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Mrs. Clara Chamberlain McLean 
 
The Laws of Health 
 and Prosperity 
 
 AND 
 
 How to Apply Them 
 
 TWELVE LESSONS 
 
 IN SPIRITUAL SCIENCE 
 
 WITH TECHNIQUE 
 
 BY 
 
 CLARA CHAMBERLAIN McLEAN 
 
 A BOOK FOR INDIVIDUAL USE 
 
 ALSO FOR STUDENTS 
 
 AND TEACHERS 
 
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FOREWORD 
 
 PIRITUAL SCIENCE is that of 
 the Spirit, or Life of the Universe, 
 demonstrating according to de- 
 pendable Laws into various and 
 multiple forms and expressions. 
 It has to do with the kingdom of 
 god, which we are told by Jesus 
 to "seek first," and that by so doing, "all other 
 things shall be added unto us." 
 
 After twelve years of study of Psychology, 
 Psychotherapy, Christian Science, so-called "Di- 
 vine" Science, "Mental" Science, New Thought, 
 The Emmanuel Movement, Theosophy, Vedanta 
 Philosophy, Spiritualism, etc., etc., under a num- 
 ber of the best teachers of these branches, and 
 with supplementary reading along these lines, in- 
 cluding Bibles and books on mysticism, by Hindus 
 and other peoples; as well as an experience 
 of about ten years, of teaching, hearing many 
 Life Problems, complicated in the extreme; and 
 having been privileged by seeing many wonderful 
 results from the knowledge and faithful use of 
 these laws, I feel that perhaps I have an individual 
 word to add, for those who belong to "my chord" 
 in the Symphony of Life; a different "angle" of 
 
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4 Foreword 
 
 truth, from the many others who have helped me 
 so wonderfully. I cannot close this introduction 
 to my simple Lessons without a word of apprecia- 
 tion of one who I realize was a great Soul, and to 
 whom the world owes a deep debt of gratitude, 
 from the fact that she brought about, through 
 hours of meditation and study, the Rebirth, into 
 this World, of the real christ religion, of 
 
 HEALTH, HAPPINESS, AND SUCCESS, taught and 
 
 lived by jesus of nazareth, but for many years 
 lost, to a great extent, by his "so-called" followers. 
 I refer to Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, the founder 
 of The Christian Science Church. The laws 
 taught by her, and those who call themselves 
 "Christian Scientists," are universal laws of 
 god, the System which she evolved is hers, and 
 the number of Churches, with the crowds of 
 healthy, joyous people who are all over the 
 World, attending them, in addition to the great 
 number of individuals who have testified as to 
 wonderful cures, Physically, Mentally, and Mor- 
 ally, are proof that she had a wonderful conscious- 
 ness of TRUTH. 
 
 A number of those who were patients of Dr. 
 P. P. Quimby about the same time that Mrs. Eddy 
 was treated by him (one of whom was Julius A. 
 Dresser, father of Horatio W. Dresser, who is a 
 well-known writer and teacher along these lines) l 
 
 1<4 The True History of Mental Science," by Julius A. 
 Dresser. Revised with notes and additions by his son, 
 Horatio W. Dresser. Pub. by Geo. H. Ellis. Also "The 
 Philosophy of P. P. Quimby," by A. G. Dresser. Pub. by 
 Geo. H. Ellis, 1895. 
 
Foreword 5 
 
 and a few who began with her, but being Indi- 
 vidualists, felt that they could not conform to so 
 rigid a system, withdrew from the established 
 Church, and evolved each an individual System, 
 calling them by the various names before men- 
 tioned. No one has, however, attempted to 
 establish an institutional Church, as all seem to 
 feel that these laws can and should be added to 
 the Churches now existing, of which there are a great 
 enough variety to satisfy the different tempera- 
 ments. All Systems are good, in so far as they 
 help their founders and others, to demonstrate more 
 of Health, and Harmony, and the teaching of jesus, 
 in everyday Life, and only when any person or 
 organization says, "We have all of the truth 
 and all others are WRONG," do they deny their 
 own premise and prove their own limitation. 
 
 Just as Electricity has always been in the Uni- 
 verse, but it was necessary for Man to discover it, 
 learn its laws, and, by working according to 
 them, produce Light, Heat, Energy, etc., and as 
 several different men have invented systems 
 differing more or less from each other, and each 
 individual in the world is free to choose which 
 System he or she wishes to use — so these Spir- 
 itual laws may be used through different systems, 
 and individuals may select the technique that 
 appeals to him or her. The study and use of these 
 laws is not limited to any one Theological denom- 
 ination or Medical Organization, nor are they 
 antagonistic to either. An Episcopal clergyman 
 of wide experience and high Ideals once said to 
 me — "In the last analysis, each soul must find 
 
6 Foreword 
 
 its own idea of god and jesus, and no one can 
 ever explain to any other, exactly what that 
 conception or realization is; spiritual experiences 
 cannot be fully expressed so that another soul 
 really understands; only god, the whole, can 
 so understand." Believing this to be true, I 
 know that all argument along these lines is a waste 
 of time and energy! I give out, in these Lessons, 
 My Highest truth to-day, reserving the right 
 which every soul must have, to keep always an 
 open mind and a listening ear for the next new 
 angle of truth, for without this attitude there 
 can be no growth. 
 
 Having tried out these laws of the spirit, 
 "Pragmatically" (as Wm. James advises), and 
 proved "By their fruits" their dependability, 
 I send out my humble message, with its Technique, 
 knowing that through the beautiful law of Attrac- 
 tion, all those who are "Tuned to my key," and 
 are ready for my word, will find it; and if they 
 in turn read with an open mind, and try out my 
 methods, herein given, I believe they will receive 
 great Practical help in their life problems, 
 along all lines, and by their acceptance of a few 
 of my individual new thoughts, strengthen the 
 chain of Love and understanding of which I am 
 
 ONE LINK. 
 
 With a message of Health, Harmony, and 
 Peace to all. 
 
 Clara Chamberlain McLean. 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 LESSON PAGE 
 
 I. Unity 9 
 
 II. The Action of the Objective and Subjective 
 
 (or Subconscious) Sides of Mind 16 
 
 III. Hypnotism 25 
 
 IV. The Effect of the Emotions on the Body . . 34 
 V. Concentration 45 
 
 VI. The Author's Individual Attitude toward 
 
 Doctors and Medicine 57 
 
 VII. Spirit and Matter as Considered by Many 
 
 of the Scientists and Religionists today . 65 
 
 VIII. The Christ or Spiritual Consciousness: 
 
 "Living THE Presence of God" 89 
 
 IX. Love, Marriage, and Divorce 100 
 
 X. Family Life and how to Teach the Laws op 
 
 Life to Children 123 
 
 XL What is the Attitude of Spiritual Science 
 
 toward Death 139 
 
 XIL Some Mystic Laws 147 
 
Lesson I 
 
 UNITY 
 
 HEN we begin the study of 
 any subject we must first find 
 the principles upon which the 
 theory is based; then, using these 
 as our foundation, study the 
 laws of these principles, and, 
 trying them out individually, 
 prove them to ourselves. 
 
 Only in this way can we really know " Truth " 
 and practically apply it in our daily lives. 
 
 Mrs. Emma Curtis Hopkins says, "A prin- 
 ciple is a comprehensive law or doctrine from 
 which others are derived. That is, obedience is 
 vested in the Supreme I am, or there could be 
 no obedience in the dog or horse. Authority is 
 resident in the King of Kings, or the General-in- 
 Chief of an army could not command with suc- 
 cess." 
 
 The first principle of " Spiritual Science " 
 (The Science of Spirit or Divine Mind) is that 
 we are each in, and a part of, a " Universe," the 
 
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10 Laws of Health and Prosperity 
 
 life or Essence of which is perfect; which is con- 
 stantly expressing, in various and countless 
 forms. In this life Essence is everything that 
 ever has been or will be; it is the " AH Good or 
 God." The Scientists of to-day call this "Es- 
 sence/' which is back of everything, and may be 
 called the "No Thing" — the "Ether of Space." 
 (I will go more fully into this in my lesson on 
 " Spirit and Matter/') 
 
 Taking this as our conclusion, and starting 
 with it as our premise, we realize the "Unity" of 
 the Universe — that it is a " Living, pulsing, 
 throbbing Cosmos," working according to exact 
 laws, and therefore dependable. We then begin 
 to realize how interesting must be the study of 
 the laws of the numberless forms of expression of 
 this Wonderful and Limitless Life-Force. 
 
 Now going back in our thought to the " Fire 
 Mist," the "Nebulae," we come down through 
 the ages to the formation of Planets, Solar Sys- 
 tems, demonstrating these perfect laws in perfect 
 rhythm, not varying a part of a second, and we 
 are awed by the enormity of it! Surely, think- 
 ing, meditating along these lines, must give us 
 "gFaith " in the " Power," or " Force," back of 
 all this, and enable us to say, Yes: it is — "All 
 Good or God." 
 
 We next look out upon this particular Planet 
 on which we live, called the Earth, and as this 
 is our home at present, it seems sensible, in fact 
 necessary, for us to study it along all lines and to 
 become familiar with its laws as far as possible. 
 We find through the study of the sciences that the 
 
Unity 11 
 
 One Life is expressing itself through mineral, 
 vegetable, animal, up to man, which is the highest 
 manifestation on this Planet; that these forms 
 are composed of atoms, which are constantly 
 changing, and, through the study of Evolution, 
 that the law of change is from a lower to a higher; 
 we then realize that the poet is right who says : — 
 
 To change and change is Life, 
 
 To move, and never rest — 
 
 Not what we are but what we hope is best. 
 
 And we conclude that man, being the highest 
 manifestation of life on this Planet, should have 
 dominion over all other life, but can do so only 
 through the patient study of each manifestation, 
 thereby learning its laws and applying them to his 
 life. In this way is man a "Co-worker and 
 Creator with God." 
 
 We now come to the study of Spiritual Science 
 and the use of its laws by man, in order that he 
 may demonstrate more and more of the Perfect 
 God Essence which he really is, thereby becoming 
 more harmonious with his environment along all 
 lines. 
 
 One, if not the most important, implement re- 
 quired in teaching anything new is the most simple 
 and understandable verbiage. 
 
 Away back in the history of man from the be- 
 ginning of his first simple consciousness it became 
 necessary for him to communicate with his "kind," 
 and first with signs, then with sounds, those simple 
 animal men arranged methods of communica- 
 tion, and finally languages were established. Then 
 
12 Laws of Health and Prosperity 
 
 by certain signs words were written down, in 
 order that knowledge and ideas might be pre- 
 served and transferred to others. As a matter of 
 course, as races grow and exchange old ideas for 
 new, the meaning of words must change, and 
 practically a new vocabulary is formed. Pro- 
 fessor Richard Moulton says that the most diffi- 
 cult thing to teach is to put new meaning into old 
 words; that for this reason in teaching new ideas 
 it is really better to coin new words. We find this 
 true when we endeavor to give a name to any new 
 idea or institution. I practically experienced this 
 in trying to select a name for my class and we 
 tried "Practical Christianity," "Modern Mental 
 Science," "New Thought," with the following 
 result. — The first name did not seem broad 
 enough, as we really studied all Science and re- 
 ligion. The second was misunderstood by many 
 (particularly by Christian Scientists), because to 
 them the word "Mind" means the Physical Brain, 
 and they therefore thought the Science entirely 
 Physical and Material. "New Thought" would 
 arouse the statement," That is not new, it is the 
 teaching we find all through the Bible." (And 
 right here let me say that it is "New Thought" 
 about "Old Truths" and the name is perfectly cor- 
 rect.) But after all this experience I was meditat- 
 ing one night on the subject, and decided that 
 "Spiritual Science" was the best name I could give 
 the Study, as I understood it. "Spirit" being the 
 whole of Life, this name would be absolutely inclu- 
 sive and nothing else was big enough for me. I 
 have, therefore, adopted that name for my work. 
 
Unity 13 
 
 and a little later a "Spiritual Science Federation" 
 was organized by the most prominent teachers and 
 writers of these laws in New York City. Follow- 
 ing along this same line, I wish to explain my per- 
 sonal use of certain words, and names, which will 
 necessarily be often used in these lessons, that there 
 may be no confusion as to my meaning. I use 
 "Spirit" as the name for the Perfect God Life of 
 the "Cosmos" or Universe. That which is in and 
 through all, therefore, is all in Essence. "Soul," 
 as the name for the individual part of that "Life" 
 which is the real Self or "I" of each human being; 
 the one part of the "Whole Cosmos," which is 
 to That, as one drop of water to the Ocean, having 
 within it all the constituent elements, only differ- 
 ing in quantity. A part of that "No Thing" that 
 which "Is" has had no beginning and can have no 
 end, a perfect circle. It can never be lost, but 
 must exist eternally. 
 
 The small "I" or "Ego" as the unfinished, im- 
 perfect demonstration of each individual here and 
 now. "Mind" as the intelligence within the 
 Soul, that which is common to all life, in different 
 degrees of manifestation, and therefore through 
 which we touch and know God. "Brain" — 
 the physical organ through which man and to 
 some extent the higher animals come in contact 
 with their environment, through the use of the 
 five Senses. "Love" — the first and highest 
 expression of the God Life. In fact "God is 
 Love" and Love is God's first expression. (Think 
 quietly and meditate on the meaning of these 
 names.) 
 
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 Technique 
 
 If we wish to become proficient in anything 
 from Golf or Foot-ball to bringing forth harmony 
 on a musical instrument, we are obliged to study 
 and master the Technique of that particular 
 Game or Instrument. There is a "Technique" 
 which must be acquired in order that we may learn 
 to use the wonderful laws of Spiritual Science and 
 thereby demonstrate harmony on all planes. In 
 other words, that we may be Happy, Healthy, 
 Successful beings and help others to the same 
 conditions. 
 
 In studying this lesson the Student should care- 
 fully read it over several times. Then go alone — 
 out of doors if possible and to some quiet place. 
 The country is the ideal place, of course. If not 
 convenient to do this, go to a window, look out at 
 the sky, the trees — everything, and first quietly 
 think how wonderful it is — this One Life is all, 
 each one of us attached to it all; as you get quiet 
 you will feel this Unity. Think of the air as the 
 breath of Life. Take long breaths, slowly, at your 
 window if you cannot always go outside, realizing 
 that you are breathing in the God Life. At night 
 look up to the stars and try to realize the distance 
 those planets are from us, and the "Life" that 
 they are — and that all are a part of us, we of 
 them, nothing but this one Perfect Life — Force — 
 God — "in which we live and move and have our 
 being." As we ponder quietly on this great 
 "Truth" we gradually realize the "Consciousness 
 of the whole" or the "Cosmic Consciousness," of 
 
Unity 15 
 
 which the Scientists speak and which the reli- 
 gionists call the "Christ Consciousness," because 
 of all the Great Souls who have come into mani- 
 festation on the Earth, Jesus the Christ we feel, 
 taught and lived this consciousness of the God 
 within Himself and all men the most completely. 
 Students are advised to read carefully the Sermon 
 on the Mount and all of the passages in the New 
 Testament which are believed to have been the 
 words of Jesus. Read also Walt Whitman, who 
 had this consciousness to such a wonderful extent, 
 — also "Emerson," who understood, taught, and 
 lived it. 
 
 This first lesson is the keynote, the most impor- 
 tant one in the series because, in order to under- 
 stand and use the laws that will follow, we must 
 get at least a gleam of this Christ or Cosmic Con- 
 sciousness and from that time on it is a steady 
 growth limited only by the individual. Take the 
 following statement as your watchword for this 
 lesson. See it before you the first thing in the 
 morning, through the day, and the last thing at 
 night. 
 
 "There is but one Life in the Universe. That 
 Life is Perfect, I am a part of that Life and realize 
 my Unity with every manifestation of it. 
 
 66 All is good or God and God is Love.' 9 
 
 At the end of a week, look back and think how 
 much more this means to you than it did the first 
 time you read it. In this way you will realize 
 your growth in the Christ Consciousness. 
 
Lesson II 
 
 THE ACTION OF THE OBJECTIVE AND 
 
 SUBJECTIVE (OR SUBCONSCIOUS) 
 
 SIDES OF MIND 
 
 HE second principle in the Tech- 
 nique of Spiritual Science is that 
 of the two manifestations of the 
 mind of man (and some of the 
 higher animals): the objective 
 and subjective (subconscious, or 
 unconscious), for through the 
 understanding of these two demonstrations can 
 great wonders be accomplished. 
 
 The objective action of the mind is through the 
 personal will of man and the use of his five senses, 
 thus coming into contact with his environment. 
 With this mind he has differentiation, reasoning, 
 discrimination, and choice. Whatever of "Free 
 Will" he has, is through this action of the mind, 
 and the "Brain" is the physical organ through 
 which it acts. Therefore when the organ or brain 
 is "out of tune" the mind, while it is not affected, 
 cannot function properly because of the imper- 
 fection of the instrument: just as musical har- 
 mony cannot be produced through an instrument 
 that is "out of tune." 
 
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Subconscious Sides of Mind 17 
 
 The subjective, subconscious or unconscious 
 action of the mind is that which we have in com- 
 mon with the whole Life of the Universe. It is 
 the one which we say works according to the 
 "Laws of Nature" or "mechanically": some call 
 it the "Intuitive Mind." Through this part of 
 the mind we know things beyond the five senses. 
 It is the "Psychic Mind," the one through which 
 we "Know God," the all Good, and have our 
 "Spiritual Life." It is in each soul the part of 
 the "God Mind" or "Whole." 
 
 This part of the mind functions through what 
 is called the "secondary nerve centers" and its 
 action is like that of a Phonograph — every ex- 
 perience or thought of each life is registered in the 
 subconscious mind of that soul, and comes out in 
 action, manifestation, so that each one is to-day 
 in demonstration, or character, just the total re- 
 sult of what has been taken in by the subcon- 
 scious mind, good, bad, and indifferent; — like a 
 store room into which has been thrown all the "odd 
 things" collected through the years — all kinds, 
 in all states and conditions. This mind is incap- 
 able of inductive reasoning; every impression 
 comes out in demonstration just as it went in — 
 as a musician singing or playing to a "record for 
 a phonograph"; if he strikes a false note it will 
 always come out false when the record is played. 
 We now begin to realize the wonderful possibili- 
 ties for man through these two functions of the 
 mind. As this part of the mind is that of the 
 whole Universe, we can by quieting the objective 
 side commune, get in touch with the all Good or 
 
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 God. In answer to the question as to how a 
 keener sense of the subjective side of the mind 
 may be awakened, Judge Thomas T. Troward 
 says, "Don't Try. Don't try to make things 
 what they are not." Subjective Mind is sub- 
 jective just because it lies below the threshold 
 of consciousness. It is the Builder of the Body, 
 but we can neither see, hear, nor feel it building. 
 
 Just keep in your conscious mind a quiet, calm 
 expectation that subjective mind is always at 
 work in accordance with the habitual thought of 
 your objective mind: keep that in a life-giving 
 attitude and subjective mind will take care of 
 itself. 
 
 Then the question is, how to keep the conscious 
 thought in a life-enjoying and life-giving current. 
 My answer to this is very simple, though perhaps 
 old-fashioned; it is, Keep looking at God. Don't 
 trouble about theology, but try to realize the 
 Universal Divine Spirit as perpetually flowing 
 through all things, through insensible things, as 
 atomic energy; through animals, as instinct; 
 through man, as thought. 
 
 If this be so, then your manifestation of God will 
 correspond with your habitual thought of God. 
 Quietly contemplate the Divine Spirit as a con- 
 tinual flowing of Life, Light, Intelligence, Love, 
 and Power and you will find this current flowing 
 through you and manifesting in a hundred ways, 
 both mentally and physically, and in your affairs. 
 
 You do not make this current, but you prepare 
 the conditions which will either cause it to trickle 
 through thinly and weakly, or else flow through 
 
Subconscious Sides of Mind 19 
 
 strongly. You prepare the conditions on the in- 
 terior side by a mental attitude of looking into the 
 Light (God is Light) with the expectancy of thence 
 receiving Life and Illumination, and on the ex- 
 terior side by not denying in your work what you 
 are trying to hold in your thought — for yourself 
 the simple Law of Enjoyment of all that you 
 can enjoy, ruled by moderation — and toward 
 others the equally simple Law of Honesty and 
 Kindness. 
 
 I know you have heard these things ever since 
 you were a child, but what all want is to realize 
 their connection with the building power within. 
 The connection is this : that the Spirit, as it flows 
 through you, becomes you, and it becomes in you 
 just what you take it for, just as water takes the 
 shape of the pipe it flows through. It takes shape 
 from your thought. It is exceedingly sensitive, — 
 how much more then must the pure life Principle 
 itself be sensitive? Think over this, and then, 
 think. Think of it kindly, lovingly, trustfully, 
 and as a welcome companion. It will respond 
 exactly. Think of it as a living Light, continually 
 flowing through you and vivifying you and it will 
 respond exactly. 
 
 If you ask why it does this, the answer is, be- 
 cause it is the Infinite of Your Real Self. Let 
 this answer suffice you. You will only darken the 
 Light by trying to analyze the Divine Spirit. 
 You cannot dissect God. This does not mean 
 being impractical, but getting to the very root of 
 the truly practical. We will have our ordinary 
 business to do, but believe me, it is Scientific 
 
20 Laws of Health and Prosperity 
 
 Method to bring everything into the Divine 
 Light, — then let your ideas desire to see it in the 
 Divine Light, then let your ideas regarding it grow 
 quietly of themselves, and you will see it in its 
 proper and true light whatever the thing may be. 
 Then when you have seen what the thing really is, 
 go on and handle it in accordance with the four 
 principles of Cheerfulness, Moderation, Honesty, 
 and Kindness, Don't worry, Don't try to force 
 things, — let them grow, because by recognizing 
 or realizing the continual flow of the Spirit you 
 are providing the conditions, for Life is Light 
 which will make them grow the right way. 
 
 Don't bother about subjective mind, or objec- 
 tive mind, or theories of any sort or description, 
 either mine or anyone else's, but just do what I 
 have said and try it for six months and I think 
 you will find you have got hold of the Power that 
 Works, and after all that is what we want. 
 
 It is all summed up in this : live naturally with 
 the Spirit and don't worry. Remember, you 
 and the Spirit are One, and it is all quite natural. 
 You will perhaps say that this is too simple. Well, 
 we don't want to introduce unnecessary compli- 
 cations. 
 
 Try the practice and leave the theory to take 
 care of itself. Living Spirit is not to be found in 
 a book. 
 
 Thomson J. Hudson was the first writer to 
 clearly define the two actions of the Mind, Judge 
 Troward followed closely, and the late William 
 James, and all the later psychologists, as well as 
 physicians, among whom are Dr. Paul Dubois, 
 
Subconscious Sides of Mind 21 
 
 professor of neuropathology at the University of 
 Berne, John Duncan Quackenbos A.M., M.D. 
 of New York City and others. (Note the list of 
 Books at the end of this Lesson.) 
 
 Technique 
 
 The Technique for the use of these principles in 
 order that we may demonstrate more fully the 
 Perfect Life which we really are follows: 
 
 Terminology 
 
 The Christian Scientists and Extreme Ideal- 
 ists, who do not care to know or use the scientific 
 terms, ignore all "matter," or form, "Deny" it, 
 say there is "nothing but God, Spirit." And de- 
 claring that, seeing nothing but that, they make 
 wonderful demonstrations. In the last analysis 
 (as the scientists say) they are right, even accord- 
 ing to the latest physical science, as we shall see 
 from the lesson on "Spirit and Matter." 
 
 But for those who, like myself, are Practical 
 Idealists and Individualists it is necessary to ex- 
 plain the use of these laws in terms with which all 
 are familiar, and to accept and include all forms 
 or outward demonstrations of the Spirit, studying 
 the laws of each on its plane of consciousness. 
 
 "Denial" 
 
 Personally I use very little "Denial," for I be- 
 lieve that by denials we make more of an "Entity 
 of Evil " (which to me is unfinished Good). When 
 one is commencing this study I believe in one 
 
22 Laws of Health and Prosperity 
 
 "Grand Denial" to the Subconscious side of our 
 Mind, as a house cleaning for the "storeroom." 
 I will give this at the end of the lesson. 
 
 "Thought" 
 
 Only within the last few years have we com- 
 menced to realize and to study the force of 
 "Thought," and that, as Prentice Mulford tells 
 us, "Thoughts are Things." 
 
 In fact all demonstration comes first through 
 Thought and the sequence, in order to bring forth 
 into manifestation that which we desire is first, 
 the "Ideal, or Vision," then the "Thought" 
 about it, and through that the Action, followed 
 by the Realization and Actualization. 
 
 With our active, objective side of Mind and our 
 Personal Will, we can control our thoughts and 
 direct them to the Subconscious part of our mind 
 and to that of others. This is called Suggestion. 
 The conscious sending of thoughts to our own 
 "Subconscious," is called "Auto Suggestion." 
 Through the use of these laws, without regard 
 to the name or system, or the name by which the 
 person or persons is called, is all Treatment worked, 
 and all healing accomplished, from that of Jesus 
 the Christ, and all the Saints of History, to the 
 drinking of certain waters, laying on of hands, 
 etc., etc. 
 
 Statement of Denial 
 
 I now "deny out" all the old Fears, Supersti- 
 tions, False Beliefs, wrong habits: Everything 
 but "Truth" from my "Subconscious." It is 
 Clean and clear. 
 
Subconscious Sides of Mind 23 
 
 Affirmation 
 
 From this day I shall make it my business to 
 consciously open to the Mind of God, and let it 
 work through me, and express its Good, as far as 
 possible, each day, and I shall, also, carefully 
 watch, and endeavor to control thoughts and send 
 only those to my " subconscious,' 5 which I desire 
 shall appear in manifestation for myself and others. 
 
 Treatment 
 
 This may be used by auto-suggestion for self, or 
 directed to others; Think or speak to the Subcon- 
 scious: 
 
 Have the patient sit or lie in a quiet, well-venti- 
 lated room — Relax physically, feel heavy, and 
 let the chair or bed hold the patient — no strain 
 or tightening of the muscles. Feel the Unity, 
 open the door of the mind to the Spirit, let it flow 
 in quietly. Then say, "I feel the wonderful life 
 force flowing into and through me, acting on all 
 my organs, to enliven and purify them. I feel the 
 Love of God, the pure essence flowing in and 
 through me, vitalizing me. I am becoming 
 saturated with this wonderful Love and I am so 
 filled with it that I radiate and send it forth to all 
 men and all things in the Universe. Nothing but 
 Love can approach me, for I am Love." 
 
