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Analytical Outline 
 
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Lesson No. 1. 
 Lesson No. 2. 
 Lesson No. 3. 
 Lesson No. 4. 
 Lesson No. 5. 
 Lesson No. 6. 
 
 ^"CONTENTS 
 
 Body and Mind - - . 
 
 Mind the Architect; Cells the Builders 
 Nerve Energy "---.. 
 Mind: Its Laws, Powers and Possibilities 
 Suggestion - - . 
 
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LESSON No. 1 
 
 INTER-RELATION OF SOUL. MIND AND BODY 
 
 The object of this course of inGtriictjons is to learn the law 
 of human life from every standpoint,: ^^;liy.?ical, meiital, moral, 
 temperamental, psychic and spiritual. -I «h«U, attempt ,to show 
 you the effect of the mind upon the body^ the body apbh^ tile mind, 
 and how the particular temperament of each individual determines 
 his life, his health, his thought, feeling, emotions, — the reaction 
 which the world gives toward him in a social and business way; 
 showing how all this determines the events of his life, its quality; 
 length, and his final destiny. 
 
 Heretofore man has not studied man. We have been in an 
 age of mechanical and educational specialists. We know but little 
 of the physical law of life, and practically none of the mental law. 
 The nineteenth century specialized on man's environment and has 
 well nigh revolutionized it. The twentieth century bids fair to 
 be given over to the study of human life itself. 
 
 Man's personality constantly functions on three planes, phy- 
 sical, mental and spiritual. Man's accumulated personality is 
 builded by three laws, — they are: heredity, pre-natal culture and 
 post natal experience, including child training, education and life's 
 experience. The modification which these three laws have made 
 upon your personality up to this minute determines the character 
 of your personality. 
 
 A knowledge of heredity will ultimately convince the world 
 of the folly of allowing the hopelessly diseased or defective, feeble 
 minded, insane and criminal classes to reproduce their kind. A 
 knowledge of the pre-natal law will convince us that no prospec- 
 tive mother should be subject to physical strain, hard work, mental 
 strain, anxiety, — but that she should be protected and surrounded 
 with everything lovely and beautiful and provided with proper 
 mental exercise. We shall ultimately realize that if it be impos- 
 sible for the individual to make this environment, then the state 
 should provide it for her. 
 
 A knowledge of psychology as it applies to the child mind will 
 enable parents to train their children in such a way that they 
 shall grow up strong and healthy in body, with sound, balanced, 
 
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2 LESSON NO. 1 
 
 well unfolded minds, — strong, unified, crystallized personalities, — 
 which will enable them to meet the world successfully. 
 
 A knowledge of applied psychology will teach people how to 
 associate with each other without friction; enable each individual 
 to see life from other people's point of view; overcome worry, fear, 
 anxiety; avoid anger, jealousy and all negative and destructive 
 emotions; m short, to control the action of the consciousness and 
 feel as onfej slijould/f ^el, ;ijid ^^nly so, regardless of the nature of 
 events in iiie.Jis.the^.ciomje and* -go: in short, to be healthy, happy 
 and suSe^!2sf^ll.^' ."".♦* *;:.:.'*.'.-* 
 
 A knowledge of psychology will revolutionize our ideas of 
 juvenile government, criminal law, sociology and our political and 
 economic condition. We will realize that jails where the old time 
 criminal is associated with young boys, — the murderer, the horse 
 thief, the pervert, ex-convict and drunk, associating with the first- 
 time offender, — is only a breeding ground for the hardened criminal, 
 and a school of crime. 
 
 A knowledge of psychology will enable each individual to 
 overcome his own particular difficulties and view himself and all 
 individuals in their true relationship to society. The quality of 
 the sum-total of the individuals equals the quality of society at 
 large. I deem it necessary to educate the individual to solve the 
 problems of society. 
 
 This course of instructions embodies only demonstrable facts 
 and repeatable phenomena. It does not include the principles of re- 
 ligion. It does not deal primarily with heredity and pre-natal cul- 
 ture from the viewpoint of eliminating the unfit, although I recog- 
 nize the value of such consideration. The purpose of this course is 
 to enable you to overcome your particular unfitness, no matter what 
 its nature may be, physical, mental or moral. 
 
 Your physical ailment may be acute or chronic; your mental 
 difficulty may be a decrease in mental powers — poor mem- 
 ory, lack of comprehension, want of clear, concise thought. This 
 may take the forms of worry, hurry, fear unsteadiness, — and lack 
 of purpose, consistent poise, positiveness, confidence. Be your de- 
 fect of a physical or mental nature, it is curable. All disease and 
 deficiency looks alike to the applied psychologist. Every defect has 
 a mental cause. Eliminate the cause, the effect disappears. 
 
 This special lecture will deal primarily with the physical re- 
 quirements of building a successful personality. Before I begin 
 the instructions, I wish you to take physical and mental stock of 
 
LESSON NO. 1 3 
 
 your personality. You are in the business of living. A successful 
 business man takes frequent inventory of his equipment. If he be 
 wise and successful he puts his best sellers in the front window. He 
 studies his business, he learns its requirements, and in so far as his 
 knowledge permits, he makes intelligent effort to make his business 
 pay. Just so should you and I do in the business of living. Stand 
 before a full length mirror, "close-up." Size yourself up. Ask 
 yourself a few questions and answer them. 
 
 Is your skin clear — tongue clean — breath pure — digestion good 
 — bowels move every morning — heart act perfectly — muscles firm, 
 well rounded — sleep well at night — are you calm at all times ? Ever 
 have a headache — backache — stomach ache — dark brown taste in 
 your mouth in the morning ? Become tense after a day 's work — do 
 you ever worry — are you afraid of anything? 
 
 How about the children? Do they wet the bed at night, rest- 
 less in their sleep ? Are they afraid of the dark, over-sensitive, dull 
 at school, weary of school, glad of vacation, but not when school 
 begins again? Are they subject to contagions, fevers, colds, stomach 
 spells, tonsilitis, decaying teeth and eye strain? 
 
 All these are abnormal conditions. In this course of instruc- 
 tions I shall attempt to teach you how to overcome all such ab- 
 normalities, both from the physical and mental points of view. 
 
 Physical disease has two sources, one physical, the other 
 mental. The clean system is the healthy system, but the system 
 can be made unclean by mind, much quicker than by wrong 
 methods of living. Negative and destructive emotions tear down 
 the cell life of the body, which causes debris or filth to accumulate, 
 which must be thrown off through the eliminative organs. The 
 breath can be made foul by mental shock or protracted worry, 
 much^qtiicker than by over eating and under exercising. In fact, 
 so definite is the physical reaction to mental influence that the 
 chemistry of the body is reversed with abnormal mental attitude. 
 The most powerful change which is possible to take place in the 
 human system occurs by power of the mind over body, and under 
 intensity of emotion producing a psychological moment, the chem- 
 ical reaction is instantaneous. 
 
 Most people do not realize what REAL HEALTH means. 2F^^^*?, 
 Most people are sick or halt sick tor so long that they readjust to improve- 
 the condition and think it to be natural. Some even think it to inent: 
 be the will of God. Anything less than an abundance of vitality 
 wherein one is always ambitious and has the "pep" and the vim. 
 
4 LESSON NO. 1 
 
 the snap, the go, determination and ambition which spells suc- 
 cess — glad every morning to be alive, just as the birds, — and to 
 sing and to praise God for the ability to do and be; glad to run 
 as the little child who runs for the love of running; — anything 
 less than that is an accumulated result due to the violation of the 
 physical, mental or moral laws. 
 
 Natural law is the visible expression of divine will. God evi- 
 dently intended that his children should be happy and healthy, 
 for when Nature is given half a chance the body and mind are 
 normal, and the body never deteriorates except through a viola- 
 tion of law. 
 
 In this lesson we specialize only on the physical essentials of 
 good health, with the inevitable reference to the power of mind. 
 Man's mind shows forth in his temperament; his temperament 
 determines the way he lives. His choice of food, whether he chews 
 his food or not, whether he is intensely active or sluggish in his 
 method of living — all external physical manifestation is a visible, 
 crystallized reflection of mind. The most striking phases of mind 
 determine the temperament. 
 Primaries To remind you : The clean system is the healthy system. Keep 
 
 mount Than *^® body clean and you cannot have a cold, fever, catarrh, rheu- 
 Ultimates: matism, neuritis, gout, old age. Old age is just as much of a disease 
 as any of the others named. All such conditions result from ac- 
 cumulated deposits which proper methods of living and thinking 
 will eliminate. In this country man lives at the present on the 
 average of about forty- three years. This is not half long enough. 
 We should live about eight times as long as it takes us to mature. 
 It takes the body twenty-five years to mature and the mind thirty- 
 five. A conservative duration for the natural length of life would 
 be one hundred and fifty years. God has placed us here with cer- 
 tain physical and mental possibilities. Have we any right to do 
 less than our best in attempting to develop these? 
 Air: There are four physical essentials of good health: they are 
 
 the* proper use of air, water, food and exercise. (Exercise is half 
 mental.) 
 How to Each' adult should have two cubic inches of lung capacity for 
 
 the^Lungs: every pound of weight — well used. 
 
 Each adult should have at least four and a half inches chest 
 expansion and contraction. 
 
 Paul von Voeckman of New York, claims to have a chest ex- 
 
LESSON NO. 1 5 
 
 pansion and contraction of 14^/^ inches, the largest of any man 
 in the world. 
 
 The lungs properly used throw off 20,000 grains of poison 
 daily and absorb 15,000 grains of food. Moral — use your lungs 
 more and give your stomach a rest. 
 
 The breath is the life. As you breathe, do you live, and only 
 so. Breathe half enough, you are half alive. Many people go 
 about the business of living with such a small lung capacity that 
 they are so nearly dead that if I could write the epitaph on their 
 tombstones, I would say: "Died at 25; buried at 60." Don't be 
 a ''dead one". 
 
 Reasons for a complete lung development: 
 
 1. The blood circulating through the body passes through 
 the lungs, through the thin lining of which the blood absorbs oxygen 
 and throws off carbonic acid gas, a deadly poison which accumulates 
 in the burning process, which is necessary to reduce the dead cells 
 of the body to ashes so it can be thrown off through the eliminative 
 organs. If this process is complete, then this deadly poison is con- 
 stantly eliminated; if it is only half complete, then the body is 
 constantly laboring under the deadening effect of this poison. Dull- 
 ness, heaviness, tiredness, poor memory, inability to think clearly, 
 results, vitality of body is lowered, and one is more liable to dis- 
 ease. These sediments left by imperfect elimination and imperfect 
 oxygenation, cause hardening of the arteries, rheumatism, stiffness 
 and premature old age. If you want to limber up, breathe. 
 
 2. The quality of the blood determines the quality of the di- 
 gestive juices from which it is drawn. If one breathes sufficiently, 
 the result is rich, red, pure blood, which makes good, healthy di- 
 gestive juices possible. As the breath decreases the quality of the 
 blood goes down, digestion follows, then assimilation, and with 
 defective assimilation the strength leaves, vitality is reduced and 
 some sort of illness sets in, according to the line of the individual's 
 least resistance. 
 
 3. The proper breath causes a swell from the neck down, 
 over and including the abdomen. The body swells out on inhala- 
 tion and collapses on exhalation. This process causes a gentle 
 massage of all the vital organs. ]\Iany people breathe only from 
 the breast-pin up, which causes a stationary condition of the liver 
 and bowels, stomach and pancreas, with a corresponding inactivity 
 and sluggishness. The normal, complete breath is impossible with- 
 out a proper standing position. The lungs occupy a pear shaped 
 
6 LESSON NO. 1 
 
 cavity called the thorax. A drooping posture compresses the thorax 
 and makes a corresponding pressure on parts of the lungs. It is 
 impossible to have the normal lung capacity without the proper 
 standing position which is indicated by the lifted chest. The im- 
 portance of a properly lifted chest cannot be overestimated in its 
 reaction upon the body and character. Professor J. H. Kellogg 
 once said: "A drooping posture lowers the stomach from one to 
 three inches and literally crowds the spleen out of house and 
 home." This is true not only of the stomach and spleen but of 
 all of the vital organs. 
 
 The reaction upon the character of the individual who stands 
 and walks properly cannot be over-estimated. There is a physical 
 reaction upon the cell structure of the various centers of the brain 
 in lifting the chest, which changes the character from one of re- 
 tiring, timid, uncertain, negative tendencies, to one which is posi- 
 tive, confident, powerful and successful. 
 
 Air is the freest of all necessities. It costs not a cent. Its 
 proper use would eliminate all lung disease, yet one-third of the 
 deaths among adults of this country is due to weak, diseased, un- 
 used lungs, which are compressed by the drooping posture. Much 
 of the lung space being ordinarily unused, contains dead air, 
 which affords good breeding ground for disease germs. This dead 
 air space, which should be used to oxygenize the blood causes 
 blood impurity which is the cause of colds, pneumonia and tuber- 
 culocis. Man cannot maintain consciousness without air more 
 than 4 minutes, so necessary is it to his bodily welfare. He can 
 do without water approximately four days, without food, approxi- 
 mately forty days, yet the idea of the necessity of these three has 
 been directly reversed. Man is willing to spend a good percentage 
 of his time getting enough to eat. He drinks if he really recog- 
 nizes the need of water, but has never cared one whit about his 
 supply of air, and the last generation thought it wise to close the 
 windows as ''night air Avould make one sick." Today we know 
 that houses should be built with special attention to ventilation, 
 both in homes and public gathering places. The outdoor schools 
 of Chicago and Kansas City recently established for defective 
 children have so raised their standard that they have many times 
 excelled the so-called normal children. If this fresh air is good 
 for our defectives, why would it not raise the standard of the 
 normal child? Physicians are now recognizing that there is no 
 cure for tuberculosis except outdoor living. The new realization 
 
LESSON NO. 1 7 
 
 is the value of prevention rather than cure, to which all the at- 
 tention has previously been given. ''LIFT UP YOUR CHEST 
 AND BREATHE A BIT." 
 
 You can go longer without water than you can without air, Water: 
 but ultimately it is just as necessary as air. Few people realize 
 the necessity of its proper use for internal cleanliness. Internal 
 cleanliness is much more necessary for health than external, yet 
 many people are very particular about their daily bath for cleanli- 
 ness, the inside of whose body is reeking with filth. Would you 
 have an attractive, charming, magnetic, clean, wholesome, lovely 
 body? Then keep it clean on the inside with the use of an abund- 
 ance of water. Here are a few reasons why we need water, about 
 two quarts a day, to carry on the business of living successfully 
 and keeping the body balanced. 
 
 Every function of the body requires water for its operation; 
 70 per cent of the body is water. Imagine what you would look 
 like if you should happen to be run through a wringer. 
 
 Every act requires some water, even the winking of the eye. 
 
 When food is taken into the mouth the saliva flows, the larg- 
 est percentage of which is water; when taken into the stomach, 
 the gastric juice flows, — mostly water. Water is needed to make 
 the secretions of the liver, the pancreas and the bowels; it is 
 needed by the kidneys and the skin, (both eliminative organs, — 
 the skin containing 28 miles of "pore "-sewerage). 
 
 We recognize the need of water for the growth and develop- 
 ment of the animal and the plant. Plants become soft and flabby 
 without it; so the human tissue. Without water the body be- 
 comes filthy, for the sub-conscious mind, which is the body builder, 
 is a creature of habit. It readjusts itself to bad conditions. It 
 will keep the body alive if it can. It must have water; if it be 
 possible to have it from the normal source, well and good, but if 
 not, it will extract what water it can from the contents of the 
 bowels, and that which is sewage is drawn back into your circula- 
 tion and the saliva in your mouth is modified by it. 
 
 If an engineer be running an engine and attempts to run it 
 one hundred miles on water enough to run it only fifty and his 
 engine dries up and burns up, and he loses his job as an engineer, 
 you would say it served him right ; he should have known his busi- 
 ness and have done the right thing. Just so with you. You are 
 the engineer. Your body is the engine, and if through insufficient 
 water you ajlow this body to dry up, you lose your job as an en- 
 
8 LESSON NO. 1 
 
 gineer through disease and premature death. For perfect diges- 
 tion, assimilation and elimination you need two quarts of water 
 daily. Distilled, aeriated water is the best, and should be used 
 especially by those people who are suffering from hardening of 
 the arteries, stiffness or old age. 
 Daily On arising in the morning drink from one to two glasses of 
 
 Regime: water, hot or cold according to desire. Then lie down flat on the 
 back, no pillow under the head, on a hard surface ; draw the knees 
 up a trifle to relieve the strain on the vital organs; place the flat 
 of the hand over the stomach, close the eyes, center the attention 
 on the stomach, and draw in gently, then push out gently. Aid 
 what is necessary with the hands to gain the use of the muscles 
 over the stomach. Continue two or three times to begin with, then 
 increase gradually as you become accustomed to the exercise. 
 Then, tense the muscles over the abdoman, placing the flat of the 
 hands over the abdomen, make gentle but firm pressure, kneading 
 in a circular motion, continuing the resistance with the abdominal 
 muscles. This should be repeated two or three times, gradually 
 increasing as the muscles of the abdomen tone up. Now make an 
 effort at securing a complete bowel movement. Be very diligent 
 and regular about this part of the daily regime, as most of the 
 cases of constipation are caused from carelessness and irregularity. 
 Next, rub down and air bath, using a flesh brush or vegetable sponge 
 until the skin is pink. Next take your exercises, then any kind 
 of water bath which is agreeable. The cold bath is good for only 
 those who react quickly and is harmful for one who only shivers 
 and remains cold. Use your good judgment about this. Get into 
 your clothes quickly. Now, outdoors thirty minutes walking or 
 running as your bodily condition permits, never allowing the 
 heart beat or circulation to go above real comfort. Go alone. 
 Regulate your own speed. Then do as you please until 1 :00 P. M. 
 and take a 30 minute nap if possible. It is good for any of us to 
 break the day in two. 
 
 Food: This is a subject of universal interest. Americans are a race 
 
 of dyspeptics caused by improper eating and hurry and worry. 
 We shorten our lives and reduce our efficiency by our methods of 
 eating. To live right will be easy for some of you, a difficult thing 
 for others, according to your temperament, but after you have 
 
LESSON NO. 1 9 
 
 learned how to Jive USE YOUR WILL POWER. For it will be 
 a choice between good health and semi-invalidism. 
 
 Again, the cause of all physical disease is an accumulated 
 filth; it is an abnormal condition, for the natural tendency is to- 
 ward health. We have a health army in our system, the white 
 blood corpuscles. Disease germs are their favorite diet. Scientists 
 prove this by injecting disease into the circulation. Immediately 
 an alarm seems to be sent out all over the body and all the white 
 blood corpuscles, self locomotive, travel rapidly toward the spot 
 from whence the alarm came. Imagine the white blood corpuscle 
 on the inside of the w^all of the blood vessel, the disease germ on 
 the outside. The white corpuscle sends forth a little tendril, 
 threadlike, oozes its way through the wall and leaves no hole 
 through which it has gone. It pounces upon the disease germ and 
 devours him. When we live right, keep our bodies clean, disease 
 germs are not so numerous but that our health army can take care 
 of them, but accumulated filth means prosperity for the disease 
 germs; they become so numerous that the white blood corpuscles 
 founder in their efforts to serve us and they in turn die, their bodies 
 become added debris. The situation becomes alarming, a draft sys- 
 tem is inaugurated, all cells all over the body which can be spared 
 are called into service to help the regular army oust the invader, 
 and the extra excitement and activity causes the heat called fever. 
 When it gets too hot the patient dies. Keep your system clean and 
 you need never have any fear of disease germs. One of the most 
 potent ways is the proper method of eating. 
 
