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The Temple Artisan Vol. XXXII. November and December, 1931. Numbers 6,7

Behold I give llnto thee a key

THE STAR OF CHRISTt : : = { ? ~ ~ q -

Rise up and sing for joy, ye peoplesof all lands, for over you now shines theLight poured forth in golden glory fromHis Star, the Star of Christ. new born,to bring to you fulfillment of the hope ofdays gone by, when first He came tqclaim His Heritage of Love.

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Temple Teachings. Open Series No. 263.My Dear Children:

The glimpse of an isolated truth serves as a good illustration toexplain lhe fact that so many false coneepts are formed in th r mindsof psychic8 from the failure to relate one phenomena to anothE'r ofwhich it ja apar t , and from the fact that to psych'ic vision opeoedat one time a eertain related state or plane, i\nd at another time a differer.t plane, and the psychic is thus unabJe to relate isolatedglimpses of truth, one to the other, for the reason that the eonsei ousnessis no l able to reuch a plane above pereeived phenomena on the astral.

- On ly the trained psychic who ean contaet the highest mental planein full consdousness can aecept what may be eaught in separatedglimpses, as it. were. and relate one to another in it s proper relation.As an example, the isolated fact perceived of the Blue Star glowingwith a blue aura--simply beeause at that instant of time connectionwas made with this vibration and 'the ~ f m s e i o u s n e E s thereby carried toa higher plane- the "star of blue" was pereeived glowing in it s heauty.

To avoid undue importance being given to this glimpse of a bluestar, I explain to you the reason for that particular point being obBerved by psychie vision. I t gives an opportunity further for you toenlarge your mental concept of the beauty and glory of the star ofwhich each individual furms a glorified ray.Conceive if you ean ()f a vast Star of Light whose synthetie colorcorrespond!! to the Ray of Mercury. Each poi nt in that large star flameswith a Bpecialized ray synthesized in eaeh point to one of the sevencolors. Each point in that star is again synthesized into one of theBeven colors and gives ou t in turn vibrations of the seven, forming amost glorious point of light and color.You ar e individually subdivided into Reven H.ays, bu t your auragives a synthetie color vibration, although continually changing bythought emanatIons, and by regularly recurring synlhetic vibrationsconveying the color waves whieh constitute you apar t of that special ray.

With this Blight explanation I ask you to tr y to conceive of the,Gentral or more interior "Tri pIe Star" as a YeJlow Star, glowing andflashing with synchronouB vibra! ions it s glowing mass of color and light.

Next coneeive of th e great Blue Star, each point scintillating, vibrating and sending ou t into . 'the darkness of the great aby!'s" livingIines of light and beauty.

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Points of the great Re,d Star glowing in its turn if\"eaeh point with agn,at central gem of beauty and light. .",; .,., ~ ; l ~ " : _ ' , Concdve of the wh oie in rotary motion, from the Gentral to the':Outer. from eadz ]101'';'11 'ln endt SM r and each Star ifZ eadz Point, and 'you may have a very faint conception of the radianee and beauty t h ~ e ' Iiving Stars form from our plane of consciousness. Tha beauty 'and'glory and power of th e Star ia only that of Love, Will snd W i 8 p o m , , ~ r Aspiration, Devotion and Illumination in your individual' auras. ":; . , ,

My Children, you are also a star of glowing light and bea:t;lty, "When you give ou t your brightest fiashes, you do so only through'the 'exercise of these lhree powers. Losing the uplifting aod expansiveforce. the light flame isdown, ftickers, almost goes out, and th a out':. "reaching energy and force through whieh you touch olher Iives andbless and help humanity is lost. , l i '

See to it , my ehildren, that your light fiashes high; that the thre!,!colors flame stead ily upward forming the Point whieh sends ou t straigql:into th e Darkness th e direct creative power of spiritual force and e n ~ ergy potent on all r.lanes. ' ' ,>:The key to thill ereative power I havegiven you i8 thought eontro!.And now, bless ydu, my loved ones present and absent. '1 sm ever

near you.t O ~ t o b e r 23, 1908,) HILARION. -t!

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EDITORIAL MIRRORThroughout al l Nature in every department of Life th e Fires ofPurification an d Regeneration are surging, sweeping and deansingwith unerring accuracy until th e process is thoroughly completed.These fires either purify or consume. lt is a fiery baptism todear th e path fo r th e advent of the Radiant Son whose rays shineon aB alike.A s a result the opposite pole has been aroused to a frenzyagainst the constructive forces of Love, Light an d Power.When th e house deaning is over, the dross of the lower natureburned away, when men's hearts ar e purified, when nations,countries an d individuals settle their disputes, differences, byreasoning, counsel an d mutual understanding, then can th e ShiningO ne usher in the New Day, the dawn of Universal Brotherhood.F or protection horn these fiery blasts an d consuming heat th eMaster gives the answer :"I have said to those wh o Abide in the Secret Places, in th eInmost Presence of th e Mighty Ones, 'No harm shall come tothem. The fires shall sweep, bu t they shall not be consumed.They shall know th e Rames, but they shall no t be burned' . . . Isay unto those who would trifle, would play with or make lightof the Flames that now scorch the farthest horizon, the FieryT ongues shall pierce until there be naught left whereby to see orhear or know, until they make restitution for their tampering byutmost endurance of the heat they have called horn rightful pathsthrough fiery use an d abuse of th e T ongues of Flames within theirown natures. Man meddles with Law; G od exacts in perfectjustice. Mercy comes through suffering an d appeal. Compassionnever gives deaf ear to hirn wh o asks aright."Trifle not with th e flames of purification, but become O ne withth e "F lame of Purified Life."

P. F. D.FROM AN INTERVIEW WITH MASTER HILARION A N D MA STER MO RY A

"M y Brothers, it is said of one whom we al l revere, "H e cameunto Hi s ow n an d Hi s ow n received Hirn not ." Th e same words ar eapplicable today. Those who have reached up the hands of theirsoul to me fo r help will no t accept the help that comes unless it

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IS dressed in th e e10thing they themselves would pu t upon it.They have asked fo r T ruth; they are not able to recognizeT ruth when it appears ; they have asked fo r me; they have beengiven H-- w ho is m y Master.

Darkness, deep darkness covers the earth as a pali; darknessthat e1ings like viscid mud to th e soul struggling Iike a bild in it smeshes. Only when the spiritual beils make a rift in that blackness ca n a ray of light enter into th e souls of men.My Brothers, e1ing e10se together, fo r when th e darkness ispassed hom yo u there will radiate a light that may l ighten th eworld.

When the Centra l Pool becomes so deep that no wind canruffle it s waves, then an d no t until then can true spiritual reflections reach the outer banks of that Pool.You who are the heart of this present attempt of ours to breakthrough these terrible conditions, look to it that yo u do no t thinklightly of any word that comes to yo u from us, for these wordsmean the salvation or destruction of the star on which you dweIl.I will come to you again with my Brother.... Morya.

"M y Children, be not dismayed or discouraged at what m ayseem to o dark to you. Remember that I have never ceased warnin g horn my first entrance into this house of the dark days thatwere coming. They have commenced. They m ay an d willgrow darker and dark er at times, then the light will break throughagain. None of yo u save B. S. ha s realized sufficiently that eachsoul that entered The Temple must do so by fire. There is noother way. Each must be tried in th e furnace before he is ableto perform th e work tha t is asked of him. There is no need fo rdiscouragement, fo r those of you who realize that you are warriorsindeed will feel that there is a victory to be won, an d knowing inyour souls that yo u have truth an d right behind you, yo u will goforth with courage fo r th e hay. Remember that th e success orfai!ure of th e movement does not matter to you. Y ou are eachto do your duty in your own appointed place an d leave the resultsto us an d th e La w . ... . . If we wished, we alone could put an adep t in the presidential chair. It is fo r th e sake of humanity that we offer to le tthem help us, that they may have the right to th e opportunitiesof the Golden Age when it appears. Remember that I have saidbefore, humanity ca n hinder if it will, bu t it cannot always holdback that great day. Humanity is doing all in it s power to hi n de rtoday, an d still I sa y the time is fast coming when what I haveprophesied will take place. I have before told each of yo u thatuntil th e foundation of th e Temple wa s complete we could donothing with the outside world . . . Again are being fought th ebattles of the 16th century, only on a higher plane. They willreach to th e lower plane an d be fought ou t there, if we cannotsave them by th e means we have employed." . . .


