The Life Power And How To Use It (1906) by Elizabeth Towne

The life power and how to use it by Elizabeth Town read by Sarah Partridge originally published by Elizabeth Town in 1906 this recording is a production of master key Society for the purpose of research study and discussion the cloud maker tells us the world is wrong and is bound in an evil Fetter but the Blue Sky man comes bringing a song of Hope shall make it better and the toilers hearing his voice behold the sign of a glad tomorrow whose hands are heaped with the purest gold of which each heart may borrow Nixon Waterman to

William E toown who has helped me to know the truth I dedicate these Pages the truth is large no man hath seen the whole larger than words if it Brooks not the control of argument and of distinctions nice no age or Creed can hold it no device of speech or language I no syllogism truth is the Sun and reason is the prism you lift before it whence the light is thrown in various colors each man takes his own if this man takes the red as you the blue is yours the whole and is his truth

not true spirit Is truth the colors fall the fact comes back to Spirit after all Samuel Valentine Cole to see the beauty of the world and hear the rising Harmony of growth whose shade of undertone is harmonized Decay to know that love is life that blood is one and rushes to the union that the heart is like a cup of thirst for wine of Love who sees and feels this meaning utterly the wrong of law the right of man the natural truth partaking not of selfish aims withholding not the word that strengthens and the hand

that helps who wants and sympathizes with the pettiest life and loves all things and reaches up to God with thanks and blessing ing he alone is living John Bo O'Reilly chapter 1 Methuselah and the sun the sun gives forth to us heat and light rays without which this old world could never be glory to warmth and Light which are power and wisdom shed upon us but there is likewise a third kind of Ray shed by old soul whose Mission we may not so readily bless the sun's actinic rays are death dealing they cause disintegration decomposition

there are people who declare that time was when a great canopy of vapor hung over The Earth and revolved with it as Jupiter's vapory canopies now do and that this vapory canopy kept off almost completely the actinic Rays while it admitted light and heat Rays thus they account for atams and methus 's great ages and they say that unless this vapory canopy is again formed around our Earth to ward off these death dealing Rays we shall never attain immortality In the Flesh they claim that as heat and light rays are power and wisdom so the

actinic rays are the devil of the Bible the destroyer and they believe that before man can be saved the Destroyer must be cast into outer Darkness Shut Out by that Sheltering canopy of Vapor an interesting and apparently plausible theory is it not but there are facts yet to be reckoned with it is true that if a great watery Veil spread itself over the Earth today there might be no more death but neither could there be growth every form of life would continue as it is wrinkles gray hair and all why because there must be dissolution

of old forms before there can be new ones made with that material take a photo plate as an instance here is a glass surface covered with a delicate gelatin expose it in A dark room under a red light and you can see just what it looks like hold it there as long as you please and it still looks the same now shut it into the black camera and Sally Forth on pleasurebent the delicate film is undisturbed but you come to a beautiful bit of Woodland you want to snap you turn your focus upon it and

one little snap of a second's duration transforms that gelatin surface just for one instant of time you let in those actinic rays and then always Darkness again inside the camera now back you go into the dark room and turn up the red light by which you see again your beautiful bit of Woodland reproduced on that delicate gelatin surface if you let in a bit of daylight your picture would be gone in a wink the delicate gelatin would be pied in an attempt to reproduce whatever it faced but you don't let in the light of day

you fix your bit of beautiful Woodland by dipping the plate in a solution which hardens the particles of gelatin to the glass henceforth the light cannot affect that gelatin the picture you have but life progress change possibilities are gone from the delicate gelatin forever but if you could live Forever under a red light you would not need to fix your negative it would forever retain that picture and if you continued to live under the red light you might as well throw away your camera and plates you could never take another picture and you wouldn't need

such Amusement either not for long a few days in the red light and you would be sick and a few more days and you would go mad finally nature would fix you and there would be no more change I wonder if scientists have ever tried keeping a dead form hermetically sealed under red glass the cutting off of the actinic Rays ought to arrest Decay and facial change you see the actinic Rays the devil or destroying rays of the sun are absolutely essential to all change in the photoplate probably the actinic Rays soften and separate the

atoms of the gelatin which are immediately polarized into the form of the scene it faces in the light and heat Rays without the softening action of the actinic Rays the gelatin could not take the form of of the scene it faces and without the light and heat Rays it could not see and feel the scene even if the actinic rays were present it takes the Trinity of rays light Heat and actinic to produce a photographed negative it is said that all inventions are but clumsy copies of mechanisms found in the human body and brain that

man contains on a microscopic scale all the inventions ever thought of or that ever will be thought of this is another way of saying that man is the microcosm the universe the macrocosm Victor Hugo expresses the same truth when he says man is an infinite little copy of God the entire photographing process goes on in body and brain not a thought or sight but is photographed upon some tiny cell not a cell but may be cleaned of that impression resensitized and given another impression perhaps cells are immortal as science claims if so every cell must

have undergone this cleaning resensitizing and rephotographing process countless billions of times with countless possibilities ahead and in every one of these picturing and rep picturing the actinic rays are utterly indispensable so I cannot believe that the immortality of anything but a marble statue is dependent upon the cutting off of the sun's actinic rays to be sure the actinic Rays cause dissolution but dissolution Merely precedes resolution dissolution gives light and heat wisdom and love power a chance to produce yet higher forms blessed be the destroying Rays Blessed Be Nature's devil for he but clears the way

for God himself and cleans up and rearranges the rubbish after God has passed but when the race was in its childh Hood it looked upon the work done by these actinic rays and fear was born it saw things die it saw destruction in the path of the wind and like any child it imagined evil things it personified the destroying power as Diablos the devil which means Destroyer it saw also the building growing principle in nature and imagined a builder but being a child it drew the child conclusion that destroyer and Builder worked eternally against each

other that they were enemies you see that was before the race had conceived the idea that two could work together it was Every Man Savage for himself and the devil take the hindmost so the baby race began to love the Builder God and dislike and fear the destroyer and in its ignorance it personified both but here and there a clear Seer arose who glimpsed the truth God spoke through Isaiah saying behold I Make peace and I create evil I the Lord do all these things Solomon said the Lord creates evil for the day of evil

and every sear of every Bible has tried to make clear the Oneness the all wisdom all power all presence of God all life is one the son is God manifest the Destroyer belongs to the Trinity and can no more be dispensed with than can the other two members wisdom and love power and you may rest assured the Destroyer touches only that which needs dissolution that it may be transmuted has anything gone out of your life have you lost that which you esteemed dear grieve not it has been destroyed or taken away to make place for

yet higher things God gives and God takes away and answer to your own highest desires the Destroyer is but cleaning the plate for a more beautiful picture be still and know that all things are working for the manifestation of your deepest desires work with things not against them chapter 2 three-fold being man is a three strata being instead of a two strata one as Thompson J Hudson theorizes the obvious stratum is commonly called conscious or objective mind this is the surface mind the everyday mind the mind we use in Our waking hours then there is

the subconscious mind the subconscious or subjective mind is the stratum of mind which receives the knowledge and wisdom which has passed through the conscious mind the subconscious stratum of Mind holds the habits and instincts formed at some time and place in and by the conscious mind sub means under the subconscious mind lies under the conscious mind as the depths of the lake lie under the surface but there is a third layer of mind which lies within and Beyond both conscious and subconscious mind and whose workings Hudson confounds with those of the subconscious mind this may

be called for the lack of a better name the superconscious mind the Mind above conscious mind the Mind above Consciousness this superconscious mind is what we call God out of which comes all wisdom conscious mind is the point of contact between what we have already learned in this and previous states of existence and the Limitless reservoir of Truth yet to be learned conscious mind is like unto the surface of a lake subconscious mind is like the depths of the lake every drop of which has at some time been on the surface and Is liable at

any time to be recalled there but superconscious mind is like like The Rains of Heaven and the streams from snow clad Heights when the lake is perpetually replenished that which we already know which we do by Instinct rests in the subconscious mind ever ready to be recalled to the conscious mind the conscious mind has to do with that which we are now learning superconscious mind contains all wisdom knowledge and Power in it we live and move and have our being and from it we are able to call by aspiration and inspiration whatsoever we would know

the visible universe as it is is the subconscious and conscious mind of God it represents what has been thought out of the universal reservoir of truth but it is only a taste of the wonderful supplies still awaiting our aspiration and inspiration think of all the wonderful discoveries and inventions of the last 60 years all thought out of that great Universal Reservoir and I hath Not Seen Nor Ear heard the glories that yet await Us in the great superconscious realm Mrs Bame illustrates individuality and solidarity by a star-shaped diagram each point of the star represents a

person A formed character in other words it represents the subconscious or habit self the nature of the person the center of the star represents God the universal mind with which every person is one on the Unseen side looking at the points alone there is diversity separateness but looking from the center outward toward the points we see that points and Center are all one with no separating lines now imagine a line cutting each point off from the center an imaginary line not a real one and you will have a fair illustration of the conscious mind the

conscious mind lies between the personality and the universality of each of us between the human and the Divine of each between what has been realized and that Limitless reservoir of beauties waiting to be realized look at the star from the center and you will see that each point is simply a little Bay projecting outward from the center so each individuality is an inlet of God each individual mind an inlet of divine mind and conscious mind is the imaginary line where per personal mind and divine mind meet you can readily see that one's conscious mind then

would be filled with personality or Divinity According as he looks down and is occupied with the physical being or looks up and aspires toward the universal part of himself the god part now imagine the center of the Star as being fluid ever living and always free and think of the points as being nearly solid partially fixed imagine the point points as containing Water of Life so muddy with false beliefs that it continually deposits along its edges layers of mud ever hardening with the water growing thicker and the beaches ever widening thus will you perceive the

difference between personality and universality now imagine the conscious mind endowed with will note that when it turns toward the point of the star toward the material part of itself it becomes tense with an anxiety and thus shuts off the point from the center preventing a free play of the currents of life through the star point the personality so the personality dries up literally this is the process by which we grow old then imagine the conscious mind turned in faith and love toward the center of Life think with this broader vision and knowledge of Life how

lightly it would hold the things of personality of that little point of personality Ity knowing that the personality is only a little Inlet of divinity and that the broad opening between the two is always open that personality exists as a result of ever-flowing currents of divinity and that only his own grasping and straining can hinder the currence knowing all this conscious mind turns away from the already realized personality and throws wide the opening into the great Center of all life thus conscious mind looks up not down and comes into his kingdom of Love wisdom power

this is inspiration and aspiration yes you may receive what you will provided you call upon the superconscious mind the one mind overall whatsoever you can ask this mind believing you receive you shall have when you can't ask in faith it is usually because you have not dwelt enough enough with the thought of God the Divine self of all creation when we dwell much in the thought of Personality things materiality then God seems faint and far away and impotent and we can't believe we shall receive what we ask we need daily periods for withdrawing from the

physical life and dwelling upon the thought of our Oneness with omniscience omnipotence Omnipresence and our Oneness with each other thus does faith grow aspiration and inspiration become our mental habit and the Waters of life flow freely through us the one spirit will guide you in all the Affairs of life and you are safe only when following its promptings if you would know the spirit's leadings measure your impulses by the golden rule for the spirit is love to all chapter three soul mind and body if there is an individual soul that leaves the body at death

as most of us suppose then this individual soul must be an organization of cell Souls just as the body is an organization of cells the body is referred to as the shell the husk the house we live in the temple in leaving the body then only the coarser elements are sloughed off and left as dead while the soul of every cell ascends still organized in the individual soul and the body cells disintegrate because the soul no longer holds them together this agrees with the statement of theosophy that there is an astral body within the material

body which is like the material body but more beautiful many persons claim to have seen this astral body leave its Temple perhaps Paul meant this when he Spoke of two bodies it seems reasonable to suppose that this spiritual body carries within it all knowledge know gained in this state of being and that in a new Incarnation the older experiences are forgotten just as a thousand things are forgotten every day of Our Lives things which at some future time we may recall the thing was there in our subconsciousness all the time it simply did not affect

us strongly enough to make us think about it a child's interest in this Incarnation keeps in the background of subconsciousness its memories of past lives if it wanted to harden enough and thought about it enough it could recall incidents in previous generations just as it can recall an incident of yesterday or last year which it has temporarily forgotten many people claim to have recalled past states of existence by desire and concentration and many claim to have flashes of remembrance without any special desire or intention and the society for psychical research has on record many strange

cases of dual or many-sided personality Etc which seem to confirm this conception of soul and body it seems to me that the soul is the naked life force Which is one with spirit that material experiences are the matrices by which the life force or Soul force is formed and organized into individuality and that we shed the material parts of the body as fast as we can just as in the lower forms of life shells are discarded when backbones appear the shell protecting and molding the life form until it is sufficient ly formed and organized to

do without the shell when the physical body becomes too stiff and unyielding a form for the growing mind or Soul then it is discarded and it looks as if the soul through growth and attraction steps into a new Incarnation where the material at hand will afford it a better Matrix as long as the body is alive and yielding responding readily to the developing organization of the individual the soul keeps changing in its Matrix its body day by day is needed but a stiff too rigid an old style Matrix or body has to be discarded in

whole for a new one from the soul the body form doth take and when the body becomes inadequate to express the soul growth it is sloughed off all together the body astral and material is the storage of the past experiences and the wisdom organized through Those experiences the objective mind in the brain is the surface of this storage the doorway by which all this wisdom and knowledge entered into individual organization the brain is the switchboard by which we are able to use this store of wisdom and knowledge at will the objective mind governs and directs

not only the switchboard but all the substores with which it connects the objective mind also connects with the universal Storehouse of wisdom upon which it draws by what we call intuition it is through this connection with the univers ival that we are enabled to rise higher than our source of subconscious wisdom and knowledge gained in previous incarnations in order to grow we need the superconscious wisdom which is all just as by desire and concentration we can recall the knowledge and wisdom gained in previous incarnations so by desire and concentration directed toward the universal the infinite

we call to us yet greater wisdom and knowledge than any yet realized the body which disintegrates after death is a mere collection of cell cocoons from which the organized cell Souls have flown to new states of being with Its Soul the body loses its feeling the atoms disintegrating each becoming what it was before simply a bit of dead matter which is not dead at all the atoms of matter are just the same after death as before but the organizing and informing spirit and soul Spirit or soul for there is is no dividing line between them

has departed leaving each atom to live its little life again without relation to other atoms without this organizing Spirit to draw and hold the atoms together they fall apart ashes to ashes the cell is the unit organization of the body each cell clothed with many atoms the soul of the cell leaves it just as the soul leaves the body as a whole that the astral body is an organization of cell Souls just as the physical body is an organization of cells I have no present doubt and it looks reasonable to me to suppose that the

soul or astral body carries within it all the records of all the individual's experiences since the beginning of time that with every generation and experience this astral grows in wisdom and knowledge and beauty of character I see no reason to doubt and by the power of universal attraction it is drawn in each Reincarnation to the exact parentage and condition it needs to help its growth in grace to life the force behind the man intellect is a necessity because without it he blunders into death just as life after ages of struggle evolved that wonderful bodily organ

the eye so that the living organism could see where it was going and what was coming to help or threaten it and thus avoid a thousand dangers that formerly slew it so it is evolving today a Mind's Eye that shall see not the physical world but the purpose of life and thereby enable the individual to work for that purpose instead of thwarting and baffling it by setting up shortsighted personal aims as at present even as it is only one sort of man has ever been happy has ever been universally respected among all the conflicts of

interest and Illusions I sing not arms and the hero but the philosophic man he who seeks and contemplation to discover the inner will of the world an invention to discover the means of fulfilling that will and an action to do that will by the sois discovered means Bernard Shaw chapter 4 how to aim without definiteness of aim nothing can be accomplish with too definite an aim very Little can be accomplished this is the Paradox of all accomplishment it looks hard but it is in reality very easy so easy that a child lives it the key

to the problem is this no man liveth unto himself and none dieth unto himself we are all members one of another all creation moves to one far-off Divine event the definite details of which which no human being has yet grasped Perhaps none ever will grasp it for how can the hand or the foot conceive the structure and purposes of the whole body there is a universal aim which includes and impels all individual aims there is one great intelligence one Spirit one purpose actuating every human being the Plan of Salvation is not a mere superstitious myth

there certainly is a plan a Divine event which we are we're all working at whether we know it or not there is a Divine ideal beckoning us everyone glimpses of it are caught even by the fool who hath said in his heart there is no God no Oneness of life and purpose as our bodies are all members of God's body so our ideals are members of the universal ideal our aims are members of the universal aim your hand May understand and Define its impulse to grasp or Release but but can it understand and Define your

aim and purpose which gave it the impulse we can imagine the hand understanding its own movements but can it understand your movements and purposes the hand says I want to grasp this but can it in any sense understand your purpose which made it want to grasp so you say I want to paint pictures or I want to make money or I want to teach school or I want to be a homekeeper and mother or I want to build Bridges but can you tell why you want to do these things or others can you define the

great I want of whicher I want is but an outcropping can you see the universal ideal of which your ideal is a detail no you can see your individual I want but the universal I want is too large for you to take in from your point of view did you ever say to yourself I want to be a bridge builder then after you had become a successful bridge builder did you find yourself rather disgusted with the Bridge Business did you find yourself saying I want to be a painter instead of a bridge builder and you

couldn't imagine why your wants wouldn't stay satisfied with bridge building can you imagine the hand being disgusted because after it had grasped The book a while it found itself wanting to let go of course the hand would not understand why it could not remain constant to its first desire it would not see the reason for letting go so with us members of the stupid pendous whole Universal purpose and desire play through us we know we want this and we don't want that when we are on the animal plane we simply gratify our wants when we

can and are satisfied until another want impels us by and by we begin to reason about our wants we call some of them good and gratify them if we can we call some of them bad and fight them with all our puny might and are correspondingly unhappy in both cases we fail to see why we want what we want when after we have learned to build Bridges we find ourselves wanting to paint pictures we resist the desire and keep on Building Bridges then if the universal purpose really wants us to stop Building Bridges and make

pictures it keeps on impelling us in the New Direction until we finally find a way to get at the painting if we are too stubborn the universal I want gets us out of the way and raises up our sons and daughters to paint the pictures it is like this in response To the universal I want you have taught your good right hand to thread needles and sew until it can almost do it in the dark all the nerves and brains and muscles in your fingertips have learned that little trick now in response to a new

