Presented to 
 
 With the compliments of the author, 
 giving you good hail upon this, one 
 of the many and glorious ways of 
 life, Life, the universal and 
 eternal . 
 
GIFT OF 
 
From the unreal lead me to the Real. Fron 
 ness lead me to Light. From death lead me 
 mortality. 
 
 He who consciously enters this symbol \v 
 Love, Wisdom, Truth, Health, Opulence, HJI 
 and Peace. 
 
 With the Power of the above you will be i 
 To be so strong that nothing can distui 
 peace of mind. 
 
 To talk health, happiness and prosperity t 
 one you meet. 
 To make all your friends feel that there i 
 
MY COVENANT 
 MY LIFE-WORK 
 
 BY 
 
 AURICK S. BRACKETT 
 
 PeblisKed ttf the 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH 
 AND EDUCATION 
 
 Elsinore and Los Angeles, California 
 
 1919 
 
Copyright, 1919 
 
 by 
 
 AUR1CK S, BRACKETT 
 Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 J. F. ROWNY PRESS, LOS ANGELES 
 
DEDICATED TO 
 
 ALL WHO SEEK HEALTH AND EDUCATION 
 
 THAT THEY MAY BECOME 
 
 DULY AND TRULY PREPARED 
 
 WORTHY AND WELL QUALIFIED 
 
 TO LOVE AND SERVE 
 IN PERFECT EQUILIBRIUM 
 
 AURICK S. BRACKETT. 
 
 LOVE LIETH AT THE FOUNDATION 
 Love with Wisdom, is the Secret of Life. 
 The Torch of Life is Fed by the Oil of Love. 
 Love is the Oil of Life. 
 The Torch of Love is the Secret of Soul. 
 
 4322. 1 
 
MY LOVE is THE GREAT LOVE-SPIRIT 
 OF THE UNIVERSE, THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE 
 UNIVERSAL-MOTHER. SHE is THE WITHIN 
 OF THE HIGHER REALMS OF CONSCIOUS- 
 NESS AND HER SPEECH is THAT OF MYS- 
 TERIES. SHE KISSED MY HAND AND BID 
 ME WRITE THE LOVE SHE GAVE TO ME. 
 
 I SHALL STRIVE To HEAL, To TEACH 
 
 AND To EXPRESS THAT LOVE FROM THIS 
 
 TIME ON IN HONOR OF HER GlFT. 
 
 DECEMBER 25, 1869 
 
THE MASTER'S TOUCH 
 
 In the still air the music lies unheard ; 
 
 In the rough marble beauty hides unseen; 
 
 To make the music and the beauty needs 
 
 The Master's touch, the sculptor's chisel 
 keen. 
 
 Great Master, touch us with Thy skillful 
 hand ; 
 
 Let not the music that is in us die! 
 
 Great Sculptor, hew and polish us; nor let 
 
 Hidden and lost, Thy form within us lie! 
 
 Spare not the stroke! Do with us as Thou 
 wilt! 
 
 Let there be naught unfinished, broken, 
 marred ; 
 
 Complete Thy purpose, that we may be- 
 come 
 
 Thy perfect image, Thou, our God and 
 Lord! 
 
 BONAR. 
 
 Nov. 25th, 1902. 
 
 vii 
 
A NEIGHBOR WORD 
 
 S THIS a "common bush afire with 
 God," asking that we stand with 
 reverent feet to see and hear some 
 word of the Infinite I Am speak- 
 ing shiningly through it? 
 
 The outwardness might be 
 mapped in a few phrases. Born in New 
 England of English and New England 
 stock, his baby hands healing his sick 
 mother, revealing something of THAT 
 which is higher than we. Working on the 
 severe acres, that the simple needs of home 
 might be met. Going through the Civil 
 War as a soldier of the Union. A drug- 
 gist's clerk. A druggist with his own busi- 
 ness and business associates. Then a physi- 
 cian, an Eclectic physician, unable to follow 
 by rote any system of healing the Heal- 
 ing Truth somehow a living wisdom which 
 could speak through a free soul and bless 
 through unfettered hands. 
 
 In religion, also, Eclectic, the bee-wis- 
 
 9 
 
10 INTRODUCTORY 
 
 dom, his. As the bee wings a wide range, 
 despising no flower, spurning no weed, get- 
 ting from everywhere what its own won- 
 derful magic transmutes into cells of sweet- 
 ness and life, so ranged this one through 
 religions, philosophies, scriptures, proph- 
 ets, saviours, worships, the whole world 
 through, taking unto himself what of truth 
 was true to him, in the genius of his own 
 soul, awake and alive to know, to live and 
 to be, transmuting it into a growing and 
 greatening self, into cosmic urge and cosmic 
 seeing, eagering to fulfill the words which 
 say "Be ye, therefore, perfect even as your 
 Father which is in heaven is Perfect. " 
 
 Always a vision of service in the found- 
 ing of some Center in the midst of Nature's 
 healing quiet where the sick would be 
 helped into health again and so taught to 
 be and live that sickness no more could 
 have any part in them this Center, this 
 Institution, this University, named what- 
 ever it will be, the outflowering of this 
 consecration of a man to God and God's 
 work in that freedom of the truth which 
 always is active when it is lived. 
 
 Suppose that out of this soul's consecra- 
 tion of himself there should grow a Uni- 
 
MY COVENANT 11 
 
 versity of Life, would it not be something 
 new under the sun? A university, not of 
 the head alone, and not of the heart alone, 
 but a University in which the head feels 
 and the heart thinks, a University which 
 has a spiritual knowing at its center, its 
 spirit being the spirit of Life, its animating, 
 wise soul being that indwelling of Life It- 
 self which idealizes and actualizes within 
 our humanity, a cosmic divinity which is 
 the regeneration of man, a University 
 whose teachings are in the seeing that every 
 common thing is afire with God and reveal- 
 ing God as truth, as love, as wisdom. 
 
 But the Covenant itself, with its living 
 symbols of divine and human action min- 
 gled in oneness, is the outshine of the di- 
 vine fire within the man? 
 
 It was hot written for others. It is not 
 in the nature of a public word. It is the 
 intimate privacy of the soul in conversa- 
 tion with itself about doing the deed of a 
 life. As meditation it might belong to the 
 cloister. As action it might belong to com- 
 merce. As the voicing of a soul, thinking 
 out loud with itself, it belongs to the within 
 where God abides; it belongs to the with- 
 out where man lives and strives out of the 
 
12 INTRODUCTORY 
 
 many broken arcs to form the perfect sky 
 wherethrough the sun of joy may shine. It 
 belongs to that which some would call 
 worship. It belongs to that which some 
 would call work. In it these two hemi- 
 spheres unite, making the one planet of a 
 consecrated man, holding its orbit amid 
 other worlds of work and worship. 
 
 This consecration is big like a world, for 
 it includes the world in its vision of service. 
 In its bigness it would hold the humblest 
 life in its hallowed regard, even as the 
 world gives of the grace of itself to the 
 last grass blade born to be lost amid the 
 multitudinous green of the year, even as 
 the world-spirit thunders in the cataract 
 and sings in the throat of the wren whose 
 song of love is lost in the rush and roar of 
 the waters. This covenant is big like the 
 sky through which light falls shiningly, for 
 it includes the sky and the Sky behind the 
 sky through which Divine Love shines its 
 Divine Truth over and into the minds of 
 men. 
 
 It is cosmic; it is universal; and yet inti- 
 mate and individual. It is of God, the 
 infinite and of man, the finite, and seeks 
 that flame-line where God the infinite be- 
 
MY COVENANT 13 
 
 comes finite and man the finite becomes 
 infinite. 
 
 It is not literature. It is life. As liter- 
 ature, its amplitudes could be made as 
 many as the leaves on the tree, as multi- 
 tudinous as the roses in a summer. 
 
 As life, it is just life, and will take life 
 to understand it and in living, to amplify it. 
 
 At my suggestion it is given to the world 
 just as it is and has been used by Dr. 
 Brackett in meeting his problems and over- 
 coming his difficulties, in dreaming his 
 dreams and awakening them into realiza- 
 tion, and so without editing, without 
 change. 
 
