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MELCHIZEDEK 
 
 OR 
 
 The Secret Doctrine of 
 the Bible 
 
 J. C. F. C 
 
 BY 
 
 GRUMBINE 
 
 Published by 
 
 The Order of the White Rose, B.B.P.O. 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 

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 FROM THE FOUNDATION 
 
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CONTENTS 
 
 INTRODUCTION 
 
 Lecture I. 
 
 Who is Melchizedek ? Biblical History. His 
 Office and His Order. 
 
 Lecture II. 
 
 The Secret Doctrines of the Order; Its 
 
 Myths, Mysteries, Symbolisms, Canons, 
 
 Philosophy. 
 
 Lecture III. 
 
 The Secret Doctrine on Four Planes of 
 Expression and Manifestations. 
 
 Lecture IV. 
 
 The Christ Psychology and Christian 
 Mysticism. The Key. 
 
 Lecture V. 
 
 The Key — How Applied. Divine Realization 
 and Illumination. 
 
INTRODUCTION 
 
 The Bible has been regarded as a 
 sealed book, its mysteries impenetrable, 
 its knowledge unfathomable, its key 
 lost. Even its miracles have been so 
 excluded from scientific research as to 
 be invested with a supernaturalism 
 which forever separated them from the 
 possibility of human understanding and 
 rational interpretation. 
 
 In the midst of these revolutionary 
 times, it is not strange that theology 
 and institutional Christianity should 
 
 feel the foundations of their authority 
 slipping from them, and a new, broader 
 and more spiritual thought of man and 
 
God taking their places. All this is a 
 part of the general awakening of man- 
 kind and has not come about in a day 
 or a year. It grew. It is still grow- 
 ing, because the soul is eternal and 
 justifies and vindicates its own unfold- 
 ment. 
 
 Some see in this new birth of man 
 the annihilation of church and state, 
 but others who are more informed and 
 illumined, realize that the chaff and 
 dross of error are being separated from 
 the wheat and gold of truth and that 
 only the best, and that which is for the 
 highest good of mankind will remain. 
 
 It is a pity that the church must con- 
 tinually perish that the truth shall shine 
 in perfect and eternal splendor. Would 
 
that the church could let the light of 
 Divine Truth so shine that creeds, the- 
 ologies and ritual might be revised to 
 meet the present and progressive needs 
 of the human soul. 
 
 Religion does not depend for its 
 existence upon the church, but the 
 church depends upon religion. 
 
 The moral and spiritual teachings of 
 the Bible are revelations only in so far 
 as they agree with truth, and truth 
 alone determines the spiritual sub- 
 stance of revelation. 
 
 The church will not wholly pass 
 away. What will and must die in all 
 ecclesiastical institutions is that which 
 limits man's freedom to know the truth. 
 
 The Bible, no less than other books 
 
on religion and science must stand the 
 tests of time. Its supreme importance 
 to man is not its literature or history 
 but its revelation. All revelation is 
 from within the soul. It is mixed and 
 fused with extraneous and alien matter. 
 It opens one page while it closes an- 
 other. No Simon pure revelation of 
 truth has ever been given to the world. 
 It must touch the sphere of human in- 
 telligence to be perceived and received, 
 and through the purest channel it is 
 tinctured by personality. It must be 
 adapted to the needs of the generations 
 to which it is sent. It is presented in 
 symbols, allegories, parables and myths. 
 Its doctrines are comparative as well as 
 absolute. In the one, the letter killeth, 
 
in the other, the spirit giveth life. Jesus 
 approved of and confirmed what is here 
 said when he told his disciples that "the 
 spirit of truth will lead you into all 
 truth, until you shall know the truth 
 and the truth shall make you free." 
 But "what is truth?" asked Pilate and 
 the question repeats itself to every hon- 
 est soul. It is never simple, because 
 it is many sided. Its facets are infinite. 
 At best, we can speak of the truth about 
 this or that doctrine of religion, philos- 
 ophy and science, but the truth like 
 mathematics is self contained and sus- 
 tained, infinite and eternal. 
 
 Facts are appearances of the work- 
 ing of the law of natural and spiritual 
 casuality. Religion and the church, in 
 
the universal sense, deal with these 
 spiritual facts, which are their creden- 
 tials and on which they build their tech- 
 nique and teaching of human and divine 
 service. "Without them, religion as well 
 as the church would be without the 
 "witness." The supreme purpose and 
 aim of the "witness," is not to extract 
 it out of all relationship with the other 
 credentials and material facts of life, 
 but to reveal the spirit of life, which 
 has no other means at hand to prove its 
 transcendent and independent reality, 
 except to show that whereas the mater- 
 ial phenomena of life appear to spring 
 up from potential matter as a fact of 
 life, both are traced back to and with- 
 in Spirit. This is the supreme revela- 
 10 
 
tion of Jesus, when he affirmed, "I am 
 the resurrection and the life." 
 
 The Bible as well as the soul reveal 
 clearly four specific strata or spheres 
 of human unfoldment. First, the his- 
 torical, second the occult, third, the 
 astro theological (the Law) and fourth, 
 the mystical. The latter is demon- 
 strated by the statements of Jesus. "I 
 and the Father are one" and "I am in 
 the Father and the Father is in me." 
 
 The first or historical is plain to 
 everyone. The occult is that which is 
 involved in mysteries, such as "the hid- 
 den wisdom", concealed in parables, 
 myths, symbols, allegories, dreams, vi- 
 sions, prophesies, signs, miracles, the 
 
 gnosis, lost word, canon, cabala, with 
 
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which the Bible abounds, but which 
 must be penetrated before the object 
 of the Bible as a revelation is under- 
 stood. This, the ' ' thus saith the Lord, ' ' 
 or the working of the Law as typified 
 by the astro theological sphere makes 
 clear. "God geometrizes, " wrote Ralph 
 Waldo Emerson, and Pythagoras, an 
 ancient Greek philosopher, had in- 
 scribed on the portal of his temple, "Let 
 no one enter here who is ignorant of 
 geometry.' ' "There is," said the 
 author of Proverbs, "a time and a place 
 for everything under the sun," and 
 Jesus emphasized the same truth when 
 he added "every hair of your head is 
 numbered. ? ' This, briefly, signifies that 
 
 Law governs life and that that Law is 
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of spirit, that " action and reaction are 
 equal, that whatsoever a man sows, 
 that will he also reap, ' ' and that under- 
 neath the operations of natural pheno- 
 mena (effects and results) is the Law of 
 the Spirit, revealing its absolute and 
 eternal Majesty and Sovereignty in 
 each form of cell, corpuscle and organ- 
 ism. 
 
 History manifests what the Law 
 occultly reveals. 
 
 The object of this book is to hint and 
 reveal, so far as it is practical, the 
 Secret Doctrine of the Bible, that we 
 may no longer grope in darkness or 
 blindness and that the seamless robe 
 of Christ may be our inheritance. 
 
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LECTURE 1 
 
 Who is Melchizedek? Biblical History. 
 His Office and His Order. 
 
 All that is known historically of 
 Melchizedek is contained in the Bible, 
 in Genesis 4: 18; Psalms 110 and He- 
 brews 5: 6, 7. The incident which con- 
 nects him with history is the story of 
 how Abraham, returning to his own 
 country with the spoils captured from 
 Chedorlaomer who was battling Lot, 
 his sons and tribe and whom Abraham 
 sought to rescue, gave tithes to this 
 superior functionary, Melchizedek, high 
 priest of righteousness and king of 
 Salem, city of peace. It relates how 
 
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this distinguished priest of the most 
 high God refreshed Abraham with 
 bread and wine and bestowed upon him 
 his blessing, making him a priest of 
 his own order, 
 
 Who Melchizedek was is not made 
 clear. Numerous speculations arise as 
 to his identity. He is said to be with- 
 out birth and death, father, mother and 
 descent. As such, his existence is in- 
 volved in mystery. He is invested with 
 fanciful and mythological conceits. 
 Some, however, trace him back to a 
 father of one branch of the human race, 
 to Shem and others to Noah. The astro 
 mythological connection is even more 
 obscure. He is regarded by certain 
 authorities (Bryant in Analysis of An- 
 
 15 
 
cient Mythology) as Sadik or Sy (Ze- 
 dek), who is also identified with Cronus 
 (Father Time) or Saturn, personifica- 
 tions of planetary principles or gods. 
 In fact, such personifications were not 
 the exception, when the mystery of the 
 relationship, between heavenly prin- 
 ciples or astrological names and early 
 historical characters as Cain, Abel, 
 Noah, Abraham, Moses, are considered. 
 For instance, Ab-Eam or Ab-Ea (h)am' 
 could easily be translated in the two de- 
 rivatives — Ab and E. A. M. or A-Bram, 
 meaning "from Eight, Ascension, 
 Meridian, " Ab referring to father as 
 Abba is father — and Bram or Bra(h)ma 
 meaning God, the name of the Hindu 
 deity in the trinity of which Siva and 
 
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Visnu are the other two, Brahma being 
 the God above every other God, the Ab- 
 solute, Eternal, Unchanging One. Ger- 
 ald Massey in "The Book of Begin- 
 nings/ J " Natural Genesis,' ' and 
 "Egypt, the Light of the World," elab- 
 orates the source and connection of 
 Egyptian Mythology and ritualistic 
 mysteries with Christolatry, so that 
 Biblical history and New Testament 
 facts can be threshed from the mass of 
 the fictitious, apocryphal, symbological 
 literature which the Bible contains, 
 clearing the way for an ideal, metaphy- 
 sical and spiritual interpretation of 
 such assumed historical persons as 
 Melchizedek. 
 
