====== The Inner Life ====== == THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | MAY 1934 == ---- the church, enveloped in a white mantle. Our President, as its head, symbolizes our Government, which while enveloped with the white mantle of the Spirit, and surrounded by the brilliant white Light of Christ, yet is unmistakably threatened by those vultures trying to strike it. But standing in the pulpit, ever watching and ready to act, is the Lord, and back of Him and filling the church are great hosts of Angels and Brothers of Christ that the radiance of whose light make them invisible. We know that the vultures cannot strike with Them near, and our Government, through our President, need only to turn to and call upon the Lord, and nothing can hurt or touch it or him. Is this not a glorious promise? Our Government was established unquestioningly under God’s guidance. “On the reverse side of our great seal is shown a symbolical pyramid, and on its suspended apex stone is portrayed the Eye of the Almighty watching over the destiny of our nation. Above it is written Annuit Coeptis (He has favored our beginning). But that pyramid stands unfinished: its Apex Stone is suspended above it, and symbolizes that our people will yet be compelled by the conditions of the present crisis to call upon God to finish the Building for them. “Then the New Order referred to below the pyramid in the inscription Novus Ordo Seclorum (A new order of ages) has begun will indeed be with us. To that New Order present day events are hastening. Writing on this symbolism, Prof. Totten of Yale in The Seal of History writes: “Now the preliminary date thereof is 1776. It is a type only or prophecy of the Novus Ordo Seclorum itself, which is yet future. In that day an elect body, founded on the Apostles, will its proportions circumferential in every sense of the word, shall be recognized by all nations and all nations and tongues shall flow to it (to the United States) to know the truth which maketh free indeed. The reverse face (of the Great Seal) is thus preeminently a type of the Body of Christ, and an Ensign of the New Covenant yet to be consummated.” (Ephes. 1:10-22.)” Quoted from Tracing Our Ancestors, by Frederick Haberman. See Book Review section. {{ :3405-26.jpg |}} ---- //⥳ [[a_vision_and_a_prophecy_2|previous page]] // | // [[socrates_apology|next page]] ⥴ //