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 COPYRIGHTED, 1901, by Alois P. Swoboda:- 
 
 ORGANIC STRESSING PHASE OF SWOBODA ISM. 
 
 My dear Friend and Pupil: 
 
 You will in every way beecme better and better as you de- 
 Sire to be, through Swobcdaism. In Swobcda ism yeu need but to act 
 according to the simple instructions, in order that the inevitable 
 reacticns take place. Swobodaicem uses the energies of the train, per- 
 sonality, nerves, and muscles Solely for one purpose, namely, for the 
 purpose of creating organic stress upen your Creative Entity - Con- 
 scicus Energy - in order to force it into yielding to you tke great- 
 er powers of mird and body that lie latently and dermantly within you. 
 
 Do not deceive yourself into confounding Swceboda ism with 
 physical culture, cr athletics or calisthenics, The principle in 
 Swoboda ism is the very reverse of all other methods. The principle 
 of Swobodaism is reaction. | | | 
 
 First, however, I desire to say - that physiological exer—— 
 cise produces health and strength, and improves one's physique. 
 
 A system of exercise to be physiological must not produce _ 
 
 these results at the expense of the heart, arteries, or vitality. 
 Now, then, it is a fact, that the use of heavy weights is a speedy 
 _ route to development, because of the resistance which they give to 
 
 the muscles; but they cause an enlargement and dilation of the 
 heart, and also produce aneurism, on account of the obstruction 
 which they give to the circulation of the blood in the capillary 
 blood vessels. The capillaries lie in between the muscular fibres, 
 and as the latter contract they shorten and necessarily widen, con. 
 sequently compressing anything which lies between them, hence the 
 obstruction to the circulation of the blood in the capillaries, 
 
 Since heavy weights cause a continual contraction of the 
 muscular fibres while they are being used, it is readily seen that 
 there is a constant obstruction to the circulation, and since the 
 heart is constantly forcing blood into the arteries, and it cannot 
 empty into the capillaries and pass into the veins, there is e great 
 increase of pressure in the arteries, which reacts on the heart, and 
 causes hypertrophy of that organ. no 
 
 | Therefore, since heavy weights cause a rapid development 
 
 of muscle and strength by means of the resistance which they give, 
 it is a fact that by offering the muscles the same resistance (whicr 
 is done by using one muscle to resist or antagonize another), one 
 will receive the same development, and since heavy weights overtax 
 the heart and arteries by the constant obstruction which they cause, 
 it is also a fact that by making the contraction intermittent by 
 means of alternate relaxations, the circulation of the blood Will not 
 be obstructed, but, on the contrary, with each relaxation, the blood 
 will flow from the arteries into the capillaries, and each contrac- 
 tion will force it from the capillaries into the veins and help it 
 in its course towards the heart, 
 
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 best be explained by using the uvper arm for example. When the bicens 
 (which is the muscle cn the forepart of the upper arm) contracts, it 
 shortens and bends the arm at the elbow. When the triceps (which is 
 the muscle on the beck part of the upper arm) contracts, it shortens 
 and straightens the arm. If both muscles were pulling at the seme 
 time, end pulling equally, the arm would remain rigid or stiff; iain 
 the antegonization or resistarce of the muscles. 
 
 the quickest way to acquire the rigidity is to hold the 
 hand open and bend the arm at the elbow, with the upper arm as rigi& 
 and stiff as you can possibly make it. At first you will think you 
 are making the arms very rigid, but after several trials you will find 
 that you can offer yourself such resistance as will make your muscles 
 feel as if they were ACTUALLY RAISING WRIGHTS,. 
 
 In’ teking the exercise be sure that you do not grip your 
 hands, as that would tend to make the forearms tense only. 
 
 Strip to your waist and always exercise before a mirror, 
 so that you will see your muscles work. You will then take a greater 
 
 interest in yourself and your work, and will also see your improve- 
 
 ment more readily as you proceed, 
 
 Take Exercise “A® sixteen times; Exercise "D" ten times, 
 and Exercise "E-#2" ten times; never any more; but inorease in 
 the tension or resistance constantly in preference to increasing in. 
 
 the number of times. One full count means a complete movement from 
 
 position at beginning to a return to the same position. 
 
 Take Exercise "W-#2" five times the first day, and increese 
 
 two each day until you reach at least twenty times. This exercise 
 
 sof bY... and. tone of the entire ebdominal region. — _— 
 bee To derive the greatest amount. of benefit ‘the exercises — os 
 
 
 
 wae be taken slowly. If you do them rapidly you will be unable 
 
 to preserve the proper rigidity. 
 
 Take your exercise just befcre retirirg. Take a rest of 
 ebout ten seconds between each of the different exercises. Any more 
 than that would te a waste of time. You will te inclined to hold 
 your breath, THIS YOU MUST NOT DO, but, on the contrary, breathe 
 freely and easily. You will find this hard to do at first, but as 
 you preceed it will become easy and natural. If you will make a 
 practice of inhaling during cne movement and exhaling during another, 
 you will find it much easier to breathe naturally while taking the 
 exercise, For example, in "A", inhale as you bend one arm, and ex- 
 hale as you straighten the came arm; in "E-#2", exhale as you bring 
 the arms forward, end inhale as you draw them back: in "W-#2", ex- 
 hale as you raise the head and shoulders, and inhale as you lower 
 them. The seme principle cen be applied to all of the exercises. 
 
 On arising, take all of the exercises, but one-half the 
 number of times that you do before retiring. You need not stop to 
 rest betweeh each of the different exercises. The object of this 
 amount of exercise in the morning is to increase molecular activity 
 throughout all the nerve centers, resulting immediately in greater 
 circulation of blood and normal functioning of all of the glands of 
 the body. The effect of the morning exercise is entirely different 
 from what is desired and produced by taking the exercises the full 
 number of times before’ retiring. . 
 
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 will strengthen the muscles of the abdomen and increase the elastic- = 
 
 
 

 
 Durirg the exercise there is avery great increase in the 
 consumption of oxygen in the body. The heart and the nervous system 
 naturally become very active while endeavoring to supply the tissues 
 with oxygen in sufficient quantities. In order, therefore, that the : 
 blood may receive oxygen from the sir in the lurgs under the most fa- 
 vorable ccnditiors, breathe with the mouth fairly wide open. You may, 
 of course, also breathe through the nose, but by no means endeavor to 
 confine your breathing to your nose alone. This advice applies, of 
 course, only while you are taking the exercise and immediately there- 
 after. At other times, however, it is desirable to breathe through 
 the nose so long as Sufficient air is eavailsble for the lungs. fur- 
 ing the exercises, under no circumstances breathe thrcugh the nose 
 alone, for this would place a strain upon the heart and nervous sys- 
 tem, which is unnecessary. | aa 
 
 Exercise, as you know, increases the production of waste 
 matter in all of the tissues Which are used during this exercise. RB 2 
 this waste matter is not removed quickly, it is apt.to produce sore 
 ness of the muscles. Therefore, be not Surprised if you become lame 
 during tho first few dave, Just as secon, however, as YOur muscles 
 
 learn to discharge the waste matter more quickly, the lameness will 
 disappear. | 
 
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 Follow the exercises, both night end morning by a 
 application of cold water t+o the upper portion of your body, 
 most successfully accomplished by dipping the hands in the wat 
 rubbing the body with tre moistened hérds, thus giving you 
 tege of the mcre active Circulation frcm the arplicetion of 
 temperature, without Creating a nervous reaction. 
 
 | I am certain trat it is nct HeCeSeary Lor you to gave sn 
 subject of diet special attent ion, Merelv continue your - oresent foods. 
 = at Tact, eat those foods which agree with you best. it is, without a. 
 doubt, true, that what is of benefit to one in matters of diet is not 
 always of value to another. No set rule along this line is applicable 
 to all persons. Moreover, to follow a rule, merely means to burden 
 the individual unnecessarily, therefore, continue to Suit yourself, 
 7 | All difficulties which may appear inevitable when giving 
 the exercises the first trial Will, without a doubt, soon disappear 
 as your efficiency increases, end you will be able to obtain better 
 results from your effort With each return to the exercise, 
 : I shall write you at intervals of one week. Therefore meke 
 an immediate beginning, so that when my next letter arrives You will 
 be ready for the instructions. . 
 | Do not’ enter into the exercises as though it were something 
 Objectionable. On the contrary, become mentally eager for the phy- 
 Siological effect which must inevitably result from faithful applica- 
 tion to my instructions. The more animated, mentally and physically, 
 
 you become, and the more eager you are for results, the more success-. 
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 My dear Friend and Pupil: 
 
 Conscious Evolution- Swobodaism creates 
 success from within the Creative or Conscious Ener- 
 gy through evolutionary processes, by equipping the 
 body and personality, and thus the mind, with the 
 fundamental equipment and fundamental devices through 
 which the personality reaches into its environment 
 
 and into its sphere and plane of life, and makes the 
 
 advantageous adjustments through which an advantage 
 and success and supremacy are procured. Conscious 
 Evolution- Swobodaism gives to the body and personal- 
 ity the power to create the ideas and the faculties 
 and the characteristics and the qualities through 
 
 which the personality is able to sense its adcvantages 
 
 and its disadvantages and to guide itself through the 
 maze of disadvantages in life into the sphere of ad- 
 vantages and success. 
 
 Conscious Evolution- Swobodaism, in- 
 stead of seeking to add to the personality from the 
 outside by means of words, is based on the opposite 
 principle. It energizes the personality; it inten- 
 sifies the personality, and thus it causes the per- 
 sonality to gain greater power from within itself, 
 through its creative energy, and, with greater pow- 
 er of personality, greater power of ideas, and great- 
 er power of sensing and reasoning and analyzing and 
 memorizing and mentalizing, in every respect, inev- 
 itably, results. 
 
