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THINK RIGHT 
 
By the Same Author 
 
 Think Right for Health Success 
 Mental Harmony, Its Influence on Life 
 
THINK RIGHT 
 
 FOR 
 
 HEALTH AND SUCCESS 
 
 BY 
 
 GRACE M; BROWN 
 
 AUTHOR OF MENTAL HARMONY, ETC. 
 
 NEW YORK 
 
 EDWARD J. CLODE 
 
 PUBLISHER 
 
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 COPYRIGHT, I916 
 BY EDWARD J. CLODE 
 
 MAY 3 1916 
 
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 FOREWORD 
 
 HE brightest of sunny days, 
 
 The bluest of soft warm skies 
 as a brilliant sun looked down upon 
 a group of men gathered about a wondrous 
 man with glorious love in his tender eyes 
 as he bent above them to impress his words 
 upon their hearts. 
 
 "As you think in your hearts, so are you," 
 said he: — as you think, as you think in 
 your hearts. 
 
 And, while hundreds of years have passed 
 into infinite memories since that sweet sunny 
 day — although hundreds of teachers have 
 said again, "As you think in your heart, so 
 are you," — the day has not yet arrived 
 when men know that it is true and that they 
 truly become whatever they think in their 
 hearts. 
 
 Each soul has his own place in God's great 
 realm — each child has his own place in 
 God's earth home, and it is not an accidental 
 
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 home nor an accidental place, no indeed — 
 it is the place which he creates for himself, 
 the home wherein his own thought has placed 
 him. 
 
 When the man thinks according to the 
 right angle of his earth position and when he 
 holds steady that position in the right angle 
 of his part of life, he attracts to himself all 
 that is good in universal life. 
 
 And the good of life is all that is worth 
 while in our being and in our living — health, 
 success, opulence, and happiness on all planes. 
 
 Verily there are no terrible life errors when 
 the man thinks within his own right angle of 
 life. 
 
 And never was a truer work spoken to 
 the souls of men than "As a man thinketh 
 in his heart, so is he." 
 
 To think the thought which appeals to you 
 Is to do the thing which is right for you. 
 To live the life which belongs to you 
 Means life's truth to you. 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Foreword v 
 
 Human Measurement 3 
 
 Study of Common Sense Spirituality . . 29 
 
 Study Concerning Thought 45 
 
 Study Concerning Freedom 61 
 
 Study Concerning Healing 79 
 
 Study Concerning the Fourth Dimension . 97 
 
 Study of Experience 123 
 
 Study of Why 141 
 
 Whole-ness 159 
 
 Study of Freedom 175 
 
 Afterword 179 
 
THINK RIGHT 
 
We measure ourselves 
 
 By the quality of our thought, 
 
 By the strength of our desire, 
 
 By the purity of our love, 
 
 And by the accuracy of our selection. 
 
 Then let us know 
 
 That we become what we think, 
 
 That we do as we desire, 
 
 That we have what we love, 
 
 And that we manifest God's life as we select. 
 
 Therefore: 
 
 Let us qualify in truth, 
 
 Let us desire to do good, 
 
 Let us love God's treasures, 
 
 And let us select health on all planes 
 
 That we may measure ourselves in His Name. 
 
THINK RIGHT 
 
 pitman Measurement 
 
 HE human being is created in the 
 image and likeness of God. 
 That statement alone if truly- 
 realized and really accepted would solve the 
 human problem, because it would adjust the 
 man in perfect mathematical relation to the di- 
 vine part of himself and so prove his unity 
 with God. 
 
 It would free you and me from untold con- 
 fusion and anguish by relating us to our own 
 responsibility* and proving to us most posi- 
 tively that: 
 
 We have no right to be sick. 
 
 We have no right to be poor. 
 
 We have no right to be sorrowful. 
 
 And, mightier than all, it would free us from 
 the agony of separation by the present form 
 of death, because the glorious God of whom 
 we are a part, in whom we live and move and 
 
^ttman Qfttattutemmt 
 
 have our being, cannot die and we are created 
 in the image and likeness of the imperishable 
 and ever living God. 
 
 The individual being made in the image of 
 God has the divine attribute of will and the 
 consequent power of selection; also the uni- 
 verse is in process and the individual is in 
 process; the individual is the microcosm of 
 the universe and the universe is not yet per- 
 fect, and in the journey toward ultimate com- 
 pleteness there are many experiences. 
 
 When the man forgets his responsibility to 
 and in and with himself, he also forgets his 
 relation to God and the allness of God — so 
 he misdirects his divine power of being good 
 and being complete which results in being 
 healthy and happy — and in the misdirection 
 of his goodness he causes an inaccuracy of 
 action which results in a lack of good, and all 
 lack of good causes pain on some plane of ex- 
 pression, whether it be of the flesh or of supply 
 or some other condition. 
 
 All untruth to ourselves is unfaith toward 
 God, and in our falsity to ourselves and our 
 
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 faithlessness to God and to each other we 
 cause more and more of separation, more and 
 more of misunderstanding, until it seems to 
 our human conception that the light of truth 
 has gone out and that we are submerged in 
 the anguish of unbelief. 
 
 Every disease of the flesh is caused by some 
 process of mental action which relates the 
 thinker to the lack or to the reverse action of 
 some divine force, and the healing of that form 
 of disease must come from the plane of its 
 expression. Fear thoughts attract to the 
 thinker anything upon which he centers his 
 attention; "the thing you fear will come upon 
 you," and being the opposite pole of faith, 
 Faith is the force to use in dissolving the 
 confusion generated by Fear. 
 
 In like manner diseases caused by hate 
 and condemnation and all repelling forces 
 must be dissolved by the applied force of its 
 opposite pole of love, in creative action with 
 faith, which render all destructive operation 
 void; and it is so in all phases and forms of 
 disease — they are healed by the same force in 
 
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 constructive action which generated them in 
 destructive action. 
 
 Faith is a divine force — an attribute of 
 God, as it were; it is an actual substance 
 which proves its actualness whenever you 
 formulate it in your mind and utilize your 
 thought force in bringing it into action. 
 
 Fear is the reverse activity of faith. They 
 two are the same magnetic force in different 
 rates of vibration, Faith being the force in 
 the rapid action of good which vibrates co- 
 operatively and coherently and construc- 
 tively with God, and Fear being the same 
 force in a negative vibration which discon- 
 nects and disrupts and works destructively 
 because of its lack of co-operation with good. 
 
 You can only attract and assimilate thought 
 forces which are of your own quality and you 
 can only attract as much of the universal 
 thought energy as you have the capacity to 
 assimilate — otherwise you might attract by 
 and through your own fear enough of de- 
 structive energy to disintegrate your flesh 
 form at once. 
 
^uman 9£ea0u«ment 
 
 In all healing work the process must be on 
 the plane of its own action: if you are using 
 the material and medical process you will use 
 material remedies ; if you are using the mental 
 process you will use the mind forces; and if 
 your process is purely spiritual you will use 
 spiritual forces. 
 
 But, whatever your process, your medium 
 for action and consequent expression will be 
 the mind, because you cannot think outside 
 of mind — you cannot comprehend or live 
 coherently apart from mind; it is the medium 
 of all present consciousness of being and of 
 action. 
 
 Should you realize that you have devitalized 
 and distorted your portion of God's life and 
 are manifesting your life in pain or in poverty 
 or grief, you may also realize that you have 
 the divine right and the consequent power to 
 reconstruct yourself and so balance yourself 
 in your own accurate position in the universe. 
 
 Opulent balanced life action relates us to 
 God — the all good — and it is our privilege, 
 yours and mine, to attract and to express the 
 
8 ^ttman Stpeagtttement 
 
 opulence of God's great goodness on any and 
 all planes of our being, and in order to do so 
 we will learn to think coherently and form 
 our own point of view, our own angle, con- 
 cerning the things which relate to the mastery 
 and the reconstruction of ourselves and our 
 conditions. 
 
 Too long has the individual forgotten his 
 individuality and his unity with God; too 
 long has he been a servant and a slave of 
 opinion; and a thousand times too long has 
 he lived his life from the vision of others and 
 accepted disease and poverty in the dis- 
 torted belief that it was the will of God; and 
 he has actually worshiped a God who he 
 believed had unjustly scourged and whom 
 he fully expected to cast him into an after- 
 death hell for pure revenge after he had held 
 him for years in a present-day hell upon this 
 fair earth home. 
 
 Glory be to the oncoming, onrushing force 
 of the mighty truth of God's allness! The 
 present-day hell is dissolving fast, and the 
 light of heaven is already enfolding the chil- 
 
^tttnan 9®ta&nttmmt 
 
 dren of the ever-living and all-powerful and, 
 greater than all else, the ever-loving God. 
 
 Every atom of substance, whether expressed 
 or unexpressed, is spirit substance, and mind is 
 the medium which, according to its vibratory 
 force and the quality of the intention back of 
 that force, produces all effect and all mani- 
 festation from and of the great primal sub- 
 stance and its active cause in mind. 
 
 Thought is mind in action, therefore. 
 Thought is the conscious formulated energy 
 emanating from mind which is responsible 
 for all human as well as all universal mani- 
 festation — and as it is the human being we 
 are studying to-day we will analyze a few ideas 
 concerning human thought. 
 
 Now this human being, created in the 
 image and likeness of God, has in himself 
 all of the universal possibility and all the 
 divine attributes of the infinite intelligence 
 and he will externalize all of Godness and 
 master himself by knowing himself. 
 
 And the man will know himself by desiring 
 to know himself. 
 
io l^aman apeajsutemmt 
 
 You and I have arrived at the point of our 
 human progress where we desire to know our- 
 selves, and first and foremost we are discover- 
 ing that in order to know ourselves we must 
 learn to think; that is, we must use our minds 
 in coherent action; otherwise our part of 
 the infinite mind may use us incoherently, 
 because it is our responsibility, as we are part 
 of the universal expression, to use our portion 
 of life and intelligence according to our ca- 
 pacity, which means according to the best 
 we know, for responsibility is merely respond- 
 ing to truth with the best of our human ability. 
 
 With the intention to think coherently, to 
 use our minds or rather our part of the in- 
 finite mind according to our own desire and 
 inspiration, we commence to realize something 
 of our relation to the universe — in other 
 words, the relation of the human to the divine 
 and of the finite to the infinite — and then we 
 perceive that thought is our material, and the 
 part of it which we select is our capital for 
 our entire life action; also that we may do 
 what we will to do with our own capital. 
 
Iktmtan $®ta&uttmmt n 
 
 In the studying of ourselves we naturally 
 analyze ourselves, and in the analysis we 
 recognize our power, and in that recognition 
 our capacity increases and we find ourselves 
 steadily and surely becoming masters of our 
 thought, and in that vital mastery we are 
 uplifting ourselves and consequently the entire 
 race. 
 
 All accomplishment comes, first, by attract- 
 ing the thought energy with discrimination; 
 second, by assimilating it in love; third, by 
 wisely expending it. 
 
 It rests entirely with you and me what 
 quality of thought energy we will entertain; 
 we naturally attract thoughts which are of 
 our own quality, but we need not retain any 
 form of the universal energy with which we 
 have finished and for which we have no use. 
 
 The man becomes what his thoughts repre- 
 sent. If they are constructively relating and 
 attaching him to the life current, his force 
 is everlasting and his existence is eternal. If, 
 on the contrary, his thoughts are destructive 
 and therefore disintegrating, his soul has not 
 
12 f?uman S^eagfurement 
 
 the necessary co-operation for its expression 
 and dissolution on some plane, usually of the 
 flesh form, results. 
 
 Men may have as much as they will use 
 and no more of the grand universal current of 
 thought energy — and using means giving 
 according to the best of our capacity in order 
 that the capacity may strengthen to receive 
 more and more of the opulence of the infinite 
 love and wisdom. 
 
 Every thought which is attracted and as- 
 similated and sent out by the individual carries 
 with it a suggestion, and whoever and what- 
 ever is of its quality is on the line of that 
 suggestion. 
 
 Possibly some of you may remember that 
 the epidemic of la grippe was introduced into 
 America by a cablegram which was published 
 in the newspapers, and, even when not pub- 
 lished, epidemics of constructive conditions 
 as well as destructive have manifested them- 
 selves through mental suggestion. 
 
 When the mind is not trained and the 
 thinker is destructive in his consciousness, 
 
I&ttman Q$ta&txttmmt 13 
 
 that is, when he is afraid or angry or other- 
 wise confused, the thought has less power 
 and is more easily dissolved, but the power of 
 a thought formulated by a trained mind, and 
 directed with the accuracy which belongs to 
 the intelligent master of a trained mind, can- 
 not be overestimated — not because of its 
 present power, but because, being on an orderly 
 and a constructive basis, it endures for always. 
 
 Which is the reason that one constructive 
 thinker is more powerful than thousands of 
 destructive ones — verily the gates of hell 
 cannot prevail against him. Were it not so, 
 the planet itself would dissolve in the confu- 
 sion of its myriads of destructive thinkers 
 who, even now, in this supposedly enlightened 
 time, are shrieking for each other's blood and 
 are groveling and grafting and selling their 
 souls for each other's possessions. 
 
 Thoughts which are based upon falsity, 
 such as fear and hate and condemnation, are 
 not enduring; they perish by the weight of 
 their own delusion and they are impotent in 
 their falsity, because the life current is pure 
 
14 ^ttman fl^easmtement 
 
 and undying truth, and no thing and no force 
 can long endure against its living accuracy. 
 
 While truth in its entirety never changes 
 and its principles are immune, each mind per- 
 ceives it from a different angle and conse- 
 quently each vision varies. 
 
 Few people, however, have the courage to 
 be sufficiently true to themselves to live from 
 their own angle of vision; they have not yet 
 become individual, and so when a man for- 
 mulates a broader conception of truth than 
 his fellow-men, it places him a trifle apart and 
 others look askance and declare that such an 
 intrusion of ideas beyond their own may 
 mean change and better be suppressed. 
 
 So for many ages has it been with the form 
 of truth which deals with the spiritual heal- 
 ing of the flesh form through the medium of 
 the mind; there have always been, as there 
 are now, those who have preferred to endure 
 the anguish of flesh dissolution through the 
 disease process rather than to accept a truth 
 by and through an apparent mystery. 
 
 And as the human creature is free, it is his 
 
^ttman $®ta&\xttmmt 15 
 
 privilege to suffer and to die if he wants that 
 experience — it is his divine right to select his 
 part of the great spirit substance and equally 
 his divine right to manipulate it and direct it 
 in response to his own desire. 
 
 Now we have decreed, you and I, that we 
 will use our freedom by freeing ourselves and 
 we cannot be free with our bodies in the 
 bondage of pain and in harmony. So we are 
 going to forgive and to forget all of our past 
 suffering and discord and we shall stop our 
 habit of thinking at random and allow other 
 people's thoughts to control us; instead, we 
 shall balance our own minds and so regulate 
 our own thought energy. 
 
 Therein lies the first step toward becom- 
 ing spiritual in our flesh forms and of purify- 
 ing every atom of them and healing every 
 inequality that they may become whole in 
 the consciousness of the wholeness or holiness 
 of infinite life. 
 
 The first conscious effort in the direction of 
 mind mastery is the process of intelligently 
 centering the thought force with formulated 
 
16 ^timan 9®ta&uttmmt 
 
 intention; this process is ofttimes called con- 
 centration or centering the thought, and in 
 order to center the thought one must give 
 it his undivided attention. 
 
 The triangle of concentration is Attention, 
 Contemplation, and Meditation. 
 
 Attention steadies the mind and attracts 
 the chosen thought; Contemplation fixes 
 and establishes the thought in the mind and 
 adjusts it to the present condition and 
 requirement. 
 
 Contemplation is upon the plane of reason; 
 it argues and balances and adjusts, it analyzes 
 and regulates and decides — then, having for- 
 mulated a decision through its own balancing 
 force, Meditation naturally follows and the 
 student enters upon a plane of conscious and 
 cosmic understanding which relates him to 
 knowledge. 
 
 The sort of knowledge which we are claim- 
 ing to-day is that which gives us the ability 
 to control our physical bodies and to relate 
 them to perfect health, and the same quality 
 
^ttman 9®ta&uttmmt 17 
 
 of knowledge enables us also to control our 
 environment and our bank account, because 
 the interpenetrating force of the finer forces 
 of nature — the more spiritual force, as it 
 were — brings balance in the all good to all 
 which it may contact. 
 
 These finer forces of nature, such as Faith 
 and Love and Hope and Courage, etc., etc., 
 operate upon the finite being through the 
 medium of finite mind; so we will realize 
 that our human or finite mind is a measured 
 portion of the divine or infinite mind, in 
 fact that it is the infinite mind expressing 
 itself in finite form, wherein it is measured 
 and limited or extended according to our 
 capacity or, in more accurate wording, accord- 
 ing to our conception of ourselves. 
 
 Thus the human mind has the same attri- 
 butes and the same privileges as the infinite 
 mind, because it is a portion of that mind and 
 its difference in power is only in the degree of 
 its intentive force. 
 
 In order to relate our finite minds to a 
 comprehension of infinite mind, let us place 
 
18 ^ttman 9®tagtittmmt 
 
 our thought upon the primal substance of 
 spirit and then let us know that every atom 
 in the universe is an intelligent atom and 
 that whatever its present form, it is funda- 
 mentally and primarily pure spirit substance. 
 
 Following that idea, let us adjust our mind 
 action, which is our thought, in direct line 
 with the thought or the mind action of the 
 infinite intelligence, with the awareness of our 
 unity with it or, in other words, with the con- 
 sciousness that we are one and a part of that 
 intelligence in all of its activity, and that it is 
 therefore, our responsibility to do our part, 
 in the mental control and manipulation of 
 the formless spirit substance in bringing it 
 into the manifestation, through orderly energy, 
 of orderly form. 
 
 Nothing gives us a firmer grasp upon our 
 own power than this clear vision of the infinite 
 unity of universal life and consequently of our 
 own part in and with it: therein we see our 
 greatness, because we see the greatness of 
 God and all that lives and moves and is of 
 Him. 
 
l^ttman Sljjteasittttmntt 19 
 
 Suppose we are not using our thought 
 force intelligently — that is, suppose we are, 
 through our own ignorance, which is merely 
 ignoring the law of our own life, not doing 
 our part in the constructive and orderly ad- 
 justment of the universal manifestation and 
 are, therefore, expressing destruction and dis- 
 ease, shall we despair and grieve and feel 
 that life here is over for us? 
 
 No, indeed, unless we desire to leave the 
 planet by such a destructive route. There 
 is always the opportunity of a mighty recall; 
 a recall of repentance which completely re- 
 verses the forces of destruction and merges 
 their activity in the constructive operation of 
 God wherein we may, even with our finite 
 consciousness, reconstruct and readjust and 
 heal all that is in disorder and confused suffer- 
 ing by and through our reconnection with 
 God's mighty love and supreme wisdom. 
 
 We do not make statements which cannot 
 be definitely explained and positively proven, 
 and we have said and are proving it factual 
 that there is a method and a process for every 
 
20 ^ttman Measurement 
 
 accomplishment on every plane of life con- 
 cerning which we have the capacity to for- 
 mulate thought. Also it is true that no 
 demand can be made upon us which we have 
 not made possible by our desire, and the 
 process may always be discovered through the 
 understanding of the desire. 
 