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Question : "Oid H. P. B. leave an y written or spoken word toan y person now Iiving, which would be accessible to all of us asso-called "external" evidence concerning yo u an d your relation toMaster M.?""She did not leave an y evidence that is accessible to doubters.There is plenty of evidence for those who trust an d believe."Question : "I s there anything more we ca n do to change presentconditions? .."You are doing the best you can under the circumstances. Y oucannot see as we do what yo u ar e fighting against, but that doesno t matter . . .... A ne w movement is on foot in different parts of the countrythe members of which were prepared by myself for this movement. They have misconstrued their directions, an d on e by on ethey will realize ho w useless it is to continue without real directions . . . It is harder work than we anticipated, an d we did no ttake fully into account tbis terrible Karma that has been le t looseat this critical time. Bu t we hoped, with All our work an d al l th easpirations of the hungry souls of the earth, that we would be ableto save ou r ow n horn what must come now. If they would takethe truth we offer. would prepare conditions, we could tide thiscritical period over without much loss, but they ar e rendering thatimpossible . . . There are hundreds of them wh o are going intowhat they call a ne w movement wh o were meant to see the lightthat shines in this . . .. . . Directions to be pure and tTue must come horn th e heart;directions horn th e head alone would always lead one astray.When the heart is filled with love to Cod an d love to man, nohuman soul can go very far astray. They may make mistakes. bu tthey can easily be corrected. It is only when the heart is purethat soul language can be understood . . . Pu t down into yourheart an y question you wish solved, an d th e answer will comehorn him to whom yo u pu t that question . . . I know yo u ar e allcoming to a realization of that very principle. You ar e growingeloser together. You are more able to understand each other.If yo u continue. you will have reason to be very thankful. .. . Thisis what happens whenever a heart in perfect sympathy with us an dwith the Infinite reaches up in aspiration: A ra y of light or forceis sent into that darkness, reaches the heart, destroys the powerof the darkness an d gives the soul a chance to get into the light.That is what all those flashes of light that B. S. is seeing constantlymean. They ar e rays horn th e Creat White Throne sent down inanswer to aspiration. . . . "Question : "Was this 16th century Karma engendered by thecrusades ?""I t wa s first by the action of th e so-called heathen, an d thenby th e so-called Christians. Each tried to outdo th e other incruelty, and the consequence is one of the blackest Karmas that hasever fallen on man."

THE TEMPLE ARTlSAN"Because it wa s a religious aHair?""Yes. . . . Th e crusades lasted ho m th e 12th to the 16thcentury an d were filled with bloody butchery an d crime.""I s this concerned also with the Inquisition?""I t iso That ended it, or rather pu t the cap to All that had gonebefore.""Are most of those people on earth today?""They are all on earth today. or have been within th e lastcentury. Its Karma was held back as long as it could be held.""I s . . . . . . influence to be feared? ,."N o more than that of the other churches. CREEDS

DISAPPEAR-IT IS HEARTS TH AT R E MA IN. . . .I also would like to call your attention to another thing thatI have written you personally be fore, an d which I wish pu t ou tvery emphatically. I said distinctly that there would be no displayof occult fireworks. 1 meant it. I repeat it now. Such thingsmay come occasionally to yo u at the center, possibly to othersoutside. It is no t necessary. It would do hurt. It would convince no on e of the truth; an d it i5 the truth that we want tobring horne to the hearts of th e people- the truth that men ar ebrothers instead of wild beasts, the truth that there is such a thingas Infinite Love that watches over the hearts an d destinies of men;the truth that unless man turns to that light he must di e of soulI tarvation. . . . . . . 1 must leave you now, as we al l have other work to dotonight. There will be many sad catastrophes in the next 48hours. We All have much to do . Hold together in rhought, inharmony. Throw out good, kind, loving thoughts to al l men.Hold yourselves as elose to the center as possible, an d watch. )will sa y Cood Night, my children."December 6, 1898. Hilarion.

PROPHECYTemple T eachings, Open Series, No . 29 8

Th e laws governing al l Prophecy are as scientifically exact a:ar e the laws of Attraction an d Repulsion. The energy, directionan d scope of a given cause will invariably determine the effect 0that cause.A Master, or so-called Prophet, can predict an event more 0less accurateJy, according to the knowledge he has acquired of th., laws governing potential force. An exact prediction is a solutio!( of a universal, mathematicalor geometrical problem. The predictions made by psychics by means of glimpses int. the astral envelopes of the earth ca n never be depended upon;such glimpses ma y be reflections of past or future events; or theyma y be bu t thought-forms generated in the minds of ma n kind.T 0 correctl y determine the final result of a particular cause,th e prophet must be able to estimate correctly the force of the


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(The above was given during the late World War. -Edi to r . )

OUR DAILY PRAYERFather-Mother-Son in One, From our inmost hearts we plead Fo r power to love unselfishly, Fo r wisdom to perceive aright, Fo r courage to pursue a righteous course, For determination of purpose, and Fo r will to ac t according to Thy will.

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BLA VATSKY DEPARTMENTThis department will be confined to the teachings of H. P. Blavatsky. In it will be published, so fa r as possible. the views expressed by H. P. B. on anygiven subject.Our readers are requested to oond in an y questions on any subject whichthey wish to have elocidated, and we will endeavor to search through the writings of H. P. B. and publish he r teachings on such subjects.Conducted by Ernest Harrison, Temple Scribe. Address, Blavatsky Department, Temple Artisan, Halcyon, California.

EVOLUTION (Continued)The question will naturally occur, in what manner does thisforce, impalpable, incomprehensible, throw th e material universeinto form? and perhaps by analogy we may gain some inkling ofth e process. Le t us take, fo r example, a block of ice and follow th eelements of it s composition through the seven sub-planes of thephysical plane, reaIizing as we do so that this analysis applies onlyto th e physical and that th e physical is th e lowest plane of seven


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"The effectuaI fervent prayer of a righteousmuch.'Th e above was written many centuries ago,powerful today as when first written.Throughout the ages earnest an d sincere prayers,

from the heart of man, have been one of themunication between ma n an d God.There are selfish prayers, an d there ar e unselfish prayers. Butthose high entities back of evolutionary la w an d all life respondto man' s prayers according to the power an d attitude of thesender: those prayers go forth into the realms of inner planeswhere they ar e answered in accordance with their inherent power.

In the occult realm, forces of energy ar e interchangeable invarying degrees, an d true prayer is created as a result of the combination of the forms of energy of thought an d words, an d is sentforth to the highest realms of being where the Masters of Love an dCompassion hear an d respond according to the power an d force ofthe supplicant.A heart filled with love an d faith, in renunciation of self,invoking the highest impersonal forces an d praying in the spint of"Not my will bu t Thine be done," leaving the results to the GreatLa w of Divine Wisdom, is answered for the greatest good of aU.A selfish prayer with motive of personal gain does not go veryfar, because "i t meets on an interior plane other forms of the sameenergy, the desires of which are in opposition to it, an d on e neutralizes or destroys the other, an d the consequence is neither desirereaches those who have the power to answer ...

All doubts would vanish if ma n could see the exquisite coloran d light generated by the return wave of true prayer, an d themost skeptical would be convinced of the great love of the Masterin Hi s desire to help those afflicted an d sorely tried.

With the wOTld fuH of hatred, evil. fear, destruction. an d greatsuffering, there is a constant stream of prayers an d supplicationsgoing out to the Creat Healer. an d same da y these results will beseen in greater measure as many prayers are offered to God. Th ecombined prayers of those beseeching help an d relief will inevitablychange existing conditions. These radiating forces of light willhelp to harmonize the discordant elements. making a wedge inthe iron wall of selfishness that is trying to gain power. Then willma n be enabled to practice true brotherhood. Men, nations, an d

. '{ (jJeC L( G - TH E TEMPLE ARTlSA."'l' 51races will live as brothers. Justice will rule. an d the spirit of freedom will prevail over the earth.

B. 5., a Great Soul of Light, who suffered with humanity in it stragedies. sorrows. an d loneliness. who touched the heights an ddepths of life. wrote the following prayer:"W e offer Thee. 0 God. Thou wh o gavest us so lavishly ofLife and Love an d treasure past all telling. we dare to offer Thee aheart divided against i tself-the broken links of that vast goldenchain of hope an d faith. obedience an d trust. the chain Thou gavestus in youth."W e offer Thee a wor.ld gone ma d with lust an d cruelty an dselfish greed. 0 God; we offer these. bu t offer them with faces inthe dust. with hands outstretched in pleading that no Hps woulddare to utter."W e offer them with eyes bedewed with tears an d penitencepast power of speech, upon Thy Holy Altar. that refining fires ma ysearch them till Thou findest in their ashes once again the preciousgold we lost at parting of the ways."W e plead for opportunity an d power to see the right-handpath ~ h e r e lies the gold which glitters not-Humili ty an d SelflessLove.F or the Listener of Al l Life ever responds to the pleas an dprayers of His children-whatever wa y answered. partial fulfiUment or in whole--and acts according to Divine Will. for thegreatest good of all. P. F. D.

THE POWER OF LITTLE THINGSOnly a soul that is capable of apprehending an d using th e

minutiae, th e small details so unbearable to on e dass of humanity.an d utilizing them as a chess player uses his knights and pawns fo rthe winning of agame. can by any possibility reach for an d graspthe true infinite Potency. F 01', first of aIl. it is power over littlethings that leads in the en d to power over the great.T 0 live on the spiritual plane means to keep one's self constantlyin touch with all sweetness. all purity. all love. The ma n or womanwh o is discourteous, unkind. an d selfish toward the least of th elittle ones of Christ is obstructing the very Christ-currents in hisown aura an d making it impossible for the potency therein to manifest itself.No truer estimate of a great soul can be made than by watehingits attitude toward the small vexations of daily life. those trivialthings which are capable of tearing down the walls we may havemade about ourselves an d leaving th e soul naked in the silence thatfalls upon it after the stress an d stonn of those battering, disintegrating little wornes an d cares which pile up like a pathless mounta in thickly covered with brambles and briers that sting an d tear tillthe mind grows desperate in contemplation.


