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diff --git a/8414.txt b/8414.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e625f2f --- /dev/null +++ b/8414.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3313 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Freedom Talks No. II, by Julia Seton + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most +other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions +whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of +the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at +www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have +to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. + +Title: Freedom Talks No. II + +Author: Julia Seton + +Posting Date: February 11, 2015 [EBook #8414] +Release Date: July, 2005 +First Posted: July 8, 2003 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FREEDOM TALKS NO. II *** + + + + +Produced by Charles Aldarondo, Tiffany Vergon, Curtis A. +Weyant and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. + + + + + + + + + + + +FREEDOM TALKS + +No. II + +JULIA SETON, M.D. + +AUTHOR OF "CONCENTRATION," "FREEDOM TALKS NO. I," +"MARRIAGE," ETC., ETC. + + + + +Contents + + + + I The Secret of Healing + II The Risen Self + III Transcendentalism + IV Psychology of Insanity + V The Law Eternal + VI The Outside and the Inside of Life + VII The Measure of Ourself +VIII Perfect Liberty + IX Cosmic Therapeutics + X Absent Treatments + + + + + +FREEDOM TALKS + +NUMBER II + + + + +The Secret of Healing + + + +"_In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word +was God_." + +"_And the word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his +glory full of grace and truth_." + + Ever since the birth of the human race there have been health and +disease. Everywhere we find those who live at levels of comprehension that +cannot express in flesh the perfect power of the word and these must by +natural law take on the form of whatever they have power to comprehend. + +Health is man's immortal birthright; it is eternal in the universal plan, +and it can be made to become eternal in the life of men in just the hour +they understand the laws of their own being. + +There are two expressions of energy in the universe; one is called the +constructive, the other the destructive; the one builds up, the other +tears down. This must forever be so, for only as matter is destroyed and +passed back into energy can the energy pass out again into finer forms. + +Living in these great universal currents of construction and destruction, +man relates himself constantly with one or both through the simple law of +his own consciousness, and only as he learns the laws of his own being and +consciously places himself in a position of power can he ever hope to +escape the results which the negative, destructive currents produce in his +body and his environment. + +Today we know that the world in which we live is nothing but a great sea +of energy which, in the undifferentiated, is called God, and in the +differentiated is called matter or form, or, to make it more simple, we +can call one the energy that creates, and the other the things created +from and by this energy. + +Man and his environment are created by this energy: He is a localized +center of force and he becomes the expression in form of just whatever he +relates with under the law of cosmic correspondence. + +We have found that this great energy is also _intelligence_ and is +nothing but mind with its various manifestations. We know today that the +atoms of the atmosphere are intelligence, and as they touch one another +throughout space, it is through this atomic mind that messages are +carried, and currents are generated which can heal patients at a distance. + +Everything in the universe is in a state of intelligent association, and +when the atoms become expressed in human form, they pass into that +expression of the universal mind known as _human_ consciousness. + +All human life is simply different tastes of consciousness brought about +by the different vibratory rates to which our atoms respond. + +The physical body is composed of a group of atoms attuned to move at a +certain vibratory rate, and within this physical body is another body of +finer atoms attuned to a still higher vibration and in relationship with +the higher electrical currents of the universe. There has not been much +told about this finer body, but it is time the sick world knows this law +of being, for then it will be in a position to control its own life. This +finer body is the "thought body" or psychic body and it is upon this that +the physical body depends for its power, just as the very best instrument +in the world depends upon the player for its expressed melody. + +All sight, all hearing, all function is in this psychic body, not in the +physical one. What many of the psychologists call the subconscious mind is +only the registered intelligence of the psychic self. This psychic self is +in direct communication with the cosmic self and with the physical self, +and it is through this we become cosmic in our human consciousness. + +The psychic body manifests through _idea_ centers of the human brain +and it is directly related with the cosmic currents through the solar +plexus of the physical body. The higher _concept_ centers of the mind +are the switchboard where connections are made, and it is in this way that +the psychic body registers its vibrations in the physical, and the +physical registers in the psychic--there is a circle of consciousness +established by the two minds. + +This would be of no particular value to us, if it did not prove to us the +source of disease, for when we look scientifically and psychologically at +disease, we must see that it is simply disassociation between the psychic +and the physical selves, and comes as the natural loss of poise, either +physically, mentally or psychically. + +Watching the play of human disease around us we can soon see that there +are two distinct ways by which disassociation of these selves begins; +first, through the mind by negative thinking, and second through the +emotions by negative feeling. + +Our thoughts and our will are the great avenues by which we admit anything +into our psychic self, and are also the means by which we exclude all +things. + +The whole poise of an individual can be destroyed by thoughts of fear, +hate, grief and anger; fright has killed and all these states of emotion +are simply grades of vibration, setting up inharmonious, psychical +activity, and leaving their corresponding effects upon the physical cells. + +It is known only too well today by those who seek to know, that back of +all such physical conditions as nervousness, prostration, temporary +insanity, nervous disorders, pains resembling rheumatism, hay fever, heart +troubles, mental symptoms, nervous chills, morbid forebodings and mild +mania, there lurks the abnormal activity of the psychic or "thought body" +caused by thoughts and feelings acting abnormally upon the vital centers +of the nervous system and mind. + +New Thought declares that all diseases, except accidental wounds and +fractures begin in the psychic or "thought body" as _energy_ and then +are registered in the physical cells as organic or functional disease. + +We might follow this farther in order to satisfy science, but suffice it +to go this far, and then seek the value of knowing this: We can see that +the only thing that naturally follows is, the healer and patient must be +taught how to restore the lost equilibrium of the centers and again poise +the life in a creative thought vibration. This is done simply and surely +by teaching everyone the _correct_ use of the _idea_ centers of +the human brain and through this he is taught to form such thoughts and +produce such ideas as will allow a normal amount of energy to register on +both planes, and not permit the psychical mind to drive the human engine +on to destruction in a wild waste and explosion of physical, mental or +psychical energy. + +This is not a long or wearisome task for in the cortex of every brain +there are distinct _idea_ centers whose business it is to take up +ideas built from thoughts, and _will_ must follow the idea, and by +constantly selecting the thoughts which will produce harmonious vibrations +within the psychic and physical selves, we join with the great creative +energy of the universe and it flows through us, healing and harmonizing +every atom of our body. + +The very first step toward healing is to teach the patient to build for +himself a _health_ consciousness, and this is done by giving him the +positive ideas of health instead of the negative ones of disease. We build +for him the _idea_ of health, hold it firmly in our minds, and +project it into his _idea_ centers until it registers in his psychic +mind; then this is followed by his own increased power of willing, and +finally this passes into action and is registered in form. + +_Ideation, willing_ and _doing_ is the great _health +trinity_, and when this is produced, healing must follow. This is the +_law_ and there is no appeal from it. + +When we first meet a diseased person we find his field of consciousness +full of all kinds of negative thoughts of disease, worry, fear and +anxiety--these have been persisted in so long that they have weakened both +the idea centers and the power of willing. We at once create for him the +positive idea motor-form, and if his conscious mind is too weak to receive +the impulse, we project it into his psychic mind, helping him hold on to +the new idea until his own mind is able to grasp it, and it becomes +registered for him. + +After he has learned the truth of the abundance of health energy within +and without to be aroused into action by the simple law of his own +thoughts and feelings, he sets to work to regenerate himself, and he finds +that he can really breathe the breath of life into his own nostrils. + +After we have seen the scientific side of the real power of healing, then +if we want to get health and keep it, we set about studying how to live +our life so as to be able to generate thoughts and feelings, at all times, +which shall always move us at a creative health vibration. The very next +thing for anyone seeking health is to get easy in his everyday life; no +one can ever be well and live with every nerve on a tension. We need to +know the higher law of life that teaches us that no one put us anywhere +but ourselves; that no one is to blame but ourselves for what we have or +have not; we get and have in this world just what we have the power to +relate with and will get free from the thing we do not like in just the +hour that we build something better for ourselves. All we need to do is to +cease resisting conditions and agree with our adversary quickly. Freedom, +liberty and happiness are not things of the external world; they come from +within and we are sad or happy, bound or free, sick or well, not by our +external but by our internal conditions. + +The sick, nervous, peevish, worrying mind sees everything as positive to +itself and must be taught that there is nothing in all the world that has +any power over us except that with which we endow it, and it must begin to +live under this idea rather than the old foolish one of being controlled +by every external condition. + +"God hath not given us a spirit of fear but of love and of power and of a +sound mind," and with persistent thought culture we can soon form a habit +of thought and feeling that will build us away from our old consciousness +of disease and pain into a higher law of health and strength. + +Good, positive, strong health thoughts are a certain preventive and cure +for every kind of disease. Disease and health have absolutely no relation +with each other; disease is the expression of a faltering, undeveloped +soul life, while health is the expression of a consciousness that has not +broken its law of universal recognition. + +There are very good people who are sick and very many so-called bad folks +who are well; health is not bestowed as a reward of merit, it simply is by +the natural universal law, and it exists for those who know how to fulfill +the law within their own being. There are many so-called wicked people who +live in greater harmony with their wickedness than some so-called +Christians can ever do with their religion and goodness. Wholeness or +holiness means simply harmony, and harmony inside and outside gives +health. Anyone who has health has earned it by obeying the laws that +produce it. + +Another great factor active in producing inharmonious vibrations and +registering destructive energy, is the old thought habit of living under +the laws of opposites, thinking thought of health today and of disease +tomorrow; to be passing daily between hope and despair. This is sowing +mixed thought seeds and cannot help bringing mixed vibrations. + +The path to a health consciousness is to get the strong, positive idea of +UNITY and live under the law of similars. To begin at once to affirm UNION +with all the health and strength of the universe and stick to it in the +face of all the opposing negative thought vibrations generated within +ourselves, or thrown into our minds by others. This can be done by +resolutely substituting a health thought for a diseased one; no matter how +fast negative thoughts crowd in upon the mind, they can be antidoted by +the strong positive affirmation of HEALTH. + +In order to register _health_ vibrations we must _think, feel_ +and _be_ health in mind. The words of health, peace, power and +strength do not unfold into radiant flesh and dwell among us through a +faltering idea of fear, or vague "perhaps," or "I do hope I shall be +well," or "I want to get well," but it demands the eternal I AM HEALTH +NOW. + +Courage, zeal and consecration to the laws of health and freedom from the +law of death are not kindled by the halting consciousness full of the law +of opposites, but they are the results of _knowing_ and _abiding_. +When we can in very truth and full of believing say to health, "Thy +kingdom come," it _will_ come. + +Our daily thoughts then become the wires over which there passes into form +a finer substance, and our body is rebuilt and fashioned from the +indestructible _substance_ of the Universe. + +The mortal body as we know it in the old thought world, is a thing of +earth and lives and suffers earth's calamities, but through the +understanding of this New Thought _union_ it can be made to become a +portion of the _cause_ as indestructible as _life_ itself, and +live and glory in omnipotence. + +We are then in the resurrection of the _life_, and the _word_ +that was _with_ God and _was_ God, is made _flesh_ to dwell among +us in glory and full of grace and truth; then we know what Jesus meant +when he said, "I tell you of a truth, there be those standing among you +who shall not taste of death till they see the Kingdom of God." + + + + +The Risen Self + + + +"_And entering into the sepulchre they saw a young man sitting on the +right side clothed in a long white garment, and he saith unto them, be not +affrighted, ye seek Jesus of Nazareth--He is risen! He is not here_!" + +When we read the Bible with its story of human lives and their great, +wonderful mysteries, we find among them, the greatest of all--the +marvellous one of the Christ birth and death, and as we read we are amazed +at the many confusing ideas of Jesus and His teachings. His disciples +themselves did not understand Him, though He sought always to clearly +interpret Himself; often when He spoke metaphysically they interpreted Him +physically. + +There was throughout all the Christ history something so great, so holy, +so inclusive that it was too large for them to comprehend, and for all +eternal ages, the developing minds of men will be the same. They will keep +busy with their attempts at explanation of His life and His words. + +Jesus quitted the world in benediction, and He left to those who followed +Him and His precepts, a great inextinguishable hope. + +It matters little to those who really understand Truth, whether Jesus the +Christ lived, or whether He was only a symbol worked out by the +imagination of men and priests; be the origin what it may, Christianity +_still_ stands; and Religion still holds sway after centuries of +ridicule and generations of secular and scientific analysis. Something +unknown and uninterpreted beats and surges in the hearts of men, and +brings into expression in every age the clinging to a great mysterious, +wonderful, unseen agency that somehow works its way along the silent +avenues of the human soul. + +The man Jesus may or may not have lived. Humanity may keep its birthright +of contradiction forever on this point, but higher than the limited +understanding of the few there lives the Truth of the great Christ spirit +which the name Jesus embodied, and which for centuries gone, and centuries +to be, will wax strong and flourish in the consciousness of men, as they +pass one by one into recognition of it. + +Great and sacred was the day of Jesus' birth, and great and sacred was the +day of his death, for both revealed the stages of our human selfhood, and +both point our minds to deeper meanings of existence. + +Jesus' life as we follow it from the manger to the cross was the +unmistakable story of the pathway of every human life and each little +action was a part of the great mosaic which each life is setting for +itself, and from which it shall one day read its own great AT-ONE-MENT. + +The birth of the Christ consciousness comes to each soul as the dawn of +self-awakening. It is the first faint glimmer of a new world, and the +first hint the soul of man has of union with its source. + +This first dawn of consciousness is purely a possession of the inner self, +and those who feel it only follow first by faith. This faith is buffeted +and attacked by the things of life until it is tried and becomes +steadfast. + +In this first dawn of consciousness of the Christ self we are always +strangers to ourselves and asleep in the manger of natural things and +natural senses. We go on for years, and as consciousness grows stronger we +search and search for we know not what; craving pursues us, we go hither +and thither seeking, seeking--finding and losing. + +The world and the things tangible are never wholly satisfactory in +themselves; we know instinctively that they are not all there is, there is +a deep, vital something in us that speaks its hidden messages into our +being, and we are driven on from sensation to sensation, crying for that +open sesame of union which will bring peace to our soul. + +Then passing into deeper unfoldment we come into the real work of life, we +meet with responsibilities and its experiences; we are baffled again, +buffeted, besieged by the perplexities of doubt and fear and human +discontent and we feel that, strive as we will, we are not yet at home. + +The ten thousand things of the human life entangle us,--the touch of +sickness, the expressions of so-called sin,--the baffling consequences of +our seeming mistakes,--all these draw us from the cradle of +unconsciousness out into the vital power of a self-conscious life, and +push us onward to our union with Cosmic Consciousness, or the risen +Christ. + +On the self-conscious plane life goes on, driven on every side by human +experiences and at last turns back upon itself, and then in the Gethsemane +of its own making, it stands where earth and its perplexing joys are lost +and heaven and its hidden joys are yet unknown, and then facing the +expressions of its now half-revealed consciousness it cries out from the +depth of its soul's despair, "If it is possible, let this cup pass," and +it does not see the purpose in Gethsemane. + +Human life at this stage of unfoldment has _fixed laws_, and the soul +meets in them the inexorable command to pass on to its own crucifixion, +the worked out sentence of its own judgments, and