{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_8414/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_8414","id":"gutenberg_8414","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8414","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Health & Medicine","Category: Religion/Spirituality","New Thought"],"text":"Produced by Charles Aldarondo, Tiffany Vergon, Curtis A.\nWeyant and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFREEDOM TALKS\n\nNo. II\n\nJULIA SETON, M.D.\n\nAUTHOR OF \"CONCENTRATION,\" \"FREEDOM TALKS NO. I,\"\n\"MARRIAGE,\" ETC., ETC.\n\n\n\n\nContents\n\n\n\n   I The Secret of Healing\n  II The Risen Self\n III Transcendentalism\n  IV Psychology of Insanity\n   V The Law Eternal\n  VI The Outside and the Inside of Life\n VII The Measure of Ourself\nVIII Perfect Liberty\n  IX Cosmic Therapeutics\n   X Absent Treatments\n\n\n\n\n\nFREEDOM TALKS\n\nNUMBER II\n\n\n\n\nThe Secret of Healing\n\n\n\n\"_In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word\nwas God_.\"\n\n\"_And the word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his\nglory full of grace and truth_.\"\n\n Ever since the birth of the human race there have been health and\ndisease. Everywhere we find those who live at levels of comprehension that\ncannot express in flesh the perfect power of the word and these must by\nnatural law take on the form of whatever they have power to comprehend.\n\nHealth is man's immortal birthright; it is eternal in the universal plan,\nand it can be made to become eternal in the life of men in just the hour\nthey understand the laws of their own being.\n\nThere are two expressions of energy in the universe; one is called the\nconstructive, the other the destructive; the one builds up, the other\ntears down. This must forever be so, for only as matter is destroyed and\npassed back into energy can the energy pass out again into finer forms.\n\nLiving in these great universal currents of construction and destruction,\nman relates himself constantly with one or both through the simple law of\nhis own consciousness, and only as he learns the laws of his own being and\nconsciously places himself in a position of power can he ever hope to\nescape the results which the negative, destructive currents produce in his\nbody and his environment.\n\nToday we know that the world in which we live is nothing but a great sea\nof energy which, in the undifferentiated, is called God, and in the\ndifferentiated is called matter or form, or, to make it more simple, we\ncan call one the energy that creates, and the other the things created\nfrom and by this energy.\n\nMan and his environment are created by this energy: He is a localized\ncenter of force and he becomes the expression in form of just whatever he\nrelates with under the law of cosmic correspondence.\n\nWe have found that this great energy is also _intelligence_ and is\nnothing but mind with its various manifestations. We know today that the\natoms of the atmosphere are intelligence, and as they touch one another\nthroughout space, it is through this atomic mind that messages are\ncarried, and currents are generated which can heal patients at a distance.\n\nEverything in the universe is in a state of intelligent association, and\nwhen the atoms become expressed in human form, they pass into that\nexpression of the universal mind known as _human_ consciousness.\n\nAll human life is simply different tastes of consciousness brought about\nby the different vibratory rates to which our atoms respond.\n\nThe physical body is composed of a group of atoms attuned to move at a\ncertain vibratory rate, and within this physical body is another body of\nfiner atoms attuned to a still higher vibration and in relationship with\nthe higher electrical currents of the universe. There has not been much\ntold about this finer body, but it is time the sick world knows this law\nof being, for then it will be in a position to control its own life. This\nfiner body is the \"thought body\" or psychic body and it is upon this that\nthe physical body depends for its power, just as the very best instrument\nin the world depends upon the player for its expressed melody.\n\nAll sight, all hearing, all function is in this psychic body, not in the\nphysical one. What many of the psychologists call the subconscious mind is\nonly the registered intelligence of the psychic self. This psychic self is\nin direct communication with the cosmic self and with the physical self,\nand it is through this we become cosmic in our human consciousness.\n\nThe psychic body manifests through _idea_ centers of the human brain\nand it is directly related with the cosmic currents through the solar\nplexus of the physical body. The higher _concept_ centers of the mind\nare the switchboard where connections are made, and it is in this way that\nthe psychic body registers its vibrations in the physical, and the\nphysical registers in the psychic--there is a circle of consciousness\nestablished by the two minds.\n\nThis would be of no particular value to us, if it did not prove to us the\nsource of disease, for when we look scientifically and psychologically at\ndisease, we must see that it is simply disassociation between the psychic\nand the physical selves, and comes as the natural loss of poise, either\nphysically, mentally or psychically.\n\nWatching the play of human disease around us we can soon see that there\nare two distinct ways by which disassociation of these selves begins;\nfirst, through the mind by negative thinking, and second through the\nemotions by negative feeling.\n\nOur thoughts and our will are the great avenues by which we admit anything\ninto our psychic self, and are also the means by which we exclude all\nthings.\n\nThe whole poise of an individual can be destroyed by thoughts of fear,\nhate, grief and anger; fright has killed and all these states of emotion\nare simply grades of vibration, setting up inharmonious, psychical\nactivity, and leaving their corresponding effects upon the physical cells.\n\nIt is known only too well today by those who seek to know, that back of\nall such physical conditions as nervousness, prostration, temporary\ninsanity, nervous disorders, pains resembling rheumatism, hay fever, heart\ntroubles, mental symptoms, nervous chills, morbid forebodings and mild\nmania, there lurks the abnormal activity of the psychic or \"thought body\"\ncaused by thoughts and feelings acting abnormally upon the vital centers\nof the nervous system and mind.\n\nNew Thought declares that all diseases, except accidental wounds and\nfractures begin in the psychic or \"thought body\" as _energy_ and then\nare registered in the physical cells as organic or functional disease.\n\nWe might follow this farther in order to satisfy science, but suffice it\nto go this far, and then seek the value of knowing this: We can see that\nthe only thing that naturally follows is, the healer and patient must be\ntaught how to restore the lost equilibrium of the centers and again poise\nthe life in a creative thought vibration. This is done simply and surely\nby teaching everyone the _correct_ use of the _idea_ centers of\nthe human brain and through this he is taught to form such thoughts and\nproduce such ideas as will allow a normal amount of energy to register on\nboth planes, and not permit the psychical mind to drive the human engine\non to destruction in a wild waste and explosion of physical, mental or\npsychical energy.\n\nThis is not a long or wearisome task for in the cortex of every brain\nthere are distinct _idea_ centers whose business it is to take up\nideas built from thoughts, and _will_ must follow the idea, and by\nconstantly selecting the thoughts which will produce harmonious vibrations\nwithin the psychic and physical selves, we join with the great creative\nenergy of the universe and it flows through us, healing and harmonizing\nevery atom of our body.\n\nThe very first step toward healing is to teach the patient to build for\nhimself a _health_ consciousness, and this is done by giving him the\npositive ideas of health instead of the negative ones of disease. We build\nfor him the _idea_ of health, hold it firmly in our minds, and\nproject it into his _idea_ centers until it registers in his psychic\nmind; then this is followed by his own increased power of willing, and\nfinally this passes into action and is registered in form.\n\n_Ideation, willing_ and _doing_ is the great _health\ntrinity_, and when this is produced, healing must follow. This is the\n_law_ and there is no appeal from it.\n\nWhen we first meet a diseased person we find his field of consciousness\nfull of all kinds of negative thoughts of disease, worry, fear and\nanxiety--these have been persisted in so long that they have weakened both\nthe idea centers and the power of willing. We at once create for him the\npositive idea motor-form, and if his conscious mind is too weak to receive\nthe impulse, we project it into his psychic mind, helping him hold on to\nthe new idea until his own mind is able to grasp it, and it becomes\nregistered for him.\n\nAfter he has learned the truth of the abundance of health energy within\nand without to be aroused into action by the simple law of his own\nthoughts and feelings, he sets to work to regenerate himself, and he finds\nthat he can really breathe the breath of life into his own nostrils.\n\nAfter we have seen the scientific side of the real power of healing, then\nif we want to get health and keep it, we set about studying how to live\nour life so as to be able to generate thoughts and feelings, at all times,\nwhich shall always move us at a creative health vibration. The very next\nthing for anyone seeking health is to get easy in his everyday life; no\none can ever be well and live with every nerve on a tension. We need to\nknow the higher law of life that teaches us that no one put us anywhere\nbut ourselves; that no one is to blame but ourselves for what we have or\nhave not; we get and have in this world just what we have the power to\nrelate with and will get free from the thing we do not like in just the\nhour that we build something better for ourselves. All we need to do is to\ncease resisting conditions and agree with our adversary quickly. Freedom,\nliberty and happiness are not things of the external world; they come from\nwithin and we are sad or happy, bound or free, sick or well, not by our\nexternal but by our internal conditions.\n\nThe sick, nervous, peevish, worrying mind sees everything as positive to\nitself and must be taught that there is nothing in all the world that has\nany power over us except that with which we endow it, and it must begin to\nlive under this idea rather than the old foolish one of being controlled\nby every external condition.\n\n\"God hath not given us a spirit of fear but of love and of power and of a\nsound mind,\" and with persistent thought culture we can soon form a habit\nof thought and feeling that will build us away from our old consciousness\nof disease and pain into a higher law of health and strength.\n\nGood, positive, strong health thoughts are a certain preventive and cure\nfor every kind of disease. Disease and health have absolutely no relation\nwith each other; disease is the expression of a faltering, undeveloped\nsoul life, while health is the expression of a consciousness that has not\nbroken its law of universal recognition.\n\nThere are very good people who are sick and very many so-called bad folks\nwho are well; health is not bestowed as a reward of merit, it simply is by\nthe natural universal law, and it exists for those who know how to fulfill\nthe law within their own being. There are many so-called wicked people who\nlive in greater harmony with their wickedness than some so-called\nChristians can ever do with their religion and goodness. Wholeness or\nholiness means simply harmony, and harmony inside and outside gives\nhealth. Anyone who has health has earned it by obeying the laws that\nproduce it.\n\nAnother great factor active in producing inharmonious vibrations and\nregistering destructive energy, is the old thought habit of living under\nthe laws of opposites, thinking thought of health today and of disease\ntomorrow; to be passing daily between hope and despair. This is sowing\nmixed thought seeds and cannot help bringing mixed vibrations.\n\nThe path to a health consciousness is to get the strong, positive idea of\nUNITY and live under the law of similars. To begin at once to affirm UNION\nwith all the health and strength of the universe and stick to it in the\nface of all the opposing negative thought vibrations generated within\nourselves, or thrown into our minds by others. This can be done by\nresolutely substituting a health thought for a diseased one; no matter how\nfast negative thoughts crowd in upon the mind, they can be antidoted by\nthe strong positive affirmation of HEALTH.\n\nIn order to register _health_ vibrations we must _think, feel_\nand _be_ health in mind. The words of health, peace, power and\nstrength do not unfold into radiant flesh and dwell among us through a\nfaltering idea of fear, or vague \"perhaps,\" or \"I do hope I shall be\nwell,\" or \"I want to get well,\" but it demands the eternal I AM HEALTH\nNOW.\n\nCourage, zeal and consecration to the laws of health and freedom from the\nlaw of death are not kindled by the halting consciousness full of the law\nof opposites, but they are the results of _knowing_ and _abiding_.\nWhen we can in very truth and full of believing say to health, \"Thy\nkingdom come,\" it _will_ come.\n\nOur daily thoughts then become the wires over which there passes into form\na finer substance, and our body is rebuilt and fashioned from the\nindestructible _substance_ of the Universe.\n\nThe mortal body as we know it in the old thought world, is a thing of\nearth and lives and suffers earth's calamities, but through the\nunderstanding of this New Thought _union_ it can be made to become a\nportion of the _cause_ as indestructible as _life_ itself, and\nlive and glory in omnipotence.\n\nWe are then in the resurrection of the _life_, and the _word_\nthat was _with_ God and _was_ God, is made _flesh_ to dwell among\nus in glory and full of grace and truth; then we know what Jesus meant\nwhen he said, \"I tell you of a truth, there be those standing among you\nwho shall not taste of death till they see the Kingdom of God.\"\n\n\n\n\nThe Risen Self\n\n\n\n\"_And entering into the sepulchre they saw a young man sitting on the\nright side clothed in a long white garment, and he saith unto them, be not\naffrighted, ye seek Jesus of Nazareth--He is risen! He is not here_!\"\n\nWhen we read the Bible with its story of human lives and their great,\nwonderful mysteries, we find among them, the greatest of all--the\nmarvellous one of the Christ birth and death, and as we read we are amazed\nat the many confusing ideas of Jesus and His teachings. His disciples\nthemselves did not understand Him, though He sought always to clearly\ninterpret Himself; often when He spoke metaphysically they interpreted Him\nphysically.\n\nThere was throughout all the Christ history something so great, so holy,\nso inclusive that it was too large for them to comprehend, and for all\neternal ages, the developing minds of men will be the same. They will keep\nbusy with their attempts at explanation of His life and His words.\n\nJesus quitted the world in benediction, and He left to those who followed\nHim and His precepts, a great inextinguishable hope.\n\nIt matters little to those who really understand Truth, whether Jesus the\nChrist lived, or whether He was only a symbol worked out by the\nimagination of men and priests; be the origin what it may, Christianity\n_still_ stands; and Religion still holds sway after centuries of\nridicule and generations of secular and scientific analysis. Something\nunknown and uninterpreted beats and surges in the hearts of men, and\nbrings into expression in every age the clinging to a great mysterious,\nwonderful, unseen agency that somehow works its way along the silent\navenues of the human soul.\n\nThe man Jesus may or may not have lived. Humanity may keep its birthright\nof contradiction forever on this point, but higher than the limited\nunderstanding of the few there lives the Truth of the great Christ spirit\nwhich the name Jesus embodied, and which for centuries gone, and centuries\nto be, will wax strong and flourish in the consciousness of men, as they\npass one by one into recognition of it.\n\nGreat and sacred was the day of Jesus' birth, and great and sacred was the\nday of his death, for both revealed the stages of our human selfhood, and\nboth point our minds to deeper meanings of existence.\n\nJesus' life as we follow it from the manger to the cross was the\nunmistakable story of the pathway of every human life and each little\naction was a part of the great mosaic which each life is setting for\nitself, and from which it shall one day read its own great AT-ONE-MENT.\n\nThe birth of the Christ consciousness comes to each soul as the dawn of\nself-awakening. It is the first faint glimmer of a new world, and the\nfirst hint the soul of man has of union with its source.\n\nThis first dawn of consciousness is purely a possession of the inner self,\nand those who feel it only follow first by faith. This faith is buffeted\nand attacked by the things of life until it is tried and becomes\nsteadfast.\n\nIn this first dawn of consciousness of the Christ self we are always\nstrangers to ourselves and asleep in the manger of natural things and\nnatural senses. We go on for years, and as consciousness grows stronger we\nsearch and search for we know not what; craving pursues us, we go hither\nand thither seeking, seeking--finding and losing.\n\nThe world and the things tangible are never wholly satisfactory in\nthemselves; we know instinctively that they are not all there is, there is\na deep, vital something in us that speaks its hidden messages into our\nbeing, and we are driven on from sensation to sensation, crying for that\nopen sesame of union which will bring peace to our soul.\n\nThen passing into deeper unfoldment we come into the real work of life, we\nmeet with responsibilities and its experiences; we are baffled again,\nbuffeted, besieged by the perplexities of doubt and fear and human\ndiscontent and we feel that, strive as we will, we are not yet at home.\n\nThe ten thousand things of the human life entangle us,--the touch of\nsickness, the expressions of so-called sin,--the baffling consequences of\nour seeming mistakes,--all these draw us from the cradle of\nunconsciousness out into the vital power of a self-conscious life, and\npush us onward to our union with Cosmic Consciousness, or the risen\nChrist.\n\nOn the self-conscious plane life goes on, driven on every side by human\nexperiences and at last turns back upon itself, and then in the Gethsemane\nof its own making, it stands where earth and its perplexing joys are lost\nand heaven and its hidden joys are yet unknown, and then facing the\nexpressions of its now half-revealed consciousness it cries out from the\ndepth of its soul's despair, \"If it is possible, let this cup pass,\" and\nit does not see the purpose in Gethsemane.\n\nHuman life at this stage of unfoldment has _fixed laws_, and the soul\nmeets in them the inexorable command to pass on to its own crucifixion,\nthe worked out sentence of its own judgments, and it goes onward bearing\nits own cross which is built from the consequences of the laws with which\nit has related.\n\nThe laws of human self-consciousness are hard to work out; each life faces\nsometime, somewhere the proof of itself. There comes a day to all when\nanything that is less than the truth slips off, and the soul stands bare\nat the bar of the universal justice ready to be judged by the laws which\nit has made for itself.