rule of all science. The universal principles can never act contrary to themselves, whether on the spiritual or the physical level, and therefore unless we are prepared by study of the Law and obedience to it, we cannot make use of these principles at any level; but granted such preparation on our part and the Law becomes our humble servant, obeying us in every particular on the one condition that we first obey it.

It is thus that modern science has made us masters of a world of power which, for all practical purposes, did not exist in the times of the Tudors; and, transferring this truth to the highest and innermost, to the very principle of Life itself, the meaning becomes plain. Because the Life-Principle is not something separate from ourselves, but is the Supporter of our individuality, therefore the more we understand and obey its great generic Law, the more fully shall we be able to make any specific applications of it that we like --- but on one condition: we must be washed. "If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me", were the words of the Master. He spoke as the conscious mouthpiece of the Universal Spirit, and this must therefore be taken as the personal utterance of the Spirit itself; and seen in this light, the meaning becomes clear: we must first be cleansed by the Spirit.

Supreme Symbol of Unity

And here we meet with another symbolical fact of the highest importance. The dramatisation of the final truth of spiritual knowledge took place after