 Then, commencing with the heart, praise each 
 organ for the wonderful work it is doing. Liver, 
 stomach, all — and thank each and all for its 
 wonderful dependable action every moment in 
 life. Tell each that you send love to it and will 
 
24 Laws of Health and Prosperity 
 
 help it to function more easily by trying to mani- 
 fest more of the Great Spirit, God, each day of 
 life. Then declare strongly, I am (or you are) a part 
 of the Perfect Life of this Universe, God the all 
 Good, and I am (or you are) demonstrating more 
 and more of it each day and hour, in mind, body, 
 and surroundings. I see you strong, courageous, 
 wise, happy, filled with and radiating Love and 
 Peace. "Peace — be still," all is god. 
 
 List of Books recommended with Second 
 Lesson, on Subconscious and Suggestion 
 
 " Psychoanalysis i.e. Man's Unconscious Conflict," by 
 Wilfred Lay, Ph.D. 
 
 " The Neurotic Constitution," by Dr. Alfred Adler. 
 
 "The Law of Mental Medicine" and "Law of Psychic 
 Phenomena," by Thomson J. Hudson. 
 
 " The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science." 
 
 " The Dore Lectures." 
 
 "The Creative Process in the Individual" and "Bible 
 Mystery and Bible Meaning," by Thomas T. Troward. 
 
 "The Psychic Treatment of Nervous Disorders," by 
 Dr. Paul Dubois. 
 
 "Hypnotic Therapeutics in Theory and Practice," by 
 John Duncan Quackenbos, A.M., M.D. 
 
 "Suggestion not Hypnotism," by Henry Harrison Brown. 
 
 Books on Physical Exercise and Relaxation 
 
 "Power through Repose." 
 
 "The Freedom of Life." 
 
 "How to Live quietly." 
 
 "Nerves and Common Sense," by Annie Payson Call. 
 
 " New Nerves for Old," by Arthur A. Carey (Waltham,Mass.) . 
 
 "The Technique of Rest," by Anna C. Brackett. 
 
 "The Emerson System of Physical Culture." Boston, 
 Mass. (Emily Bishop.) 
 
 "Exercises," by Susanna Cocroft, Michigan Ave., 
 Chicago, HI. 
 
Lesson III 
 
 HYPNOTISM 
 
 HERE has been much exaggera- 
 tion and misunderstanding in re- 
 gard to Hypnotism, because very 
 few people until the last several 
 years have understood it. 
 
 Hypnotism is the "stilling' 5 or 
 quieting of the objective side of the 
 mind in order to suggest more directly and strongly 
 to the subconscious. This may be accomplished 
 in many and diverse ways. We hypnotize our- 
 selves and others many times when we do not 
 realize that we are so doing; when a mother or 
 nurse lulls a babe to sleep she is hypnotizing to a 
 certain extent the little one. She uses a steady 
 soft little lullaby, or just a little monotonous "hum" 
 that quiets and hushes the objective mind and 
 baby "goes to sleep." 
 
 The usual method, used by physicians and psy- 
 chologists as well as spiritual and mental healers, 
 is to have the patient lie down or recline in a com- 
 fortable chair or couch, to tell them to "let go" 
 physically and mentally; to relax, as completely 
 
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 as possible, — sometimes the eyes are to be closed. 
 Others treat by looking one steadily but quietly in 
 the eye. The healer then perhaps talks a little 
 quietly, "suggesting" certain Truths such as "You 
 are a child of God, a perfect expression of the 
 Divine Life, You are therefore perfect and can- 
 not be sick, you are quiet, happy, peaceful" — 
 gradually speaking lower and more quietly till 
 there is silence. (Sometimes in case of a very 
 nervous patient the hand is held, but in most cases 
 it is believed better not to touch the patient.) 
 Then the healer sends strong "suggestions" with 
 the "Thought" to the subconscious side of the 
 patient. In case of drug or liquor habit, "You 
 
 do not like the taste of , it nauseates you — 
 
 you dislike it very much — you will not want it 
 again — you are free from it. Your organs are 
 working perfectly now. You are breathing in 
 the "Life" of the Universe, the "All Good" You 
 are quiet, happy, strong, well, peaceful; All — is 
 — Good. Then the patient is allowed to lie 
 quietly for a time, the Healer sitting near, and 
 when the patient is awakened it must be done very 
 gently, calling by name quietly and perhaps strok- 
 ing the head a little, so as to have no start or shock. 
 Hypnotism should not be used excepting in 
 chronic or extreme cases, and then only by a phy- 
 sician, who understands the action of the heart, 
 etc. Dr. Paul Dubois of Berne, Dr. John D. Quack- 
 enbos of New York City, and many others of note, 
 have made wonderful cures of the drug and alco- 
 hol habit in this way, but even they, use hypno- 
 tism only in extreme cases. 
 
Hypnotism 27 
 
 There has been much unnecessary fear in regard 
 to Hypnotism. While no one should allow another 
 to take control of their objective mind excepting 
 for treatment, and then only with the certainty 
 that the healer is a physician in good standing 
 (and even so, some member of the family or trusted 
 friend should be present or near at hand), I be- 
 lieve it is acknowledged by psychologists that it is 
 impossible to hypnotize any one without their 
 consent unless the brain is out of order, or they 
 are under the influence of alcohol or some drug. 
 
 In ordinary cases results fully as satisfactory 
 may be accomplished when the patient is in a 
 natural sleep. The latter method is wonderful 
 for curing children of unpleasant and harmful 
 habits, and of treating them for health and har- 
 mony. 
 
 Mothers and nurses when putting their little 
 ones in bed at night may use these laws with won- 
 derful results : — For instance, tell them a happy, 
 sweet little story, nothing exciting. Then teach 
 them a statement, such as "I am God's little 
 child — God is love, so / am Love. I send that 
 
 love and blessing to " (mentioning all the dear 
 
 ones) and to every one. 
 
 As my little grandson said when only four years 
 old, "God bless every one I know, and every one 
 I don't know." This gives the child the Universal 
 or Cosmic Idea when so young that it grows up in 
 that consciousness naturally and easily. 
 
 Then, after the child is asleep, sit beside it and 
 suggest strong thoughts of Perfection, Health, 
 Sweetness, Happiness, Joy, Strength, Peace, dwel- 
 
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 ling most strongly on the attributes, or conditions 
 which each child is most lacking, in order to bring 
 them into demonstration. 
 
 They can by using this method accomplish 
 wonders! In fact there is no limit to the results 
 that can be obtained, because they are using the 
 perfect laws of God, the All Good. When the 
 manifestation does not come quickly one must 
 persevere, steadily, quietly but firmly, and work 
 to realize more and more of the "One Life" in 
 one's own Soul, so that one may be the avenue 
 through which it flows more fully. Of course 
 this same method works with adults and I believe 
 the most satisfactory results come through treat- 
 ing while the patient is in natural sleep. 
 
 Telepathy 
 
 This term is derived from two Greek words 
 signifying "afar oft to suffer or feel." A brief 
 definition of the word is "Communion between 
 minds outside the recognized channels of sensa- 
 tion." (Sheldon Leavitt, M.D.) 
 
 "Telepathy or Thought Transference is one of 
 the 'New Thoughts' about old Truths." We 
 have all experienced it in one way or another, but 
 not understanding it, have called its demonstra- 
 tions "peculiar coincidences." For instance, when 
 we think "I will call such a person up on phone" 
 and going to do so, find that friend at the phone 
 calling us, or after writing a letter to a friend re- 
 ceive one from that friend, showing that both were 
 written about the same time and probably at least 
 mentioning the same subject. We have while 
 
Hypnotism 29 
 
 quietly thinking a question, had a person answer 
 it verbally, etc., etc. To the Society for Psychical 
 Research organized a few years ago do we owe the 
 fact that to-day "Telepathy" is known to be a 
 perfectly respectable Scientific Truth. It is now 
 acknowledged by Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir William 
 Crookes, Dr. A. R. Wallace, and most of, if not all, 
 the reliable scientists of to-day. It is interesting 
 to note in a little book on "Absent Treatment of 
 Disease," with particular reference to Telepathy, 
 written and published in 1906 by Sheldon Leavitt 
 M. D., the following: — "Mr. Gladstone not long 
 before his death addressed the following words to 
 the Secretary of the Society for Psychical Re- 
 search: 'You are engaged in the most important 
 work in the world, — by far the most important. 
 I am a member of the Society and I do not simply 
 believe in Telepathy — I know it exists. I think 
 that I am not wrong in saying that this opinion is 
 also held by such eminent men as Professor William 
 James, Sir William Crookes, Sir Oliver Lodge, Dr. 
 A. R. Wallace, and many other men equally dis- 
 tinguished in Scientific Research. It seems to me 
 that The Society for Psychical Research has 
 scientifically demonstrated beyond doubt the ex- 
 istence of Telepathy." This prophecy made by 
 the Great Man, Gladstone a number of years ago 
 has been actually fulfilled beyond a doubt. It is 
 now open for study and experiment, much of which 
 has been and still is being done, and even with the 
 slight knowledge we have to-day wonderful demon- 
 strations have been made along many lines. 
 
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 Absent Treatment 
 
 After reflecting on the actions of the individual 
 will in control of the Objective Side of the Mind 
 and therefore the power to "Suggest" to the Sub- 
 conscious, following with the fact that " Thoughts " 
 are dynamic, and lastly the great Truth of the law 
 of Telepathy or Thought Transference, what a 
 marvelous field of possibilities opens before us! 
 One of the most important is the fact that "Ab- 
 sent Treatment' 9 for disease and all Inharmony 
 may be given. 
 
 Now going back to the First Lesson on Unity 
 (as we should often do) we realize that as there is 
 but one "Life," one "Mind" in the Universe, 
 through the use of "Telepathy" we may come 
 into touch with any part, and with All of that 
 "Mind." In fact, we may open to the All Good, 
 from "All" of it, receiving limitless good, and we 
 may by simply willing to do so send our thoughts 
 out to each and all parts of it, affecting all, if ever 
 so little, for good or ill. (In another lesson I will 
 speak of "Evil" and the result of negative 
 Thoughts, and how to prevent their entrance into 
 the subconscious.) 
 
 This brings us to the technique for Absent Treat- 
 ment. This work, like all suggestion, is largely an 
 individual question. Each Healer works out a 
 system, pragmatically, and that is the only way 
 the work can be successfully done. These are 
 general laws which each must study and experi- 
 ment with and in that way build up the individual 
 system — I will give a few of the various details 
 
Hypnotism 31 
 
 which I have tried, successfully. It is much more 
 satisfactory when treating or sending any message 
 by Thought to have an arrangement for a certain 
 hour. — Then the patient or receiver will con- 
 sciously open the subconscious to the Suggestion 
 and cooperate with the Sender of the message. 
 If this cannot be arranged and even when treat- 
 ment is given in this way, it is well to treat when 
 the patient is likely to be asleep late at night, in 
 addition to the other; at that time the objective 
 minds of the majority of people on this side of the 
 planet are quiet, and the Thoughts can go more 
 directly to the one to whom they are sent. 
 
 When preparing to treat at a distance, it is best 
 to go into a quiet room alone, take a comfortable 
 chair, relax, close the eyes. There is an old law 
 that is taught in all the ancient books on mys- 
 ticism, that of "calling the name." I have tried 
 this and believe it "works." I would, therefore, 
 call the full name of the patient, speak it aloud if 
 possible, if not, think it strongly. That, I believe, 
 awakens the subconscious, also attracts the ob- 
 jective and helps to "open the station to secure 
 the message." Then form a "mental picture" of 
 the patient, seeing him with the highest demon- 
 stration, mentally, physically, and spiritually, that 
 you can imagine, feeling a great Universal Love 
 toward him. Then send the affirmative sugges- 
 tions of his Real Life being the "One Life of God, 
 the All Good/ 9 etc., —treating in the same way 
 as though the patient were beside you, physically. 
 When the Healer has never seen the patient it is 
 well to obtain a photograph, or in any case to ask 
 
32 Laws of Health and Prosperity 
 
 for description of the patient as to temperament, 
 etc., and as much of a history as possible. These 
 will greatly assist the Healer. When treating at 
 a distance it is a great assistance to both to have 
 the patient write regularly to the Healer, keeping 
 him or her informed of the condition, noting 
 changes and impressions. The replies written 
 to the patient are strong Treatments, and should 
 be treated as such. In his book on "The Absent 
 Treatment of Disease," Dr. Sheldon Leavitt says: 
 "The Healer should either keep up a regular cor- 
 respondence with his patients at a distance or he 
 should place his reliance for supplementary aid 
 on printed or typewritten lessons carefully pre- 
 pared," and follows with, "I beg you not to be 
 startled by my confession of a belief that the 
 letters passing between people are charged with 
 the thought energy of those who write them. If 
 this is true, then the peculiar value of such 
 means of communication between patient and 
 healer at once becomes evident." Says Professor 
 John William Draper: "Upon the walls of our 
 most private apartments, where we think the eye 
 of intrusion is altogether shut out and our retire- 
 ment can never be profaned, there exists the ves- 
 tiges of all our acts, silhouettes of whatever we 
 have done." "He might have added (says 
 Dr. Leavitt) they also bear the record of our 
 Thoughts." 
 
 Admitting the truth of this we cannot escape 
 the conviction that things we handle and wear 
 take on from us deep impressions. We have 
 realized for some time that we individually have 
 
Hypnotism 33 
 
 an "atmosphere" ("Aura" the Hindu calls it) 
 which we take with us always and which affects 
 all others with whom we come in contact, either 
 pleasantly or unpleasantly. If, in addition to this, 
 even our clothes, our rooms, and everything belong- 
 ing to us carries our personality with them, we 
 can no longer to any extent disguise our real 
 demonstration or character. It is therefore im- 
 portant that we live and think each moment that 
 which we wish to radiate to others. 
 
 A few of the simplest, and yet very instructive, 
 books on Telepathy, Hypnotism, etc., are: 
 
 "The Absent Treatment of Disease," by Sheldon Leavitt 
 M.D. 
 
 "The Mind Telegraph," by Jones Barton Stay. 
 
 "Not Hypnotism but Suggestion," by Henry Harrison 
 Brown. 
 
 For more scientific books, in addition to the 
 names mentioned in former lessons, see those by 
 Boris Sidis, Professor Sigmund Freud, L.L.D., 
 Hugo Miinsterberg, Jung and others. 
 
Lesson IV 
 
 TEE EFFECT OF THE EMOTIONS ON 
 TEE BODY 
 
 E have always known that emo- 
 tions of fright, fear, anger, etc., 
 would affect one's body; for 
 instance that sudden fright or 
 sadness would make one's face 
 blanch, often make one feel faint, 
 nauseated, etc., but these facts 
 like many others were taken as matters of course. 
 A few years ago Professor Elmer Gates of Wash- 
 ington, D.C., commenced to experiment also along 
 these lines. In a little book, "The Mind and the 
 Brain," he explains how he worked on "Mind 
 Building" through brain cells, experimenting 
 with animals (not through vivisection), then apply- 
 ing the results to the education of children, 
 showing wonderful possibilities. He says : — 
 
 "In 1879 I published a report of experiments 
 showing that when the breath of a patient was 
 passed through a tube cooled with ice so as to 
 condense the volitile qualities of the respiration, 
 the iodide of rhodopsin, mingled with these con- 
 
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Effect of the Emotions on the Body 35 
 
 densed products, produced no observable pre- 
 cipitate. But within five minutes after the 
 patient became angry there appeared a brownish 
 precipitate, which indicates the presence of a 
 chemical compound produced by the emotion. 
 This compound, extracted and administered to 
 men and animals, caused stimulation and excite- 
 ment. Extreme sorrow, such as mourning for the 
 loss of a child recently deceased, produced a gray 
 precipitate; remorse, a pink precipitate, etc. 
 My experiments show that irascible, malevolent, 
 and depressing emotions generate in the system in- 
 jurious compounds, some of which are extremely 
 poisonous: also that agreeable, happy emotions 
 generate chemical compounds of nutritious value, 
 which stimulate the cells to manufacture energy. 
 
 "I have succeeded in entirely eliminating vicious 
 propensities from children with dispositions 
 toward cruelty, stealing, or anger. In curing a 
 bad habit I would for every evil tendency, image, 
 or craving existing in the same parts of the brain 
 create a greater number of the opposite kind of 
 memories and keep them active a greater number 
 of times each day, until the old structures had 
 disappeared and new ones had been formed. This 
 process does not require the assent of the patient 
 any further than to take the course of studies. 
 He may even not desire to abandon a certain 
 practice or habit, but may wish to continue his 
 evil course; yet, by the force of brain building, 
 that motive can be eliminated. 
 
 "This system of development can be applied 
 to regulate the assimilative processes, the diseases 
 
36 Laws of Health and Prosperity 
 
 of which are dyspepsia, alcoholism, etc. A woman 
 unable to eat fatty or greasy substances, even in 
 the smallest portions, was by this system trained 
 to take them in normal quantities. The alcohol 
 habit, when not engendered by habitual and ex- 
 cessive use of liquors, can originate through a cer- 
 tain derangement of the stomach and the brain 
 cells that govern it. Indigestion, accompanied 
 by fermentation of sweets, creates a small amount 
 of alcohol in the stomach. This alcohol produces 
 a stimulating effect which the patient misses when 
 the fermentation is arrested by the alcohol itself 
 or by a change in the food. The first step toward 
 curing this habit consists in forming another series 
 of brain structures of the different stages relating 
 to previous experiences, not merely with intoxi- 
 cants but with foods in general. The creation of 
 at least a hundred times as many morally-function- 
 ing cells as there had been immorally-functioning 
 cells will cause the craving for stimulants to dis- 
 appear. It is possible in three months' time to 
 develop brain structures which will cause a patient 
 to feel disgust for what he had previously relished 
 and desired." 
 
 Another and more recent writer along these 
 lines is Walter Cannon, professor of physiology 
 in Harvard University, who, in his book "Bodily 
 Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear, and Rage," ex- 
 plains in scientific detail the effect of the emotions 
 on digestion, the muscles, nerves, etc., etc. These 
 two books should be read by all teachers and seri- 
 ous students. I will endeavor to put into simple 
 language some of the technique to be applied so 
 
Effect of the Emotions on the Body 37 
 
 that these laws may be used intelligently, in order 
 to demonstrate Happiness, Health, and Success. 
 The emotions are largely subconscious; they may 
 and should, however, be controlled by the objective 
 or active side of mind. We speak of some people 
 as being "emotional"; we mean that they are 
 highly sensitive in their nervous organization and 
 that they have not learned to control their emo- 
 tions, so that to a greater extent than is normal 
 their emotions act subconsciously, without control 
 by the active or objective side. Children and 
 individuals and races who are in the childish stage 
 are to a great extent governed by their subcon- 
 scious side, and the first and most important step 
 in education (the word educate means to educe 
 from within, to instruct, to develop, to train) is 
 the training of the objective side, so that it will 
 "suggest" to the subconscious that which we wish 
 it to demonstrate. The objective or reasoning side 
 of mind should always be in control. When it is 
 not we say people are "not sane " (or insane), and 
 this is a truth. 
 
 When we feel an emotion we should at once 
 think "Is this good for me?" Having been told 
 by scientists that thoughts of anger, fear, worry, 
 irritation, affect the blood so as to really poison it, 
 we naturally decide that we must learn to elimi- 
 nate these emotions as far as possible. 
 
 Treatment for Fear 
 
 First one strong "denial" — i.e. There is 
 nothing to Fear in the Universe. — I have no fear. 
 There is nothing but God the All Good. Nothing 
 
38 Laws of Health and Prosperity 
 
 can hurt nor touch me unless I allow it. I refuse 
 to admit anything but God the All Good: I open 
 to that now. The wonderful love of God, the Life 
 of All, and of myself, is flowing into me and through 
 me now. I am that life and in that Life "I live 
 and move and have my being." — I am a Sun 
 of Love, attached to the Great God or whole that is 
 constantly radiating love. I, as a part of that 
 whole, radiate Love, therefore nothing but Love 
 can touch me. All is Love. (Use this every day — 
 every night before going to sleep, meditate on it, 
 think what it means, and you will get the realiza- 
 tion of it.) 
 
 Treatment for Anger 
 
 " I am not angry. I refuse to be angry — I know 
 that anger is a negative force for evil, or inhar- 
 mony, and that 'as I give, I shall receive.' If I 
 send forth angry, irritable thoughts, or allow them 
 to come into action, they will not only go out into 
 the ether and affect all other negative souls to some 
 extent, but they will return to me with compound 
 interest, and bring back inharmony, pain, etc. I, 
 therefore, will not be angry — I refuse to admit 
 any irritable or unkind thoughts — I drive them 
 out! I am Love, a part of the God Life of the 
 Universe. All is Good — all is Love. I am quiet, 
 peaceful, loving. I am demonstrating the Love 
 and Peace which I really am. I have the Christ 
 Ideal. I am in the Christ Consciousness now. I 
 believe and know that the laws He taught and 
 lived are scientific and will demonstrate harmony. 
 I am realizing those laws of love and nonresist- 
 
Effect of the Emotions on the Body 39 
 
 ance now. I am happy, quiet, calm, peaceful, and 
 I radiate these qualities to every one and every- 
 thing in the Universe." (Sit quietly with eyes 
 closed and simply feel the Love life flowing 
 through; send love out to the whole Universe.) 
 
 Treatment when One Feels Anger or Hurt 
 from or Toward Another Soul 
 
 Every night before going to sleep, honestly ex- 
 amine yourself, and see if you have one thought 
 of inharmony toward any person in the world. If 
 you have, See that person at his or her best self, 
 then say in thought or spoken word — You, your 
 true self are a part of the God Life of the Uni- 
 verse, the same life that I am; I see that Real 
 You, now. I have not liked some of your demon- 
 stration, but I, myself, although I really desire to 
 demonstrate harmony at all times, am not always 
 able to do so, on account of ignorance and lack 
 of control of my personal self. I therefore have 
 no right to Judge any other Soul, at any time. I 
 know the law that Christ gave, "Judge not lest 
 Ye be Judged, etc." I know that in the last 
 analysis each Soul demonstrates at a given mo- 
 ment just the best it can, considering everything. 
 I know I do this, and therefore I must acknowl- 
 edge that all others do. I therefore have no con- 
 demnation for any Soul. I realize that the God 
 Life is working through each Soul to express all 
 that is possible, considering everything. That I 
 (being finite) do not know what experiences are 
 best for my own Soul, therefore certainly not for 
 that of any one else. I believe that, according 
 
40 Laws of Health and Prosperity 
 
 to the Law of attraction, each Soul attracts 
 every experience it needs at just the moment it 
 needs that experience, be it a person, a book, or 
 a problem. I therefore have no criticism for any 
 other Soul — I send love to one and all in the 
 Universe, and free them to attract their next 
 problem, learn their next lesson. As Robert 
 Louis Stevenson so beautifully said — "Some 
 people think it is my duty to make my neighbor 
 good. One person only am I to make good — 
 Myself — my duty to my neighbor is more surely 
 expressed by saying: I am to make him happy — 
 if I may." 
 
 When some one has said or done something 
 which "hurts your feelings," as we express it, think 
 quickly to the subjective: "Lord, forgive them; 
 they know not what they do." — That will free 
 you at once. Then keep saying quietly, within, 
 Peace, Quiet, Love. When the first opportunity 
 comes for being alone, sit quietly and see that 
 person, his or her best self, a part of the God Life, 
 the same Life that you are, and say, I forgive you 
 — "I give /or" that thoughtless "hurt" you gave 
 me — Love and Peace and Understanding. You 
 would not have said or done that to me, had 
 you really known how much it would hurt me. 
 Either you did not think when you said it, or you 
 are so different in temperamant that you cannot 
 understand how it hurt me; therefore I cannot 
 hold you responsible to my capacity for feeling and 
 suffering. — I send you Love and that dissolves 
 all inharmony. I am quiet, peaceful, loving. 
 
Effect of the Emotions on the Body 41 
 
 Treatment for Worry 
 
 Worry is the most subtile of all negative emo- 
 tions or conditions. It is the "worm at the root," 
 hidden often, but getting in its deadly work. We 
 really know that worry never helps any one at any 
 time, and scientists tell us that every moment we 
 worry our blood is being poisoned and of course 
 the poison flowing through our body will produce 
 inharmony or disease of some kind, — it may be 
 headache, or sore throat, neuralgia; different 
 emotions express differently in each individual. 
 We may worry even while we are asleep — because 
 we will understand, if we stop to think it out, that, 
 if "worry" is in our subconscious, when we go to 
 sleep with the active side, the subjective gets in its 
 work, as it never slumbers nor sleeps. Often the 
 subconscious will waken us suddenly in the night; 
 we feel as though we had been called (some- 
 times we have been): when this occurs, listen, 
 inwardly — note the first thought that came into 
 your mind upon waking. — It will either be a per- 
 son or a problem. — If the former, send him a 
 treatment, of Health, Courage, Strength, Love, 
 Peace. Then go to sleep, trusting the God of the 
 Universe to work. If however it is a problem that 
 has been worrying you, open to it and you will 
 probably get a clearer vision on it. Then decide 
 what you are going to do about it (quietly, with- 
 out anxiety). If you cannot see the answer, 
 clearly, throw off the responsibility: say, "I cannot 
 solve this problem. I put the responsibility out 
 into the Universe for God to solve. Say, "I let go 
 
42 Laws of Health and Prosperity 
 
 of it," and know that in some way the God of the 
 Universe will work. (Each one should use the 
 name for " God " which seems best to him or her — 
 "Father," "God" — "The All Good" — etc., or 
 the name which "Moses" used and that the Hin- 
 dus and Mystics use — "7 AM THAT I AM. ") 
 
 Often insomnia is caused first by some worry 
 in the subconscious, thereby waking several times 
 at the same hour, a habit or groove is formed in the 
 subconscious, and it is difficult to overcome it. 
 But it can be done by using this treatment. We 
 exaggerate our need of sleep; it is generally ac- 
 knowledged by reliable physicians that the average 
 normal adult does not need more than six hours' 
 sleep out of twenty-four, and can live for a long 
 time with less. We are learning that "rest" is 
 not necessarily "sleep," nor "doing nothing," but 
 the changing of occupation — using different nerve 
 cells, thus "resting" the ones we have perhaps 
 used too steadily. The fear of staying awake, 
 keeps one more wakeful. 
 