 Conscious Evolution- Swobodaism, in 
 other words, compels the creative energy to equip 
 the body and personality with the power, with the 
 devices, with the means, with the faculties, with 
 the characteristics, with the ideas, through which 
 the personality overrides adversity and failure, and 
 reaches supremacy. 
 
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 EXERCISE "an, (© 
 
 Assume position, as shown in cut. Arms down in front; 
 elbows close to the body; palms turned forward. Bend arms at 
 elbows alternately. As you bend one arm straighten the other. 
 This movement is ENTIRETY and ONTY in the elbows; therefore ado 
 not move the elbows back and forth, but keep them in one Place, 
 and te sure you do not shut your hands. When counting it weuld 
 be better to count with the left arm. You would then place more 
 effort in that particular arm, and since it is weaker than the 
 | right one you will develop it more rapidly. The wuscles of the 
 
 , arm are kept rigid, both bending end straightening. Take spec- 
 | ial note of this, as you cannot make the muscles too rigia, The 
 UN Smere yigid, the better and quicker the success. | 
 
 
 
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 Cnn nnn SSUMO position, as shown in cut #1. Arms horizontal;palms / 
 \~-f up. Make rigid the muscles of the upper arm and bend both arms 
 p-~, 80 as to come to position, as shown in cut #2; then straighten 
 (, them again, keeping the muscles rigid both bending and strai ght- 
 \ | (ening. Keep the elbows on a line with the shoulders. Do not 
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 EXERCISE "E-#2" 4 
 
 i Apsime position, as shown in cut. Arms out at sices and 
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 /  @raw the arms forward and very Slightly dowsward, continuing the {=| — 
 Nf movement until the arms have crossed at the elbows Lower the 
 | j {right arm slightly so that it will pass below tke left as they 
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 Keep the muscles rigid on the entire forward movement, ano 
 ontinue to draw the arms as far forward as you are able without 
 bending the arms at the elbows. In other words, when your arms 
 are in front of you they,will form the letter (X). Relax the nug. 
 cles as the arms go back. Your left shoulder, being lower, will 
 be raised equal with the right if in this movement you keep the pratt 
 left arm abcve the right on the forward movement. In drawirg the | 
 | _ &rms back it is desirable to bring them back as far ag possible, | | 
 | as shown in cut. Do not, however, throw them back, Finish the | 
 forward movement with a conscious effort to bring the arns forward 
 to the extreme limit of which you are capable. The muscles Of the 
 chest, shoulders, and back, are influenced by this movement. 
 
 EXERCISE "W-yon 4- 
 
 . Assume position, on your back on the floor; the hands under 
 the head, and the knees bent and heels pulled up, as shown in out. 
 Now raise the head and Shoulders by bending over the stomach, go 
 as to come to position, as shown in cut. Make rigid the muscles 
 of the abdomen on the upward movement and hold yourself up for 
 Just a second, and endeavor to thoroughly shorten the abdomen ane 
 thus pull the shoulders etilj further from the floor. It ig not 
 my desire to have you sit up in this exercise. In fact, it would 
 be impossible while your legs are in position, as indicated in cut, 
 | er the head and shoulders easily, with the muscles relaxed, and 
 
 at. You will find that the bending is just below the breast- 
 ’. You may take this exercise in bed if you prefer to do SO, 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 Conscious Evolution- Swobodaism, in 
 this way, is fundamental instead of superficial. 
 Wherever and whenever an individual has unconscious- 
 ly possessed this higher intensity of personality, 
 there such an individwal has demonstrated greater 
 power of genius and greater power of success. 
 
 | ‘Conscious Evolution- Swobodaism does 
 not ask you to rely on blind evolution to give you 
 power of mind and personality. It does not ask you 
 to rely on blind evolution ¢° give you power of | 
 health and power of body; it consciously employs 
 the evolutionary principle, and thus compels, con- 
 Ssciously, a higher evolution of body and mind in 
 every department and characteristic. Conscious 
 Evolution- Swobodaism is the science of evolvement 
 from within, outwardly, through body and personali- 
 ty, to success. . 
 
 The higher your aims, the more ‘earnest 
 your aims, the more sincere your attitude, and the 
 greater the prize that you desire to gain, the great- 
 er will be your speed in evolution and the greater 
 will be your result in attainment. 
 
 There is much more wealth, health, and 
 power, in Conscious Evolution- Swobodaism for you 
 than you can at present understand or comprehend. 
 In fact, there are such enormous and amazing possi- 
 bilities for you gin Conscious Evolution- Swoboda ism 
 that it would be the greatest sin (ultimate loss to 
 yourself), if you were to fail to be true and loyal 
 to yourself in Conscious Evolution- Swobode ism. 
 
 Yours sincerely, 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 
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 | Arcsin Swobodaism to be true even if you cannot immediately 
 reason it out to be true. Purposely assume it to be true for the distinct 
 advantage and benefit that such an assumption on your part will make 
 possible. Give yourself every opportunity to profit through Swoboda ism 
 by eliminating any antagonism you may have in your personality. 
 Moreover, every morning and every evening, just before starting in 
 to practice Swobodaism, endeavor to ask yourself mentally, the 
 question “Why I am taking Swobodaism?” in and, answering this 
 question, endeavor to visualize or mentally realize the advantages and 
 the success and the results that you seek; in other words, do not 
 use your energies merely for the sake of using your energies, but, use 
 your energies in Swoboda ism for the ultimate result that you seek to 
 attain. 
 
 You will find, under these conditions, that your energies 
 will be more willing to cooperate with you. Say to yourself “I am 
 taking Swoboda ism because it will quickly bring me supreme success, 
 power and happiness, through evolving within me the greater powers 
 through which I am to attain supreme success, supreme happiness and 
 supreme power”. You may make your own formula—you de not need 
 to follow this formula that I have given you, but, have a well-defined 
 formula and repeat it to yourself every morning and every evening 
 before beginning the use of your energies. 
 
 In reasoning with yourself before stressing your Conscious 
 Energy each day, endeavor to realize that the temporary inconvenience, 
 caused by your effort, will bring you great convenience and great 
 advantages plus new pleasures and new joys and new results by reaction. 
 
 Try to reason with yourself each day, so that you need not 
 FORCE yourself into stressing your Conscious Energy, but, will thus 
 feel INDUCED and ATTRACTED, by your visualization and realiza- 
 
 tion of future results, into stressing your Conscious Energy. 
 
 You will gain greater results through attracting yourself and 
 reasoning yourself into this action than you could possibly gain through 
 forcing yourself through mere determination, without being conscious, 
 at the moment, of just what is your motive, desire or aim. 
 
 ALOIS P. SWOBODA 
 

 
 
 
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 veloped by the cells through the maximum use of energy in a min- 
 imum of time, and thus, through the development of the most ex- 
 
 | tensive primary actions, it follows that it never will be safe 
 
 | for you to feel that you really are making your muscles too rigid. 
 
 | | Endeavor each day to concentrate on this matter of con- 
 | trolling your muscles, for, through controlling your muscles, 
 you discipline your cells and forces in maximum intensity, and 
 
 | thus apply to the greatest extent possible for you the positive 
 | evolutionary principle, primarily, to your forces, and second- 
 arily, through reactions, to your cells. | 
 
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 As long as you do not hold your breath, you may consider 
 your breathing successful. Breathing, like digestion, or like 
 the bowels or kidneys or liver or any physiological function, if 
 controlled by the conscious mind, will establish less efficiency 
 in the physiolegical mind. The physiological mind is reacy to 
 take advantage of any assistance the conscious mini gives it, 
 and inasmuch as assistance leads to deterioration, through tem- 
 porary advantages and reactions of disadvantages, it follows 
 that the less you think ebout breathing and the less you think 
 about how to breathe and with what portions of your lungs to . 
 breathe, the greater will be the responsibility assumed by your 
 physiological mind and the more competent will be your organism 
 in this respect. Your physiological mina knows precisely when 
 and how you need to breathe. Swobodaism - Conscious Evolution 
 increases the necessity for breathing, and it leaves to the 
 physiological mind the duty of governing the breathing appa- 
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Faith has no evolutionary value, It, however, has nega- 
 tive evolutionary influence, if a negative faith dominates the 
 perscnality. In other words, if you, while exercising, have an 
 attitude of personality that Conscious Evolution is not based on 
 fundamental laws and that it cannot help you, and that you are 
 merely practicing the exercises because you have assumed the 
 obligation you will, in reality, interfere with your evolution. 
 Therefore, in view of the fact that Conscious Evolution is based 
 on the most fundamental principles of life anda creaticn, regard- 
 less of whether or not you are ccnscious of this fact, it will 
 be to your interest to at least give Conscious Evolution the Op- 
 pertunity to demonstrate to you its efficiency, its therefore, 
 Will te to your advantage to have faith, to believe in what I 
 Say to the extent that you may eradicate the negative of faith 
 from your personality for the time being. I do not say this to 
 you because I believe that you do not have faith; 1 am merely 
 explaining for your enlightenment what attitude is best for you, 
 
 You could fain absolutely nothing of an advantageous 
 character through taking the exercises more often daily than I 
 State. Quite the ecntrary; if you should exercise more than [I . 
 specify, you would find that you would deprive my System of its 
 evolutionary influence. It would become mere work, which your 
 organism would tolerate, and against which it woulda protect it- 
 self through negative action, instead cof evolutionizing through 
 positive reaction. It is not readily realized, unless one knows 
 all the elements involved, that it is an easy matter to take 
 more exercise or to discipline the cells to an extent than from | 
 which they are able to develop reactions of a favorable or ad- 
 vantageous character. Nevertheless, if you will cooperate with 
 me by permittirg me to govern you in this matter instead of us- 
 ing your own jucgment in the matter of taking more exercise than 
 I prescribe, you will find that you will obtain the maximum of 
 reactions, : 
 
 You no doubt have learned that you have a tendency to 
 
 keep the muscles of your neck rigid while trying to control 
 those of the other parts of the body, as required for the dif- 
 ferent exercises. Endeavor to give the matter attention, and 
 gradually learn to keep the muscles of the neck relaxed, while 
 controlling those of other parts of your organism, This will 
 give you the same advantage with none of the disadvantage or the 
 inconvenience of stressing the muscles of the neck persistently 
 and vnnecessarily. 
 