 You may select one or two or three methods of properly 
 nourishing your body, or combine all of them together if you wish 
 definite and quick results. For those suffering ■ from catarrh and 
 colds, rheumatism and kindred ailments, speedy improvement will 
 be observed by leaving off all meat, fish, eggs and cheese, for these 
 are the foods which contain nitrogen, which is always present in 
 such ailments. Or, you may continue to eat what your appetite 
 calls for, providing you adopt the extreme methods advocated many 
 years ago by Horace Fletcher. It will do you good to read 
 Fletcher's books on putrition, especially the one called ''The New 
 Epicure and Glutton". 
 
 Horace Fletcher's history is extremely interesting and profit- 
 able. At the age of 45 he was a confirmed invalid, suffering from 
 incurable chronic ailments. He was over weight, short of breath, 
 and life insurance companies refused him as a risk. One summer 
 
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 LESSON NO. 1 
 
 while in Chicago, by accident he began to chew his food and see 
 how many fine flavors he could extract from it. After a couple 
 of weeks of this extra chewing, he noticed that he had more en- 
 durance and freer breath. After six months of effort he got down 
 to business on real Fletcherism, and within five years he had not 
 only cured himself but declared that he had more endurance than 
 any man living. His statements attracted the attention of food 
 specialists all over this country and Europe and he was invited 
 to Yale University to compete with their finest athletic team which 
 was composed of young men, the pick of their kind, who had been 
 eating at a training table, food which was supposed to produce 
 the greatest endurance, — who had been gradually brought up in 
 exercises to produce the greatest resistance and endurance. 
 Fletcher was challenged to go through for eight consecutive days 
 every exercise which these men went through. He was allowed 
 to eat what he wanted, also such quantities as he desired, and 
 Horace Fletcher did then something that has never been done 
 before or since. He went through for eight days every exercise 
 through which those trained athletes went, doubling many of their 
 endurance tests and had no reaction in sore muscles, lost not a 
 pound of weight, was 'not even tired; and this on one-half the 
 food that had formerly been thought necessary to maintain life 
 without a stroke of work. Scientists of the day said Fletcher was 
 a freak. They were afraid to try the method on their students, 
 but one professor who had been suffering from rheumatism, un- 
 able to get relief tried it out, at first gingerly, and soon noticed 
 improvement. From that day to this only a few thousand. Americans 
 have tried real Fletcherism, but everyone who has tried Fletcher's 
 method has improved to the degree to which they have employed 
 the principle. At Battle Creek Sanitarium they wrote a chewing 
 song and chewed their way to health. Professor Kellogg said he 
 was ashamed that he had never thought of it before. You need 
 never have indigestion any more if you are willing to Fletcherize. 
 
 The Rules 
 of This 
 System : 
 
 1. Chew until the taste is gone. 2. Never eat unless hungry. 
 Real hunger is not that all gone feeling immediately after the 
 accustomed meal time. Be sure it is genuine hunger. 3. Eat 
 what appetite calls for. Take a deliberate mental attitude. Don't 
 hurry. Enjoy your food. Do not eat when tired or hurried. 
 Save some of the appetite until the next meal. 
 
LESSON NO. 1 11 
 
 There is a difference of opinion among dieticians, as to 
 whether two or three meals a day are best. I should say that 
 generally two meals are sufficient unless one be doing actual 
 manual labor for long hours. Many people prefer no breakfast, 
 others never get used to doing without it. So use your judgment ; 
 but if you must have a third meal, make it raw, unsweetened fruit. 
 
 There is a reason for all of this. The first stage of digestion 
 should take place in the mouth. That is the alkaline reaction. 
 The second stage takes place in the stomach, the acid reaction. 
 The chemical change in the mouth causes the sensation called taste. 
 When this is incomplete that part of the digestive process is not 
 finished. With complete mastication the food practically all goes 
 into the stomach in the same condition, which automatically solves 
 the problem of the choice and combination of foods. The true 
 Fletcherite soon regains the natural ability to choose the food that 
 is needed for body building. The chemistry of the saliva in the 
 mouth varies with different kinds of foods of the true Fletcherite. 
 That of the individual who bolts his food remains stationary. 
 With the first process of digestion properly performed the stom- 
 ach takes care of the second easily. The food then goes into the 
 small intestines where it is prepared to become nourishment for 
 the body; but if the first stage is not properly performed, then 
 the second cannot be, and' when the food arrives at the small in- 
 testines Nature makes her last effort to reduce it to where it will 
 be nourishment for your body. In so doing there is a fauna or 
 putrefaction germ, or rotting germ if you please, which acts upon 
 the food and partially decomposes it. This process manufactures 
 a cheap quality of alcohol. You have your own private internal 
 distillery and the quality of that alcohol which you manufacture 
 causes the very stylish ailment called ''auto intoxication." Leave 
 off the auto, it is a disgrace. Prefixing the auto, we get much sym- 
 pathetic attention. The day is coming when both kinds of intoxi- 
 cation will be looked at and treated alike. In the future that man 
 or woman who so lives as to cause his body to deteriorate will be 
 treated as any other criminal. The gas in the stomach and bowels 
 which is so common is caused primarily by want of thorough masti- 
 cation. 
 
 The third choice of remedy for indigestion is to reduce the 
 quantity of food to one-half and double the outdoor exercise. 
 
 It must be remembered that the action of the stomach and the 
 chemical quality of the gastric juice and the contents of the stomach 
 
12 LESSON NO. 1 
 
 are largely determined by the mind. Experiments have been con- 
 ducted upon a house cat wherein bismuth has been placed in its 
 food which enables the observance of the action of the stomach with 
 the X-Ray. The cat is fed. It lies down to sleep. The action of 
 the stomach is normal. The gentle churning process continues ; 
 but a dog suddenly is brought into the room, and every hair on 
 the cat's back stands on end, a fight is on, the stomach ties up into 
 a knot, the cat's digestive process ceases, and sometimes it takes 
 hours for the action to resume. The same law applies to you and 
 me. The contents of the stomach are converted into a veritible 
 poison through adverse emotions. Moral : Never have an unpleasant 
 argument with your friends when your stomach is full, and since 
 the stomach contains food most of the time, you never can afford it. 
 
LESSON No. 2 
 
 MIND THE ARCHITECT: CELLS THE BUILDERS 
 
 ]\Ian is a triune being, physical, mental and spiritual. He is 
 therefore subject to three types of law. There are certain definite, 
 fixed, immutable laws by which the body operates. To meet the 
 physical requirements of good health, obey the law as laid down in 
 the first lesson. But mind reacts upon the body and the body re- 
 acts upon the mind. A depressed mind depresses the action of the 
 vital organs, the liver becomes sluggish, the stomach and bowels in- 
 active, the heart slows down, and- the general feeling of debility 
 results. Hereafter, we divide our subject into three phases, three 
 types of requirement for human efficiency. They are 
 
 Food, Exercise, Mental Influence: 
 
 Under FOOD I class all material that is taken in from with- 
 out to build up by means of the vital force from within : the things 
 we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe, the magnetism from 
 the sun 's ray. But mind is the designer and builder of this physical 
 house which you and I inhabit. Exercise is the tool which the soul 
 uses to distribute and apply the building material. Exercise is 
 half mental, half physical. Again, MIND IS THE BUILDER. 
 The means which mind uses to design and build this house are the 
 sensations, the impressions and emotions which enter the con- 
 sciousness from within and without through auto-suggestion and 
 suggestion. 
 
 At this place I am asked, Have you any place for drugs in your 
 philosophy? Yes. To explain the effect of drugs upon the body 
 I outline a metaphysical universal principle. It becomes evident 
 to the advanced student that everything that is in the phenomenal 
 realm is a rate and character of vibration: all vibration is the re- 
 sult of the action of consciousness in the form of mental operation, 
 conscious, sub-conscious or super-conscious. The vibration of some 
 substances is very rapid, while with others they are much 
 slower. There being an affinity between two substances, — when 
 placed together they tend to neutralize each other, equalize, 
 and take on a common rate of vibration, like the magnet and a 
 piece of steel. Strychnine, for instance, is a poison for the human 
 body. This is due to the fact of its super-rapidity of action. 
 
14 LESSON NO. 2 
 
 Taken into the stomach it begins to neutralize with the vibratory 
 action of the body cells and in that process the strychnine slows 
 down and the cells speed up. If the activity of the cells of the 
 body becomes too great, death results. In sickness, a physician 
 finds either a sub-normal condition, too slow, or a fever condition, 
 too rapid. He attempts always to give the drug which will raise 
 or lower the vibratory action as the need may demand. The 
 up-to-date, applied psychologist does not discard any of the 
 therapeutic agencies. We believe in giving all sides of Nature a 
 chance and we recognize all phases of the manifestation of law. 
 But the day is almost at hand when everything that is accom- 
 plished now by the use of drugs can be accomplished by mind 
 power without any detrimental reaction, which is so common in 
 the use of drugs. The applied psychologist who would ignore the 
 necessity of right living has not the broad vision. The physician 
 who is unable to recognize the power of mind, faith, confidence in 
 his drugs and methods is also restricted in his comprehension. 
 The body is mechanically builded and may get out of plumb which 
 causes pressure on nerves and muscles and therefore osteopathy 
 and chiropractic and massage treatments all have their rightful 
 place. All methods of therapy which do anybody any good serve 
 their purpose. All are steps on the way, but the ultimate recog- 
 nition will be the creative power of concentrated thought. 
 
 I have said that MIND IS SUPREME. The scriptures say, 
 "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." The psychologist says: 
 *'As a man thinketh in his soul or subconscious mind, so is he, and 
 so does he constantly become, in body, mind, character, tempera- 
 ment, morality, psychic nature and spiritual insight." Christ con- 
 stantly emphasized the power of mind, the control of self through 
 faith. To the woman he said: "Thy faith hath made thee whole.*' 
 To the mother: "Go thy way; thy faith hath saved thee." And 
 when He said, "I have not seen such faith, no, not in Israel," a 
 miracle transpired. 
 
 The Master was able to control substance external to self; 
 He walked on the water. When Peter saw Him, something tran- 
 spired in his consciousness which enabled him to w^alk three or four 
 steps on the water, then he w^ent down. Upon the approach of the 
 Master, Peter was told in substance that he could have walked 
 on the water if he had only thought so. The applied psychologist 
 does not claim that surface thinking will make it so, but that 
 there may be a soul realization attained, which will make it pos- 
 
LESSON NO. 2 15 
 
 sible for you and me to accomplish what the Master so easily dem- 
 onstrated. The Christ-life is a perfect demonstration of absolute 
 control over physical substance. He created food; He calmed the 
 winds and waves; He cured disease; He raised the dead; all by 
 mind power. I can make no statements in this course of instruc- 
 tions which could seem more radical than the common expres- 
 sions in the New Testament scriptures. 
 
 The farthest back a psychologist or metaphysician can go is to 
 assume the eternal existence of infinite intelligence. I call it 
 universal consciousness; the Christian call it God. The psycholo- 
 gist attempts to know God through the study of the operation of 
 His law, with the ultimate purpose of gaining a working knowl- 
 edge of law. To know God's will and comply with it should be 
 the aim and purpose of all scientists and religionists. 
 
 God has ordained a wonderful way of body building. When 
 this law is understood it is seen that man is in very truth con- 
 stantly creating his own destiny. Each individual is what he is 
 because he has thought as he has, consciously and subconsciously. 
 Briefly summed up, the thoughts of today become the dreams of 
 tonight; the actions of tomorrow, and the character of the future.* 
 The thought of all time accumulating crystallizes and determines 
 the very quality of the tissue of the body, its form, the cast of 
 the countenance, the quality and color of the hair, the shape of 
 the body, the way one walks and stands, from the crown of the 
 head to the sole of the feet, to the core of your being. Your body 
 is a crystallized substance builded by the action of mind, a mental 
 mould into which as it were this body has been poured. Every 
 physical tie-up has a corresponding kink in the consciousness ; 
 every physical ailment has a mental ailment back of it. 
 
 My purpose in this lesson is to teach you the physiological 
 change which takes place under mental influence, and the process 
 by which this change takes place. This can best be learned through 
 a study of THE CELL THEORY. The cell theory was first so- 
 called by scientists because it was a theory. Today it is a dem- 
 onstrated fact. All school physiologies teach the cell theory from 
 a physical point of view, but as yet the instructions concerning 
 the causal side of cell life has not been included in the school cur- 
 riculum. It is the psychic law of the cell which we will study. 
 
 As a basis for study of the cell theory the amoeba has been a 
 convenient organism. Here are a few salient facts in regard to 
 the amoeba: It is a water organism, one-celled, composed of a 
 
16 LESSON NO. 2 
 
 center or nucleus with a surrounding body. It reproduces its 
 kind by division; it starts out small, has a voracious appetite, eats 
 large quantities for its size, grows rapidly, and as it approaches 
 maturity its nucleus can be observed to begin to cut in two, with 
 a corresponding division of the body. This process continues until 
 at maturity the separation is complete, and where there was one 
 mature amoeba, there are now two young ones. Note this law 
 of the single celled amoeba, for it is a universal law in all single 
 celled life. It is youth, growth, maturity, reproduction and youth 
 again, not OLD AGE. Question: If the law of the unit of your 
 body is such, then why does not the same law apply to the sum 
 total of the complex organism? Why old agef Some more facts 
 about the amoeba : It is intelligent enough to care for its personal 
 needs; it recognizes food and rejects that which is unfit. In that 
 I sometimes say it is wiser than some folks whom I know. It 
 seems to have a common consciousness, that is, each individual in 
 a community of amoebae seems sometimes to recognize the air or 
 common purpose of the whole; for instance, all may be observed 
 at times to be chasing one of their number, much as children play 
 at black man on the school grounds. Whether they be playing a 
 game just as children, or whether a tragedy is being enacted and 
 one of their number has committed an offense and each is a self- 
 appointed policeman to catch the offender, we know not, but the 
 point is, the amoebae have more than a recognition of their own 
 existence; they have some sort of intelligence. The amoeba has 
 the ability to adjust its body to a new condition, just as you and I. 
 If we go north and live in a cold country our body readjusts to 
 resist the change; then go to a warm climate, a new adjustment 
 takes place. Just so with the single celled life. Place an amoeba 
 in water containing acetic acid; it will build a protecting shell 
 about its body, and continue to live unharmed under such condi- 
 tions. An amoeba wishing to come up out of the water inflates a 
 gas bag; wishing to lower, it deflates it. 
 
 The salient points in regard to the amoeba are common to all 
 single celled life, whether they compose the bodies of vegetable, 
 animal or human. It has become evident to the advanced student 
 that each of the billions of cells which compose the bodies of any 
 of these is a separate, independent, living, intelligent entity, which 
 comes into existence for a purpose, lives out its purpose, going on 
 to another sphere, just as you and I. 
 
 We were told as children that the body changed once every 
 
LESSON NO. 2 17 
 
 seven years; we now know that it changes much more rapidly. In 
 fact, I believe the body changes very nearly wholly each year; 
 the softer substances of the body change decidedly every thirty 
 days, as is observed in the healing of a wound. Millions of cells 
 are being born into your body every minute; other millions are 
 dying out; you are constantly creating your body, and re-creating 
 it. All methods of therapy must rely on this fact for a cure of 
 disease and change of bodily structure. The psychological law 
 which governs the re-construction of the body is the pivotal point 
 of this lesson. 
 
 I have told you that cells have minds. They differ in their 
 minds as more complex organisms. This is a new field of study 
 and I sliall now tell you what seems to be the law back of the oper- 
 ation of the cells, and how that law is constantly working in your 
 body for health or disease, success or failure, happiness or unhappi- 
 ness, whether you are conscious of it or not. 
 
 It seems that you, the real ego, self, are the absolute monarch 
 or ruler or dictator over this community of individual cells which 
 make up your body. Again it seems that the thought, feeling and 
 emotion which enter and dominate your consciousness are the means 
 by which you command the cells of your body to operate. It seems 
 that the energy of the body is like electricity, and that you have 
 a telephone system, composed of your brain and nerves, (being the 
 physical apparatus), and the consciousness operating the brain be- 
 ing the telegrapher. Your cells are the receivers; you are the rec- 
 ognized authority. It is the business of the cells to take your mes- 
 sages, but never to offer commands. You think a thought of dis- 
 ease in the form of a fear. It seems that you telephone automati- 
 cally to that part of the body where the fear is centered and that 
 the message is taken up by the cells of that organ, they in turn 
 become active, starting energy to vibrating. If the command or 
 fear has been given with sufficient force once, to produce a psycho- 
 logical moment of great intensity of feeling, or if the fear is in- 
 dulged over a sufficient length of time, the response in cell activity 
 becomes great enough to build the structure and chemistry which 
 corresponds to the particular disease of which you have been afraid. 
 An almost unvarying law of cell life is that each generation repro- 
 duces its kind, not only physically but mentally. Give a cell a 
 forceful command, it functions accordingly, the next generation 
 does the same, and so on until a new forceful command be given. 
 The cells seem to be like workmen ; the boss gives orders ; they con- 
 
18 
 
 LESSON NO. 2 
 
 Hold in 
 Mind the 
 Law of the 
 Sub-con- 
 scious : 
 
 tinue to obey until new orders are given. It is this law by which 
 habits are formed; once an emotion is entertained because of an 
 immediate circumstance, it will have a tendency to re-function long 
 after the immediate cause has been removed. We are constantly 
 impressing cells of body and brain. We are building character now 
 for the years that are to come. If we would attain a goal, we must 
 live it by the wayside. 
 
 Do you see now how, if you continue to think thoughts of dis- 
 ease, sickness and unhappiness you build a body through the 
 medium of the cell minds which corresponds to your feelings and 
 emotions ? 
 
 Concentrated thought gives definite cell command. Sufficiently 
 concentrated to become a soul expectation, it is always realized. 
 Soul expectations accumulate generation after generation and be- 
 come race convictions. These race convictions become the potent 
 factors in determining our body condition, and their vibratory 
 effects impinge upon the consciousness of the embodying ego, first 
 through heredity and then modified and strengthened in pre-natal 
 influence; later in child training, education and universal experi- 
 ence. We gain from these sources a soul conviction that certain 
 things are necessary because they are universal, and are therefore 
 called natural law, and are assumed to be fixed and unchanging. 
 Especially note this statement: Nature as it applies to man on all 
 planes of his being always acts* in strict accord with the sum total 
 of his accumulated experience. What is natural and good for me 
 may not be natural and good for you, because of the difference of 
 our accumulated consciousness, in experience, the nature of which 
 has always been determined by our interpretation of what happens 
 rather than the event itself. The resultant action of accumulated 
 consciousness equals natural law. It is by virtue of this law that 
 a common saying becomes true: "What is one man's meat is an- 
 other man's poison." 
 
