UCSB LIBRARY
 
 A Itonk of Umlaium 
 
 By 
 
 HELEN VAN-ANDERSON 
 
 Author of 
 
 " The Right Knock, " "Carrol's 
 Conversion," "Journal of a Live 
 Woman," "Story of Teddy, " "Tem- 
 ple Teachings," "Heart Talks," etc. 
 
 Mystic in its true meaning is spiritual knowledge: 
 that is, knowledge of spiritual and supersensual things 
 perceived by the spiritual powers of perception. These 
 powers are germinally contained in every human organ- 
 ization . Hartman. 
 
 Publhhtd by THE NEW YORK MAGAZINE 
 
 "A Cheer Up Magazine" 
 ^^ N. William Street New York
 
 Copyright, 1906, fy 
 
 THE C. E. ELLIS CO. 
 
 All Rightt Reserved 
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 CONTENTS 
 
 CHAPTER PAGE 
 
 I. The Necessary Preparation for the 
 Mystic Life and the True Found- 
 ation for Health, Happiness and 
 Prosperity .... 9 
 
 II. The Unseen Forces . . . 22 
 
 III. Your Senses and Their Planes of 
 
 Activity . . . . 34 
 
 IV. The Law of Vibration and the Se- 
 
 cret of Clairvoyance and Clair- 
 
 audience .... 46 
 
 V. A Lesson on Clairvoyance . . 60 
 
 VI. Symbols and Visions and How to 
 
 Interpret Them ... 80 
 
 VII. Concentration; a Means of Mind 
 
 Training ..... 96 
 
 VIII. Meditation or How to Enter the 
 
 Silence . . . . 1 1 z 
 
 IX. The Secret of Mystic Power . . 1 26 
 
 X. Mental and Physical Conditions for 
 
 Health ..... 141 
 
 XL The Christ Healing . . . 153 
 
 XII. Passing into the Beyond . . . 165 
 
 XIII. The Law of Prosperity . . .174 
 
 PRACTICAL APPLICATION 
 OF HEALING TREAT- 
 MENTS with KEY-NOTE 
 FOR EACH 
 
 I. Treatment for Cutting Off Unde- 
 sirable Influences . . . 193
 
 II. Treatment for Overcoming Secret 
 
 or Vicious Habits . . . 197 
 
 III. Treatment for Cases of Catarrh, 
 
 Throat and Lung Diseases . . 201 
 
 IV. Treatment for Nervousness and Self 
 
 Consciousness . . . .205 
 
 V. Treatment for Indigestion and Con- 
 stipation . . . . .209 
 
 VI. Treatment for Failing Eyesight . 213 
 VII. Treatment for Rheumatism . . 217 
 
 VIII. Treatment for Those Addicted to 
 
 Evil Habits . . . . 223 
 
 IX. Treatment for Managing Children 
 
 and Keeping Them Healthy . 227 
 
 X. Treatment for Harmonizing Home 
 
 Relations . . . .231
 
 FOREWORD 
 
 C 
 
 HIS message is sent forth to the 
 faithful hearts and willing ears of 
 those who are eager to be and to 
 do. The Text Book so long 
 promised and so long waited for is 
 now ready for you. It is what you 
 need and what you have earned by 
 your faithfulness. Yes, Beloved, most 
 closely have the silent watchers of your 
 progress looked for the signs that you 
 were ready for farther steps in the knowl- 
 edge of mystic truths. Though some of 
 you have lagged by the wayside and some 
 have murmured at the long delay, yet the 
 majority have been able to stand the test. 
 They have lived prayerfully and carefully 
 keeping in mind and practice the living 
 truth of the Success Club Degrees. Be- 
 cause of this the time has come for more
 
 definite and practical instruction that you 
 may still farther advance in the under- 
 standing and practice of the mystic law of 
 life. 
 
 In a series of plain, simple lessons, 
 simple as to form, yet profound as to con- 
 tents, you will be shown, O, Beloved, the 
 way of blessedness and peace, for in these 
 are the germ seeds that may blossom into 
 the true flowers of health and happiness 
 and prosperity. 
 
 Heed, you faithful, and be steadfast 
 in perseverance, you that are longing for 
 the Great Guidance. There has been 
 woven into the texture of this book that 
 which will vivify whosoever hath wrought 
 truth into the fabric of his daily life. For 
 this he shall be called one of the weavers 
 of the Great Pattern. 
 
 He that hath ears to hear, let him 
 hear. H. V-A.
 
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 " Cling thou to Me ! 
 
 Clasp Me with heart and mind ! so shall thou 
 
 dwell 
 
 Surely with Me on high. But if thy thought 
 Droops from such height ; if thou be 'st weak 
 
 to set 
 
 Body and soul upon Me constantly. 
 Despair not ! give Me lower service ! seek 
 To read Me, worshipping with steadfast will ; 
 And, if thou canst not worship steadfastly. 
 Work for Me, toil in works pleasing to Me I 
 For he that laboreth right for love of Me 
 Shall finally attain ! But, if in this 
 Thy faint heart fails, bring Me thy failure! find 
 Refuge in Me 1 let fruits of labor go. 
 Renouncing all for Me, with lowliest heart. 
 So shall thou come ; for, though to know is 
 
 more 
 
 Than diligence, yet worship better is 
 Than knowing, and renouncing better still. 
 Near to renunciation very near 
 Dwelleth Eternal Peace. 1 
 
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 CHAPTER I 
 
 The Necessary Preparation for the Mystic 
 
 Life, and the True Foundation 
 
 for Health 
 
 "Happy is lie that hath the God of Jacob 
 for his help, whose hope is in the Lord 
 his God." 
 
 Beloved: You have already started 
 in the mystic life, the beginning of which 
 is trnst, and the end, peace. Out of 
 these come all blessings. The Degrees 
 taught you prayers and thoughts for 
 daily and nightly use. Your faith grew 
 and you knew the joy of spiritual son- 
 ship and daughter ship. The Father 
 became a Friend, a Counselor, a Guide 
 and the Center of the great unseen 
 forces. 
 
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 Into your heart came the sweet whis- 
 per, "0, my Beloved, thee I embrace 
 and enfold, thee I hold and bless to the 
 days everlasting." But still you did 
 not see a reason for the joy, nor know 
 why you were kept day after day for 
 thirty days on one Degree. 
 
 No more does the child understand 
 the reason for its long lisping and re- 
 peating of the words that shall at last 
 become language. The teaching given 
 in the Degrees is necessary through the 
 years, but at first its main value is as 
 training. 
 
 He -who -would Did you not grow as the seed unfolds, 
 as the child grows? Listen, Beloved; 
 know this: he who would be as the 
 strongest must first be as the weakest. 
 He who would be the master, must first 
 be servant. To attain the great faith 
 and splendid courage is to be willing to 
 be nothing in order to become all. Here 
 gleams a golden thread from the Ancient 
 
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 Wisdom. Think over it well and dili- 
 gently. You are a being on the one side, 
 weak, ignorant, dependent on every wind 
 that blows; on the other side, you are on the her d& 
 
 are strong, ivise 
 
 strong, wise, intelligent. <_ intelligent 
 
 The first aspect of yourself you know ; 
 the second, you but vaguely dream of as 
 a possibility. 
 
 On your weak side you are subject to 
 fears, sorrows and grievous troubles of 
 all kinds, but this side is not that which 
 God gave you, for as Timothy says: 
 "God hath not given us the spirit of fear, 
 but of love, and of power, and of a sound 
 mind, ' ' and this, Beloved, represents the 
 strong side. 
 
 It is God who hath given us love, Aioundnind 
 power and a sound mind. You know this 
 to be true because you have had times 
 of loving, of being powerful, and of 
 using good judgment. You know what 
 it is to be loving, you know that in the 
 loving state everything and everybody 
 
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 is most pleasing in your sight. You 
 see beauty and goodness everywhere. 
 You are trustful, hopeful, kind, just and 
 true. 
 when you an When you are loving it is easy to do 
 
 loving 
 
 unto others as you would have others 
 do unto you, and you know that with this 
 love there is power; the power that 
 makes it possible to overcome tempta- 
 tions, to be strong, instead of weak; 
 power to undertake tasks and perform 
 them ; power to help others to do things 
 that are noble; power to conquer ob- 
 stacles, to meet difficulties of any kind. 
 A sound mind goes with all these, and 
 when you think of this wonderful side of 
 your being you can understand some- 
 GO<T i great intention thing of God's great intentions concern- 
 
 conctrning you 
 
 ing you. Would He have put the capac- 
 ity of love into your soul if He had not 
 intended you to love? Would He have 
 given you the marvelous powers that are 
 truly Godlike had He not intended you to 
 
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 use them? Would He have given you 
 that wonderful balance wheel called 
 sound common sense if it had not been a 
 part of your privilege to exercise it! 
 You can see now exactly what the train- 
 ing of the Degrees was intended to do 
 for you. 
 
 In the first you were taught re- 
 ceptivity. This is very important al- 
 ways. It is a child-like state and there- 
 fore the first step toward becoming as a 
 little child who can enter into the King- 
 dom of Heaven. You were given pray- 
 ers that would make you child-like, that 
 would create within you a consciousness 
 of connection with, and reliance upon, 
 the Heavenly Father. These prayers 
 were not only intended to make you re- 
 ceptive to greater knowledge from 
 higher spheres but to keep your attention 
 fixed with expectancy upon the idea of &** > 
 
 expectancy 
 
 receiving from God the peace and joy 
 and faith which the Spirit alone can give. 
 
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 This expectation which causes you to 
 turn to the Source of all good is one of 
 mtude the surest means of increasing your 
 faith. 
 
 Faith, Beloved, you must have. 
 All things are done through faith. At 
 first it may be but the faith which de- 
 mands only little things, yet with every 
 answer to the faith that inspires the be- 
 lieving prayer, there is an increase of the 
 
 w . . .t* . <~J X V f 
 
 Fatth illumined 
 
 with knowledge faith that is illumined with knowledge. 
 
 When, through faith, you have been 
 able to stand in the midst of hard and 
 pressing conditions as the victor, you 
 have a deeper, more trustful, more glor- 
 ious faith to meet conditions that op- 
 press you in another form. 
 
 The experiences of the soul in passing 
 through this world have been fittingly 
 compared to a journey along the high- 
 way of life. Now, you know it is not pos- 
 sible to take a journey of any length 
 without passing through valleys, climb- 
 
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 ing mountains, crossing streams, going 
 through the desert. You know it is 
 not possible to take a journey without 
 meeting obstacles of one kind or an- 
 other and being obliged to face all man- 
 ner of dangers and emergencies. 
 
 It is the same in this pilgrimage of the P<k rima z e c f 
 
 the soul 
 
 soul. Through the dark valleys of hu- 
 man experience it must go. From the 
 mountain peaks of grand moral achieve- 
 ment or high and noble self-sacrifice, the 
 soul may look afar upon beauties as well 
 as upon obstacles, yet having gained the 
 mountain top, it finds strength, courage 
 and enthusiasm to descend into the next 
 
 Strength to climb the 
 
 valley and climb up the next mountain. 
 In your journey through the experi- 
 ences of every day, Beloved, you are, 
 therefore, to remember that through all 
 the valleys you need have no fear, for 
 God is ever with you, if you will, and 
 His love is the rod and staff that shall 
 comfort you. 
 
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 The meaning of this valley as applied 
 to the earth, is of a depression in the 
 land, a place of narrow outlook, of shad- 
 ows. It may be illustrated in your jour- 
 ney as a place, or condition, rather, in 
 which you are hedged about with bar- 
 riers, in which you may be depressed or 
 afraid or ill, even unto death. How pre- 
 
 Tkt comforting 
 
 ivorJs cious then, the comforting words of the 
 singer of that beautiful Psalm begin- 
 ning : * ' The Lord is my Shepherd. ' ' 
 
 Can you not see how inspiring these 
 words are in placing before your mind 
 and within your heart the picture of 
 the true relationship between you and 
 God, your Father? 
 
 Do not fail to learn this 23rd Psalm, 
 and keep it within your heart and mind 
 repeating it many times a day, not only 
 that it may make you more trustful and 
 
 Mori trustful and ,.,,,., , , i , ., n , 
 
 child-like, but that it may recall to your 
 mind the great and mighty truth that 
 you are not in this world alone, but tHat 
 
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 you have a Guide Who accompanies you 
 on every day's journey, "Who leads you 
 into the fields of refreshment where 
 there are cool, crystal waters, Who re- 
 stores your soul when it is weary, Who 
 leads you into the paths of peace. 
 
 All this helps you to realize the strong Develop* y*,r spirit- 
 ual qualities by 
 
 side of your being, the God-side, which uiin s tliem 
 is love, power and a sound mind. Even 
 as a child develops strength in its phy- 
 sical body by using its body, so you, Be- 
 loved, develop your spiritual side by us- 
 ing the qualities belonging to that side. 
 When you make a place in your heart Make a place in 
 
 your heart 
 
 for love there will be no room for fear, 
 for perfect love casteth out fear. The 
 exercises which you have been given for 
 daily practice cultivate this spiritual 
 side and cause it to grow into the fulness 
 of the stature of Christ, the Pattern. 
 
 It matters not how long it may take for Tke right b eginning 
 the perfected work, it is necessary to 
 make the right beginning. Day by day, 
 
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 Beloved, you are to grow strong in the 
 faith and practice of the love life. You 
 are to have that supreme trust in the 
 goodness of God which will enable you 
 At oil ti mes jnud a t all times to be filled with the peace of 
 
 <w ith peace 
 
 God. 
 
 Let go of your fears, your fears of 
 poverty. Why should you be afraid 
 that you will be left without any- 
 thing? Why should you be afraid that 
 anything can happen to you, the child 
 of God ! It is only when you are living 
 on the dark or weak side of your nature, 
 Beloved, that you can have fears. 
 
 Whenever you find yourself afraid of 
 anything, stop, and say, even aloud : 
 
 Freedom from fear HOW CAN I BE AFRAID? HAS NOT GOD, 
 
 MY FATHER, GIVEN ME THE SPIRIT OF LOVE? 
 No, I WILL NOT BE AFRAID OF ANYTHING- 
 FROM THIS MOMENT I SEE MYSELF AS A NEW 
 CREATURE BECAUSE I AM DETERMINED TO 
 SHOW FORTH THE LOVE AND POWER AND 
 SOUND MIND THAT GOD GAVE ME IN THE 
 
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 BEGINNING AND INTENDED THAT I SHOULD 
 INCREASE BY USING. NOT ONLY WILL I 
 CAST OUT FEAR OF ALL THINGS, OF ALL CON- 
 DITIONS, BUT I WILL SEE IN ALL THINGS 
 THAT WHICH IS GOOD. THE LOVE IN ME 
 SHALL BE LIKE A WHITE LIGHT, SHINING 
 INTO THE DARKNESS OF POVERTY, OF SICK- 
 NESS, OF ANGER OR STRIFE, AND IT SHALL 
 MELT AWAY ALL THAT IS EVIL. 
 
 If you will say this, Beloved, every Every day and 
 
 , every hour 
 
 day and every hour, if necessary, you 
 will find yourself growing strong and 
 healthy and trustful. It is the speaking 
 of words concerning your God-nature 
 that will enable your God-nature to con- 
 quer the lower or human nature. 
 
 Paul called this the putting off of the 
 old man with his former conversation 
 and deeds. Jesus called it the denying 
 of self, and among the great Masters 
 who have given us pearls of truth, it is 
 said, the "sword of the wisdom of soul 
 which shall cleave asunder the ignorance 
 
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 and doubt" shall be made to come and 
 
 dwell in your heart if you are faithful 
 
 in your practice of forgetting the self. 
 
 This is the real foundation for health, 
 
 for until the mind is calm and the heart 
 
 free from fears, there can be no real or 
 
 abiding health. 
 
 rour spirit it it i s the spirit which is God's child, 
 
 always perfect 
 
 and you are His child. As spirit you 
 are not sick and cannot suffer from any 
 sickness or imperfection. God is your 
 health because His spirit is your spirit, 
 His health is your health. To live the 
 TO n-ve the Godly life is to establish health. No 
 
 Godly lift 
 
 matter what your body may show forth, 
 your spirit is always perfect, always 
 whole and sound. To know this with 
 that faith which is absolute and cannot 
 be shaken is to be able to lay hold upon 
 the mighty promises. 
 
 Take your Bible, Beloved, and look up 
 every reference to health. You will find 
 there are many, and each one will teach 
 
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 you the truth of the spirit and the power 
 and the love of God. Many grievous 
 diseases have been helped by these 
 words: "Bless the Lord, my soul, 
 and forget not all His benefits Who for- 
 giveth all thine iniquities; Who healeth 
 all thy diseases." 
 
 Your iniquities can be forgiven when 
 you know you are His child, and begin 
 to live as His child. Your diseases can 
 be healed when you begin to know that 
 you are spirit, and live in the conscious- Live in the c 
 
 ness of Spirit 
 
 ness of spirit, for through the Spirit of 
 God your body may be healed of its dis- 
 eases. 
 
 Let the same mind be in you that was 
 in Jesus Christ. This is the corner stone 
 of Health, Happiness and Prosperity. 
 
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 CHAPTER II 
 
 The Unseen Forcea 
 
 "Thou art ruler of the world, man; 
 thou hast many under thee." 
 
 Even from the moment that you came 
 into the world an innocent little child. 
 Beloved, you were surrounded and ac- 
 companied in all your experiences by 
 great unseen forces that attend the 
 The wi ttiiifgi-vet soul. The soul itself gives them power 
 
 them power 
 
 to act for good or evil, so when you were 
 only a child, you were, through your 
 power of choice, developing forces with- 
 in which would help or hinder you to 
 become a good, holy man or woman. 
 "When you were old enough to choose 
 between right and wrong, every time you 
 made a right choice these forces in your 
 soul were strong and more able to help 
 you. Every time you yielded to a 
 
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 temptation they became weak and more 
 in accord with your own weak will. If 
 you were conscientious, always trying to 
 do right, the forces became like guardian Guardian **pi* 
 angels, watching over you, whispering to 
 you, and in many unseen ways helping 
 you to do the right, thus leading you 
 into the path of light, which is knowl- 
 edge of truth. 
 
 But if you were weak in your will to 
 do right, swayed hither and thither by 
 any passing impulse or outward in- 
 fluence, the forces followed your own 
 
 
 
 weak will and led you into confusion 
 and darkness. 
 
 By this you will see how important it 
 is, even from babyhood, to know and love 
 the right, to have a high moral standard 
 and aim for right conduct, and to be Alm f or righl 
 moved by right and pure motives. It is conduc ' 
 often because of your weakness of will 
 to do right and to look for that which is 
 beautiful and just and holy that you 
 
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 have yielded to the guidance of your 
 weak side and have, therefore, misdi- 
 rected these wonderful indwelling pow- 
 rour equipment of ers that are as much a part of your 
 
 \nd-welling pvuien 
 
 equipment for life in this world as the 
 members of your body your hands, 
 your feet, your eyes, etc. 
 
 There is another thing that I want 
 you to understand in regard to the un- 
 seen forces. THERE ARE FORCES OUTSIDE 
 
 AS WELL, AS WITHIN THE SOUL, AND THE 
 KIND AND QUALITY THAT ARE WITHIN AT- 
 TRACT THE KIND AND QUALITY THAT ARE 
 
 WITHOUT. For example : if, through an 
 earnest desire to do right you have cul- 
 tivated the forces for good in your own 
 soul you will attract the forces for good 
 that are in the great unseen or psychic 
 world, for just as surely as the soul de- 
 velops a strong will, either for good or 
 evil, it attracts forces that are strong 
 either for good or evil. 
 These forces either within or without 
 
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 may be forces of intelligence, of love and 
 good will, or forces of ignorance and ill 
 will, for you must remember, Beloved, 
 that man should have dominion over 
 
 . . dominion 
 
 everything m creation that is lower than 
 himself, because God intended that man 
 or the spirit in man should be the most 
 intelligent, the most powerful, and there- 
 fore the master of that which is less 
 intelligent, less powerful than himself. 
 In the last chapter I made it plain to 
 you that your real self is spirit. If you 
 will begin to realize that the Spirit 
 is the I, and that it is of the essence and 
 nature of God, you will see how it is that 
 when you begin to acknowledge God in 
 all your ways as the Father and the roa Develop the 
 
 />,. * -n T {! j i j-i forces iv hie h become 
 
 Giver of all good gifts, you develop the J your unieen helferl 
 forces which become your guardian an- 
 gels and unseen helpers. This is true 
 concerning the forces within you and 
 also those without. 
 Through your own will and power of 
 
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 choice, by calling upon God and feeling 
 the presence of God within you, you may 
 give the glory and the power of every- 
 thing you do to this indwelling Pres- 
 ence. You prepare to enter and possess 
 The Promhed Land the land which God intended you to pos- 
 sess and use. 
 
 Do you wonder what this land is? 
 It is your earth nature, which must be 
 cultivated until it can bring forth the 
 seed and the harvest according to the 
 will of the spirit, who is the true master. 
 How much this means to you! From 
 the time you were a child you longed for 
 happiness. You longed to be under- 
 stood, you longed to be able to overcome 
 every evil condition that was a disad- 
 vantage or an obstacle. Is it not true, 
 indeed, that at any time of your life, if 
 the question had been put to you as to 
 whether you wanted to bring forth the 
 best or the worst, you would have ans- 
 wered, "The best, always; I want to 
 
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 bring forth the best in everything; I 
 want to be the best that I can be." But 
 though this was your wish, many times 
 you were discouraged, and often felt the 
 uselessness of even trying. 
 If you will study this lesson very care- Dhcouragements made 
 
 n -11 .-ii i 1 it harder for \ou tu 
 
 fully you will see why your discourage- fress on J 
 ments made it harder for you to press 
 on. You will see why, when you did 
 your best, with every victory you were 
 given more faith and strength for 
 further victories. 
 
 When you began the study of the 
 Degrees, the one important thing that 
 was given you from first to last in all the 
 teachings of the Degrees and the mes- 
 sages was this ; God, the Father, who is The most important 
 
 menage 
 
 both Father and Mother, is also your 
 Friend. Speak to Him often, think of 
 Him, praise Him, put yourself under His 
 guidance, trust in Him, rejoice that He 
 has given you Himself, and do your very 
 best to be worthy of His guidance. This 
 
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 is the corner stone of the Degree teach- 
 ings, is it not? 
 
 When you began to write in your re- 
 ports as to your experience day by day, 
 you were asked if you had felt the un- 
 seen forces. Now you understand why 
 you were asked that question. If you 
 had been faithful in your Degree work, 
 fervent and constant in your prayerful 
 living, yearning always to keep close to 
 things which were true and holy and of 
 God, it could not be otherwise than that 
 sooner or later you would feel the unseen 
 forces, catch the comforting, inspiring 
 whisperings of the blessed messengers 
 of light who came to you as ministering 
 helpers because you were faithful in 
 acknowledging and praising God. 
 
 There is an old legend in the Talmud 
 
 An old legend 
 
 about Solomon; it is this; he was so 
 powerful that whenever he spoke and 
 desired anything, immediately every- 
 thing in the Universe sprang to do his 
 
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 bidding ; all the forces and powers in all 
 the realms above or below responded to 
 the word of the wise man. Now while 
 this is but a legend there is a really won- 
 derful truth underlying it. The word of The ' word f 
 
 the -wise 
 
 the wise is the word of God. The wise 
 soul knows God and knows that what- 
 ever power he has is of God. He recog- 
 nizes the supremacy of God, and that 
 there is not one thing, place, space or 
 condition in the whole universe that is 
 not filled with the power of God. Know- 
 ing this, His word is the utterance of the 
 law, and it becomes a creative word, a 
 quickening power to bring forth, to stir 
 into activity, everything visible or in- 
 visible. 
 To become wise you must speak the word, of truth 
 
 quicken your mind 
 
 word of truth. It is that which is true and heart 
 of God the Father and you His child. 
 God is the most high and only Power 
 which is above all other powers. You, 
 His child, receive from Him His life and 
 
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 power, His love and intelligence. Yes, 
 every attribute which belongs to Him as 
 the Father is in some degree manifest or 
 to be manifested in you, His child. 
 
 Therefore when you begin to speak 
 
 words which acknowledge Him as the 
 
 ecame they art power, because they are words of truth, 
 
 words of truth -, . , i -i i 
 
 they quicken your mind and heart, every 
 thing within you, so that you know the 
 truth, and thus become wise and power- 
 ful. 
 
 Paul said: "Let every soul be subject 
 unto the higher powers, for there is no 
 power but of God." Jesus said: "If ye 
 continue in my word ... ye shall 
 know the truth, and the truth shall make 
 you free." John viii, 31-32. Why? Be- 
 cause when you are wise you are free; 
 you know the law. But He did not mean 
 speaking the word with your lips only, 
 Living at -well He meant living as well as speaking. 
 
 at tptaking 
 
 Take these two words: God's love. 
 Think about them. What do they mean! 
 