 Thus, when Melchizedek is likened 
 
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to the head of the human race, an angel, 
 the son of God in human form, the Mes- 
 siah, the potential representative on 
 earth of the Christ and finally, the Holy 
 Ghost, the student of the Secret Doc- 
 trine must not be swept off his feet by 
 these claims, but must diligently and 
 patiently inquire how and why such 
 claims have been made, and why the 
 name Melchizedek has lain like gold in 
 the river bed of Biblical literature over 
 which the river of life itself has long 
 since ceased to flow. 
 
 It is true that historical persons 
 have frequently been first canonized 
 and then deified, as it is also true that 
 mythological personifications of natural 
 forces, laws and phenomena have been 
 
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reduced to human beings. Osirus and 
 Isis, once Egyptian prince and princess, 
 some thousands of years ago, became in 
 due course of time king and queen, and 
 after the lapse of ages, a sun God and a 
 moon God that were actually worship- 
 ped in temples dedicated to them. A 
 similar metamorphic change and a deifi- 
 cation of this sort is expected to be 
 made of the late Mary Baker Eddy, 
 founder of the Christian Science 
 Church. A secret enmity has already 
 arisen among the Roman Catholics 
 against Christian Scientists because 
 they see modern tendencies in that di- 
 rection and fear that the throne of the 
 Christian, Divine motherhood now oc- 
 cupied by Mary may be usurped by 
 
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what may be called, in the terms of the 
 shop, a spiritual competitor. All this 
 sounds strange and uncanny to ears un- 
 accustomed to the wild and audacious 
 claims of supernaturalists, and Chris- 
 tian Science metaphysicians, but his- 
 tory often repeats itself. 
 
 Thus the language which invests 
 Melchizedek with historical authentic- 
 ity disguises his real self or Divinity. 
 It can be said, with much assurance of 
 certainty that Melchizedek symbolically 
 and mystically typifies the personifica- 
 tion as well as impersonation of the 
 Holy Ghost which, in Genesis for the 
 first time was mentioned in human his- 
 tory and made the representative em- 
 blem of man's divine heredity and Pro- 
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vidence. Thus the Order was formed 
 in the Spiritual Spheres, in the mystical 
 sense and transferred to the sublime 
 consciousness of a man, who was the 
 alleged first enlightened God father of 
 the Jews, Abraham. From him sprung 
 the prophetic capacity, which is most 
 virile and active among those who are 
 of the Order of Melchizedek. 
 
 The sense of exalted, dignified, ex- 
 clusiveness, separateness, and august 
 divinity which clothed that personality 
 of the ancient Jewish prophets, was 
 founded upon spiritual relationship 
 which connected Abraham mystically 
 with Melchizedek. Worthiness of body 
 and mind, heroic and true in their con- 
 secration to truth, they became the high 
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priests after the Order of Melchizedek, 
 through whom was preserved the spirit 
 of the original human vision and spirit- 
 ual ideal of divine perfection, which in 
 process of time, when the old school of 
 major and minor prophets had closed 
 their books of prophecy, the human 
 realization and divine incarnation 
 should come among mankind as the 
 Messiah or Christ. 
 
 It was not improbable that this di- 
 vine perfection should lodge potentially 
 and inactively in the soul of man, until 
 kindled into a conscious vision by a di- 
 vine visitation as that of an angel, an 
 avatar, an epiphany, and then enter 
 upon its earthly travail in the womb of 
 woman and the mind of man to cele- 
 
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brate its nativity, first in prophetic vi- 
 sion and afterward when cosmic and 
 earthly conditions are ripe, to manifest 
 in its perfect human incarnation. All 
 this is hinted at in Genesis in the mys- 
 terious meeting of Melchizedek and 
 Abraham. 
 
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LECTURE II 
 
 The Secret Doctrines of the Order. Its 
 
 Myths, Mysteries, Symbolisms, 
 
 Canons, Philosophy. 
 
 It is a well known fact that there 
 was and still is a "Secret Doctrine" 
 known to the ancient and ignored by 
 the modern world, although glimpsed 
 by certain God conscious and illumined 
 souls as prophets or seers, and great 
 racial teachers, and that this doctrine 
 was hinted at by Paul in his references 
 in the Hebrews to the Order Melchize- 
 dek. In a unique book printed in Lon- 
 don 1897 and entitled, "The Canon," 
 with an introduction by R. B. C. Gra- 
 
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ham, much is written about the pagan 
 mystery perpetuated in the Cabala as 
 the rule of all the arts. The supernal 
 Adam (of the spirit or heavenly world) 
 became the earthly Adam, since "the 
 earth" to quote the Canon, "was philo- 
 sophically considered to be the mother 
 or receptive power in the planetary 
 system, she was figuratively said to 
 have conceived and brought forth the 
 primeval man, the earth born Adam, the 
 son of the supernal Adam. Thus, ac- 
 cording to the Hebrews, the race of 
 mortals was produced; and the spirit of 
 life having been implanted in the body 
 of the first man he transmitted it 
 through Eve to all subsequent genera- 
 tions." This sounds vague, indefinite, 
 
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unscientific, as it is to an evolutionist 
 who does not accept as simple and alle- 
 gorical an explanation of the origin of 
 life or man on this planet. Such a solu- 
 tion, however, is by the traditionalists, 
 animists, cabalists and advocates of the 
 Secret Doctrine treated as a myth, not 
 as an historical fact, the secret of 
 human origin and birth, being withheld 
 from and concealed in the parabolical 
 language, Nor has modern science so 
 far furnished the key, either to unlock 
 the mystery or to explain the myth. 
 
 The word " involution" will help the 
 student to understand the natural pro- 
 gress known as evolution, the ascend- 
 ing arc of life, which word involution 
 psychical investigators are now throw- 
 
ing light upon as clearing up the false 
 claims, first, of theologians as to a sup- 
 ernatural human origin, rather than a 
 supernormal or divine, and secondly, of 
 physical scientists who deny that man 
 is a human soul and his origin or her- 
 edity is from God; thus by the denial, 
 outlawing all other and spiritual evi- 
 dences, which is included in and af- 
 firmed and confirmed by the spiritual 
 hypothesis. 
 
 Bergson in " Matter and Memory" 
 boldly claims that spirit has an exist- 
 ence of its own, "that there is in matter 
 something more than, but something 
 different from, that which is actually 
 given. The truth is that there is one 
 and only one, method of refuting mater- 
 
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ialism, it is to show that matter is pre- 
 cisely that which it appears to be. 
 Thereby, we eliminate all virtuality, 
 all hidden power, from matter and 
 establish the phenomena of spirit as an 
 independent reality. But to do this, 
 we must leave to matter those qualities 
 which materialists and spiritualists 
 alike strip from it; the latter that they 
 may make of them representations of 
 the spirit, the former that they may re- 
 gard them only as the accidental garb 
 of space/ ' 
 
 Thus Bergson defends the soul or 
 spirit as an entity quite apart from mat- 
 ter and the material world, with which 
 it is associated. 
 
 However, in the mysterious language 
 
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of Plato, the soul in its natural pil- 
 grimage through life, exists in three 
 distinct forms under diverse conditions. 
 The human germ first exists in the body 
 of man, who is the father. In the act of 
 coition, it is transferred to the woman 
 who is the mother, and in the third 
 form, it is born into the world an inde- 
 pendent human body, and as man or 
 woman, it so remains until death. The 
 first residence of the psychic germ is 
 referred to in Hebrews 7: 9-10 "Levi 
 also, who received tithes, payed tithes 
 in Abraham. For he was yet in the 
 loins of his father when Melchizedek 
 met him. ' ' The transition from the first 
 residence to the second marks the soul's 
 first death and birth. This is symbol- 
 
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ized by the Phoenix, rising again after 
 disintegration and dissolution. The 
 Phoenix was a sacred Egyptian and 
 Greek mythological bird like an eagle, 
 fabled as coming out of Arabia every 
 five hundred years to Heliopolis, Egypt, 
 the city of the sun, where it burnt it- 
 self on the altar and rose again from 
 its ashes, young and beautiful. It be- 
 came a perpetual type of immortality 
 and the resurrection. Of course, the 
 bird and the story is a myth, contain- 
 ing the ancient secret doctrine of the 
 immortality of soul as manifest in 
 human existence, growth and evolution. 
 The second stage of the soul's exist- 
 ence, is when it reaches as a germ the 
 womb of the woman, the abode of dark- 
 
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ness (sheol or hades of the Jews and 
 Greeks), and in the third stage, as it 
 issues from the womb, it has a substan- 
 tial physical body and so begins its life 
 as a man. 
 
 In this body, the soul was by the an- 
 cient teachers conceived as a spark of 
 the divine essence of God, and so, thus 
 endowed with Divinity, was capable of 
 transmitting a portion of the soul with- 
 in him, and being essentially immortal, 
 added a "new link in the continuous 
 chain of life, whose beginning was in 
 heaven" — Salem, the city of peace. 
 