 After sending the message or solving the prob- 
 lem (if only by giving it up to God), lie quietly, 
 think how wonderful and peaceful the world is, so 
 many sleeping quietly — feel that you are in the 
 "Arms of God" — relax — think Rest — Peace — 
 Love — out to all the Universe. Say, "I am awake 
 for some good. I send strong thoughts of Peace 
 to All; All is Good, All is Peace." You will learn 
 by using this treatment to go to sleep and in this 
 way, with perseverance Insomnia can be cured. 
 
 The treatment for "Worry" through the active 
 mind is as in all cases of negative Thoughts — first 
 
Effect of the Emotions on the Body 43 
 
 Denial, i.e. "There is no cause for "Worry"; I am 
 part of the All Good. There is nothing (in reality) 
 but the All Good or God, so nothing can really 
 hurt me nor any one else. That which may seem 
 harmful may prove to be a real blessing — I refuse 
 to see the wrong demonstration; I see only the Per- 
 fect Life — which is All that is real. God's laws 
 are working now; working to will and to do That 
 which is best for me and all Souls. I trust the 
 God of All, and rest in His Love. 
 
 Now when we have any inharmony in our body 
 or our environment, instead of looking for the 
 cause in something we have "eaten" or sometimes 
 our "feet" have been damp, or we have sat in a 
 "draught" — let us think back and be honest with 
 ourselves and remember when we have been angry, 
 irritable, frightened, worried, or have said or 
 thought unkind things toward some one — criti- 
 cized some one adversely — (perhaps only in 
 thought) and finding the cause (for we will find it) 
 deny out the negative thought, condition or emo- 
 tion and use the Treatments heretofore given. 
 There is no limit to the results that may be obtain- 
 able by persevering in the use of these laws; be- 
 cause they are the laws of God the All Good and 
 limited only by our individual ignorance or neg- 
 lect of their use. 
 
 Books recommended along these lines are: — 
 
 "Lessons in Truth,' ' by Emily Cady. 
 "Why Worry?'' and "Those Nerves," by George L. 
 Walton, M.D. 
 
 "The Will to be Well," by Charles B. Patterson. 
 "The Mind and the Brain," by Elmer Gates. 
 
44 Laws of Health and Prosperity 
 
 "Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear, and Rage," by 
 Walter B. Cannon. 
 
 "The Renewal of the Body," by Annie Rix Militz. 
 
 "Direct Healing" and "Health and Power through Crea- 
 tion," by Paul Ellsworth. 
 
 "The Untroubled Mind," by Herbert J. Hall, M.D. 
 
 "The White Cross Library," "Your Forces and how to 
 Use Them," by Prentice Mulford. 
 
 "Voices of Freedom," "Living by the Spirit," and others 
 by Horatio W. Dresser, Ph.D. 
 
 Also books and "Nautilus" magazine, by Elizabeth Towne, 
 Holyoke, Mass. 
 
 "Unity" magazine and literature by the Unity Society, 
 913 Tracy Ave., Kansas City, Mo. 
 
Lesson V 
 
 CONCENTRATION 
 
 F all the Laws of Spiritual Science 
 this one of Concentration has prob- 
 ably been most misunderstood. 
 
 Many of the first teachers, not 
 thoroughly understanding the Law 
 themselves, naturally gave con- 
 fused and impractical directions. 
 For instance, "Go alone in a room, sit in a chair, 
 look at any one object (a clock or a spot on the 
 wall), and put everything out of your mind, hav- 
 ing it void; think of nothing but the spot." Now 
 of course after trying to do this, these teachers 
 found it an absolute impossibility, and then changed 
 their instruction. To Anita Trueman (now Mrs. 
 Harold Pickett) do I owe my first and best knowl- 
 edge of concentration, and the technique for it, 
 and through her instruction she spiritualized every 
 article of furniture and ornament in my house 
 and made it possible for me to perform my every- 
 day duties as housekeeper in Pittsburgh, the 
 center of Coal Soot, and, looking beyond the very 
 negative and discouraging side, see the wonder and 
 beauty back of it all. Following her came Dr. 
 
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 Julia Seton, with her keen, brilliant insight and 
 wonderful consciousness. I wish to give both 
 these women thanks and appreciation for the 
 great understanding they have, and were able to 
 give to me. 
 
 Concentration is an act of the personal will, 
 directing the " Objective," and we learn it only by 
 constant, conscious, and patient training. 
 
 Technique 
 
 Go alone in a room, sit in a restful, quiet, relaxed 
 position. Take an article of furniture (bureau, 
 desk) ; give your interested attention to it. Notice 
 the kind of wood of which it is made, think where 
 the wood grew, — if mahogany, see the trees in a 
 large forest, the wind blowing through them, hear 
 the little quiet rustle that one hears always in a 
 forest, feel how quiet and restful it is, the sun shin- 
 ing through, and the shadows. Then one day 
 men came along and chopped several trees down, 
 tied chains to them: Oxen probably hauled them 
 to a railroad station — thence they went to some 
 port, were loaded on a ship, brought north, 
 transferred to a lumber yard, taken to a mill, 
 then bought by a cabinet maker. Then think of 
 and note the "design" of the article and every part 
 of it, each line and ornament — the nails, screws, 
 knobs, — everything the result of thought, a vision 
 of the God mind, working through the brain of 
 some man or woman! Think of the number of 
 minds that have worked on that one piece of furni- 
 ture before it came to you! Use this method 
 every day, even for one half hour, taking a differ- 
 
Concentration 47 
 
 ent object, — when washing dishes or dusting a 
 room. We can learn by this training to concentrate 
 on any one subject so that we may be occupied 
 with something that is monotonous and distaste- 
 ful, yet, in this way, it may be made most inter- 
 esting and instructive. Through this technique 
 do we learn to control and direct our Thoughts, 
 thereby becoming masters of ourselves and, to a 
 great extent, of our lives, because it is a Truth that 
 it is not Heredity, Environment, nor Experiences 
 that count most, but our attitude toward one and 
 all of them. 
 
 Concentration for Definite Results 
 
 Please realize that the same technique or method 
 is used when treating oneself or others for Health, 
 Happiness, Success, Supply. In other words, 
 in order to realize and demonstrate or bring into 
 outward manifestation a greater supply of the 
 "All Good," in any particular way desired at a 
 given time. 
 
 The sequence follows: First, the "Vision," the 
 picture — see that as you desire it — your highest 
 ideal. Then see it for the one whom you are 
 treating. If for Supply, see them prosperous, 
 money coming in to them, see them happy, spend- 
 ing money for the good of others, using it with 
 discrimination, living useful lives, etc. Then ex- 
 plain to the patient these laws and the technique 
 and hold the thought with them. One thing we as 
 teachers should impress upon all patients and 
 students — i.e. that these are Spiritual Laws 
 and must be used Spiritually, otherwise they will 
 
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 react, and cause great disaster. If, for example, 
 one should concentrate for money selfishly, want 
 it at any cost, etc., the law would work possibly, 
 but the price paid would be very great and no doubt 
 the money prove a curse. These laws are those of 
 the Christ Consciousness and must be used from 
 and with that understanding and on that plane 
 only. 
 
 We should first be sure, in at least a general 
 way, of what we really "Desire" with our whole 
 "Heart," — our "First cause" to which we must 
 always be "loyal," as Josiah Royce the great 
 philosopher says. Probably if we sit down quietly 
 and are honest with ourselves we will realize that 
 it is Harmony, Happiness, Peace, for until we 
 reach this consciousness we are on the material 
 plane of self-consciousness and still looking for 
 pleasure, excitement, from life, and have the 
 "earth drowse," as Emma Curtis Hopkins says. 
 After this it is a question for each individual, 
 every day and hour, as to how he or she may demon- 
 strate this "Harmony" for him or her self, and 
 those with whom they come in contact. This is 
 the "Art of Life" and while most complex it is 
 intensely interesting. The second step is to 
 really decide each day what we feel the need of. 
 Walter De Voe says, " Write down your needs, 
 read them over, see the words; that will help you 
 to be sure that you know or at least believe that 
 you know, what you really do need or truly desire." 
 Other teachers have suggested putting this written 
 request under your pillow at night — so that it 
 works through the Subconscious, while the Active 
 
Concentration 49 
 
 Side is asleep. — Each one may try these differ- 
 ent methods and find the one that works best for 
 him or her self. 
 
 " Concentration/ ' in order that we may bring 
 into demonstration, on the physical plane, some- 
 thing which we desire, is the (to the Western 
 World) "New Thought" of Prayer. If we read 
 carefully the words spoken by Jesus, we will see 
 that this was His teaching in regard to prayer. 
 "Beloved Ye have these things before Ye ask." 
 The Hindus and other peoples of the "Far East' 9 
 have, of course, used these methods for ages, and 
 through them wrought marvelously. 
 
 With this understanding we can feel the wonder- 
 ful "Lord's Prayer," "Thy Kingdom come, thy 
 will be done, on earth, through what we call Evo- 
 lution — or Nature, but in the "Heaven State," 
 or Christ Consciousness, the laws transcend those of 
 the "Earth or Self-conscious State": now the 
 prayer is, that "We may know and use these 
 higher laws ON EARTH in our everyday life." Note 
 Jesus the Christ's last prayer — "If possible let 
 this cup pass from me, nevertheless THY WILL 
 not Mine be done," showing that even Jesus with 
 his wonderful consciousness of God, the Father 
 within him, realized that he did not have it per- 
 fectly, nor wholly, so threw himself out to the God 
 of the Universe, knowing that only HIS WILL 
 could really be trusted. Because this is a "Truth 
 to me," I cannot practice nor teach that it is 
 right to "Concentrate" on anything, to bring it 
 into Demonstration, by my own will, or that of 
 any person or persons, but must always finish 
 
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 with — "THOU GREAT I AM THAT I AM, I call on 
 "Thee" to bring into Demonstration, that which 
 is best for this Soul, now! THY WILL be done/' 
 Not with a weak Submission but with a STRONG 
 TRUST. That which we see most or on which we 
 concentrate, most often, we will of course be most 
 likely to bring forth, for, "As a man thinketh in 
 his Heart, so is he," and we attract to ourselves 
 constantly from our own consciousness (or char- 
 acter as we express it) just what we need, in 
 order to take the next step. When we Realize 
 this we will not be antagonistic to any experi- 
 ence that comes to us; but face it, study it, and 
 try to learn the lesson for which we attracted it, as 
 quickly and harmoniously as possible. 
 
 There is an old saying which has come down with 
 many laws from the Eastern Mystics, "That Thou 
 seest — that Thou Beest," i.e. : 
 
 For that Thou seest man, 
 
 That too become Thou must, 
 God if Thou seest God 
 
 Dust if Thou seest Dust. 
 
 This law is true and works; therefore let us watch ! 
 Stop ! Look and listen ! and find out what we are 
 seeing most. This law of "Visioning" has been 
 understood and used for ages by the Eastern 
 Mystics. 
 
 I wish to impress right here, particularly on 
 Teachers and Healers, one truth which I feel is 
 most important. 
 
 We should look at the negative or weak side only 
 long enough to learn a lesson and avoid disaster. 
 
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 There are times when it is necessary to /abnegation 
 in order to overcome it. One of the weakest atti- 
 tudes, in my estimation, of many Spiritual Healers, 
 is that if they are not able to demonstrate Health 
 or Prosperity for themselves or others, to say that 
 there was so much "adverse thought'' among 
 unbelievers in the family or from friends that they 
 could not save the life, or bring the desired mani- 
 festation. Now if this is true, we have a worse and 
 far more dangerous "Devil" than the one we have 
 just thrown out. If "negative" thought is 
 stronger than affirmative there is no hope for us — 
 because at this time there are only a small minority 
 on this Earth Planet who have the Cosmic or 
 Christ Consciousness to any extent — NO! this 
 is not the Law! — One affirmative person is stronger 
 than thousands of negative — "God and one are 
 a majority." Note the story of "David and 
 Goliath." Let us not try to excuse ourselves or 
 the law in this weak way, which is both untrue 
 and unscientific. Let us acknowledge, as all Good 
 Physicians do — The law did not work for some 
 unknown reason, which we cannot explain as we do 
 not claim to be "Infinite," but are only finite be- 
 ings, studying, working, listening, experimenting, 
 in order that we may have a higher and fuller con- 
 sciousness. We have used these laws and proved 
 them enough to know that they are laws, and that 
 they work; when they do not demonstrate as we ex- 
 pect, we realize that something in regard to the 
 machinery or technique was out of order, or that 
 a Higher Law worked to transcend this, just as 
 having once talked over a telephone and heard the 
 
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 voice of a friend, we know the law is, and when we 
 cannot demonstrate, cannot hear or understand, 
 we know that the instrument or lines are out of 
 order and we send for some one who understands 
 the technique, or we work with it ourselves until 
 we find the trouble and rectify it. There is this 
 difference with regard to the Spiritual Laws; we 
 are just beginning to understand them, therefore 
 the work is largely experimental or pragmatic. 
 
 When we are not successful according to our 
 ideas and are not able to demonstrate Harmony, 
 let us use the two laws we do know, i.e. Love and 
 nonresistance. We never accomplished anything 
 Spiritually, by Force. Let go! Stop working, 
 probably we are trying too hard in our way. Let 
 go! and realize the God working through each 
 Soul, using the method most needed by that Soul. 
 After we have done all we can — we should detach 
 ourselves from the patients and simply "Love" 
 them, and Trust the God of the Universe to work 
 through them, demonstrating what is best for them. 
 Our responsibility ends there and we should not 
 try to take it nor to explain "When Knowledge 
 fails, we must Trust." God's vision and plan is 
 Infinite. We cannot in this stage of development 
 understand perfectly. For this reason let us be 
 moderate in our "claims"; not limit ourselves, 
 but on the other hand not make claims that we 
 "can cure all diseases" nor make every one, includ- 
 ing ourselves, "perfectly happy" at all times, nor 
 bring millions of money in by simply sitting and 
 "thinking" money, etc., etc. These rash extreme 
 statements have antagonized many sane, sensible 
 
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 people and retarded the growth of Christ Con- 
 sciousness. Let us rather keep the attitude of 
 Jesus the Christ, "It is not me, but the "Father 
 within me 9 ' — He is Infinite, knows all. We are 
 finite, while in essence we are a part of the God Life, 
 The All Good; we have as yet brought out in mani- 
 festation only a tiny speck of this wonderful Life, 
 but we are working, asking, for Wisdom, lovingly, 
 humbly, but strongly and with Faith and Trust, 
 thereby growing steadily and surely, more fully 
 into the Great Christ, or Cosmic Consciousness, or 
 knowledge of the "Whole." 
 
 Meditation — "Going into the Silence " 
 
 Meditation is the opposite of Concentration. — 
 It is a letting go of the Personal Will and opening 
 to the "God Mind" or Subconscious of the Uni- 
 verse in order to receive new light, wisdom, power, 
 from the Source, from each and every part of the 
 Mind of the Universe, for they are all one and are 
 attached. Concentration and Meditation should 
 be used alternately. The Western World has 
 used the former to the extreme and neglected the 
 latter, while the Eastern World has emphasized 
 the latter and neglected the former, and both have 
 paid the price accordingly. Since the meeting of 
 the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago 
 at the time of the World's Fair, when Swami 
 Vivekananda, the Great Hindu Teacher, came with 
 his message, the Eastern and Western Worlds have 
 been getting nearer and nearer together and, as he 
 prophesied, each is helping the other and together 
 we shall accomplish Great work along all lines. 
 
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 Technique 
 
 Go alone — sit quietly in comfortable position 
 — relax — at first direct the objective mind and 
 concentrate on the "Unity" of the Universe, 
 God the All Good (according to suggestions in first 
 lesson) . Then open the mind and let it go out into 
 the Universe. 
 
 Think of the enormity of it — the immeasurable 
 Space between the Earth Planet and the Sun, also 
 the many, many Planets, Solar Systems; try to 
 realize, as far as as your mind will go, the wonder 
 of it all! And back of all the "One Life," working 
 according to exact Laws, this immeasurable, 
 living, pulsing "Cosmos." 
 
 Ideas will flow into and through your brain; let 
 them come easily, quietly. If you find your mind 
 wandering to material things, listen a moment; it 
 may be some message, some problem not solved, 
 something forgotten, that you wish to do — if so, 
 write down a memorandum of it. That will clear 
 the Subconscious. Then direct the mind again 
 to God — Look up ! with the inner sense — the 
 inner eye, God says, through a prophet, "Look 
 unto me and be thou saved" This attitude will 
 help to keep the mind open to the Spirit. Then 
 just let it flow in. Feel the wonderful Life flow- 
 ing in and quieting you; let the ideas and thoughts 
 flow in — feel that God is talking to you through 
 the minds of friends who love you, and are anxious 
 to help you. Then, as these friends come into 
 your consciousness (those who are still in this 
 life and those who have gone on to another), 
 
Concentration 55 
 
 listen ! You will get thought messages, accept them. 
 Send Love to them (for the law of this, read Lesson 
 on Telepathy), commune with all of them. Then 
 think of Jesus, the wonderful Master, the one who 
 had such an intense Consciousness of The God 
 within all — who taught and lived "Love" — of 
 Buddha, who to the people of the Eastern World 
 was their Highest and fullest demonstration of the 
 all good. Then realize that these and all other 
 Souls are still in existence somewhere in the Uni- 
 verse and that we can receive help from them at 
 any time we so wish. After meditating in this 
 way quietly for as long a time as you wish send 
 thoughts of "Love" out to all the Universe, and 
 then send thoughts of Health, Strength, Happi- 
 ness, Success, Wisdom, to all whom you are help- 
 ing. Then declare the same for yourself — and 
 finish with Peace, Be still! Peace, Peace — This 
 "Meditation" is my method for "Going into the 
 Silence." 
 
 During this hour it is well to close the eyes for 
 a part of the time, and if so you will notice the 
 light you see changing color. At first it will be 
 dark, then probably red — as you become quiet 
 and as the Spirit flows through into you, the light 
 will change to pink or violet, which are the most 
 Spiritual Colors. 
 
 Now while these are the methods I have gathered 
 in part from many teachers, applied to myself, 
 and used successfully, I give them out to others 
 as suggestions only, for each individual Soul must 
 find its own path eventually and prove it. 
 
 After using this or any technique for sometime 
 
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 you will find that you can concentrate and medi- 
 tate while in a street car, on a train, motoring, 
 (particularly in the country), even in the midst of 
 a crowd! No matter how disagreeable the sur- 
 roundings may be, you will learn that in this way 
 you can create your own world and live in it at will. 
 
 Books on Concentration 
 
 " Just How to Concentrate,' ' by Elizabeth Towne. 
 
 "Concentration the Law of Success," by Henry Harrison 
 Brown. 
 
 "Concentration — Why and How to Concentrate," by 
 Julia Seton, M.D. 
 
 "First Steps in Concentration," by Frederick Keeler. 
 
 There are of course many others, but these are 
 not expensive, are small, clear and concise. 
 
Lesson VI 
 
 THE AUTHORS INDIVIDUAL ATTITUDE 
 TOWARD DOCTORS AND MEDICINE 
 
 ANY Teachers and Healers, call- 
 ing themselves by different names, 
 take a very negative attitude 
 toward all Doctors and Medicine. 
 I personally feel that by so doing 
 they deny their first conclusion 
 and the Premise upon which they 
 build, in order to explain and use the laws which 
 they teach. 
 
 After thinking and studying the laws of' the 
 Universe, the latest Science and Religion, we con- 
 cluded that (as the leaders along both these lines 
 agree to-day) we are living in and are a part of a 
 "Universe" which is a living, pulsing, throbbing 
 "Cosmos," the Life Essence of which is ONE AND 
 THE SAME in and through all. This Life Essence 
 is the "NO THING" the so-called "Ether of Space," 
 the inside and the outside, that in which every- 
 thing "lives and moves and has its being." 
 
 Now the first law of this life (Henry Bergson 
 the French Philosopher says) is to express, and 
 
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 all forms are the different, more or less imperfect, 
 unfinished expressions of this Life. While these 
 forms are constantly changing, the life is always 
 the same. It cannot be hurt nor lost (as we 
 learn in a later lesson on Spirit and Matter). As 
 Emma Curtis Hopkins says, "A principle is a 
 comprehensive law or doctrine from which others 
 are derived." That is, everything that ever was 
 or ever will come into manifestation must be in 
 this Life Essence. Now we have concluded after 
 our study that in the last analysis this "Life 
 Force," "Eternal Energy," is "good"; "per- 
 fect." It is called by Religionists "The All 
 Good" (in Twenty -three languages), "God," 
 "The Father," "The Great i am that i am." 
 Different peoples in various localities have given 
 it these different names, but all agree that it is 
 "each soul's highest conception of all that is Good 
 and Beautiful, Powerful, Wise, and Loving." 
 
 Now all metaphysical Teachers and Healers start 
 with this conclusion — that "ALL the Essence of 
 Life" is Good. There is no entity in so-called 
 "Evil " ; as darkness is the absence of light, so evil is 
 the absence of, or unfinished, good in Demonstra- 
 tion. But there can be no all bad, after once hav- 
 ing started with the conclusion and premise that 
 "All is Good." For example, a green apple on a 
 tree is not bad, but green, — unfinished; given 
 time and proper conditions it will manifest ripe- 
 ness, and very nearly perfection. 
 
 Now after arriving at this point in our study 
 can we say that Doctors, or Medicine, in fact 
 anything in the Universe is Bad? not to be recog- 
 
Attitude Toward Doctors and Medicine 59 
 
 nized? I say no! We must stand by our con- 
 clusion and make the reversed statement that 
 "Everything, even in demonstration, is good in its 
 time and place, and in proper proportion/' That 
 even that which in demonstration may seem un- 
 pleasant to us we must recognize as "Good in the 
 making," have no condemnation, and, unless we 
 can help it to a better expression, pass on. Among 
 the New Thoughts, or Theories, advanced by 
 Scientists to-day, is this one, —that "everything in 
 the Universe is in a State of vibration"; there is 
 nothing (in the last analysis, as they say) abso- 
 lutely still, quiet, nor solid. Everything is vibrat- 
 ing, and there are different rates of this vibration. 
 They say "mind" is of a higher vibration than 
 Body, and Soul or Spirit of course the Highest of 
 all; because it is the original essence, the Store 
 House, or "Motor," vibrating the Whole. This 
 being true, the Spirit, or individual part of Spirit 
 which I call the Soul, should control all lower 
 vibrations. It is on this law that all Spiritual, 
 Mental, Divine, Faith Healing is founded. 
 
 When we have this realization that because 
 we are each a "Soul," which is part of this "God 
 Spirit," and our body is a demonstration of this 
 same Spirit at a lower vibration, we understand 
 that — if we knew the law of connection perfectly, 
 we should be able always to keep the Spirit or 
 Soul in control of the Body, and all other lower 
 vibrations. In that case we would always be well, 
 happy, successful, contented — "in Harmony," — 
 in other words in the "Heaven" State. 
 
 Now as a matter of fact / have never met one, nor 
 
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 have I heard any one claim that they have known 
 one Soul who has demonstrated this perfect con- 
 trol in this life. We have read in history of many 
 Saints who have had wonderful realizations, and 
 lived almost perfect lives, showing that their Soul, 
 or Spirit, controlled their bodies to a wonderful 
 extent. Yet there were times when, if we can 
 believe history at all, they lost Faith and "let go," 
 and as we express it, showed the "human" or im- 
 perfect, material side in control. Even as Jesus 
 on the Cross is said to have called out "Father, 
 if it be possible let this cup pass from me" — -then 
 quickly regaining the Spiritual Control, "never- 
 theless not my will but Thine be done." 
 
 Now I believe with even the Extremest Idealist 
 in all these laws because we cannot limit the Power 
 of God the All Good. I believe in "hitching my 
 wagon to a star," as Emerson says, but as Jacob 
 Jastrow says, I believe in "using horses here and 
 now." 
 
 For example, supposing we have electric light in 
 our house, the wire and attachments are all put 
 in, according to the best system known. Some 
 night we are suddenly left in darkness — what do 
 we do? I speak for myself; I, of course, try to get 
 some one who understands the laws of this science, 
 as quickly as possible. I know the "Law" is 
 still there, and will work if we find the trouble 
 with the connection and readjust it, but I do not 
 sit in the dark if I can light gas, an oil lamp, or even 
 a candle. For I prefer a little light to none, and 
 believe in using the lower law, even if less com- 
 fortable, rather than wait in the dark until the 
 
Attitude Toward Doctors and Medicine 61 
 
 higher law can be made to work. I feel that the 
 same ideas work along all lines. If I want to go 
 from one place to another quickly, I naturally 
 in these days try to get an automobile or go on a 
 train, but if I cannot get one of these, I would 
 take the next best way available at the time. 
 
 I understand this Planet called the "Earth" to 
 be one of the marvelous "Expressions" of the 
 "all good," "spirit," "God," of the Universe — 
 everything on it from the tiniest bit of stone or 
 rock to the highest evolution of man and woman, 
 expressions of the Same Life, Spirit. Each mani- 
 festation working according to its own laws. 
 
 Man (meaning of course man or woman), being 
 the highest manifestation and having evolved a 
 "Brain" through which he can study these laws, 
 may "have dominion" over all other manifesta- 
 tions, as he learns the laws of each and uses them 
 accordingly. 
 
 This being true, is there any more important or 
 interesting study than the "Body" of man or 
 woman, this being the "Temple," the Home 
 of the "Soul" (or a part of the Spirit of God)? 
 And with this study, as with that of everything, 
 should be acquired the knowledge of the way in 
 which to repair it when it is out of order. The 
 study of this "Human Machine" has evolved two 
 branches, that of so-called "Materia Medica," 
 or Medicine, the giving internally of differently 
 prepared solids, liquids, or plants, and Surgery. 
 No physician or surgeon of any reputation claims 
 that either of these systems is infallible, or an 
 exact Science. The leaders along these lines, as 
 
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 with all others, are continually experimenting, 
 finding new and better systems, and this is the 
 only way of progress. I feel that a man or woman 
 who makes his or her life work the Study of the 
 Human Body or any part of it, in order to demon- 
 strate for as many as possible Health, — freedom from 
 suffering, and pain, — thereby making a larger pro- 
 portion of Happiness in this world, has chosen the 
 highest, most practical, and most spiritual work 
 to be done in this life without regard to the System 
 they may choose, from Spiritual Science to the 
 giving of Medicine, and Surgery. While I per- 
 sonally, as I have said earlier in this lesson, believe 
 that "if" we knew how to use the laws of Spirit 
 perfectly we could keep well, and while I know from 
 many experiences, with myself and many others, 
 that by using "Spiritual Science" (the laws by 
 which we may use "Spirit" in order to control 
 matter, "Soul" to demonstrate over Body), 
 wonderful cures have been made, I acknowledge 
 that I am not always able to demonstrate these 
 laws. There are times when for reasons for which 
 I cannot account they do not work satisfactorily. 
 When this occurs I use, and advise all who come 
 to me to do the same, the next laws I know, and 
 send for a Doctor, Surgeon, or Dentist (according 
 to the needs) , but I send for the one in whom I have 
 the greatest confidence, in every way. Then I use 
 my thought and the laws of the Spirit to help him, 
 and every good physician, surgeon and dentist 
 knows and admits that this attitude on the part 
 of the patient and nurse assists greatly toward 
 the recovery of the patient. It is a truth to me 
 
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 that what the world needs most at this time is 
 moderation, and discrimination. This is the 
 age of specialization, and the danger lies in over- 
 specializing — i.e., seeing "The Truth" from 
 one angle only. We must learn to be openminded 
 and inclusive, to endeavor to see everything from 
 as many different angles as possible, for in that 
 way do we see the greatest truth. When we 
 act separately we fail — "All working together 
 for Good" is God's Law. Let us keep this ever 
 in our minds. 
 
