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THOUGHTS ARE THINGS. 
 
OCCULT SCIENCE LIBRARY 
 
 SEVEN ESSAYS ON THE SUBJECT OF 
 
 Your Practical Forces 
 
 SHOWING 
 
 HOW TO USE THEM 
 
 IN ALL BUSINESS AND ART. 
 
 BY ERNEST LOOMIS. 
 
 CHICAGO: 
 
 ERNEST LOOMIS & COMPANY, 
 
 PUBLISHERS. 
 
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DEDICATION. 
 
 TO THAT SILENT OCCULT FRATERNITY WHOSE LOV- 
 ING HELPFUL THOUGHT IS PROMISED TO EVERY 
 EARNEST READER OF THESE ESSAYS, THIS BOOK 
 IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED. 
 
Copyrighted 1897 
 BY ERNEST LOOMIS. 
 
 All Rights Reserved. 
 
PUBLISHER'S PREFACE 
 
 The rules herein formulated for the use of man's 
 Occult forces in all business and art, and for the de- 
 velopment of his Occult powers, have been demon- 
 strated successfully in the previous sale of these essays, 
 and in the practical affairs of hundreds of people who 
 have voluntarily written us in acknowledgment of the 
 helps so received. 
 
 Readers throughout the United States and foreign 
 countries, have sprung up, as if by magic, in answer to 
 our wishes and thoughts. Foreigners of note have 
 asked permission to translate into other languages, and 
 publish this work at their own expense simply for the 
 good it might do. 
 
 The rules, herein given, apply with equal force to 
 your business, and to other practical affairs. 
 
 In publishing this subject matter in more permanent 
 form than that of the Occult Science Library Maga- 
 zine, in which it has previously appeared, we feel that 
 we are only answering the wants of thousands toward 
 whom we will, in time, have occasion to feel thankful 
 for patronage. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 I. Powkr of Co-operative Thought to Pro- 
 duce Results in all Business and Art. 
 
 II. L,ove is Power. 
 
 III. Woman's Occult Forces. 
 
 IV. How to Rule Your Kingdom. 
 V. Useful Occult Practices. 
 
 VI. Esoteric Laws of Happiness. 
 
 VII. Occult Helps. 
 
AN OCCULT PUZZLE. 
 
 Why is it that "The Power of Co-operative Thought 
 to Produce Results in All Business and Art," is so de- 
 pendent on the occult principle that "Love is Power;" 
 that, by studying "Woman's Occult Forces," you learn 
 "How to Rule Your Kingdom;" that, by observing 
 certain "Useful Occult Practices," which are given in 
 this publication, you get in harmony with "The Es- 
 oteric Laws of Happiness," and, thus, obtain "Occult 
 Helps" which it would be difficult to gain in any 
 other way? 
 
 (See Introduction and Contents. ) 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 The occult fraternity which this publication repre- 
 sents, invites readers to join them in the daily observ- 
 ance of the occult practices herein formulated and ex- 
 plained. 
 
 It is a proved fact, now backed by modern science, 
 that all power is inherent in every heart, and that all 
 growth comes by the development of such powers. 
 Do you question it ? Has not modern science been 
 forced to concede the occult principle that "thought 
 goes in waves," and, therefore, that it generates and 
 controls vibration ? Is not vibration the essence of all 
 manifestation, and the agent of thought in all creation ? 
 
 He who has learned the laws of thought, and gained 
 thought control by observing the necessary occult 
 practices, can gratify his every desire through the 
 magic of a wish. 
 
 Occult Science, if truly understood, opens for man 
 the door to almost unlimited power. 
 
 The connection between business results and thought, 
 and between man's thought and its omnipotent source, 
 is so intimate that success is the sure result of certain 
 moods of mind, or ways of thinking. An effort has 
 herein been made to show what those moods are, and 
 to formulate rules by which they may be produced at 
 will and maintained. 
 
 Man's surroundings are vibratory pulsations which 
 have solidified into the forms and moulds produced by 
 his undercurrents of thought. The occult practices 
 
iv. INTRODUCTION. 
 
 herein given are for the purpose of changing those 
 undercurrents into ideal forms. To produce such ideal 
 thought forms, is to manufacture vacuums of ideal 
 circumstances and surroundings into which their cor- 
 responding vibratory power is bound to flow and solidify. 
 Thus, it is held, that all practical affairs, such as 
 business undertakings, mental and social accomplish- 
 ments, matters of health, etc., as well as questions of 
 morality and spiritual growth, can best be dealt with 
 by going direct to vibratory causes within, and, if pos- 
 sible, in connection with trained Occultists, and by 
 occult methods. 
 
 This publication aims to show how to connect at 
 will with the omnipotent vibrations of those etheric 
 Love atoms within the inner chambers of the heart, 
 which, being the essence of man's Divinity and cause of 
 his immortality, are the exhaustless source of his occult 
 powers. To awaken them within, enables one to 
 awaken them in others. 
 
 An effort has been made to lift the veils which have 
 shrouded occult mysteries for so long, and to reduce 
 their principles to simple and practical rules which all 
 may follow in th.e development of their occult powers. 
 
 The rules, though simple, have deeply esoteric mean- 
 ings which will be appreciated by those who are 
 esoteric students. 
 
 Those who are not esoteric students are invited to 
 apply the rules in their practical every day affairs, and, 
 then measure their value by the results so obtained. 
 
 If true, the rules can be outwardly demonstrated; 
 but, such demonstrations will be perfect only to the ex- 
 tent that they are fully and faithfully applied. 
 
 The demonstrations need not be complete to be con- 
 
INTRODUCTION. V. 
 
 vincing even to the most skeptical minds. To the de- 
 gree that they are complete, will life take on new and 
 higher meanings. 
 
 As all power is within man so all development of 
 those inherent powers must come along the line of in- 
 ert ased self-knowledge, which is the line connecting 
 man with his Infinite source. True self-knowledge, 
 therefore, can come only as we approach the funda- 
 mental principles of that science which is truly occult, 
 because fully representative of first principles and 
 Infinity. 
 
 Physical science proves that the atom has, within 
 itself, some mysterious power which enables it to evo- 
 lutionize, but, as physical science fails to include certain 
 important connecting links, it leaves man in the dark — 
 in the shadow of materialism. These connecting links 
 are dealt with in this publication. 
 
 Physical science is formulated from the compara- 
 tively few evolutionary facts which have been collected 
 from observations covering a period of only a few 
 thousand years; therefore, it cannot approach in com- 
 pleteness, that more occult science which pertains to 
 eternity and the entire evolutionary history of the 
 soul, and offers proofs and demonstrations of its 
 principles, which, though different, are even more con- 
 vincing, and are superior to those regarded as sufficient 
 by physical scientists. 
 
 True Occult Science deals extensively with that prin- 
 ciple of Iyove, or, Truth, which is the essence of Divin- 
 ity, the cause of thought, the life of man, and the vibra- 
 tory backing from which he derives his occult powers. 
 
 Love is that complicated organism which we call the 
 Universe, audit is only when we understand its science, 
 
vi. INTRODUCTION. 
 
 or the true laws, meanings, and relations of each part, 
 that we can make use of its combined powers within 
 ourselves. 
 
 Of what use are the scattered parts of the most com- 
 plicated machine to one who has no way of getting 
 them together. 
 
 Man should spare no pains or expense in learning to 
 understand his occult powers, that he may use them 
 to enrich his own life, and to benefit others. 
 
 This publication aims to outline the esoteric prin- 
 ciples of human nature, with sufficient clearness to 
 satisfy reason and the head; but, its better lessons are 
 to teach the heart its own inherent potentialities and 
 Divinity, thus enabling man to answer his true rela- 
 tions to all created things. 
 
 It places in man's hands the possibilities of great 
 powers and great success, which involves, on his part, 
 the responsibility of using such knowledge and powers 
 in loving service to his fellowmen. It shows why 
 the occult undercurrents which now control civiliza- 
 tion are such that laws and occult rules which have 
 been known only to the few who were prepared for 
 them, are now safe in the hands of the many. In 
 fact, such knowledge is their only safety. The pow- 
 ers of darkness, which have had almost full sway, 
 now see in the diffusion of such knowledge, the dawn 
 of a new cycle which will wrench from their grasp 
 the victims of their malign, hypnotic influences. It is 
 only natural, therefore, that they should, with the vigor 
 of a death struggle, seek, as their prey, the defenseless 
 ones who neglect to so arm themselves with such 
 knowledge. This warning is something more than a 
 false alarm, as many will learn to their sorrow. The 
 
INTRODUCTION. Vll. 
 
 misuse of occult powers would result in great disaster 
 and misery to the one misusing them. 
 
 This work deals chiefly with the question of cir- 
 cumstances and the practical needs of life in all its 
 relations. 
 
 It holds that the mystery of the tiniest flower, if 
 fully explained, would also explain the laws of the 
 universe; and that man's practical needs are so closely 
 related to questions of ethics and immortality, that to 
 wisely perform the duty of each hour, is the best 
 way to build a "mansion in the skies.' ' 
 

Powers of Silent Co-operative Thought to Pro- 
 duce Results in all Business and Art* 
 
 COPYRIGHTED, I896, BY BRNEST I.OOMIS. 
 
 "Thoughts are things." Your body seems to be a 
 solid, but in reality is only a fate of vibration s a mode of 
 motion. 
 
 Your atoms are quivering at such a rate of speed 
 that they seem to be stationary, but are ever changing 
 to the poles of thought. Ask any scientist if it 
 isn't so. 
 
 Then do you ask if thought is powerful ? Yes; so 
 powerful that a thought of fear will sometimes turn a 
 person's hair gray, even though the fear afterwards 
 proves to be groundless. 
 
 One object of this publication is to teach some of 
 the laws of thought so that you can accomplish without 
 effort, in an hour, results that would otherwise cost a 
 struggle of perhaps weeks or months. Do you know all 
 about thought and the powers latent in man? If so, you 
 can dissolve or disintegrate this earth in an instant. You 
 have every power at your command. You already know 
 all I intend to say. Some single ideas regarding this 
 great power thought are worth thousands of dollars. 
 I have learned some, the value of which I cannot com- 
 pute by any cash standard. I hope to give many such 
 in this publication and also to show ways of putting 
 
2 POWERS OF SILENT CO-OPERATIVE THOUGHT. 
 
 them into practice. Farther on in this number is an 
 extended explanation of one, and the means of putting 
 it into immediate practice. Briefly stated, it is this: 
 Each day at the noon hour by dismissing all thought 
 except a desire for the good of others you will draw 
 and acquire power that will help you in all your needs. 
 Do you know why it will so help you ? 
 
 A large and ever increasing number of persons who 
 have taken the opportunity to learn something about 
 this great power thought are, with as much intelligence 
 as possible devoting that hour to the generating of such 
 thought forces as will best help those who need help. For 
 every mite of thought and good-will you contribute to 
 that general fund you will receive many returns of 
 principal and compound interest. The ones who thus 
 give the most for the benefit of others will receive in 
 return the greatest increase of power from the combined 
 thought. All the work of the world in time will be 
 based on this emulative plan where each strives to give 
 the most, but before competition can be done away with 
 great changes must first occur. I will deal with this 
 subject in later issues. 
 
 Your surroundings are your magnetisms, the fruit 
 of your character, and always governed by law. 
 
 Knowledge — and particularly knowledge of such 
 laws — is power. Yes, power to make of yourself what- 
 ever you please, simply by finding out these governing 
 laws, and applying them. 
 
 Only the occultist can fully comprehend the tre- 
 mendous importance and mutual advantages to be 
 derived from co-operative thought. Among students 
 of occult science there has been a demand for the 
 
TO PRODUCE RESULTS IN AU, BUSINESS AND ART. 3 
 
 carrying out of this plan to more thoroughly unite not 
 only themselves but others who might also desire to 
 draw, for their individual needs, on the harmonious 
 forces, and increased strength so generated. We are 
 surrounded with materialistic thought, and burdened 
 with dangerous, insidious unseen forces, which we are 
 sure to absorb unless always in a warlike, positive 
 mental attitude. To many of us such an attitude is 
 neither easy or agreeable. 
 
 The frequent, though perhaps needless moods of 
 despondency, discouragement, petulance, hurry, anx- 
 iety and bodily weakness which come to us partly 
 from the above causes, are continually reminding us 
 that we need this hour of silent thought — this proposed 
 * 'church of silent prayer," which will clear the atmos- 
 phere and be to us a source of daily strength, compan- 
 ionship and inspiration. 
 
 To the Occultist it seems deplorable to see the 
 almost universal waste of force shown in the face and 
 character of nearly every person with whom he comes 
 in contact. He cannot pass persons on the street or 
 see them in crowds, even in the most casual way, with- 
 out noticing it. Successful business men, whose very 
 success blinds them to the realization of these wastes, 
 often point to their so-called success as evidence that 
 the opposite is true and forget that there were grander 
 heights, a broader success which they failed to reach. 
 
 Is it not possible that they are the ones who have 
 the longer road to travel in correcting their faults and 
 making the most of themselves, for until we realize our 
 needs we are not likely to make much progress toward 
 supplying them. 
 
4 POWERS OF SILENT CO-OPERATIVE THOUGHT. 
 
 It is the purpose of the author in this series of pub- 
 lications to furnish keys of knowledge that will unlock 
 some of the unrealized latent powers and potencies that 
 lie slumbering in the character of each reader. 
 
 When the apple is ripe it falls. Those who are 
 ripe for improvement and an enlargement of power, 
 capacity and fortune will easily find, in this line of 
 thought, clues that will be of great service. If it is 
 ground they have covered they will be the first to see 
 the advantage of joining in the practical co-operative 
 thought plans suggested. In its review they may also 
 find new ideas. 
 
 The term Occult Science embraces most every 
 branch of knowledge or science, but is here used chiefly 
 with reference to the study of man and his improve- 
 ment. 
 
 Behind every branch of classified facts, which we 
 label with the name of some of the sciences, it is easy 
 to see there is a mystery, and therefore to the hidden 
 or occult must we turn for the true science of things. 
 This is especially true in our study of that greatest of 
 all subjects, man. His body is a mere mask, as the 
 word person signifies, behind which the real deathless 
 and eternal man acts much as a true actor would mas- 
 querade in the clothing or ' 'make up' ' best suited to 
 the character or part taken. 
 
 It is easy to see that if there is such a thing as get- 
 ting behind these outside appearances to the real hidden 
 occult facts or ' 'generalizations" that such a field 
 would, if explored, be most fruitful in results. 
 
 The real essence of things lies below the surface, 
 and when we reach their very center we find ourselves 
 
TO PRODUCE RESULTS IN AU, BUSINESS AND ART. 5 
 
 in a new and radiant world with most everything 
 changed. Our power increases and can only be meas- 
 ured by our degrees of such knowledge. 
 
 Electricity is powerful in the hands of an Edison, 
 but not so just previous to the time of Benjamin Frank- 
 lin. It is a proved fact that man has within himself 
 latent powers greater than electricity, a knowledge of 
 the laws of which would place in his possession great 
 possibilities of usefulness to himself and to others. 
 He now works his mental batteries the wrong way, 
 He acts on the principle that his body is doing the work, 
 and therefore in his struggle hustles and hurries it 
 about to the point of exhaustion. Yes, exhaustion of 
 its real force — thought. How can a person put out 
 his thought so it will accomplish results even far from 
 his body when he is on the dead run all the time. His 
 very efforts are driving farther from him the things he 
 seeks. A little knowledge of the laws of thought will 
 teach him to reverse this process and accomplish much 
 more without struggle or effort. 
 
 Such knowledge will give great power over ones 
 health because it enables one to deal with causes. The 
 so-called science of medicine is based too much on the 
 false assumption that man's body originates disease. 
 The learned men in the time of Harvey strenuously 
 denied the theory of the circulation of the blood and 
 he was almost mobbed for advocating the idea. In 
 these days of rapid progress we should think for our- 
 selves and remember that the man was nearly mobbed 
 who carried the first umbrella. It is difficult for learned 
 men to unlearn their few fragments of facts, many 
 of which time is proving to be fictions. Twenty years 
 
6 POWERS OF SILENT CO-OPERATIVE THOUGHT 
 
 ago nearly all physicians denied the principles of hyp- 
 notism, and to-day are exhibiting relatively the same 
 ignorance by simply nibbling at that little fragment in- 
 stead of delving deeper to the law on which hypnotism 
 is based. 
 
 Orthodox Christians have had many of the rea 
 teachings of Christ written in their hearts, otherwise 
 Christianity could not have survived a theology 
 founded on the doctrine of hell and depravity of man. 
 Many still believe in the depravity of man, but even 
 this fragment of an obsolete theology is destined to 
 crumble beneath the power of Christ's words, "the 
 kingdom of Heaven is within you." 
 
 To Occult Science belongs the distinction of proving 
 why these things are so, which is the first step in their 
 attainment, and is the search-light which will make 
 luminous the truths contained in every book of the 
 Bible. If orthodox persons care more for the truths of 
 that sacred book than they do for the glaring absurdi- 
 ties they have blindly built from it into their crumbling 
 structure they will welcome this search-light and our 
 teachings all the more because thus proved to be the 
 real teachings of the Christ. 
 
 Occultists have long known that these would be 
 years of great awakening when such truths would 
 rapidly come to light, and bring in their train great 
 changes and readjustments that would sweep away 
 great fortunes, great humbugs, and the general de-bris 
 which has resulted from our blindness and materialism. 
 This is according to the great law of cycles shown 
 throughout nature. A great 5,000 year cycle ends 
 next year, and now is the time to learn how to readjust 
 
TO PRODUCE RESUI/TS IN ALI, BUSINESS AND ART. 7 
 
 ones various relations in life to suit the new conditions 
 that are at our very thresholds. 
 
 It is not my desire or purpose to shroud this subject 
 in needless mystery or to claim supernatural, adept 
 powers in these hidden mysteries, but to prove and 
 demonstrate to the understanding that they are not 
 supernatural, but founded on natural laws, which, for 
 good reasons, have been hidden in this materialistic 
 age except to a few in whose hands they were safe. 
 
 The very nature of these ideas is in many respects 
 so unlike our old methods of thought and action that 
 they will necessarily seem marvelous, and they carry 
 with them possibilities no less marvelous. 
 
 Many of these ideas also seem dangerous in their 
 possibilities, and are so in the hands of certain unprin- 
 cipled persons, so is fire dangerous, but the time has 
 come when general knowledge on the subject is the 
 greatest safeguard against that danger. 
 
 Another wonder in our Creator's wisdom is that 
 such knowledge carries within itself a peculiar safe- 
 guard. This safeguard is that it is impossible for a 
 person to go far or deep into this subject until it is safe 
 for him to do so. In other words, he cannot under- 
 stand or believe in certain of its basic principles until 
 he has the purity and morality making them safe in his 
 hands. It farthermore teaches a code of morals that is 
 sublime, and offers rewards for obedience that are 
 almost irresistable. Does this seem strange? Have 
 you never thought of it while studying these subjects? 
 If you haven't studied that far please note it in the 
 future. After all it is about what we should expect 
 from Infinite wisdom. 
 
8 POWERS OF SILENT CO-OFERATIVE THOUGHT 
 
 This subject has an important bearing on ones 
 health, his business, and every relation he sustains to 
 the world. If he studies simply its outer forms so that 
 he may, through hypnotic influence, bend some one to 
 his will for some selfish purpose, or wreck vengeance on 
 his enemies through the use of unseen forces, he will 
 find the way barred to more important and practical 
 knowledge, and will be sure to reap for himself in so 
 doing a rich harvest of retribution instead of its normal 
 fruit, which is the extreme opposite. As the acquire- 
 ment of wealth carries with it a corresponding respon- 
 sibility for its proper use toward others, fo the acquire- 
 ment of this order of knowledge correspondingly 
 increases ones responsibility for its proper use. This 
 responsibility in regard to the use of wealth does not 
 seem to cool the ardor of many people. They pursue 
 it just as vigorously, and seem to almost " spoil " for 
 an opportunity to show 7 that they would be equal to 
 such a responsibility. In. the pursuit of the knowledge 
 in question, the inducements are much greater. Al- 
 though its code of morals is as strict as our ten com- 
 mandments, one need not fear that its strictness would 
 hamper them or make them unhappy, on the contrary, 
 it opens up that ' ' place of peace which passeth all un- 
 derstanding." "The kingdom of heaven within." 
 Do you ask why ? It is because it shows why you 
 greatly enhance your business success by making it 
 honest to the core. Why you can't do a wrong to an- 
 other in any way without doing a greater one to your- 
 self. Do you fear that this would interfere w r ith your 
 present business and abridge a degree of its success for 
 which you have perhaps struggled for years ? This is 
 
TO PRODUCE RESULTS IN AI,E BUSINESS AND ART- 9 
 
 not probable, but if so it will bring in its stead a greater 
 success in business that you will attain without effort or 
 struggle. Has not the depletion of your life forces, 
 caused by that senseless struggle for wealth or position, 
 led you many times to join in that silent cry for 
 "rest" — " rest of the soul" — which goes up unheard 
 from the hearts of countless thousands ? Then do not 
 let your lack of faith bar you from that rest which a 
 little knowledge will silently and noiselessly bring to 
 you. 
 
 Thought is a very high rate of vibration which is 
 capable of dissolving or changing all lower rates. 
 Every solid in the universe being only a rate of vibra- 
 tion is ready to become fluid to any higher vibration. 
 Your body is already ninety-four per cent, fluid (as any 
 physician will acknowledge), and is easily ready to 
 become one complete little ocean of harmony, if 
 properly acted upon by your thought vibrations. A 
 little knowledge of Occult Science will show you how to 
 so act upon it. Read the above paragraph over twice, 
 and see if it can be successfully disputed. Then is 
 Occult Science practical in its bearing on your health ? 
 Yes, intensely so. What would any dying man 
 give to add even ten years to his life? One man 
 offered $1,000,000 to have his life prolonged fifteen 
 minutes in order that he might give the remainder 
 of his fortune away to charity. One would at 
 least be willing to study and learn. Why not give 
 that study and thought to this subject previous 
 to your deathbed. Your entire environment, your 
 friendships, your every surrounding is your mag- 
 netism and ever changing to the poles of your thought. 
 
IO POWERS OF SILENT CO-OPERATIVE THOUGHT 
 
 Figure this out and see if it isn't the most practical 
 lesson you ever learned. It is not our purpose to dis- 
 integrate this planet. It is designed and run with too 
 much wisdom and knowledge to make such a thing 
 desirable or possible to us at present. It is, however, 
 our purpose to unite in thought and dissolve many of -- 
 the obstacles to our progress, to harmonize many of - 
 the needless discords in the lives of some of the mem- 
 bers of our brotherhood and to deal unitedly and there- - 
 fore with ever-increasing knowledge and power with 
 some of the unseen and inharmonious forces which 
 surround us and mar our peace, our health, prosperity 
 and advancement. 
 
 All space is filled with living realities. The cross 
 vibrations surrounding us continually affect us for evil 
 and are all the more dangerous because insidious, subtle, 
 unseen and unrecognized. 
 
 Occultists know and Physicians will agree that 
 bodily disease consists in cross vibrations and that health 
 consists in harmony — harmonious vibrations — harmony 
 in the life currents. Likewise harmony — harmonious 
 vibrations in our surroundings and social conditions 
 are the things we most need. 
 
 Can you not catch a clue to our methods ? We 
 propose to deal with causes. Instead of doctoring 
 effects, which is like damming the Mississippi, we 
 leave the circumference of things and go to their cen- 
 ter, the unseen underlying causes. We look to intelli- 
 gent and united thought as the harmonizing power to 
 help our discordant chaotic conditions — our cross vibra- 
 tions. There is no readily available way of dealing 
 with them that is more practical than our Home Silent 
 
TO PRODUCE RESULTS IN AIJ, BUSINESS AND ART. II 
 
 Thought Brotherhood, which is divided into twelve 
 degrees (thus providing for the different stages of 
 knowledge and other requisite qualifications). 
 
 The first degree is to include all persons who have 
 needs, (who has not?) Each and every reader of this 
 publication is invited to be silent and dismiss during 
 part or all of each noon hour all thought except a 
 desire for good, first to themselves and also to others. 
 Each person will so acquire power simply because they 
 place themselves in a condition to receive it through 
 their co-operative and harmonious thought vibrations, 
 which includes the more powerful vibrations of those 
 of the other degrees who have more complete knowl- 
 edge and training. 
 
 The second degree includes all yearly subscribers of 
 this publication, whose continued interest is thus 
 reasonably assured. To them will be given a subject 
 for daily contemplation, which will throw them more 
 distinctly en rapport with the higher currents of vibra- 
 tion generated during the noon hour. 
 
 The third degree includes such persons as pay a fee 
 of $1.00 each, for which they will receive a book giving 
 further instructions as to how such forces and currents 
 can be still farther drawn on for their individual 
 needs. 
 
 The fees for the fourth degree are $2.00 each. The 
 member thus admitted will be given a written deline- 
 ation of his character for his use, pointing out to him 
 the characteristics he will need to give special cultiva- 
 tion in his more advanced studies along this line, with 
 instructions as to such cultivation. 
 
 Members of the fifth degree will be given extended 
 
12 POWERS OF SILENT CO-OPERATIVE THOUGHT 
 
 astrological and other calculations concerning their 
 past, present and future. This will determine their 
 eligibility to farther degrees. 
 
 By special care and strictness at this point we are 
 enabled to avoid inharmonious elements in our more 
 inner and powerful circles and keep out all who use 
 such powers simply for selfish motives. Such members 
 are given further instructions for their use and improve- 
 ment. 
 
 Persons who are really bad at heart are not likely 
 to be drawn to us, but if they are so drawn we admit 
 them to the outer degrees and do them all the good we 
 can. They are the very ones who most need help. 
 After the fifth degree all members are especially in- 
 structed in the absolute necessity of basing all such 
 work on the everlasting principles of right, justice 
 and goodwill. A special hour daily is also given to 
 individualize all co-operative thought currents with 
 such principles, so that any discordant or impure ele- 
 ments that might enter into the outer circles are thus 
 neutralized and spiritualized. 
 
 You will therefore see that we are amply fortified 
 against the dangers of impurity to an extent that would 
 be hardly possible in a co-operative society of only one 
 degree, and are thus enabled to add to our numbers 
 and the cumulative force that could be safely acquired 
 in no other way. 
 
 The work and purpose of the sixth degree is partly 
 explained from the above. They are also given special 
 instruction and help in reference to the acquirement of 
 perfect health, and the proper use of thought force in 
 trouble or in business matters. 
 
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 The seventh is the last of the exoteric degrees. 
 Members are given extended instructions through 
 books and otherwise, and the personal help of esoteric 
 members in case of sickness or other real need. 
 
 Membership fees for the fifth degree are $3.00 per 
 year, $4.00 for the sixth degree and $5.00 for the 
 seventh. 
 
 The five esoteric degrees are at present given to 
 only those who thus devote their entire lives to the 
 service of mankind. It includes extended instruction 
 and practices, the aim of which, in the language of 
 Swami Vivekananda, is ' * to open to us the door to 
 almost unlimited power, to be used to help those who 
 need help. " It is the desire and ambition of students 
 of the esoteric degrees in time to establish a great 
 school of philosophy that would be almost unlimited in 
 its influence and powers for good. In the future some 
 of these esoteric degrees may be given to other than 
 those who devote their lives to the work, but always 
 under rules so exacting and rigid as to exclude all in- 
 harmony and those whose purpose it would be to use 
 the knowledge and powers so obtained for selfish pur- 
 poses or show. These deeper instructions are within 
 the reach of all, but with few exceptions can only be 
 safely learned by direct contact with a teacher. 
 
