of their relation to the central, or spiritual, principle to constitute the realisation of the true Divine Sonship of Man in which no element of this threefold being --- body, soul, or spirit --- is alien from unity with "the Father". This, then, was the significance of the New Name given to Jacob. He had wrestled with the Divine until the light had begun to dawn upon him, and he thus acquired the right to a name which should correctly describe what he had now become. Formerly he had been Jacob --- i.e. Yakub, a name derived from the root "Yak" or "One". This signifies the third stage of apprehension of the Divine problem which immediately precedes the final discovery of the great secret of the Trinity-in-Unity of Being. We realise the ONE-ness of the Universal Divine Principle, though we have not yet realised its Threefold nature both in ourselves and in the Universal.

Abraham, Isaac, and Evolution

But there are two other stages before this, the first of which is represented by Abraham and the second by Isaac. It should be noticed that the two syllables "Ra" and "Is" reappear in these names, the former indicative, as we have seen, of the masculine element of Spirit, and the latter of the feminine, while Jacob, or simple unity is indicative of the neuter.

If we look through the history of Abraham we find the masculine element especially predominant in it. He is the father of the nations that are to spring