 _ Again I say, enter into this work - enter into this mat- 
 ter as though you were in earnest, as though you meant business. 
 You cannot deceive your evolutionary forces and your personal 
 energies into believing that you are in earnest if you are not, 
 Therefore, do not attempt to deceive them, for to try to deceive 
 them is to practice self-deception, and there is no fraud like 
 self-deception. It deprives the individual of the advantages 
 of evolution, and makes inevitable the disadvantages of stagna- 
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 Assume position, as shown in cut #1. Arms 
 horizontal. Palms turned down. Make rigid the 
 muscles of the shoulders and upper back. Draw the 
 Shoulder blades close together and draw the arms 
 down to the sides, as shown in Cut #2. Keep the 
 muscles rigid on the downward motion ONLY, and 
 bring the chest forward as much as you can on this 
 downward motion. Be sure to relax the muscles ag 
 the arms go up. This exercise is an excellent one 
 for greet tending your shoulders and expanding the 
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 Tessie Assume position, as shown in Cut #1. Arms 
 ip Straight and horizontal. Palms turned up. Make 
 rigid the muscles of the upper arms and shoulders, 
 and draw the arms up, so as to come to position 
 Shown in Cut #2 (arms Straight above the should- 
 
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 motion ONLY. Relax the muscles as the arms go down 
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 My dear friend anda Pupil: 
 
 | Ss The results which Swoboda icm- Conscicus 
 
 | Evolution cen produce for you are governed by your 
 sincerity, honesty, good will, good intert, desire. 
 
 7 and real and genuine anbition, combined with the 
 
 intense use of the energies as I have prescribed, 
 
 | Swoboda ism- Conscicus Evolution is as definite a 
 sclence as the multiplication table, and if you use 
 
 | it intensely, thoroughly, Sincerely, as you use nun- 
 
 bers. you will gain definite, exact, and positive 
 
 results. The laws of numbers are not more definite 
 
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 real cooperation determine your action. Therefore, 
 
 accordingly as you are sincere and have high motives, 
 
 | 80 do you create the Primary action, and your reac- 
 
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 | tion, be precisely as you determine by your sinceri- 
 ty and action. All evolution takes place through 
 reaction. Each day's reaction, united with and com- 
 
 | bined with the reactions of every other day, results 
 
 | in an accumulation of reactions, which mean higher 
 
 | power of life, higher power of functioning, higher 
 
 power of protoplasmic equilibrium, higher power of 
 blood regeneration, higher power of releasing energy 
 and higher power of mind and body in every respect, 
 
 Therefore, renew your determination to 
 Succeed, and do not enter into Swobcda ism- Conscious 
 Evolution as though you were taking it as a duty. 
 Endeavor to enter into Swobcda ism- Conscious Evoly- 
 tion with the full understanding of what will be 
 your ultimate and wonderful results as your reac- 
 tions accumulate. Remember, that your creative ener- 
 gies will work for you, strive for you, live for you. 
 heal for you, and cure for you, accordingly ag you 
 personally, through your personal attitude, inform 
 your energies of what you desire. 
 
 
 
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The activation of your creative energy 
 takes place through the use of your energy as in 
 Swobedeism- Coneciovs Eveluticn. Whether your ace 
 
 tion will be positive or negative will be determined 
 by your personal attitude. If you are enthusiastic 
 and eeger and enxiovs to Succeed, your reecticne will 
 be of the positive Character. If you are indifferent 
 and negative, your reactions will be of the negative 
 character. | 
 
 No evolution and no progress can be made 
 through negative reactions. You must seek success: 
 you must aspire to Success; you must want success: 
 you must crave success, and you must heve scme spe- 
 Cific and definite type of result or fuccess in your 
 mind constantly if you are to have the greatest ad-~ 
 vantage your personal attitude can give you in guid- 
 ing your reactions as created for you in Swoboda ism- 
 Conscious Evolution. | 
 
 Be sincere, be eager to Succeed, and seek 
 
 to rise in life, in Spite of every obstacle, and in 
 spite of every disadvantage, and in Spite of every 
 
 difficulty. Under no conditions admit defeat and 
 
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 -—-« @armestly pursue supremacy, you may find temporarily = 
 Some difficulty in your path, but if you continue 
 to pursue success and prosperity, you will overcome 
 your difficulty; whereas, if you refuse and ne- 
 glect to pursue success and Supremacy, you will not 
 even have the opportunity to overcome your obstacles, 
 You will become a victim of them. There is much 
 food for thought in this letter for you. Read my 
 letters once a week. You will find that they have a 
 hidden meaning which you ¢an only understand and 
 realize through successful evolution. 
 
 
 
 
 
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Conscious Evolution Gives Only As 
 You Actually Demand 
 
 <P PSIONSCIOUS Evolution is a sci- 
 
 ence through which you can 
 
 
 
 take and acquire power and 
 improve yourself. In other 
 words, Conscious Evolution is a science 
 through which you can satisfy your desires 
 ‘by evolving the powers of mind and body 
 through which your desires are satisfied. 
 
 =v ONSCIOUS Evolution cannot 
 
 in spite of yourself. There is 
 
 
 
 a very distinct difference in 
 principle between seeking to acquire some- 
 thing through Conscious Evolution on the 
 one hand or taking Conscious Evolution on 
 the other hand with the view of seeing 
 whether it can force improvement upon 
 you. Conscious Evolution cannot force 
 anything on any one. 
 
 force improvement upon you 
 
 GJONSCIOUS Evolution ean 
 | only give to each individual 
 accordingly as he is willing to 
 
 
 
 take and demand and request, 
 
 and the demand and request is made in the 
 form of sincere effort and sincere desire 
 and sincere aim. The more you demand 
 of Conscious Evolution in sincere action, 
 intense action, sincere desire, intense desire, 
 sincere demand, intense demand, the more 
 Conscious Evolution will give you. 
 
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 Wi til 
 
 P=FONSCIOUS Evolution is based 
 
 A on principles as exact as those 
 
 
 
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 governing mathematics, but 
 
 just as in mathematics, you 
 
 cannot gain a higher number by subtrac- 
 tion, but can gain it only through addition, 
 so also in Conscious Evolution you can 
 only gain the higher results through desire, 
 sincerity and action, these being demands 
 of a constructive character. 
 
 ALOIS P. SWOBODA, 
 21 West 44 Street, N. Y. C. | 
 

 
 My dear Pupil: 
 
 The following two exercises please add to your arm rotiens 
 just before the floor exercises. In other words, up to this time and 
 including this week, you should take your stancing-up exercises first 
 and finish with the movements on the floor. 
 
 Toke Frercises "R® and "Q" ten times at night and five 
 times in the morning. These exercises are very effective for the 
 mueeles of the abdomen, waist, end back, and if you will practice them 
 conscientiously your abdominal muscles will become much stronger. You 
 will find some difficulty in placing the rigidity in these two exer- 
 cises, but if you will endeavor to make your spine stiff you wiil then 
 have less trouble in controlling the muscles of your back and abdomen. 
 You will, of course, be inclined to hold your preath, and for a few 
 days, at least, you will have all manner of difficulties with these 
 movements, but the nervous system is governed by laws which compel 
 4t to become subject to the conscious mind, and thus by persisting 
 in your mental attempt to dominate the lower nerve centers, you will 
 succeed, and you will have as perfect control over the muscles of the 
 spine as over the muscles of the srms, chest, and shoulders. 
 
 The spinal column, as you know, encases the spinal cord, 
 which is a collection of hundreds of nerve centers, each of which, in 
 reality, is en independent brain, controlling some special function 
 of the organiem. You cen readily eppreciate that to acquire control 
 over these nerve centers will te of very great value to you. It will 
 mean efficiency end activity in all of the cells which the nerve cen- 
 ters of the spinel cord dominate. There is another advantage arising 
 from an energizing of these spinal nerve centers, which is that of 
 balancing the entire nervous system, for it is true that the entire 
 organism must be well balanced if it is to live successfully. As ycu 
 know, the body is but a community of individual cells, and the inter- 
 est of the entire community must always dceminate, just as the interest 
 of a country must dominate the activities and interest of each indi- 
 vidual who is a member of the nation. 
 
 The mental attitude is of value because it governs the per- 
 sonality in its attitude, not only in its relation to external mat- 
 ters, but also in its relation to internal matters. If, therefore, 
 your attitude is one of sincerity and earnestness, and you seek to 
 develop, in connection with all of your efforts with the exercises, a 
 thorough consciousness of your muscles, and a thorough consciousness 
 of what you are seeking to accomplish, you will find that your re- 
 actions will be not only much more rapid, but they will be more defi- 
 nite, and your results will be all the more gratifying. 
 
 After you have practiced all of the exercises ONE WEEK, 
 please add those given in your FOURTH LESSON, which will follow in 
 my next. 
 
 Yours very truly, 
 
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 peed eg a tion. Ta | Chat the arms 
 at the same time ‘with ‘the heed. In ote? gor 4 
 
 The movement ie entirely in the back and hips, 
 Keep the legs straight. Do not bend your knees, 
 You are not supposed to touch the floor, but bend. 
 forward only as far as you can. 
 
 and raise the left rere eles 
 As you peed. to the age 
 left arm | 
 shoulder. 
 
