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Pref, 
 
 ace 
 
 These addresses were well received. THey were care- 
 fully prepared. They contain thoughts to which I 
 desire to give a wider circulation. I believe them 
 an important incentive to the unfolding human 
 Consciousness and Conscience. 
 
 I have the faith that all the members of the Federa- 
 tion who so kindly elected me its President, and 
 New Thought people generally, will be glad to see 
 them in this form. 
 
 As an evidence of the Love I bear to, and the appre- 
 ciation I have for, the Federation and the Principle 
 for which it stands, and because of the importance 
 which I think it has in the development of the race, 
 I dedicate to it this little volume. 
 Future years will show the great good that this body 
 of men and women, who meet in Love and Truth to 
 inspire, encourage and assist each other, are doing. 
 The New Thought is the one movement for which 
 all past movements have been. It is doing much by 
 the mere Suggestion of its existence, but still greater 
 is the good it is unconsciously doing by the most 
 potent power of the Thought it radiate^ and the 
 Love which inspires its Thought. 
 Trusting the All-Good to make these addresses im- 
 portant factors in swelling the ^^Call" and in hasten- 
 ing the ^^Emancipation," I add them lovingly to the 
 great trend of public sentiment that is now so in- 
 creasing that its argosies of Thought fill every sea 
 of literature, bearing treasures richer than the silks 
 of the Orient or the pearls of India. 
 In Truth and Love I desire this Emancipation for 
 you all. Henry Harrison Brown. 
 
As Mr Brown was on a tour when this book was 
 printedt and as he was unable to correct the proof, 
 before gfoing: to press, se^ngr^ typographical errors 
 crept in* J? A^,.,^ (^.^-v^c^O^ *^^ Cca^ 9 
 
 1 
 
The Call of the Twentieth Century 
 
 Delivered at New Thought Conveixtion in 
 St. Louis, Odlober 26, 1904. 
 
 In the Evolution of Life each century has left some 
 distinctive mark upon the race. The student as 
 easily realizes epochs in human history as he does 
 in the geological life of the earth. These epochs be- 
 gin in twilight and overlap each other. I can now 
 simply note the gift of the nineteenth century to 
 the twentieth. That century was the culmination 
 of an era begun in previous ones. Its great contrib- 
 ution was first the complete verifying and accept- 
 ance of "The Law of the Correlation and Conserva- 
 tion of Force." All energy is one. It can neither 
 be created nor destroyed, be neither BScreased nor 
 diminished. This Energy may change its form but 
 is itself eternal. In the latter half of the century 
 was enunciated the now almost universally ac- 
 cepted Principle of Evolution. The century was x)re- 
 eminently a philosophical and scientific one, and all 
 tendencies of these were toward materialism. Her- 
 bert Spencer was its highest product in these lines. 
 J>n him the philosophy of the past culminated. He 
 perceived Unity, but reasoned from duality. It was 
 with him, Energy and something unknowable. He 
 declares that he cannot think of Spirit in terms of 
 matter nor of Consciousness in terms of energy. Life 
 and Intelligence is something added to his Unity. 
 Thus while his philosophy is materialistic to the 
 mass, it is non-committal to himself. He represents 
 the fruit of the scientific and materialistic tenden- 
 
 160601 
 
6 THE CALL OF THE 
 
 cies of the nineteenth century. He is the last of a 
 long line, and distinguished line, that through the 
 study of objective phenomena have at last brought 
 the human mind to the understanding of Unity. 
 From this we have given us the Affirmation — All is 
 Mind. Spencer will have no successor, for out of 
 the old the New is born. The last student of Dual- 
 ity has given his voliime and closed the discussion. 
 The Xew Century calls for new men and new themes. 
 The First century of our «ffi^egan with the recog- 
 nition of Universal Life, as evolved in the Human 
 Soul to Love. "God is Love.'' "Love God and Love 
 your Brother." The NEW COMMANDMENT is 
 this : "That ye Love one another." Twenty centuries 
 are a brief period for the race to learn that Force 
 has yielded to Love; that Thor's hammer lies at the 
 foot of the Cross of Christ. But it is learned. Never 
 before was Love the ruling principle as even now 
 when the sounds of tremendous battles reverberate^ 
 across the Pacific and echoeck along our California 
 coast. They once took the echo — "Revenge;" now 
 they sing — "Arbitration and Peace." 
 In the Evolution of God's though^ from the Univer- 
 sal, the individual must belfrom the Absolute, the 
 Special; from the Unconscious, the Self-conscious. 
 Truth is the individualization of God. God is Love, 
 but Truth is Man. Each century has been and will 
 be religious. But Fear that "peoples the dark inane 
 with spertral lies" departs as Love penetrates the 
 systems man makes for his worship. Some of the 
 old terror js left us, its duality, the di-vese, the di- 
 vided,makOiid good and evil^remain to plague man- 
 kind. 
 
 But truth is a unit. False or true, is the decision 
 of Man concerning all propositions. Truth is the 
 Human expression of Unity. The Self-conscious 
 expression of God. Power evolves to Life, Life to 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURt 7 
 
 Emotion^ Love ^SjgiSt the out-motion from the Soul 
 center^ is still homeogeneous. Love is the same in 
 all individuals. Love evolves into Self-conscious 
 ness and Man says: I AM; IT IS. The Individual, 
 the Personal^ are the only possible Human expres- 
 sions. They come through God's method of evolu- 
 tion. Man comes "as a son of God/' to his own. 
 In the past Love and Truth have been divorced; 
 each had its organizations and votaries; the areas 
 of each have constaikihgjDeen encroaching; each has 
 been swallowing the omer. Religion has been lost 
 in a philosophy called theology, and science has been 
 struggling through philosophy to prove religion 
 non-existent. Love IS ; Truth IS ; but both are one. 
 Science has dealt with effects and religion with 
 cause, but Cause and Effect are inseparable. On 
 the threshold of the New century these two expres- 
 sions of Life are wed, no more to separate. It is 
 no longer Science and religion, philosophy and wor- 
 ship, physics and metaphysics, for there is no line 
 dividing God and man, cause and effect, love and 
 Truth. Coming generations will know only Unity, 
 and will name it God. Power, Life, Love, Truth* 
 and man w^ill say of these — I AM IT 
 
 The field_theology^a(J is p^ only /study of the fu- 
 ture ^g ^e^empfe^ U^Ian has studied the Effects of 
 God, and surmised the Cause; now he is to .^tudy 
 Cause, and know that all is God — Mind. 
 New Thought people are but a little ahead of the 
 specialists along the old thought of matter. But 
 the miss on their part is the difference between life 
 and death ; between time and eternity. Elmer Gates 
 and Dr. Anderson are pioneers, beckoning to the 
 great College forces to "Come up higher." The pres- 
 ident of the scientific Congress that met in this city, 
 said there was but one science greater than all those 
 they were discussing, namely, "mentology." God 
 
8 THE CALL OF THE 
 
 epitomizes himself in a Human Soul. When we 
 study Him there we know all. "Flower in the cran- 
 nied wall when I know you root and all, and all m 
 all, I shall know what God and Man is/' not be- 
 cause the flower tells me, but because I find in it 
 only that which I am, and which I carry to it. I 
 am ALL! "Know Thyself!'' is the command of Uni- 
 ty to the Individual Soul. 
 
 I am an Unfolding Soul. In that unfoldment I 
 have begun to know myself and I call that knowl- 
 edge "New Thought." New Thought is neither a sci- 
 ence nor a religion, for Priest of God, the New Cen- 
 tury, has wed the two and the One is named — Life. 
 I AM, means, I live, I love, I think. 
 New Thought is the recognition that All that was, 
 is, or shall be, is now, and is in the Human Soul. 
 Unity needs expression through the Conscious just 
 as there has been from all eternity, expression 
 through the Unconscious. The one command of God 
 to man is, LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE. The New 
 Thought is the shining through expression^ of^ "the 
 Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the 
 world." New Thought is "not a discussion, a spec- 
 ulation, a theprv. an hypothesis, it is demonstration 
 through livin^iKiie, of Truth. It is doing, and not 
 thinking; it is being and not seeming. "Doing the 
 will of the Father," and thus demonstrating that 
 we are indeed children of God. 
 
 New Thought is not the science nor the religion of 
 Life. It is the Conscious living above the limita- 
 tions of sense, and partaking of the eternal life here 
 and now. Man limitless, may live above the so- 
 called Laws of Nature, by becoming a LaAV unto 
 himself, and realize Emerson's wisest expression, 
 "Conscious Law, is King of Kings!" 
 The last step the school-men have to take, in this 
 welding of science . ^nd . religion, is the recognition of 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY 9 
 
 the Unity of the Universe. The nineteenth century 
 saw the Unity of Energy. Light, heat and electri- 
 city, are one. Spencer says he cannot think of the 
 Ultimate as Life. He cannot think of Life as some- 
 thing imported into the unit of protoplasm, and yet 
 he cannot think of it as coexistent with the atom. 
 His real foundation is The Universe plus something. 
 His dynamic element of life is the one essential of 
 Unity and he leaves that out. The Call of the twen- 
 tieth century is a Unity that is Unity. Life is to 
 be demonstrated as a form of Universal Energy. 
 Life must be demonstrated to be one in origin, es- 
 sence, and all its essentials, with electricity, heat, 
 gravity, chemical affinity, and whatever other form 
 of energy Man recognizes. In Him is all; as Life 
 He is all. 
 
 The remnant of the special creation theory is found 
 in the separation of Life, Love, and Thought, from 
 other forms of energy. Not till these are all one, 
 as God is one, will man find secure foundation for 
 eternal life. 
 