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 The most high, holy, unselfish, far- 
 reaching, impartial, perfect love is of 
 God, yes, is God. Is it not! Keep on 
 saying just those two words: God's 
 love, God's love, God's love, until you 
 really feel that you begin to understand Uttti/yeu ^ ee/ t ,^ 
 the kind of love this is. After you have Z^J 
 spent a few days saying these words for 
 ten or fifteen minutes at a time, then 
 thinking silently "God's love," be- 
 gin to say, "My love is like God's, my 
 love is like God's." Say it many times, 
 then think about it, see what it means, 
 see if it is true. If it is not true, try to 
 make it true. 
 
 This can only be done by living the 
 love that is just like God's. That is by 
 feeling and acting God's love. 
 
 If you will be faithful to this for even 
 one week so that you can honestly say 
 you do it with all your heart, just as 
 earnestly and faithfully as possible, 
 you will find a miracle wrought in A miracle -wrought 
 
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 your life. You will begin to feel the un- 
 seen forces within your soul quickening 
 into activity and power. 
 
 You will know this by the changes that 
 
 come to you, for these are the evidences 
 
 of the activity of the unseen forces. You 
 
 an d precious will have new and precious experiences 
 
 experiences 
 
 in meeting people, in having new con- 
 ditions in your life, in the opportunities 
 opening before you. 
 
 Your words will have a new power 
 
 because they will be words of the wise 
 
 one, the one who is open to know the 
 
 truth concerning God and God's nature. 
 
 These words: "God's love" and "my 
 
 in touch -with love is like God's," will put you in touch 
 
 gr ea t S0 ui, fljj.Qjjgh a jj these wondrous messengers 
 
 the unseen forces with great souls 
 and wise, who will become your invisible 
 helpers and teachers, for just as soon as 
 you begin to understand and love ac- 
 cording to the love of God, your soul will 
 be linked with all souls who are on that 
 
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 high, pure, holy plane of knowledge and 
 power. 
 There is no greater and no simpler There * 
 
 and no simpler 
 
 training that I can give yon, Beloved, training 
 than I have given you in these words 
 concerning love. To say them and live 
 them will bring you to a conscious knowl- 
 edge of the unseen forces and to a close 
 and holy communion with God, the Heav- 
 enly Father, who is around, about, with- 
 in, and above, and in Whom we live and 
 move and have our being. 
 
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 CHAPTER HI 
 
 Your Senses and Their Planes of Activity 
 
 "The beginning of all real knowledge 
 is the knowledge of self." 
 
 As you become conscious of the un- 
 seen forces you realize new powers of 
 the senses. You are able to hear inward- 
 ly and see and feel. The summing up of 
 this quickening of the senses is some- 
 times called clairsentience. It indicates 
 that you are able to function on some 
 other than the purely material plane. 
 The intermediary or psychic plane is that 
 which connects you with the forces that 
 are without and which I spoke of in 
 the last chapter as being good or evil, ac- 
 cording to the polarity of your own soul. 
 By this, Beloved, I mean according to 
 the tendency of your soul toward the 
 g 00( j or e vil. For you must know that in 
 
 like 
 
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 the psychic as in the material realm like 
 attracts like and what is strongly pre- 
 dominant within you finds its counter- 
 part without. 
 
 On the physical plane your body is re- 
 lated to the earth, your eye to the ob- 
 jects which it sees, your ear to the sounds 
 which it hears. On the psychic, or inter- 
 
 The senses find a 
 
 mediate plane, the senses find a corres- corresponding 
 
 rc&lnt 
 
 ponding realm in which they may be used 
 just as definitely and advantageously as 
 on the physical. This gives you a 
 glimpse of the law by which you can, 
 when you are sufficiently developed, see, 
 hear, and know other planes than the 
 physical. 
 
 I have already told you that 
 your recognition of God's love and 
 your effort to live the loving life will put m forct > 
 you in touch with the great wise forces ea & r " kel f 
 and intelligences which are always eager 
 and ready to help you. 
 
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 who have lived and passed out of earth 
 life, nor does it necessarily mean angels 
 or beings who have never been in the 
 earth life, though under some circum- 
 stances, it may mean either of these. It 
 may be that you are so strongly intent 
 in your aspiration for truth or knowl- 
 ""your^f edge that you will attract to yourself the 
 love and service of a teacher who lives in 
 some other part of the world, but who 
 through his wonderful faculties of see- 
 ing, hearing and knowing in the middle 
 realm is able to know you and your 
 actions, no matter how much space inter- 
 venes between your bodies. Though you 
 may never have met him or have heard 
 of his existence, though to you he may 
 be entirely undreamed of, yet in this way 
 you may be his pupil and the special ob- 
 . iect of his guardianship. He is able to 
 
 The tpecial object of J 
 
 hit guardianship teach you in your sleep, to impress you 
 with his suggestions for guidance and 
 help. He is what is called an adept, or 
 
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 master, or elder Brother and he is such fj c l u ^/ orces and 
 
 because he has so long and so faithfully 
 
 consecrated his soul to the love of God 
 
 and his brothers that all his forces and 
 
 faculties are attuned to the one grand 
 
 note of Love, which in him finds fitting Fin d s expression in 
 
 . , , . , PL Love's ministry 
 
 expression m the complete and perfect 
 ministry of Love. 
 
 To be great enough and good enough 
 to attract such a teacher is worth all 
 your efforts, is it not? And yet, Beloved, 
 be not discouraged nor disheartened even 
 though you may have no hint in any 
 outer or even inner sense that you are 
 so honored. Be assured of this : as you 
 grow strong in the development and 
 power of your higher forces you will be 
 able to attract your own from those 
 without. 
 
 And what is it that will put you in what ;/ that 
 
 , , -i , i -, -will put you in touch 
 
 touch with the true adept? -with the true adept? 
 
 It is your sincerity, your faithfulness, 
 your humility. These are the qualities 
 
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 that will make you as a shining star in 
 the midnight of earthly conditions. You 
 will not only be ministered unto by the 
 sweet whisperings of the Holy Spirit in 
 your own soul, you will not only be 
 favored by the fair wind of opportunity, 
 arid led into the green pastures of re- 
 freshment and beauty, but you will at- 
 
 Attractyour^ tr&ct to y(mrse lf your own g pec i a l human 
 
 teacher or Guru as he is named by our 
 Hindu Brethren. The time may come 
 after years of holy living and earnest 
 seeking after the Truth on your part, 
 that you will see him, and it may never 
 come. He may consider it expedient 
 that you never see his face or know him, 
 yet often in your moments of trial or of 
 discouragement he may be very near to 
 you and breathe upon your heart some- 
 thing of that divine peace in which he 
 himself is enshrined. Or he may bring 
 Lwei, friend, 'who in to your life lovely friends who will 
 
 will advise and - i / . 11 
 
 comfort you advise and comfort you, and who uncon- 
 
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 sciously may be his messengers to you. 
 
 As you go on putting more and more 
 of your own loving quality and con- 
 sciousness of God's love into your life 
 you will grow near, very near to the con- Near to the 
 scious presence of the Great Teacher, the 
 Christ, and as you yearn earnestly to be- 
 come attuned, both within and without, 
 to this glorious pattern you will find a 
 real communion possible. 
 
 The signs by which you know this are 
 all in the intermediate or psychic realm. 
 There are many signs some of which 
 Paul describes in the second chapter of 
 Acts. He says: "And suddenly there 
 came a sound from Heaven as of a rush- 
 ing mighty wind and it filled all of the 
 house where they were sitting and there 
 appeared unto them cloven tongues like 
 as of fire and it sat upon each of them 
 and they were all filled with the Holy 
 Ghost and began to speak with other 
 tongues as the Spirit gave them utter- 
 
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 ance." And in another place Paul had a 
 
 vision and he saw a man "whether in the 
 
 flesh or out of it he could not tell." 
 
 These and many other examples are 
 
 given in the scriptures of this psychic 
 
 plane, on which the senses are active 
 
 when the soul is developed to that point. 
 
 By all this you will perceive, Beloved, 
 
 Key to an under- the key to an understanding of many 
 
 landing ,f 
 
 mysterious and wonderful. This is the 
 explanation of mediumship and com- 
 munication with the spirit world. Study 
 carefully the lesson on unseen forces 
 wherein we have said and will repeat 
 again, "IF YOU ABE WEAK IN YOUB WILL TO 
 
 DO BIGHT, SWAYED HITHEB AND THITHEB 
 BY ANY PASSING IMPULSE OB OUTWABD IN- 
 FLUENCE THE FOBCES YOU ATTBACT WILL 
 
 LEAD YOU INTO CONFUSION AND DABKNESS. ' ' 
 
 The attitude of your . 
 
 own -win attract* These forces may be weak, ignorant 
 and deceiving spirits. Beware of them. 
 Strive in every way to let your mind be 
 
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 as a temple for the purest and holiest 
 thoughts, motives and emotions. If you 
 have, through your ignorance of the law, 
 been weak and vacillating and have at- 
 tracted to yourself forces of this quality, 
 cut yourself from their influence now 
 and forever. The only remedy for dark- ?** o*i y mudy 
 
 for darkness 
 
 ness is light. A safeguard from the "*%*' 
 wild beasts of the jungle is light. In 
 the same way you will find that the 
 remedy for your moral weakness is the 
 Light of wisdom; a deliverance from 
 vicious and evil forces is insured only 
 by the strong, active presence of Active presence of 
 spiritual virtues. I wish to emphasize s f iritual *" Vf "" 
 the danger of lingering in the state of 
 indifference or foolish fear, for just as 
 surely as you, Beloved, give yourself up 
 to either of these your mind will be 
 clouded and your heart benumbed be- 
 cause of these encroaching influences 
 which assail you from within and with- 
 out. 
 
 I would have you free from any- 
 
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 thing and everything which can make 
 
 Free from e-vcryt'iinr n -. i t i i 
 
 which can hinder you airaid, which can hinder your 
 you spiritual progress. Out with your fears ! 
 Conquer every habit of sloth or indiffer- 
 ence or doubt or fear. 
 
 Fill your heart with Love and your 
 mind with loving words. 
 
 Consecrate your senses to right uses 
 both on the physical and psychical 
 planes. 
 
 Let your will as well as your motive 
 be the guide. 
 
 Desire to know and appreciate only 
 the beautiful, the true and the good. 
 
 Let your sense of sight see the beauty 
 that is everywhere about in the physical 
 world. 
 
 Let your sense of hearing discrim- 
 inate sounds of harmony and loveliness 
 and become responsive to them only. 
 
 In the same way cultivate the sense of 
 feeling, tasting and smelling. If you are 
 able to do this on the physical plane, 
 
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 when the time comes for the use of your 
 sense on the psychical plane, you will be 
 able to discriminate there equally as 
 wisely and well. 
 
 Bead every sentence of this lesson 
 over and over until you are able to apply umiiyou are a bu to 
 
 apply tht luiv 
 
 the law and thus interpret your own ex- 
 perience. You will see that the remedy 
 for all evils lies within yourself and that 
 in the inner as well as the outer world 
 light is the master of darkness. 
 
 Let your light shine. Let every 
 faculty and force of your being be turned 
 to the good. Be positive in your will as 
 to what you want, and you will more 
 quickly and truly attract it. If you have 
 had dark and unpleasant experiences 
 through forces or influences which are 
 within you or without, take a resolute Takea 
 stand and declare yourself free. You 
 can easily do this when you realize the 
 presence of the great white Light within 
 you shining even in the midst of your 
 
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 darkness. This radiates from your real 
 self, the spirit which is the child of God. 
 Let its warmth fill your heart and its 
 light your life. Live in the continuous 
 consciousness of Divine Love. Open 
 
 Open tvery avenue 
 
 every avenue of your being so that it 
 may flow forth from you in your 
 thoughts and in your words and in your 
 actions. 
 
 These same avenues which permit it to 
 go forth to the world to bless the world, 
 will also open to like qualities which will 
 return through them to bless you. The 
 help which you thus receive from every- 
 thing in nature, the sun, the stars, the 
 whole grand universe is incalculable. 
 The aream of Love And SW eetest thought of all, the stream 
 of Love that flows through your heart 
 and out into the world is increased and 
 deepened by the many streams of con- 
 sciousness which flow into it from the 
 great wise loving souls, who like you, 
 are thus through love and loving deeds 
 
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 glorifying the Father by ministering to 
 His children. 
 
 The pathway from earth to heaven is 
 made by the white light of Love. The The path-way from 
 
 earth to heaven 
 
 deliverance from sin, sickness, poverty 
 and death is through the power of Love. 
 When you become Love's minister 
 you also become the receiver of Love's 
 gifts. The riches and beauty and glory 
 of God's kingdom are poured into your 
 lap. No good thing is withheld from 
 you because you have taken your place 
 as master. You may be as a polar star r u may beaia 
 
 * polar star 
 
 to many of Life 's mariners. 
 
 Shine, Beloved, with this wondrous 
 Light that was never on land or sea, yet 
 which lights all worlds through time and 
 eternity. 
 
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 CHAPTER IV 
 
 The Law of Vibration and the Secret of 
 Clairvoyance 
 
 "Each being or condition in nature 
 denotes a certain state of vibration." 
 
 The body is like a wonderful instru- 
 ment, capable of responding to every 
 wind of force that may blow upon it, and 
 there are many. These winds of force 
 are called vibrations. In the material 
 realm it is well known that sound is con- 
 veyed to the ear by vibrations or waves 
 in the atmosphere. 
 
 Light, the wonder worker and illumin- 
 ator of the whole world, travels upon the 
 finer ether at the rate of 186,000 miles 
 per second; its waves or vibrations 
 reaching the earth atmosphere and the 
 retina of the human eye are immediately 
 translated into what we call light. It is 
 
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 because of this marvelous sensibility of ff mar loas * 
 
 bility of mind and 
 
 the mind and body, that we are able to HF 
 make use of the senses and appropriate 
 the information which they are continu- 
 ally reporting. 
 
 You are so familiar with the process 
 of seeing, hearing and tasting on the 
 material plane, that it seems very or- 
 dinary and commonplace to say that you 
 are able to see or hear sights and sounds 
 immediately around you. 
 
 There are people and perhaps you They *, hear, taste 
 
 , , , ,, , or J "gel in an extra- 
 
 may be among them who irequently see, ordinary -way 
 hear, taste, or feel in what seems an ex- 
 traordinary way. They report the see- 
 ing of places, persons or conditions that 
 are not apparent at all, even to the 
 person who sits in the same room. They 
 frequently tell you of events that are 
 taking place at a great distance or they 
 may speak of hearing strange voices in 
 conversation between invisible persons. 
 
 The faculty of seeing in this unusual 
 
 
 
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 manner is called clairvoyance, of hear- 
 ing, clairaudience. 
 
 These faculties seem marvelous and 
 greatly to be desired, as they very fre- 
 quently may be of great use to the one 
 , ability to e and possessing them, yet the ability to see 
 
 hear in thh way ^ j^^ ^ ^ ^^ depend g W h lly Up- 
 
 on the sensitive organization .and condi- 
 tion of the transmitting instrument, 
 mind and body, consequent upon their re- 
 sponsiveness to the finer ether. In order 
 that you may better understand the pro- 
 cess of what I have termed the winds 
 of force or vibrations, and their cause, 
 you must know something of the differ- 
 ent conditions prevailing in the material 
 AH art ^plained world, all of which are explained accord- 
 
 according to the . . ,-, * /> 
 
 law of Oration ^g to the law of vibration. 
 
 The body as it appears to your eye is 
 solid and yet it is composed of minute 
 particles or atoms which in their finest 
 analysis can be reduced to what Farra- 
 day called spherules of force. As it is 
 
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 with the body so it is with every mate- 
 rial thing or object. It appears solid 
 yet in reality there is no solidity about 
 it. The appearance of solidity is caused 
 by the rapid vibration or motion which 
 is continually going on in the ether in- 
 herent in these spherules of force. 
 This accounts for the different ap- AH chan ges brought 
 
 /. -i . -,1 -I about by the forces 
 
 pearances in form, also in all changes continually in motion 
 
 **.* i i i in the ocean of ether 
 
 which take place under your observa- 
 tion; for instance, the converting of 
 steam into water and water into ice. 
 The formation of snow crystals and 
 their disappearance in the vibration of 
 heat, the converting of food into flesh 
 and blood. 
 
 All changes, no matter of what kind 
 or into what condition, are brought 
 about by the great force and forces 
 which are in continual motion in the 
 ocean of invisible ether. 
 
 It was according to this law that the The Great Force 
 Great Force which includes all forces, luf*^ 
 
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 and a name for another aspect of which, 
 is the Supreme Intelligence or God, 
 created the world and all that it con- 
 tains. He thought of the world, and His 
 thinking produced motion in the vast 
 body of ether which in the Bible lan- 
 guage is called "the face of the deep." 
 This -vibration recited This vibration finally resulted in the 
 materialization of His thoughts, and it 
 was called creation. Take your Bible 
 and read the first chapter of Genesis and 
 from the second to the ninth verses of 
 the second chapter, and you will have the 
 story and process of creation. 
 nc proc ess of ere- This process is going on continually. 
 
 ation going on _ . - . . , 
 
 continually Every time you put a seed into the 
 ground you put it into the condition 
 whereby it will be moved upon by the 
 , vibrations of creative force until its 
 physical condition is completely 
 changed. It even goes through what 
 seems to be a process of death which 
 precedes the new life. 
 
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 The law that holds the stars in their 
 courses, that causes the life of the seed 
 to manifest in stalk, blossom and fruit, 
 that brings forth the harvest, that 
 weaves for the earth all her beautiful 
 garments, is the same law that creates, The same lavj that 
 preserves and maintains the body. Its ^27" 
 origin is the great Mind of God, its pro- tkt My 
 cess, the unceasing and multitudinous 
 forms of motion, its effects, the uni- 
 verse and all that it contains. 
 
 In the same way that God created and rw .< 
 
 peopled the world, and according to the "" 
 same law, you are to create and people 
 your world. God has delegated to you 
 the power of thinking, He has provided 
 the plastic material upon which your 
 thoughts are to act, and by which you 
 are enabled to change conditions. This 
 is the luminous ether. Your thinking 
 power is not separate from His, indeed, 
 it is God's own power, God's own Intel- 
 ligence which you use in every thought, 
 
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 in every action. You may pervert the 
 Power, you may misapprehend or .mis- 
 use the Intelligence, yet within you al- 
 ways is the creative activity. 
 You cannot think a thought of any 
 
 for beauty or ugliness 
 
 kind without sending forth vibrations 
 of creative force which make for beauty 
 or ugliness according to the quality of 
 your own conception, for just as God 
 conceived a perfect idea of a perfect 
 world, and perfect beings, thereby caus- 
 ing them to appear, so you conceive the 
 idea of either perfect or imperfect ob- 
 jects or conditions according to your 
 knowledge, and your creation becomes 
 visible. 
 
 t i m e you think Your mental world consists of your 
 Tt& thought forms, your memories, your 
 imaginations, your plans, your thought 
 images of love, kindness, friendliness, 
 helpfulness, or of their opposites, 
 hatred, anger, fear, etc. 
 Eemember the law. Beloved, every 
 
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 time you think, you are sending forth a 
 vibration that will reach other minds 
 and will create the image of what you are 
 thinking about. 
 
 The psychic or intermediate realm of 
 which I spoke in the last chapter is 
 filled with the mental pictures of what F>//* ** 
 
 done, what they are thinking and doing. 
 It is the ability to see into this mental 
 and psychic world, which is clairvoy- 
 ance. If you were born with a sensitive 
 bodily organization you have probably 
 had already the experience of looking 
 into this world of mental forms. 
 
 This means that your organ of sight, 
 the delicate nerve center in the brain as 
 well as the physical eye is so ready to 
 respond to the vibrations in the mental 
 and psychic realm, that a communica- 
 tion is established and waves of ether 
 communicate through the eye, a picture A communication 
 
 tstablished 
 
 of the conditions you see. 
 
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 You may look upon what has already 
 transpired, but which is there and al- 
 ways will be in this intermediate realm. 
 You may see with this faculty of 
 clairvoyance what will happen in the 
 future; this means merely that you are 
 Abh to lock into the able to look into the world of cause and 
 
 world of cause and . 
 
 tee the prophetic pic- see the prophetic picture, just as you 
 
 turf 
 
 look out at the sky at the threatening 
 clouds and predict a storm. There is 
 nothing supernatural or extraordinary 
 about this faculty. It merely signifies 
 that your eye is able to respond to the 
 vibration of the ether which is identical 
 with that of the object which you see. 
 
 This is the explanation of thought 
 transference, as when you find yourself 
 
 know the Q\)]Q to know the thoughts that are in 
 
 thoughts -which are 
 
 in the mind the mind of another person even though 
 
 of another 
 
 person that person may be hundreds of miles 
 away from you. When there is a per- 
 fect affinity or rapport between two per- 
 sons they are like the transmitter and 
 receiver of the telegraph instrument. 
 
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 This is even more plainly illustrated by 
 wireless telegraphy which permits com- 
 munication without any visible or ma- 
 terial means for carrying the message 
 from the sender to the receiver. 
 
 So there may be no visible means of p . . ..... 
 
 * Positive and definite 
 
 communication between you and the per- c ~" t- 
 
 ble under right con- 
 
 son to whom you may send your thought dt " ns 
 or from whom you may receive a 
 thought. Positive and definite communi- 
 cation is possible because your minds re- 
 spond to the same vibration, and your 
 thoughts are communicated on the 
 connecting current in the ether. 
 
 You will see from all this exactly why 
 you must be so true to your highest con- 
 ceptions of life, so just, so honest, so 
 loving in all your thoughts and motives 
 that you will send forth vibrations that 
 will create corresponding conditions in 
 your body and your world. 
 
 Every word in this lesson is of the Every word in this 
 greatest importance. You must not let '* greatest 
 
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 one sentence or paragraph go, until you 
 have thoroughly studied and can under- 
 stand it. Paul said, "The kingdom of 
 The remit of har- God is righteousness, peace, and joy in 
 
 monious consciousness .-. TT ^ n 
 
 the Holy Spirit. 
 
 What can be said that will make this 
 great subject plainer? 
 
 You now know that it lies within your 
 power to unite yourself with influences 
 and conditions of goodness, truth and 
 beauty, or the opposite. 
 
 11 By thy thought thou shalt be justi- 
 fied or condemned," said Jesus, which 
 was only another way of saying, IF YOU 
 
 THINK GOOD PURE THOUGHTS YOU WILL BE 
 JUSTIFIED BY THE VERY CONDITIONS IN 
 YOUR BODY AND ITS ENVIRONMENTS. I? 
 YOU THINK THOUGHTS OF EVIL, ANGER OR 
 FEAR, YOU WILL BE CONDEMNED IN YOUR 
 BODY AND ITS CONDITIONS. 
 
 The Duality and in- Moreover, by your thinking you are 
 
 flutnct of your 
 
 sending vibrations to the minds of those 
 in the world who are open to the quality 
 
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 and influence of your thoughts, whatever 
 they may be. 
 
 You well know how careful you are 
 in the presence of great danger to keep 
 your voice calm and send forth no 
 thought of alarm or fear to your loved 
 ones, who without your caution might 
 be dangerously frightened. 
 
 In the same way, knowing that there 
 are so many timid and fearful souls all 
 about you, your constant effort must be 
 to keep your own poise of mind and live ., 
 
 ~ Necessary t keep your 
 
 constantly as though your were God's />'/ w ' w 
 representative, His ministering angel. 
 
 By living in a state of sweet, abiding 
 peace you become as a tower of strength 
 to those who feel your silent influence 
 although they may not know its source. 
 In pursuing your daily journey along 
 the highway of life, have always as your 
 one unceasing aim that of becoming as ^ ur <>f 
 
 T'Ti i -T? i n unccaiinr altt 
 
 a Light set upon a mil, shining afar into 
 the darkness, that those who are lost 
 
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 and afraid, may find their way safely 
 back to the path. 
 
 Put you in .ouch Tnis hol 7 thinking and living will put 
 WM 'vSon, y u in touch with the highest vibrations 
 and you will then naturally and harmon- 
 iously develop the faculty of clairvoy- 
 ance and clairaudience from the very 
 highest plane. You will be able to use 
 them to some good purpose and they will 
 serve you well in helping you to min- 
 ister to those who are in deep trouble, 
 who may need your good counsel, your 
 timely warning and above all the name- 
 irating'injiuenc^thM less, penetrating influence that emanates 
 
 emanates from your _ . 
 
 conucratcd being from your consecrated being. 
 
 Do not let your mind wander into the 
 highways of the curious, but be content 
 to live from day to day as the trustful 
 child, dependent for all things upon its 
 loving parent. You cannot make a bet- 
 ter beginning for the development of 
 every gift which God has given you, than 
 this simple childlike, trustful living. 
 
