inner ethereal realm of the organized soul-world. That inner and higher world of organized activities and enduring realities begins with the interior side of the physical world, the inner ethereal organisms of physical bodies, and extends by ever deepening and rising gradations of spheres within spheres, ever opening and expanding in endless unfolding of beauty, grandeur and perfection be yond the power of sensuous imagination to conceive.

267. These interior zones and spheres of celestial light and ineffable beauty, peopled with radiant forms of immortal youth perpetually ascending from the globes of space, span the interstellar spaces and fill the immensities. It is these celestial regions of ever deepening and expanding life and glory, which constitute the many mansions of the Father's house in which the countless myriads of His children find their home, their life's fruition, and their heaven of delight; and God himself is the light and the life thereof.

268. This is perhaps sufficient to give an appreciative idea of what we mean by the outer, the inner, and the inmost, as applied to the Macrocosm, and to our own being as a microcosm, and the basis of the three fold relationship existing between ourselves and the great world without and within. Wherever there is a living physical organism, there is of necessity a corresponding ethereal soul organism within it; and it is the specific character of the latter, that determines the form and functions of the

former, whether of plant, animal or man. Let this become fixed in the mind as a fundamental fact of universal existence. There is also a soul to the planet, as there is to every organized form upon the planet; and in the ethereal bosom of that soul is treasured the imperishable history of the planet's life, to be read by the future psychometrist in all the glowing realism of its original production.

269. But the souls of planets, as of plants and animals, are not self-conscious identities like man. They are the living stepping-stones in the evolution and ascent of life involved in the great world process of individualizing and bringing to birth the God-child-our heaven-nursed humanity. Life or Spirit, it is said, 'sleeps in the mineral, breathes in the vegetable, dreams in the animal, and comes to consciousness in man." Man was made for the eternal life of development and achievement. All else was made for him.

270. Man has a physical body, but this, as we have seen, is only the organic instrument of his embodied self-conscious and self-determining soul, which is an individualized and embodied divinity, a child of the living God. The central governing principle of his being, which gives consciousness, intelligence and will, is original essential life or spirit, in which inheres, as original function, intelligence, goodness, power. The Divine nature is here specialized and potential in man. So man is, in deed, brought forth in the image and likeness of

God, and when awakened to the full consciousness of his threefold being and relationship will possess and exercise dominion over the world that is organically beneath his feet, and of which he is the rightful lord and sovereign. "Thou hast made him a little lower than thyself; and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the work of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet."

IX.

THE OPENING OF THE DOOR.

271. Wherever there is a physical order there is of necessity a corresponding inner side and determinate soul of that order, of which it is but the external expression, since all life, motion and intent, or purpose proceed from within, outward. The true understanding of external form and phenomena is therefore impossible without a knowledge of the character and intent of the soul behind them. Hence the necessity of awakening and exercising the powers of perception and communication on the psychic plane, in order to fully understand and rightly interpret the manifestation on the sense plane. There can be no perfected science or philosophy of the physical world without this.

272. As the inner ethereal organism is the permanent organism of the soul's embodiment, and is the true organic seat of the soul's powers, the faculties of soul perception and communication are organically as perfect on the psychic plane when turned in this direction, as they are upon the sense plane, but with vastly greater penetration and sweep of vision. The most deeply hidden things and secret thoughts are unveiled to the perfect inner vision. "There is nothing covered that shall not be

revealed, neither hid that shall not be known," said the Master. The Father holds no secrets from His true and loyal children. The world and all its treasures are His free gift.

273. The subtle magnetisms and aromal spheres of personality, emanate from souls, not bodies, and exert all their marvelous subtlety of action most potently on the psychic plane. To this inner, occult and soul-world, we stand vitally related and connected by virtue of our ethereal soul organism and its psychometric power of communication, even more vital and complete than we do to the physical world and its objects by the outward body and its senses. These are held to the limitations of a narrow circle of time and space, while on the psychic plane, time and space are practically annihilated in the indefinite circle of the soul's activities.

274. This inner world of psychic communication, knowledge and experience, embraces not only the soul side of the physical world, and its objects, but also, as we have seen, the souls of the ascended who have laid off the outer physical husk, but retain the permanent and indestructible inner organism and true soul relations, which are imperishable.

275. Mental telegraphy, while in the body, independent of all external connection, is yet to be made a thing of universal experience, and soul communion with the absent, will be more perfect and satisfying even than our present method through the senses. And since the true soul relations are