 Many times it appears that we are not quite 
 equal to the thing we have assumed, that our 
 burden is greater than we, and that we shall 
 be submerged under its great weight. 
 
 It is not true. The fact that we assumed 
 it proves positively that we desired it, and 
 that it remains with us is a definite assur- 
 ance that its quality is of our own or it could 
 not remain. 
 
 When we grow greater than our problem, 
 stronger than our burden through the great- 
 ness of our wisdom and the strength of our 
 love, all of confusion will utterly dissolve, 
 because in the dynamic action of love and 
 wisdom in co-operation no thing destructive 
 can possibly endure. 
 
 Thinking constructively means thinking 
 
^ttman Qfrtamtttntnt 21 
 
 always the uplifting thought concerning your- 
 self and everybody else; it means realizing 
 the love nature and the love quality of every 
 living creature; it means knowing that every- 
 thing manifest is of God whether or not its 
 immediate expression is Godlike. 
 
 Thinking constructively is not thinking spas- 
 modically, with a love thought one moment 
 and a fear thought the next — with a thought 
 of hope and divine intention to-day and a 
 fall into despair to-morrow: that process of 
 mind action is most confusing, because, being 
 uncertain, the result is unexpected and un- 
 equal to the mental atmospheric conditions 
 and conflict is sure to follow. 
 
 In the recognition and the realization of 
 the good and only the good in all of intelli- 
 gent action, you have the appreciation and 
 respect of yourself, which is a most potent 
 healing force; indeed very much of disease 
 is caused by regret and self-condemnation — 
 and you also have a spiritual stimulant for 
 all of your life's intention. And really it 
 matters very little what are the opinions of 
 
22 ^tttttan Q®ta0\xttmmt 
 
 other people concerning you so long as you 
 have your own love and appreciation for 
 yourself — but that is absolutely essential if 
 you would be true to yourself and if you in- 
 tend to accomplish your part toward the 
 completeness of the planet you have selected 
 for your present abiding place. 
 
 And one vital part of your work upon this 
 earth home is that you adjust your physical 
 flesh form in complete and balanced expres- 
 sion here and now. 
 
 You may have been told that you are con- 
 trolled by the planets — indeed some systems 
 of philosophy are bounded north, east, south, 
 and west by the belief in Zodiacal limitations; 
 they evidently do not perceive that the crea- 
 ture that is made in the image of God is far 
 greater than any such, or indeed any limita- 
 tion, because the finite mind being a measured 
 portion of the infinite mind is of universal 
 or cosmic quality and can dominate and sweep 
 infinite and cosmic realms instead of being 
 ruled by the conditions of one little solar 
 system. 
 
^uman S^eagmwrnent 23 
 
 Naturally so long as we make it our abiding 
 place, we are more or less influenced by the 
 conditions of this solar system, just as we are 
 influenced by the climatic conditions of the 
 earth while we are breathing its atmosphere. 
 
 When we know the truth of a fact or a con- 
 dition — not only believe it but actually 
 know it — we also know how to meet it and, 
 if necessary, how to overcome it. When it is 
 cold to the point of discomfort, we are suffi- 
 ciently wise to create heat. Likewise we are 
 great enough to ride the waters and to bend 
 their mighty power to our service, also to 
 utilize the forces of the fire and the earth and 
 the air in response to our human desire and 
 intention. 
 
 Therefore, shall we, you and I, allow these 
 finer forces of life to turn upon us and rend 
 us, as it were, when we have within us all 
 that is greater than they and when we can 
 bend them to our intention and utililize them 
 for our ever-increasing strength and glory? 
 
 Verily nothing can intrude upon us and 
 nothing can glorify us but ourselves. 
 
24 ^aman 9®ta&\xttmmt 
 
 We have decreed that we shall manifest 
 health and opulence on each and every plane 
 of our being; so we will immediately com- 
 mence to think opulently. We will think con- 
 cerning the fullness in consciousness that 
 there is such mighty abundance in the uni- 
 verse that it is more than equal for all the 
 life forms within it — more than all the human 
 claim which can possibly be made upon it; 
 there is always the supply to meet every de- 
 mand, and if we strengthen our demand, 
 naturally the supply strengthens and increases 
 in abundance. 
 
 Abundance of health — such marvelous 
 abundance. 
 
 Freedom and fullness in and of every re- 
 quirement conceivable to the human mind. 
 
 We glory in the treasures in our Father's 
 house, in our home; we glory in the many 
 mansions, in our especial mansion; and we 
 claim our birthright of health and of pros- 
 perity, of beauty and of joy. 
 
 Do you think any sort of poverty — of the 
 body or the mind or the purse — can long 
 
^ttman 9$ta&uttmtnt 25 
 
 exist in an atmosphere created by such a 
 vitalized dynamic thought as that? 
 
 Hold fast to the idea of your own greatness 
 — it is such a marvelous tonic — and cling 
 with the faith of eternity to God's greatness 
 that no lesser thought may come between 
 you and your faith in yourself. 
 
 You will find the mantrims below of value 
 in flesh healing — their cadence is such that 
 they interpenetrate with dynamic accuracy. 
 
 Memorize them — commit them to con- 
 sciousness and you will perceive their effect 
 when you need the surcharge of a positive 
 reconstructive energy. 
 
 There are several here given, because dif- 
 ferent conditions may demand a different 
 tone, and there are many conditions and many 
 tones. 
 
 And remember always and always, what- 
 ever the need, whatever the response, there 
 is only good, for God is all and there is noth- 
 ing else beside. 
 
 The light of God's love shineth forever. 
 
 Its radiance is as the encircling glory of a 
 
26 ^urnan 9®ta&uztmmt 
 
 mighty sun which dissolves the night shadows 
 and reveals the oncoming day. 
 
 Behold, I place myself within its rising glow 
 and I breathe its flaming energy in and through 
 every atom of my flesh form. 
 
 I am ashine with the light of truth. 
 
 I am aflame with the glow of health. 
 
 I am enriched with divine abundance. 
 
 I am free in the knowledge that I am at- 
 one with God. 
 
 My body is the temple of my soul: it shall 
 be clean. 
 
 My body is the externalization of my 
 thought: it shall be whole. 
 
 My body is the manifestation of my inten- 
 tion: it shall be beautiful. 
 
 For my flesh is to my mind as the clay in 
 the artist's hand; it reflects the genius and the 
 love of me. 
 
 Come, Lord of life, let thy glory enfold 
 this, our earth home, that the black night of 
 disease may dissolve from this fair realm and 
 that sin and death may be no more. 
 
Ii?mnan 9£ea0utement 27 
 
 Come, gracious Father, and fill the flesh of 
 man with the radiance of thy truth, that life 
 itself may reign supreme and that mankind 
 may be free to serve Thee and only Thee. 
 
 Verily the fullness of the earth is God, for 
 all goodness is of Him. 
 
 The love of God is the heart of wisdom, and 
 in His love and wisdom is knowledge, the all- 
 knowledge of Being and action, the mighty 
 knowledge which passeth all understanding. 
 
 Know thyself in Him, O man, and know- 
 ing thyself thou shalt be whole in His holy 
 name. 
 
 The light shineth ever. 
 
 The light dissolves all of darkness. 
 
 The light reveals, ay, it is the presence of 
 the ever-living God, and in His presence there 
 is perfect health and perfect joy. 
 
 Arise, O Man, and declare for thine own 
 path in freedom, that it may lead thee to the 
 light of God's presence, which absolves thee 
 from all pain and all woe. 
 
28 ^ttman S^eagmwmmt 
 
 Love is the joy of the world. 
 
 Love heals the sick and strengthens the 
 weary. 
 
 Love frees the grief burdened; love endureth 
 forever. 
 
 Love is all and gives all yet love, true love, 
 makes no claim; it is greater than all claim 
 and beyond all limitation. 
 
 In the beginning was God — 
 
 Now is God. 
 
 In the future shall be God. 
 
 For He is all 
 
 And there is naught beside. 
 
STUDY OF COMMON SENSE 
 SPIRITUALITY 
 
/ have learned that when I am kind to life that life is kind 
 
 to me. 
 J have learned that the responsibility of my part of life 
 
 is to give all that I have and all that I am and all that 
 
 I know, freely and unreservedly to those who need it, 
 
 with no thought of result and no expectation of 
 
 reward. 
 I have learned that when I do the very best I know at all 
 
 times and in all ways that the greatest things I am 
 
 capable of knowing are added unto me. 
 I have learned these facts by accepting the privilege of my 
 
 human individuality and using my common sense. 
 
§tuDp of Common Sense Spirituality 
 
 The thing that divides is satanic, 
 The thing that unites is divine. 
 The thought that decrees is dynamic. 
 The force that creates is sublime. 
 
 UMANITY is composed of many 
 human beings who are working in 
 togetherness for the common com- 
 pleteness of the whole race. 
 
 God is made manifest in humanity through 
 the good in the common activity of that 
 humanity. 
 
 Common sense applies spiritual balance to 
 the natural things of everyday life; it is, as 
 it were, the voice of one crying in our human 
 wilderness preparing us to meet the law of 
 our human life in love and in wisdom. 
 
 Common sense gives a polarized and there- 
 fore intelligent vision whereby the soul can 
 operate through its bodily instrument for the 
 all-good in its earth manifestation and so 
 prepare for its life and work in other realms. 
 
32 Common &ntge &pititwlitv 
 
 We are here upon the earth home, living its 
 common everyday experiences, because we 
 require just this place and just these experi- 
 ences, for our own good, which means for our 
 own relinquishment of self and our conse- 
 quent revealment of God. 
 
 Not one of us differs greatly from the other 
 — we are all manifesting in clay bodies be- 
 cause we have all selected the clay planet for 
 our present abiding place, and we could not 
 vibrate in its key where we not of its texture 
 and equipped for its life expression and thereby 
 enabled to breathe its atmosphere. 
 
 Common sense relates us to our humanly 
 intelligent as well as to our divinely intelli- 
 gent requirement; it inspires us to adjust 
 ourselves to and with our claims and their 
 responsibilities both here and in the beyond 
 phases of our lives and to recognize our neces- 
 sities both of the flesh and of the spirit, that 
 they may be fulfilled. 
 
 Our clay bodies are well equipped, in fact 
 much better equipped than most of us real- 
 ize; we only know of five senses, but there are 
 
Common &m$t &turitttalttp 33 
 
 many times five senses in these flesh forms 
 and we shall soon awaken to perceive them, 
 As a race we are awakening to the sense of 
 intuition which forms an immediate connec- 
 tion between the human and the divine of 
 us and as individuals we are commencing to 
 realize and recognize it and so strengthen it, 
 but we are so closely related that we must 
 all awaken before the individual can really be 
 aware of the truth of his God power. 
 
 While jealousy runs riot in one human 
 mind, all humanity suffers therefrom. 
 
 While legalized murder sweeps part of the 
 earth and mows down many of God's images 
 in ignorant frenzy, all men shall suffer — 
 otherwise they would not be as one in infinite 
 life and love. 
 
 And we are commonly one in our humanity 
 as we are children of the divine household of 
 our Father in Heaven and one in His home. 
 
 In the ordinary terminology common sense 
 is supposed to apply to those things known 
 as material but the material things, the 
 every-day essences and activities of our lives 
 
34 Common &m&t Spirituality 
 
 are quite as spiritual as other forces yet 
 untouched and therefore called mysterious. 
 
 Common sense dissolves mystery by relat- 
 ing it to reason. 
 
 The finer forces of life interpenetrate the 
 coarser, thereby refining the whole, and these 
 common activities of daily living need to be 
 interpenetrated by the finer, but quite as 
 common, forces in nature in order that they 
 may more accurately balance in the doing of 
 their perfect work. 
 
 The human creature causes some vast mis- 
 happenings by his misconception of relation- 
 ship; he needs to bring God into his daily 
 commonplace expression, he needs the divine 
 association in his eating and in his sleeping, 
 in his living and in his dying — he needs to 
 know daily and hourly the commonplace 
 fact of the presence of the ever-living, ever- 
 loving God, and his common sense will reveal 
 to him that only in that divine intimacy will 
 his humanity become aware of its pure good- 
 ness. 
 
 There is no problem in Life's vast variety 
 
Common &engse &pttttttalttp 35 
 
 which may not be met and solved in the light 
 of a spiritual vision balanced by common sense; 
 one need not be limited ever so slightly if he 
 will use his common sense in everything that 
 he does and says. 
 
 The claim of growing beyond human re- 
 quirement and earthly method belongs to the 
 early stages of fanaticism and is entirely apart 
 from common sense and its balanced reason; 
 indeed, if a soul had grown beyond human 
 need while yet upon the earth planet, he 
 would have common sense enough not to 
 mention it. 
 
 The great limitation of the human race is 
 fear; men are afraid of each other because 
 they are afraid of themselves, and in their 
 fear emotion they demagnetize their bodies 
 and every condition which concerns their part 
 of life. 
 
 Common sense comes to the rescue and says 
 there is absolutely nothing to fear; in its 
 balanced light you see that by being afraid 
 you attract the mighty destroyer, emotion, 
 upon you, and it proves to you that emotion 
 
36 Common &ntge Spirituality 
 
 is a most confusing force which acts as a blur 
 and a blight upon every thought form which 
 it touches. 
 
 Emotion feeds upon disaster and thrives 
 upon grief, and it is quite time that the human 
 creature steadies his mind and balances him- 
 self in a common sense spirituality wherein he 
 can abide and strengthen his capacity for 
 attracting and assimilating the infinite good 
 which he claims. 
 
 Life is not a joke and we are not here only 
 to have fun — we are here to bring our part 
 of life to the highest form of its expression 
 which we have selected and which we have 
 the capacity to meet, and it is our privilege, 
 which is but another word for duty, to con- 
 stantly and consistently strengthen our capa- 
 city. 
 
 Naturally we shall create harmony by so 
 doing and happiness will result, but happiness 
 is not hysterical fun — neither is it resultant 
 from emotion of any kind; it is consistent 
 and enduring harmony made manifest in daily 
 living. 
 
Common &ntge fepttttttaltt? 37 
 
 When humanity commences to use its com- 
 mon sense, it will recognize its individuality, 
 and there is no vitalized accomplishment 
 until the man realizes his power by realizing 
 his individuality. 
 
 In the vast unity of the human race, each 
 atom must stand out accurately as a vitalized 
 unit so that the whole may be perfect and so 
 unified, and in order to become so polarized 
 we must know that every other soul has as 
 definite a place and as important a work as 
 we. 
 
 Therefore we will agree in our intention to 
 know God and we will glorify our introspec- 
 tive vision by viewing our brother's part of 
 life from his angle of vision. Nothing will so 
 equalize our own life action as to recognize 
 every other human creature as equal with us 
 and as worthy of the same privileges which 
 we claim for ourselves. 
 
 Most people think entirely from their own 
 angle, and it is too often a limited and nar- 
 row line of vision, not extending out of their 
 immediate circle; when they commence to 
 
38 Common &en0e Spirituality 
 
 glimpse a realm beyond their* own, they are 
 quite likely to feel the impulse to investigate 
 the farther glimpse, and when they do investi- 
 gate and breathe the broader atmosphere, as 
 it were, their cosmic unfoldment has com- 
 menced. 
 
 It is then that the human creature 
 needs his common sense; he wants to 
 grow, and mayhap he has not yet dis- 
 covered that growth is not a comfortable 
 process and that the entrance to any new 
 realm causes suffering and travail until we 
 have grown so universally conscious that 
 we are unified with all realms; possibly 
 then the man resents the discomfort of the 
 process which leads him to the thing he 
 has claimed, and resentment may darken 
 his way and retard his journey toward his 
 Father's home, which is the universal and 
 infinite realm. 
 
 No other soul can live for us, and no other 
 soul can die for us, but we can all inspire each 
 other to take the step in consciousness which 
 will render us each greater than the problem 
 
Common &m&t Spirituality 39 
 
 we have undertaken to solve and make us 
 equal to the mastery of our own part of God's 
 great life. 
 
 Some day soon, please heaven, all this wo- 
 ful misunderstanding with its agonizing result 
 shall pass away; men will look into each 
 other's eyes and see the God therein, and in 
 that divinely glorified vision we shall know 
 each other as we are, without the crust of 
 delusion and the heartache of fear; we shall 
 know that each man and each woman is just 
 exactly what the person who loves him and 
 her best believes them to be, and we shall 
 trust each other in the consciousness of that 
 satisfying truth which is the evidence of God 
 because it results from the sure knowledge of 
 good. 
 
 No matter how enigmatical a statement 
 may appear, just analyze it in the light of 
 your common sense, and you will soon know 
 whether or not it is worthy of your concen- 
 tration and so qualify your flesh atoms with 
 it — for common sense is the universal rea- 
 soner; it sifts the wheat from the chaff and 
 
40 Common &mstt Spirituality 
 
 actually relates the human creature to his 
 own part of life. 
 
 Herein I give you a few statements for 
 study and practise. 
 
 Do not accept them because I have found 
 them useful; the thing which may be a defi- 
 nite power for my polarization may not be- 
 long to you at all. 
 
 It is for you to turn the light into your 
 own consciousness, decide for your own good, 
 and let no human opinion swerve you from 
 that which you know is your own. 
 
 To-day is the day of my salvation, 
 
 To-day I claim that I am love. 
 
 I am one with all love, and the light of love 
 is wisdom. 
 
 Love gives thanks that this is the day of 
 salvation. 
 
 Love knows that humanity is free from sin, 
 sickness, sorrow, poverty, and death. 
 
 Love is waiting to enfold every living crea- 
 ture who will accept its glorifying radiance. 
 
 Love makes no demand; it only knows its 
 own. Love asks no favors; it only seeks to 
 
Common &twt Spirituality 41 
 
 be, — for in love's being all is given and re- 
 ceived, and in love's freedom all life's gracious 
 gifts are unreserved. 
 
 Love is the most practical of nature's finer 
 forces, because it is all-inclusive and all- 
 harmonious with every quality of good: it 
 vibrates in the key of good, so it becomes 
 all-attractive to the good things of life, 
 and success on every plane breathes in its 
 atmosphere. 
 
 The man who loves his work is he who 
 succeeds. 
 
 The woman who loves her home glorifies 
 it, and her husband is not interested in the 
 news of the divorce court. 
 
 One might continue indefinitely to cite 
 cases of the practical effect of love in its 
 everyday common sense activity because 
 health and happiness and riches and every 
 condition that makes life worth while abide 
 in its atmosphere. 
 
 Let us sing the song of that everyday 
 common sense love which simply is because 
 we open our hearts to admit it, and so it enters 
 
42 Common &enjse Spirituality 
 
 into our flesh forms, rendering us a glorified 
 expression of life. 
 
 In the shine of the love light all that seems 
 distorted is made plain. 
 
 And the darkness melts into day. 
 
 The accurate process of living is the sim- 
 plest and the most natural, and there is no 
 escaping the fact that we cannot swerve from 
 the accurate angle of expression and not suffer: 
 that is why it is the common sense process to 
 open our hearts to love because love is natu- 
 ral and accurate, knowing no evil and con- 
 sequently attracting no pain. 
 
