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 In tbe universe tbere is notbing 
 great but man ; in man tbere is 
 notbing great but mind." 
 
 Sir William Hamilton 
 
PREFACE 
 
 "Yet I doubt not through the Ages one increasing 
 purpose runs, 
 And the thoughts of men are widened with the 
 process of the suns." 
 
 7V /I AN fell and became subservient to 
 physical law when blinded by the 
 cloud of ignorance; he will regain his 
 freedom when illuminated by the sun of 
 Intelligence. 
 
 The same power that has forced the 
 race up through the various kingdoms to 
 where it now stands must, in an unbroken 
 line, continue in the future as in past, lift- 
 ing it to still greater and loftier heights. 
 
 In the constitution of man two cross 
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currents of emotion circulate — one ani- 
 mal, the other spiritual. 
 
 Through physical sense flows the ani- 
 mal, and while on this plane we are sub- 
 ject to the laws of the material kingdom 
 — the mortal. 
 
 When awakened to consciousness of 
 the higher self through which the spir- 
 itual circulates, a plane has been attained 
 where it is possible to dominate and 
 overcome the lower by the higher. At 
 this point the God in man assumes the 
 sovereignty, manifesting God-like pow- 
 ers and the reign of spirituality over ma- 
 teriality begins. 
 
 Everlasting life in the physical body 
 6 
 
is far from desirable, but man ought to 
 live longer than three-score-and-ten. 
 His capacities should not be limited by 
 time and owing to wisdom, gained from 
 experience, the faculties instead of be- 
 coming weaker with increasing years 
 should grow stronger. 
 
 Through the understanding of spiritual 
 law and its power over the material, man 
 should continue in both physical and 
 mental vigor so long as he uses the body 
 as an habitation. 
 
 The point is now reached in evolution 
 
 where we should rise in the higher current 
 
 and by placing ourselves in harmony with 
 
 it, cast off the old animal laws to which 
 
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we have been subject, governing - instead 
 of being governed by our organisms. 
 
 In treating a subject, at once so subtle 
 and intricate, it is next to impossible not to 
 repeat and at times seem contradictory. 
 
 The aim has been, however, to sim- 
 plify so as to be understood by the mass 
 of people who have never investigated 
 the subject, and if the fragment of 
 thought presented in the pages of this 
 little book is the means of reflecting a 
 ray of light across the sunless path of 
 some sense-bound mortal the object shall 
 have been accomplished. 
 
 Havilah Squiers. 
 Chicago, III. 
 
" Discover what will destroy life and you 
 are a great man ! What will prolong it and 
 you are an imposter ! " — Bulwer Lytton. 
 
 YC/v/lTH the exception of death, there 
 ^ is nothing to which the human 
 
 heart yields so unwillingly as to old age. 
 And notwithstanding the fact that every- 
 thing in Nature points to it as a law 
 immutable, nevertheless, man has in all 
 ages believed that somehow there is a 
 way out of it, and has never abandoned 
 the search for an Elixir that would pro- 
 long life and perpetuate youth. 
 9 
 
Ponce de Leon was in quest of this 
 fountain of youth when he discovered 
 fair Florida. 
 
 The ancients believed that such a 
 remedy existed and searched for it under 
 the name of Alchemy. 
 
 Paracelsus, one of the greatest and 
 most highly illuminated minds of the 
 fifteenth century, made a life study of 
 the subject. He held that a universal 
 solvent existed capable of at once trans- 
 muting the baser metals into gold and 
 silver, and prolonging life indefinitely. 
 
 Bulwer Lytton, in his " Zanoni," treats 
 of the art, and occultists claim that the 
 book contains more fact than fiction. 
 10 
 
Not long since, we remember, a for- 
 eign doctor claimed to have discovered 
 a panacea that would perpetuate youth, 
 and as he was a scientific man of no little 
 reputation, the announcement, for a time 
 attracted widespread attention — antici- 
 pation running high, the heart bounding 
 with hope, only to be again blasted with 
 "failure." 
 
 Thus it becomes apparent that of all 
 desires in the breast of man, the one 
 most deeply rooted is the wish to con- 
 tinue in life, and health, and youth; while 
 on the contrary, the greatest dread and 
 detestation are felt for their opposites, 
 death, disease and decrepit old age. 
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These last named, have indeed, al- 
 ways been looked upon as the greatest 
 enemies of human happiness. Yet at 
 the same time, while regarding them as 
 inevitable ( because the decree of God 
 Himself), still, the history of the race 
 develops the fact that man, in all times, 
 has resisted their approach with might 
 and main and to the utmost limit of his 
 intelligence. 
 
 He has even been depicted as selling 
 his soul to Satan for the sake of youth, 
 as in the story of Faust. 
 
 The Supply Exists. 
 
 Now, this desire which is universal in 
 the human heart, this longing for a life 
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on earth freed from limitations from dis- 
 ease, decay and the infirmities of old 
 age, this insatiable craving - for eternal 
 life, eternal youth, eternal beauty, is the 
 strongest evidence — may we not say 
 evidence conclusive?— that somewhere in 
 the great storehouse of nature there does 
 exist a supply capable of satisfying this 
 yearning, of supplying this demand. 
 
 " In the heart of man a cry; 
 In the heart of God supply " 
 
 The great law of nature is supply and 
 demand. Hunger for food, thirst for 
 knowledge and the cry for love are all 
 human demands, and whether they be 
 satisfied or not, the supply, adequate to 
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their requirements exists; the only essen- 
 tial to the realization of the desire being 
 effort in the right direction. 
 
 Once a party of men, shipwrecked at 
 sea, tossed hither and thither at the 
 mercy of the waves, having lost their 
 means of reckoning, had, without know- 
 ing it, floated into fresh water. Imagin- 
 ing themselves in the briny ocean, they 
 were famishing- from thirst. Hailing a 
 passing vessel, they shouted, " Send us 
 water, we are dying ! " The Captain re- 
 plied, " Throw your buckets overboard ; 
 you are in fresh water." 
 
 Here these men were in the midst of 
 fresh water, but did not know it, were 
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famishing and would, undoubtedly, have 
 died had they not been enlightened. So 
 long as they remained in ignorance of 
 their true situation, there was no fresh 
 water for them, and the result was ex- 
 actly the same as if they had been in salt 
 water. 
 
 That for lack of which they were 
 dying was right at hand, surround- 
 ing them, but in order to partake of it 
 they must first be made conscious not 
 of its existence alone, but of its immed- 
 iate presence. This gained, it only re- 
 mained to exercise individual effort in 
 the method of acquiring and appro- 
 priating. 
 
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]VIan a liittle World. 
 
 From the fact that man is born with 
 an appetite that craves water, its correl- 
 ative must necessarily follow that there 
 is water to satisfy the craving. We en- 
 ter the world with an inherent thirst for 
 water ; water exists, hence it is logical to 
 infer that water is provided by the Uni- 
 versal Intelligence to quench thirst. 
 