 This, briefly was, what is known as 
 the gnosis, or Secret Doctrine of the 
 soul's birth, existence and destiny as 
 taught in the Scriptures and imparted 
 
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to initiates at the celebration of the 
 mysteries. Origen wrote, "We hope, 
 after the troubles and struggles which 
 we suffer here, to reach the highest 
 heavens, and receiving, agreeably to 
 the teaching of Jesus, the fountains of 
 water that spring up into eternal life 
 and being,t filled with the rivers of 
 knowledge, shall be united with those 
 waters that are said to be above the 
 heavens, and which praise His name. 
 As many of us as praise Him shall not 
 be carried about by the revolution of 
 the heaven (reincarnation?) but shall 
 ever be engaged in the contemplation 
 of the invisible things."* This was the 
 
 f See John 4. 
 
 * Against Celsus, Book 6, Chapter 20. 
 
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meaning of the Egyptian, Jewish and 
 Greek mysteries, tracing all souls back, 
 thread by thread, from son to father, 
 culminating in the earth born Adam, 
 and finally in the upward swing of the 
 arc, after the downward swing of the 
 arc of the circle had been completed, 
 they hoped and believed that when 
 death came, they would ascend (by the 
 seven spirits or angels — the planets) 
 into the firmament to join the choir of 
 the stars, whence they issued. 
 
 The fall of man we know can now be 
 satisfactorily explained, not by the in- 
 tent or accident of a theological fall or 
 by a doctrine of total depravity, but by 
 a mystical gnosis, scientifically and phi- 
 losophically explained by the involu- 
 
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tion of the soul in matter, or by the four 
 verities* of Buddha as applied to the 
 soul's human descent, and ascent as 
 typified in the creation and generation 
 of souls in the first Adam, and by the 
 teachings of Jesus. For it is mystically 
 stated by Paul, "As in Adam all die, so 
 in Christ shall all be made alive." The 
 gnosis or Secret Doctrine is the same 
 essentially in all ethnic religions, could 
 we but cultivate the inner sense of the 
 meanings of parables, symbols, myths 
 and cabala. 
 
 The canon of this gnosis or Secret 
 
 * Buddha taught that existence is caused by desire. 
 His first verity is "Pain exists. " Second verity, "The 
 cause of pain is desire or attachment. ' ' Third verity, 
 "Pain can be ended by Nirvana. " Fourth verity, "The 
 way is shown to Nirvana." 
 
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Doctrine was given by word of mouth 
 by master builders and teachers called 
 priests from temples in which they offi- 
 ciated, to the initiated, who according to 
 the customs of the times concealed the 
 teachings and the mysteries often in 
 contradictory, grotesque and foolish 
 symbolisms, for which the wise only 
 held the key. Again, the gnosis was hid- 
 den away in the architectural plans of 
 certain monuments as the pyramid and 
 sphinx and in temples and cathedrals, 
 as Solomon's temple and the cathedral 
 of Milan. Homer wove it into his H- 
 liad. Dante, incorporated it in his Di- 
 vine Comedy, Milton in his story of 
 Paradise Lost. Canonical theology 
 and philosophy buried it in their sacred 
 
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palimpsests. The epic story of the 
 soul, is retold in the fourth chapter of 
 John's Gospel, where Jesus addresses 
 the woman of Samaria. Theology which 
 was once astrology, became such to con- 
 ceal the Secret Doctrine from the world- 
 ly wise and prudent, for the same rea- 
 son that alchemy became chemistry and 
 astrology became astronomy, and so the 
 Secret Doctrine was temporarily lost, at 
 least, to those who preferred to receive 
 orders from a Babel of confusion, rather 
 than from the pillar of fire by night and 
 the cloud of light by day. 
 
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LECTURE III 
 
 The Secret Doctrine on Four Planes of 
 Expression and Manifestation. 
 
 In the metaphysical analysis of 
 ' ' Ehy e Asher Ehy se ' ', (I am that I am) , 
 the mystical source of the self con- 
 sciousness, (ego or person) is contrasted 
 with the consciousness of the Self, Di- 
 vinity or God — the objective I or I ob- 
 jectified, with the subjective I or I sub- 
 jectified. The former is conditioned by 
 time, space and the necessity of exper- 
 ience, the latter is unconditioned, free. 
 In the one, the ego is unaware and un- 
 conscious of its divinity, in the other it 
 is quite aware and conscious of it. 
 
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In the Secret Doctrine of the Bible, 
 it is taught that there are four elements 
 and four principles, as well as four 
 manifestations and expressions of life. 
 The four elements are fire (oxygen), 
 water (hydrogen), air (nitrogen) earth 
 (carbon), necessary to organism or 
 manifestation, and the four principles 
 are divine or spiritual, psychic, mental 
 and physical, necessary to expression. 
 
 Divinity or spirit, soul, mind, body 
 constitute the four corner stones of life 
 and have reference to the North, East, 
 West and South, (NEWS), on which 
 broadly speaking, the foundation of the 
 Universe (Solomon ? s Temple) is built 
 or established. This was implied in the 
 plan of Solomon ? s temple, the outer 
 
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court for the Gentiles (physical), the 
 inner court for the Jews (mental), and 
 the Holy of Holies for the high priest 
 (psychic), where the fourth or Divine 
 is realized. The physical, mental, psy- 
 chic depend upon the Divine Being, 
 thus completing the circle around the 
 square of existence. 
 
 Fire among the alchemists and 
 mystics has been symbolized by the sun, 
 as water by the moon, the one 
 masculine, (having the rose for its floral 
 emblem) and the other feminine, (hav- 
 ing the lily for its floral emblem). Fire 
 is positive (magnetic) and water is 
 electric or negative. Among the Hin- 
 dus, fire is sacred to Siva and water to 
 Vishnu, while the air (breath or spirit) 
 
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would be sacred to Brahma, the third in 
 the triune nature of the Hindu God- 
 head. As fire destroys outward form, 
 Siva was called the destroyer, the 
 father, and ruled over life and death, 
 and as water preserves, Vishnu was 
 called the preserver, and ruled over 
 motherhood and children. 
 
 Fire has its metaphysical correpon- 
 dent and symbolizes the active mind, 
 the senses, the objective life, while 
 water symbolizes the passive mind, the 
 affections, the subjective life. 
 
 The sun germinates and generates 
 life from seed by transforming the seed 
 into its living potential form. Thus it 
 is a destroyer. But the seed does not 
 germinate until moistened by water. 
 
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And so the moon, ruling the water, the 
 tides, woman, preserves the life in a 
 form peculiar to its kind. Thus Siva 
 and Vishnu, active and passive prin- 
 ciples of deity (likened to light and 
 darkness, heat and cold, evil and good) 
 rule over spring and summer, autumn 
 and winter respectively. 
 
 Manifestation is outer and physical 
 (phenomenon), while expression is in- 
 ner and mental, psychic and spiritual 
 (neumonon). So that it can be said 
 that the expression of the soul is to 
 the sphere what the manifestation is to 
 the plane of life. This must be kept 
 continuously in mind if the student 
 hopes to master the Secret Doctrine of 
 the Bible. For how will he understand 
 
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such mystical and occult sayings as this 
 one of Hermes Tris Megistus, " As it is 
 above, so is it below ; as it is within, so 
 it is without," and " whatever exists 
 upon the earth in an earthly form, ex- 
 ists in the heavens in a heavenly form. " 
 And this profound saying of Iamblicus, 
 "the day time of the body is the night 
 time of the soul; the night time of the 
 body is the day time of the soul." 
 Spheres thus reflect their contents and 
 substance on corresponding and kindred 
 planes, according to the law of expres- 
 sion and manifestation. Gerald Massey 
 thought that this correspondence is 
 comprehended by the law of dissimili- 
 tude. 
 
 The soul, in fact, all life, essentially 
 
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spirit, functions on the four planes and 
 in the four spheres, designated by the 
 words, physical, mental, psychical and 
 spiritual and is of one essence in all 
 forms of expression and manifestation. 
 The soul or spirit does not create 
 matter, but uses it. It vitalizes cells, 
 attracts and arranges atoms, determines 
 and disposes of the quality of the phy- 
 sical substance, and by its thought, feel- 
 ing and character builds and destroys 
 forms and transforms its body into the 
 images (subjects and objects) it loves. 
 Thus, the physical body and the human 
 personality are related integrally to the 
 psychic, spiritual and Divine Entity.* 
 
 Entity is here employed to include one's Divinity. 
 43 
 
It is a well known and established 
 teaching in the Secret Doctrine of the 
 Bible, that the ladder on which Jacob 
 (the soul expressing itself) saw angels 
 ascending and descending, is none other 
 than the expression of the technique or 
 Secret Doctrine applied to the soul's 
 own powers or spiritual faculties, 
 which, transcending the sphere and 
 limitations of the senses and faculties 
 of the natural man, afford a means of 
 escape from time and space and the 
 obsessions of the human brain to bask 
 in the infinitude of eternity, where time 
 is no more, and where the soul itself is 
 free to live untrammeled by the flesh. 
 
