amethyst, least precious hiding the most precious, the Benjamin stone among the jewels:: "The Lord shall cover him all the day long," said Jacob. It is the Joseph stone: Blessed is he, for his are the "chief things of the ancient mountains." It is the Gad stone, signifying one who executeth the justice of great Zeus, enlarging himself by recognizing his own centre as the glorious I AM: Highest God and Inmost God one I AM.

The happy are the hopeless. Over the gates of Dante's Inferno it was written, "Abandon hope." Over the gates of Paradiso it is also written, "They hope not." For do they hope in heaven? How can they hope when the hoped-for is come? Does the bridegroom hope for his bride when she is already his love, rest and home? Does the mother hope that she shall have a son, when it is already born and nursing at her breast? No, it is come. "Ye are come unto Mount Zion, . . . the heavenly Jerusalem, and unto the city of the living God, and to an innumerable company of angels; to the general assembly and church of the first born."

We are saved by hope," said Paul, "but hope that is seen is not hope. For what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?"

The symbolic stone of hope-lessness, advance signal of hidden love, rest, and home, is the amethyst. The amethyst serpent in the diadem of every Pharoah was symbolic of a secret royal and divine power. It often turned out to be rod of wretchedness for the weak as occult power exercised by kings of dark old Egypt. But the amethyst is now symbol only of the as-yet-unworded wisdom, true waiting rod of the energizing Christ Jesus Name, filled with deliverance for the soldiers of the Armageddon in the twilight of the gods. " (For) the