power of
killing not a person, not even an animal, but a tree. And when the
disciples said to him, see how this tree which you cursed has withered
away, he replied, Well, you can do exactly the same thing, and goes on
to say, nothing shall be impossible to you. Therefore if you can kill
fig trees, you can kill people, but, "forgive, if you have aught
against any," that your heavenly Father may forgive you.

He says in effect: now you have seen that this hidden power can be used
to the destruction of life, at your peril use it otherwise than as a
Divine power. Use it with prayer to God and with forgiveness of all
against whom you have any sort of grudge or ill-feeling, and if its use
is always prefaced in this way, according to the Master's directions,
then nobody can use it to injure another either in mind, body or estate.

Perhaps some of you may be inclined to smile if I use the word
"sorcery," but at the present day, under one name or another, scientific
or semi-scientific, it is nothing but the old-world sorcery which is
trying to find its way among us as the hidden power. Sorcery is the
inverted use of spiritual power. That is the definition of it, and I
speak upon authority. I refer you to the Bible where you will find
sorcery takes a prominent place among the list of those things which
exclude from the heavenly Jerusalem; the heavenly Jerusalem not being a
town or a city in this place or that place, but the perfected state of
man. Therefore, use sorcery, and you cannot reach that heavenly state.

It is on this account that we find in Revelations that wonderful
description of two symbolical women; they represent two modes of the
individual soul. Of course they go further, they indicate national
things, race evolution and so on. Why? Because all national movements,
all race evolutions, have their root in the development of the
individual. A nation or a race is only a collection of individuals, and
therefore if a principle once spreads from one individual to another, it
spreads to the nation, it spreads to the race. So, therefore, these two
symbolical women represent primarily two modes of soul, two modes of
thought. You know perfectly well the description of the two women. One,
the woman clothed with the sun, standing with the moon under her feet,
and with a diadem of stars about her head; the other seated upon an
earthly throne, holding a golden cup, and the cup is full of
abominations. Those are the two women,