Our beloved Emerson Englished the law of Karma under various names. He called it "the law of compensation, "the law of balance, "the law of action and re-action. " In its judgment, it rights all wrongs, punishes all sins, rewards all virtues. In its action, it is unbroken. "Cause and Effect," he says, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect always blooms in the cause, the end pre-exists in the means, the fruit in the seed. Ever since I was a boy," declared Emerson, "I have wished to write a discourse on Compensation; for it seemed to me when very young that on this subject Life was ahead of Theology and the people knew more than the preachers taught. It appeared, moreover, that if this doctrine could be stated in terms with any resemblance to those bright instructions in which this Truth is sometimes revealed to us, it would be a star in many dark hours and crooked passages in our journeys, that would not suffer us to lose our way." So Emerson teaches that every secret is told, every crime is punished, every virtue rewarded, every wrong redressed, in silence and certainty." "Let man learn that every thing in Nature goes by law, not by luck, that what he sows, he reaps. The effect of the law of Karma in our every day life, between man and woman, Emerson clearly reminds us, is that "human labor thru all its forms, from the sharpening of a stake to the construction of a city or an epic, is one immense illustration of the perfect Compensation of the universe. The absolute balance of Give and Take, the doctrine that everything has its price-and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained, and that it is impossible to get anything without its price, is not less sublime in the columns of a ledger than in the budgets of states, in the laws of light and darkness, in all the action and re-action of Nature."

All our thots, seen and Unseen, all our deeds, done in the world, in human society, is Karma. Thus we are all doing Karma all the time. We breathe; that is Karma. You talk to me; that is Karma. I listen; that is Karma. I don't listen; that is Karma. We work; that is good Karma. We idle; that is bad Karma. We gossip; that

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is Black Karma. We refuse to gossip; that is White Karma. We walk; Karma. We sing; Karma. We dance; Karma. All our actions and the works around us are the results of Karma. Our builded-cities of workshops and homes, gigantic machines, far-reaching inventions, ships, men-of-war-Wars-all is human-Karma. Everything we think, do, mental or physical, is Karma. It leaves its brand upon us. The law of Karma governs us all, whether we believe in it or not. What a man sows he reaps. If we want lettuce, we must sow lettuce. Useless to sow rice and expect wheat; idle to plant onions and hope for violets. "Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles?" In the mental or the moral worlds this law governs in the same way, building character. Useless to sow idleness and expect to reap wisdom; to sow selfishness and expect love; to sow fear thots and wish for courage; to sow graft and expect righteousness. Each thot and action is a link in an endless-chain of causes and effects. Karma is the all-inclusive Law of Cause and Effect-action and re-action. Karma includes all punishment, all rewards that are due us because of evil or good thots or deeds we have done, either in this life or one or many of our past lives. “Man is created by thot; that which he thinks upon in one life he becomes in another. " If we meditate on courage, patience, unselfishness, cheerfulness, self-control and love, we shall work these qualities into our character. A persistent thot registered on the eternal memory builds character. We daily build

character as a mason builds a brick wall. Who can say this law is not just-not mathematically exact-in its distributions of rewards and punishments. Ignorance of the great Karmic-law sends us adrift on life's dark sea without a rudder. Knowledge of this law is our only safe steering-gear. This is not a man-made law; it is the fixed law of ethical causation which operates thruout Nature, governing alike the white man, as well as his yellow, brown or black brother, in all walks of life, in all grades of consciousness. Thus, Karma is The Law, the working law of Self-Government or Compensation, the merciless, but just law which patterns and shapes our lives and des

tinies, which fills our days with sorrow, with joy, our nights with dreams or visions.

"Give me a babe, or else I die!" cries Woman's Soul. For this child I have long prayed, prayed that the power of the Highest shall overshadow me; that the angel, Love, shall be sent with the Gift of God, granting my_petition.

The Holy Fire has come unto me. In the gladness of my soul, I pray, Give me a Woman-Child, then I will lend her unto humanity all the days of her life, and shall call her by that bewitching and mystical seven-lettered name "Diantha," a name of great, mysterious and fascinating power, a name of magic virtues, symbolizing Judgment, "-Radiant, Perfect, the Goddess of Chastity, the Divine personification of Great Productive and Spiritual-Power, of Holy upbringing, of Love and Marriage the music of the spheres!