 Abraham on the plains of Mamre ' 
 realizes that the soul is never born and 
 
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never dies. This followed his initiation 
 into the Order of Melchizedek, who hon- 
 ored him by placing upon his shoulders 
 the mantle of authority, the symbol of 
 his illumined consciousness and so made 
 him a high priest of spiritual revelation. 
 Jacob, symbolizes the soul in the act of 
 expressing as well as unfolding itself, 
 while Isaac, is the symbol of all per- 
 sonal and physical sacrifices which each 
 one must and will make, who aspires to 
 be a high priest of the Order of Melchi- 
 zedek, or, who, having obtained mem- 
 bership, is now serving at the altar of 
 truth and helping others to do the same. 
 Now it is strange that the meaning of 
 the word miracle should have been con- 
 fused or mixed with the word superna 
 
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tural, for the two words become mean- 
 ingless in human psychology. What 
 the soul cannot do and God can, make 
 the soul's efforts seem helpless and 
 hopeless. But when the soul's divinity 
 is involved in God, both being of one 
 essence, will, intelligence and life, the 
 words miracle and supernatural become 
 intelligible in the supreme, divine re- 
 sults which are attained by supreme di- 
 vine efforts, the divinity of the soul ex- 
 pressing its divine attributes as omni- 
 presence, omnipotence, omniscience and 
 perfect love, attributes which are po- 
 tential qualities of the soul and demon- 
 strable on the four planes of expres- 
 sion. If supernaturalism suggests the 
 idea of deus ex machina (a deity out- 
 
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side the machine), and the word mir- 
 acle, an act of such a deity, then the 
 idea is unnatural and erroneous. If, on 
 the other hand, the soul can and does 
 express its divinity, so that it sees, hears 
 and feels beyond the power, law and 
 limitation of the senses, these results 
 are not to be accepted as supernatural, 
 however, they are to be classified as 
 supernormal (above the normal), and 
 are not miracles*, because they occur 
 under divine law. The Secret Doctrine 
 of the Bible assures us that the inner 
 sense of the Scripture depends upon the 
 use we make of our psychic and spir- 
 
 * A miracle is an act or result which takes place 
 by the suspension of natural law by the direct fiat of 
 God. 
 
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itual powers. And only the mystic who 
 realizes that his divinity and its powers 
 alone are a lamp to his feet and a light 
 to his intelligence has a right to nego- 
 tiate his powers and personality in this 
 divine business. Does our coin bear the 
 superscription of Caesar or of God? 
 
 If the Secret Doctrine of the Bible 
 makes demands upon us and these de- 
 mands when obeyed condition results, 
 he would be foolish who expected to 
 stand on the outer court of the temple, 
 and hope to receive results which be- 
 long to those who have prepared them- 
 selves to be worthy of the Holy of 
 Holies. Even such as are admitted to 
 the inner court may see the vision 
 clearer and hear the voice deeper, be- 
 
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cause of the degree of spiritual attain- 
 ment, but they must prepare them- 
 selves for what is yet to come. Mere 
 intellectuality, culture or refinement, 
 however, or self love, egotism and am- 
 bition lead to a fool's paradise; and yet 
 without intellectuality, culture and re- 
 finement a student cannot attain nor 
 master the Secret Doctrine. Truth is 
 not simple, except to one who knows 
 everything. The more we know the 
 more we confess how little we know. 
 How silly to think that truth can be 
 known in one short life? What Sir 
 Isaac Newton said is true of all learned 
 men, "I seem to have picked up but a 
 few shells along the seashore — the great 
 ocean of truth still lies infinite before 
 
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me." So, as we overcome human na- 
 ture on the physical plane, having 
 learned the folly or evil of self in- 
 dulgence, by self mastery and the en- 
 lightenment of our senses, we pass 
 from the outer court (earth plane) of 
 the Gentiles and the uninitiated, to the 
 inner court of those who have learned 
 their first lessons. Here the mental 
 (water) and psychic (air) planes en- 
 gage our earnest and patient attention. 
 
 Some study the connection, relation 
 and correspondence between the psych- 
 ical and mental planes a long time, be- 
 fore they realize that in order to make 
 supernormalism a beneficent power, 
 each supernormal faculty as well as the 
 
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will must be consciously under the con- 
 trol of ones divinity. 
 
 To indulge supernormalism for it- 
 self alone is as dangerous and reaction- 
 ary as to induldge one's senses. 
 
 Obsessions must yield to self posses- 
 sion, outward attractions to one's per- 
 sonal choice of divine freedom, sover- 
 eignty, and no one can be a master, who 
 allows self interest, curiosity or self in- 
 dulgence to control his thought or ac- 
 tion. 
 
 The impersonal enjoyment of the 
 spiritual life will guard and protect one 
 from the blind alleys and temptations 
 which lead to darkness and misery. 
 Among those who have been delegated 
 the called, few are " chosen" to become 
 
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the disciples, to say naught of becom- 
 ing the perpetual high priests after the 
 Order of Melchizedek. If the soul must 
 be born of water (mind), and fire 
 (spirit), the physical man (generation- 
 vitality) becomes transmuted into the 
 divine man (regeneration-life). The 
 active physical now passive becomes 
 the passive spiritual, so that the phy- 
 sical is transformed by the spiritual 
 now active. 
 
 This is the Secret Doctrine of the 
 Bible concerning the spiritual birth, 
 which Nicodemus as a materialist, could 
 not grasp. John, the beloved disciple, 
 understood, because in his gospel, he 
 taught the Secret Doctrine, announcing 
 the same to the initiates, in the very 
 
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first chapter. It is the logos, which 
 when received from the Illuminate, 
 qualified one to be of the Order of Mel- 
 chizedek. 
 
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LECTURE IV 
 
 The Christ Psychology and Christian 
 Mysticism, 
 
 It may here be asked, what was and 
 is the purpose of the Secret Doctrine, 
 which endured through the ages, per- 
 petuated by prophets and is commun- 
 icated to us in the silence* and by the 
 spiritual Order of Melchizedek? The 
 Holy Spirit, indefinable to vulgar in- 
 telligences, is an ever present spirit of 
 truth, indwelling in all spiritually min- 
 ded and illuminated souls by which 
 
 * Pythagoras it is said, enjoined six years of silence 
 on his disciples. To be a mystic one must learn how 
 to seal eyes, ears and lips to what is seen, heard and 
 spoken. When such silence is attained, one learns how 
 to commune with God. 
 
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truth is revealed concerning spiritual 
 realities. The august presence of God 
 could not approach nearer to us than 
 does the Holy Spirit of truth. 
 
 There is however a divine technique 
 which is concealed and revealed in the 
 Bible, called the Christ psychology, 
 which Jesus taught in the parables of 
 the Five Talents and the Five Wise 
 Virgins, and which Paul hinted at in 
 Corinthians 11 : 15. Obscure and veiled 
 as their textual meanings are, the Sec- 
 ret Doctrine expounds their hidden 
 meaning in unmistakable clearness. 
 
 Divinity, central in the soul, can 
 illuminate the mind and life, enlighten 
 the senses, add a divine range to sight 
 and hearing and so permeate the soul, 
 
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with its radiant and pure light as to 
 transform ecce homo (Lo, the human!) 
 at once into ecce deus (Lo, the God!) 
 This is to be accepted, not only theoret- 
 ically, but can be spiritually demon- 
 strated. Biblical and secular creden- 
 tials can be cited in proof of this. 
 
 Religions, among all the nations of 
 the world articulate one central fact 
 that life is essentially spirit and divine. 
 It is not born of matter although asso- 
 ciated with it. It is eternal, and there- 
 fore, the soul is immortal. This is the 
 ever recurring theme of pure Christian- 
 ity, "I am the resurrection and the 
 life/' 
 
 To prove one's Divinity and make it 
 a conscious, helpful principle of one's 
 
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life, is the supreme end of religion. All 
 of its prophets declared this message. 
 The martyrs died for it. And yet to 
 day a false metaphysics and theology, 
 advocated in part by the Christian 
 church, has made the spiritual fact of 
 the survival of the personality after 
 death and the innate potential divinity 
 of the soul a gift of God to the few, a 
 miracle of salvation, and not the greater 
 fact of universal, human, divine life 
 which death cannot affect nor destroy. 
 In Metaphysics and Christian Sci- 
 ence "God has been hitched to busi- 
 ness," as though any kind of ill begot- 
 ten prosperity is of His will and Provi- 
 dence. And yet it is a well known fact 
 that Jesus chose to be poor (in worldly 
 
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goods), that he might devote his entire 
 time to divine service and that he might 
 be rich in Godliness and toward God; 
 in short, that he might not be influenced 
 or obsessed by riches as might follow, 
 if worldly ambition or attachment con- 
 trolled him. Any sophist that makes 
 God, who is no respector of persons, 
 favor one class whom he blesses with 
 wealth, and disfavor another class 
 whom he curses with poverty, has an 
 effete, tribal conception of God, Money, 
 prosperity, wealth and their opposites, 
 are largely matters of our desires, 
 labor and ingenuity and the scrip- 
 tural justification of the prosperity of 
 the righteous is in the fact that they 
 
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employ righteous, business methods to 
 obtain, accumulate and spent riches. 
 The rich are not rich or prosperous 
 because only of their righteousness, nor 
 the poor poor because only of their 
 wickedness, but because the business of 
 acquiring wealth even as a gift, de- 
 mands of us certain social and economic 
 qualities, which if we obey or disobey 
 produce certain results. This is en- 
 dorsed by Jesus who gave a luminous 
 exposition of it in the parable of the 
 five talents, when he emphasized the 
 law of thrift and work in the accumula- 
 tion of money, five talents employed 
 bringing five more, and actually con- 
 demned the man who hid his one talent 
 in a napkin in the earth and as a result 
 
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of his indolence and stupidity, lie had 
 even that one taken from him. No one 
 denies that justice, kindness, fair deal- 
 ing, right thinking are a part of the 
 business of becoming prosperous, but 
 one may be all this, and if trusting only 
 in God and seldom or never working to 
 be prosperous, expecting prosperity to 
 come miraculously as a result of his 
 trust, he will remain where he is the 
 rest of his natural life. 
 