 In like manner the human being enters 
 the world with a desire for prolonged 
 life unattended by decay. His demand 
 is not satisfied, consequently he fades 
 and dies. ' 
 
 Man from his inmost soul craves long 
 life and lasting youth. Is it not as logi- 
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cal to infer that there is an Elixir which 
 will satisfy this deathless demand, as 
 that water exists to meet the demands 
 of thirst? 
 
 Life is everywhere; it is universal; and 
 in hungering, fading, decaying- and dying 
 for want of life, is our position unlike 
 that of the castaways at sea who, in fresh 
 water, were famishing and dying from 
 thirst ? 
 
 In a flood of fresh water, and dying 
 for want of water ! In an ocean of life, 
 fading and failing for want of life ! 
 
 If ignorance were the cause of unful- 
 filled desires in the one instance, is it, in 
 any less degree, the cause in the other ? 
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It has been said that man is a micro- 
 cosm of the macrocosm; a little world in- 
 cluded in the great world, and as every 
 element of the ocean is centered in one 
 of its drops, so also is every element in 
 the Universal Life (the great world) cen- 
 tered in man, consequently every ele- 
 ment in man has its counterpart in the 
 Infinite Intelligence. 
 
 This desire, then, for long life and con- 
 tinued youth, interwoven as it is, into the 
 very fiber of the soul, at once the most 
 profound and the most pathetic in the 
 world, must, necessarily, in accordance 
 with the law of supply and demand, some- 
 where in the universe have an answer. 
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That desire may be perverted it is 
 true, but back of the perverted, or de- 
 flected thought is the genuine; and it is 
 only when the true has been discovered 
 and the false, upon which hope has been 
 based known to be counterfeit, that the 
 response which permanently satisfies de- 
 sire makes itself manifest. 
 
 Thfee Seofe and Ten Too Short. 
 
 Man was never so prosperous and at 
 the same time never so dissatisfied as 
 now. He is chafing under limitations ; 
 realizes that he is fettered on every hand ; 
 lives only long enough to learn a little, 
 as how to live so as to enjoy the beauties 
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and benefits of the world, when in tones 
 louder than utterance of human voice, he 
 is informed that his days of usefulness 
 and enjoyment are well nigh over. 
 
 The truth is, man's world has become 
 so vast, his vision so magnified, his 
 demands at once so numerous and so 
 large, that the little span of three score 
 years and ten is insufficient for him. 
 
 Seventy years, to the man who reck- 
 oned time and space from horse-power, 
 whose thoughts had not yet grown strong 
 enough and broad enough to cross the 
 ocean and circle the earth, seemed a very 
 long life. 
 
 Then, time moved along at the pace of 
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a snail, then the one who had jogged 
 along and reached three score and ten 
 was antiquated. He had seen about all 
 it was possible for him to see; knew 
 about all he was capable of knowing, 
 the earth was so big and he so small 
 and could know so little. God did not 
 intend he should know much about this 
 great, mysterious world. The Father, 
 too, was so far away from him; but 
 away up in Heaven, in the sky of blue, 
 on a magnificent throne, sat the mighty 
 potentate awaiting his coming. He was 
 soon to o-o and be an anpfel, sit before 
 the great white throne, listen to celestial 
 music, sip milk and honey, walk the gold- 
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en streets and forever and ever do 
 nothing, but just rest, and praise God 
 and be happy. 
 
 Good old days these, in which igno- 
 rance was bliss! 
 
 Alas, all this is changed. Heaven 
 and the heavenly Father are not so far 
 away now. Time and space are almost 
 annihilated; the people of the uttermost 
 ends of the earth are whispering to each 
 other; the ocean has diminished till it is 
 small; the globe itself is becoming less 
 and less; but man has grown and is con- 
 stantly increasing in stature. 
 
 He is outgrowing the old earth and its 
 mean little laws. 
 
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A new earth, yea, and a new heaven 
 too, is unfolding to the nineteenth cen- 
 tury man. 
 
 He has commenced thinking — think- 
 ing for himself; he recognizes reason; 
 no longer considers himself a worm of 
 the dust, nor an outlaw by an angry God 
 accursed; no longer, dumb from fear, 
 cowers before the awful majesty of a 
 wrathful God, but with head erect declares 
 himself man — one with the great whole, 
 in which a place, by birthright belongs 
 to him; and he demands (not begs) 
 knowledge that will give him the key to 
 the mysteries of nature, her forces, and 
 consequent power over them. 
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And now that his eyes are open he 
 will never cease till he puts forth his 
 hand far enough to take hold " of the 
 tree of life, and eat, and live forever." — 
 Gen. iii. 22. 
 
 Iiife May be Prolonged. 
 
 Man is beginning- to suspect that his 
 possibilities are limitless; that he was 
 not made to serve but to govern every- 
 thing, not the three lower kingdoms 
 alone, but also the forces of the earth, 
 included with the rest, his own body. 
 
 There is nothing nowadays too holy 
 for investigation; nothing too sacred for 
 the telescope of science; no statement 
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(even from the mouth of Jehovah himself) 
 so absolute as to prevent the awakened 
 man from exacting a reason. 
 
 Hence the demand for an answer to 
 the question of questions: " Why is this 
 deep-seated craving- for long life and 
 lasting youth so persistent, and at the 
 same time so persistently unheeded?" 
 From what source does the wish come ? 
 It cries out, alike, from the breast of 
 every human being, is universal and 
 therefore must, per force, emanate from 
 one and the same cause. 
 
 Reasoning by analogy, and in accord- 
 ance with every line of reasoning known 
 to man, there must be an elixir capa- 
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ble of satisfying this deathless desire. 
 ''Search and ye shall find." 
 
 In "Zanoni" Condorcet is made to 
 say: "There may be a deeper philoso- 
 phy than we dream of — a philosophy that 
 discovers the secrets of nature," 
 "Life, I grant, cannot be made eternal, 
 but it may be prolonged almost indefi- 
 nitely." * * * " O, yes, to such a 
 consummation does our age approach!" 
 It is now conceded by deep thinkers 
 that matter is homogeneous ; that all 
 forms in nature, the mineral, the vege- 
 table, the animal and the body of man 
 are essentially of the same substance ; 
 the difference being one of form only. 
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Between the rock of Gibralter and the 
 flowers of Florida ; the giant trees of the 
 Yosemite and the sands of the Sahara ; 
 the cedars of Lebanon and the Iron 
 Mountain ; the tiger of the jungle, the 
 devil fish, grasses, fruit and foliage, the 
 body of an ox and the body of a man, 
 there is in essence, no difference. 
 
 We might go still farther, including 
 the waters, both fresh and salt ; and the 
 very air we breathe, carrying every- 
 thing material back to the four gases, 
 oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon, 
 the elements constituting the atmosphere, 
 the invisible source of all form, from the 
 grain of sand up to physical man. 
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Happily for us, in this age of discovery 
 we have something' more than theory 
 upon which to base such statements. 
 
