"The course of evolution is the drama of the Soul."-WILLIAM Q. JUDGE.

VOL. XIV.

FEBRUARY, 1896.

No. 2.

A TRADITION OF THE JEWS. In the preface to the Mishna, we find this tradition of the Jews:

"God not only delivered the law to Moses on Mount Sinai, but the explanation of it likewise. When Moses came down from the mountain and entered into his tent, Aaron went to visit him; and Moses acquainted Aaron with the laws he had received from God, together with the explanation of them. After this Aaron placed himself at the right-hand of Moses, and Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron, were admitted, to whom Moses repeated what he had just before told to Aaron; these two were then seated, the one on the righthand, and the other on the left-hand of Moses. The seventy elders of Israel, who composed the Sanhedrim, came in ; and Moses again declared the same laws to them, with the interpretation of them, as he had done before to Aaron and his sons. Lastly, all of the common people who pleased were invited to enter, and Moses instructed them likewise in the same manner as the rest. Thus Aaron heard four times what Moses had been taught by God upon Mount Sinai, Eleazar and Ithamar three times, the seventy elders twice, and the people once. Moses afterwards reduced the laws, which he had received, into writing, but not the explanations of them; these he thought it sufficient to trust to the memories of the above-mentioned persons, who being perfectly instructed in them, delivered them to their children, and these again to theirs, from age to age.

SEMPERSISTENCE (Vol XIV, p. 11) is the new coined word meaning "the being of things whose nonentity is inconceivably impossible, including all necessary truths."