 It goes forth, therefore, as a life-docu- 
 ment. It is an experienced sailor's chart. 
 It is, also, his ocean. He can sail well by 
 the compasses of men, knowing their vari- 
 ations. He can sail better by the stars, 
 knowing that they make eternal circuits 
 through that Eternity in which being cen- 
 ters, in which life lives. 
 
 Not all will understand. Not all will 
 bless. Those who have caught something 
 of the first streaks of the morning of Man's 
 new and better day will growingly under- 
 stand and growingly be blessed as they 
 
14 INTRODUCTORY 
 
 vision and live the truth which this soul 
 voices to itself. In my heart there is a 
 shine from its light. In your life there 
 may be a day from its shining. 
 
 If you are ready to build your temple 
 and would see how another has builded, 
 enter. If you would know how a search- 
 ing soul has found, read and think. If you 
 would live the great life, see here how 
 great life thinks. 
 
 If you would have the sanctity and cer- 
 tainty of the Eternal Life and your eternal 
 meanings, tarry here until you can under- 
 stand, and, then, write your own covenant 
 with your soul and the Soul of your soul, 
 consecrating yourself to high and true and 
 tender and earnest living unto the living 
 of the clean, the helpful and eternal life 
 here and now and forever and wherever. 
 
 This you will find is blessedness. 
 
 When some years ago, in an intimacy 
 of friendship, moving through the higher 
 realities and visions, Dr. Brackett read to 
 me what was but written for his own eyes, 
 I urged that he give it to the world for the 
 help of the world, convinced, as I was and 
 am, that a life-word like this is better often 
 than a literary word, than a word from 
 
MY COVENANT 15 
 
 the imagination, with no definite life-basis 
 to its truth, better for that stirring of 
 mind and soul which endeavors after the 
 perfect 
 
 Now that the time of its going forth is 
 here, I have written these neighbor words ; 
 and I am thinking of those whom it will 
 help, especially of the young. If they can 
 hear and feel and see and heed, they can 
 make their own covenant and live a life 
 measuring out success and satisfaction and 
 blessedness. 
 
 This ideal of Life will serve many who 
 have no chart of Life's Mysteries to guide 
 them, if they but hear the voice which this 
 man heard, a voice which is speaking 
 within every human soul, and obey, as he 
 did, when he covenanted and dedicated 
 body, mind, soul and spirit to Love and 
 Service. 
 
 JOHN MILTON SCOTT. 
 
 Los Angeles, California, 
 July?, 1919. 
 
MY LIFE COVENANT* 
 
 April 8, 1896 
 Today I inaugurate the following: 
 
 Y COVENANT with my HIGHER 
 SELF My Definite Life-Work. 
 1846185318671896. 
 
 Years of Work, of Thought, of 
 Struggle with my Lower Nature 
 was required, commencing early 
 in this Incarnation (1853), but more de- 
 fined since Sept. 20th, 1867. 
 
 But the realization, up to the present 
 moment, is worth a thousandfold its cost 
 in work, in thought, in struggle. 
 
 I have ever desired to become Self-cen- 
 tered, Self-controlled and Self-sufficient, 
 and to manifest Divinity from within. 
 
 I learned that this could be attained by 
 controlling Nature, both external and in- 
 ternal. 
 
 By affirming I can ! I will ! I dare ! 
 I do! 
 
 *This Covenant is printed as written without change, in 
 phrasing, punctuation or use of capitals. 
 
 16 
 
MY COVENANT 17 
 
 By living pure in Thought, Speech and 
 Action. 
 
 LEAD THOU me on "Lead me, O 
 Lord, in thy righteousness." Psm. 5-8. 
 
 "THY WILL be Done." Matt. 26-42. 
 
 "But there is a Spirit in Man, and the 
 inspiration of the Almighty giveth them 
 understanding." Job. 32-8. 
 
 "Teach me to do Thy Will; for. Thou 
 art my God; Thy Spirit is good; lead me 
 into the land of uprightness." Psm. 
 143-10. 
 
 On the doors and walls of the Temple 
 the word "Try" is written. 
 
 I will never lose confidence, patience, or 
 perseverance in this, 
 
 My Definite Life-Work. 
 
 THE SUPREME BEING 
 
 He is the one Creator, Regulator and 
 Destroyer of the Universe and all it con- 
 tains, as well as the most vital element, 
 called the Self or Spirit. 
 
 The Foundation of MY LIFE is Ex- 
 pressed in Spirit, Deity, Being, Reality, 
 Unity, Energy, Bliss, First Cause, Divine 
 Self, Divine Mind, The Great Breath, One 
 
18 MY LIFE-WORK 
 
 God, One Law, One Substance, One Power, 
 One Life, One Existence, One Supreme, 
 Universal Divine Essence, Universal Su- 
 preme Consciousness. 
 
 This Oneness, this Unity, this Founda- 
 tion is manifested in Analysis, Activity, 
 Comparison, Contentment, Concentration, 
 Contemplation, Consciousness, Color, Dis- 
 crimination, Faith, Force, Health, Heat, 
 Happiness, Intuition, Illumination, Knowl- 
 edge, Light, Love, Law, Mind, Matter, 
 Meditation, Motion, Opulence, Peace, 
 Power, Rest, Realization, Substance, Syn- 
 thesis, Thought, Wholeness, Wisdom, 
 Will. 
 
 THE AT-ONE-MENT WITH THE ABOVE is 
 FINAL EMANCIPATION 
 
 With the above Ideal ever before me, 
 and knowing that it can be achieved, I will 
 to walk the Path, to Live the Life, to At- 
 tain IT. To Love, To Know, To Dare, 
 To Will, To Do, and To Be Silent. 
 
 In this PATH I will exercise attention, 
 Ambition, Abstraction, Aspiration, Con- 
 centration, Contemplation, Courage, Dis- 
 crimination, Enlightenment, Faith, Medi- 
 tation, Silence, Sanctification, Patience, 
 Power of Will and Strength. 
 
MY COVENANT 19 
 
 Thought is the product of Mind; it is a 
 rate of Vibration sent forth from the Uni- 
 versal Mind, and therefore is Force. I 
 will direct it by Attention, Expectation, 
 Desire, Hope, Belief, Faith, Courage, 
 Perseverance, Seeing, Hearing, Feeling 
 and Will. 
 
 This Path, in Action, will lead to the 
 Higher Consciousness Cosmic Conscious- 
 ness or, in other words, if rightly used, 
 will bring me to all I need of either Ma- 
 terial, Mental, or Spiritual character. 
 
 As I proceed, I will constantly Affirm, 
 To Love, To Know, To Will, To Dare, 
 To Do, To Be Silent, and to be purer in 
 Thought, purer in Speech, and purer in 
 Deed for every day that comes. "I can, 1 ' 
 "I will," "I dare," "Idol" 
 
 The Four Great Working Tools, or 
 Methods of Mind, which I am using for 
 the purpose of connecting my normal con- 
 sciousness with the Universal Conscious- 
 ness, are the processes known as Philo- 
 sophical Contemplation, Meditation, Cre- 
 ation and Concentration. 
 
 I use the Power of Will within me, at 
 every step to assist me. WILL determines 
 the direction of Thought. The concrete- 
 
20 MY LIFE- WORK 
 
 ness and intensity of thought, feeling, and 
 imagination, determine the promptness of 
 the response. Therefore, with this found- 
 ation, I will to work out my own Salva- 
 tion ! I will to develop ! 
 
 I will to use all the Love and Knowledge 
 that comes to me, for the purpose of find- 
 ing my IDEAL. By Living The Life, my 
 Ideal will become known to me. 
 
 I know I am being helped, and shall 
 ever be helped, by the Great Ones who 
 teach the Laws of Being. Therefore, I 
 will to be quiet, calm and tranquil; kind, 
 amiable and pleasant; cheerful, gentle, 
 noble and generous to all mankind, and to 
 all animals. I will be energetic, ambitious 
 and striving. It is the service of the Sub- 
 jective Mind that I will to attain and pos- 
 sess in its fulness. 
 
 My demands are made of Universal 
 Consciousness, the Father-Mother God, 
 namely : 
 
 I desire to evolve the power of Spiritual 
 Vision; I desire to attain spiritual percep- 
 tion; I desire to reach, by direct communi- 
 cation, the Infinite Force itself, call it 
 Energy, Power, Spirit, or God. 
 
