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X 
 
THE 
 
 SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY 
 OF LIFE. 
 
 To LIVE TO ATTAIN TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUE HIGHER 
 
 POWERS AND FACULTIES, THAT WE MAY COMB INTO 
 
 THE POSSESSION OF FULLNESS OF PEACE AND 
 
 PLENTY, OF ABOUNDING HEALTH AND 
 
 HAPPINESS HEBE, AND A NEVER 
 
 ENDING ETERNITY OF JOY 
 
 HEREAFTER. 
 
 By EDWARD H. COWLES, D. P. 
 
 Principal of the Portland Institute of 
 
 Psychology. 
 
 To Live, to Learn, to Do. 
 To Love, to Have and to Enjoy. 
 
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 Published by the 
 
 ALTA VISTA PUBLISHING COMPANY 
 
 PALERMO, CALIF. 
 
 1903 
 
 UNIVERSITY 
 
 OF 
 
Copyright by 
 
 EDWARD H. COWLES, 
 
 1903. 
 
Published by the 
 Portland Institute of Psychology, 
 
 The Marquam, 
 Portland, - Oregon. 
 
 Price One Dollar. 
 Postpaid. 
 
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To my Lifelong Friend, 
 
 E. C. D. 
 
 Whose staunch and steadfast friendship 
 in times of severe trial and diffi- 
 culties has ever been a 
 source of encour- 
 agement and 
 
 Strength, 
 
 This volume is affectionately 
 Dedicated. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 Chapter Page 
 
 I. The Way We Live 21 
 
 II. Life is What We Make It 31 
 
 III. How Can I Help Myself ? 41 
 
 IV.' Truth, and Our Relation to it 51 
 
 V. Thought, the Key-note of Life 63 
 
 VI. Thought, its Character and Mode 
 
 of Expression 73 
 
 VII. Thought, its Qualities and the Laws 
 
 Governing its Transmission ... 81 
 
 VIII. Thought, Attraction and Reproduc- 
 
 tion 93 
 
 IX. Man, His Creation and Develop- 
 
 ment 103 
 
 X. The Dual Character of the Mind. . . 117 
 
 XI. The Conscious Mind 127 
 
 XII. The Subconscious Mind 137 
 
 XIII. The Subconscious Mind ; its Func- 
 
 tions and Operations 149 
 
 XIV. The Subconscious Mind; General 
 
 Observations . . . . 163 
 
Chapter Page 
 
 XV. Suggestion Defined, and the Way it 
 
 Operates 179 
 
 XVI. Suggestion Applied to Mental and 
 
 Physical Disabilities 191 
 
 XVII. Laws Governing in Every Sphere. .205 
 
 XVIII. The Secret of True Attainment 217 
 
 XIX. A Little Friendly Talk 229 
 
 Parting 245 
 
 Special Announcement to the Read- 
 er of this Book 251 
 
 Perfect Union . ..255 
 
THE MESSAGE. 
 
 Truat thou thyself, believe that God hath given 
 Something to thee which no man had before, 
 That in thy message is some darkness riven 
 Which, but for thee, were darkness evermore. 
 There is a thing to tell, the world is waiting, 
 'Tis thine to tell it, speak, for time is brief, 
 'Twixt speech and silence stand no more debating, 
 For Death unseen approaches like a thief, 
 To steal the precious words, Man were the loser, 
 Announce thy tidings : Would the master send 
 A sentient being, God, the King, the Chooser 
 Into a strange new country to no end ? 
 Dec. 17th, 1902. ISABEL EIOHKT. 
 
There is a method and precision as well 
 as a definiteness in which results follow cer- 
 tain causes, in the external world, in our 
 physical being, in our Thoughts and acts, 
 and in the whole phenomena of life, which 
 precludes the possibility of chance or co- 
 incidence. Without going into a close anal- 
 ysis of the phenomena of life, we can readily 
 discover enough to impress us with the 
 thought that back of all life-expression there 
 must be Laws and fixed Principles which 
 govern and control in all that comes to us. 
 
 A closer analysis will convince us that 
 this is a fact. That underlying all Life- 
 expression there are Laws and forces oper- 
 ating which at all times govern the results 
 of what we think and do. When we come 
 to recognize this fact, we also come to real- 
 
ize to some extent, of what vital importance 
 it is that we should know and understand 
 the sphere and operation of these Laws and 
 forces, if we would intelligently shape life 
 for ourselves and bring to us the things, the 
 people and the conditions which we desire. 
 
 I have no apology to offer for the appear- 
 ance of this book. That which calls it into 
 existence is the need, which has been made 
 very apparent to me in my practice, for 
 something which would give these underly- 
 ing principles of life in plain and intelligi- 
 ble language, such as would admit of their 
 being grasped and understood by the average 
 person, together with the great importance 
 of the subject and the vital bearing it has 
 upon life in its every detail. 
 
 This work was first undertaken with the 
 view of being able to supply my patients 
 with something which would give them the 
 basic principles of what I teach them in my 
 practice, in readable form that they might 
 study and think for themselves, but as I 
 have gone into the various subjects the field 
 has constantly enlarged, each theme so 
 
growing in importance and variety of appli- 
 cation, that I decided to publish it in sub- 
 stantial book form in the hope that it may be 
 the means of helping a larger number to a 
 better and clearer undertanding of the real 
 and true science of living. 
 
 No attempt whatever has been made as to 
 literary style. I have followed no beaten 
 path and have made no effort to either imi- 
 tate or differ from others, but have endeav- 
 ored to express myself as clearly as possible 
 in language which would best convey my 
 meaning. 
 
 N"o one can realize the shortcomings of 
 this work more than I, but this has not de- 
 terred me. I have had something to say 
 and I have said it as best I could with the 
 one desire and purpose in view to help 
 those who are seeking greater light and at- 
 tainment. 
 
 I have come in contact with people from 
 a practical standpoint and what I have 
 learned has come to me through practical 
 experience and observation, and not through 
 experimental work, valuable as that is in its 
 
way, hence the principles which I have 
 stated are in the main such as I have proven 
 and demonstrated in practical work. There 
 are doubtless some propositions stated which 
 you may question. I don't ask you to ac- 
 cept them because of my statement, but I do 
 ask that you will not reject them until you 
 have carefully considered them and follower 
 them out to their conclusion with the desire 
 to get at the facts. 
 
 Ideas and theories may be at times very 
 nice and pleasant things to contemplate, but 
 when we come to the serious problem of life, 
 we want vital practical truths and facts, as 
 near as we can get them something which 
 will admit of practical application and of 
 bettering our condition. 
 
 The scope and application of these Laws 
 and Principles is so vast and varied that it 
 has been impossible to avoid what may, at 
 times, seem like repetition, but by attention 
 it will be seen that while a statement itself 
 may in a measure be repeated, its applica- 
 tion is different. 
 
 We are just learning. While we think we 
 
have much truth and we have yet when 
 we measure what we have with what is yet 
 attainable when we measure our present 
 attainment in the light of the vast fields of 
 wisdom and knowledge of which we get an 
 occasional glimpse, we can but feel that we 
 f *know in part." And this should stimulate 
 us to desires for the greater knowledge 
 which is yet beyond us. "Veil after veil 
 will lift, but there must be veil upon veil be- 
 hind/' The field is just being entered and 
 is practically unexplored and the one who 
 enters with the sincere desire for greater 
 wisdom and knowledge, for a higher attain- 
 ment and development and for a freer and 
 fuller expression of the Soul life which is 
 within, will indeed reap a harvest of the 
 richest fruits. 
 
 Let no one think that these transcendent 
 truths are to be grasped or made available 
 by the mere reading or through an intellect- 
 ual perception of the truth. The greatei 
 the value possessed by a thing, the greater 
 the effort required to obtain it. - If you de- 
 sire to know these things, you will have to 
 
study them and think and reason for your- 
 self. You will not find everything "spelled 
 out." While the temptation has often been 
 great to elaborate the various thoughts and 
 principles stated, I have endeavored to be 
 as breif as is consistent with the clear state- 
 ment of the principles involved, leaving the 
 reader to follow them out to their conclusion 
 and application, hence this will be found to 
 be more of a text book, or series of instruc- 
 tions, rather than a book for casual reading. 
 I wish also to say that I am bound by no 
 creed, sect nor school. I am a simple 
 searcher after truth, for its own sake, and 
 have no theories, or philosophies, or party 
 views or beliefs to uphold. Truth is Truth. 
 At times we may find it in bad company, 
 and we may have to do a good deal of sifting 
 in order to separate the wheat from the 
 chaff, but this should not deter us from seek- 
 ing it, nor from perceiving and accepting it, 
 no matter from whence it may come. This 
 should be our attitude continually, and the 
 more we open ourselves to the Truth, the 
 more will it flow in to us. 
 
There are three classes who will read this 
 book. 
 
 First; those who read it as they read a 
 novel, discerning what is upon the surface 
 only, or failing entirely to understand. It 
 may create a passing interest, but will pro- 
 duce no perceptable effect upon their minds 
 or upon their lives. 
 
 Second; those who read and become en- 
 thusiastic, gaining a fair intellectual percep- 
 tion of the Truth, which will for the time 
 being, fascinate them, and they may go on 
 in the same way, gaming that mental per- 
 ception of these truths and principles which 
 will enable them to talk about them and en- 
 large upon their beauties and significance, 
 and yet there be no perceptible effect upon 
 their lives no practical results. They are 
 lacking in Realization and consequently they 
 cannot apply them to the problem of life. 
 
 Third; there will be others who will not 
 only read with care, with the simple and 
 earnest desire to learn that which will enable 
 them to better their every condition, but will 
 study and analyze each statement or propo- 
 
study them and think and reason for your- 
 self. You will not find everything "spelled 
 out/' While the temptation has often been 
 great to elaborate the various thoughts and 
 principles stated, I have endeavored to be 
 as breif as is consistent with the clear state- 
 ment of the principles involved, leaving the 
 reader to follow them out to their conclusion 
 and application, hence this will be found to 
 be more of a text book, or series of instruc- 
 tions, rather than a book for casual reading. 
 I wish also to say that I am bound by no 
 creed, sect nor school. I am a simple 
 searcher after truth, for its own sake, and 
 have no theories, or philosophies, or party 
 views or beliefs to uphold. Truth is Truth. 
 At times we may find it in bad company, 
 and we may have to do a good deal of sifting 
 in order to separate the wheat from the 
 chaff, but this should not deter us from seek- 
 ing it, nor from perceiving and accepting it, 
 no matter from whence it may come. This 
 should be our attitude continually, and the 
 more we open ourselves to the Truth, the 
 more will it flow in to us. 
 
There are three classes who will read this 
 book. 
 
 First; those who read it as they read a 
 novel, discerning what is upon the surface 
 only, or failing entirely to understand. It 
 may create a passing interest, but will pro- 
 duce no perceptable effect upon their minds 
 or upon their lives. 
 
 Second; those who read and become en- 
 thusiastic, gaining a fair intellectual percep- 
 tion of the Truth, which will for the time 
 being, fascinate them, and they may go on 
 in the same way, gaining that mental per- 
 ception of these truths and principles which 
 will enable them to talk about them and en- 
 large upon their beauties and significance, 
 and yet there be no perceptible effect upon 
 their lives no practical results. They are 
 lacking in Realization and consequently they 
 cannot apply them to the problem of life. 
 
 Third; there will be others who will not 
 only read with care, with the simple and 
 earnest desire to learn that which will enable 
 them to better their every condition, but will 
 study and analyze each statement or propo- 
 
sition with the view of getting its interior 
 meaning and of understanding its signifi- 
 cance and bearing. They will try to get the 
 Thought which is back of the words em- 
 ployed, for words are but symbols. They 
 are in earnest in their desires to learn that 
 which will aid them in making their lives 
 more noble and beautiful, in attaining to 
 greater success and happiness, to a higher 
 state of physical health, and in building a 
 foundation upon which they can stand 
 throughout eternity. 
 
 These will get the most out of this, or any 
 book they read and they are the ones who are 
 continually travelling in advance of the 
 great mass of humanity who are content to 
 drift along with the tide and winds. My 
 desire is to help such as far as it lies within 
 my power, hence instead of putting this out 
 as a "Course of Instruction" and making a 
 charge of five to ten dollars, as is quite cus- 
 tomary, I have placed the nominal price of 
 ONE DOLLAR upon it so that it may be 
 within the reach of all. 
 
 My work is done ; but as I review it I feel 
 
dissatisfied in a measure, in that I have not 
 been able to elaborate and follow these vari- 
 ous truths and principles to their greater 
 application, or to bring their vital import- 
 ance to that point of prominence which I 
 desire, and which they merit, but space for- 
 bids and I can only present this Philosophy 
 of Life in epitome and leave the reader to 
 follow the various propositions out to their 
 conclusions for himself. 
 
The- 
 
 Way 
 We 
 
 Live. 
 
CHAPTEK I. 
 
 As we merge from the unconscious side 
 of life, of infancy, to the consciousness of 
 our surroundings, with increasing years, we 
 are ushered into an atmosphere that is in- 
 tensely material. First, that which attracts 
 the eye appeals to us, then gradually we find 
 ourselves coming under the dominion of all 
 of the five physical senses. We are taught, 
 and we come to believe, that only that is 
 real which we can perceive through the 
 senses, and as a consequence, we begin to 
 shape our life, form our character and build 
 our future in conformity with that which 
 appeals to us through our material facul- 
 ties. The natural tendencies of the Spirit- 
 ual or Soul faculties are idealistic, but our 
 education and environment lead toward ma- 
 terialism. 
 
 In the process of growth and unf oldment, 
 no two are alike. There are all shades and 
 
24 The Way 
 
 degrees of, development, both in the idealis- 
 tic and in the material, dependent upon 
 hereditary influences, education and envi- 
 ronment, but the general trend of life as we 
 all have to meet it, is towards an intense ma- 
 terialism. We are accustomed to judge and 
 measure everything from this standpoint, 
 hence as we advance in life, our perception 
 of all that pertains to it becomes increas- 
 ingly colored by and through the natural' 
 tendencies of our objective or material facul- 
 ties. 
 
 The idea that the knowledge, beliefs and 
 perceptions imparted to us by the five senses 
 is all there is, and that they form the basis 
 upon which we must build our lives, is en- 
 tirely erroneous. These pertain to the mate- 
 rial life, and are the ever changing, con- 
 stantly vanishing and fleeting things which 
 will evenually lose their identity; whereas 
 the things on the unseen or spiritual side of 
 life are the unchanging, the abiding, the 
 absolute, and are far more real than that 
 which we discern through the physical 
 
We Live. . 25 
 
 senses. In fact, the only things that are real 
 may be said to pertain to the unseen or 
 Spiritual realm. They alone will abide 
 throughout eternity, and it is through fail- 
 ure to discern these important and far reach- 
 ing truths that we have grown to believe 
 that nothing is real except that which can 
 be demonstrated with mathematical preci- 
 sion or perceived by the sensuous life of the 
 material man. 
 
 With the inbred belief that the only thing 
 there is for us in this life is that which ap- 
 peals to our material senses, through neglect 
 the spiritual or soul side of our being has 
 been lost sight of and in our development, 
 the material has been cultivated at the ex- 
 pense of the spiritual, hence we find that the 
 true expression of the real or spiritual man 
 has become dwarfed and fettered, and that 
 instead of aspiring to that higher plane of 
 living which would promote the growth and 
 development of the best there is in us, we 
 have been content to live in the material 
 only, with the result that our spiritual f acul- 
 
26 The Way 
 
 ties have become obscured and we have suf- 
 fered the loss of the much that would have 
 come to us, had we cultivvated the spiritual 
 along with the material and taken a broader 
 and higher view of life. 
 
 The only way in which we can arrive at a 
 true conception of the life we must live, is 
 first of all, through coming into a true 
 knowledge of God, His ways, His purposes 
 and His Laws. The degree in which this is 
 true of each will measure the degree of the 
 real growth and development of our higher 
 or Soul faculties. So long as we keep our- 
 selves enveloped in the opaque blanket of 
 materialism, so long will the spiritual facul- 
 ties be obscured and we be groping in the 
 dark so long will we fail to comprehend 
 infinite Law, infinite Wisdom and infinite 
 Love. 
 
 The first step in this direction is a recog- 
 nition of the great truth that the things of 
 the unseen or spiritual are more real and 
 abiding than the seen or material things of 
 life. We must rid ourselves of the idea that 
 
We Live. 27 
 
 we are to be governed by the material and 
 we must understand that in the degree in 
 which we recognize and cultivate the spir- 
 itual or Soul side of our being, will we come 
 to be dominated by these higher forces and 
 Laws, so that, instead of dominating us, the 
 material will be made subservient to our 
 needs and necessities. We must also recog- 
 nize the fact that the five senses only give 
 us relative knowledge and that things are 
 not really what they seem. We must recog- 
 nize and realize the great truth that on the 
 material side of life, there is absolutely noth- 
 ing but what is changing and vanishing 
 nothing permanent, while the things on the 
 spiritual side are eternal and never fade 
 that they are the only things that never 
 cease to exist. 
 
 True -growth and development of our 
 "Soul Nature" is the only thing we can 
 count as real, or as having permanent value. 
 All advancement in this direction not only 
 contributes infinitely to our abilities and our 
 success in life here, but fixes that within us 
 
28 The Way 
 
 which will abide forever. When we build 
 from the material side of life, we are build- 
 ing for time only; when we cultivate our 
 higher, spiritual or Soul forces and powers, 
 we are then building for both time and eter- 
 nity, and in eternity alone we shall be able 
 to correctly estimate or measure the value 
 of these things. 
 
 The second and most important step in 
 the direction of development, is the recog- 
 nition of the transcendent truth that your 
 life and mine is the result, the product of 
 our thoughts; that your life is, in its detail 
 and entirety, the actual product of your past 
 thoughts. Thought develops belief, and as 
 we are controlled largely by our beliefs, it 
 follows that thought is the all-important 
 factor in shaping our lives, no matter from 
 which way we may view it. To have our life 
 right, we must first of all have our thoughts 
 right, and in the degree in which we attain 
 to a true conception of life and of the pow- 
 ers and attributes of the Soul, shall we be 
 able to formulate and attract to us thoughts 
 
We Live. 29 
 
 which will he productive of the highest de- 
 gree of success, of progress and of spiritual 
 development. 
 
 An intelligent understanding of the life 
 forces which operate on both the spiritual 
 and material plane, together with a knowl- 
 edge and understanding of the powers and 
 attributes of the Soul, will enable us to 
 found our beliefs and acts upon Law and 
 Truth. When thus founded, we come to see 
 that the occurrences and incidents of life 
 are not mere co-incidents, but are the result 
 of the operations of Laws through which we 
 either consciously or unconsciously attract 
 to us that which comes to us, and life then 
 becomes the intelligent application of those 
 Laws to our own development and to the 
 every detail of our existence. We come to 
 live and act in harmony with these laws 
 which are always operative, whether we will 
 them to be or not, and instead of finding our 
 condition in life one of discord and inhar- 
 mony, we begin to realize the results of the 
 practical application of wisdom, knowledge 
 
30 The Way We Live. 
 
 and intelligence to the great problem of life, 
 in bringing about harmonious conditions, 
 and the realization of the higher ideals and 
 conceptions of the Soul. 
 
Life- 
 Is 
 
 What 
 
 We 
 
 Make 
 
 It. 
 
CHAPTEE II. 
 
 How natural it has become for us to lay 
 the blame of our mistakes and failures, ill 
 health, unfavorable circumstances and con- 
 ditions, our unhappiness and our disappoint- 
 ments in all the walks of life upon "fate!" 
 How prone we are to attribute our ills and 
 failures to some extraneous source or cause, 
 when the real cause lies within oureslves ! 
 
 Why is this ? Simply because we have be- 
 come so accustomed to thinking that the 
 causes which control and shape our lives are 
 external and such as can be measured by the 
 physical senses. We have become so used to 
 considering everything from a material 
 standpoint perceiving only that which can 
 be weighed in the balance of human intelli- 
 gence or measured with the foot rule, that 
 we have actually grown into the belief that 
 the things which govern our lives and con- 
 
34 Life is What 
 
 trol our destiny are the external. We have 
 lived such an intensely material life, and 
 have become so thoroughly enveloped in the 
 dark mists of materialism, that we have lost 
 sight almost entirely of the higher, spiritual 
 and more potential forces by and through 
 which our lives and our destinies are con- 
 trolled. 
 
 There is no such thing as "fate" and 
 nothing ever "happens." The cause of 
 whatever comes to each lies within himself. 
 God is the supreme fountain head of all 
 power all originates with Him and all 
 flows from Him, but in the physical mani- 
 festation or expression of the life of man, 
 all force and power comes from within him, 
 and to the failure to recognize this great 
 central truth and act upon it, can be attri- 
 buted all the failures, sickness, misery and 
 unhappiness in the world. We have been 
 workiDg from circumference to center, and 
 have never reached the center. When we 
 shall reverse this process, and work from 
 center to circumference, we will begin to 
 
We Make It. 35 
 
 make substantial progress, and not until 
 then. 
 
 When we recognize the fact that a 
 Thought proceeds every act and that the 
 tendency of Thought is to express itself in 
 action; when we perceive the great truth 
 that everything exists first in the ideal or 
 mental before it is manifested in the seen or 
 material that our physical being and oui 
 lives are but the outward expression of that 
 which is within that the material is but 
 the expression of the spiritual; when we 
 discern the transcendent truth that the un- 
 seen is more real than the seen that spirit- 
 ual force transcends material force, then, in 
 the degree that we come into an understand- 
 ing and realization of these fundamental 
 and transcendent truths, shall we see and 
 understand how, and why it is, that the 6ut- 
 ward expression of life is but the manifes- 
 tation of that which is within. 
 
 Life is but the outward expression, the re- 
 sult or product the sum-total of our 
 thoughts and our inner, spiritual state. This 
 
36 Life is What 
 
 is absolutely true, and the moment we recog- 
 nize this great truth, we shall see in it, the 
 cause of whatever comes to us. We shall 
 see also, that if circumstances and conditions 
 are not to our liking, we have it within our 
 power to change them. The longer I hold 
 mly hand upon the hot stove, the deeper the 
 burn. If I wish to stop the burning what 
 do I do? Simply change the conditions I 
 remove the hand from the stove. If the out- 
 ward manifestation of life is not what I wish 
 it to be, if my health, my success, my happi- 
 ness, my circumstances and environment are 
 not what I wish, what shall I do? Why, I 
 will change the producing cause I will 
 change my mental attitude and instead of 
 allowing these things to control me, I will 
 control them, because I know that the power 
 to do this lies within myself. 
 
