said, "The Kingdom of God cometh not with observation". Outward forms of government will perhaps always vary in different countries, but the recognition of Man as the true Temple must produce the same effects of "justice, mercy, and truth" in every land, so that war and crime, ignorance and want, sickness and fear shall be known no more, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away (Isaiah 35:10).

This is the meaning of the Building of the Temple, and in studying it we must remember that the sacred symbols apply not only to Man but also to his environment. The Tabernacle of Moses and the Temple of Solomon not only represent the Microcosm but also the Macrocosm. And this leads us to the threshold of a very deep mystery: the effect of the spiritual condition of the human race upon Nature as a whole, regarding which St Paul tells us that the entire creation is waiting in anxious expectation for the revealing of the sons of God (Rom. 8:19).

The Building of the Temple is thus a threefold process, commencing with the individual man, spreading from the individual to the race, and from the race to the whole environment in which we live. This is the return to Eden, where there is nothing hurtful or destructive.

The expulsion from the spiritual "Garden of the Lord" led man into a world that brought forth thorns and thistles, and the earth was "cursed for his