BOOK II.

TO "THE CHURCH THAT IS AT

BABYLON"

Come and let us return unto the Lord; for he hath torn and he will heal us; he hath smitten and he will bind us up.

After two days will he revive us; in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight."-Hosea VI.

CHAPTER I

"A JUST EPHAH"

"Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the Ephah?

And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar."

The cry of all life today is for the lifting up of that fundamental which is Mother Nature. All civilization waits today for that ascension which is a return and a restoration and a reincarnation of the original natural One.

Not from womanhood is man withholding the ballot of citizenship but from creation, and that in life's supreme hour when the regeneration may be again manifest in the flesh. The crime is one against Mother nature, the Mother Superior of Law, of whom is born Jesus, the regeneration, “the son of Nun." The ascension is a return by way of a triune holy manifestation in all. This return means that transfiguring ascension in the clouds of life which lifts up the fundamental one written as the first in the last place of that straight measuring rod which is the octave of Harmony and diameter of all circles.

Now our fundamental figure is "naught." This figure is the original womb of life. Man goes out from this naught as a dual humanity to return by way of a fall and an ascension to this one written above.

The first one of our understanding will be written as 01. The ascension of Law reverses the original conception writing the original 01 as 10. The whole struggle of nature is to make this ascension which is a reversal. All problems confront this one problem and none other. In the ascension of 01 to 10, the Ten has involved the Nine points of the Law in one which is 10, from one which was nothing before one, or 01. Ten declares the regeneration of the original relation. Ten is the regeneration, asking of man; "Where are the Nine?" This figure 10 represents the whole net of the law covering the whole scale of progression from first to last, including Nine.

All motion is the struggle of Life to write 10 where man sees 01. Man will seek to write this figure 1 (which is also the eye, or nine of alphabetical law) within the naught (1), thus arriving at the D-vision which separates all hemisphere in an eternal dual triune union. Now this first figure one, is it the figure one, or the letter figure I (eye) in its reality? Is it one or is it Nine? As one it is the first A, as nine it is I. Now this opposite city AI must be taken today. This city is taken in the eternal law by one who makes the sun stand still, One who is the Son of Nun.

The number Ten derives its natural divinity from the presence of the NINE, or the I, within itself. This 10 declares a fundamental naught lifted up to place at the right hand of the triune one as man faces nature. This naught is ever the world.

Dante has written the whole law of life, in which he relates the ascension to the figure Nine through Beatrice of beatific vision.

All ascension born of the involution of law is identified with the law of this figure Nine, the apotheosis of the One which is Three. Three is magnified in Nine. Nine declares a return to the fundamental 1 (one) and the lifting up of that fundamental 1 from first place to last in a scale which involves a cross which is an ascension from first to last. Nine is written in that heaven of Law which is the ascension established. It declares "a just ephah" set upon its own base in the land of Shinar. In the land of Shinar the figure 1 (one) has been lifted up to place in the Law, to be the eye of revelation, even the eternal I. Now our consciousness alone shall declare to us whether this figure 1 is one, or whether it is to us also the letter eye which we find in the ninth place of the English alphabet. Nature writes a cross from figure to letter, and the beginning of creation is not the figure or the letter but the cross forming the word. The word was in the beginning as Law. Now revelation lies in the cross of two not in the figure or in the letter.

Denying the fundamental duality of the word we deny the cross which is the ascension. The city Al cannot be taken by the understanding without law which is THE ONE LAW reaching from 01 to 10, declaring Nine manifest.

We will think of the Ephah in the land of Shi