FREEDOM TALKS

No. II

JULIA SETON, M. D. 

AUTHOR OF "CONCENTRATION, " "FREEDOM TALKS NO. I, ""MARRIAGE, " ETC. , ETC. 

Contents

 I The Secret of Healing II The Risen Self III Transcendentalism IV Psychology of Insanity V The Law Eternal VI The Outside and the Inside of Life VII The Measure of OurselfVIII Perfect Liberty IX Cosmic Therapeutics X Absent Treatments

FREEDOM TALKS

NUMBER II

The Secret of Healing

"_In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the wordwas God_. "

"_And the word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld hisglory full of grace and truth_. "

 Ever since the birth of the human race there have been health anddisease. Everywhere we find those who live at levels of comprehension thatcannot express in flesh the perfect power of the word and these must bynatural law take on the form of whatever they have power to comprehend. 

Health is man's immortal birthright; it is eternal in the universal plan, and it can be made to become eternal in the life of men in just the hourthey understand the laws of their own being. 

There are two expressions of energy in the universe; one is called theconstructive, the other the destructive; the one builds up, the othertears down. This must forever be so, for only as matter is destroyed andpassed back into energy can the energy pass out again into finer forms. 

Living in these great universal currents of construction and destruction, man relates himself constantly with one or both through the simple law ofhis own consciousness, and only as he learns the laws of his own being andconsciously places himself in a position of power can he ever hope toescape the results which the negative, destructive currents produce in hisbody and his environment. 

Today we know that the world in which we live is nothing but a great seaof energy which, in the undifferentiated, is called God, and in thedifferentiated is called matter or form, or, to make it more simple, wecan call one the energy that creates, and the other the things createdfrom and by this energy. 

Man and his environment are created by this energy: He is a localizedcenter of force and he becomes the expression in form of just whatever herelates with under the law of cosmic correspondence. 

We have found that this great energy is also _intelligence_ and isnothing but mind with its various manifestations. We know today that theatoms of the atmosphere are intelligence, and as they touch one anotherthroughout space, it is through this atomic mind that messages arecarried, and currents are generated which can heal patients at a distance. 

Everything in the universe is in a state of intelligent association, andwhen the atoms become expressed in human form, they pass into thatexpression of the universal mind known as _human_ consciousness. 

All human life is simply different tastes of consciousness brought aboutby the different vibratory rates to which our atoms respond. 

The physical body is composed of a group of atoms attuned to move at acertain vibratory rate, and within this physical body is another body offiner atoms attuned to a still higher vibration and in relationship withthe higher electrical currents of the universe. There has not been muchtold about this finer body, but it is time the sick world knows this lawof being, for then it will be in a position to control its own life. Thisfiner body is the "thought body" or psychic body and it is upon this thatthe physical body depends for its power, just as the very best instrumentin the world depends upon the player for its expressed melody. 

All sight, all hearing, all function is in this psychic body, not in thephysical one. What many of the psychologists call the subconscious mind isonly the registered intelligence of the psychic self. This psychic self isin direct communication with the cosmic self and with the physical self, and it is through this we become cosmic in our human consciousness. 

The psychic body manifests through _idea_ centers of the human brainand it is directly related with the cosmic currents through the solarplexus of the physical body. The higher _concept_ centers of the mindare the switchboard where connections are made, and it is in this way thatthe psychic body registers its vibrations in the physical, and thephysical registers in the psychic--there is a circle of consciousnessestablished by the two minds. 

This wrould be of no particular value to us, if it did not prove to us thesource of disease, for when we look scientifically and psychologically atdisease, we must see that it is simply disassociation between the psychicand the physical selves, and comes as the natural loss of poise, eitherphysically, mentally or psychically. 

Watching the play of human disease around us we can soon see that thereare two distinct ways by which disassociation of these selves begins;first, through the mind by negative thinking, and second through theemotions by negative feeling. 

Our thoughts and our will are the great avenues by which we admit anythinginto our psychic self, and are also the means by which we exclude allthings. 

The whole poise of an individual can be destroyed by thoughts of fear, hate, grief and anger; fright has killed and all these states of emotionare simply grades of vibration, setting up inharmonious, psychicalactivity, and leaving their corresponding effects upon the physical cells. 

It is known only too well today by those who seek to know, that back ofall such physical conditions as nervousness, prostration, temporaryinsanity, nervous disorders, pains resembling rheumatism, hay fever, hearttroubles, mental symptoms, nervous chills, morbid forebodings and mildmania, there lurks the abnormal activity of the psychic or "thought body"caused by thoughts and feelings acting abnormally upon the vital centersof the nervous system and mind. 

New Thought declares that all diseases, except accidental wounds andfractures begin in the psychic or "thought body" as _energy_ and thenare registered in the physical cells as organic or functional disease. 

We might follow this farther in order to satisfy science, but suffice itto go this far, and then seek the value of knowing this: We can see thatthe only thing that naturally follows is, the healer and patient must betaught how to restore the lost equilibrium of the centers and again poisethe life in a creative thought vibration. This is done simply and surelyby teaching everyone the _correct_ use of the _idea_ centers ofthe human brain and through this he is taught to form such thoughts andproduce such ideas as will allow a normal amount of energy to register onboth planes, and not permit the psychical mind to drive the human engineon to destruction in a wild waste and explosion of physical, mental orpsychical energy. 

This is not a long or wearisome task for in the cortex of every brainthere are distinct _idea_ centers whose business it is to take upideas built from thoughts, and _will_ must follow the idea, and byconstantly selecting the thoughts which will produce harmonious vibrationswithin the psychic and physical selves, we join with the great creativeenergy of the universe and it flows through us, healing and harmonizingevery atom of our body. 

The very first step toward healing is to teach the patient to build forhimself a _health_ consciousness, and this is done by giving him thepositive ideas of health instead of the negative ones of disease. We buildfor him the _idea_ of health, hold it firmly in our minds, andproject it into his _idea_ centers until it registers in his psychicmind; then this is followed by his own increased power of willing, andfinally this passes into action and is registered in form. 

_Ideation, willing_ and _doing_ is the great _healthtrinity_, and when this is produced, healing must follow. This is the_law_ and there is no appeal from it. 

When we first meet a diseased person we find his field of consciousnessfull of all kinds of negative thoughts of disease, worry, fear andanxiety--these have been persisted in so long that they have weakened boththe idea centers and the power of willing. We at once create for him thepositive idea motor-form, and if his conscious mind is too weak to receivethe impulse, we project it into his psychic mind, helping him hold on tothe new idea until his own mind is able to grasp it, and it becomesregistered for him. 

After he has learned the truth of the abundance of health energy withinand without to be aroused into action by the simple law of his ownthoughts and feelings, he sets to work to regenerate himself, and he findsthat he can really breathe the breath of life into his own nostrils. 

After we have seen the scientific side of the real power of healing, thenif we want to get health and keep it, we set about studying how to liveour life so as to be able to generate thoughts and feelings, at all times, which shall always move us at a creative health vibration. The very nextthing for anyone seeking health is to get easy in his everyday life; noone can ever be well and live with every nerve on a tension. We need toknow the higher law of life that teaches us that no one put us anywherebut ourselves; that no one is to blame but ourselves for what we have orhave not; we get and have in this world just what we have the power torelate with and will get free from the thing we do not like in just thehour that we build something better for ourselves. All we need to do is tocease resisting conditions and agree with our adversary quickly. Freedom, liberty and happiness are not things of the external world; they come fromwithin and we are sad or happy, bound or free, sick or well, not by ourexternal but by our internal conditions. 

The sick, nervous, peevish, worrying mind sees everything as positive toitself and must be taught that there is nothing in all the world that hasany power over us except that with which we endow it, and it must begin tolive under this idea rather than the old foolish one of being controlledby every external condition. 

"God hath not given us a spirit of fear but of love and of power and of asound mind, " and with persistent thought culture we can soon form a habitof thought and feeling that will build us away from our old consciousnessof disease and pain into a higher law of health and strength. 

Good, positive, strong health thoughts are a certain preventive and curefor every kind of disease. Disease and health have absolutely no relationwith each other; disease is the expression of a faltering, undevelopedsoul life, while health is the expression of a consciousness that has notbroken its law of universal recognition. 

There are very good people who are sick and very many so-called bad folkswho are well; health is not bestowed as a reward of merit, it simply is bythe natural universal law, and it exists for those who know how to fulfillthe law within their own being. There are many so-called wicked people wholive in greater harmony with their wickedness than some so-calledChristians can ever do with their religion and goodness. Wholeness orholiness means simply harmony, and harmony inside and outside giveshealth. Anyone who has health has earned it by obeying the laws thatproduce it. 

Another great factor active in producing inharmonious vibrations andregistering destructive energy, is the old thought habit of living underthe laws of opposites, thinking thought of health today and of diseasetomorrow; to be passing daily between hope and despair. This is sowingmixed thought seeds and cannot help bringing mixed vibrations. 

The path to a health consciousness is to get the strong, positive idea ofUNITY and live under the law of similars. To begin at once to affirm UNIONwith all the health and strength of the universe and stick to it in theface of all the opposing negative thought vibrations generated withinourselves, or thrown into our minds by others. This can be done byresolutely substituting a health thought for a diseased one; no matter howfast negative thoughts crowd in upon the mind, they can be antidoted bythe strong positive affirmation of HEALTH. 

In order to register _health_ vibrations we must _think, feel_and _be_ health in mind. The words of health, peace, power andstrength do not unfold into radiant flesh and dwell among us through afaltering idea of fear, or vague "perhaps, " or "I do hope I shall bewell, " or "I want to get well, " but it demands the eternal I AM HEALTHNOW. 

Courage, zeal and consecration to the laws of health and freedom from thelaw of death are not kindled by the halting consciousness full of the lawof opposites, but they are the results of _knowing_ and _abiding_. When we can in very truth and full of believing say to health, "Thykingdom come, " it _will_ come. 

Our daily thoughts then become the wires over which there passes into forma finer substance, and our body is rebuilt and fashioned from theindestructible _substance_ of the Universe. 

The mortal body as we know it in the old thought world, is a thing ofearth and lives and suffers earth's calamities, but through theunderstanding of this New Thought _union_ it can be made to become aportion of the _cause_ as indestructible as _life_ itself, andlive and glory in omnipotence. 

We are then in the resurrection of the _life_, and the _word_that was _with_ God and _was_ God, is made _flesh_ to dwell amongus in glory and full of grace and truth; then we know what Jesus meantwhen he said, "I tell you of a truth, there be those standing among youwho shall not taste of death till they see the Kingdom of God. "

The Risen Self

"_And entering into the sepulchre they saw a young man sitting on theright side clothed in a long white garment, and he saith unto them, be notaffrighted, ye seek Jesus of Nazareth--He is risen! He is not here_!"

When we read the Bible with its story of human lives and their great, wonderful mysteries, we find among them, the greatest of all--themarvellous one of the Christ birth and death, and as we read we are amazedat the many confusing ideas of Jesus and His teachings. His disciplesthemselves did not understand Him, though He sought always to clearlyinterpret Himself; often when He spoke metaphysically they interpreted Himphysically. 

There was throughout all the Christ history something so great, so holy, so inclusive that it was too large for them to comprehend, and for alleternal ages, the developing minds of men will be the same. They will keepbusy with their attempts at explanation of His life and His words. 

Jesus quitted the world in benediction, and He left to those who followedHim and His precepts, a great inextinguishable hope. 