 If the first seven degrees and helps awaken the 
 necessary qualifications and a true desire for same the 
 teacher and opportunity will not be wanting. We do 
 not for our various degrees desire or solicit very large 
 or promiscuous classes. The purpose is rather to unite 
 those of similar mental calibre for their mutual benefit, 
 development and instruction. Force and instruction is 
 
14 POWERS OF SILENT CO-OPERATIVE THOUGHT 
 
 always more easily gained through a harmonious unity 
 of minds who think alike, and not by argument for the 
 sake of argument. 
 
 Without desiring at present to make special claims 
 of giving you that force, we simply say it will come to 
 you because you thus place yourself in the best condi- 
 tion for receiving it. You can, if you choose, make 
 for yourself similar conditions in other places. As to 
 our charges, we would say they are much too high if 
 you fail to see the end in view. If you do see our 
 intents and motives, you will see also that the gain to 
 you in power to be acquired cannot be measured by 
 dollars. 
 
 We desire that you should utilize these helps in the 
 above and other ways that will from time to time come 
 to you. Supposing you have a business perplexity 
 that is worrying you. At the noon hour, by placing 
 yourself in a receptive state, you become en rapport 
 with harmonizing vibrations. (Later you will under- 
 stand why). These vibrations reach out far and near 
 in the unseen, and help to harmonize the very vibratory 
 forces and causes undei lying such perplexities. Some- 
 times it will come in the shape of a new idea, which 
 will prove to be the right one. At other times you 
 will, when you actually come to the difficulty feared, 
 find that for some mysterious reason it has disappeared. 
 Or you may, without knowing it, simply drift to the 
 right act. Have you ever noticed how easily the warm 
 noon-day sun can level the most uneven surface of snow 
 and cause it to disappear ? Heat as easily expands a 
 bar of solid steel twenty feet thick. What mere physi- 
 cal force could do the same ? When we get a force like 
 
TO PRODUCE RESUI/TS IN AI<I, BUSINESS AND ART. 1 5 
 
 heat or thought that can deal with the various rates of 
 vibration of things we get into the region of power 
 where work is not effort or struggle. 
 
 By drawing on such infinite forces, a part of which 
 we are, we will sometimes find that at the noon hour 
 the ache or pain we had, passes away, or the misunder- 
 standing we had with a friend or other person has been 
 cleared up as easily and noiselessly as the July sun 
 melts ice, and not through any hypnotic power but by 
 the power of harmonious thought vibrations of many 
 minds with motives based on the Eternal laws of right, 
 justice and love (or sympathy). These are examples 
 of how the Home Silent Thought Brotherhood can be 
 utilized in every affair of life. Does this seem marvel- 
 ous in its simplicity ? See if a thorough trial will not 
 prove it true, and as marvelous in its power for your 
 good. 
 
 We do not call this a ' ' cause, ' ' but a business. We 
 place a certain value on our ideas and the helps to be 
 rendered as we would on any merchantable commodity. 
 As we receive that value we are placed above the 
 temptation or error of soliciting favors or donations for 
 doing a good work or even for our proposed School of 
 Philosophy. We think ours is a good work and think 
 it is all the better for making it support itself as it goes 
 along. In its growing success we are proving the very 
 principle and laws we teach. Can we do you a greater 
 favor than to show you a law for the attainment of suc- 
 cess, which is as much your property to use as it is 
 ours. 
 
 One of our basic principles is that ' ' thoughts are 
 things." Good thoughts are constructive. Evil 
 
l6 POWERS OF SIEENT CO-OPERATIVE THOUGHT 
 
 thoughts are destructive. The earnest desire to do 
 right carries with it great power. Right and justice 
 carries with it a rate of vibration that is immortal. 
 Thought vibrations are intense and powerful in propor- 
 tion to their approach to right, purity and the Eternal. 
 High motives and purity are thoughts of great pow T er 
 for good to yourself and to others. I am not trying to 
 preach but to demonstrate why a business founded on 
 absolute justice and right is the one most apt to suc- 
 ceed. People say, ' ' Oh, yes, honesty is the best 
 policy," but seem afraid to trust it and stand by it in 
 the little things when they get in a corner and fear the 
 loss of even an insignificant sale. Honest) 7 just for the 
 sake of policy is not the genuine article. It does not 
 carry with it the high rate of vibration. Do you realize 
 the importance to you (in dollars) of this very demon- 
 stration ? Do you realize how satisfying and strength- 
 ening it would be to know to a certainty that even from 
 the standpoint of business success alone that you could 
 always and under all circumstances, great or small, 
 afford to stand right hy the truth and make your busi- 
 ness honest to the core f You cannot afford to do any- 
 thing less than that. It is the most valuable precept 
 you can entertain, and increases in value to you until 
 you reach the point where you lose entire confidence in 
 lies or the powers of deception. Do you see what this 
 one principle will do for you ? 
 
 First. It will get your business thoughts into the 
 region of high and powerful vibrations (where they 
 belong), and appeal to that in others. These powerful 
 thoughts will go out far and near, even while you sleep, 
 and gradually saturate and mingle with the minds of 
 
TO PRODUCE RESULTS IN AU, BUSINESS AND ART. 17 
 
 people you are in the future to deal with, and will form 
 thought links, or invisible wires connecting them with 
 you, and will help influence them to come and deal 
 with you. 
 
 It is said, " a man must have his thoughts centered 
 on his business in order to succeed." This is the phil- 
 osophy of it and these are the invisible wires that will 
 lead customers to you. 
 
 Second. Thoughts with high and pure motives 
 will connect with the best in people and will attract 
 chiefly persons of character and mental calibre, who 
 are the very ones most likely to have money to buy 
 your goods, and even if you credit them with their 
 purchases they are the ones least apt to cheat you. 
 Tricky thought would bring to you tricksters, who in 
 time would in some way injure you, even if it was only 
 to speak ill of you. 
 
 Third. Such thoughts of right and goodwill, being 
 constructive, will inspire your customers with the same 
 spirit of goodwill, which is also vibratory power that 
 will do you good, even though they never speak it i n 
 words. The opposite would do you harm. 
 
 Fourth. These very principles will in time show 
 forth in your countenance, in every curl of your lip. 
 In your very attitude. Your confidence and strength 
 will increase as you learn by the many proofs that will 
 come to you that this law is correct and absolute, and in 
 time you will be perfectly serene, even though failure 
 stares you in the face. 
 
 Fifth. These principles are harmonious by nature, 
 and otherwise could not be eternal, for reasons that are 
 apparent. They will tend to bring harmony into your 
 
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 IS POWERS OF SILENT CO-OPERATIVE THOUGHT 
 
 life and surroundings, also friends or others to your 
 rescue, who are able and willing to help you if trouble 
 comes. The very instincts of such friends will tell 
 them that you can be relied on, even if they have not 
 had actual proofs. 
 
 The thief little knows of the real unseen forces that 
 attract him to his chosen victim and perhaps carry him 
 right by places and persons he could rob with more ease 
 and success. 
 
 How lktle we realize that some species of dishon- 
 esty or deception and even the reading of theft, murder, 
 scandal and burglary in the morning papers — perhaps 
 at breakfast, when we are (or should be) in a negative 
 absorbing mood — will connect us with the thought cur- 
 rent that is apt to bring the thief or trickster to us. 
 
 Sixth. Principles of honesty in your business will 
 tend to bring you honest helpers, who won't watch 
 every chance to "'stab you in the back," or take 
 advantage of you should you be absent or other oppor- 
 tunities occur. 
 
 Seventh. Fear, hurry and anxiety are thought 
 forces that 'are destructive to your business and to your 
 ability to manage it. Honest principles relieve anxiety 
 and fear, thus giving the cool head to act wisely in a 
 business crisis. 
 
 Eighth. Thoughts produce actions. Any species 
 of dishonesty will lead to dishonest acts, and to an 
 attitude that will create suspicion in people and cause 
 them to avoid you, even though they themselves do 
 not realize the reason why. Our common proverbs, 
 such as "Honesty is the best policy," "A man is 
 known by the company he keeps, " "It takes a rogue 
 
TO PRODUCE RESULTS IN AU, BUSINESS AND ART. 19 
 
 to catch a rogue," are all founded on universal experi- 
 ence. 
 
 The experiences of others, however, without under- 
 standing the principles, are not sufficient to give you 
 that supreme confidence in " honesty," which takes 
 away all fear and causes you to unfalteringly trust it 
 when under the severest tests. What percentage of 
 Chicago Lawyers or their Clients would really be willing 
 in trying every case to fearlessly uncover every pointy 
 and earnestly and unreservedly try to get at the true 
 right of the case regardless of which side the truth 
 might hit? This should be the attitude of Lawyer and 
 Client as it is of the true Judge, and it would insure 
 more satisfactory results to the majority concerned. 
 
 These facts show how shallow and hypocritical is the 
 pretended confidence in the proverb, \ ' Honesty is the 
 best policy. ' ' I repeat that universal experience is insuffi- 
 cient to inspire unlimited confidence in this proverb, 
 and to actually demonstrate its truth from first princi- 
 ples and show the laws on which it is based, is of great 
 value to every business man, as its practice will prove. 
 
 Our aim is to suggest how you can use your spirit- 
 ual powers to the best purpose, so they will bring first 
 to yourself and also to others the greatest returns in 
 both material results and happiness. 
 
 A spiritual power that is always available is your 
 thought. The greatest power you have available is 
 the combined thought of yourself and others working 
 unitedly and in sympathy for a common result — your 
 mutual good. Money represents value and gives power 
 to obtain many desirable things. If the ready cash of 
 the world was laid at your feet, with an invitation to 
 
20 POWERS OF SILENT CO-OPERATIVE THOUGHT 
 
 help yourself, and you could do so without injury to 
 others, would you not lay in a good supply without 
 waiting to be teased ? 
 
 The power of money to bring happiness is indirect. 
 Common sense and study will make of your thought 
 a power to bring happiness DIRECT, and mone}^ as well - 
 with the additional safeguard that you can always rely 
 on it to make more money if that you thus gain is 
 taken away. Such powers, unlike money, can never 
 be taken away from you, and you will learn that so 
 long as you stay in the direct thought current of Infinite 
 good that all things needful will come to you without 
 struggle or effort. 
 
 The powers of the sunlight give life to vegetation 
 without struggle or effort. Yet a maiden can intercept 
 that sunlight with an umbrella. Let us learn how 
 not to intercept the sunlight of God's forces, which 
 were planted within us to use for his eternal purposes. 
 Such forces come gently and noiselessly from within. 
 Do you ask for proofs ? Are you one who cannot be- 
 lieve in the reality of anything that isn't heralded by 
 trumpet blasts? Study the principles, if that is not 
 sufficient, apply them as directed, and proofs will then 
 be forthcoming as they are needed. 
 
 Within yourself are powers capable now of bringing 
 results and happiness greater than you have ever 
 dreamed of or even read about. Results which would 
 revolutionize your life and methods of action — yet a 
 peaceful, noiseless revolution from an unlooked for 
 source, as is usual with the coming of spiritual powers 
 and light. These principles teach that by your hurry 
 and over-activity you are driving away the very things 
 
TO PRODUCE RESULTS IN AI<I, BUSINESS AND ART. 21 
 
 you seek, and show a way to accomplish infinitely more 
 and without effort. 
 
 Look at the mania for labor-saving devices. Iyook 
 intelligently within yourself and you will find one 
 greater than all you have known. 
 
 The kingdom of heaven is a kingdom of power as 
 well as one of harmony and peace. After nearly 1900 
 years of failure to find it without, isn't it about time to 
 take the word of the Christ that it is "within you" 
 and then search for it in that direction ? 
 
 It would take much longer to give even a "bird's- 
 eye view" of this subject or to enumerate the many 
 practical bearings it has on life. The subject is In 
 finity and therefore Infinite. In describing things that 
 are Infinite we can do little more than to say Infinite, 
 and then let the mind grapple with it and bewilder- 
 ingly try to comprehend. To try to do more is like 
 trying to give a separate name to each drop in the 
 ocean — a hopeless task. 
 
 In the next issue I shall try to show how this mys- 
 terious spiritual law which binds all humanity together 
 will, through the powers of co-operative thought, bring 
 to us very wonderful companionships and friends, and 
 how they will aid us. I hope to at least interest even 
 those who still think that co-operation is impossible 
 unless you bring people's bodies together. 
 
POWER. 
 
 The Occult secrets of power may be revealed to him, 
 who, by the aid of modern science and the microscope, 
 learns that all material particles are divisible and por- 
 ous, and that matter is only a "rate of vibration." 
 
 Thought generates vibration. It is, therefore, a 
 creative power, and, the essence of all manifestations. 
 Thought and man, the Thinker, are natural corres- 
 pondences of Truth, the eternal. The will in man con- 
 trols thought, and the principle of Love controls the 
 will. 
 
 Love is therefore the original principle of Truth 
 within, which we call God, and is the exhaustless 
 source of man's Occult powers. 
 
 In following, closely, this line of connections which 
 ties man to his source, who can doubt that by keeping 
 in close touch with that backing, he is able to develop 
 and manifest wonderful Occult powers. 
 
 The development of Occult power is shown to be so 
 closely alied to the laws of Love and ethics, that man 
 could not take a shorter cut to that life which is the 
 fulfillment of his ten commandments. 
 
Love Is Power. 
 
 COPYRIGHTED. 
 
 * 'Do not love. Be love. ' ' Cease in thought to cling 
 to the unreal "friends" which come to you through 
 the accident of circumstance. You will thus pave the 
 way to you for your real friends. Shut out in thought 
 even "Angels" if they do not belong to you, so that 
 your own Archangels may come in. For every 
 "friend" you lose for truth you will gain a better. It 
 is not in the order of nature or "good for man to be 
 alone. ' ' The law of love will take care of that. Your 
 real friends are the ones who are on your line of 
 march. Their proper selection is too important to be 
 left to the uncertainties of outward condition. There 
 is a higher law which, if fairly understood and faith- 
 fully applied, will bring them to you with unerring 
 certainty. Silent co-operative thought will, through 
 the law of affinity, bring you the aid, comfort, compan- 
 ionship and inspiration of real friends. 
 
 It is only reasonable and natural that the chemical 
 powers of co-operative thought should act with perfect 
 freedom in the unseen and bring together persons of 
 like motive and mental calibre, with the same degree 
 of scientific accuracy which would under proper and 
 foreseen conditions attract into a perfect crystal the vari- 
 ous elements of its chemical compound. 
 
 The chemical powers of love are so exact that they 
 attract into a unit the countless millions of worlds and 
 systems of worlds which make up the universe. 
 
 Man has that entire power latent in his heart. The 
 law of love applies to the atom the same as to the uni- 
 
I.OVE IS POWER. 
 
 verse and is the power within the atom which makes 
 its evolution possible. To master the secret of your 
 heart is to open the door to your omnipotence and place 
 within your easy reach the accomplishment of your 
 every undertaking. 
 
 Books then become of no further use to you because 
 you have in your awakened intuition the correct 
 answer to every question through a direct channel to 
 your fountain of omniscience in your heart. It brings 
 you face to face with that something within which can 
 never be destroyed because eternally pure and perfect. 
 
 Misery becomes impossible, because misery always 
 arises from fear or unsatisfied desire. 
 
 Sickness and sorrow is banished because the soul 
 settles down to its normal condition of power, joy and 
 perfect bliss. 
 
 Your occult forces are powerful in proportion to 
 their approach to the purity, perfection and eternity of 
 genuine love and right. You will never find happi- 
 ness or satisfaction so long as you look outside of your- 
 self for it. You will never learn the secret of real 
 occult power to accomplish great results in business 
 and art until you find it in the exhaustless resources of 
 your own heart. Occult forces without limit are with- 
 in your easy reach as soon as you really learn the 
 greatness of your own nature. You must reverse your 
 present methods of education which chain useless crow- 
 bars of facts to your mentality and shut off the flow 
 from within. The word education means to evolve, 
 educe or draw out. The nature of man is such that a 
 time comes when it needs no outward pumps to draw 
 soul from its fountain and through its instrument 
 
I,OVE IS POWER. 25 
 
 the body. All you have to learn is how to turn on its 
 spigot, through silence, calmness and introspection. 
 The forces of soul are already generated and only too 
 glad to flow into all your relations of life. 
 
 Look at the multiplied uses of electricity. The 
 question was how to harness it. The question to-day 
 is how to harness the much greater and invisible forces 
 of thought and love so that the lives of ourselves and 
 others may be made full with the joy and happiness 
 that will follow in its train as its result. 
 
 Knowledge of your real nature is the natural fore- 
 runner of great results. It enables you to properly re- 
 adjust your selfishness, fear, pride, sexpassion or any 
 other quality in your character that may be now 
 dominant as a blind leader. ' 
 
 Your power is always evolved from within — from the 
 heart. It finds an outlet chiefly through the avenues 
 of brain and thought. 
 
 Intellectual cultivation with many has been carried 
 to the point of ''mental leprosy." Our schools are 
 scourged with such tendencies and with the tendency 
 to scatter thought forces which is one of our national 
 defects. Education should cultivate the art of calm- 
 ness, repose, deliberation and concentration. 
 
 There is a. certain consciousness of strength which 
 springs from ignorance. 
 
 How frequently do we see exhibitions of it in the 
 unmeant gallantries of our "Lords of Creation" who 
 think they compliment woman when they say that she 
 is man" s equal. 
 
 Woman is rapidly demonstrating that many such 
 words spoken in ignorance as well as in jest, are truths. 
 
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26 I.OVE IS POWER. 
 
 Woman is the real leader of a peaceful, noiseless revo- 
 lution which will reconstruct society from the founda- 
 tions up. Occult Science proves that her wisdom of 
 the intuitions and heart is better than his bruto-in- 
 tellectual wisdom which is based on the already crumb- 
 ling assumption that "man is his body" and that the 
 body and intellect are "the whole thing" as the boys 
 would say. 
 
 If he should lose an arm or a leg would he thus lose 
 any part of the real man ? Would it necessarily imply 
 a loss of any Dart of his manhood or of his soul, which 
 is eternal? 
 
 Man's body will continue to die until Occult 
 Science unlocks the latent potencies of his heart and 
 soul. Such knowledge will enable him to fully 
 represent and manifest his real deathless nature in a 
 body which will thus become deathless also. 
 
 The "tree of knowledge" so planted in his "garden 
 of Eden" — the heart — thus becomes a "tree of life." 
 Re-read the first chapter of Genesis with this as a key. 
 It may give a clue that will illuminate the story of 
 man's spiritual creation and the history of the soul. 
 Science has upset many absurd theological interpreta- 
 tions of a sacred book, the truths of which Occult 
 Science will again make luminous. 
 
 Intellect is good as a servant, not as a leader. In- 
 tellectual knowledge by itself, unaided, is a tree which 
 yields nothing better than mouth puckering green per- 
 simmons and other bitter and poisonous fruit which 
 is fit food only for a cynic or pessemist who wants to 
 supply vitality to his misery. 
 
 Society must have something more substantial for 
 
I,OVE IS POWER. 27 
 
 its heart starved multitude than froth and frappe or 
 the husks and dead fruit on which they have been 
 "brousing" for so long. 
 
 Is it surprising that it has been lead to the feet of 
 Occult Science and that royalty and the nobility in 
 Europe and exclusive society circles of New York, 
 Boston and other American cites should now consider 
 the Palmist, Astrologer and Occulist such desirable 
 acquisitions as factors in some of their entertainments? 
 
 The Infinite has thus caused that tyrant Fashion to 
 meekly "let down its bars" that a multitude of good 
 but commonplace people who have not the courage of 
 their convictions and who consider it "better to be out 
 of the world than out of fashion' ' may receive these 
 truths. 
 
 When society thus instructed becomes truly represent- 
 ative of the affections and heart and gives its members 
 the pleasures and satisfactions of its warm, sympathetic 
 life-giving heart currents of real love they will never 
 again be satisfied with the hollow mockery of its soul- 
 less shell and base counterfeit. 
 
 When society learns that the body is only a medium 
 or instrument through which the soul may act it will 
 have the power to become a grand orchestra of a mill- 
 ion pieces capable of bringing forth one Divine har- 
 mony and its deep inspirations from the truly musical, 
 the notes of which each individual member is a con- 
 tributor. 
 
 The magical vibratory powers of the calm reposeful 
 loving co-operative thought currents, which at the 
 noon hour go from the Home Silent Thought Brother- 
 hood, out into the unseen, are forces which work night 
 
28 I,OVE IS POWER. 
 
 and day for the good of each member, and are sure to 
 come home to him freighted with the rich blessings 
 of health, business results, loving companionships, in- 
 spiration and happiness. 
 
 To depend on your shrewdness, to overreach your 
 neighbor, to hustle and hurry your body about until 
 it is fagged out, and to generate the damaging a-n& dis- 
 cordant cross vibrations of hateful, cynical, impatient, 
 anxious, fearful, selfish or hopeless thought is to shut 
 off the currents of helpful force and drive successful 
 results farther away. 
 
 "Thoughts are things" which produce results in 
 all business and art. Co-operative thought in connec- 
 tion with the Home Silent Thought Brotherhood is the 
 collective force which multiplies such results, because 
 "many hands make light work." 
 
 If the earth was covered with ten feet of snow and 
 you had to get rid of it would you prefer the slow 
 process of shoveling it to the rapid process of melting 
 it by a July sun ? The mental density which would 
 choose the shovel is little better than that which will 
 cling to man's present harsh, noisy, lumbering body 
 straining antiquated methods of business after better 
 methods are offered and also the easy means to carry 
 them out. Thought is an ever ready power which is 
 always available. 
 
 An investigation of its laws at once leads to the all 
 inclusive basic law of love which is a fundamental 
 "generalization." 
 
 IyOveis the power which binds all humanity together 
 whether they know it or not. 
 
 "Nature abhors weakness." I^ove is power. Love 
 
I,OVE IS POWKR. 29 
 
 is the mother of nature, therefore for nature to love 
 power is only to show the proper instincts of offspring. 
 The created should love its creator and conform to the 
 laws of its ever evolving nature. We may have im- 
 plicit trust that, to follow obediently, the leadings and 
 tendencies of our constitution will bring us out safe at 
 last through open or winding passage to a fulfillment 
 of our destiny according to our creator's intention. 
 God is love and cannot make mistakes. 
 
 People prosper in proportion to their ability to make 
 of themselves an unobstructed channel f orthe optimistic 
 forces and higher laws of thought and nature. 
 
 ' ' The world is founded on the optimistic, self-acting 
 and all inclusive law of love. This law can be safely 
 trusted, even though its limited manifestation appears 
 in the form of selfishness, hate, cruelty and all that is 
 brutal or that which we call evil. I wish to show the 
 connection of all these things so that we may lie with 
 childlike trust in the motherly lap of nature and give 
 an uninterrupted passage to her life-giving currents, 
 thus becoming strong with her strength. 
 
 It is impossible for us to successfully resist the cur- 
 rents of nature and we interfere with them at our peril. 
 
 She teaches with calm superiority that "there is a 
 higher law than that of our will, which regulates 
 events," and governs every atom of the universe. 
 
 That law is the law of love. To fully trust it will 
 reverse our present slow, bungling, and convulsive 
 methods of business and make our lives not only more 
 successful, but easier. 
 
 We can well afford to trust our intuitive impulses. The 
 theology, which represents man as degraded and de- 
 
30 I,OVE IS POWER. 
 
 praved, and life as a great, though hopeless struggle 
 against the forces of nature, is rapidly becoming obso- 
 lete. Occult Science,which is the coming theology, rep- 
 resents man as Divine by nature. It shows the useless- 
 ness and injury of his frantic struggles, despairs, and 
 gnashing of teeth against the relentless and invincible 
 laws of nature which manifest in lower forms as brute 
 and brutal man, but gradually grows on the slow tree 
 of cause and effect until man is taught that all persons 
 and all things are related and that he cannot do a wrong to 
 another in any way without doing a greater wrong to 
 himself. 
 
 His very instincts of self preservation will then cause 
 him to throw a loving and helpful arm of protection 
 around the weak and lowly ones who are traveling in 
 ignorance the long road from which he shall have then 
 evolved. He will then no longer hang men for their 
 so-called crimes any more than a loving mother would 
 hang a helpless child that might awkwardly pull her 
 hair in an effort to caress her. 
 
 He will not take away the life he cannot give, even 
 from a brute, for purposes of food, when he learns the 
 destiny of that brute, its relatedness to him, and that 
 he cannot even indirectly so interfere with its evolution 
 or cause it pain without suffering its reaction on him- 
 self. Meat is not the natural food of man. Fullness 
 of life and all it implies can come only when he obtains 
 the strength-giving powers of his natural food. 
 
 If he eats other food the narrower limitations of its 
 life-giving powers will recoil on his head and the further 
 penalty of discordant cross vibrations will, in some way, 
 enter into his life as a consequence, as surely as effect 
 is tied to cause. 
 
I«OVE IS POWER. 31 
 
 ' ' L,ove is the fulfilling of the law. ' ' Do you presume 
 to think that the Almighty has failed to provide the cer- 
 tain means of fulfilling his law? The very idea is absurd 
 in the face of the unity displayed in his works. 
 
 You are not an exception to this rule. Your na- 
 ture is also founded on the law of love and its law will 
 be fulfilled beyond question, in spite of any frantic, 
 senseless and purile efforts you may make to govern 
 things by your own intellect or will. 
 
 The Almighty will in time claim you as his own and 
 you cannot prevent it no matter how much you try. 
 
 Does this fact give you license to sensuality and all 
 that is brutal? No. It says that you cannot break the 
 law of love (your higher nature) without suffering its 
 self-acting and inevitable penalty. There is no un- 
 certainty about that. 
 
 The very instincts of selfishness would guard you 
 against invoking these penalties, and would therefore 
 become the pathway to the practice of virtue. 
 
 Some physicians practically preach and recommend 
 to young men the accursed doctrine of polygamy un- 
 der the name of * 'physical necessity" on the ground 
 that "nature is always right." Why don't physicians 
 recommend it to their own daughters. 
 
 Man's real nature is "The image of God" and not 
 that of brute and he should not follow the example of 
 animals in ' ' Polygamy ' ' after he has outgrown the 
 elementary stages of his brutehood. 
 
 The Divinity in him is ever calling, however feebly, 
 to cast aside the waists and dresses of infancy and ig- 
 norance and wear the suspenders and oantaloons of 
 true manhood and his higher nature. 
 
32 I.OVE IS POWER. 
 
 Infinite love, life, wisdom, and power are always, 
 ready to act through the most lowly person as its in- 
 strument. 
 
 There are etheric atoms in every heart which repre- 
 sent and are capable through freedom, knowledge and 
 self-trust of giving expression to all the powers of the 
 universe in their flow through the faculties of brain 
 and body. We need not fear our tendencies toward 
 selfishness. 
 
 The untaught, childlike, selfishness which snatches 
 a toy from another, gradually expands through 
 knowledge and experience into the ever widening re- 
 lations to family, friends, state, and nation, until man 
 learns his relation to all persons and things, and the 
 fact that to injure others is to do the greater injury to 
 himself. 
 
 Not until then is his business likely to be honest to 
 the core. 
 
 The restraining power of conscience is over estimated, 
 nor is it strange when we enquire the cause and its 
 nature. Your present conscience is built from the ac- 
 cumulated sediment of the knowledge and experience 
 gained in your past lives. About one-fifth of the peo- 
 ple of the world believe in an endless future, but not 
 in an endless past, or in other words an infinite future 
 from a finite beginning. The other four-fifths believe 
 also in an endless future, but see that as a logical neces- 
 sity a thing which has one end must have another. 
 
 The logic of this is that an endless future necessarily 
 implies an endless past. Thus the seeming injustice 
 of the wide inequalities of condition and circumstance, 
 and many other theological enigmas are cleared up by 
 
i,ove is power. 33 
 
 this evolutionary theory which will be dealt with in 
 later issues. 
 