\n\nThere are hours of human crucifixion that it were well to die on, for the\nsoul that wanders back from these fierce Mounts of Transfiguration has\npaid the price of human transgression of law by human pain, and is purged\nand cleaned by the fierce fire of its own igniting.\n\nThe path of human living out leads every life up the steps of Calvary\ncarrying its own Cross and it plaits the thorns and pierces the side of\n\"Him who in our life again is spit upon and crucified\" until, at last, the\ngreat human God-self within us is released through transmutation, and the\ngrave clothes of our dead self no longer entomb us; then the resurrection\nday is at hand, and the Consciousness of God bursts into the\nself-conscious mind, and the stone is rolled away from the sepulchre.\n\nThe human mind bursts forth in illumination and it passes with the Christ\nbirth on to the table-land of human comprehension and revelation of its\ninfinite union.\n\nIn this moment of glorified illumination we feel and know that every\nmoment behind us has been that this hour may be; we feel then that every\nmoment is a special moment; every life a special life, protected by the\nALL LIFE, and that everything on our human pathway, high or low, has led\nus on to this supreme moment of conscious union with our God.\n\nWhen the Christ Consciousness is risen within us, we feel the universality\nof life written everywhere on everything; there is but one starting point\nfor all thought--God. There is but one ending place for all human\nfaith--God.\n\nWe are filled with a keener sense of the ONENESS of life, and we are\nthrilled again and again by the nearness and greatness of God in the world\nwhich He projected from Himself.\n\nThe Father which we sought in self-consciousness has become real and\ntangible, and the sense of everlasting UNITY is in our hearts.\n\nWith this great God-self alive within us, we never fear that God will ever\npass away from any part of his Creation. We know too well, then, the truth\nthat \"as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without\nend,\" earth is destined to become a heaven in the lives of men as fast as\nthey develop to the place of understanding, and find the real holy ground\nwithin the center of their own being.\n\nGod, or the Universal Cosmic Consciousness, has always been revealed to\nmen through the risen Christ consciousness within the self. The men of old\nwho walked with Him were those who had lifted their personal mind to the\nlevel of the Universal Mind, so that from the shores of the Infinite\nWisdom great thought waves of Love, Truth and Peace beat in on them and\nfilled them, and their lives became a center of illumination for all.\n\nThere never was and there never can be any conflict between the power of\nhuman consciousness and God consciousness. Truth is always Truth, and\nTruth in the hearts of men build them back into the Great Harmony.\n\nThe Absolute never contradicts itself; as fast as lives are unfolded to\nthe Christ Consciousness, they leave the old thought life like an empty\ntomb and push themselves into a glorious human expression, just as the\nEaster lily rising above the dust and mould of earth, pushes itself upward\ninto the clear sunlight of a world where flowers are revealed, just so the\nsoul pushes on through consciousness and self-consciousness, into the\nglory of the risen Godhood.\n\nWe can hear the voice of the Universal calling us through our Christ\nConsciousness today, just as it called to men throughout the ages, and we\nknow that everything that throbs with natural life or comes into objective\nexpression in our human world, is really only the voice of the Universal\nCosmic mind speaking in the holy language of the human heart.\n\nEvery experience, every heartache, every joy, every despair, every\npulse-beat is only the text by which the great child mind of the world is\nspelling out _God_.\n\nThe Risen Self comes into realization of the great white light of the\nsoul, and it enables us to see _all_ life in its completeness. Human\neffort and human endeavor glow with an unexpected radiance when seen from\nthe table-land of the risen truth.\n\nThe human soul then rejoices in its Divine possibilities. Jesus said: \"I\ndo always the things that pleaseth the Father,\" and the voice from heaven\nsaid: \"This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.\"\n\nWhen we turn to those who ask for proof of the risen Christ-self within\nus, we have only to point to them the empty tomb of the old lives which\nmen everywhere leave behind them. If we desire we can go farther and point\nthem to the production of those in whom this great consciousness is\nwaking; all human life that is alive with thought and faith and deed, is\nvibrant with a great vital spiritual force.\n\nThe signs of God Consciousness and the conscious union of God and men is\nrampant everywhere in the natural world. Every factory, every steamship,\nevery invention, every composition, everything in form sets its seal upon\nthe genuineness of the existence of the spiritual exaltation of the minds\nof men, and higher than the things of the natural world, there stands the\nachievements of the mental and inspirational souls; the libraries with\ntheir tens of thousands of written pages, the art museums and galleries of\nprecious dreams; all over the world there are hung on walls and chiselled\ninto glistening marble the story of the glory-gazing of some\nChrist-illumined soul. And again sounded forth from thousands of churches\neach Sabbath morning, there is swelling out majestic songs sung by\nmyriads of voices now, but sung _first_ in the silence of some dim,\ndeep soul-dream, in the Christ consciousness of some risen mind. That\ngrand harmony was born on the table-lands of human illumination,\nregistered on the human brain, and worked out into tangible form here on\nearth to bear witness to the home-land of the God-man.\n\nChrist consciousness is the final destiny of every soul; it is what we\nreally live by and today we know, as never before, that in order to\nadvance and grow, we must consecrate and bring it here and now, into its\nfullest expression in our life.\n\nThere are bound to be born, at first, many things on this table-land of\nnew understanding that will be worked out indifferently by our limited\nbrain, and when challenged by the strain and stress of life they will\ndepart because they will be unable in their present form to answer to the\ngreat world's need. But increasing consciousness makes everything more\npowerful, and as we go on we learn to build sublime and lasting things, to\nstand the test of time because they have their root, not in the old\nthought self, but in the unfolded risen self, and they are grappled to the\nheart of the very Rock of Ages.\n\nStanding, then, risen from the dust world of our old defeats, our human\nminds receive new illuminations and rejoice in them. Law becomes the\nessence of our daily living and the mind of man the direct inspiration of\nthe Almighty. We dare to trust our risen mind to the uttermost for in it\nis GOD himself enshrined.\n\nIn this new spiritual perception we rely more and more on our intuitions,\nillumination and revelation, for it is human Godness, backed by the\nstrength of unnumbered hosts of higher consciousness.\n\nWe know at last that all our daily living is not a matter of outward signs\nbut of inward sight; all external things may contradict us, yet in sublime\nconfidence we shape our way while the Christ voice within us speaks forth\nits messages, telling us all the holy and uplifting stories of our daily\nlife.  Over the trials and wreckage of our common years we follow it; out\nfrom a silence that is known only to ourselves we bring the lessons that\nhave burnt their truth into our souls.\n\nIn the power of this risen self we stand with our faces upturned, with our\nwhole life opened to God, and human effort, human growth, human hope,\nlove, joy,--all are joined in the sense of Divine resurrection.\n\nThis is the consciousness of God in the human soul; this is the\nResurrection morning and it makes us NOW the Sons of God, and from the\ndarkness of our Old Thought growth we lift our hearts away into a new Life\nDivine. We open our eyes in the radiance of a light that never grows dim,\nthen standing with an all-seeing soul vision, we can point to the long\nyears behind us through which we have worked out our soul's salvation and\nclosing the door on the empty tomb of our dead self we say with all the\nserenity of our new-found God-consciousness:\n\n\"I know whom you seek. He is not here. He is Risen!\"\n\n\n\n\nTranscendentalism\n\n\n\nTranscendentalism is today the one subject which is demanding the greatest\nattention. The race mind is beginning to think in words of transcendental\nlanguage rather than in the old law of science and philosophy, and all the\nlight of modern investigation centres round the one who declares himself a\ntranscendentalist.\n\nWe may say that a man is a scientist, a philosopher or a materialist, and\nthe world will know at once what we mean, but if we say that he is a\ntranscendentalist we leave an open doorway for investigation; there is\nsomething yet to be learned about him, something that no one knows about\nbut himself.\n\nAnyone can easily define a scientist, a philosopher and a psychologist,\nbut they halt in more or less indecision when they are asked to define a\ntranscendentalist, and it is only when we understand that a\ntranscendentalist is one who has extended his normal consciousness into\nrelationship with the deeper laws of the universe, so that he uses\nnaturally these laws and is perfectly familiar and at home in states of\nconsciousness which the rest of the world call supernatural, and with\nwhich they are entirely unfamiliar, that we can come to a true definition\nof the transcendentalist.\n\nTranscendentalism has been a part of race unfolding since time began, and\nwill continue to be throughout all race evolution.\n\nIn the old civilization we studied the transcendentalist and\ntranscendentalism from an entirely different view-point than we do today.\n\nTranscendentalism is a state of consciousness and man evolves into it out\nof the natural states of his own mind. No one is to blame that he is, or\nis not, a transcendentalist. He becomes one not alone because he wills to\nbecome, but also because he is one with the divine law of creation and the\nGod-consciousness within him pushes him on through one state of unfoldment\nto another.\n\nThere are two expressions of universal and finite mind, one is the\nobjective, the revealed, the apparent, and one is the subjective, the\nconcealed, the absolute.\n\nThe objective side of mind belongs to the surface consciousness of man,\nand is in itself a distinct state of existence, it is bounded on every\nside by its own laws, and commands its own obedience. The subjective side\nof life belongs to the inner side of mind and is also a distinct state of\nexistence bounded by itself and the laws of its own kingdom, and without a\ndeep knowledge of universal law, man has little power of connecting these\ntwo strong zones of consciousness.\n\nStudying life in the light of our modern understanding, we find that man\npasses by natural law through the objective, the surface zone, then on to\nthe subjective or inner zone, and then to a centralized position between\nboth zones where he lives, moves and has being in both zones, uniting the\nlaws of the two kingdoms into a new zone of consciousness, then using the\nlaws of both, he passes at will to the very edge of matter, and back to\nthe very center of the cosmic mind; standing here in life's master\nposition, he is lord of both zones. This middle zone of power and mastery\nis the path of the modern transcendentalist, and the one who walks it and\nlives in unification with its laws is the _modern transcendentalist_\nof the new civilization. It has been written--\n\n  \"_For wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to\n   destruction, and many there be who go in thereat\" because_\n\n  \"_Straight is the gate, and narrow is the way which leadeth unto\n   Life_.\"\n\nWe know today that this is true, for on the broad path of the objective\nlife man must pass through the law of change which destroys, that it may\ncreate again and through which he is crowded on to seek the narrow path of\nsubjective senses which are built on the law of verities.\n\nMan's first lessons are in the objective zone of mind, and he remains\npositive in this zone until he masters its laws and the lessons which they\nbring.\n\nIn this objective zone of mind we find the mass man of the old\ncivilization, he is in the _broad way_ of the surface consciousness,\nand in his midst there dwells the specialized individuals who are\napproaching the central zones of mind; they are called the scientist, the\nphysicist, the materialist, the agnostic, the mentalist, the reasoner, and\nthe atheist, all true and perfect for their type but all more or less\nunconscious of the latent states of mind within themselves and the\nuniverse to which they must some day respond.\n\nAs human consciousness intensifies through use, man finds himself passing\non through his surface zones to the concealed states of mind within\nhimself, \"the narrow way,\" and slowly, almost unconsciously at first, he\nbegins manifesting the law of these zones. In these states of mind we find\nthe philosopher, the idealist, the emotionalist, the psychist, the\nsensitive, the intuitionist, the revelator, the transcendentalist and the\nseer.\n\nWatching race evolution we see that the day of surface consciousness and\nits power is waning only as it is controlled and manipulated through the\nsubjective states of man's mind. The hour for subjective research and\nsubjective introspection is at hand,--men have mastered the external world\nand its laws, and are now following the cosmic urge which is pushing them\ntoward the center and away from the _apparent_ to the _absolute_\nlaws of life.\n\nThe external evolution of form is complete for this hour; men go down into\nthe bowels of the earth, they sail the seas, they mount the air on wings,\nand the external world has seen \"the son of man coming in clouds of glory\"\nand now the eternal man must have his hour, and come in \"trailing robes of\npower and brightness,\" to pour new revelation through the external world\nand its laws.\n\nBooks, paintings, pictures, science, music have all had their day in\nexternal exaltation, and now the attention of man is mounting higher and\nturning inward; the study of the surface and sub-consciousness has been\ntransferred, and while part of the world's eyes are yet peering through\nthe microscope at the _sub-life_ and plenty are looking at the laws\nof life around them, the transcendentalist with these truths locked fast\nin his mind, is turning to the undiscovered states within himself, and is\neverywhere launching out into the unfathomed states of the supra-mind of\nman.\n\nMan has evolved like a planet through the stone age of mind and today with\nthe planet in the vibratory zone of water and _air_ he has risen with\nit into the transcendent states of his own being.\n\nMany transcendentalists are living so naturally in the beginning\nmanifestations of the supra-mind that they hardly recognize them as\nuncommon and the world is becoming peopled with a race of supra-men and\nsupra-women who are using the subtle laws of the transcendentalists of the\npast, but not using them _alone_, or in _hidden cloisters_, or\nthrough separate states of living, but using them as simple human\nattributes of their own mind, and using them in the common marts of the\nsurface life with more real understanding than did the olden\ntranscendentalist in his specialized separated environment, assisted by\n_secluded study_ and _special opportunities_.\n\nThe modern transcendentalist is a post graduate of the surface\nconsciousness, and uses it as simply a wireless machine with which he\nregisters his deeper perceptions, and with it links himself and his\nrevelation naturally to the natural world. He stands in natural communion\nwith both zones, and in this communion with deeper laws he attains a\nsupra-power, he walks his human pathway in human form, but he manipulates\nhis surface life with the power born of his supra-wisdom.\n\nThe modern transcendentalists form the corner-stones of the new\ncivilization. \"For the new age will come quickly to its birth when this\nHis world, will know itself divine\" and in this new civilization the mass\nman will have for his surface consciousness, the deep subtle union of both\nzones, and the specialized teacher, leader and messenger of this new age,\nwill forge ahead on the great white way of prophecy and seership which is\nborn from the union of the finite and infinite mind.\n\nTo the mind of the old civilization this will not seem true, for it is\nstill in the swaddling clothes of its old inheritance; in the thoughts of\nthe past, man and God, matter and spirit, finite and infinite have been so\nlong divorced and separated that it will be found difficult to accept the\nunion of incense and worship and reverence in the same breath with the\nreal, the apparent and the formed, but this is the hour for higher\nprophecy, and that hour when the \"lion and the lamb shall lie down\ntogether.\"\n\nTo those who are really able to read the signs of the times, human\nconsciousness everywhere offers the greatest proof of this truth, for\nlooking with eyes that can see, we find that every individual is in\npossession of eight distinct states of consciousness with which he can\noperate in the subjective and objective zones.\n\nThere may be still greater stretches of the human mind into union with the\nuniversal which the oncoming races will discover, but that there are eight\ndistinct levels of mind activity many know because they have touched them\nand know them within themselves.\n\nSome minds are active in one, some in two, some in three, and some in\nfour, and some are more or less distinct in all.\n\nThe mass man of the new civilization is awake in the _third_ and\n_fourth_ dimensions of his mind, and those in higher reaches are\nawake in the _fifth_ and _sixth_, a few are in the _seventh_ and\n_eighth_, but the rank and file are familiar to some degree with all\nthese states.\n\nThe first or surface mind of man is in itself only cell consciousness,\ntouched by man's own intellect, and it is known as _instinct_, his\nsecond expression of mind is known as _reason_, the third is\n_emotion_ or _feeling_, and the fourth is instinct, reason and\nemotion blended into one, and called _intuition_. The fifth and sixth\nare above the plane of thought and feeling and includes them in a still\nhigher intensification; here thinking ceases and _registration_ is\nthe law, and here is where _revelation_ is born. The seventh and\neighth are still supra reaches of man's mind, and include the union or\nsurface consciousness with the higher states, in which the brain becomes\nthe wireless machine, through which flashes of divine wisdom comes; this\nis called _Prophecy_ and _Seership_ and this is the product of\nthe \"mirror-mind.\"\n\nThere are bodies and atmospheres to fit each transcendent state of mind,\nand the transcendentalist can suspend any, or all of his states of mind,\none after another, and pass into direct atonement with any level with\nwhich he wishes to function; he can at will live in a new world, and speak\nwith a new tongue, and fill his surface mind with a glory not its own,\n\"but which it had with Him before the world was.\"\n\nThese new states of mind in action extends man's world into the wider\nreaches of the universal and adds to him new levels of wisdom and power.