it goes onward bearing +its own cross which is built from the consequences of the laws with which +it has related. + +The laws of human self-consciousness are hard to work out; each life faces +sometime, somewhere the proof of itself. There comes a day to all when +anything that is less than the truth slips off, and the soul stands bare +at the bar of the universal justice ready to be judged by the laws which +it has made for itself. + +There are hours of human crucifixion that it were well to die on, for the +soul that wanders back from these fierce Mounts of Transfiguration has +paid the price of human transgression of law by human pain, and is purged +and cleaned by the fierce fire of its own igniting. + +The path of human living out leads every life up the steps of Calvary +carrying its own Cross and it plaits the thorns and pierces the side of +"Him who in our life again is spit upon and crucified" until, at last, the +great human God-self within us is released through transmutation, and the +grave clothes of our dead self no longer entomb us; then the resurrection +day is at hand, and the Consciousness of God bursts into the +self-conscious mind, and the stone is rolled away from the sepulchre. + +The human mind bursts forth in illumination and it passes with the Christ +birth on to the table-land of human comprehension and revelation of its +infinite union. + +In this moment of glorified illumination we feel and know that every +moment behind us has been that this hour may be; we feel then that every +moment is a special moment; every life a special life, protected by the +ALL LIFE, and that everything on our human pathway, high or low, has led +us on to this supreme moment of conscious union with our God. + +When the Christ Consciousness is risen within us, we feel the universality +of life written everywhere on everything; there is but one starting point +for all thought--God. There is but one ending place for all human +faith--God. + +We are filled with a keener sense of the ONENESS of life, and we are +thrilled again and again by the nearness and greatness of God in the world +which He projected from Himself. + +The Father which we sought in self-consciousness has become real and +tangible, and the sense of everlasting UNITY is in our hearts. + +With this great God-self alive within us, we never fear that God will ever +pass away from any part of his Creation. We know too well, then, the truth +that "as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without +end," earth is destined to become a heaven in the lives of men as fast as +they develop to the place of understanding, and find the real holy ground +within the center of their own being. + +God, or the Universal Cosmic Consciousness, has always been revealed to +men through the risen Christ consciousness within the self. The men of old +who walked with Him were those who had lifted their personal mind to the +level of the Universal Mind, so that from the shores of the Infinite +Wisdom great thought waves of Love, Truth and Peace beat in on them and +filled them, and their lives became a center of illumination for all. + +There never was and there never can be any conflict between the power of +human consciousness and God consciousness. Truth is always Truth, and +Truth in the hearts of men build them back into the Great Harmony. + +The Absolute never contradicts itself; as fast as lives are unfolded to +the Christ Consciousness, they leave the old thought life like an empty +tomb and push themselves into a glorious human expression, just as the +Easter lily rising above the dust and mould of earth, pushes itself upward +into the clear sunlight of a world where flowers are revealed, just so the +soul pushes on through consciousness and self-consciousness, into the +glory of the risen Godhood. + +We can hear the voice of the Universal calling us through our Christ +Consciousness today, just as it called to men throughout the ages, and we +know that everything that throbs with natural life or comes into objective +expression in our human world, is really only the voice of the Universal +Cosmic mind speaking in the holy language of the human heart. + +Every experience, every heartache, every joy, every despair, every +pulse-beat is only the text by which the great child mind of the world is +spelling out _God_. + +The Risen Self comes into realization of the great white light of the +soul, and it enables us to see _all_ life in its completeness. Human +effort and human endeavor glow with an unexpected radiance when seen from +the table-land of the risen truth. + +The human soul then rejoices in its Divine possibilities. Jesus said: "I +do always the things that pleaseth the Father," and the voice from heaven +said: "This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased." + +When we turn to those who ask for proof of the risen Christ-self within +us, we have only to point to them the empty tomb of the old lives which +men everywhere leave behind them. If we desire we can go farther and point +them to the production of those in whom this great consciousness is +waking; all human life that is alive with thought and faith and deed, is +vibrant with a great vital spiritual force. + +The signs of God Consciousness and the conscious union of God and men is +rampant everywhere in the natural world. Every factory, every steamship, +every invention, every composition, everything in form sets its seal upon +the genuineness of the existence of the spiritual exaltation of the minds +of men, and higher than the things of the natural world, there stands the +achievements of the mental and inspirational souls; the libraries with +their tens of thousands of written pages, the art museums and galleries of +precious dreams; all over the world there are hung on walls and chiselled +into glistening marble the story of the glory-gazing of some +Christ-illumined soul. And again sounded forth from thousands of churches +each Sabbath morning, there is swelling out majestic songs sung by +myriads of voices now, but sung _first_ in the silence of some dim, +deep soul-dream, in the Christ consciousness of some risen mind. That +grand harmony was born on the table-lands of human illumination, +registered on the human brain, and worked out into tangible form here on +earth to bear witness to the home-land of the God-man. + +Christ consciousness is the final destiny of every soul; it is what we +really live by and today we know, as never before, that in order to +advance and grow, we must consecrate and bring it here and now, into its +fullest expression in our life. + +There are bound to be born, at first, many things on this table-land of +new understanding that will be worked out indifferently by our limited +brain, and when challenged by the strain and stress of life they will +depart because they will be unable in their present form to answer to the +great world's need. But increasing consciousness makes everything more +powerful, and as we go on we learn to build sublime and lasting things, to +stand the test of time because they have their root, not in the old +thought self, but in the unfolded risen self, and they are grappled to the +heart of the very Rock of Ages. + +Standing, then, risen from the dust world of our old defeats, our human +minds receive new illuminations and rejoice in them. Law becomes the +essence of our daily living and the mind of man the direct inspiration of +the Almighty. We dare to trust our risen mind to the uttermost for in it +is GOD himself enshrined. + +In this new spiritual perception we rely more and more on our intuitions, +illumination and revelation, for it is human Godness, backed by the +strength of unnumbered hosts of higher consciousness. + +We know at last that all our daily living is not a matter of outward signs +but of inward sight; all external things may contradict us, yet in sublime +confidence we shape our way while the Christ voice within us speaks forth +its messages, telling us all the holy and uplifting stories of our daily +life. Over the trials and wreckage of our common years we follow it; out +from a silence that is known only to ourselves we bring the lessons that +have burnt their truth into our souls. + +In the power of this risen self we stand with our faces upturned, with our +whole life opened to God, and human effort, human growth, human hope, +love, joy,--all are joined in the sense of Divine resurrection. + +This is the consciousness of God in the human soul; this is the +Resurrection morning and it makes us NOW the Sons of God, and from the +darkness of our Old Thought growth we lift our hearts away into a new Life +Divine. We open our eyes in the radiance of a light that never grows dim, +then standing with an all-seeing soul vision, we can point to the long +years behind us through which we have worked out our soul's salvation and +closing the door on the empty tomb of our dead self we say with all the +serenity of our new-found God-consciousness: + +"I know whom you seek. He is not here. He is Risen!" + + + + +Transcendentalism + + + +Transcendentalism is today the one subject which is demanding the greatest +attention. The race mind is beginning to think in words of transcendental +language rather than in the old law of science and philosophy, and all the +light of modern investigation centres round the one who declares himself a +transcendentalist. + +We may say that a man is a scientist, a philosopher or a materialist, and +the world will know at once what we mean, but if we say that he is a +transcendentalist we leave an open doorway for investigation; there is +something yet to be learned about him, something that no one knows about +but himself. + +Anyone can easily define a scientist, a philosopher and a psychologist, +but they halt in more or less indecision when they are asked to define a +transcendentalist, and it is only when we understand that a +transcendentalist is one who has extended his normal consciousness into +relationship with the deeper laws of the universe, so that he uses +naturally these laws and is perfectly familiar and at home in states of +consciousness which the rest of the world call supernatural, and with +which they are entirely unfamiliar, that we can come to a true definition +of the transcendentalist. + +Transcendentalism has been a part of race unfolding since time began, and +will continue to be throughout all race evolution. + +In the old civilization we studied the transcendentalist and +transcendentalism from an entirely different view-point than we do today. + +Transcendentalism is a state of consciousness and man evolves into it out +of the natural states of his own mind. No one is to blame that he is, or +is not, a transcendentalist. He becomes one not alone because he wills to +become, but also because he is one with the divine law of creation and the +God-consciousness within him pushes him on through one state of unfoldment +to another. + +There are two expressions of universal and finite mind, one is the +objective, the revealed, the apparent, and one is the subjective, the +concealed, the absolute. + +The objective side of mind belongs to the surface consciousness of man, +and is in itself a distinct state of existence, it is bounded on every +side by its own laws, and commands its own obedience. The subjective side +of life belongs to the inner side of mind and is also a distinct state of +existence bounded by itself and the laws of its own kingdom, and without a +deep knowledge of universal law, man has little power of connecting these +two strong zones of consciousness. + +Studying life in the light of our modern understanding, we find that man +passes by natural law through the objective, the surface zone, then on to +the subjective or inner zone, and then to a centralized position between +both zones where he lives, moves and has being in both zones, uniting the +laws of the two kingdoms into a new zone of consciousness, then using the +laws of both, he passes at will to the very edge of matter, and back to +the very center of the cosmic mind; standing here in life's master +position, he is lord of both zones. This middle zone of power and mastery +is the path of the modern transcendentalist, and the one who walks it and +lives in unification with its laws is the _modern transcendentalist_ +of the new civilization. It has been written-- + + "_For wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to + destruction, and many there be who go in thereat" because_ + + "_Straight is the gate, and narrow is the way which leadeth unto + Life_." + +We know today that this is true, for on the broad path of the objective +life man must pass through the law of change which destroys, that it may +create again and through which he is crowded on to seek the narrow path of +subjective senses which are built on the law of verities. + +Man's first lessons are in the objective zone of mind, and he remains +positive in this zone until he masters its laws and the lessons which they +bring. + +In this objective zone of mind we find the mass man of the old +civilization, he is in the _broad way_ of the surface consciousness, +and in his midst there dwells the specialized individuals who are +approaching the central zones of mind; they are called the scientist, the +physicist, the materialist, the agnostic, the mentalist, the reasoner, and +the atheist, all true and perfect for their type but all more or less +unconscious of the latent states of mind within themselves and the +universe to which they must some day respond. + +As human consciousness intensifies through use, man finds himself passing +on through his surface zones to the concealed states of mind within +himself, "the narrow way," and slowly, almost unconsciously at first, he +begins manifesting the law of these zones. In these states of mind we find +the philosopher, the idealist, the emotionalist, the psychist, the +sensitive, the intuitionist, the revelator, the transcendentalist and the +seer. + +Watching race evolution we see that the day of surface consciousness and +its power is waning only as it is controlled and manipulated through the +subjective states of man's mind. The hour for subjective research and +subjective introspection is at hand,--men have mastered the external world +and its laws, and are now following the cosmic urge which is pushing them +toward the center and away from the _apparent_ to the _absolute_ +laws of life. + +The external evolution of form is complete for this hour; men go down into +the bowels of the earth, they sail the seas, they mount the air on wings, +and the external world has seen "the son of man coming in clouds of glory" +and now the eternal man must have his hour, and come in "trailing robes of +power and brightness," to pour new revelation through the external world +and its laws. + +Books, paintings, pictures, science, music have all had their day in +external exaltation, and now the attention of man is mounting higher and +turning inward; the study of the surface and sub-consciousness has been +transferred, and while part of the world's eyes are yet peering through +the microscope at the _sub-life_ and plenty are looking at the laws +of life around them, the transcendentalist with these truths locked fast +in his mind, is turning to the undiscovered states within himself, and is +everywhere launching out into the unfathomed states of the supra-mind of +man. + +Man has evolved like a planet through the stone age of mind and today with +the planet in the vibratory zone of water and _air_ he has risen with +it into the transcendent states of his own being. + +Many transcendentalists are living so naturally in the beginning +manifestations of the supra-mind that they hardly recognize them as +uncommon and the world is becoming peopled with a race of supra-men and +supra-women who are using the subtle laws of the transcendentalists of the +past, but not using them _alone_, or in _hidden cloisters_, or +through separate states of living, but using them as simple human +attributes of their own mind, and using them in the common marts of the +surface life with more real understanding than did the olden +transcendentalist in his specialized separated environment, assisted by +_secluded study_ and _special opportunities_. + +The modern transcendentalist is a post graduate of the surface +consciousness, and uses it as simply a wireless machine with which he +registers his deeper perceptions, and with it links himself and his +revelation naturally to the natural world. He stands in natural communion +with both zones, and in this communion with deeper laws he attains a +supra-power, he walks his human pathway in human form, but he manipulates +his surface life with the power born of his supra-wisdom. + +The modern transcendentalists form the corner-stones of the new +civilization. "For the new age will come quickly to its birth when this +His world, will know itself divine" and in this new civilization the mass +man will have for his surface consciousness, the deep subtle union of both +zones, and the specialized teacher, leader and messenger of this new age, +will forge ahead on the great white way of prophecy and seership which is +born from the union of the finite and infinite mind. + +To the mind of the old civilization this will not seem true, for it is +still in the swaddling clothes of its old inheritance; in the thoughts of +the past, man and God, matter and spirit, finite and infinite have been so +long divorced and separated that it will be found difficult to accept the +union of incense and worship and reverence in the same breath with the +real, the apparent and the formed, but this is the hour for higher +prophecy, and that hour when the "lion and the lamb shall lie down +together." + +To those who are really able to read the signs of the times, human +consciousness everywhere offers the greatest proof of this truth, for +looking with eyes that can see, we find that every individual is in +possession of eight distinct states of consciousness with which he can +operate in the subjective and objective zones. + +There may be still greater stretches of the human mind into union with the +universal which the oncoming races will discover, but that there are eight +distinct levels of mind activity many know because they have touched them +and know them within themselves. + +Some minds are active in one, some in two, some in three, and some in +four, and some are more or less distinct in all. + +The mass man of the new civilization is awake in the _third_ and +_fourth_ dimensions of his mind, and those in higher reaches are +awake in the _fifth_ and _sixth_, a few are in the _seventh_ and +_eighth_, but the rank and file are familiar to some degree with all +these states. + +The first or surface mind of man is in itself only cell consciousness, +touched by man's own intellect, and it is known as _instinct_, his +second expression of mind is known as _reason_, the third is +_emotion_ or _feeling_, and the fourth is instinct, reason and +emotion blended into one, and called _intuition_. The fifth and sixth +are above the plane of thought and feeling and includes them in a still +higher intensification; here thinking ceases and _registration_ is +the law, and here is where _revelation_ is born. The seventh and +eighth are still supra reaches of man's mind, and include the union or +surface consciousness with the higher states, in which the brain becomes +the wireless machine, through which flashes of divine wisdom comes; this +is called _Prophecy_ and _Seership_ and this is the product of +the "mirror-mind." + +There are bodies and atmospheres to fit each transcendent state of mind, +and the transcendentalist can suspend any, or all of his states of mind, +one after another, and pass into direct atonement with any level with +which he wishes to function; he can at will live in a new world, and speak +with a new tongue, and fill his surface mind with a glory not its own, +"but which it had with Him before the world was." + +These new states of mind in action extends man's world into the wider +reaches of the universal and adds to him new levels of wisdom and power. + +There are reaches of intelligence far below and beyond the common +intelligence as the microscope and the telescope have shown, and at the +fourth and fifth dimension of consciousness man dispenses with all +material aids and uses the adjustments of his own being. He has found the +eyes, the cars, and the understanding of the supra-self, and by suspending +his surface mind through concentration and meditation he can enter any +sphere of thought at will and be in the land of clairvoyance, +clairaudience, and in the astral and atmospherian, or pass farther out and +register in his surface brain the wonders and laws of etherian, and +celestial worlds. He is at one with the world of the sensitive, the +impressionist and the medium, and in the deeper states of vision he can +see and read the memory tablets of the universe. In the higher +registrations he becomes cosmo-voyant and cosmo-audient, he can see and +hear through space and through ethers as the common eye looks through air. +These are not special gifts from God, but simply the gifts man gives +himself through the conscious use of what is already in his possession. + +The power to extend sight and hearing far above and below the so-called +senses is latent within every individual and when the point of +transcendental development is reached he uses it naturally. + +There are some people who can see birds in the air, ships at sea, stars in +the sky, while others standing beside them see only empty space. Just so +there are many everywhere on life's pathway who can extend their normal +vision and hearing to such an intensified vibratory rate that it not only +includes all the things of the physical plane but the things of the finer +ethers. + +The transcendentalist standing on the streets of New York can extend his +vision and look at a street or building in Chicago or Cairo or London, +while the surface man alongside of him can scarcely read the signs on the +other side of the street. + +The modern transcendentalist does only what the surface man does--he looks +to see and brings one hundred percent of his vision to bear upon his +desire, while the surface man has less than ten percent of himself in +action and that _only_ on one plane. + +There are enough people on the planet today who can use these deep states +of mind, and induce the extended vision and hearing at will to make it +more than a mere hypothetical conclusion; there are X-ray beings among us +who have come into contact with a great fundamental principle both within +and without themselves. + +The time will come in the near future, when the operator with the Roentgen +ray will stand beside his machine and look with wide open eyes and find +the X-ray in his own vision, and will work unlimited by the bondage of his +material machine. + +Comparing the modern transcendentalist and his pathway with that of the +olden transcendentalist with his ascent of travail and pain, we find a +profound satisfaction in the picture of power, peace and love of the +modern supra-man. + +The pathway of the elder supra-man was one of crucifixion, self-denial, +renunciation, affliction, poverty, disease and self-mortification. He +found the steps to the higher consciousness and its power only through +slow self-conquest and comradeship with pain, and this was the inheritance +he handed down through the centuries. To think in terms of mystical wisdom +meant human denial of all sentient life. Unification was bought through +total consecration to the subjective and the absolute, in which the +diverse could have no part. + +Today "we are free where our sires were serfs, we can see where He left +them blind," and we know that God-consciousness is man's immortal +birthright and that the son of man must somewhere on his pathway become +the son of God, and as he passes on in his unfoldment he will contact +every atom of God-mind in all lines of expression, and from the world of +matter he will turn in time naturally to those levels of mind which lead +him into reverence, illumination and worship, and through this he finds +the whole of life. + +Man in his immersion into cosmic consciousness puts forth profound tests +of his oneness and faces life in larger and larger proportions, and as he +ascends he carries all with him, so that he can give back to all a +profound and heroic response. + +Every man is transcendent when the hour dawns for his transcendent self to +tremble into action. + +With these wider reaches of consciousness the modern transcendentalist +finds the larger LIFE and the true way of living, and in this brings the +new message of the "One life in all and through all" into the mass mind, +and the new song of joy and thanksgiving into their hearts. He is never +sad, never agonizing, never renouncing; he has made contact with all life +and through this with the universal joy; there is no denial, no +separateness,--there is "no more crying," he conquers and ascends not +through separateness but through increasing degrees of union. He lives in +glad comradeship with God, in joy and perfected self-expression, both in +the objective and in the subjective world. + +The ancient transcendentalist was always sad, always separate, always +worshipping in beatific loneliness, in seclusion and renunciation of the +world; the modern supra-man passes from end to end of the pole of being +and stops at any point and functions normally. "He stands and works, then +kneels and prays." He is lord of the outside external world and partaker +of all its divine joys and pleasures, and he is lord of all the deeper +reaches of subjective consciousness within himself and the absolute in +which he lives, and he brings out from these deeper levels all the +intensified power of illumination and revelation, and pours it over his +daily pathway illumining it with a glory not its own. + +Many olden transcendentalists lived on in entranced states of divine +wisdom with diseased flesh and bodies that shrieked with pain, while they +mortified and rejected that divine wisdom. The modern transcendentalist +brings all his God-consciousness to bear upon his flesh and raises it to +the transcendent heights of his own mind and heals it until bone and +muscle and tissues gleam and scintillate with a new found beauty and +youth. + +The olden transcendentalist dragged on in barren cells and dreary poverty +in order not to divert his glorified vision of the formless by the beauty +of the _ever present form_; the modern transcendentalist brings his +higher laws into play, conquers his poverty and commands around himself +the beauty and luxury and freedom of the world of form, and it speaks to +him in matchless raiment, luxuriant flowers, gems, material comforts and +soft ease. He lives in rapturous companionship with the glory and beauty +and majesty of God in the world _He has projected from Himself_, and +with this beneath him, he can rise to the very pinnacle of infinite +selfhood. + +The olden transcendentalist, ascending into the transcendental heights of +his own mind, ascended alone, and from these obscure heights he shed his +wisdom back upon the evolving race; he was pioneer in the lands of cosmic +consciousness and the first revelator of the path; he showed the race that +the path was there to tread, and his messages have fallen as a benediction +on the race mind even while he himself bought his wisdom with pain, +renunciation and suffering built from the limited recognition of his own +mind. + +The path winds onward and upward still, but the feet of those climbing it +today are led by still waters and in the paths of righteousness. They are +no longer in the part but are in the middle of the Divine Channel of +God-consciousness. To know _one_ part was the mission of the _past_; +to know _all parts_ and join them in a divine unity is the mission of +the _present_. + +The modern transcendentalist does not love life less, he loves it more! +The world is alive with a new majesty; the passing multitude, the passing +face, every human attribute of life calls forth from him a deeper +interpretation; he walks out into the race mind, and with the power of a +new word, and a new touch heals it from its infirmity. He does in truth +give "absent treatments," and his word is accomplished; the old diseased +flesh transmutes in answer to his command. He speaks to the barren walls +of poverty and they stretch away into stately halls, for he knows that +wherever man posits his consciousness, substance must gather round it; his +new words of power and majesty fall like a benediction on the heart of the +listening multitudes, and they turn round to face a new tomorrow with a +new hope born of a larger understanding. + +The transcendentalist walks often in our midst; sometimes he assumes the +simplicity of a child to disguise the larger stretches of power within +him, but he is out upon the pathway strong and beautiful, wholly replete +with promises of perfection, doing the work of the human. + +There is a royal road from _appearance_ to _reality_, from +_objective_ to _subjective_, from the limited to the absolute. + +Difference is merging into one _great white way_ through which the +new civilization is thronging, led by the intensified vision of the +supra-minds. + +Unity has carried man above all things of human law, and he has found that +Mighty Force of which all is a part, and he is out into the land of "naked +visions" and _knows_. + +He dwells securely upon the height and has ceased the long fight with the +objective half of himself; he is one with matter because he has +transcended and absorbed it; he is centralized in the formless and +spiritualized in the formed, and can say from the level of his own Christ +consciousness: + + "_I and my Father are one." + + "All that my Father hath is mine_." + + + + +The Psychology of Insanity + + + +With the ever present increase of insanity, it is not only interesting but +important that the subject of insanity should be studied from all +view-points, and anything which can be contributed that will help in +controlling or curing it, should be accepted as good material. + +It is an apparent fact that the multitude knows very little about the +cause of insanity and less about the cure. Investigation has in the past +been directed to the physical side of the disease, and many of the insane +hospitals are examples of physical comfort and perfect physical attention, +but they are also living examples of the fact that to house, feed and +clothe the demented does not necessarily mean a cure, and a call for +deeper understanding is imperative. + +Civilization needs each individual as a unit in the great working force of +life, and those who need to be taken care of by a State take away a +legitimate support and add just that much more to the burden of the State. + +A civilization which can increase the independence of the individual and +lessen the responsibility of the State is one to be directly desired. + +Insanity calls for a closer study than has ever been given and only +through a deeper realization of its cause, can a cure be brought about and +individuals rendered of value to themselves and the country. + +Insanity is nothing more or less than disassociated states of mind and +need not in reality be any more serious than errors of refraction of +vision, faulty locomotion or lack of coordination. It comes because +individuals know nothing of the psychology of themselves or their own +minds and is the result of over-intensified mental and physical activity +and loss of poise, physically, mentally and psychically. The insane are +not capable of understanding themselves, and up to the present day there +are very few who are able to understand them. + +The nurses, matrons and physicians of a great asylum are powerless to +assist them because of their own ignorance of the true laws of psychology. +The cases which simple, natural, physical methods will assist, are cured, +but thousands of others are allowed to drag along with the dreadful +stigmata of "hopelessly insane." + +Insanity is increasing because civilization is changing, and conditions +are changing. As conditions change the minds of men change and today +subjective states of mind in the individual are becoming intensified. +Instinct, reason, emotion, intuition, revelation and prophecy are all +struggling for expression; unrelated and misunderstood they become +disease; related and understood they can be made to bring forth a new race +with new extensive reaches of intelligence. + +There are few people so stupid but that they can testify to the +conflicting states of emotions within themselves and there are many people +who are perfectly familiar with states of consciousness with which many +other people are entirely unfamiliar. + +Wherever we go we are continually confronted with what the world calls +"freaky" or "eccentric" people, and these people are found in all degrees +from the slightly odd folks to those filling the asylums, and strange as +it may seem, no matter how queer they may appear to other people, they +never seem so to themselves. + +There are many families with members whom the rest call irrational, +irresponsible or "black sheep." Again, there are many families who have +one child who, from the time of its birth, has called for methods of +management entirely different from those used for the other children. +There are many little sensitive creatures who are afraid of the dark and +who have queer ideas and odd ways, and there are delicate little people +who have bodies so finely organized that they are nearly broke into pieces +with the natural things which the other members never notice. They are +born sensitives and remain sensitives to the end of their lives, and only +as they can be taught the truth about themselves can they be rescued from +some form of mental disturbances. + +These people as they grow older, become what is termed "psychics"; they +are over-intensified in some of their deeper states of mind. They are not +alone the product of civilization, but the product of race evolution. Many +of them pass on in semi-normal states of self-support, but they are a well +known class, and they are more or less unsuccessful in supporting +themselves along natural lines of labor, and if they inherit wealth they +run into vagaries and often degenerate lines of living; they squander +their all and die in charity. + +The common business world is full of psychics and it is correspondingly +full of failures for this is not a faculty that makes for success or power +with material things. + +Psychics who are only slightly disassociated are always a source of +annoyance to their friends, and often looked upon as irresponsible, and +have to be looked after by some one who has patience enough to be with +them, and often they are passed along as having an artistic temperament. + +As long as their peculiar development does not interfere with normal +action they are unmolested by the public. It is only when deeper states of +mind become so over-intensified that they lose their normal relationship +to normal things of the world that they are put under control. They are +called paranoics, melancholics, demented and insane. A correct mental +training would teach them to re-associate their mind and to live a +moderately normal life, at least. All drunkards and drug fiends are +psychics; degenerates are also psychics. These conditions are simply the +result of loss of polarity of normal mind centers, resulting in the +conflict of states of consciousness within themselves. + +There are also many psychics in the ignorant and undeveloped classes. The +witch women and seers, and many of the colored races are psychic. In the +past, these people were looked upon as witches and their words and works +were known as "witchcraft." + +There are many psychics who are also great geniuses. Lord Byron and the +"Mad Painter" of Belgium were psychics. History is rife and galleries of +art and temples of literature stand as testimonials to some of the +constructive productions of their minds, but beside them run dark stories +born of their psychic uncertainty. + +Criminals of certain types are psychics with no power of physical control +and they pass into subjective control and live and do the things that are +given them to do from the psychical mind and are often ignorant of their +own condition. + +Those whom the medical profession call paranoics are simply psychics, +over-developed in the subjective faculties--a prey to all the disembodied +forces of the subjective plane, and also to every floating thought on the +physical plane; they are obsessed by ideas from within and without and +their actions bear witness to this statement. Some very meddlesome women, +and those who are the terror of a quiet community, are nearly always those +who are in the control of the slower psychic forces and unable to +consciously direct their own normal states of mind. + +In science the psychics are called diseased. Science gives all actions a +physical basis, but it is time to know that abnormal states of +consciousness, that are only changes in the functional side of the mind +and which have no apparent physical basis, are found in thousands. + +Neurasthenics and psychasthenics present the mildest picture of disordered +states of mind. All neurasthenics and psychasthenics are psychics and +their diseases can only be fully understood by the psychologist. The +scientist has long ago exhausted his knowledge of the cause and cure of +these diseases and this is why all branches of metaphysical healing are +overcrowded. + +To understand this abnormal thing called "insanity," one must fully +understand the normal, called "sanity." There are four distinct states of +consciousness in every individual; these must be kept co-related and all +of them manifest through the common everyday mind. These four states of +consciousness are _instinct, reason, emotion_ and _intuition_. +These four states of consciousness are _functions_ of the normal +mind. When a patient becomes over-intensified in either one of these parts +of the mind, mental disease results. The psychic is over-intensified in +the emotional and intuitional functions of his mind, thus rendering his +common sense states _uncommon_, and according to the degree of +over-activity, he is either a "freak," a creature of "temperament," a +"genius" or a "dementia." + +The ordinarily insane individual has lost all relationship with his +natural, instinctive and reasoning mind. He is disassociated. Reason, +instinct, emotion and intuition are all in conflict within him. The +emotional and intuitional faculties overfunctioning distort his common +understanding. His idea centers are not able to distinguish between the +real and the unreal in thoughts. He becomes possessed and obsessed by +ideas born of emotion and intuition that have no foundation in fact, and +as time goes on, he loses complete control of his idea centers. + +Every individual has definite idea centers within his own brain, and it is +through these centers that ideas are coordinated, received or rejected. As +over-intensification of feeling and emotion goes on, the normal action of +the idea centers is interfered with and the individual has superinduced +emotional and intuitional states which are no longer guarded by reason and +thought. The emotion senses a purely imaginary condition and the idea +centers have no power to reduce it to truth. As time goes on, all power of +association is lost and the individual passes along, the plaything of his +subjective states of mind. As he becomes more and more intensified +subjectively, he opens the deep psychic currents both within and without +himself, and loses his connection with his common mind and his physical +body, and becomes a prey to all the psychic currents. + +There are lives everywhere open to subjective thought currents, and all +unknown to themselves they are allowing themselves to become disintegrated +by the daily and hourly response they are giving to the stimulus of a +plane they should master instead of allowing it to master them. + +The psychic plane may become a pathway to power, or it may become the open +doorway to a body and mind full of disease, insanity and absolute loss of +power and poise. + +There are many patients confined in the asylums today, who would never +have been there, and who would be released and cured, if those in charge +fully understood the truth of this unnaturally natural development and +directed their attention to its control. + +The first truth is, people are born into what is to them natural +relationship with this psychic plane and go on for years misunderstood, +pained and repressed, unable to rescue themselves from what they do not +understand, and in the end the physical body does become diseased by the +continual inroads of strain and repression; functional disorder and +anatomical changes result. The farmer's wife loses her mental balance +through repression of the fine emotional, intuitional side of her mind +which finds no expression in the dull environment of the farm. The +over-worked mother loses her mental poise; disassociation follows +over-stimulation of the practical and repression of the artistic; and in +emotional patients exaggerated states of feeling go on into greater +disassociation for lack of strong sensible thought control. + +And the second truth is, that many are born so close in relationship to +the unseen plane and in such psychical correspondence, that some slight +thing which weakens the will-power--sorrow, a disease that devitalizes the +physical, some shock, or some prolonged or strained mental condition, +breaks down the remaining law of separation, and the life is astray in the +psychical world, manifesting abnormal, physical laws. + +There is one great connecting link between the physical and the psychical +through which all abnormal conditions can be corrected, and this is will +power. When this power of will is broken, the life must become a +manifestation of error, according to the generally accepted idea of normal +relationship. + +The will-power of an individual is dependent upon his ideation. Weaken his +power to carry an idea, and his will grows correspondingly weak; the +_will_ must _follow_ the idea; it is not a separate entity--_will_ +only exists in _partnership_ with the _idea_. + +_Ideation, willing_ and _motion_ are the great human trinity +from which everything else originates. When we inspect our minds, we find +that a voluntary motion is always preceded by the idea of that motion. The +idea is first and the will follows the idea. Ideas have definite sensory +centers in the cortex of the brain and conscious ideation may be induced +to produce a particular form of willing. All voluntary action depends, +first, upon the ideas of action, then the willing to do, then the doing. +The will-power, in its accelerating and restraining impulses, is modified +by the degree of the intensity of the idea. Grief, fear, worry, anger, +despondency, anxiety, hate, resistance are all negative ideas that weaken +the idea centers and produce weakness of willing. These ideas persisted in +at first produce indecision and after a while absolute inaction because +the patient has lost the perfect co-relation of his idea centers, which +associate instinct, reason, emotion and intuition. + +In order to get complete control of the will we must get complete control +of the idea centers and induce strong, positive ideas which the will +cannot refuse to follow. + +When we associate all states of consciousness--instinct, reason, emotion, +and intuition, in one strong, centralized idea, it is impossible for +physical expression to do anything else than follow this idea. + +When one has come into certain conditions of negativeness in any part of +his mind, and continues in it for any length of time, it takes more than +his own power to modify these intensified conditions and bring about an +inhibiting power of mind which will crowd them out, and allow the idea +centers to receive a new thought-form and intensify it so that the will +can pass it into action. + +The abnormal individual is always weak in obeying his ideas and carrying +out his impulse because there is a dissociation of idea centers and his +mind becomes mixed in its responses and he cannot make for a true, +harmonious expression on all of the planes of mind within himself--this is +the condition of the neurasthenic and psychasthenic, and he needs some +mind stronger than his own to hold his ideas true to what he knows to be +true. + +The first lesson for the diseased mental patient to learn is that if he +wants to keep his mental balance or restore it, he must first inhibit all +negative ideation and refuse to allow himself to be driven into wild +bursts of psychical or mental energy along any one line. He must force +himself to interest his mind in other things and to inhibit the +over-active states of thinking. This is best done by a complete change of +environment, and often a change of friends. Friends and environment, more +than any other things, have the greatest power of keeping the mind +intensified in its old thought ruts. + +There is little hope of receiving a new ideation and acting upon it, when +one allows himself day after day to drag through the same central +sensations and receive the same nerve impulses, and register the same +responses. By removing to a new environment, and substituting new mental +and psychical vibrations the old states of consciousness are allowed to +rest while a new unworked state of mind begins. + +Psychical development is not a disease; it is an attribute of individual +growth; no one is to blame if he has it or has it not; all that anyone +needs to know is the truth about it and just how to control it and direct +it. Subjective hearing and vision come just as naturally to us as life and +death--they are a part of the great plan of unfoldment. + +In teaching man to co-relate his many states of developing consciousness +into one powerful state of mind, we use our everyday common sense. We give +him a place of mental power and after such training he opens or shuts his +mind to suit himself; he can live in either extension of consciousness at +will and extending his understanding into the transcendent side of his own +mind, he can become the modern mystic or seer. He can function in the +purely material side of himself or he can become an intensified psychic or +mystic by simply suspending and intensifying different centers within +himself. + +Concentration, centralization in ideas, conscious mental substitution, +creation of strong mental ideas, and psychic displacement of the negative +with the positive, both by the patient within himself and from the +attendant or physician without, will bring insanity under control. + +When men fully understand their own mind's scope, they will find that what +the world calls un-natural states of consciousness, are only cerebral and +psychic disassociation. + +The greater freedom of the race, and the cure and control of insanity will +be found in the deeper study of _all_ levels of mind rather than the +one or the few. Only as physical science unites with metaphysical, and +these both unite with scientific psychical investigation, will humanity +pass toward a solution of its insanity problems. Insanity, delusions, +hallucinations, the so-called mental diseases will pass just because they +have been naturally displaced by our higher scientific preventive +psycho-therapy. + +The asylum doors will only open as a place of refuge where men and women +will be taught the psychology of the self; there will be _schools_ +not _cells_. Outside the asylum doors there will be an ever +increasing crowd of intelligent men and women psychologists, who will be +awake to the first hint of psychic disassociation in an individual. With +keen insight and scientific direction, they will teach the beginning +paranoic, melancholic, neurasthenic, clairvoyant and psychasthenic the +truth about themselves and the first hint of disassociation will be +replaced by association, and rest homes, asylums and sanitarium doors will +close forever! + + + + +The Law Eternal + + + +"_For since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were +from the Creation_." + +Whenever we read the stories in the Bible, our minds are held with a deep +interest, for through all its pages and in all its words, there breathes +out the history of the hopes, dreams and aspirations of human hearts, and +above every other story or hope or dream, there stands first in absorbing +interest the history of the man Jesus, with his wonderfully inspired life. +This wonderful Christ life as given in history is a benediction to the +world, and his teachings have given us a great inextinguishable hope. In +all his history there is one profound principle that never becomes +obscured, and that is his eternal adherence to the Law of Life. He never +forgot to speak the word that should show the true laws of Cause and +Effect. + +Nearly all the people of his day followed the letter of his word and not +the spirit. When he spoke in parables they interpreted in fact, and even +when he said: "I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a +place, I will come again and receive ye unto myself, that where I am, +there ye may be also," they believed and interpreted it to mean really +material facts, and began to build up their finite hope for a future +kingdom, totally blind to the deep subjective law of his spoken word. + +They really believed that if they waited a few years, at most, Jesus would +return unto them, and in triumph and power gather them together and raise +up a community of peace and love in this earth plane. They believed that +through this they would become monarchs of a new world. Nothing in their +minds revealed the impossibility of material form without fundamental +facts beneath them. + +The sick and suffering and discouraged of every class, knowing nothing of +the higher laws, laid this hope to their hearts, and filled with a courage +built on this belief, they taught themselves to stand silent beneath scorn +and persecution, feeling inwardly, that when the hour of Christ's return +came, their life would suddenly become powerful through some new +dispensation. + +The years came and went, one after another the apostles died with their +hope still in their hearts; at last, only the lengthened life of John was +left on which to hang expectancy, then he, too, died and the Jesus of +their hope had not returned. Even then the church was reluctant to give up +its teaching of the letter and it still held, that even while a few +followers remained whose term reached back to Christ's time, it was not +too late for his return, and the son of man might yet be sustained in his +earthly kingdom. + +Time went on until even the oldest memories of the promises passed; change +after change came, and man could no longer find a finite place for his +faith and trust, and then, as human life was pushed on by the great +resistless ebb-tide of the Infinite, those who were still clinging to this +false hope, broke forth in a wail of despair, and they cried, "Where is +the promise of His coming?" "For since the fathers fell asleep, all things +continue as they were from the creation." + +We who read their history today and know the truth of Life's finer +relationships, cannot but feel a pity for their failure, and the lingering +death of their expectancy, even while we see that it was built on +superficial human understanding. + +In the great unrelated, ignorant hope of these people, we can read in +letters of fire, the proof of the certainty of disappointment of every +human hope that has not its conscious union with the great universal Laws +of Life. + +We can see now with the calm vision of those who have no part in their +superstition that their hope was never built on the understanding and +wisdom of creation, but upon weak, human desires and narrow personal +expectation. + +It can easily be seen that under the great Law Eternal it was not +possible, that after training only a small part of the human race-thought +there could be a return, a king of any sort, or that there could follow +the perfecting of the race in any such a narrow, limited, personal way. + +When Truth has become revealed to the minds of men, they at once see that +laws remain, and that the human race is bound to fit itself to these, and +looking back over the centuries, and on into the future, we find that +Jesus taught us when he said, "I come not to destroy the Law, but to +fulfill it." + +Today we see how everything waits upon its own cause, and how change is +only brought about by the processes of regular unfoldment. We know now +that the Whole can only come into expression through the Part, and that +the fulfillment of an individual, a nation, or a race must come under the +silent operation of those spiritual laws of human understanding which +neither the race nor the individual can outstrip. + +GOD is LAW, and LAW began when LIFE began and only a deep union with the +finer relationships of Life can ever bring us into DOMINION of power. + +There has ever been and ever will be many expressions of LAW, and between +the Absolute expression and the finite results there must ever be the +grinding to dust and ashes of things which oppose either the lesser or the +larger unfoldment. + +When we look at life from the limited, personal view we can only see from +the boundary line of the unfathomed self; but as we come into deeper +consciousness, we learn that expectation and promise built on personal +hope is one thing, and expectation and promise built on universal +understanding of universal action is another. + +We are a part of everything in the universe and as we come to look through +the personal to the universal, we see clearly the inseparable ONENESS of +God-consciousness and man-consciousness, and as we understand and master +this relationship, we can read the real answer to our question: "Where are +the promises?" + +Human life has always been, and always will be, only the unfolding of the +personal mind into recognition of the Absolute Mind. + +The Universe is under the Law Eternal and in the degree that we know this, +we stop our limitations; mankind is free in the Absolute Law, and only +seemingly bound in the finite one. Not one jot or tittle of the Law ever +passes away; all laws exist to be fulfilled, but human life evolves from +level to level of consciousness, and through relationship with higher +understanding it escapes the primitive expressions of the lower laws and +unites itself with the higher. + +The very first truth, then, for any life to learn is, that in this +universe of law and order, we get just what we relate with--no more, no +less! Nothing happens; everything is the natural expression of the action +which produces it. + +Jesus came into the world under the law of his own life; he was born to +pass along and die expressing the forms of his higher knowledge; he came +and went under his own laws, but these were too obscure for the minds of +that race to comprehend, and they lived, hoped and died, ignorant of his +great Cosmic relationship. Jesus was a son of the planet and his mission +was to set laws of race consciousness into activity which would act as a +spiritual fulcrum throughout the ages. + +What was true in these olden days is still true today; we often go on +hoping that fulfillment will come, when by the very nature of what we are +doing, we cannot get the higher expression. Take the simple things of our +everyday life, our hope of health or our hope of love, wealth, place, +happiness, success and usefulness; often we really do hope to be well, and +plan in a way for that end, while really at the same time every breath we +draw builds for the transitory and fleeting. Like the Christians of old we +do not understand higher relationships, and at last, worn out with +disappointment we cry, "Where are the promises?" and do not see that until +we have perfect thought relationships, we cannot hope for perfect results. +It takes deep perception to find the immutable law that all physical +phenomena is mental arrangement. + +We get everything we find expressing in life through the law of conscious +or unconscious thinking! We have, and hold and keep only the things we +create for ourselves; there is no other law; no one can take our own away; +no one can give us anything, for only what we create is our own, and we +alone must create it in consciousness before we can possess it. When we +create it in consciousness we really set the law in operation for +ourselves and this law will pass it into form. + +We make our relationships through the thoughts of our mind. Our mind is +the universal mind, and it is inseparably connected with everything in the +universe; and whatever we have or have not is a signal of just what we +have related with in consciousness. This is the unwritten action of the +LAW; no one limits us but ourselves; the Universal Life stands ready with +its many levels of relationships to give to every one according to the +power he has to create for himself and he is really and truly judged +"according to the deeds done in the body." + +Jesus could not give an ignorant and undeveloped race the gift of a +glorified kingdom; nor could they give it to themselves until they had +related in consciousness with the laws that would produce it, the thing we +want and our point of attraction must be equal. + +We come into life under correct laws; one is not born a Jew, an Assyrian, +an Englishman or an American by chance; nor is one born well and rich, and +another sick and poor by chance, but EACH is the expression of the LAWS +with which he has related in his own consciousness. + +Thoughts are things and it is a part of the Universal plan that thoughts +from the human mind reach out into the Universal, or Cosmic mind, and +there generate an ENERGY which must in time embody in FORM and become the +world picture of just what has been stimulated into expression. When +thinking passes into a _fixed power_ in our life it can be used to +destroy or construct the body or the environment and every thought spoken +or unspoken is registered in thought forms in our atmospheric environment +and must some day pass into material form. + +Health is the expression of a law brought about by a certain line of +thinking and disease is another expression. Wealth is one law, poverty is +another, and any life can choose this day _which_ he wishes to be +under, and choose this hour which law he will serve, and Jesus said, +"Whomsoever ye yield yourself servants to obey, his servants ye are, +whether it be sin unto death or salvation unto righteousness." + +Jesus did not return to his disciples as they expected, because there was +no Universal Law for such return. Just so with Health, Wealth, Love, Joy +and Happiness. They can never come into expression for us so long as there +is not established within us the Law of Natural Relationships. + +We are learning at last that "Since the fathers fell asleep all things +continue as they were from the creation," and it takes more than a fond +imagination to pass our life from the law of inharmony, desire and pain, +into the higher one of peace, power and happiness. + +The moment a life desires anything it instantly becomes related with that +thing, but it does not become a possession until all the conditions are +fulfilled. Some minds think so _lightly_ of everything that nothing +ever becomes steadfast and certain. They drift aimlessly between loss and +gain, health and disease, crying out, "Where are the promises," never +realizing that promises are only fulfilled when the whole selfhood becomes +grappled to the rock of understanding. + +Human life is only a _growing_ time, and each life will remain just +where it is and express the laws of its