in the One high over all America was founded. By that founding the children of the Most High are bound to do the whole round of the Faith which was rooted in the instinct of reason. Faith does not define itself. Faith is a seed,-a seed handed down to man at all stages of evolution in his journey from nature's heaven back to that heaven. This seed he brings with him, for quickening in the soil of understanding.

Today is the quickening day of the seed, which is not quickened, except it die. Today faith adds to itself the understanding which was in its instinct of preservation. Now understanding, in the quickening of the seed, is wedded to the woman, and, as Joseph, the understanding, weds the woman, in whom the Christ is already conceived, a dove descends upon the rod of his hand, and the rod blossoms. From that blossoming hour he becomes the care-taker of the body of the one law, even to Golgotha. At first Joseph is poor, at last he is a rich man of Arimathea boldly demanding of Pilate the body of Christ. Joseph is ever, He who adds. He is "a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepard, the stone of Israel").

Now this same Joseph has been sold by his brethren again into the darkness of Egypt;-sold to

feed Canaan, and redeem his brethren in time of famine in all lands. This Joseph is a physical fundamental stone, rejected, even the stone of Israel.

Faith cannot receive the whole spiritual-physical body of the One law. Joseph alone receives that body to become the keeper of its Holy Grail. From Egypt he has added. Every step of the ascension he has traced from Egypt: with the woman he descended into Egypt. To him is given the two portions of the law, and from his two portions he keeps the holy child forever in the midst. He is the spiritual understanding, rooted and grounded in dual physical law, from Egypt to Golgotha. Civilization has shot at him, denied him his place in spiritual life, and the archers still hate him, the church laughs at him, while the state forbids his bridal with the woman of immortality. But his arms today are again made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Israel, and again he casts his stone of fundamental physical-spiritual foundation, commanding the people to add physical understanding to spiritual faith, commanding the people to be Joseph.

The Bible of Christianity is the book of life. There is no death in it. It stands, a balanced relation of opposites, and in it we move with Joseph from Egypt and Canaan to add and add and add unto the understanding according to his word until the One law is revealed in the victory of life at Golgotha, the place of a skull, where Man is re

deemed. "And I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephram, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make of them one stick, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more. Moreover I will make a covenant with them. . I will be their God and they shall be my people."

"Joseph shall have two portions" not to write the supremacy of one portion over the other. Supremacy is the primitive ambition of the nation which has despised and rejected the stone of physical law in the regeneration of a world. Lying at the root of every national problem, over and through all today is the idea of supremacy. Nature has bestowed the dual blessing of the triune One upon all nations and upon all forms. She has given the fisherman's ring and the triple crown to every man in the name of the One Law. Today Joseph is stoned to death by the archers who have "shot at him." He arises with the morning, again a "fruitful bough, by a well." To the State and national head he defines his two portions as the son of Jacob, Father of Light, upon whom angels ascend and descend in that place which is Bethel. Today life is to be considered a problem of relation. Science is bringing again the stone which has been rejected. The will of the world is to be the will of the Law in an understanding which has journeyed through Egypt to arrive at that Fourth first dimension which is the Canaan of eternal life.

Today the will of man and nation may prepare the new body of life by establishing the relativities of involved forces which forms the Christ in you. Today the national head may be the first State to leave all and follow him, commanding resident forces to prepare the body of life which is "mine" at the ballot box that the blood of the nation may be now the blood of the regeneration; and the glory be unto Him who has loved us and who died only that we may, today, live, in the resurrection, which is the resurrection of the Triune One from out the pyramid of Life.

By the dual blessing of nature, man's since the world was, the Nation, receiving the two portions of Joseph from the light, may work out its own salvation, become the One Pope of nature, lifting by command of the Constitution of natural law, the dual fingers which have blessed the world since time began, buying of itself absolution from sin, lifting up the cross, unveiling the sacred cup, declaring One, And a nation's life no more than to say, ONE.

O women, O fathers, O you men of passion and of

storm!

O native power only; O beauty; O yourself; O God; O divine average!

O you bearded roughs, O bards, O all those slumberers:

O America! the dawn bird's throat sounds shrill! Do you not hear the cock crow?"

CHAPTER IX

"CRISPUS AND GAIUS"

"And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me as a man that is wakened out of his sleep. . . . What seeth thou? . . . A candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof: And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.

"What are these, my Lord?"

And I said,

"Knowest thou not what these be? No my Lord. And he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel Who art thou, O great Mountain? Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plane: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shouting, crying, Grace, grace unto it. . . .

"And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches, which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?

"And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my Lord.

"Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.”

Nature has a system of relations. Her order of Aaron is not her order of Melchisedec. Christianity must define the One body and redeem from the darkness of Egypt. It has finished its Old Testament history. The Old Testament order relates things one to the other. The New Testament brings a new relation of creative forces to law within all bodies.