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Knowledge of the Self 
 
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 Key to Power, 
 
 A SERIES OF THREE LECTURES : 
 
 The Creation, and the New Dispensation; 
 
 The Gift of the Spirit, and Soul Individualization; 
 
 The Building of the Body, and Elemental Forces; 
 
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Introduction. 
 
 ^f N presenting this work to the public I offer 
 ^JJ no excuse, as I feel at the present time, 
 with the spirit promptings, as a result of the 
 new dispensation which is being ushered in, the 
 world at large is ready to receive, and anxiously 
 awaiting, such insight into so-called hidden mys- 
 teries, as I shall endeavor to give in this little work, 
 and I trust given from a source, far above any con- 
 ception of truth as might have originated in my 
 own objective mind. 
 
 Men at large, in churches and out of churches, 
 are dissatisfied with man-made ideas of Purgatories 
 and burning hells awaiting their souls immediately 
 after separation of soul and body, at the time 
 called death, and are beginning to feel through 
 the higher promptings, that such teachings are 
 false, and only held over men in order that one 
 more paying profession may be kept in existence. 
 The idea of this work is to acquaint you with your- 
 self proper. First, learn of the things that are, 
 
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then learn of the relation you bear to the general 
 whole. Learn to think for yourself. Do not allow 
 any man to think for you. He may present to 
 you ideas, but these you analyze and ask, why. 
 You are eligible to just as high a position as any 
 man on the face of the earth, and the same spirit 
 of intelligence prompts all men. Do not let your 
 ideas be fixed by opinions learned in your child- 
 hood, from men that had no more brains than 
 you, for at the same time you might have had far 
 more # intelligence than they, and bear in mind, 
 intellect, comes from the brain — intelligence from 
 God, through the heart. And now I say, do not 
 accept a single word, I say, as a truth until you 
 prove it. Possibly, you may not be able to prove 
 all, as you go along, but I only ask, do not con- 
 demn at once from previous fixed opinions, but 
 study, meditate, and finally concentrate on what I 
 say, and see if many truths are not told you, that 
 to you before were mysteries, and you supposed, 
 man could not know. 
 
 In reading this little work, do not read as you 
 would a novel, for I say to you, it is the key, that 
 unlocks all mysteries on the physical plain, and 
 many above. First of all, learn well the trinity of 
 man, and the source of each trinity. Get the 
 basic principles, then you can analyze. 
 
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Learn the universal language, and the man- 
 ner in which the Almighty would speak to you. 
 Open your eyes and see. The truths are before 
 you constantly, but "having eyes, you see not, and 
 ears, you do not hear." John says: "The light 
 shineth in darkness, and the darkness compre- 
 hendeth it not." Study well the law of corre- 
 spondence, for I say to you, man is in image 
 of it all. 
 
 I again ask, do not condemn because I up- 
 hold, and advocate the Study of Astrology, for I 
 say to my readers, Astrology, is the basis of all 
 man-made knowledge, and science, on this phys- 
 ical plain today. All the encyclopedias we have 
 to the contrary notwithstanding. Note further, 
 the Bible, is my text-book of Metaphysics, and 
 every statement I make, is in accord with state- 
 ments made therein; only their statements are 
 under cover, because of the times — they did not 
 dare speak out. I speak in plain language that 
 all may understand. I ask my readers to com- 
 pare statements, and see if this is not just as I say. 
 If you will, your Bible will soon be free from dust, 
 and a new book to you, and will reveal wonderful 
 truths to you that in the past had but little mean- 
 ing, and scarcely common sense; and last, but 
 by no means least, study well the last lesson of 
 
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 this work. See for yourself, what makes man's 
 troubles on this physical plain. 
 
 After reading, and analyzing the lesson care- 
 fully, see if you cannot read the book of Revelations 
 with a degree of understanding you have never 
 as yet before had. Learn from this lesson the 
 requirement of your soul, in being projected on 
 to this physical plain, knowing just what there is 
 for you to do, and the great wisdom displayed by 
 a power above human conception, in harmonizing 
 this gj*eat universe, and knowing further, that you 
 from your creation, have an inheritance to an A t- 
 one-ment with that Great Power, you will exclaim 
 from the innermost depths of your heart, "We 
 Praise Thee, Oh, GodT 
 
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 LESSON I. 
 
 The Creation and the New 
 Dispensation. 
 
 *JfN 1882, or thereabouts, our Sun, with its 
 ^JJ revolving planets, passed out of the sign 
 Pisces where it had been for the past twenty- 
 one hundred and sixty years, and gradually passed 
 into the next house, as Astrologers would say, or 
 into the Sign of Aquarius, which brings to all 
 inhabitants of the planets of our Solar System, a 
 new dispensation. To some this may be a new idea, 
 or at least not made plain to them as yet. Just 
 why we had certain laws to rule the people during 
 certain periods, and then gradually become 
 obsolete, so to speak. For instance, I do not 
 think there are any people who would think today 
 of slaughtering a lamb, for the sake of offering up 
 itsblood, as a sacrifice, for sins they had committed. 
 But such was the dispensation or vibration, 
 radiated, from our Sun's, Central Sun Alcyone, 
 
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 four thousand years ago, or in the time of Abraham, 
 when our Sun and its planets were passing 
 through its Zodiacal Sign, Aries. As it gradually 
 passed out of that sign, and passed into the Sign 
 of Pisces, all my readers will recall the fact, that 
 a new Teacher, came on the scene, declaring a 
 new law, to govern all mankind. A new dispen- 
 sation, whereby a new religion was to be established 
 and the purification was to be by water, rather 
 than by blood, as had been in the past twenty- 
 one hundred and sixty years, and to symbolize 
 that period in history, you will recall at once the 
 fact, that the twelve helpers chosen to proclaim 
 this new law, were all chosen from the fishermen, 
 or Pisceans. To bring this still closer to you, 
 you will most of you observe, the most if not all 
 of the teachings you hear today from the pulpit, 
 are from the New Testament, rather than from 
 the Old, and you ask the minister why, and he 
 simply tells you, the Old Testament is old law, and 
 not to rule the present generation. But he does not 
 tell you why. Our Solar System has now passed 
 into the next sign in its order, Aquarius, and with 
 it, now comes a new dispensation, which is be- 
 ginning to be felt all over this wide world, and as 
 this is a spiritual sign, look for an unrest among 
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 religious subjects, and the minister who does not 
 recognize this new law, and come into harmony 
 with the higher'vibration this influence brings to 
 mankind, had better seek employment in the 
 field of manual labor, rather than, as a teacher of 
 God } s laws. For surely he does not know them, 
 and the awakening spirit in mankind, will recog- 
 nize his weakness at once, and the people will 
 seek new fields for obtaining knowledge. With 
 the coming of a new dispensation, there comes 
 those who receive more readily than others, and 
 from that class are teachers chosen, to proclaim it 
 to their fellow man. Such was the case, when the 
 Piscean age was ushered in, and such is the case 
 today, and hundreds today are receiving the 
 promptings whereby they may be fitted for 
 teachers. But the saying is the same today, as in 
 past ages when it was said, "many are called, but 
 few chosen ." 
 
 This work of preparation, to my knowledge, 
 began in Grand Rapids some three years ago. 
 Many of whom I know, are receiving the call, but 
 the question only arises in my mind, will they be 
 chosen, or will their greed for the mighty dollar, 
 and their great desire for personal attainment in 
 phenomenal work, lead them into the field of slavery, 
 
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 rather than into the at-one-mentwith their Creator, 
 a master rather than a slave. 
 
 Knowing as we do now, this spiritual awak- 
 ening that is coming to all mankind, it at once 
 devolves upon us to at once begin to develop and 
 purify our minds, that a class of thoughts, may 
 permeate our being, and by that development, 
 we will become enabled to digest, and assimilate 
 those vibrations, we are so prone to call thoughts, 
 and by practice and learning how, and what we 
 must do, we can become so proficient that we will 
 be enabled to catch the finest vibrations of Uni- 
 versal Intelligence, and convert them into ideas, 
 which will enable us to know, what is for our best 
 good, as well as for the general good of all 
 mankind, and all teachers, must recognize, that we 
 are one universal brotherhood, with the Father- 
 hood of God. 
 