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 There is a verse in the Vedas, the Hindu 
 Scriptures, which says: "We meditate 
 on the glory of that Being who has pro- 
 duced this universe. May He enlighten 
 our minds." Beloved, let this be the 
 mantram or prayer that shall guide you 
 into the true knowledge. Take a certain 
 time every evening before you retire 
 and say, "7 meditate upon the glory of 
 the Being who has produced this uni- 
 verse. May He enlighten my mind/' Say 
 it until you feel in your very heart of 
 hearts that it is your prayer. 
 
 "One moment of company with the 
 Holy makes a ship to cross this ocean 
 of life." 
 
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 CHAPTER V 
 A Lesson in Clairvoyance 
 
 "External sensual perceptions are 
 necessary to see sensual things; the in- 
 ternal sensual perceptions see internal 
 things." 
 
 If you have a sensitive organization 
 and a child-like mind, you may cultivate 
 this wonderful faculty of clear seeing, 
 and if you proceed in the right way may 
 do so with marked advantage to yourself 
 and to others, but we warn you, Beloved 
 YOU ai kfor no that you ask for no small thing when you 
 
 small thing 
 
 ask for the responsibility, of seeing per- 
 sons and things at a distance or of see- 
 ing things and conditions that are or- 
 dinarily hidden. 
 Ri K kt or -wrtng tt ,e It is o. responsibility in which the pos- 
 
 in-voi-vct great con- , i j 
 
 session of any power places an individ- 
 ual and much, yes, everything, depends 
 upon the honor with which you use it, as 
 
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 the right or wrong use involves great 
 consequences to you as well as to those 
 who are concerned with you. 
 The good that you can do with this TA< good you can 
 
 immeasurable 
 
 gift is immeasurable, because with it 
 you may be able in many cases to know 
 conditions about your friends which are 
 very important for them to understand, 
 and which with your advice may be , 
 wisely dealt with. On the psychic or 
 what is sometimes called the astral 
 or the ethereal plane, clairvoyance 
 enables you to perceive the presence 
 of departed friends, or troubled souls 
 who may need a word of comfort or 
 instruction to free them from earth 
 conditions or attachments. This is 
 the kind of work which Jesus cal- 
 led the ministry to the "spirits in 
 prison." On the still more interior and 
 exalted plane where the vibrations are 
 the result of spiritual consciousness, 
 clairvoyance reveals the work, life, and 
 
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 powers of the soul, and is that marve- 
 of unship lous faculty of seership which knows 
 both past and future, which perceives 
 and defines spiritual ideas, and which 
 enables him who possesses it, to attain 
 to the superconsciousness of Spirit and 
 to say on every plane of his being, "/ 
 know." 
 
 It is to this last and higher plane, Be- 
 loved, you should aspire, for once able 
 
 to look from the heights of spiritual con- 
 
 ? 
 
 sciousness you will perceive that all be- 
 neath, that which is on the lower planes 
 of consciousness, is illumined from this 
 Light above. 
 nly -win I repeat again and with great em- 
 
 serite you on all 
 
 planes phasis aim for the highest. The highest 
 only will serve you on all planes, and 
 enable you to interpret the many myste- 
 ries which would otherwise confuse and 
 entangle you. 
 
 Many of you who read these pages are 
 already developing this wonderful gift, 
 
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 but you do not know exactly how to in- 
 terpret your experiences or how to learn 
 from them. In this lesson I will give 
 you a few, simple directions which will */"? " mfle 
 
 directions 
 
 be most valuable in helping you to ae- 
 velop in the right way, but remember at 
 all times that God your Father is watch- 
 ing you, and gives you strength and 
 knowledge, moment by moment if you 
 will turn to Him with the childlike faith 
 that makes you able to receive His care. 
 With a pure heart then, set aside a Fir *w&_ / 
 
 clairvoyant training 
 
 few weeks if you wish, for the develop- 
 ment of clairvoyance. Be whole-hearted 
 and sincere. Be careful and prayerful. 
 For that time at least, that you decide 
 to give yourself to this training, make 
 all interests, aims and occupations 
 secondary. 
 
 I do not mean by this, to be any 
 less faithful to your regular duties, 
 but make this so important that no 
 caller, no book, no amusement or trivial 
 
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 circumstance will cause you to deviate 
 from your regular and systematic prac- 
 tice of the directions given. 
 
 See that all conditions are as favor- 
 A healthy body the able as possible. A healthy body, at 
 
 first consideration , _ ,. 
 
 least, one free from nervous disease, 
 should be of the first consideration. 
 Never undertake any training of this 
 kind if you are nervously exhausted or 
 out of tune. 
 
 GENERAL RULES. 
 
 what to avoid Eat simple wholesome food, eat no 
 meat, greasy food or rich pastries. 
 Avoid all stimulants, tobacco, etc., and 
 even refrain from tea and coffee, unless 
 VERY WEAK. Take the magnetic bath 
 morning and night, THINK AND LIVE IN 
 CHASTITY. Do not mingle in social gath- 
 erings, do not speak of your being in 
 training for clairvoyance, and do not tell 
 your experiences to any one. Do not 
 Avoid me nt a i in- argue on any subject. Avoid mental in- 
 
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 to extremes of -emotion such as anger, 
 fear, worry, grief or disappointment. 
 This is particularly important, be- 
 cause every emotion or intense thought 
 
 Connects you -wit A 
 
 connects you with the thought currents thought currents 
 made up of all similar thoughts emanat- 
 ing from people everywhere, both in and 
 out of the body. For example, if you in- 
 dulge in grief you are putting yourself 
 en rapport with all other grieving souls. 
 
 This devitalizes and demagnetizes 
 you. 
 
 You are thus thrown off your balance Be muter of you 
 
 thoughts and you 
 
 and at the mercy of any influence ^m tup your 
 
 balance 
 
 stronger than you are. It is as though 
 you have fallen into a swift flowing 
 thought-river in which the current bears 
 you away from yourself until you lose 
 the power of self-control and are borne 
 down under the waters, allowing the cur- 
 rent to take you where it will. This 
 means that not only does your negative 
 mood make you subject to all sorts of 
 
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 adverse influences, but empowers you to 
 bring others into the same helpless 
 state. 
 
 The vital importance of this knowl- 
 edge cannot be overestimated. This is 
 
 si-void extremes of , T . , . . 
 
 emotion why 1 say avoid extremes of emotion. 
 Equally potent is the injunction, do not 
 begin, unless you intend to go on with 
 this training, at least for the time you 
 have decided upon. 
 
 It takes a sensitive mind and body in 
 order to become a clairvoyant. 
 
 Most clairvoyants without training 
 are negative in their sensitiveness; with 
 the training they may become positive 
 in their sensitiveness. To do a little of 
 the training and that half-heartedly 
 might make you sensitive without mak- 
 ing you positive. This is why you must 
 follow directions not only as to your 
 exercises, but as to thinking and feeling 
 ^'tlt^reatone'in in order to keep yourself keyed to the 
 
 your keyboard . IT. j e> T 
 
 of Being purest tone in your keyboard of Being. 
 
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 BE PRAYERFUL. LIVE CLOSE TO GOD and 
 WITH GOD ASKING HIM TO GUIDE and to 
 protect you every step of the way. All 
 this will put you into attune with Him attunth ml 
 and His work, and you will cause a re- 
 sponse that will echo back from the uni- 
 versal atmosphere the sweet tones and 
 qualities that you send forth. In this 
 way you make quality in your vibra- 
 tions and this determines the quality of 
 the vibrations with which you come in 
 touch, the quality of what you see and 
 know. If you love truth and speak truth 
 you will perceive true relations and 
 exact facts through your clairvoyant 
 faculty. What you see can be relied 
 
 1-, i . , , T When you are trut 
 
 upon, generally speaking, because noth- not hin g faix -win 
 
 f i .,, 7 .. ..- make connection -with 
 
 ing false will make connection with your your 
 consciousness. 
 
 On the same principle, the person who 
 has the taste for liquor might pass 
 by a dozen saloons a day, yet have no 
 temptation to enter, having nothing 
 
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 within him correspondent to the charac- 
 ter of which the saloon is an emblem. 
 Nothing of its quality adheres to his 
 consciousness or finds affinity with his 
 thought. Consider a moment what 
 makes real friendship and you will bet- 
 ter understand the law of attraction 
 which enables you to become the magnet 
 which will draw your quality of knowl- 
 edge. Now we are ready for more spe- 
 cific directions which should be practiced 
 regularly every day. 
 
 Rise early so that you will have no 
 sense of hurry. The first waking thought 
 should be devotional. Praise is like a 
 bugle call to the best in your character 
 and intention and will make your mind 
 a focusing center for the purest quality 
 of thoughts. Praise God for your bless- 
 i n gs, your life, your gifts and your op- 
 
 call to the best in 
 your character 
 
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 THE MAGNETIC BATH. 
 
 A quick cold bath is best, though you 
 may have the water tepid if preferred. 
 When all is ready, stand perfectly nude, 
 letting the air and if possible the morn- 
 ing sunlight strike your body. Raise 
 your arms above your head stretching 
 them as far up as you can, with arms 
 and fingers stiff. The breath having 
 been slowly inhaled with the raising of 
 the arms, hold a few seconds while still 
 stretching, then exhale, letting the hands 
 fall to the side. 
 
 Repeat five times. After the last drop 
 of the hands, rub together briskly, put 
 them in the water and then apply to the 
 body. Do not use a cloth, brush or towel, 
 but the hands only, which, being charged 
 with magnetism completely vivify the 
 whole body. The application of water 
 and the vigorous rubbing until dry with 
 the naked hands gives a magnetic bath Natural 
 
 i i i n -i i " a healing, rtttor- 
 
 which not only tones up the whole sys- *//?*> 
 
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 tern at the time, but in many cases when 
 continuously used cures most obstinate 
 forms of disease. 
 
 This magnetic bath may be taken at 
 night before retiring without the water. 
 It must be taken quickly, the whole 
 process not taking more than five min- 
 ity essential to utes. The rapidity is essential to the 
 
 the taking in and . 
 
 equalling of tht taking in and equalizing of the magnetic 
 
 magnetic forcet 
 
 forces. 
 
 After the bath, and while you are 
 dressing, audibly repeat these words 
 which give direction and balance to the 
 mind. "1 am in the center of the Life 
 which is perfect and the Intelligence 
 which knows all things. I desire to use 
 all my powers for the glory of God and 
 For the glory O f God the benefit of mankind. With this mo- 
 
 and tht benefit of 
 
 unkind ft ve / w i$h to be taught, trained and di- 
 rected in the use of the faculty of clair- 
 voyance." 
 
 You will quickly learn this, and dur- 
 ing the making of your toilet, be able to 
 
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 repeat it many times. You will see to it 
 that there is a free circulation of air in 
 the room ; it would be well for a few mo- 
 
 . iit Open the ivindoivs and 
 
 ments, to open the windows and let the i et the -wind *%/> 
 
 through 
 
 wind sweep through thoroughly. When 
 all is ready, sit down in a chair facing 
 the east holding your spine erect so that 
 it does not touch the chair. Take several . 
 long deep breaths, then either mentally &'><*/* 
 
 and blessing 
 
 or audibly send forth a thought of love 
 and blessing to all the world, directing it 
 to the east, south, west and north. You 
 will now have put your body, mind and 
 soul into harmony with the universe. Body, Mind and &/ 
 
 in harmony -with 
 
 Your next step is the definite exercise the uni-vme 
 of your perceptive faculties. 
 
 Take some small object and place it 
 within a range of five or six feet of your 
 eyes ; a glass paper weight or a glass of 
 water is good. Look at it steadily for 
 a few moments, perhaps five, then close 
 your eyes and see it mentally. Do not 
 see anything else and continue looking 
 
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 mentally at this same object for ten 
 minutes. 
 
 You may find it difficult at first, but 
 never mind; every time the mind wan- 
 ders, bring it back and compel it to see 
 the object. Put your undivided will, 
 effort, and attention upon this mental 
 object. When your ten minutes are up 
 your special work is over for the morn- 
 ing. Practice this every day at the same 
 hour, making each sitting a little longer, 
 but never sitting more than twenty min- 
 utes. 
 
 Regularity is -very Be regular in your time of practice. 
 This is very important. During the day 
 often repeat the visualizing or the recall 
 of the object to your mental view. This 
 will assist the memory, also develop 
 your capacity to concentrate. At night 
 about twilight, if possible go to your 
 room, put yourself in the quiet state and 
 repeat the words of the morning. ' ' I am 
 in the center, etc." Then sit in concen- 
 
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 tration as in the morning seeing the one 
 object. After a day or two you can take 
 another object if you wish, but not 
 until you can call up the first object 
 with great distinctness whenever you Not umii you can ca n 
 
 up the object with 
 deSire tO dO SO. great distinctness 
 
 This training is invaluable in the 
 arousing and developing, not only of 
 your perceptive powers, but as a culti- 
 vation of accuracy which is absolutely 
 essential in the use of clairvoyance. It 
 is the vague, disconnected, partial view Accuracy mckvaan 
 
 . makes accuracy 
 
 of things which makes untrained clair- in vision 
 voyance so unreliable. 
 
 AIM FOB DEFINITENESS AND CLEARNESS 
 AS WELL AS QUALITY. 
 
 This is your first point of achieve- 
 ment, that you be able to see an object 
 so clearly that you can perfectly repro- perfectly reproduc it 
 
 ... , , . . rrn i" your mental 
 
 duce it in your mental vision. This is vision 
 the beginning of the clear seeing of later 
 development. As the child must be first 
 trained in the recognition of letters and 
 
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 words before lie can connect them into 
 YOU *tu*t \>e trained sentences, so must you be trained in the 
 
 in the faculty 
 
 of ueing faculty of seeing on the psychic plane 
 before you can make connected or intel- 
 ligent interpretation. 
 
 In the development of the expression 
 of any gift, method is indispensable, and 
 practice imperative. Be patient, perse- 
 vering and faithful. 
 Puny of Thought, At the end of a week, still continuing 
 
 Motive and Purpose . , . in 
 
 essential to successful the general and specific rules, instead ot 
 
 clairvoyance 
 
 focusing your attention upon an object 
 in your immediate presence you may 
 enter into a revery which recalls events. 
 This of course, after you have taken 
 your bath, treatment, etc. To mentally 
 recall events, go back in memory and 
 picture forth with every detail outlined, 
 some scene of the past with its attend- 
 ant persons, surroundings, etc. Choose 
 an event which at the time of its occur- 
 rence was vividly impressed upon your 
 Ut '* b " ea Z mind. Let it be something pleasant, with 
 
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 details of a particularly happy nature, 
 and linger upon it, until the whole scene 
 and its connections are brought clearly 
 before your mental vision. Repeat the 
 process of recall at a number of sittings, Practice frequently 
 then take other scenes or persons you 
 have seen. Practise the recall frequent- 
 ly through the day. Insist upon seeing 
 every detail with perfect accuracy. 
 
 During your sittings you may see 
 flashes of color or stars or symbols of 
 various kinds. This indicates that you This tndicatetyou an 
 
 becoming attuned to 
 
 are becoming attuned to the etheric vi- /** vitrationt 
 brations which enable you to see on the 
 psychic plane. 
 
 If you have a friend in perfect sym- 
 pathy with you, try at times to see what 
 he is doing at a stated time, and let him 
 report the fact that would corroborate 
 or refute your experience. In all the ex- 
 ercises be firm but relaxed mentally, s e f rm but relaxed 
 having no tension in any way, neither 
 being anxious nor impatient. 
 
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 Continue the twice daily exercises al- 
 ways before a meal, but never imme- 
 diately after. 
 
 After the usual time spent in concen- 
 tration upon the object or thought, take 
 ten or fifteen minutes for revery with 
 the mind calmly expectant, awaiting ex- 
 perience. After you have learned to 
 center your for cei ce nter your forces without becoming 
 intense, you will occasionally see 
 glimpses of scenery, persons or objects, 
 often when you are not thinking of it. 
 DO not bt dixouraged j) o not fr Q di sco uraged, even if you see 
 
 no signs. There is a great difference in 
 people. Some, like flowers, bloom more 
 quickly than others. 
 
 After a time you may find yourself 
 
 becoming unusually sensitive to sights, 
 
 sounds, smells, conditions or persons. 
 
 Semiti-venets a phate This sensitiveness is a phase of your 
 
 of your development 
 
 development. So is your perfect mas- 
 tery of yourself. Be patient. 
 .Continue to realize that God is your 
 
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 Teacher, Guide and Protector. Keep al- 
 ways in prayerful communion with Him. 
 Live calmly and happily with your 
 thought and desire intent upon the best. 
 This is your protection. 
 
 Consecrate yourself daily and hourly 
 that you may be pure in motive, thought 
 and deed. This is the only basis on 
 which you should attempt to develop any 
 phases of this remarkable gift of clair- 
 voyance. 
 
 HERE ARE THREE THINGS TO BE REMEM 
 BERED. FIRST, ALWAYS SIT ALONE. SEC- 
 OND, ALWAYS BELIEVE IN RESULTS. SAY 
 NOTHING OF WHAT YOU ARE DOING, AND 
 NEVER TELL YOUR EXPERIENCES TO UNSYM- 
 PATHETIC PERSONS. 
 
 More and more as you go on, covet 
 earnestly the best gifts. Ask for that 
 quality in your character which will 
 make vou strong and masterful under all *""* a " d . maiter f ul 
 
 under all ctrcum- 
 
 circumstances. Use this clear seeing fac- 
 ulty for the discerning of spiritual 
 
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 J17// truths or for helpful ministry. Never 
 use it except for the most exalted pur- 
 poses. Woe unto you if you do. 
 
 Beloved, especially do I warn you 
 to refrain from very much discerning 
 of spirits. The reason for this is that 
 when a person lays down his garment of 
 flesh he has been called to another world 
 en to learn lessons there to learn other lessons and to enter 
 
 and to enter upon 
 
 other -wort U p n other work. If through his affec- 
 tions and the yearning of his friends he 
 is called back to earthly conditions, he 
 is thus prevented from entering upon 
 those other opportunities and learning 
 those other lessons to which he has been 
 called. 
 
 If you call him back, you do him an 
 
 injury, in preventing his progress in 
 
 the other life. Therefore refrain. Be 
 
 umGofsbeau- satisfied to know that he is in God's 
 
 "" & here beautiful world there, as he was here, 
 
 and that all is well with him. Bid him 
 
 God-speed and heroically adjust your- 
 
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 self to the loss of communication with 
 him, knowing that it is better so, be- 
 cause it is for his good. 
 
 Of course, there may be times when 
 you can feel the breath of his presence 
 and perhaps see the beloved form which 
 comes as a sweet reward, for your un- 
 selfish renunciation, but let these times 
 come unsought, and let his visit with 
 you be as the coming of the summer speak the -word 
 
 . if comfort or 
 
 dawn, full of peace and blessing. Be inurvtion 
 ready to always speak the word of com- 
 fort or instruction to the spirits in or 
 out of the flesh, and let your aim ever 
 be the consecrated use of your gift of 
 clairvoyance. 
 
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 CHAPTER VI 
 
 Symbols and Visions and How to 
 Interpret Them 
 
 "Forms are symbols of life or 
 thought. Truth is revealed through 
 forms." 
 
 When the sense of clairvoyance be- 
 gins to develop, you will often see pecu- 
 liar symbols around a person of whom 
 you are thinking, or when you are not 
 thinking of anyone, there may suddenly 
 flash into your mind the picture of a 
 cross or a circle or a beautiful star. 
 These and similar pictures are called 
 symbols. These I have mentioned par- 
 ticularly, are the figures which have 
 been used through all the ages as signi- 
 fying principles of truth, and the fact 
 of your seeing them is a proof that you 
 
 Signifying principlet 
 
 of truth are b em g thus taught concerning truth. 
 The circle is a symbol of eternity 
 
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 which has no beginning and no ending, 
 and when seen in this way would natu- 
 rally signify some phase of that eternal 
 truth in which you are interested. The 
 five-pointed star is a symbol of the nat- 
 ural man in a state of aspiration, al- 
 though it has many significations. 
 
 With the single point upward it also 
 signifies the operation of the good 
 forces, and therefore indicates harmony 
 with the Divine will, but with the two 
 points pointing upward it is inverted 
 good, and so means evil, or darkness. 
 
 The cross is a symbol of crucifixion 
 and of victory. It is the crucifixion of 
 the natural, but the victory of the spirit- 
 ual. 
 
 You must always turn the light of the TU the light of 
 
 the Spirit upon 
 
 spirit, which is your Divine wisdom, these symbols 
 upon these symbols, or whatever sym- 
 bols you may happen to see, (all pic- 
 tures are, in a sense, symbols) and en- 
 deavor to get their spiritual meaning. 
 
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 For instance, suppose you were in a 
 state of depression, or despondency; 
 you might see a cross. Now if you only 
 read from the dark, or the negative side, 
 you would say that that meant you 
 would have to suffer, that you had some- 
 thing to bear, but if you look for the 
 other side, you will declare that it means 
 a victory. By your word of faith you 
 
 Declare that it 
 
 means a -victory bring to pass the reality of what you 
 see. 
 
 In the seeing of any symbol you will 
 notice there are two ways of interpreta- 
 tion. If you are able to interpret from 
 the standpoint of principle, rather than 
 A* for the -wisdom personality, you will see the positive 
 y pmt good of the symbol, and so get the good 
 out of it. If you can keep in mind at all 
 times that the Holy Spirit, who is to 
 guide you into all truth is teaching you 
 by means of these symbols or pictures, 
 and will ask for the wisdom of the Holy 
 ~^wS Spirit to interpret them for you, you 
 
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 will never need to fear any confusion, or 
 be undecided as to what they mean. 
 
 I have already told you that the Th, infinite spirit ac - 
 
 commodatti itself to 
 
 Spirit accommodates itself to your finite J /our human mind 
 or human mind and teaches you in ex- 
 actly the way that you can best under- 
 stand. So it may show you pictures. 
 
 If you are living according to the 
 light of the Spirit and believe in the 
 knowledge of the Spirit to guide you, The interpretation 
 
 will come with 
 
 the interpretation will come with the the see ' n i 
 seeing. 
 
 A certain lady who was in deep 
 trouble, but who was very faithful in 
 following what she believed to be this 
 true Guide, in the midst of her perplex- 
 ity, sat down to ask for help. While she 
 waited, there suddenly appeared before 
 her mental vision a brilliant light, white 
 and glorious. Even when she opened her 
 eyes she could still see this light. Clos- she could ,tni M 
 ing them she waited to see what would 
 come next. Presently out of the dark- 
 
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 ness came a white robed figure. As it 
 drew near to her she recognized the face 
 of Jesus. He came close, and looking at 
 her in a reproachful manner, said : * * Did 
 I not say unto thee, 'Lo! I am with thee 
 
 Lc! I am lulth 
 
 tkce a/way alwttt/. ' 
 
 Then the light and the figure van- 
 ished, but her heart was comforted. 
 Was this not a symbol which appeared 
 to her childlike mind to reassure her of 
 the presence and power of the saving 
 Christ? Because she lived so close to 
 God she had the vision. Because she 
 lived so close, she was able to get the 
 interpretation of it. It pleased and 
 comforted her beyond measure. It gave 
 her courage to go on trying to do her 
 full duty and to see the light on all sides. 
 AII thing t under the Another time a mother, who was 
 
 guidance of God 
 
 living constantly in the faith that 
 all things were under the guidance of 
 God, and who believed very strongly in 
 the spirit that never dies, was put to the 
 
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 test by the sickness of her only child, a 
 boy of eight years. He had met with an 
 accident and was brought home on a 
 stretcher. She sat down beside him to 
 give him healing treatment and to put 
 him in God's care. 
 
 Suddenly before her eyes appeared a 
 symbol. 
 
 What do you suppose it was ? A coffin. 
 
 At the same time that she looked upon 
 this, she heard a bell tolling as for a 
 funeral. Instantly she spoke the words 
 that are true always of the spirit. She 
 said, "I, as spirit, see no death. This, 
 therefore, is not a symbol of death. My He !/>/>//, he u 
 boy is spirit; he lives, and he will live. 
 This is but a symbol of the death of the 
 old conditions; as such I accept it. The 
 old conditions are dead and this is the 
 symbol of a new life." 
 
 The more she thought of these words, 
 the more strongly she believed them, 
 and gradually as she spoke these strong, 
 
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 The ttrtng Flowing ? - n ,-, 
 
 words of the spirit glowing words of the spirit, the casket 
 was taken out of her sight, and in its 
 place came beautiful flowers growing 
 fair and lovely as though upon the 
 material earth. These, she interpreted 
 symbol* *f the ^ gy^o^ O f fo e true life. After half 
 
 true ttjC 
 
 an hour of this kind of experience, with 
 her heart reassured and her soul 
 strengthened by her acknowledgement 
 of the spiritual truth, and with the great 
 joy of her victory over fear, she found 
 the boy much better; and that was the 
 beginning of his perfect recovery. 
 