 Not a few imagine that righteous- 
 ness is a sort of hocus pocus or magic 
 by which one is favored and blessed and 
 another dishonored and afflicted. As 
 it is with a seed before and after it is 
 put into the good soil, so is it with our 
 ideals, desires, thoughts. God helps us 
 
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through conditions. He helps those 
 who help themselves. And no sophis- 
 try is more heretical of truth, more in- 
 sidious and deadly in our lives than the 
 assumption that God is a respector of 
 persons and not a respector of the Di- 
 vine Law, that He can and does favor 
 one class who disobey the law in prac- 
 tice and disfavors another class who 
 obey it in theory only. 
 
 Mere affirmations, vain repetitions, 
 ecstatic phrasing of texts, which are 
 not put into practise, count for nothing. 
 
 The Secret Doctrine first of all estab- 
 lishes the reign of Law on all planes of 
 life and our attainments and obtain- 
 ments result from strict compliance 
 
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with spiritual and scientific conditions,* 
 established by the Law. Indeed such is 
 the relationship between causes and ef- 
 fects and their resultant causes and ef- 
 fects, that the Law of Justice is not 
 mocked, each soul reaping whatever it 
 sows, not in the sense of rewards or 
 punishments, but only in the deeper 
 sense of spiritual and natural conse- 
 quences. 
 
 The Christ psychology begins with 
 the divine and ends with the human 
 order of will, intelligence, feeling and 
 life. God's will is expressed in the uni- 
 verse as Law, — not caprice, order — not 
 
 * Cor. 2: 14. "The natural man receiveth not the 
 things which are of the spirit of God, for they are 
 foolishness to him; neither can he know them, for they 
 are spiritually discerned." 
 
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chaos; intelligence — not chance or acci- 
 dents; love — not hate; life — not death. 
 And the use we make of our willing, 
 thinking and feeling as each one wills, 
 thinks and feels, is registered in the 
 character of. his life. Thus the Law not 
 only governs and finds its supreme 
 justification in one's divinity, whence it 
 originates, but in humanity, not only in 
 the spiritual, but the natural world. For 
 our divinity is in our humanity and the 
 character of humanity is a negative or 
 positive result of the expression of our 
 divinity. It is the same Law governing 
 the divine and natural man in the spir- 
 itual and natural world. The Christ 
 psychology which differs in name only 
 from the New Psychology hypothecates 
 
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Divinity as the fundamental key to the 
 solution of the problems of man's life. 
 It builds its technique on spiritual facts 
 and knowledge. It proves its proposi- 
 tions by supersensuous or spiritual evi- 
 dences. 
 
 These evidences to the natural man, 
 who has not yet been enlightened or in- 
 itiated into spiritual mysteries, are fool- 
 ishness. But facts are stubborn things 
 and persist until properly tabulated in 
 the category of spiritual realities. 
 
 The mystical and scientific connec- 
 tion between humanity and Divinity is 
 established by the New and Christ* 
 psychology. 
 
 * Christ is the word employed to express psych- 
 ological facts and processes which prove the soul to be 
 potentially immortal and divine. 
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Supernormalism defines the scien- 
 tific, psychic operations, faculties and 
 results, when one functions on the sub- 
 jective or spiritual side of his nature; 
 but only when such functioning is dedi- 
 cated to divine and unselfish ends can it 
 be qualified as the application of the 
 philosophy of the Christ psychology. 
 Supernormal psychology is fully and 
 exhaustively explained in the work by 
 the author on "The New Psychology " 
 and one should study and master it, to 
 get an intelligent conception of the 
 scope of this branch of the Christ 
 psychology as it explains spiritual facts, 
 which transcend the power of the nor- 
 mal senses and faculties to apprehend 
 or explain. While these facts can be 
 
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detached from physical causes and laws, 
 they are none the less associated with 
 them by causes which govern and in- 
 terpenetrate them, as the ether and 
 fourth dimension interpenetrate matter 
 and its three dimensions in time and 
 space. What is needed by the soul is the 
 mystical vision, which centralized with- 
 in the soul, where the spirit of God and 
 our spirit become, as it were, fused into 
 one and the same life and consciousness, 
 reveals the unmistakable difference be- 
 tween the objective power and life of 
 man and the same power and life when 
 governed by and proceding from his 
 divinity. 
 
 The Secret Doctrine affords a near 
 vision and realization of the essential 
 
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self, one's divinity, mystically uniting 
 the soul to God, the supreme and Ab- 
 solute Intelligence, where what is law- 
 fully fixed (as matter) in time and 
 space, but lawfully free in spirit, can be 
 transformed and made to manifest the 
 higher, more sublime uses of the divine 
 will and power, co-ordinating with the 
 lower, mental faculties a<nd powers, to 
 reveal the occult and divine ends, which 
 the physical and chemical laws of mat- 
 ter subserve. This explains how the 
 alleged miracles and supernaturalism 
 of the Bible are not suspensions of na- 
 tural law, nor violations of Divine prin- 
 ciples, but the clear and undeniable evi- 
 dences of law, under the soul's own di- 
 vine sovereignty. 
 
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Such mystical communion between 
 one's higher self* or Divinity and God, 
 concerns the ego or self in the divine 
 life, in the super consciousness, rather 
 than in one's use of supernormal pow- 
 ers on the normal or supernormal plane. 
 Mystical experiences must be and are 
 universal and unique. Many have en- 
 joyed them, especially prophets, mys- 
 tics, philosophers, poets, avatars, great 
 teachers. These experiences are called 
 religious because they concern the di- 
 vine life and God, but they should never 
 be confused with merely supernormal 
 
 * Ego is the personal "I." Divinity is the Divine 
 I or self universal as an entity individualized and po- 
 tential in all souls. The personality is the ego ob- 
 jectified in the natural man or subjectified in the spirit- 
 ual man. The personal ego depends upon the Divine 
 I for its existence. 
 
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experiences; for while they are most 
 useful and inevitable in the attainment 
 of spiritual realizations, they are not 
 directly and integrally of the imper- 
 sonal spirit or the God consciousness. 
 Such experiences are individual, and 
 concrete, inasmuch as they relate both 
 to Divine Guidance and human needs, 
 but they are distinctly mystical as was 
 the vision of the Christ to Paul while 
 he was on the road to Damascus. Sin- 
 gular as such experiences are, they are 
 of the universal Spirit, and whether in 
 form of vision or voice, they enter the 
 soul only when the soul is either ec- 
 statically in communion with God, or 
 as in the case of Paul, when the time 
 has come for the soul to end its futile 
 
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search after truth, and so to react its 
 life from the standpoint of divine con- 
 viction and mental illumination as to 
 enter joyfully, freely into the larger, 
 Messianic and apostolic service. The 
 meteor as well as the sun roll on orbits 
 concentric with the ellipse, where the 
 light and darkness part company for- 
 ever. He who would find himself must 
 move toward the center where God is 
 and where the two wills, human and 
 divine, unite and fuse at last into one. 
 It is supremely important that if 
 one is of the Order of Melchizedek that 
 he think, love and work in the outer 
 court of the Gentiles as he serves in 
 the Holy of Holies. One light, that of 
 Divinity burns in singular purity in 
 
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what ever he does and wherever he is! 
 It is not astonishing, therefore, that 
 the word mystery and mysticism should 
 be derived from the same root. He who 
 incredulously and blindly permits the 
 ego to function on only the sensuous, 
 objective plane of consciousness, ignor- 
 antly inhibiting the soul's interior, 
 larger and deeper expression of life and 
 power in the sphere of its supersensu- 
 ous, transcendant, subjective and 
 subliminal consciousness, of course, will 
 deny the reality of spiritual and mysti- 
 cal experiences; but, the moment the 
 ego is disenthralled from the senses and 
 liberated from the self imposed obses- 
 sions of its desires, and these very de- 
 sires are destroyed, then the ego is free 
 
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as was Paul to enjoy consciously the 
 reveries, ecstacies, visions, voices of his 
 soul, of angels and ministering spirits, 
 as sent of God and as a part of the order 
 of his divinity and destiny. 
 
 To seal the lips, close the eyes, and 
 ears, is the first condition in concentra- 
 tion, which concerns the center of being 
 and Divinity, and not any one par- 
 ticular subject or object of conscious- 
 ness and life. Such centralization of 
 thought, first, and then of the ego, re- 
 leases the soul from bondage to sense 
 attachments, mental habits of reaction 
 and nervo-psychic automatisms and for- 
 tifies it against similar, sensuous temp- 
 tations. A divine feeling (divine love) 
 and thinking (truth) and being (God) 
 
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transforms the nature of the soul and 
 so, by its divinity, it is in the earth but 
 not of it, it is living the normal life as 
 master, under the Christ principle, and 
 not as the obsessed, controlled slave of 
 the carnal mind and life. To this end 
 the Christ psychology leads and as it 
 leads the soul, the mystic union between 
 man and God is established. 
 
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LECTURE V 
 
 The Key — How Applied. Divine 
 Realization and Illumination. 
 
 Mysticism leads to divine realiza- 
 tion and illumination. Its supreme 
 purpose is to clear the consciousness of 
 all veils, shadows, mists, obsessions, in- 
 hibitions, habits, prejudices, objective 
 and subjective obstructions which de- 
 flect, but do not reflect Divinity. A 
 realization of one's own Divinity is 
 tantamount to the attainment of God 
 consciousness, which is known and de- 
 fined by eastern mystics as the super 
 consciousness, because it is paramount 
 to all other forms of it. 
 
