The "first fruits" of any Messianic period are those who have ripened onto dispensations, having had suitable time since their approach to the earth for that dispensation. Each dispensation gathers a certain number of Souls; this, the sixth dispensation and the next the seventh, will gather as many as all the others: for those having been prepared under different dispensations, who were not quite ready, those who rejected Christ, are ready now; many not ready for the previous Messiahs are ripening now. Many from among all the nations of the earth hear the voice of the summoning Archangel of this dispensation, and are awake, alert, and aware. This is why the new ministrations encircle the globe. This is why there are those among all people who know and understand it, even though it is tinder a new name. When the Messiah shall have fully come; when the light shall be fully here, there will be six times as many ready for this light - it being the sixth dispensation - as at the dawn of any dispensation the earth has known, bo the Messiah that approaches the earth, mingles and blends the harmonies of all past dispensations in one.

No preceding Messiah has mentioned other Messiahs excepting the one preceding him; bat in this dispensation all the previous Messiahs will be recognized, acknowledged, placed in their proper positions in history, and their missions to earth clearly understood; and the New Messiah will declare them and recognize them. As the day and hour draw near many hearts are quickened, many lives are touched, because there will be harmony; that which heretofore has been strife will be peace.

The New Messiah will explain all things; interpret all law, bid all Bounds of warfare to cease, and will even make science a clearer pathway, and the daily thought of man more and more perfect and exalted. The children of earth will then perceive the light more than at any other period of human history, and will know the spirit of the divine life. No more, when this dispensation is fully come, can the world walk in shadow as in the past ages of darkness, for the majority will torn toward the light, earth's children will have passed the shadow, they will have turned to the spiritual state: that which has heretofore been lived and viewed wholly with reference to the senses, that which man has mistaken for conquest and victory will have passed away; man will see that the only true victory is over self; crime and injustice will be the exception instead of the role as in past time; violence will be almost unheard of, though there will be the ebbings of the tide, as between all dispensations; but the ebb tide will be higher than the flood tide of the first dispensation.

Only the Angela know that the Christ has come onto the heavens of the earth; but spirits know that the light is here, that the new life is being manifest, though they do not know from what rare and wonderful source of light it appears. The new Messiah will receive greater recognition than any previous Messiah: after this dispensation has fully come no more Christs will be crucified; no more prophets will be put to death; martyrdom for truth's sake will not be known, for the earth will have passed the great half-cycle of all the cycles. Matter has eclipsed the Soul, and the earth has ever seemed to scorn her Messiahs; but spirit will more and more prevail.

Bright and wonderful as is this picture; great as must be the light that approaches the earth, that has overcome worlds and suns, there are no souls, of which you are now the feeble expressions, but what will one day in the vast spheres of eternal life, also be approaching some world, some planet as benighted as this, with great and wonderful power, with the light of all this knowledge upon you. Perhaps a glimmering of this present time will sweep across your Souls when as a Messiah you approach some world; when you will say, like Christ, even when put to death in the defense of the truth that you bring, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." And this is the beginning, the stepping stone, one portion of that immortal pathway by which all Souls who have expression in time shall also have expression as the greatest benefactors. None so feeble, none bo lifeless today, but what in the great cycles of eternity they may approach some planet, shadowed as is the earth, with quivering pinions and the light of Love Divine, giving forebodings of a Messianic dawn.

Thus do you perceive the order of the Soul's expressions. Angels ministering to those who are following after them in experience, Archangels to successions! of planets beneath them, Messiahs to all the worlds of a given system through which they have passed, having been spirits, Angels, and Archangels in each (or a similar) system. In this light you will understand what it means when the Sons of God are named, or set apart in these teachings as an especial order of beings; why it is that the Sons of God under the names of Avatars, Buddies, Christs, as Messiahs shine out more brightly as time passes on, and all are more perfectly recognized as the races advance to their height These Sons of God, like the crucified Christ, say: "I have overcome the worlds." They abide in the perfect whiteness of the consciousness of God's Love and Presence. This is what is meant by the final return to the Father's house. Out from that kingdom of life and light Souls are sent forth, in the divided form of Cherubim and Seraphim, for successions of experiences, and they never come again into that absolute and divine Presence, called the Throne of God, until they hare been Messiahs and return as Sons of God. All expression, the whole line of being is to that end What other aeons, or ages, or cycles, may hold for Souls; what beginnings may be made and perfections attained yon may not now conceive, not the loftiest mind or Soul on earth can dare to dream. If Messiahs constitute the highest perfection of the inter-solar heavens what can be the perfections in other series of worlds whose systems yon do not even know are in existence, whose suns will never have a name to yon upon this planet, and whose light you can not perceive save in that dim, fathomless space where, like meteors, the largest suns flash and shine I If in the feebleness of the human senses man tries to grasp these divine possibilities let him remember how simple it is, how easy it is for the Soul to recall these divine possessions; and, because the Soul can recall them so easily, yon may readily understand that no life can be wholly valueless when every life shall culminate in a Messiah.

It is well to beware of fictitious heights of self-exaltation and vainglory. So imminent is this New Life, so is the spiritual atmosphere of your earth and heavens pervaded by it, so impending is it in the spiritual and angelic heavens, that if one only has a glimpse of its surpassing light he would almost think he had attained it. Those who are easily exalted, who under the influence and stimulus of the New Life feel that they already possess it, may be excused for making mistakes in the direction of that exaltation.

As there were " Christs many and Lords many " in the older time so, even today, there are many self-appointed christs; but the real Christ may not even be known or recognized when that Christ appears; so different is perfection from imperfection; for "the light shineth in the darkness and the darkness comprehendeth it not" So when Christ came there were premonitions and warnings; but only the "wise men" knew that He was there. These "wise men" were from the previous dispensation, were in the direct line of succession, and recognized by their spiritual discernment the Christ in Bethlehem.

The Five pointed Star was the symbol of that Messiah. Each point bearing a typical number and name, five being the number of that dispensation. The Six pointed Star is the symbol of the New Light and includes all the dispensations that have passed. So Egypt, and all of the Orient, all nations in the past yield up their treasures, for the earth is making ready for the New Messiah; the children of God are being made aware. Those who are ready to ripen under the new dispensation are having fine raiment, of the spirit, woven from within the Soul; with each successive embodiment, they better express the life and light that tend toward it As years before Christ was born the women of Israel turned prophetically toward that light wondering where, and how, and to whom the Messiah would come, so, even now, upon the earth, hearts turn expectantly toward the dawn; many mothers under the stimulus of the New Light that is here think that the Christ has already come; and so, in one sense, the Christ of Love is here; for whenever a child is born under the influence of such light and glory there is promise of the real Messiah.

Now yon are approaching this light, as the dawn is here in its glimmerings and glory, your lives are more and more impressed. As upon the mountain tops there are those who see the day more fully, in the valley are those who see it dimly or not at all, so, strain your eyes heavenward as you will, you can not enter that atmosphere nor perceive that glory one moment in advance of your actual growth and unfoldment: but the Messiah can no more be put aside, nor the approach be denied, than can the royal chariot of the sun be set aside when it is time for the day. None can hasten, none can delay the day and hour; happy are they who upon the mountain heights perceive the dawn.

"How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that pnblisheth peace."

All hail the dawn of the new day; the reign of the New Messiah!

All hail the Christ in every Soul: lowliest in all worlds, greatest in the kingdom of God I