 I would call this advanced thought: First, 
 because, our thoughts must extend above, and 
 beyond the ordinary thoughts of men. For as 
 you all know, most men's thoughts today, do not 
 reach beyond politics and money making, and many 
 of my readers, will be censured by their friends 
 because of their neglect of business, and of putting 
 their minds, on things foolish and impossible, 
 as they will express it. Again I would call this 
 
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 advanced thought for the reason that we shall all 
 learn to think for ourselves, and ask no man to think 
 for us. If we would attain unto the position I 
 I have outlined, we must know something of 
 ourselves, in fact we must know all, and of the 
 things that are. Hence, there is no subject, of 
 greater importance, that man can discuss, for man 
 is an Epitome of the whole, or in other words a 
 second creation, and there is no subject that can 
 carry one into the depths of mysticism, so deep, 
 as the subject of the Creation, and unless you 
 have some comprehension of the Creation and 
 the relation man bears to the general whole, you 
 can have but little knowledge of the self. Hence 
 the depth of the statement, of the wise saying of 
 Solon, one of the seven wise men of Greece, 
 when he said, "Man, Know Thyself " The lesson 
 before us must of necessity, contains many if not 
 most of the basic principles, for the analysis, and 
 solution, of what has seemed to most of us in the 
 past, very mysterious problems, and I will venture 
 the assertion that many points brought out, and I 
 hope made plain to you, in this lesson, you have 
 been told time and again by your Christian 
 mothers, and grandmothers, and perhaps church 
 pastors, were beyond man to know, and you 
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 questions on points of such vital importance, as 
 they sincerely thought such things were only for 
 God to know, as they would tell you, and as is 
 quite common for men to say when they do not 
 know, unless, they should answer as did one 
 Congregational minister I know of, when asked 
 by a Sabbath School scholar, of the appearance 
 of Samuel before the Witch of Endor when called 
 up by Saul, and what it really meant, made reply 
 by saying, "fools could ask questions wise men 
 could not answer." But I say to you all, any 
 question finite mind can ask, finite mind can so 
 develop, that it can answer it, no matter what it 
 is, and I say further there are no mysteries, and 
 everything is according to a fixed law. No cause 
 without its effect, and no effect without a cause. 
 And yet, your hear ministers of the Gospel talking 
 of miracles and mysterious things, and at the same 
 time placing themselves before the people as 
 teachers as to what men should do to save their 
 souls, and at the same time, not knowing a single 
 basic principle, whereby the soul can raise itself 
 from the lowest point in the cycle of necessity in 
 which it finds itself while in this physical body, 
 and he, accepting and demanding a salary for 
 guiding a hungry, and thirsting soul after knowl- 
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oh how long, will such things continue to exist? 
 As men become attuned to the higher vibration, 
 they recognize this condition of things, and their 
 very souls cry out in one accord, give us the 
 Truth. We are tired of man-made ideas based 
 wholly upon selfish motives. If you can not give 
 them, we will search until we can find them, for 
 we know from our feelings and inner conscious- 
 ness, they do exist. And they do. But to know, 
 and understand Truth, you must fully understand 
 the Self. And to know the self you must go to 
 the beginning, the Creation of Our Universe. 
 As my readers all know, most men steer quite 
 shy, of even a discussion on the subject of the 
 Creation, as in fact most men believe it is beyond 
 man's comprehension to even think about it. I 
 will admit it is a very deep subject, and one that 
 requires deep thought in order to put it before 
 readers, or a class, so they can comprehend it, 
 with any degree of satisfaction. Even our Bible 
 writers have not been very explicit on the subject, 
 and without a certain degree of unfoldment, on 
 your part, you could form but a faint idea of the 
 truth from their writings. About the only writers 
 of the Bible, who say anything of the Creation 
 are St. John, and Moses. St. John says but very 
 little, and in fact about all he says is, that in the 
 
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 beginning God made all things, or, in other 
 words: "In the beginning was the Word, the 
 Word was with God, and the Word was God. 
 All things were made by Him, and without Him 
 was not anything made that was made. In Him 
 was life; and the life was the light of man. And 
 the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness 
 comprehended it not." This is the extent of St. 
 John's description of the creation, not much, but 
 it is sufficient to show that it was the Divine will 
 that created all things. First came the Word, then 
 the* Power. This does not seem to mean much 
 to the ordinary man, but to the one who knows 
 of his oneness with the Divine, the key to all magic , 
 and the door already ajar. 
 
 Moses is much more explicit in his descrip- 
 tion of the Creation in the first chapter of 
 Genesis, than was St. John, and I will analyze as 
 I go along, verse after verse, and see if we do 
 not understand better after we go through the 
 chapter than before. Before proceeding to 
 analyze, let us first take notice of the fact, that 
 Moses is describing Our Solar System Creation, 
 instead of going to the beginning as did St. John. 
 For it is a fact that most scientists are well aware 
 of the fact, that there were almost numberless 
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 which we are now inhabitants. In the first 
 chapter of Genesis, first verse, it says: u In the 
 beginning God created the Heaven and the 
 Earth. n Second verse: "And the Earth was 
 without form, and void, and darkness was upon the 
 face of the deep." St. John says: "The light 
 shineth in darkness, but the darkness compre- 
 hendeth it not." I would say do not think this 
 darkness spoken of, means the darkness of night 
 as we understand darkness to mean, but rather, it 
 is symbolic language, or language of God, which 
 I would say here is always in symbol, or hiero- 
 glyph, and means in this place without intelligence, 
 or in ignorance. Or, in other words, the elements 
 were at work, and were using the force attribute 
 of the Almighty. And the Spirit of God moved 
 upon the waters. Observe, the Spirit of God had 
 come, and Spirit always signifies intelligence, and 
 now, observe still more closely what the third 
 verse says: "And God said let there be light, and 
 there was light, and God saw the light, that it 
 was good: And God divided the light from the 
 darkness." Again take notice. This light was 
 not the light of the Sun, for there was yet no 
 Sun, and the Heavens and Earth was as yet not 
 divided, but notice the fact that the light came 
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other words a special intelligence came through the 
 Spirit to rule over our Solar System, then in 
 process of formation. And God divided the 
 light from the darkness, or in other words God 
 divided the intelligence from the ignorance. 
 And God called the light Day, and the darkness 
 Night. Now take notice that day, and night, 
 does not mean our day and night, as our day and 
 night are produced by the revolution of our earth 
 on its axis, and at that time, the Earth and 
 Heayens had not as yet been separated. And 
 notice again as you can read it, both day and 
 night are written in capital, which makes them 
 proper names instead of common; hence, I would 
 say to you, Day and Night are symbolic language, 
 again, and means Intelligence and Ignorance, 
 the same as Light and Darkness, and I will further 
 add, and as many of you know, most if not all 
 crime is committed under the influence of 
 forces that come in darkness, or night, or 
 ignorance, hence, if you would court the 
 assistance of unseen influences, do not choose 
 darkness, and especially inky darkness, for the 
 Spirit or Divine Power worketh in the light. 
 Elemental forces, or the prompters of evil, deceit y 
 and crime, worketh in darkness, and the darker 
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at least those who have had experience, in a dark 
 circle, what has been your experience in a dark 
 circle in a lightning storm? You cannot answer, 
 but I ask you, why did the circle break up at the 
 first bright flash? As I have said before there is 
 no effect without a cause, and my teachings are 
 to think for yourselves. Ask yourself why. "And 
 God said let there be a firmament in the midst of 
 the waters, and let it divide the waters from the 
 waters. And God made the firmament, and 
 divided the waters which were under the firma- 
 ment, from the waters which were above the 
 firmament, and it was so; and God called the 
 firmament Heaven, and the Evening and the 
 Morning the second day. And God said, let the 
 waters under the Heavens, be gathered together 
 unto one place, and let the dry land appear, and 
 it was so. And God called the dry land Earth, 
 and the gathering together of the waters called 
 He Seas. And God saw that it was good. And 
 God said let the Earth bring forth grass, the 
 herb, yielding seed, and the forest tree yielding 
 seed after his kind, whose seed is in itself upon 
 the earth; and it was so." Notice here: Each kind 
 was individualized, and you can prove this in 
 nature, as any man, of an observing nature 
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 of seeds within an inch of space, and they grow, 
 each its own kind, and no other; and when some 
 one tells you, you sprung from an ape, or a 
 monkey, or your soul once inhabited an animal, 
 and has gradually evolved to man, know that it is 
 not so, as you were individualized in the beginning 
 as a man, not as an animal, and observe, you are 
 the only type of creation, that walks with the head 
 erect, and looking upwards to the Heavens in- 
 stead of always facing the earth, which would as 
 much as say, I do not expect immortality of my 
 soul; for immortality is gained by the aid of 
 the Spirit which is above, in the light of Heaven, 
 and not below in the darkness of Earth. "And 
 God said let there be lights in the firmament of 
 the Heaven, to divide the day from the night; 
 and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for 
 days, and for years ; and let them be for lights in 
 the firmament of the Heaven to give light upon 
 the Earth; and it was so. And God made two 
 great lights, the greater light to rule the day, the 
 lesser light to rule the night; he made the Stars 
 also." You will notice by reading further that on 
 the fifth day he made the fowls of the air, animals 
 and fishes that inhabited the waters, etc., and each 
 and every one after its kind. And now we come 
 to the twenty-sixth verse, where it says: "And 
 
