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 "Christ in us, the hope of glory." "I shall be satisfied when I awake in thy likeness."

Prof. William James said, "From our acts and our attitudes ceaseless inpouring currents come which help to determine from moment to moment what our inner state shall be." Man is, as the Greeks said, "The being with the upturned face." Let us, like the candidate for the Eagle grade in the Mithraic ritual who must be able to soar into the pure ether and gaze unflinchingly at the glory of the sun, invoke that perfection which lies hid in the substance of our imperfect development, and dare to look upon the destiny of humanity.

It is man's destiny so to master the physical forces that sickness and weakness shall be unknown, and Death, no longer an enemy, be the friendly doorkeeper to be summoned at will to let us into the larger life.

It is man's destiny, so to develop the material resources of creation that poverty shall disappear and with it the vast army of sins that have been begotten by it.

It is man's destiny to grow in wisdom until all the sources of knowledge are open to him and all the forces of nature obey his behest.

It is man's destiny to grow in spiritual consciousness until all sense of limitation and separateness is lost and he sees nothing but the Radiant Center. Then will appear the