That Life and Love and Joy unutterable are the reward of the seeker; and that there is no one and only path.
All systems; all creeds; all methods that are formulated and upheld by altruism are righteous, and that the Real is the spiritual—the external is a dream from which the world is awakening to the consciousness of the spiritual man—the atman—the Self that is ageless; birthless; deathless—divine. On all sides are evidences that the race is entering upon this new consciousness.
So many are weary with the strife and struggle and noise of the sense-conscious life.
The illusions of possessions which break in our hands as we grasp them; of empty titles of so-called "honor," builded upon prowess in war; the feverish race after wealth—cold as the marble palaces which it builds to shut in its worshippers—all these things are becoming skeleton-like and no longer deceive those who are even remotely discerning the new birth.
The new heraldry will have for its badge of royalty "Love and Service to my
Fellow Beings," displacing the "Dieu et mon Droit" of the ancient ideal.
The Dawn is here. Are you awake?
"—In the heart of To-day is the word of To-morrow.
The Builders of Joy are the Children of Sorrow."
Jesus The Last Great Initiate
By EDOUARD SCHURE
Mr. Schure in this volume, has done much to strengthen the belief that Jesus was an Essene, in whom a Messianic consciousness was awakened by special initiation.