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 pass you in abuse and intolerance and discourtesy. 
 
 ALois P. SwoBoDA 
 
 
 
 My dear Friend and Pupil: 
 
 You have, many times, no doubt, of your own accord, 
 thought about this matter concerning whick I write you in this 
 letter, but you have probably never thought about it in the 
 intense degree in which I wish to bring it to your attenticn, 
 namely, this subject or action of capitalizing the spirit of 
 good will in business, in the home and in every contact with 
 human beings, deliberately - for what it will bring to you. 
 
 Endeavor, deliberately and intensely, to cultivate the 
 spirit of good will towards every one. Remember that individ” 
 vals treat you as you treat them. If you approach individu- 
 als in a kind, courteous and gracious spirit, you will find 
 
 that individuals will vie with each other to surpass you in 
 
 kindness and graciousness and good will and tolerance. On 
 the other hand, if you approach individuals in a spirit of 
 ill will and in an irritable spirit and in a spirit of in~ 
 tolerance, you will find that individuals will seek to sur- 
 
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 See emit eR eS 
 
 You have no idea what you can accomplish with human 
 beings - for your own good and advantage - through being kind 
 and considerate and tolerant, and thus throvgh seeking to cc~ 
 operate with individuals and through neglecting to notice the 
 unfavorable and objectionable characteristics and attitudes. 
 
 
 
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 Wren an individval approaches you in a regative spirit, 
 just make up your mind that such an individual cannot help it, 
 and therefore, immediately proceed to be courteous and extra 
 kind to such an individual. You will find that this higher- 
 grade kindness on your part will give the other individual an 
 opportunity immediately to be kind and considerate also, and 
 thus, a harmonious spirit, a cooperative spirit, and a spirit 
 of kindness, will exist between you; and through this cooper~ 
 ative spirit, you will accomplish wonders for yourself as 
 well as for others; whereas, through en antagonistic spirit, 
 you will antagonize yourself, you will poison yourself, you 
 will rob yourself - you will thus deprive yourself of 
 pleasure, happiness, and success, as well as of health. 
 
 Unless you have really made up your mind to cultivate 
 the kind and courteous and tolerant spirit, you have no iaew 
 of what you can accomplish with human beings and for your- 
 self. Make up your mind to give this as much attention as 
 you give attention to your daily work, and you will find 
 that in less than thirty days you will establish courtesy 
 and kindness and good will and cooperation permanently in 
 
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your personality and these characteristics will] then rule 
 you at all times - and you will find the entire world will 
 be a transformed universe for you. Every one will be kind, 
 considerate, and pleasant, and every one will try to do. For 
 you something of advantage. 
 
 Tt will pay you to introduce these habits of kindness 
 and consideration and tolerance into your personality, and 
 therefere - purely con account of what you gain out of these 
 characteristics - you should capitalize them and use them and 
 erploy them, and thus harness them; and if you find that 
 you continue to have srritable and unpleasant feelings towards 
 human beings, and if you find that you cennot completely intro- 
 duce the element of kindness and consideration ard tolerance 
 into your personality, then make up your mind to do an act 
 of kindness to some individual who is in need of an act of 
 kindness. Fick out scme one who is far beneath you in every 
 respect; pick out scme one who is in misery and distress, and 
 give that individual something - either gocd advice or good 
 words, or something tangible or intangible - that will mean 
 +o such an individual that there is a friend in the universe 
 who is interested in such an individual. | 
 
 The spirit of friendship - deliberately cultivated and 
 capitalized, for the specific purpose of creating a better at- 
 mosphere within your personality, as well as outside of your 
 personality - will be a very great investment for you - an in- 
 vestment which will pay you tremendous dividends in -happiness 
 and success. | 
 
 Remember, that regardless of how odious and disagreeable 
 and mean and contemptible be the other personality in its at- 
 +itude toward you, by all means, always approach such a person- 
 ality in the kindest end most pleasant and most agreeable and 
 most tolerant spirit. Kindness and tolerance and courtesy 
 and graciousness will melt away the most severe irritation and 
 intolerance, for, kindness and courtesy and graciousness are 
 like the light of the sun destroying the darkness of night - 
 for, kindness and consideration and toleration destroy these 
 negative, antagonistic and objectionable characteristics and 
 attitudes, as quickly as the morning sun destroys the darkness 
 of night. Where there is light, there can be no darkness. 
 Where there is good will and a good spirit, there can be no 
 411 will, unkindness, and intolerance. 
 
 Read this letter at least once a week. It contains 
 an important personal message for you. It brings to ycu a 
 power which you may use tremendously for your advantage. 
 
 Yours very truly, 
 
P.S. - At first, you may find it difficult to always 
 have, er te assume easily and automatically, the pleasant 
 attitude towards everyone, for it is almost natural to as- 
 sume the attitude of caution first. In this respect we are 
 like animals in a wild state of nature. Animals, in a wild 
 state ef nature, in first seeing some other animal, assume 
 an attitude of cautiousness; but we are now living under 
 more favorable conditions; we are not threatened by every 
 individual; therefore, we should assume the civilized atti- 
 tude - the attitude of courtesy, the attitude of cooperation, 
 and the attitude of tolerance; and while on this subject cof 
 tolerance, I wish to call your attention to the fact that you 
 should make a special effort never to speak of the unfavora- 
 ble eonditions and characteristics of others. If the individ- 
 vals around you have no favorable characteristics, just remain 
 silent. Every individual, hewever, has some favorable charac” 
 teristic; make it a point to notice this favorable character- 
 istic, and occasionally speak of it spontaneously. Make a 
 practice of this, and you will find that all resistance in 
 human beings will melt away, and every one will seek te do for 
 you even more than you anticipate. You will be looked upon as 
 the most agreeable and pleasant personality, and just as you 
 seek to be agreeable and pleasant to others who are pleasant 
 to you so others will seek to be agreeable and pleasant to 
 
 you when you are pleasant to them. The best that can be said 
 about you by a friend is that you are a pleasant and agree- 
 
 able nersonality. Make a business of being pleasant - it is 
 one of the greatest assets you can acquire. 
 
 
 

 
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Conscious Evolution in Principle the 
 Reverse of Physical Culture 
 
 S) ONSCIOUS Evolution is like physical culture only in the 
 &) outward appearance. In its basic and fundamental effect, 
 | ‘t is based on the opposite principle to that on which 
 Papa physical culture is based. In other words, physical cul- 
 ture is based on the principle of assistance, whereas Conscious Evolu- 
 tion is based on the principle of evolution and supremacy. 
 
 
 
 Physical culture aims to produce a favorable action by its primary 
 effect. Conscious Evolution aims to produce a negative action by its — 
 primary effect, but to create a favorable result by the reaction—evolu- — 
 tionary reaction. 
 
 Conscious Evolution employs the energies of the nervous system, | 
 muscle or motor cells, as well as of the mind, brain and personality, for 
 the specific purpose of exerting evolutionary stress on the Conscious 
 Energy which holds all of the bodily and mental characteristics within 
 itself, united and co-related. 
 
 Conscious Evolution, by creating evolutionary stress through the 
 motor energies, guides the reactions into such characteristics and powers 
 of mind and body, as are in need of reactions, for the attainment of suc- 
 cess through power. 
 
 In Conscious Evolution, I employ the Swoboda System of Physio- 
 logical Exercise as a device or formula or means through which the 
 motor energies are employed for stressing the Conscious Energy evo- 
 lutionarily. 
 
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 ALOIS P. SWOBODA, 
 Bat 21 West 44th Street, N. Y. 
 
ALoIs P. S.woOoBODA 
 PA WEST 424A STREET 
 
 DIE W Ol 
 
 My dear Friend and Pupil: 
 
 The following two exercises are to be added to your pre-~ 
 vious movements, placing then at the very end. Tn other words, while 
 you are still on the floor, sontinus with Exercises "X" and ty", Take 
 Exercise *"X" three times the first day, increasing the number at the 
 rate of one per day, if possible, until you reach twalve times be- 
 fore retiring. Take Exercise "Y¥", which is the seconi movenent of this 
 lesson, three times the first day, adding ons every other day until 
 you reach six times. 
 
 I suggest that you take Exercises "X* and "YY" and also wnW#2" 
 jn bed. You will find them more agresable. Tn Exercise "X", if you 
 have any trouble, you may 1ift one leg at a time for a while, and as 
 you become more efficient you may take {t in ths regular way; and 
 $n Exercise "Y", place your fest under the covers, t9 noLd them down, 
 and as you are about to rise, throw your arms forward, and thus for 
 a while give yourself this assistance. 
 
 ‘Lower your feet quickly in Rxercise "X", and lower your body 
 quickly in Exercise “Y". When, however, your abdominal and back mus- 
 cles become stronger, you may take thess movements slower, ani 1% will 
 not be necessary to lower the body and feet completely and thus ralax. 
 
 Take these two exercises five times each day, upon arising. 
 Do not take them five times ups arising, however, until you have 
 attained that number befors retiring by inzreasing a3 per my above 
 advice. 
 
 Extensive benefit from exercise must always come in the form 
 of reaction. In other words, the first effect of exercise, in order 
 to create permarent and definite results, must be a detriment to the 
 pody, from which the body reacts with greater energy and greater abil- 
 ity in every cell. Therefore, it is necessary to constantly bear in 
 mind the limits of reaction of each individual, for what is enough 
 exercise for one very often proves to be too much for another, and yet 
 the physiological limit of reaction must be constantly crowded, other- 
 wise the system will not be called upon to adapt itself, and no bene~- 
 fit will result. I am giving you exercise in the proper volume, in- 
 tensity, and number, in harmony with my judgment of your physiological 
 limit of reaction, and 1 trust that you will follow my advice in every 
 respect in earnest, for thus you will make it absolutely certain that 
 the condition of your body will constantly improve, your cells will 
 
 develop more energy, and you, in consequence i 3 
 ihars Airy , ’ q , will feel extensively 
 
 I shall write you again in a week, and I hope that should 
 these exercises cause you any discomfort, that it will have disap- 
 peared when my next letter reaches you, | 
 
 “Yours very-truly, 
 
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 tem enang ee ee # 
 
Lie flat on your back on the floor. Place 
 the hands under the head. Keep the legs straight, 
 and slowly raise the feet until rearly, straight 
 up, as shown in cut. To not throw them up and take 
 notice that you do not bend the knees. When let- 
 ting them down, do it slowly. Keep the muscles of 
 the legs and hips rigid on the upward motion ONLY. 
 
