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 New Dispensation of Time, 
 
 SARA THACKER. 
 
 CONTENTS: 
 
 SOflE EXPERIENCES (of the Author). 
 
 LESSON I. Statement of Being. 
 
 LESSON II. Denial. 
 
 LESSON III. The Word and Its Power. 
 
 LESSON IV. The Six Sacred Centers of the Human Body 
 
 and Their Functions. 
 EXTRACTS. 
 
 A TREATMENT. 
 ZODIACAL SIGNS. 
 
 SACRAMENTO : 
 
 1>. JOHNSTON & CO., PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS. 
 1899. 
 
THE WORD. 
 
 In point of evolution, "He that is able to receive it, let him receive it. ''MATT, xix 12. 
 
 And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as 
 crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. 
 
 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of river, 
 there was the tree of life, which bear twelve manner of fruits, 
 and yielded her fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree 
 were for the healing of the nations. 
 
 And there shall be no more curse; but the throne of God 
 and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him. 
 
 And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their 
 foreheads. 
 
 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, 
 neither the light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them 
 light; and they shall reign forever and ever. 
 
 REV. xxii i, 2, 3, 4, 5. 
 
TO READERS. 
 
 BELOVED : I thus open to you glimpses of tny life that you may be 
 encouraged to push boldly forward in your searchings after truth, and 
 try to realize the Divine possibilities of your own soul They are for 
 this life and world, and not entirely for the life beyond this earth 
 
 These deep and holy experiences are as much a reality to me as bread 
 and butter, clothing and sensation are to you They are more than meat 
 or raiment and feeling, for they include the nature of every thought that 
 may enter into the mind of man. They are real and true to me for they 
 are all that I am the consciousness of my body, of my mind, of my soul- 
 spirit. 
 
 My hope is that they may inspire you to put forth strong and continued 
 efforts for soul growth that you too may attain to self knowledge and the 
 peace that surpasseth understanding. THE AUTHOR 
 
 SOME EXPERIENCES. 
 
 I wish to say that I was born in California, therefore a native 
 daughter. But I have not always lived here. After an absence 
 of eighteen years I returned and made a short tour over a part 
 of the State. 
 
 In the spring of 1890, I found myself in the picturesque 
 little town of Santa Rosa, near the coast, in California. I 
 stayed in the town less than a week, but during that week I 
 made the final resolutions which were carried into effect, and 
 which made it possible later to carry out ultimates. I had been 
 traveling for about two years on a commercial line of business 
 retailing in a large way and wholesaling in a small way. 
 
 The resolutions made at Santa Rosa were to the effect that I 
 would settle down somewhere and carry on some small business 
 which would meet living demands, and I would in this (some- 
 where) quiet place earnestly, with my whole life and strength, 
 try to solve the problem of life. 
 
 I had been a school teacher for many years. I had gotten 
 my education by the sweat of my brow and mostly alone. I 
 could not afford to go to school but very little, neither could I 
 afford to hire a teacher to help me, so I studied alone for years. 
 In my early youth my reading was done by the light of pine 
 knots burning in an open fireplace. Later, when I went out 
 to work for wages, I studied at night in my own room after 
 
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 the day's work was done, although I had to rise at five o'clock 
 in the morning. After awhile I was able to teach a country 
 school, but I still kept up my studies at night. 
 
 I had tried to help others; I had tried to live the truest and 
 noblest life I knew, yet I was in debt, not very strong physic- 
 ally, was careworn and weary and altogether very miserable. 
 
 I glanced back over my life from the earliest remembrance 
 to where I then stood. One by one I saw my cherished hopes 
 shattered. My beautiful ideals were not realized. I had suf- 
 fered so much and tried very hard so many long weary years 
 to save others from destitution, want, sorrow, and sin, and had 
 even turned the channels of my life for their benefit, yet, evi- 
 dently, I had accomplished nothing. For the very things 
 which I had tried to avert had come to pass. 
 
 "Well," thought I to myself, "perhaps there is some solu- 
 tion of this; I will sit down and try to find it out the meaning 
 of it all." 
 
 After due consideration as to the place where I should go to 
 conduct the business I had in view, I decided to settle for a few 
 months or a year in Salt Lake City. I had spent two months 
 in that city a short time before, and I had found it to be a good 
 business center. 
 
 A day or two later I left Santa Rosa for San Francisco to 
 perform a part of the business which had brought me to Cali- 
 fornia. 
 
 When the business was finished I went sight seeing (I will 
 say right here, it has always been my lot in life not to miss 
 much in my path the perception of the horrible as well as the 
 pleasant), and along the way came the cyclorama of the " Bat- 
 tle of Gettysburg." 
 
 For nearly three hours I gazed upon the scene. The pic- 
 ture vanished and it became a live battle to me and all things 
 there were real, and my heart melted within me, and I said 
 to myself, ' ' Have not men anything better to do than to 
 cut each other's throats, or blow out each other's brains?" 
 
 Another day. It was May Day. I went sight seeing to the 
 Cliff House. 'Twas a lovely, calm, pleasantly warm day. The 
 sky was blue and not even was seen, 
 
 " A single white cloud floating off in the west, 
 On the white wing of peace, to its haven of rest." 
 
 Ascending Sutro Heights, I sat down beside a statue and I 
 looked afar out at sea. For a number of hours I sat there. 
 
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 The ships, the steamers afar, and small crafts near, and the 
 people still nearer below me at the Cliff House had no charm 
 for me none whatever. And away to the left the children 
 were bathing in the surf, shouting, picking up pebbles on the 
 beach, but they did not interest me. 
 
 I saw the w r aters of the great deep encircling the earth; I 
 followed its ever changing motion until, with the tides, I visited 
 all the races and nations of the earth, and saw there, too, but a 
 repetition of what I had seen at home birth and pleasure, a 
 short period of youth and gladness, marriage and lust, a mo- 
 ment of fleeting joy and transitory happiness, aching hearts 
 and wrecked lives, old age and decrepitude, and at all times 
 falsehood, vice, sin, ignorance, extreme poverty and riches, 
 or disease, misery, insanity, and death. And in truth I could 
 clearly see: 
 
 " Tis but the wink of an eye, the draft of a breath 
 From the blossom of health to the paleness of death, 
 From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud 
 O why should the spirit of man be proud." 
 
 I sat very still and gazed afar out at the deep sounding sea. 
 I watched the surf beat upon the shore. Although my lips 
 were mute, I spoke thus to the waves: "O waves, tell me the 
 secret of life and death. What do you sing to all the people 
 whom you see? and why are you so great and beautiful, and 
 powerful and alluring, yet so sweet, sad, and lovely? Your 
 wonderful tones remind me of the siren mermaids in Lorlei's 
 heights, whose enchanting songs lure to their haunts all men 
 who catch the first faint echoes of their notes. Alas! their 
 lovers are never more seen by mortal eyes. O deep, blue sea, 
 I am sure you do not allure us to destruction with your un- 
 fathomable music. O mighty ocean, can you give my soul 
 satisfaction?" Just then gentle zephyrs from over the waves 
 touch my cheeks, and I thought: "O, wind, perhaps you have 
 come from some spicy isle of the South Sea. Your sweet 
 breath is faintly freighted with the essence of rose gardens from 
 some far off tropical clime. What words have you to whisper 
 to me?" 
 
 But the waves and the wind were mute. Then I looked 
 questioningly at the blue sky, and I sat very still and my soul 
 seemed to vibrate with the air from the deep water to the blue 
 sky. And a sweet peace and stillness seemed to come from 
 over the water and satisfy the longing of my heart. 'Twas 
 like the coming of a lover sweet, all satisfying, yet gone in 
 
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 an instant. But it gave me courage to push forward. I arose 
 up and went back to the city. 
 
 The 29th day of the following July (1890), I arrived at Salt 
 Lake City. I sat down in the depot waiting room and reviewed 
 the situation. Tired and weary and scarcely enough money to 
 pay for a night's lodging but with a little merchandise on 
 hand I thought of what I must face and nerved myself for 
 the masterful efforts. After a little time I arose with grip in 
 hand and walked up town. I knew and realized that a new 
 career was about to open to me. Yet in exactly what way it 
 would come I did not perceive. I then intended to open a lit- 
 tle shop and do some shop work and sell an article of mercan- 
 tile character. I knew I would make it a success, though such 
 work was entirely out of my line, for teaching had been my 
 life work. Yet being of an executive nature, I would succeed 
 in most anything to which I turned my attention. 
 
 Three weeks later found me located in as favorable a situa- 
 tion as possible. I soon had plenty of custom and many 
 friends too. 
 
 It has been said of Madam de Stael : "It was the most won- 
 derful thing in the wonderful life of this great woman, the 
 power she had of attracting to herself the ardent regard of men 
 of real ability and distinction." Well, I cannot say that I was 
 up with Madam de Stael, but I can say that I always had the 
 faculty, in a quiet way, wherever I was, of attracting to me the 
 best and the strongest minds in the community and making 
 with some, real friendships. People would seek me, not I 
 them. 
 
 I never had any leisure time since I was born into this life, 
 but I would meet these people in my work and they would 
 come again and again to see me. My friends and friendships 
 were chiefly among women. 
 
 One day I made a business call. A strange lady was pres- 
 ent. She made a remark and I answered her. She was pleased 
 with my reply, and said she was late of Denver, Colorado, and 
 was teaching a Spiritual Science, and she invited me to call at 
 her house. "Yes," I replied, " I would do so. A year before 
 I had met a lady in Helena, Montana, who was teaching the 
 same and I then wanted to look into the subject, but could not 
 afford to pay her prices." 
 
 Shortly afterwards I made the promised call. I said I had 
 come to hear what she had to say about the Spiritual Science 
 of which we talked a few days before. She said it was the 
 
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 doctrine that Jesus Christ taught, but it was not what the 
 churches understood as his doctrine. It was the true interpre- 
 tation of the Bible. " Well," I answered, "please explain it to 
 me." "O," she said, "I cannot; my tongue just cleaves to the 
 roof of my mouth. It is too beautiful to talk about." 
 
 I replied, "Mrs. H , the teacher in Montana told me 
 
 that any one who understood it could perform the same mira- 
 cles that Christ did. Now, what is a person to do?" She an- 
 swered, "Just shut your eyes, and in your mind look at 
 another person and call his name and say in thought, 'You are 
 a child of God, you are Truth, and you are perfectly well. 1 
 He will feel your thought and be well." "If that is all you 
 have to do," I said, "suppose you try it on me? I have not 
 any diseases, but I don't feel very strong and sometimes my 
 head aches." Then we closed out eyes and sat very still for a 
 moment. And I remarked, " I feel refreshed." 
 
 Another day I came to her and we talked a little. She said, 
 ' ' Say the words for yourself. Practice at home and see if you 
 can feel your own words." Still another day I came and in 
 effect she said, "Within you is the Spirit of Truth. If you 
 speak to it and praise it, it will reveal to you all things. It is 
 a light that has no shadow. Study it for yourself. You 
 are connected with God and God is in you. ' ' Then she showed 
 me how to deny and affirm with words. I caught the inspira- 
 tion and all things became new to me. 
 
 After six days practice from the time I had the first instruc- 
 tions, I sat alone in my little shop and I closed my eyes and 
 began to affirm. Suddenly I saw a great Eye looking at me. 
 I opened my eyes and looked around the room; it was gone. 
 Again I closed my eyes and began to affirm. It was there. 
 It seemed to be a little in front, above me, and a short dis- 
 tance away. It was an intelligent, benevolent Bye, and oh! 
 so real. 
 
 Just here I will take a step backward in time, for a moment, 
 and explain in reference to this clairvoyance. From early 
 childhood, I could at times see scenes, places, flowers, birds, 
 and people. 
 
 When anything disturbed me it was my favorite remedy to 
 go to bed, cover up my head, or nearly so, forget all trouble 
 and float away to these beautiful places or bring the scenes and 
 things to me. After a little while I would get up refreshed 
 and harmonious and ready to go on with my work and duties 
 again. 
 
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 So natural was this second sight to me that I thought it a 
 common birthright to all individuals until I was about twenty- 
 five years old. 
 
 At that time I was teaching a commercial school in Oregon 
 City, and one day I read Wm. Denton's book, "Soul of 
 Things." I then could understand that clairvoyance is a nat- 
 ural soul faculty belonging to every human being, but unde- 
 veloped in most people. In later years I came to understand 
 that clairvoyance is sight by the light of the soul. 
 
 Every spirit-soul is a pure white shining light, but it is en- 
 veloped with such dense materiality and covered with such 
 dark heavy clouds created by the destructive thoughts and the 
 base habits of every day life that it cannot see by its own light. 
 
 By right thought and right living, these heavy mental clouds 
 will grow thinner and lighter and in time the intellect and 
 outer consciousness of the individual will become cleaner, 
 purer, brighter, and keener, and his intuitions will not fail him 
 in times of emergency. 
 
 As the years passed on in my life my intuitions grew clearer, 
 until the ordinary subterfuges and shams practiced everywhere 
 were as if they were not to me. I could see the motives in 
 men's minds, and it seemed to me that nearly all their desires 
 were selfish and base and low enough to make them unworthy 
 the upright form of manhood. 
 
 But there was one thing that puzzled me more and more for 
 many a year, and in fact, it seemed to be the chief question of 
 my life. It was the inconsistency of the teachings of religion 
 and men's daily lives. It was talking about one thing and 
 doing another thing. I could not reconcile these things, 
 though I said over and over to myself year after year, ' ' What 
 is must be right. ' ' After a while a thought came to me that 
 most people really did not believe what they preached or that 
 they did not truly understand what they were talking about. 
 I felt that there must be something in the nature of life true 
 life away back that I had not got to yet. I believed in the 
 good of all things and in the inherent good of all people, but I 
 did not understand it, therefore I mourned. I loved all crea- 
 tures and my sympathy would go out to them. I wanted to 
 see all things and all people happy, and in failing to see them 
 thus' I was miserable. I did not then see the oneness of all life 
 as I came to do in after years. 
 
 I thought in living out my own highest and truest ideal of 
 right, I ought surely to accomplish my desires and make those 
 
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 for whom I worked happy. But, somehow, in those days 
 things did not go my way very long at a time. My life had 
 been one of continual self sacrifice for others, and sometimes I 
 thought, ' ' If there is any virtue in the Christian religion (and 
 I know there is) it ought to work out differently for me. For 
 every Christian precept and virtue I have practiced from my 
 youth up." Not merely practiced once but continually, every 
 hour and every day of my life. Many a time have I starved 
 and suffered pain, cold, heat, and hardships that others might 
 not want the bare necessities of life. But starving and suffer- 
 ing was the least of all that I had done for others. First this 
 self sacrifice and the facility of comforting others was confined 
 to the members of my own family and a few friends. But as I 
 went out into the world to work for daily bread, and the circle 
 of my acquaintance enlarged, new made friends would come for 
 comfort in their mental and soul woes. I sympathized with 
 them and helped them the best I could. As the years went by 
 and my insight into human nature increased, and the decep- 
 tions, hollowness, and rottenness in people's daily lives opened 
 wide to my view, sorrow grew in my breast. 
 
 I would sympathize and grieve with my friends and secretly 
 weep and mourn for those strangers who were not conscious or 
 were careless of their own shortcomings. Unkindness, tail end 
 pride, deceptions, polite falsehoods, greed, selfishness, etc., hurt 
 me where ver and whenever I witnessed it. Being a disinter- 
 ested party I would necessarily keep still, but it troubled me 
 just the same. 
 
 When the phantoms of disease would appear, deep rooted 
 sorrow set the face with a stony look and the horrors of fear 
 and death transform a human being, I would look at the mul- 
 titude around and wonder why these fellow creatures so lightly 
 concerned themselves about life and its negation death. If I 
 inquired why their apathy, invariably would come the answer, 
 " It must be, 'twas so ordained by God." 
 
 I grew sick at heart and said to myself, ' ' I will study more 
 assiduously than ever the hearts of men and see if I cannot 
 find a solution of the problem of existence." 
 
 I silently thought about these things a great deal and wished 
 I could understand them and be able to help humanity. 
 
 I also prayed for persons in particular and people in general, 
 and many sweet and holy experiences came to me as the years 
 went on. But the people I prayed for kept going faster and 
 faster to wreck and ruin and carrying others with them. I 
 
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 could not quite see, in the orthodox way, how 'it was going to 
 be so peaceful and beautiful in the next world in everything for 
 most people, when nearly all of them seemed to be in the rot- 
 tenness and misery of Inferno, and in the clutches of the devil 
 here, and to take grim pleasure in witnessing his tortures in 
 some one else. Talk to the leaders and teachers of mankind 
 about these things, and they would start out on an orthodox 
 sermon of "Christ crucified and nothing else," or whisper low, 
 1 ' Be still or they will think you are insane. ' ' Well, in those days 
 I never said much, for really the well disposed to whom I would 
 sometimes speak, had a way of turning the subject and hush- 
 ing up matters that they were powerless to help. 
 
 I think I never would have been able to get out of that wil- 
 derness in this lifetime had not that noble soul, Mrs. Abagail 
 Scott Duniway, came my way preaching the gospel of woman's 
 Individuality and personal liberty. Heretofore, all my teach- 
 ings and experiences in the world had been to the effect of em- 
 phasizing the existing facts of woman's subjugation to man. 
 * ' Evidently she is an appendage to man and exists for his 
 pleasure only; so be it." So said the world in deeds if not 
 altogether in words. In my heart I never believed such bosh. 
 But at that time I was not wise enough nor strong enough to 
 dispute it. But Abigail Scott Duniway gave me new courage 
 to go on (may many blessings rest upon her). Her words fell 
 upon my soul like the gentle rain on the thirsty soil, and with 
 renewed hope I again took up the burdens of life and marched 
 on. 
 
 I think, at any rate, the organ of hope was naturally well 
 developed in my organization, for in spite of all the difficulties 
 that I had to face in girlhood, hope shone ever above my hori- 
 zon and beckoned me on. 
 
 In the long ago when I worked as a servant in a country 
 hotel, on a salary of two dollars per week, I would at times 
 bear insults, drudgery, and hardships, with tears and silent en- 
 durance, but would soon brush them away, take courage and 
 be hopeful for the good time coming. Often the dishwashing 
 and floor scrubbing would be accompanied by softly repeated 
 words something like the following : 
 
 By the song of the verdant earth beneath me, 
 I vow I will be free, and not in bondage be. 
 
 By the blue resplendent heavens above me, 
 I vow I will be free, and not in bondage be. 
 
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 Yes, even over the wash tub sometimes buds of promise 
 would appear and I would hope on until somebody knocked my 
 castles down. Sometimes I would mention my bright hopes, 
 alas! they would be knocked down and temporarily shattered 
 to fragments by the hand of unbelief. Or some one would say, 
 "This world is too coarse for such as that. Destroy your 
 beautiful star-lit dreams, be practical and get married. 'Tis 
 woman's lot to marry, bear children, and be happy." "O 
 Lord ! ' ' thought I to myself, ' ' where comes in the happiness 
 except for a transitory breath. Men's lusts are the death-traps 
 of married life and, according to the present arrangement of 
 society, servitude the beginning and the end." But many a 
 woman would say to me out of her heart, "We can't realize 
 those beautiful ideas on this earth. Let us bear our lots in pa- 
 tience here and hope that in heaven we may find rest and 
 peace. Yes, we shall surely find happiness there." 
 
 I cannot now call to mind that any mortal ever said to me, 
 " Rise and follow thy ideal dream," until Abigail Scott Duni- 
 way came saying, in substance : 
 
 " By the promise of noon's blue splendor in the dawn's first silvery gleam; 
 By the song of the sea that compelleth the path of the rock cleaving 
 
 stream ; 
 I summon thee, recreant dreamer, to rise and follow thy dream." 
 
 I often wondered why people could not see something better 
 and greater for them beyond themselves. " Perhaps they do." 
 "Then, why don't they work toward it?" I am now sure 
 that the majority of the human race have for ages past seen 
 better possibilities, but they did not believe it could or would 
 come to them on this earth. They have relegated it to an ex- 
 istence after death, therefore did not try to establish it here on 
 earth. 
 
 At that time I did not realize how much resistance would 
 meet those who sought to change existing customs by making 
 ideal thoughts present and practical. 
 
 But lately the walls of Jericho have fallen and that which was 
 a few years ago thought impossible, is now not only possible 
 but every day occurrences. But some of us, like Dante, had 
 first to tread alone the regions of Inferno. 
 
 But the great work comes later after sounding the ram's 
 horns before the material walls of Jericho. 
 
 One summertime, up in the State of Washington, an ortho- 
 dox revival meeting was in progress in a church not far from 
 where I lived. 'Twas summer time and very sultry weather. 
 
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 I lived in the third story of the tallest building in town. The 
 heat was suffocating inside, so in the early evening I took my 
 bed out on the flat roof and thought to sleep there. The sounds 
 from the church were quite distinct. The excitement was high 
 as was evident by the pitched voices of the preachers and ex- 
 horters. Occasionally the excitement was modified by the 
 sound of singing then a calm, followed again by groans and 
 cries. I knew this would bring enthusiasm to some hearts and 
 for moments they would feel the ecstasy of Divine Love, and 
 temporarily the peace that surpasseth understanding but that it 
 would free them from the consequence of their sins I did not 
 believe. It was this vicarious atonement that I could not 
 swallow. 
 
 That night I lay on the roof doing a tiny bit of combating 
 thinking. Personally I knew more than half of the people who 
 were actively taking part in that revival, and I knew of their 
 dirty deeds in secret their stealths and lusts, and here they 
 would come and throw their filth and sins on another one whom 
 they said was pure and holy, and cry out, "Jesus, bear my 
 burdens for me;" then immediately pluck their neighbor's 
 sleeve and whisper, "are you saved? Come to Jesus." 
 
 Straightway these same people would go forth from the 
 church and lie and steal in order to 
 
 " Get place and wealth, 
 
 If possible with grace, 
 If not, by any means get 
 Wealth and place." 
 
 Or at least to try with all their might until death apparently 
 settled the struggle. And the men, in the belief that marriage 
 gives them special license, would go from the church to their 
 homes and put to shame the prostitution of brothels. And in 
 effect, if not exactly in words, would say, ' ' God has ordained 
 that woman should be the pleasure of man." And further, 
 outside of their homes, by their acts would emphasize current 
 opinion, " Give me your life; then, after a little while, go to the 
 devil and get your bread and butter another way if you can." 
 And the women at home were timid and believed what they 
 were told. At church they would sing, " I believe in the free 
 will of the soul," and at the same time gird themselves up with 
 corsets, squeeze up their feet in shoes two sizes too small for 
 them, make long tails to their dresses, and even paint their 
 faces; not for a moment realizing that they were. slaves to pub- 
 
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 lie opinion, in bondage to the evils and not exercising one whit 
 of ' ' soul freedom. ' ' 
 
 And gossip, " O, yes. What else is there to talk about, for 
 you know it is a shame for women to mention public affairs, 
 and to show any interest in mind culture." Gossip, of course, 
 and in their gossip forget that others had but stumbled in the 
 path that they in their weakness had trod. 
 
 But mention to these women the necessity of training to con- 
 duct business or to hold places of trust or emolument, "Hor- 
 rors! It might spoil my beauty to enter business or make me 
 more masculine, or worse than all, it would arouse men's pas- 
 sions to look at me in a public place. My highest thoughts are 
 to worship Jesus Christ and serve the men of my household." 
 
 In those days (and it is the same at the present time), in my 
 opinion, worshiping and serving were indeed beautiful attri- 
 butes of character, for I felt a great and unfathomable and per- 
 fect love in my heart that was indeed an adoration of the ideal 
 Christ; and as to serving, I believed that helpfulness belongs to 
 our highest duties and our love nature, and we would not avoid 
 it if we could. But other people didn't seem to see things as I 
 did. 
 
 The vicissitudes of life discovered to me another knotty prob- 
 lem. I found it to be a fact that man could be an angel one 
 moment and a devil another. One moment he could do a God- 
 like deed and another do an act that would shame the devil 
 and all his imps. This pained me for I could not reconcile 
 them. I could not straighten out these discrepancies in human 
 life. I did not see that it made people happier to teach philos- 
 ophy and to practice twaddle. [Understanding of this came 
 later.] 
 
 And as I sat upon the housetop that night and the sounds 
 from the church fell upon my ears, I thought, "If this is all 
 that life is worth upon this planet it is not of much value to 
 me. However, I do believe there is something more and bet- 
 ter for us all here if we only knew it. 
 
 Two years later my soul and I went prospecting some undis- 
 covered truth to perceive. One day I stood on the bleak hill- 
 side of Butte City, in Montana. The air was heavily charged 
 with sulphur smoke and no green vegetation grew in the city. 
 No trees leaved or flowers blossomed for some miles away. But 
 moving life was everywhere. Everybody was busy, but only 
 money and sin grew there. Character didn't show out for 
 much about that town. A bank account, a pretty lively 
 
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 woman, a bottle of stimulant liquid, and a place of amusement 
 seemed to fill the bill. 
 
 My business took me into private homes and public places of 
 all descriptions. And the sights I often saw of man's inhu- 
 manity to man caused me to cease to wonder why countless 
 millions mourn. Sometimes, after witnessing these things 
 many times during the day, and seeing little more than decep- 
 tions anywhere, my hopes for the human race were not very 
 bright. Notwithstanding all this, once in a while I would 
 catch glimpses of the good and the true in the hearts of these 
 struggling divine fragments. Like the flash of a meteor or the 
 ray of a sunbeam, a spark of Divine truth would show itself, 
 then fade away, but the odor of its memory would hang around 
 them forever. And, occasionally, seeing and feeling this, in 
 those people whose lives were given up to lust and fiery pas- 
 sions and greed and gain, I would take heart again and hope 
 on hope that something better might soon work out for all 
 humanity. 
 
 Soon the ideal that I was unconsciously following led me into 
 other scenes, and sometime thereafter I found myself studying 
 the occult aspect of Morman life, in Utah. 
 
 Later came a terrible experience in the railroad great snow 
 blockade on the snowy plains and hoary mountains of Nevada. 
 But somehow terrible times had become opportunities to me 
 wherein to prove myself master of circumstances. 
 
 These things did not come about intentionally, but seemed 
 to grow. I did not then understand them, but in after years 
 fully realized the meaning of them all. And in due time came 
 to see that if certain lines of conduct are followed certain effects 
 are the result. 
 
 Consciously or unconsciously we set causes to work and cast 
 our own destinies. All things are orderly. We can drift with 
 the tide and become a plaything of the elements, or we- can 
 grasp our oars, swing out our canoes and take advantage of 
 the tide and wind to safely enter the haven in view. 
 
 Long before I ever heard of the "Higher Thought" doctrine 
 I formulated this sentence: Great experiences make a person 
 either very good or very bad, for I had seen people's lives cul- 
 minate. 
 
 The time came when I saw that souls ripen as fruit ripens. 
 They have their seasons, times and ages. What is good for a 
 soul at one stage of growth, in some cases, is destructive to it 
 in a more advanced stage. 
 
NEW DISPENSATION OF TIME. 15 
 
 Let us return again to Salt Lake City, where I was practic- 
 ing some affirmations under the surveillance of a great ' 'Eye. ' ' 
 
 I was learning the power of words, and it was of an all-ab- 
 sorbing interest. The little talks I frequently had with Mrs. 
 O - cleared the way. She gave me a few points which I 
 eagerly grasped and applied. She showed me how we are re- 
 lated to the Divine First Cause, and the possibilities of our- 
 selves, and how we could develop ourselves and grow as the 
 flowers and fruit, yet always retain our self-consciousness. 
 
 All this was very beautiful to me, and I knew it to be true, 
 and it seemed that I had always known it, only I never had the 
 courage to speak it out, because the world was against me. 
 But the moment another declared it to be true, I took courage 
 and added my testimony. I took hold of these teachings with 
 my whole life never again to let go. Eagerly I sought to read 
 all metaphysical literature on which I could lay my hands. 
 Everything in the world immediately turned right side up to 
 me. 
 
