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INVOCATION

Breathe out, breathe out, O Savior of Liberty, The beauteous gospel of liberty upon all

minds,

That with understanding we may breathe with intelligence born without fear, nursed without favor,

A free distributor of knowledge to all men. At times the sense of duality still clings to my form, as if a reality,

Until the sun rises within my soul and sheds. its rays gorgeously into

My deluded manifestation, revealing repeatedly like the sunbeams unto the dawn,

That the light exists everlastingly,

That I am one in thee and thou in me-inseparable.

Rise, yea, rise to the very zenith of understanding,

That humanity may awake to a fuller conception of what it means

To be mentally and physically free.

To bring forth from out of our innermost the Savior of Liberty,

Born again for man, conceived by the Virgin of pure mind and undefiled,

To proclaim the message of a country free.
And may that blessed name of liberty
Take flight through the world upon that ce-
lestial morn

And lead us to our birthright, which gives a heritage to all.

As the hour of midnight, the end of oppression draws near.

May I be ready to carefully collect every crumb of past uselessness

And whirl them into the furnace of the mind, And consume them by the fire that burns by the love divine.

Standing alone upon my feet, it dawns upon me that in looking backward,

I'm just taking heed of the past, and remember it no more,

For it holds nothing for me

But the moldering of dead bones of untimely remembrances.

I am to welcome the day of Liberty,

And give praise each day after the manner of the All Loving,

And thus thru life express the purpose of manifestation,

Recognizing the rights of my brother,

Who, like unto myself, is the reflection of the

Self-Same-Radiance.

No longer shall I hide my light of understanding under a bushel,

But fearlessly shed broadcast the ideas of justice

To brighten the paths of others,

Recognizing their rights to do the same,

That their lamps that yet burn dimly may be turned higher,

And give praise and glory unto Thee, who illuminates the world of worlds.

Already the message of this gospel is being felt, as it moves upon the depths of ignorance and oppression.

And it is being breathed by all that breathe the breath of life.

Permeating the veins of all with hope, truth, peace.

That love shall reign.

Thus liberty alone shall be the incentive, Leading the intellectual armies of love, Which are the only true missionaries of the world, born of good endeavor.

Hasten the day, reveal the hour, I come to Thee. Be it so.

And unto this end let all things prosper.

-0. Z. A. H.

SAVING THE POWER

As Mazdaznan we welcome the tactics used by the administration. It is not for us to tell whether such workings used are in accordance to revelation from God or revealed thru the intelligence of Man. We glory in the method used, for "God moves in most mysterious ways His wonders to perform." Furthermore, every end achieved is but the means for the furtherance of better ends. It is enuf for us to be able to see thru it all and in it all-Mazdaznan Principles.

We lay no stress upon the name Mazdaznan, no more than we do on any label attached to goods calculated to meet the demands of time. Our slogan is: "Not label, but principle, is what counts."

Of interest to us are the race questions, be they the jet-black or yellow peril. We advocate and continue to encourage government control of commodities, necessities, common carriers, lines of communication, equal distribution of labor, sound coast protection equally distributed upon all sides of the continent. We want labor and talent to be honorably remunerated with equal share in

profits, be such labor considered skilled or unskilled, for "A laborer is worthy of his hire." We still hold that in consideration of the progress made in the past the shortening of hours of labor is justified to six, to four, and lastly to two hours, where every soundminded and -bodied man, woman and child, irrespective of class consciousness, is called upon thru useful labor, to add a rightful share to the wealth of the community.

The simple life advocated by Mazdaznan is no longer scoffed at. It is universally recognized as the only path to wealth. Altho laughed at we do not laugh in turn for aristocratic etiquette and finer sense forbids laughing at the ignorance displayed by the uncultured. The better class, better informed and better principled, readily follow Mazdaznan Principles, altho but few have learnt to give credit where credit is due. Still, we feel highly honored to be copied and imitated, as plagiarism always testifies to the absolute truth, worth and value of the original.

You may not care for the label, but you are compelled to take the goods; there is no

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