When Christ said, "Be ye perfect even as your Father in Heaven is perfect," it was because that perfection is possible, the quality being the same. One beam of pure white light is precisely as perfect in quality as the whole white light of the sun's rays; and, as the white light, the Soul, in its essential nature, is always pure. The per-fectness of God is the perfectness of the Soul.

The quality of the truth is the same in the Soul as in God; you may not have Infinite truth, but you may have the clear whiteness of truth, and when tested by all the powers of the Soul, the quality of that light is like the Light of Deity. Perfection is quality, not quantity. If an artist says, that is a perfect picture, he means the tones, tints, and coloring form harmony, are all perfect as related to the whole, no parte are imperfect. If a musician says, that musical composition is perfect, he means in all that relates to harmony, in all that relates to the theme, in the adjustment of sound and the association of ideas, the composition is perfect As God is Infinite in love, the Soul has love in a finite degree. As God is Infinite in wisdom, that attribute is found in the Soul in a finite degree, but perfect in quality. As God is Infinite in knowledge, that knowledge is found in the Soul in a finite degree. As you may see reflected in the drop of dew the whole starry firmament, so in the Soul, in a miniature degree, are all the qualities of Deity. . "Be ye perfect" is at once a Divine command and prophecy.

No son or planet is so remote from the central sun that the smallest vibration does not reach that most distant planet; so there is no existence or expression of life so alienated from God's love, that His love does not include the whole, pervade the whole, and reach to the uttermost. As the most central sun of which the mind can conceive is the light of all other Buns and systems moving around it, bo, in the Infinite, God's Love is the Light of all Souls.

Or, to transpose the foregoing, as light is the cause of life in matter, and the light of the sun is the manifestation of the method of all generic being in solar systems through motion, so Love in the Divine Consciousness is the light of the Soul, and whatever relates to the Soul is governed by tins Infinite Love, as whatever relates to matter is governed by light The state of the Soul is now what we are considering; this divine unit, or entity, being uncreate, there are no new Souls added to the universe, and there are no Souls taken from the universe. All Souls having being forever, there can be no change as regards their being, their relation to other Souls, the number of them; nor can what constitutes the usual conditions of time, and space, and sense, affect them or their relations to the Deity. There is no time, nor apace, nor matter in the Infinite, because time, and apace, and matter are relative. The Soul in its pure and primal nature has nothing to do with time, nor space, nor matter, but only with eternity and that which belongs to eternity. Whatever shall hereinafter be expressed concerning what the Soul does must not be mistaken for what the Soul is.

The Soul is a revelation unto outward nature. No external thing can reveal God. The Soul alone, being of the nature of God, perceives God. Nothing can teach that there is God. All things may illustrate it; teaching comes from knowledge, possession; and that which recognizes God is from the Soul. As consciousness is in the Soul, so every attribute expressed by consciousness is in the Soul As yon most go to the Soul for the source of all intelligence, bo you must go to the Soul ultimately for all that promises expression.

Herein we deal with the Soul in its absoluteness. We are not dealing with time and space and sense at all now. We have not yet arrived at matter. If it is impossible for you to think of the Soul thus, do not try to think, simply perceive; for not all that is thinkable is true; that is most true which you can not speak nor think, but can perceive.

Soul alone can perceive Soul; it is to that nature that all these remarks are addressed: the Soul that does understand, the life within that does perceive, the love, wisdom, and truth that do acknowledge; and this, in every human mind capable of receiving these utterances, must have some acknowledged power in some portion of your being.

Bear in mind that that which is meant by the innermost, the most sacred, the Holy of Holies, as revealed in the ancient letter through the Egyptian lore, was no outward place - not even the outward symbol of the sphere, nor the double triangle, which is the Egyptian, Masonic, and Kabalistic symbol of God, the points of which solve the problems of the universe, was literal - but the innermost state or condition which, when perceived, must form the consciousness in human life of the presence of God. Whatever be the name of that state of which we have spoken, like the real name of God, it has never been syllabled on earth; but it is enough to know that the Soul of man is the innermost consciousness of the individual life, and that which the finite entity expresses, and which is revealed in the life of the Angel, will hereafter be made known.