 I saw life from a new standpoint and it pleased me, for my 
 soul was satisfied, and I grew strong in my w r hole nature. And 
 I felt like singing with the psalmist: "The day breaks, the 
 shadows flee away." Yea, I listened, and a voice in my soul 
 spake. Yes, my beloved spake, though I heard no sound (in- 
 tuitively felt it), and like unto King Solomon's Christ of old, 
 my beloved said (intuitively): "Rise up my love, my fair one, 
 and come aw r ay (away from material things;) the flowers appear 
 on the earth; the time of the singing of the birds is come, and the 
 voice of the turtle is heard in our land; the fig tree putteth 
 forth her green figs, and the vine with the tender grapes gives 
 a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away 
 (away from material things.)" 
 
 Soon I entered the wilderness of the flesh. (I now under- 
 stand what is meant by the words referring to Jesus, "And im- 
 mediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness of the 
 flesh." 12: I St. Mark.) 
 
 My business increased, I hired help, and it still increased. I 
 hired a suit of new rooms and newly furnished them. Still my 
 business increased. I hired more help, and still worked very 
 hard myself. 
 
 When occasions permitted and opportunities were presented 
 I would drop a few words about the the new life to my cus- 
 tomers. They were all pleased. They appeared to think that 
 
1 6 THE LOGOS OF THE 
 
 such ideas belonged to me and to the business, and they nega- 
 tively and pleasantly accepted them. 
 
 I could talk philosophy and show up human nature better 
 than I could do the work in hand. The business and all that 
 belonged to it was new to me, but studying human hearts was 
 not. However, I had learned through long experience to be 
 able to turn my hands, as well as my mind, to any useful work 
 which was necessary, therefore I always tried to do well what 
 was in hand, and in a measure I always succeeded. 
 
 The next evening after I first saw the great "Eye" gazing 
 at me, I sat down with my eyes shut and began to affirm for 
 myself strength, courage, health, love, and truth. As soon as I 
 began, the "Bye" appeared. I looked at it, then went on with 
 my affirming. I seemed to feel its protecting influence. 
 
 After about six weeks of practice, as usual one evening I sat 
 down and began to affirm, and I looked up for the "Bye," but 
 instead of the "Eye" I saw a tiny bright spot like a star. As 
 I gazed on it, it lengthened out into a shining thread-like ray. 
 On, on I followed it until the other end was lost in a fog-like 
 mist. 
 
 I began again with my affirmations, but would occasionally 
 stop in the midst of them to follow the beautiful shining ray. 
 After this the "Eye" was never again seen, but the ray was 
 always there. It was company for me. I loved to look at it. 
 I dreamed dreams, saw visions, and had other wonderful expe- 
 riences, but none satisfied me as this did. It had become so 
 dear to me that many times during the day while about my 
 work I would shut my eyes for a second or moment and look 
 at it. When I would first look at it it would appear like a star, 
 but if I gazed steadily it would stretch out into a shining 
 thread-like ray until it was lost in a dense fog or mist. Try as 
 hard as I might I could not penetrate that mist. 
 
 About three months later, early one afternoon, I said to one 
 of the shop women, "I am going to my room to rest for about 
 fifteen minutes, if any one comes in and wants to see me you 
 will know where I am." I had been doing severe mental as 
 well as physical work, and was very tired. My living room 
 was on the same floor with my business parlors. I was tired 
 and thought if I concentrated and affirmed for a few minutes 
 on some of my favorite strong helpful words, I would feel 
 stronger and better, and would be more encouraged to go on 
 with the work of the day. I sat down in my room on a sofa 
 in a straight, upright position and in a firm and positive atti- 
 
NEW DISPENSATION OF TIME. 1 7 
 
 tude that I might better hold fast to the words which I was 
 going to affirm. I shut my eyes and looked at the ray and 
 began to affirm. Immediately I stood in a beautiful little val- 
 ley. On one side of the valley near me were high hills, and 
 they were flooded with sunlight. The light that shone on them 
 was intensely bright. I turned to see from whence it came. 
 In front of me stretched a lovely valley, and in the distance 
 loomed great snow-capped mountains. Just behind and over 
 these mountains rose a Sun. It had just cleared the horizon. 
 The glory of that Sun can never be told. (If you ever see it 
 my friends you will not have much to say.) I looked full at it 
 and raised my arms and clapped my hands twice, and each time 
 I cried aloud, "The Christ has risen." Instantly I was'back 
 on the sofa sitting bolt upright exactly as before. My body 
 had not moved a hair's breadth. At once I went back to my 
 work, but my thoughts were somewhere else. 
 
 A month before this time I had fully made up my mind to 
 dispose of my business as soon as possible, that I might go away 
 to some quiet place for a period and give my whole attention to 
 the studying of this truth, hoping that I might thereby solve 
 the problem of life. But from the day of the "Sun" experi- 
 ence I began to push the negotiations of sale that were then 
 pending. 
 
 My idea was to go back to California, to my native foothills, 
 and find some quiet place where I could study and think unin- 
 terruptedly for about two years; then, maybe, I w r ould be read}*- 
 to face the world again. 
 
 It seemed that every effort I made to carry out my thoughts 
 increased my strength. I had already dropped flesh meat eat- 
 ing, and I felt a greater soul power from the effort of putting 
 it aside. At that time I often took my meals at restaurants, 
 and when I would sit down at the table I would mentally say 
 to myself, "No dead thing shall enter my mouth. I shall feast 
 on something else and let a corpse alone. ' ' 
 
 A little while after this beautiful Truth of Being was brought 
 to my mind I could not swallow flesh meat. I had never eaten 
 much, but owing to the common practice of having everything 
 on the table saturated with the products of meat, I had eaten a 
 little all my life up to this time. I had always believed (from 
 a soul sense) that it is contrary to the highest good of man to 
 kill animals and to eat their flesh; and further, that it was not 
 just or right to cut short a life, no matter how inferior it be, in 
 order to feed and pamper ourselves. 
 
1 8 THE LOGOS OF THE 
 
 But I had never met but two or three persons in all my life 
 up to that time to corroborate my belief, and they were too 
 timid to seldom mention the fact. Neither was I strong enough 
 to boldly live out my thoughts in this respect until I learned 
 the Truth of Being, and found that the injunction, "Thou shalt 
 not kill," has a spirit as well as a letter. In the books that I 
 was reading I recognized a few others w T ho had abandoned flesh 
 meat eating. And, O, what a joy it was to me to know that a 
 few true hearts in the world could and did live above the hor- 
 rible practice of cutting short the lives of lowly creatures and 
 then feasting on their corpses. This vegetarian idea was in 
 harmony with my soul, and I never tasted flesh meat again. I 
 resolved I would face the world with strong, clean thoughts of 
 justice and truth, or not at all. No blood should ever again 
 stain my lips. 
 
 About two months after this ' ' Sun ' ' experience I was in Sac- 
 ramento city, California. Some unsettled business kept me 
 there until the following June. In June I weut away to the 
 Placer County foothills, and I hired a little /oom in a farm- 
 house. I spent most of my time in the open air out on the 
 hills, in reading, studying, meditating, and concentrating my 
 mind. 
 
 One afternoon in the latter part of June, I was standing on 
 the top of a high hill looking afar in the distance at a mountain 
 some eighty miles away. The point of concentration was a 
 white spot which appeared to be in a basin at the foot of a peak 
 in a blue ridge against the horizon. I was trying to make out 
 whether it was snow or water. I thought probably it was a 
 lake. Suddenly the whole horizon was a blaze of brilliant 
 light. I looked at the sun to see if it was anywhere obscured 
 by a cloud, for so bright was the outer light that the ordinary 
 sunlight seemed a shadow or to be twilight. Not a single 
 cloud was visible in the heavens. When I would raise my eyes 
 the light would be gone. It was only again after concentrat- 
 ting for a second or two that the light would illume the sky 
 and the mountains around. The sight of this glorious light 
 with my eyes wide open in the broad bare sunlight of a June 
 afternoon encouraged me to push forward in my search after 
 truth. 
 
 Not long afterwards came a very clear experience in thought 
 transference. It was in the first part of the month of Septem- 
 ber. One day, a neighbor, Mrs. B , called at the farm- 
 house where I was staying and wanted to sell some fruit. I 
 
XK\Y DISPENSATION OF TIME. 19 
 
 asked her if she had any white peaches to sell, saying if she 
 had I would like to buy a few and preserve them and send 
 them to my mother, as in years past she was very fond of them, 
 and now she lived in a State where they did not grow, and can- 
 not be bought. Mrs. B replied that she had a few at 
 
 home but they were not quite ripe; and they were already en- 
 gaged. However, she was not quite sure that the party would 
 take them. And she added, "If the party to whom I have 
 promised them does not take them you may have them. ' ' I 
 answered, " Very well," and thought no more about it. Three 
 weeks passed away and no thought whatever concerning those 
 white peaches had entered my mind. 
 
 Early one morning, as usual, I started off for the hills. Most 
 always I told the lady of the house in what direction I was 
 going. But I never knew r myself the hour when I would re- 
 turn. That particular forenoon I was climbing a high wooded 
 peak. It was a place that I had not been before. I was quite 
 harmonious with nature, and I felt plainly that, ' ' The voice 
 that speaks in nature finds responsive echo in the heart of man. 
 Deep answers unto deep." 
 
 The gentle breeze lifting and twirling the iris-hued tinted 
 falling leaves from the many trees, the sighing of the pines, the 
 call of the mountain quail, and living notes from the different 
 kinds of birds mingling with the squirrel's gay chirrups as 
 they sprang from one leafy bough to another of those great 
 live oak trees were indeed strengthening and life-giving to me. 
 I inbreathed the harmonies of nature and felt her gladness and 
 aspiration, and inhaled a faint, fragrant breath coming up from 
 grasses sweet 
 
 "And from the meadows rich with corn, 
 Clear in the cool September morn." 
 
 Suddenly I stopped and placed my hand on my pocketbook. 
 "O," I thought to myself, " I ought to have left some money 
 
 with Mrs. G (my landlady), for Mrs. B , to pay for 
 
 those white peaches." Then I reflected and said to myself, 
 "Pshaw, she is not going to bring them. It has been too long 
 a time. Very likely the other person took them. It would 
 have been foolish for me to have left any money for them at 
 this late date." However, I was not satisfied w r ith my argu- 
 ment. I took out my purse, opened it and sat down on a log. 
 And again said to myself, ' ' I ought to have left a dollar and a 
 half for those peaches. They might come to-day. I believe I 
 
2J THE LOGOS OF THE 
 
 will go back and leave the money there." Then I looked at 
 the sun and thought of the distance back to the house and con- 
 cluded I would not return just then, for it would interfere with 
 my plans for the day. And again, when I came to look at it 
 reasonably, I did not see why I should want to leave any money 
 there for the peaches, as it had been three weeks since we had 
 
 talked of them, and if Mrs. B was going to let me have 
 
 them, she would have brought them long ago. With this ar- 
 gument I dismissed the subject from my mind, and did not 
 return to the house until late that afternoon. 
 
 Almost the first thing I heard when I got back to the house 
 
 was, ' ' Mrs. B has been here and brought your white 
 
 peaches. She came this morning and waited awhile for you to 
 come back. Finally she said she must go. We did not know 
 what to do. She said she needed the money, so at last I con- 
 cluded to pay her for you. It was about 1 1 o'clock when she 
 w r ent home." I was amazed. It was about n o'clock when I 
 had sat down on the log in the woods and opened my purse, 
 thinking to go back and leave the money at the house. Here 
 was another proof of the power of the mind something more 
 to encourage me to push forward on the path I was following. 
 
 About this time I was told that on a certain high peak in an 
 immense cliff of rocks, was a little cave. I wanted to see it, 
 thinking that I might utilize it for the purpose of study. I 
 went out there and tried to find it but could not. Time after 
 time I climbed those rocks until I was tired out. Occasionally 
 for two weeks I searched for that cave but could not find it. 
 One day I was determined to find it, and had looked more care- 
 fully than usual, until I was exhausted, but did not find it and 
 returned home. That night, soon after I went to bed, I fell 
 into a light sleep, but was soon aroused by a great awakening 
 light. And a great white Sun swiftly swept across the zenith of 
 my soul. I looked upon it perhaps less than a second of time, 
 then it hid itself behind a cloud, but its glorious light streamed 
 from behind the cloud and flooded my room. It was the Sun 
 that I had seen eight months before in Salt Lake City the Sun 
 that my soul had called the ' ' Christ. ' ' Immediately I was out 
 on that rocky cliff searching for the little cave. My conscious- 
 ness was divided. I was out on the cliff and in the bed at the 
 same time. My consciousness at both places was perfect. I 
 could see the objects in the room, feel the cover on my face, 
 and mark the white pillow glistening in the light I moved un- 
 hands and feet, felt my body shivering a little and my soul try- 
 
NIJW DTSI'KXSATION OF TIME. 21 
 
 ing to look at that Sun. Out on the cliff I was swiftly step- 
 ping from one rock to another peering into every crevice. The 
 light penetrated everywhere and the rocks were glowing with 
 a brightness almost intolerable. I was searching for the cave 
 with the eagerness of my higher will. Yet at the same time I 
 was trying to catch glimpses of the Sun itself. The upward 
 sweep of the light was indeed powerful and all attractive. 
 
 The power of the Spirit was too great for my undeveloped 
 nature, and directly my divided consciousness rushed back to 
 my body to escape the intensity of the white heat. When I 
 was together again I found I was quite cold and shivering a 
 little, and suffering some pain. The next day I w r as quite 
 weak and suffering considerable with pain across the loins. 
 
 During the process of regeneration (re-polarization of the 
 atoms of the mind and body) with me, which covered a period 
 of many years, these high and holy experiences and they 
 came as often as I could bear them were accompanied by cold 
 feelings. It was like cold air a breath from snowy heights. 
 Sometimes one might think of the cold white falling snow- 
 flakes. Often I would see the flash of a dazzling white light 
 and at its touch I would shiver with cold. 
 
 Yet this cold, white, bright light contained (is) a heat be- 
 yond mortal conception. Always after the cold would come a 
 reaction, and warmth would come in an hour or two or in a 
 few hours at least. I would grow hot. The white light 
 seemed cold yet it was hot. White is the continent of all color, 
 and the glowing red heat was here transferred into the oneness 
 of the white. 
 
 But often the extreme heat would not come for twenty-four 
 hours after the experience; then it would be intense and cover 
 my entire body and face. It would literally burn my flesh 
 and skin, and sometimes be very painful in my nervous sys- 
 tem. Thus I learned the meaning of the scripture text, "God 
 is a consuming fire." 
 
 After the above mentioned experience in searching for the 
 cave, the illuminations were quite frequent, almost daily. 
 
 During the next two months the greatest changes of my life 
 took place. Radical changes took place in my physical body 
 as well as in my mind and soul. My breathing increased, and 
 new breathing passages literally new breathing passages 
 heretofore closed were opened up. I could breathe up and down 
 my spine and apparently all over me and all inside of me and 
 
22 THE LOGOS OF THE 
 
 through me. And to me the wonder grew at the quantities of 
 air I could inhale. 
 
 But this was a small matter compared with something else 
 that took place. One night I saw a vision, and in the vision 
 I was sitting under a great tree meditating and I heard a voice 
 say, "The Master loves you." Immediately I opened my 
 eyes and simultaneously something cool and soft like the most 
 delicate breeze spread over my heart. I was so still that my 
 breath stopped for a moment in respect to the occasion. This 
 Something moved and rolled itself into my heart as soft and 
 lightly as the most delicate tiny bundle of swan's down. It 
 seemed to fill the w^hole inside of my heart and felt a little cool 
 but rich like the blubber of fat. I knew it was an angel and 
 wholly spiritual. I felt that it was my own soul-spirit-angel. 
 I did not then know for a certainty, but surmised that this ex- 
 perience had something to do with the new birth that all the 
 religions of the earth are forever singing about but never 
 seem to realize. From that time on experiences came thick 
 and fast. 
 
 In some way I felt that I was very closely related to that won- 
 derous Sun that occasionally blazoned forth on my soul, yet I 
 could not understand it. Regeneration (re-polarization of the 
 atoms of my mind and body) had set in, and these glorious ex- 
 periences seemed to tear my physical body in shreds. The re- 
 sult was I was not very strong, and I felt how easy it would be 
 to die; for my soul often tried to escape from my body. It 
 would flutter and stir and shake my body at times like an earth- 
 quake in order to free itself, and it would often jump out, but I 
 tried hard to hold myself together, and would bring my escaping 
 soul back and be more gentle with myself. I did not want to 
 die just then, for I wanted to solve the question of life (being) 
 hoping that I might therein find satisfaction for myself, and 
 thus be able- to help others. 
 
 So powerful was that Sun that to gaze upon its face but a 
 part of a second would make me sick and set up terrible pains 
 in my body. But I saw it; I had looked upon its face, and 
 nothing else in the universe had any charm for me. It was the 
 only thing on earth or in heaven that had any interest at all for 
 me. I would do cheerfully whatever I had to do and ought to 
 do, and do it to the very best of my ability, but I ever kept in 
 thought that Sun. 
 
 All my reading at this time was for the purpose of ascertain- 
 ing if any one else in the world ever had in past ages or in present 
 
NEW DISPENSATION OF TIME. 23 
 
 time any experiences with a sun as I had. To my amazement 
 I found the Bible is full of it. The basis of its doctrine is a 
 spiritual light that reveals all things to those that see it. I 
 suppose why my attention had never been called to it in the 
 Bible before was that I had been taught to literally instead of 
 spiritually interpreting the Bible, though, to be sure, the in- 
 struction is, "The letter killeth, but the Spirit maketh alive." 
 (The fault was a limited understanding.) I said to myself, 
 "Have I been so blind all these years that I have not seen this 
 in the Bible before? And what of those people who have talked 
 and preached scripture and nothing else? I have never heard 
 them mention anything about this Sun. 
 
 When I came to study other books with this object in view, 
 I saw that this inner spiritual light (Sun) was the one point of 
 consciousness that all mystics in all ages and races since the 
 beginning of the world desired to reach. Then I thought, "If 
 this spiritual sunlight was so well known to the ancients, and 
 is so familiar to all modern mystics, why is the world in such 
 dense ignorance concerning it. I never heard of it in my life 
 before, and I am sure that nobody for many years ever tried 
 harder than I to find out something sure and true about reli- 
 gion and the destiny of man." 
 
 My chief attention was now given to the study of this Sun, 
 as much as I could bear, and in trying to find my relation to it, 
 and in searching books and all writings I could get my hands 
 on, both ancient and modern, that I might compare my expe- 
 rience with others. I was soon satisfied that in all ages and in 
 every race there had lived a few who stood in the light, as I 
 then stood, and had gone further in it. 
 
 Among those who consciously lived in it, and whose records 
 were kept, were the master teachers of the world, such as the 
 Wise Men of the East, Budda, Jesus of Nazareth and St. John. 
 
 In modern times many mystics testify of this Sun. Each 
 gave a certain amount of testimony, but after a time was silent. 
 I found no records that anyone told what this Sun is or what 
 is beyond it, if anything. (Since that time I have found 
 greater, deeper records bearing on this subject.) 
 
 To me it was God. When I called the name of God it would 
 shine on me. I could get no further. One second under its 
 bare face would cause my soul to faint within me, or my body to 
 shiver and grow cold, and sometime after a glance from its glo- 
 rious face I would be for twenty-four hours weak and suffering 
 
24 THE LOGOS OF THE 
 
 too much pain to get out of bed. And when I called the name 
 of "Christ," the angel in my heart would immediately respond. 
 
 These experiences were unspeakable and beyond my under- 
 standing, but I thought if I would be patient and study long 
 enough my understanding would grow, and all this in time 
 would be made clear to me. 
 
 At the farm house where I was staying there were children, 
 and I was much disturbed at all hours in my studies and medi- 
 tations. I wanted to be very quiet and silent, and I needed 
 proper environments for my deep meditations. I did not know 
 of any other place where I could then go; so I thought I would 
 make a camp out at the cliff on the mountain side. Beautiful 
 live oak trees, and cozy nooks, evergreen bushes and sweet 
 grasses, and a pretty waterfall were out there, and altogether it 
 was a lovely place. 
 
 I knew cayotes, wild cats, foxes and deer were also there, 
 but they would not harm any one, and they were pretty to look 
 at. And to me it was pleasing and interesting to live among 
 the squirrels, bees and birds, and to watch the buds blow and 
 the flowers open in the breath of the sweet south wind. But 
 there were other things to take into consideration. It was the 
 winter (rainy) season, and heavy rains and wind storms were 
 liable to come at any time. But I did not intend for a moment 
 to let this contingency stand in my way. I had quelled so 
 many storms in my soul that I cared not for these outward 
 raging of the elements; I merely wanted a little shelter for my 
 bed. 
 
 I found a crevice in an immense rock. The crevice was long 
 and narrow. It was just wide enough for a narrow bed. I 
 carried a few boards nearly a mile and laid over the top of this 
 crevice in order to keep the rain from my bed; and I took a few 
 old coal oil tin cans and hammered them out flat and arranged 
 them so as to form a fireplace at the further end of this crevice. 
 With a few old boards I made a rude door; then I spread an 
 oil cloth on the ground and made my bed on it. 
 
 It was sweet to be alone with Nature. 
 
 In studying this Sun, then, and for sometime afterwards, 
 there were two conditions in which I found myself in relation 
 to it. The first was when I searched for it, and it would hide 
 from me behind clouds. It always gave me its light, and often 
 the glory of its shine, but only sometimes would it peep at me 
 with its face. At times for days and days I would search for 
 its face and try to pierce the clouds before it would reveal itself. 
 
NKW DISPENSATION OF TIME. 25 
 
 By spiritual thought and meditation I would still my outer 
 senses and get my whole consciousness polarized towards spirit- 
 ual truths; then suddenly it would burst full upon me. 
 
 The second condition in which I found myself, was, the 
 moment this Sun would look at me I would flee from it, hide 
 my face and shiver. The whitenesss of its brightness seemed 
 to consume me. Its look was a lightning flash of consuming 
 fire. Almost immediately after the sight of this Sun my mind 
 would tear around like a wild animal, and my body would 
 grow cold and I would suffer much pain, and deep emotions 
 from the depth of my soul would spring up. The sorrows and 
 the joys of all known past experiences were as nothing com- 
 pared with these. It would then take me several days to har- 
 monize my body, mind, and soul. 
 
 One thing I was evidently learning very fast, and that was 
 the relation of body, mind, soul, and spirit in man. 
 
 Early one morning in March, 1892, I awoke and I heard 
 Nature around me also awakening. I put my head out at the 
 edge of the crevice door to see if the morning sun was up. 
 No, it had not risen, day was just breaking and "jocund morn- 
 ing stood tiptoe on the misty mountain top." I remembered 
 that I had not prepared any kindling wood, and rain had fallen, 
 but the clouds had vanished leaving everything damp and cold. 
 Icicles hung from the bushes, and the ground was covered with 
 a hoary frost. And I thought to myself, "I will not get up 
 just yet, but will cover up my head and try to see my Sun. 
 
 Then drawing in my consciousness retreating to complete 
 silence I saw tbe sunlight around me bright, yet as though it 
 shone through a cloud. Unmindful of the beautiful scenery 
 which spread around me my eyes sought the "Orb of Light" 
 itself. In lifting my head from the earth to the sky I saw it 
 dimly shining through the clouds, but when my eyes fell full 
 upon it, it disappeared entirely from view. Yet there was 
 light, but not sunshine. The light resembled the light of ordin- 
 ary day just before sunrise. Then I said, "O my beautiful 
 Sun, where are you?" These clouds that nearly always accom- 
 panied that Sun appeared to me to represent my own unregener- 
 ated nature (the unpurified part of my mind). I afterwards 
 proved this idea to be correct. I believed, and my reasons for 
 this belief were good and sufficient to me, that only the fully 
 regenerated man could gaze long, while in his mortal body, un- 
 moved on that Sun. 
 
 In this particular experience, while I was still gazing at the 
 
26 THE LOGOS OF THE 
 
 clouds and longing to see the Sun that had vanished, pictures 
 formed in the air between me and the clouds. They appeared 
 in the arch above the trees. I soon perceived that anything 
 I was a mind to call into existence would show forth visibly. 
 The objects followed the thought. I would think of a thing 
 and it would straightway show itself. As I looked I began to 
 think to myself, "This is primordial matter, or the mental 
 world (astral plane), and when we mortals become sufficiently 
 purified and strong we can objectly manifest any of these things 
 in the material world of solid forms." 
 
 As usual these things had not so much interest for me as my 
 Sun, and I thought of the Sun. Instantly I perceived a brilliant 
 light coming from afar. My eyes turned toward the source. 
 Over a beautiful valley my vision swept, a valley bordered be- 
 yond with snow-capped mountains, and O! the bright sunshine 
 played over the whole and shone a little ways down in the val- 
 ley. With a song on my lips I made a spring to leave my body 
 and soar away to those sunlit heights. Alas! I was caught in 
 a firm grip, and my physical body would not yield its domin- 
 ion, and I could not leave it. Softly through by my whole 
 being out of myself resounded a voice, more like a strong 
 thought than words, ''Not yet, not yet, but after awhile you 
 will be free." 
 
 The scene vanished. I uncovered my head and again peeped 
 out at the door. No, the sun was not yet up, and it was cold 
 and frosty outside. I thought to myself, " I will cover up my 
 head and look again, and again try to see my Sun." I again 
 stilled my senses and the splendor of the sight I saw can ne\ er 
 be told. 
 
 I saw a valley most beautiful, beyond it blue mountains, and 
 beyond them rose lofty snow capped peaks and above them 
 arched the blue sky. The whole scene was aglow with the 
 glory of a dazzling sunlight. 
 
 My eyes ranged from the distant horizon to myself to see if 
 I was in the shine. Yes, the white light shone around me. 
 Instantly my eyes sought the Sun in the heavens above me. 
 Alas! my eyes could not reach it; although I could perceive 
 where it was in mid heavens directly over my head. 
 There appeared to be a heavy thick covering over my head, it 
 was tight and dark and drawn down like a cap to mv eye- 
 brows. I could see all that was horizontal with .my eyebrows 
 but nothing higher. Not being able to perceive that which 
 was above my head, I looked straight forward again at the 
 
NEW DISPENSATION OF TIME. 2J 
 
 scenery. Yes, the valley, mountains, and sky were all there. 
 My eyes returned again for another effort to see the Sun. 
 'Twas impossible to look up, but I looked at myself. Lo ! I, 
 myself, was a sun. 
 
 The rays from above my head ceniered on me and I radiated 
 them. The light from the Sun above descended to me in a 
 broad beam almost like a stream of water. I saw my left 
 breast and bosom bare. The brightness of the light that issued 
 therefrom cannot be described. I was indeed a "sun" far 
 brighter than our solar sun. The light that went out from me 
 lighted up all the country around. Now, above all else, I 
 wanted to see the sun that glittered in ihe heavens over my 
 head. I felt that the cloth or hat which was bound over my 
 forehead and head was all that prevented me from seeing it. 
 And I raised my hands and with all my might tried to tear 
 away the covering. At the same time I said aloud, "I will 
 loo.k on Thee, O Lord God, I will rent in twain this veil that 
 hides Thee." But I could not do it. When I found that I 
 could not tear the close thick veil off, I praised God and began 
 to examine mv body. T ' 7 hile contemplating myself, I thought 
 thus, " This Sun above me is a Spiritual Sun Divine in itself 
 and the Center of all Life. None but a perfectly purified soul 
 a fully regenerated man can steadily gaze unveiled on its 
 face. It overshadows every soul in process of purification and 
 becomes one with every fullv purified or regenerated soul. It 
 so enters into and reflects itself upon a soul that the soul, too, 
 shines and reflects around it this light, thus becoming, in turn, 
 a little 'sun' itself." Now, while thus examining myself, I 
 knew the Divine Rays were centered in my bosom and I was 
 conscious that the upper part of my heart was the point from 
 which I radiated the light received. My radiating renter was 
 the upper portion of my heart and extending a little above the 
 organ itself. I knew this light within me was conscious and 
 alive. Before this illumination I had called it an angel, but I 
 could now see how it was connected with the light above, and 
 how s-u-n (sun) and s-o-n (son) meant the same. The babe of 
 promise was born. How the "Son" was born was quite clear 
 to me. This is "The only begotten son, who is in the bosom 
 of the Father" (John i: 18). For no other kind are born. 
 Every child overshadowed and born into the spiritual bosom of 
 Light, is an only begotten. Herein is the secret of "Christ" 
 and Christianism. 
 