 You see now what I mean by turn- 
 ing the light of the Spirit upon these 
 pictures or visions. If you are afraid, 
 or yield yourself to the suggestions of 
 fear when you look upon a dark picture, 
 you will make conditions worse, but if, 
 speak word, that are on the contrary, you begin to speak the 
 s? irt t wor( j g ^at are true of spirit and speak 
 them until you feel and thrill with the 
 truth of them, you will have conquered 
 both yourself and the condition. 
 
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 The seeing of such pictures as I have 
 described is the faculty of seeing sym- 
 bols which are thrown into your mental- 
 ity in order that you may gain some In rder ' h *y 
 
 gain some help 
 
 help or lesson from them by keeping 
 yourself in touch with the Holy Spirit 
 believing it will answer you, and that the 
 interpretation will be given. 
 
 "With this clairvoyant faculty, there- 
 fore, you can see into the psychic realm 
 around and about you and will often see 
 symbols that refer to general events or 
 conditions, or that have some special 
 reference to the persons of whom you 
 are thinking, or with whom you are in 
 contact. 
 
 Sometimes you will see a person en- Jgfap* / 
 
 his aura 
 
 sphered in a cloud of different colors. 
 This is a glimpse of his aura, which may 
 be of many colors or of one principal 
 color. You do not need to inquire 
 especially into what it means unless 
 there is some reason for you to know, in 
 
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 which case ask the Spirit to reveal it to 
 t with the y 011 always with the motive in your 
 
 right motive " 
 
 heart of doing good to the person and 
 for his or her benefit and to make use of 
 the knowledge given. 
 
 You will soon learn to interpret the 
 general signs of what you see because 
 you will at once discriminate between 
 the good and the evil. 
 
 For example, you may see about a 
 
 person a storm. This indicates that he 
 
 is to pass through some kind of a crisis. 
 
 Help him to make You can help him to confront it and to 
 
 /* a benefit 
 
 make it a benefit instead of a disaster, 
 by declaring for him and with him the 
 truth; by saying for him no storm 
 can affect his spirit, no condition in his 
 environment can make him afraid, be- 
 cause he is spirit; as spirit he is perfect, 
 Abie to come out of and theref ore able to come out of every 
 
 the experience a 
 
 conqueror experience a conqueror, more than ever 
 blessed and capable of blessing. 
 You may at times have definite 
 
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 visions of what is to come to you or 
 someone in whom you are interested. 
 Never give yourself to the thought that Never allow the 
 
 thought that you can- 
 
 you cannot understand. Never allow <* understand what 
 
 you tet 
 
 yourself to be carried away by curiosity 
 or depressed by fear. Remember, no 
 matter what you see, your knowledge of 
 the spirit, your faith in the spirit will 
 enable you to turn the vision to good, to 
 make it beneficent, and not disastrous. 
 I have spoken this about symbols 
 and visions because I know that many 
 are beginning to develop the senses of 
 sight and hearing on the psychic plane Beginning to Je 
 
 tight and hearing 
 
 exactly as they would on the physical 
 plane. 
 
 If what you see is good and beauti- 
 ful, take it as an inspiration, by 
 trying to understand what it means; 
 appropriate what it gives you and then 
 forget it, or just pass it by; do not med- 
 dle with it. 
 
 For no matter how beautiful it is, you 
 
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 cannot afford to delay, or waste your 
 time with it. 
 
 In fact yon mnst learn to deal with 
 
 the psychic realm exactly as you do 
 
 Deal with psychic with the physical. In the physical world 
 
 realm txact'y at 
 
 with the physical you would not think of stopping if you 
 had a pressing duty to perform, no mat- 
 ter what your eyes might see or your 
 ears hear ; you would straightway go on 
 your way and do it, enjoying in the 
 meantime the pleasant sights and con- 
 TOU -would straight- ditions around you whether the beauty 
 
 iv^y go on your way 
 
 of the landscape, the wonder of the sky 
 or whatever came before you. But 
 you would not stop and wonder what 
 this meant or what that meant, no mat- 
 ter how strange or even fascinating it 
 might be. 
 
 In the same way you are to deal with 
 all these sights and sounds and con- 
 ditions that you meet on this mental and 
 Nothing but objtct psychic plane. They are nothing but 
 
 tenons 
 
 object lessons, and by looking at their 
 
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 source, at the same time keeping your Keeping your 
 
 mind open 
 
 mind open to the wisdom of the Spirit 
 in interpreting them, you can quickly 
 discriminate what will be helpful and 
 what not ; then you will be able to go on 
 your way, taking the good and leaving 
 the other. 
 
 Here, as you are just beginning to 
 develop the understanding of the gifts 
 that God has given you, you must 
 realize that according to your readiness -%%** l ar y ur 
 to learn each lesson as it comes to you tttekhmm 
 will be the quickness of your promotion 
 into another class. It is not desirable 
 to linger. 
 
 For this reason it is well for you 
 to be content, even without clairvoy- 
 ance, until you are so firmly estab- 
 lished in your spiritual life that you 
 will be able to make use of the psychic 
 
 So firmly established 
 
 sight in such a way as to be benefitted ></*/>>/ w//^ 
 by it rather than harmed. 
 
 There are many people in ignorance 
 
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 of the significance of the unseen realm 
 today because they do not understand 
 how to meet and deal with these exper- 
 iences on the psychic plane. They see 
 symbols and visions but do not know 
 how to interpret them or where to place 
 them. 
 
 At present this world is receiving a 
 
 great impetus in the development of the 
 
 vtry necessary to un- psychic gifts, and it is very necessary to 
 
 der stand psychic gifts r * 
 
 understand how to master them instead 
 of being mastered by them. 
 
 Until you have a strong, firm hold of 
 
 the spiritual truth and through it can 
 
 attain unto spiritual living, it is not safe 
 
 it is not safe to daily for you to dally with psychic exper- 
 
 iviih psychic . . 
 
 expended lences. You are too ignorant and too 
 negative. 
 
 You can very well understand how it 
 would be to send a little child out into 
 the street where there were all kinds of 
 sights and objects. The child, although 
 having eyes to see, and ears to hear, but 
 
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 not having judgment, would be terrified 
 
 and in great danger. Just as you would 7 uit as y" u !* 
 
 protect a little child 
 
 protect your little child, you must pro- 
 tect yourself. The moment you have the 
 beginning of the clairvoyant sight or 
 find yourself seeing visions, that moment 
 you must pray most earnestly for the 
 baptism of the Spirit, which shall 
 give you clear, keen judgment, and the 
 power of discriminating as to what is 
 good and what is not good. 
 You must live very close to God, trust- r n -very 
 
 close to God 
 
 mg yourself to be guided and informed 
 at every step of the way in this grave 
 matter. Jesus emphasized the impor- 
 tance of this, 'when He said: "Seek ye 
 first the Kingdom of God and His right- 
 eousness and all else shall be added." 
 This really is the only way to come 
 into your inheritance; when you truly 
 desire to know God, and to live as He 
 would have you live, be assured you will n -win be dev 
 
 and guided 
 
 be developed and guided in the use of 
 
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 all your great privileges and spiritual 
 gifts. 
 
 ONE THING ABOVE ALL OTHEBS PBAY FOE J 
 THAT IS SPIKITUAL JUDGMENT. WlTH THIS, 
 YOU NEED BE AFBAID OF NOTHING ; YOU WILL 
 BE ABLE TO KNOW EXACTLY WHEKE TO PLACE 
 EVERY EXPERIENCE AND QUICKLY LEARN 
 THE LESSON WHICH IT BRINGS. Il IS TRUE 
 YOU OUGHT TO DEVELOP EVERY FACULTY 
 AND MAKE USE OF EVERY GIFT GOD HAS 
 GIVEN, YET IT MUST NOT BE BY A HOTBED 
 PROCESS. IT MUST BE THE CALM, DAY BY 
 DAY UNFOLDMENT THAT WE SEE IN THE 
 GROWTH OF THE CHILD. IT MUST BE THE 
 GROWTH WITHOUT STRAINING OR STRIVING, 
 WITHOUT FEARING OR FLINCHING. IN THE 
 FULLNESS OF TIME EVERY GOOD THING WILL 
 FLOWER FORTH IN ITS PERFECTION ON 
 EVERY PLANE OF BEING. THEN THERE WILL 
 BE MATURITY AND THE BLOOMING FORTH OF 
 THE POWERS OF THE SPIRIT. 
 
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 "And like the ocean, day by day receiv- 
 ing 
 
 Floods from all lands, which never over- 
 flows; 
 
 Its boundary-line not leaping, and not 
 leaving, 
 
 Fed by the rivers, but unswelled by 
 those ; 
 
 So is the perfect one ! to his soul 's ocean 
 
 The world of sense pours streams of 
 witchery ; 
 
 They leave him as they find, without 
 commotion, 
 
 Taking their tribute, but remaining sea." 
 
 Herein, Beloved, will you find the 
 hint of that perfection -toward which 
 your heart yearns. 
 
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 CHAPTER VII 
 
 Concentration a Means of Mind Training. 
 
 "This one thing I do." Paul. 
 
 "Let thine eyes look right on, and let 
 thine eyelids look straight before thee. 
 Turn not to the right hand nor to the 
 left." Proverbs. 
 
 Having discovered the great powers 
 and possibilities stored away in your 
 being, the next question is how to 
 develop and use them. The first step 
 in attaining this end lies in the control 
 control of o f the mind and the direction of 
 
 the mind 
 
 thought. 
 
 The ordinary person not knowing or 
 realizing the great power and scope of 
 thought would say that he could not con- 
 trol his thinking, that that is entirely 
 involuntary. 
 
 Doubtless you have said this same 
 thing and yet if you will stop and think 
 
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 about it, you will realize that whatever 
 you have done in your life that is worth 
 while has been done as a result of a 
 .steady purpose and the right kind of 
 thinking towards its accomplishment. 
 Even in the most trifling matters you TOU know the -value 
 
 , ,, , , , . ., -,. of mental steadiness 
 
 know the value of this mental steadiness. " 
 
 It is as necessary to have a fixed pur- 
 pose in regard to the use of one 's facul- 
 ties towards a given end as it is to have 
 the end in view. 
 Your body, your senses, your facul- The implements -witA 
 
 which you are 
 
 ties of mind and soul are the implements e 
 with which you are equipped and by 
 which you can build that most wonder- 
 ful of all structures the mind of man 
 can conceive of the structure of char- 
 acter. 
 
 The man or the woman of character 
 is the one who has made something of 
 himself through the use of these imple- 
 ments. 
 
 The well rounded and powerful char- 
 
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 acter is an influence in the world, 
 
 a power going forth and entering into 
 
 works for the betterment of humanity. 
 
 A po-wer gomg forth j^ j g the crowning glory of God's handi- 
 
 for the betterment 
 
 of humanity W0 rk and man's achievement, for it is 
 the combination of the Divine and the 
 human. It stands forth in the world as 
 a representative and ambassador from 
 heaven itself. 
 
 Y contain the post- You, as you are this moment, contain 
 m* character the possibilities of this God-like char- 
 acter. As the offspring of God, you are 
 spirit. The lower or human aspect of 
 Spirit is soul. This is the seat of 
 emotions which, translated into thoughts, 
 are formulated in the mind and 
 expressed through the body. The mind 
 is the connecting link between soul and 
 Mind the c^nect. body and should be the guide and mas- 
 ter jof the body. 
 
 You, spirit soul, must, therefore, 
 see that the mind not only selects and 
 formulates the right kind of thoughts, 
 
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 but that it absolutely refuses to hold 
 or express any other kind. As a 
 beginning in this practice of mind- 
 control you must, therefore, resolutely 
 turn out and shut the door upon any 2" 
 thoughts which are detrimental to the m "> tal "> u z hti 
 happiness of the soul or the welfare of 
 the body. 
 
 The great importance of this was 
 explained in the previous chapter. 
 Never for one moment must you lose 
 sight of the fact that the forces within 
 and without, be they good or evil, are 
 'dependent upon your thoughts for their Dependent upon your 
 
 thoughts for their 
 
 power. 
 
 The moment you discriminate as 
 to the right kind of thought and decide 
 upon the holding to that kind only, 
 all the angelic forces in your soul are ike an 
 quickened into activity and become 
 magnetically charged to attract their 
 kind of forces from the universal realm. 
 
 The highest kind of thinking is from 
 
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 the spiritual side of your being. Pause 
 a moment and consider what naturally 
 turdiy be- belongs to the spirit. Is it not all that 
 
 long i to the sfirit 
 
 is true, holy, just, honorable and alto- 
 gether lovely? 
 
 Nothing that is evil or dark can come 
 from God, and the spirit is the seed of 
 God. Having this seed which is your 
 very being, you have all the attributes 
 of God. When you think about yourself, 
 then, you should think from the stand- 
 point of Spirit which is the standpoint 
 
 The ttandpoint of 
 
 tht Unchangeable o f ^Q Unchangeable, the Unlimited, the 
 
 Perfect. 
 
 When you say "I" it should be with 
 the thought of what you are as spirit. 
 As spirit you are already whole, wise 
 and perfect. 
 
 That side of your being which I spoke 
 of in the first chapter as your negative 
 or human side is over-shadowed by the 
 earth and earth conditions, and presents 
 very often the most contrary aspects to 
 
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 that of the spirit. You may wonder why 
 then it seems to have so much more 
 power than the spirit. Because, accept- *&*<*** neg 
 
 tide more power 
 
 ing appearances as authority you give 
 it more power. You question why you 
 identify the "I" with the body. Simply 
 because your consciousness is attached 
 to the body rather than the spirit. 
 
 The consciousness is like a flowing 
 stream, every moment changing and 
 carrying in its current, thoughts which 
 originate in the shadow of the earthly 
 conditions and imperfections, or in the 
 light and truth of the spirit. 
 
 It is for you, the real master, to decide // is for you 
 
 to decide 
 
 whether the consciousness shall cling to 
 the earth, and gather from the earth ; or 
 to the spirit and gather from the spirit. 
 This is the object you now have in 
 view; namely, the control of your Control of your 
 
 thoughts 
 
 thoughts. One of the methods which is 
 most effectual and which must be prac- 
 ticed faithfully in order to obtain the 
 
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 intending of ail best results, is called concentration. 
 
 forces to the tnd 
 
 desired Concentration of purpose is an intend- 
 ing of all forces, faculties and powers 
 to the end desired, and is the underlying 
 motive of the mind. Concentration of 
 attention is an intending or turning of 
 consciousness upon a certain object or 
 idea for a definite or specific time. 
 nu need both You need both. 
 
 The very fact that you decide to make 
 the most of your self will, if you perse- 
 vere, prove that you have concentrated 
 upon that end. The next step is to decide 
 not only that you have time but that you 
 will take time to concentrate your atten- 
 Taketimeto tion upon the exercises that will be 
 
 concentrate . 4 *i > 
 
 given you tor daily practice. 
 
 In this as in every other work you 
 must be faithful if you wish to be suc- 
 cessful. 
 
 This is absolutely imperative, as much 
 so as it is necessary for your child 
 to go to school every day in order 
 
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 to learn his lessons and obtain his edu- 
 cation. To go to school at 9 o'clock one 
 day, at 11 o'clock another day, 3 o'clock 
 the next, and then skip two or three days, 
 would insure his failure as a scholar, 
 would it not? 
 
 This may give you an idea of the ne- N ""y O f r < ular 
 
 tty and faithfulness 
 
 cessity of regularity and faithfulness in 
 this school in which you are starting out 
 to learn the most important of all truths, 
 i e., where you came from, who you are, 
 and what is your destiny. I am, there- 
 fore, purposely dwelling upon the neces- 
 sity of regularity and constancy. I 
 want you to succeed. 
 
 If possible have a place, either your 
 own bedchamber, or better still, a room 
 which you can set apart for this pur- 
 pose, a place where you will not be in- 
 terrupted, and in which you can be at 
 perfect ease. At the time set apart for 
 the purpose, (early morning is the very 
 best time), go there and begin your prac- 
 tice. 
 
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 At first five minutes may be long 
 enough, but gradually lengthen the time 
 until you can spend fifteen minutes or 
 half an hour. In a very few days you 
 will find your concentration of purpose 
 and your power of concentration of at- 
 
 four power greatly 
 
 increased tention greatly increased. 
 
 To begin with, take a sheet of white 
 paper about six inches square. On this 
 print in black letters the word Love and 
 below it Aum. Around these two words 
 draw a circle. Pin the paper upon the 
 wall within easy range of your eyes. 
 Then place a chair about six feet from 
 the paper. Before seating yourself, 
 stand erect and look earnestly at the 
 paper. Exhale and inhale the breath 
 slowly and thoughtfully three times. 
 "With each inhalation mentally repeat 
 the word "Purify" and with each exhal- 
 ation the word "me." 
 
 Then sit down with your feet squarely 
 on the floor, your hands, palms up, rest- 
 
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 ing easily upon your knees, your spine 
 straight and without touching the back 
 of the chair. Look steadily at the word 
 Love at the same time realizing that it Reain g that it 
 
 ., _ . , . , the Supreme Love 
 
 is the supreme Love in which you are 
 being immersed. Feel the all-pervading 
 tenderness of the Love which is God. 
 Imagine that it is enfolding you, filling 
 you and blessing you in order that you 
 may bless the world. You can repeat *#?* tht rdalw 
 
 v tc*iv fifties ufttil yo 
 
 the word aloud a few tunes until you get * into the sfirit of 
 
 into the spirit of it. After two or three 
 
 minutes of this, let your eyes rest upon 
 
 the Aum and, still maintaining the same 
 
 position, slowly repeat this word in a 
 
 low musical monotone. Begin with the 
 
 mouth wide open pronouncing the "A" 
 
 as in Father, then gradually closing the 
 
 mouth with the "M" dying away in a 
 
 long-drawn hum-m-m-m. Do this seven Unt 'l y u [ eel at one 
 
 with the Power 
 
 times, then rest until you feel at one 
 with the Power. 
 You will soon be able to 
 
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 concentrate your attention so that fif- 
 teen, twenty, or even thirty minutes will 
 quickly pass and your exercise be over. 
 E-ven though you have Do this in the morning, even though 
 
 to get up half an 
 
 hour earlier you have to get up half an hour earlier, 
 and you will be richly rewarded. 
 
 If you can do it half an hour before re- 
 tiring so much the better, but if you can 
 only do it ten minutes be sure to do that 
 much. Think of it between times when 
 you are walking on the street or in the 
 cars, or in any idle moments. 
 Regularity most The regularity is most important. Do 
 
 important 
 
 not miss even one time, especially in the 
 morning, yet if circumstances occur 
 which make it absolutely impossible to 
 conform to this rule, do not spend any 
 time regretting your loss, but do your 
 best and be all the more faithful after- 
 ward. 
 
 The word Love you will notice, is one 
 it is that -which calls o f the names for God. It is that which 
 
 forth your highest 
 
 quality ca n s forth your highest spiritual quality 
 
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 and when with your whole heart you re- 
 spond to its vibrations, you will be a 
 focusing center and distributor of its 
 power. 
 
 "Aum" is the Hindu word for God, DO not think it is 
 
 all you can do 
 
 and the vibration of each letter, as well 
 as the vibration of the word itself, will 
 put you in touch with the universal 
 vibration, both from the human and 
 Divine side. This exercise can be fol- 
 lowed with great benefit for at least a 
 month, or longer, but do not think that 
 it is all that you can do. There will be 
 many words and sentences which, when 
 you hear or read them, will find an an- 
 swering thrill in your heart. If so, select &lect the word or 
 
 1' -i , ,.-,. ill sentence "which is 
 
 the word or sentence which is most help- moa Ae / f j- uJ 
 ful and concentrate upon it by repeating 
 either mentally or audibly as you walk 
 
 along the street or attend to your busi- 
 
 - 
 ness. 
 
 In this way you will soon learn that 
 it is possible to KEEP YOUR MIND OCCUPIED 
 
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 WITH THE KIND OF THOUGHTS THAT YOU 
 
 Train your *ind in SELECT, and by vigilance and persistence 
 right kabiu You ^jj t ra { n a { n t ^ e r igfa habits. 
 
 All this means an increase of mental 
 power and an organization into working 
 order of all your dominant faculties. 
 Your will will be strengthened, your 
 perception made keener, your power of 
 judgment more excellent, and in every 
 way you will be gradually molded ac- 
 cording to the pattern of your ideal. 
 
 I have spoken about the concentration 
 upon one word. But you will soon find 
 that you can take a sentence and simply 
 repeat it either mentally or audibly 
 
 Repeat till you enter fa} y QU en f er i n tQ it s quality and feel 
 
 into ttt quality and y 
 
 feel in -vibration* fa ^^ations. Be sure to select the 
 word or sentence that will be most up- 
 lifting, most spiritual. 
 
 The first sentence of the 23rd Psalm 
 is a very good one "The Lord is my 
 shepherd, I shall not want." Kepeat 
 this over and over until you feel its 
 
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 truth, for the feeling or conviction is the 
 proof of its wonderful power. 
 Whenever you feel downcast or lonely whenever you // 
 
 lonely or discouraged 
 
 or discouraged you can change your vi- you can C h arige you r 
 
 brations by taking up this first verse of 
 
 the 23rd Psalm, or even the whole 
 
 Psalm. But you will also find many 
 
 other beautiful texts and sentences 
 
 which will do the same for you. 
 
 The change that comes through the 
 repetition of words or sentences, by pro- 
 ducing within you this uplifting and re- 
 assurance, indicates that you have 
 struck the keynote that will attune your n taw struck 
 whole being to its harmony. 
 
 Herein lies the secret, not only of 
 your power to control the mind, but to 
 change the condition of the body. I 
 will speak more of this later on. 
 
 With a little practice you will quickly 
 learn that the substitution of a right 
 thought for a wrong one, a cheerful one 
 for a discouraged one, is the clue to con- ? he c i ue to controlling 
 trolling your thoughts. your thwghti 
 
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 Why should you sit down and mope 
 and groan with discouragement when 
 things have gone wrong, when, by half 
 an hour's speaking of a few sentences 
 anC Mmood you can change your whole mood from 
 one of darkness to one of light? Why, 
 indeed ! 
 
 You will find, with this kind of think- 
 ing that you are gradually changing in 
 every way. You regard yourself in a 
 different light. Instead of being a vic- 
 tim of circumstances and a football of 
 fate, you come to realize that you are 
 it h you -whoarbi- the mas t er , that it is you who arbitrate 
 
 tr ate your <rwn 
 
 tf airs and govern your affairs, and not your 
 environments. You have a different out- 
 look upon life and its opportunities. 
 You become a radiator of joy and good 
 cheer. Is this not worth while? But re- 
 member this, Beloved, your success de- 
 pends upon your concentration of pur- 
 Success dependt upon pose as well as your concentv 'dtion of at- 
 
 concentration of pur- 
 pose and attention tentlOn. 
 
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 The moment you begin to recognize 
 yourself as the child of God, pure spirit, 
 
 cause 
 
 Cause. 
 
 "If God be for you, ivho can be 
 against you." This in itself is enough 
 to give you courage to persevere, no 
 matter how many times you seem to fail. 
 
 There are many things which I 
 might say and yet I have given you 
 enough to begin with. It is not so impor- 
 tant to have much knowledge as it is to 
 live faithfully up to the little that you 
 have. IT is THE LIVING THAT BEINGS THE T . he livi "s that . 
 
 brings the knowing 
 
 KNOWING. The essentials in living are, 
 a pure motive, a closeness to God, a de- 
 sire for righteousness, and a love that 
 includes every thing in heaven and in 
 earth. 
 
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 ewe 
 
 min 
 
 CHAPTER VIII 
 
 Meditation or How to Enter 
 into the Silence 
 
 "Do Thou, Lord God, Inspirer and 
 Enlightener of all the Prophets, speak 
 unto me; for Thou alone art able per- 
 fectly to instruct me." A' Kempis. 
 
 There are two faculties of mind each 
 of which is important in preserving the 
 mental equilibrium and expressing the 
 facuitie* of thoughts and feelings of the soul. Con- 
 
 d important 
 
 centration requires the positive or ac- 
 tive use of the mind, while meditation 
 is the result of the passive or receptive 
 state. 
 
 In concentration the mind is alert, 
 positive and forceful, although this is 
 particularly applicable to the exercises 
 as given in Chapter VI. 
 
 Concentration is necessary as the first 
 step in training the mind because it fo- 
 
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 cuses attention, enlists the will and puts P^the-w hoi, being 
 
 into an attitude 
 
 the whole being into an attitude of com- f c mmand 
 mand. It serves also to shut every ave- 
 nue through which undesirable sugges- 
 tions, thoughts or influences may enter. 
 It is a necessary preliminary to medita- 
 tion because it prepares the mind to re- 
 ceive whatever the will and judgment 
 may decree shall be acceptable. 
 
 From this you will understand how 
 necessary it is to learn how to concen- 
 trate your attention upon any desired 
 subject even before you are ready to 
 meditate upon that subject. 
 
