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it recognizes them. Its unfoldment then is in proportion to its recognition of its separate sensation. Thus as Man unfolds , he becomes more and more sensitive; while from this increased sensitiveness, comes the need of profound thinking, that he may possess as Man, consciousness of that wisdom which has caused this unfoldment; may possess it as an individual. Thus comes the Man's Spiritual birth. It is full of travail. The birth chamber is filled with the groans of pain, the shrieks of war, horrors of prison, and the ravings of insanity. There lie all the wrecks of business, politics, trade, vice and crime , but, they are only the Edenic conditions, which man has been sloughing off, that he might learn what was indeed the knowledge, which is his because he obeyed the heavenly vision, and ate of the fruit of tree through listening to the voice that said, "Ye shall be as God knowing good and evil!" The result is worth the cost, The Heaven of individuality "is not won at a single bound." The consciousness of the power to choose and to learn of himself through choice, needed eons to bring it forth. It has come , and the New Century opens with this new proclamation of Liberty: I am Spirit, and I am conscious of my divinity. The promise of Wisdom, under guise of serpent, is fulfilled, and now I "shall not surely die!"

The bloody sweat of Gethsemane purifies the flesh so the light within shines outward upon the path of unfoldment, and Man cries: "Not this limited, walled expression of Eden, but the limitless expression of thought is mine;" then freed as a bird from its prison, the last Emancipation has come! The last enemy is conquered! And the freed Soul cries, "Death is swallowed up in Victory!" Such is the New Thought interpreted as the New Emancipation. Man has eaten the "Last Supper" with the