CHAPTER II BOAZ AND JACHIN. "Where is the house that ye builded unto me?' In every problem which vexes civilization today dual opposite pillars are universally defined. The negatives of every dual problem are rising to demand that equality which is naturally written in the arch-way of life. All interpretation has defined the two pillars of the law as existing one for the other, related each to the other, hence one serving the other. Out of this definition of charity has grown an idea of charity, which is called personal service of one pillar, the stronger, supposedly, toward the other. Out of this definition of charity has grown the assumption that man serves man. Upon this assumption we have builded what we call a philosophy of life. Man cannot serve man. Man serves Law and Law serves man. That man may serve Law he is dual in all activity. To serve Law man writes all activity in equal opposite relation for the ascension of Law. In the One "way" of the Law there exists no rich pillar to serve poor pillar, no night to serve day, or day to serve night; there is One day for the glory of One. The strong do not serve the weak. Where there is poverty and riches serving each the other there is poverty of soul in rich and poor and the Law of Life is unknown. Service belongeth unto the Law, the Lord of all. Where poverty and riches exist the Law and the woman are sick and in prison. The Lord then is poor and weak and sick and the personality which is deprived of power because of sickness, poverty and crime is the personality of the Law, the Lord, thy God, sick and in prison and "ye visited me not." Charity then in giving giveth nothing to the dual personality of life, but giveth unto the Law. The need of the poor, weak, black pillar of life is the need of the rich, strong pillar. The giver gives, not to the individual, but to Life, and in the personal need sees the need of the Law who for your sakes became poor. The poor are buried with the Law for the resurrection. The riches which all men seek are the gifts of the risen Lord to all. Charity toward the Law is the greatest achievement in the whole world of Love. Government ex ists for this charity toward all. Law alone bestoweth riches. "And now abideth faith, hope and charity and the greatest of these is charity." "The poor ye have with you always." "Sell all that thou hast and give to the poor." And what hast thou? An idea of personal service, an idea of charity of one nation toward another, an idea of rulership of one over another, an idea of protection of one arm of life over the other, an idea of Colonial possession. The poor ye have always with you in the brain cell of authority, the prison cell of the Lord, where dominant ideas are clothed with stripes. "And he took them and washed their stripes." Personality will ever define charity as something proceeding from man to man. Charity is something proceeding from man to God by way of the son, and "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son." With man's definition of charity has grown up naturally into the consciousness of humanity a settled fear and distrust of humanity. The idea of the service of one of the archpillars of life toward the other brings that cry of personality, "ingratitude." Here knowledge of the key of the midst is lost. Justice establishes the midst, granting the wealth of the soul of the midst to two as long as two believe in the power of the eternal triune one to sustain two. Gratitude belongeth to the Law which giveth and upbraideth not. Wherever in civilization one pillar of life is charitable toward the other, two fail the Law, and the key-stone of the archway falls from place while two become poor and weak, unsheltered and without stay from above. Poverty here and wealth there are related to each other, lying opposite each other, for the life of that law which is sick and in prison wherever the equality of opposites is unrecognized and made manifest in the one arch law. There is a triune central relation to be seen between the saint and the sinner, the master and the servant; and when this relation is seen, there is neither bond nor free, saint nor sinner, good nor evil. Poverty is not man's but the Law's: riches is not man's but the Soul's, the triune Law manifest in two gives the whole body of life to the Lord. The glory of the Law belongs to rich and poor, saint and sinner. Sin, poverty, crime, is the burden of the Law and not the burden of humanity. Man redeems the Law from prison, to be redeemed by its regenerative triune relations. In all dual relation the triune One is in prison. We seek to lift the burden of crime and poverty and injustice from the world, not to serve man, but to serve the One Law not yet made flesh and dwelling among us. Service shall be unto the triune Law, Love shall be unto the triune Law, charity shall be unto Him that hath died, with the sins of the world upon Him. In the regeneration our service will be given to the One Law who cureth all our infirmities. Service of the holy see shall establish a just ephah, and the soul of a dual opposite equal life shall thus serve man, and feed man, and enrich man, and the charity which is given by the combined forces and organizations of the earth, shall be, not the charity of one pillar of life toward the other, but that charity to the Law which establishes the One body which is Life. And there abideth faith, hope, and charity, and the greatest of these is the third, which bestoweth Love over and in all as the Law of the Fourth. Sell all that thou hast and bestow this charity. 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