 The Body Analyzed. 
 
 Advanced chemistry proves many 
 things which otherwise would be doubted 
 and denied. 
 
 At the present time in the National 
 Museum stands a case containing the 
 contents of the body of a man that 
 weighed 154 pounds. 
 
 This body, immediately after death, 
 was handed over to the chemist who, 
 passing it through his laboratory, re- 
 solved it into its ultimate elements. 
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All of the man is in this case, except 
 the subtle breath of life. 
 
 The exhibit represents the thirteen el- 
 ements of which our bodies are made — 
 five erases and eight solid substances. 
 
 The oxygen weighs ninety-seven 
 pounds; the hydrogen fifteen pounds; 
 the nitrogen three pounds and thirteen 
 ounces; the calcium and chlorine re- 
 spectively, four ounces. 
 
 These are the gases of the body, 
 which by careful estimate, have been 
 shown to exist in such quantities as if set 
 free would fill a space of about 4,000 
 cubic feet, not at all unlike the gas burnt 
 in our houses. 
 
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If the gases of a 154 pound man 
 began to expand and expanded to their 
 utmost, the man would fill a large hall — 
 indeed, the Hall of Representatives, 
 commodious as it is, could hold but a few 
 men in the gaseous state. 
 
 The solids of the body are represented 
 first by a solid cube of charcoal, weigh- 
 ing thirty-two pounds. (This is the car- 
 bon taken from the body and converted 
 into a black block.) 
 
 Then one pound and twelve ounces of 
 phosphorus and four ounces of sulphur, 
 after which, nothing is left but metallic 
 substances. The iron, weighing one- 
 tenth of an ounce, appears in the form 
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of wire ; the calcium — basis of lime — a 
 yellowish metal, shown in a square cube, 
 weighs three pounds and thirteen ounces; 
 a little silver hued block of magnesium 
 weighing two ounces ; potassium, three 
 ounces and the same quantity of sodium, 
 and all that went to make up the body of 
 a man weighing one hundred and fifty- 
 four pounds stands revealed. 
 
 fJo Iiife in Matter. 
 
 The question is asked: " Why has 
 this persistent craving for long life and 
 lasting youth remained unheeded ? " 
 
 Ask a school boy why the answer to 
 an example, based on a false statement, 
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is incorrect, he will reply, "the figures 
 are wrong in the beginning." 
 
 After examining the contents of the hu- 
 man body, as disclosed by this analysis, and 
 then reflecting that it is upon these earthy, 
 nonintelligent elements that we have been 
 basing our beliefs in health and strength, 
 yea, life itself, have we not the answer ? 
 
 We have been trying to extract some- 
 thing from nothing ; searching for life 
 where there is no life ; centering hopes 
 upon a premise that is without foundation. 
 
 As night follows day, misery, disap- 
 pointment and dissatisfaction follow the 
 belief that life originates with or depends 
 upon matter. 
 
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JVIind Perpetual JVIotion. 
 
 The body apart from mind is lifeless ; 
 it does not act, it is acted upon. 
 
 It is a machine acted upon by an in- 
 visible operator. To him must we look 
 for results that satisfy and not to the ma- 
 chine. This subtle agent is the cause of 
 all energy and activity in the body — the 
 life, the intelligence, the mind, the man. 
 
 With this man, with him alone, must 
 we deal in order to gain mastery over 
 our bodies ; in order to overcome disease 
 by health, old age by youth, death by 
 life — in short, evolve from the lower to 
 the higher ; subordinate the animal to 
 the spiritual. 
 
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7"he word, man, is from the Sanscrit, 
 manas, and means "The Thinker." 
 
 Thinking- signifies not only activity, 
 but intelligence, as well. 
 
 Thought is incorporeal, invisible, in- 
 divisible. As something cannot come 
 from nothing, and as every effect must 
 have a cause, we infer that back of the 
 man, "The Thinker," there is an active 
 principle ; and as an effect cannot be un- 
 like its cause, we also, infer that this 
 principle, this creative cause (of "The 
 Thinker ") is mind. 
 
 Mind is perpetual motion, and man, a 
 thought of universal mind, is one with it, 
 thought and mind being inseparable. 
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Mind is Infinite ; God is mind ; there is 
 but one mind, this mind the fountain- 
 head (without beginning- ; without end) 
 of life, of health, of strength, of power, 
 of perfection, of intelligence. 
 
 As the sunbeam is included in the sun, 
 so also, is man included in his source, 
 universal mind ; — mind, ever vibrating 
 through its thought, man. 
 
 Mind is the active principle; the one 
 and only cause of life; the spirit of intelli- 
 gence breathing through all animated 
 nature from the infinitesimal to im- 
 mensity. 
 
 We sprang from it, are in it, have ac- 
 cess to it, but like the sailors thirsting in 
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fresh water, are dying for want of life be- 
 cause of our ignorance. This is the 
 creative principle spoken of in the Bible 
 as " The Father" whom to know, is life 
 eternal. 
 
 Emerson caught this light when he 
 wrote: " There is one mind common to 
 all individual men. Every man is an in- 
 let to the same and to all of the same. 
 He that is once admitted to the right of 
 reason is made a freeman of the whole 
 estate. 
 
 " Who hath access to this universal 
 mind, is a party to all that is or can be 
 done, for this is the only and sovereign 
 agent." 
 
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Ignoranee Cause of OQisery. 
 
 Buddha declared ignorance the cause 
 of all misery in the world; and Jesus 
 taught, emphatically, that through the 
 understanding of truth alone, can libera- 
 tion from bonds of the flesh be secured. 
 
 Examining in this light, life and its 
 manifold phases, discord, decay, pain 
 and infirmity, exceptional genius is not 
 required to the solving of the problem, 
 as to "What is wrong in the world?" 
 as to why our most ardent desires starve, 
 why the heart is ever bruised, chilled and 
 disappointed, why none find the satis- 
 faction that the inmost soul craves. 
 
 We are basing- our faith on a false 
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foundation — physical form, hence, the 
 answer is always wrong; never satisfies. 
 We have been looking for the "living 
 among the dead.'' 
 
 Whence Comes Evil. 
 
 At this point the thought which natu- 
 rally arises is: "If all life and thought 
 originate with one and the same source, 
 it being absolutely pure and perfect, 
 where does disease and impure thoughts 
 come from? " 
 
 It is as impossible to conceive of 
 truth creating error as it is to think of 
 light producing darkness. 
 
 If then, there be no life at all in the 
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body of flesh, and man is "The Thinker," 
 connected inseparably with the all -per- 
 fect mind, how is it possible for him to 
 reflect an imperfect thought? " 
 
 The real man, the Spiritual Thinker, 
 who is one with the creative mind, does 
 not think a thought other than Truth. 
 It is as contrary to reason to imagine the 
 ego thinking an imperfect thought, as for 
 the sunbeam to reflect darkness. 
 