 Great as are the discovery of the Law of Conserva- 
 tion of Energy, and the principle of Evolution, a 
 still greater discovery was made at the close of the 
 last century, and was its greatest gift. A discov- 
 ery that marks the beginning of a new era, not the 
 era of electricity, but the era of Thought. That 
 Greatest discovery is expressed in three words — 
 Thought is Energy; Thought is Power. 
 Telepathy is a common fact. No longer is there or- 
 ganic, and inorganic; no longer matter a^ spirit; 
 no longer is there space and time; for Thought is 
 God manifest in Flesh, and to Him all these are 
 naught. Thought was made flesh and dwelt in man. 
 I have no less authority than Prof. Drummond for 
 translating Wor(^>;^_ ^n the beg in ning w as Thought 
 and thought was witFGod,'' »j»^ n eJoimV^rTTsperai 
 
10 THE CALL OF THE 
 
 jtlmiigbt) Read it thus, and see how it illuminates 
 Life. Man is materialized thought. 
 The century was born like Minerva, full grown, and 
 for the first time in the history of the human intel- 
 lect, the dual manifestations of human life find com- 
 mon ground. The Meditation of the Orient and the 
 scientific spirit of the Occident are one in a com- 
 mon Afiirmation — Thought is power. 
 The Twentieth century calls us to complete the work 
 begun by Jesus in the first. "I and my Father are 
 one/' is the Realization of Unity. It is the blend- 
 ing of Father and Child in conscious expression, as 
 from all eternity they have been one in unconscious 
 expression. We are called to the fulfillment of the 
 prophecy in an angePs song: "Peace on earth among 
 men of good will." "Come up higher," cries the Uni- 
 versal to the Individual. "Come up and through 
 Conscious Thought be master of disease and death." 
 The call is heard. Millions are responding. This 
 convention is a union of those who have heard. Nine- 
 teen centuries ago there was a meeting in a small 
 upper room. The Spirit was outpoured. Realiza- 
 tion was there ! From that meeting so insignificant 
 whence baptized and illumined ones called Chris- 
 tians, went forth, through the dual forces of Love 
 and Truth, earth has heard the name of Jesus ut- 
 tered by those who bless through love, and those 
 who bring ultimate blessing through the sword. 
 Twenty centuries God and Man have waited for the 
 present realization. This present meeting holds 
 the promise of fulfillment, and shall be to convey 
 ^^^^^^^^all that that early meeting has been to past gener- 
 -^'"''^ations. "The Savior that was to come," has come 
 and his name is Unity. 
 
 The new century looked upon the world of human- 
 ity just emerging from the swaddling clothes of du- 
 ality. Yes, in presence of this wonnerful Exposition 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY 11 
 
 I dare to proclaim, that Man ii\all this wonderful 
 manifestation of science and art is, yet in the long 
 clothes of babyhood. Thus far he has only been try- 
 ing to catch the sunbeams of that which is not him- 
 self. He is now just beginning to know himself as 
 power, and to realize that what God has done in 
 the universal, Man, his son, can do through special 
 creation. Man is not a special creation, but he is 
 a special creator. 
 
 Man toys today with good and evil, church and 
 school, science and religion, matter and spirit, sa- 
 cred and secular, God and man, life and death, at- 
 traction and repulsion, and a long catalogue of illu- 
 sions that, like the beliefs of children in fairies* and 
 brownies, are soon to be discarded. Then will the 
 manhood of the race come. It will see only good and 
 life and love and truth, and from these it will build 
 its own world on grander, more beautiful scale than 
 God without Man has done. We live in a world God 
 made, Man has been remaking it, and yet it shall 
 be a world that Man altogether controls, for God 
 who gave him at birth, dominion, will leave him to 
 enjoy tlw/world eternally which like his Father has 
 been created out of Thought. 
 
 I am — What? — All God is, or I could not be. What 
 he does as absolute creator, I am to do as special cre- 
 ator. What he is in Principle, I am to be in detail. 
 I am Spirit! I am divine! I am unfolding my divin- 
 ity. As fast as I unfold I become Man, because hu- 
 man. I Enfold all the past, I encompass all the fu- 
 ture, and all that can be, I am in possibility, and in 
 possession now. 
 
 I am all this because God is first of all Power, and 
 is in me as power. He is Omnipotent. Again, I 
 am Life for God is Life, and He is in me. I am wis- 
 dom, for God is wisdom and He is in me. God is 
 Love, and I am Love, for I am God manifest. I am 
 
12 THE CALL OF THE 
 
 Thought and Thought is the Omnipotence, the Life, 
 the Love of God, transformed into Human expres- 
 sion. As thought I am an Individual expression of 
 God and all God is behind my thought, that I, man, 
 express. 
 
 I LET Thought express itself, and Lo! cities spar- 
 ing and point their spires of faith to heaven. '^ I am 
 thought, and I impose upon external nature my 
 Thought, and call it natural law, and I work under 
 that law. 
 
 Because thought controls^ I send fine vibrations 
 through the space about me, wireless messages, by a 
 messenger I call electricity because I do not know 
 who he is, and I vainly think he is the same I call 
 Lightning, when he is only a relative of his, as the 
 C on the piano is a relative of G. 
 And science grows arrogant and makes the most 
 colossal assumption it was ever in man to make — 
 one that marks the downfall of all the cob houses 
 of speculation. That colossal assumption is: "All 
 is Electricity." Electricity is the last idol of civil- 
 ized man.*^ All is not electricity. But Electricity 
 is, like Thought, a manifestation of the One. Can 
 Electricity and Thought be correlated — transfused 
 into each other? I will not try to answer. Both 
 are One in the Universal Energy, and since Energy 
 is one, I believe that Man will convert his thought 
 into other forms at will, just as he is now able to 
 transform other modes of motion. We can change 
 a higher into a lower pitch or reduce the potential 
 of any power^so man may transmute his thought 
 into any form of vibration he may wish. I see no 
 reason, since I am All, why I may not from myself 
 radiate electricity from the dynamo of my Soul, 
 just as is done now from the Universal dynamo of 
 God. < 
 
 Telepathy grounds us in the consciousness that we 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY 13 
 
 are in reality but centers of energy, Intelligence, of 
 Love and of Truth in the One; that through us as 
 centers as much as we desire of the current of Infin- 
 ity may find conscious expression. This fact dis- 
 solves in Truth the scientific themes as Cleopatra's 
 pearl was dissolved in ancient wine. There is left 
 only "the One who inhabiteth eternity" expressing 
 Itself, as the Human Soul. I am as Conscious Law 
 that which I think I am, and since Thought is crea- 
 tive, I live in the world I think into existence. The 
 real world of imagination, the sub-conscious world 
 of Mind. 
 
 The wireless message of health passes from the 
 Human dynamo in St. Louis to the bed of pain in 
 the distant city, the Soul awakens to its knowledge 
 of self as Life, Power and Health. From this 
 thought Rich Health blooms where before was pain 
 and weakness. Mind is all, and Conscious mind is 
 director of that which is still in the Unconscious. 
 This is the most mighty perception of Truth man 
 has yet received: The Conscious directs the expres- 
 sion of the Unconscious. Conscious directs the God 
 in the Soul in its objective manifestation. From this 
 we know that the present wonders of electricity will 
 yet place before the more glorious materializations 
 of Mind as the candle of our fathers pales in the 
 electric glare. 
 
 Ideas are man's possessions. The wonders of yon- 
 der Exposition are but materialized Ideas through 
 Human brains and Human hands. Sun and star, 
 flower, bird and Man are but the materialization of 
 ideas in the Mind of God. Without hands God 
 wrought these marvels. As His son I have all the 
 Father possesses. Why should I not from myself 
 project to the objective the ideas which I am? 
 O sunj flying with attendant worlds, ye are but 
 thoughts of God manifest to human consciousness! 
 
14 THE CALL OF THE 
 
 O rock and tree, singing bird and blooming rose, ye 
 are but God's thought in time and space made mani- 
 fest. But greater than ye are the thoughts of God 
 in Man, for to him ye are subject, as clay to hand 
 of potter. He molds you to his will, but lo, still 
 greater are the marvels of mind. Thought is power ; 
 thought is creative; thought materializes to my de- 
 sire in flesh and blood. As God materializes his 
 thoughts, so will his son's ideas take shape and 
 form,i^s worlds and plants take shape from the One 
 Over-Soul. I have but to LET the God-in-me work 
 as it works outside me, to carry out my will, and a 
 world shall grow about me as under God's direct 
 thought this one grew for me. 
 
 The grand dreams of human imagination, ^'without 
 sound of hammer" or without tool or material save 
 the Omnipotent Substance, shall find objective 
 expression in more glorious cities than that in the 
 vision of John the revelator. 
 
 "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." Prin- 
 ciples are eternal. As God builds so I, his son, 
 build. I have but to know my power. The twen- 
 tieth century calls upon Man to Know himself as 
 the bodying forth of God, and to live, act and create 
 as God acts and creates, and thus to leave behind 
 him the animal and Windeed the God he is. Out of 
 the centaur the Human will be completely born when 
 the next century makes its call. Now it is a call to 
 Man to come forth and no longer as part beast 
 struggle with environment that belongs to brute, 
 but to cast off the swaddling clothes of creative 
 power and as Man rule in the world made for him 
 until he learns his power to build a better for him- 
 self. 
 
