Chicago: The Queen City Of Destiny

EOM Ida Mingle

Chicago is the City of Destiny of the western continent. It is destined to become the center of governmental power. When it shall be established outwardly, as the Center of governmental power, in which the capital of the United States is to be set up, it cannot be said, for the laws that govern the destiny of races do not answer to the query, "When?" But the record is written and it is infallible. The name of Chicago will be changed at that time, and be known as the City of EOM the Queen City of the world.

A few years ago the Laws that govern the people and the universe set down their mystic scroll upon the people of the United States, with Chicago as the Central Throne of Power. A librarian at that time revealed the fact, that in the civilizations that have passed, the site upon which Chicago now makes her triumphant debut in the American civilization was the seat of the City of Bab. Bab means "father," Father is the opposite pole of mother, and as King would invariably, in the law of polarity, invite his Queen. So in the destiny of cities, representing the coordinated consciousness of racial forces progressed to a certain finish, Chicago becomes the City of EOM. A Queen City endowed with super powers.

A common sense view point would single out Chicago as a fitting central matrix for the capital of the United States. This view point would have to be based upon scientific law in order to reconcile the many forces that now make up the consciousness of Chicago, the SHE-EGO of civilization. Where diversity of forces merge and are subjected to the controlling One, there will be found the totality of all. The One revealed is always consciousness as the governing Laws meant it to be, whether it be revealed as an individual or a consciousness of a city or of a race.

Chicago is today, in the western continent, and to all the world, what the old Jerusalem was to the civilizations at Christ's First Coming, a Center of controlling Power. This Power does not issue from Chicago as a city of many people, but from the consciousness of her forces subjected to the authority of Divine Laws that control the destiny of the race and the universe. The mystic scroll, set down upon the people of the United States in November, 1922, the first month of the first Year I AM, chose Chicago as the center of the New Jerusalem, the throne from which would emanate the governing powers of the Creation. This emanation is not as by the material forces that make up the outward city of Chicago, but as by the Spiritual Qualities of consciousness pivoted to the city, which is the Throne of Power. That this Throne would be under the rulership of the Queen Principle of Creation is quite in keeping with the feminine name applied to cities; as well as signifying itself in the western continent. The King Principle now has its second appearance in the Queen Principle, this union having the power to control all forces of two, equal and opposite, for the accomplishment of the Divine Will and purpose of the race.

No one needs repel the application of governing Principles to the outer things. The visible things, whether people, cities or nations, have their existence because of underlying Principles, but all progression is for the effect of the Principles, and not for the people, cities and nations. They but share the glory of the unfolding Laws of Creation when they are conformed to the purpose and will of these Laws. The creation is not a far-off mystical power, but the unfolding Principles and Laws governing Man and the universe. It is the Creator that introduces Its powers at the ends of civilizations, decreeing what shall be, as well as bringing to cessation all that has been that is not capable of transition to a New Order.

The Progression of the City of Chicago

A City is the coordination of the forces of many states of consciousness, relating to spirit, soul, mind and body. It is a great mixture that requires stamina of character with which to cope. Yet, one who has conquered himself or herself has conquered all cities and nations. City is a Center of consciousness, while Country is the circumference. City is unified while Country is diversified consciousness. Both have their identification through a governing Intelligence that gives us words, geographical positions, languages, continents, nations, races; not as through some mystical act but as through a Law of progression. Even as an ego adds or subtracts consciousness to himself or herself, so the consciousness of a city is increased or decreased.

When an phase of progression has reached its limit of advancement, it must pass into a new state, being first reduced to negation. If this is not possible, then it must pass into nothingness and be numbered among that which is not. Civilizations come and go, but the governing Laws are omnipresent, shaping the destiny of all things according to the purpose of attainment it has decreed. That Chicago receives the New Name of a City, destined to become the Center in the American civilization, implies her passover to a New State of Progression. This transition is necessarily attended with the trial of rebirth, incidental to putting off the old forces of consciousness and to putting on the new.

