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 Mastery of Self. 
 
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 Theodore G. Northrup. 
 
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 The Church of Silent Demand 
 

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 Published November, 1917, 
 
 Copyright, 1917, 
 By THEODORE G. NORTHRUP, 
 
 149 Broadway, N. Y. City. 
 
 All Rights Reserved. 
 
 DEC 10 1917 
 
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INTRODUCTION. 
 
 WHAT the earnest student of metaphysics 
 wants, in a text-book, is a clear, intelli- 
 gible statement of fundamental facts in 
 Mental Law, — a statement which is sound, in 
 accordance with science, demonstrable and not 
 confused by appearing to be dependent upon 
 outside "authority" (biblical or otherwise) ; a 
 statement consecutively arranged, that is logical, 
 that appeals to common sense, that will work 
 when put to the "acid test" of experience. 
 
 Such a statement Mr. Northrup has given us 
 in this book — "Religion and Business." 
 
 It is intended especially for the "man on the 
 street," the man or woman who really wants to 
 know the true path of development and is ready 
 to set aside the intricacies of mere intellectual 
 gymnastics. 
 
 The statement is clear and simple and it 
 remains only for the student to follow carefully 
 the teaching to get the results promised. 
 
 The author's experience, however, of many 
 years, has shown him the wisdom of emphasiz- 
 
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 ing the fact that each one must u work out his 
 own salvation/' — must actually do the work for 
 themselves and not expect the reading of the 
 book only to bring far-reaching results. It is 
 only by this individual effort and exercise that 
 we can develop the strength and experience the 
 joy of true growth. 
 
 The lessons contained in this book will be 
 especially welcome right now, at this particular 
 time, and in suggesting the thought that each 
 one who finds them helpful, can hardly "do his 
 bit" more efficiently than extending to his 
 "neighbor" the opportunity of obtaining similar 
 benefits, I feel that an important service is being 
 performed. It is plainly evident from the 
 author's experience on the lecture platform, that 
 there are untold thousands ready to welcome 
 these teachings, as does the thirsty traveller the 
 spring of "living water." 
 
 Walter Goodyear. 
 
FOREWORD. 
 
 IT is the purpose of this book to carry those 
 who read and study its pages from the 
 thought of limitation into the consciousness 
 of mastery, — believing there can be a religious 
 ideal which can be made so clear, intelligible 
 and rational that it will command the brains of 
 men as well as attract their hearts. 
 
 As I look around upon this world of effect I 
 cannot help seeing that the large majority of 
 people are living in the thought of limitation 
 and are experiencing as a result of this thought 
 sickness, trouble and poverty, w 7 hen with a 
 knowledge of God and their own Powers they 
 can reach out into the unseen world and bring 
 into manifestation Peace, Joy and Abundance 
 of all good. I send this book forth into the 
 world of effect on its mission of teaching that 
 abundance of everything man can possibly want 
 is at his command when he understands the law 
 of his being. 
 
 Theodore G. Northrup. 
 

CONTENTS. 
 
 The Creator or Cause .... 9 
 
 The Created or Effect .... 23 
 
 All is Good — There is No Evil . . 34 
 
 The Silence 45 
 
 Healing Self and Others . . .58 
 
 Application in Business .... 72 
 
 Controlling Environment ... 93 
 
 Mastery of Self 110 
 

 
CHAPTER I.— CREATION. 
 
 THIS is a time in the world's experience 
 when men want to know more about God ; 
 more about themselves and more about 
 their responsibilities. We are meeting crises, in 
 the presence of which man begins to ask ques- 
 tions, — crises which the world has never met 
 before. 
 
 A popular writer has recently asked the fol- 
 lowing question : — u Why does the Almighty, 
 the all merciful God, who created the universe 
 and even the stars, allow His christian children 
 to perpetrate this horrible slaughter in Europe? 
 Shall we in this enlightened age, the Twentieth 
 Century, worship only and love a God like this?" 
 This writer does not understand that man can 
 do anything, — may be permitted to do anything 
 he wants to do, only he must pay the price for 
 so doing. War is the effect and man the cause. 
 This he also fails to realize. The seed was 
 sown long ago and forgotten. But law never 
 forgets, — hence the present reaping. For the 
 stewardship of men and nations alike, this great 
 
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 universal law sooner or later demands an ac- 
 counting. What did it cost America to permit 
 a black man to be sold upon the auction block? 
 The universal law made its demand and the 
 Nation made the adjustment. Whenever the 
 adjustment follows the demand, the result is sat- 
 isfactory, for out of it always comes Rightness. 
 Man has made great progress on all mechan- 
 ical lines. Nearly everything is done by machin- 
 ery. He has followed the laws of nature into 
 the unseen above and below, but he is just 
 beginning to learn something about himself and 
 the laws to which he is related. I say he is just 
 beginning. He is slowly learning that every- 
 thing and every life is under law. When he 
 comes to understand the laws governing his life 
 he knows more about God and therefore more 
 about man's possibilities. The man of affairs is 
 beginning to learn that he is handicapped through 
 ignorance of those higher laws governing busi- 
 ness. The man or woman who is employed, is 
 not fully equipped and cannot command the 
 salary which they should command when failing 
 to understand those laws which govern their 
 being. The sales man or woman can sell more 
 goods, can achieve more highly, when he or she 
 understands and applies the law which is at their 
 command. 
 
CREATION I I 
 
 At the front of every revolution, civil, moral 
 or spiritual, is a man, radical in thought, bold in 
 conception and quick in execution. There was 
 never a time when such ability was recognized 
 as it is today. The question is, — "What can 
 you do?" Unless a man can stand forth as a 
 leader, in advance of the crowd, he is not 
 wanted. Such a man can name his own price 
 and the world will pay it. His pulses thrill with 
 the spirit of energy and enterprise. To keep 
 pace with such a leader all the forces of life 
 and action must be awakened. If one would 
 hold a respectable place in the procession he 
 must be alert, recognize the universal law of his 
 being and show the world where act and achieve- 
 ment meet. 
 
 The belief in an arbitrary God, — away off 
 somewhere, no one knows where, — belongs to 
 the period of the ox-cart, the pod-auger and the 
 tallow-dip. It is not up to date. Man wants 
 to know, — and he can know. Man has been 
 able to systematize all the phenomena of ex- 
 terior nature, why not that of his interior life 
 and its relation to the First Great Cause? The 
 phenomena of the human spirit is within the 
 grasp of the intellect. There is something 
 within each one of us pushing us on towards 
 something better, something more satisfying 
 
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 than that which we enjoy today. We want to 
 grow and it is some power within which, in its 
 growth, is pushing us on to something better. 
 In growing we must out-grow. We are to for- 
 get the things behind and reach forward to those 
 which are before. 
 
 If everything is governed by law, everyone 
 should be interested to know what those laws 
 are and how to apply them in every-day life. If 
 there is a law which governs business, as exact 
 as the law governing the tides; if there is a law 
 that I can apply that will sweeten and bring 
 harmony into my home; if there is a law which 
 I can apply to my body, bring health and power, 
 I want to know it. I want to know how to 
 make that application. 
 
 During these eight lessons we will consider 
 the teachings of the Church of Silent Demand. 
 The subjects and their order will be as 
 follows : — 
 
 1st — "First Cause or The Creator." 
 2nd— "The Effect or the Created." 
 3rd — "All is Good. There is no Evil." — 
 When we come into that consciousness and see 
 only good in everything, then, only good can 
 come into the world. This is an important 
 lesson because we have been taught just the 
 opposite. 
 
CREATION 13 
 
 4th — "The Silence and Concentration — The 
 Power of the Silence." 
 
 5th— "How to Heal Self and Others." 
 6th — "How to Apply these Principles in 
 Business." 
 
 7th — "How to Control Environment." 
 8th— "Mastery of Self." That is the key- 
 note — Mastery of Self. 
 
 The First Lesson is the foundation on which 
 all is built. We have been taught that God is 
 omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient. What 
 does it mean to you? Have you understood 
 what it means ? How can you believe it possible 
 for a God, away off somewhere, "Dwelling in 
 light inaccessible and full of glory," to be omni- 
 present? It never meant anything to me, and 
 yet I belonged to an orthodox church, because 
 there was something in me that urged me to do 
 the best I could, to live the best life possible 
 to me, but I could not understand how God 
 could be omnipresent. I shall try in this First 
 Lesson to so explain it that all will understand 
 the omnipresence of God. 
 
 We must have some understanding of this 
 Great Cause or Power which stands behind and 
 back of every manifestation that we see, or touch 
 or feel. We have been told that the finite could 
 
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 not know the infinite. But we must know. 
 There is an imvard impulse, a gradual forward 
 thrust which moves us; there are perceptions 
 which, through the world of sense and self, 
 discover a spiritual identity with this higher 
 power. Our knowledge is what shapes our 
 world, and to not know, cannot satisfy the man 
 of today. 
 
 That which we vision, that we are. There 
 comes a time in the life of everyone, when the 
 storm breaks and the winds are out, when he 
 must have something on which he can stand 
 and say triumphantly "None of these things 
 move me." When this is fully realized man is 
 master of the situation. But so long as man 
 believes in tw T o powers, — so long as he clings 
 to duality, he will be buffeted by discordant and 
 unsatisfactory conditions. The world demands 
 freedom. Freedom comes only through a 
 knowledge of the truth, and truth alone can set 
 man free. So, in studying this truth one must 
 know. Belief is helpful and faith is necessary 
 but one cannot be satisfied until he feels that 
 he knows. 
 
 When one has reached the consciousness that 
 there is a God, he knows that there is a Power 
 with which he can come in touch, at will. I say, 
 that when he reaches the consciousness that he 
 
CREATION 1 5 
 
 knows, then, peace comes to that one; harmony 
 dominates his life and Power comes into his 
 doing. It makes no difference what teachings 
 one has accepted in the past; if it will not stand 
 the test of today it must be cast aside and up-to- 
 date teaching put in its place. From all the 
 differing lines of thought we are converging into 
 the truth, and although some of the new teach- 
 ing is directly opposite to that we have received 
 in the past, it is a truth because it can be per- 
 fectly demonstrated. 
 
 This is a world of change and the law of 
 change will push us forward to something better. 
 Each one must learn to stand upon his own feet. 
 When the storm comes he must accept it as an 
 opportunity to prove his faith. When you have 
 the problem to solve, and you know how to 
 demonstrate ; when you know the principles and 
 how to apply them to your life, then it is the 
 opportunity for you to say, — U I am master of 
 this problem; I know how to deal with it," and 
 the demonstration reveals the Truth more fully, 
 and then you know that you know. 
 
 In elucidating this truth I wish to present it 
 in a plain, simple, practical, business way that 
 will appeal to your reason. I will not attempt 
 to prove anything by the Bible as that would 
 be my interpretation, and that would be no bet- 
 
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 ter than yours. I will appeal to you on common 
 ground — just where you stand, and start from 
 what you know. 
 
 Each person who reads this page is living in 
 a state of consciousness different from the other. 
 Tomorrow each may be living in a state of 
 consciousness different from today. Therefore 
 we assume your present state whatever that 
 may be. 
 
 There are a few things that we know — each 
 one of us knows — it is not guess work, — it is 
 not belief. We know. One is, we know that 
 we are here. That we do exist. We also know 
 that others exist all about us. We know further, 
 that we did not create ourselves. Therefore we 
 must be an effect. I would put this in so em- 
 phatic a manner that you will carry along in 
 your mind the fact that You did not create your- 
 self, — you are an effect. 
 
 Our reason tells us that there is a power out- 
 side of and beyond ourselves, — A Cause. This 
 Cause we can know. Therefore, as we trace 
 back from effect to cause we will, and we must 
 find a power or cause, which is not dependent 
 upon anything outside of itself. If it depended 
 upon anything outside, or above, or beyond itself 
 it could not be a First Cause and we will be 
 driven still further back until we reach a Cause 
 
CREATION 1 7 
 
 which is dependent only upon itself, — that will 
 be the First Cause. 
 
 Again :— We know that man has a degree of 
 intelligence. As we have found that he is an 
 effect, and as the effect cannot be greater than 
 the cause, we know that the First Cause must 
 be intelligent. And as self-consciousness is an 
 attribute of the First Cause, so it repeats itself 
 in the consciousness of the effect. 
 
 Again : — We know that we manifest life. We 
 can see life expressed everywhere, in the mineral, 
 in the vegetable, in the animal, in man ; and, as 
 all is an effect, we can know with certainty that 
 First Cause is life. Man's life finds creation 
 responsive to all its faculties. His life became 
 the measure of all things. Man is not only 
 the interpreter but is the interpretation of all 
 Life. 
 
 Again: — We know that love is part of our 
 being. We must love. Love being a part of 
 our life it must find its object. We being an 
 effect know with certainty that First Cause 
 must be love. It is the heart that sees most 
 clearly. 
 
 Again: — We know that man has power to 
 think. We see. the expression of thought all 
 about us. As the effect cannot be greater than 
 the cause, First Cause must be a thinker. The 
 
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 effect can think out after the Cause. Its 
 thoughts. 
 
 Again: — We know that man can determine 
 his actions through a power we call will. By 
 this we know that First Cause can and does 
 determine Its actions, and everything that is 
 real must be an expression of Its thought and 
 will in action. This is what we call Law — 
 that is Higher Law. 
 
 Again : — We have also found that First Cause 
 is self-conscious ; knows itself and determines its 
 actions. It is all intelligence, all power, all life 
 and is always active. This is not all that we 
 know. We know that all the power forces, 
 attributes or qualities are mental and in the un- 
 seen. We cannot see power, we see only the 
 expression of power. We cannot see life, we 
 can only see the manifestation of life. We can- 
 not see love, we can see only its expression. 
 Therefore First Cause, or Creator, is Mind or 
 Spirit. We have now reached a point where we 
 can combine these powers, forces, qualities and 
 attributes under the name of First Cause, In- 
 finite Spirit, Absolute, or God. 
 
 Again: — First Cause, Infinite Spirit or God is 
 mind or Spirit and is self-dependent. Now note 
 this. Nothing could be imparted to the effect, 
 or creature, by the Creator but its own sub- 
 
CREATION 1 9 
 
 stance. Nothing ever proceeds from the creative 
 Spirit but what was in it. It imparted Itself in 
 the Creation, for even God could not create 
 something from nothing. Therefore all creation 
 is from, and is the same substance — mind or 
 spirit, but of different degrees of vibration. Ice, 
 water and steam are the same substance, differ- 
 ing in degrees of temperature. The same with 
 creation. In the created are different combina- 
 tions and different qualities of the one substance. 
 We shall see later on. 
 
 Now, we have been reasoning from what we 
 know of nature and man back to the First Cause. 
 We will reverse our method and reason from 
 First Cause to man. 
 
 First Cause or God must be powerful because 
 we see power expressed in everything around us ; 
 in the rocks, the flowers, the trees, the animal 
 and in man. Power everywhere. And as the 
 effect, or the created cannot be greater than the 
 cause, First Cause must be power. 
 
 Again: — We see life manifest everywhere. 
 Everything in the seen must express life or it 
 will disappear from our view. First Cause 
 must therefore be life. 
 
 Again : — We see love expressed in the flower, 
 the animal, in man. Therefore we can say that 
 we know that First Cause is love. 
 
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 Again: — We see intelligence expressed in 
 everything. Therefore we conclude that First 
 Cause must be Intelligence. 
 
 In reasoning therefore from what we know, 
 — man to First Cause, or from First Cause to 
 man, — we arrive at but one conclusion, and that 
 is: First Cause, or God is All Power, All Life, 
 All Love, All Intelligence, All Good, and is the 
 Substance of everything in the seen and the un- 
 seen. All is Mind or Spirit. u God we may 
 know through the thought He has expressed in 
 the things which He has made." That knowl- 
 edge is valid and may be verified by the practical 
 tests of life. When we correctly understand 
 man and nature we may look through either 
 directly into the mind of God. 
 