 Ideas are centers in the Absolute Energy. Like all 
 centers, they rotate till they condense Infinite Sub- 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY 15 
 
 stance, so as to be visible to objective vision. Ideas 
 control the world. They are the only world in which 
 men live. I am that which I think I am, because 
 I think in ideas, and the ideal controls my expres- 
 sion. Thus ideas take form. 
 
 Just as the astronomer tells what he sees, and rea- 
 sons therefrom, so I tell what I see, and state all 
 my deductions from facts. 
 
 One of "NOW Folk is the most remarkable tele- 
 pathist of whom J hav^ known. I hmi^ choii^ a 
 blank card from a lot of similar ones. A friend 
 made a private mark upon one side. I then held 
 it with the unmarked side before my friend and 
 asked him to see upon it the photograph of a cer- 
 tain person. At last he said, "I see him.'' He cre- 
 ated the picture there through concentration. The 
 card was then shuffled with twenty others, and the 
 pack was placed in his hand, with the request that 
 he pick out the photograph. He did so. He did u 
 many times. This card has been kept by stranger? 
 for months and then placed among others so like 
 itself that no one could distinguish it, and picked 
 out because he saw the face upon it. He mentally 
 photographed a picture upon a card, and this card 
 was shuffled with many othe^jand placed in t]ie 
 hands of another sensitive, aS3Sjfe found it without 
 difficulty. When asked to draw the outline of the 
 picture upon it with pencil, he traced exactly the 
 outline the first had photographed. 
 This demonstrates the permanency of thought-forms, 
 and shows that we have in our thought creative 
 power. This is the Franklin kite of Thought crea- 
 tion, and when the century closes we shall know 
 how to make these forms more distinctly material- 
 ized without the basis of so-called matter upon 
 which to build, or we shall so refine our bodies that 
 
16 THE CALL OF THE 
 
 they will be one with the more etherial forms of our 
 so-called imagination, but which are indeed the real 
 forms in the real Human life. 
 
 I have in these mind-created pictures a prophecy 
 of the coming man, who will see without eyes and 
 hear without ears and communicate without visible 
 means — the Man who has through belief begun to 
 live the Eternal Life here and now. 
 Already we reflect in body our mental pictures of 
 health or disease. The world is only our larger 
 body ; mastery of physical body leads to the mastery 
 of the larger body, termed environment. Where 
 shall I, a center in the One, stop? I am limitless. 
 "He that believeth shall be saved.'' All Affirmations 
 fall off the mind of an unbeliever as hailstones from 
 a battleship. We are either God's children or we 
 are not. If not, then I am limited. If we are, then 
 we are as limitless as God himself, and, no matter 
 what we sincerely desire, it is done by us, and unto 
 us, in the objective life by the life that has Its Being 
 in us. 
 
 I am a Thought, an Idea of God, and that Idea is 
 perfect even as my Father is perfect. I am subjec 
 tively perfect, and that perfection is unfolding itself 
 into objective expression. All eternity will be re- 
 quired for the expression of that perfection which I 
 am. I am an immortal child of God, and am NOW 
 living the one only life of man, that of Self Con- 
 sciousness, and I am coming each flay more into the 
 realization of myself as Love and Law. 
 Life from itself has builded in me an organism, 
 and has thus become aware of its Self -creative 
 power. If I can materalize flesh, the highest pos- 
 sible vibration in so-called matter, I can create any 
 of the lesser forms. I am the ultimate of Evolution, 
 for my body allows perfect expression of my 
 thought. As a Human Soul, through incarnation F 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY 17 
 
 am expressing daily my perception of God, and as 
 he creates in the sub-conscious my body and its 
 environment, I am learning, by seeing Him work, 
 how to become myself the creator of environment 
 at will. 
 
 Millions are today healed by thought. Assisted by 
 the thought of others, they are building bodies 1o 
 their ideal of health, and bringing environment into 
 their idea|^ of beauty and completeness. 
 Under the Law of Absolute creation I have uncon- 
 sciously builded my body. Now, under the Law of 
 Individual special creation, I have rebuilt to my 
 will. The call is still. "Come higher and become 
 conscious creator of environment^" jKot from wood 
 and stone is one to build, but from Myself, just as I 
 have builded my body from myself. Man has made 
 the wilderness to blossom by imitating the process 
 of his Father. Now, when I learn my powers, I have 
 but to speak the word and my servant is healed, 
 and the desert blooms. The waters flow and the 
 rose blossoms, not because man irrigates, but be- 
 cause Man thinks. No matter, O Man, what your 
 desires, think long enough, think strong enough, 
 think with faith enough, and the tree shall be 
 removed from its place and be planted at thy com- 
 mand, for "the Son of Man hath power on earth to 
 forgive sins" and to straighten out the crooked ways 
 of nature by the same Thought-force that mad'3 
 nature. 
 
 Since / am as I think I arriy I have heretofore lived 
 the slave of conditions and subject of environment 
 because God and I were two. But now, no longer 
 separated, the prodigal has arisen and come home 
 to the Father and in Unity found Power, and in this 
 realization has conquered disease and death, and, 
 chanting "I and my Father are one," he has taken 
 heaven by violence and, planting its Love and Trut'i 
 
18 THE CALL OF THE 
 
 upon earth, made all the promised heaven here and 
 now. 
 
 Thus the new Thought comes as the long sought and 
 promised Savior. He always was here. His name 
 iSj I Am ! Am what ? Whatever I think I am ! This 
 savior comes through Affirmation to redeem the 
 world. It comes to a materialized civilization to 
 spiritualize it! It comes to a cold and lifeless 
 church to bring the Living Christ. It comes to an 
 era of frenzied finance, to a money-mad people to 
 bring it sanity ! It comes to an industrial life that 
 grinds flesh and blood into bonds and stocks, with 
 the vitalizing power of Brotherhood, and bmc^ em- 
 ployer and employed, capital and labor, imQ one 
 common bond of Truth and Love. 
 It comes to selfish social conditions to harmonize 
 them, and to our home relations to purify them 
 through a love that has outgrown sex and left us 
 free from the lusts of the flesh and ushered in the 
 purity of the spirit. 
 
 The New Thought is new inasmuch as it is the first 
 time in Human history that Man, as his own and 
 present Savior, has proclaimed: I AM GOD MANI- 
 FEST, AND AS GOD I LIVE ! 
 He now Affirms: I am power! I am Truth! I am 
 Love ! I am creator ! I am the kingdom of Heaven ! 
 I am life! I am the immortal life and the Heaven, 
 Hell and Death I created with Matter, and all Evil 
 I now destroy, and I proclaim: I AM SPIRIT! I 
 live the kingdom of heaven here and now ! 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 I UNIVERSITY 
 
 OF 
 
 The New Emancipation 
 
 Address Delivered at the N«ay Thought 
 
 Convention, Nevada, Mo., 
 
 Sept. 26, 1905 
 
 "The Truth Shall Make You Free" 
 
 Liberty is a word of early origin. It was born in 
 that innate consciousness of power which demands 
 constantly a larger expression. That mental atti- 
 tude in which arise the words Liberty and Freedom 
 is Nature's patent right of Manhood. Till that 
 FEELING was born the animal had not evolved 
 into the human. To the degree that an individual 
 feels the need of larger liberty, to that degree only 
 is he MAN. Manhood and freedom are synonymous. 
 Since ideal freedom is not attained, it is evidenr that 
 though Man is on the way, he is not here. Man is 
 coming. When he arrives he will have sloughed off 
 the animal and will be free. Human history is but 
 the record of the unfolding of Man from the brute. 
 The centaur, the sphinx, the satyr and the faun are 
 the true symbols of humanity. Humanity has 
 emerged at present as far as the head from the ani- 
 mal. The instinct of freedom is the instinct of 
 Human birth. 
 
 The Indwelling Intelligence, the Indwelling Human- 
 ity, which is the Indwelling God, is through the tra- 
 vail of conditions, is through this birth, coming into 
 Manhood. Efforts toward Freedom are efforts of 
 Man to free himself from animal conditions. De- 
 mand for Liberty is the expression of the germinal 
 God. They only are free who themselves strike the 
 
20 THE CALL OF THE 
 
 blow. Only the growing of the tree causes the leaves 
 to fall off — pushed off from within. In like manner, 
 freedom comes from the unfolding of the inner life. 
 "I am an unfolding Soul/' is the Affirmation of 
 Freedom. Arbitrary attempts to free another result 
 only in another form of enslavement. Norway breaks 
 the link that holds her to Sweden only to enslave 
 herself to some roj^al family. 
 
 Freedom does not consist in outward forms — does 
 not consist in the definitions of yesterday. 
 How much liberty has each age, each people, each 
 individual? All they can enjoy. As much as is 
 created within the mind. For liberty is an ideal 
 condition. 
 
 "Man never is but aiways to be blessed." What Nor- 
 way now is doing, all men are doing — moving out 
 from one limitation to their freedom into an easier 
 one, which will ultimately grow equally irksome 
 with the old. We break old links that we may forge 
 new ones, that we may also break them, and so on — 
 how long? Is it forever? No! 
 
 This necessity of growth through creation and de- 
 struction is well illustrated today by the relations 
 of capital and labor. Capital felt an enslavemenl 
 to labor and created organizations for self-protec 
 tion, which are a new slavery; and labor also cre- 
 ated its organizations, in which the individual is 
 enslaved to the organization. When all of these 
 grow wiser they will create lighter fetters. Why is 
 this condition necessary? Because neither the work 
 man nor his employer can free himself from himself. 
 These fetters lie within their thought ; represent the 
 present unfoldment of Infinite Wisdom in them. 
 They are enslaved to their ideals, and also freed 
 from old conditions by these same ideals. 
 Woman is remonstrating against what she terms 
 marital slavery. Slavery exists for those for whom 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY 21 
 
 it is the best and the only condition in which they 
 can in the present live. It is slavery of ideas. When 
 ideals of self are changed the slavery is outgrown. 
 The woman, or man, who growls about his marital 
 slavery will make others growl when he gets out of 
 his present conditions into a new one. Growling is 
 a habit. 
 
