HUNDREDS of years ago the prophet Ezekiel declared in the Name of Almighty God:—“I will overturn, overturn, overturn . . . until He come whose right it is. And I will give it to Him.” Shortly before His betrayal, Jesus described in vivid language to His Disciples what would be the signs of His coming and of the end of this world-age.*

We are now living in the days of which He spoke. On all hands we see upheaval. We hear of wars and rumors of wars—and distress of nations. As children of our Father God do we heed and take assurance from the words of our Elder Brother? Did He not say, “And when these things begin to come to pass, then LOOK UP and LIFT UP YOUR HEADS, for your redemption draweth nigh . . . When you shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified . . . there shall not an hair of your head perish.”

At present, over much emphasis is being put on the rapid overturning of the past structures, national, economic and religious. On all sides we hear woe, and lamentation over the passing of the old order. Let us rather recognize that it is a privilege to live in this age of transition. A privilege to watch and work for the coming of that new heaven and that new earth “wherein dwelleth righteousness.” All progress is attended by change. Every birth brings its pangs. Man must turn from a negative acceptance of the destructive features of change and obtain a broader and truer view of the passing parade. He must raise his consciousness and his faculties of awareness, from the outer to the within. As he does this, he will realize that he is stepping from a three dimensional limited world of confusion and restriction to the four dimensional world of illimitable order, beauty and truth. Every artist, inventor and scientist touches at moments this other world. The time has now come for all men to take a step forward towards this consciousness and realize that theirs is not merely a life of a span of three score years and ten, beset by sorrow and pain, but that they may here and now enter a life unrestricted by time and space, and free of sin, care or death.

First, there will grow up in him the faith to believe in a wider life and then, the courage and determination to work towards an ability to function therein. He will begin to receive encouraging intimations of the reality of this vaster world. As faith, persistence and practice win the ability to function in the upper air of his eternal nature, man discovers the marvel of the UNSEEN but ACTUAL government of the Cosmos. He finds that there have been from the Beginning great Embodiments of the Power, Will and Wisdom of God. That there are, indeed, “Thrones, Dominions, Principalities and Powers” by which the Will of the Creative Logos is put into effect. These Powers have been recognized and named variously according to the cosmic and religious frameworks accepted by the different faiths. By Christianity, as Angels and Archangels, as Cherubim and Seraphim, by other religions, as Spirits and Devas. The incomprehensible and immeasurable powers of the Creator are seen to be stepped down, harnessed and transmitted by Beings, the very existence of which the average man has hitherto ignored.

To move with the rapidly advancing times, man must as readily give his faith, allegiance and support to the Government of the World, as he has hitherto done to the government of his particular country. Not for nothing are party lines fast being erased, nor is it for nothing that broad underground and far reaching influences are seen to be at work in politics, religion and education alike. The shadow precedes the substance. The consciousness of humanity is being expanded through experience, suffering and disillusionment to accept the fact that the only actual, enduring, as the only safe government of the universe, is the Government of the Divine Creative Principle.

The real Builders of the New Age are those great Beings who have undertaken the age-long work of the evolution and development of the Soul and the faculties of mankind as a whole. They work with unseen and unconceivable power and intelligence. It is the high privilege of the man who has gained some mastery over himself and his composite nature to begin to cooperate with Them in the execution on this beautiful earth of the Will and Purpose of God.

Pursuing his adopted course of faith, self-discipline and devotion, man is rewarded one day, beyond compare, when he finds himself drawn by reason of the quality of his own eternal nature into active work and cooperation with one or another of the great governmental Powers of the Universe. He will find that every experience and every achievement of this and of many other lives, was a training for a greater work, a greater allegiance and a greater attainment. The zeal he has thrown, hitherto, into politics, the energy he has thrown, into his business, and the devotion given, to his religion, will be united and devoted to that Power and Authority which combines all three.

Whoever desires to cooperate in this larger work, must surrender every vestige of personal pride, whether in personal achievement, or as the mouthpiece of the Spirit, otherwise, they will not last long in the service of these great Powers. An imperfect wire cannot carry the full current from the dynamo. “Wherefore let us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race set before us.”

In preparation for cooperation in this larger work, all must learn control and use of the present planes of consciousness, viz. control and health of his body, emotions and mind. He must learn by practice and experience the right use of these three fields of action. His body must be his active and obedient vehicle. He must govern and guide his emotions and his aspirations, must discipline and use with conscious dominion and right direction, the power of his mind before he can safely enter the realm of wider powers. Viewed dispassionately, it would seem clear that an understanding and mastery of the outer bodies of manifestation, and of those powers within his grasp, was natural and necessary before reaching out for those just beyond, and yet scores and scores of students, mystics, and occultists today endeavor to explore these hidden and unknown realms before having mastered those on which they are now conscious. Before it is safe for them to proceed these must win the approbation from their own Spirit within, in the words, “Well done thou good and faithful servant, thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler of many.” Because of this, a humble, simple, unknown Soul may work effectively with those “Ministers of God who are a Flame of Fire.”

When we ponder these undeniable truths, we count ourselves fortunate to be alive today when the Kingdom of Heaven, or the dominion of Righteousness, Justice and Peace, is approaching the hour of its establishment on earth. No matter who we are, the necessary preparation is made within our own mind and heart and circumstance.

On considering the wondrous Love and Wisdom guarding unseen the development of man, a new hope and faith springs up, that the “far-off divine event to which the whole creation moves,” is not the fantasy of a poet but the Purpose of our Father.

PYTHAGORAS taught that the entire universe is one vast system of mathematically correct combinations. Plato shows the deity geometrising. The world is sustained by the same law of equilibrium and harmony upon which it was built. —From Isis Unveiled, by H. P. Blavatsky.