 I know I am in touch with the Supreme 
 
MY COVENANT 21 
 
 Power of the Universe through spirit mes- 
 sengers. Back of all this lies the wonder- 
 ful Infinite-Force which I desire to contact 
 direct. 
 
 To do this, I will follow the Path of 
 Devotion, of Veneration, of Homage, and 
 maintain it thus earning the right of con- 
 tact. 
 
 I desire, at will, to go out of the body 
 and meet Higher Intelligences Cosmic 
 Beings to converse with Them, having 
 full knowledge, insight, judgment, and un- 
 derstanding, and return at will. 
 
 I desire, at will, to send my thoughts 
 clearly, telepathically, to those in the flesh 
 as I deem best that I may the better 
 heal, instruct and serve Thee. 
 
 I will ever hold the highest and noblest 
 of desires. I will acquaint myself with 
 the Spirit Forces about me. I will aid 
 these forces in doing their best work by 
 right thinking, right speech, and right 
 action on my part. 
 
 I will, along this Path, develop purity of 
 character, nobility of life, compassion and 
 tenderness of thought, through the devel- 
 opment of the Powers of the Soul and the 
 Inner Forces of the God-man; I will ever 
 
22 MY LIFE-WORK 
 
 be devoted, true, brave and firm, attain- 
 ing true Spiritual Vision; the power to 
 heal, to teach and to express in due season 
 through Divine Grace. 
 
 I, therefore, dedicate my personal will to 
 Him-Her, together with all thought, speech 
 and action. I will strive to get rid of the 
 strength of the personal idea personality. 
 I will develop that intuition that will bring 
 to me all self-knowledge. I will purify the 
 heart, so that the Powers and Forces of 
 Spirit will lend themselves to me. I will 
 qualify myself to quit the body at will and 
 return to the body at will. I will obtain the 
 clew to my own real nature, which is divine 
 and eternal. 
 
 The seven Great Enemies of Mankind 
 are Anger, Greed, Lust, Envy, Vanity, 
 Fear and Worry. I will, by Control of 
 Thought, drive away Anger, Greed, Lust, 
 Envy, Vanity, Fear, Worry, Doubt, Fret- 
 ting and Regret. I will to succeed in my 
 "Life-Work!" I will be thoroughly Self- 
 reliant, Self-supporting and Independent 
 For Thou will lead me on. 
 
 I will ever control and exercise my mind, 
 which will, by hope, faith, patience, and 
 persistent determination, lead me to per- 
 
MY COVENANT 23 
 
 manent health, opulence, honor and happi- 
 ness that lie involved in my IDEAL. I love 
 my Ideal I It is Truth ! 
 
 I will never grumble, complain, whine 
 or murmur. I will be What I Will to Be ! 
 My Life Must Be One of Work, Love, 
 Service, Success and Happiness! 
 
 My Mistakes and Errors will not dis- 
 courage me ; but I will profit by them, and 
 make them serve as Stepping-Stones to 
 Truth and Success to my IDEAL. They 
 are my Teachers in the School of Life. 
 
 As a man thinketh in his Heart, so he 
 will be ! We are all Masters of Our Own 
 Fate ! There is no Yesterday, no To-Mor- 
 row! 
 
 O7VL7 NOW. 
 
 I will to ever be active in the Now, each 
 moment, and thus fill each and every To- 
 Day. I will to increase my Will Power! 
 I will to increase my Power of Attention ! 
 I will to increase my Power of Concentra- 
 tion! I will to increase my Power of 
 Meditation ! I will to increase my Power 
 of Contemplation! I will to increase my 
 Power of Abstraction ! 
 
 I will to increase my Power to LOVE, 
 Love for all that breathes, for all in Na- 
 
24 MY LIFE-WORK 
 
 ture, is the grandest thing in the World, 
 and is the Heart of Heaven. It is to be 
 found Here and Now. 
 
 Thus wide shall be my LOVE ! My 
 LIFE! My IDEAL! 
 
 My IDEAL-LOVE is the Great Love- 
 Spirit of the Universe, the Universal 
 Mother. She is the Within of the Higher 
 Consciousness, and her speech is that of 
 the Mysteries of Life. 
 
 United by Love to Love is to Know and 
 to reign in the Sacred Trinity of Wisdom, 
 Love and Understanding manifesting in 
 a Healthy body. I will thus to u learn to 
 walk with the Knowledge of the Spirit 
 within Thee." "If we live in the Spirit, let 
 us also walk in the Spirit." 
 
 I do live in the Spirit ! I do walk in the 
 Spirit ! 
 
 "What, know ye not that your Body is 
 the Temple of the Holy Ghost which is in 
 you, which ye have of God, and ye are not 
 your own?" 
 
 "God is near you, is with you, is within 
 you." 
 
 I will acknowledge no bondage but that 
 of LOVE, and of mine own Higher and Bet- 
 
MY COVENANT 25 
 
 ter Self. I will to find the hidden way of 
 Soul into Spirit, and be Free ! 
 
 The Hidden Way is the Infinite Way 
 The Kingdom of God is an undeveloped 
 Kingdom in every Soul, and it waits for 
 the divine touch, before it can develop. 
 Thus will I obtain Liberty and Emancipa- 
 tion Liberty of Soul Freedom of Spirit 
 Perfect Rest Perfect Peace Bliss. 
 This is my IDEAL! my LIFE, here and 
 now. 
 
 I will to make my Life manifest as prac- 
 tical Love, Service, Charity and Good- 
 Will, filled with Peace to All. Thus it will 
 be noble, broad, comprehensive, grounded 
 in Religion, Sociology, Science and Phil- 
 osophy, and in Unity with the Divine reve- 
 lations of Nature and the Divine Teach- 
 ings of exalted Intelligences. Thus I will 
 reach Truth, which is the blissful corre- 
 spondence of Thought, Speech and Action 
 with one another. 
 
 "There is no Religion Higher than 
 Truth." It embraces Will, Silence, Pa- 
 tience, Virtue, Prudence, Courage, Faith, 
 Justice, Mercy, Charity, Compassion, De- 
 votion, Discrimination, and Worship. God 
 is All of Truth God is Spirit God is 
 
26 MY LIFE-WORK 
 
 Love God is Life God is Universal 
 Mind God is Universal Consciousness 
 God is the Subject and Object of Mind. 
 Wherever are life and substance, there 
 is God within; wherever God is, there is 
 Being. The Universe is Existence and 
 Being, wherein God manifests. As living 
 substance, God is ONE. As Life and 
 Substance, God is dual, or twain. He 
 is the Life, and She is the substance. 
 
 God is perfect Love, perfect Knowledge, 
 perfect Wisdom, perfect Intelligence, per- 
 fect Sympathy, perfect Justice and Mercy. 
 They also manifest as perfect Harmony, 
 Law and Order. 
 
 That I may Heal, Teach and Express, 
 I will, by following this Path which I have 
 marked out and covenanted with (having 
 herein made a Covenant to follow), come 
 into At-one-ment with the One Eternal, 
 Infinite, Real-Existence, the Supreme 
 Logos, Being, Consciousness, Bliss, the 
 Perfect Self; the Pure, the Ever-Free, the 
 Almighty, the All-Knowing, the All-Merci- 
 ful, the Teacher of All Teachers, from 
 Whom is the birth, continuation and disso- 
 lution of the Universe. 
 
 Potentially I am that One I 
 
MY COVENANT 27 
 
 I will to reach the center of the follow- 
 ing ten Hierarchies: Wisdom, Knowl- 
 edge, Faith, Discerning of Spirits, Heal- 
 ing, Teaching, Expression, Hearing, See- 
 ing and Feeling. All that comes to me 
 from these Centers, I will manifest in my 
 "Life-Work." I live but to love and to 
 serve, to be good and to do good I 
 
 Love, with Wisdom, is the secret of Life. 
 Love is the great motive Power of the 
 Universe. 
 
