In "Arcane Science," page 93, also in "The Heart of Things," in the chapter "Jehovah," it was explained that the "God of Nations" was united to the Jews through the ray proper to the astral principle of personal will, in fact their violet racial ray, and that of Jehovah himself as the summit of the astral, lunar evolution.

Though in many ways no better than others, the Isrealites were fortunate in that the ray tie between Abraham their father and Jehovah, then regent of this planet, had resulted in a posterity peculiarly favored, because in a peculiar way the children of Jehovah. That this favoring was not mere partiality we may be sure.

That the Hebrew prophets and inspired singers have much vitiated their message with the prejudices and arbitrary ideas of justice inseparable from their time and their evolution in their racial ray, the Old Testament everywhere shows, as witness the following taken at random: "I the Lord am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children." "God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth; the Lord revengeth and is furious." Often a more temperate tone is heard in such sayings as "The Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment." "For a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercy will I gather thee." "The Lord is slow to anger and great in power."

In the light just thrown upon the procedure of Karma, it is evident that the Hebrew writers confounded atmic judgment with wrath and revenge. In the milder passages above quoted, Mercy - Buddhi - intervenes not against the administra tion of atmic justice, but against supposed anger, that mere human frailty.

To form adequate estimate of Jehovah, whom his prophets have invested with contradictory human emotions, we must consider that He represents personal will purified and merged in Divine Will. This union results in a two-foldness foreign to single Divine Will. Jehovah is Karma, not from the atmic, but in fact from the astral-atmic stand. In the prophets we see no purely impersonal administration of Law, but everywhere a personal note of authority. The difficulty of interpreting the mandates of such a God and in such a time inevitably led the Hebrew mouthpieces of Jehovah to exaggeration of his personal Will aspect.

That His name might be known upon the earth, and His law promulgated, Jehovah - the earth's sole regent - set apart or chose, through Abraham, about two-twelfths of the people of the violet ray, in fact those saved from the Atlantean doom anciently meted to the practicers of infernal arts.

In the appointed time these chosen people were fortunate in opportunity when earth's rightful sovereign appeared among them to perfect his astral and kamic principles, also a certain substratum of the physical, preparatory to assuming kingship. That this event was the turning point in human history, a certain secret instruction shows.

As received from those celestial teachers the Higher Kumaras, this instruction declares that while this earth chain is now in its fourth manvantara, the moon chain has finished its fourth. During the first two moon manvantaras, the great sixth or light blue hierarchy of the Solar Logos guided the destinies of the simple moon humanity. During the third moon manvantara, Jehovah the moon sovereign was perfected and assumed authority. During the first three earth manvantaras, the great seventh or orange hierarchy of the Solar Logos ruled our planet, but, at the beginning of the present manvantara, the lunar sovereign began his regentship which terminated at the crucifixion on Calvary.

Because for a great purpose the Jewish race ray was kept pure through isolation of its children, it followed that the Jews looked askance at the children of the Orange, the Red, and the Green, those heathen worshippers of false gods epitomizing their own human limitations; and it also followed that when the greatest of the prophets appeared as representative of a ray not Jewish, and therefore as exponent of another system, he was rejected, and finally killed. In this there is much to mitigate the otherwise intolerable karmic debt of the Jews now almost paid; wherefore the cycle of necessity, newly inaugurated, holds for them a high place among the nations.

We are now prepared to deal with the central mystery touching the real status of that great one Jesus the Christ, who, in an earlier instruction of this series, was called the Master of the Yellow Ray, and again the Master of all rays.

Every planetary ruler takes name and authority from the dominating ray of his planet. For this earth that ray is the basic Orange. As H. P. B. once said, "there is no hard and fast scale, no fixed order of the human and the planetary principles." Thus for the moon chain, and its sovereign, the perfected Astral was supreme over the other five principles. For the Martian chain, and its sovereign, perfected Kama is supreme over the other four. For Saturn, and its sovereign, purified Kama-Manas is supreme over the other three. Through the carrying out of this law, will eventually result the equalizing of all human and all planetary principles, from so-called highest to so-called lowest. Such equalization long since obtained in the Solar Hierarchies.