 If you have a comprehension of the law which I have been 
 outlining you can now see the ''why" of old age. Once upon a day, 
 long before the dawn of history, eons of time ago, somehow, some- 
 where, man violated some of the laws of his being and thereby re- 
 stricted his consciousness and cut himself off from' his higher self, 
 the God within and the God without. The myriad results today 
 show forth in all of man's undesirable limitations. He accumulated 
 gradually a consciousness which produced old age. His limited ob- 
 servation and experience then told him it was a necessity, and with 
 
LESSON NO. 2 19 
 
 the generations it became a race conviction, a sub-consciously ac- 
 cepted fact, — necessity, — which in turn constantly acts as com- 
 mands upon the cells, and every cell in the body takes on the chem- 
 istry and structure and its relative arrangement with all other cells 
 to conform to the soul's conviction of the requirements for age. We 
 are all ruled by this race consciousness ; the psychologist is trying to 
 rise above it, but rare indeed is that individual who can think above 
 and beyond and independent of the thought of his race and time. 
 
 Realizing this law, you can see the folly of living over past 
 troubles and talking to your neighbors about your family ailments. 
 These are little short of a crime. The sympathetic listener enter- 
 taining visions of the things you describe is doing what he can to 
 build those things in his own body. Bugaboo stories to children 
 so impress the cells of the brain and nervous system that all through 
 the life of the adult, after the reason and judgment repudiates a 
 fear, the fear still prevails. Be careful of your conversations. 
 
 During highly emotional states of mind the action of the 
 energy and cells of the body is very intense and rapid ; that is why 
 some terrible experience makes an impression in a moment which 
 lasts a life time. Mental shock of sufficient force sometimes changes 
 the pigments of the hair cells so the hair will turn white in a few 
 hours. The eyesight has been known to be lost suddenly through 
 shock, then suddenly regained by another shock. Constant depress- 
 ing emotions, such as worry, will destroy the red blood corpuscles. 
 The blood of an anaemic, a chronic worrier, may not show one 
 normal cell. 
 
 Even advertisements in newspapers of patent medicines are 
 disease creators. They offer the worst kind of mental pictures, and 
 they are written to inject fear into the consciousness. These ad- 
 vertisements are written by skilled, unprincipled psychologists. 
 The physician who recognizes this law will be careful of his sug- 
 gestion to patients; the patient who is frightened about his con- 
 dition has faith in his physician, waits for his verdict with great 
 mental intensity, and the suggestion offered by the verdict is the 
 most potent power to kill or cure. A good percentage of the op- 
 erations upon women who are sensitive and suggestible would never 
 be necessary if all physicians were psychologists. A good rule for 
 everybody, adults associating together, and adults in managing 
 children, is this: Never say a single thing to a person or concern- 
 ing him, the fullest effect of u'hich you do not wish to become per- 
 manent in his life, his health, the events of his life, its length. 
 
20 LESSON NO. 2 
 
 quality, and his final destiny. 
 
 But environment is full of adverse suggestions, and we must 
 learn how to handle both adverse environment and adverse sug- 
 gestion so as not to be affected by them. If you are ill, kind friends 
 will visit you and tell of cases like yours which never got well. 
 Yes, and you "look like a ghost." They do not know that they 
 are doing all in their power to make a ghost out of you. If we 
 did outright what we cause to happen through inadvertent sugges- 
 tions we would spend our days in the penitentiary. Our one prob- 
 lem is how to control the impressions which enter and dominate the 
 consciousness, so as to think as we wish to think and feel as we 
 wish to feel, regardless of the nature of events in life as they come 
 and go. The most important problem of human evolution right now 
 is how to govern the thought, feeling and emotions ; how to refuse 
 admission of emotions which are detrimental, and how to be able 
 constantly to dominate the mind with constructive thought. Man 
 is at this present time primarily dominated and reacts to the ex- 
 periences of life from the emotional standpoint, and not from 
 reason and judgment. 
 
 Probably the best short cut to emotional control is to have a 
 well-defined purpose in life, which so fills the emotional and in- 
 tellectual need for expression that all the trivial daily stress and 
 strife become secondary in their importance. Then learn the sub- 
 stitution of thought, constructive for destructive; learn happy say- 
 ings and comforting quotations; then when the hour of stress ap- 
 pears say them over and over; try to feel them and realize them. 
 Here are some that I use : ' ' God is in His heaven and all is well. ' ' 
 ' ' The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. ' ' The words, ' ' health, 
 strength, vitality and success" repeated over and over again re- 
 enthuse the cells of the brain and body, re-energize the whole body 
 with renewed courage and strength for renewed effort. Continued 
 effort along this line finally gives you a habit of optimism. If you 
 awaken in the night with fear of a coming disaster rushing in upon 
 you, your heart starts in your throat, beat it back with a long deep 
 breath held firmly and positively for a moment. Take a positive 
 mental attitude towards your body. A negative mental attitude 
 toward pain and disease encourages its continuance. Alternate be- 
 tween complete relaxation, lying down, and a substantial, positive 
 effort at activity. This is the instruction for a large percentage 
 of the semi-invalid or chronic-invalid. Of course in cases of acute 
 illness the instructions of a competent physician should be obeyed 
 
LESSON NO. 2 21 
 
 for a time until the application of the above formula becomes ad- 
 visable. 
 
 I have said, exercise is half physical and half mental. Those The Physi- 
 exercises which are taken without putting the mind into them ^^^^1 
 produce slight results. The physical principles involved in exer- Principle of 
 cise are contraction, which is mechanically squeezing the blood out Exercise: 
 from the tissue, which takes with it the debris; then relaxation, 
 wherein the blood renewed and purified and laden with body- 
 building substance returns. This moment of relaxation and the 
 arrival of the red blood corpuscles is a psychological moment for 
 rebuilding of the tissue. Here are cells awaiting a command. Hav- 
 ing no immediate command they work along the line of previously 
 established plans. Suppose you are exercising your arm. You 
 wish to develop a particular type of arm. Decide what type you 
 want. Make a mental picture of your arm. Close your eyes; see it 
 in your mind's eye; concentrate your attention; then contract the 
 muscles, closing the hands tight, positively, firmly, definitely, as- 
 suming a positive mental attitude. Then relax; the blood rushes 
 back; assume a relaxed mental attitude gently but firmly holding 
 a mental picture of the arm which you wish to build, and to the 
 degree in which you can hold the attention upon that picture, un- 
 modified, you are commanding the cells of the body, and your com- 
 mand shall be obeyed. This same principle can be applied to all 
 parts of the body. True it is, that the fine concentrator can govern 
 the action of the circulation of the blood in the various parts of his 
 body and take all his exercises mentally, but for quick, definite re- 
 sults for the beginner, the physical plus the mental is the wise 
 procedure. A set system of exercise, which is never varied, is not 
 as desirable as the stretching and twisting and pulling and relax- 
 ing of all the body, even the arteries. Movements which ever vary 
 will get much better results if the mind be centered upon the effort 
 and the exercise be intelligently applied. Study you own body 
 needs, and study ways and means of correcting defects and develop- 
 ing the entire organism. Read Sanford Bennet's book, ''Old Age, 
 Its Cause and Prevention." 
 
LESSON No. 3 
 
 NERVE ENERGY 
 
 Nerve 
 
 Energy 
 
 Defined: 
 
 Analogy : 
 
 Nerve Energy is the medium by which all physical and mental 
 processes take place. It is the life force of the body. It is the 
 force which enables us to exist and function. It is the force 
 which enables us to build the body in the first place and which 
 we are constantly using in rebuilding and repairing. It is the 
 force which connects the soul with the body. 
 
 Nerve energy seems to remain quiescent, else it be set into ac- 
 tion by mental activity. Mind acting seems to disturb energy 
 much as a stone which is thrown in a pond of water. Vibrations 
 go out in circles from the stone, the intensity and character of 
 the vibration being determined by the size of the stone, the force 
 with which it is thrown, the slant and so on, and just so it seems 
 that nerve energy vibrates when set into action by mind. 
 
 Nerve energy seems to be a specialized crystallized form of 
 universal vital force, which permeates all space and everything 
 in space. This universal vital force is the medium by which every- 
 thing came into existence. There are specialized forms of this uni- 
 versal vital force, which seem to have been created or modified 
 by the action of individual consciousness, one form of which is 
 what we call nerve energy, that little slice out of the universal 
 vital force w^hich your personality has appropriated in its evolu- 
 tionary unfoldment. 
 
 Another specialized form of this universal force is commercial 
 electricity. We can get some adequate idea of nerve energy or 
 body electricity by studying commercial electricity. We do not 
 know, we have no adequate conception, of just what is nerve 
 energy. We can only know it by the results of its action. Edison 
 himself says that he does not know what electricity is. He knows 
 just as much about it as the visible manifestation of its action 
 teaches him. We know that the wires of the telegraph, telephone 
 and transit companies must be charged with electricity in order 
 to be alive and have the power to transmit messages and carry 
 loads. Wires so charged are live wires. Without electricity the 
 wires are dead and inert, they have no power. Just so with the 
 human body and body electricity. Our nerves are the body wires. 
 
LESSON NO. 3 23 
 
 When sufficiently charged with bodily electricity we are alive, 
 alert, we have energy, power, and when this energy is properly 
 directed and applied, — dependable, desirable results can be ac- 
 complished ; but when the body becomes depleted, the mental ac- 
 tivity and realization becomes slow, indistinct and incomplete; 
 all kinds of deficiencies result, and with sufficient depletion, death 
 ensues. 
 
 There are three phases to the study of nerve energy : first, how Bases : 
 to get it if you have not enough ; second, how to keep it, and re- 
 frain from wasting it; third, how to apply it. In other words, its 
 generation, conservation, and application. 
 
 Nerve energy is generated by obedience to two types of law, Generation: 
 physical and mental. In the first lesson I told you how to breathe, 
 drink, eat and exercise. I was talking all the time directly about 
 energy. I know that the air we breathe contains an abundance 
 of energy. If we have a normal lung capacity we get our full 
 quota of energy from that source, but with deficient lung capacity 
 we cut ourselves off to a degree from that source of supply. When 
 I said, Drink at least two quarts of water daily, I had in mind 
 that water contains energy. When I gave you instructions in 
 proper methods of eating, I had two phases of the study of 
 energy in mind, the first one how to get the largest percentage of 
 energy from the food you eat; then also, how to conserve the 
 energy by eating the proper kind and quantity of food. For 
 foods which are difficult to digest require more energy in the 
 process, and over-eating causes an accumulation of debris and 
 poisons in the body, which requires overdrafts of energy to throw 
 off. Wrong methods of living make such a tax upon the body, 
 that the energy is largely consumed in just keeping it balanced, 
 without any appreciable surplus left to accomplish things and 
 raise your standard. In proper exercise you are distributing and 
 applying the energy. In the second lesson, about the Cell Theory, 
 I was telling you how to control the thought, feeling and emotions 
 in such a way as to give proper commands to the cells of your 
 body for the conservation and the application of energy. 
 
 To begin to accumulate an adequate idea of how energy acts, Sub-con- 
 I here give the first instructions in regard to the various phases Relation^^to 
 of the action of mind. Your mind, which is one mind, has four Nerve 
 phases of action. The conscious, sub-conscious, subjective, and ^"^^sy- 
 super-conscious. A definition of each: The conscious mind is the 
 mind which is under the will control ; it is the reasoning mind. You 
 
24 LESSON NO. 3 
 
 think about a proposition, reason and judge upon it, doubt and 
 argue about it, finally come to a conclusion. You can take your 
 choice as to what you will do about it, or let it alone. This phase 
 of your mind is under your will control. Man has been wont in 
 the past to think that his reason and judgment is a big factor in 
 his personality, and it is a very necessary phase, for the conscious 
 mind has been builded and fulfils the requirement which enables 
 us to meet the external world successfully. But as a matter of 
 fact, it is one of the smallest phases of the action of mind. There 
 is another, the great sub-conscious mind, which we may rightly 
 speak of as the hitherto undiscovered mind, which is purely auto- 
 matic in its operation. As you read this page you are thinking 
 along the lines which I suggest. You are reasoning about the 
 quality of the contents, you are perhaps arguing, maybe doubting. 
 But at the same time all unconscious to this reasoning mind, your 
 heart continues to beat and your vital organs carry on their func- 
 tions. If you have lived right in the past, that complex bodily 
 process is going on so smoothly, so harmoniously, that you take 
 no cognizance of it. For ages man did not know that his blood 
 circulated. Yet all this while there was a great sub-conscious 
 knowledge and intelligence, possessed by primitive, uneducated 
 man, which enabled him to build and continually repair a body. 
 When you think of the great complexity of the human organism, 
 even the human eye, which has an ability to adjust itself to see 
 at a distance and then close at hand, — the human heart, which 
 knows just how rapidly to beat when you sit quietly, then speed 
 up if you run around a block, — adjust itself constantly to an ever 
 varying condition, — all this process going on of which you con- 
 sciously know nothing, you will begin to appreciate one phase 
 of your sub-conscious ability. 
 Secrets of I have asked some of the best scientists in the country 
 
 Core of^ ^ whether they consider it to be a possibility that man shall ever 
 Sub-con- learn the secrets of body building and be able to produce life by 
 chemical means; one and all say it is impossible. Man, objectively, 
 can never know the secrets of body building. The more we study 
 the body as a physical organism, as a mechanical organism, the 
 more we find to learn, and we never know it all. Looking at it as 
 a vitalized organism, we haven't even taken a start, and when 
 viewing it as a crystallized, vitalized result of psychic activity, or 
 trying to know the causal as well as the resultant side of body 
 functioning, the scientist hasn't even made a beginning. Small 
 
 scious: 
 
LESSON NO. 3 25 
 
 indeed is the intellectual, external attainment of man as com- 
 pared with his great sub-conscious knowledge, power, and po- 
 tentiality for development and unfoldment. Down deep in your 
 sub-conscious mind you possess apparently an infinitude of knowl- 
 edge. You are an expert chemist and biologist; you are a genius 
 in mathematics; no applied psychologist has ever been able to 
 strike the limit of actual knowledge possessed by the sub-conscious 
 mind of any individual. I do not know where man gained his sub- 
 conscious mind. Maybe it is a relative infinitude of experience. 
 May be it is a spark of the divine, a single cell in universal con- 
 sciousness, and like as a drop of water partakes of the properties 
 of the great ocean, so does man partake of the properties of the 
 infinite. Being a part of this universal consciousness, there never 
 was a time when he was not, therefore he partakes of universal 
 experience, — hence possesses a sub-conscious mind of universal 
 knowledge. May be he is a more or less separated personal con- 
 sciousness, and that he may be likened to a book, the outer cover- 
 ing of which protects the more delicate, perishable leaves. The 
 cover is his conscious mind. Lift it up, examine the title page, the 
 introduction, and you have hit that part of the mind analagous 
 to the subjective, and the first pages, the outer layers of the sub- 
 conscious; turn page after page and you have opened layer after 
 layer of the sub-conscious mind, but in opening this great personal 
 record you never come to the last page. You go on down and down, 
 and maybe it is that this book is connected some place with the 
 book of universal knowledge. Maybe it is that in the deepest 
 planes of the sub-conscious mind man has a connection with 
 God, his Father, and striking that plane he has access to all 
 the facts of the Universe. No matter which theory is true, for 
 practical purposes you and I can assume that within the deepest 
 recesses of our soul self there is an unlimited knowledge and an 
 unlimited possibility for development and unfoldment. For im- 
 mediate practical purposes we can safely assume that it is possible 
 for us to develop right here in this life the perfection of our own 
 special type. At least nine-tenths of the mind is sub-conscious or 
 automatic, one-tenth is conscious or under the volitional control. 
 
 Between these two minds there is a connection, or perhaps more Subjective 
 properly a disconnecting link, which I call the subjective mind. ^^^, °^ 
 The subjective mind is the weakest link in human consciousness. 
 I sometimes call it the ''tramp" mind. It follows a will o' the 
 wisp, it goes whither it will, regardless of your wish, and many 
 
26 
 
 LESSON NO. 3 
 
 times it drifts into places and contemplations which your intellect 
 and judgment would repudiate. 
 "Make A chain is no stronger than its weakest link. Since our sub- 
 
 Volatile"^ jective mind is the weakest link in the consciousness, we have no 
 more ability to govern the health, the emotions, the events of life, 
 its length and our final destiny than that represented by our ability 
 to control the action of the subjective mind. I am asked why, if 
 the mind of man possesses such unlimited possibilities he is ham- 
 pered by such strict limitations? My answer: These limitations 
 are due to the fact that the mind, conscious and sub-conscious is 
 separated by the broken link, — the subjective mind. It is the im- 
 proper co-ordination of the mind, conscious and sub-conscious, 
 which causes undesirable limitations, poor health, poor memory, 
 inability to see and sense ahead, make proper choices, do the 
 right thing, and make life a success. The proper co-ordination 
 of those two minds makes the genius; all geniuses along any line 
 of attainnment have the ability to connect these two minds, or tap, 
 ^ through the medium of subjective control, their unlimited sub- 
 conscious power and knowledge. Today man uses but a small pro- 
 portion of his real powers — one-tenth at best. The big study of 
 the applied psychologist of today is how to connect these two 
 minds, or gain the volitional control of the subjective mind. To 
 the degree to which we can do that we shall cease to be creatures 
 of environment aYid chance. In order adequately to understand 
 the how and why of the action of these various phases of mind 
 you must know as much as possible about the subject of nerve 
 energy, for the two go hand in hand. 
 
 Nerve enregy is generated by obedience to the law of life, 
 physical and mental. It is conserved by obedience to the law of 
 life, physical, mental and moral; it is applied by the mental law 
 only. That individual who possesses an abundance of nerve energy, 
 I call the sensitive ; the individual depleted is the non-sensitive. 
 
 You already know the physical laws of life for the generation 
 and conservation of energy. You have a hint as to the law of its 
 conservation on the mental side. Man at the present time is re- 
 acting toward his life's experiences primarily from the emotional 
 point of view rather than reason and judgment. All mental ac- 
 tivity uses energy and tends to crystallize it according to the 
 character of the thought, feeling or emotion which dominates the 
 consciousness. There are two kinds of people, the wise and the 
 unwise; the wise react hopefully, optimistically, constructively, to- 
 
 Conserva 
 tion of 
 Energy : 
 
LESSON NO. 3 27 
 
 ward life's experience and so dominate their consciousness with 
 constructive emotions; the other kind are worry ers and trouble 
 hunters, and dominate their consciousness with fears, anxiety, 
 anger, jealousy, worry, and so waste and worse than waste a large 
 percentage of their energy. The conservation of energy can be 
 summed up as thought controlled, which shows forth in right 
 living, optimistic thinking, and a high type of morality. Most 
 people are born sensitives. Given half a chance in their heredity 
 and pre-natal life they come into this world with what we some- 
 times call a ten horsepower surplus energy. But the biggest busi- 
 ness on the face of the earth, the business of being a mother, has 
 no training. The mother not knowing how to take care of the 
 child, its reserve of energy is drawn upon in childhood; the ab- 
 normal conditions imposed by modern educational methods con- 
 tinues the tax, until on the average, by the time it has reached the 
 age of 25, it has been to a degree depleted in energy. 
 
