Two things become evident _to all_ in the above passages, now that their false rendering is corrected in the revision text: (_a_) “the coming of Christ,” means _the presence of_ CHRISTOS in a regenerated world, and not at all the actual coming in body of “Christ” Jesus; (_b_) this Christ is to be sought neither in the wilderness nor “in the inner chambers,” nor in the sanctuary of any temple or church built by man; for Christ—the true esoteric SAVIOUR—_is no man_, but the DIVINE PRINCIPLE in every human being. He who strives to resurrect the Spirit _crucified in him by his own terrestrial passions_, and buried deep in the “sepulchre” of his sinful flesh; he who has the strength to roll back _the stone of matter_ from the door of his own _inner_ sanctuary, he _has the risen Christ in him_.[35] The “Son of Man” is no child of the bond-woman—_flesh_, but verily of the free-woman—_Spirit_,[36] the child of man’s own deeds, and the fruit of his own spiritual labour. ----- Footnote 35: For ye are the temple (“sanctuary” in the _revised_ N. T.) of the living God. (II. Cor. vi., 16.) Footnote 36: Spirit, or the Holy Ghost, was feminine with the Jews, as with most ancient peoples, and it was so with the early Christians. _Sophia_ of the Gnostics, and the third Sephiroth _Binah_ (the _female_ Jehovah of the Kabalists), are feminine principles—“Divine Spirit,” or _Ruach_. “_Achath Ruach Elohim Chiim._” “One is _She_, the Spirit of the Elohim of Life,” is said in “Sepher Yezirah.” ----- On the other hand, at no time since the Christian era, have the precursor signs described in _Matthew_ applied so graphically and forcibly to any epoch as they do to our own times. When has nation arisen against nation more than at this time? When have “famines”—another name for destitute pauperism, and the famished multitudes of the proletariat—been more cruel, earthquakes more frequent, or covered such an area simultaneously, as for the last few years? Millenarians and Adventists of robust faith, may go on saying that “the coming of (the carnalised) Christ” is near at hand, and prepare themselves for “the end of the world.” Theosophists—at any rate, some of them—who understand the hidden meaning of the universally-expected Avatars, Messiahs, Sosioshes and Christs—know that it is no “end of the world,” but “the consummation of the age,” _i.e._, the close of a cycle, which is now fast approaching.[37] If our readers have forgotten the concluding passages of the article, “The Signs of the Times,” in LUCIFER for October last, let them read them over, and they will plainly see the meaning of this particular cycle. ----- Footnote 37: