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You rise, from the +foundation, through successive stories to the culminating peak. +The most pleasing, notable structures men build from granite and +steel and wood, tower like a Woolworth Building or a Rheims +Cathedral--higher and higher, until they finally reach a gold- +tipped crown or spire, high in the sunlit sky. + +And so, in rearing your invisible shrine of personal Success- +magnetism, we now come to the topmost peak of the structure. This +book gives you the crowning inspirations, tipped and topped with +the final "Golden Laws of Magnetism in all Applied Life." + +Master these lessons in the magnetism of success, and you will go +forth upon the highways and by-ways of life, endowed with a kingly +confidence in your ability to win a measure of success achieved by +few. + +But remember--(should discouragement seek to dog your steps)-- +every great structure requires the process of time. "The giant +trees of California were once puny saplings. The slow lapse of +time has drawn nature into their mighty hearts." Just as surely as +the absorption of natural forces built the giant redwoods, just as +surely can you draw upon nature for GIANT POWERS. + + + + + + The Fire. + +In ancient myth, Prometheus +Filched fire from the altars of the gods +To warm the world, +Incurring Jove's dread wrath +And endless torment. + +Lo, mind,--inflamed by the vision: +Of victim and the torturing bird, +Of black vindictiveness and suffering Will, +Rived forever, yet for aye supreme,-- +Heroizes the deed and soul +And wreaks on canvas and in drama high +Its passionate admiration. + +Now, too, in palace and hut confronted, +In battleship and iron steed defying space, +In flaring furnace of the smelted ore, +In haunts of coal and steam below the whirling wheels, +Life laughs and sings and thunders +An oratorio merging all the powers of harmony, +And hails the high-born Thief, +As giver of ethereal fire. + +The atomic thrill waits also the clear call +To lift dull bodies till the joy of flesh +Becomes a common luxury;-- +To vibrate rhythmically swift +Through all the responsive cells of thought +Till a man might solemnly hold +All things are possible on the bursting earth;-- +To energize the mystic self +With consciousness of life deific +Till the whole world, jubilant, should flame +With its glory, actual, concrete, the one sure Truth +Of a rock-girt globe, or a sun-filled space. +--THE AUTHOR. + + + + + +THE TWENTY-SEVENTH LESSON--The Four Pyramids. + + This equation's writ + In every scene: + The end shall fit-- + As extremes to mean-- + Whatever's forerunner to it. + --THE AUTHOR. + +PRINCIPLE--The best use of self demands that it be understood. + + +Our ideal specimen of human nature is the whole man at his best. + +The etheric life demands (a) the vibrations native to the body in +health--(Physical Magnetism)--(b) the vibrations induced by the +active mind, (c) the vibrations intensified by controlled +emotional states, (d) the regulative vibrations of psychic +righteousness or honor--(Psychic Magnetism). In this scheme +nothing is inferior, but all elements are appointed to be +subordinate to the last. These vibrations should run through the +whole etheric activity a binding thread of force. + +We are now to study the four pyramids of the etheric life. The +purpose is four-fold. If you will put yourself into this lesson as +you have, presumably, put yourself into the preceding twenty-six +lessons, you will discover-- + +Firstly--Magnetic CONCENTRATION; + +Secondly--The RELATION of the DIVISIONS of self to the WHOLE self; + +Thirdly--A better UNDERSTANDING of your personality; + +Fourthly--The supreme importance of PSYCHIC RIGHTEOUSNESS. + +It is altogether probable that the majority of people live almost +wholly in the physical pyramids of existence. + +Properly speaking, the illustration on page 422 is a single +pyramid rather than four pyramids. It is composed of four +triangular walls, each of which is called a pyramid for +convenience and represents a certain phase of your nature. The +great pyramidal I AM is complete only as all sides of your +selfhood are fully built up. You are LOOKING DOWN from the "I AM." + + +A CURIOUS ILLUSTRATION. + + +A point has neither length, breadth, nor thickness. Move it in +thought any distance in one direction, and you have the line. Move +the line FROM its direction any distance, you have the surface. +Move the surface OUT of its plane any distance, you have the +solid. Thus you have obtained length, breadth, thickness, line, +surface, solid, motion, space, time, number, structure, body, and, +in the attention, mind,--and scores of other factors (study out a +long list),--by means of that which has no length, no breadth, no +thickness. + +The real YOU is that point. YOU move and describe a line of life. +This line, repeated, becomes habit, which moved through time, +makes conduct, and right conduct, projected through life, yields +magnetism. + +If you live only on surface I, you are mere animal. If you +project, that surface through to III, you are a fine moral person. +If you project surface II through to surface IV, you are magnetic. +If you combine these solids, YOU are the Ideal Pyramid, "_I_ AM +POWER." + +Let us add the following: + +"Culture is not measured by the greatness of the field which is +covered by our knowledge, but by the nicety with which we can +perceive relations in that field, whether great or small." + +This book desires that you become acquainted with the unused +portions of your nature. + +In order to this, you are now invited to make a long regime of +mining out the magnetic significance of-- + + +THE FOUR PYRAMIDS. + + +I + +Harmony-- +Exercise--Recreation +--Air--Sleep--Water +--Food--Regularity--Digestion +--Cleanliness--Economy-- +Scientific Body-Building and Using. +I. Pyramid of Physical Health + +II + +Will--Muscular +Development +--Nervous Condition +--Inner Energy-- +Responsiveness--Self Control--Staying +Power--Health--Body-Tone-- +Personal Qualities--Physical Characteristics. +II. Pyramid of Physical Magnetism. + +III + +Peace--Will +--Righteousness-- +Love--Knowledge +Faith--Hope--Courage-- +Body-Health--Right Heredity-- +Right Environment--Right Training. +III. Pyramid of Moral Health. + +IV + +Will--Alertness +--Fidelity-- +Hope--Courage-- +Confidence--Honor--Thought-- +Faith in System--Physical +Basis: Health--Body-Magnetism. +IV. Pyramid of Personal Magnetism. + + +You are now invited to write out all the possible TRUE +combinations of these four pyramids, and particularly to observe +the following + + +RIGHT PYRAMIDAL COMBINATIONS. + + +We see that-- + +1. Physical Health makes for Physical Magnetism; + +2. Physical Magnetism bases Psychic Magnetism; + +3. Physical Health neighbors Moral Health; + +4. Moral Health conduces to Physical Magnetism; + +5. Moral Health is indispensable to Psychic Magnetism; + +6. Psychic health bases Physical Magnetism. + +We also observe that-- + +7. Physical Magnetism assists Physical Health; + +8. Psychic Magnetism assists Physical Health; + +9. Moral Health assists Physical Health. + +It now appears that-- + +10. Physical Magnetism is indifferent to TRUE Moral Health; + +11. Psychic Magnetism assists Moral Health; + +12. Psychic Magnetism assists Physical Magnetism. + +We therefore conclude that the following are + + +INCOMPLETE PYRAMIDAL COMBINATIONS. + + +1. Physical Health--[Physical Magnetism + Psychic Magnetism + +Moral Health]. + +2. Physical Health + Physical Magnetism--[Psychic Magnetism + +Moral Health]. + +3. Physical Health + Physical Magnetism + Psychic Magnetism-- +[Moral Health]. + +4. Physical Magnetism--[Psychic Magnetism + Moral Health]. + +5. Physical Magnetism + Psychic Magnetism--[Moral Health]. +Impossible. + +6. Psychic Magnetism--[Physical Health + Physical Magnetism]. + +7. Psychic Magnetism + Physical Health--[Physical Magnetism + +Moral Health]. Impossible in part. + +8. Moral Health--[Physical Health + Physical Magnetism]. + +9. Moral Health + Physical Health--[Physical Magnetism + Psychic +Magnetism]. Impossible in part. + +You may thus possess physical health without physical magnetism. +But if you seek physical magnetism, you must go by the way of +physical health. + +You may possess moral health without full psychic magnetism, but +if you seek the highest form of psychic magnetism, you must go by +the way of moral health. + +It is now evident that the following are + + +IDEAL COMBINATIONS. + + +FIRST--FROM THE STANDPOINT OF MORALS. + +1. First:--Moral Health. Next: + +2. Moral Health + Psychic Magnetism + Physical Magnetism + +Physical Health. Next: + +3. Moral Health + Psychic Magnetism + Physical Magnetism. Next: + +4. Moral Health + Psychic Magnetism + Physical Health. Next: + +5. Moral Health + Psychic Magnetism. Next: + +6. Moral Health + Physical Magnetism. Next: + +7. Moral Health + Physical Health. Next: + +8. Psychic Magnetism. Impossible alone. + +9. Physical Magnetism. Impossible alone. + +10. Physical Health. Mere animal life. + + +SECOND--FROM THE STANDPOINT OF MAGNETISM. + + +1. First:--Psychic Magnetism. Next: + +2. Psychic Magnetism + Moral Health + Physical Magnetism + +Physical Health. Next: + +3. Psychic Magnetism + Moral Health + Physical Magnetism. Next: + +4. Psychic Magnetism + Moral Health + Physical Health. Next: + +5. Psychic Magnetism + Moral Health. Next: + +6. Psychic Magnetism + Physical Magnetism. Next: + +7. Psychic Magnetism + Physical Health. Next: + +8. Moral Health. Next: + +9. Physical Magnetism. Impossible alone. Next: + +10. Physical Health. Valueless alone. + + +CONCLUSIONS. + + +Summarizing possible conclusions, we have the following: + +1. Physical health is indispensable to physical magnetism; + +2. Psychic righteousness (health) is indispensable to psychic +magnetism; + +3. Psychic magnetism is indispensable to best physical magnetism; + +4. Physical magnetism is not wholly indispensable to psychic +magnetism. + +5. PERFECT PSYCHIC MAGNETISM INVOLVES HEALTH, PHYSICAL MAGNETISM +AND PSYCHIC RIGHTEOUSNESS. + +The ALL-IMPORTANT departments of your personality are those of +PSYCHIC RIGHTEOUSNESS and PSYCHIC MAGNETISM. + +But the IDEAL MAN of success is the WHOLE MAN always AT HIS BEST. + +The whole man is more than psychic development; he is a PRODUCT +AND A CREATOR OF PRACTICAL AFFAIRS. + + +MAGNETISM A GROWTH. + + +Let us understand. You cannot reasonably hope to succeed by merely +DREAMING about success. + +You surely cannot achieve success if you PLUNGE BLINDLY through +your career. + +You cannot really succeed without possessing some degree of +PERSONAL MAGNETISM. + +When you began the present study, you certainly possessed a +measure of magnetic capacity, either physical or psychic, +otherwise you would not have purchased this book. If you have +energetically observed its directions, you have developed both +varieties; but, above that, you have also combined them into one +living whole, the magnetic personality. + +This result has required at least a year of persistent effort. If +you have arrived at this point in less time, you should go back +and begin where haste first retarded your progress. + + +MAGNETISM IS A NATURAL GROWTH. + + +No matter how great may be your ability to read and understand +books, that growth, that law, require time as well as intelligent +effort. No matter how poor may be your ability in such respect, +that growth is absolutely certain if you put reasonable time and +genuine effort into its acquisition. + +The giant trees of California were once puny saplings. The slow +lapse of time has drawn nature into their mighty hearts. Magnetism +can no more be acquired by the mere reading of a book, or by +hurried practice of its directions, than can these giants of the +West be produced in the hot-house culture of a northern summer. + +MAGNETIC GROWTH IS NATURALLY SLOW. Its principles, its methods, +and the results of its study, have to be deeply sunk into and +absorbed and assimilated by the subjective self before the +reaction of magnetism in the objective life can obtain. This book +has promised no miracle. If you have read it correctly, you have +learned that magnetic growth cannot be hurried. These statements +are placed here because, had they appeared at the beginning of our +work, the outlook would have seemed, perhaps, discouraging, but +more especially because they would not have been understood. You +now understand them because you have toiled, and you can afford to +smile at such possible discouragement. You have paid an easy price +for magnetic power, for the gains discount the pains. + + +MAGNETISM AND PRACTICAL LIFE. + + +The faithful observance of the suggestions of this volume has +developed many surprises during the time occupied. It is possible +that the lessons have unduly cultivated your subjective life. In a +work of this kind, such a danger is unavoidable. The growth of +magnetism involves intense and continuous concentration of thought +upon the psychic field, and it is very likely that you may find it +necessary to guard against that danger. The method of so guarding +is briefly indicated below. + +The sole value of magnetism consists in its practical application +to everyday affairs. Success-Magnetism is not an accomplishment +merely; it is a practical power. When rightly developed and used, +it controls the subjective self in the concrete work of the +objective. The definition of the goal you have been seeking now +appears: + +SUCCESS-MAGNETISM IS PERSONAL MAGNETISM INTELLIGENTLY MULTIPLIED +INTO ACTUAL LIFE. + +The first duty of man is practical sanity. + + +AVOID MERE OCCULTISM. + + +It is possible that you have now discovered in yourself certain +occult talents, such as telepathy, hypnotism, mediumship, +clairaudience, clairvoyance, psychometry, psychic healing, and the +like. + +It would be evidence of ignorance to call in question these +"faculties" of the human ego. The author's personal experience +forbids. Nevertheless, it is now freely stated: + +NO SO-CALLED OCCULT SCIENCE FORMS ANY INTEGRAL PART OF PERSONAL +MAGNETISM. + +Hypnotism and magnetism are widely separated. + +Psychic healing occupies another field. + +Clairaudience and clairvoyance are not utilizable by magnetism. + +Telepathy and psychometry are related to its etheric explanation +alone. + +Mediumship is totally independent of it. + +In other words, personal magnetism in operation requires NONE of +these talents, except, perhaps, telepathy and genuine palmistry-- +the study of hands as indicative physiologically (not occultly) of +present character (not past or future events). + +It is a noble characteristic of personal magnetism that, while +issuing in and from the subconscious self, its real instruments +are the everyday body, the everyday mind, the everyday self, as +its real field is the everyday, objective world, big with +opportunity, adequate to the splendid development of any human +being. + +YOU ARE NOW URGED TO PERMIT NO OCCULT STUDY OR TALENT TO INTERRUPT +OR BEFOG YOUR PRACTICAL LIFE. All things are his who steadfastly +remembers that "life is real, life is earnest." Magnetism is +sanity at work. It is unalterably opposed to runaway fads, +chimerical visions, unstrung nerves, mental aberration, psychic +gourmandism. Magnetism is practical cooperation with level-headed +people who are bent on making the best of self and the world +through created opportunity. + +For these reasons, you cannot study magnetism too deeply nor +practise it too faithfully. Its legitimate culture will harm none, +will benefit all. + +To him who possesses any occult power and uses it nobly, this book +extends congratulations. + + + + + +How May Contentment Dull My Zeal + + If one small fact my mind could know + Of matter or of spirit,-- + Within, without, above, below, + And never neighbor near it,-- + This tiny thing a Universe would be, + Clear as Arabian caves to Sesame. + + Then should I scan the littlest laws + Their mightier kin unfolding, + Detect the essence of all Cause + And see the Cosmos molding; + Then should I run, a new-born god, the race + Begun with thought, complete in planet-space. + + How might one stay the perfect quest + In surfeit of succeeding? + This were a weak and venal rest-- + Vast yonder-wealth unheeding. + This were to make of Knowing that high goal + Which truth declares is Culturing a Soul. + + How may contentment dull my zeal, + With range on range uprising, + While growing power to know and feel + Adds to the soul's sure prizing? + Let me, one god, like Him, the Infinite All, + In each achievement hear the Higher Call. + + --THE AUTHOR + + + + + +THE TWENTY-EIGHTH LESSON--Higher Magnetic Laws. + + Relays of races, rugged and long, + Up the peaks rising and blending! + Wine for the daring, meat for the strong, + Power with toil contending! + "Higher! Yet higher!" the man's full song-- + "Never a last ascending!" + + --THE AUTHOR. + + +Scattered here and there through the preceding pages, various laws +of magnetism have appeared. We now proceed to formulate certain +other laws that have been involved in our discussion, but not, for +the most part, expressed as such. These laws are of an advanced +order, and should be exhaustively studied in the interest of the +highest magnetic intelligence and power. Necessarily this work +must be purely individual and cannot be specifically directed. We +begin with + + +I. LAWS OF MAGNETIC DEVELOPMENT. + + +FIRST LAW: DISCOVERY OF ENDOWMENT. The limits of magnetic +endowment latent in every normal person emerge only through +prolonged effort in the culture of magnetism. + +SECOND LAW: DIFFICULT ENVIRONMENT. Magnetism develops in direct +proportion to the difficulty of environment. + +THIRD LAW: MAGNETIC INTENTION. Magnetism evolves solely through +multiplication of endowment into environment by the persistent +magnetic intention. + +FOURTH LAW: FREE ADJUSTMENT. The culture of magnetism imperatively +demands that central adjustment of the self to all powers which +realizes in absolute psychic freedom. + +FIFTH LAW: CONCENTRATION. The magnetic multiplication of endowment +into environment is only possible to intense, persistent and +unified concentration to the methods of Success-Magnetism. + +SIXTH LAW: PURPOSE-IDEALS. Growth of noblest magnetism depends, in +the larger sense, upon general adherence to a single, preeminent, +ideal life-purpose, and, in the particular sense, upon +specialization of the individual in studied magnetic conduct +related to that end. + +SEVENTH LAW: RECEPTIVITY. The highest magnetism realizes through +magnetic laws in proportion as the inner self maintains alert +receptivity to the Universal Forces. + +EIGHTH LAW: DEMAND. The silent, persistent demand of the self upon +the Universal Magnetism makes it a center toward which the Forces +naturally gravitate. + +NINTH LAW: AFFIRMATION. Continuous, intense affirmation of actual +possessed magnetic power stimulates the success-elements, +maintains receptivity, emphasizes demand, harmonizes and +intensifies inner etheric vibrations, and induces a positive +movement of the universal ether and its forces inward toward the +central self. + +TENTH LAW: PSYCHIC ENERGY. All personal magnetism involves psychic +energy developed and directed by magnetic intention. + +ELEVENTH LAW: SELF-CONTROL. Magnetic energy concentrates through +psychic control of its tendencies. + +TWELFTH LAW: MAGNETIC QUALITY. The inner psychic attitude--the +character of magnetic intention--determines the quality and +effectiveness of the effort to multiply endowment into +environment, and, therefore, the kind and degree of magnetism +attained. + +THIRTEENTH LAW: SELF-VALUATION. Other things being equal, +magnetism unfolds as gratifying, but unostentatious, self- +valuation develops. + +FOURTEENTH LAW: USE OF SELF. Under conformity to other magnetic +laws, the highest magnetism issues only from the constant best use +of self at its best to the best advantage. + +FIFTEENTH LAW: MAGNETIC HEROISM. Self-pity, complaint, and all +kindred states, confuse, weaken and waste every variety of +magnetic power, while heroic acceptance of conditions for their +betterment, and courageous assertion of self as master, conserve +and enormously develop the noblest magnetism in proportion to the +sway of the magnetic intention. + +SIXTEENTH LAW: ACTION AND REACTION. Highest magnetism involves not +only studied cultivation, but, as well, the magnetic utilization +of stimulating reactions induced by intelligent employment. + +SEVENTEENTH LAW: RECOVERY. Whoever, on occasion of any psychic +(magnetic) failure or defeat, dedicates the whole of aroused +desperation to recovery of ground, infallibly induces a stress in +the etheric life around him which ultimately draws to his aid, +with the onsweep of worlds, the Universal Forces. + +EIGHTEENTH LAW: REPRODUCTION. "Everything is transmitted, +everything is transformed, everything is reproduced" (Ochorowicz); +in physical and psychic health alone, therefore, are the Universal +Forces transmitted through perfect etheric vibrations, transformed +through effective etheric conduction, and reproduced in magnetism +by adequate and harmonious psychic control of etheric +capabilities. + +NINETEENTH LAW: SUPERIORITY OF CULTURE. The crude values of +natural magnetism, the automatic functions of unconscious +magnetism, demonstrate at their best solely as they climax in full +conscious magnetic culture. + + +II. LAWS OF MAGNETIC ACTION. + + +FIRST LAW: Relation of Power to "Tone." The effectiveness of +magnetism in action depends upon harmony of "tone" between its +possessor and any other person, and in securing such "tone"- +harmony, on any magnetic plane, in any particular psychic state, +at any given time, psychic and physical magnetism mutually +cooperate. + +SECOND LAW: Magnetic Intention. The magnetic intention ("I INTEND +MAGNETICALLY") intensifies otherwise unconscious magnetism, and +runs through all the mass of general etheric vibrations like a +theme in complicated music, imparting to them unity, character, +intelligence, and definite and enormous effectiveness in practical +employment. + +THIRD LAW: Influence of Purpose. In the employment of magnetism, +long-run purpose establishes etheric character, and specialized +purpose confirms that character if it concentrates the general +purpose, but confuses that character, perhaps destroys it, if it +antagonizes the general purpose. + +FOURTH LAW: Force of the Ideal. Idealism of motive determines the +character of etheric vibrations, and idealism of magnetic +activities determines the quality of magnetism achieved. + +FIFTH LAW: Sway of Other-Interest. The general sway of other- +interest in life, and the particular influence of other-interest +on special occasions, impart to uses of magnetism enormous +effectiveness, and not least in relation to self. + +SIXTH LAW: Reaction of Admiration. The consciousness of admiration +for others, recognized by them, reacts with tremendous power to +stimulate magnetic action. + +SEVENTH LAW: Measure of the Intake. In the magnetic life, intake +of power is correctly measured by output of power: inversely in +waste, directly in intelligent expenditure. + +EIGHTH LAW: Adjustment. Magnetic effectiveness is proportioned to +accuracy and fulness of adjustment,--to things, to laws, to +forces, to times, to situations, to qualities, to facts, to +truths, to persons,--and only studied experience can discover and +establish such adjustment. + +The problems of adjustment to persons are these: + +With inferiors, to put self magnetically, without appearance of +condescension, on their levels for the end in view,--applying then +the general principles of magnetism. + +With EQUALS, to apply the general principles. + +With SUPERIORS, to assume their level while magnetically +deferring, without adulation or humility, to such superiority, +regardless of its reality or unreality, for the end in view, +applying the general principles of magnetism. + +NINTH LAW: THE MAGNETISM OF IDENTITY. The magnetic value of +adjustment expresses the force and completeness with which the +individual can identify himself with another person, suggesting +oneness through attitude, gesture, act, eye, tone, language, and +telepathic sympathy. + +TENTH LAW: THE USE OF REACTIONS. Magnetic skill exhibits in the +manner in which beneficial reactions are received and utilized, +negative or indifferent reactions are ostensibly ignored, yet +constituted stimulation for further persistent magnetic action, +and hostile reactions are refused, without ostentation, but with +determination (if worth while) to "win out" through better +adjustment and increased magnetic endeavor. + +ELEVENTH LAW: MAGNETIC ATTACK. Magnetic success demands the direct +attack when etheric harmony of "tone" is assured, but the indirect +method otherwise; that is, such attack-methods as will secure that +harmony. + +TWELFTH LAW: THE CONQUEST OF ANTAGONISM Magnetism ostensibly +ognores, and refrains from, exciting antagonism; but, when +antagonism is evident, rejects it and proceeds on the indirect +attack, or openly accepts it and adopts the direct or the indirect +method as the one or the other promises speediest and most perfect +harmony of "tone." + +THIRTEENTH LAW: MORTAL ANTIPATHIES. Success-Magnetism conquers the +influence of deep-seated natural antipathies only by avoiding +their causes. + +FOURTEENTH LAW: RE-ADJUSTMENT. The etheric life is unceasing +reaction, and magnetism, therefore, demonstrates itself by +squaring with every issue and making of every change and every +defeat a new opportunity. + +FIFTEENTH LAW: CONTROL OF OUTPUT. It is an important to know when +to open the circuit--that is, to cut off the current of magnetic +force--as it is to know when to close the circuit--to pour forth +magnetic influences. + +SIXTEENTH LAW: CONCESSION. Concession becomes magnetic in its +timeliness. If premature or belated, it defeats magnetism. + +SEVENTEENTH LAW: HARMONIC CONDITIONS. Magnetism enhances through +beauty of personal surroundings,--in cleanliness, order, +adornment, art, literature, music, and the like. + +EIGHTEENTH LAW: SOVEREIGNTY OF WILL. is the director of native and +unconscious magnetism and the creator and director of developed +magnetism. Power of will is indispensable to magnetic power. + +NINETEENTH LAW: ENERGY IN MAGNETIC ACTION. The projection of +magnetic influence proportions to inner, conscious intensity of +psychic and nervous states. Exploding powder in the gun calls for +the man behind the weapon, and the soul within the man, and +powerful vibrations within the soul's arena, and magnetic +intention within the vibrations, and psychic energy within the +intention. + +TWENTIETH LAW: SELF-CONTROL. Magnetic power becomes effective +precisely as mastery of self, in restraint and in handling, +approaches perfection. + +TWENTY-FIRST LAW: MAGNETIC HANDLING OF SELF. The attitude of +magnetism,--the magnetic intention and psychic pose,--"I STAND +POSITIVELY MAGNETIC TOWARD THIS PERSON OR THIS SITUATION,"-- +constantly maintained, ultimately instructs in all the arts of +magnetic self-handling through the law of auto-suggestion, and +realizes in practical form its own ideals. + +TWENTY-SECOND LAW: THE MAGNETIC MASK. The mask of magnetism +achieves effectiveness when it covers personal states and purposes +in a manner positively to attract, and in that manner alone. + +TWENTY-THIRD LAW: MAGNETIC CONSCIOUSNESS. Intense magnetic +consciousness--without thought concerning it--secures, by its +uplifting and stimulating influence, the greatest exaltation of +personal powers when employed. + +TWENTY-FOURTH LAW: MAGNETIC FAITH. A deep and vital faith in the +certainty of magnetic success renders all latent and developed +magnetism dynamic, if that faith is thrown into action. + +TWENTY-FIFTH LAW: THE DEMAND IN USE. In the application of +magnetism to any task, intense, persistent demand upon the +Universal Forces swings them directly into the effort. + +TWENTY-SIXTH LAW: THE AFFIRMATION IN USE. When, in the application +of magnetism, one affirms, mentally, intensely, persistently, "_I_ +AM RECEIVING AND EXERTING POWER," he unconsciously calls to aid +all the success-elements and makes himself a center toward which +the Universal Forces inevitably gravitate. + +TWENTY-SEVENTH LAW: THE MAGNETIC TELESCOPE. The magnetic +attitudes, faith, demand and affirmation, constitute a magnetic +telescope through which the distant goal of success is magnified +and all nearer obstacles, lures and irritating conditions are +closed out of view. + +TWENTY-EIGHTH LAW: MAGNETIC ACCUMULATIONS. Magnetism, through +correct application to life, not only develops in the individual, +but accumulates in his environment, and reacts beneficially +without direct personal supervision. + +TWENTY-NINTH LAW: THE PERSONAL ATMOSPHERE. The personal atmosphere +exactly reflects the inner self, and it furnishes a perfect field +for magnetic effectiveness only when the self and the body are +clean and buoyantly healthy. [Footnote: See the small booklet, +"The Personal Atmosphere."] + +THIRTIETH LAW: SUBORDINATION OF PHYSICAL MAGNETISM. In the +subordination of physical to psychic magnetism, each finds its +greatest effectiveness--according to the relative development of +both orders. + +THIRTY-FIRST LAW: THE FIXED IDEA. Long-continued association with +some fixed, great and attractive idea sets into operation certain +deep, subconscious operations of the soul, which, for a time +unrecognized and unmanifest in life, gradually and surely +coordinate all individual powers thereto, induce a working of the +whole system in harmony therewith, and finally emerge in the +objective life and consciousness as a unified, actual dynamic +force. The idea has swung the individual, has transformed him, has +harmonized and intensified his faculties and his personal ether, +has come to sovereignty in his personal atmosphere, and from there +exerts a dynamic force upon other people and life's conditions. + +This book has tried to saturate you with the idea of success +coordinating with its necessary elements, and has thus endeavored +to swing your whole being into mighty belief that large success is +also for YOU. + +If you have rushed through the lessons, you have failed to give +the above great law its full opportunity. If you have abided with +the book, patiently, confidently, energetically, taking plenty of +time to work over into your practical life its teachings and +directions, you have invoked that law, and, soon or late, you will +find yourself a new soul and successful, provided you do not +nullify the law by dropping out of your career the practical use +of the lessons herein given. + +You are now invited to assemble with these laws those that have +been previously stated, and to make them guiding principles for +life. + +And you are finally urged to return to the first lesson and to +repeat the work, greatly improved, through which you have passed. + +If you cannot do this (or choose not to do so), you should at +least constitute this book a permanent companion. You will find, +as you refer to it from time to time, that many values have +escaped you, that new values are constantly appearing, and that +the volume is becoming more and more a friend and a guide. The +principles and methods herein set forth should not be laid aside, +at least permanently, nor forgotten, but should be worked into the +very fibre of your being. You will then, and by so much, certainly +demonstrate Success-Magnetism. + +Many of our most persistent students have declared that this book +GROWS ON THEM WITH EVERY READING. In revising its pages the author +is more than ever satisfied that the volume is a great inspiration +and of incalculable value to those who will make it, as designed, +a Companion For Life. You will never uncover its enormous wealth. + + +MAGNETISM APPLIED. + + +Having pursued our work to the present point, little need be said +on the application of the magnetic power. The culture of magnetism +implies all along its address to life. If you have toiled for the +goal you have used the results, and experience, the greatest of +teachers, has instructed you in the art of employing the etheric +talent. + +A few suggestions are, nevertheless, now offered as indicators of +the larger possible treatment,--remembering that our field is not +general success alone, nor pure magnetism alone, but is the +condensed subject, Success-Magnetism. You are, therefore, invited +to observe the following considerations: + +I. GENERAL LIFE-PRINCIPLES: + +1. Magnetism entertains no unnecessary thought of evil