act up to we do not really believe; and the power which will overcome all difficulties is confidence in the Eternal Life-in-ourself, which is the individualised expression of the ONE I AM that spoke to Moses at the burning bush.

The Burning Bush

For what is meant by the burning bush? Surely, as we see the refugee feeding Jethro's flock in the solitude of the desert and gazing on the Fire enveloping the bush without consuming it, we realise that here again we are turning over the pages of a sacred picture-book which first attracts the little child with its vivid scenes painted in glowing colours of a wonderful Eastern life in the dim far-back ages, which prompts him as he grows older to ask the meaning of the pictures, and which at last reveals it to him in the discovery that they are pictures neither of the East nor of the West, not of this century nor of that, but of all time and of all place, and that he himself is the central figure of them all.

The Bible is the picture-book of the evolution of Man, and this particular picture of the "burning bush" is that of human individuality in its unity with the all-enveloping Fire of the Universal Spirit of Life. The "bush" represents "Wood", which under its Greek name of "hulé", we recognise as the generic term for "Matter"; and the "burning bush" thus signifies the union of Spirit and Matter into a single whole, that perfectness of manifested Being in which the lower