Scientific research discloses that the oldest land in the United States is in the region of the Great Lakes. Archeologists have ventured to say that the Garden of Eden was at one time located in this region, with the site of Chicago an important point. This was before the time of the European continent, in the misty ages of the past. Before the discovery of America, the site of Chicago was a happy meeting ground for the Indians. The Chicago Portage was one of the five great keys of the continent. Lake Michigan is the remnant of an ancient glacial lake and the progression of the Lake is, traced through three periods of time. Mound builders, as well as the Indians, have left their trail. The Indians had their own name for Chicago. They called the city "Che-cau-gou." Many authors claim that Chicago means "Wild onions." The mystical meaning of onion is; one. One is the Absolute, by which are all other expressions. AGitchi-ka-go" is also a name applied to Chicago, meaning "a thing great and strong."

Chicago spreads out, fan-like from Lake Michigan. It is 25 1/2 miles long and 10 miles wide. It is built on the very edge of Lake Michigan and is noted for its skyline, as well as its shoreline. The shoreline of Chicago is 22 miles. Its architectural beauty is instantly recognized by those accustomed to the "Old World" beauty of buildings embracing both masculine and feminine types especially in its church edifices. From the spires of Catholic cathedrals to the dome of Christian Science edifices, the architecture of the past rears its imposing structures to the skies. That man is pointed heavenward by those who preside over religious services is inspiring, if he is instructed that the Kingdom of Heaven is within the consciousness, and is to be revealed in the earth as the Righteous State of Being.

One versed in the underlying Principles of Divine Laws that reflect themselves in all things made can see more than the things seen, discerning the nature of the Invisible Creator by that which is made. When one perceives that the Principles for which all outer things stand are in the consciousness of Man, one lives in hope that the Temple of Beauty, Man in his-her nature will manifest superseding all visible things with harmony and righteousness. As the outer things are built, so are the inner correspondences. Chicago, a City in a Garden, as it is so often called, has a heavenly correspondence in the nature of Man, that is bound to reveal itself as the genuine advancement of the people, especially those of the United States. Chicago is a picture of the world in miniature. Every section of the globe, every racial strain, are represented in its population. Here over one million Catholic, about a half million Protestant and four hundred thousand Jews, together with those classed as non-believers because not affiliated with church organization dwell, in spirit and in body. Chicago is noted for its free spirit, and many of those classed as non-believers, so far as church affiliations count make up a free spirit of progression, both as to Church and State, that give support to the Real Church and State centered in the spirit and body of Chicago's consciousness.

Through the burning of the City of Chicago, the fire covering an area of 2,124 acres, thirty years of progression was brought to ruins. The Spirit of the motto of Chicago, "I Will," asserted itself, though the motto was not adopted until 1892. Within two days after the fire people had resolved that; "Chicago Shall Rise Again." The progression of Chicago is divided into two epochs, "Before and After the Fire." To a stranger, it may seem strange that every year Chicago remembers her "Fire," and some part of the city celebrates her rising again after the "Fire." Fire is a very potent factor in chastening consciousness, and while it must be within the consciousness as a Living Flame, to effect rebirth and transition to higher planes of growth, the outer symbols appear in the outworking of anything associated with the destiny of the people. The literal Chicago Fire is but a symbol of the chastening and purification through which the People of Chicago pass in these closing days of the material order of progression, without which the consciousness of the City could not be made to function the triumph that the New City is to enjoy, and to share with the world at large. The fire that burns up the dross of materialistic control of the functions of Chicago, the trial through which the City passes to uphold her civic honor in these days, but outwardly reflect the inner chastening going on in that which makes up the consciousness of the Great City.

If Chicago appears at this time to reflect Babylon, instead of the New Name of the New Jerusalem, it is quite in keeping with the biblical figure of the mingling of the Spirit of Advancement with the chaos of the world In this very mingling is a great mystery working out, for from the foundation of the world Light has formed itself through the agency of Darkness. Cosmos, as advanced Intelligence, mingles with the spirit of Chaos, the darkness, forming that which manifests the effect of the travail of progression, even as the darkness and depth of the soil give fecundation to the seed planted in it, by which the form preexistent in the seed is brought into visibility. The many slams made at Chicago's wave of darkness, measured in terms of crime, are without intelligent comprehension of the fundamental Laws governing the progression of people. Scientifically, Light is equal to darkness, and vice versa, though opposite in character. People who gauge Chicago by the darkness they discern (or hear about) must also discern that she has an equivalent Light. The Creative Law gives preeminence to the Light and makes Darkness a subsidiary, though darkness is an agent that forces the growth of the Light and is the means by which the forms reposing in the Light are brought into visibility. Even so, the Light predominates in the City of Chicago, now properly correlated to these underlying Laws and made to work out at Center, a plan of progression that will encompass the race with its influence.