 This subject of energy is too big to be completed in a brief 
 outline such as this. Let us briefly consider it from two inde- 
 pendent standpoints. 
 
 Let us assume that once upon a day primitive man was in the Accumu- 
 same environment as the present wild animal. Living out of doors, H*^.. ^^*^® 
 enduring the changes of the seasons and the vicissitudes and un- 
 certainties of existence, having little if any clothing, many times 
 hungry, having to run and work hard for what food he had, and 
 always a scanty supply. His energy was practically all used up 
 in the process of physical existence. But as time went on man 
 accumulated experience which finally enabled him to put two and 
 two together as it were, and draw conclusions. It was the dawn 
 of intellect and reason. This superior ability gave him the ad- 
 vantage over the rest of Nature. He learned how to build a fire 
 and warm himself, thus conserving energy, made weapons of 
 defense and reduced his necessity for fighting; learned how to 
 take advantage of and kill animals for food, and use their skins for 
 clothing, thus conserving his own energies. Later he learned to till 
 the soil and increase its productiveness. Food became abundant. 
 From the first cave he builded houses, made a fire and warmed 
 himself. His accumulated knowledge enabled him to eat more and 
 work less, which mode of life had a tendency ever to increase his 
 surplus store of energy. All through human experience, so it has 
 become evident to the applied psychologist, accumulated energy 
 demands expressions and if the individual is not wise enough to 
 
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 LESSON NO. 3 
 
 Directing 
 Energy 
 
 vs. 
 Misdirect- 
 ing: 
 
 apply it constructively for a healthy body, a sound mind, a unified 
 personality, a spiritual and psychic unfoldment, it will apply 
 itself according to the accumulated habit mind or race experience, 
 be that desirable or undesirable. Some place, at some time before 
 the dawn of history man accumulated enough intelligence to lay 
 up a big storehouse of energy without a corresponding spiritual 
 insight as to the best means of applying it. Maybe that is the 
 time that is recorded as the fall of man. Anyhow man became too 
 much interested in things external. Possibly his previous experi- 
 ence in battling with the world for existence made this one-sided 
 consciousness a necessity, but anyway man gave his attention pre- 
 dominantly to the physical side of life and pandering to the senses, 
 without due consideration to the psychic and spiritual nature. 
 As a consequence, he violated certain of the laws of his being, and 
 cut himself off thereby from his higher self and his God. As this 
 unequal experience accumulated men have a tendency to doubt 
 even whether they are immortal beings. Sensing only this external 
 life they are prone to believe it to be all there is. 
 
 This pandering to the senses finally developed into an ab- 
 normal sex tendency, which finally became such a fixed impulse 
 that man with his limited vision came to believe it to be right and 
 necessary. Today man has as a consequence a perverted idea as 
 to the right use of the sex functions. The race has gone sex mad; 
 the impulse has become so ungovernable that it is now thought 
 to be natural and necessary. But what is "Nature" as it applies 
 to man? It is the crystallized, operating result of accumulated 
 consciousness, which shows forth in temperament and tendencies 
 and habits. Attention governs the action of energy; energy goes 
 into the part of the body to which attention is consciously or 
 habitually given. This causes extra vibratory energy action in 
 that particular organ, — extra blood circulation, abnormal develop- 
 ment, when the attention is placed upon that particular organ 
 more than upon other parts of the body. The applied psychologist 
 now knows that the cell structure of the brain, the shape of the 
 head, the cast of the countenance, is determined by the law of 
 attention. Just so is the development and functioning of all the 
 vital organs determined by the attention. Today man is convinced 
 that a certain type of morality is right for the man, another for 
 woman. He says it is ''Nature;" they are different. But man 
 is forty percent feminine and woman is forty percent masculine, 
 and there is every degree of intensity of femininity and muscu- 
 
LESSON NO. 3 29 
 
 Unity, both in men and women. Fundamentally we are all alike, 
 with the same impulses, same intellects, and the sex necessity for 
 the masculine has been accentuated through the training of the 
 ages, while the influence upon the feminine has been for repres- 
 sion and inhibition. This has been continued over sufficient length 
 of time to make a seeming difference in the fundamental nature. 
 The clean, sweet, pure and holy life may become a possibility for 
 all, both men and women, but when it does it will be because our 
 boys and our girls have both been trained to a recognition of the 
 laws of their being and how they operate, and how their opera- 
 tion can be governed and controlled to produce the best results. 
 Our boys and girls need knowledge to guide them aright in char- 
 acter development. Heretofore they have not been given this 
 knowledge. Little Johnny Everychild and his sister Mary, guarded, 
 cared for and protected by the mother, are equally sweet and 
 pure and lovely. They both start to school; the worst boy on the 
 grounds begins to "wise up" Johnny; his sister is protected; he 
 is told that certain things are manly, right, necessary; not so for 
 his sister. His father before him was so taught, and now believes 
 it; society is builded on that basis. Man, the only animal with a 
 big intellect, is the only one which has developed a venereal disease 
 from abnormal use of the sex function. Some say it is right, it is 
 necessary. How can we judge? Natural law reigns supreme. 
 Natural law is the visible expression of divine will; any habit of 
 thought or physical practices which react detrimentally upon any- 
 one concerned and cause suffering or reduction of personality is 
 evidently against God's will. Live in harmony with natural law, 
 the results are always health, strength, happiness; violate the law, 
 unhappiness, disease, friction, result. i\Iy sympathy is with the 
 boy. The world gives him practically no chance to develop a 
 normal body, with normal impulses which correspond with the 
 highest ideals. We must begin with the children, for the atten- 
 tion, the thoughts and emotions induced by lustful thoughts actually 
 change the cell structures of the reproductive organs, and with 
 abnormal thought during the developmental period a life of purity 
 becomes will nigh impossible thereafter. 
 
 It is evident throughout all Nature that God ordained the 
 sex function for the reproduction of the species and for that pur- 
 pose only, and any use of this function for purely sensuous pur- 
 poses is a violation of natural law and results in a lowering of the 
 vitality, both physical and mental. I lay special stress upon this 
 
30 LESSON NO. 3 
 
 phase of nerve energy loss because the sex organs are normally 
 charged with nerve energy in a condensed form, and abuse of this 
 function therefore robs the system to a much greater degree than 
 a corresponding abuse of any other function. Physiologists claims 
 than an ounce of semen is nerve energy so condensed that it af- 
 fords enough vitality to enable a man to carry on the functions of 
 life for five days. 
 
 The sex organs are the recruiting station, the body's localizer 
 of nerve energy, and where the drain is unnatural in those organs, 
 the body and brain are left only partially supplied. 
 
 Humanity has lived an unnatural, wasteful sex life for so 
 long that it has come to be believed right and necessary. Man is 
 today in consequence a pygmy, physically, mentally and psychically, 
 as compared with what he could be if he would live the natural 
 life se:5^ually. I am inclined to believe that if the unnatural w^aste 
 incident to the perverted sex life could be stopped, humanity 
 would immediately gain such a complete supply of nerve energy 
 as to enable it to gain inestimably physically and mentally, and 
 that the connecting link between the conscious and sub-conscious 
 minds would be strengthened until all the forces, both conscious 
 and sub-conscious would be under volitional control. Such a con- 
 dition would mean men of genius who could conquer their own 
 forces and the forces of nature about them, instead of the weak, 
 vacillating, erring human mistakes and accidents which are every- 
 where about us. 
 
 With a normal sex life mothers and prospective mothers could 
 give their surplus strength and vitality to their children and a 
 new race would arise, more beautiful, more symmetrical, stronger, 
 and more intelligent than anything ever dreamed of by the ancient 
 Greeks and Romans. The sex sin is the sin of sins and because 
 of it w^e have will nigh lost our divine heritage of a healthy body 
 and a sound mind and we have lost that other, the psychic sense, 
 which should connect us with God and heaven. But it is possible 
 so to live that this heritage can be regained, and the means is to 
 live the natural life, which affords a maximum of generation and 
 conservation of nerve energy and its wisest and most profitable 
 application, — a life of physical, mental and moral compliance with 
 the laws which God has ordained. 
 
 Let us study the subject of nerve energy now from an entirely 
 different angle, in an attempt to gain a realization of the require- 
 ments to gain, keep and profitably apply an abundance of it. 
 
LESSON NO. 3 31 
 
 The mind is the mental mould into which the body is poured Mental 
 and crystallized as it were. A tense mental attitude produces a ^^^ 
 corresponding tension in the body, just as a sponge squeezed Nerve 
 tightly in the hand when immersed in water will absorb almost "^^sy- 
 none, so the body when tied up in tension can absorb or hold but 
 little energy. Here is an exact truism. To the degree to which 
 your insight and temperament enables you to give a normal, 
 healthy, happy, optimistic, confident, positive reaction toward the 
 events of life, to that degree are the kinks all. taken out of your 
 mind and the corresponding physical tie-ups disappear. This 
 loosens and opens up the body so that it becomes a free medium 
 through which the universal energy freely flows, enabling you to 
 appropriate and apply any portion of it which may be useful to 
 you in the business of living. If you w^ant to know whether you 
 are depleted or not, examine your own inner consciousness and 
 see whether you have fears, worries, anxieties, angers and jeal- 
 ousies, or whether you are always happy and the consiousness is 
 always free. The Bible says, *'Know the truth, and the truth 
 shall make you free." The psychologist says, "Know the law of 
 the mind, conscious and sub-conscious, and the corresponding ac- 
 tion of energy, — apply the same, and free your personality of 
 every undesirable limitation." All abnormal methods of living, 
 all abnormal impulses and tendencies, are unnecessary mental 
 limitations, mental kinks from which it is possible for you to free 
 yourself. Live right, think right, direct and keep your attention 
 upon those things which are true and pure and holy. Love the 
 world, hate no man, forget the past except as it has lessons for 
 you, live intensely, happily, joyfully, busily, usefully in th6 pres- 
 ent. Love thy neighbor as thyself. Do something for somebody 
 quick; look hopefully and confidently into the future, and know 
 that "God is in His heaven and all is well," and you will have an 
 abundance of energy, and steadily climb up the ladder of success. 
 
LESSON Mo. 4 
 
 MIND-ITS LAWS. POWERS AND POSSIBILITIES 
 
 You are where you are because you are what you are. You 
 are what you are because of the nature of your accumulated con- 
 sciousness. Accumulated consciousness seems to have been eternal, 
 and your personality now equals the sum total of previously ac- 
 cumulated experience modified by heredity, pre-natal culture, 
 child training, education and life's experience. 
 
 It seems that in the development of human personality in the 
 earlier stages of evolution environment plays the biggest part. 
 Environment impinging upon the consciousness irritates it into 
 action, the re-action in thought, feeling and emotion is determined 
 by the kind of experience which environment offers, but in a later 
 stage of evolution, after consciousness has evolved to the point of 
 intellect, reason, judgment, it begins to modify the influences of 
 environment and t(5 ^ degree determines the character of interpre- 
 tation of same. Of the animal I would say, its environment de- 
 termines to the largest degree what it is, but of the man I would 
 say, it isn't what happens, it is how you interpret the event and 
 your soul reaction toward that event, including your will to en- 
 dure or eliminate desirable or undesirable experience in environ- 
 ment, — your interpretation, I say, is the thing that counts. A 
 concise truism of applied psychology is, it isn't what happens, it 
 is how it affects you, it is how you take it that determines its fav- 
 orable or unfavorable reaction upon you. 
 
 Your accumulated experience and its interpretation deter- 
 mines the character of your temperament right now. Through 
 the eons of time that you have lived and experienced certain ideas, 
 emotions, feelings, thoughts, have entered and dominated your 
 mind. Those were mental seeds, the planting of which may have 
 long since been forgotten by your conscious self, but their full 
 grown fruit are manifested today as definite phases of your per- 
 sonality. Some of these were determining factors in your per- 
 sonality previous to the accumulation of your present hereditary 
 influence. Plunging into close psychic association, according to 
 the great law of cause and effect, your personality was modified 
 by this association. The next modifying factor was the influence 
 
LESSON NO. 4 33 
 
 of the consciousness of your mother upon your personality previ- 
 ous to your birth. The nerve energy of her body was the nerve 
 energy of your undeveloped body also. When an emotion filled 
 her mind it dominated the vibratory action of the energy of your 
 body and unformed brain and nervous system, making lasting 
 impressions, producing lasting results in temperament, trends and 
 personality throughout your entire life. Later on, the things you 
 were taught to believe as a child, the influences which were brought 
 to bear upon you all through your life, — all these things working 
 together caused the thoughts, feeling and emotions, in short the 
 temperament and personality with which you find yourself today. 
 The analytical adult mind is able to hark back into childhood ex- 
 periences and there find many of the causes of undesirable emo- 
 tional tendencies which the later developed intellect repudiates. 
 Learn to analyze your mind; when you are dominated by an emo- 
 tion of great intensity, stop and try to find its cause. The applied 
 psychologist deals primarily with causes and not results. 
 
 In building personality we may liken it to a mental garden The 
 and the impressions, thoughts, feelings and emotions which dom- Ingredients 
 inate the mind may be likened to the mental seed planted in that acter: 
 garden. Anyone knows that in gardening the harvest primarily 
 depends upon the kind of seed that is sown. Just so it is in the 
 harvest of personality. This is the psychological truism outlined 
 in the Scriptures where it says: ''As a man soweth, so also shall 
 he reap." But if you and I have not in the past always sown 
 seeds of such a nature that our harvest today is desirable, we need 
 not despair; the harvest of your garden this year does not de- 
 termine the harvest for next year. Man is every day, every hour, 
 yes, every minute, creating and re-creating his personality, life 
 and destiny. No undesirable personality is hopeless. No physical 
 disease or mental, psychic or spiritual problem is beyond solution. 
 
 A well trained, intelligent architect desires to build his home 
 for life. He makes his plan, thinks it out in detail, pictures its 
 utility, the possibility of his being able to improve it. Having 
 satisfied himself that his plan is as good as he can make it, he 
 chooses well the material, that it may be of good quality, lasting, 
 enduring. He chooses the most favorable location and environ- 
 ment. His work completed, is a visible, detailed picture of his 
 good judgment or want of it. His finished home will be vastly 
 different from that of the man who gives practically no thought 
 to the design, chooses poor material, and throws it together in the 
 
34 LESSON NO. 4 
 
 spirit that anything is good enough, just so it serves the purpose. 
 The intelligent, trained individual who gives undivided atten- 
 tion to his task, each task always conforming to a great life pur- 
 pose or ideal, may be likened to what the pyschologist terms a 
 strong, unified, solidified personality. The man who is constantly 
 changing the design of his home, is sloven in the choice of his 
 material, or lets it just "grow" as did Topsy, without any definite 
 purpose in the background, may be likened to the split or multiple 
 personality. Such an one seldom has the same ideals two days in 
 succession. The thoughts and emotions which are manifesting to- 
 day may be directly reversed tomorrow. Such an one is undepend- 
 able, unsatisfactory to himself and to the world, is unable to know 
 why he came into the world, what is his purpose in life, or what 
 may possibly be his destiny. These two contrasted individuals, 
 looking at them either from the viewpoint of external life, with 
 their external environment, or psychologically from the viewpoint 
 of their consciousness, may be likened to the contrasted individuals 
 spoken of by the Master, one of whom builded his house upon the 
 sand, the other upon the solid rock. The unified, strong, positive 
 personality is able to withstand the storms of life, but the shifting, 
 multiple personality is always a reflection of environment, on top 
 if the goose honks high, in the depths if fortune goes against him. 
 Neither the successful nor the unsuccessful individual may realize 
 that luck, fortune and fate have been and are of his own making, 
 but such is the fact. Each personality is what it is in its various 
 phases of manifestation, physical, mental, moral, temperamental 
 psychic and spiritual, because of the accumulated consciousness; 
 accumulated consciousness acting creates vibrations which crystal- 
 lize into body, a finer form emanating from the body as personal 
 magnetism which vibrates at a certain tune, pitch or key. This 
 vibration harmonizes with or clashes with the key note of the sub- 
 conscious of every individual with whom he comes in contact. 
 People unconsciously react favorably or unfavorably because of 
 this . The favorable or unfavorable reaction of the world toward 
 an individual determines his environment, the events of his life, 
 and final destiny. It might do you good to commit the following 
 lines to memory and say them to yourself in times of special stress : 
 
 ''Don't blame the world when things go wrong 
 
 And you have met rebuff; 
 
 Don't censure any of the throng 
 
 Who choose to call your bluff; 
 
LESSON NO. 4 35 
 
 Investigate and you will find 
 
 That what I say is true; 
 
 Don't tell me that this world's unkind, 
 
 It ain't the world, it's you." 
 But your personality is already accumulated. At least nine- 
 tenths of your emotions and thoughts and feelings are automatic 
 in their action, — a part of the sub-conscious mind. We are con- 
 stantly building personalities. Each is constantly building a life. 
 And we are here now with a certain kind of accumulation. Do we 
 like the results of our work thus far? Size up your internal con- 
 sciousness now, see how it acts and reacts. Is it satisfactory to 
 you? In some respects it is; in others it is not. Where it is sat- 
 isfactory let well enough alone; where it is undesirable decide to 
 change it. Every change in personality is a matter of entering 
 and intelligently re-charging the sub-conscious mind with new 
 impressions or commands. Our one question is, — How can we 
 reach the sub-conscious mind, weed out the old, undesirable accum- 
 ulation, re-plant our mental garden so that the fruit of the future 
 shall be exactly what we want? 
 
 Before we consider how to reach the sub-conscious mind, let 
 us try to find out more about what it is, where we got it, and how 
 it operates. A few analogies may help us. 
 
 The mind may be likened to a man who has a very valuable A Mental 
 estate; so valuable are his possessions in that estate that to pro- "I^^vasion:" 
 tect it from undesirable intruders he has builded a high wall 
 about it. He leaves one opening, a gate, where he places a guard. 
 To his guard he gives certain instructions. He shall permit en- 
 trance to no one except his friends or those with whom he has 
 legitimate, profitable business. The owner of this estate may be 
 likened to the super-conscious mind; the estate itself to the sub- 
 conscious; the fence and the guard to the conscious mind; and 
 the gate to the subjective. If the owner is wise enough to in- 
 struct his guard aright as to who shall come in and who shall not, 
 all will be well. But if the instruction be not wise, or the guard 
 get off duty for one reason or another, then enemies are bound to 
 intrude. Sometimes the guard goes to sleep; an intruder enters. 
 Some times the attention of the guard is directed to an event down 
 the road; maybe it is nothing more than a dog fight, — he is off 
 guard. Another undesirable intruder enters. Just so it may be 
 with you and me. The conscious or guard mind many times gives 
 attention to things that are not worth while and worse. Let the 
 
36 LESSON NO. 4 
 
 news spread that a terrible accident has happened at a certain 
 street corner. The populace hurries to the spot, with no purpose 
 but to pander to morbid curiosity, and in gazing upon horrible 
 scenes and experiencing the destructive emotion of horror which 
 results, one is entertaining mental guests of an undesirable nature, 
 which may ultimately become a permanent phase of the person- 
 ality. That individual who is building a unified, successful per- 
 sonality is careful what mental pictures register in his conscious- 
 ness; he chooses his company, and he entertains nothing in the 
 mental sphere which he would be ashamed of if it crystallized out 
 here in this visible sphere. 
 
