4 Hell is but a spark of the use- 9 Make no reliance, neither rest less troubles which we have given upon the kingdom of this world; seeourselves; Paradise only an instant ing how many like yourself it has of the repose which we have some- nourished and killed. times enjoyed on earth.

Io When the pure soul is about

5 I am myself hell, purgatory, and to depart, what is the difference beparadise. tween expiring on a throne or on the bare ground?

6 Just to thy wish the door of Heaven is found open before thee. Be free from duplicity, and stand firm in the path of truth; be free from care and trouble, and turn thy mind to things which are spiritual.

7 Let the motive be in the deed, and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward.

II O my child! in the day of resurrection they will ask you what have you done in the world, and not from whom you are descended. That is, they will inquire about your virtue, and not about your father.

12 The cloth that covers the holy Kaaba, and which they kiss, is not famous from having been manufact

8 The world, O my brother! con-ured by the silkworm; it associated tinueth not to any one; place your some days with one who is veneraffections on the Creator of the uni-able, on which account it became verse, and that will suffice. venerable like himself.

bidden it.

3 What we say in secret is known to Him who made our interior nature. He who made us is present with us, though we are alone.

4 Who can bless Thee, or give thanks for Thee or to Thee? How shall I revere Thee, O Father? It is impossible to comprehend Thy hour, or Thy time.

5 Shall I love Thee as if I were something of myself, or as if I had any thing of mine own, or rather as if I belonged to another?

6 Thou art what I am; Thou art what I do; Thou art what I say. Thou art all things, and there is nothing which Thou art not.

tion is the air; of air, the most subtle part is the soul; of the soul, the most subtle part is the mind; of the mind, the most subtle part is God.

IO What is truth, through me, sings praises to the Truth. What is good, through me, sings praises to

the Good.

11 O All! receive a rational hom

age from all things. Thou art God.

12 Thy messenger, by the fire, by the air, by the earth, by the water, by the spirit, by all beings, proclaimeth these things concerning Thee.

7 Thou art all that is made, and ated! Do not turn me away. I am all that is not made.

one of Thy types on earth. I have not privily done evil against any man; I have not been idle; I have not made any to weep; I have not

8 Thou art the Mind that understandeth all things; Thou art the Good that doeth all things; Thou art the Father that makest all things; murdered; I have not defrauded; I Thou art Thyself. have not committed adulery. I am

9 Of matter, the most subtle por-pure.

dead answer: Let this soul pass on;

ing what is good to is pleasing to God.

5 Then shall the Judge of the 8 He loved his father, he honored his mother; he loved his brethren, he is without sin; he lives upon truth. and never went from home in a bad 6 He has made his delight in do- temper. He never preferred the men, and what great man to him of low condition. He has given 9 He was a wise man. His soul food to the hungry; drink to the loved God. He was a brother to thirsty; and clothes to the naked. the great men, and a father to the His lips are pure, and his hands are humble ones; and he never was a pure. His heart weighs right in the mischief-maker.

balance. He fought on earth the battle of the good, even as his Father, the Lord of the Invisible World, had commanded him.

7 O God, the protector of him who has brought his cry unto Thee, make it well with him in the world of Spirits!

IO Such as these shall find grace in the eyes of the Great God. They shall dwell in the abodes of glory, where the heavenly life is led. The bodies which they have abandoned will repose for ever in their tombs, while they will enjoy the presence of the Great God.

HINDU SCRIPTURES.-GENERAL SELECTIONS.

SELECTION I.

The one Supreme Mind, Supreme Ruler, Divine Parent, living and true God.

THERE is One Supreme Mind,

and goodness; the Maker and Preserver of all things.

7 The vulgar look for their gods in water; the ignorant think they re

which transcends all other in- side in wood, bricks, and stones; men of more extended knowledge seek them in the celestial orbs; but wise men worship the Universal Soul.

telligences. Moving, It cannot be shaken; distant, yet It is near. It pervades the system of worlds, and is yet infinitely beyond it.

2 He exists by himself; He is All 8 By One Supreme Ruler is the in all, because all is in Him. The universe pervaded; even every world Ganges flows,-it is God. The ocean in the whole circle of Nature. roars, it is God. The cloud that thunders, the lightning that flashes, is God. As from all eternity the universe existed in the Spirit of God, so to-day all that exists is in His image.

3 We meditate on the adorable light of the Divine Parent. May He direct our minds!

4 Lord, Thou art every day manifested with the rays of the morning, imparting life to the torpid, and giving form to the shapeless masses of beings. Heaven and earth take refuge with Thee as a child with its

mother.

5 I celebrate the thought of the Beneficent Father and the Sovereign Mother, from whom have proceeded all creatures, their offspring, sharing their immortality.

6 There is One Living and True God; everlasting, without parts or passion; of infinite power, wisdom,

9 That Spirit who is distinct from matter, and from all beings contained in matter, is not various. He is One, and He is beyond description. His glory is so great there can be no image of Him. He is the Incomprehensible Spirit, who illuminates all, and delights all; from whom all proceed, by whom they live after they are born, and to whom all must return.

IO He is the Ruler of the Intellect, self-existent, pure, perfect, omniscient, and omnipresent. From all eternity He has assigned to all creatures their respective purposes. No vision can approach Him, no language describe Him, no intellectual power can comprehend Him.

II A husband is loved, not because we love the husband, but because we love in him the Divine Spirit. A wife is loved, not because we love the wife, but because we love in her the Divine Spirit. Children

whose power is proclaimed by the snowy mountains, the sea, and the distant river. He through whom the sky is bright and the earth is firm. He through whom heaven was established; yea, the heaven of heavens. He who measured out the light in the air.

8 Wherever the mighty waterclouds went, where they placed the seed and lit the fire, thence arose He who is the Only Life; He who is God above all. He is the God to whom we should offer worship.

9 The world lay in darkness, as asleep. Then He, who is self-existent, the Most High, the Almighty, manifested Himself and dispelled the

2 I myself am a manifestation of gloom. He whose nature is beyond the Supreme Being.

3 There is only One Deity; He is the Great Soul; He is the Soul of all Beings.

4 The wise give divers names to that which is One. Poets make the beautiful-winged manifold by their words, though He is One.

5 There is only One God, omnipotent, eternal, omnipresent. He is the Great Soul, of which all others are but parts.

6 In the beginning He arose the Source of golden light, the only born Lord of all that is. He established the earth and the sky.

our reach, whose being escapes our senses, who is invisible and eternal, He, the All-pervading, Spirit whom the mind cannot grasp, even He shone forth.

10 Let us adore the supremacy of that Spiritual Sun, the Godhead, who illuminates all, who re-creates all, from whom all proceed, to whom all must return; whom we invoke to direct our undertakings aright, in our progress toward His holy seat.

II O Thou, who givest sustenance to the world, unveil the face of that true Sun, now hidden from us by its veil of golden light! so that we may see the truth, and know our whole duty.

7 Who is the God to whom we should offer worship? He who gives life. He who gives strength. He 12 May our Father in Heaven whose blessings all desire. He whose be favorable to us! May the Etershadow is death, from whom immor-nal One protect us evermore! We tality proceeds. He who through have no other Friend, no other His power is the only King of the Father, than the Father of Heaven, breathing and awakening world. He who is the Father of Men.