18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.

Philip 3:1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.

2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.

3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

4 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:

5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;

6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.

8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,

9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made comformable unto his death:

11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.

12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

CHAPTER 7

EXTRACTS FROM "THE UPANISHADS, WHICH HAVE BEEN TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH.

"The Upanishads are ancient treatises, written in Sanskrit," the most ancient language known, containing the theosophy, or divine knowledge, of the Vedas.

"The word veda means knowledge or science." Theosophy is Divine Wisdom.

These most ancient books tell of a people in an advanced state of civilization. "They are grand outpourings of religious enthusiasm, raising the mind out of the chaos of ceremony and the metaphysical and philological word-spinning of the schools," and lead one to exclaim, How inseparable are the SIMPLE and the PROFOUND!

The Bible as we have it to day, was compiled about four hundred years ago. The most ancient and dateless books of the "Vedas," exhibit some of the most beautiful and advanced thoughts which now appear in the Bible, although known and written ages before the Bible, and yet telling some of the same things or thoughts, in the beautiful language of the Sanskrit. It is unknown to us who wrote the ninety-first Psalm and also many other Psalms and Chapters of the Bible, but it is as immaterial as it is true. The names of the writers of the books of the Vedas are unknown to mortals, which is a very lovely thought indeed, especially in contrast with, and in view of, the contention of certain personalities of to day, who quarrel about the origin and claim the credit, for that which they themselves have derived, instead of originated or discovered. TRUTH is eternal and universal, and there is in reality but one AUTHOR, viz. GOD or GOOD, and no discoverer. So called authors do not originate truth. They have nothing and know nothing of themselves, but what is derived, and are mere instruments, channels, vehicles, mortal persons, or scribes. What they know of Truth and Love, it is their duty to use unselfishly, as best they can, for the benefit and greatest good of all the needy and dear people or mankind, as JESUS did; and doing this they have only done that which is their duty

to do; failing in this, however, they are selfish, unjust, dishonest, unkind, and perhaps some are even as fraudulent extortioners as are on record, and have charged two or three dollars for books which as a material product cost about fifty cents. Is not this rather unchristian and unscientific? The credit for all good is due alone to GOD, the eternal CAUSE, SOURCE and EFFECT of all good. Read Mat. 19:16-17. Luke 17:9-10.

The following few extracts can be largely extended, and are given in evidence of the christian knowledge, eternity, and universality, of Truth and Love Divine and Scientific.

"The Upanishads, volume one, begins by laying down the doctrine of action without attachment to result."

"What people slay the Self" is a poetical expression for those who are dead to the Self, for the Self is deathless and cannot be slain."

"Who knoweth that all things are Self; for him what grief existeth, what delusion, when [once] he gazeth on the oneness? He hath pervaded all, radiant [and] simple, spotless, pure, incorporate, by sin untainted. [He] the seer, the lord of mind, the allembracer, self-existent;"

"Who knoweth being and non-being both, together with non-being he crosseth over death, by being immortality he reacheth."

"The teacher declares his task finished, and adds what are the elements of the sacred science."

"Let all the virtues in the sacred lore repose in me, who find my sole delight in that [one] Self."

"What power is in your "I"-ness then?-He said: Why I can blow away all things on earth!"

"Who knows this thus, indeed, destroying sin, in endless highest heaven-world he stands immovable, immovable he stands."

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'Hospitality is one of the chief institutions of Vedic India." "All are one; he who sees differently will suffer rebirth, until he learn the truth."

"In heaven-world the people have immunity from death."

"The right and the sweet come unto a mortal; the wise sifts the two and sets them apart."

"In the midst of unwisdom abiding, self-wise, themselves sages believing, around and about they meander, they circle deluded about, blind led by the blind."

"The future is never revealed to the fool, unmindful, wealth-glamourbefooled. This world is [the one, and] beyond there is none! With such a conceit, he into my power comes over and over again.'

"Ah! fixed in truth art thou!"

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by means of the practice of supreme at-one-ment, on God the wise dwelling, joy and grief he abandons."

"The singer is not born, nor dies He ever; He came not anywhence nor anything was He. Unborn, eternal, everlasting, this, ancient; unslain he remains though the body be slain. If slayer thinks he slays, if slain thinks he is slain, both these know naught; this slays not nor is slain.'

"Know the Self as the lord of the chariot, the body as only the car; know also the reason as driver, the reins as the impulses [too.] The senses they say are the horses, the objects for them are the roads; Self, senses, and impulse united, the taster the wise ones have named."

"Aye, the man who hath reason for driver, holding tight unto impulse's reins, he reacheth the end of the journey, that home of the godhead supreme."

"That, soundless, [and] touchless, [and] formless, beyond all exhaustion, past tasting, eternal [and] scentless, without end or beginning, transcending the Great, ever stable-That knowing, man Death's mouth escapes."

"This honey-eater whoso knoweth-the living self-as close at hand, lord of what was and of what will be, from it no more he seeks to hide."

"From death to death he goes who here below sees seeming difference."

"As water rained down in a pass runs over the hill-tops; so he who perceives them as different, runs after phenomenal things."