It matters little to those who really understand Truth, whether Jesus theChrist lived, or whether He was only a symbol worked out by theimagination of men and priests; be the origin what it may, Christianity_still_ stands; and Religion still holds sway after centuries ofridicule and generations of secular and scientific analysis. Somethingunknown and uninterpreted beats and surges in the hearts of men, andbrings into expression in every age the clinging to a great mysterious, wonderful, unseen agency that somehow works its way along the silentavenues of the human soul. 

The man Jesus may or may not have lived. Humanity may keep its birthrightof contradiction forever on this point, but higher than the limitedunderstanding of the few there lives the Truth of the great Christ spiritwhich the name Jesus embodied, and which for centuries gone, and centuriesto be, will wax strong and flourish in the consciousness of men, as theypass one by one into recognition of it. 

Great and sacred was the day of Jesus' birth, and great and sacred was theday of his death, for both revealed the stages of our human selfhood, andboth point our minds to deeper meanings of existence. 

Jesus' life as we follow it from the manger to the cross was theunmistakable story of the pathway of every human life and each littleaction was a part of the great mosaic which each life is setting foritself, and from which it shall one day read its own great AT-ONE-MENT. 

The birth of the Christ consciousness comes to each soul as the dawn ofself-awakening. It is the first faint glimmer of a new world, and thefirst hint the soul of man has of union with its source. 

This first dawn of consciousness is purely a possession of the inner self, and those who feel it only follow first by faith. This faith is buffetedand attacked by the things of life until it is tried and becomessteadfast. 

In this first dawn of consciousness of the Christ self we are alwaysstrangers to ourselves and asleep in the manger of natural things andnatural senses. We go on for years, and as consciousness grows stronger wesearch and search for we know not what; craving pursues us, we go hitherand thither seeking, seeking--finding and losing. 

The world and the things tangible are never wholly satisfactory inthemselves; we know instinctively that they are not all there is, there isa deep, vital something in us that speaks its hidden messages into ourbeing, and we are driven on from sensation to sensation, crying for thatopen sesame of union which will bring peace to our soul. 

Then passing into deeper unfoldment we come into the real work of life, wemeet with responsibilities and its experiences; we are baffled again, buffeted, besieged by the perplexities of doubt and fear and humandiscontent and we feel that, strive as we will, we are not yet at home. 

The ten thousand things of the human life entangle us, --the touch ofsickness, the expressions of so-called sin, --the baffling consequences ofour seeming mistakes, --all these draw us from the cradle ofunconsciousness out into the vital power of a self-conscious life, andpush us onward to our union with Cosmic Consciousness, or the risenChrist. 

On the self-conscious plane life goes on, driven on every side by humanexperiences and at last turns back upon itself, and then in the Gethsemaneof its own making, it stands where earth and its perplexing joys are lostand heaven and its hidden joys are yet unknown, and then facing theexpressions of its now half-revealed consciousness it cries out from thedepth of its soul's despair, "If it is possible, let this cup pass, " andit does not see the purpose in Gethsemane. 

Human life at this stage of unfoldment has _fixed laws_, and the soulmeets in them the inexorable command to pass on to its own crucifixion, the worked out sentence of its own judgments, and it goes onward bearingits own cross which is built from the consequences of the laws with whichit has related. 

The laws of human self-consciousness are hard to work out; each life facessometime, somewhere the proof of itself. There comes a day to all whenanything that is less than the truth slips off, and the soul stands bareat the bar of the universal justice ready to be judged by the laws whichit has made for itself. 

There are hours of human crucifixion that it were well to die on, for thesoul that wanders back from these fierce Mounts of Transfiguration haspaid the price of human transgression of law by human pain, and is purgedand cleaned by the fierce fire of its own igniting. 

The path of human living out leads every life up the steps of Calvarycarrying its own Cross and it plaits the thorns and pierces the side of"Him who in our life again is spit upon and crucified" until, at last, thegreat human God-self within us is released through transmutation, and thegrave clothes of our dead self no longer entomb us; then the resurrectionday is at hand, and the Consciousness of God bursts into theself-conscious mind, and the stone is rolled away from the sepulchre. 

The human mind bursts forth in illumination and it passes with the Christbirth on to the table-land of human comprehension and revelation of itsinfinite union. 

In this moment of glorified illumination we feel and know that everymoment behind us has been that this hour may be; we feel then that everymoment is a special moment; every life a special life, protected by theALL LIFE, and that everything on our human pathway, high or low, has ledus on to this supreme moment of conscious union with our God. 

When the Christ Consciousness is risen within us, we feel the universalityof life written everywhere on everything; there is but one starting pointfor all thought--God. There is but one ending place for all human faith--God. 

We are filled with a keener sense of the ONENESS of life, and we arethrilled again and again by the nearness and greatness of God in the worldwhich He projected from Himself. 

The Father which we sought in self-consciousness has become real andtangible, and the sense of everlasting UNITY is in our hearts. 

With this great God-self alive within us, we never fear that God will everpass away from any part of his Creation. We know too well, then, the truththat "as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world withoutend, " earth is destined to become a heaven in the lives of men as fast asthey develop to the place of understanding, and find the real holy groundwithin the center of their own being. 

God, or the Universal Cosmic Consciousness, has always been revealed tomen through the risen Christ consciousness within the self. The men of oldwho walked with Him were those who had lifted their personal mind to thelevel of the Universal Mind, so that from the shores of the InfiniteWisdom great thought waves of Love, Truth and Peace beat in on them andfilled them, and their lives became a center of illumination for all. 

There never was and there never can be any conflict between the power ofhuman consciousness and God consciousness. Truth is always Truth, andTruth in the hearts of men build them back into the Great Harmony. 

The Absolute never contradicts itself; as fast as lives are unfolded tothe Christ Consciousness, they leave the old thought life like an emptytomb and push themselves into a glorious human expression, just as theEaster lily rising above the dust and mould of earth, pushes itself upwardinto the clear sunlight of a world where flowers are revealed, just so thesoul pushes on through consciousness and self-consciousness, into theglory of the risen Godhood. 

We can hear the voice of the Universal calling us through our ChristConsciousness today, just as it called to men throughout the ages, and weknow that everything that throbs with natural life or comes into objectiveexpression in our human world, is really only the voice of the UniversalCosmic mind speaking in the holy language of the human heart. 

Every experience, every heartache, every joy, every despair, everypulse-beat is only the text by which the great child mind of the world isspelling out _God_. 

The Risen Self comes into realization of the great white light of thesoul, and it enables us to see _all_ life in its completeness. Humaneffort and human endeavor glow with an unexpected radiance when seen fromthe table-land of the risen truth. 

The human soul then rejoices in its Divine possibilities. Jesus said: "Ido always the things that pleaseth the Father, " and the voice from heavensaid: "This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. "

When we turn to those who ask for proof of the risen Christ-self withinus, we have only to point to them the empty tomb of the old lives whichmen everywhere leave behind them. If we desire we can go farther and pointthem to the production of those in whom this great consciousness iswaking; all human life that is alive with thought and faith and deed, isvibrant with a great vital spiritual force. 

The signs of God Consciousness and the conscious union of God and men isrampant everywhere in the natural world. Every factory, every steamship, every invention, every composition, everything in form sets its seal uponthe genuineness of the existence of the spiritual exaltation of the mindsof men, and higher than the things of the natural world, there stands theachievements of the mental and inspirational souls; the libraries withtheir tens of thousands of written pages, the art museums and galleries ofprecious dreams; all over the world there are hung on walls and chiselledinto glistening marble the story of the glory-gazing of someChrist-illumined soul. And again sounded forth from thousands of churcheseach Sabbath morning, there is swelling out majestic songs sung bymyriads of voices now, but sung _first_ in the silence of some dim, deep soul-dream, in the Christ consciousness of some risen mind. Thatgrand harmony was born on the table-lands of human illumination, registered on the human brain, and worked out into tangible form here onearth to bear witness to the home-land of the God-man. 

Christ consciousness is the final destiny of every soul; it is what wereally live by and today we know, as never before, that in order toadvance and grow, we must consecrate and bring it here and now, into itsfullest expression in our life. 

There are bound to be born, at first, many things on this table-land ofnew understanding that will be worked out indifferently by our limitedbrain, and when challenged by the strain and stress of life they willdepart because they will be unable in their present form to answer to thegreat world's need. But increasing consciousness makes everything morepowerful, and as we go on we learn to build sublime and lasting things, tostand the test of time because they have their root, not in the oldthought self, but in the unfolded risen self, and they are grappled to theheart of the very Rock of Ages. 

Standing, then, risen from the dust world of our old defeats, our humanminds receive new illuminations and rejoice in them. Law becomes theessence of our daily living and the mind of man the direct inspiration ofthe Almighty. We dare to trust our risen mind to the uttermost for in itis GOD himself enshrined. 

In this new spiritual perception we rely more and more on our intuitions, illumination and revelation, for it is human Godness, backed by thestrength of unnumbered hosts of higher consciousness. 

We know at last that all our daily living is not a matter of outward signsbut of inward sight; all external things may contradict us, yet in sublimeconfidence we shape our way while the Christ voice within us speaks forthits messages, telling us all the holy and uplifting stories of our dailylife. Over the trials and wreckage of our common years we follow it; outfrom a silence that is known only to ourselves we bring the lessons thathave burnt their truth into our souls. 

In the power of this risen self we stand with our faces upturned, with ourwhole life opened to God, and human effort, human growth, human hope, love, joy, --all are joined in the sense of Divine resurrection. 

This is the consciousness of God in the human soul; this is theResurrection morning and it makes us NOW the Sons of God, and from thedarkness of our Old Thought growth we lift our hearts away into a new LifeDivine. We open our eyes in the radiance of a light that never grows dim, then standing with an all-seeing soul vision, we can point to the longyears behind us through which we have worked out our soul's salvation andclosing the door on the empty tomb of our dead self we say with all theserenity of our new-found God-consciousness:

"I know whom you seek. He is not here. He is Risen!"

Transcendentalism

Transcendentalism is today the one subject which is demanding the greatestattention. The race mind is beginning to think in words of transcendentallanguage rather than in the old law of science and philosophy, and all thelight of modern investigation centres round the one who declares himself atranscendentalist. 

We may say that a man is a scientist, a philosopher or a materialist, andthe world will know at once what we mean, but if we say that he is atranscendentalist we leave an open doorway for investigation; there issomething yet to be learned about him, something that no one knows aboutbut himself. 

Anyone can easily define a scientist, a philosopher and a psychologist, but they halt in more or less indecision when they are asked to define atranscendentalist, and it is only when we understand that atranscendentalist is one who has extended his normal consciousness intorelationship with the deeper laws of the universe, so that he usesnaturally these laws and is perfectly familiar and at home in states ofconsciousness which the rest of the world call supernatural, and withwhich they are entirely unfamiliar, that we can come to a true definitionof the transcendentalist. 

Transcendentalism has been a part of race unfolding since time began, andwill continue to be throughout all race evolution. 

In the old civilization we studied the transcendentalist andtranscendentalism from an entirely different view-point than we do today. 

Transcendentalism is a state of consciousness and man evolves into it outof the natural states of his own mind. No one is to blame that he is, oris not, a transcendentalist. He becomes one not alone because he wills tobecome, but also because he is one with the divine law of creation and theGod-consciousness within him pushes him on through one state of unfoldmentto another. 

