The beautiful and sublime truths imparted by the Harmonial Dispensation will be promulgated hereafter by lips more touched with the Promethean fire, more blessed with powers of inspired eloquence. My mission is to utter in plain language new lessons of spiritual progress and to enforce old lessons in more practical and soul-exalting form. The Hebrew notions concerning a Redeemer to come originated—as we have seen—in a genuine spiritual perception. It was the germ of a perfect truth that in the great future mankind would realise that it was full of imperfections and weakness, that it needed a saving power, a redemptive personage, an uplifting energy, a purifying principle. What was first a mere speculation became established as a positive fact. In the spiritual history of the world the great law-giver Moses lives as an interior reality, related for ever to the spiritual history of our race. So is Jesus a spiritual fact. Whether both are historical personalities is of little moment. The essentials of all things are saved by the fundamental principles of Harmonial Philosophy, the beauty and catholicity of which is seen by its free and fearless sounding of all deeps in human history, as a consequence of which it accepts the vital reality in all religious creeds, for there abides in all a sovereign and eternal truth. The root of these principles is in reason, which always implies harmony. It. is much more than a
mere power to think and talk logically, more than the power of grasping external facts: it discerns also essential principles by which alone the significance of facts can be comprehended. It begins at the heart of things, with fundamental Nature, and thence proceeds outwardly, for every man of reason and every woman of intuition knows that God is in the deepest heart, an inexhaustible fountain of love as well as of wisdom, expanding through all that illimitable structure which is called the physical universe.
Now, God's method of living in the universe is the method of reason in mankind. Rooted in intuition, starting up with the lightning flash of thought and often with an inexpressible conviction of what is and is not true—such is reason, a perfect grouping of all the elements and attributes which make up human mind. We know that mind has an internal desire for knowledge, while in virtue of reason therein it seeks consistent knowledge and utility arising therefrom. What is it in man that is thus athirst for knowing? It is that harmony of all faculties and attributes in the human soul which we call wisdom. The Author of this harmony is also the Author of wisdom. It is reached by the axis of the human mind coming to a parallel in the plane of its orbit—so to speak—with reference to the harmony of Deity. The unity of man's spirit with the Divine Spirit is felt instantly when the fulness of wisdom is attained. This is the new birth—the attunement of our inner nature to the harmony of eternal principles. Wisdom penetrates through the physical to those profound depths wherein God abides. Wisdom begins where science comes to a pause. The world's true redeemer is wisdom, because it passes through the vesture to that which is essential, to the spirit through the body, to the life within the law, the science within the substance. It recognises as a central principle the balance of things, the equilibrium of forces, the adaptation of substances to one another
throughout the whole system. This central law is justice and the highest expression of Infinite Mind. Man is an image thereof, alike without and within, from hands and feet to the duality of the physical brain, from the brain to the inward qualities and the balance between reason and love. So also Deity and Nature are counterparts, the wisdom and love which produce that loving justice which is the best practical definition of the world's true Redeemer, and of which wisdom is the apprehending and applying faculty.