 The object of this lesson is to bring the reader 
 into the consciousness that there is but one Power 
 in the whole world. No matter where we see 
 the Power it is God-Power. Though it be in 
 Niagara or in the heating of water it is the same. 
 It matters not where the Power is seen or felt, 
 it is God in manifestation and God-Power. 
 
 There can be but one Power in the whole 
 universe, because there is but one Intelligence. 
 Wherever we see intelligence it is God-Intelli- 
 gence. Wherever w r e see life it is God express- 
 ing Life. God is the Substance of everything 
 
CREATION 2 1 
 
 and everything is obedient to Law. In the 
 realm of the Spirit, chance and caprice are 
 eliminated. The tides of ambition, the gusts of 
 passion, the longings of desire, the awakening 
 of love are reduced to the dominion of law. 
 Things are not erratic and lawless because they 
 are spiritual and etherial. The laws of the 
 Spirit are as constant as those which govern the 
 tides and breathe through the world of nature. 
 What beside God in this entire and infinite sim- 
 plicity we mean when nature is pronounced ? All 
 is alive from smallest atom to mightiest star; 
 and all is jubilantly expressing the Mind, or 
 Spirit or Infinite God. 
 
 As your eye rests upon these pages, let your 
 mind come into the consciousness that there is 
 but one substance in the whole world. This 
 will prepare the mind to recognize the omni- 
 presence of God in everything you see and feel. 
 Omnipresence not only imparted Itself in crea- 
 tion but consciously and actively dwells therein. 
 The power by which you move, the intelligence 
 with which you read this page, the life by which 
 you serve your kind, the love in which you pay 
 your tribute to your God are all imparted by 
 His Spirit, and have their source in His Infinite 
 mind, for He is all there is in the seen and the 
 unseen. 
 
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 Holding fast to this consciousness you will 
 be able to consider and embrace the thoughts 
 of the next lesson. Until you come into this 
 consciousness it will not be possible for you to 
 demonstrate and bring to pass those things 
 which you most desire. Remember as you turn 
 the next and following pages that there is but 
 one substance in the whole world and that is 
 God. There is but one Life, one Power, one 
 Intelligence in the whole Universe and that is 
 God. 
 
CHAPTER II. 
 THE EFFECT OR THE CREATED. 
 
 OUR first lesson was occupied in consider- 
 ing the Primal Cause, — The Cause of 
 everything in the seen and the unseen. 
 We now enter upon the consideration of the 
 EFFECT, or what the Cause has produced. 
 All that reaches us through the senses is the 
 w T ork of the Primal Cause. 
 
 In our first lesson also we found that God, 
 First Cause, Infinite Spirit, to be Intelligence, 
 Mind or Spirit, and that from this substance 
 all created things were developed. I repeat, 
 this Substance is Intelligence, Power, Love and 
 Life. 
 
 We learned that God, or First Cause, has 
 imparted Himself in and to all created things. 
 Things were first, thoughts, God's thoughts. 
 That "the things that were made were not 
 made of things which do appear, " is an in- 
 spired statement. Enthroned amidst the silent 
 elements of material existence is a spiritual 
 power from which their vitality is derived. To 
 
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 everything that has Being there is an outward 
 form and an inward life. The substances of 
 the mineral kingdom are pervaded by invisible 
 agents which develop the forces necessary to 
 their existence. The being and beauty of the 
 vegetable creation are dependent upon an in- 
 visible, vitalizing law. 
 
 The meanest form in nature; the feeblest 
 thing that lives, enshrines and reveals its quick- 
 ening energy, received from the Infinite Intelli- 
 gence. From the great heart of Primal Cause 
 the vital currents flow through all the arteries 
 of Being. All life is the continuous activity 
 of Mind on the objects of its creation. Life 
 is the revelation of a Spiritual Presence; — 
 God's Presence in the universe to which He 
 has imparted His Life and Substance. Should 
 we ascend to the sublime heights where thought 
 and aspiration are wearied and can go no 
 farther; or should we descend to that mysteri- 
 ous abyss w T here the shadows of nonentity veil 
 the germs of existence ; — in every place and in 
 all natures we find God revealed. 
 
 To the old arbitrary formalism we oppose 
 this Divine Philosophy which refers the origin, 
 the continuance and the end of all things to 
 the Life, Love and Power of God, the Spirit 
 and First Cause. We teach that the Divine 
 
THE EFFECT OR THE CREATED 25 
 
 Spirit pervades and governs by established laws 
 the material universe and all spiritual existence ; 
 — that all truth is natural, and adapted to those 
 reactional faculties which God, as their Creator, 
 has enshrined in the human soul; — that God 
 has built His temple' there, and that all men 
 as they become God-like in spirit and in life 
 are rendered increasingly susceptible to Divine 
 instruction and Divine impressions, from the 
 First Cause from which they sprung. 
 
 Thus, we see there is but one Intelligence. 
 There is but one Power, — not as a famous 
 evangelist would tell us there are tw T o pow T ers; 
 for, in that case God would not be Omnipotent. 
 There is just ONE POWER, GOD. In a 
 subsequent chapter I will explain how we make 
 a mistake by acting mentally as though there 
 were two. But wherever Power is found, 
 whether it be in heating water, swinging stars 
 in their orbits, in burning gasoline, or in the 
 activities of man, it is the same in source and 
 character; — it is all God. 
 
 All creation is from the same substance; — 
 SUBSTANCE — that which stands-under, up- 
 holds, sus-tains : — displayed in different quali- 
 ties and in differing degrees. The figures from 
 to 9 may be so arranged as to represent any 
 amount, and the figures of the alphabet, only 
 
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 26 in number, compose all the volumes in the 
 English tongue. 
 
 This is a SCIENCE— THE SCIENCE OF 
 ALL SCIENCES. All the sciences of the 
 world are based upon this ONE SCIENCE. 
 
 Ice manifests the lea*st power, water, more 
 power, but gas manifests so much power that 
 it moves everything before it. For instance, in 
 an over-heated boiler the power is so great that 
 you cannot contain it. It will find release. So 
 it is with Creation. The mineral kingdom has 
 but little intelligence, the vegetable kingdom 
 has more intelligence and in it we begin to per- 
 ceive the element of love. If you tend a plant 
 with loving care it will grow and flourish for 
 you. The animal kingdom manifests more in- 
 telligence, more love and more power to con- 
 trol its action, which the flower has not. 
 
 With man comes the crowning work of the 
 Creator. He becomes a Co-Worker. Added 
 Life and Power, but not only this, he is fully 
 equipped to draw from the Universal Supply 
 for all his needs. "Son, all that I have is 
 thine. " One can sit in his office, and in a 
 moment get in touch with this great Universal 
 Supply. Inasmuch as man has more intelli- 
 gence, more love, more life, more power, more 
 wisdom he can so approach the abundant supply 
 
THE EFFECT OR THE CREATED 27 
 
 as to immediately secure any benefit which he 
 may properly desire. 
 
 Man has power to impart in his own build- 
 ing, the same as the First Cause imparts Itself 
 in Creation. He communicates himself to 
 everything he does. He knows and does in a 
 finite way what the Creator does in an In- 
 finite manner. The power of man is seen in the 
 machinery of today. For instance, the adding 
 machine. A bit of mechanism almost human 
 in its work; — or the machine for picking cot- 
 ton; removing the white bolls with the intelli- 
 gence of men. The thought man has used to 
 change the face of nature, bridge rivers, tunnel 
 mountains, bind continents with a net-work of 
 iron rails and subdue the earth, was first dis- 
 covered in the things which God has made and 
 transcribed into the human mind. These are, 
 however, the Effect and man the cause. He 
 directs all this intelligence and exercises this 
 marvellous power in building a wonderful 
 world. 
 
 Man imparts himself in everything he does. 
 His handwriting is his own. If you wish to 
 open a bank account, the first thing requested 
 is your signature. That signature will open 
 and continue that account, and upon it all trans- 
 actions will depend, 
 
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 As man imparts himself to everything he 
 touches he produces an effect, a creation, and 
 by the character of the effect we determine 
 whether it is God-created or man-made. Man 
 becomes the important factor in Creation, and 
 God and Man are all we have to deal with in 
 solving the problems of life. For you and me, 
 there is no dependence upon each other; — our 
 sole dependence is upon this Great Power, or 
 God. First Cause or God, imparts Himself in 
 Creation, and man must use the material in 
 his building which God has imparted in His 
 Creation. Thus the Universal mind repeats it- 
 self on a limited scale in the mind of man. If 
 you attempt to build from anything outside of 
 the God-Power, your building will fall and 
 perish. You must build from : — INTELLI- 
 GENCE,— LOVE— LIFE,— and POWER. 
 You cannot admit hate. No structure can sur- 
 vive on negative conditions. Building on these 
 your house will fall. From the material im- 
 parted to us, we are to build. 
 
 We find, therefore, that we are in a SPIRIT 
 world. We deal only with Mind or Spirit. 
 This explains how one can sit down in the 
 silence and speak the word which will bring 
 health to the body of a person miles away. 
 As we have found that there is but one sub- 
 
THE EFFECT OR THE CREATED 29 
 
 stance from which the world was created, and 
 that substance is Mind or Spirit, — this substance 
 is all with which we have to deal. Thought 
 as we have seen is as real a substance as any- 
 thing we can see, feel or touch, because it 
 reaches out into the unseen and brings into the 
 seen and known what that thought represents. 
 Besides, also, thought under-girds all material 
 existence. Man's mind or spirit is the instru- 
 ment by which the unseen is brought into the 
 seen or manifested upon this plan of action. It 
 is the highway of the Divine Mind to the world. 
 A certain quality of thought will bring into 
 manifestation the same thing every time. No 
 matter who sends out this quality of thought, 
 you can know with certainty what that thought 
 will bring into manifestation. If you are carry- 
 ing negative thought you may know absolutely 
 you will have unsatisfactory conditions. Nor 
 does it matter who sends it forth, for every 
 thought produces its kind. 
 
 An inharmonious mind cannot demonstrate 
 SUCCESS. An inharmonious mind will induce 
 unsatisfactory conditions. Man, being the 
 highest, most perfect, is master of the lower. 
 He is, therefore, responsible for the direction 
 of this power. Ignorance does not excuse us. 
 There is but ONE POWER, and we are using 
 
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 it every moment of our lives. That POWER 
 is doing something in the world directed by our 
 thought. It is either tearing down our business 
 or building it up. It is either tearing down our 
 home or filling it with sweetness and light. In 
 all this, the responsibility rests upon you and 
 me, and from it there is no escape. 
 
 Upon every thought mankind sends forth is 
 stamped its quality. That quality will be ac- 
 cording to the person's understanding of the 
 truth. Ignorance is no excuse. Its quality is 
 stamped upon every thought and upon every 
 word you speak. You are responisble for w T hat 
 that thought or word brings into the world and 
 escape from that responsibility is impossible. 
 
 We can now see God everywhere and in 
 everything. He is not afar off in some un- 
 imagined somewhere as we have been taught in 
 the past. We have been taught the omnipres- 
 ence of God but we failed to understand how 
 and in what way. But now we can see God 
 everywhere, — in the flowers, in the trees, in the 
 grass, in the stars, in the mountains and in men, 
 women and children. Everywhere is God, 
 Coming into this consciousness we enter a new 
 world with God everywhere. 
 
 God is the Substance of everything. We 
 cannot separate ourselves from that Substance 
 
THE EFFECT OR THE CREATED 3 1 
 
 only in belief and we can change that belief 
 at will. 
 
 Did you ever consider that the real cannot 
 be seen, — we see only its effect. We cannot see 
 the Cause. Intelligence cannot be seen, — only 
 its manifestation is tangible. Power you cannot 
 see, — only its expression. God you cannot see, 
 — only His manifest works. You cannot see 
 your friend, only the instrument through which 
 he communicates with his kind. You cannot 
 see the CAUSE, the LIFE, the POWER held 
 in a kernel of corn which produces the full- 
 grown ear, but you can see the effect, — that is, 
 power and life in manifestation. You cannot 
 see the life in the acorn from which springs the 
 giant oak, neither can you see the power, in- 
 telligence, love and life folded in man which 
 it was intended he should unfold through a 
 conscious understanding who he is, and the 
 practical knowledge of his Creator. Man's 
 business is to unfold power, love and life, and 
 impart these to all his work. You then have 
 the manifestation of quality, character and life 
 which he possesses. 
 
 That "an evil tree cannot bring forth good 
 fruit" is as true today as ever, neither can a 
 negative thought bring forth good results in 
 life or action. That which we can see and feel 
 
32 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 is only, and always the effect. The Cause is 
 always in the unseen. If we censure this or 
 that one for dissatisfactions which come into 
 our lives, let us know, that lying back in the 
 unseen is the cause in some thought which we 
 have sent out. We meet it again in the world 
 of effect. 
 
 Back of and behind all effects which we see 
 lies the Cause, either in God or in man. God 
 is the Creator and man is the Builder, a Co- 
 worker with the Almighty. Having power to 
 draw from the Universal Supply man can 
 build his world a heaven here and now if he 
 will meet the conditions. We are not obliged 
 to pass through these unpleasant experiences we 
 are meeting. They are caused by mistakes we 
 have made in directing the power at our com- 
 mand. The quality of thought builds the con- 
 dition. As man is not limited in thought, in 
 quantity nor in quality, he can reach the cause 
 of all things in the silence, but even there he 
 must meet the necessary conditions, for every- 
 thing is according to law. The Law of Love, 
 the Law of Harmony, the Law of Finance, the 
 Law of Compensation and the Law of Right- 
 ness. Deviating a hair's breadth from one of 
 these laws will result in unsatisfactory con- 
 ditions. 
 
THE EFFECT OR THE CREATED 33 
 
 In later chapters these laws will be consid- 
 ered. The purpose of this chapter, I hope you 
 have fully understood, is to bring you into the 
 consciousness of the First Cause, Infinite Spirit, 
 or God everywhere and in everything. Wher- 
 ever you see life it is God in manifestation. 
 Wherever you see Power it is God-Power. 
 Wherever you see intelligence it is God thinking 
 in man or animal. Wherever you see love, it 
 is God in action. 
 
 Thus at the end of the second chapter we 
 leave you with this consciousness, that All is 
 Good and All is Mind or Spirit and All is GOD. 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 ALL IS GOOD— THERE IS NO EVIL. 
 
 ALL is Good, there is no Evil. To many, 
 in the midst of present conditions, this 
 seems impossible. Let us see if the mat- 
 ter cannot be presented in such a manner that 
 we shall come to know that ALL IS GOOD, 
 THERE IS NO EVIL? 
 
 In our previous study we have found but One 
 Power and One Substance in the whole world. 
 We found that Power and Substance to be First 
 Cause, Infinite Spirit, or God. GOD IM- 
 PARTED HIMSELF IN CREATION. 
 We also found that First Cause was Mind or 
 Spirit and that All was GOOD. We also found 
 the result of action on the part of God in Crea- 
 tion was an Effect. The crowning effect we 
 found to be man. We now take into account 
 and deal with man. He is here, and is the all 
 important factor in God's creative work. He 
 is not only a Creation but is a Co-Worker with 
 the Creator. Everything upon this scene of 
 action is from God, the Cause, or from man, 
 
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ALL IS GOOD, THERE IS NO EVIL 35 
 
 the Builder. It is possible for man to reach 
 out into the unseen world and bring into the seen 
 and tangible, that for which these words stand. 
 