However, it has been statistically proven that the murder wave in Chicago is of no greater proportion, considering, the size of the city than it is in other large cities; in fact, not so much. The statistical report shows that sixty-seven cities, with a population over 100,000, have more capital crime. Only thirteen cities have a lower ratio of capital crime per 10,000 inhabitants than has the city of Chicago. Chicago does yet include within her scope of criminality legalized capital punishment, which is always a mill grinding out more murder when scientifically discerned. But capital punishment will probably continue until capital is adjusted; and the New Order of Righteous Government is set up, guaranteeing every citizen the privilege of exercising his or her Seven Rights under government, viz., Food, Clothing, Shelter, Recreation, Education, Security, Peace; then the necessity of crime shall be abolished.

Chicago the Melting Pot of Nationalities

Americans, the racial strain that the United States has produced in her centuries of progression, predominate in the population of Chicago. Nearly a million Americans live and move and have their being in the spirit of Chicago, and many of these no doubt also have a similar activity in the underlying Laws that have been bringing forth this particular racial strain, which is the Salvation for all nations, when nations discover their bondage's and desire to be genuinely free. In their order of population, Chicago is made up of the Americans, Polish, German, Irish, Italian, Russian, Swedish, Czechoslovakian, English, Canadian, Lithuanian, Austrian, Norwegian, Yugoslavian, Hungarian, Danish, Greek, Dutch, Romanian, Mexican, French, Swiss, Belgian, Luxembourger, Finlanders, Latvian, Chinese, Turks, Palestinian, Syrian, Japanese, Indian, Negro, and about twenty thousand of mixed racial strains in addition to these named, making a total of 3,376,438 people. What a wonderful array of languages, significant of the diversified intelligence's of the Word! Lest some one does not understand what the WORD means, it is a name applied to the underlying Principles and Laws governing the progression of the race. It means to speak. In its speaking or emanating intelligence, it gave rise to languages, and languages have their identifications in racial strains, called Germans, French, Italian, etc.

The gathering of people from all nations to Chicago is equivalent to bringing the connecting racial strains of all nations to a given centralization, identifying a mighty factor of racial intelligence to be coordinated and brought into unity. It is as though the Creator in looking upon the City of Chicago looks upon the whole world. (This should be seen as a figure of speech for the Creator is not a person, having eyes and ears and hands and feet, as men have, but is Principles and Laws that stand for the qualities underlying these bodily members as well as all formed things). But coordinating the forces of consciousness that make up the City of Chicago into One is not so difficult as it may appear, though this is a process on the spiritual plane of development and is not a mass mind work. That Chicago contains within her consciousness the highest advancement of the spiritual in the eras of Time is as it should be, this pivoting to Center the Qualities of the Word Itself, the expression of the Word as languages, and the forms of expression as the many racial strains. This unites the Spirit, Mind and Body of consciousness, giving rise to conscious Consciousness and the establishment of the City as the Soul of the race, and of the world. Where the two factors of progression, spiritual and material, are pivoted to one center, there is the fulfillment of both, and there arise the spirit and form of the New Progression to be manifested. The Queen City, the city of EOM is the identified result of the polarization of all dual and opposite forces.

Chicago is a replica of the whole United States. She is the centralization of all racial strains gathered in the United States. She becomes through her very position, centrally, the Light and the Darkness of racial forces progressing. The Twelve Tribes of Israel that make up all racial strains of the world, are centralized under Benjamin, to eight states of which Chicago is not only the central Center of Power, but is a Universal Center as well. This will be understood by those who enjoy tracing the progression of the Twelve Tribes in the race. That these Tribes were disseminated into the European civilization and later gathered in the United State is significant of the Tree that is planted bringing forth its fruit. In relation to races, there is always a transition of the racial strains of an Old Order to the forces of the New Order, that they may come properly under the governing Law for service to the entire race.