 Josh Billings said: "He who growls because he is 
 poor will make you growl when he becomes rich!-' 
 Slavery, like worry, is a mental habit to be out- 
 grown. He who recognizes himself as a slave to 
 another must of necessity enslave some inferior. 
 The woman who is slave to husband enslaves her 
 servant, and the bookkeeper enslaved by his employer 
 enslaves the cash-boy. To recognize slavery is to 
 create it. Like disease, it dies out when no atten- 
 tion is paid to it. 
 
 The slave is slave because he does not know his 
 power. He finds himself through slavery. The ear- 
 liest prophecy of Man in that arboreal something 
 of the primeval world, was completely enslaved that 
 it might find out that it was Man. Through hanger 
 he found use of rock and club, and freed himself; 
 but greater needs caused him to break, hammer and 
 polish stone; to melt ore and make the bronze, after 
 necessity had sent him to the discovery of fire. 
 Freer then, but still the slave, and he has gone on 
 unfolding, till the elements, from fire and water up 
 to radiant matter are now his slaves and free him 
 to a like degree by making him conscious of himself. 
 Thus liberty is only man in a larger expression of 
 those forces and faculties which lie in that arboreal 
 something-link between Man and brute. Liberty to 
 do what he FEELS he can do. Thus liberty, like all 
 human endeavor, begins in FEELING. 
 This feeling we term desire. Not desire for any par- 
 ticular thing, but desire for expression. That thing 
 
22 THE CALL OF THE 
 
 which is desired will be determined by experience. 
 Till desire is awakened, man does not know that he 
 is not free. Desire is the recognition in conscious- 
 nesSj that the soul is sufficiently unfolded to press 
 against present conditions. The limitations must 
 give way, when the soul has pushed long enough ; as 
 bud pushes into bloom, soul pushes through what 
 we term pain, slavery, sorrow and strife till it awak- 
 ens to consciousness of power, to will, to be and to 
 do ; then all limitations give way and we say "Free !'' 
 Desire through necessity leads to action. Necessity 
 is the mother not only of invention, but also of lib- 
 erty. When man will not endure he will cure. 
 But what has thus ever limited the Soul? Nothing. 
 What causes desire? The soul's necessity of expres- 
 sion. Only through expression can it be itself. Not 
 to unfold — not to express — would be to annihilate 
 itself. To be, it must unfold. Desire is the sub- 
 consciousness coming into conscious activity. 
 Freedom is but the expression of a new desire. The 
 cry for more liberty demonstrates the truth of the 
 development theory, of the philosophy of evolution, 
 and is Man's warrant of immortality. This cry finds 
 utterance alone in the Human Soul, and is its 
 demand to be freed from animal limitations. 
 Only as we think of Man as emerging from the 
 bodies of sphinx, centaur and satyr can we under- 
 stand this "Cry of the Human," which is not the cry 
 Mrs. Browning so beautifully voiced, "Be Pitiful, O 
 God !" but is the cry, "Give me Freedom from condi- 
 tions!" This cry man has ever made. It comprises 
 all his desires; it inspires his every effort. The his- 
 tory of the race is but the history of the foetal Man 
 freeing himself from the animal matrix. From ear- 
 liest primitive ancestor to the latest mental scientist 
 there has been only a struggle for this second, this 
 spiritual birth, when the Soul shall become aware 
 
/f^ OF THE N^ 
 
 f UNIVERSITY \ 
 TWEl^TIETH CEl^TimY ^ ^^ .^^^y 23 
 
 of itself as the Centerstance around which revolves 
 the circumference of circumstance. 
 When this condition of consciousness of himself as 
 Spirit, is reached, then Man has come ; the Soul has 
 reached that condition pictured by the ancients as 
 Nirvana, or Heaven. This is the condition of indi- 
 viduality, and is found only when Soul is conscious 
 of its Mastery, because it is free from all animal 
 conditions. Neither death, resurrection nor reincar- 
 nation are necessary. Neither can they bring the 
 condition. It comes alone through the unfolding of 
 consciousness into that state where the sense of 
 Being is so complete that all consideration of limi- 
 tations, or of self, is lost in the enjoyment of expres- 
 sion. Tennyson had glimpses of that state, as have 
 saints and sages of all ages, and also modern psych- 
 ics and mental scientists. He describes it "as a 
 kind of waking trance. All at once," he says, "out 
 of the intensity of consciousness of individuality 
 the individuality itself seems to dissolve and fade 
 away into boundless Being. This is not a confused 
 state, but the clearest of the clearest, the surest of 
 the surest, the wisest of the wisest, utterly beyond 
 words, where death were almost a laughable impos- 
 sibility, and the loss of personality seeming the only 
 true life." 
 
 Civilization is the record of the cumulative unfold- 
 ment of the race toward this birth from the animal 
 into that condition as permanent which Tennyson 
 described as occasionally his. As the sandstone 
 strata has impression of wave and foot print, so civ- 
 ilization in statute and literature, in temple and 
 statue, keeps the wave marks of the SouPs progress 
 from animal, through intermediate forms, until this 
 new century, when it is to be emancipated through 
 the new birth. 
 This unfoldment, this pushing Power, has ever been 
 
24 THE CALL OF THE 
 
 from within. Kock never grows to tree. Matter has 
 never moved up from polyp to Man. The same chem- 
 icals are in the lower order that are in the human 
 brain, but brain is not there. 
 
 In my old Massachusetts home there is a huge 
 boulder split in twain by a growing beech. A seed 
 fell in a little crevice of the rock. It grew till it 
 needed more room. Tree or rock must yield. Life 
 in the tree kept pushing till at last the rock gave 
 way. Was tree imprisoned? Did rock oppress it? 
 No! The stone had not changed, but the tree in its 
 growth came in contact with conditions that were 
 natural and appropriate to it till it demanded more. 
 The demand from life in tree was the cause of the 
 oppression, and not the limitation of the rock. Life 
 is a manifestation of Omnipotence in higher vibra- 
 tions, and lower modes of motion yield to higher. 
 While other necessary conditions of life to the tree 
 were present the rock must yield; tree still lives. 
 Learn this lesson. Our demand for liberty does not 
 mean that some person, thing or condition is con- 
 scious of oppressing us. It means that the indi- 
 vidual has grown and demands more room, and as 
 unfoldment must continue, conditions must give 
 way. The moment the cry for liberty arises we 
 know that Liberty IS already born in the Soul, and 
 as sure as Life is God, that liberty will have expres- 
 sion. Canute could better keep back the sea than 
 any parent, teacher or government can keep back 
 the outrushing of the soul. Attempt to repress it in 
 its chosen direction and it breaks out in others. 
 Crimes, evils, diseases, rebellions and persecutions 
 are but the result of impediments placed against the 
 unfolding Soul. Freedom to act, freedom to express 
 in some way, must be. Kock or tree must yield ; the 
 Soul never does; it is outward forever. Conscious- 
 ness of power begins where animal limitations cease. 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY 25 
 
 Man starts as a savage. Liberty arises from the 
 expression of his desires. Each individual desires 
 from his plane of unfoldment. The desires of the 
 savage are as legitimate, and therefore as holy, to 
 the Father's sight, as are the desires of the Ma- 
 donna. Each will still cry for more freedom till 
 there is no consciousness of limitation ; then will the 
 self-consciousness of individuality be lost in its Per- 
 fection. "I, the imperfect, adore my own Perfec- 
 tion/' says Emerson. This Perfect is the One that 
 cries for Liberty and finds it. 
 
 In the history of Human Emancipation, physical 
 slavery was the first to go. This slavery was in its 
 inception merely the protection of the weak by the 
 strong. The law of Self-Preservation created every 
 tyranny. The freedom of West India Slaves, of 
 Russian Serf and the American Slave was only the 
 rifting of the rock of the protection of the indi- 
 vidual, from the outside, that the individual might, 
 through self-protection, need less communal protec- 
 tion. It is a step toward individuality. But only in 
 so far as master and slave were emancipated with- 
 in, through desire for larger liberty, were they really 
 emancipated. They are both unfolding still ; freeing 
 themselves from those mental conditions that made 
 physical slavery necessary. 
 
 Civil liberty, we declare, is won. We have embodied 
 it ideally in constitutional law, through an inspired 
 document which says: "Man is created free and 
 equal, and endowed by his Creator with certain 
 inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty and 
 the pursuit of happiness.'' This is ideally perfect. 
 But where is it in the actual? 
 
 Look about and see if Man has reached his ideal? 
 Is not this Nation today struggling with a tyranny 
 as bitter and oppressive as ever a nation did? But 
 till recently it was not aware it was enslaved. 
 