 When we lessen our ability to naturally 
 love, we also lessen our power to accurately 
 live, and thereby we place the joys of life 
 farther and farther away from our part of 
 life and misunderstanding follows, and in 
 the misdirection of forces which follow the 
 shadows perplexingly fall. 
 
 It is common sense to live because you 
 love to live. 
 
 It is common sense to work because you 
 love to work and to play because you love to 
 
Common &ntge Spirituality 43 
 
 play, for the reason that your life and your 
 work and your play are only successful in 
 the love vibration. 
 
 It is common sense to pray to your heavenly 
 Father that you may abide in togetherness 
 with Him where life itself becomes one glori- 
 ous revelation of His love. 
 
 Father of all that lives and moves, 
 Father of all that feels and knows, 
 Manifestor of stars and suns, 
 Creator of worlds and worlds; 
 I AM Thy child, 
 Heart of Thy heart, 
 Mind of Thy mind, 
 Soul of Thy soul, 
 Breath of Thy breath 
 And one with Thy life. 
 
 Can you not see in the blowing breeze, 
 In the dancing leaves on their parent trees, 
 In the blossoming bud all blushing and sweet 
 As it opens its heart the sunlight to greet, 
 The handiwork oj God? 
 
44 Common feensfe Spirituality 
 
 Can you not feel in the silent sweep 
 
 Of nature's awaking from ages of sleep, 
 
 In the wonderful reach toward infinite things 
 
 And the answer to needs which each day brings, 
 
 That He is aware? 
 
 Do you not know that the vivid gleam 
 Enfolding the earth with its radiant beam, 
 Filling with love all pulsing life, 
 Freeing mankind from its fear and its strife, 
 Is God's own truth? 
 
 Oh, marvelous Truth of infinite power, 
 Rising supreme each day and each hour, 
 No life can endure apart from Thee, 
 No love can exist that is not free 
 In Thy great name. 
 
STUDY CONCERNING THOUGHT 
 
" Think," said the Lord of Heaven 
 To the waking, breathing spark, 
 THINK thyself into living, 
 THINK thyself into loving, 
 THINK thyself into God's light! 
 And out of the creeping dark. 
 
§>tuDp Concerning Cfiougfjt 
 
 HOUGHT is the conscious, formu- 
 lated motive energy of the primal 
 substance. 
 
 Thought invariably precedes action, being 
 the intentive force of all action and all mani- 
 festation. 
 
 The formation of thought force and its 
 resultant activity is based upon a principle 
 which is as factual as mathematical law, and 
 there is no compromise with mathematical 
 law, so truth, which is the accurate action of 
 the law and the evidence of good, is the 
 thought manifestation of a definite principle 
 which must stand every possible test of rea- 
 son and analysis. 
 
 A philosophy to have endurance is founded 
 upon truth, and must follow in its develop- 
 ment the principles of this truth law; other- 
 wise it cannot be constructive in its teaching 
 and influence, because there can be no chaotic 
 
48 fetttUg Concmuna; ^otiffSt 
 
 imaginings and no weird calculations in a 
 process of thought which is based upon the 
 life principle of enduring truth. 
 
 Thought does not relate alone to human 
 mental action. 
 
 Thought is the universal current of con- 
 sciousness, and so it is a universal force per- 
 taining to the universal and infinite mind. 
 
 Thought becomes a human expression of 
 consciousness in degree as the human being 
 responds and relates himself to universal 
 consciousness. 
 
 As the human creature becomes more and 
 more aware of his relation to the universe — 
 in other words, of the relation of the human 
 to the divine — he commences to interpret 
 this thought force and to realize that it is his 
 capital for his entire life action and that he 
 may do what we wills to do with this wonder- 
 ful and unlimited material. 
 
 When the man perceives his power in and 
 of thinking, he then commences to study 
 himself, and the more he analyzes himself 
 from his own life angle, the more he realizes 
 
&tutip Concerning 'flD&ottff&t 49 
 
 that there is a mighty force within himself 
 which is the living motive energy in his life 
 action. 
 
 Recognition of ability means a strengthen- 
 ing capacity for all of life's operations, and it 
 rests with the man whether he will recognize 
 and appreciate himself and so become a power 
 for good for himself and for his race or whether 
 he will ignore his opportunity and fail to use 
 his divine ability. 
 
 The human creature is not a creation of 
 circumstance; rather he is a creation of his 
 own intention and his own love desire in 
 using that intention. 
 
 There is one universal current of mind 
 action which produces what we call thought 
 energy, and men may have as much of that 
 thought energy as they will use and no more, 
 and using means giving to life according to 
 their individual capacity in order that their 
 capacity may strengthen and enable them 
 to receive more. 
 
 All accomplishment comes first by recog- 
 nizing the thought energy, second by attract- 
 
50 &ttt&? €ontttnins Whtmyfot 
 
 ing it, third by assimilating it, and fourth by 
 wisely expending it. 
 
 To be sure, very few of us comprehend the 
 process of our unfoldment until we are on a 
 conscious plane of evolution, but the process 
 is there whether we are aware of it or not. 
 
 The rose blooms in all its glory through and 
 by its own power of externalizing the thought 
 energy which it has attracted and assimilated 
 and used according to its strength and its 
 quality, but it is not conscious of its process 
 any more than is the bird aware of the mar- 
 velous intelligence which enables it to fly. 
 
 The human creature, however, is the micro- 
 cosm of the universe; he has evolved to the 
 place where he is made in the image of God, 
 body, mind, and soul; he is a part of that in- 
 finite intelligence through which he lives and 
 moves and has his being; he has the divine 
 attributes and he may think in the universal 
 key whenever he so decrees. 
 
 The phase of thought energy with which 
 the human being must deal is that of individ- 
 ual thought control, because it rests entirely 
 
&ttt&g €onttinin$ C&ottsfjt 51 
 
 with the man what quality of thought energy- 
 he will entertain. He naturally attracts 
 thoughts which are responsive to his own 
 quality, but he need not retain or entertain any 
 form of the universal energy which is not 
 responsive to his will. 
 
 Every thought formulated by the will and 
 sent out from the individual mind is a sug- 
 gestion of some sort; even if not directed 
 toward any special person, it may seriously 
 affect some one who has not yet learned the 
 law of mental self-protection and who is es- 
 pecially sensitive to that quality of thought. 
 
 The power of a thought formulated by a 
 trained mind and directed with the accuracy 
 and intelligence of that mind is most dynamic, 
 not only because of its immediate strength, 
 but because its intentive force endures forever. 
 
 The man becomes the thing concerning 
 which he thinks and which he thereby breathes 
 into himself; he may be whatever he desires 
 to be, he may live the life he selects, he may 
 have what his love demands — if he will only 
 be true to the God of himself and think good. 
 
52 fetttUp Contetnmff CSotisSt 
 
 All thinking which is built upon negative or 
 destructive lines, such as fear, condemnation, 
 resentment, or any other disorderly formula- 
 tion, does not endure, because the life cur- 
 rent moves in exact accordance with the 
 law which is the mathematical activity of 
 its motion. 
 
 Therefore the life current is truth itself in 
 its action, and nothing can prevail against 
 it; any attempt to do so always results in 
 disorders of flesh or mind or purse. 
 
 Men in their present limited consciousness 
 do not readily respond to a different or newer 
 expression of thought; it requires mental 
 effort to change one's viewpoint; it might 
 change one's relation to life, and few human 
 creatures are willing to think for themselves; 
 it is much easier to have some one else solve 
 their problems and to go along life's pathway 
 in the same rut other rut-lovers have trod, 
 and so they prefer the vicarious method, not 
 even permitting themselves to think seriously 
 concerning it or they would realize that it is 
 utterly impractical. 
 
&tttbp Concetnfng C&ottn&i 53 
 
 Each soul must think for himself and solve 
 his own problems of life and death or they 
 will not be solved. 
 
 Truth, being the result of mathematical 
 action of the life energy, has an infinite variety 
 of expression; each externalized form, each 
 life manifestation, results from the truth 
 thought of an infinite intelligence. 
 
 Every and each human mind, from the angle 
 of its position and according to its relation 
 with this infinite intelligence, sees life and 
 truth from its viewpoint, and each vision 
 naturally varies. It has happened that some 
 of the earth children have insisted that other 
 of the earth children think from their angle 
 of vision, and they who were strongest com- 
 pelled, and so we have slaves and tyrants on 
 many planes of our life manifestation. 
 
 When a man takes a step in advance of his 
 fellows by formulating a broader idea of truth 
 or any of its myriads of attributes, it places 
 him somewhat apart from them in conscious- 
 ness, and sometimes they feel uncomfortable 
 about such an intrusion of advancing thought 
 
54 &ttt&p Conttotutff ^ougSt 
 
 and demand that he and his new idea shall 
 be suppressed. 
 
 It is not long since Mesmer, with his giant 
 mind, undertook to prove by actual illustra- 
 tion of fact that he had discovered a method 
 of controlling thought energy and of utiliz- 
 ing that energy. Certain people declared that 
 he was crazy, and even now the term "mes- 
 merism," and its accompanying word "hypno- 
 tism," is spoken by many with almost a feeling 
 of dread. 
 
 And yet the force applied in the simplest 
 of life regulations is frequently the same 
 force which, if labeled correctly, would be 
 called hypnotism. We hypnotize ourselves 
 when we put ourselves to sleep. The 
 mother hypnotizes her child when she sug- 
 gests and controls by her mental suggestion 
 his action. 
 
 In the business world, men do not engage 
 in a hand-to-hand encounter; it is a thought- 
 to-thought encounter, and, with mind pitted 
 against mind, men meet and greet and part 
 and meet again, and the master mind, the 
 
&ttt&# Cancemtno; ^fioagSt 55 
 
 one which thinks more rapidly, wins in 
 each encounter. 
 
 If men were conscious of the process of 
 their mind action they would be masters of it. 
 
 If men were masters of their mind action, 
 they would know how to think. 
 
 If men knew how to think, they would con- 
 trol their bodies and their life conditions, and 
 there could be no lack of physical or financial 
 strength. 
 
 The fact is that it is stupid to live a life of 
 negative intention — in other words, to be 
 resigned to poverty on any plane, and most 
 people accept conditions negatively; they do 
 not retain or use the thoughts they attract, 
 otherwise the world would not be in the throes 
 of despair as it is to-day. 
 
 The world needs thinkers, people who dare 
 to view life from their angle in the universe 
 and who have the strength to live their part 
 of the universal life in the line of their vision 
 of truth. 
 
 Such people, those who are true to them- 
 selves and their convictions, are always true 
 
56 Sttt&p Concmtinff ^Tfiouff&t 
 
 to every other earth creature, because the 
 soul who lives in his own truth angle knows 
 that he and all of God's creatures are one in 
 their interest and their work of the earth life 
 expression. 
 
 The finite mind, being a measured portion 
 of the infinite mind, is measured and limited 
 according to the individual capacity, or it 
 might be more accurate to say according to 
 the man's conception of himself. 
 
 Therefore the human mind differs from the 
 universal mind only in degree; it has the same 
 attributes, the same privileges, and is of the 
 same quality. 
 
 The human mind has the divine capacity 
 of development, and when it understands that 
 it has the power of mastering its thought ac- 
 tion and consequently its life externalization, 
 the development of the individual becomes 
 certain and rapid. 
 
 When men know this truth of themselves 
 and thereby the truth of each other, they 
 will not be divided against each other, because 
 
&tttdp Concerning ^ouff&t 57 
 
 they will know that such division means the 
 destruction of flesh and strength and love. 
 
 The song of ages is that men become ex- 
 actly what they think, and had it not been 
 true the song would have died out long ago; 
 all philosophers, all teachers, and indeed all 
 thinkers have so proclaimed, and yet we see 
 on every hand withering flesh, distorted homes, 
 poverty and its accompanying anguish, all 
 because men are too indolent to think them- 
 selves into life and freedom. 
 
 A man cannot think concerning anything 
 which is not in and of himself; if he thinks con- 
 cerning God, it is because there is good in 
 himself; if he forgets to think of God, he is 
 weakening the real of himself and making 
 the way plain for disorder to possess him. 
 
 The broader and freer the individual 
 thought becomes, the greater and more good 
 becomes the individual; he is on the true road 
 toward universal consciousness when he al- 
 lows himself to think universally and not 
 limit himself to a small corner of his own finite 
 realm. 
 
58 Situbp Concetmno; ^SouoDt 
 
 When the soul assumes the responsibility 
 of its humanity, it also assumes the responsi- 
 bility of glorifying that humanity and render- 
 ing it worthy of its divine relationship. 
 
 Consequently, human creatures have no 
 right to use their part of the thought energy 
 in destruction, and when they do, in their own 
 flesh is made manifest any violation of God's 
 law. 
 
 So long as men believe that they cannot 
 control their thoughts or that they must think 
 what other people have thought and found 
 suitable for them, so long they will be unable 
 to control their life conditions. 
 
 It is for the individual to think what he 
 wills to think, and then he will do what he 
 intends to do. 
 
 It is wise, it is practical, indeed it is essen- 
 tial, that we always think good of ourselves; 
 in the first place, it is the only way we can 
 think good of other folks; also it relates the 
 atoms of our flesh body to strength, because 
 we breathe into our flesh the thoughts which 
 we select to entertain. 
 
&ttt&2 Concerning ^Jottg&t 59 
 
 Sometimes we select to entertain thoughts 
 which act like a great stupefying force and 
 which result in arrested development on cer- 
 tain planes of our life externalization; then we 
 have an unequal or unbalanced condition 
 which is not strengthening to our health either 
 of body or of purse. 
 
 Men are, in truth, always good, but they do 
 not always know it, and not knowing it they 
 have not the power to think their goodness 
 into themselves. 
 
 There are many voices crying in the wilder- 
 ness, many souls suffering from the ache of 
 their hearts and, perhaps, from the awful- 
 ness of sickness and poverty and from the 
 thing which men call sin. 
 
 Verily, they know that the prophet is at 
 hand, but they scarcely dare think of the new 
 prophet, which is a mighty principle of life, 
 when there are so many personal prophets 
 encrusted by opinion and forced upon their 
 attention. 
 
 God help and bless them, few people yet 
 know that the light is always shining which 
 
60 &ttt&p Concerning ^fjottg&t 
 
 utterly dissolves the crust of misery which 
 humanity has been accumulating for so many 
 ages. 
 
 And blessed souls, how can they understand, 
 when they will not think, that they them- 
 selves darken its shine by their own super- 
 stition? 
 
 O man, can you not see that it is easy to 
 enter into the light of truth in freedom by 
 realizing the God of yourself? 
 
 Your concern is with and for yourself; it 
 is not for you to think for your fellow-man 
 until you have thought yourself into love for 
 him. 
 
 It is time to think concerning God and his 
 great goodness, that our love shall be unwaver- 
 ing and that we may dissolve every condition 
 of confusion which overshadows the world. 
 
STUDY CONCERNING FREEDOM 
 
My blessed Lord, 
 
 I know that thou and I are one, 
 
 Then why despair — 
 
 Beloved Truth, 
 
 All life apart from thee I shun 
 
 And I declare — 
 
 That I am free in Truth's own name, 
 That life is mine to hold and claim, 
 That I shall work with highest aim 
 For God's great Truth 
 In Freedom's name. 
 
©tttDp Concerning jFteeDom 
 
 > O word of human tongues is so mis- 
 understood as the word "freedom." 
 No force of all the finer forces of 
 nature is more incomprehensible to men than 
 the force of freedom. 
 
 Of all the God gifts, men most desire what 
 they call freedom, when in truth it is the one 
 thing they utterly refuse to allow entrance 
 into their mental realm. 
 
 The man prays for freedom; he longs for 
 his idea of freedom because the thing men call 
 freedom is to do as they please from the nar- 
 row angle of their earth vision, and too often 
 it is merely the limited glimpse of their earth 
 desire. 
 
 Suppose we analyze this evanescent, chaste 
 force of freedom. Let us use our spiritual 
 Calculus and see if we can relate ourselves to 
 its clear potent energy and perhaps compre- 
 hend in some degree its truth quality. 
 
64 fettt&p Concerning; iFteetiom 
 
 Truth is always the evidence of good, and 
 it represents the balance action of all of the 
 finer forces of nature. 
 
 Truth only operates in freedom, which is the 
 accurate principle underlying its expression. 
 
 Freedom is the finest of the finer forces of 
 nature, being essential to them all as it is co- 
 operative and interpenetrative with truth. 
 
 Therefore men do not come into truth con- 
 sciousness on any plane until they are free 
 on that plane, because bondage on any plane 
 limits the action thereon. 
 
 All intelligent action is free. 
 
 Freedom is entirely constructive. Any ac- 
 tion which ignores the supreme law of good- 
 ness is ignorance, and there is no suggestion of 
 freedom on any plane of thought and action 
 which ignores the law. 
 
 All of the apparent evils of the earth planet 
 are the result of expressed ignorance. 
 
 Men have lived in the thought that a per- 
 version of truth means freedom, not realiz- 
 ing that any defiance of truth places them in 
 most appalling bondage. 
 
&ttt&p Concerning iFtw&om 6$ 
 
 Even now, when the race is developing some 
 degree of intelligence, human beings seem to 
 imagine that lawlessness and licentiousness 
 and a desecration of holy things mean free- 
 dom and that they are expressing freedom by 
 ignoring duties which they have claimed and 
 assumed as their own. 
 
 The human race is yet in its infant con- 
 sciousness; it creates its own delusion, and as 
 the babe plays with its toys and centers its in- 
 terest on its dolls and tin soldiers, so does the 
 human creature play with its conventions and 
 its fashions and centers its interest in its 
 troubles and its misunderstandings and en- 
 joys its poor health, until it winds itself up in 
 a web of bondage and perishes trying to get 
 out of the bondage it has created. 
 
 And the human creature hugs itself and 
 holds on tight to its own delusion; it loves 
 its own limitation and it likes to play on its 
 own wee sand pile, conceiving no greater free- 
 dom than to riotously romp thereon and to 
 throw sand on those who are not quite so 
 near to the top of the pile as they. 
 
66 &ttrtp Concerning; Jteedom 
 
 Every man has the attributes of freedom; 
 he can think and he can act, he can love and 
 he can learn, he can sow and he can reap, 
 he can direct his own life action, and what 
 Paul says or what the king does has nothing 
 whatever to do with you or with me. 
 
 But we do not always know that we can 
 think and we can do as seems wise to ourselves. 
 We have been in thraldom so long that we 
 have almost disintegrated in the dark of our 
 dungeon of fear in our dread of somebody's 
 or perhaps of many people's judgment. 
 
 The free man is conscious; he is awake to 
 the divine word. 
 
 The bondman is unconscious; he environs 
 himself with fear, and the word of truth does 
 not penetrate his understanding. 
 
 One spark of God consciousness is more 
 vitally important for human development 
 and does more to uplift the race than 
 barrels of bromidic platitudes and volumes 
 of mentalized memories and indefinite 
 plagiarism. 
 