This service is not as though people served in word and in act, but through their existence and being. Chicago, as her population shows, is made up of all national strains, therefore is a fitting aggregation of racial forces by which the Word, or Creative Law, can function to manifest its Fruit. This Fruit is centrally manifested through those spiritually progressing, though these must always be properly positioned and supported by the racial forces relating.

Chicago is the sixth largest German city in the world; the second largest Bohemian city, the second largest Swedish city, the second largest Norwegian city, and the second largest Polish city, though this changes with the census. Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1833, and had an area of 2.8 square miles, and a voting population of 28. It was situated in the heart of a swampy territory covered with water ranging from two inches to two feet deep the year round. Land sold for $1.25 per acre and many freely predicted that the place would never amount to much! Chicago has 11,285 persons to the square mile. The population of the Chicago area, from Milwaukee, Wis. on the north, to Rockford, Ill. on the west, and La Porte, Ind. on the southeast, amounts to 6,388,000 people. The Chicago area proper, which is the city itself, covers 210.5 square miles, or 133,800 acres. It is bounded on the east by Lake Michigan, a body of fresh water, a fitting symbol of the Soul consciousness that is ever expressing more of itself. East pertains to the spirit, when related to the four departments of consciousness, and since the east of Chicago is water, it signifies a soluble spirit, that makes Chicago welcome progression and able to put off those phases of progression that are outworn. Chicago has been called the "Queen City of the Unsalted Seas."

The birthrate in Chicago has been gradually declining since 1926, having dropped from 19.8 to 14 in 1932. The story of birth control, as it operates in many countries and cities today, is one that should be written separately. Chicago put up a good fight for its birth control clinics, the Catholics under their leadership opposing their establishment. Birth control very necessarily has its place at this time in the race's progression, and is not directly traceable to economic conditions. The economic conditions are only an outer necessity used to aid an inner necessity that is working out at the end of Time or mortality. Since the seeds of mortality have been cultivated, and brought to a certain fruition, by which a New Order is identified for the entire race, how can mortal reproduction continue to be prolific? It must come to a low point pending the passover of those ready for the New Order, who pass not by the law of material birth, but by the Law of mental and spiritual rebirth. Consciousness cannot be confined to low planes of mortal evolution and at the same time be prepared to cope with the forces making for the establishment of Immortality. The prediction that in 1942 there will be but six children born to a thousand is not calamitous. The falling of the birth rate is traced somewhat to lack of immigration, and the distribution of birth control knowledge especially to those who reproduce rapidly and live in squalor. Since these furnish the high percentage of criminals, we can find solace in the fact that this current is not allowed to assert itself at this changing time of the world. The establishment of birth control clinics in Chicago was one of the mystical wars by which the welfare of society is safeguarded, but was also the supremacy of progression against that current of the race that would hold a mass of people to low planes that they, as religious and political leaders, may benefit themselves. Chicago's death rate 9.75, was lowest in 1932.

Religious Progression

Chicago is a center of religious education. Every phase of religious progression has identified itself in Chicago, most of it in the Auditorium Building, whose Recital Hall furnishes an excellent setting for public gatherings of less than five hundred. The Auditorium Theater cares for the larger crowds. Auditorium, signifies that relating to hearing. The "ears" of Chicago have been well trained, for all ideas pertaining to the advancement of people from spiritualistic phenomenon to technocracy have found listening ears among the people of Chicago.