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PRAYERAlmighty God, Father-Mother of all that lives, in deep thanks_giving for all the mercies Thou hast shown mankind through aeons

past, we venture to plead fo r help in these, ou r hours of Supremetrial.Lighten the darkness of ou r ignorance an d bring us to knowledge of our duty toward those other fragments of Thyself who ar eno w swiftly passing 0' er the bridge which separates the fields ofdeath ho m the fields of L fe Immortal-those other souls who,with ourselves. have plunged th e earth in sorrow past all telling.Help us willingly to bear our part of the crucifixion of th eChrist an d not to shrink horn th e Gethsemane which awaits th epenitent.Help us, 0 God, to strive to open wide the path to Devachanfo r those now thronging its threshold, that so they may pass unscathed to realms of peace. Help us to keep elear th e path bywhich they ma y return to US, if such be Th y will, all th e wiser,stronger, purer fo r their bath of fire.Weak and helpless though we seem to be in the face of th ecolossal issues before the whole human race, ye t 'have we faith tobelieve that, because of ou r relationship to Thee, Th canst useus to Th y glory an d ou r eternal good. ouTruly are we Thine. 0 Father-Mother of mankind. T 0 Th e bepraise an d honor evermorel e

8.S.THE FORTY-FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDAnON OF THE TEMPLE OF THE PEOPLE

November 15 marked th e F orty-First Anniversary of the F oundation on this plane of The Temple of Th e People. lt was commemoTated in BIue Star Temple in the 36 meeting on Tuesday,November 14, by reading of some of the early papers and noteson Interviews which th e Master Hilarion ha d with the group be fore an d after the Initiations founding the Temple. Th stronglyeyconveyed to aJl assembled the high powerful spiritual vibrationsthat prevailed at that time. Among the papers which wereread were the following excerpts hom notes on Interviews withthe Master:

"The Temple was organized on November 15, 1898, at 8P. M., in Hiawatha Hall, Syracuse, N. Y., where Initiations ofthe Three and the Seven were held.

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"The Master informed th e group before the Initiations thatthe Temple work should not start an d nothing be sent out unblafter th e Initiations."B e true Red Men. Centuries ago, we were al1 together asRe d Me n on the spot where you ar e now. an d We take th elines up no w where we laid them down. . . . These lines werelaid here thousands of centuries ago, an d have been taken up oradded to every century since.' ..."I want you all to try to realize how, sacred, an d greata privilege yo u are having. I cannot show you now it means,for it means so much more than human tongue could utter. Keepyour rninds firmly fixed on th e Christ." ...' ' ' fry to realize what it should be , what true brotherhoodmeans. It 1S not an empty word, but every letter pregnant witheternal truth." ..."Use some part of that day specially by yourselves, in lookingover all your past life in this incarnation. See wheTe you havemade mistakes, lifting your heans to the highest an d asking helpto r the tuture, fo r yo u will need it sorelyin the years to come."" ' fhe very effort we are making to blast the powers of darkness will bring them forth with all the venom an d hate it ispossible to conceive, an d they will try to hurt in every way thosewho are trying to change these conditions. But with cleanhands an d a pure heart we can do a1l things." ..."A t that very hour the three greatest Initiations in th e Cosmos take place. Y ours is small beside the others. Th e third,which I have not mentioned before, is th e entering into Nirvanaof a Great Soul, which means many, many human lives."

Question. "Do yo u mean a planetary spirit Is bornt"Answer, "Yes, an d the whole movement goes on because ofthat." ..."1 have need to irnpress upon your minds very strongly theimportance of the service which will take place on holy groundtomorrow evening. . . . YOu cannOE enter upon that service withtoo much preparation. lt is th e holiest hour of your series of lives.Yo u have reached that hour an d wo n it s privileges through great

trial an d suffering in th e past. It ha s been won by your own souls'travail." ..."When that Initiation takes place there:will be another at

the center of the earth. . . . After th e cereIIlony of the Initiationis finished that One Who is the White Star will talk to you an dbless yo u all an d you must listen to Him, revel'ently. He is th esynthesis of the Universe. . . . lf we accomplish what we are trying to do, we will bring about that condition of pure blessednessof the Golden Age."This is th e charge givenon the night of th e Initiation:"Warriors of Light, Warriors of T ruth, I salute yo u in th e nameof th e Great White 8rotherhood. Go forth to battle with th epowers of darkness, armed with the Sword of the Spirit of God,


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Th e first Order formed after the Initiation of the Seven an dthe Three was the Order of the 49 ; this wa s followed b th eyOrder of th e 36. Fo r a time the Order of the 49 was secret, bu tafter th e Order of the 36 was formed, the Order of the 49 be-came public. Then at Halcyon the Order of the 28 wa s fOTmed,also the Order of the 14.

Exc:erpts from Interview with Master Hilarion April 6. 1899 Th e traits which make it possible for me to reach yo u or

that tend to foster YOUT rapid development make you far moreamenable to the influence of apparent trifles, an d as it is tm eof each one of yo u it is tenfold more so in th e case of B. S. owingto the present condition of the physical an d astral matter con-tained in that organism. . . .Y ou must help me, my children, to keep this link intact. lt

is impossible for you, wh o see almost nothing besides the mereshell of what to yo u apparently is B. S., to imagine anything aboutthat entity. You see comparatively nothing bu t the littleness ofit, the careless word, the carelessly expressed thought, the caTeiessdress or actions. You see nothing of the soul that ha s stood at thestake, that ha s been under the knife, that has been strangled, thatha s endured what it would take weeks to enumerate.

f have told you before when speaking of the law of supply an ddemand that you would ge t horn that entity just what you de -manded. 1f yo u will demand through her, an d help he r to ex-press what 1 have to give through her, yo u will do as much to-wards th e saving of this planet as I or she can do. For we arean bound together. we must all rise or fall together. T ry to putaway horn you the hunger of heart that calls for physical ormental or psychic experience. Realize the immensity of the stake.Realize that the saving of this planet hangs on yo u as much ason an y on e else, that the time will surely come when all thatyo u have longed Jor and hoped for will co me to yo u if you doyour duty now.

Question. Ho w is the disciple to measure his tTue status inth e evolutionary scale?Answer. He ha s no need to measure his status, it is a hindrancean d a great one to be constantly thinking of where one stands,whether one is above or below some entity; it is a wrong stand-point. Remember. we ar e all one. there is no high. no low. When

th e moment comes that the soul has attained its true growthit will break into blossom as th e bud !rom a plant, an d from

THh. Th.!>i}'L1:.. i . i n ' l :SAN. - - - - - - - - - - - - ~ - -

pUTe impulse. On e ha s nothing to do with it, so to speak. lt isgoverned by law. lt cannot be kept back an y more than a childcan be kept in its mother' s womb after it is ready to be born.Question. How can one find the void in hirnself?Answer. As long as on e ha s anything to be filled in his nature

the void is there.Question. Ar e we to find ou r "own fullness of form or force"in another personality consciously on the physical plane before

conscious growth is attained?Answer. At some time one will meet with that complement;that is a necessary thing. lt ma y not be in this age, bu t it surelywill be in another, an d time is nothing. The day' s work be-

fore you is all that is necessary for you to know ab out.Always use your reason, intuition and judgment as far

as they will possibly take you. This is a sure guide, usually, fo ryo u must remember that you are protected as far as may bepossible, but up to a certain point yo u are absolutely free, other-wise yo u could not grow. You cannot be bound in any way;you must use judgment, intuition an d 'leason, for it is by themthat yo u do grow to as ta te where the spiritual powers begin todevelop.

Excerpts frorn Interview with the Master, February I , 1900My Children, I wish to impress upon you most earnestly the

necessity for confidence, power an d strength in yourselves. Thereis no w all oveT th e earth a demonstration of a most fearful reality.I desire to have yo u hold constantly in mind no t only your ow nneed, but the needs of all others, for yo u should be a unit in thisrespect. You can do much, even little handful that you are, inwarding off some of the calarrlities that are bound to come with-out yourhelp, in addition to that of others. F or the time is fastapproaching that has long been prophesied when famine, pesti-lence and war shall devastate the earth. That time is no w here.By holding yourselves in a firm, strong attitude, realizing that th eReal You cannot be hurt or harmed, whatever ma y come, yo umay do much to aid yourselves an d those whom yo u love. Thisconfidence of 'which I no w speak is of fa r more consequence toyou than yo u ca n no w realize, it is a force in itself that will ai dmore in your ow n development than an y other, an d without whichyo u will be helpless. T ry to realize that there can be no failure,as far as you are concerned, if yo u can attain to this confidenceof wh ich I speak. Do not be afraid of the attitude which somecall prayer. I do not mean a begging to an imaginary God. butaspiration and keeping in th e heart th e true love fo r all humanityan d th e desire to aid all. Hilarion


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TUE TEMPLEfern ~ O S M I C A L L ne T eQJ.ple ofthe People'cQfJesponds