 The causes which operate to control and 
 fashion our life, our character and our devel- 
 opment in any and all lines come from with- 
 in and it is an absolute fact that each has it, 
 within his own power to make his life in its 
 
We Make It. 37 
 
 entirety, just what he wills it to be. No one 
 can say what my position or success in life 
 shall be unless I allow it! Nothing has 
 power over me, except as I invest it with 
 power! I, and I alone am the architect of 
 my own fortunes or misfortunes. > I shape 
 my destiny here and hereafter, and if my 
 fortune and destiny are not what I would 
 have them, I have no one to blame but my- 
 self. I am responsible for what comes to 
 me. 
 
 But it is not simply the mental perception 
 of these fundamental truths that is going to 
 change our lives. It is the vital, conscious 
 realization of Truth ~by the Soul that pro- 
 duces effect. We must feel the truth of what 
 we believe, and feeling it, we are bound to 
 express the Truth in external action, in just 
 the degree that it is realized in the Soul. 
 
 Knowledge is power. This is true, and 
 the important question is what are you going 
 to do with that power which you acquire 
 through knowledge? It matters not how 
 much power you possess, if you fail to use it, 
 
38 Life is What 
 
 or if you wrongly apply it. And here is the 
 rock over which the many stumble. They 
 perceive Truth mentally and they can ex- 
 press the most beautiful thoughts and theo- 
 ries fluently, but these have not become a 
 deep-seated conviction in the Soul and there- 
 fore fail to produce any perceptible change 
 in their lives, simply because they do not 
 act on the Truth they hold nor up to the 
 light they have they do not apply the pow- 
 er they possess in a practical way. They are 
 not real, because they are professing one 
 thing and doing another. They are holding 
 to a mental perception of truths which, if 
 realized in the Soul, should be productive 
 of the greatest results which should make 
 their lives all that is good and true, beauti- 
 ful and noble ; and yet, they will harbor and 
 send out, thoughts of malice, envy, jealousy 
 and hatred they will gossip about their 
 friends and neighbors in seeming ignorance 
 of the fact that such thoughts will surely 
 harm others and react upon themselves. 
 This does not affect the truth of these 
 
We Make It. 39 
 
 principles in any way whatever. It is simply 
 a clear demonstration of the fact that such 
 people are holding to a mental perception of 
 Truth, of which they have never come into 
 a conscious realization, and further, that to 
 obtain results, Truth and Power must be 
 used and applied to life-expression in a prac- 
 tical way. 
 
 Without any question, it is within our 
 province to make life just what we will, but 
 it cannot be done through a simple mental 
 perception of Truth, nor can this be accom- 
 plished in day or week. It is not enough 
 that we have an intellectual perception of 
 these most vital truths. They must become 
 a deep-seated conviction in the Soul, in order 
 that they may externalize themselves so that 
 results will be manifested. Life is at all 
 times just what we make it, and we are con- 
 tinually, day by day, consciously or uncon- 
 sciously, determining the character of that 
 which shall shape our lives. 
 
 All Spiritual and Natural Law is at all 
 times operative, whether we will it to be or 
 not. If we are in ignorance concerning these 
 
40 Life is What We Make It. 
 
 Laws, and the way in which they operate, we 
 are on the negative side of them, and they 
 operate against us. If we understand them, 
 and bring our lives into harmony with them, 
 they operate for us, and we, in turn, can 
 operate them, using them with intelligence 
 in bringing about the conditions we desire. 
 
 But great changes cannot be brought 
 about in a day or a week. It is the patient, 
 persistent effort, holding to a fixed purpose 
 or ideal that enables us to achieve results. 
 We must grow into these things, and in the 
 degree in which we come into the conscious 
 recognition and realization of these great 
 and fundamental truths will they come to 
 be a part of our very lives and natures and 
 will then the more naturally express or ex- 
 ternalize themselves. 
 
 True growth and development is always by 
 degrees. Nature teaches us this. It is step 
 by step. You cannot reach the pinnacle of 
 wisdom, knowledge and power at a bound. 
 You must grow into it by degrees, and thus 
 growing into it, you will prove your way and 
 know by doing. 
 
How- 
 Can 
 I 
 
 Help 
 Myself? 
 
CHAPTEE III. 
 
 The most important and interesting ques- 
 tion that will occur to each is "How can I 
 help myself?" What are the means what 
 is the process by which I can develop my 
 own latent powers and secure the greatest 
 results from the ability which I possess? 
 How can I change the current of my life, or 
 attain to greater proficiency in the callng 
 which I have chosen? 
 
 The first step the starting point upward, 
 is to discover the prime or controlling factor 
 in life. The second step, and the one that is 
 equally important, is to begin at once to 
 make earnest and practical application of the 
 knowledge gained. True growth and perma- 
 nent advancement comes through applying 
 the truth, wisdom and knowledge we acquire 
 to every detail of life as it comes to us day 
 by day, and the degree in which we do this, 
 will measure the degree of our progress and 
 
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44 Ho-w Can I 
 
 development, our success and our happiness. 
 
 It is not so much what I know, what power 
 or ability I possess, as it is how much knowl- 
 edge, power and ability I put into intelligent 
 and practical use. I may possess the highest 
 degree of power, but if I do not use it what 
 does it profit me? It is not what we know, 
 or what we possess, but what we do and use 
 that shapes our lives, moulds our character 
 and conditions our circumstances and envir- 
 onment, as well as determines the measure' 
 of success which shall come to us. I would 
 emphasize this one point; consider it well 
 it is not so much the knowing, as the doing. 
 
 And knowledge comes only through expe- 
 rience. On the material side of life, we can 
 only know through the doing. All else is 
 belief, which at times may amount to convic- 
 tion, but until we actually do a thing, we 
 cannot know it. When we know a thing 
 through doing, that knowledge becomes ab- 
 solute, in its degree. Then we know; belief 
 has merged into knowledge and knowledge 
 becomes power. 
 
Help Myself? 45 
 
 First you have belief. Then, through do- 
 ing, belief merges into knowledge and 
 knowledge into power then what? Apply 
 that power intelligently in the working out 
 of the whole problem of life. Unless used, 
 it deteriorates. The only way you gain phy- 
 sical strength is through proper exercise. 
 The same is true here. Using the knowledge 
 and power you have increases both. If you 
 would have you must use and using you will 
 have the more. "To him that hath shall be 
 
 given." 
 
 But remember one thing: All power is 
 from within, out. You cannot get it from 
 without. The forces are within you and are 
 developed through use. I am not speaking 
 of imaginary things, but of things that are 
 vitally real. There are forces and powers 
 latent within all, which if brought into ac- 
 tion would most materially change the con- 
 ditions of life and put one in a commanding 
 position. There are laws governing the 
 whole phenomena of life which are operating 
 constantly, whether we will them to or not 
 
46 How Can I 
 
 whether we recognize them or not. If we 
 learn these laws and understand them, we 
 can then work in harmony with them we 
 can utilize them ourselves and thus intelli- 
 gently shape the course of our lives. Other- 
 wise, we are like a rudderless ship at sea. 
 
 Without the earnest desire and fixed pur- 
 pose, but little can be accomplished. The 
 study of "The Science and Philosophy of 
 Life" will avail you but little if you take it 
 up as a pleasing philosophy and handle it 
 as a child would a doll. The understanding 
 of the problem of life on both the material 
 and the spiritual plane : the discovery of the 
 laws affecting the issues of life, which are 
 constantly operative; the knowledge of that 
 which is the prime factor in shaping life in 
 its every detail, together with an under- 
 standing of its varied and manifold opera- 
 tions these are things which are of vital 
 importance and should command the most 
 earnest and serious consideration of all. 
 
 He who earnestly desires to get the best 
 out of life; he who sincerely desires to get 
 
Help Myself? 47 
 
 the best out of himself and to attain to the 
 development of those higher and finer facul- 
 ties of the Soul which will bring him more 
 and more into harmony with the Divine 
 Mind, will take up the problem and study it 
 with much care and patience, disabusing the 
 mind of all pre-conceived thoughts and opin- 
 ions as far as possible, and will seek truth 
 absolute truth, for its own sake, no matter 
 from whence it may come. 
 
 "How can I help myself?" The answer 
 can be given in two words learn and do. 
 The first requisite is an earnest and sincere 
 desire determination. Second, read, study, 
 think learn. Third, act. As you get a 
 truth, put it to a practical use at once every 
 time. And as you come into a knowledge 
 and nuderstanding of Thought, its power, 
 its manifold qualities and the laws govern- 
 ilng its operations begin at once to apply 
 this knowledge to every phase of life. No 
 one can do this and fail to succeed. These 
 Laws are universal in their application and 
 are positive in their operation under given 
 
48 Ho-w Can I 
 
 conditions. Patient, persistent effort is 
 bound to win. Be earnest, be forceful at 
 all times be sincere and true to your own 
 Soul and success will crown your efforts be- 
 yond your expectations. "Ask and it shall 
 be given unto you; seek and ye will find; 
 knock and it shall be opened unto you." 
 
 But do not make the mistake of expecting 
 to change and transform your whole life, 
 your own being and the circumstances and 
 conditions which surround you, in a day, a 
 month or a year. It cannot be done. There 
 are no "short-cuts" and here, "the longest 
 way around, is the shortest way home." 
 You must not be impatient, but rather let 
 each new experience, the new knowledge and 
 light, the new conquests of each day delight 
 your own Soul and lead you to more earnest 
 effort to a more fixed determination, in 
 shaping your life so that it will conform to a 
 higher ideals and be productive of that 
 which will abide with you throughout the 
 eternal ages. Ever remember that all growth 
 is by degrees, hence the need of patience and 
 
Help Myself? 49 
 
 persistence. This is true growth and you 
 will find that the further you travel along 
 the path of development, the more rapid will 
 be your advancement. 
 
 Two things are absolutely essential to the 
 one who would attain to the highest develop- 
 ment that is possible to man. First, a true 
 and intelligent knowledge of God through 
 His revealed word and by the Divine Spirit; 
 second, a true knowledge of self of man. 
 Upon these will depend the measure and sta- 
 bility of our unfoldment and growth. 
 
Truth 
 
 And 
 
 Our 
 
 Relation 
 To It. 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 The most momentous question ever pro- 
 pounded by a human being, was that of Pi- 
 late to Christ "What is Truth?" 
 
 What is Truth? From whence does it 
 come? How can we attain it? God is 
 Truth. He is the author and source of all 
 Truth, hence all Truth is Divine and if we 
 would have it, we must seek it where it is to 
 be found. As all Truth is of God, so must 
 it partake of His character and correspond 
 with what He is. Here we have a test of 
 Truth whatever is not in keeping with the 
 character of God, or fails to correspond with 
 what He is, when it is traced down to a final 
 analysis, can safely be rejected as untruth. 
 
 In the subjects under cinsideration, we 
 are dealing with the very fundamental prin- 
 ciples of the whole universe, of all mani- 
 fested life, as well as that which, at times, 
 touches the very life principle itself, hence 
 
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54 Truth, and Our 
 
 the importance of knowing the Truth and 
 the absolute necessity of some standard of 
 authority by whcih we can measure our be- 
 liefs, our deductions and our conclusions a 
 standard by which we can measure and try 
 all things, in order to determine what is 
 Truth. 
 
 Can the finite measure the Infinite ? Can 
 Spiritual Truth be measured or compre- 
 hended by the material faculties alone ? The 
 conception and measurement of Truth is an 
 attribute of the Soul, and is therefore, out 
 of the range of the purely material faculties 
 of the mind. 
 
 We must distinguish between material and 
 spiritual Truth, and yet, in the conception of 
 material Truths, the mind cannot compre- 
 hend them independent of the higher facul- 
 ties of the Soul. The Law of the relation of 
 numbers and the science of mathematics is 
 discerned only through a faculty of the Soul, 
 as has been clearly demonstrated, and inde- 
 pendent of these higher faculties the mind 
 could not grasp nor understand them. For 
 
Relation to It. 55 
 
 the clear conception and right understand- 
 ing of any and all Truth, we are dependent 
 upon the faculties of the Soul. 
 
 The knowledge and understanding of 
 Truth as it is related to "The Science and 
 Philosophy of Life" depends upon the devel- 
 ment, and the clearness of perception of the 
 Soul or spiritual faculties, for the reason 
 that they are spiritual Truths and spiritual 
 Truth can only be discerned by spiritual 
 means. It is the office of reason to distin- 
 guish" and define, but the perception of 
 Truth must, at all times, come through the 
 Soul. 
 
 Can man depend upon reason and logic 
 for a knowledge of Truth ? How often does 
 reason lead to conclusions, which the subse- 
 quent discovery of some new fact proves to 
 be a false one? The thinker soon discovers 
 that he cannot rely upon either reason or 
 logic at all times for a knowledge of Truth. 
 They are too often based upon a false prem- 
 ise and in consequence, we are led to false 
 conclusions. 
 
56 Truth, and Our 
 
 The necessity of some standard by which 
 we can measure all things and determine the 
 Truth is apparent. All Truth exists now as 
 it ever has only awaiting our perception of 
 it. It exists now, and will continue to exist 
 throughout eternity, absolute and unchange- 
 able. We cannot make Truth, neither does 
 our belief or our conception of a thing make 
 it Truth or untruth. Our belief has nothing 
 to do with Truth itself, and it can in nowise 
 be affected by it. 
 
 We mistake our relation to Truth. It is 
 never presented to us that we may decide 
 upon its merits whether it ought to be 
 Truth, or whether we wish it to be so or not. 
 Our desires, our wishes have nothing to do 
 with it, and the sooner we recognize the fact 
 that Truth exists entirely independent of 
 ourselves, our wishes or our beliefs, and is 
 absolute beyond the power of man to 
 change, augment or detract, the sooner will 
 we attain that spiritual and mental attitude 
 where the light of Divine Truth will shine 
 in upon the Soul, so that we will be able to 
 
Relation to It. 57 
 
 discern and grasp it, and order our lives in 
 accordance with it. 
 
 When man sets himself up as "Judge and 
 Jury" over truth, when he assumes to decide 
 what shall or shall not be Truth when he 
 tries to make Truth conform to his own 
 ideas and wishes, he assumes a wrong atti- 
 tude, shutting out the light, and he will find 
 himself continually confronted with difficul- 
 ties which he can in no way surmount. 
 
 When he changes his attitude, and real- 
 izes that Truth is absolute, that it is un- 
 affected by his wishes, his desires or beliefs 
 that it exists entirely independent of him- 
 self when he realizes that Truth can only 
 enter the "open door," and that the only way 
 he can attain to an understanding of Truth 
 is through seeking it for its own sake; when 
 iviih earnestness of purpose and sincerity of 
 desire lie seeks to have his ideas and opinions 
 conform to Truth, instead of trying to make 
 Truth conform to them, then he has placed 
 himself in the right relation to Truth, in 
 correspondence with it, and will find it flow- 
 
58 Truth, and Our 
 
 ing in, in the degree in which he opens him- 
 self to it. 
 
 Reason we cannot rely upon, neither are 
 we always in the position to determine 
 whether that which is presented or that 
 which comes to us is of the higher or Soul 
 faculties or not, hence there is need of some 
 authoritative standard whereby we can meas- 
 ure things some guide upon which we can 
 rely in our search after Truth. 
 
 As authority, as an exponent of Divine 
 Truth and of all Law which is applicable to 
 man as a spiritual being, as well as in his re- 
 lation to material environment, the Bible 
 stands by itself, pre-eminent. It has stood 
 as the great beacon light of the world for 
 centuries, and its truths are clearer and the 
 brilliancy of its light is greater at this time 
 than ever before. Never, since its earlier 
 history, has its grand Truths been so opened 
 up to man, never has its light shown with 
 such undimmed brilliancy as at the present 
 time. Some are just beginning to learn that 
 in this priceless volume there are vast stores 
 
Relation to It. 59 
 
 of hidden wisdom, knowledge and Truth 
 which will be opened up to those who seek 
 them to those who place themselves in the 
 right attitude to receive, and to such new 
 light is constantly coming. Truth which 
 has been hidden for centuries is being re- 
 vealed and where darkness has overcast the 
 horizon the effulgent light of eternal Truth 
 is now shining. 
 
 The earnest Student, the Thinker, the 
 sincere Investigator will obtain more light 
 and Truth concerning all questions affecting 
 man in all his relations, from the Bible, than 
 from any other source. There will be no 
 missing links in the chain. There will be no 
 problem pertaining to man in his relations 
 to God which cannot be rightly solved 
 through an understanding of God, His ways, 
 His purposes and His Laws as taught and 
 revealed therein. 
 
 There is no Psychological fact known to- 
 day, no principle or Truth concerning man, 
 either as a spiritual being or as concerns him 
 in his relations to his material environment 
 
60 Truth, and Our 
 
 but what is presented, taught or exemplified 
 in Scripture, and the more he appeals to it, 
 the more he, in the right attitude seeks to 
 wrest from it its secrets, the more will he 
 come into a knowledge of Divine Truth. 
 
 But we must approach any subject with 
 an "open door." It will not do to attempt 
 to prove or disprove any given theory or be- 
 lief. Our attitude should be that of a simple 
 searcher after Truth, with the earnest desire 
 to know the real Truth, irrespective of what 
 we have been taught, what we believe, or of 
 our own preconceived ideas and opinions. In 
 the degree in which we divest ourselves of 
 these will we be successful in our search af- 
 ter Truth, and finding it be able to compre- 
 hend it. 
 
 While using all the resources within our 
 reach as helps, for the final Truth we must 
 go to the fountain-head, the source of all 
 Truth God Himself, who is Truth. A book, 
 an article or a statement from another be- 
 comes useful to us, and powerful in the de- 
 gree in which it serves as a medium or con- 
 
Relation to It. 61 
 
 necting link between ourselves and the 
 source of all Truth. They bridge a gap, and 
 either through their own statements or 
 through thoughts awakened in the mind 
 place us in connection with that which is be- 
 yond the Infinite source of all Truth. In 
 their place these things are right and are 
 useful to us, but we should never lean upon 
 them and they should never be allowed to 
 supplant nor detract from the one grand 
 source and authority of all Truth the Bi- 
 ble. 
 
 The immense importance of knowing and 
 understanding the Truth cannot be over- 
 estimated when we consider that our lives 
 are conditioned and formed through the 
 Thought we entertain and hold, and that the 
 product of life will at all times correspond 
 with the character of the Thought, be it 
 Truth or untruth. The deductions from this 
 are simple and obvious. 
 
 Believing a thing true or false does not 
 make it so. But while our belief cannot 
 affect the Truth, it can, and it does affect us 
 
62 Truth, and Our Relation to IL 
 
 our lives, hence Truth is the one great 
 cardinal principle or corner-stone upon 
 which the true and fruitful life must be 
 built. 
 
 When Thought is based upon Truth it be- 
 comes an invincible power. Reinforced by 
 wisdom and knowledge, impelled by a deter- 
 mined will and strong desire nothing can 
 stand before it. Truth is stronger than error 
 and will prevail. 
 
 In the degree in which your concepts of a 
 thing are those of Truth, will your beliefs, 
 your reasonings, your logic and your posi- 
 tion become invincible and unassailable. 
 
 "He that followeth me shall not walk in 
 darkness, but shall have the light of Life" 
 and that light is Truth. 
 
Thought 
 
 The 
 
 Key-note 
 
 Of 
 
 Life. 
 
CHAPTER V. 
 
 Thought is the all-powerful, all-potent 
 and never ceasing factor in the phenomena 
 of life. Through it, and it alone, do we 
 build our character, condition our circum- 
 stances and environment, and shape our des- 
 tiny, here and hereafter. Thought is back 
 of every spoken word, every impulse and 
 every act. It is the initial or primal cause 
 of all outward expression, no matter what 
 form that expression may take, and all out- 
 ward expression will as surely take a form 
 that corresponds with the character of the 
 Thought which is back of it. Thought is the 
 "Key-note" and the builder of life for each 
 and every individual. 
 
 It is impossible to measure the product of 
 a Thought. Its possibilities are seemingly 
 limitless. Life in its detail and entirety is 
 absolutely moulded and fashioned by it. A 
 Thought affects you individually, it corre- 
 
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66 Thought, the 
 
 lates other Thoughts of a like nature, it 
 attracts Thoughts and things which are in 
 correspondence with it, it reaches and influ- 
 ences others for good or bad. It is the basic 
 principle of all expression in material life; 
 it is the agent through which all develop- 
 ment, both spiritual and material is at- 
 tained. 
 
 Thought is not the light evanescent thing 
 which the masses take it to be. We are com- 
 ing more and more to realize that there is 
 much truth in Prentice Mulford's statement 
 that "Thoughts are things." Thought is a 
 substance, though not a material one, and a 
 real thing. In expression, it is both force and 
 motion, vibratory in its character. It travels 
 with the rapidity of lightning, and for the 
 fulfillment of its mission it is dependent 
 upon the force and energy the intensity of 
 the desire that is back of it. 
 
 When we come to realize the fundamental 
 truth that a Thought precedes every act; 
 that when followed up, if a Thought is 
 wrong, the act will be wrong ; and that if the 
 
Key-note of Life. 67 
 
 Thought be right, the act will be right, we 
 shall see at once that we have a starting 
 point from which every problem of life will 
 be worked out in conformity with the charac- 
 ter of our Thoughts and this, whether we 
 are conscious of it or not. We shall see that 
 we are making life what it is, and that we 
 have it in our power to make our lives what 
 we will, through the intelligent exercise of 
 this power that we can even condition cir- 
 cumstances and environment to a very great 
 extent, for bear in mind that your life and 
 mine are the result, the product the sum- 
 total of our past Thoughts, and that con- 
 sciously or unconsciously, we have made our 
 lives and the conditions and environment 
 which surround us just what they are. 
 
 We cannot get away from this great truth 
 and the sooner we come into a vital realiza- 
 tion of it, act in harmony with it and the 
 laws operating in the realm of Thought, us- 
 ing our intelligence in shaping our lives, the 
 better it will be for us. The sooner then 
 will our lives conform to some fixed purpose 
 
68 Thought, the 
 
 or ideal, instead of being the result of aim- 
 less drifting and the changing influence of 
 others Thought upon us. 
 