26 THE CALL OF THE 
 
 Were the Koman Triumvirs ever more tyrannous 
 than the three American powers. Capital, Trust and 
 Monopoly, coining the life of father, mother and 
 child into gold, in factory, mine and field? Did 
 Carthage in height of power have a more tyrannous 
 reign than is now cturs under grafter, briber and 
 blackmailer? Did ever Persian Shah kill with more 
 savagery than does trade with its per cent, and its 
 impure foodstuff? Did ever heathen priest show 
 more tyranny than modern priesthood in its denun- 
 ciation of liberal thought in an Ingersoll and Chris- 
 tian Science and in its opposition to divorce? Was 
 ever the reign of Moloch, the fire god of the Phoeni- 
 cians, worse than the reign of the Goddess Fashion, 
 with her dress that crushes, entangles and enslaves 
 and late hours that kill? Behold her attendant train 
 of insanity, crime, sorrow and disease, joining that 
 great procession which from all the other earth hells 
 make up a great body of our civilization? Was ever 
 anything worse? No. Was ever anything better? 
 No! Man has always created in every age the big- 
 gest hell and the best heaven possible to him. All 
 conditions are relative, and conditions in each age 
 are the best possible; they represent that stage of 
 human development. Man in America has inter- 
 preted ''Free and EquaP' to fit his development. 
 Each succeeding age will do the same, ever writing 
 larger the definition of Liberty. What is tyranny 
 now, Avas liberty to our fathers ; they never dreamed, 
 were not capable of dreaming, to what extent the 
 special privileges they gave aAvay would develop into 
 the present slavery. The Congresses of 1861 to 1868 
 did not dream that their Acts creating National 
 Banks, for refunding bonds and destroying the 
 greenbacks; and State Legislatures in incorporating 
 financial bodies did not, could not, foresee that the 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY 27 
 
 emancipation of the black slave was to result in 
 enslaving the whole nation to the money power. It 
 could be no other way. Enlarged perceptions will 
 always find the liberty of yesterday the tyranny of 
 today. Otherwise there were only stagnation and 
 retrogression of the partly unfolded Man to the con- 
 dition of the animal. The centaur has ever made the 
 best laws and governments he could, but he could 
 never legislate for the coming Man. When that Man 
 comes, then all old conditions will be done away 
 with. Could an old Roman or Scythian, could 
 Briton of Shakespeare's time, or Teuton in the time 
 of Charles V. be placed with us today, he would find 
 the oppression of which we complain, too much free- 
 dom, and would begin, like those modern Reverends 
 who would carry us back to the Eighteenth Century 
 Sunday and Marriage Laws, to complain of Twen- 
 tieth Century License. 
 
 Humanity is never to travel crablike, backward. 
 The unfolding Human shell will never retreat into 
 the shell of the past. Liberty is relative, and its 
 demands are always without precedent. "Something 
 Man never had opportunity to do and be," is its cry. 
 Therefore all the various phases of liberty are out- 
 ward expressions of one desire of the Soul for ex- 
 pression. "I WILL BE MAN!'' it cried from the 
 body of the Sphinx, and, pushing himself out still 
 more in his desire from the remnants of ancient con- 
 ditions, he finds only a still larger demand impell- 
 ing him on. Such demands presage the coming full- 
 ness, when Man shall in Freedom be content. "I 
 shall be satisfied when I awake in thy likeness," "in 
 the liberty of the Son of God." 
 
 The liberty of the wisest reformer is but a step of 
 the Coming Man. The ideal is that of Man, having 
 aborted the breast of the sphinx, the body of the 
 
28 THE CALL OF THE 
 
 centaur and the legs of the satyr; Man, freed from 
 "the lusts of the flesh/' "from the excitements of 
 passion/' and "the mania of owning things''; when 
 he shall, through the travail of conditions, be born 
 into his own, and know himself as One with God in 
 that kingdom that is within himself. 
 The Nineteenth Century of the Christian Era, which 
 is the one hundred millionth century of Man's ges 
 fating era, saw him freed from the tyranny of natu- 
 ral forces. When he first threw stone at wild beast 
 he broke some limitations of space; he reached far- 
 ther than he could with his hand. This freedom has 
 extended till now there is more than enough food, 
 clothing and shelter, if equitably distributed, to 
 feed, clothe and house every person in conditions 
 equal to that of the average person of today. Thus 
 he has conquered famine, pestilence, fire and flood, 
 and he is making the desert blossom with rose and 
 fruit tree. No matter what may come to individ- 
 uals, the race has won its freedom here. The race is 
 master of material environment, and can now turn 
 its attention to the higher ideal. The Unfolding 
 Soul demands new worlds to conquer. 
 I have seen in the incubator the chick with its head 
 from the shell; it then gradually puts the whole 
 shell off, and I have imagined what its first sensa- 
 tion must be. It looks out in wonder. But greater 
 is the wonder of Man. The wise Society of Psychical 
 Research, after twenty-one years of investigation, 
 has just got one eye out of the shell, and is looking 
 in wonder as it reports that "out of the immense 
 amount of material in its possession it has come to 
 the conclusion that we, or some of us, at least, are 
 in something, or something is in us, which does 
 not know the bonds of time or feel the manacles of 
 space." This something which does not recognize 
 time and space is that which is emerging from the 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY 29 
 
 centaur's body and in its victory over the material 
 conditions is presaging that time and condition 
 when there will be, in words of Tennyson : 
 
 *'A warless world, a single race, a single tongue; 
 Every tiger madness muzzled, every serpent passion killed; 
 Every grim ravine a garden, every blazing desert tilled; 
 Robed in universal harvest, up to either pole she smiles, 
 Universal ocean softly washing all her warless isles." 
 
 Through all the millions of years Man has been thus 
 incubating, nursed within the shell of matter by the 
 animal which he was soon to leave behind him. 
 "Tiger madness" and "serpent passion'' have been 
 the forces that pushed him on, and till "the ape 
 is crushed out" and "the tiger has died" there will 
 be need in Man for these passions, because they are 
 the Universal Power which he is to individualize 
 and direct when he enters his dominion, "the king 
 dom of God." 
 
 Man is still in the swaddling clothes of materialty, 
 still in embryo, but out of the homogenous the indi- 
 vidual is evolving, from God the Son is being born. 
 Minerva, from the brain of Jove, is the type of the 
 Coming Man. Not from the Heart of God, not from 
 the Love of God, but from the Brain of God, from 
 the Thought of God, Man is to come. "In the begin- 
 ning was the Word" ; but Professor Drummond tells 
 us that it should not be "Word," but "Thought"— 
 "In the beginning was Thought, and Thought was 
 with God, and Thought was God, and without 
 Thought nothing was made that is made, and 
 Thought was made flesh and dwelt among us." It 
 still dwells here, but as fast as it changes its dwell- 
 ing and finds outward expression, Man, coining out 
 of the Brain of God, is leaving the embryotic, the 
 animal, behind : the elements are hereafter to be his 
 willing servants. 
 
 Until this New Era, this New Emancipation, Man 
 
30 THE CALL OF TEE 
 
 has been the child of earth, and the prayer, ^^May 
 thy kingdom come on earth" means, come to this 
 bodj' as it comes to me as spirit. ^^May I manifest 
 my spiritual supremacy while incarnate" is this 
 prayer we were taught. And while thus enslaved to 
 matter, we are the slave of circumstance; the slave 
 of the Universal; but when the Perfect comes, that 
 which is imperfect is done away with. Therefore, 
 in the New Era, I the perfect become my Perfect. 
 There is a form of tyranny which, much deplored, is 
 still as necessary as is the governor of the engine. 
 Its name is Authority. It is ^^the tyranny of the 
 dead." "Let the dead bury its dead," said he who 
 taught us of the Final Emancipation. Authority is 
 a wonderful power, but as valuable as wonderful, 
 for it is corrective, and develops the governor of hu- 
 man conduct — Self-control. Pressing against the 
 barriers of the past, the Soul cries ^'More !" and like 
 an athlete gains strength by freeing itself, only to 
 find another and another barrier across its path, 
 till the last ditch is spanned, and the last barrier is 
 leaped, and there is no circumstance that is not will- 
 ingly accepted as already mastered as it comes in 
 view. 
 
 This sweeping away of some limitation we term 
 progress. It is the objective manifestation of the 
 unfolding soul. The child clings to Mother's hand 
 till it can walk alone ; so man clings to the mother- 
 hand of the past, till he can think and act alone. He 
 says, ^^What man has done I can do," till he learns 
 to say, "What man has never done I can do." For 
 this new Emancipation finds its warrant in the lim- 
 itless possibilities of Man. The first inscription on 
 the banner of the New Emancipation is, I AM DI- 
 VINE. No matter what may be the language em- 
 ployed, the Principle in every New Thought cult is 
 faith in the divinity of the Human Soul. No other 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY 31 
 
 declaration is needed by this Federation than the 
 Affirmation, ^^MAN IS DIVINE AND LIVES HIS 
 DIVINITY HERE AND NOW !'' Faith must be lo- 
 cated somewhere. Heretofore it has been located in 
 some transcendent deity, in what Carlyle calls an 
 "absentee God/' now "the kingdom of God is within'' 
 and faith has recognized Man as God's viceregent. 
 "I AM/ means, I am all God can be at one time in 
 human form, and during all eternity the all of God 
 will be made manifest in me. What God in irie is, 
 no one knows, nor can, till I have manifested it. and 
 since God is infinite, I am to trust His infinity to 
 manifest today that which the day needs. Fresh 
 manna for this the 26th of September, 1905. and 
 trust that there will be fresh manna for the 27th and 
 28th and 29th, and all the rest of the chain of days 
 as they come into human view. For this reason 
 the "Tyranny of the Dead," and the mace of Author- 
 ity, have no power over him who has found the New 
 Emancipation. For him the grave has no message, 
 and the unborn no command. I AM ! And from the 
 one central source through Soul, I am supplied and 
 guided. From all that was, and all that shall be, 
 I am free. I AM NOW! "Beloved notv are we sons 
 of God!" and it doth not appear what we shall be; 
 but the God I am, will reveal itself at the proper 
 time, is some notv when it is read} , and will so con- 
 tinue to reveal itself, as the fullness of the day re- 
 quires. 
 