Chicago has over 1,700 churches. Every faith known to mankind is represented by them. It has two archdiocese, Catholic and Episcopal. There are 1174 Protestant churches, 55 Catholic, 100 Jewish, and 171 other churches including 21 Christian Science churches. The Catholic membership amounts approximately to 1,159,390, the Protestant to 429,265, and the Jewish 400.000. Added to the church membership, there is a great body of students who attend services of a more advanced nature, having no church affiliation. Because the number of church membership is in the minority is not a calamity, in this day of advanced progression. While the more advanced do not have church affiliation, they do devote all the forces of consciousness to thinking, speaking, and living in keeping with Principles governing the expression of Life, rendering a devotion to the things of the Spirit that has never been found in church worship or affiliation. These are not numbered among church goers in Chicago nor in the United States, though they do in many instances attend services devoted to the Principles of Life and Truth. In reality, it is this current of consciousness in a city or in a nation that controls the advancement of the people, being centers through which the Qualities of Life and Truth can be projected into the mass consciousness. This deals with the mystical spiritual in contradistinction to the literal religious that characterizes the religiously affiliated. The School of Livable Christianity is supreme in the dissemination of the Principles of Life and Truth, though necessarily directly supported by a small group of people in the different nations of the world. It is a scientific conclusion, that the higher any message given, the fewer that can receive it.

Every religion of any character, organized or unorganized, has centered to Chicago. Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy gave lectures on Christian Science in Chicago in 1884 and in 1888. The New Thought Religion had its beginning in Chicago, and spread, throughout the country from this central nucleus, counterparting the many phases of Protestantism. The Eucharistic Congress of the Roman Catholic Church was held in Chicago in June, 1926 attended by eight European cardinals, and bringing about one million pilgrims to the city. The Dowie Movement, with John Alexander Dowie who assumed the title of "Elijah," established Zion City in the Chicago area. The, Koreshan Movement, later established in Florida, had its inception in Chicago. Likewise other movements of religion had their birth in Chicago, with Chicago also being a central meeting point for lecturers and people of philosophical tendencies.

In 1895 there was a church for every two thousand inhabitants. This was somewhat offset by there being a saloon for every two hundred. It is this factor of light and darkness that has, scientifically led to the rapid building of Chicago on all planes of its expression, though this would have to be understood from fundamental Creative Law to be appreciated. In the degree that light and darkness are agitating, there is growth. Where there is no agitation there is inertia, lethargy, and lack of progression. Chicago is cooperative in its religious spirit rather than antagonistic. Its Federation of Churches includes all phases of religious thought. The meeting together on the part of Catholics, Protestants, and Jews, when occasion warrants, is not unusual. The World Parliament of Religions was held at the World's Fair in 1893. Its motto was "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." By setting up such a motto, the religious progression has set a goal of attainment. If it could believe in the motto the whole religious system would undergo a marked change, becoming a potent factor of progression relating to the life of the nation; yet, sentiments precede realities, and ideals are treasured in mind before they are actualized in the life an and affairs.

The World Fellowship of Faiths will be held during the "Century of Progress." The purpose of this fellowship is "To unite the best inspiration available from ALL FAITHS, upon the solution of MAN'S PRESENT PROBLEMS." "Faiths" is understood to include all religions and all social movements making significant contributions to human welfare.

This World Fellowship of Faiths will convene in Chicago, during August, September, and October, 1933. Some of the problems to be discussed are, "Poverty Amidst Plenty: How Cure It?" "The Depression - What Light Can My Faith Shed Upon It?" "Shall Man or Money Be Master?" "How to Expand Patriotism into World Consciousness?" Disarmament," and kindred other subjects are booked for discussion. Action is aimed at, with a development of world-wide, fraternal unity of life. All this is commendable, but, scientifically no religionist can talk on these subjects without having a fundamental unfoldment of Truth based upon an unfoldment of the Governing Principles in the Life. If one has this, he or she is not a religionist but a lover of the Truth. Yet, any step leading to a higher direction is to be encouraged, but the time is short for expressing experimental ideas and those based on hope.

The Hall of Religion at the "Century of Progress," will represent all creeds. Religious relics, past and present, will be on exhibition. It is estimated the Hall of Religion will cost $75,000 to complete. It will house all phases of religious progression, and reveal to the public that religion has its place in racial development. Yet, this is only in outer ways, for the genuine religious progression is measured by man's capacity to live in conformity with governing Laws of Being, and to become an agent in the Hands (Powers) of these Laws, by which the Light gained is projected into the race. "I am the Light of the world. Ye are the light of the world." The Light that enlightens the world is more than ideas and opinions expressed by religious leaders. It is the life conformed to Principles, by which the Realities of Being gained are projected into the life of the race. The promoters of these Principles are not found in organized religion, hence, the religious progression of the world is the measured aspect; while the spiritual progression cannot be measured nor confined to creeds and societies.