There are two expressions of universal and finite mind, one is theobjective, the revealed, the apparent, and one is the subjective, theconcealed, the absolute. 

The objective side of mind belongs to the surface consciousness of man, and is in itself a distinct state of existence, it is bounded on everyside by its own laws, and commands its own obedience. The subjective sideof life belongs to the inner side of mind and is also a distinct state ofexistence bounded by itself and the laws of its own kingdom, and without adeep knowledge of universal law, man has little power of connecting thesetwo strong zones of consciousness. 

Studying life in the light of our modern understanding, we find that manpasses by natural law through the objective, the surface zone, then on tothe subjective or inner zone, and then to a centralized position betweenboth zones where he lives, moves and has being in both zones, uniting thelaws of the two kingdoms into a new zone of consciousness, then using thelaws of both, he passes at will to the very edge of matter, and back tothe very center of the cosmic mind; standing here in life's masterposition, he is lord of both zones. This middle zone of power and masteryis the path of the modern transcendentalist, and the one who walks it andlives in unification with its laws is the _modern transcendentalist_of the new civilization. It has been written--

 "_For wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be who go in thereat" because_

 "_Straight is the gate, and narrow is the way which leadeth unto Life_. "

We know today that this is true, for on the broad path of the objectivelife man must pass through the law of change which destroys, that it maycreate again and through which he is crowded on to seek the narrow path ofsubjective senses which are built on the law of verities. 

Man's first lessons are in the objective zone of mind, and he remainspositive in this zone until he masters its laws and the lessons which theybring. 

In this objective zone of mind we find the mass man of the oldcivilization, he is in the _broad way_ of the surface consciousness, and in his midst there dwells the specialized individuals who areapproaching the central zones of mind; they are called the scientist, thephysicist, the materialist, the agnostic, the mentalist, the reasoner, andthe atheist, all true and perfect for their type but all more or lessunconscious of the latent states of mind within themselves and theuniverse to which they must some day respond. 

As human consciousness intensifies through use, man finds himself passingon through his surface zones to the concealed states of mind withinhimself, "the narrow way, " and slowly, almost unconsciously at first, hebegins manifesting the law of these zones. In these states of mind we findthe philosopher, the idealist, the emotionalist, the psychist, thesensitive, the intuitionist, the revelator, the transcendentalist and theseer. 

Watching race evolution we see that the day of surface consciousness andits power is waning only as it is controlled and manipulated through thesubjective states of man's mind. The hour for subjective research andsubjective introspection is at hand, --men have mastered the external worldand its laws, and are now following the cosmic urge which is pushing themtoward the center and away from the _apparent_ to the _absolute_laws of life. 

The external evolution of form is complete for this hour; men go down intothe bowels of the earth, they sail the seas, they mount the air on wings, and the external world has seen "the son of man coming in clouds of glory"and now the eternal man must have his hour, and come in "trailing robes ofpower and brightness, " to pour new revelation through the external worldand its laws. 

Books, paintings, pictures, science, music have all had their day inexternal exaltation, and now the attention of man is mounting higher andturning inward; the study of the surface and sub-consciousness has beentransferred, and while part of the world's eyes are yet peering throughthe microscope at the _sub-life_ and plenty are looking at the lawsof life around them, the transcendentalist with these truths locked fastin his mind, is turning to the undiscovered states within himself, and iseverywhere launching out into the unfathomed states of the supra-mind ofman. 

Man has evolved like a planet through the stone age of mind and today withthe planet in the vibratory zone of water and _air_ he has risen withit into the transcendent states of his own being. 

Many transcendentalists are living so naturally in the beginningmanifestations of the supra-mind that they hardly recognize them asuncommon and the world is becoming peopled with a race of supra-men andsupra-women who are using the subtle laws of the transcendentalists of thepast, but not using them _alone_, or in _hidden cloisters_, orthrough separate states of living, but using them as simple humanattributes of their own mind, and using them in the common marts of thesurface life with more real understanding than did the oldentranscendentalist in his specialized separated environment, assisted by_secluded study_ and _special opportunities_. 

The modern transcendentalist is a post graduate of the surfaceconsciousness, and uses it as simply a wireless machine with which heregisters his deeper perceptions, and with it links himself and hisrevelation naturally to the natural world. He stands in natural communionwith both zones, and in this communion with deeper laws he attains asupra-power, he walks his human pathway in human form, but he manipulateshis surface life with the power born of his supra-wisdom. 

The modern transcendentalists form the corner-stones of the newcivilization. "For the new age will come quickly to its birth when thisHis world, will know itself divine" and in this new civilization the massman will have for his surface consciousness, the deep subtle union of bothzones, and the specialized teacher, leader and messenger of this new age, will forge ahead on the great white way of prophecy and seership which isborn from the union of the finite and infinite mind. 

To the mind of the old civilization this will not seem true, for it isstill in the swaddling clothes of its old inheritance; in the thoughts ofthe past, man and God, matter and spirit, finite and infinite have been solong divorced and separated that it will be found difficult to accept theunion of incense and worship and reverence in the same breath with thereal, the apparent and the formed, but this is the hour for higherprophecy, and that hour when the "lion and the lamb shall lie downtogether. "

To those who are really able to read the signs of the times, humanconsciousness everywhere offers the greatest proof of this truth, forlooking with eyes that can see, we find that every individual is inpossession of eight distinct states of consciousness with which he canoperate in the subjective and objective zones. 

There may be still greater stretches of the human mind into union with theuniversal which the oncoming races will discover, but that there are eightdistinct levels of mind activity many know because they have touched themand know them within themselves. 

Some minds are active in one, some in two, some in three, and some infour, and some are more or less distinct in all. 

The mass man of the new civilization is awake in the _third_ and_fourth_ dimensions of his mind, and those in higher reaches areawake in the _fifth_ and _sixth_, a few are in the _seventh_ and_eighth_, but the rank and file are familiar to some degree with allthese states. 

The first or surface mind of man is in itself only cell consciousness, touched by man's own intellect, and it is known as _instinct_, hissecond expression of mind is known as _reason_, the third is_emotion_ or _feeling_, and the fourth is instinct, reason andemotion blended into one, and called _intuition_. The fifth and sixthare above the plane of thought and feeling and includes them in a stillhigher intensification; here thinking ceases and _registration_ isthe law, and here is where _revelation_ is born. The seventh andeighth are still supra reaches of man's mind, and include the union orsurface consciousness with the higher states, in which the brain becomesthe wireless machine, through which flashes of divine wisdom comes; thisis called _Prophecy_ and _Seership_ and this is the product ofthe "mirror-mind. "

There are bodies and atmospheres to fit each transcendent state of mind, and the transcendentalist can suspend any, or all of his states of mind, one after another, and pass into direct atonement with any level withwhich he wishes to function; he can at will live in a new world, and speakwith a new tongue, and fill his surface mind with a glory not its own, "but which it had with Him before the world was. "

These new states of mind in action extends man's world into the widerreaches of the universal and adds to him new levels of wisdom and power. 

There are reaches of intelligence far below and beyond the commonintelligence as the microscope and the telescope have shown, and at thefourth and fifth dimension of consciousness man dispenses with allmaterial aids and uses the adjustments of his own being. He has found theeyes, the cars, and the understanding of the supra-self, and by suspendinghis surface mind through concentration and meditation he can enter anysphere of thought at will and be in the land of clairvoyance, clairaudience, and in the astral and atmospherian, or pass farther out andregister in his surface brain the wonders and laws of etherian, andcelestial worlds. He is at one with the world of the sensitive, theimpressionist and the medium, and in the deeper states of vision he cansee and read the memory tablets of the universe. In the higherregistrations he becomes cosmo-voyant and cosmo-audient, he can see andhear through space and through ethers as the common eye looks through air. These are not special gifts from God, but simply the gifts man giveshimself through the conscious use of what is already in his possession. 

The power to extend sight and hearing far above and below the so-calledsenses is latent within every individual and when the point oftranscendental development is reached he uses it naturally. 

There are some people who can see birds in the air, ships at sea, stars inthe sky, while others standing beside them see only empty space. Just sothere are many everywhere on life's pathway who can extend their normalvision and hearing to such an intensified vibratory rate that it not onlyincludes all the things of the physical plane but the things of the finerethers. 

The transcendentalist standing on the streets of New York can extend hisvision and look at a street or building in Chicago or Cairo or London, while the surface man alongside of him can scarcely read the signs on theother side of the street. 

The modern transcendentalist does only what the surface man does--he looksto see and brings one hundred percent of his vision to bear upon hisdesire, while the surface man has less than ten percent of himself inaction and that _only_ on one plane. 

There are enough people on the planet today who can use these deep statesof mind, and induce the extended vision and hearing at will to make itmore than a mere hypothetical conclusion; there are X-ray beings among uswho have come into contact with a great fundamental principle both withinand without themselves. 

The time will come in the near future, when the operator with the Roentgenray will stand beside his machine and look with wide open eyes and findthe X-ray in his own vision, and will work unlimited by the bondage of hismaterial machine. 

Comparing the modern transcendentalist and his pathway with that of theolden transcendentalist with his ascent of travail and pain, we find aprofound satisfaction in the picture of power, peace and love of themodern supra-man. 

The pathway of the elder supra-man was one of crucifixion, self-denial, renunciation, affliction, poverty, disease and self-mortification. Hefound the steps to the higher consciousness and its power only throughslow self-conquest and comradeship with pain, and this was the inheritancehe handed down through the centuries. To think in terms of mystical wisdommeant human denial of all sentient life. Unification was bought throughtotal consecration to the subjective and the absolute, in which thediverse could have no part. 

Today "we are free where our sires were serfs, we can see where He leftthem blind, " and we know that God-consciousness is man's immortalbirthright and that the son of man must somewhere on his pathway becomethe son of God, and as he passes on in his unfoldment he will contactevery atom of God-mind in all lines of expression, and from the world ofmatter he will turn in time naturally to those levels of mind which leadhim into reverence, illumination and worship, and through this he findsthe whole of life. 

Man in his immersion into cosmic consciousness puts forth profound testsof his oneness and faces life in larger and larger proportions, and as heascends he carries all with him, so that he can give back to all aprofound and heroic response. 

Every man is transcendent when the hour dawns for his transcendent self totremble into action. 

With these wider reaches of consciousness the modern transcendentalistfinds the larger LIFE and the true way of living, and in this brings thenew message of the "One life in all and through all" into the mass mind, and the new song of joy and thanksgiving into their hearts. He is neversad, never agonizing, never renouncing; he has made contact with all lifeand through this with the universal joy; there is no denial, noseparateness, --there is "no more crying, " he conquers and ascends notthrough separateness but through increasing degrees of union. He lives inglad comradeship with God, in joy and perfected self-expression, both inthe objective and in the subjective world. 

The ancient transcendentalist was always sad, always separate, alwaysworshipping in beatific loneliness, in seclusion and renunciation of theworld; the modern supra-man passes from end to end of the pole of beingand stops at any point and functions normally. "He stands and works, thenkneels and prays. " He is lord of the outside external world and partakerof all its divine joys and pleasures, and he is lord of all the deeperreaches of subjective consciousness within himself and the absolute inwhich he lives, and he brings out from these deeper levels all theintensified power of illumination and revelation, and pours it over hisdaily pathway illumining it with a glory not its own. 

