It is impossible to gauge the significance of the present time or to realize what is in store for humanity during the next hundred years, merely from our own experience and from recorded history.  For this is no ordinary time.  It is not simply the culmination point of the past hundred years, but of thousands of years; the night of centuries has passed, and with the new dawn comes the return of memories and powers and possibilities of an age long past.

The soul of man still cries out, the darkness is still so close about him that he knows not the dawn is so near.  But those who have claimed to the hill tops have seen the glow in the eastern sky and the rays of golden light in the heavens; and with the suddenness of the day in the tropics, in the twinkling of an eye, the light will come, the scales fall from our eyes, and we shall see----not in the uncertain gloom of night, but in the glorious sunlight.

As the light of day scatters the shadows and the powers of darkness, so will the effulgence of the new cycle break through the dark places of ignorance, prejudice and unbrotherliness in the age now so swiftly passing.  The great heroes of old will once more return to earth, the great musicians, painters, poets, wise statesman, lovers of the race, will again take up the task, and the earth shall blossom as a garden.  The ancient wisdom taught by the sacred Mysteries will be revived; the earth, the air, the ether, all nature will reveal their secrets to those who have prepared themselves through purification and by service to humanity.

Such is the outlook into the future. To measure it, go back to the glory of ancient Egypt and to the yet older civilization and vaster achievements of ancient America.  Such a future awaits us and our children and, if we are faithful, shall be ours in new time when, after a brief night of death, we return to take up our work again upon earth.

Thanks' Ktherine Tingley.  One truth, many paths.  Be good, do good.                           Louis DiVirgilio