 EXERCISE "yY" 
 
 : Lie flat on your back on the floor. Fold 
 the hands across the chest. Place the feet under 
 the foct of the bed, or anythirg else in the room, 
 to hold them down. Keeping the body erect and the 
 chest forward, raise the body. to a sitting position. 
 Do not bend over the stomach in this exercise, but 
 bend in the hips. Let the body down slowly and 
 repeat. Keep the body rigid on the upward motion 
 ONLY. Slightly bend the knees as you raise the 
 -body and straighten them as you lower the body. 
 
 
 
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 21 WEST 44 STREET 
 
 My Dear Friend and Pupil: 
 
 Swoboda ism- Conscious Evolution is based on the 
 opposite principle to medical practice and to medicine 
 and other treatments. Instead of devoting itself to the 
 Symptoms of weakness and symptoms of illness, and thus to 
 the negative side of the problem of health and life, it 
 devotes itself wholly to the positive and creative side. 
 
 Swoboda ism- Conscious Evolution does not seek 
 to cure constipation; it does not seek to cure indiges- 
 tion; it does not seek to cure rheunatism3; it does not 
 seek to cure nervous prostration; it does not seek to 
 cure anything. Swobodaism- Conscious Evolution seeks to 
 ignore this negative state of body and mind, and it seeks 
 to destroy these symptcms by giving attention to produc- 
 ing perfect health and perfect functioning and perfect 
 processing in every cell, tissue, organ, and gland of the 
 body, and thus Swobodaism- Conscious Evolution, by crea- 
 
 ting perfect conditions, destroys the negative conditions, 
 
 and establishes supremacy and power and perfect health 
 and more erergy «at one and the seme tmie. 
 
 Swoboda ism- Conscious Evolution is based on the 
 theory that every moment of time and attention you give 
 to the negative side of your problem is a moment wasted 
 and wrongly invested. Swobodaism- Conscious Evolution 
 is based on the theory that success can only come through 
 giving attention to success, 
 
 Remember, that you cannot overcome darkness 
 by giving attention to darkness. You can overcome dark- 
 ness only by giving attention to light. You can over- 
 come poverty only through giving attention to prosperity 
 and wealth. Therefore, make up your mind to give your 
 earnest attention, sincere attention, and entire atten- 
 
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tion, to perfect health, greater power of life, and great@- 
 er power of personality; for in this way you wili destroy 
 weakness, illness, feebleness, and failure. 
 
 Scientifically speaking, it is absolutely true 
 that successful evolution is a panacea for all human 
 ills. Successful evolution is a cure-all - the only 
 cure-all. Swobodaism- Conscious Evolution, through con- 
 sciously employing the medium and principles end laws of 
 evolution, makes successful evolution more easily poxsi- 
 ble and more attaineble, Therefore, Swobodaiscm- Con- 
 scious Evolution approaches being a successful cure-all 
 more than any other system or science or treatment which 
 is not evolutionary in its nature and effect, such as 
 drugs, dieting, mental attitudes, ordinary exercise, 
 physical culture, electricity, conscious deep breath- 
 ing, etc. , etc. 
 
 All ills of mind and body are due to incom- 
 plete or unsuccessful evolution. Unsuccessful evolu- 
 tion, therefore, is the fundamental cause of all human 
 ills. Ills are more or less severe and dangerous in 
 type as well as in degree, accordingly as the degree of 
 failure in evolution exists in each organism, 
 
 Partial evolutionary failure means chronic ana 
 general ills or disease - inferior life - feeble person- 
 ality - and feeble power of life. Extensive evoluticnary 
 failure means severe distress or disease. Complete evo- — 
 lutionary failure means collapse of body and mind. It 
 is self-evident that ‘success in evolution means success 
 in all else. 
 
 Swoboda ism- Conscious Evolution leads to higher 
 success in evolution - it leads to evolution beyond mere 
 blind or natural evolution, It produces practical evolu- 
 tion, progressive evolution, scientific evolution, and 
 valuable evolution of every characteristic of mind and 
 body, as is genuinely desired or wanted by my pupil. 
 
 I hope my letters please you, and interest you, 
 for I am sincerely eager to have you gain wonderful 
 health, wonderful youth, wonderful energy, wonderful vi- 
 tality, a wonderful mind, a wonderful brain, a wonderful 
 personality, and wonderful success, 
 
 With good luck to you, I an, 
 
 Sincerely yours, 
 
 
 

 

 
pleasure as may arise through the tugging at and 
 struggling with heavy dumb-belis, and thus gaining 
 high blood pressure and preparing conditions for 
 the early development of hardening of the arteries? 
 
 As the blood pressure rises. the organs of genera- 
 ton shrink and lose their tone, and premature dis- 
 charge takes place; finally, sexual functioning be- 
 comes a complete failure. 
 
 Conscious deep breathing, by automatically and 
 abruptly introducing oxygen into the system in ex- 
 cess of its needs, causes excessive union of oxygen 
 and carbon in the blood and cells, creating gas in 
 excessive volumes, which is not only a poison, but 
 the presence of the gas distends the cells and tissues 
 and capillaries, also increasing the blood pressure, 
 and not only creating sexual weakness—as in all in- 
 stances where the blood pressure is increased—but 
 also giving rise to dizziness, giddiness and a sense 
 of mental imbalance. 
 
 The world has yet to produce a mental giant or a 
 gentus through heavy dumb-bell exercise. The 
 laws of evolution make it impossible for a highly 
 conscious mind to exist in a personality that is en- 
 slaved by a body which has been developed by heavy 
 weights or heavy dumb-bells. The more highly de- 
 veloped become the purely mechanical elements, the 
 greater is the recession of consciousness of mind 
 and personality. This is in harmony with evolution- 
 ary law, and cannot be changed by argument. 
 
 Fancy a human being slaving, working and ex- 
 hausting his energies in connection with heavy 
 dumb-bells or excessive deep breathing, and thus 
 becoming mentally slow and sexually weak, by vir- 
 tue of compensating reactions! Can you imagine 
 anything more stupid? 
 
 BERKELEY BUILDING 
 
 
 
 21 West 44th Street New York City 
 
 It is a matter of knowledge among physicians 
 
 that professional strong men, gymnasts, and ath- 
 
 letes are sexual weaklings. 
 
 Dangers 
 
 of 
 Athletic and Gymnastic 
 
 Exercise 
 
 Organic Stress has restored to normal virility, 
 functionins and manhood many who have been 
 functionally weakened by athletics, weight-lifting, 
 dumbbells, violent forms of exercise and other 
 practices. 
 
 Organic Stress, however, must not be classed as 
 
 a mere cure for sexual weaknesses. 
 
a P ur is, of course, a matter of common knowl- 
 oy 4 edge that as the blood pressure rises, the 
 i632) sexual instinct or power recedes. Whether 
 ie high blood pressure be due to leaky heart valves 
 or to hardening of the arteries, produced by a cessa- 
 tion of evolution, or by a stiffening of the walls of 
 the capillaries, resulting in nutritional inaction, or 
 through the use of heavy weights or dumb-bells, the 
 result is invariably the same insofar as destroying 
 the sexual power is concerned. 
 
 
 
 All individuals who practice with heavy weights 
 prematurely, lose their sexual power. Practically all 
 strong men, all gymnasts, and all athletes, are more 
 or less sexless. Most physicians know that, sex- 
 ually, even those who have tuberculosis are mote 
 efficient than those who are professional strong men, 
 developed through the use of weights. The principle 
 involved is almost the same as in excessive fat. The 
 fatter the man the more feeble is his sexual power. 
 
 It is wrong in principle to exercise with heavy 
 weights, for it most certainly increases the blood 
 pressure. Most everyone has noticed how individ- 
 uals who exercise with heavy weights have large, 
 prominent veins standing out, so to speak, on their 
 arms and on other parts of bedy. These excessively 
 large and prominent veins always indicate excessive 
 blood pressure and when you learn that, as the blood 
 pressure rises, the sexual power recedes—when, in 
 other words, you realize that it is the rise in the blood 
 pressure of individuals that robs them of their sex- 
 ual power, you will appreciate that it is most un- 
 profitable to exercise with heavy weights. The 
 prominent veins on the arms and temples tell the 
 story of rising blood pressure and accompanying re- 
 cession of sexual power. 
 
 That the use of heavy weights increases the blood 
 pressure is not only demonstrated by actual tests 
 and measurements of the blood pressure, but it is 
 clearly evident to all, through an examination of 
 
 even the superficial veins of those who practice with 
 heavy weights. Note, for instance, the swelling 
 veins of any athlete or strong man who has prac- 
 ticed with heavy weights, and you will find that the 
 veins bulge and become exceedingly prominent. 
 This is one of the first and surest signs of high blood _ 
 pressure. There is not a strong man who has devel- 
 oped himself by means of heavy weights who does 
 not have these large prominent veins to exhibit un- 
 consciously as evidence that high blood pressure 
 has been developed through the system employed 
 for developing the muscles by such an individual. 
 Thus, you can easily see, strong men, in their photo- 
 graphs and in their persons, illustrate the truth of 
 this statement. 
 