 This Thought of Infinite Mind (Spir- 
 itual man,; casts a shadow — a deflected 
 thought; and like our image in the water, 
 upside down, this shadow-thought re- 
 verses every statement of truth; looks to 
 the external, the objective, the material, 
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the form, for life and health and length 
 of days; in short, counterfeits the true 
 spiritual life and spiritual man. * 
 
 St. Paul speaks of it as the carnal 
 mind at enmity against God, not subject 
 to the law of God, neither indeed can 
 be ; so, they that are in this mind ol 
 flesh cannot please God. 
 
 It is the " mind of the flesh " believing 
 flesh to be the basis of life; the corporeal 
 man fashioning the body after his dis- 
 eased and dying beliefs. 
 
 The body, in and of itself, is nothing 
 more than the canvas upon which the 
 distorted thouo-ht-imao-es are thrown. 
 
 Regarding the duality of life, the false 
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side and the true, the apostle says: 
 " There is a natural body, and there is a 
 spiritual body." * * * "The first 
 man is of the earth, earthy ; the second 
 man is the Lord from heaven." 
 
 This mind of the natural body is the 
 direct opposite of the mind of the spir- 
 itual man, standing to the mind of Truth, 
 as darkness to light. Of it Paul says : 
 " In my flesh dwelleth no good thing." 
 
 Jesus declared the mind of the flesh 
 to be evil (the devil), "a murderer from 
 the beginning and abode not in the truth, 
 because there is no truth in him. When 
 he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his 
 own ; for he is a liar and the father of it." 
 41 
 
Of course the father of a lie is a lie. 
 A false foundation is the parent of all 
 statements emanating from it and noth- 
 ing but error can spring from that which 
 is not true. 
 
 Chemistry has proven clearly and con- 
 clusively that life neither originates with 
 nor depends upon the fleshly form. The 
 basic statement that life begins with and 
 depends upon the form of flesh is the 
 "father of lies/' sin, sickness, infirmity, 
 old age and death being the offshoots, 
 the children of this false father, as un- 
 true as their source, and untrue because 
 based upon that in which there is no 
 truth, no life. 
 
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Let us not forget that a falsehood, so 
 long- as believed in, produces precisely 
 the same effect as if it were true. 
 
 The Bible, from beginning to end 
 in Oriental imagery, vividly portrays 
 this false side of life, this transgression 
 of the command, " Thou shalt have no 
 other Gods before me." 
 
 In the second chapter of Jeremiah we 
 find : " Hath a nation changed their 
 Gods, which are yet no Gods ; but my 
 people have changed their glory for that 
 which doth not profit. Be astounded, 
 O ye heavens, at this and be horribly 
 afraid ; be ye very desolate, saith the 
 Lord. For my people have committed 
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two evils ; they have forsaken me, the 
 fountain of living waters, and hewed 
 them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that 
 can hold no water at all." 
 
 In the first chapter of Romans we 
 find : " Professing themselves wise, they 
 became fools, and changed the glory of 
 the uncorruptible God into an image 
 made like to corruptible man, and to 
 birds, and four footed beasts and creep- 
 ing things. * * * * " Who changed 
 the truth of God into a lie, and wor- 
 shipped and served the creature more 
 than the creator, who is blessed forever." 
 
 It is upon this " broken cistern," this 
 " creature " (the corporeal organism) 
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that the human family has been basing 
 its laws of life, with results so disastrous 
 as to give rise to the oft repeated 
 questions : " What is wrong- in the 
 world?" "Is life worth living?" etc. 
 Here is the answer as to what is wrong. 
 
 Self-mesmerized. 
 
 This diseased mind spoken of in 
 Scripture as the "carnal mind," as the 
 " mind of the flesh, " is what we know as 
 animal magnetism, and the human family 
 is really mesmerized by it into the belief 
 of the so-called laws and limitations of 
 matter and material form. 
 
 We have said the real man is "The 
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Thinker," one with the universal mind ; 
 that; Thought, being one with the Mind, 
 can draw from it inexhaustible supplies; 
 that this perfect Thought, (man, '*' The 
 Thinker,") casts a shadow, a deflected 
 thought. Rig-lit here is where "the 
 mist " arose that mystified the senses into 
 the belief that the man formed of the 
 dust of the ground was the real man, the 
 son of God, instead of the bodily instru- 
 ment through which the son of the most 
 high manifests himself. 
 
 The physical Adam, of the earth, 
 
 earthy, is the Garden of Eden which 
 
 'The Thinker" was commanded "to 
 
 dress" and "to keep;" with permission 
 
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to partake of every fruit, with the excep- 
 tion "of the tree of the knowledge of 
 good and evil (physical sense) thou 
 shalt not eat of it: for in the day that 
 thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die:" 
 and because thou hast eaten of this ma- 
 terial tree, "in sorrow shalt thou eat of 
 it all the days of thy life: thorns also and 
 thistles shall it brino- forth to thee:" 
 
 # * * * * 
 
 " In the sweat of thy face shalt 
 thou eat bread, till thou return unto the 
 ground: for out of it wast thou taken: 
 for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt 
 thou return." (Gen. ii and lii.) 
 
 This is the utterance of Divine Wis- 
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dom, through the God-man, against the 
 mind of physical sense, which is trans- 
 gressing the law by turning from the true 
 principle of life to the form, composed of 
 the elements of the earth, worshiping 
 the creature instead of the creator. 
 
 An Angel and an Animal. 
 
 There are two men in one, a fleshy 
 man and a spiritual man ; an external 
 and an internal man ; one who sickens, 
 fades and dies, and one who never suf- 
 fers, never fades and never dies ; one an 
 angel, the other an animal — and to whom 
 we yield ourselves servants, his servants 
 we are. 
 
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In this connection Goethe puts into 
 the mouth of Faust, in reply to the ma- 
 terialistic philosopher, these words : 
 
 " But in my heart, alas ! two souls reside, 
 Each from the other tries to separate. 
 One clings to earth with passions and desires 
 And fond embrace ; the other breaks his bonds, 
 And rising upward, spurns the dust of earth." 
 
 This duality of mind, and the line of 
 demarcation between the two, is the 
 most subtle question known to man. 
 Upon this reef the staunchest ships have 
 foundered. Jesus gave the key, but his 
 followers lost it and substituted for the 
 Science of Life which He taught, the 
 doctrine that salvation is attainable only 
 through the blood of the crucified man. 
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Salvation will never come through blood, 
 but from the understanding - of truth. 
 Through science the seeminp" will be 
 separated from the real, the counterfeit 
 from the genuine. 
 
 Thought, the Basis of liife. 
 
