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and beautiful in earth is crystallized in that "Diadem of the Earth," and all that is glorious is crystallized and embodied within that "Pearl of Heaven."

Ainyahita represents every woman, and she represents every man, in principle; therefore we may see every woman as an "Ainyahita." And inasmuch as man, especially in his freed and conquered state, represents the virgin soul, he also has a just claim to Ainyahita. She represents a dream that is symbolized for a Great Truth.

Having accomplished the work in the mind and the body, then, you may soar to the very heights, and there with discerning eye from the loftiest heights, you may perceive the tiniest part of the earth, representing the intuitive power, perfect in mind, freed in soul. Then that great intuitive power speaks to us through the greater. It will reveal to us the Living Word of God. You are that Living Word, and the reason that the eternal Chrystos has been worshipped throughout the ages is because He became manifest in the Living Word. Therefore, He, the Perfect Man, she the blessed Perfect Woman, bearing to each and everyone that vital message of courage and upliftment, that nothing be withheld from her in that glorified exalted state.

It is a glorified message when the awakened woman may know that she may join hands

with that awakened soul and spirit, that she may come into her own. And thus, when uplifted, she shall glorify her brother, man, and all the world shall be uplifted and the Kingdom of God be established here upon this earth. And that is the blessed hour for which we wait, the glorious dawn of the new era. And it is for you and for me to be among those blest ones who may usher in that Glorious Era-the birth of the Transparent Race.

"Spenta Ainyahita,

Favorite of Lord Mazda,
Before Thee pleading,

Send Leaves of Healing-
Spenta Ainyahita."

HEREDITY

Prof. Lambert, of the department of biology of Colorado College, states:

"The conditions of the human race in the future will depend, as it has in the past, upon the admixture of race characteristics.'

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He declared that the question of heredity was, perhaps, in the long run the most important of all problems facing the world today.

Three great races, he said, have determined the history of Europe. One of these, the Nordic, is represented in its purest form by

the Scandinavians and to a large extent by the English and Scotch. They have been characterized in all ages by a genius for exploration and rule. They are a long-headed stock.

Another great race is the Mediterranean, which Prof. Lambert said was pre-eminent in literature and idealism. Socrates and Plato represent the highest products of this civilization. Contrasted with these two types, which have led the world in ancient and in modern times, stand the square-headed Alpine race, with its low standards of life, its brutality and its lack of ideals. The Europe of today has been created by a combining, or clashing, of these three types.

The most admirable combination seems to have been a mixture of the Nordic strain into a Mediterranean stock. Cæsar and Cicero are examples of such a mixture. When the Nordic stock has clashed with the Alpine, one of two things has happened. Either the Alpine blood has become predominant and the fine qualities of the Nordic have disappeared, or else the Nordic folk have preserved their integrity by the formation of an aristocracy which refused to mingle with the predominant Alpine blood. The mixture of these two races is shown in the modern Germany. Goethe and the great intellectual leaders of Germany have been of the Nordic stock, while the masses have become increas

ingly Alpine, both in blood and in characteristics. This retrogression, Prof. Lambert declared, constitutes the real tragedy of Germany.

Many scientists, according to the speaker, are very pessimistic as to the outcome of race admixture, and they freely predict the eventual passing of the great Nordic race. While not subscribing to these fears, he pointed out that in America, particularly, the problem is not alone the implanting of ideals into the great mixture of races that form our population, but also some attempt at the developing of desirable social types. Such selection and development cannot, of course, be enforced by law; but through the spread of knowledge, they can undoubtedly be introduced to a great extent as working principles in our national development.

The laws of heredity are, in a large measure, known to scientists since the work of Mendel, some fifty years ago. By means of this knowledge it is quite possible to indicate with a considerable degree of accuracy the ultimate results of a given union. Prof. Lambert elaborated this point with an interesting series of charts, illustrating especially the way in which feeble-mindedness, musical talent, near-sightedness and inventive genius are inherited. The practical application of the Mendelian laws to race admixture con

stitute one of the great problems of the future.

Our great efforts in the immediate future, and, perhaps, always, must be toward the development of outstanding leaders and toward the fostering of leadership wherever it appears in particularly gifted families, through wise marriage which will tend to perpetuate those great qualities. Though he was not advocating eugenics, Prof. Lambert declared, his doctrine did lean in that direction. He was rather advocating the kind of wise selection which aristocracies in all ages have tended to make. Perhaps, he concluded, after ages of development the average of intelligence and character may reach so high that we do not need great leaders, but the race has a long way to travel before it can hope to attain this end.

SPONTANEOUS THOT WAVES

Moral qualities often reach farther than talents.

A man may reign but not govern-he may use the pen and still lack good judgment.

Instability is born of imagination which sows the seed of vice and crime.

Unfinished thought waves lead to unhealthy imagination and, being void of creative energy, breed either despondency or frenzy.

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