“When you tread under foot the covering of shame, and when two is made one, and the male with the female, neither male nor female.”

“How be it, he who longs to be rich is like a man who drinketh sea water:  the more he drinketh the more thirsty he becomes, and never leaves off drinking till he perish.”

“Blessed is he who also fasts that he may feed the poor, for it is more blessed to give than to receive.”

“Let thy alms sweat in thy hand until thou knowest to whom thou givest.”

It is not probable that any one who reads these words will make the mistake of assuming that Jesus advised us to inquire into the character or the antecedents of the one on whom we are to bestow a gift.  Neither are we expected to ascertain whether he belongs to our “lodge” or not.

If you give alms as though to an inferior; if you assume a self-righteous mind; if you give for hope of reward; then withhold your gift.  In fact, unless you can realize that you are giving as though to yourself, keep your gift.  It will do neither you nor the one receiving it, any good whatsoever.

“Good things must come.  He is blessed through whom they come.”

This presages the coming of the kingdom of love on earth, as a foregone conclusion.  Yet, those who lend themselves consciously, as servants of the cause—­helpers in the establishment of the new order—­are blessed.

“Love covereth a multitude of sins, so be not joyful save when you look upon your brother’s countenance in love.”

“Let not the sun go down upon your wrath, for the greatest of crimes is this:  if a man shall sadden his brother’s spirit.”

“For our possessions are in heaven; therefore, sons of men, purchase unto yourselves by these transitory things which are not yours, what is yours, and shall not pass away.”

For the Lord has said in a mystery:  “Unless ye make the right as the left; the left as the right; the top as the bottom; and the front as the backward, ye shall not know the kingdom of God.”

“Keep the flesh holy and the seal undented, that ye may receive eternal life.”

“If a man shall sadden his brother’s spirit.”  This indeed is the greatest of all crimes, because out of man’s inhumanity to man springs all the sin and sorrow of the world.

“Unless ye make the right as the left; the top as the bottom; the front as the backward.”  The meaning should be clear enough and the words are worthy of the illumined mind of Jesus of Nazareth.

The great sin is separation; segregation; “My and mine” as opposed to “Thee and thine.”  To the truly illumined one there can be no “mine,” as distinct from another’s.

The sinner is no less my brother than is the saint.  The beggar is as dear to me as is the rich man.  Every man is a king.  There are no “chosen of God” to the one who has entered cosmic consciousness.

“For our possessions are in heaven.  Use, therefore, the things of earth, while ye are living in the flesh (sons of men), in such a way and to such purpose that they will not enchain you in the maze of manifestation, and thereby require that you postpone your claim to immortality.”