Universal I want you decide that that good right hand of yours is to learn to run scales on the piano you sit down at the piano place your hand in position and impel it to strike the notes but this sort of thing is entirely new to your fingers every little muscle is stiff every nerve and every tiny bit of finger brain protests that it can't run scales it doesn't know how its work is sewing it can't so there you say to yourself how stiff my fingers are and how rebellious they won't mind me at all

but you keep on sending your want your will into them you practice long hours every day and by and by you find your fingers have learned the new trick and can do it without special thought and Will from you you kept pouring your want into that hand until it became the hand's want and Will from working against your want the hand has come to work with it and by it why did you do it because the universal I want kept pouring itself into You until you took up the practice just as you poured the I

want on into your hands until they too wanted to do it and did it were your fingers extra rebellious did they fight and get tangled up and imitate each other's movements then what did you do with them you kept them at it and you kept them at it a great deal longer time than you would if they had been more obedient fingers you kept them practicing until they learned to do the work willingly with interest artistically then then you gave them beautiful things to play with instead of hard things to work at of course the

beautiful things to play with are all made up of the very same sort of things your fingers have been working hard at but the monotony of repetition is all gone from the beautiful play it is joy to play it is hard work to practice scales but without all those scales there can never be a satisfying play in practice we learn by rep comptition to do well and gracefully one thing at a time in Play We string all these movements together in a satisfying play of joy and praise we hope for the Perfection of action which

alone makes satisfying play possible therefore we keep practicing the harder our Fingers Rebel the longer and more persistently we keep them at it that is all now the universal I want keeps us at things in precisely the same way the Universal is working out a glorious ideal of perfect play wherein every member of itself shall be shining obedient Supple enough to play with Grace and full Joy The Music of the Spheres you and I being more or less stiff and disobedient and dense have to be kept at our practices until we learn to do them

right we say oh if I could only get into my right Niche but I seem to be held here in spite of all I can do we say we don't like the sort of drudgery we are condemned to there must be something wrong with the universe or with economic or family conditions or we would not have to Drudge at one kind of thing when we are fitted for something else or want to do something else our fingers cry out in the same way when we keep them at the scales oh they cry why are we

compelled to this dreary commonplace repetition when our souls long for beautiful harmonies you see it never occurs to them that they are compelled to this commonplace scale practice because they long for beautiful harmonies and Happy play and it doesn't occur readily to you and to me that we are held to our dishwashing our business routine our bridge building because our souls long for greater things but it is so the Perfection of large ideals can never be attained except through Perfection of detail and through the dishwashing business routine bridge building we are perfecting the details of

self-command of body and brain control which will enable us to play the great harmonies our souls already feel the great things we feel and desire without being able to express them comprise the universal ideal at which every soul is aiming whether or not he knows it the Perfection of this great ideal we see is through smoked glass Darkly we get all sorts of half View of it and spend a lot of time squabbling about it but not one of us really knows even a tiny part of the glory and beauty and joy of that Universal

ideal which includes and actuates all our personal ideals it does not yet appear what we shall be but we know that when the Great ideal does appear we shall all have our places in the joy of its beauty for every one of us will have had his place and done his part in Working out that ideal the universal ideal is gently urging us on to ineffable good but none of us can conceive the details of the good which is yet to appear we are all hoping and working for this indeterminate good as Hanford Henderson calls

it it constitutes our large ideal which includes all our lesser fleeting ideals and even our passing wishes and longings it is with our large ideals that definiteness of aim is a mistake an IND determinate good necessitates a general aim it will not do to say I know exactly where the blossoms will appear when the earth blossoms as a rose and I know exactly the day they will appear therefore will I till only those exact spots and get my Ascension robes ready for that exact hour the man who is so dead sure of his great aim

will sooner or later like Perkins in Quincy Adam Sawyer find himself perched on the ridge pole with his white robes flapping in the cold night and his Goods in somebody else's possession when one is too sure of the far off Divine event he muddles the present opportunity for hastening that event wisdom is before him that hath understanding but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the Earth The man who is too sure of the indeterminate good misses the present good the man who aims at the great good which he cannot hit misses

the little Goods near at hand which need to be hit what should we think of a hunter who aimed only at Big Game Beyond his gun's reach while small game gambled At His Feet we'd think him a fool who deserved to starve to death of course we miss our chances by straining after the big game beyond our reach the great ideal should have our faith rather than our aim aim only at that which is Within Reach and Trust the big things to time and the spirit you stand in the now keep your aim for the

things of the now thus will your aim gain accuracy and you will be ready for the great things when they shall at last appear in the now where are you now are you building bridges then aim to build this one better than any other was ever built aim to improve your work now aim to enjoy it all for only as Joy brightens you can you see how to better your work and methods and proficiency at brid building means freedom to follow your next ideal the greater your proficiency the nearer the top you get and the

more money you get for your Work and the more money you have the more time you can take for working out your next ideal in proportion as you are progressively proficient at your work your money stream will increase in proportion as you enjoy your work you will grow in efficiency and money The Drudge is held to his work because he does not put into it the the love and interest and joy necessary to make him progressively proficient he says lack of money keeps him from getting into a new line of work that is it exactly

the universal Spirit which urges us on keeps the money away from us until we have gained in this thing the proficiency needed to fit us for other work are you building bridges and at the same time aiming to paint pictures and are you too poor to drop the bridge building and devote all your time to painting pictures then I say unto you have faith in your desire to paint pictures for your desire is an outcropping of universal desire and is certain to find its satisfaction your desire is the desire of omnipotence omniscience which will in

no wise disappoint itself all desires shall be fulfilled in the fullness of time would you hasten the time Then have faith in your desire but aim at the Bridge Building do better and better the work you find to do until the way opens to a new line of work and do every detail of your bridge building as if it were the painting of the greatest picture think you that accuracy of observation delicacy of touch Harmony of thought and power of expression are gained only by dabbling paint on a canvas with a camel's hairbrush no bridge

building has its place in training a great painter put your soul into it while you are held to it and give it its full chance to do the work have faith in your desire to paint pictures but aim your energies at the bridge you are building now keep your faith High your aim true and verily in an hour when you least expect it the way will open from bridge building to picture painting where are the cowards who bow down to environment who think they are made of what they eat and must conform to the bed

de that they lie in I am not wax I am energy like the Whirlwind and water spout I twist my environment into my form whether it will or not what is it that transmutes electricity into auroras and sunlight into rainbows and soft flakes Of snow into stars and adamant into crystals and make solar systems of nebuli whatever it is I am its cousin German I too have my ideas to work out and the universe has given me for raw material I am a Signet and I will put my stamp upon the molten stuff before it

hardens what Allegiance do I owe to environment I shed environments for others as a snake sheds its skin the world must come my way slowly if it will but still my way I am a Vortex launched in chaos to suck it into shape Ernest Crosby chapter 5 the substance of things to a certain extent I have been benefited by these teachings in some ways they do not appear to have a very practical result it is possible to concentrate and obtain small things but any real change of surroundings seems to be quite dependent upon circumstances entirely

outside my own will HB thus writes a shortsighted and faithless one faithless because of her short-sightedness another woman who has observed the same things writes thus if I see no great results now I know it is because I am working for large things life concentrates on a mushroom and grows it in a night but an oak requires 20 years of concentration a woman Concentrates on a good dinner a bit of sewing the control of her tongue for an hour $5 for a new hat The Cure of a headache and success crowns each effort these are

little things the mushrooms of an hour used shortly and soon forgotten the same woman concentrates for a complete change in disposition or environment for anything in fact which seems a long way off from present conditions now if she is a short-sighted woman she has little or no faith in anything which she cannot see hear taste smell or feel she can see taste and smell a mushroom so she believes in it she could see an oak and believe in that but she cannot see the acorn growing underground therefore she has no faith that there is an

oak growing and if there is already a little Oak in sight she cannot see it grow no matter how steadily she looks at it therefore she fears the oak is not growing but the farseeing woman is different she sees through things she feels the intangible she hears smells and tastes that which moves upon the face of the deep and brings forth things she touches the true substance that which stands under of things which are to be her faith rests in invisible life The other woman's Faith rests only in the visible things which life has made

made to say that HB has no faith would be an untruth every living being is full of Faith or he could not live faith is in the atmosphere and we live by using it just as a fish lives by using the water Faith Springs Eternal in every human breast fed from the universal source to talk of One's little faith or one's much faith is like talking of the Earth's squareness Every Soul lives by faith and plenty of it but he lives by faith in what there's the rub until we emerge from a sense of materiality

and no one has as yet got more than his nose above these Muddy Waters we live by faith in things seen smelled tasted heard and felt these are the only things we are familiar with to them we pin our faith and pride ourselves Upon Our Good Sense reason and lack of superstition I can't believe in anything unless I can see it is our self-satisfied cry you can't fool me with your religious Hocus Pocus nor with your rabbit's foot and Horseshoe and four-leaved clover I can see no connection between a rabbit's foot and your good luck

therefore I know no connection exists I can see no big God on a great White Throne consequently I know none exists show me your God show me the string which connects the four- Lea Clover to your good Lu luck and I'll put my faith in it the material one reckons without his unseen host by and by the Unseen begins to juggle with him his beautiful plans every step of which he could plainly see are blown arai he can't see why the things in which he had such Faith begin to totter and Tumble about his ears

he can't see why reluctantly he begins to see that there are Mighty forces he can't see his whole beautiful material world begins to dance to Strings he can't see ah so there are things he can't see hear smell taste or feel they may be a fearful and chaotic jumble they seem to be but they are there after all his certainty that he could see smell hear taste and feel the whole thing and he begins to reach out toward these unseen things he peers and peers into the darkness and Stillness and as he peers his faiths

gradually loosen their hold upon the old visible things and begin to reach out into the darkness and silence he sends his faiths groping groping feeling their way through the invisible always seeking the strings to which Visible things have been dancing and tumbling at first all is Darkness but by and by faith gets its tentacles around something unseen ah there is something which disposes what man proposes an unseen untasted unheard unsell unfelt something a terrible something it may be but still a something all powerful all present he has sent his feelers into the invisible and touched

God the soul the life principle which makes and unmakes gives and takes away all those little things to which he was want to pin his faiths the next thing is to find out the nature of this Mighty something whose home is in the invisible but how find out the nature of the Unseen not by touch taste smell sight or hearing not at first anyway but by its fruits you may know a tree to be good or bad by its fruits you may know the invisible powers to be beneficent or malefic and the material one is

familiar with fruits with things he built such beautiful things himself so he ought to be a judge of the fruits of Labor the fruits of his labor were all good he knows they were if only the great unseen had not spoiled them all oh the labors of the Unseen brought his own good efforts to not the Unseen Must be a terrible and evil power its fruits are destruction of his own good buildings he fears this great unseen power to which his faiths are beginning to pin themselves but wait good is beginning to Rise From the

Ashes of his ruins this so terrible Calamity is turning out a blessing new and greater things are forming to take the places of the Lost fruits and they are good oh this great unseen Works in terrifying mystery but its fruits are good now he is ready to come unto God he begins to see the unseeable things and his faiths tendril them those who would come unto him must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him those who would understand and feel and use the invisible forces must believe

that they are and that they reward those who diligently seek to understand and use them the Unseen things move the visible world the material one being pinned by his faiths to the things of the world is mve moved as the world is moved he is a mere puppet in the hands of the Unseen Powers as he looses the faiths which bound him to the world rack and sends his faith tendrils into the Unseen he becomes one with the Powers Which pull the world strings faith is the substance the underlying and creating principle of things hoped

for the evidence of Things Not Seen the material one's faith is pinned to things already seen therefore his creative principle is poured into the thing already created then life juggles and tumbles things until the material ones faiths are torn loose from their material Moorings and go feeling out into the Unseen for new things to cling to when the whole bunch of visible things has failed us when houses lands money friends and even fathers and mothers and brothers and sisters have gone back on us what is there left to pin our faiths to and without something

to have faith in how could we live at all we couldn't live without faiths to steady us witness the suicides and the deaths from broken hearts and if all visible things have failed us if our faiths are broken loose from fathers mothers brothers friends houses and lands where else can our faiths take hold again except in the region of the Unseen the region where the wind bloweth wither it listeth and thou can hear the sound thereof but can not tell whence it cometh nor with It goeth the region of substance of creative power it seems

very terrible to have our faiths broken loose from fathers mothers brothers friends houses and lands but it is good for us as time always proves broken loose from the effects of Creative Energy our faiths reach out into into the Unseen and tendril the very energy itself from a state of Oneness with things we evolve a new being at one with the creative power within things what are the Unseen things to which our torn faiths begin to attach themselves our faith itself is unseen the substance of things hoped for the substantial evidence of things not yet

seen what do we hope for that we have not yet seen first of all we hope for peace another of the substantial unseen things we hope for love the most substantial of unseen things oh if we had but peace and love we could count all else well lost and behold by unseen Faith tendrils our bruised faiths attach themselves to the Unseen substance of peace and love wisdom is an unseen substance our unseen faiths attach themselves to the Unseen source of wisdom thought is unseen our faiths torn loose from things begin to reach out into the

Unseen Realm of thought ideals are unseen things our faiths torn loose from the already realized begin to tendr the Unseen ideals the Race's ideals the family ideals and lastly our individual ideals our unseen faiths become one with these unseen ideals and through the little faith tendrils We Begin literally to draw the ideal down into our physical being and out into the visible world through our faith tendrils the ideal is literally expressed pressed out into visibility when our faiths were attached to material things the material things being negative to us sucked us dry now our faith

tendrils reach upward to the Unseen ideal realm of real substance to which we are negative and by the same law of Dynamics it is we who draw the life draw it from The Unseen realm of real life substance of ourselves we could do nothing the things to which our faiths attached us sucked us dry of power and the Unseen Powers finally tore us loose but now that we are tendril by our faiths to the Unseen the father in us and through us doeth the works of rightness that bring peace and behold we are filled with

the Unseen power and through our faith in the Unseen we pass on the fruits of The spirit which are love joy peace longsuffering gentleness meekness Faith Temperance and being filled with the power of the Unseen we pass on the fruits of the spirit to fathers mothers brothers friends houses lands pass it on in Every Act of life and in every breath we take we breathe out that which through our faith tendrils the great unseen breathes into us then behold that which is written comes to pass ye shall have a h hundredfold more houses and lands

and fathers and mothers and brothers in this present time you shall have them to use at will while you were attached by your faiths to things they used you now you use them pin your faiths to the Unseen things and let patience have her perfect work so shall you realize your heart's full desire let things rock as they will let facts be stubborn and conditions hard if need be never mind them to mind them is to pin your faiths to them mind the Unseen things pin your faiths to your ideals flout facts and hard conditions

believe in the Unseen train your faiths upward whatsoever ye desire believe that ye receive and you shall surely have it if it is a mushroom expected in a night if you Desire a Great Oak give it time to grow in due time perhaps in an hour when you least expect it it will surely appear the one thing needful is to pin your little faiths to the unseen source of all things believe in the great unseen part of yourself and the universal chapter six to get at the substance all desirable and as yet unexpressed things are

in the silence waiting to be drawn into expression through aspiration and inspiration of course one can Aspire and Inspire anywhere and under almost any conditions I remember remember one great aspiration of mine which was satisfied whilst I was sitting in a crowded street car with folks standing in front of me and others clinging to the running board the things of the silence are everywhere present permeating solid things as the x-rays do all creation cannot hinder a man communing with the Unseen at any time and in any place all creation cannot hinder him except as he

lets it but that is the trouble he lets it interfere unless he is in almost agonizing Earnest about the Unseen things that momentous hour on the crowded street car came after weeks of most Earnest seeking after weeks of almost Constant concentrating on this one thing I wanted to receive from the Unseen I was so absorbed in that one subject that the crowds were as nothing to me in order to get anything wisdom power love from the silence one's whole interest must be absorbed in the matter your interest is like the plate in a camera it