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 God said, let us make man in our own image, after 
 our likeness, and let them have dominion over 
 the fish of the sea, fowl of the air, etc." So God 
 created man in His own image. "In the image 
 of God created He him, male and female created 
 He them." The two Soul affinities, and the 
 marriage, meant, in the words ministers always 
 use in pronouncing a marriage ceremony between 
 man and woman, joined by a man-made law. 
 But apparently they have no idea of the true 
 meaning of the expression they use, for it has no 
 reference at all to the physicial marriage of man 
 and woman. As you have followed the descrip- 
 tion of the creation, you will notice that man was 
 the last thing to be created, and then God rested 
 on the seventh day, and called all things good. 
 By reading further you will see the earth was not 
 as yet inhabitable, and there was yet no man to 
 till the ground. u So God took from the dust of 
 the ground and formed man, and breathed into 
 his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a 
 living Soul." As you have followed me through 
 the description of the creation as given by Moses, 
 you will plainly see he has given a description of 
 the creation of our Solar System only, and has 
 not gone to the beginning of all creations, as 
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 System, as compared with the great whole, is 
 comparatively speaking, only as a drop in the 
 bucket. Both astronomers and astrologers know 
 that our Sun, with its revolving planets, is revolv- 
 ing around its Central Sun, Alcyone, one of the 
 pleiades, a collection of seven stars in the con- 
 stellation of Taurus. It is known further, that it 
 takes something over 25,900 years for the Sun to 
 make its revolution, or as I have said in the 
 beginning of this lesson, 2,160 years for the Sun 
 to pass through a single house of thirty degrees. 
 In the following plate, Chart No. I, you will 
 notice the seven small stars at the top, which are 
 to represent the pleiades, the central one being 
 Alcyone, the point around which our Sun 
 revolves, or in other words our Sun's Sun, or the 
 point from which influences are radiated, which 
 to our Solar System, are the vibrations, that 
 produce the dispensations, of this earth, of which 
 I have previously spoken. As the lines extend 
 out from this centre, their boundaries constitute 
 a house, and the dispensation is according to 
 what the special house would attract. For instance, 
 the Aries sign, would attract something of a fiery 
 nature; Pisces, of a watery nature; and Aquarius, 
 of a spiritual nature ; and as you see our Solar 
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 it seems a child could understand its full meaning 
 at a glance, and could be ready to explain just 
 what we mean by this Aquarian age, or new dis. 
 pensation. Then again, from this same chart you 
 can understand what Solomon meant, when he 
 said in Ecclesiastes, first chapter, fourth verse, 
 "One generation passeth away and a new one 
 cometh, but the earth abideth forever.' ' And 
 ninth verse: "The thing that hath been, it is 
 that which shall be; and that which is done is 
 that which shall be done, and there is no new 
 thing under the Sun." Tenth verse: "Is there 
 anything whereof it may be said: 'See this is new/ 
 It hath been already of old time, which was be- 
 fore us." Undoubtedly most, if not all of you, 
 have read this many times before, but by the aid 
 of the chart, I think each and every reader will 
 more fully comprehend the reason why, than ever 
 before. Many will say, my education is not 
 sufficient to grasp these great truths. But if you 
 will allow me to carry you back to the ushering 
 in of the Piscean age, when the Great Teacher 
 of that age, Jesus Christ, came, is it not a fact 
 that He chose his assistant teachers, from the most 
 humble walks in life, the poor uneducated fisher- 
 men? And did he not say, unless you became 
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great truth? Did he not choose from the 
 ignorant classes more to get rid of fixed opinions, 
 made in men, by ideas that they had obtained 
 from other men, and what most men call educa- 
 tion? Certainly so, and that lesson alone, is 
 sufficient to encourage every Soul, and the 
 greatest lesson of all to learn from it, is plainly 
 speaking, not to let what little man-made 
 education you have, make a fool of you, for 
 higher knowledge ; for there is no one so blind 
 as one who will not see, or one so deaf, as one 
 who will not hear. ' 'Having eyes see ye not? and 
 having ears hear ye not? and do ye not remem- 
 ber?" (Mark 8:18) . But with this new dispensa- 
 tion or special awakening, there will be more 
 children born, with this higher or sixth sense, 
 than has ever been known to this present genera- 
 tion, and the only question that presents itself 
 now, is, will the people be ready to take advan- 
 tage of that development in the child, so they 
 will not crush a God-given power, and source of 
 knowledge, rather than to encourage the gift, 
 and by so doing be the means of bettering 
 mankind, even though they, themselves, are still 
 in darkness. Much could be said on this one 
 point, and much needs to be said, but it seems 
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 at present, to at least set you to thinking, and to 
 feel, and see you are coming under new 
 influences, and it is a duty you owe yourself and 
 future generations, that you put forth some 
 effort to awake yourself from this state of slumber, 
 both you, and the world in general, has been in 
 for years, and not have it longer said, you have 
 eyes and see not, and ears and do not hear. 
 
 To revert back once again to the creation of 
 all things. As I have said before, Moses only 
 describes the creation of our Solar System, but 
 take notice of what St. John says: "In the 
 beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, 
 and the Word was God." You will observe St. 
 John conceived the idea, that all things first 
 originated in the word of the Almighty, or in 
 other words, the Word, or Logos came forth and 
 the Creation was the manifestation of the Word. 
 This would apply to the first Creation, as well as 
 to the last, and is in accord with the Ancient 
 Hindoo Philosophy. It does not seem there 
 could be such a thing as a single person, with 
 any degree of intelligence at all, that could but 
 think, feel and know, that there was a great first 
 cause, that produced all things. But history 
 reports a few so-called philosophers, who have 
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 have existed for all time. But to me such ideas 
 are as nonsensical, as for a man to say to me, my 
 house I live in here on earth, was never builded 
 by a mechanic, but simply came by chance. 
 My ideas are in exact accord with those of St. 
 John, and I feel and know, that a great first 
 cause existed and from that came the word, that 
 Solar Systems should exist, and then, that by the 
 aid of the power vested in Solar force, or as men 
 say, in nature's forces, the second creation 
 came; of which man as a physical being is the 
 highest type, the epitome of all created before, 
 and endowed with a part of God's own essence, 
 the Spirit. The name as applied to this great 
 first cause, has been different, as used by different 
 men, and different nations, and yet meaning in 
 reality the same. Some have expressed it as the 
 Rootless Root, or Causeless Cause; by some, the 
 Elohim; by others, the Adonia; by others, Allah; 
 by the Mystic Jews, Yod y He, Vau, He; by the 
 Christians of today, as God. But I will say to 
 you, technically speaking, God does not neces- 
 sarily mean the great first cause, and ever bear 
 that in mind. By Moses and John the Revelator, 
 and also by the Western Initiate of today, the 
 name is Lord God Almighty. Man today, as well 
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 or in some way, to comprehend, this great first 
 cause. But thus far man has never been able to 
 comprehend, in the least, this great first cause, 
 nor has he been able, by any language, to find 
 word to express it. Hence the origin of the 
 Trinity of God, that originates as far back as the 
 Mystic Sons of Light, who knowing the symbolic 
 language of God, recognizing the sphere as a 
 symbol of the Almighty, and the color white, 
 symbolic of absolute purity, took for the symbol 
 of the great first cause, the White Sphere, or the 
 Great White Light, which I have represented on 
 my Chart No. I, in the large sphere on the left. 
 And now comes another process of reasoning, 
 which comes to me as though it was used in 
 the ancient times by mystics, although I have 
 never heard this, or seen it in print, and should I 
 be mistaken in my prompting as to the former 
 use of the reasoning, credit it to me, as a prompt- 
 ing of the Aquariar age of 1905, which as you all 
 know, white can be resolved into three separate 
 and distinct colors, or as we call them the three 
 cardinal colors, red, yellow and blue. As I have 
 said to you, the sphere represents in symbol the 
 Almighty. We now make three Spheres as rep- 
 resented in the Chart, red, yellow and blue, each 
 representing a God Power, yet requiring the 
 three to constitute the Great White Sphere or 
 
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 light, hence would be considered the three 
 attributes, or Trinity of the Almighty. Now as 
 nature is the open book placed before man by 
 the Almighty, to know of His law, let us find 
 word in nature to express this Trinity, and 
 without going into detail, which I think unneces- 
 sary, you will find in nature, red is always 
 significant of Force, yellow of Love, and blue of 
 Intelligence, from thence the three ultimates, in 
 word, corresponding to three spheres in symbol, 
 and as handed down to the Christian Churches 
 of today, it becomes the Father, Son and Holy 
 Ghost — the Trinity. The whole, as man would 
 resolve the Almighty, that he might have some 
 conception of His greatness. The Father, corres- 
 ponding to the Force, the red; the Son corres- 
 ponding to the Love, the yellow; and observe here 
 the Son does not mean Jesus Christ, as most men 
 think, but the Divine Christ, that had an 
 existence with the Father before the worlds 
 were, and as spoken of by Jesus Christ, and also 
 by Moses. The Holy Ghost, or Holy Guest, or 
 Holy Visitor, corresponds to the Intelligence of 
 the Almighty or in symbols to the Blue, or to the 
 Spirit. Hence you will observe the Trinity of 
 God, is a man-made conception, and not the con- 
 ception of the Almighty, as many think and also 
 teach. 
 
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 LESSON II. 
 
 The Gift of the Spirit, and Soul 
 Individualization . 
 
 ASwe have learned in the preceding lesson, of 
 ^Ty the Creation, as described by St. John, and 
 Moses, and I doubt if there were any other 
 writers, whose description would be more accept- 
 able, I feel we are all, ready to accept their ideas 
 and admit, that man was the last type of creation: 
 and he made in image, of all created before. A 
 creation so to speak, of God, and nature, as we 
 shall further show. As a man is a part of the 
 Almighty, through the gift of the Spirit, there 
 must be a means by which the Almighty, would 
 speak to His children, and as I have said before, 
 there is, and it is the universal language, which is 
 always in symbol, or Hieroglyph. There are two 
 ways which God uses to instruct men, one 
 through form, color and nature of the things, of 
 nature itself, and the other by means of man's 
 
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guardian Angel, which is ever with man, and 
 working for his eternal good. There is a saying 
 that has endured for ages, that contains the same 
 truth as when it first originated. That nature, 
 was God's open book placed before man, that he 
 might read as he runs. Not only the animal, 
 mineral and vegetable kingdoms of this earth, 
 but the earth itself, and Planets in the Heavens, 
 constitue a part of this book, and does not Moses 
 say, " These planets are for signs, for seasons, 
 for days and for years?" The first atom that 
 comes forth, is the manifestation of a thought, of 
 the Divine. A combination of atoms, forms either 
 a symbol, or Hieroglyph, which to man, conveys 
 possibly a single idea. And then again, it may 
 convey whole volumes, of the grandest truths. 
 