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t4?the p e of HWDlUlltY.... . '" . . . . " , "" , . ,_ .". TH E TEMPLE -of H ~ a n i t y consiatsof '.11' hutilJls'who, having awakened into a knowledge of t h ~ i r ow n divinity. have und;:r_taken to tread the Path, lind of those who. dev.ote.t.b.eir lives totAeunselfish service of inankind.SPECIFICALLY Th e Temple of the' People is onebodies or vehic::les for the manifestatiQn .,of tlte Avatar or Christoa

for th e New Dispensation. the dawn of th e NevtCivilization for th eraces oE the earth. lt was founded in New York State in the secondeyc:le of the Great Ladge movement in November. 1898, by threeMasters assisted by othen for the laying of tt;.e mental. physicalan d spiritual foundations of the coming Sixth Race.TH E OBJECTS of the Temple are:First: Ta fotmulate th e truthe of J;eligion a8 the fundamentalfactor in the evolution of the human race. An d this does no t meanthe formulation' of a c:reed. .. " , ' , 'Second: Toset forth a philosophy af life that is in accord

with natural an d divine law. 'Third: T 0 promote the atudy of tbe adences an d th e fundamental facts an d laws upon which the acienc:es ar e batled whic:h

will permit ua to extend our belief an d knowledge from what isknown to tbe unknown.Fourth: T 0 promote the study an d practiee of Art on fundamental liDes. showing that Art is in reality the application ofknowledge to human good an d welfare. and tba t the Christos canspeak'to humanity through Art as weIl as through an y other fundamental line of manifestation.Fifth: Tb e promotion of a knowledge of true sodal aciencebased on im;m.utable l a w ~ showing th e relationship between manan d man. an d ma n and God 8,Iid nature.When these relationshipsar e understood we will inatinctively formulate an d follow the lawof aue brotherhood.REUGION, SCIENCE, AN D ECONOMICS, these ar e thefoundation stones of Th e Temple. There un be no true religion

without its s c i ~ t i f i c basis. an d there can be no right ~ o n o m i c system no t based on a sclence that is religioua an d areligion thatis acientifie.' 'Address TH E TEMPLE OF THE PEOPLE, Halcyon. Calif.

(Tbe SocIety 01 Tbe Temple of tb e Peop1e i8 not respomdble fo r _y.atemeut In tbis Maga.I:ine, unIeM made ofllelally.) .. '

The Temple Artisan VOLUME XL OCTOBER-NOVEMBER, 1939 Nos. 5,- ~ - - -

HEHOLD, I GIVE@ UNTO THEE A KEYASYEJUDGE

Bear wen in mind the truth that i t is only'according to ou r ability to forgive our brothers'offenses against us that the Higher Self of eachone can gain the power to forgive the offensesof the lower seH against its divine nature, Love.When we have come to a realization of thatfact we will be inclined to rid our hands an d ourpockets of the stones we have gathered an dhold ready to f1ing at aoy offender. an d tosay to such a one, "1' cannot save you horn theeffects of the cause you have set up. bu t I ..:anan d will help you to bear those effects, for I. too,am guilty in your guilt.No man can sin or suffer alone. There isbut one spirit, one soul, one body."A s ye judge, so shall ye be judged", is adecision constantly being handed down by Di-vine Justice and rendered according to inevocable law.Man is continually trying to revoke th ..law, or to twist the decision into meaning 'Jome-thing, anything, save its seH-evident interpretation, until he fa ces his own soul and realizes

that the decision affects hirn primarily.+


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10 TH E TEMPLE ARTISANphysical principle unknown to our planet. These, united with nega.tivepositive 60 of the eighth Solar Hierarchy, constitute the CosrnicWord of One Hundred and Twenty syllabi es. Like procedure givesfo r the ninth planet, that of the vegetable kingdom, the figures 68whieh, with th e 68 of the ninth Solar Hierarchy, gives th e CosmieWord of One Hundred and FiftyTwo syllabies.Our Masters have learned from the Higher Kumaras. and theyin turn from a higher source, that in th e crowning tenth Solar Hier.achy occurs another subdivision, affecting the outmost and as yet"undiscovered" worId, one farthest removed from the unying Willof Jupiter and yet the polar opposite of that kingly sphere. On theremote horne of the mineral evolution the outcome of final sex-subdivision is indicated by the figure 152, whieh, united with th e Supreme Positive of the Tenth Solar Hierarchy, gives for our Solar System the allinclusive Word of Three Hundred and Four syllabies.Strictly speaking, the Great Word is of Three Hundred syllables plus their four connectives. those of Spiritual Will, which linkour Suns and Planets to the next higher systems in the Cosmicchain.

H. P. B.

SOCIAL SCIENCETheosophy, Temple Teachings, and New Thought.

There is, at times of a recrudescence of New Thought, Christian Science, an d Mental Healing, a tendency frequently noticeable toconfuse these issues with Theosophy.New Thoughtism and Theosophy are not the same. l\Iary Bake r Glover Eddy and Helena Petrovna Blavatsky are two entities a;:;different as are their philoRophies. And their disciples, apostles.and martyrs are different. Occasionally an Eddyite slips over thcH. P. B. camp, and less frequently a Theosophist who has a sciaticathat she can't ge t rid of, or who has all too easily got rid of her money and wants it back again, will go over to the Mary Baker camp.But, taken by and large, the difference between the two forces per-Brochures or even tomes might be written on this differente'.nu t let UR boil them down 10 crux, a quintessencf'. an epitomrwhat that distinction is ano h,uye it at that.The Divine-:.I.lental-Chrisiian-Sdence, ~ p w Thought, group"u:;c mental anrl spiritual forces fr certain specifie end:;:

THE TEMPLE ARTISAN 1lThe Theosophist groups use mental and spiritual forces forcertain specific end s:' ' ' 'hat are those ends?(1 ) New Thought offers, through a \'ast literat ure, thousandsof churches, innumerable and successful teachers, re ward for workdone on the spiritual plane.(2 ) So does Theosophy.(1) New Thought offers health and wealth,-a successfulbody and a successful environment. From them is supposed to bow .a successful world.(2 ) Theosophy does not.(1 ) The New Thoughter may and is encouraged to utilize anthe spiritual powers he can control or buy fo r the purpose of attaining for hirnself those ends whieh he hirnself thinks that he needsfor hirnself for his own advantage, happiness, and success.(2) To the Theosophist all this is forbidden.Without taking the time and space to quote from the shiploadsof New Thought literature, "Science of Health", "Unity", " N a u t i ~ lus", and all th e rest of them, let us take it as given that this literature preaches every kind of success to be acquired by the student

through psychic and spiritual praeti ce. Anyone who does not realize this may open any page of any New Thought publication, turnto any paragraph, and begin reading. He may continue reading tillhe has read the whole fifty-year literature, and he will still be reading that same paragraph. Any man who has read two distinctive,exegetic paragraphs from one Christian Science or New Thoughtbook has read them an.H was said that Robert Ingersoll spent his life threshing thesame straw. So did Henry George. But they threshed it. So didthe New Thoughters. They said it an on the first page, and thenthey said it over again through forty libraries full of books.The material of Theosophy is inexhaustible, and with the discovery or comprehension of th e Fourth Dimension it s literature maybe said only to have made a good start. A man may read in "TheSecret Doctrine", "Isis Unveiled", in the works of the mystics, occlllti8tS, Rosicrucians, Theosophists, in the Temple Teachings, or inthc New Physics for a wholc life-time and hardly read th e samething twice. New Thought 18 one trail, a trailleading to a comfortable bungalow, a Buick, and sound lungs. TheoHophy i8 every roadon this planet and on all our sister planets und bespeaks and leadsto the E\'olution of }lan.lt takes half an hour to hear everything' 01' con:;equence thatNew Thought has to say. To hear aB that Thco:,:ophy has to saytakes one complete .\ram'anta ra.Bu t this is not enoug-h. l t remain:s ab o tu Ix' ;;aid that the twoor "c:ience;-.;, lead in opposite direction,;.Buddhi"t, Hcrmetic, 01' Chri:;tian .'.l:-;"tk rnay nfJt g- d rich


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12 THE TEMPLE ARTlSANusing occult powerChrist'::; persecutors, while they watched Him die, summed upthe difference between M. B. E. and H. P. B. in one succinct sentence:"He saved others: Himself He cannot save 1"M. B. E. wore an eight hundred dollar ermine cloak. H. P. B.