For this world and its ruler, all principles or rays are tinted by the dominating Orange. For Mars and its ruler, the dominating Red performs like office. For Saturn and its ruler, it is the Green, and so on. Evidently Truth has a planetary aspect impossible to surmount until the solar view is arrived at; so, however much the buddhic ray and view may appeal to our planetary ruler, the truth by him discerned in the Orange will seem greater; hence the perfecting of the Orange physical vesture will ever engage his chief efforts.

In the esoteric classification of the human, planetary, and universal Tatwas or forces, or rays, Adi Tatwa is given as the highest. We will now mention a human and planetary Tatwa which from our planetary viewpoint is supreme; one whose positive pole is in the great seventh or Orange Hierarchy of the Solar Logos. In man this Tatwa originates those refinable divisions of physical body matter from which the great Master of physical life perfected, as his chief possession, that physical vehicle in which he ascended on high, or, more correctly, departed to his sacred and secret place.

Concerning that place, a most arcane truth can now be revealed. Every Tatwa is divisible into seven, and while exoterically Prithivi is the lowest of the seven Tatwas, its highest division contains a secret Tatwa which, for this earth, is the supreme one.

Since every Tatwa creates both the human and the planetary plane corresponding with it, and since every division of a Tatwa creates both the human and the planetary sub-plane corresponding with it, evidently the sub-plane proper to the secret Tatwa is the appropriate abode of the Master of physical life. Moreover he, of all the human race, has a body fit for that sub-plane. At death every other representative of mankind leaves behind his entire seven-fold physical body, and passes to some division of the astral plane.

Evidently the Master of the Orange stands between the physical life and the posthumous life of his lesser brethren, and so reaches both up and down. Though near to his own in heaven, he is equally so to those on earth. This most precious and comforting truth could not be made clear without some knowledge of the seven-foldness both of man and the planet; hence for the world at large this knowledge awaited the fullness of time now drawing near.

Hoping to come after death into the visible presence of his Lord, the devout believer will find in this arcane teaching food for thought, and good reason for modifying his expectation. Nevertheless, let him remember the saying of the initiate Apostle, "For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead." Through repeated purifications, the Adamic body of this devout one shall become the purified and eternal body of the resurrection; in other words it shall become the body commonly possessed at the close of a certain great cycle fair in the future of this progressive world.

Said the risen Christ to the company of the faithful, "Lo, I am with you even unto the end of the age," and have we not made clear the truth within his dark saying? Concerning the body in which the Lord proved himself to Thomas, there is a mystery which may be touched upon. Evidently the permanent physical of the risen Lord would not show the stigmata; neither would it perform such a physical act as the eating described by Luke. Plainly, for the time being that permanent body was by some means clothed with coarser particles.

In ordinary materialization it is possible, under circumstances unusually favorable, to build upon the astral model a semi-solid but transient facsimile of the original; one which persists only through the will of the entity plus the will of another, or, better, plus the combined wills of several, or, best, in conjunction with the wills of all present. As for the scriptural instances of Jesus' bodily appearing, the astral model was not the body clothed upon but, instead, the permanent physical already described.

That after his resurrection the Master appeared first to the faithful, was in accord with the law to large extent governing that occurrence; a law which should obtain at the supreme event for which the world is preparing. To facilitate this event, a company of believers in its early taking place should exist as force centers in different sections of the globe, and especially in this western land. To be effective, these groups should understand the real nature of the Avatar; at least they should be wholly above ignorant fanaticism, and that literal interpretation which associates the

Second Advent with the ending of things terrestrial.

Concerning the body of the Avatar, its characteristics are derived from the masculine Manas and the feminine Buddhi. The risen Jesus appeared first to Mary Magdalene because she, of all his followers, best represented the purified feminine principle of Kama in conjunction with Buddhi. Since, in the risen body of our Lord, this purified dual principle somewhat dominated the duad of purified Kama-Manas in conjunction with higher Manas, the event was in accord with the inner laws of being, and could not have been otherwise.

Here is a clew to the great materialization due at the end of this culminating age. Even as in the old historic time, so again may it be. If so, the Master shall first appear not to the chief leaders of spiritual progress, the men and women of spotless life, the keepers of the law from their youth up, but to the feminine Kama-Buddhi purified in some humble and obscure disciple far from the highways of the world.

H.