 The earth planet has reached a plane be- 
 
fe>ttt&p Concerning jFteeaom 67 
 
 yond mere reason; it is entering the realm 
 of consciousness. 
 
 When the race is freed from any form of 
 limitation, the earth enters upon a higher or 
 more rapid era of its evolution, because the 
 intelligent earth responds to the finest thought 
 energy of its children. 
 
 And it is necessary that the earth be freed 
 from every bondage which holds it before it 
 can express at a more vitalized point; there- 
 fore when it is time for a great upliftment of 
 humanity, there is always the sweeping off 
 the earth those conditions and those people 
 who would hold it in the darkness and the 
 delusion of slavery. 
 
 Just as we see to-day, the earth must be 
 freed from monarchism and militarism before 
 it can enter into a new dimension of con- 
 sciousness, and it will grovel in blood and woe 
 until the race frees itself from the dreadful 
 injustice which gives one man or a few men 
 control of millions, perhaps more worthy of 
 their brothers. 
 
 The earth planet and each and every one 
 
68 &tttDp Concerning jFttt&om 
 
 of the suns and planets in the universe is 
 intelligent and co-operative with the whole. 
 
 Every externalized atom is a form of ex- 
 pressed intelligent life, each one working from 
 his angle for the God manifestation of the 
 universe. 
 
 So long as the atom works from its angle 
 in freedom, so long does it work in construc- 
 tion and in love and co-operative with the 
 whole; when it is related to that which binds 
 and destroys and compels in other directions 
 than that which belongs to its intentive de- 
 sire, it then does not do its perfect work. 
 
 Each atom works with every other atom 
 for the good of the whole; freedom does not 
 mean separation. The natural law of selec- 
 tion and its accompanying process of refin- 
 ing is the law of progress, just as human beings 
 always succeed when they work with clean 
 hands and a pure heart, which means an ac- 
 curate motive in and for the thing they love. 
 
 Human beings are the only creatures which 
 personalize God and defy the mighty forces 
 of His universe, and while they get well 
 
&ttt6p Concerning; jFwebam 69 
 
 thrashed for so doing and accumulate about 
 them and in them all the destructive condi- 
 tions which bind them to sorrow, they still 
 persist in their insane practises against the 
 finer forces of nature and then wonder at the 
 chaos of disease and death which rages around 
 them. 
 
 And, as the earth whirls on toward its finer 
 and freer consciousness, its children must 
 respond to its vibration and recall themselves 
 and become free to vibrate in the new earth 
 key by realizing the God of themselves, that 
 they may co-operate with the marvelous forces 
 which are now enfolding the earth and bring- 
 ing it into the freer form of truth, where all is 
 life and there is no destruction. 
 
 Freedom always operates in order. 
 
 There can be nothing disorderly or confused 
 or riotous in freedom; it is equalized and 
 polarized, balanced and adjusted, in accurate 
 mathematical lines. And there is where hu- 
 manity has erred in its conception of freedom ; 
 as a race we have accepted the idea of it as 
 being something apart from order and of being 
 
70 &ttt&p Concerning jfteeliom 
 
 sort of an emotional quality, inaccurate and 
 untrained, not realizing that any lack of bal- 
 ance leads to destruction and eventually to 
 disintegration, while freedom itself is a part 
 of life itself. 
 
 Freedom is of the universe an unlimited 
 quality, although it is so often a hindered 
 quality as to make it seem otherwise. 
 
 Freedom is the basis of operation of all 
 forces, as every one of the finer forces must 
 balance in freedom or it becomes perverted. 
 
 To illustrate — take the force of faith. 
 When it is limited and bound it becomes fear, 
 and its action is destructive. To do its perfect 
 work faith must be unreserved and free. 
 
 We can also illustrate with the force of love. 
 How wonderful is its free constructive action 
 and how horrible when, in its bound and per- 
 verted state, it manifests as jealousy and hate! 
 
 Every universal quality is manifested in 
 the human being in the degree of his desire 
 and his capacity, because man is the epitome 
 of the universe and in him is the germ of every 
 
&ttrtp Concetnfns iFteeaom 71 
 
 force which is expressed in the universe; to 
 be sure, much of it is latent and all of it is 
 crude, but in some degree is every atom of the 
 man vibrating in its corresponding universal 
 key. 
 
 Therefore, freedom is a human as well as 
 a divine principle, and if the man would be 
 accurate in his externalization and conse- 
 quently true to himself and to all that con- 
 cerns him, he will think free and so be free. 
 
 Freedom of human expression means that 
 the body must respond to the soul demand 
 through the medium of the mind; in other 
 words, that the body, mind, and soul must 
 vibrate in harmony, and as the human crea- 
 ture is making his present home upon the earth 
 planet for the purpose of his soul experience 
 and development, it is the natural and there- 
 fore the accurate and free thing for the soul 
 demand to be the ruler of the man and of his 
 earth life. 
 
 When the mind consciously ignores the 
 soul demand and compels the repression of 
 the body, sacrifice of the flesh always follows. 
 
72 &ttt&p Concerning JFteeliom 
 
 When the mind represses itself, thereby re- 
 fusing to increase its capacity and power, sac- 
 rifice of far greater importance occurs, because 
 then the whole man is placed at a disadvan- 
 tage; he wastes his opportunity and weakens 
 his magnetism and places himself in the line 
 of limitation on every plane. 
 
 The soul never makes impossible demands; 
 it knows its own necessity, and when the man 
 is ready to respond to that necessity he soon 
 becomes free in body and in environment. 
 
 How often do you hear people say, "I 
 wanted to do thus and so, but was afraid I 
 could not afford it," or " afraid it might make 
 talk or somebody might object," and so they 
 deny the soul demand and crush out their 
 inspiration by repressing the desire which 
 would have led them into their next con- 
 scious step. 
 
 When we are true to our highest convic- 
 tion, true to truth, as it were, there is never 
 any question of what we can afford; we can 
 afford anything we need, and there is never 
 any question of what "they" may say; those 
 
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 who are worthy of our consideration never 
 criticize or condemn and those who do pass 
 judgment upon us are simply infants in con- 
 sciousness whose opinions are not sufficiently 
 focused to influence us one way or another. 
 
 Understand, we are not speaking of sense 
 or of sensual demands — those are of the flesh 
 and will be balanced by the mind; we are 
 speaking of the soul desire of the human being 
 who is seeking to know himself and through 
 that knowledge of himself, to know God. 
 
 The man who knows God is always free. 
 Though his body may be locked in the deepest 
 dungeon, he knows it is nothing in the light 
 of a great awakening and he also knows that 
 the locks and bars will dissolve when he is 
 ready to be released. 
 
 The first attainment of the awakening 
 human creature is to know how to discrimi- 
 nate between his soul desire and his sense 
 demand. 
 
 The soul demand is always constructive 
 and always relates to orderly adjustment. 
 
 The flesh desire is not always constructive, 
 
74 &tu&2 €ontttniw JFtttdom 
 
 because it is frequently expressed in igno- 
 rance and becomes riotous and causes mental 
 and physical confusion which is never possible 
 when the man permits himself to follow the 
 guidance of his soul. 
 
 The senses must be balanced and developed; 
 in the service of truth they are a mighty power 
 for good; when they are slaves to delusion and 
 to habit they are instruments of destruction, 
 and one of the most confusing of limitations is 
 that which results from allowing the senses 
 to dominate the mind. 
 
 It is sense domination and mind subjuga- 
 tion thereof which prevents the man from 
 following the desire of his soul, and the result 
 is that the flesh shrivels and the brains of the 
 flesh, which should be perfect instruments of 
 the mind, become atrophied and then the 
 whole structure becomes a crumbling monu- 
 ment to falsity instead of a glorifying temple 
 of truth. 
 
 Freedom is essentially a subtle permeating 
 activity; it is sensitive and dependent upon 
 harmony and truth. 
 
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 You cannot compel freedom any more than 
 you can compel love, because under compulsion 
 it loses its quality and ceases to be freedom, 
 just as under any compelling thought love 
 loses its constructive power and turns into 
 aversion and fear which soon manifests in 
 hate. 
 
 Freedom must express from the within out; 
 the man who is free in mind soon becomes 
 free in body, and then he becomes free in 
 expression, because his recognition of his soul 
 requirements leads him into those experiences 
 which he requires in the earth phase of his 
 life lessons. 
 
 One of the vitally important lessons which 
 we must learn in our attainment of freedom 
 is, that if we would be free ourselves we must 
 leave every other soul in absolute freedom so 
 far as we are concerned; we may help him, we 
 may inspire him, provided, of course, it is his 
 desire that we should ; otherwise we must have 
 no judgment of any sort concerning him. 
 
 When a person arrives at the age of respon- 
 sibility, which means when he has the ability 
 
76 &tu&# €tmtttnins JFreebom 
 
 to respond to the demands of his own life 
 requirements, he will know that he is the cause 
 of those requirements and in his own way he 
 must assume them and fulfil them; he should 
 not be handicapped by opinion or bound by 
 other people's desires — and if you and I in- 
 terfere with him and attempt to force him into 
 our way of seeing and doing, he is more than 
 liable to fail and his failure will react upon us 
 and place us in some sort of bondage to him. 
 
 Most of human trouble and confusion — in 
 fact, we might say, all of its pain — results from 
 the bondage in which men hold each other. 
 They do not know that one human being 
 cannot possibly own another and that if they 
 hold another in slavery or permit themselves 
 to be held there, it always reacts on all parties 
 concerned and causes untold misery on every 
 plane. 
 
 Each form of nature's manifestation, as 
 well as each human being, evolves according 
 to its capacity, and it should be free to express 
 its life in the degree of its development. 
 
 The dog has his conception of freedom; he 
 
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 is not bound by moral law or financial griev- 
 ance, but he demands a master and claims his 
 divine right of service to that master. 
 
 The child changes its form of limitation 
 step by step, and as it advances into its larger 
 life it assumes many phases of bondage which 
 must be necessary in its development or it 
 would not attract them and attach them to 
 itself. 
 
 Many times we attract a greater bondage in 
 our effort to escape something which we have 
 assumed and from which we imagine we are 
 freeing ourselves, and quite frequently we make 
 such a strenuous race after happiness that we 
 become abject slaves and make ourselves really 
 miserable in the seeking. 
 
 Freedom, like every other of nature's finer 
 forces and activities, can be very closely imi- 
 tated, and the real thing is often quite obscured 
 by its outside appearance. 
 
 The true human manifestation of freedom 
 is freedom of consciousness. 
 
 In consciousness is the truth realization 
 which is absolutely chaste; it knows no evil, 
 
78 &ttrt? Concerning jftet&om 
 
 passes no opinion or judgment, and sees hu- 
 manity as the expression of God. 
 
 He who is free in consciousness is free indeed, 
 for he is related to the opulence of the universe, 
 to the truth of life, and to the goodness of his 
 own being. 
 
 He who is bound in his consciousness may be 
 lord of all he surveys and still be an abject 
 slave to habit or to some delusion of his own 
 creation. 
 
 When truth is free to express itself in man, 
 all things are added, and nothing of good can 
 possibly be withheld from him who is free 
 in his conscious realization of God. 
 
 Verily, when all men become free in their 
 consciousness and conscious in their freedom, 
 every appearance of evil shall vanish from 
 the face of the earth, and there shall be no 
 more sorrow and no more tears, for truth shall 
 rise supreme and claim its own. 
 
STUDY CONCERNING HEALING 
 
When you pray, let your prayer be for the glory and the 
 uplijtment of the things that are. 
 
 Pray that the cabbage sprout may become a glorious cab- 
 bage, rather than that it may turn into a rose. 
 
 Pray that the law be divinely fulfilled, rather than that 
 you may defeat the law. 
 
 And always, and always, pray so constructively that 
 the soul shine of you is omnipresent in your life. 
 
StuDp Concerning pealing 
 
 EALING is the process of recon- 
 structing that which has attracted 
 destruction. 
 
 The healing process replaces what is ap- 
 parently lost, balances the forces which are 
 out of the truth line, and recalls to conscious- 
 ness the child of good who has left his father's 
 home to slumber in the wilderness. 
 
 The human race is in the throes of dissolu- 
 tion, and it must be healed; it must repent 
 and recall, and readjust itself unless it would 
 disintegrate and dissolve as though it never 
 was. 
 
 The process of disintegration is painful 
 and the race suffers. 
 
 Suffering is not a force nor yet a substance; 
 it is the result of a grievous lack of something 
 on some plane of conscious expression, and 
 pain is the warning of that lack or, in other 
 words, a result of the lack, just as happiness 
 
82 &ttt&? Concerning; pealing 
 
 is the result of completeness and not a definite 
 force externalized. 
 
 Health, as we comprehend it, is the bal- 
 anced and complete expression of the flesh 
 body. 
 
 Health, in reality, is the balanced and com- 
 plete expression of every phase and of every 
 form of life manifestation. 
 
 Healing is not only a process of reconstruct- 
 ing the body, but for reconstructing confused 
 conditions in the individual life externalization. 
 
 Healing means regeneration on all planes. 
 
 When human beings, through lack of health 
 degenerate on any plane, it is because they 
 have misdirected their portion of the universal 
 life energy and thereby thrown themselves 
 out of balance with its co-operative action; 
 as it is expressed in the parable of the prodigal 
 son — out of their Father's house. 
 
 When the lack is lack of love, it is espe- 
 cially disastrous, because love is the cohesive 
 force of the universe and absence of love means 
 a weakening of every one of nature's finer 
 forces; such a weakening causes degeneracy 
 
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 of all points, which, naturally, leads to acute 
 poverty of flesh and of purse. 
 
 However, if the man has so placed himself 
 in the wilderness, where he dwells with the 
 swine of disease and poverty and sin, his con- 
 dition is far from hopeless, because he can al- 
 ways recall and repent and return to the 
 mighty and glorious intelligence of the uni- 
 verse, which is, in truth, His home and where 
 the loving Father always welcomes straying 
 prodigal children to his abundant and com- 
 plete storehouse, which is abundantly filled 
 with health and wealth and wisdom and love. 
 
 The human race has reached the point 
 in its evolution where it is aware that the 
 process of dissolution is rising rampant within 
 its most vitalized center and that its only 
 salvation depends upon its recalling itself 
 and returning to truth, which is the balanced 
 action of the universe and therefore the evi- 
 dence of God. 
 
 Most forcibly does the race realize that it 
 has forgotten its divinity and its angelhood 
 and turned to brutality and is cultivating its 
 
84 &tuft? Concemtnff Valine; 
 
 swine consciousness until its God-ness is over- 
 shadowed and disease claims mastery of the 
 flesh and of the whole life externalization. 
 
 The opportunity to throw off this disease 
 is now — because the human desire for eman- 
 cipation from poverty is aroused; verily, the 
 children of the earth home are rising to con- 
 sciousness and demanding their birthright of 
 their Father's home. 
 
 • 
 
 Healing is a natural constructive process. 
 
 There is no limit to the power of any con- 
 structive current, but its operation may be 
 restricted by being deflected from its inten- 
 tioned course by some destructive or intrusive 
 thought form which emanates from environ- 
 ing minds or from some disturbing external 
 condition. 
 
 Healing is a living, enduring force which 
 operates in the atmosphere of wisdom and 
 love. 
 
 The healing current is absolute and accurate 
 and all-powerful when you are true to yourself 
 and constructive in your attitude to life — it 
 
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 never fails when both patient and healer agree 
 to co-operate with the divine consciousness 
 of perfect being. 
 
 If you are reaching out into the infinite and 
 healing yourself, you will co-operate with 
 yourself by harmonizing your body and your 
 mind and your soul, thereby bringing your- 
 self into the divine consciousness of perfect 
 being. 
 
 Truth is the accurate action of that divine 
 consciousness, and therefore admits of no 
 compromise. 
 
 The healing current must operate in truth, 
 and there is no halfway process in truth; it 
 demands all, even as it gives all, and in the pure, 
 chaste atmosphere of truth, no unclean thing 
 can possibly exist, because the truth atmos- 
 phere dissolves all inharmony and all disease, 
 no matter on what plane it may be expressed. 
 
 The finer forces of the universe are not 
 regulated by manual effort, but by mental 
 mastery. 
 
 The physical body of man is the concen- 
 trated magnet for all the forces of nature, and 
 
86 &tutip Concerning; Realms 
 
 it is also the instrument and the transmitter 
 for the intelligent regulation of the universal 
 thought force. 
 
 The desire energy is the first response to 
 human thought activity; as the desire quali- 
 fies and discriminates in point of selection, so 
 the will energizes and promotes the action of 
 desire and completes the work of formulat- 
 ing whatever force of nature has been selected 
 by the man through the motive energy of his 
 desire. 
 
 The will is a soul force; it acts immedi- 
 ately upon the intelligence of the flesh atoms 
 and especially upon those atoms which con- 
 trol most directly the thought energy. 
 
 Therefore the will, in the form of the inten- 
 tive force, controls the emotions and is the 
 primal factor to be considered in the study 
 of the healing process which must first be 
 related to the polarization of emotion. 
 
 The natural condition of the human being 
 is one of freedom. 
 
 Freedom always means co-operation with 
 the law of all expressed life; it relates to 
 
&ttt&p Concerning; ^ealutff 87 
 
 health of every plane of being, and health is 
 the natural, orderly, constructive, equalized 
 distribution of all the forces of life. 
 
 Lack of health is a condition of bondage. 
 
 It is a result of misdirected energy and is 
 an unnatural, disorderly, destructive plane 
 of being. 
 
 Lack of health is a condition of negative 
 disorder which cannot possibly be recognized 
 by an infinite consciousness, because in the 
 universal or cosmic completeness nothing 
 unnatural can possibly exist. 
 
 The man himself is the cause as he is the 
 continuance of all his diseases and inhar- 
 monies; all ills of the flesh and all lack of 
 supply are caused and nourished and entirely 
 governed by his disorderly mental action. 
 
 Many of the earth children allow them- 
 selves to live in the delusive thought that 
 afflictions are the result of the will of God; 
 not realizing that if God is the promoter of 
 affliction and death, men have not the power, 
 even if they have the desire, to overcome that 
 supreme will — and that it is blasphemous for 
 
88 &tutrp Concerning pealing 
 
 them to make the attempt to thus defy so 
 omnipotent and autocratic a ruler. 
 
 But, glory be to the light of infinite Truth 
 and Love, to-day we know that the God of 
 our love is worthy of our absorbing devotion; 
 we know that He is the heart of our heart and 
 the life of our life and that in His great love 
 consciousness there is no recognition of ab- 
 normality and therefore we know that in Truth 
 there is no disease and its accompanying 
 despair. 
 
 And there is always the glorious nature 
 supply which in all its abundance enfolds the 
 divine human creature, even though he may 
 have separated himself from the supernal 
 law of being which declares that all is God, and 
 even though he has shut out the light and en- 
 tered into the realm of nothingness, he still 
 has the privilege of re-entering his Father's 
 home, the truth realm, and of becoming the 
 free creature which the natural law demands; 
 free and natural and opulently endowed. 
 
 When a man finds himself in darkness, in 
 the bondage of sickness and poverty and sin, 
 
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 his first move toward reconstruction is to 
 recognize his desire in the matter of selection 
 and then to decide exactly what he wants. 
 Shall he select the truth realm of ease or shall 
 he choose the delusion realm of disease? 
 
