called the planet of works, achievements, accomplishings, labors: Sun, Vulcan, Mercury, Venus, Earth.

But although we are the planet of bestirrings, we must remember and acknowledge that only One of us has really accomplished His native deed of unspeakable splendor by full recognition of His own unspeakable, splendid Divinity. Tallier the mystic was persecuted by the Beghards and Beguines, and grand convent ladies, for telling them that the only work they could acceptably present before the Majesty on high was the Finished Work of the Lord Jesus.

The early Christians associated Number Five with the vicarious sufferings and death of the first human being among us to recognize Himself as God:

"Come tell me truly, to what truth
Should number five be guide?
The wounds of Christ in hands and feet,
And in His bleeding side."

When David, who had read in Leviticus 20, that five should slay Goliath, he chose him five small stones, for he was about to accomplish the liberation of his people, a tremendous deed, by the recognition that his divine Self was coming up against an hundredfold powerful foe: "Thou comest unto me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield, but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts."

Only David's secret Self, or heavenly intelligence, knew the name of the Lord of hosts, but by recognizing that somewhat about himself was Sonship to Jehovah, he took his symbolic five stones of victorious accomplishment, and undid the heavy burdens, and let the oppressed