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THE PHYSIC POWER OF A GOD WITHIN. 
 
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 Copyrighted July 29, 1903 
 
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 AKOHIE JOHNSON INGEE. 
 
ARCHIE JOHNSON INGEK. 
 
To those who are willing to lay aside all prejudices 
 and superstitions, to those who are constantly reach- 
 ing out for the better and the higher in life, this book 
 is respectfully dedicated by, 
 
 THE AUTHOR. 
 
THE PSYCHIC POWER OF A GOD WITHIN. 
 
 pter 1. 
 
 Adam and Eve. 
 
 '' 2. 
 
 The Soul 
 
 3.' 
 
 The Spirit. 
 
 4. 
 
 Thoughts. 
 
 5. 
 
 Your Psychic Powers. 
 
 6. 
 
 How to Prevent Old Age. 
 
 7. 
 
 The Spirit World. 
 
 8. 
 
 God. 
 
 9. 
 
 The Spirit Before Birth. 
 
 " 10. 
 
 Unreasonable Things. 
 
 " • 11. 
 
 The Spirit Home. 
 
 " 12. 
 
 Polygamy. 
 
 " 13. 
 
 Love and Fancy. 
 
 '* 14. 
 
 Reincarnation. 
 
 " 15. 
 
 Music and Flowers. 
 
 " 36. 
 
 "Believe and Be Saved." 
 
 "- 17. 
 
 Things Are As We Make Them 
 
 " 18. 
 
 Death, or What is Called Death 
 
 " 19. 
 
 Clairvoyance and Dreams. 
 
 " 20. 
 
 False Modesty. 
 
 " 21 
 
 Card Playing. 
 
 " 22. 
 
 The Downfall of the Spirit. 
 
 " 28. 
 
 A Personal God. 
 
 " 24. 
 
 The Power of Thought. 
 
 " 25. 
 
 A Young Man's First Duty. 
 
 " 26. 
 
 The Word of Wisdom. 
 
 " 27. 
 
 Universal Love. 
 
 " 28. 
 
 Marriage. 
 
 " 29. 
 
 Fear and Courage. 
 
 " 30. 
 
 Wrinkles With Old Age. 
 
 " 31. 
 
 Food of Lite. 
 
 ' 32. 
 
 The Spirit Pood. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 After studying and using my own psychic 
 powers for some time, thinking it was a 
 power that had been gifted to me, and to me 
 only, I at last became curious and wondered 
 what this power could be, wherein I used it, 
 and how, and in what way I was different 
 from others. 
 
 But after looking this up and giving it a 
 thoroughly good examination I found that I 
 was gifted with a power; but that that power 
 was not only within myself, but that every 
 living man or woman possessed this same 
 power. Only in most of them it was lying 
 uncultivated and dwindling away to a mere 
 speck, I found that as Jesus said "God is 
 within you. ' ' I found that this God could do 
 anything, only we must give him the chanCe. 
 
 Then, to make sure that I was right and 
 that every man had this same power, I told 
 others about it and my own methods. They 
 could do all of these things in a very short 
 time, they could ,do what I did, proving to 
 me that all were equal and that all were ruled 
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by this power, by this God power, the 
 planets, the atmosphere, and all the inhabit- 
 ants of the planets. 
 
 After looking around me I found that, 
 out of every hundred human beings, there 
 was about one who could be termed perfect- 
 ly healthy. They all had something wrong 
 with them and T wondered how it was. With 
 the assistance of my psychic powers, I found 
 out the reason. It was this, that man had 
 failed to learn himself, he had been growing 
 up one sided, cultivating those parts which 
 could be seen by the naked eye and, leaving 
 the others uncultivated. I found that he had 
 made a botch out of it all. 
 
 Then I wondered why we all got old and 
 in such a short time, and if old age were one 
 of nature's laws. I found out that it was 
 contrary to nature to get old and, that it was 
 caused always by the same thing. Man had 
 failed to learn himself. While I never before 
 believed in perpetual youth, I now know it 
 to be so, that by using these psychic powers 
 perpetual youth can be obtained. I have 
 proved it to be the case. I have found out 
 more than that. T found that even death as 
 
we consider it, can be checked and stopped 
 by the cultivation of these powers. 1 *found 
 that death is unnatural. All these things I 
 have proved beyond a doubt to myself and to 
 others before I ever wrote a line. of this book. 
 
 Then, after making this my study I 
 thought it no more than my duty to give this 
 knowledge to others, or to help do all that 
 was in my power in spreading this science, 
 the science of man himself, to man. 
 
 The only way I could do this was to 
 write this book, which is only a small begin- 
 ning. I hope that all will read it for that 
 purpose, to take the good there is in it. I , 
 did not write it to let people know about my 
 powers or my good qualities, as I am no more 
 than any one else; but I am willing to try 
 and this book is for that purpose. It is to 
 change the ways of people and to alleviate 
 some of the suffering at the present time. 
 
 I hope this book will bring the happiness 
 to all who read it that this science has 
 brought to me. and to others in whom I am 
 concerned. 
 
 The Author. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 This book deals with the psychic powers 
 of man, and in order for you to grasp its 
 meaning, you must lay aside all prejudices, 
 for a man's power is limited only by his be- 
 lief. If you will not allow yourself to be- 
 lieve things that are somewhat different from 
 those you have believed before, your power 
 will always be the same, you will never be 
 able to do greater things than you have al- 
 ways done. 
 
 I call the study of man, true spiritualism, 
 and as I call true spiritualism the study of 
 man, it is my object here to take away those 
 old superstitions that have always existed in 
 regard to spiritualism, and to show you the 
 truth in regard to this science, the science of 
 man. 
 
 I do not deal here much with the spirit 
 world, as I will speak more of that in the 
 next book, which will be called ' 'The Second 
 Book of the Psychic Powers" or "God With- 
 in Man;" but I want to give the means of 
 progressing the spirit while yet in the flesh. 
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I want to show up the powers of man and 
 what man really is, and the causes of all the 
 horrible disasters we are bringing upon our- 
 selves every day. I want to show up the 
 power of the mind and its different elfects 
 upon our bodies and upon the bodies of 
 others. I have proved it to be the truth, 
 and, that with all these powers cultivated, 
 we can do what we wish, we can bring suc- 
 cess in every way to ourselves. 
 
 I have proved that by living according 
 to nature we can find that fountain which all 
 people so desire, that fountain for which 
 Ponce de Leon so long searched, the fountain 
 of perpetual youth, for that fountain is 
 nothing more than the fountain of knowl- 
 edge, the knowledge of one's self. 
 
 Then, if I believe in perpetual youth, I 
 do not believe in deabh as it is considered to- 
 day. I say that death is contrary to the laws 
 of nature, that it can be stopped, and that we 
 can be changed by the twinkling of an eye to 
 a body of a higher form, instead of throwing 
 our bodies away, as we do at the present 
 time. In this book I speak upon a number 
 of subjects mainly those which I think are 
 
 most abused and which I mean to reach the 
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same end. The reason I speak of these is 
 because such thoughts as are discussed in 
 these subjects degrade you and stop your 
 progression; and there are more of them that 
 need discussion. In order for you to get 
 them you must get one of my small books 
 called: "The Creation of Man," one for 
 men, the other for women, which teaches 
 girls the deception of mea and the purity of 
 both sexes. 
 
 Now, about the first thing you will say 
 is, that these things are contrary to the 
 Bible; but if that is what you think look the 
 New Testament square in the face and see 
 whether they are or not. Others will say 
 these are not in the Bible; but are we going 
 to just take what is there and nothing else, 
 when there is no end to our progression? 
 
 You would soon get through and there 
 would be no need of your existing forever, 
 besides, the Bible tells you to accept the 
 good of everything and throw the rest aside, 
 that is all I ask. 
 
 This book is written in very plain 
 language so that every one can understand 
 its meaning and the meaning I intend to con- 
 vey. This is for every one who wishes toac- 
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cept it and as every one has not attained the 
 same education through some cause or other, 
 it is written so that all can understand it. If 
 any one who reads it, reads it to pick it to 
 pieces, pick it to pieces to me, for no one 
 but a coward would shoot a man in the 
 back. So if you want to pick this to pieces, 
 do it in a way that I may find it out. 
 
 Then, you might get the Understanding 
 by some of the things in this book that I 
 think myself perfect and better than you are. 
 I do not claim to be that which I think a man 
 should be; but I say I will be thus before I 
 complete my work. I say things as I mean 
 them whether it hits you or not, I say it and 
 I do not care to polish up my meaning so that 
 it can be taken in a hundred different ways. 
 Neither do I try to make these subjects so 
 that they will please everyone who reads 
 them, by putting them in a way that each one 
 could change it to suit himself, to suit his 
 own disposition and ways of living. 
 
 If we were all perfect there would be no 
 
 need of reading so I put these subjects here 
 
 just as I want them to be taken, and I hope 
 
 they will be taken so, accepting the good and 
 
 throwing aside the bad. 
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ADAM AND EVE. 
 
 As long as there has been a Bible, like all 
 other books, it has been much misunderstood. 
 Everyone who reads the Bible has a different 
 conception of its meaning. But the one 
 thing that seems to bother nearly all Bible 
 readers is the Adam and Eve question. 
 
 My ideas, coming from a different source, 
 of course vary from all others. I will express 
 my ideas for the benefit of those who are 
 willing to agree with me in them, as it is 
 necessary in order to make the facts which 
 will be explained further on, better under- 
 stood. 
 
 Science tells us that, at one time the 
 whole world was a hot mass, or ball of lire, 
 which, if investigated, looks reasonable. So, 
 if the earth was at one time a hot mass, it 
 certainly must cool off before any living 
 creature would be able to inhabit it— the 
 lower form of animals first, the better or 
 higher afterwards. If such is the case, man, 
 being the highest form of life, would neces- 
 sarily be the last created. 
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It seems natural and accordant with rea- 
 son that the first man would not be as the 
 man today, he would be more like an animal 
 than a man, he would have the form of a 
 man; but he would be a man without thought, 
 a man without the vital forces, because it is 
 no more than natural that the first man 
 would be imperfect. 
 
 Adam and Eve were the first creation of 
 a real man and woman, they were the first to 
 have thought, to know that they knew what 
 they knew, they were the first to have the 
 vital forces, they were the first created in the 
 image of God. They were the first created in 
 the image of God, because they had the 
 power of God within them. 
 
 All they needed was to find out that they 
 had this power of God, or good, use it, and 
 cultivate it so that it could be used. The 
 lower form of man had his form, but they 
 were not created in the image of God, be- 
 cause God has power, God is power of 
 thought, of the vital forces which are ruled 
 by thought, cultivated by thought. 
 
 In order to be made in the image of God, 
 one must have the powers of God, and be 
 
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able to do what God does, by cultivating the 
 God power within you. 
 
 Eve was the first to find out that she had 
 these powers, that she could use them by 
 cultivation. She saw Adam also had these 
 powers, so she convinced him of the truth and 
 in so doing tempted him. How could she do 
 otherwise ? She could not convince him of 
 the truth without tempting him. 
 
 Then God said, or the power of God said: 
 " You shall die. " Why? Because they did 
 not know death before, they did not know or 
 understand it but the power of God told them 
 that the body of clay could only develope so 
 far and live. 
 
 It must change, leaving the old to die, 
 and it must take up a higher body, higher 
 than the one of clay, that after a certain stage 
 must change and die. 
 
 If the powers were left uncultivated they 
 
 would dwindle away and the body would die 
 
 of old age. Then if letting the powers go 
 
 uncultivated would cause death by old age, 
 
 the cultivation of them would cause death in 
 
 a higher form. The body of clay could be 
 
 changed by the twinkling of an eye to a body 
 
 of a higher form. This will be explained 
 
 after awhile. 
 
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THE SOUL. 
 
 It is generally thought that the soul and 
 the spirit are the same thing. There is a 
 great difference between the soul and the 
 spirit. They are entirely different and sepa- 
 rate from each other. The soul is the life of 
 every living creature; everything that lives 
 has a soul; but everything has not a spirit. 
 
 The soul is the cause of life, it moves 
 along in the veins together with the blood 
 and forces the blood through the veins. It 
 is not the heart that rushes the blood through 
 the body but the soul. The soul is composed 
 of magnetism or personal electricity taken 
 from the air. 
 
 Whenever there is an ache or sickness of 
 any kind, it is caused by the lack of life or 
 soul in the parts that are affected. It is be- 
 cause they do not understand how to use 
 their soul and transfer or force it through 
 the affected parts. This leaves those parts 
 to wither and die. 
 
 You do not possess this soul power to let 
 it go neglected and to lessen until the body 
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dies with old age. You who possess the 
 power to reason should cultivate this power 
 until it consumes the flesh and turns it into 
 soul. Cultivate it until the body developes 
 into life instead of part life and part clay. 
 You were not born to dwindle away and die 
 less and with less power than you had when 
 you were born. If such was the case you 
 would not have been born at all. 
 
 You were born with part clay and part 
 soul to live and to make every day better and 
 to give more power to the soul until the body 
 of clay would turn into one life, life that 
 could never die. Then there would be no 
 death, the old body would be changed for a 
 new one that was all life, one that could not 
 die. 
 
 Under these conditions, the spirit would 
 have something to take with it and to do its 
 work, instead of your dying with less power 
 than you began with, thus leaving the spirit 
 weak and almost powerless, leaving it with 
 thousands of years of hard work, to develope 
 a perfect soul after death, to do work un- 
 finished on this earth, leaving it' to do work 
 that you could have done in a few years by 
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proper living and ways of living and doing. 
 
 What is life the way it is lived ? To be 
 born, spend all the time in worldly pleasures, 
 or for what you eat and drink, leaving your- 
 self to dwindle away to nothing, yes, to even 
 death; dying like an animal. You human 
 beings, endowed with reasoning powers, a 
 body, a soul and a spirit, leaving yourselves 
 to die as an animal and be forgotten. 
 
 You leaving a spirit without soul enough, 
 to do its work but to do this work you should 
 have done while you had something to do it 
 with. 
 
 What would have been the use of your 
 having been created if all there was to do 
 was to live and enjoy a few years of what you 
 would call pleasure and then to die and be 
 nothing more ? Common sense, if it is used, 
 teaches differently. It shows that as long as 
 there is life there is something to be done 
 with that life, and as long as you are endowed 
 with reason don't disgrace it enough not to 
 use it. 
 
 Make every day you live give you more 
 life instead of less, until you will at last go 
 to a higher place of development, with a 
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grand spirit and a fully developed and power- 
 ful soul. 
 
 This soul can, by proper thoughts, be 
 developed to such a degree that there is 
 nothing impossible for it to accomplish. It 
 can grant every wish, can bring back the life 
 to someone that is dead, in fact, there is 
 nothing impossible, as is shown in the life of 
 Christ. 
 
 Of course, you can not expect to do this 
 in one day, neither was the earth made in one 
 day, nor can it be done without work; but it 
 is worth it. 
 
 Do you stop to think one moment why do 
 I get old ? Is not there something to prevent 
 it ? Is it nature to be born just to live a year 
 or two and then wither up and die ? Or is 
 there something better, higher for me to 
 reach out to than a miserable old age ? Jesus 
 says : " Study and learn thyself." He says 
 to study and learn thyself first. Are you 
 doing it ? No. If you were you would not be 
 getting old. You spend years of hard work 
 in school, studying every other thing but the 
 most important one : you do not learn your- 
 self. 
 
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' Men will spend a life study on some ant, 
 some animal, or bird and have not one 
 thought towards themselves. They learn the 
 peculiarities of an ant or some other insect, 
 and what becomes of it. Their life on this 
 earth is gone, they get old and die, they are 
 forgotten, they have done no real good to 
 themselves or to anyone else but they die 
 very smart. They know all about an ant or 
 a honey bee and not one thing about them- 
 selves. They are good Christian people. 
 They go to church and hear that Jesus, the 
 one they worship has said : "Learn thyself 
 first." Yet their children are going to a 
 school that teaches everything else but them- 
 selves; And when they do that they are going 
 to hell as fast as they can and not one step 
 towards their aim, heaven. 
 
 They die, they find out they know noth- 
 ing, they find themselves almost equal to an 
 animal, they find themselves in hell instead 
 of where they should have been, in heaven. 
 Because there is one thing that is impossible 
 to crush out and that is memory. So could 
 they be in heaven and remember their lost 
 opportunities ? Is there any other hell but 
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the hell of the mind ? Is there any other 
 heaven but the heaven of the mind ? Is 
 there any other heaven but to find that you 
 are powerful and great and still growing 
 greater; to find that you have seized all the 
 opportunities that crossed your path ? And 
 so, if that is heaven, strive for it. 
 
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THE SPIRIT. 
 
 The spirit is light, it is composed of 
 thought and reason, in fact, the only thing 
 that is capable of reasoning. The body is 
 just its machine with which it works, the 
 soul, its power. Allow your thoughts to run 
 in an immoral way, and it will degrade your 
 spirit and lessen the power of your soul. 
 With a weak s6ul the spirit has no power 
 either over your own body or that of anyone 
 else. Divine thoughts and refinement give 
 strength and refinement to the spirit and 
 power to the soul. 
 
 If people realized the harm done by one 
 immoral thought they would never allow 
 their minds to run in that direction; but that 
 is where the harm comes, there is no one who 
 has 'learned himself,' consequently there is 
 no one who can follow the laws of his own 
 creation. But he is left to suffer the conse- 
 quences afterwards, with bitter remorse in 
 hell. 
 
 Therefore, direct your thoughts in a 
 
 right way, and build up your spirit. Have a 
 
 spirit composed of divine thoughts and a 
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powerful soul with which to do its work. 
 Have a spirit of which you can be proud, and 
 with which you can do some good in the 
 world, instead of letting yourself drift down 
 to nothing until you, or your spirit is forced 
 to leave your body to return to dust. If your 
 body was supposed to return to dust you 
 would never have had one. 
 
 You took a body to make something out 
 of it, something better than it was to begin 
 with. You were never supposed to return it 
 back to dust. At first you had a spirit, you 
 had part soul, and part clay, the greater part 
 being soul. If that were not so the soul 
 would not have had power enough to keep life 
 in the dead clay as it does, the clay would die; 
 but you see in that, like everything else, the 
 greater predominates. When I say you I 
 mean your spirit, for your body is not you, 
 only your machine. 
 
 Well, you or your spirit, was supposed 
 
 to take complete control of that body and 
 
 soul and not let it take control over you. 
 
 You were supposed to cultivate that soul of 
 
 yours and make it greater and stronger until 
 
 you could gradually turn the lesser half of 
 
 your body, the clay, into soul so, that it would 
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be all soul. Then you would have a magnetic 
 body to dwell in, one that could never die. 
 That is what I mean when I say, leave the 
 old clay on and take up a more perfect one 
 with which to do its work. When you have 
 done this, you have completed your mission 
 on earth, that is, in this body and that is 
 what is called this earth. 
 
 So then, instead of dying-, leaving your 
 friends to mourn your death, you could say: 
 "Good-bye, I am going to take up a higher 
 work." They congratulate you, and you 
 could go down or dematerialize. That would 
 be called, changed by the twinkling of an eye, 'H 
 
 If, at any time, yon felt as if you would 
 like to come back, you could do so; material- 
 ize, or make your body a light color so that 
 it could be seen, greet your friends, dema- 
 terialize and go again. This has been proved 
 to you by Jesus. He did it. 
 
 They thought him dead. They buried 
 him. But on the third day he took his body 
 and came out. Do you suppose he took a 
 body of clay and came out with it? Do you 
 suppose he could take this body of clay and 
 go up out of sight? If such had been the 
 case he would have allowed Mary to touch 
 
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him, but he did not. Why? Because one per- 
 son takes magnetism from another by touch- 
 ing them just the same as he takes electricity 
 from a wire by touching it. 
 
 Had Jesus allowed Mary to touch him, 
 he would have gone invisible to her sight be- 
 cause she would have taken his magnetism, 
 and it very likely would ha^e killed her be- 
 cause it would have been too much for her. 
 
 Now, this body of magnetism you must 
 have, and if you would rather get it after 
 death, all right; but it will take you thous- 
 ands of years to get it because you will have 
 to take a little here and a little there from 
 whomever you can, until you get your mag- 
 netic body. You must have it before you 
 progress any higher. Then you will see 
 what hell means when you remember this, 
 when you remember your lost time. 
 
 People can, by low thoughts, or by al- 
 lowing their thoughts to run in an immoral 
 way, feeling badly, or by any way giving the 
 body too much control, crush out the spirit, 
 leaving their body without a power with 
 which to reason. What is the result? He is 
 insane. He has a body without a spirit. 
 The body lives on until the soul dwindles 
 
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away, till it gets the lesser half, and then 
 the body dies. He can come back and take 
 what soul is left and drag on a thousand 
 years perhaps before he gains his lost time. 
 
 Then you wonder why and say: "If 
 there are spirits, why don't they show them- 
 selves?" What do you expect of them in the 
 condition they are left, in the condition you 
 are living today? There are only a very few 
 who are in a fit condition to manifest much, 
 and you would not allow them to do so if 
 they so desired. You would run away and 
 call them "spooks," "evil spirits," and soon, 
 when they came to lead you in the right way, 
 so that you would have an easier path to 
 follow. 
 
 You can fit yourself, if you so desire, so 
 that you can give them magnetism with 
 which to come to sight, because it is trans- 
 ferable, and if you h^ve much and give your 
 own spirit strength to transfer it, you will be 
 able to give them some. They can come and 
 talk with you; but there are only very few 
 who do that and they are looked upon as de 
 ceivers and devils. I will explain further on 
 how to do this. All there is to it is to "Learn 
 thyself." 
 
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THOUGHTS. 
 
 Thoughts are things. There is never a 
 piece of work done without thought, nor does 
 anyone ever take sick, or get well again with- 
 out thought, in fact, everything is performed 
 by thought. It is not as many people think, 
 that the brain composes thought. The brain 
 is simply the part which the spirit uses to 
 convey its thoughts to the body. Thought 
 comes from the spirit; thought is spirit. 
 
 Thoughts and soul work together the 
 same as a man and his machine. The spirit's 
 thought, forces the soul to perform any work 
 it wishes performed. But in order to do this 
 to any great extent one must learn how to 
 think, how to give the spirit complete control 
 over the soul. 
 
 You can, by thinking or by letting your 
 spirit have control over the soul, convey this 
 soul, or magnetism, to any part of the body 
 that is ailing and affect a cure. The way to 
 do this is to say that part is getting well, or 
 concentrate your mind on this. What I mean 
 by this is to imagine that this part is being 
 
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healed and that makes your soul perform the 
 work. 
 
 This can be done to other persons as well 
 as yourself. Your spirit or thought can 
 transfer your magnetism to the other person 
 and perform there the work which you desire 
 to be performed. By doing this it makes 
 your soul more powerful; and the more 
 powerful your soul becomes, the greater, 
 miracles you can perform. 
 