Religion, under a righteous system of living, is consciousness of Truth. Progression through the various aspects of church organization, both the Old and the New thought religious currents, is for the purpose of preparing consciousness to receive the Truth, though this is accomplished by repudiating the untruth of these religious currents. Truth is never found in the worldly organizations, but opens in one freed from limitations developed on the mortal plane of existence. The goal of all religious progression is to know the Truth, yet, paradoxical as it may sound, to become a member of this Universal Church of Truth, is to cease to be a member of the religious aspects by which capacity to know the Truth was promoted. It should be seen, however, that the religious aspects do not promote the Truth by teaching Truth, but by teaching untruth. This becomes obnoxious to the seeking spirit, who turning away from the limited concepts of Life put out by the religionists, invites knowledge of the unlimited concepts of Life. The unlimited concepts of Life ultimate as Truth, though Truth is not something learned through outer things of any nature, but is that which opens from within the Kingdom of God in the consciousness, when one has repulsed and mastered the limitations presented on the outer planes of living.

Educational Progression

The educational possibilities of Chicago are unlimited. There are colleges and Universities, Schools of Art, Music, Science, the Armour Institute of Technology, Grammar and high Schools, Working Homes for Boys and Girls, Manual Training at orphanages, Schools for the Blind and the Dumb. The total enrollment for public schools is about 500,000. The Catholic schools, and their subsidiaries, as embraced by orphanages and industrial schools, have an enrollment of 216,990. The universities and colleges have an enrollment of around 35,000. The Medical, Dental, Theological Seminaries and Law Schools are distinct in their functioning and attendance, as well as the Schools of Art, Music, Science, etc.

A charge against the waste in the public school system of Chicago can be traced to birth control. When providing school facilities, a declining birth rate was not seriously taken into consideration. This has caused a vacancy in about five thousand seats provided for children who were not born. The birth rate was decreasing in time of prosperity, but since the effect of the economic pressure has made itself felt the birth rate has fallen off to a great extent. Enrollment in the lower grades of school fell off about five thousand in 1932. The teachers of Chicago, for years before the depression set in, provided out of their own funds, for free lunches for the children of the poor, for under our present economical system the children of the poor are always present. The services rendered by the Chicago teachers during these years, their receiving compensation at irregular times, is that associated with teaching. The teaching profession must contain the spirit of service and fraternity, without which the real spirit of teaching would be absent.

Education is one of the Seven Rights of Man, and under a righteous governmental system will be assured every person until twenty-one years of age; and education for a profession may continue longer under certain arrangements. Teachers will be especially qualified in the spirit of service, as they are expected to be, and compensated at a higher valuation than possible under our present system of limited finance. Education is a Right that should pervade all planes of living. The development of intelligence is something more than external learning. It is the unfoldment of mental faculties by which the Mind of the Spirit, by which the Truth is known, is developed. Until this Mind is enthroned, the race must grow by hard experience and other methods necessary to develop consciousness, and to make it capable of being receptive to the innate Laws of Being governing the real nature of Man. Education, when properly premised, is promotive of natural talent, as well as preparing citizens to intelligently live and serve after school days are finished. The entrance into the great School of Life, the University of all universities, ought to be attended with understanding, as well as mental equipment.

The "I Will" Slogan of Chicago

The "I Will" slogan of Chicago had its inception in 1892. It represents the courage and persistency of the city consciousness to continue its progress. It is pictured by a Woman, because as the author of the slogan says, "Into my head came the old saying, "When a woman will, she will, you may depend on it, after which he carried out the ideas that make up the pictured slogan. A woman, wearing a phoenix with wings outspread for a crown stands erect, in classical gown, carrying a carpenter's square, and on her wrists the athlete's leather braces, her face expressing dignity, strength, poise, and energy. This Chicago slogan is shown in part in connection with the "Century of Progress" posters. Back of the head of the woman is that of an Indian, signifying the spirit of undevelopment and wildness that characterized Chicago's beginning in 1833. That Chicago would have as a motto, I Will, is not a happenstance. Centered as the seat of the capital of the New Order in the Ages, and housing the Throne of the Higher Laws by which the New Order is brought to pass, and fitting the action of the Divine Will, its "I Will" is a perfect counterpart of the spirit standing back of Chicago's destiny. Yet, the destiny of Chicago is but the central throne by which the destiny of the whole United States is fulfilled. All things work out in sequential order that relate to any city or person destined to fulfil a particular mission. All steps of progression lead to the culmination of the Plan outlined in the invisible Principles, by which all outer things are controlled.