 With man appears what we call evil, sickness, 
 poverty and trouble of all kinds. Now, remove 
 every man, woman and child from New York 
 City today, — all would be peace and harmony, 
 all would be good, — but when you bring man 
 back you bring sickness and trouble of every 
 kind, pain and poverty's low cry. 
 
 What, then, is evil, and where does it come 
 from? We know that God's Creation is good 
 and that God created all there is. Therefore 
 what we call evil is man's building. 
 
 The origin of Evil? The subject has been a 
 perplexing one to many thoughtful minds. 
 God is the Author of all things, but all that 
 God made was pronounced Good. How, then, 
 came evil? I do not see how there can be any 
 authorship to evil. No one created it. No one 
 ever brought evil, as evil, into being. Evil, — 
 sin, — is not a substance. It can neither be 
 made or begotten. It is not an attribute, nor is 
 it a power or a faculty; therefore it is no thing, 
 — nothing. Inasmuch as it is not a constituent 
 element of either matter or mind, it cannot be 
 an entity in any sense of the word. It can there- 
 fore be only an act, or a condition. 
 
36 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 Now let us see ! Suppose that, on some dark 
 night a man stops you and forcibly takes your 
 purse. This you would call an evil. Why does 
 he do this? Someone sells to your husband or 
 son that which destroys his manhood. That is 
 what we call evil. Your employer fails to pay 
 as much for your services as he should, and you 
 ask, "Is this right ?" "Is this good?" "Do I 
 not see poverty, crime and trouble everywhere?" 
 "Do you call this good? "Do not my friends 
 turn against me and speak that which is untrue 
 about me?" "Can this be good? All this and 
 more comes from the same cause. They all 
 think, that in some way what they do will con- 
 tribute to their happiness. Their motive is 
 good. They desire happiness, but their method 
 of doing is what we question. It is right that 
 this man who robs you should have money, but 
 not your money. It is right also that he should 
 be self-respecting. It is right that your em- 
 ployer should have money and profit in handling 
 his business. You see the motive is right but 
 the method is wrong. What we call evil is a 
 mistaken way of doing things. What is a mis- 
 take? It is calling 4x4=20, and so long as 
 you persist in calling 4x4=20 it will cost you 
 something. Mistakes are expensive. 
 
ALL IS GOOD, THERE IS NO EVIL 37 
 
 Now, it does not follow that because some- 
 one has talked about us that we should make 
 another mistake and talk about them. No! 
 The only way to correct that is to correct our- 
 selves. In that way we gain the mastery. In 
 that way we will master all the problems of 
 life. 
 
 When we understand this truth, — Man's 
 Power, that man can sit down in the silence and 
 adjust all these things, bring them into perfect 
 harmony, it becomes unpardonable ignorance 
 for a man not to know himself and his own 
 power. 
 
 We find, therefore, that what we call Evil is 
 man's mistaken action. There is only one way 
 to do a thing, and that is the right way. The 
 wrong way is not a way at all. If you want to 
 go to the North, you must take a North-bound 
 train; not a South-bound train. The law is 
 unalterable. We have believed in good and 
 evil. We have acted upon the principle that 
 there are two powers in the world. That is 
 the mistake Europe is paying the price of today. 
 Mistakes made in past years. 
 
 Poverty, sickness, sorrow, trouble and un- 
 happiness of every kind come through differing 
 channels, but from the same source, — Mistaken 
 Thought. 
 
38 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 Please read thoughtfully and understand me 
 in what follows. I do not mean, when I say 
 that U A11 is Good," that you are to say of pov- 
 erty, sickness and trouble, "This is in some way 
 good for me." No ! I do not mean that at all. 
 I mean to say that we have good material with 
 which to build. God has imparted Himself to 
 us in Creation and that being good, is the mate- 
 rial with which to form our life structure. God, 
 being the Substance of all things, is all Love, 
 Life, Power and Presence. On and from this 
 Substance we are to build. 
 
 A certain quality of thought produces a cer- 
 tain condition. No matter who sends the 
 thought forth, the quality determines the con- 
 dition or result. If your condition is unsatis- 
 factory, if your invironment is inharmonious, 
 no one is at fault but yourself. At will you 
 can change them all. You know some people 
 do not want to think, — they want God to do it 
 all for them. He will not do that because He 
 gave them the power of free and independent 
 thought. For you and me there is work. We 
 are Co-Workers with God and must do our 
 part. 
 
 Today, man wants to know. We must be 
 definite. You ask for a position in a large cor- 
 poration. They ask, "What do you know?" 
 
ALL IS GOOD, THERE IS NO EVIL 39 
 
 "What are you worth?'' "Set your own price, 
 but bring results/' We have first to know what 
 we want and then send out the quality of thought 
 that will build up and bring into manifestation 
 that which we want. If we want harmony, 
 send out the thought adapted to bring harmony. 
 We have found that everything in creation 
 is an expression of thought, either from Infinite 
 Spirit or man. That thought carries different 
 degrees of Life, Love, Intelligence and Power. 
 We found that man is the builder, with power 
 to draw from this great Universal supply any- 
 thing he wants. He is not limited in thought, 
 or quality or quantity. He can place himself in 
 touch with this Universal Power at any time 
 he may choose and bring into manifestation, — 
 if he meets the conditions which are necessary 
 to produce it, the thing he has definitely deter- 
 mined upon. Suppose your body is out of har- 
 mony, — that is, — what we call sickness. You 
 brought that into your world. Now, to speak 
 life and love into your body a certain quality of 
 thought must carry Intelligence and Will-Power. 
 That is absolutely necessary to secure healing 
 of the body, but this is not the quality of thought 
 which is required to bring you peace and har- 
 mony. It must be an entirely different com- 
 bination and quite a different one from either 
 
40 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 of the two to bring success in business affairs. 
 So you are required to master a science: — The 
 science of all sciences. We go blunderingly 
 along, unconsciously using or abusing this Di- 
 vine power, too indolent to give the necessary 
 attention that we may become masters of our 
 own powers. 
 
 This truth is like a combination lock on a 
 safe. Whoever has used one knows he has to 
 turn the knob around to a certain number and 
 be exact about it. If you pass one iota too far, 
 you have to begin all over again. You turn 
 back to the next number, and if the work was 
 exact you know the door will open for you. 
 Just so with the truth. If you made a mistake 
 in turning the lock on either number, the door 
 will not open. With the Truth you must be 
 just as exact. You must meet the right number 
 exactly, send out the Exact Thought in order 
 to bring about that which you desire, into man- 
 ifestation. 
 
 Many persons send out the thoughts which 
 bring poverty, produce trouble and sickness. 
 Therefore it must come into their lives. They 
 cannot escape conditions caused by their 
 thoughts. The war in Europe is the result of 
 mistaken thought. They have been equipped 
 for war, have been preparing for war during 
 
ALL IS GOOD, THERE IS NO EVIL 4 1 
 
 centuries. Could anything else come out of it 
 but war? No! Consider your own Country. 
 How long has it taken us to get into war? Our 
 President a year ago was standing for peace 
 and he was mastering every condition. For 
 some good reason of his own he changed, and 
 took the stump for preparedness. How long 
 before we were in trouble with Mexico? How 
 long did it take to get into war in Europe? We 
 changed our thought. We are in war today and 
 we will continue in this war until our thought 
 is changed. When we change the combination 
 and when we change the thought we will change 
 the condition. The quality of thought required 
 to manifest peace and harmony is Love. LOVE 
 TO THE WHOLE WORLD. It matters 
 not how much you have been disturbed. I do 
 not care if your business has been destroyed, or 
 that you have inharmony in your home; — go 
 into the silence and say, "All is peace, — Peace, 
 — All is peace, and you will swing into it and as 
 you swing into it, you will change the condition. 
 Love To The Whole World. This thought 
 does not carry will-power. No faith is required. 
 I do not care whether you believe there is a God 
 or not, you do not have to. All you have to do 
 is to carry that thought and you will swing into 
 harmony and peace. 
 
42 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 This thought is a Science and when you have 
 a thorough understanding of it, you can solve 
 all problems of life. In mathematics, if once 
 we can multiply, subtract, add and divide we 
 can solve any problem ; we have only to know 
 the principles by which these factors are used. 
 When a man understands his own power and 
 sends out the thought which builds what he 
 wants, he too can solve any problem which life 
 presents. 
 
 We must not forget that thought emanates 
 from us continually and according to its quality 
 will be the effect. Each one uses this Divine 
 power every moment, and by its quality the 
 world is conditioned. So, all the evil of this 
 world is of our own manufacturing. It can 
 be wiped out at will. 
 
 Now, let us take the man who steals your 
 purse, which is called an evil. He reads these 
 pages and finds that he has within himself a 
 power which he can unfold that will bring more 
 money, more happiness and more self-respect 
 than robbery. He therefore changes his life, 
 changes his thought and begins to direct this 
 God-Power along right lines. The man is 
 changed, and what you called evil in this man is 
 gone forever. He used the same power, — God- 
 Power, — to take your purse, but it was mis- 
 
ALL IS GOOD, THERE IS NO EVIL 43 
 
 directed. There is only one power in the Uni- 
 verse and that is the God-Power, or God's 
 Power, Our difficulty is, that we are building 
 from a mistaken viewpoint, and not from the 
 Substance which God has imparted in the Crea- 
 tion, but trying to found our edifice on the plan 
 of 4x4=20 and thereby bringing into mani- 
 festation poverty, trouble and sickness. Man 
 can and does take good material and build what 
 is called evil. A piano when it is in tune is 
 perfect, and the person who plays it can bring 
 forth exact harmony. I who do not understand 
 it can bring forth only inharmony and discords. 
 This is what man is doing today. He uses the 
 same power to strike you down as to lift you up. 
 All according to the direction given by the uses. 
 "THERE IS NO EVIL,"— " ALL IS 
 GOOD," because all is of and from God. 
 What is called evil is man's mistaken way of 
 working out or solving his problems. All the 
 so-called evil is of man's building. As a man 
 -unfolds and begins to understand who he is he 
 changes his world. Everything has been pro- 
 vided for his comfort and happiness, nothing 
 is lacking, — abundance everywhere. But man 
 must know how to receive and apply the laws. 
 All the materials required for him to build a 
 beautiful world are at his hand. Is he willing 
 
44 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 to meet the conditions? He must do the build- 
 ing. I cannot build for you nor you build for 
 me. Man is making many mistakes in so di- 
 recting his power that it brings all the unsatis- 
 factory conditions into his life. One may be 
 experiencing much that is unpleasant and inhar- 
 monious today, but he can sit down in his office 
 or his home and speak the word that will adjust 
 everything to peace and happiness. But we 
 must meet the test ourselves, and each for him- 
 self. Therefore the all important thing in life is 
 
 MASTERY OF SELF. 
 
 Know who you are and unfold all your powers. 
 Some will tell you of two powers, spiritual and 
 material — duality. That concept is at the base 
 of all the world's disorders, sorrow, poverty 
 and pain. Duality — Two Powers. 
 
 The Church of the Silent Demand comes to 
 you with this message: — God imparted Himself 
 in Creation. He is not only the power but the 
 only POWER and the Substance of everything. 
 Then we understand how God is Omnipresent 
 and Omnipotent: — that we can separate our- 
 selves from Him only in belief, and that is only 
 temporary. So what we call Evil is man-made 
 and we can change it at will. 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 CONCENTRATION OR THE SILENCE. 
 
 MOST of us understand that there is but 
 ONE POWER in the Universe. That 
 power each person is using uncon- 
 sciously every day. We are directing this 
 power against our business, our bodies and our 
 homes, not knowing what we are doing. Our 
 contact with this power is immediate and con- 
 stant, therefore we direct it, consciously or un- 
 consciously, at every moment. By an under- 
 standing of the power of Concentration and 
 Silence we learn how to direct this power, 
 beneficently in our personal affairs and those of 
 the larger world. 
 
 Through the Silence alone can we come into 
 conscious touch with The All Wisdom, All In- 
 telligence, and All Power. It is there also that 
 we are best able to direct it consciously in our 
 affairs and the world around us. 
 
 Concentration we will find very necessary in 
 the progress of our unfoldment along all lines. 
 Some may ask, "What do you mean by Con- 
 
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46 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 centration?" It is giving undivided attention 
 to one particular thought or idea, to the ex- 
 clusion of everything else. It is directing this 
 Divine Power consciously to a given point. 
 
 The man of affairs, in order to be a successful 
 business man, must know how to concentrate 
 and give undivided attention to every detail. 
 Now, if your business is out of joint, if it is 
 not as successful as it should be, do you realize 
 that you can sit quietly down in the silence and 
 direct that power to adjust your business affairs? 
 Why does the business man have a private 
 office? He has it, that there, in seclusion, he 
 may master conditions; that there, he may be 
 perfectly still; that there, he may get into the 
 silence. Now, when the master of these forces 
 becomes still, in the silence, he shuts out all con- 
 tending influences, that he may come in touch 
 with this Divine Wisdom which does and will 
 shape his affairs. You know that you can direct 
 this power for yourself or against yourself. 
 The engine can pull as many cars backward as 
 it can forward; — just change the lever. So in- 
 deed can we direct this power against ourselves 
 or for ourselves, according as we understand 
 and practice the truth. 
 
 The Burning Glass collects the sun's rays 
 into a focal point where the heat is so intense 
 
CONCENTRATION OR THE SILENCE 47 
 
 as to set on fire anything the concentrated rays 
 touch. In the Silence one can gather this 
 Divine Power, and it always accomplishes 
 something. The first step is the desire. The 
 desire must be for the accomplishment of some 
 object which demands our undivided attention, 
 otherwise we cannot expect success along any 
 line whatever. 
 
 Some complain that their thoughts w r ander 
 elsewhere w T hen trying to concentrate, and they 
 wonder why? It is because undivided attention 
 is not given to the matter in hand. We have 
 no difficulty in concentrating on the negative 
 side. You have a note coming due tomorrow — 
 you will think of it all day today if it is not 
 provided for. Your rent is nearly due, — you 
 think about it constantly. When you enter the 
 Silence it is for a definite purpose. You are 
 coming in touch with All Wisdom, therefore go 
 consciously for a definite purpose and let that 
 definite purpose take your undivided attention. 
 Be so much interested in it as to be dominated 
 by it, — then you will get results. 
 
 In studying concentration take some negative 
 quality in your make-up that you wish to change, 
 for instance, fear. Fear is the only Devil we 
 have. We fear everything. We live in the 
 thought of fear. Whenever we can eliminate 
 
48 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 fear from consciousness, it is banished from our 
 world, — we are Masters. There are but two 
 qualities of thought which are necessary to ban- 
 ish fear. One is consciousness of who you are; 
 the other is consciousness of your power. These 
 two qualities will eliminate fear. Concentrate 
 upon courage. Say "I am courageous. I am 
 Courage. " Say "I am more than this which I 
 see before me." And you are. Swing into that 
 consciousness. "I am more than failure. I am 
 more than weakness." Realize who you are. 
 Speak the word and march right up to it. 
 WILL-POWER. Back your statement by ac- 
 tion. Whatever you fear, walk right up to it 
 and you will find there is nothing to fear. 
 