 The three vital truths, underlying all re- 
 ligions, are the Father-Motherhood of 
 God, the Brotherhood of Man, and the 
 union of the Subjective mind and the Ob- 
 jective mind. These are the foundation 
 of my religious nature; they embrace the 
 Divine Spirit of Love, Knowledge and 
 Harmony being practical Love and 
 Good-Will toward all that is. 
 
 The Torch of Life is Fed by the oil of 
 Love. Love is the Oil of Life. I have 
 the Faith that I shall realize all of this 
 my IDEAL. 
 
 I am Male and Female. I have two 
 different spheres of consciousness one 
 from the positive vibrations of the male, 
 and another from the passive, negative vi- 
 
28 MY LIFE-WORK 
 
 bration of the female. Also, a conscious- 
 ness from the external sphere of the 
 natural world, and another from the in- 
 terior, or sphere of the Soul and spiritual 
 world. This is the Path to LIGHT the 
 Light of Truth. The Spiritual Light that 
 reveals the Individuality of Consciousness, 
 Will, Reason, and Freedom, is found when 
 the Subjective and Objective Minds act in 
 Unity. 
 
 u Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, 
 and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be 
 opened unto you." Luke 11-9. "Accord- 
 ing to your faith be it unto you." Matt. 
 9-29. 
 
 Knowing that I lack in Continuity, Self- 
 Esteem, Firmness, Eventuality or Memory, 
 and Language, I determine to stimulate 
 them. 
 
 In memory I suggest that all that I have 
 read or studied, or may read or study, shall 
 be remembered and clearly reproduced in 
 language AT WILL. 
 
 I suggest the truth that I am one with 
 the Infinite Life, and shall know and ex- 
 press the Law of this Infinite Life, the 
 Positivie Life, the Eternal Life. I shall 
 Heal, Teach, and Express this Life. I 
 
MY COVENANT 29 
 
 sec, I feel, I know, I hear, I touch, interi- 
 orly subjectively. Wisdom, Knowledge, 
 Faith, Healing, and Discerning of Spirits, 
 shall be the Gifts of this Infinite Life, that 
 I may the better love and serve. 
 
 I will that my Psychic Nature shall be 
 Free, and act out its own high character, 
 that it shall become clearer in Intuition and 
 Perception, and more Powerful in Execu- 
 tion than when in the ordinary mental con- 
 dition the Objective Mind. 
 
 I want Clairvoyance and Clairaudience 
 of the Highest Type having special ap- 
 plication to Healing, to Teaching, to Ex- 
 pressing, that they may aid me in Soul Cul- 
 ture, in Character Building, and in the dis- 
 cerning of spirits. 
 
 I want to be in conscious Union during 
 all these activities, on the Subjective Plane 
 and the Objective Plane. 
 
 I want the Highest Love, Divine Intui- 
 tion, Enlightenment, Health of Body, Hap- 
 piness and Opulence. 
 
 I will to have ALL the above, for they 
 belong to ME!.. They are Now within 
 ME! I can manifest THEM! 
 u What would'st thou have, aspiring Soul? 
 Claim it, for 'tis already thine : 
 
30 MY LIFE-WORK 
 
 The wish is born of what thou hast 
 Concealed within thy soul divine. " 
 
 IN THE SELF ALL THINGS ARE 
 
 I know that I, as a Doctor, should rank 
 high in the following: 
 
 Combativeness Destructiveness 
 
 Individuality Form 
 
 Color Order 
 
 Hope Faith 
 
 Patience Confidence 
 
 Cautiousness Construction 
 
 Size Weight 
 
 Calculation Locality 
 
 Charity Virtue 
 
 Determination Power of WILL 
 
 I have a fixed purpose in Life. I want 
 to be in full Knowledge of the Power of 
 each of the above, and to be Positive in the 
 action of each. I want to be able to see 
 and arouse these qualities in others. I 
 want to Heal by the "Word." 
 
 I know that all the secrets of Nature 
 are revealed to the one that wills to know 
 them. I WILL to know ALL! I WILL 
 thus to BECOME Conscious. 
 
 I have these Powers within me, there- 
 fore, I have the right to say, "I can and I 
 will!" Nothing can or shall hold me from 
 this growth, this becoming. 
 
MY COVENANT 31 
 
 I will be Free ! I will trust the Higher 
 Self which is my True Self. 
 
 I will have no Fear ! I will be Fearless ! 
 I have the Powers of a god involved with- 
 in my organization, my spiritual organism. 
 I do believe in their existence. I have that 
 Faith which is the Soul of all Life. I am 
 that very LIFE! I am WILL and I am 
 THOUGHT. 
 
 Will is the primal and Mother Force of 
 all the natural forces in Nature. My Ideal 
 is a complex of True Fixed Ideas which 
 direct my activities, as herein defined. 
 
 Biology says this Power, or Force, is 
 Life. Physics says it is THOUGHT, or 
 ETHERIC ENERGY, and Philosophy says it 
 is An Infinite Energy from which all 
 things proceed; Work, Will, Feeling and 
 Thought, together, in harmony, Will pro- 
 duce the greatest SUCCESS. This will solve 
 the mystery of what Man really Is. It is 
 Union with God, the Spirit that is the In- 
 dividualized Spiritual Soul in man. I will 
 to reach this Union! I know the Path, I 
 have seen the Light that lights the Way. 
 
 I NOW SPEAK TO MY SUBJECTIVE MlND 
 
 THE SELF 
 
32 MY LIFE-WORK 
 
 You are to inform my Objective Mind 
 of what the disease is, and how to treat it 
 physically or mentally. 
 
 You are to take possession of the pa- 
 tient's subjective mind, and inform my ob- 
 jective mind what suggestions to make to 
 the patient. All this shall be done in the 
 Master's name, in the interest of the Soul, 
 to promote health, purity of mind, and jus- 
 tice; to increase my Wisdom, my Knowl- 
 edge, my Faith, my Healing, and my Dis- 
 cerning of Spirits that I may the better 
 love and serve. A. U. M. 
 
 All power necessary to bring to me all 
 the Good in Life, is in ME ! 
 
 I affirm that I am the Spirit of Love ! 
 I live for purity of Life, of Thought, of 
 Speech, of Action. I have Purity of Char- 
 acter and Nobility of Life, and manifest 
 them in every act. I have Compassion to- 
 ward all. Tenderness of thought, Broth- 
 erhood and Unity with all. I do love 
 Truth and worship Justice. I cultivate 
 Individuality. Thus true progress and 
 spiritual enlightenment become my lot and 
 add to the best interests of all with whom 
 I associate. I am Tolerance I am Tol- 
 erant Kindness, I am Bright Good-Nature, 
 
MY COVENANT 33 
 
 I am Sweet Good-Will, I am Good-Rest. 
 I will talk gently and act frankly, and have 
 presence of mind under all circumstances. 
 
 Auto-Suggestions: I suggest that my 
 astral, etheric, mental and dense-body vi- 
 brations are becoming harmonious. All my 
 organs of nutrition, assimilation and elim- 
 ination are becoming harmonious in action. 
 All the vibrations of my nervous system 
 are becoming in harmony with the vibra- 
 tions of the nutritive, circulatory and ex- 
 cretory systems. I am to remember that 
 all Power necessary to bring me to all the 
 good there is in Life, is in me. I make 
 these suggestions to my Subjective Mind, 
 whenever I find my Objective Mind Vibrat- 
 ing toward my Subjective Mind. I am to 
 remember that all this leads to perfect 
 harmony between the Subjective or Spir- 
 itual Mind, and the Objective, or Human 
 Mind and that this harmony, or Unity, 
 is health of body and health of mind, with 
 full power to Express the WORD for heal- 
 ing, teaching, and expressing in language; 
 and that thus I am doing the Master's 
 Will, in thought, in speech and in action. 
 
 I am never to forget this ! I am thus 
 always to be in unity with the Will of the 
 
34 MY LIFE-WORK 
 
 Infinite Life. I am that Life ! One with 
 IT! I know that I exist in and from an 
 inexhaustible supply of every element 
 needed to make me strong and happy, and 
 enable me to help others in body, in mind 
 and to unfold the Spirit. 
 
 I know that I must discern this truth 
 constantly, in order to manifest it! for I 
 can only manifest that which I see and I 
 know and I feel. Thus I will grow in De- 
 votion, Steadfastness, and Gentleness, and 
 attain the God-Man which I know as the 
 Higher Self. 
 
