In the development of man, the David age succeeds the Moses age. David recognized the relationship of families and communities to each other. He sang of the overthrow of enemies and the victorious triumph of friends. Another step in unfoldment was taken. From the family idea rose the community idea - the centralization for general protection and benefit. Out of this grew the national idea and all it stands for. Its expression awoke new zeal in man and gave to language the magic word we call in English, patriotism. Youth catches its meaning and greedily devours the warlike stories of heroism on the battle field. The uplifting, as one will note, so far had been practically on material lines. The boy now stands firm, he is seeking mental light - he is reaching beyond the environment of physical sense.

The next plane attained is the intuitional - it may be named the Isaiah plane or age. A discovery had been made - man mentally may draw power from the unseen - he may even be guided from a source beyond that of conscious reasoning. Light had come from within - man does not walk alone. A spiritual relationship with a force beyond the comprehension of the sense plane was revealed. The horizon of mental vision was lifted, and all its boundary lines were fading.

"What is it? And whither, whence,

This unsleeping, secret sense,

Longing for its rest and food

In some broader, untried good?

'Tis the soul - mysterious name,

Him it seeks from whence it came;

While I muse, I feel the fire

Burning on, and mounting higher.

Onward, upward to thy throne,

O, thou Infinite, unknown -

Still it presseth, till it see

Thee in all, and all in thee."

Through the intuitional, whose limits are as boundless as thought's realm of imagery, comes the realization of the Christ principle in man. Isaiah and Jeremiah opened wide the door, and lo! on the threshold stood Jesus, as the perfect embodiment of the Christ principle, bringing to mankind the proofs of the divine within the human. In every life to-day, these successive stages are noted. One may pass through each and every till the Jesus age of spirit illumination is reached during the time of twenty years from birth. The ages that marked the uplifting of man to a true comprehension of self have brought him to such an unfoldment that he may pass through them all and reach the highest within the usual term required to complete the growth of the physical body. You will please note, by way of condensation, that I, writing from the intuitional plane, regard the Adam age as representing the infancy of the child, extending, perhaps, until the child is five or six years of age. Perhaps a little before that he has to be taught something about the rights of property. The play things that belong to another do not belong to him; and even before he has reached the age of five he usually learns that he must respect his parents' authority. The Moses age, therefore, blends in the Adam age, but begins to fashion itself more firmly at about the age of five or six and from then onward. A little later, possibly before the child reaches ten, if he lives in America at least, he is shouting "hurrah" for the Fourth of July. He does not understand the science of the government of his own country, but he has some joy in being an American.

In short, the idea of the David age is dawning upon him and he recognizes the household authority - the laws of the village and the parks - but he soars to something a little higher, vaguely glories over his country's flag, and is learning something of the national idea as well. All this is comprised in the David age. About fourteen, possibly younger, a restless thinking begins to find lodgment in his breast. That thinking reaches beyond his physical environment - possibly he listens to songs when in the church and sermons preached there with a new zest. God and Heaven and Hell signify certain unknowns to him and he finds a craving in his heart to know more of them. This represents the dawn of the Isaiah and Jeremiah age. In short, the intuitional, which is born of vibrative harmony, whose melodies all of us have heard but never fully analyzed, has reached consciousness. He finds himself mentally inquiring to learn his place in the great Cosmos. In short, the Christ principle within him is speaking and telling of its existence. It is opening his understanding to a comprehension of the great Oneness of all life. The throbbings born of the intuitional are very active in the young person passing through his teens. At reaching the age of twenty he has either made some acquaintance with the spiritual selfhood asserting itself within him or he has become for the time being insensible to its vibrations. Though this may be the case, within five, ten or twenty years it may assert itself again and even more strongly; because the soul never forgets its fatherhood. However, during the last fifth of the past century many children have been born who have been named by theosophists and astrologers as children of the sixth race and give evidence of the psychic powers of clairvoyance, clairaudience and the most subtle intuition in childhood, at the earliest age of intelligent expression of thought. They will later, I prophesy, solve mysteries in life's mysticism that will appall the sage. They will glean the truth from nature's unwritten book of harmonies, whose songs will reach their intelligences through the mental sense of hearing, responsive to the soft, ceaseless, rhythmic vibrations of the unseeable chords of the mighty universal harp, touched by the fingers of energy moving under the direction of that mighty impersonality - the Imminent God.

In my hurried review of the growth of mentality to a plane where man could receive and comprehend the Christ principle, it must be quite apparent to the reader that few, if any, were ready to receive and understand it when Jesus proclaimed it. Why? How simple the answer when we study the Christ principle on the only plane on which it can be comprehended - the intuitional. The Isaiah age had come, but mate rial fetters bound human thought, and minds were thereby imprisoned, so that few intelligences could receive the vibrations of truth from the Infinite with which Jesus was consciously responsive. The spiritual light then threw its lustre over the few - those few are always found in every period of history, and always were, and always are among the workers uplifting man. The hour had come for man to be told of his spirit relationship to the great force energy of the universe, in order that he might come into complete harmony with himself, and know his central position in the great Cosmos. The Christ principle, therefore, was not disclosed at too early an age, even though it were not comprehended. Some of the possibilities of man had to be disclosed to him, as history has proved, hundreds and hundreds of years before he would unfold so as to grasp even those which now seem to us to-day most patent and clear.