The Divine Will demands first the action of the "I Will." The "I Will" must be as progressive on its plane as the Divine Will is progressing, before it can be subjected to the Divine Will and made an agent in its hands (powers). The zenith of the natural reached is the opportunity for the beginning of the spiritual; yet, in scientific law the spiritual is beginning from within and forcing the end of the natural. The centralization to Chicago of all forces of a higher nature, culminated in the centralization of the spiritual forces to Chicago, these becoming the Throne of the Divine Will by which the work of the "I Will" is crowned with I Am," the fruit of the Divine Will. Cities are states of consciousness, and represent at their highest point, the most advanced states of consciousness within their borders. It is this high point that becomes the governing power of the consciousness of a city, as well as that of the nation, when the Divine Will has superseded the I Will with Its Power and Presence. That the mass of people are not aware of this dominancy is of no consequence to the Divine Will that sets Its Plan for the fulfillment of Its Purpose in consciousness suitable for this fulfillment.

Highlights About Chicago

Chicago has been under three flags. First, that of France until 1763, that of Great Britain until 1783, and from that time under the United States. Chicago is the city that reversed the flow of its river, causing it to flow away from its mouth. Chicago is said to be half land and half water. The "Century of Progress" is built on manmade land though the fair of 1893 was on natural land. Chicago is the mother of the skyscraper and the high speed passenger elevators. Chicago has a few times raised the issue of becoming a separate State; this would eliminate the jealousy, and agitation that arise between those performing the governmental duties for the, state, and those performing the governmental duties for the City of Chicago, which, because of its vast interests, is of more import than the whole state.

The idea of Chicago as the new capital of the United States was envisioned as early as 1885. The idea was given by direct revelation at the movement of the Divine Will in the earth in 1922, establishing Chicago not only as the capital of the United States at the setting up of the New Order, but as the New Jerusalem center with world wide spiritual influence; though, necessarily this is not as from the external aspects of Chicago but from the spiritual powers segregated in the city.

About a century ago a man refused to trade his pony for forty acres of land, that is now the heart of the city. Chicago is a great floral city, shipping flowers to all parts of the country. Chicago, though known as a "windy city" has a wonderful climate. The winds are invigorating and the lake tempers the climate in summer so that usually there are few hot days, and they are tempered with cool breezes at night. Chicago's health standard is above the average for cities with a population of over a half million. Chicago has the world's lowest tuberculosis death rate for large cities. Chicago is the largest Railroad center in the U.S. Twenty-eight railroads begin and end in Chicago. In this is a wonderful symbol for its centralizing the powers of the Divine Laws. One conscious of the relation of visible things to invisible principles can witness these inner powers as perfectly as one can see a train on the elevated system of the city. The "loop" of Chicago is fraught with invisible powers, and even the noise provides a marked agent of use, even as the darkness aids the light toward forming the light. The writer can leave or enter Chicago with her eyes closed, and know exactly the city limits, because of the marked invisible forces that invade the consciousness, like a conqueror who has won a battle!

There are many wonders in Chicago, but the seven outstanding ones are usually agreed upon, as follows: First, Boulevards and Park System, including play grounds and public places; second, Field Museum; third, Art Institute; fourth, the city itself, its site on the Lake, Municipal Pier and its indomitable spirit; fifth, Adler Planetarium; sixth, Women's Organizations and activities; seventh, Institutions of Learning, Music and Science.

Chicago's Government

Much is said about the government of any large city, for its government is as complex as the nation's and not nearly so systematized. The political everywhere breeds dishonesty and vice because so many people serving the public have not attained individual consciousness, nor have they attained any consciousness of country that naturally follows the attainment of consciousness of oneself. Chicago is no worse, according to its size, than other cities, but being larger promotes more of both good and evil, than smaller places. A certain jealousy has prevailed for years between "downstate" and Chicago, with bickering legislators fighting the necessary legislation that particularly relates to Chicago and its future. This has caused threats of Chicago's secession from the state and setting itself up as an independent state.