 The negative quality, Jealousy, which troubles 
 a great many persons, requires a different com- 
 bination of attributes and activities. In this, 
 you are dealing with another, outside of your- 
 self. Concentrate upon Love, Rightness and 
 Justice. In the presence of these jealousy will 
 disappear. Carry these qualities into the 
 Silence, — Love to the Whole World. "Under 
 the conditions existing, all that I desire is 
 Rightness. " Think Rightness. Jealousy must 
 disappear. It is a Mastery of Self. That is 
 the whole secret in this work. Unconsciously 
 we are using this Divine Power and it responds 
 
CONCENTRATION OR THE SILENCE 49 
 
 to our dominant thought. What we most sin- 
 cerely desire is what we really are, because 
 u as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." 
 Thought becomes, when we consider it, a won- 
 derful power. It embraces different qualities 
 and the effect upon our lives or its demonstra- 
 tion is in accord with the character of the com- 
 bination. In dealing with yourself the proper 
 combination will bring Mastery. Faith, Knowl- 
 edge and Will-Power. These are the successful 
 elements. Faith in yourself to apply it. Will- 
 Power to command and enforce it, and 
 Knowledge of just what you are doing, this will 
 remove Fear or Jealousy or inharmony when 
 you understand who you are and why you are 
 possessed of these faculties. Understanding 
 yourself, you can, in the quiet of your home 
 or elsewhere, adjust any problem in life. Is it 
 not worth knowing? Any problem that a per- 
 son can possibly have to solve, can be adjusted, 
 and by himself alone. The power is within 
 his reach. 
 
 Faith in the law, and in yourself to apply it. 
 
 Knowledge of why you have faith in the law. 
 
 Will-Power to command and enforce it. 
 
 In dealing with the outside world we find 
 quite a different combination necessary; these 
 will be taken up in later chapters. 
 
5<3 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 CONCENTRATION and GOING INTO 
 THE SILENCE are the same. How can the 
 faculty of Concentration be unfolded? How 
 to apply these laws, is the puzzle awaiting most 
 of us. They are of little use unless we under- 
 stand their application. Suppose we concen- 
 trate upon every little thing we want done, — 
 upon everything you wish to have brought into 
 your world. Go into the silence for it. What 
 will be the result? As you take up the little 
 things of life you will have no anxious thought 
 for the morrow, — you will see the demonstra- 
 tion coming along out of the silence, and as the 
 little things make the larger ones, you will find 
 all the larger ones are dispelled. Most of us 
 wait until health is gone, friends are lost or 
 business is destroyed and then we want in great 
 haste some help out of our trouble. We want 
 some one or some thing to change everything 
 in a day or two. If it is not done, we have no 
 use for either men or things. Waiting until 
 everything^ is gone and we have not the con- 
 sciousness to do the work which is necessary, is 
 like locking the door after the thief has taken 
 all our goods. 
 
 A man came to me and wished me to speak 
 the word that would secure to him a million 
 dollars while he had less than fifty cents worth 
 
CONCENTRATION OR THE SILENCE 5 I 
 
 of faith. Now, how could I get that million 
 dollars for him by going into the silence? 
 
 This is a business proposition and you should 
 treat it in a business way. If you wish to 
 do business with me, you must come to my 
 office. 
 
 Enter the silence by yourself. Secure a posi- 
 tion of comfort in order that nothing attract 
 the attention. You have a definite purpose. 
 Something in your life or business requires 
 adjustment. You get perfectly still and trust 
 the law to do the work. Trust yourself to 
 speak the word, because you understand there 
 is but one Power. u Let there be, and there 
 was." Now you can sit down and say, u Let 
 there be, and there is." I repeat, — get perfectly 
 still and into a positive state of mind. Do not 
 carry your trouble into the silence. Say, "I am 
 master." "I am coming in touch with this 
 Power which built everything in this world." 
 
 As a beginner it is well that you have a key 
 word to enable you to shut out everything of an 
 outside character. You may have something 
 depressing you. There may be conditions of 
 inharmony in the home. You will be tempted 
 to carry these things into the silence. Do not 
 do it. You may have some business trouble 
 and you want to carry that into the silence. Do 
 
52 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 not do that. You are alone there with All 
 Wisdom. Let a higher Power w r ork for you. 
 
 I will give you something to carry into the 
 silence. When perfectly still and at your ease, 
 close your eyes — give your whole attention to 
 it, — look out and see if you can see something 
 "BLUE." In carrying this out if your thoughts 
 begin to wander, break the silence, stop right 
 there and begin over again. If you can see the 
 Blue, come back and speak the word for what- 
 ever you want, but on no account carry your 
 trouble into the silence. If you do, there will 
 be no results. 
 
 There are some to whom these thoughts are 
 new. You can begin their practice at once. 
 The silence should be entered twice daily and 
 the word spoken for yourself. Do not allow 
 your business to fall out of harmony, — speak 
 the word every morning before you leave your 
 home. Determine what you want to see mani- 
 fested. Speak for that. Do not forget this,— 
 it is important. 
 
 In speaking the word for yourself or others 
 this should be said — "Let the way open that 
 this or that may come into manifesta- 
 tion." One may want a position. You may 
 say, "Infinite Spirit, let the way open, that 
 may have such a position as he is 
 
CONCENTRATION OR THE SILENCE 53 
 
 equipped to fill. Be definite and state the time. 
 Then, in the evening speak the word of thank- 
 fulness that the way has opened for this one. 
 Speak the word but once. If you do more than 
 that you are doubting your own word. Trust 
 your word. If you have not arrived at full 
 faith in the law, take up some problem which 
 does not carry any anxious thought. Speak the 
 word for another. Then it will not have such 
 personality and will not contain anxious thought 
 for yourself. 
 
 Some persons ask this question: u Why can I 
 speak the word so well for another and not for 
 myself?" Because in speaking the word for 
 yourself the anxious thought is carried into the 
 request, — while in speaking for another you 
 trust the law, without personal anxiety. 
 
 At first, remain in the silence but a few 
 moments. As soon as thought begins to wander, 
 break the silence. Practice Concentration. All 
 successful work in the silence is done through 
 concentration, in healing, in success in business, 
 and in the mastery of self. 
 
 I cannot too strongly impress upon your mind 
 the importance of this lesson. The practice of 
 the silence should be taken up at once. It is 
 here alone that we come in touch with the Great 
 Universal Power. The control of thought is 
 
54 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 the cause of everything in our world and can be 
 secured only by the practice of Concentration. 
 Our thoughts build our world. If your world is 
 not w T hat you would have it, look yourself over 
 and send out positive thoughts. Each one 
 knows what he is doing, and where he is living. 
 If living in the thought of limitation, change 
 the thought to abundance. If you are living in 
 the thought of fear, change it to courage, and 
 you will see that your condition will change in 
 the same degree that your thought is changed. 
 To be MASTER OF YOURSELF, and 
 MASTER OF YOUR WORLD, you must 
 first be Master of your Thought, for only so 
 can you send out the right combination. Con- 
 centration is the absolute necessity for definite 
 work. Without practice in Concentration I 
 question if one can sit in the silence for five 
 seconds with absolute control of his thoughts. 
 They will wander everywhere. That is what 
 we are doing constantly. That is one reason 
 why many are unable to make conscious demon- 
 stration. We must learn that thought, not feel- 
 ing is to control. That law, not sensation 
 governs success. Many persons get excited 
 over every trifle. We must learn control of 
 feeling in order to get satisfactory results and 
 conditions, 
 
CONCENTRATION OR THE SILENCE 55 
 
 Why should we be subject to unpleasant ex- 
 periences when it is possible for each one to say 
 what is coming into our world tomorrow, next 
 week or next month? All we have to do is to 
 Master Ourselves. Definite work is necessary 
 in order to secure satisfactory manifestation. 
 We must be Masters of Ourselves. In order to 
 control the Cause we must reach the Mastery 
 through the silence. Know what we are doing. 
 Know how we are directing this Great Uni- 
 versal Power, whether for ourselves, or against 
 ourselves. This control can be secured only by 
 using the power of Concentration in everything 
 and everywhere. In this way its power and 
 value are most quickly and definitely unfolded. 
 And while we are consciously receiving from 
 the Great Universal Supply, we are also im- 
 parting to a given point, through the silence. 
 
 Let me again emphasize the necessity for 
 Positive Thought. If you have negative 
 thoughts you cannot expect satisfactory results. 
 You know, perhaps, some persons who have 
 been practicing this for a long time who persist 
 in carrying negative, or receiving negative 
 thought, and wonder why they get no results. 
 Some will tell you to enter the silence and just 
 listen. That brings you nothing. There must 
 be definite, positive thought, Man is Co- 
 
56 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 Worker with God. God is not wondering how 
 His thoughts will result. Man, the builder 
 under God, must be as clear, as definite and as 
 positive as the Master. We are building every 
 minute something in and for our world. Con- 
 sciously or unconsciously, w T e build. 
 
 Therefore, when you go into the silence, go 
 for a definite purpose. Every thought and 
 every word should be charged with purpose and 
 after that is completed, break the silence. This 
 will close the mind against those negative 
 thoughts and negative conditions. When 
 speaking the w T ord for another, be positive and 
 realize that you are directing this Great Uni- 
 versal Power to their relief or benefit. 
 
 THE SILENCE IS THE PLACE OF 
 POWER. Here is w r here we come in conscious 
 touch with ALL POWER. The more con- 
 scious we are of that Wisdom, that Power, that 
 Intelligence, which is within our reach, the bet- 
 ter will be the results. In the Silence we deal 
 with the Cause of Things. When we come to 
 understand that we are the cause of everything 
 in our world, we are able to change the 
 conditions by coming into His stillness, and 
 in conscious touch with this Great Divine 
 Power, turn it in our favor or against our- 
 selves. 
 
CONCENTRATION OR THE SILENCE 57 
 
 There is one large corporation in Chicago 
 which has a Silence Room and once every day 
 the officers of that Company visit that room 
 either as a body or singly as they need. A 
 business man can sit down in his office and 
 adjust business matters a thousand miles away. 
 This is of daily occurrence. 
 
 Reader, — begin the silence today. Speak 
 the word for yourself. Any honest desire, any- 
 thing you wish to see brought into manifesta- 
 tion, you may see met if you bring the right 
 spirit in your request. But do not ask for a 
 million dollars if you have only a twenty-five 
 cent faith. You w T on't get it. Ask for anything 
 you have the FAITH that you can receive by a 
 spoken word and you will receive it. It is not 
 the question of how much you ask for, — it is 
 the question whether you are master of your- 
 self, and that comes through the silence. 
 
 Study this lesson over again. Use it every 
 day and some night you will be able to say, "I 
 have spoken for myself today and the reply i.s 
 manifest." 
 
CHAPTER V. 
 HEALING SELF AND OTHERS. 
 
 SO long as man continues to make mistakes, 
 so long will he continue those unpleasant 
 experiences which are called sickness, 
 sorrow and trouble. But when we come to 
 understand ourselves and know what has been 
 provided for us, then all these experiences will 
 pass out of our lives. Inasmuch as we are all 
 liable to make these mistakes, w T e should learn 
 how to correct them. Mastery of both body 
 and environment is possible to all. 
 
 In our first chapter w T e found that God, or 
 First Cause imparted Himself in the Creation. 
 We learned that God, or First Cause is all 
 Intelligence, all Love, all Life, all Power and 
 that all is Mind or Spirit. Let the reader 
 fasten this in his consciousness: — That God 
 imparted Himself in Creation. That man is 
 its most complete expression. These are the 
 qualities which were imparted: — all Intelli- 
 gence, all Life, all Love, all Power, and that 
 {ill is Mind or Spirit. If therefore, God irr> 
 
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HEALING SELF AND OTHERS 59 
 
 parted Himself in Creation, these are the 
 Substance which He imparted to man. All 
 Substance must have a degree of intelligence, a 
 degree of life, a degree of love, and a degree of 
 power. 
 
 From this premise we begin to know how 
 man, the master-mind in the created, can speak 
 to these intelligences and they obey. God 
 said — "Let there be," and there was. This 
 power has been imparted to man. Man said — 
 "Let there be a bridge of steel thrown across 
 the East River," and there was. Man said, — 
 u Let the lightning be chained," and it became 
 his servant. But man is a spiritual being. 
 Why should he not have full commerce with 
 Spiritual Powers? He does. He may sit down 
 in the silence and come into immediate touch 
 with the All Power, and let it speak through 
 him and say — u Let there be," and there is. 
 
 As there is but one Power in the whole crea- 
 tion, man must use this or none. He directs it 
 consciously or unconsciously to any part of his 
 body. Our bodies have a degree of intelligence, 
 and we can speak to this intelligence. It will 
 obey. 
 
 The cause of this inharmony which we call 
 sickness is, that we have been telling these little 
 minds pf which our bodies are composed, that 
 
6o RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 which is not true. We have filled these little 
 minds with fear. Fear of a draft, — fear of 
 certain foods, — fear of contagion, — fear of 
 microbes. We have told these little minds, 
 "you are sick." We have said to these little 
 minds, — U I am not master." "You are the 
 masters." They hold the thought. The 
 master-mind must eradicate this impression. 
 We are responsible for everything that enters 
 into our lives or touches our bodies. When we 
 tell these little minds that which is not true they 
 enlarge upon what we have told them. 
 
 Any up-to-date medical man will tell you that 
 every organ manifests a degree of intelligence. 
 Of the food w T e consume each organ takes only 
 what it can use and passes the remainder on 
 to some other organ. In case of injury to one 
 part, all the other parts hasten to offer it restor- 
 ation. Every part supplies something to aid 
 recovery. This is true of nature everywhere. 
 She tries to cover wounds and scars wherever 
 made. So in the externals of life around us a 
 degree of intelligence is seen. 
 
 As soon as the truth is understood and 
 spoken truly, what is called sickness will ■ dis- 
 appear. Nothing unusual about it. Nothing 
 mysterious. It is simply to understand and 
 exercise the power of man in the spiritual world. 
 
HEALING SELF AND OTHERS 6 I 
 
 The physician of the future will be a teacher. 
 He is now dealing with effect; — he will then be 
 dealing with the cause. We are the cause. We 
 bring about a condition and then send for a 
 physician. He treats the effect which we have 
 brought into manifestation. Later he will learn 
 to treat the cause. Instead of looking at your 
 tongue or feeling your pulse, he will ask, — 
 u What have you been telling these little minds 
 of which your body is made up? What have 
 you been telling them? Where are you living 
 today, mentally? He will diagnose your men- 
 tality instead of your body because that is the 
 source of your malady. He will begin to deal 
 with the cause. It is a source of gratification 
 that many thoughtful physicians are now study- 
 ing the mental causes of all disease along this 
 line and embodying its principles in their practice. 
 
 Law governs all conditions. There is a law 
 of Health. To this law of Health the truth 
 must always be spoken. By telling an untruth 
 the law is violated and you must pay the penalty. 
 Did you ever consider what this means in your 
 life? Have you thought you could say any- 
 thing that you wished? A lady will tell her 
 servant to say, — "I am not at. home today," 
 when she is at home. This is an untruth and 
 the penalty must be paid in full. 
 
62 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 In allowing oneself to become angry, the laws 
 of health are violated. To admit worry or 
 despondency to enter the mind, is to open the 
 door and invite what we call sickness. But 
 when the Mastery is obtained and we send out 
 thoughts of truth, we come into perfect health. 
 How many persons who read this page have 
 proved this ? How many can witness that worry 
 affects the body, and anxiety disturbs all its 
 functions? Why, then, will you continue to 
 permit these things to produce disease and in- 
 harmony in your life? You do not have to be 
 a thief, a hold-up man or a forger to violate 
 law. Every day the laws of health are broken; 
 the law T s of business and all laws relating to your 
 well being are disregarded, and therefore you 
 can expect nothing but unsatisfactory conditions. 
 
 The Mastery of one's thoughts and words 
 are necessary to perfect health. "As one think- 
 eth in his heart, so is he." But so long as mis- 
 takes are made and the laws of health are 
 violated it is quite important for us to under- 
 stand how to restore normal conditions. That 
 is what this lesson is presenting. 
 