Aries, being the first sign in the Zodiac, is the head of the intellectual-trinity, the head of the Fiery-Triplicity. Diantha (or Dinah), is the seventh-Child of Leah. Seven is the perfect number, thus embodying a deep metaphysical principle-an expression of the intuitive perceptions from the inner-spiritual nature, making one quick of understanding, judging not after the sight of the physicaleyes, neither reproving after the hearing of the physical

ears.

Our First-Born shall be a Daughter. The blessings are endless when the first babe is a daughter. Many prospective mothers, unfortunately, have the idea that their first-babe should be a son. Think of how many poor women inwardly fret, fearing their first-born won't be a son to flatter the vanity of self-important husbands. If we stop to think of the many reasons why our first should be a girl-babe, parents will Will that the first-babe shall be a daughter. Then when Johnny comes along, he has

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the gentle guidance of an older sister. If Johnny appears first, he grows to be rough and cruel; he says to his sister Diantha, when he is seven and she is five, "Watch me pull that cat's tail; " "Watch me kick that dog; " "I'm going to shoot that bird. He slips around to the cradle, when little sister isn't looking, and begins to stick straws in his tiny baby sister's nose and eyes. When a little daughter comes first, the mother is most happy, for she gives to that daughter her own sweetness, in gentleness, kindness, unselfishness and love. Then when Johnny comes along, he has this gracious sister to tutor him right in little things: "Now, Johnny, you shouldn't pull kitty's tail; it hurts her. " "Please don't kick Fido; it is wicked." "Brother, God made the little birds to sing for us, you shouldn't shoot them." "If we stick straws in little sister's nose and eyes, she will die. Granny and mother will cry.

Woman has, in her bondage, under all sorts of repressions and unfair-conditions, taught men all the gentleness and goodness that is in them. Observe how, from the worst of seed, Woman has brought forth and cradled many a noble son; from her teachings and pleadings she has gradually redeemed the race from horrible savagery, from the man-eaters to the semi-civilization of today; and she will eventually unfold the God-man out of the animalized-man. She has nourished and cultured art, music, science, religion and all that makes Life liveable. This, being the strongest chain of external-reasoning, entitles her to a chance for fair conditions, the Rights Of Woman.

What Woman has done for man and the human race, the older sister does for her younger brother in the individual Home. A daughter makes life easier, sweeter for the inexperienced young mother. She helps to humanize her unconcerned father, makes him better, no matter how good or how bad he was when she arrived. The daughter alone inherits the qualities of the father. She transmits the greatness of the father, that he in turn has received from his mother. The mother, being unselfish and devoted, is always unconsciously eager to hand down to

future-generations something wonderful and distinct from her husband. Galton's great work on heredity proves that the genius of the man descends thru the daughter almost exclusively.

For a man to see himself reproduced in a son increases his egotistical nature, puffs him up in his selfconceit like an old bullfrog-thinking, bragging about himself. A daughter brings out the gentleness, the better part of her father. Gentleness is an irresistible charm. It magnifies in father's physical and intellectual strength. It makes him think about others. It especially makes him kind, considerate to the daughters of others—to the poor, slaving, Baby-Toilers in factories and workshops when he thinks of His Own little daughter. History teaches us the birth of girls, even under so-called Christianity, has everywhere been looked upon as an infliction; thousands have been imprisoned in Convents, there to die of despair or to linger on, unloved and unappreciated, thru the torturing years. For the sake of the humanrace, pray, our first-born, be a daughter.

"First a daughter, then a son,
Then, the world is well begun."

Wonder what is the matter with my looking-glass this morning? I look so strange. How I'm changing.

There seems to be a series of sad and endless changes coming. What a peculiar appearance about my eyes; my neck is swelling, my teeth ache. The old saying is: Every babe costs its mother a tooth, "--by taking the lime from the teeth to build the skeleton of embryo-baby. I itch all over, look at the patches of bronze-skin on my pale face. Look at the lines and cracks on my face and

neck, they call them-" pregnancy streaks." My general blood-stream must be depleted. And, oh, my pretty, white, round and firm bosoms are so sore and tender; an ugly black-circle all over them. I am becoming fractious and irritable. Wonder if I'm peculiarly apt to miscarry?