 Man is a "Free moral agent." He has the 
 power to choose, but does he exercise that 
 power and choose, or does he, for the most 
 part, drift with the tide ? Power counts for 
 nothing unless we use it. Neither does wis- 
 dom nor knowledge. It is not what we pos- 
 sess, but what we use that counts for our 
 good or bad. The way in which we use the 
 power we possess and the Thought and intel- 
 ligence applied in the use of it, will at all 
 times determine the character of the results. 
 
 Thought is pre-eminently the builder of 
 life and character. It is a creative and con- 
 structive force. Just as brick after brick 
 laid in its place raises the building to its 
 heighth, so are our lives and characters 
 built up, Thought by Thought. Nothing 
 has ever been accomplished by man, no pro- 
 gress has ever been made in any direction 
 without first being preceded by Thought. 
 Before the first stone is laid in the founda- 
 
Key-note of Life. 69 
 
 tion the building is complete in every detail 
 in the mind of the architect, and as the char- 
 acter and quality of the materials used will 
 determine the character and quality of the 
 building, so will the character and product 
 of Thought conform to and correspond with 
 thp Thought itself. 
 
 Everything exists first in the ideal or men- 
 tal, before it is manifested in the material, 
 and the tendency of Thought is to take form 
 in action to express or externalize itself. 
 We constantly act from our Thoughts and 
 here is where our power of choice comes in. 
 Choose your Thoughts and you choose your 
 acts; choose your acts and you determine the 
 results, and what shall come to you. The 
 law of correspondence obtains here. The re- 
 lation and inter-relation of Thought to act 
 of the ideal to the material must never b6 
 lost sight of . 
 
 But do not make the mistake of imagining 
 that a few days or weeks right thinking is 
 going to change the whole current and tenor 
 of your life. Changes will begin at once, 
 
70 Thought, the 
 
 but remember that your life, and you your- 
 self, are the product of your lifelong 
 Thoughts, and that it is the steadfast per- 
 sistency in holding to a given line of 
 Thought or purpose that produces the deep- 
 est impressions and the desired results. All 
 true growth is by degrees. This is a law 
 of nature which we cannot get around. You 
 build your life Thought by Thought, but 
 you do not build it all at once. As you put 
 yourself to right Thinking, you then by de- 
 grees, begin to shape your life in conformity 
 with these Thoughts and gradually as you 
 persist in holding to right Thoughts and 
 right ideals, will you find your whole life, 
 your success, your conditions, your environ- 
 ment and your friends conforming to the 
 character of the Thoughts you are holding 
 to. 
 
 Tf your life, your circumstances, your suc- 
 cess, your friends are not to your liking, 
 commence at once to change the producing 
 cause change your mental attitude. Think 
 the Thoughts, build the ideals which you 
 
Key-note of Life. 71 
 
 wish to be externalized. Think of things 
 just as you want them to occur and put en- 
 ergy, force, determination intensity of de- 
 sire, behind the Thought and ideal and 
 gradually you will see the Thought talcing 
 form in action, and your ideals materializing 
 themselves. Kemember, it is the Thinker 
 the trained Thinker, who puts force and en- 
 ergy in his Thought who accomplishes much 
 in the world. 
 
 All Thought is bound to produce a result, 
 in the degree in which it is not counteracted 
 by your other Thoughts, and here you see 
 the necessity of formulating right Ideals 
 and Thoughts, and then holding to them 
 firmly, with untiring persistency and faith. 
 The more intense the Thought, the quicker 
 and greater the results. Light, evanescent 
 Thought does not reach far beyond the indi- 
 vidual, and cannot produce any marked or 
 specific external results, though it has a de- 
 cided influence on the individual. 
 
 Thought is the great "Key-note" of life. 
 It is the great and all-powerful tool with 
 
72 Thought, the Key-note of Life. 
 
 which man carves out his fortunes or misfor- 
 tunes, and by which he pilots his barque 
 through the oft-times stormy and tumultu- 
 ous sea of life. When youth steps out upon 
 life's stage of action, life's future is then as 
 a bank of clay: with "Thought" as his tool 
 he goes to work, and the product or result of 
 his life, is the product or result of his 
 Thoughts, and one corresponds and is relat- 
 ed to the other. "As he Thinketh in his 
 heart, so is he" a clear concise Biblical 
 statement of a stupendous Truth, often 
 quoted, but faintly realized. 
 
Thought 
 
 Its 
 
 Character 
 
 And 
 
 Mode 
 
 Of 
 
 Expression. 
 
CHAPTER VI. 
 
 The knowledge of what a Thought is, in 
 and of itself, is as yet beyond us and its ex- 
 act nature may never be known, but we can 
 know something of the way in which it man- 
 ifests itself. 
 
 Thought expresses itself by force, through 
 motion, vibratory in its character, and is a 
 substance, though not a material substance. 
 We must remember that we have to deal with 
 both spiritual and material substances, and 
 that the spiritual or unseen is the real- It 
 pre-existed and will continue to exist 
 throughout eternity, while material sub- 
 stance and things which are seen are the re- 
 sult of existence of spiritual substance the 
 product of it and are for time only. 
 
 All students and investigators will agree 
 that Thought is expressed by force through 
 motion. If this be true, logically we are led 
 to the conclusion that Thought is a sub- 
 
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76 Thought, its Character 
 
 stance, for without substance or a medium, 
 without parts or particles in that medium, 
 without motion, vibratory or otherwise, it is 
 impossible to form any conception whatever 
 of force or power. 
 
 This is a Law of the mechanics of sound, 
 heat, light, electricity, etc. Motion and vi- 
 bration involves a "something" that moves 
 or vibrates. What is that "something ?" No 
 one knows, save that it is a spiritual or invis- 
 ible substance. 
 
 But while we do not know what a Thought 
 is in and of itself, we know that it expresses 
 itself by force, through a vibratory move- 
 ment or motion and is a substance. 
 
 When we think, that substance is put in 
 motion, a stress or vibratory movement is 
 set up in the etheric atmosphere which sur- 
 rounds us, similar to the waves produced in 
 casting a pebble into the water. 
 
 Just as motion is set up the instant the 
 pebble comes in contact with the water, so 
 the instant a Thought is formulated, a stress 
 
and Mode of Expression. 77 
 
 or vibratory movement is set up and the 
 Thought begins to travel. 
 
 The strength of this vibratory movement 
 or Thought wave depends upon the vigor, 
 energy and earnestness of the desire which 
 is back of the Thought. 
 
 The more force with which the pebble is 
 cast into the water, the larger, stronger and 
 farther reaching are the waves produced by 
 it. 
 
 The more force and energy put behind 
 Thought the more intense the desire, the 
 more earnest the purpose; the greater be- 
 comes the power vested in the Thought, the 
 more force it carries, the further it will go 
 and the deeper will be the impression which 
 will be made. 
 
 The more one can realize the righteous- 
 ness and beneficence of his desire and pur- 
 pose, the more force and energy he can put 
 in the Thought, the greater its power. 
 
 The higher and more noble the purpose 
 and desire, the more powerful the Thought, 
 because of the finer and higher rate of its 
 
78 Thought, its Character 
 
 vibratory movement. Good is stronger and 
 more potent than evil.. 
 
 If Thought is a substance as it is assumed 
 to be. and if no substance in the universe 
 ever ceases to exist, and every atom is in con- 
 stant motion nothing in the whole universe 
 being ever at rest what becomes of a 
 Thought when once formulated and sent 
 out? 
 
 Does it ever cease to exist? If sent out 
 for a specific purpose will it accomplish 
 that purpose and then continue to exist, 
 manifesting itself thereafter through the in- 
 dividual who received it? Will Thought 
 substance once put in motion ever cease to 
 exist, either by itself or blending with other 
 Thoughts of like nature ? Close study, obser- 
 vation and experiments made along this line 
 lead me to believe that this is true; that a 
 Thought once formulated, does not cease to 
 exist in some form, but the workings of the 
 Law relating to Thought is so subtile that it 
 is difficult for us to comprehend it, or to be- 
 lieve when we experience it. 
 
and Mode of Expression. 79 
 
 But in a further analysis of Thought, we 
 see in its expression two things, force or mo- 
 tion, and intelligence a duality. Duality, 
 pairs, doubles seem to be one of the laws of 
 the universe. Look which way we may, we 
 see duality and opposites manifested. And 
 Thought is no exception. In its expression, 
 it combines both force and intelligence. 
 
 There is no such thing in the universe as 
 an intelligent force or motion that is, a 
 force or power which is in and of itself intel- 
 ligence. It is unthinkable. It does not ex- 
 ist. 
 
 Intelligence, in and of itself possesses no 
 force or power. By itself alone, it is with- 
 out the means of manifesting or expressing 
 itself. 
 
 Force or power, by itself alone, is simply 
 wasted or destructive energy. 
 
 When force or power unite or combine 
 with intelligence, we have what may be 
 called in its manifestation, an intelligent 
 force. 
 
 When this is understood we shall see that 
 
80 Thought, its Character, etc. 
 
 the quality of the intelligence used in con- 
 junction with power, governs the effective- 
 ness of the Thought. 
 
 "Knowledge is power," and knowledge 
 implies intelligence. The higher the degree 
 of knowledge and intelligence, the greater 
 the power at command. 
 
 With the conscious and intelligent recog- 
 nition of that power, the results then depend 
 upon the way in which it is used. 
 
Thought 
 
 Its 
 
 Qualities 
 
 And 
 
 The 
 
 Laws 
 
 Governing 
 
 Its 
 
 Transmission. 
 
CHAPTEE VII. 
 
 We say that Thought travels and it does, 
 but how does it travel ? What is the medium 
 through or by which it is transmitted ? That 
 a Thought of one person will reach another 
 is a fact now too well known to admit of a 
 question. Thought, in manifestation, is 
 both force and intelligence, with power to 
 project itself, but there must be some me- 
 dium by which it can travel wires over 
 which the message may be conveyed. 
 
 There is all about us, and permeating 
 every known substance, that which is termed 
 "Atmospheric Ether" a finer, more highly 
 attenuated atmosphere, and it is the consen- 
 sus of scientific opinion that this "etheric 
 atmosphere" is the medium through, by, or 
 over which, Thought is transmitted. 
 
 And here I may as well say that it is my 
 belief that all power in the universe, no mat- 
 ter what its form or mission, whether mani- 
 
84 Thought ', its Qualities and the 
 
 fested in animate or inanimate nature, is 
 but a different form of manifestation of one 
 and the same force or energy, and that the 
 initial force or energy, in all cases, is thai 
 which is known to us as Electrical energy. 
 A clear conception of this will enable us to 
 arrive at a better understanding of the mani- 
 fold and complex manifestations of force 
 and power, as well as to determine their ori- 
 gin. 
 
 Thought then travels along the Etheric 
 Waves, the will, desire, force, energy and in- 
 telligence back of the Thought determining 
 its power and quality. 
 
 In its outward effect, a weak or negative 
 Thought cannot produce any deep impres- 
 sion, for the reason that it lacks the neces- 
 sary force. 
 
 It mingles with the Thought atmosphere 
 in which we live, producing an effect com- 
 mensurate with the degree of energy which 
 is back of it. 
 
 A positive energetic Thought produces a 
 distinct activity in the Etheric atmosphere 
 
Laws Governing its Transmission. 85 
 
 about us, or an effect on the individual to 
 whom it is sent. 
 
 The intention to send the Thought need 
 not he present in order to have it reach the 
 individual. Some of the most marked in- 
 stances of Thought transmission which I 
 have experienced, occurred when there was 
 no intention of sending the Thought, simply 
 connecting it with the person. 
 
 It is my belief that intensified Thought, 
 or earnest desire and purpose, connected' 
 with the person, will reach him better and 
 produce stronger, more distinct impressions, 
 than will a Thought formulated with the ex- 
 press purpose of sending it. 
 
 I believe this to be the most effective way 
 of making the desired impressions upon the 
 mind of another, but it does not impair nor 
 detract from the fact that a Thought formu- 
 lated and projected with the purpose of 
 reaching another will perform its mission, 
 in just the degree in which conditions are 
 favorable. Both methods are effective, the 
 
86 Thought, its Qualities and the 
 
 choice depending upon the nature of the im- 
 pressions which are sought to be made. 
 
 Thought carries feeling and distinct im- 
 pressions, other than the actual Thought it- 
 self with it, and the more feeling, the more 
 earnestness put into the Thought, the more 
 will the impressions made conform to the 
 character of what is behind the Thought. 
 
 We cannot hold a Thought. It travels 
 whether we will it to or not and the impres- 
 sions made by- our Thought, the results ob- 
 tained, depend upon conditions and as con- 
 ditions vary, so will the results. 
 
 And what are the conditions? They are 
 various. Some are more psychic or sensitive 
 than others and are the more easily affected 
 by Thought impressions. The more passive 
 the person, the more easily he can be influ- 
 enced ; but when occupied, it is more difficult 
 and the more intense his occupation the 
 more difficult it becomes. 
 
 We can the more readily impress those 
 who are in sympathy with us those whom 
 we know personally, and with whom we have 
 
Laws Governing its Transmission. 87 
 
 come in contact by the clasp of the hand a 
 form of greeting that is not without its sig- 
 nificance. 
 
 We can as a rule, reach one more easily 
 while asleep, but the impressions then may, 
 or may not, rise above the threshold of con- 
 sciousness, depending upon the degree or 
 depth of sleep. All are more or less affected 
 by Thought, either direct or from the 
 Thought atmosphere surrounding us, during 
 the hours of sleep. 
 
 If the sleep be light the impressions made 
 may take the form of a message from an- 
 other, but in the deep sleep the impressions 
 made will seem to be the Thought of self. 
 
 Because we do not see some external evi- 
 dence that a Thought has been received, er 
 because the person claims to be unconscious 
 of having received any Thought or impres- 
 sion, it does not in the least indicate that 
 the Thought did not reach him. I believe 
 that a Thought projected to a person, or ear- 
 nest Thought connected with him can and 
 does reach him without doubt, at all times. 
 
88 Thought, its Qualities and the 
 
 I have reason to believe this true, and while 
 we cannot always see the results from the 
 Thought sent, and the person is unconscious 
 of any impressions having been made, never- 
 theless, the Thought reaches him and makes 
 an impression, though he does not recognize 
 it. 
 
 Thought reaching a person, and indica- 
 cations that it did reach him, are two differ- 
 ent and distinct propositions. Do not con- 
 found them. There are many things that 
 may qualify, neutralize, annul or intensify a 
 Thought or an impression which finds en- 
 trance to the mind. We do not by any means 
 act on all the Thoughts we have, and to the 
 observer there is no external evidence that 
 we have such Thoughts. There are many 
 things which must be taken into considera- 
 tion in investigating the Thought realm and 
 we must be careful and observing if we 
 would arrive at the truth. 
 
 We are living in a vast ocean of Thought 
 which for aught we know, may extend from 
 this to other planets. The higher we go, the 
 
Laws Governing its Transmission. 89 
 
 finer and more attenuated the atmosphere 
 becomes until there is nothing but pure 
 ether, and as it is a law of physics that the 
 heavier or grosser particles will always set- 
 tle at the bottom, can it be that the coarser 
 and grosser forms of Thought gravitate 
 towards the earth, while the higher and 
 finer forms of Thought are above, in the 
 pure ether which fills all space? How nat- 
 ural for the eye and mind to turn upward 
 when its concepts are pure, good, elevating 
 and enobling, as in prayer ! Is there a rea- 
 son for this ? 
 
 By our own volition, we place ourselves 
 in harmony on the same plane of vibratory 
 movement with either the Higher or Gross- 
 er forms of Thought. The natural or mate- 
 rial man who lives in the material world, 
 is in harmony with, and on the vibratory 
 plane of the lower or grosser Thought realm, 
 while the Spiritual man, the one who, while 
 in the material world and recognizing the 
 claims of all physical laws, lives above it in 
 spirit, and draws his Thought and inspira- 
 
90 Thought, its Qualities and the 
 
 tion from the higher and more spiritual 
 Thought realm, because of hie living on a 
 higher vibratory plane and in harmony with 
 the divine. And like attracts like. 
 
 And to one who is living in this higher or 
 spiritual atmosphere, will there come in- 
 creased power of spiritual discernment 
 which will enable him to distinguish and un- 
 derstand more clearly, higher or spiritual 
 laws, as well as the relation of the spiritual 
 to the material. 
 
 If Thought, in manifestation, is vibra- 
 tion, all spiritual law being universal, it 
 must follow that the conditions governing 
 vibratory movement in other things, must 
 obtain in the realm of Thought 
 
 Each kind or quality of Thought has its 
 own specific rate of vibration. The lower 
 and grosser the Thought, the coarser and 
 slower the rate of vibration. The higher 
 and purer the Thought, the higher and finer 
 the vibratory movement. In disease, except 
 in fever, the vibratory movement of the body 
 is lower and slower than in health. 
 
Laws Governing its Transmission. 91 
 
 And here comes in the Law of Attraction. 
 "Like attracts like/' Each Thought or 
 thing is related to its kind and of necessity, 
 attracts to it that which is related to, or in 
 correspondence with it. 
 
 Thoughts of fear, discouragement, disease, 
 vice and crime which you may hold are re- 
 lated to other Thoughts of a like nature and 
 attract them to you. 
 
 Thoughts of health, happiness, courage, 
 hope, success and all good, relate themselves 
 to other Thoughts of a like nature and bring 
 them to you. 
 
 The Laws of Attraction and Harmony are 
 "twin brothers." You attract to yourself 
 that which is in harmony with the Thought 
 you hold. Your mental attitude determine? 
 what shall come to you. Do not forget this. 
 It is absolutely true, though you may not 
 see it now. 
 
 If you enjoy discouraging, pessimistic 
 Thoughts and want them, just commence 
 thinking them, and you will have them in 
 abundance. Eeverse this and think such 
 
92 Thought, its Qualities, etc. 
 
 Thoughts as will build you up and contri- 
 bute to your higher development and growth, 
 your health and success, and you will find 
 these things coming to you. 
 
 Remember that you always attract to 
 yourself the same class or quality of Thought 
 which you hold. The things which come to 
 you will correspond to your mental attitude 
 to the Thoughts which dominate you, and 
 to the demands of your Thought realm. 
 Every moment your Thought is determining 
 what shall come to you. 
 
 "Thoughts do not need the wings of words 
 
 To fly to any goal ; 
 Like subtle lightning, not like birds, 
 
 They speed from soul to soul. 
 Hide in your heart a bitter Thought, 
 
 Still it has power to blight ; 
 Think love, although you speak it not, 
 
 It gives the world more light." 
 
Thought 
 
 Attraction 
 
 And 
 
 Reproduction. 
 
CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 By your Thought, you condition your own 
 circumstances, your success and your happi- 
 ness and if your life is not what it should 
 be, blame "fate" for it if you wish, but re- 
 member that "fate" is simply the product of 
 Thought. Your Thought determines your 
 "fate." 
 
 The Law of Attraction works in conjunc- 
 tion with the Law of Harmony, therefore it 
 can only attract to itself, that which is in 
 harmony with it. "As he Thinketh in his 
 heart so is he." Why? Because of the 
 Laws of Attraction and Harmony ! Recog- 
 nize these Laws, work in harmony with them 
 and you will have far less to complain of 
 you will see things conforming to your 
 ideals, just in the degree in which you are 
 true to these Laws and to the wisdom and 
 knowledge you possess. 
 
 But bear in mind that it is the persistent 
 
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96 Thought, Attraction 
 
 Thought, the fixed, determined purpose that 
 calls into existence the desired result. The 
 mere thinking of a thing for a day will not 
 bring it. Results may come quickly at 
 times, and again it may take weeks or 
 months to actualize your desires. It all de- 
 pends upon conditions. Never become dis- 
 couraged, for these Laws are absolute in 
 their operation. It takes time to change ex- 
 isting conditions so that results are mani- 
 fest, for there are opposing and neutralizing 
 forces which have to be taken into consider- 
 ation. Formulate your desires, fix your 
 ideals and then hold to them with firmness 
 and determination, and know that in time 
 you will realize and attain them if they are 
 just and right. 
 
 We are living in a vast ocean of Thought 
 and we all add our quota to it. We also 
 draw from it. Our Thoughts reach and in- 
 fluence others and the Thoughts of others 
 reach and influence us. "No man liveth un- 
 to himself" is a divine truth with a deep in- 
 terior meaning. 
 
and Reproduction. 97 
 
 Your Thought relates you to other per- 
 sons, though you may never have recognized 
 this truth. Your happy, cheerful, encour- 
 aging Thoughts reach and help others and 
 the same Thoughts from others reach and 
 help you. As you sow, so shall you reap. 
 You cannot sow evil Thought and reap good. 
 You cannot sow Thoughts of discourage- 
 ment and reap success. Take this rule 
 think of things as you want them to occur, 
 then hold to it, and you will soon see changes 
 taking place in the right direction. 
 
 By virtue of the Law of Attraction and 
 Harmony, Thought becomes an attractive 
 force. As the magnet will attract to itself 
 that which is in harmony or correspondence 
 with it, so will Thought attract to it, that 
 which is in correspondence with its nature 
 and character. We shall reap what we sow, 
 and the sooner we come into a vital realiza- 
 tion of this Divine Truth, and maintain the 
 right mental attitude, the sooner we will 
 find ourselves in the position where we can 
 control and condition our circumstances and 
 
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98 Thought, Attraction 
 
 environment. Can we gather figs from this- 
 tles? 
 
 Thought reproduces itself and in that re- 
 production it becomes more fully developed. 
 It reproduces its kind. With the vast ocean 
 of Thought surrounding us, taking into con- 
 sideration the creative, constructive, project- 
 ing, attractive and reproductive character or 
 qualit}^ of Thought, we may say that the pos- 
 sibilities before us are the possibilities of our 
 Thought, limited only by the concepts of the 
 mind and of faith. Who can measure these 
 possibilities ? Who can say what is impossi- 
 ble ? Where is the limit ? You can do any- 
 thing you really believe you can, if you will 
 to do it, and persevere. 
 