receives Impressions only from that upon which it is turned and the camera must be held steadily in one position until the impression is received the human camera receives Impressions from The Unseen in exactly the same way that it receives Impressions from the scene world but it takes a longer time to receive re a complete impression from The Unseen just as it takes a longer time to get a good negative in the dark the Unseen is the dark to us hence the long time it often takes to get a complete impression of anything we desire to

receive in the silence it takes longer exposure to get the impression concentration is merely the steady exposure of the attention the interest to the thing we desire to realize to make Tang ible now the busy person the person who is interested in a thousand things keeps his interest so busy taking instantaneous Photographs that he has no time to get impressions from The Unseen his mind is constantly flitting from one thing to another when it happens to turn toward the Unseen it simply sweeps the dark quickly and comes back to Earth again without an impression instead

of a steady aspiration toward the idea there is a constant perspiration toward the real as there is nothing new Under the Sun the only progress made is around and around the same old things the only real relief from things as they are lies in the Unseen the only way to get at the relief is to concentrate on the Unseen things in order to do this the attention must be called away from seen things the Mind must be set on things above and kept set until the renewing is complete people who are not yet satisfied that

the visible world does not and cannot satisfy will see no need of going into the silence on said occasions and there is another class who are apt to see no need of it the class whose concentration on the invisible is so constant that material things assume the subordinate relation these are people who have got the truth by coming up through great Tri population who have run the Gamut of things and found the principle behind things and almost invariably if not always I have never heard of an exception these are people who have tried nearly every

method of spiritual culture extant have practiced fasting in prayer breath exercises denials and affirmations and treatments and concentrations of every conceivable kind Martin Luther was one of these and at last when when he had tried everything else and was crawling up the church steps on all fours he found the truth immediately he arose repudiated all his good works as unavailing and went about praising and preaching that not by works but by faith we are healed eight or 10 years ago I heard Paul millets who had worked for years at all manner of spiritual mental and

breath exercising repudiated all as unnecessary not any of these things avails you he said and others who have found the truth reiterate the same statement and yet every one of them has found the truth through those very practices if Martin Luther had stopped short of crawling up those church steps as his own seeking Spirit bade him he would never have found the truth if Millets Shelton Bernell at all had left out one of their practices they would still be seeking the spirit in every man bids him to do things and refrain from doing other things

in order to save himself from something or other is this Universal urge only a lie no these concentration exercises are kindergarten methods by which we learn to use ourselves when by practice we have learned how we discard the kindergarten meth methods what was gained by self-conscious effort becomes habit we turn intuitively to the Unseen whereas we used to turn to it only by conscious effort by special practices but why repudiate the practices why tell others who are trying to learn how that their efforts are all useless by practices we found the way why discourage practice

there are people who as yet are wrapped up in the material there are those who are wrapped up in the Unseen neither of these are in present need of set times for concentrating upon the Unseen the ideal side of life but there is a third great middle class who are not absorbed in the already manifest world and who want to be one with the Unseen World of causation to these I say follow the example of all The adeps of all the ages practice concentration to all who want to accomplish something I say go into the

silence regularly for power and wisdom to accomplish to those whose interests are mainly in the material world but who want to understand and be deeply interested in the Unseen World from whence come all things to those I say go into the silence at regular periods every day to all Humanity who are longing for something I say all things are in the silence be still and know chapter 7 the spirit and the individual I was washing my breakfast dishes one morning when it occurred to me to go to visit a friend who lived several miles away

I did my work and started to dress for my journey when there came over me such a feeling of depression or despondency or Gloom that I could not understand I kept on getting ready all the time trying to reason away the feeling but it would not go finally I got my hat on in one glove and started for the door when such a heaviness came over me that I turned back into my room and sat down saying God I want to know what the meaning is of all this the answer came loud strong and firm

stay at home I stayed and Taking off my hat gloves and Cape I felt so light I seemed to walk on air at the time I supposed the voice I call it voice for want of a more definite term had told me to stay at home because someone was coming to me for help this was my first year as a teacher and healer but not a soul came that day nor that night and the thought flitted through my mind that perhaps it was all nonsense after all and I might as well have gone well the

outcome was that the train I would have taken met with a fearful accident in which many were killed or badly injured this is only one of many similar experiences I have had I do not stop to reason out things the world has tried for 1900 years to follow reason and look at the outcome I follow my intuition and it never fails me Flora P Howard Los Angeles California one's reason is not a thing to be belittled and denied it is his crowning Glory created for use but but it is not all the wisdom a man

has access to nor is it the greatest the man who exalts his understanding above the wisdom of the rest of creation and uncreation is a fool and sure to come to grief but he who rejoices in his personal understanding or Reason as the means By which he Taps the source of all wisdom is in a fair way to profit by his own intelligence and the universal intelligence besides everybody knows his foresight is not so good as his hindsight he has demonstrated the fact many a Time by as many little tumbles off his high horse really

it seems as if he might have learned by this time not to be quite so sure about his reason after Mrs Howard knew that the train she meant to go on had been wrecked she saw plainly why it was unwise for her to go on that particular train her reason had been enlightened her hindsight perfected by what by Universal intelligence suppose New York City should set itself up as the center of all wisdom suppose she were to say what I cannot reason out is not worth knowing suppose she continued to send out decrees into all

the world but turned up her nose at the message is sent into her what do you suppose would happen she would go to smash in a week it is by her reception of all those messages as to outside doing that she is enabled to reason out her business problems and send out messages that move the world to exalt New York knowledge and reason and despise Outside knowledge and reason would quickly ruin her intuition is the wireless line by which we receive directions from every other station in the universe after Mrs Howard had received and obeyed

her message from the universal some days after she knew why she had been so directed he who is puffed up in his own conceit is eternally despising his intuitions following his backnumber reasons and getting into the accidents then he wonders why he is so abused you see we have none of us ever passed this way before this day is a new day this bit of road has never been traveled before nobody can know by reason what we shall run into just around the bend there he may make a rough guess at it but he cannot

know but there is something which whether it knows or does not know consciously what is or will be around that corner there there is something which can and does send us by the wireless line a message to keep away or to go to it as the case may be now Mrs Howard was a woman with no desire to be in such a smash and she believed her intuitions would keep her warned away from them now next door to Mrs Howard there may have lived another woman just as good as Mrs Howard just as devoted to

her intuitions who received a message to go on that train at the same moment Mrs Howard's heart grew heavy and she heard the message stay at home this other woman's heart grew light and she heard the message go so she went blly forth to the train she mounted the steps and walked into the car and along past several vacant seats before she felt the impression to sit down she sat down and gazed happily out of the window by and by as they were bowling swiftly along there came a sudden crash and shrieks and hiss of

steam then there was work to do this woman neighbor of Mrs Howard's Beyond a little shaking up from which she almost instantly recovered was entirely uninjured there were dead and dying in front and behind her but she was safe there was work to do and she was there to do it you see this woman was a physician and surgeon and the only one on the train she had been years preparing for such work and she believed her intuitions would lead her strong and well herself into such opportunities as this so the message which depressed Mrs

Howard brought light to the soul of this woman even received and interpreted the Message according to her own particular character and what about the injured and killed they too were led by the spirit each by his own self-built character related himself to his particular fate I wouldn't wonder if a good many of them did it by filling up on the accident and criminal Columns of the daily papers the man who thinks in terms of accident is pretty sure to meet them but probably more of the victims were drawn drawn through their false religion the man

who thinks himself who really thinks it in his heart who thinks himself a vile worm and a great sinner deserving of a bad end and yet who has not repented is daily relating himself more closely to all sorts of violent and horrible things and everywhere and at all times the violent man the strenuous man no matter how good he may be is preparing himself to be led into what never catastrophe fits him there is no hidden miss about our Fates we get just what we are fitted for and through all ages we have been fitting

ourselves and we are still at it he who is not busy fitting himself for the best is relating himself to the less good he who fits himself to die with his boots on will die so he who fits Himself for accidents will die by accident he who fits himself for life may per chance never again see death when the Bubonic plague is about to appear in a place all the birds fly away what warned them oh that was only Instinct something common that we wise beings never use before Mount py spit destruction all the wild

animals not one of which could have had any personal knowledge or any record of volcano lore fled from the vicinity the tame animals whimper and cowered and those which could ran away then the people's hearts began to sink and the most ignorant of them ran after the animals as Mount py grew more emphatic in her prophecies All Hearts grew heavier and heavier and All Souls heard the message go then there was hurried preparation for a hasty Exodus but no the wise educated sensible men put their heads together and decided that they would not and others

should not be guided by any such common thing as instinct or by their own sinking Hearts no even though their hearts fell into their shoes and their knees knocked and their teeth chattered they would be sensible they would they'd use their Divine reason they would Mount py has Never destroyed them before and it wouldn't now so the wise reasoners coralled the poor fools and they were well coralled only one ever got away now just what this spirit is like that tries to lead us into all truth is a thing I don't know but that there

is such a spirit that pervades and would save all creatures from harm I do know both by intuition the spirit's witness with my spirit and my actual and repeated experiences of both kinds I have been LED of the spirit into ways of pleasantness peace and plenty and before before that I turned up my nose at the spirit and went my own way into all sorts of troubles and I have a theory based on the spirit's witness with mine as to what this spirit is and how it acts the spirit is the universal intelligence which fills

this universe so full there is not room for anything else there are just little Eddies and whirls and currents and crosscurrents in this great ocean of intelligence and you are one Eddie in it and I another and each of us sets up little Swirls and currents that move us about and move other things to us and when a leaf floats by it is drawn into our Eddie but when we swirl by a rock the rock Is unmoved and so are we we are not related to The Rock when gold is placed beside a horseshoe magnet

it stays put the magnet and gold are not interested in each other but that does not prove Pro that the magnet is stupid and dead no there is a great current of longing in that magnet if it had means of locomotion it would go about the world seeking seeking perhaps never knowing just what it was seeking but still seeking and by and by it would begin to feel a definite inclination to go in a certain direction now if it is just a fool magnet without great pride in its brains it will follow that definite inclination

and as it Journeys the drawing power will grow and it will Journey faster and behold it will fly into the arms of its Affinity a steel bar and it will cling and cling and the bar will cling and joy will be born it takes two and an exchange of intelligence to bring joy into being or perhaps our magnet will stay at home and long long until it draws to its Steel filings this is not so fanciful as you may suppose all things are intelligent all things are putting their little compulsions on all creation for satisfaction

and In due time all compulsions will be met the great sea is seething with intelligence and affinities are coming together it is the attraction of the magnet for the steel that constitutes what I call the spirit that attraction is intelligence when in doubt as to the meaning of your solar center feelings do nothing come back as Mrs Howard did sit down be still ask for the meaning and Obey chapter eight by crooked paths the Reverend RF Horton tells a little story of a remarkable answer to prayer he was with a party of tour tourists in

Norway in exploring some wild and Marshy country one of the ladies lost one of her gashes the overshoe could not be replaced short of Bergen at the end of their tour and it was out of the question to attempt to explore that wild country without rubbers the gash must be found or the tour curtailed as you may imagine every member of the party set diligently to work to find the missing rubber over and over they hunted the miles of Glades and Mountain sides they had traversed at last they gave it up and returned to the

hotel but in the afternoon a thought came to DR Horton why not pray that they find the shoe so he prayed And they rode back up the F to the landing of the morning and he got out and walked directly to the overshoe in a spot he would have sworn he had before searched repeatedly I remember a similar experience of my own there were four of us riding bicycles along a rather Sandy Road some distance from town two were spinning Along on a tandem some distance ahead of us on a downgrade when a rivet flew

out and the chain dropped the tandem ran for a quarter of a mile on down the hill and slowed up on the rise Beyond so that our friends were able to Dismount without injury by this time we had overtaken them having ridden in their track and learned for the first time the cause of their halt of course everybody immediate thought was oh we can never find that tiny gray rivet in this gray dust probably the other bicycles ran over it and home is 3 miles off but we all retraced our steps diligently searching two of

the party are crack shots with the rifle with very quick eyesight I thought one of these two might find the rivet but we all walked slowly back far beyond the point where they became conscious of their loss and no one spied the rivet then it occurred To me that the High Spirit within had not been called to our assistance immediately I said to myself Spirit you know where the rivet is please show it to me I thought of the spirit as the law of Love or attraction which is the principle of all creation and instantly

the idea came that the little rivet could attract the eyes attention if the eye were willing to be attracted these words floated into my mind rivet rivet rivet my eye by this time I had fallen behind the others so I walked leisurely calmly along eyes willing and those words sang themselves over and over in my mind and the rivet riveted my eye I who considered myself very slow of sight found the rivet and I know it was because I turned to the universal self to God to the Law of Attraction for the help needed for

the knowledge which not one of us had in Consciousness but which was certainly present in the Universal Mind in which we live and move and have our being just the other day I had a little experience which illustrates the man's extremity is God's opportunity idea for years I have said I could never find ready-made garments to fit me have tried many times waists all too Short and narrow in front sleev skimpy but I keep trying every year for everything is evolving you know even clothes and tailor I wanted a new white lawn shirt waist and

wondered if I couldn't find one readymade I tried the biggest suit house in Springfield no good then one day I had an Impulse to try the best places in holyo I found one or two almosts but nothing that would quite do so I gave it up then I had another impulse to try a store of which I have always said I never never found there anything I wanted I nearly passed the store saying to myself no use to try there and it is late anyway but there came the thought or rather impression that the spirit

impelled me and I would better go we'll see if it is the spirit I said to myself I believe it is it was I found the shirt waist I wanted and I found a pretty white lawn suit besides and it was found in the most unlikely Corner in the vicinity according to my judgment and experience there is a little law in here that I want you to notice the spirit leads us through Impressions or attractions and it is limited in its Revelations by our mental makeup which is the conscious and ruling part of us why

Did not the spirit impress me in the first place to go to that store where that shirt waist and dress had been waiting for me since spring and I had wanted them since spring the spirit did impress me about it but when the spirit said shirt waist to me I said Springfield if they haven't a fit there they won't have it anywhere and anyway I know I'll never find it but I tried without faith that shut the spirit up for the time but at the very first opportunity on the first afternoon when I wasn't too

busy to even think about such things the spirit whispered shirt waist to me again and I didn't let the spirit get any farther with its Impressions instead of asking the Spirit where to go for a shirt waste I said oh yes shirt waste of course I'll go to A's and B's and C's where I generally get other things that suit me you see my habit mind preconceived opinions again settled the matter it was not until I had given up finding anything at these places and was going right by the door of the other store that

the spirit had a chance even to whisper its name to me the spirit had to lead me around all my prejudices in the matter before it could get me to think of that Place my mind was open to the thought of the shirt waist but it was closed hard and fast against the idea of that particular store at least the direct mental route to that store was closed so the spirit had to lead me around my back alley brain connections but now the direct route is open the spirit always goes shopping with me and nearly

always the direct mental roots are open so I have lots of fun shopping never waste a lot of time at it and I nearly always get just what I want many times at bargain prices though I almost never look at bargain ads in the papers but many many times have I gone into a store to buy a certain thing and found a big special salon of that very item do you think these things are very trivial things to be bothering the spirit about I don't the spirit is all wise all powerful everywhere present and its