 We need not fear but what the Infinite wisdom will 
 evolve our dominant selfishness into aspiration and up 
 the long pathway to perfection — until it lisps the all 
 inclusive commandment "love thy God (or law of 
 thy nature) with all thy heart and thy neighbor as thy- 
 self. ' ' L,et us not loiter to malign or make faces at 
 selfishness or its creator, but trust ourselves unflinch- 
 ingly to the strong and faithful arms of Infinite good 
 thus getting in line with the forces of the universe, as 
 did Napoleon, "the man of destiny," whose imperfect 
 following of the law strongly biased the current by 
 the imperfections of his dominating character. 
 
 I^et us abandon lies and apologies and the rank 
 hypocrisy which skulks and dodges like horse thief or 
 charity boy every time the word selfishness is spoken, 
 and always remember that the perfect law which 
 created us can never make mistakes and can be trusted 
 to answer for our preservation and the fulfillment of 
 our destiny. 
 
 One cannot teach the occult laws of thought, as ap- 
 plied to business success and art, without thus preach- 
 ing a most convincing code of morals and ethics. It 
 will be found that the inducements of material success 
 will win followers for the laws of thought and love and 
 for these ethical teachings where mere preaching will 
 not. 
 
 Every heart vibrates to whatever teaches its own om- 
 nipotence. Imagine a space within your heart filled 
 with the ever living fires of your immortal soul. Then 
 imagine another space, within that space, the etheric 
 
34 I,OVE IS POWER. 
 
 atoms of which represent the omnipotence of God's 
 love. This soul of your soul, and life of your eternal 
 life, cannot be dealt with from the occult standpoint, 
 without meeting with some response through the vi- 
 brations of the heart's atoms. 
 
 You may, by your actions and ignorance bury it so 
 deeply that only the brute in you will manifest. 
 
 Your body whose human form then belies humanity 
 will hang on but a tender thread, having outlived its 
 usefulness. 
 
 How can I help to kindle the fires and revive the 
 dying embers of such souls and bring to light the 
 divine "image of God?" 
 
 ^Has the "negative " of that image become too faint 
 and indistinct ? Its many coverings of darkness can be 
 torn away only by the miracle of knowledge. 
 
 Even though only one atom remains, it contains the 
 essence and a solution of the mystery of life, the love, 
 which is God, the thought power, which is godlike in 
 omnipotence, and the kingdom of peace and harmony 
 which is your heaven. This remaining atom represents 
 all the powers of the universe. 
 
 Does it seem impossible ? Polly wog and whale are 
 of equal dimensions in the sight of God. 
 
 That atom in your heart is real love, but not the base 
 counterfeit which passes current at par in our boasted 
 civilization. It is ever calling, however feebly, for you 
 to recognize its powers and sweetness. To recognize 
 it will enable you to manifest it. 
 
 When you see a woman's face that is as sad, hag- 
 gard, despairing, forlorn, and ghastly as that of the man 
 in the moon, you may generally calculate that she has 
 
i,ove is power. 35 
 
 been the reaper of a matrimonial harvest of disappoint- 
 ed love which shattered the pure and beautiful ideals 
 of her girlhood. 
 
 She is too apt to become in her hopelessness and dis- 
 appointment like a certain kind of fish which, if washed 
 up on the bank of the sea, will lie there and suffer an 
 undying death, even though only a foot from the 
 water. 
 
 The activities of society or the household may bring 
 forgetfulness as would business to a man, but only 
 knowledge can bring her back into true relations with 
 her own soul and restore her ideals. 
 
 The sun always shows its willingness to shine and 
 lighten the dark places of earth, yet it is very easy 
 to intercept its light. Self-conscious of its powers and 
 worth, it seems quite satisfied to shine, and shine, and 
 shine. Equally godlike in dignity, gentleness, per- 
 sistence, and reserve force is that misunderstood and 
 misused love principle which dwells in our hearts and is 
 the essence of our lives, the seat of all our powers. 
 
 It allows intellect to usurp its rightful throne and 
 parade its reflection in its sacred name. 
 
 Its counterfeit is of the brain, true love is of the 
 heart. The brain is to the heart what the moon is to 
 the sun, viz. : its reflection and satellite. Unreal love 
 bears a like relation to real love. 
 
 The key of knowledge is always ready to unlock 
 the chains of ignorance which tie us to our imaginary 
 hitching posts, but like the horse which has more than 
 sufficient strength to break his tie strap, we fail to rea- 
 lize our powers and remain tied, continually looking in 
 the wrong direction viz. : outside of ourselves for our 
 deliverance. 
 
36 I,OVE IS POWER. 
 
 "As a manthinketh in his heart, so is he." It is to 
 the invisible forces of our thought and heart that we 
 must look for freedom and power. Love is the elixir 
 of everlasting life, which gives our souls immortality. 
 Thought is its willing servant. Love is a clock which 
 will run forever without being wound. Its eternal vi- 
 bration of perfect bliss is the solved mystery of perpet- 
 ual motion. 
 
 Its perfection would enable you to create a universe 
 from the most lowly atom, to get the joy of perfect 
 companionship even from rocks and trees, to command 
 perfect truthfulness toward you from the biggest liar 
 in the world, to obtain the willing co-operation and 
 help of every person who lives, to place around you or 
 yours a charm of protection that would make you safe 
 in fire, earthquake, contagion, or in a den of the wild- 
 est animals. All persons have within themselves these 
 omnipotent potencies but in different degrees of mani- 
 festation. All are seeking happiness and bound for 
 the same goal. Proper appeals, in the true language 
 of love to the love faculty in others, will invariably meet 
 with a response. Effect is always tied to cause. It is 
 not the mere words or beauty of expression which 
 gives force and power to the language of a writer. It 
 is what there is behind his words. 
 
 To awaken the. love principle in yourself is the only 
 true and unfailing way to awaken it in others. We 
 are on the verge of an upward impulse. Great cur- 
 rents of invisible force, are now being turned on 
 the world for its good. The ending next year of a 
 great 5000 year cycle marks the ending of an epoch 
 in our history and the beginning of a greater epoch. 
 
1,0 VK is power. 37 
 
 Cyclic Karma has already begun its readjustments and 
 the near future will bring greater changes. 
 
 The rumbling of consequences has been heard for 
 some time by those whose ears have been attuned. 
 
 All have heard the rumbling but few have under- 
 stood what there was behind it. The dim light which 
 is breaking is already exposing the corpses of our dead 
 materiality and the pale ghost-like faces of men and 
 women who have wandered far from the sunlight of 
 truth in their worship of the idols of sense. 
 
 The might of right and love is needed in the varied 
 changes and read j ustments which are to come. Teachers 
 of Occult Science will be in great demand, because all 
 will need its evolutionizing and revolutionizing truths 
 as a guide for the readjustment of their affairs 
 to suit the new conditions which are coming. A 
 harvest of satisfaction is waiting for those who 
 forsake the ebb tide of the past with its worship 
 of the things of time and sense, and mount this 
 great incoming wave, which is to sweep from our 
 planet the de-bris of the past and its stifling carcasses. 
 This will be a forerunner of the little golden age 
 which is at hand and which will make character build- 
 ing more prominent in our lives. This is a prophecy 
 founded on knowledge which many readers will under- 
 stand. 
 
 Do you ask what are the first and most important 
 steps in character-building? The answer is, true 
 knowledge. Lord Buddha said after long meditation, 
 that " the cause of all misery is ignorance. " The 
 Christ said ' 'the kingdom of heaven is within you, ' ' 
 indicating thereby what the sages of all ages have 
 
38 W)VE IS POWER. 
 
 agreed; viz., that to "know thyself" is at once the es- 
 sence of wisdom, peace, happiness and power, therefore 
 no matter what your aim and purposes in life may be 
 to "know thyself " is the short road to their accom- 
 plishment. 
 
 Self-knowledge at once withdraws vitality from your 
 misery and ill-fortune, causing it to wither and die. 
 Nature thus steps in and says "I hate a vacuum and 
 therefore will fill with the optimism of truth and suc- 
 cess, the place made vacant in your dear heart by the 
 death of your misery and ill luck." The result is 
 happiness all around. 
 
 Then do you see the value of the fourth and fifth 
 degrees of the Home Silent Thought Brotherhood? 
 Benjamin Franklin said, "a single idea is sometimes 
 worth thousands of dollars. ' ' Do you see how charac- 
 ter delineations, conscientiously made from a thoroughly 
 understood and strictly scientific basis would yield many 
 ideas relating to that "self knowledge" which is the 
 essence of all wisdom ? This is partly in answer to a 
 flood of inquiries which have been made in reference to 
 the purposes of these degrees. 
 
 The next number will aim to throw a few ' 'X rays' ' 
 on the true nature of God's crowning work, woman. 
 
Woman's Occult Forces* 
 
 COPYRIGHTED 1 896 BY ERNEST I.OOMIS. 
 
 Occult powers are born of calmness and repose. 
 Occult forces have slumbered in the world's readjusting 
 pot until fermentation has aroused the first drowsy 
 symptoms of the coming awakening. 
 
 The Occultist can see in recent facts the ' ' star of 
 Bethlehem ' ' which points to our beloved American 
 ' ' cradle of liberty ' ' as the ' ' manger ' ' in which the 
 gentle oriental child of occult wisdom is to be born. 
 
 American womanhood is the honored ' 'Virgin Mary" 
 of this "Immaculate Conception." 
 
 Our occidental civilized savagery, by according to 
 woman a position of relative freedom, and for other 
 reasons, has earned for itself a right to the refining and 
 helpful influence of this oriental infant which is being 
 " born of woman." 
 
 Chicago is and is to be a central ' ' power house ' ' for 
 the generation of individualized spiritual strength. 
 
 The real history of Chicago reaches back to prehis- 
 toric times. 
 
 It was a focusing point for occult forces long before 
 the Indians killed skunks on what are now its principle 
 streets. The negative condition of its soil is adapted 
 to the transmission of occult forces. As an occult 
 center an inland city is almost a necessity in order that 
 its electric currents may perform complete circuits. 
 
4° woman's occult forces. 
 
 All things transpire in the spiritual before they take 
 outward form in act or event. Did you ever ask your- 
 self what it is that draws together the forceful souls 
 w T hich make up a great city? It is not geography 
 alone. "Thoughts are things." The invisible be- 
 comes interlaced w T ith a network of great currents of 
 force compared with w 7 hich the ocean tides and electric 
 currents are as nothing. 
 
 The future of Chicago is already known by true 
 Seers who could have foretold its present known his- 
 tory long before it transpired outwardly. 
 
 The Occultist is one w T ho has passed beyond the stage 
 which would be tempted to use such knowledge merely 
 for the sake of stock jobbing or real estate speculation. 
 He does not have to worry about his winter's coal. 
 /"Deeply occult knowledge cannot come to one until it 
 is safe in his hands. 
 
 It takes but little knowledge to show the desirability 
 of readjusting our God given " selfishness" so it will 
 be in true relations with the basic principle of love, thus 
 making deeper mysteries safe in our hands. We 
 cannot hope to accomplish great results in business or 
 art until we do so. ' ' His strength is as the strength 
 often w r ho has his quarrel just " because he thus gets 
 into the region of morals and high vibrations which is 
 to draw on the omnipotence within. 
 
 The scientific calculations of the Occultist enable him 
 to foresee man}^ coming events and therefore he can be 
 of great service to those who listen instead of scoff. 
 
 Until the year 1900 persons living on the purely ma- 
 terial plane will be subject to unusual fits of depression. 
 Suicides will multipty. Surprises will be in order for 
 
WOMAN'S OCCUI/T FORCES. 41 
 
 the unawakened, and frequent jars of the "spinal ver- 
 tebra' ' come to those who are not already in right re- 
 lations with the soul. 
 
 In foreshadowing a mild harvest of retribution and 
 disaster, I wish also to show the causes which underlie 
 a greater upward impulse, and thus be rather the hope- 
 ful herald of coming prosperity, and a little golden age, 
 the beginning of which many of us will live to see, in- 
 stead of a pessemistic advance howler of coming calam- 
 ities. 
 
 A dose of the physic of disaster may be very whole- 
 some in relieving us from the impurities of a clogged 
 liver of materialism and selfishness. 
 
 Love is the only true basis of happiness. We may 
 profoundly venerate the ancient and benevolent Physi- 
 cian of cause and effect, who kindly administers the 
 Divine metaphysics which bring temporary sacrifices and 
 readjustments, but in its train a wealth of more per- 
 manent peace, power, wisdom and happiness. 
 
 "Thoughts are things." It is only reasonable that 
 the humid heat of uninstructed selfish thought should 
 generate an occasional thunderstorm, if not a cyclone, 
 of cross vibrations of discord, and that its lightning 
 should strike here and there; but how refreshing is the 
 atmosphere afterwards. 
 
 The straying traveler should not whine, even if it 
 takes a shower or drenching to induce him to seek 
 shelter of the only farmer who can put him on the right 
 road. 
 
 Can we not have the foresight to take our dose of 
 metaphysics now, and bid a kindly, but advance adieu, 
 to the worn-out materialism, which has served its pur- 
 
42 WOMAN'S OCCUI/f FORCES. 
 
 pose, and is about to be washed away by a spiritual 
 thunderstorm? Must we blindly wait until we experi- 
 ence the actual pain in the stomach, and financial chem- 
 icalization? 
 
 Woman's opportunity is at hand. Great souls in- 
 habit the brains of woman as well as of man. The 
 construction of woman's brain demonstrates scientific- 
 ally that her ' 'wisdom faculties' ' are a nursery for the 
 training of occult forces, and a natural outlet for the 
 coming outpouring. Man is made up chiefly of angles 
 instead of curves. Woman's acoustics give an easier 
 flow to the musical vibrations of love and occult power. 
 
 Thought vibrations easily become harmonious and 
 musical, when slightly touched by the magic wand of 
 love. Perfect love is the deathless principle in man, 
 and is the perfection of music to all who understand 
 the art of listening. We never need to be without 
 music, any more than a woman needs to be without 
 beauty. Beauty is the sure result of a rythmic flow 
 of love's vibrations. To interrupt its rythm, is to pro- 
 duce angles, instead of beautiful curves and outlines; 
 harmonious thought currents quickly show forth in 
 beauty of form and feature. Let woman learn from 
 Occult Science, how not to break love's electric circuits. 
 Until then, her appearance will tell tales on her angry, 
 hating, envious, jealous, anxious or other disagreeable 
 thoughts, and their accompanying cross vibrations and 
 inharmonious currents. 
 
 A loving woman, who understands her power, can 
 play a beautiful symphony on the heartstrings of the 
 densest man, even though he has never before been 
 favored with anything more musical than a frightened 
 
WOMAN'S OCCUI/f FORCES. 43 
 
 cat could produce, by promenading the keyboard of a 
 boarding house piano. 
 
 The occult standard of womanhood is an easily un- 
 derstood, scientific mirror, which reveals the secret of 
 woman's charms and powers, enables her to correct 
 her faults, and opens the door to her almost unlimited 
 possibilities. 
 
 She is the natural ruler of love's paradise, and 
 should know how to perform the trust with the grace, 
 tenderness, fidelity, wisdom and dignity which its 
 sacredness should inspire. 
 
 It is my desire to reduce life's deepest occult myste- 
 ries to a few, simple, unerring and self-evident rules of 
 conduct, which all may acquire and apply in crossing 
 the bridges of today and forever, and leave the vague, 
 visionary and winding paths of metaphysical spec- 
 ulations to those who have time to waste on side 
 tracks at way stations. 
 
 The last number gives the keynote to woman's 
 greatness, and shows why her heart is a "Closet of 
 God," from which we discover the causes which relate 
 her to all persons and things, and from which we easily 
 foresee her destiny, and foretell the events which will 
 follow her as slow effects. 
 
 To abandon a position at the circumference and get 
 into the channel of that inner lighthouse, which gives 
 an uninterrupted flow to the rays of Divine love and 
 knowledge, at once opens up the subject without the 
 use of words, and throws a piercing searchlight on its 
 obscure relations and inter-relations. Words seem 
 almost profane, after seeing by the inner eye those 
 
44 WOMAN'S occui/t forces. 
 
 sublimely transcendent visions, which thus cast a faint 
 advance shadow of man's approaching greatness. 
 
 Rules, therefore, should refer chiefly to the opening 
 of that third eye, or wisdom faculty, which sees 
 through walls and obstructions and at great distances, 
 which medical science knows as the pineal gland, and 
 which soon will be generally known and better under- 
 stood. 
 
 Rules should also show how to use that inner spirit- 
 ual power, which, without effort, goes out from the 
 body even while it sleeps, and deals with the causes or 
 rates of vibration which control outward events and en- 
 able one to accomplish more in an hour than they now 
 do in days or weeks. 
 
 L,et suffering humanity thus learn how to deal suc- 
 cessfully with their present practical needs, such as 
 poverty, distress, want, discord, unhappiness, sickness 
 or old age, and they will find that the duty of the hour 
 thus performed will gradually build for them their 
 ' 'mansion in the skies. ' ' 
 
 The Creator of man did not forget to relate his 
 needs to morals and immortality, and instilled into his 
 very constitutio?i that precept of faith and trust, "Suffi- 
 cient unto the day is the evil thereof. ' ' 
 
 I^et him thus become that "wise man" who "rules 
 the stars," even though he is now the "ignorant man" 
 who "is ruled by them." Man's lifeboat of ignorance 
 will be tossed and buffeted about on the ocean of fate 
 until self-knowledge awakens his occult forces, or that 
 "Christ within" which is able to say to the troubled 
 waters: "Peace; be still." 
 
 We little realize the creative power of our thought. 
 
woman's occult forces. 45 
 
 It is tremendous, it is unlimited. All creation is 
 through thought. Man's power to think is infinite 
 and eternal. To him there is nothing unthinkable, 
 nothing unknowable, nothing he cannot in time do if he 
 sets about it right. 
 
 In using thought force, the difficulty is then, even 
 after we understand its power, and that every thought 
 creation, whether in the form of desire, hope, imagin- 
 ation, faith, aspiration, or direct thought, is building 
 for us the triing desired, and actually bringing it 
 nearer; still, we cannot banish our fears, our anxieties, 
 our moods of hopelessness and discouragement, all of 
 which are thought forces, but which send the thing 
 desired farther away. Sometimes it thus becomes a 
 case of one step forward and two steps backward. Con- 
 trol your moods and you will in time control your en- 
 vironments. Stop, now, and break the chains of your 
 imaginary servitude and slavery. You have forged 
 them for yourself. Slavery is not your natural herit- 
 age. God, the principle of all truth, endowed you 
 with the inherent right to think, of all truth, and thus, 
 by the power of creative thought, draw on the ex- 
 haustless resources of His omnipotence for the accom- 
 plishment of your every undertaking. Who can say 
 of what you shall think, and, therefore, create? 
 
 In that respect you are absolutely free now. Kxercise 
 this Divine prerogative with royal freedom. Set no 
 limitations on your possibilities. Your thought has 
 power to do for you whatever you want to do. Your 
 strength is in proportion to your courage, knowledge 
 and faith. Your starting point is yourself. By 
 understanding yourself, you will understand all 
 
46 WOMAN'S occui/t forces. 
 
 that exists, have command of all power, and get 
 on that indestructible line which connects you 
 with God Almighty. Spiritual liberation may be yours 
 now. That deathless something within will cry for 
 liberation until its cry is satisfied, by an outward mani- 
 festation, through you, of that perfection and omnip- 
 otence which it represents, and that, too, no matter 
 how lowly may be your present condition or circum- 
 stance. 
 
 It is true of the drunkard in the gutter, or even the 
 atom, as well as of the Prince or Saint. One man 
 might cast a million shadows, each of which would be 
 a complete reflection and image of himself. 
 
 Each man, in his infinite power to think, is the com- 
 plete image of the One God — truth. Mankind is the 
 million individualized images, each representing the 
 same thing — God — and, truly seen, they are indissolu- 
 bly related by ties (of a common nature and origin) 
 too deep for anything to put asunder. 
 
 May this knowledge awaken in man that universal 
 charity and love which will at least do justice to the 
 meanest, weakest and most defenseless of his fellow- 
 men. 
 
 As all are actually related, self-preservation demands 
 that he should so act. 
 
 Before man can do unjust acts he must first generate 
 deeply harmful thought vibrations within himself. It 
 is easy to see that they would thus play havoc with his 
 very life centers, even though they exhausted their 
 force, vitality and velocity before reaching their victim. 
 
 It is suicidal to bathe in thought currents of hate 
 and injustice, because "Curses come home to roost." 
 
woman's occui/r forces. 47 
 
 Generate thoughts of truth, right, justice and good 
 will to all, and you will throw around yourself the only 
 safe armor of protection against the shafts of such in- 
 sidious and invisible thought currents of hate, and will 
 thus get into the current of harmony, strength, and 
 Infinite good. 
 
 Right is might. Get on the track of its omnipotent 
 thought vibrations and all things at once become easier. 
 
 Woman cannot long remain in the gutter of helpless- 
 ness, when she substitutes thought "Castles in Spain," 
 or in love's ideal paradise, for the thought gutter of 
 aimlessness, and hopelessness. 
 
 Iyove, thought, vibration, sound and form, are inter- 
 related. The human brain and ' ' face Divine ' ' are 
 mirrors of the mind, because built by the mind. 
 
 The form, size, and quality of the brain corresponds 
 to and determines the power of the mind. The brain 
 undergoes various changes, from childhood to old age, 
 because the mind changes. Every event is first a 
 thought, and is registered in the astral light. It can 
 be read long before it transpires in the material, by 
 one who has a cultivated clairvoyant or wisdom faculty. 
 The clairvoyant faculty, or third eye, is a veritable 
 reality, and was discovered in the human brain, many 
 years before the Rochester rappings of 1844, which 
 was the beginning of modern spiritualism. The 
 author has several books published long before that 
 time, which clearly describe the faculty, and its func- 
 tions, fully covering the ground which modern science 
 has since been forced to concede, and the wider range 
 of facts, which the developments of psycic phenomena, 
 have proved, all of which Occultists knew, for ages 
 
48 woman's occult forces. 
 
 before. This third eye should be cultivated, until it 
 can get truth at first hands, by seeing the God within, 
 face to face. 
 
 Its cultivation, will go hand in hand with the cul- 
 tivation of occult power. Occult power should be cul- 
 tivated until by the power of that deathless something 
 within, " death is swallowed up in that victory " which 
 manifests a deathless body. Then man is able to say 
 " Oh, grave, where is thy victory." By simply realiz- 
 ing why that something within is already deathless, he 
 should now be able to say, " Oh, death, where is thy 
 sting. ' ' The death of the body does not signify the 
 death of the real man, but the throwing off of a worn 
 out envelope, which has paid its debt of usefulness to 
 the higher self. It has contributed its brick of service 
 and experience to the superstructure of that castle of 
 character which builds for eternity. 
 
 It is a waste of time to build for time, or sense, or 
 for other than eternity. 
 
 Construct of plastic thought an ideal body, an ideal 
 business, an ideal home, ideal friends, ideal surround- 
 ings and an ideal character. Live the ideal life. You 
 are not restricted in material or cost. Thought has 
 power to draw on the Infinite reservoir of primordial 
 matter. Select ideals that won't have to be changed. 
 Be sure to build in a way that will do credit to the 
 generous giver of omnipotent thought, who thus placed 
 Infinite resources at your disposal. To have one 
 ideal today, another tomorrow and still another, next 
 week, or next year, is to waste precious force on a 
 crumbling foundation of sand and can only result in a 
 meaningless and chaotic conglomeration of wasted 
 
woman's occui/t forces, 49 
 
 material, which is an insult to your dignity and your 
 Creator. 
 
 It is all important that man should understand how 
 to harness his spiritual dynamite to the electric wires, 
 of an understoo d thought system. He has been self- 
 hypnotized by the unsound belief that he is a weak, 
 fallen, depraved, and degraded " worm of the dust." 
 Orthodoxy has nursed that "wormy theory," until 
 most people accept it, without even questioning its 
 truth. 
 
 Occult Science teaches the art of tapping the springs 
 of omnipotence within, so that by the power of creative 
 thought, man can do whatever he sets out to do. It 
 offers special opportunities to woman, who is relatively 
 restricted, in her choice of a field for accomplishment. 
 She may choose the subjects of her thought and follow 
 them with absolute freedom. It is her special province. 
 Her faith is thought power. Her love, morality, 
 fidelity, and purity, are wombs where occult forces are 
 safely generated. Her intuitions offer an easy channel 
 for their outward flow. 
 
 The law of evolution shows why we should have a 
 kindly fellow feeling for the " worms of the dust," but 
 with equal force shows why we, as thinking beings, 
 should not allow them to ' ' set the pace ' ' for our 
 progress. 
 
 The flashlight of creative thought has power to 
 bridge the chasms of eternity's cycles, and quickly 
 reach that final goal for all, which is the outward 
 manifestation of truth's omnipotence. 
 
 When man learns that an instructed woman can by 
 the aid of an inner sight, or wisdom faculty, foresee 
 
50 woman's occui/t forces. 
 
 dangers, and weak spots in his business, he will be only 
 too glad, to avail himself of her loving help. When 
 he learns that if trained in concentration, she can turn 
 the X rays and occult forces, of her higher self, on to 
 the causes which produce business results, he will be 
 only too glad to have her loving thought permeate 
 every nook and crevice of his business relations, and 
 thus be for him the helpful organizer of great results. 
 We will suppose that he has a dangerous lawsuit, 
 or an important undertaking on his hands, involving 
 thousands, or even millions./ Can she not by centering 
 her consciousness within, to that higher self, which 
 knows no mistakes, or weakness, send thoughts to 
 him, which will connect him with his higher self also, 
 and in turn cause him to deal with that higher self of 
 each and everyone with whom he comes in contact? 
 Thus everyone concerned is lead to do the right thing 
 at the right time and in the right place. \ The natural 
 and necessary result is that each one, even down to 
 the least important, does whatever is necessary to pro- 
 duce one great, harmonious, and successful result. 
 That which may have been feared, drops into its 
 proper place when the time comes, and that too with- 
 out the slightest strain, or effort. - 
 I This is the true way to accomplish great business 
 results. At night when you retire, instruct your 
 higher self to teach you during sleep. This will assist 
 in leading you to the right act the coming day. | 
 
 Instruct your higher self to permeate every detail 
 of your business life with the power, and harmony, 
 that will bring a righteous success. The quiet of the 
 sleeping body gives its spiritual forces even more free- 
 
woman's occult forces. 51 
 
 dom to act, than they would have if biased by the in- 
 tense desires aroused by what your mere reason might 
 deem wise. 
 
 Instruct your higher self to give the body that rest- 
 which will renew its power to accomplish results the 
 following day, without strain or effort. In the morn- 
 ing, before beginning business, instruct your higher 
 self to gird you with the right thought, the right 
 speech, the right act, then dismiss all fear and anxiety 
 as to results, and follow obediently, leaving to the sure 
 revelation of time, the solution of all riddles, and the 
 adjustment of all difficulties and obstacles. 
 
 In every act during the day, at least in every im- 
 portant act, realize that it is your higher self that is 
 doing the work, and that it has the power to penetrate 
 behind the outer shells of every person or thing with 
 which it deals, and affiliate with the souls of persons 
 and things, or that in them which cannot make mis- 
 takes. 
 
 The silent words of that deathless something within, 
 are words of power. Thus business is made as easy as 
 it would be to close a large deal which was controlled 
 by some millionaire, who, without the asking, would 
 say, ' ' No further words are necessary, please step into 
 my private office and I will give you the check, and 
 wind the matter up." 
 