\n\nThere are reaches of intelligence far below and beyond the common\nintelligence as the microscope and the telescope have shown, and at the\nfourth and fifth dimension of consciousness man dispenses with all\nmaterial aids and uses the adjustments of his own being. He has found the\neyes, the cars, and the understanding of the supra-self, and by suspending\nhis surface mind through concentration and meditation he can enter any\nsphere of thought at will and be in the land of clairvoyance,\nclairaudience, and in the astral and atmospherian, or pass farther out and\nregister in his surface brain the wonders and laws of etherian, and\ncelestial worlds. He is at one with the world of the sensitive, the\nimpressionist and the medium, and in the deeper states of vision he can\nsee and read the memory tablets of the universe. In the higher\nregistrations he becomes cosmo-voyant and cosmo-audient, he can see and\nhear through space and through ethers as the common eye looks through air.\nThese are not special gifts from God, but simply the gifts man gives\nhimself through the conscious use of what is already in his possession.\n\nThe power to extend sight and hearing far above and below the so-called\nsenses is latent within every individual and when the point of\ntranscendental development is reached he uses it naturally.\n\nThere are some people who can see birds in the air, ships at sea, stars in\nthe sky, while others standing beside them see only empty space. Just so\nthere are many everywhere on life's pathway who can extend their normal\nvision and hearing to such an intensified vibratory rate that it not only\nincludes all the things of the physical plane but the things of the finer\nethers.\n\nThe transcendentalist standing on the streets of New York can extend his\nvision and look at a street or building in Chicago or Cairo or London,\nwhile the surface man alongside of him can scarcely read the signs on the\nother side of the street.\n\nThe modern transcendentalist does only what the surface man does--he looks\nto see and brings one hundred percent of his vision to bear upon his\ndesire, while the surface man has less than ten percent of himself in\naction and that _only_ on one plane.\n\nThere are enough people on the planet today who can use these deep states\nof mind, and induce the extended vision and hearing at will to make it\nmore than a mere hypothetical conclusion; there are X-ray beings among us\nwho have come into contact with a great fundamental principle both within\nand without themselves.\n\nThe time will come in the near future, when the operator with the Roentgen\nray will stand beside his machine and look with wide open eyes and find\nthe X-ray in his own vision, and will work unlimited by the bondage of his\nmaterial machine.\n\nComparing the modern transcendentalist and his pathway with that of the\nolden transcendentalist with his ascent of travail and pain, we find a\nprofound satisfaction in the picture of power, peace and love of the\nmodern supra-man.\n\nThe pathway of the elder supra-man was one of crucifixion, self-denial,\nrenunciation, affliction, poverty, disease and self-mortification. He\nfound the steps to the higher consciousness and its power only through\nslow self-conquest and comradeship with pain, and this was the inheritance\nhe handed down through the centuries. To think in terms of mystical wisdom\nmeant human denial of all sentient life. Unification was bought through\ntotal consecration to the subjective and the absolute, in which the\ndiverse could have no part.\n\nToday \"we are free where our sires were serfs, we can see where He left\nthem blind,\" and we know that God-consciousness is man's immortal\nbirthright and that the son of man must somewhere on his pathway become\nthe son of God, and as he passes on in his unfoldment he will contact\nevery atom of God-mind in all lines of expression, and from the world of\nmatter he will turn in time naturally to those levels of mind which lead\nhim into reverence, illumination and worship, and through this he finds\nthe whole of life.\n\nMan in his immersion into cosmic consciousness puts forth profound tests\nof his oneness and faces life in larger and larger proportions, and as he\nascends he carries all with him, so that he can give back to all a\nprofound and heroic response.\n\nEvery man is transcendent when the hour dawns for his transcendent self to\ntremble into action.\n\nWith these wider reaches of consciousness the modern transcendentalist\nfinds the larger LIFE and the true way of living, and in this brings the\nnew message of the \"One life in all and through all\" into the mass mind,\nand the new song of joy and thanksgiving into their hearts. He is never\nsad, never agonizing, never renouncing; he has made contact with all life\nand through this with the universal joy; there is no denial, no\nseparateness,--there is \"no more crying,\" he conquers and ascends not\nthrough separateness but through increasing degrees of union. He lives in\nglad comradeship with God, in joy and perfected self-expression, both in\nthe objective and in the subjective world.\n\nThe ancient transcendentalist was always sad, always separate, always\nworshipping in beatific loneliness, in seclusion and renunciation of the\nworld; the modern supra-man passes from end to end of the pole of being\nand stops at any point and functions normally. \"He stands and works, then\nkneels and prays.\" He is lord of the outside external world and partaker\nof all its divine joys and pleasures, and he is lord of all the deeper\nreaches of subjective consciousness within himself and the absolute in\nwhich he lives, and he brings out from these deeper levels all the\nintensified power of illumination and revelation, and pours it over his\ndaily pathway illumining it with a glory not its own.\n\nMany olden transcendentalists lived on in entranced states of divine\nwisdom with diseased flesh and bodies that shrieked with pain, while they\nmortified and rejected that divine wisdom. The modern transcendentalist\nbrings all his God-consciousness to bear upon his flesh and raises it to\nthe transcendent heights of his own mind and heals it until bone and\nmuscle and tissues gleam and scintillate with a new found beauty and\nyouth.\n\nThe olden transcendentalist dragged on in barren cells and dreary poverty\nin order not to divert his glorified vision of the formless by the beauty\nof the _ever present form_; the modern transcendentalist brings his\nhigher laws into play, conquers his poverty and commands around himself\nthe beauty and luxury and freedom of the world of form, and it speaks to\nhim in matchless raiment, luxuriant flowers, gems, material comforts and\nsoft ease. He lives in rapturous companionship with the glory and beauty\nand majesty of God in the world _He has projected from Himself_, and\nwith this beneath him, he can rise to the very pinnacle of infinite\nselfhood.\n\nThe olden transcendentalist, ascending into the transcendental heights of\nhis own mind, ascended alone, and from these obscure heights he shed his\nwisdom back upon the evolving race; he was pioneer in the lands of cosmic\nconsciousness and the first revelator of the path; he showed the race that\nthe path was there to tread, and his messages have fallen as a benediction\non the race mind even while he himself bought his wisdom with pain,\nrenunciation and suffering built from the limited recognition of his own\nmind.\n\nThe path winds onward and upward still, but the feet of those climbing it\ntoday are led by still waters and in the paths of righteousness. They are\nno longer in the part but are in the middle of the Divine Channel of\nGod-consciousness. To know _one_ part was the mission of the _past_;\nto know _all parts_ and join them in a divine unity is the mission of\nthe _present_.\n\nThe modern transcendentalist does not love life less, he loves it more!\nThe world is alive with a new majesty; the passing multitude, the passing\nface, every human attribute of life calls forth from him a deeper\ninterpretation; he walks out into the race mind, and with the power of a\nnew word, and a new touch heals it from its infirmity. He does in truth\ngive \"absent treatments,\" and his word is accomplished; the old diseased\nflesh transmutes in answer to his command. He speaks to the barren walls\nof poverty and they stretch away into stately halls, for he knows that\nwherever man posits his consciousness, substance must gather round it; his\nnew words of power and majesty fall like a benediction on the heart of the\nlistening multitudes, and they turn round to face a new tomorrow with a\nnew hope born of a larger understanding.\n\nThe transcendentalist walks often in our midst; sometimes he assumes the\nsimplicity of a child to disguise the larger stretches of power within\nhim, but he is out upon the pathway strong and beautiful, wholly replete\nwith promises of perfection, doing the work of the human.\n\nThere is a royal road from _appearance_ to _reality_, from\n_objective_ to _subjective_, from the limited to the absolute.\n\nDifference is merging into one _great white way_ through which the\nnew civilization is thronging, led by the intensified vision of the\nsupra-minds.\n\nUnity has carried man above all things of human law, and he has found that\nMighty Force of which all is a part, and he is out into the land of \"naked\nvisions\" and _knows_.\n\nHe dwells securely upon the height and has ceased the long fight with the\nobjective half of himself; he is one with matter because he has\ntranscended and absorbed it; he is centralized in the formless and\nspiritualized in the formed, and can say from the level of his own Christ\nconsciousness:\n\n  \"_I and my Father are one.\"\n\n  \"All that my Father hath is mine_.\"\n\n\n\n\nThe Psychology of Insanity\n\n\n\nWith the ever present increase of insanity, it is not only interesting but\nimportant that the subject of insanity should be studied from all\nview-points, and anything which can be contributed that will help in\ncontrolling or curing it, should be accepted as good material.\n\nIt is an apparent fact that the multitude knows very little about the\ncause of insanity and less about the cure. Investigation has in the past\nbeen directed to the physical side of the disease, and many of the insane\nhospitals are examples of physical comfort and perfect physical attention,\nbut they are also living examples of the fact that to house, feed and\nclothe the demented does not necessarily mean a cure, and a call for\ndeeper understanding is imperative.\n\nCivilization needs each individual as a unit in the great working force of\nlife, and those who need to be taken care of by a State take away a\nlegitimate support and add just that much more to the burden of the State.\n\nA civilization which can increase the independence of the individual and\nlessen the responsibility of the State is one to be directly desired.\n\nInsanity calls for a closer study than has ever been given and only\nthrough a deeper realization of its cause, can a cure be brought about and\nindividuals rendered of value to themselves and the country.\n\nInsanity is nothing more or less than disassociated states of mind and\nneed not in reality be any more serious than errors of refraction of\nvision, faulty locomotion or lack of coordination. It comes because\nindividuals know nothing of the psychology of themselves or their own\nminds and is the result of over-intensified mental and physical activity\nand loss of poise, physically, mentally and psychically. The insane are\nnot capable of understanding themselves, and up to the present day there\nare very few who are able to understand them.\n\nThe nurses, matrons and physicians of a great asylum are powerless to\nassist them because of their own ignorance of the true laws of psychology.\nThe cases which simple, natural, physical methods will assist, are cured,\nbut thousands of others are allowed to drag along with the dreadful\nstigmata of \"hopelessly insane.\"\n\nInsanity is increasing because civilization is changing, and conditions\nare changing. As conditions change the minds of men change and today\nsubjective states of mind in the individual are becoming intensified.\nInstinct, reason, emotion, intuition, revelation and prophecy are all\nstruggling for expression; unrelated and misunderstood they become\ndisease; related and understood they can be made to bring forth a new race\nwith new extensive reaches of intelligence.\n\nThere are few people so stupid but that they can testify to the\nconflicting states of emotions within themselves and there are many people\nwho are perfectly familiar with states of consciousness with which many\nother people are entirely unfamiliar.\n\nWherever we go we are continually confronted with what the world calls\n\"freaky\" or \"eccentric\" people, and these people are found in all degrees\nfrom the slightly odd folks to those filling the asylums, and strange as\nit may seem, no matter how queer they may appear to other people, they\nnever seem so to themselves.\n\nThere are many families with members whom the rest call irrational,\nirresponsible or \"black sheep.\" Again, there are many families who have\none child who, from the time of its birth, has called for methods of\nmanagement entirely different from those used for the other children.\nThere are many little sensitive creatures who are afraid of the dark and\nwho have queer ideas and odd ways, and there are delicate little people\nwho have bodies so finely organized that they are nearly broke into pieces\nwith the natural things which the other members never notice. They are\nborn sensitives and remain sensitives to the end of their lives, and only\nas they can be taught the truth about themselves can they be rescued from\nsome form of mental disturbances.\n\nThese people as they grow older, become what is termed \"psychics\"; they\nare over-intensified in some of their deeper states of mind. They are not\nalone the product of civilization, but the product of race evolution. Many\nof them pass on in semi-normal states of self-support, but they are a well\nknown class, and they are more or less unsuccessful in supporting\nthemselves along natural lines of labor, and if they inherit wealth they\nrun into vagaries and often degenerate lines of living; they squander\ntheir all and die in charity.\n\nThe common business world is full of psychics and it is correspondingly\nfull of failures for this is not a faculty that makes for success or power\nwith material things.\n\nPsychics who are only slightly disassociated are always a source of\nannoyance to their friends, and often looked upon as irresponsible, and\nhave to be looked after by some one who has patience enough to be with\nthem, and often they are passed along as having an artistic temperament.\n\nAs long as their peculiar development does not interfere with normal\naction they are unmolested by the public. It is only when deeper states of\nmind become so over-intensified that they lose their normal relationship\nto normal things of the world that they are put under control. They are\ncalled paranoics, melancholics, demented and insane. A correct mental\ntraining would teach them to re-associate their mind and to live a\nmoderately normal life, at least. All drunkards and drug fiends are\npsychics; degenerates are also psychics. These conditions are simply the\nresult of loss of polarity of normal mind centers, resulting in the\nconflict of states of consciousness within themselves.\n\nThere are also many psychics in the ignorant and undeveloped classes. The\nwitch women and seers, and many of the colored races are psychic. In the\npast, these people were looked upon as witches and their words and works\nwere known as \"witchcraft.\"\n\nThere are many psychics who are also great geniuses. Lord Byron and the\n\"Mad Painter\" of Belgium were psychics. History is rife and galleries of\nart and temples of literature stand as testimonials to some of the\nconstructive productions of their minds, but beside them run dark stories\nborn of their psychic uncertainty.\n\nCriminals of certain types are psychics with no power of physical control\nand they pass into subjective control and live and do the things that are\ngiven them to do from the psychical mind and are often ignorant of their\nown condition.\n\nThose whom the medical profession call paranoics are simply psychics,\nover-developed in the subjective faculties--a prey to all the disembodied\nforces of the subjective plane, and also to every floating thought on the\nphysical plane; they are obsessed by ideas from within and without and\ntheir actions bear witness to this statement. Some very meddlesome women,\nand those who are the terror of a quiet community, are nearly always those\nwho are in the control of the slower psychic forces and unable to\nconsciously direct their own normal states of mind.\n\nIn science the psychics are called diseased. Science gives all actions a\nphysical basis, but it is time to know that abnormal states of\nconsciousness, that are only changes in the functional side of the mind\nand which have no apparent physical basis, are found in thousands.\n\nNeurasthenics and psychasthenics present the mildest picture of disordered\nstates of mind. All neurasthenics and psychasthenics are psychics and\ntheir diseases can only be fully understood by the psychologist. The\nscientist has long ago exhausted his knowledge of the cause and cure of\nthese diseases and this is why all branches of metaphysical healing are\novercrowded.\n\nTo understand this abnormal thing called \"insanity,\" one must fully\nunderstand the normal, called \"sanity.\" There are four distinct states of\nconsciousness in every individual; these must be kept co-related and all\nof them manifest through the common everyday mind. These four states of\nconsciousness are _instinct, reason, emotion_ and _intuition_.\nThese four states of consciousness are _functions_ of the normal\nmind. When a patient becomes over-intensified in either one of these parts\nof the mind, mental disease results. The psychic is over-intensified in\nthe emotional and intuitional functions of his mind, thus rendering his\ncommon sense states _uncommon_, and according to the degree of\nover-activity, he is either a \"freak,\" a creature of \"temperament,\" a\n\"genius\" or a \"dementia.\"\n\nThe ordinarily insane individual has lost all relationship with his\nnatural, instinctive and reasoning mind. He is disassociated. Reason,\ninstinct, emotion and intuition are all in conflict within him. The\nemotional and intuitional faculties overfunctioning distort his common\nunderstanding. His idea centers are not able to distinguish between the\nreal and the unreal in thoughts. He becomes possessed and obsessed by\nideas born of emotion and intuition that have no foundation in fact, and\nas time goes on, he loses complete control of his idea centers.\n\nEvery individual has definite idea centers within his own brain, and it is\nthrough these centers that ideas are coordinated, received or rejected. As\nover-intensification of feeling and emotion goes on, the normal action of\nthe idea centers is interfered with and the individual has superinduced\nemotional and intuitional states which are no longer guarded by reason and\nthought. The emotion senses a purely imaginary condition and the idea\ncenters have no power to reduce it to truth. As time goes on, all power of\nassociation is lost and the individual passes along, the plaything of his\nsubjective states of mind. As he becomes more and more intensified\nsubjectively, he opens the deep psychic currents both within and without\nhimself, and loses his connection with his common mind and his physical\nbody, and becomes a prey to all the psychic currents.\n\nThere are lives everywhere open to subjective thought currents, and all\nunknown to themselves they are allowing themselves to become disintegrated\nby the daily and hourly response they are giving to the stimulus of a\nplane they should master instead of allowing it to master them.\n\nThe psychic plane may become a pathway to power, or it may become the open\ndoorway to a body and mind full of disease, insanity and absolute loss of\npower and poise.