Chief end enjoy is to direct folks a right the spirit is a sort of universal floor Walker to straighten out the snarls between supply and demand in all Departments of life and I think it is a pretty heedless or foolish individual who won't consulted in every little dilemma and I noticed that in spite of this thought I find Myself ignoring the spirit thinking I know of course where I'd better go for a shirt waste it seems hard to remember that life's store is always growing and changing so that we can always save time money and

needless Meandering by asking the spirit here in lies The Secret of all our little experiences when it looks as if our leading of the spirit was all wrong and our prayers longing and desires all unanswered the spirit never fails us it is we who grow weary following the spirit which must lead us to the desired goal by way of our own mental path you see it is a matter of cutting new streets in our mental domain so it won't be necessary for the spirit to take us by such roundabout ways it is a matter of

clearing out our Rocky prejudices so we'll not have to travel around them and here the spirit helps us again as soon as the spirit succeeded in getting me around all my prejudices and into that store I wiped away the Prejudice so there is a straight mental now where none existed before the next time the spirit says shirt ways to me it can send me straight to D's if it wants to yes the spirit moves in a mysterious way its wonders to perform It looks mysterious to us until we are LED back by the straight way

then it is so simple so easy we can hardly believe the spirit would condescend to it ah but it does nothing is too small or too too great for the spirit's attention if we believe when we don't believe we are to be pied and the spirit keeps discreetly mum I am the poet of the body and I am the poet of the soul the pleasures of Heaven are with me and the Pains of hell are with me the first I graft an increase upon myself the latter I translate into a new tongue I am the

poet of the woman the same as the man and I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man and I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men I chant the chant of dilation or Pride we have had ducking and deprecating about enough I show that size is only development Walt Witman chapter n Spirit the Breath of Life my healer teaches that I must depend alone upon spirit that breathing exercises Foods sunshine and air must not be made the dependence for health he says why you can't help

breathing that is Tommy rot sunshine and air are Spirit and the plain truth of the matter is that if you don't use them all your dependence on Spirit Will Avail simply nothing try living in a North room with the window shut and see you can't help breathing but your Brea breathing avails nothing unless by it you take in good fresh live spirit in the way of pure air and sunshine if we all lived under the sun and slept under the stars that healer's advice might be good enough but we don't we live in tight dark

rooms once the spirit of life has fled leaving only its castoff aluia we can't help breathing but what do we breathe we breathe the dead air of close rooms spirit is life and we live by breathing it spirit is in fresh air fresh air is in spirit fresh air and spirit are one dead air is air minus Spirit or life what good will it do you to say you depend upon Spirit when you don't when you shut yourself away from the spirit of life and breathe death pure air and sunshine are spirits specially prepared for

your use what good will it do you to pretend that you depend upon spirit when you shut yourself into rooms when the spirit has flown if you live in close rooms you may affirm your dependence upon Spirit until you are black in the face and you may be treated every hour of the day by this healer And 10,000 more like him and the result will be only sickness and death I know in my heart and soul and mind that this is true and I have seen the truth of it demonstrated by hundreds of cases of

people who fail to get well on treatments of any any sort and who afterward did get well on Sunshine fresh air and full breathing along with mental treatment the gospel of fresh air is more needed by human beings than even the gospel of new thought if we understood and applied the gospel of fresh air we should think right without trying it is in Gloomy unaired Corners that evil thoughts breed because the spirit of life is not present there in such form that it can be appropriated by human beings they get therein the breath of death

and generate thoughts to match distorted thoughts of death and evil and despair come into the sunshine and breathe the Breath of Life which generates in you the new thought of life love wisdom truth health happiness and success new thought will not save you unless you live it and a little observation and experimenting will prove to you that you can't live it without breathing plenty of fresh air if all is Spirit why does this Healer tell you that to regulate your breathing exercise food Etc is to depend upon something outside Spirit the fact of the matter

is this he fails to realize that all is Spirit he is still tangled up with good and evil spirit and not Spirit God and Devil he does not see Spirit in everything and everything in spirit so he puts the keep off the grass sign wherever he does not see Spirit this will not prevent his pointing you to the spirit where he does recognize it none of us are wise enough as yet always to see God in all his works it is Spirit which makes us breathe when we shut ourselves away from the pure Breath of

Life we shut away the power that makes us breathe and when we are too interested and doing indoor work the spirit finds it pretty hard work to make us breathe enough to keep us Us in good condition for growing close rooms and sedentary work defeat the spirit's will to make us breathe so we by working against the spirit form a habit of breathing too little thus robbing ourselves of the Life Health wisdom power Joy which the spirit is trying to give us with every breath now we find ourselves hampered by self-imposed habits Which need breaking

so we set ourselves to work with the spirit of life we throw open the window and let in the spirit of life we go outdoors and revel in the spirit of sunshine We Run and Jump to make ourselves inbreathe the spirit of life being too busy to spend hours everyday Outdoors we do stunts in our night dresses to make us in breathe more of the spirit of life and always night and day winter and summer we take pains to leave our Windows well open that the Spirit of Life be not shut away from us for

one single moment we are learning to depend wholly upon the spirit we used to remember the spirit only on the Sabbath day now we remember it every day and all day and all night we remember to breathe it and eat it as well as think it and verily we are blessed chapter 10 affirmation and wheels mere repetition of I am success statements will Avail little one must think the thing he desires and he must put his shoulder to the wheel but the person who is full of the sense of failure and defeat is more apt

than not to put his shoulder to the wrong side of the wheel he is so discouraged and preoccupied and worried that he thinks it Doesn't matter much where he puts his shoulder the thing won't budge anyway so he goes stupidly along drudging budging away with his shoulder in the same old spot the wrong spot but let that man make up his mind that there is a way to budge that wheel and he will find it and you will see things move that man will walk around that wagon a time or two take in the lay

of the land Pat his horses into willing humor maybe back them up a bit ring out a cheerful get up and settle his shoulder to the right spot at the right moment and away they go or another team will pass just at the right time to give him a lift out the man who believes himself equal to any emergency which arises will be strong mentally and physically his mind will be alert full of expedience instead of pushing like a blind mule at one spot until he drops in his tracks he will use his gumption and

find another way he will conjure up a lever of some sort to budge that load if he can't do it alone somebody else will come along in the nick of time to give him the lift he needs he believes he will work it somehow and he does the I am failure man never has anybody come along in The nick of time just my luck he whines and keeps on putting his shoulder to the wrong part of the wheel or tugging hopelessly and half-heartedly or with inward rage that takes more energy than the tug keeps on

until he has to give it up for the time to affirm I am success will not pull the load out of the Meer except as it awakes energy to intelligent effort all affirmations and all going into the silence are useful in waking mental and physical energy to intelligent action all chronic failures are such because they believe in failure and opposition and malicious animal magnetism and general all around the world is against meaness this belief in Failure fills the individual with an an affinity for undesirable things the infallible cure the only cure for failure is belief

in success belief in one's own power to turn even defeat to good Advantage the man who doesn't know when he is beaten will never be beaten the lunkad who didn't know he was a lunkad went to the top while the lunkad who knew he was a lunkad stayed at the lunkad end of the class one of our big pork Packers once tramped across the continent because he hadn't money to Pay his way after he arrived at his destination he said he saw on his [ __ ] hundreds of places where he could have started in

without a scent and in time made piles of money opportunities just crying to be developed only the thought of a bigger chance at the end of the route kept him from stopping in the very first town on his route but that boy had success in him and he was on the alert for opportunities he believed in himself and the world the failure believes only in bad luck and His Eye Is out for soft snaps which he is certain he'll never get a chance at when a man is looking for trouble and defeat he finds them

as a man thinketh in his heart so is he that does not mean that a man may make a few affirmations of success or profess new thought and immediately become a success the heart of man is the emotional center of his habits or Instinct the center from which radiate his instincts his habits as the nerves radiate from the solar plexus instincts are habit thoughts heart thoughts and every Instinct came into being through conscious thought and effort follow your internal experiences while learning to play the piano and You will gain a clear idea of how Instinct

comes into being at first your fingers are stiff and every movement is a voluntary one every movement has to be thought about directed by thought but gradually you acquire the habit of handling your fingers in a certain way gradually you cease to think at all about your finger movements you do it instinctively in other words you have trained your heart your subconscious mind to do the thinking for you henceforth instead of thinking consciously about your finger movements you think about them in your heart that is subconsciously psychologists say that not more than 5% of our

mental processes are conscious the remaining 95% being under the Consciousness this means that at least 95% of our thoughts are habit thoughts or instinctive thoughts it is this instinctive part of us this 95% of us that is referred to in the Bible as the heart now if this Heart Of Us carries at least 95% of our mentality you can easily see why a man is what he thinketh in his heart and you can see why a few affirmations of success or even a good many of them will not change the man sufficiently to make any

great difference in his surroundings And you can see why a mere intellectual conception of new thought is not enough to change him and his environment man is a magnet at least 95% of which is habit mind therefore by far the greater part of his environment comes to him by its Affinity to his 95% habit or Instinct mind his underc conscious mind of whose workings he is practically unconscious so it is no wonder he so often says I don't see why this undesired thing should come to me he cannot see why it comes because he is

practically unconscious of that great 95% of this thinking which draws them he knows he does not consciously desire these unpleasant things and he can scarcely conceive the fact that he is conscious of only about 5% of his thoughts and desires and two he is loathed to acknowledge that the greater part of himself has no more sense than to bring such things to him he feels more complacent when he lays the blame at the door of environment or Wicked people or malicious animal magnetism or a God who chastens whom he loveth or a devil who got

loose from God's leading string and goes raging about to pester good folks man is a magnet and every line and Dot and detail Of his experiences come by his own attraction as a man thinketh in his heart so is he the prance of Attraction comes through the Instinct self the heart and there is no use in trying to fight off or run away from the things which come to us we only hurt ourselves by fighting and to run away from the things things we have attracted is to run into the arms of similar or Worse

conditions we have to take ourselves along the only way to change conditions effectually is to change the heart the habit or Instinct mind this can be done with more or less ease according to the degree of setness of character and the degree of Will and enthusiasm brought to bear the key to all change of character lies with that little 5% conscious mind which with all its littleness is a sure lever by which to move the 95% ponderosity below it for conscious thought is positive thought Dynamic while subconscious thought is negative receptive that little 5% mind

has stronger compelling power than several times its bulk of subconscious mind and there is not an atom of all that 95% subconscious mind which cannot be moved by that little 5% mind which lies at the top the conscious Self is the directing power just as it directed your fingers to change their fixed habits so it can direct any change in other lines of mental or bodily habit by directing persistent quietly insistent practice on the desired lines insist upon right conscious thinking and in due time you cannot fail to have right subconscious thinking to think good

peace love self-command self- Faith success long and Faithfully enough will fill even the most set heart with habits of good peace love self-command self- Faith success and in proportion as the heart becomes filled with such habits the environment and experiences will change to match how long will it take thus to transform you by the renewing of your whole mind all depends upon you if your practice is fitful and half-hearted it may take another Incarnation or two if you go at it with a steady will cutting off all distractions which sap your will and enthusiasm practicing

faithfully and diligently at the new mental habits you may make the desired change in say half a lifetime or less and if you can bring to your assistance a high spiritual exaltation and Faith you can make the change in almost no time at all For Spiritual exaltation and faith and enthusiasm will literally melt the hardest heart and permit a quick Reformation this is the secret of quick accomplishment in children their hearts are clean and molten in the emotional fires of enthusiasm and Faith ready to receive deep and Lasting Impressions by our being schooled in reason

we grown-ups have cooled and even quenched the heart fires of faith and enthusiasm so it takes time and repetition to reform us this is the secret of Miracles religious enthusiasm and exaltation are akin to the fires of Youth they melt the heart to receive higher Impressions the rationalist must receive his New Impressions by painstaking hammering in repetition and time will do for him what religious or youthful enthusiasm does quickly for babes and fools no affirmations will not do the work of putting your shoulder to the weak when the load is stalled but they will transform

you heart and Consciousness so that you will attract better horses as well as Wheels better roads more friends to happen around in the moment of need and affirmations of the right sort will wake up your gumption so that you will not overload your Horses or your personal energies to the point of kneading a shoulder at the wheel success is the natural result of intelligent direction of effort affirmation of success Faith wisdom power good love will wake your latent forces to more intelligent uses the more enthusiasm you can conjure into the affirmations the more quickly will

you realize success April Rain it isn't raining rain to me it's raining daffodils in every dimpled drop I see wild flowers on the Hills the clouds of gray engulf the day and overwhelm the town it isn't raining rain to me it's raining roses down it isn't raining rain to me but fields of clover Bloom where any buccaneering bee may find a bed and room a health unto the happy a fig for him who Frets it isn't raining rain to me it's raining violets Robert lovan in Harpers chapter 11 your forces and how to manage them

you can overdo anything even self-treatment if you keep repeating affirmations to yourself your mental chattering interferes with the real healing it is not the conscious mind which heals you it is the subconscious or soul mind and the superconscious or overs soul mind your Soul's expression is Guided and directed by your conscious mind a mental affirmation is simply a word of direction to your soul mind the soul hears your statements and then builds accordingly but what would happen if you called up your housemates and told them over and over just what you want to done and

just how to do it if you spent all your time repeating your directions to them when would they get the work done and wouldn't they get your directions mixed too of course you don't do it that way of course not not if you are a wise house housekeeper you call up your maids and tell them quietly and kindly and in as few words as possible just what you want done then they go cheerfully away out of your presence and do their best to please you if you later come across something which was not done right

you call in a maid and repeat your directions with perhaps a little further explanation then you go away again and trust her to do it a right this time what would happen if you tagged around after your maids and tried to walk watch and criticize and direct every little movement why they would grow nervous and make foolish mistakes and you would all give up In Despair and what would happen if you directed them to do a certain difficult piece of work and then came back 5 minutes later expecting to find it all done oh you

can't imagine yourself doing such foolish things perhaps you don't with your Maids but evidently you do with your own self your objective everyday Consciousness is the mistress or master of your being psychologists say the objective mental activities are not more than 12th of all your mental activities that means that the mistress mind has the equivalent of at least 20 Maids under her Direction these Maids belong to the subjective mind or soul of you then there is the great oversoul of which your individual soul is but an atom but an atom whose every demand is heard

that means that your little mistress mind not only has at her bidding the equivalent of at least 20 Maids of the subconscious but she has also at her call the equivalent of 10 million billion other helpers of the infinite oversoul and all the mistress mind has to do is say the word all these helpers fly to do her bidding perhaps you think all these helpers don't fly to do your bidding but they do the only trouble with you is That you don't give your helpers time and chance to work out your desires you keep repeating

your directions over and over and you keep trying to tag around after all your 20 or more housemates to see if they're doing the things you want done you watch them in your stomach and your liver and your lungs always fretting for fear they are going wrong no wonder you get nervous and fidgety and strained all over no wonder your feelings are no better than they were make your statements of health happiness and success at certain regular intervals say two or three times a day or make them at times when you can't get your mind

off your conditions make the statements plainly and positively then call your mind entirely away from the subject and give your soul and the overs Soul a chance to work make light of your feelings and go get well interested in some good work take it for granted that all your being and all creation besides is working out for you the things you desire rest easy and trust yourself don't let your mind tag your feelings and symptoms give it plenty of useful work and plenty of play and plenty of rest while your soul Works things out For

you as fast as it can just be as interested and happy as you can while the soul is working Jolly yourself into having a good time say the word and then be happy and do not allow yourself to doubt that the soul will do the work this is the secret of quick healing the nearer you can come to keeping your mind pleasantly occupied between the times when you give yourself special affirmations and treatments the more quickly you will realize health of Mind Body and environment as well as Soul thy faith in thy soul and the

oversoul will have made thee whole the faithless mind is a terrible meddler and creator of discords and the idle mind the mind not directed to useful purposes is always of faithless meddler moral get interested in some good work chapter 12 Duty and love though you work your fingers to the Bone and have not love for your work it profits you next to nothing and your employer less than it ought to duty work robs the doer of the joy of doing which is the chief compensation for all work you imagine you do your work well from

a sense of Duty you would do it better still if you loved it if you loved it you would enjoy every bit of It and you would glory in every little Improvement you hit upon and you would hit upon a lot because your soul would be playing through your fingers the soul of the duty doer is shut away from his work he works with his fingers and his habit mind only by the end of the week he is [ __ ] out and his poor soul droops for lack of exercise then perhaps he takes it

to church for Relief and shuts it carefully away again before Monday morning and the worst of it is that so many people make a virtue of keeping their souls locked up six days out of seven they parade Duty as their mainspring and even when they do happen to let a little soul a little love and joy into their work they won't acknowledge it they stick to it that it is Duty which impels them when the soul does manage to get out of its shell and express itself and useful work the brain denies it the glory

and happiness which belong to it the worker resolutely shuts off the joy vibrations with that stern word Duty he robs himself of the pleasure of his honest effort there are two ways of robbing oneself of the joy of work one is by paralyzing Joy with Duty the other is by scattering the mind and soul all over Creation whilst the hands are doing something in the former case the soul is shut away in idleness in the latter it is wasted in riotous thinking the Soul's power is emotion that which flows from the silence within the nature

of emotion is motion to let emotion move through the body out into intelligent effort is Joy an eternally Welling life and strength and wisdom to let the mind wander while the hands work is to Fritter your soul Force way at the top of the head the power which should move from the head down through the body and out into intelligent doing is simply dissipated Into Thin Air the wandering mind robs the body of Vitality and joy it is the prodigal who wastes all your substance the duty doer is stingy he lets some of his soul

into his work shutting the rest tight within he puts his thought into his work but he is stingy with his soul his love he works coldly stolidly conscientiously reminding himself constantly that he is to be good for nothing as the wise Mama commanded the little boy who wanted a prize for being good now everybody knows that cold contracts things the cold Duty doer shuts off his soul warmth and his Body grows gaunt and pinched his brain cells stiff his thoughts angular he shuts off the inspir a of love and joy and works like a machine

grinding out the same old things by the same old pattern the duty doer converts a real living growing loving being into a mere cold machine it's a shame and the whole cause is the old father's tradition that duty is greater than love I wonder where they got that notion The Same Spirit Led them that leads us that same Spirit must have led them and us into duty doing why to gain self-control that we might have the Greater Joy that is it first there is the natural the animal way of doing things just to follow impulse

and gratify self at no matter what expense to others but somehow you are not very happy after you have done it then there is the mental way of doing things the duty way when we cut off all the old natural impulses and teach ourselves to work solidly steadily in the right line it takes about all our thought and effort to control ourselves in this mental way it requires a firm unrelenting hand upon our impulses but we were not happy when we didn't control our impulses and we are at least at peace when we do so

we keep On crushing back the natural impulses and sticking sternly to duty when we followed the old animal impulses to have things our way right or wrong without regard to the other fellow we were always lured on by the hope of joy and when we got the thing desired as we sometimes did it was only to be disappointed so we were full of unrest since we have chosen the ways of Duty there are no Joys to lure us but rest accompanies Us in the old way we were always sure we were going to be happy

in the duty way we have ceased to expect happiness but we really have peace and a peace in the heart we have learned from sad experience is worth two joys in the bush we have been oft bitten and thus learned caution so we keep on schooling ourselves to keep the peace and shut eyes and ears to Promises of pleasure we have learned to follow conscience instead of natural impulse conscience is merely spiritual caution The Faculty called caution warns us from outward danger it was created by many ages of race experience and getting its fingers burned

and its shins kicked and its head head broken conscious warns us from inner dangers and is being created by many ages of human experience At stealing from the other fellow only to find its own heart robbed of peace and happiness we tasted impulse and found it Sweet at First and bitter bitter at the last then we tasted Duty and found its first pungency melt away to a clean sweetness such as we had never tasted before a sweetness so pure and satisfying that it is no wonder we keep clinging to the duty doing which brought it

when we lived from unchecked and unguided impulse only we were many times Happy on the surface when we happened to get the things asked for but we were always restless and dissatisfied within this unrest is the voice of the universal Spirit within which is ever urging us to take our dominion over self and to direct our energies to higher and yet higher uses it is the voice of Life which ever Demands a high purpose for being and doing the spirit of the world which is moving us allows each a few years and many intervals of

irresponsible living we have our childhood when the whole world smiles and flies to gratify every impulse and when we are good children we have our little vacations and play happily with that sweet taste in our hearts if we try to take too many play times The spirit in US is frowning and Restless again ever urging us to be up and doing that which will help the world's Spirit Express the Beauties it has in mind for us when we quit chasing pleasure and begin to live and do after the plan set in our hearts the world