 Everything else can be done in the same^ 
 way. That is, after undertaking small things 
 first and cultivating the power of the soul*. 
 By allowing your thoughts to run in an< 
 immoral way it will bring bad things around' 
 you, and by allowing them to run in a goodi 
 way it will briug good things around you. 
 If you think that you were born for bad luck, 
 you are sure to have it until you change your- 
 mind. So, in the same way, you can bring 
 bad or good luck to others by your thoughts, 
 because if you desire bad luck to some one 
 else, your soul will, with all its strength, 
 perform this work for you, and unless the 
 other person has a strong enough soul to 
 bring him good in spite of you. he will turn 
 
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bad. Anyway, it will have a bad effect, that 
 is, it will make it harder for him to bring 
 upon himself good, than it would if he had 
 not your will to battle against. 
 
 Therefore, never allow people to know 
 your condition, if they be bad, make them 
 think all is well with you, and their thinking 
 so will soon have its good effect. 
 
 To illustrate the power of thought I will 
 take an incident with which I am well 
 acquainted. There were two men, whom, for 
 convenience, I will call A, and B. A. desired 
 to take the life of B. and it was not long 
 before he had a dozen weapons around him 
 with which to perform the evil deed. How 
 did he get them V His thought ran in that 
 direction. But strange as it may seem, B., in 
 the meantime, began to gather up knives and 
 guns with which to defend himself, and with- 
 out the least thought of why he was doing so. 
 He had not the least suspicion of A's inten- 
 tion. Why did he do this ? It was simply 
 the influence of A's thoughts. And so in 
 many cases it has been proved that thought 
 will do anything, that thought will be the 
 •cause of anything 's being done. 
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Now, as I said before, cultivate this 
 power in a noble way, by doing little things 
 at first, the greater afterwards. The spirit is 
 cultivated in the same way. Everything it 
 thinks has its effect, a person may be ever so 
 smart and as soon as he begins to take part 
 in little things he will become frivolous and 
 if he keeps on he will become an idiot. 
 
 If you cultivate this soul power and 
 spirit mind, it becomes great, you become 
 powerful, your face looks it, and everyone 
 who comes in your presence feels it. They 
 see something about you that other people do 
 not possess. They do not know what it is; 
 but they know one thing : that you are not 
 like other people. 
 
 There is no one thing but that has met 
 those kind of people; but some people have 
 this power and cultivate it everyday without 
 their knowledge. They pass people and say: 
 "Oh, they won't be that way Jong," and at 
 the same time they feel sure of this in their 
 own mind. People will say: "I never had 
 bad luck. I never take sick. In fact, I don't 
 believe that I could be sick." All this cultiv- 
 ates the soul power. 
 
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Then there are different kinds of magne- 
 tism. Some people have a different kind 
 from yours, they have different characteris- 
 tics from those you possess, and by being 
 around such persons you will take from 
 them. Your spirit provides itself with that 
 in which it is lacking, and you feel attracted 
 to this person, because he has something 
 which you have not, and which you desire. 
 
 If you are different from him, he will 
 draw from you that which he . lacks and it 
 becomes a mutual benefit. 
 
 Then again, you will meet persons whom 
 you despise. The reason of this is because 
 he has nothing that you can take; but you 
 have a great deal for him, and soon become' 
 tired and worn out. 
 
 Leave his company becau^e he has noth- 
 ing to offer in return for what he borrows, 
 and it is a disadvantage for you to remain in 
 his company. But if you stay with him long 
 you will soon begin to notice that he has 
 some of your characteristics and he does not 
 dre you so much, because he has all he needs 
 if the person is one who allows his thoughts 
 to run in a frivolous way he will keep on 
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drawing from you because he wastes as fast 
 as he draws ; but if he is a smart man, after 
 he draws what he needs he will begin to bear 
 acquaintance. Nevertheless, you will never 
 love him or his. 
 
 Also, your spirit can control the body of 
 some one else by your getting the consent of 
 the spirit from the other body, and then you 
 must be powerful enough to control both 
 bodies, or a half a dozen bodies, whichever it 
 may be, or you will not be able to take con- 
 trol from their own spirits. 
 
 Such is the case in hypnotism. You, or 
 your spirit, gets consent from the other per- 
 son, of their spirit, to let you use their body, 
 and then if you are powerful enough, yon 
 take it; if not, you cannot hypnotize them. 
 
 This can be used as a great benefit if 
 understood by the operator. He can give the 
 suggestion that anything he wishes done 
 which would be a benefit to the person under 
 control, be done, and thus start the soul of 
 this person to work, while, had this person 
 been in his own control, he would not have 
 understood how to do this. People who are 
 in the spirit world can hear and read 
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thoughts as well as they can hear a spoken 
 word, and people who let their spirit have 
 control over their body can tell what another 
 thinks just as well as if he heard it spoken; 
 unless the person thinking does not wish it 
 and understands how to set his will against 
 it. That stops any other spirit from seeing 
 or understanding what you think, whether 
 the spirit be in, or out of the body. 
 
 Then your spirit, by the help of the soul, 
 after both are well developed, and sometimes 
 when not, sends its thoughts to anyone or 
 anywhere it desires, and if it be sent to any 
 one person who is in the spirit world, it will 
 be felt and understood by that spirit. 
 
 When a thought is sent out in a right 
 way, it never dies; but can be seen years and 
 years afterward, either by spirits or by 
 clairvoyants, but after a thought is once re- 
 ceived it generally vanishes or that is, the 
 spirit who receives it keeps it and it makes 
 that spirit more highly developed. It adds 
 to that spirit, whether it be the spirit of a 
 living person or that of one who has passed 
 out. But if the thought be sent to a person 
 or spirit with bad intention, it injures them. 
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If a person is a sceptic, and believes there is 
 no spirit, he weakens his own, and if he be- 
 lieves that spirits who have passed out can- 
 not return and be around him he sends them 
 away. It is impossible for them to come 
 against an unfavorable thought, because they 
 are partly formed of thought, so that they 
 cannot come against an unfavorable one and 
 so cannot come around him. 
 
 But if he believes there is a spirit, and 
 that his spirit friends are around him, they 
 will come around him and help him in all his 
 undertakings. It helps him while it helps 
 the spirit friends to progress, because in be- 
 ing around him, they can draw and help to 
 make their magnetic body. A great deal of 
 harm is done the spirit world by this one 
 fault. Thought travels through space some- 
 thing the same as light goes through ether, 
 so it is very easy to direct it to any person, 
 either for good or for bad. 
 
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YOTTR PSYCHIC POWERS. 
 
 It is not a certain few who possess these 
 strange powers of hypnotism and of telling 
 the future and the past, neither is it strange 
 when once understood. Everyone has the 
 power to obtain these powers, if he will only 
 use it. Now some of these things are done 
 almost entirely by the soul while others are 
 done almost entirely by the spirit, so that you 
 can gain the one without the other if you so 
 desire. But the obtaining of the one without 
 the other cultivates only one of the powers, 
 either that of the soul or the spirit. 
 
 To obtain the power of hypnotism you 
 cultivate both the soul and the spirit because 
 you use the spirit and the soul in doing 
 this. The spirit uses the soul in taking con- 
 trol of the other person, because it takes 
 some power to do this. The power that is 
 used by the spiiit is the soul. The spirit 
 gets benefited until a complete knowledge of 
 hypnotism is obtained and the soul keeps on 
 progressing because it is used every time the 
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act is performed, and to use it, cultivates it 
 and makes it stronger; while the spirit uses 
 only the same knowledge every time and un- 
 less, through this there comes something 
 which would add to the knowledge of the 
 operator, the spirit receives no more special 
 benefit except that it gets a stronger soul 
 each time to work with. 
 
 Magnetic healing acts the same way only 
 that the spirit receives more benefit through 
 it because there are so many different kinds 
 of cures to be affected, which gives more 
 knowledge. But in all of these, the soul re- 
 ceives the more power, and it can by con- 
 stant practice, turn the flesh into soul as was 
 the case with Jesus. Now, in telling future 
 and past, and in clairvoyance of all kinds, 
 the spirit receives all the benefit because it is 
 the only thing used in doing this. But first, 
 before you can do this. There is a part of 
 the brain which the spirit uses to convey 
 these thoughts and sights that it receives, to 
 the body. 
 
 This part of the brain cells is left un- 
 cultivated in most people, and it must be 
 cultivated before it can be used. In some 
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people this part is almost gone on account of 
 its not being used for so many generations. 
 In this case it would take longer to cultivate 
 this power. 
 
 Sometimes you see people who use these 
 powers and who will tell you it has always 
 been natural for them, that is because this 
 person happened to be born with this part of 
 the brain very large, the same as others are 
 born with characteristics of their own. And 
 this part of the brain being larger in these 
 people it was noticed by them and was used, 
 consequently it was kept cultivated. 
 
 But anyone with any amount of reason, 
 can, by practice cultivate this. You can do 
 this all alone, do this by practicing in telling 
 what you think is going to happen to some 
 one during the next day, or week. Just sit 
 partly close your eyes and stop thinking for 
 a minute until you are perfectly relaxed and 
 quietly composed. Then notice what im- 
 pressions come to your mind and as soon as 
 they come say them right out, of course, 
 more than likely there will not be any at first. 
 But by continuing the practice they will 
 gradually come and then say them. At first 
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the jr may not come true but in a short time 
 you will notice that some of them come to 
 ■pass and that is a sign that the brain is start- 
 ing to develope, and you will be delighted as 
 well as encouraged. Then as you are sitting 
 there, sometimes pictures will appear in your 
 mind, as it were. You can describe them ahd 
 that is a sign that your spirit is getting con- 
 trol over your body and you know what it 
 sees. 
 
 What I mean by control over your body, 
 is that you or your spirit, is becoming capable 
 of putting your body aside for the time being 
 and you know then what you have seen. A 
 better and quicker way to develope this is to 
 go, say at first twice a week, in a very dark 
 place, sit and call upon your spirit friends to 
 come at that time and help you. Then you 
 see you will have other spirits besides your 
 own to help you in this, and along with it 
 you will develope other phases that happen 
 to be in your mediumship. But you must 
 practice this then between times and you will 
 be surprised at the help this will afford you 
 in your every day life. You will become so 
 that when you are about to take up some 
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work you can feel whether or not you should 
 take it up, and how successful you will be in 
 this undertaking because your spirit can tell 
 you how it will end. If your own does not 
 know other spirits will impress you, or your 
 spirit so that you will then be able to know 
 what the impressions are. 
 
 Then every impression that is received 
 by your spirit adds to it, that is; if it is able 
 to convey it to the body, because in convey- 
 ing this thought it makes the thought belong 
 to you thereby adding to your knowledge. 
 So, in that way, you can make your body a 
 help to your spirit instead of a detriment as 
 it is in most cases. 
 
 That is one phase that is beneficial to 
 the spirit and not the soul. There are other 
 phases which should be developed, such as 
 talking to spirits who have passed out, hyp- 
 notizing yourself, materialization, etc. All 
 these except hypnotizing yourself must be 
 done in the dark at first because it is easier 
 to relax and concentrate in the dark than it is 
 in the light. 
 
 In developing the phase of hearing, the 
 spirits come and take enough of your mag- 
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netism to give them strength with which to 
 speak, thus it helps your spirit and soul as 
 well as the spirit who talks. You must learn 
 to let your body rest so that the spirit can 
 take magnetism from you. This is done by 
 relaxing. 
 
 In materializing, your own spirit, per- 
 haps with the help of others, leaves your 
 body so that other spirits can come and draw 
 strength or soul enough from your body to 
 bring them in sight. They take your mag- 
 netism and light it up around them so that 
 everybody who is in the room can talk to 
 them and see them. Then the spirits allow 
 some of it to go and some of it they retain 
 and so this helps them to gain their magnetic 
 body. What goes from them comes back to 
 you and in that way one after another ma- 
 terializes until your strength is exhausted 
 and your spirit again takes possession of 
 your body. But you, of course, have been 
 unconscious of what has been going on. 
 
 This is a great thing because it is such a 
 
 benefit to the spirit world and shows sceptics 
 
 that there are such things as spirits. The 
 
 more people take up the work the sooner 
 
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they will bring about the millennium, because 
 the millennium means the time when the 
 spirit world and this world will become cap- 
 able of communicating with each other at, 
 and under all circumstances. 
 
 The sooner all this work is completed the 
 sooner your mission on this earth is fulfilled, 
 and when this is done you will not die as 
 people die today. You wilJ not return your 
 body to dust. You will turn it into soul and 
 then you can perform all the things that you 
 desire as well as fulfill the desires of others. 
 
 Jesus is the only one who has ever ful- 
 filled his mission on this earth. He did not 
 leave his body to return to dust. He took it 
 up with him by fitting it for that place. He 
 said: "Follow me and my teachings." That 
 meant that you could do as he did or else 
 you would not be able to follow his teachings 
 or him. It seems funny that so many people 
 claim to be following Christ's teachings and. 
 still there are none of them that go as he 
 went or do the things that he did and still 
 they will say when they see one who is 
 practicing his teachings, who is doing the 
 things Christ did, that he is possessed of the 
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devil and still he is doing the things, or 
 branches of things that Christ did. Oh, peo- 
 ple, use your reason, put on your thinking 
 caps, can't you see that you are not perform- 
 ing one of Christ's teachings? 
 
 Christ came as a model. He told us to 
 believe as he did and do as he did. That 
 shows us we can do it, for what is in one man 
 is in another. The sooner you learn this the 
 better you will be. 
 
 Reason ought to tell yoa that there is 
 something about a person that is not visible 
 to the naked eye, and if there is, there ought 
 to be something done with this, it was created 
 for some purpose. You might say that all 
 that is necessary on this earth is to be good, 
 But is going to church and being pious — is 
 this goodness? It doesn 't do j^ou any good to 
 go to church and learn that you should follow 
 the teachings of Christ, and learn what they 
 are and not follow them. Is that what you 
 call being good? If so, I wish you would ex- 
 plain the good there is in it. It is a disgrace 
 to you to learn what should be done, and how 
 to do it, and not do it. 
 
 So remember that all people who go to 
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church are not good, neither are they doingr 
 good. They are only a sham and a disgrace 
 to themselves and to others unless they fol- 
 low the teachings they learn in the church. 
 They are deceivers for not doing what 
 they are pretending to do and if they are 
 doing it, let them show it. We are not sup- 
 posed to accept theories, or to take their 
 word for it. 
 
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HOW TO PREVENT OLD AGE. 
 
 As much as old age is dreaded there are 
 but very few who try to prevent it. It is im- 
 possible to live in the state in which people 
 of today are living and still remain young. 
 They think anything which happens to suit 
 their selfish desires, that is, they feed those 
 thoughts until their bodies are in a regular 
 fever of excitement and when they at last 
 consent to calm themselves again, their 
 nervous system is all unstrung and weakened. 
 
 Each time this is done their nervous sys- 
 tem is left in a weaker condition. Now, in- 
 stead of cherishing these thoughts as most 
 people do, to a greater or less degree, try tO' 
 think of something that is elevating to your- 
 self, something that is quieting to your 
 nerves, and something that will lead to refine- 
 ment. When I say refinement I don't mean 
 for the women alone to take this up. Some 
 people have an idea that all the refinement 
 must be and come from the women, but that 
 is not the case. Men need refinement as well 
 
 as woman. 
 
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More than half the misery among 
 families comes from this one fault. A bois- 
 terous man meets a woman that is nearly all 
 refinement. What is the result ? He is at- 
 tracted by it and the next step is matrimony. 
 After living together for awhile she, or her 
 nature, rebels against his rough and boister- 
 ous nature because fine and coarse can never 
 go together in that any more than in anything 
 else. It can never mingle any more than loil 
 and water. They do not agree, she can see 
 nothing attractive about him, he is repulsive 
 to her, and he draws all her strength while 
 he has nothing her refined nature can make 
 use of. All this ends in a divorce or some- 
 thing worse. 
 
 She may see some one that is refined, 
 kind and sympathetic, some one who agrees 
 -with her and she is attracted by him, she 
 cannot help it for she is starving to death for 
 magnetic food or soul power. She is accused 
 of being false when he was the soul cause of 
 it all Had he been refined this never would 
 have happened, and there would have been 
 happiness to retain youth instead of misery 
 to bring on old age. 
 
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Then again, we do not eat what we 
 should. We eat anything that tastes good 
 and never think of the nourishment it gives 
 us. We eat things that the stomach cannot 
 digest, such as grease and all kinds of rich 
 foods. 
 
 All kinds of grain and fruits have parts 
 that go to make .up and nourish the body. 
 They can be prepared without all this meat 
 and grease which is used in preparing them. 
 What few things are eaten which would 
 give nourishment to the body are destroyed 
 by other things because it takes all the 
 strength of the good to destroy the bad. 
 
 Then again, we do not drink enough 
 pure water. Water has life and is highly 
 charged with magnetism. The more we 
 drink, the better. Of course, you must not 
 stand and drink three or four quarts at one 
 time, thinking that will save all future bother 
 for the rest of the day, it must be drunk in 
 small quantities and often till you have 
 drunk at least three quarts in one day. This 
 gives life as well as plenty of liquids for the 
 body to use in doing its work. But water 
 that is taken directly into the system should 
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be either distilled or filtered. That destroys 
 all germs as well as gathering some of the 
 minerals which have a tendency to harden 
 the bones, make them stiff, and cause rheu- 
 matism. 
 
 Some people think that children who are 
 growing should have plenty of mineral to 
 help harden their bones but this is a mistake 
 because it stops a full development and makes 
 hem old when they should be children. It 
 causes fever and arouses passions which 
 should not be aroused until later years, and 
 to arouse such passions, destroys their soul 
 or magnetism as well as degrades their spirit. 
 They need all the soul they have and all they 
 can get. 
 
 Then again, we do not breathe deeply 
 enough and gather the life that is in the air. 
 Every morning just after rising one should 
 take about four deep and long breaths in the 
 open air. This should be repeated three or 
 four times a day and done the last thing be- 
 foi e retiring. 
 
 There is another thing that brings on old 
 age and that is associating with, or being 
 with, those who draw from you. When you 
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are around those kind of people you always 
 wish they would go and you feel as if every 
 word you say to them is forced out. You 
 don't want to talk at all and when they are 
 gone you feel as if a great burden was lifted 
 from your shoulders. 
 
 Some people are continually in the com- 
 pany of these kind of people and it is no 
 wonder that they show age so quickly. All 
 their vitality is used up by some one else. 
 
 When you meet these kind of people or 
 are thrown into their company, get out if 
 possible, but if it is impossible for you to do 
 that you must keep a positive state of mind. 
 Just make up your mind that they can draw 
 from you and that they will feel as though 
 they did not care to be around you. Do not 
 allow yourself to feel tired or do not sit and 
 relax yourself. If you can get your mind 
 occupied with something cheerful while they 
 are around you, do so. All these things pre- 
 vent them from drawing especially if you 
 keep in mind every now and then that they 
 cannot draw from you. And you must not 
 get the blues. It is a different thing when 
 you are giving people strength to cure them 
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because they are in a relaxed condition while 
 you are in the positive and you draw more 
 while you give and it is practice to yourself, 
 or to your soul powers to have it doing work 
 that you wish it to do. 
 
 If you cultivate your muscles by some 
 culture, it strengthens them. You can jerk 
 your own arm or leg around as much as you 
 please and it does not hurt you; but let some 
 one else take it and jerk it around it hurts 
 you. And it acts the same on the soul power, 
 you can use it as much as you please and it 
 does not hurt you ; but to allow some one else 
 to draw it and use it, build themselves up 
 with it, is a different thing. 
 
 Of course, people who have something to 
 offer in return are a benefit to you because 
 you can obtain what you do not possess and 
 so can afford to lose some of your own and 
 replenish it again afterwards. A great 
 mistake is made by letting children associate 
 with others who have bad habits and ideas, 
 because they draw fl"om each other and soon 
 they fall into each other's habits. If they be 
 good ones it is a benefit ; but if they be bad 
 there is great harm done. If you follow 
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these rules you will keep years and years of 
 youth which you would otherwise lose. Old 
 people will begin to look and feel younger; 
 but to prevent ever getting old or dying in 
 the way of returning dust for dust, you must 
 spend all, or nearly all of your time in this 
 work and spiritualize yourself, which is of 
 course, hard for working people to do. But 
 if they did this they could stop work, that is, 
 hard work. 
 
 In the first place, you never were sup- 
 posed to come here and work hard, because 
 that is not doing good. You were supposed 
 to make better use of your body. Things 
 should be more equal and everyone should 
 have his share. Then it would not all be 
 thrown on the shoulders of a few. 
 
 The only way to attain this end is to 
 take up this work, because people who take 
 it up overcome their selfishness. They see 
 better things in life than enjoying the petty 
 pleasures of today. 
 
 Another thing you must do if you expect 
 
 to retain youth and that is: You should 
 
 never count age by years. If you feel young 
 
 you are young, and if you feel old you are 
 
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old. If you feel as young at fifty as you 
 were at twenty-five you must expect to live 
 as much longer as you did at twenty-five. 
 
 Some people, when they reach the age of 
 fifty or sixty-five begin to prepare for death 
 and to bid their friends good-bye. " Well, I 
 guess I am not much longer for this earth, 
 you may not see me again, ' etc. Well now, 
 if you want to get old just start that going 
 and you will soon accomplish your aim. It 
 sounds ridiculous to hear such things, for 
 people should always strive for something 
 higher than that kind of a death. 
 
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THE SPIRIT WORLD. 
 
 It all depends upon how you have pro- 
 gressed in this world what the spirit world 
 will be to you. If you are a spiritual person, 
 if you understand something about true 
 spiritualism, when you pass out you will 
 understand it the same as on this earth. It 
 isn't so new to you and therefore you can 
 sooner adapt" yourself to the spirit world, and 
 can start sooner into the spiritual progres- 
 sion. 
 
 Some people pass out and do not realize 
 where they are. They do not seem to under- 
 stand that they are yet a spirit; but 
 think they are still in the body. They are 
 bewildered and sometimes speak to their 
 friends who are still in the flesh and wonder 
 why they are not answered or noticed. They 
 must learn where they are and then they 
 must understand their condition, and all con- 
 ditions of spiritual progression. They begin 
 to find their means with which to progress. 
 T^hey must, on account of not finishing their 
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work here, finish it there, and in order to do 
 that they must have certain material from 
 our bodies with which to do this, or progress. 
 
 They must find some one who is in about 
 the same condition they are in, and be that 
 person's guide. If they lived in a low, un- 
 developed condition, they must find some 
 low, undeveloped person who is living so that 
 they can be around him and draw strength 
 from him; and he will progress as fast as 
 that person progresses. Sometimes they ad- 
 vance a little faster if they have one or two 
 persons to guide; but again, they cannot al- 
 ways get to be main control and so must take 
 a back seat and obtain what they can. They 
 can come in only when it is necessary and 
 when they are called upon. Then the faster 
 they can develope that person whom they are 
 guiding the faster they can develope and pro- 
 gress. 
 