level of consciousness until it +develops out from them into others. + +Sickness, poverty, wretchedness, disappointed hopes are common in the +journey of Life; despairing human lives are common too, and lives full of +rebellion can be found on every hand, but all these are the products of +thoughts that produced them and show just where the consciousness has +lingered. + +Freedom from all these negative human experiences comes as the reward of +inner growth; it can only come through unfoldment and transmutation into +higher understanding. Human pain and loss, despair and disease, and the +heart-breaks of life, are all the fruits of the Tree of Life whose root is +_Truth_. + +When sickness, sorrow and unhappiness have taken the place of health and +joy in our life, we have no one to blame but ourselves; we can know that +through a long line of perverted thinking, both inherited and acquired, we +have become related with the laws in consciousness, and these laws are +thoughts of self, hate, jealousy, strife, condemnation, resistance, etc. +We have thought it unconsciously in the past, but until we stop and get up +new thought relationships, these old things must go on. When we know the +higher truth of New Thought Relationship, and the power of constructive +thinking, we can begin then and there to change things and we instantly +can clean out all the distorted thought energy, and pass the simple act of +thinking into a creative form, quitting forever our response to the +negative things around us. + +We see the truth of "Whatsoever a man soweth, that also shall he reap," +and we see, too, that this harvest field where we reap is the human life, +and the seeds are thoughts, and we then and there fill our field of +consciousness with thought-seeds of Health, Strength, Peace, Love, Joy and +all the ten thousand beautiful constructive things, and we soon are living +in a perfected thought world, surrounded by the dream pictures of our soul +consciousness. We become like mystical seers, we can prophesy then about +everything in our life without fear of contradiction, for knowing the Law +that on the path "Like produces Like," and knowing the thought-seeds we +sow, we can be certain of the future harvest. + +Under the Law Eternal we cease to consider ourselves related to anything +that we do not want. These things we do not want have ceased to exist for +us, in the moment we have forgotten them in consciousness. We must refuse +even to connect with them in memory. Sometimes this is a hard lesson: The +Law of Memory is a peculiar force, it is the expression of fixed +thinking--that which we cannot forget has made deep inroads into +consciousness. Memory often keeps us related in strange ways, and hinders +our unfoldment. Memory is the connecting link between the yesterday and +today; it makes the past always the present and it remains the master of +many lives and pours what it will into the field of consciousness until +it is conquered. + +We cannot go on to peace, power and divine unfoldment while we are wrapped +around with olden memories, olden idols, fears and bondage. + +It is an unwritten law that we pass on as we become fit, and any life can +at any moment come away from the thought law of sin, sickness and death, +into the law of peace, power, happiness and joy. + +The great God-life wants us to have whatever we want, and will help us to +get it and keep it. We have been told for ages to "ask and receive, seek +and find, knock and it shall be opened." The Universal waits upon our +recognition of its presence and before we ask it is given. The moment we +know what we want and ask for it under the higher law of recognition, it +is ours, then we only have to wait until we can manifest it. Over the same +thought line which we pass out our desires, there passes back to us the +answer to our prayers and our human pathway blossoms with the fruits and +flowers of our deeper understanding. + +The law of bondage will never become the law of liberty, but each one of +us may come away into this perfect law of creative thinking as soon as we +teach ourselves the simple act of picking out thoughts that relate us with +the higher things of life. The kinds of positions, friends, conditions and +environment we attract to ourselves under the positive conscious +relationship are entirely different from the ones we will attract under +the negative destructive thought laws. Good friends, happy environment, +peace and love, are not made from the material of mind that recognizes +only lack, loss, envy, despair, fear, condemnation and resistance. + +When we want health, we must think health thoughts and become _one_ +with the laws that make for health and live at health's heights; when we +want wealth we must create a wealth thought vibration and link our lives +with the levels of wealth. All the grand, good things of earth can only +come and gather around us when we have lifted our consciousness to the +level at which they can be touched. + +In the light of this higher understanding we can see that in just the +proportion that our human nature rises towards the Universal Wisdom, our +human perception becomes widened, until, at last, we include all the laws +of higher living, thinking and being, and we bring from the hidden center +within ourselves a profound knowledge. As our life grows more and more in +the power of perception, we retire farther and farther from the personal, +the pessimistic, the limited belief of selfishness, condemnation, +resistance, and we begin a new thought life filled with moral, +intellectual and spiritual glory, and even though "since the fathers fell +asleep all things continue as they were from the creation," we see the +true laws of creation, and making pur minds one with these laws we pass +with them and through them on to perfected human wisdom, we turn to the +daily life then with a higher, holier and more glorified purpose and out +from all the gloom of the past we find the promises have all been answered +and that God has provided some better things for us, which without us +could not be made perfect. + +The final word, then, to the sick, discouraged and diseased world is this: + +"The righteous are in the hands of their God (the LAW) and their life is +full of immortality," and knowing this anyone may recognize their +conscious union with whatever they desire; create it in their human +thought world and project it into form in the Cosmic Consciousness; then +with wide open soul eyes walk calmly on, expecting it and never laying +down their demand until it manifests for them. + + + + +The Outside and Inside of Life + + + +"_Jesus said unto him, go and wash in the pool of Siloam. He went his +way therefore and washed and came seeing_." ST. JOHN IX, 7. + +When we read the history of the ages behind us we cannot help but see that +through every phase of human evolution there has run that subtle something +which men call "the power of the unseen." + +Matty of our forefathers lived in self scrutiny and subjective +investigation, and many lived in lawless expression of their objective +selves with no idea of life in its subjective action and form. As humanity +advanced in its reverence it came to where lack of attention to +regeneration and self-comprehension was followed by an inner sense of +guilt, and those who know the power of the two states of consciousness, +the outer and the inner, have grown to where they look upon it as abnormal +to higher progress, to only enter these finer courts of being just to rest +and renew the physical body. + +Men instinctively know that life is too serious and mighty to pass along +on the objective side of living without now and then going into the center +of being and holding an earnest deep contact with the silent +consciousness. + +In the old thought world it was not strange for master men in every walk +of life to pray. The powerful warrior turned his eyes from the field of +battle to the strength of Heaven; the trusting mourner turned his eyes +from the loss of earth to the gain of dying; even Milton gave himself to +the discords of politics in action, and the symphonies of the seraphims. +In the silence great lives everywhere have mingled the meditations of the +Absolute with the thoughts of the discordant, differentiated and apparent +_now_. + +There is not a family anywhere that does not possess at least one person +who in himself holds the proof of how real and earnest a thing are the +exercises and consciousness of the solitary vigil. + +There is something of reverence yet in many lives as they recall the +blessing given at meals and the evening hour of prayer. To the wayward and +those living in the control of the outside things of life, it was an hour +of bondage, but to those who were at all awakened to the call of the +inside life, it was an even-tide of peace and power and rest. + +It cannot be denied that the years have brought great changes in the +methods of human worship. The contempt with which some of the later +educators treat worship and religion betray an ignorance on their part +both of the true office of revelation and reverence, and this blinds them +to the real, innate, fundamental longing of human life. + +There are many who come away from the old thought and who believe in the +promulgation of a new truth, but they attempt to build up the new through +the destruction of the old, and pass along as Iconoclasts seeking what +they can destroy. These lives are the lawful product of the undeveloped +human comprehension, and the only safety for the race is in the fact that +only a few ever take them seriously, and these soon see that they are not +inclusive enough to help more than the few, and that after a while, in +order to meet the demands of their own increasing individuality, they must +themselves pass into wider union, into worship and get away from their own +limitations. + +Humanity must forever pass between the outside and the inside of life, and +only as each soul becomes awake in both conditions can it understand and +unite with the laws of perfect being. + +New Thought is conscious of the open door between the inside and the +outside of life, the earth and Heaven, and it knows that each soul may +live from choice in either state of consciousness and pass in and out at +will. + +Man instinctively knows the difference between the inside and the outside +of living; he can easily detect the laws of action, and the laws of +silence. The tendency of our New Thought development is to teach lives to +pass more and more into the inside power or, in other words, to come into +the unseen laws of being and work consciously with the energy that creates +and which is unmanifested, while at the same time they manipulate the +manifested, external things, and through the understanding of the finite +are able to bring into expression the absolute power. + +It is slowly dawning upon the present day intelligence that through this +inner side of mind we can become more and more capable of controlling and +directing the outer states of human consciousness and men are recognizing +more and more that all physical objective form is inner spiritual +arrangement. + +Today humanity is looking at the cant and form and creed of the crowd, and +giving them their own rightful place, power and function, but it is also +looking at the unseen and daring to affirm that an audience with God is +attainable, certain and possible and productive of its own natural +expressions in its own realm of higher recognition. + +Today more than ever before new strength is being born into what the world +calls the devotional element of humanity and it is being born on a sane, +healthy plane of understanding which bids fair to revolutionize the world. + +It does not take long to see, when we look with a clear vision, that those +who display most power today, and who are productive of the greatest good +to the developing world are not those who are living in fixed relationship +with the outside of life; it is true that those on the outer rim may boast +of perfect physical strength and a perfect brain and a physical beauty, +but the victory today is not from the without, but it is rather for those +who are psychologically practical, mystically enlightened and subtle with +a deep scientific relationship with all nature's finer forces and who know +life not alone as a science or as a philosophy, or as a religion, but as +an art. + +The truth must some day beat its way into the developing minds of men that +we are now alive in a great age, and are coming to where the inside power +must become externalized and that those who today stand masters of life, +and those who will continue to become masters of life and leaders in power +and helpfulness, must do it by a development that is not so much +characterized by their objective knowledge as by their subjective holiness +or wholeness. + +We must learn what we never seem to have learned before, that the moments +we spend in the external world are not wholly our strongest or sanest +moments and that all external outside action is the crudest form of +energy, and that when we want the _real_, we must turn the clear deep +eye of our nature toward the inner, the silent, and then all our power +seems to well up and meet us, because it is called in from the apparent to +the Absolute of being. + +The next great truth is that all the old ways of life are never thrown +away until we have something to live by in the new; old truths never die, +they are always existent, but their methods of expression must be changed +to suit the developing intellectuality and spirituality of man. + +In the old thought life prayer was the pathway to the interior world of +power, but today we know that recognition must be the guide to the +interior world of power. Prayer was the pathway of the old forefathers and +prayer in its first inception was a straight road to the center of divine +union, but after the minds of men, befogged between the glamour of the +external and the power of the internal, evolved a form of prayer that led +the race away from its center out into the rim of living, the power +ceased; prayer became full of cant and form, words became meaningless and +non-mystical; the truth that "God is a Spirit and they that worship Him +must worship Him in spirit and in truth" was lost in the increasing +bewilderment of the mind. + +After a while humanity, seeing the futility of objective kind of prayer, +ceased its praying, not because it had worn out prayer, not because it had +wandered from its desire of worship and soul communion, but because it had +worn out the old useless method, and found the dross of the letter; no one +stood developed to where he could push faith into a new interpretation. + +Self examination and supplication is natural to every life as soon as it +develops to a finer knowledge of what passes within itself. Until the last +man of the earth is dead this natural cry for the communion with the inner +states of consciousness and the union with the great absolute God-life +will rise up and flourish and wax strong in the souls of men. + +We have learned now too much of the inside of living to ever be happy with +the outside form alone, and we have seen too much of the unseen forces +within us to ever yield ourselves servants completely to the external +powers. Our spiritual analysis is too fine to permit crude interpretation. +Men are leaving the old just as the seed must forever leave the mould and +dust of earth, and push its stalk up into heaven's bright sunshine. + +Today we stop and in close self questioning and with a desire to know the +truth, and nothing but the truth, We ask what is it that has rendered the +old thought piety of our fathers unnatural and impossible to us? It does +not take long to answer this if we look with eyes that have clearer sight. +Men have turned away simply because they were too developed to be fed on +the husks of a worn out expression that was no longer large enough to +satisfy their developing thirst for Truth. + +Our New Thought methods have come because men built them with their +desires; they called for methods that would fit the increasing spiritual +comprehension of developing humanity. + +Today mankind is instinctively recoiling from every sense of separation +from God which our fathers felt; human life has become more human; the +outside of life is known at its real value, the inside of life is given +its place and power; Love has become vitalized; human affection has become +sweet and natural; human duties are blessed privileges and life is +elevated to a pinnacle of power before unknown; social interests are now +beginning in all and ending in all; the whole scheme of man's natural +moral and religious existence has a true worth and dignity of its own, and +humanity is listening, accepting and delighting to honor and obey. Only +the life in the outside ranks of living will ever condemn this new rise of +power, and only the cowardly can despise; it is whole, sane, sweet and +divinely human and humanly divine in its application and privileges. + +We lost, perhaps, a great part of the old time manner of communion with +God because we first lost the old time spirit of supplication and the +groveling spirit of the outside world, but we have not lost communion or +devotion. + +Today we are at home in the center of being, and feel and know ONENESS. We +have union now just as those who _know_ truth have always had, but +the method differs, and Silence has taken the place of the spoken prayer, +meditation and silence is the new pathway to the Cosmic heart, and through +this the developing children of men walk into perfect union, receiving the +messages of the Divine Host. They come into a grand comradeship with God, +not in the old time spirit of supplication and service, not asking, not +seeking really, not even penitentially suppliant, but in the new found +glory of a faith that looks up in perfect confidence of its ONENESS, and +which speaks from the very depth of its own glorified selfhood, and knows +that "I and my Father are _one_ and all my Father hath is mine." + +The new race will keep all that is vital in the old one of prayer and +communion, and it will add to it all the great power of its own awakened +consciousness. We are awake now--wide awake to the despotism of the +outside world and its laws--and we are equally awake to the law of the +inner side of life and the dominion of the world of pure Being. + +Today the silence of our new understanding has become for developed humans +the pathway of God, and it is indeed the pool of Siloam in which all may +bathe and be healed. + +The Silence becomes for those who seek it a well of living water that +springs up into everlasting life. + +It is promised that "the pure in heart shall see God," and anyone who +comes away from the outside of life and comes stripped to the soul into +the inner side of his own being will find God there, for like the vision +of the monk, He is always there, waiting to be manifest. + +The outside of life is beautiful and sweet and has in it many forms of +self-realization; it is part of the plan of human development, but it is +only a part and the lesser side of living, and after we have mastered its +secrets and understood our own relationship to it, it is natural to turn +inward, and read the other side of our life's picture, and when we do this +it will be strange indeed if we do not feel the Eternal presence so close +upon our soul that we will long to say with bated breath, "Thou God seest +me." + +The silence of the inner side of life and the power it produces cannot be +put into words; it is the pathway to the Absolute and the _language_ +of _that_ land is not spoken in the outer world of sense and sight. + +_Know_ the inner side of life, then _live_ it--this is the +pathway of peace and power and along this way there is found that strange +vital, vibrant glow of spiritual illumination sanctifying our senses, and +filling our soul and leading our mind into the fulness of