\n\nThere are many patients confined in the asylums today, who would never\nhave been there, and who would be released and cured, if those in charge\nfully understood the truth of this unnaturally natural development and\ndirected their attention to its control.\n\nThe first truth is, people are born into what is to them natural\nrelationship with this psychic plane and go on for years misunderstood,\npained and repressed, unable to rescue themselves from what they do not\nunderstand, and in the end the physical body does become diseased by the\ncontinual inroads of strain and repression; functional disorder and\nanatomical changes result. The farmer's wife loses her mental balance\nthrough repression of the fine emotional, intuitional side of her mind\nwhich finds no expression in the dull environment of the farm. The\nover-worked mother loses her mental poise; disassociation follows\nover-stimulation of the practical and repression of the artistic; and in\nemotional patients exaggerated states of feeling go on into greater\ndisassociation for lack of strong sensible thought control.\n\nAnd the second truth is, that many are born so close in relationship to\nthe unseen plane and in such psychical correspondence, that some slight\nthing which weakens the will-power--sorrow, a disease that devitalizes the\nphysical, some shock, or some prolonged or strained mental condition,\nbreaks down the remaining law of separation, and the life is astray in the\npsychical world, manifesting abnormal, physical laws.\n\nThere is one great connecting link between the physical and the psychical\nthrough which all abnormal conditions can be corrected, and this is will\npower. When this power of will is broken, the life must become a\nmanifestation of error, according to the generally accepted idea of normal\nrelationship.\n\nThe will-power of an individual is dependent upon his ideation. Weaken his\npower to carry an idea, and his will grows correspondingly weak; the\n_will_ must _follow_ the idea; it is not a separate entity--_will_\nonly exists in _partnership_ with the _idea_.\n\n_Ideation, willing_ and _motion_ are the great human trinity\nfrom which everything else originates. When we inspect our minds, we find\nthat a voluntary motion is always preceded by the idea of that motion. The\nidea is first and the will follows the idea. Ideas have definite sensory\ncenters in the cortex of the brain and conscious ideation may be induced\nto produce a particular form of willing. All voluntary action depends,\nfirst, upon the ideas of action, then the willing to do, then the doing.\nThe will-power, in its accelerating and restraining impulses, is modified\nby the degree of the intensity of the idea. Grief, fear, worry, anger,\ndespondency, anxiety, hate, resistance are all negative ideas that weaken\nthe idea centers and produce weakness of willing. These ideas persisted in\nat first produce indecision and after a while absolute inaction because\nthe patient has lost the perfect co-relation of his idea centers, which\nassociate instinct, reason, emotion and intuition.\n\nIn order to get complete control of the will we must get complete control\nof the idea centers and induce strong, positive ideas which the will\ncannot refuse to follow.\n\nWhen we associate all states of consciousness--instinct, reason, emotion,\nand intuition, in one strong, centralized idea, it is impossible for\nphysical expression to do anything else than follow this idea.\n\nWhen one has come into certain conditions of negativeness in any part of\nhis mind, and continues in it for any length of time, it takes more than\nhis own power to modify these intensified conditions and bring about an\ninhibiting power of mind which will crowd them out, and allow the idea\ncenters to receive a new thought-form and intensify it so that the will\ncan pass it into action.\n\nThe abnormal individual is always weak in obeying his ideas and carrying\nout his impulse because there is a dissociation of idea centers and his\nmind becomes mixed in its responses and he cannot make for a true,\nharmonious expression on all of the planes of mind within himself--this is\nthe condition of the neurasthenic and psychasthenic, and he needs some\nmind stronger than his own to hold his ideas true to what he knows to be\ntrue.\n\nThe first lesson for the diseased mental patient to learn is that if he\nwants to keep his mental balance or restore it, he must first inhibit all\nnegative ideation and refuse to allow himself to be driven into wild\nbursts of psychical or mental energy along any one line. He must force\nhimself to interest his mind in other things and to inhibit the\nover-active states of thinking. This is best done by a complete change of\nenvironment, and often a change of friends. Friends and environment, more\nthan any other things, have the greatest power of keeping the mind\nintensified in its old thought ruts.\n\nThere is little hope of receiving a new ideation and acting upon it, when\none allows himself day after day to drag through the same central\nsensations and receive the same nerve impulses, and register the same\nresponses. By removing to a new environment, and substituting new mental\nand psychical vibrations the old states of consciousness are allowed to\nrest while a new unworked state of mind begins.\n\nPsychical development is not a disease; it is an attribute of individual\ngrowth; no one is to blame if he has it or has it not; all that anyone\nneeds to know is the truth about it and just how to control it and direct\nit. Subjective hearing and vision come just as naturally to us as life and\ndeath--they are a part of the great plan of unfoldment.\n\nIn teaching man to co-relate his many states of developing consciousness\ninto one powerful state of mind, we use our everyday common sense. We give\nhim a place of mental power and after such training he opens or shuts his\nmind to suit himself; he can live in either extension of consciousness at\nwill and extending his understanding into the transcendent side of his own\nmind, he can become the modern mystic or seer. He can function in the\npurely material side of himself or he can become an intensified psychic or\nmystic by simply suspending and intensifying different centers within\nhimself.\n\nConcentration, centralization in ideas, conscious mental substitution,\ncreation of strong mental ideas, and psychic displacement of the negative\nwith the positive, both by the patient within himself and from the\nattendant or physician without, will bring insanity under control.\n\nWhen men fully understand their own mind's scope, they will find that what\nthe world calls un-natural states of consciousness, are only cerebral and\npsychic disassociation.\n\nThe greater freedom of the race, and the cure and control of insanity will\nbe found in the deeper study of _all_ levels of mind rather than the\none or the few. Only as physical science unites with metaphysical, and\nthese both unite with scientific psychical investigation, will humanity\npass toward a solution of its insanity problems. Insanity, delusions,\nhallucinations, the so-called mental diseases will pass just because they\nhave been naturally displaced by our higher scientific preventive\npsycho-therapy.\n\nThe asylum doors will only open as a place of refuge where men and women\nwill be taught the psychology of the self; there will be _schools_\nnot _cells_. Outside the asylum doors there will be an ever\nincreasing crowd of intelligent men and women psychologists, who will be\nawake to the first hint of psychic disassociation in an individual. With\nkeen insight and scientific direction, they will teach the beginning\nparanoic, melancholic, neurasthenic, clairvoyant and psychasthenic the\ntruth about themselves and the first hint of disassociation will be\nreplaced by association, and rest homes, asylums and sanitarium doors will\nclose forever!\n\n\n\n\nThe Law Eternal\n\n\n\n\"_For since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were\nfrom the Creation_.\"\n\nWhenever we read the stories in the Bible, our minds are held with a deep\ninterest, for through all its pages and in all its words, there breathes\nout the history of the hopes, dreams and aspirations of human hearts, and\nabove every other story or hope or dream, there stands first in absorbing\ninterest the history of the man Jesus, with his wonderfully inspired life.\nThis wonderful Christ life as given in history is a benediction to the\nworld, and his teachings have given us a great inextinguishable hope. In\nall his history there is one profound principle that never becomes\nobscured, and that is his eternal adherence to the Law of Life. He never\nforgot to speak the word that should show the true laws of Cause and\nEffect.\n\nNearly all the people of his day followed the letter of his word and not\nthe spirit. When he spoke in parables they interpreted in fact, and even\nwhen he said: \"I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a\nplace, I will come again and receive ye unto myself, that where I am,\nthere ye may be also,\" they believed and interpreted it to mean really\nmaterial facts, and began to build up their finite hope for a future\nkingdom, totally blind to the deep subjective law of his spoken word.\n\nThey really believed that if they waited a few years, at most, Jesus would\nreturn unto them, and in triumph and power gather them together and raise\nup a community of peace and love in this earth plane. They believed that\nthrough this they would become monarchs of a new world. Nothing in their\nminds revealed the impossibility of material form without fundamental\nfacts beneath them.\n\nThe sick and suffering and discouraged of every class, knowing nothing of\nthe higher laws, laid this hope to their hearts, and filled with a courage\nbuilt on this belief, they taught themselves to stand silent beneath scorn\nand persecution, feeling inwardly, that when the hour of Christ's return\ncame, their life would suddenly become powerful through some new\ndispensation.\n\nThe years came and went, one after another the apostles died with their\nhope still in their hearts; at last, only the lengthened life of John was\nleft on which to hang expectancy, then he, too, died and the Jesus of\ntheir hope had not returned. Even then the church was reluctant to give up\nits teaching of the letter and it still held, that even while a few\nfollowers remained whose term reached back to Christ's time, it was not\ntoo late for his return, and the son of man might yet be sustained in his\nearthly kingdom.\n\nTime went on until even the oldest memories of the promises passed; change\nafter change came, and man could no longer find a finite place for his\nfaith and trust, and then, as human life was pushed on by the great\nresistless ebb-tide of the Infinite, those who were still clinging to this\nfalse hope, broke forth in a wail of despair, and they cried, \"Where is\nthe promise of His coming?\" \"For since the fathers fell asleep, all things\ncontinue as they were from the creation.\"\n\nWe who read their history today and know the truth of Life's finer\nrelationships, cannot but feel a pity for their failure, and the lingering\ndeath of their expectancy, even while we see that it was built on\nsuperficial human understanding.\n\nIn the great unrelated, ignorant hope of these people, we can read in\nletters of fire, the proof of the certainty of disappointment of every\nhuman hope that has not its conscious union with the great universal Laws\nof Life.\n\nWe can see now with the calm vision of those who have no part in their\nsuperstition that their hope was never built on the understanding and\nwisdom of creation, but upon weak, human desires and narrow personal\nexpectation.\n\nIt can easily be seen that under the great Law Eternal it was not\npossible, that after training only a small part of the human race-thought\nthere could be a return, a king of any sort, or that there could follow\nthe perfecting of the race in any such a narrow, limited, personal way.\n\nWhen Truth has become revealed to the minds of men, they at once see that\nlaws remain, and that the human race is bound to fit itself to these, and\nlooking back over the centuries, and on into the future, we find that\nJesus taught us when he said, \"I come not to destroy the Law, but to\nfulfill it.\"\n\nToday we see how everything waits upon its own cause, and how change is\nonly brought about by the processes of regular unfoldment. We know now\nthat the Whole can only come into expression through the Part, and that\nthe fulfillment of an individual, a nation, or a race must come under the\nsilent operation of those spiritual laws of human understanding which\nneither the race nor the individual can outstrip.\n\nGOD is LAW, and LAW began when LIFE began and only a deep union with the\nfiner relationships of Life can ever bring us into DOMINION of power.\n\nThere has ever been and ever will be many expressions of LAW, and between\nthe Absolute expression and the finite results there must ever be the\ngrinding to dust and ashes of things which oppose either the lesser or the\nlarger unfoldment.\n\nWhen we look at life from the limited, personal view we can only see from\nthe boundary line of the unfathomed self; but as we come into deeper\nconsciousness, we learn that expectation and promise built on personal\nhope is one thing, and expectation and promise built on universal\nunderstanding of universal action is another.\n\nWe are a part of everything in the universe and as we come to look through\nthe personal to the universal, we see clearly the inseparable ONENESS of\nGod-consciousness and man-consciousness, and as we understand and master\nthis relationship, we can read the real answer to our question: \"Where are\nthe promises?\"\n\nHuman life has always been, and always will be, only the unfolding of the\npersonal mind into recognition of the Absolute Mind.\n\nThe Universe is under the Law Eternal and in the degree that we know this,\nwe stop our limitations; mankind is free in the Absolute Law, and only\nseemingly bound in the finite one. Not one jot or tittle of the Law ever\npasses away; all laws exist to be fulfilled, but human life evolves from\nlevel to level of consciousness, and through relationship with higher\nunderstanding it escapes the primitive expressions of the lower laws and\nunites itself with the higher.\n\nThe very first truth, then, for any life to learn is, that in this\nuniverse of law and order, we get just what we relate with--no more, no\nless! Nothing happens; everything is the natural expression of the action\nwhich produces it.\n\nJesus came into the world under the law of his own life; he was born to\npass along and die expressing the forms of his higher knowledge; he came\nand went under his own laws, but these were too obscure for the minds of\nthat race to comprehend, and they lived, hoped and died, ignorant of his\ngreat Cosmic relationship. Jesus was a son of the planet and his mission\nwas to set laws of race consciousness into activity which would act as a\nspiritual fulcrum throughout the ages.\n\nWhat was true in these olden days is still true today; we often go on\nhoping that fulfillment will come, when by the very nature of what we are\ndoing, we cannot get the higher expression. Take the simple things of our\neveryday life, our hope of health or our hope of love, wealth, place,\nhappiness, success and usefulness; often we really do hope to be well, and\nplan in a way for that end, while really at the same time every breath we\ndraw builds for the transitory and fleeting. Like the Christians of old we\ndo not understand higher relationships, and at last, worn out with\ndisappointment we cry, \"Where are the promises?\" and do not see that until\nwe have perfect thought relationships, we cannot hope for perfect results.\nIt takes deep perception to find the immutable law that all physical\nphenomena is mental arrangement.\n\nWe get everything we find expressing in life through the law of conscious\nor unconscious thinking! We have, and hold and keep only the things we\ncreate for ourselves; there is no other law; no one can take our own away;\nno one can give us anything, for only what we create is our own, and we\nalone must create it in consciousness before we can possess it. When we\ncreate it in consciousness we really set the law in operation for\nourselves and this law will pass it into form.\n\nWe make our relationships through the thoughts of our mind. Our mind is\nthe universal mind, and it is inseparably connected with everything in the\nuniverse; and whatever we have or have not is a signal of just what we\nhave related with in consciousness. This is the unwritten action of the\nLAW; no one limits us but ourselves; the Universal Life stands ready with\nits many levels of relationships to give to every one according to the\npower he has to create for himself and he is really and truly judged\n\"according to the deeds done in the body.\"\n\nJesus could not give an ignorant and undeveloped race the gift of a\nglorified kingdom; nor could they give it to themselves until they had\nrelated in consciousness with the laws that would produce it, the thing we\nwant and our point of attraction must be equal.\n\nWe come into life under correct laws; one is not born a Jew, an Assyrian,\nan Englishman or an American by chance; nor is one born well and rich, and\nanother sick and poor by chance, but EACH is the expression of the LAWS\nwith which he has related in his own consciousness.\n\nThoughts are things and it is a part of the Universal plan that thoughts\nfrom the human mind reach out into the Universal, or Cosmic mind, and\nthere generate an ENERGY which must in time embody in FORM and become the\nworld picture of just what has been stimulated into expression. When\nthinking passes into a _fixed power_ in our life it can be used to\ndestroy or construct the body or the environment and every thought spoken\nor unspoken is registered in thought forms in our atmospheric environment\nand must some day pass into material form.\n\nHealth is the expression of a law brought about by a certain line of\nthinking and disease is another expression. Wealth is one law, poverty is\nanother, and any life can choose this day _which_ he wishes to be\nunder, and choose this hour which law he will serve, and Jesus said,\n\"Whomsoever ye yield yourself servants to obey, his servants ye are,\nwhether it be sin unto death or salvation unto righteousness.\"\n\nJesus did not return to his disciples as they expected, because there was\nno Universal Law for such return. Just so with Health, Wealth, Love, Joy\nand Happiness. They can never come into expression for us so long as there\nis not established within us the Law of Natural Relationships.\n\nWe are learning at last that \"Since the fathers fell asleep all things\ncontinue as they were from the creation,\" and it takes more than a fond\nimagination to pass our life from the law of inharmony, desire and pain,\ninto the higher one of peace, power and happiness.\n\nThe moment a life desires anything it instantly becomes related with that\nthing, but it does not become a possession until all the conditions are\nfulfilled. Some minds think so _lightly_ of everything that nothing\never becomes steadfast and certain. They drift aimlessly between loss and\ngain, health and disease, crying out, \"Where are the promises,\" never\nrealizing that promises are only fulfilled when the whole selfhood becomes\ngrappled to the rock of understanding.\n\nHuman life is only a _growing_ time, and each life will remain just\nwhere it is and express the laws of its level of consciousness until it\ndevelops out from them into others.\n\nSickness, poverty, wretchedness, disappointed hopes are common in the\njourney of Life; despairing human lives are common too, and lives full of\nrebellion can be found on every hand, but all these are the products of\nthoughts that produced them and show just where the consciousness has\nlingered.