That which supplies the physical energy is not to give any honor nor any aggregation of power to the one possessing it, (any more than treasures of gold or other material possession) but in its highest use is a Divine bestowraent. Thus the moral law is thrust upon man's outward nature, in exact opposition to that nature, to be afterwards reconciled to it by overcoming, and bending the material part to the uses of the spirit. We have illustrated this by the first states of existence, in which the victory of physical strength, that which constitutes the physical possessions, is power. When the moral nature enters there is a perception that weakness ought to be protected. The greatest evidence of human advancement today, is to be found under the Christian idea that the weak are to be protected against the strong.

Once more let us refer to those states of superficial moral growth wherein there are flaws, chief est of which is the flaw of self-praise; self-righteousness. This pride of excellence in any moral direction is the greatest flaw. As much greater than the pride of physical strength or intellectual power, as the moral nature is greater than the physical strength or the intellectual power. Therefore it is not strange that in the midst of all the words of gentleness and encouragement spoken by Jesus to those who were condemned and despised by men, that His words were of a rebuking nature toward the self-righteous, those who considered themselves the judges of others; the "scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites," representing the typical lovers of virtue in themselves; the state which scorned anything else than its own standard of excellence. The moral law puts to the severest test such states of supposed virtue, in which the letter of the law is the rule for human action. He who conforms to the letter of the law is considered a good man, while he who, sometimes disobeying the form of the law, most manfully struggles against temptation and finally overcomes it, is, nevertheless, censured and condemned. Such a state is often not considered a success in human life, but in the kingdom of the spirit each step toward self-conquest, in the sense of overcoming, not only the tendency to temptation but the possibility of it, is a step of victory, and that is moral attainment.

In all the states, however complicated, that human life may be, it must be remembered by each that the highest possible states are those toward which the human race, as a whole, is tending, as represented by the highest in each individual.

There is repetition and reiteration of many of these points, because we desire to make clear the solution of many of the difficult problems in man's moral condition, for here is the principal struggle, and here the final victory.

There are four general states of expression in connection with man's relation to all moral propositions; and as many embodiments in each state as there are varieties of conditions in the human race.

First: Unconsciousness of the moral lav, and therefore no responsibility in connection with it.

Second: Consciousness of the moral law, bat inability to resist temptation. Here is the beginning of responsibility.

Third: A false height, Pharisaical "I am holier than thou." Which does not commit an offense because it is condemned, and because temptation is not in that direction. Here is the gravest responsibility.

Fourth: The victory over the offense through victory over the temptation, and, consequently, the victory over self-praise end laudation. The triumph of moral law.

As previously noted and emphasized, the states of expression which include no knowledge of the moral law, are states of physical expression merely; and, like the states of infancy in personal embodiments, include no responsibility. The one hope for such conditions must forever be included in the term growth; expression in further embodiments until the higher nature can be expressed.

The second stage, being more complicated, is the more perplexing; but it calls for the higher degree of charity. The awakened glimmerings of moral perception are not the full growth of moral power, nor even the half growth, any more than the boy half grown is a man; but very often this moiety of growth is mistaken for full manhood.

'The third stage, or false height, is even more difficult to meet To the individual it seems like the real height, but has forever been revealed as the false one. To have charity for the individual and yet to tear the mask from this false condition, is only in the power of the most exalted lives, the highest teachers. Any measure of self-praise or self-congratulation, of thinking or acting: " I thank God that I am not as other men," is a portion of the evidence of this third condition.

The second and third states express the general condition of mankind morally.

The fourth stage needs no elaboration: a state absolutely free from moral obliquity, and absolutely free from self-praise or even self-consciousness, is an ideal, and yet a surpassingly real, state; a divine expression.

We pass on, from the usual individual lines of embodiments, to those exceptional lives, who seem to be here for an especial purpose; who come as some ram avis in terris, to astonish the world with their brilliancy. These are embodied Souls, perhaps from other planets; alien to the earth, hat are sent here on some errand of experience for themselves, which includes, also, a lesson to those embodied on the earth. Sometimes they are in advance; and the world looks on in amazement at their achievements; sometimes they are Nemesea, and the people to whom they come do not know the true nature of their visitation, but ages afterward it is revealed.

Across the interstellar spaces there is spiritual, as well as magnetic, sympathy between planets; and if the earth, or any nation thereof, has arrived at the condition needing an illustration of the life that is not upon the earth at the time, or if a force is needed that no life upon earth is qualified to give, or if a Nemesis is required, then one takes a pilgrimage from the planet next in advance to show what ii needed, and to illustrate the power that is beyond. This explains those peculiar embodiments that seem to thrust themselves in upon human life, and which seem to be unaccounted for.