Him who fills +all. + +Life then becomes for us a something divinely sent, no longer distraught; +no longer to suffer; nothing but reality and a reality that has been known +by millions throughout the ages and will be known by millions yet unborn. + +Do not think that this turning into the inner side of living is weakness +and cowardice and fear of the external world and its happenings; it is +not, it is simply all energies united; it is not fear nor halting power, +but it is rather the strength of the superhuman; it is not illusion, not +self-hypnotism; it is a divine reality; it is God's witness to those who +seek after his illuminated heights. + +This living in the inner side of life each day is essential for the +preservation of equalization of our daily life. The outside of life cannot +help but become wearisome, and when we come away into the silence of our +inner self, we find the thrill of life and we find the human made radiant +with the glory of the Divine. + +The inner side of life answers all the questionings of our mind, and as we +learn this truth we depend less and less upon the things created, but live +constantly in the energy that creates, and through this operate our whole +life. + +Silence was first in the scheme of creation. Remember this: "The darkness +and the silence knew. So is a man's fate born." + +There is no creation that will last that is born on the plane of external +action for the law of that plane is change. In the hush of the valley of +silence we accumulate the inward power which pushes our external +expression into bloom. In the inner side of living the soul enlarges its +dimensions and when it comes back into the earthly things it gilds them +with a glory not their own. + +The inner side of life and its power is not a mysterious thing, it is only +the finding of God, and when we meet Him face to face, we speak in a new +tongue; we live in a temple not made by hands, eternal in the heavens, and +we live in the truth of the olden mystics and say with the power of our +new consciousness: "Our Father, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom has +come, Thy will is done on earth, as it is in Heaven." + + + + +The Measure of Ourself + + + +"_And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and +the gates thereof and the wall thereof. And the length and the breadth and +the height are equal_." + +The building of a glorious perfected selfhood, this is the work of every +life. + +We all come into existence equal in privilege, we are all born equal in +latent power, which, if developed, will keep us shoulder to shoulder in +this game of living out; but not until this latent power is developed and +brought out into external manifestation can any life really declare its +mastery. + +Life has one grand prize for all, and this prize is life's master +position. The chance to compete for this prize is given to all at birth, +but the power to push forward in the pursuit of it is only developed by +those who know that it is really within them, and knowing this begin +systematically to unfold it. Not everyone is equal in the externalization +of this latent energy, and no matter how much or how little any life may +possess it, still it has its own point of contact for power, and it can +come forth in its own way in wisdom of conquest. + +Life as we find it here on earth is like a great garden; each soul comes +into this world garden and its place and keynote is struck upon the harp +of life and the registration is made in the universal harmony; then it +must work out its own part until it comes into perfect tune with the other +parts of the great universal chord. + +Not a life is born into expression here, but in the unseen realm an angel +or higher master ministers at its birth, and its name is written in the +Lamb's book of life (or the Universal Cosmic Mind). Each life drops into +its own selected and appointed place; it has its own special mission to +perform, its own lessons to learn, its own part to work out, and its own +grand privilege of development. + +In essence all life is _one_, and all humanity is the same; the +_One Life_ is in all and through all, without regard to class, creed +or color, but in manifested expression we must forever be different; some +lives are younger in their unfoldment--they are unfinished; some have +finer bodies through which to manifest consciousness; some are born into +positions where there is more required of them than of others, for the +price of usefulness is the ability to be useful; some are never useful and +live idle aimless lives because they have not yet incorporated within +themselves the power to be of use to others. + +The nation, the race, the individual and the environment are simply +signals which we hang upon ourself of just what we created and unfolded +within our own consciousness. + +We come the reaper of the things we sowed, and just where we find +ourselves here is the picture of how well or how ill we have used the +years behind us, but the privilege of new use and new development is still +within us; we stand each day on the threshold of a new lifetime, ready to +begin over and over again our new unfoldment. + +Around each life is the _All Consciousness_, and it can fashion for +itself a new world, made of the cosmic substance with which it is +connected. + +The great unfolding mass of humanity pass along, taking themselves as a +confused bundle of states of being, acted upon by the external force of +people and environment, and in turn acting back with no conscious idea of +creation, never knowing that with what measure we mete it shall be meted +unto us. + +This process of being acted upon and acting back unconsciously, produces a +type of energy that cannot fail but bring forth masses of individuals who +are in bondage, body, mind and spirit, for spirit has not sensed its +eternal birthright of liberty. + +Looking at this world garden full of natural wild flowers, called the +"human race," New Thought sees clearly that whatever response an +individual gives to his environment is the evidence of his own special +power, and that this personal power may, by conscious control and +direction, give him complete mastery, and through this he passes +uninterrupted into possession of life's master position and the prize of +peace and power and wisdom. + +The individual is always the actor; the environment is always acted upon, +and this acting and acting upon again gives forth an expression, and the +exchange and inter-exchange between the two produces what the world calls +the character of a life, and looking upon the product of this play of +forces, we say "he is a genius," "he is a thief," "he is a God-man," or, +"he is a degenerate," measuring with the example that is hung before our +eyes. + +Up to this point all men are really equal; they are simply alive in +consciousness, but just as the gardener takes the flower and transplants +it to specialized soil, and causes it to bud and bloom with all the energy +within it, just so man's own consciousness can take his soul and teach him +how he can lift himself into states of specialized human power and show +forth all the glory of a divinely developed man. + +Everyone can take his place at any level of living that he chooses just as +soon as he knows that there is no one to say "no" to him but himself. + +Strong positive thoughts put truth into the hearts of men, and this builds +them upward and inward towards harmony. + +This great universal law of harmonious consciousness is the reed with +which everyone may measure himself and with which each one is taught to +take his own dimensions and never lay it down until his city of character +stands equal in height, breadth, and depth, and length. + +When we measure ourselves by the golden reed of consciousness, we find by +the signs of ourself and our environment if our city of self is right, and +if it is not we can rebuild it in finer architectural fashioning. + +There are many lives that have neither breadth, nor height, nor depth, +they have only length; they pass along through life tied to one idea or at +least a few ideas; they are narrow, bigoted, selfish and careless about +the other dimensions of themselves; they see through their glass darkly, +the things of their own immediate knowledge are enough for them; they are +exclusive and powerful in one direction, and humanity might break itself +to pieces just outside their narrow life for they neither hear nor care; +they are all right, secure in their length of narrow, personal endeavor. +They are afraid of anything that is outside of their own field of vision, +and their life is altogether too small and straight and strained, for any +but a few of their own kind to hold on to; their days are full of anxiety +and worry, for their hold on truth is too weak to bring them to power, and +wisdom. + +Again, after we see how we measure in length, we can turn the golden reed +upon ourselves for specialization in breadth, and often again we find a +shortcoming. The breadth must also be equal; we cannot fail in our breadth +and come into true wisdom, true breadth means inclusion--this may vary in +degree, but there must never be exclusion of anything in the well-rounded +character, there is conscious selection, but never exclusion; there is +nothing _in_ or _under_ or _above_ the earth but that is companion +with us on our journey toward divine unfoldment. + +To make the breadth of our life measure up in fulness, we must look with +wide open eyes at everything and everyone in life, and take it at its own +point of unfoldment. Not in every life is found true wisdom of thought and +expression, but if we know the truth we will see past all the undeveloped +things within, to the beautiful God-self it is becoming and with wisdom +and power and love include it in our own consciousness, waiting patiently +for its development. + +To have breadth we must open our ears and our life to the call of the +world voice and live to answer it. We must hear it socially, ethically, +individually, financially, politically, religiously, spiritually, mentally +and physically not only in our own way, but in every way can that one find +God within himself before he can find it through humanity; but when +measured by the golden reed for the building of the new self, we must find +God or Good in and through every living creature. + +All people love themselves and most people love their own families; and +this is right and good that it is so, but the breadth and height and depth +must be equal and that means inclusion of the universal as well as the +personal self. Jesus again told this when he said to the man who asked him +"What shall I do that I may have eternal life?" And He said unto him: +"Keep the commandments" and, "Thou shalt not bear false witness:" "And the +young man saith unto Him, 'All these things have I kept from my youth up; +what lack I yet?'" "Jesus saith unto him: 'If thou wilt be perfect, go and +sell all that thou hast and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure +in Heaven and come and follow me.' But when the young man heard that +saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions." So when +Jesus measured him by the reed of breadth and deeper inclusion, he +followed him no more, for the height, the breadth and the depth were not +equal. + +To give to ourselves and to our own, or to those who seem to have a claim +on us for anything, is good, but, to give to those who have not claim or +kinship nor power over us is _greatness_. To include them in our own +world, not by might or force, but through recognition of union with the +one life--this is consciousness of breadth that remains immortal. + +Again, the depth of a life must be equal, and how do we lack in this? +There are thousands today who flit along on the crest of the wave of +life's current, butterfly-like; they never really have a conscious +thought. If "it only does not affect me" is their watchword, and freedom +from anything serious is their only really serious problem. They know in +an indifferent way that hearts break, that tears fall, that there are +prayers that stagger upward through life's storm, but the froth and foam +of life is in their eyes; they look out on the rim of a life where they +see only self-indulgence, and when now and then they are hushed long +enough to listen to the world cry, they turn away quickly for fear they +will actually touch lives with the common people. + +So long as they keep afloat they are content, their lack of depth does not +disturb them, but often after they have wasted their all in riotous +living, and the realities of life fall upon them, they cry out from the +depth of their own self-made despair; their life was like a palace built +on sand which the first fierce flood tide could destroy; it had no root, +no place in consciousness when measured by the golden reed--the height, +the breadth and the depth were unequal. + +Unless the soul has root in soil divine, it cannot face earth's +overwhelming expressions of the working out of the human laws which it +sets in motion in the round of human living. + +The life that would build sublime and lasting things to stand the test of +time, must drop its consciousness into the Absolute, and sink the string +of thought into the fathomless! + +Lights and shadows are strangely blended all along the human pathway; so +from the very center of the deeps of life the incense of our illumined +selves must still send up a faint sweet breath outward and onward,--then +the breadth as touched by the golden reed is equal. + +Again, the height of the perfect self is also measured. No house so low +but it must have a window opening to the sky. + +Again, there are many lives that touch the golden reed as it measures +outward, downward, but are insensible of upward power. + +Above the surge and din of life, amid its sorrows and its strife, the soul +that comes under the glory of the golden reed, must lift itself to the +hills of specialized wisdom greater then the common consciousness. + +We can find many noble, moral, natural lives equal in length and breadth +and depth, but the height is lacking. Within many minds is lack of great +sublime ideals, ideals that should be born in the illumined centers of the +self. There are many who have no communion with their source; they are +kind, sociable, natural, humanitarian, but lacking in that great wonderful +psychological essence which makes the human half divine; the height of +their life is unfinished, the golden reed is broken; they walk on superior +in their knowledge until in some supreme hour of human grief, their soul +is forced through some Gethsemane and opens its eyes to the need of a +strength beyond their own. Death, the grave and love teach them to look +up, and hope higher than the earthly kingdom. + +And once more the measure of our soul goes on, and we find that often all +is equal, but the height is _over-reached_; there are many forgetting +breadth and length and depth who measure into the very hill-tops of +illumination, making their whole expression a dream of no value to +themselves or others. They are pure children of spirit; they live in a +world peopled with the dream-children of their mind and everything they +produce is vapid and useless in the world in which they live and have +being; everything seems to pass away from them and their productions are +as nothing under the crush and strain of life around. + +_Use_ is the world's great test of anything; unless it can be +utilized by some one it is valueless to aid humanity; everything that +comes forth into form from any state of consciousness must prove its own +power to persist, or it vanishes and is forgotten. + +Nothing too high, nothing too low, nothing too wide, nothing too narrow, +too shallow, but all perfectly adjusted--this is the measure of self, and +when we know this the illumined life works out its own unfoldment, passing +at will to any degree of consciousness. + +This is the finished product of the life that knows how to specialize in +consciousness and it is made possible through deeper illumination. It +gives to everyone the glorious physical, a depth of perception, radiant +with a refined energy and alive with all the latent power of instinct and +harmony, and with this the brilliant mind with its breadth of unanswerable +logic, its fine facts, science of order and laws of physical adjustment. +And added to both these we find the dream vision of the psychic, with the +poet's soul of inspiration, sublime ideality and the gentle tender heart, +alive with all the common human emotions; and at last, blended and +transmuted and made vibrant by that great spiritual insight born on the +heights of human revelation we find ourselves whole, grand, developed, +humanly divine creatures, walking in glad comradeship with God. + +This is the "Holy Grail" of selfhood and in the light of our higher +understanding we look downward and outward and upward, and the length and +the breadth and the height are equal. We pass from the old race thought of +limitation and live in a divine atmosphere, and can say with a wisdom born +from this fuller comprehension: + +"_We know that if our house of this earthly tabernacle were dissolved, +we have a building of God--an house not made with hands, Eternal in the +heavens_." + + + + +Perfect Liberty + + + +"_No man liveth to himself and no man dieth to himself_." + +The more we look at humanity and study its expressions, the more we become +convinced of the truth of these words. It is not hard to see that our +human ties are closely knit with everything and everyone, but it is not +always easy to understand how they have come to their sometimes almost +hopeless tangle. + +We are a part of everything in the universe, seen and unseen, and as we +have within us a response to every emotion, hope dream, impulse of any +kind known or recognized by the human race. As we study and understand our +relationship to people, things and expressions, we cannot help but grow +deeper and deeper into the clearness of the great truth, namely, the +universal and abiding one-ness of man and God. + +Some of our relationships in this one-ness are very indistinct and +obscure, while some are very distinct and painfully objectified. + +The first Truth for us to take up is this--we _have_ and +_express_ in our being and our environment just these things with +which we have related ourselves, either through inherited or acquired +lines of thinking; no one gives to us but ourselves, no one takes away +from us but ourselves, no one is to blame but ourselves whatever we have +or have not; we, and we alone, are the architects of our own fortune or +misfortune. + +We get everything in life by the law of conscious or unconscious +relationship with it through the simple act of thinking; our thoughts are +lines of transference over which may pass to us not only the things which +we desire, but also those which our fear brings down upon us and which we +do not desire. + +Unconscious relationship differs from conscious relationship and brings us +the things with which we have connected through the law of omission; +conscious relationship is union, and brings everything into expression +under the law of commission. + +Both of these lines are constant and their results undeniable, but one +brings us the whole, the constructive, while the other opens our life for +the control of the destructive, the limited. + +When thinking passes into a fixed power in our life, it may be used to +perfect or destroy the whole mechanism of our present and our future. Long +lines of conscious and unconscious thinking bring about certain +expressions, and these expressions in time become a part of our very +existence, and our environment, good or bad, bears witness to this +relationship. + +One day upon the streets of Boston I saw an old woman selling newspapers; +her hair was gray, her skin brown and wrinkled, her clothing shabby and +only half sufficient for the chill of the hour; she