 Thought is the fundamental and control- 
 ling factor in life the initial or primal 
 cause of all outward life expression, and of 
 all that pertains to man in his relation to 
 his material environment. The only limi- 
 tation placed on our Thought is the measure 
 of our 'spiritual perception, and the wisdom 
 and knowledge we possess. 
 
and Reproduction. 99 
 
 Distance is no barrier, for Thought can 
 circle the globe, and we have no means of 
 knowing to what extent it may penetrate the 
 infinite space above us. Thought is instan- 
 taneous in its movement, hence the element 
 of time does not enter into consideration. 
 
 Mind Thought, includes all forces. 
 Though the world at large has been slow to 
 recognize the fact, there have always been 
 some philosophers who have grasped the 
 transcendent idea that Thought is the first 
 great initial and primary expression of 
 power in -the universe, and that at a final 
 analysis, all other force or power is but the 
 Thought of God or man, in some of its va- 
 ried forms of manifestations. We must rec- 
 ognize the fact that all outward manifesta- 
 tion of power is but the expression of that 
 which is within, and that only that can find 
 outward expression which exists within, 
 therefore Thought is, in every sense of the 
 word, the outward expression of the funda- 
 mental principle of life. 
 
 A mere intellectual understanding of 
 
100 Thought, Attraction 
 
 these principles and laws will not of itself, 
 produce results. When you know them, 
 commence at once to make practical appli- 
 cation of them in every detail of your life. 
 If you want to change your condition, think 
 different conditions such as you would 
 have. If you want success, think success. 
 If Love and good-will, think the same, and 
 there is nothing surer than that sooner or 
 later you will attract to yourself the things 
 you desire, if they are within the limits of 
 your ability or comprehension. 
 
 Thought is indeed the great and all-pow- 
 erful tool with which man carves out his for- 
 tunes or misfortunes and he is surely and 
 constantly shaping one or the other. The 
 skill with which he uses this tool, and the 
 results obtained, will depend upon the de- 
 gree of his wisdom, knowledge and intelli- 
 gence. 
 
 The way to change your life or existing 
 conditions, is to change your mental attitude 
 think of things as you want them to occur. 
 Thought tends to take form in action, and 
 
and Reproduction. 101 
 
 just as you hold to the right mental attitude 
 will you find your best and strongest 
 Thoughts seeking expression through exter- 
 nal activity. 
 
 Remember above all else, that the degree 
 of greatness depends upon the quality of 
 purpose. Let this Thought be with you in 
 all your thinking. With all kinds, quality 
 and grade of Thought at your command 
 from which to choose, it is with you to say 
 what your Thought, and consequently what 
 your life and attainment shall be. 
 
 Man can be what he wills to be. Let the 
 desire, aims, ambitions and the ideals be 
 right, with earnestness in the desire; force, 
 energy and determination behind the 
 Thought, and corresponding results will fol- 
 low. 
 
 The only limitation placed upon man, is 
 that of the degree of his faith or belief. 
 Think helpful, strengthening and encourag- 
 ing Thoughts, have confidence in yourself 
 and in your ability, and with the right ideals 
 
102 Thought, Attraction, etc. 
 
 before you, persevere in your determination 
 to accomplish your purpose. 
 
 Thought right Thinking is the agency 
 through which you will accomplish these 
 things. Every scheme, every deed, every act 
 has its birth in Thought. Begin now, put 
 in practice what you have learned, and then, 
 learn more each day. Think, act for your- 
 self. Difficulties are only a means of devel- 
 oping your strength and interior forces. 
 Never flinch before them but face and over- 
 come them and you will find yourself the 
 real self unfolding each day, and attaining 
 to real and substantial growth and develop- 
 ment. 
 
 How it is that Thought acts, that it ex- 
 presses itself externally, and that which is 
 lack of Thought, will be elucidated in the 
 following chapters on the "Dual Mind" and 
 "Law." 
 
Man 
 
 His 
 
 Creation 
 
 And 
 
 Development. 
 
CHAPTER IX. 
 
 In considering the subject matter of this 
 and succeeding chapters, I shall adhere to 
 the Biblical account of the creation of Man, 
 as well as to its definitions of what man is, 
 the purpose of his creation and his future 
 destiny, together with the collateral truths 
 involved in each sphere. In taking this po- 
 sition, I am aware that I shall encounter the 
 criticisms of the materialist, and of those 
 who accept the theory of organic evolution, 
 but criticisms and theories are of minor im- 
 portance where Truth is in question. I ac- 
 cept the statements of the Bible as being pos- 
 itive and final, beyond dispute and not open 
 to question, but a right understanding and 
 correct interpretation of any and all Scrip- 
 ture, depends upon clearness of spiritual 
 perception, and the unbiased desire to know 
 the truth for its own sake. 
 
 It is foreign to my purpose to go into an 
 
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106 Man, His Creation 
 
 exhaustive argument or examination of the 
 different theories in regard to the creation 
 of Man, nor is it necessary. I have given 
 careful attention to this important question, 
 and taking into consideration what I under- 
 stand from the Bible to be the purposes of 
 God in the creation of Man, His purposes 
 concerning him here and hereafter; looking 
 at Man as we know him to be a triune be- 
 ing in his physical expression and a dual be- 
 ing in mind; viewing him in his future 
 state or condition, which must be the out- 
 come of necessity of what he is, and in con- 
 formity with the unchangeable purposes of 
 God, I find no theory regarding his creation 
 that will hold together, outside of that given 
 in the Bible. All others are weak in some 
 points and there are missing links in the 
 chain which render it complete. The evi- 
 dence and proof of this 1 cannot submit 
 here, though there is an abundance of it, 
 therefore without going further into the 
 question, I shall assume the Biblical account 
 of the creation of Man, as well as its state- 
 
and Development. 107 
 
 ments of what he is and of all that concerns 
 him. 
 
 What is man? He who created him says 
 he is "Body, Soul and Spirit." A clear, 
 concise and intelligible definition. Here we 
 need to attend to our interpretation or defi- 
 nition of words, and as our understanding 
 of a thing depends upon the way in which 
 we understand the terms employed, 1 will 
 briefly define the sense in which I shall use 
 the terms "Spirit" and "Soul." 
 
 The word "Spirit" is a very broad term 
 and has different meanings, but in the sense 
 in which it is used in the above quotation, I 
 understand it to mean the spirit form the 
 counterpart of the material man, in other 
 words, the Spiritual body, which is clothed 
 upon by the material. 
 
 The "Soul," I understand to be that with- 
 in us which is, so-to-speak, a part of God, 
 that which relates us to God, partaking of 
 His nature and attributes and living forever. 
 In the language of Psychology, it is the 
 "Sub-conscious" or "Subjective" mind of 
 
108 Man, His Creation 
 
 Man. This will be more fully considered in 
 a subsequent chapter. 
 
 In Genesis 1, 27, we read, "So God cre- 
 ated man in His own Image, in the image of 
 God created He him: male and female cre- 
 ated He them/' Let us cast aside our own 
 ideas, our prejudices and opinions for the 
 moment, and consider this statement just as 
 it reads. God created Man in His own im- 
 age and likeness. What is God? A Spirit- 
 ual or a Material being ? None will contend 
 that He is Material. Then, if He is a Spir- 
 itual being, Man, created in His image and 
 likeness must of necessity have been created 
 a Spiritual being also. Let us not try to 
 force any interpretation, but consider the 
 above statement of the creation of Man, 
 with its clear language, just as it reads. As 
 created by God, in His image and likeness, 
 Man was Spirit and Soul. 
 
 But how came he to be what we see him 
 now? To fulfill the purpose of God con- 
 cerning him as lord over -i material creation 
 to have dominion over every living crea- 
 
and Development. 109 
 
 ture upon the earth, to place him in corres- 
 pondence or in harmony with his material 
 surroundings, necessity demanded a mate- 
 rial or physical body, in order to meet the 
 demands of life-expression in a material 
 world, hence, in Genesis n, 7. we read, "And 
 the Lord formed man of the dust of the 
 ground, and breathed into his nostrils the 
 breath of life and man became a living soul/' 
 and in vs. 22, "And the rib, which the Lord 
 God had taken from man, made he a 
 woman, and brought her unto the man." No- 
 tice that only in chapter i, 27. where the 
 "Spiritual" man is in question, is the word 
 "Created" used, and that in speaking of the 
 material body, or "house" in which the man 
 is to dwell, the words "formed" and "made" 
 are employed. 
 
 Note also the simultaneous creation of the 
 Spiritual Man male and female in chap- 
 ter one, and the separate and distinct forma- 
 tion of the physical or material Man and 
 Woman in chapter n. In chapter I we find 
 Man created in the image and likeness of 
 
110 Man, His Creation 
 
 God, and in chapter n we find God giving 
 him a material body, thus placing him in 
 correspondence with his material surround- 
 ings. Here we find the complete physical 
 and spiritual man Body, Soul and Spirit. 
 All is in perfect harmony, and our present 
 knowledge of what Man is, conforms to these 
 statements as to his creation. 
 
 Created in the image and likeness of God, 
 placed upon this earth in all the innocence 
 and purity that is implied by virtue of his 
 creation, Man failed to maintain his state or 
 condition of innocency and that which we 
 term "the fall of Man" was the result. 
 
 And what are we to understand by the 
 "fall of Man ?" The coming into the knowl- 
 edge of good and evil. Before this, Man had 
 no knowledge of evil and knew only good. 
 We can with safety assume that in the eating 
 of the "fruit of the tree of knowledge of good 
 and evil" he acquired his material or con- 
 scious mind, and through it, the knowledge 
 of good and evil. There can be no question 
 as to the nature of that which constituted 
 
and Development. Ill 
 
 the "fall." "And the Lord God said, behold 
 the man has become as one of us, to know 
 good and evil and now, lest he put forth his 
 hand and take also of the tree of life and live 
 forever, etc/' Man had fallen from his high 
 estate of purity and innocence in acquiring 
 the knowledge of good and evil, and to per- 
 petuate life under the conditions that then 
 obtained, would mean the perpetuation of 
 sin, suffering and misery, therefore this 
 world is not the continual abiding place of 
 Man. He enters it that he may leave it 
 again, but if he shall choose, and make his 
 life here what it should be, he will yet again 
 attain the life of innocence and purity which 
 he has forfeited, through a process similar to 
 that by which he is first introduced to us in 
 Genesis. 
 
 With the "fall," or with the acquirement 
 of the knowledge of good and evil, there 
 came what we term, the "Conscious mind/' 
 Before .this, Man was possessed of Soul, or 
 that which we know as the "Subconscious 
 mind" and now he acquires another mind 
 
112 Man, His Creation 
 
 the conscious or material mind, constituting 
 him mentally a dual being. With the Con- 
 scious or Material mind and the knowledge 
 of both good and evil, comes the power of 
 choice the "free moral agency of Man." 
 While he now has the knowledge of both 
 good and evil, he has the power to choose be- 
 tween them and therefore becomes a being 
 responsible for his own acts and choice. 
 
 First, we have the creation of the "Spir- 
 itual" Man, next, we find him housed in a 
 material body, to meet the demands of mate- 
 rial conditions and environment, still 
 clothed with innocence and purity, then we 
 find him coming into a knowledge of both 
 good and evil, and at last, we see him as he 
 now is, a human being, with Body, Soul and 
 Spirit and his dual mind. 
 
 We must remember that the demands of 
 necessity always exist before the creation of 
 any thing or faculty. There is a cause which 
 brings all things into existence, and it is as 
 essential that we recognize the necessity or 
 cause, as it is that we recognize the thing it- 
 
and Development. 113 
 
 self. It is impossible for us to understand 
 Man in his varied aspects, or the operations 
 of any of his varied faculties, except we go 
 back of all and seek to understand the neces- 
 sity which called him and his faculties into 
 existence. 
 
 When man came into the possession of the 
 knowledge of good and evil, it was necessary 
 that he be endowed with the power of choice, 
 that he might choose for himself, otherwise 
 he would be a mere automaton, hence the 
 necessity existed for the material or con- 
 scious mind, and now, he chooses for him- 
 self. His choice depends upon his desire and 
 purpose, and the quality of his desire and 
 purpose depends upon the measure of his 
 wisdom and knowledge. 
 
 Man then, as we see him now, is endowed 
 with a Spiritual and Material mind. The 
 one identifies him with the higher or spirit- 
 ual realm, the other with this world and ma- 
 terial life. He is possessed of the power of 
 choice and the knowledge of good and evil. 
 He has within, the promptings of good; 
 
114 Man, His Creation 
 
 from without, the promptings of evil. ]N~ow, 
 what he becomes depends altogether upon 
 the choice he makes. 
 
 In the Conscious and Subconscious minds, 
 man is provided with every faculty needed 
 to meet the requirements of his surround- 
 ings and environment. What he becomes 
 will depend entirely upon the faculties he 
 unfolds and the way in which he develops 
 them. As we meet him in the ordinary walks 
 of life, he has developed his Conscious or 
 objective faculties at the expense of the Sub- 
 conscious or Spiritual, hence he is slow to 
 perceive Spiritual truth, but quick to grasp 
 the material. Indeed, the Spiritual realm is 
 unreal to him, and he can only perceive that 
 which appeals to him through the five phy- 
 sical senses. 
 
 This is one-sided development. A sym- 
 metrical development demands the cultiva- 
 tion and use of both our material and Soul 
 faculties, but in the intense material and 
 commercial atmosphere which surrounds 
 man, he becomes almost oblivious to the ex- 
 
and Development. 115 
 
 istence of the finer and higher faculties of 
 the Soul, and thus choosing, he fails in the 
 almost limitless possibilities which are his. 
 
 Before man can reach the highest degree 
 of development of himself or of his own 
 powers, he must know and understand what 
 he is. The measure of his attainment will 
 be the measure of his knowledge of God and 
 his understanding of the various faculties 
 and powers of the Conscious and Subcon- 
 scious minds, the Laws governing them, and 
 the use he can and does make of them. 
 
 Man know thyself., is an admonition 
 which we will do well to heed. 
 
The 
 
 Dual 
 
 Character 
 
 Of 
 
 The 
 
 Mind. 
 
CHAPTEK X. 
 
 In order to understand the varied and 
 complex activities of the mental faculties in 
 their relation to Spiritual, Physical and Ma- 
 terial life-expression, their powers and pos- 
 sibilities, it is necessary to understand and 
 fully recognize the Dual character of the 
 Mind. While "Thought" is in truth the 
 "Key-note" of life, the "Dual Mind" may 
 justly be termed the great "key-stone" in the 
 arch of manifested or expressed life. 
 
 The phenomena of life cannot be at all 
 correctly interpreted until the Dual charac- 
 ter of the mind is both recognized and un- 
 derstood. It is immaterial to us at this 
 point whether the mind of man is Dual 
 two minds or whether he has one mind 
 with dual faculties, as our present purpose 
 is fully served in recognizing the broad fact 
 that the mind is Dual in its character and 
 operations. The Duality of the mind is 
 
 119 
 
120 The Dual Character 
 
 demonstrated beyond question in the phe- 
 nomena of so-called "Hypnosis," where the 
 Conscious mind, or the Conscious faculties 
 are held in abeyance and the Subconscious 
 mind only is active. 
 
 While the Dual mind can be recognized 
 and its operations noted in ones self and in 
 others in the waking state, by those who have 
 made a study of it, the condition known as 
 "Hypnosis" affords the best opportunity for 
 distinguishing more clearly its distinct op- 
 erations. 
 
 The Doctor of Psychology in active prac- 
 tice, who is also a sincere and earnest inves- 
 tigator, has perhaps the best opportunity for 
 the study of the complex activities of the 
 mental faculties, coming as he does in con- 
 tact with his patients in a practical way and 
 not for experiment. Only those who have 
 made a study of man under these conditions 
 can form more than a faint conception of the 
 wonderful and transcendent powers of the 
 Soul, of the clear distinction which exists 
 between the Conscious and Subconscious 
 
of The Mind. 121 
 
 mind, or of how they often war against each 
 other in their complex and subtile activities. 
 
 The average person has not the faintest 
 idea as to how he is controlled or actuated 
 in his life-expression, nor can he have until 
 he recognizes the existence of the Dual mind 
 and understands its operations. When he 
 comes into this knowledge he enters a new 
 sphere of existence where a light of exceed- 
 ing brilliancy is shining and life assumes a 
 different aspect. He understands much in 
 his life which has been unintelligible to him 
 and he comes to understand how he can ex- 
 ercise a control over himself and over all 
 that concerns him. 
 
 While it is only in recent years that this 
 great truth of the Dual mind has come to 
 be at all generally recognized, there have al- 
 ways been those who have recognized its ex- 
 istence and understood its operations to a 
 greater or less extent. The Bible teaches it 
 from first to last and the light has been shin- 
 ing all along, but man blinded by his own 
 conceits would not see it. At last scientific 
 
122 The Dual Character 
 
 experiments have demonstrated the fact be- 
 yond dispute and it is no longer questioned 
 by those who lay prejudice aside and ap- 
 proach the subject with the desire to know 
 the facts. It is not a "New" truth, for in 
 the Scriptures will be found the thread of 
 Duality of Mind and Duality of Being run- 
 ning from beginning to end. 
 
 That man is not only possessed of a Dual 
 Mind, but also of a complete dual being, is 
 plainly taught in the Scriptures. "There is 
 a natural body and there is a spiritual 
 body." (1st Cor. XV, 44.) Through the 
 influences of our material teachings and en- 
 vironment we have come to regard the phy- 
 sical being as the real and only man, while 
 the truth is there is in each and every indi- 
 vidual both the Spiritual and Material man, 
 each complete in himself and each possess- 
 ing distinct faculties. 
 
 There is no field which promises richer 
 reward for sincere and painstaking study 
 and investigation, than that covered by the 
 Dual mind, with its transcendent powers 
 
of The Mind. 123 
 
 and the manifold operations of its faculties. 
 In the degree in which we discern and un- 
 derstand the operations of both the Con- 
 scious and Subconscious mind, will we come 
 to understand and realize the vast possibili- 
 ties which are within the range of our at- 
 tainment. The field is broad and seemingly 
 without limit, and the reward promised for 
 its exploration is great indeed. 
 
 But the one who pursues his investiga^ 
 tions purely from a scientific standpoint, 
 with certain subjects for experimental pur- 
 poses, will not discover the deepest truths. 
 He will make some progress and will attain 
 his purpose in a degree, but the highest and 
 most transcendent truths will be reserved for 
 those who have the opportunity for study 
 and investigation in connection with actual 
 and practical work, in treating the large va- 
 riety of people that come within the field of 
 the practitioner of Suggestive Therapeutics, 
 and who is able to study all from a spiritual 
 standpoint, discerning spiritual things by 
 spiritual means. 
 
124 The Dual Character 
 
 From such we may hope for much that 
 will throw additional light upon the opera- 
 tions of the Dual mind, as well as upon all 
 the phenomena of life, and the whole subject 
 merits the most painstaking care and inves- 
 tigation, 
 
 Not until we know and understand our- 
 selves as we are, our capabilities and our 
 powers will we be able to govern and control 
 ourselves, our circumstances and our envir- 
 onment, nor will we be able to get the most 
 and best out of ourselves, therefore the 
 greatest study of mankind is man, and the 
 more we study him, the better will we un- 
 derstand the attainments which are possible 
 to him through the unfoldment and develop- 
 ment of the faculties and powers which are 
 within him. 
 
 It is difficult to find a term that properly 
 expresses the true nature and functions of 
 the two minds, but I shall use the term "Sub- 
 conscious mind" to designate that which we 
 know as the Soul, or Soul Intelligence; and 
 "Conscious mind" to express that which we 
 
of The Mind. 
 
 125 
 
 understand as the natural or material mind : 
 and as many become confused by the multi- 
 plicity of the terms used to express the same 
 thing, I will give those which are used 
 synonymously. 
 
 THE 
 CONSCIOUS MIND. 
 
 Objective mind. 
 Natural mind. 
 Mortal mind. 
 Material mind. 
 
 THE 
 
 SUBCONSCIOUS MIND. 
 
 Soul. 
 
 Unconscious mind. 
 Subjective mind. 
 Oversoul. 
 Subliminal Self. 
 
The 
 
 Conscious 
 Mind. 
 
CHAPTER XI. 
 
 From the moment of birth, we are ush- 
 ered into an atmosphere which is thoroughly 
 impregnated with influences and Sugges- 
 tions from the Material world in which we 
 live, and in a degree which is in keeping with 
 the development of our intelligence, begin to 
 come under the dominion of the material 
 senses or the Conscious mind. The power 
 and extent of this dominion increases with 
 our growth and our years, except as it may 
 be changed or neutralized through the devel- 
 opment of our higher faculties. 
 
 The Conscious mind pertains to our mate- 
 rial existence only ; it is governed by the five 
 physical senses, and is the necessary out- 
 growth of our material existence. 
 
 The principal faculty of the Conscious 
 mind is that of reason. It reasons by all 
 methods inductively, from particulars to 
 general conclusions; deductively, from con- 
 
 9 120 
 
130 The 
 
 elusions to particulars ; analytically and syn- 
 thetically, but inductive reasoning is exclu- 
 sively a faculty of the Conscious mind and 
 is a faculty pertaining to this life only, ren- 
 dered necessary by the limitation of our 
 knowledge. 
 
 The other faculty of the Conscious mind 
 is that of Recollection. Many attribute 
 some phases of memory to the Conscious 
 mind, but my investigations lead me to be- 
 lieve that all memory rests with the Subcon- 
 scious mind and that that which is regarded 
 as the memory of the Conscious mind is but 
 the manifestation of its powers of recollec- 
 tion. 
 
 I believe that a close analysis will show 
 that Inductive reasoning and Recollection 
 are the only two faculties possessed by the 
 Conscious mind, and that all else is but the 
 activities of the Subconscious mind express- 
 ing itself through one of these Conscious 
 faculties. 
 
 The Conscious mind takes cognizance of 
 
Conscious Mind. 131 
 
 the outward or material world, and its media 
 of observation arc the five senses. 
 
 It is our guide in the struggle for material 
 existence. When we are dominated by it, 
 we are led towards an increasing material-" 
 ism and come to believe that nothing is real 
 or worth our effort, except that which ap- 
 peals to us through the five senses, but in the 
 degree in which it is brought under the con- 
 trolling influences of the Soul faculties or 
 Subconscious mind, we come more and more 
 under the dominion of this higher intelli- 
 gence and the Conscious mind becomes sub- 
 ordinate to the Subconscious mind, its facul- 
 ties being illuminated by the light and in- 
 telligence of the Soul. 
 