 The higher selves of persons, and things, are always 
 the ' ' millionaires ' ' who control all business situations, 
 and the millionaire within yourself always has an irre- 
 vokable entree to their "400." The question is, 
 how to awaken this force within, how to use it, how to 
 reach it in others. 
 
52 woman's occult forces. 
 
 This is the occult power which is inter-related with 
 morals and all the deepest mysteries of life. Its 
 fathomless resources make it unnecessary to cheat or 
 steal, or to break any of the commandments. There is 
 something within man, which would always rather do 
 right, than wrong. That is it. There is something 
 within, that would always rather do good, than harm, 
 to others. That is it. Its power cannot be utilized 
 until it is safe in your hands; until your selfishness 
 merges into love. Let me tell you that which will 
 bring that safety period to you now, viz: Do you 
 not understand how the life of justice and love greatly 
 increases your power to gratify normally everything 
 your nature craves? How it enables you to obtam 
 much more money, better friends, better surroundings, 
 fame, and happiness ? Selfishness is founded on the 
 idea of doing things exclusively with reference to self. 
 The question then arises, what is your true self. It is 
 that God of power within, which is indissolubly related 
 to all persons and things by ties so deep that to do in- 
 jury to another is simply to do injury to a. part of your- 
 self and the penalty for infringement cannot be escaped 
 any more than could be the penalty for cutting off your 
 finger or head or the infringement of any other natural 
 law. I do not say disobey the laws of your constitu- 
 tion. I say obey them, and that to disobey is the o?ily 
 wrong. The questionis, what are those laws? One is 
 the "law of necessity," or selfishness. Follow it 
 obediently, but not blindly. Every instinct of selfish- 
 ness demands that you study deeply the laws of 
 thought, and of man's nature, for otherwise you can- 
 not make the most of your practical situations in life. 
 

 WOMAN'S OCCUI/f FORCES. 53 
 
 Begin by so learning how to improve your health, or 
 circumstances, and you will soon see that the life of 
 justice and love, offers selfish and material rewards for 
 obedience that are almost irresistable. A truly in- 
 structed selfishness needs no restraints. Does this 
 seem too good to be true ? I know it is quite contrary 
 to the usual teachings of the churches, which are, to 
 "be unselfish," "sacrifice yourself for others," etc., 
 and which may lead a few persons to sacrifice present 
 pleasures for the still selfish hope of greater pleasures 
 '■ bye and bye," but it cannot alter mart s constitution 
 or the universal law which says that ' ' nature is always 
 right." We interfere with these laws at our peril, and 
 if we could attain the vantage ground of complete 
 knowledge and universal experience we would see that 
 this much abused world is not out of joint after all, and 
 that seeming evils are only the prods and pokes of 
 necessity, which assist in bringing man into true rela- 
 tions with nature and the soul. If we will banish the 
 darkness of ignorance by the light of knowledge, the 
 illusions of so-called evil will vanish and selfishness 
 take care of itself. There is no reason why man should 
 not surround himself with all that would gratify his 
 finer tastes. God is no beggar, and man is endowed 
 with the power to draw on the exhaustless resources of 
 Infinity for the gratification of his every want. 
 
 That man is given this unlimited power to think, 
 and thus create, does not signify that the Infinite in- 
 tended that we should live like skulking tramps or vag- 
 abonds. Do you ask if the Christ did not so live ? If 
 the Christ had the conscious spiritual power to create 
 and instantly draw on the bank of the Infinite for all 
 
54 WOMAN'S OCCULT FORCES. 
 
 material needs, was it not a very good reason why he 
 should not lug them around with him all the time ? 
 Would you chain a dozen crowbars to your feet for fear 
 you might need them sometime, especially if you could 
 get them whenever wanted? If you knew, to an abso- 
 lute certainty, that the ready cash of the world was at 
 your immediate command, would you care to load your 
 pockets with gold ? * 
 
 Let man demonstrate by actual experience the ability 
 to draw, through the power of thought, on Infinity for 
 an abundant supply of money and all it implies, He will 
 then no longer care for vast accumulations, knowing 
 they would be only a useless care and burden, nor will 
 he withhold such needed help to his fellowman, as he 
 may have the impulse to render, or try to do less than 
 justice to all in his every transaction. 
 
 Spiritual liberation is to come, not by stifling selfish 
 ness, but by the development of that omnipotent power 
 within which can affotd to be generous. Courage and 
 generosity generally arise from a consciousness of su- 
 perior strength. Learn how to develop your inherent 
 spiritual strength and spiritual liberation will take care 
 of itself. 
 
 "God helps him who helps himself . " Man should 
 help his fellowmen to help themselves and not regard 
 them as helpless, forlorn or unfortunate, or to cry with 
 them for company. By first attaining equilibrium of 
 soul, or spiritual strength, and the abundance inci- 
 dental thereto, he will thus be able to throw others 
 into right relations with their own fountains of strength 
 and supply and to give them outward help on all proper 
 occasions. 
 
 That sickly, helpless "sympathy," which says: 
 
WOMAN'S OCCUI/f FORCES. 55 
 
 "Poor, unfortunate Jones! " even if it does also give of 
 money, generally does more harm than good. Poor 
 Jones is already suffering through failure to realize his 
 own inherent strength and your thought images of 
 helplessness axe powerful to forge even stronger chains, 
 or thought currents, which load him with greater mis- 
 fortunes. Is it kind to render such a morbid pleasure 
 and injury, when you have the power, perhaps, even 
 without the electric shock of seeming coldness, to look 
 behind the outer shell, which is temporarily weak, to 
 that within him, which is so shong that it lives fo? ever? 
 A flash of recognition of his higher self may bring to 
 him, from it, a bright idea or some seemingly unim- 
 portant event, help or person which will take him out 
 of his "slough of despond." and then keep him out. 
 Much of the help which simply stuffs the mouth of the 
 beggar only induces him to come gaping for more. It 
 is not the true way of helping. True help is spiritual 
 help. True strength is spiritual strength, which can 
 and should be applied to practical needs and everyday 
 duty — that true line of the soul's advancement. 
 
 Iyet us keep out of thought currents of misfortune, 
 knowing that true help to ourselves and others is of the 
 affirmative kind, which constantly enlarges the stream 
 of Infinite good, and wins followers by thus demonstrat- 
 ing the beauty and poetry of a life of such rapid, effort- 
 less advancement, along the direct line of our connec- 
 tion with the Creator of all. 
 
 The influence of a thought reaches to the ends of 
 the universe, therefore, the main thing is to live the life, 
 looking not to the fruits of action, knowing that life or 
 action and its fruits are one and inseparable. 
 
 Sub j ect for January : ' ' How to Rule Your Kingdom . ' ' 
 
MASTERY. 
 
 The only perfect mastery is self-mastery, "He that 
 ruleth his own spirit is greater than he that taketh a 
 city." The true self, or spirit, is related to all things, 
 and, therefore, perfect mastery includes that Omnip- 
 otent principle of Love, which is able to rule all things, 
 even the will. Infinite Love permeates endless space, 
 therefore, man need not look far away to find it. He 
 may find it within his own heart. 
 
 The principle of Love is so basic in man's constitu- 
 tion that mankind is always more than willing to be 
 ruled by it. 
 
 You need not fear that you will deprive others of 
 what you obtain by trying to demonstrate your true 
 Occult powers. On the other hand you will thus give 
 to them as Love only can give. Study vibration, 
 study the laws of thought, study the Omnipotence of 
 Truth and Love and so be able to wield its gentle, re- 
 sistless, and all pervading powers. 
 
 
 
 
How to Rule Your Kingdom. 
 
 COPYRIGHTED 1 897, BY ERNEST I.OOMIS. 
 
 Have you a wish or cherished ambition which lies 
 very near your heart ? 
 
 It is within your power to gratify it. An effort will 
 here be made to show how. The purpose is first to 
 briefly show the omnipotence of thought by showing 
 the close connection between business results and 
 thought and between man's thought and its omnipotent 
 source. 
 
 Second, to show that success is the sure result of 
 certain moods of mind or ways of thinking, and 
 
 Third, to show what those moods are and how they 
 may be produced at will and maintained. 
 
 The power to think has evolved you from the most 
 lowly atom. That power is the deathless principle 
 within, which will never leave you until it makes of 
 you a God in power and perfection. The universe is 
 your natural kingdom. As an atom you simply de- 
 sired food. That desire was thought, an individual- 
 ized thought organism, which created for you a 
 stomach and the ability to gratify it. 
 
 With each step it created a new want or thought 
 and also the power to gratify it, and will continue to do 
 so until you have dominion over all that is. Where do 
 you stand now ? What sort of a kingdom are you rul- 
 ing today ? To the extent that it is less than the uni- 
 verse, to that extent do you need self-knowledge. 
 
 Your permanent thought forms (moods) solidify. 
 
58 HOW TO RULE YOUR KINGDOM. 
 
 As the power to rule is within yourself, so are the 
 barriers which prevent the present demonstration of 
 that power. Those barriers are self-ignorance. The 
 unlimited power to think is the link which connects 
 you with your omniscient source. The laws of thought 
 is that self-knowledge which will enable you to demon- 
 strate the omnipotence of thought and its source. 
 
 As omnipresent truth itself is God, so is man its co- 
 existing "power to think" of truth, which is all that is. 
 That power is God's method of demonstrating through 
 man (and every man) the omnipotence of truth. 
 
 Truth itself is the eternal vibration which originates 
 the vibratory pow T ers of thought. Modern science 
 proves that every solid is only a rate of vibration, or 
 mode of motion and the Roetgen X rays give doubt- 
 ers an opportunity to occularly demonstrate that fact. 
 Then every solid is only solidified thought, and there- 
 fore the manifestation of truth or God. Nature is 
 God manifest. If truth itself is God, it is easy to be- 
 lieve in its omnipresence and omniscience and that 
 each atom is omnipotent potentially. If man is the 
 power to think, it is easy to believe in the omnipotence 
 of thought. It would, of course, be as omnipotent as 
 its source, for the power to think of one thing implies 
 the power to think of any other. As thought is vibra- 
 tion, and truth its co-existent source, it is easy to see 
 the connection and oneness between God, man and 
 so-called matter, which science proves is only a rate of 
 vibration. The theory of evolution is thus cleared up 
 to him who will follow the reasoning closely. It is 
 plain why the slightest power to think, or vibrate, as is 
 shown in the atom's desire for food, would live and 
 
 Matter is "a rate of vibration" or solidified thought 
 
HOW TO RUIvK YOUR KINGDOM. 59 
 
 grow into manhood and Godhood. Man's power to 
 think is Infinite and eternal. It is the soul. Man 
 then has that power within him now. It is no more 
 unreasonable to believe that his thought vibrations 
 can, with knowledge, create, and so manifest and con- 
 trol, or even dissolve forms and solids, than it is to be- 
 lieve that the sun can dissolve ice, or expand the larg- 
 est bar of solid steel by acting on its rate of vibration 
 through the same vibratory law. 
 
 The purpose here is not only to show you that you 
 can realize your fondest ambitions and accomplish 
 seemingly impossible business results through the 
 power of thought, but also to break down entirely your 
 belief in limitations, so you will generate new ambi- 
 tions along eternal lines. You will thus begin the 
 conscious thought constructions, which will hasten 
 their fulfillment. 
 
 If you can but fully comprehend the absolute truth 
 of thoughts omnipotence, you will be able to destroy 
 entirely the belief in your limitations and drive away 
 all fear and other negative and destructive thought 
 forces which constantly work against you. In its place 
 will come the calm assurance that your every under- 
 taking must in time be successful. That is the mood 
 of success. Thus you take one long stride toward the 
 goal of thought control, which means the control of 
 thoughts creations, the mastery of surrounding condi- ' 
 tions and rulership of man's kingdom, which is the 
 universe. 
 
 Man's surroundings are his vibratory thought mag- 
 netisms, the fruits of his character, and governed by 
 the laws of thought. 
 
 Your permanent thought forms (moods) solidify. 
 
60 HOW TO RUI,E YOUR KINGDOM. 
 
 The ties between certain thought moods and business 
 success are so intimate that to live permanently in such 
 moods is to produce permanent success as its legitimate 
 and necessary sequence. 
 
 Most every earnest student has asked himself the 
 important question, Is it possible to produce those 
 moods at will, and if so, how? It is desired to here 
 outline plans which will enable students to answer that 
 question for themselves in the affirmative, and by fol- 
 lowing simple directions demonstrate their value by the 
 actual proofs of successful experience. 
 
 There are various avenues of the brain through 
 which thought forces can function, and the effort will 
 be to outline a definite, systematic and thorough plan 
 which may be used to organize these thought forces so 
 that better co-operation, proper distribution of duties, 
 proper modes of mutual assistance between them, and 
 the best direction of their united energies will be main- 
 tained. 
 
 In other words, the effort will be to show how each 
 faculty may be made to contribute its quota of thought 
 power to the combined current which will produce the 
 success of any proper effort or undertaking. 
 
 The dynamic power of thought is so great that most 
 any person can be very successful if he goes about it 
 right and holds to the successful mood with sufficient 
 persistence. 
 
 The trouble is that onds thought forces are usually 
 so lacking in organization that moods of success are 
 quickly followed by moods of discouragement, worry, 
 anxiety and fear, which are the moods of failure. 
 
 Little success will come until it is learned how to 
 
 Matter is "a rate of vibration** or solidified thought. 
 
HOW TO RUIvE YOUR KINGDOM. 6 1 
 
 produce at will and maintain those moods of mind 
 which cause and control success. 
 
 The choice of a plan and purpose is important. 
 Many worthy enterprises fail for lack of properly 
 chosen ways and means. It is essential that every 
 faculty of judgment, intellect, intuition, conscience, 
 ambition and inclination should have its full say before 
 a plan is chosen, because any faculty that does not ap- 
 prove of the plan chosen is likely to afterwards balk 
 and become w r orse than a dead weight. 
 
 1 ' First know you are right and then go ahead. ' ' 
 But how ? According to the laws of thought. By con- 
 trolling your moods. 
 
 When successful moods become permanent, success 
 is a certainty. 
 
 If your thoughts of determination today are coun- 
 teracted by thoughts of discouragement tomorrow and 
 by worries and anxieties all the time, little progress is 
 likely to be made. After such an experiment a person 
 is likely to say, " Don't talk to me about the power of 
 thought. I have tried it and find there is nothing in 
 it whatever. " " It is only a humbug. " It is not 
 claimed that the constructive power of one thought of 
 determination is greater than the destructive power of 
 ten thoughts of discouragement, indecision or w r orry. 
 
 It is claimed that permanent moods of calm deter- 
 mination to accomplish a just purpose, if backed by 
 thoughts of unwavering hope, faith, trust, goodwill, 
 desire,, aspiration, ambition, imagination, expectation, 
 and based on a thorough understanding of this law, 
 will command success in the accomplishment of that 
 
 Your permanent thought forms (moods) solidify. 
 
62 HOW TO RULE YOUR KINGDOM. 
 
 purpose, because they are the underlying causes of 
 which success is only the fruit and slow effect. They 
 are the creative vibratory forces which work night and 
 day in the unseen, and form currents into which re- 
 sults are bound to flow. 
 
 The universe is the vacuum, thought is the mould, 
 and its vibrations are the essence which is ever ready to 
 solidify if the mood is held to. It always corresponds 
 to the thought form. As is the business thought, so 
 is the business result. All real action is of the thought 
 world and its accompanying result is only its material 
 correspondence. Faithfulness in producing favorable 
 thought causes will ever bring new proofs that they 
 and their material fruits are one and inseparable. 
 
 It is a law of philosophy that darkness is merely the 
 absence of light. It is a spiritual law that if your sur- 
 roundings are disagreeable it is because you have failed 
 to fill your surrounding vacuum with the right kind of 
 thought forms. 
 
 If your successful moods are not permanent their 
 thought moulds will be neutralized and perhaps de- 
 stroyed by negative moods in which you manufacture 
 other thought moulds of fear, anxiety, worry and dis- 
 couragement. 
 
 It is as easy to fill your surrounding vacuum with 
 what you want as it is with what you don't want. 
 There are no walls or intersections in the uni- 
 verse which are able to bar permanent thought 
 forms or moods from their material correspond- 
 ences. Man's nature, however, is such that he 
 cannot hold permanently to a mood or thought mould 
 that is not in harmony with absolute truth and the 
 
 Matter is "a state of vibration" or solidified thought* 
 
HOW TO RULE YOUR KINGDOM. 63 
 
 eternal laws. No question is ever settled until it is 
 settled right. The laws of thought are as relentlessly 
 invincible as truth itself, which is their source. If you 
 choose plans and purposes that are not based on right 
 you will have the omnipotent and eternal vibrations of 
 truth to contend against and your plans are bound in 
 time to get the worst of it. If, on the other hand, you 
 do base your plans on justice and good will you thus 
 avail yourself of the helpful powers of universal cur- 
 rents and therefore have nothing to fear, no matter how 
 dark are outward appearances. 
 
 You have nothing to do with temporary appearances, 
 as your work is to deal with causes in the unfaltering 
 faith, that as is the cause so will be the result even 
 though sometimes slow to follow. 
 
 In laying your plans it is therefore of great import- 
 ance that they do not oppose the vibratory tides of 
 universal justice. 
 
 In maintaining the successful mood your chief busi- 
 ness will be to keep at bay the destructive and oppos- 
 ing forces of fear, anger and their satellites. Rules 
 should be outlined with that purpose in view. 
 
 You may know as an absolute certainty that there 
 is no power to so keep them at bay equal to that con- 
 sciousness of strength which comes from knowledge 
 of the laws of thought and the sincere conviction that 
 your "cause is right and must prevail." 
 
 Thought vibrations are rapid and powerful to pro- 
 duce success in proportion to their approach to the 
 eternal principles of morals and love. 
 
 Evil desires carry with them only low rates of 
 thought vibration, because not backed by the accumu- 
 Your permanent thought forms (moods) solidify. 
 
64 HOW TO RUIyE YOUR KINGDOM. 
 
 lated velocity of an eternity. That power which 
 would be required to start a large balance wheel if 
 constantly applied to it for an eternity would increase 
 its velocity to an incomprehensible rate of speed. 
 
 If your cause is unjust you can nevertheless ac- 
 complish results, but they will be but temporary, and 
 in time will have to be torn down and built over again. 
 
 Life is continuous, and as Longfellow writes, "The 
 grave is not the goal, dust thou art and to dust re- 
 turneth, was not written of the soul," which is the 
 power to think. 
 
 Unjust plans are the product of evil desires, and as 
 they produce discordant vibrations are necessarily and 
 to that extent self-destructive. 
 
 You can never really build until you build right. 
 To try to do less is just so much waste of time. 
 
 Your inherent desire to do right may be temporarily 
 dormant, but its never ending vibrations will balk and 
 interfere with any unjust plans as surely as breathing 
 will continue during sleep. 
 
 The thought that a just cause must in time succeed 
 and that it is noble to temporarily fail, or even die for 
 it, should be sufficient to quiet your fears, drive away 
 all other destructive thoughts and sustain you in the 
 darkest hours. 
 
 * ' Where there is a will there is a way. ' ' The laws 
 of thought show why, that if the will is maintained it 
 will make the way, even though it has to reach to the 
 ends of the earth, as it is able to do, for aiding forces. It 
 is able to form roads or currents from your " Rome," in 
 every direction to the ideas, persons, opportunities and 
 events that can best aid you in carrying out your plans. 
 
 Matter is "a rate of vibration" or solidified thought. 
 
HOW TO RULE YOUR KINGDOM. 65 
 
 Whenever things look gloomy and discouraging, 
 spend the time in rejoicing that behind the scenes 
 your mood can make them as calm, serene and bright 
 as the most beautiful summer day. 
 
 Always remember that the spiritual or thought 
 world is that ' ' behind the scenes, ' ' where events really 
 occur, and that it is ever your privilege to so deal with 
 causes, and snap your fingers at any temporary appear- 
 ances. 
 
 Never get frightened at the rockings of the boat of 
 fate or results, so long as you have power to ' ' walk on 
 the waters ' ' of spiritual causation. Be faithful in sow- 
 ing the thought seeds of success in perfect trust that 
 the sun will not cease to shine and bring a generous 
 harvest in due season. 
 
 It is not necessary that your mind should ever be in 
 a positive mood. You must first receive force before 
 you can give it out. Receiving force necessarily im- 
 plies the negative mood. When in the negative or re- 
 ceptive mood, to be calm, serene, hopeful and deter- 
 mined is to so polarize your mind toward success that 
 the new pulsations of life so received will reach 
 throughout every link and avenue of your previous 
 thought moulds or thought constructions. 
 
 In time you will be as cheerful, joyful and calm in 
 such moods, even though appearances look dark, as is 
 a thirsty cow when given the opportunity to drink. If 
 your mind is polarized toward success while in a posi- 
 tive mood, your progress will be none the less rapid 
 during your negative moods. It is during the moods 
 of bodily inactivity that the mind is most free to con- 
 nect with the new idea, or the new opportunity which 
 
 Your permanent thought forms (moods) solidify. 
 
66 HOW TO RULE YOUR KINGDOM. 
 
 you are seeking. During positive mpods your thought 
 vibrations are kept chiefly in the channels of previous 
 thought moulds. 
 
 The negative mood is the one where the intuitions 
 are most active; the thought is then not given a posi- 
 tive direction by an effort of will or intellect. 
 
 Reason is very inaccurate in the selection of suitable 
 persons and opportunities to carry out its plans. That 
 work should at least have the entire approval of the 
 intuitions. 
 
 During negative moods thought acts according to 
 the law of affinity or natural selection, and of coarse 
 goes unerringly to those who are in the same thought 
 currents. 
 
 That is why it is so important to form thought cur- 
 rents or moulds of success. Such currents are formed 
 by constantly maintaining the mood of success. 
 
 The present methods of business actually drive suc- 
 cess away by its worries, anxieties and overactivity. 
 
 Bodily overactivity is founded on worry and anxiety. 
 Worry and anxiety form thought moulds which bring 
 failure. When man thoroughly learns the thought 
 laws by which all business results are produced he 
 will rest in the calm assurance that he is actually mak- 
 ing more progress during restful sleep than he could 
 by the most intense and anxious bodily overactivity. 
 
 During sleep the mind acts with perfect freedom in 
 the unseen, and has a wide range of material from 
 which to draw for aiding forces in carrying out its 
 plans. 
 
 Thousands of miles are as one mile to thought vibra- 
 tions and its law of affinity. Your body should have 
 
 Matter is "a rate of vibration" or solidified thought. 
 

 HOW TO RUIvE YOUR KINGDOM. 67 
 
 an easy time of it. It should act only when prompted 
 to do so by your intuitions or higher self. 
 
 When you fully trust thought forces to do your 
 work, and daily demand more faith in its laws, you will 
 be lead right and your business results will multiply. 
 
 There is another method which can be used success- 
 fully in the better organization of your thought forces 
 and in obtaining thought control. That method is 
 something as follows, viz. : When you are unable to 
 control your fears and depend fully on thought forces, 
 and during periods when things seem to be at a stand- 
 still, give each thought faculty a cheering word of en- 
 couragement. Say to your faculty of determination, 
 something as follows, viz. : Do not falter or be afraid, 
 for in addition to your own thoughts of determination 
 I have an army of brave thought soldiers ever working 
 in secret in undermining the very causes of these un- 
 favorable appearances and you will soon see a more 
 encouraging outlook, so work steadily on without the 
 least concern as to the final outcome. If it is your 
 hope that is weak, give it the same helpful words of en- 
 couragement, and the same can be done in bracing up 
 your thoughts of desire, conscience, aspiration, imag- 
 ination, ambition, expectation, understanding,* faith, 
 trust, assurance, order and every faculty through 
 which your thought forces can function 
 
 If you are discouraged, undecided, anxious, angry 
 or worried it is a sure sign that some of these natural 
 helpers are off duty or perhaps working for the enemy. 
 You can also talk to your caution something as fol- 
 lows, viz.: You need not feel in the least excited, I 
 have a strong and thoroughly deciplined army at my 
 
 Your permanent thought forms (moods) solidify. 
 
68 HOW TO RULE YOUR KINGDOM. 
 
 command and we are sme of victory. You have been 
 a noble sentry during my long period of unconscious 
 growth, but as I have recently received the strong re- 
 inforcements of new ideas and am now consciously 
 backed by the omnipotence of Infinity, there is no 
 longer any possibility of danger. I will not need your 
 further help for the present. In fact your fears really 
 interfere with our success. You can take a long and 
 much needed sleep and dismiss every fear as I am 
 more than able to fight the battle, and will be sure to 
 call on you if you are needed again. 
 
 In these and other ways the powers of mind can be 
 specifically dealt with and soon become so thoroughly 
 organized that the mood of cheerfulness, trust and 
 success will become chronic and fear a thing of the 
 past. Then the successful mood will not need to be pro- 
 duced or maintained by an effort of will. 
 
 Perfect understanding of the laws of thought is, of 
 course, the short and main road to perfect manifestation 
 of its powers, but until that time comes the smallest 
 help should not be despised. More complete self- 
 knowledge is the road to perfect understanding of such 
 laws and should be the main dependence, but that 
 should be backed up by thorough and constant train- 
 ing in all the details that go to make up perfect 
 thought control. 
 
 The living, far-reaching, vibratory pulsations of the 
 11 1 can and I will" needs the support of that concen- 
 trated mood which is able to eat, walk or do the easiest 
 act, and think of nothing else but that act at the time. 
 Do you ask if your entire thought should be concen- 
 trated on such an unimportant act as walking ? 
 
 Matter is "a rate of vibration" or solidified thought 
 
HOW TO RUI/E YOUR KINGDOM. 69 
 
 Yes, it should, unless you dismiss all thought, for 
 while walking may be unimportant the mood is all im- 
 portant, and if you have your mind on something else 
 during your unimportant acts, you will form a habit 
 which will make it impossible to concentrate when the 
 important acts come, and the chances are that your 
 faculties will otherwise organize into squadrons, which 
 means to disorganize and perhaps get into trouble. 
 
 Supposing the thought faculty of caution, which 
 knows nothing except to fear, should get excited dur- 
 ing such unguarded moments and call a meeting of 
 other non-combative thought faculties, such as reason, 
 memory and observation. After a little private con- 
 ference they call on imagination for the purpose of en- 
 listing its assistance, which they easily do. They then 
 decide to call on determination with the view of getting 
 it to change its purpose. They naturally present their 
 tale of woe something as follows, viz. : Observation is 
 the first spokesman and tells how gloomy and doleful 
 is the outlook. Memory chimes in and says that no 
 one ever before succeeded in such a crazy, unheard of 
 way. 
 
 Reason is in a very serious judicial frame of mind 
 and says, I of course know nothing about the facts ex- 
 cept what observation and memory have told you, but 
 from these facts I hardly see how it is possible to suc- 
 ceed by such methods. Imagination then jumps up 
 and gets the floor, immediately beginning to tell of its 
 visions of failure, which so excites caution that it at 
 once makes a very earnest and abject appeal to deter- 
 mination, to change its plans and go back to old 
 methods. It explains how at least a living is thus 
 
 Your permanent thought forms (moods) solidify. 
 
70 HOW TO RULE YOUR KINGDOM. 
 
 assured. Memory interrupts by saying, " Yes, that is 
 so, as past experience proves," and gradually the ex- 
 citement increases and intensifies until a regular panic 
 is created and caution goes into a genuine epileptic 
 fit. 
 
 Do you presume to think that such a meeting would 
 have no effect in undermining the purpose of deter- 
 mination ? It is a case of five against one, so of course 
 it would have its effect. 
 