 THE STATE OF MEDITATION IS ONE IN This state of mind 
 
 .^ one in tvhich you 
 
 WHICH YOU GATHEK KNOWLEDGE. Having gather knowledge 
 
 turned your mind in any direction upon 
 which you wish to receive light, you will 
 be able after a little practice to cease 
 thinking through the activity of the in- 
 tellect, and to become conscious of re- 
 ceiving thoughts the same as a picture is 
 thrown upon a screen. In this way you 
 
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 are able to realize or make as your own, 
 not only the word or statement upon 
 which you concentrate, but many addi- 
 tional words and thoughts which come 
 
 during your meditation. 
 
 For example, suppose you wish to en- 
 large your conception and realization of 
 the truth of the 23rd Psalm. You begin 
 by concentrating on the sentence, "The 
 Lord is my shepherd. ' ' You say or sing 
 these words over and over until your at- 
 tention is fixed upon them and their 
 underlying idea. 
 
 and ^r untu After you have repeated the state- 
 
 your attention 
 
 hfxed m ent long enough you will find it 
 comparatively easy to stop the active 
 thinking just as you stop the speaking; 
 in fact you do not think at all, your mind 
 is a blank, you are simply waiting for 
 thoughts to come to you, and they will 
 come as though from an entirely differ- 
 ent source than your intellect. It may 
 be possible instead of being formulated 
 
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 sentences which slip quietly into your 
 mind, it will be a symbolic picture, some- 
 thing relative to your expressed desire 
 for a deepening and luminous under- 
 standing of the sentence, or it may be 
 a happy sense of being cared for the 
 
 ^ hfppy sense of 
 
 realization of the words with which you being cared for 
 started. 
 
 You may wonder why a picture should 
 intrude itself before your mental vision. 
 Before answering that question I want 
 you to consider this : The Infinite would 
 not be Infinite could it not adjust itself 
 to every need of the finite. Your con- 
 sciousness is finite because it is limited 
 to finite things. The Infinite Conscious- 
 ness reveals itself through symbols. 
 
 All nature is one vast panorama of AH Nature ; s one 
 symbolic objects. Every thought is ex- fa " 
 pressed in a word symbol or a picture 
 symbol, and just as the child learns lan- 
 guage and gathers knowledge through 
 the interpretation of the things and con- 
 
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 ditions f the world, so you must learn 
 in the same way to interpret the signs 
 and symbols that are thrown upon the 
 screen of your mind when you are pas- 
 sive enough to receive them. This is 
 why the picture instead of the thought 
 may come into your mind. 
 
 If then, after you have concentrated 
 upon the sentence already suggested, 
 you see a mental picture or become con- 
 scious of new thoughts crowding into 
 your mind chamber, you may know that 
 you are truly in a state of meditation. 
 
 In the act of concentration, you fixed 
 your attention upon a given subject pre- 
 paratory to receiving new light upon it. 
 In the state of receiving you are medi- 
 tating. 
 study the ?wo By carefully studying the two aspects 
 
 aspects of mind ._ . -i.,-i 
 
 of mind required in these two processes 
 you will see the nature of both the active 
 and the passive, and the necessary rela- 
 tion of each to the other. 
 
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 I want you to understand this thor- 
 oughly in order that you may develop 
 both faculties and so keep your mind in K "py ur >><i'<' 
 
 state of balance 
 
 a state of balance and power. and power 
 
 Too much concentration without med- 
 itation would make you positive, aggres- 
 sive and argumentative. Too much med- 
 itation without concentration would 
 cause you to be too passive and there- 
 fore receptive to many influences, any 
 or all of which might be detrimental. 
 
 This is to be carefully avoided. It is 
 imperative that it should be avoided. 
 Many subtle dangers aivait the one who 
 is not well balanced in both these impor- 
 tant and really essential mind powers. 
 After a little practice if you are regu- Beware of being 
 
 over-confident 
 
 lar as to the time every day, you will find 
 that your mind is acquiring the habit 
 of expecting the exercises. This means 
 that you are making good progress, but 
 beware of being over-confident and thus 
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 a very short time to concentrate your 
 
 mind upon any definite subject or idea 
 
 YOU may ha -won- and though you may have wonderful 
 
 derful realization 
 
 oftrutht realization of truths and principles dur- 
 ing your meditation. 
 
 You have by no means reached the 
 goal. No, you are just beginning, and 
 for some time the practice will be similar 
 to that of the child who is learning to 
 play the piano. The practice of the 
 scales is very dry and uninteresting, and 
 to the child it seems utterly useless, yet 
 a command of the fingers with all their 
 wonderful capacity for skill and delicacy 
 of touch is being developed so they can 
 produce exquisite music by their per- 
 formance. 
 
 And you, Beloved, by being faithful 
 to the suggestion given you for concen- 
 trating or focusing your mind and for 
 By being faithful to opening it for new knowledge, are being 
 
 the suggestion 
 
 prepared for wonderful experiences in 
 the development and exercise of spirit- 
 
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 ual faculties which are as yet scarcely 
 dreamed of. 
 When you have learned to control Abk to appropriate 
 
 from the universal 
 
 your mind by directing your attention -^ 
 into any desired channel, you will be 
 able to appropriate from the universal 
 storehouse of ideas whatever class or 
 kind of knowledge you may need. Then 
 you may at any moment enter into the 
 silence and shut the door upon every 
 earthly thought or consideration that is 
 undesirable. 
 
 You have heard much about going 
 into the silence. It simply means going 
 into the still chamber of your own soul 
 where you may be conscious of com- 
 munion with God. 
 
 Jesus called this "entering into the n e secret place of 
 
 the Most High 
 
 closet to be with the Father ivho seeth in 
 secret." David beautifully named it 
 "The secret place of the Most High." 
 
 This, Beloved, is your refuge from 
 any trouble or sorrow that may come 
 
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 upon you. This is the precious result of 
 your training in overcoming the old 
 habits of worry, or fear, or sadness that 
 have led you so far out into the world 
 and its tumults that you may not even 
 know how to find your way back to the 
 Comforter. 
 
 Think what all this means to you as 
 a practical, living truth. In the journey 
 through this world you, as well as all 
 others will have the little trials, annoy- 
 tn you have ances and vexations of soul until you 
 
 learned to enter . . 
 
 into the silence have learned to enter into this silence 
 which is indeed a refuge and a place of 
 Peace. You can easily imagine what it 
 would be to have a quiet room in your 
 house to which you might retire when 
 there was disturbance or confusion. In 
 the same way I want you to think of 
 this silence of the Spirit into which you 
 may enter at any moment, as you surely 
 may, when you truly understand how to 
 do so. 
 
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 Next to the importance of prayer are 
 concentration and meditation, for these 
 are the first steps in the control and di- Fir . a "?' '" tht nn - 
 
 trol ana direction 
 
 rection of mind, yet while I have tried f* hemini1 
 to make these methods very plain to 
 you, please do not confine yourself to the 
 words that I have given. You will find 
 as you go on, that you are truly being 
 taught of the Spirit and every day the 
 Spirit will give you new food for your 
 spiritual life. 
 
 You will begin to find many new beau- 
 ties in the Bible, and your heart will 
 grow warm and tender, for the texts, 
 verses and chapters will be as manna to 
 your soul. In this way you will find a Find a help for every 
 
 time of need 
 
 help for every time of need, and be able 
 to realize many helpful and practical 
 truths which you can call up from the 
 storehouse of your memory at any mo- 
 ment of need. 
 
 Base your words or statements dur- 
 ing concentration upon the one overrul- 
 
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 ing idea that God is your sufficiency for 
 every need. 
 
 You can find innumerable texts that 
 will embody this thought and the con- 
 tinuous repetition and meditation upon 
 win refresh you \n them will refresh you in soul, mind and 
 
 MMj mind and body 
 
 body. If you feel weak or discouraged, 
 read the last part of the 40th chapter of 
 Isaiah. In the 29th verse, for instance, 
 you will find a remedy for your weak- 
 ness. "He giveth power to the faint, and 
 to them who have no might, He giveth 
 strength." Say this aloud ten or twelve 
 times and then meditate upon it. 
 
 Do you not see how, as a natural re- 
 sult you will begin to appropriate the 
 power and the strength to yourself? 
 
 Yes, Beloved, you will find yourself 
 rr * j j vivified and strengthened and able to do 
 
 Vivified and 
 
 xrcngthentd y 0ur task because you realize that it is 
 done with the strength of God. 
 
 Suppose again, you have tried very 
 hard to accomplish something and it 
 
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 seems that you have failed; you begin 
 to feel depressed and burdened with 
 fear. Stop a moment, resolve to concen- 
 trate your mind upon some good true concentrate 
 
 t r\ -r\'i i ,t i upon some rood -words 
 
 words. Open your Bible to the 4-lst 
 chapter and 10th verse of Isaiah. There 
 you will find these inspiring words, 
 "Fear thou not for I am with thee, be 
 not dismayed for I am thy God. I will 
 strengthen ihee, yea, I will help thee, 
 yea, I will uphold thee with the right 
 hand of my righteousness." Is this not 
 comforting? Does it not revive your 
 courage and make it easy for you to 
 meditate upon the goodness and the 
 tender love of your Father? 
 
 The moment the tension is lifted from Tke moment the ten _ 
 your heart you will find the depression /iM/ 
 
 your heart 
 
 gone. You have conquered it by rising 
 above it; you have withdrawn from it 
 and entered into the secret place where 
 all thoughts of worry and anxiety, fear 
 or discouragement are left behind. You 
 are in the silence, alone, with God. 
 
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 Can you do this day after day, week 
 after week, month after month without 
 finding by your own personal experience 
 that God is a present help in time of 
 trouble, and that you can, indeed, enter 
 
 prtitnct 
 
 into His presence and find peace? BY 
 
 TBUE MEDITATION yOU PROVE that yOU CAN 
 BE TAUGHT BY THE HOLY SPIEIT. 
 
 This, Beloved, is the way to live as 
 the child of God. Not to be apart from 
 God, but to dwell with Him so that you 
 may talk with Him, question Him and 
 receive from Hun comfort, counsel and 
 help. This, after all, is the simplest yet 
 the highest and truest way to live the 
 life of the spirit. 
 
 of This is the secret of happiness. It is 
 the way of health, and the promise of 
 true and holy success. 
 
 Let not a day pass that you do not 
 learn something new, true and beautiful, 
 something that though you may not need 
 at the time, will be like a stone fitly pol- 
 
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 ished and shaped for the building of 
 your wall of defense, for, Beloved, every 
 grand statement of Truth with which Em? grand a**- 
 
 ment of truth 
 
 you store your mind in your day of joy 
 and peace is to be put into your house 
 that is made without hands. 
 
 This is true consecration. With it 
 cannot fail to come the second birth. 
 Then you will be as a care-free child, 
 living moment by moment in the pres- 
 ence and unto the glory of God. 
 
 Be not so eager to learn as to live. 
 Live not in the past nor in the future, Li in the beautiful 
 
 no i w 
 
 but in the beautiful now. Childlikeness 
 and Godlikeness are very near akin, and 
 you remember the condition that Jesus 
 gave was this: "Except ye become as a 
 little child, ye can in no wise enter into 
 the Kingdom of Heaven." 
 
 Beloved, pray for the peace of Jerusa- 
 lem. "Peace be within thy walls and 
 prosperity within thy palaces." 
 
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 CHAPTER IX 
 The Secret of Mystic Power 
 
 "That man alone is wise who keeps 
 the mastery of himself." Bhagavad- 
 gita. 
 
 When you begin to live the inner or 
 rou acquire new spiritual life you acquire new powers 
 f<nveri f e , and forces. This in a great measure is 
 an unconscious process, yet the advan- 
 tage of knowing the law of development 
 lies in the possibility of your making 
 conditions for attaining and using the 
 true mystic power. You must learn in 
 many ways to discipline and teach your 
 lower self, the natural man, so that the 
 spiritual may have full sway to operate 
 through the natural. The untrained 
 natural is full of curiosity ; this must be 
 changed into an earnest desire for the 
 A tingie-eye^ un- Truth. A single-eyed, undeviating pur- 
 * pose, not only to know the truth, but to 
 
 
 
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 be the embodiment of it, will cause you 
 to notice the many traits of character 
 which must be lopped off. as it were, in which must be 
 
 lopped off 
 
 order to allow the spiritual to take ma- 
 jestic command. 
 
 Referring again to curiosity. It is a 
 word that relates to the material realm 
 largely, for it is an eagerness to see and 
 know about persons, places or things 
 that attract the attention of the senses. 
 
 You can see that the curiosity-filled 
 mind LIVES IN THE EXTERNAL, WHILE THE 
 
 SPIRITUAL MIND IS WITHDRAWN FROM THE 
 
 EXTERNAL and centers upon truths and centers upon tru 
 
 and principles 
 
 principles which pertain to the interior 
 or spiritual existence. Then if you wish 
 to advance in spiritual power you must 
 restrain every inclination to pry into 
 things that are of no importance. 
 
 To make a still more practical and 
 personal application, you must school 
 yourself to refrain from asking ques- 
 tions about people or their affairs, or to 
 
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 be interested in things that are of mere 
 
 passing moment merely for the sake of 
 
 Thittviii lead to the idle curiosity. Naturally this will 
 
 overcoming of 
 
 any habit i ea( j to the overcoming of any habit of 
 gossip or the tendency to interfere with 
 people's plans or personal matters. 
 
 To sit "quiet-eyed and serene" medi- 
 tating upon the spirit and its many vir- 
 tues is to become the true mystic; yet 
 I would not have you think for a mo- 
 ment that it is the passive life that is 
 advocated. 
 
 Far from it. The ideal life is both 
 passive and active, and it is my de- 
 sire to lead you into such development 
 of soul, mind and body that you will be 
 enabled in your own individuality to 
 represent and practice both. I say 
 again and for the third time, resolve to 
 Conquer your natural con q uer your natural curiosity. 
 
 curionty 
 
 I do not mean that you should not 
 be interested in things or persons, but 
 that you should see in them their true 
 
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 spiritual value. You will indeed be more 
 interested than ever before, but it wffl j^J^ 
 be from an entirely different standpoint 
 than that of curiosity. 
 
 To illustrate the difference between 
 the effect of the desire to know about 
 
 a person as a means of satisfying your 
 
 
 
 curiosity, or to know about him in order 
 to help him to discover and to bring 
 forth his spiritual quality, I will give 
 you an example. 
 
 Suppose a person whom you have 
 never seen and yet of whom you have 
 heard many strange things, should 
 be accused of doing something very 
 wrong, your natural curiosity would 
 lead you to ask what he had done and 
 every detail concerning it. Can you not 
 see if you persisted in your questions 
 how far away from the higher, truer life 
 you would be led, by seeking to gratify 
 your morbid and useless desire to know 
 things, that it would be better to forget, % b 
 
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 or better still, to never know? On the 
 
 contrary, upon hearing some hint of his 
 
 misdemeanor, could you not help him 
 
 A thousandfold and yourself also, a thousand fold more 
 
 more 
 
 if you persistently held in your mind 
 the thought of his spiritual self-hood 
 with all its possibilities for good? 
 
 By doing this you are not only giving 
 him a positive benefit, but you are de- 
 veloping within yourself A BESEBVE 
 
 POWER WHICH ADDS IMMEASUBEABLY TO 
 YOUB SPIRITUAL VALUE. 
 
 Another thing you must cultivate is 
 
 silence, not merely the exercise which 
 
 I have given as a definite mental dis- 
 
 ,. , cipline, but the silence tvhich keeps you 
 
 The silence -which * 
 
 ?$: fm babbling of useless things. 
 
 Emerson said, "Do not spill your 
 soul." These few words so fully convey 
 the reason for this golden silence that I 
 ask you to think about them much and 
 often for while we cannot take them lit- 
 erally knowing the soul itself cannot be 
 
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 spilled, they do indeed give the clue to a the due to 
 
 wasted Jorcet 
 
 many wasted forces. Every time you 
 give way to an emotion, an exclamation 
 of anger, worry or grief, you are losing 
 soul force and thereby mystic power. 
 
 Lay out for yourself a few little rules 
 for daily practice. Follow them care- 
 fully a week or a month, and you will 
 see what a great change has come over 
 you. 
 
 I will here give you a few sugges- 
 tions for the rules : 
 
 First, Restrain curiosity. 
 
 Second, Practice silence Toy the ab- 
 staining from trivial speech. 
 
 Third, Observe all incidents and con- 
 ditions with the desire to understand 
 their spiritual significance. 
 
 Fourth, Restrain your impulses. 
 
 Fifth, Decide all questions from a 
 standpoint of principle rather than per- 
 sonality. 
 
 Lastly, Live in the spirit and walk in 
 
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 the spirit, in order that you may have 
 the fruits of the spirit. 
 
 Write each of these rules upon a slip 
 
 of paper and pin it upon your wall or 
 
 some place where your eye will fall upon 
 
 M^ every p oss ibie it easily. Study each sentence; make 
 
 aff " C ywrxif every possible application to yourself. 
 
 I have already enlarged upon the 
 control of curiosity. I have spoken of 
 the benefits of silence. 
 
 Now as to the third rule which bids 
 you observe all incidents and conditions 
 with the desire to understand their 
 spiritual significance. Suppose you have 
 
 jrx &*..,*, a cold come suddenly upon you. Why 
 j iaye vou f. a k en jt? What lesson can you 
 
 get out of it? What mental or physical 
 conditions made it possible for you to 
 have a cold? These are pertinent ques- 
 tions. 
 
 After due observation and experience 
 you will decide as to whether it was a 
 mental or physical door through which 
 
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 the cold entered, and you will be careful 
 to avoid opening that door in the future. 
 You may find that very often it is the Ver y ft e >' " *** 
 
 mental door that 
 
 mental door that was left open. It may " le f f t tn 
 have been through a fit of anger that 
 you brought on the cold, or it may be a 
 disappointment, or possibly it was be- 
 cause you were very tired and allowed 
 yourself to be susceptible to physical 
 conditions. 
 
 In any event it was a f orgetfulness on 
 your part of ivho and what you are as 
 spirit which made it possible for you to 
 succumb. Or suppose instead of a physi- 
 cal condition you are led to study a cer- 
 tain occurrence or incident in your 
 family. If unpleasant it has its signifi- 
 cance and may have been the cause of If hai ' ?#"* 
 
 which ytu may 
 COld. discover 
 
 IF YOUE MIND IS OPEN YOU WILL QUICK- 
 LY DISCERN THE DIRECT OR INDIRECT CAUSE, 
 AND GAIN THE BENEFIT OF YOUR KNOWL- 
 
 EDGE. Every bit of spiritual knowledge, 
 
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 gives you an intelligent hold upon your 
 spiritual power. 
 A -word about Now, a word about your impulses. 
 
 your imfu/set 
 
 You see the necessity of training your- 
 self not to express too much feeling or 
 emotion, for every impulsive efferves- 
 cence robs you of the force which might 
 otherwise keep you firm and strong, 
 both in your mental and physical atmos- 
 phere. 
 
 Fifth. Decide all questions from a 
 standpoint of principle rather than per- 
 sonality. This is a very important rule 
 and will help you to avoid untold suffer- 
 ing, both for yourself and others when 
 you learn to follow it. 
 Guide your nf e by To guide your life by a principle is 
 
 a principle ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^^ for rf^^ gake 
 
 and not merely because you enjoy doing 
 right, or are afraid of doing wrong. 
 Many things might be easy, but they 
 might not be right and would therefore 
 bring trouble because of their deviation 
 
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 from the right. To a person who does 
 not understand even the simple rules of 
 arithmetic, it is not easy to add figures, 
 and yet in paying or receiving money it 
 is necessary to know exactly how much 
 to give or receive. 
 
 When you begin to live the spiritual 
 life consciously, you must live the mathe- r muaint the 
 
 mathematical ttfe 
 
 matical life. Everything must be exact, 
 for you must, indeed, reap what you 
 sow. 
 
 In all your relations with the world, 
 with people or with yourself, be true, 
 absolutely true. This means, if you 
 are on the street car and the conductor 
 fails to call for your fare you must be 
 true to your principle, as well as to the 
 railway company, and pay your fare, for 
 just as surely as you withhold that j ust ai iure i y ai 
 
 .,, , , f you -withhold 
 
 money you will cheat yourself. 
 
 You may ask, What has all this to do 
 with the secret of mystic power. It has 
 everything to do with it. The least tip 
 
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 of the scales of righteousness towards 
 wrong or injustice robs you of spiritual 
 mystic force. 
 
 These rules I have given are to help 
 on to increase y OU ^ your daily living to increase and 
 
 and conserve the 
 
 tpintuaiforcet conserve the spiritual forces. 
 
 You must learn self-mastery if you 
 would be a true mystic. If you do not 
 live according to the rules, these forces 
 are being continually diffused instead of 
 conserved, and instead of your being 
 masterful, wise and powerful, you are 
 quite the opposite. There is another 
 reason and a very important one why 
 you should cultivate your self-control. 
 
 Around about every human being, in- 
 visible to the ordinary eye but plainly 
 seen by the clairvoyant, there is an egg- 
 shaped cloud called the aura. It may be 
 compared to the delicate white lining of 
 an egg, that which lies next to the shell. 
 You can understand what would happen 
 to the egg in the shell if the lining were 
 
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 broken. WHENEVER YOU YIELD YOURSELF 
 
 TO ANY STRONG EMOTION SUCH AS EXTREME 
 JOY, OR GRIEF, OR FEAR, YOUR AURA IS 
 PUNCTURED, AND THE SOUL FORCE ESCAPES. TAe soul force etcafet 
 
 This is why you feel so exhausted or 
 weak physically, after a paroxysm of 
 laughter or grief or anger or any ex- 
 treme emotion. 
 
 Doubtless you have known people to 
 say that they did not dare to give way 
 to their emotions for they were pros- 
 trated after it. This because their aura 
 has been invaded by outside forces as 
 well as broken so as to scatter forces 
 within. 
 
 In comparing the aura to the lining of 
 the egg I did not mean to imply that 
 it is a substance like that, but that rather 
 it is a protector as the skin is the pro- 
 tector of the soft part of the egg. 
 
 The aura in reality is more like a firm, 
 enclosing atmosphere than a substance. A /i 
 It is formed by the magnetic and electric 
 
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 vibrations emanating from the thoughts, 
 feelings and qualities of the mind and 
 soul. 
 
 To the clairvoyant sight this aura is 
 indicates the mood, colored and by its color indicates the 
 
 condition and 
 
 quality mood, condition and quality of the per- 
 son it enspheres. 
 
 The one who is living the sensual life 
 has a very gross or low quality of vibra- 
 tion and a dark, muddy or reddish 
 brown, gray, or a peculiar red looking 
 and repellant aura, but the person who 
 is living a life of purity, truth, and noble 
 aspirations has a most beautiful and 
 attractive aura of golden yellow, blue 
 or opaline tints, etc. 
 
 A PERSON WITH THESE LATTER COLOR- 
 INGS IS MAGNETIC ; HE IS ABLE TO WIN FOR 
 HIMSELF FRIENDS, OPPORTUNITIES AND 
 
 PRIVILEGES. His life is a continuous ex- 
 
 A continuous 
 
 exhalation halation of the vibrations of love, peace 
 and holiness. It is plain at once that he 
 would be a power for good, even with- 
 
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 out assuming that virtue. He would be 
 able to give wise counsel, to heal the 
 
 counsel 
 
 sick and to send forth his word with the 
 power of a master. Can you guess 
 wherein lies his secret? 
 
 Is it not in that self-control, that in- 
 ward quietude, that spiritual insight, 
 that devotion to the interests of others, 
 that contemplation of the presence of 
 God, (which is the habit always of the 
 true mystic) that makes him the embod- 
 iment of the mystic power? 
 
 Yes, Beloved, this one is a close fol- 
 lower of the Master whose watchword 
 for all occasions and all conditions was 
 love, whose great commandment was: 
 
 Whose tvatch'word 
 
 11 Love the Lord thy God with all thy f or a " cond "' ons 
 
 was love 
 
 heart, with all thy soul, with all thy 
 strength, and thy neighbor as thyself." 
 
 In obeying this commandment can 
 you do otherwise than live in the spirit? 
 
 Beloved, the words of this lesson are 
 
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 as nuts ; crack them and eat the kernels. 
 In this you will find verily food for the 
 soul. 
 
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 CHAPTER X 
 Mental and Physical Conditions for Health. 
 
 "// man were in possession of a per- 
 fect knowledge of self he would not need 
 to be sick at all." Words of a Mystic 
 who lived in the sixteenth century. 
 
 In order to obtain and keep good 
 health it is necessary not only to have 
 high spiritual ideals, but to keep the 
 mind and body in good condition. The 
 soul is the seat of emotions which either T^ *>/ the u< 
 
 of emotion* 
 
 upbuild or destroy the fair outlook of 
 the mind. Joy, hope, courage and kin- 
 dred feelings are conducive to the best 
 use of mental as well as physical activi- 
 ties, while their opposites, sorrow, des- 
 pondency, hopelessness, fear or doubt 
 are like black curtains drawn over the 
 windows of your mind shutting out all 
 that is bright and beautiful. 
 