was simply +poverty-stricken, and her old, thin, piping voice trembled as she called +her papers in an effort to compete with the crowds of newsboys around her. +Many bought her papers, drawn to her through pity, and her evident need. I +felt sorry that with her gray hair so near the grave life should have only +this to offer her, and I sought a reason for it. I asked her to tell her +story. + +She was the daughter of a minister; her mother had been the proverbially +meek little woman of history, perfectly fitted to be her father's wife. +Her grandfathers on both sides of the parental tree had been ministers; +she gave me a graphic sketch of the long line of concentration which she +had been born into and in which she continued. + +There was a long line for concentration and relationship with lowliness of +spirit, for grace, for the utter sinking of self; lack of demand for place +or power; lack of self-righteousness, absolute submission sown through +generations, sown for her in her own life. It had to bring forth its fruit +and it did bring it forth in the form of that gray-haired, beautiful, +ragged old woman, who, in the days of her declining years, gathered her +harvest on the cold streets of a rich city, underfed, poor and alone. + +She was still true to her inherited concentration, for while I questioned +her she said, "Health, money and happiness were not for her," and that +"her family had borne the cross of poverty and sickness all their lives +and borne it nobly, and some day the Father would give them their reward." +Don't you see that the mind that is poised where her mind was, and where +her family's mind had been for generations, could not escape the law which +they had built for themselves. + +Here was an example of unconscious relationship; can't you see how +unwittingly she hourly and daily made anew her relations with the very +things which must by their very nature divorce her from the things which +she never sensed belonged to her. The fixed thinking handed down to her +from the past, bound her like a galley-slave and kept her life held +against the law which was daily destroying her; she was unconsciously +related and she remained unconsciously related to the laws which made for +loss and lack in her life, unable to see the paths where she turned aside +from her Father's house, and His universal abundance; blind to her power +of new creating. + +When we begin to study our lines of unconscious relationship we find that +we are appalled almost at the ten thousand little tendrils which bind us +to our old relationships; we think ourselves "good easy man" this moment, +and the next moment sees us opening the door of our life to thought forms +which if entertained, will certainly become for us a poor relation, and +demand our support for ages. We daily open our lives to endless tramp +thoughts which dwell with us and in the end beggar us. + +We need hourly to set a guard on our field of unconsciousness, and +absolutely refuse to admit into our daily mind any thoughts less than +those which distinctly relate us with all the beautiful things of life, +and we must never forget the truth of the power of our own personal +creations. We can be what we _will_ to be; we can be related to +whatever we choose to be related to; we can choose this day whom we will +serve and start the hour of our rebuilding. + +Whatever we have or have not is a positive picture of our relationship and +tells to every passer-by the story of just how well we know how to +control, and direct our own thoughts, and whether we are living +unconsciously or consciously. + +The way to get the Perfect Liberty for ourselves is to understand fully +the secret of relating ourselves with it through the power of conscious +thinking. + +The moment that a life desires anything, be it health, wealth or love, it +becomes related with that thing, and the thought establishes a line of +direct transference; desire is the first out-reaching for the things which +are necessary to fully develop our life. It is the God-push within us +trying to get our consciousness into expression. + +In the past, the educators often called this power of conscious +relationship, "persistency"; have you not seen people whom the world +called "hobby riders" or "freaks"? These people are only perverted in the +expression of conscious relationship; they hold their relationship to one +thing to the exclusion of every other thing in their life. + +It is just as much a form of misdirected energy to sink everything in life +to one idea; to sacrifice health, friends, position, peace, everything, in +order to gain one thing, as it is to have a diverse, indefinite, faltering +idea of relationships and purposes. The true position is between them: ALL +things work together for the final good of man, and union with _all_ +things, not _one_ thing, is the law of _universal_ development. + +Once we have decided what we want to be related with we can afford to let +everything take its own appointed time and place in our life, bringing +everything up in its appointed place. All that we have to do is to keep +our fixed point of attachment with it and this attachment is made through +power thoughts. + +Substance is always changing and so is our position to it under the common +law, but under the conscious law of creation we change our position over +and over again, but we keep the same hope until in some expected hour we +stand face to face with our hope manifested in form. + +There is no use running after anything; no use straining after it! We gain +liberty not by resistance, denial or renunciation, but through union; +under the old law we worked on the plane of competition; in the perfected +imaging or thinking we are living under the law of divine attraction, and +whatever we relate ourselves with in thought must come and join us. + +When we are under this law thousands of unseen hands reach out to lift us +into peace-crowned heights, and into relation with what we desire. + +When sickness has taken the place of health in our life, when disease has +crowded out our ease and comfort, we can know that by a long line of +perverted thinking, perhaps both inherited and acquired, we have become +related with those things which are under the law of pain, destruction and +disintegration. We may have done all this thinking unconsciously in the +past, but there is now no excuse for us to go on with this old +relationship; it is senseless to again fill up our field of consciousness +with the old thought concepts. + +When we know the truth of this transference into form through thought +relationship, we have perfect liberty; we look at ourselves in a new +light, and begin to then and there pass this simple act of thinking into +lines which will connect us with just these things which we desire; we +quit forever our thought relationship with conditions which speak for lack +or loss or limitations. + +We fill our field of consciousness with thoughts of the strong, and the +health of life; we shut out the diseased, the dwarfed, the imperfect. We +force the pictures of hospitals and sanatoriums out of our mind; we look +at our bodies no matter how they look, or how much of disease they are +then expressing, and we see only the _whole_, the new, the complete. +We force ourselves to _know_ nothing but the great ALL HEALTH +thoughts; we go back again and again to our relation with the abundance of +health; we make ourselves deaf and blind and dumb to the absence of +wholeness and our body slowly swings into line, and begins to express for +us the nature of our conscious thinking. + +We cease to consider ourselves related to anything that we do not want. +Disease, pain, lack of health may have its place in the lesser +relationships of the human plane, but it is not found in the kingdom of +consciousness--the all-health within us; it cannot exist in this new world +of spiritual chemicalization with which we have taken up our relations. + +When we want this perfect law of liberty, we do not recognize the +existence of the old, we simply occupy our whole thought time with the new +things with which we wish to make union. + +Every condition of life that we consider desirable for ourselves we +convince ourselves is already ours, we reach out and lay hold of it, and +give it a line of transference into our life. This is not castle building, +this is Divine Relationship--the Perfect Law of Liberty! + +We see the truth that the strong, the healthy, the happy, the powerful are +living in the same world, in the same universal energy that obtains for +the diseased, the weak, the sick, the unhappy; there is no reason why they +may not have every good and perfect gift. + +There are almost as many healthy as there are sick in every hospital--the +doctors, nurses, porters, cooks, and servants, all hale and hearty, +putting in their whole time caring for those who are half dead with +disease. What makes the difference? Just the difference of relationship. +They have not accepted mentally the same conditions, and even surrounded +as they are with the sick and diseased, they refuse to be bound by the +laws which these patients have endowed with power over themselves. + +They have learned the two great truths: There is nothing in all the world +that has any power over us except that with which we endow it, and there +is nothing in all the world of which we need be afraid. Disease and +sickness are signals of great negative conditions of mind which we have +recognized in thought, and exalted to the _king_ chair in our life +and endowed with power to hold us in bondage. + +We may escape in just that hour that we sense the power of our own +personal creation, and set up a conscious relationship with the positive +constructive things in our own consciousness. We become lords of our +physical conditions and our environment just as soon as we cut out all +thought relationship with the laws which make for loss and lack. "The +spirit beareth witness with our spirit day by day that we are the Sons of +God," and as soon as the soul knows this it senses its divine +relationship, and is born again on the planes of a higher consciousness, +and in the wisdom of its understanding it builds itself new conditions, +and lives in a new world, surrounded with the objects of its own creating, +at first subjectively, but in time manifested on the objective plane, to +bear witness to the truth which its soul knows and obeys. + +When this is done we live in a new world made perfect by our own inspired +workmanship; we know nothing of disease and pain, we have never a morrow +of fear, "our today of content is eternal." + +There are many who have mastered health, because it was the first thing +they demanded, and after they have done this, they find that they are +still related to the laws which make for poverty and lack in material +possessions; they have liberty in flesh but not the perfect law of it in +environment. There are those who have known the grinding hand of need, who +have stood with crushed lives, hopeless; with courage dead and the devil +of despair crouched on their shoulder, whispering words of disappointment; +there are those who are homeless in a land of homes, and those who are +starving in a world of plenty; what can we say to them? How can we comfort +them and point them to the hope of a new endeavor? + +The world is full of these half-fledged lives and we must answer them. In +order to meet this expression we must go back again to our first truth, +our first statement:--"We _have_ and _express_ in our being and +our environment just these things with which we have related ourselves, +either through inherited or acquired lines of thinking; no one gives to us +but ourselves, no one takes away from us but ourselves, no one is to blame +but ourselves whatever we have or have not; we, and we alone, are the +architects of our own fortune or misfortune." + +As soon as we can teach a life to know the truth of its own power of +conscious thought relationship, it can face about and begin a new line of +attraction and accumulation. It is an unwritten law that we pass on as we +become fit, and we can at any moment begin a new thought attitude which, +if persisted in, will relate us with everything which we conceive to be +opulence or abundance. + +When we want to come into perfect liberty for wealth, we must never +recognize poverty or the things which make for it; we must refuse to sense +a separation from whatever we desire; the universal abundance is for all, +and we get and express just the amount we have power to connect. + +The ALL WILL wants us to have whatever we want, remember this! And it will +aid us to secure what we want and help us to keep it just so long as we +show we can make intelligent connection with it. + +We must believe in our divine kinship with supply, and the divine kinship +of every other soul with it; over the same line which we send out our +desire for abundance there will pass back to us the answer to our prayer; +the things we seek are seeking us; this is a great psychological truth +which we can prove to ourselves if we try. Under the lines of the higher +spiritual affinity the lines of transference never cross; our gain never +becomes another's loss, and _vice versa_. + +The whole scheme of life is for freedom; it is only the perverted building +of the minds of men that have externalized lack and bondage. We have +forgotten the eternal promise, "With what measure ye mete it shall be +meted unto you," we have related with lack of supply, never knowing the +truth that no one limits us but ourselves. + +Under the law of liberty, we place ourselves in the very heart of divine +opulence and though at first we cry abundance from the very depth of +poverty, if we hold our life servant to this relation, all lack will +slowly slip away from us, and we can, and _do_ walk out into new +relations of attraction, and become one with all that our Father hath. + +This, then, is the truth of perfect liberty: + + "To him that hath shall be given, and from him that hath not shall be + taken away even that which he hath." + +Those who have laid hold of the Divine truth of abundance of supply and +related themselves with it through the power of conscious thinking may go +on in calm security from demand to supply, coming each day deeper into the +universal cosmic opulence of health, wealth, love and usefulness. + +The word, then, to the sick or poverty-stricken or loveless is this: +Recognize your union with whatever you desire; reach out and make relation +with it through the power of conscious thinking; look with wide open soul +eyes straight into the face of the Universal Being, and taking your wants +firmly into your mind walk on in your daily life demanding them and +expecting them to manifest; never lay down your consecration until it does +express for you. + +Make every conscious relationship one with health, wealth, love and +usefulness, accompanied by peace, power, plenty and divine realization. + +As soon as we lift our personal life to the level of the universal life in +positive recognition of our own, it will come to us and abide. + +Union with the cosmic life is a possible thing here and now; the human +life is but the remote picture of our place in the universal; our life's +relations may become the flowers on our tree of life, and our manifold +experiences the fruits of our own growing and all life be one perfect +round of liberty born from conscious righteous choice. + + + + +Cosmic Therapeutics + + + +"_And He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was +stayed_." + +The greatest secret of the age is the connection with and manipulation of +the cosmic energy. + +In every age and every race men have stumbled on to relationship with +their atmospheric environment and have each demonstrated it in their own +way, but it remained for the twentieth century investigators to give us +the real key to our continuous connection and the methods by which this +connection could be demonstrated to the thinking world. + +The minds of the past taught us the existence of an atmospheric +environment and to a degree manifested our connection with it, but +accomplished it through the medium of objective lines of connection and +transference; today we are finding the new truth that man is able to +create his own environment even to the most minute thing and create it +from atmospheric energy lifting his creations aloft in his life in finite +form through the medium of a power that, in its first expression, far +transcends sight and touch. + +Today we know that the great Cosmic currents in which the whole world +lives, and moves, is nothing but a vast undifferentiated sea of energy. +This energy is acting always in the formless as electrical currents; these +currents are always waiting to be set in motion with any other current +which corresponds with them in electrical reaction either positive or +negative. + +Man's whole atmospheric environment is formed of these currents and he is +a localized attracting center, registering in himself and his environment +just those electrical reactions with which he relates under the great +Cosmic law of correspondence. + +We have found in the past that these atmospheric currents can be sent as +vibrations through the medium of any object that is brought into relation +with them and the degree of registration depends upon the instrument used. + +In some rates of vibration these waves may be made to become heat; in +others, cold; in others, light; in others, sound; in others, just motion, +without sound being separated. Physical science has given us examples too +numerous to mention of the positive expression of enforced vibration in +relation to objective things, but it was left for Marconi to show +conclusively that these vibrations may be produced and transmitted through +the medium of the atmospheric waves themselves, and psychology has shown +that any instrument, either mechanical or human, may register vibrations +in the very moment they are attuned to them. + +Atmospheric environment has passed deeply into the development stage +scientifically, and even in this it does not yet really appear what it may +be, but it is easy to see how all atmospheric energy becomes really a +substance from which every skilled mechanic may create his own expression. + +Metaphysically, it is plain to see that man is only one part of this great +cosmic energy, and that standing as he does, a localized point in the +ocean of formless vibrating ether, he becomes a specialized, attracting +center and the lines which connect him with this ocean of energy are his +own thoughts. + +In the physical plane men use wires and machines and objective +localization, but on the higher planes of consciousness we only need to +use the vibrations of that plane, and the higher connecting thought wires +become as tangible to those who use them as do the objective connections +on the physical planes. + +On the human plane our thoughts become the metaphysical avenues of +connection; with thoughts we reach out into this formless ocean of cosmic +energy and create through recognition the things which we desire, and our +environment under this law becomes the world-picture of just what we have +had the power to create for ourselves. + +This cosmic substance is neither great, nor small, finite nor infinite, it +simply is substance from the highest to the lowest expression of life. +There is no escaping this universal product of energy. We ourselves are +It! + +The physical universe, and everything that we call matter, is simply +_universal energy_ manifested in form; everything expressed on the +physical plane is cosmic energy materialized; and every human being is +only this cosmic energy localized and expressed in human flesh and form. +Form is only the physical side of Divine mind. + +In this ocean of universal energy or atmospheric environment which we call +formless, there is always some form of some kind, but the formless is a +form too high for our human mind to