Spirit Whispers well done to us we find peace we taste and see that it is good henceforth we work for the inner peace not for the fleeting gratification of the outer senses as we follow Duty peace deepens and widens by and by we form the habit of Duty and it grows easier and easier we do what seems best because we have learned that to do otherwise Ruffles our peace and we have learned to love that peace beyond anything else life can hold for us peace keeps on deepening and widening and growing more Dynamic at first

it is a solemn calm and a little deviation from Duty Ruffles and dissipates it but by and by as we keep on doing our duty through this solemn calm growing ever deeper and broader there Wells the full diapason of a deep Joy very softly at first with many diminuendos and silences and unexpected moments it swells again over little things the tide of life has brought us things We loved and thought we had given up forever when we chose Duty as our guide fitfully at first the Deep Joy Wells fitfully and gently but oh so full

and sweet and satisfying such tones as our souls never heard before we wonder at the Deep joy and oh we begin to see that the world Spirit was urging us on to duty only that we might find deeper Joy than the old irresponsible life could yield Us by taking dominion over self by using our energies for higher purposes we have deepened our capacity for Joy now the harmony of deep Joy begins to swell and every Touch of life but adds to the peons of praise and the good things of Life begin to come houses lands

fathers mothers Brothers a h hundredfold more than ever before bringing Joy such as we never knew before Oh we thought we had given up the pleasures of life for its duties and behold we find the pleasures added we used to be fascinated fated and tossed about by life's Pleasures now we find them fascinated and obedient to us oh the power and glory and joy of it we gained dominion over ourselves and our environment through doing our duty we gave up the short-sighted impulse will to follow the Omniscient will which is working through us and behold

the things we once desired vainly are now ours to command and enjoy no wonder we law duty but do duty is a school Master whose work we do not need forever when we have made its wisdom our own we outgrow duty duty flowers in love the more resolution and persistence we put into duty doing the sooner we shall outgrow it the more pleasure we can get out of Duty doing the faster we shall outgrow it when the worker puts his soul into his duty duty is swallowed up in love and joy grows many a duty

worker cheats himself out of The Joy which is his and stunts the growth of his joy in himself simply by denying that he works from anything but a sense of Duty as long as our best efforts are called Duty they answer to the call as cold hard Duty as soon as those same activities are called Pleasures our soul joy and love are turned into them and they are transfigured the worker who calls his work duty shuts his soul back from his body and his work the soul of you is love and love has no affinity

for Duty so as long as you insist upon working from a sense of Duty you shut in shut away from your work the Sense of love you thus Rob yourself of the joy of doing and this means that you rob yourself of the greater share of your power and wisdom for doing love is the essence of all wisdom imagination and inspiration as well as power to hold sternly to duty is to shut out love and with it the wisdom inspiration and Imagination necessary to improve your work you are robbed of the joy of doing and

your work is robbed of its highest Beauty and usefulness quit calling your duties by that name Jolly yourself into doing your duty for love of it don't you know how you can Jolly a child into doing things haven't you been jollied yourself until at last you laughed and forgave and did the thing you would sternly resolved not to do haven't you seen scores of your friends jollied into doing things of course all nature responds to a smiling Goodwill jolly and your soul your love will respond to the same Goodwill jollying it will come out and

smile on your doings and radiate soul shine and joy and power and inspiration through you and down through your fingers into your work and out into your aura and on out to all the world smile and come up higher than The duty class The Joy class awaits you express yourself whatever you are out with it we do not want a world of masqueraders make yourself felt make your real self felt put your private stamp upon the future Ernest Crosby chapter 13 well done natural disaster overtakes a man and he loses every cent possessing Untold aversion

to becoming a paid employee he lives with friends helping where able and at the same time reaching out to grasp something by which to start again has an overwhelming desire to get money for home and marriage this could be had in a very short time by successful speculation if the unlimited force is there as taught for use on lines of Desire there is no wrong in the world is he then to command the powers for conscious use go in faith and win or shall he sit down and build bit by bit by uncongenial labor Mt

the man who possesses such an Untold aversion to becoming a paid employee that he prefers to sponge a living off his friends rather than to earn it honestly will never succeed even at speculation such a man could not generate a desire strong enough to attract Fortune even at a gambling table it takes character to generate A desire of the sort that moves things it takes steadiness of purpose positive determination and character purpose determination are never found in the sponger if he had character he would choose any sort of honest work that would keep him in

Independence his Untold aversion to becoming a paid employee would be as nothing to his disgust for sponging a living even temporarily character is the outcome of an unconquerable self-respect and self-reliance a man's character is that which distinguishes him from a jellyfish which takes the shape of any environment that happens along it is something which keeps him upright on his own pins no matter what happens character is mental backbone and muscle and is subject to the same laws of development and growth as other bone and muscle bone and muscle and character do not grow by bread

alone but by use character grows by the use of self-reliance and self-respect just as physical character grows by the use of muscles character becomes weak and flabby when self-reliance and self-respect are kept on the Shelf of another man's Pantry character develops by exercise how is it to exercise except by doing Things things how is it to do things when somebody else does them for him the first thing a man of character of self-respect and self-reliance would do under such circumstances as Mt describes would be to overcome his Untold aversion to anything which would help him

to continue living in self-respect and self-reliance indeed the only Untold aversion held by a man of real character is the untold aversion to living off other people a person whose aversion to becoming a paid employee is greater than his aversion to idleness and sponging is a mere mush of concession to public opinion he hates paid employment because he thinks his neighbors will look down upon him and because he likes to look aristocratic and give orders rather than to be what he is and take what orders are necessary for the time being such a man cares

for appearances above all things he cares for the outside of things things as a jellyfish does he seeks first an agreeable resting place as the jellyfish does and he will sacrifice the last vestage of self-respect self-reliance character to that fetish outside appearance he thinks it looks better to live off his friends than to soil his Hands to take care of himself but if he had a real character of his own if he had mental backbone and muscle worthy the name he simply could not Crouch and cringe as a dependent a beggar he would have to

get out and express himself in some sort of independent activity or die for character is a deep down life urge which will push to expression through any conditions it simply cannot continue to sit supinely by another man's Fireside or wait by the wayside with cap extended to catch stray Pennies from the passers by character must act or degenerate character must Express or expire character is to the individual what the channel is to the river take away the banks which confine the stream and direct it and the water gushes out in an endless sloppy Marsh the

inner character of a man confines and directs the life force the desire Force the stronger the character the deeper and broader the stream of Desire or life and the more positively the man will Express himself in independent self-respecting activity the stronger the character the greater will be the man's Untold aversion to depending upon anybody but himself and so deep and strong are his desires as they flow Through the clear-cut channels of character that they force new channels through any circumstances such a man's desires flow deep and strong enough to carry things his way but The

Man Without a strong character is a mere sloppy Marsh of sentimentality he is incapable of anything more than overwhelming desires his desire stream having no strong Banks simply overwhelms the whole surface of things with no depth by which to sweep its way through environment his desire energy spreads out and wastes itself in mere shallow longings unworthy the name of Desire so the man welters in his own swamp of sensibility and gets nowhere here in lies the reason that Mt man will not find success at the gaming table nor anywhere else except by building bit by

bit a character strong enough to find its way to the good things he wants the first step toward success is to decide that it is yours and that all creation is ready to help you manifest it the next step is to work with the world taking hold anywhere that the world will let you in full confidence that the world will promote you as fast as you prove Pro your Fitness for promotion To prove your Fitness for promotion necessitates doing your best with any job the world gives you and at the same time using your spare

time and thought in fitting yourself for a better one to do one of these things is not enough the man who does his work exceptionally well will be kept at that same kind of work until crack a doom unless he shows aptitude for doing more valuable work the world is always looking eagerly for men who can fill the more difficult positions it is always trying to tempt people into higher better paying positions and the man who is faithful and efficient in one place and evinces the slightest capacity for higher work is always the first man

to get a chance of promotion the man who thinks he is kept down is right but he is kept down by himself alone either he is slack inefficient uninterested gumption in his present work or he is not fitting himself for something better Abe Lincoln split rails all day he split them with VI intelligence but at night he studied books by the light of a pine knot all the way along from rail splitting to the presidency Abe found some time out of business hours to inform himself on Lines Beyond his work the main difference between Abe

Lincoln and Abe Johnson lies in the way they spend their after business hours Abe Johnson too works with vim and intelligence and he never had to split rails for a living he is an A1 bookkeeper been in the same store with almost the same salary for 25 years and almost every noon and every evening for 25 years he has sat on a sugar keg in the store and discussed politics and economics and very often he has grumbled to his cronies about his lack of a chance to rise in the world down here in Massachusetts town

they have been having labor troubles for a long time the cotton mill owners say the bottom is dropped out of the plain cotton cloth trade and they simply must reduce wages or close down there is small demand for the sort of plain cotton goods manufactured in these Mills the mill hands say they can't live on any smaller wages and they won't so there so one strike follows another or a lockout for months at a time the Mills lie idle while owners and workers Deadlock someone suggested that the Mills begin to make the sort of new

fancy weaves of cotton cloth for which there is increasing demand But the Weavers refused to learn the new weaves they said they knew how to do the plane weaving and it wouldn't pay them to learn the new kind of weaving on the old wages which are paid according to the amount of work done and many of them said anyway they were too old to make such changes now so these faithful and efficient Weavers go on fighting and striking and reviling fate rather than fit themselves for new work which would in the end pay better than

the old poor shortsighted Weavers poor short-sighted cousins to the Weavers poor shortsighted and disappointed Abe Johnson what do you suppose life makes us begin at the bottom for and build bit by bit for the sole purpose of building character building good strong channels for desire to run in channels so deep and full that the desire stream will be strong enough to accomplish for the individual the thing he wants and how are we to know we are building the right kind of character by the sense of inner satisfaction which Witnesses every well-done deed that is where

self-respect and self-reliance come in even a baby feels the Well Done of its Soul when it succeeds in doing something for Itself a child prizes this inner self-satisfaction self-respect Above All Things else else watch the happy look on a child's face when it has succeeded in doing something for itself only foolish grown-ups value anything on Earth above this inner satisfaction only grown-ups will let other folks do for them what they can do for themselves only grown-ups will quench themselves for the sake of appearances some grownups to know thyself is to know that the best thing

in heaven or Earth the best guide in heaven or Earth is is the inner sense of well done the sense of self-respect which comes from doing things instead of letting them be done for you as long as the innermost self approves your doings you are building character and what shall it profit you if you gain the whole world and lose the Well Done of your soul nothing less than nothing for in all creation or uncreation there is but one real satisfaction one real happiness and that is self-satisfaction self-respect self-respect Springs only from well-doing It is

Well done thy Soul says to thee that gives thee Joy what matter what Tom Dick and Harry and Madam Grundy say be still And hear thyself I hath Not Seen Nor Ear heard the glory and satisfaction which await him who listens to himself well done good and faithful servant enter thou into the joy of thy Lord which is thy innermost self the bar door one night upon mine ancient enemy I closed my door and lo that night came Love In Search Of Me love I had hungered for and finding my door closed went on his

way and came no more pray you take counsel of this penitent and learn learn thereof set your door wide whatever guests be sent your graciousness to prove better to let in many enemies than bar out love Theodosia Garrison in Harper's Bazaar chapter 14 what has he done we were talking about new thought and the increased efficiency it gives to people evidently he did not think very highly of the Practical side of new thought it is all very well to help people to Bear their troubles he said but it does not get rid of the troubles

and I said I thought if it never did anything more than help people to endure things it at least helps more than anything else ever did but I assured him that new thought rightly applied does change conditions and I cited my own experience and Proof then I called his attention to other people prominent in the new thought whose conditions and health have been changed for good one of the names mentioned was that of a successful lawyer well known to us both well queried he what is he done that is so wonderful others have done as

great or greater things who never heard of new thought of course the principles of new thought are the principles of life itself and in all climes and times there have been people who consciously or unconsciously lived according to principle and thereby manifested health which means wholeness of Mind Body and environment wisdom's ways are always ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace and wisdom is as omnipresent as the ethers to be used by him who inspires it by him who desires it above all else every Pleasant thing and thought in this world comes by

mental breathing of wisdom and every soul that ever lived has lived by breathing wisdom in proportion to his in breathing of wisdom has been the pleasantness of his ways and the Peace of his path and his ups and downs have come from the fact that he inspires wisdom in spots only he keeps on Mentally breathing of course but he doesn't always breathe wisdom he is like a man who breathes pure outdoor air a while and then goes into a close room or down in a mind and breathes poison gases as physical health depends upon the

quantity of pure care inspired so physical and mental and environmental health depends upon the amount of pure wisdom inspired and nobody will deny that most of us inspire a large proportion of poison gas of the mental kind instead of pure wisdom we breathe over other people's thoughts after them just as we breathe over the air after them this breathed over thought destroys our physical mental and environmental health we need to get out in God's open air and breathe new thought or we shall asfixiate old thought is division dissension separateness competition new thought is the great

opening of principles Oneness Harmony God good Freedom Peace Love new thought is from ages to ages Everlasting those who Inspire It In Breathe It are the whole and strong ones whether they breathe it consciously or unconsciously by teachings of new thought the world is learning to do consciously intelligently what a few have Done here and there through all the ages and need we be reminded of the advantages of knowing how and why we do things what has he done that is so wonderful the lawyer we spoke of is not what the world calls great in

any line he has not built up a standard oil system nor torn one down he is not a Roosevelt or a to go or a Napoleon nor even an Elbert hubard his desires and Ambitions have run in other lines he has not built that way he hasn't it in him to be a Rockefeller and he is glad of it why then should we be compared with Napoleon a Rockefeller do we measure roses and violets and daffodils and chrysanthemums by the same standards is the Violet inconsequential because it sheds its sweetness in a shady Corner instead

of flinging it in mid Day from the top of a sunflower stock no we measure violets by other violets not by sunflowers or Holly Haw or peonies and men are more diverse than flowers every man has his own individuality his own soul specifications to develop by every man comes as the flower of a peculiar ancestry like no other man's ancestry to judge One Man by another is as foolish as to judge a violet by a sunflower flower this Lawyer we spoke of stands in a class by himself he has not achieved what Rockefeller has but

he has achieved something which satisfies himself better than the doings of a dozen Standard Oil magnets could and what is success but self-satisfaction to succeed is to accomplish what one sets out to do a growing success is a matter of growing ideals and a succession of successes our la is satisfied with new thought and its efficacy in his case by its use he has accomplished a succession of things he wanted to do he has literally made himself over and his environment too and he has evolved new ideals and developed new energies which show him a

joyful eternity ahead he is satisfied with the new thought as a working principle he goes on working by it growing daily in wisdom and knowledge daily growing greater Graces of character mind body and environment it is the man who does not live new thought teachings who misjudges them by the outward appearances of other men's lives nothing before nothing behind the steps of Faith fall on the seeming void and find the rock beneath Whittier chapter 15 will and wills in a copy of an old Magazine is an article entitled what new thought women say of the

will by an old thought woman who fails to sign her name this article is about as crosseyed as anything I have read recently it amuses me and yet it touches a responsive cord of stored memories and I sympathize that is I am enabled for the moment to reenter the simpathy or condition this woman describes every step she has passed through I too have experienced but I have passed through it all and emerged upon the spiral above where I am enabled to understand the phenomena of Wills in relation to each other and in relation to the