 Sometimes this guard makes mistakes ; he thinks the applicant, 
 for instance, is all right, but has been deceived. Now and then an 
 outlaw thrusts a revolver under his nose, threatens to shoot if his 
 gang is not admitted. The intensity of the fear paralyzes him, and 
 in a trice the whole gang have entered. Such vicissitudes and 
 mistakes accumulating, many undesirables are wandering about 
 that estate. One elects himself as leader, gathers his kind about 
 him, they decide to take possession of the estate and oust the right- 
 ful owner. Just so in human personality does the multiple and 
 split personality develop, sometimes to the point where an obses- 
 sion takes charge and the rightful owner is temporarily put out of 
 house and home. 
 
 Before I present another picture illustrating the mind, the 
 source of its accumulation and method of action, let me ask a 
 question, which the bright student always thinks of. If the sub- 
 conscious mind contains all knowledge, all power, then why does it 
 ever make a mistake in the choice of its actions and manifestations ? 
 I answer: the sub-conscious mind is not the chooser; briefly stated, 
 the law of the sub-conscious mind is SUGGESTION, nothing more 
 and nothing less. You accumulate most of your sub-consciousness 
 from the thoughts in the conscious mind. In experiencing in this 
 external realm your conscious mind receives impressions; it takes 
 them up, works them out, reasons, judges, doubts and argues about 
 them, and finally draws a conclusion. The conclusion is handed 
 down to the sub-conscious mind, where it is taken up, worked out 
 according to the law of suggestion, and the result is the logical 
 outcome of the conclusion which was formed by the conscious 
 mind, — be that good or bad, for health or for disease, for happi- 
 ness or unhappiness, success or failure. The sub-conscious mind 
 hands back as a reaction that which the conscious mind worked 
 
LESSON NO. 4 37 
 
 out in action. In short, the conscious mind acts, the sub-conscious 
 mind reacts. Let us draw a picture of how it works in this way. 
 
 In the business of living you are manufacturing personality, How 
 and you may be likened to a manufacturer who has builded his J^°^^^*^ 
 factory, hired his workmen, and has his business going smoothly. "Manu- 
 We will say he is a manufacturer of silken fabrics. The manu- ^actured" 
 facturer himself acts as his own salesman, goes into the business Visibility: 
 world, meets the retail trade, finds out what are the demand, 
 takes orders, goes to the telephone, telephones in to the head of 
 the manufacturing department to make up so many yards of one 
 kind of silk, so many yards of another kind. The man who re- 
 ceives the order does not question its wisdom; that is not his busi- 
 ness. The salesman determines that. AH he does is to telephone 
 orders to the superintendents of the various departments who in 
 turn give orders to the various workmen on the different looms, 
 and the order down to the last yard as telephoned in by the manu- 
 facturer is produced and delivered to the trade. Just so it is 
 with us. Our conscious minds meet and contact this external 
 realm, think, reason and judge about what it seems to demand, 
 and hand our. conclusions down to the sub-conscious mind in the 
 form of orders. Our thoughts, feelings and emotions are tele- 
 phoned down to the heads of departments, taken exactly as we 
 give them, and worked out to their logical conclusion. If the 
 manufacturer makes mistakes in his orders, does not have good 
 judgment as to the demand and supply, accumulates a bunch of 
 worthless, unsalable material and runs short on the salable, his 
 business soon goes into the hands of a receiver and he is pro- 
 nounced a failure. Just so it is with you and me. We are in the 
 business of life. If we meet the requirements, the demands, 
 wisely, build solidly and substantially, permanently, according to 
 the law of our being, we will be counted a success. 
 
 Again, the mind of man may be likened to a camera. There One Source 
 is inside that camera a very sensitive plate upon which an impres- ^ 
 sion is made the instant it is exposed. Being properly protected, 
 the shutter closed, no picture is taken, but the instant the shutter 
 is opened, some sort of a picture is registered upon the sensitive 
 plate, and the character of the picture is to the last detail deter- 
 mined by the scene which is before it. Imagine a photographer 
 taking his camera into the country to get some choice pictures. 
 How unspeakably foolish he would be to open the shutter with- 
 out 'having chosen his scene, or even open it, making a continual 
 
38 
 
 LESSON NO. 4 
 
 Standards 
 
 of 
 
 "Success:" 
 
 exposure, walking along a country road. Anyone can see what a 
 composite, conglomerate, uninteresting bunch of films would be 
 developed. Anyone attempting to exhibit such an accumulation 
 would either be unable to secure intelligent consideration, or would 
 even be laughed at. One picture wisely chosen, taken exactly 
 right, developed so that it showed superior points over anything 
 of its kind, of sufficient excellence, would receive the notice of all 
 experts along that line. Just so it is with human personality. We 
 are accumulating our pictures, — the sub-conscious mind. Every 
 thought we think, every emotion we feel, everything to which we 
 give attention, makes an exposure, opens the shutter to its inner 
 sensitive plate, and there the picture is registered. It is an exact 
 pyschological truism that we have a tendency to become like those 
 things to which we give attention. Are you positive? Are you 
 charming? Do you know some one thing better than anybody 
 else living? Do you constantly keep your thought upon the highest 
 and best? Then you are a recognized factor in your country in 
 the time in which you live, and are helping to determine the his- 
 tory of your race. Many people complain that they are unable 
 to gain recognition and accomplish things, they are not appre- 
 ciated, their lives are to a degree failures. Such have not met 
 the demands of the time, the age in which they live. They may 
 have accumulated things well worth while, but they have failed 
 ' ' to put it across, ' ' to conform to supply and demand. Their ac- 
 cumulated mental pictures, which equals their personality, are 
 not of the type that at their particular time is in demand. 
 
 There are two types of ideals for life. One may be just 
 meeting the world successfully and accomplishing things, stand- 
 ing high in society, regardless of the effect of such a life upon the 
 individual. A higher standard is to accomplish your ideal, re- 
 gardless of the environment in which it places you in this life. 
 Many of the world's geniuses have lived and died for principle, 
 for art, for science, and being ahead of their time, their work has 
 been refused recognition. So deep is their love for their chosen 
 life work that they seem to care nothing for the opinions of men 
 and their personal fate. The greatest example of service and sac- 
 rifice which the world has ever had was the life of the Christ. It 
 is all right for the advanced soul who has risen above the need of 
 a favorable environment always to serve and sacrifice, but for the 
 beginning student it is better to learn to contact the world with 
 more or less material success, being sure always that one's thought 
 
LESSON NO. 4 39 
 
 and endeavor in business or professional life is constantly react- 
 ing for physical, mental and spiritual growth and well being. To 
 the beginning student I would say, in the choosing of your life 
 work require that it so reacts favorably upon one's self, and at 
 the same time every individual with whom you come in contact 
 shall be benefited because of your chosen life work. 
 
 Again, the sub-conscious mind may be likened to a store Apothecary, 
 house, wherein you have placed all your treasures. You once had gild Bank* 
 access to that store house, entered and came out at will, and closed 
 and locked the door, and were able to unlock it again. But one 
 day the door was inadvertently closed, automatically locked, you 
 left for a time, and while gone forgot the combination. Return- 
 ing, you were unable to open the door. Time went on. You were 
 as poor as if you had no possessions because you did not have ac- 
 cess to them nor the use of them. Just so you have an unlimited 
 wealth in your store house of experience, knowledge and power, 
 — your sub-conscious mind. And so have we all. But once upon 
 a time, long before the dawn of history, man violated some of the 
 laws of his being, separated himself from his higher self, closed 
 the door of his soul, lost the combination, has lost the ability to 
 re-enter it, and today humanity, having no access to — or volitional 
 use of — the riches of personality, is woefully limited in the ability 
 to make life a success, yes, — is poor indeed. 
 
 Today man is separated from his soul's self, or sub-conscious 
 mind. To get back, we may think of him as having to travel a 
 journey, which consists of three stages; in other words, in order 
 to reach the sub-conscious mind, man must use three principles. 
 To enter, volitionally operate, weed out the trash, find its best 
 phases, select and use wisely, a fourth principle is required. 
 
 Exact 
 RELAXATION plus PASSIVITY plus FIXATION OF AT- Mathe- 
 
 TENTION equals or may equal ANYTHING, the particular thing p^^^^^}^ 
 
 at any given attempted solution being the idea, ideal, mental pic- for Reach- 
 
 ture, or realization in consciousness with which the mind is dom- JPS the 
 
 , , . on- o Sub-con- 
 
 inated at the instant of fixation oi attention. scious 
 
 Mind: 
 
 From the analogy of the storehouse : We are separated from 
 our storehouse, the sub-conscious mind. There are three stages of Analysis 
 our journey. Learn relaxation, which is a physical condition, and p , 
 you have accomplished the first stage. Now passivity, which is a 
 mental condition, and the second stage of your journey has been 
 
40 LESSON NO. 4 
 
 passed. Having learned how to apply fixation of attention (which 
 is perfect concentration) you have arrived at the door. But the 
 door is closed, locked, the combination must be applied before it 
 flies open. That combination is AUTO-SUGGESTION. In the 
 use of this formula what actually happens is this: Relaxation of 
 body releases physical tension, opens up its various parts much as 
 a sponge which has been compressed opens when pressure is re- 
 moved. Under pressure, place it in water, it absorbs almost none, 
 but released, all the interstices are filled. Relaxation releases the 
 body, it becomes a vacuum for energy, and its equal distribution 
 over the body. That individual who has attained ability complete- 
 ly to relax has attained the ability quickly to accumulate a hun- 
 dred per cent energy. 
 
 In attaining ability to make the mind passive you have slowed 
 down almost to a standstill the mental process. Nerve energy vi- 
 brates only in response to thought. It vibrates in that part of 
 the body to which attention is given. Stop the thinking process, 
 energy becomes relatively quiescent. Energy is the atmosphere of 
 the cell life of the body. Energy acting signals to the cells, cells 
 take the signals as commands, and act accordingly. Quiescent 
 energy puts body cells at attention. 
 
 Fixation of attention means that one idea or mental picture 
 dominates the mind to the exclusion of thought and realization in 
 every other respect. Fixation of attention equals perfect concen- 
 tration ; perfect concentration equals psychological moment ; psycho- 
 logical moment gives a definite command to cells of brain, nerves 
 and body. Such commands are power. They are carried out and 
 become potent factors in the personality of the individual there- 
 after. 
 
 Auto-suggestion is the intelligently determined or chosen 
 mental picture which shall dominate the mind at this instant of 
 fixation of attention. 
 
 Again, what actually happens is this : When you lie down and 
 become relaxed in body you are headed toward the sub-conscious 
 state of consciousness automatically. That is the law. Having 
 attained relaxation, you are one-third sub-conscious. You are more 
 sensitive than when up and about, protected by your conscious 
 resisting mind. Relaxation partially lays this protecting mind to 
 one side. Quieting the mind in addition to relaxation, d own t o 
 the point where you are practically thinking of nothing^ 
 
 "release^physical tension, opens up its variouFparts much as^ 
 
 
LESSON NO. 4 41 
 
 two-thirds sub-conscious; still more of the conscious mind is in 
 abeyance. Attaining fixation of attention you are sub-conscious. 
 Fixation of attention equals sub-conscious state of consciousness — 
 always — that is the law. 
 
 Auto-suggestion, or the character of the mental picture which 
 dominates the consciousness at the instant of fixation of attention, 
 determines the result of the use of the formula. To be able to use 
 auto-suggestion wisely, you must have given sufficient intelligent 
 consideration of your life, your type, your personal abilities, to 
 have set your STANDARD OF ATTAINMENT. Now is the time 
 to begin to think about that. What do you want to do? What 
 would you like to have attained four years from now ? What kind 
 of an environment do you want? At this point in the course of 
 instructions make an earnest endeavor to set a standard for life. 
 Have a purpose, then make every thought, emotion, and act con- 
 form to your standard and bring you every day a little nearer 
 home. Study your life. Are you frittering away your time? 
 Have you not vaguely sensed or realized many a time that there 
 were abilities in you which you never have adequately expressed, 
 things which you might have done which you never did? Did you 
 not once have an ideal which you expected some day to accomplish, 
 then "lost it in the daily jar and fret," — and do you ''now live 
 idle in a vague regret?" If you had had just a little more en- 
 couragement from the right person, at the right time, in the right 
 way, how different life would have been for you. Well, ' ' we always 
 may be what we might have* been." But, there are certain require- 
 ments for success, the first one of which is, decide definitely what 
 you want to do. Get it definitely and clearly in mind, then order 
 your life, and your environment, so that each day you are prov- 
 ing to yourself that you can to a degree be and accomplish that 
 which you idealize. Do not depend upon others for encourage- 
 ment. Never give way to discouragement. Genius is ninety per 
 cent hard work. The successful life means definite, forceful, pur- 
 poseful adherence to an ideal. 
 
 Wliat is your type ? What is your ability, what is that thing 
 which of all who live you are the one by whom that task can best 
 be done in the right way? What is that work which in the doing 
 you would be so happy that you would gladly pay for the privilege 
 of doing it, and which would so fill your life that though every 
 individual whom you love should be taken from you, you could 
 
42 LESSON NO. 4 
 
 still arise each morning content just to pray, "Let me do my 
 work", and life be complete when that one prayer is answered. 
 Self ^ You can determine your task by going into a room alone, lock 
 
 na vsis . jQ^Y door, be sure you shall not be disturbed, lie down, relax in 
 body, quiet your mind, and then ask your soul or higher self 
 to show you why and for what purpose you were sent into this 
 school of experience. What do you in your heart of hearts want 
 to do and be? Wait awhile, expecting, believing, trusting that 
 your soul will show you the way. In such a state of mind you are 
 subjective, able to look two ways, back into the conscious, external 
 world, and over into the sub-conscious. You can see your real 
 soul self and see how it is cooperating with or failing to cooper- 
 ate with the world. It is possible by this means for you to get 
 acquainted with your real self, and find the real purpose for 
 which you ought to live. 
 
 The sub-conscious mind is the storehouse of experience. We 
 are adding to it all the time. Every thought, feeling and emotion 
 changes its sum total, strengthening some phases, weakening others. 
 You are building character and personality every minute. You 
 reach your sub-conscious mind every time you think. Ordinary 
 daily thought makes slight impressions and gives corresponding 
 slight reactions in change of personality. Intense emotions make 
 stronger impressions with corresponding strong reactions and modi- 
 fications of personality. This daily thought and emotion is the 
 tool which the average personality uses for growth and develop- 
 ment. Such growth and development must of necessity be gradual. 
 / But the student who desires quick changes and rapid growth and 
 I/' would accomplish those things which only a solid, substantial, uni- 
 fied personality can accomplish, should use this formula given 
 above. 
 
 The analogy of the garden and the sub-conscious mind: 
 Kelaxation and passivity act in the garden of your mentality 
 and personality the same as weeding out the old last year's trash 
 from the garden and cultivating the soil ready to plant new seeds 
 for this year's crop. The standard applied in auto-suggestion de- 
 termines the kind of seed which you shall plant, which ultimately 
 determines the kind of crop which you gather. A clear, fixed, 
 definite, instantaneous mental conception or mental picture always 
 means that a mental seed has been planted, and the ultimate harv- 
 est will be the logical conclusion or natural worked out process or 
 visible crystallized reflection of the mental picture. , When you 
 
LESSON NO. 4 43 
 
 plant seeds in a garden you cover them over, water and tend them, 
 and Nature does the rest. Just so, in your mental garden, plant 
 the seed, conform to the law of its growth, Nature does the rest, 
 and it bears fruit according to its kind. After you have planted 
 a mental picture, you do not need to go and dig it up every day 
 to see whether it is sprouting. No gardener would do that. He 
 trusts and expects Nature to show the sprout above ground in due 
 time, that the stalk will gradually grow and finally flower and 
 bear fruit. So should you in your mental garden. Trust that 
 your standard shall be fulfilled, that your mental seed is grow- 
 ing. Every time it comes to your mind to question whether that 
 may have been accomplished, dismiss it, saying to yourself, "That 
 has been fixed long ago." Complete trust, which gives a soul ex- 
 pectation, always produces realization in kind. 
 
 Daily at a regular time, practice the formula. In a room Formula 
 alone, lie down flat on your back, preferably on a hard surface, no S^, 
 pillow under the head, feet separated about fourteen inches, hands 
 extended from the shoulders, palms up. Let go. Introspect. Try 
 to feel and realize that from the crown of your head to the soles 
 of your feet, to the core of your being, that you are letting go. 
 Say out loud to yourself, "Let go." Even the advanced student 
 or master does not despise the power of the spoken word. Having 
 spoken, try to realize until you gain a physical response to your 
 mental suggestion. Speak, then attempt for a moment to realize, 
 — speak again, and so on, seven times. Move about a bit; assume 
 the first position; again seven times; again move; back to first 
 position, seven times, — repeating the word, and attempt at realiza- 
 tion. This is enough for the beginner. Maybe you don't succeed 
 at first. Neither does the beginner in music, who begins his practice 
 on the piano. But with every successive effort he becomes more 
 skilled, until with diligent practice, he becomes a skilled musician. 
 Just so will you, through continued and diligent effort, become 
 able to play upon your body and gain the results desired. 
 
 Attaining passivity is a very simple process and may be best Formula 
 accomplished by imagining (imagination is the first stage of crea- passivitv 
 tion) that you are in an unlimited, unending, unmodified ocean 
 of fog or grayness. There is in this ocean of grayness just you, 
 and nothing else. This is equal to blanking the mind, and is a 
 sure cure for insomina. Make your mind a complete blank, and 
 the first thing you know it is next morning. 
 