 This consciousness of Divinity is my emancipation 
 from all fear. The past does not haunt, and the fu- 
 ture does not daunt me. I have neither regrets nor 
 hopes; I have neither remorse nor prayers; I con- 
 sider neither heaven nor hell. I am freed from all 
 these, for I am now Eternity! I am notv Immor- 
 tality. I am now Heaven when I choose, and I am 
 hell when I do not know enough, or am not potent 
 
32 THE CALL OF THE 
 
 enough to keep it out of me. No power but Self, has 
 dominion over me. Freed from fear, I have no 
 devil and have no need of savior, for all these, I am! 
 These words, ^"I AM !" are on our banner. They are 
 our shiboleth of Victory. They are the key to 
 Heaven, and the salvation from hell. I AM! What 
 am 1? No tongue can tell. What is God? T am 
 that which was, is, and shall be! I am that which 
 no man can tell, even when the heavens are rolled 
 up like a scroll and there is not even an angel to 
 proclaim: "Eternity is no more!" Enough that I 
 am conscious that T am; that daily does my con- 
 sciousness of my Self so increase that I will not ques- 
 tion my power to be, in any direction, that which 
 I desire to be. 
 
 Emancipated, the petty annoyances of life pass 
 away, and I am subject to nothing material. My 
 body is not subject to disease or death. I am not 
 subject to the need of houses or lands. I need no 
 money or friends, for I am all these and more. I 
 am daily coming into a larger consciousness of my 
 relations to these, and when I know enough of my 
 possibilities as the Son of God, I shall draw to me 
 not only that which enables me to manifest all Man 
 ever has but that which man never has dreamed of 
 being. 
 
 "Dare to dream what no mortal ever dared to 
 dream before,'' but also dare to realize that dream. 
 For I am BEING, and all that ever can be, slumb- 
 ers in me as song of bird in the egg. 1 will not limit 
 my possibilities by so much as a definition. 
 
 Aye! The New Emancipation has freed me from 
 the tyranny of definitions. I no longer try to tell 
 the untenable, to define the undefinable. I answer 
 no questions as to whence, I came, what I am, or 
 where I am bound. I think ! I am here ! i am bound 
 no where for I never came. I AM. The recognition 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY 33 
 
 of Being enables me to enter each day into a larger 
 recognition, as I sa}^, I AM ! 
 
 But that I may have deeper life I will, in recogni- 
 tion that I am Life, affirm, I AM LIFE. That I 
 may more fully recognize myself as Power, I will 
 affirm, I AM POWER. That I may more fully un- 
 fold as Love and Truth, I will affirm, I AM LOVE 
 AND TRUTH, and in these Affirmations I have but 
 to open my mouth and the Lord within fills it. 
 
 **Love the, I AM, — is Lord within 
 Daily he brings mine own to me," 
 
 is my constant Affirmation. 
 
 But when you ask me why I so affirm — I am emanci- 
 pated and cannot tell you. When you are emanci- 
 pated you will know and will not ask because, YOLT 
 ARE! I AM! I let that which I am, live, think, 
 speak, and act through me. I understand now, what 
 He meant when He said, ^^Let your light shine,'' the 
 "Light that lighteth every man that cometh into 
 the world." Only the emancipated know this. And 
 no man told them, and "no man gave unto them." 
 I let, and while it lives through me, I enjoy! 
 Aye! In the midst of pressing financial needs, in 
 midst of plans that press for material expression 
 and I know not, in the consciousness I now possess, 
 how they can materialize, still when conditions 
 press, I proclaim merely — I am. 
 Aye! Were I standing before you in rags, hun- 
 gry and friendless, I would still proclaim my Divin- 
 ity and cry. All God's is mine! And though T may 
 find no meat, no cash, no friends, it is not because 
 I do not possess, not because others have that which 
 is mine, but because, like a crying babe in his home 
 of parental love and care, I am ignorant of my 
 possesions, and must need suffer that I may possess. 
 Necessity is my way to liberty. My emancipation 
 
34 THE CALL OF THE 
 
 comes through this tyranny of MUST. When I real- 
 ize that I am, and that I possess, and that this 
 Must is not the command of the King, but the com- 
 mand of an usurper, then I, the rightful heir, ascend 
 the throne of Consciousness and proclaim, "I AM!" 
 Yes, friends, I have been where dollars, friends, rep- 
 utation, all was in seeming slipping away, and I was 
 alone, alone, alone, naught but God and I! 'Twas 
 then I grew. And if you are worth anything to the 
 world, if you have any emancipation, it is because 
 in such hours, you have found your SELF. "My self 
 and I and naught between." Then all that is of 
 earth is seen of no value, for the treasures of the 
 Soul are all. Come with me into the garden of life, 
 and alone, see God in the burning bush. All dross 
 consumed, purified in the fire, you know yourself 
 and say, I AM. 
 
 Our edict of emancipation is not from czar or king ; 
 from president or people; it is issued from the 
 throne of God. The moment the Soul finds itself 
 and returns in allegiance to the All, it is free. Out 
 of the Homogeneous, out of the All it comes, an in- 
 dividual, and of necessity it must learn to say "I," 
 thus, to grow into the consciousness that it is not 
 that which is not itself. But fettered by the con- 
 sciousness of the Ego, it must free itself, and find its 
 way back to the All again. It was in the Ail, un- 
 conditioned, unconscious, non-expressed. It goes 
 back to the All, individualized, conditioned, con- 
 scious, and what it possessed, as the unconditioned, 
 the unconscious, belongs to it as an individual. 
 Thus I must find emancipation from the limitations 
 of the Ego, and not be content with the "portion 
 that falleth to me." I must, however, take that por- 
 tion and go into a far country and spend it, that I 
 may come back the universal and find that "All the 
 Father hath is mine !" And the New Emancipation 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY 35 
 
 is freedom from limitations of parts, shares, por- 
 tions, in the recognition that, All is mine and I am 
 all This Proclamation is the SouPs consciousness 
 of its Self; is the breaking of all fetters; is the 
 setting open^ the gates on the four sides of the celes- 
 tial city, and letting the Light that is not of sun, or 
 moon, flow outward upon the life of matter, time 
 and space, till they shall be no more. For this, came 
 I into this world and this body, that I might real- 
 ize that I am a conscious expression of God. That 
 out of the unindividualized, I might be individual- 
 ized. Either this or there is no meaning in life. If 
 I am over and over to be born into body, and then 
 lose consciousness and individuality in the Univer- 
 sal, then Life is a fraud, a cheat, and a purposeless 
 round upon an Ixion wheel of sorrow. But no, this 
 child man's explanation does not fit me. I see Evo- 
 lution of thought, and from the accumulated wis- 
 dom of the eons since man began his emergence from 
 centaur and satyr, I see the awakening consciousness 
 of the Immortal; till now, O, century of centuries! 
 O, century of Redemption! O, century of Fulfill- 
 ment! O, century of Human Birth! O, century in 
 which Man finds Himself as conqueror bringing 
 forth the kingdom of heaven! till now, O, century, 
 out of the Homogeneous, out of the Universal, the 
 Individual has arrived! Out of God Man is born; 
 first, last and forever! 
 
 The last remnant of evolution, the last shred of cre- 
 ation, now falls away, and out of the remnants of 
 sphynx, that lies at his feet Man, the Redeemed and 
 the Redeemer, stands forth, and in the NEW 
 THOUGHT proclaims his Freedom. 
 Till I learn my divinity, I am subject to the flesh 
 as schoolmaster. The pressing-out process of desire 
 is one, through all kinds of emotion. That pressing- 
 out process began when the first savage man became 
 
36 THE CALL OF THE 
 
 conscious of Want. It was in him like the need of 
 the young oak in the flower pot, for more room for 
 expression. The oak broke the pot; man out-grew 
 cave. He has been outgrowing conditions ever since 
 because he grew into more feeling. As he felt more, 
 he thought more. In this century he FEELS as he 
 never felt. Well savs Frances Ellingwood Abbott: 
 "Man must learn to think more profoundly, or else 
 unlearn to feel !'' Out of this necessity for profound 
 thinking, which is not mere investigation and spec- 
 ulation, theorizing and reasoning, but THINKING, 
 — has come the New Thought, the New Emancipa- 
 tion. "Beware when God lets loose a thinker !'' says 
 Emerson. Because thinking is the only Human 
 function. Feeling, sensation, is shared by plant and 
 animal, and probably even by the mineral. But sen- 
 sation evolves until through instinct. Ideation is 
 born. Ideation is Man's prerogative. Animals Feel; 
 Man Thinks. Animals instinctively act. So does 
 the partly unfolded Man. Animals automatically 
 obey the Universal Ideas, and so does undeveloped 
 Man. Animals act under the Thoughts of that 
 which is not themselves, so does Man; unconscious 
 of his power, but Man alone, out of Universal Ideas, 
 creates Ideals; Man alone thinks! Man alone is 
 conscious of himself ! Man alone can say, I AM ! 
 Man is born into a universe of sensations, says Pro- 
 fessor James. "Confusion is the babe's universe. A 
 multitude of organic conditions does not prevent 
 the consciousness from being one consciousness. The 
 babe's consciousness is one big, blooming, buzzing 
 confusion." The babe has no consciousness of its 
 own. It possesses all God's consciousness, and grad- 
 ually becomes aware of its possession of this con- 
 sciousness. The babe has no feeling of its own. but 
 possesses all God's feeling; but out of this universe 
 of feeling it differentiates those it calls its own, be- 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY 37 
 
