It is a terribly magnificent spectacle to watch the Earth under the seething, writhing throes of the powers of darkness. One may have divinest compassion, and turn with pitying heart to every individual sufferer, and still feel the wonderful might of the war that is wrought in the darkness by the powers of darkness.

All that is useless is being thrust aside: See how nations, governments, kingdoms, laws, creeds, are crushed together in conflict and crumble like dust; see how everything pertaining to wealth and power of gold is being thrown together in this mighty convulsion; at last, with one vast cataclysmic conflagration, all earthiness is consumed.

The picture of the "Last Judgment" is no mythological fable; you are in the midst of one of those "Judgments" now; and such a one as the earth has never before seen; because there are higher heights to be attained; deeper depths are here; mightier forces are thrown together, for the whole world is to be reached; to be touched by the Angels of the heights, to be summoned from the depths.

When the Earth enters on the New Dispensation all that is useless and cruel must have passed, must have been crowded out, driven out in warfare, crushed out beneath some ironshod heel of power and brushed out of the world; there will be no room for useless things when all the shadows go.

After this Great incoming Cycle, after the Sixth Dispensation, there will be no such depths. Each valley will be less and less; even now, although in the shadow, you are on a preparatory height; but it is like a battle among the foothills of a vast mountain range, where other heights are still concealed, and other glories lie beyond.

The struggle in the world today is like a warfare among the Titans, where the worldly contending forces are giants, demigods. The world is under the sway of no petty powers of impulse; it is not the feeble, selfish striving of a few persons like that which usually makes up the common conflicts of human beings; but it is the throes of all those past Shadows merging into one: The Giants of Worldliness and Mammon let loose upon the Earth.

Egypt, dead for many thousands of years, turning over from her sepulchers that the world may hear the groaning of her receding dynasties, and knowing somewhat of what the light was before such a mighty shadow; India, recovering from her long dream of lethargy, makes haste to bring her destructive forces to help kindle the fire of this great conflagration; even Brahm, serenely embosomed in Infinite peace and Ineffable glory, comes forth veiling in Brahma and Vishnu, revealed in Siva to yield the shadows of the light of Brahma's reign. If such are the shadows, what must the glory have been? What must it be when the New Dawn is here? Could you only see behind the barriers of all these shadowed mountains, these receding heights, you would know the Primal Light that gleams through Greece and Rome, through Jerusalem and Egypt; that now exist but as the Shadows of all the knowledge that the world has possessed.

Aye! and the days and nights will be filled with deeper darkness, the children of earth will be wrung with greater agony; kingdoms will war against kingdoms and will crumble into dust, and nations of people be wiped out; the earth will open its yawning earthquakes for some, and heaven will shower her floods for others; many people, remnants and fragments of past ages that are to be reborn for the new kingdoms that are to come on earth; all lives that are not to be used in the beginning of this New Dispensation, will be wiped out of their present physical existence, eliminated and prepared for rebirth to reappear in the Dispensations that are to come. This is why so many lives are suddenly swept away; this is why the sea opens to engulf the ship which, seemingly, is strongest and safest; this is why earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, "tidal waves" from the sea and floods from the skies will still devastate the Earth, until the time is ripe for the actual Beginning of the New.

The next Great Glacial period of Earth must first come. Then the "New Heaven and the New Earth."

Foregleams which set your hearts at rest, prophesytngs which have gone out under mild admonitions and ministrations, you have received; the temporary calm that precedes the storm, the storm which for some may be over and past, for others may only have just begun. Still in the midst of all this you are now nearer to the New Dawn than to the close of the preceding day. Though nearer, the world is not yet there, and in the midst of this tempest and storm, and all the horrors that the world shall see, "God's chosen people," meaning only such as are ready, such as know the meaning of the Shadow, with the veiled Angels that abide with them, shall find no storm encompassing them, no shadows around them; but on the height, as on the mountain where the "Ark" rested, they shall abide in a state of peace and safety as it were above the storm.

Meanwhile, the Demons and Powers of Darkness rule the earth; and it is not given to angels, ministering spirits or the powers of good to stay, or check, or change, or turn aside, any portion of this mighty destruction till it shall have had its way; till it has wrought its lesson of destroying the destroyers.

The "Ark" Of "Safety."

Aye; though the world hears not the warning;

And the floods must come and the storms appear; One Power Divine, bright as the morning,

Gives token to such as have "ears to hear."

Though the world will go on in its selfish seeking,

Nor heed the voice that is to come Those who hear the "voice within" them speaking

Have the prophecy from out heaven's home;

The "mountain of safety" has been won By such as know that the light is near;

And these, though veiled is the morning sun. Feel trembling of light that is almost here.

On the "Mount of Safety," which is God's peace, The "Ark" must forever and ever rest;

For the Brooding Dove shall never cease To bring the olive branch to each breast

Such is the Light and the Token given. That in the midst of the shadow and pain,

The clouds are broken, the darkness riven; And those see the light who the Light attain.

God's promises can never be broken; All things shadowed must pass unto night; -

Light unto tight, until you see aright On that far, perfect and eternal height. The "Are" ("Ark") and know it is God's "Token."