 If he declares for delusion, it is his privi- 
 lege to abide therein until his soul lays down 
 its human temple because of the destructive 
 force which he attracts. 
 
 If he declares for truth and its attributes of 
 Health and Wealth and Opulence and Love, 
 let him change the polarity of his structure 
 by deciding that he will be related to the health 
 life and that no forces but those that are con- 
 structive shall ever again contract him. 
 
 Having decreed that he will attach himself 
 to constructive life, let him turn his atten- 
 tion to the restoring forces of nature and in- 
 telligently relate himself to them until he 
 can utilize his intention and his energy con- 
 sciously in reorganizing his flesh and in regen- 
 erating his entire being. 
 
 As human life on the earth goes on, the in- 
 stinct of the individual expression of that life 
 
po &tttbp Concerning pealing 
 
 should grow stronger day by day; men 
 should continually demand a more vital mani- 
 festation of beauty and strength and happi- 
 ness instead of becoming, as they frequently 
 do, quite reconciled to the idea of being inac- 
 tive and unbeautiful, a burden to themselves 
 and an object of toleration to their fellow- 
 men. 
 
 There is a motive cause for every differen- 
 tiation of energy; if men grow inactive or 
 unbeautiful when they have lived beyond the 
 first few years of youth, they alone are the 
 cause, as they alone reflect the result, and 
 the pity of it is that it is all a lack of under- 
 standing of their relation to life, which always 
 means an unbalancing of forces. 
 
 In natural youth, the constructive forces 
 act with more rapidity than the destructive. 
 The result is constant and rapid up-building 
 which we call growth. 
 
 In youth we have more love and less wis- 
 dom; as we accumulate experiences which 
 may deflect our love, we gain more wisdom, 
 and love is less in evidence — in youth it is 
 
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 love without wisdom and in age it is wisdom 
 without love. 
 
 The cultivation of wisdom apart from its 
 necessary comrade, love, causes the destruc- 
 tive forces to act with more rapidity than the 
 constructive, and the result is inevitably dis- 
 integration. 
 
 If we would have health, if we would remain 
 a long time on the earth home, if we would be 
 healthy on all planes, which means happy, 
 while we are here, we will learn to balance 
 our love and our wisdom so that they become 
 construction itself. Then we eliminate with 
 our wisdom whatever does not nourish the 
 flesh and whatever destroys our life harmony 
 and we attract with our love the form of life 
 energy and the substance of the earth which 
 harmonizes with us and which contains the 
 life essences which are essential to our up- 
 building. 
 
 That form of energy which is applied to 
 the work of restoration and regeneration we 
 call the healing force, and while it is very little 
 understood by the occidental students of 
 
92 &ttttop Concerning; dealing 
 
 to-day, they recognize it as a constructive 
 activity which is a factual element in modern 
 manifestation, and it is true that any recog- 
 nition of constructive power is the first step 
 toward reconstructive understanding and even- 
 tual accomplishment. 
 
 Healing of the flesh by mental energy has 
 been practised by the students of occult law 
 ever since the beginning of the earth's history; 
 in every age and generation different systems 
 have been exploited by the different prophets 
 of the time. 
 
 Many of the oriental healers relate the man 
 to the solar system; they are students of as- 
 trology and students of human anatomy, and 
 every bone atom and every flesh atom and 
 nerve atom has its place in their realization 
 of the correspondence of the man to the Zodiac. 
 Then with constructive and intelligent system 
 they adjust the patient to his normal position 
 in the universe and balance him with his 
 place therein. 
 
 The constructive thinker is he who is the 
 healer, whatever system he may use; any alive 
 
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 force will overbalance a negative one, and the 
 man who lives because he loves to live and 
 who sees joy in his daily work is doing the 
 healing and the saving work for himself and 
 for every one around him, because his inten- 
 tion is always good. 
 
 The soul who is unafraid is another savior 
 of his fellow-men; he makes the way plain 
 for the beautiful faith energy which is the 
 spirit of healing and of accomplishment. 
 
 It is the cold, clammy nothingness of fear 
 which holds mankind in bondage and which 
 numbs the will and chills the heart and in- 
 duces impotency. 
 
 There is no place in human expression for 
 the thing we call fear unless we intend to 
 destroy the flesh because it is the direct an- 
 tithesis of faith and is as degenerative to 
 the flesh atoms as faith is regenerative to 
 them. 
 
 Faith intensifies the will and increases its 
 activity on every line; in essence it is con- 
 structive, it unites the individual intention 
 with the universal will. 
 
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 Hope is a force of illuminative quality; it 
 lightens the path and makes possible the 
 operation of faith. 
 
 Hope follows desire and precedes every 
 other of the finer forces of nature. 
 
 Hope is strengthened by the power of imag- 
 ing, which is of the greatest value in every 
 sort of attainment. 
 
 Hope always images good; it has no place 
 outside of the constructive vision, and so it 
 restores the spiritual balance and dissolves 
 despair. 
 
 If we would reconstruct ourselves and re- 
 relate ourselves to God, we will know that 
 these finer forces of nature are practical 
 forces of life which we can use in our mental 
 operation. We will know there are no mira- 
 cles, there never have been any miracles; all 
 these things which we do not quite understand 
 are merely the natural operation of the law, 
 but we have not yet reached the place of the 
 finer comprehension. 
 
 Jesus the Christ told us concerning these 
 
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 finer forces of nature; He explained our uni- 
 versal relationship and illustrated it in what 
 are called miracles. But many of the things 
 he told were suppressed, and much of what 
 was told was distorted, until the race has 
 misinterpreted His teaching as it has misin- 
 terpreted Him and many who walked before 
 Him. 
 
 It is the time; the race and the earth planet 
 itself are demanding to be healed, to be bal- 
 anced and adjusted to God's life. 
 
 Love must be liberated, Truth must be 
 revealed, the old delusions must pass away, 
 and men must walk with God if they would 
 hold their place in The Father's home. 
 
 A slumbering world awakes 
 
 And quivering with the fire of truth 
 
 Declares its freedom. 
 
 Mankind decrees its own; 
 
 It shall dissolve its crushing woe 
 
 In love of good. 
 
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 Sin shall not be; 
 
 Its attributes of anguish shall dissolve 
 
 In God's pure word. 
 
 For God alone 
 
 In this most glorious coming day, 
 
 Shall reign supreme. 
 
STUDY CONCERNING THE FOURTH 
 DIMENSION 
 
J look out over the earth home 
 And a marvelous thing is there; 
 A quivering, living awaking, 
 A wonderful day abreaking 
 On sea and earth and in air. 
 
 Behold the atoms of earth life, 
 Anew and aglow and aflame; 
 
 With something sweet interblending, 
 With consciousness all extending, 
 And nothing quite the same. 
 
 And within my soul responding 
 Comes the answer to years of prayer, 
 9 Tis the human child awaking, 
 His heart to God is abreaking 
 In His holy truth aware. 
 
 Behold the glory of earth life 
 
 As the wisdom of God we proclaim; 
 
 The real of us beams transcendent; 
 
 Our day is dawning transplendent 
 For our love is aglow and aflame. 
 
StuDp Concerning tfte JFourtfi 
 Dimension 
 
 DIMENSION is an accurate meas- 
 urement of the race consciousness 
 in its adjustment to its part of the 
 universal life externalization. 
 
 Out of the unmanifest, life is becoming 
 manifest, and it manifests and externalizes 
 according to the thought activity of the 
 universe. 
 
 Any manifestation of form or condition 
 in any realm or on any planet in the universe 
 is the result of the co-operative race thought 
 of the thinkers on that planet. 
 
 Evolution depends upon thought, thought 
 depends upon the thinkers, and as they be- 
 come more and more conscious of their re- 
 lationship to the universe, their thought 
 becomes more rapid and they measure them- 
 selves and their portion of life in a finer and 
 more powerful key. 
 
ioo €oncttnins tfie jFouttS SDfmnitffon 
 
 We are externalizing our part of life upon 
 the earth planet, our angle of vision is from 
 the earth, and so we will study this subject of 
 dimensions from the earth angle. 
 
 We use the term " dimension' ' to define a 
 distinct point of differentiation in the race 
 evolution — a definite advance in race con- 
 sciousness through human mental measure- 
 ment. 
 
 The race advances as a unit — when enough 
 souls are ready for a step in consciousness, 
 the great realization becomes factualized and 
 evident in all life manifestation; it is as a new 
 world opening to humanity wherein they are 
 willing to cast aside their former limitations 
 and become free in their newer relation to God 
 and His earth home and more attuned with 
 His intentive goodness. 
 
 He who concentrates his portion of the in- 
 finite mind in relating himself to all the good 
 of the unmanifest is co-operating with the 
 infinite intelligence in causing the good mani- 
 festation. 
 
 The human creature is the epitome of the 
 
Concerning; tfje JFourtfi SDtmensfton 101 
 
 universe; he is part of it and united with it; 
 he is interpenetrated with it and all of its 
 experiences; therefore the human measure- 
 ment influences the universe as the universal 
 measurement influences humanity. 
 
 Life is externalized on the earth planet in 
 the degree of the desire angle of the earth 
 occupants. 
 
 Human life is externalized according the 
 the desire quality of the individual; as he 
 thinks in his heart, he becomes in his life 
 expression, and he takes his place upon the 
 earth at exactly the point where he has placed 
 himself in his estimate of himself. 
 
 If I have measured myself so that I am only 
 conscious of my physical sense requirement, 
 my body will only use its physical sense intel- 
 ligence and my life forces will vibrate to my 
 physical sense demand; therein I have limited 
 myself to a dimension which has not evolved 
 beyond the physical sense consciousness. 
 
 It is quite possible in such a case that by 
 refusing to relate myself to finer and freer 
 understanding and not being willing to vi- 
 
102 €onttinin$ tfjt iFouttS SDimmgion 
 
 brate with a broader humanity that I may 
 by my limitation attract poverty of body or 
 mind into my atmosphere and so interfere 
 with the race progress. 
 
 And such interference means that I must 
 change my relationship and go with my race 
 or I must leave my present abode and go to 
 some realm in the universe in which I shall 
 find my place. 
 
 When the individual feels the urge of his 
 soul for a freer relationship and a broader 
 life expression, he must measure himself to 
 it; when he is ready to enter that plane he 
 will forget his former limitation and com- 
 mence anew to further the progress of himself 
 and of his race. 
 
 When the individual becomes interested in 
 the study of dimensions, his consciousness is 
 already merging into another dimension, and 
 his consciousness does not require profound 
 mathematical calculation to prove the truth 
 concerning it; his is the child heart which 
 comprehends it. 
 
 Many things which are intricate and dif- 
 
Concerning tit jFotittS SDimengtan 103 
 
 ficult to the highly trained materialist are as 
 clear as sunlight to the spiritually attuned 
 mind, because all things are simplified through 
 love and the Cosmic or spiritual thinker thinks 
 in his heart brain in love. 
 
 Jesus Christ was the prophet who ushered 
 in the first rays of consciousness which relate 
 to the Fourth Dimension; in Him was the 
 trinity merged into the cross or the square 
 and humanity more unified with Divinity. 
 
 In Jesus Christ the saving of His race was 
 solving the problem of death, which is to be 
 merged into life in the on-coming dimension 
 when the last enemy shall be overcome. 
 
 Death, which is the last enemy, shall be 
 overcome when men know the truth concern- 
 ing the resurrection and the life and it is a 
 fact that we, as a race, are coming more 
 clearly into the knowledge of life and its 
 eternal opportunity every day. 
 
 Material science takes one part or one fact 
 and visualizes the whole from that fact, while 
 spiritual science takes the whole and perceives 
 
104 ConcmunB; t&e iFouttS SDtmmsiton 
 
 the one fact and all of the individual facts 
 from knowledge of the whole; one is working 
 from the finite toward the infinite, and the 
 other is recognizing the infinite and conse- 
 quently knowing the finite. 
 
 We know very little by mere physical sense 
 consciousness; we cannot by physical percep- 
 tion realize the existence of the soul, and if 
 our vision is purely material we are likely to 
 say there is no such thing as our own soul, for 
 we cannot make real our own selves except 
 by realizing God in our selves. But we can, 
 through super-consciousness or spiritual con- 
 sciousness which is the divine realization, 
 realize the soul and its forces and attributes; 
 we can therein and thereby make real our 
 own selves, and so we can comprehend in the 
 degree of our desire the God intention and 
 our part of its activity. 
 
 The light of the next Dimension is the 
 illumination of the souls of men; in its light 
 we shall move beyond the limitations of human 
 opinion and we shall unfold ourselves out of 
 opinion into reality; we shall realize our true 
 
€ontttnin$ t&e jfourtf) SDimengrton 105 
 
 selves as apart from delusion and aware of 
 our divinely human nature. 
 
 Each dimension of universal consciousness 
 is composed of a vast variety of differing 
 degrees of involving and evolving states of 
 consciousness, resulting from our life experi- 
 ences, and whether we select our experiences 
 on this earth planet or elsewhere, they are 
 exactly what we require for the particular 
 phase of expression toward which our desire 
 is leading us. 
 
 The children of the earth home are supposed 
 to be in the third dimension of universal con- 
 sciousness; in other words, we are living in a 
 world of three dimensions, which means that 
 we are mentally measuring ourselves in the 
 third angle of our human capacity — but 
 the race is strengthening its capacity, and 
 when the earth people become so vitalized in 
 their present earth dimension that it over- 
 balances its present measurement, they will 
 then extend the acute angle of the third di- 
 mension and measure themselves in the right 
 angle of the fourth. 
 
io6 Concerning t&e iFouttft SDtmntjsiton 
 
 A third dimension implies a second, and a 
 second dimension implies a first, and one and 
 all are merging or interrelating one with the 
 other; naturally the greater force is conscious 
 of the lesser, while the lesser does not realize 
 the greater until it develops to the same 
 strength of the greater and so becomes con- 
 scious of it and equal to expression on its 
 plane. 
 
 So from our plane of consciousness in the 
 third dimension, we may easily perceive the 
 sphere or the quality or the strength of 
 the first and of the second, but until we evolve 
 to the plane of the fourth dimension, we can- 
 not possibly realize its realm of action, although 
 we may contemplate it, and by thinking con- 
 cerning it with a constructive desire we will 
 inevitably relate ourselves to it. 
 
 As we think and study and meditate upon 
 this next realm of our life manifestation, we 
 become more and more attuned to its atmos- 
 phere and we commence to perceive its free- 
 dom and its quality of vibratory force and 
 thereby we draw its thought waves into our 
 
Concerning tfie jfottttl) SDtmenssfon 107 
 
 own atmosphere so that we bring its wonder- 
 ful quality of interpenetration upon ourselves 
 until we become a part of its broader expres- 
 sion and so have the privilege and the oppor- 
 tunity of helping our entire race to approach 
 its finer freedom. 
 
 AH schools of philosophy have some theory 
 concerning the measure of life; most of them 
 are so complicated that the theory remains 
 only theory — but there is one sweet and 
 simple sect who are sometimes called spiri- 
 tualists, who have an explanation of dimen- 
 sions and their form of mental measurement 
 in such easy language that any lover of truth, 
 whatever his creed or however strong his 
 prejudice, can easily understand. 
 
 According to their philosophy, the first 
 dimension is length, wherein the human 
 physical sense perceives only the strength line 
 of forward and back and the individual mind 
 measures its part of life in a direct line, with 
 no variation and no swerving from the path 
 of its selection, no side glance or uplift, with 
 
io8 Concerning tfie jfouttf) 2DtmenjSfon 
 
 only the finer force of hope, which pertains 
 to the first dimension, perceiving and relating 
 it to future dimensions. 
 
 Hope connects with its own quality of 
 intention, which belongs to the second 
 dimension, so the thread of the intentive con- 
 sciousness connects with hope and enters the 
 straight and direct line of the first dimen- 
 sion — and with the union of hope and inten- 
 tion, the human sense perceives a curve and 
 with it comes a realization of breadth, and the 
 mind action swerves into the circular motion 
 of the second dimension, replacing the straight 
 line of the first, or rather uniting the two. 
 
 The race then measures itself in the two 
 dimensions of length and breadth, thereby 
 enlarging its life manifestation and making 
 it possible to connect with the third. 
 
 Hope and Intention in unison with expecta- 
 tion finally vivify the mind of the human 
 creature until the race enters the third meas- 
 urement of its consciousness (thickness) in 
 the trinity of its human dimension, where it is 
 rapidly merging into a broader or a higher 
 
Concerning t&e JFourtS 2Dimen0fon 109 
 
 measurement which will give it a fourth di- 
 mension of consciousness with an added and 
 far greater power which will relate it to in- 
 creasing strength and therefore lead it into 
 many more dimensions of transcendental 
 scope. 
 
 In our present limited mental measure- 
 ment we are so closely related to the quality 
 of fear that we have not yet dared to really 
 concentrate our forces upon a different di- 
 mension than we now understand; it is only 
 the few who are unafraid and only the few 
 who know that Fear has no place in the right 
 angle of human expression. 
 
 Language belongs to the second and third 
 dimensions, so it is difficult to explain in words 
 things that are beyond words, and much of 
 the thought concerning the fourth dimen- 
 sion must be given through suggestion and 
 through thought transference, which belongs 
 to its measurement. 
 
 While we may not be required to explain 
 these things which appear to be beyond ex- 
 planation, as we each come into the finer 
 
no Concerning t&e iFourtfi 2Dimen0fon 
 
 glimpse and the freer experiences which lead 
 us to a broader measurement of ourselves, we 
 may through our suggestions help others out 
 of the narrower path, from hope into realiza- 
 tion of the finer accuracy of our portion of 
 the infinite manifestation. 
 
 There is never any favor shown by an in- 
 finite intelligence. The individual who per- 
 ceives a finer force does so because he has 
 the quality of the finer force within himself. 
 
 No man has the gift of seeing or hearing 
 or knowing more than another — Justice 
 is a perfect form of love and God is just as 
 He is wise and loving, and when we are ready, 
 our portion of His life enlarges to meet our 
 readiness. 
 
 Emanuel Swedenborg, who is one of the 
 great prophets, gives us the idea of the meas- 
 urement of consciousness through and by the 
 law of motion, sometimes called vibration, 
 thus: i st, Straight; 2d, Circular; 3d, Spiral; 
 4th, Vortexian. 
 
 Here are a few suggestions from other 
 seers which from their viewpoint express the 
 
ConutnftiB tfie ifouttS SDimtnsSion 
 
 in 
 
 four differing measurements of 
 
 human con- 
 
 sciousness. 
 
 
 
 I st, — 
 
 2nd, — 
 
 3rd — 
 
 4th, — 
 
 Length. 
 
 Breadth. 
 
 Thickness. 
 
 Throughness. 
 
 Straight. 
 
 Circular. 
 
 Spiral. 
 
 Vortexian. 
 
 Hope. 
 
 Intention. 
 
 Expectation. 
 
 Realization 
 
 Love. 
 
 Wisdom. 
 
 Construction. 
 
 Fulfilment. 
 
 Faith. 
 
