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TRUE MEMORY 
 
 The Philosopher's Stone 
 
 Its Loss through Adam ¥ Its Recovery- 
 through Christ 
 
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 MRS. CALVIN KRYDER REIFSNIDER 
 
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 Copyright, 1896, 
 By Airs. Calvin Krydcr Reif snider. 
 
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TO ALL WHO CAN RECEIVE IT AND 
 LIVE BY ITS TEACHINGS, I OFFER THIS 
 MESSAGE IN LOVING DEDICATION. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 Now I say unto you, refrain from these men, 
 and let them alone ; for if this counsel or work be 
 of men it will come to naught. 
 
 But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it ; lest 
 haply ye be found even to fight against God. — 
 Acts v., $&, 39. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 Chapter. Page. 
 
 I. PREPARATION . ... 5 
 
 II. THE REVELATION. What God is. The 
 Worlds, how created, how peopled, how 
 divided into Societies 9 
 
 III. ADAM, his "Fall" or Materialization. His 
 
 Claim to the Earth. The Serpent ; the 
 Garden; Flesh Children. Cain, Abel, 
 Enoch. Noah and the Ark . . . 15 
 
 IV. THE FLESH MAN ; he charges the Ills and 
 
 Evils of Life to the Creator. Black, Yellow, 
 Red and White Men ; how they originated. 
 Babel. Self-love ; Love of Dominion . . 25 
 
 V. ABRAM ; why he worshipped the Sun. Clumsy 
 
 Imitation of God's Work .... 28 
 
 VI. MOSES, copied the Spiritual Law and adapted 
 it to the Use of Flesh Men.— The Bible; 
 how written. — The Origin of Diseases and 
 Sickness. — The First Lie materialized into 
 the Serpent. Wild untamable Beasts the 
 Creations of Human Passions and False 
 Doctrines. — The Zones and Tropics; how 
 made by Men. — The Gathering of Domes- 
 tic Animals into the Temperate Zone. — 
 Marital Troubles. Unfortunate Children. 
 — The utter Loss of True Memory . . 30 
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CONTENTS. 
 Chaptkk. Page. 
 
 VH. LANGUAGE, its Necessity and its Origin; 
 
 how spoken and taught. Spiritual . . 35 
 
 VIII. THE FLESH MAN, his Soul, Breath and 
 Thought; neither leaves Record or Trace 
 in the Flesh Body 37 
 
 IX. THE BOOK OF JASHER retained by the 
 Spiritual Men. — Utter Vastation of True 
 Memory. — The Sun a Dead Body, its Sym- 
 bolism. Why worshipped. The coming 
 Kingdom 42 
 
 X. KING SOLOMON; his Vision and Prayer; 
 
 why answered 44 
 
 XL THE INNER TEMPLE .... 47 
 
 XII. CHRIST AND THE RED SEA . . 48 
 
 XIII. CHRIST. The Star, the Manger. The Babe. 
 
 Egypt, Galilee, Nazareth and the Wilder- 
 ness. — The Tempter. Christ in the Wil- 
 derness, hungry and alone from Men, over- 
 came the same Temptation to which Adam, 
 yielding, fell 54 
 
 XIV. REGENERATION, its Progress ... 61 
 
 XV. THE OPENING OF THE INNER CHAM- 
 BER. The Twelve Tribes. Lifting up 
 the Serpent. Dropping the Burden. The 
 Light, which is the Return of True Mem- 
 ory. True Memory, what it is. To re- 
 member only the Good. The Lord appears 
 to every Man according to that Man's 
 State. The Flesh Man is what his Mem- 
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CONTENTS. 
 Chapter. Page. 
 
 ory makes him. His Illusions and Delu- 
 sions. How led back to True Memory. 
 The Lord's Prayer. Who is worthy to say 
 it? The Transfiguration. Christ takes 
 Disciples into a high Mountain (Exalted 
 Spiritual State with Spiritual Sight opened,) 
 and shows them His Spiritual Body. The 
 Transfiguration, why necessary. Moses 
 and Elias present from the Spiritual 
 World. Jacob's Ladder. — The Woman 
 at the Well 63 
 
 XVI. LAZARUS, his Resurrection. How others 
 are raised. What Christ did in the Nat- 
 ural Body. Why He must die . . . 88 
 
 XVII. CHRIST, His Sorrows. What His Death 
 
 means. What of Him died 95 
 
 XVIII. CHRIST, His Pathway, His Prayers, Suffer- 
 ings, His wonderful Words. Life Eternal. 
 Who condemned Him, who crucified 
 Him, and why ...... 98 
 
 XIX. THE RISEN CHRIST, His Promises, Revel- 
 ations. How only He could approach Men 
 and lead them back to God. The Empty 
 Sepulchre. The Risen Christ. To whom 
 He appeared, with whom He conversed, 
 and why. The Temple Spiritual. How 
 composed. The Head of the Corner. 
 Where only to worship. He showed me 
 all. The Pyramids mightier than their 
 Builders. The Philosopher's Stone, lives 
 wasted searching for it. What it is. How 
 it produces good. Its Relation to the 
 Memory. Human Knowledge and God's 
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CONTENTS. 
 Chapter. Page. 
 
 Knowledge. Nothing ever invented. When 
 Man will know all. Now an Impostor. 
 His Acts, Words and foolish Beliefs. 
 The Way out of Bondage. Man's Works, 
 his Civilization, so-called Rise and Fall, 
 and unforgotten. Why? What He showed 
 me in the Spirit. Where God is. His 
 Relation to Business, Work, Factories. 
 What becomes of all Man's Work, Palaces 
 and Houses. — Kings and Murderers, Queens 
 and Harlots, not God's Work. The King- 
 doms, Empires and Republics all tottering. 
 Why? Individuals, Church and Nation all 
 striving for Power. The Origin of Disease, 
 Pestilence, vicious Animals, Wars, Earth- 
 quakes, Cyclones and Tornadoes. These 
 are all subject to Man's Will. Bible also 
 clouded for Men. The Spirit of the Word 
 within the Letter. The Lord wants no 
 Earthly Tabernacle. Two grinding, one 
 taken. This World shall again become 
 spiritual, a World of Beauty. When and 
 how. The Churches. Man a Receptacle 
 for God's Word. All saved who accept 
 His great Love and follow His Footprints. 
 Every Step is given, the Path is clear, the 
 Journey is mapped out. The World grows 
 better, but there will be Murders so long as 
 the State murders; Men will steal so long 
 as the Nations steal, and there will be 
 Adulterers so long as the Churches adulter- 
 ate the Truth. Man's Work after Death 
 (so-called) according to his Work on Earth. 
 Christ's dying Words for Men to imitate. 
 The way of the Return to True Memory . 106 
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CHAPTER I. 
 
 From my earliest childhood I had been 
 preparing myself under unseen guidance 
 to do some peculiar kind of work. What 
 it was to be had not been revealed to me, 
 but I had been constantly urged to make 
 myself ready. If I sought my chamber 
 in childhood and lay down upon my bed 
 by the window to look out and muse on 
 the mysteries of life about me there came 
 a silent Monitor whose face I could not 
 see, but whose voice seemed to speak 
 inside of me: " Do not lie here idle. You 
 must learn to read and write, and under- 
 stand the use of language, to do the work 
 you were created to do." 
 
 So persistent was this voice that I would 
 get up and get my books, and read and 
 
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 memorize them. When quite young my 
 mother taught me the beautiful story of 
 the Incarnation and had me memorize the 
 first chapter of St. John, and took great 
 pains to show me that the Babe in the 
 manger described by St. Matthew was the 
 Light of the World described by St. John. 
 And this something that urged me to 
 study always helped me with my lessons 
 and made them a joy to me. It would say: 
 " Learn this and yon will know that with- 
 out stndy. Cling to and always keep with 
 you the memory of the Babe born in 
 Bethlehem ; of his escape from death by 
 Herod by being sent into Egypt ; his 
 return to Israel by way of Galilee ; dwell- 
 ing in the city of Nazareth in order to 
 fulfil the prophets, ' He shall be called a 
 Nazarene'; His baptism of John in the 
 river Jordan ; being led up of the Spirit 
 into the wilderness to be tempted of the 
 
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 devil ; His fast and His temptation ; His 
 answer to the tempter ; following minutely, 
 step by step, the record of His disciples 
 from their different planes. If I would 
 learn this, believe it, I would know all ; 
 that nothing could be hidden from me and 
 that in that knowledge came man's re- 
 demption." 
 
 I believed ! My faith was sure ! God 
 knows I believed, and thus He set apart 
 for me a work to do that required only a 
 knowledge of using the human language, 
 for the work to be done would be unfolded 
 to me as A Scroll which I should read 
 and write in the language of my fellow 
 creatures. 
 
 At a certain age I found that my senses 
 of sight and hearing were more acute than 
 those of others, and afterwards when I 
 closed my eyes I could see clouds of beau- 
 tiful colored light, and figures of beauty 
 
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 about some people, or just the reverse 
 about others. At last I heard that this was 
 called spheres. And I could generally tell 
 the quality of the person and even the 
 thoughts by those spheres. But I was 
 timid, afraid of being misunderstood or 
 called a spiritualist, a thing that from child- 
 hood I abhorred. 
 
 This preparation continued until the 
 following revelation was given me : 
 
CHAPTER II. 
 
 THE SCROLL. 
 
 As it was unrolled I read, and wrote it 
 down : "God is a spirit, Omnipotent, Om- 
 nipresent, Omniscient, and through His 
 divine Wisdom He created from Himself 
 worlds. Not by His might but by the 
 power of His Spirit, the Word ' Let there 
 be!' 
 
 "And there came forth a spiritual -nat- 
 ural world, His footstool. And upon this 
 footstool were images, likenesses of Him- 
 self, called men, and they were male and fe- 
 male, perfect in all their spiritual organism, 
 recipients of His divine Love and Wisdom. 
 
 "And they worshipped God and remem- 
 bered that He was their father from whom 
 they received every blessing, and they 
 
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 took no thought for themselves for they 
 knew that He would provide all things 
 for their good and their happiness. And 
 they loved each other and worshipped the 
 Lord God Jehovah and served Him in 
 good works. 
 
 " A beautiful world it was, and there was 
 no need of sun for God was their light. 
 And there was no speech necessary, for 
 each could read the other's thoughts ; they 
 were transparent. Husbands loved their 
 wives as the highest, holiest part of them- 
 selves, their God-given love principle ; and 
 wives loved their husbands as their strong- 
 est God-given principle, their wisdom and 
 rationality; and from these spiritual unions 
 were births of numerous children called 
 Goods and Truths and Charities. 
 
 'And there were societies on this spirit- 
 ual-natural world, of spiritual men and 
 women, which differed the one from the 
 
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 other only according to their reception of 
 the divine proceeding, that is, Divine Good- 
 ness and Divine Truth which proceeds 
 from the Sole Fountain of all Life. 
 
 "They realized that everything in the 
 universe had reference to goodness and 
 truth. And when in conversation, they 
 could read the nature of their friends by 
 their thought creations which formed a 
 a sphere about them ; for instance, a 
 man from one Society approaching another 
 knew by the clouds of beautiful colored 
 light the condition of their love and 
 faith in God, and charity towards each 
 other. In their presence were beautiful 
 birds, happy infants, flowers, fruits, laugh- 
 ing waters, soft, sweet music. And all day 
 long they were occupied in good uses; 
 doing good to each other and loving each 
 ether; not the person, but the good they 
 perceived in them and the truth that 
 
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 flowed from them, knowing that all good 
 and all truth came from God, and that they 
 must see it and acknowledge it, and return 
 thanks for it. 
 
 " Oh, such a beautiful world ! God looked 
 upon it and pronounced it all good, and 
 He loved it, and His love gave it light and 
 heat, and His children who worshipped 
 Him from His footstool knew that the 
 light was Divine Truth and the heat Di- 
 vine Love; for their memory was true 
 memory ; they could feel the Divine pres- 
 ence and see Him in everything, for they 
 lived under His Divine law. And they 
 knew there was yet a higher state of bliss 
 to which they could attain, and from men 
 become angels, mounting upon good deeds 
 like stepping-stones to His throne, and in 
 successive states rise to become arch- 
 angels. They knew this because they per- 
 ceived that those who excelled most in 
 
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 love and faith and good works rose higher 
 in the scale; their music was pitched to a 
 higher key ; their sphere a shining light, 
 gleaming at a greater distance from them. 
 Did these children of God desire to visit 
 their friends they might go upon the 
 wings of love, or it was possible to visit a 
 Society upon horses swift and white, which 
 they called understanding. Others used 
 birds, called thoughts, to convey them, but 
 in this world there were only heavenly 
 hues. And there were trees and lakes and 
 plants and flowers." 
 
 Reading the scroll with all these beau- 
 ties of God's creation, my heart going out 
 in silent adoration for His Divine good- 
 ness, I was startled by a new phenome- 
 non : — A dark cloud came, and a voice 
 saying, "We are dying, dying. We must 
 hold court and see who shall make The 
 Record of our creation — our life — before 
 the Adam exterminates True Memory." 
 
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 The court held that those who remem- 
 bered most were they who had forgotten 
 least and they should keep The Record; 
 or else in dying they should die and leave 
 no trace behind that they had ever lived in 
 this beautiful world that God in his good- 
 ness and love sent forth. 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 
 THE RECORD. 
 