died in poverty. She would have died in poverty years sooner hutfor he r friends. New Thought has made thousands of successfulrealtors, salesmen, lawyers, and speculators. Theosophy, Christ,and the service of the Lodge have hrought countless people to thePotter's Field.I t is said that W. Q. Judge ne ver permitted Theosophy, occultism, or religion to be talked in his office nor thought about suchthings in office hours. This means that he never used spiritual power or Lodge forces to help him "get business". New Thought attor-neys practice occult methods in their profession all the time andboast of the business it brings them.The president of the U. of C. Theosophical Club said to the writer: "I am going to be a sehool teacher because that's where I canget over my message".The same day a New Thought lecturer in Berkley said, "By my

method I can make you nationally and internationally famous inyour profession".The last I heard of number one he was still getting over hismessage. The last I heard of number two she had cleared up twenty thousand dollars in Oakland from Bay Cities business men whowanted a better automobile and a bigger house. .New Thought said to Jesus, "Cast Thyself down, and I will giveThee all the kingdoms of the earth". J esus repIied, "Get thee behind me, Satan!""Unity" oifers to sell your real estate at a profit. Jesus hadnot where to lay His head. "Nautilus" will make you rich. TheTemple Teachings won't. The medieval Rosicrucians took the oathof poverty: the Los Angeles mental science men take the oath ofwealth.This is not an argument fo r poverty. Poverty is . unscientific,immoral, and disgusting. Le t us all be rieh. We shall be when theAquarian Age has begun the ordination of a new race, when co-operation and economic fraternity have taken the place of NewThought get-rich-quick sehemes.Another point.There is that old confiict between emironment and .Man. NewThought says that all environment comes from thought and consciousness. Materialism says that Man and his thought and consciousness come from environment. Theosophy says that Man andhis environment are two halves of one contemporaneous and organic'."hole. When the New Thoughter says, "All your environment 1S

1:)THE TEI\lI'LE r \ R T I S A ~ the result ()f your thought." and when the radical determinist ~ a y s , "All your thoughts and con"ciousness are thc real result of your environment," both are \yrong.Theosophy says: "Your though ts rcact in environment; yourenvironment reacts in thought. Neither had a beginning; neitherwill ever end."Let us take two instances of en\'ironment acting on eonsciousness. Henry Ford found his workmen spitting tobacco juice intothe corners of his factory rooms. Did he preach to them or try tochange their consciousness? No. He paint ed every corner in hisfactory a pearly white. Men don't spit on a pearly white fioor.That e n d ~ d it . A change in the men's environment changed them.In the Ghetto of Prague the Jewis h men wore long braids. The orthodox Russian J ewish women in the Ghettos of the Ukraine wore wigs. The Chinaman wore a pigtail. In New York these baards, wigs, and pigtails are discarded, and rou have young Jewish and Chinese Americans who ehew gum, dance tangos, and take Ph. D's at the University of New York. These beards, wigs, and pigtails had persisted for thousands of years. I f environment had not changed they would have been worn forever. Instances like these could fill all the shelves of the Halcyon library. Enough to say this: Thought will change environment up toa certain point. Environment will change consciousness up to a certain point. Theosophy and the Temple Teachings teach us tochange our thoughts and to change, if possible, all the untowardcircumstances under which we and our brothers live. About thecruel condition under which millions of our brothers have to spendtheir lives New Thought and Christian Science say nothing, nor how

to change such conditions. The Temple does.The :Master who organized the Temple placed it upon two bases:The Teachings and the Land. I f either fails, so does the other. Hesays so. Let us quote Him:Lesson 16: "Unless the Temple can be made the refuge of thethc resting place of the weary, the home of the homeless, itmust fall in it s mission . . . . . . . . "Lesson 32: "He, the chela, must have learned how to reach ou ta brimming cup of compassion to all others in need, but he m'Jstdeny himself a draught from the same cup and remain c o m f o r t l e ~ s , unless some other traveler on the same path intuitively feels andsupplies his need."Lesson 12: "Some of you are frequently asked why mental healing is not openly advocated by Temple members. As weIl might theyask a 8choolboy why he does not perform a difficult (surgical) operation or take upon himself the care of a case of typhoid fever."LesBon 3: " It seldom occurs to the advocates of modern mental~ c i e n c e that the exercise of the affirmative power . . . . . . may resultdlsastrously to themselyes as weIl 80S to such ignorant and innocent


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pupils as an , no t eonlent wi th natural c\'olutionary methocls.""I f , by th c eXercifl of th e power of affirmation, a man has. ":dcc,pedecl in drawing to himself a large share (Jf th e wealth of the'wor!d. th e positiv!:' forees aroused by the amassing of that wealthwill bring into action th c opposing or negative forees, and these willtake from hirn something in his nature whieh is exaetly equivalentto th e wealth tlC b8 8 seeured.""Ir une Will::; ".'ealth, fame, or any o t h ~ r E 0 ealled treasure bvth e method whic-h natural evolutionary law w:ll teaeh him,that i8 bvlabor Otalks are [;1 i:le), the same forees man; F-::st, bu t in a fa r le;sdallg'erOLis nmllner.'"Thl;! occult meaning of th e sentenee, 'Tby will be done', ma.y besummed up in th c \\'ord 'Indifferenee' as usPrl hy learned' mystics.O n ( ~ great cau"e of dHnger in th e exercise of the power ,'lf a f f i r m a t ~ o n lies in th e elimination of this principle and in thu putting in it::; placethc most intense de:sire."Lesson 4: "No where in literature ma y the two qualifications forchelaship be found more clearly defined than in th e Sermon on th eJHount: The poor in spirit; the sorrowing ones ; th e meek; the mereiful; th e peaeemakers; the persecuted ; the pure in heart. Theseare the children of God, th e chelas of th e Masters."-Sydney Hillyard, Halcyon, Calif.

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"And Adam--begat a son in his own likeness, after his ownimage, and ealled his name Seth."After which he begets other sons and daughters, thus provingthat Cain an d Abel ar e his own allegorical permutations. Adamstands for th e primitive Human Race, especially in it s eosma.sidereal sense- -The compound name of Jehovah, or JahHovah,meaning male life and fern ale life--first androgynous, then separated into sexes-is used in this sense in Genesis from Chapter V.onwards."

"The original meaning of Enos, th e son of Seth, was th e firstRace born in th e present usual way from man and woman, for Sethis no ma n bu t arace. Before hirn humanity wa::; hermaphrodite.While Seth is th e first result (physiologically) after th e 'Fall', he 1So.lso th e first man; henee his son Enos is referred t( 1 ss th c 'Son of':Han'."

"The 'Lcml' i:-; Adam Kadmon. the 'Faiher' of Yo(i.Hev;1., 'Adu.n-Eve' or Jehovah, th c son of sinful thought, not; h,: progeny offlesh and blood."

"Cain --is he son of the 'Lord' not of Adam." "Seth, on thcother hand. is the leader and progenitor of th e Races of thc Earth;fo r he is th e son of Adam, exoterically, bu t esoterically he i3 ih eprogeny of Cain and Abe!. since Abel or Hebel is a female, th e counterpart and female half of the male Cain, and Adam is the eolleetivename fo r man and woman. 'Male and female created He t h em - amI called their name Adam'.'"

"Verse 26 of Chapter IV. of Genesis, when read correctly, wouldalone give them such a right. for it calls the new Race of mensprung from Seth and Enos-Jehovah, something quite differentfrom the translation adopted in the Eible."

"The verses in Genesis from Chapters 1. to V. are purposely mixed up for Kabalistic reasons. After the 'Man' of Genesis 1:26, and Enos. th e Son of Man, of IV:26 after Adam, the first Androgyne; after Adam Kadmon-the sexless (the first) Logos-Adam and Eve onee separated, come finally Jerhovah-Eve and Cain-Jehovah. These represent distinct Root-Races, fo r millions of years elapsed between them."

The above are excerpts from "The Secret Doctrine"! VoL lI.,pages 132 to 135 inclusive. They are rieh in symbolie meaning, asthe reader's intuition must diseern. .Take, fo r instance, th e symbolie significanee of th e feminineand masculine eomposition of Abel and Cain-Abel as th e femalohalf of th e male Cain. From this standpoint what would be th emeaning of th e murder of Abel by Cain. Regarding this entity asarace, it could only mean th e killing out of suppression of th e feminine or intuitive instincts in that raee by th e masculine powers eoming into dominating existenee as intellection or reason. And is notthc "mark of Cain" whieh th e Lord pu t on his forehead simply th esign of development of th e front part of th e brain, which is thereasoning or intellectual part, and which exeessive development ha skilled out or stifted the intuitive or finer feminine impulses, whichknow without th e elaborate processes of intellectual reasoning?I t will be noted that Adam and his progeny stand as symbo1sfo r races. Up to the latter part of the Third Root Race, these wereall androgynous. Beginning with the race designated by the termEnos th e two sexes came into manifestation, and the processes ofgeneration accordingly ehanged.There is apar t of th e human organism that represents, and is,th e Third Root Race. This is th e brain. wh ich is an androgynom;


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- ----------a. "" '... ..."'l"''''.L .L.L""" Nos. 1, 2, 3June, July, August, 1931

HELENA PETROVNA BL AV ATSKY. Taken by Beardsley oE Ithaca N.Y. in 1875, at the time of the Ithaca vlsit.

unto thee a keyold I give

THE GREAT PEACEplace my heart upon your oWTI that you maY be welded togetherLe t nothing come near to disturb through these days of th ePeace. Yo u climb from opposite points of life, bu t it is th e

stairway, th e final mount of which will a1ways bring yo u to -gether in every effort or problem. Never halton any less than the topmost step throughdoubt or fear. Such alone can separate youand blacken th e step on which you halt.Whenever difficulty of understanding fallsupon you, always climb higher unti1 yo u reachth e broader landing at th e top on which opensth e door of th e House of Wisdom and Learn-ing, th e Temple of your oWTI Souls an d Hearts,the Horne of the Master an d all most dear toHirn an d you. There alone can you find peacean d happiness. The light from that Houseshines dear and wide to help you in thatdimb; th e fire on that hearth burns bright towarm an d cheer you when you enter.+July 26, 1926.