 At this stage in the illumination, I suddenly began to sing. 
 
28 THE LOGOS OF THE 
 
 No words were uttered, neither did the harmonies come from 
 my lips, but sweet music resounded from out of me, from no, 
 one place in particular, but from my whole being and all over 
 me and from every part of my body. I was literally and fully 
 a heavenly song. At the time this illumination was received 
 I had no idea what such singing meant. Since that time I 
 have learned a little concerning sound and man's relation to it 
 and its relation to man. I looked up at the valley, moun- 
 tains, and blue sky. They were all there, but as I gazed they 
 began to fade and the thick veil on my head dropped over my 
 eyes. All was dark and cold and coarse again, and I uncov- 
 ered my head and got up. The morning sun had just touched 
 the mountain peak, but had not yet fallen on my camp. 
 
 Shortly after that some exploring parties came my way, dis- 
 covered my quiet retreat, and I had many visitors. Many cu- 
 rious visitors who looked at me and talked as though I was a 
 circus exhibit others seemed to have an idea that I was keep- 
 ing a private place of prostitution out there and appeared to 
 think that it was their duty to insult me. Others hinted that 
 I had lost my wits to have ideas of living alone. Three or 
 four persons out of all who came to see me evidently under- 
 stood that I was there for quiet and to study by meditation 
 
 I found it very undesirable to stay there, and I thought I 
 would move further away where I could be undisturbed for a 
 while longer. 
 
 Some things I was quite anxious to understand and I could 
 not rest until I solved another problem or two. I must have a 
 quiet place and proper conditions in order to do it. Some pe- 
 culiar every day experiences made it necessary for me to know 
 more about motion, sound, polarity, and vibration. 
 
 I was beginning to realize that motion and sound were the 
 same, hence every moving body must have a key-note sound, 
 also every still body must have a sound. I was beginning to 
 think that motion, sound, and vibration are synonymous. And 
 polarity, what is that? And what is vibration? I must truly 
 understand vibration. Later, I found that this is the basis of 
 the Keely Motor secret. But more than all else, just then, I 
 wanted to hear the sound of the earth as it rolls through space. 
 
 I had heard that if a person would free himself from anger 
 and the attendant evils for a long time, and then make the 
 proper conditions, he might hear the song of the earth which 
 is a part of the "music of the spheres." It would be neces- 
 sary for the person to seclude himself for a few weeks from all 
 
NEW DISPENSATION OF TIME. 29 
 
 external sound (even the rustle of the wind as it passes through 
 the grass must not be heard), in order that the roar of the 
 coarse material sounds might die out of his ears, and then he 
 would hear through the organs of his physical ears the tre- 
 mendous sweep of the harmonious "universal tone of the 
 earth." 
 
 I cast around me to find a proper place. I decided to put in 
 order an old deserted lime kiln several miles down the Ameri- 
 can River (north fork). In size it was ten by eighteen feet on 
 the inside, and the solid stone walls were three feet thick. It 
 was just the place for my experiments and for quiet study. I 
 moved down there and two friends who knew my motives came 
 and flattened the shake roof and covered it over with earth a 
 foot deep. I took food inside, went in and closed the door. 
 
 There was an inside and an outside door they were about 
 three feet apart. Every other day a friend brought me water 
 and set it on the inside of the outer door. In those days, and 
 it is about the same at the present time, my food consisted 
 mostly of dried fruit (sometimes cooked and sometimes eaten 
 raw; if raw it was softened in water); cornmeal mush and raw 
 onions; camp cake, graham bread, and honey. Occasionally I 
 used a little olive oil and nuts or butter, but not often. 
 
 I was in that silent chamber for three weeks. 'Twas so calm, 
 quiet, and harmonious that I felt like staying there always. 
 "Did I hear the song of the earth?" Yes, and I have not 
 much to say about it, for its wonderful "tone" has a way of 
 sobering up a person and bringing him to a realization of the 
 words, "There are greater things in heaven and earth, Hora- 
 tio, than are dreamed of in your philosophy." 
 
 It was twelve days before I heard it in its fulness. The 
 music seemed to begin afar off as a thousand stringed instru- 
 ments all playing at once it came nearer and increased in vol- 
 ume then it was an orchestra of every known instrument and 
 the tone was strong, sweet, and harmonious, then it receded 
 back to the beginning and appeared to me to repeat as the 
 waves of the ocean repeat and follow each other and break upon 
 the shore. 
 
 I had many quiet hours of study at this lime kiln retreat, 
 but after a while a miner discovered me, and visitors began to 
 come. The newspapers began to say something about me. 
 The people began coming in to see me by twos and even sixes 
 at a time every day. Some came, asked for a drink of water, 
 looked at my clothes, made a few remarks among themselves, 
 
30 THE LOGOS OF THE 
 
 and passed on. Tourists, miners, and hunters just then were 
 very plentiful, and they seemed to be satisfied to get a peep at 
 me. Two or three came and inquired if in my searchings I 
 had made any discoveries which might help them in their 
 efforts to solve life's problems. Letters began to pour in on 
 me. vSome from strangers and some from friends I had known 
 in years long before, and some from relatives. One cried out, 
 " For God's sake come out of that place and don't disgrace us 
 all." Another, "You surely are out of your mind to go down 
 there and live all alone." Another, "What terrible trouble 
 made you give up teaching and hide yourself away like that ?' ' 
 And still another, ' " What has happened in your life to drive 
 you away from mankind. I am your friend, tell me." 
 
 But a few letters came, evidently written from the soul of 
 the writers, asking what I could tell them about immortality 
 and the way to develop soul consciousness. All this publicity 
 terribly disturbed me. I was not strong enough to stand it, 
 so I went to bed and cried, but the Comforter was there. And 
 surely while I lay on my bed the angel of my own soul kissed 
 my lips literally kissed me full in the mouth. 
 
 I knew I had to leave there, and I thought it better to go 
 back to the city and teach spiritual truths and heal diseases. 
 
 I went down to Sacramento city and staid four months. I 
 did some remarkable healing and some teaching. But people 
 expected too much of me; they wanted me to do the miracles 
 of Christ Jesus instantly for them, and still allow them to go on 
 in their sins. They did not see even in the new way of look- 
 ing at things, that they had much of anything to do. 
 
 They would bundle up their diseases, sins, sorrows and fears 
 and bring them over to me and ask me to destroy them. Cheer- 
 fully I would bear their burdens, and at the same time show 
 them the true way to live that they might forever rise above 
 the so-called evils. But most people did not believe in the prac- 
 ticability of spiritual things, and again they thought it was too 
 hard work to keep steadily day by day practicing spiritual 
 truths. The effort to change old habits and do much on new 
 lines requires constant watchfulness and daily practice, and I 
 found few that would do that for any length of time. My 
 money was dwindling down, and people (many of them) seemed 
 to think that I did not need much of anything. 
 
 Some would offer me their old clothes, and some try to per- 
 suade me to eat flesh meat. Moreover, they wanted everything 
 done in secret. They must not for the world be seen in my 
 
NEW DISPENSATION OF TIME. 31 
 
 company. They would get me to do the healing of what the 
 "M.D's" called incurable cases, and to please some other mem- 
 ber of the family they would call in once or twice a regular 
 licensed doctor. The patient would get well, the M D. would 
 be praised and receive big fees. Often in these cases I would, 
 after the work was done, get sneered at and treated with ex- 
 treme rudeness. Some would not pay me anything at all, and 
 others would give me a dollar or two. I saw that I was not 
 strong enough to stand this terrible strain, and I concluded to 
 go back to the mountains for another year. 
 
 Heretofore I had a little money. I had a little on hand when 
 I went out of business, but I had given a part of it to those whom 
 I felt in duty bound to help. I still had others to help. I saw 
 very plainly that I could not take up any of the old lines of 
 work as in times past, but I thought I could manage in some 
 way to make ends meet and fulfill all my obligations until I 
 could grow strong enough to face the world. 
 
 I went back to the mountains and concluded to keep a few 
 honey bees, thinking that I could have a little honey to sell, 
 and thus get money enough to meet all demands. I bought a 
 dozen bee stands, but could not find any place to put them. I 
 could not find a room in the whole neighborhood which I could 
 rent and have the necessary quiet and keep my bees. 
 
 I found an old lime kiln furnace that I thought would afford 
 a shelter for me and a place to keep my honey. But I was 
 told in a threatening manner that if I went there some night I 
 would be molested and my house destroyed. In the 'face of 
 the insults that I had endured I did not think it a very wise 
 plan to camp out again in the neighborhood. I tried to buy a 
 little place. I offered a big price for one acre of land, but no 
 one in the near country around would sell less than forty acres. 
 At last, almost in despair, I sat down and cried, and I thought, 
 "O, God, in all this world is there no place for me." Though 
 there were thousands of acres of unoccupied land around, I 
 had no place to lay my head. 
 
 I heard of some government land two or three miles from the 
 railroad depot It was in a great wild canyon a mile and a 
 half from any wagon road. I borrowed twenty-seven dollars 
 and filed a homestead claim on it. Aftt-r a little time I got a 
 footpath cut through the thick underbrush on the mountain 
 side down to the place. I paid the man nine new hives of bees 
 for cutting the trail. They were equal to about twenty-two 
 dollars. For about two years I carried in my arms my pro- 
 
32 THE; LOGOS OF THE 
 
 visions down this mountain path to my home. Soon after the 
 trail was cut I had a log cabin built, and a friend (lady) in a 
 distant city helped me to pay for it. 
 
 I carried my bee hives one by one down the mountain. And 
 I felt very thankful to have a quiet shelter where I could study 
 unmolested the great problems of life. Many great and won- 
 derful experiences came to me in this quiet home. All things 
 were becoming new to me. I looked at them by the light that 
 overshadowed me, and not in the ordinary way. My whole 
 life was fast changing: its polarity. It was quite evident to me 
 that the time had come for me to realize an individuality and 
 a higher order of spiritual life. I literally went through death 
 struggles; and if the angel of my being had not cool sprayed, 
 cool sprayed, cool sprayed my key mad heart with the spiritual 
 essence of life, you would never have heard this story. The 
 agonies of the New Birth travail and the great work of nour- 
 ishing and protecting this Christ Consciousness (literally a 
 Spiritual Child), were tasks that can scarcely be compre- 
 hended. 
 
 A year passed. This Spiritual Consciousness within me was 
 growing and waxing strong. Yet I did not feel equal to face 
 the world. But I knew I must do something My needs were 
 small. It did not take much money to meet all demands for 
 myself; $2.50 per month would cover all necessary expenses 
 for everything. But I was not thinking of myself; others were 
 looking to me for help. I felt that these duties and obligations 
 were a part of my life. The call was appealing and imperative. 
 My honey bees had never paid for their original cost. 
 
 I had during the summer time went out to a fruit farm and 
 dried some fruit on the shares, hoping to sell my part of it for 
 enough money to supply the urgent needs of those who called 
 to me for help. But the sale of the fruit very little more than 
 covered the cost of getting it ready for market. I had not any- 
 thing left out of it except what I needed to eat. I saw no other 
 way open but to again go to the city and see what could be 
 done. I knew that I must work wholly upon spiritual lines; 
 although I could earn my living at any one of more than twenty 
 occupations. But I had lost interest in all things except that 
 in and through them I could work out a higher state of con- 
 sciousness and strength for myself, and thereby be more able 
 to help others. 
 
 I wrote and compiled a few thoughts under the heading of 
 "Reflections from the Sun." I took them to a printer in Sac- 
 
XKW DISPENSATION OF TIMK. 33 
 
 raraento city, and while he was printing them in pamphlet 
 form I canvassed for the booklet. The price was twenty-five 
 cents. I went among people whom I thought was inter- 
 ested in high spiritual thoughts. I soon took orders enough 
 to pay the printer's bill. I took a few of the booklets from the 
 printing office at a time, delivered them, and brought back the 
 money to the printer. 
 
 Some of my friends asked me to teach a class. I did so, but 
 considering all things I thought I could do the teaching better 
 by correspondence, as I was too sensitive to meet what was put 
 upon me. I taught a small class in a friend's parlor; then I 
 organized one to teach by correspondence, and went back to 
 my mountain home. 
 
 Another year passed. The demands on me increased. This 
 time the calls were not only appealing and imperative, but 
 agonizing. I knew that others turned to me because they could 
 see no hope in any other direction. I, therefore, resolved not 
 only to supply their earthly needs for a while, but if possible to 
 gently lead them into the light of their own souls, that they 
 might discern the Truth of Being for themselves, thereby be- 
 coming able to balance their own lives and rise above those 
 things and conditions that had so terribly overwhelmed them. 
 
 I again began the practice of metaphysics as a healer and 
 teacher in Sacramento. I felt a little stronger than the year 
 before. 
 
 When I would walk along the streets, or come in close con- 
 tact with people, it seemed to me I was in a graveyard. I 
 firmly resolved to raise the dead or die in the attempt. I knew 
 how to do it; the only question was whether or not I was strong 
 enough to bear all the foul odors that would be thrown upon 
 me. Often after treating and healing people, I would see and 
 feel and be myself (in visions), digging open graves, uncovering 
 the coffins, and looking steadily at the corpses; and as I looked 
 at a corpse and sometimes spoke to it, often touched it, a quiver 
 would be discovered in some part of the lifeless body, or an 
 eye would open, or the head would move, and some (in my 
 vision experiences) would literally rise up out of their coffins 
 and walk and talk. 
 
 The next three years were very eventful and rich in experi- 
 ence to me. Truly, I opened grave after grave of materiality, 
 broke the tomb of false beliefs and idolatry numbering hun- 
 dreds and awoke many sleeping souls to a consciousness of 
 their own divine possibilities. 
 
34 THE LOGOS OF THK 
 
 In this work the little stanza that I had learned in the long 
 ago had a new meaning. 
 
 '' How beautiful the repose of the dead; 
 How sweet is the slumber they sleep, 
 When the eye hath no tear drop to shed, 
 Nor the heart one anguish to weep." 
 
 I saw the living were in that stony sleep of death, "the beau- 
 tiful repose," and I saw their sweet slumber turn to the bitter- 
 ness of hell. I spoke the words of life, and tried to awake 
 them, and sometimes I did. ''And beauty immortal awoke 
 from the tomb." 
 
 The power of my thoughts marshalled, directed, and sent 
 forth and enforced took my strength and heart essence, but I 
 did it and lived. The ordeal was great, but through under- 
 standing I came out alive (kept my body). 
 
 In the second year of my last work there the Legislature 
 assembled, and during the session a friend said to me, " I want 
 to do something to help along the good work that you are do- 
 ing. It is my duty as a factor in this State administration to 
 help entertain the people who, at this particular time, make up 
 the elite society. Those who permanently live here, as well as 
 those who come for the season only, expect to be entertained 
 at my house. Suppose we form a class in psychology. I will 
 invite the people and you organize a class and do the teach- 
 ing." It was done. 
 
 A number came merely because it was Mrs. Brown, wife of 
 the Secretary of State, who invited them, others came out of 
 curiosity to see what it could be, and a few came because they 
 thought it would be an interesting and profitable way to spend 
 an hour. The work in that class was exceedingly hard, but it 
 was not in vain. 
 
 Though most of the seeds therein sown fell on stony ground, 
 yet some found fertile crevices and grew and thrived. Some 
 of the lessons given in that class were afterwards embodied in 
 the little book, "Concentration and Inspiration." In fact, 
 this book had its birth in that class. 
 
 The class demanded something on that line, the lessons were 
 then formulated partly written and partly oral and when 
 they came to an end, some of the members of the class who 
 hajd become highly interested, requested me to publish them in 
 book form, and I did. 
 
 The influences set to work in that class is actively felt to-dn.y 
 
NK\V DISI'KNSATIOX OK TIMK. 35 
 
 in more than one branch of public affairs in the State of Cali- 
 fornia. 
 
 After three years from, my last beginning in Sacramento, I 
 returned again to my mountain home, feeling that I had ac- 
 complished that for which I had come and that my work in the 
 city was finished. 
 
 My teaching and healing had quietly reached thousands, but 
 my work was not organized as I wished it to be. And I real- 
 ized that there was more for me to do and a better way to do 
 it and I must be about it. 
 
 Now, in the year 1899, I sit in my log cabin and write the.^e 
 pages, and I hear many asking : 
 
 " Have you arrived at any certainty concerning the destiny 
 of man ? As the result of your many years of spiritual expe- 
 riences in your search after truth, what important conclusions 
 have you formed?" 
 
 The first part of the question I have answered at length in 
 Lesson I, "Statement of Being," in this book. Man's possibili- 
 ties, and how to become cognizant of his soul consciousness and 
 develop as well as resurrect his latent faculties and powers are 
 explained in Lessons II, III, IV, and V, of the "Logos" 
 series of books. Lesson VI has never been published, 
 but is in manuscript form. It is of much interest as its sub- 
 ject is "Reincarnation." The principles of involution, evolu- 
 tion, and reincarnation of the soul- spirit in my understanding 
 are true. 
 
 Back through the long vista of the past I have gone and 
 taken up the thread of life and again lived over those things, 
 and I have connected them with my present life without a sin- 
 gle break. In other words, I have called up out of the great 
 deep of past ages experiences which I have lived over until, 
 finally, in my present spiritual consciousness, my soul would 
 triumph and I would drop to perish all that which was not 
 useful or good for my soul to retain. This is the " resurrec- 
 tion" and it can only be done by the power of Christ. Who 
 and what Christ is, is explained in Lesson I, "Statement of 
 Being," and in this paper. 
 
 The spiritual soul at last triumphs over matter. 
 
 Perhaps you would like to hear a little more about that 
 " Sun " that has illumined me so long. Well, I am always in 
 its light, and by its light I read the book of life. Each year 
 the veil over my head has become thinner and the light has 
 increased in my consciousness and many profound secrets have 
 
36 LOGOS OF THE 
 
 been rex^ealed to me. And in the light of this Sun I often 
 meet those souls who are known as "The spirits of just men 
 made perfect," and friends with whom I feel at home. These 
 friends are the gods, and their beaut}', grandeur, and wisdom 
 are indescribable. It surpasses anything known or seen with 
 mortal eyes. And, too, they have the faculty of changing 
 their sex at will, that is. according to the lesson they are teach- 
 ing or the dominant idea they are illustrating. 
 
 I am a wee toddling baby in their company. For many 
 years I was too sleepy, and tired, and weary while in their 
 company to learn much or very fast. And, too, my memory 
 was very poor. Yet I was growing and developing like a 
 flower in June. I am now improving and building up those 
 deficiencies and at present can learn better and remember some. 
 
 Sometimes I hear music and singing. These harmonies 
 have a wonderful effect on me, as they rapidly change atomic 
 cell formations of my mind and body. Sometimes I rise up in 
 the air and join in the chorus of a visiting celestial choir; 
 though this does not often occur, as it is exceedingly strong 
 for me, and unfits me for the coarse work of every day duties. 
 
 These high and holy souls do not rule or control any one; 
 neither do they take charge of a person's worldly affairs, by 
 telling him what to do and what not to do, any more than a 
 high minded person here will dominate another's will. 
 
 Man made his own filth and dirt and he must clean out his 
 stable himself. He must learn and purify himself. These 
 Great Souls teach in the kindergarten manner (by pictures) on 
 lines of knowledge best adapted to the one studying, and they 
 teach the principles of self development and self responsibility, 
 and of cause and effect, and then leave the individual entirely 
 free to choose for himself. 
 
 The}^ teach man that he can know and, one by one, do all 
 things for himself. This is the law. In the growth of the 
 soul the prominent factors are love, understanding, and will. 
 Understanding includes knowledge of Truth. ' ' The begin- 
 ning of real knowledge is a thorough understanding of self." 
 Then widen your thoughts and seek to know. 
 
 Here are some points which will help you in your search- 
 ings after knowledge. " To seek after the truth which a thing 
 represents means to conjure its spirit. To recognize the char- 
 acter of a thing with all its various attributes means to see its 
 spirit. To know how to use all the powers that are hidden in 
 a thing is to make its spirit subservient to your power. If I 
 
NKW DISPENSATION (>1- TIMH. 37 
 
 know the attributes of a thing I know its spirit. If I can 
 make use of the qualities of a thing its spirit will be my ser- 
 vant. To understand a thing thoroughly is to image (picture) 
 to be it. While the body sleeps the soul may go to different 
 places and act intelligently there. Wherever consciousness is 
 there you are. Concentrate your mind, meditate upon that 
 which you wish to know and so learn." 
 
 Further in regard to my Sun; sometimes I see myself stand- 
 ing in its glorious shine, and I often see it through the leafy 
 branches of a tree. The tree protects me Irom its intense rays. 
 And occasionally I look full into its unveiled face. No, I need 
 not go to sleep, nor behold a vision in order to see it. I merely 
 sit entirely quiet and harmonious for a few minutes and try to 
 see it. That perfect peace and harmony of mind that nothing 
 can disturb is required. Then clear and free from all mists 
 and clouds, I look full at it for perhaps a few seconds. It is 
 now a mass of dazzling light the spirit within me stirs and 
 tries to leave my body. Sometimes I do leave it, but I come 
 back again, for I am not lonely now as I was in days gone by 
 the one has become two and the two has become one. 
 
 ' But what about sex in this immortal consciousness here on 
 earth or elsewhere?' ' you ask. . 
 
 The soul has no sex, or rather it is androgyne and in some 
 incarnations expresses itself as female and in others as male. 
 Male and female ideas belong only to mortals and materiality, 
 and should not be made the basis for different rules of conduct. 
 These ideas must be understood, then give place to higher 
 thoughts (see Lesson IV). In the end of the 'process of puri- 
 fication each one (man or woman) becomes dual, yet is one 
 lovely and loving, beautiful and strong, individualized and 
 powerful. 
 
 The sex ideas must be understood then give place to those 
 thoughts which are neither male nor female, but are above sex 
 and are complete within themselves. 
 
 " What have you to say about soul love?" 
 
 The true soul mate or affinity is one's own Higher Self, that 
 is, the Divine Ray-Spirit so absorbing the mind and the outer 
 consciousness, that it is able to personify itself to the individual 
 or lower self In reality, it is one's self and not another entity 
 separate from himself. 
 
 The overshadowing of a soul by the Divine Sun is the 
 "Immaculate Conception." Then we see "Mary." Later 
 comes the New Birth, and the personification of " Mary " to 
 
38 THE LOGOS OF THE 
 
 the individual. " Mary" is that part of the soul that is puri- 
 fied and nourishes the Christ Child thus we have the Trinity 
 Father, Mother and Son three in one. 
 
 The soul essences is a persons' double, and may show itself 
 to him in as many ways as he has thoughts. And when per- 
 forming the office of the God-Mother-principle it sometimes 
 shows itself as " Mary." 
 
 It also often personifies itself to him in other forms and 
 teaches his lower consciousness. It is the ideal becoming real. 
 
 ' ' Would you wish to find this most perfect flower in the wil- 
 derness of life? Then seek for it only within thyself. Intu- 
 ition finds all language too poor to reveal its wealth. Music 
 breathes it; art exalts it with brush and chisel; literature em- 
 balms it; poetiy glorifies it; none can exhaust it. The singer 
 hears a song sweeter than he can sing; the sculptor sees a form 
 more perfect than he can ^x in marble; and the painter sees a 
 beauty whose fairest grace utterly defies his brush. This is the 
 'Beloved' and the 'Rose of Sharon,' whom Solomon adored ; 
 she whose voice is sweeter than honey, his love, his life, his 
 joy, his type of all types, and his dream of all dreams, his 
 Divine spirit or Christos, his guardian and his God. Seek 
 thou also for her, reader, sometime and somewhere you shall 
 meet her, and some day eyes will look into yours and shine 
 with a radiance wholly divine, for, from the eternities, you 
 have been preparing for each other in the perfect thought of 
 God." 
 
 The' soul and* mind may talk together as two persons talk. 
 
 Let me tell you of a little experience I had only a few days 
 ago. I was in a deep soul quiet of rest, and I saw some one 
 standing very near me, toward my left, a little in front. I did 
 not notice his face for I was busy with some work I had in my 
 hands, and I began to look at my hands. They were very 
 beautiful, w r hite, shining, and emitting a soft light. I looked 
 particularly at my left thumb. It was exquisitely beautiful 
 beyond all description. The person said to me, " Your hands 
 are very beautiful." "Yes," I answered, "they show my 
 work. I have tried to be helpful all my life to all persons 
 and creatures whom I have met. These hands have served 
 mankind in many grades of service. Helpfulness is the most 
 inspiring and satisfactory life this earth affords." 
 
 And he said, "Give me that hand." I replied, "I cannot 
 part with it." 
 
XK\V DISPKXSATIOX OF TIMK. 39 
 
 He then touched my fingers Ah tns! from my heart down 
 through my arm into my hand flowed an exquisite current of 
 perfect bliss. 
 
 "Ears hath not heard, eyes hath not seen, neither hath it 
 entered into the mind of man what God hath in store for them 
 that love Him and keep His commandments." "Such love as 
 this is from the first and will be to the end of all time, and be- 
 yond all time. Such love is so eternal, so complete, that this 
 mortal life is but a tiny instant, a moment of pause in our jour- 
 ney through the firmaments, or through the endless pathways 
 of heavenly glory from one star world to another." 
 
 " What is friendship?" 
 
 True friendship is sympathy between souls. It is, in its 
 highest aspect, a soul attribute, and rises above the passions, 
 death, and mortal life. It reaches through these into the eter- 
 nal. It is very beautiful and satisfying to the pure in mind. 
 
 "Why do not a great many people attain to this light and 
 spiritual knowledge?' ' 
 
 It is owing to their impure habits and base methods of living, 
 and destructive and harmful thoughts they hold toward each 
 other. 
 
 Lust and sex commerce is one thing that holds them down 
 in darkness Another is the brand of inferiority placed on the 
 female, thereby limiting her opportunities in the struggles of 
 life, and fettering her on lines of growth. And still another is 
 the habit of killing animals and eating flesh meat. 
 
 The desire for parentage is of the soul and is holy, and when 
 people learn that the sex relation is only to be entered into for 
 the direct purpose of producing offspring, they will take one 
 long stride toward the light. When every woman is taught 
 some occupation, and trained to honorably earn her own living, 
 even as her brother earns his, and that life means the same to 
 her that it does to him, then will the heavenly light break con- 
 sciously upon the human race. 
 
 If you truly love your fellow beings and wish to see better 
 conditions established on earth, speak out boldly now for the 
 freedom and equality of woman on every plane of life. Speak 
 and act that you may help her to rise above the slavery of fash- 
 ion, frivolity, dependence, and the condition of being a hotbed 
 for men's lusts. She is rising by herself, but help her by your 
 sympathy, and also reach out a hand to her. Having been in 
 bondage so long she is weak. 
 
40 THE LOGOS OF THE 
 
 "Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) 
 Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, 
 And saw within the moonlight in his room, 
 Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, 
 An Angel writing in a book of gold. 
 Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, 
 A.nd to the presence in the room he said, 
 'What writest thou?' The vision raised its head, 
 And with a look made all of sweet accord, 
 Answered. 'The names of those who love the L,ord ' 
 'And is mine one?' said Abou. 'Nay, not so,' 
 Replied the Angel. Abou spoke more low, 
 But cheerily still, and said, 'I pray thee, then, 
 Write me as one who loves his fellow men. ' 
 The Angel wrote and vanished 
 
 The next night 
 
 It came again with great awakening light, 
 And showed the names whom love of God had blessed; 
 And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the -rest." 
 
 [Leigh Hunt. 
 
 He who belongs to the tribe of Ben Adhem and dares to 
 speak out and act for the freedom and equality of woman, not 
 only helps to establish justice and mercy and the kingdom of 
 heaven on earth, but becomes a savior to the people. This is a 
 woman's day. The time for the hysterical laugh of the maniac 
 at the tomb of oblivion is passing away, the hour for weeping 
 women at the sepulcher is already past, the Angel has rolled the 
 stone away for the Higher Self (indwelling Christ)has arisen, and 
 the hour for rejoicing has come. Now is the season for women 
 to laugh in melody; spread the glad tidings far and wide the 
 glad tidings of their own recognized possibilities and the power 
 to work them out, and the knowledge to clear away the mis- 
 eries of the earth. 
 