 As the blood pressure rises, sexual etheceney aed 
 ual life, recedes. High blood pressure is the one 
 definite and positive means of destroying sexual life. 
 This is why individuals who gain high blood pres- . 
 sure through the use of heavy weights or through 
 permitting their blood vessels to “age,” are almost 
 invariably sexually impotent, partially or com- 
 pletely. 
 
 What is true of exercise with heavy weights is 
 also true of gymnastic and athletic exercise. In fact, 
 the theory of institutions employing gymnasiums in 
 connection with systems of moral culture, is that in 
 reducing the sexual energy of the individual through 
 gymnastic or athletic exercise, the individual loses 
 the desire to be sexually active or immoral, thus con- 
 verting himself virtually into a eunuch. 
 
 Who is there so keen to be non-alive, as to wish 
 to give up the primary, secondary and tertiary pow- 
 ers of procreation? Moreover, who is there so ill- 
 informed as to fail to realize that the higher instincts 
 and sentiments of life are related to the very nature 
 of procreation; and who is there that desires to give 
 
 up all of these attributes of mind and body and the > | 
 
 characteristics of personality for the sake of such 
 

 
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 My dear Friend and Pupil: 
 
 
 
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 No doubt, by this time, you have wondered if I intended to 
 give you exercises for the upper portion of your body and its nerve 
 centers only. You may rest assured that T shall give ycu exercises for 
 all of the muscles of your body, fer while it is true that I rave up 
 tc this time paid more attention to the upper portion of the body than 
 perhaps you require, nevertheless, it is important tec exercise those 
 muscles first over which you have reasonable conscious control, So 4s 
 to develop in the nervous system a greater ccnsciousness of all of the 
 muscles and thus be able to eventually dominate every muscle which it 
 is desired to exercise. 
 
 The following exercise please add to those given in previous 
 letters, placing it at the very end. Take Exercise “V" ten times 
 
 the first day and add one daily until you get it up to twenty times. 
 
 Increase the number of times of Fxercise "V" constantly at the rate 
 of one per day, even though you feel quite exhausted after it every 
 night, for this exercise, taken in this manner, will create a great 
 demand upon your digestive system for digested food, and thus your 
 nervous system will respond with greater activity in this direction 
 as well as in controlling more successfully the elimination cf waste - 
 matter from the large muscles of the legs and hips. Mcreover, the 
 
 heart will become stronger, and you will find that it will hrace you im —- 
 every department of your body and will prevent congestions, for when  — 
 tke heart is strong and the nervous system-is fully alive to the needs 
 of the system, the entire organism is governed perfectly ard the feel- 
 
 ing of health and energy is consequently as it should be. Take fy" 
 but half the number of times upon arising-that you do tefore retiring. 
 
 There is, however, no need of continuing my full course af- 
 ter you have attained a satisfactory condition, for exercise, in time, 
 
 ‘becores a turden, just the sare as anything else which we take as a 
 
 duty to ourselves. I shall, therefore, suggest a shert course in my 
 next letter which will take only a few minutes each day, but which 
 will enable you to retain the very highest state of perfection in- 
 definitely, which you will obtain from the full course. This short 
 course, however, you will not take now, for you are not as yet in pne- 
 session of the benefits which the full course can give you. | 
 
 Regardless of whether we like it or not, -1t. 1S, Revertioe.« 
 less, a fact, that the cells of the body require a certain amount of 
 exercise. When you have, therefore, developed the tissues of your 
 body, you will be able to give this needed quantity of exercise to 
 your nerves and muscles with less than five minutes attention per 
 day. In my own case I average less than two minutes per day, some- 
 times taking a little more and at other times even less, and yet I am 
 able to maintain myself in the highest state of development and effi- 
 ciency. I know that you can do likewise, for the laws of physiology 
 are the same for you as they are for me. In Nature there is no in- 
 equality before the law. — | | 
 
 JT shall write you again next week, as per my schedule, giv- 
 ing you inst Sita: your final lesson. : 
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Assume position by standing on the toes. 
 Hand on the back of a chair to preserve balance. 
 Keep the body erect, and by bending in the knees 
 lower the body. Then make the muscles of the 
 thighs rigid, and by straightening the legs raise 
 the body to first position. Keep on the toes all 
 through this exercise, and when lowering the body 
 you will come to position, as, shown in cut. Keep 
 the muscles rigid on the upward motion only. 
 
 
 

 
 PE EES TPE 
 
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 My dear Friend and Pupil: 
 
 Your sincerity and your ambition and your real de- 
 sires determine your attitude and action. 
 
 If you are sincere - intensely sincere - genuinely 
 sincere, and if you are ambitious, and aspire to accomplish 
 something really wonderful for yourself, then you are, Ly 
 all means, thinking in progressive terms, positive terms, 
 future terms, and you are guiding your every action and 
 every idea and every adaptation progressively. 
 
 If you are insincere, if you have no real desires, 
 
 if you have no real arbition, if you have no real aim to ac- 
 
 complish something for yourself, then you are thinking in 
 
 negative terms; you are thinking of not doing this and not > 
 
 doing that and not doing the other thing. You are think- 
 ing of saving yourself. You are thinking of avoiding the 
 problems of life. You are thinking in terms of your symp- 
 
 toms, in terms of your weaknesses, end you are catering to 
 
 your weaknesses and your symptoms. 
 
 Nothing can be gained through giving attention to 
 weaknesses and symptoms of adversity. Success comes only 
 through giving attention to rrogressive and favorable and 
 evolutionary conditions. 
 
 You can make up your mind trat you are sincere pe i 
 you have the desire to accomplish something, and you can 
 meke up your mind that you ere insincere, even though you 
 may not be thoroughly conscious of it, if you are thinking 
 of defending yourself against action and avoiding action, 
 and thus meeting the problems of life in an antagonistic 
 spirit. 
 
 If you coulé thoroughly realize the importence of 
 getting away from the negative attitude and from the at- 
 tention to negative conditions, and if you could thorough- 
 ly realize the advantage which inevitably must become 
 yours; if you give your attention wholly to constructive 
 Sdeas and creative attitudes and progressive desires and 
 thus constantly to your success and aims and to your de- 
 sire for supremacy, you would, without question, from now 
 on, absolutely eradicate from your personality all thoughts 
 of adversity and all thoughts of misery, and all thought 
 of failure, and all thoughts of weakness, and would con- 
 stantly try to keep in mind a realization and a visuali- 
 
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 personality you would stress your energies evolutionarily 
 and daily, as I have prescribed for you, the results, in-. 
 deed, would be amazing, for the results would become cumu- 
 Jative. You would not only add to your results week by 
 week and month by month, but you would also add to your mo- 
 mentum and rete of your results by the increased power 
 which the cumulative effect of ycur results would make 
 inevitable. 
 
 Unless you have an aim and an ambition that is 
 worth while, you will find that your creative energies wil) 
 drag you down, pull you back, and interfere with your ac- 
 tion. They will fill you with the ideas of neglect and 
 indolence and ideas of the negative type. 
 
 Your creative energies are governed by the same 
 principle that governs human beings in their action. Human 
 beings act best when they are induced, through an advantage, 
 +o act for themselves. Therefore, endeavor to crystallize 
 and visualize in your own mind just what it is that you 
 really want and make your desire as clear and as tangible 
 as possible. At the same time, make your desire worth 
 while. Do not think in mediocre terms. Do not think in 
 small ideas. Remember, that the bigger your aim and the 
 higher your ambition, the greater is the inducement to your 
 Conscious Energy - your Creative Energy, to work for you 
 and strive for you and evolutionize for you and create for 
 
 ouch | 
 
 
 
 
 
 ut your mind and body 
 
 
 
 eel 
 
 Make up your mind to see just how great a success 
 you can accomplish for yourself through Swcboda ism- Con- 
 scious Evolution. Make up your mind to surpass any pre- 
 
 vious effort made by yourself or by anyone else. In other 
 
 words, compete with yourself and with others in your desire 
 and effort for health, success, and supremacy. With this 
 attitude in your mind and personality your Conscious Ener- 
 gy will develop for you great and almost unbelievable re- 
 actions. | 
 
 Measured and understood in terms of your final or 
 ultimate results, you are now practically, for the first 
 time, taking the full Course and therefore, in reality, 
 are for the first time, using your energies for the pur- 
 pose of developing maximum reactions. In other words, 
 while you have been adapting yourself to my lessons, you 
 have, in reality, been developing but moderate reactions 
 and adaptations, but from now on your adaptations and reac. 
 tions will be a maximum, just as soon as your organism 
 learns to react fully to the maximum of stress you are 
 giving it through acting on all of my suggestions. 
 
 Remember that your results come entirely and only 
 through reactions. It is through reaction in your Con- 
 scious Energy that you gain greater will power; it is 
 through reaction in your Conscious Hnergy that you gain a 
 perfect memory; it is through reaction in your Conscious 
 Energy that you gain greater concentration, courage, and 
 
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 confidence; it is through reaction in your Conscious Energy 
 that you gain greater digestive power, heart power, lung 
 power; it is through reaction in your Conscious Energy 
 that you gain greater nerve and brain power; it is through 
 reaction in your Conscious Energy that you gain greater . 
 vitality; it is through reaction in your Conscious Energy 
 that you gain equilibrium and greater power in every cell, 
 tissue, gland, and orgen of your body; it is through reac- 
 tion that your brain and nervous system are energized. In 
 other words it is through reaction in your Conscious Fner- 
 gy that you gain greater power of mind and body in every 
 respect. 
 
 In Swoboda ism- Conscious Evolution you use your 
 energies rerely for the purpose of creating reaction ty 
 stress in your Conscious Energy. Swobode isr- Censcious 
 Evolution is used only for the purpose of creating these 
 reactions through stressing your Conscious Energy, and for 
 no other purpose. 
 
