THE ENLIGHTENED STUDENT WHO IS SEARCHING FOR HIGHER SELF AND IS REACHING FOR HIGHER LIFE THROUGH SERVICE, IT IS FOR HIM THAT THIS DAY IS IMPORTANT.

THOSE WHO HAVE PLACED THEIR FOOT UPON THE PATH OF THE SERVICE OF OUR MASTER AND LORD JESUS CHRIST AND TO WORSHIP THE HOLY FAMILY, WHO HAVE TAKEN THE VOWS OF OBLIGATION OF THE ORDER AND WHO ARE ENDEAVORING TO KNOW THE HIGHER SELF IN A PERSONAL WAY, WE OF THIS HOLY ORDER, THROUGH THE HOLY ORDER OF MANS WHO HAVE PROMISED TO LOVE, HONOR, SERVE, AND HIGHER SELF THROUGH THIS ORDER--APPROACH THE VEIL WITH GREAT HUMILITY AND ATTAIN THE GREATER CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE GREAT CREATOR--THE GOD WITHIN US--AS THE HOLY SPIRIT DESCENDS AROUND US.

TO THE PRIESTS AND BROTHERS OF THIS ORDER, WE SAY: LOOK WELL, FOR THE OUTER VEIL HAS DISAPPEARED AND NOW YOU LOOK TO THE SECOND VEIL, AND YOU NOW HAVE FULL RESPONSIBILITY OF THE GOD IN THE HOLY TABERNACLE, AND THE WAY OF REALIZATION TO THE CREATOR AND TO THIS ORDER.

YOU, THE SEEKERS, WHO HAVE FOUND THE PATH, MAY ALSO ENTER THE MYSTIC WAY, CONSISTENT WITH THEIR BEING AND THEIR COMING.

NO ONE ARMETH HIMSELF TO BE, RATHER TO ACCEPT THROUGH HIS INNER BEING SELF, THROUGH CHRIST, HE IS CALLED AT THIS TIME TO DRAW NEAR THE BRAZEN ALTAR TO OFFER UP HIS SACRIFICE OF LOVE, SERVICE, AND OBEDIENCE FOR THE ERRORS HE HAS COMMITTED IN THE PAST TIME.

CONSIDER NOW FOR A MOMENT THAT FIRE IN THE BRAZEN ALTAR IS NOT AN ORDINARY FIRE THAT BURNS, BUT SHORTLY AFTER THE TABERNACLE WAS BUILT ACCORDING TO THE FORM AND THE PATTERN THAT WAS GIVEN ON THE MOUNT, HERE DIVINE BURNS IN THE CELESTIAL FIRE MIRACULOUSLY OF THE MOTHER SPIRIT WHICH IS WITHIN US DOES THIS NIGHT CONSUME THE ERROR OF THE FLESH WITHIN US.

LOOK NOT TO THE EARTHLY FORM, BUT CONSIDER THE MYSTERY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, FOR IN THIS MIRACULOUS FIRE THAT BURNS THE FLESH, WHICH IS NOT CREATED BY MAN, LIES THE SECRET OF ALL LIFE. IT IS THE PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION OF THE VIRGIN GIFT OF BODIES OF DIVINE ORIGIN OF THE BROTHERS THAT IS NOW YOUR OWN BEING AND THIS SACRIFICE IS FOR THE PURPOSE OF PASSING INTO THE STATE OF CHRIST BEING--THE ILLUMINATION.

FOR THIS BEING THE BALANCE OF LIGHT AND THE ABSENCE OF LIGHT, WE MAY THEREFORE STAND IN THE SHADOW OF JESUS CHRIST AND TAKE ON THE CHRISTLY PRINCIPLES INTO OUR OWN FLESH AFTER WE HAVE BEEN PURGED BY IT.

LET US PICTURE FOR A MOMENT, AS WE GO INTO MEDITATION, THAT WE ARE ENTERING ENCOMPASSING THE ANCIENT PATH OF THE TABERNACLE LEADING FROM EAST TO WEST COMMENCING AT THE ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERINGS, FOR TODAY THE ASPIRANT FINDS HIMSELF FACING THE WEST.

HE CAN ONLY MAKE HIMSELF A SACRIFICE IN THE TEMPLE WHEN, AND IF, THE FIRE THAT BURNS WITHIN IS, AS YOU MIGHT SAY, CONSCIENCE, THAT HE IS CONSCIOUS OF.

TODAY WE REALIZE THAT HIS OFFERING MUST ORIGINATE ITSELF WITHIN HIM, FOR HE IS OFFERING UP HIMSELF TO THE HOLY ONE, WHICH TELLS US RIGHT FROM WRONG AND HOLDS US ACCOUNTABLE FOR ALL ERRORS MORE STRICTLY THAN TO THE LAWS OF MAN.

EVERY NIGHT DURING RETROSPECTION, WE STAND BEFORE THIS ONE AND JUDGE OURSELVES ACCORDING TO THE NEEDS OF THE BODY; WE STAND IN MORTIFICATION AND GREAT HUMILITY, AND WE LOOK ONLY TO THE LIGHT, THAT WE MAY SEE THE TRUE WAY, WEIGHING OUR OBLIGATIONS AND VIRTUES AT THE BRAZEN ALTAR, AND ARE THEN CALLED TO THE POINT OF JUSTIFICATION, AT THE FIRST POINT OF ATTAINMENT ON THE PATH OF THE ANCIENT WAY.

