270 The Ideal State 



can only be accomplished when the natural man 

 shall have come to realise that true happiness is only 

 possible when he has discarded the cloak of self, and 

 adopted the teachings of Jesus as his rule of conduct. 

 Man all along has been " Time's fool." The immortal 

 Shakespeare had fathomed this truth, as he had all 

 truth, for what is there in the nature of man and 

 things to which he has not penetrated ? " Love's not 

 Time's fool," he says ; which means that love is not 

 of time, but of eternity. In the consummation of the 

 spiritual evolution which is at the present time slowly 

 operating in society, and will ultimately obtain the 

 mastery, we shall be able to say to the race of men in 

 the beautiful words and illuminating thought of a 

 recent poet : 



" Wert thou Time's fool ? I am Love ; I set thee free; 

 I am the door into Eternity." 



Is it not one of the greatest miracles of history that 

 the salvation of the world is about to be accomplished 

 by the application of the teachings of One who, two 

 thousand years ago, was the" despised and rejected of 

 men ; a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief," 

 Who died a felon's death ? Men of all Christian coun- 

 tries have professed all through the ages since that 

 time their belief in His teachings, but only now is it 

 coming to be realised that they must not only be pro- 

 fessed, but acted upon. " Let no man seek his own, 

 but every man another's good." " Having food and 

 raiment, let us be therewith content." " But they that 

 will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into 

 many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in 

 destruction and perdition." " God hath chosen the 

 foolish things of the world to confound the wise ; and 

 God hath chosen the weak things of the world to con- 

 found the things which are mighty ; and base things 