 THE MOMENT YOU FEEL THE BURDEN OP 
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 FEAR FALLING UPON YOUE HEART YOU 
 SHOULD SUMMON ALL YOUR FAITH, AND AS- 
 SURANCE TO BANISH IT. 
 
 This you can do by resolutely turning 
 
 from the thought of it and all that it sug- 
 
 ords that 'win U p- gests, to words that will naturally up- 
 
 lift your hcwt 
 
 lift your heart and fill your mind with 
 beautiful instead of ugly mental pic- 
 tures. It is so easy to fall into the habit 
 of worrying, of constantly looking on 
 the dark side and imagining all kind of 
 evil conditions, but remember, Beloved, 
 any habit can be broken providing all 
 your faculties for establishing a better 
 condition are brought to bear upon the 
 matter. 
 
 The mind, the natural mind, or as 
 Paul calls it ''the mind of the flesh," is 
 prone to the seeing of evil. It is this 
 which leads you into all kinds of mental 
 discords and dissipations, but the "mind 
 Mind of the tf irit of the spirit," to quote again from Paul, 
 "leads to life and peace." 
 
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 You can see by this that the beginning The beginning of 
 
 reform 
 
 of reform in habits of thinking lies in 
 the control of this mind of the flesh. In 
 one sense this mind belonging to the 
 natural man is like a child, and needs dis- 
 cipline and training in order to become 
 obedient to the mind of the spirit which 
 should be the master. Now that you 
 recognize this as your real self you have 
 
 Only to EDUCATE YOTTB WILL, JUDGMENT, 
 SENSES, AND EMOTIONS, TO CONFORM TO AND 
 OBEY YOUR HIGHER SELF. 
 
 Whatever habit you wish to correct, 
 can be corrected if you hold steadily to 
 this thought that there is nothing impos- Nothin s */*/ 
 sible to the Divine Power and Will. All 
 that is good within you can be brought 
 into accord with it. All that is evil can 
 be transmuted or destroyed. 
 
 Now for your habits, what are they? 
 
 Suppose you have what you call a bad 
 temper; while you have long suffered 
 mentally and physically, yet you say that 
 
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 you have never been able to control it. 
 
 You can do so now if you will heed the 
 
 Heed suggestion, suggestions given you. Remember first, 
 
 given 
 
 that all progress is according to the wise 
 statement of Isaiah when he said: "Line 
 upon line and precept upon precept." 
 
 The first thought you should have in 
 regard to this matter of temper is this 
 "The spirit is always calm, wise and 
 unchanging. I dm spirit, therefore, I 
 cannot be disturbed by any condition 
 that goes on around me. My thought 
 is of the spirit, and therefore it is filled 
 with peace. I can possess my soul in 
 patience because the soul is subject unto 
 the spirit even as the spirit is subject 
 unto the Father. I am calm, now and 
 always; I am poised, I abide in the cen- 
 
 Abidt in the center , . .. 
 
 ter of Peace. 
 
 If you will learn these words and re- 
 peat them ten or twelve times, the mo- 
 ment you begin to feel impatient or 
 angry, the feeling will soon disappear. 
 
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 By doing this day after day you will r ///*/ 
 
 habit of calmness 
 
 finally establish the habit of calmness 
 so that it will be no trouble for you to 
 speak and act accordingly. 
 
 This serenity of feeling and thought 
 will help to establish not only your 
 health but your happiness. 
 
 As you learn how to control anger, 
 you will learn how to control all other 
 emotions which lead you into valleys of 
 darkness. 
 
 THE REMEDY FOB ALL DISCOED IS HAR- 
 MONY. 
 
 In the spirit you will find harmony. 
 By dwelling in the spirit your conscious- 
 ness will fall as a limpid stream into 
 your mind and from thence be sent forth 
 as beautiful thoughts to be translated Trmttattd into btne 
 into beneficent activities. -You see, there- *""' activities 
 fore, the way to the subjection and con- 
 trol of emotions and thoughts. 
 
 In regard to health this is very 
 important. You must be optimistic, 
 
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 seeing the bright side of everything, 
 looking hopefully to a happy outcome of 
 all conditions whatever they may be. 
 
 is a nf e of trust The life of the spirit is a life of trust. 
 It recognizes God in you, and God with- 
 out, for is He not the Father of all, who 
 is above all, through all and in all? 
 
 This is the center and base of all your 
 thought and your habits of living. How 
 can you be otherwise than hopeful even 
 though you can not see the thing hoped 
 for, if you have faith in God and His 
 law? 
 
 When you have hope you see in your 
 mind's eye, the desirable condition. 
 Hope then is a great factor in the build- 
 ing of health for it gives to your mind 
 the image of the healthy body. It en- 
 
 abiti you to n-ve ables you to live above time, and to 
 
 above time 
 
 count not the period of waiting. 
 
 Joy, too, is essential. It helps you to 
 see the beauty in everything. It helps 
 you to be interested in life, in nature 
 
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 and in persons and things. Physically 
 it keeps your blood circulating. It 
 makes you not only lighthearted but 
 lightfooted. It enables you to draw 
 long deep breaths and to renew your *<**> *" 
 
 * continually 
 
 strength continually. 
 
 We must not underrate courage, for 
 this too is invaluable. It helps you to 
 
 see beyond obstacles and to overcome 
 
 . 
 
 them. It makes you fearless in facing 
 duties and conditions that otherwise 
 might seem hard. 
 
 All the graces and virtues of the 
 spirit must be put into your daily living 
 for in this way only, Beloved, will you be 
 
 ABLE TO KEEP SOUL, MIND AND BODY IN PEB- 
 FECT ACCORD. 
 
 This means health. Should there be This mean, 
 at any time a discord between these 
 three phases of your being, there is sure 
 to be a manifestation called disease. 
 Holiness in the soul, harmony in mind, 
 and health in the body are degrees of 
 
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 the same thing, namely wholeness, per- 
 fection. When the three are joined 
 beautiful there cannot be otherwise than a 
 
 body 
 
 healthy, beautiful, sound body. 
 
 You will need only a short period of 
 experience in living these truths I have 
 given you, before you will realize what 
 a wonderful power and scope your 
 thought has. This means you have 
 great responsibilities not only in regard 
 to yourself but in regard to everyone 
 of whom you think with any degree of 
 interest or love. 
 
 Have you not noticed how quickly you 
 
 can detect the mood of another? Very 
 
 often you can tell of what he is thinking. 
 
 This is because between minds that are 
 
 be -.ommunica- related there is oneness and may be 
 
 tion of thought 
 
 or mood communication of thought or mood. It 
 means even more than this, since time, 
 nor space nor matter offer obstruction 
 to thought. It travels with the speed of 
 lightning to the person or object thought 
 
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 about. This I have already referred 
 to in a previous lesson; I wish only to 
 remind you of what a WONDERFUL PRIVI- ^ 
 
 frtvilege 
 LEGE IS YOUES IN CHOOSING AND THINKING 
 
 THOUGHTS THAT MAY BE SENT FORTH FOR 
 THE HEALTH AND HEALING OP THE ABSENT 
 
 ONES. 
 
 Do you realize what this means? It 
 means that you can send thoughts which 
 are healing vibrations to dear ones or 
 those whom you wish to help, when they 
 are sick. Your good thought is a bless- 
 ing and by good I mean anything and 
 everything that is beautiful and sympa- 
 thetic and cheering. 
 
 One of the best ways of helping your- 
 self as well as others, is to make a prac- 
 tice every morning and every evening of 
 sending forth your thoughts of love 
 and good will to the world at large. You 
 can put it into a simple statement some- 
 thing like this "I AM HAPPY AND FULL F 
 
 OF THE JOY OF LIFE. I SEND FORTH MY 
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 THOUGHT OF JOY AND GOOD WILL AND PEACE 
 TO ALL THE WORLD." 
 
 Repeat this until you really feel in 
 your heart the truth of it. You may 
 know then that you are sending forth 
 rays of influence as the sun sends forth 
 rays of light. 
 
 Living thus with your mind open to 
 the perceiving and the receiving of all 
 that is fair and beautiful, every function 
 of your body will be performed natural- 
 ly and healthfully. 
 ing hat As we believe that everything has its 
 
 its place 
 
 place and should be duly respected and 
 cared for, so the body must be properly 
 fed and properly clothed and cared for. 
 As to food, the main thing is to have an 
 understanding of that which is nourish- 
 ing and wholesome and then use your 
 judgment as to what you eat. 
 
 Plenty of fresh pure water, from two 
 to six pints, says the scientist, the body 
 needs every day. Cereals, milk, eggs, 
 
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 vegetables, whole wheat or graham 
 bread, fruit and nuts, with meat occa- 
 sionally for you who feel the need of it, 
 constitute a large enough variety from 
 which you may choose a satisfying and 
 hygienic list of foods. 
 
 I merely mention these matters in 
 order that you may think enough about 
 them to realize that the food question is 
 an important one, and not to be ignored 
 or trifled with. There are many heal- 
 ers of disease who lay the cause of 
 either health or disease to the food that 
 is eaten, but while I feel that it is im- 
 portant, it is only one of the many fac- 
 tors to be considered. 
 
 Then there is the question of air. The 
 body requires a great deal of fresh pure 
 air in order that the lungs may do their 
 part in purifying the blood. Exercise 
 is necessary to keep the blood in circula- 
 tion. 
 
 It is very important to pay attention 
 
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 Keep the body in at to all these matters and thereby keep the 
 
 perfect a condition 
 
 body in as perfect a condition as possi- 
 
 ble that it may perform its duties and 
 manifest the beauty and wholeness of 
 the spirit. 
 
 There are two words I would like to 
 have you think about earnestly, and they 
 are, common sense. This is one of the 
 most wonderful faculties given to the 
 human being. With it as the balance 
 wheel for every thought and action, and 
 the adjuster of all relations, you cannot 
 go very far astray in the understanding 
 of what pertains to a normal healthy 
 life. In another lesson I will give more 
 explicit directions for exercises in refer- 
 ence to health-building, yet I would em- 
 phasize again and again the necessity of 
 living in the spirit in order to establish 
 in mind and in body that perfect har- 
 health mony which is manifested in perfect 
 health. 
 
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 CHAPTER XI 
 The Christ Healing 
 
 "The power which enabled the saints 
 to work miracles is still alive, and acces- 
 sible to all. It is the power of the Holy 
 Ghost, and if you live in God, He will 
 overshadow you with that power, and it 
 will teach you the laws of God and you 
 will be guided like other saints, even as 
 the apostles Peter and Paul." 
 
 Paracelsus 
 
 The more you meditate upon the 
 power and presence of God, the more 
 faith you will have in the wonderful 
 works He may do through you. For if 
 you can be a child-like channel, willing #> can be * child ~ 
 
 like channel 
 
 to receive, willing to obey, you, too, may 
 say with Jesus: "It is not I, but the 
 Father who dwelleth in me, He doeth 
 the works." Through power, concentra- 
 tion, meditation, and the moment-by-mo- 
 
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 ment living, as though in His presence, 
 you will become as a clean, straight 
 channel, through which His power may 
 be manifested. You will notice, Beloved, 
 that this thought, fully realized will 
 make you truly humble and child-like. 
 With this thought you will NEVER GROW 
 
 ARROGANT, PROUD OR SELF-ASSERTIVE, BUT 
 QUITE THE CONTRARY, AND THUS IT WILL 
 
 Tour faith will grow COME TO PASS THAT YOUR FAITH WILL 
 deeper and truer 
 
 GROW DEEPER AND TRUER AS YOU REALIZE 
 THAT ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE WITH GOD. 
 
 Not only is the power of God omni- 
 potent the greatest of all powers in the 
 world, but His wisdom is absolute and 
 all-inclusive, as perfect in its sphere as 
 the perfect love in which there can be 
 in 'which there ii no shadow and no failure. To you, His 
 
 nojailure 
 
 child, God has given the body, mind and 
 material environments, together with 
 all that goes with the human person- 
 ality, as your plastic material, to mould 
 and fashion after the pattern that 
 
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 He, as your inward Teacher, known as 
 the Holy Spirit, gives you. 
 
 To make this illustration very plain 
 and very simple, imagine before you a 
 class of Kindergarten children, each 
 child with the soft clay on the molding 
 board before him. He is given a pat- He ugi a pattern 
 tern, it may be an apple, a potato, a tea- 
 cup, a flower or a house. These models 
 are for him to imitate. The teacher to 
 whom he looks for guidance and instruc- 
 tion overlooks his work and helps him 
 in moulding the clay according to the 
 image of the pattern. 
 
 You, Beloved, have your clay before YOU hwtywr day 
 
 , and your pattern 
 
 you, you have also the pattern, that is, 
 the ideal. You have a pattern for 
 health, that is the ideal body. You have 
 in your mind a pattern of a home, that 
 is your ideal. You have a pattern of 
 right conduct, that, too, is your ideal. 
 You have a pattern for harmonious 
 relationships with the people around 
 
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 you, that, too, is an ideal, and all these 
 ideals, Beloved, together with many 
 more are the patterns which the Great 
 Teacher furnishes to you and which He 
 to mould helps you to mould and fashion if you 
 
 andfaikion 
 
 will continually regard His instruction 
 and keep your vision so clear of all 
 imperfections that it may see only the 
 perfect patterns. 
 
 I have already given you methods 
 by which you may keep yourself so close 
 to the Teacher and so faithfully turned 
 to Him for direction and guidance in 
 everything that you think or say or do, 
 that you cannot fail to grow in grace 
 and favor with Him; this means when 
 you speak to Him concerning what is to 
 be done, relying upon Him to give you 
 wisdom, power and love, your word will 
 be creative, and when it is spoken it 
 will be as though He spoke it. Then 
 that which was discordant and imper- 
 
 Shall become harmon- 
 
 i OUI and perfect feet shall become harmonious and per- 
 
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 feet. For is there anything, any place, 
 any condition which can be in a state 
 of chaos that His word will not trans- 
 form? 
 
 As to the healing of disease, then, you 
 have only to put the case before your 
 Father and He, through you, will speak 
 the word that shall bring health and n e -word that shall 
 
 bring htalth and 
 
 peace. Sometimes you may think you /* 
 have spoken His word, and yet if there 
 is any fear in it, if there is any of your 
 own human anxiety or doubt, it is not 
 His word and it will not bring forth the 
 perfect health. 
 
 Only according to your ability to be 
 a perfect channel for Him can He use 
 you as an instrument for His mighty 
 works. You are as the glass globe <<* the g i a gioi* 
 
 through ivhich the 
 
 through which the light passes. The / 
 crystal, clear glass will transmit the 
 purest ray of light, the pink glass will 
 send forth a pink radiance, the green, a 
 green radiance, and so on. 
 
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 So you, Beloved, so long as your heart 
 
 has fear or doubt or discouragement, so 
 
 long will the quality of your words and 
 
 thoughts be clouded, but when your 
 
 when your heart heart is free from the sense of burdens, 
 
 iifree 
 
 when you are happy, trusting in God's 
 
 love, YOUR MIND IS AS A SHINING, DIAMOND 
 WHITE CHANNEL THEOUGH WHICH THE RA- 
 DIANT WHITE LIGHT, THE GLORIOUS SPLEN- 
 DOR OF GOD'S WORD, MAY PASS ON ITS WAY 
 TO THE PERFORMANCE OF ALL MANNER OF 
 REDEEMING WORKS. 
 
 Attend faithfully, then, to your 
 prayers, to your times for concentration 
 and meditation upon holy things, until 
 you are filled and thrilled with this 
 ar-,* faith k th, clean > clear-cut faith in the saving power 
 of the Christ. 
 
 For know this, Beloved, the working 
 power of God in the human soul is called 
 His Son, the Only Begotten, the Ee- 
 deemer and Saviour, the Christ. When 
 you have passed through that wonder- 
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 ful change which makes you give over which makes you 
 
 over your human 
 
 all your human faculties and powers, 
 
 which makes you able even to give your 
 will and your desires, the human in you 
 is born into the new creature in Christ, 
 and in that mystical moment, you, that 
 is, your human personality, will be 
 anointed with the descent of the three- 
 fold power of the God-Head. 
 
 IN THAT MOMENT THIS UNCTION WILL 
 MAKE YOU A EEPEESENTATIVE OF THE CREA- 
 TIVE POWER OF THE FATHER, THE MANI- 
 FESTING POWER OF THE CHRIST, AND 
 QUICKENING POWER OF THE HoLY SPIRIT. 
 
 In the consciousness of this power of 
 the Trinity when you speak a word for 
 healing, the power of the Father will go 
 forth into the image of health, the type 
 of which you perceive to be the ideal 
 body of your patient. Into your word 
 will also be sent the manifesting power 
 of the Christ, and the quickening power 
 
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 of the Spirit, so that the healing will be ^ accomplished 
 
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 accomplished verily in the name of the 
 Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. 
 ca you concede of Can conceive of this wonderful 
 
 this wonderful 9 
 
 fower power and possibility as belonging to 
 you, Beloved? Can you clothe yourself 
 thus with the divine atttributes by giv- 
 ing yourself wholly, completely and with 
 all your heart and soul to the doing of 
 God's work? 
 
 Then BE NOT AFRAID TO SPEAK THE HEAL- 
 ING WORD FOR ALL MANNER OF DISEASES, 
 FOR ALL MANNER OF DISCORDANT AND EVIL 
 
 CONDITIONS, for they may all be healed. 
 It is not for you to question if this or 
 that which seems impossible to cure, can 
 be cured ; that is not your part ; you are 
 the word-speaker, you are the instru- 
 ment. All that is of the human self 
 must be denied, put away and forgot- 
 r u -will be abu to ten. If you can do this, you will be able 
 to follow the footsteps of the Great 
 Healer, even Jesus, who promised that 
 you and the disciples who were to come 
 
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 after Him should do even greater works 
 than He did. He meant by this, that the 
 same Christ working in you, as it worked 
 in Him, would redeem the world from 
 its sin, sickness and death. For it is the 
 Christ, Beloved, the Christ of God, who 
 is the manifestor of God and who is to 
 be manifest as God in you. 
 
 Now can you not say with Paul, "7 
 can do all things through Christ which 
 strengtheneth me." With faith in this 
 truth in your heart and your mind, you rmemndiemymr- 
 
 . self and your <world 
 
 can redeem, not only yourself, but, it 
 they will, your family, your friends, 
 your neighbors, your world, from dis- 
 ease of mind or body. 
 
 It is not any specific formula that I 
 would give you, but rather is it my 
 heart's desire to awaken in you such 
 absolute truth and faith in God that you 
 will give yourself in the manner I have 
 described to Him for His use. 
 
 IN SO DOING YOU WILL BE INSPIRED TO 
 
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 Speak tht right word SPEAK THE RIGHT WORD NO MATTER WHAT 
 no matter "what 
 
 the need THE NEED; YOU WILL BE INSPIRED TO DO 
 
 THE RIGHT THING NO MATTER WHAT THE 
 CONDITION. 
 
 This means if you have one in your 
 home lying sick you will not need to 
 rush hither and thither wondering what 
 word you can speak that will heal him or 
 her; you will go calmly about in the 
 in the mida of the midst of this great white light of His 
 
 great white light 
 
 presence doing with your hands that 
 which will make your dear one comfort- 
 able, making every outward condition 
 to conform to the ideal or pattern that is 
 given you at the moment, of what is best 
 and right, knowing that in the presence 
 of the Supreme Power, you, like Jesus, 
 can rebuke the fever by giving it no place 
 or power; you, seeing beyond the veil 
 of the flesh to that perfect pattern that 
 God gave will be able to speak to the 
 soul, and say with authority: "I SEE 
 
 YOU AS GOD MADE YOU, PERFECT AND SOUND 
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 AND WHOLE IN EVEEY PAKTJ REJOICE FOB Sound and whole in 
 ff . rvery part 
 
 HIS GIFT OF HEALTH, IT IS YOUBS NOW." 
 
 Or, if there is one in your circle of 
 dear ones who has long suffered from 
 some disease of mind or body, you, 
 
 BECAUSE YOU DWELL SO CONTINUALLY IN Because you dwell 
 
 continually in the 
 THE SECBET PLACE, AND LOOK SO FAITH- ucret flace 
 
 FULLY UPON THE GLOBY OF THE PEBFECT, 
 
 will be able to hold in your mind the 
 pattern of this one as he should be ; you 
 will carry him in your mind and in your 
 heart tenderly, patiently, knowing that 
 in the fulness of time he, too, will awake 
 in the image and likeness of the Perfect 
 One, and when that time comes,whether 
 it be in the twinkling of an eye or after 
 many years, it will be THE PEBFECT 
 
 MANIFESTATION OF THE PEBFECT PATTEBN 
 WHICH YOU HAVE SEEN AND SPOKEN INTO 
 EXISTENCE. 
 
 All this means, Beloved, that you are 
 to be patient, doing what your hands 
 find to do, one thing at a tune, knowing 
 
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 g it i t God it is God who heals the sick, who gives 
 
 ivho heals 
 
 power to the faint, who sets the captive 
 free. Let your constant thought be the 
 same as that of the Master, who, reading 
 out of the book, said, "The Spirit of 
 the Lord is upon me, because he hath 
 anointed me to preach the gospel to the 
 poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken 
 hearted, to preach deliverance to the 
 captives, and recovering of sight to the 
 blind, to set at liberty them that are 
 bruised, to preach the acceptable year 
 of the Lord." 
 
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 CHAPTER XII 
 Passing into the Beyond 
 
 "All which is real now remaineth 
 
 And fadeth never! 
 
 The Hand which upholds thee now sus- 
 taineth 
 
 The soul forever!" 
 
 Beloved, there is one event which is 
 commonly looked upon as the greatest 
 calamity that can come to the human 
 being. It is called death, and because 
 it takes the loved ones out of sight, the 
 heart mourns, and says they are dead. 
 
 This cannot be. The body dies, but 
 the spirit lives. 
 
 If you can only remember this, you 
 will not so quickly give way to the awful- 
 ness of despair. 
 
 Look at Nature, Beloved. See how 
 much is there revealed, to prove that 
 
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 darkness, destruction and death are only 
 phases of change in the conditions of 
 the material world. 
 
 If you judge according to appear- 
 ances, you may think death is the end of 
 life. But it is not so in the natural 
 world. 
 
 There are seasons when the earth is 
 shrouded in mist, when the clouds hang 
 low, when impetuous rain drops beat 
 against the window, and the sun seems 
 lost. The beauty of a day that dawned 
 in roseate glory is completely destroyed, 
 and Nature weeps. 
 
 Is it for the light that is gone, is it for 
 the beauty that will never return? 
 
 No. There is a deeper meaning to 
 '*"*' Nature's sorrow. The light is not gone, 
 the beauty is not lost. Back of the veil 
 is the light that is always shining, the 
 beauty that ever is. 
 
 See! The tears cease, the veil is lift- 
 ed. Once more the radiant day shines 
 
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 upon the earth clothed in a greater beau- 
 ty than ever before. Look at the trees ; 
 see their shining leaves glistening with 
 diamonds ; see the grass in its new glory 
 of cleanliness and emerald sheen; smell 
 the sweet odors that come from flower 
 and field. Hear the happy chorus of 
 bird music. Imagine the new life start- 
 ing from the roots of all green and grow- 
 ing things. 
 Nature's experiences are types of T>/> o 
 
 t and mine 
 
 yours and mine, but there may be a vast 
 difference between her attitude and ours 
 in receiving them. In Nature's heart 
 there was no bitterness that the light 
 had fled, that her beauteous child, the 
 day, was lost. There was harmony, not 
 discord, and thus the Law did its perfect 
 work of refreshing, renewing, regener- 
 ating. 
 
 So it will for you, if you will only 
 cease grieving, and let the thought of 
 life, not death, possess you. 
 
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 ur loved one h as Change, Beloved, is not of the spirit, 
 
 not changed 
 
 so your loved one has not changed. 
 Death is but the open door into another 
 mansion of the Father's house. 
 
 If you really know this to be so, with 
 all the assurance of your heart and soul. 
 do you think you could mourn and weep 
 and give way to despair? 
 
 Ah, no, Beloved ; you might be sad for 
 a season, as it is quite natural you should 
 miss and long for the presence of the 
 one so dear, but in thinking of her or 
 him as having gone to new scenes and 
 YOU -would toon pleasant work, you would soon rejoice 
 
 rejoice 
 
 instead of grieve, and you would come 
 to look upon death as an OPPORTUNITY 
 
 FOB CONTINUED PRIVILEGES AND JOYS, 
 
 rather than as the destroyer of life. 
 