 Suffice here to say the basis of life 
 is thought. Thought clothed in the 
 atom, attracts to itself, as a magnet (by 
 that law of affinity called in the natural 
 world gravitation, in the spiritual, love) 
 elements that correspond to itself. 
 These atoms, drawn together, form the 
 molecule, an aggregation of which builds 
 the cell ; the cells, grouping around the 
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mental ima^e, till lo ! the form is ma- 
 terialized, and a statue of flesh and blood, 
 throbbing- with life appears. "The 
 Thinker " has sculptured the statue after 
 his own "image and likeness," galvanized 
 it into life, and in his own work, the 
 artist stands revealed. This is the 
 temple in which " neither hammer nor ax 
 nor any tool of iron " was heard during 
 its building. 
 
 Thought Pictures. 
 
 Were the microscope sufficiently power- 
 ful, the molecules under the vibrator)- in- 
 fluence of thought, might be seen rush- 
 ing through the physical frame as sands 
 
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through a seive ; every atom teeming 
 with activity ; no two coming in contact ; 
 all rushing onward through the body, a 
 ceaseless tide, back of which " The 
 Thinker,' like a silent spectator on the 
 river brink, sits watching the whirling 
 currents. 
 
 This human instrument has been 
 erected by "The Thinker" through 
 which to manifest himself. Not unlike 
 the electrician does he operate upon his 
 battery, the brain, sending out over the 
 nervous wires thought currents, impress- 
 ing upon every atom a thought-picture, 
 coloring it, and thus bringing out upon 
 the organism his mental image ; the ex- 
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pression upon the physical frame corre- 
 sponding to the impression held in 
 thought ; the body, whether weak or 
 strong, sick or well, crooked or straight, 
 old or young, symbolizing its mental 
 creator — the invisible workman. 
 
 The body represents every shade of 
 thought entertained, either consciously 
 or unconsciously. As mist from the 
 waterfall, when passing through certain 
 slants of the sunbeam, takes on the dif- 
 ferent hues of the rainbow, changing as 
 it passes from yellow to green, from pink 
 to purple, on to feathery fleece and dark 
 grotesque shapes, so also do the mole- 
 cules, under the vibratory ray of thought, 
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upon entering the body, assume the tint 
 reflected upon them. 
 
 This is why scars remain through life, 
 though acquired in childhood, even after 
 every particle has been changed over and 
 over again. The mental impression is 
 fixed and with mathematical certainty 
 groups the molecules according to the 
 invisible pattern, and thus always out- 
 pictures upon the body the same image. 
 
 The Body JSlever Old. 
 
 It took many hundreds of years to find 
 out that the earth did move and not until 
 after the underpinning had been torn 
 away and the earth went spinning in the 
 
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heavens did man begin to get free from 
 the immovable mass and soar on invisible 
 forces. Just so with the human body, 
 when it was believed to be a solid lump, 
 generating- life, it was folly to talk of 
 interference with its laws; and every- 
 thing, judging from the plane of sense, 
 went to prove that it was just what it 
 seemed to be. 
 
 Any machine in constant use for fifty, 
 sixty, or seventy years must necessarily 
 break down — must wear out. But now, 
 as in the case of the earth, science de- 
 clares that every little atom of which the 
 body is composed is in perpetual mo- 
 tion, circling- through the organism, then 
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passing out to make room for new ones ; 
 this flow going on incessantly until, the 
 magnet ceasing longer to attract and 
 hold in combination the particles, they 
 separate, returning to the invisible ele- 
 ments whence they came. 
 
 Science had no sooner cut the roots 
 that held the earth motionless than she 
 took her flight for freedom and now that 
 the same Emancipator is letting man 
 loose from an earthy body, in which he 
 has been so securely fastened, in no less 
 degree is he destined to break away 
 from physical limitations, soaring above 
 and bringing under control elements not 
 alone external to himself, but those also 
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included within his own organism, the 
 body no longer a prison house holding 
 in chains a tortured captive, but a palace 
 presided over by a king. 
 
 Homogeneity of CQattef. 
 
 Science is Truth found out, and Science 
 is the star that will ultimately lead us in- 
 to satisfaction, liberty, peace and power. 
 Upon reflection we see that the mole- 
 cules composing the body must be in 
 continual motion, because a cessation of 
 activity signifies a cessation of life. Life 
 is action. It is vibration. The thrill of 
 the nerves, the circulation of the blood, 
 are the result of thought vibration. 
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This ever moving condition of the mole- 
 cule proves the homogeneity of matter, 
 inasmuch as all molecules originally in 
 the air, are constantly passing from one 
 object to another, now in the wind, now 
 in the wave, now in the flower, now in 
 the animal, now in man. 
 
 The molecules at this moment incor- 
 porated in our organisms will, ere long, 
 fly away and enter some other form. All 
 the molecules going to make up our 
 bodies have been used over and over 
 again since the beginning of organic life 
 on this planet; appearing alternately in 
 plants and flowers, beasts and birds, 
 savage and sage, beggars and princes. 
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The atoms entering the body of a 
 child are not unlike those flowing- into 
 the frame of an octogenarian; the differ- 
 ence in the appearance of the two bodies 
 — the one old age, the other youth — be- 
 ing due, not to any real difference 
 in the nature of the molecules them- 
 selves, but to the mental pictures 
 impressed upon them; the forms repre- 
 senting with accuracy the images held by 
 the respective thinkers. 
 
 It cannot be said, scientifically, that an 
 oro-anism i s ever old. The doctors used to 
 say that the body passed through an en- 
 tire change every seven years, now science 
 says every few months, even less than that. 
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The Philosopher's Stone. 
 
 As before stated that which animates 
 and governs the body, absolutely, is 
 thought. In order then to keep the 
 physical frame healthy, the thought cur- 
 rents reflected upon the molecules com- 
 posing it must be pure ; free from discord 
 and disease. 
 
 The universal mind, before referred 
 to as the true and only source of life, is 
 pure and perfect, enduring and beautiful, 
 the Principle of principles, the Truth of 
 truths, the Law of laws, the Life of lives, 
 and he who has awakened to the con- 
 sciousness of being in harmony with this 
 Principle, one with this Mind , merged in 
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this Eternal Source possesses the Philoso- 
 pher's stone — the true Elixir of life. 
 Such a one is in the highest sense of the 
 term an alchemist, knowing- how to 
 transmute the baser metal of the animal 
 nature into the pure nature of spirit. 
 
 The Great Essential. 
 
 A clear understanding of the line of 
 demarcation between the mind of the 
 flesh and the mind of the spirit is the 
 great essential. 
 
 The demands of Principle are "ac- 
 knowledge me," and they are impera- 
 tive. 
 
 In order to secure perfection in any- 
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thing the governing Principle must be 
 understood and strictly adhered to. 
 
 Deviation from Principle results in 
 dissatisfaction, disease, discord, destruc- 
 tion. 
 
