istence in planetary consciousness is to build a body after the ideals furnished by the Lord. The physical body is the tabernacle or temporary structure in and through which the enduring body is formed, and regeneration is a combination of chemical and mental processes.

Digestion is the liberation of energy stored in material envelopes or cells. This energy may be used to vitalize the muscles or aid in brain building, but it must get its fire or life from the Spirit. If it fails to do this the structure it builds is lifeless.

It is evident from the command given in the ninth verse of this lesson that Nadab and Abihu put alcohol in their censers instead of the natural regenerative fire of the Spirit. Alcohol is an attempt by man to make a substitute for the natural life energy which is imparted to him from the Lord. When this artificial fire is put into the stomach, it clashes with the finer energies of the system and the result is a destruction of the cells, similar to the burning out of a dynamo. For this reason it is more dangerous for one who has entered the regeneration to drink wine, or anything containing free alcohol, than the unregenerate. In the latter the Spirit fire from on high has not been kindled, and after a period of stupor the nerves and temporarily excited cells are at peace. But one who has started the soul life in his system should beware how he attempts to stimulate that life from the material side of existence. It is sanctified unto the Lord and its only source of increase and glorification is from the Spirit.

Every adept and initiate, Christian or Gentile, has an understanding in greater or lesser degree of the necessity of temperance in eating and drinking on the part of those who are in process of building the Christ body. As a rule the Spirit guides in the choice of food and drink but this is not always clearly discerned, especially if the mind is educated in that easy

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way of eating "what is set before you, asking no questions." Here it is plainly stated that individual discrimination is necessary: "That ye may put difference between the holy and the common, and beween the unclean and the clean."

THE LORD'S PRAYER.

(Matt. 6:12.)

ROTHERHAM.

Our Father who art in the heavens

Hallowed be thy name;

Come may thy kingdom;

Accomplished be thy will, as in

heaven, also on earth:

Our needful bread give us this day;
And forgive us our debts, as we

also have forgiven our debtors;
And bring us not into temptation,
But rescue us from the evil one.

Jesus and his disciples did not demand pay in advance when they treated the sick. Yet those they healed afterward showed their gratitude, like Mary, who poured the precious ointment upon the head of Jesus, and certain women which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities . . . and many others which ministered unto them of their substance." "There is just as much honesty and gratitude in the world today, and if the quickening of the Spirit caused that chief publican and extortioner, Zacchæus, to give half his goods to the poor and restore four-fold to those he had robbed, we have faith that it will do an equal work in those to whom we minister.

"I inbreathe the healing peace of the Holy Spirit."

E. A. A.

The time is at hand when man must learn to take himself seriously and know that he is responsible for himself to himself and to no one else. When this idea fully dawns upon his mind and he sets himself to learn what he is and what he is for, with the same determination and energy that he now manifests in seeking to browbeat and outdo his fellows in the race for materiality, we may look for results.

He will then learn that there is a great deal to be accomplished in order to reconcile the actual with the ideal, that which seems to be with that which is. It seems paradoxical to say that the great task of humanity is to become that which it already is, but it is nevertheless true. God made man upright, but this creature which we call man is merely a human invention. And in this task of bringing man unto his own and reconciling him to himself one of the most important elements will be found to be the Emotions.

Thought is sometimes said to be creative. We might as well say that the copper wire produces the electric light. If thought ever does create it is when it is so charged, permeated, possessed by feelingemotion that it is swallowed up of it. Whereas, every living creature born into the world is a demonstration of the creative power of emotion.

And what is emotion? Will our materialist friend please answer? Will he take it to the chemist for analysis? to the laboratory for solution? Will he resolve it into its original gases and solids and give us the formula? He may be able to tell when he learns what life is, but then he will have arrived at the beginning of wisdom and will know what God and man is.

Leaving the wisdom of this world to its own folly, it is certainly time that the children of light should give to the study of the emotions its due importance,

for it is disheartening and a waste of energy and time for the disciple of the New Thought to build up a beautiful edifice of health, holiness and prosperity, through a carefully devised system of mental training, affirmation and adherence to certain laws, only to have it razed to the ground, wiped out, the slate cleaned and the man back at the beginning, all through an unlooked-for hour of passion, of anger, of fear and doubt. Yet that is what is liable to happen at any time unless we begin at the foundation and act upon the knowledge that the mind, and hence the entire being, is controlled only through the emotions.

Ideas are thoughts of the intellect. Emotions are thoughts of the heart. "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he." "Above all that is to be guarded, guard thy heart, for out of it are the issues of life."

My son," says Wisdom, "give me thine heart."

The constructive or positive emotions which possess and rule us until we learn to possess and rule them, are called love, compassion, pity, mercy, sympathy; faith, courage, fortitude, trust; desire, hope, aspiration, worship; patience, long suffering, gentleness, meekness; joy, gladness, happiness, blessedness, peace. These are sometimes called the fruits of the spirit. They are really the qualities that go to make up the spiritual man, and they belong, every one of them to every one of us, in full and abundant measure.

The destructive or negative emotions, which are the opposites or shadows of the positive, and which indicate merely the absence or lack of the real qualities, are called hate, cruelty, vengefulness, pride; fear, doubt, dread, terror, despair; anger, malice, spite, jealously; envy, covetousness, greed; ambition, lust and strife.

Now these, and any others not here named, are the powers that dominate our lives and make or unmake us, until we learn to take unto ourselves our rightful dominion and rule instead of being ruled. These

powers, in truth, constitute ourselves, and in studying. them, learning how to apply them effectively for the accomplishment of results, how to modify, divert and deal with them as we will, we are merely learning self-control.

It is more than probable that all the constructive emotions are but modifications and phases of the one supreme power of Love, even as all the different colors are but the component parts of light. Or, using another simile, as we can obtain from electricity either light, heat or power, according as we apply it, so we may obtain from the vital fluid of love, faith, hope, patience, meekness, joy or peace, according to our need. God is love. All that comes from God partakes of what God is; we come from God; therefore we are love, and love is all there is.

It is well to become thoroughly possessed of the idea that the negative emotions are simply voids, phases of our experience where there is a temporary lack of love. It is well also to fix it firmly in mind that we are connected with the central power house and that there is an exhaustless supply of love at our command. If this is true, are we not already entrusted with the keys of the kingdom of heaven?

Suppose we are angry. A tempest of wrath has swooped down upon us in an unguarded moment and taken us off our feet. Now we can no more afford to let anger rule in our being for the smallest fraction of a second than we can to take hold of a live electric wire. What shall we do? See first that the connections are right; turn on a fuller supply of love from the heart of the Infinite, and divert it into the peace channel of our being. Things will be right instantly. Waves of harmony will thrill us to our soul's center, and the peace of God will once more rule within.

So with hate or fear, or malice or doubt, or any other destructive state of mind. The remedy is at hand. The cure is instantaneous.

And these things