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the promised land; and we can now see that
to claim special individual power is a false belief
which must perish before the soul enters into
spiritual consciousness, Canaan. The belief of
individual power to bring forth the Light and
Truth to the people is a mistake that belongs to
less than perfect understanding. Isaiah declares,
"The leaders of this people have caused them to
err, and they that are led of them are destroyed."
It is claimed today that no one can go higher,
or beyond, his leader. True, so we need to choose
carefully what shall lead us and this lesson seems
to come to us also from this history of Israel, for
not only did not Moses enter Canaan, but we read
in the words of the Lord that "None of the men
that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old
and upward, shall see the land, because they have
not wholly followed me; save Caleb and Joshua,
for they have wholly followed the Lord."
We see also the danger to those that are led,
for they are likely to forget the True Invisible and
Omnipresent Power that is in all; because of their
adherence to limited power in personality they
cannot come into their own possibilities.
The plea for the necessity of a personal leader
is made today from this history of Israel. "We
need," it is said, "a leader such as Moses was to
the Israelites." Are we going backward? We
have had Moses, and later one greater than