\n\nFreedom from all these negative human experiences comes as the reward of\ninner growth; it can only come through unfoldment and transmutation into\nhigher understanding. Human pain and loss, despair and disease, and the\nheart-breaks of life, are all the fruits of the Tree of Life whose root is\n_Truth_.\n\nWhen sickness, sorrow and unhappiness have taken the place of health and\njoy in our life, we have no one to blame but ourselves; we can know that\nthrough a long line of perverted thinking, both inherited and acquired, we\nhave become related with the laws in consciousness, and these laws are\nthoughts of self, hate, jealousy, strife, condemnation, resistance, etc.\nWe have thought it unconsciously in the past, but until we stop and get up\nnew thought relationships, these old things must go on. When we know the\nhigher truth of New Thought Relationship, and the power of constructive\nthinking, we can begin then and there to change things and we instantly\ncan clean out all the distorted thought energy, and pass the simple act of\nthinking into a creative form, quitting forever our response to the\nnegative things around us.\n\nWe see the truth of \"Whatsoever a man soweth, that also shall he reap,\"\nand we see, too, that this harvest field where we reap is the human life,\nand the seeds are thoughts, and we then and there fill our field of\nconsciousness with thought-seeds of Health, Strength, Peace, Love, Joy and\nall the ten thousand beautiful constructive things, and we soon are living\nin a perfected thought world, surrounded by the dream pictures of our soul\nconsciousness. We become like mystical seers, we can prophesy then about\neverything in our life without fear of contradiction, for knowing the Law\nthat on the path \"Like produces Like,\" and knowing the thought-seeds we\nsow, we can be certain of the future harvest.\n\nUnder the Law Eternal we cease to consider ourselves related to anything\nthat we do not want. These things we do not want have ceased to exist for\nus, in the moment we have forgotten them in consciousness. We must refuse\neven to connect with them in memory. Sometimes this is a hard lesson: The\nLaw of Memory is a peculiar force, it is the expression of fixed\nthinking--that which we cannot forget has made deep inroads into\nconsciousness. Memory often keeps us related in strange ways, and hinders\nour unfoldment. Memory is the connecting link between the yesterday and\ntoday; it makes the past always the present and it remains the master of\nmany lives and pours what it will into the field of consciousness until\nit is conquered.\n\nWe cannot go on to peace, power and divine unfoldment while we are wrapped\naround with olden memories, olden idols, fears and bondage.\n\nIt is an unwritten law that we pass on as we become fit, and any life can\nat any moment come away from the thought law of sin, sickness and death,\ninto the law of peace, power, happiness and joy.\n\nThe great God-life wants us to have whatever we want, and will help us to\nget it and keep it. We have been told for ages to \"ask and receive, seek\nand find, knock and it shall be opened.\" The Universal waits upon our\nrecognition of its presence and before we ask it is given. The moment we\nknow what we want and ask for it under the higher law of recognition, it\nis ours, then we only have to wait until we can manifest it. Over the same\nthought line which we pass out our desires, there passes back to us the\nanswer to our prayers and our human pathway blossoms with the fruits and\nflowers of our deeper understanding.\n\nThe law of bondage will never become the law of liberty, but each one of\nus may come away into this perfect law of creative thinking as soon as we\nteach ourselves the simple act of picking out thoughts that relate us with\nthe higher things of life. The kinds of positions, friends, conditions and\nenvironment we attract to ourselves under the positive conscious\nrelationship are entirely different from the ones we will attract under\nthe negative destructive thought laws. Good friends, happy environment,\npeace and love, are not made from the material of mind that recognizes\nonly lack, loss, envy, despair, fear, condemnation and resistance.\n\nWhen we want health, we must think health thoughts and become _one_\nwith the laws that make for health and live at health's heights; when we\nwant wealth we must create a wealth thought vibration and link our lives\nwith the levels of wealth. All the grand, good things of earth can only\ncome and gather around us when we have lifted our consciousness to the\nlevel at which they can be touched.\n\nIn the light of this higher understanding we can see that in just the\nproportion that our human nature rises towards the Universal Wisdom, our\nhuman perception becomes widened, until, at last, we include all the laws\nof higher living, thinking and being, and we bring from the hidden center\nwithin ourselves a profound knowledge. As our life grows more and more in\nthe power of perception, we retire farther and farther from the personal,\nthe pessimistic, the limited belief of selfishness, condemnation,\nresistance, and we begin a new thought life filled with moral,\nintellectual and spiritual glory, and even though \"since the fathers fell\nasleep all things continue as they were from the creation,\" we see the\ntrue laws of creation, and making pur minds one with these laws we pass\nwith them and through them on to perfected human wisdom, we turn to the\ndaily life then with a higher, holier and more glorified purpose and out\nfrom all the gloom of the past we find the promises have all been answered\nand that God has provided some better things for us, which without us\ncould not be made perfect.\n\nThe final word, then, to the sick, discouraged and diseased world is this:\n\n\"The righteous are in the hands of their God (the LAW) and their life is\nfull of immortality,\" and knowing this anyone may recognize their\nconscious union with whatever they desire; create it in their human\nthought world and project it into form in the Cosmic Consciousness; then\nwith wide open soul eyes walk calmly on, expecting it and never laying\ndown their demand until it manifests for them.\n\n\n\n\nThe Outside and Inside of Life\n\n\n\n\"_Jesus said unto him, go and wash in the pool of Siloam. He went his\nway therefore and washed and came seeing_.\" ST. JOHN IX, 7.\n\nWhen we read the history of the ages behind us we cannot help but see that\nthrough every phase of human evolution there has run that subtle something\nwhich men call \"the power of the unseen.\"\n\nMatty of our forefathers lived in self scrutiny and subjective\ninvestigation, and many lived in lawless expression of their objective\nselves with no idea of life in its subjective action and form. As humanity\nadvanced in its reverence it came to where lack of attention to\nregeneration and self-comprehension was followed by an inner sense of\nguilt, and those who know the power of the two states of consciousness,\nthe outer and the inner, have grown to where they look upon it as abnormal\nto higher progress, to only enter these finer courts of being just to rest\nand renew the physical body.\n\nMen instinctively know that life is too serious and mighty to pass along\non the objective side of living without now and then going into the center\nof being and holding an earnest deep contact with the silent\nconsciousness.\n\nIn the old thought world it was not strange for master men in every walk\nof life to pray. The powerful warrior turned his eyes from the field of\nbattle to the strength of Heaven; the trusting mourner turned his eyes\nfrom the loss of earth to the gain of dying; even Milton gave himself to\nthe discords of politics in action, and the symphonies of the seraphims.\nIn the silence great lives everywhere have mingled the meditations of the\nAbsolute with the thoughts of the discordant, differentiated and apparent\n_now_.\n\nThere is not a family anywhere that does not possess at least one person\nwho in himself holds the proof of how real and earnest a thing are the\nexercises and consciousness of the solitary vigil.\n\nThere is something of reverence yet in many lives as they recall the\nblessing given at meals and the evening hour of prayer. To the wayward and\nthose living in the control of the outside things of life, it was an hour\nof bondage, but to those who were at all awakened to the call of the\ninside life, it was an even-tide of peace and power and rest.\n\nIt cannot be denied that the years have brought great changes in the\nmethods of human worship. The contempt with which some of the later\neducators treat worship and religion betray an ignorance on their part\nboth of the true office of revelation and reverence, and this blinds them\nto the real, innate, fundamental longing of human life.\n\nThere are many who come away from the old thought and who believe in the\npromulgation of a new truth, but they attempt to build up the new through\nthe destruction of the old, and pass along as Iconoclasts seeking what\nthey can destroy. These lives are the lawful product of the undeveloped\nhuman comprehension, and the only safety for the race is in the fact that\nonly a few ever take them seriously, and these soon see that they are not\ninclusive enough to help more than the few, and that after a while, in\norder to meet the demands of their own increasing individuality, they must\nthemselves pass into wider union, into worship and get away from their own\nlimitations.\n\nHumanity must forever pass between the outside and the inside of life, and\nonly as each soul becomes awake in both conditions can it understand and\nunite with the laws of perfect being.\n\nNew Thought is conscious of the open door between the inside and the\noutside of life, the earth and Heaven, and it knows that each soul may\nlive from choice in either state of consciousness and pass in and out at\nwill.\n\nMan instinctively knows the difference between the inside and the outside\nof living; he can easily detect the laws of action, and the laws of\nsilence. The tendency of our New Thought development is to teach lives to\npass more and more into the inside power or, in other words, to come into\nthe unseen laws of being and work consciously with the energy that creates\nand which is unmanifested, while at the same time they manipulate the\nmanifested, external things, and through the understanding of the finite\nare able to bring into expression the absolute power.\n\nIt is slowly dawning upon the present day intelligence that through this\ninner side of mind we can become more and more capable of controlling and\ndirecting the outer states of human consciousness and men are recognizing\nmore and more that all physical objective form is inner spiritual\narrangement.\n\nToday humanity is looking at the cant and form and creed of the crowd, and\ngiving them their own rightful place, power and function, but it is also\nlooking at the unseen and daring to affirm that an audience with God is\nattainable, certain and possible and productive of its own natural\nexpressions in its own realm of higher recognition.\n\nToday more than ever before new strength is being born into what the world\ncalls the devotional element of humanity and it is being born on a sane,\nhealthy plane of understanding which bids fair to revolutionize the world.\n\nIt does not take long to see, when we look with a clear vision, that those\nwho display most power today, and who are productive of the greatest good\nto the developing world are not those who are living in fixed relationship\nwith the outside of life; it is true that those on the outer rim may boast\nof perfect physical strength and a perfect brain and a physical beauty,\nbut the victory today is not from the without, but it is rather for those\nwho are psychologically practical, mystically enlightened and subtle with\na deep scientific relationship with all nature's finer forces and who know\nlife not alone as a science or as a philosophy, or as a religion, but as\nan art.\n\nThe truth must some day beat its way into the developing minds of men that\nwe are now alive in a great age, and are coming to where the inside power\nmust become externalized and that those who today stand masters of life,\nand those who will continue to become masters of life and leaders in power\nand helpfulness, must do it by a development that is not so much\ncharacterized by their objective knowledge as by their subjective holiness\nor wholeness.\n\nWe must learn what we never seem to have learned before, that the moments\nwe spend in the external world are not wholly our strongest or sanest\nmoments and that all external outside action is the crudest form of\nenergy, and that when we want the _real_, we must turn the clear deep\neye of our nature toward the inner, the silent, and then all our power\nseems to well up and meet us, because it is called in from the apparent to\nthe Absolute of being.\n\nThe next great truth is that all the old ways of life are never thrown\naway until we have something to live by in the new; old truths never die,\nthey are always existent, but their methods of expression must be changed\nto suit the developing intellectuality and spirituality of man.\n\nIn the old thought life prayer was the pathway to the interior world of\npower, but today we know that recognition must be the guide to the\ninterior world of power. Prayer was the pathway of the old forefathers and\nprayer in its first inception was a straight road to the center of divine\nunion, but after the minds of men, befogged between the glamour of the\nexternal and the power of the internal, evolved a form of prayer that led\nthe race away from its center out into the rim of living, the power\nceased; prayer became full of cant and form, words became meaningless and\nnon-mystical; the truth that \"God is a Spirit and they that worship Him\nmust worship Him in spirit and in truth\" was lost in the increasing\nbewilderment of the mind.\n\nAfter a while humanity, seeing the futility of objective kind of prayer,\nceased its praying, not because it had worn out prayer, not because it had\nwandered from its desire of worship and soul communion, but because it had\nworn out the old useless method, and found the dross of the letter; no one\nstood developed to where he could push faith into a new interpretation.\n\nSelf examination and supplication is natural to every life as soon as it\ndevelops to a finer knowledge of what passes within itself. Until the last\nman of the earth is dead this natural cry for the communion with the inner\nstates of consciousness and the union with the great absolute God-life\nwill rise up and flourish and wax strong in the souls of men.\n\nWe have learned now too much of the inside of living to ever be happy with\nthe outside form alone, and we have seen too much of the unseen forces\nwithin us to ever yield ourselves servants completely to the external\npowers. Our spiritual analysis is too fine to permit crude interpretation.\nMen are leaving the old just as the seed must forever leave the mould and\ndust of earth, and push its stalk up into heaven's bright sunshine.\n\nToday we stop and in close self questioning and with a desire to know the\ntruth, and nothing but the truth, We ask what is it that has rendered the\nold thought piety of our fathers unnatural and impossible to us? It does\nnot take long to answer this if we look with eyes that have clearer sight.\nMen have turned away simply because they were too developed to be fed on\nthe husks of a worn out expression that was no longer large enough to\nsatisfy their developing thirst for Truth.\n\nOur New Thought methods have come because men built them with their\ndesires; they called for methods that would fit the increasing spiritual\ncomprehension of developing humanity.\n\nToday mankind is instinctively recoiling from every sense of separation\nfrom God which our fathers felt; human life has become more human; the\noutside of life is known at its real value, the inside of life is given\nits place and power; Love has become vitalized; human affection has become\nsweet and natural; human duties are blessed privileges and life is\nelevated to a pinnacle of power before unknown; social interests are now\nbeginning in all and ending in all; the whole scheme of man's natural\nmoral and religious existence has a true worth and dignity of its own, and\nhumanity is listening, accepting and delighting to honor and obey. Only\nthe life in the outside ranks of living will ever condemn this new rise of\npower, and only the cowardly can despise; it is whole, sane, sweet and\ndivinely human and humanly divine in its application and privileges.\n\nWe lost, perhaps, a great part of the old time manner of communion with\nGod because we first lost the old time spirit of supplication and the\ngroveling spirit of the outside world, but we have not lost communion or\ndevotion.\n\nToday we are at home in the center of being, and feel and know ONENESS. We\nhave union now just as those who _know_ truth have always had, but\nthe method differs, and Silence has taken the place of the spoken prayer,\nmeditation and silence is the new pathway to the Cosmic heart, and through\nthis the developing children of men walk into perfect union, receiving the\nmessages of the Divine Host. They come into a grand comradeship with God,\nnot in the old time spirit of supplication and service, not asking, not\nseeking really, not even penitentially suppliant, but in the new found\nglory of a faith that looks up in perfect confidence of its ONENESS, and\nwhich speaks from the very depth of its own glorified selfhood, and knows\nthat \"I and my Father are _one_ and all my Father hath is mine.\"\n\nThe new race will keep all that is vital in the old one of prayer and\ncommunion, and it will add to it all the great power of its own awakened\nconsciousness. We are awake now--wide awake to the despotism of the\noutside world and its laws--and we are equally awake to the law of the\ninner side of life and the dominion of the world of pure Being.\n\nToday the silence of our new understanding has become for developed humans\nthe pathway of God, and it is indeed the pool of Siloam in which all may\nbathe and be healed.\n\nThe Silence becomes for those who seek it a well of living water that\nsprings up into everlasting life.\n\nIt is promised that \"the pure in heart shall see God,\" and anyone who\ncomes away from the outside of life and comes stripped to the soul into\nthe inner side of his own being will find God there, for like the vision\nof the monk, He is always there, waiting to be manifest.\n\nThe outside of life is beautiful and sweet and has in it many forms of\nself-realization; it is part of the plan of human development, but it is\nonly a part and the lesser side of living, and after we have mastered its\nsecrets and understood our own relationship to it, it is natural to turn\ninward, and read the other side of our life's picture, and when we do this\nit will be strange indeed if we do not feel the Eternal presence so close\nupon our soul that we will long to say with bated breath, \"Thou God seest\nme.\"\n\nThe silence of the inner side of life and the power it produces cannot be\nput into words; it is the pathway to the Absolute and the _language_\nof _that_ land is not spoken in the outer world of sense and sight.\n\n_Know_ the inner side of life, then _live_ it--this is the\npathway of peace and power and along this way there is found that strange\nvital, vibrant glow of spiritual illumination sanctifying our senses, and\nfilling our soul and leading our mind into the fulness of Him who fills\nall.\n\nLife then becomes for us a something divinely sent, no longer distraught;\nno longer to suffer; nothing but reality and a reality that has been known\nby millions throughout the ages and will be known by millions yet unborn.