 The chances are that determination would be com- 
 pletely won over, and they would in turn present the 
 same doleful case to hope, and each other faculty, and 
 get reinforcements at each step. Of course combative- 
 ness is not afraid, but combativeness is an executive 
 faculty and therefore is not there to defend the thought 
 plan chosen, as it is busy walking (as all the faculties 
 should be, however unimportant the act seems). The 
 act may be unimportant, but the mood is NOT, and by 
 concentrating the entire mind on even unimportant acts 
 the mood of success is maintained and the calamity of 
 fragmentary groups avoided. 
 
 In considering plans every faculty should be pres- 
 ent, but how can they be when some are busy " walk- 
 ing. ' ' Plans should not be reconsidered unless all the 
 faculties are again given a full hearing. If you try to 
 do two things at a time, negative and destructive 
 thought forces will thus creep in, therefore to avoid 
 that by a constant habit of concentration is all im- 
 portant. 
 
 The way then is to concentrate all the faculties on 
 every act, no matter how small. " Whatever is worth 
 doing is worth doing well." It is much better for 
 
 Matter is "a rate of vibration" or solidified thought. 
 
HOW TO RULE YOUR KINGDOM. 7 1 
 
 caution, memory, imagination, observation and reason 
 to walk or even tie shoe strings than it is to traitor- 
 ously try to undermine determination and its thought 
 constructions. 
 
 You may depend on it that to let the mind wander 
 while you are doing small things will get you into mis- 
 chief and make it impossible to concentrate on the im- 
 portant act when its turn comes. 
 
 Your thought does not cease to work while you are 
 doing the small act, because it is the mood of mind that 
 wins success and not the direct thought alone. So 
 long as the successful mood is maintained its vibratory 
 pulsations will continue. 
 
 Training for concentration will increase your happi- 
 ness. If your whole mind is without effort concen- 
 trated in walking or eating, you will forget the past 
 misery which might otherwise make you unhappy. 
 Power and happiness therefore mean about the same 
 thing. In order to insure the constant presence ot 
 your higher self or overshadowing soul you must make 
 of your body a fit habitation and environment for it. 
 No habitation is fit for it except the mood of happiness 
 and cultivated faculty, for that is also the mood of health 
 and success. The presence of your higher self insures 
 the success of your every undertaking, because it is 
 that self which has the unlimited power to succeed in 
 every undertaking. 
 
 A time will come to you when your every wish will 
 be gratified and when you will have only to think of a 
 thing in order to have it come to pass. It is a spiritual 
 law that the desire to do necessarily implies the ability 
 to do. 
 
 Your permanent thought forms (moods) solidify. 
 
72 HOW TO RUIvbi YOUR KINGDOM. 
 
 Many persons have an absent look which has its be- 
 ginning in the habit of sending thought in advance of 
 the present act. In that way the body becomes an 
 unfit temple for the indwelling of the higher self. 
 
 Matter is "a rate of vibration" or solidified thought. 
 
 Subject for February: "Useful Occult Practices. ' 
 
Useful Occult Practices* 
 
 COPYRIGHTED 1 897, BY ERNEST I<OOMIS. 
 
 The fairy story of " Alladin's Lamp," which accom- 
 plished such wonderful things for him, only illustrates 
 the true principle that man has within, a power which, 
 if understood, would enable him to gratify his every 
 desire through the magic of a wish) and entirely with- 
 out effort or strain. S- — / 
 
 If your world does not entirely satisfy the deepest 
 longings of your nature, it is time you learned how to 
 manufacture a world that will. 
 
 The practices herein formulated being founded on 
 the laws of your " Alladin's L,amp," will bring proofs 
 to you of its existence and powers, and will also bring 
 from within the priceless knowledge of how best to use 
 it in so manufacturing such a world for yourself. The 
 effort is not to give a large number of practices at pres- 
 ent, but to give practical ones that can be easily ap- 
 plied. The rules are so simple that many will doubt 
 their efficacy, but perhaps will be led to try the equally 
 simple methods of obtaining proofs, viz. : by practicing 
 them. 
 
 This publication undertakes to prove that man is 
 born to be rich, that his constitution in its varied and 
 expensive tastes implies larger demands on nature than 
 a mere subsistence. A narrow philosophy and narr 
 
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74 USEFUL OCCULT PRACTICES. 
 
 rower religion may try to argue these wants down, but 
 man will continue to want until his desire to know is 
 satisfied by that complete knowledge which is Infinite, 
 and as Infinite in power. It would be the height of 
 cruelty for the Infinite to create wants that could not 
 be satisfied. 
 
 The Infinite is eternal and could not be cruel for the 
 reason that cruelty is discordant vibration and self- 
 destructive. 
 
 Did it ever occur to you that man's desire for and 
 hope of immortality is for the above reason almost un- 
 answerable proof that he is immortal ? 
 
 Man's principle of immortality or so ul is his power to 
 think, and its counterpart is truth, or God, which is 
 the irresistable magnet that will keep the soul alive as 
 long as truth exists, which is forever. 
 
 Man's indestructible power to think implies constant 
 growth until he has acquired the complete knowledge 
 and experience which will enable him to demonstrate 
 the complete mastery and co-existing immortality of 
 himself and his source. "Knowledge is power." 
 God's method of manifestation is through man. 
 
 Limited observation is sufficient to teach that nature's 
 relentless law of necessity taunts and insults man with 
 the pains of cold, hunger and starvation until he is 
 forced to learn how to supply himself with food, but at 
 each step, with each thought, a new want is created; 
 and so will it ever be, until he answers his true, inti- 
 mate and unlimited relations to all persons and things. 
 
 Every instinct in man is a thought, and as such, con- 
 tains within itself the indestructible power to gradually 
 satisfy its wants. 
 
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USEFUL OCCUI/T PRACTICES. 75 
 
 Painful experiences in the early stages of evolution 
 only awaken that sympathy, which will never rest sat- 
 isfied until it is able to minister to and relieve the 
 wants of all other sufferers. 
 
 It is a good thing for philosophers and religionists 
 to argue that man's real wants are few, and that he 
 should not allow his selfishness to conflict with the 
 rights of others, for their arguments substantiate the 
 fact of his non-separateness from his fellowmen, and 
 also unknowingly confirm the very principles of a 
 deeper philosophy, viz.: that man's constitution and 
 non-separateness from others implies sympathy and the 
 loving desire to serve them, and that in turn implies the 
 strength and power to do so, which only comes from 
 widened and ever-widening relations. 
 
 To give, implies that we first receive. Self-help nec- 
 essarily precedes true help to others, and self-knowl- 
 edge precedes self-help. Man's very soul is his power 
 to think, and therefore helpful occult practices are nec- 
 essarily founded on the laws of thought. 
 
 Vibration through the vibratory power of thought, 
 being the essence of all created things, is the "Alladin's 
 Iyamp' ' which is always available in accomplishing re- 
 sults in business or art. 
 
 Do you not see how ? If vibration is the essence of 
 things and thought the power which generates and 
 controls vibration then is it not easy to deal with the 
 essence or vibrations of things at a distance, and thus 
 control them by the power of trained thought ? 
 
 Do you not see how you can manufacture a world to 
 suit yourself? 
 
 True thought training leads to the development of 
 
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76 USEFUL OCCULT PRACTICES. . 
 
 an interior method of thinking, which enables one 
 to awaken the higher vibrations of thought and thus 
 accomplish undertakings seemingly impossible. That 
 interior method of thinking is best attained by observ- 
 ing the law of silence, which is a species of thought 
 training. 
 
 The real origin and essence of vibration is that some- 
 thing within which transcends thought and which uses 
 thought only as its medium or agent. 
 
 Its depths can best be reached by that profound 
 silence which comes only when the mind is perfectly 
 steady and to produce which we should observe the 
 occult practice of silence. 
 
 Silent thought is more potent than spoken words. 
 Speech interferes with the focusing power of the mind 
 by drawing the attention without. "Matter is retarded 
 motion." Words likewise retard the vibrations of 
 thought. 
 
 A word when hitched to the vibrations of a thought 
 for the purpose of expressing it, first acts as a dead 
 weight, but gradually gains momentum and velocity as 
 its use is thus repeated, but it never can attain the 
 velocity of the thought itself, which is the thing it but 
 weakly and imperfectly represents, and is also the 
 cause of its increasing momentum. 
 
 When a word is bandied about with a variety of 
 conceptions regarding its meaning it gradually attaches 
 to itself an increasing load of inharmonious vibrations. 
 
 For this reason the word Gdd, or any other word 
 which is used chiefly with sacred intent should never 
 be used in criticism or blasphemy. 
 
 Sacred words are sacred because they refer to things 
 
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USEFUL OCCUI/T PRACTICES. 77 
 
 permanent and thus acquire correspondingly high rates 
 of speed or vibration. 
 
 Profane persons little realize the disastrous vibra- 
 tions they invoke on themselves by thus attaching dis- 
 cordant and destructive thoughts to the high vibratory 
 currents of truth, which makes their harmful effects 
 that much greater. 
 
 Such punishments are not vindictive, but come 
 from the infringement of a natural law. If man will 
 trifle with vibratory causes he cannot dodge the reap- 
 ing of the legitimate consequences. 
 
 Persons should abstain from the use of disagreeable 
 words as well as disagreeable thoughts. 
 
 To use a disagreeable word even on the printed page 
 of a book will generate discordant vibrations which 
 build themselves into the ' 'aura' ' of the book as well as 
 into the character of each reader. Bach reader will 
 increase the unpleasant vibration by his thought, for 
 all of the associations of the word will partake more or 
 less of its character. To merely think of it necessarily 
 repeats its vibration. 
 
 The mere presence of a good book adds to a room 
 the helpfulness of its vibratory charm. 
 
 To use words involves a greater responsibility than 
 people realize, and should be done with great care. 
 
 Wise ' ' speech is silver. " ' ' Silence is golden. ' ' 
 Even thought is retarded motion when compared with 
 that which it represents, viz. : omnipresent truth itself. 
 
 When thought becomes so silent and interior as to 
 be supersensuous, its powers will be correspondingly 
 greater. Many have asked on what laws the occult 
 practices of the Home Silent Thought Brotherhood are 
 
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78 USEFUL OCCULT PRACTICES. 
 
 founded. As its name implies, it is founded on the 
 laws of silence, thought, and help from within, and at a 
 place where all should find it ever available for their 
 daily needs, viz.: at home. The deepest occult stu- 
 dents are the quiet ones, who realize that to run around 
 for truth is an unnecessary dissipation, because it can 
 be found at home and from within by the proper obser- 
 vation of a few fundamental laws of thought. It is the 
 purpose of this society to enable its members, without 
 expense, to avail themselves of the w r onderful pow r ers 
 of thought in all their affairs, under the best possible 
 conditions, and in co-operation with others of similar 
 motive and the best mental calibre. 
 
 The brotherhood of man is as fundamental in man's 
 constitution as is the fatherhood of God, and is the 
 basis of all religious teachings, therefore no one will 
 wish to dispute the fact that better results are obtained 
 by organization and harmonious co-operation, provid- 
 ing it is along sound lines. 
 
 Students of occult science will of course realize that it 
 is unnecessary that people's bodies should be together 
 in order that they may co-operate in thought. On the 
 other hand, distance overcomes the usual outward dis- 
 tractions and acts as the greatest of all safeguards in 
 the maintenance of that harmony w T hich is all-import- 
 ant. 
 
 An occult practice which each reader of this publica- 
 tion is invited to join this Brotherhood in observing, is 
 to dismiss all outw T ard thought and be silent during 
 part or all of each noon hour, in order to draw for eaph 
 individual need, on the harmonious thought- currents 
 so generated by their united efforts. 
 
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USEFUL OCCUI/f PRACTICES. 79 
 
 By simply dismissing all thought at that time except 
 a desire for the good of yourself and others will help 
 to connect the personality with the higher self, which 
 is able to live forever and equally capable of accom- 
 plishing all results in business and art when so brought 
 into use. 
 
 A successful, just and righteous business is not be- 
 neath the dignity of any soul. The soul's closer con- 
 nection with the outer self can be secured by this easy 
 and natural process of silent thought. Thought-helps 
 to others should always be by thus helping them to 
 help themselves. 
 
 The subscribers to this publication whose continued 
 interest is thus indicated, are each given our special 
 subject for daily contemplation at the noon hour which 
 it is believed will add to the helpfulness of the noon 
 observance by throwing the person still more en-rapport 
 with the combined current. 
 
 Those who desire it can also obtain from us two 
 very inexpensive books (50 cents each) which are espe- 
 cially connected with the vibration of this current, 
 and which in themselves are particularly helpful and 
 htrengthgiving whenever used (because vitalized by the 
 vibrations of deep truths). In other words, these 
 books are especially impregnated with the blessing of 
 kindly thought vibrations. 
 
 The most simple ring can by such a process be made 
 more valuable than would be the most expensive neck- 
 lace of diamonds if given in hate. People fail to com- 
 prehend the opportunities they have for dispensing 
 helpful blessings in their every act, even with every 
 piece of money they pay out and in everything 
 
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80 USEFUL OCCUI/f PRACTICES. 
 
 they do "Bread" thus "cast on the waters" is sure 
 to "return after many days," and will ever do so as 
 long as there is such a thing as natural law. 
 
 Each book thus given out is accompanied with spe- 
 cial directions for its use during part of each noon hour. 
 
 All development and power comes through interior 
 unfoldment, and the Brotherhood's other methods of 
 helping members to help themselves are based on the 
 laws of man's constitution and are- along the line of 
 giving them special individual self-knowledge from the 
 best and most scientific and reliable sources we know, 
 the character of which sources orevious numbers in- 
 dicate. 
 
 It is suggested that those who unite in the daily 
 noon hour observance should, so far as is possible, use 
 the same room each day in order that it may become a 
 focusing point for helpful forces. If so used it will in 
 time become more and more saturated with helpful 
 thought vibrations, and if used exclusively for such pur- 
 poses will thus become a church ot silent prayer or 
 "holy of holies" that will be ever available. Daily 
 needs can thus be answered by a daily supply of 
 strength for character building and the accomplishment 
 of all proper undertakings. Those who observe this 
 hour regularly find that the vibration soon becomes a 
 daily sentinel which announces the hour of noon with 
 the regularity of a clock. 
 
 Beware that 3 r ou do not let the essence of your 
 thought vibrations ooze out through words or overac- 
 tivity and habits of hurry. Power is too precious to be 
 wasted. It should be husbanded. 
 
 The law of vibration explains the esoteric signifi- 
 
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USEFUL OCCUI/f PRACTICES. 8l 
 
 cance of words and explains why mere literary genius is 
 freezing cold and insignificant when compared with any 
 expression of truth however awkward, which comes 
 direct from the fires of life in the heart. The significance 
 of words should always be measured by the degree of 
 soul they express. 
 
 Silent daily meditation, if subject to proper methods, 
 opens up a channel which enables one to dish up truth 
 red hot, from the ever living flame of its original source 
 within. 
 
 Do you ask what the noon hour observance will en- 
 able a person to do ? 
 
 It will assist him in doing for himself whatever he 
 wants to do. It will furnish the attractive power 
 which will bring on the wires of co-operative thought, 
 one's real friends. That class of friends which are too 
 great to feel sore whenever he fails to do that which 
 they want him to do. It will enable him to be a better 
 friend to them in return. 
 
 It will enable a person to build up a righteous and 
 more successful business as well as to strengthen every 
 good quality and supply every need. 
 
 Success is based on character or the vibratory 
 powers of thought and is best attained by asking for wis- 
 dom and qualities instead of for the things themselves. 
 It is the permanent mood of mind, which sends out the 
 vibratory thought causes which solidify into material 
 success. 
 
 At the noon hour a person should first demand wis- 
 dom, to know his real needs and the best methods of 
 supplying them. One may safely ask for more faith 
 in the powers of thought, quicker intuitions, true 
 
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82 USEFUL OCCUI/T PRACTICES. 
 
 dignity and self-confidence, freedom from the tyranny 
 of other minds, a higher and broader sense of justice, 
 including justice to self, the power to be truthful at all 
 times, more strength, better health, more courage, 
 love, thoroughness, exactness, precision, deliberation, 
 freedom from fear, worry, anxiety, anger and anything 
 that would produce cross vibrations and discordant con- 
 ditions, greater powers of concentration, power to make 
 more money and to use it where it will do the most 
 good to the greatest number. In fact there is no qual- 
 ity or need which is not helped by daily renewing one's 
 hold on the higher self. There is a place of peace in the 
 soul and to find it is to shower its blessings into one's 
 every relation in life by thus connecting its vibra- 
 tory currents direct with the fountain head of vibration. 
 
 New thought and new idea is the essence of success, 
 growth and happiness. 
 
 This simple noon hour observance has power to 
 manufacture that attitude which will ever look for- 
 ward to, and not dread, the coming day, because it 
 will supply the strength that makes the diffi- 
 cult circumstance pleasant exercise instead of painful 
 effort. 
 
 The heart and pulsations of the body vibrate to the 
 tune of your thoughts, and your attitude, gait, health 
 and surrounding conditions are only the correspondences 
 of your permanent moods. By changing your moods 
 your environments quickly change to correspond. 
 
 The laws of vibration explain more of life's enigmas 
 than would at first appear. 
 
 The cat's eye is a rate of vibration which, because 
 of the cat's needs and thought desires, has adjusted 
 
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USEFUL OCCUI/T PRACTICES. 83 
 
 itself to the lower vibrations of light so it can see better 
 at night than by daylight, but as the cat changes its 
 desires through the knowledge that there is better 
 food than mice, so does its eyes likewise gradually 
 change to suit the better conditions of daylight. 
 
 The microscope deals with vibratory law when it re- 
 veals to us worlds within worlds. The Roetgen X rays 
 likewise show that to higher rates of vibration, flesh, 
 which is "matter," becomes invisible, thus strongly 
 suggesting, if not proving, that still beyond, in the 
 still higher rates, is a world to which our entire world 
 is an illusion, and that "matter" does not really exist. 
 
 It is only another way of showing that the microcosm 
 and macrocosm are one, and that God exists in every 
 so-called atom. Yes, and that his omnipotence is not 
 only latent, but may be manifested in every man. 
 
 At another time it will be shown how reasonable is 
 this theory that God is truth itself (therefore omnipres- 
 ent, omniscient and omnipotent) and man its co-existent 
 power to think ("his image"), therefore having power 
 to cfeate through thought, and thus manifest all the 
 beauties of truth's omnipotence. Every occultist knows 
 that the atom is an illusion and based on the false 
 theory that a particle (having magnitude) can exist 
 without having parts. Any intelligent scientist or ma- 
 terialist will frankly acknowledge that the "atom" is 
 only a theory, and that matter is a rate of vibration. 
 No microscope exists which is sufficiently powerful to 
 make the atom visible to the human eye. The micro- 
 scope, on the other hand, explodes the atomic theory by 
 showing that no two particles of matter actually touch 
 each other, and that all particles are divisible and 
 
 44 Co-operative thought generates power." 
 
S4 USEFUL OCCULT PRACTICES. 
 
 porous. The gradual improvements in microscopes have 
 as gradually proved that the law of divisibility and 
 porousity of all particles forever prevails, and that a 
 particle cannot exist as an independent entity, because 
 it would mean to be capable of sustaining itself if sepa- 
 tated from the laws of adhesion, cohesion and gravita- 
 tion, which are laws of vibration or thought, and not of 
 matter. That it is clearly impossible for any known 
 particle to do. 
 
 In other words, vibration or the laws themselves are 
 the reality which manifest through thought and have 
 their origin in truth, which is God, the eternal vibra- 
 tion. "In the beginning was the word, and the word 
 was God." All is vibration, and thought is the power 
 which moulds it at will. 
 
 If ' 'atoms' ' exist they must be indivisible or non- 
 porous. In other words they must be like a geomet- 
 rical figure, without parts or magnitude, and therefore 
 if multiplied even an infinite number of times, would 
 never make something having parts. How many zeros 
 would it take to make the number i ? Anything with- 
 out parts can never make something having parts. 
 
 God or truth is the one "atom" which is indivisible 
 and without parts, and so long as man believes in his 
 separateness from that source or from all of its other 
 manifestations, just so long will he separate himself 
 from the satisfaction and happiness of the complete 
 manifestation of that atom's omnipotence. 
 
 Man enlarges his relations and happiness by getting 
 in line with the currents of nature's highest vibrations. 
 It is possible for him to call up thunderbolts of power 
 by simply tapping the currents of high vibrations. The 
 
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USEFUL X2CUI/T PRACTICES. 85 
 
 only line of high vibration which really offers lasting 
 power and happiness is the line which best enables 
 man to answer his true relations of loving service to 
 his fellowmen. The law of life is so perfect that each 
 1 'atom' ' of the universe is perfectly able to take care of 
 itself. It is a great mistake to think that the world 
 needs our help. What we need is the ability to help 
 ourselves. The only law which could produce perfect 
 unity among an infinite number of parts is the law of 
 love, where each person best helps himself by rendering 
 loving service to others. That is the law of our life, 
 and therefore that is the only life which will perma- 
 nently satisfy us. L,oving thought attracts of its kind. 
 It is life and life-giving. 
 
 Irving thought service to others is not sacrifice; it is 
 the only way we can truly help ourselves, and there- 
 fore the only true selfishness. It manufactures for us 
 the only world that will ever satisfy. The world does 
 not need our help, but we need to help the world in 
 order to truly help ourselves. I^ove is the law of life, 
 which originates the fires of eternity in man's heart. 
 Its vibratory motion is the only ' 'friction' ' which can 
 produce the true fire of life and bring us into contact 
 with the bright things of the world. When we are able 
 to minister to every living being, then only will we reap 
 the blessings of perfect happiness, by thus coming in 
 contact with all the bright things of the world. 
 
 The occultist has means of knowing that the next 
 three years will be very trying to unawakened souls. 
 Nature will find methods of making such people think, 
 and fortunate are they who turn to the spiritual side 
 of life without waiting for nature's strong hints. With 
 
 ** Co-operative thought generates power." 
 
86 usefui, occui/r practices. 
 
 many the pressure will become so great that they will 
 commit suicide. Such efforts to escape will, however, 
 prove worse than futile. Man may kill his body, but 
 his appetites, passions, etc. , will remain as a thought 
 organism until the natural period of death, when it 
 will then partially disorganize for a time. 
 
 Hunger and thirst will remain, but not the same 
 power to gratify it through the body. Suicides act as 
 vampires, and so partially gratify their desires through 
 the bodies of others. 
 
 Criminals who are executed when hate is in their 
 hearts thus become more dangerous dead than alive. .— 
 
 The invisible is filled with living realities, and peo- 
 ple little realize to what diabolical influences they ex. 
 pose themselves by certain habits which have their 
 origin in corresponding moods of mind. It is no won- 
 der that Shakespeare's "Hamlet" thought it "better 
 to suffer the ills we have than to flee to others that we 
 know not of . " The laws of nature tend to equalize all 
 varieties in condition. "Reaction is equal to action 
 and in the opposite direction." For five thousand 
 years the pendulum of nature has been swinging along 
 the lines of materialism, ignorance and unbelief. Oc- 
 cultists know that its present halt signifies the beginning 
 of its backward swing into the daylight of higher spir- 
 ituality. Great financial changes, earthquakes, ex- 
 tremes of heat, suicides, etc., will be frequent and cer- 
 tain during the present period of readjustment. Those 
 who are not ready to adopt new thought methods will 
 suddenly find themselves confronted with unexpected 
 obstacles. Business methods that have been successful 
 will no longer apply to the changed and changing con- 
 
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USEFUL OCCULT PRACTICES. 87 
 
 ditions, and will become worse and worse as the mate- 
 rialistic wave recedes. It is like suddenly opposing a 
 strong wind and tide that have been at your back. 
 
 Astronomy strongly supports these assertions by 
 showing that a complete change of the equinoxes, 
 which occurs only once in 2,140 years, will occur this 
 year. It also shows that several of the planetary influ- 
 ences get into the same "sign," or house, of the Zodiac, 
 and it is only natural that they should be disturbed by 
 the same difficulty in adjusting their vibrations that a 
 dozen willful persons would experience who tried to 
 live in one ordinary room. Many families whose mem- 
 bers love each other very much when at a distance, be- 
 gin at once to quarrel when they get in the same house. 
 
 Do you ask what are the necessary steps to take in 
 meeting the changed conditions ? Change your men- 
 tal polarity. Obtain spiritual self-knowledge. Observe 
 occult practices that will repolarize your * 'atoms'' in 
 accordance with the true laws of your constitution. 
 Adjust your business methods to the laws of thought. 
 Learn thought-control, so that you may keep the mind 
 steady and maintain permanent moods of success. 
 
 Do not expect materialistic methods to be successful 
 in the future any more than you would expect the 
 boy's child- voice to remain the same after he had 
 passed the age of puberty. These subjects will be 
 dealt with in future issues. 
 
 u Co-operative thought generates power." 
 
 Subject for March : "Esoteric Laws of Happiness." 
 
HAPPINESS. 
 
 The difference between happiness and misery is so 
 great that no effort should be spared by man in trying 
 to be happy. 
 
 Earnest efforts should first be directed to a full com- 
 prehension and understanding of its laws and underly- 
 ing principles, for, their application then becomes a 
 comparatively easy task. Science affirms that man 
 cannot even think of anything which has not its cor- 
 respondence within his nature, and, likewise, man can- 
 not obtain happiness, except through the normal 
 activity of faculties which are inherent in his con- 
 stitution. 
 
 If man can avoid the diseased or reversed action of 
 his faculties, his happiness is assured. Man's nature is 
 based on the everlasting principles of Love and Truth, 
 and, until his actions are so based, he must suffer the 
 painful and unhappy consequences of perverted and 
 outraged natural faculties. 
 
 If the vibratory activity of the elements in man's 
 organization constitute his happiness, he will never be 
 successful in finding happiness, until he looks within 
 instead of expecting to find it from without. 
 
ESOTERIC LAWS OF HAPPINESS, 
 
 COPYRIGHTED 1 897, BY ERNEST I.OOMIS. 
 
 All sensations of pleasure arise from the harmonious 
 action of vibratory forces within, and all pain from the 
 inharmo?iious action of those same vibratory forces. 
 
 Are you living the life of harmony and happiness, or 
 of discord and misery ? Are you able under all circum- 
 stances to maintain the mood of happiness, which is 
 also the mood of success? Thought is the ever avail- 
 able power which is able to mould vibratory forces into 
 harmony, happiness and success. 
 
 You have slowly manufactured thought moulds dur- 
 ing a long period of evolution, and your present ca- 
 pacity for happiness and present stage of evolution is 
 represented by the sum total of your previous thought 
 moulds. 
 
 Happiness has ever been the goal of your previous 
 lives along the slow road of evolution ; and likewise, 
 happiness will always be the irrisistable magnet and 
 goal toward which your thought efforts will* polarize 
 according to your soul's best light and your ever grow- 
 ing knowledge and experience. 
 
 All material things down to the "atom" are mag- 
 nets of varying degrees of intensity, according to their 
 various stages of evolution. 
 
 A magnet is organized vibration. You are a mag- 
 net and thought is your organizing power. Every lov- 
 
90 ESOTERIC UWS OF HAPPINESS. 
 
 ing and harmonious thought helps to harmonize the 
 vibratory energies which lie slumbering in your consti- 
 tution, and promotes your happiness to the extent of its 
 harmony and intensity. Thoughts of fear, worry, anger 
 or discord as quickly mould your vibratory energies 
 into inharmony and misery. 
 
 Every thought has a magnetic effect in proportion to 
 its inherent power and intensity, and sinks down into 
 your unconscious mind as a sediment, and thus builds, 
 according to its kind, to the strength of your vibratory 
 power. 
 
 What kind of thoughts are you thinking today? Can 
 wealth increase your happiness when you allow it to 
 breed anxious cares or fears of its loss? 
 
