is different, this world, the people—all. Several hours after that experience I went down town and met some friends. They all remarked on my changed appearance.

I wonder what is meant by saying my days are numbered—could it be in the Garden, or the earth plane, or in this city? Anywhere the Master sends me and anything He would have me do, I will do lovingly for Him. Oh, I praise His Holy Name; humbly and willingly I dedicate myself to Him for service.

OUR reply:

We will try to explain your last experience in the Garden. You state that you felt Christ very close to you; that He would stand a little to the right of you and your Teacher to the left, but that later He came so close that you could feel nothing else. That only means that He is preparing you with the help of the Teacher to enter and abide always with you; for deep within the heart must the Christ come and make it His abiding place.

The Madonna in the Garden symbolized your highest concept of Love, which you longed to be and express. You were privileged to see her in all her wondrous beauty, which was so pure and perfect that you felt the unworthiness of the mortal self. But you were also shown that above and pointing the way from her was the small, plain, open gate of duty, which when followed always leads to the Christ.

It is your days in the former Garden consciousness that are numbered, for the beautiful gate beyond and opening into the higher consciousness where abides the Christ has been shown you and is standing wide open waiting for