Many olden transcendentalists lived on in entranced states of divinewisdom with diseased flesh and bodies that shrieked with pain, while theymortified and rejected that divine wisdom. The modern transcendentalistbrings all his God-consciousness to bear upon his flesh and raises it tothe transcendent heights of his own mind and heals it until bone andmuscle and tissues gleam and scintillate with a new found beauty andyouth. 

The olden transcendentalist dragged on in barren cells and dreary povertyin order not to divert his glorified vision of the formless by the beautyof the _ever present form_; the modern transcendentalist brings hishigher laws into play, conquers his poverty and commands around himselfthe beauty and luxury and freedom of the world of form, and it speaks tohim in matchless raiment, luxuriant flowers, gems, material comforts andsoft ease. He lives in rapturous companionship with the glory and beautyand majesty of God in the world _He has projected from Himself_, andwith this beneath him, he can rise to the very pinnacle of infiniteselfhood. 

The olden transcendentalist, ascending into the transcendental heights ofhis own mind, ascended alone, and from these obscure heights he shed hiswisdom back upon the evolving race; he was pioneer in the lands of cosmicconsciousness and the first revelator of the path; he showed the race thatthe path was there to tread, and his messages have fallen as a benedictionon the race mind even while he himself bought his wisdom with pain, renunciation and suffering built from the limited recognition of his ownmind. 

The path winds onward and upward still, but the feet of those climbing ittoday are led by still waters and in the paths of righteousness. They areno longer in the part but are in the middle of the Divine Channel ofGod-consciousness. To know _one_ part was the mission of the _past_;to know _all parts_ and join them in a divine unity is the mission ofthe _present_. 

The modern transcendentalist does not love life less, he loves it more!The world is alive with a new majesty; the passing multitude, the passingface, every human attribute of life calls forth from him a deeperinterpretation; he walks out into the race mind, and with the power of anew word, and a new touch heals it from its infirmity. He does in truthgive "absent treatments, " and his word is accomplished; the old diseasedflesh transmutes in answer to his command. He speaks to the barren wallsof poverty and they stretch away into stately halls, for he knows thatwherever man posits his consciousness, substance must gather round it; hisnew words of power and majesty fall like a benediction on the heart of thelistening multitudes, and they turn round to face a new tomorrow with anew hope born of a larger understanding. 

The transcendentalist walks often in our midst; sometimes he assumes thesimplicity of a child to disguise the larger stretches of power withinhim, but he is out upon the pathway strong and beautiful, wholly repletewith promises of perfection, doing the work of the human. 

There is a royal road from _appearance_ to _reality_, from_objective_ to _subjective_, from the limited to the absolute. 

Difference is merging into one _great white way_ through which thenew civilization is thronging, led by the intensified vision of thesupra-minds. 

Unity has carried man above all things of human law, and he has found thatMighty Force of which all is a part, and he is out into the land of "nakedvisions" and _knows_. 

He dwells securely upon the height and has ceased the long fight with theobjective half of himself; he is one with matter because he hastranscended and absorbed it; he is centralized in the formless andspiritualized in the formed, and can say from the level of his own Christconsciousness:

 "_I and my Father are one. "

 "All that my Father hath is mine_. "

The Psychology of Insanity

With the ever present increase of insanity, it is not only interesting butimportant that the subject of insanity should be studied from allview-points, and anything which can be contributed that will help incontrolling or curing it, should be accepted as good material. 

It is an apparent fact that the multitude knows very little about thecause of insanity and less about the cure. Investigation has in the pastbeen directed to the physical side of the disease, and many of the insanehospitals are examples of physical comfort and perfect physical attention, but they are also living examples of the fact that to house, feed andclothe the demented does not necessarily mean a cure, and a call fordeeper understanding is imperative. 

Civilization needs each individual as a unit in the great working force oflife, and those who need to be taken care of by a State take away alegitimate support and add just that much more to the burden of the State. 

A civilization which can increase the independence of the individual andlessen the responsibility of the State is one to be directly desired. 

Insanity calls for a closer study than has ever been given and onlythrough a deeper realization of its cause, can a cure be brought about andindividuals rendered of value to themselves and the country. 

Insanity is nothing more or less than disassociated states of mind andneed not in reality be any more serious than errors of refraction ofvision, faulty locomotion or lack of coordination. It comes becauseindividuals know nothing of the psychology of themselves or their ownminds and is the result of over-intensified mental and physical activityand loss of poise, physically, mentally and psychically. The insane arenot capable of understanding themselves, and up to the present day thereare very few who are able to understand them. 

The nurses, matrons and physicians of a great asylum are powerless toassist them because of their own ignorance of the true laws of psychology. The cases which simple, natural, physical methods will assist, are cured, but thousands of others are allowed to drag along with the dreadfulstigmata of "hopelessly insane. "

Insanity is increasing because civilization is changing, and conditionsare changing. As conditions change the minds of men change and todaysubjective states of mind in the individual are becoming intensified. Instinct, reason, emotion, intuition, revelation and prophecy are allstruggling for expression; unrelated and misunderstood they becomedisease; related and understood they can be made to bring forth a new racewith new extensive reaches of intelligence. 

There are few people so stupid but that they can testify to theconflicting states of emotions within themselves and there are many peoplewho are perfectly familiar with states of consciousness with which manyother people are entirely unfamiliar. 

Wherever we go we are continually confronted with what the world calls"freaky" or "eccentric" people, and these people are found in all degreesfrom the slightly odd folks to those filling the asylums, and strange asit may seem, no matter how queer they may appear to other people, theynever seem so to themselves. 

There are many families with members whom the rest call irrational, irresponsible or "black sheep. " Again, there are many families who haveone child who, from the time of its birth, has called for methods ofmanagement entirely different from those used for the other children. There are many little sensitive creatures who are afraid of the dark andwho have queer ideas and odd ways, and there are delicate little peoplewho have bodies so finely organized that they are nearly broke into pieceswith the natural things which the other members never notice. They areborn sensitives and remain sensitives to the end of their lives, and onlyas they can be taught the truth about themselves can they be rescued fromsome form of mental disturbances. 

These people as they grow older, become what is termed "psychics"; theyare over-intensified in some of their deeper states of mind. They are notalone the product of civilization, but the product of race evolution. Manyof them pass on in semi-normal states of self-support, but they are a wellknown class, and they are more or less unsuccessful in supportingthemselves along natural lines of labor, and if they inherit wealth theyrun into vagaries and often degenerate lines of living; they squandertheir all and die in charity. 

The common business world is full of psychics and it is correspondinglyfull of failures for this is not a faculty that makes for success or powerwith material things. 

Psychics who are only slightly disassociated are always a source ofannoyance to their friends, and often looked upon as irresponsible, andhave to be looked after by some one who has patience enough to be withthem, and often they are passed along as having an artistic temperament. 

As long as their peculiar development does not interfere with normalaction they are unmolested by the public. It is only when deeper states ofmind become so over-intensified that they lose their normal relationshipto normal things of the world that they are put under control. They arecalled paranoics, melancholics, demented and insane. A correct mentaltraining would teach them to re-associate their mind and to live amoderately normal life, at least. All drunkards and drug fiends arepsychics; degenerates are also psychics. These conditions are simply theresult of loss of polarity of normal mind centers, resulting in theconflict of states of consciousness within themselves. 

There are also many psychics in the ignorant and undeveloped classes. Thewitch women and seers, and many of the colored races are psychic. In thepast, these people were looked upon as witches and their words and workswere known as "witchcraft. "

There are many psychics who are also great geniuses. Lord Byron and the"Mad Painter" of Belgium were psychics. History is rife and galleries ofart and temples of literature stand as testimonials to some of theconstructive productions of their minds, but beside them run dark storiesborn of their psychic uncertainty. 

Criminals of certain types are psychics with no power of physical controland they pass into subjective control and live and do the things that aregiven them to do from the psychical mind and are often ignorant of theirown condition. 

Those whom the medical profession call paranoics are simply psychics, over-developed in the subjective faculties--a prey to all the disembodiedforces of the subjective plane, and also to every floating thought on thephysical plane; they are obsessed by ideas from within and without andtheir actions bear witness to this statement. Some very meddlesome women, and those who are the terror of a quiet community, are nearly always thosewho are in the control of the slower psychic forces and unable toconciously direct their own normal states of mind. 

In science the psychics are called diseased. Science gives all actions aphysical basis, but it is time to know that abnormal states ofconsciousness, that are only changes in the functional side of the mindand which have no apparent physical basis, are found in thousands. 

Neurasthenics and psychasthenics present the mildest picture of disorderedstates of mind. All neurasthenics and psychasthenics are psychics andtheir diseases can only be fully understood by the psychologist. Thescientist has long ago exhausted his knowledge of the cause and cure ofthese diseases and this is why all branches of metaphysical healing areovercrowded. 

To understand this abnormal thing called "insanity, " one must fullyunderstand the normal, called "sanity. " There are four distinct states ofconsciousness in every individual; these must be kept co-related and allof them manifest through the common everyday mind. These four states ofconsciousness are _instinct, reason, emotion_ and _intuition_. These four states of consciousness are _functions_ of the normalmind. When a patient becomes over-intensified in either one of these partsof the mind, mental disease results. The psychic is over-intensified inthe emotional and intuitional functions of his mind, thus rendering hiscommon sense states _uncommon_, and according to the degree ofover-activity, he is either a "freak, " a creature of "temperament, " a"genius" or a "dementia. "

The ordinarily insane individual has lost all relationship with hisnatural, instinctive and reasoning mind. He is disassociated. Reason, instinct, emotion and intuition are all in conflict within him. Theemotional and intuitional faculties overfunctioning distort his commonunderstanding. His idea centers are not able to distinguish between thereal and the unreal in thoughts. He becomes possessed and obsessed byideas born of emotion and intuition that have no foundation in fact, andas time goes on, he loses complete control of his idea centers. 

Every individual has definite idea centers within his own brain, and it isthrough these centers that ideas are coordinated, received or rejected. Asover-intensification of feeling and emotion goes on, the normal action ofthe idea centers is interfered with and the individual has superinducedemotional and intuitional states which are no longer guarded by reason andthought. The emotion senses a purely imaginary condition and the ideacenters have no power to reduce it to truth. As time goes on, all power ofassociation is lost and the individual passes along, the plaything of hissubjective states of mind. As he becomes more and more intensifiedsubjectively, he opens the deep psychic currents both within and withouthimself, and loses his connection with his common mind and his physicalbody, and becomes a prey to all the psychic currents. 

There are lives everywhere open to subjective thought currents, and allunknown to themselves they are allowing themselves to become disintegratedby the daily and hourly response they are giving to the stimulus of aplane they should master instead of allowing it to master them. 

The psychic plane may become a pathway to power, or it may become the opendoorway to a body and mind full of disease, insanity and absolute loss ofpower and poise. 

There are many patients confined in the asylums today, who would neverhave been there, and who would be released and cured, if those in chargefully understood the truth of this unnaturally natural development anddirected their attention to its control. 

The first truth is, people are born into what is to them naturalrelationship with this psychic plane and go on for years misunderstood, pained and repressed, unable to rescue themselves from what they do notunderstand, and in the end the physical body does become diseased by thecontinual inroads of strain and repression; functional disorder andanatomical changes result. The farmer's wife loses her mental balancethrough repression of the fine emotional, intuitional side of her mindwhich finds no expression in the dull environment of the farm. Theover-worked mother loses her mental poise; disassociation followsover-stimulation of the practical and repression of the artistic; and inemotional patients exaggerated states of feeling go on into greaterdisassociation for lack of strong sensible thought control. 

