Number nine stands for joy in our own responsive God point, all peace and plenty.

The Jews of old had the joy of peace and plenty. They have it now. They offered it to the early Christians as the way of their God with all people according to the inspirations recorded in their Sacred Books. The inspired Jesus of the Jewish religion offered it to the Christians, saying, "Search the Scriptures." But they ran away from inspirations of the Sacred Books and got up their own text, "Poverty and Penance." So the Christians have had to struggle with poverty, working themselves day and night, and practicing some way of penance for success in fighting poverty whenever success has crowned their strenuousness; or cowering under poverty or penance all the days of ignoring Peace and Plenty. They have rejected the generous beneficence of "Him who giveth riches and addeth no sorrow," whose "yoke is easy, and whose burden is light."

Number Ten calling again our attention to our native majesty brings back to the joyous God-Self Its original "I, The Lord give and I, the Lord take away." This tenth lesson teaches us to start over again at our hidden memra and sound it forth till the earth shall hear and repeat the anthem, singing with the four and twenty elders of Revelations: "We give thee thanks because thou hast taken to thyself thy great power, and hast reigned."

The silent memra or vach language of wordless knowing deep within us all is that language coming to speech soon after being noticed as incontrovertible verity. "Look to the rock whence ye are hewn." Look to the hidden centre where the Inmost Lord and the Highest Lord is one Lord.

Victor Hugo found himself being taught by his hidden