 The highest language that comes to man, 
 through nature, is, in my opinion, through color, 
 and geometric symbol. And when we take into 
 consideration the Great White Sphere, or the 
 White Light, as the Causeless Cause, and resolve 
 the white into the three attributes, we have as 
 the first basis of reasoning, the three cardinal 
 colors, as seen in the Chart No. I, Red, Yellow 
 and Blue. And now as an example let us take 
 these three colors, only a small part of a single 
 page in God's great book, and see whether or 
 
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 riot, we can read from these manifestations. In 
 the first place, as you all know, color to the phys- 
 ical eye is simply a manifestation of atoms in 
 motion. The red, being the lowest, and so on 
 up the scale into the violets or highest color 
 vibration. As you will now refer to the Chart, 
 you will observe the three colors, as represented 
 in the three spheres, produce by a perfect joining 
 our seven prismatic colors, as you see, by passing 
 a ray of sunshine, through a glass prism and 
 in their order, as named on the chart, Red, 
 Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Vio- 
 let. The same as seen when you look at the 
 rainbow, and is the reflection, of the color vibra- 
 bration, of our seven planets, Mars, Sun, 
 Venus, Moon, Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn. 
 These seven colors as they appear, also 
 represent the vibration in color, of the 
 seven planets of our Solar System, and as the 
 influence of a planet predominates in radiating 
 its influence to mankind; such is the color 
 vibration he receives, and from thence, the basis 
 of reasoning for the treatment of disease by 
 color vibration. When these vibrations are made 
 manifest on the organs of hearing, rather than 
 color, they become sound, and correspond to 
 our seven notes in music, Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, 
 
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La, Si. Each note corresponding in vibration to 
 the vibration of the planet placed opposite in the 
 chart, according to the best authority. Mars the 
 key of G, Sun C, Venus A, Moon F, Mercury 
 E, Jupiter B, Saturn D. Then again we have 
 our seven days in the week, corresponding to 
 our seven creative planets in the Heavens. Each 
 day being under distinct rule of one of these 
 planets; the Sun ruling Sunday, the Moon 
 Monday, Mars Tuesday, Mercury Wednesday, 
 Jupiter Thursday, Venus Friday, and Saturn 
 Saturday. Thus far we have only applied these 
 few colors, saying nothing of the various shades 
 and tints, to a basis of reasoning, to simply show 
 you that by a knowledge of symbolism, it will 
 enable you to unravel the things that in the past 
 have seemed to you mysterious, and by putting 
 together, the different ideas as expressed by a 
 variety of symbols, you thus are gradually en- 
 abled to read this Divine language, and you 
 gradually become as it were, a student of nature, 
 or of God should you so choose to call yourself, 
 for nature is His book, and one means by which 
 He speaks to men. We have thus far spoken only 
 in brief of color symbolism, but sufficient I think 
 to rouse you to action, that you may begin to 
 open your eyes and see, what a world of know- 
 
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ledge is being lost by you daily, yes, hourly, and 
 in fact every minute. We will now open up a 
 source of information, although different from 
 Color Symbolism, yet in my mind equally as 
 instructive, and of about equal importance, in 
 source of origin. I now have reference to 
 Geometric Symbolism, and I will limit myself to 
 the use of just three figures, the circle, the 
 crescent, and the cross. You will observe the 
 circle is a repetition of points, which constitutes 
 a line, without beginning or ending, which is 
 always symbolic of Spirit, the first outbreathing 
 of the Almighty. Hence, whenever in the 
 future you see the figure of a circle, you may 
 know it has some reference to the Spirit of God. 
 And now the Crescent: Did it not say, when the 
 Creation of our Solar System was first in process 
 of formation, the Spirit came, and imparted a 
 special intelligence ? If the Spirit gave that 
 intelligence, would it not be a part of Spirit, 
 hence a part of a Circle? Have we not learned 
 that this intelligence that nature possesses, is Soul 
 intelligence, and radiated to mankind through 
 the Sun, or old Sol? And now we come to the 
 Cross, four angles, and really means the same as 
 were it a square, and in Symbolism, or the 
 language of God, always meaning, or having 
 
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 reference to the four Elements, or to material 
 things. Now by joining these three symbols, 
 we produce figures, or symbols, that tell it all, as 
 regards our planets in the Heavens, and the 
 influence they radiate to us. First we have the 
 circle with a dot in the centre, symbolic of the 
 Sun, the radiator of all influence to earth, the 
 special planet upon whom the Spirit imparted 
 the special intelligence, to rule the whole Solar 
 System. Then the Moon, symbolized by the 
 Crescent, or in other words, the rib of Adam. 
 And do you now see, how Eve was made from 
 a rib ? Then we have the Symbol of Venus, the 
 love element of the skies, a Circle placed above a 
 Cross, Spirit predominating over the Cross or 
 materiality. Hence you know the influence at 
 once this planet radiates to mankind. 
 
 The old Hermetic Law was, as above so 
 below, and as below so above. Let us see if we 
 can apply this just in this place. Look at the 
 formation of man. By his standing erect, feet 
 close together and arms outstretched at right 
 angles to body, is he not the Symbol of Venus, 
 the Circle above, surmounting the Cross? Can 
 you now understand something of the Symbolic 
 language of the Crucifixion of Christ on the 
 Cross, and do you see that it means, men are 
 
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 crucifying their own Christ daily, on their own 
 cross of materiality? Learn to read this Symbolic 
 language, then you can read the greatest book 
 there is for man to read today, the Bible, but with- 
 out a knowledge of which, you have but the faintest 
 conception of the great truths therein taught. 
 This Symbol, of which we have just spoken, 
 would show man to be a Venus, with Spirit, ruling 
 over matter, and such was man originally, but 
 materiality soon overruled Spirit, and from thence 
 came the fall of man, more of which will be 
 spoken of in the next lesson. And now as we 
 study the Heavens we find this Symbolic language 
 constantly in use, and as you learn it, the Heavens 
 become one of the most interesting of studies, 
 and by just having a slight knowledge of the 
 three figures I have mentioned, the Circle, 
 Crescent and Cross, you can but feel a wave of 
 enthusiasm, permeating your very Soul, and you 
 at once exclaim with David, ''Yes: The Heavens 
 do declare the Glory of God, and the firmament 
 showeth his handiwork. Day unto day uttereth 
 speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge. 
 There is no speech or language where the voice 
 is not heard." Much might be said of this 
 Symbolic language, in fact, whole volumes 
 written, but as this work is not for that purpose, 
 
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 I content myself with just the mere hints thrown 
 out, believing all my readers will see at a glance, 
 there is a work for them to do. 
 
 As I spoke in the beginning of the two ways 
 in which the Creator spoke to His children, I 
 will now take up in brief, the instruction man 
 receives through the Guardian Angel. Many 
 men know they receive impressions, that would 
 they heed them, they would seldom make a 
 mistake. But, not knowing of the great 
 importance of these impressions, and their source, 
 they fail to take recognition of them, and thus 
 walk straight to their own ruin, and possibly 
 immediate destruction. Such was the case of Dr. 
 Penwarden, of this city, whom most of my 
 readers will remember, was killed, together with 
 his wife, in the terrible railroad wreck, some two 
 years ago, while returning home from his former 
 home in Canada, during the Christmas holiday 
 season. He received the impression before 
 going, not to go, but he heeded not the impres- 
 sion. This Guardian Angel is not always content 
 with simply impressing us, but often throws into 
 the range of our Soul vision, pictures, made from 
 astral substance. Some are much higher 
 developed in this gift than others. For instance, 
 some have the development to the extent that at 
 
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any time, upon a question being asked them, 
 immediately upon the closing of the eyes, and 
 the shutting out of the mind all thought, a picture 
 will be thrown in the range of vision that is in 
 answer to the question asked, and at the same 
 time, a prompting comes in the mind, as to the 
 meaning of the picture. This is when the gift is 
 most highly developed, and considered among 
 the mystics, one of the highest gifts. To most 
 men, this means of receiving replies to questions, 
 from the Guardian Angel, will only come at 
 night, when the mind is quiet, just between the 
 sleeping and waking state. For an example of 
 this state, read second chapter of the book of 
 Daniel. You will observe that Nebuchadnezzar 
 had thrown before him in a vision a picture by 
 the Guardian Angel. He forgot the picture ere 
 morning came, but he remembered that he had 
 had a vision, and that it was of great importance 
 to him. He called the wise men before him, 
 Astrologers, Sorcerers, Magicians, etc., and told 
 them he had had a vision, but had forgotten it, 
 but they must tell him what his vision was, and 
 what it meant. To which they all replied they 
 could not tell him, unless he could recall the 
 vision. And his decree went forth, destruction 
 to all the so-called wise men, if they could not 
 
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 accede to his demands, and the Captain of the 
 King's Guards started at once to fulfill the 
 King's order, when Daniel approached him, and 
 begged for a little time, that he might save the 
 wise men, from this dire command of the King. 
 The request being granted, note what Daniel 
 did, verse seventeen, of the second chapter of 
 Daniel: "Then went Daniel to his house, and 
 made the thing known to Han-a-niah, Mish-a-el 
 and Azariah, his companions: That they would 
 desire mercies of the God of Heaven concerning 
 this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should 
 not perish with the rest of the wise men of 
 Babylon. Then was the secret revealed unto 
 Daniel in a night vision." Note, that with the 
 development that Daniel had, he had to take the 
 night to receive the vision or prompting, and also 
 made request of the three companions that they 
 assist him. Suffice to say, he received the pictreu 
 from the Guardian Angel, as was of very common 
 occurrence in those days, and just as common 
 nowadays, had men been taught from their 
 childhood, that all things seen and heard nights, 
 were not mere dreams, due to a disturbed brain 
 from an overloaded stomach, but in reality 
 promptings from a source far above the objective 
 mind of man, and many times, lessons of the 
 
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 greatest importance to the individual, and ever, 
 and eternally for his best good. I would say one 
 thing more on this point, before leaving this part 
 of the subject, and that is to the symbol seer, do 
 not confound symbol seeing, with clarivoyancy. 
 Symbol seeing is far higher than clarivoyance. 
 Symbol seeing, are pictures thrown in the range 
 of soul vision, produced from astral substance 
 by the Guardian Angel, while clarivoyance, is 
 simply seeing by the Soul vision, things and forms 
 as they actually exist in the next higher vibration. 
 Thus you see the difference of the two, and let 
 me impress upon your minds the importance of 
 what you may see, in what you have been 
 accustomed to call dreams, for should you fail to 
 recognize the import of the picture, you would 
 fail to comprehend the great lessons the Almighty 
 would have you know. 
 