 In the beautiful world God made for 
 man, spiritual man, all was spiritual, for 
 God is a spirit, and He created man in 
 His own image and in His own likeness. 
 He endowed him with all His own attrib- 
 utes ; that is, capable of receiving them as 
 the plant receives dew, the flowers shades 
 of color and perfume, and the goblet water 
 or wine, with memory and rationality ; and 
 this memory at first always served to re- 
 mind him of the One Source of all Life, 
 Love, Goodness and Truth ; and the good 
 that man did to his fellows he knew he did 
 from the Lord ; and the love he gave his 
 neighbor he knew was from the Lord. 
 But there were different Societies, higher 
 
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 or lower, according to their reception of 
 Divine Goodness and Divine Truth. It 
 came to pass that a Society, called Adam 
 appropriated the goods and the truths to 
 themselves. And very soon they were 
 lost to the view of other Societies because 
 they were hidden by a dark cloud — such 
 a thing as had never been seen in all the 
 world — a total absence of light at a dis- 
 tance ; and when they came nearer, the 
 men from other Societies saw, and behold, 
 a man and a woman earth-bound ; that is, 
 they could not float in the air any more, 
 but their feet were firm and heavy, as were 
 all their limbs ; their veins had become red 
 with blood, their framework ossified, and 
 Eve, the wife, was at all times separated 
 from her husband ; they no longer blended 
 and appeared to others as only one man 
 or one woman ; and the man spoke to 
 them in a strange language that they 
 
 
A beautiful world it was, and there was no need of sun for God 
 was their light. * * * And when they came nearer 
 
 the men from other Societies saw, and behold, a man and a 
 woman earth bound. 
 
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 could not understand, and made discord- 
 ant tones unlike anything that had ever 
 been heard in the world before. 
 
 As time passed Adam could no longer 
 see those from other Societies when 
 they came. He had lost true vision and 
 could see only, the gross things about 
 him, which had all become like himself. 
 But they understood from him that the 
 earth upon which he lived was his own 
 and all that dwelt thereon. He tilled the 
 ground and ate of food that grew out of 
 the ground, and at last killed the beautiful 
 birds and innocent lambs, which, under a 
 kind of corresponding law, became gross 
 and earthly like himself. And there were 
 no beautiful children about them ; they 
 were alone. And it came to pass as men 
 visited these Adam people they learned to 
 understand them; and God came to Adam 
 and said: "You have appropriated to 
 
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 yourself the goods and truths, or eaten, as 
 you would now say, of the fruit of the gar- 
 den ; for the intellectual principle was as a 
 garden, and what you developed therein 
 was as fruit of a tree ; and in so doing 
 you have brought upon yourself, first 
 fear, then shame. 
 
 " I did give thee the power to love the 
 good and the true, and love was repre- 
 sented by thy spiritual partner. Thou 
 hast perverted love. Thou sayest that the 
 woman, representing love, deceived thee, 
 and the woman sayeth that the serpent 
 (self-love), did tempt her. 
 
 " I divided the heaven from the earth and 
 did give thee the light of truth for thy day 
 and showed thee that the absence of truth 
 was darkness. I did make the waters and 
 everything that moved therein. And the 
 earth, thy natural mind, and everything 
 thereon. And I did gfive thee dominion 
 
 
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 over thyself — free will. The heaven rep- 
 resented thy internal, the earth thy ex- 
 ternal mind. And I gave thee all that 
 was good for thee, and I pronounced all 
 good. Wherefore hast thou eaten of the 
 tree which should cause thee to arrogate 
 to thyself the knowledge of good and evil ? 
 As I made thee thou wert happy and free 
 as the birds and the flowers ; but thou hast 
 loved self more than Cod and taken upon 
 thyself to know and to be. 
 
 " Behold the serpent, thine own sensual 
 principle represented by a serpent, hath 
 deceived thee. It told thee that in know- 
 ing good and evil thou wouldst be a God. 
 Behold thou knowest thou art naked and 
 art ashamed. To be naked signified thou 
 wert innocent as I created thee, but in the 
 gross earth (flesh) to which thine own lust 
 hath lowered thee thy form is no longer 
 an image and a likeness ; it hath lost its 
 
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 power to reflect good and truth and its 
 spiritual beauty. Thou hast covered thy- 
 self with a gross covering ; thou hast in 
 thy sensual thoughts materialized thy 
 heavenly spiritual form which was most 
 beautiful as I created thee. Thou art 
 indeed a gross earth man. And thus 
 dying thou shalt die before that spiritual 
 body can again be free. Thou hast cursed 
 the ground whereon thou standest. Thou 
 hast taken upon thyself all that I would so 
 gladly have done for thee. And why? 
 Gave I not food and drink suited to thy 
 needs ? Did I not clothe thee as I clothed 
 the flowers and the birds whose hues 
 changed with man's thoughts? And man 
 changed his own garments with his own 
 states of thought or feeling when pure, as 
 I created him. 
 
 "As memory dies out of thee thou wilt 
 forget me or say that I have done this to 
 thee. 
 
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 "And, woman, thou hast my pity. Thou 
 art now at thy husband's mercy. He must 
 provide for thee and thou must in this 
 condition be subject to his law and suffer. 
 What I made a delight to thee becomes 
 now in this gross flesh a pain and sorrow. 
 Flesh children will be born of thee. Self- 
 made cares, all of them. 
 
 " Dominion ! I gave thee dominion over 
 thyself in giving thee freedom and now in 
 thy arrogance thou wouldst have it over 
 all the world. Wherever thy children go 
 it will be the same. They will materialize 
 their thoughts instead of spiritualizing 
 them and thus the whole world will be 
 come the grave of men instead of the 
 habitation I did make it for them. 
 
 " But I will never leave nor forsake man. 
 Though he forget me I cannot forget him 
 for I can see hidden things. He has only 
 covered the real man. I must prevent his 
 
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 destroying himself utterly and teach him 
 how to regain the blessings he has volun- 
 tarily cast away." 
 
 And it came to pass that as Adam spoke 
 with men they listened to him and turned 
 from God. They, too, must possess the 
 world. They must own all their eyes 
 could see. And those who were not thus 
 infected passed utterly out of sight for 
 they were still spiritual men and the flesh 
 men could no longer see them. Some lost 
 only a part of their spirituality and those 
 were they whom God made his prophets. 
 
 Adam and Eve had earth children, and 
 they called the first Cain (or faith), and 
 the second Abel (charity or love) , because 
 they still remembered that all their chil- 
 dren before their fall to the earth state 
 were Faiths and Charities, and Goods and 
 Truths. But the name Cain showed that 
 he represented faith alone without charity 
 
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 in him, and his work of tilling the ground 
 did not elevate him, but God promised to 
 spare him even though he had slain his 
 brother who represented charity (Abel.) 
 
 And Enoch departed from his father 
 Adam into a place even more destitute of 
 goodness ; because each successive earth 
 child lost more and more of True Memory 
 and wandered spiritually still further from 
 his God. 
 
 And God saw that men in the flesh 
 became very wicked as they multiplied 
 upon the earth, and lo ! He numbered his 
 days to one hundred and twenty years. 
 
 Of all the men of earth Noah, the 
 grandson of Methuselah, who had repre- 
 sented the eighth church, still retained a 
 memory, (inherited) of God, and was less 
 wicked than the rest of earth men, so 
 that in the great flood of wickedness and 
 falsity that came upon the world he and 
 
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 his sons Shem, Ham, and Japhet, and 
 their wives and all that God showed them 
 to take with them, were saved because they 
 were not yet so corrupt and so filled with 
 violence as the other men of flesh had 
 become. They were in a condition repre- 
 sented by an ark that could safely ride the 
 waters of falsity, and they still had love, 
 represented by the dove, with them, al- 
 though they, too, had falsities represented 
 by the raven. 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 the record — continued. 
 
 And lo ! it came to pass that the flesh 
 man forgot how his own ills had come 
 upon him, and he then, being able to 
 judge only from appearances, and know- 
 ing, too, that God was all, laid off all his 
 miseries upon God ; attributed all his evils 
 to the Divine Creator. 
 
 God 'had created him a spiritual man 
 whose thoughts created images of spiritual 
 things. He fell of his own free will into 
 lower planes, and ultimated or reproduced 
 nis sensual thoughts upon the sensual plane. 
 
 He had perverted every internal prin- 
 ciple and made them servants to the ex- 
 ternal ; thus man could no longer under- 
 stand man. They could deceive each 
 
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 other by the language they used as readily 
 as they could convey their true meaning. 
 Their countenances became thick veils of 
 flesh to hide their feelings and emotions, 
 but their flesh revealed the spiritual quali- 
 ties they had perverted most, and changed 
 color ; some became black, and they were 
 those who had perverted Truth ; others red, 
 who had perverted Love; others yellow, 
 who had perverted Charity ; the white race 
 retaining most of Truth. The color of 
 the eyes (representing perception) also 
 changed ; and they grew more wretched on 
 the earth. 
 
 They began to have teachers from those 
 who pretended to know most, and they 
 established worship. They sacrificed ani- 
 mals and birds upon altars instead of 
 yielding up their own lusts and desires. 
 
 They were mighty in their own conceit, 
 and with their own hands would build of 
 
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 brick and mortar a city and a tower whose 
 top would reach unto heaven.- They had 
 forgotten that God had given them a 
 spiritual body, a temple in which to wor- 
 ship Him in spirit and in truth, and in 
 which through love, and good deeds, and 
 prayers to Him they could reach heaven, 
 always be in conjunction with Him. But 
 self, love of self, dominion over others had 
 ensnared them, and those who instructed 
 them led them further from God because 
 they would have the people follow them, 
 and obey them, and serve them. But still 
 God did not forsake them even in their 
 wickedness, for He knew they would 
 utterly perish. He knew all, but He 
 would have them voluntarily return to 
 Him even as they had voluntarily turned 
 away from Him. 
 
CHAPTER V. 
 
 the record — continued. 
 Abram, still having a remnant of good, 
 was remembered of God, but he had lost 
 True Memory; he did not know God. 
 And thus when he sacrificed he sacrificed 
 to the material sun. His memory was 
 dim of spiritual things. Faintly lingered 
 the memory, coming like a light from 
 some far away chamber of his soul, that 
 God was the spiritual Sun, and a true 
 memory of Him was the only light that 
 could redeem mankind ; yet in ignorance 
 he offered sacrifice to the material sun. 
 Fading like the light of truth from off the 
 face of the earth was True Memory in this 
 man; but God spake to him, and blessed 
 him, and likewise Isaac and Jacob. 
 
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 29 
 
 Fading, fading, disappearing from their 
 shortened vision, their earth-bound spirits, 
 men lost view of the spiritual world in 
 which they had lived, and like themselves, 
 they had materialized by gross thoughts 
 everything about them, and at last they 
 began to fashion tools of brass and iron 
 and clay, and gold and silver and wood. 
 How clumsy these imitations of God's 
 works ! How gross and sensual became 
 their thoughts of Him when they fash- 
 ioned images ! 
 
• CHAPTER VI. 
 
 the record — continued. 
 
 There was a man drawn from the water 
 called Moses and God commanded him to 
 copy the law for the flesh man. He could 
 no longer understand spiritual law so he 
 must have a law adapted to his fallen state, 
 but this law must be written in natural 
 language so constructed as to hold a spirit- 
 ual meaning, just as the natural man 
 contained the spiritual man ; and it must 
 be written as it appeared to man to be 
 true, otherwise he would not accept it, but 
 it must be written so as to be adapted to 
 his regeneration. 
 
 And as man was building his own natu- 
 ral history from his own spiritual condition 
 so Moses recorded the history of the Most 
 
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 Ancient Church, using his natural sur- 
 roundings to describe his spiritual state. 
 
 He found them in the Egyptian state 
 spiritually and enslaved to Pharaoh natu- 
 rally. He led them through God's guid- 
 ance, through the successive spiritual states 
 giving an accurate history of them, so 
 that when man reads the internal or spir- 
 itual meaning he can thoroughly under- 
 stand himself and all his hereditary evils. 
 He will no longer believe God the author 
 of the ills of life, but only of the good ; 
 and when once he fully perceives how 
 man fell he will know how to rise. 
 Through Adam he fell from the spirit to 
 the flesh ; through Christ he may again 
 return to his Father's house from the flesh 
 to the spirit. 
 
 And still they fell. Adam began the 
 fall and the human race continued to fall ; 
 everything was dwarfed or inverted to his 
 
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 sensual vision. He pronounced good and 
 evil upon all things, and being able to 
 judge only from external appearances he 
 was always appropriating evil instead of 
 good because it was to his gross nature at 
 the time most pleasant ; and thus he 
 brought upon himself disease and sorrow 
 and suffering. Because he knew he could 
 now think wicked things and no longer be 
 detected by men he loved to think evil 
 thoughts and plan evil deeds, but these 
 evils came to the flesh man as disease and 
 sickness, and ever and always he laid the 
 blame upon God. He had forgotten that 
 his father had put it off upon the woman, 
 his wife, and she in turn had blamed the 
 serpent, and indeed they did not then 
 know that the serpent was their own sen- 
 sual principle ; to them it had become a 
 materialized, creeping thing, a relic of the 
 first lie that was ever spoken upon the 
 
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 earth, trailing in the dust, where it drags 
 all men who follow their sensual appetite. 
 
