daznan is the religion that stands back of every religion," and St. Augustine, the heathen church father, concluded that the true religion existed before the coming of Christ. Personally, it matters not as to schools so long as every one of them remains within the boundary lines of decency and they at least demonstrate their belief by demonstration. We must ever bear in mind that one single demonstration is far more stubborn than a thousand arguments. Let the expounders of churchianity, claiming Christ, live the life as taught by the Savior. Let them follow the commandments and show an example worthy to be followed in the daily walks of life. Let them treat saint or sinner as did the Savior, every ready to offer a helping hand, even to an enemy. And above all things, let them have no fear of contagion, poison or disease, rather asking the Lord to heal their iniquities than running to the apothecary shop. Let them take the lead in selling all their possessions, and give of their substance toward reclaiming the earth, that the poor may come into their birthright. So long as these wolves in sheep's clothing can not make good their claims we shall have to treat them with silent contempt and follow the counsel of the Savior lest we partake of their sins. Mazdaznan is sufficient for me and for every thinker. Mazdaznan has brot me to the source of light where I may draw

upon the storehouse of wisdom according to my needs. Long have I wandered in the weary abyss of uncertainties made by the breed of hell, but I shall not hold them to account. Their own falsehoods daily condemn them and shall meet out to them even as they sow, for "what man soweth that he shall reap."

I desire to add my testimony to the message of Mazdaznan as a living witness of its ceaseless efficacy in healing sickness, sin and sorrow, and of the power it imparts to the mind, which sets man free from sin and poverty. After having sifted down all of the teachings of the world. I have found in Mazdaznan the great truth: "Stand alone and mind thy own." And tho by nature I am not religious, I recognize the two great pillars of the Mazdaznan structure: "The Will of the Lord is the Law of Holiness," and "Holiness is the Best of All Good." My good health and all I have accumulated of this world's goods, I owe to Mazdaznan, while my only desire is that the world at large may be given sense and power to rid itself of the octopus, the beast spoken of by St. John, so as to have the Kingdom of Heaven vouchsafed to us in the Lord's Prayer. Be it so.

-Nat. Sinclair.

Collectors and unwelcome visitors make

frequent calls.

Rubaiya

To be read carefully and in the light of our tumultuous days, reading between the lines in search of the spirit revealing an interpretation.

I can't agree, Oh God, with Thy Decree,
As no man on this Earth from sin is free.
When I do ill, Thy Law' will punish me,
What's then the difference 'tween me and
Thee?

To neither Saints nor Sages of the past,
Nor those yet forth to come at last,

Nor what is writ in books or said of them, Has God revealed His Truth, or proved man lost.

If I have pried into Thy mystery,
It was to fathom Thee-Eternity.
But if I did against Thy Will-let be

Thine Mercy greater than my sins to Thee.

If Life, a Secret shrouded in a veil,
Appears to us, while conscious; then we'll fail
To fathom it, when-void of senses in

The grasp of death-we nothing can unveil.

In madness and despair men search for Thee, Wealth cannot find Thee, neither poverty. All speak Thy Name-still none have ears to hear,

Though Omnipresent-none has eyes to see.

Since Fortune shuns the man of sense and brain,

And fools alone good luck may claim,

Then drink, until all reason from you flees, And Good Luck links you to its magic chain.

Invested with bought ranks-the Wealthy hold

This Life's great joy to lie in land and gold; But those who stake their lives for Truth

alone

Are soon forgotten, or for nothing sold.

What's it to Thee, that I have come below? What profits Thee, when from this Earth I

go?

If Thou didst know, what Life I here would lead,

Why have me come here? Why compel me

go?

* *

Of all the men on earth I learned to know,
Two kinds have found felicity below;
The One, who fathomed Life's Great Secret-
and

The Other, who no word of it did know.

God may reveal Himself to us alone

In thought, in word, in deed, undone or done. And while no school may hear of us, we hear Their cry: "I'm saved, I'm saved!"-Oh, simpleton!

They say: "With endless Hope the very stone
That in the earthly bosom rests unknown,
May change at last into a Ruby red";
Of course, with its own blood alone.