orange affects the value of the fruit. It is this inner truth that we are seeking, and if we at all realise the Master's statement that the Kingdom is within, superficial discrepancies will not present any difficulties to us.

The Law of Three

We see, then, in the typical history of the three Patriarchs the announcement of the three great principles into which all forms of manifestation may be analysed: the Masculine, Positive, or generating principle; the Feminine, Receptive, or formative principle; and the Neuter or Mathematical principle which, by determining the proportional relations between the other two, gives rise to the principle of variety and multiplicity.

Their successive statement in the symbolical history indicates the need for the preparatory study of each in detail if we would arrive at the True Light; and it is precisely the discovery that this separate study is by itself insufficient that brings us to the point where we have to wrestle in the darkness with the Divine Angel until the day dawns. We must unite the three principles into a single Unity, and thus learn to form the name "Israel"; and in so doing we discover that it has now become our own name, for we find that the kingdom of heaven --- the realm of eternal principles --- is within us, and that therefore whatever we discover there is that which we ourselves are. Our wrestling ceases: the Divine Wrestler has put his name upon us, and the day is beginning