 Of course, if they could guide some per- 
 son who is very highly progressed, they 
 could progress much faster until they caught 
 up; but if there happens to be some one who 
 is highly progressed they already have guides 
 who are progressed and they will not let you 
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come in or get around this person because 
 they do not want any bad influence around 
 this person whom they are guiding. Some- 
 times when you are a dear friend of some 
 highly progressed person or some relative 
 of this highly developed person their guides 
 may consent to allow you to join their band 
 and still be around them and help that per- 
 son from going into anything that would not 
 be for his good or stop his progression. But 
 you could not be their main control unless 
 their main control consents to step out and 
 allows you to take her place, and he or she 
 will not do that until you are capable of the 
 task. It is not very often they will consent 
 to this even under these conditions. 
 
 Under these circumstances you progress 
 faster but it is not often you meet with things 
 so favorable. If you leave some one who is 
 dear to you, their main control will not stop 
 you from joining the band that protects them, 
 if you so desire, and as long as your inten- 
 tions are good towards them. Sometimes 
 you can join half a dozen bands and be with 
 each at a time, that is, if you leave children 
 or some one who is dear to you. 
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So there is no one who dies so wicked 
 but that there is a redemption for him in the 
 end; only it takes longer to reach that end. 
 You can always talk and be around your read 
 ones as long as you come with no bad inten- 
 tion towards them; but you are not always 
 allowed to join their band as a guide until 
 you become better, unless it is a very dear 
 one to you, and unless that person, if he had 
 his choice, would have no objections to your 
 coming. Nevertheless if you oome with bad 
 intentions to anyone, you must go to a person 
 who is bad or someone who has no strong 
 guides around them. If we progress in a 
 spiritual way our guides will soon get strong 
 and gather a good strong band with which to 
 protect us, because it is to their interest to see 
 that we are protected well so as not to stop 
 our progression and in doing so stop theirs. 
 
 All mediums have a very strong band of 
 spirit guides to protect them, and they are 
 guided and led into the right path, if they are 
 mediums for the good there is in it, both for 
 their own good and for the good of the spirit 
 world. If they are mediums just for the 
 money there is in it and not for the good of 
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their own progression, thej either soon 
 gather guides of an evil disposition and their 
 good guides leave them to find another sensi- 
 tive to control, that is, to find one who reach- 
 ed their own standard of progression. 
 
 There are evil spirits in the spirit, world 
 as well as there are evil people on this earth. 
 
 They are evil only until they take a 
 tumble to themselves and they get time to de- 
 velope otherwise, so the sooner you learn 
 these things on this earth along with the 
 spirit world and become mediums, the better 
 off you will be when you get into the spirit 
 world. Everyone can become a medium. It 
 is only a higher state of progression than 
 people are in who do not associate with the 
 spirit world. Everyone who so desires can 
 attain this. That is what you came here for 
 and the more highly progressed you become 
 the better mediums you are until at last you 
 go into the spirit world yourself. Leave 
 your body and go, then come back and take 
 up your body again. 
 
 There is a box or cell in the brain which 
 contains a chain made of soul or magnetism, 
 and which is attached to your spirit. In 
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order that the spirit may leave the body be- 
 fore death, this box or cell raust be made or 
 developed. When the spirit leaves the body, 
 this chain expands or stretches like rubber 
 elastic. This keeps on expanding as far as 
 you go. You can go as far as this chain will 
 permit you to go, and when you return this 
 chain contracts again. 
 
 If that chain gets broken you can never 
 enter the body again, because the connection 
 between you and your body would be broken. 
 But it is very hard to break this chain, it is 
 guarded so well and so closely by spirit 
 friends aud guides while jon are gone, that 
 nothing can break it, because nothing can 
 break this chain except a spirit, and the more 
 spiritual you become, the longer this chain 
 gets; and the farther you can go into the 
 spirit worfd. You should have a room in 
 which to leave your body while you are gone 
 and you should have some living person guard 
 this room. All other things are perfectly 
 safe because they are attended to by the 
 spirit world, and unless some mean living 
 person comes into the room and harms you, 
 you are perfectly safe. 
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There is not much danger anyway, be- 
 cause if someone comes near your body that 
 does not understand what is going on, the 
 spirit who is standing guard will send word 
 to you through this chain and contract it 
 In an instant you are back and entering your 
 body, so that there is no chain to break. 
 
 Any spirit can send word to you through 
 this chain, just as a telegram goes through 
 or over the wires, and much more quickly. 
 Then you can develope or attain to a higher 
 degree of progression than this last. But 
 Jesus is the only one who has accomplished 
 this, that is, to be able to dematerialize his 
 body and take it up with him, change his flesh 
 into magnetism or soul. That is the last 
 stage of progression on this earth. This is 
 the one we should all attain before death. 
 
 We must do it sometime and if we don't 
 change our own we must get one from some 
 one else, after we get into the spirit world. 
 The higher you progress here the more you 
 have when you get there, and the sooner you 
 progress. On account of the people on this 
 earth not being progressed to that degree or 
 circle as I will call it, the spirits who have 
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left cannot get their complete body from this 
 earth. They go as far as they can with us 
 and then take flight to some other planet to 
 finish. So let us. all strive to gain that point, 
 let our spirits get their bodies from this earth 
 without going to other planets to finish, be- 
 cause that leaves us without any of those 
 highly developed spirits with us and we can 
 not get such help from others not so highly 
 progressed. 
 
 Other spirits cannot show themselves 
 under all conditions and it makes it harder to 
 convince the sceptics to true spiritualism, be- 
 cause there must be a materializing medium 
 for the other spirits to draw enough strength 
 at once with which to materialize, and there 
 are not at present, very many of these medi- 
 ums, so that it does not afford such opportun- 
 ities to people and we are left in ignorance. 
 We are left to dwindle away and die. We 
 are left to finish in the beyond. 
 
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GOD. 
 
 For years and years people have been 
 praying for help to a God whom they think 
 is somewhere in the heavens, just where they 
 do not know. They just have some one's 
 word for that There have, for the past 
 century been heads or rulers, who declare to 
 have commune with God, and declare that 
 Godiias given certain rules for him, and that 
 he must establish a church, and must have 
 people live up to these rules. He declares 
 that if you do not obey these rules, God has 
 said: "You shall not go to heaven," and he 
 further declares that God will punish you 
 and send to condemnation, or hell. 
 
 Then this man begins to prove his work 
 and the word he receives from the Lord or- 
 God, by the Bible. Well, some one else 
 communes with God, but the funny part of it. 
 is God tells him something altogether differ- 
 ent from what he told the first man, and so 
 he starts another church, the only true 
 church there is. He proves his church to b© 
 
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the only true one by the Bible. So one after 
 another talks to God and everyone proves it 
 by the Bible. Each of these is the true 
 church, they fight against each other, they 
 ridicule each other, and quarrel about which 
 is the right church. They all prove that they 
 are right by the good book. Why do they ? 
 Because you can prove anything by the 
 Bible. No matter what it is, good or bad, it 
 can be proved to be right by the Bible. 
 
 "When a good Christian gets drunk and is 
 ridiculed, he goes to the Bible and proves to 
 you that he has a right to get drunk. This 
 good man did it, and that good man did it, 
 and they were of God etc. Now, if you can 
 prove that all things are right by the Bible 
 which church are you going to follow ? They 
 are all well proven. 
 
 If any of those men have commune with 
 that man they call God why don't they prove 
 it, have you got to take his word for it ? Are 
 you supposed to believe him ? Are you sup- 
 posed to follow his teachings ? When he will 
 not let you see or hear him talk. And if God 
 will talk to him why won't he talk to you. 
 God, they say, loves us all and is just. Is 
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that just, to talk to one of his loved ones and 
 not to another ? If God punishes you if you 
 do not follow his commandments and join his 
 church — is that just for God to tell one man 
 what to do and take him into heaven for fol- 
 lowing his teachings and not tell you the 
 same; but to condemn you for not following 
 them ? Is it just to give one person with one 
 kind of ideas, another person another kind, 
 and then to condemn and punish you for not 
 seeing as some other man sees ? If that is 
 justice I don't know what you call injustice. 
 
 Can you love a God of vengeance ? Do 
 you do as he tells you because you love him ? 
 No. You fear him and run around like mad 
 men. You try to find out what you must do 
 in order to keep out of hell, and every church 
 you go to is different. All have started their 
 churches after the teachings of God, all are 
 right and all are proven by the Bible. You 
 are in a nice fix. One of the worst predica- 
 ments you ever got into because there is no 
 head or tail to it. 
 
 Soon you get into trouble. You go to 
 your minister to see what can be done in your 
 helpless condition. He tells you that when 
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you get home you must humble yourself be- 
 fore God and pray to him for strength and 
 mercy. You accordingly go home and pray 
 to him ; but what Js he, and where is he ? 
 How does he hear you ? How does he grant 
 your requests ? Do you know ? You do not. 
 Then why are you praying to something that 
 to you is only a dream ? You depend upon 
 him, upon whom you do not really know. It 
 is God though. You havn't ever seen him; 
 but that other man has and God told him that 
 he would help us all and that he loved us all. 
 If he loved you all why did he not come and 
 talk to you also ? Your wish is not granted, 
 the one that you prayed for,- and you say that 
 it was God's will that it must not be. " That 
 is why he didn't answer me " — poor fellow ! 
 He gets the blame. 
 
 One of yoar children dies, one of them is 
 an idiot. Some one else has got one all 
 broken out with everlasting sores, another is 
 crippled for life. And yet you say it is all 
 right, ' ' Why that is God 's will, he is trying 
 me." He is punishing that some one else for 
 not doing right by making an idiot out of one 
 \of his children. He loves us all. Is that 
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mercy ? Is that love ? Is that what you call 
 God ? The one who will make an idiot out of 
 one of your poor, innocent children, a child 
 he loves, in order to punish you. Is he a just 
 God '? Have yoa the nerve to blame -God for 
 such work ? Are you not afraid to cast such 
 blame upon the Almighty ? Do you look to 
 see if some of it was not the result of your 
 own work, the result of your filthy habits, 
 and low bratal ideas, or are you wilhng tolay 
 it all 6n to God ? 
 
 Man, beware, you are doing it all your- 
 self. God does good. He never does other- 
 wise. He is good and love, and love is 
 power. Jesus Christ said: "He is within 
 you. " Now, such things have gone far^ 
 enough. 
 
 Let us start a new plan. Let each of us 
 pray to the God within us for help, pray to a 
 God about whom we know something, pray to 
 one whom we can see by preparing ourselves 
 for that, pray to our own God, the God Jesus 
 'said is within you. Throw out the devil part 
 and give your God the power, give him full 
 sway and your prayers will be answered. 
 They will be answered by your own God, the 
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God within you. He alone can grant your 
 wishes; but you must give him a chance. 
 
 Jesus did not pray to some iiian wliom he 
 thought to be some where else and did not 
 know just where. He always said: '"My 
 father.-' He did not take into consideration 
 your father or my father, it was his own 
 father, his own power with which he did the 
 worlc. 
 
 Now, I will tell you what your God is. 
 It is simply your spirit. And love or soul is 
 his power. That is why I say God is good 
 and God is power. You have both. Yes, 
 God is within you and it all depends upon 
 yourself what strength your God has, and 
 what good your God can do for you. You 
 have the say and that is why you are here, 
 and that is why you have him. Your body is 
 just a machine where you, or your God, the 
 body's God, is supposed to get its power. 
 
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THE SPIRIT BEFORE BIRTH. 
 
 Common sense tells you that whatever 
 had a beginning must surely have an end. 
 Some will say that we are not everlasting be- 
 cause we had a beginning and consequently 
 we must have an end. This forms a basis for 
 the belief which so many people hold: that 
 there is no eternity, for eternity is everlast- 
 ing, and, having a beginning, we surely have 
 an end, then there is no eternity. 
 
 But readers, you have not looked beyond 
 the sight pf the. naked eye or you could not 
 but see that we never had a beginning, con- 
 sequently we never have an end. Your body 
 had a beginning but you never did. Your 
 body of clay had a beginning and it will have 
 an end. It must be turned from clay into 
 soal and in that way it has its ending. If the 
 body does not have its end in this way. it 
 must have its end in another way, namely, 
 death. 
 
 Some will say that our spirit lived before 
 we were born. It always lived and always 
 
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will live. You are right, it always lived, it 
 always shall live. But how did it live ? Was 
 it in the form of a person, as it is now? Was 
 it some person who has been walking around 
 here ever since there was a spirit when it 
 never had a beginning? Then it has always 
 been roaming around here trying to find a 
 body which it might enter. ' Do you suppose 
 that it would, if it had its choice, take a body 
 that would be a cripple for all its life? 
 Would it, after waiting all that time take a 
 body that was so imperfect that it could not 
 be made anything of after it did take posses- 
 sion of it? Or did it have any choice? Per- 
 haps in your estimation, it had no choice. 
 Then if it had no choice, it must have been 
 predestined to take some body, and that body 
 must have been predestined to be born for 
 that certain spirit to take. And so, accord- 
 ing to that there are millions upon millions 
 of bodies that are predestined to be born, 
 and who in the world predestined them? 
 
 Cannot anyone see that such a theory 
 would 'be an utter impossibility? Why, there 
 would be such a mix up th^t you never would 
 have found the body you were supposed to 
 
take, neither would your body have found 
 you, and some spirits never would get a body, 
 because there will always be birth. There 
 always has been, not on this earth, but on 
 other earths, and there has always been 
 earths, somewhere in space. 
 
 Friends, you were always something, 
 and you were always somewhere; but you 
 were not always in the shape of a person, nor 
 in the form of one until you were born into a 
 body. You were simply a part of that uni- 
 versal God which is scattered aboyt the uni- 
 verse. You were the spirit of the air, the 
 God which is in the air. You were part of 
 that which rules the planets, for remember, 
 God does not only rule you, but he rules 
 everything. You were a part of that God. 
 You always were part of him, consequently 
 you always existed somewhere. 
 
 Then just as there is a body born, that 
 body is dead until it gets God and love, which 
 is spirit and power, and power is soul. When 
 that body was being formed the mother 
 breathed into it a spirit and a soul gotten 
 from the universe. The body grew and be- 
 came the form of a man. The spirit was 
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drawn in and 'it inveloped that form. In or- 
 der to envelope a form, it must first become 
 the form of the body which it envelopes. 
 And as the body grows even so does the spirit 
 grow^ the body drawing- its, the spirit's, ma- 
 terial from the universal God power, from 
 thoughts and idea and thus you become a 
 spirit with reason, having a body and a soul 
 with which to do your work. Man, are you 
 doing it? Look around yourself and see. 
 
 Thus you see God is within you, or with- 
 in your body. As 1 have said before pray to 
 this God. Blame yourself and not others for 
 your downfall. Do not blame a God you 
 know nothing about for bringing curses upon 
 you. You, yourself, are doing it, no one else 
 is to blame. 
 
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UNREASONABLE THINGS. 
 
 All things are unreasonable until pro- 
 perly and thoroughly understood; but after 
 investigating a thing, after finding out the 
 truth of that thing, it looks perfectly reason- 
 able, and we wonder why we were not able to 
 see that before. Now, that is the case in 
 true spiritualism, it looks perfectly absurd, 
 but why ? Simply because you do not under- 
 stand it. It has not become a knowledge to 
 you. It is the knowledge of some one else 
 and you never can see it until the knowledge 
 becomes your own. 
 
 The greatest trouble with the human race 
 today is that they judge too quickly, they 
 judge before they have a knowledge to do 
 so ; and to do that you are doing a thing you 
 have no right to do. When some one comes 
 to you with a new idea, no matter how ridi- 
 culous it seems to you, you have no right to 
 say it is not true until it becomes a knowledge 
 to you, a knowledge that you do not now 
 possess. If an idea comes to you, study on 
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it, reason it out for yourself, make it a know- 
 ledge of your own, either that it is not true 
 or that it is true. 
 
 That is what you have reasoning capa- 
 city for, to use, and if it proves to be true, it 
 adds to you or your spirit, because it becomes 
 a knowledge. If it is not true, it becomes a 
 knowledge also, because you know that it is 
 a falsehood and you will find many truths 
 and a great deal of knowledge by the investi- 
 gating that you never would have found out 
 otherwise. So you see that everything is for 
 a purpose, and everything can be made for 
 the best, if it is treated properly, because if . 
 it does nothing more it will add to your spirit 
 by knowledge. That is why so few people 
 believe in spiritualism because it is not a 
 knowledge to those people, or they too will- 
 ingly throw it aside to say there is nothing 
 in it before they have a knowledge of it. 
 
 Now, you can not get a knowledge of 
 spiritualism without a great deal of thinking 
 and reasoning, and in order to do that you 
 must throw aside all prejudice, all supersti- 
 tion, so that you can look on both sides and 
 all around yourself. You can not take just a 
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small corner of it. The reason it takes more 
 perseverance to gain a knowledge of true 
 spiritualism than to gain a knowledge o£ 
 anything else, is because true spiritualism is 
 the greatest knowledge that man is capable 
 of obtaining. Man is the greatest of all crea- 
 tions, man is the greatest of all things, and 
 the greatest knowledge man can attain is the 
 knowledge of himself. When he gets a 
 knowledge of himself, he has a knowledge of 
 spiritualism — for what is spiritualism ? Tell 
 me if it is not man. 
 
 True spiritualism is a thing that has no 
 beginning or end, and there is no end to the 
 knowledge. Just so far as you learn your- 
 self, just so far will you understand the truth 
 of spiritualism, and no farther. Spiritualism 
 is the most beautiful study you can take up 
 because you never have to stop, you can 
 keep. on always, and everything you learn 
 concerning it you can prove to yourself. 
 Until things can be proven you have no com- 
 plete knowledge of them. 
 
 In the study of yourself, or spiritualism, 
 you can prove everything both to yourself 
 and to others in time. You do not take any 
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one's word for it as you do in other things. 
 You have no right to take some one's word 
 for anything until they prove it or until you 
 prove it for yourself. But on the other hand, 
 if they tell you something you have no right 
 to call them liars until you prove that they 
 are, because they may turn around and show 
 you that they are not liars, but they are only 
 advanced further than you, so that they are 
 capable of doing things and reseiving knowl- 
 edge that you are not capable of receiving. 
 It may be that you will have the pleasure of 
 just taking your words back as a knowledge 
 that you are what you just called them. 
 
 It is the same with all things. They are 
 not true to us until they become a knowledge. 
 You are never sick until it becomes a knowl- 
 edge to you that you are. You never get 
 well until it'becomes a knowledge to you that 
 you are well. So if you should get ill just 
 make yourself think, in spite of surrounding 
 circumstances, that you are not ill; but con- 
 tinually getting well and see if you will not 
 be well within a very short time. II you do 
 not believe this, try it; but give it a good 
 trial. Don't just make a play out of it and 
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then claim-that it is proven because there is 
 a great deal of difference between play and 
 real work. And what is worth doing at all 
 is worth doing well. 
 
 If these things do not look reasonable to 
 you, don't condemn them until you have a 
 perfect right to do so, because you might 
 find out that it is just too far advanced for 
 you to grasp at present. 
 
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THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 If you should go to a materializing 
 seance, or a trumpet hearing seance, you 
 might hear the spirits say : " Oh ! I have 
 such a beautiful home in the spirit world. " 
 But would you understand what that beauti- 
 ful home meant ? It would mean beautiful 
 conditions. If conditions were beautiful ; 
 then they would have a beautiful home, be- 
 cause as far as home in the shape of a house 
 and a lot is concerned, they could have that 
 as they like it, they could have everything in 
 it they wished. They do have these homes 
 but they are not on some certain planet; but 
 wherever they wish it to be. It is not built 
 of rock or brick as our houses. It is not 
 made of clay, it is spiritual material. 
 
 If we mortals have a home we must have 
 a mortal house, a house made of clay, be- 
 cause our body is composed of clay and it 
 could not realize a spiritual house. Then the 
 spirit must likewise have a home composed 
 of spiritual material, one that they can realize 
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in order that it may be a comfort. Perhaps 
 if you passed one, you would not see it, un- 
 less you were out of your body. Now, do 
 not declare that I have said you have ever 
 passed one. I say if you should pass one, 
 you would never realize it no more than you 
 would if you sljould pass a spirit because it 
 would be composed of spiritual material. 
 
 In order to have a beautiful home, they 
 must have conditions likewise. Supposing 
 you had the chance to build a home that was 
 just as you wanted it a great, large, beautiful, 
 marble mansion perhaps; but after it was all 
 finished you had only money enough to sup- 
 port a three room frame. What good would 
 that beautiful home do you ? None whatever. 
 Supposing then, that they have a beautiful 
 home somewhere. They must also, in order 
 to make it complete, have beautiful condi- 
 tions. 
 
 So if you have a dear one in the spirit 
 world, a wife, a husband, a dear little child, 
 make them a beautiful home. It is withjin 
 your power to do so. We help make the con- 
 ditions which surround them and it depends 
 upon ourselves whether or not our spirit. 
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friends have a beautiful home. Now, do not 
 say that is all foolishness, or that it is 
 radical, until you prove it to be so. Do not 
 say that, if it does not happen to agree with 
 your ideas, because everything seems so 
 until perfectly understood. 
 
 There is no one who dies perfectly. 
 They should all have gone with a magnetic- 
 body as I have said before. If they had done 
 this, they would be independent from you, 
 but as it is they are not. Besides they die 
 ignorant and they are still ignorant there 
 until they learn otherwise. They need 
 strength with which to obtain such knowledge 
 as they are seeking and where is that 
 strength coming from ? They do not possess 
 it and must get it, and must get it with a 
 body. They have lain theirs away, and con- 
 sequently must use yours. 
 
 And again, in order to use yours, they 
 must have permission to do so, and that per- 
 mission must come from us. As I have said 
 before, they being partly composed of 
 thought, cannot come against an unfavorable 
 one. Now, in order for you to allow them to 
 use your body, in order to bring beautiful con- 
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ditions around them, you must think favor- 
 ably towards them. You cgnnot say that your 
 child is in heaven and cannot come to you, 
 and that you can never meet it unless you 
 make yourself fit to go where it is and make 
 a home for your child. That child loves you 
 as it did while on this earth and do not be 
 wicked and cruel enough to break its little 
 heart by forcing it from you, on account of 
 such thoughts. 
 
 It is an utter impossibility for that dear 
 one to come to you v/hile you think thus. If 
 it comes it must come while you are favorable, 
 that is, it might happen that sometime you 
 would think of your little girl and wonder if 
 she is around you, sn d wonder if it is possible 
 that such a thing could be. Yes, and she is 
 there. Her only chance is during those flying 
 moments and she grasps those few golden 
 opportunities, she comes to see the one she 
 loves, for her heart is wrapped up in you 
 there as well as here 'i hen you think : " No 
 it is not so. There is no such thing as a 
 spirit, " or you say : ' ' No they are in heaven 
 waiting for me" — ah ! what did you do ? You 
 sent your dear little girl away from her papa 
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or mamma whichever it may be. 
 
 Man, these things you are always doing. 
 Now say to yourself : " Shan't I change and 
 bring my darling to me ? Shall I not let her 
 come and see me as often as' she wishes. Am 
 I not cruel to send her away from me like 
 that ? " Yes, you are cruel although you 
 have not realized it. Now, you can, instead 
 of that, bring theni to you and even more, 
 you can talk to them just as you could before 
 they gave up their body. Why don't you do 
 it ? If you don 't think you can try it and see. 
 I am not asking you to take my word for it, 
 just follow the directions here, that have and 
 will be given and you will prove it for your- 
 self. 
 