 I feel from personal experience that the German 
 Scientists and those of other countries who have 
 spent weary hours studying out combinations of 
 "Matter" that can be given as "anaesthetics," 
 thereby relieving human beings from pain during 
 operations, and making marvelous work through 
 surgery possible; those who, after years of hard 
 and patient study and self-denial, have discovered 
 cures for tuberculosis and other heretofore sup- 
 posedly incurable diseases, are giving as wonder- 
 ful and important expressions of the "All Good 
 Life" of the Universe as any so-called Teacher or 
 Healer of Spiritual or Christian Science, or as 
 any Priest or Religious Teacher. "ALL GOOD" 
 manifestation along all lines is necessary; "Unity" 
 of Life, Diversity of Expression. I will say in 
 closing this lesson that I feel the Ideals of one who 
 chooses the Life of a physician, surgeon or healer 
 of any kind, should be very high. 
 
 There is no position in life, I believe, where 
 there is as great an opportunity for demonstrat- 
 ing the strongest character attainable as in this 
 
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 field. A physician enters into the sacred precincts 
 of family and individual life and should have the 
 highest sense of honor and a very inclusive Spiri- 
 tual Consciousness. If he begins his career with 
 those ideals there is no work in this life, I believe, 
 that will give him a greater number of opportuni- 
 ties to grow spiritually than in this wonderful 
 one of relieving pain and suffering. 
 
 Good, honest, conscientious, faithful, noncom- 
 mercial Physicians, Surgeons, Dentists, Spiritual 
 Science, Christian Science, Healers, are needed. 
 They should all work together for Good; and then, 
 as "Mr. Dooley" says, "it doesn't make much 
 difference which we have if we have a Good Nurse." 
 
 In my former lessons I have mentioned, among 
 other physicians, who have demonstrated won- 
 derfully through suggestion, etc., Dr. John D. 
 Quackenbos, M.D. He has just published a book, 
 "Body and Spirit," an inquiry into the sub- 
 conscious. I strongly advise all students and 
 Teachers to read this, as it is one of the most 
 clear, concise, and practical books that has ever 
 been published. He gives the names of several 
 physicians who have worked sucessfully along 
 these lines. Among these are Dr. C. C. Wholey 
 of Pittsburgh, Pa., whom I know personally and 
 for whom I have the greatest respect and in whom 
 I have much confidence, and Professor Henry 
 Upson of Cleveland, Ohio, whom I know by repu- 
 tation. I believe that there are many others who 
 have accepted the newer and higher standard and 
 by so doing will add greatly to the efficiency of 
 physicians and surgeons. 
 

 Lesson VII 
 
 SPIRIT AND MATTER, AS CONSIDERED 
 
 BY MANY OF THE SCIENTISTS AND 
 
 RELIGIONISTS TO-DAY 
 
 F we are really Truth Seekers, we 
 take as our premise the state- 
 ment that "there is nothing 
 higher or greater than Truth." 
 When we realize the "Unity" of 
 the Universe, we have the con- 
 ception of "God" as the Perfect, 
 Divine Life Principle of the Universe, rather than 
 the old childish conception of some kind of a 
 person outside, at a distance, — we believe and 
 know certain things in a mystic or psychic way. 
 We say we feel, we know them intuitively. We 
 have experiences which, while real to us, would not 
 be so to others, and which we could not prove to 
 them, because they can understand only on what 
 we call the "Material Plane," or through the five 
 senses. 
 
 We learn from reading the history of the ages 
 past that there have always been souls who saw 
 
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 away ahead of their time, who had these mystic 
 experiences. 
 
 William James, in his wonderful book, "Varieties 
 of Religious Experience," gives many examples 
 of this kind, and Dr. Bucke, in his book, " Cosmic 
 Consciousness," gives the results of his research 
 and study of such phenomena, comparing the 
 experiences of many souls who have had great 
 spiritual experiences, conversions, new births, 
 "illuminations." 
 
 We who have studied and realized along these 
 lines may be interested to take a glance at the 
 point of view to-day taken by so-called material 
 scientists and orthodox theologians. I have 
 therefore gathered from several of the greatest 
 minds of this time their arrival in regard to the 
 Unity of the Universe, and find as a result of this 
 study that Science, Philosophy, Religion, and 
 spiritual Realization are united at last; there is 
 no longer any warfare. 
 
 "Spirit and Matter before the Bar of Modern 
 Science" — In his latest book with this title, I. W. 
 Heysinger, M.A., M.D., of Philadelphia, begins 
 with chapter first as follows; "If the time was ever 
 to come in the religious history of the human race 
 when what may be called God's Science of Man 
 was to supersede Theology, which is Man's Science 
 of God, that time is already here." 
 
 This is the attitude of all serious investigators 
 along different lines to-day. Psychologists are 
 realizing and demonstrating more and more won- 
 derful phenomena in regard to the action of the 
 mind, conscious and sub- or unconscious, its 
 
Spirit and Matter 67 
 
 effect on the body, etc. Biologists are tracing all 
 human, animal, and vegetable life back to "pro- 
 toplasm," the same "Life or Germ." Mineralo- 
 gists and geologists have arrived at the atomic 
 theory that the Universe including all so-called 
 dead matter, stones, rocks, etc., is composed of 
 more or less minute atoms, all of which are vi- 
 brating at different rates of speed, constantly 
 changing, rearranging themselves, and thus pro- 
 ducing different metals and solids. A. Dastre, 
 Professor of the Sarbonne, Paris, in an article 
 published in the Annual Report of the Board of 
 Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1902, says, 
 "Everything is at work; everything in nature 
 toils and strives at every stage and every degree." 
 Immobility, repose, are usually in natural things 
 merely a false appearance. The seeming quietude 
 of matter is caused by our inability to appreciate 
 its interior agitation. Because of their minute- 
 ness we do not perceive the swarming particles 
 that compose it and under which the impassable 
 surface of bodies, oscillate, displace each other, — 
 move to and fro and group themselves into forms 
 and positions adapted to the conditions of the 
 environment. 
 
 In comparison with these microscopic elements 
 we are like the Giant of Swift in the midst of the 
 people of Lilliput. And this is far below the 
 actual fact. It was Lord Kelvin who first spoke 
 of the "fatigue of metals, or the fatigue of elas- 
 ticity," and since then Bose showed for these same 
 bodies the fatigue of electric touch. All processes 
 of making steel, glass, brass, and everything that 
 
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 is manufactured are simply the readjustment and 
 rearranging by different methods, of the atoms or 
 molecules. 
 
 Man, the highest manifestation of the one 
 Divine Perfect Life, is learning the laws of the 
 lower vibrations and working according to these 
 laws to produce different effects. 
 
 As Sir Oliver Lodge says, "We ourselves may 
 become creators, not by working outside laws, 
 but by learning the laws of God and working in 
 harmony with them. 9 ' 
 
 This acceptance and realization of the One Life 
 in, and through all, gives us the newer and higher 
 Idea of God, or the "All Good," as the Perfect, 
 Divine Principle, the "Spirit," that which we can- 
 not see, feel, hear or smell, but only "know," and 
 we go back to the old definition in the Bible, "God 
 is Spirit," but we now feel we have a much better 
 understanding of what that means. To continue 
 along scientific lines still farther, we find Robert 
 Kennedy Duncan, F.C.S., one of the greatest 
 chemists of the day (who passed on in 1914) 
 commencing his new book, " The New Knowledge," 
 thus, — "When a man begins to think seriously of 
 the world, or worlds, around about him, he is at 
 first dazed by the seeming complexity of it all. 
 Thousands of phenomena confront him, inextric- 
 ably tangled, and there seems to be no simple way 
 of coordinating them. That the Universe must 
 be harmonious is a fundamental demand of our 
 human nature. Nor is this faith misplaced. Just 
 as soon as we actually begin to sort things out, 
 matters proceed with gratifying smoothness, and 
 
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 it soon becomes apparent that one may place all 
 he knows of this Universe of space and time 
 into just exactly three compartments. These com- 
 partments we shall label, — 1. Matter, 2. Ether, 
 3. Energy. These are three physical entities out- 
 side of which, so far as we understand the physical 
 Universe, there is nothing, and into which the 
 universal content of the mind of man, so far as it 
 concerns things outside of itself, may be stored 
 away." 
 
 Mr. Duncan then proceeds to define "Matter," 
 and says that we may distinguish it from the other 
 two compartments by saying that "Matter is 
 that which occupies space and possesses weight." 
 Using these two properties, it is readily possible to 
 sift out matter from all the heterogeneous phe- 
 nomena that present themselves to the senses. 
 Thus wood, water, copper, oil, and air are forms of 
 matter. But light, heat, electricity, and magnet- 
 ism, we cannot consider to fill so many quarts 
 or weigh so many pounds. 
 
 They are therefore forms of non-matter. In 
 like manner things such as grace, mercy, justice, 
 and truth, while they are existing entities as much 
 as matter, are unquestionably non-matter. "Now, 
 governing matter in all its varied forms," says Mr. 
 Duncan, "there is one great fundamental law which 
 up to this time has been iron-clad in its character. 
 This law, known as the law of the conservation 
 of mass, states that no particle of matter, however 
 small, may be created or destroyed. All the 
 king's horses and all the king's men cannot de- 
 stroy a pin's head. We may smash that pin's 
 
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 head, dissolve it in acid, burn it up in an electric 
 furnace, employ in a word every annihilating 
 agency, and yet that pin's head persists in being. 
 
 "Again, it is as uncreatable as it is indestruct- 
 ible. In other words, we cannot create something 
 out of nothing. The material must be furnished 
 for every existent article. In the foregoing state- 
 ments we have used the conceptions of the older 
 science — but to say that throughout all time we 
 never should be able to destroy or create matter, 
 or to say indeed, that matter is not to some extent 
 being created and destroyed to-day, would be to 
 run the risk of profound error. All we can say 
 to-day is, that we cannot do it. If creation or 
 annihilation is going on, we are mere spectators, 
 and stand in no causal relation." 
 
 Mr. Duncan then takes up "Ether," as follows: 
 
 "Any discussion of ether leads out upon the 
 highroad to incredibility. A thing must be de- 
 fined by its properties, and the properties of ether 
 are for the most part negative; so negative indeed 
 are they, that when one says boldly that we cannot 
 see ether, hear it, taste it, smell it, exhaust it, 
 weigh it, or measure it, one feels timid that sane- 
 minded people will meet those negative qualities 
 of our ether by a decided negation of belief in 
 its existence. But the fact of the matter is, that 
 if this thing Ether, is not visible to the eye of 
 sense, it is visible to the eye of the mind, which 
 is much less liable to err." 
 
 Mr. Duncan then explains the little instrument 
 called the radiometer, and that as the light strikes 
 this, it causes a little aluminum mill-wheel to re- 
 
Spirit and Matter 71 
 
 volve at such a velocity that one cannot distin- 
 guish the separate vanes, proving that there are 
 "waves of light"; and he proceeds, "Once con- 
 vinced that light consists of waves, the mind in- 
 sists that these waves shall inhere in something. 
 The ocean waves are made of water, sound waves 
 of air, light waves of, we must say, something. 
 This something cannot be air or water, or any 
 form of matter, as we know it, for throughout that 
 great reach of 93,000,000 of miles between the 
 sun and us there exists but empty space. Filled 
 this empty space is, however, and to the brim. 
 There is no such thing as emptiness. From corner 
 to corner of the Universe, wherever a star shines, 
 or light darts, there broods this vast circumam- 
 bient medium — the ' Ether,' not only through 
 interstellar spaces, but through the world also, 
 in all its manifold complexity, through our own 
 bodies; all lie, not only encompassed by it, but 
 soaking in it, as a sponge lies soaked in water. 
 How much we ourselves are ' matter,' and how 
 much 'Ether' is in these days a very meet ques- 
 tion." 
 
 Now to define "Energy." (I still quote from 
 Mr. Duncan's book.) "Just as there is no such 
 thing as emptiness, so there is no such thing as 
 'rest.' It is doubtful that there is such a thing 
 as rest, even in a relative sense. The very par- 
 ticles that constitute the materials of our so- 
 solid seeming earth, that seem so fixed and at rest 
 relatively to one another, are in a state of per- 
 petual unremitting quiver — what we call tem- 
 perature; and that quivering, had we eyes big 
 
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 enough to see it, is very far indeed removed from 
 rest. 
 
 "Now, this motion is continually changing from 
 one velocity to another, and the same kind of 
 reasoning that led us to believe in the Ether leads 
 us to believe that a body can go faster or slower 
 only because of some sense. This cause, or this 
 power to change the state of motion of a body, is 
 energy. 
 
 "Just as matter may exist in so many different 
 forms, so may energy, — a list of forms of which 
 we append : — 
 
 1. Kinetic Energy. 
 
 2. Gravitation Energy. 
 
 3. Energy of Elasticity. 
 
 4. Heat. 
 
 5. Cohesion Energy. 
 
 6. Chemical Energy. 
 
 7. Electrical Energy. 
 
 8. Magnetic Energy. 
 
 9. Radiant Energy. 
 
 "This list comprises 'forms' of energy and not 
 * different energies,' for the reason that they are 
 one and all intervertible. Energy is protean in 
 its nature, for it may be converted directly or in- 
 directly into any other form. They are, therefore, 
 different phases of one thing, not different things. 
 For example, the energy of the burning coal is 
 converted consecutively into heat, into mechanical 
 energy, into electrical energy, and finally, in some 
 far-away street, into the radiant energy of the arc 
 lamp. It is possible even, that these very 'forms' 
 
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 may not be distinct from one another, actually, 
 but are simply so many different varieties of 
 motion. 
 
 "However that may be, energy is not only 
 transformable, but transferable. In a word we 
 may transfer energy from one body to another 
 indefinitely. We may load the energy from a 
 waterfall into a dynamo, and from the dynamo 
 into a sewing machine. Matter is but a stepping- 
 stone to energy, here and away, through one form 
 to another, and from one body to another, in- 
 finitely restless, constant only in one thing, its 
 total quantity. However much energy may be 
 transformed or transferred, when any quantity 
 of one form disappears, a precisely equal quantity 
 simultaneously appears, in some other form or 
 forms. Just as with matter, you cannot create or 
 destroy any quantity of energy however small, 
 and since energy is the great worker of the Uni- 
 verse, you cannot get something for nothing. No 
 machine can make energy, and it is curious that 
 this fact is so little understood of men that, accord- 
 ing to rumor, the Patent Office finds it necessary 
 to employ a special clerk to deal with persons who 
 believe in perpetual motion. It will readily be 
 seen, then, that since energy may be transformed 
 from one form into another, since it may equally 
 well be transferred from one body to another, and 
 since, moreover, it cannot be created or destroyed, 
 we have precisely the same grounds for believing 
 in its existence as an actual entity as we had for 
 believing in the existence of matter. It is proper 
 for us to hold as reasonable the view that energy 
 
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 is an existing "thing. 5 Concerning the dictum 
 of current science, that it is impossible to create 
 or destroy it, we ought to make the same pro- 
 vision as we did with matter, that while it may 
 not be forever and forever indestructible and un- 
 creatable, and while it may be even now suffering 
 annihilation, we have no control over it. The 
 doctrine of the conservation of energy is receiv- 
 ing some hard knocks nowadays, and whether 
 or not it is weakening will be for the future to 
 determine. 
 
 "We have, thus, reduced the Universe to three 
 terms — Matter, Ether, and Energy, and we ought 
 now to consider whether this triune conception 
 may be capable of deeper synthesis. We have all, 
 I imagine, a deep-seated conviction of the essen- 
 tial 'oneness' of the Universe, and to justify it, 
 we must assume, either that these three things 
 are after all but ' forms' or phases of an under- 
 lying and unknowable reality, or that, separate 
 and distinct as they appear, they are themselves 
 one in some mysterious way, altogether beyond 
 the power of human reason to grasp." 
 
 Atoms 
 
 "We have said that when a molecule of common 
 salt is broken down, there results a particle of 
 sodium and a particle of chlorine. These particles, 
 the constituents of molecules, are the atom of 
 matter. Instead, therefore, of defining a compound 
 as a substance composed of elements, we may say 
 that a compound is a substance the molecules of 
 which are made up of the atoms of the element. 
 
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 There are, of course, as many different atoms as 
 there are elements. When atoms of like kind unite 
 together, we have the elements of matter: — 
 when of unlike kind, the compounds of matter. 
 Now, since there are some seventy elements, there 
 are some seventy kinds of atoms, and when we 
 think of the varied number of combinations and 
 permutations, so to speak, that may be brought 
 about by tying together different numbers, and 
 different kinds of, say, seventy odd marbles, it is 
 no matter for wonder that there are some two 
 hundred and fifty thousand molecules. A sub- 
 stance is ex-molecules, and a molecule is a little 
 building, of which the atoms are the bricks. We 
 may now re-define our definitions. 
 
 "A molecule is the smallest particle of a sub- 
 stance that can exist in a free state, containing 
 the same composition as any larger mass of the 
 substance. 
 
 "An atom is the smallest particle of an element 
 that exists in any molecule. 
 
 "A compound is a substance whose molecule 
 contains two or more kinds of atom. 
 
 "An element is a substance whose molecule 
 contains only one kind of atom." 
 
 Mr. Duncan then proceeds to explain Radio Ac- 
 tivity, Periodic Law, Corpuscles, Different Rays, 
 Radium; in fact, all the latest wonderful dis- 
 coveries and ideas along these lines. 
 
 This "Unity" of the Universe is realized by the 
 most profound thinkers of philosophy and the- 
 ology. Professor George Burman Poster of the 
 University of Chicago, in liis book, "The Function 
 
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 of Religion in Man's Struggle for Existence," after 
 speaking of organism, says: — 
 
 "Now what is true with reference to organism 
 in general holds good of the soul. In this regard, 
 the soul is a being of the same kind as the body, 
 that is, it is a system striving for its own preser- 
 vation, only not through externally visible and 
 tangible, but solely through inwardly experienced, 
 formations and functions. This was the view 
 even of Spinoza, and more recently of Fechner. 
 That the preservation was maintained, by conflict 
 with what was given an external phenomena, as 
 4 outside world,' is an insight whose general recog- 
 nition is traceable to the influence of Charles 
 Darwin: and the part played in psychic world- 
 being, by the living out and working out psychic 
 energies and endowments is at bottom an opinion 
 as old as Aristotle. If, to-day, we could inwardly 
 unify these relevant factors from Spinoza and 
 Fechner, from Aristotle and Darwin, we should 
 gain a general view of the soul, that would bring 
 our thought into harmony once more with the 
 basic concepts of our scientific knowledge. At 
 all events, the point which we have now reached 
 is that the soul is not a static entity with attri- 
 butes and properties, as it was according to the 
 belief of the first era of which I have spoken, nor 
 is it a system of ideas like the atoms of the physi- 
 cal science of the sixteenth and seventeenth centu- 
 ries. The association-psychology was of a piece 
 with that whole mechanical way of looking at 
 reality. To-day the psychologists think of the 
 soul as a psychic-physiological organism. I have 
 
Spirit and Matter 77 
 
 the impression that when the collective con- 
 sciousness becomes thoroughly habituated to Mod- 
 ern Science, our words, 'Soul and Body,' as well as 
 * Matter and Spirit/ will drop out of our language; 
 much, as I shall continue to use them in this ad- 
 dress, quite as we speak of the rising and setting of 
 the sun. (There is no such thing as a self-depend- 
 ent soul, freely active or interactive within an or- 
 ganism which we call the body, just as similarly 
 there is no self-dependent Deity freely active or 
 interactive within that larger body which we call 
 Cosmos.) 
 
 "All this is a survival of primitive animism, 
 which populated the whole world with spirits, 
 demons, hobgoblins; in short, with soul-like beings 
 which were related to things much as we think 
 the soul is connected with the body, or God with 
 the Universe. I mean that soul and body are 
 not two beings confronting each other as inde- 
 pendent and interoperative; but that they are one 
 being giving account of itself in a twofold manner. 
 
 "As it exhibits itself as unspatial, ceaselessly 
 changing, and yet in many ways identical, syn- 
 thesis of sense impressions, thoughts, feelings, 
 wishes, ideals, endeavors, we call it Soul: but as 
 it is something extended, pliable, convoluted, 
 cellular, fibrous, we call it brain and nervous 
 system, as if there were two separate entities, ex- 
 ternally encountering each other in interaction. 
 They are only one reality, but at one time such as 
 known of itself immediately, and is for itself, at 
 another time such as exhibits itself to others, 
 similar realities. 
 
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 "I am trying to indicate that the immanence of 
 a free or unfree soul entity in a body is quite as 
 unintelligible to psychology as the immanence of a 
 free or unfree god entity in the Cosmos is unintel- 
 ligible to philosophical reflection. To repeat, it is 
 a Psycho-physiological organism with whose self- 
 preservation and self -completion we have to do. 
 
 "Now, in order to preserve itself in conflict 
 with the ' outside world,' this organism requires 
 orientation concerning this world. In the im- 
 pressions evoked by outside influence it gains the 
 material for the effectuation of its peculiarity. 
 This psychic organism inwardly produces mani- 
 fold activities of connecting concentrating con- 
 structive character, and the results thereof appear 
 ultimately again in visible motions of the external 
 organs. Briefly summarized, these are impres- 
 sions springing from the processes of the ' outside 
 world"; the inner psychic elaborations of these 
 impressions, the reactions consequent and appro- 
 priate thereto. I am indicating that, for purposes 
 of its self-preservation and its self-consumma- 
 tion, the soul generates organs and functions. 
 For example, do you need to be informed con- 
 cerning the 'outside world' so that you can move 
 around in it without breaking your neck? You 
 receive this needed orientation concerning the 
 * outside world' through sensation mediated by 
 sense organs, through colors and sounds and 
 smells and a number of other sensations. Again, 
 is your instruction concerning the 'outside world' 
 through sensation inadequate for the needs of the 
 organism? Do you need to know something of 
 
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 the past and future, and what exists hidden be- 
 hind the hill? The soul generates ideas which 
 will extend your mastery beyond the here and the 
 now. In this way you can see things with your 
 eyes closed, and hear things with your ears 
 stopped. You are not fastened down absolutely 
 to the material present of things with which you 
 have to do. You can bear about with you the pos- 
 sibility of a certain realization of the peculiarities 
 and processes of things that are absent or remote. 
 
 "Still again, what attitude shall you assume 
 toward objects with which you become acquainted 
 by a sensation and idea? Are the things in the 
 world contributing to the weal or to the woe of the 
 psycho-physiological organism? For purposes of 
 its welfare, the soul has generated with feelings of 
 pleasure and pain, evaluating the impressions 
 which orient it concerning the 'outside world.' 
 The soul must know how to employ objective 
 things for its battle of self-preservation. Thus 
 it equips itself with pleasure, pain feelings, by 
 which it determines whether or not its situation 
 is beneficial or injurious to its life, or whether it 
 needs to take some new task as it battles with the 
 winds and waves of existence." 
 
 To return to I. W. Heysinger's book, previously 
 referred to, we have from a noted physician and 
 surgeon, also a student of psychic phenomena, 
 spiritualism, telepathy, and all the latest thought 
 along all lines, the following : — quoting Romanes, 
 who said, "God is, till grudged his own Universe." 
 He then gives — "The Psychism of the Universe." 
 as follows; 
 
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 "The whole history of the race demonstrates, 
 by an accumulation of evidence perfectly irresist- 
 ible to those who care for evidence, that the 
 psychical, the spiritual, both in man, and extra to 
 the man, have been the great interacting and con- 
 trolling factors of human advancement. 
 
 "And these conceded factors, constituting the 
 universal consensus of all mankind, through all 
 ages of mankind, have been absolutely identical, 
 and are to-day precisely what they have always 
 been hitherto, and everywhere, in the past. 
 
 "These fundamental propositions, apparently 
 inherent in, or else revealed to the human race, 
 and universally employed as the only basis of 
 ethics, as well as of religion, and as well of spiritual- 
 ism, are as follows : — 
 
 "1. A transcendental, spiritual, intelligent 
 power, universal in scope, in space and time, and 
 in potency, which power is the formative pre- 
 servative and restorative agency of nature. 
 
 " 2. Direct and recognized action of this power 
 upon and through similar, but less extensive, 
 spirituality of man, to mold, to control, and to 
 preserve and protect the human organism and its 
 energies. 
 
 "3. The persistence of this spiritual individu- 
 ality of man after death. 
 
 "4. Intercommunion between the human spiri- 
 tual personality and the like spiritualities of de- 
 parted human beings, under various conditions, 
 at particular times, and for special purposes. 
 This superhuman consciousness, which constitutes 
 the basis of all religion, ever present and ever 
 
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 acting, is the same consciousness which consti- 
 tutes the basis of modern spiritualism: there is no 
 difference in kind at all, and only slight differences 
 in degree; and these differences constantly and 
 imperceptibly shade into each other, so that no 
 line of demarcation can anywhere be drawn 
 between modern spiritualism and the universal 
 psychical or religious knowledge of all past ages 
 and all peoples. 
 
 "In all history the fact stands out undisputed 
 that the great principles of modern spiritualism 
 have never been denied among mankind, save by 
 a few modern teachers whose inquiries have been 
 purposely confined, by deliberate choice or 
 narrowness of vision, to the gross material plane 
 alone, and a multitude of their ignorant followers 
 who, believing that they have accepted the hy- 
 pothesis of these philosophers, have, in fact, gar- 
 bled them beyond recognition. Besides these, the 
 boasted doctrine of negation or agnosticism has 
 only included the lower animals, and not, it is 
 probable, even all classes of these. 
 