whole briefly stated the old thought woman's idea is the will is a part of that delusive mortal mind it is the executor of the World the Flesh and the devil God's will is a fiction devil will with a capital D mind you then she goes on to tell how willful she used to be she dominated her relatives friends and enemies alike and even the cats and dogs there was scarcely no way in which will can dominate that I did not work to its limits she says I intended to marry without declaring My Views get the

property and support but refuse all sensuality because she was adamant Against childbearing decidedly a disagreeable person I should say I don't wonder that she was cordially hated by Those whom she hypnotized and outwitted I don't wonder pain anguish hatred suffering disappointment followed in the wake of every Triumph do you then she grew sick of it all and gave up all will in a complete loss of will self- willll God's will all kinds of will there is a miraculous condition of Affairs she says then she goes on to preach Christ's teaching of non-resistance every positive character

and probably every negative one too passes sometime through an experience identical with This Woman's the more pronounced the character the more definite is the change from self-will to self-abnegation a negative character will hang on eternally to his self-will and the giving up of his will causes him all the anguish this woman experienced as a result of using her will now without pointing out to you the mistakes of this writer let me give you my statement of will its nature and uses after which I think you will see the old thought woman's understanding needs to grow

a bit will is the motive electric force Of the universe the only Force there is Will is the energy which forms worlds and swings them in space which dissolves all forms and creates a new will is attraction and gravitation will is love and will is hate will is the passion the act of force of the one will is omnipresent and omnipotent without will there could be only stagnation death Annihilation but there is Will and there are Wills there is all pervading all evolving will and there are countless little tossing Waring Wills there is one great

ocean and there are countless little tossing wavelets each taken up with its own aims to rise above its neighbors on the Unseen side will is one the only one on the seen side there are only Wills beginning and ending within the personal Circle will is the executive of omniscience will is the executive of universal all evolving wisdom will of God is no fiction it is the one IM mutable inexorable fact which personal wills ceaselessly and uselessly toss themselves against to their undoing and the increase of knowledge all wisdom and all will are the one great

ocean from which personal wisdom and Will are tossed and to which All return will and wisdom are all there is in the universe they are one and Inseparable water is correctly formulated as www instead of H2O and and every atom in the universe seen or unseen is simply will in definite and varying proportion to wisdom the less wisdom in the mixture the more foolishly will the will be exercised will is used commonly as a name for volition exercised by the conscious 5% mind the individual Reasons from his own narrow View and sets his will to

execute his finite judgments for the time he sets his Jud judgement up as infallible grits his teeth clenches his fists and drives through until he comes slam up against Universal will it is as if one of your hands set up a judgment of its own and attempted to force the other hand to move after his pattern your right hand sees and judges for a right hand but not for a left hand just so with this old thought woman she set up her judgment and attempted to bring relatives friends enemies animals under sub subjection under subjection

to what her will no under subjection to her judgments her will was simply the executive the sheriff's posi having a strong will she had her way in many Cases where a less determined individual would have held just as severe judgments without having the will to execute them was her will evil a delusion no but her wisdom was a minus a personal it and her will thereby misdirected I am a very strong willed woman and I glory in it but the time was when I made all kinds of a chump of Myself by setting up my

judgment for other people's guidance and sending my will to execute my judgments willy-nilly on the other fellow's part my will was first class likewise my intention but my judgment was exceedingly narrow and crude I got into all kinds of hot water just as this old thought woman did and finally I couldn't stand it any longer I went to the Lord I prayed and agonized and humbled myself as I needed to the trouble with me was that I had not learned yet that my judgments were not the best on Earth and my will was not the

only executive all these failures on my part made me look at last for higher judgments and mightier will among men I could not find them not a writer or lecturer or friend but showed me plainly that his judgments were as Ry and his will as circumscribed as my Own so I turned to the Unseen and unbelieved in but greatly needed and longed for God I gave up my will I said not my will but thine be done it was hard to do but being a strong-willed woman I did it and did it well I lived

daily with Jesus in that Sublime Sermon on the Mount of course I found peace having laid aside all personal aims and Ambitions and given up all efforts to make myself or the world better I found peace an Indian lying full length in his canoe which is floating softly and surely down the broad Colombia toward the ocean is an emblem of Peace the individual who wakes up at last to the fact that what he has been tearing himself in tatters trying to accomplish is already being accomplished by a Broad River of will of which his own

will is but a wavelet finds himself incarnating peace he that loseth his life shall find it he that loseth his will shall find it for the first time I thought I was giving up my will when it was only my judgments I gave up and I gained in return the entire will of the Universe I changed my point of view that was all I had been seeing countless myriads of striving tortured individuals each Waring in chaos to bring order According to his judgments now I saw God as the animating soul and will and wisdom working

in and through and by these striving ones from a formless wavelet striving to get up I became the Indian resting realizing the mighty will underneath me that carried me unerringly in the right direction even when I did nothing I rested and let the all will carry me and everybody else at times it seemed that I must spring up and make this one or that one go right or do right but I used my will on myself and kept hands off I could not see that the all will was bringing this outright but I had made

such a miserable failure when I was running things that in sheer despair I determined determined to resist nothing compel nobody but just trust that the all will would bring things out right I kept saying to myself hands off hands off loose him and let the all will run him until I really learn to let the all will do it of course I thought just as this old thought woman does that I was exercising no will at all but I was and she is doing it too the only difference between the use of my will before

and after this self-abnegation was this after I gave up my will I had the all will on my side for the first time and so easy did it seem to be to let the all will do everything that I did not realize that the all will worked through and by my personal will it was as if I had been trying desperately to lift something too heavy for me and suddenly my efforts were reinforced to such an extent that it was easy or as if I had been trying hard to shove open what seemed a door

when Along Came one who showed me where the real door was and how to open it easily I had been using all my will to make myself and others good and suddenly I found the all will reinforcing my little will as if a mighty power had been switched on to my circuit this was not really what happened you know it was this my little will had been striving against other little Wills as if one finger strove to curtail the action of another finger at last in desperation and without at the time understanding what I did

I Let Go My Little attempt and immediately I began to sense the all will working through my will for the accomplishment of larger purposes I had not before dreamed of it was hard to strive against other Wills hard and the outcome uncertain and Fraught with suffering and disappointment but it was easy to let the all will back my will so easy I failed for some time to realize I was using any will like Solomon I asked for wisdom for understanding as it came to me I saw that whenever the all will backed my will and

made action easy I was on the right track whenever I felt a sensation of pulling against some other will I was on the wrong track and must let go and rest many times the thing I could not at one time do without that pulling against feeling at another time I could do easily with that sense that the all will backed me sometimes the all will backed me in doing what some other person opposed and yet I was not backed when I did the opposing at first all this seems like the capricious leadings of a spirit

but at last I began to see a principle in it I found the law of individuality I found that when I will to do anything which I desired the all will backed me unless I foolishly desire to curtail what some other body desired to do not what some other body desired me to do but what he desired to do without interference from me do you see the point for instance I desired to teach and heal Another desired me to cook and sew and the spirit backed me I serenely taught and healed that other fumed and

Fred and yet all Serene I knew the all will backed me but that other smoked I considered smoking wasteful and detrimental and every time I expressed my opinions on the subject I felt that the all will was not backing me this one had a right to smoke because he was not thereby interfering with the free action of another but when he tried to put me back back in the kitchen he had to use his personal will unbacked by the all will because the all will was backing my will to get out of the kitchen on

the other hand the all will backed his will to smoke therefore when I tried to interfere I opposed not only his will but the all will as well now that is just what gives us all so many Hard Knocks in the world Deary we fail to respect the other fellow's rights and in so doing we run against not only his personal will but the all will into the bargain no wonder we get some horrible bumps when you exercise your will against another's freedom of action you shut yourself off from your source of will supply the

all will this is why you clinch your fists grit Your teeth and contract your lungs and muscles you are shut off from the source of will supply and you contract in order to force your willpower against another then you are exhausted and have accomplished nothing for if you succeed in making him be good this time he hates you for it and he will break out with more Force at the next opportunity because the all will is backing him even in the actions you judge as bad remember the all will backs every personal will except when

the personal will interferes with the free action not interference of another will then when you attempt interfering with the free action of another you force out your will upon him just as you force out the breath from your lungs then you have to catch your breath and your will again it takes time to fill yourself again with Will and whilst you are doing it you suffer all those horrible sensations of remorse and weakness and disgust that come over one after one of these tussles with another will you have all these feelings whether or not you

SU succeed in Downing the other fellow oh it doesn't pay Deary it doesn't pay to use your will except when you can feel the all will backing you what New thought people refer to as cultivating the will is simply cultivating acquaintance with and consciousness of the all will it is simply recognition of will recognition of the ceaseless underlying urge of the universe which is working within and through the individual to express more more and more of beauty and wisdom and good to use the little personal will apart from the all will one must contract and

thus Force out his will upon other people and things to use the all will one must first know he is right then relax and let will flow through him to accomplish according to his word or desire in using the little personal will one recognizes himself a member of a Multiverse of being separate and apart from all other beings in order to use the all will one must first have learned his relation to it and to all other persons and things he must have recognized the universe and himself and others as orderly useful members of the

universe only as he recognizes Oneness is it possible for him to resign the exercise of the small personal will and let the all will accomplished through himself self and through every other man he that loseth His will shall find it one with all will and after all it is not his will he has lost but his beliefs about it and its use he has come up higher and caught a glimpse of the unity of things he has hitched his wagon to omnipotence and behold all things are done according to his word the all will backs

the individual in anything good bad or indifferent which he Wills to do just so long as the individual does not interfere with other individuals so you see in any effort you may make towards self-development you have all will working with and through you and if you will attend strictly to business nothing on Earth or in hell can stem the tide of your will and so defeat you there is no chance no Destiny no fate can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined Soul chapter 16 concerning vibrations vibration is life vibration is

motion all motion is vibration all motion is life you expand your chest with an inhalation of air you contract your muscles and exhale this is vibration your heart beats this too is vibration every tiny cell in your body is beating or vibrating just as your heart and lungs do when your chest expands You take in fresh air which goes not only into your lungs but into all parts of your body the air blows like a fresh Breeze around the countless millions of cells which go to make up your body these little cells in their turn

expand and take in the air then the cells contract and force out the air and your lung LS to contract and force the air clear out of your body now this air which is thus vibrated through your body serves to clean it the decaying particles of your body cells are thrown off and carried out in the streams of air which are vibrated through your body if it were not for this vibration of your body which keeps the air flowing through your body would soon become clogged with dead matter the nerves and arteries in your body

are constantly Contracting in and expanding Contracting and expanding to move along the blood which carries food supply to the cells and bears away their sewage in just the same way that the air is carried to and from the cells It Is by constantly vibrating Contracting and expanding that your stomach and bowels digest food it is by vibration of the cells of tree and plant that the sap flows through and feeds the Tree even a stone is composed of tiny cells which breathe just as the cells of your body and just as your body as a

whole does every individual be it cell plant animal or man lives by vibrating by expanding and Contracting to take in the new and force out the old matter every mind too lives by vibrating by alternately expanding to receive new ideas and Contracting to get rid of the old then there is another sort of vibration by which one one individual communicates with another imagine to yourself that the ether is made up of infinitely small elastic balls if you strike any one of those tiny balls it will strike those next to it and rebound and those hit

will strike the next and so on the blow will travel from one tiny ball to the next clear to the edge of creation if you can imagine such a place the blow you strike sets all the little elastic balls to vibrate ating or moving back and forth now if I stand away out in space and I feel the little elastic balls vibrate against me I know it means something by experience I learn what each kind of movement means if you clap your hands together the vibrations of those tiny elastic balls strike My ear and I

say I hear someone clapping hands if I face your way the vibrations strike my eyes and I say I see someone clapping hands in any case your motion caused The Ether to vibrate and I felt the vibrations if I had no ears or eyes I could not feel the vibrations but they would be there just the same every movement made sets The Ether to vibrating to its particular pitch and wherever there are eyes or ears the vibrations are recorded when you talk it sets The Ether going just the same whether there are ears to hear

or not and when you keep perfectly quiet and think you set the ether going too your brain sets vibrations going just as your tongue does there are people who can hear thoughts just as you hear another speech in due time we shall all hear thoughts we are all growing mental ears thoughts are higher vibrations than spoken words and they carry farther you know a deep growly bass voice makes a great noise when you are close to it but a shrill treble call can be heard much farther than the growly Bas the high voice makes short

sharp far-reaching vibrations now thoughts make infinitely shorter sharper and farther reaching Vibrations than the voice can and thought vibrations carry farther and far more quickly and wherever there is another thinker ready to hear the thoughts are recorded many times we hear the thoughts of other people and mistake them for our own for everybody has at least a little mental hearing when you speak clearly and distinctly your voice carries much farther than if you speak hurriedly and carelessly and other people can more readily understand what you say if you Mumble your thoughts or your words the

etheric vibrations carry mumbled meanings as people learn to think distinctly their thoughts carry farther and find more listeners in course of time and with due practice we shall easily think so that people on the other side of the Earth can hear us not only that but we shall think so clearly and high that the inhabitants of Mars and Venus and the sun too shall easily hear us I shouldn't wonder if what we call sun rays are really the thought vibrations of the sun's inhabitants what if we receive and respond to their thoughts and think them

our own according to the original Christian teaching as I understand it All undesirable conditions and circumstances are constituted by illusions that are held by ignorant immature minds and that project onto the bodily or material plane what may be compared to Shadows if thine eye be single that is If thy view be true If thy understanding of Life be sound thy whole body shall be full of light but if thine eye be evil thy whole whole body shall be full of Darkness undesirable experiences are the darkness wherein a person walks and works and stumbles about whose

notion of the universe instead of shedding light on the meaning of life casts on it a shadow they are the effects produced on the field of our senses by mistaken thought on the main issues of Life by a misunderstanding of Life by believing and therefore practicing a l the stuff they are woven of is something like the unsubstantial kind of stuff that makes up nightmares they are the sort of thing from which truth thoroughly known can set people free J Bruce Wallace chapter 17 the I was and the I am someone has said that an

honest man is the noblest work of God 10,000 others have repeated his little speech with a solemn wag of the head and sidewise squinting Which conveyed the opinion that God is Cherry of his Noble Works Then There came another man who paraphrased that an honest God is the noblest work of man he said and a thousand or so of us wondered why we hadn't thought to say that why of course and the other thousands of thousands lifted up their hands and cried blasphemy Stone him Stone him put him out of the church where the Bogies

will get they put him out but the bogis haven't got him and many of the thousands are taking up his cry an honest God is the noblest work of man why not an honest God is of greater value than many honest men is he not God is the creator of man unless God is himself honest his honest man is but an accident instead of an image and likeness of himself but according to the paraphraser man creates his god well that is is a paraphrase only and true only in a sense God Is Man's creation of

God is simply his mental concept of God it is God as he sees him or it from his Viewpoint an honest God is the concept of a man whose Soul recognizes honesty and loves it a god of power is the mental creation of him whose Soul recognizes and loves power a god of love is the mental creation of him Who recognizes and loves love a god of vengeance is the mental concept of him who loves Vengeance perhaps you think your mental concept of God is not so very important since it is all in your mind

and the real God is what he is regardless of your idea of him but it matters vitally to you it is not God as he really is that is creating you but God as he appears to you your concept of God is creating you in its own image and likeness if you think of God as a great man on a throne with a Long White Beard and an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth expression you may depend upon being made over into a sour Visage decrepit old man who will want to

die and get away from it all if you think of God as a god of power love wisdom bicent you will aim to be perfect as he is perfect if you happen to be one of the fools who has said in his heart there is no God your life will be a crazy Patchwork and your end that of the stoic who defies Earth to do its Worst by him which it probably will being a willing Earth and ready to give each according to his demands you are being created in the image and likeness of the