 In like manner had they materialized all 
 their animal passions, so that the world 
 was infested with wild, untamable beasts, 
 and the sea with mighty monsters repre- 
 senting the character of their own abomi- 
 nable doctrines. Their hate had withdrawn 
 heat from a part of the globe and they 
 claimed that God had made a Frigid Zone. 
 Their infernal lusts had caused a belt of 
 burning heat and they said that God had 
 made the Tropics, the home of the deadly 
 cobra. But for the few who retained a 
 remnant of truth there would be no Tem- 
 perate Zone, no domestic animals. 
 
 There was nothing more sad to the de- 
 scendants of the flesh men than that they 
 could no longer choose spiritual partners 
 for wives. They were deceived by out- 
 ward appearances. Beauty of the external 
 
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 might contain a false, corrupt nature, from 
 which the children would inherit their 
 natural mind ; and a man also might be 
 apparently good and true and his spiritual 
 nature, the fountain from which his de- 
 scendants should flow, be false and corrupt; 
 and thus the children of such parents 
 were unfortunate heirs to all their parents' 
 sins, as the law had pronounced, unto the 
 third and fourth generation of those that 
 hated Him. 
 
 When the flesh man numbered his days 
 they mourned for him as dead. They had 
 forgotten that spirit could not die. They 
 lost all True Memory, as their mournings 
 over their dead would signify. 
 
CHAPTER VII. 
 
 The sensual teacher uses spoken and 
 written words to convey his ideas to the 
 sensual man. The material universe and 
 its inhabitants are the objective lessons 
 pictured forth, and are taught by those on 
 a higher plane, to be God's ideas pictured 
 forth. Our souls, our spirits, must pierce 
 the veil to find their hidden meaning. 
 You have a beautiful conception. I can- 
 not share it unless you speak or write it, 
 and through the sense of sound or sight I 
 perceive your meaning ; but unless your 
 vords touched something kindred in me I 
 could not understand or believe them. 
 
 We express our thoughts by speech, 
 pen or brush, or carve them out of stone. 
 God makes His manifest in the mystery of 
 
36 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 life. We must not look at the form of 
 man only, to understand him as God's 
 highest creation, but the eyes of our 
 spirits must pierce the covering of flesh, 
 this material veil of illusion, and see the 
 spiritual man as God first created him 
 when he lived in spiritual tents, ate spirit- 
 ual food, and had True Memory. 
 
CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 THE SCROLL. 
 
 And I saw one of these flesh men after 
 he was dead. His wise brethren gathered 
 around to discover the cause. They 
 opened his body with sharp swords, and 
 behold, his heart was there, but like a 
 worn-out engine it was still ; the great 
 source of the circulation of the blood was 
 broken, never to be repaired ; therefore 
 the lungs and liver and all the various 
 organs were inanimate and falling to de- 
 cay like wood, when the sap ceases to feed 
 its veins. 
 
 They looked more wise and said they 
 would open the head; that the great 
 centre, the throne of reason, was there, 
 from which every mandate had been 
 
 (37) 
 
38 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 given; where sat enthroned the sovereign 
 king that had ruled every nerve and 
 fibre and muscle, and commanded every 
 motion this body in life had ever made, 
 and had its marvellous mechanism to work 
 out his life problem with; a faithful serv- 
 ant to a tyrant king. No crowned mon- 
 arch had ever had more loyal subject. 
 Alas, no crowned monarch had ever ruled 
 more unwisely. 
 
 It was done ! The skull was opened, 
 and behold the brain, a common material 
 thing, not unlike the brain of an ox. And 
 seek as they might, they found no recess 
 there containing a record of this man's 
 thoughts, nor any trace that he had ever 
 had a thought. They found nothing to 
 tell them why this man was a man save 
 his shape, his form. The living, breath- 
 ing, thinking, working man, whose ser- 
 vant this dead frame was, had vanished, 
 

 And I saw one of these flesh men after he was dead. * * 
 And seek as they might they found no recess there containing a 
 record of this man's thoughts, nor any trace that he had ever 
 had a thought. 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 39 
 
 leaving not a trace behind, no clue by 
 which it might be sought and found. 
 
 A chemist looked wise and said to the 
 surgeon, " I assure you, sir, that I can 
 take this body and bring back to you in 
 vials every particle of this man." 
 
 " But, sir," whispered the Priest, " go 
 find for me his soul." 
 
 " That," answered the scientist, " went 
 out with his breath" 
 
 " Then," whispered the Priest, "bring 
 back to me his breath" 
 
 " Perhaps," said the scientist, " that re- 
 turned to your God." 
 
 "Where" said the Priest, " shall we wise 
 ones find God? " 
 
 " Leave that to the babes and suck- 
 lings," said he. 
 
 And I cried in my heart, — Can a?iy- 
 thing die that God has made? 
 
 And a voice within me answered, — 
 Nay! Nay! 
 
40 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 And I cried, — God did not make the 
 flesh man that dies ? 
 
 And the voice within me answered, — 
 Nay! 
 
 Thou hast been shown what God hath 
 created man to be, and what man changed 
 himself to be. 
 
 And I cried, — 'Tis only the natural 
 flesh man that has died ; the spiritual 
 man lives on. 
 
 And the voice said, — Aye. 
 
 And I said again in the words of the 
 prophet Isaiah : " Woe unto them that 
 call evil good and good evil, that put 
 darkness for light and light for darkness, 
 that put bitter for sweet and sweet for 
 bitter." 
 
 And then I remembered the shade of 
 the Light of Heaven that had fallen on 
 that spiritual world that had rolled be- 
 fore me in that first vision, so incompre- 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 41 
 
 hensibly mild and pure, a light that 
 equally enlightened the understanding 
 and the sio:ht. And I marvelled more 
 and more at the fall of Adam, and I 
 marvelled still more at the great love 
 and goodness and patience of God and 
 His mercy towards man. And I praised 
 the great God, and I was learning to pity 
 man. I could not love him yet. 
 
CHAPTER IX. 
 
 the sc roll — continued. 
 
 And then a great light was thrown 
 upon the Scroll and illuminated a wonder- 
 ful vision and at the same time illumi- 
 nated my understanding. 
 
 And lo! the sun stood still upon Gid- 
 eon and the moon stayed in the valley of 
 Ajalon until men had avenged themselves 
 upon their enemies, as was written in the 
 book of Jasher, which the spiritual men 
 retained with them when they became 
 invisible to the Adam man. 
 
 And I heard the voice within me 
 crying : — 
 
 Behold a total vastation of the True 
 Memory of man. God, the spiritual sun 
 is no longer recognized by man. The 
 
 (42) 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 43 
 
 luminous presence that had shone upon 
 spiritual men and upon the spiritual earth, 
 pure Love proceeding from Jehovah God 
 who is in the midst of it, they had ceased 
 to adore ; and in its stead they looked up 
 to the great natural sun that God had 
 given to warm and light their material 
 earth, a fit emblem of their self-love and 
 self-derived intelligence ; both the very 
 antipodes of Divine Love and Divine 
 Wisdom, for it is dead. It never gave 
 birth to anything of life, while from the 
 spiritual sun all life is produced. 
 
 And the spirit said, — "Full well ye 
 reject the commandments of God that ye 
 may keep your own tradition. 
 
 " The God of heaven shall set up a 
 kingdom which shall never be destroyed 
 and the kingdom shall not be left to other 
 people, but shall break in pieces all other 
 kingdoms and it shall stand forever." 
 
X. 
 
 the scroll — continued. 
 
 And I heard the voice say, behold ! and 
 I looked again, and I saw a young man 
 fair to look upon, and his raiment was 
 purple and gold and fine linen, and there 
 was a crown upon his head. And he did 
 sleep, and in his dream the Lord appeared 
 to him and said, 
 
 " Ask what I shall give thee." 
 
 And the young king said, 
 
 " Thou hast showed unto thy servant 
 David, my father, great mercy, according 
 as he walked before thee in truth and in 
 righteousness and in uprightness of heart 
 with thee, and thou hast kept for him this 
 crreat kindness, that thou hast riven him a 
 son to sit on his throne, as this day. 
 
 (44) 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 45 
 
 " And now, O Lord, my God, thou hast 
 made thy servant king instead of David 
 my father, and I, a little child, I know not 
 to go out or come in. 
 
 u And thy servant in the midst of thy 
 people which thou hast chosen, a great 
 people that cannot be numbered nor 
 counted for multitude. 
 
 " Give therefore thy servant an under- 
 standing heart to judge thy people that I 
 may discern between good and bad ; for 
 who is able to judge this thy so great 
 people ? " 
 
 And the speech so pleased the Lord 
 that Solomon had asked this thing. 
 
 And God said unto him, " Because thou 
 hast asked this thin^, and hast not asked 
 for thyself long life, neither hast asked 
 riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life 
 of thine enemies, but hast asked for thy- 
 self understanding to discern judgment: 
 
46 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 " Behold, I have done according to thy 
 word ; lo, I have given thee a wise and 
 understanding heart; so that there was 
 none like thee before, neither after thee 
 shall any arise like unto thee. 
 
 u And I have also given thee that which 
 thou hast not asked, both riches and 
 honor ; so that there shall not be any 
 among the kings like unto thee all thy 
 days. 
 
 " And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to 
 keep my statutes and my commandments, 
 as thy father David did walk, then I will 
 lengthen thy days." 
 
 And my soul cried, — Why have not all 
 men thus asked of God wisdom to discern 
 judgment? 
 
 And the Voice answered, — Self-love; 
 love of dominion ; love of the world. 
 
CHAPTER XT. 
 
 the scroll — continued. 
 And now the air was filled with a 
 subtle incense, and I heard such words 
 of praise and prayer and thanksgiving as 
 I had never listened to before. Who was 
 it? What was it? Oh never man spake 
 like that, and lo, as I listened to those 
 Psalms a great promise was given, a seal 
 was broken from my inner vision, and a 
 door of the Inner Temple of my soul was 
 unbarred. These were the words of the 
 Divine Man. 
 
 (47) 
 
CHAPTER XII. 
 
 the scroll — continued. 
 
 And I looked again upon the Scroll 
 and read in shining words : 
 
 " The people that walked in darkness 
 have seen a great light ; they that dwell 
 in the land in the shadow of death (the 
 flesh) upon them hath the light shined. 
 
 " For unto us a child is born, unto us a 
 son is given ; and the government shall 
 be upon his shoulders, and his name shall 
 be called Wonderful, Counselor, The 
 Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, 
 The Prince of Peace. 
 
 " Of the increase of His government 
 and peace there shall be no end upon the 
 throne of David, and upon his kingdom to 
 order it and to establish it with judgment 
 and justice from henceforth even for ever. 
 
 (48) 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 49 
 
 " The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will 
 perform this. 
 
 " The Lord sent a word into Jacob and 
 it hath lighted up Israel. And all the 
 people shall know, even Ephraim (the in- 
 tellectual principle of good and truth per- 
 taining to the spiritual church) and the 
 inhabitants of Samaria (where the truth 
 has been perverted), that say in the pride 
 and stoutness of their heart, 
 
 " The bricks (imitations of truth) are 
 fallen down, but we build with hewn 
 stones (self-derived intelligence). 
 
 " The sycamores (external truth) are 
 cut down, but we will change them into 
 cedars (appearance of spiritual truth). 
 
 " The ancient and honorable (those 
 held by men in high esteem) he is the 
 head, the prophet which teacheth lies he 
 is the tail. 
 
 " For the leaders of this people cause 
 
50 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 them to err; and they that are led of 
 them are destroyed." 
 
 And yet came the promise like a great 
 seal to a covenant, that a remnant shall 
 return, the remnant of Jacob, unto the 
 mighty God. 
 
 And the Voice said look up, and read 
 again the prophecy. 
 
 And I read, — 
 
 " And there shall come forth a rod out 
 of the stem of Jesse and a branch shall 
 grow out of his roots." 
 
 "And the spirit of the Lord shall rest 
 upon him, the spirit of wisdom and under- 
 standing, the spirit of counsel and might, 
 v the spirit of knowledge and the fear of 
 the Lord. 
 
 " And shall make him of quick under- 
 standing in the fear of the Lord. And he 
 shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, 
 neither reprove after the hearing of his 
 ears : 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 51 
 
 " But with righteousness shall he judge 
 the poor, and reprove with equity for the 
 meek of the earth : 
 
 " And He shall smite the earth with 
 rod of His mouth, and with the breath 
 of His lips shall He slay the wicked. 
 And righteousness shall be the girdle 
 of His loins and faithfulness the girdle of 
 His reins. 
 
 " The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, 
 and the leopard shall lie down with the 
 kid; and the calf and the young lion and 
 the fatling together ; and a little child 
 shall lead them. 
 
 " And the cow and the bear shall feed ; 
 their young ones shall lie down together; 
 and the lion shall eat straw like an ox. 
 
 "And the sucking child shall play on 
 the hole of the asp, and the weaned child 
 shall put his hand on the cockatrice's den. 
 
 " And they shall not hurt nor destroy 
 
52 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 in all my holy mountain, for the earth 
 shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord 
 as the waters cover the sea. 
 