 cause it recognizes them. Its unfoldment then is in 
 proportion to its recognition of its separate sensa- 
 tion. Thus as Man unfolds; he becomes more and 
 more sensitive; while from this increased sensitive- 
 ness, comes the need of profound thinking, that he 
 may possess as Man, consciousness of that wisdom 
 which has caused this unf oldment ; may possess it as 
 an individual. Thus comes the Man's Spiritual 
 birth. It is full of travail. The birth chamber is 
 filled with the groans of pain, the shrieks of war, 
 horrors of prison, and the ravings of insanity. There 
 lie all the wrecks of business, politics, trade vice 
 and crime; but, they are only the Edenic conditions, 
 which man has been sloughing off, that he might learn 
 what was indeed the knowledge, which is his because 
 he obeyed the heavenly vision, and ate of the fruit 
 of tree through listening to the voice that said, "Ye 
 shall be as God knowing good and evil!" The re- 
 sult is worth the cost. The Heaven of individual- 
 ity "is not won at a single bound." The conscious- 
 ness of the power to choose and to learn of himself 
 through choice, needed eons to bring it forth. It 
 has come; and the New Century opens with this 
 new proclamation of Liberty: / am Spirit^ and I 
 am conscious of my divinity. The promise of Wis- 
 dom^ under guise of serpent^ is fulfilled, and now I 
 ^^ shall not surely dieT 
 
 The bloody sweat of Gethsemane purifies the flesh 
 so the light within shines outward upon the path 
 of unf oldment, and Man cries: "Not this limited, 
 walled expression of Eden, but the limitless expres- 
 sion of thought is mine ;" then freed as a bird from 
 its prison, the last Emancipation has come! The 
 last enemy is conquered! And the freed Soul cries, 
 "Death is swallowed up in Victory!" Such is the 
 New Thought interpretated as the New Emancipa- 
 tion. Man has eaten the "Last Supper" with the 
 
38 THE CALL OF THE 
 
 mortal, and as an immortal is now drinking wine 
 and breaking bread in "the kingdom prepared for 
 him from the foundation of the world/' This real- 
 ization of a present Divinity and Immortality, is 
 that for which the New Thought stands. 
 Either this, or we are pretenders, battling not for 
 liberty, but for some partial, limited expression of 
 Life. We are either taking the Kingdom of Heaven 
 as ours by right, or are an army of invaders like the 
 Russians in China, and some Japanese of Truth will 
 drive us back and say, "Go ! and sin no more !'' There 
 will be no indemnity. We are either entering by 
 invitation, or we have no warrant from the King of 
 kings. When He proclaims, we are Free, and no 
 condition can hamper us more. MAN is born. In- 
 dividuals may succumb to disease and death, but the 
 Race is born into Conscious Immortality. "Though 
 the individual withers .yet the world is more and 
 more?-' 
 
 My dear co-workers, I firmly believe that this prin- 
 ciple which we profess, is the Savior that was to 
 come. That it is the Principle which is to redeem 
 the world from all present ills. It is as real a Prin- 
 ciple as is the recognition of one and one are two, 
 the real basis of that calculation that weighs stars 
 and measures the path of comets. 
 We have the perception of Truth; Truth has no 
 limit; knows neither time nor space. / ami truth! 
 It may take millions of years for the majority of 
 the race to perceive this, but what of it? Millions 
 of years ago some primeval ancestor saw possibili- 
 ties for himself that none other saw. He expressed. 
 His expression has become the instinct of the race. 
 So this perception of immortality, however crudely 
 expressed now as belief of an immortality in the 
 flesh, but which is truly immortality outgrown the 
 flesh, will some time be the instinct of the race. The 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY * 39 
 
 one Affirmation that will nsher in that "Promised 
 day/' which comes, not to numbers, but to the in- 
 dividuals is— I AM SPIRIT! To this realization 
 this crusade of New Thought leads us. Under its 
 inspiration, Man frees himself from the last remnant 
 of the animal and awakens to the recognition of him- 
 self as Spirit. We cry with Tennyson : 
 "Hold thy Scepter, Human Soul, and rule thy Pres- 
 ence of the Brute!" 
 
 If the New Thought movement stands for this, then 
 I stand for New Thought. But if New Thought 
 stands for less, then I stand for more than New 
 Thought. But my conception is, and ever has been, 
 that this movement through all its cults stood for 
 the present manifestation of the Kingdom of the All 
 Good, and that Man as a manifestation of God, 
 should now manifest that God-likeness. I am sure 
 every one of you will say, "Aye !" 
 This movement stands for more church, more state, 
 more business, more mechanics, more trade, more 
 fashion, more authority, more medicine, more doc- 
 tors, more preachers and more lawyers, that Man 
 may outgrow the needs of them all. Only by expres- 
 sion can he outgrow. Let him express along his in- 
 stinctive lines, till he finds his own. He must have 
 church till he needs it no longer. He must have doc- 
 tor and pills till he needs them no more. He must 
 have school, book and teacher till be leaves them be- 
 hind; he will cling to parents as long as he needs 
 them and he must worship a Heavenly Father, till 
 he absorbs that Father into himself. 
 We, proclaimers of the New Emancipation, are the 
 pioneers in the world s last advance on the king- 
 dom of the undeveloped. On our banner is the word, 
 "Peace." In the kingdom of God, which is the king- 
 dom of Man, there are neither "wars nor rumors of 
 wars." These are echoes from the kingdom of the 
 
40 ' THE CALL OF THE 
 
 animal. When the ape is crushed and the tiger is 
 dead, then from the eternal stillness of the Soul, 
 comes the word, "Peace." 
 
 "Stand still my Soul, in the silent dark 
 I would question thee; 
 Alone in the shadow drear and stark, 
 With God and me." 
 
 Ever from this stillness Soul speaks ; from this still- 
 ness Man thinks. Outward all God's blessings flow; 
 the blessing is in the flowing. The inner light shines 
 as we march along, an army of redeemed; — of self- 
 redeemed, self-saved, self-reliant, self-respecting and 
 self-assertive, MAN-hood. That kingdom of heaven 
 that was "at hand," two thousand years ago, was at 
 hand when the first man stood naming the brute, 
 and has ever been at hand. We have reached for 
 and grasped it and found that the hand extended, 
 was that of our brother, extended in Love, we have 
 learned that Heaven, Immortality, Soul, Manhood, 
 are included in that word Love. I am human because 
 I love. I am immortal because I love. 
 
 ''Life is ever lord of death, 
 And love can never lose its own." 
 
 That kingdom is the Human Consciousness. All 
 there is to individuality is Consciousness finding its 
 culmination in the conviction that Life, Love and 
 Truth, are Humanity. All the other forms of ex- 
 pression, called energy or force, are — God. 
 In this spirit of Love is the Federation formed. 
 Formed like the crystal, by no arbitrary rule, but 
 by the one Law of Attraction. We stand for the 
 freedom of the individual, not freedom to live, think, 
 speak, and act without the interference of king, 
 priest, government, public opinion. No! These were 
 won long ago. With these we have no more to do, 
 than we have to do with disease, poverty, and fail- 
 ure. These things belong to the external life. "Suf- 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY 41 
 
 fer it to be/ said Jesus. "Render unto Caesar what 
 belongs to Caesar." When you need the dollar for 
 tax, it will be in the fish's mouth if there, is no other 
 way for it to come. When you need protection of 
 statute law, it will be passed ; when you need prison, 
 you will be put there. But the Freedom we stand 
 for, is the I-AM Freedom, — freed from the slavery 
 of circumstance. I am free to choose, and to be that 
 which I desire to be. Thus freed, I am a centerslance, 
 and the All is my circumference. We stand for the 
 freedom of the Soul; spiritual freedom, which no 
 man or state can confer; which the Soul alone, pro- 
 claims when it has burst the fetters of its animal 
 origin. 
 
 In this Freedom we are one. Unity in the Freedom 
 of Spirit, in Freedom of Principle; in Freedom of 
 Love is desirable; thus we have it. It is impossible 
 that in freedom of thought we can be one. In the 
 fact that I do not, and cannot, think as you, con- 
 sists my individuality, and in your necessity to 
 think differently from others, lies your individual- 
 ity. In feeling — love — we are one; but when feeling 
 is transmuted into thought, we are many. There- 
 fore, when asked what is the Thought for which the 
 Federation stands, we answer — For no thought, but 
 for Thought itself. We stand in love for Unity-in- 
 Love. Universal Love, we are one. But we also stand 
 for divinity in expression. From creeds, platforms, 
 statements of belief, we are free. "What is Truth 
 to me?" is the only question we ask of ourselves, 
 and what is true we proclaim. "Speak the Truth 
 as you see it today in hard words if need be, and 
 then speak the Truth tomorrow in equally hard 
 words though it contradicts every word you say to- 
 day!" says Emerson. 
 
 "I wish my creed like by beefsteak fresh every morn- 
 ing!" said Robert Collyer. That is our declaration. 
 
42 THE CALL OF THE 
 
 But beyond this is the larger freedom , the freedom 
 to love each other^ and all the world, because we dif- 
 fer in perception of Truth. Truth is one, and we 
 are one in Truth. In this unity of spirit we meet, 
 and the thought of the beautiful hymn of Samuel 
 Longfellow is ours : 
 
 **The seekers of the Light are one; 
 One in the freedom of the Truth; 
 One in the joy of paths untrod; 
 One in the Soul's perennial youth; 
 One in the larger thought of God." 
 