 Now you are in this condition, with all 
 these powers lying dormant. It takes some 
 time to cultivate them; but it is wortli it and, 
 there i^ nu one but that can do it within three 
 years time; and it takes only about an hour a 
 day and, if you do not want it for yourself, 
 do it for the sake of the spirit world. Do 
 your part in making their conditions favor- 
 able. 
 
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POLYGAMY. 
 
 There are several who are practicing 
 this terrible vice at the present time and 
 more than one church, believes in it. Now, 
 you say this book is supposed to be on 
 spiritualism, not on other things, but in order 
 for me to advocate spiritualism I must show 
 up the immoralitj' of man, because in order 
 for you to be a true spiritualist and com- 
 municate with the highly developed spirits, 
 you must first make yourself pure both in 
 thought and in actions. To think things of 
 an immoral nature degrades your spirit. 
 What drags you to the grave is immorality. 
 That is what I want to stop and I do not 
 want to advocate anything that would have a 
 tendency to frighten you out; but I do want 
 to show up the wrong there is in it and what 
 you are doing for yourself by practicing 
 these vices because if that won't stop you, 
 nothing will. 
 
 People cannot be scared into anything. 
 To do much good they must have a reason 
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for stopping what they call pleasure. Then 
 they stop it for the good there is in it and 
 not because they think they must. When 
 they stop for the good there is in it, they 
 stop thoughts, or that is, bad thoughts, and 
 the other way they just stop the actions and 
 the thoughts run on just the same, and it 
 injures their own spirit just the same. For 
 thoughts are things. Now, people who are 
 practicing and believe in polygamy say it is 
 right. It must be because animals do it and 
 the Lord wishes it in order to bring more 
 children into the world. 
 
 Man, for shame, to put .yourself equal to 
 an animal. Equal to an animal — why, that's 
 too good — you go even lower than the lowest 
 of animals, because you are endowed with 
 the power to reason for yourself and an 
 animal is not. How dare you put yourself 
 to that equal and then stand iJp and say : "I 
 am created in the image of God. " Are you 
 not afraid of insulting him by practicing such 
 vice and then claiming to be in his image 
 Yes, indeed, you are insulting him, and you 
 have no right to degrade your spirit, to de- 
 grade yourself to the lowest degree and then 
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to say that you are an image of good for that 
 is what you say/ God is good, God is love, 
 . and God is power. You are hell and a curse 
 to man. You do not deserve the name of 
 man, for a man means, or is supposed to 
 mean, purity, refinement, God, love, and 
 power. That is what you must strive for in 
 order to talk to and communicate with, the 
 spirit world. 
 
 That is what you must strive for in 
 order to make yourself a powerful spirit and 
 soul, and until you do that, or at least try to 
 do it, do not call yourseK a man. You are 
 the lowest form of an animal. 
 
 "When you go into that wicked and cruel 
 vice, you not only hurt your own spirit ; but 
 you break the hearts of women as well as 
 ruining the lives of poor, innocent children. 
 You thus degrade and stop the development 
 of their spirits, stop them from fullfilling 
 their mission on this earth. Do you think 
 that a God, a merciful God, would wish to 
 have you bring children on this earth in that 
 way '? No, do not accuse a God of such con- 
 duct, or such mercy as that. Everything 
 you do in this way degrades and lessens your 
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power and you do not go into this vice for 
 your belief It is to gratify your animal 
 passions, nothing more, nothing less. It is 
 that. Whoever says different, lies. 
 
 Now, all proper thoughts help you and 
 the other kind is a disadvantage to you. 
 You never were supposed to come here and 
 kill yourself by work. Your mind can melt 
 bad luck just the same as the sun can melt 
 snow. If you wish a certain thing or desire 
 it, keep your thoughts firmly on that wish, 
 till you get it. it IS sure to come. 
 
 Now, you can not have a desire granted 
 by thought, and think one day : "I will 
 have this. It is coming," and the next day 
 worry, the next day wonder if it will not, the 
 next day be afraid it will not, and so on for 
 a week. Then all of a sudden you take a 
 notion that you are going to have that thing 
 again. That is no way to do a thing and 
 that will never bring it to you for you spend 
 one day in bringing it, and six days in send- 
 ing it away again, and then say : "Oh, dear, 
 I was born for bad luck. Anyhow, the Lord 
 is trying me." Look here, you are trying 
 yourself. The Lord has nothing to do with 
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it and what right have you to waste your life 
 and then to ^blame it onto the Lord. God 
 helps them that help themselves because God 
 is within you and if you want his help give 
 him a chance to help you. I will assure you 
 he will do it. Make a God out of yourself 
 and do not depend on some one else. Every- 
 one has their own wants to look after, even 
 if it were the Lord. For the higher man 
 gets, the greater are his wants, and wants 
 increase with the progression of man, and all 
 have just as much as they can attend to, no 
 matter who it is. 
 
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LOVE AND FANCY. 
 
 There is not one of us that is more than 
 half. Sometimes you will see a boy or girl, 
 one that you have watched from babyhood 
 perhaps; but you wonder sometimes why it 
 is that they, now about nineteen or twenty 
 years of age, are so boyish or girlish. Then 
 you .go away perhaps, or perhaps you do not, 
 but when you get back you look at that boy 
 or girl; but what in the world has happened? 
 Why, in those last few days she has grown 
 into a woman; but what caused it? She has 
 become a whole, her spirit has united with 
 the other half of it; it has found its other half 
 and become a whole and she has changed 
 from a girl into a woman. 
 
 She is deeper, she looks more beautiful 
 than she used to look. She is happier than 
 she used to be; but her pleasures run in a 
 different direction. Now this is true love 
 when the spirit and soul unite. There is an- 
 other, a fancy, that is sometimes mistaken 
 for love and through this, great mistakes are 
 
made and thus great calamities are caused. 
 Fancy is the uniting of two souls but not of 
 two spirits, it is called affinity, and is some- 
 times mistaken for love and marriage is the 
 result. 
 
 But the greatest results come later on. 
 Soon, when they are together a while they 
 find that they do not agree, that they both 
 get all the influence of the other's soul that 
 they need, or all the magnetism they need 
 from the other person, and they find that 
 their spirits are not united, they fairly hate 
 each other. Misery is the result. 
 
 Sometimes they go on and think they are 
 in love with each other until one or the other 
 meets some person with whom both their 
 spirit and soul unite and they then find out 
 that they do not love the person with whom 
 they are living, and misery comes again. 
 They get to hate the person for keeping 
 them away from the one whom they love, 
 and sometimes suicide is the result. Love 
 does not come by command, neither does it 
 go by command; but when you meet a spirit 
 and a soul that unites with yours, they will 
 unite and nothing on the face of the earth 
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can stop them. You can do everything but 
 it all ends with the same result. 
 
 There is another calamity caused through 
 fancy. Sometimes young boys and girls 
 fancy they are in love with each other and 
 thus get frivolous, and good for nothing, 
 vain, etc , because it is playing at love. It 
 causes flirtation. There are so many souls 
 that will unite with yours that you imagine 
 you are m love with everybody, aud in doing 
 this, you cultivate yourself to this and weak- 
 en your spirit, because you are playing false 
 to love and love can be trodden under foot as 
 well as other things. 
 
 But if a boy falls in love first, there is no 
 danger of mistaking fancy for love after- 
 wards. They will always know the differ- 
 ence. Besides, it developes the spirits of 
 both instead of causing them to grow unsensi- 
 tive as the other causes. There is a bad and 
 a good to everything until understood, and 
 until you learn to make good out of it. 
 
 That is the bad and good to love While 
 if fancy and love were understood good could 
 be made out of both as was intended in the 
 first place. Thus you see everything goes 
 
wrong through not understanding ourselves. 
 Now, if we understood when we or our souls 
 united we would take advantage of the oppor- 
 tunities and stay with this person a great 
 deal, until our souls drew what it needed and 
 in that way give us more power. Our soul 
 would be that much greater than it was; 
 but instead we take it for something else and 
 make a bad thing out of it. 
 
 It is just the same as if you had never 
 seen a bed and all of a sudden came across a 
 dresser, mistook it for a bed, try to sleep on 
 it and dress by the bed. You would make 
 bad out of it all, while if you understood you 
 could have used both to a good advantage. 
 Therefore, do not feel worried about someone 
 falling in love because the sooner they find 
 out what love is, and what fancy is, the bet- 
 ter, and the sooner they will make good out 
 of both. Now there is another uniting which 
 is the uniting of two spirits and not the souls 
 and in that case you are always friends. 
 
 So you see there are the three forms 
 which I will class in this way: first, friend- 
 ship, then the uniting of souls which I will 
 call bosom friendship, and love, the greatest 
 
of all, the strongest of all, the power of God 
 within you. 
 
 Now it is necessary" that you should have 
 all of these; but it is also necessary that these 
 be understood in order to make use of them 
 all to the best advantage. Friendship aids 
 and strengthens the spirit, bosom fi-iendship, 
 the soul, and love, both. Love developes 
 both, in fact, you are nothing until you have 
 been in love, because you have never been 
 more than half. There is another mistake 
 caused by the parents and it is the greatest 
 mistake they can make. Sometimes their 
 daughter or son falls in love with someone 
 they do not like and they begin to make plans 
 for separating them. But remember, when 
 you plan this, if you are successful, you ruin 
 or nearly ruin your child's life. It never 
 fails and you have no business to try to inter- 
 fere. 
 
 When you cut an apple in half you spoil 
 the growth of that apple. When you cut off 
 the other half of your child when once united, 
 you spoil the development of your child . That 
 is, if it really is love; but if it is only fancy no 
 harm in particular is done. But when once 
 
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united perfectly and then separated, they will 
 never survive until united again. If you do 
 not believe this, try it and see. You can say 
 that there are others just as good; but that 
 does not answer the purpose. You can lind 
 another apple just as good too; but cut it in 
 half and add it to the one you first separated 
 and it does not answer the purpose. You 
 have interfered with nature when you had 
 no business to do so. 
 
 What suits you may not suit some one 
 else, and they have a right to their own de- 
 sires as well as you have a right to yours. 
 Remember this, that nothing is rightfully a 
 slave to you, even though it be your own 
 child, and if she falls in love it is better, if 
 taken in the right way. It never ends well 
 if you interfere with nature and love is nature. 
 
 Children never Jail in love until their 
 spirit is developed because it is not nature, 
 and love is nature. They can have a fancy; 
 but this must be understood and stopped or 
 if they fancy they are in love before they are 
 it will stop the development of their spirit 
 and make it frivolous. It sometimes goes so 
 far as to make it impossible to ever love. It 
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is all fancy and imaginat on, and if they seem 
 to fall in love before they start to develope 
 into manhood or womanhood, stop it at once; 
 but after they are developed, have nothing 
 to do with it because if they meet a mate 
 they will match no matter what or how big a 
 rogue the person may be. So the best way 
 is to teach children to be what is right and 
 prepare themselves so that they are fit to 
 unite with their mate. Don't wait until they 
 do unite and then try to stop it, that is taking 
 things after it is too late. 
 
 If people and children learned themselves 
 before they learned anything else, they would 
 do good for the good there is in it. for the 
 good it would do them; but if a person is 
 going to do a thing he must first understand 
 why he does it. You cannot do good and not 
 know why it is best. All things must be 
 changed before you are a spiritualist because 
 spiritualism is the study of man, and as you 
 advance in the study of yourself, the greater 
 spiritualist you will be. 
 
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REINCARNATION. 
 
 There is such a thing as reincarnation ; 
 but it is very rare, and if at all, it is the 
 choice of the spirit. In order for the spirit 
 to be .reincarnated it must go into the Ego 
 again, and in doing so it loses all soul power; 
 it does not realize until intbe other body; but 
 you will find this person very, very smart as 
 a general rule. They can carry a point when 
 but very little children. You will find that 
 sometimes they no more than learn to talk 
 when they will astonish you with very ad- 
 vanced ideas and sometimes make public 
 speeches when about the age of six or seven. 
 
 But they do not realize. that they ever 
 existed before until the next death and then 
 they realize that they have lived two lives in 
 the body. It has been positively known that 
 a spirit has been reincarnated twice; but in 
 that case they realize that they lived before- 
 and all about it. Now perhaps you have 
 never met these people; but some people 
 have. It is very rare that a spirit would. 
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want to ever come back to this earth of cor- 
 ruption, deception, and sin after having once 
 left it. But some do because spirits have 
 different ideas as well as we. 
 
 Of course, that is one form of progres- 
 sion and some want to take it. Some take 
 other forms; but there is progression always. 
 Man never stops. There is no end to his ex- 
 istence, neither is there an end to his pro- 
 gression; but there are only seven that we 
 know of at the present time, because after 
 that they are beyond us and we know noth- 
 ing of them after that. They then enter the 
 inner circle, as it is called, and we must 
 reach that before we learn anything more 
 about it. 
 
 Some people say today that Jesus Christ 
 was a perfect man; but it is not so for there 
 is no such a man, either in spirit or in body, 
 because there is no end. We are perfect in 
 each stage of progression, but no farther. 
 Then we start another. Jesus was the only 
 perfect man as far as he could go on this 
 earth, or this progression. He finished the 
 seven stages of progression here. He did 
 not wait till he entered the spirit world. He 
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took advantage of his present condition. He 
 learned himself and went from here into the 
 inner circle. There we know nothing more 
 about him. 
 
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MUSIC AND FLOWERS. 
 
 There is a great deal of difference 
 between people; and a great deal of difference 
 to the extent they enjoy music and flowers. 
 When a man is working all day and is very 
 tired, it seems, in fact, we know, that there 
 is nothing that rests him so much as a good 
 supper and a good night s sleep, that is, it 
 rests his body, not his spirit. It is the same 
 with music and his spirit as it is with his 
 body and a sleep. Music is resting to the 
 spirit. It causes harmony and rests it. 
 While we sit and listen to a piece of music we 
 feel as though we could almost reach out our 
 hands and catch the chords of harmony as 
 they float by our ears, and our spirit never 
 forgets it. It even feeds our spirit when we 
 think of the time we sat and listened to it. 
 
 The fact is, the spirit rests. It makes a 
 supper out of the music and we feel well and 
 delighted. We have an inclination to dance. 
 I have many times heard people of learning 
 say that if a man is going insane or thought 
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to be going insane the best thing in the world 
 that can be done is to play a nice piece of 
 music. It pacifies him, quiets him, and they 
 say that some have even been cured. The 
 disease, if you must call it that, is checked 
 through a sweet piece of music. 
 
 That is true. What is insanity but the 
 struggle . of the spirit with the body to hold 
 its place, to keep the fevered body from driv- 
 ing it away ? This continual labor tires the 
 spirit and it needs rest. If you have a cer- 
 tain point to walk and you tire out about two 
 thirds of the way you must stop unless some- 
 thing else turns up. If you were to lie down 
 and sleep an hour or two you could finish the 
 journey. It is the same in the other case. If 
 the spirit gets rest and it has not too hard a 
 task yet before it, it will finish its journey 
 and conquer its servant, the body. 
 
 Flowers are resting to the spirit and feed 
 the soul. Flowers are soul. They are pure 
 and can be dematerialized by a person with a 
 stronger soul than that of the flower. The 
 flower can be taken into the soul of the per- 
 son, the soul feeds on it, and it is made 
 stronger. And again, it can be dematerializ- 
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ed and taken to a certain place and material- 
 ized again, so that you would have the flower, 
 the same one, before you again. This may 
 look unreasonable to you but nevertheless it 
 has been done. 
 
 You often hear a good medium say that 
 the spirits sometimes bring large boquets to 
 him. You may, on account of not under- 
 standing it, disbelieve him ; but it is so, and 
 this is the way it is done. They are not 
 taken from the 'spirit world, as it is the 
 opinion of many people; but they are simply 
 flowers from this earth which the spirits have 
 dematerialized taken to the place desired. 
 They are taken through the wall, the same as 
 electricity is taken through a wire. There 
 they are materialized again, and given to the 
 people. 
 
 You have often, if you raise house 
 flowers, where they are watched continually, 
 seen one of your beautiful flowers come out, 
 in the evening perhaps, and when morning 
 came you found your flower gone. No one 
 picked it. Where did it go ? The way I just 
 explained is the way your flower disappeared. 
 This looks fanatical in the eyes of some, but 
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all things are so until thoroughly understood 
 and this is, and has been done a great many 
 times. The Hindoos are always doing it, and 
 if it looks impossible to you, the best way 
 for you to find out and prove me to be a liar, 
 is to test it for yourself. But in order to do 
 that you must gain strength of soul and 
 spirit. You must spiritualize yourself and do 
 this. Or spiritualize yourself enough do that 
 your own spirit friends can take strength 
 enough, from you to do this one thing for 
 you. 
 
 Then you often wonder why music per- 
 formed by machinery does not sound as lovely 
 as music performed by some person. The 
 fact is simply this, that if a person is 
 playing a piece of music their whole soul and 
 spirit is in that music. They send out their 
 magnetism with the harmonious chords and 
 it thrills and feeds your soul as well as rests 
 your spirit. Machinery sends out only the 
 harmony and I'ests only your spirit. This is 
 proven because, if a person plays for some 
 hours their music is lovely at first; but if you 
 go out so as not to tire your body through 
 sitting and then after an hour or two you 
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happen back, the music sounds as if it came 
 from a music box. The person's magnetism 
 is exhausted and you hear only half of, or 
 get the benefit of only half of the music. 
 
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"BELIEVE AND BE SAVED." 
 
 Five hundred years before the birth of 
 Christ it was predicted that a fountain of life 
 would ,' come forth in five hundred years. 
 What do you understand by that? Do you 
 think that before, and at that very time there 
 was no fountain of life? Why would there 
 be one when Jesus was born? There always 
 was a fountain of life. If there was not a 
 fountain of life always, there never would 
 have been life in anyone or anything. 
 
 There is life in the air that you breathe, 
 there is God in the air that you breathe, there 
 is God within you. There always was and 
 there always will be. There is magnetism in 
 the air, and you can draw it if you only knew 
 this, and knew how to take it, which will be 
 explained after while. But in order to draw 
 magnetism in from the air, you must cultivate 
 the spirit so that it is capable of turning the 
 magnetism from the air, into personal mag- 
 netism, or soul power. 
 
 When the life is in the air, it is in a rude 
 
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form; but it can be refined and made per- 
 fect. You must do that. If you find a piece 
 of ore in the ground, the gold or silver in 
 that ore is in a rude form, and what good is 
 it until it goes through a refining process? 
 It is there, but the next thing is to get it out. 
 Before you can do that you must first learn 
 how to do that. 
 
 Of course, you do get some of it, just 
 enough to keep that clay body of yours mov- 
 ing for a few years; but in a short time it 
 seems to go. You cannot, and have not been 
 keeping it alive, and soon it becomes of no 
 more use to you, only a detriment. You 
 must throw it away and be left without a ma- 
 chine with which to work. You must do the 
 work with your bare hands, or that is the 
 comparison we will make between your spirit 
 or thought and your body. We will liken 
 the hands to the body, the machine. After 
 you throw it away you must do all with 
 thought, and you have no power but that of 
 thought to do it with. Of course, it takes 
 thousands of years to do the work in pro- 
 gression with bare thought, the work you 
 could have done in fifty with thought and 
 
 a body. 
 
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Now, you may say: "We may do that; 
 but after awhile our body must go anyway." 
 I have said before that I do not believe in 
 throwing it away at all. It must be progress- 
 ed and changed to a body of a higher form 
 and taken with you so as to always have a 
 body with which to work. Only you will have 
 a body with a great many more improvements 
 than it had in the first place. What was the 
 first locomotive compared with the locomotive 
 of today? Your body must improve even 
 more than in comparison and for the good 
 there is in it, do it. 
 
 You will go to church and hear the min- 
 ister or whoever gives the sermon say: "Be- 
 lieve and be saved;" but look here, Jesus 
 told you to believe as he did and do as he did. 
 You cannot believe and be saved. You must 
 do or it amounts to nothing. Some people 
 say we cannot do as Jesus did because he was 
 the only begotten son of the father; but if 
 you take that as a proof that you cannot do 
 what he did, you must contradict or lay aside 
 the passage where he says: "Believe as I 
 do and do the things that I have done." He 
 even went farther, he said: "You can do 
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even greater things than I have done. ' 
 When he said you could do this, that is what 
 he meant. When you say that we cannot do 
 the things that he did because he was the 
 only begotten son of the father, you accuse 
 him of telling a falsehood. He saj^s that you 
 can and as far as the only begotten son is con- 
 cerned, I will explain in private to any one 
 who will send to me for the explanation. 
 
 Now, when it was predicted that in five 
 hundred years the fountain, of life would come, 
 it simply meant that a man would come who 
 understood how to use the fountain of life to 
 the best advantage, and that it would be a 
 man with purity of mind enough to do this. 
 It takes a man with a will and a strong de- 
 termination to drop all things of an impure 
 nature in order to stand up for the truth in a 
 world where such a thing as truth is not 
 known, where a man will do anything to get 
 ' the best of his neighbor, even to telling a 
 little, petty lie. 
 
 If you are going to do what Jesus did you 
 
 must first learn the good there is in it. The 
 
 good there is in it for you, and then you 
 
 might do it; but you can never be frightened 
 
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into doing anything. To look ahead, to see 
 what there is to be done and how far you are 
 from it, and how far you must go, to look at 
 the long road, to look at the hard and steady 
 work in order to accomplish that end, will be 
 the biggest fright you ever had. 
 
 What do you understand by the darkness 
 that overflooded the earth after the cruci- 
 fixion of Christ? Do you think that it was 
 earth-quakes and so on that flooded and en- 
 veloped it in perfect darkness. Or do you 
 think that it was simply a comparison and 
 that the people were left in the dark without 
 a source of knowledge of their vital forces? 
 I think the latter and what is more I think it 
 has just come to light again. Most of it is 
 coming from his teachings; but people are 
 just beginning to see what he meant and to 
 understand his teachings, because some are 
 now doing the things that he did. 
 
 That brings out the light of his dying to 
 save us, because he knew that if he came and 
 declared the truth in the condition in which 
 the people were living, that they would try 
 to kill him and unless he did this we would 
 never find out the truth. But they failed to 
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kill him and that was another illustration 
 which was shown to us, namely, that we 
 could fit ourselves so that our body could not 
 be killed, because his was not. He came out 
 with his body three days afterwards, only it 
 took him three days to change it, to dema- 
 terialize it, after what had been done, and we 
 also could do that or he is a teller of false- 
 hoods. 
 
