fect harmony; by perfect harmony is meant harmony with Divine Ideas, and not an expression governed and regulated by sentiment, personal desire or man-made laws.

There is a natural desire for an expression of love and companionship between men and women. This desire is legitimate, since man and woman stand for the externalized male and female idea of God. But the man and woman in regenerative consciousness, having aligned themselves with Principle, find that their companionship is regulated and controlled by a Divine Law of action in harmony with their Ideals. The expression of Divine Love between the externalized male and female of God is neither "free love" nor "legalized love," but an expression of loyalty and adoration to God, which in itself becomes a caress that purifies and refines until all that is gross and material in either soul is transmuted into pure spiritual substance. The body of the man and woman joined in the holy marriage each becomes a radiating center of purity and life, out of which emanates the healing love of the Father-Mother. The offspring of the marriage of the resurrection is not of the flesh, but of the Spirit.

The redeemed man and woman blend as one in God, having no other interests than that of knowing God aright and serving him. To serve God is to serve humanity. The marriage of the resurrection becomes a unit of helpfulness, rather than a unit of selfishness, as is common to the marriage of the flesh.

The state cannot legalize the marriage of the resurrection though it may be called upon to sanction it, because it cannot comprehend it; neither can the man and woman joined in this marriage die any more, that is, fall back into the death-producing activities of flesh lust. "They are equal unto the angels." Angels represent holy thoughts in consciousness, and when the regenerated man and woman come to dwell in holiness

of thought they are no longer "sons of men" but "sons of God, being sons of the resurrection."

Spiritual progress is

The resurrection marriage is now being consummated in the earth. A race of gods is in the making. not a matter of time but one of realization. To get a vision of godliness is to proceed toward its attainment, for in no other way is God's will established in the earth (realm of manifestation) as it is in heaven (realm of the Ideal). The Garden of Eden is the redeemed body in which man shall live eternally in a state of bliss. In this Paradise of God (the holy body-temple) there shall be no more death, for the cause of death, sexual generation, shall have been wiped out of consciousness. Through purification of thought man will again be joined to the woman (soul) within himself, from whom he became separated by gross and material thought activity. In the resurrection marriage men and women find perfect satisfaction in utilizing their creative forces in the bringing forth of the Christ Self.

THE SCULPTOR

Chisel in hand, stood the sculptor boy,
With his marble block before him;
And his face lit up with a smile of joy,

As an angel dream passed o'er him;
He carved it then on the yielding stone,
With many a sharp incision,

With Heaven's own light the sculptor shone;
He had caught that angel vision.

Sculptors of life are we, and we stand

With our lives uncarved before us,
Waiting the hour when at God's command
Our Life-dream passes o'er us.
If we carve it then on the yielding stone,
With many a sharp incision,

Its heavenly beauty will be our own,
Our own that angel vision.

--Selected.

BIBLE STUDIES

In the wonderful picture-gallery of those "who through faith . . . obtained promises," which we find in the 11th chapter of Hebrews, is Gideon. In the Revised Version we read that "faith is . . . the proving of things not seen," and in the 13th verse of this same 11th chapter, that all these heroes by faith saw these unseen things, "and greeted them from afar."

Gideon was one of the Judges, who were the leaders and magistrates of the Israelites between the time of Joshua and Samuel. His name signifies "brave soldier, or lit., 'cutter-down.'

Like Abraham, Gideon had his dwelling-place under oak trees. An oak tree in itself stands for something very strong and protective; but, in Hebrew, it has a deeper significance than this. The word comes from the root from which is derived the word Elohim, so we are reminded of "Whoso dwelleth under the defence of the Most High, shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty," which we shall see is exactly the spiritual interpretation of "dwelling under an oak." Mr. Rawson has written that the oak tree is the symbol for a teacher.

Gideon, we read, was "beating out wheat," dividing the true from the false, when "the angel of the Lord appeared unto him." The thought that came to him was Immanuel, "The Lord is with thee." It was the same thought that came in yet far greater clearness to Mary in Nazareth. We must remember that this was the promised event to which all holy men of old ever looked: the realization on earth of man as the Son of God-"as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee."

Jesus exemplified the thought as far as was possible in the flesh; but he pointed to a higher realization -"touch me not, for I am not yet ascended unto the Father"-turning man's gaze away from all outline and personality to infinite Spirit.

This answer of Gideon to his heavenly visitor seems such a natural one: "Oh, Lord, if the Lord be with us why then is all of this befallen us?" It is what millions of hearts have asked since the days of Gideon. Divine Science alone can give mankind the answer-"In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him"-and that day knows no going down of the sun; it is today, now and always.

To Gideon's momentary doubt, we read that "the Lord looked upon him," or brought Gideon into His own presence, and said unto him: "Surely I will be with thee peace be unto thee; fear not; thou shalt

not die."

We remember the wonderful words of the Hebrew Blessing: "The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace!"-the peace of God, that can keep our hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God.

One word more we will notice. God said unto Gideon: "Go in this thy might!" The angel said unto Mary, "the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee," which power, we know, was the Holy Ghost"I can of my own self do nothing," but "with God all things are possible."

The enemy against whom Gideon waged war was Midian, which means "strife, contention." To many people, there is no enemy that is so difficult to kill. Petty quarrels, jealousies, uncharitable thoughts, how they come back again and again; nor can they ever be overcome except by divine Love the Mind that was in Christ Jesus "who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, threatened not, but committed [it all] to him that judgeth righteously."

The Midianites, however, must be exterminated before we entirely possess the Promised Land; we must "smite them as one man," impersonal evil, and that, even, as a "claim" that never was, and never shall be. -Derek, in "Active Service."

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