 We now return to the Creation of Man, the 
 greatest of all, when God said let us make man, 
 in our own image. In passing over the last 
 lesson, you will have observed, that all things had 
 been created previous to the Creation of Man, 
 and I shall try to show to you, that man, the last 
 and greatest of all, is an epitome, or exemplifi- 
 cation of all things created before. Any one, or 
 all of you, have observed the similarity of the 
 
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 skeleton, in animals, or even fowls, to the 
 skeleton of man. You will also notice the 
 muscles are almost the same, and of about 
 the same texture. You will further notice the 
 law of growth , disease and death, about the same. 
 You will further notice, that among the wild and 
 untamed animals, and even among the uncivilized 
 class of human beings, disease is not so prevalent, 
 as among those, whom man in his present state 
 of education rules over, and dictates to, as regards 
 their mode of living. You will further notice, that 
 man is not only similar to the lower order, but 
 corresponds in his make-up to the creations of 
 the Heavens as well, and is an epitome of all 
 things there, as well as of things here on earth, 
 with which we are familiar. And from whence 
 came the Old Hermetic Law, "As it is above, so 
 it is below; and as below, so it is above.' ' There 
 is nothing here on earth, but that is exemplified 
 in the higher life ; hence the saying, that all 
 things here on earth are but the shadow of the 
 real. Even the school system here, whereby 
 the passing of a satisfactory examination, permits 
 you to go to a higher grade, is only an example 
 of the Soul's experience in gaining the lofty 
 height to which it should aspire, in the cycle of 
 necessity, and to which it will aspire, when it 
 
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 gains the knowledge so as to know the reward 
 that awaits it, when the ascent is made, more of 
 which I shall tell to you, in lessons to come in 
 the future. 
 
 And now God said let us make man in our 
 own image. Now, according to this statement, 
 man must be in image of all, of God, and all 
 created before. Hence, he must partake of the 
 nature of God, of the nature of the seven 
 planets, and of the twelve constellations of stars, 
 that constitute our Zodiac, that existed before 
 our Solar System was created, and was instru- 
 mental, or took a part in furnishing the Intelli- 
 gence, by which our planets are kept in proper 
 position, and in action and influence. We have 
 shown to you in the previous lesson, that in order 
 for man to have any conception of the Almighty, 
 it was necessary for him to resolve God into the 
 Trinity, as expressed in ultimates, Force, Love and 
 Intelligence. As man is in image of the whole, 
 he must possess attributes, that correspond to 
 these, hence the three in man, corresponding to 
 love, force and intelligence, are body, soul and 
 spirit. Now friends, notice, Soul and Spirit, are 
 not one and the same as most men think, but are 
 separate and distinct, and come from different 
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 classification, I refer you to First Thessalonians, 
 fifth chapter, twenty-third verse, where Paul 
 says: "I pray God, your whole spirit, soul and 
 body, be preserved blameless unto the coming of 
 our Lord Jesus Christ. " I will say now, in the 
 law of correspondences, the body corresponds 
 to the force attribute. It is also the part through 
 which the force in man is made manifest. The 
 Soul corresponds to the love attribute, or is the 
 means by which the love is made manifest in the 
 man.- When dwarfed, or misguided, in man, it 
 becomes the seat of passion, and emotion. The 
 Spirit corresponds to the intelligence, the highest 
 and by far, the finest of the Trinity, the Divine 
 Essence, the principle that came first after the 
 Logos, whereby worlds were formed. Did one of 
 you ever stop to think that you were a possessor 
 of such a wonderful power as exists in Divine 
 Essence, or Spirit? Do you understand that 
 Spirit really means God's breath? Can you now 
 for a second comprehend even man's greatness, 
 when knowing he is a possessor, of such a 
 wonderful power? Do you now understand 
 what St. Paul says in First Corinthians, sixth 
 chapter, nineteenth verse, when he says:" What: 
 know ye not that your body is the Temple of the 
 Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have 
 
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of God, and ye are not your own ? For 
 ye are bought with a price, therefore glorify 
 God in your body, and in your Spirit, which are 
 God's." He says again in the third chapter, 
 sixteenth verse: "Know ye not that ye are the 
 Temples of God, and that the Spirit of God 
 dwelleth in you ? If any man defile the Temple 
 of God, him shall God destroy; for the Temple 
 of God is holy, which Temple ye are." Friends 
 do you see, St. Paul tells you the same as I do? 
 That God furnishes the Spirit as His part in the 
 Creation of Man ? Do you see further that death 
 comes because you defile the Temple? Do you 
 now see, you are bought with a price, and your 
 Temple has been defiled, and the price you have 
 to pay is sickness and finally death? Do you see 
 that if you did not defile your bodies, there 
 would be no sickness for you ? And can you now 
 understand what John the Revelator means when 
 he says, the last great victory to overcome is 
 death, and as further exemplified by Jesus Christ, 
 when he suffered himself to be crucified, or in 
 other words, killed by ignorant men, in order 
 that he might show to the world, the victory over 
 what men call death, and so raised his body on 
 the third day. Now friends, this Spirit principle 
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predominant in man, and will be again when he 
 is in perfection, as were the original Sons of God, 
 and as was exemplified in Jesus Christ, the name 
 itself meaning perfected manhood, and full 
 development and manifestation of the Spirit 
 Divine. If you will now revert back to our 
 first lesson, or to the first chapter of Genesis, 
 you will observe that in the beginning of 
 the creation of the universe, God said, let 
 there be light. I said to you at the time that it 
 meant an intelligence that was to govern the 
 Solar System, that was then to be formed. 
 You all know, the ruler of this System, or in fact 
 any Solar System, is the Sun. Hence if this 
 intelligence is to govern a Solar System, it must 
 be a Soul Force or Intelligence, hence, soul, must 
 come from this source, and as Nature has its 
 beginning in Solar Systems, Soul Intelligence, 
 must be ruler of all things in Nature. I told you 
 in the lesson before, that in the evolvement of 
 man, God first of all individualized Spirit, and 
 projected it to a lower plane. Now comes the 
 clothing of the Spirit with Soul force, as dictated by 
 the Archangels, or rulers of the forces/possessed by 
 the Sun and six helpers, for man is to be in their 
 image, as well as the image of God. And now 
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 the first place God furnished the highest 
 principle in man, Intelligence or Spirit. Now 
 must come the next highest in man, which must 
 be the vital organs, whereby man can exist as a 
 physical and perpetuate the species. Hence 
 let us see, if the vital organs in man, do not 
 correspond to the forces of the seven planets in 
 our Solar System, the Sun, Moon, Mercury 
 Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. 
 
 The most vital organ in man, as you all 
 know is the Heart, the centre of all, and the 
 centre of all things in nature. It is the force in 
 man, and when it ceases to act, man is no longer 
 a physical being. The Sun is the centre of all 
 force in the Heavens, and should it cease to act, 
 no longer would we have a Solar System. "As it 
 is above, so it is below; and as below, so above. " 
 The Moon corresponds to a man's Brain. It is 
 the reflection of the Heart, and if you will but 
 stop to think, you will remember sudden fright 
 or anguish, does not strike you first of all in the 
 brain, but in the heart, and from there reflected 
 to the Brain or Moon. And in common parlance, 
 if a man is a little off in the upper story, do not 
 men say he is a lunatic ? Mercury corresponds 
 in man to the vital organs, the Lungs. It is the 
 real intelligence giver, or tale bearer of the skies. 
 
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It gives to man all the intelligence he posseses, 
 and the lungs are the medium through which he 
 receives it, and did one of you ever stop to think 
 what it meant when one said he was inspired, or 
 recived any knowledge by inspiration ? Did you 
 stop to think he breathed it in? Well friends, 
 that is just what it means, and if you would 
 receive by inspiration, begin at once, the practice 
 of deep breathing, and thought control. Jupiter, 
 the God of Justice, corresponds to the vital 
 organ'in man, the Liver. As you all know the 
 Liver is the adjuster of all troubles in the system 
 of man. Venus, the love element in the skies, 
 rules in man the Kidneys, which regulates the 
 fluids of the body, one of the most important 
 and in fact, rules the medium, by which the 
 physical body is held together. The love element, 
 or power of attraction. Saturn, corresponds to 
 the spleen in the human body. It is really the 
 store house of magnetic force, and one who 
 would practice magnetic healing, should ever 
 have this in mind, in conducting the magnetic 
 currents to various parts of the body. And last, 
 but by no means least, Mars, the God of War in 
 the skies, has his counterpart in man, in the 
 Sexual Organs, the seat of passions and emotions, 
 and I ask each and every one of you, 
 