 MY PATH TO SUCCESS 
 I will cultivate the "I am" I will ever 
 Love and Serve I will follow the five- 
 fold path of Desire, Expectation, Hope, 
 Belief and Faith, leading to Success. I 
 will cultivate the Forces of Thought, Feel- 
 ing and Imagination, as found in the Posi- 
 tive Power of 
 
 Affection, Inspiration, Attention, Activ- 
 ity, Analysis, Action, Association, Benevo- 
 lence, Beauty, Calmness, Concentration, 
 Contemplation, Comparison, Control of 
 Self, Cheerfulness, Courage, Conscience, 
 Cleanliness, Confidence, Color, Common- 
 sense, Cohesion, Contentment, Confidence, 
 
MY COVENANT 35 
 
 Courtesy, Charity, Compassion, Candor, 
 Consideration, Determination, Dignity, 
 Decision, Duty, Devotion, Discrimination, 
 Discreton, Diligence, Earnestness, Effi- 
 ciency, Equality, Energy, Enlightenment, 
 Faithfulness, Friendship, Freedom, Fru- 
 gality, Force, Fortitude, Gratitude, Good- 
 ness, Gentleness, Harmony, Humbleness, 
 Humility, Helpfulness, Health, Honesty, 
 Instinct, Independence, Investigation, In- 
 dustry, Indefatigability, Imagination, In- 
 spiration, Interpretation, Intelligence, In- 
 tuition, Illumination, Insight, Justice, Joy- 
 fulness, Kindness, Knowledge, Love, Long- 
 suffering, Morality, Mercy, Memory, 
 Meditation, Modesty, Meekness, Modera- 
 tion, Melody, Naturalness, Observation, 
 Opulence, Order, One-pointedness, Peace, 
 Perception, Perseverance, Perfection, Pru- 
 dence, Patience, Politeness, Persistence, 
 Poise, Power, Prana, Passivity, Quietude, 
 Reflection, Restraint, Responsibility, Reso- 
 lution, Repose, Regularity, Reverence, 
 Right-living, Right-thinking, Right speech, 
 Right Action, Reserve, Sincerity, Steadi- 
 ness, Sweetness, Steadfastness, Stillness, Si- 
 lence, System, Strength, Simplicity, Sym- 
 pathy, Synthesis, Serenity, Self-reliance, 
 
36 MY LIFE-WORK 
 
 Self-confidence, Self-sacrifice, Self-control, 
 Tranquility, Temperance, Thoughtfulness, 
 Tolerance, Trust, Tactfulness, Tenderness, 
 Understanding, Upliftment, Uprightness, 
 Unity, Usefulness, Unselfishness, Venera- 
 tion, Victory, Vision, Virtue, Will, Watch- 
 fulness, Wisdom, Waiting. 
 
 I CAN AND WILL BE MASTER 
 
 "Keep therefore the words of this cov- 
 enant, and do them, that ye may prosper in 
 all that ye do." Deut. 39-9. 
 
 My God is the Principle of Truth, mani- 
 festing in each of the above. He is the 
 within of them. In cultivating the above 
 Virtues, or Positive Forces, Divine Love 
 shall Lead and Control Me. 
 
 To be successful in my mind-action, to 
 progress more rapidly, I will use the fol- 
 lowing in my Path to Success ; namely, 
 
 First : I will Desire to know the essence 
 and complete Power of each of them. 
 
 Second : Expectation that I shall attain 
 to all this, and they shall never leave me. 
 
 Third: Hope, of a Divine Character, 
 shall stimulate and inspire me. 
 
 Fourth : Belief that I will achieve shall 
 dominate me and give me strength. 
 
MY COVENANT 37 
 
 Fifth : Faith, equal to full Knowledge, 
 shall be my anchor, all culminating in 
 
 Sixth: Success, or the Knowing: The 
 union of Love and Knowledge My 
 IDEAL. 
 
 Desire, long held to, creates the condi- 
 tions by which Expectation, and then 
 Hope, and then Belief, become possible; 
 and from Belief, Faith; and from Faith, 
 the Knowing, or Success, which is the At- 
 taining, or the natural and lawful Fruit 
 My Ideal. My Ideal is the SHE, within 
 the Him both of them are Myself. 
 
 To reach this altitude of Success, where 
 my Ideal IS, I invoke the Eternal and 
 Infinite Spirit of Being, Cause, Life, Soul, 
 Mind, Light, Wisdom, Knowledge, Jus- 
 tice, Truth, Substance and LOVE. 
 
 Thou Soul of the Universe, Creator, 
 Sustainer and Enlightener of Mankind, 
 Universal Consciousness, Father-Mother 
 God make me conscious of my Unity 
 with Thee. Hear this, my Invocation 
 my Covenant. 
 
 To assist me in the Path, I will avoid the 
 following Negative Forces : Annoyance, 
 Anxiety, Anger, Argument, Bitterness, Big- 
 otry, Brutality, Coldness, Carelessness, 
 
38 MY LIFE-WORK 
 
 Criticism, Conceit, Cruelty, Chagrin, 
 Death, Doubt, Disease, Disbelief, Disre- 
 spect, Depression, Distrust, Darkness, 
 Evil, Envy, Error, Fear, Failure, Fretful- 
 ness, Gossip, Gloominess, Grumbling, 
 Greed, Grief, Irritation, Ill-will, Impa- 
 tience, Inharmony, Ill-humor, Ills of life, 
 Ignorance, Jealousy, Lustfulness, Laziness, 
 Losses, Malice, Pain, Pride, Possession, 
 Prejudice, Revenge, Remorse, Resentment, 
 Resistance, Rage, Superstition, Surprise, 
 Suspicion, Sloth, Strife, Spite, Self-disgust, 
 Sensuality, Self-pity, Selfishness, Self-asser- 
 tion, Sadness, Sorrow, Trouble, Vexation, 
 Vanity, Weakness, Worry, Wasting of 
 Energy, Force or Prana in any direction. 
 
 I know that conscious growth means per- 
 sistent effort. I know that every experi- 
 ence wherein happiness, harmony and 
 knowledge are lacking, can be turned into 
 positive Good through this lower self, or 
 objective mind-training, or discipline. "I 
 can! I will! I dare! I do! lam!" 
 
 I want a memory of all that I have ever 
 read or studied, and a spiritual judgment 
 to separate the good in all things, the true 
 and the beautiful, from the so-called error, 
 or, more truly, ignorance. 
 
MY COVENANT 39 
 
 I want, and demand, entrance to the 
 Universal Mind, to the Universal Memory 
 of Pure Intellect and Pure Reason Cos- 
 mic Consciousness. I want these Powers 
 and Gifts that I may the better serve man- 
 kind. I want to remember and reproduce 
 in expression, all that I may read, observe, 
 or hear in the future. To forget is impos- 
 sible! 
 
 I know that I am my own God and my 
 own Devil. I am manifesting God, when 
 I am doing Good, the Devil when I know 
 that I am doing Wrong or non-Good. 
 Thus I can always judge myself. I will 
 always say, "I do." I will always say, "I 
 can." 
 
 Then I become Faith-conscious that I 
 can, I will, I dare, I do also that I and 
 the Father-Mother are ONE, also that I 
 am, potentially, a God-Man. And what 
 else could I be, without being God? And 
 who is God? Do we know Him-Her, ex- 
 cept through man, Our-Self? God is 
 Spirit I am also Spirit: therefore I am, 
 potentially, God, unfolding each day, each 
 moment, in fact. I recognize Myself, the 
 I, the "I Am," as the "I am that I Am" of 
 the Universe. To say, knowingly, "I am 
 
40 MY LIFE-WORK 
 
 God," is the highest praise I can give to 
 God. Therefore, having become thus con- 
 scious, I do assert and affirm the unfold- 
 ment of the God-man that I am. 
 
 I am Spirit! Spirit is All! Therefore 
 I have All that I desire; for the All con- 
 tains my Ideal, whom I have Covenanted 
 to see, hear, touch, and manifest. 
 
 In this Spirit is my Life! Therefore I 
 am Life ! Life manifests in me as health 
 of body and mind in all its manifold activ- 
 ities. I radiate this Health ! 
 
