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3 with such an organization, amid such surroundings, under such stress, I gripe sometimes the remembrance of these things, holding onto them for grim life and death? - Yes and no! For while I also "trust the heart's intentions" that prophecy of the time when our poor tired souls shall rest beyond all conception of rest and peace now, I must still think we shall find no final resting place of which at the last to grow weary. Ah! creep as near as we may to the Heart of Infinite Tenderness, we shall always seek to creep nearer. For not in any heaven of happified selfishness - not in security of condition but in Purity of Essential Being - shall we find God. Forever, friend, forever, I think the annointed ascension will go on. Up through the thrones and principalities and powers, through laws and conditions yet unrevealed - past Gabriel and Michael and the tall hosts of the Archangels - past harmonies which are to our music what music is to the grating of a dungeon hinge - past everything and beyond all - the flying soul shall soar, demanding ever and gaining ever fresh news from the Absolute Purity, shouting Glory to God in the highest who leads us from horizon to horizon of