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73 74HE TEMPLE ART/SANfo r a higher step, i t will remain in th e Upper Astral. The soul thatwas manifested in two bodies on the lower plane would have bu t oneon its return.

A Group Soul may be represented by a seven-pointed star, seventimes seven, or forty-nine. There are other figures that would represent it on it s return better than those I have mentioned that I ('annot give now. There is one on the Temple Pavement that representsit pefectly, and that you will see some day. The whole is representedin the pryamids of Egypt, particularly in the one ealled "Great".

The development of all Jives is like the progression of geometrical figures, as thay are called, though of course such illustrationsconvey no adequate coneeption of the truth, for those lines are inreality living entities. Those geometrical figures, 80 called. arereally composed of substance in as t a t e of unfoldment, as is allMatter, Force, an d Consciousness. Every spiritual being is a line.There is a certain individuality in every atom in manifestation.H-ep

INDIANS HAD THE FIRST "LEAGUE"Washington, May 5. (B y Universal Service.)

Nations of today str"iving for universal peace might weil studyth e anclent pact. of the Iroqouis Federation of five nations of NewYork State Ind the Smith,wnian Institution has declared.

The federation of five natiuns was formed about 1570 betweenth e Mohawk, Onondago, Oneida, Cayuga and :)eneca Nations, J. N.R. Hewitt of the Bureau oE American Ethnology said. It was basedon three sets of "double" p r i n c ~ i p l e s - health and peace, righteousness and justice, authori ty between man and man. The Iroquoiswere in the stone age wnen the peace plan went into effect, but itendured through centuries.

The league se t a legal tender price on human life so that thedeath of a man, eitber by accident or design, would cease t() bringin its train an endless series of revenge deaths. A male l i f ~ waspaid for by 20 strings of wampum, a female iife by 30, and therethe matter enden.

Women of th e various clans e\


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) 76THE TEJ'VI'J\. {1,Je\ . RTISANl, - - -_ . __._--------_ ....._ - _ . ~ - - ' - - -is self-engraved upon th,;-tral fluid, whieh is the receptacle75 THE TEMPLE so to say, the mirror of all thc manifestations ai The si gnThe first step toward this purity is to kill out th e desire for expresses the thing: the thing is th e (hidden ur oecult) virtue of thethe things of matter, since these Ctlli only be enjoyed by th e scparated sign. To pronollnce a word is to evoke a thought and make it present.)personality. The second is to cease f rOHl desiring fo r one=elf even such The magnetie potency of human speech is th e eornrnencement of everyabstractions as power, knowledge, love, happiness or farne; for they ar ebu t selfishness after alL

Life itself teliches this lesson; for in all such objects of desi re arefound Dead Sea fruit in tb e moment of attainment. This rnuch we knowfrom experience. Intuitive perception seizes on the positive truth thatsatisfaction ia attainable only in th e Infinite; th e will makes that eonviction an actul.l fa.ct of c01s:!iou;mess, tdl at last &11 desire je centeredon the Eternal. SELF KNOWLEDGE

The first necessity for obtaining self-knowledge is to become profoundly conscious of ignorance; to feel with every fibre of the heartthat one is self-deceived.

The second requisite ia the still deeper conviction that such knowledge -such intuitive and certain knowledge-can be obtained byeffort.

The third and most irnportant is an indomitable determination toobtain and face that knowledge.

Self knowledge of this kind is unattainable by what mencall "self-analysis". I t is no t reached by re9.soning or any brain process, for it is th e awakening to consciousness of the divine nature inman.

To obtain this knowledge is a greater achievement than to cornrnand th e elements or to knl'w the future.Harmony is l1:e Il 'w of life, discord it s shadow. whence springs

suffering, the teacher, the awakener of consciousness.Through joy and souow, pain and pleasure, the soul comes to a

knowledge uf itHelf; then begins the task of learning the laws 01 Iife,thflt th e discords may be reso]ved, and th e harmony be restaren.Th e e)es of wiEdtm are Iike th e ocean there is neitherjoy ncr SOHew in them; therefer the soul of th e occultist must be come stronger than joy, and greater than sorrow.

WORDSTh e words spaken by, as weil as th e name of, every individual

largely determine his future fate. Why? Because: When ou r soul(mind) creates or evokes a thought, the representative sign of that

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mut:ifestation in the occult world. To utter a name is not only todeIine a Bein!:; (a n Entity), bu t to place it under, and condemn itthruugh the emission of th e Word (Verbum) to the influence of oneor more occult potencies. Things are, for every one of US , that whichit t th e Word) makes whil naming them. The Word ( Verbum) orth e of every man iso quite unconseiously to himself, aor a (.urse. This ie why our ignorance about the properties andattributes of the idm, as weil as about the attributes and propertiesof matttr, ia often fatal to USo

names land words) are either belle/icent or 1Jttlficmt. Theyare, in a eertain sense, either venornuus or health giving, aecording tothe hidden influence attached by Supreme Wisdom t their elements.that is to say. to the Id/ers whieh eompuse thern, and the uumben eorrelative to theSe letters.This is strictJy true as an esoterie teaching ace?pted by all tlwEastern Schools of Oeeultism.

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THE TEMPLE ARTISAN"Yes, you are beautiful when you are seeing that which is beautiful all around you and not thinking of yourself.""Beautiful light?""Yes.""Let's go riding round and see them . ""All right.""The bird beautiful?""Yes.""Flowers beautiful?""Yes.""Narcissus hiding in them, Mama?""Yes. Now have you found Narcissus? Do you hear hirn?Do you see hirn ?" ."Yes,' I see, I find, I hear. Narcissus sings when the bird sings?Narcissus sings when I sing, Mama?""Yes, Narcissus sings when anyone sings beautifuIly.""Does Echo know?""Yes, Echo knows too whenever anyone finds Narcissus . Soif we want to help Echo we must always find the beautiful ourselves."Narcissus and Echo are like two children going to school.

Some days they work nicely, play nicely together, and when theygo to bed at night they think of all the happy things that happenedthat day. They talk about them as they go to sleep, and next morning they wonder what kind of a day they will have together. I fthey have had a good day the day before and have tried to makethings go right, studied their lessons and worked weIl, they may besure the next day will be happy too, for one day calls to the nextday and is answered by the other, just like Narcissus and Echo calland answer . When you are busy and do your work well at schoolyou receive a gold star. It is 'put on to your paper, and you bringi t horne. When you are late or do not behave as you should yourname is written on the board. Wheneve r you look at the gold staryou are happy and you echo a song. Whe n you look at your nameon the board you are sad, and you echo unhappiness.

You see; Narcissus and Echo both live within ourselves. Theyar e ourselves, the way we work and live. Narcissus is a beautifulfairY within us, and Echo the voice that speaks to us night andmorning when we ar e alone and teIls us what kind of a day we havespent. You know that voice. You often call 'Good girl, Mama rafter you have gone to bed.EverYthing we think or do is written down somewhere, on paper, on the board, in th e sky, inthe air, in a flower, in a little girl'sface, in the grass, some way, and some time we will have to read ita11, think about it . Every child has a Guardian Angel who writesdown everything that happens to the child in a Book of Life. So if

TH E TEMPLE ARTISANyou want a beautiful book to read you must find the beautiful ineverYthing and help others to find it too. Then you may be surevour book will be beautiful. You belong, you know, to the 'I WillTry' Class.""I will try, Mama, I will try.""When you grow older you will hear some big words, likeKarma and Reincarnation. When you hear people us ing them, remember to hunt up your story of Echo and see if you cannot findthe meaning of these words in the secret of Echo's story and learnit wen." (Concluded)

A LETTER FROM B. S. TO A MEMBERReferring to certain questionable books on occult philosophyand certain organizations promoting the same, the following isquoted:"They are hot-beds for the propagation of Spiritualism andmoney making. " . . . . . They are a11 selling all those things whichwork fo r psychism and black magie.The world is facing the worst danger it has ever faced sincethe sinking of Atlantis and bringing on another era of witchcraft,for a large section of the people have gone mad over psychism,and the orthodox churches are getting frightened. Theconditionsare being made for just such devilish work as has been done in previous ages of witchcraft. The trained Theosophists are breakingup into little groups, so they are not prepared to meet the organizedbodies of the orthodox churches, who ar e opposed to Theosophy inany form.You see a11 these first mentioned organizations have taken theteachings of the Master in the "Secret Doctrine" and "lais Unveiled" fo r their philosophical basis; bu t instead of bearing on the dangers of psychic methods, they are increasing the desire in their stu-dents fo r the use of such methods by advertising the sale of magiemirrors, Ouija boards, crystal balls and other things and showing. how to use them.They claim the free distribution of their teachings bu t ask fo rfree will offerings to pay for printing them. What is the differencebetween them and others who ask for adefinite sum for the pur-pose? .I f a11 real believers in Theosophy as it was taught by Blayats-ky and Judge in the original Theosophical Society could only drop