 "Modern Spiritualism is thus not a new thing 
 — its denial is the new thing, and it ought not 
 logically to stand at the bar of science to establish 
 its facts: they have been already established, for 
 it has more and more been proven, and is now 
 firmly established, that no belief universal in 
 scope and in time has ever been without a foun- 
 dation of truth for its basis. It is upon and by 
 means of these very truths that science itself has 
 been established and developed. 
 
 "But spiritualism gladly accepts the challenge, 
 
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 for it clearly recognizes that only in the continuance 
 and multiplicity of obvious spiritual phenomena 
 can the truth of a future life be made universally 
 manifest. The fountain must continue to flow 
 in order to prove that it has ever flowed, for the 
 forces and mechanism are, and must be, the same 
 yesterday, to-day, and forever." 
 
 Mr. Heysinger continues to bring out the 
 "Unity of Spirit and Matter," and has several 
 interesting chapters of authentic records of psychic 
 phenomena of different kinds, and arrives through 
 these studies of the spiritual and psychic at the 
 same conclusion as that of Mr. Duncan and other 
 scientists, and Mr. Foster and other theologians. 
 I feel that I can give no better last word than the 
 final chapter of the "New Knowledge." 
 
 "We began our present work by attempting to 
 show the need felt by men of science of reducing 
 the physical Universe to a condition of ' Oneness ' 
 — of finding some One Thing out of whose 
 qualities or properties all is that is. We have 
 not done this, quite. By means of theoretical 
 speculations based upon scientific experimenta- 
 tions, we have shown how it may be true that all 
 bodily existence is but the manifestation of units 
 of negative electricity, lying embossed in an 
 omnipresent ether of which these units are, 
 probably, a conditional part. Matter has dis- 
 appeared as a fundamental existence, or at any 
 rate it is explained as a manifestation of elec- 
 tricity. Mass, a supposedly indestructible thing, 
 has disappeared with matter, and comes into ex- 
 istence only as the negative electron, assuming 
 
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 motion, carries with it a bound portion of the ether 
 in which it is bathed; and furthermore this mass 
 which we thought so invariable depends solely 
 upon the velocity with which the negative unit 
 moves. 
 
 "Our negative unit on receiving mass becomes 
 a ' corpuscle' endowed with the primary qualities 
 of matter, superimposed upon those of electricity. 
 Corpuscles congregating into groups or various 
 configurations constitute essentially the atoms of 
 the chemical elements, locking up in these con- 
 figurations superterrific energies and leaving 'a 
 slight residual effect/ as chemical affinity or 
 gravitation, with which we attempt to carry on 
 the work of the world. These atoms, congregating 
 in their turn as nebulae, and under the slight 
 residual force of gravitation, condense into blazing 
 suns. The suns decay in their temperature, and 
 become ever more and more complex in their 
 constitution as the atoms lock themselves into 
 multiple forms. We then see these multiple 
 atoms developing into the molecules of matter to 
 form a world. We see the molecules growing 
 ever more and more complex as the world grows 
 colder, until we attain to organic compounds. 
 We see these organic compounds united to form 
 living beings, and we see these living beings de- 
 veloping into countless forms, and, after seons 
 of time, evolving into a dominant race which is us. 
 
 "Of this attempt on the part of science to unify 
 physical nature, the Hon. A. J. Balfour said in 
 his Presidential address, before the British Asso- 
 ciation: 'It excited feelings of the most acute 
 
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 intellectual gratification. The satisfaction it gives 
 is almost aesthetic in its intensity and quality. 
 We feel the same melancholy past, we first see far 
 below us the sudden glory of plain, river, and 
 mountain.' 
 
 "There is no criterion of absolute truth; there 
 is no way of attaining to absolute truth, and we 
 may as well acknowledge it. Should we therefore 
 abandon the world riddle? Assuredly not. If 
 we may never know a system to be true, we may 
 believe it to be true. We may not have a knowledge 
 of truth, but we may have a recognition of it. This 
 recognition of truth depends, seemingly, on 
 psychological considerations. If we have a beau- 
 tiful building of systematized perceptions and 
 conceptions, all dovetailing into one another, 
 into the complete expression of an idea, we say 
 the idea is true, because we see in it a perfect 
 harmony, and this harmony pleases us and gives 
 us a feeling of the recognition of truth. But the 
 statement: 'This scheme is faultless in its con- 
 sistency, and is therefore true/ is not logic; it 
 is an act of pure faith. This unlogical faith 
 which permeates science is very plain to see. 
 Why should there be a system at all? Why should 
 we feel that the Universe must be a perfect har- 
 mony? Why should there not be seventy or 
 eighty elements as well as only one? The answer 
 is not forthcoming. It is a matter of faith bred 
 in the bone of science. The little systems have 
 their day, one after another, and cease to be. 
 {But out of each system rises another, not as a 
 revolution, but as an evolution.) 
 
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 "The second system takes in all the * facts' 
 of the first, accounts for all its inconsistencies, and 
 embraces a wider scope. The third bears a similar 
 relation to the second. Hence the evolution of 
 systems is like a series of concentric, ever-widen- 
 ing circles, covering ever larger areas of knowledge, 
 and we believe purely as an act of Faith, and not 
 at all of Logic, that the Universe is eventually 
 determinable, thousands of years hence, into 
 some one system which will account for every- 
 thing and which will be the truth. 
 
 "Meanwhile, this system of the New Knowl- 
 edge, as we have attempted to outline it, is simply 
 the outermost circle covering the greatest area of 
 knowledge, and while its diameter is by no means 
 infinite, it is the truest expression of the Truth at- 
 tainable at this time, and as such is vastly useful. 
 
 "Its utility in the evolution of knowledge is its 
 sole apology for existence. Outside, however, 
 of the theoretical interpretations of the new knowl- 
 edge, there is a great body of newly perceived 
 phenomena, called 'facts. 5 These 'facts/ inde- 
 pendent of any theory connecting them, are also 
 useful, so useful indeed that they will never be 
 forgotten nor neglected so long as thought en- 
 dures. Such are the ascertained facts and 
 measurements of radio-activity, of new physics, 
 the new chemistry, and the new astronomy — 
 new pawns on the chessboards of man's struggle 
 with nature and forever useful. 
 
 "In addition there are certain new conceptions 
 which while we can hardly say they are ascertained 
 truths, shadow themselves as such. 
 
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 "It is in the realization of two of these con- 
 ceptions that during the next two hundred years 
 the great work of the world will lie. 
 
 "The first is the transmutability of the elements. 
 Our reason bids us assent to its actual accomplish- 
 ment, not with our aid, but in spite of it, in the 
 case of the heavy elements. Our hopes lead us to 
 feel that we may aspire to accomplish it for 
 ourselves. In this connection Sir William Ram- 
 say's speech at the Waldorf Astoria banquet is 
 significant. 
 
 "' Experiments are in progress with radio-active 
 substances the results of which seem to show that 
 we are on the brink of discovering the synthesis 
 of atoms. This may lead us to the discovery of 
 the ordinary elements/ A record of his experi- 
 ment certainly confirms his hopeful attitude. 
 Having accomplished atomic synthesis, we shall 
 then strive to subordinate it to our needs, and 
 having done this, we shall be well on our way to 
 a transformed world. 
 
 "Still another conception of the new knowledge 
 is that of the vast stores of interelemental energy 
 of which we live but on the fringe — a store so 
 great that every breath we draw has within it 
 sufficient power to drive the workshops of the 
 world. Man will tap this energy some day some- 
 how. 
 
 "Of course, we do not know this, but we believe 
 it. We believe it because we believe that Creation 
 means something and means it intensely. We 
 have not come up through Paleozoic, Mesozoic, 
 and Cenozoic times for nothing. If all the an- 
 
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 guish of all the lives of all past were to find one 
 common vocal expression, what a cry to God there 
 would be. Are we to believe that the butcher, 
 the baker, and the candlestick-maker, to say- 
 nothing of the great masses of men beneath them, 
 are worth all that? No. It is all a promise. 
 There must be a result in the world that is worth 
 all the world. It has been impossible in the past 
 to even glimpse this result. It was an action of 
 pure faith to believe in it. But now that we know, 
 or think we know, of this infinite Treasure House 
 of interelemental energy lying latent for the hand 
 of future man to use, it is neither difficult nor 
 fanatical to believe that 'beings who are now 
 latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins 
 shall stand upon this earth as one stands upon a 
 footstool, and shall laugh and reach out their 
 hands amidst the stars.' 
 
 "Meanwhile, we feel that we know this: 'In 
 the beginning God Created,' and in the midst 
 of his Creation, He set down man with a little 
 spark of the Godhead in him to make him strive to 
 know, — and in striving, to grow and progress to 
 some great worthy, unknown end in the world. 
 He gave him hands to do, a will to drive, and 
 senses to apprehend, — just a working equipment: 
 and so he has won his way, — so far, out of the 
 horrible conditions of pre-history. 
 
 "To Know is to work and to do, — and a new 
 thing Done is forever a rung in the ladder by 
 which man climbs, — necessary and good for all 
 generations, until the summit is attained and the 
 ladder can be cast aside." 
 
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 I extend thanks to Professor Wm. James, I. W. 
 Heysinger, M.D., Robert Kennedy Duncan, and 
 George Burman Foster for the great help I have 
 found in their books and recommend them to all 
 those who are interested in the Science and Re- 
 ligion of to-day. 
 
 This lesson is a very deep one, and requires 
 many readings and much meditation. It is one 
 that each student and teacher should read at 
 least once every month. By doing this they will 
 find that at each reading they will realize some- 
 thing not understood before. This is true of all 
 studies along these lines; in fact it is a great 
 "Truth" that we read from every book; and see 
 in every picture just what we are capable of under- 
 standing or seeing at that moment. Thus we realize 
 that we continually grow in consciousness. 
 
 Treatment for this Lesson 
 
 / am Spirit, in my Soul and Body — The 
 perfect Divine Life or God, the All Good. The 
 Spirit of my Soul is vibrating at a more rapid speed, 
 is therefore of finer quality. The greater includes 
 the lesser, the finer should control the coarser, 
 the higher the lower. My "Sour' is demonstrat- 
 ing now its mastery over my Body. The "Great 
 Spirit" of the "whole" is flowing into my indi- 
 vidual soul through all the organs of my body, 
 purifying and strengthening them. All is Good 
 or God and God is love. Meditate on this state- 
 ment morning and night, and as often as possible 
 through the day. 
 
Lesson VIII 
 
 THE CHRIST OR SPIRITUAL 
 CONSCIOUSNESS 
 
 |pIP====SiS HE word "consciousness" is one 
 Jj^ ^^^^^ ljjj into which a new and much more 
 inclusive meaning is being recog- 
 nized by all students of psy- 
 chology as well as of metaphysics. 
 Webster gives the definition as, 
 "Having the faculty of knowing" 
 -"To be aware of" — "Cognizant" — "etc." 
 
 There are, of course, different kinds and degrees 
 of consciousness. Away back through the ages, 
 scientists tell us, there was an animal "man" 
 born with a higher consciousness of "self" than 
 had been given to any living creature up to 
 that time. This new animal called "man" was 
 the first one who could say, "7 am different from 
 other forms which I see" — This was the first 
 Birth into "Simple Self -consciousness," and from 
 that time this "man creature," has, through 
 great strife, struggles, and suffering, with here 
 and there a little gleam of joy, and light, to 
 urge him on, evolved to the man of to-day who 
 
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 is bringing into manifestation miracles along all 
 lines. While this evolution has been going on 
 according to law, from lower to higher, there has 
 been evolved, at different times during the ages, 
 one at a time, a Soul, different from others, "ahead 
 of its type," as it were; one with a larger "vision" 
 — a deeper "knowing," or as we now express it a 
 "greater consciousness." Among these were 
 Buddha, Zoroaster, Laotzse, Confucius, Jesus, 
 called the Christ, and all later Prophets, Poets, 
 Inventors; those born with a vision or a special 
 message in advance of the majority of their 
 age. 
 
 When we read the history of these Souls we 
 find that at some time in their lives each had a 
 "Sudden Illumination," a "Rebirth" as it has 
 been named by some; a time when there came a 
 larger "Knowing," through some kind of a vision, 
 and "understanding," after which the world, 
 their life, everything and every experience, was 
 different, larger; and of course from that time 
 on, during their lives these men were leaders. 
 (Many illustrations of these prophets and seers are 
 given in "Cosmic Consciousness," by Dr. Richard 
 Maurice Bucke, in "Varieties of Religious 
 Experiences," by the late Wm. James, and in 
 "Cosmic Consciousness," by Ali Nomad.) 
 
 During the last comparatively few years, science 
 and religion have from different angles reached 
 the same conclusion in regard to the Universe, 
 i.e., — that it is one of absolute dependable law 
 and order, the "Life Essence" (by whatever name 
 we may call it, the "Ether of Space" the "First 
 
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 Cause," "The Force of Life/' "The Eternal 
 Energy," "The All Good or God") of which is 
 one and the same. This life manifesting in almost 
 innumerable forms with different degrees of 
 consciousness. 
 
 From the fact that the world leaders in science 
 and religion have reached this conclusion as to 
 the "Unity" of the Universe, comes the realiza- 
 tion that many souls have to-day been born into 
 a higher and more inclusive consciousness. As 
 is always the case, and necessarily so, the material 
 scientists have their name for this, and after call- 
 ing the Universe a "Cosmos" they explain the 
 understanding of this as "Cosmic Consciousness," 
 while Religionists, calling the one Life of the 
 Universe "Spirit," name this new realization 
 "Spiritual Consciousness." Many Religionists of 
 the Western World call it the "Christ Conscious- 
 ness," and it is that which Jesus the Christ had, 
 and manifested to such a wonderful extent that 
 many people of his time and later have believed 
 that he was All of God, unique, unattainable. 
 The understanding of Cosmic or Spiritual Con- 
 sciousness explains Him, and all these wonderful 
 souls, and does so by referring to his own words. 
 While simple or Self Consciousness is experienced 
 through the senses, Cosmic Consciousness is only 
 known through our inner sense, a something we 
 might call a "feel within." Leaders along these 
 lines of thought are calling it the "Sixth Sense," 
 or "Fourth Dimension," and it must of course 
 come through a heretofore undeveloped sense, 
 which now that it is needed will come forth and 
 
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 we shall by recognizing and experimenting with 
 it, learn its laws and use them more practically. 
 
 This "inner knowing," has been called by 
 Scientists the psychic sense" — "Intuition," etc., 
 and works to a great extent through the subcon- 
 scious side of the Mind, and through this sense has 
 been and always will be all religious or spiritual 
 experience. 
 
 After studying the evolution of Self Conscious- 
 ness and the New Birth into Cosmic or Spiritual 
 Consciousness, we realize that continual evolution 
 must come through the study and understanding 
 of the Laws of the latter, or "Spiritual Science." 
 This Science being that of the life of the Universe, 
 includes all; so-called Material Science, all Re- 
 ligion, everything. It is absolutely "inclusive" 
 What a vast and wonderfully interesting study 
 we have before us! There is no environment nor 
 experience in which it cannot be used and by 
 learning its laws, because they are the laws of 
 the "All Good," or "God," "Spirit," we may 
 demonstrate harmony along all lines. 
 
 The first step towards this wonderful and im- 
 measurable study is the realization of the "Unity" 
 of the Universe. When we stand on a hill or a 
 mountain looking out over a beautiful scene there 
 wells up within us that consciousness of the One 
 Life, pulsing, beating through it all and we feel a 
 "part of it all"; we have the same "feel" when 
 looking out over a large body of water, or at the 
 wonderful Falls of Niagara, or at night at the 
 stars, trying to realize the unthinkable distance 
 between them and ourselves, the perfect "Law" 
 
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 which controls the planets, which look so tiny to 
 us. As we go along and meditate on this "Unity " 
 we will grow in the consciousness of it, and then, 
 by consciously experimenting in our daily lives, 
 we will demonstrate more and more of "Truth" 
 to ourselves and others. 
 
 The attitude of the past toward Religion has 
 been too much theory and very little practice — 
 People have dwelt upon the letter of the law and 
 have overlooked the Spirit or Real Life back of 
 it, thereby denying in practice the very Truths 
 which Jesus, the one whom they worship as "The 
 Christ," came to teach and tried so faithfully to 
 instil into his Disciples and others. 
 
 Religion has been treated as though it were 
 something "outside" of Life, to be put on with 
 our Sunday clothes and used while in church, and 
 then put aside until the next Sunday. The atti- 
 tude of most religionists toward Sunday has been 
 contrary to the teaching and example of Jesus. 
 When asked regarding this he said, "The Sabbath 
 was made for man, not man for the Sabbath." 
 
 In the first place, specializing upon one day as 
 "God's day" has hidden the Truth that all days 
 are "God's days," and that we need this "Great 
 Presence" of the "All Good" every day and hour 
 of our lives in all of our demonstration. Then if 
 we set aside one day out of seven in which to 
 specialize, to honor, worship, revere, meditate, 
 and give thanks to the Great, Wonderful, God of 
 Love, how shall we know what kind of demon- 
 stration will be most acceptable to God, the All 
 Good? Taking Jesus again as our interpreter, 
 
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 read carefully the statements said to have been 
 made by Him. If we can believe anything related 
 in the New Testament, we can certainly believe 
 the general attitude toward God which he taught. 
 He spoke of God as a "Loving Father" — one 
 who was always ready and anxious to forgive 
 His children for mistakes. He told his hearers 
 not to "beg nor plead for mercy," nor to make, 
 "long prayers, using many words," but said, 
 "Behold ye have all these things before ye ask 
 them," trying to explain to them that the same 
 God, Father, Holy Spirit was within each one and 
 that all they had to do was to recognize "it," and 
 thus call "it" forth into manifestation. If you 
 will read "The Sermon on the Mount," and all 
 other words of Jesus, with this understanding 
 you will get a much fuller realization of the "Con- 
 sciousness" he had, and which He said we might 
 have, if we would believe his words and act accord- 
 ingly. 
 
 With this conception of God, we know at once 
 that he wants us to be "Happy"! The Ideal of 
 the Universe is Harmony! When we are "happy," 
 we are expressing most of the God Life, which we 
 really are. This is the "Answer," and it is an 
 individual one always. No one can judge happiness 
 for another, therefore each one must find his or 
 her own path to this goal, and lovingly "let go" 
 of every other soul to do the same. 
 
 This being true, on Sunday or the Sabbath, 
 the Seventh day, set aside (and there is a practical 
 scientific necessity for this) for rest, change of 
 occupation, " re-creation/ 9 and through these, time 
 
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 to think and express more of the God Life, each 
 Soul should be free to decide every separate Sunday 
 the way in which he or she can most fully relax, 
 rest, in fact realize the "God of Love, and Life of 
 All," thereby becoming "re-created and inspired, 
 in order to demonstrate Harmony or Happiness. " 
 In other words, when we are happy we are ex- 
 pressing God's laws most fully; therefore our 
 demonstration is right for us without regard to the 
 opinion of any other soul, or the conventions, 
 laws, or theological framework of any denomi- 
 nation, in this or any other country, for we cannot 
 be happy if we are really interfering with the 
 rights of another. 
 
 Children if reared with this idea will grow up 
 loving Sunday and wishing it to come, instead of 
 (as was my own experience and that of the ma- 
 jority of children in the past) dreading it and hating 
 the day, because we could not do anything we 
 wished to. It was "wrong" to play with toys, 
 to go driving, to boat ride (and all these were 
 questions largely of locality), and the reason 
 given was because it was "God's day." What a 
 denial of the "God" of the "Christ Conscious- 
 ness"! — He who said, "Suffer little children to 
 come unto me, for of such is the Kingdom of 
 Heaven" (on earth as well as in Life Hereafter). 
 What demonstration could be more pleasing to 
 the "God" of whom we can have a conception to- 
 day than a "happy little child"? And read what 
 Jesus said should be the consequence to one who 
 offended the "least of these" and yet in this sup- 
 posedly civilized, not to mention Christian, age 
 
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 many adult men and women asleep, tied to a 
 conception of God and Jesus which belongs to the 
 childish, even animal stage of centuries past, 
 dwell upon the outgrown Theological Technique 
 which, while the best they knew or were able to 
 conceive of in those days, with their belief in a 
 God of fear, wrath, and vengeance, is certainly 
 out of date to-day, and cannot be retained. We 
 hold now a higher conception, our birth into the 
 Christ Consciousness. 
 
 We still hear (and I often think how immeasur- 
 able, infinite, God's patience is) seemingly intelli- 
 gent, thoughtful, supposedly educated men and 
 women discussing this question of "keeping the 
 Sabbath Day" — One thinks (and I was one of 
 these only a few years ago) "it is perfectly right 
 to drive a horse on that day, but wrong to go boat 
 riding; another that motoring, using a chauffeur 
 is right, but wrong to play golf, etc., etc., etc., 
 trying to settle all these details for all times, to 
 arrange a religion or plan of life which can be 
 used by all, with established definitions or for- 
 mulas for right and wrong which can be committed 
 to memory and used as we would the multiplica- 
 tion table, which is of course impossible "For 
 there is nothing (as Dr. Minot Savage says) we 
 can think of that would not under some conditions 
 be right to do, and under some conditions be 
 wrong." 
 
 What again would be more pleasing to God than 
 a man, woman, or child expressing Happiness and 
 Love in "Spirit," through a Healthy Body which 
 is the Temple of the Soul or Spirit. And if we 
 
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 stop to think and ask, seriously, surely the inner 
 voice, and our reason, will tell us that any occupa- 
 tion or recreation which helps us to be Happy and 
 Healthy must be "right for us," whether it is 
 playing golf, motoring, boat riding, going to 
 church, or anything else we may choose, and that 
 this is true on Sunday as well as any other day. 
 
 Now that we are commencing to understand 
 that negative thoughts of anger, irritation, adverse 
 criticism, worry, fear, etc., affect our bodies and 
 bring on diseases as well as make others uncom- 
 fortable and unhappy, I trust that a greater num- 
 ber of people will realize that it is a sin to allow 
 ourselves to get into these conditions, and that 
 this is also true on Sunday as well as any other day. 
 Then we shall all devote more time and attention 
 to keeping our thought atmosphere right, than as 
 to whether it is right to "dance" or "play cards," 
 or "go to the theater" on a week day or play 
 golf, motor, etc., on Sunday; and will more and 
 more get the realization that everything is right 
 in its time and place, in moderation. As Lawrence 
 Hope says — 
 
 " Men should be judged, not by their tint of skin, 
 The Gods they serve, the vintage that they drink, 
 Nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, 
 But by the quality of Thoughts they think" 
 
 Some one has said that after every "Thou shalt 
 not" there should be a "why?" and each indi- 
 vidual must find his or her answer in every case. 
 We must get away from the little conception of 
 Life up into the Higher Christ or Cosmic Con- 
 sciousness and think on a larger plane, deal with 
 
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 principles, adjust our religion {which is our idea 
 of God) to this Twentieth Century of aeroplanes, 
 limousine automobiles, electricity, and the pos- 
 sibilities of radium; only by so doing can we be 
 properly equipped to live our own lives in this 
 new age, to say nothing of attempting to lead 
 and inspire the young of this generation who 
 are being born into this Consciousness, at their 
 physical birth. 
 
 After I had written this I read "Child and Coun- 
 try,' 5 by Will Levington Comfort, and must quote 
 the following: — "The greatest wrong that has 
 been done by past generations is the detachment 
 of work and religion, setting off the Sabbath as 
 the day for expressing the Angel in us and mark- 
 ing six days for the progress of the animal." I 
 heartily recommend this book, which I consider 
 one of the best of the day. "Midstream," the 
 book written before this by the same author, is 
 also very fine. 
 
 When we get even a gleam of this higher realiza- 
 tion we find that we can and should "live the 
 presence of god," not one day out of seven but 
 every day, every hour, every moment. There is a 
 little booklet printed giving the soul history of a 
 monk who was called "Brother Lawrence." His 
 work in the monastery was the most menial; 
 washing dishes, scrubbing, etc., yet, right there, 
 in that environment, he was born into the Christ 
 Consciousness, through an "Illumination," and 
 learned "The Practice of the Presence of God." 
 For the Technique to be used in order to acquire 
 this, I refer you to Lesson Five on "Concen- 
 
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 tration and Meditation.' ' Every morning upon 
 awakening turn your thoughts to the God of the 
 Universe; Thank Him for the rest which the Body 
 has had and the re-creation therefrom; take some 
 favorite quotation, or bit of poetry, thought, or 
 affirmation, such as "I am a part of the Divine 
 Life, the All Good," "I am Love, I radiate Love!" 
 Throughout this coming day I shall endeavor 
 to realize more and more of God's Presence in 
 everything, and to express more and more of it my- 
 self — I feel this Presence: It is a warm, loving, 
 essence in which I live and move and have my 
 being. It is within and without, everywhere, in 
 fact it is "All there is"; by and through it I am 
 protected: I have a greater consciousness of "it" 
 than ever before. All my work and every ex- 
 perience of the day shall be Spiritualized by the 
 realization of God's Presence. Only that which 
 my soul attracts can come to me, and by con- 
 sciously using this wonderful "Love Presence" 
 even that which may seem at first to be in- 
 harmonious may be dissolved, assimilated, and 
 brought into Harmony: which is the Law of god 
 realized and expressed, and should therefore 
 be the answer to all our problems. 
 
 ALL IS GOOD OR "GOD" AND "GOD IS LOVE." 
 
Lesson IX 
 
 LOVE, MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE 
 
 N starting to write this lesson I 
 feel like the boy who when asked 
 to write a composition took for 
 his subject, "The Universe" and 
 then found he was limited to one 
 thousand words. 
 
 Following the sequence I have 
 suggested in the former lessons, I will take my 
 "Ideal," my "Vision," from "The Princess" by 
 Alfred Tennyson and would ask all who read this 
 to get this beautiful poem and read it. I quote 
 his Ideal of Man and Woman because he expresses 
 so beautifully my own : — 
 
 Blame not Thyself too much, I said, nor blame 
 Too much the sons of men and barbarous Laws: 
 These were the rough ways of the world till now. 
 Henceforth Thou hast a helper, me, that know 
 The woman's cause is man's : they rise or sink 
 Together dwarf 'd or godlike, bond or free: 
 For she that out of Lethe scales with man 
 The shining steps of Nature, shares with man 
 His nights, his days, moves with him to one goal; 
 Stays all the fair young planet in her hands — 
 If she be small, slight-natured, miserable, 
 
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 How shall men grow? But work no more alone! 
 