 In every instance is this true, in no 
 less degree as applied to the Principle of 
 life, nor is suffering less owing to igno- 
 rance of Principle (or law), for the law 
 makes no excuse for ignorance. 
 
 Regardless of appearances, the Prin- 
 ciple or source of life, in which there is 
 no element of decay and from which in- 
 exhaustible supplies of deathless life may 
 be drawn, must be tenaciously adhered to. 
 
 It must not alone be recognized as the 
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only source of life, but claimed as an 
 heritage by birthright. 
 
 With Paul, we must realize, know, 
 that " we are debtors, not to the flesh, to 
 live after the flesh. For if ye live after 
 the flesh, ye shall die ; but if ye through 
 the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the 
 body ye shall live. * * * F r ye have 
 not received the spirit of bondage to bear. 
 * * * The Spirit itself beareth witness 
 with our spirit that we are the children 
 of God; and if children, then heirs." 
 
 The thouo-ht that the form is not me 
 but mine, the instrument through which 
 "I," The Thinker, manifest myself, 
 should be dwelt upon and cultivated. 
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Realizing this, a firm, unyielding stand 
 to govern the instrument instead of being 
 governed by it must be taken. 
 
 In assuming this mental attitude, 
 thought is polarized — turned from the 
 corporeal to the spiritual. 
 
 The physical laws to which we have 
 been subject are now being reversed, 
 with the result of health instead of dis- 
 ease, strength instead of weakness, 
 youth instead of old age, life instead of 
 death. 
 
 Thoughts pertaining to the negative 
 
 side of life must be ruled out, not 
 
 entertained at all. The moment we 
 
 admit one, we open the door to the 
 
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whole host, and like black clouds, they 
 rush in obscuring" the sunlight of per- 
 fect life. 
 
 These thoughts carry in their train all 
 the laws of mortality, all the defective, 
 diseased, decaying beliefs of the race, 
 and when harbored they reflect upon 
 the molecules the poisonous breath 
 that at once begins to undermine the 
 organism. 
 
 Between these beliefs of the flesh and 
 the thoughts of the spirit must the great 
 struggle for real freedom take place, the 
 true hero being the one that overcomes 
 the enemy, the mind of the flesh. "Ye 
 cannot serve two masters." 
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heredity. 
 
 Based on the belief of material gen- 
 eration is heredity, a noxious weed that 
 must be uprooted. It carries with it the 
 fallacies of the race. 
 
 Our parents gave us not life, because 
 life originated not with them. They 
 gave us form ; clothed the spiritual idea, 
 which was reflected through them. In 
 this garment of flesh they sowed the 
 seeds of their fleshly minds (race beliefs), 
 sin, sickness, death and limitations of 
 time. This is all we inherited from our 
 mortal parents, every claim of which 
 must be destroyed by the understand- 
 ing of the truth of being, before a 
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larger ; broader and higher life can be 
 attained. 
 
 " Call no man your father upon the 
 earth," said the Master, "for one is 
 your Father which is in heaven." 
 
 The idea that we are here on earth for 
 a Pfiven time, that we are livine to grow 
 old and die — "walking down to the 
 grave" — is a pernicious one, and should 
 not be tolerated. 
 
 Life is Infinite, it is everywhere, it is 
 centered in us, and we do not have to die 
 to find it. We are in the Great Eternal 
 ocean of life here and now. The thought 
 upon which to anchor is " I am one with 
 the Great Forever. Oh, God ! I am 
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one with thee ! " Schiller says, "Man be- 
 comes immortal by living in the Whole!' 
 We must now be living in the whole, 
 because it is impossible to separate a 
 part from the whole, but so long as we 
 are ignorant of the fact the result is the 
 same to us as if we were not : like the 
 men in fresh water, although surrounded 
 by it, dying of thirst because ignorant of 
 
 its presence. 
 
 Birthdays. 
 
 Numbering years and keeping birth- 
 days are mistakes. They constantly 
 keep before the mind's eye the distance 
 on the journey, emphasizing the impress 
 of time. 
 
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Years carry with them the records of 
 heredity, including" three score and ten, 
 and forty, fifty, sixty, etc., register them- 
 selves in the body with unfailing accu- 
 racy. 
 
 It were better if years were not re- 
 corded. Instead, hold the thought of 
 being in Eternity now. This breaks 
 down the wall that has been built around 
 us by a baseless law and we find our- 
 selves in a life that is boundless. 
 
 Grounded upon the Infinite Principle ; 
 looking out over the shoreless ocean of 
 life, with which we are one, and in which 
 we now are, the prescribed boundary lines 
 of time, cramping both body and faculties 
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into their narrow little measurement, give 
 way and the impress of infirmity and 
 decay (consequence of belief in increas- 
 ing years) fades from the mind of flesh, 
 as stains exposed to the actinic ray. 
 
 In mind there is no space and thought 
 is a subtle power, either for good or bad. 
 
 In the enumeration of years we are 
 not only sentencing ourselves, but in ac- 
 cordance with mortal law are being by 
 others, also, sentenced. 
 
 The grand old men of to-day are hav- 
 ing hard work to stand up against the 
 tide of mortal thought which is being- 
 turned upon them by the world, who, 
 gauging their capacities by years, would 
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limit their achievements to less than three 
 score and ten. 
 
 In a recent lecture before the British 
 Association for the advancement of 
 science, Sir Benjamin Richardson said : 
 "As for the term of years man and 
 woman ought to live longer than any 
 machine of steel and iron that can be 
 put together. They have what no ma- 
 chine can boast, an engineer living inside 
 the premises night and day, in the form 
 of that vital force which forever is re- 
 pairing our mistakes and patching up 
 our blemishes until the materials come 
 to pieces. 
 
 It is all rubbish to talk of three score 
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and ten score as marking the proper span 
 of human life." 
 
 Were the statements regarding this 
 subject, as laid down in the bible, correctly 
 understood, it would be seen that the 
 overcoming of the "law of the flesh;" 
 the overcoming of the law that limits to 
 three score and ten, is declared, emphati- 
 cally, not only possible, but also that to 
 which man should aspire and can accom- 
 plish. 
 
 "Job says " If there be a messenger 
 with him, an interpreter, one among a 
 thousand to show unto man his upright- 
 ness, then he is gracious unto him, and 
 saith, deliver him from going down to 
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the pit ; I have found a ransom. His 
 flesh shall be fresher than a child's ; he 
 shall return to the days of his youth." 
 
 It was not the spiritual but the fleshly 
 Adam of the " earth, earthy" whose years 
 were limited to three score and ten, who 
 should suffer sickness, sorrow and death. 
 
