T HIS magazine is designed to bring to all who may read its pages the message of the soul. The message is, man is more than an animal in drapings of cloth-he is divine, though his divinity be masked by, and hidden in, the coils of flesh. Man is no accident of birth nor plaything of fate. He is a POWER, the creator and destroyer of fate. Through the power within he will overcome indolence, outgrow ignorance, and enter the realm of wisdom. There he will feel a love for all that lives. He will be an everlasting power for good. A bold message this. To some it will seem out of place in this busy world of change, confusion, vicissitudes, uncertainty. Yet we believe it is true, and by the power of truth it will live. In the future philosophy will be more than mental gymnastics, science will outgrow materialism, and religion will become unsectarian. In the future man will act justly and will love his brother as himself, not because he longs for reward, or fears hell fire, or the laws of man; but because he will know that he is a part of his fellow, that he and his fellow are parts of a whole, and that whole is the One-that he cannot hurt another without hurting himself. In the struggle for worldly existence men trample on each other in their efforts to attain success. Having reached it at the cost of suffering and misery, they remain unsatisfied. Seeking an ideal, they chase a shadowy form. In their grasp, it vanishes. Selfishness and ignorance make of life a vivid nightmare and of earth a seething hell. The wail of pain mingles with the laughter of the gay. Fits of joy are followed by spasms of distress. Man embraces and clings closer to the cause of his sorrows, even while held down by them. Disease, the emissary of death, strikes at his vitals. Then is heard the message of the soul. This message is of strength, of love, of peace. This is the message we would bring: the STRENGTH to free the mind from ignorance, prejudice, and deceit; the COURAGE to seek the truth in every form; the LOVE to bear each other's burdens; the PEACE that comes to a freed mind, an OPENED HEART; and, to be conscious of CONSCIOUSNESS through an undying life. Let all who receive THE WORD pass on this message. THE WORD. A Self-Verifying Chronological History of From the Foundation of the Kingdom to the By Orlando P. Schmidt A Remarkable History In this work, which covers a period of 3,719 years, beginning 4244 B. C., and ending 525 B. C., the remarkable history of the most wonderful nation of antiquity has been restored and presented in a new light, by means of an accurate chronology. The author demonstrates that, from the beginning of the Kingdom (4244 B. C.) the Egyptians had and used the most accurate system of chronology ever devised by the ingenuity of man. to wit, the "Sothiac" system, which was based on the recession of the vague year, and automatically registered by the "heliacal risings" of the Dog-star Sothis (Sirius). The reigns of all the kings were_accurately adjusted to the Sothiac Eras and Epochs, which are clearly explained in the first part of the work. In this book the reader will find the chronological lists, derived from, the long-lost works of Manetho and Eratosthenes, carefully and critically corrected and restored. Ancient history appears in a new and altcgether unexpected light. This book will be a revelation to those interested in the History of Ancient Egypt, and is remarkable for the manner in which the subject is presented. Bound in blue buckram, 550 pages, octavo, $2.50 postpaid. Order from Orlando P. Schmidt 1028 Madison Ave., Covington, Kentucky A MONTHLY MAGAZINE Published and Edited by H. W. PERCIVAL, 25 West 45th Street, New York City, New York London: FRANK HOLLINGS, 7 Great Turnstile, Holborn, W. C. LUZAC & CO., 46 Great Russell Street, E. C. KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO., 68 Carter Lane, Ludgate Hill Paris: W. H. SMITH & SON, 248, Rue de Rivoli South America: NICHOLAS B. KIER, Calle Supiacha 732, Buenos Aires [Entered as Second-class Mail Matter, May 2, 1906, at the Post Office at New York, New York, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.3 |