\n\nDo not think that this turning into the inner side of living is weakness\nand cowardice and fear of the external world and its happenings; it is\nnot, it is simply all energies united; it is not fear nor halting power,\nbut it is rather the strength of the superhuman; it is not illusion, not\nself-hypnotism; it is a divine reality; it is God's witness to those who\nseek after his illuminated heights.\n\nThis living in the inner side of life each day is essential for the\npreservation of equalization of our daily life. The outside of life cannot\nhelp but become wearisome, and when we come away into the silence of our\ninner self, we find the thrill of life and we find the human made radiant\nwith the glory of the Divine.\n\nThe inner side of life answers all the questionings of our mind, and as we\nlearn this truth we depend less and less upon the things created, but live\nconstantly in the energy that creates, and through this operate our whole\nlife.\n\nSilence was first in the scheme of creation. Remember this: \"The darkness\nand the silence knew. So is a man's fate born.\"\n\nThere is no creation that will last that is born on the plane of external\naction for the law of that plane is change. In the hush of the valley of\nsilence we accumulate the inward power which pushes our external\nexpression into bloom. In the inner side of living the soul enlarges its\ndimensions and when it comes back into the earthly things it gilds them\nwith a glory not their own.\n\nThe inner side of life and its power is not a mysterious thing, it is only\nthe finding of God, and when we meet Him face to face, we speak in a new\ntongue; we live in a temple not made by hands, eternal in the heavens, and\nwe live in the truth of the olden mystics and say with the power of our\nnew consciousness: \"Our Father, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom has\ncome, Thy will is done on earth, as it is in Heaven.\"\n\n\n\n\nThe Measure of Ourself\n\n\n\n\"_And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and\nthe gates thereof and the wall thereof. And the length and the breadth and\nthe height are equal_.\"\n\nThe building of a glorious perfected selfhood, this is the work of every\nlife.\n\nWe all come into existence equal in privilege, we are all born equal in\nlatent power, which, if developed, will keep us shoulder to shoulder in\nthis game of living out; but not until this latent power is developed and\nbrought out into external manifestation can any life really declare its\nmastery.\n\nLife has one grand prize for all, and this prize is life's master\nposition. The chance to compete for this prize is given to all at birth,\nbut the power to push forward in the pursuit of it is only developed by\nthose who know that it is really within them, and knowing this begin\nsystematically to unfold it. Not everyone is equal in the externalization\nof this latent energy, and no matter how much or how little any life may\npossess it, still it has its own point of contact for power, and it can\ncome forth in its own way in wisdom of conquest.\n\nLife as we find it here on earth is like a great garden; each soul comes\ninto this world garden and its place and keynote is struck upon the harp\nof life and the registration is made in the universal harmony; then it\nmust work out its own part until it comes into perfect tune with the other\nparts of the great universal chord.\n\nNot a life is born into expression here, but in the unseen realm an angel\nor higher master ministers at its birth, and its name is written in the\nLamb's book of life (or the Universal Cosmic Mind). Each life drops into\nits own selected and appointed place; it has its own special mission to\nperform, its own lessons to learn, its own part to work out, and its own\ngrand privilege of development.\n\nIn essence all life is _one_, and all humanity is the same; the\n_One Life_ is in all and through all, without regard to class, creed\nor color, but in manifested expression we must forever be different; some\nlives are younger in their unfoldment--they are unfinished; some have\nfiner bodies through which to manifest consciousness; some are born into\npositions where there is more required of them than of others, for the\nprice of usefulness is the ability to be useful; some are never useful and\nlive idle aimless lives because they have not yet incorporated within\nthemselves the power to be of use to others.\n\nThe nation, the race, the individual and the environment are simply\nsignals which we hang upon ourself of just what we created and unfolded\nwithin our own consciousness.\n\nWe come the reaper of the things we sowed, and just where we find\nourselves here is the picture of how well or how ill we have used the\nyears behind us, but the privilege of new use and new development is still\nwithin us; we stand each day on the threshold of a new lifetime, ready to\nbegin over and over again our new unfoldment.\n\nAround each life is the _All Consciousness_, and it can fashion for\nitself a new world, made of the cosmic substance with which it is\nconnected.\n\nThe great unfolding mass of humanity pass along, taking themselves as a\nconfused bundle of states of being, acted upon by the external force of\npeople and environment, and in turn acting back with no conscious idea of\ncreation, never knowing that with what measure we mete it shall be meted\nunto us.\n\nThis process of being acted upon and acting back unconsciously, produces a\ntype of energy that cannot fail but bring forth masses of individuals who\nare in bondage, body, mind and spirit, for spirit has not sensed its\neternal birthright of liberty.\n\nLooking at this world garden full of natural wild flowers, called the\n\"human race,\" New Thought sees clearly that whatever response an\nindividual gives to his environment is the evidence of his own special\npower, and that this personal power may, by conscious control and\ndirection, give him complete mastery, and through this he passes\nuninterrupted into possession of life's master position and the prize of\npeace and power and wisdom.\n\nThe individual is always the actor; the environment is always acted upon,\nand this acting and acting upon again gives forth an expression, and the\nexchange and inter-exchange between the two produces what the world calls\nthe character of a life, and looking upon the product of this play of\nforces, we say \"he is a genius,\" \"he is a thief,\" \"he is a God-man,\" or,\n\"he is a degenerate,\" measuring with the example that is hung before our\neyes.\n\nUp to this point all men are really equal; they are simply alive in\nconsciousness, but just as the gardener takes the flower and transplants\nit to specialized soil, and causes it to bud and bloom with all the energy\nwithin it, just so man's own consciousness can take his soul and teach him\nhow he can lift himself into states of specialized human power and show\nforth all the glory of a divinely developed man.\n\nEveryone can take his place at any level of living that he chooses just as\nsoon as he knows that there is no one to say \"no\" to him but himself.\n\nStrong positive thoughts put truth into the hearts of men, and this builds\nthem upward and inward towards harmony.\n\nThis great universal law of harmonious consciousness is the reed with\nwhich everyone may measure himself and with which each one is taught to\ntake his own dimensions and never lay it down until his city of character\nstands equal in height, breadth, and depth, and length.\n\nWhen we measure ourselves by the golden reed of consciousness, we find by\nthe signs of ourself and our environment if our city of self is right, and\nif it is not we can rebuild it in finer architectural fashioning.\n\nThere are many lives that have neither breadth, nor height, nor depth,\nthey have only length; they pass along through life tied to one idea or at\nleast a few ideas; they are narrow, bigoted, selfish and careless about\nthe other dimensions of themselves; they see through their glass darkly,\nthe things of their own immediate knowledge are enough for them; they are\nexclusive and powerful in one direction, and humanity might break itself\nto pieces just outside their narrow life for they neither hear nor care;\nthey are all right, secure in their length of narrow, personal endeavor.\nThey are afraid of anything that is outside of their own field of vision,\nand their life is altogether too small and straight and strained, for any\nbut a few of their own kind to hold on to; their days are full of anxiety\nand worry, for their hold on truth is too weak to bring them to power, and\nwisdom.\n\nAgain, after we see how we measure in length, we can turn the golden reed\nupon ourselves for specialization in breadth, and often again we find a\nshortcoming. The breadth must also be equal; we cannot fail in our breadth\nand come into true wisdom, true breadth means inclusion--this may vary in\ndegree, but there must never be exclusion of anything in the well-rounded\ncharacter, there is conscious selection, but never exclusion; there is\nnothing _in_ or _under_ or _above_ the earth but that is companion\nwith us on our journey toward divine unfoldment.\n\nTo make the breadth of our life measure up in fulness, we must look with\nwide open eyes at everything and everyone in life, and take it at its own\npoint of unfoldment. Not in every life is found true wisdom of thought and\nexpression, but if we know the truth we will see past all the undeveloped\nthings within, to the beautiful God-self it is becoming and with wisdom\nand power and love include it in our own consciousness, waiting patiently\nfor its development.\n\nTo have breadth we must open our ears and our life to the call of the\nworld voice and live to answer it. We must hear it socially, ethically,\nindividually, financially, politically, religiously, spiritually, mentally\nand physically not only in our own way, but in every way can that one find\nGod within himself before he can find it through humanity; but when\nmeasured by the golden reed for the building of the new self, we must find\nGod or Good in and through every living creature.\n\nAll people love themselves and most people love their own families; and\nthis is right and good that it is so, but the breadth and height and depth\nmust be equal and that means inclusion of the universal as well as the\npersonal self. Jesus again told this when he said to the man who asked him\n\"What shall I do that I may have eternal life?\" And He said unto him:\n\"Keep the commandments\" and, \"Thou shalt not bear false witness:\" \"And the\nyoung man saith unto Him, 'All these things have I kept from my youth up;\nwhat lack I yet?'\" \"Jesus saith unto him: 'If thou wilt be perfect, go and\nsell all that thou hast and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure\nin Heaven and come and follow me.' But when the young man heard that\nsaying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.\" So when\nJesus measured him by the reed of breadth and deeper inclusion, he\nfollowed him no more, for the height, the breadth and the depth were not\nequal.\n\nTo give to ourselves and to our own, or to those who seem to have a claim\non us for anything, is good, but, to give to those who have not claim or\nkinship nor power over us is _greatness_. To include them in our own\nworld, not by might or force, but through recognition of union with the\none life--this is consciousness of breadth that remains immortal.\n\nAgain, the depth of a life must be equal, and how do we lack in this?\nThere are thousands today who flit along on the crest of the wave of\nlife's current, butterfly-like; they never really have a conscious\nthought. If \"it only does not affect me\" is their watchword, and freedom\nfrom anything serious is their only really serious problem. They know in\nan indifferent way that hearts break, that tears fall, that there are\nprayers that stagger upward through life's storm, but the froth and foam\nof life is in their eyes; they look out on the rim of a life where they\nsee only self-indulgence, and when now and then they are hushed long\nenough to listen to the world cry, they turn away quickly for fear they\nwill actually touch lives with the common people.\n\nSo long as they keep afloat they are content, their lack of depth does not\ndisturb them, but often after they have wasted their all in riotous\nliving, and the realities of life fall upon them, they cry out from the\ndepth of their own self-made despair; their life was like a palace built\non sand which the first fierce flood tide could destroy; it had no root,\nno place in consciousness when measured by the golden reed--the height,\nthe breadth and the depth were unequal.\n\nUnless the soul has root in soil divine, it cannot face earth's\noverwhelming expressions of the working out of the human laws which it\nsets in motion in the round of human living.\n\nThe life that would build sublime and lasting things to stand the test of\ntime, must drop its consciousness into the Absolute, and sink the string\nof thought into the fathomless!\n\nLights and shadows are strangely blended all along the human pathway; so\nfrom the very center of the deeps of life the incense of our illumined\nselves must still send up a faint sweet breath outward and onward,--then\nthe breadth as touched by the golden reed is equal.\n\nAgain, the height of the perfect self is also measured. No house so low\nbut it must have a window opening to the sky.\n\nAgain, there are many lives that touch the golden reed as it measures\noutward, downward, but are insensible of upward power.\n\nAbove the surge and din of life, amid its sorrows and its strife, the soul\nthat comes under the glory of the golden reed, must lift itself to the\nhills of specialized wisdom greater then the common consciousness.\n\nWe can find many noble, moral, natural lives equal in length and breadth\nand depth, but the height is lacking. Within many minds is lack of great\nsublime ideals, ideals that should be born in the illumined centers of the\nself. There are many who have no communion with their source; they are\nkind, sociable, natural, humanitarian, but lacking in that great wonderful\npsychological essence which makes the human half divine; the height of\ntheir life is unfinished, the golden reed is broken; they walk on superior\nin their knowledge until in some supreme hour of human grief, their soul\nis forced through some Gethsemane and opens its eyes to the need of a\nstrength beyond their own. Death, the grave and love teach them to look\nup, and hope higher than the earthly kingdom.\n\nAnd once more the measure of our soul goes on, and we find that often all\nis equal, but the height is _over-reached_; there are many forgetting\nbreadth and length and depth who measure into the very hill-tops of\nillumination, making their whole expression a dream of no value to\nthemselves or others. They are pure children of spirit; they live in a\nworld peopled with the dream-children of their mind and everything they\nproduce is vapid and useless in the world in which they live and have\nbeing; everything seems to pass away from them and their productions are\nas nothing under the crush and strain of life around.\n\n_Use_ is the world's great test of anything; unless it can be\nutilized by some one it is valueless to aid humanity; everything that\ncomes forth into form from any state of consciousness must prove its own\npower to persist, or it vanishes and is forgotten.\n\nNothing too high, nothing too low, nothing too wide, nothing too narrow,\ntoo shallow, but all perfectly adjusted--this is the measure of self, and\nwhen we know this the illumined life works out its own unfoldment, passing\nat will to any degree of consciousness.\n\nThis is the finished product of the life that knows how to specialize in\nconsciousness and it is made possible through deeper illumination. It\ngives to everyone the glorious physical, a depth of perception, radiant\nwith a refined energy and alive with all the latent power of instinct and\nharmony, and with this the brilliant mind with its breadth of unanswerable\nlogic, its fine facts, science of order and laws of physical adjustment.\nAnd added to both these we find the dream vision of the psychic, with the\npoet's soul of inspiration, sublime ideality and the gentle tender heart,\nalive with all the common human emotions; and at last, blended and\ntransmuted and made vibrant by that great spiritual insight born on the\nheights of human revelation we find ourselves whole, grand, developed,\nhumanly divine creatures, walking in glad comradeship with God.\n\nThis is the \"Holy Grail\" of selfhood and in the light of our higher\nunderstanding we look downward and outward and upward, and the length and\nthe breadth and the height are equal. We pass from the old race thought of\nlimitation and live in a divine atmosphere, and can say with a wisdom born\nfrom this fuller comprehension:\n\n\"_We know that if our house of this earthly tabernacle were dissolved,\nwe have a building of God--an house not made with hands, Eternal in the\nheavens_.\"\n\n\n\n\nPerfect Liberty\n\n\n\n\"_No man liveth to himself and no man dieth to himself_.\"\n\nThe more we look at humanity and study its expressions, the more we become\nconvinced of the truth of these words. It is not hard to see that our\nhuman ties are closely knit with everything and everyone, but it is not\nalways easy to understand how they have come to their sometimes almost\nhopeless tangle.\n\nWe are a part of everything in the universe, seen and unseen, and as we\nhave within us a response to every emotion, hope dream, impulse of any\nkind known or recognized by the human race. As we study and understand our\nrelationship to people, things and expressions, we cannot help but grow\ndeeper and deeper into the clearness of the great truth, namely, the\nuniversal and abiding one-ness of man and God.\n\nSome of our relationships in this one-ness are very indistinct and\nobscure, while some are very distinct and painfully objectified.\n\nThe first Truth for us to take up is this--we _have_ and\n_express_ in our being and our environment just these things with\nwhich we have related ourselves, either through inherited or acquired\nlines of thinking; no one gives to us but ourselves, no one takes away\nfrom us but ourselves, no one is to blame but ourselves whatever we have\nor have not; we, and we alone, are the architects of our own fortune or\nmisfortune.\n\nWe get everything in life by the law of conscious or unconscious\nrelationship with it through the simple act of thinking; our thoughts are\nlines of transference over which may pass to us not only the things which\nwe desire, but also those which our fear brings down upon us and which we\ndo not desire.\n\nUnconscious relationship differs from conscious relationship and brings us\nthe things with which we have connected through the law of omission;\nconscious relationship is union, and brings everything into expression\nunder the law of commission.\n\nBoth of these lines are constant and their results undeniable, but one\nbrings us the whole, the constructive, while the other opens our life for\nthe control of the destructive, the limited.\n\nWhen thinking passes into a fixed power in our life, it may be used to\nperfect or destroy the whole mechanism of our present and our future. Long\nlines of conscious and unconscious thinking bring about certain\nexpressions, and these expressions in time become a part of our very\nexistence, and our environment, good or bad, bears witness to this\nrelationship.\n\nOne day upon the streets of Boston I saw an old woman selling newspapers;\nher hair was gray, her skin brown and wrinkled, her clothing shabby and\nonly half sufficient for the chill of the hour; she was simply\npoverty-stricken, and her old, thin, piping voice trembled as she called\nher papers in an effort to compete with the crowds of newsboys around her.