concerning +others. + +2. It is altogether superior to low-minded revenge. + +3. It never reveals personal embarrassment. + +4. It permits no show of irritation. + +5. It is incapable of losing temper. + +6. It refuses to exhibit hostility. + +7. It never admits, never discloses, defeat. + +8. The magnetic person never shows indifference toward others. + +9. Magnetism conceals the feelings of ridicule and contempt. + +10. If you are magnetic, you never indulge in violence. + +11. You neither look for slights and insults, nor do you feel +them, unless they are persistently thrust upon you. + +12. You are invited to resolve upon the increase of your circle of +friends, and never to lose an opportunity of winning a well- +wisher. + +13. This means, of course, that you retain every friend secured, +if possible in self-respect--which should not be unduly rigid. + +14. The instant recognition of faces and recollection of names is +intensely magnetic. + +15. Magnetism ignores all caste distinctions, and is friendly +toward all. + +16. If you would be magnetic in personal relations, you must +splendidly believe both in yourself and in other people. + +17. The general magnetic attitude is a close compound of the +magnetic thought and the success-thought, buoyant in hope and +courage and bound together by the magnetic will. + +18. In the use of this attitude, every obligation should be +regarded as profoundly sacred. The magnetic person cannot be +careless in this respect. + +19. This book has all along insisted that magnetic success +imperatively demands the life of highest honor. + +20. Above all, you are again urged to banish from the inner self +fear, worry, discouragement, depression, and every such enemy to +peace and power. There is in your mind an UPPER LEVEL; LIVE IN +THAT. When worry and the like appear, you will find them occupying +the lower level and absorbing your attention. You should instantly +force consciousness to the higher ground, expelling these enemies +and holding up to the better mood. This is the one secret of +victory over the king's foes. The author guarantees the remedy in +any case that is not fit for the hospital. + +21. In the conduct of life, the magnetic person sets before the +mind a definite goal, either life-long or particular, and adheres +thereto with bulldog pertinacity. + +22. And he, therefore, wastes no values, but economizes all. + +23. He saves part of his earnings; he carries his money in his +pocket-book, not loosely. + +24. But he has the wisdom to recreate, to rest the body, to ease +the mind, to take needed breathing-spells for magnetic increase. + + +II. DEALING WITH OTHERS: + + +Let us finally understand. In applied magnetism, you simply +harmonize the etheric states of others with those of yourself, and +convey to them through the ethereal medium the purpose of your +will. The FIRST condition of success here is agreeableness, the +SECOND consists in tact and perseverance, the THIRD is will-power +--not brutal will-force, but magnetic power of will. + +In all application of magnetism to persons, you are urged to +remember that your very first goal, always and preeminently, is an +agreeable feeling within their minds. You should never try to +induce a person to act your way until you have thoroughly +established in him a good feeling toward yourself. This is the +prime initial step. When such a condition has been secured, you +are then ready for the magnetic assault--and then only. + +When you are dealing with other people, endeavoring magnetically +to win them to your wish, you should summon the general magnetic +feeling within yourself, will them to do as you desire, and at the +same time think of them as already consenting and acting. Your +inner condition should be perfectly calm, buoyant, hopeful, +whatever the external means employed, your mind should be +concentrated upon the thing desired, and its accomplishment should +be thought of as now secured. The response of the person may be +delayed, but this should not discourage you, for some minds do not +take suggestions (those of your unspoken will are referred to) +quickly, and they do not act instantly upon their own thought. It +is invariably best to induce people to believe that they are +acting on their personal impulse or judgment; they should be made +to feel perfectly free, not at all coerced, and that they are +doing their own will rather than yours--simply because they wish +so to do. + +We may summarize all these suggestions in the words of a +distinguished scientific writer: + +"Life is not a bully who swaggers out into the open universe, +upsetting the laws of energy in all directions, but rather a +consummate strategist, who, sitting in his secret chamber over his +wires, directs the movements of a great army." This is a good +description of magnetism. + + +III. THE SUCCESS-MAGNETISM ASSUMPTION: + + +We are now ready for the great assumption-principle of magnetism +in applied life: + +THINK OF EVERY GOAL AS ALREADY REACHED, OF EVERY UNDERTAKING AS +ALREADY ACHIEVED. + +TREAT YOURSELF AS A LIVE AND A SURELY SUCCESSFUL PROPOSITION. + +So closes this book. The subject before us has been vast and +profound. It is unnecessary to confess that the field has by no +means been exhausted. At every step of study its immensity is +discovered. Even when the general arena of success in life has +been closed out of consideration, as in these pages, Success- +Magnetism defies any single mind to fathom it or to bound it. + +With this feeling, yet with the confident belief that you are more +completely furnished for magnetic achievement because you have +read, studied, absorbed and practised the teachings now closed, +the author bids you all good-speed in life and signs himself, + +Yours for real success, + +A BROTHER COOPERATIVE. + + + + + +PART 22 + +CULTURE OF COURAGE + + + + + +The route by which we approach the pinnacle of MASTERY OF SELF now +takes a new turn. It is neither that of Business and Financial +achievement, as we studied in the First Division of the course, +nor is it that of Success and Magnetism as was taught in the +Second Division. For many students we now come to the real battle- +ground where they must wage the fight for supremacy. The final 14 +lessons group under the general title, The CULTURE OF COURAGE. + +There is an insidious foe to mastery and freedom, which dooms +millions to self-imposed bondage. Most people know it has them in +its grip; countless others do not know what the hidden power is +which holds them from the richer, freer, happier conditions of +life. + +This foe is FEAR. It assumes numerous disguises. It appears in +many phases of our daily lives. It has done more to wreck careers +and ruin happiness than all the wars of history. Hordes of earth +toilers believe themselves beyond its influence--while all the +time it is riding their backs and laughing at them. + +One reason for this is the common misunderstanding of what fear +really is. Most people think of it only as fearing to meet certain +people, or fearing some accident may happen to them or their loved +ones. Yet there are fears of the future, fears of one's self, +fears of events, fears of natural phenomena, fears of old age, +fears of poverty. And there are still more hidden, stunting fears +developed by the un-religious teachings of blind, bigoted, crafty +Religion. + +Therefore our higher advance to MASTERY OF SELF is up the steps of +the following 14 lessons, in which the underlying note is the +everlasting declaration, "I AM COURAGE! WHATEVER BETIDES, THE TRUE +SELF OF ME DEMANDS COURAGE!" + +Dr. Haddock will open new views of individual nature, personal +fears, avenues of self-unfoldment, which are wholesome and +uplifting for you. The following lessons are more than a conquest +of fear; they are A GREAT ADVENTURE into the heart of a courageous +life philosophy. They tear away bond after bond of habit, thought +and action which have smothered your true, inner Self. + +Passing the brief "Introductory" matter, you start in lesson one-- +"The World's New Dawn," laying the foundation for Courage-power. +Dr. Haddock first makes it clear why man is steadily becoming more +free--why darkening, dreadful, shackling fear is being dispelled +from the world. His second lesson analyzes Fear and Reason. The +third lesson explains why the healthy "tone" of mind and body is +the basis upon which the structure of personal Courage is to be +reared. + + + + + +ANNOUNCEMENT. + + + "For all may have, + If they dare choose, a glorious life." + --Herbert. + +I have received many letters from people who are distressed by +their fears. To every such an one let me send this assured +message: + +You can grow in your soul a perfect courage. + +The methods adapted to this ideal are simple, not impossible to +any, and will become less and less difficult as you continue to +make them more and more a real part of your life. + +I do not say, "Be courageous." + +I do not say, "Destroy your fears." + +Such advice is common enough, but it is altogether barren unless +you know how to carry it out. I hope, rather, to present methods +which shall be definite and practical, so that you will be able to +do the very thing needful. These methods, in the large, I now +announce as follows: + +FIRST METHOD: THE INSPIRATION OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND. You are +invited, always through the reading of this book and during life, +to believe, assume and realize-- + +_I_ AM GROWING IN MY SOUL A PERFECT COURAGE. + +SECOND METHOD: THE ELIMINATION OF FEAR. This is the negative phase +of our work. Specific instructions will be given having to do with +every kind of fear. I shall endeavor to suggest practical help to +all readers for each particular difficulty. + +THIRD METHOD: THE CULTURE OF SPIRITUAL COURAGE. By the word +"spiritual" I mean not merely religious in the ordinary sense, but +rather that kind of courage which is just the breath and tone of +the White Life manifest in the human life. The WHITE LIFE in you +is harmony with the White Life which is The Good, The Beautiful, +The True, The All-Health, The Father, The Infinite Soul of this +wonderful Universe in which we live. If you come to harmony with +the White Life, your fears will vanish because you will then share +in the Courage of the Eternal Good. + +There are two kinds of courage: + +THE COURAGE THAT DARES AND WINS; and + +THE COURAGE THAT SMILES AND RECEIVES. + + "And shall I with a Giant strive, + And charge a Dragon on the field?" + +In these lines we have the first kind of courage. It is good, but +there is a type which is vastly superior: + +I AM THE COURAGE OF THE SOUL HARMONIC WITH THE PERFECT WHOLE. + +These lines indicate the second kind of courage--than which there +is no higher. "Herein is love with us made perfect, that we may +have boldness." + +These are our methods. They are commended to your approval. I +shall try to state them plainly, going on from one fear to +another, and another, until the long list is disposed of, and +always shall I follow details of procedure similar to those set +forth in "POWER FOR SUCCESS," the ideal constantly being + +EXACTLY WHAT TO DO AND HOW TO DO EXACTLY THAT. + + + + + +FOREWORD. + + +"There is no limit to the knowing of the mind that knows."-- +Indian Upanishads. + +I wish to indulge in a little Foreword because in this way may be +indicated a warning against contentment with a seemingly very +sensible conclusion which will prove, on further thought, to be +hasty and incomplete. + +Five years ago I wrote in this identical place in our study these +words: + +"Fear will never go out of this world until pleasure loses value, +desire ceases for want of an object, and reason no longer imposes +responsibility. + +"The best gift of Nature to primitive man, after reason, was fear. + +"The imagination is reason's magnifying power. + +"Fear observed and obeyed by reason is a friend. + +"Fear and reason take care of man. + +"Fear and imagination send him into a panic." + +To many minds these statements will have the look of sanity. + +But there are others who will instantly perceive that they +represent thought on a comparatively low plane. I now observe: + +The best gift of Life to primeval man, after love, was reason. + +The imagination, void of love,--the feeling of harmony with all,-- +forgets reason and permits fear to enter the soul. + +Fear is an ALIEN to our life, and never a friend. The real friend +is reason, acting amid harmonic conditions. + +When you are threatened by some hostile force or event, reason +tries to induce self-protection, but you know no real fear if you +are saturated with the feeling of harmony. You may believe it is +FEAR that seeks your self-protection. But your REASON can do +precisely the same thing without fear. Fear is, then, only an +extra, a distressing extra, foisted in front of reason. + +You are invited now to live the WHITE LIFE, to cast fear out, and +to make real reason its substitute. By so much you will add +immeasurably to personal comfort and power. + +Love and reason alone can take care of man, so far as his own +efforts are concerned. In properly blended proportions these +constitute the very life of courage. What conceivable service +then, can fear render any man or woman? + +If you desire panic and distress, let imagination fill your soul +with fears. But if peace, happiness, health and power be your +desires, live the WHITE LIFE and hold fast only to reason. + +By the reality called reason I do not mean mere cold calculation +and hard logic. Such phases of reason are legitimate in their +place, if freed from cunning and deceit, but the higher reason is +to these as a woman's love--look is to the glitter of ice. The +higher reason is not alone intellection, it is also intuition and +harmonic assurance--what religious thought calls faith. The higher +reason declares self-preservation to be the first law of life, and +then, just because this is true, it cares for self and trusts the +White Universe to assist. I really do not see what a human soul +need actually fear when that soul and the White Universe are bent +on the same goal, the soul's welfare. + +The Universe is a growing organism. It is forever striving to +realize its own best estate. This is the true goal for all +individuals. It is saying the same thing if we affirm the goal to +be Health--for worlds or man: Body-Health, Mind-Health, Self- +Health. + +When any form of health is threatened, you say, perhaps, it is +FEAR that warns you to self-preservation. But I say it is REASON, +and your fear-feeling is unnecessary and hurtful. If you can +remember that the White Life or Universe and you have the same +desire, your highest welfare, you can banish the fear-element, +reserving only the reason-assurance element. All the fears in the +world cannot benefit you. Harmony and courage will sublime your +whole life. + +I have never known a person whose reason has induced self- +suffering. Suffer-fear is always a product of diseased +imagination. What some may call reason-fear, when they think they +are extremely sensible, is simply fear, and nothing but fear, and +it is due to imagination, not to reason. + +"But," you say, "are there not all sorts of evils in the world, +and do they not threaten us, and should we not forefend against +them? In this forefending, how can we escape fear?" + +These questions show how thoroughly fear is knit into our very +lives. + +Now this is precisely the point. Fear has no rightful place with +any rightful living, because the WHITE LIFE alone is rightful, and +in that life reason-assurance only is possible, and, therefore, +rightful. + +The best way in which to forefend against evil is to deny it and +cast out the fiction. + +This entire question of evil is at your command. Evil exists +because other people admit its existence. If all were to live the +WHITE LIFE, each person might rightly declare, "There is no evil." +The only real evil is that which can hurt your best self. When +anything hurts your best self, it is your self that hurts your +self. The only evil in the Universe is some one's act hurting +others, but more, hurting self. If to you evil is, then, it is +yourself. You can so live the sublime WHITE LIFE of harmony as to +be able to say: "So far as I am concerned, evil has gone out of +the world. There is no evil to me." + +You see, surely now, that you need not fear "evil." I do not know +anything more absolutely and sufficiently opposed to the +permission of that self-acting which alone, for you, is evil, than +reason. Fear has nothing properly to do with the matter. And +reason-assurance has to do with it only by living the WHITE LIFE +and denying fear and evil altogether. + +You are invited to make these heaven-born truths your own. + +_I_ AM GROWING IN MY SOUL A PERFECT COURAGE. + + + + + +CONTENTS. + + +CHAPTER I. The World's New Dawn +CHAPTER II. Fear and Reason +CHAPTER III. Physical Tone +CHAPTER IV. Dual Health-Tone of the Self +CHAPTER V. Fear of Self +CHAPTER VI. Fear for Others +CHAPTER VII. Fear of Things +CHAPTER VIII. The Fears of Timidity +CHAPTER IX. Some People We Fear +CHAPTER X. Some of Life's Relations +CHAPTER XI. The Fearful Crowd. +CHAPTER XII. Fear of Events-Old Age +CHAPTER XIII. Courage for Future Events +CHAPTER XIV. A Perpetual Tonic + + +PREFATORY MATTERS. + + +"The New Dawn" +"Fear-Thought and Fear-Feeling" +"The Soul of the Cell" +"A Regime" +"Fear Not Thyself +"Fear Not For Others" +"Fear Not Dumb Things" +"The Massing of a Hundred Faces" +"Fear Not Thy Fellows" +"Life's Relations" +"The Raw Material" +"Youth is Courage" +"Fear Not Events" +"The Rock of Courage" + + + + + + The Call of Life. + + Now must the man be summoned forth + To discover himself, his dual reality: + His world, ten thousand fathoms deep, + His star-vault, ten thousand spaces high; + And come to his own like a king. + + + + + +THE CULTURE OF COURAGE. + + + + + +THE NEW DAWN. + +"The dawn of a New Day!" +Never an Aryan felt the flare of this electric Fact, +Nor any, or priest at his worship or earth-toiler swarming the land, +Till Zarathustra discovered Ahura Mazda, +Till Buddha discovered himself, the Thou of THAT, BRAHMA, +Till the CHRIST-MIND assumed IT to be the _I_ AM THAT _I_ AM. + +(The flare--the ghostly breath of the long-coming Dawn-- +Had passed o'er the Nature-Face, had kissed the swart Human, +Ages and ages, with never a conscious start +In the Man-Soul, till these had upsprung as if gods.-- +For, whosoever kens the flare, kens THAT and knows the ONE +ONLY WHO IS). + +So, thrice have men ventured the Word: +"Comes now a full Day that is New!" + +Since these giant Men-Types, what times of the Small +Have opened and set on poor mouthings of Truth! +What Night for a thousand years twice told! +With Fear, and the fierce Stars, and no Sun in the Void! +Shadows--and Fear--and Death! + +A fourth time man whispers: "The Dawn!" +We LIVE! And behold a New Day!" +Does the Flare of its Flood-Tide winds stir YOU? +Does the light of its splendoring Sun thrill YOU? +Does the marvelous Life of it stimulate YOU +To a birth of the self and the kingship of THAT? + +YOU live! The New Day is for each: +For the hitherto Common Man, slave, +For the Women, no longer a Thing, +For the Child, now escaped from the animal lair. +Dawn's here! +(With Opportunity leading "captivity captive," +(And the stars urging on to achievement, +(And the Sun, breeding life triumphant); +With heart courageous and faith almighty +To fare forth and possess the whole world! +Soul of YOU, awaken! The New Day is yours. + +--THE AUTHOR. + + + + + +THE CULTURE OF COURAGE. + +CHAPTER I. + +THE WORLD'S NEW DAWN. + +"Let us not look at ourselves but onwards, and take strength from +the leaf and the signs of the field. He is indeed despicable who +cannot look onwards to the ideal life of man. Not to do so is to +deny our birthright of mind."--Thomas Coke Watkins. + + +I am often asked, "Do you think the world is really becoming +better?" + +My inmost self--the self I trust and try to assist--is sure that +the world is growing better, whatever the hampered intellect may +from time to time aver. + +For one thing, I FEEL that the world's mind is slowly yet swiftly +changing its adjustment to one supreme reality--Truth. + +Always have men believed that they desired only the truth, and +always have they sought and found it in part. But then they have +immediately wrapped it in packages and stowed it in boxes with +elaborate labels. Our nature craves reality, not wrappings and +tables of contents. Therefore every age has torn off some of the +ancient outer things, and insisted at last on truth alone. More +than during all the centuries before, men today demand reality-- +just the essential reality a human soul craves, and can recognize, +and can use in the building of its life. + +Henry Drummond spoke of the adjustment which a great telescope +needs for photographing the stars. Let us think of one fixed star. +"No adjustment is ever required on behalf of the star. That is one +great fixed point in this shifting universe. But the WORLD MOVES. +And each day, each hour, demands a further motion and adjustment +of the soul. A telescope in an observatory follows a star by +clock-work, but the clock-work of the soul is the WILL." The world +and the man must WILL TO ADJUST TO TRUTH if they would really find +and know Truth. + + +THE WORLD ADJUSTING TO TRUTH. + + +I hold that the world to-day, more perfectly than ever before, is +urging an accurate adjustment of the human soul to truth--that +which alone the body demands for health, the mind for development, +the deeper self for peace and power. + +The old adjustments no longer satisfy. Truth is, indeed, eternal, +but our relation must keep pace with it as we swing through the +vast heavens of time. The photographs of yesterday do not speak +correctly for to-day. We do not deny the stars; we only deny the +science that is past. + +This adjustment is a huge PRAYER. It is a request for truth, in a +sense, but for truth only. And it is an ASSURANCE. It expects the +truth. Now, that is the best kind of praying I know--Expectation +in Adjustment. + +When you plant your seed or properly place your telescope, you +have created adjustment, and you expect harvest and picture. +EXPECTATION IN ADJUSTMENT IS ASSUMPTION. + +The world no longer merely ASKS for truth; it harmonizes with +Nature and Life, and so, APPROPRIATES. + +The World's New Dawn. + +You are invited to make this thought a lifelong affirmation: IN +HARMONY _I_ APPROPRIATE ALL GOOD. + +Such is one of my reasons for believing that the world is growing +better. This attitude toward Truth has influenced for the better +every legitimate activity of man. The results are seen in +Benevolence, Business, Education, Government, Religion. A new day +of splendid, unhampered, happy and growing spiritual life is +bursting over the earth. Souls are coming free. Hearts are +thrilling with courage. In minds has begun the swing and heave of +the sea. + +I ask you to take the following lines as a symbol of the world's +wonderful sense of appropriation that is everywhere evident. + + The sea, the pine, the stars, the forest deep, + Bequeath to me at will their subtle wealth. + Or still days brood, or rough winds round me sweep, + Mine is the buoyant earth-man's vibrant health: + All things for love of me their vigils keep-- + I am the soul of health, of wealth. + + Run, sea, in my heart! + Pine, sing in my heart! + Stars, glow in my heart! + For ye are mine, and my soul, + Like ye, is a part + Of the Marvelous Whole. + + There's no thing dear to me is not my wealth, + And none that sees me I would distant keep; + For swift possession is my earth-man's health, + Or still days brood, or rough winds round me sweep: + All things for love of me their vigils keep-- + I am the soul of health, of wealth. + +You are invited, now, to seize and use the spirit of this attitude +of appropriation for your own welfare and power. + + +COURAGE ABROAD. + + +And I hold that our life is growing better for the reason that I +discover, in all this new adjustment to truth, this expectation +and assumption that Good will not withhold itself, and BECAUSE of +these things, a new era of courage sweeping the heart of humanity +from sea to sea. There is abroad a Universal Breath, manifest of +Life. This breath consists of two general activities, that of +Denial and that of Affirmation. Courage is a denial of fear and of +the reality of fear's cause. But denial is only the beginning; the +really vital thing is confidence in self and in the huge friendly +Universe in which we live. Kindly remember this. You are not +making progress merely because you turn your back on the Night. +Progress means that you also turn face to the Sun and walk +buoyantly into the Day. Courage is affirmation: + + I am the spirit of the soul + Harmonic with the Perfect Whole. + +Why, the attitude of healthy denial is everywhere apparent. Permit +me to run over some of the things that are coming more and more to +be refused acceptance. You will understand that the items are +illustrations only. We are denying: The divine right of kings; the +littleness and unholiness of fundamental human nature; a God who +is a kind of huge carpenter; a Deity who needs to be appeased; a +Providence which punishes; the idea that some people are created +for toil and service and others for ease and to be served; the +notion that we must eschew all drugs or depend only on drugs; the +thought which makes disease an entity; the fancy that the illness +of some is a divine will; the feeling that wealth should not be +craved, or that it exists for a favored few; the creed that "evil" +is a necessary existence; the faith that heaven is reserved for +the "elect" who "believe" a number of things; the horror of an +eternal hell; the heresy that religion, the spiritual, need have +anything to do with creeds, rites or ceremonies; the feeling that +success is only for the favored ones of earth; and so on, and so +on. + +These are merely miscellaneous examples of the thousand old-time +"truths" which are now more and more denied. Many pages would be +required to set forth the ideas and dogmas which are unceasingly +and emphatically being rejected, thoughtfully, deliberately, and +in a wholesale manner throughout the world of earnest men and +women to-day. + +But when you deny, it is a great mistake if you do not affirm +something better. The breath of courage which is sweeping over the +earth, therefore, is splendidly declaring for ten thousand +deathless realities to take the place of mistaken beliefs. I have +space simply for a few illustrations. Are we not affirming +somewhat as follows at the present time? + + +SIGNS OF THE NEW LIFE. + + +Deity is neither Jew nor Gentile; He is the Infinite All-Good--the +Eternal White Life. + +The Infinite and Eternal White Life is evolving a Universe toward +the ultimate perfection of absolute harmony. + +All HUMAN BEINGS are in fundamental nature divine. + +We are here for the purpose of GROWING TO BEST ESTATE. + +Every man, woman and child in the world is ENTITLED TO HEALTH, +HAPPINESS, POWER. + +"EVIL" is derangement in individual life induced by individual and +world-thought gone wrong. As such derangement "evil" is real, but +this reality is not necessary or essential, and it may be banished +totally and forever. + +DISEASE is dis-easement of the matter of a body induced by dis- +easement of soul in a body. The self creates or builds its own +body, and the condition of the self determines the condition of +the body. In "Power For Success" I have stated what I believe to +be the growing conviction in this regard. "The sound body is a +perfect material expression of the Universal Forces playing into +its field, and its physical character is determined by the psychic +character of its owner." "In a state of health, all physical +movements must necessarily cooperate harmoniously with one another +and with the Universal Forces." + +What we call MIND is a collection of powers organized for use by +the self, and these powers are rightly developed only by the good, +the true, the beautiful. If the feeling of goodness, or of +trueness, or of beauty, is deep within the subconscious phase of +the self, mind-life exhibits as mental health. Mental health is a +universal right. + +The "SPIRIT"--not to refine on philosophy--is the real self which +builds body and may unfold mind. The highest state of the +individual, therefore, is religious at the top. This is +spirituality. But the only conceivable essential to spirituality +is a belief in, and an intelligent (truth-using) surrender to, the +White Life--conceived in one's own way--for harmony and oneness +therewith. + +HAPPINESS consists in being consciously harmonized with the true, +the good and the beautiful. It is not necessary, however, although +it is, of course, better, to know these words. The child vibrates +with goodness without understanding the name "goodness." And so +on. + +POWER IS PERSONALITY RECEIVING ITS OWN IN THE REALMS OF LIFE. + +All things exist for all beings. + +Such are some of the realities that are being quietly and potently +assumed and affirmed to-day throughout the world. Of course the +language of assertion will vary with each individual, but this is +immaterial. The essences affirmed are beyond cavil. Other +illustrations might be given, but they would be mere phases of +that one breath of new hope and courage that is stirring in every +land, to "spread contagion on mankind," of the "life which really +is." + +These higher thoughts, however, are of the Dawn only. The full Day +is not yet with us. Shadows still there are, and error, disease +and pain. Why must these false "realities" remain? Solely because +of three things that linger on: + +FALSE THOUGHT--SELFISHNESS--FEAR. + +And when fear vanishes, replaced by the WHITE LIFE, selfishness +will die as impossible, and thought will no longer be false for +the reason that only truth will be possessed. + +If the whole world, then, would but thrust out fear and receive +the spirit of courage, I do not know any "evils" that could endure +a century. + +And if you who read these pages will but swing up to the WHITE- +LIFE harmony-plane, Health, Happiness and Power must be yours as +surely as air rushes into a broken vacuum. If you ask, "What are +the limits of this truth?" I answer, "I don't know." To speak +otherwise would be mere speculation. I affirm the great truth: All +things are yours. That YOU, if stricken through and through with +dis-harmony, may be ABLE to receive ALL you crave, I may not +affirm. Nevertheless, it is permitted to say:" Launch out! Launch +out in the New Thought of Life, and receive, as you do so, +whatever is rightly your own, as you are increasingly able to do +so." + +Man has banished many of his fears already. It is not a long run +of the centuries since he quaked before the gloom of the forest, +the solitude of the hills, the fog of the vast sea, and, creating +innumerable gods and devils by that wizard of distortion, the +imagination, lodged them in every object of existence under and in +the heavens. He has gotten rid of these. + +But when we observe the fear of water, the fear of tornadoes, the +fear of lightning, the fear of fire, the fear of disease, the fear +of accident, the fear of death, the fear of ridicule, the fear of +public opinion, the fear of bankruptcy, the fear of self, the fear +for self, the fear of others, the fear of failure, the fear of +devils, the fear of a vindictive God, the fear of the future, the +fear of a hell--Oh, then, we know that the sun of light is not at +his meridian height. We can yet get rid of these also. This is one +of the world's tasks. This is your task, if you would make the +most of your self and life. + +"There is yet very much land to be possessed." No one will possess +all of that land in the present stage of existence. Some will be +able to claim more than others, but they will err if they assume +themselves to be favorites, and the "others" will do worse than +err if they complain, "We, alas, are down on our luck." Be assured +of one thing: all may be rid of their fears and the whole mass of +distress induced by fears. All may acquire dauntless yet serene +courage. In that state, if it be of the highest, as it may be, +will come to them a peace, a happiness, an influx of buoyancy, a +confidence, a sense of well-being, the like of which they have +never known. + + +PRIME DENIALS AND AFFIRMATIONS. + + +You who now read this page are, thus, invited to begin our study +by denying and affirming, as follows: + +FIRST--THE DAILY REGIME OF DENIAL: + +I deny the existence of error, so far as I am concerned. +I deny disease to be my necessary portion. +I deny the need of any of my fears. +I deny the reality of any cause for fear. +I deny that I am less than a king. +I deny that ignorance is an essential part of my lot. +I deny that poverty is decreed to me. +I deny that I am low-born or of bad blood. +I deny that I am "down on my luck." +I deny by my life that others are my superiors. +I deny that anything can hurt the essential ME. +I deny a vindictive God. +I deny that slavery is religious. +I deny that I am not the friend of the White Life. +I deny that I am mean, low or ignoble in morals. +I deny that my best life depends on creeds. +I deny that the Universe is not for me. +I deny that health is not my rightful claim. +I deny that I am unhappy or depressed. +I deny that I am weak and a nonentity. +I deny that I shall not unfold forever. +I deny all that is opposed to my best welfare. + + +SECOND--THE DAILY REGIME OF AFFIRMATION. +I affirm truth to be my desire and possession. +I affirm health to be my rightful claim. +I affirm fearlessness of that which I have feared +I affirm cause and reason only for courage. +I affirm that reason is independent of fear. +I affirm my sovereign selfhood. +I affirm that life is my perfect university. +I affirm that I am success. +I affirm that a part of the world's plenty is for me. +I affirm myself the WHITE-LIFE equal of others. +I affirm my real self impregnable to hurt. +I affirm the Infinite Life to be my Friend. +I affirm that spirituality is true freedom. +I affirm myself the friend of the Infinite. +I affirm that mine is the WHITE-LIFE. +I affirm my independence of narrow creeds. +I affirm buoyant happiness as my present possession. +I am power! +I shall live and unfold forever. + +It may be that all this is strange thought to you, almost +meaningless, perhaps. You are invited, therefore, to remember that +thousands of people have felt similarly at first, have then caught +a glimpse of the truth here and there, and finally have +experienced a wondrous recognition of the New Dawn which has now +surely come to the world. It is significant that these are saying, +"There is nothing else worth while in the whole earth." + +Two men were scraping paint from a house preparatory to putting +on. a new coat of color, One of them who had been helped back from +mental unbalance, and helped solely by thought, broke a long +silence and said: "This is the whole thing." He referred to the +dawn of Real Life in himself. + +If, now, this chapter has seemed to broach the subject of +religion, remember, it does not deal with religion as you perhaps +know religion. The only thing valuable in religion is the White +Life within the human self. That alone is religion. Call it what +you will. And it means just that courage which makes us buoyantly +equal to any kind of life that is right. The methods of this book +will prove of value to you, whether or no you go into the WHITE- +LIFE phase of existence. But they will realize completest value if +you will swing at the start clean out into the one greatest +thought--"_I_ SURRENDER TO, AND _I_ RECEIVE, THE INFINITE WHITE +LIFE." + +It is because I desire every reader to get this perfect start in +our study that I have indulged in the rather general outlook on +the world's New Dawn. Hereafter our work will be more specific and +adressed to the varying conditions of the individual man or woman. + + + + + +FEAR--THOUGHT AND FEAR--FEELING. + + +The INTELLECT coldly reflects What Is: +An icy, crystalline lake portraying earth and sky +In shadows beautiful as death-- +And void of pulse, or warmth, or music of good life. +This is no Eye with which to view the world! + +The SOUL reflects the universe +With ECSTASIES of heat, of hue, of harmony! +Its INNER gaze creating Life in Fact, +So, robing sheer Reality in colors ravishing, +Giving it Voice, forming within it Heart, +And vitalizing All with Feeling--Being's blood. +This is our Eye, viewing the world it builds. + +Fear blurs that Eye, while Reason clears: +Pure mind lacks Passion adding values to existence; +(Who loves mere ghost--flowers born of moonlight?) +Pure Feeling lacks in REASON, needing values, +And, lacking so, fills Eye of Soul with fantasies, +With wild distortions of imagination's lust. +(Who loves the fire--hued, smoke blooms of Hell's Land?) +And always Fear feeds Feeling's grotesque growths +Till Soul's Eye on its own creation looks +As on eternal Truth. +Then Truth and Nature, Deity and Man +Evolve dread enmity and horrors multiple, +And Soul flees terror-stricken on to Death. + +Oh, I will rule heart's Feeling for good Life, +Given Soul's Mind for this--naught else: +That Reason may re--think the Beautiful and Happiness +And see eternal Truth and Truth-Fact as my lovers-- +Veracious Guardian Angels guiding all my way-- +Cooperative, like the brain and heart of body, +To lead my soul on Courage (not on Death) +And make me worth the skill +Of the illimitable years--a Mind--Man, whole! +--THE AUTHOR. + + + + + +CHAPTER II. + +FEAR AND REASON. + +"In civilized life it has at last become possible for large +numbers of people to pass from the cradle to the grave without +ever having had a pang of genuine fear. Many of us need an attack +of mental disease to teach us the meaning of the word."--William +James. + + +We have all heard the seemingly discriminating remarks that fear +is normal and abnormal, and that normal fear is to be regarded as +a friend, while abnormal fear should be destroyed as an enemy. + +The fact is that no so--called normal fear can be named which has +not been clearly absent in some people who have had every cause +therefor. If you will run over human history in your mind, or look +about yea in the present life, you will find here and there +persons who, in situations or before objects which ought, as any +fearful soul will insist, to inspire the feeling of at least +normal self-protecting fear, are nevertheless wholly without the +feeling. They possess every feeling and thought demanded except +fear. The idea of self-preservation is as strongly present as with +the most abjectly timid or terrified, but fear they do not know. +This FEARLESS awareness of fear--suggesting conditions may be due +to several causes. It may result from constitutional make-up, or +from long--continued training or habituation, or from religious +ecstasy, or from a perfectly calm sense of spiritual selfhood +which is unhurtable, or from the action of very exalted reason. +Whatever the explanation, the fact remains: the very causes which +excite fear in most of us, merely appeal, with such people, if at +all. to the instinct of self-preservation and to reason, the +thought-element of the soul which makes for personal peace and +wholeness. + + +BANISH ALL FEAR. + + +It is on such considerations that I have come to hold that all +real fear-FEELING should and may be banished from our life, and +that what we call "normal fear" should be substituted in our +language by "instinct" or by "reason," the element of fear being +dropped altogether. + +"Everyone can testify that the psychical state called fear +consists of mental representations of certain painful results" +(James). The mental representations may be very faint as such, but +the idea of hurt to self is surely present. If, then, it can be +profoundly believed that the real self cannot be hurt; if the +reason can be brought to consider vividly and believingly all +quieting considerations; if the self can be held consciously in +the assurance that the White Life surrounds the true self, and is +surely within that self, and will suffer "no evil to come nigh," +while all the instincts of self--preservation may be perfectly +active, fear itself must be removed "as far as the east is from +the west." + +This splendid conviction I earnestly commend to all readers. + +These are the ways, then, in which any occasion for fear may be +divided: + +As a warning and as a maker of panic. But let us say that the +warning should be understood as given to reason, that fear need +not appear at all, and that the panic is perfectly useless pain. +With these discriminations in mind, we may now go on to a + + +PRELIMINARY STUDY OF FEAR. + + +Fear is (a) an impulse, (b) a habit, (c) a disease. + +Fear, as it exists in man, is a make-believe of sanity, a creature +of the imagination, a state of insanity. + +Furthermore, fear is, now of the nerves, now of the mind, now of +the moral consciousness. + +The division depends upon the point of view. What is commonly +called normal fear should give place to REASON, using the word to +cover instinct as well as thought. From the correct point of view +all fear is an evil so long as entertained. + +Whatever its manifestations, wherever its apparent location, fear +is a psychic state, of course, reacting upon the individual in +several ways: as, in the nerves, in mental moods, in a single +impulse, in a chronic habit, in a totally unbalanced condition. +The reaction has always a good intention, meaning, in each case, +"Take care! Danger!" You will see that this is so if you will look +for a moment at three comprehensive kinds of fear--fear of self, +fear for self, fear for others. Fear OF self is indirectly fear +FOR self--danger. Fear for others signifies foresensed or +forepictured distress to self because of anticipated misfortune to +others. I often wonder whether, when we fear FOR others, it is +distress TO SELF or hurt to THEM that is most emphatically in our +thought. + +Fear, then, is usually regarded as the soul's danger signal. But +the true signal is instinctive and thoughtful reason. + +Even instinct and reason, acting as warning, may perform their +duty abnormally, or assume abnormal proportions. And then we have +the FEELING of fear. The normal warning is induced by actual +danger apprehended by mind in a state of balance and self-control. +Normal mind is always capable of such warning. There are but two +ways in which so-called normal fear, acting in the guise of +reason, may be annihilated: by the substitution of reason for +fear, and by the assurance of the WHITE LIFE. + +Let it be understood, now, that by normal fear is here meant +normal reason--real fear being denied place and function +altogether. Then we may say that such action of reason is a +benefactor to man. It is, with pain and weariness, the +philanthropy of the nature of things within us. + +One person said: "Tired? No such word in my house!" Now this +cannot be a sound and healthy attitude. Weariness, at a certain +stage of effort, is a signal to stop work. When one becomes so +absorbed in labor as to lose consciousness of the feeling of +weariness, he has issued a "hurry call" on death. I do not deny +that the soul may cultivate a sublime sense of buoyancy and power; +rather do I urge you to seek that beautiful condition; but I hold +that when a belief or a hallucination refuses to permit you to +hear the warning of nerves and muscles, Nature will work disaster +inevitably. Let us stand for the larger liberty which is joyously +free to take advantage of everything Nature may offer for true +well-being. There is a partial liberty which tries to realize +itself by denying various realities as real; there is a higher +liberty which really realizes itself by conceding such realities +as real and by using or disusing them as occasion may require in +the interest of the self at its best. I hold this to be true +wisdom: to take advantage of everything which evidently promises +good to the self, without regard to this or that theory, and +freely to use all things, material or immaterial, reasonable or +spiritual. I embrace your science or your method; but I beg to +ignore your bondage to philosophy or to consistency. So I say that +to normal health the weary-sense is a rational command to +replenish exhausted nerves and muscles. + +It is not liberty, it is not healthful, to declare, "There is no +pain!" Pain does exist, whatever you affirm, and your affirmation +that it does not is proof that it does exist, for why (and HOW) +declare the non-existence of that which actually is non-existent? +But if you say, "As a matter of fact I have pain, but I am +earnestly striving to ignore it, and to cultivate thought-health +so that the cause of pain may be removed," that is sane and +beautiful. This is the commendable attitude of the Bible character +who cried: "Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief." To +undertake swamping pain with a cloud of psychological fog--that is +to turn anarchist against the good government of Nature. By pain +Nature informs the individual that he is somewhere out of order. +This warning is normal. The feeling becomes abnormal in the mind +when imagination twangs the nerves with reiterated irritation, and +Will, confused by the discord and the psychic chaos, cowers and +shivers with fear. + +I do not say there is no such thing as fear. Fear does exist. But +it exists in your life by your permission only, not because it is +needful as a warning against "evil." + +Fear is induced by unduly magnifying actual danger, or by +conjuring up fictitious dangers through excessive and misdirected +psychical reactions. This also may be taken as a signal of danger, +but it is a falsely-intentioned witness, for it is not needed, is +hostile to the individual because it threatens self-control and it +absorbs life's forces in useless and destructive work when they +ought to be engaged in creating values. Hence we state + + +THE FIRST GREAT PRINCIPLE OF FEAR-CONQUEST. + + +Timidity, apprehension, fear, alarm, fright, consternation, +terror, panic, desperation, are all false imitations of reason's +interpretation of the warning signals of Nature, to be displaced +by reason itself, which may then determine whether the occasion be +real or unreal, and always to be disregarded and overcome if +evidently refering to causes which do not actually exist. + +This principle is adduced in the interest of three things: peace, +health, power. You are invited to note how vital these interests +really are. + +The truest peace, of which courage is a sublime bloom, is a growth +solely of honorable living and robust self-respect. + +Health is of the following realities: body, mind, soul--the deeper +self. Health is soundness. A sound human is a triune wholeness. +Physical soundness with weak intellect is often the athletic field +of superstitions innumerable. Intellectual greed in an unsound +body may breed the direst fears of life. A decayed soul is always +a House of Fear. The ideal of human existence is--The white life +in the sound mind in the vibrantly whole body. + +It is because there are so many people who are in some sense sick, +that fears abound in every direction. But--it is because so many +fears are permitted and actually nursed as boons that so many sick +people abound in every direction. If all our fears could be +removed absolutely, we should no longer require physicians. This +world would be a paradise in every respect. I do not know anything +wrong with it that cannot be traced to a fear. + +The causes of fear are weak reason, uncontrolled imagination, want +of self-control, and ill-health. And the first three items are +really phases of the last. + +The ability to master and destroy fear depends, it would now seem, +upon the following factors of our life: + +The General Tone of the Individual; The Soul's Power of Will; The +Development and Balance of the Reason. + +Reason is demanded to distinguish between right and wrong causes +for personal effort in self-protection, and to utterly ignore all +wrong causes. + +Will-power is demanded to banish fears and to utilize reason's +dictates. + +But the sway of reason and the force of action are always +immensely assisted by a vigorous general tone of the personal +life. Now appear, in view of these considerations, + + +THREE GREAT LAWS. + + +FIRST LAW: The warnings of reason are based in the nature of +things within us, and are universal benefactors. + +SECOND LAW: Fear is contrary to the ground-plan of life. It is no +primary part of the nature of things; it is an alien in the world- +system. + +THIRD LAW: The destruction of fear always follows the growth of +general courage in the