Something concerning the mystery of man's inborn authority has ever been the fourth theme of such as have consciously or unwittingly obeyed the Supreme Edict, "Look unto Me." By snatches of what Luke the Apostle called "sunrisings from on high," the illuminati of the ages have known that the will to command the Obedient Supreme Presence rises up after obedience to the will of the Supreme Presence.

"If man avoids regarding himself as king of the universe it is because he lacks courage to recover his titles thereto," wrote one of the illuminati after having been by meekness dissolved into recognition of the Majesty of the Commanding Supreme, and felt its quickening stir as likeness triumphant in his own breast.

The law is plain enough. If that nature before which we have been negative, soft, meek, plastic, draws forth and stirs alive in us its own kind, it is not surprising that the meekest and lowliest of all men rose up with the bold proclamation: "All power is given unto me" -- "I have overcome the world." It is not surprising that His disciples, catching His assurance, found that satanic tempers fled at the sound of their bold commands, and the willing angel of the miracle stood by them to save them from prisons and swords.

"Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Behold, kingship corneth in meekness." This is Zechariah agreeing with Jesus across the guIf of centuries. The mystic law is one and its way is one as mathematics is one. Does the relation of the hypothenuse to its base and perpendicular ever alter? Pythagoras sacrificed an hundred oxen of rejoicing when he discovered that eternal relationship of the hypothenuse. Jesus gladly sacrificed Himself to call attention of mankind to the root of Divinity, the spark of identical