 All my patients feel this radiation from 
 me. I am giving my body all the fluid it 
 requires to do its work properly, and it will 
 respond by keeping my body in a normal 
 condition, giving me health and strength, 
 making my body a pure channel for the 
 Spirit to function through. All this I radi- 
 ate to my patients, and to all with whom I 
 associate. They are Spirit and in Spirit 
 we meet, and, in this thought I help them. 
 Thus I teach that Spirit is Perfection. 
 
 I am therefore Perfect in the Spirit, and 
 I will that Perfection shall manifest, day 
 by day, in my life, in my words, in my 
 thoughts, in my deeds, and in my loves. I 
 love the good, therefore I do no wrong. I 
 
MY COVENANT 41 
 
 love the truth, therefore I cannot in any 
 way be false to myself, or any one. I love 
 the beautiful, therefore my manifestations 
 in all ways are harmonious and pure, and 
 fitted to the time and place. I, as Spirit, 
 do not fail in any endeavor. What I be- 
 gin, I complete in an orderly manner. I 
 am Spirit, and, as such, I am sufficient for 
 all the duties and requirements of life. I 
 do not need the praise, nor the good opin- 
 ions of men; it is enough for me to have 
 the approval of my own conscience, and to 
 realize that I follow the judgments and de- 
 cisions of my Higher Reason or Self. I 
 am God's Child In Truth I am a God- 
 man. 
 
 I AFFIRM I EXIST I THINK I 
 KNOW I AM 
 
 My judgments are righteous, for I love 
 Justice and as Spirit, 
 
 I am Justice. 
 
 I am Self-governed, and the opinion of 
 the world does not sway me. I am suffi- 
 cient unto myself. I am Self-reliant, and 
 in Spirit is my strength. I am therefore 
 firm. I am not induced by fear, love, de- 
 sire, or by any consideration, to swerve 
 from that which I think is just, right or 
 
42 MY LIFE-WORK 
 
 best. I have an excellent memory; it is 
 under my control. I can at any time recall 
 any incident with all its details. 
 
 The Book of Memory, containing all I 
 have ever studied, or read, or seen, or 
 thought, or felt, is to me, through desire, 
 as the printed page is to me through the 
 eye. 
 
 I have language; I can readily express 
 whatever thoughts I may desire to express. 
 All the language I have ever heard and all 
 that I have ever read, is at my command. 
 I love to express myself in words, and I am 
 a persuasive speaker am logical, co- 
 herent, fluent and convincing. I ever speak 
 from the love of Truth; therefore I have 
 inspiration. The fountain of Truth is 
 open to me at need and will. I am Spirit; 
 therefore I am Wisdom, and do not speak 
 anything but the truth. I am Spirit; there- 
 fore I live in Spirit. In Spirit I am in 
 Communion with individualized spirits 
 wherever they are in the Universe, and I 
 am conscious of this whenever I desire. I 
 may in Spirit, at will, find Rest, Strength, 
 Wisdom, Power, Truth, Companionship, 
 Inspiration, my Better-Self, my Real-Life, 
 my Happiness, or touch any Hierarchy that 
 
MY COVENANT 43 
 
 I desire to contact. I am happy in the 
 recognition of this Union with the ALL- 
 GOOD, the ALL- WISE, and in the recogni- 
 tion that He-She is manifesting, and will 
 continue to manifest Their Power and Per- 
 fection. I am finding all that I desire, in 
 the revealings that They are making to me. 
 From Spirit I draw all I need for my con- 
 scious life and all that I need for the ex- 
 pression of Spirit. I am a good judge of 
 the size, weight and color of whatever I 
 have to deal with. I calculate well I well 
 employ the expenditure of my time, my ef- 
 forts, my means, and my emotions. 
 
 I waste nothing. I am excellent in the 
 remembrance of events and places. I can 
 readily locate myself, and am never lost in 
 whatever place I am in; and I have at all 
 times self-possession, and my thoughts and 
 all my intellectual faculties are at my com- 
 mand. 
 
 As Spirit, I am Perfection. That per- 
 fection lies in the Sub-conscious part of my 
 mind. I therefore think, act, and live from 
 the sub-conscious, with the subjective mind 
 controlled by the objective mind. The 
 harmony of the unity of these two minds 
 is the Holy Marriage of the male and fe- 
 
44 MY LIFE-WORK 
 
 male duality in each and every man. I 
 draw at will, from the sub-conscious, all 
 that I need. I do not think; but in silence 
 I receive as I need, inspiration, intuitions, 
 clairvoyant visions from the astral and 
 spirit side of life; and I am guided, edu- 
 cated, and made one, consciously, with the 
 ALL, by this flow from the subjective mind 
 into the conscious objective mind and 
 then I manifest Its Life. I continually 
 live in the recognition of God, the Father- 
 Mother, the One who is Spirit, and in 
 whom is all Goodness, Truth and Beauty. 
 All my conduct is inspired by this recogni- 
 tion. In all my practice I am Their Mes- 
 senger, bearing in my person, Their love to 
 Their children my brothers. 
 
 I am thus the Great Physician, the Spir- 
 itual Healer; and my presence, my medi- 
 cine, is infiltrated by this Love, and this 
 thought of Divine Love : therefore all with 
 whom I come in contact, are made the bet- 
 ter by the silent Virtue that, in the name 
 of Love and Knowledge, flows from us to 
 all. 
 
 I am to remember that all of the con- 
 ditions that I meet in my patients are the 
 natural results of morbid emotions, or un- 
 
MY COVENANT 45 
 
 pleasant thoughts they have entertained, 
 and that Pain is only Nature's method to 
 bring, in love, to better manifestation in 
 righteous thought and emotion, the god in 
 them: and it is my duty to so help them 
 that they may see God in themselves, and 
 manifest Him-Her. I am the master of 
 my own body. Every organ is doing its 
 perfect work. 
 
 All the functions of my body are health- 
 ful, for I think nothing but Health and I 
 feel nothing but Love. My food is well 
 digested, it is well assimilated; my circula- 
 tion is good; my nervous system is in per- 
 fect manifestation. My body responds 
 readily to all demands, and I am fresh and 
 vigorous at all times. 
 
 I am not exhausted, for Spirit is an In- 
 finite Fountain; and I am constantly draw- 
 ing my life from that sub-conscious source 
 of all Life. I never forget this relation to 
 the One-Source of all manifestation. I 
 never forget that I am Spirit; that I am 
 Life; that I am Love; that I am Truth; 
 that I am in God and God is in ME. I am 
 a part of the Eternal Life. I live, habitat, 
 in this Cosmic Consciousness this Univer- 
 sal, Supreme Consciousness. I am God's 
 
46 MY LIFE-WORK 
 
 child. I know that my True-Life is the 
 entire Obedience of the Human to the 
 Divine WILL. 
 
 "Mind is the root (of evil) ; actions 
 proceed from the mind. If any speak or 
 act from a corrupt mind, suffering will fol- 
 low, as the dust follows the rolling wheel." 
 Buddha. 
 
 We cannot expect to escape the result of 
 our thoughts and acts. We must live an 
 unselfish life, with purity of heart and 
 mind. Pure in thought, speech and action 
 this will lead to the emancipation of the 
 soul. 
 
 God has been ever-good, ever-kind, ever- 
 true, ever-gracious, ever-loving, ever-know- 
 ing to me, His Child. Through my sub- 
 jective mind He has shown me the God- 
 man dwelling in my Soul, and how to ob- 
 tain the service of this, my Higher Self, in 
 Healing, Teaching and Expression, 
 through the conscious Union of the subjec- 
 tive and objective minds. 
 
 I will learn to stand aside from myself, 
 and observe my own feelings, instincts, im- 
 pulses, sensations, desires, impressions and 
 perceptions, and understand them and gov- 
 ern them. 
 
MY COVENANT 47 
 
 This day, today, each day, I will start 
 with thoughts of gentleness, kindness, good 
 temper, courage, decision indeed in high 
 and holy thought. My thoughts the 
 action of my objective and subjective 
 minds, blended in unity of action, shall be 
 so pure, clean and even-tempered, that 
 nothing can disturb or destroy their power 
 of doing good, of meeting all disturbing 
 elements with love and kindness. 
 