individual. The fear-brood will not depart +until the soul has acquired a fixed habit of courage. Whatever +establishes that habit, or spirit, secures the service of reason- +instinct, and so undermines and finally destroys the power of +every variety of fear. These laws formulate a great + + +PRIMARY INJUNCTION. + + +Let your soul be saturated, with the sure conviction that fear is +an alien in the world-system of life, having no proper place nor +legitimate rights therein, and meanwhile resolutely set about the +task of cultivating in every possible way the permanent habit- +spirit of courageous living. + +This book was written for the sole purpose of suggesting definite +methods by which such courage-habit may be developed. In order +that our practical methods may be understood, it is now necessary +to analyze the subject of fear in its general outlines. + +It is important to remember that the warnings of reason, sometimes +called normal fears, may have actual causes outside the mind and +are rightly proportioned thereto and to possible consequences, +while real fear is due to causes not based in reality, or, if so +based, is permitted to agitate the mind in a way not warranted by +possible consequences viewed by a rational, well-balanced life. +Our analysis, then, exhibits fear where reason ought to appear, in + + +A GENERAL ENUMERATION OF FEAR-CAUSES. + + +Fear of hurt of self by self (fear of self): substitute reason, +thus--just estimate; no cause; cause magnified. + +Fear of hurt of self by outer things (fear for self): substitute +reason, thus--just estimate; no cause; cause magnified. + +Fear of threat by things: substitute reason, thus--right cause; no +cause; cause magnified. + +Threat by others: substitute reason, thus--right cause; no cause; +cause magnified. + +Threat to others: substitute reason, thus--right cause; no cause; +cause magnified. + +Threat by events: substitute reason, thus--right cause; no cause; +cause magnified. + +Threat by the future: substitute reason, thus--right cause; no +cause; cause magnified. + +You are invited to work out the particulars of this analysis, and +to examine them with reference to your self and life. You will +make some important discoveries. One of the many questions +suggested is this: Is the cause of anticipated possible +consequences justly estimated in your thought--is it a right +cause--is it really as you suppose? The idea is that you think of +any one of your fears and then ask the question in the form just +indicated. Thus we may have the following statement of + + +KINDS OF FEARS. + + +Fear of Self: timidity, lack of confidence, possible unaccountable +states. + +Fear for Self: weakness, anticipated failure, imagined disgrace. + +Fear of Things: animals, inanimate objects, physical forces. + +Fear of Others: human beings, apparitions, devils, Deity. + +Fear for Others: children, parents, husband, wife, relatives, +friends, strangers. + +Fear of Events: present, future, imaginary, possible, probable, +contingent. + +Fear of the Future: in life; beyond the present life. + +Instinct and reason strive to place us in right relations with all +these causes. The existence in us of fear shows that we already +are, either in mind or in fact, in wrong relations therewith. + +The mastery of fear involves the discovery of right relations, +mental or concrete, and the placing of self in those right +conditions which are determined and provided for by the ground- +plan of our nature. + +And the first thing thus provided for is health. All treatment for +the conquest of our universal enemy must begin with development of +individual tone: tone of body, tone of mind, tone of the deeper +self. + +I am not writing for those who are constitutionally fearless, but +I have in mind all who do yield to the feeling of fear. Our ideal, +however, is not a mere animal courage, not the courage of +insensibility. It is rather the courage of the whole man or woman +making for the WHITE LIFE. If you are only partially yourself, you +cannot possess the highest courage. Such courage may be yours, +infallibly, if you will but resolve for the goal and go on into +the great ideals of the harmonic personality. This you can do-- +anyone can do. And to come thereto is the greatest thing in the +world. + +You are invited, then, to begin by substituting in your thought +the idea of self-preserving reason for any kind of fear (even the +so-called normal) as your perpetual guard and guide. Make it a +profound conviction of your deepest self that no real harm can +come to that self because you have entered the highway of the +WHITE LIFE--THE LIFE OF PURITY, REASON, HONOR, GOOD-WILL, AND +CONFIDENT ASSURANCE. Swing your life into the unfolding and +infolding of the Infinite White Life of Worlds. Courage will +become to you the very breath of your lungs. + + I send you this sure message: Fear is dead + In all the pure, by reason's wisdom led, + Who wear white honor and evince good-will, + And trust the self to Love's unfailing skill. + I send you this sure message: Courage lives + When man to Courage all assurance gives. + + + + + +THE SOUL OF THE CELL. + +This crystal of Quartz,--the queen of its tribe, +Amethyst, Onyx, Chalcedony, Heliotrope, Agate,-- +Some toiler of old Japan, the Artist fantastic, +Has polished to likeness of ice, +Ruining form to reveal it Fleche d'Amour +That the marvelous, delicate, hairlike inclosures +Of crystallizations foreign might please the beholder. +Herein worked the Infinite well, +And, let us say, too, the artisan patient, +To one limit--significant boundary! +HEALTH! + +I request you to define it--configure the wonder +Of this dust-common, beneficent Gift. +Who lacks it, he knows quite precisely his want; +Who has it divulges precisely the thing. +Yet never man--scientist, poet, physician-- +In words can portray it--the Soul of the Cell, + +THAT lurks only in spheres of the Substance of Life; +Fares past the quartz and hides in the throat of the wearer. +Shuns diamond glory for greater of flesh; +Builds higher and higher to balance unstable +In beauty of male and in exquisite female, +And sends through the intricate meshwork of cells-- +Sheer matter, kin of this quartz-- +Its evidence: light-hue, radiance crimson, +Eye-gleam, pulse-throb, vigor and nerve-thrill +Of just that common, miraculous Gift, +HEALTH of a body wherein dwells soul. + +THERE, say I, the Infinite worked well! +Come now to YOU the artisan's skill for this marvel, +Physical man: to refine and ennoble; +To reveal the inclosure of spirit unmarred, +And grow in the mobile, responsive flesh +Mind perfect, held fast in OUR Crystal superb, +The Universe complete. +--THE AUTHOR. + + + + + +CHAPTER III. + +PHYSICAL TONE. + +"In the healthy body every cell is polarized in subjection to the +Central Will. Perfect health, therefore, is orderly obedience, +government and harmony. Every cell is a living entity, whether of +vegetable or animal potency, and wherever disease is, there are +disunion, error, rebellion and insubordination; and the deeper the +seat of the confusion, the more dangerous the malady and the +harder to quell it."--J. C. Street. + + +The thought of the above quotation does not mean that the +insubordination is necessarily conscious to the diseased +individual, but that it surely obtains within the physical arena +of his life. Because it is not the outcome of his deliberate +choice, the case is not hopeless in the nature of things, but is +open to better conditions. The deeper self which has intended no +rebellion against the laws of bodily well-being may now distinctly +intend harmony, and so lift the body to a higher plane. + +And the last sentence in the quotation does not mean that you are +to undertake a vast amount of hard work, assuming that you are not +in perfect physical condition. You are, rather, just to begin and +go on thinking yourself in a real way as in harmony with the +Central Will, which is our White Life, and to hold steadfastly in +the deeper self the ideas, Affirmation and Realization of Splendid +Personal Tone. + +Some of the meanings of these powerful words will be unfolded +later, In the meantime, as all things are subject to law, let us +observe a number of the general conditions to three-fold health, +that of body, mind and the inner self, regarding their totality as +the atmosphere, so to speak, in which courage most easily and +perfectly thrives. + +Fear in man is a result of repeated suggestion, to which low +health-tone is a natural invitation. Health is the primary tonic +against fear. Perfect physical health is mere strength. Perfect +mental health is mere brain sanity. Perfect soul-health is the +whole of the man at his best. When the body is buoyant, the mind +clear and inspired, the soul harmonic with all existence rightly +in the universe, then is the impulse of fear easily mastered and +the habit of fear finds no encouragement. There are, indeed, +courageous invalids who have not come into the secret of right +thought so far as health is concerned, and fearing atheltes and +scholars who have neglected the secret of courage, and timorous +saints who have failed to possess themselves of the confidence of +goodness. Nevertheless, the eternal law is evident that the one +great enemy of fear is + +The White Life in Harmonic Mind in Buoyant Body. + +A person who affirms and realizes these conditions must, in the +nature of things, be possessed of perfect health. In the tone of +such health courage is inevitable. + +That you may come to this ideal, you are invited to observe the +following instructions. Health is a trinity, and we may begin our +studies with its natural basis: + + +THE GENERAL TONE OP HEALTH. + + +The word "tone" means, "sound in relation to volume, quality, +duration and pitch," then, "peculiar characteristic sound as of a +voice or instrument," then, "characteristic style or tendency, +predominating aim or character, tenor, strain, spirit." + +Hence, in the sense of health, tone signifies "the state of +tension or firmness proper to the tissues of the body; the state +in which all the parts and organs have due tension or are well +strung; the strength and activity of the organs on which healthy +functions depend; that state of the body in which all the normal +functions are performed with healthy vigor." + +We thus see that health-tone involves the whole personality, +physical, mental and moral. + +But the truth of the matter hides in a deeper region than that of +mere material flesh or organ. Matter is a form of the Universal +Ether, so far as science seems to declare, or, at least, matter +presupposes the ether in a state of vibration. Your body is a +"field" in which etheric vibrations are constantly taking place. +All its reality and all its activities involve such vibrations. +The brain, regarded as the organ of conscious life, of thought and +feeling, and the entire nervous system, involve such vibrations. +And as your thought and feeling constitute the foundation of your +moral character, the latter also becomes a matter of movements in +the ether. + +In the case of heat, light, electricity, etc., differing kinds of +such vibrations determine the kinds of phenomena. We may say, +then, that there is one general kind of ether-movement for matter, +and another for thought and feeling, and another for the moral +life. Each individual, however, presents variations of these +general kinds of vibrations,--a particular variation for his body, +and for his mental person, and for his right or wrong self-spirit. +We individualize the ether, Or, we are individualized as we use +the ether. + +The tone of a person's health is determined by the state of the +etheric movements characteristic to himself. + +If the vibrations underlying the body life are full and harmonious +according to their individual character for a person, his organs +are all sound and active. He possesses physical tone. If there is +a similar fullness and harmony within his mental life, he must +exhibit health of mind. If a corresponding condition obtains in +the moral personality, the highest health of the deeper self +prevails. + +These three individualized varieties of ether-movement in man +mutually interact and determine one another's character. I know +that this law does not always seem to operate. Poor minds and +wrong morals are sometimes found in apparently healthy bodies, and +great minds and noble spirits in feeble bodies. But the bodies of +the one class do NOT represent the finest physical health, +involving coarseness, flabbiness, susceptibility to disorder, +etc., etc., and are not contradictions of the law. Moreover, the +inner life is not always fully expressed by apparent departures +from right living: as you may frequently see in some sudden burst +of nobility, generosity, tenderness, heroism, in those who possess +sound bodies but are outwardly not particularly refined. The rough +exterior may hide a splendid germ of true spiritual manhood or +womanhood. Could we look deeply into the physical nature, we +should always find the law holding good that our three-fold ether- +movements do influence and in the long run determine one another +for weal or ill. Where the inner self is right yet the physical +tone weak or disturbed, we should perceive, if we had the "spirit +of discernment," that the better life within has surely influenced +and ennobled the essential nature of the body. It should be +remembered that two confusing factors prevail where a fine spirit +dwells in a diseased body: first, the thought-life of centuries +has, so to speak, warped the character of the inherited body and +its vibrations to such an extent that they may not, perhaps (I do +not know), be altogether reformed within a human lifetime; +secondly, the thought-life of the individual, however nearly right +in many respects, is wrong in one particular, the belief, feeling, +conviction--an inheritance of ages--that disease of the body must +necessarily obtain in some cases at least, no matter what the +inner life may be. This conviction is a tremendous force for harm. +Invalids accept it as true, and try to be reconciled. But it is +not true. The belief prevails, and so prevents the real truth from +appearing: that PERFECT HEALTH IS THE PRIMARY INTENTION OF THE +NATURE OF THINGS FOR ALL. When we can believe this magnificent +truth, we shall be able to see that right vibrations underlying +the mental and moral personality must tend to reform wrong +vibrations underlying the body. So long as the former conviction +prevails, that disease is somehow a part of Nature, the better +life contends with a double difficulty, the existing physical +conditions and the false suggestion that the individual must +continue to be ill in the nature of things or as the will of +Deity. The false suggestion should be displaced by the affirmation +and realization of physical health. Such a reforming suggestion, +made effective by mental realization and proper regimes, tends to +counteract the existing effects of previous wrong suggestions and +positively to change conditions of ill-health, because fullness +and harmony of the three kinds of ether-movements are the designed +ideals of our lives and the laws of perfect well-being (what other +design can we possibly imagine?), and the good suggestion operates +to bring about that ideal. + +Let us be rid of the notion that anyone is ill because a Divine +Being wants him to be ill. + +But we must remember that while these principles cannot be +otherwise than true, every individual has behind him, at any +present moment, two great forces--the past of his ancestors and +the past of his own life. Let us be sensible, even while we insist +upon truths which are among the most beautiful in the world. The +past means much to all of us. Such is law. We cannot get away from +law, whatever our theories or religious belief. To me all Nature's +laws are of the White Life and untellably beneficent. The idea +that law is something hard and disagreeable is itself a false +suggestion and a wrong thought. Law is good. The law that life is +determined more or less by the past is a fine example of this +goodness. If it seems to go against us in some cases, it surely +goes for us in assisting a right past to make for a right future. +When it seems to work hardship, the fact