 He had, for a long time, been in that per- 
 fect condition for it has been proved in this 
 way. At one time his disciples were alone, 
 and when the doors and windows were bolted, 
 Peter said: "What shiall we do, for our Lord 
 is not with us?" when lo and behold Jesus 
 stood before them. Peter said that he could 
 not believe it unless he touched him. Jesus 
 reached out his hand and touched Peter say- 
 ing: "Oh, ye of litiile faith." Then Peter 
 believed. How was this done? He dema- 
 terialized, came through the wall, and ma 
 terialized into the flesh again. Again this is 
 proved by his walking on the water. His 
 body was a magnetic one until he reached 
 the ship. No one could ever walk on the 
 water as he did in any other way. 
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Now as Jong as this has been proved, 
 why not do it? Do not only believe as he 
 did and do as he did, but even more, because 
 he was driven away from us. That brings 
 out his death. He was dead to us but not in 
 reality, and you can stay and have the 
 chance to do even more. 
 
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THINGS ABE AS WE MAKE THEM. 
 
 Everything in the beginning was meant 
 for good; but on account of the immorality of 
 man, things are changed from truth to lies, 
 from purity to vulgarity, from a blessing to a 
 curse. The most high and divine things 
 that were meant for the good and progression 
 of man are dragged down to the depths of 
 hell, made a disgrace to humanity, and they 
 are dragged down by no other agency than 
 man himself. 
 
 Man was created in the image of God, 
 with a God within him, and with reason to 
 use that God. He was given the honor of 
 being the highest of all creations, with the 
 power to rule all creations, and to rule every- 
 thing in its most divine form, in its highest. 
 And how has he fulfilled his mission ? Has 
 he done justice to the power and creation he 
 is over ? He has not. He has what you 
 might say, brought destruction upon it. He 
 has in his mind disgraced it. He thinks 
 immoral thoughts which have a tendency to 
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degrade this beautiful -work of nature over 
 which he is the ruler. 
 
 The average man is not capable of ruling 
 himself, let alone the creations under him. 
 The highest of all nature is the creation of 
 man. Love should be the cause of, and is 
 the cause of this creation, among some at the 
 present time. What does man do with this, 
 what does he do with the creation of himself? 
 He makes it immoral, he looks at it as if it 
 were a disgrace to him. He is ashamed of 
 it, he makes it appear as if it should be 
 hidden from him, instead of his being proud 
 of it. He is not satisfied with the downfall 
 of his own; but he takes all the creation in 
 the same way. He has even gone so far that 
 some are diseased and some almost decompos- 
 ed through the misusage of his creative 
 power. One man will not even do justice to 
 another. If his fellow creature falls he will 
 make it impossible for him to ever arouse 
 himself again, because if, through making a 
 mistake he goes down, we will keep him 
 down and even force/ him lower in spite of 
 himself, and then we will hang him for our- 
 own work. 
 
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If a fellow creature of ours should fall, 
 it is our duty to help him up again, if he so 
 desires, and if he is shown his mistake, in 
 nearly every case, he is willing and more 
 than willing to retrace his steps. But we 
 will not allow him to do so. We are always 
 willing to give him credit for the wrong he 
 does; but never willing to give him credit for 
 the good he does along with that bad. We 
 would rather take the credit to ourselves for 
 what good he has done and the good we did 
 in getting away with him. 
 
 It is just like this, if a man deserves 
 punishment for his evil doing he deserves 
 credit for all his good acts if it is nothing 
 more than saving the life of a butter-fly. 
 There never was a man born without some 
 good in him, if he had the chance to show it; 
 but because he was started wrong we take 
 good care that he keeps wrong, and if he had 
 not been started wrong he would never have 
 done wrong. It was born in him either from 
 his father or his mother, or sometimes it even 
 comes from his great grand father, and then 
 we blame him for yielding to his nature. Of 
 course, we could not give him credit for yield- 
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ing to a bad nature, but then it is not neces- 
 sary to judge him so harshly. We should 
 reach out a helping hand, or speak one lov- 
 ing or encouraging word. 
 
 Some men will go so far as to run down 
 and degrade their own mother and sisters by 
 thinking low of .their sex. Remember that 
 your mother was a woman, and that she was 
 the one who gave you birth. You have no 
 right to run down her .sex by saying she is 
 not equal to man. She is equal to man in 
 every sense. She is capable of doing any- 
 thing with her reasoning power that a man 
 is capable of doing. Where did you get all- 
 of yours ? How did it happen to come from 
 a poor, demented woman ? 1 wish you 
 would explain unless you think she is your 
 equal, then it needs no explanation. 
 
 Some say that she is not capable of hav- 
 ing an influence in the government. She 
 hasn't sense enough, she is too fickle. All 
 she ought to do would be to stay at home and 
 raise the children. Poor, little things to be 
 left in the care and instruction of a woman ! 
 
 Now, if she isn't capable of taking part 
 in the government under which she lives, she 
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is not capable of instructing yoar smart boys, 
 who will take part after awhile. Whether 
 or not she is capable of taking part she has 
 the right to do so. You, man I mean, can- 
 not live her life for her. If you are the 
 head, she has her own life to live, and if she 
 were a dog, she has a right to help make the 
 laws under which she lives. If a woman 
 lives her life away with you, she has as 
 much right to have a woman ruler as you 
 have to a man ruler. She was given the 
 power to give birth, and it would be con- 
 trary to nature for that to be given to the 
 lowest. 
 
 You seem to think that this is, a free 
 country; but it is not free to woman. It is 
 all right for an old, drunken, filthy, sop of a 
 man to go to the polls and vote; but pure, 
 high minded women must let that kind of a 
 man make, or help make her laws for her. 
 Some men take this excuse, that the polls are 
 no place, no fit place, for a woman to go, 
 with all those men of low character standing 
 about, but if that is the case, just use a little 
 of that money you spend on election day to 
 purchase whiskey so that you can buy over a 
 
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few votes, for you know that will brin^ 
 votes from the man better than anything, it 
 won't from the women, take that and pre- 
 pare a place for the women to go and vote. 
 A place where men are not allowed. Then 
 she will not be thrown into the company of 
 your smart men. 
 
 But a man is no more likely to injure 
 your daughter at the polls, than at lectures, 
 church, on the street, or any other place. If 
 the women were allowed to go the men would 
 likely keep themselves in a more respectable 
 condition through the respect they might 
 possibly have. Then others say man was 
 created first and woman was taken from his 
 ribs, from man. The root of a tree started 
 before the tree; but that is no sign that the 
 root is of the most use to us. I was taken 
 from my father and mother, mostly from her, 
 but that is no sign that they are any better 
 than I am or capable of better reasoning than 
 I am. One must be first. Then again women 
 are not one sided, they have the same amount 
 of ribs on both sides. I guess that is the 
 reason why men are so one sided and want all 
 the credit for themselves. I don't see any 
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other way that it could start. 
 
 The only difference between a man ruler 
 and a woman ruler is that a woman rules with 
 love, a man with cruelty. A man would hang 
 where a woman would save. She believes in 
 letting every one have a chance to do good if 
 he wishes, bhe gives everyone a chance and 
 men have taken the advantage of this and 
 thrown her overboard. 
 
 Now we could be ruled with love as well 
 as with force, and better. You can be coaxed 
 into a thing where it would be impossible to 
 force you to do that thing. You would 
 rather die than be forced. Before we become 
 spiritual, we must overcome selfishness and 
 instead create love. Love is power, love 
 developes the spirit and makes it strong. 
 Selfishness drowns it out. You can never 
 progress vvith selfishness. It keeps you too 
 much at a standstill. Love promotes love. 
 Everything that is good discards the bad, 
 and brings good instead. 
 
 Become spiritual, communicate with the 
 spirit world, find out their form of govern- 
 ment, and see if you cannot improve yours, 
 that is, the government of yourselves. Don't 
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cause all these disasters and then say : "It 
 was God who did it." God does good and 
 nothing else. The spirit world is ruled by 
 the government of God. Why can't we be 
 ruled by that ? That is why we have it, to 
 be ruled by it. 
 
 Then in these conditions we will say: "If 
 there are spirits around me, why don't they 
 show themselves ?" They can not. We 
 drive those who are able to be around usj 
 away from us, the others go to a place where 
 people are more worthy of their company. 
 Fit yourself for this and they will come to 
 you, but you cannot expect them to do so 
 until you fit yourself for that. When you try 
 to do what is right and live according to 
 nature, they will come. They come to some 
 and they will come to you. Prove it for 
 yourself. 
 
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DEATH, OR WHAT IS CALLED DEATH. 
 
 There is nothing that brings such a 
 gloom over a person or sickens the heart 
 like the word death. There is nothing that 
 brings the agony to a mother that death does. 
 To say her last good-bye to the child she has 
 brought into the world, and nursed from a 
 babe to manhood or womanhood, to say good- 
 bye to the child of her own flesh and blood. 
 Oh! how terrible! And why did it all come? 
 Why did they have to leave? Still you never 
 think once but that it must come, only you 
 cannot see why it should; but do you ever 
 think for one moment that there could be any 
 way of preventing this terrible thing, death? 
 No there is not. Not as long as we continue 
 to violate the laws of nature. 
 
 When we stop violating the laws of 
 nature then there is a way to prevent death, 
 but not until. Whenever one of your dear 
 ones die, your wife, your husband, your child, 
 whichever it may be, take it for granted that 
 one or more of nature's laws have been vio- 
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lated, and not corrected again. You say I 
 could not help it. God knows you would if 
 t had been in your power; but it wa-. not. 
 How sad! But why? Simply because you 
 did not understand. Nothing is in our power 
 unless we understand its workings. 
 
 Nature has been dragged down for gen- 
 erations. From birth we start to violate the 
 laws for those who are to come after us. 
 The consequence is death. We, in our condi- 
 tion, most of us, have not the power to stop 
 it; but if nature were allowed to take its 
 course there would never be need of a power 
 to stop it. So long as there is need of this 
 power let us look around us and see if we do 
 not possess this power. I say we do.. I have 
 given a thoroughly, good investigation and 
 have finally come to the conclusion that there 
 is such a power, only it is not understood. I 
 have come to the conclusion that we all have 
 it; but do not understand bow to use it, con- 
 sequently it is of no use to us, it is lying dor- 
 mant. Such a power lying dormant, think 
 of it! You might say if we have this power 
 what is it? . Is it medicine? No it is not. Of 
 course, medicine will stop it in some cases; 
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but it fails sometimes, it is not operations, 
 because they too sometimes fail. You might 
 say it is through eating things we should eat, 
 discarding those things which we ought not 
 to eat, and living according to the laws of 
 nature. I have heard that from a great 
 many but often one has been violating na- 
 ture's laws until he is at death's door. , When 
 this is the case it is a little too late to begin 
 with nature's food because the body is not 
 capable of doing anything with it. 
 
 Of course, it will do in some cases, and 
 does a great deal of good in all cases, if it 
 can be used; but like all the rest, it too, fails 
 on account of its being too late. Then what 
 is it? It is the God within you. There is 
 hardly a limit lor its power, and if used can 
 always be a preventative of death even when 
 death has started. Then they say it cannot 
 be stopped; but it can be stopped, by the 
 power that should be used to stop it, even 
 after death has taken place. Jesus did it. 
 How? With the power of the God within 
 him. "Believe as I do and do as I do," then 
 why do you not do it? You, nearly all of you, 
 say you believe as he did, then, why don't 
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you do as he did? Simply this, you do not 
 beheve as he believed, if you did you would 
 be doing at least a few of his teachings. He 
 believed that he could do as well as he be- 
 lieved in doing. 
 
 If death comes to one it is on account of 
 the lack of life. Life is gradually wasting 
 away and the person does not know how to 
 get more. He has been left in ignorance of 
 his power and, in fact, he has been left in 
 ignorance of what life really is. 
 
 Can any of you explain what life really 
 is? What causes life in your body? Then if 
 you do not know what life is, how are you 
 going to get it? How are you going to re- 
 tain a supply enough to keep you going? 
 That is the way with the dying man, he 
 does't know what life is, and consequently 
 knows not how to keep it, or how to keep 
 what he has. It is very simple but still not 
 understood. You get it by thought. Thought 
 is your God, he gives everything and does 
 everything by being the cause of its being 
 done. You cannot do a thing without think- 
 ing it first, and in the same way he will pre- 
 vent death, only give him the chance. 
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Thought, as T say does, everything; but 
 in order for it to do good, you must think 
 rightly, for thought destroys, and thought 
 builds up whichever way you use it. Then 
 if a man is dying his life is going, he needs 
 more. Then he can live. You are well. 
 Give him some of yours; but first learn what 
 it is. It is this, the soul of your body, the 
 magnetism of your body, that is its life. Just 
 give this poor dying creature some of it, 
 transfer it to this person with your thought, 
 your spirit, your God. He can just take some 
 of it, transfer it to the other by thinking so. 
 Just think this person is getting well. ' 'You 
 shall, I give you some of my life to build 
 upon, and you will build upon this," and 
 while you say this put your hands on him so 
 that the life may go through. Thinking this 
 to yourself with a great determination, takes 
 the life from all over your body, through 
 your hands, through the veins of the person 
 diseased. Then there is another thing to be 
 done while you are giving this man ^life, you 
 must get more. Think "1 am drawing life 
 from the atmosphere and tilling my own. body 
 with it," and so, while you think your God 
 
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works, in fact, thought is he. It is he work- 
 ing. That is why you think. He is thought. 
 
 Now, this does not hurt you, it gives you 
 God power, and gives him a chance to draw 
 more magnetism, with which to do his work, 
 to keep you alive and to keep others alive. 
 Thus you have used your God to heal this 
 man and you can use him to do anything, all 
 he needs is a chance. 
 
 I will say no more on this here; but I 
 will devote another chapter to make it better 
 understood Jesus always said, "Oh, God, 
 grant this, grant that, give me so and so," 
 then he got it. And he said ''God is within 
 you." What did he mean by that? It is this. 
 That God was within him, and he used it, 
 and that God is within you, and why don't 
 you use it? He even went so far as to tell 
 you that you could use it. He never prayed 
 to your God, he prayed to his own. You be- 
 lieve as he did. He didn't believe in death, 
 if he had he would have died; but he did not. 
 Why. Because it is against nature, and he 
 lived according to nature. If you are a be- 
 liever in Christ, you too, would live according 
 to nature. 
 
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Some say that death is necessary, that it 
 gives and creates high and noble thoughts. 
 Oh, what a frail excuse, what a disgrace to 
 humanity to say that with all their reason 
 and all the power with which they have been 
 endowed, must take this terrible thing to 
 create noble thoughts within them. Is that 
 justice? That a man should die just to bene- 
 fit you? Are you so hard that you must be 
 brought to that terrible anguish before you 
 have noble thoughts!'' Oh, man, think higher 
 of yourself than that. 
 
 I do not say that it does not create noble 
 thoughts; but I do say this, that if we do not 
 we at least should, think thoughts without 
 this. You say that death is natural without 
 a reason for saying so, only that everybody 
 else dies; and they know nothing else to be 
 the end of this existence except death ; but 
 the reason is they have never tried to find 
 out. ■ If death were natural then why does it 
 cause such agony and anguish? Simply this 
 because it should never be Nature never 
 does that. It always brings pleasure and de- 
 light, it never brings anything else. No, 
 death is not natural. Then you might saj', 
 
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if this God and all of this can do what you 
 claim, then why has it been kept down, why 
 has it not been found out before now. My 
 answer is that it has. Several have tried to 
 use it, but what is the result? They were 
 looked upon as some poor, demented fool, 
 some one to be felt badly for and, if he ad- 
 vanced it would have been sent away and im- 
 prisoned. They have all been stopped be- 
 fore they had a chance to make use of it, and 
 it has only been of late that people dared to 
 advocate this power, and to make use of it; 
 but at present there are hundreds who are 
 doing it. It will, after this start and over- 
 spread the earth. There will be a proof that 
 death is not necessary. But you who have 
 this hardship to put up with, take this com- 
 fort, they have only left a machine that was 
 becoming a detriment to them. They are 
 around you always, they are guiding you, 
 they are not up on some planet, where they 
 stay awaiting your coming, they are with 
 you, they are not dead to you, it is you are 
 dead to them. At the very time when you 
 said your last good-bye, at the very time you 
 stood watching the cold, damp earth being 
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thrown upon their remains, they stood by 
 and watched, and cried to comfort you, and 
 to tell you that they were happy and free 
 from pain, but the very same reason that 
 caused their death, caused you not to hear 
 them. You haven't life enough to see them 
 and to hear them. 
 
 You do not let the spirit have control 
 enough over your body to see and hear 
 them, or else you could talk to them as often 
 as you wished. You could see them and pro- 
 fit by their advice; but you do not put your- 
 self in that condition. That is why you do 
 not see them. 
 
 Now, so long as you can fit yourself for 
 this why not do it? It has been proved that 
 it can be done. It is done now always by 
 some and you can do it if you will, aTid you 
 can prove this for yourself. The one thing 
 that will bring our complete happiness is to 
 do this, because it led you back into the way 
 of nature. 
 
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CLAIRVOYAirCE AND DREAMS. 
 
 You often hear of things being predicted 
 ahead of time, sometimes months and even 
 years, but you do not believe it, you think it 
 can't be anything but a fraud. But as the 
 time goes on you are surprised by these 
 things coming just as it was predicted but 
 how in the world was it done ? You can't 
 come to any other conclusion but that this 
 man must have a very strong power and you 
 just make up. your mind to let this person 
 alone. But I can tell you in a very few 
 words what this strange power is, and for 
 the benefit of Bible believers, I will give it. 
 
 If a man makes a prediction, it comes to 
 pass, and this man tries to convince you that 
 you should believe in other Gods, and tries 
 tOiturn you against your own God, turn your 
 ears from him, do not believe in him. This 
 is where this strange power comes from. It 
 comes from this man's God, and when other 
 men make these predictions and try to make 
 him believe that their knowledge came from 
 
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some other God, an unknown God, he turns 
 his from' him, because he knows where it 
 came from. It came from God; but from 
 their own. He makes these predictions and 
 ■finds out these things himself, so he knows 
 where this man gets this from. He gets it 
 from his own God, no other. It is the same 
 with all, only one is a false prophet, the 
 other a true one. 
 
 If you want to be a clairvoyant you must 
 get it from your own God, and not from a 
 God you know nothing about. What do you 
 call God ? A man that is somewhere on 
 some planet, who hears all prayers and 
 grants all requests, a universal God, a single 
 man, who is God over all men, the God you 
 hear of in charch ? If there is such a God 
 you know nothing about him, some one else 
 has tried to get you not to believe in your 
 own God, and has been telling you that God 
 was a single man who created all and did all. 
 
 You have believed him, you read per- 
 haps, that you were not to listen to such 
 tales told about a God, you know nothing 
 about him; but still you have done it. Now 
 don't say you know anything about such a 
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God for I say and can prove that you do not. 
 What do you know about him, have you seen 
 him, have you ever heard him speak, have 
 you ever felt that he stood by you ? No. 
 You have not. You just took some one else's 
 word for it and what is more, it is a God that 
 you never can, if you study till it turns your 
 hair green, learn anything about for he is not 
 here and never will be. To learn anything 
 about a man you must either see or hear 
 him, otherwise you take some one else's word 
 for it and what 'is more, that which is a 
 knowledge to another is not a knowledge to 
 you until you experience the same, and we 
 never were supposed to take another person's 
 word for anything unless they could prove it 
 to us. 
 
 This is where .clairvoyance comes from. 
 From a yjerson's own God, a God they know, 
 and if they do not, a God they can learn 
 And it can learn anything for you, that is, in 
 reason; but you do not listen to it. You be- 
 lieve in a God you know nothing about, and 
 the consequence is this, you remain in ignor- 
 ance of what you should know. You can 
 find out all tilings both for your own benefit 
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and for the benefit of others if you would 
 listen to the God within you If you would 
 give him control over your body you could do 
 this, and in order to do that you must first 
 learn what it is. It is your spirit and to 
 listen to him you must make yourself 
 spiritual. 
 
 That is done by relaxing and getting in 
 the quiet. Just relax every muscle and even 
 your brain must be in a relaxed condition and 
 not thinking of anything. Then things will 
 begin to come to you, you will see pictures 
 and you will receive impressions that certain 
 things will come and will not be, etc. These 
 things are coming from your spirit or your 
 God, and you know what it sees, you must 
 almost forget but that you are yourself a 
 spirit and while in this condition you will see 
 other spirits, hear what they say, converse 
 with them. This is the clairvoyant condition. 
 
 If you are going to make an investment 
 and do not know what is best, j ust go to your- 
 self and be quiet, forget but that you are a 
 spirit and forget all that is around you, then 
 wait for impressions, and the impression you 
 receive is right. 
 
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Dreams come from the God within; but 
 they are not able to make them clear to you 
 and you get them in a little different way as 
 a general rule, nevertheless you should al- 
 ways take heed of them and guess as nearly 
 as possible what they mean, and if anything 
 comes up that is anything like your dream, 
 leave it alone. 
 
 Dreams also come from another spirit 
 who wants to tell you something but unless 
 dreams can be remembered very clearly do 
 not bother with them. If they are clearly 
 remembered they always mean something and 
 tha|; is the way you will see and hear things 
 clairvoyantly, something like a dream. 
 
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FALSE MODESTY. 
 
 If there is anything disgusting to the 
 spirit world it is false modesty. Every part 
 of one's body should be held in reverence. 
 You should be proud of it. There is nothing 
 so beautiful as a pure body and there is no 
 more about any part of your body to be 
 ashamed of than your face. It was all made 
 by the same creator, and all made of the 
 same flesh and blood, and no high minded 
 person has or knows no such thing as false 
 modesty. 
 
 A person, if he is going to be spiritual, 
 must be open and pure minded and to en- 
 courage such a thing as false modesty is to 
 encourage impure thoughts, and shows that 
 you are not a moral man or woman. If you 
 were moral you would never think of such a 
 thing when you see any part of the human 
 body, and if anyone is impure, or has a dis- 
 eased body through some immoral act caused 
 through the violation of one of nature's laws 
 then I do not blame you for being ashamed of 
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your body. You can easily be excused if this 
 is the case, but put it down for this, that when 
 such a thing as false modesty exists in your 
 mind there is some cause for it, either you 
 are diseased or your thoughts run in an im- 
 moral way, in a way they have no business 
 to run. 
 
 In some churches the belief is that you 
 should not dance, and you will hear an evan- 
 gelist saying that dancing is so corrupt and 
 degrading to man, that it looks terrible, etc. 
 Then ask them why it is they don't like 
 dancing and what wrong there is in it, they 
 will say: "Well, there is no particular harm 
 in it. It is good exercise; but it is the posi- 
 tion," and one even went so far as to express 
 himself in this way to a couple of young 
 ladies who came to him to get his reasons 
 for not believing in dancing. He said: 
 "Well, girls, would you take that position 
 with that young man on Main Street? Well, 
 no they wouldn't. So he wanted to know 
 what difference there was and then said : ' 'To 
 make it a little plainer, would you, right 
 here in this room, take that position with 
 me?" Well, no they wouldn't and I suppose 
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the girls went away convinced that dancing 
 was a wrong thing and that they had dis- 
 graced themselves beyond redemption. This 
 good man forgot to show up both sides of 
 the question. 
 
