by angels from the city of God when he finds himself touching the fourth side of the city that lieth foursquare. Things have never satisfied his seat of sacred starvation; nor yet noble thoughts, high statements, even the highest; nor practice of ectoplasm and its astral shadows of departed friends. Only by laying hold of the High Adequate has man laid hold of that which satisfies his heart's desire. Notice the wise men telling of Jacob by the Jabbok brook sensing the angel of God who called himself God, changing him from Jacob the frightened to Israel the fearless, and causing him to found a dynasty of kings ending in earth's final King -- The Nazarene Jesus!

The phoenix bird which fell into helpless ashes and rose into winged majesty was once the symbol of man's helplessness in the face of death, rising into daring renewal above death by the sacred touch of heaven's Uric! fire on his yearning heart's despair. Not only did the phoenix signify survival after death but revival out of death, even as the King of Judah rose while yet Isaiah the mighty was laying the ban of death upon him.

As the mariner on the sea steers his ship's course by a needle which points to a magnetic north, not to the north of polar bears and icebergs, so man is truly steering his hopes by an inner needle pointing to a country unseen from whence in time of danger or despair miraculous succor may swing toward him.

Something within us innately hopes great things from the self-existent kingdom to which King David turned crying, "Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord, for he shall pluck my feet out of the net;" to which the sage of India gazes and is touched with long life because the kingdom is ageless.