And the second truth is, that many are born so close in relationship tothe unseen plane and in such psychical correspondence, that some slightthing which weakens the will-power--sorrow, a disease that devitalizes thephysical, some shock, or some prolonged or strained mental condition, breaks down the remaining law of separation, and the life is astray in thepsychical world, manifesting abnormal, physical laws. 

There is one great connecting link between the physical and the psychicalthrough which all abnormal conditions can be corrected, and this is willpower. When this power of will is broken, the life must become amanifestation of error, according to the generally accepted idea of normalrelationship. 

The will-power of an individual is dependent upon his ideation. Weaken hispower to carry an idea, and his will grows correspondingly weak; the_will_ must _follow_ the idea; it is not a separate entity--_will_ only exists in _partnership_ with the _idea_. 

_Ideation, willing_ and _motion_ are the great human trinityfrom which everything else originates. When we inspect our minds, we findthat a voluntary motion is always preceded by the idea of that motion. Theidea is first and the will follows the idea. Ideas have definite sensorycenters in the cortex of the brain and conscious ideation may be inducedto produce a particular form of willing. All voluntary action depends, first, upon the ideas of action, then the willing to do, then the doing. The will-power, in its accelerating and restraining impulses, is modifiedby the degree of the intensity of the idea. Grief, fear, worry, anger, despondency, anxiety, hate, resistance are all negative ideas that weakenthe idea centers and produce weakness of willing. These ideas persisted inat first produce indecision and after a while absolute inaction becausethe patient has lost the perfect co-relation of his idea centers, whichassociate instinct, reason, emotion and intuition. 

In order to get complete control of the will we must get complete controlof the idea centers and induce strong, positive ideas which the willcannot refuse to follow. 

When we associate all states of consciousness--instinct, reason, emotion, and intuition, in one strong, centralized idea, it is impossible forphysical expression to do anything else than follow this idea. 

When one has come into certain conditions of negativeness in any part ofhis mind, and continues in it for any length of time, it takes more thanhis own power to modify these intensified conditions and bring about aninhibiting power of mind which will crowd them out, and allow the ideacenters to receive a new thought-form and intensify it so that the willcan pass it into action. 

The abnormal individual is always weak in obeying his ideas and carryingout his impulse because there is a dissociation of idea centers and hismind becomes mixed in its responses and he cannot make for a true, harmonious expression on all of the planes of mind within himself--this isthe condition of the neurasthenic and psychasthenic, and he needs somemind stronger than his own to hold his ideas true to what he knows to betrue. 

The first lesson for the diseased mental patient to learn is that if hewants to keep his mental balance or restore it, he must first inhibit allnegative ideation and refuse to allow himself to be driven into wildbursts of psychical or mental energy along any one line. He must forcehimself to interest his mind in other things and to inhibit theover-active states of thinking. This is best done by a complete change ofenvironment, and often a change of friends. Friends and environment, morethan any other things, have the greatest power of keeping the mindintensified in its old thought ruts. 

There is little hope of receiving a new ideation and acting upon it, whenone allows himself day after day to drag through the same centralsensations and receive the same nerve impulses, and register the sameresponses. By removing to a new environment, and substituting new mentaland psychical vibrations the old states of consciousness are allowed torest while a new unworked state of mind begins. 

Psychical development is not a disease; it is an attribute of individualgrowth; no one is to blame if he has it or has it not; all that anyoneneeds to know is the truth about it and just how to control it and directit. Subjective hearing and vision come just as naturally to us as life anddeath--they are a part of the great plan of unfoldment. 

In teaching man to co-relate his many states of developing consciousnessinto one powerful state of mind, we use our everyday common sense. We givehim a place of mental power and after such training he opens or shuts hismind to suit himself; he can live in either extension of consciousness atwill and extending his understanding into the transcendent side of his ownmind, he can become the modern mystic or seer. He can function in thepurely material side of himself or he can become an intensified psychic ormystic by simply suspending and intensifying different centers withinhimself. 

Concentration, centralization in ideas, conscious mental substitution, creation of strong mental ideas, and psychic displacement of the negativewith the positive, both by the patient within himself and from theattendant or physician without, will bring insanity under control. 

When men fully understand their own mind's scope, they will find that whatthe world calls un-natural states of consciousness, are only cerebral andpsychic disassociation. 

The greater freedom of the race, and the cure and control of insanity willbe found in the deeper study of _all_ levels of mind rather than theone or the few. Only as physical science unites with metaphysical, andthese both unite with scientific psychical investigation, will humanitypass toward a solution of its insanity problems. Insanity, delusions, hallucinations, the so-called mental diseases will pass just because theyhave been naturally displaced by our higher scientific preventivepsycho-therapy. 

The asylum doors will only open as a place of refuge where men and womenwill be taught the psychology of the self; there will be _schools_not _cells_. Outside the asylum doors there will be an everincreasing crowd of intelligent men and women psychologists, who will beawake to the first hint of psychic disassociation in an individual. Withkeen insight and scientific direction, they will teach the beginningparanoic, melancholic, neurasthenic, clairvoyant and psychasthenic thetruth about themselves and the first hint of disassociation will bereplaced by association, and rest homes, asylums and sanitarium doors willclose forever!

The Law Eternal

"_For since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they werefrom the Creation_. "

Whenever we read the stories in the Bible, our minds are held with a deepinterest, for through all its pages and in all its words, there breathesout the history of the hopes, dreams and aspirations of human hearts, andabove every other story or hope or dream, there stands first in absorbinginterest the history of the man Jesus, with his wonderfully inspired life. This wonderful Christ life as given in history is a benediction to theworld, and his teachings have given us a great inextinguishable hope. Inall his history there is one profound principle that never becomesobscured, and that is his eternal adherence to the Law of Life. He neverforgot to speak the word that should show the true laws of Cause andEffect. 

Nearly all the people of his day followed the letter of his word and notthe spirit. When he spoke in parables they interpreted in fact, and evenwhen he said: "I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare aplace, I will come again and receive ye unto myself, that where I am, there ye may be also, " they believed and interpreted it to mean reallymaterial facts, and began to build up their finite hope for a futurekingdom, totally blind to the deep subjective law of his spoken word. 

They really believed that if they waited a few years, at most, Jesus wouldreturn unto them, and in triumph and power gather them together and raiseup a community of peace and love in this earth plane. They believed thatthrough this they would become monarchs of a new world. Nothing in theirminds revealed the impossibility of material form without fundamentalfacts beneath them. 

The sick and suffering and discouraged of every class, knowing nothing ofthe higher laws, laid this hope to their hearts, and filled with a couragebuilt on this belief, they taught themselves to stand silent beneath scornand persecution, feeling inwardly, that when the hour of Christ's returncame, their life would suddenly become powerful through some newdispensation. 

The years came and went, one after another the apostles died with theirhope still in their hearts; at last, only the lengthened life of John wasleft on which to hang expectancy, then he, too, died and the Jesus oftheir hope had not returned. Even then the church was reluctant to give upits teaching of the letter and it still held, that even while a fewfollowers remained whose term reached back to Christ's time, it was nottoo late for his return, and the son of man might yet be sustained in hisearthly kingdom. 

Time went on until even the oldest memories of the promises passed; changeafter change came, and man could no longer find a finite place for hisfaith and trust, and then, as human life was pushed on by the greatresistless ebb-tide of the Infinite, those who were still clinging to thisfalse hope, broke forth in a wail of despair, and they cried, "Where isthe promise of His coming?" "For since the fathers fell asleep, all thingscontinue as they were from the creation. "

We who read their history today and know the truth of Life's finerrelationships, cannot but feel a pity for their failure, and the lingeringdeath of their expectancy, even while we see that it was built onsuperficial human understanding. 

In the great unrelated, ignorant hope of these people, we can read inletters of fire, the proof of the certainty of disappointment of everyhuman hope that has not its conscious union with the great universal Lawsof Life. 

We can see now with the calm vision of those who have no part in theirsuperstition that their hope was never built on the understanding andwisdom of creation, but upon weak, human desires and narrow personalexpectation. 

It can easily be seen that under the great Law Eternal it was notpossible, that after training only a small part of the human race-thoughtthere could be a return, a king of any sort, or that there could followthe perfecting of the race in any such a narrow, limited, personal way. 

When Truth has become revealed to the minds of men, they at once see thatlaws remain, and that the human race is bound to fit itself to these, andlooking back over the centuries, and on into the future, we find thatJesus taught us when he said, "I come not to destroy the Law, but tofulfill it. "

Today we see how everything waits upon its own cause, and how change isonly brought about by the processes of regular unfoldment. We know nowthat the Whole can only come into expression through the Part, and thatthe fulfillment of an individual, a nation, or a race must come under thesilent operation of those spiritual laws of human understanding whichneither the race nor the individual can outstrip. 

GOD is LAW, and LAW began when LIFE began and only a deep union with thefiner relationships of Life can ever bring us into DOMINION of power. 

There has ever been and ever will be many expressions of LAW, and betweenthe Absolute expression and the finite results there must ever be thegrinding to dust and ashes of things which oppose either the lesser or thelarger unfoldment. 

When we look at life from the limited, personal view we can only see fromthe boundary line of the unfathomed self; but as we come into deeperconsciousness, we learn that expectation and promise built on personalhope is one thing, and expectation and promise built on universalunderstanding of universal action is another. 

We are a part of everything in the universe and as we come to look throughthe personal to the universal, we see clearly the inseparable ONENESS ofGod-consciousness and man-consciousness, and as we understand and masterthis relationship, we can read the real answer to our question: "Where arethe promises?"

Human life has always been, and always will be, only the unfolding of thepersonal mind into recognition of the Absolute Mind. 

The Universe is under the Law Eternal and in the degree that we know this, we stop our limitations; mankind is free in the Absolute Law, and onlyseemingly bound in the finite one. Not one jot or tittle of the Law everpasses away; all laws exist to be fulfilled, but human life evolves fromlevel to level of consciousness, and through relationship with higherunderstanding it escapes the primitive expressions of the lower laws andunites itself with the higher. 

The very first truth, then, for any life to learn is, that in thisuniverse of law and order, we get just what we relate with--no more, noless! Nothing happens; everything is the natural expression of the actionwhich produces it. 

Jesus came into the world under the law of his own life; he was born topass along and die expressing the forms of his higher knowledge; he cameand went under his own laws, but these were too obscure for the minds ofthat race to comprehend, and they lived, hoped and died, ignorant of hisgreat Cosmic relationship. Jesus was a son of the planet and his missionwas to set laws of race consciousness into activity which would act as aspiritual fulcrum throughout the ages. 

What was true in these olden days is still true today; we often go onhoping that fulfillment will come, when by the very nature of what we aredoing, we cannot get the higher expression. Take the simple things of oureveryday life, our hope of health or our hope of love, wealth, place, happiness, success and usefulness; often we really do hope to be well, andplan in a way for that end, while really at the same time every breath wedraw builds for the transitory and fleeting. Like the Christians of old wedo not understand higher relationships, and at last, worn out withdisappointment we cry, "Where are the promises?" and do not see that untilwe have perfect thought relationships, we cannot hope for perfect results. It takes deep perception to find the immutable law that all physicalphenomena is mental arrangement. 

We get everything we find expressing in life through the law of consciousor unconscious thinking! We have, and hold and keep only the things wecreate for ourselves; there is no other law; no one can take our own away;no one can give us anything, for only what we create is our own, and wealone must create it in consciousness before we can possess it. When wecreate it in consciousness we really set the law in operation forourselves and this law will pass it into form. 