 As far as the position in the street and 
 in the dance hall, in the dance hall it is un- 
 derstood and in the street it is considered 
 out of place or else it would not be. Is there 
 anything about a man that a woman should 
 be ashamed of? Is there anythiug about a 
 woman that a man should be ashamed of? 
 You who believe in a personal God, did he 
 not create both, according to your belief? 
 Why be ashamed of either of his creations? 
 Did he so make either sex that they should 
 be ashamed to touch each other? No. They 
 should be as one, and things are as we make 
 tliem. That position is disgraceful in the 
 street because we make it so with our 
 thoughts and it is opposite in the dance hall. 
 
 Because a young man and young lady 
 have that position dancing, is that a sign 
 that evil thoughts are ranning through their 
 mind? And what makes us think so, or those 
 who are so terribly against it? It is simply 
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this, they are giving themselves away. They 
 know that if they had that position with a 
 lady that evil thoughts would go through 
 their minds. They, of course, judge all peo- 
 ple alike; but they are mistaken, if they 
 never thought of such things they would not 
 accuse others. They will tell you that them- 
 selves. 
 
 Now, they might say that this would be 
 all right if everyone were as he should be; but 
 what brings people to what they are? What 
 is it if it is not such false laws to nature? 
 Are you going to get everyone perfect be- 
 fore you do this? This is the first thing that 
 will go to destroy such thoughts, you have 
 tried the other, it has failed completely. 
 
 Others are so terribly shocked at low 
 necked dresses. It is a terrible thing for a 
 woman to show her neck and breast. I wish 
 you would explain what the difference is be- 
 tween the purity of the face and that of the 
 neck and breast. Both are a part of the cre- 
 ation, both are a part of nature, and there is 
 nothing more beautiful than a pretty neck 
 and breast. People never thought of such 
 things or were not ashamed until they began 
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to sin. A baby is not ashamed until you put 
 thiose false ideas into its head. If you did 
 not it never would be. An animal never sins 
 and they are not ashamed of themselves. It 
 is we who are always praising God in the 
 hiffhest that are ashamed of his work. 
 
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CARD PLAYING. 
 
 Card playing, like everything else, is 
 made a wrong. You will hear especially in 
 some churches, card playing very radically 
 denounced, and like everything else, they fail 
 to show up more than one side. I once at- 
 tended a lecture where the speaker was giv- 
 ing his experience in card playing. He told 
 a little story about a woman with whom he 
 was staying and who used to play cards with 
 her little children. He told her what he 
 thought of the matter, the terrible sin she 
 was committing by doing this, and that all 
 three of her little sons would turn out 
 gamblers. But I can tell you this, that if a 
 woman never teaches her children anything 
 worse than card playing by her actions, her 
 children will get along all right as far as 
 instruction will carry them. This woman 
 could see farther than that. She knew that 
 if she expected to keep her children around 
 her, she must provide some pleasure for 
 them. She could see that it was a great deal 
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better for her little sons to be sitting around 
 her playing an innocent game of cards than 
 it was for them to be running around the 
 streets getting valuable information from un- 
 trained children, and receiving vulgar and 
 impure thoughts from boys who looked at 
 nature in an impure light. 
 
 Besides, card playing will train a boy to 
 calculate better than anything else, and if a 
 boy is not inclined to gamble, he won't 
 gamble anyway, no matter how well he can 
 play cards. If a boy learns to play cards as 
 an innocent amusement he will always con- 
 sider it so, and if he is always shown and led 
 to believe that cards are meant for gambling, 
 cheating, and nothing else he will always 
 consider it in this light. When he gets in 
 need of means and in a pinch, the card table 
 will be one of his first thoughts. He knows 
 that he can't play cards, and he knows this 
 also, that he can soon learn and if a boy is 
 inclined to gamble he will. He does not need 
 a deck of cards to do it with. He can gamble 
 in worse ways than with cards. 
 
 It is just like this, people are always 
 willing to show up the bad points in things, 
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and never willing to show up the innocence 
 there could be in it. Some would never find 
 out that there was bad in anything if it was 
 not always shown up to them and the good 
 of it left out. 
 
 When a child grows up always hearing 
 the things that could be made good of shown 
 up to a disadvantage, he first thinks: "Well 
 now that is wrong." He next thinks and 
 broods over that wrong until he wonders how 
 it would be if he did that and then he thinks 
 he will try it just for once. The first thing 
 you know he is practicing that vice. If the 
 good were shown up he would ponder over it 
 in that way until he was grown up, until he 
 was old enough to know better. Besides he 
 would, if after a certain age find out the 
 wrong of that thing, know both sides of the 
 story he could decide between the good and 
 the bad, which he would choose, and know- 
 ing the good longest, would more than likely 
 follow that. 
 
 There is a great deal of harm done in 
 always teaching children the wtong of every- 
 thing. Then you might say as some do, that 
 cards are such a foolish pastime for big folks 
 '137 
 
to take up; but people take the bright side of 
 life as well as the serious. It is just as harm- 
 ful to be too serious as it is to go to extremes 
 in the other way. And if a man or woman is 
 in trouble or does a great deal of worrying, 
 there is nothing that will make he or she for- 
 get their trouble for a few moments like a 
 good, jolly game of cards. During that mirth 
 their spirit gets a little chance to rest and to 
 build up soul power, and in many cases it 
 prevents insanity, paralysis, etc. Of course, 
 cards are not the only thing that will bring 
 mirth; but some people would enjoy them 
 where others would enjoy something else. 
 If they do then I say there can't be any harm 
 in a game of cards. 
 
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THE DOWNFAIili OF THE SPIRIT. 
 
 Many people believe in reincarnation in 
 this way, they think that when we die, our 
 spirit, ,if we have not lived as we should, is 
 reincarnated into the body of an animal, that 
 it takes the body of a dog, of some bird, or 
 any animal according to the extent the per- 
 son has degraded himself. Their degraded 
 condition is shown in what ever animal they 
 take, if they are very low they take that of a 
 low animal. 
 
 But what puzzles one is this, what do 
 those who are pure and high minded take if 
 the others take that of an animal? In that 
 case the high must take something else. If 
 the low take a body the high must also take 
 one. And they will say there is no end. If 
 that is so what do we take after we leave 
 that of a dog, or cow, or something of that 
 sort ? 
 
 This theory seems inconsistent to me, 
 and I do not think it would be according to 
 nature for a man to first take a man's body 
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and then take that of a lower animal, because 
 it is just like this, if you are a man once that 
 is what you always will be. It is just as im- 
 possible to turn the body of a man into that 
 of a dog, as it is to turn the spirit of a man 
 into that of a dog. Then if we were to go 
 that way, we would, after we entered the 
 body of a dog, understand the language of a 
 person and could remember what we knew 
 while a man. for the spirit never forgets» 
 That is where the hell comes in. It is that 
 we always remember what we have done and 
 the disadvantages we have put ourselves to 
 through what we have done. 
 
 A dog would be just as smart as we, and 
 could think and plan as we do. He could 
 learn to read, in fact, he could do anything 
 with the power of reason that we can do, and 
 we know that to be inconsistent, because as 
 far as the body is concerned, if it had the 
 same spirit one would be just as smart as 
 another, for it is not the body that constitutes 
 a person, it is the spirit. 
 
 In that case there would be no hell, for 
 the dog would never know but that he was 
 always a dog. He could not feel badly over 
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that, and if he did remember that he was a 
 man he would remember everything and we 
 know that he does not. 
 
 What ever the spirit learns it never for- 
 gets. What ever you do, either good or bad 
 you never forget. If we did, what would be 
 the use of striving for years as some do and 
 then have a very few years use of it ? It 
 would go on that way for years perhaps you 
 would forget all about it. You cannot re- 
 member it; but if it happens that there is 
 need for the use of that knowledge, you sit 
 down and think of it. At first you do not 
 remember a thing; but as you sit there and 
 study, it all comes to you. Do you suppose 
 that your body remembered it '? No you 
 learned it and your spirit never forgot it. 
 When you sat there you recollected it, and 
 what I mean by that is youj: spirit transferred 
 it to the body again and you say "Oh! I 
 recollect. " 
 
 Some people who play music will play 
 by note a couple of times and have not the 
 least idea that they could play that piece 
 without the music. If they should look at 
 the keyboard they could not strike the first 
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note; but sometimes they sit after dark and 
 finder the keys of the piano, and to their 
 surprise they play the piece right off. They 
 say : " Oh! my hands are so used to it they 
 know just where to go and what notes to 
 strike. " Is there any sense in your hand if 
 it was not for your brain? You could not 
 play that piece when you looked at the key- 
 board and that shows it was not your brain 
 that remembered it. It was simply the spirit 
 that remembered it and controlled your 
 hands to play it. The reason it could do that 
 in the dark and not in the light was that in 
 the dark you were more able to concentrate 
 than you were in the light. 
 
 You can not only recollect things that 
 you have learned in this way; but you can 
 recollect things that other people have 
 learned by making yourself spiritual. Your 
 spirit can f.nd out all things and give them to 
 you if you are spiritual enough. You would 
 not have to study till you were worn out to 
 learn things if you were spiritual. 
 
 Of course, it would be harder to transfer 
 a thing to your body that you had never 
 thought of than it would to transfer a thing 
 
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to you that you had already made a study of, 
 
 because it would have been to you once and 
 
 could easily come again; but the other would 
 
 be just as easy, and even easier, if you were 
 
 spiritual. 
 
 Some people say : "If people could do 
 
 that and were like that, what kind of a world 
 
 would this be ? Everybody would know just 
 
 as much as the other and there would be no 
 
 men to do different kinds of work. They 
 
 would all be able to do the best and that is 
 
 what they would all aim for." But that is 
 
 no excuse for a just man to make. Every 
 
 man was created equal and has just as much 
 
 right to be smart as you have. We were 
 
 created to make something out of ourselves. 
 
 No one was ever supposed to kill himself 
 
 with hard study in order to adapt himself to 
 
 some little thing because in that way he 
 
 loses his health and if we lived a thousand 
 
 years we would not know so much after all. 
 
 Everyone could not get one thing to do. He 
 
 would have to take the next best and that 
 
 would stop him from always having the 
 
 knowledge. Every one would stand an equal 
 
 chance, the world would not be in the hands 
 
 of a few as it is today. 
 
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People would not need to make a machine 
 ont of themselves in order to get a piece of 
 bread and butter to eat. If they did every 
 man would take his turn, and it would not 
 always be one man that would be dragging 
 out a miserable existence. 
 
 As far as the man going into an animal 
 of some kind, I will say this, that even if they 
 did not go aud take the form of a dog, there 
 are some of them so degraded that they are 
 are even lower than an animal, and a great 
 many of them, if not so low, are just as low. 
 And for this very reason every man does not 
 have his rights. When one is down a person 
 that is able to help him up again will- not do 
 it. It is all caused through a man being born 
 without anything, without a chance, and 
 others that have the chance, keeping him 
 where he is. You hear preached every day 
 that if you believe, you will be saved; but for 
 hundreds of years people have been believ- 
 ing those things and still they are in just as 
 bad a condition today as they were j^ears ago. 
 Some of the strongest believers are just as 
 poor, just as low in thought. Thej'' believe 
 all their lives and still they die in the same 
 
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condition as they were in to begin with. 
 They look haggard and pale so it doesn't 
 help them in that way. Yet they are believ- 
 ing those same ideas they believed years ago 
 when there can be improvements on every- 
 thing. No matter how strong a believer they 
 are, they die anyway and always have. When 
 Jesus said: "Believe as I do and you can do 
 what I do," and never died, that shows and 
 proves they are not of the correct belief, the 
 belief of Christ, it shows that there must be 
 some misunderstanding somewhere. 
 
 There is no man who is true spiritualist 
 belief that stays in the same condition in 
 which he began with. Their thoughts reach 
 farther, they feel better, they can make 
 themselves well, if they will, it all depends 
 upon the extent of their belief and knowledge 
 in that line what and where they are in life. 
 If they are good ones they can make money 
 for themselves, they can increase the God 
 within them, they need not be sick, in fact, 
 they always die with more and in a better 
 condition than they started. With the other 
 belief it is sometimes worse when they get 
 through than when they began. 
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Now, do not call people who go insane 
 over spiritualism, true spiritualists. They 
 are not. They never were. That is just a 
 superstition that first started and through 
 people not understanding it, they always 
 carry the same idea. All make fun of it be- 
 fore they know anything about it, the same 
 with ignorance always. When a person 
 makes fun of spiritualism, put it down that 
 that person does not know anything about it. 
 for if he did he could never make light of it, 
 When once understood it is a beautiful and 
 elevating belief. 
 
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A PERSONAL GOD. 
 
 I think by this time people who have 
 read this book have concluded what kind of 
 a God I believe in, although I have never 
 said directly what or who he is. Some may 
 say that I believe in a personal God, and so I 
 do; but in a different way from the way it is 
 generally believed. 
 
 I do not believe in a God that is one man, 
 because when I reason it out for myself it 
 seems inconsistent to me. If there is a God 
 who is one man, one spirit, who listens to all 
 prayers and who sees to their being answer- 
 ed, I say if he listens to these on a Sunday 
 night at about the same time, he must listen 
 to the prayers of thousands of ministers, who 
 are praying for help. I do not see how it 
 could be possible for one man to do all that. 
 
 You may say that it is not for you to see, 
 it is a miracle to you and that it is beyond 
 your understanding. But if a thing is beyond 
 my understanding I will not have anything to 
 do with it. I will take something that is 
 within my reach. He would be no God of 
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justice that would punish me for not believing 
 that which is beyond my understanding. 
 
 If God is as you say, one spirit that loves 
 us all, he is not a God of justice, neither does 
 he love us all. I cail prove this, for if he 
 loved us all we never would be in the condi- 
 tion we are in today, some enjoying life, 
 others trying to serve him and dragging out 
 a life of misery. He is not trying us in any 
 such way if he loves us as you say he does. 
 He would know that no man can make any- 
 thing of himself while in misery, and I can 
 prove to you in hundreds of ways that God is 
 not one man. 
 
 I believe in a personalGod in this way, 
 esus said : " God is within you, " and I con 
 sider that makes a personal God. My God 
 that is within me is my personal God. Now 
 do not understand me in this way, that in 
 reality I do not believe in a God for I believe 
 in a God power. I believe that after we 
 leave this earth we live under the laws of a 
 God power, and so under the laws of what 
 you might call a God. It is just like this, we 
 do not live under our president, we live 
 undei- the laws of this country. All the laws 
 
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 ^ 
 
and people become a power and I believe the 
 God power to be something like this. It is 
 simply a good, the good of all that we live 
 under and no God ia the form of a man. 
 
 Of course, there is a man who is highly- 
 progressed, more so than we; but I do not 
 believe that he has one thing to do with us. 
 He is not a perfect man and never will be. 
 He is trying to get as high as possible and. 
 has all he can attend to without us. If there 
 were an Almighty God like a man, then -we 
 would all strive for progression he has, then 
 we would stop. What would be the use of 
 living forever then without an aim ? We 
 would be perfect and would have nothing 
 more to do. No we will always exist and 
 always progress, no man is perfect and never 
 will be. Some say God is a principle. Others 
 say that any one who is living under the idea 
 that God is a principle, is living under a lie. 
 But I say and what is more I can prove, that 
 God is a principle. Anything that is good is 
 a principle. Anything that is good is a prin- 
 ciple of God, it is part of God. All good 
 powers are a God principle, and God is a 
 power, is a part of every man, a part of 
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every' good principle, and thus God is a 
 principle, a good one. 
 
 But in almost every church today is 
 taught hell principles. They are all show- 
 ing up the wrong of everything, instead of 
 the good. What is the use of my knowing 
 the wrong of anything ? Why not just know 
 the good ? If I never know anything else I 
 will never do anything else. 
 
 I heard a certain man say the other day, 
 that in the City of Zion people always lived 
 under the rule of God, and that nothing 
 wrong was ever done there. I admired all 
 of 'the principles he showed me; except this 
 one, the same one, that they show up the 
 wrong side of things. A lady asked if peo- 
 ple married there. ' ' Oh ! certainly, with 
 the consent of the doctor, and they kiss after 
 they are married and not before. If a young 
 man kisses a girl there before they are 
 married, he is sent out of the city." I con- 
 sider that the source of a corrupt thought. 
 Is there anything wrong in touching your 
 lips to those of one you love before marriage? 
 
 Love is the marriage of God, the connec- 
 tion of the two souls and the two spirits. It 
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is a passion that should create noble 
 thoughts, noble ideas, high and far reaching 
 aims. Until this is experienced everything 
 is in its unnatural state. But when it is ex- 
 perienced, the music is sweet, the flowers are 
 sweet and seem to fold out a smile that 
 speaks to the soul, speaks words of purity 
 that are inexpressible by this tongue of clay. 
 Love is pure and too high, too divine to be 
 expressed by us in our state. It shows us 
 the workings of God and his laws, and noth- 
 ing can express its grandeur but the words of 
 uature, the words of music, the words 
 
 r Then why should you refrain from ex- 
 pressing these thoughts, why should you re- 
 frain from acting out this law of God by kiss- 
 ing the one who was the cause of these 
 beautiful thoughts and sights being created 
 within you ? Why not show your gratitude 
 to her or to him for awakening your soul and 
 spirit to the laws of God ? Yes, this is a law 
 of God, and to refrain from expressing this 
 before the law of man takes place is a sin. 
 What has the law of man to do with this ? 
 Only to keep respect while living under those 
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laws. Why have you any more right to kiss 
 your wife than you had before you married 
 her, only by the laws of the land, and letting 
 these thoughts run through your mind de- 
 stroys the law^s of God. \ 
 
 Why should evil thoughts run through 
 your mind because you put your lips to those 
 of one you love ? It should create, and does 
 create noble thoughts. You are hajDpy now, 
 you never were before, and when you put 
 your arms around one who is your mate, let 
 your thoughts run high and pure as the 
 morning air, let it bring purity if you never 
 thought of such a thing before, for if never 
 before, you will now see purity and nature. 
 
 If any one says that evil thoughts run 
 through your mind because you express that 
 passion, it is because they have not yet ex- 
 perienced that power of God, and perhaps 
 they are not capable of doing so. Be proud 
 that you are capable of experiencing this 
 grand thing and let nothing interfere. 
 --^ Young men and girls, prepare yourselves 
 that when you have this experience you may 
 be ready for it. So that you can kiss the one 
 you love with a pair of pure lips, throw 
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around their neck a pair of pure arms, and 
 feed upon the fumes of the God power. 
 There is no harm in it. 
 
 Then again, this man said : "We do not 
 employ the common working girls in our 
 factories. We want purity there." That is 
 a great injustice to the poor, working girl 
 when some of the purest are among them. If 
 they were not pure they would not be slav- 
 ing their lives out for a mere existence. The 
 purity of a person is not shown on the out 
 side especially in their clothes. 
 
 Although I have spoken of love in what 
 I call its divine way and as it should be. I do 
 not say that a girl should be too free with a 
 man." There are so many men in the world 
 without honor, who are full of deception and 
 who would do anything to get the best of a 
 girl." I say there is no harm in kissing be- 
 fore marriage, neither is there; but girls 
 must be sure it is an honorable man with 
 whom she associates. She must be sure it is 
 love on his side as well as on hers. 
 
 When a man begins telling you that it is 
 impossible for him to live without you, that 
 he will take his life etc. he is not in love with 
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you. He wants to force you and you want to 
 bestow your affection upon a man with a 
 stronger will power than that. When a man 
 can 't live at all on account of your not yield- 
 ing to his wishes the second day or week he 
 met you, he is either a man with a weak will 
 power or else he wants to force things and 
 he will make you sorry of your bargain if 
 you marry him. 
 
 If you allow a man to show his affection 
 for you in a respectable way and he then 
 asks greater privileges, he is deceiving you 
 for no man who loves you will ask you to do 
 anything that would tend to lo\ver yourself 
 in your own estimation, or in the estimation 
 of any one else. If he loves you he will not 
 ask you to do anything that would cause you 
 to take the least chance whatever. 
 
 Beware of men with dull, expressionless 
 eyes, and all men who show their affection 
 on too short acquaintance. Girls are so apt 
 to believe what men tell them, and to yield 
 to their persuasions, and many a poor girl 
 has her life ruined through this. 
 
 Some men will promise everything under 
 the sun to a girl when he does not mean one 
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word of it, and then when he gets you in 
 trouble he will leave you to trouble it out 
 yourself. When a girl is ruined everybody 
 knows it and blames her altogether. A boy 
 can go on just the same and he knows it. He 
 can get out while a girl never can because 
 she is known wherever she goes. 
 
 Then again, do not get a misunderstand- 
 ing of my meaning and think that it means 
 to kiss every man you happen to like or have 
 any attraction for. Neither should you get 
 fickle and show it to others. Love is a thing 
 that should be held sacred within yourself. 
 
 Many people will say that love is caused 
 through amativeness, and they call the desire 
 to gratify their animal passions, love. That 
 is not love, nor even an imitation of love. 
 That is selfishness and sometimes tends to 
 brutality. Love is self sacrificing, you will 
 do anything for the one you love that would 
 be to their advantage. Talk about not living 
 without some one you love, you can do ariy- 
 thing, go from them forever if it was better 
 for them that you should do so. The other 
 is not love and should never go by that name. 
 
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POWER OF THOUGHT. 
 
 It is wonderf q1 what power the mind has 
 over our body or over the body of anyone 
 else. Somp. say it is impossible for the mind 
 to have any power over the body, but if they 
 think, or ever half think, they would know 
 that it does. For the benefit of those who 
 have had no experience in this line, I will 
 give some of the common occurrences that 
 happen in every day life. That will prove 
 the wonderful power the mind has over the 
 body 
 
 For instance, one of your dear ones dies. 
 What is th<5 result? We are at once seized 
 with terror and agony beyond description 
 and we cannot eat, we get poor, we dwindle 
 away in health until that state of mind ceases. 
 Then we come to our old selves again, and 
 as our enjoyment increases, so we increase in 
 other ways. What does this? The mind. 
 Then again, a secret kept by one that con- 
 cerns some crime that has been committed 
 will drag us down until we are perfect 
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wrecks. What does this? The power of the 
 mmd. 
 
 Then sometimes we receive a terrible 
 fright, one so great that we are numbed, we 
 cannot move. Simply because the mind is 
 in that state, so is our body. It has happen- 
 ed that the hair has been turned gray within 
 a few minutes by the power of the mind. So 
 it has been proved that the mind can do any- 
 thing with the body. It can, by being kept 
 in a quiet state, build up the body, or by the 
 opposite it can tear the body down. 
 
 In this same way, all our disasters hap. 
 pen. Why are we sick? It is because the 
 mind is not allowed to do its work. Why do 
 we die and leave our bodies? Our mind 
 causes it. It has not been running as it 
 should for years, and the final result is, it 
 becomes too weak to keep or support a body. 
 It fails to do its duty^ and see that the body 
 is drawing its life, its machine wears out, the 
 disaster comes, we die. 
 