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 what produces, more trouble in homes, more 
 wars in families, and even among nations, than 
 man's passional nature. The God of Wars in 
 the skies, the God of Wars in man. Can you not 
 all see the law of correspondences, all the way 
 through ? But let us see if we can not prove it 
 further, even beyond a doubt, that these seven 
 planets furnish the Soul element of the men of 
 this earth. You all know we have a variety of 
 men and women, and scarcely ever two just 
 exactly alike. The frame work may be very 
 similar, and some times look much alike, and 
 yet, it is an exception rather than a rule, that two 
 look exactly like. But we have not come to the 
 frame work as yet, for the planets are not fur- 
 nishing the form, but simply the Soul element, 
 and only as the individual Soul dictates, will the 
 frame be changed. I will now say the Sun is the 
 ruler of the seven, which radiate their influence 
 to all things that have an existence and growth on 
 this earth. The Sun stands in the centre of all 
 with all the others going around Him, at different 
 rates of speed, hence they would not all be 
 radiating their influence at the same time, to the 
 earth, hence at one time, one would predominate, 
 while at another time, another influence, hence 
 as many varieties of men and women, as there 
 
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 could be different positions, in the circuit of 360 
 degrees around the Sun. We will suppose then 
 at first, that the Sun is radiating its own force to 
 a Soul that is to manifest on the physical plane, 
 and that Sun force is predominant of all others. 
 Now in such a case you will find a person whose 
 disposition is noble, magnanimous, proud and lofty. 
 Humane, and a faithful friend. Will not even 
 take advantage of an enemy. Very pompous, 
 proud, fond of dress, and if they wear jewels of 
 any kind, the best is none too good for them. If 
 the Moon predominates with her influence, then 
 you will have one polite in manners, loves the 
 sciences, delights in novelties, wants to change 
 habitation frequently, moves every new Moon 
 or oftener, (unless she has a husband born of the 
 Sun in Leo) , rather inclined to be unsteadfast, 
 caring only for the present, easily frightened, 
 loving peace and mighty few cares. Is a Jack 
 of all trades and master of none. If Mars should 
 mix his influence, then you have a drunkard 
 sure. If Saturn should mix, a beggar, for such a 
 Soul is too lazy to breathe, and if he does not 
 breathe deep enough, consumption will relieve 
 the world of him, sooner or later. You will then 
 have the person who is profound in imagination, 
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about as sparingly as his words, or more so ; a 
 deep thinker, but as a general thing thinking 
 how he can make a cent. A true friend when 
 not influenced by others. Friends, this is a 
 Saturn Soul, on the physical, when at his best. 
 When illy dignified, he is envious, covetous, 
 jealous, ever mistrustful, sordid, crabbed. What 
 women call a regular old bear, and in fact, he is 
 almost a hater of women. He is malicious, 
 treacherous, and ever and ever grumbling, and a 
 liar of the first degree, but always to his advan- 
 tage, if can be. Then we have what we call the 
 jovial man. Did you ever stop to think that Jove 
 was Jupiter? In such a man, we find one who 
 is magnanimous, noble, aspiring to high honors, 
 honorable, and usually religious. They are the 
 ones who usually aspire to the judge's bench, and 
 if wholly of Jupiter, should be there, for the 
 true Jupiterian, is ever honest, just and upright 
 in all dealings. But if Saturn or Mars mixes 
 influences, they make the cleverest religious 
 hypocrites you ever saw. 
 
 And now the Martial man, or Mars man. 
 He is one of the fearless, bold, violent in dispo- 
 sition, usually generals in an army, and they are 
 of the bull dog tenacity, and will fight a thing 
 out on a certain line if it takes all summer — 
 
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 General Grant, if you please. Then we have the 
 Venus, the love element of the skies, and cor- 
 responds to the yellow ray. Sweet in temper and 
 disposition, cheerful and placid, graceful, fair 
 spoken, merry and cheerful, and delights in the 
 fine arts, music, dancing, and light heartedness 
 in general. If illy dignified by the addition of 
 Mars' influence, or certain Moon influences, 
 they make women, that will be so low, they will 
 even make men blush. Then comes the Mercurial 
 man. • The politician, loves to argue, intellect 
 keen, a searcher into mysteries, and will learn 
 anyway, whether he has a teacher or not. He is 
 usually a delver after occult knowledge, and will 
 get it, if he is persevering. When he is illy 
 dignified, he is one of the cutest liars you ever 
 did see. He simply lies for the fun of it, even if 
 the truth would be better. He is always telling 
 you what some one else said about you, a regular 
 news-monger, or tale-bearer; and a name very 
 common nowadays for such people are u four 
 flushers." Pretend to know a whole lot, and 
 really do know but very little. They constitute 
 the women in a neighborhood, who make trouble 
 between men and wives. 
 
 Now we have two planets, Uranus and 
 Nepture, that transfer their vibrations to things 
 
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 on earth, but they are in the next octave, and 
 Uranus vibrates in octave expression to Mercury, 
 and Neptune to Venus. We know something of 
 the vibration of Uranus, but of Neptune we know 
 but little, as there are but few keyed to such a 
 high vibration that they can really catch the fine 
 vibrations of Neptune, so as to comprehend its 
 full influence. In bad aspect, in a horoscope, it 
 is known to bring down disaster to the native. 
 In passing over any Sign of the Zodiac, the 
 country that that signs rules, is usually visited by 
 the worst kind of plagues. For instance, at the 
 time of the Phoenix Park murders, this planet 
 was in exact conjunction with the Sun, Saturn 
 and Mercury, and all four planets set at Dublin, 
 May 6, 1882, at 7:17 p. m., the exact time the 
 murder was committed. In March, 1889, this 
 planet entered the sign, that ruled London, and 
 you will all remember those dreadful murders, 
 and terrible mutilation of bodies, and of women, 
 by the undiscovered Jack the Ripper. It is 
 furthermore thought by men, who have made a 
 life-long study of this subject, that Neptune 
 vibrations are the ones that have prompted men 
 in the discovery of the high explosives, and 
 means of death, and without any authority, 
 except my own prompting, will say, it will 
 
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 undoubtedly be Neptune vibrations, that will 
 assist the inventor in building the real successful 
 air ship. Of the vibrations of Uranus we are a 
 little more familiar than of those of Neptune. 
 We know at once he is malefic, that is, he is not 
 in harmony, with the things of this physical 
 plane, and when his vibrations do not come in 
 perfect harmony with those planets of the lower 
 octave, it brings disappointment, and sometimes 
 dire destruction. When his vibrations enter 
 materially into the Soul make-up, you find one 
 whom the people call eccentric, full of inven- 
 tions, and novelties, studying some of the 
 mysterious, and occult sciences, and if support is 
 good, will succeed, (of whom your humble 
 servant is which) and with Neptune, one of the 
 same occult nature, in Sextile, Jupiter in S. 
 Sextile, and Saturn also at fair angle, he should 
 be able at some time in the future, to build an 
 air ship, or set north river afire. But there is one 
 thing not so funny, for when Uranus stands in 
 the first house, or in other words, is part ruler 
 of your Soul, you have got to marry a partner 
 of the same nature, or else you part, sure, for it 
 separates you ; and the same if it stands in the 
 seventh house, as then it indicates you will get a 
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the other purely of a physical nature, will not 
 live together, for they are not the ones whom 
 God hath joined together, that no man should 
 put asunder. 
 
 Now friends, you may say, why this lesson 
 is nearly all of an astrological nature, and this 
 will do me no good ; I have wasted my time in 
 studying it. But, I will say to you all, you are 
 each and every one of you, a part of a great 
 whole, and must vibrate in exact harmony with 
 these several planets, as I have instructed you, 
 and when they are casting inharmonious vibra- 
 tions to you, you are what you call sick. Your 
 own Soul, is the part of you that receives these 
 vibrations, and is in reality, of the same substance 
 as is the force that rules these sevdn planets. 
 Your physical body is the instrument, the 
 physicial senses represent the strings of the 
 instrument, and as the chord is sounded from the 
 Heavens, so you vibrate, unless by the power of 
 will, you raise yourself above the physical vibra- 
 tions and come in chord with the higher notes. 
 This, friends, is raising yourself above the law of 
 fate, for the law of fate and destiny is dictated 
 to men on earth in this way, and if you know the 
 law, you can escape the punishment, by not 
 violating. Hence the meaning of the saying 
 
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of Christ, when he said, know the truth, and the 
 truth will make you free. I have taught it to you 
 in this lesson, fix it well in your minds, as you 
 have ideas you cannot well afford to lose in your 
 further development, for as your unfoldment 
 comes more and more, you will see the necessity 
 of these basic principles, more and more, and 
 with these basic principles, I have given you, it 
 will enable you to solve, most, if not all things, 
 that will present themselves to your mind for 
 solution. 
 
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 The Building of the Body and 
 Elemental Forces. 
 