 Sisters,. rise and take possession of yourselves and proclaim 
 the Ascension. It is now time for many of us to pass beyond 
 a hope and a promise, to pass into and beyond the portals of 
 inspiration, into a full realization of the eternally true. And 
 in the spirit of Christ dwell in faith, and live by faith, which is 
 beyond all knowledge, for it is knowledge and the fragrance of 
 yet undiscovered knowledge faith in knowledge where every 
 action is attuned to Divine Truth. 
 
 The following are selected verses, and a few words in them 
 are changed, thereby changing the sense to suit the present 
 occasion : 
 
XK\V niSl'F.XSATloX OK TIMK. 41 
 
 WOMAN. 
 
 She is not veiled or sleeping, 
 For she knoweth now her power; 
 She obeyeth truly the pleading 
 Of her heart and the high leading 
 Of her soul within this hour. 
 
 Fast advancing, dancing, leaping 
 Comes the Woman to the Hour. 
 She is not veiled or sleeping, 
 For she knoweth now her power. 
 
 But there are other clouds between man and 
 "The light that never shone on land or sea." 
 
 The shadows and mists will not flee away until death habits 
 are laid aside. The death habits are taking life killing ani- 
 mals and feeding upon corpses, and also the capital punishment 
 of crime. '^ 
 
 When the nature of mind is understood, a person will be as 
 horrified to eat the dead flesh of any animal as he would now 
 be to eat the corpse of a human being. The eating of flesh 
 meat blinds the soul. 
 
 "What more advance can mortal make in sin? 
 Deaf to the calf that lies beneath the knife, 
 Looks up and from the butcher begs her life. 
 Deaf to the harmless kid, who, ere he dies, 
 All efforts to procure thy pity tries, 
 And imitates in vain thy children's cries." 
 
 In the dead flesh is incorporated the fear and the terrors of 
 death through which the animal passes when it is butchered. 
 These same conditions the meat-eater takes into his system as 
 he eats the flesh. 
 
 The flesh having passed through death has in it the elements 
 of anguish, pain, suffering, and fear. These continue in the 
 vital spirit of the animal which does not immediately perish 
 when separated from its body, but remains sometime in the 
 invisible atmosphere. For a time there remains a mental con- 
 nection between the vital spirit of the animal and the consumer 
 of its flesh; hence sorrow and all the passions are intensified in 
 those who eat the flesh. 
 
 Vapors arise from such practices and makes clouds in the 
 mind. 
 
 There is enough in this world for all enough of everything 
 for all beings and creatures. Do you believe in justice? If so, 
 suppose you say to yourself, "All creatures on this earth have 
 
42 THE LOGOS OF THE 
 
 the same right to existence and to the enjoyment of existence 
 as I have. I do not want their pleasures, and I do not want 
 them to drink my sorrows. I want simply my own, and I am 
 perfectly content to rob no one." "I never want happiness 
 that gives another pain. I wish not happiness from others 
 only happiness out of the bosom of the great ALL which conies 
 like the red flowers of the oleander." 
 
 "No flocks that range the valley free, 
 
 To slaughter I condemn; 
 Taught by the power that pities me, 
 I learn to pity them." 
 
 "Enjoy, and let others enjoy. Live and let live. Do more. 
 Lire and help live. Do to beings below you as you would be 
 done by by beings above you." 
 
 In order to consciously perceive the Divine Sun-light, one's 
 life must be clean and free from all harmful thoughts not only 
 toward other human beings but toward all creatures. Man 
 must love with a protecting love. How can a man truly love 
 who is a party to death in another creature in order to pamper 
 his own perverted appetite. Such an act is selfishness unto 
 death. The one who eats flesh meat stands in the same rela- 
 tion to the butcher as a party receiving stolen goods does to 
 the one who steals them. He is accessory, therefore amenable 
 to the law of life. True love does not steal or take by force 
 another life, but instead gives of itself to the other, be that 
 other bird or beast or human being or Divinity itself. 
 
 A noble, pure, ideal love a. love that is free from harm to 
 any living creature is one of the requisites of that Holy Light. 
 
 How can a man put away fear, and the terrors of the pas- 
 sions, when he is daily a party to their perpetuation in another 
 order of life? 
 
 How can he repolarize the death atoms in his own body and 
 mind that the Light may shine into him and illumine his mind, 
 when he is daily a party to death in other creatures? 
 
 Friends, let me whisper into your ears the law of life: 
 
 Whatsoever you do to another creature, be it creeping or up- 
 right, beast or human being . that same thing you do to yourself. 
 The law of life is that it will come home to you some time. 
 
 In other words, you are responsible to yourself for what you 
 do, and so long as you do these things so long will dark clouds 
 of your own making hide from you the spiritual light of your 
 own soul. 
 
NKW DISPENSATION OF TF : 43 
 
 It is the law of cause and effect. You set causes to work 
 which either keep you in bondage to matter or set you free in 
 the light. 
 
 It is in your power to set causes to operating which will 
 show out such effects as you want; thus it is in your power to 
 undo what you have done, by constantly doing nobler acts and 
 continually practicing thoughts and deeds of love, life, truth, 
 peace, and good will toward all living creatures. 
 
 A mortal who seeks to know the truth of being, and deepens 
 and broadens his understanding, who keeps his own counsel, who 
 dares to live out what he truly believes to be right, and who per- 
 sistently cultivates his higher will, is respected by the powers 
 that be, and loved and helped by the gods and angels; and in 
 time he will see his own light and know it. And, too, he will 
 find day by day as he lives the life, many more true and wor- 
 thy friends on earth, even in hi< immediate neighborhood, than 
 he ever did in the old way of living. 
 
 Just try it my friends and see if, at any rate, you don't have 
 a greater respect for yourself. Self respect is not pride; it is 
 something infinitely grander. 
 
 First seek to know the Truth of Being, then find the Way 
 and live the Life. 
 
 And to you will come a splendor and beauty untold, 
 
 And secrets your soul will unfold in letters of gold, 
 
 And poverty and ignorance, sorrow and fear will flee away, 
 
 And sin and death be gone in the glory and light of dawning da)*. 
 
 Know the truth and the truth shall make you whole. 
 
 " Peace on earth and good will 1' 
 44 Souls that are gentle and still. 
 Hear the first music of this 
 (Coming), infinite bliss." 
 
CELL-ATOM. 
 
 " But unto you that fear iny name shall the Sun of righteousness arise 
 with healing in his wings" (beams). Mai. iv : 2. 
 
 LKSSON I. 
 
 STATEMENT OF 
 
 God is in every human being. God is Divine Principle: 
 that is the Ray Essence. Principle is Life, Spirit, Truth, 
 Love, Law, Substance, Intelligence, and Wisdom. Divine 
 Science reveals Spirit. 
 
XKW DISPENSATION or TIM 45 
 
 The accompanying diagram of circles may answer as an illus- 
 tration of the strata of consciousness involved in man's make- 
 up from his body to his Divine Center. In this diagram his 
 body is counted as one. His mind is double; that is, a part of 
 it is mortal and unpurified and a part purified. The purified 
 part belongs to the soul stratum and is termed the higher 
 mind. The higher mind is the pure soul qualities already ac- 
 quired in experience in matter. 
 
 The Divine / (Ego) is Ray, God, Spirit in the center (no 
 one place) of man as shown in this diagram. Growth from 
 the center by polarization though the occult change of the atom 
 takes place. The atom is not always round in form, neither is 
 it stationary, but is 1 continually in a state of change (motion). 
 Study an atom and you study man. 
 
 The scientific process of change and growth in the atom 
 that is, the cell spiritualization in man is very beautifully 
 illustrated by Van der Nailien, in the appendix of his book, 
 "In the Sanctuary." The vibrations ot the atom are also 
 mentioned in the little book, "Esoteric Vibrations," by W. P. 
 Phelan. 
 
 Ray is Spirit, God. " God is Spirit, and they that worship 
 Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth." (John 4: 24., 
 R. V.) God is the principle of Eternal Good, and is without 
 beginning and without end. God i^ Omniscience, Omnipo- 
 tence, and Omnipresence. 
 
 "If I ascend up into heaven thou art there; if I make my 
 bed in hell, behold thou art there; if I take the wings of the 
 morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even 
 there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold 
 me." 
 
 Thought is the drill, the chisel, and the instrumental force 
 that penetrates to this Holy Flame. God is unchangeable in 
 essence, eternally the same in self consciousness. 
 
 The attributes of God are Love, Intelligence, Truth, Power, 
 Justice, Mercy, Law, Light, Wisdom, Joy, Faith, Hope, Un- 
 derstanding, Peace, Life, Harmony, etc. 
 
 " The powers of Deity are beyond description and enumera- 
 tion, yet both description and enumeration are needed for the 
 benefit of the devoted." 
 
 "God is that which we should worship in the profound 
 peace of the spirit and in the heart's enthusiasm." God is in 
 man and as He is appropriated and made manifest, so is the 
 
46 THK LOGOS OF THE 
 
 greatness of the individual. God may be defined as // the 
 one self existent force. 
 
 " It is the germ cell of all manifestation. Everything comes 
 forth from (It) it, and everything returns to (It) it 
 
 "There is but one truth, and that is the truth of being. 
 There is but one law, and that is the law of polarity There 
 is but one motion, and that is vibration. All is one. 
 
 "Only in the illusion of manifestation does duality become 
 visible. Aspire always in harmony and alignment with the 
 one." 
 
 // is the Principle of Eternal Good. To this all else is rela- 
 tive. In rreatiou [creating] Spirit differentiates into principles 
 called sounds (words), forms, and numbers. It manifests itself 
 in centers. An atom is a center, an organ is a center. Man 
 is one center (each man is a center), and the earth (world) an- 
 other center. 
 
 Each center has relation to all other centers. Our solar sun 
 is another center, and the earth has relation to the sun; the 
 sun has relation to still more distant center larger than itself, 
 around which it moves, and so on through the countless path- 
 ways of the universe. "All are parts of one harmonious 
 whole whose body nature is, and God the soul," Pope. 
 
 In this stupendous whole each part has relation to some 
 other part. 
 
 Lesser bodies or centers unite to express a greater body or a 
 greater center, and each has relation to the other. Man is a 
 self conscious center, and he may find his place in the universe 
 and consciously know his relations to the whole. He draws 
 his spiritual life directly from the Flame of Being in the cen- 
 ter of our universe. When this Divine Light (Sun) rises in 
 the consciousness of the man and shines through the strata of 
 his whole nature, including his mental and physical envelopes 
 of life, he becomes a Son (Sun) of God, the Christ man "the 
 Sun (Son) of righteousness (right thought and right actions), 
 with healing in his wings" (beams). 
 
 The Formless Flame of Life, in the center of our universe, 
 glows with a calmness and an intensity that draws around it 
 and balances in their courses, belts of suns and systems of suns 
 with their many worlds. Each belt of suns, each sun and each 
 planet is connected with the Central Flame by a thread-like 
 ray of light, that is in character like the Central Flame. Fur- 
 ther still, a thread-ray from the Flame extends to each separate 
 entity of life on our planet. 
 
NK\V DISI'KXSATIOX or TIMK. 47 
 
 Man is connected in this manner with the Source of Life in 
 our universe. 
 
 Those who know say that the Flame of Life or Source, in 
 the center of our universe, is connected with another uni- 
 verse by a thread-like Ray of Light. There are souls who can 
 pass out into our universe and beyond our universe and return 
 again to this planet, and still keep the body. 
 
 The Source of Life is known among men by many names. 
 All these in essence mean the the same; that is, they mean 
 Eternal Good. 
 
 God Eternal Good hidden in its differentiated forms, is 
 better understood by being stated as a Principle Principle of 
 Eternal Good. There is always a principle before there is a 
 personification. A principle is termless. It is capable of tak- 
 ing form in as many ways as the mind directs. Therefore, we 
 say, God is a Principle, because It is formless and beyond all 
 form, yet includes all form and abstract ideas, and things con- 
 ceivable. 
 
 God as a Principle, Law, or Love, may take the form of a 
 human being. " Human life never expresses a principle with- 
 out the incarnation on earth typical of that principle. 
 
 " The geniuses of poesy and religion have been crystalized in 
 a distinct human life, so that the teaching belonging to any 
 crystalization is possible of realization." Yet one God-man is 
 not the whole of Deity. 
 
 Budda was a crystalization of the mental principle or person- 
 ification from the he#d center, that is, law center. Budda 
 means cause and effect, Law or Lord. 
 
 Christ Jesus was a crystalization of the moral principle or 
 personification from the heart center, that is, love center. 
 Christ means more than the Budda. Christ is the unity of law 
 and love. 
 
 Therefore, the teaching belonging to the Budda personifica- 
 tion, when rigidly understood, is capable of producing a Budda; 
 and the teaching belonging to the Christ personification, when 
 rightly understood, is capable of producing a Christ Christ 
 Jesus person. " We have the mind of Christ." i Cor. 2: 16. 
 
 This is very prettily illustrated in the following poem, said 
 to have been written in the seventeenth century: 
 
 " God's Spirit falls on me as dewdrops on the rose, 
 If I but like a rose my heart to him unclose." 
 
 i4 The soul wherein God dwells what church can holier be, 
 Become a walking tent of heavenly majesty." 
 
48 THE LOGOS OF THE 
 
 " Lo! in the silent night a child to God is born, 
 And all is brought again that was ere lost or lorn." 
 
 " Could but thy soul, O Man, become a silent night, 
 God would be born in thee, and set all things aright." 
 
 " Ye know God but as Lord, hence Lord his name with ye, 
 I feel him but as Love, and Love his name with rne " 
 
 " How far from here to heaven? Not very far my friend, 
 A single hearty step will all the journey end " 
 
 fi Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, 
 If he's not born in thee, thy soul is all forlorn." 
 
 " The Cross on Golgotha will never save thy soul, 
 The Cross in thine own heart alone can make thee whole." 
 
 " Christ rose not from the dead, Christ still is in the grave, 
 If those for whom he died are still of sin the slave." 
 
 " Hold there! Where runnest thou? Know heaven is in thee: 
 Seekest thou God elsewhere, His face thou'lt never see." 
 
 " In all eternity no tone can be so sweet 
 
 As where man's heart with God in unison doth beat." 
 
 " What e'er thou lovest, Man, that, too, become thou must: 
 God, if thou lovest God ; dust, if thou lovest dust." 
 
 " Ah, would the heart be a manger for the birth, , 
 God would once more become a child on earth." 
 
 " Immeasurable is the highest ; who but knows it? 
 And yet a human heart can perfectly enclose it." 
 
 The thread-like Ray that connects man with the Central 
 Flame is, in character, like the Flame Spirit; therefore, it is 
 Spirit. 
 
 Man's spirit is as pure and shining as God. This is his 
 "Sun established in his soul when first begun." God is both 
 within and without every human being. 
 
 As this Ray issued forth from the bosom of the Central 
 Flame, it reached into the Great Deep, into spiritual substance, 
 and took up a globule of substance holding a dominant quality 
 of life. This globule (monad) was soul-substance and it was 
 projected into matter for the purpose of experience. Herein is 
 the spiritual nature of man the globule is the soul and the 
 Ray is the spirit soul and spirit. 
 
 Soul-spirit represents the positive pole of life, and is hidden 
 deep back in the secret consciousness. As a soul touched mat- 
 ter it began to act, and in the process of evolution it had long 
 experience in matter, always held by its ray before it became 
 the self conscious individual known as man. 
 
NKW DISPENSATION OF TIMK. 49 
 
 Man is a seven-fold creature; but for practical purposes, it 
 will not be necessary to treat him in this paper other than a 
 four-fold being body, mind, soul, and spirit. The body may 
 be subdivided into four, called the lower quarternary, but here 
 it will be mentioned as one. 
 
 Mind is the result of action in matter. It is the sum total 
 of the soul's experience on this earth, and in other worlds. 
 "Mind is a manifestation of* primordial essence." "It is the 
 activity of substance." One writer very prettily states it 
 thus : " 
 
 "To say that all is mind is to fall short of a true statement. 
 It is as though the fish in the ocean should say that all is 
 water, and know nothing of the ocean bed over which the 
 ocean rolls. 
 
 " The more comprehensive a conception is, the nearer it ap- 
 proaches to wholeness; therefore, to stop short in Mind, or 
 the activity of Substance and say That is all is to hold an 
 inadequate conception, and this means lack of mental whole- 
 ness." 
 
 Mind is not merely intellect. It does not belong exclu- 
 sively to the head. In the human being there are six great 
 centers through which the mind functions. (See Lesson IV.) 
 
 That part of the mind that has become purified by pure 
 thought and right action thus transmuted into soul substance 
 is called the higher mind, and is a part of the spiritual soul. 
 The gross carnal part of the mind is called the mortal mind. 
 
 The body and the mortal mind is classed as the negative pole 
 of man. The higher mind, soul, and spirit is classed as the 
 positive pole of man or the higher self. 
 
 The higher mind and the soul is the individuality, the con- 
 scious self; the body and the mortal mind is the personality, 
 the lower self, that which may be changed, the perishable 
 husk. 
 
 Man stands between two channels of growth the outward 
 and the inner. Growth through the intellect (external mind) 
 and through the five physical senses, is growth through envi- 
 ronment outward material conditions and influences. Growth 
 through the inner channels of intuition, spiritual influences, 
 and the ray giving of itself to the soul is growth through spir- 
 itiial perception inner recognition of life. 
 
 "The heavens and apprehension of all celestial virtues are 
 sealed by God in the soul and spirit of man," and man has 
 
50 THE LOGOS OF THK 
 
 the power to break this seal and consciously know for himself 
 these things. 
 
 Spiritual things are discerned by spiritual understanding. 
 An earnest pure desire and an active effort for knowledge of 
 truth will lead to understanding and penetrate to the core of 
 Spiritual Essence. 
 
 The consciousness may function on any of the planes of life. 
 Most people live on the mortal mihd plane of consciousness. 
 
 As the tourist ascends the mountain his horizon enlarges, so, 
 as the mind becomes spiritualized and penetrates below the 
 surface of matter, it begins to enlarge and to know itself and to 
 feel that "the proper studv of mankind is man." 
 
 Thought is the vital and moulding influence of life. "Mind 
 is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process 
 by which human ends are ultimately answered;" therefore, 
 ' ' make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most diffi- 
 cult lesson in the world," and when thou knowest thyself thou 
 wilt know God and the Universe. And you will find "in your 
 searchings are fulfilled all your desires, and you obtain the vic- 
 tory over worlds." 
 
 A raindrop of water is not the whole ocean, but in essence it 
 is the same. So man is not the whole of God, but in essence 
 he is the same. 
 
 Man is not less powerful, except in degree, than the I Am^ 
 and it is his business here to recognize himself, and show forth 
 the I Am. Man may do all things with and for himself but 
 only one thing for his neighbor give him freedom. 
 
 All influence exerted by one person over another is tempo- 
 rary influence or the effect of mortal mind and should not be 
 allowed. "Only Principle should guide our action." 
 
 " I will guide thee with mine eye." "As thy day is so shall 
 thy strength be." This is a great scientific truth we should 
 never lose sight of. It means whatever is for us to do and be, 
 that we can do and be. We can do all things that belong to 
 us to do. We can know all things that belong to us to know. 
 " All power is given to me in heaven and in earth " is a Bible 
 saying. " / will be what I will, to be" means the same. 
 
 The most ancient teaching known to the race tells us in an- 
 other way just as the Bible and all sacred writers do: 
 
 "Ye are the sons of the Most High." " Each child of the 
 universe is a ray of the Infinite Soul, a thought of the Infinite 
 Mind, an offspring of Deathless Life. 
 
 " No fire was ever builded so hot that could burn him. No 
 
NKW DISPKXSATION OF TIMK. 51 
 
 weapon was ever formed that could destroy him. No wind so 
 powerful that could move him from his steadfast foundation. 
 Xo sorrow threateneth, no imperfection lurketh, no destruction 
 awaiteth. 
 
 ' ' Fear thou not unto whom this truth has come, for with the 
 knowledge of it is the key to power and eternal life." 
 
 I Am is another name for God. Call on the "/" within 
 you the Immortal /. Pronounce the "/" from the mortal 
 mind plane of life and it produces only perishable creations like 
 itself; but enter into the Inmost Self and pronounce the / in 
 the spiritual center, and it vibrates Divine qualities that may 
 be made manifest in the external life. 
 
 He who can reach into the great deep of his own soul cen- 
 ter and vibrate the / understandingly, may have what he 
 chooses and may do whatsoever he wills to do; and in truth he 
 may say : 
 
 " I am owner of the sphere, 
 
 Of the seven stars and the solar year, 
 
 Of Caesar's hand and Plato's brain, 
 
 Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakspear's strain." 
 
 Divinity responds to itself only. The Divine Essence, by vir- 
 tue of itself, claims its own (itself). 
 
 Who can reach his own Divine Center? You can. Sit down 
 quietly and imagine you see a little white light. Name this 
 light God, the center of Being. Now repeat these words : 
 " I live, move, and have my being in God. God lives, moves, 
 and has his being in me. I am in immensity. Immensity is 
 in me. I encompass the whole earth, I embrace the universe. 
 A part of all these is in me. I am an entity." "In God I 
 live, move, and have my being." / am in God and God is in 
 me. 
 
 " I ant," pronounced from the center means your Inmost 
 Self, God (good). Now say, In my inmost and true Self, I 
 am love and I will and do even now bring it forth and show it 
 out in my daily life. 
 
 Declare God by hourly thinking and hourly affirming the 
 qualities of God, and this brings the Word into manifestation. 
 The word is the quality of life which you wish to create in 
 yourself, that is, show out as a part of yourself in body or mind. 
 
 Yon can bring the great God (a part of //) forth from his 
 secret recesses in your own being and demonstrate Him to the 
 world. 
 
 11 God is to be adored, God is to be understood, and God is 
 
52 THE LOGOS OF THE 
 
 to be demonstrated." " Let your light shine" and show forth 
 in yourself, through yourself, the works of Christ. Then may 
 you say with the prophet, " The spirit of the Lord is upon me, 
 because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; 
 he hath sent me to heal the broken hearted; to preach deliver- 
 ance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind; to set 
 at liberty those that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year 
 of the Lord." 
 
 " He that believeth on me (Me Mind, Soul-Spirit as one 
 At-one-ment is Christ), the works that I do shall he do also, 
 and greater works than these shall he do; because I go to my 
 Father." John 14: 12. 
 
 "He that heareth my words, and believeth on Him that 
 sent me hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condem- 
 nation, but is passed from death unto life." "He that be- 
 lieveth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. ' ' Even 
 death may be overcome. Paul says, "I die daily." The 
 process of realizing the word is death to the old man (Adam) 
 and life to the new man (Christ Jesus) who is being born, be- 
 coming, that is, being manifest in the flesh of the individual 
 that heareth my word. ' ' The last enemy that shall be destroyed 
 is death." 
 
 When the Divine / (Ego) is declared long enough and strong 
 enough, it begins to swell up and start in motion toward the 
 outer man, and when the soul and higher mind planes are filled 
 with this Divine Essence, truth and understanding intuitively 
 : manifest themselves in the individual. With truth and under- 
 standing he may heal diseases, and cast out any error, and 
 uDvercome all weaknesses. 
 
 " And as ye go, preach, saying : The kingdom of heaven is 
 at hand; heal the sick, cleanse the lepers; raise the dead; cast 
 out devils ; freely ye have received, freely give." Matthew, 10: 
 
 7> 8- 
 
 "And these signs shall follow them that believe: In my 
 name shall they cast out devils ; they shall speak with new 
 tongues ; they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any 
 deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on 
 the sick and they shall recover." Mark 16: 17, 18. 
 
 Your work is to come into a conscious understanding of Di- 
 vine Love and Power. You may ask, "How can I add this 
 Spirit of Love to my consciousness?' ' One writer truthfully 
 answers it thus: "We all have it potentially now. It is 
 wrapped up in us as is the oak in the acorn, the form of the 
 
NK\V DISPENSATION (>!' TIMK. 53 
 
 God-man being photographed on the soul's sensitive plate, as 
 the minature oak is in the acorn, but it must be made manifest 
 through our free will. 
 
 4 ' Desire made active must force it out of the darkness into 
 the light. We must vibrate it into life and visibility through 
 the energy of the will. Silent or audible invocations, prayers, 
 and affirmations that we are that which we aspire to be will 
 surely bring it to the light and glory of ourselves." 
 
 Paul, in connection with our Golden Text, gives good in- 
 struction for training to tfcis end : "Awake thou that sleepest 
 and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee." 
 "Be not drunk with wine wherein is riot, but be rilled with 
 the Spirit; speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and 
 spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your hearts 
 to the Lord ; giving thanks always for all things in the name 
 "of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father; subjecting 
 yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ." 
 
 Go deep down into your inner consciousness and talk with 
 yourself. By Righteousness (right thoughts and right action) 
 bring yourself to light to your outer consciousness. Yes, 
 talk to yourself. 
 
 Thought is motion in the mind. Right thought leads to 
 right action. "The cause of all things is not their source. 
 Mind produces all things and causes them to proceed from their 
 source." An active, earnest desire to know the truth directs 
 the mind toward its source (God, Flame, Center of Life). By 
 recognizing your own living Center you have power to create 
 and preserve. Recognition means realization, possession, un- 
 derstanding. 
 
 "You are a glad, rich, beautiful Soul, shining with the light 
 of ineffable God! Out of the Flame deeps, out of the mystic, 
 thrilling light oceans of Life, earnest thou forth to act upon 
 the world. 
 
 "Thou art not a Thing. Thou art a Soul, on fire of the 
 Spirit, flaming forth out of Darkness to make the world all 
 light. Not mountains piled on thee shall hold the down ! 
 Though the heavens be rolled as a scroll, though the sun and 
 moon be turned to blood, though chaos and night reclaim the 
 world and all therein, do thou stand fast on thy eternal Pedes- 
 tal. Thou shalt not be moved ! Thou wast established from 
 eternity before the world was. Thy foundations were laid in 
 God. 
 
 Thou Flame-Spirit, Thou Presence Ineffable, hide not thy- 
 
54 THE LOGOS OF THK 
 
 self like a poor taper beneath a bushel ! Station thyself upon 
 a hilltop where thou mayest be a Beacon." 
 
 Listen to the song of a Soul who is beginning to know itself. 
 "I heard a voice coming up out of the silent but light-filled 
 Eternity, through countless ages of creation, and uttering itself 
 forth through this silent, solemn monitor of nature. 
 
 " It said, 'All life is from within. God creates from inner 
 centers. Seek not without for power; it lies within. 
 
 Thou canst not find God in any distant land, in any per- 
 son, wise or holy, in any book, ancient or modern. Thou wilt 
 find Him in thine own soul, in all His splendor and power. 
 
 As He has organized the oak into the tiny acorn, so has 
 he organized the Divine Man into the Soul. Call upon That, 
 call upon That, and thou shalt stand a god in time and space, 
 ruling the earth and all things therein. God cannot help thee 
 save through thyself. Claim thy possibilities and they are 
 realized ; neglect them and they lie sleeping forever. 
 
 Now thou hast received the secret of Power. Use it for 
 the welfare of thy fellow men, and the kingdom of heaven is 
 at hand.'" 
 
 When the inner life is awakened and the whole mind is polar- 
 ized toward the spiritual center of Being, Understanding is 
 born. This great welling up from within is the coming of the 
 " Comforter," the Holy Ghost (Host), the "Spirit of Truth," 
 etc., which is mentioned in the Scriptures. 
 
 " But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost (Host) whom 
 the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, 
 and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have 
 said to you." John 14: 26. "Even the Spirit of Truth 
 whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not 
 neither knoweth him; for he dwelleth with you and shall be in 
 you." John 14:17. "But when the Comforter has come, 
 whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of 
 Truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify oi 
 me." John 15: 26. " Howbeit when he, the Spirit of Truth 
 is come he shall guide you unto all truth." John 16 : 13. 
 "Arise, shine, for thy light has come and the glory of the Lord 
 is risen upon thee." 
 