 Now, the best way to heal ourselves is to 
 begin at the root. That is, to heal ourselves of 
 making mistakes. Then we have less work to 
 do later on. Mastery of self is to heal us of 
 
HEALING SELF AND OTHERS 63 
 
 our mistakes. The fourth chapter taught that 
 Mastery comes only through the silence. Mas- 
 tery of thoughts. Mastery of words, mastery 
 of your world comes through the silence. Many 
 who read this page have proven this. You sit 
 alone in the silence and speak the word which 
 opens the door to health. In treating for health, 
 as for all other conditions, always find the cause 
 if you can. When the cause is removed condi- 
 tions are changed at once. Bring the truth to 
 the problem and error will disappear. 
 
 When the cause is inharmony, speak the word 
 for rightness, love and justice to be made mani- 
 fest in the home, — and in the body. If it is the 
 thought of lack, and so many of us are carrying 
 that today, — lack and limitation in finance, — 
 speak the word for joy, happiness, abundance 
 for one living in the thought of lack and limita- 
 tion. No one can hold that thought very long 
 and still have lack in their world. 
 
 Is it fear? Speak the word for courage. 
 You may find it to be lack of self-control, — "all 
 strung up, — tense" — ready to break. Speak the 
 word for poise. For mastery of self. 
 
 All these mental conditions manifest in our 
 bodies and in our affairs. These conditions will 
 continue and increase so long as we continue to 
 hold these negative thoughts. "To him that 
 
64 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 hath, more shall be given. " So it depends on 
 what you and I have and use, what our enlarge- 
 ment shall be. If we have inharmony in the 
 home and are living in that thought, we will 
 have more of it, — abundance of it. If we are 
 living in any thought that is violating the law — 
 any law whose violation brings inharmony in 
 the body or out of it — we shall have still more. 
 u To him who hath, more shall be given." This 
 is a positive truth. So our life today indicates 
 what our world will be next week, next month, 
 next year. 
 
 In healing yourself or others, first get still, 
 inside and outside. Perfectly still. You may 
 at first be obliged to go away by yourself, and 
 say, — Peace, — peace, — all is peace. No matter 
 if it requires fifteen minutes before the state of 
 absolute peace is secured, — sit in the silence and 
 repeat, — Peace, all is peace. Sooner or later 
 the consciousness that all is peace will transfuse 
 and transform the spirit. 
 
 Following this, secure a positive state of 
 mind. Never enter the silence in a negative 
 state of mind. When you do, the door is opened 
 to everything outside, far and near. A negative 
 state is receptive. The healer may, if negative, 
 take on the quality of thought of the one he 
 wishes to heal. Failure, of course. Do not be 
 
HEALING SELF AND OTHERS 65 
 
 negative. Be positive. Go into the silence with 
 a definite purpose. Get perfectly still. Close 
 the eyes and send out the conscious mind into 
 the Universal. Out, out, far out, and pretty 
 soon you will lose yourself. That is concentra- 
 tion. This is concentrating for the work which 
 you will have to do later on. Mastery of your 
 mentality. Mastery of your mind. Send out 
 the mind and continue sending it out until it is 
 possible for you to see a light blue. Of course 
 your eyes are closed. Now, when the blue light 
 is reached, and you are conscious of what you 
 entered the silence to accomplish, speak the word 
 for just what you wish to see come into mani- 
 festation. You have no idea of the power that 
 lies within each one until it is proven to and by 
 yourself. 
 
 Recently a lady came to me and said, "We 
 are going to have a little gathering. There is 
 inharmony in that gathering and it is not work- 
 ing out as it should. Will you speak the word?" 
 I went home and spoke the word. Immediately 
 afterward I received a letter from the lady say- 
 ing that it worked perfectly. Now, each one 
 has the same power. Each one can speak the 
 word as well as I. The object of this lesson is 
 to help you to self-mastery, — to stand upon your 
 
66 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 own feet and not to lean upon any prop less 
 than All Power, all love and all life. 
 
 Should there be inharmony at a given place 
 in the body, — say, for instance, the arm, — speak 
 the word to that particular place. Address your 
 master mind to those little minds which are 
 active in that part or place which is disturbing 
 you. They will obey. To the little minds 
 which go to make up any part of the body, 
 speak the word. There is intelligence and there 
 w T ill be obedience. 
 
 Should there be a fever, one must be careful 
 about his words. Certain words will increase 
 the fever. In fever cases bathe the entire 
 body mentally with Infinite health and normal 
 conditions. Begin at the top of the head, 
 and bathe, mentally, the entire body clear to 
 the feet, as you would with a sponge. You will 
 here recognize the importance of the lesson on 
 concentration. I question if some can accom- 
 plish this, but it can be done by practice, daily. 
 Bathe the patient from head to foot mentally 
 and look right through the skin. First bathe 
 the inside and second, the outside of the skin. 
 You can reduce the fever, — how well will de- 
 pend upon your power of concentration. If you 
 are good in concentrating the fever will be re- 
 duced in two hours at the longest. 
 
HEALING SELF AND OTHERS 67 
 
 In case of weakness, bathe in Infinite Health 
 and Strength, in Vigor, Life and normal condi- 
 tions. You will note the difference in the word- 
 ing. It is important. This treatment given in 
 a fever case would increase the fever. So you 
 must know what you are doing. As I have said, 
 the future physician will be dealing with the 
 cause of things instead of their effect, and be 
 better able than now to remove the cause of all 
 inharmony of the body. 
 
 On every occasion, whether treating yourself 
 or another, make full preparation to speak the 
 word, and only the right word. In treating a 
 fever, do not come from the outer world of 
 affairs without any preparation. To secure the 
 best results, prepare yourself and get in touch 
 with the Divine Power consciously, and then it 
 will speak through you. Speak to these little 
 intelligences what you want, and they will 
 understand. 
 
 Many ladies who are lovers of flowers tell 
 me that flowers understand what they say to 
 them. Some say they have great luck in the 
 culture of flowers because they love them and 
 speak to them and the flowers bloom for them. 
 It is simply the intelligence of the flower that 
 understands and responds to your affection. 
 
68 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 We have a Persian cat that has intelligence. 
 When it wants its breakfast in the morning it 
 goes under the table and puts its paw on the 
 bell and it rings in the kitchen. The maids, for 
 a time, used to come in, but as they have be- 
 come used to it, they give but little attention to 
 the early call. But that cat knows enough to 
 ring the bell ; his intelligence tells him that when 
 he rings the bell it brings something to eat. Do 
 you tell me that animals have no intelligence? 
 Now, in reference to your health, — do not 
 wait and neglect your body until its functions 
 are out of harmony. The same advice applies 
 to your business affairs. This is the mistake 
 you make. You wait until you are what you 
 call sick, — the body is out of harmony before 
 you give it attention. If you want perfect 
 health begin to-day and speak the truth to every 
 organ of your body, and speak it twice daily, 
 and health will come and the perfect function- 
 ing of every part. Begin at the top of the head 
 and proceed downwards, speaking to each in 
 turn. Say, "Infinite Spirit, let the way be open 
 that my brain be clear and alert, just as it should 
 be, — my throat, the bronchial tubes, the lungs, 
 all manifest perfect health." Speak to each 
 twice daily. Call to account every organ of 
 the body and it will respond; do not allow one 
 
HEALING SELF AND OTHERS 69 
 
 to go unspoken. Do not tell these little minds 
 untruths and wait till you are compelled to go 
 to bed before you give the body its due con- 
 sideration. 
 
 Perhaps you do the same thing in your busi- 
 ness. Regardless of what you might do to 
 avert disaster, you let it go all to pieces. When 
 it becomes out of joint you want help. Unless 
 you speak the word for your business every 
 day; — every morning express your desire, and 
 every evening your thankfulness that the way 
 has been opened for its success, it is liable to 
 be destroyed; — and that by your own indiffer- 
 ence, or ignorance. Speak the word from the 
 silence and then, trust the law. Trust your 
 spoken word. Do not question yourself and 
 wonder if u that was spoken just right ?" Do 
 not say, "I don't know if that was the right 
 thing to do." Go into the silence with a definite 
 purpose and become perfectly still. Let the 
 Divine Power speak through you and trust the 
 power which these words direct and you will 
 get results. 
 
 In absent work, speak into the Universal but 
 with an absolutely definite purpose and with 
 definite words. Time and space have nothing 
 to do with the spoken word, — your conscious- 
 ness is the sole basis. 
 
70 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 This lesson is to help you get an understand- 
 ing of your own power, — then you will become 
 conscious of Mastery. Mastery, not alone of 
 your body, nor yet of your home affairs, but 
 also of your business. Sitting in the silence you 
 can say, "Infinite Spirit, let the way open that 
 I am covered up with orders"; and you can 
 start the incoming. In the silence you may 
 speak the word which will multiply the income 
 from your business. You are speaking to in- 
 telligence. You are using the great power that 
 says, "Let there be," and there is. So can you 
 say, "Let there be, no matter what it may be." 
 
 What has been the difficulty heretofore? 
 You have been telling these intelligences un- 
 truths. You have talked to your bodies and 
 told them untruths and they have responded 
 accordingly. That is the reason for your sick- 
 ness, your trouble and heartache today. 
 
 Allow a word of recapitulation for emphasis. 
 Live in the thought that you are power. Gain 
 power by doing. If you would increase the 
 strength of your arm, you must use it. If you 
 want more faith in yourself and this law, you 
 must practice both. Use the little faith you 
 have. Begin to treat someone today. Speak 
 the word for someone somewhere and prove 
 that you have the power. You may know of one 
 
HEALING SELF AND OTHERS 7 I 
 
 whose business is at odds, or one whose health 
 is failing. They may be helped. Do not do 
 this for yourself alone, — it is not that, but by 
 doing for others you become conscious that you 
 are a power and that it is possible for its dem- 
 onstration in every act of your life. So, get to 
 w T ork. 
 
CHAPTER VI. 
 
 HOW TO APPLY THESE PRINCIPLES 
 IN BUSINESS. 
 
 THERE .is no place where these truths are 
 more needed than in the field of affairs. 
 You understand that it is possible for you 
 to bring success to yourself out of what is called 
 failure. This is literally true of you who read 
 this page. You have only to understand and 
 use your true power. 
 
 We are told that 90 to 95 per cent of busi- 
 ness men fail at some time during their business 
 career. This should not be. There is no reason 
 why it should be so because everyone may reach 
 that understanding by which he can come in 
 touch with All Wisdom, — an intelligence which 
 will guide in all business as well as in all mental, 
 moral and spiritual affairs. When a man un- 
 derstands his possibilities, when he understands 
 who he is and why he is here, then he learns 
 why he should be the master. 
 
 We live in a world of change. We live in 
 a world where most of us believe in limitation. 
 
 72 
 
APPLICATION IN BUSINESS 73 
 
 Few ever had enough of what they wanted, 
 perhaps of what they needed. We see poverty 
 on every hand, and people limited along all 
 lines; limited in every way. It is possible for 
 us to get out of the bondage of limitation. And 
 furthermore we must, before we can come into 
 the realization of abundance. 
 
 We admit that we see limitation on every 
 hand. But why? It is because you and I have 
 sent out a thought that brings limitation into 
 our world, and therefore, nothing else can come. 
 Your thoughts and your words, my thoughts 
 and my words build our world. Create your 
 atmosphere. The Scripture saith, "For every 
 idle word you shall give account." Every word 
 you speak means something to your world, so 
 for every good word spoken much good comes 
 to you out of good words spoken. 
 
 We are born with an "I want." The mo- 
 ment one enters the world he wants something 
 and that want continues to increase so long as 
 he remains here. Whenever we want a certain 
 thing and it is brought into manifestation, we 
 want something more; — something else. So 
 the "I wants" grow. And that is right. That 
 is best for us ; it is God pushing us along to 
 something better. This Great Universal Power 
 pushes us on because everything that we can 
 
74 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 possibly want has been provided for us. It is 
 in the unseen and we have to learn how to reach 
 into the unseen world and bring it into the seen, 
 and to the degree we are able to do that, are 
 we able to satisfy all our "I wants." 
 
 We have been taught just the opposite of 
 much that this lesson contains. We have be- 
 lieved in Duality. We have believed in two 
 Powers. We have accepted evil and good as 
 opposing forces in the universe. We have con- 
 sidered the Spiritual and the Material as dis- 
 tinct from and adverse to each other. Two 
 substances cannot exist. Matter is but the man- 
 ifestation of spirit in coarser form. Here we 
 find that there is but one power. There is but 
 one substance, and that is mind, or Spirit, — 
 God. Not until we enter into this realization, 
 — come into its full consciousness, — do we be- 
 gin to see man's possibilities. 
 
 There was a time, — perhaps it is still linger- 
 ing with some of us, — when it was not thought 
 right to talk about our business on Sunday 
 morning. As business is quite a part of each 
 life and as life is sacred, there is nothing in 
 which we can properly engage which is not 
 equally sacred. Most of us spend from twelve 
 to fourteen hours in business every day. The 
 housewife is in business. A sacred occupation. 
 
APPLICATION IN BUSINESS 75 
 
 However, when we understand ourselves and 
 what has been provided for us, there will open 
 a way by which we do not give so many hours 
 to business. A division of time and labor, — 
 so many hours to business, so many to recrea- 
 tion, and so many hours to be spent in helping 
 others. 
 
 Let me repeat. We know that all substance 
 is mind or Spirit, — God. We know there is 
 abundance everywhere. When a man knows 
 how to build out of this abundance, all his "I 
 wants" will be satisfied. When he realizes that 
 he is master of any problem that presents itself 
 this condition will come into manifestation. 
 All "wants" will be met. 
 
 You say that business with you is not going 
 as it should. You are responsible for it. If 
 you would change your business, it is yourself 
 that must change first. To the degree, and in 
 the quality of the change in you, will the char- 
 acter and the quality of your, business be 
 changed. Its success lies in you. So long as 
 you accept and carry the thought of limitation, 
 — so long as you admit that the business is get- 
 ting poorer every day, you are doing the very 
 thing that will drive it out of existence. 
 
 Every sincere student of this truth finds that 
 there is a universal bank to which he has free 
 
76 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 access, with unlimited credit. He must under- 
 stand his account and know how to draw his 
 check. Whenever a check is drawn according 
 to law it is immediately honored. It is neces- 
 sary for one to know just how to draw the 
 check. If correctly drawn, — just as this great 
 universal bank demands, — it will be honored 
 every time. That is what we are studying now. 
 How to draw T the check that will bring, — shall 
 I say, — dollars? — yes, dollars to us. 
 
 For every possible want of man provision 
 has been made. He must know how to do his 
 part, and then he must do it. With every con- 
 dition fulfilled, the law will compel him to take 
 the returns. If you violate the law you pay the 
 penalty. If you fulfill the conditions of success 
 the law forces you to take that, — the conditions 
 of which you have met. You cannot fulfill the 
 conditions of success without receiving success, 
 — it cannot be done. 
 
 In drawing from this great universal supply 
 house, you must realize the truth of things as 
 they are. You cannot believe in error. You 
 must omit error from the account and comply 
 with the conditions of this great universal 
 bank. 
 
 We find that all is law, and there is a law of 
 finance as well as a law of business affairs. 
 
APPLICATION IN BUSINESS 
 
 77 
 
 There is no such thing as luck. Everyone who 
 succeeds has in some way complied with this law 
 of success. What now interests you and me is, 
 how to comply with this law. 
 
 Allow me to give you this illustration. A 
 gentleman, — a shipper of heavy goods, — gave 
 me this experience. For the past few months 
 there have been embargoes on all the railroads. 
 It became necessary for him to ship three or 
 four cars of goods. From the teachings of this 
 law, he understands that it was possible for him 
 to secure the moving of these cars as it was very 
 necessary. He went into the silence for the pur- 
 pose. He told me that he was u Surprised at the 
 result." "I was able to move those cars." The 
 embargo was on the road, but he was living 
 under a different law. He was master of the 
 situation. He came in touch with the great 
 universal Power consciously and said, u Let the 
 way be opened," and it opened. 
 