\nMany bought her papers, drawn to her through pity, and her evident need. I\nfelt sorry that with her gray hair so near the grave life should have only\nthis to offer her, and I sought a reason for it. I asked her to tell her\nstory.\n\nShe was the daughter of a minister; her mother had been the proverbially\nmeek little woman of history, perfectly fitted to be her father's wife.\nHer grandfathers on both sides of the parental tree had been ministers;\nshe gave me a graphic sketch of the long line of concentration which she\nhad been born into and in which she continued.\n\nThere was a long line for concentration and relationship with lowliness of\nspirit, for grace, for the utter sinking of self; lack of demand for place\nor power; lack of self-righteousness, absolute submission sown through\ngenerations, sown for her in her own life. It had to bring forth its fruit\nand it did bring it forth in the form of that gray-haired, beautiful,\nragged old woman, who, in the days of her declining years, gathered her\nharvest on the cold streets of a rich city, underfed, poor and alone.\n\nShe was still true to her inherited concentration, for while I questioned\nher she said, \"Health, money and happiness were not for her,\" and that\n\"her family had borne the cross of poverty and sickness all their lives\nand borne it nobly, and some day the Father would give them their reward.\"\nDon't you see that the mind that is poised where her mind was, and where\nher family's mind had been for generations, could not escape the law which\nthey had built for themselves.\n\nHere was an example of unconscious relationship; can't you see how\nunwittingly she hourly and daily made anew her relations with the very\nthings which must by their very nature divorce her from the things which\nshe never sensed belonged to her. The fixed thinking handed down to her\nfrom the past, bound her like a galley-slave and kept her life held\nagainst the law which was daily destroying her; she was unconsciously\nrelated and she remained unconsciously related to the laws which made for\nloss and lack in her life, unable to see the paths where she turned aside\nfrom her Father's house, and His universal abundance; blind to her power\nof new creating.\n\nWhen we begin to study our lines of unconscious relationship we find that\nwe are appalled almost at the ten thousand little tendrils which bind us\nto our old relationships; we think ourselves \"good easy man\" this moment,\nand the next moment sees us opening the door of our life to thought forms\nwhich if entertained, will certainly become for us a poor relation, and\ndemand our support for ages. We daily open our lives to endless tramp\nthoughts which dwell with us and in the end beggar us.\n\nWe need hourly to set a guard on our field of unconsciousness, and\nabsolutely refuse to admit into our daily mind any thoughts less than\nthose which distinctly relate us with all the beautiful things of life,\nand we must never forget the truth of the power of our own personal\ncreations. We can be what we _will_ to be; we can be related to\nwhatever we choose to be related to; we can choose this day whom we will\nserve and start the hour of our rebuilding.\n\nWhatever we have or have not is a positive picture of our relationship and\ntells to every passer-by the story of just how well we know how to\ncontrol, and direct our own thoughts, and whether we are living\nunconsciously or consciously.\n\nThe way to get the Perfect Liberty for ourselves is to understand fully\nthe secret of relating ourselves with it through the power of conscious\nthinking.\n\nThe moment that a life desires anything, be it health, wealth or love, it\nbecomes related with that thing, and the thought establishes a line of\ndirect transference; desire is the first out-reaching for the things which\nare necessary to fully develop our life. It is the God-push within us\ntrying to get our consciousness into expression.\n\nIn the past, the educators often called this power of conscious\nrelationship, \"persistency\"; have you not seen people whom the world\ncalled \"hobby riders\" or \"freaks\"? These people are only perverted in the\nexpression of conscious relationship; they hold their relationship to one\nthing to the exclusion of every other thing in their life.\n\nIt is just as much a form of misdirected energy to sink everything in life\nto one idea; to sacrifice health, friends, position, peace, everything, in\norder to gain one thing, as it is to have a diverse, indefinite, faltering\nidea of relationships and purposes. The true position is between them: ALL\nthings work together for the final good of man, and union with _all_\nthings, not _one_ thing, is the law of _universal_ development.\n\nOnce we have decided what we want to be related with we can afford to let\neverything take its own appointed time and place in our life, bringing\neverything up in its appointed place. All that we have to do is to keep\nour fixed point of attachment with it and this attachment is made through\npower thoughts.\n\nSubstance is always changing and so is our position to it under the common\nlaw, but under the conscious law of creation we change our position over\nand over again, but we keep the same hope until in some expected hour we\nstand face to face with our hope manifested in form.\n\nThere is no use running after anything; no use straining after it! We gain\nliberty not by resistance, denial or renunciation, but through union;\nunder the old law we worked on the plane of competition; in the perfected\nimaging or thinking we are living under the law of divine attraction, and\nwhatever we relate ourselves with in thought must come and join us.\n\nWhen we are under this law thousands of unseen hands reach out to lift us\ninto peace-crowned heights, and into relation with what we desire.\n\nWhen sickness has taken the place of health in our life, when disease has\ncrowded out our ease and comfort, we can know that by a long line of\nperverted thinking, perhaps both inherited and acquired, we have become\nrelated with those things which are under the law of pain, destruction and\ndisintegration. We may have done all this thinking unconsciously in the\npast, but there is now no excuse for us to go on with this old\nrelationship; it is senseless to again fill up our field of consciousness\nwith the old thought concepts.\n\nWhen we know the truth of this transference into form through thought\nrelationship, we have perfect liberty; we look at ourselves in a new\nlight, and begin to then and there pass this simple act of thinking into\nlines which will connect us with just these things which we desire; we\nquit forever our thought relationship with conditions which speak for lack\nor loss or limitations.\n\nWe fill our field of consciousness with thoughts of the strong, and the\nhealth of life; we shut out the diseased, the dwarfed, the imperfect. We\nforce the pictures of hospitals and sanatoriums out of our mind; we look\nat our bodies no matter how they look, or how much of disease they are\nthen expressing, and we see only the _whole_, the new, the complete.\nWe force ourselves to _know_ nothing but the great ALL HEALTH\nthoughts; we go back again and again to our relation with the abundance of\nhealth; we make ourselves deaf and blind and dumb to the absence of\nwholeness and our body slowly swings into line, and begins to express for\nus the nature of our conscious thinking.\n\nWe cease to consider ourselves related to anything that we do not want.\nDisease, pain, lack of health may have its place in the lesser\nrelationships of the human plane, but it is not found in the kingdom of\nconsciousness--the all-health within us; it cannot exist in this new world\nof spiritual chemicalization with which we have taken up our relations.\n\nWhen we want this perfect law of liberty, we do not recognize the\nexistence of the old, we simply occupy our whole thought time with the new\nthings with which we wish to make union.\n\nEvery condition of life that we consider desirable for ourselves we\nconvince ourselves is already ours, we reach out and lay hold of it, and\ngive it a line of transference into our life. This is not castle building,\nthis is Divine Relationship--the Perfect Law of Liberty!\n\nWe see the truth that the strong, the healthy, the happy, the powerful are\nliving in the same world, in the same universal energy that obtains for\nthe diseased, the weak, the sick, the unhappy; there is no reason why they\nmay not have every good and perfect gift.\n\nThere are almost as many healthy as there are sick in every hospital--the\ndoctors, nurses, porters, cooks, and servants, all hale and hearty,\nputting in their whole time caring for those who are half dead with\ndisease. What makes the difference? Just the difference of relationship.\nThey have not accepted mentally the same conditions, and even surrounded\nas they are with the sick and diseased, they refuse to be bound by the\nlaws which these patients have endowed with power over themselves.\n\nThey have learned the two great truths: There is nothing in all the world\nthat has any power over us except that with which we endow it, and there\nis nothing in all the world of which we need be afraid. Disease and\nsickness are signals of great negative conditions of mind which we have\nrecognized in thought, and exalted to the _king_ chair in our life\nand endowed with power to hold us in bondage.\n\nWe may escape in just that hour that we sense the power of our own\npersonal creation, and set up a conscious relationship with the positive\nconstructive things in our own consciousness. We become lords of our\nphysical conditions and our environment just as soon as we cut out all\nthought relationship with the laws which make for loss and lack. \"The\nspirit beareth witness with our spirit day by day that we are the Sons of\nGod,\" and as soon as the soul knows this it senses its divine\nrelationship, and is born again on the planes of a higher consciousness,\nand in the wisdom of its understanding it builds itself new conditions,\nand lives in a new world, surrounded with the objects of its own creating,\nat first subjectively, but in time manifested on the objective plane, to\nbear witness to the truth which its soul knows and obeys.\n\nWhen this is done we live in a new world made perfect by our own inspired\nworkmanship; we know nothing of disease and pain, we have never a morrow\nof fear, \"our today of content is eternal.\"\n\nThere are many who have mastered health, because it was the first thing\nthey demanded, and after they have done this, they find that they are\nstill related to the laws which make for poverty and lack in material\npossessions; they have liberty in flesh but not the perfect law of it in\nenvironment. There are those who have known the grinding hand of need, who\nhave stood with crushed lives, hopeless; with courage dead and the devil\nof despair crouched on their shoulder, whispering words of disappointment;\nthere are those who are homeless in a land of homes, and those who are\nstarving in a world of plenty; what can we say to them? How can we comfort\nthem and point them to the hope of a new endeavor?\n\nThe world is full of these half-fledged lives and we must answer them. In\norder to meet this expression we must go back again to our first truth,\nour first statement:--\"We _have_ and _express_ in our being and\nour environment just these things with which we have related ourselves,\neither through inherited or acquired lines of thinking; no one gives to us\nbut ourselves, no one takes away from us but ourselves, no one is to blame\nbut ourselves whatever we have or have not; we, and we alone, are the\narchitects of our own fortune or misfortune.\"\n\nAs soon as we can teach a life to know the truth of its own power of\nconscious thought relationship, it can face about and begin a new line of\nattraction and accumulation. It is an unwritten law that we pass on as we\nbecome fit, and we can at any moment begin a new thought attitude which,\nif persisted in, will relate us with everything which we conceive to be\nopulence or abundance.\n\nWhen we want to come into perfect liberty for wealth, we must never\nrecognize poverty or the things which make for it; we must refuse to sense\na separation from whatever we desire; the universal abundance is for all,\nand we get and express just the amount we have power to connect.\n\nThe ALL WILL wants us to have whatever we want, remember this! And it will\naid us to secure what we want and help us to keep it just so long as we\nshow we can make intelligent connection with it.\n\nWe must believe in our divine kinship with supply, and the divine kinship\nof every other soul with it; over the same line which we send out our\ndesire for abundance there will pass back to us the answer to our prayer;\nthe things we seek are seeking us; this is a great psychological truth\nwhich we can prove to ourselves if we try. Under the lines of the higher\nspiritual affinity the lines of transference never cross; our gain never\nbecomes another's loss, and _vice versa_.\n\nThe whole scheme of life is for freedom; it is only the perverted building\nof the minds of men that have externalized lack and bondage. We have\nforgotten the eternal promise, \"With what measure ye mete it shall be\nmeted unto you,\" we have related with lack of supply, never knowing the\ntruth that no one limits us but ourselves.\n\nUnder the law of liberty, we place ourselves in the very heart of divine\nopulence and though at first we cry abundance from the very depth of\npoverty, if we hold our life servant to this relation, all lack will\nslowly slip away from us, and we can, and _do_ walk out into new\nrelations of attraction, and become one with all that our Father hath.\n\nThis, then, is the truth of perfect liberty:\n\n  \"To him that hath shall be given, and from him that hath not shall be\n  taken away even that which he hath.\"\n\nThose who have laid hold of the Divine truth of abundance of supply and\nrelated themselves with it through the power of conscious thinking may go\non in calm security from demand to supply, coming each day deeper into the\nuniversal cosmic opulence of health, wealth, love and usefulness.\n\nThe word, then, to the sick or poverty-stricken or loveless is this:\nRecognize your union with whatever you desire; reach out and make relation\nwith it through the power of conscious thinking; look with wide open soul\neyes straight into the face of the Universal Being, and taking your wants\nfirmly into your mind walk on in your daily life demanding them and\nexpecting them to manifest; never lay down your consecration until it does\nexpress for you.\n\nMake every conscious relationship one with health, wealth, love and\nusefulness, accompanied by peace, power, plenty and divine realization.\n\nAs soon as we lift our personal life to the level of the universal life in\npositive recognition of our own, it will come to us and abide.\n\nUnion with the cosmic life is a possible thing here and now; the human\nlife is but the remote picture of our place in the universal; our life's\nrelations may become the flowers on our tree of life, and our manifold\nexperiences the fruits of our own growing and all life be one perfect\nround of liberty born from conscious righteous choice.\n\n\n\n\nCosmic Therapeutics\n\n\n\n\"_And He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was\nstayed_.\"\n\nThe greatest secret of the age is the connection with and manipulation of\nthe cosmic energy.\n\nIn every age and every race men have stumbled on to relationship with\ntheir atmospheric environment and have each demonstrated it in their own\nway, but it remained for the twentieth century investigators to give us\nthe real key to our continuous connection and the methods by which this\nconnection could be demonstrated to the thinking world.\n\nThe minds of the past taught us the existence of an atmospheric\nenvironment and to a degree manifested our connection with it, but\naccomplished it through the medium of objective lines of connection and\ntransference; today we are finding the new truth that man is able to\ncreate his own environment even to the most minute thing and create it\nfrom atmospheric energy lifting his creations aloft in his life in finite\nform through the medium of a power that, in its first expression, far\ntranscends sight and touch.\n\nToday we know that the great Cosmic currents in which the whole world\nlives, and moves, is nothing but a vast undifferentiated sea of energy.\nThis energy is acting always in the formless as electrical currents; these\ncurrents are always waiting to be set in motion with any other current\nwhich corresponds with them in electrical reaction either positive or\nnegative.\n\nMan's whole atmospheric environment is formed of these currents and he is\na localized attracting center, registering in himself and his environment\njust those electrical reactions with which he relates under the great\nCosmic law of correspondence.\n\nWe have found in the past that these atmospheric currents can be sent as\nvibrations through the medium of any object that is brought into relation\nwith them and the degree of registration depends upon the instrument used.\n\nIn some rates of vibration these waves may be made to become heat; in\nothers, cold; in others, light; in others, sound; in others, just motion,\nwithout sound being separated. Physical science has given us examples too\nnumerous to mention of the positive expression of enforced vibration in\nrelation to objective things, but it was left for Marconi to show\nconclusively that these vibrations may be produced and transmitted through\nthe medium of the atmospheric waves themselves, and psychology has shown\nthat any instrument, either mechanical or human, may register vibrations\nin the very moment they are attuned to them.\n\nAtmospheric environment has passed deeply into the development stage\nscientifically, and even in this it does not yet really appear what it may\nbe, but it is easy to see how all atmospheric energy becomes really a\nsubstance from which every skilled mechanic may create his own expression.\n\nMetaphysically, it is plain to see that man is only one part of this great\ncosmic energy, and that standing as he does, a localized point in the\nocean of formless vibrating ether, he becomes a specialized, attracting\ncenter and the lines which connect him with this ocean of energy are his\nown thoughts.\n\nIn the physical plane men use wires and machines and objective\nlocalization, but on the higher planes of consciousness we only need to\nuse the vibrations of that plane, and the higher connecting thought wires\nbecome as tangible to those who use them as do the objective connections\non the physical planes.\n\nOn the human plane our thoughts become the metaphysical avenues of\nconnection; with thoughts we reach out into this formless ocean of cosmic\nenergy and create through recognition the things which we desire, and our\nenvironment under this law becomes the world-picture of just what we have\nhad the power to create for ourselves.\n\nThis cosmic substance is neither great, nor small, finite nor infinite, it\nsimply is substance from the highest to the lowest expression of life.\nThere is no escaping this universal product of energy. We ourselves are\nIt!\n\nThe physical universe, and everything that we call matter, is simply\n_universal energy_ manifested in form; everything expressed on the\nphysical plane is cosmic energy materialized; and every human being is\nonly this cosmic energy localized and expressed in human flesh and form.\nForm is only the physical side of Divine mind.\n\nIn this ocean of universal energy or atmospheric environment which we call\nformless, there is always some form of some kind, but the formless is a\nform too high for our human mind to comprehend, we have not yet reached\nthe plane of unfoldment where we have cosmic recognition.