 Our place is much: as far as in us lies, 
 
 We two will serve them both in aiding her — 
 
 Will clear away the parasitic forms 
 
 That seem to keep her up, but drag her down — 
 
 Will leave her space to burgeon out of all 
 
 Within her — let her make herself her own, 
 
 To give or keep, to live and learn and be 
 
 All that not harms distinctive Womanhood; 
 
 For woman is not undeveloped man 
 
 But diverse: could we make her as the man 
 
 Sweet love were slain : his dearest bond is this, 
 
 Not like to like, but like in difference. 
 
 Yet in the long years liker must they grow; 
 
 The man be more of woman, she of man; 
 
 He gain in sweetness and in moral height, 
 
 Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world; 
 
 She mental breadth, nor fail in childhood care, 
 
 Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind; 
 
 Till at the last she set herself to man 
 
 Like perfect music unto noble words : 
 
 And so these twain upon the skirts of Time, 
 
 Sit side by side, full summ'd in all their powers, 
 
 Dispensing harvest, sowing the To-Be, 
 
 Self-reverent each, and reverencing each, 
 
 Distinct in individualities, 
 
 But like each other ev'n as those who love. 
 
 Then comes the Statelier Eden back to men; 
 
 There reign the world's great bridal, chaste and calm; 
 
 Then springs the crowning race of human-kind, 
 
 May these things be! 
 
 Sighing she spoke, "I fear 
 They will not." 
 
 Dear, but let us type them now 
 In our own lives, and this proud watchword rest 
 Of equal; seeing either sex alone 
 Is half itself, and in true marriage lies 
 Nor equal, nor unequal : each fulfils 
 Defect in each, and always thought in thought, 
 Purpose in purpose, will in will, they grow, 
 
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 The single pure and perfect animal, 
 
 The two-ceird heart, beating with one full stroke, 
 
 Life. 
 
 And again sighing she spoke: "A dream 
 That once was mine! What woman taught you this?" 
 Alone, I said, from earlier than I know 
 Immersed in rich f oreshadowings of the world 
 I loved the woman; he that does not, lives 
 A drowning life, besotted in sweet self, 
 Or pines in sad experience worse than death, 
 Or keeps his wing'd affections dipt with crime: 
 Yet was there one thro' whom I loved her, one 
 Not learned, save in gracious household ways. 
 Not perfect, nay, but full of tender wants, 
 No angel, but a dearer being, all dipt 
 In angel instincts, breathing Paradise, 
 Interpreter between the Gods and men, 
 Who look'd all native to her place, and yet 
 On tiptoe seemed to touch upon a sphere 
 Too gross to tread, and all male minds perforce 
 Sway'd to her from their orbits as they moved 
 And girdled her with music. Happy he 
 With such a mother! faith in womankind 
 Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high 
 Comes easy to him, and tho' he trip and fall, 
 He shall not blind his soul with clay. 
 
 What a wonderful Ideal for man and woman, 
 and through these of true marriage; what a beauti- 
 ful tribute to a Mother! 
 
 After studying the laws of Spiritual Science for 
 about three years, reading books, taking lessons, 
 hearing lectures, meditating, teaching, and treat- 
 ing, I came to this conclusion — that back of 
 every case of nervous inharmony, by whatever 
 name it might be called, and back of all so-called 
 "diseases of women," is some kind of inharmony 
 in their sex or family life. I have made this state- 
 
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 ment to several physicians and science Healers, 
 and they have agreed with me from a much wider 
 experience than mine. 
 
 Back of all this, as the first cause, is a wrong 
 attitude toward sex, caused by ignorance. 
 
 Scientists who have delved into the life of the 
 Universe find everywhere the two demonstrations, 
 masculine and feminine. This combination forms 
 the Universe, It is this attraction expressing that 
 controls the "ALL" and yet, poor blind men and 
 women in their ignorance have condemned it, 
 because through sex came inharmony, and they 
 were not able to understand that it was not the 
 thing itself, but the wrong use of it that caused the 
 disaster. 
 
 In fact only within the last comparatively few 
 years have a few men and women awakened, and 
 commenced the study of these laws, and by so doing 
 found the reasons for much of the inharmony 
 along these lines. As is always the case, first 
 came the Poets, Prophets, the Transcendentalists 
 and Dramatists, with their necessary tearing down 
 of the old, and Ideals for the new regime. Among 
 the greatest of these are Emerson, Thoreau, Walt 
 Whitman, Tennyson, Mr. and Mrs. Browning, 
 Shelley, Ibsen, Hauptmann, Sudermann, Bernard 
 Shaw, Ellen Key, Olive Schreiner, Edward Car- 
 penter, Havelock Ellis, Edward Howard Griggs, 
 and Charles Zeublin. Each of these and many 
 others has in his or her individual way brought to 
 light the flaws in the old and pointed to possi- 
 bilities for the new dispensation, in regard to the 
 strongest and most important laws of the Universe 
 
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 and the conventions for controlling them in order 
 that this world shall demonstrate greater harmony. 
 
 Sex attraction is the first and most powerful 
 expression of "Love/' which is God therefore it 
 must be Good, always, in its self, for it is God ex- 
 pressing. Because it is the most Powerful Force 
 in the Universe, it is capable of demonstrating the 
 greatest, most complete harmony (or Heaven State) 
 if used according to its own laws, and of creating 
 the deepest, blackest, and most destructive of 
 inharmonies, (or Hell States), if used (no matter 
 how innocently through ignorance) outside or in 
 opposition to its own laws. 
 
 Man (meaning man and woman) has, with this 
 Law as with all others experimented, worked, 
 thought, lived, suffered, rotated between Heaven 
 and Hell, trying with all the light he could get at 
 a given time to solve this problem. He has made 
 many mistakes, blundered along, but we must 
 not condemn, for he has always done (and is still 
 doing) the best he could with the Light he had. 
 We of this century, with our knowledge through 
 Science, Religion, and miraculous advance along 
 all lines, must rouse ourselves from our "Earth 
 Drowse' 5 and be in reality "Truth Seekers"; 
 then, as Jesus the Great Master said, "we shall 
 find: 9 
 
 We have said that the "Love" of two beings, 
 man and woman (each being in reality only half) 
 is the Highest Ideal of the expression of Love of 
 God; after this comes "The Desire to repro- 
 duce its kind," then "Motherhood" and "Father- 
 hood," then extending out, in circles one after 
 
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 another, those souls whom we attract, until we 
 have a gleam of "The Brotherhood of Man" 
 which is the "birth" into Cosmic Consciousness. 
 After this, of course, each soul unfolds more and 
 more, gaining through experience, thought, medi- 
 tation, all the avenues open to it, a fuller and 
 broader understanding of "Life" (Lawrence 
 Hope has written a wonderful poem, which ex- 
 presses the "New Thought," and higher Ideal 
 of Love. The title is, "Love is the Symbol of a 
 Sacred Thing"; it is in her book "Stars of the 
 Desert.") 
 
 Our capacity for loving "God" is governed by 
 our capacity for loving some human being, for as 
 Jesus said, "If ye love not your brother whom 
 you have seen, how can you Love God whom you 
 have not seen?" 
 
 My ideal of a "Great Love" is first an attrac- 
 tion, which I would call "Psychic," of the souls 
 of a man and woman, then, through acquaintance, 
 a Friendship, the exchanging of ideas on the 
 deepest things in life, God, Love, Marriage, etc., 
 with the result that in general in regard to the 
 most important vital questions there is an agree- 
 ment; a similarity of tastes in regard to recreations 
 and amusements, a harmonious mental arrival, 
 so that it would be possible for each to under- 
 stand the other, and then an unselfish Love, each 
 feeling that to make the other "happy," to serve 
 the other, to be to that one all that he or she most 
 desires in life, is their greatest happiness: When 
 each one has this love, surely it is a real Marriage, 
 and may safely be followed by a civil contract in 
 
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 order that children and property be arranged for. 
 And the statutes should include a law that would 
 quickly free the couple from civil contract if the 
 real marriage should at any time prove to be 
 ended. 
 
 With such a love the sex life would be a beauti- 
 ful and sacred experience, the Highest conceivable 
 in this life, and while such a love continued there 
 would be no necessity for "laws to bind the two 
 souls," nor to protect either from any other soul. 
 
 But even when this Love is realized we should 
 remember that it has to be retained; we do not 
 expect to live without food for our physical body; 
 why should we think that Love once won can 
 continue to exist and thrive without nourishment? 
 
 This mistaken attitude is at the root of the 
 majority of unhappy marriages and consequently 
 of ill health of thousands of women and many men. 
 Love must not only be "won" but fed and nur- 
 tured tenderly, in order that it may continue and 
 increase, for nothing stands still; it either grows or 
 dies, changes form. As expression is the first law of 
 God, and God is Love, we understand that in order 
 to grow, Love must express and the fuller the ex- 
 pression the greater will be the return, for, with 
 this as with everything, we receive as we give. We 
 must study expression: Try to discover new and 
 ever more ways in which to express our love, using 
 words, actions, studying the temperament, each 
 one of the other, trying to give happiness or pleas- 
 ure in the way they want it, not in our own way. 
 
 If the mothers and fathers of to-day would take 
 this attitude toward each other, live it and teach 
 
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 their boys as well as girls these ideals of Love and 
 Life, we would have the "Super Man and Woman" 
 and the new "Eden" of which Tennyson speaks 
 in the next generation. 
 
 Some writer has said that every soul must see 
 "God walk beside it in human form," and this is 
 true. 
 
 Love itself then is always and ever Good — when 
 it seems to bring inharmony we must know that 
 there is something wrong about the machinery, 
 or our use of it, just as when we hear of an explo- 
 sion from natural gas, or fire from electrical wires, 
 etc., etc., we know the laws of those demonstra- 
 tions have been disobeyed in some way, and in 
 order to avoid those catastrophes we start people 
 to investigate, try to find out the cause; in what 
 way they were misused, or abused; in order that 
 we may avoid another disastrous manifestation. 
 
 We should follow the same system with regard 
 to all the various and complex inharmonies 
 caused by the misuse and abuse of this Great 
 Wonderful Universal Power of "Love." From 
 the fact that a larger number of thinking men 
 and women are working on these problems to-day 
 we may expect great advancement, Higher Ideals 
 Realized, and better systems in the not distant 
 future. 
 
 Each case of "Love" between man and woman 
 is an individual one, and must be treated so by 
 the two individuals: considering all the compli- 
 cations. " In the beginning of Creation God made 
 them male and female. For this cause shall a man 
 leave his Father and Mother and cleave to his 
 
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 wife and they twain shall be made one flesh; so 
 then they are no more twain but one flesh; what 
 then God hath joined together let not man put 
 asunder." (Mark 10: 6-9.) 
 
 This is the real marriage, a Great Love between 
 a man and a woman, and it is the only reason for a 
 civil law or contract of any kind following. These 
 of course differ in various localities. Bernard 
 Shaw says that he receives thousands of letters, 
 asking "if he believes in marriage?" He says 
 he asks, "What kind of marriage do you mean?" 
 For there are many varieties in different countries. 
 Marriage being a "Spiritual Union' 9 between two 
 souls, God joined, cannot by man be put asunder, 
 except in appearance, but only by one or both of 
 the two souls. And when this is done neither 
 man nor angels can preserve the real marriage. 
 Believing this, I feel that the Churches (both 
 Catholic and Protestant) have made several grave 
 mistakes in their treatment of love and marriage. 
 The first one, the supposition that for each man 
 and woman there is but one love in this life and 
 that once having found this (or believing they 
 have) they must continue to live together in the 
 married state according to the civil law of the 
 particular locality in which they happen to live 
 until "death does them part." This attitude, 
 taken by the Churches and naturally followed by 
 conventional Society, has brought about the con- 
 ditions existing to-day. The fact that the Church, 
 the Civil Law, and Public Opinion cling to the 
 outer framework, the letter of the law, and set it 
 up in advance of the real spirit of marriage has 
 
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 emphasized the unreal outer form, losing sight of 
 the real or Spirit. 
 
 Edward Howard Griggs said several years ago, 
 in a lecture on "The Ethics of Personal Life": 
 "Many people are to-day very much frightened 
 by the statistics on divorce; the fact that the 
 number is increasing rapidly; and they fear the 
 world is getting very 'bad/ the moral standard 
 weakening, etc. They are entirely wrong in 
 their diagnosis; it is because the world is getting 
 better, more Spiritual, a greater number of men 
 and women are realizing that A Great Love is the 
 only excuse for a man and a woman being 
 legally tied and when for any reason that love has 
 changed, the greatest sin to the souls of both is to 
 continue the married or sexual relation." 
 
 This is the higher, more spiritual conception 
 of the Prophets, Poets, Scientists, and advanced 
 Religionists of to-day, names of whom I have given 
 earlier in this lesson, and I trust every one who 
 reads this will get the works of Ellen Key, Olive 
 Schreiner, Edward Carpenter, and Havelock Ellis 
 and learn from them the great truths known 
 to-day along these lines, for through the knowl- 
 edge of these is coming great advancement, which 
 will bring forth a Wonderful Spiritual Race, the 
 "Super-Man and Woman." 
 
 The very attitude of the narrow conventional 
 (probably middle-class majority) toward these 
 "New Thoughts" is a terrible criticism on the 
 existing conditions. They say, "But if you make 
 divorce easy, aren't you afraid that Home Life 
 will be broken up, etc., etc.?" Surely they put a 
 
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 low estimate on the number of "Real Marriages" 
 now realized, do they not? Let us be honest; 
 if there are so many cases where one or both of 
 those living in the married state according to law 
 are doing so for other reasons than love, would it 
 not be much better for all the individuals and the 
 race, to remove the dead skeleton, the Technique 
 of the law, and free the Real Spirit in order that 
 it may live its best life, which is an expression of 
 God the all Good? / still believe that, notwith- 
 standing the many mismated couples, and where 
 one or the other has outgrown the supposed 
 mate, or for different reasons they do not love 
 each other as they should in order to continue 
 the marriage relations, that there are many men 
 and women living in this world who have found 
 their mates who still love with the real Spiritual 
 attachment, which is the most beautiful realiza- 
 tion in this life, and who, if all the marriage laws 
 were declared void to-day, would from choice 
 remain together. In other words being "God 
 joined" they could not be "put asunder." 
 
 Then comes the question — what of the chil- 
 dren? My answer is: The birthright of every 
 child is to be born into this world as the result of a 
 perfect Union of two Souls, a Great love. The 
 question as to whether these souls are civilly or 
 lawfully married has nothing to do with the real 
 love, nor the child. (This is another place where 
 the churches are responsible for a criminal atti- 
 tude toward an innocent child! an expression 
 of God according to His Own Law: and they have 
 in their pitiful mistaken ignorance put their "man- 
 
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 made laws" ahead of this Strongest law of God's 
 Universe, thereby casting a slur on Motherhood 
 and condemning thousands of God's children 
 to suffering and heartache! From this attitude 
 of churches and Religionists of the past — which 
 they, no doubt, established hoping through 
 "Fear" to prevent sexual relations between un- 
 married people and the birth of children to them, — 
 has come such a strong public sentiment in regard 
 to this that one can hardly look at a newspaper 
 to-day without reading of a murder or suicide 
 which had as its cause some complication of this 
 kind, showing that many poor souls have a greater 
 Fear of man's judgment and "Public Opinion" 
 than of that of the God of Universe! Truly we 
 can only refrain from condemning those who 
 are responsible for this attitude by saying, "Lord, 
 forgive them, they knew not what they did." 
 
 The majority of Americans (both men and 
 women) live along in a self-satisfied attitude, 
 thinking and talking of "our wonderful republic," 
 but are really ignorant of the Laws and conditions 
 of this wonderful country and of how far behind 
 it is in many ways. For instance, in several 
 countries all children are legitimatized, as soon as 
 born, and if the parents cannot take care of them 
 they are the property of the State, and are cared 
 for and educated by it. Yet our America, a 
 so-called "Christian Country," has no such law! 
 A child from out side of "wed-Zoc&" (using the 
 ancient term) is outside the law; condemned for 
 something over which it had no control and which 
 occurred according to the strongest and most 
 
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 beautiful law of the Universe, The Life Principle! 
 I will say right here that my strongest reason 
 for believing in suffrage for woman is that the laws 
 affecting women and children may be changed 
 and evolved by women, for surely they can better 
 understand both, and this is surely a women's 
 domain. Men are so busy, and naturally, making 
 laws for the transaction of business, that they 
 cannot study these conditions and make the best 
 laws for them. Referring to the beautiful poem 
 with which I began this lesson, I feel as Tennyson 
 expresses it — "The woman's cause is man's," and 
 again — "Let her make herself her own, to give 
 or keep, to live and learn and be all that not 
 harms distinctive womanhood; for woman is not 
 undeveloped man, but diverse." 
 
 Both the masculine and feminine are needed 
 in everything; nothing is complete without both, 
 and there is no necessity for one interfering with 
 the other; in fact when this appears there is some- 
 thing wrong with the system. They should be 
 always side by side, working together for the good 
 of all. 
 
 Now as to the environment of the child, — just 
 because the atmosphere surrounding two souls 
 that are really united in A Great Love (whether 
 they live in one room, or in a palace) is the most 
 complete demonstration of the "Heaven State" 
 that we can vision, the atmosphere of the reverse 
 condition is oftentimes the Blackest Hell of our 
 imagination! I can think of no more unhealthy 
 soil in which to rear a child than an unhappy 
 "Home." Many men and women living to-day 
 
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 can testify to this and I am sure will agree with 
 me. Now that we know the action of the environ- 
 ment and the objective mind on the Subconscious, 
 through "Suggestion," we realize what a great 
 effect on the character of man and woman the 
 environment of childhood has. Therefore, "For 
 the sake of the child," if the parents cannot 
 manifest harmony let them separate, arranging 
 in the best possible way for the child's greatest 
 good. Of course each case is an individual one, 
 to be studied and treated by the two souls whose 
 attraction for each other put into action the 
 greatest laws of the Universe, the results of which 
 must be carefully considered. If both have a 
 Spiritual Consciousness (and I have known cases 
 where even one had this and the arrangements 
 were made without inharmony) there is no reason 
 why two that have lived together in marriage 
 cannot separate without any bitterness or ill 
 feeling — and in many cases be friends for life; 
 in this way each keeping the respect and love of 
 the children, if there should be any. In fact, 
 this last will be accomplished much more easily 
 if the parents are separated than when living 
 together out of harmony. 
 
 Another cause for much unhappiness through 
 marriage is the present system, the lack of real 
 and right preparation, which should be explanation 
 of Life and its meaning by Mothers to their 
 children, from babyhood up. Then when they 
 are about to make the Great Experiment (for it 
 is always that) they should prepare themselves 
 by studying under the care of a trustworthy 
 
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 physician, who is also a friend (if possible) the 
 laws of their own body and those through which 
 they may best, after marriage, preserve health 
 and happiness and bring forth children with this 
 birthright. Then, instead of an elaborate trous- 
 seau, the round of gayeties, entertainments, etc., 
 all of which exhaust the poor girl and annoy the 
 man; finishing with a large wedding, scores of 
 presents which will be a care and an expense for 
 years to come and probably prove a great burden 
 — instead of this pagan system, let us hold the 
 higher ideal of a quiet, simple wedding at home, 
 with only those who really love them present, no 
 gifts but the Good Thoughts, wishes, and smiles 
 of their real friends. 
 
 When this sane system is inaugurated, as it 
 must be before many years (the present one 
 having reached its extreme, I believe), one great 
 cause of ill health and unhappiness in married 
 life will be removed. I have heard a number of 
 times the criticism (of course from those who 
 know nothing about it) that New Thought mental 
 and spiritual scientists believe in "Free Love," 
 have "no moral standard whatever." Of course 
 we cannot answer such statements when they are 
 made (as they usually are) in a crowd, at a social 
 gathering — we can only say mentally, " Lord 
 forgive them, they know not what they say." 
 They do not understand their own words! Can 
 love ever be anything except free? I can but 
 give my own highest Truth — i.e., Returning 
 to our conclusion that "love being the God 
 Essence of Life, the sex attraction, masculine 
 
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 and feminine, for each other, its first expression 
 in the Universe, that attraction which sustains 
 the order of everything from the planets in their 
 courses to the tiniest insect and bit of proto- 
 plasm or atom, must therefore always be Good 
 in itself. How shall we explain our understand- 
 ing of those who misuse and abuse this wonderful 
 attraction? 
 
 In regard to this, as every demonstration in 
 life, my answer is "Evolution" of the soul, through 
 some kind of "Reincarnation" (lives before this 
 one as well as after); and of the Body through 
 inherited tendencies and environment during 
 this life as well as through the Soul's action on it. 
 These are the only answers that explain to me the 
 differences in the character, consciousness of souls 
 in this world; the fact that we find even those of 
 the same family, brothers and sisters, totally 
 different in their consciousness, their thoughts, 
 ideas, etc. The only way in which I can find 
 Justice in this world and have a conception of a 
 God that is All Good, loving, tender, wise, and 
 just, is to believe that every soul must go through 
 the same experiences sometime somewhere. Each 
 incarnation, whether it be on this planet or some 
 other, is like a "Room" at school, where there 
 are several classes. Every soul attracts just the 
 environment (by first selecting its Mother) 
 which it needs in order to learn its next lesson. 
 Every lesson has to be conquered, and, as one 
 after another, this is accomplished the soul ceases 
 to attract the problems through which these 
 lessons were learned. It then attracts different 
 
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 experiences; every person, book, picture, problem 
 of any kind, which comes into our lives is attracted 
 by the Soul or Real Self in order that we may 
 learn through each a needed lesson. When we 
 realize this we will, instead of being antagonistic 
 toward experiences which seem unpleasant, face 
 and study them, and try to quickly understand 
 the lesson for which we have attracted them, 
 work lovingly and faithfully to learn it, and then 
 we will "overcome," and find that by so doing 
 we have gained another step in Consciousness. 
 
 Souls that are young upon entering this life 
 come with a greater number of animal tendencies; 
 therefore they use the sex attraction more nearly 
 as animals do. The older Souls, having passed 
 through a greater number of lives, thereby gain- 
 ing through larger experiences, come into this 
 one with a larger understanding and a realization 
 that mind and spirit are higher than Body, and 
 should control it; that while animal tendencies 
 may still be in the Subconscious they should 
 be controlled by the spirit or God within each 
 soul. With this ideal have the older Souls of the 
 past (with the best judgment they had at a given 
 time) established codes of Ethics (or morality), 
 rules for behavior. This of course was right and 
 necessary, the wrong being that those who es- 
 tablished these rules did not realize that the world 
 was growing, and that one of the laws of the 
 Universe is to change the form, constantly and 
 forever, and that the Souls of later generations 
 would need different codes. The Old Prophets 
 and Seers, those evolved ahead of the majority, 
 
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 were leading a very childish people! Young 
 souls with only a gleam of even simple self con- 
 sciousness. And in order to emphasize their 
 ideas and establish rules for life they had to work 
 upon the most susceptible emotion of which the 
 majority were capable, i.e., Fear. And as their 
 conception of God was at that time one of "Wrath'' 
 they naturally Feared Him, as the something which 
 they realized was greater than themselves. Under- 
 standing this, as the Prophet had an inspiration 
 that was new, he, realizing that it came from the 
 higher power in some way, and wishing to give it 
 to the masses, would do so by prefixing all such 
 messages with — "And God said unto me." 
 This would attract the attention and impress 
 upon the people the "Truth" which the leader 
 wished to teach them. 
 
 When we look through the records of the past 
 we realize that codes of rules for morality have 
 changed as people grew and had a higher concep- 
 tion of God and man, and that they must con- 
 tinue to change for the same reason. Our 
 standard must always be — "What is the best for 
 the majority at a given time, considering every- 
 thing?" There will always be the few who are 
 in advance, have a greater consciousness, and who 
 must be the "Leaders"; then the majority, the 
 middle mass, and of those always a few laggers, 
 who are the last to come up. We cannot, under- 
 standing life in this way, hold any people or in- 
 dividuals to our Standard of Morality — Each soul 
 is responsible only as far as it knows. There are 
 souls in this world who are unmoral as well as 
 
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 those who are immoral. And quoting Sir Oliver 
 Lodge, "Sin is a reversal to a lower, after knowl- 
 edge of a higher." 
 
 Jesus came into the world to bring a higher 
 code of morality than the ones in vogue before 
 his time, and his was a code of "Lave" and non- 
 resistance; of the Spirit, instead of the letter of 
 the Law, and one of his greatest and strongest 
 commands was — "Judge not lest ye be Judged." 
 The Spirit of the teachings of Jesus called the 
 Christ is a practical working code of Ethics for 
 the world to-day, and many souls are now realizing 
 His Consciousness. 
 
 With this attitude should each individual meet 
 the "love" experiences of this life; without fear, 
 realizing that the experience may be a beautiful 
 one if it is accepted and treated in the right way; 
 the question being always the same, does it bring 
 Harmony, or discord, into the life? If the latter 
 we should "stop, look and listen" to the "Inner 
 Voice," and when we cannot accept or keep a love 
 and arrange our lives so as to demonstrate har- 
 mony, the answer must be to lovingly "let it go," 
 keeping the beauty of it, and all that we have 
 learned through it, but, like the "Nautilus," 
 close up the room, moving on into a new and larger 
 one, keeping all the past loves and friendships as 
 beautiful experiences never to be forgotten, 
 because from each have we learned something 
 which has enlarged our consciousness and given 
 us a better Understanding of Life. In this way 
 we realize that we can never lose a love or friend- 
 ship, even though we may find it best to separate 
 
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 in this life for a time; sometime somewhere we 
 shall meet again. As I said earlier in this lesson, 
 we are just now in this country going through a 
 transition stage in regard to our moral and con- 
 ventional codes. Many men and women realize 
 that we have outgrown the old conventions and 
 have confused them with our morals, until we 
 really do not know "which is which/' This 
 condition makes life very complex! Many who 
 are advanced in Thought and Consciousness 
 want to live their higher ideals here and now — 
 but the majority are still bound to the past, 
 have not yet realized the Christ or Cosmic Con- 
 sciousness, when they can think and reason for 
 themselves, and they are either timid and fearful 
 of the "New Thoughts" and ideas, or they are 
 antagonistic toward them. Those in advance 
 should always bear in mind that if they believe 
 they have a new Truth, which is a higher and ad- 
 vanced one, the best way to win others to believe 
 in it is to live it. ("By their fruits ye shall know 
 them.") There are, however, laws and conven- 
 tions in regard to love, marriage, and the Social 
 Life that while not perfect are still the best we 
 now know for the majority, and no one who has 
 really been born into the Cosmic or Christ Conscious- 
 ness will tear down or violate these, unnecessarily. 
 Freedom comes not in this way, for where any man 
 or woman acts openly and aggressively in opposi- 
 tion to the accepted conventions of the time, 
 he or she attracts the negative attention of the 
 majority, and is thereby fettered and bound. In 
 other words, we can have freedom of thought, a 
 
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 little freedom of speech, but when it comes to 
 action we should remember that we must consider 
 "The greatest good to the greatest number." 
 We are all parts of a "perfect whole"; therefore 
 we are attached to the whole and there is no 
 possibility of entire individualism. Slowly, but 
 surely, are a greater number of souls awakening 
 into the Cosmic Consciousness, and as the number 
 increases will they, having a higher vision, lovingly 
 lead those who are a little behind and gradually 
 through thought, meditation, and experiment, 
 will the code of laws, conventions and morals be 
 adjusted to this higher consciousness. We will 
 some day have demonstrated, here on Earth, 
 many, many Real Marriages founded on a "Great 
 Love"; Ideal Friendships; and the "Brotherhood 
 of Man," really lived and proved to be a practical 
 working principle. (This will indeed be the King- 
 dom of Heaven on Earth.) 
 