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The Secret Doctrine would not be 
 either secret or sacred were it to di- 
 vulge knowledge which could avail the 
 charlatan or the magician. Therein lie 
 its safeguard and peculiarity. The 
 knowledge it reveals is supernormalism 
 plus mysticism. A free use of super- 
 normal powers employed for personal 
 or selfish purposes is possible and prac- 
 tical, but it leads to the blind alleys of 
 spiritual occultation. Such use of our 
 powers is discouraged, if for no other 
 reason than that it frequently leads to 
 dementia. Persons, not students, who 
 defy scientific and divine warnings of 
 seers, psychological experts and teach- 
 ers of mysticism, and refuse to obey 
 conditions, "rushing in where angels 
 
fear to tread," have no one to blame 
 but themselves for the disasters which 
 overtake them. The Secret Doctrine 
 is exact and severe in demanding the 
 spiritual life as of paramount import- 
 ance among students of occult science, 
 experimenters, demonstrators. This life 
 is impersonal, universal, cosmic, and 
 the foundation on which is built the 
 conscious perception of spiritual reve- 
 lation, divine realization and illumina- 
 tion. 
 
 Supernormalism is not mediumship. 
 It affirms self-possession, freedom and 
 conscious sovereignty against obses- 
 sion, control and unconscious depend- 
 ency. The phrase spiritual gifts, em- 
 ployed by Paul (Corinthians 14) refers 
 
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to supernormalism, not mecliumship or 
 supernaturalism. Supernaturalism as 
 used by theologians implies an acci- 
 dental or sporadic happening impos- 
 sible under natural and spiritual law, 
 traceable to an alleged fiat of God, to 
 whom spontaneity of action is a privi- 
 lege inexplicable to human reason, even 
 in the absolute perfection of the Divine 
 Will. Evolution, in a divine sense, im- 
 plies involution, but does not deny the 
 innate, potential, ultimate perfection of 
 the soul. Creation suggests recreation, 
 as generation, regeneration and death, 
 the resurrection. Supernormalism sig- 
 nifies no accidental fiat of God, because 
 His eternal plan failed or because the 
 soul from birth in matter could and 
 
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would not save itself from ignorance, 
 weakness, sin and sickness as does the 
 word supernaturalism, but affirms the 
 enfolded, involved potentialities of di- 
 vine being, which, when expressed, 
 prove one's divinity and mystically as- 
 sociates man with God. This is im- 
 portant to perceive, for when it is un- 
 derstood, one can understand the differ- 
 ence between mediumship which is 
 largely an organic and psychic pecul- 
 iarity of human nature, than a spiritual 
 attainment, as is illustrated by the com- 
 parative meanings of the words medium 
 and adopt, or magician and necroman- 
 cer, sorcerer and hierophant, prophet 
 and Christ. There can be no mistake in 
 either scientific or spiritual definitions. 
 
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The impersonal, divine use of powers, 
 whether normal or supernormal, makes 
 the degree of difference between the one 
 set of words and the other, which the 
 word, supernaturalism does not convey 
 except to make confusion more con- 
 founded. 
 
 Supernaturalism implies miracle, 
 while supernormalism implies mystery, 
 which science can explain. To see, hear, 
 feel spiritually, so that one can function 
 on the astral plane, see visions, hear 
 voices, commune with spiritual beings 
 in the spiritual world, telepath, receive 
 inspirations and revelations conscious- 
 ly, prophesy, heal, interpret visions, 
 know the deep things of God, — to do 
 these things may be mysterious, but not 
 
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miraculous, which a knowledge of sup- 
 ernormalism will readily explain. So 
 that it is ignorance which makes super- 
 normal attainments seem miracles, but 
 it is knowledge which dissolves the 
 mystery. 
 
 The connecting link between man 
 and God, morals and revelation, the lost 
 key, the stone which the builders re- 
 jected, metaphysically conceived, the 
 psychology which was the lost word and 
 discovered cabalistically mixed with 
 chimera, fantasy, parables, myths, sym- 
 bols, conceits of all kinds, is supernorm- 
 alism, which furnishes the true foun- 
 dation on which mysticism or divine 
 realization are founded. This the 
 Secret Doctrine of the Bible recovers 
 
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and restates in intelligible language, so 
 that no one need grope any more in 
 darkness or ignorance/ 
 
 Melchizedek, so long mysteriously 
 and remotely connected with man's 
 earliest life, thought and destiny, is no 
 longer to be esteemed an historical man 
 without birth and lineage, but Divinity, 
 personated as the Holy Spirit or the 
 Spirit of Truth, which is indwelling 
 within every human soul, and prepar- 
 ing humanity for its highest orders, to 
 be a perpetual priest at the divine altar, 
 
 * For full and detailed instruction, study the 
 11 System of Philosophy Concerning Divinity/ ' mail 
 course of fifty-six lessons, five series of teachings. Read 
 also books on "The Philosophy Concerning the Divinity 
 of Clairvoyance, ' ' cloth $1.50, and "The Philosophy 
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where, as in the Holy of Holies, the pure 
 white spirit burns with an ineffable and 
 inextinguishable glory. The lamp may 
 become useless, the oil be burnt up, the 
 wick die down to a mere bit of carbon, 
 but the soul with its radiant, eternal 
 light will shine on and on forever. 
 
 Supernormal psychology is a lamp 
 to man's feet. It orders his mind to a 
 cosmic scheme, and keys his heart to a 
 celestial vibration. It reveals his 
 eternality and infinity in his Divinity. 
 It explains the reason of Law and the 
 Law of reason. It proves the Bible to 
 be as the fig tree, concealing the fruit 
 under the shadow of its literature, or 
 as the cocoanut, containing the water of 
 life within its historical shell. 
 
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It shows that Adam and Eve, were 
 not the first father and mother of the 
 human race, but the electro magnetic 
 type of the active and passive principle 
 of the universe, in which, as in the 
 human organism, the soul short circuits 
 God, to find that he can cut himself 
 temporarily from his supply and Divin- 
 ity, only to be forced by the negative 
 and positive law of his being, (action 
 and reaction) to find life and immortal- 
 ity, unity and oneness in the very God, 
 in whom he ignorantly lives, moves and 
 has his being. This is the science of 
 eternal life. Mere existence, is nothing. 
 Divine realization is everything. The 
 conscious knowledge that in the sover- 
 eign power of Divine love, the soul dis- 
 
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covers God, as in the passion of human 
 love, it loses God, is the sublime and 
 perpetual revelation of religion, which 
 occult physiology explains as the macu- 
 late and immaculate conception of the 
 incarnation of God, in the human race, 
 and which occult psychology reveals as 
 the inhibition and exhibition of the 
 super consciousness, the Christ life, 
 wherein our own Divinity denies or 
 bears witness to God. 
 
 Man in the microcosm and God in 
 the macrocosm are of one divine Being. 
 The soul's triumph over the flesh and 
 carnal mind demonstrates its celestial 
 origin and destiny. Melchizedek, with- 
 out birth or death, family or genealogj^, 
 clothing, Abraham (historical man) 
 
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with the mantle of his majestic and so\ 
 
 ereign Divinity, typifies that our Divin- 
 ity — the Divinity of man, thus sheltered 
 and protected through the ages, — like 
 the lily in the mud, will rise to express 
 the Christ, and affirm. "I am the Resur- 
 rection and the Life." 
 
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DIVINE SCIENCE AND ITS BRANCHES 
 
 WITH TECHNIQUE OR PRACTICAL 
 
 DEMONSTRABLE METHODS 
 
 Your Need Supplied. 
 
 COURSE 1. 
 
 Divine Science of Healing. 
 
 Jesus is not on earth now to tell the 
 sick, worried, hopeless, miserable how 
 to be well, happy and strong. His 
 teaching, however, is here, and a few 
 are gifted with divine inspiration and 
 practical divine knowledge in the 
 science of healing which he taught to 
 reveal the secret of the doctrine to oth- 
 
ers. It can be learned. The patient 
 can put its technique into practice and 
 resurrect himself by his own Divine 
 Will, Power and Life. " Those that are 
 whole need no physician." True, but 
 those that are sick need a metaphysi- 
 cian. 
 
 Method of Technique. 
 
 So called miracles of Healing 
 wrought thousands of years ago are pos- 
 sible today. Dr. Grumbine presents 
 the science in a simple, lucid, luminous, 
 practical way, within the reach of all. 
 Truth is like a key. It opens all doors 
 of possibility if you possess the key. 
 Dr. Grumbine presents you the key. 
 Have you studied his course? Your 
 
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education is not complete without it. 
 This is admitted by all who know. 
 
 For the benefit of the New Thoughter. 
 Who is Dr. Grumbine? 
 
 He was a pioneer New Thoughter, be- 
 fore there were any National or Local 
 Centers. He is a Metaphysician, a 
 Teacher of Divine Science, The New 
 Psychology and Christian Mysticism, 
 and has been before the public since 
 1888, with nearly thirty years on the 
 New Thought platform. Among his 
 students who afterwards became teach- 
 ers and practitioners are Kate Atkinson 
 Boehme, author, Dr. Julia Seton, Lucy 
 C. McGee, Boston, Mrs. Mary C. Cha- 
 pin, New York City, and many others. 
 The press is unanimous in his praise. 
 