 This Adam of the earth (corporeal 
 man), was cursed not by a personal God 
 but by the law, the spirit of truth, be- 
 cause he (man) looked to the physical 
 for life, this being a digression from law. 
 The declaration of law is always, " if you 
 violate, or break away from me, you 
 shall suffer." In turning from the spirit- 
 ual to the material, law was violated. 
 7} 
 
The overcoming, therefore, of physi- 
 cal laws, consists in turning from the 
 material back to the spiritual. The 
 scriptures are full of promises to the ones 
 who "turn" and "acknowledge me." 
 "Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; 
 who healeth all thy diseases ; who re- 
 deemeth thy life from destruction ; who 
 crowneth thee with loving kindness and 
 tender mercies ; who satisfieth thy mouth 
 with good things ; so that thy youth is 
 renewed like the eagle's." 
 
 The teaching of Jesus, as laid down in 
 
 the New Testament, from first to last, 
 
 points out this false law under which the 
 
 human family is living ; by which it is 
 
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" bound," and the call is "awake thou 
 that sleepest ! " " It is the spirit that 
 quickeneth ; the flesh profiteth noth- 
 ing." 
 
 We are told in this book that Jesus 
 Christ came to "abolish death" and 
 bring " life and immortality to light." If 
 the Testament speaks the truth this ut- 
 terance must mean just what it says. 
 Instead of postponing the benefits to be 
 derived from the laws, taught by the 
 Master, why not apply them now ? 
 
 Life and mental activities should not 
 be measured by years; holding the 
 thought, believing it, fearing it, we make 
 for ourselves the very law we hate. 
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We have been living in a pond, let us 
 
 open a channel and launch out upon the 
 
 Pacific. 
 
 Fear of Poverty. 
 
 Possibly fear and hatred of poverty 
 produce as much, if not more, wretched- 
 ness than anything else. Such thoughts 
 cannot be harbored without ultimate 
 wreckage. They poison and impoverish 
 the blood, rendering home in the fleshly 
 tenement poor indeed. Everything takes 
 the color of the glass through which one 
 looks. 
 
 Where the possession of worldly 
 goods is small, the attraction to the 
 earth is less, and the mind failing to find 
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satisfaction here is more inclined to 
 dwell on things of a higher and more 
 enduring character. 
 
 Riches are hoarded up, for the gratifi- 
 cation of the lower nature- -pride, ava- 
 rice and selfishness, at a tremendous 
 expenditure of nervous energy, as well 
 as neglect of the inner man. 
 
 Conscience, generally, is commanded to 
 stand aside; the mind filled with egotism, 
 distrust and suspicion. 
 
 Flattered and courted, the man of 
 wealth has scarcely a true friend, and 
 he knows it. The masses hate him. He 
 is a target, alike for the schemer, the 
 tramp and the thief. 
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The keen appetite which gives relish 
 to the poor man's bread and broth is 
 often wanting for the delicious viands of 
 the rich man. Sleep, affording rest to 
 the laborer, is not seldom uneasy and 
 capricious on the luxurious couch of the 
 capitalist. 
 
 For every acquisition, either spiritual 
 or material, the price has to be paid. 
 Surely, the man of money pays the 
 price! He gets his reward. 
 
 The rarest possession the world can 
 give, may, at the longest, be held but a 
 short time, its security depending upon 
 unceasing vigilance, leaving little room 
 for development of the spiritual faculties, 
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preparatory to taking the next step on 
 the ladder of life, when both body and 
 baubles are left behind. 
 
 Wealth brings care, fear, anxiety, nei- 
 ther time nor inclination to seek out the 
 truth of being, the gold of wisdom — the 
 only thing upon leaving the earth that 
 we can take with us, the only wealth, 
 really, that amounts to anything. 
 
 The wisest teacher that ever lived de- 
 clared it easier for a camel to go through 
 the eye of a needle than for a rich man 
 to enter the kingdom of heaven. And 
 what after all is the profit " if he gain 
 the whole world and lose his own soul?" 
 
 Realizing- the destructive nature of sel- 
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fish, arrogant, stingy and unbrotherly 
 thoughts, (usually the concomitants of 
 wealth), poverty in this light, does not 
 seem so dreadful. 
 
 Is it not, strange though it seems, a 
 blessing in disguise. 
 
 Possessing little that attracts to the 
 material, we naturally turn for satisfac- 
 tion in another direction and are more 
 likely to be awakened to the reality of 
 the source of all substance. 
 
 Meditating upon things of a higher 
 life leads up to where worldly goods 
 (that must at last decay) are willingly 
 exchanged for the wealth found within, 
 — wealth that is lasting: endures forever. 
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Desire is reversed, what concerns us 
 most now is not what the outside world 
 thinks, but " How do I stand with my 
 conscience ? the God within. 
 
 Having- struck beneath the surface, a 
 sense, long slumbering - , is awakened ; 
 life has a deeper meaning. We have 
 found the place of satisfaction, and begin 
 to grow in strength, individuality, in- 
 dependence ; in harmony with the univer- 
 sal life — -in immortality. 
 
 Past Sins. 
 
 We must learn to forget, let go of un- 
 pleasant memories. Like dark clouds 
 they shut out the sunlight and blight 
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existence. " Let the dead bury their 
 dead." Let the past go with the past. 
 There is not sufficient power in the uni- 
 verse to recall a past act, nor even sup- 
 posing it possible, should it be recalled. 
 A wrong- deed is the result of ignorance ; 
 had we been wiser, we should have pur- 
 sued a different course. 
 
 Perhaps this very act was the means 
 of driving us to listen to the higher self 
 and, ultimately, finding the right way. 
 
 Truth is arrived at, only through mis- 
 takes ; through suffering- alone do we 
 become unselfish, sympathetic, charitable 
 and truly great. 
 
 The child avoids fire from remem- 
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brance of the burn. From the mere 
 fact that he suffered as a consequence 
 of touching - fire, is he wiser than his 
 brother who has not yet experienced 
 its effects. 
 
 Grown up children in like manner suf- 
 fer from their mistakes, and the one who 
 has never suffered is neither strong nor 
 wise. 
 
 Digression from law is called sin ; suf- 
 fering inevitably is the result, and when 
 through experience this has been learned, 
 as with the child, the wrong course is 
 henceforth avoided, and the right way — 
 the law, adhered to. 
 
 Not from fear of the law is it em- 
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braced, but experience having- proven 
 misery the certain result of sin, we do 
 right because having come to the under- 
 standing of the right, we realize that in 
 it alone can peace and satisfaction be 
 found. 
 
 The one who is good because he is 
 afraid to be bad is not anchored in the 
 consciousness of the truth, that will either 
 sustain youth or prolong life. 
 
 Looking upon mistakes of the past in 
 this light, the sad, distorted, dark pictures 
 disappear. With Paul we can all say, 
 "It was not I that did it, but sin that 
 dwelleth in me; it deceived me and slew 
 me. 
 
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The inner self is the true '"I," and in 
 making- peace with it, we have found a 
 friend indeed, "a very present help in 
 time of trouble." 
 