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 'E have now come to the third lesson of the 
 series, The Building of the Body. To 
 most men of earth, this will, or should be 
 the one of greatest importance of all, for this 
 reason: We know of the physical body as being 
 in actual existence. We deal with it daily, and 
 most people recognize its existence by the 
 sufferings, of pain and unrest they actually 
 experience, more or less at times during their 
 life, and which will continue, until they learn the 
 real truth, and living it, can they be free. The 
 subject, should be of great importance, to the 
 physician, as his work is to relieve, the suffering 
 produced by his patrons' ignorance. He visits 
 you, he sees you have fever — he sees you are in 
 pain. Does he inform you of the real cause of 
 your illness, that you may prevent its return, or 
 
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 perhaps, help yourself to throw off, or overcome, 
 the present attack? No, he simply gives it a 
 name, and in most instances, blinds himself to 
 the true condition, by masking the real trouble, 
 by a dose of some opiate. You are well satisfied 
 with his visit, for he has relieved you, from paying 
 the price of some violation of law, of the physical 
 which you should learn, and it was your own 
 Soul, that was prompting you by the pain, you 
 were experiencing, of something done by you, 
 that you fhould not have done. In other words that 
 pain was a sign board, put in front of you, in size 
 of letters according to the pain, saying what have 
 you done ? Was it the doctor's duty to cover the 
 sign, so to speak, by the opiate, or learn the 
 cause, remove it, and then teach you, the source 
 from which trouble came, that you might not 
 again experience it? But now I ask you, do you 
 think the doctor knows much more about the 
 real cause of things than you do ? To which I 
 answer, unless he knows of the relation of the 
 physical body, to the Soul, and of the Soul, to 
 the Spirit, and the general relation of the body 
 and Soul, to the Universe in general, he is no 
 more qualified to practice the healing art, than 
 any old woman, and many times, not as much so, 
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 medicine, and tweny-five years practice, I know 
 whereof I speak, and now more fully realize the 
 truth of the saying that physicians are born, not 
 made. The lawyer deals with men, reaping rich 
 rewards for settling disputes, that are due to 
 men's emotions, and passions, both of which 
 belong to the body, and Soul, which, could men 
 learn, and realize, the law they were violating, 
 lawyers would have a different work to do than 
 what they are doing at the present time. The 
 lawyer's real duty is to teach men inter-world 
 law, as well as man-made law, which is mostly, if 
 not wholly , based upon common sense, or at least, 
 should be. It should be their duty, to settle 
 disputes, rather than create. This lesson should 
 be of importance to the minister of the gospel, 
 for of all men, he is the one who should know 
 the relations of body, soul and spirit, the source 
 of each, and the general relation each and every 
 one of the attributes bear to the whole. He is 
 the one of all, who would teach you how to 
 direct, and know, that he did not have to teach 
 you by belief merely, but by facts, that you 
 might demonstrate to yourself, as a truth. No 
 matter what is said, or who said it, it is not an 
 absolute truth, to you, until you can prove it to 
 yourself. To teach a thing based wholly upon 
 
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belief, is as near worth nothing, as anything I 
 can call to mind. Most men teach that it is by 
 faith, that you know, but they are confounding 
 faith with belief, for faith y means to know, and 
 is that not proved by the saying of Christ, when 
 he said "Had you faith sufficient, you could 
 order the mountain to be removed and it would 
 be cast into the sea." Do you not see that he 
 meant by faith, absolute knowledge, whereby it 
 might be accomplished ? Absolute knowledge 
 of the power of commanding the elemental forces 
 of nature? Friends, faith does not mean belief, 
 and when you know a thing simply because some 
 one told you so, and even their knowledge was 
 simply based upon belief, you simply have 
 nothing, not even a basis, of reasoning, to start 
 from. By reading the gifts of the Spirit in 
 twelfth chapter of First Corinthians, you will 
 find faith the third gift of the Spirit, the first 
 being wisdom, the second knowledge, and after 
 you had knowledge, then, as a matter of fact, 
 came faith, for had you knowledge, certainly you 
 must know, and to know is faith. Belief is 
 something hoped for, no absolute knowledge 
 that it will take place. To the student for initia- 
 tion, this lesson is as absolutely necessary, as the 
 multiplication table would be to a student in 
 
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 higher mathematics. If you would attain unto 
 any height, you must know of the building of 
 body, as it is by man's greatest enemy for psychic 
 development, that this body of ours is builded, 
 which, without a knowledge of, and just how to 
 overcome, man cannot attain to even low heights, 
 saying nothing of dizzy heights to which man 
 may attain, for these enemies, are our Soul 
 testers so to speak, and until they are understood, 
 and overcome, man cannot receive at will, from 
 the Spirit, the source of all truth. Nothing is 
 truth, except it come from the Spirit, even your 
 own Soul may deceive you. These enemies I 
 have referred to, are no more nor less than the 
 elements of nature, fire, earth, air and water. 
 The four enter into your physical make-up, and 
 when made to obey, your greatest friends, but when 
 you obey them, your greatest enemies — the real 
 cause of man's original downfall, the cause of 
 sickness and suffering among mankind, and 
 finally, the ultimate cause of death. And now 
 observe, John says, "The last great victory to 
 overcome is death." How will you do it? By 
 making every element of nature do your bidding, 
 instead of your doing theirs. And now, dear 
 readers, with the preliminaries which I have 
 given, which I think is sufficient for to show you 
 
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the depth of our lesson, and the things 
 necessary for you to get, I feel we can 
 proceed with the lesson proper, and you 
 grasp it all. 
 
 In the first place I will give you a short 
 description of the chart I have made, that you 
 may understand more readily as I go along. (See 
 Chart No. II.) First then, this figure I have drawn 
 is to represent our Solar System, the Sun in the 
 centre, and the Planets revolving around it, and 
 outside of the whole the twelve Constellations of 
 Stars, or a Zone of Stars that surrounds our 
 Earth in the tract of the Sun, as it seems and is 
 sixteen to eighteen degrees wide in the sky. 
 The twelve signs as they appear here in the chart 
 represent from their form and meaning, the 
 nature of these constellations as they radiate their 
 influence to things on earth. For instance, a 
 child born when the sign Aries or the Ram, is 
 rising, you see one with a ram's face, wide at the 
 forehead and pointing at the chin ; of Taurus, 
 one with a large head, usually, and thick neck, 
 and so on, each sign telling by its own nature, 
 what the shape of the man will be, temperament, 
 etc. You will notice there are just twelve of 
 these signs, and if you will study human nature, 
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 men. For instance, you see a man born when 
 Aries is rising, he is usually quick, active, a 
 regular pusher, and quite often red-headed; of 
 one born when Taurus is rising, slow, deliberate, 
 one who loves to argue on technical points, 
 dogmatic, etc., and so on, each one varying 
 according to the influence of the sign. Hence 
 you see twelve distinct individualities among 
 men, hence one reason why Christ chose twelve 
 disciples, that each individuality might be 
 represented, so that every point of a question 
 should be observed, and one reason why there 
 should be twelve jurymen today, but chosen 
 with an understanding, rather than for the 
 reason, that they know nothing. Then again, by 
 studying farther, you will learn man is divided 
 into twelve parts, the head corresponding to 
 Aries, the throat to Taurus, the arms to Gemini, 
 the breast to Cancer, and so on around to Pisces, 
 which corresponds to a man's feet, and by close 
 study you will observe when wrong vibrations 
 come from the planets through any one of these 
 signs, the part of the body in man will be afflicted 
 corresponding to the sign. In the preceding 
 lesson I showed to you, the correspondences 
 between the vital organs and the planets, the 
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 Moon, the liver to Jupiter, and so forth. And 
 now I will show to you the body, aside from the 
 vital organs, is built up on the scale of twelve, 
 rather than the scale of seven, as were the vital 
 organs. First of all the skeleton consists of 
 seventeen twelves of bones. You will notice, if 
 you please, twelve ribs on each side. You will 
 notice further, that there are twelve pair of 
 nerves coming from the skull, and each and 
 every one serving to assist some vital organ, or in 
 other words, serving to connect the Soul and 
 physical man. Then again, upon analysis of the 
 human body, you will find just twelve inorganic 
 salts, one salt for each sign of the Zodiac, and 
 this same idea is referred to by John the Revel- 
 ator, twenty-second chapter, second verse, when 
 he says: "In the midst of the street of it, and on 
 either side of the river, was there the tree of life, 
 which bare twelve manners of fruit, and yielded 
 her fruits every month, and the leaves of the tree 
 were for the healing of the nations." Friends, 
 the good that can come from these twelve con- 
 stellations, is the good fruit, the twelve manner 
 of fruits ; the bad that can come, is the forbidden 
 fruit that Adam and Eve tasted, that produced 
 the fall of man. The power that lies hid in these 
 twelve forces, is for the healing of the nations, 
 
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 and friends, let me say to you, this power we 
 speak of is stored in the various plants, herbs, 
 and even foods, for man to partake of, that he 
 may provide the forces of which he is deficient, 
 when he is not yet qualified to take the same 
 forces, from fhe atmosphere he breathes. 
 
 As I have said to you before in this lesson, 
 there are twelve pair of nerves. I now repeat, and 
 ask you to observe, yes, and study to see for your- 
 self, that the most of these nerves are to govern 
 special senses, and to govern the organs of special 
 senses, whereby they may be protected from out- 
 side influences. For instance the optic nerve. 
 It is through that nerve the special sense of sight 
 is given to man. Now going with that nerve, and 
 special sense, is furnished others of the twelve, 
 that gives you power to move the eyeball that you 
 may see in various directions, and also one to 
 close the eyelids involuntarily, in case of danger 
 of dirt or other materials entering the eye. Some- 
 thing to close it that will be quicker than thought, 
 and thus you see the wise provision of nature in 
 caring for you. The taste has its special nerve 
 of taste, and also the nerve of hearing has its 
 special nerve, and others to assist in accommodat- 
 ing that sense nerve. And every one of the five 
 physical senses we have, are thus provided for 
 
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from these twelve pair of nerves, corresponding 
 to these twelve signs of the Zodiac. Now, I will 
 say to you, each sense thus far is produced from 
 the twelve signs of the Zodiac. But there must 
 be a union of the Signs, and of the seven Planets 
 forces. Hence, every sense is double. With the 
 physical sense of sight, which is from the Zodiac 
 forces corresponding to it and in the background 
 stands the Soul sense of sight which only sees, 
 when the physical eye closes, or is held under 
 subjection by the will. Then the Soul eye opens 
 and we call it Clairvoyance, or clear seeing. 
 When we see with the Soul's eye, substances or 
 material things of earth, are no hinderance to 
 sight. You lie in bed, in the midst of the night, 
 and the Starry Heavens and Sun are as visible 
 and plain as though you were directly under 
 them in the open air. Entities may surround you 
 or your friends, which to the true Soul see-er, they 
 are as plainly visible as your physical friends are 
 to you, that you see through the physical eye. 
 But friends, do not be exactly contented when 
 you are able to see the entities I have just spoken 
 of, for there are just as many, if not more, 
 impostors in that vibration than what there are 
 on this physical plane, and to be so you can not 
 be deceived, you must have become so developed, 
 