Lord your God the God enthroned in your Heart what kind of a God is in your heart is he small and revengeful and capricious a sort of policemen to tell your troubles to to receive consolation from and by whom to send punishment to your enemies or is your god the principle and substance behind all creation the power wisdom love of all creation a God who loves all is just to all generous to all favors none but no matter how lofty a god you carry in your heart he will do you little good unless he is

an I am God most men's gods are I was gods they believe God did wonderful things for the children of Israel that he performed great miracles for the apostles and Disciples of Jesus but to this age they think of him as merely the I was God who stands aloof and lets man run things man and the devil or malicious animal magnetism Believers in the I was God are also great sticklers for the ey shall be God who is coming again to judge the wicked and set up his kingdom on Earth and these Believers in the

ey shall be God think that their only business in life is to wait around until the great ey shall be makes his appearance people who worship the I was and the ey shall be are never Demonstrators between admiration of the ey was and anticipation of the ey shall be they fall to the ground and wait for the ey shall be in themselves and others only the I am God does things I am love impels you to love now I am wisdom inspires you to act upon your ideas I am power performs Miracles not yesterday or

tomorrow but now I am God is The God Who works today in you and in me his ways are not the ways of the I was God nor of the I shall be God they are the ways of the I am new different the ways of of today not of yesterday or tomorrow I know a dear woman who worships the I was and the I shall be she entertained Schlatter the Healer and was firmly convinced that he was a literal Reincarnation of Jesus Christ she took schlatter's word for it she also accepted his excuses for

not immediately setting up a literal kingdom here on Earth as described in the Book of Revelations he told her he had other work to do just now that he was going away but would soon return and establish a literal Kingdom she swallowed it all without a single chew Schlatter went away and later a body was found in the mountains which was said to be his since schlatter's disappearance some years Ago this lady has spent her time in writing about him and looking for his return the eye was and the eye shall be absorb her entire

spiritual attention in the meantime she lives in a small mining town town where in the Life surging about her she sees no God not long ago she wrote me to help her speak the word of freedom for a man on trial for his life she said he was absolutely innocent and that a terrible conspiracy existed against him the man was condemned to die still protesting not innocence but self-defense it was a case of mixup with two men and a woman followed by a drunken brawl and the usual plea of didn't mean to this lady's sympathies

were all with the man and her letters to me were pitiful her heart was rung with Agony for him and his bereaved wife and convulsed with horror and impotent rage the wickedness of the wretches who falsely swore away his life the way evil triumphed over Justice was awful she said and she knew when Schlatter returned Justice would be done and the wicked wretches annihilated or words to that effect you see she has no conception of an I am God who rules now she sits in Judgment of men's acts and prays to Schlatter To come back

and set things right she remembers that the IW was put 10,000 to flight with Gideon's 300 pitches and candles simply sneaked up and scared them into a panic she knows the IW was hardened the heart of pharaoh to lie repeatedly to the Israelites she knows the devil had to ask permission of God before he tempted job she knows God said I make peace and I create evil and that the Lord hath made all things himself yay even the wicked for the day of evil she knows that whatsoever the Lord pleased that did he in heaven

and in Earth in the seas and all the Deep places she knows all these things of the great I was but that the I am works now in the hearts of men that God now hardens one heart to perjury and another to truth one to murder and another to lay down his life that his friend may live that God now works in these apparently antagonistic ways and thereby works out perfect Justice wisdom love has never entered her mind she cannot imagine that no man meets any form of death until he himself has ripened for that

particular form of death she has read that 18th chapter of Ezekiel where God explains that every man dies for his own sins not For the false swearing of another but the great I was said that and the I shall be says it but the I am is absent so she thinks somewhere in the Old Testament in Psalms I think the statement is made that those who die are taken away from the evil to come I opine that this is literally and unvaryingly true that death never comes except as the dying one needed Rel relief from

worse things than death things which lay Straight Ahead in his path the man of whom this friend wrote me deserved his death if not for the specific act for which he was tried then for other thoughts and acts which preceded that the man was on the wrong road a road of many and increasing evils death took him off the road at the right time and gave him a better start in some other state of existence I must either believe this or deny the I am God's power wisdom or omnipresence I must accept God's wisdom power

love and presence on faith or my own judgment on sight as I know from experience that appearances are deceitful and that my personal judgment must perforce be based almost entirely upon appearances I prefer to hold fast My Faith In The Presence Power wisdom and love of the god Overall therefore I deny that this man suffered an untimely death from for the vindictiveness and perjury of others I believe he died as a result of a mental Constitution and tendencies which are hidden from me but not from the I am I believe it was the spirit of

the I am moving upon the face of his soul deeps and saying let there be light which gave him his experiences and his particular form of death and I believe his soul goes marching on to Greater light freed from the burdens of wrong habit of Mind and Body which were contracted in the old life of ignorance oh yes it is easy to believe thus of one I never saw it is not quite so easy to apply the same principle in the lives of those near and dear to me and in my own life but I

aim to do it even in the smallest details of living and I am daily growing in the ability to acknowledge the I am God in all my ways I know this is the only way to live the new thought chapter 18 Immortal thought the I am of every being is God the only Power wisdom will mind the only actor in all action the only Creator disintegrator and recreator the I am of you is one the only one the I am or ego or spiritual Being of you is a thinker all thinking is done by the

the one thinker mortal thinking or Immortal thinking your body is an organization within you the real you the I Am The Thinker and organization within you of the thoughts you the I am or God are thinking your body is the present conclusion of all the thoughts good bad or indifferent true or untrue mortal or Immortal which you have thought unthought or rethought from the beginning of Eternity and hourly it is being being changed by the new thoughts coming to you the real you does the thinking recording conclusions in the body which mind you is not

you nor does it even contain you you are omnipresent omnipotent omniscient Spirit or mind and your body is within you in you God it lives and moves and has its being and by you God it is held together you have all power to think all kinds of thoughts thoughts and you use that power you know you do you know you think good thoughts bad ones mortal ones and Immortal ones why question it you think all kinds of thoughts but that does not make you all kinds of a being you are the one being to whom

all kinds of thinking are possible just as you are a being To whom all sorts of Acts are possible in their Essence thought and action are one are you a human being when you play on on the piano and an animal when you sweep the floor are you a human being when you walk and a fish when you go swimming of course not you are the one being whatever you choose to do or think you are God being one time you think Mortal Thoughts and the next time you think Immortal thoughts results always recording in

your body but always you are the same God being and you feel all sorts of ways but always you are you the same one God be your Mortal Thoughts are your thoughts of mortality of death and all that leads to death of sin sickness unhappiness all that tends to discourage you from wanting to keep on living and thinking your Immortal thoughts are your thoughts of life activity love joy all those thoughts which make you want to live more one thought differs from another but you go on forever the same one God being your mystification ation

all comes from confounding yourself with your thoughts from thinking of your thought built body as you which it is not in its deepest analysis your body and all your thoughts are purely Mortal Thoughts and only your real you The Thinker is Immortal to be immortal is to be subject to no change which is true of Life principle only to be mortal is to be subject to change and death which is true of all thought even thoughts of life love true Joy all thoughts are fleeting and therefore mortal applies to them evil disappears before good thought

and good doth change to better best the body is eternally changing eternally receiving from the self or Spirit higher thought and eternally sloughing off lower thought body is mortal and will never be anything else it will never cease to change it will never cease to receive new thought and SLU off back number thought it will never cease to Die daily if it could for one hour cease this daily hourly dying this casting off thought which is out ofd it would die altogether individual hanging on to dead thought is the cause of all old age and

somatic death the body instead of throwing off its dead and dying thought through its eliminative system allows it to continue piling up in the body until death of the entire body comes as a relief and the god self goes onto new incarnations all bodily Energy is the energy of live thought death comes to the body when dead thought preponderates except ye become as a little child whose daily dying is perfect you shall continue to grow old and die the somatic death a child hangs on to nothing every new thing charms it completely from the old

and it's int tense mental and physical activities keep the old moving out and off to make room for more of the new can you give any reason Under the Sun why human beings should not continue to live the child life and escape death of the body as a whole there is no reason to be found in science logic or nature the one reason lies in our artificial living we stuff the mind with unused knowledge we stuff the body with twice to 10 times the food we need all food is thought too we glory in owning

more things than we can possibly need or use we spend our time straddling our possessions to keep others from using them is it any Wonder we become literally loaded down until our bodies are too cumbersome for any life more strenuous than that of the Grave life to us is too real too Earnest we want too much and as long as we persist in living at this dying rate the grave Will be our goal I said that in its last analysis all thought is Mortal thought this is true of formed thought or thoughts thought substance is

eternal thought substance is matter without beginning or end and matter in its original state is mind or Spirit the one thinker and his thought material one and indivisible thought substance is Immortal unchanging but all forms of this thought substance areal moral Ever Changing think of the ocean the water is ever the same but the waves the forms assumed by the water eternally change so with thought substance and thought forms the body being an organization of thought forms of Mortal Thoughts Must Die daily but that thought substance from which all its forms are made is a

mortal mind is the god self your body is simply a series of growing organization of fleeting edes in your Immortal God self too wonderful to grasp well never mind better not grasp it too tightly anyway it might prove only another weight on your mind let the thought come and go in your Consciousness as waves come and go on the Ocean by and by you will realize that it is true that you and the father Body and Soul are all one and Eternal just take it for granted de and love and be radiantly happy so shall

you use mortality to prove immortality I have said that the soul is not more than the body and I have said that the body is not more than the soul and nothing not God is greater to one than oneself is and whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral dressed in his shroud and I or You pocketless of a dime May purchase the pick of the earth and to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the learning of all times and there is no trade or employment but

the young man following it may become a hero and there is no object So Soft but it makes a hub for the wheel universe and I say to any man or woman let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes and I say to mankind be not curious about God for I who am curious about each am not curious about God no array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God and about death I hear and behold God in every object yet understand God not in the least nor do

I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself Walt Whitman chapter 19 God in person God is not a person he is all Persons the universe is one stupendous whole whose body nature is and God the soul this means that nature which includes man is the body of God and God's body is to him what your body is to you a statement of beliefs which is eternally changing as experience teaches you more the only body God has is your body and mine the only brains he has are your brains and mine the only experience

he has is your experience and mine the only judgment he has is your judgment and mine the only way God has of proving anything is through your experience and mine you have heard it said that you cannot teach a man anything he does not already know that to educate a man is to draw out into Consciousness that which is already within him by his own experience and by the teaching of others he becomes conscious of the wisdom which was all the time within him all knowledge is latent in God the whole just as it is

in you and God becomes conscious of what he knows by the same processes by which you become conscious your real self is God watch yourself and you will see how God does things God is wisdom but wisdom and knowledge are not identical knowledge is wisdom proved by The only proof experience all wisdom is latent in God's Soul which is your soul and mine God's wisdom is expressed in his body or statement of beliefs which is your body and mine God knows everything but he knows that he knows only what he has proved through you and

me and all man kind and animal kind and vegetable kind some call it Evolution others call it God if God knew more he would not suffer through us this is equivalent to saying if you and I knew more we would not suffer there is no you and I there is only God evolution is simply God coming into consciousness of himself and his wisdom your body is a part of God's body your soul is God the one life of all creation do you wish to make his people suffer of course not do you wish to make

yourself suffer of course you don't you are God and you don't intentionally make anybody suffer unless you think you have to the rest of the suffering you have not yet learned to avoid in other words God has not yet learned how to avoid it but evolution still evolutes and sighing and sorrow are already fleeing before the dawn of wisdom coming to itself God is learning how to enjoy himself in the flesh In your flesh and mine what is flesh it is mind God is learning to enjoy himself in his own mind which is your flesh

and mine he keeps on thinking through you and me until his statements of belief his flesh body bring only joy to all creation and uncreation why did he make the Ten Commandments why do you lay down laws unto yourself because you catch glimpses of higher things than you have yet experienced and you lay down laws which mean to live up to but you don't always live up to those laws do you why because your body is an organization of intelligent cells Each of which has a will of its own you catch a glimpse of the

truth that love is the greatest thing in the world you lay down a commandment Thou shalt not be impatient or angry before a day has passed you catch yourself breaking your commandment you forgot in other words the most intelligent cells in your body recognized a beautiful truth and promulgated a new commandment for all the cells to live by but the less intelligent cells being still unconvinced of that beautiful truth and being in a great majority you did their will you got mad now God recognized through Moses most beautiful truths and laid down laws to govern

those who were as yet not intelligent enough to recognize the truths for themselves for thousands of years God tried through these laws to make all the people see these truths thus his people evoluted a little the God in Jesus caught a glimpse of still higher truth and laid down another law that ye love one another and still after 2,000 years of that law the people do not all see it and very few of them obey a Moses or a Jesus recognizes truth so much greater than can be sensed by the common run of people that

it takes thousands of years of reiteration of that truth to make even a majority of the common run of people see it it takes centuries of evolution really to convert the world to an ideal conceived by a Jesus it takes you years of reiteration of your ideal and constant effort toward living up to it before you can really convert your body to that ideal in other words God glimpses in Moses or Jesus a beautiful ideal of himself but it takes him thousands and thousands of years to work out that ideal to evolute all people to

the stage of wisdom and loving kindness it is God's effort to Work out his ideals which causes all suffering this means that it is your effort to work out your ideals which causes all your suffering an ideal impels change the established order in the whole or a part resents and resists change hence the pain the spirit is willing but the flesh is established and refuses to change it was this Jesus had in mind when he said resist not evil the established order the flesh resists change because it is too shortsighted to see that the change

is good because we are not yet convinced that all is good and every change tends to greater good we fight the change more or less wholeheartedly we have within us the same high ideals the same backslidings and War revolutions and Evolutions the same Joys and Sorrows that the children of Israel had that the Universe At Large has had and is having all history is the history of your own thoughts man is an infinite little Cosmos just as in history ignorance has wared against the ideal and yet in the fullness of time the ideal has had

its way so in yourself ignorance Wars against the ideal and may for a Time seem to win but eventually the ideal has its way a Man in his ignorance May yield to temptation but the results will take away the very Temptation itself when a child's fingers are well scorched it loses all desire to play with the fire there is no such thing as ruining our lives forever Every Soul has all eternity in which to learn to live every soul is God omnipresent omnis or omnipotent in potentiality and all eternity is its School term all space

its school ground death is simply a promotion ceremony peculiar to the kindergarten classes a ruined life is no more than a ruined problem on Tommy's slate it is wiped off to give Tommy who has been learning by his mistakes a chance to do a better sum be still and know that God and you are one and all things shall be made made plain chapter 20 how to reach heaven the subjective or Emotional Self is the best of servants but the worst of Masters all the evil in the world results from transposing Authority from objective to

subjective from letting emotion run away with conscience and reason all unpleasant reactions are due to the waste of energy which results from this transposition of authority the emotional Or subjective self is the storehouse of personal power the objective self is the director of that power happy results come from intelligent use of power to give unbridled Rin to The Emotional Self is like turning on the power of an automobile and then lying back and laughing or weeping whilst the auto runs its pace and kills or mimes what comes in its way the loud hysterical giggle betrays

that emotion is running away with the directing power and that personal power is ebbing below the point of safety and the waste of power the letting loose of more emotion than the occasion really calls for is bound to produce its after effects of depression depression of this sort is due to depletion of emotional energy and disappears as the system recuperates as more energy is stored nearly all Blues are caused by such reaction energy is wasted in mental or physical agitation due to anger or fretting or righteous indignation or excess of sympathy or having a good

time and then we wonder why we are so blue we go off and have a good cry which relaxes us fall asleep after it and wake up without the blues and wonder why more energy has been generated That is all the secret of real enjoyment of the kind from which there is no unpleasant reaction lies in perfect control of the emotional nature in so conserving your emotional power that it shall never be depleted Beyond a certain definite point of poise the point where there is plenty in well-controlled reserve when one first begins to find and

maintain this state of poise he feels that he can never have a good time again that he must repress all the fun and be glum and steady but this is a mistaken idea which will disappear as he gains control there are Heights and depths and breadths of fun and joy which can never be touched except by the poised controlled person it takes emotional energy to enjoy and the greater the store of energy the deeper the enjoyment and the less of it is wasted in boisterous movements and noises one does not suppress his enjoyment of an

incident he suppresses unnecessary expressions of his enjoyment and every such motion inhibited leaves him with that much more energy on hand with which to enjoy in proportion as he ceases to slop his emotional power in loud laughs and unnecessary movements he deepens his power of Enjoyment laughs are on the surface real enjoyment is in the deeps of being it is the surface slopping one must suppress the waste of power that he may become conscious of the real depths of enjoyment impulsiveness and nervousness are due to depleted emotional energy and are invariably caused by letting the

subjective Emotional Self rule so much energy is wasted in unnecessary emotionalism that there is not enough left to enjoy with there are no depths there comes to be a habitual waste of emotion over the most trivial things and there is no reserve for the greater things which occasionally come all due to excessive expression of emotion people who have not learn to control their expressions of emotion have never even tasted full enjoyment the one cure for nervousness impulsiveness boisterous emotionalism of All Sorts is to be still cut off all unnecessary waste and let the reservoirs fill

there are two kinds of lively dispositions one is the result of hysterical slopping over of energy without regard to the fact that the reservoirs of personal power are dangerously near the point of utter depletion this sort of liveliness often Ends in tears nearly always in depression the other sort of lively disposition is the surface expression of full reservoirs one is like the slopping of water from a shallow bowl by shaking the bowl the other is like the Rippling of a Clear Lake The Depths are clear still and happy whilst the surface answers brightly and without

waste to the passing breezes of fun the bowl of water is exhausted by its expressions of fun the Clear Lake enjoys its ripples of laughter without wasting itself the larger the lake the larger the waves the same Breeze which causes a pond to Ripple will cause Lake Michigan to toss and white capped Glee the greater the length breadth and depth the greater the waves the greater the personal reservoir of emotional power the bigger the laugh of which it is capable the loud laugh sometimes betrays the vacant mind and reservoirs sometimes it betrays wide and deep

and full ones and by its ring the hearer can tell which who has not rippled in response to the Musical full contagious loud laugh and cringed at the sharp hysterical loud laugh the musical laugh loud or soft invariably indicates well stored reservoirs Of emotional power and real enjoyment the shrill unmusical laugh the nervous laugh loud or soft invariably means nervous or emotional depletion shallow reservoirs and shallow enjoyment or none at all Musical and unmusical speaking voices are other indications of these states of personal power smooth graceful intelligent gesticulations are yet other indications of full reservoirs