There is no doubt but that the government of Chicago can be improved. But this can be said of the whole United States, therefore, the establishment of Righteous Government at the capital of the nation, in fundamental principles, and the application of these principles to all government will heal the festering sores of government, promoted by partisan politics, throughout the country. There is no other hope. Energy per capita and debt per capita are the highest today of all times, and this is the bane of government, preventing harmonious expression. The establishment of righteous government, pivoted to the capital of the government of the United States, and extending in all directions, will heal the entire nation "in a day." With sound government established (sound being the opposite of unsound), the function of government, finance, will also be sound (which it is not now in spite of all the declarations of politicians to the contrary). This will be in keeping with the Immortal Spirit that has moved to establish the New Order in the Ages in the United States, and to set up the government of the United States as an Ensign to all nations.

There are 144 city blocks of four acres each in the Heart of Chicago. This mystical 144 is significant when spiritually discerned. The four acres are counterparted by the four departments of consciousness, spirit, soul, mind, and body, that completed as a State of consciousness identifies the 144 Principles of Being. The United States government abounds with symbolical representations of inner governing Principles, with Chicago as its central function, when viewed as a national consciousness.

A Century of Progress

The celebration of "A Century of Progress" this year in Chicago, beginning May 27, is a fitting example of the spirit of the city, "I Will." This is the year that commemorates a century of progression since the incorporation of the city, and is the time to celebrate. Despite the depression (which is now openly recognized), the preparation for the Century of Progress has gone forward. Many wonderful buildings of modernistic type, as well as individually representative of the exhibits housed, have been erected. The Electrical Building is imposing. At the entrance to the left a heroic figure of a Woman, entitled "Light," flashing light through space, symbolizes light as the beginning of all things. On the right, a companion figure of a Man, entitled "Energy" is described as "the substance of all things." Of course, this is exactly opposite to the underlying Principles, as it would be on the external plane, where all things are reversed to the governing Laws. For Woman is the energy, the Will of Being, by which all forms of being are brought forth, with Man being the penetrating light that causes form to be manifested. It is the Spirit of Woman, as the Divine Will, which is the very substance of being, that is exerting its universal influence at this time. Man is the outer builder, Woman is the inner gatherer of the essences to be formed and the fashioner of the form to be. Many electrical marvels will be on display in the Electrical building.

Besides the buildings erected for the "Century of Progress," the grounds contain $20,000,000 in permanent buildings: The Adler Planetarium, the Chicago Art Institute, the Field's Museum of Natural History, the Shedd Aquarium, the Soldier's Field, and only a short distance, the Museum of Science and Industry. The exhibits of these buildings would make for a liberal education, and it is hoped that the youth of the country may have advantage of this opportunity, though these permanent buildings remain as an educational monument to a great city. The many exhibits to be shown at the Exposition are so depicted as to show the relation they bear to living, and thus the story of progression is told in a living way, and is not just a matter of seeing objects of use. Among the many exhibits will be the "Lincoln Group," the "Golden Pavilion of Jehol," from China; a model Hollywood; Admiral Byrd's polar ship; the "City of New York," the "Sky Ride," and numerous other things of educational value and entertainment.

The important thing about the "Century of Progress" is not the outer exhibitions, but is the centralization of forces of all nations and people to Chicago, in 1933, the pivotal city of the operation of the Divine Laws since 1922. It is as though the Divine Laws, having projected from center toward circumference, all they had to give, now, by means of the Exposition, invite a return of the forces to center, for the next act in the outworking of the New Order in the Ages, with Chicago to be established as a Central Throne of Power. This is not accomplished as by the outer forces of this great city, but as by the underlying Principles that use the symbolical city by which it builds the real City, the Queen City to be established as an eternal monument to Man. The lighting of the Exposition with the light beams traveling from Arcturus typifies the union of the Light from above with the activities of the earth, and makes a fitting picture of the Will of Heaven coming into the earth.