is the law is trying to +face us about for a right time to come. That is the meaning of +experience: it is law talking, to us out of our past. The law that +our past and that of our ancestors must be reckoned with in all +our efforts to reform the etheric vibrations in our personal +fields involves the element of time, which element may be greater +than we can control in the material life. This element of time is +important because there is another law, that great real reforms in +the individual require effort continued more or less in order that +all laws involved may properly and fully operate. If the person +who is a noble self in a weak body could add to his thought-life +the sufficiently powerful affirming realization of physical health +for himself and live long enough, I certainly believe the +suggestion would ultimately prevail. For I do not for a moment +accept disease as a necessary part of human life. Is disorder in +your machinery a part of the machine? I cannot see how a +continuously perfect self, starting with a sound body, could ever +come to possess a diseased body. I must believe that the self, +growing to the ideal, may bring into harmony a diseased body, +provided its health-suggestion is strong enough and sufficient +time is afforded for the full working of the law. The law does +not, of course, cover such cases as broken bones, because +treatment then calls for mechanical operations, which involve laws +altogether distinct from those that govern harmony among the +functions and organs of the body as underfounded by etheric +vibrations within the physical, mental and moral fields. + +The limits set to self-healing power we do not know for any +individual case. The splendid general law is not overwhelmed, is +not contradicted, by such limits, whatever they may be, because +the limits are not set by the original intention of the nature of +things, but by wrong living and false ideas running through +centuries. As we may not know the limits in any case, and as the +great law shines ever before us and is equally for all so far as +it may be claimed, and not for a favored few of some particular +religious or semi-religious belief, it is ours to seize all +advantages afforded by the best medical science together with +every atom of power in the white life affirming and realizing +physical health at its best. You do not know your own limits; +therefore lay hold upon the law, the universal, age-long law, for +all you can derive from its beneficence. You are not required to +turn your back upon any other advantage, but only to swing the law +into harmony with that advantage. + +Health-tone, then, is really a triune series of full and +harmonious ether-movements within the personal field working +together for a buoyant right self in a sane and truth-loving mind +in a spiritually expressing physical organism. By so much as it is +yours, by so much, in the nature of the case, must fear be an +alien and courage the breath of your life. + +We may now go on to the general consideration of + + +PHYSICAL TONE. + + +It would seem almost unnecessary to suggest the ordinary regimes +for health of body. Nevertheless, I shall refer to these regimes +because, first, their importance cannot be overestimated, and +secondly because they involve certain laws of laws in relation to +health which are seldom worked out in hygienic instruction. + +What may be called the laws of laws of health would seem to be as +follows: + +1. Scrupulous Cleanliness of the Body, Without and Within, Makes +for Royal Health-Tone. The law should be given rational, not +slavish, obedience. Your body and your deeper self are in a +constant state of interaction. Material uncleanness consented to +contaminates that self. Uncleanness of the self also contaminates +the body. The white life requires the clean dress of honored +flesh. You are invited, therefore, to affirm always and +practically, + + This robe I wear of unsoiled flesh + Keeps mind and spirit ever fresh. + +2. Sweet, Sound and Early Sleep Gives the Universal Forces their +Perfect Opportunity for Good. During sleep the Universal Thought +strives to restore, as our conditions permit, harmony of +vibrations between its manifests in matter within the body and its +manifests in the non-material self. The degree of harmony is made +less in all cases by centuries of wrong living, the effects of +which are more or less accumulated by inheritance in every man and +woman (right living, however, promising in the future perfect +freedom there-from on earth), and by the disturbing power of +individual wrong living. In order, then, to secure the best +results of sleep, our waking thought should be kept in attune, by +all practical as well as by all idealizing methods, with reality, +truth, beauty and goodness. You are invited, for the reason +suggested, to live during the day in such a manner that your last +fearless thought at night may be, + + "Let my soul walk softly in me, + Like a saint in heaven unshod, + For to be alone with Silence + Is to be alone with God." + +3. The Utility of Nourishment Issues From Conformity to the Plan +of the Universal Forces for Each Individual. For every human body +there is a plan on which it is intended to be evolved and +maintained. The individual plan is merely a variation of the +general plan of our common human nature. That general plan +provides for certain foods and kinds of drink, for the manner in +which they are to be taken and digested, and for their utilization +in building and sustaining the body. This general plan is varied +for different persons in the primary intention of the nature of +things. Your food and drink, therefore, should depend upon your +own peculiar needs. The science of the matter investigates the +kinds of nourishment which you in particular require and advises +all items furnishing the material elements you demand. But some +individual variations, in respect to questions of taste, +usefulness and harmfulness, digestibility and adaptation, are +undoubtedly results of restrained liberty and wrong thought-life +in the past, either of your ancestors or of yourself. That degree +of liberty, therefore, which ought to be yours, has perhaps, come +to be more or less limited. It is possible for you to secure a +desirable enlargement of freedom with regard to food and drink. Of +course you have no liberty in the way of natural poisons and +beverages which dethrone common sense. Aside from the limits set +by Nature, you may acquire the largest measure of personal freedom +in the matter if you will determine therefor in the exercise of +sound reason. I have had my experience with things not liked and +things harmful--apricots, chickens, salmon---and today I eat all +that's eatable by civilized man, and I drink whatever I choose to +drink--alcohol tabooed because I want and need all the brains I +possess. It is for you to bring yourself more nearly to the +original plan for human bodies in this respect, if you will begin +with your inner thought-life and proceed more or less in the +following manner: + +(a). By insisting upon a LARGER FREEDOM, not in the way of +demanding one thing or another, but in the way of realizing in +your deeper self the idea of power therefor; + +(b). By endeavoring constantly to bring your thought-life more and +more into HARMONY WITH THE WHITE LIFE IN NATURE; + +(c). By affirming that the food and drink of which you partake +will surely MAKE FOR HEALTH and buoyancy of the body; not merely +stating the proposition, but, while so partaking, believing the +truth and assuming it to be true--actual for you; + +(d). By manifesting at all times the mood of blended COURAGE, +HOPE, CONFIDENCE, HAPPINESS; + +4. THE VALUE OF WORK AND PLAY IS THE OUTCOME OF BALANCING +REACTIONS OR RESTORATIONS AMONG OUR PERSONAL ACTIVITIES. If we +conceive of any individual as a "field" of vibrations in matter +and the ether, induced by muscular and nervous action and by +feeling and thought, we see at once that there ought to be an +ideal "field" in which all such vibrations are in a state of +harmony. The state indicated would be a condition of balance. When +activities in one direction are over intense and unduly prolonged, +all vibrations tend to a strain in that direction. Such strain-- +all in one direction--is not normal, because it signifies +disturbance of balance. If harmony in the "field" is to be +restored, the one direction-strain must be released so that all +right activities may recur and all vibrations proper to the +"field" may again take place. Always the ideal is general harmony +throughout the personal field. Now, some of the activities of our +life are normally those of work, inducing corresponding vibrations +in the individual "field," and some of them are normally those of +recreation, which is a true word because it means recreation, that +is, action or rest inducing corresponding vibration differing from +those of work, running, so to speak, in different directions, and +so restoring harmony. Work and recreation are, therefore, equally +essential to the normal life. We have, however, built up wrong +ideas of each of these important functions, so that most of us +distinguish work as essentially different in its basic nature from +recreation, and more or less an evil, and distinguish recreation +as altogether and in itself a good. Both ideas are surely +erroneous. I know that too much work, and work under certain +conditions, cannot be regarded as a good in itself. Precisely the +same is true of recreation. Neither, then, is to be valued or +condemned because of the kind of activities involved or vibrations +induced, but always and solely with reference to the state of +balance or harmony represented in the field of the personal self. +The limit of permitted work should be determined by that question +alone; work should always be offset, so to speak, by recreation. +The limit of recreation permitted should be determined by the same +question. It should always be offset by work. In other words, the +value of either work or play consists in change of activities +restoring balance in the personal field. + +But work and recreation are not essentially different in their +true nature. In both cases we have activities and vibrations. In +all cases some portion of the body is involved. In all cases some +features of the mind are active. Action in either case is called +work or recreation according to the idea entertained regarding it. +If the idea is that of TASK, the thing is work. If the idea is +RELAXATION, the thing is recreation. I have taken the task-idea +into recreation, and soon wearied. I have taken the recreation- +idea into work, and have been obliged to call self to account +under that law of balance or harmony. A boy, for example, is +sawing wood alone: this is work. Neighboring boys join him, and +soon invest the whole place with imagination, all busy sawing, +splitting,--playing. It is the idea--that is, the real thought, +which determines the names we give the two general sets of +activities. Nature will check work-vibrations and restore +recreation-vibrations, FOR A TIME, until harmony of the field is +comparatively restored, if only suggestion use the magic word. + +You are now invited to maintain, IN ALL YOUR WORK, THE IDEA OF +HARMONY WITH THE UNIVERSAL FORCES OF NATURE, and the inspiration +of the idea that your WORK IS GOOD and is building your self to +better. + +You are invited also to maintain, IN ALL YOUR RECREATION, THE IDEA +OF HARMONY WITH THE UNIVERSAL FORCES and the inspiration of the +thought that YOUR RECREATION IS GOOD and is building your self to +better. + +5. PURITY IN THE SEX-LIFE CHARGES THE PERSONAL FIELD WITH THE +MAGNETIC POWER OF THE UNIVERSAL FORCES. In this respect the +individual should be as a god. The human body is designed for +Temple-Presence of the Infinite White Life. Epicurus regarded it +as a husk, but Aristotle defined the soul as the "perfect +expression of the body," meaning, not that the soul is a product +of physiological conditions, but that it is the TRUTH of body, the +idea, purpose, in which only do the bodily conditions gain their +real meaning. To this great Greek the chief of human virtues was +HIGH-MINDEDNESS, a crowning Self-Respect. This attitude of the +self toward the house in which it lives recognizes the perfect +interaction of self and body, the one being influenced by the +other, and so it insists that no injury shall come to the body +from the inner sex-life, or from the sex-life to the inner self, +but that both shall be maintained in harmony with the absolute +whiteness of Eternal Being. + +You are invited, then, to maintain purity under the law of +liberty, and to adopt this thought as a permanent law: MY PERSONAL +DIGNITY STOOPS NOT TO PHYSICAL DEGRADATION. + +6. THE LIBERTY OF CONSCIOUS HARMONY WITH THE UNIVERSAL FORCES +EMBRACES THE INTELLIGENT USE OF THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE. The +science of medicine is fairly indicated for our present purpose in +the following quotation--from Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes: + +"What is the honest truth about the medical art? That by far the +largest number of diseases which physicians are called upon to +treat will get well at any rate, even in spite of reasonably bad +treatment. That of the other fraction, a certain number will +certainly die, whatever is done. That there remains a small number +of cases where the life of the patient depends on the skill of the +physician. That drugs now and then save life; that they often +shorten disease and remove symptoms; but that they are second in +importance to food, air, temperature, and the other hygienic +influences. Throw out opium; throw out wine, and the vapors which +produce the miracle of anesthesia, and I firmly believe that if +the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom +of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind." + +"It is a mistake to suppose that the normal state of health is +represented by a straight horizontal line, Independently of the +well-known causes which raise or depress the standard of vitality, +there seems to be--I think I may venture to say there is--a +rhythmic undulation in the flow of the vital force. The 'dynamo' +which furnishes the working powers of consciousness and action has +its annual, its monthly, its diurnal waves, even its temporary +ripples, in the current it furnishes. There are greater and lesser +curves in the movement of every day's life,--a series of ascending +and descending movements, a periodicity depending on the very +nature of the force at work in the living organism." + +There is also in our life a periodicity of the deeper self--a +curve of the soul's condition, which varies from time to time. +When the curve is downward in both the physical and the spiritual +case, drugs are of no more value than stones. When the curve is +upward in both cases, drugs may be totally gratuitous, and they +may actually retard the combined movements. When the health-curve +is downward, the psychic curve may follow suit, but it need not +necessarily do so. When the psychic curve is downward, the health- +curve tends in the same direction. When the health-curve is +upward, the psychic curve usually follows. When the psychic curve +is upward, we have the best condition for the cure of disease. But +Nature always does the curing. The physician never cures any +disease; he merely assists Nature. + +It is the function of medical science to arrest downward curves by +any tried methods, to take advantage of upward curves, and to know +what the curves are in any given case. I call my physician because +I may want him when I cannot help myself in these important +respects. I will have in my hands the greatest number of the best +forces when I am subject to abnormal conditions. I believe that is +common sense, and I know it is perfectly permissible to the most +exalted faith in the Soul of our Universe. + +I am ready to concede that in a sublime state of ultimate +evolution there is nothing which a drug or a doctor can do except +surgery that may not better be accomplished by the power of +harmonic WHITE-LIFE THOUGHT claiming health. But in such a future +state disease will long since have vanished. Nevertheless, we do +now certainly know a great law