rough jerky unnecessary emotions indicating depletion the curtailing of wasteful laughs and motions is one of the most important things in life emotion is sole force that which accomplishes all the great things of life as well as all the little things every human being has access to unlimited Soul Force which is constantly flowing into him from the universal Reservoir but if he uses it as fast as it flows in uses it in overdoing the small small and least necessary things of life he has no power for the greater things every soul longs to do how much

power would the world get from the Niagara River if it were not for the great Natural Dam and Reserve power at the Falls if you would do the great things you must see that your energy is not wasted in a steady stream of little things Every movement every thought uses a definite amount of emotional energy every inhibition of a movement or thought stream permits the higher rising of your Reservoir just as every stone added to a dam increases the reservoir and power behind it there are enough good things to do and think in this beautiful

world without dissipating our power in thoughtless activities such as tapping our feet or fingers rocking to and fro giggling shrilly and so on yes we learn to do things by doing them but do we want to do these useless things of course not they are wasteful un beauutiful and we can learn to stop them by stopping them and have so much deeper power with which to do the useful beautiful things a half hour a day used in simply being still will add almost incredibly to the depth of our reservoirs and every time we remember to

inhibit an unnecessary rock or tap or fidget we add another depth to our power this is all easily proved by a little practice our energy is soul power which is also wisdom as our energy deepens our wisdom deepens also and our sense of humor deepens Soul power is love and wisdom the one and only substance of which the individual is An inlet a small or large Inlet according as he lets the energy run out fast or conserves it for large uses according as he lets it run or dams it for personal use there is plenty

of Soul power for everything yes but it takes time to build a dam and the man who lets loose his whole Niagara Falls of emotion upon trivial occasions will have to spend most of his time in patching his Dam and the man who dribbles all his power in Thoughtless and useless acts has no power behind his Niagara do you see that self-control is the key of heaven and the time to use it is now the place here Earth's crammed with Heaven waiting to be conserved to individual uses love power wisdom is flowing through you into

expression don't let it flow too fast don't waste it in thoughtless foolish expression cut off the wastes use the power in Wise directions and let the tide rise within you thus shall you come to the great things you would do and behold within you shall be the power to do them with joy and there shall be no aftermath of depression this is heaven the highest heaven for the deepest soul and the door is open for everybody vital energy is soul Energy love power and wisdom mixed L squared W Squared the body is a generator of

vital or Soul energy Heaven and Hell are states of bodily being the body full of vital or Soul energy l s w squ experiences Heaven the body depleted of its Soul energy lives in Hell carried there by riotous living by wasting its vital or Soul energy I know I am August I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood I see that the elementary laws never apply apologize I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by after all I exist as I am that is enough if no

other in the world be aware I sit content and if each and all be aware I sit content one world is aware and by far the larger to me and that is myself and whether I come to my own today or in 10,000 or 10 million years I can cheerfully take it now or with equal cheerfulness I can wait my foothold is tenoned and mortiest in Granite I laugh at what you call disolution and I know the amplitude of time Walt Witman chapter 21 a look at heredity no evolutionist can Overlook heredity nor underestimate it

he believes that every generation comes in on the shoulders of Its predecessors and he fully appreciates the value of good predecessors the world's pride of ancestry is not so foolish as it might appear the more intelligence and culture my forebears had the greater my possibilities there are no breaks in the law of growth or Evolution or heredity though the Casual Observer often fancies there are every human being comes into the world as an Acme of things accomplished by his ancestors and he is an encloser of things to be accomplished by himself and his progenitors but

who are my ancestors let me tell you that Ralph Waldo Emerson and Jesus of Nazareth are more directly my ancestors than many of those whom the world calls my great-grandfathers there is a spiritual and mental kinship through which we inherit There Are Spiritual and mental relationships to which we all owe far more of our goodness and greatness than can be traced to those of blood tie in rare instances only do these spiritual and mental relationships exist within the line of blood relationship the world does well to be proud of its ancestry but it does better

when it appreciates its spiritual ancestry think you that The poor little waif owes a larger inheritance to the woman who bore it and deserted it than to the foster parents who nurtured it in love and wisdom our blood relations are not the only relations from whom we inherit neither when we are born do we cease to inherit there is one father of us all and the of repeated statement that we are all brothers and sisters is no fanciful one the fatherhood of God and Brotherhood of Man is fact and the man who thinks he is

limited by the ignorance of his blood relations Is himself an ignoramus if his blood relations are not to his liking let him draw a new in inheritance from the world's greatest and best they too are his ancestors and Mark this not only does the son inherit from his fathers of blood or Spirit tie but many a father inherits from the son that which the son has gained from other sources than those of blood relationship inheritance by Blood tie is not a stream the outlet of which can rise no higher than its source rather it is

a sort of hydraulic ram through which life may be Co to almost any height of culture and refinement I have heard it said that culture is the soul of Knowledge the essence of right living inherited from our ancestors where did they get it I will tell you where they got it by persistence in the same sort of practices which are decreed by resting by force the knowledge wealth and Dominion of others by generations of monastic seclusion much of it enforced by others whose turn it was to rest by force by generations of rigid self-control by

hours and days and years of prayer which is simply a phase of going into the silence and yes even by breathing like a crazy yoga the spirit of evolution running this universe is very cunning in devices for inducing self-culture full breathing going into the silence affirmations Etc are not new methods of self-culture they are as old and their practice as universal as life itself but here to their practice has been in the main compulsory Humanity had to be persecuted starved hunted into breathing exercising praying had to be forced to develop Body Soul and wits by

using them the present generation inherits the wisdom gained through their efforts not the least of its inheritance lies in its wits developed to the point of seeing that for self-development And 10 minutes of voluntary deep breathing is preferable to an all day Chase to save one's neck that a half hour of intelligent silence is worth more than the three and four-hour wrestlingscout are making intelligent use of it through Evolution we are learning to conserve energy our ancestors spent all their time perforce in half unconscious physical exercise and breathings we spend a few minutes a day

in intelligent exercise and breathing and conserve our forces for mental and spiritual uses and without them our ancestors we should be minus the intelligence to do this humanity is a solid AR it on the Square and without the work of his ancestors None Shall be made perfect but it is by the work of his ancesters that man stands on today's Pinnacle what they learn to do by labored effort and mainly under compulsion we do by Instinct It Is by man's work today on this Pinnacle that his great grandchildren shall be brought forth on yet higher

Pinnacles with yet higher instinctive knowledge take the most cultured person you know Trace his ancestry and tell me where his culture began you cannot do It Go clear back to William the Conqueror if you will thus far you may call his ancestors cultured but even so their culture all the way back is a descending scale of boorishness in comparison with what we 20th century folk call culture and we must hark back of William for the beginning of his culture William the Conqueror was the illegitimate son of Rob Robert the devil did culture begin with Robert

and the mother of William was a Miller's daughter is she the mother of all culture Robert the devil was the third Earl of Normandy which means that his grandfather was an ordinary everyday scrub who probably murdered somebody particularly obnoxious to the king and was rewarded with an earldom did he bequeath the soul of knowledge the essence of right living to William the Conqueror and his exclusive progeny if so where did he get it his own grandfather and the ancestors of the poor Miller's daughter roamed the same Woods fought the same battles hunted the same beasts

and men and gnawed the same bones where did the ancestors of Robert the devil pick up the soul of knowledge and what were the Miller's ancestors doing whilst Robert's Grandfathers cornered the essence of right living for I warrant you that Williams Miller's daughter mother was less of a stranger to the soul of knowledge the essence of right living than was that devil of a Robert yes there are many people who are educated but not cultured but their progyny will brag of their culture for what is in one generation mere education or monastic seclusion or rigid

self-control or going into the silence or breathing like a crazy yoga is by time and unconscious cerebration transmuted into pure culture and if any of us lack culture you may depend upon it our ancestors by Blood and spirit are numbered among those who failed to rest by force the very things decreed as uncultured all life is education and time transmutes education into culture the soul of knowledge the essence of right living not a human effort but is necessary to the development of the soul of knowledge not a yoga breath not an hour of Silence not

not a moment of rigid self-control not a day of hard labor not a sound or movement or cry of Joy or sorrow or rage or despair not one but has helped to free the soul of knowledge not one could have Been dispensed without leaving culture less cultured than it is the difference between education and culture is the difference between the daily drill at the piano and the finished musical expression of a PFI education comes first and without it there can be no culture education is the work of today whilst culture is the soul of well-used

yesterdays why exalt the well-used yesterdays to the disparagement of today's opportunities inheritance Is wealth left us by sanguin and spiritual relations gone before it is capital left us to be increased by just such wrestling by force as some people condemn who is the more valuable to the human race he who parades his inheritance as he received it or he who adds to it his own efforts at self-culture don't get stuck on tradition and cow toow eternally to heredity be an individual and improve heredity if your inheritance was poor make it better if it was good

make it better the world's culture is only just beginning get busy helping it along that is is the important thing do it now idealist lo I am skeptic neither bind science nor Bible on my mind all things I hold in flux the good Forerunning dream paints to my mood the sweet ideal is more to me than any man's philosophy the books no man May surely know science is changeful doubtful so doubter my faith is more than most my dream of best I give my trust in it I think Divinity speaks shest to the core of

Me By Night clear Fire by day bright cloud music of sphere soul sweet brain loud heart thrilling lures me on the god floating before with smile and Nod the best I dream my faith tells me will come to live as grows a tree as breaks a day and life must hold a fact each dream a hope can mold J William Lloyd chapter 22 critic and criticized I don't want to be criticized but you want to learn don't you you surely are not satisfied that you know it all oh of course I want to learn but

I want to learn by myself I would rather be wrong than be criticized I hate to be told how to do things I want to find out for myself Solomon the wise reasons not thus Solomon prayed for wisdom above all things and in receiving wisdom he received all else the man who thinks he would rather be wrong than be criticized is for the time being a moral coward and no Solomon he values his feelings of the Moment above wisdom he does not want wisdom and knowledge Above All Things he wants what wisdom and knowledge he

can gain without the sacrifice of his feeling of self-complacency he is complacent as long as his friend says to him you are a good fellow a very admirable fellow he feels good as long as he thinks his friend considers him wise he expands and smiles and works away in his own good way in his moments of confidence he will tell his friend that wisdom and knowledge are the greatest things in the universe that we grow only by the acquisition of wisdom and knowledge that growth is life and life is love or God he will enthuse

a bit and tell you wisdom is God the one desirable one and that by growing in wisdom man becomes conscious of his divinity just here his friend who is a prosy practical sort of fellow interrupts him see here Smith he says you are not running this branch of your business quite right you just ought to see how Thompson does that sort of thing he gets no far Smith freezes instantly and Jones's confidences catch the vibrations Smith is so sensitive you know he would rather not know anything about better methods than to Stand the shock of

a criticism Jones talks about the weather a bit and departs Smith continues to think he desires wisdom above all things he doesn't he desires above all things to have his bump of approbativeness smoothed he fails to know himself and he will not learn him himself because he refuses all truth which does not make him feel good he shuts himself off from a thousand Avenues by which wisdom is trying to reach him it is said our enemies are our best friends Emerson bids us listen to them and learn of them Burns exclaims oh wad some power

the gifty G us to see ourselves as ither see us it would Fray money a blunder free us and foolish notion our critics are answering Love's attraction to free us from blunders and foolish Notions why not why resent a criticism we are all members of One stupendous whole why resent and refuse another suggestion it is our own suggestion drawn by our own affirmed love for wisdom and knowledge we don't understand ourselves we don't trust our surroundings we say we want wisdom Above All Things We want to understand in our heart of Hearts we do love

wisdom Above All Things therefore we Attract it Through all avenues it is our Soul's love for wisdom and knowledge which attracts to us the criticisms of friend and foe if we really believed that we attract what we receive that our own comes to us that all things are working together to gratify our Soul's desires if we really believed all this we would meet criticism in a friendly spirit with sense is alert to find the kernel of wisdom it is bringing us to resent a criticism is to resend to send away a bit of knowledge your

soul has been praying for all because your Bump of approbativeness has an abnormal appetite for Prophecies of smooth things but to resend a criticism is not to get rid of it it comes back to you over and over and perhaps every time in a little Rudder form if you speak softly to a friend and he fails to hear you repeat in a louder tone if he is very deaf you holler and perhaps touch his shoulder to gain his attention all creation is alive and pursues the same tactics when you resent resend a criticism creation sends

it back at you a little more emphatically if you still resent it creation puts still more Force into repeated sendings she keeps this up in answer to your own Semic conscious desire for wisdom and knowledge until by some hook or crook you take the kernel of knowledge contained in that criticism then creation smiles and lets you alone on that line the way to avoid creation's kicks is to accept her hints as they come to you in the form of friendly criticism or suggestion not all criticisms are true in their entirety but everyone contains somewhere a

suggestion by which you may profit by which you may grow in wisdom and knowledge don't let that one little bump of approbativeness make you resend that knowledge and bring down creation kicks to drive it home but don't get the idea that that little round nub of approbation is bad he is not he is a good and useful member of your family and deserves to be wellfed and cared for and respected but feed him so well on your own good opinions that he will not sulk and kick if he doesn't receive re unlimited taffy from others

get up high in your own opinion know yourself a god unique indispensable to Creation you have powers and wisdom and knowledge not possessed by anybody else in the world nobody who ever lived or ever will is any better or any more of a god than You are neither is anybody less good or less of a god than you we are different that is all every man has his individual goodnesses and his peculiar point of view no better than yours but different it takes every man in the world to see all sides of anything or anybody

every individual who is at all wise wants to see all sides of things the only chance he has of doing this is to look at things from other people's points of view as well as his own to put himself in other people's places to see as others see to vibrate with the other who sees another side of the same thing listen to your critic see yourself as he sees you he is your best friend drawn in answer to your Soul's cry for more wisdom and knowledge be friends with him hush the clamor of approbativeness with

your own high affirmations of your goodness and worth hush the clamor and listen the spirit in you will separate the chaff from the wheat of the criticism a smiling little poof will blow away the chaff and your soul will expand and increase in stature by assimilating the wheat chapter 23 the nobility we always come in contact with the people we live and think up to if you are not satisfied with the Present environment it can be changed by making your very best of it and in the meantime fitting yourself mentally physically and in deportment for

the sort of people you want get ready for them and see you waste no energy in impatience over having to wait a long time it takes mental and physical culture and gracious deportment to fit you for the sort of friends you want there is no place in life which does not offer plenty of advantages for the cultivation of all these things but especially for the cultivation of a gracious deportment you may depend that if you can be lovely and gracious to common people who may ruffle your feathers the wrong way you will be at home

if a duchess happens along duchesses you know belong to the class of people who make a study and lifelong practice of being lovely and gracious I am talking about real duchesses now not the kind that get rich quick and marry a title without having the real qualifications of nobility somebody has said that the world is divided into two classes the civil and the uncivil the Hallmark of real nobility is the habit of being civil to the uncivil no better place to acquire This gentle art than living among the uncivil the youth who finds himself among

the uncivil and who proceeds to cultivate uppish and contempt for his associates who looks down on those with whom he is compelled to associate who tries to be superior and to impress others with his superiority such a one is forever fixing himself in the class of the uncivil where duchesses don't grow you are what you are time spent in trying to impress people is worse than wasted be your gracious self and honor not only your father and your mother but your nextdoor neighbor and your Nextdoor neighbor's kitchen made if you want to develop the qualities

that will fit you for the sort of Associates you want members of the really truly nobility Co cultivate your brains Deary cultivate your body cultivate your soul all to the best of your ability but above all and in all and through all cultivate the mental and physical deportment of the truly Noble belong always to the Civil class and practice civility eternally upon the uncivil as well as upon the Civil when a brawling enemy followed Pericles home one dark night with intent to injure him Pericles sent his own servant with a Lantern to light the man

home again Pericles did not descend from his own class to pay his unil enemy in his own coin go thou and cultivate Pericles and thine own high self then shall all desirable Associates seek you instead of you having to seek them greater credit belongs to him who sees the real nobility through the housemaid's dress and manner than to him who recognizes it in silk and velvet voice we are all members of the nobility all descended through Adam and Eve who never saw silk nor made salams all are Sons and Daughters of the most high don't

be fooled into contempt and inability by our masquerade costumes and don't value some of our gowns above ourselves or yourself lvoa when Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried when the oldest colors have faded and the youngest critic has died we shall rest and faith we shall need it lie down for an eon or two till the master of all good workmen Shall Set us to work a new and those that were good shall be happy they shall sit in a golden chair they shall Splash at a 10 League canvas

with brushes of comet's hair they shall find real saints to draw from Magdalene Peter and Paul they shall work for an age at a sitting and never get tired at all and only the master shall praise us and only the master shall blame and no one shall work for money and no one shall work for fame but each for the joy of the working and each in his separate star shall draw the the thing as he sees it for the god of things as they are rogard Kipling I hope that you've enjoyed this presentation and

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