licity, the same self-sacrifice,
the same humility, love, and peace both lived and preached by them. They
taught the same eternal Principles, the realization of which destroys all
evil. Those who have been hailed and worshiped as the saviors of mankind
are manifestations of the Great impersonal Law, and being such, were free
from passion and prejudice, and having no opinions, and no special letter
of doctrine to preach and defend, they never sought to convert and to
proselytize. Living in the highest Goodness, the supreme Perfection, their
sole object was to uplift mankind by manifesting that Goodness in thought,
word, and deed. They stand between man the personal and God the impersonal,
and serve as exemplary types for the salvation of self-enslaved mankind.

Men who are immersed in self, and who cannot comprehend the Goodness that
is absolutely impersonal, deny divinity to all saviors except their own,
and thus introduce personal hatred and doctrinal controversy, and, while
defending their own particular views with passion, look upon each other as
being heathens or infidels, and so render null and void, as far as their
lives are concerned, the unselfish beauty and holy grandeur of the lives
and teachings of their own Masters. Truth cannot be limited; it can never
be the special prerogative of any man, school, or nation, and when
personality steps in, Truth is lost.

The glory alike of the saint, the sage, and the savior is this,--that he
has realized the most profound lowliness, the most sublime unselfishness;
having given up all, even his own personality, all his works are holy and
enduring, for they are freed from every taint of self. He gives, yet never
thinks of receiving; he works without regretting the past or anticipating
the future, and never looks for reward.

When the farmer has tilled and dressed his land and put in the seed, he
knows that he has done all that he can possibly do, and that now he must
trust to the elements, and wait patiently for the course of time to bring
about the harvest, and that no amount of expectancy on his part will affect
the result. Even so, he who has realized Truth goes forth as a sower of the
seeds of goodness, purity, love and peace, without expectancy, and never
looking for results, knowing that there is the Great Over-ruling Law which
brings about its own harvest in due time, and which is alike the source of
preservation and destruction.

Men, not understanding the divine