its covering, the unlocking of the doors of limitation, and the uniting of whoever reads the outer writing to unstinted blessings.

"Seek ye out of the book of the Lord and read, no one of these shall fail." "For the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness."

Surely, the book in the right hand of the Lamb slain for the transgressions of the race, gives for its outer reading the Name or revealing so vitally insisted upon by the first Christian Apostles, and so ignored as to its mystical potency by the Christians of today. And the opening of its inner writing waits upon the faithful reading of its outer form. "Blessed is he that readeth" -- "I will give him to eat of the hidden manna."

Faithful reading is always associated with understanding: "Whereby when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ." "Whoso readeth, let him understand."

And understanding is mystical light. It is the light pent up and hidden in all men as in the first disciples of Jesus, and it is the glorious light of the Lord of the wide universe. "Then shall thy light break forth as the morning" -- "And the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light."

The same law of light reigns for the unseen shining as for the manifest. Do not the men of science insist that the same light that illuminates the noonday sky is present in the darkened chamber? And that the bars of hiding being removed, the light within springs to meet the light without!

"Held our eyes no sunny sheen,
How could sunshine e'er be seen?