, rather, such water
cannot but intensify the burning of the flame, and such blasts cannot but
ensure the preservation of the lamp, were ye to observe with the eye of
discernment, and walk in the way of God's holy will and pleasure....

And when the days of Moses were ended, and the light of Jesus, shining
forth from the Day Spring of the Spirit, encompassed the world, all the
people of Israel arose in protest against Him. They clamored that He Whose
advent the Bible had foretold must needs promulgate and fulfil the laws of
Moses, whereas this youthful Nazarene, who laid claim to the station of
the divine Messiah, had annulled the laws of divorce and of the sabbath
day--the most weighty of all the laws of Moses. Moreover, what of the signs
of the Manifestation yet to come? These people of Israel are even unto the
present day still expecting that Manifestation which the Bible hath
foretold! How many Manifestations of Holiness, how many Revealers of the
light everlasting, have appeared since the time of Moses, and yet Israel,
wrapt in the densest veils of satanic fancy and false imaginings, is still
expectant that the idol of her own handiwork will appear with such signs
as she herself hath conceived! Thus hath God laid hold of them for their
sins, hath extinguished in them the spirit of faith, and tormented them
with the flames of the nethermost fire. And this for no other reason
except that Israel refused to apprehend the meaning of such words as have
been revealed in the Bible concerning the signs of the coming Revelation.
As she never grasped their true significance, and, to outward seeming,
such events never came to pass, she, therefore, remained deprived of
recognizing the beauty of Jesus and of beholding the Face of God. And they
still await His coming! From time immemorial even unto this day, all the
kindreds and peoples of the earth have clung to such fanciful and unseemly
thoughts, and thus have deprived themselves of the clear waters streaming
from the springs of purity and holiness....

To them that are endowed with understanding, it is clear and manifest
that, when the fire of the love of Jesus consumed the veils of Jewish
limitations, and His authority was made apparent and partially enforced,
He, the Revealer of the unseen Beauty, addressing one day His disciples,
referred unto His passing, and, kindling in their hearts the fire of
bereavement, said unto them: "I go away and come again unto you." And in
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