We make our relationships through the thoughts of our mind. Our mind isthe universal mind, and it is inseparably connected with everything in theuniverse; and whatever we have or have not is a signal of just what wehave related with in consciousness. This is the unwritten action of theLAW; no one limits us but ourselves; the Universal Life stands ready withits many levels of relationships to give to every one according to thepower he has to create for himself and he is really and truly judged"according to the deeds done in the body. "

Jesus could not give an ignorant and undeveloped race the gift of aglorified kingdom; nor could they give it to themselves until they hadrelated in consciousness with the laws that would produce it, the thing wewant and our point of attraction must be equal. 

We come into life under correct laws; one is not born a Jew, an Assyrian, an Englishman or an American by chance; nor is one born well and rich, andanother sick and poor by chance, but EACH is the expression of the LAWSwith which he has related in his own consciousness. 

Thoughts are things and it is a part of the Universal plan that thoughtsfrom the human mind reach out into the Universal, or Cosmic mind, andthere generate an ENERGY which must in time embody in FORM and become theworld picture of just what has been stimulated into expression. Whenthinking passes into a _fixed power_ in our life it can be used todestroy or construct the body or the environment and every thought spokenor unspoken is registered in thought forms in our atmospheric environmentand must some day pass into material form. 

Health is the expression of a law brought about by a certain line ofthinking and disease is another expression. Wealth is one law, poverty isanother, and any life can choose this day _which_ he wishes to beunder, and choose this hour which law he will serve, and Jesus said, "Whomsoever ye yield yourself servants to obey, his servants ye are, whether it be sin unto death or salvation unto righteousness. "

Jesus did not return to his disciples as they expected, because there wasno Universal Law for such return. Just so with Health, Wealth, Love, Joyand Happiness. They can never come into expression for us so long as thereis not established within us the Law of Natural Relationships. 

We are learning at last that "Since the fathers fell asleep all thingscontinue as they were from the creation, " and it takes more than a fondimagination to pass our life from the law of inharmony, desire and pain, into the higher one of peace, power and happiness. 

The moment a life desires anything it instantly becomes related with thatthing, but it does not become a possession until all the conditions arefulfilled. Some minds think so _lightly_ of everything that nothingever becomes steadfast and certain. They drift aimlessly between loss andgain, health and disease, crying out, "Where are the promises, " neverrealizing that promises are only fulfilled when the whole selfhood becomesgrappled to the rock of understanding. 

Human life is only a _growing_ time, and each life will remain justwhere it is and express the laws of its level of consciousness until itdevelops out from them into others. 

Sickness, poverty, wretchedness, disappointed hopes are common in thejourney of Life; despairing human lives are common too, and lives full ofrebellion can be found on every hand, but all these are the products ofthoughts that produced them and show just where the consciousness haslingered. 

Freedom from all these negative human experiences comes as the reward ofinner growth; it can only come through unfoldment and transmutation intohigher understanding. Human pain and loss, despair and disease, and theheart-breaks of life, are all the fruits of the Tree of Life whose root is_Truth_. 

When sickness, sorrow and unhappiness have taken the place of health andjoy in our life, we have no one to blame but ourselves; we can know thatthrough a long line of perverted thinking, both inherited and acquired, wehave become related with the laws in consciousness, and these laws arethoughts of self, hate, jealousy, strife, condemnation, resistance, etc. We have thought it unconsciously in the past, but until we stop and get upnew thought relationships, these old things must go on. When we know thehigher truth of New Thought Relationship, and the power of constructivethinking, we can begin then and there to change things and we instantlycan clean out all the distorted thought energy, and pass the simple act ofthinking into a creative form, quitting forever our response to thenegative things around us. 

We see the truth of "Whatsoever a man soweth, that also shall he reap, "and we see, too, that this harvest field where we reap is the human life, and the seeds are thoughts, and we then and there fill our field ofconsciousness with thought-seeds of Health, Strength, Peace, Love, Joy andall the ten thousand beautiful constructive things, and we soon are livingin a perfected thought world, surrounded by the dream pictures of our soulconsciousness. We become like mystical seers, we can prophesy then abouteverything in our life without fear of contradiction, for knowing the Lawthat on the path "Like produces Like, " and knowing the thought-seeds wesow, we can be certain of the future harvest. 

Under the Law Eternal we cease to consider ourselves related to anythingthat we do not want. These things we do not want have ceased to exist forus, in the moment we have forgotten them in consciousness. We must refuseeven to connect with them in memory. Sometimes this is a hard lesson: TheLaw of Memory is a peculiar force, it is the expression of fixed thinking--that which we cannot forget has made deep inroads into consciousness. Memory often keeps us related in strange ways, and hinders our unfoldment. Memory is the connecting link between the yesterday and today; it makesthe past always the present and it remains the master of many lives andpours what it will into the field of consciousness until it is conquered. 

We cannot go on to peace, power and divine unfoldment while we are wrappedaround with olden memories, olden idols, fears and bondage. 

It is an unwritten law that we pass on as we become fit, and any life canat any moment come away from the thought law of sin, sickness and death, into the law of peace, power, happiness and joy. 

The great God-life wants us to have whatever we want, and will help us toget it and keep it. We have been told for ages to "ask and receive, seekand find, knock and it shall be opened. " The Universal waits upon ourrecognition of its presence and before we ask it is given. The moment weknow what we want and ask for it under the higher law of recognition, itis ours, then we only have to wait until we can manifest it. Over the samethought line which we pass out our desires, there passes back to us theanswer to our prayers and our human pathway blossoms with the fruits andflowers of our deeper understanding. 

The law of bondage will never become the law of liberty, but each one ofus may come away into this perfect law of creative thinking as soon as weteach ourselves the simple act of picking out thoughts that relate us withthe higher things of life. The kinds of positions, friends, conditions andenvironment we attract to ourselves under the positive consciousrelationship are entirely different from the ones we will attract underthe negative destructive thought laws. Good friends, happy environment, peace and love, are not made from the material of mind that recognizesonly lack, loss, envy, despair, fear, condemnation and resistance. 

When we want health, we must think health thoughts and become _one_with the laws that make for health and live at health's heights; when wewant wealth we must create a wealth thought vibration and link our liveswith the levels of wealth. All the grand, good things of earth can onlycome and gather around us when we have lifted our consciousness to thelevel at which they can be touched. 

In the light of this higher understanding we can see that in just theproportion that our human nature rises towards the Universal Wisdom, ourhuman perception becomes widened, until, at last, we include all the lawsof higher living, thinking and being, and we bring from the hidden centerwithin ourselves a profound knowledge. As our life grows more and more inthe power of perception, we retire farther and farther from the personal, the pessimistic, the limited belief of selfishness, condemnation, resistance, and we begin a new thought life filled with moral, intellectual and spiritual glory, and even though "since the fathers fellasleep all things continue as they were from the creation, " we see thetrue laws of creation, and making pur minds one with these laws we passwith them and through them on to perfected human wisdom, we turn to thedaily life then with a higher, holier and more glorified purpose and outfrom all the gloom of the past we find the promises have all been answeredand that God has provided some better things for us, which without uscould not be made perfect. 

The final word, then, to the sick, discouraged and diseased world is this:

"The righteous are in the hands of their God (the LAW) and their life isfull of immortality, " and knowing this anyone may recognize theirconscious union with whatever they desire; create it in their humanthought world and project it into form in the Cosmic Consciousness; thenwith wide open soul eyes walk calmly on, expecting it and never layingdown their demand until it manifests for them. 

The Outside and Inside of Life

"_Jesus said unto him, go and wash in the pool of Siloam. He went hisway therefore and washed and came seeing_. " ST. JOHN IX, 7. 

When we read the history of the ages behind us we cannot help but see thatthrough every phase of human evolution there has run that subtle somethingwhich men call "the power of the unseen. "

Matty of our forefathers lived in self scrutiny and subjectiveinvestigation, and many lived in lawless expression of their objectiveselves with no idea of life in its subjective action and form. As humanityadvanced in its reverence it came to where lack of attention toregeneration and self-comprehension was followed by an inner sense ofguilt, and those who know the power of the two states of consciousness, the outer and the inner, have grown to where they look upon it as abnormalto higher progress, to only enter these finer courts of being just to restand renew the physical body. 

Men instinctively know that life is too serious and mighty to pass alongon the objective side of living without now and then going into the centerof being and holding an earnest deep contact with the silentconsciousness. 

In the old thought world it was not strange for master men in every walkof life to pray. The powerful warrior turned his eyes from the field ofbattle to the strength of Heaven; the trusting mourner turned his eyesfrom the loss of earth to the gain of dying; even Milton gave himself tothe discords of politics in action, and the symphonies of the seraphims. In the silence great lives everywhere have mingled the meditations of theAbsolute with the thoughts of the discordant, differentiated and apparent_now_. 

There is not a family anywhere that does not possess at least one personwho in himself holds the proof of how real and earnest a thing are theexercises and consciousness of the solitary vigil. 

There is something of reverence yet in many lives as they recall theblessing given at meals and the evening hour of prayer. To the wayward andthose living in the control of the outside things of life, it was an hourof bondage, but to those who were at all awakened to the call of theinside life, it was an even-tide of peace and power and rest. 

It cannot be denied that the years have brought great changes in themethods of human worship. The contempt with which some of the latereducators treat worship and religion betray an ignorance on their partboth of the true office of revelation and reverence, and this blinds themto the real, innate, fundamental longing of human life. 

There are many who come away from the old thought and who believe in thepromulgation of a new truth, but they attempt to build up the new throughthe destruction of the old, and pass along as Iconoclasts seeking whatthey can destroy. These lives are the lawful product of the undevelopedhuman comprehension, and the only safety for the race is in the fact thatonly a few ever take them seriously, and these soon see that they are notinclusive enough to help more than the few, and that after a while, inorder to meet the demands of their own increasing individuality, they mustthemselves pass into wider union, into worship and get away from their ownlimitations. 

Humanity must forever pass between the outside and the inside of life, andonly as each soul becomes awake in both conditions can it understand andunite with the laws of perfect being. 

New Thought is conscious of the open door between the inside and theoutside of life, the earth and Heaven, and it knows that each soul maylive from choice in either state of consciousness and pass in and out atwill. 

Man instinctively knows the difference between the inside and the outsideof living; he can easily detect the laws of action, and the laws ofsilence. The tendency of our New Thought development is to teach lives topass more and more into the inside power or, in other words, to come intothe unseen laws of being and work consciously with the energy that createsand which is unmanifested, while at the same time they manipulate themanifested, external things, and through the understanding of the finiteare able to bring into expression the absolute power. 

It is slowly dawning upon the present day intelligence that through thisinner side of mind we can become more and more capable of controlling anddirecting the outer states of human consciousness and men are recognizingmore and more that all physical objective form is inner spiritualarrangement. 

Today humanity is looking at the cant and form and creed of the crowd, andgiving them their own rightful place, power and function, but it is alsolooking at the unseen and daring to affirm that an audience with God isattainable, certain and possible and productive of its own naturalexpressions in its own realm of higher recognition. 

Today more than ever before new strength is being born into what the worldcalls the devotional element of humanity and it is being born on a sane, healthy plane of understanding which bids fair to revolutionize the world. 