 This view of the matter will change 
 your whole conception of and mental at- 
 titude towards death, and instead of 
 mourning or wearing garments of dull, 
 cheerless black as a symbol of death, 
 
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 you will want to wear white, or light, T OU win -want to 
 
 wear <u>Aite, or light 
 
 joyous colors as token of your belief in jyu /* token 
 
 of your belief in life 
 
 life the life everlasting. e ve ri ast in s 
 
 I know, oh, so well! how the heart 
 yearns, how the days drag, how the 
 nights torture, when one gives way* to the 
 despair of death, but I also know, dear 
 friends, how a mind DETERMINED TO LOOK Determined to look 
 
 at lift 
 
 AT LIFE and not death, at reality not 
 seeming, CAN BE THE CONQUEROR, not the 
 conquered. 
 
 I know, too, how hard it is to break 
 away from thoughts, brooding and ten- 
 der, of the loved one, yet it MUST BE 
 DONE, if you would win the victory, and 
 be the brave helpmeet of God that you 
 should be. 
 
 For when you can carry out in your 
 faith and life God's great intention con- 
 cerning the BENEFICENCE OF DEATH YOU The beneficence 
 
 will indeed be as a "light set upon a 
 hill" not only to those who are still walk- 
 ing in the valley of the shadow of death 
 
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 without His rod and staff, but you will 
 be the means of UNTOLD HELP AND BLESS- 
 ING to your dear departed. 
 
 Do you wonder how this can be, Be- 
 loved? 
 
 Because every selfish grief-burdened 
 thought of yours holds your dear one 
 down to earth. For his (or her) sake 
 
 Toumua be cheerful yOU MUST NOT GRIEVE. You UlUSt be 
 
 of your 
 not of 
 yourself 
 
 and think of your T . i i j> i / 
 
 iwed one, not of chceriul, and joyous and think of his (or 
 
 her) new and beautiful experiences, 
 rather than yield yourself to dark pic- 
 tures of your own despair. 
 
 A lady who had lost a darling child 
 mourned deeply over her loss, until one 
 night she had a dream. She dreamed 
 that she was in heaven and that she saw 
 a procession of little children carrying 
 flowers, and singing as they went joyful- 
 ly along the beautiful flower-bordered 
 path. 
 
 Eagerly she looked for her child, but 
 for a long time she looked in vain. At 
 
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 last she saw the little one at the very 
 end of the procession, but instead of 
 bearing flowers with happy song, the 
 child was in tears. She was carrying a 
 pitcher filled with something so heavy 
 she could scarcely bear up with the 
 weight of it. 
 
 Instantly the mother's eyes filled and 
 tears fell fast, yet though she would 
 gladly have gone forward to help her 
 darling, she was unable to do so, not 
 even though the burden seemed growing _. , . 
 
 The burden seemed 
 
 every moment heavier, for the overbur- *""""* * Mvier 
 dened child. 
 
 When the procession had passed the 
 grieving mother turned to a messenger 
 standing near, and in anguish asked the 
 reason her child had the heavy pitcher 
 to carry instead of beautiful flowers as 
 the others. 
 
 "The pitcher is filled with your tears, 
 and the more you weep, the heavier it TA, mo rey ou -weep 
 becomes," replied the angel, "and the become* 
 
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 heart of the child is sad, because it is 
 still bound to yours. She weeps because 
 you weep, and she can never be happy 
 or do her part with the others, until you 
 cease from grieving and can rejoice for 
 Iner, and with her." 
 
 Then the mother awoke and from that 
 time put away her mourning and ceased 
 from her weeping. 
 
 Can you not see the truth of this teach- 
 ing that was given her in a dream! 
 
 Heed it, dear ones, for it is for you 
 and all who believe in death rather than 
 life. 
 
 The body dies, but the spirit lives. 
 
 To THE SPIRIT THERE IS NO DEATH ! 
 
 Rejoice, dear heart ! Take in the larger 
 
 view 
 And know the larger life. Through a 
 
 jeweled 
 Door hath thy loved one entered into 
 
 rarer 
 
 Privilege and surer joy. 
 Fret not against thy loneliness, but lose 
 
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 Thyself in that great Love in which a 
 perfect 
 
 Trust unites thee with the One unseen. 
 
 In this true Love when grief hath faded 
 out 
 
 As night 'fore day, there is the inter- 
 change 
 
 Of thought, the mingling of a common 
 
 joy, 
 
 The working out of every aspiration, 
 In the wondrous endlessness we call 
 Eternal life. 
 Perchance there may be tunes when thy 
 
 heart is lonely 
 As when the form was lost to sight, but 
 
 the change 
 
 Is in thy consciousness, thy view of life, 
 Thy oneness with the outer world, rather 
 Than the inner Light; or, there may be 
 
 periods 
 Of silence, but e'en in this, if thou but 
 
 hold 
 The Light, thy heart remaineth glad, and 
 
 Faith and Love 
 Twin angels lift thee on their wings, 
 
 and carry 
 Thee above all clouds of anguished 
 
 grieving. 
 
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 CHAPTER XIII 
 The Law of Prosperity 
 
 "And in every work that he began in 
 the service of the house of God and in 
 the Law, and in the commandments to 
 seek his God, he did it with all his heart, 
 and prospered." II. Chron. xxxi, 21. 
 
 You ought to be prosperous, Beloved, 
 when you naiiy know and when you really know that it is the 
 same law that has brought all your 
 other gifts, you will be. It is this Law 
 that has given you your soul, mind, 
 body, that has provided you with all 
 your wonderful faculties for use and en- 
 joyment. It can provide you with an 
 abundance of all things. You must, 
 therefore, believe that it is possible for 
 you to be prosperous, that it is possible 
 for you to appropriate from the uni- 
 versal store-house, for there is an abun- 
 dance of supply. 
 
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 The earth and all that it contains is 
 filled with the riches God has provided 
 for His children. So you must believe 
 that there is plenty, not poverty for you. There hpitnty 
 
 for y tut 
 
 The question is how will you appro- 
 priate it? Yes, this is the question. 
 
 I have already told you how to appro- 
 priate health, I have explained the neces- 
 sity of recognizing the strength, the life 
 and all that makes for health as being 
 already yours. 
 
 The seed of God within you which is 
 your higher self is whole and it can 
 never know sickness. I have told you 
 that by acknowledging this higher self, 
 you begin to attract conditions from the 
 outer world which correspond to that 
 inner reality. You have learned, there- 
 fore, that the ESSENCE OF GOD WITHIN is 
 
 THE SECBET ATTRACTING POWER THAT 
 WEAVES THE GARMENT OF HEALTH. 
 
 In the same way this same seed of 
 God, your higher self may attract its May attract iti 
 environments. You ask how? iww* 
 
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 Listen! Beloved, you remember the 
 Master said, "Thou hast been faithful 
 over a few things, I will make thee ruler 
 over many things." He is saying that 
 to you. 
 
 What does he mean by a "few 
 things?" Does he not mean human 
 weaknesses which beset you, your 
 fears, your doubts, your tempers? Yes, 
 he has given you charge over these 
 conquer youruif and things. When you have learned to rule 
 
 you may win your -,-,, j-i i 
 
 over them you will be given the larger 
 kingdom. Can you see the law? 
 
 It is this. When you have learned to 
 conquer your fears, you will be strong, 
 you will be hopeful, you will have knowl- 
 edge, courage and judgment, and the re- 
 sult will be that FROM YOUR PERSONALITY 
 
 THERE WILL EMANATE THE VIBRATION THAT 
 WILL INSPIRE CONFIDENCE IN EVERYONE 
 WHO SEES YOU. 
 
 Your brow will not be wrinkled with 
 care; it will be placid, open and pleas- 
 
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 ant, your eye will beam with brightness 
 
 and courage. Whatever you do will be whatever you d 
 
 tinctured with 
 
 tinctured with your quality and strength. yr q"iit y 
 
 Do you not see how this will make you 
 attractive if you are a worker, and need 
 work? Will not those who employ work- 
 ers see you and want you to work for 
 them ? This is the 'beginning of your suc- 
 cess. If you have the qualities within, 
 so plainly written on your face and 
 form, so plainly shown in your conver- 
 sation, YOU CANNOT BE OTHERWISE THAN 
 
 A great human 
 A GREAT HUMAN MAGNET. magnet 
 
 How easy to see the fulfillment of the 
 promise that you will be made ruler over 
 many things, because with all these 
 splendid mental and spiritual virtues 
 you will show an exact sense of justice 
 in dealing with your fellow men. You 
 will be known as one who does things 
 according to the Golden Rule. 
 
 All this means that you will be con- 
 tinually sowing seed and that you will 
 
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 be reaping harvests, some thirty, sixty, 
 and an hundred fold, for as you sow, you 
 will reap. This is the eternal law. 
 
 Can you not see now, how you can de- 
 
 liberately place yourself in the way of 
 
 being prosperous! But you must re- 
 
 member that it is not in small things 
 
 U must prove the only, that you can prove this law, it is in 
 
 law in all ivays 
 
 all ways. 
 
 You should not only have enough 
 money to supply your crying necessities, 
 but you should have enough to provide 
 even luxuries if you want them. You 
 
 SHOULD BE ABLE TO COMMAND AND USE ALL 
 THE RESOUKCES THAT YOU DESIRE IN THE 
 MATERIAL, AS WELL AS THE SPIRITUAL AND 
 MENTAL, WORLD. 
 
 I have already told you how to be- 
 gin, but remember that you are only the 
 th seed sower. It is God who giveth the in- 
 
 the increau T . . -, . 
 
 crease. If you sow thoughts or acts 
 which are selfish, you will just as surely 
 have to be shut out of some of the privi- 
 
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 leges and possessions in the world, as 
 you have shut others out of privileges 
 which you claimed for yourself. 
 
 If your thought is loving, you cannot 
 help giving. If you give, you will re- 
 ceive, but if your thought is selfish, 
 keeping what you have and enjoy, shut 
 up within yourself, you will shut the 
 door against the gifts which otherwise 
 might flow your way. You see again 
 this is the law of attraction. The Iaw '/ 
 
 attraction 
 
 Whatever is unpleasant without, is 
 the correspondence of something or 
 some quality within yourself. 
 
 Perhaps you have long feared pov- 
 erty. That has made you afraid to spend 
 the money you have. It has made you 
 small and petty and fretful ; it has made 
 you brood over the possibility of even 
 being without the necessities of life. The 
 natural result of this kind of thinking The natural remit 
 would be poverty, extreme privations. 
 
 Now let us see if we can trace this 
 
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 thought of poverty to its beginning. 
 
 Here it is. Away back in the begin- 
 ning when Adam and Eve were driven 
 out of Paradise, they were told that 
 they would henceforth have to earn 
 their food by the sweat of their brow. 
 This was the result of their disobedi- 
 ence. 
 
 In the Garden of Eden they had all 
 things. Nothing was lacking. They 
 walked and talked with God. They knew 
 God was the Source of all, the Provider 
 of all, but when they were driven out 
 They lost memory of they lost this communion with God, and 
 
 the bounteous supply 
 
 they lost memory of the bounteous sup- 
 ply. 
 
 That sense of separation from God is 
 the heritage of the natural man today, 
 as it has been through all the ages. 
 
 One way change Tn6re is ^J One Wa 7 to change this 
 
 hn ufa!atiln sense of separation and that is by the 
 word of reconciliation. 
 Jesus came to speak it and to teach 
 
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 you and all men to speak it. It is the 
 word of Love, the word of Faith, the 
 word acknowledging God as being still 
 the Father. By the power of that word 
 
 * tne ivora 
 
 the first man Adam was changed into 
 the last Adam, a quickening spirit, the 
 Eedeemer. 
 
 THE CHANGE IN YOU FBOM THE FIRST 
 TO THE LAST ADAM, MEANS THE REDEMP- 
 TION FROM EVERY ILL OF HUMANITY. 
 
 Now, Beloved, the story of Adam is 
 your story. You talk poverty, disease 
 and failure because you have been living 
 the part of the first Adam. You have 
 inherited the belief that comes from 
 mortality, the belief that you have in- 
 herited poverty, disease and death, but 
 
 THROUGH THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST, THE 
 
 ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, YOU MAY FIND THE TOU may find the -way 
 
 -I-, back to Eden 
 
 WAY BACK TO EDEN, THE PLACE OF PLENTY, 
 PEACE AND BEAUTY; THE PLACE WHERE 
 YOU MAY TALK WITH GOD AND BE HEIR TO 
 
 ALL THE RICHES OF His KINGDOM ! 
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 Study carefully the Christ-Gospel, 
 live the Christ life, let the same mind be 
 in you that was in Christ Jesus, and no 
 good thing will be withheld from you. 
 This is not mere religious talk, it is the 
 LIVING TRUTH, and only the TBUTH will 
 
 Tou mua accept SaVC yOU, but YOU MUST ACCEPT AND PRAC- 
 and practice it 
 
 TICE IT. 
 
 I have told you throughout all these 
 lessons that you must turn to God and 
 acknowledge Him as the Friend who will 
 never fail, as the Helper who will al- 
 ways help. I mean this literally. I 
 er you mean that whenever you have a need for 
 money, instead of getting worried and 
 distressed, because you see no way to 
 get what you need, GO TO GOD IN PRAYER ; 
 ask Him to open the way for you. 
 
 Place yourself wholly upon His care 
 at the same time holding yourself ready 
 to receive His counsel. This may come 
 to you directly after you have prayed, or 
 it may not come to you until some other 
 
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 time, in the middle of the night, or in 
 the morning as you are going to your 
 work, or even later. 
 
 YOUR PAET IS TO REMAIN CALM, EX- 
 PECTANT, AND HAPPY. You are to do what 
 your hands find to do whatever that may 
 be, but you are at all times to keep your 
 mind towards God. 
 
 It is this attitude of mind that will 
 remove from you the veil of separation. nam*e from you the 
 
 veil of separation 
 
 It is this constant thinking and living in 
 joyous faith that will enable you to enter 
 into the secret place and to refrain from 
 judging according to appearances. 
 
 What if your supply is exhausted? 
 Your magnificent faith will bring relief 
 the moment you really need it. 
 
 This has been proven over and over 
 again. Not only have persons who are 
 living the faith life proven this, but 
 many grand works have been done. 
 
 George Muller on his bare faith built 
 and established a home for orphans in 
 
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 England. The Rev. Cullis established 
 the Consumptives' Home in Boston 
 through the solely through the prayers of faith. 
 
 prayert of faith 
 
 THERE ABE MANY AND COUNTLESS FAITH- 
 FILLED SOULS WHO HAVE PROVEN GOD AS 
 
 THE KEEPER OP PROMISES, THE GIVER OF 
 ALL GOOD GIFTS. 
 
 Read carefully and prayerfully the 
 eleventh chapter of Hebrews, and then 
 begin to practice all these things for 
 yourself, for the law is just the same 
 now as it has ever been, and as it ever 
 will be. 
 
 Every day, Beloved, living this faith- 
 filled life will bring you new proofs of 
 the great abundance which is yours, if 
 you will lay hold upon it, not only by 
 By prayer, by acts prayer, by acts, and faith, but by the 
 
 and the large 
 
 expectancy i ar g e expectancy which your knowledge 
 of the law will give you. 
 
 You have never a doubt but that you 
 may have your portion of air which is 
 circulating throughout the earth, and 
 
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 which is for you to appropriate to any 
 extent that you wish. You have never a 
 doubt of the sunlight that will fall upon 
 your house and through your windows, 
 for you know there is sunshine for all 
 houses that may ever be built. There is nen a sufficient 
 
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 a sufficient supply of all things for all 
 people. The earth is filled with riches. 
 Appropriate your share and you will 
 demonstrate the law of prosperity ac- 
 cording to the measure of your faith 
 and your works. 
 
 THE WAY TO INVITE PKOSPEEITY. 
 
 (By one who has tried and tested ihis 
 
 law in the commercial world.) 
 Believe in it ! Look for it I See it ! 
 Practice it! Sing it! That which you 
 give your attention to> multiplies. As a 
 man thinketh in his heart, so is he, ap- 
 plies to the material things that come A ff n " to the ma - 
 
 tcrial things 
 
 to him as much as to the conditions that 
 come to his body as the result of his 
 thinking. Think continually then of the 
 
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 supply of money, for money in the mate- 
 The great aneriai ria } wor i<j corresponds to the blood in 
 
 system 
 
 the physical body. 
 
 Did you ever think of the great arte- 
 rial system in the body through which 
 the rich red blood is pumped, supplying 
 the most minute cells with the necessary 
 amount of life-giving nourishment? 
 
 This flow of blood is greatly influenced 
 by the mental action. A person turns 
 pale or red according as a circumstance 
 affects him mentally. Also when the 
 mind is concentrated upon any particu- 
 lar part of the body there is instantly a 
 quickened circulation carrying the blood 
 toward that point. There have been 
 many cases reported where it was possi- 
 ble to consciously distribute the blood 
 throughout the body. I state this simply 
 as an illustration of how you can go to 
 HOW ywt can go w rk to consciously attract and distri- 
 k bute this other fluid (money) as I will 
 call it for the moment. 
 
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 Man has built for himself a gigantic 
 arterial system through which flows a 
 constant stream of this great commodity <* < aant stream 
 
 of this great 
 
 and necessity called MONEY. It brings commodity 
 to us food, clothing, shelter and the 
 means, not only to supply our own needs, 
 but also to reach out and help others 
 who are destitute and suffering. 
 
 Humanity is the great body, com- 
 merce is the avenue, the veins, through 
 which the vital fluid flows and all we 
 have to do is to recognize that while 
 man has built up the system, GOD is THE God is the * 
 
 and source of supply 
 STOREHOUSE AND SOURCE OF SUPPLY. 
 
 The earth with all its boundless 
 riches, its hidden treasures, its fruitful 
 territories of grain and fruits, all, all 
 are the Lord's. Freely has He provided 
 for His people, but each one must make 
 his connection with the Source in order 
 to draw his supply. Each person corre- 
 sponds to one of the cells of this great 
 body and must ever be open to receive 
 
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 the inflow and also to be in turn the 
 channel through which the life-giving 
 properties of its nature may pass on. 
 
 Connect your ulf con- THEREFORE. CONNECT YOURSELF CON- 
 Kiously with the 
 
 lource SCIOUSLY WITH THE SOURCE ! CLAIM YOUR 
 
 SUPPLY NOW. KEEP YOUR CHANNEL OPEN 
 
 BY GIVING FREELY FROM YOUR OWN STORE- 
 HOUSE, YOUR PRESENT SUPPLY. 
 
 You will have to give " value re- 
 ceived," for remember, commerce is the 
 artery, and even though your work may 
 seem to you far removed from your idea 
 of commercial life, yet it is all impor- 
 tant in its own place. Do gladly, will- 
 ingly, the task at hand and thus keep 
 your circulation free and clear. 
 
 There may be testing times when you 
 
 will almost despair and wonder if there 
 
 is any truth in this universal supply. 
 
 Tht gnt of your These tests are the signs of your great 
 
 great opportunity 
 
 opportunity; they are the preparation 
 for great success, for if YOU STAND FIRM 
 
 AND CONCENTRATE UPON THE SOURCE, YOU 
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 WILL OPEN THE GATES TO SUCH A FLOOD OF 
 THE CIRCULATING FLUID THAT YOUE HEART 
 WILL OVERFLOW WITH JOY. 
 
 It may not always come in the form of 
 money, but it will be the things that 
 money buys, and that will serve just as 
 well as the money itself. 
 
 Come! Claim your birthright to an c/* your birthright 
 inlet to God's bounty! It is already 
 awaiting you. You never really needed 
 a thing that was not ready and waiting 
 for you to reach out and take. The 
 trouble lies in the fact that you did not 
 know it, and so wrapped yourself up in 
 a cloud of despair and felt that you 
 were cut off. 
 
 Do not think that you have to labor 
 for your share. No, the Father has im- 
 posed no such burden upon you. If you 
 take the right attitude in this matter #> ">** the right 
 
 - attitude in t hit matter 
 
 you will find that you have plenty of 
 time to not only do your appointed tasks, 
 but time for recreation, study and devo- 
 tion. 
 
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 To give you a few definite words for 
 concentration for prosperity I suggest 
 that you follow the general directions 
 given for the various treatments and 
 use the keynote on the opposite page for 
 your first practice, and as you get more 
 fully into the spirit of this method, you 
 will find many rich, helpful texts that 
 you can use at various times. Eegular- 
 ity is essential in this as on all the other 
 practices if you would keep the connec- 
 tion full and perfect. 
 
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 Praise ye the Lord. Blessed is the man 
 that feareth the Lord, that delighteth greatly 
 in His Commandments. 
 
 His seed shall be mighty upon earth; the 
 generation of the upright shall be blessed. 
 
 Wealth and riches shall be in his house, 
 and his righteousness endureth forever. 
 
 Psalm CXII. 1-2-3. 
 
 Keynote for Daily Treatment for Prosperity: 
 
 / 'will praise the Lord for my privilege of 
 using and increasing the abundance of His riches; 
 NOW, TO-DAY am I blessed with plenty. 
 
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 No. I 
 Treatment to Cut Off Undesirable Influences 
 
 This treatment is intended for those who are 
 sensitive to undesirable influences in the Seen or 
 Unseen Eealms. To be practised at least three 
 times a day and oftener if necessary. 
 
 Stand erect, facing the east and declare in a 
 positive tone: I AM ONE WITH THE INFIN- 
 ITE FATHEE. IN HIM I LIVE, I MOVE, I 
 HAVE MY BEING. I HAVE THE FREEDOM 
 OF THE SONS OF GOD. 
 
 Breathe deeply and as you inhale, think the 
 word "I," as you exhale, think the word "AM." 
 Do this five times; then say earnestly and rever- 
 ently: I AM SPIRIT. As spirit I am wise, 
 strong, intelligent, holy. As spirit I am individ- 
 ualized force, the master over emotions, thoughts, 
 conditions. I am like the light which cannot be 
 touched by darkness. I am strong to withstand 
 any, all, conditions that are undesirable. I am 
 not influenced by the thoughts and feelings in the 
 
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 atmosphere around me. As spirit, I cannot be 
 influenced by the thoughts or conditions from the 
 unseen realm. I am now insulated, environed by 
 the protecting light of the Spirit. 
 
 Pushing the hands outward in a repelling ges- 
 ture to the east say: I now put away from me 
 any thoughts or influences that may come to me 
 from any source whatever. Then turn to the 
 south and say the same, then to the west, then to 
 the north. Repeat these words three times in 
 each direction. After you have once more faced 
 the east still standing erect and positive, declare: 
 I am now free from magnetic, mental, or psychic 
 attractions; I live and move above the realm of 
 negative conditions and hence can feel, know and 
 express in all my Being the direct harmony and 
 perfection which belongs to pure Spirit. 
 
 I say these words in reverence and faith that 
 my Father has endowed me with the individuality 
 which permits me thus to express my mastership. 
 
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 It is not only a privilege for you to send out 
 your helpful thought for the benefit of those who 
 need help, but it is one of the great means by 
 which you may find, and increase your talents. 
 
 You may have a special gift for speaking the 
 healing, comforting, or renewing word. Be a 
 channel for the Power of righteousness to work 
 through and scatter blessings everywhere. 
 
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 No. II 
 For Overcoming Secret or Vicious Habits 
 
 Back of every sense desire is a spiritual force. 
 When you are craving stimulants of any kind 
 such as alcohol, morphine, tobacco and things of 
 like nature you must not condemn, but interpret 
 the desire. If you trace it back you will find that 
 before you desired these things you desired hap- 
 piness or pleasure. This was the spiritual force 
 back of the desire. 
 
 The nerves, which are the connecting links be- 
 tween soul and body having been falsely educated 
 to respond to sensations induced through a grati- 
 fication of the senses, deluded you into thinking 
 that your happiness could be obtained by yielding 
 to the demand of the senses. 
 
 This was the beginning of your habit of indul- 
 gence. In order to correct the habit let your mind 
 consider again the desire for happiness and you 
 will see that after all, it is not the momentary 
 pleasure which can be produced through the 
 
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 senses that is happiness, but that which lies far 
 deeper. 
 
 The satisfaction to the spirit when you have 
 done well, when you have been TRUE TO THE HIGH- 
 EST PRINCIPLES OF RIGHT, JUSTICE AND TRUTH THIS 
 IS REAL HAPPINESS. 
 
 To abide in this state is to be free from the de- 
 lusions concerning the deceitful and deceiving 
 pleasures that come through the senses. When 
 you can see this clearly, you will be able to realize 
 that it is a deep hungering of your soul rather 
 than a bodily craving which, because perverted 
 and misunderstood, has caused and continues to 
 cause your temptations and falls. 
 
 If then, you are ready to honestly undertake 
 the overcoming of your vicious habits you will see 
 yourself as God made you and as you are in your 
 true being. 
 
 The method of overcoming is that of acknowl- 
 edging your higher self and its relation to the 
 Father. On this basis I give you the following 
 words to be learned and repeated faithfully at 
 least twenty times in the morning, twenty times at 
 noon and fifty times before retiring. 
 