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Read these Statements. 
 
 1 ' The Fello wslt ip Messenger, ' ' Omaha, Nebraska, 
 writes: "For a year and a half past I have pro- 
 moted a great many Metaphysical lectures, but 
 there has been nothing equal in soundness and 
 catholicity of its teaching to that which Dr. 
 Grumbine in promulgating. ' ' 
 
 Kate Atkinson Boehme, New Thought Author 
 and Healer, wrote: "Such richness of thought, 
 diversity of expression and originality of con- 
 ception are rarely combined in one individual." 
 
 "The Harbinger of Light," Melbourne, Aus- 
 tralia, wrote: "As a teacher it is questionable if 
 his superior, for the past thirty years at least, 
 has been on the platform.' ' 
 
 "Lillian Whiting/' author "The World Beauti- 
 ful," etc., wrote: "Your work is marvelous — 
 
 epoch making." 
 
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The Course by Mail. 
 
 A course of twelve lessons, with 
 technique is offered the earnest, sincere 
 student who seeks for freedom or longs 
 to be a practitioner and to demonstrate. 
 There can be no better, more luminous 
 course by any one. Each lesson is brief, 
 concise and a revelation. No superflu- 
 ous language to camouflage the truth. 
 The light shines with clear beaut\ 
 through each word and thought. 
 
 The cost is but ten dollars for this 
 special course. 
 
 Special. 
 
 Dr. Grumbine prepares students for 
 the New Thought and Divine Science 
 platform. Such students should study 
 
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his complete system to finish their New 
 Thought or Divine Science education. 
 Eventually you will take his system. 
 Why not now? 
 
 Special courses on 
 Course IE. (Sixth Sense) 
 
 "Clairsentience," 12 Lessons. 
 Course HE. " Inspiration/' 12 lessons. 
 Course IV. " Illumination," 10 lessons. 
 
 Each may be taken separately. 
 
 Fee for each course, $10.00. 
 
 Address: 
 
 J. C. F. GRUMBINE 
 
 1916 East 105th St., Cleveland, Ohio. 
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THE SYSTEM OF PHILOSOPHY 
 CONCERNING DIVINITY. 
 
 Mail Course. 
 
 Correspondence School, Established 
 1894, by J. C. F. Grumbine, B. D., 
 Fellow of the Society of Science, 
 Letters and Arts, London, Eng- 
 land, Noted Author, World Trav- 
 eller and Member of the National 
 Geographical Society. A Teacher 
 of Divine Science, the Spiritual 
 Philosophy, Including Theosophy 
 and the New Psychology. 
 It is known to all the world, that Di- 
 vine Science, affirming the reality of 
 Spirit and Divinity of the soul, is true, 
 admitted to be so by the most eminent 
 scientists — Sir Oliver Lodge, Camille 
 
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Mammarion, Sir William Crookes, the 
 late Dr. Frederick Meyer, Signor Lom- 
 broso, Dr. Hodgson and Professor 
 James and numerous other leaders in 
 chemistry, psychology, physics, litera- 
 ture and the church. 
 
 Our duty now is to express our sup- 
 ernormal powers, in a sane, conscious, 
 scientific manner and to realize our 
 Divinity. 
 
 Our supernormal or psychical pow- 
 ers can be arranged into two distinct 
 classes. By powers we mean our abil- 
 ity or capacity to express our divinity, 
 hold communion with the spiritual 
 world, function on the supernormal 
 planes, to heal, to telepath, to learn 
 one's vocation in life, so as to be suc- 
 
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cessful, prosperous, and well and to ob- 
 tain intromission to celestial knowledge 
 and revelations, to exercise all the di- 
 vine powers which hitherto have been 
 regarded as impossible, and superna- 
 tural. 
 
 Mr. Grumbine specializes on super- 
 normal psychology. He cannot empha- 
 size too strongly the fact that all pos- 
 sess supernormal powers, and should 
 express them. It is divine to do so and 
 a help to the higher life. 
 
 Supernormal powers are natural. 
 We are conscious, free, independent, 
 when we become supernormal. The 
 supernormal powers are spiritual 
 seeing, hearing, feeling, seership, pre- 
 vision, psychometry, intuition, realiza- 
 
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tion, illumination, healing, ecstasy, tele- 
 pathy, divine inspiration, projection of 
 the double, functioning on the astral 
 plane, consciously. These we all can ex- 
 press — some to a greater degree than 
 others, because they will spend more 
 time and be more earnest in their ef- 
 forts. 
 
 What is claimed can be done for all 
 is being done for each student by 
 Grumbine's System, and your testi- 
 mony will be added when you study the 
 profound but simple System which he 
 teaches. 
 
 Take Theosophy; Dr. Grumbine af- 
 fords the initiated or inner circle a very 
 esoteric and practical teaching. There 
 is nothing sectarian about the teach- 
 
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ing. Your freedom is never curtailed. 
 He has received word from those who 
 have taken this work that the System 
 taught by mail through "The College of 
 Divine Sciences and Realization," the 
 correspondence school, is superior in 
 many ways to any other esoteric teach- 
 ing. The language is less stuffed with 
 Orientalisms, while his methods are 
 scientific and adapted to the simplest 
 minds. One physician, a student who 
 took the System years ago, wrote that 
 it is the System par excellence. 
 
 His teachings are pure divine Sci- 
 ence, presented in a way to appeal to 
 the most enlightened as well as the un- 
 informed. 
 
 He is positively opposed to fortune 
 
telling and commercialism in New 
 Thought. In his System the way is 
 shown to the highest service, practically 
 and spiritually. 
 
 To commune or communicate con- 
 sciously with our invisible, divine help- 
 ers, even the Holy Spirit, is possible for 
 each one, and it is far and away the best 
 method and brings the most reliable, 
 beneficent and happiest results. But — 
 and mark the condition — one cannot ex- 
 pect to succeed in becoming an adept, 
 unless he lives the spiritual life. 
 
 J. C. F. Grumbine is an expert in 
 these branches of Divine Science and 
 the New Psychology, and is famed the 
 world over as a superior, conscientious 
 and reliable teacher. The knowledge 
 
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he gives is a revelation in itself. He has 
 been before the public since 1893. 
 
 Divine Science Versus Christian 
 Science. 
 
 Divine Science as taught by the 
 System, is the foundation of Christian 
 Science and is a science older than the 
 Bible and is not glorifying or dependent 
 upon the personality of a man or a 
 woman. Without Divine Science there 
 could be no Christian Science. The 
 1 i System of Philosophy Concerning 
 Divinity ' ' reveals the technique of Di- 
 vine Healing (for which we are in- 
 formed by Christian Scientists them- 
 selves, Christian Science charges $100), 
 in a language so clear and simple and 
 demonstrations so practical and irre- 
 
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sistible, that any intelligent person can 
 grasp them. 
 
 The Order of the White Rose 
 
 A School with a Destiny — An Order 
 
 which is Rosicrucian — Founded 
 
 in 1894. 
 
 The Series or System by Mail. 
 
 The five series of revealed teachings 
 comprehending the System apply to 
 human needs, because man is essentially 
 divine. If spiritual unfoldment or di- 
 vine realization is not possible under 
 the direction of this System, then there 
 is little hope for the human race. Pre- 
 paration to perceive and receive the 
 truth is from within. By a psycholog- 
 ical process and psychological formulae, 
 
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evidences and demonstrations are ac- 
 complished. 
 
 Each one who seeks expression of 
 supernormal powers and the realization 
 of one's divinity, can have it, because 
 each one is divine. 
 
 Mysticism and Rosicrucianism. 
 
 The Hermetic Law, Theosophy, Bib- 
 lical Mysteries, the Vedanta Philos- 
 ophy, and Rosicrucianism are fully ex- 
 plained in the System. 
 
 Psychism. 
 
 Your hidden psychical powers are 
 made manifest sanely by this System, 
 if rules are applied. Obsessions, con- 
 trol, trances, unconsciousness, are dis- 
 countenanced. The System affirms per- 
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sonal sovereignty, self-mastery, con- 
 
 ciousness, freedom in the highest sense. 
 
 Normal Course. 
 
 A normal course follows the System. 
 This course furnishes the key to the 
 hidden wisdom of the Bible, also to all 
 symbols, myths, allegories, numbers, 
 the cabala and occult psychology. 
 Words of Praise. 
 
 "Dr. Grumbine drew from all who 
 had the pleasure of hearing him, noth- 
 ing but admiration and praises. As 
 teacher and lecturer he is par-excel- 
 lence. Scholarly, philosophic, profound, 
 eloquent, inspirational, yet withal lucid 
 and easy to follow, both on the platform 
 and in class work, he is one of the most 
 
 impressive teachers yet to come before 
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the Omaha New Thought Fellowship. 
 From the 1st to the 12th of January, a 
 course of New Thought Lectures was 
 given in the Fellowship audience room, 
 by Dr. J. C. F. Grumbine of Boston. 
 