 Put forth yonr own efforts to understand and seek knowl- 
 edge and abide in love, thus by your own light, you will dis- 
 cover truth and Life. 
 
 "The kingdom of heaven is within you." Bible. 
 
I.KSSON II. 
 
 DENIAL. 
 
 9 
 
 " But let your speech be yea, yea; nay, nay." Matt, v: 37. 
 " The fashion of this world passeth away." I Cor. vii: 31. 
 
 Denial is contradiction . ' ' We all dislike to be contradicted. ' ' 
 However uncomfortable it may make one feel, it is necessary 
 in conscious development to push from one the negative state- 
 ments of mortal mind. Denial means no and is equal to mak- 
 ing a statement with the word not in it. The mind weakens 
 and wearies when held long in a negative statement. 
 
 Negation is stagnation and ends in dissolution. Denial sim- 
 ply means to drop the thing not wanted. 
 
 The mind when held too long in a negative condition such 
 as an uncertain feeling or trying to clear away rubbish, will 
 lose more than it gains. 
 
 By carefully watching the effect of a negative statement on 
 the mind, one may soon see for himself that the effect of nega- 
 tion is different from that of affirmation. Although a negative 
 statement is weakening, yet it appears to the world because it 
 is relative to something else, either in a lesser or greater degree. 
 
 Nature voices the negative and the positive statements in 
 what is known as the " Pair of opposites," such as darkness 
 and light, cold and heat, pain and pleasure, sorrow and joy, 
 evil and good, female and male, no and yes, etc. 
 
 As an exercise for the mind, denial has always been known 
 to spiritual teachers (truly spiritual teachers). It is included 
 in the law of words aad is a part of spiritual knowledge. 
 
 Denial by way of accomplishing a useful end such as heal- 
 ing diseases or improving the character, is a lesson or method 
 of drill and is practiced as a set task. 
 
 Denial, as applied to the healing of diseases or to self train- 
 ing, is a "complete opposition of the opinion widely current 
 all the world over and in all ages," and means to brush away. 
 
 This " widely current opinion" may be called a race mes- 
 merism. "And it may involve either the profoundest enjoy- 
 ment of evil or the profouudest dislike of it; but it runs some- 
 what thus:" 
 
 "Evil is quite as real as good." 
 * Evil must be respected." 
 
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 "Evil is a manifestation of God, of the Supreme Being, of 
 the Divine Will." 
 
 "A bad person is just as much one of God's creations as a 
 good one (meaning the evil in them is not to be criticised or 
 found fault with*, but it is to be regarded, in some mysterious 
 way, an expression of God's will)." 
 
 " A lie has intrinsic power, just like a truth." 
 
 " To be too hard on evil makes you seem hypocritical in your 
 goodness." 
 
 " Evil is permanent, and its home is in hell ; that is a local- 
 ity. Perhaps you will go there." 
 
 In contradiction to this we teach in Divine Science: 
 
 Evil is negative and is not an abiding substance; it is unreal 
 because of its transitory nature, and it is not to be respected. 
 It is a vacancy or darkness and you must come up out of it. 
 You. as a searcher after truth, have in view the object to man- 
 ifest good, therefore you must disembarrass yourself of evil. 
 Tell it to disappear. "Resist the devil and he will flee from 
 you." James vi : 7. 
 
 Denial clears away the mists. Behind the cloud the sun is 
 shining. You may liken your mind to a slate. In denying a 
 thing you wipe your slate clean and get it ready for the strong 
 positive statements which are to immediately come. Emerson 
 speaks of the effect of Denial thus: 
 
 "Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail 
 and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Nerve us with 
 incessant affirmations. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor 
 bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good." 
 
 Belief in the reality of evil is darkness remaining in the 
 mind, that is, the self consciousness operating in the mortal 
 mind. The word Evil covers what is known as disease, sin, 
 sorrow, fear, and death. Error means one or more of these 
 crystalized or made manifest in the flesh, or external con- 
 sciousness. 
 
 Some people prefer to state it in this way: Disease is believ- 
 ing (crystalized thoughts) that the external consciousness is all 
 there is, or that Spirit can err or suffer. 
 
 " Sin is mistaken ways of seeking satisfaction." 
 
 "Sorrow is believing there is anything beside good." 
 
 ' ' Fear is believing the darkness co-equal with the sunshine, 
 that is, believing the devil as powerful as God." 
 
 "Death is believing in the power of darkness or in the su- 
 premacy of matter." 
 
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 If a man had the proper understanding of matter and mind 
 he might undergo that process termed ' ' death " in an entirely 
 different manner from what is now witnessed. The average 
 span of a lifetime is one hundred years instead of thirty-three 
 years as is now supposed. 
 
 " Yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years." Gen- 
 esis vi : 3. 
 
 4 ' And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he 
 died; his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated." 
 Dieut. xxxiv: 7. 
 
 Further still, it is possible to retain this earth-body as long 
 as one chooses, and when the soul wishes to depart it may at 
 will, and in a different manner from the old way, bring about 
 that change called death. "If a man keep my sayings he 
 shall never see death." John viii: 51. 
 
 Denial is a method of consciously casting off that which one 
 no longer needs. 
 
 The blossom drops away from the infant apple the apple 
 thus unconsciously obeys the law of polarity, reaching outward 
 and upward for what it needs and dropping the useless. 
 
 When the law of polarity operates strong enough in a soul, 
 the soul will easily and naturally drop that which it does not 
 want. But until that strong state is reached, Denial should be 
 occasionally used ; for it clears the way that the perfect Ego (I) 
 may meet less resistance in its effort to manifest itself. 
 
 1 ' As a man thinketh in his heart so he is. ' ' Thought is the 
 building power. If you wish to change or clean out your 
 house (body and mind) employ Denial; if you wish to build, 
 remodel, or purify your house, employ Affirmation. 
 
 The dropping of a thing, idea, belief, or habit, and at the 
 same time filling in with something else of a more positive na- 
 ture will keep you in a strong position. No matter how small 
 that filling in is. 'Tis the tiny effort that comes first. Do not 
 permit a vacancy. Discover that first which you wish to let 
 go, then as you let go it place your feet lightly yet firmly on 
 something else, though at first it may seem to be as frail as a 
 straw. 'Tis little things that count. Did you ever see a farmer 
 tearing away an old fence ? He does not take it all down at 
 once and leave his field exposed to the range of animals. But 
 as he takes up one old post he puts another in its place, and 
 as he tears off one broken board he puts on a new one. 
 
 The cleansing out, tearing down, or sweeping process cor- 
 responds to the word Denial, the building process corresponds 
 
58 * THE LOGOS OP THE 
 
 to the word Affirmation. Occasionally deny, but affirm con- 
 stantly (declare). 
 
 In the building process the "/" (Ego) means the higher 
 triad of man higher mind, soul, and spirit. Do not confound 
 the " /" with the lower mind or quarternary of the body or 
 personality. 
 
 Belief is fixed thought, it is the thought of one's self, or the 
 thought of some other person or of a collective body, crystal- 
 ized or otherwise ; and it may be false or true. Thoughts 
 from other persons may be reflected upon an individual and 
 may indirectly cause him to crystalize an error; therefore, it 
 is well to deny separately the power over one of any person or 
 person's thoughts. 
 
 False and limited belief (error and limitation crystalized by 
 thought vibrations; usually shows itself out through the vari- 
 ous forms of ignorance, of poverty, of disease, of sin, or sor- 
 row, of fear, and of death. 
 
 A little strong, silent talk (thought vibration) with one's self 
 is called a treatment or drill. 
 
 Sometimes a person has an idea that he has inherited a dis- 
 ease, a weakness, or even a sin; if he thinks this to be true, he 
 may deny away the power over him of the belief of his parents 
 or his grand-parents. The clause which covers inherited be- 
 lief (fixed thought) is inserted below, and it may be left out or 
 used, as desired. 
 
 The practice of Denial as a set task may be outlined some- 
 what as follows: The particular evil (shadow) to be denied 
 away may or may not be named in the set practice. 
 
 In using Denials do not say the thing or idea does not exist, 
 but say, // does not have any power over me. 
 
 All things do exist in primordial matter (none physical 
 world). Tiiey are there but they are to us as if they were not, 
 unless we recognize them. "All things, of any and every 
 kind whatsoever, which may enter into the thought of man 
 can, under favoring circumstances, be made manifest." 
 
 If we deny a thing or idea long enough and strong enough 
 - thus throwing it away, it becomes as nothing to us. 
 
 It is better to say, " It has no power over me," than to say 
 that it does not exist or is not; or you may say, "to me it does 
 not exist, for I refuse to recognize it. It has no existence 
 for me." 
 
 The man suffering with indigestion now takes his place for 
 self treatment according to the following outline. Of course 
 
59 
 
 he may vary this form and may fill in words as necessity de- 
 minds. Words (bundles of sounds) especially, when used in 
 such drills, are very powerful and should be carefully selected, 
 and their meaning should be understood before they are used. 
 The person who is supposed to hold the greatest influence 
 over one may be named in the denial in order to more strongly 
 oppose the effects of his false belief. Those with whom we as- 
 sociate always influence us more or less. Loved and loving 
 ones hold us stronger than others. We should daily deny the 
 power over us of the belief in ignorance, in lust and in the 
 passions, such as selfishness, envy, malice, jealousy, pride, 
 avarice, arrogance, cruelty, hypocrisy, obstinacy, revenge, etc. 
 
 FORM. 
 
 I deny that the belief of Mary Smith (my wife), in disease, 
 in sin, in sorrow, in fear, and in death has any power to make 
 me show out this condition, which is called indigestion. 
 
 I deny that the belief of my family, or any member of my 
 family, in disease, in sin, in sorrow, in fear, and in death has 
 any power to make me show out this condition, which is called 
 indigestion. 
 
 I deny that the belief of my companions in disease, in sin, 
 in sorrow, in fear, and in death has anv power to make me show 
 out this condition, which is called indigestion. 
 
 I deny that the belief of my parents, or grand-parents, or 
 great-grand-parents, in disease, in sin, in sorrow, in fear, and 
 in death, has any power to make me show out this condition, 
 which is called indigestion. 
 
 I deny that the belief of the whole human race in disease, in 
 sin, in sorrow, in fear, and in death has any power to make me 
 show out this condition, which is called indigestion. 
 
 I deny that the belief of any person or persons living or dead 
 in disease, in sin, in feai, in sorrow, and in death has any power 
 to make me show out this condition, which is called indigestion. 
 
 I deny that the belief of any elemental force, or elementary 
 presence in the universe, has any power to make me sho\v out 
 this condition, which is called indigestion. 
 
 I deny that my own belief in disease, in sin, in sorrow, in 
 fear, and in death has any power to make me show out this 
 condition, which is called indigestion. 
 
 I deny the power over me of the false condition called indi- 
 gestion. 
 
60 THE LOGOS OF THE 
 
 I deny the power of any false belief over me. 
 
 I deny the power of an}^ disease over me. 
 
 Error is false and cannot affect me. 
 
 No error can fasten itself upon me. 
 
 No error has any power over me. 
 
 (Now you John Smith, the man who is treating himself for 
 indigestion have swept out your house, and you are now ready 
 to affirm and fit in the pieces of building material and furni- 
 ture. 
 
 (See The Word and Its Power, Lesson III.) 
 
 Silently deny the power of the undesirable influence or object 
 over you. All evils and shadows exist and are real for the time 
 being to those who believe in them. You are not to believe in 
 them. Drop them. They are nothing to you if you deny 
 them away. 
 
 In practicing Denials bear in mind that you have the power 
 to dissolve them for yourself; but they will still exist for those 
 who believe in their power. Yet by treatment you can tem- 
 porarily dissolve them for another. 
 
 The words of Christ Jesus "Deny yourself and follow Me" 
 (I) are applicable to the evils (shadows and clouds) that may 
 fasten themselves in the body and the mind. 
 
 "Me," the Christ is the Spiritual mind, Soul of the individ- 
 ual, and it recognizes the shadows and impurities that cover 
 the lower self as swaddling cloths, which are to be metamor- 
 phosed into the seamless garment "Coat without seam, woven 
 from the top throughout." 
 
 The evils (shadows and clouds) must be dissolved by Denial, 
 and transmuted by the alchemy of affirmation into Mental 
 strength and spiritual substance. 
 
 You are to meet and conquer every error. You, your Divine 
 Self, are master, and as you meet face to face disease, weak- 
 ness, folly, ignorance, fear, and other evils you are to banish 
 them by boldly standing your ground and denying their power 
 over you. 
 
 Let in the light (spiritual Will) and the darkness disappears. 
 Deny "until the day breaks and the shadows flee away." 
 
 Then affirm until the sun rises. The promises in the Scrip- 
 tures are to those only who overcome. 
 
 "Denials alone do not bring light; they do not bring full 
 spiritual understanding, but only intimation of it." 
 
 "Freedom is not redemption." "As when at night we dis- 
 robe, divest ourselves of bodily clothing, wash ourselves from 
 
NEW DISPENSATION OF TIME. 6l 
 
 contact with the day and go to rest, so at night we may un- 
 burden our mind of the beliefs that have weighed it always, by 
 denial, and breathe the clean air of blessed freedom from sordid 
 cares. 
 
 4 'Denials are a soluble principle a cleansing efficiency. They 
 do their work as certainly as the life principle within the seed 
 bursts the chocking pericarp, rifts the smothering soil and defy- 
 ing the downward pressure of sun, gravitation, and falling 
 rains wills up into the blessed sunlight for blossoming and 
 fruitage. 
 
 "But the plant which has passed sordid blackness has to learn 
 to appropriate to use the light. The mind which has thrown 
 off its false beliefs must take on its true ones its robes of 
 righteousness." 
 
 Deny before sleeping at night,. then place in your mind a 
 pure, strong thought and hold it there, and your spirit will be 
 taught and refreshed while your body is asleep. "He giveth 
 to his beloved while in sleep." 
 
 As you advance in understanding in Spiritual Science you 
 will find less need of using the Denials as a set task, for the 
 husks of life will drop away from you of their own accord as 
 you will upward like the little plant toward the sunshine. 
 
 "If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them." 
 John xiii: 17. 
 
 " Son of immortal seed, high-destined man ! 
 Know thy dread gift, a creature, yet a cause; 
 Each mind its own center, and it draws 
 Home to itself, and moulds in its thought's span 
 All outward things, the vassals of its will, 
 Aided by Heaven, by earth unth waited still." 
 
 John Henry (Cardinal) Xci^nan. 
 
LESSON III.. 
 
 THE WORD AND ITS POWER. 
 
 PART ONE. 
 
 " In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and 
 the Word was God." John i : i. 
 
 " For there are three that bear record in heaven the Father, the W T ord, 
 and the Holy Ghost (Host); and these three are one." i John v : 7. 
 
 The books in the Bible written by John, the disciple of Jesus, 
 are said to be cabalistic. Cabala or Kabbalah also refers to the 
 Hebrew book Talmud, in which these signs are written; yet 
 the symbols are as old as the world itself. "Ten numerals and 
 twenty-two letters, a triangle, a square, and a circle," such are 
 the primary principles of the written word, shadow of that 
 spoken Logos which created the world. 
 
 The man who begins to study and to know himself may begin 
 to study and to understand the Bible. 
 
 The Word is sound, and it is more than sound. 
 
 The Word is in man, and he becomes the Word when he 
 overcomes and transmutes the lower self into the higher self, 
 and fully lives according to the character of the Central Divine 
 Flame. 
 
 The Word in its highest sense is the Son (Sun) of God a 
 one-time mortal man made perfect through suffering, knowl- 
 edge, and love. 
 
 " The rose that blooms the purest 
 Has need of summer showers: 
 The oak that stands the surest 
 Has felt the tempest's power. 
 
 The gold that shines the fairest 
 The furnace fire must feel; 
 The gem of luster rarest 
 Has known the cruel steel." 
 
 The Word principle has been taught to those who were ready 
 to receive it since the beginning of the world. It is part of 
 Divine knowledge. The Word is spoken. The Word may also 
 become a person. 
 
 "The teachings from the spirit world would be valueless if 
 they did not tend toward a culmination that could illustrate the 
 
NK\V DISPKXSATIOX OF TIMK. 63 
 
 truth on earth. As that culmination is the possible state of all, 
 so it is proceeded in lives of human experience by the culmina- 
 tion which is denominated the Christ life" the Word, which 
 literally means that God, the Divine Principle, speaks in that 
 organism through the individual's own Divine spirit. It is the 
 at-one-ment of man and God. Though that at-one ment may 
 be only inspirational and not continuous not without a break. 
 But the time will come when the at-one-ment will be continu- 
 ous. "The word of God is quick and powerful, and sharper 
 than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asun- 
 der of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is 
 a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." Epistle 
 to the Hebrews, iv : 12. 
 
 "The Word of God means here the Word spoken by one 
 who knows the Law of God or Good." This is inspirational 
 at-one-ment. Any one may manifest the Word who will come 
 into the law. It is an easy thing to do. You can do it. The 
 law works in and through you. Let the law work in you, for 
 through it and beyond it you will find the Comforter. 
 
 The Word is active, and the Word is passive. In the sense 
 of its activity it is creator or destroyer. In its passive sense it 
 is the embodied Word, the creature or the creation. Note the 
 difference; embodied Word means perfect inner self conscious- 
 ness a just man made perfect like unto the Christ; creature 
 means self conscious or not self conscious; creation means that 
 which is formed or made manifest. The Word is the action, 
 or it is the person. 
 
 "And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood; and 
 his name is called the Word of God." Rev. xix: 13. 
 
 This Word, perfected soul, is in such vibratory unison with 
 the tone (character) of the Creator that it will not do other- 
 wise than follow its own force Word sound, which is the 
 voice of God. 
 
 "When a will modifies the world, there is Logos speaking." 
 
 The Word in its active sense is a current force a current 
 of self conscious life waves flowing forth from the one who 
 speaks it or thinks it. It is life. The active Word is literally 
 a part of the life of the one from whom it emanates. 
 
 Sound, any sound, is also a current force, but not being self 
 conscious, it is less powerful than the active Word. 
 
 There are three aspects of Deity creative, preserving, and 
 destructive, each expression presupposing and implying the 
 other two. However separate these expressions seem each 
 
64 THE LOGOS OF THE 
 
 holds within itself the absolute of the other two. The Word 
 holds the three qualities of Deity. Now, man being the off- 
 spring of Deity, a child of God created in his likeness and 
 image, has practically within him the possibilities of his creator. 
 
 He holds the word enfolded within him. This is the WORD 
 that King Solomon revealed to the Masons, and no man was 
 able to remember it, and it is supposed to have been lost with 
 the death of Hiram Abiff. Hiram Abiff represents man man 
 in his whole nature. The WORD is the spiritual self, and is 
 lost (sleeps) with him at death, but in his last incarnation on 
 earth he remembers it recovers it recollects it (re-collects) 
 attains to the consciousness of it, thus he becomes the living 
 WORD. 
 
 Many on earth to-day are beginning to remember it. 
 
 This will probably appear to you to be a curious saying, but 
 when you come to understand esoteric truths, you will see to 
 know the Word means to know a part of your own life tone 
 sound, thus revealing secrets, and making it possible for you to 
 exercise unlimited power. 
 
 All motion has sound whether or not we hear it. The life 
 vibrations (motion molecular motion atoms seeking polarity) 
 of a human being, or any living thing, is harmonious or dis- 
 cordant in proportion to its peaceful and upbuilding, or dis- 
 turbed, angry, and destructive thought action or movement. 
 The Word has the power to change polarity, and vibration is 
 the resultant of polarity that is, the creeping, twisting, turn- 
 ing movement of the atoms as they change from negative to 
 positive conditions. 
 
 Thought is tone, and more too thought is the Word. 
 
 Thought, audible or inaudible, is the vibratory life of the 
 thinker. The spoken Word is all-powerful. 
 
 1 'As soon as the mind receives the impression the voice is the 
 first of the physical forces- set in action to portray the thoughts, 
 whether it be those of joy or sorrow." And your life goes 
 forth. 
 
 Thought takes its tone from the amount of Spirit- Ray, God 
 Principle that the individual is in actual possession of, not the 
 amount that he is actually conscious of, but the amount that 
 he actually possesses deep down in his mind soul nature. 
 
 Some people believe that the breath produces the tone, but it 
 does not. 
 
 "That the breath does not produce the tone is shown by the 
 fact that the same amount of breath in the same way may pass 
 
XKW DISPENSATION OF TIMK. 65 
 
 through the larynx and yet not make tone; but when we once 
 think tone, each vocal cord sets to work and germinates those 
 magnetic .nerve forces which, when they meet in the glottis, 
 burst into that which we call sound or tone." The study of 
 spiritual truths will increase your life tone. The full-real life 
 tone is not audible. Only the outer vibrations can be heard.. 
 The sweetest tone that ever fell on mortal ears is only the 
 coarsest tones of the real life. 
 
 In the study of the Word it is useful to learn in the begin- 
 ning that "the emotional character is dual." The understand- 
 ing of this comes in the course of study and practice. The 
 voice registers the mental tone. 
 
 ' Every mental and moral characteristic is expressed by the 
 dominant harmonies of the voice. The hearing of these har- 
 monies not only produce like mental and moral states, but 
 actually produce structures in the organism of the hearer." 
 This may also be done by thought the silent Word. 
 
 The Word contains "tone" and something more. What this 
 "more" is you will find out if you study it long enough and 
 earnestly enough. 
 
 The Word is the* 'music that calls the past out of its grave 
 and the future out of its cradle." 
 
 The Word ' 'solves all the problems of existence, and brings 
 man into understanding of Divine Law, harmony, health, and 
 peace, here and now." 
 
 "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and 
 we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the 
 Father), full of grace and truth." John i : 14. This ve^e 
 ever refers to the present time It is you the possible you. 
 The Word is you (/ Ego} and the Word is in you. 
 
 "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not 
 pass away." Matt, xxiv: 35. 
 
 "They who desire new bodies must think new thoughts. They who 
 live in the memories of the dead past will soon grow as old and stale as 
 their memories. New thought on any line is new life every time." 
 
LESSON ill. 
 
 THE WORD AND ITS POWER. 
 
 PART TWO. 
 
 "All things whatsoever ye ask and pray for, believe that ye have re- 
 ceived them, and ye shall have them." Mark xi : 24. (Rev. Ver. 1881.) 
 
 " The true reformer, trembling in the currents of the Divine inflowing, 
 sees in the light, and feels that, to be consistent, he must do ; thus his 
 life's love goes out into active use as naturally as the sweet briar's per- 
 fume spreads itself through the sphere of its immediate surroundings 
 * and the Supreme Will is carried out by him into generous 
 ultimates." * * * * * * 
 
 'At home in the Affirmative principle, their eyes are tranquil, their 
 hearts joyous, their touch sure and effective for the renovation of society." 
 
 The following statements are to be committed to memory as 
 they are principles to be held in the mind : 
 
 I. "The Good is silent until called." 
 
 II. "The spoken word brings things to pass." 
 
 III. "You draw round you by thinking. (This applies to 
 delusion as well as to realities)." 
 
 The object of soul's sojourn in matter is to have experience 
 and through experience return again to Spirit from whence it 
 came. It can only take home with it that which is pure and 
 good. 
 
 The pure and good here mean, after all soul debts are paid, 
 the soul consciousness that shines with understanding, strength 
 and good will toward all creation. 
 
 The soul being immersed in matter both negative (evil) 
 and positive (good) forces it must voluntarily choose the good 
 and refuse to recognize evil if it would lelease itself from the 
 bondage of matter. 
 
 Good is relative and Good is absolute. Good and evil 
 change ground as the individual advances in understanding. 
 But Absolute Good is Deity. 
 
 If man had not this free will of chosing he could not enrich 
 his soul by experience in matter, for he would never be able to 
 think for himself and he would be a non-entity instead of an 
 entity, that is, Son of God a Soul Spirit. 
 
 He may choose the Good at all times and use it as good. It 
 
XK\Y DISPENSATION OF TIME. 67 
 
 is his servant and it is also his master. It stands humble be- 
 fore him and he may ignore it if he chooses. Good is never 
 huffed if neglected, but meekly forever waits before a soul, 
 within a soul. 
 
 If called, it makes post haste to obey and do service. Good 
 here is used as a Self Consciousness of Law and Love, in the 
 Absolute. 
 
 Make an affirmative statement and it takes life and lives ac- 
 cording to the strength of its birth. Yes relates to affirming 
 or to the word, and the power of the word is calling the good 
 and speaking it speaking it by means of the voice and through 
 actions. 
 
 We call the good by thinking and we use it by expressing it 
 in the world around us expressing it by word (silent or audi- 
 ble) and by deed. " My words shall not pass away." 
 
 Affirming a thing is declaring it to be true. An affirmation 
 is creative and uplifting in proportion to the plane of life on 
 which it is born and the strength with which it is brought 
 forth. It is creating and preserving. 
 
 Affirming from within with the spiritual mind liberates the 
 Divine energy and it flows forth with power. 
 
 To declare the "I" is to make a statement with creative 
 force. This is the meaning of the scripture text which says: 
 
 " For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, 
 and returneth not hither, but watereth the earth and maketh it 
 bring forth and bud ; that it may give seed to the sower, and 
 bread to the eater; so shall my word be that goeth forth out of 
 my mouth; it shall not return to me void, but it shall accom- 
 plish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing 
 whereto I send it." Isaiah Iv: 10, n. 
 
 Also, " My words are life to them that find them, and health 
 to all flesh." 
 
 An affirmation corresponds to the process of building, mak- 
 ing, putting together, creating, or preserving. 
 
 Affirm the word of truth and with such affirmations shake 
 off the drowsiness of worldly vanity; all idle levity, sloth, in- 
 temperance, and lust, so that you may be quiet, clean, and 
 pure, and free from every distracting perturbation of mind, and 
 worthily use the knowledge you obtain from the study of these 
 lessons. 
 
 The statement, "You draw around you by thinking," is 
 subject to proof by yourself. 
 
 In Lesson (I) one, we said, " Mind is the result of action in 
 
68 THE LOGOS OF THK 
 
 matter. It is the sum total of the soul's experience on this 
 earth. 
 
 That part of the mind that has become purified by pure 
 thoughts and right action thus transmuted into soul substance, 
 is called the higher mind, and is a part of the spiritual soul. 
 
 The gross, carnal, or unpurified part of the mind is called 
 the mortal mind. 
 
 The body and the mortal mind is classed as the negative pole 
 of man. The higher mind, soul, and spirit is classed as the 
 positive pole of man, or higher self. The higher mind and the 
 soul is the individuality, conscious self ; the body and the mor- 
 tal mind is the personality, the lower self, that which may be 
 changed, the perishable husk. 
 
 Man stands between two channels of growth the outward 
 and the inward. Growth through the intellect (external mind) 
 and through the five physical senses, is growth through environ- 
 ment outward, material conditions and influences. 
 
 Growth through the inner channels of intuition, spiritual 
 influences, and of the ray giving of itself to the soul is growth 
 through spiritual perception inward recognition of life." 
 
 Thinking, that is, thought, belongs to the mind realm, and 
 may lend its aid to the lower self or to the higher self. It may 
 operate in either pole. Its aid to the higher self in the inner 
 channels is positive, and it is the greatest power to which man 
 has access. 
 
 Thought is motion in the mind, and all motion visible or in- 
 visible is vibration, and vibration is the changing of the polarity 
 of the atoms. 
 
 Thought is creative; it sets a cause to work which in time 
 will show out in the negative pole or in the material world as 
 an effect. Thought is a force. Thought is also a fluid. 
 Thought fluid is strong enough, when properly directed, to 
 change the polarity of atoms in a group or in a given subject. 
 
 Thought may act two ways in the mind. A destructive 
 thought corresponds to the tearing down process, or the 
 word denial no. It may be used to purify only, that is to 
 take away something that is not wanted there. 
 
 A creative or preserving thought corresponds to the building 
 process or the word affirm declare yes. 
 
 It is used to put in something that is wanted there. This 
 pertains to self culture. 
 
 But who is it that seeks self culture? A wise man said, 
 " Modern Christians live as if the blessed Word had come upon 
 
XKW DISPKXSATION ()1- 69 
 
 earth to grant them the privilege to sin " He further spoke of 
 the beautie^ of life and joys wholly unknown to most people 
 and that their non-experiences of these greater blessings were 
 because of their base daily habits and impure methods of 
 living. 
 