 Understanding. 
 
 Work. 
 
 Accomplishment. 
 
 Body. 
 
 Mind. 
 
 Soul. 
 
 Ego. 
 
 One might go on indefinitely concerning 
 the merging of nature's finer forces from one 
 form of expression into another, in other words, 
 from their present dimension into the next or 
 from the third dimension into the fourth — 
 except that here again we may err because 
 the next dimension is merely our measure- 
 ment of the force which, through our broader 
 realization, enlarges our consciousness. 
 
 The next dimension and many beyond di- 
 mensions are here now, always have been, and 
 always will be, although the human creature 
 fails to perceive more than his capacity per- 
 mits — and, alas, he limits his capacity by 
 his own selfish and introspective measurement 
 of himself. 
 
u2 Concerning; t&e jfouttf) SDtmewston 
 
 Have you ever felt that your vision of life 
 was transcending your present measurement 
 of your part of life? There comes over you 
 sort of a prophetic thrill which might be 
 memory and it might be prophecy, you 
 scarcely know except that it is some kind of a 
 fleeting thought formulation which seems to be 
 beyond your present capacity to solidify — 
 you cannot quite tell and you cannot hold on 
 to it; of course, you do not yet know, but 
 might it not be your glimpse of another 
 dimension, a consciousness of things not defi- 
 nitely manifest although already a subcon- 
 scious part of your life? 
 
 Again, have you sometimes known that a 
 presence unseen, yet vitally real, was with 
 you, almost a part of you — and have you 
 perceived a wonderful transcendent realm 
 interpenetrating your commonplace, every- 
 day environment? Possibly you have heard 
 a strain of music or a breath of fresh sweet 
 odor has swept over you, seeming to connect 
 you with another realm. Might it not be a 
 glimpse of finer, different forces faintly relat- 
 
Concerning tfie jfotitt!) SDimengfion 113 
 
 ing you to another measurement of your own 
 part of life which you are recognizing a trifle 
 more clearly every day? 
 
 If we would only think on these things, 
 welcome them into our part of life, and accept 
 the fact that we do not yet know everything 
 there is to know, instead of casting them aside 
 as unworthy of our common sense, we w r ouId 
 be showing a much finer common sense as well 
 as relating ourselves to the opulent current 
 of a distinctly opulent life wave; too often 
 it is our own prejudice and our own contempt 
 that holds us in the bondage of poverty on all 
 planes. 
 
 Out of the dim dark nothingness 
 There comes a glorified sight, 
 As though the gray murky mistiness 
 Merges in clear living light. 
 
 The recognition of a force or of a condition 
 gives us a certain relationship to it, and if 
 we qualify with it, we will eventually solidify 
 it with our own part of life. To illustrate: 
 If we recognize the forces of construction, 
 
u4 €onttzniw t§e JFouttS SDfmmsfton 
 
 such as love and faith and kindness, etc., and 
 practically practise them and so relate our- 
 selves to them, we bring the constructive 
 quality into our life manifestation in such 
 solidified expression that it permeates us and 
 our atmosphere, and all that we do and all 
 that we possess vibrate in the key of success. 
 
 On the contrary, if we recognize any forces 
 of destruction, such as jealousy or resentment 
 or condemnation, etc., to the extent of enter- 
 taining them in our minds, we will permeate 
 our bodies with disease and our financial 
 and home conditions will be unhappy and 
 unsuccessful and we may really think and so 
 declare that we are unlucky and the victims 
 of fate. 
 
 It is an easy matter to blame some one else 
 for our misfortune and to give ourselves credit 
 for our good fortune when we know in our heart 
 of hearts that we are the cause, as we are the 
 effect, of our own intentive desire. 
 
 All of these various forms of destructive 
 force which are disintegrating the children of 
 men, will be dissolved when mankind refuses 
 
Concerning; tfie iFonttS SDtmensrton 115 
 
 to recognize the forces of destruction which 
 express themselves in the forms of life activity 
 which we call evil; when men entertain only 
 good in their minds, then only good can exist 
 in their flesh and in their lives and evil 
 cannot BE; naturally disease and poverty 
 and other formulations of the thing formerly 
 known as evil must also disappear. 
 
 It is only through and by the recognition of 
 good*, and good means the expression of God's 
 life, that the race can measure itself in the 
 right angle of truth and so enter into the con- 
 sciousness of another dimension. 
 
 Existence in matter requires form, and ex- 
 pression in form requires magnetic and in- 
 tentive and operative ability of an infinite 
 intelligence. 
 
 In his present measurement of himself, 
 the human creature does not realize that he 
 is part of this infinite intelligence and that his 
 responsibility is with and for the universal 
 manifestation of the universal spirit substance. 
 
 Mankind must evolve itself unto God — 
 
u6 Concerning t&e jfotttti) SDimensiion 
 
 in other words, man must make good the 
 thing which he has assumed and that is his 
 own part of God's life. 
 
 Every man has the ability to respond to 
 the desire of his soul, and his responsibility 
 cannot and does not extend beyond his highest 
 claim for himself. 
 
 The finer the spiritual perception of the 
 man, the more magnetic and able becomes his 
 power of attracting the idea and of anchoring 
 it in form. 
 
 We sometimes term a fine human percep- 
 tion of spirit force and the accurate concep- 
 tion of expressing it, as art — and it is true 
 that the artist is the prophet and the lover of 
 his dimension. 
 
 He may express his art in oratory or states- 
 manship, he may prefer to reveal it with his 
 brush or his pen or his chisel or his violin, 
 he may be a clerk or a cook, a business man 
 or a home maker, whatever his taste in his 
 work, he is an artist when he expresses the 
 divine of him in that work because he meas- 
 ures himself by his love for it, and whether 
 
Concerning tfje JFotttt!) 2Dtmen0ton 117 
 
 its manifestation is taking the cubist form of 
 the fourth dimension in its sound or speech 
 or color or form, or whether it takes the form 
 of a second or a third measurement, it is 
 divine because it expresses the highest and 
 holiest desire of the man. 
 
 It is the human perception of the finer 
 forces of nature which links the finite with 
 the infinite, and it is the increasing human 
 faith and understanding which is blending the 
 human with the divine, interpenetrating mat- 
 ter with spirit, thereby spiritualizing the 
 whole and so accomplishing the perfect work 
 of atonement or of at-one-ment in the all 
 God. 
 
 The reason we are so dense in our compre- 
 hension of our own opportunity and ability 
 and of our own futurity, is that we are so 
 filled with our own self-love that we have no 
 place within us for the love of God. 
 
 Most people are so immersed in the desires 
 of their flesh bodies that they almost destroy 
 the body by centering a too dynamic thought 
 force upon it; we should be far stronger on 
 
n8 Concerning: tfje JFourtS SDtmntjSton 
 
 every plane, healthier and richer and more 
 intelligent, if we would think out toward our 
 fellow-man rather than in toward ourselves, 
 because then we could permit the God life 
 to enter into our innermost being and conse- 
 quently we should be interpenetrated with 
 the all good. 
 
 Service to humanity means relationship 
 with divinity, oneness with the Father, and 
 in that relationship, all things are added and 
 the fullness of infinite blessing becomes cen- 
 tered in the human child who serves because 
 he loves and who loves because he serves. 
 
 There is no place apart from God, and soon 
 His humanity shall be aware of His omni- 
 presence, for the hour of a new measurement 
 of human consciousness is upon the earth 
 home. 
 
 That which has seemed mysterious is fast 
 losing its mystery, and it will be well for the 
 race if it use its interpenetrative knowledge 
 and power for good and for the upliftment 
 and the advancement of the entire race. 
 
 It is not so long ago that men were startled 
 
Concerning; t&e iFourtS SDimengiton 119 
 
 with the idea that they could actually speak 
 to each other across the miles through the me- 
 dium of a wire; to-day I read of the wireless 
 telephone, an instrument so attuned that the 
 voice is carried without the wire. 
 
 How long do you suppose it will be before 
 the message will be carried with neither wire 
 nor instrument — by attuning the ear to hear 
 the soundless sound? Only until the man is 
 willing to know his own power of mind and 
 heart and brain, only until his desire to know 
 the truth of himself and of his part of life is 
 greater than outside delusion. 
 
 The few have always known, but only the 
 few are unafraid. 
 
 Soon all humanity must know that the 
 lifting of the veil shall be, that veil of uncon- 
 sciousness which is already ragged and weak 
 from the onslaughts of knowledge which have 
 been especially rapid during these later years 
 of the third dimension. 
 
 The soul desire of the man is the force 
 which leads him to the broader and more ac- 
 curate measurement of himself — and it is 
 
120 Concerning t&e jFouttl) SDtmmjssian 
 
 the intentive force within which, following 
 hope and merging into expectation, relates 
 him to the accomplished fulfilment of his de- 
 sire and he realizes that he is aware of a fourth 
 dimension of consciousness wherein he meas- 
 ures his life and its conditions without fear 
 and with interpenetrative good on all planes 
 of his manifestation of that life. 
 
 The important thing is that men shall 
 desire to know of greater things than they 
 have yet realized — let them open their 
 minds and their hearts to hear the response 
 to their desires, for the spirit of truth and of 
 love which permeates all space and inspires 
 all life never fails to respond to the desire 
 for knowledge, although the fear of the man 
 sometimes obscures the answer to his prayer. 
 
 There is nothing marvelous or mysterious 
 in the search for knowledge concerning the 
 viewless path; in the early days of its first 
 visioning, it was supposed to be a path of 
 pain or despair, because the first faint 
 glimpse was one of mystery and conse- 
 quently of fear. 
 
Concerning t&e jFouttf) SDtmnigrton 121 
 
 But the mystery has vanished and the fear 
 is no more — the path is before us in clear, 
 beautiful, and flower-banked view. The God 
 of the all life reveals Himself as good, He 
 claims mankind as His children, and it rests 
 with His children whether or not they shall 
 abide in and with Him. 
 
 There is no lack in God's great life, for He 
 is good. 
 
 There is no fear in God's great heart, for 
 He is love. 
 
 There is no grief in God's dear home, for 
 He knows all. 
 
 Mankind shall know of life and they shall 
 breathe into their hearts His love and into 
 their minds His wisdom. 
 
 There shall be no fear and no lack in the 
 earth home, for the earth people shall recog- 
 nize the mighty constructive intention of the 
 ever living God. 
 
 His love shall be fulfilled in humanity and 
 they shall sing the song of life and walk the 
 path of another dimension in joy and glad- 
 ness. 
 
122 €ontttnixts tfit jFottttl) 2Dtmnt0ton 
 
 A wonderful day is adawning, 
 
 The glorious hour is come 
 
 When the prayer of a race is answered 
 
 As a mighty task is finished 
 
 And a greater work is begun. 
 
 It is not my concern if you are harsh or 
 unjust to me; it is only my affair that I am 
 kind and just to you. 
 
 It is not for me to judge my neighbor, nor 
 is it my place to dictate to him the line of 
 his path; it is my part to regulate my own 
 angle of action and to attend to keeping my 
 own dooryard clean. 
 
 It is not of use to me or my fellow-man 
 that I should recognize the thing called evil; 
 it is only useful for me to know that God is 
 good and to be so aware of Him and His good- 
 ness that I may become a light unto the path 
 of all who pass my way. 
 
 For God is all and only in His living breath 
 and in His loving heart can life and you and 
 I eternally endure. 
 
STUDY OF EXPERIENCE 
 
What could I know of life 
 Had I not lived? 
 
 How could I tell 
 
 Of loss of earthly joy 
 
 And gain oj God, 
 
 Of giving back to earth 
 
 The heavy clod which bound my soul 
 
 But that I KNOW? 
 
 So what of pain, 
 If through its open door 
 Come gifts more glorious 
 Than one has known before? 
 
 Aye, gifts of freer life 
 And grander love 
 Of God. 
 
§>tuDp of (Experience 
 
 XPERIENCE is the result of actual 
 life happenings. 
 
 No man can learn living things 
 for another any more than one man can meas- 
 ure or judge any other human creature. We 
 may profit by our brother's experience as 
 humanity evolves by the race experience, but 
 our individual attainment comes through our 
 own actual experience. 
 
 Because experience follows desire, our own 
 quality of desire, and so results in the assimi- 
 lation of these finer forces of nature to which 
 we have practically and factually related our- 
 selves through our individual desire and its re- 
 sponse which is materialized in experience. 
 
 Every force in the universe is latent in the 
 creature that is made in the image of God, be- 
 cause the universe is God, and whenever this 
 divinely imaged man is ready and capable of 
 externalizing these forces and using them, he 
 relates himself to the realm which he requires, 
 
i26 &ttt&? ot (Ciper fence 
 
 so the developing soul selects the earth planet 
 for his home whenever he is ready for the earth 
 experience. 
 
 The whole Cosmos is a formulated breath- 
 ing result of divine experience, and Truth 
 bears witness to the absolute good of the 
 holy involution and evolution of universal 
 experience. 
 
 Ofttimes the man is almost stranded by his 
 vanity and selfishness and so refuses the ex- 
 perience that he needs; also it sometimes 
 occurs that the man nearly obliterates him- 
 self by his fear and personal introspection and 
 cannot quite reach the place of his needed 
 experience. 
 
 Which is the reason we are taught that the 
 one essential thing in life is that men must 
 know themselves and not fall into utter disso- 
 lution by deceiving themselves. 
 
 It sometimes happens that we fail to as- 
 similate or even to accept the lesson of our ex- 
 perience, and it is then that Mother Nature 
 accentuates the experience and compels our 
 attention in the form of pain, because if we re- 
 
&ttrt? of (Cipetf mtt 127 
 
 fuse to be responsible for that which we have 
 attracted and assumed, the infinite law which 
 is the intentive force of an infinite intelli- 
 gence will show us the sure and certain way. 
 
 One of the limiting forces in our human 
 reach toward the divine vision is regret; we 
 demand experience, we call on life to unfold 
 its mysteries to us, we feel ourselves inspired 
 to draw to ourselves the living response to 
 our craving souls, and then after our divine 
 daring, we weaken and are afraid. 
 
 Verily it is not surprising that we lose our 
 youth and our beauty, our health and our 
 joy of living, when we thwart ourselves and 
 our beautiful unfoldment with the paralyz- 
 ing energy of regret. 
 
 Of what are we afraid? — 
 
 There is absolutely nothing to fear except 
 our own delusion; there is no such thing as 
 "They say." People are not nearly so inter- 
 ested in our affairs as we seem to think, and 
 when we are true to ourselves, we very soon be- 
 come true to everybody else, and then we find 
 ourselves loving everybody, and when we really 
 
128 &tttHp of dpmence 
 
 love other people there is no question about 
 their loving us, and when people love us, they 
 love the things we do. 
 
 The soul claim is always for expanding and 
 enlarging life, that it may evolve and know 
 more of God and so become Godlike; and we 
 do not become Godlike through any separation 
 from God's creatures. Any philosophy which 
 teaches us separation from another human 
 creature or another phase of God's life is 
 the wrong brand of philosophy. 
 
 The only philosophy which experience proves 
 true is that God is and we, you and I, are 
 one with God. 
 
 Through experience, problems are solved, 
 great things are accomplished, humanity be- 
 comes finer and freer in the activities of life; it 
 may not always be a comfortable process, but it 
 surely is an alive one if there are to be results. 
 
 It may take a huge war, the actual smash- 
 ing of bodies, to bring men out of the torpor 
 of slavery, but who will deny that any experi- 
 ence which frees the human race from bondage 
 
&ttt&? of experience 129 
 
 and relates it to the greatness and the equality 
 of individuals is worth any price? 
 
 Can you imagine a bondman entering the 
 kingdom of God where all men are equal. 
 
 It takes slaves to make tyrants, and it be- 
 longs to the slave to free himself. 
 
 When God's children refuse to be murder- 
 ers, militarism will be no more. 
 
 When men refuse to worship the false gods 
 of aristocracy and money power, monarchies 
 will dissolve. 
 
 Surely the ages of experience which have 
 held mankind in hell should now show them 
 the way into the place where they may have 
 the privilege of being true to themselves and 
 helping to greaten the world instead of using 
 their intelligence to destroy it. 
 
 Experience teaches us our relationship to 
 and with each other, which is the most impor- 
 tant part of our relationship with life. 
 
 We cannot realize or even understand a 
 condition which is not within range of our 
 experience, not that we must necessarily do 
 the thing but that we are capable of doing it 
 
130 fettrtp of (Cipertence 
 
 if we are capable of formulating it in our minds; 
 therefore we do not condemn the action of 
 our fellow-man unless we are capable of the 
 same action, otherwise we could not under- 
 stand it sufficiently to judge it, and usually 
 the closer it is to our own line of action the 
 more loudly we denounce it. 
 
 Likewise our appreciation of any glorious 
 good and holy motive comes through our 
 recognition of it and the fact that somewhere 
 along the line of our expression, whether in 
 the earth life or elsewhere, it has been part 
 of our experience. 
 
 Experience is the most valuable possession 
 in the world. We journey from world to 
 world and from realm to realm for the pur- 
 pose of accumulating experience and thereby 
 coming into an understanding of life in all 
 its varying forms and, unlike many of our 
 possessions, we may use it and we do use it 
 constantly, or give it away in unlimited quan- 
 tities, and it increases in strength and power 
 for all of time. 
 
 As possessions lead to expression, they 
 
&ttt&£ of (Kipmence 131 
 
 naturally add to themselves by the power of 
 their own action — so we have the old occult 
 teaching that "to him that hath, shall be 
 given and to him that hath not, shall be taken 
 away," because possessions, be they mental 
 or moral or metallic, will add to themselves 
 by the law of their own magnetic energy. 
 
 Therefore the man who invites experience 
 finds himself plentifully endowed with many 
 and various sorts of the thing he seeks, all 
 increasing his power, and, if he is true to him- 
 self, each one adding to his soul energy and 
 strength. 
 
 Experience gives the human creature his 
 divinely human balance; it relates his love 
 and his wisdom, it adjusts his faith and his 
 understanding, it steadies his fanaticism and 
 makes of him a holy man. 
 
 The fanatic has unlimited love — love for 
 cause or he would not be a fanatic, love for 
 people or he would not try to compel them to 
 accept his cause, and love for God or he would 
 not sacrifice himself for what he believes 
 is absolute good — but the fanatic works 
 
132 &ttt&p of (fczpttimit 
 
 without experience, and so he lacks the bal- 
 ancing force of wisdom, which is needed by 
 love to give it creative and constructive 
 power; so his creative power is void and he 
 fails to externalize the thing he loves. 
 
 Each man's position in the universe is dis- 
 tinct and different from every other man's 
 position; consequently each man's experience 
 is distinct and different, and yet as each force 
 is humanized by each individual experience, 
 it adds to the strength and power of all hu- 
 manity, and every force which is made prac- 
 tical in human expression is made manifest 
 by human experience. 
 
 We live for experience and we live from 
 experience. If we wish to develop our soul 
 energy and increase our power, we do not sit 
 in our own dooryard and luxuriate in its 
 peace and repose; rather we assume our 
 place in the turmoil of life and attract to 
 ourselves as much experience as we can assimi- 
 late and utilize. 
 
