resent stage of existence. What further
developments may follow, who shall say? for we must remember that the
end of one series is always the commencement of another--that is the
doctrine of the Octave. But this is far enough to look forward in all
conscience. As to _when_ the completion of our present stage of
evolution will be attained, it is impossible even to hazard a guess; but
that the _individual_ attainment of such a Resurrection is not
dependent on any particular date in the world's history, is clearly the
teaching of Scripture. When Martha said to Jesus that she knew her
brother would rise again "at the last day," he ignored the question of
"the last day," and said "I am the Resurrection and the Life" (St. John
xi, 25); and similarly St. Paul puts it forward as a thing to be
attained (Ph. iii, 15). It is not a resurrection _of_ the dead but _from
among_ the dead that St. Paul is aiming at--not an "anastasis ton
nekron," but an "anastasis _ek_ ton nekron."

Doubtless there are other passages of Scripture which speak of a general
resurrection, which to some will be a resurrection to condemnation (St.
John v, 29), a resurrection to shame and everlasting contempt (Dan. xii,
2). This is a subject upon which I will not attempt to enter--I have a
great many things to learn, and this is one of them; but if the Bible
statements regarding resurrection are to be taken as a whole, these
passages cannot be passed over without notice. On the other hand the
Bible statements regarding _individual_ resurrection are there also, and
the general principle on which they are based becomes clear when we see
the fundamental relation between the Law and the Word. Only we must
remember that the Word that can thus set in motion the Law of Life, and
make it triumph over the Law of Death, cannot be spoken by the limited
personality which only knows itself as John Smith or Mary Jones. We must
attain a larger personality than that, before we can speak the Word. And
this larger personality is not just John Smith or Mary Jones magnified;
that is the mistake we are all so apt to fall into. Mere magnification
will not do it. A square will continue to be a square however large you
make it; it will never become a circle. But on the other hand, there is
such a thing as stating the area of a circle in the form of a square;
and when we learn to regard our square as not existing on its own
account, but as an expression of the circle in another form, o