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has been the child of earth, and the prayer, "May thy kingdom come on earth" means, come to this body as it comes to me as spirit. "May I manifest my spiritual supremacy while incarnate" is this prayer we were taught. And while thus enslaved to matter, we are the slave of circumstance; the slave of the Universal; but when the Perfect comes, that which is imperfect is done away with. Therefore, in the New Era, I the perfect become my Perfect. There is a form of tyranny which, much deplored, is still as necessary as is the governor of the engine. Its name is Authority. It is "the tyranny of the dead." "Let the dead bury its dead," said he who taught us of the Final Emancipation. Authority is a wonderful power, but as valuable as wonderful, for it is corrective, and develops the governor of human conduct—Self-control. Pressing against the barriers of the past, the Soul cries "More!" and like an athlete gains strength by freeing itself, only to find another and another barrier across its path, till the last ditch is spanned, and the last barrier is leaped, and there is no circumstance that is not willingly accepted as already mastered as it comes in view.

This sweeping away of some limitation we term progress. It is the objective manifestation of the unfolding soul. The child clings to Mother's hand till it can walk alone; so man clings to the motherhand of the past, till he can think and act alone. He says, "What man has done I can do," till he learns to say, "What man has never done I can do." For this new Emancipation finds its warrant in the limitless possibilities of Man. The first inscription on the banner of the New Emancipation is, I AM DIVINE. No matter what may be the language employed, the Principle in every New Thought cult is faith in the divinity of the Human Soul. No other