perversion; and sometimes by glorious promises of the illimitable possibilities residing in this wonderful power if used in the right way; and thus it is that "All Scripture is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness" (2 Tim. 3:16).

All this proceeds from the initial assumption with which the Bible starts regarding man, that he is the reproduction in individuality of that which God is in Universality. Start with this assumption, and the whole Bible works out logically. Deny it, and the Book becomes nothing but a mass of inconsistencies and contradictions. The value of the Bible as a storehouse of knowledge and a guide into Life depends entirely on our attitude with regard to its fundamental proposition.

But this proposition contains in itself the Affirmation of our Liberty; and the Gospel preached by Jesus amounts simply to this, that if anyone realises himself as the reproduction, in conscious individuality, of the same principles which the Law of the Old Testament bids us recognise in the Divine Mind, he will thereby enter upon an unlimited inheritance of Life and Liberty. But to do this we must realise the Divine image in ourselves on all lines.

Consistency

We cannot enter upon a full life of Joy and Liberty by trying to realise the Divine image along one line only. If we seek to reproduce the Creative Power without its correlatives of Wisdom and Love, we