 Before closing this lesson, which is necessarily 
 long because it deals with the most vital subjects 
 in Life, I wish to make the statement that I have 
 met many Teachers, Healers and Students of 
 New Thought, Mental, Divine, Spiritual and 
 Christian Science, and I have never found one 
 who did not have a very Spiritual Ideal of Love 
 and Marriage and the Ethics of personal life. 
 When, therefore, the Statement is made that we 
 believe in "Free Love," we can say "Yes!" 
 But that does not mean promiscuous loves, nor 
 loves of the animal plane; and while, if we know 
 that it must and will be "Free" in its attraction, 
 we also know that it must be controlled by each 
 
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 individual Soul, and according to the laws of the 
 land, or it will demonstrate great inharmony. 
 
 Students, Teachers, and Healers should realize 
 that there is a connection between all these lessons. 
 No one can be thoroughly understood without all 
 the others. Beginning with "The Unity of the 
 Universe," they lead on through this life and its 
 problems and experiences up to the time of "pas- 
 sing on" to another life. In whatever way I call 
 attention to negative conditions, I do so only in 
 order that I may point out the way of "Highest 
 Truth To Me" for their elimination, or correction, 
 as I am convinced, through the consciousness 
 given me by life experiences, that "All is Good" 
 ("in the last analysis") and that all pain, suffer- 
 ing, agony of soul and body, comes to us because 
 we are ignorant of so many of God's laws; that 
 even all the inharmonies of the past have been 
 necessary, and we may still say, "All has been 
 Good," because through the prodding and pain 
 have we evolved until now; when many have 
 awakened into the Cosmic or Christ Conscious- 
 ness, where we shall learn laws, conventions, and 
 codes which will transcend the old dispensation, 
 so that in the future, beginning right here and now, 
 we may live and grow, demonstrating Health and 
 Harmony of Soul and Body. Let each one who 
 reads this and the next lesson reread them many 
 times, and quietly, bravely face his or her own 
 life, asking for Wisdom from the "Voice within," 
 to see the reasons back of some wrong belief or 
 attitude of mind, thought, or action for every 
 inharmony in body or environment. 
 
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 Each soul that honestly does this will find the 
 cause. Then, by using the technique I have given 
 in the earlier lessons, there is no limit to the 
 wonders that may be accomplished ! 
 
 In my next lesson I shall give some of the wrong 
 attitudes in the past toward Family Life, which 
 have been the cause of inharmony and thereby 
 of diseases of different kinds; and the new and 
 advanced ideas which will correct these negative 
 conditions. Also my ideal of Motherhood and 
 Fatherhood and some Suggestions as to the 
 Method of Teaching children the laws of Life. 
 
 The books I particularly recommend with this 
 lesson are: — 
 
 "Love and Marriage," by Ellen Key. 
 
 "Woman and Labor," by Olive Schreiner. 
 
 " The Dawn of Love and Death" and all others by Edward 
 Carpenter. 
 
 All books by Havelock Ellis, who is an authority on the 
 subject of "sex" and who has the highest and most beauti- 
 ful Ideals. 
 
 "Marriage," "Man and Super Man," by Bernard Shaw. 
 
 "Damaged Goods" and two other plays by Brieux. 
 
 "The Mother as a World Power," by James Henry Larson, 
 Ph.D., with the Prenatal Culture Method of Mrs. Kate 
 Livingstone. 
 
 "How to Train Children and Parents," by Elizabeth Towne. 
 
 "Education in New Thought for Children," with Bibli- 
 ography, by Helen Rhodes- Wallace. 
 
Lesson X 
 
 FAMILY LIFE AND HOW TO TEACH THE 
 LAWS OF LIFE TO CHILDREN 
 
 MOTHERHOOD and Fatherhood 
 ■ls» are the most important, responsi- 
 sible, and sacred experiences in 
 this life, and may if rightly under- 
 stood be the happiest; but as 
 | |^%^^^^| r with all great Laws and experi- 
 i ^ 1 r == ^ ences, if not understood and 
 
 therefore not properly lived, the results are great 
 inharmony and the "Hell" State. I shall first 
 bring out a number of reasons, on account of 
 wrong ideas of the past in regard to "God," Life, 
 and its meaning, for the many inharmonies in 
 family life existing to-day. One of the greatest of 
 these is the idea that children were "owned" by 
 their parents; that the latter had the right to 
 rule and control them even after they were 
 grown men and women; that they were personally 
 responsible for them to a God of Wrath and 
 Vengeance. This later belief has been at the 
 root of the other attitude, and was if true really 
 logical. We have all no doubt, known cases 
 
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 where the old idea of the obligation of child to 
 parent has extended into mature years, usually 
 with one member of a family, a daughter perhaps, 
 of whom a selfish mother or sister demands con- 
 stant attention and self-sacrifice. I have known 
 several cases where a mother would not give 
 her consent to the marriage of a daughter when 
 love came into her life, simply because she was 
 selfish, and did not want to give up the indi- 
 vidual attention she had received from this child 
 for so long that she felt it necessary — Yes ! there 
 have been many selfish Mothers who have tried 
 to believe, and have others do so, that their de- 
 pendence on their child was from love, when in 
 Truth it has been selfishness. Of course, each 
 case, as in all problems between two or more souls, 
 is an individual one, and no one outside can ever 
 give definite advice. But we can tell them the 
 laws, and one of those is the necessity for each 
 soul to decide all such questions by calling to and 
 asking of the "God within" (Holy Spirit), by 
 whatever name they call it — and having received 
 the answer abide by it, and never regret, knowing 
 that the decision having been made, after asking 
 for wisdom, must have been right. And even 
 if it seems to bring inharmony for a time, the 
 Souls concerned must have needed even that. 
 There are times when it is right and necessary 
 to use the Surgeon's knife and hurt people, for a 
 principle. 
 
 When we get the first gleam of the larger Cosmic 
 or Christ Consciousness that each soul is an 
 expression of the God essence, who has come into 
 
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 this world in order that it may learn certain lessons, 
 etc., we realize that each child is a soul which 
 attracts, and is attracted to, a certain environ- 
 ment, and that this soul is simply loaned to its 
 parents, that they may love, teach, and prepare 
 it to become free and independent of them; and 
 through this experience grow in knowledge and 
 greater consciousness of themselves. As I have 
 said in former lessons, our ideas of God carry 
 through and affect all of our ideas of life's rela- 
 tions. When man believed in a God who was a 
 stern Father, one who demanded "an eye for an 
 eye and a tooth for a tooth/' who would punish, 
 even to eternity, of course his conception of earthly 
 Fatherhood was along the same lines, and children 
 were brought up with the great "Fear" of their 
 Father; this to such an extent that the church 
 felt the necessity for some softer, more loving 
 conception, and commenced to idealize "Mary," 
 the Mother of Jesus, and to worship her, this 
 bringing forth the love attitude, desire for which 
 had awakened in many souls; while this adoration 
 of "Mary" has been carried to extreme, we can 
 (as with each step in the evolution of man), upon 
 looking back through the ages, realize that each 
 "New Thought" has been an advance and a 
 necessary step in the evolution of the Race and the 
 World. The Law seems always to be a swinging 
 of the pendulum from one extreme to the other, 
 then gradually slowing down to balance and 
 rhythm. During the past generation with a 
 higher ideal of God, the Christ Ideal of a loving 
 Father, with the attributes of the mother included, 
 
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 has come the change of attitude in the home. 
 Instead of control by "Fear," punishment, and 
 reward, has come the "Love" attitude which 
 Jesus tried to teach, but which it has taken 
 nineteen hundred years for man to really under- 
 stand as a practical working system of life, and 
 even now it is realized by only a few, and with 
 them is still in its infancy. 
 
 We are to-day going through a transition stage, 
 in regard to family life, as with everything else. 
 In some cases, where the father and mother still 
 have the Puritan orthodox ideas and cling to their 
 "authority" — or perhaps have outgrown the 
 "letter," but still have the spirit, they feel that 
 their children, having been lovingly and carefully 
 reared until the time for going out into the world 
 to gain experience in different ways, should con- 
 tinue to think and act according to the ideas 
 which the parents had for them, and when they 
 dare to have "New Thoughts," different ideas, 
 to try new paths, the parents are either frightened 
 or hurt, or both — forgetting that had this not 
 been done generation after generation there would 
 have been no evolution of either body or soul. 
 
 Now starting with our higher conception, the 
 child comes into this world attached to and by 
 its Mother and Father, for some special reasons: 
 they, accepting it as an expression of the Divine 
 God Life loaned to them to care for through its 
 period of helplessness, coming in answer to the 
 call of "A Great Love," consecrate their lives 
 to it, and realize that to care for it, day by day, 
 watching it unfold, studying each little gleam of 
 
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 consciousness, as well as physical growth, will be 
 their greatest duty and pleasure, as well as to add 
 to their own understanding of Life. 
 
 In thinking over the problems of life from my 
 own experience and that of others, I believe that 
 the most important laws to teach a child are the 
 following (please note sequence) : 
 
 1. Good habits, of cleanliness, and courtesy, 
 respect for self, and of all others, because each 
 is a part of the God Life. These will later in life 
 act subconsciously, or become a part of the char- 
 acter of the child. 
 
 2. Self-Control. 
 
 3. Cause and effect — compensation — "As it 
 gives, so will it receive," in every way. 
 
 4. Unselfishness, as differenciated from general 
 self-sacrifice, or weak giving up for peace. 
 
 Each of these laws should be explained clearly; 
 the reasons why they are necessary and will be 
 needed all through life. The teaching of these 
 laws can begin immediately after birth, as all 
 nurses now understand, habits can be immediately 
 formed which will either make the arrival of the 
 babe a blessing or — at least a great care, and 
 almost take away the comfort and happiness of 
 the entire family. 
 
 As soon as the child is old enough to ask the 
 first "why?' 9 it should be answered honestly 
 as far as the parents know, and if they do not know, 
 let them honestly say so, and that they will help 
 the child find the answer. 
 
 One of the first things a child to-day will ask is, 
 "Where do kittens and doggies, chickens, and 
 
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 then, babies, come from? " Instead of telling them 
 the old stories of the stork, etc., which the children 
 of to-day will not believe, tell of the One God life 
 in everything; show them the birds and tell them 
 about their nests, the Mother staying on the eggs 
 and having patience to sit quietly and keep them 
 warm, while the Father goes out to get food for 
 both; study the life of plants and flowers, bees, 
 etc., and tell them about each, — that there is the 
 "Mother and Father" in everything, that the 
 Earth is the Mother and the Sun the Father of 
 all this planet. 
 
 If this teaching is commenced when the child 
 first asks, say between two and three years of age, 
 it will be prepared for everything, as it grows in 
 consciousness and there will never be any shock 
 when the time comes to apply this knowledge to 
 itself. If a Mother keeps close to her child she 
 will know with her intuitive mind just the moment 
 when it is ready to hear of its own birth — of 
 how she, its Mother, carried it under her heart 
 for months, and felt its little life, and then how, 
 through pain and suffering, it was born into this 
 world, the greatest of all miracles. I know from 
 experience that children thus taught are spared 
 suffering, hours of wondering, then probably 
 wrong instruction, which has in many cases 
 impaired health through the entire life ! 
 
 Dr. G. Stanley Hall said in a lecture I heard 
 him give on "Eugenics," "The greatest drawback 
 we meet in trying to teach this new Science is the 
 false modesty of Mothers." They say, "I cannot 
 talk to my child on such subjects." All this is 
 
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 of course the result (as I said in the last lesson) of 
 wrong attitude toward the Sex question. Dr. 
 Hall added, "What we need are women who 
 understand these laws and can explain to Mothers, 
 and tell them why and how to teach the laws of 
 Life to their children, for only by so doing can we 
 protect and preserve the race." We must learn 
 that ignorance is not innocence; that if we wish to 
 keep our children innocent we must inform them 
 as to all the laws of Life as far as it is in our power. 
 We would not send them out into the world 
 without telling them of other dangers, and yet in 
 the past parents have allowed their children to go 
 into the world, to meet the most dangerous con- 
 ditions, in absolute ignorance as to their existence. 
 The consequences have of course been terrible 
 in many cases. We owe devout thanks to men 
 like Ibsen, Hauptmann, Brieux, Bernard Shaw, 
 Havelock Ellis, Edward Carpenter, and others, 
 and women such as Ellen Key, Olive Schreiner, 
 Florence Kingsley, Margaret Morely, and many 
 others who have dared not only to think but to 
 speak out the Truth on these subjects. 
 
 Again — I would say to all Mothers and Fathers, 
 keep your children near you in Soul as well as Body, 
 Keep their confidence by loving them and being 
 true and honest with them. They are "little men 
 and women"; treat them as such. Appeal to 
 the Good, the God which they really are, and so 
 that will come forth! Teach them to respect 
 themselves as a part of the "God Life" and also 
 to respect others for the same reason. Give 
 them high Ideals! Teach them that there is a 
 
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 reason for their being here; that it is to unfold 
 and express the God essence which they really are. 
 Teach them the Laws of Life and sex, as the 
 highest expression of God in this Life, that a 
 woman or any animal that is carrying young is 
 sacred; and that they should always protect all 
 such in every way possible — that they have no 
 right to kill or take the life of anything unneces- 
 sarily, nor to cause any of the manifestations of 
 God's Life to suffer. 
 
 There is a tendency to-day, particularly in the 
 United States, for the Mothers to have entire 
 charge of the children; the Fathers, being so taken 
 up with their business, earning the money to 
 supply the physical needs, find it difficult to 
 have time and opportunity to really know their 
 own children. This is all the result of a wrong 
 social system, and both the children and the Fathers 
 miss much that is beautiful and educational, 
 through this lack of companionship. The Father's 
 point of view (if he is a Real Father with the at- 
 titude of interest and love for his child) is needed, 
 with both boys and girls, and where he has not 
 included himself there is a great lack, to him and 
 the child. 
 
 As the children grow gradually into maturity 
 there should be a "letting go," by both parents, 
 allowing each child to express him or herself as 
 far as possible, in speech and also in action. The 
 parents should be able to discuss all subjects 
 freely with them, each respecting the others 
 opinion. Often the parents can tell the children 
 of personal experiences through which they have 
 
How to Teach the Laws of Life 131 
 
 learned certain lessons, etc., and advise them 
 lovingly to avoid certain actions that they may 
 not be obliged to suffer as the result of more 
 mistaken demonstration. 
 
 Then comes the test of the really Great Father 
 and Mother! When, even though all this has been 
 demonstrated, they have unselfishly lived for 
 their children, have put their interests first at all 
 times, have spent hours with them, talking, 
 advising, etc., the Father has worked to get the 
 money to clothe, educate and give them comforts 
 and luxuries, and after all this, the girl perhaps 
 insists upon marrying the one man of whom the 
 parents do not approve, and the boy goes out 
 into the world, and does some, perhaps all of the 
 things of which he has been told and warned! 
 Just this experience is the crucifixion which has 
 come to so many parents and through which they 
 have been obliged to find higher laws and a greater 
 consciousness; when this is the result , they can 
 indeed be thankful for the experience and say 
 "All is Good," and those who have or do not learn 
 in this way must suffer more until they also learn 
 the higher Truth. Those of us who are born 
 into the Cosmic or Christ Consciousness realize 
 that each soul must attract every experience 
 it needs in order to learn its lessons in this life; 
 therefore — when the parents have done every- 
 thing they know to do, with all the light they can 
 get, and the children do not demonstrate accord- 
 ing to their ideas, they should realize that they 
 cannot, simply because they have been their 
 physical children, know just what each soul needs, 
 
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 therefore they must "let go," love them, use the 
 technique given in the earlier lessons; declare 
 their real life to be a part of the God Essence and 
 that it must and will demonstrate what is best for 
 them, and then Trust the God of the Universe, 
 realizing that the same God Life which is within 
 the parent is within the child and can be trusted 
 (must be) to work in just the right way in order to 
 demonstrate harmony to the soul. Right here 
 in these intricate, complex problems of Family 
 Life are the higher laws of Spiritual Science most 
 valuable! In fact I often wonder how parents 
 and children live, continue to exist, through them 
 without the knowledge of these laws; I am often 
 amazed that there are not many, many more 
 suicides ! 
 
 To go farther into the problem of Family Life 
 I will take the other side of the question, that of 
 the Child; when a boy or girl has been reared in 
 a home where the parents have been kind, loving, 
 and generous, have lived up to these high ideals 
 to a great extent, they naturally have a love and 
 respect for both parents, or the one who has so 
 demonstrated. But the tendency to-day is to 
 make the children selfish by too much of everything, 
 from attention to things and pleasures of all kinds, 
 and in many cases the children are reared to be 
 self -centered and selfish without the realization of 
 either parent or child, until they are grown men 
 and women and it is most difficult for them to 
 teach themselves unselfishness, particularly toward 
 the parents. We find upon quietly studying 
 these problems, looking at our own experiences, in 
 
How to Teach the Laws of Life 133 
 
 the light of all science, etc., which we have 
 gathered, that human "Life" is a continual adjust- 
 ment of the soul to its environment, the "inner to 
 the outer," and this attempt at adjustment is 
 the Greatest of all Arts. Just because there is the 
 "Unity of Life" and wondrous diversity of expres- 
 sion, it is most complex, and there can never be any 
 absolute freedom of action by extreme individualism: 
 for each is a part of the whole and affects the whole 
 at all times for good or ill. For the same reason 
 there can never be a permanent code of Ethics or 
 behavior along any line, because all outer forms are 
 constantly changing and what might be right at 
 one time, under certain conditions could be very 
 wrong at another time, considering all conditions. 
 Thus complex problems are constantly changing 
 in each one's experience; and in family life, be- 
 cause the relations are more intimate, the souls 
 are more closely united by love, common interest, 
 etc., they are much more intricate and difficult 
 to solve. 
 
 In these relations there Is vicarious suffering! If 
 each soul in a family had the Christ Conscious- 
 ness, to the extent that Jesus had it, there would 
 not be this pain, but each is in a different stage of 
 development or unfoldment, and therefore can- 
 not quite understand any of the others. There- 
 fore when one of the family acts in a manner that 
 some other one, or perhaps all the others, feel is a 
 wrong demonstration and will bring inharmony 
 and suffering to the one they love, and vicariously 
 to themselves, a difficult problem has arisen ! How 
 shall it be solved? At this point we have what 
 
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 Will Levington Comfort calls, "that Will o' the 
 Wisp Free Will." Each is free to choose his or 
 her line of action, and to pay the price for it! We 
 read in every newspaper we unfold the results of 
 selfish (so-called free) actions of members of fami- 
 lies, along all lines — tragedies of every description; 
 often, perhaps in most cases, each has acted with 
 the best intentions — but because their conscious- 
 ness was not great enough to include the other 
 souls, a mistaken attitude was taken by one or 
 more, which involved itself and all the others in 
 great inharmony. 
 
 Let us look at an imaginary case from the dif- 
 ferent angles of each member of the family, pre- 
 supposing they were in the Christ Consciousness. 
 The attitude of each one would then be that because 
 of their great love for Mother, Father, Sister, 
 Brother, or child they would never, except for a 
 principle^ or to preserve their own soul, hurt one of 
 their near and dear ones, and if, through thought- 
 lessness, ignorance, or misunderstanding, they had 
 done so, would be quick to ask forgiveness and of 
 course it would be granted! Now, supposing one 
 soul in the family felt it right to take the initiative 
 and follow a certain line of conduct of which 
 the other members disapproved; before acting, 
 even though he or she might believe it perfectly 
 right individually, taken alone; careful thought 
 would be given as to whether the action or line of 
 conduct would really bring enough satisfaction 
 of any kind to make it worth while, considering 
 the consequent inharmony and unhappiness re- 
 sulting from the suffering to loved ones, and the 
 
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 necessary and inevitable reflex pain and sorrow to 
 self. I do not mean by this that any harmless 
 pleasure or desire should be given up by one 
 member of the family in order to cater to the 
 " whim" or selfish pleasure of another, nor that 
 a principle should ever be sacrificed, but if each one 
 would, through honest self-examination, be sure 
 that their desires or demonstrations were not 
 selfish, and if each really loved with an unsel- 
 fish love the other members of the family, the 
 problems could be solved with very little 
 inharmony. 
 
 This "vision" I have given is of an Ideal 
 Family, where all have been born into the Christ 
 Consciousness, but I have never personally known 
 such a family. I have, however, known several 
 where one or two are in the consciousness but the 
 others are still unawakened, living under the old 
 dispensation — now we know that the Greater 
 includes the lesser, and the one who has the larger 
 consciousness must demonstrate accordingly; as 
 Ibsen says in the "Master Builder," "We must 
 climb as high as we build"', each is responsible 
 only as far as he or she knows, and again, quoting 
 Sir Oliver Lodge — ■ "Sin is a reversal to a lower 
 after knowledge of a higher." One Soul in a 
 family can by studying and using the laws of 
 Spiritual Science (which Jesus the Christ taught 
 and lived) be the "Yeast" to leaven the whole 
 and bring into Realization Harmony out of great 
 Chaos — The Heaven State out of Hell. The 
 same laws which apply to family life are just as 
 efficient in regard to all other social adjustments, 
 
136 Laws of Health and Prosperity 
 
 in fact, our relations in life are to me like a stone 
 thrown into the water; it makes a small circle 
 very close, then another a little farther out, and 
 so on to the outermost ripple, and so each in- 
 dividual soul has first the one nearest and dearest, 
 then the "Family," then perhaps the " Church " 
 or some ethical organization, or philanthrophy, 
 business, etc., and in our dealings with other souls 
 along all these lines the same laws may be used 
 effectively. Susan Blow, the great Kindergarten 
 Teacher, an interpreter of "Froebel," who has 
 lately "passed on," said that if we really loved 
 our Brother, our "neighbor as ourself," the rules 
 laid down by Jesus would be a perfectly natural 
 and easy code. For if a loved child, or mother, 
 father, sister, or brother asked for our coat, 
 we would not only give it our cloak but also 
 anything else they desired, and it would be no 
 sacrifice nor hardship. If we study our own 
 thoughts and actions, examine ourselves occa- 
 sionally as to our motives, we will learn to demon- 
 strate greater harmony, and as Luther Burbank 
 is doing with vegetation, gain years in our own 
 evolution. 
 
 For the technique : Go alone to the place where 
 you feel the Unity to the greatest extent, get quiet 
 by treating yourself, then "see" the soul you wish 
 to influence, as perfect, its best self. Declare 
 strongly (after calling it by its name) that it is a 
 part of the Divine God Life, that it is demon- 
 strating more and more of the Perfect Life which 
 it really is, that it can not and will not, continue 
 to demonstrate inharmoniously, that it is awaken- 
 
How to Teach the Laws of Life 137 
 
 ing now, and will see the Light and learn the 
 higher Truth. Keep this up, every day, always 
 before going to sleep at night and whenever you 
 think of this soul. Do not force or strain, but 
 after treating in this way, say, "I call upon Thee, 
 Thou Great I Am That I Am to work in this soul: 
 and I ask in the name of Jesus the Christ! Thy 
 Will be Done!' 9 Do all this in a loving, strong, 
 trustful attitude. Then Trust the God of the 
 Universe and know that all things will work to- 
 gether for the Good of the Soul you are treating, 
 and for all. Go alone and read this lesson every 
 time a family complication arises and then use 
 the Treatment. Then do not limit God as to 
 time nor any details; just ^ Trust and rest and 
 know." 
 
 Books I recommend in addition to those mentioned 
 in previous lessons are : — 
 
 "Man, Woman and Child, " by Minot J. Savage. 
 
 "Essays," by Robert Ingersoll. 
 
 "The Century of the Child," by Ellen Key. 
 
 "The Child and the Book," by Gerald Stanley Hall. 
 
 "The Montessori Method," by Madame Montessori. 
 
 "A Montessori Mother," by Dorothy Canfield. 
 
 Works of Froebel. 
 
 Works of Susan Blow. 
 
 "Adolescence," by Dr. G. Stanley Hall (most important). 
 
 "Education," by Herbert Spencer. 
 
 "The Life of the Bee" and "The Blue Bird," by Maurice 
 Maeterlinck. 
 
 "The Song of Life" and "Life and Love," by Margaret 
 Morley. 
 
 " Bible Stories Retold," by Hiram W. Hayes. 
 
 " Child's Christ Tales," by Andrea Hoper Proudfoot. 
 
 Books by Thornton W. Burgess and Howard H. Garis. 
 
138 Laws of Health and Prosperity 
 
 These latter authors write most interesting 
 stories of animals, making them seem like human 
 beings, and teach the habits, etc., in a way that 
 will be retained by the child throughout life and 
 will greatly assist it to realize the same life within 
 all. 
 
Lesson XI 
 
 WHAT IS THE ATTITUDE OF SPIRITUAL 
 SCIENCE TOWARD DEATH 
 
 What is Death? 
 
 'Tis but a changing 
 
 Through the Eternal God's arranging, 
 
 Of a coarser to a finer, 
 
 From a lower to a higher 
 
 As we journey on. 
 