 The Conscious mind is governed by rea- 
 son, but the clearness and correctness of its 
 reasonings are determined by the degree of 
 knowledge and intelligence possessed by the 
 individual, and also by the illumination af- 
 forded through the spiritual faculties of the 
 Soul. It is difficult to control one contrary 
 to reason, but this can be done by persistent 
 
132 The 
 
 effort, in the degree in which the Cxinscious 
 mind can in some way be held in abeyance, 
 so that the influence or Suggestion can be 
 brought to bear upon the Subconscious 
 mind. We see this constantly and it illus- 
 trates the wonderful power of Suggestion 
 even in the waking state and at the same 
 time shows us that the Subconscious mind 
 can be controlled contrary to reason and 
 judgment, when we are living under the do- 
 minion of the Conscious mind. 
 
 In a sense, the Conscious mind is the 
 guard or sentinel who says what shall pass 
 and reach the Subconscious mind, and in the 
 understanding of this one point lies the se- 
 cret of knowing how to influence and con- 
 trol others. Before a person can be influ- 
 enced to action, the Subconscious mind must 
 be reached, either through argument which 
 is convincing to the Conscious mind, or 
 through is inalertness. We must remember 
 that the Conscious mind challenges what 
 does not appeal to reason and that the nat- 
 ural man is governed by reason, whether it 
 
Conscious Mind. 133 
 
 be true or false and that the reasonings of 
 the Conscious mind the natural man can- 
 not be relied upon because it is purely mate- 
 rial and can only perceive things from a ma- 
 terial standpoint and because of its natural 
 limitations. 
 
 The one who is dominated by the Con- 
 scious mind becomes more and more mate- 
 rial, hence the more material he grows the 
 less of the spiritual he can discern and the 
 more difficult it becomes for him to grasp 
 anything but that which appeals to his ma- 
 terial senses. 
 
 The man who is dominated by the Sub- 
 conscious mind becomes more and more 
 spiritual, with increasing clearness of spir- 
 itual discernment as development progresses, 
 discerning Spiritual things by Spiritual 
 means; and as he comes to understand that 
 the material exists only by reason and virtue 
 of the pre-existence of the Spiritual, Reason 
 becomes enlightened by the Spiritual facul- 
 ties, he stands upon the foundation of Truth 
 and Wisdom which is absolute in the degree 
 
134 The 
 
 which is commensurate with his develop- 
 ment, and he cannot be swayed or influenced 
 contrary to that which he knows is Truth. 
 
 We are Spiritual or Material in the de- 
 gree in which we are governed by, or living 
 under the dominion of, the Conscious or 
 Subconscious mind. One leads to Spiritu- 
 ality and the perception and understanding 
 of the unseen, while the other leads to an 
 intense Materialism which obscures the Soul 
 faculties, and prevents us from discerning 
 anything but that which appeals to us 
 through the material senses. 
 
 The Conscious mind was given us for a 
 purpose and it should by all means be culti- 
 vated, though not by itself alone. It pos- 
 sesses faculties of great value to us if prop- 
 erly used, but its highest use and value is 
 attained through a corresponding develop- 
 ment of the Subconscious mind. 
 
 The highest development cannot be at- 
 tained through the Conscious mind, for the 
 reason that the physical senses only give us 
 relative knowledge and that through these 
 
Conscious Mind. 135 
 
 senses we can perceive only that which per- 
 tains to the material world, which is itself 
 but a consequence of the existence of tha 
 Spiritual, therefore in limiting ourselves to 
 the Material, we are limiting our knowledge 
 and intelligence to the effect, the cause of 
 which, is the Unseen or Spiritual realm. 
 
 But in the development of the Subcon- 
 scious mind, we come into the knowledge of 
 that which is the first great cause of all that 
 exists, and are able to measure and judge of 
 things from a standpoint which gives us a 
 clear and correct understanding of both the 
 Spiritual and the Material side of life. We 
 discern cause and effect; we come into a 
 knowledge of Laws which are incessantly op- 
 erating, by which our lives are controlled 
 independent of our knowledge, wishes or be- 
 liefs; Eeason and Intelligence is illuminat- 
 ed by the light of Divine or Spiritual Truth, 
 and we find our whole life-expression con- 
 forming to a higher standard of living, 
 through being actuated by a higher order of 
 intelligence. 
 
136 The Conscious Mind. 
 
 All the powers and attributes of the Con- 
 scious mind should be cultivated and devel- 
 oped, but this should be done under the 
 guidance of the Spiritual faculties. We 
 must recognize the fact that Spiritual pow- 
 ers transcend the material; that the Sub- 
 conscious mind or Soul, in its powers and 
 attributes, transcend the Conscious or Mate- 
 rial, hence if we would attain that position 
 where we can have the highest conceptions 
 of life, and grasp the possibilities which are 
 before us, the Conscious mind must be de- 
 veloped under the light of the higher facul- 
 ties of the Soul. 
 
 In the Ideal life, true development and 
 growth consists in the harmonious develop- 
 ment of the mental faculties under the do- 
 minion of the higher or Spiritual faculties 
 of the Subconscious mind. 
 
The 
 
 Subconscious 
 Mind. 
 
CHAPTER XII. 
 
 The chief factor in human existence, the 
 underlying cause of all physical and mate- 
 rial expression, which is back of Thought, of 
 Will and of Act, is the Subconscious mind. 
 In all phases of life, as it is related to the 
 Spiritual, the Material or the Physical, we 
 are called upon to reckon with and consider 
 this clear-seeing, never-sleeping and far- 
 reaching Intelligence which is within us, 
 the "Subconscious Mind" the "Inner 
 Man." 
 
 There is absolutely no way, no state or 
 condition in .which we can escape from the 
 ceaseless activities and controlling influences 
 of this great and potential intelligence. It 
 matters not whether we recognize or under- 
 stand its existence, it is with us and opera- 
 tive just the same in its potency and power, 
 and it is impossible for us to measure mo- 
 tive, or understand that silent and subtld 
 
 139 
 
140 The 
 
 influence which controls us in all we do, un- 
 til we come into a knowledge and under- 
 standing of the Subconscious mind, its pow- 
 ers, and the Laws which govern its activity. 
 
 And what is this which we term the "Sub- 
 conscious Mind?" It is the mind that 
 never sleeps and which is unceasing in its 
 activities. It is that intelligence within us 
 which is not the result of education; which 
 takes us beyond ourselves, and which per- 
 ceives Truth independent of the material 
 senses, or of others.* In a word, it is the 
 Soul of man, which lives forever the inner 
 man, whose habitation throughout this ma- 
 terial existence is this material body which 
 we have been in the habit of assuming to be 
 the real self. 
 
 The attributes, qualities, functions and 
 powers of the Subconscious mind, or Soul, 
 are varied and potential, transcending all 
 else in the range of its operations, both in 
 the mental and material spheres. 
 
 *For a more detailed treatment of this subject, the 
 reader is referred to Hudson's " Law of Psychic Phenom- 
 ena," to be had of any bookseller. 
 
Subconscious Mind. 141 
 
 While the Soul is (for want of a better 
 term) the "God principle/' or the "God life" 
 within us, it is not God, and never will be. 
 The creature can never equal the creator, 
 else being equal with God, he would be a 
 God himself and there is now and always 
 will be but one God. We must make this dis- 
 tinction full and clear, for while the Soul 
 does possess some of the attributes and pow- 
 ers of God, it never can, in its most perfect 
 state, be equal with Him. To hold that the 
 Soul is essentially God is a serious error 
 which involves others equally serious. 
 
 The first and perhaps most important fac- 
 ulty of the Soul, is that of "Intuition," 
 which is the perception of fundamental Law 
 or Truth, independent of the five physical 
 senses, or of reason. It is the Soul's highest 
 power and it is through it that the knowl- 
 edge and perception of all divine or spiritual 
 Truth, as well as the experiences and emo- 
 tions of the Soul are brought over to con- 
 sciousness. It is the way or means, and the 
 only way or means whereby we can come in- 
 
142 The 
 
 to a knowledge of God, or by which we can 
 perceive spiritual Truth. 
 
 It is through Intuition that man receives 
 an intimation of wisdom, of knowledge and 
 of truth which is beyond him, into which he 
 may grow, if he will but heed and act on its 
 promptings. It is the way in which God 
 speaks to man, through which Divine wis- 
 dom, knowledge and inspiration is received. 
 It is the most transcendent and sublime at- 
 tribute of the composite man. 
 
 The faculty of Deductive Seasoning be- 
 longs also to the Soul, and is an attribute of 
 God. It is reaching general conclusions 
 from the instantaneous perception of the 
 conclusion, or of general Laws and fixed 
 principles reasoning from a conclusion to 
 particulars. The Subconscious mind cannot 
 reason inductively. 
 
 God cannot be said to reason inductively 
 (a faculty of the Conscious mind) for the 
 reason that such would imply a limitation of 
 knowledge. His reasoning if God can in- 
 deed be said to reason is deductively, from. 
 
Subconscious Mind. 143 
 
 an infinite knowledge of all Truth, all law 
 and principle, and this faculty of the Soul 
 is essentially divine. 
 
 Memory is a faculty of the Soul, and is 
 absolutely perfect. This is well demonstrat- 
 ed in the condition known as "Hypnosis/' 
 where with the conscious mind in entire 
 abeyance, memories of events which have 
 passed entirely out of the range of the Con- 
 scious mind can be readily recalled by the 
 subject. Authentic instances are recorded 
 where persons have spoken a language with 
 which they were never familiar save through 
 association in childhood. Memory is an ex- 
 clusive faculty of the Soul, but its events 
 can be called to consciousness through the 
 faculty of Eecollection of the Conscious 
 mind. 
 
 The Soul is the seat of the emotions. 
 Love, Joy, Anger, Kemorse emotions both 
 good and bad emanate from it. This may 
 seem a startling statement to those who have 
 considered the Soul as being essentially pure 
 and Divine and that only good is possible 
 
 
144 The 
 
 from it, but the statement is true, as we 
 shall see. 
 
 It is amenable to the Law of Dictation or 
 Suggestion, and this is a most important 
 truth. W e cannot understand the phenom- 
 ena of life until we understand this great 
 truth or Law. It explains many of the inner 
 mysteries of life and teaches us how we are 
 actuated and controlled in what we say and 
 do. 
 
 By reason of its material environment, 
 the Soul is under the Law of Suggestion. 
 While it was originally pure and divine, by 
 reason of its being under the Law of Sug- 
 gestion it becomes colored or tainted by the 
 thoughts and beliefs of the parents from be- 
 fore birth commonly called heredity and 
 when it is ushered into this world, it be- 
 comes increasingly colored and tainted by 
 the impressions made upon it through the 
 suggestive character of its material sur- 
 roundings, and as we come to understand 
 this important truth, we can see how, in life, 
 both good and bad can emanate from the 
 
Subconscious Mind. 145 
 
 Soul and how it is that man is born in sin 
 and needs washing before he can be clean. 
 
 So long as the Soul inhabits this material 
 house, so long is it under the Law of Sug- 
 gestion and bound by that Law to act in con- 
 formity with the character of the impres- 
 sions made upon it. It cannot do otherwise, 
 for the Law is absolute, though in consider- 
 ing this we must take into account the modi- 
 fying, neutralizing and changing influences 
 of contrary suggestions, in order to correctly 
 understand the operations of this Law; but 
 while the Soul is bound by the Law to ex- 
 press itself, and we, in consequence are 
 bound to act, from the impressions made 
 upon it, we have the power to choose the 
 character and nature of the Suggestions or 
 Impressions upon which it must and will, at 
 all times act. Man is a "free moral agent/' 
 with full power to choose; and understand- 
 ing this, and intelligently and consciously 
 choosing the nature and character of the 
 Suggestions upon which the Subconscious 
 mind acts, he chooses and determines what 
 10 
 
146 The 
 
 his life, his success, his health and his hap- 
 piness, as well as what his future destiny 
 shall be. 
 
 Still another faculty of the Soul is that 
 which is known as "Telekinetic Energy"- 
 the power of the Soul over matter, even to 
 transcending the laws of nature. Instances 
 are on record where man, through this power 
 which is resident in the Soul, has moved 
 ponderable objects with and without con- 
 tact, and in the Orient there are religious 
 sects who in their ceremonies, walk over 
 white hot stones in the bare feet, without so 
 much as a scar. The common experiment 
 of two or more persons lifting another with 
 the fingers illustrates this same power, and 
 the rappings, moving of tables, slate writing 
 and materializations accredited as "spirit 
 phenomena" can be accomplished through 
 thi c ; same agency. 
 
 All power as manifested through man, is 
 resident in the Soul, and the more fully this 
 is recognized, the more the powers of the 
 Soul, and the Laws under which it operates 
 
Subconscious Mind. 147 
 
 are understood, the more and better will we 
 be able to use them for our material and 
 spiritual advancement. The more intelli- 
 gence employed in their use, the greater and 
 more effective will be the results obtained 
 and the more will we discover the vast possi- 
 bilities which are within our reach and be 
 able to avail ourselves of them. 
 
 Faith is an attribute of the Soul. This 
 is the Faith that the Lord Jesus Christ 
 taught and insisted upon, and is the only 
 faith which will accomplish that which He 
 said. It is the conviction or evidence of 
 things not seen, but fully believed and ac- 
 cepted by the Soul. It is this faith of which 
 He said, "According to your faith be it unto 
 you/' and again, "All things are possible to 
 him who believeth." He who has this faith 
 can, without doubt, do that which he be- 
 lieves he can do. 
 
 . Telepathic power is also an attribute of 
 the Soul. Whether we are conscious of it or 
 not, Soul communicates with Soul, and Tel- 
 epathy is the normal means of comimmica- 
 
148 The Subconscious Mind. 
 
 tion between Subconscious minds. The more 
 we, through a recognition of this fact, come 
 to look for, and cultivate this faculty, the 
 more will we realize its existence and be 
 able to employ it. 
 

 The 
 
 Subconscious 
 
 Mind; 
 
 Its 
 
 Functions 
 
 And 
 
 Operations. 
 
CHAPTEE XIII. 
 
 In a previous chapter, we have seen that 
 "Thought" is the tool with which we shape 
 our life and destiny, and now we discover 
 that which is yet back of Thought ; the deep, 
 underlying and most potential factor in hu- 
 man existence the Subconscious mind or 
 Soul, with its transcendent powers and in- 
 telligence. 
 
 We need to analyze the underlying causes 
 which prompt and promote action and con- 
 scious thought as well. Until we do this, we 
 cannot fathom motive or impulse, nor can 
 we account for much that we do. Those 
 who are observing will note the silent and 
 ofttimes strong influences impelling them 
 this way or that. They feel inclined to do a 
 certain thing, but cannot tell why. Espe- 
 cially is this true of woman, for the reason 
 that her higher or Soul faculties are less 
 blunted by contact with the coarser things 
 
 151 
 
152 The Subconscious Mind ; 
 
 of material life than man's and because as a 
 rule she is more intuitive, more sensitive to 
 impressions and more ready to act on them, 
 though there are marked exceptions to this. 
 
 In the whole phenomena of life, we must 
 always take into consideration the great cen- 
 tral fact that the Subconscious mind, and 
 therefore man is ruled and controlled by 
 Suggestion. This is one of the most import- 
 ant and far-reaching of all Psychological 
 truths, and must never for a moment be lost 
 sight of. When this is understood, then the 
 next important question is, how do sugges- 
 tions reach the Subconscious mind, from 
 whence do they come ; and, as man acts from 
 the impressions made upon the Subconscious 
 mind, can he govern and control the char- 
 acter of the Suggestions or impressions from 
 which he must act? 
 
 First ; granting that man has the power to 
 formulate Thought, Suggestions or Impres- 
 sions are made upon the Subconscious mind 
 by our own Thought, and our Thought may 
 be the product of logic and reason, or it may 
 
its Functions and Operations. 153 
 
 be the result of the Conscious or Uncon- 
 scious impressions made upon the Subcon- 
 scious mind, through the five senses or 
 through other agencies, rising to conscious- 
 ness. While we are trying to determine where 
 our Impressions come from, we are at the 
 same time learning where our Thought 
 comes from. All Thought comes through im- 
 pressions made upon the Subconscious mind, 
 and as these impressions come over to con- 
 sciousness, we turn them over in our mind, 
 analyze them, reason on them, and the con- 
 clusions formed then become autosugges- 
 tions upon which the Subconscious mind 
 acts. 
 
 Second; Impressions are received from 
 the Thoughts of others which reach us 
 through the intention of the sender, or 
 through the thought being connected with 
 us in his mind, and we may or may not be 
 conscious of the fact that we are being influ- 
 enced by another. Thus are impressions made 
 through Thought consciously connected 
 with us by the thinker, either with or with- 
 
154 The Subconscious Mind ; 
 
 out the intention of influencing us, for be 
 it remembered, the intention to have a 
 Thought reach another need not be present 
 with the thinker ; the simple fact of connect- 
 ing the Thought with the person causing 
 them to receive it. 
 
 I hold it to be a Law, that a Thought 
 formulated and sent with the intention of 
 reaching another, or if connected with him, 
 as in an imaginary conversation, will always 
 reach its destination. I believe this to be ab- 
 solutely true, but whether the Thought sent 
 will rise to Consciousness; whether it will 
 be consciously recognized as a distinct 
 Thought of another by the recipient; 
 whether it will come into expression as the 
 Thought of the recipient, he believing it to 
 be his own Thought; and whether he will 
 recognize the Thought or impression and act 
 upon it, or refuse to act upon it though rec- 
 ognizing it, are entirely different questions. 
 Because this distinction has not been recog- 
 nized, and because we have judged whether 
 the Thought reached the person, by his rec- 
 
its Functions and Operations. 155 
 
 ognition of it, or his acting upon it, we have 
 heen led into the error of questioning the 
 power of Thought. Settle it in your mind 
 that Thought is hound to reach its object, 
 hut whether it will he recognized and acted 
 upon is altogether another question and 
 depends. 
 
 Third; the Subconscious mind is con- 
 tinually influenced by the Thoughts we un- 
 consciously attract to us, they being in gen- 
 eral such as correspond to our prevailing 
 mental attitude. These impressions are 
 made entirely unconscious to the Conscious 
 mind, and herein lies the secret of many of 
 the ills of life, of the failures and much of 
 the sickness that comes to us. To make this 
 plain would require more space than is at 
 my disposal, but I know it to be a fact, and 
 a very potent one. My personal experience 
 and my practice have demonstrated it. 
 
 Fourth; the inspirational influences and 
 higher Thoughts which produce impressions 
 upon the Subconscious mind, come to us 
 from the Spiritual realm. And here I do 
 
156 The Subconscious Mind ; 
 
 not wish to be misunderstood. I do not re- 
 fer to the so-called spirit communications of 
 the day, but to Thoughts which we may at- 
 tract to us through desire, or a correspond- 
 ing mental attitude, or through God's min- 
 istering angels or spirits, as is clearly taught 
 in Hebrews 1, 14: "Are they (the angels) 
 not all ministering spirits sent forth to min- 
 ister to those who shall be heirs to salva- 
 tion?" See also Matt. XVIII, 10, and 
 Psalms XXXIV, 7. 
 
 This is not the so-called communication 
 of departed spirits with those still upon 
 earth, but is the ministration of things that 
 are for our highest spiritual good by God's 
 ministering angels, who communicate to us 
 spiritual things through spiritual means, 
 but this highest and most profound minis- 
 tration of Divine Wisdom this fuller reve- 
 lation of God Himself can only come to 
 those who have been made "heirs of God and 
 joint heirs with Christ, members of the 
 Boyal Family, through a belief on the Lord 
 Jesus Christ as their Saviour; and then, the 
 

 its Functions and Operations. 157 
 
 efficacy of this ministration depends upon 
 our recognition of, our desire for, and our 
 opening ourselves to it. 
 
 Through a recognition of this great truth, 
 and by maintaining a receptive attitude, the 
 ministrations of God's ministering Spirits, as 
 well as truths and inspiration of the highest 
 order will flow in to us, and we will at times 
 recognize the source of these higher 
 Thoughts and Inspirations, but settle it in 
 your mind, that those who are God's minis- 
 tering servants to us do not stoop to rap- 
 pings, slate writing or materializations, but 
 that their ministrations come to us through 
 impressions made upon the Subconscious 
 mind or Soul, and that these impressions are 
 distinct and effective in the degree in which 
 we desire them, recognize their source and 
 open ourselves to them. 
 
 The phenomena witnessed in so-called 
 spiritualistic demonstrations cannot be de- 
 nied by any who are not wilfully blinded, 
 bearing in mind that there is both genuine 
 and fraudulent demonstration, but the larger 
 
158 The Subconscious Mind ; 
 
 part of it can now be scientifically accounted 
 for by the known powers of the Soul, and 
 when the powers and attributes of the Soul 
 are more fully known, I believe there will 
 be very little of that which is now called 
 "Spirit phenomena" that cannot be ac- 
 counted for in this way. 
 
 That spirits have manifested themselves 
 to man in the past, I admit, for we have the 
 Bible record of it. That they do so now, 
 may be possible; but, where the phenomena 
 is genuine, that they are the persons they 
 represent themselves to be, I deny. They 
 are deceiving spirits. But as this question 
 has come in incidentally and I have no in- 
 tention of discussing it, I will leave it with 
 the simple reference to 1st Timothy, IV, 1. 
 "In the latter times some shall depart from 
 the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, 
 and doctrines of devils/' 
 
 Through a careful analysis of the forego- 
 ing, we will discover that back of all 
 Thought, back of all Impulse and back of 
 all Acts, is that unceasing, never sleeping 
 
its Functions and Operations. 159 
 
 and potential intelligence, the Subconscious 
 mind, or Soul, and that consciously or un- 
 consciously, we are influenced and governed 
 by the Impressions or Suggestions received 
 by it. That- this process goes on unceasingly 
 and for the most part unconsciously to us, 
 is a great truth which is only faintly recog- 
 nized by the few; and yet, here is the con- 
 trolling factor the very mainspring in our 
 existence. Our desires, our impulses and 
 our mental attitude are constantly undergo- 
 ing changes, owing to this silent, unrecog- 
 nized, but all-powerful agent; and we are 
 unconsciously controlled by it , in the degree 
 which we fail to recognize its existence, 
 
 nd do not consciously govern the character 
 of the Impressions or Suggestions which 
 
 ihall be made upon the Soul. 
 Here is the vital point: We are governed 
 d controlled ~by the Subconscious mind 
 
 hrough the impressions made upon it in the 
 ays noted, whether we recognize it, or are 
 
 onscious of it or not, and we determine the 
 
 haracter of these impressions by the charac- 
 
160 The Subconscious Mind ; 
 
 ter of our prevailing mental attitude. When 
 we are in a negative condition, we are like a 
 rudderless ship at sea, carried about hither 
 and thither by the ever changing tide of the 
 uncontrolled impressions which are made 
 upon it ; but when we assume the positive at- 
 titude, we then determine the character of 
 the impressions from which we shall act, 
 through governing our Thought and our 
 mental attitude consciously and with intent. 
 