 " And in that day there shall be a root 
 of Jesse which shall stand for an ensign of 
 the people ; to it shall the Gentiles seek 
 and his rest shall be glorious. 
 
 " And it shall come to pass in that day, 
 that the Lord shall set His hand a^ain 
 the second time to recover the remnant 
 of His people which shall be left, from 
 Assyria and from Egypt, and from Path- 
 ros, and from Cush and from Elam and 
 from Shinar and from Hamath, and from 
 the islands of the sea. 
 
 " And He shall set up an ensign for 
 the nations, and shall assemble the out- 
 casts of Israel and gather together the 
 dispersed of Judah from the four corners 
 of the earth. 
 
 " The envy also of Ephraim shall de- 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 53 
 
 part and the adversaries of Judah shall be 
 cut off; Ephraim shall not envy Judah 
 and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. 
 
 " But they shall fly upon the shoulders 
 of the Philistines towards the west; they 
 shall spoil them of the east together; they 
 shall lay their hand upon Edom and 
 Moab ; and the children of Ammon shall 
 obey them. 
 
 " And the Lord shall utterly destroy 
 the tongue of the Egyptian Sea ; and 
 with His mighty wind shall He shake His 
 hand over the river and shall smite it in 
 the seven streams, and make men go over 
 dry shod. 
 
 " And there shall be a highway for the 
 remnant of His people, which shall be 
 left from Assyria like as it was to Israel 
 in the day that he came up out of the 
 land of Egypt." 
 
CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 the scroll — continued. 
 
 And behold, thick darkness was gath- 
 ered upon the whole earth, and I covered 
 my eyes and trembled, for I was afraid. 
 
 But the voice said, Look up. 
 
 I looked up, and lo ! a Star ! And I 
 saw men wrapped in long garments walk- 
 ing silently toward that star. And the 
 whole air was melodious with such song 
 as had not been heard since the days 
 of Adam. I breathed in the precious 
 melody and remembered the words as 
 they sang, 
 " Glory to God in the highest, 
 
 And on earth peace, and goodwill toward men." 
 
 And I bowed low and followed them. 
 And lo ! a manger and a young child: 
 
 (54) 
 
 . 
 
But the voice said, " Look up." I looked up, and lo 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 55 
 
 and they kneeled to the child, and the air 
 was filled with fragrance from the boxes 
 they opened and offered to the Babe. 
 
 And they departed. And the voice 
 said, Behold the Babe is He who praised 
 the Lord in the Psalms and cried out 
 with the voice of David. It is He of 
 whom the prophet said, 
 
 " His name shall be called Wonderful, 
 Counselor, The Mighty God, The Ever- 
 lasting Father, and the Prince of Peace." 
 
 And I waited and asked them, What is 
 this child's name ? 
 
 And they whispered, JESUS. 
 
 And I said to my soul as I returned to 
 the Inner Chamber, I will never leave 
 Him. I will watch this Jesus grow to 
 manhood. 
 
 And behold Herod would slay Him and 
 He was taken down into Egypt. And the 
 voice in the Inner Chamber cried, the 
 
56 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 Israelites were in bondage there, what if 
 the Egyptians make a prisoner of the 
 Babe ? And in fear and trembling 1 
 followed on. 
 
 He returned to Israel by way of Galilee 
 and dwelt in Nazareth. And I saw Him 
 again, walking humbly among the people, 
 healing the sick, opening the eyes of the 
 blind, cleansing the lepers, casting out 
 devils, raising the dead, causing the dumb 
 to speak, the lame to walk, and the deaf 
 to hear. 
 
 No man ever spake like this man in the 
 outer world, while in the Inner Chamber 
 of His soul rose up all the fierce and hid- 
 eous wars that I had witnessed in vivid 
 illustrations on the scroll, and read so 
 much concerning in the Record. Within 
 His body He carried the history of the 
 world, and in His flesh the sins of all the 
 people. 
 
 And as I followed on I saw Him go 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 57 
 
 into the wilderness led by the Spirit, and 
 was there tempted of the devil. And I 
 listened and learned of Him. 
 
 And when He had fasted forty days and 
 nights He was afterwards a hungered. 
 
 And when the tempter came to Him, 
 he said, " If thou be the Son of God, com- 
 mand that these stones be made bread. 
 
 " But He answered and said, It is writ- 
 ten, Man shall not live by bread alone, 
 but by every word that proceedeth out of 
 the mouth of God. 
 
 " Then the devil taketh Him up into 
 the holy city and setteth Him on a pinna- 
 cle of the temple, 
 
 " And saith unto Him, If thou be the 
 Son of God, cast thyself down ; for it is 
 written He shall orive His angels charge 
 concerning thee ; and their hands shall 
 bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash 
 thy foot against a stone. 
 
 "And Jesus said unto Him, It is 
 
58 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 written again, Thou shalt not tempt the 
 Lord thy God. 
 
 "Again the devil taketh Him up into 
 an exceeding hi^h mountain and showeth 
 Him all the kingdoms of the world, and 
 the glory of them, 
 
 " And saith unto Him, All these things 
 will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and 
 worship me. 
 
 " Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee 
 hence, Satan : for it is written, Thou shalt 
 worship the Lord thy God, and Him only 
 shalt thou serve." 
 
 " Then the devil leaveth him, and, 
 behold, angels came and ministered unto 
 Him." 
 
 And lo ! I looked a^ain and I saw 
 the tempter was the very serpent that 
 had spoken to Adam and Eve, illustrated 
 upon the Scroll, and had said to them 
 these selfsame things. To whom Adam 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 59 
 
 hearkened and obeyed and under whose 
 teaching and dominion Adam had lost 
 Paradise. The very serpent which said, 
 " Ye shall not surely die!" 
 
 Behold the flesh men had named him 
 Satan. They had materialized this wicked, 
 false spirit of evil, until to them he had 
 become a devil. But Jesus knew him, for 
 He judged not from appearances; He 
 knew he was the father of lies, a murderer 
 from the beginning, and He put him 
 behind Him. 
 
 And my soul cried, Why? 
 
 And the voice answered, He was tempt- 
 ing Jesus to use His power for selfish 
 motives even as he had tempted Adam. 
 
 To appease hunger by commanding the 
 stone to turn to bread, rather than suffer 
 the pangs that hunger brings to the flesh, 
 and He remembered that bread could not 
 feed the soul. 
 
60 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 Again to tempt God's providence by 
 taking the daring risks of flesh men and 
 put the test of whether God be true in 
 giving His angels charge of him. The 
 very thought would have expressed a 
 doubt. And then the supreme temptation 
 to the Adam man, power, fame and riches, 
 if he would worship and obey the sensual, 
 serpent principle. 
 
 And behold how very opposite the 
 Divine man hath met and overcome the 
 temptations, showing the flesh men He 
 came to redeem, in the very start of life, 
 what they must meet, how they must 
 overcome. 
 
 Adam in the Garden of Eden, with all 
 its gifts, fell when tempted. Christ in the 
 wilderness, hungry and alone from men, 
 overcame. 
 
 Behold the picture ! 
 
CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 THE SCROLL — con tin ned. 
 
 And I heard a voice say, Read and 
 behold. 
 
 Upon the Scroll I saw the words : 
 
 " Comfort ye my people, saith your God. 
 
 u And the glory of the Lord shall be 
 revealed, and ?\\ flesh shall see it together ; 
 for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken 
 it. 
 
 " The voice said, Cry. And I said, 
 What shall I cry ? All flesh is grass, and 
 all the goodliness thereof is as the flower 
 of the field. 
 
 " The grass withereth, the flower fadeth ; 
 because the spirit of the Lord bloweth 
 upon it; surely the people is grass. 
 
 " The grass withereth, the flower fadeth ; 
 
 (61) 
 
62 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 but the word of our God shall stand 
 forever. 
 
 "He shall feed his flock like a shepherd, 
 He shall gather the lambs with His arm, 
 and carry them in His bosom, and shall 
 gently lead them that are with young." 
 
 Who hath directed the Spirit of the 
 Lord, or being His counsellor hath taught 
 Him? 
 
 And my soul answered, God. 
 
"And ye now therefore have sorrow, but T will see you again, 
 and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from 
 
 you." 
 
CHAPTER XV. 
 
 And I bowed my head and followed 
 Him. 
 
 And he would refer the scribes and 
 Pharisees to their Bible, and I would take 
 my own and read. But I always came 
 back to the Inner Chamber and knelt 
 down and waited; waited in the darkness, 
 waited in the gloom, until one blessed day 
 I heard a voice saying, 
 
 " Behold, I stand at the door and knock ; 
 if any man will open unto me I will come 
 in to him and sup with him." 
 
 And I opened the door of the Inner 
 Chamber and behold Jesus stood there. 
 
 And my soul cried out, 
 
 My Lord and my God! 
 
 And I crouched low upon the floor 
 
 (63) 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 65 
 
 and behold the kingdom of heaven is 
 within you." 
 
 I looked again. Behold it is true, for 
 Jesus, the way, the truth, and the life, 
 stood within the Inner Chamber. 
 
 And I fell upon my face and cried, Who 
 can follow thee, Lord, in the regeneration; 
 for behold the twelve tribes of Israel rise 
 up against thee and strive in the Inner 
 Chamber of thy soul? 
 
 And He answered, 
 
 " To him that overcometh I will o-ive to 
 eat of the Tree of Life which is in the 
 midst of the Paradise of God. To him 
 that overcometh I will give to eat of the 
 hidden manna, and I will give him a white 
 stone, and in the stone a new name 
 written, which no man knoweth saving- 
 he that receiveth it." 
 
 And He told me the story of the Prod- 
 igal Son, and I said I will arise and go to 
 my Father. 
 
66 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 And I saw upon the Scroll that it 
 opened upon the illustration of Moses 
 lifting up the brazen serpent, and as my 
 eyes rested upon it Jesus said, 
 
 " And I, if I be lifted up from the 
 earth (the flesh) will draw all men unto 
 me. 
 
 Being lifted up from the earth I die to 
 the carnal nature. 
 
 And I bowed my head and thanked 
 Him. 
 
 But oft I was cumbered with many 
 cares, and I forgot to sit at Jesus' feet. 
 And I toiled for food and raiment when I 
 went out and closed the door of the 
 Inner Chamber, and my heart was sore 
 when I returned. And the voice said 
 softly, 
 
 " No man can serve two masters. Ye 
 cannot serve God and mammon. There- 
 fore I say unto you take no thought for 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 67 
 
 your life, what ye shall eat or what ye 
 shall drink; nor yet for your body what 
 ye shall put on. Is not the life more than 
 meat and the body more than raiment? 
 
 " Behold the fowls of the air, for they 
 sow not neither do they reap nor gather 
 into barns ; yet your heavenly Father feecl- 
 eth them. Are ye not much better than 
 they? 
 
 " Why take ye thought for raiment ? 
 Consider the lilies of the field how they 
 grow; they toil not neither do they spin; 
 
 " And yet I say unto you that Solomon 
 in all his glory was not arrayed like one 
 of these. 
 
 " Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass 
 of the field that to-day is, and to-morrow 
 is cast into the oven, shall he not much 
 more clothe you, O ye of little faith? 
 • " For after all these things do the 
 Gentiles seek; for your heavenly Father 
 
68 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 knoweth that ye have need of all these 
 things. 
 
 " But seek ye first the kingdom of God 
 and His righteousness and all these things 
 shall be added unto you. 
 
 " Take, therefore, no thought for the 
 morrow, for the morrow shall take thought 
 for the things of itself. Sufficient unto 
 the day is the evil thereof/' 
 
 And I lifted up my voice and cried with 
 joy. The burden was not necessary. I 
 was carrying a load that God wanted to 
 bear, and I laid it down outside the 
 Temple, and to me it looked like a moun- 
 tain of black darkness. And silently, 
 without this load, I retired to the Inner 
 Chamber. And in the wakening dawn 
 of the new day that crept into the window 
 I tried to see the furniture of the room. 
 The rays fell upon the floor and were 
 creeping up to light the room ; and all the 
 
TRUE MEMORY. GO 
 
 time I was trying to follow a faint streak 
 of light that led — whither? And a voice 
 whispered, Come and see. 
 
 And as I watched this streak of light it 
 reminded me of how in the early morning 
 of my life I watched a light, gray and ob- 
 scure at first as it crept into the chamber 
 of my soul, just as in after years I watched 
 the morning dawn creep in and light each 
 piece of furniture in the room, beginning 
 at the floor. 
 
 And now I wondered whence this light 
 had come and wondered whither it would 
 
 And a voice said, Behold the light that 
 dawneth in thee is True Memory! 
 I looked again and read the Record: 
 True Memory is the most there is of a 
 man. True Memory only can lead him 
 back to his Fathers house. Behold, it is 
 the light which Adam quenched when he 
 
70 
 
 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 covered himself with the evil of the flesh. 
 Light (Truth) is the True Memory of 
 Man. The wisest man is he who forgets 
 the least of good. 
 
 And my soul said, Then Jesus know- 
 eth whence the Light cometh, and He 
 calleth it His Father. And by this 
 Light and in this Light he walketh the 
 earth veiled in the flesh derived from his 
 mother Mary. But the spirit of his 
 Father was the Light of the world (flesh), 
 and by this Light he read the secret 
 workings of men's hearts and brains. 
 The hypocrite could not cover his sin 
 with smiles nor hide from Him the 
 inside of the platter. 
 
