Boast not, and be not lifted up; for all things are God's, and ye are in God, and God in you. But when the word shall come to you, be ready to obey. There is but one way to power, and it is the way of obedience. Call no man your master or king upon the earth, lest ye forsake the spirit for the form and become idolaters. He who is indeed spiritual, and transformed into the divine image, desires a spiritual king. Purify your bodies, and eat no dead thing that has looked with living eyes upon the light of Heaven. For the eye is the symbol of brotherhood among you. Sight is the mystical sense. Let no man take the life of his brother to feed withal his own. But slay only such as are evil; in the name of the Lord. They are miserably deceived who expect eternal life, and restrain not their hands from blood and death. They are miserably deceived who look for wives from on high, and have not yet attained their manhood. Despise not the gift of knowledge; and make not spiritual eunuchs of yourselves. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. Ye are twain, the man with the woman, and she with him, neither man nor woman, but one creature. And the kingdom of God is within you[49]. The knowledge of the "Seven Spirits" whereby Deity operates in the universe, has been completely dropped out of sight by the Christian world. It is necessary, therefore, if only in vindication of the importance attached to them by our illuminators, to recite the instruction received by us concerning them, which is as follows. It is a chapter from the recovered Gnosis[50]:-- "In the bosom of the Eternal were all the Gods comprehended, as the seven spirits of the prism, contained in the Invisible Light. * * * * * By the Word of Elohim were the Seven Elohim manifest: even the Seven Spirits of God in the order of their precedence: The Spirit of Wisdom, the Spirit of Understanding, the Spirit of Counsel, the Spirit of Power, the Spirit of Knowledge, the Spirit of Righteousness, and the Spirit of Divine Awfulness. All these are coequal and coeternal. Each has the nature of the whole in itself: and each is a perfect entity. And the brightness of their manifestation shineth forth from the midst of each, as wheel within wheel, encircling the White Throne of the Invisible Trinity in Unity. These are the Divine fires which burn before the presence of God: which proceed from the Spirit, and are one with the Spirit. He is divided, yet not diminished: He is All, and He is One. For the Spirit of God is a flame of fire which the Word of God divideth into many: yet the original flame is not decreased, nor the power thereof nor the brightness thereof lessened.