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THE TEMPLE ARTISANtheir grievances, real or personal, and combine to fight a11 this psychic and spiritualistic ro t now being taught a1l over the world, therewould be some hope. But the more I see of the spread of such literature as is that of the books and teachings before mentioned, andthe more I hear of the groups forming for the practice of what isactually black magie, the more alarmed I am .Perhaps you will remember that Master once warned us of thedanger of an era of witcheraft in the present age; and certain unprogressed orthodox bodies might easily be grouped together byfanatic urge to inhibit religious Iiberty and independent thinking,and would not hesitate to burn and torture anyone classed as aTheosophist, if publie antipathy were awakened against those indulging in the before mentioned praetiees. Sinee Master has warned us of the danger of bringing on such aperiod of witehcraft ashas existed in former ages it is easy to see just how it is being done.The Orthodox Chureh that is behind all the repressive lawsnow being made against the liberties of the people, such as freespeech, Prohibition, Sunday observanees, etc., is preparing to eomba t psyehism; and the first thing we know even Theosophis ts willbe thrown into prison and tortured for their beliefs in and practicesof black magie as is being taught by a lot of those self advertisedteaehers. When they are not fraudulent, thesespiritualistic seanees a11 eome under the head of black magie, and th e extent to whichthey are being held. especially sinee the war. is remarkable.Feeling aU this as I do, you cannot wonder that I feel it is up tous Templars to refrain from eountenancing the efforts of all thosesuddenly sprung up teachers of psychic phenomena to a totaUy unprepared people looking for sensation."(Signed) B. S. February 21, 1921.

THE GREAT CHANGEDeath

At that time when I gained a larger eonsciousness of the meaning of life I used to say that I was not afraid of death. I eould dieas the philosopher, assured that a11 is weIl. As the philosopher IIf could think of only one thing that might, nay probably would giveme pain and fear at the doorway of the departing, and that wouldmanye that I could look back and see my life strewn with aU toor failures, blotted with the sins of omission and commission.tf

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THE l'EMPLEARTlSANThat, however, is a spiritual matter and has nothin.lif to do withthe fear of death as a dissolution. I had no dread of al l unknown.Life all about me was, and is, too eloquent with saying that its answer to itself is forever, "More Life." Hut thatI . migRt IlJthink ofdeath as a thing joyouS I was ye t to havean e x p e r i e n , c ~ . . . . , " ! f J ~ . There lived in our community a dear old saint, trulY a warrlOr

of the soul who had been awal"IT/Y nurse'in the Civil Wal"; and' hadbattled and toiled and loved andserved he r fellows. Aged andbent, with crooked hands and snow-white hair, twinkling b l u e e y ~ and the soft, fresh skin of a child, she tended her fiowers and treesabout her cottage and kept it s p o t l e s ~ l y c l e ~ n inside. And shewould make pies now and again for the bachlelor men of the ~ o m -munity who were not supposed to know how to eook for themselves.But one day she fell ill. And when the Doctor was called in hefound she had a bad eold with a threat of pneumonia; but.tt w ~ s notvery serious, eertainly not suggestive of anythingnesessarily fatal,whieh the Doetor told her. ,But she said to hirn, "Doetor, you mightjust as weIl say the words ovar me fo r I am gaing." And no amountof reassurances or protestations by the Doctor made any differenee.She had made up her mindtliat it was he r time to pass over. Shewas going, and with as sweeta disposition and no more to do aboutit than if she were going doWn town .She sa t on the edge of he r bed propped in pillows for three orfour days while the Light wentot:' I went to see her toward thelast, but she did not know me . And when 1 went -4ome I' enteredmy study and went into the silenee to assist he r in the step over, ifsO I might, when, Qf a sudden, I was there in the presence of Death.And, 0, what a glory, what a peace Qnspeakable, what a place ofLight, what a time of joy! .Have you ever stood in the wilderness at the coming of morning? Have you ever feit the exquisite touch of the night becorningday? Have you experieneed the alluring mystery. the wonder,the wide-eyed expectaney of the day being born; watched the hillscreeping out of the dark, shedding the shadows behind thelll ;rnd:reaching up and up with aspiring bands to. cat eh. the. Ljg:Qtdl .andthen beheld the glory of the bursting Light as if it were the gloryof the First-Born; seen it risingwith the songs of birds and thelaughter of waters as if there had never been a morning be fore ?

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, - - - - ' ~ < . ' ", T h ~ _ r e m p ~ e ArtisanJ_ . ' ~ " " K iThe Dame of thls Soeiety ilI: ,-- - ". '::: \ 'O!"'l l '.' : \ . : \ . : \ . \ ' , \ X G L ' S ' r - S E P T E ~ I B E R . J')3, ~ u m b t ' r " " "nd- lTB E TEMPLE GF TB E PEOPLE ' i , , ~ ~ & ~ ,

The Soeiety of TH E TEMPLE OF TR E PEOPLE 12 an a u t o ~ ' 1 ' .contlnuous part of the THEOSOPHICAL MOVEMENT organized byl. ' BIi:HOLD. I GIVE UNTO THEE A KEYPetrovna Blavatsky, lnNew York City, 1875 A. D. . " . , ~ : . : : The declared objeets of th e Soeiety of TH E TEMPLE Oll' T H E P E O f l . J i i ~ FIrst:-To establlsb a nUeletl2 and a vehicle .for too essential U N I ' . l ' Y ~ , a . ; ; . ~ Ufe. '. " _,: / : ~ ' i ~ ~ . Sceond:-To bring about a greater understandlng of UNIVERSALBRO'rB::;:i\ERBOOD and the e n l l g h t e n m ~ n t of aU poopJe. . . . . . . : ; , ' ; ; .

Thlrd:-To promote a universal understanding an d tOleratlon of T R l P . l ' i I . ~ ~ i k , ; . dillgent 8tOO7 of comparative rellgkm, makjng selenee reUglous aBI" .... THE HEIGHTS SUPERNALIon sc1entlfie. Slnce TRUm 18 an integral part of tha Dature .anaof aU WORLD RELIGIONS, there never can be, ~ p t b,. tault.T,: I stand on the Mount supernal of my Spiritual.standing a wnfUct between the religions of the worla.- Divine Self. myhear t free from hatred for anyThe S'oclety owes no aUeglanee or subordlDation to. the atiil'it;y o f n i ~ creature or being, from fear of any state orer, body or offlee outside lt s own sphere of administration, vested :in tbeGi condition, my soul given in service, consecrateddlan-In-Chief. exeeptthat due respeel: is declared for e v e r y r e q ~ to God and mankind. Faith, love. compassion,ctvll law. . - : ' r beauty, wisdom, truth, the light of Ufe EternalThe Temple Gf 'lbe Poople: situate !91the. Count,. of San Lnis stlrround and pervade me, Mingled with theseState of Callfornla, U. S. A., shatt li e known as International as On e in Rhythmic Essence, , await the Voicequarters of the Society of TH E TEWLE Oll' TR E P E O P L E . ~ _ ; of the Master, which shall thrill through my beingshall be establ1sbed the permanent relJldenee of the Gwmllan-In-C_, in tones unmistakable and point me to duty un,anti members of th e Teplple Synod. . . - with power and joy in abundance. ThatMEMBEBSBlP , not overcome by the immensity of sound

" . ~ ~ ~ , that sweeps through me, or blinded by the gran,embersA&-Large:-Sball eonslst of all whO':" -have 8 1 ~ anblank for admlttance 1nt(} the TempleOf The Peo;ple, and pa,. deur of the Light that breaks upon me, I will seatdues of six dollars. Thesemembers Are consldered in the l lgh t . t myself in for a spell "n d fix my gaze upontioners ,for the Order o'fthe '36. ' '" " the Swan, th e Bird of Life, th e symbol of poiseTemplars:-:-Sball conslst of those memberswho have eerved the of the Ancients, ever balanced, ever directed(not lass than one year) as members-at-large, and have been a arigh! as it wings its course of ad;ustment throughthe Order of The 36, or EsoterIe SectiOJiof the Soclety, upon the: th e diffe;ent elements,of th e Guardian-In-Chief. These members are known as tun ' members. Th e aunna! dues are Beven dollars. Temple-8quare-Members :-8haU conaist of those membera wbo ar & Iti, mu>:t allow YOllrselves to open the innerdent at Beadquarters, bu t aetive full-partieipatlng mem1lers ot th . ea r more devoutly to the Silent Language of th ethrough il chartered Tem ple Square..... , _. Blessed One, Those wh o and Vvho learnTemple Square :-S'even memaers may make appllcatlon for a Charter ., . to hear and res pond in gladness have their ow nize a Temple-Square.. . interior reward. --loJ/J1/71'" I, 1


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or state of matter is just beyond the solid, liquid and ,gaseousthc !hysical plane. It is much rarer :md more subtle than anyof the last name states of matter. Thc etheric double is attached to thegrosser forms of matter, atom by atom, molccule by molecule, but the attachment is so slight that it is easily broken and the etheric double may bewithdrawn and, under certain circumstances, appear at some distance fromthe physical body. Much of the phenomena produced at spiritualistic seancesis brought about by the etheric double of the medium, when the phenomcnais genuine. Its substance is very fluidic and can be elongated and expanded atthe will of the medium. It will reflect the image of any picture in the mindof the medium, when it has been withdrawn at the instance of a highly developed will, even while the senses of the physical body are stilled as insleep or in trance. A trained psychic can reflect the images of each one in aroom fuH of people, on his own etheric double and so deceive them into beIieving they have seen some deceased relative Or f riend.Th e Etheric Double has no will nor mind apart from the will and mindof the physical man. It forms a medium of cornrnunication bctween the souland body of man similar to that of the etheric waves set in motion betweenwireless telegraph stations. It is this etheric double that is sometimes seenhovering over the grave of a body recently buried. It cannot entirely leavethe place until all the gross matter of the body has disintegrated and returnedto the elements, and it is primarilr for this reason that many Occultists insiston cremation. However, this belief does not universally obtain for the reasonthat the process of disintegration, however accomplished, is the work of thefiery elementals and, if undisturbed, they will do it in nature's own way;otherwise through cremation there may be an interference with karmic action.The etheric body has a certain life of its own and the average man is not wiseenough to know whether he has a right to take that life any more than he hasthe right to take the life of the physical body. He does not know just whatpart the etheric double may play in the regeneration of the soul. It was thepersistence of the etheric double after the death of the physical form that ledthe ancient Egyptians to preserve the latter.(End of Part One)

SELECTIONS FROM A PRIVATE MESSAGEGIVEN BY MASTER H.Divine Justice and Compassion are thwarte d and killed in the he art thatharbors a sense of injury. Tbat heart cannot render justice when it is filled

with thoughts of injustice toward others.Man cannot be tme to God if he is not tme to the White Lodge, whichis God in manifestation, nor tme to his solemn obligations to the same. It isa travesty on the world Law for one to demand that the Law shall mle whenthe fundamental action of that Law, which is centralization, i5 ignored :mdset aside.If one party to a controversy persist in ignoring any means which mightprove his adversary in the right, and so persists because he desires to carrysome personal desire or opinion into effect, he not only wrongs his adversarybut he build5 up a wall between hirnself and his God.Nothing will excuse the repudiation of an established Lodge Center bya disciple. Tbe edicts of Law are built up by centralization.If you believe in the fulfillrnent of Divine Law you know that the Lodge

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capable of removing l recreant exccutive or leader when the Karr.uone is full; but no aet of that rul(.>r justilies the breaking of an ob!ito such a and what is of even more importance is the dangtrof breaking such obligation because of the unproveJ a l l e , ~ a t i o n s of others.Nothing justifies thc repucliation of the \'OW5 and promises of one personbecause of real or imagined wrong done to another.You came into the world and must go out of it-alone. You ca me i ntoeach degree of the White Lodge alone. You will go thru every initiat ion ofyour 10n,1:i line of incarnations alone.

I f you are great cnough in soul to acknowledge whatever wwng you mayhaye committed, whether intentional or unintentional, make an honest selfexamin:ltion; prove your boasted desire for justice by being just to each other;prove your love and compassion for humanity by being loving and compassionate to each other. Prove your willingness to serve God by serving theGod in each other. Prove your ability for discipleship by obeying the lawsof discipleship. Turn to and help U5 prepare for the Coming of the BlessedOne, instead of making it impossible for Hirn to come among you.If you will do these things rou will be swept on in the Rood tide of theWhite Lodge force to final success.If you will not do these things you will go down and out of incarnation,the world no better for YOUf having been in it, your opportunities wasted,disaster following in your wake.It is yours to choose. We cannot choose for you. Selected B. S.

THE IMPROBABILITY OF FL YING SAUCERSThe ideas presented in this paper are possibly controversial, but theirpresentation is basecl on material summarized by one point of view. Tbispoint of view is offered with no authority or sanction either from TbeTemple Te1chers or the entities who may be arriving he re from outer space.Interpretation and logic are very apt to be wrong as right. There is muchmore emphasis on the printed Teachings than on the popular conception ofan idc:l summarized by the words "Rying saucers."The Prophet Ezekiel, "looking toward the north beheld four wheels likeunto the color of beryl, and they four had one Iikeness, and their appearance:lnd their work W:lS as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheeI." Precedingand subsequent descriptions of these wheeIs make it quite dear that all was a\"ision, carrying with it, nevertheless, an immense impact of conviction andreality on the thoughts of men who Iived aftcr Ezekiel.The wheels that h:lve been reported in the skies since the time of Ezekiel(and his were not the first ) have probably also been visions, sincere, for themost part, strictly realistic to the observer, and frequently corroborated at thetime of visibility by other obseryers. Time will tell as to whether there is anyvalid prophecy or influence, spiritual or material of these viewings.To date there has been no evidence except hope, belief, and faith, ofmlterial visitations of other self-conscious, self-controlled entities, arrivingon this planet earth by way of physicaI sense perception for any purpose,however arbitrary Of exalted. Volumes have been documented and an arm}'of witnesses, recruited from all walks of life, to verifr the idea that otherentities are arriving on this planet. Tbeir physical size, color and anatomyare as va ried as their reasons for here. Total destruction, curiosity:lnd total salvation are the objectives.
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Q1.qri!)f.5 ilayBeloved, the days and nights are one To the heart that is centered within the Sun, That radiant image of God's own face, Dispenser of Life and Light and Graee. Eaeh Christ day draws us still nearer the trail Up which we must climb to the Holy Grail. Bu t every day is a Christmas day To th e soul that has sought and found- Tltt Way. Dee. 25, 1908 B. S.

+FROM MIDNIGHT COMMUNICATlON

The days since you were last assembled as eommon body, in scheduled hours of convention. have been so overcharged with opposing. devitalizing forees of discouragement, physical incapacities, entrance ofweakening and disrupting elements permitted in instanees, along withmeritorious and wortbier endeavor to persist in face of seeming defeat,that I have feIt called to stop with you at this important Thanksgivinghour to definitely revitalize you, to charge you with actual life essencefor the coming months-to help you accomphsh and to remind youthat depression is never more than temporary unI ei S you will it so.

Ways and means will be found by you; you will ignore the ignobl!:!designs of the enemyand we will encourage and help in every waypossible.

Beloved Children, be brave; you are not without our deepest loveand care. Keep fast hold of the rock on which you have builded.

My Thanksgiving thought to you is: Look up-look up to me andsmile. Carry it for others also. The smile upon your face today maysave a desperate, stricken one whom Y0U pass by and you may neverknow.

Do you no t feel my hand, my heart with you now?Thy Father-Brother,

November 29. 1932. HlLARION.

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THE CHRISTMAS TREEt At the foot of the Christmas Tree stands the Christ Child. Ahovehang the branches. laden with berries, yea, weighted almost to theground, so futl, SI) heavy are they. Upward reach the baby arms in effort to climb the tree and grasp the berries in the Iittle hands. Buteach time the hands clasp the limbs, instead of finding support hywhich to rise, not only do th e branches yield to that gentle grasp, bu tthe tree itself inclines, loosen!! at the root, and would fall upon theLittle One, did it not leave hold, discouraged, frightened, bewildered.Bu t still the brightness of the berries lures it s gaze upward, and it triesagain and yet again, with similar result, until strength begins to fail.

Behold, what else has happened? As the tree root loosens more andmore, unabl to sustain the baby efforts to climb, the tree graduallyloses its bedeeked glory and wears, instead of it s gay adornment, amass of bronzed, browned, withered foliage, betokil"g likEnees totwig, braneh and limb. Fo r the Iife tlO longe} flows through root fromearth to limb, braneh, berry. Color, vitality ar e gone. The spirit ofthe tree has fled. Personality, selfishness, form remain. Yet still at thefoot of the tree stands the Christ Child, sad, cold, alol"e.

Hurrying, scurrying like bees maddened in swarm, like antsthwarted in building, ru n men, women, ehildren, in the midst of theChristmas season, in wild haste for gain, love, pleasure, endeavoringto hold the form of things, ignoring, refusing, unable to ai d the helpless, the tender, the ~ s p i r i n g standing 'neath their own Home Tree,seeking to reach the beauties of it s branches want only carelesslyto adorn the outer selves in desperate effort for vaingiory, bedazzlingthe eyes of the innoeent, falsely calling "Merry Christmas!" to passersby, with hatred, malice, insincerity at heart, caught in the swerving,swirling currents, from which they cannot es cape nor extricate thems e l v e s - ~ f ( ) r g d t i n g , thinking- not, rememberlng never that it ia ,,>piritalollp that Jives. that sur'vh"es, and tllat al l the mad stal1lllede of mindand b'A1Y will soon be Jlushed out of way, elloed. dropped, as witheredberdes on brONn and brittle lirnbs oi trl'es tnat wnult! not, could notg i \ ~ e i t ~ l ' l f tu tbe Chr;t in jlJy, support. encouragenwnt, beeause (Jf insecurity Il i fUO t .

Eu t tb e Chritmafl tree, th e YJ.!:df'18il, t b f ~ TrE'e of Hands,and shall L'\'cr stand. t'resh, J.!:rel!n, fiu\,'ering. baci< (Jf al! outer furm,the !')(lse!l(>d !'out, the rubr bel'ry. !Ja,,!,; of th e C i ~ i 1


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