 Relaxation plus passivity equals the subjective state of con- 
 
44 LESSON NO. 4 
 
 seiousness. The subjective mind is the tramp mind. It has a 
 tendency to go where it will and do what it wishes. In your at- 
 tempt to gain passivity your only difficulty will be the automatic, 
 unbidden inrushing of mental guests, which are not worth while to 
 entertain. Sometimes they are very insistent in their demands 
 for expression, but use your will and one by one turn them to one 
 side until finally the last one, discouraged, leaves and your mental 
 machinery is free to rest in complete inactivity. 
 Methods of The first and simplest method, and easiest to attain, is medita- 
 
 Concentra- tive concentration, which is holding the mind upon one line of 
 thought without allow^ing it to drift into something foreign to the 
 chosen line. A fine subject for meditative concentration, which 
 also redounds in spiritual growth, is the life work and philosophy 
 of the Master. Having taken that as your subject, in your mind 
 wander about the scenes in Palestine with the Master as He walked 
 among the multitudes and taught, telling stories, then withdraw- 
 ing into the mountains with His disciples, — hear His words, realize 
 His philosophy, feel His personality, in short, walk with Him and 
 talk with Him. That is meditative concentration. But if you 
 allow thoughts and meditations foreign to that subject to come in, 
 you have not accomplished meditative concentration. The possi- 
 bilities of growth in this type of concentration only are not to be 
 limited. 
 
 Here are a few methods of drilling the mind, which are only 
 mental exercises and serve the same purpose as a physical exercise. 
 The physical exercise develops the fibre of your muscle, the mental 
 exercise develops the fibre of your brain. Physical exercise ac- 
 cumulates power which may be applied at will. Just so with 
 mental exercise. Once gaining the ability to concentrate the at- 
 tention upon one thing you have more power of concentration 
 upon any subject. Listen with undivided attention to the tick of 
 a clock. Hold your mind upon it. Just tick-tock, tick-tock, no 
 intruding thought, just continually listening to the tick-tock. Sec- 
 ond, in the palm of one hand make gentle pressure with the end of 
 the thumb of the other hand. Close your eyes, center your at- 
 tention upon the point of pressure. Move the hand slightly to 
 help focus the attention. Continue the drill a few moments, and 
 you w^ill find an ever increasing ability to hold out foreign or 
 tramp thoughts. Third, concentrate upon a mental picture, cre- 
 ated in the imagination, for instance, a word on a black back 
 ground written in white letters. A cross of light upon a black 
 
LESSON NO. 4 45 
 
 background, created in your mind's eye. Eyes closed, see it ment- 
 ally, of a certain size and shape, never allowing it to vary or assume 
 different shapes and sizes. These are all mental gymnastics and 
 have only one purpose, and that is, strengthening the mind, and 
 power of concentration. 
 
 To be able to create and hold mental pictures one must have 
 the tool or medium by which they are brought into existence, and 
 that is nerve energy. The formula above given is universal in its 
 application, and by its continued consistent use you can accomplish 
 anything that you can idealize to the perfection of your own special 
 type. If you are depleted in energy the first use you can make of 
 the formula is for recuperation, and the formula as it so applies 
 reads like this: 
 
 RELAXATION plus PASSIVITY plus FIXATION OF AT- 
 TENTION equals RECUPERATION the instant the mind is dom- 
 inated by the realization of recuperation. 
 
 This realization is best accomplished by introspection, watch- 
 ing the cells of the body, getting acquainted with their minds, talk- 
 ing to them as pals and associates. Then imagine that you with 
 them are immersing yourself in a well of energy. When at first 
 you step in, it is only ankle deep, but the farther you go the 
 higher it arises and when the body becomes immersed to the eyes 
 there is an instant of unconsciousness and just as a person who is 
 being baptized, you are quickly immersed, come up again, hav- 
 ing absorbed your quota of energy, — you are recuperated. This 
 formula is unconsciously used more or less perfectly by one who 
 drops into a doze, and awakens refreshed with a new day ahead 
 of him. 
 
 The bright student at this point puts two and two together 
 and asks: Is the purpose of this formula just recuperation? Yes. 
 Is the purpose of normal sleep recuperation, also? Yes. We have 
 heard that things which equal the same thing are equal to each 
 other. Can the formula take the place of sleep? My answer is. 
 Yes and No. In our present state of development it can be used 
 to great advantage temporarily in emergencies where one is com- 
 pelled to lose sleep night after night. A condition of recuperation 
 can be maintained which would be impossible to the untrained 
 student along this line, but we observe in our experiments that 
 the continued use of the formula, while it produces an abundance 
 of energy, it throws the conscious mind in abeyance and produces 
 
46 LESSON NO. 4 
 
 perpetual subjectivity, in which state of mind the student is not 
 able to meet the external world successfully. 
 
 Speaking of normal sleep, I almost believe, — I am not sure, — 
 that there are two psychological moments for recuperation in the 
 lives of all of us, every twenty-four hours. One is the instant of 
 dropping asleep. We all experience in going to sleep a state of 
 mind wherein we are observing the details of a dream. Something 
 startles us, we are conscious of the external world, — we wonder 
 whether we have been asleep. We decide that we have not. And 
 yet, at the same time, while we are arguing with ourselves, we are 
 seeing the mental picture or dream. This is the approach to the 
 psychological moment, when we slip from the conscious into the 
 purely sub-conscious mind. At this instant, the degree of the 
 completeness of the unconscious use of the formula of relaxation, 
 plus passivity, then the attention upon sub-conscious experience, 
 determines the degree of recuperation which results. The next 
 psychological moment is the reverse mental process, the instant of 
 coming to consciousness on awakening. I personally believe that 
 the intervening period in sleep has other purposes than recuper- 
 tion. 
 2"^T^ You now have a comprehension of the requirements for re- 
 
 Distraction: cuperation from a physical point of view as outlined in the first 
 lesson, and know something about how to use the formula for en- 
 tering the sub-conscious mind for quick recuperation. But re- 
 cuperation is not the only requirement. To be able to maintain 
 a recuperated condition every hour of the day while living a stren- 
 uous life, is required if one is to accomplish big things in this world. 
 It is necessary to be able to maintain a sufficiently relaxed mental 
 attitude while working so that you are using just the energy nec- 
 essary to accomplish the given task, saving the rest for subse- 
 quent need. A good truism is this: It isn't work, it is want of >^ 
 relaxation that kills. I have had people tell me they had over- ^^ 
 worked, when their accomplishments have been comparatively 
 small. It was not that they were overworked but that they had 
 worked wdth a wrong mental attitude and consequent physical 
 tension which tied up, used up, and wasted the energy, causing 
 extreme weariness and depletion. Some folks go to town to buy 
 a spool of thread and come back exhausted. It is a mental attitude. 
 Such, unconsciously assume that they are going to town today, 
 must prepare the dinner before leaving, because, you know, ' * I am 
 always worn to a frazzle every time I go into a crowd." Such a 
 
LESSON NO. 4 47 
 
 mental attitude is negative and causes energy to ooze out. Take 
 a positive reversed mental attitude, determined to become a mag- 
 net for the attraction of energy and that every situation v^ill 
 strengthen and revive, show you some new truth, enlarge your 
 consciousness, comprehension, develop your character and person- 
 ality. By studying how to assume the right kind of a mental at- 
 titude we can make every situation and event profitable. If you 
 are habitually tired, learn how to use your odd moments for re- 
 cuperation. You approach an elevator, it goes up just before 
 you arrive. Don't fume and fret until it returns, declaring that 
 everything has gone wrong all day, but relax, if alone close your 
 eyes, turn your consciousness inward, and expect and realize a 
 wave of recuperation. You are doing your morning work. You 
 turn the water faucet, — recuperate while the water runs. You 
 ring a door bell, recuperate until the maid opens the door. Have 
 you heretofore taken your cares to bed with you, wound them up 
 in the pillow and put them under your head? Determine to do it 
 no more. When lying down at night realize that nothing external ^ 
 can be done about those troubles until tomorrow, that most prob- 
 lems solve themselves, that if you quietly go to sleep, giving your . 
 soul the suggestion to solve the problem for you, and then be- 
 lieve that it shall be done, you will be surprised how the kinks of 
 life will smoothe out, how your health will improve, your environ- 
 ment change for the better, and finally you will awaken some 
 morning to find that your problems have been solved, that life is 
 running smoothly, and you are glad every day just to be alive 
 and to do your work. If a trouble comes, turn up the corners of 
 your mouth, lighten your own atmosphere, relax the muscles of 
 your face, smile, give yourself the suggestion that you are able to // 
 meet any problem, and you will be. Such mental attitudes save 
 energy and ultimately you get in the habit of being so charged 
 with energy that you have snap, vim, go and pep and inclinations 
 which will make life a success. 
 
 If you have followed me thus far you can see why peaceful i^ 
 thoughts upbuild and emotions tear down; you know that nerve 
 energy acts and vibrates according to the mind, and finally crystal- 
 lizes into body tissue and brain cells in that part of body to which 
 attention has been consciously or unconsciously given. You can 
 now appreciate why Hope, Faith and Confidence operate in such 
 a way as to bring about the thing hoped for, why fear produces 
 
48 
 
 LESSON NO. 4 
 
 Your 
 Thought 
 Clothed in 
 Nerve 
 Energy 
 Is Always 
 At Work: 
 
 Conscious 
 Directing 
 of Energy 
 and 
 Thought: 
 
 Method: 
 
 disease, why enthusiasm gets results, and the law by which the 
 prayer of faith is answered. 
 
 When you learn how to maintain a recuperated condition you 
 have an abundance of nerve energy which is the force or tool 
 which the soul must have to do and be. Your next step is to see 
 to it that that energy so operates in your body that it will melt 
 away any disease from which you may be suffering and continu- 
 ally raise your standard of physical perfection. Remember here 
 again that concentration is the secret of success, and that energy 
 is going to vibrate in your body according to the concentrated 
 mental picture, and the vibration will correspond in its intensity 
 to the degree to which you are able to concentrate your mind upon 
 a mental picture or realization. 
 
 In treating oneself for disease it is usually wise for the be- 
 ginner to treat the body as a whole, from the head downward. 
 Here is the method: Placing the tips of the fingers on the fore- 
 head, move them slightly but briskly from the center outward, 
 centering the attention underneath the fingers, concentrating on 
 the accumulation of bodily electricity in the head. Continue this 
 concentration until you feel a mild shock whenever the fingers are 
 moved. Then begin with a slow movement of the fingers down- 
 ward over the face, passing gently down over the body, following 
 the fingers with the attention, always trying to feel the magnetism 
 or electricity distributing and applying equally. Coming down as 
 far as the hands will reach comfortably, quickly come back to the 
 forehead, repeating the process, gradually gaining in speed as the 
 realization of applied magnetism increases, until the energy will 
 go in distinct waves over and over the body. Your auto suggestion 
 may be this : ' ' From the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, 
 all over my body, to the core of my being, I am perfect health." 
 Realize a moment, then again say, "Perfect health." Always con- 
 tinue auto-suggestion until you feel that you have gained a physical 
 response to mental operation. Later, after you have gained the 
 ability to hold the attention upon a chosen mental picture, you 
 can treat specific parts of your body which may be especially af- 
 fected. For inflammation and foreign growths, the mental atti- 
 tude that the circulation is increasing in that part of the body and 
 nerve energy is vibrating, that this process is melting away the 
 abnormal condition, and picture it as gradually resuming that of 
 perfect health. Add to this a constant mental attitude of inde- 
 pendence of disease, attempting always to lift yourself out of the 
 
LESSON NO. 4 49 
 
 disease thought or habit. This will reenforce your concentration 
 practice, and you should quickly get well. 
 
 Having gained energy and health you are now ready to turn 
 your attention toward making your life work a success. First, 
 definitely and whole heartedly choose your business or profession. 
 Take time enough and pray earnestly enough to be sure you have 
 chosen aright. Use your formula to see your whole life work per- 
 formed in detail, watch yourself as you associate with the world in 
 your particular chosen line, find out what are its requirements for 
 success so far as you personally are concerned, in your ijaner con- 
 sciousness, and personal attainments, then the requirements for 
 contacting the world successfully; then consider no price too high 
 to pay to attain it, and let every hour of your life be a step towai:d 
 your goal. You will find that you can never do and be all that 
 you can idealize; no one can, no matter how developed the con- 
 sciousness, even that which is to us the master mind. Vision al- 
 ways goes ahead of attainment, but we must have the vision, and 
 it is indeed true that without the vision we perish. My own half 
 finished work may illustrate the road which you will probably 
 have to travel, no matter what line of endeavor you may choose. 
 Before I entered public work I was using the formula to develop 
 the ability to do the work that I expect some time to be able to do. 
 I was timid, nervous, reticent, retiring, dreaded public opinion, 
 in praise or condemnation. But I realized that if I was to do the 
 work which my higher self told me I ought to do, I would have 
 to reverse my pyschology, and in concentration I did. I pictured 
 in my mind's eye large crowds, five thousand people, all waiting 
 for me to speak, every eye on me. Even then, alone in the silence, 
 my nerves would give way, and sometimes I would have to get 
 up and admit to mj^self that my judgment told me it couldn't be 
 done. But it could be, it must be. I must be balanced and poised, 
 an eloquent, fluent, telling speaker. After sufficient concentration 
 and preparation I went into my first town, advertised a lecture, 
 spent days concentrating and praying, preparing, expecting at 
 least five hundred; but to my consternation, when I arrived at 
 my place of meeting at the appointed hour only three women sat 
 on the front row. No more came in. That was my entire audience. 
 I slipped into a little room alone and asked whether I should give 
 the lecture. The answer came back, Three are as important as 
 three hundred, do your best. I did. I went all through the busi- 
 ness end. I took up a collection. I told them we would have an- 
 
50 LESSON NO. 4 
 
 other lecture in the evening and invited them to come back and 
 bring their friends. They did and brought two others with them. 
 My audience was increasing. I had five. My combined collection 
 was thirty cents, exactly what I was worth. It has been a long 
 story of earnest endeavor, never giving way one single moment to 
 discouragement, constantly idealizing and constantly endeavoring 
 to realize my ideal. But I always keep in mind that some day it 
 shall be done. 
 
LESSON No. 5 
 
 SUGGESTION 
 
 We are amenable to the law of suggestion. No one gets be- 
 yond it. Children are especially sensitive to the law. The adult 
 with an abundance of nerve energy is also sensitive. The sensi- 
 tive I sometimes call the psychic. It is a fine thing to be a psychic 
 providing the consciousness is ordered. But the erratic, emo- 
 tional psychic is at the mercy of environment and suggestion. 
 
 Extremely emotional states of mind produce suggestibility 
 because the energy of the body is vibrating rapidly, cells are rap- 
 idly taking orders, activity is great, and the corresponding reac- 
 tion. Here is a law which should be understood by physicians. A 
 patient who is alarmed about his condition sends for that physician 
 in whom he has the most confidence. The wise physician will enter 
 with a light hearted manner and atmosphere, trying always to 
 minimize the seriousness of the condition, and after careful ex- 
 amination will always do everything in his power to create the 
 confidence and expectation of speedy and complete recovery. The 
 unwise, old time physician used to come in with a long face, a 
 heavy atmosphere, with extreme dignity and much pretense, make 
 his examinations, shake his head doubtfully, and then say, "You 
 are in pretty bad shape, my man, and it's a lucky good thing you 
 sent for me just when you did." And the only happy phase of 
 his verdict was, ''But I think I can pull you through." Some 
 unprincipled physicians of the past have used such methods to 
 create deep respect for their ability and hold their patients as 
 money makers. 
 
 The ^vorld does not yet realize the power of suggestion. In 
 France a few years ago, certain physicians experimented upon 
 condemned criminals, telling them they were to be bled to death. 
 Blindfolded, a scratch was made over an artery but no opening; 
 warm water gently trickled over the spot, the patient thinking it 
 to be his life blood oozing out. Progressive suggestions were given 
 from time to time by the physicians as to this symptom or that 
 which should now appear, and now death, — and death did ensue, 
 when nothing from a psysical point of view had transpired. But 
 the victim had died because a psychological moment of intense 
 
52 LESSON NO. 5 
 
 emotionalism dominated his soul expectation, which changed the 
 cell action of the body and produced a result. A few years ago a 
 Filipino committed an offense, was court martialed and sentenced 
 to death. An experiment was tried upon him. He was told that 
 he was to be shot in the back. But instead a sharp blow was given 
 him, and simultaneous with the blow a gun was fired. The blow 
 was of minor importance, but the man dropped over and died. 
 
 The Catholics are taught that their sacred shrines and grottoes 
 have healing power, and they have. There the lame walk, the 
 blind see, the paralytic is restored. Christ truly told them two 
 thousand years ago, ' ' Thy faith hath made thee whole. ' ' The heal- 
 ings of Dowieism, Christian Science, New Thought and all 
 mental Therapists, are all accomplished through the operation of 
 the law of the sub-conscious mind. The Emmanuel movement 
 started by McComb and Powell, in Boston, and later followed, up 
 successfully by Bishop Fallows in Chicago, and- by a few min- 
 isters of various church all over the coutry, operated under the 
 same law. But the Emmanuel people made one serious mistake. 
 You can find it by reading McComb 's and Powell's book called 
 '' Religion and Medicine." They said there were two kinds of 
 diseases, the physical and the mental; that the physical or organic 
 ailments needed physical methods for cure, but that the mental, 
 nervous, or functional ailments could be cured by mind power. 
 And yet they claimed to be applying the law of Christian healing, 
 the same that the Master used two thousand years ago. Is there 
 any place in the New Testament where it is recorded that the 
 Master asked anyone who came to him for healing whether his 
 ailment was organic or functional? The Emmanuel people re- 
 quired their applicants to bring a certificate from a reputable 
 physician saying that their particular ailment was amenable to 
 mental treatments. Failing to get this certificate a patient was 
 turned away from the doors of the Emmanuel Clinic. Did the 
 Christ set this example? Of course not. He just said, "Be ye 
 whole." Or, "According to your faith be it done unto thee." Or 
 "I have not seen such faith, no, not in Israel." And a miracle 
 transpired. The Master knew what He was talking about when 
 He said, ' ' The things which I have done, you can do. ' ' And ' ' These 
 signs shall follow all those who believe," One woman knocked at 
 the doors of the Emmanuel Clinic; being asked for her certificate, 
 she had none. Here doctor's verdict was, her case was one re- 
 quiring an operation upon a growth in the abdomen. She was 
 
LESSON NO. 5 53 
 
 refused admission, but plead so earnestly, saying that God would 
 heal her if they would help a bit, that her ease was made an ex- 
 ception. In six months she went back to her physician, was re- 
 examined, the growth was gone, and the doctor's diagnosis was 
 this: "The former diagnosis was incorrect." The Master once 
 said, ''Oh, faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be 
 with you, and how long shall I suffer with you? Bring him 
 hither." And they brought him, and He healed him. Does the 
 master feel so about us today when we make such mistakes? 
 
 The wise applied psychologist does not repudiate any method 
 of therapy which does anybody any good, medical, — electrical, — 
 water, — rest, — travel, — massage or osteopathy. These are all 
 methods which correspond to our present -accumulated conscious- 
 ness. We have sub-conscious faith in them and to the degree to 
 which we gain a soul expectation, results accrue. But one and 
 all use the great law of the mind, and never is any change made 
 in the physical body until the mind has been reached by one means 
 or another. 
 
