The Inner Life

TWO STRANGE visitors came to earth one day. The Piscean cycle was closing and they had been sent by a Great Spiritual Hierarchy to give to mankind the spirit of the new Aquarian Age. After descending they rested on a high mountain peak in the center of a great nation.

Universal Brotherhood said to Universal Love, “You go West and I will go East. Then we will meet here again in one year’s time.”

Quickly the year sped by. Brotherhood and Love again met on the mountain peak. And Brotherhood said to Love, “What conditions have you found among the sons of men?”

And Love replied, “I found welcome on the earth plane in very few places. There is little leaven in the mass, and great is the mass. I went into a fair city on the Western plains, where I visited in the home of a happy woman of the middle class as it is known on earth, though there is no class in Heaven. I said to her, ‘You are a fortunate woman, you live in a lovely neighborhood with kindly neighbors. Surely you must love them.’

“With a polite laugh, she answered me. ‘The neighbor on my right is very agreeable. She brought me an lemon pie yesterday; but the one on my left has a boy two years old and he pulls off my beautiful flowers. I don’t have anything to do with her.’

“I went to another home, palatial, sumptuous in its appointments and furnishings. I said to the woman who lived there, ‘You must be very happy to dwell in such a beautiful neighborhood.’