 If we would determine the character of 
 the Impressions upon which we shall act, we 
 must first of all recognize the fact that we 
 are controlled by the Suggestions consciously 
 or unconsciously made upon the Subcon- 
 scious mind. Then, we must consciously 
 govern the character of those Suggestions or 
 Impressions, through assuming a positive 
 attitude, choosing the character of our 
 Thought and our habitual or prevailing 
 mental attitude, for, bear in mind, one must 
 and will correspond to the other. 
 
 Eemember, the Law through which both 
 conscious and unconscious Suggestions act 
 
its Functions and Operations. 161 
 
 upon the Subconscious mind is absolute* but 
 that there are all sorts of things which 
 change or modify the impressions made, and 
 consequently affect the result. By a recog- 
 nition and understanding of this Law, we 
 can measure and understand that which op- 
 erates to produce seeming failure when em- 
 ploying Suggestion, and by the same mean?, 
 change or remove these modifying influences 
 and the effect of adverse or undesirable Sug- 
 gestion. 
 
 11 
 
The 
 
 Subconscious 
 
 Mind; 
 
 General 
 
 Observations. 
 
CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 That the Subconscious mind or Soul is 
 the most important factor in human exist- 
 ence, will not be questioned by any who have 
 come to understand its powers and field of 
 operation. Though man for the most part 
 is in almost entire ignorance of its exist- 
 ence and knows even less of its operations, 
 here is the thing by which he is absolutely 
 governed and controlled in his mental, phy- 
 sical and material existence here is the sub- 
 tile agency through which he is uncon- 
 sciously controlled by himself and by others. 
 
 It dominates our very existence, in spite 
 of the fact that we fail to recognize it or 
 that we exalt the Conscious mind to the po- 
 sition of ruler. The average person would 
 be appalled if he could know to what extent 
 he is dominated by others through the cease- 
 less and unconscious activity of the Subcon- 
 scious mind. How do you know that a 
 
 165 
 
166 The Subconscious Mind ; 
 
 Thought or an Impression you have is your 
 own? How do you know whether the 
 Thought or Impression which comes to you 
 is not the Thought of another influencing 
 you, either with or without intent ? 
 
 We act from Thoughts and impressions 
 made upon the Subconscious mind which we 
 take for granted originate within ourselves, 
 when in fact they do not, but are the silent 
 Thought or Suggestion of another. It does 
 not of necessity follow that the Thoughts 
 and Impressions upon which we act are 
 made upon us intentionally by others, as 
 there are but few who know or understand 
 the intelligent use of the mental powers in 
 this direction. By placing ourselves in har- 
 mony with certain class or quality of 
 Thoughts we get them and act from the im- 
 pressions thus made upon the Subconscious 
 mind, and this process goes on so quietly and 
 the workings of it are so subtile, that we are 
 rarely conscious of it. 
 
 There are two facts which we can not 
 evade and must face: First, that we act 
 
General Observations. 167 
 
 from Impressions made upon the Subcon- 
 scious mind; and second, these impressions 
 are made upon the Subconscious mind by 
 our own Conscious mind, or by others, 
 either consciously or unconsciously. A 
 close analysis and an understanding of 
 what is involved in this proposition will 
 show us very clearly that in the ordinary 
 walks of life, the average person is actually 
 ruled and dominated by others, and is not 
 choosing for himself, though in all sincerity 
 he may think he is. To intelligently shape 
 life, we must intelligently choose for our- 
 selves and the wisdom of our choice depends 
 upon knowledge and the development of our 
 higher or Spiritual faculties. 
 
 We must remember that the Subconscious 
 mind is dominated by Suggestion, and that 
 it accepts and acts upon Suggestion or Im- 
 pressions of which we are not conscious, but 
 that the character of these impressions can 
 be governed by the character of our 
 Thoughts or purposes and our habitual men- 
 tal attitude, as the unconscious impressions 
 
168 The Subconscious Mind ; 
 
 made will harmonize and correspond with 
 the Thoughts we hold. 
 
 The secret of all real progress and of fruit- 
 ful life-expression is in choosing the char- 
 acter of our Thoughts, which also involves 
 the choosing of the character of the impres- 
 sions which shall be made upon the Subcon- 
 scious mind. In the degree in which we con- 
 trol our Thoughts and the Impressions from 
 which we act do we consciously direct the 
 current and issues of life and in that degree 
 do we also gain self-control. Before we can 
 control others we must first control our- 
 selves 
 
 We must recognize the fact that unless we 
 assume a positive attitude stand at the 
 helm ourselves we are at the mercy of all 
 sorts of floating or designing Thought or 
 Suggestion. While the negative person is 
 technically a "free moral agent," as a matter 
 of fact, he is ruled and dominated by others, 
 either by accident or design, because he is 
 not exercising his prerogative of choice. 
 
 It is of the utmost importance that we un- 
 
General Observations. 169 
 
 der stand this far-reaching and all-important 
 factor in life. Only in this way can we in- 
 telligently shape our lives and say what shall 
 come to us. But bear in mind, we either 
 shape and control life for ourselves or allow 
 others to do it for us, and it does not matter 
 whether we are conscious of it or not. the 
 fact remains unaltered. 
 
 And until we understand and realize, how 
 it is that impressions are made upon the 
 Subconscious mind through direct Sugges- 
 tion and through the Suggestive character 
 of the occurences of each moment, as well 
 as through the silent influences of Thought 
 Impressions, and how we act from these im- 
 pressions continually, we cannot consciously 
 or intelligently shape or govern life for our- 
 selves. 
 
 How many there are in this world who are 
 absolutely living a life that is dictated and 
 controlled by others almost from beginning 
 to end simply because they do not under- 
 stand that which is fundamental in deter- 
 mining their life! I know some who have 
 
170 The Subconscious Mind ; 
 
 stood appalled when they first came to rec- 
 ognize this great fact and could begin to 
 understand the subtile and far-reaching ac- 
 tivities of the Subconscious mind and how 
 their lives were unconsciously guided and 
 controlled through the operations of this 
 great intelligence unconsciously to them- 
 selves. 
 
 When this mighty truth begins to dawn 
 upon the mind and there comes some reali- 
 zation of the workings of this great and po- 
 tent intelligence which is within, well may 
 the individual stand with fear and trembling 
 before the responsibility which rests upon 
 him! Life, and the shaping of life is no 
 mere pastime, but a stern and vital reality 
 in which each is working out his destiny, 
 either Consciously and intelligently, or Un- 
 consciously and in Ignorance. It is only as 
 we come into a recognition of this great 
 Truth that we come to see to what extent it 
 is true that the choosing of what shall come 
 to us lays absolutely with ourselves and of 
 how important it is that we should Con- 
 
General Observations. 171 
 
 sciously and Intelligently choose that which 
 shall determine the trend and issues of life. 
 When we come into a vital realization of this 
 potent truth in the Soul and it becomes a 
 deep-sealed conviction, we shall see that ice 
 are responsible for what comes into our lives 
 and that we can in no way shift the respon- 
 sibility upon others. Ignorance does not ex- 
 cuse us and is never to be desired. 
 
 To he "forewarned is to be forearmed," 
 and as we come to understand ho,w thor- 
 oughly we are under the dominion of these 
 Laws, we shall also come to realize how, and 
 in what way, we can control our own lives 
 and protect ourselves from the undesired in- 
 fluences of others. We are not left to the 
 mercy of the ever-changing and undesirable 
 influences of others or of that which will 
 come to us through the Suggestive character 
 of our surroundings. But unless we become 
 positive and stand at the helm, we certainly 
 are ruled, dominated and controlled by these 
 constantly operating influences. If we as- 
 sume control ourselves, we can as surely de- 
 
172 The Subconscious Mind ; 
 
 termine the character of that which shall 
 come to us and at the same time exercise a 
 heneficient influence over others through the 
 positive character of our own mental atti- 
 tude, for it is the positive person, the posi- 
 tive attitude that makes the strongest im- 
 pression upon the mind of another. 
 
 And here .another important consideration 
 comes in: Others are influencing and con- 
 trolling us in the degree in which we are 
 negative, because we are open and receptive 
 to their influence. When we become positive, 
 we are influencing and controlling others in 
 the degree in which they are negative. The 
 positive person is also subject to the influ- 
 ences of others and to impressions received 
 from his surroundings, but he intelligently 
 chooses and determines the character of that 
 which he will receive and act upon either 5 
 through conscious volition or through the 
 protecting influences of his prevailing men- 
 tal attitude the Law of Self-preservation. 
 
 "No man liveth unto himself" is a divine 
 Truth pregnant with meaning. Consciously 
 
General Observations. 173 
 
 or unconsciously we are affecting others 
 through the unceasing operations of this 
 great and potential intelligence within us, 
 hence the necessity of our maintaining that 
 attitude which will not only enable us to in- 
 telligently fashion and control our own 
 lives, but exert the most salutary and benefi- 
 cient influence over others. The more we 
 consciously and intelligently use this great 
 power within us for the good of others, the 
 more will we reap good ourselves, for this is 
 the Law. "It is more blessed to give than 
 to receive/' 
 
 One of the most important points to be 
 observed in all questions affecting Material 
 and Spiritual life and in the treating of dis- 
 ease, is the very great and subtile part played 
 by unconscious Suggestion, or the uncon- 
 scious activities of the Subconscious mind. 
 Remember, these impressions no matter as 
 to their source, come to our consciousness, 
 when we are at all conscious of them, as our 
 own Thoughts, and we do not realize their 
 origin, nor do we question it, until we come 
 
174 The Subconscious Mind ; 
 
 into a knowledge of the Laws governing the 
 activities of the Dual Mind. 
 
 While we cannot always determine the ori- 
 gin or source of the Thoughts or Impres- 
 sions which come to us, we can and should 
 choose what Thoughts and Suggestions we 
 will entertain. One of the deepest studies 
 in the treatment of disease is to determine 
 the part played by the Unconscious Auto- 
 suggestion of the 'patient and to what extent 
 it is neutralizing or counteracting the effect 
 of the Suggestions given. The principle or 
 Law is absolute, but there are conditions and 
 neutralizing agencies which must always be 
 taken into consideration and overcome 
 through the application of the same Laws. 
 
 But it may be asked: if we are uncon- 
 sciously influenced by Suggestions and Ira 
 pressions received by the Subconscious mind, 
 how are we to know, or how are we to guard 
 ourselves from such as are undesirable? A 
 very important question and one that should 
 be answered as intelligently as possible with 
 the light at our command. 
 
General Observations. 175 
 
 In the first place, the fixed purpose, the 
 prevailing mental attitude which we inten- 
 tionally or unintentionally cultivate, will de- 
 termine to a very great extent the character 
 of the Impressions which will be received 
 unconsciously by the Subconscious mind. 
 The positive person, the one who is intelli- 
 gently shaping his life, will attract to him- 
 self that which is in correspondence with his 
 fixed purpose and his prevailing mental atti- 
 tude, while the negative person, the one who 
 is not standing at the helm but is drifting, 
 is by virtue of the same Law at the mercy of 
 all floating Thought or Impressions. He 
 attracts a little of everything to himeslf . but 
 lacking in continuity of purpose, and being 
 ignorant of the operations of the Law of At- 
 traction, he is not "centered," he fails to hold 
 to any specific line of Thought or purpose 
 long enough to produce any perceptible ef- 
 fect, and as a consequence, he becomes one 
 of that vast army of people who are doing 
 something, but nothing in particular, just 
 "drifting with the tide" and rarely succeed- 
 
176 The Subconscious Mind ; 
 
 ing in anything he undertakes. It is impos- 
 sible to escape these potential influences in 
 any way whatever, but we can bring them 
 under our control and say what shall influ- 
 ence us, through the knowledge of the opera- 
 tions of these Laws, and through intelli- 
 gently choosing for ourselves. 
 
 The power and effectiveness of Suggestion 
 and Autosuggestion will be more fully con- 
 sidered in the following chapters, but the 
 points I wish to emphasize here are that we 
 are controlled by or through Impressions 
 made upon the Subconscious mind; that 
 these Impressions are made both Consciously 
 and Unconsciously and that we can in no 
 way escape from them; that while essentially 
 man is a "free moral agent" he is not exer- 
 cising his prerogative of choice in the ordi- 
 nary walks of life, but is dominated and con- 
 trolled by the Suggestions and influences of 
 others unless he is consciously choosing for 
 himself. 
 
 While Thought is the "Key-note" of life 
 and a Thought precedes every act, here we 
 
General Observations. 177 
 
 see how and why we are controlled by it, as 
 well as that which is back of Thought. The 
 Subconscious mind is back of all and its ex- 
 pression is the result of impressions made 
 upon it taking form in Thought, and 
 Thought taking form in action. It comes to 
 dominate in life-expression and illuminate 
 the faculties of the Conscious mind, only in 
 the degree in which it is recognized and de- 
 veloped. 
 
 12 
 
Suggestion 
 
 Defined, 
 
 And 
 
 The 
 
 Way 
 
 It 
 
 Operates. 
 
 
CHAPTEE XV. 
 
 In the previous chapters we have seen that 
 the Subconscious Mind acts upon Suggestion 
 that it is under the Law of Suggestion, 
 and that we are impelled to every act 
 through a Suggestion or an Impression made 
 upon the Subconscious mind. 
 
 While the term "Suggestion" is one uni- 
 versally employed, it is but little understood 
 and to the average person is but a phrase 
 conveying an indefinite meaning. The Po- 
 tency and Power of Suggestion, the Laws 
 governing in its unceasing operations as well 
 as the nature of Suggestion, its intelligent 
 use and the conditions most favorable for 
 obtaining the best results from it are as lit- 
 tle understood by the masses as were the pos- 
 sibilties of electricity by Franklin in his day. 
 
 What is a "Suggestion ?" Anything which 
 makes an impression upon the mind is a 
 Suggestion. It may be a word, a look, a mo- 
 
 181 
 
182 Suggestion Defined, and 
 
 tion, a person, a thought or many other 
 things. It may be Impressions received by 
 the Subconscious mind from the vast ocean 
 of Thought in which we live, or from the 
 realm of the Spiritual world. At every turn 
 we are met by a Suggestion and it is as im- 
 possible to escape from Suggestion itself, as 
 it is to escape from the ceaseless activities of 
 the Subconscious mind. It is everywhere 
 present and in life-expression we are as as- 
 suredly dominated by the Law of Sugges- 
 tion, as by the necessity of breathing and 
 this whether waking or sleeping. 
 
 It has been truly said that "Suggestion 
 rules the world/' Traced down to its last 
 and final analysis, Life-expression is the re- 
 sult or consequence of Suggestion, and this 
 being true it is evident that if we would 
 change the character of our Physical, Men- 
 tal or Material conditions, we must in some 
 way govern the fundamental or producing 
 cause. While it is true that we act from our 
 Thoughts and in governing the character of 
 our Thoughts we determine the character of 
 
the Way it Operates. 183 
 
 what comes to us, it will be borne in mind 
 that every Thought is a Suggestion and also 
 that the source of much of the Suggestive 
 Impressions from which we act reach yet 
 back of the realm of Thought and that Sug- 
 gestion is therefore broader and more com- 
 prehensive than Thought. 
 
 For a general definition of Suggestion in 
 its application to Therapeutic work, we may 
 say that "a Suggestion is a Thought formu- 
 lated and expressed by one person for the 
 purpose of influencing another," but this 
 does not by any means properly define Sug- 
 gestion in its broad and true sense. An 
 unexpressed Thought is as much of a Sug- 
 gestion as if spoken to the person, and the 
 impression thus made may be more effective 
 for the reason that he will be inclined to con- 
 sider it as his own Thought and willingly 
 act upon it of his own volition, unquestioned 
 and unchallenged. 
 
 Thought and Suggestion are so closely al- 
 lied and inter-related that at times it seems 
 difficult to separate them and it will be borne 
 
184 Suggestion Defined, and 
 
 in mind that what has been said in reference 
 to Thought in previous chapters obtains, 
 only with increased force in the realm of 
 Suggestion. A Thought may be the result 
 of a Suggestion or a Suggestion may be the 
 result of a Thought, but in either case they 
 create impressions upon the Subconscious 
 mind from which the act springs. 
 
 The two most potential factors in our ex- 
 istence are the Subconscious mind and Sug- 
 gestion, bearing in mind the inter-relation 
 of Thought and Suggestion. When we un- 
 derstand the Faculties and operations of the 
 one and the nature and potency of the other, 
 together with the Laws governing them, we 
 have the key to all Life-expression, to health, 
 happiness and success. 
 
 We must recognize we must realize the 
 fact that everything which in any way ap- 
 peals to the senses is a Suggestion and that 
 we are consciously or unconsciously im- 
 pressed by the Suggestive character of every- 
 thing with which we come in contact or 
 which comes within the range of our vision. 
 
the Way it Operates. 185 
 
 The idea is prevalent that a Suggestion is 
 only the word spoken to another, but this is 
 not true. Everything anything which 
 makes an impression upon the mind, 
 whether it be through the five senses or oth- 
 erwise, is a Suggestion, 
 
 We eat, we drink, we breathe, we walk, 
 sleep and act solely through Suggestion and 
 when we come to recognize and realize this, 
 we then begin to see how thoroughly we are 
 dominated by Suggestive Impressions and of 
 what paramount importance it is that we 
 should determine the nature and character 
 of the Suggestions from which our Life- 
 expression flows, through conscious choice. 
 For let it be remembered that the activities 
 of the Subconscious mind, from which all 
 acts spring, must at all times correspond and 
 be in harmony with our prevailing attitude, 
 which is in itself the strongest kind of a Sug- 
 gestion. 
 
 So potent and powerful is Suggestion, and 
 the results which I have seen obtained from 
 its use so far enter what is considered the 
 
186 Suggestion Defined, and 
 
 realm of the miraculous, that I frankly say 
 I do not know what is impossible of accom- 
 plishment through its intelligent and per- 
 sistent application, but there are bounds be- 
 yond which it is at least difficult to pass. 
 The Law of Self-preservation the expres- 
 sion of a faculty inherent in the Soul, is ever 
 operative, and while the Subconscious mind 
 is under the Law of Suggestion and is 
 bound to act upon Suggestions given when 
 they enter unchallenged and unopposed, it 
 will refuse to accept or act upon a Sugges- 
 tion which is in violation of this Law of 
 Self-preservation, and as is well known by 
 those who have investigated, a person in 
 "Hypnosis' 5 will resent and refuse a Sugges- 
 tion which does violence to his fixed princi- 
 ples or convictions, though as I have said, 
 knowing the power and potency of Sugges- 
 tion from actual practice, I am not prepared 
 to say what is impossible, when Suggestion 
 is properly and persistently employed. 
 
 It is well to remember that there is no 
 good that cannot be perverted and no power 
 
the Way it Operates. 187 
 
 that cannot be misused and abused, but our 
 safety does not lie in ignorance, but in an 
 intelligent understanding. Our advantage 
 is not in avoiding a thing, but in under- 
 standing it and how to use it for the good of 
 ourselves and others. We might as well say 
 that because electricity kills we will have 
 nothing to do with it. Our safety and well- 
 being always lies in knowledge and intelli- 
 gence. Ignorance means degeneration and 
 retrogression. 
 
 Our fixed purposes and Ideals, if persist- 
 ed in, are the first and most powerful Sug- 
 gestions and will take precedence over oth- 
 ers. These become an "Auto- Suggestion," 
 which is a Suggestion given to ones self, and 
 an Auto- Suggestion is one of the most diffi- 
 cult things to overcome. An unconscious 
 Autosuggestion may become so deeply seated 
 as to require much and persistent conscious 
 effort to overcome or change. I have had 
 patients in whom I could distinctly discern 
 the unconscious workings of Autosuggestion 
 when they were making the strongest con- 
 
188 Suggestion Defined, and 
 
 scions effort to follow my Suggestions, and 
 herein lies the secret of much seeming fail- 
 ure in the application of Suggestion. But 
 instead of indicating failure, it only empha- 
 sises .the potency and power of Suggestion in 
 two ways; first in demonstrating the 
 strength and power of the Autosuggestion 
 and second in being able to overcome the 
 deeply seated impressions produced by the 
 Autosuggestion, by the persistent use of pro- 
 per Suggestion. It requires repeated and 
 persistent Suggestion to overcome these 
 deeply seated impressions and when we rec- 
 ognize the fact that one's Autosuggestion is 
 the more powerful and that the strongest 
 Suggestion will prevail until broken by a 
 stronger, we will see that they can only be 
 overcome or counteracted by repeated and 
 persistent effort on the part of ones self or 
 the Suggestionist. 
 
 Suggestion gathers force in its repetition. 
 The only way you commit a poem to memory 
 is through constant iteration. Beading it 
 over once or twice will not do it, but the 
 
the Way it Operates. 189 
 
 more you read it, the more you become fa- 
 miliar with it, the more it becomes fixed up- 
 on the mind so you can repeat it from mem- 
 ory. This is Suggestion. The oftener it is 
 repeated and the more energy employed in 
 giving the Suggestion whether by ones self 
 or another, the deeper and more lasting the 
 impressions made and the more effective the 
 results. One can repeat a lie so often that 
 he finallv comes to believe it true. 
 
Suggestion 
 
 Applied 
 To 
 
 Mental 
 And 
 
 Physical 
 Disabilities. 
 
CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 In treating all Physical and Mental ail- 
 ments, Suggestion is the underlying factor 
 in the cure, no matter what method em- 
 ployed, be it Medicine, Osteopathy, Chris- 
 tian Science, Mental Science or what not. 
 Every dose of medicine and every movement 
 or manipulation carries a Suggestion with 
 it, and as has been well said by an eminent 
 Chicago Physician Dr. William H. Hoi- 
 combe, ex-President of the American Insti- 
 tute of Homeopathy "To be certain that 
 drugs have ever exerted any curative action 
 whatever, it is necessary to eliminate every 
 mental element of cure from the case. Let 
 there be no opinion or thought about the 
 matter, no faith, no imagination, no hope, 
 no expectation of result. When all these 
 causes are absent, the result may possibly be 
 the effect of the medicine/' 
 
 Suggestion is the means or cause which is 
 
 13 193 
 
194 Suggestion Applied to Mental 
 
 back of all cures effected and every intelli- 
 gent and progressive Doctor of Medicine rec- 
 ognizes this fact, in a greater or less degree. 
 While the materialistic tendencies of his pa- 
 tients demand what they consider a material 
 remedy something they can see, taste and 
 feel, the Physician feels bound to prescribe 
 something which may or may not be medir 
 cine, but he is sure to accompany it with a 
 good dose of Suggestion, and the most suc- 
 cessful M. D. is the one who makes the most 
 intelligent use of Suggestion, even if it be 
 accompanied by the administration of sweet- 
 ened water and bread pills. They are on the 
 right track and all they need is the courage 
 of their conviction. And yet, can we blame 
 them? They know that the people ar- not 
 } r et educated up to natural methods of heal- 
 ing and demand pills and powders and they 
 also know that unless they administer some- 
 thing which their patients at least believe is 
 medicine, they will be dismissed as being in- 
 competent and another employed who will 
 
and Physical Disabilities. 195 
 
 indulge them in their ignorance. When peo- 
 ple want to be duped, and will have it no 
 other way, can we blame one for duping 
 them? P. T. Barnum was worldly wise 
 when he said "the American people want to 
 be humbugged and I might as well humbug 
 them as anyone else/' But here, as in all 
 things else, our jalvation and best good lies 
 in Intelligence and education rather than in 
 ignorance, nnd as the public become better 
 informed in the underlying principles of 
 life, they will demand and receive more ra- 
 tional and natural methods of treating their 
 physical ailments and will have less of them 
 to be treated. 
 
 The philosophy of Suggestion in treating 
 Mental and Physical ailments will be better 
 appreciated when it is understood that all 
 the functions and sensations of the body are 
 under the control of the Subconscious mind, 
 that It is under the Law of Suggestion and 
 in its activities, can be controlled by Sugges- 
 tion. Now, with the functions and sensa- 
 tions of the body under the control of the 
 
196 Suggestion Applied to Mental 
 
 Subconscious mind, and with the Subcon- 
 scious mind controlable by or through Sug- 
 gestion, we see at once that through intelli- 
 gent Suggestion, any of the organs of the 
 body can be stimulated, circulation increased 
 and a right activity brought about in all 
 parts of the physical being by proper Sug- 
 gestions. Here you have the theory of the 
 whole philosophy of healing in a nut-shell 
 if you can ree it. 
 
 But do not overlook the fact that there are 
 always conditions to be observed in treating 
 for the cure of disease. There are certain 
 fundamental Laws of nature, and conditions 
 which must be complied with. Disease is 
 the result of a violation of Law. Complying 
 with the simple Laws of life, or conditions 
 of health and the intelligent use of Sugges- 
 tion, there are but few forms of diseases 
 which cannot be cured. 
 
 And with the growing tendency of think- 
 ing people to break away from the old drug 
 methods of treatment towards that which is 
 in harmony and in accord with nature, it is 
 
and Physical Disabilities. 197 
 
 well to note that cures brought about in this 
 way are more permanent, for the reason that 
 it is Nature's own method of cure, devoid of 
 any artificial stimulant, and while the Phy- 
 sician is ostensibly doing the work, in reality 
 he is making the patient do it and the re- 
 sults obtained are perfectly natural from 
 which there will be no relapse, except 
 through a repeated violation of Law. And 
 when the patient recovers, he knows how he 
 has regained his health and how to retain 
 and maintain it. 
 
 The field covered by Suggestion is as 
 broad as life itself. There is no sphere in 
 life where the operation of the Law of Sug- 
 gestion and the activities of the Subcon- 
 scious mind cannot be employed to infinite 
 advantage. In shaping the course of life, in 
 determining our measure of success and our 
 happiness, in healing disease, in eradicating 
 undesirable habits and traits of character 
 and in bringing about a right mental atti- 
 tude or condition, Suggestion can be util- 
 ized to the greatest advantage and results 
 
198 Suggestion Applied to Mental 
 
 can be secured through the intelligent use 
 of Suggestion and Auto suggestion which 
 are attainable in no other way. 
 
 While in my practice I employ the Mag- 
 netic or Life-forces of the body, which is a 
 most powerful aid when intelligently used, 
 my reliance is always upon Suggestion as 
 the chief and most potent factor in bring- 
 ing about the cure of any disease. The re- 
 sults I have obtained and the results at- 
 tained by all intelligent practitioners of 
 Suggestive Therapeutics tax the credulity 
 of the average Medical physician. In fact, 
 many of the advanced among them refuse 
 to believe these results possible. 
 
 That severe and chronic constipation can 
 be readily cured and a regular movement of 
 the bowels secured in a short time without 
 the use of one drop of medicine, wholly 
 through Suggestion, is a fact which it is dif- 
 ficult to induce even the laity to believe, 
 and yet it is being done every day. One of 
 the most pleasant features of a cure of this 
 kind is that when a person is cured in this 
 
and Physical Disabilities. 199 
 
 way, lie understands perfectly how the cure 
 is brought about and is easily able to control 
 this important function himself by the in- 
 telligent use of Autosuggestion. 
 
 In the treatment of all diseases peculiar 
 to women making no exceptions, and even 
 in Child-birth, there is no method of treat- 
 ment known which will produce such prompt 
 and permanent relief or cure, as the treat- 
 ment by Suggestion. This class of diseases, 
 the regular Physician has found himself un- 
 able to cope with to any degree of satisfac- 
 tion and as a result, comes the too common 
 recourse to the knife. 
 
 When women come to realize what this 
 mode of treatment means to them and when 
 through an understanding of the great pos- 
 sibilities it has in store for them they de- 
 mand intelligent and scientific treatment, 
 the field of Suggestive Therapeutics will be 
 more fully occupied by practitioners of a 
 higher order of intelligence, these ailments 
 will be more intelligently and successfully 
 treated and cured and the number of opera- 
 
200 Suggestion Applied to Mental 
 
 tions will be reduced to the minimum and 
 God E peed the day ! 
 
 Some have an idea that Suggestion is only 
 efficacious in the mild and simple forms of 
 diseases, but there is no physical or mental 
 ailment which cannot be either permanently 
 cured or geatly benefitted by the intelligent 
 use of Suggestion, and especially is this true 
 if the Physician understands the Laws 
 governing the Magnetic forces and how to 
 apply them in treatment. It must be borne 
 in mind that the practitioner of Suggestive 
 Therapeutics is called upon to treat almost 
 exclusively, those who have exhausted every 
 means within their reach the old, hard and 
 chronic cases which have many times been 
 given up by the Medical fraternity, and 
 when this is taken into consideration it will 
 be found that the high percentage of his 
 cures is simply remarkable. Could he have 
 the opportunity of treating the same aver- 
 age as the M, D., his failures would be small 
 indeed. 
 
 In all forms of Mental trouble Suggestion 
 
and Physical Disabilities. 201 
 
 is the Ideal mode of treatment. The powers 
 of Recollection, Concentration, and the Will 
 can be strengthened; strength and force of 
 Character can be obtained and any or all of 
 the Mental facilities can be stimulated to in- 
 creased activity and strengthened through 
 Suggestion and Autosuggestion. Melan- 
 cholia, Morbid Thoughts, Fear and Worry 
 can be dispelled in the same way and in fact, 
 there is no other way of treating these Men- 
 tal troubles but by Suggestion. Wonderful 
 results can be accomplished- in Insanity 
 through the Suggestive treatment and when 
 the day arrives that the mentally deranged 
 are scientifically treated by the Suggestive 
 methods, there will be fewer hopeless cases 
 and many will be spared from the fate which 
 now usually awaits those who are thus af- 
 flicted. 
 
 All habits are especially amenable to treat- 
 ment by Suggestion. The Liquor, Tobacco, 
 Morphine and Opium habits can be success- 
 fully handled with every probability of the 
 cure being permanent. 
 
202 Suggestion Applied to Mental 
 
 The great possibilities of Suggestion in 
 healing disease and in mental and moral cul- 
 ture, and the ignorance upon the subject 
 among a very large proportion of the people, 
 together with its importance as related to 
 the well-being of all, and often to the very 
 life of the individual, is my reason for in- 
 troducing here wnat may seem to some as a 
 digression from the main thought of the 
 book. Light is needed upon every hand and 
 many are reaching out after knowledge 
 which will be the means of emancipating 
 them from sickness and disease as well as 
 from poverty and unhappiness, and while I 
 cannot give a full exposition of the philoso- 
 phy of Physical and Mental healing in this 
 brief space, it is my desire to awaken all who 
 read to some degree of understanding of the 
 possibilities which are attainable, and to 
 stimulate them to further research, as well 
 as to the application of the knowledge they 
 have gained. 
 
 Kalph Waldo Trine is right when he says, 
 "The Physician of the fututre will become 
 
and Physical Disabilities. 203 
 
 the teacher." As the Law of Suggestion 
 comes to be better understood people will 
 heal themselves, or better still, they will 
 know how to prevent illness and disease, and 
 the greatest and most lasting good the Phy- 
 sician can do his patient is to instruct and 
 teach him how to take care of himself and 
 keep well, so that he will not need to have 
 recourse to others for help. As long as we 
 depend upon another in any way, we are 
 weak and there should be no more need why 
 one should apply to another for relief from 
 Physical ailments than there is for his ap- 
 plying for charity. Both are the result of 
 ignorance and negligence or indolence. 
 
 The more we come to recognize the potency 
 of Suggestion and understand the operations 
 of the Subconscious mind, the more will we 
 come to realize how we can become superior 
 to all adverse Physical and Mental condi- 
 tions. Health abounding health is a per- 
 fectly normal and natural condition and any 
 departure from this standard proclaims the 
 adverse character of the Suggestions which 
 
204 Suggestion Applied to Mental, etc. 
 
 are influenceing us, and a violation of Law. 
 To be well and strong is the rightful por- 
 tion of every human being and when princi- 
 ples of Psychology are more generally 
 taught and understood, people will begin to 
 realize that the time has come for their 
 emancipation from the dominion of ill- 
 health, sickness and disease. The dawn is 
 breaking; interest in the True Philosophy 
 of life is more manifest every day and the 
 thoughtful person is enquiring what he can 
 do to shape his life more intelligently and 
 make it conform more to his higher Ideals, 
 as well as to secure freedom from the ills 
 which flesh is not heir to. 
 
Laws 
 
 Governing 
 In 
 
 Every 
 Sphere. 
 
CHAPTEK XVII. 
 
 The more we seek to penetrate the great 
 problem of Life and try to analyze the vari- 
 ous manifestations of all force or energy as 
 it is related to Life-expression, both in the 
 Spiritual and in the Material world, the 
 more do we discover that in all their work- 
 ings there is a method and harmony which 
 eliminates all possibility of "happen" or 
 "chance" and which indicates a scientific 
 precision in the production of all the phe- 
 nomena of Life, which is quite at variance 
 with what we have been accustomed to think 
 and believe. 
 
 The evident ^certainty of an effect having 
 a cause, of a certain thing or a certain ac$ 
 producing a certain effect, places the effect 
 or result beyond the realm of uncertainty or 
 chance and brings us face to face with the 
 fact that back of all, there are Laws estab- 
 lished by the Infinite which are constantly 
 
 207 
 
208 Laws Governing 
 
 operative in every occurrence of Life, as well 
 as in the whole universe of God. 
 
 When we know the elements which enter 
 into the initial step, and are able to measure 
 the neutralizing agencies which are also the 
 operation of yet other Laws, we can with 
 much certainty predict the result or effect, 
 and were we possessed of infinite knowledge 
 of all Law, there would be no uncertainty 
 about it whatever. The Chemist knows that 
 by combining two elements, certain results 
 follow and the Astronomer understands so 
 well how the movements of the planets are 
 governed that he can with certainty predict 
 their movements far into the future. And 
 this is what we call Law. 
 
 Nothing ever happens. There is a cause 
 for whatever comes to us and all can be 
 traced to the exact workings of Law. If I 
 throw an apple up in the air, it falls to the 
 earth again, but it goes up and comes down 
 in obedience to Laws, one of Force and the 
 other of Attraction. No matter which way 
 we may turn, we face the fact that in every 
 
in Every Sphere. 209 
 
 sphere of Life, and embracing the whole uni- 
 verse there are Laws operating unceasingly 
 and with infinite precision which at all times 
 govern and determine what is and what 
 shall be. 
 
 When all is understood, it will be found 
 that the whole phenomena of Life can be 
 reduced to what is, in a sense, a Mathemati- 
 cal proposition. Certain causes produce cer- 
 tain effects, certain effects follow certain 
 Thoughts and certain acts or movements and 
 when we recognize the fact that for every 
 effect there is a cause that without the 
 cause the effect could not appear, when we 
 come to realize that every effect is the result 
 of an initial or primal cause and follow this 
 out to its legitimate termination as applied 
 to every detail of Life, we are driven to the 
 conclusion that back of all there are Laws 
 operating which determine the result or con- 
 sequence of every Thought, every impulse, 
 every act and of all that we do, and that 
 these Laws are universal, governing and op- 
 erating in every sphere of life that we live 
 H 
 
210 Laws Governing 
 
 and move, and have our being and that every- 
 thing exists, in accordance with Law 
 
 While all recognize the existence and op- 
 eration of Laws in certain spheres, the uni- 
 versality of Law and its unerring applica- 
 tion to everything in the universe and to the 
 detail and entirety of all Life-expression is 
 not, by any means recognized or understood 
 as it should be, but as we. come tc realize 
 this great truth and understand what is in- 
 volved therein, we will come to realize and 
 appreciate the necessity of an intelligent un- 
 derstanding of the Laws which dominate our 
 whole existence and by which we are gov- 
 erned, so that we may place ourselves in 
 harmony with them and know how we may 
 use or operate them. 
 
 This is a vital point and one that should 
 receive the closest attention. We must real- 
 ize that Law is inexorable as well as positive 
 in its demands, that the product of a 
 Thought, of Suggestion, or of the Impres- 
 sion made upon the Subconscious mind must 
 and will be determined by existing Laws. 
 
in Evety Sphere. 211 
 
 Through violation of Law we suffer, 
 through compliance with it we profit, but 
 there is another phase which intimately con- 
 cerns us in our Life-expression which I will, 
 for want of a better term, designate as the 
 Law of Compensation. In Thinking, we 
 violate no Law, but the Law of Compensa- 
 tion says that I shall receive as I give. If I 
 send out Thoughts of envy, jealousy, malice, 
 hatred or discouragement, or if I hold 
 Thoughts of health, hope, success, love, hap- 
 piness and good- will to all, I shall get the 
 same in return. 
 
 Everything which exists, every result ob- 
 tained in any way whatever is the conse- 
 quence of the operation or workings of fixed 
 Laws. In the degree in which we recognize 
 this fact and understand the character and 
 nature of the Laws under which we live, will 
 we be able to act intelligently in regulating 
 our lives and in determining what shall come 
 to us with more defmiteness and precision. 
 We will see that when we wish to produce 
 some given result, that it can be attained 
 
212 Laws Governing 
 
 only through the operation of certain Laws 
 and the better we understand the Laws by 
 which we are governed, the more sure we can 
 be of the desired results. 
 
 The one great and supreme fact of the 
 universe is God, who is the creator and sus- 
 tainer of all. But God works through Laws 
 which He has established and He expects us 
 to recognize the existence of these Laws and 
 place ourselves in harmony with them. 
 Compliance with Law means infinite good 
 to us, while violation brings us suffering and 
 disappointment. The secret of intelligent 
 living involves a knowledge of God and an 
 understanding of His Laws, and a knowl- 
 edge of His Laws involves a knowledge of 
 all that enters into Life the things which 
 we have been considering in previous chap- 
 ters. 
 
 We must remember that all Laws are op- 
 erative whether we recognize them or not 
 and that it is through ignorance or wilful- 
 ness that we reap undesirable results, while 
 a knowledge and right understanding of 
 
in Every Sphere. 213 
 
 these Laws enables us to live and act in har- 
 mony with them and govern in their appli- 
 cation to all that concerns us. 
 
 When we understand that what we are, 
 what we do and what we shall become, as 
 well as our health, happiness and our suc- 
 cess are all the result or consequence of the 
 operation of certain Laws, and that all Law 
 is positive and imperative in its action, we 
 will then see that in order to achieve any 
 purpose or bring about any particular result 
 or condition, we must place ourselves in a 
 right relation to the governing Laws, we 
 must live and work in harmony with them 
 and utilize their operations in attaining our 
 objects. We cannot change existing Law nor 
 avoid the consequences of its violation, but 
 we can change our own circumstances and 
 conditions through employing it in the pro- 
 per way. 
 
 The transmission of Thought, its power 
 of Attraction, the influence of Mind over 
 Body, Suggestion, the Impressions made 
 upon the Subconscious mind, together with 
 
214 Laws Governing 
 
 all its activities are governed by the exact 
 workings of Laws. As we grasp and realize 
 this fact, we will come to see that it is only 
 through a knowledge and understanding of 
 these Laws that we can intelligently use or 
 apply them in consciously shaping our lives, 
 in determining what shall come to u? and in 
 controlling all Life-expression. 
 
 Let it be remembered that he who under- 
 stands the nature and workings of the Laws 
 which control his existence and intelligently 
 employs them in the working out of the 
 problem of Life will assuredly obtain the 
 most satisfactory results, if he will place 
 himself in harmony with them and persist 
 in his purpose. There is no question as to 
 this. 
 
 The more you understand the Laws gov- 
 erning the activities of the Subconscious 
 mind, the more effectively will you be able 
 to control and direct them in the right direc- 
 tion. You will then understand how you can 
 control the character of the impressions up- 
 on which it acts, whether thev be conscious 
 
in Every Sphere. 215 
 
 or unconscious Impressions. The better you 
 understand the Law of Suggestion, the more 
 effectively will you be able to apply it to 
 yourself and to others. Knowledge is Power. 
 
 Laws are constantly operative which gov- 
 ern us in every phase and condition of life 
 and in the degree in which we understand 
 the way in which they operate and intelli- 
 gently use them in our efforts to bring about 
 desired results will we be able to consciously 
 and rightly govern and control our circum- 
 stances, environment, health, happiness and 
 success. , 
 
 We cannot violate a Law with impunity. 
 We must pay the penalty. Sickness and dis- 
 ease is the result of the violation of Law, 
 and health is the natural consequence of 
 compliance with it. 
 
 Happiness, success and the attainment of 
 all good; reverses, failures, disappointment, 
 unhappiness and misery are the result of the 
 direct compliance with, or violation of Law, 
 or the consequences of the operation of the 
 Law of Compensation, and by our own 
 
216 Laws Governing in Every Sphere. 
 
 choice we determine just what shall be. The 
 more fully we recognize and understand the 
 existence and operation of these universal 
 Laws, the more clearly will we see how it is 
 that in one way or another we are actually 
 determining, every moment, what shall come 
 to us. 
 
 To comply with Law or place ourselves in 
 harmony with it, we must have a knowledge 
 and understanding of its nature and opera- 
 tion. To make an intelligent application of 
 the "Science and Philosophy of Life" we 
 must understand and act in compliance with 
 the Laws governing it. 
 
The 
 
 Secret 
 
 Of 
 
 True 
 
 Attainment. 
 
CHAPTEE XVIII. 
 
 To the one who is earnestly striving for 
 the development of his own latent forces and 
 powers and to the attainment of higher 
 Ideals, I know of no two words of greater 
 significance than that of "Kealization" and 
 "Doing." 
 
 We all have an intellectual perception of 
 knowledge and Truth which is beyond our 
 actual realization. In a way, we see and 
 discern the manifestations and operation of 
 these Laws and Forces which we have been 
 considering, and believe them, but we fail 
 in that vital realization of their real import 
 and application which would invest them 
 with their greatest degree of power for us. 
 You, my reader, will say that you realize the 
 force and truth of what I am saying, but 
 do you? 
 
 We are so prone to a mental perception of 
 Truth which is lacking in realization, that I 
 
 219 
 
220 The Secret of 
 
 would press this point upon you. A Truth, 
 a Law, a Principle becomes powerful and of 
 value to us according to the degree of its 
 realization in the Soul. Every day you will 
 prove the truth of this, as I have done, if 
 you are observing. 
 
 With the vital Realization of a thing 
 comes power. It then takes a more definite 
 and positive form and becomes a Reality. To 
 illustrate : When we come to actuallv realize 
 that Thought is a tremendous force and 
 power, and that a Thought or desire firmly 
 held with persistence is bound to attract 
 that which is in correspondence with it, we 
 stand in awe before the vast possibilities 
 which are opened before us. But it is only 
 through Realization that these wonderful 
 possibilities are brought home to us. A men- 
 tal perception must exist first, but it is 
 through acting upon these perceptions of the 
 mind through the doing, that the Realiza- 
 tion and Potency of any Truth, Law or 
 Principle becomes a power to us. 
 
 Remember mark it well, it is only 
 
True Attainment. 221 
 
 through Doing or Demonstration that vital 
 Realization comes. We know through Do- 
 ing, then Knowledge becomes Power and 
 brings Realization with it in the degree in 
 which we are observing and follow each 
 proposition out to its conclusion and appli- 
 cation. 
 
 So often has the question been asked me, 
 "Where is the beginning and what is the 
 proper course to pursue to develop myself 
 and reach to higher Attainments ?" that it is 
 my desire to make this as plain as possible. 
 It is interesting, and at the same time pain- 
 ful as well, to note the various methods em- 
 ployed to attain this end. There are numer- 
 ous "courses" of instructions offered ut 
 prices varying from $5.00 to $100, which 
 the reader is assured will bring about the 
 desired development, and the methods advo- 
 cated are many. The mistake commonly 
 made is in employing methods which are, in 
 a sense, mechanical and which do not touch 
 the foundation principles. Thousands are 
 earnestly seeking light which will enable 
 
222 The Secret of 
 
 them to live more intelligently. They read 
 and study and yei feel that they are making 
 but little progress that there is something 
 lacking. 
 
