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LAMED.
The Council of the Seven Sages of the World.
CHAPTER 56.
The seven sages of the world meet in
Alexandria. The purposes of the
meeting. The opening addresses.
IN every age since time began
have seven sages lived.
2 At first of every age these
sages meet to note the course of
nations,peoples, tribes and tongues;
3 To note how far toward justice,
love and righteousness the race
has gone;
4 To formulate the code of laws,
religious postulates and plans of
rule best suited to the coming age.
5 An age had passed, and, lo,
another age had come; the sages
must convene.
6 Now, Alexandria was the center
of the world's best thought, and
here in Philo's home the sages met.
7 From China came Meng-ste;
from India Vidyapati came; from
Persia Kaspar came; and from Assyria
Ashbina came; from Greece
Apollo came; Matheno was the
Egyptian sage, and Philo was the
chief of Hebrew thought.
8 The time was due; the council
met and sat in silence seven days.
9 And then Meng-ste arose and
said, The wheel of time has turned
once more; the race is on a higher
plane of thought.
10 The garments that our fathers
wove have given out; the
cherubim have woven a celestial
cloth; have placed it in our hands
and we must make for men new
garbs.
11 The sons of men are looking
up for greater light. No longer do
they care for gods hewn out of
wood, or made of clay. They seek
a God not made with hands.
12 They see the beams of coming
day, and yet they comprehend
them not.
13 The time is ripe, and we must
fashion well these garments for the
race.
14 And let us make for men new
garbs of justice, mercy, righteousness
and love, that they may hide
their nakedness when shines the
light of coming day.
15 And Vidyapati said, Our
priests have all gone mad; they saw
a demon in the wilds and at him
cast their lamps and they are broken
up, and not a gleam of light has any
priest for men.
16 The night is dark; the heart
of India calls for light.
17 The priesthood cannot be
reformed; it is already dead; its
greatest needs are graves and funeral
chants.
18 The new age calls for liberty;
the kind that makes each man a
priest, enables him to go alone, and
lay his offerings on the shrine of
God.
19 And Kaspar said, In Persia
people walk in fear; they do the
good for fear to do the wrong.
20 The devil is the greatest
power in our land, and though a
myth, he dandles on his knee both
youth and age.
21 Our land is dark, and evil
prospers in the dark.
22 Fear rides on every passing
breeze, and lurks in every form of
life.
23 The fear of evil is a myth, is
an illusion and a snare; but it will
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live until some mighty power shall
come to raise the ethers to the plane
of light.
24 When this shall come to pass
the magian land will glory in the
light. The soul of Persia calls for
light.
CHAPTER 57.
Meeting of the sages, continued.
Opening addresses, Jesus with
the sages. Seven days' silence.
ASHBINA said, Assyria is the
land of doubt; the chariot of
my people, that in which they
mostly ride, is labeled Doubt.
2 Once Faith walked forth in
Babylon; and she was bright and
fair; but she was clothed in such
white robes that men became afraid
of her,
3 And every wheel began to
turn, and Doubt made war on her,
and drove her from the land; and
she came back no more.
4 In form men worship God,
the One; in heart they are not sure
that God exists.
5 Faith worships at the shrine
of one not seen; but Doubt must see
her God.
6 The greatest need of all Assyria
is faith—a faith that seasons
every thing that is, with certainty.
7 And then Apollo said, The
greatest needs of Greece are true
concepts of God.
8 Theogony in Greece is rudderless,
for every thought may be a
god, and worshipped as a god.
9 The plane of thought is broad,
and full of sharp antagonists; and
so the circle of the gods is filled with
enmity, with wars and base intrigues.
10 Greece needs a master mind
to stand above the gods; to raise
the thoughts of men away from
many gods to God the One.
11 We know that light is coming
o'er the hills. God speed the
light.
12 Matheno said, Behold this
land of mystery! this Egypt of the
dead!
13t Our temples long have been
the tombs of all the hidden things
of time; our temples, crypts and
caves are dark.
14 In light there are no secret
things. The sun reveals all hidden
truth. There are no mysteries in
God.
15 Behold the rising sun! His
beams are entering every door; yea,
every crevice of the mystic crypts
of Mizraim.
16 We hail the light! All Egypt
craves the light.
17 And Philo said, The need of
Hebrew thought and life is liberty.
18 The Hebrew prophets, seers,
and givers of the law, were men of
power, men of holy thought, and
they bequeathed to us a system of
philosophy that was ideal; one
strong enough and good enough to
lead our people to the goal of perfectness.
19 But carnal minds repudiated
holiness; a priesthood filled with
selfishness arose, and purity in
heart became a myth; the people
were enslaved.