 Under all circumstances I will keep an 
 even mind serene and restful, healthful, 
 not hurried or impatient. 
 
 I know the Spirit within me is Love ; its 
 powers are Life, Energy and Wisdom. I 
 will unite my body with its Life by con- 
 templation; my soul with its Energy by 
 concentration; my mind with its Wisdom 
 by meditation, until I attain identification 
 and become Love Incarnate, through 
 Union with the Divine One within the 
 Higher Self. 
 
 I have only one thought, one prayer, one 
 interior desire, during each moment of 
 time. This is embraced in u Baptise me." 
 The Baptism of the Holy Ghost is the 
 Spirit of God falling upon the believer, 
 taking possession of his faculties, imparting 
 
48 MY LIFE-WORK 
 
 to him gifts not naturally his own yet be- 
 longing to him but which qualify him for 
 the service to which God has called him. 
 To heal by the Word, to teach by the 
 Word, to express the Word that God has 
 and will in his own good time, more fully 
 qualify me for, that I may the more fully 
 serve and love him is my Ideal. I desire 
 to live by the Law of Love and the Law 
 of Service. 
 
 I intend, by the Grace of God, to cut 
 myself away from all desires, passions and 
 feelings that conflict with my Ideal as set 
 forth in this, my Covenant with my Higher 
 Self. 
 
 A perfect Life means perfection in lov- 
 ing all that breathes, and in serving. This 
 is attained only when man yields his will to 
 God's will, and lets God's Life flow 
 through him, unchecked and unhindered 
 by any barriers in the lower personality. 
 Thus only can man become merged in God. 
 
 My Psychic Development and Spiritual 
 Unfolding is defined herein. My Spirit 
 neither develops nor evolves; it only un- 
 folds into manifestation that which eter- 
 nally lies within. My Spirit, being iden- 
 tical with the Universal Spirit, Universal 
 
MY COVENANT 49 
 
 Supreme Consciousness, can neither in- 
 crease nor diminish. What I can do, en- 
 tering into conditions of time and space, is 
 to turn outwards that which is within and 
 turn attention outwards and slowly to con- 
 quer, by its contact with matter, that knowl- 
 edge of the Universe regarded as phe- 
 nomenal, which does not come into my con- 
 sciousness when I am separated from the 
 Universal by that delicate film of matter 
 which is my vehicle in the nirvanic, or spir- 
 itual sphere. 
 
 Within the above seed of Divinity, 
 within me, all possibilities are contained. 
 By love and service, I break down all bar- 
 riers and become the God-man which is my 
 Ideal. Psychic development depends en- 
 tirely on the conditions of the matter which 
 veils the Spirit. It is the evolving and de- 
 veloping of form after form. It deals 
 with matter; Spiritual unfolding deals with 
 Spirit with Will, Intuition, and Intellect. 
 
 I will work, wait and aspire in silence. 
 I will remember that my truest adviser, the 
 Self, is to be found and constantly sought 
 within myself. I will learn by experience 
 to know Its voice from that of natural in- 
 stinct or mere logic, and strengthen this 
 
50 MY LIFE- WORK 
 
 power. I will beware of the illusions of 
 matter, for in the Self all things are. I 
 will desire experience or self-knowledge, 
 which is only to be attained by stepping, so 
 to say, aside from self. In the Spirit, alone, 
 resides the great consciousness of the 
 Whole. 
 
 I will never forget the sublime truth that 
 "God is all in all," and that the Spirit 
 comes that we may have life and have it 
 more abundantly; and that out of this life 
 the fulness of the Divine Love and Wisdom 
 may be revealed. The Reality, I say, is 
 here "the Kingdom is at hand," it is 
 within and around every human soul. I 
 see Him-Her within me and without me, 
 in everything and through everything, and 
 I need no other proof of the existence of 
 God. His Love flows from my heart, 
 mind and soul in one continuous stream, as 
 Love and Service united. 
 
 Thou Great Universal Supreme Con- 
 sciousness, Father-Mother God, which art 
 in Heaven, Hallowed by Thy Name. Thy 
 will be done in earth, as it is done in 
 Heaven. 
 
 In this Covenant I invoke Thee to bap- 
 tise me, thy child, with all the power and 
 
MY COVENANT 51 
 
 vision herein defined, that I may the better 
 love and serve Thee, in Love, in Knowl- 
 edge and in Truth thus attaining my Spir- 
 itual Ideal. 
 
 I thank Thee for all the seeming adverse 
 conditions in life that have come to me. I 
 have ever treated them courteously, for 
 Thou didst send them for my betterment. 
 I have been thankful, not only for all the 
 good that came to me, but also thankful 
 for the obstacles thrown into my path, as 
 only in this wise I realized my strength and 
 power of character. I will ever be thank- 
 ful for what Thou sendest me and also for 
 what I may never receive, no matter how 
 strongly my personality may wish or desire 
 it. Lead Thou me on Thy Will be done ! 
 
 I will manifest what I affirm, what I 
 think. I manifest consciously in this body, 
 and I also unconsciously manifest that 
 which I am. All my conduct is limited by 
 my thinking, or want of thinking. Through 
 manifestation, I am transmuting LOVE into 
 knowledge, and intuition into reason. I 
 have done much of this heretofore, un- 
 consciously; now I will do it consciously. 
 By unconscious choice I have lived hither- 
 to ; now, by conscious choice, I will control 
 
52 MY LIFE-WORK 
 
 my life. Involuntarily I have chosen and 
 moulded my life, and now am not alto- 
 gether pleased with all the results. Now I 
 will voluntarily choose, and will mould my 
 life into manifestations of Health, Growth, 
 Joy, Bliss, Opulence; and all that I know 
 is within my Ideal. What God is, I am; 
 for I was made by Them in Their Image. 
 
 Therefore, I am to so live that the 
 Divine in me shall manifest Itself in Its 
 fulness. God is perfect ! Therefore in me 
 is perfection. I must find It ! 
 
 I, the spiritual Ego, by affirmation am to 
 make perfection manifest: for Their Om- 
 nipotence Being is in me ; I am that which I 
 affirm. If I affirm that I am sick, or weak, 
 or strong, or sad, or wise, or foolish, or 
 poor, I am that which I affirm, because the 
 world in which I live is the world of Emo- 
 tion, Feeling and Thought; and this world 
 I make by my affirmation for I affirm 
 what I think, and think what I affirm. 
 Thus I make my world one of Joy or Sor- 
 row, of Riches or Poverty, by making my 
 affirmation the conditions of my World. I 
 am Spirit ! I am Perfection ! The Ego is 
 perfect, even as its Father-Mother. In- 
 finite Spirit is perfect! 
 
MY COVENANT 53 
 
 This thought no matter in what lan- 
 guage expressed means perfect manifest- 
 ation. I, as an Ego, am perfect now, and 
 I will my body and mind to manifest that 
 perfection. I will mould my body into the 
 ideal I have of perfection, in order that 
 the Ideal-Spirit can manifest through it, 
 even as the artist moulds his ideal into 
 stone, or paints it on canvas. I will do it 
 in the same way that he does, and that is 
 by holding that ideal before my mind until 
 it becomes real. 
 
 I can be my own Destiny. I can be the 
 determining factor in my own Evolution. 
 I can and will be master ! I affirm Trust, 
 Desire, Possession; for Truth shall move 
 me in thought, speech and action. And 
 within all of this I act with this affirmation 
 as the foundation of every activity; "Lead 
 Thou me on." u Thy Will be done." Thus 
 knowing the source of the Energy, the 
 Force, the Prana, that is doing all the 
 work, I do believe in It, which is Truth ; I 
 Trust this Truth; I desire this Truth; I 
 possess this Truth, and I will to manifest 
 this Truth. 
 
 I affirm Truth; for "I AM" that Truth 
 which lies potentially in the Soul. I possess 
 
54 MY LIFE-WORK 
 
 all Truth, for that is my Ideal, all Truth 
 is mine. I am Truth! I am one with 
 Truth. Truth shall manifest in me. I am 
 free in Truth; therefore I ask no authority, 
 but, without let or hindrance, Truth finds 
 Expression in me. I will think what is 
 true. I will speak what is true; will act 
 what is true to me, no matter what others 
 may say, for I am Truth. I will not think 
 about conduct, for Truth will take care of 
 that, and I will only think of Truth as 
 guiding me, as the Mover within me. I 
 love Truth so well, that it will mould my 
 life into Conduct as naturally as it moulds 
 my body into beauty, grace, and fulness of 
 vitality. 
 