 What the reader of this page wants to know 
 is, how to comply with this law which brings 
 what so many call luck. There are things 
 which he must do. Let us consider first those 
 things which he must not do. 
 
 Never ask or expect something for nothing. 
 If you do, you violate the law of compensation, 
 and you will not ^get satisfactory returns. Pay 
 
78 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 your way. Perhaps you know people who, in a 
 street car, look out of the window as the con- 
 ductor passes them, and so, — save a nickel. Do 
 you know what that means ? Saving that nickel 
 will cost you dollars. The quality of thought 
 sent out will take many dollars from you and 
 your world. If you cheat someone out of a 
 dollar you are beating yourself out of hundreds 
 of dollars. There is a law of compensation 
 with which we must comply. 
 
 Next, we must not hunt for something cheap. 
 Cheap thoughts will always bring cheap returns. 
 Some ladies, for instance, look and wait for 
 bargain day. Do you know what bargain day 
 costs them? It keep them forever looking for 
 bargains. Never say you cannot afford this, or 
 that. Your spoken word will bring you into a 
 position where you never can afford, — anything. 
 It is wise to consider what our words mean. 
 Nor should we forget that thoughts are things, 
 as well. 
 
 You say that your business is bad, — getting 
 poorer and poorer every day. Your thought 
 and words will surely bring it into manifesta- 
 tion. If you say, "I cannot afford this, I cannot 
 afford that," you are advancing rapidly to the 
 point where your words will prove true. I am 
 repeating this as it is necessary to impress upon 
 
APPLICATION IN BUSINESS 79 
 
 your mind ineradicably that it means everything 
 to your world what you say regarding it. 
 
 Never pay out money grudgingly or with re- 
 gret. Let it go cheerfully. Make up your mind 
 that it matters little if you have but one dollar. 
 Decide before you spend that dollar that you 
 want that something more than that dollar, — 
 then let it go cheerfully. Think that what you 
 get means more to you than the dollar you 
 spent. Live in the thought. Do not regret that 
 you have sent the money out, or that you are 
 without it. This means something in your 
 world. To regret having spent the money is to 
 violate law, which has a penalty attached to 
 it, and you will pay that penalty to the last 
 farthing. 
 
 Never, never say, u My business is getting 
 poorer. Why do I say this? Because, when 
 you send out a thought, you believe what you 
 say. You believe your business is losing ground. 
 That is complying with the law which brings 
 about the condition. Now, if you can believe, 
 you may come into a consciousness which en- 
 ables you to say, u My business is improving, — 
 getting better every day, growing in quality and 
 volume. " You will see in manifestation what 
 you think and what you are saying. If you are 
 conscious of meeting a condition, you will see it 
 
80 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 in manifestation. So when you say that busi- 
 ness is getting poorer, you believe what you say 
 and comply with the law which will bring the 
 returns of getting poorer still. 
 
 There are many business men and business 
 houses, when things drop off a little, who say, 
 "Business is not quite so good this month as it 
 was last," and they begin to study for places to 
 retrench, cut off expenses. They call in their 
 salesmen from the road; and talk to their part- 
 ners, and say, "We must retrench." Do you 
 understand what they are doing? Do they un- 
 derstand? They are sending out a quality of 
 thought that will bring disaster to any com- 
 pany, I do not care how large it is. We induce 
 conditions which bring disaster and then wonder 
 why things go wrong with us. We are per- 
 sonally at fault. 
 
 The young man reading this page, — to you 
 let me say, You have within yourself the power 
 to build just as high as you want to build. You 
 are limited only by your aspirations. Your 
 world lies in your making. The thought you 
 are sending out is building your future habita- 
 tion. It is plastic now, it may crystallize around 
 you later. Do not rely upon any employer but 
 God. Do not rely upon anything outside of 
 yourself except Divine Power, and you may 
 
APPLICATION IN BUSINESS 8l 
 
 build just as good a business, just as large a 
 business as you wish. 
 
 WHAT WE MUST DO. Let us consider 
 some of those things. 
 
 First: — We must control ourselves in the 
 home. Must have perfect harmony there. No 
 man can succeed in business with inharmony in 
 the home. There of all places peace and har- 
 mony must reign. When a husband and wife 
 agree and everything is at peace, they can sit 
 down in the silence together and speak the word 
 which will open any business, or that will start 
 success out of failure. The possibility of hus- 
 band and wife to do work in the home is some- 
 thing wonderful. 
 
 Second: — We must control ourselves in the 
 business world. Everything must be based on 
 the principles of rightness if you desire perma- 
 nent success. You can comply with the law of 
 success and secure it while violating the law in 
 another way, the results of which you will reap 
 later on. This is hair-line work. 
 
 There was a firm in Chicago which conducted 
 its affairs by questionable methods. It was 
 carrying on a large business, but went into bank- 
 ruptcy. The firm could not pay ten cents on 
 the dollar. This result was in consequence of 
 wrong methods. The law of success had been 
 
82 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 complied with for a time and success had been 
 crowded upon it, but the moment the quality of 
 thought was changed, the moment it began to 
 grasp from someone else, the moment the viola- 
 tion of law began, that moment began the reap- 
 ing which resulted in bankruptcy, the penalty 
 of violation. 
 
 Attention must first be given to the silence, 
 where you ask for wisdom. Then, build a pic- 
 ture of what you want. I repeat, build a picture 
 of just what you want, — like the architect, 
 drawing a complete plan for a cathedral. What 
 is the purpose of your building? What is the 
 size, design and character? Find out at first 
 what you want. Then build. What business 
 will you enter upon? What eminence do you 
 wish to reach? Put the goal up there, — what 
 height do you want to attain? Draw your men- 
 tal outline, fill in every part, and then put heart, 
 soul and attention in that direction and never 
 lose the thought of reaching your goal, and you 
 certainly will achieve. 
 
 There is a gentleman in New York having 
 in his employ three or four hundred men at the 
 present time. He once related to me the follow- 
 ing incident: "I was very fond of music and 
 especially the Opera. My salary w 7 as not large 
 at the time and I could not afford a high priced 
 
 
APPLICATION IN BUSINESS 83 
 
 seat and so, went into the gallery. But I was 
 interested. As I sat there one evening I saw 
 a man walk down the aisle, in a full dress suit 
 and take a seat about the fifth or sixth row from 
 the stage. I placed that in my mind and it was 
 not very long before I was sitting in the fifth 
 or sixth row wearing a dress suit." So it is with 
 the picture which you build. If you surround it 
 with limitations, if it is charged with poverty, 
 if you build a picture of inharmony and un- 
 happiness, you will see all your anticipated con- 
 ditions brought into your world. As you read 
 this page, come directly to this realization. You 
 can have just what you want. No one can limit 
 you in thought, in ambition, or in achievement 
 but yourself. You can sit down with this little 
 volume in your hand and make yourself any- 
 thing that you wish. It all depends on the 
 quality of thought which you send forth. You 
 can speak the word, u Let there be." Do you 
 question this? Do you smile incredulously? 
 Well, prove it for yourself. Do not take the 
 word which you have read; just give it personal 
 proof. That is the only way. Then, you know. 
 Depend upon the silence. Let the All Wis- 
 dom guide you and there can be no mistake. 
 Every mistake costs something. "Trust in the 
 Lord with all thine heart and lean not to thine 
 
84 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 own understanding." "In all thy ways acknowl- 
 edge Him and he shall direct thy path." No 
 mistakes there. 
 
 As I have said before, be definite. Know 
 what you want and speak the word definitely 
 for that. If you want an increase in business, 
 state the amount and have faith in yourself, as 
 you speak the word. If you have but little 
 faith, ask for but little as that is all you will get. 
 
 If you wish anything brought into manifesta- 
 tion, follow it to a finish. Suppose you want 
 to go to England or other foreign countries. 
 Ask for the way to open that this come into 
 manifestation. If you want a new dress or a 
 new hat, speak the word. Be definite. Name 
 the price you will pay and then see yourself in 
 it. Hold that thought until you see it in mani- 
 festation. Do not begin and then weaken. 
 That does not bring you anywhere or to any- 
 thing. Hold persistently to that for which you 
 start : — run the race to the end and you will see 
 its full realization. It is a business proposition. 
 This lesson is for business and that is why In- 
 sistence is laid on your being definite and per- 
 sistent. As I repeat, — if you want to go to 
 England, see yourself getting off the boat and 
 hold the thought to a finish. Build a picture, 
 then fill in the outlines to a completed fact. 
 
APPLICATION IN BUSINESS 85 
 
 Never let go. Whatever you begin, hold on 
 until it is brought into manifestation. 
 
 Young man, you are reading this page and 
 wishing you had a* better position. You are not 
 obliged to remain where you are. Whatever 
 the position you want, begin to-day and speak 
 the word for it. Look for it. Comply with 
 every condition right where you are. Do the 
 best you can, the present place may improve as 
 soon as you are thoroughly equipped for it. 
 The position for which you are speaking the 
 word will appear and the law will push you 
 into it. 
 
 But you would like to start a business for 
 yourself? You have not a dollar of capital. 
 You can start that business today if you will. 
 But in what way? You can draw upon the great 
 universal bank of which you have been reading. 
 It is within your reach to draw all the dollars 
 that you are equipped to manage. What is the 
 condition? You must be equipped to furnish all 
 the thought capital required in the business. 
 That is all that is necessary. There must be an 
 earnest desire for a particular business. You 
 must have faith in yourself to carry it to a 
 success. You must be willing to assume all the 
 responsibility that goes with it. Having these 
 qualifications, you must sit down in the silence 
 
86 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 and draw the money, — all the money that is 
 required to carry on that business. There is 
 abundance of money everywhere looking for 
 just such an opportunity. All you have to do 
 is to equip yourself and the law will bring the 
 two together. Equip yourself and speak the 
 word and the door wall open. 
 
 It is necessary, first, to master ourselves. We 
 will find that we can control the outer to the 
 degree that we master ourselves, — the cause, — 
 the within. We do not have to overcome any- 
 thing, there is nothing to overcome. Bring out 
 of yourself your latent possibilities. Each for 
 himself. Win the battle in the silence — it is the 
 mastery of self. 
 
 If you want harmony in the home, find it first 
 in the silence, in the spoken word and then in 
 action. Follow it to a finish. Carry the spoken 
 word into action. Act harmony, do those 
 things which suggest harmony and which bring 
 harmony, and harmony will come. Do what 
 you will, you cannot escape the law. All must 
 do their part. 
 
 Do you want success in your affairs? Then 
 speak the word and think success, act success 
 and see yourself a success. Build the picture, 
 put it in its proper frame, omit nothing, — suc- 
 cess will come, 
 
APPLICATION IN BUSINESS 87 
 
 You have heard of Henry Gordon Selfridge, 
 formerly a partner with Marshall Field of 
 Chicago. He started a large business in Lon- 
 don. He said, u Before I ever set foot on the 
 shore of England I had a big department store 
 all worked out in detail in my mind. I could 
 see the great crowd of purchasers. I was doing 
 a splendid business in London before I ever saw 
 it." There is the exact point. He complied 
 with the law of success and success pushed itself 
 upon him. He did not believe that the English 
 people were so slow and unprogressive as not to 
 respond to the same business methods which 
 had proved so successful in America. He had 
 succeeded in establishing his business before he 
 reached London. What do you think of his 
 experience? It was not an experiment, — it w 7 as 
 not luck nor chance. It was business. He was 
 a thorough business man. He is complying with 
 the law of success, and for you and for me the 
 law will act in the same manner and bring the 
 same returns. See yourself a success. 
 
 Let me give you a rough explanation of this 
 proposition. You can see in your pocketbook 
 one hundred dollars, if you please. You put it 
 in there, — so many tens, so many fives and put 
 in a twenty between, if you wish, to make it a 
 hundred, or fifty, qy twenty-five, — just as you 
 
88 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 like, — whatever amount you see. If you wlil 
 see it there, — continue to see it there and never 
 change it, I will guarantee that you will see the 
 money. Now, this is not theory. It is some- 
 thing that I have proven myself. I know from 
 a most practical experience what I am placing 
 in words upon this page. And I am telling you 
 that you can do the same thing. But you can- 
 not be vacillating. You must continue to hold 
 fast the idea. Shut your eyes and count it. 
 Count it every morning and every night. A 
 little later on you will see it. It is not 
 theory. It is something we have not under- 
 stood before. 
 
 Do not forget that all is mind, — mind or 
 spirit. We are living in a spirit world now. It 
 is not material and spiritual. No ! All is Mind 
 or Spirit. God, the Substance of everything, 
 and this great universal Power speaks through 
 you and me as we direct it. We alone are re- 
 sponsible for its direction, and as it is directed 
 its work is done. 
 
 We may direct it against our home or our 
 bodies, and it will tear them all to pieces, or we 
 can direct it in such a way as to bring success, 
 peace, harmony and plenty. As in electricity, 
 for instance, w 7 e have just put in harness and are 
 learning how to use it, So it is with this great 
 
APPLICATION IN BUSINESS 89 
 
 truth, we have barely begun to know its use, or 
 how it may be directed, as a mighty power in 
 all our affairs. 
 
 Never give up what you have once begun, no 
 matter what, and you will see its manifestation. 
 Be definite, — ask for just what you want. This 
 law cannot serve you until the word is spoken. 
 Cannot serve you until you speak it. Cannot 
 serve you without your being definite in what 
 you want, and definite in your asking. 
 
 In addressing a class, I have often said, "Go 
 into a restaurant and take a seat at the table. 
 You may sit there all day and the waiter will 
 not, — cannot serve you until you tell what you 
 w T ant." So it is with this law. You think one 
 way and then you want something else, and all 
 you get is your pleasure or your trouble. 
 
 In the business affairs if you speak the word, 
 "Let the way be open," and you are definite and 
 sincere as to what way you want opened, you 
 will find it open. If you want to begin a busi- 
 ness for yourself you can bring the money, but 
 you must begin according to your faith and un- 
 derstanding. One hundred dollars worth of 
 faith will bring one hundred dollars in money, 
 and fifty cents worth of faith will bring only 
 fifty cents. So we must know exactly what we 
 are doing. 
 
90 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 We build what comes into our world. We 
 use this great power, as I have often said, con- 
 sciously or unconsciously, tearing down or build- 
 ing up. We do not know what we are doing. 
 We must study these truths. Let us come into 
 the consciousness of what we are and what we 
 are doing. There is no time like to-day to begin 
 the use of these great truths in our world. Each 
 must apply them for himself. Each must be 
 governed by faith, — faith in the law and faith 
 in himself. u According to your faith be it unto 
 you." 
 
 We therefore acknowledge that the status of 
 our finances is in our hands. Abundance is pro- 
 vided and the amount of profit or income we are 
 to enjoy is according to our willingness to meet 
 the conditions. The check upon the bank may 
 be drawn for all you want, but be sure it is 
 properly drawn and according to the law. It 
 can be properly drawn only through the silence. 
 Remember the silence. It is everything. Every- 
 thing. And as we come into conscious touch 
 with this great Divine Power, the w T ay is open 
 for everyone. 
 
 Before closing this chapter I wish to give 
 further explanation about giving out money. 
 Give it out with judgment. A lady of whom I 
 knew, having heard these truths advanced. 
 
APPLICATION IN BUSINESS QI 
 
 thought she understood the principle. So she 
 took the money received for her week's salary 
 and bought candy, giving it out to the poor 
 children. They wanted it, they enjoyed it, but 
 she had spent the money foolishly and was very 
 much embarrassed because she had no money 
 with which to meet her week's expenses. I re- 
 peat, therefore, use good judgment. 
 
