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me excused." By five "ties" am I united with the external which I wish to test. May not these five ties or "yokes" refer to the five senses? My senses are all turned to and feeling after satisfaction in the external. I care not to seek from the inner. "Take my yoke upon you." My yoke is union with God. But that which has so many ties to the material, cares not for the one "yoke" which is "easy."

And another said, "I have married a wife and therefore I cannot come." I have become so wedded to, so at one with the flesh, that I cannot. come now into spiritual consciousness.

"Then the master said, go out quickly into the streets and lanes, and bring in hither the poor and maimed and halt and blind. And the servant said, Lord it is done --- and yet there is room.

And the Lord said --- go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in that my house may be filled. For I say unto you that none of those men that were bidden shall taste of my supper."

This represents the one standing invitation that is continually offered to each soul.

In the early unfoldment of that soul when it is turning to form as source of satisfaction and is becoming wedded to flesh as something apart from Spirit, thought sees nothing desirable in union with Spirit. That condition of thought, says the