 "As an instructor of the New 
 Thought, Dr. Grumbine is very patient, 
 there being nothing cheap or frivolous 
 in his methods. He has a message for 
 the world and he feels it his duty (pro- 
 vided that is the appropriate word to 
 use) , to proclaim it in all sincerity. His 
 ideals are of the spiritual type: his phil- 
 osophy is cosmic in cast and impersonal 
 in spirit. As a New Thoughtist, he gives 
 the student the advantage of all good 
 things to be found in every branch of 
 learning; as a student and teacher of 
 
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the 'New Psychology' he unfolds the 
 mystery of being on the three planes of 
 matter, mind and spirit, in such terms 
 and with such wealth of thought and re- 
 search as to make his lectures veritable 
 treasuries of physical, occult and spir- 
 itual knowledge. He has sounded the 
 depths and ascended the heights in that 
 kingdom where the streets of life may 
 be found, and beheld therein glories of 
 the seen and unseen world, and so found 
 a place where the illuminati, whose wis- 
 dom is of inestimable value to less un- 
 folded souls in their search for truth, 
 the divine light of knowledge, and the 
 laws of self-unfoldment. 
 
 "In coming to Omaha, Dr. Grumbine 
 made many friends and awakened some 
 
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minds to a deeper and sweeter percep- 
 tion of the spiritual worth of each life, 
 and lifted the veil for some eyes to be- 
 hold the divine radiance of the soul im- 
 mortal/' — The Fellowship Messenger. 
 
 This interesting personal item from 
 Mr. John H. Davis, of Columbus, 
 Ohio, will be inspiring to new students. 
 "I want to take this opportunity to 
 thank you for the immense amount of 
 benefit that I have received from 
 personal contact with you, and hearing 
 your instructive lectures which have 
 aided me wonderfully in spiritual un- 
 f oldment, which in turn has given me a 
 broader outlook on life and a more com- 
 plete understanding of my true relation- 
 
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ship to God and man, more wisdom and 
 a much happier life." 
 
 Mr. Grumbine often travels on lec- 
 ture engagements. Indulge delays. 
 Your letter will receive attention as 
 soon as it reaches him. 
 
 The System of Philosophy Concerning 
 Divinity. 
 
 TERMS. 
 
 What are you doing to express or 
 realize your Divinity? 
 
 You are one of a large class who do 
 not realize that you can develop super- 
 normal powers and become master of 
 the circumstances of your life. You 
 can! We all possess supernormal fac- 
 ulties and should express them. We are 
 better off if we do. But where will this 
 
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class go, or turn for help? I add — to 
 this System; first, because it is the only 
 System of its kind that can help you. 
 and secondly because The System as a 
 Mail Course, with 56 Lessons, covers all 
 the Conditions and Rules governing the 
 Law, expression of Supernormalism. 
 
 The lack in most Christian New 
 Thoughtists, Divine Scientists, is a 
 knowledge of Supernormal Psychology 
 and Mystic Science of the Bible which 
 eliminates such words as supernatur- 
 alism, miracle and magic from their 
 vocabulary, and enables them by Dr. 
 Grumbine's system to positively know 
 and demonstrate. 
 
 The High School and University 
 graduate, the Character Analyst, the 
 
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Psycho-Therapist, the mother or father 
 who plans big things for their boys and 
 girls, who, without a knowledge of their 
 vocational adaptation in business or 
 life, as well as the more spiritually 
 minded, can find in the system the illu- 
 mination they need to fit them for their 
 life work. 
 
 THE FEE. 
 
 (Reduced from $60.) 
 
 For $25.00 cash or $35.00 in $5.00 
 monthly payments ($10.00 the first pay- 
 ment), you can study, not buy the Sys- 
 tem. 
 
 Students entered any time. 
 
 Fee includes two text books. 
 
 Send P. O. or Express Money Order 
 
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(please do not send personal check, un- 
 less you allow extra for discount) to 
 J. C. F. Grumbine, 1916 East 105th St., 
 Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
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WHAT IS NEW THOUGHT AND 
 
 WHO IS THE NEW 
 
 THOUGHTER? 
 
 What is new Thought? 
 
 1. It teaches that God is Spirit, with- 
 in each one, omnipresent, omniscient, 
 omnipotent, expressed in all conscious- 
 ness and life as unchanging law, in both 
 the natural and spiritual world. Our 
 own Divinity should be sovereign. 
 
 2. It teaches that pure and universal 
 religion is impersonal and is the science 
 of truth, of God demonstrable through 
 one's own Divinity. 
 
 3. It teaches that all Bibles, contain 
 revelations of truth, but are not infall- 
 ible as historical or doctrinal books. 
 
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4. It teaches that the Christ spirit 
 wherever expressed, is the highest, pur- 
 est, most perfect realization and meta- 
 physical concept of the working prin- 
 ciple of Divine love and life in mankind. 
 
 5. It teaches that disease, failure, 
 poverty are not the result of God's 
 wrath and punishment, but of man's ig- 
 norance and the limitations placed on 
 his human and divine potentialities and 
 prerogatives; and it affirms that when 
 mankind lives the Christ life on earth, 
 (the golden rule for service) and thinks 
 and acts righteously, — poverty, disease 
 and failure will pass away. This refers 
 to economic, political and spiritual con- 
 ditions. 
 
 6. It teaches a demonstrable immor- 
 
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tality and conscious communion of 
 spirit. This is New Thought in a nut- 
 shell. 
 
 Who is the New Thoughter? 
 A New Thoughter is one who accepts 
 the above, lives it in his life and sup- 
 ports it by his presence and money. 
 
 There are many groups of so-called 
 New Thoughters who place special 
 emphasis on one, two or more of the six 
 propositions. 
 
 Group One. 
 
 The first group is the highest in spir- 
 itual service and life who are absolute- 
 ly living up to the five propostions. 
 They subordinate their personal and 
 selfish interests to the good of the com- 
 mon movement and seek to live in the 
 
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Universal Spirit. They are trying to 
 unite and fuse all centers into one homo- 
 geneous and harmonious body of kin- 
 dred hearts whose ideal is set on divine 
 unity and unselfish human fellowship 
 and service. They do not wish to pro- 
 fit by the movement, to pose as speak- 
 ers, healers and managers, but so to 
 live and prepare themselves for the New 
 Thought and Divine Science Ideal and 
 Vision on earth as to be worthy to be 
 called and chosen to serve whenever the 
 voice of God calls them, and put under 
 foot their own personal claims or wishes 
 to be a leader or a mouthpiece of God ! 
 Such are the true disciples and work- 
 ers. These have not neglected to pre- 
 pare themselves, so far as the demands 
 
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of the platform and field are concerned 
 with the necessary education to make 
 the ideal and the message they present 
 acceptable. 
 
 Group Two. 
 Under group two must be classified 
 all " babes in truth, " who use any given 
 or established New Thought or Divine 
 Science organization to know the law 
 of freedom and truth, so that they can 
 be of service to mankind. They may be 
 attached or unattached to an orthodox 
 church but who, unless wisely guided 
 are sometimes misled to modify and 
 tincture New Thought Philosophy with 
 special confusing theories which they 
 had once entertained and accepted when 
 in the Christian Church, and which now 
 
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are so deeply imbedded in their subcon- 
 scious minds that the word " freedom" 
 is easily translated into the word " bon- 
 dage/ ' in which their peculiar views, 
 personal opinions and idiosyncracies as 
 to what New Thought should be are 
 predominant. Instead of accepting 
 truth for authority, they unconsciously 
 or consciously accept authority for 
 truth. Unless these " babes in truth" 
 can be fully enlightened and made to 
 surrender these false and personal 
 theories for the Universal Divine Spirit 
 and God consciousness, they will sooner 
 or later strike the danger reefs of sec- 
 tarianism and dogmatism which lurk in 
 the shallow waters of personal views 
 
 and experiences. 
 
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Group Three. 
 
 This group includes the self lovers 
 and seekers who call themselves "New 
 Thoughters" and yet fail to hold up 
 their hands to be counted or to give 
 their money to support the movement. 
 They, perhaps, buy a book or two on 
 New Thought, subscribe for a popular 
 New Thought periodical, attend a New 
 Thought meeting when a new teacher 
 or healer enters a city, but never identi- 
 fy themselves or cooperate with any 
 organized center. They are the "news- 
 paper New Thoughters", who "want 
 what they want when they want it". 
 Group Four. 
 
 Then there is the last group, which 
 
 furnish the spurs, inspirations and lit- 
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erature of New Thought and Divine 
 Science Movement, whose teachers 
 teach freedom of thought in all depart- 
 ments of knowledge, and are represen- 
 tative pioneers of that liberalism which 
 limits no one and yet does not attempt 
 to confine truth to any one " personal" 
 idea, viewpoint, center, Bible, interpre- 
 tation or experience, but includes in 
 their thought and love all who differ 
 with them. These teachers see good 
 and affirm the truth in all religions, 
 philosophies, science and do not narrow 
 the truth to what some, in their ignor- 
 ance and prejudices, maintain to be all 
 there is of truth, because they think it. 
 
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A Final Word. 
 
 Success comes to those who know 
 and apply the law. Truth will triumph 
 over all adversaries. Each one must 
 learn by dear bought experience the dif- 
 ference between " human' ' opinions and 
 1 ' divine ' ? truth, between ' ' human ' ' lead- 
 ing and l i divine ' ' guidance. It will take 
 time to educate the ignorant and inex- 
 perienced in divine knowledge, but that 
 is the work of the patient, sincere, 
 consecrated leaders. So long as we get 
 rid of selfishness, ignorance, envy, self- 
 seeking and self-praise, the advance and 
 prosperity of the movement is assured. 
 But our duty is to be loyal to the Spirit 
 
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of Truth, which commands us to sacri- 
 fice the personal for the Universal and 
 our own selfish interests and opinions 
 for the one Divine Center of truth and 
 love, within each one where unity and 
 harmony alone can obtain. 
 
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