It does not take long to see, when we look with a clear vision, that thosewho display most power today, and who are productive of the greatest goodto the developing world are not those who are living in fixed relationshipwith the outside of life; it is true that those on the outer rim may boastof perfect physical strength and a perfect brain and a physical beauty, but the victory today is not from the without, but it is rather for thosewho are psychologically practical, mystically enlightened and subtle witha deep scientific relationship with all nature's finer forces and who knowlife not alone as a science or as a philosophy, or as a religion, but asan art. 

The truth must some day beat its way into the developing minds of men thatwe are now alive in a great age, and are coming to where the inside powermust become externalized and that those who today stand masters of life, and those who will continue to become masters of life and leaders in powerand helpfulness, must do it by a development that is not so muchcharacterized by their objective knowledge as by their subjective holinessor wholeness. 

We must learn what we never seem to have learned before, that the momentswe spend in the external world are not wholly our strongest or sanestmoments and that all external outside action is the crudest form ofenergy, and that when we want the _real_, we must turn the clear deepeye of our nature toward the inner, the silent, and then all our powerseems to well up and meet us, because it is called in from the apparent tothe Absolute of being. 

The next great truth is that all the old ways of life are never thrownaway until we have something to live by in the new; old truths never die, they are always existent, but their methods of expression must be changedto suit the developing intellectuality and spirituality of man. 

In the old thought life prayer was the pathway to the interior world ofpower, but today we know that recognition must be the guide to theinterior world of power. Prayer was the pathway of the old forefathers andprayer in its first inception was a straight road to the center of divineunion, but after the minds of men, befogged between the glamour of theexternal and the power of the internal, evolved a form of prayer that ledthe race away from its center out into the rim of living, the powerceased; prayer became full of cant and form, words became meaningless andnon-mystical; the truth that "God is a Spirit and they that worship Himmust worship Him in spirit and in truth" was lost in the increasingbewilderment of the mind. 

After a while humanity, seeing the futility of objective kind of prayer, ceased its praying, not because it had worn out prayer, not because it hadwandered from its desire of worship and soul communion, but because it hadworn out the old useless method, and found the dross of the letter; no onestood developed to where he could push faith into a new interpretation. 

Self examination and supplication is natural to every life as soon as itdevelops to a finer knowledge of what passes within itself. Until the lastman of the earth is dead this natural cry for the communion with the innerstates of consciousness and the union with the great absolute God-lifewill rise up and flourish and wax strong in the souls of men. 

We have learned now too much of the inside of living to ever be happy withthe outside form alone, and we have seen too much of the unseen forceswithin us to ever yield ourselves servants completely to the externalpowers. Our spiritual analysis is too fine to permit crude interpretation. Men are leaving the old just as the seed must forever leave the mould anddust of earth, and push its stalk up into heaven's bright sunshine. 

Today we stop and in close self questioning and with a desire to know thetruth, and nothing but the truth, We ask what is it that has rendered theold thought piety of our fathers unnatural and impossible to us? It doesnot take long to answer this if we look with eyes that have clearer sight. Men have turned away simply because they were too developed to be fed onthe husks of a worn out expression that was no longer large enough tosatisfy their developing thirst for Truth. 

Our New Thought methods have come because men built them with theirdesires; they called for methods that would fit the increasing spiritualcomprehension of developing humanity. 

Today mankind is instinctively recoiling from every sense of separationfrom God which our fathers felt; human life has become more human; theoutside of life is known at its real value, the inside of life is givenits place and power; Love has become vitalized; human affection has becomesweet and natural; human duties are blessed privileges and life iselevated to a pinnacle of power before unknown; social interests are nowbeginning in all and ending in all; the whole scheme of man's naturalmoral and religious existence has a true worth and dignity of its own, andhumanity is listening, accepting and delighting to honor and obey. Onlythe life in the outside ranks of living will ever condemn this new rise ofpower, and only the cowardly can despise; it is whole, sane, sweet anddivinely human and humanly divine in its application and privileges. 

We lost, perhaps, a great part of the old time manner of communion withGod because we first lost the old time spirit of supplication and thegroveling spirit of the outside world, but we have not lost communion ordevotion. 

Today we are at home in the center of being, and feel and know ONENESS. Wehave union now just as those who _know_ truth have always had, butthe method differs, and Silence has taken the place of the spoken prayer, meditation and silence is the new pathway to the Cosmic heart, and throughthis the developing children of men walk into perfect union, receiving themessages of the Divine Host. They come into a grand comradeship with God, not in the old time spirit of supplication and service, not asking, notseeking really, not even penitentially suppliant, but in the new foundglory of a faith that looks up in perfect confidence of its ONENESS, andwhich speaks from the very depth of its own glorified selfhood, and knowsthat "I and my Father are _one_ and all my Father hath is mine. "

The new race will keep all that is vital in the old one of prayer andcommunion, and it will add to it all the great power of its own awakenedconsciousness. We are awake now--wide awake to the despotism of theoutside world and its laws--and we are equally awake to the law of theinner side of life and the dominion of the world of pure Being. 

Today the silence of our new understanding has become for developed humansthe pathway of God, and it is indeed the pool of Siloam in which all maybathe and be healed. 

The Silence becomes for those who seek it a well of living water thatsprings up into everlasting life. 

It is promised that "the pure in heart shall see God, " and anyone whocomes away from the outside of life and comes stripped to the soul intothe inner side of his own being will find God there, for like the visionof the monk, He is always there, waiting to be manifest. 

The outside of life is beautiful and sweet and has in it many forms ofself-realization; it is part of the plan of human development, but it isonly a part and the lesser side of living, and after we have mastered itssecrets and understood our own relationship to it, it is natural to turninward, and read the other side of our life's picture, and when we do thisit will be strange indeed if we do not feel the Eternal presence so closeupon our soul that we will long to say with bated breath, "Thou God seestme. "

The silence of the inner side of life and the power it produces cannot beput into words; it is the pathway to the Absolute and the _language_of _that_ land is not spoken in the outer world of sense and sight. 

_Know_ the inner side of life, then _live_ it--this is thepathway of peace and power and along this way there is found that strangevital, vibrant glow of spiritual illumination sanctifying our senses, andfilling our soul and leading our mind into the fulness of Him who fillsall. 

Life then becomes for us a something divinely sent, no longer distraught;no longer to suffer; nothing but reality and a reality that has been knownby millions throughout the ages and will be known by millions yet unborn. 

Do not think that this turning into the inner side of living is weaknessand cowardice and fear of the external world and its happenings; it isnot, it is simply all energies united; it is not fear nor halting power, but it is rather the strength of the superhuman; it is not illusion, notself-hypnotism; it is a divine reality; it is God's witness to those whoseek after his illuminated heights. 

This living in the inner side of life each day is essential for thepreservation of equalization of our daily life. The outside of life cannothelp but become wearisome, and when we come away into the silence of ourinner self, we find the thrill of life and we find the human made radiantwith the glory of the Divine. 

The inner side of life answers all the questionings of our mind, and as welearn this truth we depend less and less upon the things created, but liveconstantly in the energy that creates, and through this operate our wholelife. 

Silence was first in the scheme of creation. Remember this: "The darknessand the silence knew. So is a man's fate born. "

There is no creation that will last that is born on the plane of externalaction for the law of that plane is change. In the hush of the valley ofsilence we accumulate the inward power which pushes our externalexpression into bloom. In the inner side of living the soul enlarges itsdimensions and when it comes back into the earthly things it gilds themwith a glory not their own. 

The inner side of life and its power is not a mysterious thing, it is onlythe finding of God, and when we meet Him face to face, we speak in a newtongue; we live in a temple not made by hands, eternal in the heavens, andwe live in the truth of the olden mystics and say with the power of ournew consciousness: "Our Father, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom hascome, Thy will is done on earth, as it is in Heaven. "

The Measure of Ourself

"_And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, andthe gates thereof and the wall thereof. And the length and the breadth andthe height are equal_. "

The building of a glorious perfected selfhood, this is the work of everylife. 

We all come into existence equal in privilege, we are all born equal inlatent power, which, if developed, will keep us shoulder to shoulder inthis game of living out; but not until this latent power is developed andbrought out into external manifestation can any life really declare itsmastery. 

Life has one grand prize for all, and this prize is life's masterposition. The chance to compete for this prize is given to all at birth, but the power to push forward in the pursuit of it is only developed bythose who know that it is really within them, and knowing this beginsystematically to unfold it. Not everyone is equal in the externalizationof this latent energy, and no matter how much or how little any life maypossess it, still it has its own point of contact for power, and it cancome forth in its own way in wisdom of conquest. 

Life as we find it here on earth is like a great garden; each soul comesinto this world garden and its place and keynote is struck upon the harpof life and the registration is made in the universal harmony; then itmust work out its own part until it comes into perfect tune with the otherparts of the great universal chord. 

Not a life is born into expression here, but in the unseen realm an angelor higher master ministers at its birth, and its name is written in theLamb's book of life (or the Universal Cosmic Mind). Each life drops intoits own selected and appointed place; it has its own special mission toperform, its own lessons to learn, its own part to work out, and its owngrand privilege of development. 

In essence all life is _one_, and all humanity is the same; the_One Life_ is in all and through all, without regard to class, creedor color, but in manifested expression we must forever be different; somelives are younger in their unfoldment--they are unfinished; some havefiner bodies through which to manifest consciousness; some are born intopositions where there is more required of them than of others, for theprice of usefulness is the ability to be useful; some are never useful andlive idle aimless lives because they have not yet incorporated withinthemselves the power to be of use to others. 

The nation, the race, the individual and the environment are simplysignals which we hang upon ourself of just what we created and unfoldedwithin our own consciousness. 

We come the reaper of the things we sowed, and just where we findourselves here is the picture of how well or how ill we have used theyears behind us, but the privilege of new use and new development is stillwithin us; we stand each day on the threshold of a new lifetime, ready tobegin over and over again our new unfoldment. 

Around each life is the _All Consciousness_, and it can fashion foritself a new world, made of the cosmic substance with which it isconnected. 

The great unfolding mass of humanity pass along, taking themselves as aconfused bundle of states of being, acted upon by the external force ofpeople and environment, and in turn acting back with no conscious idea ofcreation, never knowing that with what measure we mete it shall be metedunto us. 

This process of being acted upon and acting back unconsciously, produces atype of energy that cannot fail but bring forth masses of individuals whoare in bondage, body, mind and spirit, for spirit has not sensed itseternal birthright of liberty. 

Looking at this world garden full of natural wild flowers, called the"human race, " New Thought sees clearly that whatever response anindividual gives to his environment is the evidence of his own specialpower, and that this personal power may, by conscious control anddirection, give him complete mastery, and through this he passesuninterrupted into possession of life's master position and the prize ofpeace and power and wisdom. 

The individual is always the actor; the environment is always acted upon, and this acting and acting upon again gives forth an expression, and theexchange and inter-exchange between the two produces what the world callsthe character of a life, and looking upon the product of this play offorces, we say "he is a genius, " "he is a thief, " "he is a God-man, " or, "he is a degenerate, " measuring with the example that is hung before oureyes. 

Up to this point all men are really equal; they are simply alive inconsciousness, but just as the gardener takes the flower and transplantsit to specialized soil, and causes it to bud and bloom with all the energywithin it, just so man's own consciousness can take his soul and teach himhow he can lift himself into states of specialized human power and showforth all the glory of a divinely developed man. 

Everyone can take his place at any level of living that he chooses just assoon as he knows that there is no one to say "no" to him but himself. 