 There are two things which interfere with 
 and hinder the true Attainment and Devel- 
 ment of the many. The first is the absence 
 of a definite idea as to what constitutes true 
 Development, and the second is that ever- 
 present desire and fascination for the "mys- 
 terious" stronge^ in some than in others 
 which leads them to seek the demonstrations 
 of Psychic Power in its various phases. 
 Now, while this is all right in its way and 
 place, it does not constitute true Develop- 
 ment or Attainment and neither are these 
 powers essential to it. Many possess them 
 with little or no real mental or Spiritual de- 
 velopment, but the one who reaches a true 
 Attainment will come into the possession or 
 development of all of these powers he can 
 wisely use, or which are needful to him. ' 
 
 True Attainment and real Development 
 consists in an intelligent knowledge and un- 
 
True Attainment. 223 
 
 derstanding of the Laws, Principles and 
 Conditions upon which life-expression is 
 founded, in understanding the way in which 
 ive are governed and controlled in it, and in 
 knowing how we can consciously and intelli- 
 gently shape life for ourselves and control 
 our own circumstances, conditions and en- 
 vironment our destiny,, here and hereafter. 
 
 He who realizes that Life is no mere past- 
 time, but a vital and serious problem will 
 demand something practical,, something that 
 he can absorb and assimilate into his life. 
 He wants to know how he can come into a 
 more complete control and command of his 
 own powers and best utilize them in his life- 
 expression. Such will not be satisfied with 
 mere theories, no matter how pleasing they 
 may be. He wants something which can be 
 proven, demonstrated and brought into 
 daily practical use something which will 
 better his condition. 
 
 If you have carefully read and studied the 
 foregoing pages, you will have formed some 
 idea of the starting point in right living, as 
 
224 The Secret of 
 
 well as of the development of your own 
 forces and powers. These are the underly- 
 ing principles of all Life-expression, yet 
 even they are but collaterals the effect of 
 a still more potential cause, when true Spir- 
 itual Attainment is considered, and if we 
 would base our growth and development up- 
 on a foundation which is unassailable, sure 
 and firm, we must go still back of these. 
 
 All that we have been studying, all At- 
 tainment, all Development and substantial 
 progress can be summed up in two words 
 Wisdom and Understanding. There are no 
 two words which involve more for the good 
 of humanity than these. 
 
 If you are really desirous of a higher and 
 truer Attainment, kindly take your Bible 
 and turn to Proverbs, IIT, 13 to 26, but es- 
 pecially verses 13 to 19. A careful study of 
 these few verses will disclose the fact that 
 in the acquirement of Wisdom and Under- 
 standing, everything else is included. In 
 her hands are Length of Days, Riches and 
 Honor, Health and Happiness: The Mer- 
 
True Attainment. 225 
 
 chandise of it is better than the merchan- 
 dise of Silver, and the Gain thereof better 
 than fine gold. She is more Precious than 
 rubies, and all things thou canst desire are 
 not to be compared with her. Her Ways are 
 Ways of Pleasantness and all her Paths are 
 Peace. The Lord by wisdom hath founded 
 the earth, and by Understanding, He estab- 
 lished the Heavens. Truly, Happy is the 
 man that findeth Wisdom and the man that 
 getteth Understanding 
 
 Ponder over the foregoing paragraph my 
 reader, and see if you do not discover for 
 yourself a new Principle or starting-point in 
 life. A vital realization of what is involved 
 in this would cause many to cease their mad 
 rush hither and thither after all sorts of 
 Psychic phenomena, their inordinate desire 
 for communication with "departed spirits" 
 and their quest after "power," "Psychic Vi- 
 brations" and various will-o'-the-wisps. 
 They would discover that these things are of 
 minor importance and that there is but little 
 in them which will admit of practical use- 
 
 15 
 
226 The Secret of 
 
 fulness or application in real Attainment 
 and Development. Psychic power has its 
 place and value, but it should never, simply 
 for its own sake, be made an object. You 
 will grow into it and will possess all that is 
 needful for you through the process of true 
 development, and it will come natural and 
 without forcing. 
 
 One of the first steps towards real and 
 substantial Attainment, is the understand- 
 ing and Kealization, and the practical appli- 
 cation of the great fact that Life-expression 
 is the product of our Thoughts and that 
 through right Thinking we can change our 
 circumstances, conditions and environment, 
 our failures, our unhappiness and ill-health 
 to a great extent, if not entirely, at will. All 
 acts and all Attainment spring from 
 Thought, hence the necessity of attending 
 first of all to this, one of the fundamental 
 factors in the phenomena of life. 
 
 A little reflection will show us clearly that 
 the quality of our Purpose, our Thought and 
 our Desire, our Success in all our undertak- 
 
True Attainment. 227 
 
 ings, and our true Development and Attain- 
 ment in any and all directions, are all de- 
 pendent upon the degree of Wisdom and Un- 
 derstanding which we possess. This is the 
 foundation upon which we must build, for 
 no other will stand the crucial test nor can 
 we in any other way attain to the highest de- 
 velopment of the best that is within us. 
 
 In our acts, and in all that we do, every- 
 thing depends upon the Wisdom and Under- 
 standing which we possess. Everything de- 
 pends upon what we know, as we act, meas- 
 ure and judge everything from the vantage 
 ground of our Understanding. 
 
 As all growth is by degrees, so is Attain- 
 ment. We unfold, as it were, little by little, 
 just as the full-blown rose comes from the 
 green bud, breaking apart sheath after 
 sheath until it can express its full beauty 
 and fragrance, so it is in our Attainment 
 and Development: we unfold and the inner 
 life expands into expression by degrees, in 
 order that we may more fully comprehend 
 and understand every step of the way. 
 
228 The Secret of True Attainment. 
 
 The real secret of true Attainment may 
 be stated in a very few words. It lies in the 
 acquirement of Wisdom and Understanding 
 and in their application. We must not only 
 Know, but we must Do and in the Doing we 
 shall always Know the more. 
 
A- 
 Little 
 Friendly 
 Talk. 
 
CHAPTER XIX. 
 
 Do you, my reader, my friend, Eealize 
 that Life is just what you make it ? Do you 
 begin to realize your own responsibility in 
 shaping, not alone your own life, but that of 
 others as well? Do you realize the wonder- 
 ful power the wonderful resources which 
 are at your command if you will but reach 
 out and take them? Do you realize that 
 you can be what you will to be? that you 
 can determine what shall come to you ? 
 
 Think not that these things are mere fan- 
 cies or theories. Do not cast then aside with 
 a passing Thought, but open yourself to 
 them, absorb them, live them and you will 
 soon realize their potency and power. Open 
 yourself to the light of Truth and allow it to 
 shine in upon v<- ur own Soul. 
 
 In what I have written, I have in the 
 main, drawn from my own experience and 
 have given you facts which I have demon- 
 
 231 
 
232 A Little 
 
 strated and proven, but I feel that my words 
 are inadequate to convey the depth of mean- 
 ing underlying the Principles and Truths 
 which I have stated. I wish it were within 
 my power in some way to impress upon you 
 the Vital Reality as well as the great im- 
 portance of these things and help you to 
 shape your life more intelligently, to attain 
 to a higher Spiritual Development, to great- 
 er Success and greater Happiness. I wish 
 I could in some way imbue you with the 
 same deep sense of Realization that has come 
 to me in writing these pages. 
 
 But all growth and development is by de- 
 grees and we must be prepared for a Truth 
 before we can receive it. If a Truth is pre- 
 sented to us before we are prepared for it, 
 we do not see it. How often have you read 
 a paragraph in a book without having your 
 attention especially attracted to it, but on 
 re-reading it another time have discovered a 
 Truth or meaning which appealed strongly 
 to you ! This is true of all. Our eyes are 
 "holden" until we grow up to, or are pre- 
 
Friendly Talk. 233 
 
 pared for a Truth, then we can See, Eealize 
 and Appropriate it for ourselves. 
 
 Each time you go over these propositions 
 you will get more light and will perceive 
 things whjch at first may not have been clear 
 to you. The scope of your mental perception 
 is broadening and the understanding or Re- 
 alization of one point or Truth, helps you 
 to see and understand another. 
 
 I have endeavored to make all as clear as 
 possible without going into details. You 
 will not find everything "spelled out," but 
 to the contrary brevity has been the rule and 
 it is for yon to study and follow each propo- 
 sition out to its conclusion yourself. In this 
 way you will derive the greatest help. Do 
 not allow others to do your Thinking for 
 you. Do not accept a thing simply because 
 I have said it, buc "try" it, reason it out, 
 apply it, prove and investigate all things for 
 yourself. 
 
 Many people are Mentally Lazy. They 
 find it much easier, and less of an 
 effort to allow others to do their 
 
234 A Little 
 
 Thinking for them than to arouse their 
 own dormant faculties and do the work 
 themselves, but it is always the Thinker, the 
 Reasoner, the Investigator who penetrates 
 the true "inwardness" of things and reaps 
 the richest results, therefore resolve to start 
 in now and Think and Act for yourself and 
 in thus ddng, direct the current of your life 
 yourself, instead of allowing others to do it 
 for you. 
 
 Be observing. !N"ote the occurrences of 
 each day, analyze them, reason from cause to 
 effect and from effect to cause and you will 
 find constant demonstrations of the Laws 
 and Principles which I have been trying to 
 make clear to you. 
 
 Remember, real Attainment and Develop- 
 ment comes through the acquirement of Wis- 
 dom and Understanding. Do not be misled 
 into seeking the development of "Psychic 
 power" bui occupy yourself first of all with 
 that which will establish you on a firm foun- 
 dation and enable you to govern and control 
 your own life the practical things, and you 
 
Friendly Talk. 235 
 
 will find your advancement more substantial 
 and at the same time rapid. You can do 
 any thing that another can if you know what 
 he knows, therefore you see that real Attain- 
 ment lies in the acquirement of Wisdom and 
 Understanding. 
 
 Do not be concerned about what others 
 are doing so much as in doing yourself. You 
 must stand upon your own foundation, 
 which you must build, for in the degree in 
 which you lean upon another, in that degree 
 are you weak. Develop your own forces and 
 powers, learn how to use them to the best 
 advantage, stand at the helm be master of 
 the situation. 
 
 You can attract to yourself all that is 
 beautiful, noble and true if you set yourself 
 about it. You can draw to yourself Love 
 and good-will from all, but you do this by 
 first assuming that mental attitude yourself, 
 for remember, you receive the same as you 
 send like attracts like. If you want others 
 to Love you, love them. If you wish others 
 to see good in yourself, see good in them. 
 
236 A Little 
 
 There is good in everyone, if you can get to 
 it, but sometimes it requires patient and 
 persistent effort to bring it to the front. 
 
 To make life beautii'ul, you must culti- 
 vate the garden of your own Soul. Grow 
 there all the beautiful things you can think 
 of, and you will soon find Thought express- 
 ing itself in action and attracting to itself 
 that which is in harmony and correspond- 
 ence with it. Bear in mind that the exter- 
 nal is but the expression of that which is 
 within and the face is a true index to the 
 heart, if you can read. 
 
 We must begin with ourselves if we 
 would beautify our lives and make them pro- 
 ductive of good. Don't commence apply- 
 ing these things to others the first thing, 
 but let others alone for the time being. Ap- 
 ply the workings of these Laws and Prin- 
 ciples to yourself to your own life, and you 
 will find that as you develop strength of 
 character and a positive attitude, you will 
 be influencing others to a surprising degree. 
 The very Thoughts and Principles you live 
 
Friendly Talk. 237 
 
 will affect and influence them and you will 
 find yourself doing good without knowing it. 
 
 But do good for its own sake just for the 
 sake of doing good and not that you may 
 receive recognition. It is true that we re- 
 ceive as we give but this should not be our 
 motive of action. It is "more blessed to give 
 than to receive" and in doing good we re- 
 ceive good ourselves, though not of neces- 
 sity from those whom we have served. Act 
 from Principle and maintain the conscious- 
 ness of right doing, unobserved and un- 
 known. 
 
 In no way can we do more to make life 
 beautiful, noble and pure in no way can we 
 contribute more to a truly Successful life, 
 than through the development of the higher 
 faculties and attributes of the Soul. All of 
 the good in Life-expression comes through 
 this source and in the degree in which we 
 cultivate these higher tnd more transcend- 
 ent powers and attributes of the Spiritual 
 man and allow them to expand, do we ex- 
 press in our lives the highest ideals and come 
 
238 A Little 
 
 to discern more clearly the promptings of 
 that voice within intuition. 
 
 Have an object a purpose before you 
 which is worthy of your greatest and best 
 efforts. Here is where many fail. While 
 possessing ambition in a degree, but having 
 no definite purpose or fixed object in view, 
 they are to a greater or less extent drifting 
 with the tide with a feeling of helplessness. 
 A definite object or purpose in life is a ne- 
 cessity and is a wonderful incentive to Do, 
 and especially is this so when reinforced by 
 that Wisdom and Knowledge which enables 
 us to realize that we can Do that which we 
 really desire to do, for be it remembered, the 
 desire would not be there unless there were 
 also the ability to perform. 
 
 If you are one who has been in any meas- 
 ure "drifting/' without a center, purpose or 
 object before you, call a halt now, take a 
 candid and just inventory of your resources, 
 measure your own abilities, your tastes, de- 
 sires and ambitions, learn what would har- 
 monize with your nature, what would be 
 
Friendly Talk. 239 
 
 congenial to you and what would enlist all 
 your energies and enthusiasm, and then ap- 
 ply yourself in that direction. Thousands 
 of men go through life out of place simply 
 because they do not study their natural 
 adaptabilities, drifting into anything that 
 presents an opening and never really succes- 
 ful. Study yourself well and do not jump 
 to any hasty conclusions, be deliberate as 
 well as candid with yourself, and when you 
 have fixed your purpose and determined 
 what you wish to do, hold to that purpose 
 with that dogged and steadfast persistency 
 which knows no such thing as fail, knowing 
 that you can Do that which you will to Do,* 
 and you will shortly find yourself possessed 
 of a growing confidence in your own ability 
 and will see things changing and shaping 
 themselves in correspondence with your 
 Thoughts, your Desires and your Purposes. 
 But do not allow seeming failure to dis- 
 courage you. Difficulties and trying circum- 
 stances meet us to be overcome and they not 
 only serve to develop, our greater strength, 
 
240 A Little 
 
 but they afford us the opportunity of prov- 
 ing our power t:ver them and of demonstrat- 
 ing the fact that we can Burmount any ob- 
 stacle or difficulty which comes to us, in one 
 way or another. This >s true. It is no mere 
 theory. You don't know what you can Do, 
 or what you are capable of, until you try and 
 if you never try you will never know. Re- 
 member, the only way to do a thing is to be- 
 gin and Do it. 
 
 I have had the pleasure of treating a 
 young mar. of twenty-five for mental and 
 moral defects in his character who could 
 t only say "I cant." This was the one thought 
 of his life He constantly affirmed that he 
 could not do anything, that he never had 
 amounted to anything and that he was sure 
 that he never could accomplish anything or 
 make a man of himself. He was completely 
 discouraged and as devoid of apparent possi- 
 bilities as any one can bo and live, and in- 
 deed he confessed that he had been tempted 
 to throw himself into the sea more than once. 
 He could not apply himself to anything and 
 
Friendly Talk. 241 
 
 he never was known to stick to a thing and 
 finish it In everything he undertook, his 
 hands would fall to his side and he would 
 say "1 cam." 
 
 A prominent Clergyman who brought him 
 to me for treatment remarked that in all his 
 experience, he had never met with such an 
 extreme case of mental degeneracy. At the 
 end of two weeks treatment, the young man 
 informed me with all the confidence and as- 
 surance in the world that he was "all right" 
 and could "stand alone/' He said, "before, 
 I thought I could not rlo anything, but now 
 I know that I can, because I have done it." 
 He knows that he can do what he wills to do, 
 and he is demonstrating this every day. He 
 knows that the same force, energy and de- 
 termination which enabled him to do the 
 things he has done, will enable him to do 
 others. He is now full of energy and ambi- 
 tion and is thoroughly self-reliant. He re- 
 spects himself and is therefore commanding 
 the confidence and respect of others. He is 
 
242 A Little 
 
 making a man of himself and will succeed 
 even beyond his present expectations. 
 
 This extreme case simply demonstrates 
 the fact that through Learning and Doing, 
 you can accomplish anything which you will 
 to do, providing it is within the range of 
 your intelligence or ability, for remember, 
 the only limitations placed upon you are the 
 limitations of your Knowledge and Faith. 
 You cannot really "will" to do that which 
 is beyond what is possible to you. 
 
 It is for you to say what your life shall be. 
 It is for you to say whether you shall be a 
 success or a failure, whether or not you will 
 go along with the great mass of humanity 
 who are eking out an existence, with but 
 little ambition for higher achievements, in 
 ignorance of the forces and power which is 
 lying dormant within them, and who think 
 they cannot do anything but what they are 
 doing. You can climb the ladder of Attain- 
 ment as high as you will, if you but begm 
 and Do. 
 
 Draw the line on the past now and deter- 
 
Friendly Talk. 243 
 
 mine that you will live to higher Ideals to 
 the best that is within you, with a definite 
 and fixed purpose which you are determined 
 to accomplish. Study well to understand 
 the Science and Philosophy of true living 
 and then apply it in the working out of your 
 own ideals and you will succeed in the de- 
 gree in which you Learn, Know and Do. 
 
 "When shall we win? 
 
 Why, when we fire 
 Straight to the mark and never tire ; 
 When we hold fast, as we've begun, 
 And still work on till all is done." 
 
Parting. 
 
And now, again, I grasp your hand in 
 parting and leave you with my very best 
 wishes for your highest attainment in the 
 development of the best that is in you and 
 for a fuller and deeper Eealization of the 
 grandeur of Life as it is expressed through 
 the transcendent faculties of the Soul, and 
 if the sincere wish of my heart is granted, 
 the fruits of my small eiforts will be made 
 manifest, not alone in the life which we 
 must live here, but in that never-ending 
 Eternity of life where all is holiness, love, 
 happiness, harmony and joy. 
 
 My sole aim and desire has been to help 
 you to a better understanding of the great 
 underlying principles of life which would 
 enable you to live more intelligently and 
 make your life more beautiful, more noble 
 
and more successful in the highest sense of 
 the word, and the degree in which I am suc- 
 cessful in this will measure the degree of 
 the satisfaction ai>d compensation I shall 
 derive from my work. 
 
 If you are one who has attained to a 
 greater Wisdom, Knowledge and Under- 
 standing than I, and need no help which I 
 can give, then accept my very best wishes 
 and God-speed for your still further ad- 
 vancement, with the earnestness and sincer- 
 ity with which they are given. 
 
 If, however, you have found Life's path- 
 way rugged and rough thus far, you have 
 had my companionship, and it is my desire 
 to help you in the same way in which I have 
 helped myself. I know what difficulties and 
 obstacles are, I know what it is to stumble 
 and fall, though I do not know what it is to 
 stay down, but I also know what it is to 
 overcome difficulties and conquer obstacles, 
 I know what it is to turn apparent defeat 
 into victory, and failure into success. 
 
 I have spoken from my Soul. I have writ- 
 ten what I have demonstrated and proved, 
 
and the background of my own life and ex- 
 periences has formed the canvas upon which 
 the picture has been painted and it is pre- 
 sented to you with the hope that it will not 
 merely amuse or entertain you, but rather 
 lead you to a higher conception of life, with 
 its grand possibilities and stimulate you to 
 higher ideals and to the grandest Attain- 
 ment and Development which is possible to 
 man. 
 
 While writing, I have felt that I was in 
 company with my reader, and it is with re- 
 luctance that I now realize that we must 
 part, but it may be but for a little time We 
 shall meet again. 
 
 (OVER) 
 
Special 
 
 Announcement 
 
 To 
 
 The 
 
 Reader 
 
 Of 
 
 This 
 
 Book. 
 
To MY READER : 
 
 With the view of keeping in touch with 
 you, my reader, and of helping, as best as 
 I can, the many who are seeking knowledge 
 to a clearer understanding of the subjects 
 which we have been considering, through 
 timely articles and answering questions, I 
 shall shortly commence the publication of 
 the Magazine "Thoughts, New and Old/' 
 which will be issued periodically probably 
 quarterly for the present, and free. 
 
 It is my desire to make this Magazine 
 practical and helpful to all and as far as lies? 
 within my power, to spread these living 
 truths among those who are as yet strangers 
 to them, and to this end, I ask your co-oper- 
 ation in sending me the addresses of such as 
 you think will be benefitted by it. Such 
 subjects will be taken up from time to time 
 as having a bearing upon life as we all have 
 to meet it, the development of our higher 
 faculties, our health, happiness, success, etc. 
 
Questions which are relevant will be an- 
 swered as far as is practicable and within 
 'the limits of the space at my command, and 
 if I can be of further help to you, I shall 
 be glad to hear from you. 
 
 It is my desire to help those who need it 
 and I will gladly send the Magazine to every 
 reader of this book, and to those who are 
 sufficiently interested in these subjects to de- 
 sire it, but as this is purely a labor of love, 
 and I do not wish to send it to those who are 
 indifferent, I will ask you to kindly advise 
 me if you wish it, writing your name and 
 address plainly, and I will gladly send it tc 
 you. 
 
 Remember, there is no charge for this 
 whatever it is yours for the asking, in ex- 
 change for your appreciation, and I shall be 
 pleased to send it to you if you wish it. 
 
 Cordially yours, 
 
 EDWARD H. COWLES, 
 
 Palermo, 
 August ist 1903. Butte Co., Calif. 
 
PERFECT UNION. 
 
 As tiny raindrops meet and coalesce. 
 
 And each forgets itB own identity 
 
 In thinking of its happy destiny, 
 The other's tender presence to possess ; 
 So souls may meet, and in their gentleness, 
 
 And love forget the I and My and Me, 
 
 In thinking of the Thou and Thy and Thee. 
 
 And as the drops together onward flow, 
 To slip at last into the shining sea ; 
 So these two, heart to heart, may onward go 
 
 Into the ocean of eternity. 
 One with each other here in truth and love, 
 One with each other, one with God above. 
 
 ISABEL RICHKY. 
 
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