 I do not believe in contracting obligations. 
 If you do not have the money, speak the word 
 and get the money. Do not go into debt, be- 
 cause it will be more difficult for you to speak 
 the word for the money if you have created an 
 obligation, than it will be to speak the word 
 before. If you have to contend with the 
 thought that is pressing you, of a certain amount 
 of money to be paid at a certain time, you will 
 put an anxious thought into the silence which 
 you would not ordinarily carry. You would 
 therefore have more difficulty in meeting the 
 conditions. So that is what I mean when I say, 
 u Use good judgment." 
 
 The thought with which I end this chapter is 
 that of abundance; — abundance of everything 
 that you can possibly want. The matter is in 
 your hands, reader. Should your financial con- 
 dition or your environment prove unsatisfactory 
 at the present time, set to work at once to 
 
92 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 change them both. The power lies within each 
 one. No one is limited. "I am come that ye 
 might have life and that ye might have it with- 
 out limit." Speak the w T ord and Divine Power 
 opens the door. Hold the thought of abund- 
 ance, — and then ask for wisdom to use that 
 which God has provided for us. 
 
CHAPTER VII. 
 CONTROLLING ENVIRONMENT, 
 
 WE have been taught in the past that we 
 must accept everything that comes our 
 way, as that is the common lot of man. 
 We have had no way of mastering the little 
 annoying things of life and so must bear them 
 as a part of our moral and spiritual discipline. 
 But in this teaching, when we come to under- 
 stand ourselves and the power we have, we learn 
 that we are master of the condition as well as 
 of the environment. 
 
 We learn for the first time, that we do not 
 have to run away from either place or condi- 
 tion, but we can remain where we are and 
 change the condition. You will observe that 
 this teaching does not encourage divorce. It is 
 possible for one person living in a home to 
 bring into it abiding sweetness and light. It 
 may mean much work, but if you are willing 
 to meet the conditions, a sweet and harmonious 
 home may be yours. 
 
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94 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 Or, in a business way. If business relations 
 are not just what we would like them to be, we 
 have the power within ourselves to change those 
 conditions. The same is true in your social life. 
 If it is not just what you want; — you are not 
 happy in it, change it. Do not run away from 
 it. There are powers within each one of us 
 competent to change a neighborhood. 
 
 It is a pleasure to realize that we are not 
 obliged to endure unpleasant conditions in life. 
 That is a broad statement but it is true. In our 
 former studies we have found that All is Good; 
 — that there is no evil; therefore all good is our 
 birthright. As we live the truth, nothing but 
 good can come into our world. It is impossible, 
 —if we live the truth that anything but good 
 can come to us. 
 
 When man can do anything that should be 
 done he is master of himself. Ah! there is the 
 secret. Master of himself. Master of yourself. 
 
 To be able to sit down in the silence, in your 
 home, or in your office, or anywhere, where 
 perfect quiet can be secured, and, shutting out 
 all material objects and associations, you come 
 in conscious touch with All Wisdom, All Power, 
 directing it as you choose in your world of 
 affairs, — this indeed is to be the Master. Not, 
 however, until you have gained the mastery of 
 
CONTROLLING ENVIRONMENT 95 
 
 self can you become master of external con- 
 ditions. 
 
 When our environment is not pleasing it is 
 evident that we are not living up to our possi- 
 bilities. We have not reached the height. If 
 in building our environment we are doing it 
 unconsciously we will suffer from many mis- 
 takes. These mistakes are the conditions which 
 are not to our satisfaction. Ignorance in these 
 matters is no excuse. We must know what we 
 are doing if we would build to a purpose. To 
 live up to our best and highest we must be 
 governed by the principles of Tightness, — which 
 mean righteousness. This is the only ground 
 on which true life can be demonstrated. 
 
 There was a lady in Chicago who wished to 
 sell a very valuable piece of property. After 
 having it in the hands of various real estate 
 agents but without success, she appealed to me 
 to speak the word for its sale. I did so. A 
 few days later she came and said, — U I see no 
 change, — the property is not sold and I have 
 received no inquiry regarding it." I replied, 
 " Continue along the way you are doing and I 
 will again speak the word." And so I did. On 
 a following visit she said, "There is no change." 
 My reply was, — "There is something wrong 
 here, — something wrong." "Are you asking 
 
g6 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 more for that piece of property than you would 
 be willing to give for it?" She smiled and said, 
 "I guess I am," There was the secret. We 
 could not sell the property because she was 
 closing the door against us. She was not will- 
 ing to accept Tightness. Later she became will- 
 ling to accept rightness and the property was 
 sold within a week. She had closed the door 
 against our spoken word. 
 
 In healing the body, I told you to speak to 
 each organ and atom. In controlling condi- 
 tions and environment, you are to speak into the 
 universal, — -into the blue, — the Great Universal. 
 Do not mark out any way for it to appear, or 
 any path by which it may come into manifesta- 
 tion. If you attempt to dictate the way you 
 will be disappointed. Leave that to All Wis- 
 dom. Your work and my work is to get per- 
 fectly still, still in mind and still in body, com- 
 pletely composed and at rest, — then, get in 
 touch with the universal power and let it speak 
 through us as we direct it to our requirements. 
 That is all we have to do, — it is all we can do, 
 — and results will follow compliance with these 
 conditions. 
 
 After you have spoken the word act upon it. 
 This is important. Act upon it. In speaking 
 the word for success, act success, believe that 
 
CONTROLLING ENVIRONMENT 97 
 
 you are a success. Put success into every 
 thought that you send out. 
 
 Now, let me demonstrate this so that you will 
 fully understand what is meant. While in 
 Chicago I had occasion to visit Saginaw, Mich- 
 igan. On the night before my departure I 
 failed to secure transportation. As I went to 
 take the train I said to the ticket agent, "I 
 would like a lower berth and a ticket to Sagi- 
 inaw." He replied, "I have no lower, but I 
 can give you an upper berth. " "No," I said, 
 "I do not like an upper berth, I do not want it. 
 You may give me a ticket to Saginaw." I went 
 to the waiting room, sat down by myself and 
 spoke the word, — "Let the way open that I 
 have a lower berth to Saginaw tonight on the 
 Michigan Central train, — I want a lower berth, 
 — a good berth." Now here is where the work 
 came in. As soon as the gate opened I took my 
 bag and walked to the train. I walked to the 
 sleeper and they asked for my ticket. I said, 
 "I haven't any," but I stepped forward and took 
 a seat in the smoking car. You see that I was 
 doing my part. Soon the train started. The 
 conductor came through and asked for my 
 ticket. I said, "I have no berth, but when you 
 go through your train come back to me and you 
 will have one for me. He went through his 
 
98 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 train and when he returned he had an excellent 
 lower berth right in the center of the car, just 
 what I wanted. Now, you say this is some- 
 thing unusual. No, it is not. It is something 
 that anyone: — everyone can do. Man is not 
 obliged to put up with conditions. Not at all. 
 Remember always, that you must do your part 
 and trust your word. Act upon it. Not sit 
 down in the silence and say, "Let the way 
 open," and then, "I wonder if I have said it 
 right or not. I wonder if the way is going to 
 open or not, — I hardly believe it will do it." 
 You cannot accomplish anything in that way. 
 You will get no results. When you start on a 
 business trip, speak the word for a successful 
 trip always. Send your word, — -which can al- 
 ways be done, — in advance to open the way for 
 you. 
 
 Your word is what creates your world. Now 
 you and I can direct that power consciously, or 
 we can use it as most of us are using it today, 
 unconsciously, and have all the unpleasant con- 
 ditions to meet and deal with. 
 
 Now, I do not wish to thrust personal ex- 
 periences forward, or to seem egotistical, but I 
 know that in presenting a truth comparatively 
 new, example is necessary to stimulate others to 
 try the accomplishment of like results. 
 
CONTROLLING ENVIRONMENT 99 
 
 Everyone in business knows that he must deal 
 with people in different states of consciousness. 
 The first necessity in dealing with varying con- 
 ditions and environment, is self-mastery. In 
 my own business : I am shipping carloads of 
 stock all over the United States, dealing with 
 people living in the Old Thought — which is, 
 that they must u do you" before "you do them." 
 They have been living in that thought, which 
 has been the dominant thought sent out for 
 years. But our thought teaches something very 
 different from that. It is mastery of self in 
 rightness, then we are masters of conditions. 
 
 When a man is trying to take advantage, — I 
 mean one who is making a mistake, — he thinks 
 it is the thing to do. In dealing with him I 
 sit down in the silence in the office, I get per- 
 fectly still and I say, u Infinite Spirit, let the way 
 open that this man (calling the man by name) 
 may want to do just the right thing and adjust 
 this matter as it should be," and when this is 
 done we control that condition. That man can- 
 not take from you what of right is yours. It 
 will adjust any matter, or business affair, if we 
 are in the right thought ourselves and master 
 of ourselves. 
 
 I was at one time snow-bound in Portland, 
 Michigan. It is a small town having but one 
 
100 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 hotel, at which I arrived late in the evening. 
 There came in the night a heavy fall of snow. 
 After breakfast I saw my customer, — there be- 
 ing but one in the place, — and on returning to 
 the hotel inquired about a train, only to be told, 
 — "There will be no train either in or out today. 
 The last storm w T e had there was no train out 
 of here in three days." I said, "I do not want 
 to remain here all day." In spite of the dis- 
 couraging outlook, I knew the necessity of being 
 in Chicago the following morning. I went to 
 my room and sat down in the silence. When 
 perfectly still I said, — "Infinite Spirit, let the 
 way open that I reach Chicago to-morrow morn- 
 ing, as it is important. Here is the demand, I 
 know there is supply in this world somewhere to 
 meet it, let the way be opened." I came from 
 that silence with the consciousness that I would 
 be in Chicago the next morning and I waited 
 patiently all day. About five o'clock in the 
 afternoon a train came in consisting of one coach 
 drawn by three engines, which ran down to 
 Grand Ledge. I was ready to take that train. 
 From Grand Ledge I secured a train to Grand 
 Rapids. Again I spoke the word in order to 
 get a lower berth to take me to Chicago, where 
 I arrived on the following morning. Tell me 
 that the spoken word did not bring that into 
 
CONTROLLING ENVIRONMENT 1 01 
 
 manifestation? We are not creatures of cir- 
 cumstance when we know ourselves and under- 
 stand our power. 
 
 By many I am asked to help in the solution 
 of their problems. Lately I received a letter 
 from a young man in Florida. I do not know 
 how he heard of me, but he asked that I speak 
 the word that would adjust a difference and 
 make a man in Chicago pay him three hundred 
 dollars. My reply was, "No, I do not know 
 anything about this and I cannot speak the word 
 for you." Naturally I have heard nothing 
 more from him. 
 
 In exercising this power we should never try 
 to control another person or to make them do 
 what we want done. We are to speak into the 
 universal. We do not speak directly to them, 
 as though to force them to do something which 
 we want them to do. That is to make a great 
 mistake. This All Wisdom makes no mistakes. 
 When asking for adjustment say, — "Let the 
 way open that an adjustment — that rightness 
 come out of the situation, " — not that you may 
 have your way. If someone owes you a sum 
 of money, do not see that one unwilling to pay 
 you, but speak the word for their success so that 
 they can pay you, and you will see quite a dif- 
 ference. You will see that they will pay you. 
 
102 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 You will also be the means to help them pay 
 you. It is the quality of thought which we are 
 sending out that does the work. It turns this 
 great power against us, or it works for us, just 
 as we direct it. If the churches of this country, 
 if the churches of New York, realized this 
 power, and therein their own power, they could 
 end the war in one month : — could renovate the 
 morals of the community and establish the true 
 Church of God in every heart and home of the 
 nation. 
 
 Whenever you have a problem to solve that 
 requires adjustment, speak into the universal. 
 Say, — "Let the way open," — no matter what 
 the problem be. But be sure you are definite in 
 speaking the word. 
 
 Do not expect another to do just what you 
 think they should do, but give everyone their 
 freedom. By giving freedom you gain your 
 freedom. Husband, give freedom to your 
 wife. The wife, give freedom to your husband. 
 And let me say a little more than that. Let 
 husbands have confidence in their wives. Give 
 them the money. Do not require them to ask 
 for every dollar they need. Oh, it is too bad — 
 give them freedom. If they make a mistake, 
 give them a certain amount every month or 
 week and let them spend it as they want to. 
 
CONTROLLING ENVIRONMENT IO3 
 
 That is freedom. There is many a woman suf- 
 fering through this lack of freedom. This sense 
 of limitation induces disease. Lack of freedom 
 often affects the stomach. So many are troubled 
 with this difficulty, and the cause is the hus- 
 band's failure to give them freedom. Perfect 
 freedom must reign in the home before we are 
 in a position to comply with the law which gov- 
 erns conditions and environment. The larger 
 the control one has over self, the more perfect 
 control one will have over things and conditions. 
 Control yourself. Be master of yourself. 
 
 We must be willing to see and accept the 
 rightness in every situation, and in doing this 
 we meet the conditions which will bring satis- 
 factory results. I repeat that controlling con- 
 ditions and environment will depend upon the 
 quality of thought we send out. 
 
 Now, for the combination which will control 
 conditions and environment. Faith in your 
 spoken word, — confidence in the law and cer- 
 tainty that your spoken word will bring Tight- 
 ness out of the situation. Living in that thought 
 and ever willing to accept rightness in the 
 situation, you will control the condition. Every 
 unpleasant condition is the result of a mistake. 
 
 Now, let me say, — we do not have to suffer 
 for the mistakes of others. That would not be 
 
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 justice. It would not be right for one to make 
 mistakes and others to suffer through them. If 
 we do not understand mastery, if we do not 
 understand the law, we do suffer through them. 
 But when I understand who I am, then I can 
 master and change that condition in my world. 
 I do not have to suffer for some mistakes which 
 you have made. The man who is living this 
 truth, living a perfect life, will control- what you 
 call conditions of any kind and is what may be 
 called a safety protector. I do not know that a 
 submarine could hit a boat on which there was 
 a man living a perfect life. This is the protec- 
 tion of all protection against mistakes. But a 
 man must live the truth. 
 
 Furthermore, the quality of thought which 
 we send out carries the seed to produce its kind. 
 We therefore know exactly both the sowing and 
 the reaping. Wc ean tell just what is coming 
 into manifestation next week, next month, next 
 year. If we are living in the thought of limita- 
 tion of any kind, we know that we are going to 
 see limitation further on. To be a success later, 
 we must live in the thought of success today. 
 Live there continuously. "Abide there. " As 
 Christ says, "Abide in Me," abide in this con- 
 sciousness that I am a success, then you will be 
 one. Depend upon your spoken word to secure 
 
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 your desires. Trust in that word. There is the 
 secret, — trust it. 
 
 Arriving late one evening at Detroit during 
 the races, and going to the hotel where I usually 
 stayed, I registered. The clerk, who knew me 
 well, said: "I am very sorry, Mr. Northrup, I 
 haven't a room in the house and at least twenty 
 men are registered before you all waiting for 
 rooms. I do not see any chance for you to get 
 a room tonight." I stood around until I could 
 find a seat : — sat down and went into the silence. 
 I spoke the word for a good room with a bath. 
 I said, "Let the way open that I get a room 
 with a bath." After I had spoken the word I 
 expected the room. I waited for a time and 
 then went up to the clerk and said, "Have you 
 a room for me yet?" And he replied, "No, 
 nothing." Again I sat down and waited, — 
 perhaps a half hour. I then went to the clerk 
 and asked, "Have you a room for me yet?" 
 He said, "Is your name Northrup?" I said, 
 "It is." He called a boy and sent me to a beau- 
 tiful room on the first floor. Just what I 
 wanted. Now, is that the result of the spoken 
 word or is it an accident? I claim it is the 
 result of the spoken word. 
 