 When the world recognizes the great law of suggestion we will 
 be careful of our conversations, for we will know that we are in- 
 deed our brother's keeper. The most common suggestions are 
 health and disease breeders. Too many people spend hour$ visit- 
 ing together, talking about their troubles and ailments when they 
 / might be spending their time profitably. Newspapers publish ac- 
 counts of crimes and accidents, — the worse the crime the bigger the 
 headline. Newsies cry ** Extra!" and inflame the imagination of 
 the people, everybody buys a paper, and after dinner in the even- 
 ing sit down to relax and rest and read the details of the worst 
 phases of human life; they go to bed and carry all the sug- 
 gestions which these offer into the sub-conscious mind, where they 
 work out to their logical conclusion while the individual sleeps. 
 Is it any wonder that we are a mediocre race of people? 
 
 Some people develop disease through fear of hereditary 
 troubles. They have been told all their childhood days, that ''They 
 are like their father's folks" that the whole family has died of lung 
 trouble, and they are expected to do the very proper thing of 
 upholding the family reputation and do likewise. Reverse the 
 action of the mind and the physical habits, get out of the family 
 rut, for disease is not inherited. Only temperaments and tend- 
 encies can be inherited. These can be reversed by the use of the 
 will. 
 
54 LESSON NO. 5 
 
 Everything which I have said up to this point has been prim- 
 arily for self help, and in treatment, to show you the power of 
 suggestion. We are ready to consider the methods, whereby one 
 person can definitely treat another. 
 
 The first method is what I call the Passivity Method, wherein 
 the patient either sits in a chair with a footstool, so that every 
 part of the body including the head is supported to enable com- 
 plete relaxation, or else lies down upon a couch, the operator ap- 
 plying the suggestions. There are certain requirements on the 
 part of both to secure quick and definite results. The patient 
 should have the wish, the desire, the expectation, faith, hope, and 
 confidence of getting well, and be able to give undivided attention 
 to the suggestions of the operator. Such co-operation is very im- 
 portant for the healer who is just learning how to operate the law. 
 The chief requirements on the part of the operator are a knowl- 
 edge of the law of the sub-conscious mind, ability to handle his 
 knowledge practically, with confidence in himself, — and last but 
 not least, persistence, — always expecting immediate results, never 
 being disappointed if he does not get them ; for the instant that the 
 law is operated the results are sure. Repeating suggestions time 
 and again with a short period for the realization of the suggestion 
 in between, will finally reach the sub-conscious mind. 
 
 Sleep is a sub-conscious state of consciousness. Therefore very 
 suggestible. It is especially good for the treatment of children. 
 The best method to treat a child is to allow it to have an hour of 
 sleep, then disturb it gently two or three times with periods of 
 quieting in between until it finally is startled to where it raises 
 up in bed and stares wildly about. At this point you have an op- 
 portunity to gain its sub-conscious attention. It is in the same 
 state of consciousness as the somnambulist, which is a good psycho- 
 logical condition for planting suggestion. There is nothing mys- 
 terious about giving suggestion. Just say as you would in conver- 
 sation, precisely the thing that you wish to be realized, nothing 
 more, nothing less. 
 
 In the treatment of an adult I prefer the period of going to 
 sleep. An amateur can use this method by sitting by the side of the 
 bed of the patient, conversing quietly until the patient becomes 
 very sleepy, then beginning gradually to offer the suggestions for 
 healing, having the patient attempt to hold the attention upon the 
 words and the realization of their meaning, until finally they drop 
 away and the patient enters a sound sleep. 
 
LESSON NO. 5 55 
 
 Sometimes the highly emotional state of mind offers a sufficient 
 psychological moment that the expert can offer suggestions which 
 will get instantaneous results. Hysteria and drug habits, the 
 drunkard, and any bad mental tendencies can be successfully 
 handled by the expert psychologist when the patient is very emo- 
 tional. 
 
 Suggestibility is the requirement for successful healing. Re- 
 ducing the hours of sleep over a period of several days tends to pro- 
 duce suggestibility. Fasting accomplishes the same purpose. But 
 these methods should be used only by the expert. 
 
 I used to use any or all of these methods according to the 
 temperament of my patient. But I have come to the point where 
 I use only one method, and that is sub-conscious concentration. 
 I attempt always to hold a mental picture of perfect health for my 
 patient, carrying it from one plane of consciousness down and ever 
 down, until finally I am functioning volitionally, consciously, on 
 that plane of consciousness wherein the entity of disease exists. 
 I cannot always as yet hold a positive mental attitude in that 
 strata of mind, but to the degree to which I can and give my 
 command, to that degree is my command heard and obeyed, and 
 the results are instantaneous. I am now convinced that the at- 
 tainment of this volitional control of a hundred per cent of the 
 consciousness instead of one-tenth, as humanity has it today, is our 
 ultimate goal. The difference in the master consciousness and 
 yours and mine is not one of ki7id but of degree of development 
 and unfoldment, and consequent volitional control. That the 
 Master operated this law perfectly became evident by the marvelous 
 cures which transpired in his presence. All minor entities were 
 obedient to his will. They recognized Him at great distances, and 
 when the two insane men who lived alone in the mountains felt 
 the approach of the Master consciousness, the entities of disease 
 called out and asked that they might at least be allowed to go 
 into the body of a herd of swine. Their request was granted and 
 the terrified swine rushed into the waters and were drowned. Every 
 disease has a psychic personality or entity as its vitalizing and 
 controlling principle. It is the outsing of this entity that is the 
 fundamental requirement in the cure of disease, and sub-conscious 
 concentration is the secret of success. 
 
 We have now covered two phases of the action of consciousr Telepathy: 
 ness, the first one the reaction of our own minds in thought, feel- 
 ing and emotion upon ourselves, and the second one, the influence 
 
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 Mental 
 Influence : 
 
 Vibration : 
 
 of one mind upon another for the healing of disease. We are now 
 ready to take up the subject of the inter-action of the human 
 consciousness, the influence of one mind upon one or many people. 
 The influence of my mind upon yours, and yours upon mine, and 
 the influence which we each have upon everybody with whom we 
 come in contact. To understand the phenomenon of such inter- 
 action you must understand the law of vibration. All manifest 
 existence, physical, mental and spiritual, is dependent upon this 
 law. To illustrate the law of creation: Take a ball, vibrate it suf- 
 ficiently rapidly, horizontally, and it will give the illusion of be- 
 ing a bar. Suspend it from a string, whirl it rapidly, it gives 
 the illusion of a hoop. Stick a hat pin in the side of a brick wall. 
 Strike it; it gives the illusion of a fan. And so forceful is this 
 vibratory action that any softer substance inserted within the 
 sphere of its activity would instantly be cut in two. 
 
 It is evident that everything that exists in the physical, mental 
 or spiritual realm is a rate and character of vibration, and that its 
 rate and character determine its plane of manifestation. It is evi- 
 dent that finer vibrations of the mental pass through the coarser 
 vibrations of the physical without either being disturbed; the 
 spiritual is still finer, so the mental and spiritual can exist within 
 the physical, and do so exist, and become the moulds or magnetic 
 attraction and repulsion which determine the character of physi- 
 cal manifestation. It is a metaphysical principle that as within, 
 so without, and the innermost, so the outermost, as above, so be- 
 low, as in the largest, so the smallest, and when we learn the les- 
 son as to why a leaf on the tree comes into existence, lives out its 
 purpose, and moves on, we have learned a lesson which applies to 
 the universe, physical, mental and spiritual. 
 
 Here is a fact in the realm of physics, the science of music : 
 The character, power and pitch of tones is determined by the 
 volume, length and number of sound waves per second. Take 
 several simultaneous tones. If the number of the vibrations of 
 each is a multiple Of all the others, then a major chord results. 
 If the vibrations of all are divisible by a common divisor, then a 
 minor chord results. If neither condition obtains, a discord results. 
 
 These phenomena and all phenomena are dependent upon a 
 universal substance called vital ether or living energy. When 
 this universal substance vibrates it responds to intelligence, and 
 as said before, the character and rate of its vibration determines 
 its plane of manifestation, whether it shall exist in the physical, 
 
LESSON NO. 5 57 
 
 mental or spiritual. Understanding the law of vibration we have 
 the basis of all transmission of thought, telepathy, absent treat- 
 ment, psychic and spiritual vision, and scientific prophecy. 
 
 A lower form of the operation of this law is visible in the 
 wireless telegraph. A wireless sending instrument has its note or 
 key of vibratory action, and all receiving instruments tuned to the 
 same key receive its messages. All other fail to register it. Just 
 so in the mental realm. But there is this difference. In your 
 mental machine you have both a sending and receiving instrument. 
 You are therefore always sending out great waves of vibration, 
 which are received by those people who are in harmony with you. 
 We have heard it said: "A thought struck me." Thoughts do 
 strike us, and they have been sent out by some mind, with which 
 we are in rapport or mental attunement. We also are receiving, 
 always sending out and responding to vibrations in the mental 
 realm. 
 
 Here is the practical lesson : If you entertain gloomy thoughts, 
 you lower your rate of vibration and coarsen its quality. You 
 couple up with all the grouches in the community. You are en- 
 tertaining mental associates and hobnobbing in the mental sphere 
 with people of whom you would be ashamed, and would refuse to 
 entertain their physical counterpart. It is just so with the happy 
 thoughts. You get your help and encouragement, or are dragged 
 down by your mental vibrations. Strike a note on a tuning fork, 
 a corresponding note on a piano will respond in vibration and 
 sing. Just so it is, a vibration in the mental realm sets into action 
 its kind. 
 
LESSON No. 6 
 
 PSYCHIC PHENOMENA AND SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT 
 
 The Aura: Psychics tell us that different kinds of thoughts producing 
 
 different rates and characters of vibration result as different colors 
 in the human aura. It is said that the prevailing color of one's 
 aura is determined by the predominant phases of his sub-conscious 
 activity, but that there are always varying colors flaring up and 
 then dropping back again, due to the immediate emotions, which 
 exist for a time and then quiet down. The baser or more sensuous 
 the prevailing emotion, the darker the aura has a tendency to be- 
 come. The individual of prevailing sensuous nature has a dark 
 red, muddy aura, while with the individual who thinks thoughts 
 of sweetness and purity with highly intellectual and spiritual de- 
 velopment, the colors become lighter and finer and more beautiful 
 to look upon. Very superior individuals create an aura of ex- 
 tremely light colors with a prevailing yellow, denoting intellectual 
 unfoldment. Only the perfect master mind is able to create the 
 pure white light of the spirit, unmodified. This law must have 
 been understood throughout the ages, for artists who have painted 
 the head of the Christ have placed the halo of white about his head. 
 
 Growth: If you are to grow and continually raise your standard you 
 
 must know how to get in touch with or tuned to the higher vibra- 
 tions, in order to get your assistance from a desirable source, in- 
 stead of one which drags you down. Many students become con- 
 cerned as to whether it is necessary that they meet a master mind 
 in order to attain mastership. As a matter of fact, you are always 
 associating with and meeting minds of your own kind, and there 
 is an interchange of like minds at all stages of development. Ad- 
 vancing to mastership, you inevitably meet the advanced student, 
 then the semi-adept, then the adept, and finally the master, as 
 you proceed on your way. It is an unfailing law that when the 
 pupil is ready the teacher appears. If you wish to meet and come 
 under the tutelage of an expert, prepare yourself and become 
 worthy of such an association, for you will always meet your own. 
 Just at this point let me illustrate a practical process by which 
 you can gain a superior ideal. You have set your standard. Do 
 you wish to become a literary expert, or a writer of a certain kind 
 
LESSON NO. 6 59 
 
 of literature? In order to tap the original source, or that mental 
 realm wherein all things exist, you have to become attuned to the 
 rate and character of vibration wherein those things exist. At- 
 tunement can be gained by the following process: Having your 
 ideal established, begin to live in that ideal primarily and the 
 external world and associations secondarily. Continue to give 
 sufficient interest and attention to things external to meet this 
 world successfully, but environment and life's experiences should 
 all be interpreted as a means to the one end of accomplishing your 
 real purpose. Read books written by authors who have been suc- 
 cessful along your chosen line. Sit quietly, book in hand and 
 meditate upon the consciousness which the author must have had 
 when he wrote down his mental picture. Commit snatches of it 
 to memory to carry about with you in your daily work. In the 
 vicissitudes of daily life refuse to become hurried or worried, but 
 everything you do, do it with earnest, deliberate effort, studying 
 rather how to make every movement count to the best advantage, 
 than rushing about in the attitude of mind that the faster you go 
 the more you are accomplishing. This is important because a hur- 
 ried and flurried mental attitude changes your vibration and cuts 
 off your connection with the higher type of mental vibrations. 
 Keep always in the background of your consciousness that your 
 ideal is your one permanent, dependable associate, permanently 
 dependable because you can always change it and make it what 
 you want it to be, and it never ceases to be pliable to your new 
 demands. 
 
 At the close of each day, sit quietly alone for a time, meditat- 
 ing upon your ideal, confidently assuming that your soul will place 
 you in touch with desirable mental associates. When you go to 
 sleep, as you relax and become passive and drop into the sub- 
 jective and sub-conscious condition, hold as long as possible the 
 I y^ confident expectation that while your conscious mind sleeps, your 
 sub-conscious will be working out your ideal. Suggest also to your- 
 self that the first instant of consciousness on awakening shall be 
 dominated with a realization of your purpose and ideal. When 
 you come to partial consciousness and a memory of your ideal, 
 instead of awakening wide awake, just be quiet; slip back just a 
 little nearer asleep, holding your conscious realization, and yet in 
 such a deep state of consciousness that you are able to look both 
 ways, from the objective to the sub-conscious realm. In that 
 state of subjectivity expect that literature of your chosen kind 
 
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 LESSON NO. 6 
 
 Attune- 
 ment or 
 Origina- 
 tion? 
 
 shall be given you. Sometimes you will hear it; sometimes it will 
 say itself over in your mind; no matter how you get it hold on 
 to it, but do not make the mistake of expecting that you will be 
 able to see it as clearly on being wide awake as you can in that, 
 state of consciousness. Always have paper and pencil beside you 
 and write down your inspirations even before you are wide awake, 
 for they have a tendency to slip away as an ordinary dream. 
 
 It is a well known fact that the same poem has been written 
 simultaneously by two individuals a great distance apart. "When 
 Darwin wrote his ''Origin of Species," his theory of evolution, 
 and published it, Wallace reading Darwin's book, was so struck 
 by its likeness to a manuscript which he had just completed that 
 he sent his production to Darwin, and made no effort to publish it, 
 so nearly was it a duplicate, both in contents and phraseology. 
 There has been some contention between two people in the state 
 of Kansas as to which is the author of the state song, as both 
 brought it out practically at the same time. As a matter of fact, 
 neither one is the author, but both became attuned to this vibra- 
 tion and both got it from the same source. Inventions are in the 
 air, in the thought world, and the inventor raises his mental vibra- 
 tions to catch them. The possibilities for infinite accomplishment 
 are all about us in the air, and it is up to us to apply the law of 
 attuning to catch the vibrations which we desire, rather than 
 continually allowing our mental instrument to be played up on by 
 musicians of the inferior, ragtime quality. 
 
 Sensing the law which I have been outlining, you are gaining 
 a realization as to just why any individual is what he is and where 
 he is, as well as the requirements for getting up and getting out 
 of the rut. It seems that the law as it operates continually upon 
 an evolving soul at first automatically forces experience, which 
 automatically enlarges consciousness, until finally the individual, 
 sensing greater possibilities, accumulates a soul desire to accom- 
 plish. Soul desire urges on to effort ; the more intense the effort the 
 quicker accumulates the soul expectation with a corresponding 
 quick success. Thus urge brings will into play, and will may be 
 defined as the ability to make a choice and adhere to it though the 
 heavens fall. Such an ability never manifests in the consciousness 
 of one who has not a vision. 
 
 These universal vibratory waves in the ether are operating 
 always. We are sending them out and responding to them, and 
 they are registering in the consciousness which they have entered 
 
LESSON NO. 6 61 
 
 according to their character. Some fit the eye and we see things ; We 
 others the ear, and we hear; still others the nose, the touch; others Jj^^d^Xre 
 register only in the form of vague feelings as of premonitions. Infuenced: 
 Practically everybody has had premonitions of unhappy events, 
 some of which came to pass, others of which did not. Sometimes 
 these feelings have been dismissed as having no significance be- 
 cause the event never transpired, but whether the event happened 
 to you or not the premonition had the same significance; it was a 
 thought wave to which your consciousness was attuned, which 
 struck you on its road to someone else, to whom the unhappy 
 event was coming. It is by this law that health waves are just as 
 potent, if rot more so, than disease waves. And so we come to 
 realize the value of concentrating our attention upon health, hap- 
 piness and success when thinking of others, rather than upon the 
 fears of disease and failure for them. This law is especially oper- 
 ative between mothers and children, as there is especially apt to ^^^g^j.^^. 
 be mental rapport between them. The mother's fears tend to tive 
 create disease in the body of her child, and her confident mental Influence: 
 attitude causes a healthy atmosphere, similar to sunshine upon a „ h 1th- 
 plant, and if intensified sufficiently it will not only cure disease, 
 but enable the child's body to develop and mature. 
 
 We are at the proper place to discuss the law operative in Absent 
 absent treatment. Is there anything in it? If so, how much, how '^'"^^V 
 far have we been able to make it dependable, and what is the law? 
 Yes, Jthere is something in it. It is the play of consciousness of 
 one individual upon another producing a corresponding vibratory 
 action of his energy, with a corresponding change from disease to 
 health. Here again it is evident that the strongest mental impres- 
 sion rules, and that a substantial impression of disease of long 
 standing, which dominates the consciousness of the patient, must 
 be hammered at by the concentrated mind power of the operator, 
 until it finally breaks down its resistance. The receptivity of the 
 patient in a condition of relaxation plus passivity, while at the 
 same time the operator holds a crystallized mental picture of per- 
 fect health throughout the body of his patient, brings quick and 
 evident results. If the patient be able to hold a positive picture 
 of health also, the results will be more rapid. People may be 
 treated and cured by this means without their conscious knowledge . 
 of having ever been treated, I shall not attempt in this brief out- 
 line to handle this phase of the subject completely, for it belongs 
 primarily to the professional psychologist. 
 
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 LESSON NO. 6 
 
 Psychic 
 Phenom- 
 
 Have an 
 Ideal: 
 Be Loyal 
 To It: 
 But Pro- 
 gressively 
 Improve It; 
 
 We are now ready for a brief consideration of psychic phe- 
 nomena. Wherever man exists, there exists also psychic phenom- 
 ena. Reports of various types have been common throughout his- 
 tory, and must have been equally common in pre-historic times. 
 The intellectual world of recent times has been prone to accept 
 such reports with incredulity. But if one acquaint himself only 
 with the records of the past twenty years of experiments of the 
 Psychic Research Society of this country and Europe, he will be- 
 come convinced that there is something back of it all. Personally, 
 I do not believe in delving into psychic phenomena until one has 
 become developed to the point where he can govern his psychic ex- 
 periences. If you have been branching out into the psychic realm, 
 and your psychic experiences have become automatic, sometimes 
 desirable, sometimes undesirable, and their chief charm is their 
 mystery, you had better give it up altogether for a time and take 
 another turn at living strictly in the external world. An attempt 
 at the psychic experience just to see what will happen has a tend- 
 ency to cause the vibrations of your consciousness to sink back to 
 the level of the oldest and best established phases of sub-conscious 
 or astral existence. In other words, it opens the door of your 
 personality to the entrance of undesirable entities, which some- 
 times results in "obsession". Psychic phenomena should always 
 be governed, and it should be compelled to correspond to the high- 
 est ideals, or being unable to accomplish this high purpose, we 
 should let it alone. Deal with nothing in the psychic realm which 
 your intellect and better self would repudiate, just as you select 
 your dealings and associations with people of a high order here. 
 