 Now, readers, you have proved what the 
 mind can do in a bad state, so try and see 
 what work it can do by keeping it in the 
 right direction. It can degrade you, it can 
 
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purify you, it can cause you to lose power, it 
 can give power, it can Cduse sickness, it can 
 cure you, it can kill you, it can give you life, 
 for whatever there is bad in a wrong direc- 
 tion there is good in the opposite direction. 
 If you can. by not using your forces, bring 
 sickness upon you, you can, by using them, 
 bring health, happiness, and even wealth. 
 
 If you are suddenly seized with some ill- 
 ness, don't run for a doctor or drug company. 
 You made yourself sick, cure yourself, and 
 do it with your mind. Don't fall upon your 
 knees and pray to some God to cure it; don't 
 cause sickness yourself and then wait for 
 some man whom you believe to be almighty, 
 to go to the trouble of curing you, do it your- 
 self. 
 
 Pray to the God within yourself for help, 
 he is your almighty. Demand him to perfect 
 a cure, and if he does not do it at first, de- 
 mand it of him again. Say "I will get well," 
 and stay with it, don 't weaken and think that 
 perhaps he cannot do it. Have faith, yes, 
 faith. , That is using your God and if he is to 
 cure you, you must use him. Don't be as the 
 sinking man who was lacking faith. Raise 
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yourself, give yourself power, then when you 
 hear some man say: "I am sick. I am sink- 
 ing," you can say: "Oh, ye of little faith, 
 raise thyself, you are well," and lo and be- 
 hold he will be well. 
 
 As I have said before, you can com- 
 mand anything that is desired by you, if you 
 only have the faith and by faith I mean, 
 strength of spirit. You have a magnetic 
 force that your spirit can command, and send 
 it even to the ends of the earth, and there 
 take its effect. There is no need of such suf- 
 fering if we would only use the power we 
 possess. If one that is of interest to you, 
 takes sick, cure him, do it with your mind 
 and this is how to do it. 
 
 Put your hands on that patient's affected 
 parts and command the trouble to leave, send 
 your magnetic force through him, put life in 
 those parts, put your own life there and com- 
 mand it to work. If the blood is slow and 
 does not circulate well through those parts, 
 put your hands there, rub them down and 
 say: "The blood is rushing through these 
 parts and is carrying away this trouble " At 
 the same time be sure that your command is 
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being fulfilled, and you can easily be sure for 
 it will be done. The more you do this the 
 stronger you will become. 
 
 But of course, do not expect that you can 
 replace a shrunken limb in five minutes. It 
 takes time for nature to do her work and do 
 ' not expect it done any sooner than it could 
 rebuild properly. I can give further instruc- 
 tions to any one who wishes to make a pro- 
 fession or business of this, by their writing 
 to me for them. I will give them free of 
 charge, but this is all that is needed to keep 
 yourself in health if they are carefully fol- 
 lowed. 
 
 Stop the terrible things that are happen- 
 ing Qvery day with your God, learn the 
 power of man and as I have said before, 
 learn thyself, and there is no need of any de- 
 pending upon others. But there are very 
 few who do this, they would rather learn 
 something else first, and the result is crime 
 and death. Why don't you look and reason 
 for yourself? Can't you see that if your God 
 or mind will cause horrible things such as 
 fright, etc., it will do good? Look around 
 yourself, open your eyes to your own power 
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and use it. Depend upon yourself and not 
 upon others. Animals even cure themselves 
 by nature. You can do anything in that way 
 that you can. 
 
 When you have a pain you throw your 
 hands to the part paining. Why? Because 
 it is your instinct that prompts you that 
 there is something about your hand that will 
 stop the pain. Try and find out what that 
 something is. It is your magnetism and it 
 can be used by your mind. 
 
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A YOUNG MAN'S FIRST DUTY. 
 
 A young man's or boy's first duty is to 
 prepare himself for after life by making him- 
 self pure. It is a mother's duty along with a 
 father to see that their son is taught the 
 truth of his creation from their own lips, 
 and not allow him to run around and get this 
 knowledge from boys who will give it to him 
 in a vulgar manner. If a daughter or son 
 turns out bad, it is sometimes the fault of 
 the parents. They have lied to them, told 
 them uu truths about what it is their right to 
 know, and the result is this, they go and 
 hear it in a wrong way and find that their 
 father and mother have told them a false- 
 hood. The question arises, why did they? 
 They were ashamed of my creation, and so I 
 must be, and from the first they are led to 
 consider their creation a crime rather than a 
 beautiful art of nature. 
 
 i If your son asks you these questions, tell 
 him. Tell him his duty is to develope these 
 powers of creation so that they are pure and 
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able to bring a perfect offspring into the 
 world. Tell him the good of these things, 
 show him the beauty of this work of nature, 
 leave the other out, he doesn't need that at 
 all. If he never learns the bad that can 
 come, he is not very likely to ever commit 
 himself to these sins. 
 
 After the age of, or about the time a boy 
 begins to develope into manhood, he begins 
 to bhink of matrimony, and if his ambitions 
 lie in that direction let him prepare himself 
 for that. Remember this, that you have no 
 right to ask an innocent girl to live a life 
 away with you unless you are pure both in 
 mind and in body. You would not want a 
 sister of yours to enter into matrimony with 
 a man who was impure in body or who al- 
 lowed his thoughts to run in an immoral way. 
 It is your duty to see that you are in a con- 
 dition to give birth to a perfect child, for if 
 that child turns out an idiot, it is a fault of 
 yours, something that you have done is the 
 cause. It that child turns out to be deformed 
 from birth, it is some fault of yours, and you 
 have no right to bring such misery upon a 
 mother as that. 
 
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Then again the mistake is made by mar- 
 rying before you are able to support a wife. 
 You have no right to ask a woman to be your 
 wife just to be a servant. She can make a 
 living anywhere as far as that goes. What 
 right have you to take a wife to lead her into 
 a miserable existence, carting her from one 
 place to another in some old lumber wagon? 
 Would you have a child of yours, a sister of 
 yours, served thus? You have no right to 
 bring offspring into the world without means 
 with which to give them advantages that are 
 necessary for their progression. It is a 
 shame, a sin, to bring a child here 'and let it 
 go without the advantages it should have. 
 
 There is a great deal that should be con- 
 sidered before entering into anything of that 
 kind. You should always be able to look 
 after the comforts of your wife, and if you 
 do not, it is because you do not love her. 
 You could never say a cross word to one you 
 love and make her life miserable. Do not 
 think that because a woman is married to you 
 that she belongs to you. She is no man's 
 property, although men, a great many of 
 them seem to think so, and will order them 
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around like a beast of burden of some kind. 
 Do not get conceited enough to think you 
 were created first and women should come 
 after you. Everyone has a right to live their 
 own life. 
 
 Some young men will make fun and pass 
 remarks about women who pass them and 
 will say things disrespectful. You have no 
 right to have a wife, you do not deserve one, 
 even if the woman be a fallen one, you have 
 no right to say disrespectful things about 
 her, and then expect the love of a woman. 
 Remember that go every fallen woman there 
 • are ten fallen men. They are no worse than 
 a fallen man, not one bit. And you do not 
 know the cause of it, perhaps it was caused 
 through some man she loved, and even if it 
 was her fault, she is the daughter of some 
 mother. Help her to get up again instead of 
 pushing her down, do it for the sake of her 
 mother if not for hers. She is a woman, so 
 was your mother. Have manhood enough to 
 help her up again, if it is in your power. 
 When she does rise again, consider her just 
 as good as if her downfall had never occur- 
 red. 
 
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Some of these downfallen women have 
 gone through what no tongue can describe, 
 they have been deceived, turned from their 
 own father's door, turned from employment 
 of all kinds. What is left? Nothing but to 
 fall lower with no help to rise again. They 
 got down, we kept them there, and it is the 
 duty of every young man to lend a helping 
 hand to these women if they wish it instead 
 of pushing them lower as they do. 
 
THE WORD OF WISDOM. 
 
 What does the word of wisdom imply? 
 It means the right way of living. Then if 
 the word of wisdom means the right way of 
 living, it means wisdom in everything con- 
 cerning the human system. Now this is the 
 word of wisdom in the eyes of thousands: 
 
 You must not drink any kind of stimu- 
 lating liquors. 
 
 You must not drink coffee or tea. 
 
 You must not chew or smoke, or use to- 
 bacco in any way or form. 
 
 There is the word of wisdom as the Mor- 
 mon Church of Jesus Christ' of Latter Day 
 Saints looks at it, and if you offer them a cup 
 of coffee, they will not accept it, ask them 
 why, "Oh, I keep the word of wisdom." 
 
 But that kind of a word of wisdom is very 
 easily kept, and I would be ashamed to say 
 that I was keeping the word of wisdom and still 
 know that that was all I was doing towards 
 it. Look at them and see if they are looking 
 better for it. Well, yes, it looks better to 
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see a clean mouth than one with the corners 
 and chin discolored by tobacco. It looks 
 better to see lungs that are pure from tobacco 
 smoke and teeth that a,re not discolored by 
 tobacco. It looks better to see them walking 
 along the street erect than it does to see 
 them staggering along with their brain in a 
 demented condition. But with all of this you 
 are not keeping the word of wisdom, or half 
 keeping it. 
 
 You look at this man again. He looks 
 tired, he -is getting worn out. He *fills him- 
 self with other drugs that do him harm, and 
 he has as much sickness as anyone else. If 
 he does, he is not keeping the word of wis- 
 dom. Instead of coffee or tea, he fills him- 
 self up with the corpse of some poor innocent 
 animal. There is plenty to eat that corre- 
 sponds with the wants of nature withaut 
 taking the life of some animal. Flesh was 
 not supposed to be eaten by us. It is wicked, 
 a sin, it is barbarous to take the life of some- 
 thing and then eat the flesh. A refined per- 
 son cannot do it. They cannot take anything 
 away that goes beyond their power to return. 
 You have no right to do so just because you 
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have the power. You are brutal to take ad- 
 vantage of something helpless and under 
 your power. 
 
 To live up to the word of wisdom you 
 must live up to nature in every way, and 
 none of us live in the ways of nature Do 
 not disgrace its meaning by calling these few 
 things the "Word of Wisdom.'' When you 
 live strictly to the word of wisdom you can 
 say: "I am a perfect man. I live to nature 
 in every way, both in food, mind, and all that 
 I can do. I can do the things that Jesus did. " 
 For all these things, everything good, high, 
 or noble m any way is the word of wisdom. 
 You are not very apt to be a man of the word 
 of wisdom. That is what I wish to impress, 
 to get everyone as well as myself, to live as 
 nearly as possible to the rules of nature, or 
 the word of wisdom, and, in order to do it 
 all, we must keep trying. No man can start 
 at once and do it. He can only do a part of 
 it. And to allow other men to say what you 
 are to do in order to live up to the word of 
 wisdom is a wrong doing. 
 
 Make out your own word of wisdom as 
 far as you are able to live to it, and then 
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carry it farther. Every man cannot keep the 
 same word of wisdom. They can all strive for 
 it; but there will always be one ahead of an- 
 other, therefore, there can be no word of 
 wisdom made for any man to start with; but 
 it should be made by each individual to start 
 with and strive for. Strive to be perfect. 
 There is nothing so beautiful as a pure and 
 perfect man or woman. You can paint every- 
 thing you can see; but you will never attain 
 to anything that will reach the height of 
 beauty that the painting of a human being 
 will attain. 
 
 You can paint all things, and try to find 
 the thing that takes the prize as to homliness 
 and at last you will grant the prize to the 
 piece that was supposed to be the represen- 
 tation of a human being. A man can rise to 
 the highest, both in nature and in beauty of 
 all kinds. He can go to the lov/est. When 
 he raises in one thing, he raises some in all. 
 When he falls in one, he falls in all, so make 
 it your aim to raise the highest of all. It is 
 your duty, your mission, your right; but it is 
 not your right to fall, because you cannot 
 fall without involving others neither can you 
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raise without involving others. These are the 
 principles of true spiritualism. 
 
 All things that are a benefit to man are 
 principles of spiritualism. That) is why we 
 cannot commune with the spirit world, we 
 are going against the laws of nature, and 
 nature makes us a strong spirit, a strong 
 soult the other weakens it. Some make the 
 assertion that it is easier to do wrong than to 
 do good. I say the opposite, we will com- 
 pare them. You start on the wrong side, 
 you go down, you become impure, you lose 
 power, you lose respect, you lose ambition, 
 you commit crimes wo;:'se and worse. Your 
 conscience smites you, it causes you to de- 
 spair and you are thrown into intense agony 
 of mind and body, you are an animal instead 
 of a man. you sicken, you die. People are 
 glad for a good riddance. You then lead out 
 a hell in the spirit world, you have lost all 
 your opportunities and must regain them with 
 hard labor. 
 
 Then we will take the other side. You 
 
 advance, you become pure, you gain power, 
 
 you gain respect, you gain ambition, you 
 
 gain life, you do good to everyone along with 
 
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yourself, you gain health, wealth and perpet- 
 ual youth. People are sorry when you go. 
 They remember you. You are something 
 and you have a heaven; you ai^e a man 
 Which is the easier? Good is strength, and 
 the easier always. Try it and see. 
 
UNIVERSAL LOVE. 
 
 One of the strongest principles of spirit- 
 ualism is universal love. Love, being one of 
 the God powers and principles, one of the 
 strongest of all powers, is a spiritual prin- 
 ciple. Love is strength, it elevates, it gives 
 and creates nobler thoughts, in fact to have 
 a thought take good effect, it must be sent 
 through good, which would be caused through 
 universal love. 
 
 Now, by this I do not mean for a man to 
 fall in love with every woman he sees. ' That 
 is not love in any form. That is fickleness, 
 it is more to gratify a selfish desire. Neither 
 do I mean for a woman to fall in love with 
 every man she sees, as I have said, that is 
 not love in any form. It is a shame to cast 
 such insinuations on the strongest power of 
 God by calling that fickle, selfish nothing, 
 love. Love is a power. The other is simply 
 nothing only an imaginary idea that comes 
 and goes like a feather in a whirlwind. 
 
 By universal love I mean, love or respect 
 
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for all noble thoughts or things, respect for 
 all mankind, love for rights, love for beauty, 
 love for nature, love and respect for -all the 
 human family. ^ A man who cultivates uni- 
 versal love within himself, brings himself to 
 this knowledge, that he cannot hurt or harm 
 any man without doing more harm to himself. 
 Whenever you do a man harm, you bite off 
 your nose to spite your face. You cannot do 
 harm of any kind without degrading your- 
 self. You cannot think of a wrong act with- 
 out getting a knowledge of that act, then 
 your spirit is weakened, it has lost some of 
 its power, it goes on a downward progres- 
 sion, you lose the purity and straightforward 
 look, people do not feel right around you, 
 they lose all respect for you, and in a thous- 
 and ways you harm yourself. 
 
 Honesty is another of the principles that 
 go under the head of universal love. A dis- 
 honest man shall always receive his reward. 
 To see man, to learn all his habits, paying spe 
 cial attention to the bad ones, then going off 
 and telling your wife and children about 
 them, all the neighbors, and all the people 
 who deal with you in a professional way, 
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discussing them, and giving advice about 
 dealing with such a man, a man with such 
 habits, in order to get all his trade yourself, 
 is not universal love. 
 
 If you are going to discuss any man's 
 qualities, take his good ones, admire them in 
 him and if you get a chance do this man a 
 good turn. Do this, help him up instead of 
 pushing him deeper in the mire. He is a 
 man. He is some mother's son. He is as 
 dear to some one as your child is to you. In 
 doing him this good turn, you build for your- 
 self a noble character, a noble and powerful 
 spirit, and it will show itself on your face, it 
 is something that no man can take from you. 
 
 That is what I call a priesthood, a strong, 
 powerful, and noble spirit, with a strong soul 
 to do its work. I have heard men of the 
 Mormon belief now, I do not say al.1 of them, 
 run a man down to the lowest, take the ad- 
 vantage of others at every opportunity, curse 
 and-swear, tell falsehoods, allow evil thoughts 
 to run through their minds, smoke, chew, 
 drink, and say: "I have the priesthood and 
 my wife has not, therefore, she should be 
 under me." Oh! what nerve a man of that 
 
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kind has, and if that is the priesthood or if a 
 man of that kind has the priesthood, I say- 
 that the priesthood is one of the greatest 
 curses that was ever put within the reach of 
 man. 
 
 If I were a woman and the only chance 
 for me was to be ruled under such a priest- 
 hood, I would go to the first place I could get 
 a rope and hang myself, if I had a child and 
 that child proved to be a girl, I would end its 
 misery by giving it chloroform. If I were a 
 woman and thought that a God was so unjust 
 as to give me life and then put a man over 
 me I would curse that God, I would take my- 
 self as far from him as it were possible to get, 
 I would refuse any man who thought thus, 
 the privilege of my company, I would simply 
 tell men to find their equal with which to as- 
 sociate. He must go to man, he could not 
 find it among women. 
 
 I do not consider any of these principles, 
 principles of universal love. They are all 
 degrading, a disadvantage to our spirits and 
 the spirits of the spirit world. We are all 
 equal," men and women. We are none of us 
 more than half. A woman is as large a half 
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as man. Some will go into one of the most 
 degrading, filthy, shameful, sinful vices, po- 
 lygamy, and then say: "I have the priest- 
 hood and women must be under me. I have 
 a right to use women as a machine. ' ' That 
 is what you say when you advocate polyg- 
 amy. Worse than that; you use her to com- 
 mit sin with, to degrade humanity with. 
 
 1 think it was time that universal love 
 was advocated. It is time the human race 
 took a change and not be flooded out by sin 
 as it was in the days of Noah, Build your- 
 self an ark of good influence so as to be pro- 
 tected from the waters of sin, as he was. 
 Why did his ark shelter so many animals? 
 Because it was an ark of good, and good in- 
 fluence will give shelter to thousands. Ani- 
 mals especially need our sympathy, and a part 
 of that universal love. We take advantage 
 of their weakness. 
 
 If a tramp comes to your door, and you 
 turn him away because some other tramp 
 came, you gave him food, and he threw it 
 away or failed to appreciate your kindness — 
 this is not universal love, it is not good will 
 to your creation. He was a man, or at least 
 m 
 
was to begin with. He has reason, feeling, 
 and all of these things, he belongs to some 
 one and you do not know what you would do 
 under similar conditions. 
 
 Look at your own son and say to your- 
 self: "'If you, my son, should ever, through 
 something, get started on the downward 
 path, and you should go to someone's back 
 door, half frozen, threadbare, and almost 
 starved, and should ask for something to eat, 
 what would I wish them to say, yes or no?' ' 
 No matter what their faults may be there 
 will a feeling of sympathy creep through 
 your veins and you will say: "I would wish 
 them to say yes, of course.*' Then remember 
 this, look at this poor, downfallen creature 
 and say: "You are somebody's son. No 
 matter what you are, you belong to some- 
 body." Consider the feelings of others. 
 They are keen to all who must bear them, 
 
 And now what is universal love? It is 
 peace to thee, good will to men. Practice it. 
 You shall receive your reward. It is one of 
 God's powers. Hold it sacred. 
 
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MARRIAGE. 
 
 Marriage, as it is thought of and con- 
 sidered tojday, is an outrage to the spirit 
 world. Through the way that marriage is 
 looked upon by some, the spirit is drowned 
 out, and is stopped from its proper develop- 
 ment. The first thing a girl or boy hears, as 
 soon as he or she is large enough to under- 
 stand is: "Who is your girl?" or 'Who is 
 your fellow?" etc. 
 
 They learn the first thing the distinction 
 of sex, when they should associate merely as 
 friends and playmates. When a young boy 
 or girl reaches the age of about fifteen, he or 
 she begins to thiak and to ponder upon mar- 
 riage, without the least idea of what the word 
 marriage means, or should mean. When a 
 young man sees a girl pass along the street 
 the first thing that enters his head is mar- 
 riage, "That would make me a good wife." 
 He never thinks whether he is qualified to 
 have a wife yet or not. If a girl sees a young 
 man that seems to be refined, pure, high 
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minded, she must keep out of his company, 
 because she knows the first thing "will be a 
 proposal of marriage, and if she doesn't ac- 
 cept him she has it constantly thrown up to 
 her "Why did you encourage me then?" 
 
 Young men and women should seek each 
 others company for the good they can derive 
 from it and not always for the object of mat- 
 rimony. And then if you see, through keep- 
 ing company with this young lady, that you 
 are in love with her, then is the time to think 
 of marriage, not before. But be sure that it 
 is love, not fancy or the etfects of animal 
 passion, because either of these can be mis- 
 taken for love in the first place. 
 
 If you are in love the spirit and the soul 
 are united, and you are made a whole, you 
 will see life as you have never seen it before. 
 Everything will change, even to the stars at 
 night, everything from the highest to the 
 ' lowest form of nature will speak to you in a 
 language that you were never before able to 
 understand. Then before entering into mat 
 rimony think of what there is at stake, think 
 of what the undertaking of of this new life 
 means. 
 
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Before you are a fit person to enter into 
 this you should be pure, refined, high mind- 
 ed, a man fit to bring forth a perfect offspring. 
 Then you should be a man of means enough, 
 or ways of obtaining means enough to bring 
 up this perfect offspring and give them all 
 the advantages that would be for their good. 
 You should be a man capable of giving this 
 offspring proper instructions so as to make a 
 man or woman of them. A man or woman 
 that would be a blessing to humanity, a bles- 
 sing and a credit to you, their parents. You 
 should be able to make that loved one, your 
 wife, happy. She should be considered be- 
 fore all things, you should be able to pay her 
 proper attention. She deserves it. When 
 she consents to be your wife, she stakes her 
 life, her future happiness, and when you ask 
 this of her, it is the same as acknowledging 
 that you are capable of all these things, that 
 you are worthy of this trust. 
 
 When you enter into matrimony it should 
 
 be a sign that you are a man of all these 
 
 qualifications. You are taking up one of 
 
 God's greatest works and you should be able 
 
 to perform it before attempting it. Not until 
 
 then should you think of marriage. 
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A woman should also be capable of all 
 these things. I have heard men say "I would 
 like to get that girl. She would make a fine 
 housekeeper " For shame, for shame, to 
 such a man, to even call himself a man and 
 want to get a wife simply for a housekeeper, 
 to take a girl from a single and free life into 
 the bondage of slavery, to want to make a 
 machine out of his wife, to want her as a 
 piece of property, to want to own her. 
 
 Remember this, that when you marry a 
 woman you are fooling with a human life, 
 and if you make her life miserable so as to 
 stop her progression you have the same as 
 killed her. You will receive the bitter re- 
 ward you merit. You will be ashamed to 
 ■ meet her in the spirit world. 
 
 Marriage, above all things, should be 
 considered carefully. It involves the lives 
 of others. For the sake of humanity, hold it 
 sacred. I once knew a low, filthy man, for 
 such he must have been, judging from his 
 his statement. There was a girl whose face 
 was covered with pimples, the face was a 
 solid eruption, and for years she had been 
 trying to get rid of this but everything failed. 
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This man told her she should get married and 
 this would all disappear and she would get 
 all right. I asked him: "Why, so as to give 
 this horrible disease to her offspring, to bring 
 natural born cripples into the world, to re- 
 plenish one of the highest creations of nature 
 with filth and disease, from the beginning?" 
 Now a man who did not think any more of 
 human life than that did not deserve the name 
 of man at all. 
 