 " In the^e latter d;iys men give themselves almost wholly up 
 to vice and luxury, so that their understandings have become 
 more depraved, 'till, being swallowed up in gross senses, they 
 become totally unfit for divine contemplation and deep specu- 
 lations in Nature." But now, in point of evolution, there is a 
 brighter day dawning for man, and many, very many are ready 
 to take hold of the truth. And we are all beginning to realize 
 that everything that concerns us is to be known, and we are 
 glad it is so. 
 
 In this New Dispensation of Time one of the first things 
 that YOU are to learn is that you are not a helpless victim of 
 evil, "for God hath not given you (us) the spirit of fear, but 
 of power and love, and of a sound mind." II Timothy i: 7. 
 
 Affirmation brings you to a realization of what is in you. 
 Continual affirmation causes growth. Growth manifests iiself 
 by minute cell formations. Atomic cells unite together in 
 groups groups unite and fashion structures, organs, parts, eic. 
 
 "The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts 
 make it." 
 
 Thought is powerful enough to gradually change these cells 
 and their grouping. Thought reaches beyond the cells them- 
 selves deeper back into primordial matter (liquid and gaseous, 
 and invisible substance) and calls into the laboratory what- 
 ever is needed to build or to repair these cells. 
 
 In a human being thought uses whatever material is at hand, 
 in himself, for a part of all there is, is in the little microcosm 
 man (Man is an egg maybe a self conscious egg). Thought 
 opens his channels of life communication that he may receive 
 from the universal storehouse whatever he is lacking 
 
 The building process as applied to man, means conscious 
 growth and ripening of the soul. It is a life \vork and to 
 build in order, one thing at a time may be taken in hand and 
 special attention given to it, though the whole (man) must be 
 carefully and constantly directed and guided and correct habits 
 in daily life maintained. 
 
 Health and all the blessings of life result fn.m right living 
 and nght thinking. Health may be restored by coming into 
 harmony with nature. Diseases may be healed by a general 
 
70 THE LOGOS OF THE 
 
 knowledge and practice of the power of thought, and natural 
 ways oi living. 
 
 In applying thought currents for the purpose of showing out 
 a certain effect or general effect in one's body or mind, much 
 attention should be given to self study by the way of observing 
 the feelings, changes and process thereof, etc., in the body and 
 mind, resulting from different emotions in the mind and from 
 repeating different words. 
 
 A person may be greatly amused or in a mirthful humor as 
 in playing with children; let him instantly change his thoughts 
 to a deep, solemn, grave tone, and observe the change in his 
 feelings, carefully noting the process of the change, then again 
 change back to the mirthful mood, etc. This is a line of work 
 that should not be neglected, as it rapidly opens the way for 
 self knowledge and self control. 
 
 Law and order governs all things, and the student should 
 earnestly seek to know these in himself. 
 
 To think and live, or not to think and die, that's the ques- 
 tion. 
 
 " Plappy is he who, caring not for pope 
 
 Consul, or king, can sound himself to know 
 The destiny of Man, and live in hope." 
 
 "Hope, sweetest boon to mortal given." Man will alwa} T s 
 live in hope and realization if he thinks for himself. Think on 
 these things which you wish to show out in your life and to 
 which you wish to attain. 
 
 "Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, 
 whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are lovely, what- 
 soever things are of good report, if there be any virtue and if 
 there be any praise, think on these things." Thinking of 
 these things builds the nerve cells accordingly, and increases 
 tone in the body, mind, and soul. 
 
 Affirmation in the higher mind is prayer of the strongest 
 character. The person so affirming acts in his positive nature. 
 A current of electricity can be induced by thinking about it. 
 It may be kept at home in the individual or it ma}^ be sent 
 abroad on errands, It may be used to build new flesh and 
 bone in the individual or it may be sent to any part of the 
 earth to accomplish other work; also it (mind electricity) may 
 be sent to another world a star, or to any part of the universe. 
 There is no limit to a mind current. Mind overcomes time 
 and space. You can prove this for yourself, and in proving it 
 you will prove your own immortality. 
 
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 You can send out auraic currents from your mind and body 
 like waves of heat, or like the fragrance of flowers. These 
 currents may be sent on special missions or they may be directed 
 into the universal oversoul. In this way you may send 
 thoughts of demand into the universal storehouse of supply 
 and by the law of reaction the great mother heart of the uni- 
 versal oversoul responds, and the affirming mind receives its 
 needs; and these needs are supplied through natural channels. 
 Earnest, continued prayer is always answered sooner or later, 
 but not always at once nor always in the same incarnation, but 
 some time the effect meets the cause. 
 
 Gentle, yet persistent affirmation, is the strong man's prayer. 
 All things are good and holy. ' ' All is Good, ' ' is the watch- 
 word of Divine Science. Thankfulness is praise to God. 
 
 Instead of begging by supplication the good gifts of life from 
 the Lord God, rise up and come into conscious relations with 
 your own Divine Self and with nature, and take from out the 
 universal storehouse and from the heart of the Lord God that 
 which He freely offers you. Take it and learn how to use it. 
 It is man's abuse and not use that makes the trouble in the 
 world, and his misery. "All is Good." Learn how to drop a 
 thing when you have no more use for it, and learn how to use 
 it when you need it. It is the same with ideas and thoughts as 
 with things. 
 
 You can train yourself to do this by denying and affirming. 
 
 ' ' Then the light will arise in obscurity and the darkness be 
 as the noonday ; then the light shall break forth as the morning 
 and thine health shall spring forth speedily." Isaiah. 
 
 Then will you learn that the highest aspect of the soul is to 
 dare and to do the work of the day to look upward and to do 
 the duty that is before it. 
 
 Your power lies in your thought; then learn how to use it. 
 
 In the center of his being man is like God is God. And if 
 he looks toward God and constantly affirms declares his Di- 
 vine nature, he brings forth draws to realization in himself 
 and through himself Omnipotent Life. 
 
 God loves to express himself in man. And he comes to 
 man's consciousness as soon as there is a single clean spot in 
 the human being on which the Holy Flame may proclaim itself. 
 If you declare the Divine /, you entertain God. The Divine / 
 should always be declared in the pesent trense. 
 
 I am thus and so. / will be is a prophecy and is good, but 
 it is not so powerful for bringing forth present fruits as I am. 
 
72 THE LOGOS OF THE 
 
 In Lesson II, Denial, as an illustration of self treatment, a 
 case of indigestion is treated. The same case is now taken up 
 where it was left after denying. Affirmation in a drill or treat- 
 ment should immediately, without an interval, follow DeniaL 
 Affirmation writes upon the slate of the mind that is wiped 
 clean by Denial. 
 
 That which you wish to show out must be held firmly in the 
 mind and declared over and over again with all your might. 
 
 For instance, take the word help. Say, looking toward the 
 Source of Life, " God helps me. I help others. I am helpful 
 and not helpless. As I help others and encourage them so God 
 helps and strengthens me." 
 
 Notice the word help helpful helpless. Which is it to 
 be? As you so affirm, so it will be. " Our words come true 
 upon us."" A word should not be used unless its meaning is 
 clearly understood. 
 
 It is a good thing to often use the dictionary. One word 
 may have several shades of meaning. 
 
 Treatments vary according to the nature of the case, to the 
 individual, to the temperament, to the age, etc. Though all 
 treatments should be given for the expression of the Higher 
 Self and the balancing or rounding out of the character; this 
 of course includes bodily perfection. 
 
 A general outline can only be given. Affirming is some- 
 times called praising or describing. If you describe your in- 
 dwelling self long enough and strong enough, ''Lazarus" may 
 come forth. 
 
 "With the description of this hidden glory within you, 
 wooed forth into the splendor of its highest demonstration, you 
 are king of kings and lord of lords." 
 
 For indigestion silently affirm : 
 
 I am a spiritual being. I am a manifestation and personal 
 limitation of the Father-Mother Spirit, and in my inmost and 
 true self, I am hid with Christ in God, and as such my spirit is 
 already immortal. From my spiritual center as an immortal 
 being I affirm that I have power over my body. 
 
 I, as a spiritual entity, am positive and all powerful in the 
 realm of my own being, and I do affirm that my digestive or- 
 gans are in a natural and healthy condition. I do affirm that 
 my entire body is whole, and that every organ naturally per- 
 forms its function. 
 
 In my inmost and true self I possess the divine creative 
 power, and I do declare that I can and do even now bring it 
 
NEW DISPENSATION OF TIME. 73 
 
 forth and show it out in creating new cell formations in every 
 so-called diseased part of my body. I declare that natural and 
 healthy atomic cells are now uniting together and building 
 strong and healthy digestive organs in my body. I am strength 
 incarnate. The same life principle that flowed into me at birth 
 still flows into me. I am life, I am health, I am strength, I am 
 happy, and I am prosperous and powerful and great. 
 
 In the silence and stillness of my own soul and will, I de- 
 clare that life and vigor and health and strength now flow into 
 my digestive organs and build them anew. 
 
 Truth is the perfect working of the law upon all the planes 
 of life. 
 
 I am Truth. Truth is stronger than error; health is stronger 
 than disease; growth is stronger than decay; light is stronger 
 than darkness; and I am stronger than any disorder, therefore, 
 I am well and strong. 
 
 I am the "Breath of Life" and I can and do inbreathe build- 
 ing atoms of life. 
 
 With every inhaling breath I inspire perfect health. I am 
 well ; I am strong ; I am beautiful ; I am glad ; I am satisfied ; 
 and I am happy, and I am receiving a knowledge of truth. 
 
 I declare that I am a spiritual being, and in the light of this 
 eternal and supreme truth, all error and all disease and all 
 weakness and all fear disappear in me even as the morning 
 frost disappears under the light and heat of the rising sun. I 
 am the rising sun. 
 
 Affirm that which you wish to be. 
 
 The healing Spirit is the Mother principle of God. "The 
 ministry of God is the spirit of God, the mother. The mother 
 is fair and kind and untouched by the name of sin, sickness, or 
 death. He who would live, must open the gates for the mother 
 of life by thoughts that eschew death. * * * Tender words, 
 gentle words of healing life, balming, lenitive, forgiving words 
 will open the gates for the bride to walk through, that the per- 
 fume of her holiness may seize the heart of the one who asks 
 to be made whole." "The protecting father hath a law that 
 the mother ministery of the spirit shall never pass through the 
 walls where hard words are spoken." 
 
 ' ' Make smooth the grasses, 
 Cover the pathway with leaves, 
 My bride's feet are sandaled for peace." 
 
 And in peace you shall have strength, and all things shall be 
 
74 THE LOGOS OF THE 
 
 added unto you. Negatively the word ' ' peace ' ' means no 
 harm. 
 
 Resolve never to harm any living thing, then strike out to 
 be what you will to be, and you will be it. 
 
 Hold fast to the word whose quality you wish to show out. 
 It is a good idea at times to affirm one word over and over. 
 
 If you repeat over the words, ' ' I am king, ' ' with the idea 
 that you are king of. yourself kingdom within your being 
 you will immediately begin to set in motion those life qualities 
 which will truly make you a king a king in the realm of your 
 own being. 
 
 The thought held firmly will, after a time, show out in your 
 exterior nature. Now, what is your idea of a king? Your 
 ideal king? 
 
 As you continue to practice harmonious tones and words the 
 thought-effects will show out in your body, and many interest- 
 ing experiences will take place in 3 r our mind. You will then 
 have a little personal proof of the truth. Some people experi- 
 ence sensations in the body very soon, others require many 
 months' practice. But the general good effect will be felt upon 
 any person within a few days. 
 
 The following little poem has been widely read, but it will 
 do to say over many times: 
 
 ' ' I hold it to be true that thoughts are things 
 Endowed with being, breath, and wings; 
 And that we send them forth to fill 
 The world with good result or ill. 
 
 ' ' That which we call our secret thought 
 Speeds to the earth's remotest spot, 
 And leaves its blessings or its woes 
 Like tracks behind it, as it goes. 
 
 " It is God's law; remember it 
 In your chamber as you sit 
 
 With thoughts you would not dare to have known, 
 And yet make comrades when alone. 
 
 " These thoughts have life, and they will fly, 
 And leave their impress by and by, 
 Like some marsh breeze whose poisoned breath 
 Breathes into homes its fevered breath. 
 
 " And after you have quite forgot, 
 
 Or all outgrown some vanished thought, 
 Back to your mind to make its home, 
 A dove or raven it will come. 
 
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 " Then let your secret thoughts be i rir, 
 They have a vital part anil share 
 In shaping worlds and moulding fate; 
 God's system is so intricate." 
 
 [/://// II 'heeler U'ilco*. 
 
 Yes, you can build yourself by affirming yourself. Oppose 
 or deny that which you do not want, and affirm that which you 
 do want. 
 
 Buddha the wise said, "I now seek a nobler law unlike the 
 wordly methods known to men. I will oppose disease and age 
 and death, and strive against the mischief wrought by these on 
 men." 
 
 It is beautiful and satisfying to know that this can be done. 
 And you can do it now. Rise and declare that you are the 
 creator of your own destiny. I am. I am. 
 
 Man may rule his stars. Ordinarily men obey their stars; 
 but the wise man rules his stars. Shakspeare says, "The fault, 
 dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are 
 underlings." 
 
 In order to come out from under the human mesmerism of 
 belief in the controlling power of evil, rise and ''claim the 
 good, for as you claim so will you receive." 
 
 (Some of the following extracts are from Frances Lord's 
 writings. They seem to fit in, therefore they are used.) 
 
 "To obtain good, declare that the good thing is so." (See 
 quotation, Mark xi: 24.) "To obtain knowledge of God, de- 
 clare that you have it that is to say, declare that every bit of 
 good prompting you is of God, and is part of this knowledge." 
 
 "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit that we are 
 children of God." Romans viii: 16. 
 
 "The thought that 'we are children of God,' makes us feel 
 an inward response of joy as we claim the good." 
 
 To realize our kinship with the Father-Mother Principle, is 
 to rise up and declare we have access to the universal store- 
 house of Good, and to reach out into the Law of Good and 
 take it. 
 
 We may now enter into our inheritance. 
 
 "We know that all Being is Good and is Spirit, and is the 
 Being of God. (Lesson I.) And the way to realize this is to 
 affirm everything which confirms it. This method of affirming 
 has such power, because in using it we are using the Power of 
 the Word." 
 
 The Power of the Word will show you that "our weapons 
 
76 THE LOGOS OF THE 
 
 are not carnal, but mighty to the pulling down of strongholds."" 
 II Cor. x: 4. 
 
 And as you practice these things, you will find new ways to 
 use truth, and in doing so you will learn to cast aside limits, 
 time, and space, and stand in the possibility of the present real- 
 ization of the L,aw of Good. 
 
 "Believe in yourself as a child of God," and that it is possi- 
 ble for you to grow into the likeness and image of God express- 
 ing the power and attributes of God here in and through this 
 body while here on earth. Then will understanding open up 
 in you and wisdom manifest itself. 
 
 It has been said of some one: "He did not rightly know in 
 what wisdom consists. He thought it lay in the acquirement 
 of facts, whereas really it is the power by which facts are tran- 
 scended." 
 
 Understanding is born within your soul and grows. Wis- 
 dom is the showing out or manifestation of this understanding. 
 Wisdom is the right hand of understanding. 
 
 "Treat yourself for Spiritual Understanding." Maybe, "be- 
 fore you can grasp these truths, you must treat yourself 'for 
 Spiritual Understanding, you must deny the hold of error over 
 your mind, and affirm that you are in truth and love truth" 
 Affirm your One-ness with God, for your soul's one business is 
 to "prove itself;" to prove its One-ness with God. Then you 
 you may truly say with Esdras of old, "My heart uttereth un- 
 derstanding, and wisdom grew in my breast, for my spirit 
 strengthened my memory." 
 
 Affirm one or more of the following statements: "The things 
 herein affirmed are not only true, but have power to bring great 
 blessing upon those who affirm them precisely, because the 
 spoken Word brings things to pass, or makes manifest what is 
 existing in the Silence awaiting your Word." 
 
 "For in them is the spring of understanding, the fountain of 
 wisdom, and the stream of knowledge. " II Esdras, xiv: 48. 
 
 I. "God is all love, life, substance, intelligence, law, power ^ 
 knowledge, and presence" 
 
 "Try to understand this statement. It is set forth at length 
 in the Statement of Being in Lesson I. Now T , try to find your 
 relation to the All Good. 'You want to fix your mind upon 
 boundless power, goodness, and knowledge.' In the second 
 affirmation you state your relation to it all." 
 
 II. "I am an idea of God, a special thought of the All Good- 
 
XK\V niSI'KXSATloX ();' TIME. 77 
 
 and in good I live and move and have iuv being." .hid God is 
 iu inc. 
 
 "In Good I live and move and have my being." (See Acts 
 xvii: 28.) 
 
 "Where did I start from? My source is the source of all other 
 beings. I am not to be miserable, for I am connected with the 
 Godhead All Mind Good. 
 
 III. "Like God or the Good, I am Spirit and Mind, and I 
 reflect Power, Holiness, and Wisdom." 
 
 "What means have I of expressing myself? Since I am a 
 thought, I can express myself in thought, and deed; and as a 
 description of these, I can say that I am Spirit and Mind, and 
 that I reflect Power to act as a person would act whom I should 
 call a strong, holy and wise person. How this thought lifts 
 me up! Yet, how can I be true to all this? I ought to be un- 
 der some law which would make me act in a way worthy of it. 
 This is exactly the train of thought which leads on to the 
 fourth affirmation." 
 
 IV. "/ am governed by the Law of Good. This gives me love 
 and intelligence, so that I do what I ought to do, and feel happy 
 to think I have done so. I feel free from all fear of having made 
 mistakes, and that these will pursue me and show their conse- 
 quences as sickness and death. I am Spirit, and Spirit is free 
 
 from all fear. ' Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is lib- 
 erty.' ' II Cor. iii: 17. 
 
 "I am governed" do you say? How is that? It is because 
 you so affirm; and your words come true upon you. This is 
 what is meant by the Power of the spoken Word. Then it is 
 only when you affirm that the rest of what you state is true. Is 
 that correct? 
 
 You must bear in mind that: (i) We are talking of realities, 
 the ultimate or final realities of Being. (2) We agreed (in I) 
 that every one is, in Divine essence, desirous and capable of 
 Good only. (3) It is that Divine in You that we are speaking 
 of. (4) By affirming that this good (You) is manifest, it be- 
 comes manifest, or shows out in the external in daily life. 'I 
 feel free' means: As I am governed by the law of Good, lean- 
 not make mistakes; for, according to our use of the word, "sin" 
 means believing in any self-hood other than this Divine Self, 
 which is governed by the law of Good; and all 'sins' are acts 
 done by forgetting God. As the old phrase was: by forgetting 
 that the true Self is governed by the law of Good. 
 
78 THE LOGOS OF THE 
 
 ' ' Moreover, directly you affirm you are governed by the law 
 of Good; it is plainly impossible for you to be also governed by 
 any any other law. 
 
 Now, in your mortal way of thinking error or mistake is per- 
 manent, and a law unto itself, and you go on year after year 
 burdened and unable to rise." But a life above sin is possible. 
 It comes from a knowledge of what life is. " Is not this what 
 is fully set forth in many of St. Paul's epistles, but notably in 
 Romans iv : 14: 'For sin shall not have dominion over you; for 
 you are not under the law, but under grace.' And in the suc- 
 ceeding verses he goes into the question whether any persons 
 would be so foolish as to regard it as a license or permission to 
 do wrong. Verse 15 runs: 'What then? Shall we sin, because 
 we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.' And 
 in verse 16 he points out that we are bound by grace, which is 
 the name he uses for the law of Good. 
 
 'Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to 
 obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey, whether of sin unto 
 death, or of obedience unto righteousness.' 
 
 And Romans viii: 2, says: 'For the law of the Spirit of life 
 in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and 
 death.' ' 
 
 The "Magus" says: 'There are three degrees in the world 
 Nature, Law, and Grace. ' ' 
 
 Grace (I^ove) is the fulling of the law. Grace, or L,ove, is 
 the Holy Ghost (Host) and 'Spirit of Truth, ' whom the world 
 cannot receive because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him, 
 but ye know him, for he dwelleth with you and shall be in 
 you." John xiv: 17. 
 
 This is what is meant by the statement: "I feel free from all 
 fear of having made mistakes, and that these will pursue me 
 and show their consequences (as causes or effects), as sin, sor- 
 row, sickness, and death. 
 
 " This list sums up all our fears; they constitute a series of 
 links, and either all have binding force, or no one of them has. 
 
 A very common fear is, that even when we "repent," or "turn 
 over a new leaf, ' ' we shall still be suffering for the consequence 
 of former sins. 
 
 Many deep experiences show that what happens is this: 
 Directly we give up our belief in the separate mortal self "put 
 off the old man with his deeds. ' ' We have no choice but to 
 give up their consequences too; we have to be quite free to serve 
 the Good; and when we affirm that we are under the law of 
 
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 Good, we are shown what we ought to do, step by step; if this 
 includes acts of reparation toward those we have injured our 
 privilege seems great; but we have simply to do the tasks which 
 Love sets us, and do them whether or not they seem to be in- 
 cluding the steps we think due to people we consider we 
 injured. 
 
 We state that we do not fear Death, and cannot suffer from 
 it, because to do so, lifts off one of humanity's settled glooms 
 and fears; we know that "The last enemy that shall be de- 
 stroyed is death." i Cor. xv: 26. 
 
 We know that the last sign likely to come as an assurance 
 of the Spiritual basis of life, is some change in the way people 
 cease to be tenants or inmates of the body. But that this will 
 come, as a manifestation, a glimmer of hope, a certainty, a 
 general law, the glorious triumph of Spirit, we are led to think, 
 and hence the including of the topic of death; and we include 
 also the meaning of our statement, ' I shall never be annihi- 
 lated or go into nothingness. Even the seeming that I do so 
 when I die, must be one of the many errors which I see I have 
 been living. Perhaps if I thus recognize death as nat real and 
 not necessary, I shall find it wil loosen its hold on my mind, 
 as so many other errors do, and I shall be allowed to perceive 
 what there might be instead of death.'" 
 
 ' ' To realize that these are the greatest questions which can 
 engage the mind of man; to take teaching gratefully; and to 
 affirm Spiritual Understanding; these are the student's duties. " 
 
 This daily practice of these silent affirmations give strength 
 of character and brings into active realization that power that 
 Emerson calls ''Energy," and, as he shows, renews the whole 
 man. 
 
 "This Energy (Spiritual consciousness) does not descend 
 into individual life on any other conditions than entire pos- 
 session. It comes to the lowly and simple; it comes to whom- 
 soever will put off what is foreign and proud; it comes as in- 
 sight; it comes as serenity and grandeur. 
 
 When we see those whom it inhabits we are apprised of new 
 degrees of greatness. From that inspiration (consciousness) 
 the man comes back with a changed tone. He no longer talks 
 with men with an eye to their opinions. He is plain and true; 
 has no rose color; no fine friends; no adventures; he does not 
 want admiration; dwells in the hour that now is." 
 
 Emerson's "Energy" proceeds the Holy Ghost (Host) and 
 the Holy Host is the Divine Mary, Mother of the Christ con- 
 
80 THE LOGOS OF THE 
 
 sciousness (Inner Self). This latter state, or man, is men- 
 tioned in i John v : 6, 7, " This is he that cometh by water and 
 blood, even Jesus Christ. Not by water only, but by water 
 and blood, and.it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the 
 Spirit is truth." 
 
 V. " God works in me and through me to will and to do what- 
 ever I ought to do. " " How shall I consecrate all that I do? I 
 will say, as I do it, that it is part of the doing of the whole 
 universe; for I have read, and I believe, that ' nothing is small 
 and nothing is great in Divine economy.' (Perfect Way, 
 page 325.) 
 
 " Hither I am working outside the Divine order, which must 
 be futile and lead to nothing, or I am working inside it; and 
 so great is the Power of the spoken Word to bring things to 
 pass, that if I thus affirm, it will bring every thought and deed 
 within the compass and government of this Divine order. This 
 is what is meant by the old wording, ' Whatsoever ye do, do 
 it heartily as to the Lord, and not unto men.' " Cal. iii: 23. 
 
 And it is also expressed by the Christ, who said, ' ' The 
 Father that dwelleth in me, He doeth the works." John xiv: 
 10. 
 
 ' 'And it is the continual keeping of this thought before my 
 eyes which both gives me courage to act, and prevents my slip- 
 ping into any possible mistake of thinking it is the mortal / 
 who accomplishes things. It is this acknowledgment which 
 is the true denying of the lower self. 
 
 "This fifth Affirmation, ' God works in me and through me 
 to will and to do whatever I ought to do, ' is sometimes worded, 
 ' Whatsover is necessar}^ to be done by me. ' 
 
 ' ' It is the Affirmation which most people use oftenest. The 
 saying of it will take your Spirit into a still place, will make a 
 great silence round about you; it is, therefore, helpful to say it 
 just when you are going to a patient; and though, doubtless, 
 you will outgrow this rule, beginners find it useful. 
 
 The affirmation seems to put the solemn effort we are about 
 to make in its true light ; it gives courage and humility; hence 
 clear vision and power. 
 
 ' God works in me and through me to will and to do whatever 
 I ought to do,' is the consecration of all our powers and plans; 
 and when we thus give the spirit leave, as it were, to appropri- 
 ate our lives, it will of itself reach backwards and forwards in 
 them, and will utilize our past, present, and future. In other 
 
NEW DISPENSATION OF TIME. 8l 
 
 words, we find little bits of the past suddenly become useful 
 for present duty; little facts, incidents, friendships, will seem 
 to weave in wonderfully, as the grand aim of the present is 
 made to grow clearer, which is the growth of ourselves into 
 the strength and beauty of the eternal, and the converting or 
 turning of people from the error of their ways. 
 
 To achieve this work, methods are constantly opened up to 
 you; a power will work through you; not always will the way 
 be blind and dull, and never will it be reluctantly trodden; 
 sometimes it will charm you with its beauty, and always will it 
 comfort you with its usefulness." 
 
 " Silently sat the artist alone, 
 
 Carving a Christ from an ivory bone; 
 Little by little with toil and pain, 
 He won his way through the sightless grain, 
 That held and yet hid the thing he sought, 
 'Till the work stood up, a growing thought." 
 
 " Receive blessing and peace out of the silence, and listen to the music 
 which is the response of the currents of the universe, encircling us at the 
 moment when one intense thought concentrated on the One call receive 
 from the All the force and energy, which renders the manifestation of 
 your own potency possible." 
 
THE SIX SACRED CENTERS OF THE 
 
 HUMAN BODY AND THEIR 
 
 FUNCTIONS. 
 
 "Having abolished in his flesh the enmity * * * for to make in him- 
 self of twain one new man, so making peace." Ephes. ii: 15. 
 
 The manner in which all life on this earth and in this uni- 
 verse manifests itself is in and through centers. From an atom 
 to a sun-world it thus manifests itself in its functions of use and 
 beauty. Everything works through centers. This is a law of 
 life being from the most material thing to the Supreme Es- 
 sence of Eternal Being. 
 
 This law of central action is followed by men in the material 
 world on the social, religious, business, and political planes. 
 
 Investigate this point closely and you will see there are cen- 
 ters which are sometimes spoken of among the people as hot- 
 beds of politic, commercial centers, holy places, gay capitals, 
 and so forth. 
 
 Many persons or things are drawn tqward each center for the 
 manifestation of what is generally termed the fullest expression 
 of that particular quality of experience, be it of the shade polit- 
 ical, commercial, religious, or social. 
 
 Large centers, lesser centers, and small centers in every degree 
 of development, mark life in both the political and natural king- 
 doms. 
 
 The fullest external manifestation of anything, or any idea, 
 is but the reproducing according to the law of creating and of 
 being that which is. 
 
 The things which are manifest follow in their expression the 
 invisible Power That Be that is, the immutable law of Being. 
 
 This law of central action in its application to the common 
 affairs of life is magnificent. Let us localize it and bring it to 
 a human being. 
 