 The fundamental requirement for governing psychic experi- 
 ence is, first, SET YOUR STANDARD. Tell your soul what you 
 want to see, what kind of associates you want, what kind of knowl- 
 edge you want to get, what particulat* thing you want to accom- 
 plish, then TRUST that your soul will co-operate with you and 
 bring your desire to pass. 
 
 This phase of our psychology study is not purely philosophical 
 but this law has been and is being worked out by our advanced 
 students, and the above requirements are found to be necessary. 
 For instance, an advanced student, a good concentrator, with a 
 successful record back of him, believes in his ability to find a hid- 
 den article. A co-worker hides a pin in a most inconspicuous spot 
 in a room. The psychic, blindfolded, is able to walk straight 
 toward it and pick it up, just as definitely as though he had placed 
 
LESSON NO. 6 63 
 
 it there and was returning with his eyes wide open to get it again. 
 We always find, however, that doubt as to our ability to conform I 
 to the Jaw breaks up the vibrations. We say to each other, 
 ''Doubt and you are condemned already." And ''according to 
 your faith, shall it be done unto you," for that faith added to the 
 soul desire to do, opens the door to the corresponding vibration. 
 
 It is an accepted conclusion of practically all advanced stu- The Goal 
 dents along this line that the viltimate goal of human attainment Crossin^^ ^ 
 shall show forth the characteristics of the Christ consciousness. "The Way" 
 The Christ had the ability to prophesy. It seems as though the Thereto: 
 law by which this is accomplished is this : Each mind acting creates 
 its quota of the sum total of vibrations. Each mind in a com- 
 munity contributes its part to the great whole, and the sum total 
 hovers over and about the community in an extremely composite 
 mental picture. In other words, that there is in and over this 
 community right now a complex vibratory cause, which if it could 
 remain unmodified would determine the sum total of external 
 events of tomorrow. Some of our students have been able to look 
 into this vibration sphere and prophesy events in the near future 
 with some degree of accuracy. But it has always been evident that 
 the sum total of the vibrations can be and is modified every minute, 
 so that your destiny is never set and sealed, but that your prob- 
 lem as a personality is always like a big mathematical problem. 
 Given a sum total of principles the mathematician must work the 
 problem out to a corresponding conclusion,but one figure inserted 
 at any stage of its solution will change the character of the subse- 
 quent steps in solution, with a corresponding change in result. . It 
 is your privilege and mine to interject any minute, any hour, a 
 new principle, and change the sum total of personality, with a 
 corresponding change in reaction of health and destiny, and the 
 selection of mental pictures which shall dominate your consicious- 
 ness determines always the character of the change in personality. 
 
 It is the law of Nature that the minds of individuals shall re- 
 act upon each other. Your mind is influencing mine, and my 
 mind influences yours. Each of us has a definite influence upon 
 the consciousness of those with whom we come in contact, and each 
 of us plays our part in determining the mental atmosphere of the 
 community or city in which we live. The supreme law is, The 
 strongest becomes the dominating personality; strong personalities 
 influence weaker ones. If wisely directed, the influence is for 
 growth and development, but if selfishly directed, the reaction is 
 
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 LESSON NO. 6 
 
 Possible 
 With 
 All Men: 
 These Are 
 Present 
 Possi- 
 bilities : 
 
 Prayer or 
 Aspira- 
 tion: 
 
 detrimental. These laws are operating all the time, whether we 
 are conscious of them or not, and it is the work of the psychologist 
 to teach the people how volitionally to operate the law so that 
 only good results can accrue. We are teaching you nothing new; 
 it is as old as creation. We are handing you no new tool, we are 
 giving you no new power; we are simply teaching you how to 
 direct that which you have always had. 
 
 Our ultimate goal of attainment shall be the perfected or 
 super-man, who has a large working knowledge of law. Such per- 
 fected man will remember the past, completely, definitely; he will 
 live keenly and harmoniously in the present; be able to look into 
 the future, and then alter the principles operating his life until 
 he shall avoid accidents, in short live close to Nature and Nature's 
 God. Everything which the Master did was according to law; a 
 miracle is simply the operation of a law which man has not as yet 
 understood. When the Master prophesied concerning the future, 
 when he cured disease, when he walked on the waters, stilled the 
 winds and the waves, and raised the dead, — when he hung on the 
 cross, left his physical body, raised it again in three days and 
 walked visibly among men with the prints of the nails in his hands. 
 He did all these things by virtue of a working knowledge of law. 
 He recognized that all law was of God, His Father, and He always 
 worked in harmony with His Father's will. So close was that 
 harmony that He said, ''I and my Father are one." Again, ''Of 
 myself I can do nothing. The Father within me. He doeth the 
 work." Psychology is today demonstrating that the fundamental 
 tenets of religion are scientifically correct. 
 
 Just a word about prayer, — that prayer which is sufficiently 
 powerful, forceful, to heal the sick. To pray successfully you 
 must be able to concentrate. The Master condemned word prayers. 
 Your prayer should be the prayer of the silence wherein there is an 
 undisturbed state of mind with no counteracting mental disturb- 
 ances, with the mind concentrated upon God or Christ, always 
 keeping in mind that your limited consciousness may cause you to 
 wish things to happen which would not be for the best, and being 
 very careful to ask nothing w^hich is out of harmony with natural 
 law or God's will. Even the Master said, "Nevertheless not my 
 will, but thine be done." 
 
 Prayer in the deeper state of consciousness will give you a 
 deeper realization of your own inner character and self than any- 
 thing else. You meet your Christ, your God, face to face. If 
 
LESSON NO. 6 65 
 
 there be anything unclean in your mind and your conscience is 
 not clear, at a certain point that something will come up before 
 you and stand between you and the answer to your prayer. This 
 principle is illustrated in Christ's command to the man who came 
 with his sacrifice; he was told that if he had aught against his 
 brother, he should wait to offer the sacrifice until relations with his 
 brother had been rightly adjusted. Just so it finally comes to the 
 realization of the deeper student along this line that if he is to 
 enter into closer relationship with his God, he must first go and 
 square up affairs with his higher self and his relations with the 
 world. At this point we begin to realize the importance of all 
 thought, the day dreams, the meditations, knowing well their 
 definite physical, mental, moral, psychic and spiritual reaction. 
 A deeper knowledge of applied psychology brings a deeper realiza- 
 tion of the necessity of the everyday, applied religion, wherein Here is 
 all one's thoughts and meditations, as well as one's dealings with "Harmony* 
 the world, are submitted to the acid test. Is it right? Is it just? Means: 
 Is this reaction harmonious from every angle? In short, is it in 
 harmony with natural law, the visible expression of Divine Will? 
 
 The New Testament scriptures are full of records of psychic 
 phenomena. The experience of John, the revelator, was psychic, 
 when he said, "I was in the spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard 
 a voice behind me as of a trumpet, saying" — his experience on 
 the Isle of Patmos." Being in the spirit is being in the silence or 
 conscious in the sub-conscious realm. The experience of Paul on 
 the road of Damascus is another example of the same thing, and 
 the vision of the disciples in the Blount of Transfiguration. All 
 these are phenomena which may again occur on the threshold of 
 consciousness to the Christian who earnestly and persistently in- 
 quires into the mysteries of the spiritual world, providing the in- 
 vestigation be in THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE MASTER. But 
 we must live the life; it must be clean, pure, holy, a clear con- 
 science ; the character of our thoughts must conform in their vibra- 
 tions as nearly as possible to those of the Christlife, and must 
 ultimately be raised to those of the pure white light of the spirit. 
 
 Before I begin a brief outline of requirements for developing 
 the spiritual insight, I want to remind you of a universal law 
 which applies in the development of any phase of personality. 
 Several statements will illustrate it. In the first place, concen- 
 tration is the secret of success. The soul's expectation is always 
 realized. The law of the sub-conscious mind is suggestion, nothing 
 
66 
 
 LESSON NO. 6 
 
 More more and nothing less. Set your standard. Demand of your sub- 
 
 Than the conscious mind that your standard be fulfilled. Obey the law of 
 Reading of its fulfilment. Expectation, faith, hope, confidence, to the point 
 
 Many 
 Books : 
 
 Vision : 
 
 where the last shadow of doubt is eliminated, and, ''According to 
 your faith it is done unto you." 
 
 So many times students lose this comprehension and continu- 
 ally going around in the old established cycles, wonder why they 
 are not progressing. The major portion of the attention is too 
 often directed to the consideration of the failures rather than the 
 successes, with a corresponding discouragement and an increas- 
 ing tendency to conclude that if the law operates at all it is not 
 for them. I once passed through this stage and can sympathize 
 with it. I appreciate its difficulties. "When I awakened to the 
 realization that the Christ consciousness with a corresponding 
 ability, working knowledge of law, is the ultimate goal of human 
 attainment, I became over-anxious to progress along this line. 
 Months passed by and although I was ever endeavoring, it seemed 
 that I made no progress, and finally I found myself emotionally 
 inquiring as to the cause of my seemingly repeated failures. 
 
 As a flash of light one day it dawned upon my consciousness 
 that I knew the law whereby I could find out anything that I 
 needed to know, and why was I not using it? Immediately I gave 
 my soul the command that in my concentration hour today I shall 
 have shown to me in such a way that I can coil^prehend it, just ex- 
 actly the things that are standing in my way of progress and 
 holding me back and down. With this standard before me, I lay 
 down, relaxed, became passive and quiet, receptive, then lost con- 
 sciousness. 
 
 The next thing I realized, I was standing on a level road 
 which wound round a mountain and near its base. I paused a 
 moment looking about to get my bearings. First I observed the 
 road. It was smoothe, had been well-leveled, and disappeared 
 round the curve. To my left was a gentle slope of well kept green 
 grass, whereon many women and children were playing and the 
 atmosphere told me that they were merrymakers on a holiday 
 trip. To my right was a steep mountain, the sides almost per- 
 pendicular, so high I could not see its summit. Not only was the 
 mountain so steep that it would seem impossible for an individual 
 to climb up its side, but there were jagged rocks sticking out 
 everywhere and thick underbrush and brier bushes. Having 
 sized up my environment, I began to consider why I was here 
 
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 and what I should do. I finally decided that the most pleasant 
 thing would be to join these merrymakers and have a holiday also. 
 I started toward them and with the first step I heard a voice be- 
 hind me and above, the sweetest, gentlest, most loving, insistent 
 voice I ever heard, and the words were: ''Follow thou me." I 
 was startled. 
 
 Then I remembered suddenly why I had come here and what 
 it was that I wanted to know. I recognized the voice of my 
 Master, the Christ. I wanted to obey His call, and my first im- 
 pulse was to look up the side of the mountain and figure ways and 
 means of scaling its seemingly impassible side. I gave it up as 
 hopeless and turned my attention to the road on which I stood, 
 figuring that possibly this road might lead around to the other 
 side, where I might find a beaten trail to the summit. I now 
 realize that just so is our first impulse to choose the holiday and 
 merrymaking; then when the conscience awakens to a realization 
 that the master is calling, we try first the easy beaten path, hoping 
 to find a trail already blazed which will lead us home. Just so 
 do I realize that it seems well nigh impossible to literally follow 
 the Master's commands. I followed the road around the mountain 
 side and finally came back to where I had started. By this time 
 I observed that this section of the road was a portion of a spiral, 
 which elevated only a couple of feet each time the big journey 
 round had been accomplished. I considered the enormous dis- 
 tance one would have to travel to gain the top by this means. I 
 felt its hardships, looked again at the merrymakers on the other 
 side, saw what a good time they were having, decided again to 
 join them, at least for a little while. But with my first step to- 
 ward them again I heard the voice and the command, "Follow 
 thou me." It seemed to come from almost over my head, but 
 so far away. 
 
 This time I determined that if my ]\Iaster calls, though his 
 call leads me straight up that mountain side, I will go. I searched 
 for a place to wedge in, to get a hold for my hands and feet, 
 gradually and laboriously began to pull my way up. But as I 
 started, innumerable black veils and black garments were thrown 
 about my face and body, which made it impossible for me to 
 breathe or see. In my struggle up so steep an incline, and under 
 such adverse conditions, I became wearied, lost consciousness, and 
 when I awakened I found myself on the road where I had started. 
 Dazed, I again considered my surroundings, my conditions, and 
 
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 the purpose for my attempt to climb the mountain. Again I 
 heard the voice say, "Follow thou me." I made a second effort 
 with the same results: the veil, the garments, the weariness, un- 
 consciousness, awakening to find myself on the road where I had 
 started. 
 
 In visions the soul takes no cognizance of time. The inner 
 self lives in the Eternal Now, and so it would be impossible for 
 me to determine how long or how many times I continued this 
 effort, starting up the mountain side in response to the call, then 
 finally finding myself on the road where I started. 
 
 Each time it seemed that I had made no progress whatsoever. 
 But finally I observed that I was able to climb farther without 
 fainting, realized that I was making more rapid progress than 
 before, and then one day, I found myself on the side of the moun- 
 tain, half way to the top, and the atmosphere about me seemed as 
 it does at the dawning or beginning of a new day. I was able to 
 pause now in my effort and look about me, and as I did I found 
 that T was only one of innumerable people like myself, who were 
 climbing up the same mountain. Some were just starting, faint- 
 ing, falling back. Others were as far as I and able to salute me 
 as I paused; others were lying by the wayside asleep; while still 
 others were so far up the mountain side, and were traveling so 
 rapidly, that even while I observed them, the^ went out of sight. 
 Away down yonder below was the roadside from which I had so 
 many times started on my journey, and below it still, were the 
 merrymakers who had never even started, nor did they care to 
 leave their beautiful surroundings. I looked back over the road 
 which I had travelled so many times, and there I found that what 
 had seemed as I looked at it from below, to be almost perpen- 
 dicular, as I observed it from above after having gone over it, 
 was an easy, gentle slope. The rocks, the bramble bushes and the 
 briers had all been worn away, so many times had I travelled over 
 one path. But it was now worn smooth. 
 
 I observed along the way innumerable pieces of the black 
 garments and veils which had been torn from me as I had passed 
 over the rough way. I sauntered back over the road and observed 
 that upon those pieces of black cloth were labels in white letters. 
 I gathered them all up, and read the label on each one. There 
 were so many that I could not carry them all at once, and as I 
 read and pondered and realized the meaning of those labels I 
 found on them everything that was in my consciousness which 
 
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 had held me back from the progress which I had thought I so earn- 
 estly desired to make. I now know that those labels are indica- 
 tive of the race consciousness and that vision, for a vision it was 
 indeed, gave me a deeper realization of why we are where we are, 
 than I could ever have gaind from any othr source. A few of the 
 most common indicated various kinds of doubts, fears, worries, 
 anxieties, greed of gain, in short, there was a bushel basket, which 
 indicated the various ways in which we rivet our attention and 
 undue interest and intensity over temporal things, — sensuousness, 
 passion, hatred, discouragement, disgusts, disappointment; in fact, 
 everything which rivets the attention and the affection upon things 
 temporal, just of this earth, without a corresponding realization 
 of their insignificance, — these are the things which make the road 
 so steep, the brier bushes so sharp, and the rocks so jagged. These 
 worn down, the road becomes smoothe, the steepness disappears, 
 and the way is easy. Since that vision, I know what is required 
 of me to grow; I have a deeper realization which enables me to 
 appreciate and meet the needs of others. I have a keener realiza- 
 tion of the psychological fact that we have a tendency to become 
 like those things to which we give attention, and I sympathize with 
 the smart, well-dressed woman who only last week said it was im- 
 possible for her to study or grow because she has so many houses, 
 so many tenants, so much land, such heavy taxes, that it takes all 
 her income, thought and energy, just to care for her worldly pos- 
 sessions. I know what the young man must have experienced when 
 he said, "Master, what shall I do to inherit the kingdom of 
 heaven?" when he heard the answer, "Sell all thou hast and give 
 to the poor." Yes, he went away sorrowful because he had large 
 possessions. 
 
 The Master used to walk along the road, make his choice, ad- 
 dress the chosen one and say, ' ' Follow thou me. ' ' Some laid down 
 their nets and followed without a word. One said, "Lord, I will 
 follow, thee, but let me first go and bid farewell to them which are 
 in my house." And Jesus said unto him, "No man having put 
 his hand to the plow and looking back is fit for the Kingdom of 
 God." Another agreed to follow, but requested that he be allowed 
 to attend his father's funeral. To you and me it would seem a 
 reasonable request, but the Master said, "Let the dead bury their 
 dead ; follow thou me. ' ' Once he said, ' ' He that loveth father and 
 mother better than me is not worthy of me." "He that loveth 
 son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me." And "He 
 
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 that taketh not his cross and follow after me is not worthy of 
 me." It seems to me now that the road toward the Christ-con- 
 sciousness is one of long, hard, continued, service; that we are 
 expected to attempt to travel that road and keep trying, and con- 
 tinually trying, knowing that though we fall back again and again 
 to where we started, the road has been worn smoother because we 
 tried and it will be easier to travel next time. No effort is ever 
 lost. The results are constantly accruing, and it is probably some- 
 thing like the quiet, imperceptible growth of the plant, the bud, 
 the flower and then the fruit. We cannot see from day to day that 
 the plant is maturing; but we know that if the requirements of its 
 nature are met, it will ultimately bear fruit. Just so it is with 
 human personality in the traveling of this road, which the Master 
 spoke of to his disciples when he said: ''I know the road over 
 which I have come, but ye know it not." 
 
 The Bible makes some extreme statements about the useless- 
 ness of the possession of things, and the psychologist knows that 
 there is a psychological law of opulence, of unlimited supply and 
 demand, which is much more effective when operated than the 
 hoarding of an accumulation for a rainy day. But I am not re- 
 commending that as being practical for any of my students in our 
 present limited realization. We do not take the colored blocks and 
 play things away from the kindergartner until he graduates into 
 the first grade. Even then he may need them, but those things 
 will have long since lost their interest when the child has reached 
 maturity and is graduating from college. Everything has its place 
 and serves its purpose. Every experience teaches its lesson, and 
 furnishes growth, but the advanced student along psychological 
 lines ultimately comes to the realization that soul growth, de- 
 velopment and unfoldment is the ultimate purpose of it all; that 
 we are all parts of one body with Christ as our leader, and there 
 is one command which is incumbent upon all His followers : ' ' Love 
 one another." ''Love thy neighbor as thyself." ''Do unto others 
 as you would have others do unto you." This is the supreme law, 
 both for personal and race development. 
 
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