Compulsion ensues only through the triple vibration caused by the entrance of the spermatozoon into the ovum." The quotation from the previous chapter may well be the basis of another teaching, as follows: The male and the female vibrations proceed from the positive and the negative components of the Creative Word, and require and compel the presence of that third component the entity awaiting re-embodiment. From this coming together results the union, in one being, of the father vibration, the mother vibration, and the son vibration.

Evidently every child in the womb is a new manifestation of the triple Word; one largely material however, until the incorporation of the permanent triad atoms at about the seventh year. Thereafter, the growing child more and more manifests this Word in both its material and its spiritual aspects; the process being completed in three cycles of seven years each; in other words, when the adult reaches the age of twenty-eight years.

From man's many re-embodiments results the evolution of the triple Word as by him expressed. Originally a simple trinity, the Word is becoming one of exceeding complexity. All re-embodiment, whether of worlds or beings, signifies progress toward the complex Word that everywhere approaches the infinitely complex Word which we name God; The Creator; The First Cause.

When Jesus the Christ would draw Lazarus from the dead, he uttered mentally not only the father and the mother vibrations which had drawn Lazarus to the womb, but also the vibration proper to Lazarus himself. Therefore the coming forth from the grave was a new birth of the triple Word for, as a posthumus being on the borders of the Unseen, Lazarus, obedient to that call, renounced the period of rest to which the so-called dead are entitled. Only a Master who had developed in himself the universal Father and Mother vibrations, could perform this crowning deed of adept-ship.

The Grecian myth concerning Orpheus' attempt to draw Eurydice from the under world with the music of his lyre (vibration) is profoundly esoteric, and, freed from blinds, it tells the failure of a Master who did not maintain the intense concentration necessary to success. As John the Baptist, Elijah acknowledged himself inferior to the great Master of physical life. Nevertheless, when a prophet under the old dispensation, he raised the widow's son by means of the triple Word. Lacking the power of Jesus the Christ, Elijah must needs reinforce his mental utterance with physical contact; therefore he stretched himself upon the child when uttering mentally the Father vibration, and again when uttering the Mother vibration, and yet again when uttering the vibration proper to the child when he entered the womb. Then, as with Lazarus, renunciation of the post-mortem state resulted, and also a new birth.

By the raised widow's son, and by the son of the Shunamite woman, (2 Kings, 4:34) and also by Lazarus, is foreshown the condition of the human race when mankind shall no more be born of woman in that Eternal City - the New Jerusalem - come down from God, out of Heaven, upon the peaceful and purified Earth.

As for other stories of the raising of the dead, whether in the Bible or elsewhere, most of these "dead" were really in profound trance, that counterfeit of death. In conclusion: after the third day the dead, retiring upward or rather inward, have passed the boundaries which render impossible their return to the old body.

H.