 The universe, in all its parts, is overshadowed by 
 that perfect and eternal organization — God, the princi- 
 ple of truth — which gives every person the impulse to 
 think, and which will thus compel him to continue to 
 so organize until he ' ' knows, ' ' and thus becomes at one 
 with the source of thought. Not until then will the 
 purposes of man's constitution be fulfilled. No law of 
 the Infinite can miscarry. Sooner or later you will be 
 forced, by your nature, to co-operate with the perfect 
 law of happiness, until its purposes are fulfilled through 
 you. 
 
 Your thought will, in time, so mould and diffuse the 
 vibratory energies of your body that they will be unable 
 to hold its forces together, and it will die ; but this will 
 only give your soul a much needed breathing spell, 
 similar to sleep, in which it will collect its scattered 
 vibratory forces, thus create a new body (magnet), and 
 again renew its work of organization, or character 
 building, under circumstances more advantageous, 
 
ESOTERIC I^AWS OF HAPPINESS. 91 
 
 because more in keeping with its advancing condition. 
 
 As the body is only a magnet, made up from your 
 vibratory energies, it is easy for your thought to mould 
 new bodies from time to time (as the old ones disap- 
 pear) that will be more truly representative of your 
 growing thought. 
 
 Death, like sleep, gives the soul an opportunity to 
 concentrate its diffused thought forces, and life, as we 
 know it, like wakefulness, is that process of diffusion 
 which makes such concentration necessary. 
 
 The esoteric laws of happiness necessarily relate to 
 the laws of thought because they are both the laws of 
 man's constitution. 
 
 These laws cause the never ceasing impulse to out- 
 wardly manifest and as persistently to strive to burst 
 forth in a heavenly melody of human happiness. It is 
 only a question of learning how to touch the proper 
 keys within. 
 
 To polarize your thought to the true basic principles 
 of \our constitution, is to so touch those keys; because 
 3'ou thus touch the inner vibratory chords of that song 
 of life which is joy and perfect bliss and the natural 
 condition of the soul. The song of happiness is the 
 true song of life. The human constitution is perfect 
 from eternity to eternity. 
 
 Its purposes are bound to be fulfilled. 
 
 Are you looking for happiness from without ? You 
 are looking in the wrong direction, and in vain, unless 
 you first learn how to find it from its only true source 
 within. A wise and gentle Nazerene once told where 
 to look for the ' ' kingdom of heaven ; " viz : from with- 
 in. You may be his disciple. 
 
 What, except self ignorance, is to hinder you, a 
 
92 ESOTERIC I.AWS OF HAPPINESS. 
 
 thinking being, from conforming now to the perfect 
 lawr of happiness. Ignorance is surmountable. Your 
 power to think implies the power to know. Who shall 
 say of what you shall think? The power to think of, 
 and know one thing, implies the power to know all 
 things. ' ' Knowledge is power. ' ' Complete knowl- 
 edge is omnipotence. There is a process of interior 
 thought, which, when properly trained, enables the 
 thinker to get, from within, complete knowledge con- 
 cerning any subject, though he has never heard of it 
 before. 
 
 This process of thought is closely allied to the eso- 
 teric laws of happiness, and to the occult power which 
 is able to deal with things at a distance, by thus deal- 
 ing with their vibrations. Perfect concentration on the 
 highest plane is at one with perfect organization, per- 
 fect vibration, perfect happiness, perfect knowledge and 
 omnipotent power. To attain one of these objects is to 
 attain all of them. The daily noon hour observance of 
 the Home Silent Thought Brotherhood is thus helpful. 
 
 It is one process of following along that inner line of 
 connection which ties man to his source. Man is the 
 power to think. Happiness, as well as all other objects 
 and attainments, can only be found from some process 
 of thought, and from within, instead of from without. 
 
 To think new thought is life and happiness, there- 
 fore, thought is that eternal reality which will feed the 
 quenchless flames of hope in the human heart, until its 
 every hope of haprines c is fully realized. Hope is a 
 species of thougnt. By looking without for happiness 
 man is forever running away from its true source, 
 which is from within, and which comes by a process of 
 thought which arranges into perfect harmony the 
 
ESOTERIC LAWS OF HAPPINESS. 93 
 
 vibratory currents of his organization. Looking with 
 out is a diffusive and disorganizing process, which 
 springs from ignorance and from the impulse to remedy 
 ignorance by knowledge. 
 
 Looking without for happiness and knowledge, 
 through experience, is the slow evolutionary method of 
 remedying ignorance, therefore that impulse was not 
 created in vain. The creator made no mistake in 
 adopting that method for the early stages of evolution 
 any more than he did by creating reason and other 
 human and spiritual faculties which enables man to 
 adopt a quicker method after he has reached a certain 
 point in his evolution. Have you reached that point 
 now ? Do you realize what it means to be a human 
 being ? Do you understand how limitless are the pos- 
 sibilities it implies? Do you comprehend its unspeak- 
 able powers of happiness ? Ignorance must be banished 
 before perfect happiness is possible, and your nature 
 will force you to look without and thus obtain knowl- 
 edge of your own nature, through the slow evolution- 
 ary method of experience, until you come to your 
 higher senses long enough to learn how to find such 
 knowledge from within. 
 
 Man is that organized thinking power, which, from 
 the smallest beginnings has evolved his present condi- 
 tions ; and, as his Divine nature, which ever leads him 
 on, is related to all persons and things by ties too deep 
 to ever be severed, he must continue to evolve until 
 he outwardly mainifests in full those inherent relations 
 and possibilities. 
 
 Life means thought. Thought is ever an organizing 
 power. Organization necessarily implies fidelity. to the 
 organizing power. The power to think is the self, and 
 
94 ESOTERIC LAWS OF HAPPINESS. 
 
 fidelity to that power, though seemingly selfish, is not 
 depravity or evil, as some religious teachers would 
 have us believe. 
 
 Is it evil, if it is the sure and only road to that great- 
 est of all goods, the life of love, as taught in precept 
 and example by the Christ ? Fidelity to the self will 
 ever prevent man from receiving the teachings of the 
 Christ, until he is shown that to live the life of love is 
 only a higher fidelity to self in its never ceasing search 
 for happiness. 
 
 The horrors of hell is ceasing to be an adequate 
 "scarecrow," and the time has come when man must 
 be taught plainly and explicitly the truth that his 
 nature is Divine, and therefore so intimately related to 
 all persons and things, that to live the life of love is 
 the only true selfishness or fidelity to the teal or higher 
 self. 
 
 Is it true fidelity to self to in any way injure another 
 when it is found that to do so is to injure a part of the 
 higher self ? 
 
 One cannot teach the esoteric laws of happiness, or 
 of business, according to the laws of thought, without 
 thus teaching a code of morals and ethics, which is more 
 convincing than the scarecrow of a million orthodox 
 hells. 
 
 Man nas outgrown the stages of fright, infancy and 
 ignorance, and will no longer choose to skulk into the 
 back door of an undeserved heaven after he is given 
 the privilege of erectly walking in at the front door in 
 all the majesty and dignity due to his inherent 
 Divinity. 
 
 When will man learn to accept the teachings of the 
 Christ that heaven is not a pl'ace or locality, but a con- 
 
ESOTERIC I<AW3 OF HAPPINESS. 95 
 
 dition within, and that its happiness may be found 
 now by observing those esoteric laws of thought which 
 bring into harmony the vibratory energies of his con- 
 stitution. 
 
 Man's constitution is based on the principle of love. 
 IyOve means organization, because organization means 
 perfect adjustment of each and every part. Could love 
 leave out any part and still be harmonious ? 
 
 Man's early stages of knowledge are inclined through 
 ignorance to leave out many parts. L,ove, which is the 
 principle of his being, cries out against this, and thus 
 originates the impulse to diffuse or reach out. That is 
 why man looks without for happiness. This impulse 
 to diffuse or reach out tends to disorganization, and 
 therefore thus attacks another primary and vital princi- 
 ple of love, which is organization. The one is a centrif- 
 ugal force and the other centripetal, both as necessary 
 to evolution and the rounded out character as they are 
 to the rounded out globe. 
 
 To send out thoughts is to diffuse, as it sends out 
 thoughts vibratory energy. . As diffusion tends to dis- 
 organization, when man has diffused until he can't hold 
 his body together, it naturally and properly drops 
 away. 
 
 When it drops away, concentration, which means to 
 collect scattered forces, follows, as a necessary sequence 
 and when fully collected, the impulse to diffuse again 
 comes, because love, which is the principle of man's 
 life, will not allow any of its principles to be permanent- 
 ly violated, and therefore will persistently refuse to 
 leave out any part to which it is related. As it is 
 related to all parts it will not rest satisfied with any- 
 thing less than complete evolution. 
 
96 ESOTERIC UWS OF HAPPINESS. 
 
 It can be seen how beautifully this law of evolution 
 is adjusted, and how the birth, growth, death and 
 re-birth of man in continuous rounds over and over 
 again, has in each step a definite purpose, which 
 relates to the gradual expansion of man's outward life 
 in the way of character building, and always along the 
 line of cause and effect. 
 
 The diffusion or scattering of man's vibratory thought 
 forces causes death of the body because it loosens the 
 soul's grasp on it, but the soul cannot die, therefore, 
 then passes into a period of rest, in which it has time 
 to collect its scattered vibratory forces and build into 
 its organism, by that process of assimilation, the 
 essence of its experiences in its previous earth life. 
 After this process of concentration and rest, the basic 
 law of man's constitution, which is the law of love, 
 again gives him the impulse to reach out or diffuse and 
 thus come into active outward relation with its other 
 parts. The law of cause and effect then outwardly 
 embodies or re-incarnates the soul in surroundings 
 which result from the vibratory thought energies previ- 
 ously generated, and which are modified by the 
 thoughts and experiences of its last earth life, and to 
 that extent different. This process of growth through 
 re-birth or evolution goes on until man outwardly 
 manifests his true relations to all things in the uni- 
 verse. Then comes a long period of involution or non- 
 manifestation, but, the original impulse to evolutionize 
 or outwardly manifest, though for the time latent, will 
 again burst forth in its very maximum of power, which 
 will lead, according to cyclic law, which is the law of 
 vibration, to a repetition of this long process ; but I 
 will not now attempt to deal with that logical absurdity 
 
ESOTERIC I.AWS OF HAPPINESS. 97 
 
 which says the principle of evolution signifies constant 
 improvement in species but never perfection. 
 
 If man devotes his entire thought to money making 
 or other selfish ends he thus generates causes which 
 may tie his lower principles to earth, but having no 
 body through which to adequately manifest, they soon 
 tire of the purposeless role of ghost or spook, of obses- 
 sing the bodies of mediumistic persons of similar 
 tendency, or of pretenses of giving spiritual instruction 
 to the living. 
 
 Even the unnatural stimulous afforded by parading 
 in the name of ' ' George Washington, " * ' Abraham 
 Lincoln ' ' or some big ' ' Indian, " as is sometimes done, 
 is insuflicient to withstand the counteracting influence 
 of the soul's higher principles which never entirely 
 relax their hold on the lower principles, and which by 
 rest and concentration are gradually able to withdraw 
 the force of such energies from such nonsensical pur- 
 suits. It is no doubt also possible for higher princi- 
 ples of the soul for a time after death to communicate 
 with the living. 
 
 The selfish habits of a lifetime are insufficient to 
 permanently alter the soul in its course towards that 
 perfection and happiness which is its natural and eter- 
 nal polarity. 
 
 Thought forces always generate vibratory organisms 
 and they will live until their energies are exhausted. 
 To think involves a correspondingly great responsibili- 
 ty. To think is to generate vibratory seed. To con- 
 tinue the thought is to sow the seed and furnish it with 
 a backing of fertile soil, air, sunshine and other condi- 
 tions which make its reaping a foregone conclusion and 
 absolute necessity. This power can be used to bring 
 
98 ESOTERIC UWS OF HAPPINESS. 
 
 success and happiness as well as to bring a rich harvest 
 of retribution. 
 
 What are your present ideals ? Where have you set 
 your stakes of limitation regarding your future happi- 
 ness? 
 
 What kind of thought seeds are you sowing for 
 immediate or future reaping ? Are you by your thought 
 moulding your inherent vibratory energies into currents 
 of harmony, or of discord? 
 
 Have you joined that army of deluded persons who 
 think that " happiness is not of this world," but who 
 continue to chase the "will-o'-the-wisp," which post- 
 pones it to an indefinite time in the future ? 
 
 If so, then halt ! ' ' Right about face. ' ' 
 
 Eternity is now. ' ' The kingdom of heaven is with- 
 in you." 
 
 If your every moment is not the perfection of bliss it 
 is because you have failed to fully comprehend the eso- 
 teric laws of happiness. 
 
 The deepest philosophy teaches that joy and perfect 
 bliss is the natural condition of the soul, that man's 
 constitution is perfectly adapted to its attainment, and 
 that enjoyment or happiness is the only legitimate 
 function of every organ of the body, every faculty of 
 the mind and every element of man's entire nature. 
 
 Yet how few do we find whose lives make even a 
 distant approach to the attainment of its perfection. It 
 is a significant fact that the vast majority of people 
 absolutely fail in this the proper and sole object of their 
 pursuit. 
 
 In casting a scrutinizing eye abroad we are easily 
 convinced that such failures are not for lack of effort. 
 In fact the ones who give themselves the greatest 
 
ESOTERIC I«AWS OF HAPPINESS. 99 
 
 pains and penalties in pursuit of means for subsequent 
 enjoyment, are, as a rule, the very ones who most sig- 
 nally fail in attaining it. 
 
 It is not the fault of man's nature, or of his inten- 
 tions, or of any innate depravity in his constitution, for 
 happiness is the only legitimate and normal function of 
 his every faculty. It is because through ignorance he 
 seeks wrong methods. Misery is an illegitimate child, 
 a child of ignorance, for which man should blush with 
 shame. To glory in misery is not to honor the creator 
 by obeying his laws, but to glory in shame as do some 
 abandoned women. To be unhappy is to justly suffer 
 the judgments of infringed natural law. The din and 
 clatter of man's mad search for happiness from without 
 will drown the music of that eternal slumber song with- 
 in, until self-knowledge pays the debt of ignorance by 
 setting up a thought polarity which will rearrange the 
 vibratorySf orces within into equilibrium harmony , peace 
 and happiness. 
 
 Happiness can come only from the normal activity of 
 faculties already possessed. Man's nature cannot yield 
 happiness to itself from anything outside of that nature. 
 That principle is self-evident and therefore needs not 
 the backing of dogma authority or experience. Even 
 every breath we draw, and every movement of the 
 body, is calculated to produce happiness but not when 
 the body is covered with boils or the nerves tied into 
 knots of anxiety and worry. Harmonious vibration of 
 forces within is happiness, and thought is the power 
 which makes their harmony possible. 
 
 Until the mind is right, property, titles, honors, 
 fashions and other worldly ends cannot contribute 
 materially to enjoyment, for not until then can man 
 
IOO ESOTERIC LAWS OF HAPPINESS. 
 
 assume their accompanying cares and responsibilities 
 without worry and anxiety. 
 
 Thoughts of worry, anxiety and selfishness produce 
 discordant vibrations, and tend to turn the pleasures of 
 worldly possessions into gall and bitterness. 
 
 The power to think enables man to set up conditions 
 which will keep him in close touch with the higher 
 self. This is the secret of happiness and long life and 
 is also the law of success. On that point we have the 
 authority of the Christ who said ' 'Seek ye first the 
 kingdom of God;" which is the kingdom of heaven and 
 within "and all these things will be added to you." 
 
 That promise is literally true because founded on an 
 unvarying law. 
 
 Business statistics show that only about one person 
 in twenty actually succeeds in business. Observation 
 teaches that a still smaller percentage attain real hap- 
 piness. The Christ method is in harmony with the 
 laws of thought and man's constitution, and will be 
 always successful to the extent that it is faithfully 
 applied. True success and happiness mean about the 
 same thing, viz: the mood of harmony and equilibrium 
 which is able to drive away every worry or trouble. 
 Life, health, ability, equilibrium; beauty, music, 
 morality, harmony, happiness and success are all 
 children of one vibratory father or cause and thought 
 and self knowledge is the "Moses' ' which is able to lead 
 man out of the wilderness of misery into the ' 'Canaan' ' 
 of their perfection. Happiness is the God which the 
 human heart always loves and worships with unwaver- 
 ing fidelity. It is an unvarying law of thought that what- 
 ever the human heart earnestly and permanently craves 
 that it will in time get in all of its fullness. It is be- 
 
ESOTERIC UWS OE HAPPINESS. IOI 
 
 cause every hope is a species of thought, and thought is 
 the only creative power. 
 
 The esoteric laws of happiness are the esoteric laws 
 of business, morality, and every good thing in life. 
 The best method to obtain any one of them is the best 
 method of obtaining all the rest because like the rays of 
 an electric light they all spring from the same center. 
 
 To pursue one thing to the exclusion of everything 
 else is to run away from the opportunity to most easily 
 obtain that very thing. 
 
 Iyife and its ideas should be rounded out. To trujy 
 see one thing is to truly see the universe. If we can 
 truly learn the mystery of a rose or an atom we will 
 understand God and all his works. 
 
 It is from the most interior vibrations of thought 
 that man attaches himself to the perfection of harmony 
 and happiness. 
 
 A pig may be relatively harmonious and happy but 
 as its harmony relates to only the low rates of outward 
 vibration it is not to be compared in its stage of evolu- 
 tion and powers for rapid growth to even the misery of 
 a highly organized person. Until we get in line with 
 the vibrations of universal law we may expect misery, 
 because such forces within are the real source of our 
 life and are ever yanking us into the whirlpool of their 
 rapid currents in order that we may become harmonious 
 with their higher rates of speed and greater harmony. 
 It is however, possible for us to learn now the general 
 laws of man's constitution and thus escape actual misery 
 while on the evolutionary road, and rapidly acquire 
 that balance and happiness which comes from an equi- 
 librium of our centif rugal and centripetal forces. We are 
 thus able to constantly diffuse and widen our relations 
 
1Q2 ESOTERIC EAWS OF HAPPINESS. 
 
 but as constantly to concentrate and thereby keep a 
 strong and loving bond of union between the body and 
 the higher self. We diffuse at one breath but con- 
 centrate as we draw another. Happiness is the true 
 mode of growth and true purpose of life, but not always 
 the measure of the stage of evolution. 
 
 Thought on the subject of man's constitution is able 
 to open the direct pathways in the wilderness of igno- 
 rance to that stage of self-knowledge which makes it 
 possible to tap the inner vibratory chords of power 
 and happiness in the human heart, and that, too, by affir- 
 mative methods instead of by suffering the miseries of a 
 thousand deaths along the otherwise slow road which 
 is made slow by the adoption of misery's negative 
 methods. 
 
 The power to be always happy is not always prop- 
 erly estimated. It is not commendable to be bound by 
 chains of slavery to low circumstances. Many persons 
 are able to be moderately happy so long as everything 
 goes just right with them, but the loss of friends or rel- 
 atives or even of money or property at once reverses 
 the normal action of their faculties and throws them 
 into convulsions of inharmony and misery. It is my 
 aim to clearly show the continuousness of life and the 
 impossibility of actual death of the soul or thinking 
 power and thus take away from the living all cause for 
 mourning when their friends pass into the unseen. 
 
 Life is the power to think which implies the powei 
 to feel, neither of which can be taken from man by any 
 process of physical death. Death is only a change of 
 thought vibration. To mourn therefore must give pain 
 to those for whom we mourn. To do so knowingly is 
 heartless and cruel instead of the opposite. Man is 
 
ESOTERIC LAWS OF HAPPINESS. IO3 
 
 created for eternity and should not make himself the 
 slave of any circumstance. To do so is to chain him- 
 self to an imaginary hitching post. Friendship and 
 personal love is the fusing power which weaves 
 into one fabric of harmony the thought vibrations of 
 two or more persons. In other words, as they have the 
 same thought polarity their thought vibrations become 
 interrelated. Death tears such fabrics and makes nec- 
 essary a readjustment of the thought vibrations 
 (which produced them) to suit their new conditions 
 unless they weave into the fabric in advance the vibra- 
 tions which comes from the thought polarity, or idea, 
 that death is only a change that cannot separate the 
 vibrations of true thoughts or tear any fabrics woven 
 from them. 
 
 If you have not already polarized to that idea, you 
 may, when death comes in your midst, at least ease the 
 pain and misery (which comes by thus severing the 
 vibratory web) by fully occupying your mind with 
 other things until vibratory readjustments can be grad- 
 ually made. The only way to prevent a diseased ac- 
 tion of any faculty is to keep up a constant healthy 
 and normal action of all faculties. As all human fac- 
 ulties pertain to thought and are outlets for thought, 
 it is to true thought control which we must look for 
 the power to drive away misery from whatever cause it 
 comes. 
 
 Thought control enables the most sensitively orga- 
 nized person to weave vibratory fabrics of love and 
 friendship, which outlast the ^ra^«» misunderstandings 
 or separation, and which are the same though not recip- 
 rocated and through every fleeting change of worldly 
 circumstance. 
 
104 ESOTERIC I.AWS OF HAPPINESS. 
 
 The merely magnetic attraction and personal love 
 which demands possession, is as a thing of yesterday 
 when compared with that deathless principle of eternal 
 love which is deep down in every heart and which 
 seeks only to give, asking nothing in return, knowing 
 that true love is always in time reciprocated because it 
 bears a perfect relation to all things. Pure love is a 
 thing not of yesterday but from everlasting to ever- 
 lasting. It is possible in our relations with the world 
 to bring out the deeper vibrations of love. 
 
 The personal love which exists between Beau and 
 Sweetheart may be made so steady and truly repre- 
 sentative of the higher self that their happiness will 
 not be disturbed by any discordant vibrations of criti- 
 cism but will gradually attain that plane of harmony 
 where criticism or discord is impossible. Every one 
 should in self defense learn to withdraw thought from 
 any subject which would cause a disturbance of vibra- 
 tion, at least until proper vibratory adjustments can be 
 made. By such means the mood of happiness may be- 
 come habitual. 
 
 Stop now and analyze the circumstances of misery 
 which you have forged for yourself. Have you un- 
 controlable fears and anxieties? Do you hanker after 
 riches and their burdens of care, or fear the loss of 
 those you have ? Have you the religious dyspepsia 
 which fears that you are not sufficiently religious but 
 which is the more miserable the more religious ? Are 
 you overworking your body in the vain hope that it is 
 the true road to success? Are you in a constant state 
 of irritation, fret, worry or anger, owing to your 
 family or other surroundings ? Have you lost friends 
 or relatives or become estranged from them through 
 
ESOTERIC I.AWS OF HAPPINESS. 105 
 
 misunderstandings? Have you lost your bodily health? 
 
 Whatever may be the outward cause, your actual 
 misery springs from the reversed or diseased action of 
 your facuilties and you thus produce chaos and discord 
 among the vibratory energies of your constitution 
 which were calculated for happiness only. They all 
 may by the power of thought be made to vanish into 
 thin air by any process which throws you into close 
 touch with the higher self and which thus restores their 
 normal action and equilibrium. The soul of man is 
 deathless. You may manifest that state of mind and 
 faith which defies the power of fire, flood, earthquake 
 or even death itself and which is able to command from 
 unseen elements an outward manifestation through 
 you of all the things and circumstances which makes 
 life beautiful. 
 
 This mood, unlike riches, offers a basis for independ- 
 ence which is not transient. If wordly possessions 
 thus obtained, disappear, it offers the ever available 
 power to obtain more. Riches come on the currents 
 of such moods like* the waters of a river, and like the 
 waters should flow on and be dispensed as freely for 
 the good of humanity, in the sure knowledge that their 
 omnipotent source will not dry up. When the right 
 state of mind is attained and maintained, it will be as 
 easy to obtain happiness, even through the most un- 
 favorable circumstances, as it is for a Mozart to extract 
 music from a cat gut. 
 
HELPS. 
 
 True help is self help. Every person must, in time, 
 learn to depend upon himself. Upon the Infinite within. 
 
 Our modern charities, although well meant, too often 
 lead to the opposite result. 
 
 To that extent they are a failure. Their bungling 
 material methods are not to be compared in virtue, to 
 the silent methods afforded by Occultism. Any true 
 Occultist, without the sounding of trumpets, ostenta- 
 tion, and outward display, can help thousands, where 
 free soup kitchens and many other charity organiza- 
 tions so imperfectly help only a few. 
 
 Your desire and ability to truly help others will grow 
 with your ability to help yourself by Occult methods. 
 
 Generosity is generally an overflow of strength. 
 You may become a true Occultist and so help others 
 while at home. It does not require any pilgrimage to 
 the jungles of the Himalayas. 
 
 Every Occult power is represented within each heart. 
 One Occult power, which all should constantly culti- 
 vate, is the ability to acquire Occult knowledge from 
 within. Thus, at each step will they as constantly 
 enlarge those Occult powers. 
 
Occult Helps. 
 
 COPYRIGHTED 1897, BY ERNEST I^OOMIS. 
 
 It is to occult sources that man should look for the 
 wisdom and power to solve his practical difficulties and 
 abundantly supply his many needs. 
 
 The true Occultist never gets "hard up" until he has 
 exhausted the resources of Infinity, and that time 
 never comes. It is no easier to find the deeply occult 
 forces in nature than it is to find your spectacles, if 
 wanted, when ignorant of the fact that you already 
 have them on. Your thought is a deeply occult force, 
 but like spectacles, may be used as an aid in searching 
 in the wrong direction for a fuller consciousness of 
 its real powers. 
 
 The Infinite within is very occult to most persons, 
 and yet ever present and ready to help in time of need. 
 
 It is your "Prophet" which should not be "without 
 honor in his own country" within your heart. 
 
 The Infinite "helps (only) him who helps himself." 
 To do otherwise would be unmercifully cruel, for it 
 would interfere unjustly with the already perfect laws 
 of man's constitution. 
 
 Do you ask if earnest prayers are not answered? 
 Yes. An earnest "prayer is the heart's sincere desire, 
 uttered or unexpressed." Desire is thought and 
 thought is creative. It is therefore ever capable of 
 bringing its own answer. Prayer is answered because 
 
108 OCCUI/T HELPS. 
 
 of a law and not in opposition to law. There is no 
 such thing as ' 'Special Providence. ' ' Prayer does not 
 imply the necessity of interfering with the already 
 perfect and all-inclusive law of things. The perfect 
 law of love is the law of all things. 
 
 Infinite wisdom never makes mistakes to be corrected, 
 and therefore "Special Providence" or interference 
 with natural law, if such were possible, is unnecessary 
 and would produce chaos instead of greater harmony. 
 Perfection in its highest and most exhaustive sense is 
 already the law of your constitution. 
 
 Your heart is a miniature universe. It gives you 
 the power to think and thus generate the occult 
 powers of thought. The power of desire in the atom is 
 the power to think, which makes its final evolution 
 possible and necessary. 
 
 The sooner you turn to the powers of thought and 
 the within, the sooner will you consciously breathe the 
 exhilarating and rarified atmosphere of your kingdom 
 of heaven and manifest the potencies of its inherent 
 occult powers. 
 
 Can you not see how futile it is for man to expect 
 help from the Infinite except to the extent that he 
 thus helps himself under the workings of natural law? 
 
 "Ask and ye shall receive." 
 
 The laws of vibration and of thought show why true 
 prayer opens the door to a kingdom of Infinite peace 
 and power. 
 