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 on this physical plane, in mastering elemental 
 forces, and overcoming their promptings on 
 your thoughts, that they either stop trying to 
 deceive you, or you receive promptings at once 
 from the Spirit, and be sure to understand me, 
 that when I say Spirit, I mean Divine Essence, 
 not, disembodied Soul promptings. In the same 
 manner, we have the physical hearing and the 
 corresponding Soul hearing, or what we have 
 been taught to call clair audience, or clear hearing. 
 Then we have the corresponding physical sense 
 of touch, and psychic sense, or Soul touch, called 
 psychometry. Many think when they have devel- 
 oped these corresponding senses, they are aided 
 by Spirits, and are one of God^s chosen ones. But 
 my dear readers, when you have developed any 
 one, or all or these Soul Senses, you have only 
 developed an innate sense that exists in each and 
 everyone of us, and there is no Spirit about it 
 at all, and only your own Soul speaking, or 
 prompting you . You must develop each and every 
 one of these three Soul Senses, before you attain 
 unto the first gift of the Spirit, which is wisdom. 
 So you see my dear friends, you have a whole lot 
 to do, before the Spirit proper comes to your 
 assistance materially. Or in other words, imparts 
 to you the special gifts of the Spirit, that St. Paul 
 
 
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 speaks of in First Corinthians. And my dear 
 friends, that is the only source of exact and abso- 
 lute truth, and I do not suppose there is any use 
 of adjectives before truth either, for truth is an 
 ultimate, hence truth is truth. 
 
 Now friends, thus far we have spent our 
 time on the action of these twelve sets of Stars 
 individually, but there is something more still, 
 and if any thing, of still greater importance than 
 anything thus far mentioned. These twelve 
 constellations join their forces, by threes, and as 
 they join, we find four different natures. The 
 first three, as shown on the chart, are of a fiery 
 or a force nature ; the three on the left of chart, 
 of an earthy nature ; the three on the right, 
 the water nature; and those at the top, the 
 air. These, friends, are the source of our 
 elemental forces of nature — the fire, earth, air 
 and water — these are the forces that do all the 
 building on this physical plane. The rulers of 
 the fire forces are the Salamanders, the strongest 
 of all ; of the earth, the Gnomes; of the water, 
 the Undines; and of the air, the Sylphs. These 
 names friends, are the same to these forces, as the 
 name of the Archangel Michael is to the Sun, or 
 Gabriel is to the Moon. These forces are the first 
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 there is such a thing as unfoldment, or knowledge 
 of the Soul. If he knows nothing of them, or 
 their workings, he is treading on dangerous 
 grounds, and is much more liable to die a slave, 
 than a master. And if any one of you, or all of 
 you, will just take a little review of past experi- 
 ences, I would ask, how many Spiritual Mediums 
 can you name, where health did not break down 
 completely, and in not a very great length of 
 time either. Slade, for instance, one of the 
 greatest slate writers this world ever knew. But 
 at only a few years above fifty, an absolute wreck. 
 Friends, these four elements, ruled by the 
 elemental force of the special element, enters into 
 each and every one of our bodies. You all know 
 a part of our body is of the earthy material. 
 You also know that water enters largely into the 
 body, and air, and now what is the fire? The 
 fire element is the force we have. We see it 
 every time when we use any force of any kind, 
 and is the way it manifests itself. The same as 
 the fire and flame manifests the force stored in 
 the wood or coal, in our stoves. When we have 
 cyclones, orviolent thunder and lightning storms, 
 you say we have a war between the elements. 
 Did you ever stop to think that a severe colic 
 was only a little cyclone in the man ? Did you 
 
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 ever stop to think a severe and burning fever, 
 was just the same to the man, as would the case 
 be in the burning of his house? Only, one fire 
 consuming the force in him, and the other the 
 force in the timbers of the house being con- 
 sumed. Can you now see the very nonsensical 
 idea, of Doctors keeping water away from a 
 burning fever patient? Would it not seem that 
 a child would know that if water would quench 
 fire in one place, it would in another? On the 
 chart, ytfu see the names, Bull, Lion, Eagle and 
 Man. The Bull corresponding to earth. The 
 Lion to fire. The Eagle to water, and the Man 
 to air. Friends, these are the symbolic names 
 of these forces, as used by the ancient mystics, 
 and are represented in picture, by a Bull, Lion, 
 Eagle and Man. And you will see these four 
 faces on a certain breastplate in Masonry, and 
 after this when you see these four faces, you 
 may know it has reference to the four elemental 
 forces of nature; Fire, Earth, Air and Water. 
 This is also what John the Revelator has refer- 
 ence to in Revelations, fourth chapter, fifth and 
 sixth verses, when he said: "And before the 
 throne there was a sea of glass, like unto a crystal 
 and in the midst of the throne and round about 
 the throne were four beasts full of eyes before 
 
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 and behind. And the first beast was like a lion, 
 and the second beast like a calf, and the third 
 beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast 
 was like a flying eagle." This is also what 
 Ezekiel the Prophet of the Arian age had refer- 
 ence to in the first chapter of Ezekiel, tenth 
 verse, when he said: "As for the likeness of 
 their faces, they four had the face of a man, and 
 the face of a lion on the right side, and the face 
 of an ox on the left side. They four also had the 
 face of an Eagle." And to further verify to you 
 the importance of this lesson, let me now refer 
 you to John, in Revelations, twenty-first chapter, 
 beginning with the tenth verse, to the twenty- 
 second. Notice, if you please, John is describ- 
 ing the twelve constellations, or sets of stars I 
 have just mentioned, and take notice especially 
 of the stones that govern each sign, in the 
 nineteenth and twentieth verses. Take notice 
 of what he says, especially in the the thirteenth 
 verse: "On the East three gates; on the North 
 three gates; on the South three gates; and on the 
 West three gates." Notice we have on the chart 
 the same gates John is speaking of, and represent 
 our four forces in nature: Fire, Earth, Air and 
 Water. And now as you study this book of 
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 you cannot take this little work you have before 
 you, and make it a key to a key, and thus make 
 it all plain. 
 
 For instance, I think you can plainly see 
 John, has reference to these four elements, when 
 talking of the four beasts. When talking of the 
 seven churches, what would you think of it 
 meaning — the seven individualities of men, as 
 would come from the seven planets, as their 
 influence would predominate in his Soul make 
 up? And what would you think he means, 
 when talking to the various churches, of men's 
 overcomings, and what the rewards would be? 
 Read this work over carefully again, and see if 
 you do not think John is talking of overcoming 
 the influences that come to men, from these 
 elemental forces. Did you ever stop to think 
 that these elemental forces were your Soul testers, 
 and in reality rulers of your very Soul, except 
 you recognized their power, and raised yourself 
 above their influence, by the gift of the Spirit, 
 which every man has within him ? Can you now 
 see, the reward comes as John says, when man is 
 ruled by Spirit, instead of elemental forces? I 
 have said study the Trinity of Man. Notice on 
 Chart II, the Soul stands between body and 
 Spirit ; elemental forces rule the body. Will you 
 
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 have your Soul instructed, and drawn down by 
 these forces, or will you listen to the voice of the 
 Spirit, and by so doing, overcome these four 
 forces, as symbolized by the four beasts, the 
 cross, or square, and gain the reward of "the 
 white stone in which a new name is written, 
 which no man knoweth save he that receiveth 
 it." Thus you will see that this little work will 
 serve you as a key in unraveling many mysteries, 
 so called, and a basis of reasoning by which any 
 figure may be analyzed. For instance, why 
 would the Mason wear the compass over the 
 square, with the letter G in the centre. I am no 
 Mason, or never was, but I venture this assertion: 
 The square represents materiality, the compass 
 is for creating the circle, or Spirit, the square is 
 at a right angle triangle ; the compass at an angle 
 of sixty degrees, which means a creation of some- 
 thing. When the candidate has overcome 
 material things, then he is created a Master 
 Mason. Spirit predominates over matter, and 
 the G in reality means, I understand the language 
 of the Symbols of God. But I ask you how many 
 have a right to wear the charm, by earning what 
 it would signify? The Knights of Pythias wear 
 the three colors, Red, Yellow and Blue, the 
 three attributes of God. They call it Friendship, 
 
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 Charity and Benevolence. No! no! my dear 
 brother ! for these three all belong to the yellow; 
 and what about the other two colors, red and 
 blue, your wear? The Odd Fellows wear the 
 three links. Again the Trinity is displayed, but 
 my dear brother, the circle signifies Spirit, and 
 you must correct yourself just a little, so those 
 links can become circles, instead of being 
 distorted as they are, for it plainly shows you 
 are not just exactly spiritual in your work. 
 
 And now let me say in conclusion. Do not 
 pass carelessly over what I have said to you in 
 this work. Though I have no reputation estab- 
 lished as an author, I do candidly say to you, there 
 are truths expressed here, never before written in 
 language that the Soul without an unfoldment 
 understand. It has been my aim to write it could 
 just as I have, so all could understand, even the 
 child. Many will take exception to things I 
 have said, but I only say think a little before you 
 speak, for you, may be the one that does not 
 understand. Truth is mighty, and often cuts like 
 a two-edged sword, but it endureth forever and 
 forever. 
 
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