 In a human being there are six great centers of action. 
 These centers are by the wise masters of all ages termed holy. 
 They are holy in the true sense of the word ' 'holy. ' ' Holy be- 
 cause their functions are double, and through these centers the 
 Divine possibilities of the individual are unfolded. 
 
NEW DISPENSATION OF TIME. 83 
 
 The knowledge of the exact location of these centers and their 
 double functions have heretofore been reserved for the good and 
 the wise because knowledge is power, and such knowledge 
 might be used by the ignorant and vicious for destructive pur- 
 poses. 
 
 But now cometh the dawn of the morning of the New Era of 
 time whence all things are revealed to him who seeks. 
 
 The summer time of life on our planet is approaching, and 
 ignorance and viciousness must vanish before the light of love 
 and wisdom, even as the mists of the early morning disappear 
 before the rising sun. 
 
 In a human being three sacred centers lie above the waist 
 and three below the waist. Three above the waist are herein 
 exactly located. The three below the waist, for this purpose, 
 are approximately located. 
 
 The first one above the waist lies in the heart; the next lies 
 in the throat larynx the next is in \h& forehead, at that point 
 phrenologically known as Memory or Form. The first sacred 
 center below the waist lies near the stomach a little below and 
 to the right of the stomach that is very near the navel. The 
 second sacred center below the waist lies near the mouth of the 
 rectum. 
 
 The third sacred center below the waist lies in the sexual 
 organs at a point which is easily learned in the study of phys- 
 iology. 
 
 In the material medical science which is known to the world 
 to-day each organ is known to perform but one function, but 
 to the student of the higher laws of life spiritual science 
 each is known to perform daily a double function that is, each 
 has an inward and an outward action or use. 
 
 The activity or the sluggishness of one of these centers will 
 affect the action of all the other centers. To understand just 
 how life operates in these centers the student should study 
 polarity, or the negative and positive aspects of the atom, and 
 all centers in nature as well as in moving life. Study the law 
 of polarity. 
 
 "Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of 
 nature. * * * An inevitable dualism bisects nature. 
 Whilst the world is dual, so is every one of its parts." 
 
 Undue activity in any one of these centers sometimes causes 
 a corresponding undue activity in one or more or all of the 
 other centers, and sometimes causes the opposite extreme con- 
 
84 THE LOGOS OF THE 
 
 dition, that is a state of sluggishness resembling paralysis in one 
 or more of the other centers. 
 
 I have said that the functions of these sacred centers were 
 double that is, they have an inward and an outward action. 
 Perhaps if I had said that some of them are triple in their 
 nature, it would be better understood. 
 
 Some of these centers have a physical use, a mental use, and 
 a spiritual use. For instance, that in the heart, and that also 
 in the forehead have a threefold function, all the others have a 
 double function. 
 
 The physical use of the heart is well known to everyone. 
 
 Its mental function is the emotions, friendship, family affec- 
 tions, patriotism and attachment to the personality and the 
 creature and the created. 
 
 Its spiritual function is beauty, helpfulness, love, will, truth, 
 justice, mercy, understanding, wisdom. 
 
 The adoration of these principles is a recognition of the Di- 
 vinity (God) in this center. The heart is preeminently the seat 
 of God in man. laterally a ray of light rests in the heart of 
 man and connects him with the Flame of Life First Cause 
 God. 
 
 In this knowledge the poet affirms: 
 
 " Immeasurable is the Highest; who but knows it? 
 And yet a human heart can perfectly enclose it." 
 
 The ancients called the heart the seat of " Brahm " the 
 holy of holies. In its interior function this is true. Through 
 this center it is possible to consciously reach the great center of 
 the universe. 
 
 The larynx, in the throat, is one of the sacred centers rep- 
 resenting force and sound, and in its action it creates, pre- 
 serves, and destroys. In its lowest material aspect, it ex- 
 presses sound to condemn, to destroy, to deceive, to idly flatter, 
 to argue, and to exhaust itself or to get rid of surplus energy. 
 
 In its mental and spiritual aspect, it argues, praises, and ex- 
 presses words for truth's sake, but keeps itself shut outwardly 
 unless it is necessary or expedient to speak. 
 
 This little music box may be opened inwardly by the Word 
 in the mind. 
 
 The force in this sacred center will be better illustrated 
 further on. 
 
 The memory form or triangular sacred center in the fore- 
 head governs the intellectual faculties and more too. In its 
 
NEW DISPENSATION OF TIME. 85 
 
 material aspect it refers to reason as far as the five physical 
 senses can penetrate, and memory and form as far as material 
 science can penetrate or reach in the objective world. 
 
 Cause and effect form a material standpoint ; ambition, will, 
 and form hold it in a vice bound grip. 
 
 This center, when introverted by concentration and stilling 
 its turbulance and calmly resting on an object or an idea, may 
 operate on the true mental plane or mental-spiritual plane. 
 
 This sacred center (forehead) in man, as we find him to-day, 
 is used the least of all the sacred centers. It should be used 
 most and in connection with the heart center. 
 
 On its mental^spiritual plane the forehead center holds itself 
 to an object or work or thought until it quietly rests there. 
 When it can calmly rest there, other things considered, it will 
 evolve out of its Divinity the conciousness of understanding. 
 Then through understanding it opens to those rarified planes of 
 thought illumination, and real experience, which at present are 
 only hopes. But the blossom of hope, if nourished and cher- 
 ished, will become the fruit of the Present. 
 
 The lowest sacred center in man is located in the sexual or- 
 gans. Its external use is to produce offspring. In this capacity 
 it continually draws to itself and casts outwardly the surplus 
 seed and waste of itself. But it lias another capacity, an in- 
 ward function, of renewing the body by means of casting 
 inwardly its seed and vital essence. 
 
 The seminal fluids and germs produced in either the male 
 or female sexual centers may be drawn upward and gradually 
 reabsorbed into the body. 
 
 The sexual fluids in regeneration undergo the same chemical 
 change and process in the male as in the female, and -vice versa. 
 
 The natural process is like this. By living a chaste and 
 pure life, the electrical currents of the body follow the mind and 
 are drawn upward by degrees to the next sacred center, where 
 they undergo a chemical change. 
 
 By keeping the mind in a pure and active state, the sexual 
 fluids are literally drawn up to the sacred center near the navel; 
 here they are transmuted from a fluid state into a gaseous state; 
 and from this center they are carried along to that wonderful 
 regenerative organ the spleen. 
 
 The whole hypochondriac region of the human body is af- 
 fected b.y this sacred center near the navel. The stomach and 
 its associate organs are greatly affected by this center. This 
 center governs digestion and the vitality. If this center be- 
 
86 THE LOGOS OF THE 
 
 comes partially paralyzed, blocd poverty will ensue and the pa- 
 tient will die. 
 
 If the life forces are running very high and unbalanced, this 
 center will sometimes follow the extreme condition and act very 
 feebly. In such a case, the extra work is thrown on the heart 
 center and there will be great excitement or the extreme con- 
 dition, heart failure. 
 
 The sacred center near the navel performs its function accord- 
 ing to the general bent of the mind sub-conscious or conscious 
 bent of the mind. Its lowest function is to draw the nourishing 
 fluids from the hypochondriac region and cast them downward 
 to the sacred center in the sexual organs, where ordinarily they 
 are thrown out in the form of seminal fluids and secretions; 
 but in its interior function, and further still, as regeneration in 
 its true sense takes place, this sacred center near the navel trans- 
 mutes the nourishing fluids and vital essence into gaseous sub- 
 stance which passes into the spleen, where a further and infi- 
 nitety finer chemical process or change takes place of a trans- 
 mutation and separation of this gas. 
 
 Here the coarse and impure gas, as it is separated, passes out 
 of the system through the bowels and through the sacred center 
 near the mouth of the rectum, while the extremely fine ele- 
 ments thus generated are taken up into the nervous system 
 and becomes mental strength, and soul substance and spiritual 
 power. 
 
 Immediately after the transmutation of the sexual gas, which 
 is just passed into the spleen from the sacred center near the 
 navel, these fine electric currents pass into and through the 
 nerves, and as much as is needed for active purposes lodge in 
 the sacred centers above the waist the heart, larynx, and 
 forehead; but a large portion of this fine electricity remains for 
 the time being in the solar plexus reservoir. 
 
 This sexual gas, when it is passed from the sacred center 
 near the navel, through the stomach into the spleen and there 
 undergoes the fine chemical change, is first, immediately, ab- 
 sorbed into the system as electric vital life, but further, a por- 
 tion of it is transmuted into ethereal currents ordinary mental 
 action and further still a portion of it may be transmuted 
 into auraic currents, which is the highest action of the mind 
 mental and spiritual. The sacred centers above the waist per- 
 form these higher transmutations. 
 
 The three sacred centers below the waist, that is, in the sexual 
 organs, near the navel, and near the mouth of the rectum 
 
NEW DISPENSATION OF TIME. 87 
 
 are wholly physical and of the first or lowest mental plane, in 
 their twofold functions. On one hand they cast outwardly to 
 the world the surplus of the body and mind, and on the other 
 hand, they, by turning their fluids and secretions inwardly, 
 feed the body and the mind thus re-creating vital forces in the 
 system. 
 
 These three sacred centers are mortal and perish with the 
 body and mortal mind. But they are all important in life; for 
 they afford the material whereby it is possible to regenerate the 
 body and the mind, and to keep the body capable of holding 
 the mind and spirit. 
 
 These six sacred centers in the body, more than any other 
 places in the human body, hold the Divinity (God) in the per- 
 son. Each center is the seat of Divine Presence; though, as has 
 been stated before, they differ in precedence. The one in the 
 heart being the nwst holy, the one in the sexual organs being 
 the least holy. These are the seat of the Almighty. 
 
 As has also been stated, each has an inward function and 
 each has an outward function. The work of regeneration is 
 the opening up of and the cleansing of these six sacred centers. 
 This is what is meant in the inspired writing, "Six for the 
 outgoing and six for the ingathering. ' ' 
 
 Six for generation and six for regeneration. These are also 
 the Twelve Labors of Hercules mentioned so often in Grecian 
 Mythology. 
 
 Some Sacred writers designate the inward and the outward 
 action of these centers "One Labor." Hence six great cen- 
 ters in the human body to be regenerated. Others designate 
 the functions of each as two and say there are twelve great la- 
 bors to perform. By careful investigation it will be seen that 
 six and twelve in relation to these centers mean the same. It 
 is the function that is referred to. 
 
 * ' There are two movements about any center * * * and 
 both movements are spiral the first an inward toward the cen- 
 ter, and the second an outward away from the center. ' ' About 
 each of these centers above mentioned, there are two motions, 
 twelve in all. "The first of these movements, in each case, is 
 an effort to attain something, a process of development ; the 
 second an effort to overcome something, a process of purifica- 
 tion. This flow and ebb, development and purification, go on 
 through every phase of life and stage of life (not only in cen- 
 ters in the human body, but in all other centers in creation) on 
 
88 THE LOGOS OF THE 
 
 planets from a crystal to a purified soul, and in the great belt 
 from a moon to the greatest sun." 
 
 One inspired writer has said, "These are the twelve gates of 
 Regeneration, through which if a man enter he shall have the 
 right to the Tree of Life." All of these sacred centers are good 
 and holy. It is their abuse that degenerates and upsets the 
 man. 
 
 If the action of any of these centers should be partially par- 
 alyzed, or killed out, extra work would be thrown upon one or 
 more of the other centers, causing a great stir in the body and 
 mind, and sometimes resulting in insanity or death. If, on the 
 other hand, one or more should be over-excited, it would over- 
 excite the others, or act the reverse deplete one or more of the 
 other centers. 
 
 If the sacred center in the sexual organs is allowed to act 
 with a downward motion only that is, the downward motion 
 the greater, man becomes a leaking vessel, and the most val- 
 uable part of his vital substance is lost. But if an upward mo- 
 tion is created by the will, in indrawing and retaining the 
 seminal fluids in the body and reabsorbing them, man regen- 
 erates the power to renew his body, mind, and soul. "For the 
 rich globule that is parted with in the act of sex commerce is 
 the most vital and precious quality in the human organism, 
 and no man can part with it without losing life force." This 
 life germ (rich globule) retained in the body, and reabsorbed 
 according to natural methods, gives the power and force which 
 is absolutely needed in making new flesh, blood, and bone, or 
 in mental processes, and in opening the soul to spiritual light 
 and understanding. 
 
 Mind is not merely intellect. It does not belong exclusively 
 to the head, but it belongs to the whole man and functions 
 through these six sacred centers. Mind is the consciousness. 
 Note the difference between the words, "Conscience" and "con- 
 sciousness." "Conscience" is a sense of right and wrong, ac- 
 cording to one's education; while "conscioussness" is a percep- 
 tion (knowing) of what passes in one's own mind. 
 
 Some people's minds dwell mostly in the sacred center gov- 
 erning the sexual organs, while others act in the sacred center 
 governing the liver, stomach, and bowels. Again, other minds 
 function almost wholly in the heart sacred center; and some 
 minds are at their homes in the sacred centers of their fore- 
 heads. These six sacred centers are the home of your thought 
 and love and will. They are the main chambers of your temple 
 
NEW DISPENSATION OF TIMK. 89 
 
 house and some of them are no doubt now unexplored by 
 you. But you can open their inner secret recesses by living the 
 regenerate life of holding upbuilding thoughts of love and truth 
 and retaining the sexual fluids in the body. The reabsorption 
 of the sexual fluids and currents into the system will not only 
 electrify the mind and strengthen the soul, but will refine the 
 flesh. The tough skin of withered age may fill out and become 
 as plump as a child's. 
 
 If you live a continent life for a few years, and keep your 
 mind open to spiritual thoughts and truths, you will truly un- 
 derstand the line running thus: 
 
 "Oh, happy day! when Jesus washed my sins away." 
 
 And also the meaning of the words: 
 
 "I am cleansed in the blood of Christ." 
 
 These names have spiritual meanings. Christ refers to the 
 innermost man (consciousness-being). Jesus to the outermost 
 man (consciousness). These names belong to every Man Re- 
 generate. Truly, "the letter killeth, but the spirit maketh 
 alive." 
 
 The sudden closing of the lower sacred centers will send the 
 vital currents upward with a tremendous force, and such prac- 
 tices should always be accompanied by high, pure unselfish 
 thoughts and spiritual concentration of mind. The reason for 
 thus guiding the thoughts is very evident. The retention of 
 the seminal fluids in the body gives the person more force. 
 And do you not see that force may be used to destroy as well 
 as to preserve. Herein is a great secret. It is merely the 
 secret of understanding and using force. Just the same as 
 using gunpowder, electricity, etc. The whole secret of using 
 this force lies in these words: Let your desires be upicard; let 
 your thoughts be pure. 
 
 There is a saving knowledge, and in living a life of absolute 
 chastity you open the way to receive that knowledge. Inno- 
 cence walks hand in hand with ignorance, but purity, grasps 
 knowledge by the right hand and steps in front of innocence. 
 It is purity and not innocence that saves. 
 
 After living a continent life for sometime, at periods, the mind 
 instead of becoming clearer will become more befogged, and 
 often deep heavy sleep will follow, or at times there will be a 
 tendency to great excitement of both body and mind. These 
 states may be controlled and regulated by balancing your 
 
90 THE LOGOS OF THE 
 
 thoughts and regulating your environments according to your 
 needs. (See L,esson V.) This occurs because you have not 
 regulated or do not properly use the great power you now have 
 on hand. 
 
 A person should not lie directly on his back, and he should 
 keep a small pillow under his head, otherwise he will more 
 quickly send the electric currents upward, and when the reac- 
 tion comes he will find himself unable to control the turbulent 
 waters of his life and to keep a clear cool head. Here a 
 knowledge of the zodiacial signs will help you. 
 
 All these states and conditions may be controlled and regu- 
 lated as you advance in understanding. 
 
 The animal lies on its face and its life forces tend downward 
 toward the earth and death. The adept or divine man lies on 
 his back with his face upward, and his forces tend upward 
 toward ever conscious life. 
 
 But the ordinary man is not entirely an animal, neither is he 
 wholly divine; therefore, in the process of attainment, he 
 should lie on his side or partly toward his back, until he can 
 attune himself to the higher vibrations of the Great Breath. 
 
 To reabsorb the seminal fluids back into the body means, 
 after some time, to open other training being considered the 
 breathing passages in the body. That is, latent breathing pas- 
 sages that are entirely closed in the ordinary mortal. Herein 
 is an arcanum of knowledge. 
 
 This secret will reveal itself to the earnest aspiring student 
 who loves knowledge and truth for its own sake. Speak to 
 Nature. She will obey you (See Lesson III), and tell you what 
 you want to know. 
 
 A life of absolute chastity and concentration of mind gives 
 you the right to speak and be heard. 
 
 If a person does not lose sight of the transmutation idea (mark 
 the word transmutation) ^ the true teaching of the transmuta- 
 tion of the sexual fluids, and will gradually draw these cur- 
 rents upward by living a chaste life and training and enlarging 
 his mind, heart, and voice, he will experience in time the most 
 glorious results. 
 
 But this is the work of time, the work of years. Results 
 may be attained at once within twenty-four hours and great 
 results within thirty days, and in a few months glorious results, 
 but the whole work of regeneration will cover a period of many 
 years. For all the sacred centers will grow, enlarge, and purify 
 
NEW DISPENSATION OF TIME. 91 
 
 under the guidance of the regenerate will, and it is a process 
 of growth and renewal of life within you. 
 
 The moon governs the psychic germ of reproduction. Every 
 twenty-eight days a new psychic germ ripens in the human 
 body. Here is a wonderful body of knowledge for you to in- 
 vestigate. Learn it and live by it and you will become a new 
 man. The same process takes place in the female as in the 
 male. 
 
 The transmutation of the life essence may be begun sud- 
 denly, but it will not be accomplished and finished suddenly. 
 
 It is said that the god Saturn devours his own children. 
 Saturn and Satan mean the same. The influence of the planet 
 Saturn in the natural man generates reproduction essence and 
 electrical currents at the base of the. brain. 
 
 The base of the brain is the roots of the Tree of Life, from 
 which spring the vital sap. The solar influence of the planet 
 Saturn governs this part of the brain. We are our own chil- 
 dren; we are also our own parents. 
 
 To absorb the seminal fluid back into the system and trans- 
 mute it into mental-soul and spiritual substance is, metaphor- 
 ically speaking, to eat up one's own children. Herein is the 
 secret of magic. Regeneration is all this and more to. Study 
 the word ' ' regeneration. ' ' 
 
 The following is copied from the ' ' Perfect Way. ' ' In my 
 own experience I have proven it to be true. It is entitled the 
 "Secret of Satan," and has reference to the lower Sacred Cen- 
 ters in the human body; and the operation of the mind in them. 
 Mark the operation of the mind in them. 
 
 ' ' And on the seventh day there went forth from the presence 
 of God a mighty angel full of wrath and consuming fire, and 
 God gave unto him the dominion of the outermost sphere. 
 
 Eternity brought forth Time; the Boundless gave birth to 
 Limit; Being descended into Generation. 
 
 And as lightning I beheld Satan fall from heaven, splendid 
 in strength and fury. 
 
 Among the gods is none like unto him, into whose hands are 
 committed the kingdom, the power, and the glory of worlds. 
 
 Thrones and empires, the dynasties of kings, the fall of na- 
 tions, the birth of churches, the triumph of Time. 
 
 They arise and pass, they were and are not; the sea and the 
 dust and the immense mystery of space devour them. 
 
 Tbe tramp of armies, the voices of joy and pain, the cry of 
 the new born babe, the shout of the warrior mortally smitten. 
 
92 THE LOGOS "OF THE 
 
 ' ' Marriage, divorce, division, violent deaths, martyrdoms, 
 tyrannous ignorance, the impotence of passionate protest, and 
 the mad longing for oblivion. 
 
 The eyes of the tiger in the jungle, the fang of the snake, 
 the fcetor of the slaughter-house, the wail of innocent beasts 
 in pain. 
 
 The innumerable incarnations of Spirit, the strife toward 
 Manhood, the ceaseless pulse and current of Desire. 
 
 These are his who beareth all the gods on his shoulders; 
 who establisheth the pillars of Necessity and Fate. 
 
 Many names hath God given him, names of mystery, secret 
 and terrible. 
 
 God called him Satan and Adversary, because Matter op- 
 poseth Spirit, and Time accuseth even the saints of the Lord. 
 
 And the Destroyer, for his arm breaketh and grindeth to 
 pieces; wherefore the fear and the dread of him is upon all 
 flesh. 
 
 And the Avenger, for he is the anger of God ; his breath 
 shall burn up all the souls of the wicked. 
 
 And the Sifter, for he straineth all things through his sieve, 
 dividing the husk from the grain; discovering the thought of 
 the heart ; proving and purifying the spirit of men. 
 
 And the Deceiver, for he maketh the false appear true, and 
 concealeth the Real under the mask of Illusion. 
 
 And the Tempter, for he setteth snares before the feet of the 
 elect ; he beguileth with vain shows, and seduces with enchant- 
 ments. 
 
 Blessed are the} 7 who withstand his subtlety; they shall be 
 called the sons of God, and shall enter in at the beautiful 
 gates. 
 
 For Satan is the doorkeeper of the Temple of the King ; he 
 standeth in Solomon's porch; he holdeth the keys of the Sanc- 
 tuary. 
 
 That no man may enter therein save the anointed, having 
 the arcanum of Hermes. 
 
 For Satan is the Spirit of the Fear of the Lord, which is the 
 beginning of wisdom. (Ps. A. V. cxi, D. V. ex, 10; Is. xi: 
 2,3. The first and ' oldest of the gods ' in the order of micro- 
 cosmic evolution. Saturn Satan is the seventh and last in 
 the order of macracosmic emanation, being the circumference 
 of the kingdom of which Phoebus Wisdom is the center.) 
 
 He is the devourer of the unwise and the evil ; they all shall 
 be meat and drink to him. 
 
NEW DISPENSATION OF TIME. 93 
 
 ''Whatsoever he devoureth, that shall never more return 
 into being. 
 
 Fear him, for after he hath killed he hath power to cast into 
 hell. 
 
 But he is the servant of the sons of God, and of the children 
 of light. 
 
 They shall go before him, and he shall follow the steps of 
 the wise. 
 
 Stand in awe of him and sin not ; speak his name with 
 trembling ; and beseech God daily to deliver thee. 
 
 For Satan is the magistrate of the Justice of God; he beareth 
 the balance and the sword. 
 
 To execute j udgrnent and vengeance upon all who come short 
 of the commandments of God; to weigh their works; to meas- 
 ure their desires, and to number their days. 
 
 For to him are committed Weight and Measure and Number. 
 
 For all things must pass under the rod and through the bal- 
 ance, and be fathomed by the sounding lead. 
 
 Therefore, Satan is the Minister of God, L,ord of the seven 
 mansions of Hades, the Angel of the manifest worlds. 
 
 And God hath put a girdle about his loins, and the name of 
 the girdle is Death. 
 
 Threefold are the coils, for threefold is the power of Death, 
 dissolving the body, the ghost, and the soul. 
 
 And the girdle is black within, but where Phoebus strikes it 
 is silver. 
 
 None of the Gods is girt save Satan, for upon him only is the 
 shame of generation. 
 
 He hath lost his virginal estate; uncovering heavenly se- 
 crets, he hath entered into bondage. 
 
 He encompasseth with bonds and limits all things which are 
 made; he putteth chains round about the worlds, and deter- 
 mineth their orbits. 
 
 By him are Creation and Appearance; by him Birth and 
 Transformation; the day of Begetting, and the night of Death. 
 
 The glory of Satan is the shadow of the I^ord; the throne of 
 Satan is the footstool of Adonai. 
 
 Twain are the armies of God; in heaven the hosts of Michael; 
 in the abyss the legions of Satan. 
 
 These are the Unmanifest and the Manifest; the free and the 
 bound; the virginal and the fallen. 
 
 And both are the ministers of the Father, fulfilling the word 
 divine. 
 
94 THE LOGOS OF THE 
 
 "The legions of Satan are the Creative Emanations, having 
 the shape of dragons, of Titans, and of elemental gods. 
 
 Forsaking the intelligible World, seeking manifestation, re- 
 nouncing their first estate. 
 
 Which were cast out into chaos, neither was there place 
 found any more in heaven. 
 
 * * * * * * 
 
 Yet is I/uza none other than Bethel; the kingdom of Satan 
 is become the kingdom of God and his Christ. 
 
 For there the Anointed awakeneth; arise from his sleep and 
 goeth his way rejoicing. 
 
 Having seen the vision of God, and beheld the secret of 
 Satan. 
 
 Even as the L,ord arose from the dead and break the seal of 
 the Sepulchre. 
 
 Which is the portal of heaven, L,uza, the house of separation, 
 the place of stony sleep. 
 
 Where is born the centripetal forces, drawing the soul up- 
 ward and inward to God. 
 
 Recalling Existence into Being, resuming the kingdoms of 
 Matter in Spirit, 
 
 Until Satan return to his first estate, and enter again into the 
 heavenly obedience. 
 
 Having fulfilled the will of the Father, and accomplished his 
 holy ministry. 
 
 Which was ordained of God before the worlds, for the splen- 
 dor of the manifest, and for the generation of Christ our Lord. 
 
 Who shall judge the quick and the dead, putting' all things 
 under his feet; those are the dominion, the power, the glory, 
 and the Amen." 
 
 "All is Good" in its own time and place. 
 
 Eternal consciousness is symbolized by the serpent with its 
 tail and its mouth. 
 
 God and the devil are the extremes of the pole conscious- 
 ness. 
 
 Where the devil ends God begins; where God is not the devil 
 laughs; but the tail of the serpent is in its mouth. Saturn eats 
 his own children. The serpent swallows itself, then it is no 
 more the serpent is become a Seraph. This means transmu- 
 tation the changing of one thing into another. 
 
 Any one of the human sacred centers may become so abnor- 
 mally developed that it vampires the other sacred centers, liter- 
 
NEW DISPENSATION OF TIME. 95 
 
 ally sucks the life blood from them. All these centers are very 
 closely connected. 
 
 Every day the close student of human nature will, if he 
 watches, see people who are abnormally developed in one or 
 more or maybe two of these centers. But where is the man 
 who has balanced his nature, and who can consciously think 
 at will in any one of these centers. 
 
 Behold the coming man! the coming race. The man of 
 power is he who has a balanced mind or nature. The charac- 
 ter should be rounded out. 
 
 Now to the earnest aspiring person I would say: Take good 
 care of ever}* part of yourself, and try to understand what is 
 the meaning of use, and what is the meaning of abuse; also try 
 to know the inside as well as the outside of everything. And 
 remember when you once learn and realize the higher use of 
 life, you become a prostitute when you use your life for lower 
 purposes; not only a prostitute, but the "prodigal son" spoken 
 of in the Bible. 
 
 These sacred centers when turned outward and used for sen- 
 sual gratification, become the devil as above described, and lead 
 to all the horrors which are rampant in the world to-day, but 
 when turned inward by higher thoughts, and their forces used 
 to increase the consciousness of the heart and mind, they make 
 it possible to attain right here in this body and in this world 
 the light of wisdom, the illumination of the mind, the freedom 
 of the Zc'z'//, and the power of the Word, which has been sought 
 for from time immemorial by the wisest, the best, and the ripest 
 of the earth. 
 
 Thus is attained the wisdom of Phoebus (light of wisdom 
 and understanding). 
 
 There are three stages in the transmutation period : First of 
 the passions, next of the emotions, and next of the illumina- 
 tions. By perfect chastity that is, a continent life, one may 
 keep his strength to attain to the illuminations. 
 
 These stages often merge into each other. It is not neces- 
 sary that one disappear before another manifests itself. 
 
 Did you ever see an orange tree in blossom? Sometimes an 
 orange tree contains ripe fruit at the time of blossoming; and 
 often on one tree may be seen blossoms, tiny green fruit and 
 ripe fruit. 
 
 In the process of Regeneration, the same person may be at 
 times very passionate, and at other times exceedingly emotional, 
 and occasionally very highly illuminated. 
 
96 THE LOGOS OF THE 
 
 This is caused by vibration of the different strata in his mind; 
 and the operation of his mind at the time nearly exclusively in 
 one of the sacred centers. 
 