 In this freedom the New Jerusalem has descended 
 from the realm of the Ideal and become the actual 
 freedom of earth ; freedom from pain, sorrow, pov- 
 erty, envy, disease and death; this is proclaimed 
 from the citadel of Humanity, and the lion of Mam- 
 mon lies down in peace with the lamb of Love. 
 What more is there for us? God is just. All his 
 promises are true for him that believes. '^Come up 
 higher !'' is the call from the Mount of Transfigura- 
 tion. "Come and see in our midst not only Moses 
 and Elias, but Jesus and John, Buddha and Confu- 
 cius, Franklin and Paine, Emerson and Whittier, 
 Darwin and Spencer, Beecher and Ingersoll." But 
 since we have not only preserved but perfected our 
 humanity, the cry leiigthens — "Come and see also 
 all who have ever lived and loved; all in whose 
 hearts you have place, and who have place in 
 yours!'' We live in that realm where they live and 
 one with God, we are one with them also. In our 
 emancipation they rejoice, for as we enter where 
 they are, they enter into that realm where we are, 
 and two hitherto severed conditions of love and 
 thought become one. Our victory is their victory, 
 for Heaven is perfected only in the redemption of 
 earth. Only when the angel of the Resurrection pro- 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY 48 
 
 claims "Time is no more/' can Man enter into the 
 immortal life that is his here and now. 
 Thus our success as a Federation is measured, not 
 by the measure of earth, but with "the measuring 
 rod of the angel.'' Can you measure the radiations 
 of the sun? "His light has gone out into all the 
 world and nothing is hid from the heat thereof." So 
 with the Soul vibrations that for a year have gone 
 from this Federation. They are more wide spread 
 and potent than those of the sun. We are a "Cen- 
 ter." Millions of people have looked to us, felt us, 
 during the eleven months since we thus united. Mil- 
 lions, wise in the lore of the New Emancipation, 
 have concentrated their thoughts with ours in this 
 broadening circle of power in which souls of Men 
 are ripening for Liberty. We are today a physical 
 center for all radiations of the good and wise of 
 earth and heaven, for by the nature of their Being, 
 they are with us, because in Love ive are Free. And 
 this is our power. I am satisfied to be with you, 
 more satisfied than I would be at court of kings, or 
 with millions shouting acclaim. Better satisfied to 
 be with you here as a center-stance, amid all the bus- 
 tle and confusion of the mammon-life about us, than 
 to be a victor in science or art. There is more sat- 
 isfaction in being here your President, because this 
 Federation stands for the New Emancipation, than 
 were I to stand the guest of all parliaments of the 
 world, where I could not be thus free in Love and 
 Truth. All the offers or orders, insignia, degrees 
 and offices, are worthless when they are looked upon 
 as having any power in themselves. God decorated 
 us with the only possible decoration, when we were 
 conceived, that decoration is our Individuality. The 
 only office I can accept is that into which I was 
 born, the Office of God Almighty's Human Lover, 
 and Truth-Teller. Any other would be a fetter that 
 
U - THE CALL OF THE 
 
 a freed soul could not wear. Standing here, one 
 with you in this fellowship, where there is neither 
 great nor small, where all in Love are equal, I have 
 been for a year the representative of the New Move- 
 ment. I have helped our cry of Universal Freedom, 
 and spread forth our New Declaration of Indepen- 
 dence. 
 
 When and where did a like body ever meet? Behold a 
 new declaration now give I unto you. It was written 
 two thousand years ago, but buried like the statues 
 at Pompeii by the overthrow from the old human 
 stages. Man listened in the past for a moment and 
 then went his way, consorting with animals, but the 
 "Word" has lain in the Soul waiting for the proper 
 time. Now it comes forth manifesting its freedom 
 through its wealth of Divine Love. I AM LOVE! 
 is the word of Man's natal hour. It is the greatest 
 Affirmation the New Emancipation puts on our 
 tongue. I AM LOVE DIRECTED TO MY CHOS- 
 EN END BY THOUGHT. The stanza whitth we 
 sing, 
 
 **God is Love," 
 
 comes as the fulfilling of the Law. There is no 
 longer Law for Man but Man for Law. As Sabbath 
 and State are for Man, so Law is now for Man, and 
 Man becomes the Law unto himself, even as God is 
 Law unto his Universe. I AM LAW! Can you 
 climb thus high? I AM LAW! Hence forth in my 
 freedom Nature obeys me for, I AM LAW. And, I 
 am Law, because I am Love, for Love is the fulfilling 
 of the Law. As soon as I recognize that I am Love, 
 then I become in the universe Isiwless^ and becoming 
 Law I live above all Law. In this connection do 3 du 
 recall Emerson's most wondrous lines, 
 ''Into the fifth himself he flings, 
 And Conscious Law is King of kings." 
 
 Love Divine hath redeemed me. Divine Love hath 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY 45 
 
 freed me, Divine Love now becomes Me, and I con- 
 sciously live as Love. Hence I live as Law. 
 Yes, I am content with this Federation. I am con- 
 tent with this Convention. I have withheld this 
 word till my last, that I might cause you to feel the 
 importance of our place and to know how tenderly 
 I loved you and have thought for you. We are here 
 in the name alone of Love. What more need we? I 
 am content to be here, for we have the right spirit. 
 Xo great show of power, reputation, wealth or 
 statesmanship, has drawn us. No great excitement 
 has brought us together. We came because we love 
 Truth, and it has set us free. We come because 
 we love each other and Truth more than we love any 
 personal end. We come because we would exchange 
 sweet joy in reunion in this name of Love. We are 
 here in the only power the Universe knows, the 
 power of Truth. I AM CONTENT ! 
 Of Millions who Take the New Thought name but 
 few hundred are on our roll ; and out of these hun- 
 dreds but few are with us. When we look for Unity 
 among those who claim this larger view, we find that 
 most have been content with enlarging a little the 
 boundaries of freedom, and putting up the barriers 
 of a new name, and claimed themselves as pre-empt- 
 ors of the common realm. Blessed are these, for 
 they have blessed the world with this larger view, 
 even when they stop and claim themselves as found- 
 ers of a new faith. Millions need such an half-way 
 house. But we can no more bow to their intellect- 
 ual idols, than we can bow to those of wood and 
 stone made from the same principle of Authority. 
 Freedom to us means. Without Limitation. For this 
 reason I am content with this Federation. It is 
 needed. I did not knov/ how badly, till the last year 
 has revealed it to me. I thought there was really 
 more of the Spirit and love of Truth among New 
 
46 THE CALL OF THE 
 
 Thought workers. But too often has it been revealed 
 to me that love of Truth, meant love of my Truth, 
 and Freedom meant the limit of my yard. 
 This Federation comes to help such souls out of 
 bondage ;to lead them from their partial and limited 
 love into the Universal Love. They who respond to 
 our Call are among "the forty and four thousands" 
 that come up to the Coronation of the Emancipated 
 Soul as King of kings. 
 
 I am content, few as we are. Truth is not measured 
 by the number, nor position, nor intellectual ability 
 of its adherents. "Son give me thy heart!" is its 
 command. Not to the intellect comes this freedom. 
 It is to the real Man imprisoned in his belief of the 
 past, call it environment, heredity, or karma. These 
 are words obnoxious to freedom. I am freed, and 
 nothing that ever was, or can be, hampers the ex- 
 pression of my soul, as I desire to express myself. 
 Predestination or Free will? This Federation has 
 answered this problem in the only way it can be 
 answered, and that is by living free. I am divine, 
 means, that my will is God's will, and God is free. 
 Human Will is the expression of God's Omnipotence, 
 My only limitation is my knowledge of my power 
 and my lack of wisdom to use it. My only fetter is 
 my thought of self. / AM THAT WHICH I THINK 
 I AM. 
 
 This Divine Will finds in me its power to know it- 
 self. Till Man came it was not conscious of Itself. 
 And Tennyson, who disliked definitions and names, 
 called God the "Nameless" and speaks of Him as 
 
 ''That Love which is and was, 
 My Father and my brother and my God!" 
 
 He also says, "Free will is undoubtedly the main 
 miracle, apparently an act of self-limitation of the 
 Infinite, and yet a revelation of Himself by Him- 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY 47 
 
 self." This is virtually saying; God could not be 
 Man, were he not free. And we find closing "In 
 Memoriam" with these^words — 
 
 "O Living Will that shall endure 
 When all that seems, shall suffer shock." 
 
 And in that word ^''seenis'^ announces his position 
 toward the external as that which we teach, that 
 all that which to the senses seems, is but illusion, 
 while behind this illusion lives that eternal Man, 
 which through Love, Truth and Will is the Eternal 
 Entity of God. These three comprise Man's Con- 
 sciousness. His Freedom is won only when he be- 
 comes conscious of himself, as one with all that is. 
 ^^My Father and I are one," and that one is I. 
 This is the only meaning we can read into, or out 
 of, that greatest thought of Jesus. To realize this 
 is to live where King Arthur lived, when all his 
 knights had failed in searching for the Holy Grail. 
 To him who remained at home doing his duty, came 
 the Realization which is the GRAIL. Arthur was 
 Emancipated. 
 
 "Let visions of the night or of the day 
 Come, as they will; and many a time they come 
 Until this earth he walks on seems not earth, 
 This light that strikes his eyeballs is not light; 
 This air that strikes his forehead is not air, 
 But Vision — yea, his very hand and foot — 
 In moments when he feels he cannot die, 
 And knows himself no vision to himself, 
 Nor the High God a vision, nor that One 
 Who rose again." 
 

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