to my mind there is a truth that will help us all, and that is, when we are true to our highest conception of truth we are true to all those who are seeking this same path.

In being true, that is, in living in sincerity of purpose, we unfold the spiritual. As this unfolds. more and more we get clearer visions of what life means, and have experiences that are most helpful to ourselves. These are interior experiences, experiences where we come into closer communion with our soul, or divine part. These experiences are too sacred to tell to others, and if attempted, the spoken word seems flat and lifeless, whereas the inner voice had been to us filled with life, and the meaning of all had been as clear as crystal as we listened and kept the silence. Learn to listen to this voice which is soundless.

Inquire of everything of the secrets

they hold for you. What do they mean to you? Push away all external covering and get to the kernel of things. Things are rarely what they seem viewed from the outside. I am not suggesting anything of a suspicious nature, for we as disciples have left that ground belonging to the personal self. There is no suspicion possible when we are seeking spiritual truths.

We find as life becomes more real to us that we appear to have nothing of value to those interested wholly in material things. They do not understand that we are dealing with the realities of life, while they are the ones that possess not, but are possessed by things transitory and fleeting. We do not care for fame or popularity, we do not care for emulation. We have passed the caring period. There is a new sense of

power that comes to us with this consciousness.

When we appear as nothing in the sight of men-man as the world thinks of man - when we appear as nothing to man, we may appear as gods to the spiritually awakened. I am not advocating humility or meekness, which is so offensive to us because it is hypocrisy, but I am speaking of the real and true spiritual development which will make us larger and nobler men and women than we have ever known. We are "worms" no

longer because we are beginning to realize our oneness with the Divine Power back of us. But still our past education with its limitations makes us like birds in a cage with the door open. We think we are restrained and hedged about when in reality we have the one way out which we fail to see this door which makes it possible, this door of

Truth, which leads into a larger consciousness of life. The crystal placed near a red flower takes the color of the flower apparently, and so we have felt our limitations because we reflected old beliefs and ideas of life. But the soul, like the crystal, is clear and perfect. Ask yourselves the question, " What does life mean to me?'

RULER OF LIFE.

"O while I live to be the ruler of life, not a slave, To meet life as a powerful conqueror!

And nothing exterior shall ever take command of me."

SOME have said, "Your ideals are too high. They are not practical. practical. It is rather discouraging to attempt so much." Would you give a child an imperfect model of a horse to draw from simply because you know he could not draw a perfect horse? In building a house every stone, every brick, must be laid with care in order to make a perfect building. So in our lives every ideal must be true. Is it better to aim for money, for comfortable living, or to aim for spiritual development? Which is the higher; which the more practical? Is it better to say "I will be well," or "I am well"? Which is the more practical? When you come to