of mental power over the body. I do +not concede any limits, except as above indicated, to the +operation of that law if we could get it fully under control. Its +scope, even as matters are, is immense. The law is real, and it +belongs to no particular age or body of people. It is as long as +time and as wide as earth. Any human being may claim the benefit +in total disregard of any philosophy or form of religious belief, +provided the WHITE LIFE and the health-claim are with him, under +the sole limitations imposed by thousands of years of wrong +thought-life in ancestry and similar error in personal past +decreasing ability to affirm and realize in a way to secure the +full benefits of the law. It is for every human being, +nevertheless, to strive for the inner harmony, to invoke the law +of spiritual mastery over the body, and to put forth all possessed +and obtainable power of thought and realization for health, in +good cheer, with valiant heart, and inspired by the truth that, +whatever betide, nought can really harm the abiding self. "Be not +faithless; but believing." + +And so I think that our great Nature-Universe bids us hear these +words from the Infinite White Life: "Sons and daughters of the +All-Good, the power of thought and harmony are surely for you. If +you realize your highest liberty and its greatest efficiency as +you now are, you will use, not deny, those instrumentalities which +are provided in my ministers, Science and Faith. Must you be a +slave either to the material or to the immaterial? Can you not +employ both for your welfare? May not the king call in whomsoever +he will? All things are yours." + +Let us not fall into the old-time religious error of assuming that +some particular philosophy or faith which we have discovered +embraces all truth and value. Let us not label this or that with +our little words, and say: "This is law--this only." The law of +thought-power in the physical realm is older than any present +civilization. The law of harmony as the supreme health-restorer +and health-builder is not a law created by the Infinite during +the last twenty-five years. I uncover my heart to every soul who +is trying for the best things and believes he has found a true +way; but I must not believe that this world has been left in stark +ignorance of the most fundamental law of our earth-life--that +health in its triune wholeness comes of the WHITE LIFE and the +realizing claim--to await the birth and word of any man or woman +in these times. It is a little too late. Therefore I say to you +who may read these pages: "Stand free! Use every means and all +methods, material and spiritual (for the material is but a phase +of the spiritual), for health and happiness." + +7. THE SECRET OF THOUGHT IN RELATION TO HEALTH IS THE CLAIM OF THE +WHITE LIFE CONSCIOUSLY PUT FORTH FOR PHYSICAL WELL-BEING. In +explanation of this principle, let us try to obtain certain true +conceptions concerning the material and pyschic nature of man. + +All existences come to being through the activity of one Infinite +and Eternal Reality. + +The medium in which all material existences exhibit is the +universal ether of science, vibrations in this medium constituting +light, heat, electricity, magnetism, etc., etc. + +So far as we can think, the ether is a manifest, perhaps a primary +manifest, of Infinite and Eternal Reality. + +It is coming to be scientific to hold that matter reduces in its +last analysis to electricity and is a complex form of vibrations +of the ether within the ether. Matter is not merely pervaded by +the ether; it is a state of the ether. + +Matter, then, is a manifest of Infinite and Eternal Reality. + +Life is a phase of the activity of matter. If we think of matter +in its grossest form, nearest to us in the process of evolution, +life may be regarded as an entity different from that matter. We +do somehow feel that matter and life are distinct realities. But +if we think of matter as a complex form of etheric vibrations, +nothing forbids our saying that life also is a form of vibration +of the ether within the ether. With this view in mind, we shall +think of matter and life as comparatively simultaneous manifests +of the ether, life, however, appearing only when the state of +etheric vibrations resulting in matter has reached a stage in +which vibrations resulting in life can be possible. We should then +say that life is a product of etheric vibrations emerging through +those that have resulted in matter; that is, life is a product of +material activities. This view cannot justly be called materialism +because Life is, then, also a manifest of Infinite and Eternal +Reality. + +We do not scientifically know any sort of mind that is not +exhibited through matter. The human mind always exhibits through a +human body. What we call mind is a complex of states of +consciousness engaged in various activities. Consciousness +involves certain physical activities within us. If nothing were +acting within, we should not be conscious. This has always been +true. The first dawn of consciousness in Nature involved +activities within the organism. If we think of that first faintly +conscious existence as a mass of crude matter, then the self and +its body will appear to be distinctly separated in reality. But if +we think of that body as a manifest of etheric vibrations in which +life-vibrations also obtained, there is nothing to forbid our +saying that consciousness was equally a product of such +vibrations. If so, the psychic factor was a form of vibrations of +the ether within the ether--and so, when it appeared, had evolved +to higher forms, was consciousness. + +Matter is an evolution, and out of it hare evolved life, the +psychic factor, consciousness. But consciousness is, then, for the +reasons above indicated, a manifest of Infinite and Eternal +Reality. + +Consciousness is the condition of personality. When the former +first appeared, it was a product. Thenceforth, because personality +was a psychic factor in consciousness, it became a creator. That +is to say, it was capable of enlargement and enrichment, and so, +began to unfold its powers, to enrich its own contents by +appropriation, and to organize itself in various ways depending +upon its nature in each case and the influence of environment. In +seeking to realize itself, as it must do in the nature of things, +and in adjusting to environment, which was a second necessity of +its being, it began to direct the activities of matter comprising +its own body, to select matter from without needful for its kind +of body, and to build this material up into a kind of body best +adapted to its existence, and thus, by its own character, to +determine the character of the organism which it inhabited. + +All this work seems entirely independent until we remember that +ether, matter, life, the psychic factor, are manifests of Infinite +and Eternal Reality. But when we so remember, we see that +personality consisting of a conscious self and a body is similarly +a manifest of that Reality. + +This conclusion will appear to identify man and Deity unless we +discriminate a little. Every object in Nature is a manifest of +Infinite and Eternal Reality, but the latter transcends the former +simply because the object is such a manifest, A thing which is a +manifest or expression of something superior cannot be identified +with the superior something. I am not the words which I write, +although they manifest me and could not exist without me. Every +object in Nature is precisely what it is as a manifest of Reality. +There is scant freedom in the natural world apart from man. +Nothing in Nature could be other than it is. Man, on the other +hand, is a manifest of Infinite and Eternal Reality in the sense +that he has a body, and must have one, and is a personality and +must be one (if he is man); but in the man psychic factor has come +to consciousness, and consciousness, as we have seen, always +reveals itself in SELF-DIRECTION AND SELF-ORGANIZATION ACCORDING +TO ITS DEVELOPED POWER TO THINK OF ITSELF AS SELF-CONSCIOUS +EXISTENCE. Were it unable to so think of itself, it could not be +self-directive in the fullest sense. And were it unable to self- +direct its own activities, it could not be conscious in the +fullest sense of the word. Our existence manifests Infinite and +Eternal Reality, but the power to USE that existence is determined +by the fact that we are psychic factors in the highest sense +exhibited in the earth, and the use we make thereof is determined +by our exercise of the power of self-direction and self- +organization. We cannot help being human beings, but what KIND of +human beings we are, within the limits of personal endowments, +depends solely upon ourselves. + +We may see, then, that the psychic factor within us builds the +bodies we live in, so that our physical character is largely an +expression of our personal character. Ages of wrong thought-life +are behind us, yet even so, it is within our power to improve +physical character very greatly indeed. + +Now, the power of personal right thinking and harmony with the +White Life of Infinite and Eternal Reality may be explained in the +following way (you will understand, of course, that the outline is +designed merely to be suggestive): + +ALL MATTER IN THE REALM OF NATURE BEING A MANIFEST OF INFINITE AND +ETERNAL REALITY, NATURE AND HER SUBSTANCES ARE PHASES OF ETERNAL +THOUGHT. The study of Nature is just the study of that Thought, +conducted in various ways and for various purposes. The Thought, +in all its existences and relations, is a vast and complex whole, +and yet, from the point of view of its highest value to man, a +great Word, comparatively simple and open to every earnest and +sincere seeker throughout all the ages. If you will ask yourself, +What are the main and abiding thoughts which are embodied in +Nature? your conclusion, I think, need not be elaborate and +confusing. The question, however, must be asked in a receptive and +unprejudiced mood, and not merely by the matter-of-fact intellect. +"Every inch of earth, of water, of fire, and of air contains the +fundamental principles of the universe, and man is the connecting +link between dust and Deity, and can bridge the gulf through the +illumination of his mind. The most powerful telescope known to man +is mind's eye." "He who has cultivated and learned to open his +heart to the touch of outward Nature illuminates his inner being +by the elevation and refinement of his emotional and imaginative +nature. This is the first principle in the objective world of the +higher education of mind and soul. The first lesson of Mother +Earth is to instruct her children to be softened and sympathetic +toward the moods of outward Nature. Thus mankind softens, +broadens, and grows, becoming more susceptible to impressions, +taking in the glory of the Divine Architect, which is in the world +revealed, and the golden gates of the soul are opened." + +Seeking with such a spirit, then, the main Thoughts which Nature +embodies, I venture to say that Infinite and Eternal Reality has +there expressed itself in these great Words: + +Reality, Truth, Law, +Beauty, Goodness, Harmony, +Power, Development, Happiness, +Love, Service, LIFE. + +These are the Thoughts expressed in Nature which are manifest of +the White Life. For such the nature of things always declares, +when free to do so. By so much as any object of existence fully +realizes itself, by so much are these Thoughts, so far as such +realization requires, made concrete if only we have the seeing +mind and the feeling heart. With these powers of perception, the +seeing mind and the feeling heart, we come to know that all in +Nature is good and means good to every man and woman and child in +this world. There is no evil in Nature. All so-called evil in +Nature is due either to some phase of her existence wrongly used +or to some false interpretation in human thinking. Nature is REAL, +TRUE, LAW-FULL, BEAUTIFUL, GOOD, HARMONIOUS, FULL OF POWER, A +GROWING ORGANISM, A MINISTER OF SERVICE AND WELL-BEING, A LIVING +THING, A LITERATURE OF LOVE. If you refer to microbes, poisons, +deadly serpents, and the like, I reply that the perfect WHITE LIFE +in man, together with the knowledge of science, would teach him to +avoid wrong relations and develop within him physical, mental and +moral tone (tonus, in the language of the schools). Thus would he +be rendered immune from all so-called evils. + +If your inner life contains nothing alien to these great Nature- +Thoughts, if you see to it that their character is given your +personal character, you will secure in the body a degree of the +power of harmony which they possess, and your health will +infallibly correspond. Do no mistake this sentence. Will you +kindly read it--again until you see what it really means? The only +limit to your health will be the limit of your ability to realize +in yourself the mighty Thoughts which make Nature what she is. I +do not mean that splendid results must immediately issue from the +course indicated. Patience and time are important factors. I do +not mean that a dying man can inevitably realize these Thoughts +sufficiently to recover health. There are limits, not to the law, +but to one's ability to use the law. In spiritual effort, effort +of the inner self to lay hold upon the Universal Forces, you can +make your own personal discoveries. I may not say a greater word. +Above all, I do not mean that merely thinking the Thoughts will be +enough, in any case. The method is one of realization as well as +affirmation. But by so much as you become that which the Nature- +Thoughts suggest, by so much will your physical and psychic health +come to buoyancy, joy and power. You are now invited, then, to +adopt the following as the permanent law of your thought-life: + +I am, in every function of my body and every activity of my deeper +self, entirely GENUINE, representing TRUTH, obeying LAW, loving +BEAUTY, striving for GOODNESS, coming to HARMONY, possessed of +POWER, GROWING to better things, full of HAPPINESS, eager to +SERVE, a LIVING white life, and a Lover of all that is good. + +If you will thoughtfully and believingly repeat this law twice a +day say, for one hundred days, you will find life unfolding new +meanings, fears fading and dying, and courage growing to real +greatness. + +8. IN THE MYSTERY OF THE SILENCE THE POWER OF REALIZATION BECOMES +GREATEST AND MOST EFFECTIVE BECAUSE IN SUCH A STATE THE SELF MAKES +ITS HIGH THOUGHTS A CONSCIOUS CLAIM ON ALL GOOD THINGS. The direct +utility of the right thought-life is nowhere doubted. By this the +psychic factor largely molds the body and influences its +functions. Preceding methods or laws have all referred to the +truth involved. But the law of direct realization is needed in +order to complete the workings of the truth. By direct realization +the self consciously claims the present benefit of the spirit or +attitude of harmony. You may think of yourself as splendidly well +and fearless: that is one thing-you REGARD yourself as in such +conditions. And you may claim yourself NOW to be well and +courageous: that is another thing--you TREAT yourself for health +and fearlessness. When you think of your arm as moving, it does +not necessarily move; you have merely entertained the idea. When +you will your arm to move, you have claimed your power to move it +and have realized the power--realized in actual thought that +power. The difference would obtain if your arm were bound: you +could still realize in thought the sense of movement. Realization +of the Eternal Thoughts is a conscious claim in spirit and +appropriation in spirit of the Thoughts as actual within yourself. +Realization of benefits for health is a conscious holding of them +in mind as present in you. One may in time acquire the fixed mood +of realization, but it will assist you to bring about that mood if +you will occasionally, say once a day, shut out all disturbances +and alien thoughts and feelings, and try to come into communion +with the White Life--go into the silence and, by quiet +affirmation and sincere, trustful realization, claim the Universal +Forces as your helpers in building up your physical tone and the +spirit of courage. 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