intuition is awake, who need to learn how always to know and heed its voice, and who have to be taught from a higher plane of consciousness the deeper things of the Spirit.

Then there are many of the older students of the Impersonal teachings who are able to retire into their inner or soul consciousness when receiving truly spiritual teachings, and who therefore can be taught from the soul and even the Christ Consciousness, and are also fully understand all that is taught from the lower planes and the purpose of it. They are able to see from “above” in the clear light of Spirit, and remember the confused state of their minds when they were previously involved in those lower states of consciousness. They also recognize the difficulty when in the world of always remaining “above” it, and that but very few are able to rise above the world’s consciousness and its beliefs.

So the only way is to make our articles as simple yet as clear and comprehensive as possible, choosing those that will help minds in the various planes of consciousness, and trusting to the Higher Selves of our readers to point out to them those truths their minds are ready to accept and will be helped thereby. For we know their Higher Selves brought THE INNER LIFE to them for the sole purpose of acquainting their minds with its truths.

There are those of our friends who would like to have us remain always in the higher consciousness and to write and teach from there. But such teachings would attract at the most only a few hundred readers. Therefore we are striving to give forth that which will reach not only the multitude—those who are “without,” but disciples, who are “within,” as did our Lord and Teacher, Jesus Christ.

You must remember it was only to the latter that He spoke of inner things, for they alone could understand. Therefore to the multitude He spoke in parables in those days—that is, He illustrated in different ways and explained carefully to them in simple terms the truths of the Spirit.

Our chief aim in the Magazine is to give forth His teachings and to make their truths so clear that every reader will receive food his soul needs and will know it is the true Bread of Life.

But with all our pointing out the seeming evils of the day, we always show they exist only in men’s minds—not in reality or in