 Thus the Trees and Flowers 
 
 Every year their leaves exchanging 
 
 Grow each season to a beauty more amazing, 
 
 Proving we may Trust the Great Refiner, 
 
 Him who's the Ideal Designer; 
 
 The One who can the finished picture look upon 
 
 If He so clothe the Fields 
 
 And of each Birdling's song He notes the raising. 
 
 If in each man there is this "craving," 
 
 If in all Matter there's Divine Desire, 
 
 And nothing can be lost, not e'en by Fire 
 
 Surely, Man's Soul must go forever on. 
 
 |WAY back through the ages if we 
 search and study the history of 
 Man we find that one of primitive 
 man's first impulses was to try 
 to get into right relation with the 
 "Power" of the Universe, which 
 he recognized as greater than 
 is still attempting this and always 
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 himself. 
 
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 will, for this Power is his God, and his belief about 
 God will always govern his actions toward God. 
 
 The second impulse seems to have been the 
 desire to live after Death. The Egyptians treated 
 the bodies of their friends after death in such a 
 way that they were preserved for many years, 
 because they believed literally that the same body 
 was resurrected. In the Bible we find in "Job," 
 one of the oldest books, the question, "If a man 
 die shall he live again?" This question has been 
 in the minds of all souls since the first man evolved 
 to simple Self Consciousness, and is there to-day. 
 I shall not try to prove mathematically that there 
 is life beyond Death, but simply call your atten- 
 tion to certain Truths and laws which, it seems to 
 me (and many of our most noted scientists take 
 this attitude) make such a belief logical and more 
 than probable. 
 
 Let us begin with "Unity," the law of our First 
 Lesson: The Universe a living, beating, pulsing 
 Cosmos, the life of which is one and the same in 
 and through all; nothing can be added to, nor 
 taken from, this Life Essence; it is. Its first 
 law is to express, and it does so constantly, in 
 different forms; these latter are constantly chang- 
 ing, but the life is the same. Read Lesson VII, in 
 which I quote scientists, in regard to these laws. 
 One says, "You cannot destroy the head of a pin." 
 
 Now think quietly about this. If everything (as 
 Science now says) in the Universe is composed of 
 Atoms, which are vibrating at different rates of 
 speed, Spirit, being the original Life Essence, 
 must be the highest vibration, and we cannot of 
 
What is the Attitude of Spiritual Science 141 
 
 course "see it nor feel it" with our five senses. 
 Spirit and Spiritual Truths must be understood 
 through our finer senses, an inner knowing, a 
 higher consciousness. Jesus the Christ came 
 into this world to prove to those who were near 
 enough to him Spiritually and with Love and so 
 could understand, that Souls having passed 
 through the change called Death did live again. 
 If we can believe the record of his resurrection, 
 only those who in life had been near to him and 
 loved him saw him after the crucifixion and those 
 who did not see him did not believe. It is always 
 so with Spiritual Truths and experiences; the 
 deepest and most wonderful in life; those who 
 have not awakened to the Spiritual, Cosmic or 
 Christ Consciousness cannot see, hear, nor under- 
 stand these experiences and to them, they do not 
 exist, while those who are in this higher conscious- 
 ness "know," and all the denial of the whole 
 world can not take away their knowledge ! 
 
 The "Spiritualists" of the past and those of 
 the Modern times, Theosophists and many others, 
 have studied, meditated, and experimented with 
 these laws and experiences. Several years ago 
 a number of scientists abroad and in America 
 organized a Society for Psychical Research. This 
 organization has received many, many records of 
 experiences along psychic lines and they have 
 investigated all very carefully and kept records 
 of those which seemed worth while. Since this 
 Society was organized several of its original and 
 most active and interested members have "passed 
 on" to another life; among those are Frederick 
 
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 Meyers, William James, and William T. Stead. 
 These men were among those who when in this 
 life made compacts with the other members that 
 the ones who "passed on" first should try in 
 every way to make themselves known, and those 
 in this life were to expect them and be ready to 
 receive messages. A number of reputable scien- 
 tists feel that they have had messages. In the 
 Unpopular Review, October to December, 1915, 
 is an article entitled "Some Heteromatic Writing," 
 which gives the theories of different scientists 
 as to the way in which this writing is done and 
 messages given. The unknown writer of this 
 article says, "Our own humble guess is that all 
 Souls are but manifestations of a Cosmic Soul, 
 just as all forms are shifting portions of Cosmic 
 Matter and all motions manifestations of the 
 Cosmic Energy. The portions of Cosmic Soul 
 vary here and now with different bodies; but as 
 they are all parts of the same Soul, their mani- 
 festations, like those of the Cosmic Energy, shade 
 into each other. This guess is on a subject as yet 
 very vague, and will justly strike you as very 
 vague, even in its language. In a sense nobody 
 knows what Heteromatic Writing is. But in that 
 sense, nobody knows what anything is; for there are 
 apparently unending depths of Mystery under 
 all our knowledge; it consists of surface appear- 
 ances but they grow deeper every day." 
 
 Then follow some very interesting experiences 
 with this writing. Many instances of communi- 
 cation between souls who have "passed on" to 
 another life and those remaining in this world 
 
What is the Attitude of Spiritual Science 143 
 
 are described fully in the Journal of Psychical 
 Research and in books by authors, a list of whom 
 I will give at the end of this Lesson. One very 
 interesting one may be found in the Unpopular 
 Review, July-September, 1916. This one is sup- 
 posed to be from Mr. Edwin Friend, who was 
 drowned on the Lusitania. Mr. Friend had 
 assisted Dr. Hyslop in conducting the Journal 
 of the American Society of Psychical Research, 
 and Mr. Friend is believed to have appeared to 
 his wife and Dr. Hyslop several times. The 
 article is very convincing. Personally I have since 
 childhood been interested in the subject of Life 
 beyond Death — have always subconsciously be- 
 lieved it, but within the last few years it has 
 become a part of my consciousness. I feel just 
 as sure of it as that I am living now in this world ! 
 This is a Truth to me. My first realization came 
 to me when sitting beside one I loved, holding her 
 hand, waiting for the "Life to go out." All was 
 quiet — then one instant the hand that had been 
 warm commenced to stiffen, the whole body 
 changed. — Life had gone! Then came the 
 thought to me — If this Life could go out right 
 before my eyes, and all my physical senses alert! 
 and I neither see nor hear it, why could it not be 
 with me, come back at other times in the same 
 vehicle or substance in which it left the Body? 
 Why not? Since that time I have been with 
 several who have "passed on" and it is to me as 
 simple as the Locust that sheds its coarser shell 
 and has a body exactly like the coarser, but of 
 finer fiber, finer vibrations. The cocoon and the 
 
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 butterfly is another illustration — the same life, 
 changing form. I have had experiences of dear 
 ones who have "passed on," coming to me and 
 giving me Thoughts of Help, Strength, and Love 
 that were as real to me as any visit of a friend in 
 their physical Body, and there are many scientists, 
 practical men and women, who have had these 
 same experiences. Psychologists are experiment- 
 ing to-day with children, and are developing a 
 keener hearing through the ear, and eyesight 
 that sees new colors. These scientists believe that 
 we will evolve other senses than the five we now 
 have. Many sane scientific men and women 
 believe that those who are being born into Cosmic 
 Consciousness have developed to a greater or less 
 extent a "Sixth Sense," what we have called a 
 "psychic" sense, or intuition. Many of us 
 know that we have it and that through this we 
 have our Spiritual Experiences. In an earlier 
 lesson I have quoted from Emma Curtis Hopkins 
 that "A principle is a comprehensive law or 
 doctrine from which others are derived." 
 
 This being true, the idea of Life after death 
 within the mind of one Soul really proves it! Does 
 it not? The life of the Cosmos, one Life, in that 
 everything that ever has been or will be in Essence, 
 there is nothing and no idea except it comes from 
 that God Essence, therefore men cannot have an 
 idea of anything that is not in that God Essence of 
 All. And there we have the law that every 
 Desire of the Soul predicts its fulfilment. Now 
 that scientists like Sir William Crookes, Sir Oliver 
 Lodge, Alfred Russell Wallace, Dr. Hyslop, and 
 
What is the Attitude of Spiritual Science 145 
 
 others have publicly affirmed that they have 
 demonstrated enough to make them believe in 
 Telepathy, Life beyond Death, etc., it will not be 
 long until it will be proven to all. One great 
 assistance in this realization is that Life is Eternal, 
 meaning before this life as well as after. We 
 have not understood the words we have used — 
 "Eternal" and "Everlasting," means circle, no be- 
 ginning, no end. Simply Life expressing! chang- 
 ing form, from time to time, but always the same 
 individual Life, each individual needed in order to 
 complete the whole, — now, of course, we can only 
 meditate, use our individual experiences and 
 those of others, and theorize as to the details. 
 
 I feel that the Theosophists have a great many 
 "Truths" and yet I have some individual ideas. 
 Suppose that each soul comes back to this Earth 
 Planet as long as it needs the Lessons to be learned 
 only here; after that, why should it not go to 
 another Planet, in a body suited to the Life and 
 environment on that one, and so on forever and 
 ever, unfolding the God Life which it really is? 
 Do we not read that "One star differeth from 
 another star in Glory" and that "In my Father's 
 house are many mansions"? Life after Death 
 seems to me much more believable than the " War " 
 that is now in progress, or than the building and 
 use of aeroplanes, submarines, the Marconi, all 
 these so-called Facts of to-day. And are not the 
 dreams of one generation the facts of the next? 
 
 After considering carefully all the Wonders 
 that have materialized, the Scientific Arrival of 
 to-day along all lines, I am sure we may say with 
 
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 the late Phillips Brooks, one of the great Souls 
 and Prophets who has "passed on," that "There 
 is no death, what seems so is transition," and with 
 Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in her beautiful poem — 
 "There is no Death, There are no Dead." 
 
 List of Books and Authors. 
 
 American Institute for Scientific Research, "Section B." 
 
 Physical Research " Journal' ' sent monthly 44 East 23d 
 St., New York City, N.Y. 
 
 "Borderland of Psychical Research." 
 
 "Empire of Psychical Research." 
 
 "Science and a Future Life." 
 
 "Psychical Research and the Resurrection." 
 
 "Problems of Philosophy," by James H. Hyslop, Ph.D., 
 L.L.D. 
 
 "Mysterious Psychic Forces," by Camille Flammarion. 
 
 "The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism" and "The 
 Cosmic Science, " by Hereward Carrington. 
 
 " Proofs of Life after Death," by Robert J. Thompson. 
 
 "After Death — What? " by Cesare Lombroso. 
 
 "Spirit and Matter before the Bar of Modern Science," by 
 I. W. Heysinger. 
 
 "Life beyond Death." 
 
 "Can Telepathy Explain," by Minot J. Savage. 
 
 "On the Cosmic Relations," by Henry Holt. 
 
 "Letters from a Living Dead Man," by Elsa Barker. 
 
 "Raymond, " by Sir Oliver Lodge. 
 
Lesson XII 
 SOME MYSTIC LAWS 
 
 ^HOSE who have studied ancient 
 Mythology, Religion, and Mys- 
 ticism have found that always as 
 man has been "Inspired" has he 
 given out higher Spiritual Truths. 
 Long before there was any 
 kind of writing, these statements 
 were given out through "Symbols," pictures as it 
 were, and each soul who believed himself inspired 
 beyond the majority became a leader and gave 
 out Edicts which were believed to have come 
 directly from the God or Gods in whom they at 
 that time believed. Comparing these "Sacred 
 Books" or Bibles, we find in all the same general 
 ideas, though they are expressed differently in 
 each according to the customs of the people and 
 country. While in all these books there are mis- 
 takes in science, etc., and they cannot be taken 
 literally, there are Spiritual Laws back of all the 
 Symbols and those who are awakened to the 
 Spiritual Consciousness can find in each and all 
 the same underlying principles. Mrs. Emma 
 Curtis Hopkins says, "A clearly unified instruc- 
 
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 tion runs in almost verbatim language through 
 all the sacred or charmed books of the world." 
 "It is the foot-path of the immortals!" 
 
 "It concerns that swift subtle faculty possessed 
 by us all whereby we look whithersoever we will; 
 to Deity, ever beholding us, or to the dust be- 
 neath, without the aid of our physical eyes." 
 "Thou canst not behold me with thy two outer 
 eyes; I have given thee an eye divine" (Upani- 
 shads) . 
 
 This subtle sense or inner eye is the psychic or 
 Sixth Sense, which becomes more and more de- 
 veloped as we grow in Cosmic Consciousness. 
 With this " eye " or sense we can obey the command 
 or invitation which the Old Prophets and Seers 
 give out as from God — "Look unto me and be 
 Thou saved," and the acceptance of this invitation 
 by man is his way of returning to the "Source" 
 from which he came, — "The Light," The Sun 
 which is always shining through him and of which 
 he is one "ray." This is the Path of Light — 
 The "Tao." 
 
 " Make use of the Light, returning again to its source; 
 Thy body shall be free from Calamity's course, 
 And Thou shalt train with the Eternal at Length." 
 
 — (Tao-Teh-King) 
 "Man alone of all the animals goes in quest of his origin, 
 and perceiving that the highest good is to be sought by him 
 in the highest place, looks to his maker." — (Lactantius) 
 
 This faculty is older than "mind" and it is 
 what we most "see" rather than what we think, 
 that is back of our actions. "It is not possible 
 for any thing to take place save in connection with 
 
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 an onlooker." (This is from an old Vedic Hymn.) 
 We become sad and depressed if we look upon 
 faces that are sad, while if we see others smiling 
 we feel like doing so ourselves. 
 
 " For that thou seest man, 
 
 That too become thou must, 
 God if thou seest God 
 Dust if thou seest Dust." 
 
 "To look upward with the mystic eye is to 
 start on the Saving Tao" — (Emma Curtis Hop- 
 kins). "Look unto me and be ye saved," — "I 
 will turn away your captivity from before your 
 eyes when ye turn unto me seeking my face," 
 wrote the two great Prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah. 
 
 "The Highest and Inmost are one," said two 
 great mystics, Behmen and Hugo of St. Victor. 
 
 " Look up my comrade; 
 When on the glances of the upturned eye 
 The plumed thoughts take travel, and ascend 
 Through the unfathomable purple mansions 
 Threading the golden fires, and ever climbing 
 As if 'twere homewards winging — at such times, 
 The native Soul, distrammeled of dim Earth, 
 Doth know herself immortal, and sits light 
 Upon each temporal place." — (Violenzia) 
 
 Looking up, with the inner eye 
 
 Changes everything seen 
 with the outer physical eyes, opens a window 
 
 So that we see a new world; 
 
 With this inner, sense is all "matter" 
 
 "Spiritualized." 
 
 In heaven there is a pattern which he who chooses may 
 behold, and beholding, set his own house in order. — (Plato) 
 
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 So eagerly did the untaught seers of the past 
 long for this faculty that they practiced self-efface- 
 ment, self-denial, in every way in order to gain it. 
 But it asks no such methods, only the simple 
 looking upward with the inner Sense or eye, and 
 seeing, and thereby knowing, the "God of Love" 
 who is always smiling and looking at man. If 
 we read the history of all saints and seers we find 
 that all those who kept their "vision" high be- 
 came strong and calm and gained the Cosmic or 
 Christ Consciousness. Jesus said to the blind 
 man, "Look up!" To all people in times of 
 calamity, he said "Look up! for your redemption 
 moveth toward you." Jacob was turned from 
 destruction when reasonable terrors shook him 
 all night long by the Jabbok Brook, by seeing 
 "God face to face." Job, when suffering from 
 boils and miserable in every way, was healed 
 and lifted unto a higher consciousness and said, 
 "My witness is in heaven and my record is on 
 high." 
 
 "Thou canst upraise thyself by thyself, and 
 rouse thyself by thyself; for self is the Lord of 
 self, self is the refuge of self" (the Bhikshu). 
 When we meditate upon this law, "That thou 
 seest, that thou beest," we realize how important 
 it is that we should carefully select that which we 
 "see" in order to become that which we wish. 
 
 The first Mystic Law, then, we find, is the 
 "Looking up with the inner eyes unto the God 
 of the Universe, who is always looking down in 
 Love." 
 
 The second law is that of "Remission" through 
 
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 this upward looking. By looking unto God the 
 Father with this inner sense, did Jesus become so 
 charged with the Divine Life that he could heal 
 the sick. Buddha, Confucius, Zoroaster, the 
 Great Prophets and Seers and Poets have to a 
 greater or less extent realized this law, and as they 
 have experienced it their "Sins have been re- 
 mitted"; that is they have been freed from the 
 material laws of compensation, etc. Those who 
 daily and hourly look unto God will more and more 
 become like Him and will rise above the old dis- 
 pensation and live in the higher Cosmic or Christ 
 Consciousness. Paul, in his address on Mars Hill, 
 declared, "The Unknown, who giveth life and 
 Spirit;" He could not describe Him but called 
 Him the "I am that I am." Jesus said, "My 
 Father is greater than I," and as he constantly 
 kept his "eye" on God The Father, he received 
 strength, health, power, through the Cosmic 
 Consciousness of God as all; those born into this 
 higher vibration find laws which transcend those 
 of the lower self-consciousness and the five senses. 
 The transcending of these laws is expressed in old 
 Psalms, as given by Emma Curtis Hopkins : 
 
 Steadfastly facing Thee, there is no evil. 
 
 Steadfastly facing Thee, there is no matter and its laws. 
 
 Steadfastly facing Thee, there is no loss, no lack, no ab- 
 sence, no deprivation. 
 
 Steadfastly facing Thee, there is nothing to Fear, for there 
 shall be no power to hurt. 
 
 Steadfastly facing Thee, there is neither sin nor sickness 
 nor death. 
 
 The way of Life is above to the wise that he may depart 
 from Hell beneath. 
 
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 We must awaken from our "Earth Drowse " 
 and look up! We shall then see that there is 
 only "one," the great I am that I am. 
 
 After we get even a slight gleam of the Cosmic 
 or Christ Consciousness we can read the Sacred 
 Books of the World with inner "Knowing" and 
 understand them as never before. This is true 
 of the Book of Revelations. John says here, " With 
 the sounding of the first Angel there fall hail and 
 fire mingled with blood," all strain and force 
 ceases, the "Thou shalt not" is eliminated and 
 the sweetness and calm of the "Love" Conscious- 
 ness is acquired and demonstrated. This is 
 "forgiveness and those who reach this realization 
 are kindled with a new fire," and their Aura or 
 atmosphere is felt wherever they go. With this 
 stage of attainment comes the relief from personal 
 responsibility, the knowledge and consciousness 
 that "All is Good" or God and God is Love; 
 therefore there is nothing to Fear, for ourselves 
 nor anyone else. We then realize that "Steadfastly 
 facing the great I am that I am we have all 
 Power and all Wisdom." "The Third face is the 
 Lion," writes Ezekiel. The Lion is the emblem 
 of strength, sovereignty, and princely achievement. 
 The third stone John describes in Revelations: 
 it is copper-emerald and sky tinted opal, emblem 
 of everlasting Life. Micah, filled with this 
 strength, exclaims, "Therefore I will look unto 
 the Lord. Rejoice not against me O! mine enemy! 
 When I fall I shall rise again." We become like 
 that which we most often see and associate with; 
 our minds follow the vision, and action follows the 
 
Some Mystic Laws 153 
 
 mind. When we see God the All Good, the 
 great I am that I am, we become strengthened! 
 This is "given-for" our weakness. 
 
 In this third stage we realize that our individual 
 "will" is often wrong and we say with this realiza- 
 tion, Not mine but Thy will be done. An old 
 Hindu Hymn says: — "Bow down to me and thou 
 shalt come even to me. Take sanctuary with 
 ME above. I shall liberate Thee from all Sins 
 by the resplendent Lamp of Wisdom." 
 
 Milton wrote so beautifully with this idea: 
 
 What in me is dark 
 Illumine, what is low raise and support, 
 That to the height of this great argument 
 I may assert Eternal Providence 
 And justify the ways of God to men. 
 
 With this third Angel of understanding do we 
 consciously and freely give ourselves back to our 
 Source — acknowledging that only through this 
 gate may we actualize the Divine which we really 
 are; as the drop of water, while having within 
 itself all the elements of the whole Ocean, cannot 
 have the depth, beauty, or strength of it all until 
 it is attached to it (the whole Ocean) . 
 
 We therefore look unto God and give ourselves 
 consciously to Him, to work, and to do with us, 
 what he alone knows is best for us. 
 
 With the fourth stage, or, as the Mystics speak, 
 "With the Smiting of the Fourth Angel," comes 
 the fourth perception, transcending the common 
 law, and is believed to be the Fourth Dimension 
 in space. When this dimension is sensed it gives 
 
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 the realization that there are higher laws than 
 those of the five senses and their dimensions. 
 Those who reach this stage of consciousness are 
 the "Geniuses" of the World, the Seers, Saints, 
 Prophets. When Jacob had this realization his 
 name was changed to Israel; instead of a cringing 
 Soul he became the Prince whom even God 
 Served. At this fourth perception David became 
 strong and said, "Thy gentleness has made me 
 great." 
 
 Jesus said, "It is not me but the Father within 
 me." 
 
 The Seers and Mystics of the World have all 
 realized that by becoming meek, plastic, receptive, 
 to the All Good and looking up with the inner eye 
 they gained strength, courage, and power beyond 
 that of their own knowledge. 
 
 The following old song shows this : — 
 
 " Cease your fretful prayers, 
 Your winnings and your tame petitions; 
 The Gods love courage armed with confidence 
 And prayers fit to pull them down; 
 Weak tears they sit and smile at." 
 
 Jesus, realizing this law, said to his Disciples, 
 "After this manner speak Ye: 'Thy Kingdom 
 Come! Thy Will be done! Deliver me from 
 Evil! 5 " 
 
 Job is quoted as saying "I will demand of thee, 
 and answer thou me,' 5 and of saying it over and 
 over. Jacob is said to have "wrestled with God," 
 saying, "Z will not let thee go except thou bless Me," 
 and he later said, "I have seen God face to face." 
 Showing that he had received an answer. Moses 
 
Some Mystic Laws 155 
 
 was noted for his learning, and yet at forty years 
 of age he fled at the threats of two Israelites. 
 But after going alone into the Mountains of Midian 
 and communing with God, for forty days, he 
 came out strong with a Higher strength, and at 
 the age of eighty commanded and was obeyed 
 implicitly by two million Israelites. "Let the 
 Lord be thy confidence, he will not suffer thy feet 
 to be taken." This fourth "Angel" or stage of 
 consciousness is "Faith/ 9 the letting go of our own 
 personal Ego or Will, looking up unto the Great 
 I am that I am and knowing that through Him 
 all things will come to pass. 
 
 The fifth stage is "Works" — We must use 
 our Faith in our work, our lives. It is not what 
 happens to us that makes us healthy, happy, help- 
 ful; it is what we see and thereby harmonize with. 
 We become that which we see, think, and speak of 
 
 most. 
 
 "Tis the set of the Soul 
 
 That decides the Goal 
 
 And not the storms of Life." 
 
 Therefore, by denying the reality of evil or in- 
 harmony and declaring our Divinity, our Godhood, 
 the real "I" of which we are a part, we are able to 
 live and act in a higher (Cosmic or Christ) con- 
 sciousness and use the Laws which transcend 
 those of simple or self consciousness. 
 
 The sign of Six is in the Mystic Science of num- 
 bers the highest manifestation possible on the 
 sense plane, and is called the badge of "Sin." 
 The ancient Seers taught that at the Sixth Angel's 
 call the Soul had reached its climax in earthly 
 
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 experience or the lower plane, and could then have 
 a vision of the Spiritual or Cosmic Consciousness. 
 Through experience only, can the Soul realize 
 that the supposed pleasures of the senses cannot 
 bring real Harmony. Solomon, renowned for 
 his Wisdom, through experience said, "For the 
 way of Life is above to the Wise, that he may 
 depart from the Hell beneath." 
 
 The Mystic realizes that the one who is demon- 
 strating inharmony, going to extremes in what the 
 world calls "Sin," is simply using force in the 
 wrong way according to lower sense laws, and 
 that all that Soul has to do in order to become a 
 great force for Good is to "turn unto God, Look up!" 
 and "be saved," transformed, redeemed. 
 
 The seventh Angel proclaims the realization! 
 The Truth that Jesus the Christ came to preach 
 and to live, and because he did live, demonstrate, 
 in a human body, he is still living ever present in 
 the Universe (as are all Souls), and we can call 
 upon him, learn through him, and thereby grow 
 in the same consciousness, which he not only had, 
 but was. He was so saturated with the "God 
 Life," so highly charged, his body was vibrating 
 at such a high rate that those who even touched 
 the hem of his garment were healed. The con- 
 sciousness of this is to me the "second Coming 
 of Christ." 
 
 There are many other wonderful Mystic Laws 
 and of these few I have been able only to give a 
 hint. One other law will I mention, that of 
 "The Calling out of names." The study of 
 names as well as of numbers is being revived, and 
 
Some Mystic Laws 157 
 
 it is well that this is so, for back of these ancient 
 sciences great truths will be revealed ! 
 
 Metaphysical healers have learned that when 
 treating patients they can reach their subcon- 
 scious side by calling them by their first name, 
 or even using the whole name. The ancient 
 Mystics called out the names of their Gods and 
 repeated them over and over. Now we know 
 that through the laws of "vibration" this can be 
 scientific. We know that playing on one note of a 
 violin or musical instrument for a long time will 
 shake the foundation of a large house; that men 
 marching are compelled to break step when cross- 
 ing a bridge, etc., etc. 
 
 Moses said to call on God, saying, "Thou 
 great I am that I am!" and Jesus the in- 
 spired, spiritualized, etherialized demonstration 
 of this "I am" said, "Ask in my name:" knowing 
 this law of the calling of names, he realized that to 
 call with his name would aid the soul to realize 
 his consciousness to a greater extent and more 
 quickly. There is, therefore, a scientific reason 
 for the prayers said in Churches, ending with, 
 "We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ" The 
 Jews in ancient times called on their God using 
 Jehovah! Jehovah! And through these calls 
 received their answer. 
 
 These laws like all others I have suggested in 
 these lessons must be experimented with by each 
 individual and proved pragmatically. Many 
 souls have done so and as Jesus the Great Master 
 and Mystic said, "He who hath ears to hear, let 
 him hear" 
 
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 I wish to acknowledge with heartiest gratitude 
 my great indebtedness to Mrs. Emma Curtis 
 Hopkins for the consciousness she has given me, 
 as well as some knowledge of these wonderful 
 ancient laws, and I recommend to all students 
 her "Lessons in Mysticism." For other reading 
 see all Bibles and sacred writings of all peoples. 
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