 No man is obliged to put up with unsatisfac- 
 tory conditions. In asking the way to open in 
 
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 order to change conditions or environment, be 
 definite and state just what you want. In speak- 
 ing the word for a room, you see that I spoke 
 for exactly what I wanted and that is what I 
 secured. But do not mark out any way that it 
 shall come. Now, I did not know but that I 
 might have to go to some other hotel. I did 
 not think about that. The point with me was 
 to get a room that night, and it was furnished 
 me in the same hotel. Leave that to All 
 Wisdom. 
 
 In as much as a man builds his world, he can 
 change his building if it is not satisfactory. He 
 is not obliged to put up with conditions. We 
 have built them, — we can change them. Our 
 present living is in our own structure. We have 
 built the condition. Each moment we are 
 building our environment. If the condition is 
 not just what w T e want, — why change it, just as 
 though we moved into a new house. If your 
 house was not comfortable and adapted to 
 your requirements you would change it; well, 
 that is what these pages are striving to 
 impart and illustrate : — How T to change a con- 
 dition and bring sweetness and light out of 
 inharmony. 
 
 A great mistake made by many is to allow 
 others to guide them in their building. Learn 
 
CONTROLLING ENVIRONMENT IO7 
 
 to stand upon your own feet. Not do some- 
 thing because others want you to do it, — no, 
 that other may be making a mistake. Go into 
 the silence, get in touch with the All Wisdom 
 and ask that the way open for just what you 
 want to bring into manifestation. 
 
 Do not mark out the way. To live the truth 
 is to control conditions and environment. Our 
 building must be done from God-qualities. 
 Building from that which is not truth, condi- 
 tions and environment will control us and flood 
 us with all kinds of unpleasant experiences. 
 We must abide in the truth. Are we making 
 mistakes? Are we experiencing untoward con- 
 ditions? We are not obliged to live under 
 them. Change them. Any and every person 
 can move out of any distressing condition at 
 will. 
 
 The key to happiness, success and all good 
 lies in man's thought and words. I repeat, — 
 the key to all happiness, to all success, to all 
 good is in your thoughts and words. It will 
 lock the door against you or open it wide to the 
 Great Universal Supply, according as you your- 
 self think. You may lock the door with a 
 thought, bring you all the inharmonies of which 
 life is capable, or with a different thought the 
 door swings wide to abundance, to happiness, 
 
108 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 to peace and illimitable good and joy. All 
 depends upon the quality of the thoughts you 
 think and the words you speak. 
 
 Anger, hatred, fear, worry, doubt, resent- 
 ment, each is a key to lock the door against you 
 and rob you of your birthright. Peace, poise, 
 and love to the whole world will bring to you 
 sweetness, develop your man and womanhood, 
 flood you with happiness, abundance and power. 
 Joy of life and the expression of all good 
 will glow upon every feature, and happiness 
 will be like a blessed contagion wherever you 
 walk. 
 
 Now, what are you going to do with this 
 truth? Mastery of conditions and environment 
 will come through the working of this higher 
 law. You are not a thing of chance, neither are 
 your experiences chance waves upon a tideless 
 air. You and what you do, are products of 
 law. Constructive or destructive as it may be, 
 each thought goes straight towards a result 
 which bears its own likeness. Each one knows 
 well whether he is constructing today or de- 
 stroying. Whatever the sowing, sure will the 
 reaping be. 
 
 Therefore the all important thing in life is 
 to learn how to apply this law in every act, and 
 then gird purselves for its application, 
 
CONTROLLING ENVIRONMENT IO9 
 
 Man is the master power that moulds and 
 
 makes, and man is mind. 
 And evermore he takes the tools of thought and 
 
 shapes what he wills — 
 Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills. 
 He thinks in secret and it comes to pass, 
 Environment is but his looking glass. 
 
CHAPTER VIII. 
 SELF MASTERY. 
 
 THE subject of this chapter is, THE 
 MASTERY OF SELF. It is the lar- 
 gest problem with which man has to deal. 
 We think that we can master others, but when 
 we come to master our thoughts, master our 
 words and master our minds, there is an effort 
 required that is beyond most of us. Great per- 
 sistency is required to master oneself. 
 
 All our previous study was leading up to a 
 realization, or the possibility of self-mastery. 
 Most of us believe that there are certain lines 
 beyond which we cannot pass. There are cer- 
 tain conditions which we are bound to accept 
 because we cannot do otherwise. But here we 
 are finding it possible for man to master every 
 condition, — every environment that may come 
 to his experience. So I repeat, our former 
 chapters have been given to awaken in you that 
 consciousness of mastery, which is yours by 
 right of your creation. 
 
 We accept the teaching of previous chapters 
 that man was the all important result of Crea- 
 
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SELF MASTERY III 
 
 tive Power. He was the manifestation of 
 thought from First Cause, or God, and that 
 thought carried life, intelligence, love and 
 power into His creation. 
 
 This combination is the real man. Not what 
 you see, — no. What you see is the instrument 
 through which life, intelligence, love and power 
 are manifested. The real man stands back of, 
 and behind what you see or feel or touch. This 
 real man, we learned, is mind or spirit. Born 
 in the image and likeness of First Cause, or 
 God, he is in the unseen. All realities are in 
 the unseen. We do not see power, only its 
 manifestation. We do not see intelligence or 
 love, only their expression. We have never seen 
 life, but we can all see its manifestation. Life 
 pushes up everywhere, but we cannot see the 
 power that pushes, — it lies in the unseen. 
 
 We also learned that we are given power, 
 that is, man received the ability to draw from 
 this great universal supply as required, as well 
 as the power to impart this in his building. So 
 we found that at any time this power was needed 
 by you and me it was granted. If we required 
 more intelligence or more love, we could come 
 in touch with this universal supply house and 
 receive the power we needed. At all times 
 within our reach, it is a bank on which we can 
 
112 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 draw to meet all conditions necessary to com- 
 plete manifestation. 
 
 A room may be properly wired, lights ar- 
 ranged and connections adjusted with the 
 power-house, but we must touch a little button 
 before we see the light. That we must do. So 
 in meeting this truth there is something for us 
 to do. It is necessary for man to touch the 
 button which opens the door, at all times and 
 under all circumstances. The button is at his 
 command at any time that he wants more in- 
 telligence, more love, more power, more wis- 
 dom, — just touch the button. At every moment 
 in life he is connected with the power-house. 
 
 Therefore, the first step in self-mastery is to 
 know yourself. Know who you are and what 
 you can do. Instead of believing as in the past 
 that God is away off somewhere, we know not 
 where, we find him now in every tree and flower 
 and blade of grass, and in the face of man. 
 God is omnipresence. Here, there, and in every 
 living thing. 
 
 Our first chapter was based on what you 
 know. In this eighth and last chapter we are 
 faced with the same proposition. We must 
 know. To every man there comes a time when 
 he wants to know who he is and what he can do. 
 He must know his own powers. He asks, "Am 
 
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 I more than this that faces me?" He wants to 
 know that he is more than his business, and that, 
 if it is going down he can speak the word that 
 can change failure into success. If there is in- 
 harmony in the home he wants to know that 
 he is master of that condition, — that he can 
 speak the word which will bring harmony and 
 sweetness and the adjustment of all untoward 
 conditions. Therefore, I repeat, you must 
 know. If you go to a large corporation and ask 
 for a position the question will be asked, "What 
 can you bring us? What do you know?" If 
 you can bring something that is worth $10,000 
 or $20,000, they will say, "We want you." 
 And so today, — it is what you know. The 
 value of every man and woman is just what they 
 know. Therefore, knowledge and understanding 
 are necessary for the mastery of all conditions. 
 The master workman has a plan and he 
 works close to that plan. So it must be with 
 the master workman in this truth. He must 
 have a plan. He must have a goal that he 
 wishes to reach. The first and all important 
 thing is this, — first decide what you wish to ac- 
 complish; what you wish to see brought into 
 manifestation the most of any one thing. That 
 is the first thing for you to decide if you want 
 to master conditions. Second, work close to the 
 
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 plan and depend upon All Wisdom to direct 
 you. You have been shown how you may come 
 in touch with this All Wisdom. It is for you 
 at any time you choose. Work close to the 
 line, and as you do, I can assure you of satis- 
 factory results. You will grow into mastery 
 every day. This equipment of conscious self- 
 mastery is not something that can be handed 
 over to you by your reading these pages, but it 
 is something that you must bring out of your- 
 self. It is not something to overcome, it is 
 something to become. Bring out of yourself 
 what you wish to see in manifestation. Not 
 from the outside, — you are not going to gain it 
 there. You will gain it only by mastering your- 
 self and bringing out of yourself the power that 
 is within you, — the possibilities that lie dormant 
 there for you and me to unfold. 
 
 When you are master of yourself you are 
 master of everything in your world. As it is 
 possible for everyone to master themselves, if 
 they will, may I ask, "Is man master or slave ?" 
 As we are each building our world today, we are 
 masters of that world. But we are building for 
 next week,^ next year. We cannot escape the 
 responsibility. We are master. But forsaking 
 that mastery, you can turn all over to condi- 
 tions at will. You can turn that mastery over to 
 
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 someone else if you wish, but you are the master 
 at the same time you are turning it over to them. 
 You are turning it over to conditions and are 
 letting conditions master or control you. This 
 responsibility you cannot escape. 
 
 In every condition you and I are masters. If 
 we allow the condition to master us, is that 
 bondage? If a man places himself in bondage, 
 is that slavery or is it foolishness? 
 
 If in these pages the truth has been made 
 clear to you, so that it appeals to your reason, 
 you can begin now, today, to break the chain 
 which binds you, whatever that chain may be. 
 No chain can bind the man or woman who will 
 accept this truth; will put it into life and live it 
 every day. Accepting is not enough. You must 
 live the truth. Only thus will it set you free. 
 
 If you speak the word for harmony in the 
 home, just begin and act harmony. If you speak 
 for success in affairs, you must act success. 
 Straighten yourself up, be successful, act success, 
 live success. Man is the master, yet he places 
 himself in bondage in so many ways. 
 
 When you say you cannot afford, you place 
 yourself in bondage. You are doing all that 
 you can to place yourself where you cannot 
 afford. Your spoken word is what moves the 
 world. You say you cannot afford. You be- 
 
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 lieve it at the time — you are making conditions, 
 you are bringing about a condition where you 
 cannot afford. You are placing yourself in 
 bondage to that very end. If you say, "I am 
 sick," if you say, "I am out of condition," you 
 are saying the very thing that will induce the 
 condition. Whenever a negative thought or 
 condition is allowed to control, you are in bond- 
 age, and it is you who are placing the slavery 
 upon yourself. 
 
 Mastery is the place where we find satisfac- 
 tion. No one likes to be in bondage. No one 
 likes to be limited on any hand. If I would say 
 to you, from this page, "You cannot go on this 
 street for thirty days," it would be the very 
 thing you would want to do. The moment we 
 feel any limitation, that is the thing we want, 
 or want to do. But we must not forget that we 
 are masters. Things have nothing to do with 
 us. Fold your arms and say, "I am master of 
 you," — any condition, no matter what it is. Get 
 into the consciousness of supremacy, — know 
 that you are master, and as you swing into that 
 consciousness everything, — every obstacle dis- 
 appears before you. Man's birthright is mas- 
 tery,' and he must live up to that. We must 
 swing into the consciousness that, u None of 
 these things move me." 
 
SELF MASTERY I 1 7 
 
 It is wonderful what thought will do. No 
 matter what is facing you, stand boldly and say, 
 "None of these things move me." Say it and 
 repeat it and then say it again, until you feel it 
 and that thing will move out of the way. Re- 
 member this and apply it to anything that faces 
 you : I am more than that thing. 
 
 But someone will say, "What can I do, I was 
 born in bondage?" Free yourself, free your- 
 self, no matter where you were born, nor how. 
 No matter what your parents have been, you are 
 master of yourself, you are responsible for your 
 actions, for your thoughts and your words. 
 You cannot escape that. You cannot turn it 
 back on your grandfather or your father or 
 mother, or anyone else. You must meet the 
 responsibility of living, never mind those of the 
 past. 
 
 Thought is the key that will set you free. 
 Constructive thinking will break every chain 
 that holds you in bondage today. Constructive 
 thinking, — knowing whether you are going to 
 be free or not. You can tell if you are thinking 
 constructively or destructively. Each can see 
 that for himself. That is what you have to do, 
 — get acquainted with yourself. Know what 
 you are doing. Make your distinction clear and 
 sharp between constructive and destructive 
 
I I 8 RELIGION AND BUSINESS 
 
 thought. If you want right conditions, if you 
 would live under pleasant conditions, send out 
 constructive thoughts. 
 
 In our first chapter we took as a basis, "What 
 you know about the truth, that there must be 
 a First Cause which stands back of and behind 
 every effect." No matter what you believe, no 
 matter what religion you may have been brought 
 up in, everyone must admit that there is a power 
 standing back of and behind everything we see 
 in manifestation. 
 
 In the second chapter we found there is but 
 one life, one power, and but one intelligence in 
 the world, and that was, First Cause, Infinite 
 Spirit, or God. 
 
 In the third chapter we found there was but 
 one substance in the whole world, and that sub- 
 stance was mind or spirit, manifest in different 
 quantities of the one substance, — life, love, 
 power and intelligence. 
 
 In the fourth chapter I proved to you beyond 
 question, I think, that all is good, and that there 
 is no evil. What is called evil is man's mis- 
 direction of God-power. I also explained the 
 importance of the silence and concentration. 
 
 In the fifth chapter I treated the direction of 
 this God-power in the healing of the body. In 
 healing yourself and others I insisted that you 
 
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 be definite. I told you to direct this power con- 
 sciously through the silence. I explained to you 
 how to do this. 
 
 In the sixth chapter I explained how one 
 could direct this all power in his affairs and 
 bring success out of seeming failure. No one 
 need to pass through what is called failure, 
 because you can come in touch with this all 
 power, which corrects everything in the seen and 
 the unseen. I explained how you may direct it 
 in your affairs. 
 
 In the seventh chapter I told you, that you 
 w r ere not compelled to put up with everything 
 that came, in what we call circumstances or en- 
 vironment, but that you could change conditions 
 and they would become harmonious and satis- 
 factory. 
 
 Now, if these truths have been presented in 
 a clear and logical manner, so that your reason 
 v accepts them, you should be able to say, "I am 
 master. " "I am master of my conditions, " I 
 am master of my environment." "I am master 
 of myself, and therefore I am master of my 
 world." 
 
 Now, in closing the message of these pages I 
 would say to the patient reader, as you become 
 master of the "I want," do not stop there. You 
 know the first thing that interests us in this 
 
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 truth is the fact that we want something. We 
 want love. It is right that we should have love. 
 Love is our birthright. We want success in 
 our affairs, — success is our birthright, but do not 
 stop there. Go on further, go into the truth, 
 come into a consciousness of w T anting to secure 
 the kingdom of rightness, because it is right for 
 you to come into a conscious realization of your 
 birthright and freedom. Not because you want 
 something. No, but because rightness is the 
 sole ground of success. And because you want 
 freedom, — freedom in everything. Freedom 
 from every unpleasant condition. 
 
 I trust that you have been brought into the 
 realization that you and this First Great Cause, 
 this Universal Power, this Infinite Spirit or God 
 are one and cannot be separated. If you come 
 fully into this consciousness; and that "All the 
 Father hath is yours"; also that for anything 
 you want you can come in touch with this great 
 universal supply and power house and your 
 spoken word will open the door; if this little 
 volume shall have accomplished this, you will go 
 from its reading the master of your world, 
 master of everything in your world, in your 
 business and in your home : — 
 
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