 The body has zones that correspond to the mind and spirit 
 that is, it has a physical zone, a mental zone, and a moral zone. 
 
 Delsarte rightly taught that there are three great breaths, and 
 they correspond to the three zones in the human body. The 
 physical breath governs the abdomen and lower limbs; the 
 moral breath governs the torso and region around the heart, 
 and the mental breath governs the upper chest, throat, and 
 head. These breaths have relation to the sacred centers. A 
 little drill in breathing will help you. 
 
 There is a relation between the waters of life and the air you 
 breathe. The waters flow downhill; but transmute the waters 
 of life into steam (gas) and something beautiful will happen. 
 Chastity will give you strength to soar through the air. Yes, 
 you are a creature of the air if you will only know it and un- 
 fold your wings. . But without perfect chastity the strength of 
 both body and soul will fail before the illuminations are reached. 
 The highest attainments cannot be made without living a con- 
 tinent life. 
 
 The lily is the symbol of the sacred sexual centers. The lily 
 may hang its head with its petals downward, or it may open 
 upward to the sunlight. If you want a- lily to bloom rare and 
 radiant, you will fertilize its roots with excrements from the 
 barnyard. You will bring manure and put it on the lily bed. 
 And from out of this rotten substance, after a little while, green 
 shoots will spring up and the snowy cup and golden petals of 
 the lily will delight your eye. 
 
 This is exactly the process that takes place in a human being 
 when he lives the life of regeneration. The barnyard sacred 
 centers below the waist in a human being feed the lilies in the 
 sacred centers above the waist ; in the sense that the earth 
 and the animal essence feed the lily. But the lily also has the 
 air and the sunlight from above. 
 
 The passion's, and all that belong to the sexuality, are merely 
 force and magnetic currents at man's command, and may be 
 used in any way that the mind directs. Therefore, it may read- 
 ily be seen how essential it is to attend to the higher mind, and 
 to train the thoughts, that you may wisely use your resources. 
 
 Bear in mind always that you are not to kill out the passions 
 or sexual nature, but you are to transmute them into the emo- 
 tions, then further still into the illuminations. 
 
NEW DISPENSATION OF TIME. 97 
 
 * 
 
 There is a picture that is sometimes copied as one of the gems 
 of art; I think it is entitled "The Flight of the Holy Family." 
 It represents Mary and the Christ-child resting in the arms of 
 the sphynx, and Joseph lying on the ground near by, while 
 near them a perpendicular jet of water rises from the ground 
 high in the air. This picture is of course symbolical; and is 
 quite significant to him who would fully regenerate himself. 
 
 "Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin, for his 
 seed remainetk in him." I John iii: 9. 
 
 " By the activity of the word the sleeping germs of every thing are 
 awakened into Itfe." -Jacob Boehme. 
 
98 THE LOGOS OF THE 
 
 t 
 
 EXTRACTS 
 FROM THE BOOK "MASTERY OF FATE," BY P. BRAUN. 
 
 "In view of the wide spread suffering, physical disease, deplorable 
 hereditary results, and moral deterioration inseparable from unchaste 
 living, we the undersigned, members of the medical profession of New 
 York and vicinity, unite in declaring it as our opinion that chastity a 
 pure continent life for both sexes is consonant with the best condition 
 of physical, mental, and moral health."* 
 
 Sex power is creative power. The sex organs grasp the 
 creative forces of God and hold them. They gather the divine 
 life from the food and from the atmosphere. The function of 
 the life so gathered is to create and to sustain. In the sex act 
 this life is liberated, and under natural conditions the male and 
 the female elements mingle and fructify the germ. The act 
 registers the loss of a certain amount of life, vitality, nerve, 
 and brain force in each the male and female bodj^, which life is 
 used if conditions are favorable in the creation of a new 
 organism. 
 
 This loss would not matter much if the act was confined to 
 the production of children alone, but alas, it is not. 
 
 Each man and woman has a right to as much of the divine 
 life as they can use. This is their inheritance. But like the 
 lost son, they waste their Father's inheritance in a strange 
 country, that is, in unnatural ways, in ways which are not 
 conducive to their true happiness. 
 
 I am well aware that the sex act has had its uses in the pas': 
 in keeping man and woman together It was the only link 
 which bound the savage to his mate, and this made the family 
 possible, that institution through which man became what he 
 is to-day. 
 
 The selfish love which sought only the gratification of the 
 senses, gave place to a nobler growth, the love for its offspring. 
 the love for others, which in time is destined to expand into 
 that choice flower, the love for all. Thus the sex act, and gen- 
 eration, have a deeper ethical significance; thev are means 
 toward an ideal end. And what if this end has been reached 
 in a large part of the race or in the single individual? 
 
 What if we have reached that plane where we can see our 
 
XKW DISrKXSATloN OF TIME. 99 
 
 unity in one Father, and thus love others as we would our- 
 selves, which is still self love of a higher order, because we 
 can see that the other is a part of our deepest Self. What, then, 
 of the means which have been employed in reaching that end ? 
 Surely, then, they become unnecessary; then the sex act loses 
 one-half of the ground on which it stood justified, because that 
 for which it was meant has been realized. 
 
 Man has reached a higher plane, and the very cessation of 
 the indulgence bring him into contact with higher laws which 
 never before could operate on him. The divine life which the 
 sex organs gather must sooner or later be used for regeneration 
 instead of generation. If this is done, then will also come the 
 knowledge and the power which will enable man to extend 
 and prolong life in the body. * * * 
 
 If they would live a continent life, husband and wife would 
 always feel drawn toward each other. The charm of old lover 
 days would remain with them forever. The two would find 
 the highest satisfaction in the society of each other. * * * 
 
 The continent life is a blessing to those who live it, but for 
 those who wish to make any high attainments, it is absolutely 
 necessary. * * * 
 
 I imagine that I can hear some one say, ' The sexual in- 
 stinct is too powerful to be mastered and controlled effectually. 
 It has held sway over the races for ages. It is our inheritance. 
 It is our lot, and a daring soul is he who will defy the power 
 of heredity.' 
 
 We fully admit that the power of heredity may be great, but 
 man not the sense man, but the God-man; the man who has 
 sensed his unity with God is greater. This man is the 'Mas- 
 ter that sleepeth' while the tempest threatens the boat. He 
 must be awakened through our conscious recognition of our one- 
 ness with that power which holds those created and those yet 
 uncreated in his bosom; and that power we can make our 
 own by recognizing that it is our own. 
 
 Not all are yet ready for this last step. Evolution has not 
 brought them up to this point, but sooner or later they must 
 take this step in the Mastery of Fate; and if not here and now, 
 then in some other life. 
 
 Those who feel the prompting should ask themselves this 
 question, 'Atn I ready,' for at least one week. Go down into 
 the silence and ask for light and wisdom. When you find that 
 
100 THE LOGOS OF THE 
 
 you are ready, then decide once for all that, you will sfap all 
 waste of the life fluids. This resolution must become unaltera- 
 bly fixed in you mind before you can hope for success. It is 
 well to write the following sentences on pieces of cardboard and 
 hang them up where you can easily see them: 
 
 1. 'My deepest and real self is God.' 
 
 2. 'I will be what I will to be.' 
 
 3. 'I am regenerated.' 
 
 4. 'I am a new man.' 
 
 5. 'I cease to waste my life.' 
 
 6. 'I devote my life to the good of all.' 
 
 Then, before you go to sleep, and immediately after you 
 wake up in the morning, look at each card for at least three 
 minutes, and repeat the sentence you look at mentally over 
 and over. But keep your mind on the thoughts you express. 
 You will then develop such a strength that the control of the 
 sex passion will become comparatively easy if you persist. If 
 you should be deluded once or twice and come under control 
 of the influence af the sex life, do not be discouraged, but go 
 right on and make your exercises. Read such books or papers 
 which will assist in keeping your resolve fixed. Reaction will 
 come, when it will all seem foolishness to you and everything 
 seem to draw you back. But look at those as the natural 
 consequence which beset all for a time who follow the new 
 ideals. 
 
 It may take some mouths, or even years, to gain final con- 
 trol of the sex life during sleep, but persistence in following 
 the course outlined above, will bring final and complete suc- 
 cess. While you achieve this success, you will develop a most 
 powerful will, which will make you successful in whatever you 
 undertake. In gaining control over the kingdom within, you 
 will be surprised how easy it will become in time to gain con- 
 trol over your outer circumstances and conditions. 
 
 Christ spoke truly when he said, 'Seek ye first the kingdom 
 of God and all else shall be added unto you ' Man must first 
 learn to control his inner world before he can conquer the outer 
 world. This conquest of the within will make him master of 
 the without. 
 
 He then will be servant no more, in the sense of being ruled 
 by fate, but he will be the ruler. He has stepped on a higher 
 plane where other and higher forces exist, of which the aver- 
 
NEW DISPENSATION OF TIME. IO! 
 
 age man is as ignorant as the savage is of the conditions pre- 
 vailing among civilized people. 
 
 These new laws and these new conditions cannot be made 
 intelligible to people; they must be live and experienced in 
 order to be understood. 
 
 No man can show you this new kingdom; you must see it 
 yourself, and I can only show you the path along which you 
 must walk in order to find it. 
 
 How pitiful to hear people belittle the glories of the regener- 
 ate life glories of which they can have no idea. It is as if 
 they were talking about a country of which they knew abso- 
 lutely nothing. 
 
 Do not be influenced by the foolish prattle of those who see 
 nothing beyond their present level, and who declare nothing 
 can exist which they do not see. Even those leading the life 
 never become fully aware of what they have gained until they 
 fall back again. Then they quickly see what they have gained 
 by what they lose." 
 
 TESTIMONIAL. 
 
 SACRAMENTO CITY, Cal., February 27, 1899. 
 
 "I have lived the regenerate life during the past forty years, 
 and have experienced all along the way a strength and individ- 
 uality that is indeed a sense of gladness and power. The glo- 
 ries of a regenerate life can never be told. My only wonder is 
 that more people do not grasp and work out this wondrous 
 truth. It is truly the road leading to the fountain of perpet- 
 ual youth." 
 
i02 THE LOGOS OF THE 
 
 OUR WORDS. 
 
 Perhaps you do not know that the words which you speak 
 are alive. They are; and they grow, too, in fruitage. Hence, 
 "By thy words thou art justified, and by thy words thou art 
 condemned." 
 
 When you plant seeds in your flower garden they are very 
 little dry things, and not look as though they had anv life in 
 them, but they have, and being planted in fertile soil, they 
 grow and bloom beautifully. But what about the seeds of 
 weeds that get mixed up with the flower seeds? They grow, 
 too, do they^not? and have to be rooted up? Just so with our 
 words. Every word we speak is alive. The good words bring 
 good results; mixed results are from mixed words. 
 
 Our bodies and our conditions in life are the result of our 
 words, either silently or audibly spoken, it makes no difference 
 which. A thought is a silent word. "As a man thinketh in 
 his heart, so he is." 
 
 Speak right words; speak them unceasingly. Acknowledge 
 the good; in everything give thanks; root out the weeds of 
 error by ^denial; burn up the chaff with the unquenchable fire 
 of the affirmation of truth that God is I/)ve; chant the praises 
 of the good; speak health and peace and plenty. Fanny M. 
 Harley. 
 
XKW DISPENSATION OF TIM;:. 103 
 
 A TREATMENT. 
 
 I atn a child of God, the changeless, omniscient, omnipotent 
 Good; and It casts its mantel of protecting love and care over 
 me, guiding me, guarding me, teaching me the great truth of 
 Being, inspiring me and blessing me. 
 
 In my inmost and true self I am created in the image and 
 likeness of God, harmonious and whole, and by continually 
 speaking the word of appropriation I can manifest my divine 
 birthright. 
 
 I speak the word that draws forth this Eternal Life Principle, 
 and causes it to operate in my external mind and in my body. 
 
 "I put the mistakes of the past away from me and dwell per- 
 sistently in thought upon my true Being." Thus I am strong 
 and powerful, and I manifest wisdom in all I do. 
 
 I am HEALTH, for the indwelling Life is Health Itself. 
 
 I am STRENGTH, for the Eternal Good within me is Strength 
 Itself. 
 
 I am HARMONY, for the Divine Mind is Harmony Itself. 
 
 I am LOVE, for the Infinite is Love Itself. 
 
 I am RICHES, for "I realize that God is Bounty omnipresent." 
 
 I am WISE, for I know that God is Wisdom Itself. 
 
 I am TRUTH, for the Truth is Law of Being. 
 
 I am now realizing the Eternal Good of Being. 
 
 Change the first person to the second person, and the above treatment 
 may be given to another. 
 
104 TH E IvOGOS OF THE 
 
 ZODIACAL SIGNS. 
 
 The twelve zodiacal signs of the earth represent the twelve 
 months in the year; and the twelve zodiacal signs of the moon 
 cover a period of a little more than twenty-eight days. As the 
 earth moves around the sun its different positions give it differ- 
 ent influences. These influences affect it as we see in the 
 different months in the year, and in the four seasons. They 
 also affect man. 
 
 These influences we call "Signs," and they are sealed at 
 birth in every individual. They do not control the destiny of 
 man, as some would suppose. They merely give him stronger 
 tendencies in some directions than in others. 
 
 A skilful mariner takes advantage of the tides and easily 
 glides in port or sails on his voyage. 
 
 So the person who understands the nature of the solar influ- 
 ences may profit when his corresponding life-influences are 
 favorable that is, he may cooperate with the "powers that 
 be," and easily glide along with the rising life tidal wave and 
 accomplish his purpose; or where his "signs" are unfavorable, 
 he will recognize the weakness and darkness as merely a period 
 over which he can slowly and patiently pass, or a time and 
 season which affords him an opportunity to show forth stronger 
 attributes of character. Everything has its times and seasons. 
 They are laws of growth and change, and if we know them 
 and take advantage of them and work in harmony with them, 
 we make life much easier and more beautiful. 
 
 These things are to be understood and their powers to be 
 used. The knowledge of the zodiacal signs and planetary in- 
 fluences and the corresponding life waves in a person is truly a 
 power. And these things must be understood by him who 
 would make high attainments. By ignorance of these things 
 man makes life unnecessarily hard for himself. 
 
 A great and noble and high spiritual life would be more 
 easily lived if this law of correspondence was more generally 
 comprehended. 
 
 Here are some thoughts on this subject from modern and 
 ancient writers. 
 
NEW DISPENSATION OF TIME. 105 
 
 "The indications regarding individual character which are 
 shown through astrology, palmistry, etc., are in these systems 
 of correspondency by no means fateful in their effects. They 
 are simply tendencies or correspondencies which, through sym- 
 bology, and if rightly interpreted, show the sympathetic condi- 
 tions within the nature. 
 
 Accept with thankfulness their forces when they come your 
 way, but do not drift on such of their currents as would carry 
 you away from your true goal. Simply proclaim yourself 
 master. 
 
 All external magnetic effects can always be neutralized by 
 him who understands the methods of thought concentration 
 through which he can awaken more potent vibrations or mag- 
 netic influences within himself. He should thus neutralize all 
 such external magnetisms, and thereby harmonize them to his 
 will and to his wise purposes. 
 
 It is well, of course, to understand your individual tenden- 
 cies and biases of character. There is, perhaps, no knowledge 
 more important, but its chief importance comes only when you 
 know how to counteract such tendencies as are undesirable, 
 and ho v to intensify the tendencies which are desirable. 
 
 As above stated, thought-concentration gets at the root of 
 the whole matter." 
 
 t% Mm, as a pattern of the great world, sympathizes with it 
 according to the stars, which, agreeably to the Holy Scriptures, 
 are set for times and seasons, and not as causes of this or that 
 evil, which may pervade kingdoms or private families, although 
 they do in some measure foreshow them, yet they are in no 
 wise the cause; therefore, I conceive in a widely different 
 sense to what is generally understood that 'Stars rule men, 
 but a wise man rules his stars." The Magus. 
 
 "A skillful person, acquainted with the nature of the stars is 
 enabled to avert many of their effects, and to prepare himself 
 for those effects before they arrive." Ptolemy. 
 
106 THE LOGOS OF THE 
 
 NATIONAL OWNERSHIP AND CO- OPERATION. 
 
 Amass your forces Organize your industries. Systematize 
 your work. Consolidate those utilities which, in their serv- 
 ing capacities, are far reaching and essential to meet the de- 
 mands of every day life. Then pass the large concerns into 
 the hands of the government. Thus you will have less ex- 
 pense, more leisure, and a greater surety of prosperity. 
 
 The world and its riches, industry, beauty, and knowledge 
 belong to the people who live in it. The people and the gov- 
 ernment should be one. Let the people demand that the gov- 
 ernment own and operate, all large concerns which affect the 
 nation, such as railroads, waterways, telegraph and telephone 
 lines, coal fields, oil wells, etc. 
 
 Corporations and personal monopolies must go. National 
 control of large affairs must come, and co-operation in smaller 
 affairs, which affect many. 
 
 Let it indeed be "A government by the people and for the 
 people." The government should be a Father- Mother to the 
 people. How beautiful the postal service works. The United 
 States mail is respected. 
 
 If the government owned and operated the railroads, what 
 would be the railroad fare of a man crossing the American 
 continent ? 
 
 Co-operation points to a more noble way to live than com- 
 petition. 
 
 Co-operation in affairs which concern many will help to es- 
 tablish the higher order of life on earth. 
 
 "Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations. * * * Teach- 
 ing them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded 
 you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the 
 the world." Matt, xxviii: 19, 20. 
 
NEW DISPENSATION OF TIMK. IOJ 
 
 The two-edged sword in the right hand represents truth 
 the word which acts two ways. It goes forth and executes 
 its mission and returns to the one who wields it whatever he 
 sent forth. This symbol is lovingly expressed in the sentence: 
 ' ' Whatsoever you would that others should do unto you do 
 you even so unto them." Whatever you do to another is done 
 unto yourself. 
 
 The olive branch represents peace and long life. 
 
 The scales signify justice equilibrium. 
 
 The right hand means power and strength of purpose. 
 
 The apple is knowledge of good and evil. 
 
 The ear of corn symbolizes plenty and prosperity. 
 
 The figs mean regeneration and the inward blossoming of 
 life and understanding. 
 
 The rod in the left hand (scarcely discernible in the picture) 
 is the divining rod of knowledge. 
 
 The roses and pinks on the bosom represent abundant life 
 and the heart's deep fragrant love. 
 
 The geranium leaves and maiden hair ferns .at the waist 
 mean intuition and light in the solar plexus. 
 
 THE END. 
 
UNIVERSAL TRUTH COLLEGE 
 
 OR 
 
 SCHOOL OF DIVINE SCIENCE. 
 
 THE FATHER MOTHERHOOD CF GOD, AND THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN. 
 
 This school heralds the dawn of a new era of time, and helps 
 to establish the higher order of life now forming on this planet. 
 
 It teaches the " Science of Life," both exteriorly and esoter- 
 ically; that is, in its outward manifestation and in its inner 
 causation. These teachings, if comprehended and followed, 
 lead to the mastery of sin, ignorance, poverty, disease, fear, 
 and death, through development and culture of natural forces, 
 active or latent, in every human being. 
 
 Individual instruction is given every month of the year, and 
 the beautiful laws of life unfolded as fast and as much as the 
 student is capable of receiving. 
 
 Healing diseases by the power of the mind is taught how 
 to get health and how to keep it and how to heal others. The 
 student is also taught the laws of success and how to master 
 poverty, and the secret of happiness and perpetual youth. 
 
 Spiritual culture in particular lines of work is given to those 
 who wish to carry on a scientific course of training and study 
 in some favorite pursuit. This spiritual culture will bring the 
 student into inspirational currents concerning his work. 
 
 -The principles herein taught apply to life in every phase of 
 manifestation, from the scrubbing of a doorstep to the govern- 
 ment of worlds. 
 
11 UNIVERSAL TRUTH COLLEGE. 
 
 LIVING. 
 
 It does not require much money to live here. This is a fruit 
 country^ and fruit is cheap. The climate is mild and it takes 
 but little fuel to meet the demands for warmth and cooking. 
 
 Flowers bloom out in the open air all the winter. As I write 
 these words, the 2Oth day of. February, 1899, the orchards are 
 pink and white with blossoms, and the wild flowers are scat- 
 tered over the hills. The buttercups, dewy sweet, kiss the 
 tourist's feet, and the manzanita clusters of delicate honey- 
 bearing flowers are alive with humming bees gathering stores 
 of sweets. 
 
 Some people sleep with their windows open most every night 
 during the winter season. Others live in tents and are com- 
 fortable. 
 
 There are three boarding houses in the neighborhood, which 
 charge at the rate of $6.00 and -$7.00 per week for board and 
 room. Their tables are well supplied with fruit. But if you 
 wish to be to yourself and do your own work, bring a tent and 
 camp out on the college grounds; or build you a little cabin. 
 It need not cost you much to live for a few months here if you 
 board yourself. 
 
 This is the place where you may come into rapport with 
 nature and learn her simple yet sublime truths. It is beautiful 
 and soul-satisfying to learn and to know how to live a growing 
 life in this world. 
 
 THE LOCATION. 
 
 This school is situated on the banks of the North Fork of 
 the Amerrcan river, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mount- 
 ains, Placer county, California. The location is a little more 
 than a mile from Applegate postoffice, store and railway station. 
 Trains arrive at Applegate station daily from the east and from 
 the west. 
 
 From the northeast, through a great canyon, flows the river, 
 and along its course and beyond it gradually rise mighty pine 
 
r.NIVKRSAI. TRUTH Cnl.I.i ill 
 
 forests, and further and higher still, as if to reflect the glory of 
 the rising sun, loom hoary mountains of eternal snow. Sweet 
 is the breath that sweeps from these heights and inspires 
 inquiring souls. Toward the west and southwest stretch fra- 
 grant orchards and vine-clad hills. Further still away toward 
 the Pacific Ocean, spreads the beautiful Sacramento Valley. 
 
 The pure air, the river, the evergreen pines, the great live 
 oak trees, pure springs of living water, beautiful wild flowers, 
 and the many sweet song birds attract many people here at all 
 seasons of the year. The climate is delightful in the summer 
 time, and charming and mild in the winter. Once or twice 
 during a winter season the snow falls lightly and usually melts 
 as it falls, but sometimes it covers the ground for one or two 
 days, but not longer, then melts away. 
 
 THE TUITION IS FREE. 
 
 Xo charges are made for the teachings on the ground at this 
 institution. However, free-will offerings are accepted. 
 
 The college property at present consists of two hundred acres 
 of land and two small cabins of a single room each, and a 
 small library of choice books. The land is mostly mountain- 
 ous and picturesque, and is especially adapted to this purpose 
 purpose of rest, study, meditation, aspiration and inspiration. 
 
 It affords a place for temporary study and rest for the ripest 
 and best of earth's children. 
 
 Students usually get all that they are able to receive and 
 digest for a year in the course of study covering periods rang- 
 ing from one month to six months. After a few months of study, 
 meditation and growth here it is best to return home and apply 
 the knowledge, then another year come here for a time again. 
 These short periods spent here in company with congenial souls 
 en rapport with nature, in study, recreation and growth and 
 in communication with the Highest, gives one courage to go 
 forward amid the busy haunts of men with his work and every - 
 dav duties. 
 
IV UNIVERSAL TRUTH COLLEGE. 
 
 The spiritual currents are powerful here and any one who 
 puts himself in alignment with these higher thoughts will 
 indeed be greatly benefited. 
 
 NEEDS. 
 
 There is an opening here for some philanthropist to do the 
 world great service. Money is needed to carry on the work. 
 A printing press would be exceedingly useful in printing a 
 periodical and such other literature as is necessary. 
 
 I would like to give a course of lessons one lesson each 
 month to the people in general, and this can be done in a 
 printed periodical easier and to a greater extent than in any 
 other way. In this way the instruction will reach a larger 
 number of people. I can elucidate many points in healing 
 that are stumbling blocks to most healers, and I have some- 
 thing important to say to the world in general on this subject. 
 
 Improvements on the college grounds are needed in order to 
 facilitate the work of teaching and of study. 
 
 At present all visitors are received in the yard only, as there 
 is scarcely room enough left in the cabin to seat one, and nearly 
 all the study -and teaching is done out in the open air. A suit- 
 able building is needed. 
 
 This place might be made one of the ^reat spiritual centers 
 of the world, if a few earnest, capable souls would help in the 
 work. Time, strength, thought and effort are needed as well 
 as money. Co-operation is invited. Do not misunderstand 
 the nature of the work; it is not a colony but a school a 
 school of Divine Science. 
 
 WHAT IS DIVINE SCIENCE? 
 
 Science means to know, or knowledge that may be known by 
 mathematical or exact laws. " Divine," as here used, means 
 the seed and the fruit of God First Cause that is, the Spirit 
 of all Life the Principle of Eternal Good. Divine Science 
 means self-knowledge, God-knowledge or knowledge of God. 
 
UNIVERSAL TRUTH COLLEGE. V 
 
 Divine Science is a knowledge of life in the lowest element of 
 creation, even as it is a knowledge of life in the personal Christ 
 consciousness of a perfected soul. 
 
 Divine Science covers all those branches known as Christian 
 science, mental science, mental therapeutics, psycho therapeu- 
 tics, psychopathy, theosophy, etc., and all material sciences 
 and all other sciences. In fact, Divine Science covers all 
 knowledge. 
 
 This school teaches one how to become inspired in any occu- 
 pation whatever, from digging coal in the earth to picking fruit 
 from one's own vine and fig tree, and from hoeing a row of 
 corn to making speeches in public halls. The spirit in every- 
 thing is recognized, but the spirit of a thing is subservient to 
 the Divine Spirit in man and above man. 
 
 LIBRARY. 
 
 A small library of useful scientific and metaphysical books 
 belongs to this school, and is daily in circulation among its 
 students. The number of books are being increased from time 
 to time, but more on metaphysical subjects are needed. Also 
 books of poetry, art, science, medicine, etc., are sometimes 
 found useful. Often books are donated by friends of the insti- 
 tution. Any such donations will be thankfully received. 
 
 This school is not connected with any other school or with 
 any society, except in the universal way that all things are a 
 part of one stupendous whole. 
 
 LESSONS BY CORRESPONDENCE. 
 
 In this department charges are made. 
 
 A course of reading, study, and practice is marked out for 
 home study, according to the needs of the student. 
 
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 General teachings and particular teachings are given by 
 letter. Books are loaned to the students from the College Cir- 
 culating Library. 
 
 Students are also taught how to study nature. Nature is a 
 benevolent instructor when she is approached with under- 
 standing. 
 
 Two letters of personal instruction are supposed to be sent 
 to a student each month, and he is required to give thirty min- 
 utes or one hour or as much time as possible each day to the 
 study of metaphysical subjects. 
 
 The payment of tuition may be made partly in advance and 
 partly at intervals. Five ($5.00) is required to be paid in 
 advance as a guarantee of the safety of the books forwarded to 
 students. 
 
 Each person is required to pay the transportation charges on 
 all books both ways. 
 
 Tuition in this department, for three months, . . $1000 
 
 Tuition in this department for one year, .... 33 oo 
 
 Those who contemplate taking this Home Course will please, 
 in writing, answer the following questions: What is the exact 
 date of your birth? Where were you born? What is your sex? 
 What is your state of health? What was your past and what 
 is your present occupation? What works on metaphysics, if 
 any, have you read? 
 
 This course of home training is very valuable. Those who 
 cannot leave home to come personally to the College, will 
 receive lasting benefit from this course. 
 
 Address, SARA TH ACKER, Applegate, Placer Co., Calif. 
 
SARA THACKER, 
 
 TEACHER * AND * HEALER. 
 
 "Behold, I bring you glad tidings of great joy." 
 
 SCIENCE OP BEING* TAUGHT. 
 
 HEALING BY A PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE OF INFINITE 
 
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 ST. MATTHEW, x 8. 
 
 "UNIVERSAL TRUTH COLLEGE JOURNAL" FREE. 
 
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 ADDRESS 
 
 SARA THACKER, APPLEGATE, PLACER Co., CAL. 
 
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 LESSON V, IN "THE LOGOS" SERIES. 
 
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