 Your results will be entirely according to your 
 desire and action. If you really have a desire to succeed 
 amazingly, your Conscious Energy will give you complete 
 success if you appeal to it through stressing it through 
 Swoboda iem- Coernscious Evcluticn. Ferember, however, 
 that now that you have the complete Course, you have, in 
 reality, entered upon your self-superiorization in full 
 
 -—___-_—Serce-fer 
 
 
 
 
 
 a —— 
 
 
 
 If you will read all of my letters with enthusi- 
 asm, you will find that they will not only have a new and 
 higher meaning, but they ‘will also have a new and better 
 and higher influence over you. There is power for you in 
 a constructive and favorable, as well as enthusiastic, in- 
 terpretation of my letters of instructions. Your Con- ; 
 scious Energy, throvgh trensformations and ccnversions of 
 itself, under and in response to stresses disturbing its 
 
 ; equilibrium, reacts, ‘end these reactions enter the mole- 
 cules of the cells, the molecules of the blocd,the mole- 
 cules of the protoplasm, and the molecules of tke tissues, 
 giands, and organs, 45 well as the molecules of the nerves, 
 nerve centers, and brain, resulting in higher organiza- 
 tion of these molecules and cells and tissues and glands, 
 fluids, ard organs of the body. The reactions of the Con- 
 scious Energy also enter the energies of the nerve centers 
 and brain, giving rise to higher development and evolution 
 of the characteristics of the nerve centers and brain, 
 thus giving rise to higher development of every faculty 
 and every nerve force of every nerve center; the Conscious 
 Energy ; gsuperiorizing in this way through these reactions 
 all of the bodily and mental powers and characteristics 
 and faculties, raising the very level of life and efficien- 
 cy of body and mind to a new and higher plane. Under these 
 conditions, the power of resisting disease is increased and 
 the power of the organism over every process is intensified, 
 while, at the same time, the power of the personality, 
 through the mind, to cope with the mental and symbolic and 
 
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 conceptual conditions of life, is amplified, augmented, or 
 increased, giving to the body and personality greater pow- 
 ers for supremacy, as well as greater power of resisting 
 adversity, regardless of what be its nature. Your possi- 
 bilities trreveh Swebcdaisnr- Cersciovs Evolution are lim- 
 ited entirely snd only by your desire, by your sincerity, 
 by your enthusiasm, ccmbined with your action and use of 
 your energies in Swobodaism- Conscious Evolution for 
 stressing your Conscious Energy and driving it into more 
 highly developing, and increasing your every bodily and 
 mental power. . 
 
 Your Conscious Energy has perfect health, sensa- 
 tional vitality, unlimited energy, and extraordinary pow- 
 ers of mind and body in store for you. You need but to 
 reach your Conscious Energy through an evolutionary derend, 
 as in Swobodaism- Conscious Evolution, through intense ac- 
 tion, full sincerity, intense desire, and constructive en- 
 thusiasm, and your Conscious Energy will give you precisely 
 those powers of mind and bedy that you nced, as expressed . 
 by your desires. Your desires determine the directicn of 
 the reactions in your Conscious Energy. 
 
 Swobodaism- Conscious Evolution is the energic 
 science of self-supericrization. To be enthusiastic over 
 Swobodaism- Conscicus Evolution is to be enthusiastic 
 over your progress and your greater future. Your pessibil- 
 ities through Swobrodaism- Conscious Evolution are enormous - 
 amazing. Convert them into realities through your erthu- 
 siastic action in Swcebodaism- Conscious Evolution, 
 
 The object of this letter is to help you to realize 
 the importance of action and the importance of having an 
 aim and the importance of really pursuing something that 
 has tremendous value for ycu in terms of heppiness or in 
 terms of health or in terms of success. Read my letters 
 over and over égain. You will find that they contain a~ 
 hidden meaning, and that this meaning can only be interpre- 
 ted and understcod and realized by you through intense and . 
 sincere and progressive cooperation. 
 
 Within the next two or three years startling and 
 transcendent disclosures for humenity will be made through 
 swobodaism- Conscious Evolution. The time for conscious 
 realization of the ultimate law through me is approaching. 
 
 As a matter of fact, you should become one of my 
 most enthusiastic pupils, for the more you gain the great- 
 er must become your enthusiasm. Your possiblities of gain 
 are enormous. Swobodaism- Conscious Evolution can unques- 
 tionably and positively give you the advantages you seek 
 and need and require. You can become a giant in energy, 
 
 @ giant in personality. With enormous energy you will over- 
 ride obstacles and gain a new realization of life - a new 
 universe of life, hsalth, happiness, pleasure, and success, 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 
 

 

 

 
 
 
 ADAPTATION OF 
 
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 Conscious Evolution 
 
 + T is a fact that it is necessary for my 
 pupil to cooperate with me and to prac- 
 tice the exercise and to use his energies, 
 if he is to fully understand and com- 
 prehend my instructions, and if he is to arrive 
 at a successful conclusion. No mere reading of 
 my instructions can disclose to anyone the secret 
 and hidden power of my instructions. My in- 
 structions must be carried out; that is to say, 
 my pupil must supply earnestness, sincerity, and 
 desire and action,and thus cooperation, for with- 
 out these my instructions are meaningless. If 
 there be among my pupils an individual who 
 hopes to solve Conscious Evolution—Swobeda- 
 ism and solve my instructions through mere 
 reading of my letters, then for such an indi- 
 vidual I am sorry, for no one, regardless of how 
 far advanced he is in scientific learning or in 
 philosophical cogitation, has the power to com- 
 prehend Conscious Evolution — Swoboda ism 
 without action and cooperation, and according 
 to the sincerity of my pupil and according to 
 the determination of my pupil to gain the high- 
 
 
 
 est prizes of life, so accordingly will Conscious 
 
 ‘Evolution—Swoboda ism become a source of 
 ‘new wealth, and a source of new power, and a 
 source of new life. 
 
 Anyone who tries to interpret Conscious Evo- 
 lution—Swoboda ism in terms of physical cul- 
 ture, or in terms of exercise, or in terms of 
 physiclogy, or in terms of any other present-day 
 science or philosophy or practice, attempts the 
 impossible. Conscious Evolution—Swoboda ism 
 is based on an altogether new principle, a prin- 
 ciple which has ruled humanity unconsciously 
 and blindly in evolution, but which in Conscious 
 Evolution—Swoboda ism is actively, purpose- 
 fully and consciously capitalized and employed. 
 
 To understand the science and philosophy of 
 
 Conscious Evolution—Swoboda ism, it is neces- 
 
 sary to understand the laws and principles and 
 nature and characteristics of Conscious Energy. 
 There are no scientists or philosophers or phy- 
 sicians who are thinking in terms of Conscious 
 Energy, consequently there are no individuals 
 who are equipped mentally with the power and 
 device and means by which to comprehend Con- 
 scious Evolution—Swoboda ism in its philosoph- 
 ical and scientific phases. My pupil, however, 
 need not understand the science and philosophy 
 of Conscious Evolution—Swoboda ism, just as 
 a patient need not understand the chemical 
 composition of a physician’s prescription. All 
 that is required of my pupil is earnestness, sin- 
 cerity, and a desire to accomplish something, 
 a desire to increase the power of mind and 
 body, and this must be combined with real and 
 earnest and sincere use of the energies as I 
 prescribe for my pupil. When my pupil sup- 
 plies these elements, then my pupil completes 
 the chain—the circle which makes the rising 
 tide of successful evolution for him absolutely 
 inevitable. There can be no failure where there 
 is proper effort and the proper desire, and the 
 
 
 
 Swobodaism 
 
 earnest aim and ambition. Enter into this mat- 
 ter with the enthusiasm born of a desire to ac- 
 complish something, and your results will be 
 
 " amazing. 
 
 I hope you have not allowed yourself to in- 
 terpret my instructions and explanations in a 
 negative spirit or attitude. To do so is to rob 
 yourself of the power of rapid advancement. 
 
 If you can understand that my ambition in 
 life is to give the greatest possible result to hu- 
 man beings, and if you will therefore interpret 
 everything I say in this spirit, and if you will 
 avoid the error of misinterpreting my state- 
 ments in negative terms, you will arrive at a 
 complete understanding of what I aim to ac- 
 complish, and what I mean to do and why I 
 write what I write. 
 
 Everything that is said, and ever has been 
 said, and ever will be said, is subject to two 
 kinds of interpretation—positive interpretation 
 and negative interpretation. You need but to 
 attend a case in court and to listen to the lawyer 
 of the opposition to realize that everything that 
 is said is twisted into meaning the opposite of 
 what it is intended to mean, and the opposite of 
 what, in reality, it does mean. 
 
 If you will interpret what I say in the posi- 
 tive spirit, you will gain the real meaning of 
 my phrases, and the real meaning of my instruc- 
 tions, and the real meaning of my attitude. If 
 you should, by accident, or intention, interpret 
 what I say in negative terms, you would not 
 only do yourself an injustice, but you would 
 be unjust to Conscious Evolution—Swoboda ism 
 and to me; for nothing I say is to be interpreted 
 in negative terms; all that I say I mean in the 
 positive terms. What I have just said is meant 
 in a kind spirit. Knowing that everything can 
 be incorrectly or erroneously interpreted, I am 
 seeking to give you the key in this way to a 
 successful interpretation of everything I say for 
 you and to you. 
 
 I shall be delighted when you gain a maxi- 
 mum of advantage, through Conscious Evolu- 
 tion—Swoboda ism. My aim is to give you the 
 utmost result, and I believe if you will mterpret 
 not only my instructions in the proper spirit, 
 but also my letters in the positive spirit, you 
 will put yourself in the position of gaining the 
 greatest result. 
 