comprehend, we have not yet reached +the plane of unfoldment where we have cosmic recognition. + +As we investigate this atmospheric environment, we find it has two +distinct forces at work within it, and these forces are the positive and +negative reaction of its atoms. This positive and negative reaction of the +atoms is continually going on, and they each have their corresponding +embodiment in the eternal world of matter; they act independently or +together, and when one has learned how to blend these two reactions in his +consciousness, as do the skilled magi, he has come to the center of his +own and universal being. + +In the manifested world of substance, mankind takes its place in one or +both of these energies; it is drawn into their expression by the universal +law of attraction. Each life is in its first expression, positive or +negative in its cosmic polarity. In the universal interpretation, we learn +to look upon the positive life as the creative, and the negative life as +the receptive. + +Every individual is just what he is by the natural law of his own cosmic +relationship, and he will remain just what he is at any point of progress, +and express himself in his own way until he grows into a deeper state of +comprehension, and knows the method of changing his cosmic positions. + +When we get the truth of the universal energy in our minds and realize +that this energy is really positive and negative, and that both these +reactions have their corresponding material manifestation in ourselves, +then we are ready to go farther into the study of the registration of this +energy, and from this into the higher psychology of function. + +There is nothing in this atmospheric environment of ours that is not +endowed with intelligence. Everyone who postulates a _first cause_ +begins with the universal _intelligence_. This _intelligence_ is +given to us as a beginning, it remains with us to the end. + +The acceptation of the truth of the unity of intelligence is the first +step toward investigation. All finite life is an embodiment of universal +substance and intelligence in some form--this is truth. + +Physical scientists everywhere are showing us the infinitesimal lives +working continually and in ways that are wonderful. + +Psychologists are opening daily the hidden chambers of this physical and +metaphysical world, and giving us high lights on what we once thought +impossible of investigation; they are showing us astounding examples of +conscious ideation in every order of life, and are aiding us to draw +interesting conclusions. + +There is a great universal intelligence and a remote finite expression of +this intelligence; the lesser is always dependent upon the greater and our +human life becomes the microcosmic pattern of the macrocosmic world. + +With this premise firmly under our feet let us go on to the question of +the intelligence of the physical tissues of the human body, and our +relation to disease, health, poverty and opulence. + +Every cell of our physical body is intelligent and capable of being +instructed into finer grades of expression; this is the process by which +we refine matter into spirit and by which we pass from a lower to a higher +expression of wholeness and build our cells into a grade of consciousness +so high that we produce objective expressions of such perfect response +that we become the higher revelation of the cosmic consciousness. + +The higher we go in intellectualizing ourselves, the closer we draw to the +cosmic consciousness, and the more familiar we become with its laws. The +highest life is the one that includes the most. + +It is a natural law that we have at all times unconscious thought relation +to the universal abundance and our thoughts are the conscious agents of +construction and destruction, and we work through them as soon as we are +old enough to think and reason. + +Disease and poverty would never manifest for us if we did not some time +recognize it in our atmospheric environment with our thoughts, and work it +out on the objective plane through the law of atomic attraction. + +Whenever doubt, worry, anger and negative thoughts take possession of our +field of consciousness (the everyday mind), we are creating these things +for ourselves in the cosmic currents and they cannot refuse to register in +form either in our body or in our environment. + +It can be seen that if, year after year, we separate ourselves from the +positive creative cosmic intelligence, and put up our images of personal +limitation, the creative intelligence is joined to the weaker energy and +cannot refuse to work out the conditions with which they are related. + +The human mind is the agent which must be taught to stand as sentinel and +force our minds to people our currents with thoughts which make only for +the perfect health, perpetual opulence and divine realizations. + +The minor intelligence of our cells would just as readily work out the +universal law of perfection if we only knew enough to intelligently direct +them and not overpower them by our negative personal directions. + +When we have once established in our minds the truth of this universal +cosmic intelligence, in which there is no sickness, poverty or death, +unless we recognize it, it does not take us long to work out better +conditions for ourselves in the physical body and environment. + +No matter what our lack may be, we can know that it is because we have set +our human thought to work under a personal negative law instead of a +positive creative universal one. We have only to stop, face about, and +begin to direct our thoughts intelligently, and in union with the higher +plan, and solicit co-operation with all the finite forces around us. + +If we find ourselves diseased, with pain, and physical mal-positions we +can speak to our physical cells as we would to a friend and connect them +with the higher creative currents and help them to get into a higher form +of building; they are ready at any moment to answer, "The sheep know their +shepherd's voice and obey it." They must begin to build in the new +likeness and in the very moment that we consciously direct them; this is +the law, there is no appeal from it. + +Everything comes to us from the Infinite atomic ethers through the law of +Divine attraction, and when we have built and rebuilt our cells into an +intelligent relationship with absolute wholeness, we become a magnet, so +highly sensitized and so magnetic and carefully polarized, that we are an +attracting center for everything in our atmospheric environment, and our +physical body and our environment become the expression of our thought +world. + +When we know enough to send our thoughts into the universal energy with +only the recognitions of positive creations, such as health, wealth, love, +divine realization and actualization, then our material world must be made +the immediate reproduction of these things. + +The sick world passes along with all its thoughts poised in the +destructive recognition; we meet them upon this pathway, and knowing the +law of the higher constructive power of building we must meet their +questioning with some answer that will restore them to the state of +consciousness they have lost. + +The very first truth that every sick life must know is that thoughts are +_things_, and make themselves felt in form, and that in the great +atmospheric energy, like attracts like. Our consciousness becomes for us +the wireless stations which attract and register the universal messages, +and each station attracts its own from whatever plane or state of +consciousness it vibrates. + +The invisible world is _something_ and its substance is +_something_, and that we do not understand it and have improper +correspondence, is no proof that the power of correct correspondence does +not exist. + +There are great occult laws of relationship always awaiting our deepening +comprehension: + + "_Till one appears who bears, + All nature silent is, + Silent for evermore, + Beating its waves of force + On an unanswering shore + Till one appears who bears_." + +The cosmic atmospheric energy in which we live, move and have our being is +always ready to become manifested in form, and may become manifested by +anyone who knows how to create a form for himself. + +It has been manifested in many varied forms by the children of men, but it +has not yet entered into the hearts of men to conceive of the glories that +are yet awaiting them when one appears who really does hear, and knows the +full truths of cosmic power. + +This is the secret of Cosmic Therapeutics, and those who know this secret +really do become the twentieth century mystics and are rulers over the +manifestations of finite and infinite energy. When we come to this point +of demonstration we are the world's greatest physicians. With this +knowledge we may conquer not only disease and poverty and despair, but we +may overcome the last enemy--Death, and live and have being in a world of +universal power. + +There are grades and grades of intelligence both in the human and the +Absolute mind: All grades of cosmic currents are ever ready waiting to +respond to those who touch them; there is nothing mysterious or +unattainable about them; they are the natural results of natural laws, and +we come into union with them through growth and recognition. + +We first come to a consciousness of our universal, atmospheric +relationship with all that is, then we learn to understand the response +that comes to us from every person and everything; then we reach out in +perfect faith with our deep of need, calling to the deep of supply, and +the doors of a thousand hidden chambers of nature open bringing divine +revelation into our souls. + + + + +Absent Treatments + + + +The sick world has always had its scientific and religious investigation, +and in addition to this new-found power of atmospheric creation there is +another great truth which the sick world must know in order to make its +own union, and this is the truth of the power to manipulate these Cosmic +currents not only of our own creation, but for anyone who touches our +life; we cannot only think and realize and actualize for ourselves, but we +can reach out into the formless energy and create, direct and control +these great universal currents so that they will have the power to rebuild +another's life. + +We have a great psychological Cosmic truth known as "absent treatments" +but which is really COSMIC THERAPEUTICS in our new understanding; we use +cosmic currents to heal ourselves and we manipulate them for another +thereby eliminating time and distance; we get behind the things created +and understand and deal with the Energy which creates. + +The sick world has tried all the things of the physical world through the +medium of objective lines of transference--drugs, electricity, diet, baths +and what not, each one a part of the cosmic consciousness, but it finds +that the laws still exist, and as long as they remain related with the +laws of disease in flesh it will manifest for them in flesh. + +Absent treatments is the power to connect with and direct the Cosmic +atmospheric currents which make for positive expression of health, and +when we have laid hold of this power, we can change at will any vibration +of negativeness with which we find ourself or others expressing, and we do +it through the power of thought, feeling and revelation. + +These higher laws of relationship are only mysterious and strange to those +who do not understand; the Hottentot stands in wonder and amazement at the +X-ray machine, but the skilled operator turns on its power in spite of +this ignorance and disbelief, and it works whether he believes it or not. +Just so the skillful operator in Cosmic Therapeutics can generate, control +and direct the power of the Cosmic consciousness which he understands, and +it brings its results whether the skeptical mind of man accepts or denies. + +This power to manipulate nature's finer forces is only hidden from those +who do not seek to find; in the moment a soul knows that it is possible to +connect through thought and to manipulate through consciousness, it is +born into union with the Energy that creates and can say, "Let there be +light" over its own world. + +We can stand in the great Cosmic Energy and with tools a thousand times +finer than the finest X-ray or vibratory machine known to science and +project our thought power into regions of an ether so fine, so vibrant, so +vital that the very touch of them upon our being fills us with the great +pulsing energy of the universe. In just the instant we connect with these +currents our old vibratory rates of living are changed and we have passed +from death into life; we are healed to stay healed through conscious union +with the ALL-HEALTH currents of the Universe. + +There are many clumsy operators in any field of science, and there are +plenty of them in this new world of Cosmic Therapeutics, but investigation +and application give unfoldment and skill, and we will soon pass into such +a complete understanding of these higher laws of being that it will be a +novelty to find a life unacquainted with them, and everyone will be using +Cosmic Therapeutics in some degree. + +The fundamental law of absent treatments is the truth of the Oneness of +life and intelligence, and the ready response of the Absolute intelligence +to the finite mind. + +Each life has its own direct line of thought connection with this +Universal Energy, and no matter where it stands in its comprehension, it +can be taught to understand this simple truth of thought relationship. + +We can think ourselves to the outermost rim of things and there connect +with the diverse differentiated energy which can only make for disease and +lack, or we can think ourselves to the very center of the Cosmic heart and +find there the "peace that passeth understanding." We find this center and +attract its energy through human thoughts of power, love, hope, faith, +joy, purity, patience and consciousness of infinite union, and our every +action carries with it into the external world a power that manifests for +us as health in our body and wealth in our environment. + +When we know that all life is universal atmospheric intelligence and that +it responds to us from any point we touch it, we need then only to throw +ourselves into conscious thought union with everything which we desire; +forgetting all the weak negative things we do not desire, and this +conscious connection leads us into relation with the energy that must +eventually manifest in form. + +If we want to heal ourselves we stand with our whole life open to the +positive creative Cosmic currents and let them beat through us and around +us; we WILL then and there to pass our whole being into union with every +creative universal force, and to feel the power of its energy sweeping +through us; we hold our life to this higher understanding until the great +flood tide of the universe comes sweeping along our veins and through our +being, washing away in its resistless force all the lesser moorings which +hold us to the thoughts of disease or decay; we have then the life more +abundantly than is promised and we feel that we have entered into that +place that is prepared for the people of GOD; we are healed to stay healed +for the very life blood of the universe is in our veins. + +If we then want to give an absent treatment, and send to another this +Energy that creates we just take the thoughts of our Cosmic atmospheric +relationship in our mind, and reaching out first in perfect thinking we +build for them a perfect thought body, and place it in the Cosmic Energy; +holding fast to this image we pass with it into the deeper states of being +where thinking ceases, and KNOWING is the law, and we bid them stand forth +with us in conscious union whole, complete, the God-child, one with the +ALL-HEALTH of the Universe. + +When we can do this, our work is finished, and we can let them go, secure +in the consciousness that they are one with us in strength and power. When +we have really understood this higher law of recognition we look with +all-seeing eyes into the face of Cosmic Intelligence, and we see the +infinite supply answering our finite lack, we abide in a position of +knowing which passes us externally into health of body and environment. + + + +How to Give Absent Treatment + + +Concentrate your mind on the one whom you wish to heal, then build a +mental vision of him; see him in consciousness just as whole and perfect +as if he was really radiant with health. Make believe that he is standing +before you a perfect picture of physical perfection, work on your vision +until you can produce and hold the most beautiful idealized picture of +human beauty of flesh, form and character. Never forget to illumine your +perfect thought-patient with a divine light of spiritual radiance. This +perfected "make-believe-self" must be the risen God within them and it +must come forth resplendent in a new glory. When you can hold a perfect +vision of him and make yourself blind to anything but this image of +beauty, health and power--then place him in the Divine Life and leave him. +God, the great universal intelligence, will make the balance good. He will +finish what you have begun. There is concerted action between the atomic +mind of infinite substance and the mind of man, "and as the Father raiseth +up the dead and quickeneth them, so has he given the son the power to +quicken whom He will." + +This vision held daily and intensified by belief and conscious command +will be accepted by the spiritual consciousness of the patient and whether +his surface mind accept it or not, his deeper consciousness gives the +stimulation to his body and this registers it in form and he is healed to +stay healed through the silent laws of mind. "And he stood between the +living and the dead and the plague was stayed" because by his own +transcendent consciousness he set in operation the higher laws of +intelligence in substance. + +It is written that in the Psychological Institute in France, Professor +Prisbram, in one of his psychological experiments, asked a patient to +think powerfully and concentratedly upon a make-believe vision of a +bottle--he did, with his hand on a sensitive plate in a developing fluid, +and slowly the picture of the bottle registered upon the plate. + +Just as this make-believe bottle registered upon the plate, just so does +the make-believe perfect flesh-body register in the cells of the old, and +under the law of renewal of tissue, it is developed into form. This vision +is the true self that is latent in every life. "The first man, Adam, was +of the earth, earthy, the last man, Adam, was a living soul." "There is a +body terrestrial and there is a body celestial, and the glory of the +terrestrial is one and the glory of the celestial is another." And with +the vision of the celestial body, in which the consciousness vibrates as a +living soul, our treatment is accomplished and we have made our mind a +conscious part of the mighty plan and we can ask whatsoever we will and it +will be granted. + +How often shall we treat an absent patient? + +Three times daily and between these times forget them utterly, give them +to the Cosmic forces, the Absolute. Holding on to a patient in thought +often delays his recovery. When you have done your spiritual visualizing +powerfully and perfectly, stop! The Universal Law will do the rest; never +give an anxious thought to them, nor recognize death; vibrate life and +more and more life to them and just as the current runs along the wire +just so this silent Cosmic intelligence will flow from you to them, and +health will come, sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly, back along their +veins. + + + + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Freedom Talks No. II, by Julia Seton + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FREEDOM TALKS NO. 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