 In prayer must you listen if you would hear the 
 melodious breathings of that Divine Orchestra which 
 plays only on the higher octaves of vibration in the hu- 
 man heart? In profoundly reverential prayer must you 
 persistently listen if you would catch the enchantingly 
 
occui/r helps. 109 
 
 rapturous responses of that esoteric song of love and 
 life which is voiced by the higher principles of every 
 living thing in the universe and which forms the grand 
 chorus of God to which millions of worlds and systems 
 of worlds are forever marching in perfect harmony. 
 This Divinity within is your song and your true vibra- 
 tion. You will be able to make the world march to the 
 rhythm of your melodies to the extent that you find 
 within, the key to the eternal vibrations, which are 
 their melodies also, because the melodies of universal 
 law. In many of the laws and acts of man there is no 
 more melody than could be found by a sufferer from 
 insomnia if compelled to listen to a tin pan brigade or 
 to the midnight screechings of a dozen cats who were 
 most earnestly and ferociously striving to adjust their 
 difficulties. 
 
 As deeply occult forces are reached by the vibratory 
 law of true devotion, the power of evil and of the mis- 
 use of such forces is therefore comparatively limited. 
 Great power is possible only to high rates of vibration. 
 
 High vibration is possible only to that which has ac- 
 quired velocity by long continued motion. 
 
 The eternal esoteric laws of man's constitution are 
 ever the same, and therein are the occult vibratory 
 powers which, being backed by the acquired velocity 
 of an endless past, are capable of sustaining him for an 
 endless future and until he outwardly demonstrates 
 their omnipotence. 
 
 The vibrations of evil thoughts and desires have no 
 such backing. They are the comparatively recent 
 product of evolutionary ignorance. Their vitality is 
 drained at every step by that same evolutionary process 
 of increasing knowledge. 
 
no occui/r hei<ps. 
 
 Ignorance was their only cause, and as that ignorance 
 is outgrown by ever-expanding intelligence, they nat- 
 urally die step by step for lack of proper sustenance. 
 They run against the eternal laws of nature and nec- 
 essarily result in that increase of knowledge which 
 gradually withdraws their vitality. It is perfectly use- 
 less to try to outwit the everlasting laws of truth. 
 Vibratory law shows why right is always more than a 
 match for wrong. 
 
 Its occult science puts in the hands of man a weapon 
 of knowledge which always makes honesty in him 
 more than a match for the dishonesty of multitudes. 
 
 Evil desires are retarding motions which cast souls 
 into temporary whirlpools of downward gravity. 
 
 The vibrations of truth within are the whirlpools of 
 upward gravity in man's constitution. Man should 
 devote a part of each day to such inner thought 
 polarization as will steadily enlarge the soul's vibratory 
 powers and capacities and bring gradually nearer the 
 time when its Infinite reservoir of truth will be com- 
 pletely filled and its powers completely demonstrated. 
 
 The soul, like a kite, will constantly press onward 
 and upward so long as it is properly anchored and kept in 
 the steady vibratory winds of truth, but let it be en- 
 ticed by deceptive "trade winds" or temporary breezes 
 of evil, and for want of proper and steady vibratory 
 nourishment it will lose much time in thus partially 
 tearing down what it had previously built. 
 
 An evil heart does not choose the path of devotion, 
 and until it does, can not easily find the higher octaves 
 of vibration or reach more than the mere outskirts of 
 occult knowledge and power, such as hypnotism, etc. 
 The study of hypnotism does not necessarily imply an 
 
occui/r HEiyPS. in 
 
 evil heart, but as its method of action is to first influ- 
 ence the outer in order to reach the inner, it is liable to 
 carry to the inner the discord and inharmony of the 
 outer and thus enlarge and intensify the vibratory 
 chains of bondage, ignorance and weakness which it 
 perhaps seeks to break or overcome. It has power to 
 deal only with the lower octaves of vibration. By a 
 misuse of will (or positive thought) a hypnotizer shuts 
 off the current of vibratory force or consciousness 
 which flows to the brain of his subject, and as a result 
 the body goes to sleep. Then he piratically assumes 
 control of the defenseless body and sends his own 
 vibratory thought force to it. As it has surrendered 
 its God given powers of resistance it meekly carries out 
 the will of the hypnotizer, thereby establishing a pre- 
 cedent for its surrender to other positive, dominant and 
 perhaps less friendly wills. 
 
 One should never allow themselves to be hypnotized 
 unless they are also willing to be obsessed by every 
 diabolical psychic influence which belongs to the in- 
 visible. The law of cause and effect and of vibration 
 shows why the earth-bound principles of persons who 
 are executed, of suicides, and of others who die before 
 their time or who live very material lives, should, for a 
 time after death, seek just such living subjects, as their 
 victims and from whom they can most easily suck life 
 forces which will enable them to imperfectly sustain 
 and thus prolong their own. Being disembodied they 
 naturally gravitate to the points of least resistance, ac- 
 cording to a philosophical law. 
 
 Every person by his thoughts and habits creates the 
 magnetic aura or atmosphere which determines the 
 character of the psychic influences surrounding him. 
 
112 occui/r HELPS. 
 
 All space is filled with such living realities. The insidi- 
 ous methods which are used by invisible psychics to 
 drain people of their force will be dealt with more at 
 length in latter issues. Hypnotism is an interesting 
 subject, which, having served its main purpose, is a 
 good thing to outgrow and then let alone. 
 
 The philosophy of vibratory law explains a method 
 by which persons may go directly to the harmonious 
 vibrations of the inner and then by about the same pro- 
 cess reach the vibrations still farther within the soul, 
 and thus deal with their correspondingly greater 
 powers. They thus increase their psychic sensitive- 
 ness, and also their individuality as well, because they 
 come closely in touch with the higher self, which is 
 their only safe protection against malignant influences 
 from occult or unseen sources. 
 
 Understand hypnotism for what it is, in order to 
 guard yourself against its dangers, but then abandon 
 its slow, tedious methods and limited powers, to those 
 who fear the path of devotion or who know no better 
 way. 
 
 Thought is the keynote to vibration, and interior 
 thought is the pathway to the most occult and power- 
 ful vibrations in nature. Nature is the manifestation 
 of God through human nature. 
 
 Within you is a "wheel within a wheel," which to 
 you is the within of all wheels. It is the direction all 
 must go if they would "get in on the ground floor" of 
 occult power. 
 
 Your life may be rough on the surface, but no per- 
 son or thing except self-ignorance can prevent you 
 from getting in touch with the deep vibratory under- 
 currents of that place of peace within, which is your 
 
occui/r hei,ps. 113 
 
 temple of Divinity and which is able to bring the peace 
 and harmony of Divinity into your outward life by 
 thus forming such vibratory connections. It will do 
 more because high vibration is the essence of powe? as 
 well as harmony. When we enquire the cause of 
 vibration, we see that high vibration and its power is 
 possible only when backed and constantly supplied with 
 vitality by its first cause, which is truth. Thought 
 and true merit in man, the thinker, is the natural corre- 
 spondence of truth, which is God the Infinite polarity. 
 
 Would you reach and thus deal with the esoteric 
 undercurrents or higher selves of every person or thing 
 which comes into you life? You have only to reach 
 such undercurrents within yourself, knowing that they 
 will seek their own and so gravitate to such principles 
 within others with the same unerring precision 
 and fidelity with which water seeks its level. Would 
 you extend your outward relations in life? Your higher 
 self has vibratory connections with every living thing, 
 and therefore the true way to so extend your outward 
 relations is to get more closely in touch with that 
 higher self. 
 
 All persons are comparatively ignorant and they con- 
 tinually make mistakes in conduct even regarding per- 
 sonal matters, concerning which they are most conver- 
 sant. Then how can it be safe for one person to use 
 hypnotic suggestion in regard to what another should 
 do, concerning whose life he knows still less, or per- 
 haps nothing. To do so even with the consent of the party 
 so hypnotized, and in the most trivial matter or in refer- 
 ence to disease, is to prepare their minds for the recep- 
 tion of diabolical currents of hypnotic force from less 
 moral sources or from the invisible. He who takes the 
 
ii4 occui/r hh^ps. 
 
 responsibility of doing so should remember that vibra* 
 tory law so connects all persons concerned in its in- 
 fringements, that not one so concerned can possibly es- 
 cape its consequences and penalties until they are paid 
 in full. The execution of Divine justice in reference 
 to the laws of man' s constitution is not characterized 
 by the ridiculous abortions which are seen in the exe- 
 cution of man-made laws. A deep responsibility rests 
 on the shoulders of him who teaches man how to use 
 the occult forces in nature. He is personally responsi- 
 ble for everything which is done by virtue of the 
 knowledge so given. 
 
 If man is taught the use of such powers and he thus 
 pulls down upon his head a "Tower of Babel" his 
 teacher is likewise responsible and a sufferer. 
 
 It is not strange that such knowledge has been kept 
 secret in past ages except to the few who were ready 
 to safely protect it and to properly use and not misuse 
 such forces. Do you see how great are the induce- 
 ments for complete consecration in such a work? Do 
 you think one would want to be crushed by the ap- 
 pallingly great disasters which would unquestionably 
 come to him if he should teach such laws in a way that 
 would lead to their misuse? Do you think one could 
 afford to allow questions of personality or ambition to 
 enter into such a work? He who answers yes, little 
 comprehends how relentlessly invincible is the j ustice 
 of vibratory law. The daily prayer of such teachers 
 should be for greater consecration. May all who are 
 helped by such teachings offer for the ones who give 
 them, a prayer that they may be inspired by true fidelity 
 to the truth and the higher self in their work. 
 
 This is the beginning of a new cycle, and the time 
 
occui/r hexps. 115 
 
 when to know such truths but to withhold them from 
 the world, also involves a deep responsibility. 
 
 Is it not a crime to withhold from others knowledge 
 which will enable them to shield themselves from the 
 dangers of hypnotic suggestion or other unseen thought 
 forces and influences? Is it not almost a crime to with- 
 hold knowledge which has such a vitally important 
 bearing on one's life in every practical and spiritual 
 way? It is clearly the duty of every earnest student 
 to use active means in extending it. "A little knowl- 
 edge is a dangerous thing," especially concerning such 
 forces. 
 
 The inducements for conforming to the true spirit of 
 these laws are almost irresistable. Their powers when 
 misused or abused are but limited for reasons already 
 given, and the safeguards against their misuse or abuse 
 are inherent in the laws themselves, therefore the chief 
 responsibility rests on him who withholds such know- 
 ledge and who cowardly shrinks from the enormous 
 responsibility involved. 
 
 There are many practices known and used by Occult- 
 ists for obtaining development and thought control, 
 which if used in ignorance of their relations and esoteric 
 meanings would perhaps destroy the body or lead to 
 other disastrous consequences. 
 
 Complete renunciation of the soul to the higher life 
 opens a safe door to esoteric vibrations which would 
 play sad havoc with a body not yet wholly free from 
 passions, animal tendencies and worldly desires. The 
 steep and narrow pathway of initiation should not be 
 undertaken until the time is ripened by a little pre- 
 liminary work. A few spasmodic yearnings of the 
 soul for light and esoteric knowledge is not a sufficient 
 
n6 occui/r hei,ps. 
 
 basis for undertakings in the direction of occult know- 
 ledge which involves the absolute necessity of unwaver- 
 ing fidelity and devotion to the higher self and to the 
 cause, and which to him who through lack of courage, 
 turns back, involves a fate worse than that of Lot's wife. 
 
 After all, truth is simple and such simple occult prac- 
 tices as those used by our Brotherhood are replete 
 with esoteric meanings to awakened souls who intuitively 
 read between the lines. Many observers of our noon 
 hour practice catch the rhythm of sympathetic co-opera- 
 tive thought vibration without understanding why it is 
 so easy to thus get into the vibratory undercurrents of 
 their own souls. 
 
 To reach those deeper vibrations within yourself is 
 the first step in getting into sympathetic relations and 
 companionship with the same principles in others. To 
 see into the depths of another soul and so move it to 
 action must come by first seeing the God within your- 
 self face to face. Let every person sit at home and 
 thus deal with vibratory causes as the true method of 
 bringing into the outward life all pleasant circumstances 
 and loving companionships which surely follow as ef- 
 fects and necessary consequences. This is the true 
 method of business and art and of happiness and com- 
 panionship. 
 
 One companionship based on these deeper vibratory 
 currents of the soul is worth a million of the ordinary 
 frappe or surface friendships which pertain to only the 
 very low rates of vibration. 
 
 In dealing with the within man is dealing with an 
 eternal public. Vibratory law shows why. 
 
 To make sure that you deal with the governing and 
 universal laws within is to make sure of correspondingly 
 wide effects without. 
 
OCCUI/f HEXPS. 117 
 
 Are you a musician desiring large audiences and 
 complete success in your art? 
 
 Go first to the within and deal with the higher 
 octaves of musical vibrations. 
 
 When you touch the almost overpoweringly har- 
 monious notes which relate to the universal love 
 principle in man, if your technique and instrument are 
 what they should be, you are ready to reach the hearts 
 of an audience almost as universal. The reason why 
 many musicians do not succeed is about the same as the 
 reason why water does not rise above its source. 
 
 Iyife, as well as music, is vibration and every life has 
 its musical key. The way for a musician to touch the 
 key to every heart is to extend his musical keyboard so 
 it will include the higher octaves. When it reaches 
 the God vibration of universal love every heart will re- 
 spond and echo to its magic harmony and the warmth 
 of its fires. 
 
 That keyboard may be so extended by simple occult 
 methods of going to the within. 
 
 Musical moods naturally beget the musical vibration 
 in others. Acts are only the manifestation, expression 
 and extension of the vibrations of thought. Produce 
 the proper thoughts by getting to the proper depths 
 within and the law of vibration being the cause will 
 take due care of all its outward correspondence. 
 
 All things are thus founded on the realities of 
 their merits. The same rules apply to the success of a 
 writer. If a writer is not duly appreciated there is a 
 screw loose somewhere. 
 
 Some writers say that they can write equally well on 
 all subjects which sometimes means that they can't 
 write very well on any subject, because to write only 
 
n8 occui/r hei,ps. 
 
 from the head is generally to reach only the head, or not 
 even that. The weak vibrations which emanate only 
 from the head, generally die for lack of sustenance 
 before they get very far away from home. The vibra- 
 tions which emanate from the heart, if along sound lines, 
 are backed b}^ the exhaustless sustenance of their 
 eternal source. By a simple law of gravitation they 
 act as the natural outlet for many tributary streams. 
 
 True Occultism, like the first and great command- 
 ment, pertains to the heart and to its eternal realities. 
 Man's divine nature within is the God which he should 
 love with all his heart, for only thus can he get com- 
 mand of that principle of love and powerful vibration 
 which is able to straighten out all the tangles of his 
 outward life. The great commandment of love is the 
 basic law of man's constitution as well as the law of the 
 universe, and Occult Science teaches why it is the only 
 life by which man can make the most of his powers. 
 
 Are you an Artist ? Are you capable of that high 
 appreciation of the artistic which satisfies the esoteric 
 principles of harmony and beauty within ? 
 
 Your success is likely to be limited unless founded 
 on such realities. Every pursuit in life should be 
 founded on the basis of actual worth and followed by 
 those who recognize and depend on its worth. 
 
 The follower of any occupation who has not attuned 
 his vibrations of appreciation to its inner meanings and 
 actual worth, is an untuned instrument from which 
 little except discordant notes and acts can reasonably be 
 expected. 
 
 Let every reader who would truly live his individual 
 life, at each noon hour join the Home Silent Thought 
 Brotherhood in going to the within for help, strength, 
 
occui/r hki^ps. 119 
 
 wisdom, comfort and happiness, and thus get in closer 
 touch with his higher self and the rhythmic vibrations 
 of sympathetic co-operative thought currents. 
 
 This beginning, if faithfully followed, should assist 
 in putting each person on the right track if he is not 
 already there. He will be led right to the extent that 
 he keeps in close touch with that higher self. 
 
 That condition forms vibratory connections which 
 are able to reach to the ends of the earth for patronage. 
 Do you ask what should then be done ? L,et us suppose 
 that at the end of the noon hour meditation you are 
 looking out of the window asking yourself that question. 
 
 If there is a high wind can you not then and there 
 sow seed, by simply thinking that such winds have 
 power to carry the vibratory energies of your pro- 
 ductions and your thought wherever the winds go? 
 Whether your work is music, art, literature or any 
 other commodity, if founded on its actual merit, you 
 may thus reach to the ends of the world for patronage 
 and thus set up causes which will carry your work to 
 whoever would be benefitted by it. 
 
 If you watch the sunshine can you not think that 
 wherever the sun shines your work will be known and 
 appreciated to the extent that it ought to be? If it 
 rains you can think the same of the rain. If you read 
 a newspaper you may sow seed by thinking that wher- 
 ever newspapers are read, your work will go if it ought 
 to go, remembering that as thought has vibratory 
 power to stand one editor up in a corner and reach the 
 vibratory powers of his soul, it likewise has power to 
 image a million editors standing in a row and thus deal 
 with their soul principles collectively. Thought is not 
 limited by size or numbers and rules which apply in 
 
120 OCCULT HELPS. 
 
 sending it to individuals, can be adjusted to apply also 
 to any number of persons or things. 
 
 Thought has unlimited creative power and the only 
 thing which limits our thought is ignorance, which it is 
 possible to overcome. 
 
 Thought which is founded on an evil desire, for 
 reasons already given, has comparatively little vibratory 
 power, therefore the only way to deeply influence a 
 million editors is to get in line with esoteric principles 
 which mean their good as well as your own. 
 
 A person who uses such forces for business purposes, 
 that are not founded on justice and good will to others 
 concerned, will bring to himself misery and disaster in 
 proportion to the potency of the powers so used. The 
 punishment therefor is the self acting penalty of in- 
 fringed natural law from which there is no possible 
 escape. 
 
 The only safe way is to qualify every such use of 
 thought force by the thought and desire, if this is not 
 right or best let it not be. 
 
 A person should not use will force on individuals or 
 suggest details as to what they should do. He has the 
 right and it is his duty to deal with and so awaken the 
 higher selves of people with whom he comes in contact, 
 but should steer absolutely clear of anything which 
 borders on hypnotic suggestion. Co-operative thought 
 does not mean hypnotic suggestion. It means that 
 where many people, by the same simple process and at 
 the same time, periodically connect themselves with 
 their higher selves, they thus add to the power of the 
 rhythmic connecting currents of vibration and help 
 each other in thus helping themselves. The desire for 
 right must be something more than an idle word. It is 
 the thought which carries the vibratory power. 
 
occui/r helps. 121 
 
 Hypocrisy and insincerity are boomerangs in propor- 
 tion to their vibratory intensity and depth. 
 
 It is an unvarying law of thought that the greatest 
 occult power goes hand in hand with high character and 
 an altruistic purpose, because great power only pertains 
 to the high vibrations of eternal things. If you are a 
 business man and wish to get on a sure foundation by 
 the accomplishment of results through the power of 
 thought, you should first by methods of concentration 
 get into the regions of esoteric vibration within your 
 own heart, and put forth an earnest desire or prayer to 
 be led right. 
 
 Then slowly form your plans, basing them in every 
 detail on the principles of love and justice, including 
 justice to self. I^et us suppose that as a manufacturer 
 or merchant you wish to deal through some general 
 channel which affords an outlet for your goods. Go 
 first to the within and attain an inner key of high vi- 
 bratory power. Then make friends with the spirit (or 
 esoteric vibration) of that channel and with the higher 
 selves of the persons who control it. I,et the sincere 
 desire and thought go forth that you each may be led 
 by your higher selves to every thought, word or act 
 that should enter into your business connections in 
 every respect. You thus set up in advance the vibra- 
 tory causes of wisdom and power to be so led. Do not 
 fear if the way should open up slowly. Remember 
 that as you are dealing with causes you have nothing 
 to fear from any unfavorable surface appearances. 
 
 Your body should act only when led to do so by the 
 higher 'self. Trust to the thought powers behind the 
 throne and in time you will be astonished at the good 
 results. This law has been demonstrated and will 
 
122 OCCUI/T HEI^PS. 
 
 always prove true to the extent that it is faithfully ap- 
 plied. Surface disturbances must be disregarded, and 
 to the extent that you are in the region of esoteric vi- 
 brations within, you will have the faith, courage and 
 power so to do. 
 
 The world has yet to see the wonderful things that 
 may be accomplished singly and alone through the 
 wonderful potency of this great agency, thought. 
 
 Many materially minded business men unconsciously 
 follow thought methods, and if truly seen their success 
 can be measured by the degree to which they avail 
 themselves of its power. 
 
 This philosophy absolutely explodes the commonly 
 accepted idea that dishonesty is more than a match for 
 honesty. One cannot get far in the study of esoteric 
 vibrations without being fully convinced that the op- 
 posite is always true. Man is always comparatively 
 weak until he learns how to draw on the omnipotence 
 of truth within. 
 
 To reach the deeper soul vibrations through the key 
 of interior thought, enables one to bring the same 
 principles of action to the surface in others and thus ab- 
 solutely compel perfect honesty and truthfulness, even 
 from those who otherwise would be farthest from it. 
 
 Sooner or later all persons must learn to rely on the 
 powers within themselves and dispense with all crutches 
 or helps from others. This we strongly urge on the 
 part of all members of our Brotherhood. Our aim is 
 unity of goal but freedom of individual action. 
 
 Do you ask if we do not help members in times of 
 great need when they are unable to get from within 
 the right vibrations for themselves? Yes, we do. That, 
 however, is kept chiefly as a separate department. At 
 
occui/r he^ps. 123 
 
 small expense members may avail themselves of such 
 special individual thought helps. 
 
 Our regular noon hour meditation is confined almost 
 exclusively to general work for the good of members 
 collectively. In that way and by the help of members 
 of esoteric degrees, we insure harmonious currents and 
 uniformly good results. 
 
 Persons who are ill or who have difficult business or 
 other situations in life to contend with, if unable single- 
 handed to muster sufficient power from within to har- 
 monize and control such circumstances without loss, 
 disaster or misery, may apply to us for help. 
 
 To connect such persons with the right vibrations 
 within and to do such other things as will connect them 
 harmoniously with the esoteric currents of their sur- 
 rounding circumstances and opportunities and thus un- 
 tangle the same, is the extent of such helps and the 
 essence of all true help. 
 
 Under no circumstances will we become parties to 
 any use of occult forces which borders on hypnotic sug- 
 gestion, or aid in promoting any unjust business re- 
 sults. Our methods are such that every such help 
 will promote justice and not defeat it. 
 
 By the power of spiritual thought one person may 
 assist another in coming into closer harmony with 
 the higher self, and also in coming into harmonious re- 
 lations with the spiritual undex'currents surrounding 
 him and to which the surface conditions must always 
 quickly change to correspond. That is what we aim 
 to do. Such outside helps should not be appealed to 
 until one has exhausted his available opportunities to 
 do that same thing for himself, because sooner or later 
 all must learn to rely on their strength from within. 
 
124 OCCULT HELPS. 
 
 Man's surroundings are his magnetisms and it is with 
 the harmonious vibrations within that he should deal 
 in order to make those magnetisms or effects according 
 to his taste. The Brotherhood of man is the great es- 
 oteric fact which underlies all true religious teachings. 
 We aim to show its philosophy and to assist, by practi- 
 cal methods, in making it outwardly an actual reality. 
 
 Those who can comprehend the philosophy are in- 
 vited to judge of our methods in the light of that phil- 
 osophy and those who cannot so comprehend it, have 
 the opportunity to judge of it by a practical trial of its 
 methods and then in the light of experience so 
 obtained. 
 
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 are sufficiently liberal in thought, and free from prejudice, to read our 
 literature. 
 
 Do not say, ' ' There is nothing I can do. ' ' Who knows how 
 many weary hearts may be helped with their burdens, and how wide 
 may be the influence of such simple acts as the sending of a single 
 address. You will feel all the better by thus helping others, and we 
 will send you kindly and helpful thoughts. Do not wait. Send 
 names now. Send 15 cents for the May number of Occult Science 
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 EMERSON'S ESSAYS. 
 
 We advise students of Occult Science to read Emerson's Essays 
 in connection with our Occult Science library. It is generally found 
 that they cast new rays of light on the subject and help illuminate 
 points that might otherwise seem obscure. 
 
 Those who order our (25 cent) edition of Emerson's Essays 
 (first series, 304 pages bound in paper) will receive a copy of the 
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 A great many members of The Home Silent Thought Brother- 
 hood use these publications in connection with each other. To do 
 so is, therefore, an efficient aid in getting more in harmony with 
 their united thought currents. We would, also, suggest i that the 
 Occult Science Library be used as a key or help in interpreting the 
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 could offer UNLIMITED opportunities to such students as have the 
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 Students who are not far advanced should first take at least the 
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 Any person may join the first degree, free of charge, by sending 15 cents for 
 a twenty-one page copy of Occult Science Library (No. 1, Vol. 1), entitled, 
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 This booklet explains how to conform to thought conditions which will 
 enable one to draw, for his individual needs, on the helpful vibratory thought 
 currents which are produced daily, at noon, by the Brotherhood. 
 
 It, also, states the objects of the seven exoteric degrees, gives the terms and 
 conditions of membership, and explains the general purposes of the five esoteric 
 degrees. 
 
 HELPS. 
 
 For the benefit of those who need special occult helps in times of illness, 
 business trouble, etc., we have organized a special department which is in 
 charge of competent persons who have been thoroughly trained for that work, 
 and, who receive the co-operation of the Brotherhood at certain times each day. 
 
 We strongly urge that each person should learn to develop and use his own 
 occult powers, that he may not have occasion to depend upon others. All 
 true help is self help; and, as all persons possess powers, which, if understood, 
 would enable them to help themselves in every emergency, they should learn 
 to use them, and then dispense with all outward crutches. 
 
 The department in question is at the service of those who have not yet 
 fully learned how to depend on such forces within themselves. 
 
 The April (1897) number of Occult Science Library, entitled, "Occult 
 Helps," explains the purpose and method of this department. It will be 
 mailed to any address on receipt of 15 cents. 
 
 LOCAL CLUBS. 
 
 There are special advantages to be derived by forming local branches of 
 the Brotherhood. The costs of joining are so slight, that those who are led to 
 do so should join at least the first degree, and then make such farther investi- 
 gation as may be shown to be advantageous. 
 
 FREE CIRCULATING LIBRARY. 
 
 Clubs of seven or more, who join the second degree of the Brotherhood, 
 will be given special helps in forming circulating libraries. Those who are 
 unable to buy many books on occult subjects, may obtain the use of such 
 books ra this way. 
 
 Address OCCULT SCIENCE LIBRARY, Chicago, III. 
 
Agents. 
 
 Our publications aim to show how to produce results in all business and 
 art, through the powers of silent thought. Our success has earned for us the 
 right to say, we have demonstrated by actual results, the truth of the prin- 
 ciples we teach. 
 
 We invite the co-operation of those who are interested in this work, and 
 believe we can offer them advantages in undertaking for us, in their locality, 
 a local work, which will bring them excellent financial returns. 
 
 The spiritual currents, which back the sale of our publications and the 
 work of our Brotherhood, have proved themselves to be so strong, that the out- 
 pouring of material results, which follows as they are brought to the attention 
 of earnest hearts, should be regarded only as the material correspondence of 
 that which has already been created spiritually ; which actually exists now in 
 the spiritual world . 
 
 In representing our work, agents are not allowed to urge people to 
 become patrons. In fact, among the more intelligent classes, sales nearly 
 always follow as the publications are properly brought to their notice, even 
 before they know that to purchase the same admits them to the first two 
 degrees of the Brotherhood, and to the permanent advantages of its daily helps. 
 
 This rule is net made merely to whet people's appetites by "fencing them 
 out," but, because, if urged, their patronage under such conditions would set up 
 the wrong vibratory thought currents. Are you to be our standard bearer ? 
 Ask yourself that question and abide by the answer which comes to you from 
 within. 
 
 General Agents. 
 
 It is our purpose to establish permanent branches of our work in localities 
 where the developments make it necessary. We will make favorable contracts 
 with such local agents as may show by their success in obtaining results, that 
 they can conduct such branches successfully. Those who really belong to the 
 work will be led to it, and none others are wanted in any of its departments. 
 Our General Agents will be selected from the faithful field workers. As each 
 worker will be placed on the solid footing of actual merit, he need not fear but 
 what he will receive the ample rewards which generous returns justify. 
 