20 The priesthood is the curse
of Israel; but when he comes, who
is to come, he will proclaim emancipation
for the slaves; my people will
be free.
21 Behold, for God has made
incarnate wisdom, love and light,
which he has called Immanuel.
22 To him is given the keys to
open up the dawn; and here, as
man, he walks with us.
23 And then the council chamber
door was opened and the Logos
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stood among the sages of the world.
24 Again the sages sat in silence
seven days.
CHAPTER 58.
Meeting of the sages, continued.
Presentation of the seven universal
postulates.
NOW, when the sages were refreshed
they opened up the
Book of Life and read.
2 They read the story of the
life of man; of all his struggles,
losses, gains; and in the light of
past events and needs, they saw
what would be best for him in coming
years.
3 They knew the kind of laws
and precepts suited best to his estate;
they saw the highest God-ideal
that the race could comprehend.
4 Upon the seven postulates
these sages were to formulate, the
great philosophy of life and worship
of the coming age must rest.
5 Now Meng-ste was the oldest
sage; he took the chair of chief, and
said,
6 Man is not far enough advanced
to live by faith; he cannot
comprehend the things his eyes see
not,
7 He yet is child, and during all
the coming age he must be taught
by pictures, symbols, rites, and
forms.
8 His God must be a human
God; he cannot see a God by faith.
9 And then he cannot rule himself;
the king must rule; the man
must serve.
10 The age that follows this will
be the age of man, the age of faith.
11 In that blest age the human
race will see without the aid of carnal
eyes; will hear the soundless
sound; will know the Spirit-God.
12 The age we enter is the Preparation
age, and all the schools,
and governments and worship rites
must be designed in simple way
that men may comprehend.
13 And man cannot originate;
he builds by patterns that he sees;
so in this council we must carve out
pattern for the coming age.
14 And we must formulate the
gnosis of the Empire of the soul,
which rests on seven postulates.
15 Each sage in turn shall form
a postulate; and these shall be the
basis of the creeds of men until the
perfect age shall come.
16 Then Meng-ste wrote the
first:
17 All things are thought; all
life is thought activity. The multitude
of beings are but phases of
the one great thought made manifest.
Lo, God is Thought, and
Thought is God.
18 Then Vidyapati wrote the
second postulate:
19 Eternal Thought is one; in
essence it is two—Intelligence and
Force; and when they breathe a
child is born; this child is Love.
20 And thus the Triune God
stands forth, whom men calL Father-
Mother-Child.
21 This Triune God is one; but
like the one of light, in essence he
is seven.
22 And when the Triune God
breathes forth, lo, seven Spirits
stand before his face; these are creative
attributes.
23 Men call them lesser gods,
and in their image they made man.
24 And Kaspar wrote the third:
25 Man was a thought of God,,
formed in the image of the Septonate,
clothed in the substances of
soul.
26 And his desires were strong*
he sought to manifes'ton every plane
of life, and for himself he made a
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body of the ethers of the earthy
forms, and so descended to the
plane of earth.
27 In this descent he lost his
birthright; lost his harmony with
God, and made discordant all the
notes of life.
28 Inharmony and evil are the
same; so evil is the handiwork of
man.
29 Ashbina wrote the fourth:
30 Seeds do not germinate in
light; they do not grow until they
find the soil, and hide themselves
away from light.
31 Man was evolved a seed of
everlasting life; but in the ethers of
the Triune God the light was far too
great for seeds to grow;
32 And so man sought the soil
of carnal life, and in the darksomeness
of earth he found a place
where he could germinate and grow.
33 The seed has taken root and
grown full well.
34 The tree of human life is rising
from the soil of earthy things,
and, under natural law, is reaching
up to perfect form.
35 There are no supernatural
acts of God to lift a man from carnal
life to spirit blessedness; he grows
as grows the plant, and in due time
is perfected.
36 The quality of soul that
makes it possible for man to rise to
spirit life is purity,
CHAPTER 59.
Meeting of the sages, continued. The
remaining postulates. The sages
bless Jesus. Seven days9 silence.
APOLLO wrote the fifth:
2 The soul is drawn to perfect
light by four white steeds, and
these are Will, and Faith, and
Helpfulness and Love.
3 That which one wills to do, he
has the power to do.
4 A knowledge of that power is
faith; and when faith moves, the
soul begins its flight.
5 A selfish faith leads not to
light. There is no lonely pilgrim
on the way to light. Men only gain
the heights by helping others gain
the heights.
6 The steed that leads the way
to spirit life is Love; is pure unselfish
Love.
7 Matheno wrote the sixth:
8 The universal Love of which
Apollo speaks is child of Wisdom
and of Will divine, and God has
sent it forth to earth in flesh that
man may know.
9 The universal Love of which
the sages speak, is Christ.