 In reality there is never any end to any- 
 thing which is true, because everything of 
 
&ttt&# of GEipmmce 133 
 
 truth is imperishable in essence; but the 
 form of truth varies and experiences change, 
 and atoms and men and worlds are con- 
 stantly regenerated and reconstructed and 
 remanifested in newer and more complete 
 forms by the increasing activity of their 
 experiences. 
 
 Every atom of spirit is reaching out for 
 broader consciousness and greater power; 
 when one phase of expression is completed or 
 one form of experience is assimilated, another 
 manifestation of life upon a higher spiral of 
 evolution takes its place and a different and 
 purer experience awaits our attention. 
 
 Experiences are as the stepping stones lead- 
 ing forward and onward, one dissolving into 
 another and that one merging into others and 
 all working toward grander and more com- 
 plete consciousness of the soul. 
 
 Anyone who attempts to violate the law, 
 whether physical, social, moral, or financial, 
 invites destruction upon the plane of his 
 attempted violation; every person who can 
 read is reminded of that fact every day of his 
 
134 &ttrt? of tittptvitntt 
 
 life and he believes it in a way, yet it does 
 not become factual to him and enter his reali- 
 zation until he learns by experience its terrible 
 truth. 
 
 We cannot escape the truth that everything 
 in our lives rests entirely in our own hands; 
 if we are not supreme in our own dominion 
 and if we suffer, it is because we are not mas- 
 ters of that realm which is our very own and 
 which we must eventually conquer, although 
 it may take ages of experience to relate us in 
 absolute mastery to our kingdom in our part 
 of the divine life externalization. 
 
 True spiritual culture comes from the 
 purification of the self, which is a perfectly 
 practical process. It does not consist in 
 prayer and fasting, nor yet in sackcloth and 
 ashes, but in living a life of service, and the 
 life of service is not only a life of continual 
 experience and consequent development, but 
 it is distinctly a life of joy. 
 
 The effect of any experience* which has once 
 made its impression upon the soul abides 
 with it for all time, really becomes a store- 
 
&ttrtp of experience 135 
 
 house of power, and may be utilized and 
 drawn upon whenever occasion demands. 
 
 Human life ascends according to the in- 
 crease of human consciousness, and with 
 increasing consciousness we select grander 
 and broader experiences as we pass from one 
 association to another and one environment 
 to another to meet the strengthening desire 
 of the growing soul. 
 
 When we have perceived, as most of us do 
 somewhere along our pathway, that we have 
 not learned the lesson which our experiences 
 should have taught us — instead of regret- 
 ting the experience and feeling that had we 
 done differently we might have escaped cer- 
 tain griefs, let us so relate ourselves to life 
 in construction that we will only attract 
 constructive experiences, and then they will 
 not relate us to grief. 
 
 We find ourselves walking along sorrowful 
 lines many times, because we fail to appre- 
 ciate ourselves and give ourselves proper 
 recognition; no man can be happy and do 
 the good and beautiful thing unless he 
 
136 &tu&£ of (Cipettmce 
 
 realizes that he himself is good and beau- 
 tiful 
 
 When we are conscious of our strength on 
 any plane, we naturally live at the point of 
 our highest realization. If I know that I am 
 clever I shall live up to that cleverness, as 
 it were, and do the clever thing. On the con- 
 trary, if I have a belief that I am stupid 
 and that what I do is of no consequence, I 
 shall very soon live stupidly and be stupid, 
 because we attract exactly the sort of ex- 
 perience our quality demands and we get out 
 of it just and justly what our capacity permits. 
 
 And men are not creatures of circumstance; 
 their quality is the result of their desires; 
 they are creatures of experience which re- 
 sponds to their desires, and their own desire 
 is the magnet which attracts to them what 
 they actually require for their development. 
 
 There are so many varieties in human ex- 
 pression; life becomes so vividly interesting 
 as our experiences unroll, each one strengthen- 
 ing and beautifying and making way for 
 another step in our newer and freer conscious- 
 
&ttrt? of experience 137 
 
 ness wherein our motive energy transcends 
 our former intention in our life and in our 
 work. 
 
 Indeed the true server of God, be he writer 
 or painter, business man or home maker, is he 
 who, through his holy motive, succeeds because 
 his thought and his love are for and in his 
 work rather than in and for the reward of the 
 work. 
 
 When one's motive is outside of self, that 
 is apart from greed and sense gain, and when 
 his aim is toward some work of value to his 
 race instead of toward some benefit or accumu- 
 lation for himself, he cannot escape success, 
 because it follows inevitably — but the mo- 
 ment the motive energy is degraded and its 
 intentive force points, ever so slightly, toward 
 money or fame or any other sort of personal 
 possession, the work itself becomes degraded 
 or lacking in magnetic power. 
 
 Men and women who are taking the posi- 
 tion of leaders and teachers in the newer 
 awakening, assume peculiar responsibilities, 
 and they soon learn that they must make their 
 
138 &ttt&i? ot experience 
 
 statements from the knowledge which is 
 based upon experience rather than belief, be- 
 cause every formulated thought, sent into the 
 heart of an inquiring soul, reacts according 
 to its motive force upon the person who for- 
 mulated the thought. 
 
 All things and all activities have their 
 place and their use in the Cosmic experience. 
 As we are entering the consciousness of the 
 next dimension it is well that we shall realize 
 that we are actually and factually just what 
 we have accumulated of the infinite experi- 
 ence and that all which is not accurate in 
 our life accumulation shall pass into its origi- 
 nal substance, for only intelligent goodness 
 may prevail in the expressed idea of the ever- 
 living God. 
 
 Nothing can interfere with the ultimate 
 completeness of this universe; all manifest 
 life shall be unified with the supreme good in 
 that infinite and glorious intelligence. Al- 
 ready in the mind of the universe is this in- 
 tention formulated, and it is now in process 
 of externalization. 
 
&tttdp ot (Btpttitttct 139 
 
 For ages has the universal mind taken 
 the individual soul, which is the Ego, through 
 many forms of its unfolding life experience; it 
 has evolved through the mineral and vegetable 
 and animal realms, not necessarily upon this 
 planet, but somewhere in the Father's many 
 mansions. 
 
 And now, you and I have come to the place 
 where we are human creatures manifesting 
 in the divine image, relating ourselves to God 
 in conscious strength through our human ex- 
 perience. 
 
 Verily we shall prove ourselves worthy of 
 our divine humanity. 
 
STUDY OF WHY 
 
To him that hath, shall all be given, 
 Because he has BECOME 
 The thing which he has claimed. 
 
 To him that knows, shall all be spoken, 
 Because he freely speaks 
 The truth he has attained. 
 
 For men become whatever they claim, 
 
 And in the truth oj being 
 
 And in the joy of giving, 
 
 Comes knowledge — vast and infinite 
 
 Of life unending. 
 
©tuDp of OT&p 
 
 'OD knows. 
 Therefore God is. 
 
 To know is to be and the whole of 
 externalized life has become manifest or, it 
 may be more accurate to say, is becoming 
 manifest because of the knowledge of an in- 
 finite intelligence. 
 
 The human creature is externalizing him- 
 self according to his knowledge; he is in 
 process of becoming whole, and each step in 
 realization which adds to his knowledge ren- 
 ders him more complete and more wholly in 
 his actual being. . 
 
 Knowledge is man's one and only posses- 
 sion; every other force and attribute in all 
 nature and in all life leads toward knowledge, 
 but until it becomes knowledge, it is not really 
 and factually his own. 
 
 Knowledge is inclusive; its entire trend is 
 toward wholeness. 
 
144 &tubp of Mp 
 
 Knowledge is good; therefore it is everlast- 
 ing. 
 
 The innate demand of the soul, the true 
 desire of the heart, the craving of the mind, 
 and even the claim of the flesh is to know. 
 
 Know what? 
 
 To know what we are, who we are, from 
 whence we came, whither we are going, and 
 finally and primarily and most demandingly, 
 why are we? 
 
 We have a vague consciousness that we 
 are because god is. 
 
 But it is very vague and so very much 
 blurred by innumerable opinions and so 
 dwarfed by fear that we almost have an idea 
 that God is because we are. 
 
 Why precedes the subtle query of the soul. 
 
 What is the symbol of mental demand 
 and precedes questions relating to informa- 
 tion concerning facts and conditions and 
 personality. 
 
 When and where are especially adapted 
 to questions pertaining to physical expression 
 and sense demands. 
 
&tttn? of Top 145 
 
 Which is entirely on the plane of discrimi- 
 nation or selection, which may, of course, be 
 applied to all realms. 
 
 How and how much belong to the finan- 
 cial and purely external plane of expres- 
 sion, as spiritual forces cannot be weighed 
 and measured and the spiritual man soon for- 
 gets the plane of bargain measurements. 
 
 A person with a fair fund of information 
 can reply to almost any question commenc- 
 ing with what — 
 
 To illustrate: What is the dominant color 
 of the earth planet when it is expressing its 
 life energy? 
 
 Ans. Green. 
 
 That is not difficult; any person with eyes 
 to see can answer that. 
 
 But take the more subtle question. 
 
 Q. Why is the earth color green? 
 
 Ans. Because the earth planet is fourth in 
 the color spectrum of the solar system of which 
 it is a part, it vibrates in the tone of green 
 when it is most responsive to the universal 
 life current because green is the fourth color 
 
146 &ttt&£ Of flflll)? 
 
 visible to the human eye in its present de- 
 velopment and in the direct order of its posi- 
 tion in the spectrum — viz: Violet, Indigo, 
 Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red. 
 
 While that is a simple primary reply to a 
 very commonplace question, you can easily 
 see how much more subtle is the response to 
 the query of why than to the more direct 
 query of what. 
 
 The man who is capable of formulating any 
 question intelligently which commences with 
 why is capable of answering that question, 
 because the desire to analyze requires a co- 
 operation of soul consciousness and mental 
 effort which is a trifle beyond mere external 
 fact, so unless the man has the capacity to 
 answer it, whether he takes the trouble to do 
 so or not, he has not the capacity to formu- 
 late it to the focusing point of asking some 
 one else to do so. 
 
 And it is not always mental indolence which 
 is our reason for seeking for causes outside of 
 ourselves — rather, it is that so few people 
 are aware of their own ability and of their 
 
&ttt&P Of flfll&P 147 
 
 actual power. As a rule most folks are so 
 absorbed with non-essentials and with their 
 introspective worries which are connected 
 with their personality and their creature 
 comforts that they have almost lost their 
 appreciation of their God-given individuality 
 and their divinely innate strength and glo- 
 rious opportunity. 
 
 Possibly we may think that it is of no real 
 use to understand this why of things — we 
 may feel that we have no connection with 
 universal causes and that anything which 
 does not concern our personal interest is none 
 of our affairs. 
 
 But if it is true, as most of us say we be- 
 lieve, that we are a part of the whole of infinite 
 life, surely we have some small share in its 
 causation as well as in its effect, and the fact 
 is that as soon as we lose our interest in 
 causes, effects become less vital in their rela- 
 tion to us and life becomes, therefore, less 
 interesting in our responsibility toward it 
 and we, less masterful in our intentive force. 
 
 And then what happens? 
 
148 &tU&P Of flflli)2 
 
 Can you not see it on every side? Indif- 
 ference, breeding all sorts of disease germs; 
 Selfishness, cultivating atrophication; Intro- 
 spection, causing insanity; Graft and Greed, 
 attracting poverty and causing crime; and 
 all leading to the numbing of faculties and 
 the disseverance of the life current from its 
 vitalized center of universal action. 
 
 When we arouse to the realization that 'we 
 are a part of the infinite expression and a di- 
 rect result of a divinely intelligent intention, 
 we not only have the ability but it becomes 
 our sacred desire to ask of the great cause — 
 
 Why am I? 
 
 Every attainment results from process. 
 
 Every accurate process emanates from some 
 intelligent cause. 
 
 Every force in operation is set in motion by 
 some primal power so related to it that it quali- 
 fies and vibrates with it with sufficient strength 
 of intelligent intention to give it impetus. 
 
 So nothing can be small and nothing can 
 be great in this vast universal process, because 
 it all proceeds from primal cause and all 
 
&tu&2 Of W&V 149 
 
 operating in intelligent economy of nature's 
 finer forces for the ultimate perfect expression 
 of the whole. 
 
 And the smallest and weakest of living crea- 
 tures is deeply concerned because he is the 
 cause as he is the effect of his part of this 
 marvelous universe. 
 
 And you and I are deeply concerned; ac- 
 cording to the quality of our life energy and 
 according to the degree of our universality, 
 shall we answer and understand and know 
 why we are alive in God's great home and 
 why He in His supreme intention has included 
 you and me. 
 
 The universe is in process and in expres- 
 sion because its creator and manifestor has 
 given it Himself, His life energy, His love, 
 and His wisdom. 
 
 You and I are in process and in expression 
 because we are a part of that creator and 
 manifestor and we are doing as much as we 
 know because we are living as much as we 
 know to unify and glorify and perfect the 
 whole. 
 
150 feftttip of TO? 
 
 Life always expresses according to the knowl- 
 edge of the being or the creature or the thing 
 that is expressing it. 
 
 Why? 
 
 Because life is the activity of universal 
 intelligence, and it can only vibrate through 
 and with that intelligence which is the actual 
 formulator of all manifestation. 
 
 A blade of grass expresses only in the 
 degree of its consciousness; it is manifesting 
 its degree of God's life and it gives and does 
 as much as it knows. 
 
 The bird lives and is exactly what it knows; 
 therein rests the truth of its being. 
 
 Men are alive at the point of their true 
 knowledge, for life always advances to meet 
 truth and knowledge is inevitably true or it 
 is not knowledge. 
 
 God is the knower — His life is absolute 
 law and truth is the evidence of Him and 
 of the absolute eternal accuracy of that 
 law. 
 
 Knowledge transcends all reason; it re- 
 quires no proof and admits of no argument. 
 
s>tttDp of Mbv 151 
 
 Men know far more than they are aware 
 that they know, but they understand far less 
 than they think they understand. 
 
 Why? 
 
 Because human understanding is the re- 
 sponse of analysis and mental effort; it is 
 on the plane of reason and frequently answers 
 to argument and to opinion. It is largely 
 related to details of life and seldom goes 
 beyond personality. 
 
 Knowledge only responds to actual truth; 
 it has nothing to do with supposition or "say 
 so." Knowledge belongs to the plane of in- 
 stinct and inspiration and while it sometimes 
 follows understanding, it stands supreme in 
 soul consciousness as an actual revelation of 
 fact. 
 
 Humanity is measured by its own measure- 
 ment. Each soul takes its own position in 
 earth life according to its own estimate. 
 
 Why? 
 
 Because each person has his own particular 
 and individual grasp of the universal mind; 
 he selects it by his desire and formulates it 
 
152 &tu&? ot m^v 
 
 by his intentive will, and he can increase it 
 by his increasing desire and develop it by 
 his more conscious will, or he may think 
 around and around in the same little rut until 
 he becomes too indifferent to reach out into 
 universal mind at all and subsists on the 
 small part he has already selected, and then 
 it will follow as the night follows the day that 
 he orders his life by somebody else's opinion 
 and that his possessions are the result of some 
 body else's creative energy. 
 
 It is insolence for one person to presume 
 to dictate the order of his life to another. 
 
 Why? 
 
 Because each soul must interpret life for 
 itself. How can I tell of your requirements? 
 What can I know of your desire? Am I greater 
 than my brother that I should presume to 
 decide his problem or to visualize for him the 
 plan of his life? 
 
 Each souPs idea of God is his highest con- 
 ception of himself. 
 
&ttt&P of M? 153 
 
 Why? 
 
 Because no person can think beyond his 
 capacity and no person can love beyond his 
 ideal, neither can he judge of that which is 
 not within his own mind. 
 
 If a man is afraid of the vengeance of God 
 and sees in Him a personal embodiment of 
 wrath, he himself must be vengeful in his 
 thought and personal in his judgment. If, 
 on the contrary, he sees the universe as God 
 and sees love in its action, he is impersonal 
 in His action and his ideals are constructive; 
 naturally his life expression follows in natural, 
 normal, and successful lines. 
 
 Anyone who makes a definite statement 
 or asserts a principle, especially when he 
 claims mastery of that principle, should be 
 able to answer any query concerning it, as 
 he should know the truth of anything he claims 
 for himself. 
 
 Many a soul has lost a great opportunity 
 by claiming that which he can neither use nor 
 comprehend, but which having claimed, he 
 must assume. 
 
i54 fe>tttnp ot wbv 
 
 Why? 
 
 Because one of the privileges of humanity 
 is to select its own opportunity and its own 
 position in life. 
 
 A man may fulfil any desire of his body, 
 his mind, or his heart if he is willing to pay 
 the price; should he demand too much or 
 assert himself beyond his strength, he must 
 pay the price for that also. 
 
 Wise indeed is he who can answer the 
 "Why" of an inquiring child. 
 
 Why? 
 
 Because the child-mind is direct — and he 
 who becomes as a little child is seeking the 
 direct truth without fear and without limita- 
 tion; the natural, normal child mind is not 
 shadowed by fear and misunderstanding; it 
 has not obscured its touch with the infinite 
 mind by cramming its memory with non- 
 essentials or by trying to get ahead of its 
 friends and companions. So the child mind 
 is a very clear medium for his soul demand, 
 
fetftttrp ot TOp 155 
 
 and its questions are far more subtle than the 
 supposedly wiser mind perceives. 
 
 There is a question in every mind and a 
 longing in every heart concerning the truth 
 of that living, loving God whose intimacy 
 is our very own whenever we are sufficiently 
 true to ourselves to be true to Him. 
 
 What does it matter to you and to me 
 what else life reveals to us so long as we are 
 close in the heart of a supreme omnipresent 
 intelligence when therein nothing but good 
 can remain? Nor can we remain in that 
 sacred center unless we are true to it by liv- 
 ing the chaste good, which is its life. And we 
 shall know it in order to live it and by living 
 it, to attract and to assimilate it until we be- 
 come interpenetrated with the divine energy 
 and all of life's love and wisdom is our very 
 own. 
 
 But every possession carries its own re- 
 sponsibility, and knowledge, which is the 
 greatest of all possessions, bears the responsi- 
 bility in the demand of life that we live the 
 truth that we know. 
 
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 Never fear that you will not have the 
 knowledge according to the strength of your 
 desire and never doubt that you will have the 
 power and the ability to express yourself 
 according to your knowledge, for your strength 
 comes according to the quality of your motive, 
 and whether you express it in music, in ora- 
 tory, in the domestic or social or commercial 
 realm, or in any other form of art or science, 
 the genius of you will reveal itself whenever 
 and however you are ready and willing and 
 awake to your own share in and of the God 
 work. 
 
 Sometimes, in fact most times, it is wisdom 
 to rest in the law of non-resistance. 
 
 Any man can force an issue, any man 
 can act according to his will, but it takes a 
 strong, trained soul to wait for his perfect 
 hour. 
 
 The man who knows his work and his hour 
 is great enough to be still and wait — he 
 knows that in the actual being good, of being 
 God-conscious, he is of far more value to the 
 planet by giving it silently his great uplift- 
 
static of Top 157 
 
 ing force than by all the enthusiastic shouting 
 he can possibly do. 
 