 Then you will hang a man for murder 
 when born under those conditions, born with 
 an evil nature, a diseased body and every- 
 thing to tempt him. Some marry and bring 
 offspring, a son, we will say, into poverty, 
 bring him when he is an unwelcome child. 
 He starves, life is a misery to him, he sees 
 others around him with means, education, 
 and all. What has he? Nothing, He is 
 tempted, he steals, he has done wrong, and 
 he must escape from the hands of the law. 
 Soon he is cornered, he murders. Then he 
 is caught, taken to trial, and sentenced to be 
 hanged. He sits there imprisoned, no friends, 
 no money, thinking of a wasted life, with the 
 horrible words ringing in his ears, "You are 
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a murderer. " Oh, how terrible, what a sight, 
 a human life ia that condition! 
 
 Then a mother or a father goes to bid 
 their last farewell to their son, their own 
 flesh and blood. He is to be hanged. He 
 sits and thinks of church and what is said 
 there. He thinks of what he has heard there 
 that there is no redemption for a murderer. 
 No there is nothing for him, either in this 
 life or in the next. Oh, what agony he must 
 suffer! 
 
 But if any of you have had a son who has 
 passed this trial, take this, that although he 
 has murdered, although he has committed 
 one of the worst crimes possible, although 
 he has stooped to the lowest, he is not lost, 
 he is not dead, he still lives, he is in a hell; 
 but sometime he will be redeemed. This re- 
 demption takes time. There is no one lost, 
 they are all redeemed. He is living under 
 the laws of God, where all are willing to help 
 him rise, he has left the law of the land, 
 he is in the spirit world. Oh, what a beauti- 
 ful thought! Only to think that we are all at 
 some time saved from misery, instead of, be- 
 cause we do wrong, being lost forever. Por- 
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ever is a long time. Then say marriage is a 
 small undertaking. Look around you, see 
 the misery that comes from the one thing, 
 marriage. 
 
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FEAR AND COURAGE. 
 
 Fear is a source from what I call the 
 devil. If you have anything to bear, never 
 fear it; but walk into it with a brave mind. 
 Fear comes from weakness, because it causes 
 weakness A man is just what he thinks. 
 As a man thinketh so is he. Your thoughts 
 protect you, they surround you as the light 
 of the sun surrounds the planets. It is not 
 the sun that protects us and the worlds. It 
 is the light, the life, the power th<it comes 
 from the sun. It is the power that comes 
 from the mind that protects us in about tho 
 same way. 
 
 You have a magnetic current which is gen- 
 erated from your body, by your spirit, or by 
 your thoughts which come from the spirit. 
 Every thought sends a current of this mag- 
 netism out of your body. If you strike a 
 light you will see all around that light for a 
 radius of about two feet, a mist like or a 
 dense part of light.that stays always around 
 it; but then it goes, scatters, and gives light 
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while other is replacing this; but it is in 
 constant motion. There is a mist of thought 
 current similar to that surrounding your 
 body. 
 
 Then if this thought current which is 
 composed of magnetism, or soul power, is 
 filled with fea^'ful thoughts, in any way, or 
 like this perhaps: "Bad luck always came 
 to me and always will," "I have a deal to 
 make tomorrow but I am afraid it won't end 
 well," "I feel so siupid today I think I will 
 be sick tomorrow. I never was very strong 
 anyway," "The last dollar in my pocket-book 
 is gone and I don't think there is any way of 
 getting any more. Even if I try I always 
 get the worst jobs in the country," etc. Now 
 if that is 3'our fearful thoughts, that is the 
 kind of protection which surrounds you, and 
 is all through you? If something good comes 
 to you it meets opposition and just passes on 
 as though you were never in existence; but 
 on the other hand, if something wrong comes 
 along, it just passes in, you draw it to you, 
 and soon you are distinguished for evil, or 
 for bad luck. If you surround a light with 
 
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oxygen it will blaze up; but stop its source 
 and soon the light goes out, 
 
 Tben, if your thoughts run in a good 
 way, like all things good cpmes to you, you 
 draw it in, it comes in like sticks in a whirl 
 pool. How do your good thoughts draw the 
 good, or your bad thoughts, the bad? These 
 thoughts or this influence, spreads and goes 
 everywhere and if it is bad and meets a man 
 who is doing wrong, it influences him to come 
 to you, if he sees you he sees that mist 
 around you or rather feels it, and the first 
 thing he says is: "Oh, he is easy." 
 
 Then again, if a man intends to do good 
 and comes in contact with you, that mist pen- 
 etrates him and he thinks: "Why, I could 
 cheat him. I will use him as a tool for my 
 own good. Funny I didn't think of that be- 
 fore;" but the reason is he never before came 
 across your protection. 
 
 If fear comes to you that something is 
 going to happen to you that is for bad, it is a 
 sure sign it is within your reach; all it needs 
 is help to reach you. Then just begin to get 
 frightened and it will come at the rate of 
 sixty miles a minute. Soon it enters, you 
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have it, it belongs to you. If a desire creeps 
 over you, that is a sign it is within your 
 reach. All it needs is help. Think it is, and 
 will be here soon, do not stop it by fear and 
 it will come at the rate of speed that the bad 
 used to come. 
 
 If your protection is good, it catches all 
 the good and draws it to you. It draws good 
 people to you and if people come around you 
 who wish to do wrong they feel the light. 
 They feel that there is no use in fooling with 
 you. If your protection comes in this man- 
 ner, that you never were well and don't think 
 you ever will be, it will lead you where there 
 would be a chance to create disease, it will 
 cause you to do everything that would be 
 conducive to illness. 
 
 Some people put their protection, or put 
 into their protection certain signs such as, if 
 you raise a parasol in the house someone is 
 going to die, if it happens to be a strong one 
 if it is allowed to run much on their mind it 
 will bring about this disaster, it will lead 
 sonieone into that house who would do some- 
 thing that would cause death. Some people 
 go to a fortune teller to get their fortunes, 
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told, they are always willing to accept the 
 good part of the fortune; but they never 
 want to accept the bad. Why? It is an in- 
 stinct that prompts you not to accept the bad, 
 and there must be some reason for this 
 prompting. The reason is this, that if you 
 believe the bad and worry about it, it will 
 lead that bad to you, or you to it. It does 
 this every time. 
 
 You see a man who knows he will come 
 out all right, always does come out all right. 
 He never fails unless some bad comes for a 
 time in order to bring about the good. You 
 may think this influence br protection is not 
 as I explain it; but clairvoyants can see it. 
 Spirits can see it. You ask: "How does a 
 spirit know what is going to happen to me?" 
 This is the way they tell. They come to you, 
 they see this protection which surrounds 
 you, they analyze it, and determine the 
 things it will bring. Then they tell you. A 
 clairvoyant can do this. He sees the condi- 
 tions that are being brought. 
 
 A clairvoyant can see what has happen- 
 ed to you, so can a spirit by analyzing this 
 influence and determining what has been 
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brought about. All of these things are in 
 this influence, some it is drawing in, some it 
 has just finished and in that way it makes a 
 man as he thinks. 
 
 So if you are in bad surroundings, change 
 them at once. Never leave it till it is too 
 late, never leave it till tomorrow or some 
 future time when you shall have money that 
 will bring your chance, and then change it. 
 You will never get it until you do change 
 your conditions. It is very seldom that a 
 poor man gets rich, or a rich man poor. 
 
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WRINKLES WITH OLD AGE. 
 
 I have stated several times, in former 
 chapters, that persons born into this exist- 
 ance should change their body of clay into 
 one of magnetism, and that death, as it is 
 known today, is not natural and should not 
 be. Then you might say: "If we would 
 live accord idg to nature as you say we would 
 change our bodies into magnetism or into a 
 magnetic body, and then of course, our 
 children would be born with a body of that 
 kind, and they would not have to do that 
 work of changing their bodies for more per- 
 fect ones." But a magnetic body can not 
 give birth to a child. Your mission of re- 
 plenishing the earth would have already been 
 fulfilled by the ' time you had your body 
 changed to a magnetic one. 
 
 Nature has provided us with what you 
 might call two lives on this earth, or two 
 stages of life. The first stage is to prepare 
 for the next. The first stage of this life is to 
 
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give birth to uiortal or clay bodies; the sec- 
 ond to give birth to magnetic bodies. 
 
 Now, I will take the first- stage of this 
 life and give what I call the duties of that 
 stage, and in order to do that I will divide 
 the first stage into two parts, the first part, 
 we will say, ends at about the age of twenty- 
 five, perhaps younger or older; but we will 
 estimate it at that, the second part of the 
 first stage we will estimate ends at about the 
 age of fifty. The work of the first part of the 
 first stage would, or should be to make your- 
 self pure, pure in mind, pure in body, with 
 high and noble thoughts. You should, in 
 that time, obtain a knowledge of life in all its 
 forms, know something about yourself, what 
 you came here for, and where you should go. 
 You should, in that time, prepare yourself so 
 as to be able to bring a perfect offspring into 
 this existence; you should be able to support 
 it as it should be supported, to teach it as it 
 should be taught. You should be as perfect 
 as you could be at the age of twenty-five- 
 Then you are ready to take up the second 
 part of the first stage. 
 
 The duties of the second part of the first 
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stage are to give birth to your offspring, to 
 teach them, take care of them, to see that 
 they are a credit to humanity, to prepare 
 yourself for the second, stage. When you 
 reach the age of forty -five or fifty you should 
 be at your most beautiful time. You should 
 be a beautiful man or wooian in every way, 
 be a person of strength and power, you 
 should have a well developed spirit so that 
 you could hear and see all people who came 
 past you who were in the spirit world. You 
 should be in such a condition that your spirit 
 could have complete control over your body, 
 so that you could know what it heard and 
 saw, in fact, by that time you should be liv- 
 ing partly in the spirit world. Then you are 
 ready to enter the second stage in the right 
 way. 
 
 At about the age of forty-five most peo- 
 ple go into what they call second child-hood 
 or pass the change of life, and that is what I 
 call the second stage of life. Then we will 
 separate this second stage into two parts; but 
 we can not estimate the number of years in 
 each of these parts, as it would all depend 
 upon the person. You have passed the time 
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of that. You know that at certain ages you 
 are developed to take part in certain things; 
 it then should depend upon yourself. 
 
 Now the duty or work of the first part of 
 the second stage is to get yourself ready to 
 change, you should try and try, work with 
 yourself until your body is between the clay 
 ana magnetic and ready to change. After 
 that is done you take up the second part of 
 the second stage which is giving birth to the 
 magnetic body. Then your mission here is 
 fulfilled, you are ready to go into heaven; 
 but not until. 
 
 Now you may say that looks ridiculous 
 and impossible; but it is not. It is all done 
 with the mind. Some men will say: "Oh, 
 I can't quit smoking ?" or chewing or drink- 
 ing whichever the case may be. I don t ex- 
 pect a man like that to do it, because he has 
 not will power enough, he has not mind or 
 perseverance enough ; but a man can do it 
 and the other type I do not hardly consider a 
 man. The word man means a great deal and 
 it is very few of us that deserve that name. 
 I am not and I do not think that many are; 
 but let us strive for that, let us make our- 
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selves worthy of that name, which means or 
 should mean so much. 
 
 Now, if, at the change of life we were as 
 we should be, there would be no wrinkles. 
 I^he cause of wrinkles is the loss of life, or 
 magnetism. We instead of gaining soul 
 power, lose it until we ossify. At first, our 
 blood is heavily charged with that current, 
 the blood runs through the body and fills out 
 the flesh like water fills a sponge. Our flesh 
 is composed of a spongy substance and filled 
 out; but through violating nature's laws, we 
 allow this current to Tun down and the circu- 
 lation gets poor, the flesh wrinkles up and 
 becomes dead, the magnetism expands and 
 fills it out, but when, the current goes we 
 begin to dwindle away and shrink to a solid 
 mass. Our bones become solid and brittle. 
 The result is we do not fill out the skin to its 
 capacity, and it becomes wrinkled and con- 
 tracted. 
 
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FOOD OF LIFE. 
 
 Jn a previous chapter I gave a little on 
 what we should eat Not that I say unless 
 you do eat these things, you cannot cultivate 
 this power, because you can, that is, to some 
 extent. You can, under any condition, culti- 
 vate the magnetic force, or what I call the 
 soul power; but in order to make it perfect 
 you must eat properly and drink properly as 
 well as think correctly. You can make this 
 soul power great; but unless you live correct- 
 ly you cannot make it so strong but that in 
 time it will start on the downward path and 
 at last come to such a low degree that the 
 body begins to decay and in the end you are 
 forced to return it to dust. 
 
 They say a smoke that is the first smoke 
 does not hurt any young man; but it leads to 
 more. That is where the harm comes in. 
 Then he begins to smoke steadily, at first 
 that does not seem to injure his health in any 
 way; but in time he begins to fail and soon 
 he is a wreck. That is the way with eating 
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and drinking the wrong things. They do not 
 seem to make much difference at first with 
 the power of your magnetic force; but in 
 time it begins to ebb away. So in order to 
 make it complete and perfect, make it ever- 
 lasting, make it so great that at last it con- 
 sumes the flesh and turns it into soul. Let 
 us live in every way as rightly as possible. 
 For that purpose I will give a few sugges- 
 tions on the kinds of food and the ways of life 
 which I consider will act as a food for the 
 life or magnetism, which is soul. 
 
 In the first place we cook too much of 
 our food. We kill the life in it by fire and 
 when we kill the life in food, we kill the 
 life in our bodies. There has, of late years, 
 been such things as manufactured eggs, they 
 taste exactly like the ordinary egg; but they 
 will not hatch because there is no life there. 
 They possess all the ingredients except life. 
 
 Now in cooking an egg you kill the life 
 in it, therefore I say eat fresh eggs uncooked, 
 eat the life of the chicken instead of the dead 
 clay after you have killed the life in it. Eat 
 a great deal of fruit, fresh from the bushes 
 or trees and then you eat the soul of that 
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fruit along with the ciay parts. Of course, 
 in winter you must cook it in order to pre- 
 serve it; but when it is in season eat plenty 
 of it. Do not wait until it stands picked for 
 some time, if you can help it, because then it 
 has Ibst some of its magnetism Like a wilt- 
 ed flower, it is not half so pretty after it has 
 been picked for awhile, as it is at first. 
 Drink plenty of fresh water, it is the fountain 
 of life, it is filled with magnetism. Do not 
 be afraid to use it, drink at least two quarts 
 a day. 
 
 Breathe plenty of fresh air, it is a fount- 
 ain of life. I do not mean to stop eating 
 cooked foods; but I say don't cook at all. 
 Leave off meats altogether. Meat eating is 
 the next thing to barbarism. Meat makes 
 you quick tempered, coarse, vicious, and 
 animal like in nature; something like the 
 nature of a bear or lion. Meat gives you 
 animal strength but not spiritual. Eat plenty 
 of vegetables of all kinds both cooked and 
 uncooked. 
 
 Now these are but a very few things; but 
 you can get plenty of books that will give 
 you ways of living. Then there is one thing 
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that is taught by some physicians, one that 
 drags down the soul power quicker than any- 
 thing else, and that is an excess in sexual de- 
 sires. 
 
 Some physicians will tell you that that 
 is necessary in order to be healthy. These 
 teachings are perfectly rotten, even as rotten 
 as the man who teaches them. They say it 
 is an expression of love; but the love of man 
 is supposed to come from a higher source 
 than that and unless you are perfectly wil- 
 ling to admit yourself equal to an animal do 
 not say that this is an expression of your 
 love. 
 
 Then again they say it is nature. It is but 
 not one of the best of nature's laws. There 
 are other ways of using that power, higher 
 ways, more progressive ways than that. It 
 is not needed to promote health. It creates 
 disease when used in such a corrupt and dis- 
 graceful way. That is running down the 
 creation of man. This and many other things 
 are a great disadvantage to the soul and to 
 the spiritual progression. 
 
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THE SPIRIT FOOD. 
 
 We will often hear people say: "Well 
 what in the world does the spirit live on, or 
 does it need anything to live on?" Some say 
 they do need something to live on, others say 
 they do not. I do not think they need any- 
 thing to live on; but they must have some- 
 thing to progress on. That something is 
 thought. What do we progress on except 
 thought? We or our spirit is thought. Then 
 our spirit must have thought to progress 
 with; but pure ones. Then if pure thoughts 
 are a progression, evil or impure ones are a 
 downfall, or tend to degrade the spirit. 
 
 So let our spirit feed upon the pure 
 thoughts of our mind and- let all others be 
 cast away, throw them away to the winds for 
 you will reap the seeds you sow. 
 
 Some say: "Now does it really hurt my 
 spirit when I get drunk, or does the effects of 
 tobacco hurt my spirit in any way or is it 
 just my body that is harmed through these 
 stimulants?" It seems strange, I know, to 
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some to think that a man of most any kind 
 would not have sense enough of his own to 
 reason such a thing out for himself. Any- 
 thing that harms the body, harms the spirit, 
 or else how in the world would your spirit 
 ever get harmed? Your thoughts can never 
 be pure with an impure body. And when 
 your body becomes pare your thoughts will 
 become pure and high, for if you sow good 
 seeds the harvest will be good. 
 
 When a man becomes so weak minded 
 and so disgusted with himself that he will al- 
 low his body to be intoxicated with stimu- 
 lating liquors, he not only injures himself but 
 injures his offspring by giving them an im- 
 pure body to start out with. Therefore I say 
 there should be a law against a man who 
 drinks heavily enough to become intoxicated, 
 from getting married. They say this is a 
 free country; but I think there should be a 
 preventative for bringing misery upon others. 
 
 Then again, I have heard men say: "I 
 am just as capable of thinking high and noble 
 thoughts when I am smoking as when I am 
 not." They are far from it. Their body be- 
 comes poisoned through that filthy habit and 
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their nervous system, becomes dulled, in a 
 sense, becomes incapable of doing its work. 
 The brain becomes dulled, in a sense, and in- 
 capable of properly performing its work. 
 The nerves, being dulled, stop the 
 brain, in a way, from thinking things that 
 are of a high and divine nature. It takes a 
 brain of great activity to create these 
 thoughts which should be created to strength- 
 en the spirit or mind. Then again, through 
 these stimulants, the nervous system is irri- 
 tated, causing evil thoughts and low ones. 
 If you feed your body with stimulating and 
 low things, soon the body becomes formed 
 from these things and a low unnatural body 
 creates low and unnatural thoughts, which 
 weaken the spirit. Then this irritation 
 which is caused by these filthy habits, causes 
 you to become, coarse and brutal instead of 
 loving and refined. 
 
 Another strengthening food for the spirit 
 is faith. With faith there is nothing impos- 
 sible. In all these things and in everything 
 we do there must be faith or it amounts to 
 nothing. When I tell people they must have 
 faith they say: "If you had what I have to 
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put up with you wouldn't have much faith. " 
 But why must they put up with all these 
 things? Because they lack faith. Does God 
 briug bad luck to them? No. Do I? No. 
 Neither do you nor does anyone else but them- 
 selves. Then they say: "Supposing you had 
 faith that things would turn out well for you 
 and then after awhile everything went 
 against you?" But is that faith when you 
 put if's and and's in it? That is just an imi- 
 tation. Faith is composed of Shall and Will, 
 
 Then if bad comes just keep the same 
 determination Shall and Will, that the bad is 
 for a good purpose and soon you will see that 
 through that bad will be brought some good 
 which never could have been brought about 
 in any other way. Don't have bad. It is all 
 good. Have it that the bad is for a good 
 purpose. 
 
 Now you who believe in a personal God 
 know that it is said in the Bible, "When you 
 ask of me have faith and your prayers shall 
 be answered." Why is that said? If I had 
 the power to grant my child a request could 
 I not do it? Could I not do it without that 
 child's faith? Yes, most decidedly I could. 
 2«4 
 
Then why does that man that you call God or 
 Father, need your faith in order to grant your 
 prayers? He says you must have it in order 
 for them to be granted. Why is it, I would 
 like to know, if it is not this, that you grant 
 your own prayers? If a man up there could 
 do it he would not ueed your faith. He could 
 get along without that; but it is the God 
 within you who does ' it and through your 
 having faith that it shall be done, you cause 
 your own power to do the work. 
 
 Mind you, your faith is the propeling 
 power. It sees that other things do their 
 work. People will say: "Then you do not 
 believe that an earnest prayer will be grant- 
 ed?" Havel not said that I did? Could I 
 say it plainer than I have? Only I say this, 
 we grant our own prayers and that there is 
 no one else to do it. 
 
 At one time I was very religious. I was 
 very young and believed in a man God who 
 ■ sat somewhere, I did not know where, he was 
 an imaginary one, a dream to me, an unknown 
 one, and one I never could learn; but through 
 the ideas of others I believed that he was 
 and that if I had faith he could and would 
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answer my prayers. At that time my mother 
 was suffering from heart disease in a very 
 bad state. One night, after two or three 
 days' siege with it she grew worse and worse 
 till at last her heart stopped. They all 
 thought her dead but me. I went into the 
 next room and offered up a prayer that would 
 have touched the heart of Sataa, and then 
 with a determination and faith that could not 
 be broken, a determination that she would 
 get well, I went into her room, and although 
 all thought her gone, I stood with a will of 
 iron and in a few minutes she revived. 
 
 Who did it? That unknown God I be- 
 lieved in? No, I did it. No one else did it, 
 and I did it with the God within me. People 
 say: "How do you know that the God you 
 believed in did not do it?" This is how 1 
 know. At the present time I would as soon 
 pray to a grave of dust as to that dream I 
 prayed to then, I would have just as much 
 faith in it as I would in that imaginary God. 
 I would pray to my own God and what is 
 more, I can do that same thing over again 
 and so mucii greater things that that is not 
 to be considered. Then how do I do it? I 
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don't ask any other God except my own for 
 help and yet I do it. Then if I do it now I 
 did it then. 
 
 Why should we believe in that kind of a 
 Go now because people did thousands of 
 years ago? How do we know that the Bible 
 came from God or that any of those people 
 talked with God? Have w^e proved it? We 
 have believed it thousands of years, we are 
 just as poor as we ever were, we^et sick just 
 as often as we ever did, we get old as soon 
 and sooner than we ever did, we all die the 
 same as we always did. Then tell me what 
 good it has done you. Does it do j^^ou any 
 good here, or is it just your redemption you 
 are working out for yourself in the next 
 world. If it brings you nothing here how 
 will it bring it there. You are here to pro- 
 gress for there? Is it a progression when 
 you die more feeble than you began? Then 
 how do you know you are working out a sal- 
 vation? Have you proved it or are you tak- 
 ing someone else's word for it? 
 
 Now it seems to me that we have grown 
 up lopsided long enough, we have tried all 
 this other with no avail. Let us try some- 
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thing new, something that we can prove for 
 ourselves, for if God talked to people in old- 
 en times, he will talk to us, for God is the 
 same today, tomorrow, forever. 
 
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