hearts. It also means, Leader or Head, which in comparison to the body is the Protector or Guardian of the whole person; that loving intelligent “Something Within,” or I AM, which directs and governs everything; the God-Head, without which there is neither salvation, deliverance, nor succor.

CHRIST. Here we notice that the word “WHICH” is used,—“which is Christ.” It is not, strictly speaking, a proper name, but is that Influence which is at once necessary and sufficient to fill our life with peace and power. IT is the Christ Consciousness, which, to realize, means Life Eternal.

And, as we read on, we come to the word “sign,” and also to the word “Babe,” and we know that a “sign” means a token or a signal, and a “Babe” signifies the first stage or manifestation. All of us are perhaps “doubting Thomases;” we have to be shown a sign, before we will allow ourself to believe. We listen to lectures and conversations about Truth; we read books, or perhaps we read a lot of words; but, although it is all very interesting, we ask for a sign as a guarantee of its veracity. So we are given a sign, and it is the appearance in our consciousness of a God-given thought, the first stage or manifestation of the babe, conceived and held (wrapped) in the darkness of our unilluminated thought-chamber; it is yet wrapped in swaddling-clothes.

And the Babe was laid in a manger, because there was no room for Him in the Inn. The manger symbolizes the World, the One Mind, which is Within each one of us.

The Inn is significant of a resting-place for the night. There was as yet no receptivity in the unopened minds of men. The Light of God’s countenance had not yet dawned upon them, had not yet released them from their human bondage. They knew nothing of the “Day” which dawns upon waiting Souls, and which assures us of Eternity, wherein “Christ” was begotten, and which admits of no yesterday or tomorrow.

And so Mary brought forth her first-born; the seed, which was planted in the Womb of Love, burst forth into a perfect manifestation of Divinity. The realization of the Christ-Man is thus born in our consciousness, the Womb of Love, wherein we find our Self, the One Who has always been trying to come forth and speak to us, to guide, protect and teach us.