 Overcoming may be superficial and rests 
 with the emotions. 
 
 Becoming is actuality and includes the 
 whole. 
 
 There is far more in actual being than in 
 much doing, because being is unity with God 
 force; it is deep and flawless and qualifies 
 with every phase of constructive conscious- 
 ness and of ultimate perfection. 
 
 Onward Brother, — 
 
 The light is yonder, just beyond the fear 
 line. 
 
 Only fear is to be feared, so move on out 
 of its shadow into the light of your own faith 
 and in the joy of your own work, that you 
 may be alive and attuned to the goodness 
 of your service. 
 
 Forgive your yesterdays; they have given 
 strength and wisdom to your to-day. 
 
 Release them and let them go, that you may 
 go forward in the path of a more vitalized 
 
158 &ttt&# of aeasp 
 
 service for yourself and for all else of God's 
 beautiful, living things which need your faith 
 and your strength and your love. 
 
 Lift up your eyes to the everlasting hills. 
 
 Reach out your arms to the star of your 
 highest aim and sing the soul song of gladness 
 that you are going forward in unity with life's 
 intention and pray that your faith in its ful- 
 filment may endure always. 
 
WHOLE-NESS 
 
In the strength of God's 
 
 revelation 
 Do I manifest my life, 
 For in that revealing glory 
 His truth and His power, 
 His love and His wisdom 
 Are mine own. 
 
 And I am one with His 
 
 free life 
 And one with His vast 
 
 evidence 
 Of truth in whole-ness. 
 
HOLE. 
 
 Cosmic. 
 Complete. 
 
 The whole man is the divine man; he is 
 cosmic in his consciousness and complete in 
 his life expression. 
 
 The human creature is the divine creature 
 in process; in other words, humanity is di- 
 vinity in process. 
 
 The man is creating himself, and whether 
 consciously or unconsciously, he is breathing 
 into himself, with every inbreath he takes, the 
 quality of the universal substance which he 
 selects by the quality of his thought. 
 
 In the heart of him, this human creator 
 intends to be whole; his innate desire is for 
 the good of his part of life, which is health 
 and money and joy and love and all else that 
 is dear to the heart and flesh of mankind; not 
 only does he desire this good, but he works 
 
162 9Zll&OlMir00 
 
 for and toward it so long as hope sustains 
 him, which is just as long as he realizes the 
 good or the God of himself. 
 
 The only way that the thing we call evil 
 can possibly exist is when good is ignored. 
 
 Ignorance darkens the light of truth and 
 limits the activity of intelligence, so that when 
 we ignore good, we create a lack in our whole- 
 ness; we may call this lack sickness, we may 
 call it poverty, indeed, we may term it sin, 
 but whatever we name it, it is ignorance 
 which has excluded some part of our good and 
 we are not whole. 
 
 Ignorance does not mean lack of book learn- 
 ing; many of God's children are so filled with 
 the contents of books that they are fearfully 
 and wonderfully ignorant, and some are so 
 highly trained in militarism and other man- 
 invented sciences that they ignore every law 
 of God's humanity and human divinity. 
 
 Knowledge is necessarily good, because it 
 is impossible to know a thing which does not 
 exist, and if men desire to be whole in the 
 manifestation of their part of the infinite and 
 
TO0lMtt00 163 
 
 intelligent life, they will seek with their hearts 
 aflame and their minds alive for knowledge, 
 that they may not only be whole but wholly 
 good. 
 
 Darkness is the nothingness of light as 
 ignorance is the nothingness of consciousness 
 and as fear is the nothingness of faith. 
 
 The easy way to dissolve the darkness is to 
 turn on the light; it is an entire waste of 
 energy to deny the dark, but whenever the 
 shine of the light enters, we know there is no 
 such thing as darkness; so no matter what 
 form of disease the dark represents, whether 
 sickness or any other sin symbol, just flash 
 the truth light of love and faith therein before 
 we claim there is no disease, because until we 
 do dissolve it by our love and our faith there 
 remains the symbol of the dark to our outer 
 senses. 
 
 Love dissolves everything which we call 
 evil; its interpenetrative subtleness casts out 
 the shadow of the misinterpretation of good, 
 and all the forces of human life activity are 
 balanced in the light of the love shine. 
 
164 TOolMtegsf 
 
 It is quite possible that in the realm of our 
 untried strength there are cosmic forces 
 which far outreach our present unfinished 
 consciousness; the light of to-morrow may 
 utterly obscure the light of to-day; the shine 
 of a new dimension may entirely transcend 
 all that we now perceive. 
 
 We are quite as much in eternity now while 
 we are children of the earth home as we ever 
 shall be; God's life is enfolding us now as it 
 always has and as it always will; it is only 
 necessary that we desire to know God, which 
 means to know the good of ourselves, to ac- 
 tually be in heaven, because any soul who 
 know himself as he really is desires to live 
 his part of life in goodness that he may fulfil 
 the law of his soul desire. 
 
 The desire of the soul is always for com- 
 pleteness; its entire age-long journey is for 
 cosmic expression; step by step, life by life, 
 always learning, always adding to its wisdom 
 and to its love, this marvelous interactive 
 soul is involving and evolving in the intention 
 of becoming whole. 
 
QQl!>0lMtt00 165 
 
 Each soul which has created for itself a 
 body, whether an earth body or a sun body or 
 any other body, is the microcosm of the uni- 
 verse from the angle of the home of that body; 
 it has its own center and its own opportunity 
 from that angle. 
 
 When the soul creates its spiritual body, 
 which means its cosmic body, it has an infinite 
 reach of consciousness and it evolves from the 
 universal or cosmic realm of consciousness 
 and is then one with the Father, ready to 
 live and work and be One with the Father in 
 heaven or, in other words, One with divine 
 harmony. 
 
 Most of the earth children are far from the 
 place of divine harmony; they do not under- 
 stand themselves and consequently cannot 
 comprehend their fellow-men. We cannot 
 possibly see in anyone qualities which are 
 not in ourselves, and the more vitalized they 
 are in ourselves, the more dominant they 
 appear in others. 
 
 Which is the reason we are warned to 
 judge not that we be not judged; those 
 
166 TOolMttSfjS 
 
 things which especially annoy us in other people 
 are rampant in ourselves or we would not be 
 disturbed by them, and it is much wiser to 
 use the energy we expend in criticising other 
 people in loving ourselves into harmony that 
 we may help them onward by our faith and 
 understanding rather than hold ourselves 
 back and so intrude in the march of the race. 
 
 And no man and no condition and no com- 
 plication of forces can interfere with the on- 
 sweep of life; we may resist Life's law, but if 
 we do, it is you and I who will be crushed and 
 broken; God's law knows only good, and when 
 we are not good we are apart from that law. 
 
 It is the infinite variety of life which works 
 in togetherness for completeness or wholli- 
 ness — no two human beings of all the mil- 
 lions of all God's great humanity are alike, 
 no two atoms in all nature are alike, nor do 
 they occupy the same space — so the man and 
 so the atom will work from their own indi- 
 vidual center, the man relating himself and 
 the atom relating itself to the whole universe 
 from their angle of expression and not from 
 
OQl&olMietftf 167 
 
 the viewpoint or from the desire angle of any- 
 other point of consciousness. 
 
 Until the children of earth arrive at the 
 place of cosmic consciousness and become 
 divine, they are still human, and it is the wise 
 thing for them to balance in the place of their 
 humanity before claiming divinity. 
 
 To be humanly whole, the earth child will 
 express beauty and health and wealth and joy; 
 he will ignore no slightest detail which helps 
 to relate him to ease of flesh or peace of mind. 
 
 To be beautiful and wholly in flesh, we will 
 balance in beauty of mind; we will relate our- 
 selves to the harmony of our part of the earth, 
 and we will be well groomed and well growned 
 and well mannered according to the demands 
 of our neighbors and our own soul call. 
 
 When we love our neighbors as ourselves, 
 we will love to please them and to serve them 
 as we love to serve ourselves — and our 
 neighbors are becoming nearer and dearer 
 and more numerous as modern life with its 
 travel and easy methods of communication 
 make more intimate our relationship. 
 
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 To be healthy and wholly in our earth body, 
 we will be at ease in our minds and kind in 
 our hearts; then we shall be clean in our flesh 
 and pure and sweet in our consciousness. 
 
 There is no greater asset in the health life 
 than the purity of soul and mind which thinks 
 goodness and speaks kindness. 
 
 Blessed indeed are the pure in heart. 
 
 If we would be wholly in the riches of earth, 
 we will be free in our love for and in our use 
 of the earth bounty; we will be unafraid that 
 we shall lack at any point of our human 
 expression. 
 
 God's money is our money when we know 
 we are His children; the creature who ac- 
 tually knows he is interrelated with the uni- 
 verse, which means he is a child of God, has 
 the right angle of relationship to the infinite 
 and intelligent good. 
 
 Joy is one of the attributes of wholliness; 
 
 who that is kind to his fellow-men and who 
 
 obeys the highest dictates of his heart and 
 
 mind can be otherwise than joyous? 
 
 ' Ease is one of the attributes of wholliness; 
 
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 it is a mistake to think that it is hard to be 
 good and to follow what is called the path of 
 righteousness. 
 
 To be good is the only easy way of being; 
 any other state of being relates us to lack of 
 ease which we call disease, and we can be- 
 come uneasy in mind and diseased in flesh 
 very quickly when we disconnect ourselves 
 from good. 
 
 And righteousness is merely the right angle 
 of consciousness which is our individual place 
 of vision and our center in the infinite whole; 
 when we follow the path of righteousness, we 
 are true to ourselves according to our under- 
 standing and living right as our vision recog- 
 nizes right. 
 
 There are no accidents in the all-life; every 
 result has a cause somewhere along the way. 
 The law of life is as accurate as the force of 
 justice which sustains it, and justice is ab- 
 solute because it is the exact right angle of 
 all intelligent action. 
 
 If I so far forget myself as to judge and criti- 
 cise and condemn my brother I am thereby 
 
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 creating a triangular force of judgment and 
 criticism and condemnation which, when put 
 in operation by my intentive energy, returns 
 to the heart of me in the precise angle and 
 ratio in which it was projected, and it reacts 
 on my life forces according to the quality and 
 force of my intention. 
 
 Is it surprising that some of us develop dis- 
 ease of the flesh and crinkle up in lines that 
 men dread as signals of on-coming age? 
 
 There is no excuse for hideous flesh because 
 of long life; time would mark us in beauty 
 and wholliness if we would allow it, but we 
 resist and hate and fear and fight, we put into 
 action and create in the atoms of our flesh 
 forces of destruction which lead to disinte- 
 gration most ghastly. And then, afraid of 
 the thing which we have done, we beg for 
 mercy, thinking we may attract some special 
 favor from God, whom we have dishonored 
 and betrayed. 
 
 It is our privilege to free the Christ of 
 ourselves from the Judas of our own heart 
 center, that we may walk along our path of 
 
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 righteousness with clean hands and a pure 
 heart. 
 
 We want to live according to our vision of 
 the right angle of our part of life. We want 
 to rest at the right hand of our God and we 
 desire above all else that we only receive what 
 we deserve. 
 
 And we intend to deserve by our work and 
 by our love all of life's good in whole-ness. 
 
 There is one God. 
 
 That one God is the universal whole. 
 
 Uni-verse literally means One-whole, and 
 in the Divine Unity is the primal substance 
 externalized by one wholly principle and one 
 infinite process. 
 
 The physical senses do not comprehend 
 the externalization of life through the inbreath 
 and outbreath of the omni-active God, — 
 but the man who desires to know concerning 
 God and who intends to live in the good of 
 the earth life can and does relate himself to 
 the accurate action of the infinite intelligence 
 — he then lives in the law, which means that 
 he breathes with the activity of God, and in 
 
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 that divine breath the human creature is 
 made whole. 
 
 We are never anxious when we are related 
 to the law in the pure desire; it is only when 
 we resist the law that we fail or fall. 
 
 This glorious law is mindful of its own 
 and, like a wise and loving parent, it some- 
 times points the way in punishment and 
 pain when the child it loves resists its per- 
 fect work. 
 
 Suppose our human brain does not quite 
 understand; it can lay its burden on the 
 law and wait until the way is made plain. 
 When we trust, the waiting is not long or 
 wearisome. 
 
 Suppose our will is thwarted and our de- 
 sire suppressed; it is only that something is 
 unfinished which we have left undone, some 
 cause has tangled the thread of our accurate 
 life action, and it is for us to finish and clear 
 our path which leads to righteousness. 
 
 So we will breathe in our hearts for the 
 beautiful light of construction, that it may 
 show us the way to walk at ease along the 
 
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 righteous highway toward our Cosmic expres- 
 sion of whole-ness. 
 
 Nothing which we have assumed can be 
 left unfinished; it is useless to attempt to 
 escape from any force which we have once set 
 in motion. 
 
 When the supreme intelligence breathes 
 into the human creature the breath of life 
 which is the Cosmic breath, he is then made 
 or manifested in the image of God with the 
 attributes of God, and he becomes his own 
 creator, which really means his own external- 
 izer; because there is nothing new in the uni- 
 verse, unmanifest, yes, and unexpressed — 
 but every atom of cosmic substance, expressed 
 or unexpressed, is waiting in its own time and 
 place the awakening breath of God. 
 
 The atom must be complete before the man 
 is whole. 
 
 The man must be complete before the race 
 is whole. 
 
 The race must be unified in love and wis- 
 dom and complete in wholliness before its 
 earth home manifests in perfection. 
 
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 Verily there is nothing unworthy in God's 
 great life, nothing to be ignored, nothing 
 which may not be wrought anew and no prob- 
 lem which is not solved (saved) in the recog- 
 nition of the divine human relationship of 
 God and Man. 
 
 As yet the man creature is but an infant in 
 consciousness; he writhes in his fierce unrest 
 like the child which fights with all its puny 
 strength the hand that guides it to safety. 
 
 It is good to know that time is endless and 
 that good shall prevail. 
 
 Ay, though ages and ages roll away before 
 divine unity is expresssed, God's children 
 shall return to Him in whole-ness. 
 
STUDY OF FREEDOM 
 
y Tis not enough for me to say 
 That God is good. 
 No man can know of good 
 Least he is good. 
 
 'Tis not enough for me to speak 
 The word of life. 
 No man can know of life 
 Unless he lives. 
 
 Oh, heedless man — of mortal ken 9 
 
 Thou knowest not 
 
 Of God and His intent 
 
 Until thou lovest all his life 
 
 And art alive thyself 
 
 Because of thy great love. 
 
StuDp of jFreeDom 
 
 God make us free. 
 
 Hark ye to the cry of man, 
 
 God -lake us free — 
 
 From crushing unbelief in Thee 
 
 God make us free, 
 
 From grim, despairing pain and grief 
 
 God make us free. 
 
 Ah, pitying soul, dost thou not hear 
 Afar and near and everywhere — 
 From earth and sky and sea 
 Breathes out the prayer, 
 God makes us free. 
 
 Awake, doubting heart, 
 
 'Tis only that thou did'st not know 
 
 That love is free, 
 
 That God is good and nothing else can be 
 
 When men are free. 
 
 How couldst thou know 
 That man is one with God, 
 One in His life and love, 
 One in His freedom? 
 
 It is not strange thy cry goes forth 
 In human discontent, 
 God make us free. 
 
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 Arise, man, and face thine own unfaith 
 And know that it has brought to thee 
 Thy pain and woe. 
 
 Know that from within thyself alone 
 
 Can shackles melt away 
 
 And freedom enter in, — 
 
 Know that 'tis thy lack, thy greed, 
 
 Thy fear and thy unrest 
 
 Which brands the heart of thee 
 
 And rends thy soul. 
 
 Oh, soul of love's intent, — 
 God make us free. 
 
 And it shall be. 
 
 The hour is nigh, the day is come, 
 
 The world awaits the call 
 
 Of men and angels 
 
 Who, all enthralled in God's great lovingness 
 
 Do know — 
 
 And knowing shall proclaim 
 
 God's world is free. 
 
AFTERWORD 
 
aftettoom 
 
 FAIR child stood at the gatway of 
 a restless world. 
 
 Above her and around her and 
 enfolding her was the fullness of a vivid life, 
 and the child reached out her dimpling baby 
 hand in gladness as she sang the beautiful 
 song of youth: "It is all for me, for me — 
 the great earth is my playground; the daisies 
 bloom for me, and I shall sing and laugh and 
 play always because of their love for me." 
 
 And the days rolled on and the fair child 
 saw the daisies fade and the deep winter 
 snows enfold her playground, while the bitter 
 wind chilled the buoyant air and stilled the 
 heart throb of the waters as it pressed them 
 in its icy embrace. 
 
 A maiden stood at the threshold of life's 
 temple of experience. "Never mind the 
 fading daisies and the stilled waters,' ' she 
 sang. "I shall seek my joy in the throbbing 
 heart of humanity; there I shall laugh and 
 
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 sing and play always because youth and 
 beauty and love are all for me — for me, 
 and I shall meet and conquer because of 
 their love for me." 
 
 The days swept on and a woman with the 
 flush of triumph on her face stood upon 
 life's pinnacle. "O glorious life/' she cried," I 
 love the fierceness of thy blast because I 
 am greater than all its fury. I love thy great 
 opulence because it is all for me — for me; 
 and I love thy crashing torrent though it may 
 sweep away all the world, it cannot assail 
 me upon my pinnacle of fame and beauty and 
 gold." And she raised high to heaven her 
 slim white hands as though she would draw 
 from its depths even more of earth's gifts to 
 strengthen her triumph. 
 
 Even as the last tone of her exultant voice 
 melted into the golden air, a shiver as of pass- 
 ing human agony swept over her swaying 
 form and she stooped in shuddering surprise 
 as a breath of fierce, anguished unrest entered 
 her awakening heart and tore away all pride 
 of flesh and gold and human adulations. And 
 
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 the woman saw as one aroused from a trance 
 of ages a world teeming with struggling 
 human creatures and herself one with them, 
 no more no less than they. 
 
 The years blended into eternity and a 
 woman, beautiful with the chastening glory 
 of life's experience, stood out upon the sunlit 
 plains while the radiance as of a great blessing 
 fell around her gracious form. "O life," 
 she cried, "at last I know thy law. I am 
 created for thee, and as I give my love and 
 my service to thee, all of thy great treasures 
 are mine because I am created for thee — for 
 thee, O glorious life!" 
 
 And, as the woman passed on into the 
 mighty current of the world's work, she heard 
 in the deep silence life's answer: 
 
 "O child, O maiden, O woman of sorrow 
 and woman of joy, thou hast met me and 
 learned my lesson well. 
 
 "My sorrows which thou hast overcome 
 with love, my joys which thou hast welcomed 
 with love, my labors which thou hast accom- 
 plished in love, have given thee this great 
 
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 enlightenment, that love is the fulfilment of 
 my law; in that realization thou knowest 
 that no man can be greater than another and 
 no man can be lesser than another, humanity 
 is one in God's clear love. 
 
 "And thou shalt sing and laugh always 
 because of thy love." 
 
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