hands hath blessed them as a heavenly host on high, unnoting of their estate as earth-born mankind?

Bethany means house of dates, or house of misery, according as the vision is Godward or earth-bound. Here again is the terrible alternative as led off by the mystic sense of inward viewing.

Note how the Apostles being blessed as heavenly host by the Risen Christ Jesus, returned to Jerusalem, or began at their Jerusalem Self, shouting to the Most High, "Blessing and honor and glory and power be unto him that sitteth upon the throne . . ."

Note how they preached union with the Highest and communion with the sons of light. They had been taught that two are ever in the field, man and superman; one should be taken, the other left. Their address was thus ever to the super-man, the Angel of man's presence.

To the Angel of the amusement-bound, to them of the Church of Ephesus let us write to Risen Christ. To the Angel of the beauty-bound, to them of the Church of Smyrna, let us write as to God, Origin of Beauty. To the Angel of each church, let us write the great things of The Highest.

To the Pergamos Angel let us write; to them of the grandeurs of wealth, statecraft, learning; to the lovers of art, architecture, music, war. To them let us write as to One who transcends all grandeurs.

The Apostles wrote to the Pergamos type concerning the true Healing God whom the Pergamites were worshipping in the temple as AEsculapius, the key god invisibly filling his outer temple, urging his own worship with promises of health auras if mankind would only marry unto him, the god of healing, radiating his sunshine