our mental contributions to the great potential being who is "all and in all."

It is a simple chemical theorem. That for which the universal mind has attraction is absorbed by it as stored wisdom. That which does not enjoy this affinity is rejected. Consequently this universal body is a reasoning body, in the sense of selectivity. It selects that wisdom which is useful for its creative purposes, and rejects that which it cannot use. This differentiates between good and evil.

Let us give a physical similitude which convinces us that ecclesiasticism has this identical theory in mind.

In previous chapters we have explained the use of the physical manifestations or gnostic symbols by the ecclesiasts.

Every river system in its flow towards the sea has two motions, a forward current and a lateral wave motion. The first is permanent, and is the motion which carries the waters into the sea. The latter is an eccentric motion subject to the vicissitudes of wind, and purposeful or accidental causes. This accumulates and distributes the foreign substances which find their way into the stream. They are cast toward the shores, there to accumulate as debris. Out of this spring both vegetation and animal life, which throughout the world are found most prolific along the water streams. This is the planting of seeds in corruption to rise up in incorruption.

This motion knows neither good nor evil, because it is subject to accident and has neither reason nor understanding. But the current which moves the waters toward the sea has a mission to perform, and it frequently performs miracles to carry forward its purpose. The waters in their course dissolve the elements of which the earth is composed, take up the salts in solution, and carry them into the sea. The most conspicuous result is the large quantities of chloride of sodium found in sea water. This is due to chemical action, hence the comparison is between the corruption of the river and the purity of the sea. This is taken to symbolize the corruption of the people flowing towards the church as compared with the elect of the holy see.

The good and useful follow the current to the sea; the evil are cast along the river course as derelicts, forsaken, abandoned, with a possibility of rising up in incorrupt forms.

This symbolizes the absorption of the good and useful thoughts into the universal sea of potential mind, and the rejection of the evil and harmful. But this is only half of the act, the inspiration.

The sea having purified the waters which have been conducted to it by the river, they are raised up and sent out over the lands in the form of clouds to rain pure water upon the earth. The rain symbolizes doctrines in the ecclesiastic similitude, hence the clouds symbolize the evangelical propaganda, giving to the people the mental training which it desires they should have. Thus they reveal that they entertain the belief that in the active state the universal mentation distributes en masse only that which it desires physical nature to inhale or absorb.

Let us sum up in a few paragraphs the substance of this idea. The universal body, in its passive or potential state, is an invisible, impalpable, spirit substance which is wisdom. This wisdom assumes an active state for manifestation, requiring the creation of matter by a conversion of its own substance through which to physically express and reveal itself. Thus unity creates duality, mind and matter. Mind and matter beget thought.

This is the trinity.

Whether he is the author of the aphorism or not, Prentiss Mulford is right, "thoughts are things." To complete the cycle these thoughts become the breath and food for the universal pabulum, and they are absorbed into it, becoming potential wisdom, the store of mental food for future creations.

We shall attempt to explain why this stored wisdom is not immortal, although the spiritual fruit of the physical creations.

Its purpose is for mental food for the material creations. It is stored in vibratory combinations. When these combinations are absorbed by physical bodies, they are chemically digested and broken up. By this process they are put into the active state, being translated into thought. Therefore wisdom

is converted into knowledge by understanding, and intellect is manifested to the extent of the mental power to translate the universal waves.

The animal brain is the mechanism which translates universal wisdom into thought, therefore we are compelled to believe that all thought is evolved from the universal pabulum through the brain as a receiving and translating agent.

The radio receiving instrument is a mechanical brain which receives out of the atmosphere, the gaseous world, the coarser waves created by mechanical and human sounds, and translates them back into the original understandable sounds. Although in different planes, thought transmission being vibratory and silent, and sound transmission being gaseous and audible, the process of transmission is identically the same. The one is received and translated by the internal sense centers, and the other is translated by the external sense organs. Therefore there can be little doubt about the transmission of vision waves as well as sound waves in due time. The transmission of sound waves is practically instantaneous over the radio system, consequently time is not an element in thought transmission.

The longing for immortality on the part of humanity is a cultivated thing and wholly physical, a thing of the flesh. It belongs in the same category with a longing for many unattainable things which had we never heard of we would never crave. It is only the cyclic life that is eternal and immortal.

The true mental aspiration should be to bring one's self into conscious contact with the universal mentation, that we may develop our intellect with pure food, the essenic wisdom which may only traverse the vibratory waves. The whole world caters to sound, hence it cannot rise above the gaseous plane. Sound is an irritant, and begets confusion. Silence is restful and calms the angry mind and soothes the tired body. The formula is simple: Learn how to think, and strive to get understanding. This will bring you closer to an immortal state than any other thing a human being can do.

PART XXVI

A BRIEF COMMENTARY ON FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS

("Birds of a feather flock together.")

Like the tracks of the prehistoric Dodo, the imprint of Christian error is perpetuated in the petrified slime of antiquity.

The word Dodo means silly; which equally applies to the other, for only the silly could conscientiously advocate belief in the so-called evidences, which are conjured out of the fertile brains of designing priests to give plausibility to fiction.

No unprejudiced person, familiar with the construction of the Bible, can read the works of Flavius Josephus without realizing that these writings are wholly inspired by the same spirits that formulated the old testament. The necessity for some historical corroboration, inspired the work. Moreover, it could utter things which could not be said in the scriptures without betraying their ulterior character.

Josephus' works are no more intended for popular consumption or "private interpretation" (II Peter 1:20) than are the scriptures.

Our brief commentary upon Josephus will, we are confident, sufficiently demonstrate the ulterior and deceitful character of these writings to satisfy the most skeptical.

It is by examining the alleged evidences which are quoted to strengthen the Christian pretenses, we find many evidences of intrigue and duplicity. We shall especially refer to the socalled "Jewish history" by Flavius Josephus.

Surrounding this purely inspired work are all of the earmarks of collusion.

Let us first analyze the name.

Flavius is the name of a line of Roman emperors, Vespasian and his sons Titus and Domitian. Titus Flavius Ves

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pasianus was emperor of Rome from 70 to 79 A. D. He "destroyed Jerusalem" in 70.

Therefore Flavius is not a Hebrew name, and it is not likely that Josephus would have been given, as a child, a Roman name in these circumstances.

It is more than suspicious that he deserted his own people. after Vespasian had conquered them, and made his home with the emperor. It seems likely that this was a betrayal, for he received large tracts of land in Judea and an annual pension, and thereafter was called Flavius.

So much for his adopted name.

Now we have something more tangible. His real Jewish name is Joseph ben Matthias, which means Joseph son of Matthias.

In Matthew's genealogy of Christ, Jacob is the son of Matthan and Joseph the son of Jacob. In Luke 3:24-25, Joseph is the son of Mattathias.

Matthew, Matthan, and Matthias all mean the same, god's gift, and they all write Jewish legends. In each case some increase or strength is added to the scriptures. Joseph means increase.

In our candid opinion, this is too close together not to have some significance. He is of "priestly descent" by his own words.

Gods' gift signifies the gift of language as is made known by John, meaning the same, signifying the evangelist, preacher, exhorter. It is to strengthen fictitious Jewish history that the alleged Flavius Josephus writes.

It was absolutely essential for the Christian exploiters to have some historical backing to their enterprise. Nevertheless Josephus himself says:

"My work contains all our antiquities and the constitution of our government, as interpreted out of the Hebrew scriptures."

That means exactly what we hold to be true, that Josephus' history is only doctored up from the same materials as found in the old testament, after that work was completed, to make