for Him to appear again, and some of us feel that we have received the command:

"Tell ye the daughter of Zion (the consecrated soul)

Behold thy King cometh unto thee,

Meek and riding upon an ass,

Upon a colt the foal of an ass.

Or in other words, He will come in a young physical body. Ass is an esoteric symbol of the physical. And the time will not be long.

In this allegorical reading the sons mentioned are those born of the Spirit. Physical relationship, being of minor importance, is not mentioned. "For they are not all Israel that are of Israel 7. Neither because they are Abraham's seed are they all children; but in Isaac shalt thy seed be called

8. That is, it is not the children of the flesh that are the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed. Romans IX, 6 and on.

To trace the incarnations of the Great One whom we call the 'Christ" we will begin with Jacob, for that is the first of these lives that we identify in the Bible, and whether they were real incarnations or whether they are given us as types, the lesson is the same, and they teach reincarnation.

As shown in the lives of Jesus, the Great Initiate Paul states that the women spoken of in Gal. iv, 22, were covenants, and that Isaac is the child of the Spirit, not necessarily of the flesh; and so also is Jacob a spiritual son of Isaac and Rebecca. It will be recalled in this connection that Jacob tells Laban that he is the son of Rebecca, quite contrary to Oriental usage if he were the physical son, for such usage demanded the mention of the father first. Isaac is not even mentioned because Jacob is showing that Rebecca was his Alma Mater.

The Lord Jehovah commissions Abraham to lead the great Aryan race (not simply the Jews), and gives him the Second Great Initiation, the one that shows that the desire nature must have been conquered, and after that episode the child Isaac is born of the Spirit. That is, Isaac is a young student aspiring to Initiation, who develops under the tutelage of Abraham. He may have been a physical son, but that is not at all necessary.

Abraham sees that the conditions are not just what they should be for the young spiritual aspirant, so he sends a faithful servant to the "White Brother" (Laban), a member of the Great White Lodge evidently, the son of Bethuel (dweller in God), for some teachers for the promising young Isaac, and the servant leaves the matter entirely in the hands of God. He is guided to some wells (of wisdom), where he finds Rebecca drawing the water (of wisdom) for her father's flock, and is so pleased with the way she does it, that he inquires and finds that the school is under the care of the very Bethuel, and Laban, whom he is seeking. Whether the servant studies until he masters the wisdom of the school, and then returns, or whether he takes teachers back with him qualified to establish Mystery work such as Laban had, in his classes ranked as “sister,” is not plain; but probably it was done in the latter way, as he is represented as returning without delay. An any rate, when Isaac was forty, or had the perfected physical development, as as indicated by the quaternary, the higher wisdom "Rebecca,' came hidden behind her veil (a common symbol of the inner Mystery work), and as soon as he saw her, he loved her. Keep in mind that we found in this character indications that he was an incarnation of Jesus, not Christ. The old school, Sarah, was dead, or he had outgrown its teachings, and was lonely, or reaching out for something more. These allegories all have the double meaning of referring not only to the life of the individual, but also to that of the race that he leads, so here the man, Isaac, gets his Mystery teaching, but at the same time the Mystery teaching of the Great White Lodge is established upon a new and firmer footing among the young race that is growing into a strong and formidable people, and Isaac the Initiate is its leader.

From this race, under the teaching of the school of wisdom thus established, comes forth first a great exoteric worker, a leader in ritualistic service among the masses; and almost at the same time, close upon his heels comes forth another, of a very different type, altogether different from the first; one who is to start the new great fifth root race (Aryan race) upon its spiritual path in a very definite manner. Esau is a distinct advance upon the old type, the fourth root race, and starts the fourth and a half root race, a race that dominated the Orient for ages, and showed great promise from a physical standpoint, so much so,