10 The greatest mystery of all
times lies in the way that Christ
lives in the heart.
11 Christ cannot live in clammy
dens of carnal things. The seven
battles must be fought, the seven
victories won before the carnal
things, like fear, and self, emotions
and desire, are put away.
12 When this is done the Christ
will take possession of the soul; the
work is done, and man and God are
one.
13 And Philo wrote the seventh:
14 A perfect man! To bring
before the Triune God a being such
as this was nature made.
15 This consummation is the
highest revelation of the mystery
of life.
16 When all the essences of carnal
things have been transmuted
into soul, and all the essences of
soul have been returned to Holy
Breath, and man is] made a perfect
God, the drama of Creation will
conclude. And this is all.
17 And all the sages said, Amen,
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18 Then Meiig-ste said, The
Holy One has sent to us a man illumined
by the efforts of unnumbered
years, to lead the thoughts of
men.
19 This man, approved by all
the master minds of heaven and
earth, this man from Galilee, this
Jesus, chief of all the sages of the
world, we gladly recognize.
20 In recognition of this wisdom
that he brings to men, we
crown him with the Lotus wreath.
21 We send him forth with all
the blessing of the seven sages of
the world.
22 Then all the sages laid their
hands on Jesus' head, and said with
one accord, Praise God!
23 For wisdom, honor, glory,
power, riches, blessing, strength, are
yours, O Christ, forever more.
24 And every living creature
said, Amen.
25 And then the sages sat in
silence seven days.
CHAPTER 60.
Jesus addresses the seven sages. The
address. Jesus goes to Galilee.
THE seven days of silence
passed and Jesus, sitting with
the sages said:
2 The history of life is well condensed
in these immortal postulates.
These are the seven hills on which
the holy city shall be built.
3 These are the seven sure foundation
stones on which the Universal
Church shall stand.
4 In taking up the work assigned
for me to do I am full conscious
of the perils of the way; the
cup will be a bitter one to drink and
human nature well might shrink.
5 But I have lost my will in that
of Holy Breath, and so I go my way
to speak and act as I am moved to
speak and act by Holy Breath.
6 The words I speak are not my
own; they are the words of him
whose will I do.
7 Man is not far enough advanced
in sacred thought to comprehend
the Universal Church, and so
the work that God has given me to
do is not the building of that Church.
8 I am a model maker, sent to
make a pattern of the Church that
is to be—a pattern that the age
may comprehend.
9 My task as model builder lies
within my native land, and there,
upon the postulate that Love is son
of God, that I am come to manifest
that Love, the Model Church will
stand.
10 And from the men of low estate
I will select twelve men, who
represent the twelve immortal
thoughts; and these will be the
Model Church.
11 The house of Judah, my own
kindred in the flesh, will comprehend
but little of my mission to the
world.
12 And they will spurn * me,
scorn my work, accuse me falsely,
bind me, take me to the judgment
seat of carnal men who will convict
and slay me on the cross.
13 But men can never slay the
truth; though banished it will come
again in greater power; for truth
will subjugate the world.
14 The Model Church will live.
Though carnal man will prostitute
its sacred laws, symbolic rites and
forms, for selfish ends, and make it
but an outward show, the few will
find through it the kingdom of the
soul.
15 And when the better age
shall come the Universal Church
will stand upon the seven postulates,
and will be built according
to the pattern given.
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16 The time has come; I go my
way unto Jerusalem, and by the
power of living faith, and by the
strength that you have given,
17 And in the name of God, our
Father-God, the kingdom of the
soul shall be established on the
seven hills,
18 And all the peoples, tribes
and tongues of earth shall enter in.
CHAPTER 61.
John, the harbinger, returns to Hebron.
Lives as a hermit in the
wilds. Visits Jerusalem and
' speaks to the people.
IT came to pass when John, the
son of Zacharias and Elizabeth,
had finished all his studies in the
Egyptian schools that he returned
to Hebron, where he abode for certain
days.
2 And then he sought the wilderness
and made his home in David's
cave where many years before,
he was instructed by the Egyptian
sage.
3 Some people called him Hermit
of Engedi; and others said, He
is the Wild Man of the hills.
4 He clothed himself with skins
of beasts; his food was carobs,
honey, nuts and fruits.
5 When John was thirty years
of age he went into Jerusalem, and
in the market place he sat in silence
seven days.
6 The common people and the
priests, the scribes and Pharisees
came out in multitudes to see the
silent hermit of the hills; but none
were bold enough to ask him who
he was.
19 The Prince of Peace will take
his seat upon the throne of power;
the Triune God will then be All in
All.
20 And all the sages said, Amen.
21 And Jesus went his way, and
after many days, he reached Jerusalem;
and then he sought his home
in Galilee.