 This is the " I" that never was born, 
 never shall cease to be, never was 
 naught; but, birthless, and changeless, 
 
 and deathless, shall endure forever, 
 
 dead though the house of it seems. 
 
 "Ye are not bound! the Soul of Things is sweet, 
 " The Heart of Being is celestial rest ; 
 " Stronger than woe is will: that which was good 
 "Doth pass to Better — Best." 
 
 Selfishness is an iron band that must 
 be broken. It is spiritual suicide. Turn- 
 ing from the source to self cuts off the 
 
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spiritual supply; it is the part trying to 
 separate itself from the whole; the result 
 not unlike the branch detaching itself 
 from the tree. It is absolutely impossi- 
 ble for a selfish person to unfold into a 
 realization of the abundance of life; to 
 come in touch with the spiritual life that 
 will expand his earthly existence and 
 renew his activities. 
 
 Iiaugh 
 
 One word for sunlight. Unpleasant, 
 gloomy, woe-be-gone subjects should 
 not be discussed. It matters not how 
 terrible the situation may be, talking 
 about it only makes it worse. 
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It disseminates gloom, becomes after 
 awhile a disease, and a contagious one 
 at that. " It is better to laugh than be 
 crying, "far better. 
 
 " Laugh and the world laughs with you; 
 Weep and you weep alone." 
 
 By throwing open the windows of 
 the soul the sunbeam enters, and well 
 we know what its bright rays do for the 
 bud and berry. 
 
 The sunny temper where it exists, acts 
 like a charm upon the functions of the 
 body. It is worry not work that kills. 
 
 The Grecian stories of the laughing 
 philosopher who lived to be a hundred 
 and twenty years old and of the crying 
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philosopher who died at sixty, show the 
 esteem in which the ancients held good 
 humor as tending to prolong life. 
 
 Supposing this a fancy, however, the fact 
 remains that the sunny tempered man or 
 woman is the one who most enjoys life. 
 
 "A contented mind, is a perpetual 
 
 feast." 
 
 Cause of Disease. 
 
 Envy, jealousy, pride, avarice, deceit, 
 all selfish thoughts, all hypocritical 
 thoughts, all unlovely thoughts, poison 
 and impoverish the blood, warp the 
 brain, disorganize the nervous system, 
 clog circulation, and sooner or later make 
 of the body and the physical man a 
 
wreck. Surely a man's worst enemies 
 are they of his own household. 
 
 Again quoting from Sir Benjamin's lec- 
 ture : " The secret of happiness is good 
 will. No person is well and happy who 
 is pained at the sight of useful success 
 in others, or who would rather dwell on 
 the failures than rejoice in the progres- 
 sive careers of other men. 
 
 It is a physiological fact that noth- 
 ing- deranges the action of the liver so 
 much as a fit of anger, and the phrase 
 "jaundiced with envy" has an anatomi- 
 cal as well as a moral meaning. 
 
 This agrees with the Buddhist maxim 
 " never to despise and never to envy." 
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Without question of doubt, perverse 
 and pernicious thoughts are the germi- 
 nating cause of all disease and decay. 
 
 Right here is the solution to the prob- ' 
 lem which materia medica has never been 
 able to solve, viz., the cause of disease. 
 
 The process that leads to the elixir of 
 youth is within reach of every one. An 
 unswerving adherence to the life of spirit 
 will gradually overcome the beliefs of the 
 diseased, dying animal nature. 
 
 Science the Stat*. 
 
 Whatever has been accomplished by 
 any man at any time may be done by 
 another. 
 
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The ancient Patriarchs, accordine to 
 the Bible, lived hundreds of years. 
 
 It is believed by many that there are 
 men in India to-day who are centuries 
 old. There is nothing miraculous in 
 this — nothing more than the supremacy 
 of spiritual intelligence over animal 
 ignorance. 
 
 Mind is infinite. Mind is life. Mind 
 is deathless. Man is mind. All power 
 is within man and when conscious of his 
 powers he can be zvhal he wills to be. 
 
 The J4oui» has Struek. 
 
 The hour has struck for man. A new 
 rung has been reached in the evolution 
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of the race. A new star has appeared, a 
 babe is born whose name is Wonderful. 
 
 Henceforth the "old man," with his 
 self-made laws, will be left behind and 
 the new man will go on progressing, de- 
 veloping in knowledge, unfolding facul- 
 ties now dormant, recognizingfiner forces, 
 higher laws, broadening into larger life 
 and more of it, gradually overcoming 
 failings and fallacies of physical laws and 
 the boundary lines of time. 
 
 Prophecy looked forward to this. 
 John, the Revelator, with awakened 
 spiritual sense, looking through the mist 
 of time into the future, saw the new 
 heaven, the new earth, and the new man. 
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He heard a great voice (Truth) out of 
 heaven saying: " Behold! the tabernacle 
 of God is with men, and he will dwell 
 with them, and they shall be his people, 
 and God Himself (Divine Intelligence) 
 shall be with them and be their God. 
 
 " And God shall wipe away all tears 
 from their eyes, and there shall be no 
 more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, 
 neither shall there be any more pain: for 
 the former things are passed away. 
 " And he that sat upon the throne (Sci- 
 ence) said, Behold! I make all things 
 new. * * * Write: for these words 
 are true and faithful. * * * I am 
 Alpha and Omega, the beginning and 
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the end. I will give unto him that is 
 athirst of the fountain of the water of 
 life freely. 
 
 " He that overcometh shall inherit all 
 things; and I will be his God, and he 
 shall be my son." 
 
 Hetrospeetive and Prospective. 
 
 Standing, as we are on the mountain 
 side over whose peak we catch the first 
 roseate hue of a new day; then, in imag- 
 ination, going back through the starless 
 night, till in the fire-mist we find thought 
 clothing itself in the atom preparatory to 
 its long perilous journey; now asleep in 
 the stone, next breathing in the veg- 
 etable, slowly moving up into the dream - 
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ing animal, rising in man as it wakes to 
 consciousness, a mystery to itself, sur- 
 rounded by mystery; confounded, cow- 
 ering in fear before the wrathful author 
 of its being, lost, wandering through the 
 wilderness, then up the dark, tangled 
 mountain side, weary and worn; in 
 agony, anguish and despair, at last step- 
 ping high enough to sight the morning 
 star, when with hasty stride it pushes 
 on till streaks of light are seen shining 
 over the summit. 
 
 And now the thought-atom from the fire- 
 mist, leaving behind the mineral for the 
 vegetable; the vegetable for the animal; 
 the animal for man, guided by the star of 
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science marches on, clothing- itself in 
 power, overcoming ignorance, overcom-. 
 ing the animal, overcoming weakness, 
 sin, pain, disease; overcoming limita- 
 tions, overcoming time, yea, overcoming 
 the "sting of death" leaves man behind, 
 at the summit peak — one with Universal 
 Mind, at last victorious- — stands a God. 
 
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