 And again I read from the Record: 
 The Lord appears to every man accord- 
 ing to the state of the man. " To the fro- 
 ward He shows Himself fro ward, to the 
 upright He appeareth upright." To the 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 71 
 
 wicked He is an angry God; to the man 
 of blood an avenging God. 
 
 And my soul cried out, O Lord! give 
 me the light; tell me what True Memory is. 
 
 And a voice said, Read on. 
 
 I read: 
 
 To remember only the good in every 
 one; for as you remember them so they 
 become to you. Had man known only 
 good, appropriated only good, believed 
 only in good, remembering that all was 
 from God who could only be the author of 
 good, then he had not fallen into the 
 gross error and believed in evil and at- 
 tributed it to God. To him in his fallen 
 state God became all that his fallen state 
 had brought to himself; and what his 
 memory made him he handed down to 
 his children; for we know that, as we 
 remember one, so he becomes to us as 
 good or evil. 
 
72 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 Flesh man, created like a house, has his 
 furniture inherited in brain, blood, bone, 
 nerve, muscle, etc., and whether he be 
 good or evil he is what his memory makes 
 him, or what it shows to him of good or 
 evil. 
 
 The interior memory is void in some 
 and they are called natural men, and they 
 become inhabitants of the world of spirits. 
 Others receive True Memory to a small 
 degree and are called good men, and they 
 inhabit the spiritual world. Others receive 
 still more of this light of True Memory, 
 and they become angels. And when man 
 receives all of True Memory comes his 
 Redemption, for then he knows and con- 
 fesses that the only Truth and Light is 
 God. When man rejects zvJiolly all that 
 lie remembers which is not from God, but 
 inherited (proprium), then is he indeed 
 redeemed. 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 73 
 
 The external or natural mind clings to 
 its first impressions of outward things and 
 believes it to be knowledge when in reality 
 it is illusion, delusion, appearance only. 
 The internal mind, when True Memory 
 lights it, opens up an interior, invisible, 
 unseen world, full of marvellous visions, 
 and once it gains admittance to the Inner 
 Chamber the Light is sure to remain and 
 will grow brighter if we have oil to feed 
 the flame. (Oil, the holy principle of good, 
 the good of love.) For by the Light of 
 True Memory only can we return to our 
 Father's house. 
 
 Only One remembers the day of crea- 
 tion and when He swung; the stars like 
 lamps in the sky. On]}' One remembers 
 to send the sunlight and the air. Only 
 One remembers the fall of a sparrow. 
 Only One recognizes the internal man 
 and pays no homage to his earthly pos- 
 
74 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 sessions. Only One remembers how He 
 fashioned the intricate machinery, the 
 spiritual body that dwells in and com- 
 mands the mortal that is called man. 
 And memory, True Memory, all that can 
 lead man back to God, hangs like a golden 
 chain from His throne to His footstool. 
 
 And I cried in my soul, Where is True 
 Memory to be found? And I fell upon 
 my face, and lo ! I heard the voice of 
 Jesus say, 
 
 " I am the Light of the world. No man 
 cometh unto the Father but by me." 
 
 And I vowed a vow. He remembered 
 his Father and He would tell us all about 
 Him, and as His Divine Father would 
 teach Him He would teach the world, 
 and thus would I gain memory of the 
 Father through the Son. 
 
 Thus having rejected the tempter which 
 had led Adam astray, having rejected all 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 75 
 
 temptation to use power for Himself, when 
 angels had ministered unto Him, then He 
 departed into Galilee and, leaving Naza- 
 reth, He came and dwelt in Capernaum 
 which is upon the sea coast in the borders 
 of Zebulon and Nephthalim, that it might 
 be fulfilled which was spoken by the 
 prophet Esaias saying, 
 
 " The land of Zebulon and the land of 
 Nephthalim by way of the sea beyond 
 Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; 
 . " The people which sat in darkness saw 
 a great light and to them which sat in the 
 region of the shadow of death lisrht is 
 sprung up. 
 
 From that time Jesus began to preach 
 and to say, 
 
 " Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is 
 at hand." 
 
 And I followed Him, to learn of Him, 
 for never man spake like this Man spake. 
 
76 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 And I listened to His sermon on the 
 mount which was the very opposite of all 
 the sermons I had ever heard. I learned 
 His prayer; but when I would repeat it in 
 the Inner Chamber I started up in fright. 
 . " Forgive our debts as we forgive our 
 debtors." 
 
 And in fear I cried, and fell upon my 
 face. " As we forgive." Oh, who forgives 
 his fellow man as he would have God 
 to forgive him ? 
 
 And I said, Who is worthy to say that 
 prayer? Who can say it and not be 
 afraid ? 
 
 The spirit said: Ye have seen how 
 that these flesh men have attributed all 
 their evils to God. But behold the Son 
 of man hath attributed them to Satan 
 (their own false beliefs and doctrines, their 
 own hypocrisies have bound them), and 
 He, Jesus, loosed them and made them 
 
TRUE MEMORY. i i 
 
 free; not free from God, but from the 
 devil (evil thought), and cast them out. 
 
 We must reject all inherited memories 
 even as Jesus rejected all inherited mem- 
 ories of evil and sin in the Jewish race. 
 His memory of the Father contended 
 always with this inherited memory. 
 
 Adam fell from the spiritual man into 
 the flesh or sensual state. 
 
 He who receives Christ is born of God; 
 i.e., has enough of True Memory to be led 
 to understand how to reject the false 
 inherited sensual principles of father, 
 mother, sister, brother, and to take up 
 the cross and follow the divine life of 
 Jesus, knowing always that this earth life 
 is limited to a span and that all of the 
 sensual Ave inherit may be quickly lost and 
 that we have no need of them in the 
 spirit. True Memory opens the grave of 
 the senses and leads us back to our 
 
78 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 Father's house. It pierces the veil of 
 illusion ?„nd we see eye to eye. 
 
 And I followed on with bowed head, 
 when the voice said, Behold! I looked up 
 and saw a vision. The voice said, Look 
 up and read ! I read, and I returned to 
 the Inner Chamber. I took my Bible 
 and verified all I had seen and read. 
 
 " Ask and it shall be given you, seek 
 and ye shall find, knock and it shall be 
 opened unto you. 
 
 " For every one that asketh receiveth ; 
 and he that seeketh findeth; and to him 
 that knocketh it shall be opened." 
 
 I felt that here, in this Holy Book, was 
 the place to seek, the place to knock; 
 and the promise was already given that I 
 should find, that it should be opened 
 unto me. 
 
 But I loved to follow Jesus, for He 
 walked not in the ordinary ways of men. 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 79 
 
 He cared not for riches, nor houses, Hol- 
 lands. He spoke always of his Father's 
 kingdom, a kingdom not of this world. 
 He told them (the Jews) that their Temple 
 should not stand. Nay, not one stone 
 upon another ; that nothing built with 
 mortal hands is imperishable. 
 
 I wrapped my mantle about me and 
 went forth to find Him. My footsteps 
 were guided upon a high mountain where 
 Jesus and Peter and James and John 
 stood apart, and He was transfigured 
 before them. And His face did shine as 
 the sun, and His raiment was as white 
 licrht. 
 
 And behold, there appeared unto them 
 Moses and Elias talking with Him. 
 
 And the voice whispered, Remember 
 the Scroll; the spiritual men that God did 
 create. Christ would show his disciples 
 what the true man is, for behold their 
 
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 spiritual sight is now opened as is your 
 own and they see Moses and Elias, and 
 the figure thrown across Christ is His own 
 spiritual body that shall at last be glori- 
 fied. But these disciples do not know 
 what is done to them, nor why it is done 
 to them. Wrap thy mantle closely, more 
 closely to thee, and let its folds fall even 
 to the ground. And I obeyed and listened 
 with bowed head. 
 
 And Peter said unto Jesus, " Lord, it is 
 good for us to be here : if thou wilt, let 
 us make here three tabernacles; one for 
 thee, one for Moses and one for Elias." 
 
 And while he spake, behold a bright 
 cloud overshadowed them, and behold a 
 voice out of the cloud which said, " This 
 is My beloved Son, in whom I am well 
 pleased; hear ye Him." 
 
 And when the disciples heard it' they 
 fell on their faces and were sore afraid. 
 
"Jesus taketh Peter, James and John and bringeth them to a 
 high mountain apart, and He was transfigured before them. 
 His face did shine as the sun, and His raiment was white as 
 light." 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 81 
 
 "And Jesus came and touched them 
 and said, Arise and be not afraid. 
 
 " And when they lifted up their eyes, 
 they saw no man save Jesus only." (For 
 their spiritual eyes were now closed.) 
 
 " And as they came down from the 
 mountain (out of this exalted spiritual 
 state) Jesus charged them saying, Tell the 
 vision to no man, until the Son of man 
 be risen again from the dead. 
 
 "And His disciples asked Him saying, 
 Why then say the scribes that Elias must 
 first come ? 
 
 "And Jesus answered and said unto 
 them, Elias truly shall first come, and 
 restore all things. 
 
 " But I say unto you, that Elias is come 
 already, and they knew him not, but have 
 done unto him whatsoever they listed. 
 Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer 
 of them. 
 
82 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 " Then the disciples understood that He 
 spoke of John the Baptist. 
 
 "And when they were come unto the 
 multitude a certain man came kneeling 
 down to Him saying, 
 
 " Lord have mercy on my son, for he is 
 a lunatic and sore vexed; for ofttimes he 
 falleth into the fire (hate), and oft into the 
 water (falsity) ; and I brought him to Thy 
 disciples and they could not cure him. 
 
 " Then Jesus answered, O faithless and 
 perverse generation, how long shall I be 
 with you, how long shall I suffer you ! 
 Bring him hither to Me. And Jesus 
 rebuked the devil, and he departed out 
 of him. And the child was cured from 
 that self-same hour. 
 
 " Then came the disciples to Jesus 
 apart and said, Why could we not cast 
 him out? 
 
 "And Jesus said, Because of your un- 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 83 
 
 belief; for verily I say unto you if you 
 have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you 
 shall say unto this mountain, Remove 
 hence to yonder place, and it shall re- 
 move; and nothing shall be impossible 
 unto you. 
 
 " Howbeit this kind goeth not out but 
 by prayer and fasting. 
 
 " And while they abode in Galilee Jesus 
 said unto them, The Son of man shall be 
 betrayed into the hands of men ; 
 
 "And they shah kill Him, and the third 
 day He shall be raised again. And they 
 were exceeding sorry." 
 
 And I wrapped my mantle closer and 
 bowed my head and went into the Inner 
 Chamber and kneeled down, and medi- 
 tated upon all I had seen and heard. 
 
 I viewed a^ain the Scroll. I read ao;ain 
 the Record. I recalled the words of Jesus 
 and I recalled the vision of the Trans- 
 
84 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 figuration, when the spiritual body of 
 Jesus was drawn forth and thrown a 
 luminous presence across His natural 
 body. And the vision of Moses and 
 Elias, spiritual men, appeared. And the 
 voice whispered, 
 
 "So hath God made man in the be- 
 ginning. Moses and Elias still live in the 
 spiritual world as do all good men who 
 have passed out of sight of natural men; 
 but the world is so gross that they cannot 
 see spiritual things. Even the disciples. 
 And He knew they must see Him die and 
 be raised again before they could believe 
 in the spiritual resurrection, even though 
 they had witnessed the Transfiguration: 
 seen the spirit drawn forth entirely from 
 the body. Arid when He saw the depths 
 to which they had fallen He was grieved 
 for them." 
 
 And there in the Inner Chamber I 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 85 
 
 waited and prayed that I might find the 
 golden stair of memory leading back to 
 God ; Jacob's ladder, upon which angels 
 ascended and descended, that they might 
 lead me back to Him. 
 
 And when the dawn came I followed 
 on and I found Him about the sixth hour 
 in Samaria, at the well. And I heard Him 
 speak to the woman there as though He 
 were speaking to all the world. And He 
 said: 
 
 "Ye worship ye know not what. 
 
 " But the hour cometh and now is, when 
 the true worshippers shall worship the 
 Father in spirit and in truth ; for the 
 Father seeketh such to worship Him. 
 
 " God is a spirit ; and they that worship 
 Him must worship Him in spirit and in 
 truth:' 
 
 And later when I listened I heard and 
 kept His saying: 
 
86 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 " Verily, verily I say unto you, He that 
 heareth My word, and believeth on Him 
 that sent Me hath everlasting life, and 
 shall not come into condemnation, but is 
 passed from death unto life. 
 
 " Verily, verily, I say unto you, The 
 hour is coming and now is, when the dead 
 (flesh men) shall hear the voice of the 
 Son of God ; and they that hear shall live. 
 
 "For as the Father hath life in Himself, 
 so hath He given the Son to have life in 
 Himself ; 
 
 "And hath given Him authority to exe- 
 cute judgment also, because He is the Son 
 of man. 
 
 "Marvel not at this; for the hour is 
 coming in the which all that are in the 
 graves (body of flesh) shall hear His voice, 
 
 "And shall come forth; they that have 
 done good (remembered good only) unto 
 the resurrection of life ; and they that 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 87 
 
 have done evil, unto the resurrection of 
 damnation. 
 