THE RICH, YOUNG MAN ASSERTED HE KEPT THE LAW, BUT HE WAS NOT READY TO FOLLOW THE CHRIST, TO GIVE UP, TO LET GO OF, THE CONTENT OF THE WORLD. TOO MANY ARE CONTENT TO ESCAPE CONDEMNATION, THEY ARE LUKEWARM, THEY FAIL TO SEEK THE COMMENDATION SUCH AS THE DILIGENT MERIT OF SERVICE, TO GAIN AND TO HAVE THAT 'WELL DONE GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT' FROM THE GOD WITHIN.

NOW THE WELL TRIED IN CHRIST SHALL COME FORTH AND CLEANSE THEMSELVES AT THE ALTAR, TO PREPARE THE LOVE FEAST FOE THOSE WHO ARE ASPIRANTS.

TO SANCTIFY THEMSELVES IN PRAYER AND LET THEM FEEL THE FIRE OBEY OF THE SACRED STREAMS OF THE MOLTEN SEA WITHIN FLOW.

AS IT FLOWS THROUGH US, OUR BEINGS THUS ARE TEMPERED, SO THE METAL IS ALSO TEMPERED BY THE HAMMER THAT SHALL BUILD THE TEMPLE SOUNDLESSLY.

THOSE OF US WHO HAVE PUT OUR FOOT ON THE PATH, WOULD BETTER REALIZE THAT WE GIVE UP ALL WORLDLY POSSESSIONS IN THIS ORDER. AS WE LOOK TO THE INNER MAN, THERE MAY BE NOTHING IN THE WAY, AS WE RECEIVE THE LIGHT OF CHRIST REFLECTED BY THE MOON AT THE TURN OF THE GREAT YEAR OF SOWING.

AS I SAY UNTO THEE, FOLLOW ME, AS THOU STANDEST IN THE SHADOW OF THE CROSS THAT LOOMS AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE PATH, THIS IS THE OBSTACLE OF THE PHYSICAL BODY, THE VEHICLE OF THE GREAT DIVINE WITHIN.

THOSE OF THE PRIESTHOOD, HAVING MOUNTED THE FIRST THREE STEPS OF THE TEMPLE AND ENTERED THE LAST ROOM OF THE TEMPLE ON THE PATH OF THE HOLY OF HOLIES.

LOOK NOT AT THE PARAPHERNALIA OF THE TEMPLE, BUT TO THE GROWTH OF THE GREAT SELF, FOR THINE IS THE CONQUERING OF THE SEVEN BRANCH CANDLESTICK, WHICH IS NOW ON THE SOUTH AND NORTH WALL OF THE TEMPLE, FOR THROUGH THIS THOUGH SHALL BECOME A SOLAR BEING.

HAVING STOPPED AT THE ALTAR OF EXAMINATION JUST BEFORE THE VEIL, WHICH IS NOW DIVIDED, ENTER THOU INTO THE EAST ROOM FROM THE WEST AND PASS THROUGHOUT THE TEMPLE INTO THE HOLY OF HOLIES, AND FIND THY PLACE AMONG THE UNIVERSAL BROTHERS OF THE HOLY PLACE.

EAT THOU OF THE SHEW BREAD OF THE TWELVE LOAVES NURTURED BY MANY MEN, GROUND AND PREPARED FOR THY STRENGTH ON THY WAY.

LET US NOW CONSIDER THIS NIGHT IN THE HOLY TEMPLE WITHIN, AND SEARCH FOR THE LIGHT, AND KEEP THE FIRE THAT HAS KEPT THE LIGHT BURNING AS ADMISSION IN THE TEMPLE, THAT "WE ARE NOW GOING WHERE CHRIST HAD TAUGHT," THUS WE KNOW THAT SOLOMON IN ALL HIS GLORY COULD NOT HOLD ONE TINY CANDLE LIGHT TO THE GREAT LIGHT OF THE CHRIST IN YOU.

LET THIS LIGHT BE IN YOU, YOUR SHIELD AND BUCKLER, LET YOUR WORDS DROP WITH THE PRECISION OF THE TWO-EDGED SWORD.

LET THY WORD FREE MANY OF THY BROTHERS FROM THEIR IGNORANCE AND DISEASE. THY BLADE SHALL LOOSE THE DEMONS AND MAKE THEM QUAKE IN THE DEEP.

AS OF NOW, AFTER THOU HAST FINISHED THY SEARCH FOR SELF, AND HAVE FOUND IT, AFTER HAVING PARTAKEN AT THE ALTAR OF THE WATERS OF THE PSYCHIC WORLD AND THE SHEWBREAD, AND GONE INTO MEDITATION; WHEN THIS CONCLAVE IS ENDED AND THY SIGHT IS CLEAR, REVEAL TO THY BROTHER THE EXPERIENCE OF THIS NIGHT IN HOLY COMMUNION ON THE SPIRIT WHICH THOU HAST RECEIVED.