The Inner Life

to the Kingdom. For these they paid, but did not receive. Much money was paid for what was claimed to be the truth, only to find it impracticable and unsatisfying, because the truth cannot be bought with money, neither can it be sold.

We went, filled with love, among the men of earth, listening to the tales wrung from the broken, disillusioned hearts of men and women.

As I worked with the other great souls serving under Christ, I learned the Way, the Way the Master walked on the street called Straight, which leads to God’s Kingdom of the Soul, and I found within my heart the Key which opened the Gate thereto; and I knew that this Key is unselfed Universal Love, unconditional, uncoerced and wholly unworldly. With IT I unlocked the Gate, and the “hands” of my understanding lifted the “bars” which obstructed the opening.

All of this was but retrospection, and as I mused, in the Garden of God I looked, and saw a picture unfolding—the end of the night of man.

BEFORE me there appeared a soft luminous vapor, and out of it a Voice spake, saying, “Behold, the Admath is passing over My land. Those who chose Me I will not destroy, those who will not, I will gather together in the place of Tophet, where, because they have worshipped the idol of self, and have nurtured it with the milk of vipers and the bread of avarice, they shall be driven into Taberah; none shall escape but those whose life is mine.”

As the vapor lifted I saw a great city burning. From windows, balconies, roofs and ledges the frenzied cries of those gathered there rose above the roar of the fire. People on the street were rushing madly hither and yon, shouting and screaming to the firemen who were working as one to extinguish the flames, and encouraging the people above to jump. The water made no impression on the flames, and soon ceased flowing altogether.

Greater terror seized the people who jammed the streets; men, women and children pushing, struggling; many were thrown down, trodden under foot and crushed by the milling, maddened crowd. Automobiles, crowded with people and their possessions, tore through the crowds vainly seeking an exit from the furnace of horror; those in them having one thought—to save themselves and