\n\nAs we investigate this atmospheric environment, we find it has two\ndistinct forces at work within it, and these forces are the positive and\nnegative reaction of its atoms. This positive and negative reaction of the\natoms is continually going on, and they each have their corresponding\nembodiment in the eternal world of matter; they act independently or\ntogether, and when one has learned how to blend these two reactions in his\nconsciousness, as do the skilled magi, he has come to the center of his\nown and universal being.\n\nIn the manifested world of substance, mankind takes its place in one or\nboth of these energies; it is drawn into their expression by the universal\nlaw of attraction. Each life is in its first expression, positive or\nnegative in its cosmic polarity. In the universal interpretation, we learn\nto look upon the positive life as the creative, and the negative life as\nthe receptive.\n\nEvery individual is just what he is by the natural law of his own cosmic\nrelationship, and he will remain just what he is at any point of progress,\nand express himself in his own way until he grows into a deeper state of\ncomprehension, and knows the method of changing his cosmic positions.\n\nWhen we get the truth of the universal energy in our minds and realize\nthat this energy is really positive and negative, and that both these\nreactions have their corresponding material manifestation in ourselves,\nthen we are ready to go farther into the study of the registration of this\nenergy, and from this into the higher psychology of function.\n\nThere is nothing in this atmospheric environment of ours that is not\nendowed with intelligence. Everyone who postulates a _first cause_\nbegins with the universal _intelligence_. This _intelligence_ is\ngiven to us as a beginning, it remains with us to the end.\n\nThe acceptation of the truth of the unity of intelligence is the first\nstep toward investigation. All finite life is an embodiment of universal\nsubstance and intelligence in some form--this is truth.\n\nPhysical scientists everywhere are showing us the infinitesimal lives\nworking continually and in ways that are wonderful.\n\nPsychologists are opening daily the hidden chambers of this physical and\nmetaphysical world, and giving us high lights on what we once thought\nimpossible of investigation; they are showing us astounding examples of\nconscious ideation in every order of life, and are aiding us to draw\ninteresting conclusions.\n\nThere is a great universal intelligence and a remote finite expression of\nthis intelligence; the lesser is always dependent upon the greater and our\nhuman life becomes the microcosmic pattern of the macrocosmic world.\n\nWith this premise firmly under our feet let us go on to the question of\nthe intelligence of the physical tissues of the human body, and our\nrelation to disease, health, poverty and opulence.\n\nEvery cell of our physical body is intelligent and capable of being\ninstructed into finer grades of expression; this is the process by which\nwe refine matter into spirit and by which we pass from a lower to a higher\nexpression of wholeness and build our cells into a grade of consciousness\nso high that we produce objective expressions of such perfect response\nthat we become the higher revelation of the cosmic consciousness.\n\nThe higher we go in intellectualizing ourselves, the closer we draw to the\ncosmic consciousness, and the more familiar we become with its laws. The\nhighest life is the one that includes the most.\n\nIt is a natural law that we have at all times unconscious thought relation\nto the universal abundance and our thoughts are the conscious agents of\nconstruction and destruction, and we work through them as soon as we are\nold enough to think and reason.\n\nDisease and poverty would never manifest for us if we did not some time\nrecognize it in our atmospheric environment with our thoughts, and work it\nout on the objective plane through the law of atomic attraction.\n\nWhenever doubt, worry, anger and negative thoughts take possession of our\nfield of consciousness (the everyday mind), we are creating these things\nfor ourselves in the cosmic currents and they cannot refuse to register in\nform either in our body or in our environment.\n\nIt can be seen that if, year after year, we separate ourselves from the\npositive creative cosmic intelligence, and put up our images of personal\nlimitation, the creative intelligence is joined to the weaker energy and\ncannot refuse to work out the conditions with which they are related.\n\nThe human mind is the agent which must be taught to stand as sentinel and\nforce our minds to people our currents with thoughts which make only for\nthe perfect health, perpetual opulence and divine realizations.\n\nThe minor intelligence of our cells would just as readily work out the\nuniversal law of perfection if we only knew enough to intelligently direct\nthem and not overpower them by our negative personal directions.\n\nWhen we have once established in our minds the truth of this universal\ncosmic intelligence, in which there is no sickness, poverty or death,\nunless we recognize it, it does not take us long to work out better\nconditions for ourselves in the physical body and environment.\n\nNo matter what our lack may be, we can know that it is because we have set\nour human thought to work under a personal negative law instead of a\npositive creative universal one. We have only to stop, face about, and\nbegin to direct our thoughts intelligently, and in union with the higher\nplan, and solicit co-operation with all the finite forces around us.\n\nIf we find ourselves diseased, with pain, and physical mal-positions we\ncan speak to our physical cells as we would to a friend and connect them\nwith the higher creative currents and help them to get into a higher form\nof building; they are ready at any moment to answer, \"The sheep know their\nshepherd's voice and obey it.\" They must begin to build in the new\nlikeness and in the very moment that we consciously direct them; this is\nthe law, there is no appeal from it.\n\nEverything comes to us from the Infinite atomic ethers through the law of\nDivine attraction, and when we have built and rebuilt our cells into an\nintelligent relationship with absolute wholeness, we become a magnet, so\nhighly sensitized and so magnetic and carefully polarized, that we are an\nattracting center for everything in our atmospheric environment, and our\nphysical body and our environment become the expression of our thought\nworld.\n\nWhen we know enough to send our thoughts into the universal energy with\nonly the recognitions of positive creations, such as health, wealth, love,\ndivine realization and actualization, then our material world must be made\nthe immediate reproduction of these things.\n\nThe sick world passes along with all its thoughts poised in the\ndestructive recognition; we meet them upon this pathway, and knowing the\nlaw of the higher constructive power of building we must meet their\nquestioning with some answer that will restore them to the state of\nconsciousness they have lost.\n\nThe very first truth that every sick life must know is that thoughts are\n_things_, and make themselves felt in form, and that in the great\natmospheric energy, like attracts like. Our consciousness becomes for us\nthe wireless stations which attract and register the universal messages,\nand each station attracts its own from whatever plane or state of\nconsciousness it vibrates.\n\nThe invisible world is _something_ and its substance is\n_something_, and that we do not understand it and have improper\ncorrespondence, is no proof that the power of correct correspondence does\nnot exist.\n\nThere are great occult laws of relationship always awaiting our deepening\ncomprehension:\n\n  \"_Till one appears who bears,\n   All nature silent is,\n   Silent for evermore,\n   Beating its waves of force\n   On an unanswering shore\n   Till one appears who bears_.\"\n\nThe cosmic atmospheric energy in which we live, move and have our being is\nalways ready to become manifested in form, and may become manifested by\nanyone who knows how to create a form for himself.\n\nIt has been manifested in many varied forms by the children of men, but it\nhas not yet entered into the hearts of men to conceive of the glories that\nare yet awaiting them when one appears who really does hear, and knows the\nfull truths of cosmic power.\n\nThis is the secret of Cosmic Therapeutics, and those who know this secret\nreally do become the twentieth century mystics and are rulers over the\nmanifestations of finite and infinite energy. When we come to this point\nof demonstration we are the world's greatest physicians. With this\nknowledge we may conquer not only disease and poverty and despair, but we\nmay overcome the last enemy--Death, and live and have being in a world of\nuniversal power.\n\nThere are grades and grades of intelligence both in the human and the\nAbsolute mind: All grades of cosmic currents are ever ready waiting to\nrespond to those who touch them; there is nothing mysterious or\nunattainable about them; they are the natural results of natural laws, and\nwe come into union with them through growth and recognition.\n\nWe first come to a consciousness of our universal, atmospheric\nrelationship with all that is, then we learn to understand the response\nthat comes to us from every person and everything; then we reach out in\nperfect faith with our deep of need, calling to the deep of supply, and\nthe doors of a thousand hidden chambers of nature open bringing divine\nrevelation into our souls.\n\n\n\n\nAbsent Treatments\n\n\n\nThe sick world has always had its scientific and religious investigation,\nand in addition to this new-found power of atmospheric creation there is\nanother great truth which the sick world must know in order to make its\nown union, and this is the truth of the power to manipulate these Cosmic\ncurrents not only of our own creation, but for anyone who touches our\nlife; we cannot only think and realize and actualize for ourselves, but we\ncan reach out into the formless energy and create, direct and control\nthese great universal currents so that they will have the power to rebuild\nanother's life.\n\nWe have a great psychological Cosmic truth known as \"absent treatments\"\nbut which is really COSMIC THERAPEUTICS in our new understanding; we use\ncosmic currents to heal ourselves and we manipulate them for another\nthereby eliminating time and distance; we get behind the things created\nand understand and deal with the Energy which creates.\n\nThe sick world has tried all the things of the physical world through the\nmedium of objective lines of transference--drugs, electricity, diet, baths\nand what not, each one a part of the cosmic consciousness, but it finds\nthat the laws still exist, and as long as they remain related with the\nlaws of disease in flesh it will manifest for them in flesh.\n\nAbsent treatments is the power to connect with and direct the Cosmic\natmospheric currents which make for positive expression of health, and\nwhen we have laid hold of this power, we can change at will any vibration\nof negativeness with which we find ourself or others expressing, and we do\nit through the power of thought, feeling and revelation.\n\nThese higher laws of relationship are only mysterious and strange to those\nwho do not understand; the Hottentot stands in wonder and amazement at the\nX-ray machine, but the skilled operator turns on its power in spite of\nthis ignorance and disbelief, and it works whether he believes it or not.\nJust so the skillful operator in Cosmic Therapeutics can generate, control\nand direct the power of the Cosmic consciousness which he understands, and\nit brings its results whether the skeptical mind of man accepts or denies.\n\nThis power to manipulate nature's finer forces is only hidden from those\nwho do not seek to find; in the moment a soul knows that it is possible to\nconnect through thought and to manipulate through consciousness, it is\nborn into union with the Energy that creates and can say, \"Let there be\nlight\" over its own world.\n\nWe can stand in the great Cosmic Energy and with tools a thousand times\nfiner than the finest X-ray or vibratory machine known to science and\nproject our thought power into regions of an ether so fine, so vibrant, so\nvital that the very touch of them upon our being fills us with the great\npulsing energy of the universe. In just the instant we connect with these\ncurrents our old vibratory rates of living are changed and we have passed\nfrom death into life; we are healed to stay healed through conscious union\nwith the ALL-HEALTH currents of the Universe.\n\nThere are many clumsy operators in any field of science, and there are\nplenty of them in this new world of Cosmic Therapeutics, but investigation\nand application give unfoldment and skill, and we will soon pass into such\na complete understanding of these higher laws of being that it will be a\nnovelty to find a life unacquainted with them, and everyone will be using\nCosmic Therapeutics in some degree.\n\nThe fundamental law of absent treatments is the truth of the Oneness of\nlife and intelligence, and the ready response of the Absolute intelligence\nto the finite mind.\n\nEach life has its own direct line of thought connection with this\nUniversal Energy, and no matter where it stands in its comprehension, it\ncan be taught to understand this simple truth of thought relationship.\n\nWe can think ourselves to the outermost rim of things and there connect\nwith the diverse differentiated energy which can only make for disease and\nlack, or we can think ourselves to the very center of the Cosmic heart and\nfind there the \"peace that passeth understanding.\" We find this center and\nattract its energy through human thoughts of power, love, hope, faith,\njoy, purity, patience and consciousness of infinite union, and our every\naction carries with it into the external world a power that manifests for\nus as health in our body and wealth in our environment.\n\nWhen we know that all life is universal atmospheric intelligence and that\nit responds to us from any point we touch it, we need then only to throw\nourselves into conscious thought union with everything which we desire;\nforgetting all the weak negative things we do not desire, and this\nconscious connection leads us into relation with the energy that must\neventually manifest in form.\n\nIf we want to heal ourselves we stand with our whole life open to the\npositive creative Cosmic currents and let them beat through us and around\nus; we WILL then and there to pass our whole being into union with every\ncreative universal force, and to feel the power of its energy sweeping\nthrough us; we hold our life to this higher understanding until the great\nflood tide of the universe comes sweeping along our veins and through our\nbeing, washing away in its resistless force all the lesser moorings which\nhold us to the thoughts of disease or decay; we have then the life more\nabundantly than is promised and we feel that we have entered into that\nplace that is prepared for the people of GOD; we are healed to stay healed\nfor the very life blood of the universe is in our veins.\n\nIf we then want to give an absent treatment, and send to another this\nEnergy that creates we just take the thoughts of our Cosmic atmospheric\nrelationship in our mind, and reaching out first in perfect thinking we\nbuild for them a perfect thought body, and place it in the Cosmic Energy;\nholding fast to this image we pass with it into the deeper states of being\nwhere thinking ceases, and KNOWING is the law, and we bid them stand forth\nwith us in conscious union whole, complete, the God-child, one with the\nALL-HEALTH of the Universe.\n\nWhen we can do this, our work is finished, and we can let them go, secure\nin the consciousness that they are one with us in strength and power. When\nwe have really understood this higher law of recognition we look with\nall-seeing eyes into the face of Cosmic Intelligence, and we see the\ninfinite supply answering our finite lack, we abide in a position of\nknowing which passes us externally into health of body and environment.\n\n\n\nHow to Give Absent Treatment\n\n\nConcentrate your mind on the one whom you wish to heal, then build a\nmental vision of him; see him in consciousness just as whole and perfect\nas if he was really radiant with health. Make believe that he is standing\nbefore you a perfect picture of physical perfection, work on your vision\nuntil you can produce and hold the most beautiful idealized picture of\nhuman beauty of flesh, form and character. Never forget to illumine your\nperfect thought-patient with a divine light of spiritual radiance. This\nperfected \"make-believe-self\" must be the risen God within them and it\nmust come forth resplendent in a new glory. When you can hold a perfect\nvision of him and make yourself blind to anything but this image of\nbeauty, health and power--then place him in the Divine Life and leave him.\nGod, the great universal intelligence, will make the balance good. He will\nfinish what you have begun. There is concerted action between the atomic\nmind of infinite substance and the mind of man, \"and as the Father raiseth\nup the dead and quickeneth them, so has he given the son the power to\nquicken whom He will.\"\n\nThis vision held daily and intensified by belief and conscious command\nwill be accepted by the spiritual consciousness of the patient and whether\nhis surface mind accept it or not, his deeper consciousness gives the\nstimulation to his body and this registers it in form and he is healed to\nstay healed through the silent laws of mind. \"And he stood between the\nliving and the dead and the plague was stayed\" because by his own\ntranscendent consciousness he set in operation the higher laws of\nintelligence in substance.\n\nIt is written that in the Psychological Institute in France, Professor\nPrisbram, in one of his psychological experiments, asked a patient to\nthink powerfully and concentratedly upon a make-believe vision of a\nbottle--he did, with his hand on a sensitive plate in a developing fluid,\nand slowly the picture of the bottle registered upon the plate.\n\nJust as this make-believe bottle registered upon the plate, just so does\nthe make-believe perfect flesh-body register in the cells of the old, and\nunder the law of renewal of tissue, it is developed into form. This vision\nis the true self that is latent in every life. \"The first man, Adam, was\nof the earth, earthy, the last man, Adam, was a living soul.\" \"There is a\nbody terrestrial and there is a body celestial, and the glory of the\nterrestrial is one and the glory of the celestial is another.\" And with\nthe vision of the celestial body, in which the consciousness vibrates as a\nliving soul, our treatment is accomplished and we have made our mind a\nconscious part of the mighty plan and we can ask whatsoever we will and it\nwill be granted.\n\nHow often shall we treat an absent patient?\n\nThree times daily and between these times forget them utterly, give them\nto the Cosmic forces, the Absolute. Holding on to a patient in thought\noften delays his recovery. When you have done your spiritual visualizing\npowerfully and perfectly, stop! The Universal Law will do the rest; never\ngive an anxious thought to them, nor recognize death; vibrate life and\nmore and more life to them and just as the current runs along the wire\njust so this silent Cosmic intelligence will flow from you to them, and\nhealth will come, sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly, back along their\nveins.","title":"Freedom Talks No. II","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":27514}