 Address 
 
 OCCULT SCIENCE LIBRARY... .Chicago, III. 
 
Character Delineations 
 
 It is designed in this important department of our work, to offer students 
 the safe means of obtaining that true self-knowledge which is at the foundation 
 of all development of occult powers. It is only when one fully understands 
 his individual talents and capacities, that he can make the most of them. To 
 the degree that one lacks conscious omnipotence, does he need self-knowledge. 
 
 This department was originally intended, exclusively, for the somewhat 
 advanced members of our Brotherhood. The entire cost of our first five degrees 
 of the Brotherhood, which includes these delineations, two books, and the 
 Occui/T Science Library Magazine for a year, is $7.50 (only $2.50 more 
 than the delineations alone), and, it is a great advantage to take the delinea- 
 tions in connection with the degrees ; but, they will be given separately if de- 
 sired. The five degrees may be taken at one time. 
 
 In these delineations we undertake by exhaustive and scientific methods, 
 to ascertain what are the various esoteric undercurrents of the character in 
 question, and thus are we able to give helps and accurate advice for the develop- 
 ment of the individual talents so discovered, such as could be obtained, per- 
 haps, in no other way. Do you value business success and growth ? 
 
 Your Business Adaptation 
 
 is the most important question you have to consider. You cannot over- 
 estimate its importance. Failure, disappointment, regrets, and humiliations 
 are the almost certain results of ill-chosen pursuits. Most persons stumble 
 into business, or, are thrown into it by accident, tempdrary necessity, misguided 
 ambition, or perverted fancy, without any serious thought as to their real 
 fitness for the vocation they adopt. The natural consequence is waste of time 
 and life's forces, loss of hope and courage, and a sapping of the very founda- 
 tions of success and talent. 
 
 Success is Certain 
 
 in most cases where they get into the right place, and then work faithful!)*-, 
 with the earnestness which hope and adaptation inspires. Most persons have 
 .en times more talent than they think, and waste their very lives in occupa- 
 tions which yield only about one=tenthof the money and happiness that would 
 be possible in an occupation scientifically determined by their inherent con- 
 stitutional biases. Address 
 
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 Where born (near what large city) ' 
 
 Circumference of head : inches. 
 
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 Height of person .feet " 
 
 Size aroimd chest just lender arms " 
 
 Size around the waist " 
 
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How to Obtain a Situation. 
 
 It is suicidal neglect, foolhardy and almost ridiculous to espouse a business for 
 which you are constitutionally disqualified. A sure guide to success is a scientific de- 
 lineation of your character, wh ; ch shows to a certainty what you are best fitted for by 
 your natural bent and inherent bias. Do you not know how mortifying and absolutely 
 paralyzing it is to be tied to a loathed dead carcass business in which you can never 
 hope to attain even mediocrity? Phrenology has stood the test for over one hundred 
 yeai's, and when conscientiously applied by one who has mastered it, offers a sure, 
 because strictly scientific guide, to the right occupation and road to success. It shows 
 your matrimonial adaptations, how to correct your faults and make the most of your 
 talents, obtain suitable employment, etc., etc. 
 
 Horace Mann, that highest educational authority, said: "Young persons should 
 spend their last dollar, if necessary, before starting out in life, in learning from 
 Phrenology to what pursuit they are naturally adapted." 
 
 Palmistry and Astrological readings will also help by showing the periods in life 
 which will be most fortunate and unfortunate, how to prepare for them and what yov 
 can reasonably hope for. 
 
 Character Delineations, Palmistry Readings, Etc., 
 
 are made by the author of Occult Science Library daily from 9 till 12 a. m. All char- 
 acter delineations are made from strictly scientific and occult standpoints. The power 
 to make them with a reasonable degree of scientific accuracy and with absolute safety, 
 has evolved from many years of patient, enthusiastic and exhaustive study, observa- 
 tion and experience, reaching to the very fundamental esoteric principles of Occult 
 Science which explains the mystery of man's real nature. Related branches more or 
 less occult and of widely varying interest, value and bearing on the subject, such as 
 Cheirognomy, Cheiromancy, Graphology, Anthropology, Physiology, Physiognomy, 
 Phrenology, Astrology, Astronomy, Theosophy, Eastern Psychology, Christian Sciences 
 Raja Yoga, Hermetic and Vedanta Philosophy, as well as such fragments as Hypnotism, 
 Clairvoyance, Spiritualism, etc., have each been sifted without prejudice and with 
 reference to the light they throw on the constitution of man. The value, therefore, of 
 such delineations and readings, conscientiously made by one who by nature reasons 
 from first principles and who has covered the above field of study, etc., is at once ap- 
 parent and can hardly be overestimated. It is at least not to be compared with the 
 blunderings of those who pick up some single fragment of the subject (and then claim 
 everything for it) , and it is a great safeguard against mistakes and dangerous periods in 
 the life (thus foreseen). Young people cannot make the most of themselves and their 
 opportunities, or even understand their business or matrimonial adaptations until they 
 thoroughly understand themselves. Mothers, Housekeepers, Teachers, Clergymen, 
 Physicians or others who have the care of children, servants or others cannot make the 
 most of their positions and opportunities until they understand their strong and weak 
 points. Delineations can be made in manuscript form for parties who live at a distance. 
 Send 15cents for booklet entitled, "Powers of Silent Thought to Produce Results in all Busines 
 and Art." Address all communications to 
 
 ERNEST LOOniS & CO., 
 
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THE OCCULT.SC1ENCE LIBRARY 
 
 is a monthly magazine which deals with the powers latent in man and 
 shows ways of bringing them into manifestation in all business and art. ♦. It 
 offers without charge to each reader, the daily silent thought helps of the 
 Home Silent Thought Brotherhood, which was organized for practical work 
 along occult lines for the benefit of our students and readers who can share 
 in the practical advantages it offers, by simply following the directions there- 
 in given from time to time. It is adapted to all persons who have needs. 
 Who has not? 
 
 SYNOPSIS OF OCTOBER NUMBER. 
 
 Powers of Silent Co-operative Thought to Produce Results In all 
 Business and Art. 
 
 All solids only rates of vibration. — What thought vibrations can accom- 
 plish. — Value of this knowledge. — Its means of practice. — Why knowledge 
 is power. — Importance of co-operative thought. — Dealing with the unseer . 
 — Wastes of force. — Keys to unlock latent forces within. — True knowledge 
 necessarily occult. — How to accomplish results without effort. — Occult 
 Science and health. — Occult theology. — Ending next year of 5000 year 
 Cycle. — What is sure to follow.— Rewards for obeying occult law. — Its 
 bearing on health, business, etc. — Penalties for abuse. — How to dissolve ob- 
 stacles, discords or matter. — Cross vibrations. — Clue to our methods. — Plans 
 and objects of first 7 degrees of Home Silent Thought Brotherhood. — How 
 to reap its practical advantages. — The 5 Esoteric degrees. — Unlimited oppor- 
 tunities offered. — How force is gained — Drawing on Infinite forces. — Occult 
 power of right — Why honesty is policy. — Thought currents. — Unseen forces 
 that attract. — Power of combined thought. — Getting in thought current of 
 Infinite good. — Power of heat (sunlight) or thought to deal with rates of 
 vibration of things. — Kingdom of power within. — Present methods shut off 
 force. — Power of co-operative thought to attract companionships. 
 
 NOVEMBER NUMBER— Love is Power. 
 
 Powers of silent thought to attract your real friends. — Heart the center of 
 occult forces. — Intuitions the fountain of your omniscience. — How to avoid 
 misery — True source of happiness. — Where occult forces are found. — Why 
 we must reverse educational and business methods. — "Mental leprosy" — 
 True elixir of life. — Society heart-starved. — Why occult science the fashion. 
 — Magical helps. — How to become strong with nature's strength. — Man's 
 dignity. — Selfishness unevolved love. — Evolved man will protect, not hang 
 weaker fell owmen. — Penalties of meat eating. — Law of love certain to be 
 fulfilled. — Man divine, not brute. — How selfishness expands to love.— Our 
 pre-existance.- -Man's destruction impossib 1 e. — How heart's powers evolved. 
 — Matrimonial harvest of shattered ideals. — Love's counterfeit. — Our imagi- 
 nary hitching posts —Love's powers. — How to awaken love. — Great changes 
 prophesied. — Necessary preparations for new and inevitable conditions. — 
 Value of self-knowledge. — How to obtain it. 
 
 SUBJECT FOR DECEMBER— Woman's Occult Forces. 
 
 . Sample copies will be sent on receipt of price, 15 cents. Readers are re- 
 quested to send the names of friends who are liberal thinkers, so that 
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OccuMciencHIibrary 
 
 Is a Monthly Magazine which shows how to 
 accomplish results in all business and art 
 throug-h the silent powers of mind 
 
 SYNOPSIS: December Number— "Woman's Occult Forces." 
 
 How occult powers born— Occult influences which produce large cities— Interlaced 
 occult currents- Seers and Occultists— Power of justice— What Occultists foresee— 
 Disasters for three years, then upward impulse— Why— How to deal with difficulties— 
 What selfish thought vibrations generate— A spiritual thunderstorm— Financial chem- 
 icalization—Woman's opportunity— Woman's wisdom faculties— Occult causes of wom- 
 an's beauty— How not to interrupt rythm of occult beauty currents— Woman's power 
 over man— Occult mirror which reveals secrets of woman's charms— Woman ruler of 
 love's paradise— Occult mysteries reduced to simple rules— What woman's heart reveals 
 —Man's third eye— Developing inner spiritual power— Man's needs related to morals 
 and immortality— Creative power of thoughts— How to break chains of imaginary serv- 
 itude—Man free now— How— Wfc at your thought can do— Self-knowledge— Its advantages 
 —Spiritual liberation now— Man's connection with his source— Universal charity— How 
 all are actually related— Harmful thought vibrations suicidal— Why "curses come home 
 to roost"— Right is might— Events registered in astral light— How read— Clairvoyant 
 faculty discovered in brain before spiritualism began— How to obtain ideal surroundings 
 —Man self-hypnotized— Man's dignity— Man not "worm of the dust"— "Wormy theory" 
 exploded— How woman's inner sight can aid man— Examples— How to accomplish great 
 business results— How to instruct your higher self to teach you to accomplish results, 
 improve your health, etc., during sleep— Important rules for each day— How business 
 made easy— A wakening inner force— Using it— Reaching it in others— Difficulties— How 
 removed— Why true selfishness needs no restraints— Nature always right— World not 
 out of joint— Why finer tastes should be gratified— The Christ's example misunderstood 
 —Spiritual liberation comes by expanding (not stifling) selfishness— How to obtain an 
 abundance— Proper uses of sympathy— Thought currents— Influence of thought— Action 
 and its fruits one and inseparable. 
 
 January Subject— "How to Rule Your Kingdom." 
 
 Possible to gratify every wish— How— The atom's evolution— Need of self-knowledge 
 — Man's connection with his source— How to demonstrate its omnipotence— Thought's 
 vibratory powers— Its origin— Matter is vibration or solidified thought— Proofs of 
 science and Roetgen X rays— Proofs of oneness between God, man and so called mat- 
 ter— Evolution cleared up— Immortality of man's thinking power— Thought's omnipo- 
 tence— The successful mood— Thought control -Man's kingdom the universe— Ties be- 
 tween thought moods and success-How to produce at will and maintain successful 
 moods— How to organize thought forces— Little success until learned— Thought moods 
 of failure— How make every undertaking successful— Producing thought moulds- 
 Necessity of justice— Dealing with causes— How to keep at bay destructive forces— Why 
 a just purpose potent— Life continuous— How to quiet fears— Why the "will" makes 
 "the way"— How serenity maintained— Sowing thought seeds of success— Positive and 
 negative moods— Changing mental polarity— Bodily inactivity advantageous— Why- 
 Cultivating intuitions— Overactivity founded on fear and worry— Progress during sleep 
 —Trust— Right leadings— Methods outlined for organizing thought forces— How to brace 
 up faltering thought faculties— What worry signifies— Doing one thing at a time— Why 
 necessary— Thought still active during small acts— Moods win success, and not direct 
 thought alone Why power and happiness synonymous— Overshadowing soul's constant 
 presence— How secured— Success thus assured— Desires to do imply ability to do— Per- 
 manent thought moods solidify. 
 
 February Subject— "Useful Occult Practices." 
 
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Occult Science Library 
 
 A MONTHLY MAGAZINE 
 
 Devoted to the development of man's powers 'within. 
 Price 91.SO per year or lSc per number. 
 
 SYNOPSIS : 
 
 Subject for February— "Useful Occult Practices." 
 
 Man has within power to gratify every wish— How— How to control circumstances— 
 An 'Alladin's Lamp"— Occult practices that can be easily applied— Simple methods of 
 obtaining proofs— Man born to be rich— Proofs of immortality- -Man's irresistible mag- 
 net—Power of thought to satisfy wants— Occult practices founded on laws of thought- 
 Secret of man's power— Vibration essence of things— Thought controls vibration— In- 
 terior thought methods which awaken high vibrations— How to reach its depths— Power 
 of silence— Why more potent than wh> n spoken -Why words retard thought vibrations 
 — Sacred words— Nature's punishments for profanity— Vibratory effect of disagreeable 
 words— The "Aura" of books — An occult brotherhood— Available by all at home- 
 Founded on laws of silence, thought, help from within, etc.— No costs for joining— Ad- 
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 methods of dispensing blessings— Rings, books, money, etc.— All power from interior 
 unfoldment— Self knowledge — Special room, time, etc., for focusing occult forces— Esot- 
 eric significance of words— What occult observances enable persons to do— Friendships, 
 business success, etc.— Means of growth— Essence of success— Surrounding conditions 
 correspondences of permanent moods — Laws of vibration— Scientific theories exploded 
 — Basis of magic— Enlarging man's relations— Law of love the basis of occultism and 
 self-help - How to obtain p;easant surroundings— How nature makes people think— 
 Phrophecies for coming three years— Occult consequences of suicide— Vampires— Fi- 
 nancial changes, earthquakes, etc., etc.— Astronomical proofs— Causes— How disasters 
 avoided. 
 
 March Subject:— "Esoteric Laws of Happiness." 
 
 Cause of happiness and misery— An irresistible magnet— Organized vibration— Man 
 a magnet— His organizing cause— Magnetic effects of thoughts—How to reach vibratory 
 keys of happiness— Why people are unhappy— How to remove the cause— Occult methods 
 of obtaining knowledge— Other occult powers— Vibratiou, knowledge, happiness, power. 
 etc. interrelated— The line which ties man to h ; s source— How to realize every hope — 
 Why man looks in wrong direction for happiness— The evolution of the soul— What 
 comes after death— Earth bound souls— Joy and bliss the natural condition of the soul- 
 Activity of faculties happiness— Mental cause of misery— How avoided- Discordant vi- 
 brations—Secret of happiness— Cause of business failure— Cause of success and happi- 
 ness the same— Why desires bring things desired- How to create advance conditions 
 which bring happiness— How to keep the mind balanced and normal— Thought control- 
 How to attract real friends— How to obtain reciprocal affection— How to withdraw 
 thought from misery— How to produce and maintain moods of happiness— How to con- 
 trol fears, etc.— Misery springs from reversed action of faculties— The true basis of in- 
 dependence and happiness. 
 
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TESTIMONIALS. 
 
 Thousands have voluntarily expressed their thanks for the 
 help which, through our work, it has been our good fortune 
 and pleasure to render them. 
 
 Their kindly " thoughts are things " which will in turn 
 help others. The following are from letters we have received. 
 We omit the names, as the letters were not intended for pub- 
 lication. 
 
 Woodlawn, Kansas, Feb. 19, 1897. 
 
 As one of the members of the Brotherhood, I am prompted 
 
 to write to you in my needs which are C. E. 
 
 Later. (March 4, 1897.) 
 
 I want to tell you that I think your special thought in 
 my behalf has done me a great deal of good. I was led to rush 
 around until I got two of the notes renewed, and then the 
 sweetest peace that you can imagine, settled down over me, 
 and I was without a particle of fear or doubt. Even the 
 
 thought of Mr. , who sold out the stock on which I 
 
 had the mortgage (for hundred dollars), who then went 
 
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 the slightest uneasiness. Oh ! if I could just learn to live that 
 way all the time, I would be so glad, etc., etc. 
 
 Later. (April 14, 1897.) 
 
 I have just received a letter frOm Mr. ■, who sold out 
 
 that mortgage stock, and who is one of the parties I am trying 
 
 to collect money of. He has sent me hundred dollars 
 
 this month, but wants to keep the remainder six months 
 longer. 
 
 I sent him that October copy of the Occult Science Library, 
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 about it, as he would pay every cent of it. I had the most fears 
 about this one. I then suffered so much with fear, and seemed 
 to have no power to control it. There is now one great im- 
 provement in myself, and that is deliverance from fear. I am 
 tempted sometimes to be fearful, but I have the power to drive 
 it away. You wanted me to send you any letters I might write 
 
 to any of these people, so I will send you this one to Mr. , 
 
 the first one I have written. I suppose you will forward it to 
 him, etc., etc. 
 
 Yours very respectfully, C. E. 
 
TESTIMONIALS.— Continued. 
 
 Chicago, Dec. 3, 1896. 
 Yours came this afternoon. You are right in saying ''we 
 all have needs, no matter how far advanced we are . " It does 
 not seem to me that I am far advanced, for my aspirations lead 
 me so much farther than I am. There is no limit. It seems 
 to me the deeper and higher I go the more I need. The maga- 
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 may be interested, and shall hope to aid the work by some 
 members, if in no other way. With the highest thought for 
 success in so noble an undertaking, I am sincerly and cordially, 
 
 Countess . 
 
 Galena, 111., March 9, 1897. 
 Please send at once all back numbers. This publication 
 has just been brought to my notice in such a way that I feel I 
 need and must have it, every number. A. G. D. 
 
 Topeka, Kan.. March 22, 1897. 
 
 I write to ask if you can oblige me by keeping for me a 
 file of the Occult Science Library beginning with the first num- 
 ber, Oct. 1, 1896, until I can send you the money for my sub- 
 scription to same. I do not wish to miss a single number and 
 can not at this moment send you the $1.50. hence my request. 
 
 I also desire to ta e the degrees as detailed in the October 
 number. To that end, I now accept your invitation on page 11 
 and will observe as much as I can of the noon hour. 
 
 E. M. B. 
 
 Boston, Mass.. March 12, 1897. 
 I received your Occult Science Library this morning, and I 
 believe you must have heard my humble cry for the light. I 
 had been trying so hard, and to have you send me just what I 
 needed, has made me happy beyond expression. I will try to 
 get you other subscribers. ' H. S. 
 
 Topeka, Kan., March 6, 1S97. 
 I heard the January number of the Occult Science Library 
 read before a metaphysical class, and thought it so helpful that 
 I could not get along without it for daily study. A. W. 
 
 Chicago, Jan. 12, 1S97. 
 I like the magazine very much and find it helps me in 
 many ways. I think you are on the right track. M. C. 
 
 Chicago, Sept. 15, 1S97. 
 A cop}* of Occult Science Library is at hand. I want to 
 subscribe for a year and also take the degrees. A. H. R. 
 
 Chicago, 111., Oct. 5, 1S97. 
 
 I assure you of my entire sympathy with the aims and 
 
 scope of your new periodical, and my conviction that it will be 
 
 a success'. I am very glad to avail myself of the noon hour 
 
 observance. I deeply realize the importance and helpfulness of 
 
TESTIMONIALS— Continued. 
 
 co-operative, higher thought, and am anxious to partake of its 
 blessing* and privileges. I have been growing just a little dis- 
 couraged in my efforts to rise above natural perplexities, and so 
 this comes very opportunely as a form of help I need. S. M. 
 
 Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 25, 1897. 
 Your Occult Science Library was put in my hands by mere 
 chance. It brings me renewed hope that just now, when at a 
 very critical period of my life, I may receive help from other 
 minds older and stronger than my own. L. C. M. 
 
 Puesto Plata, West Indies, March 21, 1897. 
 Mr. Ernest Loornis & Co. 
 
 Gentlemen: -Please find enclosed $1.50 for subscription to 
 Occult Science Library. I am very much interested. May I 
 translate such portions of your paper which would be of special 
 benefit to the people here, providing I credit the same to you? 
 
 Dr. V. L. 
 New Orleans, La., March 1, 1897. 
 
 Gentlemen: — Emerson's Essays and current number of the 
 magazine received, but not the 25 extra copies of the magazine 
 which I ordered. I have carefully read all the back numbers 
 to date. Intense satisfaction comes to me by reading these 
 pamphlets and I would not part with them for their weight in 
 gold. 
 
 You can put me down as one of your members who has 
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 ment of his desires by the use of thought forces . To-day i felt 
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 consciousness during the noon hour. J. M. 
 
 New York City, March 10, 1897. 
 
 I send you another list of names. I think your books 
 more logical, scientific, and practical than any I have read. All 
 others seem to begin in the middle and leave out half of the ex- 
 planation. If you have time to read an illustration: I once at- 
 tempted to study harmony by myself. I had a book on the sub- 
 ject, but the whole thing was "cleai as mud." Some years 
 later I went to Leipsic to study music. Though I did not 
 understand a word of German, yet the man at the blackboard 
 made the whole thing clear at a glance how and why it was. 
 This seems to me to be the way you write your books; 
 they are plain and clear. Why should any one vaguely allude 
 to certain things in a science and ask you to accept them. It 
 is so much more comprehensible to begin at the beginning as 
 you do. 
 
 St. Clair, Mich, May, 1, 1897. 
 
 I write you this in behalf of my sister, etc. 
 
 It is almost wonderful, the help I have received just from 
 observance of the noon hour in regard to health and in other 
 ways. B. M. 
 
TESTIMONIALS.— Continued. 
 
 Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 13, 1896. 
 You are, I see, up to the era in which you live. I know 
 the power of Silent Thought units. I am satisfied that such 
 power, and not ballots, is to relieve humanity of its yoke and 
 burdens. Once in the Inner Life, and the charm of all true 
 culture, and the beauty of life, become apparent. W. C. G, 
 
 Salt Lake City, Utah, April I, 1897. 
 I like the way you handle this subject. One does not have 
 to wade through a large volume to glean a few facts. 
 
 J. W. S. 
 
 Portersville, Cal., March 22, 1897. 
 Dear Sir: — I think yours the most practical articles on the 
 potency of thought, which I have ever seen, and I have studied 
 the subject somewhat nryself. C. C. H. 
 
 Muskegon, Mich., Feb. 5, 1897. 
 I have received the January number of Occult Science 
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 of thought for some time. Your little book has brought me 
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 increasing its circulation, I append a list of names. A. P. S. 
 
 Chicago, 111., Oct. 10, 1896. 
 I approve of every such effort put forth to benefit human- 
 ity, when it is along sound lines. Sincerity in effort will 
 eventually be crowned with success. U. N. G. 
 
 Chicago, 111., Sept. 20, 1896. 
 Gentlemen:— The copies of Occult Science Library left 
 with us on sale yesterday are entirely exhausted. Kindly ssnd 
 one dozen more with bill. Pub. Co. 
 
 Topeka, Kan., April 4, 1897. 
 I have been a close student on these lines for seven years, 
 and have read everything bearing on occult subjects that I 
 could buy or borrow, and heard six full courses of lectures. 
 Your essays are so free from the cant phrases which so many 
 use, that I am particularly pleased with them. I cannot tell 
 you how mam- I have loaned them to, and many of these 
 friends feel strongly drawn to join the Brotherhood. W. A. 
 
 Chester, Mass., Feb. 9, 1S97. 
 I received your magazine a short time ago, and I have 
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 one dollar on my subscription. I am a paralytic, and have not 
 had the use of my right hand, or walked without a cane, for 
 thirteen years. I feel sure I shall walk some time. 
 
 M. E. R. 
 
TESTIMONIALS— Continued* 
 
 TWELVE DAYS LATER. 
 
 Chester, Mass., Feb. 21, 1897. 
 Your noble magazine and the precious noon hour have 
 been such great help to me already that I feel I must let you 
 know what a wonderful work you are doing. This rnorning I 
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 shock thirteen years ago this afternoon. You have done a 
 wonderful work. I wish you God speed. M. B. R. 
 
 Chicago, April 12, 1897. 
 We are all deriving much benefit from your grand work 
 and the noon hour. M. K. 
 
 Porterville, Cal., April 29, 1897. 
 I wish to join the Brotherhood. The numbers of Occult 
 Science Library, which I have read, are greatly profitable to 
 me, and I desire to aid this great movement in mental and 
 spiritual progress. M. C. 
 
 Ochre River, Manitoba, Canada, March 23, 1897. 
 I have never before read anything which so thoroughly 
 meets with my ideas. H. C. R. 
 
 Chicago, March 26, 1897. 
 I desire to thank you for the great uplift the perusal of 
 your magazine has given me, and to express my delight at the 
 manner in which you treat these subjects, so valuable, and yet 
 so difficult to present to the untrained mind. You make the 
 subject so exceedingly plain and practical. The thoughts are 
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 work. C. H. S. 
 
 Montreal, Canada, March 10, 1897. 
 
 I have placed myself according to directions, enrapport 
 with the Brotherhood, and the result has been so satisfactory 
 that I feel eligible to the third degree. If you consider me a 
 worthy candidate for the fourth degree, I shall feel truly 
 honored. 
 
 I am often surprised at the results of these spiritual aspira- 
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 operation in other things, I am fully prepared to join forces with 
 others in the same line of thought. M. S. 
 
 Chicago, 111., April 19, 1897. 
 Third degree books received, and the vibration came with 
 them. Many thanks. R. J. B. 
 
 Chicago, April 9, 1897. 
 I could never tell you how much good the "Library" has 
 done me. I have always some number in my desk to aid me. 
 Wishing you the grand success your noble work deserves, and 
 thanking you for the great benefit it has been to me, I am, 
 
 Yours truly, J. S. 
 
TESTIMONIALS.-Continued. 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 20, 1896. 
 I would like to be a member of the two first degrees. I 
 
 have been a member of Swami 's class, but have a desire 
 
 to further develop the powers within. 
 
 Lately, through concentration, there came to me a wonder- 
 ful demonstration, and I desire further knowledge and growth 
 from within, through the help that comes from co-operation. 
 
 D. B. 
 
 Boston, Mass., Feb. 13, 1897. 
 I am greatly interested in your noon hour work. Observ- 
 ing the noon hour in whatever longitude the individual may be, 
 will eventually belt the globe with a continuous flow of good 
 thought. 
 
 I, to-day, interested a friend who may subscribe. 
 
 W. C. 
 
 Scranton, Penn., March 10, 1897. 
 I just received a copy of Occult Science Library. It was 
 the right number, sent at just the right time. It lent a gleam 
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 please find two dollars, for which please send the little maga- 
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 Sacramento, Cal., Feb. 6, 1897. 
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 Santiago, Santo Domingo, West Indies, March 4, 1897. 
 I love your magazine, and have loaned mine out. I hope 
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 near future to meet you. I trust you will meet with ever}- suc- 
 cess and encouragement in your noble work. D. B. J. 
 
 Darien, Conn., March 29, 1S97. 
 How can I ever express my thanks in words. Your helpful 
 thoughts have been of wonderful help to me. I just "drink in" 
 such truth with the same enjoyment as I do good music. Had 
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 Chicago, 111., Jan. 20, 1897. 
 
 After carefully perusing your magazine handed me yester- 
 day, I can say I am heartily in sympathy with every thought 
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 You would confer a great favor by explaining what qualifi- 
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 referred to in your advertisement. N. D. 
 
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