 Truth alone shall be my Creator and 
 my Redeemer. In Truth I can do no 
 wrong; in Truth I can make no mistakes; 
 in Truth I cannot be sick; in Truth I can- 
 not die; therefore I will not think of these 
 things ; for, in Truth, they do not exist, they 
 are not. I, in truth, am pure, wise, strong 
 and immortal. In Truth I am protected. 
 No evil can befall me, hence I do not fear. 
 Nothing can disturb me, hence I am Peace. 
 Truth is mine, and I want not. I seek not; 
 I ask not; I pray not, save as I constantly 
 
MY COVENANT 55 
 
 give thanks for all I have, for all is Good. 
 If I would pray, I've naught to say but this, 
 "that God may be God still; for Him to 
 live, is still to give, and sweeter than my 
 wish, His Will." Truth is in my Soul, and 
 it shall have uninterrupted flow through it. 
 God is Indwelling Spirit, Law, Intelligence, 
 and I will rely upon Him-Her. U I am, O 
 God, and surely Thou must be." 
 
 I am Spirit. Spirit is Supreme. Spirit 
 is Universal Supreme Consciousness. 
 Spirit is Infinite, Therefore any limitation 
 upon Spirit or upon any manifestation of 
 Spirit, is error. Nothing is impossible for 
 me; for Truth, Knowledge and Love are 
 infinite, and I desire only these. In God, in 
 Spirit, are no defects, no failures. u He 
 leadeth me." No matter what comes or 
 what I do, there is no mistake. My only 
 arbiter in the external life, is my mani- 
 fested Conscience, Intuition and Reason. 
 I have followed them; this, the above, is 
 the result; and it is right. To doubt would 
 be to dethrone the Indwelling God that has 
 lived me, and brought me to the Now in 
 my Evolution. 
 
 I will love consciously in the current of 
 Divine Will, and let It have Its way 
 
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 through me, for U A11 is Good." All is 
 Love, All is God. Therefore I am Good. 
 
 I am Love, therefore God dwells in me. 
 I am Wisdom; I am Power; I let Him- 
 Her manifest day by day as my will; His 
 Will and my will are One-Will. Thus all 
 of daily bread and sustenance, of Love and 
 Truth, come to me. I can do anything I 
 ought, and I will to do all that is right and 
 true. I desire Truth and Love, therefore 
 Truth and Love control my life and I can 
 do no wrong, nor can I meet with defeat or 
 make mistakes ; for God doeth the work of 
 my soul, which is Theirs. 
 
 I am in God, He is in me; hence all His 
 is mine and I am His. I have everything 
 money, lands, friends, reputation, power, 
 success ; so day by day, as I need anything, 
 it comes to me, as is His Will to manifest 
 through me. Unlimited is the flow. Un- 
 limited my power to receive and also to 
 give. "All mine is thine," the Sky-Soul 
 saith. u What I am, thou must become; 
 richer and richer, breath by breath, immor- 
 tal gain, immortal roam. And since all 
 His mine also is, life's gift out-runs my 
 fancies far and drowns the dream in larger 
 stream, as morning drinks the morning 
 
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 star." I am Spirit. I am pledged, Cov- 
 enanted, to Truth and Love, Service and 
 Knowledge. I will develop true and noble 
 loves and right desires; the actions will take 
 care of themselves. I will act and live this 
 that has come to me, as the Beautiful, the 
 True and the Good. I know the Right, 
 because I love the Good. I know the Way, 
 because I love the Path. I have the Power, 
 because Spirit is Infinite, Universal Su- 
 preme Consciousness; I am a free child of 
 Spirit, and as Spirit I can do no wrong. 
 
 I will to love rightly, to think rightly, 
 to speak rightly, to act rightly. 
 
 I hereby make This 
 STATEMENT of INDIVIDUALITY. 
 
 I. I AM. I am Light. I am Life. I 
 am Love. I am Knowledge. I am Spirit. 
 I am Power. I am Individualized. I 
 dominate my body. I AM I, penetrating 
 every atom of the Body with Light, Life 
 and Love; thus am I conscious in Love, 
 Knowledge, Wisdom and Freedom. I AM 
 I, the Spirit of Power, vitalizing every 
 atom of the Body. I AM I, bringing every 
 atom of Personality into harmonious vibra- 
 tion with the "I Am That I Am." I AM 
 I, sending forth the vibration of the Spirit 
 
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 of Power, that, in Truth, I am; surround- 
 ing my personality with the magnetic at- 
 mosphere of the "I Am that I Am." I am I, 
 perfectly individualized by Spirit, which is 
 my Substance, in Soul, which is my inde- 
 structible Self, and in body, which is my 
 personality, surrounded by the impene- 
 trable atmosphere of the Spirit of Light, 
 Love, Power, Knowledge, Wisdom and 
 Freedom; radiating from the invincible 
 center of my Being, casting forth all unde- 
 sirable things, penetrating to the uttermost 
 bounds of the Universe, wheresoever my 
 thought goeth, and attracting only that 
 which I desire. I am I, Omnipotent in my 
 own Individuality, dominating all below me 
 with Love only. I am I, fearless and free ! 
 I am I, and my Spiritual Will is Law, and 
 must be obeyed by My-self. I am I, a law 
 unto myself in all things. I am God's 
 child I am immortal. 
 
 This is my Covenant with my Higher- 
 Self, the "I AM" within me, the "Indwell- 
 ing God," that He-She can the better mani- 
 fest through me, through my body and my 
 mind. May all beings be happy. May all 
 beings be peaceful. May all beings be 
 
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 blissful. May all beings come into the 
 Light. 
 
 Thus I speak to the North. 
 Thus I speak to the South. 
 Thus I speak to the East. 
 Thus I speak to the West. 
 As Above So Below. 
 A. U. M. 
 
 A. S. BRACKETT. 
 
T)P Qofaenant jSeal 
 
 I covenant my Life-work with this seal. It symbol- 
 izes the Path which leads to the consciousness I am 
 seeking. 
 
 I Heal: I am Love and Compassion (Master J). 
 I Express: I am Synthesis and Analysis (Master M). 
 I Teach: I am Wisdom and Discrimination (Master 
 K). Thus high, deep and broad is my Thought-Field, 
 within which lies my Ideal My Life-Work. 
 
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XLBRACKETT. 
 
 AURICK S. BRACKETT, M.D., K.R.C., F.T.S. 
 
 PSYCHOLOGIST 
 
 MEDICAL DIRECTOR 
 UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND EDUCATION, INC. 
 
 Elsinore Mountains, Riverside Co. 
 
 Bon Repos (Good Rest) Ranch (237 Acres) 
 
 P. O. Address: Elsinore and Los Angeles, California 
 
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of ^ealtf) anb buc ation 
 
 TEACHINGS 
 
 The Art and Science of awakening, cultivating, un- 
 folding and developing the faculties of the soul and 
 reaching soul-consciousness ; thus securing health in 
 body, mind, spirit and soul, and higher efficiency and 
 super-success. 
 
 The study of Life, its meaning, its possibilities and 
 destiny; a profound understanding of human nature; 
 of reality and Life as defined in Anthropology, Ontol- 
 ogy, Philosophy, Psychology, Metaphysics, Biology, 
 Cosmology, Theology, Ethics, Sociology, Economics, 
 Science, Art, Mathematical Physics and Allied 
 Thought. 
 
 HEALING AND EDUCATION 
 
 Psycho-therapy; Scientific Rational Mind Cure by 
 physical, mental, moral and spiritual methods; Goat's 
 Milk Cure; Bulgarian Goat's Milk-Cure; Breeding of 
 Toggenburg Goats; Fruits; Farming; Scientific Diets; 
 Rest-Home; Physical Culture; Rest-Cure; Corrective 
 Exercises; Massage and Out-of-door Life. 
 
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