Since Lucifer the "Light Bearer" is also the synonym of the "fallen Son of the Morning," who shows (by contrast) the meaning of the Shadow, so there are those who walk the earth to illustrate in its uttermost degree that contrast.

If Selfishness must be (inordinate .Selfseeking) there must be those to demonstrate to its extreme limit the results of such self seeking.

Lessons by contrasts or opposites are often employed by those philanthropic teachers and societies who - being a little in advance of those whom they would teach - are seeking to "reform the world," or to reform those who need it in any given direction.

Thus a "Reformed Inebriate" is chosen by them to illustrate and elucidate the beauties of Temperance; the "Reformed criminal," to illustrate the value of a life free from criminal transgressions. It is often noted that the children of drunkards are total abstainers; and it is argued by those endeavoring to solve the psychological mysteries of "Social Science," that the example of the drunken parent produces revulsion, disgust, in the offspring.

To know the exact value of the "lessons by contrast," there must be the extremes. As in nature, heat and cold, light and darkness, are only perceived as related to and contrasted with each other, and both are relative; so in the states of human shadow - lack of moral victory - there could be no shadow but for the light; time, sense, material conditions eclipse the light; but there can be no moral shadow unless there is moral Light: The Spiritual Perception, a priori, of that which is good.

When Self seeking reaches the degree of inordinate Greed, Cbvet-ousness, avarice, there seems to be one way in which to show these in all their hideousness: The Uttermost degree: 171

The Miser, loving gold for its own sake - not even for the Power it can bring;

The Avaricious one - Coveting all the wealth that can be accumulated, for whatever poor excuse can be offered; these must remain examples or illustrations of the Shadow state - .

You will bear in mind that "The root of all evil" has been supposed to be gold - or its equivalent - .

When Lycurgus fashioned laws for the benefit of his people - his fellow countrymen, expurgating gold (or money) from those laws, and hence from the country, then making his country-men promise not to alter the laws until his return, expatriated himself, - thereby securing to his loved people the great boon of freedom from the power of wealth, he failed to recognize that not gold but the love of gold is the root of evil, - or Love of the Power of Wealth; and that could not be expunged from the hearts and minds of those who were not ready - had not out-grown it.

Lycurgus returned not to his own country, but Love of Wealth - Gold - Money - Power of riches, did return.

Neither sublime Philosopher, Stoic nor Spartan hero could check the Selflove of the Greeks. Croesus is the typical illustration of the extreme individual possession of wealth; but the wealth of Croesus would seem like poverty compared with that of some of the modern