 " I can of Mine own self do nothing; as 
 1 hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, 
 because I seek not Mine own will, but the 
 will of My Father which hath sent Me." 
 
 And I bowed my head again, and took 
 these words into my heart: 
 
 " What and if ye shall see the Son of 
 man ascend up where He was before? 
 
 " It is the spirit that quickeneth ; the 
 flesh profiteth nothing; the words that I 
 speak unto you are spirit and they are life. 
 
 " Ye judge after the flesh. I judge no 
 man." (Flesh.) 
 
 When I heard the words I bowed my 
 face to the earth and wept. We judge 
 that we cannot see and that we do not 
 know; for the flesh hideth the real man. 
 And as Christ judged no man, thus we 
 should not. 
 
CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 " And there came a beautiful woman 
 who fell at Jesus' feet saying, 
 
 " Lord, if thou hadst been here my 
 brother had not died. 
 
 " And Jesus cometh to the grave with 
 them and said: 
 
 " Take ye away the stone. And Mar- 
 tha, the sister of him that was dead, saith 
 unto Him, By this time he stinketh ; for he 
 hath been dead four days. 
 
 " Jesus said unto her, Said I not unto 
 thee, that if thou wouldst believe thou 
 shouldst see the glory of God ? 
 
 " And they took away the stone from 
 the place where the dead was laid. And 
 Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, Father, 
 I thank Thee that Thou hast heard Me. 
 
 (88) 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 80 
 
 "And I knew that Thou nearest. Me 
 always; but because of the people which 
 stand by I said it, that they may believe 
 that Thou hast sent Me. 
 
 "And when He had thus spoken He 
 cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. 
 
 "And he that was dead came forth, 
 bound hand and foot with graveclothes ; 
 and his face was bound up with a napkin. 
 Jesus saith unto them, Loose him and let 
 him o-o. 
 
 o 
 
 " Then gathered the chief Priests and 
 the Pharisees a council, and said, What 
 do we? for this man doeth many miracles. 
 
 " If we let Him alone all men will believe 
 on Him; and the Romans shall come and 
 take away both our place and nation." 
 
 " Love of self, love of dominion, 1 ' cried 
 the voice. " Behold, the Adam man pre- 
 vails. It put' the flesh men in bondage 
 and it will hold and keep them there." 
 
90 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 And I followed, followed on whitherso- 
 ever He went, and learned of Him. And 
 many of His sayings are written in my 
 heart. 
 
 Like these: 
 
 " Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a 
 corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, 
 it abideth alone ; but if it die, it bringeth 
 forth much fruit. 
 
 " He that loveth his life shall lose it; 
 and he that hateth his life in this world 
 shall keep it unto life eternal. 
 
 " If any man serve Me, let him follow 
 Me ; and where I am there shall My ser- 
 vant be; and if any man serve Me, him 
 will My Father honor." 
 
 And the voice whispered, " Listen to 
 this ; for what He says is for you, and 
 every one, to pass through, and He shows 
 you how." 
 
 " Now is My soul troubled and what 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 91 
 
 shall I say? Father, save Me from this 
 hour ; but for this cause came I unto this 
 hour. 
 
 " Father, glorify Thy name. Then came 
 there a voice from heaven saying, I 
 have both glorified it and will glorify it 
 again. 
 
 " And Jesus said unto them, Yet a little 
 while is the light with you. Walk while 
 ye have the light lest darkness come 
 upon you; for he that walketh in dark- 
 ness knoweth not whither he goeth. 
 
 " While ye have light, believe in the 
 light. These things spake Jesus, and 
 departed and did hide Himself from 
 them." 
 
 " These things said Esaias when he saw 
 His glory and spake of Him. 
 
 "Nevertheless among the chief rulers 
 also many believed on Him; but because 
 of the Pharisees thev did not confess 
 
92 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 Him, lest they should be put out of the 
 synagogue ; 
 
 " For they loved the praise of men more 
 than the praise of God." 
 
 Is this not true to-day? 
 
 " Jesus cried and said, He that believeth 
 on Me, believeth not on Me but on Him 
 that sent Me." 
 
 u And I know that His commandment 
 is life everlasting; whatsoever I speak, 
 therefore, even as the Father said unto 
 Me, so I speak." 
 
 And I wrapped myself closely in my 
 mantle and bowed my head and went 
 silently into the Inner Chamber. And 
 my soul was exceeding sorrowful, but I 
 looked upon the Scroll once more and 
 saw the whole creation of the universe roll 
 forth from the great Spiritual Fountain of 
 All Life, illuminated by Divine Light. 
 And my soul cried out as those spiritual 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 93 
 
 beings, illumined in that heavenly light, 
 appeared : 
 
 " Woe, woe, to them that call evil good, 
 and good evil ; that put darkness for light 
 and light for darkness ; that put bitter for 
 sweet and sweet for bitter ! 
 
 "Woe unto them that are wise in their 
 own eyes, and prudent in their own sight." 
 For thus had they wrought their own 
 misery. 
 
 And as I looked and listened the voice 
 said, " For this cause came Christ into the 
 world ; to restore all things, to teach men 
 how to live, and the nothingness of this 
 material world. As it was in the beo-in- 
 ning it shall be in the end." 
 
 And my soul cried, Amen, and Amen. 
 
 " The Christ is come. Within His body 
 He carries the history of the zuorld and in 
 His flesh the sins of all the people? 
 
 And then I marvelled no longer that He 
 
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 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 must die. Die to the flesh, die to sin. 
 That the flesh, that the world of black 
 darkness to His immaculate . soul, must 
 be cast off, spiritualized, to redeem man- 
 kind. 
 
CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 But He sorrowed for the world. He 
 wept over Jerusalem, His beloved city. 
 His soul revolted from hell— the tomb — 
 but He had long ago cried, 
 
 "Thou wilt not leave My soul in hell 
 neither suffer Thine Holy One to see 
 corruption." 
 
 And He knew it would be so. 
 
 The liorht struo-aled in the darkness, the 
 Spirit in the flesh, but True Memory 
 fanned the flame; He remembered His 
 Father. 
 
 He knew the material things of this 
 universe were only adapted to the sensual 
 earth, flesh man's brief existence, and 
 would pass away from man as man passed 
 away from it, or rejected its dominion, 
 
 (95) 
 
96 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 and he would take nothing of it with 
 him but his Memory, whether it be good 
 or evil, as the Lamb's book of his Life. 
 
 I walked again beside Him in those last 
 solemn days. 
 
 I saw Him wash the disciples' feet. I 
 heard Him say, 
 
 "He that eateth bread with Me hath 
 lifted up his heel against Me." 
 
 I heard Him give that new command- 
 ment: 
 
 " That ye love one another ; as I have 
 loved you, that ye love one another. 
 
 " By this shall all men know that ye are 
 My disciples, if ye have love one to 
 another." 
 
 But He was going away, and said: 
 
 "Whither I go thou canst not follow 
 Me now; but thou shalt follow Me after- 
 wards." 
 
 Oh, those precious words! Oh, that 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 97 
 
 heavenly counsellor ! Oh, that Divine 
 comforter ! 
 
 I knelt in the Inner Chamber. I folded 
 my mantle closer, closer, and buried my 
 face in my knees, and I listened, and again 
 His precious words came echoing through 
 the chambers of my soul. And I cried 
 out, I know that my Redeemer liveth and 
 in my flesh I shall see God. While yet 
 in this flesh I had learned to know Him 
 and thus see Him. And had not the 
 humanity of Christ cried out with the 
 voice of David these same words? And 
 had He not made it possible, in example, 
 for all who believed on Him to see and 
 recognize God in Christ even though man 
 was still enveloped in his flesh ? 
 
 And I dwelt on His heavenly teachings 
 and carried them in my heart. 
 
CHAPTER XVIII. 
 
 Out of the land of Egypt, spiritual 
 darkness, out of the house of bondage, He 
 had led all who had followed Him. 
 
 He "became sin" for us, buried in the 
 grave of our sensual nature, in which He 
 was vainly tempted, suffering the whole 
 pressure of hereditary evil as if it was His 
 personal, individual and only life, combat- 
 ing its awful influences by urgent prayers 
 to what seemed to Him at times a far-off, 
 separate power, His Father in heaven, in- 
 stead of the Divine within Himself. His 
 sufferings arose from His temptations, 
 the life-and-death struggles between the 
 Divine spirit dwelling within Him and the 
 hereditary evil nature which that spirit 
 conquered and cast out; True Memory 
 
 (98) 
 
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 of the Father combating the inherited 
 memories of evil of the Jewish race de- 
 rived from His mother Mary. 
 
 And His precious words I gathered up 
 and made a necklace of them as I knelt in 
 the Inner Chamber, such as : 
 
 "Let not your heart be troubled; ye 
 believe in God, believe also in Me. 
 
 " In My Father's house are many man- 
 sions ; if it were not so I would have told 
 you. I go to prepare a place for you. 
 
 " And if I go and prepare a place for 
 you I will come again, and receive you 
 unto Myself ; that where I am ye may be 
 also. 
 
 " And whatsoever ye. shall ask in My 
 name that will I do, that the Father may 
 be glorified in the Son. 
 
 " If ye love Me, keep My command- 
 ments. 
 
 " And I will pray the Father, and He 
 
100 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 will give you another Comforter, that he 
 may abide with you forever ; 
 
 "Even the Spirit of Truth; whom the 
 world cannot receive, because it seeth 
 Him not, neither knoweth Him ; but ye 
 know Him, for He dwelleth with you, and 
 shall be in you. 
 
 " Yet a little while, and the world seeth 
 Me no more, but ye see Me ; because I 
 live ye shall live also. 
 
 " At that day ye shall know that I am 
 in My Father, and ye in Me, and I in you. 
 
 "Peace I leave with you, My peace. I 
 give unto you ; not as the world giveth, 
 give I unto you. Let not your heart be 
 troubled, neither let it be afraid. 
 
 " If ye abide in Me, and My words 
 abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, 
 and it shall be done unto you. 
 
 " Howbeit when the Spirit of Truth 
 (True Memory) is come he will guide you 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 101 
 
 into all truth ; for he shall not speak of 
 himself; but whatsoever he shall hear 
 that shall he speak and he will show you 
 things to come." 
 
 And my soul was exceeding sorrowful 
 as I strung these sayings upon a necklace 
 as I knelt in the Inner Chamber. And I 
 cried with my face upon the earth. And 
 the sayings, like a string of pearls, I 
 clasped to my heart when I heard a voice. 
 And I lifted up mine eyes, and behold, 
 Jesus stood once more in the Inner Cham- 
 ber. And He said : 
 
 "And ye now therefore have sorrow, 
 but I will see you again, and your heart 
 shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh 
 from you. 
 
 " And in that day ye shall ask Me noth- 
 ing. Verily, verily I say unto you, what- 
 soever ye ask the Father in My name, He 
 will give it you. 
 
102 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 " I came forth from the Father and am 
 come into the world; again, I leave the 
 world and go unto the Father. 
 
 "These words spake Jesus, and lifted 
 up His eyes to heaven and said, Father, 
 the hour is come. Glorify Thy son that 
 Thy son may glorify Thee. 
 
 " As thou hast given Him power over all 
 flesh, that He should give eternal life to as 
 many as Thou hast given Him. 
 
 "And this is life eternal, that they 
 might know Thee the only true God, and 
 Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent" 
 
 And as I listened I heard His prayer, 
 and felt it like sweet incense ascending up 
 to heaven. And I listened, and breathed 
 in that prayer, and it clung to my mantle 
 like a sweet odor and perfumed the Inner 
 Chamber. 
 
 He had told me now what eternal life 
 is, and how to find it, and I bowed my 
 head and thanked Him. 
 
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 Once more I wrapped my mantle about 
 me and walked forth to seek Him. And I 
 found Him in the judgment hall, standing 
 in calm majesty before Pilate. And I 
 heard Pilate say, 
 
 " Thine own nation and the chief priests 
 have delivered Thee unto me ; what hast 
 Thou done ? 
 
 " Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of 
 this world ; if My kingdom were of this 
 world then would My servants fight that 
 I should not be delivered to the Jews; 
 but now is My kingdom not from 
 hence. . . " 
 
 And again I saw them lead Him forth, 
 and I followed on. He wore a crown of 
 thorns and a purple robe ; and Pilate 
 saith unto them, 
 
 BEHOLD THE MAN! 
 
 "And He, bearing His cross, went forth 
 into a place called Golgotha. 
 
104 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 " And they crucified Him, and two 
 others with Him, on either side, and Jesus 
 in the midst. And Pilate wrote a title 
 and put it on the cross. And the writing 
 was, 
 
 "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE 
 KING OF THE JEWS. 
 
 "And Jesus said, 
 
 "IT IS FINISHED. 
 
 " And He bowed His head and gave up 
 the ghost. 
 
 " And after this Joseph of Arimathea, 
 being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly 
 for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate 
 that he might take away the body of 
 Jesus. And Pilate gave him leave. He 
 came therefore and took the body of 
 Jesus. 
 
 " Now in the place where He was cruci- 
 fied there was a garden, and in the garden 
 
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 TRUE MEMORY. 105 
 
 a new sepulchre, wherein was never man 
 yet laid. 
 
