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comes through this tyranny of MUST. When I realize that I am, and that I possess, and that this Must is not the command of the King, but the command of an usurper, then I, the rightful heir, ascend the throne of Consciousness and proclaim, "I AM!" Yes, friends, I have been where dollars, friends, reputation, all was in seeming slipping away, and I was alone, alone, alone, naught but God and I! 'Twas then I grew. And if you are worth anything to the world, if you have any emancipation, it is because in such hours, you have found your SELF. "My self and I and naught between." Then all that is of earth is seen of no value, for the treasures of the Soul are all. Come with me into the garden of life, and alone, see God in the burning bush. All dross consumed, purified in the fire, you know yourself and say, I AM.

Our edict of emancipation is not from czar or king; from president or people; it is issued from the throne of God. The moment the Soul finds itself and returns in allegiance to the All, it is free. Out of the Homogeneous, out of the All it comes, an individual, and of necessity it must learn to say "I," thus, to grow into the consciousness that it is not that which is no itself. But fettered by the consciousness of the Ego, it must free itself, and find its way back to the All again. It was in the All, unconditioned, unconscious, non-expressed. It goes back to the All, individualized, conditioned, conscious, and what it possessed, as the unconditioned, the unconscious, belongs to it as an individual. Thus I must find emancipation from the limitations of the Ego, and not be content with the "portion that falleth to me." I must, however, take that portion and go into a far country and spend it, that I may come back the universal and find that "All the Father hath is mine!" And the New Emancipation