only a woman.'

"Turning to the one on her right she said, 'By a life of self-denial and
discipline through prayer and meditation, and in cultivating the spirit
of love for all, and in making your life a free will offering to
humanity, you attained illumination. The angel now rules the animal and
you have arrived now to the state of realization of the Divine within
you. Not being in bondage to either the man or the woman, for you see
that each is a spiritual being like the other, therefore you look upon
me as a spiritual being manifested in the form of a woman. You have seen
that my wants and desires are spiritual, not material. All that I need
in the material world is very little and comes to me; for as Jesus has
said, "Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven, and all these things
(material) shall be added unto you."

"'Dear friend, you have appealed to my self, my spiritual nature. I now
respond, and, dear one, what I possess in the way of love shall be
yours, for I love you so dearly it will be a joy for me to give you my
love and live in your love, and we will both consecrate ourselves to
each other and to the Lord, in His humanity.'"

Penloe, looking earnestly at his audience, said: "That is the way, dear
friends, I look on you all this day; not for what your material forms
stand for, not for the environments each of you is placed in, but I look
upon you all as spiritual beings. I look upon you as Divine, and it is
this great, grand and glorious thought that each one of you is Divine. I
want you to take it home with you; I want you to repeat it over and over
again, '_I am Divine_'; I want you to think about it till it becomes
part of your own mentality, till it becomes part of the cells of your
brain, till it becomes a part of the life blood of your body, flowing
through your arteries and veins; and all your actions shall have their
source in the grand thought that you are Divine. When you reach to that
plane, your whole course in life will change, and each one of you before
me here will become so changed that you or your neighbors will hardly
know yourselves. For you have been going about with this thought, 'I am
a poor, weak human being.' That man over there says, 'All there is to me
is this body with its appetites and desires. I drink, I swear, I live a
life of lust and that is what I am.' I say no! a thousand times no! All
the qualities of the Divine are within you; but you have not realized
them. Don't look upo