 " Then laid they Jesus there because of 
 the Jews' praparation day; for the sepul- 
 chre was nigh at hand." 
 
CHAPTER XIX. 
 
 I wrapped my mantle about me, and > 
 the folds they did sweep the ground, and 
 I bowed my head and returned to the 
 Inner Chamber and meditated upon the 
 promises that Jesus had made. He said 
 He would return again, and my soul 
 waited, and watched, and listened for His 
 voice. I knew that He would return in 
 the Spirit now, so surely as He departed in 
 the flesh. And I looked up at the Scroll 
 and read it again from the creation of the 
 world. I saw spiritual men, luminous 
 creatures, voluntarily, through love of self, 
 love of the world and love of dominion, 
 take on the srross material flesh and 
 assume dominion over the earth. 
 
 I read the Record again and again, how 
 
 (106) 
 
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 the spiritual man was enveloped in flesh 
 and became sensual, so that thus only 
 could the Divine approach Him, live with 
 Him, talk to Him, and teach Him to re- 
 deem the flesh and spiritualize it so as to 
 return to His Father. Had He departed 
 otherwise than as He did, His own 
 disciples would have said He had gone 
 into another country. 
 
 The prophecies already fulfilled, the 
 promises to be fulfilled, were my meat and 
 drink as I dwelt three days in the Inner 
 Chamber. 
 
 I walked forth again. 
 
 The sepulchre where they had laid Him 
 was empty. The Lord had risen, as He 
 had said, and He appeared to all whose 
 spiritual eyes were opened, and conversed 
 with those whose spiritual ears were 
 opened. 
 
 I listened to the wonderful stories. 
 
108 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 Jesus walked the earth again unseen, 
 save by all those who truly loved Him, 
 and believed in Him. 
 
 I listened and my heart rejoiced, for my 
 soul said I should see Him ; for I knew 
 He was the Son of God, that He was God. 
 And I knew that He who marked the 
 sparrow's fall would see my faith in Him. 
 And as He had said to me that my heart 
 would rejoice, so it did. 
 
 And I returned to the Inner Chamber, 
 and I kneeled down and wrapped my 
 mantle about me, and waited upon the 
 Lord. And He came. And He touched 
 mine eyes, and I looked up, and He said, 
 Behold ! 
 
 And lo ! a temple that seemed to fill the 
 universe, built after the pattern of Solo- 
 mon's temple, and my soul knew that it 
 was a spiritual temple in which all the 
 nations of the earth did worship God, the 
 
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 Great Jehovah God, in Spirit and in 
 Truth. And this temple was composed 
 of myriads of temples of living souls. 
 And luminous and bright at the corner I 
 saw Him who had appeared in the Trans- 
 figuration on the mount, and I remem- 
 bered, " The stone which the builders re- 
 jected was made chief of the corner." 
 
 And He showeth me that the temple of 
 the soul, the spiritual temple, was the only 
 acceptable place to worship God. 
 
 Then He spake again, and said, Look 
 and see ! 
 
 And behold, on a barren desert plain, 
 heaped with the sands of time, I saw the 
 great Egyptian Pyramids. And He said, 
 
 " Behold the mockery of men ! Where 
 are they, those giants of the earth, who 
 in their vaunted pride and self-derived in- 
 telligence have wrought these things? 
 Behold, their very names are forgotten 
 
110 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 and unknown ; their works have been 
 mightier than themselves. Sic transit 
 gloria mundi. And He said, Come ; I will 
 show thee all." 
 
 And the Lord led me over the whole 
 earth and He showed me the works of 
 men. And He said, Behold ! How can 
 a nation stand whose works are mightier 
 than they? 
 
 And I pondered on His words. 
 
 And the voice said, " The Alchemists 
 of old wasted their earth life seeking to 
 find the Philosopher's Stone, which they 
 supposed was a material thing, by the 
 power of which they hoped to produce 
 material gold and silver, as a stone always 
 signified Truth. True Memory had died 
 in them, but there still gleamed a reflected 
 light upon the windows of their soul, of 
 True Memory, the Spiritual Philosopher s 
 Stone, which produces spiritual gold as 
 
TRUE MEMORY. Ill 
 
 j)ure as from the refiner s fire; and the 
 pathway thereto is through the shining 
 white light of spiritual truth. True 
 Memory is the true Philosopher's Stone, 
 it turns man's thoughts into Spiritual 
 Truth, and leads him to Celestial Good. 
 " All knowledge is God's knowledge. 
 Human knowledge is foolishness with 
 God, for it is imitation or perversion and 
 deludes man, deceives him, and all his 
 self-derived intelligence is an inversion of 
 God's spiritual laws. Man never invented 
 anything. The wisest chemist does not 
 know when a thing ceases to be a condi- 
 ment and becomes a poison. He is safe 
 in none of his so-called inventions save in 
 God's mercy, and grows wise only as he 
 acknowledges that all true wisdom is from 
 God. He may be mutilated or blown to 
 atoms at any moment in his laboratory, 
 which is an unknown country to him, 
 
112 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 whose shores only has he yet explored. 
 When man becomes spiritual once more 
 the spiritual world will be an open book 
 to him. 
 
 " God only can create, for He is the 
 Fountain of all Life. God is greater than 
 all His creations which are sustained by 
 Him, as they proceed from Him. 
 
 " What is man, mortal man, but a vain 
 impostor, an imitator, who has never 
 created a lily nor a rose. He has chained 
 the lightning and uses it for what he sup- 
 poses life or death. 
 
 "He builds churches of marble and 
 stone and dedicates them to the living- 
 God, and knows not that ' He dwelleth 
 not in temples made with hands.' That 
 ' Heaven is His throne and earth His 
 footstool. What house will ye build Me, 
 saith the Lord ? ' 
 
 "Chained with self-made cares, bound to 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 113 
 
 earth by love of self and love of the world, 
 he struggles through his allotted term of 
 years. Does he learn wisdom ? Does 
 the father who buries the son learn wis- 
 dom ? or the son who buries the father 
 know more of God ? Naked he came 
 into the world and empty-handed he must 
 go forth. 
 
 " Will man always believe that God 
 called Him into an existence of toil and 
 misery to send him forth again into the 
 everlasting orloom of the grave ? Or will 
 he grasp the golden chain of memory, 
 True Memory, that leads him back to 
 God, and know that God is a Spirit and 
 can create spirit only ; that the gross, the 
 sensual, the illusions, the delusions, are 
 man's perversions of God's Divine gifts; 
 and learn that to think only of that which 
 is good, and do only that which is true, 
 will lead him into the path where the 
 
114 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 Good Shepherd is ; that to open the door 
 of the Inner Chamber to Him who stands 
 and knocks, to remember His life and 
 walk in His footsteps, not forgetting that 
 He is w T ith us always unto the end of the 
 world, 
 
 " When the clouds are swept away, 
 when we gain True Memory, then shall 
 we know what He meant when He said, 
 
 " ' I am the vine, ye are the branches.' 
 
 " Then have we followed Him. in the re- 
 generation as He promised, fitting the 
 New Testament to the Old, a divine 
 spiritual revelation, the Word of God, the 
 regeneration of the Adam man. 
 
 " In Adam we see how man fell and 
 died. In Christ we see how he rose and 
 lives again." 
 
 And thus the Spirit spoke to my soul 
 as the Lord led me on and showed me 
 the works of men : 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 115 
 
 Nations rise to their highest so-called 
 civilization ■ — behold ancient Greece and 
 Rome — they totter and fall and their 
 glory becomes an echo of the past. 
 Where are the sons of men who built the 
 pyramid of Cheops, and those in imitation 
 of it ? The Sphinx is a silent menace of 
 worldly wisdom. 
 
 Find for me a man, said the Spirit, that 
 can pluck a rose from its stem and pre- 
 vent its withering:. Show me the man 
 that can sever a limb from the human 
 body and continue the circulation of the 
 blood therein. 
 
 " Behold, what is man that thou art 
 mindful of him and the son of man that 
 thou visitest him." 
 
 And I said, Lord, let me learn of Thee! 
 
 And he said, Follow Me ! 
 
 We were at once lifted above the earth 
 and floated above it so that we could see 
 all that dwelt thereon. 
 
116 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 And the Lord showed me the great 
 cities of the earth with all their busy- 
 marts. We paused at the harbors and 
 saw ships come in and go out. We saw 
 people of all nations and every tongue 
 striving in this busy world for money, for 
 power, position, possession, dominion. 
 
 And I said to Him, Why is this, Lord ? 
 
 And He said, Because God is not there. 
 
 And I was afraid. I said, 
 
 I thought God is everywhere. 
 
 And the Lord said, Do you believe 
 God was in the mind or heart of one you 
 saw toiling and struggling there for money 
 and for power ? 
 
 And I said, If God were not there they 
 could not live, they could not breathe ? 
 
 And the Lord said, Aye, outside of them, 
 but He was not in them. 
 
 And we passed over the tall spires of 
 the churches, and I said, Lord, is He 
 here ? 
 
"Verily, I say unto you greater cities than these lie buried in 
 the earth, swallowed up in the twinkling of an eye." 
 And I said, " Because of God's wrath against man? " 
 . The Lord said, " Nay, because of man's wrath against man."" 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 117 
 
 And the Lord said, Aye, outside. 
 
 And as we passed over the great cities 
 with their towers, their armories, their 
 schools and their factories, the Lord said, 
 Verily I say unto you, greater cities than 
 these lie in the bowels of the earth swal- 
 lowed up in the twinkling of an eye. 
 
 And I asked, Because of God's wrath 
 against man ? 
 
 And the Lord said, Nay ; because of 
 man's wrath toward man. 
 
 And we passed over palaces, and looked 
 at crowned kings and beautiful queens, 
 paused on the levees and in dark streets 
 and saw harlots and murderers. 
 
 And the Lord said, Do you believe 
 God made this contrast? 
 
 And I was silent. / dare not accuse 
 God of this. 
 
 And the Lord said, There is not a 
 kingdom on the earth this day whose 
 
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 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 throne is not tottering on the sand be- 
 neath it, nor an Empire, nor a Republic ; 
 because of love of self, love of the world, 
 love of power, dominion, of bribes. As it 
 is with the individual, so it is with the 
 church ; as it is with the church, so it is 
 with the nation. And He said, Behold ! 
 
 And I beheld, and lo ! there were ani- 
 mals of every kind and description under 
 the sun, and serpents, and birds, and 
 beasts of prey, and everything that is in 
 the sea, all contending in one confused 
 mass, while lurid fires gleamed about 
 them and their fierce breath grew into a 
 great whirlwind and I was afraid. 
 
 And the Lord said, Behold again ! 
 
 And I looked, and the horrible heap 
 was clothed and was fair to look upon ; 
 and lo ! it was a man ! 
 
 And the Lord said, So long as man 
 hath angry and vile sensual passions, so 
 
And the Loid said, " Behold ! " 
 
 And I beheld, and lo ! there were animals of every kind and 
 description under the sun, and serpents, and birds, and beasts of 
 prey, and everything that is in the sea, all contending in one con- 
 fused mass, while lurid flames gleamed about them and their 
 fierce breath grew into a great whirlwind, and I was afraid. 
 
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 And the Lord said, u Behold again ! " And I looked and the 
 horrible heap was clothed and was fair to look upon ; and lo it 
 was a man ! 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 119 
 
 long shall disease and pestilence and 
 vicious animals be upon the earth ; and 
 wars and earthquakes and cyclones and 
 tornadoes shall burst upon it. They are 
 but the natural physical reflection of man's 
 thoughts and passions. Everything in 
 the natural world reflects material man 
 as spiritual man was made to reflect God. 
 Seek not God in the earthquake, the fire, 
 the thunder nor the hVhtninsr. Behold, 
 He speaketh in the still small voice at the 
 door of the Inner Chamber. 
 
 And I said, Lord, I am afraid of man. 
 
 And He said, Rememberest thou the 
 Scroll ? 
 
 And I answered, Yea, Lord. 
 
 And He said, God made all good, and 
 men as images of Himself. The things 
 which thou hast just seen within man 
 were subject to his will, his thoughts, his 
 affections, picturing forth objectively the 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 121 
 
 And He said, Yea, in the flesh I did in- 
 herit all these evils and I did subdue them 
 so that " the wolf dwelt with the lamb, the 
 leopard lay down with the kid, and the 
 voun£ li on an d the fatlin^ together, and a 
 little child did lead them. The cow and 
 the bear fed, the young ones lay down 
 together, and the lion ate straw like the 
 ox. The sucking child played upon the 
 hole of the asp, and the weaned child put 
 his hand on the cockatrice's den." They 
 did not hurt nor destroy in all My holy 
 mountain (celestial principle) ; for the earth, 
 My external bod}', was as full of the knowl- 
 edge of the Lord as the waters cover the 
 sea. And My memory was True Memory 
 of My Father. 
 
 And I remembered how the twelve 
 tribes of Israel had warred within Him. 
 I remembered the prophecies concern- 
 ing Him; His death, His Resurrection; 
 
122 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 and now that He had taken me in the 
 spirit to show me these things, I said, 
 Lord, whence cometh man's redemption ? 
 
