As all of you should know, we have entered a New Æon. A Higher Truth has been given to the World.  This truth is waitingin readiness for all those who will consciously accept it, but it has tobe realized before it is understood, and day by day those who have acceptedthis Law, and are trying to live it, realize more and more its Beauty andPerfection.

The new teaching appears strange at first; and the mindis unable to grasp more than a fragment of what it really means. Only when we are living the Law can that fragment expand into the infiniteconception of the whole.

I want you to share with me one little fragment of thisgreat Truth which has been made clear to me this Sun-Day morning: I wantyou to come with me - if you will - just across the border-line of theOld Æon and gaze for a moment at the New.  Then, if the aspectpleases you, you will stay, or, it may be, you will return for a while,but the road once open and the Path plain, you will always be able to getthere again, in the twinkling of an eye, just by readjusting your Innersight to the Truth.

You know how deeply we have always been impressed withthe ideas of Sun-rise and Sun-set, and how our ancient brethren, seeingthe Sun disappear at night and rise again in the morning, based all theirreligious ideas in this one conception of a Dying and Re-arisen God. This is the central idea of the religion of the Old Æon, but we haveleft it behind us because although it seemed to be based on Nature (andNature's symbols are always true), yet we have outgrown this idea whichis only apparently true in Nature.  Since this great Ritual of Sacrificeand Death was conceived and perpetuated, we, through the observation ofour men of science, have come to know that it is not the Sun which risesand sets, but the earth on which we live which revolves so that its shadowcuts us off from the sunlight during what we call night.  The Sundoes not die as the ancients thought; It is always shining, always radiatingLight and Life.  Stop for a moment and get a clear conception of thisSun, how He is shining in the early morning, shining at mid-day, shiningin the evening, and shining in the night.  Have you got this ideaclearly in your minds?  You have stepped out of the Old Æoninto the New.

Now let us consider what has happened.  In orderto get this mental picture of the ever shining Sun, what did you do? You identified yourself with the Sun.  You stepped out of the consciousnessof this planet; and for a moment you had to consider yourself as a SolarBeing.  Then why step back again?  You may have done so involuntarily,because the Light was so great that it seemed as Darkness.  But doit again, this time more fully, and let us consider what the changes inour concept of the Universe will be.

The moment we identify ourselves with the Sun, we realizethat we have become the source of Light, that we too are now shining gloriously,but we also realize that the Sunlight is no longer for us, for we can nolonger see the Sun, any more than in our little old-aeon consciousnesswe could see ourselves.  All around us is perpetual Night, but itis the Starlight of the Body of Our Lady Nuit, in which we live and moveand have our being.  Then, from this height we look back upon thelittle planet Earth, of which we, a moment ago, were a part, and thinkof Ourself as shedding our Light upon all those little individuals we havecalled our brothers and sisters, the slaves that serve.  But we donot stop there.  Imagine the Sun concentrating His ray for a momenton one tiny spot, the Earth.  What happens?  It is burnt up,it is consumed, it disappears.  But in our Solar Consciousness isTruth, and though we glance for a moment at the little sphere we have leftus, and it is no more, yet there is, "that which remains." What remains? What has happened?  We realize that "every man and every woman isa star." We gaze around at our wider heritage; we gaze at the Body of OurLady Nuit.  We are not in darkness; we are much nearer to Her now. What (from the little planet) looked like specks of light, are now blazinglike other great Suns, and these are truly our brothers and sisters, whoseessential and Starry nature we had never before seen and realized. These are the 'remains' of those we thought we had left behind.

There is plenty of room here, each one travels in Histrue Path, all is Joy.

Now, if you want to step back into the Old Æon,do so.  But try and bear in mind that those around you are in realitySuns as Stars, not little shivering slaves.  If you are not willingto be a King yourself, still recognize that they have a right to Kingship,even as you have, whenever you wish to accept it.  And the momentyou desire to do so you have only to remember this - Look at things fromthe point of view of the Sun.