 In the event you have not thus far intensely 
 and seriously and earnestly and _ sufficiently 
 adapted yourself to my complete instructions, 
 it will be best for you to drop back immediately 
 to the exercises of the first lesson, and once 
 more, earnestly and thoroughly and sincerely, 
 add the different lessons at intervals of one week 
 as I originally instructed you. This will give 
 your system a new evolutionary impulse through 
 which your organism will adapt itself with 
 greater success. By all means, act on this sug- 
 gestion if you are not earnestly and thoroughly 
 
 pursuing the full Course of Conscious Evolu- 
 
 tion—Swoboda-ism. 
 
 AloisP Swoboda 
 

 
 My dear Friend and Pupil: 
 
 You may now ADD the following two exercises, placing them 
 immediately after your arm or standing-up rovements; in other words, 
 just before your floor exercise. Take each of these new exercises 
 ten times before retiring, omitting them entirely upon arising. You 
 may now increase in the rapidity with which you do all of the exer- 
 cises and at the same time shorten the periods of rest. This will 
 cause the exercises to ccnsume less time and yet retain their effec- 
 tiveness. | 
 
 Later, when ycou feel that the full ccurse is taking too much 
 time, and you have derived satisfactory results, you can take the fol- 
 lowing exercises only, namely, "A" "E-#2" "I" "jy" @R" “W-#2" and "Vv", 
 Take each exercise rapidly, with the muscles as rigid as possible, 
 ‘devoting almcst no time to rest between the different movements. This 
 short course will enable you to retain the benefits and at the same 
 time gradually improve upon your physical condition. When you are 
 ready to take the short course as per above, take it the full number 
 of times, both night and morning. 
 
 I trust that you follow the exercises to the best of your 
 ability, for upon the regularity of practice very much depends. In 
 fact, regularity of practice is coequal in value with the intensity of 
 application of mind in producing rigidity of the muscles, for it is by 
 this means that the nervous system is aroused to greater activity, re- 
 sulting in better functioning of all-of the glands of the body. 
 
 The exercises, as you know, are merely the vehicle by means 
 of which the nervous system is aroused to greater activity through the 
 intense application of the mind in producing resistance and rigidity 
 of the muscles. Aim constantly to increase in your ability to exert 
 your mind on your muscles, and in order to increase this capacity, and 
 if convenient, make a practice of Exercise "A" several times during 
 the day, in addition to your morning and evening exercise. | 
 
I have new given you enovgh instructions for stressing your 
 Conscious Energy through exercising to yield ultimately for you such 
 results as you desire. During the first thirty days your organism, 
 while developing reactions, is at the same time subjected to increas- 
 ing stress through your adding cf the different lessons. Now, how- 
 ever, that there will be no additional exercises, your. organism will 
 increase its reacticns, and of ccurse your results from now on will 
 be gratifying ‘n every way. In other words, all results come through 
 the cumulative effect of the reactions, and the cumulative ¢«ffect of 
 the reactions becomes inevitable after you adapt yourself to the full 
 and complete Course. 
 
 Read carefully and always in a constructive spirit all that 
 I have written to you, for it will have a new and deeper and higher 
 mearnirg for you, and with this new end deeper and higher meaning, you 
 will gain greater power, by means of which to extract from Conscious 
 Evolution, with greater success, the results you seek. There is ab- 
 solutely no limit to your pessibilities through evolution. Conscious 
 Evolution is evoluticn purposefully ard deliberetely and consciously 
 aroused, activated, urged, and promcted. This is the final lesson, 
 but your real reactions and results are just beginning, 
 
 With all good wishes to you, I am, 
 
 “7 Yours very truly” 
 
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 EXERCISE "N* 
 
 Assume position, with the body erect, 
 the arms hanging at sides. Make rigid the muscles 
 of the chest and shoulders, and slowly draw the 
 shoulders as high as possible, as shown in cut; 
 then draw them down as low as you can - not with 
 ea jerk, but slowly and with rigidity. In drawing 
 the arms up inhale and fill your lungs as much as 
 you can, and when lowering the arms exhale and 
 empty the chest as much as you are able. This 
 exercise will increase your chest expansion and 
 relax the muscles os the shoulders. 
 
 EXERCISE "F* 
 
 Assume positicn, with the arms bent at | 
 elbows. Elbows close to the body. Palms turned 
 inward, Make rigid the muscles of the arms and 
 shoulders and push the arms to full arms' length 
 above the shoulders, as shown in cut. Draw them 
 back to first position. Keep the muscles rigid, 
 both on the upward and downward motions. Push 
 the arms up, one at a time, so that while the 
 right arm is going through one movement, the left 
 arm remains relaxed and resting. The muscles of 
 the shoulders, arms, and back of the neck, are 
 used in this exercise. 
 
Anyone who tries to interpret Conscious” Evolution 
 
 
 
 Vy dear Friend and Pupil: 
 
 It is a fact that it is necessary for my pupil to cooperats 
 with me end to practice the exercise ard to use his energies, if he 
 is to fully understand and comprehend my instructions, and if he is 
 to arrive at a successful ccnclusion. No mere reading of my instruc- 
 tions can disclose to anyone the secret and hidden rower of my in- 
 structions. My instructions must be carried outs that is to say, my 
 pupil rust supply earnestness, sincerity, and desire and action, and 
 thus cooperation, for without these my instructions are meaningless. 
 If there be among my pupils an individual who hopes to solve Consc: ous 
 Evcluticn and solve my instructions through mere read‘ng of my let- 
 ters, then for such an individual I am sorry, for no one, regardless 
 of how far advanced he is in scientific learning or in chilosophical 
 
 mogitation, has the power to comprehend Conscious Evolution without 
 
 action and cooperation, and accordirg to the sincerity of my pupil and 
 according to the determination of my pupil to gain the highest prizes 
 
 of life, so accordingly will Conscious Evolution become a source of 
 
 new wealth, and a source of new power, and a scurce of new life. 
 
 
 
 of physical culture, or in terms of exercise, or in terms of physiol- 
 ogy, or in terms of any other present-day science or philosophy or 
 practice attempts the impossible. Conscicus Evolution is tased on 
 
 an altcgether new principle, a principle which has ruled humanity un- | 
 
 ccnsciously and blindly in evelution, but which in Conscious Evolu- 
 tion is actively and consciously capitalized and employed. 
 
 To understand the science and philosophy of Conscious Evo- 
 lution, it is necessary to understand the laws and principle: and na- 
 ture and characteristics of Conmscicus Erergy. There are ro scientists 
 or philoscphers cr physicians who are thirking in terms of Conscious 
 Energy, consequently there are no individuals who are eq:ip,ed ment- 
 ally with the power and devices and means by which to comprehen. Con- 
 scious Evolution in its philcscphical and scientific phases. My pu- 
 pil, however, need not understand the science ard philosophy of Con- 
 scious Evolution, just as a pationt need not understand the chemical 
 composition of a physician's prescription. All that is required of my 
 ‘pupil is earnestness, sincerity, and a desire to accomplish something, 
 a desire to increase the power of mind and body, and this must be 
 combined with real and earnest and sincere use of the energies as [ 
 prescribe for my papil. When my pupil supplies these elements, then 
 my pupil completes the chain - the circle which makes the rising tide 
 of evolution for him absolutely inevitable. There can be no failure | 
 where there is proper effort and the proper desire, and the earnest 
 aim and ambition. Enter into this matter with the enthusiasm born of 
 a desire to accomplish something, and your results will be amazing. 
 
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I hope you have not allowed yourself to interpret my in- 
 structions and explanations in a negative spirit or attitude. To do 
 so is to rob yourself of the power of rapid advancement. 
 
 3 If you can understand that my ambition in life is to give 
 the greatest possible result to humen beings, and if you will there- 
 fore interpret everything I say i I Spirit, and if you will avoid 
 
 error of misinterpreting my statements in negative terms, you will 
 arrive at a complete unde ng of vhat I aim to accomplish, and 
 what I mean to do ard why I write what I write. 
 
 Everything that is said, and ever has been said, and ever 
 will be said, is subject to two kinds of interprotaticn - positive 
 interpretation and negat-ve interpretation. You need but to attend a 
 cese in court end to listen to the lawyer of the oprosition to real- 
 
 ize that everythirg that is said is twisted into meaning the opposite 
 cf°what it is intended to mean, and the opposite of what, in reality, 
 it does mean. 
 
 If you will interpret what I say in the positive spirit. vod 
 will gain the real meaning of ry phrases, and the real meaning of my 
 instructions, and the real meaning of my attitude. If you should, by 
 accident or intention, interpret what I say in negative terms, you 
 would not only do yourself an injustice, but you would be unjust to 
 Conscious Evolution and to mes for nothing I say is to be interpreted 
 in negative terms; all that I say I mean in the positive terms. What 
 I have just said is meant in a kind spirit. Knowing that everything 
 can be incorrectly or erroneously interpreted, I am seeking to give 
 you the key in this way to a successful interpretation cf everything 
 I say for you and to you. 
 
 I shall be delighted when you gain a maximum of advantage 
 through Conscious Evolution. My aim is to give you the utmost result, 
 and I believe if you will interpret not only my instructions in the 
 proper spirit, but also my letters in the positive spirit, you will 
 put yourself in the position of gaining the greatest result. 
 
 In the event you have not thus far intensely and seriously 
 and earnestly adapted yourself to my complete instructions, it will 
 be best for you to drop back immediately to the exercises of the first 
 lesson, and once more, earnestly and thoroughly and sincerely, add the 
 different lessons at intervals of one week as I Originally instructed 
 you. This will give your system a new evolutionary impulse through 
 which your organism will adapt itself with greater success. By all 
 means, act on this suggestion if you are not earnestly and thoroughly 
 pursuing the full Course. 
 
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