 And He said, Even as the Son of man 
 hath shown him to overcome evil with 
 good. To love the Lord thy God with 
 all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and 
 thy neighbor as thyself, and fulfilling even 
 the new commandment : That ye love 
 one another; even as I have loved you 
 that ye love one another. There is no 
 country, land nor sea, that is not within 
 man. He must needs £0 through them 
 all, from Egypt to Jerusalem : for it can- 
 not be that a prophet perish out of Jeru- 
 salem. 
 
 And I said, Lord, Thou saidst Thou 
 would come again in power and great 
 glory out of the clouds. Shall I see Thee, 
 Lord, when Thou comest ? 
 
 And He said, What thinkest thou 
 God is ? 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 123 
 
 I said, a Spirit. 
 
 And the Lord said, How hath He made 
 manifest His power? 
 
 And I said, Lord, Thou teachest me 
 how to answer: By His Word; His 
 Divine Truth. 
 
 And the Lord said, Now because of 
 their wickedness is the Word, in order to 
 be adapted to man's sensual understand- 
 ing, become as a thick cloud, and their 
 spiritual state was described in natural 
 language that corresponded to their nat- 
 ural history. But the time cometh when 
 the Spirit will shine forth through it and 
 ye shall see it, the world shall see it, 
 even as thou sawest My Transfiguration. 
 Then cometh the Son of man in power 
 and great glory and all who will may see 
 Him shining forth a living spirit in the 
 letter of the Word. 
 
 And He said, Marvellest thou ? 
 
124 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 And I said, They said Thou didst 
 ascend up into heaven in a cloud and 
 Thou wilt descend in a cloud. 
 
 And he said, The Son of God was 
 clothed with the flesh, the spirit of the 
 Word with the letter, that sensual man 
 might see and read. Peter and James 
 and John had their spiritual sight opened, 
 and did see Moses and Elias, and they 
 would build for them an earthly taber- 
 nacle. Thinkest Thou the Spirit desireth 
 houses made with hands ? 
 
 And I said, Nay, Lord. Tell me now, 
 my soul thirsteth : Howbeit that in that 
 day when the Lord shall come that two 
 shall be grinding at a mill and one shall 
 be taken and the other left ? 
 
 And the Lord said, If one has lived 
 according to the law and become spiritual 
 that one would pass out of sight of mate- 
 rial vision and, in their carnal minds would 
 be taken, the other left. 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 125 
 
 And I asked, Lord, was Thy ascension 
 into the clouds typical of the enveloping 
 of the Word in the cloud of the letter? 
 
 And he said, What thinkest thou ? 
 
 And I was silent. There was so much 
 to learn, so much to know. 
 
 And I said, Lord, " It is written, Thy 
 kingdom shall be an everlasting kingdom." 
 
 And he answered, Everlasting. Ever- 
 lasting. 
 
 And I said, Lord, shall this earth pass 
 away ? 
 
 And He said, as it was in the Beginning 
 so shall it be in the End. For God is the 
 Alpha and Omega. Man shall learn to 
 know his God. He shall know that by 
 searching he cannot find Him who holds 
 his life like a frail taper in the wind. But 
 True Memory shall lead him back. 
 
 When he ceases to contend for power, 
 dominion, wealth and fame ; when he 
 
126 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 ceases to think of personalities and thinks 
 of principles ; when he abstains from evil 
 in thought and act, and holds fast to that 
 which is good and true, behold the earth 
 shall become a world of beauty, a spiritual 
 world once again. Sorrow, and sin, and 
 pain and death shall be no more. As in 
 the Beginning behold it shall be in the 
 End. And the devil (evil) shall be chained 
 one thousand years — Forever. 
 
 And I said, Lord at the churches Thou 
 saidst to my question if God was there, 
 "Yea, oiitside" And at the market places, 
 at the harbors and everywhere where the 
 people were so busy thou saidst, " Yea, 
 outsidcT 
 
 And the Lord said, " They praise Me 
 with their mouth but their heart is far 
 from God." 
 
 And I said, Lord, Thou saidst to Thy 
 disciples " The kingdom of heaven is 
 within you." 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 127 
 
 And the Lord said, Yea, so God created 
 man, spiritual man, the temple of the 
 living soul, a receptacle to receive the king- 
 dom of heaven. But man is the keeper of 
 the door of the Inner Chamber of his 
 soul. God loves to come to man, and 
 dwell with him and work through him, 
 but He forces Himself upon no man. 
 
 And I said, " God so loved the world • 
 (the Adam man) that he gave His only 
 begotten Son that whosoever believeth on 
 Him might not perish but have everlasting 
 life. And He hath taken all these evils of 
 the flesh and shown men how to overcome, 
 and they — crucified Him. 
 
 And the Lord answered, Yea, but that 
 mighty love hath left heat enough in the 
 world to warm the hearts of all who love 
 Him and believe in Him ; and the truths 
 I spake hath left a light that no false doc- 
 trine can ever dim. There be Pharisees, 
 
128 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 and Scribes, and Sadducees, and Publi- 
 cans, and Sinners, and Gentiles still upon 
 the earth to-day, but every step of My life 
 was made for a purpose and My footprints 
 time cannot erase. Follow Me from Beth- 
 lehem to Egypt and on even to Jerusalem; 
 step in My footprints and ye shall have 
 life eternal. If it bring to thee the crown 
 of thorns, the cross, remember that the 
 third day thou shalt rise again. God's 
 work is never lost. For the remnant of 
 the faithful He hath spared the world, and 
 when the remnant is increased, when men 
 realize how I showed them the very nothing- 
 ness of this material world, they will seek 
 another country, a spiritual kingdom, and 
 following My footsteps shall not seek in 
 vain." 
 
 And when we had seen all the world we 
 returned again. And sitting alone in the 
 sunlight, with birds and flowers around it, 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 129 
 
 I saw a beautiful little child. It was not 
 afraid because it was alone, and when we 
 approached it smiled. And Jesus, pointing 
 to it said, Remember My words : " Except 
 you become as a little child you cannot enter 
 the kingdom of heaven." Go ye therefore. 
 The path is clear, every step is given. 
 How Adam fell into the sensual earth 
 state, and how Christ hath taken up the 
 flesh at the lowest plane and redeemed 
 and spiritualized it. Behold, the foot- 
 prints are still clear, the journey is mapped 
 out. And when thou art weary retire to 
 the Inner Chamber, and behold, I will 
 stand at the door and knock and if ye 
 open the door I will come and sup with you. 
 
 And I said, Lord, abide with me. 
 
 And I would ask of Him all the ques- 
 tions which came in my soul, and I said, 
 Lord, does the earth world grow better or 
 worse ? 
 
130 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 And He said, Come ! 
 
 And in the spirit He led me to a place 
 in the Old World where there were instru- 
 ments of torture, relics of the Inquisition, 
 a cross. 
 
 And I trembled as I looked upon them. 
 And I shuddered, and said, Lord, why are 
 they not destroyed ? 
 
 And the Lord said, They are kept to 
 answer your question to the flesh man. 
 
 Then the world is not so wicked ? I 
 thank Thee, Lord! How long will peopie 
 murder, Lord ? 
 
 As long as a State murders. The foun- 
 tain can not rise higher than its source. 
 
 And how long will they steal, Lord ? 
 
 And the Lord said, As long as the 
 nations do. 
 
 And how long will they commit adul- 
 tery ? 
 
 And the Lord said, As long as the 
 church adulterates the truth. 
 
And he said, " Come ! " 
 
 And in the spirit he led me to a place in the Old World 
 where there were instruments of torture, relics of the Inquisition, 
 a cross. 
 
 And I trembled as I looked upon them. And I shuddered, 
 and said, " Lord, why are they not destroyed ? " 
 
 And the Lord said, '' They are kept to answer your question- to 
 the rlesh man." 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 131 
 
 O Lord, show the rulers how to pray 
 as king Solomon prayed. 
 
 And the Lord said, The time will come 
 when they shall seek first the Kingdom 
 of Heaven. 
 
 And I said, Lord, bear patiently with 
 me, for I am only a little child. Tell me, 
 do those who pass out of sight still work 
 on earth unseen of men ? 
 
 And he said, How readest thou the 
 scriptures ? 
 
 And I said, " He shall go before Him, 
 speaking of John the Baptist, in the spirit 
 and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of 
 the fathers to the children, and the dis- 
 obedient to the wisdom of the just; to 
 make ready a people prepared for the 
 Lord. And when the disciples said it was 
 so written, Thou didst answer them that 
 Elias had come and they did to him what- 
 soever they listed ; and they knew Thou 
 didst speak of John the Baptist. 
 
132 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 And the Lord said, Believest thou that 
 I, when I go away, will come again as I 
 have promised ? 
 
 And I answered, Yea, Lord, Thou wilt, 
 and be with us to the end of this earth life 
 and through all eternity. 
 
 And He stooped and touched me and 
 said, Be it unto thee according to thy faith. 
 
 And I answered, Amen and Amen. 
 
 And I said, Lord, when shall that time 
 be when the earth and man shall be as it 
 was in the beginning? 
 
 And the Lord said, When the spirit of 
 Truth shall light every mind and every 
 heart to know that there is but one God, 
 and how to worship Him even as I have 
 worshipped Him. Read what Moses in 
 the law did write of Me ; what David in 
 the Psalms did write of Me ; and all the 
 Prophets ; remembering now that thou 
 hast seen the Scroti, and read the Record ; 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 166 
 
 that all the Word was clothed with lan- 
 guage as it appeared to man in his fallen 
 state. Then, remembering the Scroll and 
 the Record, read again ; and thou shalt 
 see the Spirit in the letter of the Word. 
 In the mercy of God was all this done, as 
 they would have rejected all had it not 
 been written as it appeared to them. In 
 the letter of the Word thou hast read of 
 holy men praying for vengeance upon 
 their enemies, but thou hast heard My last 
 prayer : 
 
 Father, forgive them, they know not what 
 they do. When men can realize that in 
 that prayer I left My last words in dying, 
 for them to imitate ; when they can send 
 forth that prayer, each for his enemy, soon 
 will they be able to cry, It is finished, and 
 yield up the flesh, natural life, for the 
 spiritual ; and as the earth materialized as 
 man materialized, to accommodate ma- 
 
134 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 terial man, so shall it spiritualize to 
 accommodate his spiritual state. 
 
 When man learns that as little children 
 only can they enter the kingdom of 
 heaven, that is, in truthful innocence, he 
 will cease to spend his earth life in striv- 
 ing through self-derived intelligence to 
 steal God's power, even on a limited scale, 
 and call it man's invention. He will, by 
 spiritualizing himself, grow as a little child 
 and return to God through True Memory, 
 which is the only true knowledge of God. 
 There is no education save that gained 
 through the path of Recollection, the 
 awakening of Memory. There is no true 
 knowledge but True Memory. By His 
 wisdom God made the world, as thou wast 
 shown, and by His love He sustains and 
 perpetuates the life of all things. By the 
 spirit of His Truth He will lead man 
 back to Him through a knowledge of how 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 135 
 
 he wandered from Him. Was it not in 
 loving mercy He shortened the days of 
 the Adam man ? 
 
 Remember the vision of Moses and the 
 serpent, and the Magicians and their 
 serpents. That vision was to teach that 
 imitations, illusions, can deceive material 
 man, however wise, from pauper to king ; 
 but never can they deceive the spiritual 
 man, for his eyes pierce through the 
 appearance. 
 
 The Magicians' serpents represented 
 falsities and were apparently real. Moses 
 had only one staff, the one serpent when 
 he threw it on the ground, but this ser- 
 pent represented spiritual wisdom, the 
 good of life, and devoured all the evil 
 about it. Thus shall it ever be with 
 Truth and falsity. One Truth shall put 
 ten thousand falsities to flight. 
 
 The serpent represented the spiritually 
 
136 TRUE MEMORY. 
 
 wise when it was spiritual, controlled by 
 spiritual man through Love. Once used 
 for deceit, or harm to his neighbor, it 
 became the worse enemy of man. No 
 Society was so wise in the spiritual world 
 as that which controlled the serpent, 
 which was their symbol ; none fell so low 
 as they who used their wisdom as their 
 own, for evil instead of good. 
 
 And I fell upon my knees before Him 
 and said, O Lord, I thank Thee. 
 
 And He said, Be faithfiil and believe. 
 Behold ! 
 
 And I looked up again and the Scroll 
 was once more illuminated, and the 
 heavenly light that illumined it illumined 
 my understanding also ; my whole being 
 trembled and thrilled with that heavenly 
 harmony and beauty. Man, spiritual man, 
 a little lower than the angels, with True 
 Memory of God, with all things possible 
 
TRUE MEMORY. 137 
 
 to him through God's love, only to will to 
 have, to think to know, to put forth his 
 hand to enjoy all. No care, no sorrow, 
 no pain, no death, but Love, Goodness, 
 Truth, Charity. 
 
 And I cried, Lord, let man reach this 
 state. 
 
 And He answered, As it was in the Be- 
 ginning so it shall be in the End, for God 
 is the Alpha and Omega. 
 
 And I cried, Lord, Thou wilt not leave 
 me, Thou wilt never forsake me ? 
 
 And He said : " Again I say unto thee, 
 according to thy faith be it imto thee. 
 
 Amen and Amen. 
 
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