Finally, a few words concerning inter-etheric forces, and their employment by the coming Avatar.

The axil revolution begun by the nebula, and continued by our seven-fold sun, and its progeny the seven-fold planets, was communicated to the very atoms which, in construction, almost duplicate the solar system. The physical atomic energy confined in a cubic foot of matter surpasses any material force thus far made available.

Were the scientist endowed with more than terrestrial vision, he would discover that the procedure of the physical aspect of the electrons is repeated on higher and higher planes of the sevenfold atom. Keely, of Motor fame, found that to deflect to mechanical purposes the physical components of the atom, his delicate Vibrator should be re-enforced by that most delicate of instruments the physical brain; but he died without making his finding useful, or even complete.

However ingenious and sensitive, no strictly mechanical device can free the inter-etheric energy of the electrons; nevertheless, under certain con ditions, the means of liberation is latent, or partially operative, in every man. One requirement of his success is, that the atoms must be incorporated within his physical body, and there imbued with his qualities. The liberation and use of the super-physical of these atoms, make man a power either for good or evil in the world.

As a seven-fold being like unto others, but far more developed and capable, Jesus, in his healing, emanated from his body and brain, to be incorporated in other organisms, the imbued buddhic energy of certain atoms. As great intellectual leaders, Plato and Aristotle, in similar manner, emanated a manasic energy whose moulding influence endures to-day.

The ancient teachings emanate both a buddhic and a manasic energy, but, because of the tenacious influence which the wholly exoteric dogmas of the Church Fathers were exercising upon the European peoples, it was deemed best to withhold the esoteric teachings from the West, until the way for their reception had, to some extent, been prepared by Jacob Boehme and Emanuel Swedenborg, and afterward continued by Coleridge and Carlyle in England, and, in America, by Channing, Emerson, and other representatives of the New England Transcendental School. On the other hand, the Brothers of the Shadow have always been active through such tools as Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, and Wilhelm II, all of whom put forth an obsessing kamic force inimical to that brotherhood of man which the Master inaugurated. As for the coming Avatar, it is said that from his electrical body, the fore-runner of others to be, the buddhic energy will radiate in a way before unknown among men; therefore, more marvelous works than those of old will testify to his sovereign power and authority.

When, as an atom of spiritual will, each unit of the human family was separated from the body of some member of a certain Solar Hierarchy, that atom was imbued with a quality which would develop during its entire cycle to its sun-source. Moreover, that nucleus of composite man received in like manner, and one by one, the pregnant gifts of all other Solar Hierarchies. Nor did man's divine progenitors cease their benefactions with this primal giving. Even now they watch over him, and for his spiritual healing they radiate to his inner self the liberated energy of their incorporated atoms.

The above teaching discovers the inner meaning of the Master's promise: "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also, and greater than these shall he do, because I go unto my Father." As explained in an earlier chapter, the Father to whom Jesus as the planetary ruler would go, was a certain hierarchy of the Solar Logos. After this union of Father and Son, augmented means of material and spiritual healing from that source would benefit the human race.

Any son of man who identifies himself with the Solar Logos, though as the least of its fellowship, is an appropriate channel through which the divine influence reaches and aids his human brothers, whether in the world, or the intermediate state. One object of the Avatars which appear at suitable astronomical periods, is the enlargement and multiplication of those channels which, in some respects, are more effective if formed from the earth upward, rather than from the Logos downward.

Evidently the earth cannot wholly assimilate the gifts of heaven, unless by mutual effort it be brought into harmony with its source. Equilibrium once established between the two worlds, mankind enters into the fulness of that high correspondent of Edenic times, the better Golden Age of which the holy men of old have often dreamed, and whose beacon of promise the sages of many lands have discerned afar, and concerning whose glory every prophet of the larger truth has authoritatively spoken.

Peace to all beings!

H.

To the students who were promised the earlier appearance of this final book of the series begun with "Special Teachings," some explanation is due. "The Heart of Things" was published in

1914, but since the chapters of Vol. III were received at intervals, and because of other delays, seven years separate the publication of Vol. II and Vol. III.

Now it appears that outward circumstances were not responsible for this delay, for the Master intended that seven years should separate the issuance of the two books. If another seven years bring about the enleaguing of nations, and so presage enduring peace through actual or else prospective disarmament of the world powers, the time will be ripe for the revealing of those deepest mysteries of the Kingdom which the coming universal Teacher will communicate orally to certain individuals and groups of his followers, who, in turn, will dissemminate them among the prepared peoples of the earth.

E. C. F.