 WORD TREATMENT. "Oh, my Father, I am Thy 
 
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 child. I hunger for the food of Thy word in my 
 soul. I thirst for communion with Thee; feed me 
 that I shall be satisfied. Hold me in the palm of 
 Thy hand that I may be protected from all evil, 
 yet give unto me strength to be the master of my 
 body, of my mind, of all conditions in my world. 
 Let me go forth to my duties with this sense of 
 mastership ringing in my soul so that I may eat 
 and drink, walk and work in the happiness of the 
 spiritual life. I know that as spirit I am free 
 from every desire of the flesh, as spirit I am satis- 
 fied; as spirit I am wise, I am strong, and because 
 thou hast made me in Thy image and Thy like- 
 ness, I am free every moment of ever$ day and of 
 every night. In this freedom from all habits of 
 thought or action which are contrary to Thy 
 thought or will, I now declare that I AM WIL- 
 LING TO PROVE MYSELF MY OWN MAS- 
 TER AND THY OBEDIENT CHILD. In Thy 
 strength I AM STRONG, in Thy life, I AM 
 TRULY ALIVE and live according to the pattern 
 of holiness which Thou hast put into my heart. 
 Amen." 
 
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 No. HI 
 
 Treatment for Catarrh, Throat and 
 Lung Trouble 
 
 PREPARATION. Imagine a point at the center 
 of your being (spirit) where the Light is never 
 dim. Center your thought upon a definite spot 
 at the base of the lungs of the physical body until 
 you have learned to concentrate your mind with- 
 out this aid. As you look out at the sunlight 
 which is giving your body warmth and strength 
 every day, try to realize that the same Power back 
 of this mighty flood of sunlight is the Power 
 which dwells at the center of your being. As the 
 sun animates and sends the life forces pulsing 
 through the earth, so this Light within you, sends 
 throbbing vibrations of health through every cell 
 of your body. 
 
 WORD TREATMENT. With reverent recognition 
 of my birthright, I claim my sonship with the 
 Almighty. I am spirit, created in the image and 
 likeness of God, and endowed ivith divine perfec- 
 
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 tion. My body is the instrument given me by the 
 Father through which I express to the world my 
 divine character. At the center of my being, I 
 dwell in harmony with God, my loving Father. 
 
 EXERCISE. Go to an open window, if possible, 
 facing the east, or if this is not convenient, stand 
 with your face turned toward the east. Let your 
 arms hang loosely at your sides. Slowly inhale, 
 raising the arms gradually until you have drawn 
 in all the pure fresh air that your lungs will hold. 
 As you inhale think the word ''Life," and try to 
 realize that you are breathing in the very essence 
 of health. Then slowly exhale, keeping full con- 
 trol of the breath and letting the arms gently 
 descend to the first position as the lungs are 
 emptied of air. Hold the word "Love," in 
 thought and send forth a blessing to the whole 
 world. Repeat this seven times at each treatment 
 and give yourself a treatment early in the morn, 
 ing, at sunrise, if possible, at noon, and at sunset.. 
 All through the day let this be the undercurrent 
 of your thought and consciousness: God is my 
 Life. God is my Health. In Him I live, I move, 
 I have my Being. 
 
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 Sing these words to yourself, repeat them many 
 times and rejoice with a heart full of thanksgiving 
 and praise. 
 
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 No. IV 
 
 Treatment for Nervousness and 
 Self -Consciousness 
 
 Texts to be held : 
 
 "Blessed are the Peacemakers (they who make 
 peace) for they shall be called the children of 
 God." 
 
 "Peace unto him who is near and to him who 
 is afar off and I will heal him," saith the Lord. 
 
 Let your first thought on awakening be a 
 thanksgiving for your life, your privileges, your 
 possibilities. 
 
 Take long deep breaths while dressing, then 
 when you are ready to leave your room, before 
 doing so, give yourself five full minutes in which 
 to say with all your mind and heart : "I will live 
 on the highest plane to-day, the plane of spirit. 
 As 1 am spirit, I am free from all inharmony and 
 irritation. I am above nerves and nervousness, 
 for 1, the spirit, control the flesh and flesh condi- 
 tions. As spirit, I am sensitive to high, holy 
 thoughts and influences. Neither my mind nor 
 
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 my nervous system will register or report any dis- 
 cords, for I breathe in the vital forces of God's 
 whole universe and transmute them into strength 
 and health. I am at one and in harmony with the 
 best of every soul, therefore only the best touches 
 me. I can change every word or tone of discord 
 to harmony. .1 am loving to all, at peace with all, 
 and am free, happy, strong, and filled with God's 
 own peace." Amen. 
 
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 I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live ; I will 
 sing praise to my God while I have my being. My 
 meditation of Him shall be sweet; I will be glad 
 in the Lord. 
 
 Psalms CW-33-34 
 
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 Keynote on opposite page. 
 
 No. V 
 Treatment for Indigestion and Constipation 
 
 When you are troubled with indigestion you 
 must realize that there is a mental as well as 
 a physical cause for the trouble. It may be a 
 chronic state of worry concerning some particular 
 thing or things in general. People who have a 
 secret cause for worry, who are mentally rejecting 
 some circumstance or condition in life are apt to 
 have indigestion and constipation. Think over 
 this carefully and see if your mind is clouded or 
 troubled. If it is you must have recourse to the 
 spirit. You must lift your consciousness above 
 the mental and physical conditions by realizing 
 that in the spirit you are free, because in the 
 spirit there are no clouds, no troubles, no diseases. 
 Your preliminary meditation may be something 
 like this: 
 
 ''From this moment I decide to see only that 
 which is good and true and beautiful. I resolve 
 to cultivate the habit of looking for the good in 
 
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 14
 
 every circumstance and condition of my life. 
 Whatever seems hard or dark or undesirable to 
 me, I will take unto the Lord and leave Him to 
 deal with it. Everything that is helpful and good 
 and true I will appropriate to myself, assimilate 
 into my life and thought. By so doing I realize 
 that my stomach which is the organ that performs 
 the same office for the physical that my mind per- 
 forms for my intellectual and moral being, will be 
 put into a harmonious condition so that it can per- 
 form its work properly and well. Knowing that 
 every cell in the body has its degree of conscious- 
 ness, I speak to the cells of my stomach and tell 
 them that they are able to do their work, that each 
 cell is willing to work in harmony with its neigh- 
 bor, and thus enable the stomach to digest the 
 food that it is given. I declare that harmony 
 reigns in my whole physical being, that every or- 
 gan is perfect and that it is willing to accept what- 
 soever work it is given to perform. 
 
 WORD TREATMENT. With a happy mind I ivill 
 sit down to every meal believing that in the same 
 happy receptive state, my stomach will receive 
 and take care of the material which is to make 
 good healthy flesh and blood. Every morning 
 
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 I will say, This is to be my happy day, my day of 
 accepting and assimilating both mentally and phy- 
 sically whatever comes to me. Every night I will 
 speak in praise and appreciation of the good work 
 that has been done in my body, and I will go to 
 sleep in the happy expectation that whatever 
 needs to be strengthened or healed will be per- 
 fectly strengthened and healed, during the 
 night so that I may again arise to another day of 
 happiness and health. I speak these words know- 
 ing that my Father worketh in me to the accom- 
 plishment of His perfect work in my soul, mind 
 and body. 
 
 In addition to this see that your food is simple, 
 wholesome and nourishing. Do not eat too many 
 things at one meal. Milk, fruit, nuts, cereals, 
 eggs and whole wheat or graham bread should be 
 the main diet. Drink plenty of water, taking one 
 or two glasses in the morning and same at night 
 before retiring. Also several during the day. 
 
 By observing these rules there is no reason why 
 you should not be perfectly cured of indigestion 
 and constipation. HAVE FAITH! HAVE ENTHUSI- 
 ASM! 
 
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 No. VI 
 
 Treatment for Failing Eyesight 
 
 GENERAL DIRECTIONS. Recognize your sight as 
 spiritual, not material, even though you may wear 
 glasses, do not wear them with condemnation; 
 that is, do not continually regret that you are ob- 
 liged to wear them or deplore the condition of 
 your eyes. On the contrary, keep steadily before 
 your mind the picture of your perfect eyes and 
 the idea that the sight is of the spirit. That there 
 is no age in the spirit, therefore yours can make 
 no difference to the spirit. Every night before 
 you retire and every morning when you awake for 
 five or ten minutes speak these words : 
 
 WORD TREATMENT. "I thank tliee, Father, that 
 thou hast given me the gift of perfect sight. I 
 know that in the spirit there can be no loss of the 
 sense of sight and that to the spirit there are no 
 conditions. I declare that I see through the 
 power of the spirit. That I am able also to ob- 
 serve spiritual truths clearly. The physical 
 
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 correspondence to spiritual perception is physical 
 sight. I praise Thee and thank Thee for giving 
 me perception and the organs of vision. I will 
 endeavor at all times to be single-eyed to the pure 
 and whole truth in myself, in my neighbors, in Thy 
 beautiful world. I will seek to always look for 
 the perfect., the beautiful and the true. Thy 
 words are a continuous renewing. They bring me 
 vitality and strength and youth. 1 live in Thee; 
 in Thee I am perfect and therefore I see perfectly 
 Thy perfect world. Amen." 
 
 A PHYSICAL EXERCISE TO BE PRACTICED TWO OB 
 THREE TIMES A DAY. 
 
 Sit down in a chair and look at some point you 
 decide upon on a range with your eyes. It may 
 be the door knob or it may be the pattern in the 
 wall paper. Look at this object, without moving 
 your head, roll your eyes upward as far as possi- 
 ble ; return to the point. Roll to the extreme right 
 as far as possible (without turning the head) ; re- 
 turn to the point. Roll to the extreme left as far 
 as possible ; return to the point. Roll to the obli- 
 que right as far as possible; return to the point. 
 Roll to the oblique left; return to the point. 
 
 Do this three or four times. It is a splendid 
 exercise and will tend to strengthen all the mus- 
 
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 cles and give the eye the roundness of youth. If 
 you will be faithful to this practice in connection 
 with the mental suggestion already given, you 
 will have ivonderful results. 
 
 In addition to this frequently bathe your eyes 
 night and morning with a solution of salt and wa- 
 ter. You can put a little in the palm of your hand 
 or in a tea spoon and laying your eye upon it, 
 wink so that the fluid will get into the eye. You 
 will find this very refreshing and healthful. Be 
 careful not to read lying down. Be sure to have 
 the right light when you read. All of these things 
 are important. 
 
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 Keynote on opposite page. 
 
 No. VII 
 Treatment for Rheumatism 
 
 GENERAL DIRECTIONS. In the first place try to 
 have your clothing warm and yet light in weight, 
 so that there will be a free circulation of the air 
 through your clothing. Get as much sunshine and 
 fresh air as possible, and see that there is a good 
 circulation of air in your sleeping-room. Cover 
 yourself up well, even the top of your head if you 
 feel a draught, but have the nostrils free from all 
 covering, so that you can breathe in the pure fresh 
 air while sleeping. Drink plenty of cold water, 
 one glass before breakfast and two during the 
 morning, also during .the afternoon and at least 
 two glasses of water before you go to sleep at 
 night. Avoid starchy foods and acids. Eat 
 plenty of fresh vegetables and drink very little of 
 any kind of stimulating drinks, such as tea, coffee 
 or liquors of any kind. 
 
 SPECIAL EXERCISE. The first thing in the morn- 
 ing stand erect and if the weather is warm enough, 
 
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 lay aside all of your night clothing and stretch 
 your arms up as far as you can reach, stiffening 
 each finger up to its full length, then slowly drop 
 the arms to a horizontal position and stretch them 
 out in this position, then drop them straight down 
 at the sides, alternating from a tense to a relaxed 
 condition of the muscles during all this time. Re- 
 peat this at least seven times, then lift the right 
 foot slowly up until the knee is well bent, and 
 repeat this seven times. The same with the left 
 foot. Then bend your whole body forward, then 
 straighten it up again; bend it sideways toward 
 the right, and then toward the left. During all 
 this time breathe as evenly as possible, 
 taking in the fresh air and exhaling all that is 
 impure from the lungs. After taking this 
 practice, start in and take a light, sponge bath, 
 but instead of using a towel or cloth to dry the 
 body rub it dry with the palms of the hands, com- 
 mencing at the neck and working all the way down 
 to your feet. Keep up a brisk rubbing until your 
 whole body is in a glow. If you are sensitive to 
 draughts at the beginning of this practice, keep 
 a light covering over whatever part of your body 
 you are not rubbing; thus you can gradually ad- 
 
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 just the cover as you go on with the friction, and 
 this will prevent you from taking cold. This is 
 what is called a magnetic bath and it will bring 
 such a sense of vigor and vitality into your body, 
 that it- will stimulate the flow of blood to every 
 part and each cell will be revivified. 
 
 WORD TREATMENT. "I am at one with the 
 Great Magnetic Center of the Universe. The vi- 
 brations of the eternal living forces flow into my 
 body. I am bathed in a strong, electric current; 1 
 am filled with vibrations of health. Around and 
 about me is drawn an aura of health and I am 
 strong, vigorous, bright, healthy, joyous; life, 
 eternal, everlasting life, fills and thrills me 
 through and through. I praise God with all my 
 heart, with all my soul, with all my mind, and 
 thank Him for my health and strength. Amen." 
 
 This treament can be repeated at night before 
 going to sleep and if desirable omit the cold water 
 in taking the magnetic bath. Just rub yourself 
 briskly with your hands, and then go to rest, 
 knowing that the Omnipotent forces are working 
 for your healing. 
 
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 No. VIII 
 
 Treatment for Those Addicted to 
 Evil Habits 
 
 Sometimes you have one very near and dear to 
 you who is addicted to drinking, or morphine or 
 some other vice. Your heart yearns to help him, 
 yet you are very apt to spend time in anxiety and 
 tears, when you think of him. 
 
 Beloved, in this way you are harming, rather 
 than helping him. Your constant thought of his 
 weakness and shortcomings even though it be a 
 kindly pitying thought creates an atmosphere of 
 darkness which oppresses and enfolds him like a 
 heavy fog. 
 
 As you want to help him, by all means change 
 your attitude of mind towards him. Stop think- 
 ing these things which though they are true as to 
 the flesh, MAY BE CHANGED BY THE POWER OF THE 
 SPIRIT. Try to look through the veil of his failure 
 to that divine spark of Light which is his true self. 
 Think of that as being ALWAYS PERFECT. While 
 you are in your room, send to him earnestly every 
 
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 night when you think he has gone to sleep and 
 every morning before he awakens words like 
 these : 
 
 "Dear (John or Mary or whatever his name 
 may be) I am now thinking of you as you are in 
 your spirit. In the spirit you are strong. In the 
 spirit you are pure. You are satisfied with the 
 great gifts God has given you, and because you 
 are satisfied, you are not seeking for the pleasure 
 which destroys, but for the peace and the joy 
 ivhich builds up mind and body. God is your 
 strength in every moment of temptation. In the 
 spirit you are not tempted for you are awake to 
 all your possibilities and wonderful powers. 
 
 "As you go forth to your work and walk along 
 the street you are attracted to only that which is 
 good and beautiful and healthful. There is noth- 
 ing in you that can answer to any temptation. 
 You do not want liquor or morphine or tobacco 
 or anything which is not natural and good. By 
 speaking this way to you and about you I can see 
 in my mind a picture of you as God intended you 
 should be. I see you with a strong pure mind; 
 with a beautiful healthy body. This is the pic- 
 ture that I am going to see every time I think, of 
 
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 you, and no matter what you may appear, dear 
 (John or Mary) I shall endeavor at all times to 
 keep this picture of you before me. I love you 
 and trust you and I leave you now in the care and 
 protection of God, who is able to do all things that 
 are for His glory, in you. I leave you in His care 
 now and always. Amen." 
 
 If you will learn these words and say them ten 
 minutes night and morning as I have directed, you 
 will be a great comfort and blessing to your dear 
 one. Indeed you may lead him straight into the 
 path of right doing. In addition to this try to 
 make everything pleasant in the home. See that 
 he has plenty of nourishing food. Study to make 
 everything in his room and about the home parti- 
 cularly attractive, for all this will help you to 
 remove the awful cloud that your worry and fear 
 have woven about him. Above all else realize that 
 he is in God's care. Leave him there. 
 
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 No. IX 
 
 Treatment for Managing Children and 
 Keeping Them Healthy 
 
 In the first place study the temperaments of 
 your children. What may do as a method for one 
 may not always be the best for another. Children 
 who are nervous, active and restless, need very 
 different tactics than those who are quiet, slow 
 and easily contented. 
 
 The restless child should have a nap once or 
 twice a day. Should always receive immediate 
 attention for any need that he may have. At all 
 times should be treated gently. Out of the abund- 
 ance of the real and abiding love in your heart 
 should be born the wisdom with which you may 
 guide your children. 
 
 See that they have simple nourishing food. 
 That they eat regularly and go to bed early. 
 Many times a child is irritable because it is over- 
 tired, because it has not been properly fed. 
 
 Besides the good, physical care, see that you 
 
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 15
 
 also give your children the kind which will be as 
 food to the soul. 
 
 Let each child have a little time during the day 
 or in the evening before going to bed for a SPECIAL 
 HEAKT TO HEART TALK WITH YOU. Encourage the 
 telling of whatever may be of interest whether it 
 be about the play or about something that has 
 happened during the day. Whatever the child 
 wants to tell you at the confidence hour, let him 
 feel free to tell. Show your interest and sympa- 
 thy in all his little plans and his play, and in 
 everything that concerns him. 
 
 Even at a very young age, yes, as soon as he 
 understands any language, you can begin teaching 
 him how to choose the good thought and good ac- 
 tion. Treat him as an individual. Show him that 
 he can choose how to act, and that he knows the 
 difference between the good and bad. Trust him. 
 
 Let him feel that he is a co-worker and co-part- 
 ner in the home. 
 
 Every night let him say some little prayer that 
 will turn his thoughts into an aspiration to be 
 good. After he has gone to bed or even while he 
 is going to sleep speak in a low, monotonous, 
 soothing tone and tell him something like this : 
 
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 WORD TREATMENT. "Darling, you want to be 
 good. Your little heart is full of love for every 
 one. You want to be kind to sister and to your 
 little brother. You want to learn to think beau- 
 tiful thoughts so that you will grow up to be a 
 good (man or woman). You feel well and happy. 
 I am giving you these thoughts now, so that you 
 luill sleep sweetly and knoiv how true it is that 
 you are God's own, good, happy child. This will 
 make you well and strong. It will make your body 
 able to do whatever it should do, to grow strong 
 and beautiful. Good night, darling; you will 
 sleep with the angels watching over you, and with 
 mother's love around you like warm, soft arms. 
 I leave you now in God's care. It will heal and 
 bless you and make you good." 
 
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 No. X 
 
 A Treatment for Harmonizing Home 
 Relations 
 
 The home should be an emblem of perfection. 
 It is an organization composed of different mem- 
 bers. There should be perfect harmony and sym- 
 pathy between all the members, in order to have 
 the perfect home. 
 
 You as a member of the home must do your 
 part. It may be that you understand better the 
 law of harmony, and can therefore not only main- 
 tain your own part but help others to do theirs. 
 The first thing is to recognize that every one is an 
 individual and has rights and liberties as an in- 
 dividual. 
 
 Given the freedom whereby each member may 
 follow out, to a reasonable extent, his tastes and 
 desires, there will naturally be a feeling of sym- 
 pathy and harmony among all members. 
 
 This is what should be. Your ATTITUDE OF MIND 
 
 SHOULD BE ONE OF JUSTICE AND LOVE AND SYMPATHY. 
 
 This means of course that you banish every 
 
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 thought of criticism or selfishness. When you ard 
 sure you have within yourself that real harmony, 
 
 yOU Will EMANATE HARMONY, YOU WILL CREATE AN 
 
 ATMOSPHERE OF HARMONY. You will be as it were, 
 
 LIKE THE SUN, RADIATING LIGHT IN ALL DIRECTIONS 
 
 and making of your home an ideal spot, and a 
 place of peace and happiness. All members will 
 feel this. 
 
 The first essential in doing this kind of 
 work is to deal with yourself. This means you 
 are to keep an atmosphere of harmony. You al- 
 ready know how to put away all thoughts except- 
 ing those which are kind and loving. 
 
 Now if you have a member of the home who 
 is discordant, or unhappy, let your thoughts go 
 to him in an endeavor to turn the light of your 
 inward happiness and joy upon him. Think of 
 him in this way ! 
 
 WORD TREATMENT. "Dear there is no 
 
 thought of criticism in my heart toward you. In- 
 deed 1 can think only loving thoughts. I feel be- 
 cause of this that I understand you. I know that 
 very often when you come home irritable and 
 impatient it is merely because you are for the 
 time being overtired. I will therefore have pa- 
 Two Hundred and Thirty
 
 Hence with you. It is my aim and intention at all 
 times to be true and just in every word that I say 
 to you, and this moment I am sending to you a 
 full and flowing stream of loving thoughts which 
 will convey to you my confidence and esteem. In 
 this way I pray that I may turn your thought to 
 the High Source of all love and harmony that 
 you may receive and enjoy as I do, that infloiv of 
 strength and love from our Father which makes it 
 possible for us to be harmonious and happy. May 
 God's love brood over you always, and may I 
 be ever willing and able to help you to live up to 
 your highest and best at all times, and under all 
 circumstances. Now may love do its perfect work 
 with you, with me, ivith all members of our be- 
 loved home. Amen." 
 
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 No. XI 
 How to find your Talents. 
 
 Just so surely as every creature is born with 
 instincts, every human being is born with talents 
 faculties. You have THEM. How many, or what 
 they are, you can only know when you begin to 
 use them. 
 
 Perhaps you have thought yourself wholly lack- 
 ing in the possession of these. Perhaps you have 
 pitied yourself and cried in secret because you 
 could not do or become what others have, or per- 
 haps you have flung yourself in petulance away 
 from opportunities, because they set tasks before 
 you that you did not like. 
 
 If you have done any or all of these things, 
 stop, and put away even the memory of your 
 thought or action concerning the gifts God has 
 given you. 
 
 Begin now, and believe that YOU have talents. 
 
 This will be an open door to hope, courage, VIC- 
 TORY. 
 
 See how warm your heart grows at thought of 
 it, how many bright dreams crowd into your 
 mind, how eager you are to do something ! 
 
 These are signs of the talents that have been 
 
 Two Hundred and Thirty-three
 
 folded away in the napkin of your ignorance. 
 Unwrap them! Bring them forth! Use and in- 
 crease them ! For you can do wonders when you 
 know the implements you have to do with! 
 
 These implements are the powers of your mind, 
 your will, your judgment, your body ! 
 
 You have been using these all your life, in a 
 way, but now use them with the joy of use! Be 
 glad, be thankful, be cheerful, be joyous that you 
 can doj even the homely every day duties with a 
 new light thrown upon them. This will be the 
 beginning of expansion in your faith and outlook 
 as to what you can do. Keep ever before you the 
 thought "I can achieve, as well as appreciate." 
 
 Then go about every task, thinking; I can do 
 this, WELL, superbly, I love to do it, I will put 
 every thing I am into everything I do. All my 
 taste, my skill, my originality I ivill put into the 
 work of each moment, for each moment 1 must 
 express myself, I will not imitate, but originate. 
 I will be so open to the realms of use and beauty 
 that I will catch new ideas and express them in 
 the grandest way. This will be doing the thing, 
 and so getting the power. 
 
 ONE MOMENT AT A TIME, AND THAT MOMENT MY 
 
 BEST shall be my motto for finding every talent 
 that may now be folded away in the napkins of 
 indifference, ignorance or idleness. 
 
 I pray that my every talent may be increased, 
 and I myself established, with my neighbors, my 
 brothers, my sisters and children in the Kingdom 
 of God. 
 
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 THE NINETY-FIRST PSALM. 
 
 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High, shall 
 abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 
 
 I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge, and my fortress: my 
 God; in Him will I trust. 
 
 Surely He shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and 
 from the noisome pestilence. 
 
 He shall cover thee with His feathers, and under Hia wirgs shah 
 thou trust: His truth shall be thy shield and buckler. 
 
 Thou shah not be afraid for the terror by night, nor for the 
 arrow that flieth by day. 
 
 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor for the 
 destruction that wasteth at noonday. 
 
 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right 
 hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. 
 
 Only with thine eyes shah thou behold, and see the reward of 
 the wicked. 
 
 Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the 
 Most High, thy habitation. 
 
 There shal' no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come 
 nigh thy dwelling. 
 
 For He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in 
 all thy ways. 
 
 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot 
 against a stone. 
 
 Thou shah tread upon the lion and adder; the young lion and 
 the dragon shah thou trample under feet. 
 
 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him : 
 I will set him on high, because he hath known My name. 
 
 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him: I will be with 
 him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him. 
 
 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
 
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