Strong positive thoughts put truth into the hearts of men, and this buildsthem upward and inward towards harmony. 

This great universal law of harmonious consciousness is the reed withwhich everyone may measure himself and with which each one is taught totake his own dimensions and never lay it down until his city of characterstands equal in height, breadth, and depth, and length. 

When we measure ourselves by the golden reed of consciousness, we find bythe signs of ourself and our environment if our city of self is right, andif it is not we can rebuild it in finer architectural fashioning. 

There are many lives that have neither breadth, nor height, nor depth, they have only length; they pass along through life tied to one idea or atleast a few ideas; they are narrow, bigoted, selfish and careless aboutthe other dimensions of themselves; they see through their glass darkly, the things of their own immediate knowledge are enough for them; they areexclusive and powerful in one direction, and humanity might break itselfto pieces just outside their narrow life for they neither hear nor care;they are all right, secure in their length of narrow, personal endeavor. They are afraid of anything that is outside of their own field of vision, and their life is altogether too small and straight and strained, for anybut a few of their own kind to hold on to; their days are full of anxietyand worry, for their hold on truth is too weak to bring them to power, andwisdom. 

Again, after we see how we measure in length, we can turn the golden reedupon ourselves for specialization in breadth, and often again we find ashortcoming. The breadth must also be equal; we cannot fail in our breadthand come into true wisdom, true breadth means inclusion--this may vary indegree, but there must never be exclusion of anything in the well-roundedcharacter, there is conscious selection, but never exclusion; there isnothing _in_ or _under_ or _above_ the earth but that is companionwith us on our journey toward divine unfoldment. 

To make the breadth of our life measure up in fulness, we must look withwide open eyes at everything and everyone in life, and take it at its ownpoint of unfoldment. Not in every life is found true wisdom of thought andexpression, but if we know the truth we will see past all the undevelopedthings within, to the beautiful God-self it is becoming and with wisdomand power and love include it in our own consciousness, waiting patientlyfor its development. 

To have breadth we must open our ears and our life to the call of theworld voice and live to answer it. We must hear it socially, ethically, individually, financially, politically, religiously, spiritually, mentallyand physically not only in our own way, but in every way can that one findGod within himself before he can find it through humanity; but whenmeasured by the golden reed for the building of the new self, we must findGod or Good in and through every living creature. 

All people love themselves and most people love their own families; andthis is right and good that it is so, but the breadth and height and depthmust be equal and that means inclusion of the universal as well as thepersonal self. Jesus again told this when he said to the man who asked him"What shall I do that I may have eternal life?" And He said unto him:"Keep the commandments" and, "Thou shalt not bear false witness:" "And theyoung man saith unto Him, 'All these things have I kept from my youth up;what lack I yet?'" "Jesus saith unto him: 'If thou wilt be perfect, go andsell all that thou hast and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasurein Heaven and come and follow me. ' But when the young man heard thatsaying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. " So whenJesus measured him by the reed of breadth and deeper inclusion, hefollowed him no more, for the height, the breadth and the depth were notequal. 

To give to ourselves and to our own, or to those who seem to have a claimon us for anything, is good, but, to give to those who have not claim orkinship nor power over us is _greatness_. To include them in our ownworld, not by might or force, but through recognition of union with theone life--this is consciousness of breadth that remains immortal. 

Again, the depth of a life must be equal, and how do we lack in this?There are thousands today who flit along on the crest of the wave oflife's current, butterfly-like; they never really have a consciousthought. If "it only does not affect me" is their watchword, and freedomfrom anything serious is their only really serious problem. They know inan indifferent way that hearts break, that tears fall, that there areprayers that stagger upward through life's storm, but the froth and foamof life is in their eyes; they look out on the rim of a life where theysee only self-indulgence, and when now and then they are hushed longenough to listen to the world cry, they turn away quickly for fear theywill actually touch lives with the common people. 

So long as they keep afloat they are content, their lack of depth does notdisturb them, but often after they have wasted their all in riotousliving, and the realities of life fall upon them, they cry out from thedepth of their own self-made despair; their life was like a palace builton sand which the first fierce flood tide could destroy; it had no root, no place in consciousness when measured by the golden reed--the height, the breadth and the depth were unequal. 

Unless the soul has root in soil divine, it cannot face earth'soverwhelming expressions of the working out of the human laws which itsets in motion in the round of human living. 

The life that would build sublime and lasting things to stand the test oftime, must drop its consciousness into the Absolute, and sink the stringof thought into the fathomless!

Lights and shadows are strangely blended all along the human pathway; sofrom the very center of the deeps of life the incense of our illuminedselves must still send up a faint sweet breath outward and onward, --thenthe breadth as touched by the golden reed is equal. 

Again, the height of the perfect self is also measured. No house so lowbut it must have a window opening to the sky. 

Again, there are many lives that touch the golden reed as it measuresoutward, downward, but are insensible of upward power. 

Above the surge and din of life, amid its sorrows and its strife, the soulthat comes under the glory of the golden reed, must lift itself to thehills of specialized wisdom greater then the common consciousness. 

We can find many noble, moral, natural lives equal in length and breadthand depth, but the height is lacking. Within many minds is lack of greatsublime ideals, ideals that should be born in the illumined centers of theself. There are many who have no communion with their source; they arekind, sociable, natural, humanitarian, but lacking in that great wonderfulpsychological essence which makes the human half divine; the height oftheir life is unfinished, the golden reed is broken; they walk on superiorin their knowledge until in some supreme hour of human grief, their soulis forced through some Gethsemane and opens its eyes to the need of astrength beyond their own. Death, the grave and love teach them to lookup, and hope higher than the earthly kingdom. 

And once more the measure of our soul goes on, and we find that often allis equal, but the height is _over-reached_; there are many forgettingbreadth and length and depth who measure into the very hill-tops ofillumination, making their whole expression a dream of no value tothemselves or others. They are pure children of spirit; they live in aworld peopled with the dream-children of their mind and everything theyproduce is vapid and useless in the world in which they live and havebeing; everything seems to pass away from them and their productions areas nothing under the crush and strain of life around. 

_Use_ is the world's great test of anything; unless it can beutilized by some one it is valueless to aid humanity; everything thatcomes forth into form from any state of consciousness must prove its ownpower to persist, or it vanishes and is forgotten. 

Nothing too high, nothing too low, nothing too wide, nothing too narrow, too shallow, but all perfectly adjusted--this is the measure of self, andwhen we know this the illumined life works out its own unfoldment, passingat will to any degree of consciousness. 

This is the finished product of the life that knows how to specialize inconsciousness and it is made possible through deeper illumination. Itgives to everyone the glorious physical, a depth of perception, radiantwith a refined energy and alive with all the latent power of instinct andharmony, and with this the brilliant mind with its breadth of unanswerablelogic, its fine facts, science of order and laws of physical adjustment. And added to both these we find the dream vision of the psychic, with thepoet's soul of inspiration, sublime ideality and the gentle tender heart, alive with all the common human emotions; and at last, blended andtransmuted and made vibrant by that great spiritual insight born on theheights of human revelation we find ourselves whole, grand, developed, humanly divine creatures, walking in glad comradeship with God. 

This is the "Holy Grail" of selfhood and in the light of our higherunderstanding we look downward and outward and upward, and the length andthe breadth and the height are equal. We pass from the old race thought oflimitation and live in a divine atmosphere, and can say with a wisdom bornfrom this fuller comprehension:

"_We know that if our house of this earthly tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God--an house not made with hands, Eternal in theheavens_. "

Perfect Liberty

"_No man liveth to himself and no man dieth to himself_. "

The more we look at humanity and study its expressions, the more we becomeconvinced of the truth of these words. It is not hard to see that ourhuman ties are closely knit with everything and everyone, but it is notalways easy to understand how they have come to their sometimes almosthopeless tangle. 

We are a part of everything in the universe, seen and unseen, and as wehave within us a response to every emotion, hope dream, impulse of anykind known or recognized by the human race. As we study and understand ourrelationship to people, things and expressions, we cannot help but growdeeper and deeper into the clearness of the great truth, namely, theuniversal and abiding one-ness of man and God. 

Some of our relationships in this one-ness are very indistinct andobscure, while some are very distinct and painfully objectified. 

The first Truth for us to take up is this--we _have_ and_express_ in our being and our environment just these things withwhich we have related ourselves, either through inherited or acquiredlines of thinking; no one gives to us but ourselves, no one takes awayfrom us but ourselves, no one is to blame but ourselves whatever we haveor have not; we, and we alone, are the architects of our own fortune ormisfortune. 

We get everything in life by the law of conscious or unconsciousrelationship with it through the simple act of thinking; our thoughts arelines of transference over which may pass to us not only the things whichwe desire, but also those which our fear brings down upon us and which wedo not desire. 

Unconscious relationship differs from conscious relationship and brings usthe things with which we have connected through the law of omission;conscious relationship is union, and brings everything into expressionunder the law of commission. 

Both of these lines are constant and their results undeniable, but onebrings us the whole, the constructive, while the other opens our life forthe control of the destructive, the limited. 

When thinking passes into a fixed power in our life, it may be used toperfect or destroy the whole mechanism of our present and our future. Longlines of conscious and unconscious thinking bring about certainexpressions, and these expressions in time become a part of our veryexistence, and our environment, good or bad, bears witness to thisrelationship. 

One day upon the streets of Boston I saw an old woman selling newspapers;her hair was gray, her skin brown and wrinkled, her clothing shabby andonly half sufficient for the chill of the hour; she was simplypoverty-stricken, and her old, thin, piping voice trembled as she calledher papers in an effort to compete with the crowds of newsboys around her. Many bought her papers, drawn to her through pity, and her evident need. Ifelt sorry that with her gray hair so near the grave life should have onlythis to offer her, and I sought a reason for it. I asked her to tell herstory. 

She was the daughter of a minister; her mother had been the proverbiallymeek little woman of history, perfectly fitted to be her father's wife. Her grandfathers on both sides of the parental tree had been ministers;she gave me a graphic sketch of the long line of concentration which shehad been born into and in which she continued. 

There was a long line for concentration and relationship with lowliness ofspirit, for grace, for the utter sinking of self; lack of demand for placeor power; lack of self-righteousness, absolute submission sown throughgenerations, sown for her in her own life. It had to bring forth its fruitand it did bring it forth in the form of that gray-haired, beautiful, ragged old woman, who, in the days of her declining years, gathered herharvest on the cold streets of a rich city, underfed, poor and alone. 

She was still true to her inherited concentration, for while I questionedher she said, "Health, money and happiness were not for her, " and that"her family had borne the cross of poverty and sickness all their livesand borne it nobly, and some day the Father would give them their reward. "Don't you see that the mind that is poised where her mind was, and whereher family's mind had been for generations, could not escape the law whichthey had built for themselves. 

Here was an example of unconscious relationship; can't you see howunwittingly she hourly and daily made anew her relations with the verythings which must by their very nature divorce her from the things whichshe never sensed belonged to her. The fixed thinking handed down to herfrom the past, bound her like a galley-slave and kept her life heldagainst the law which was daily destroying her; she was unconsciouslyrelated and she remained unconsciously related to the laws which made forloss and lack in her life, unable to see the paths where she turned asidefrom her Father's house, and His universal abundance; blind to her powerof new creating. 

When we begin to study our lines of unconscious relationship we find thatwe are appalled almost at the ten thousand little tendrils which bind usto our old relationships; we think ourselves "good easy man" this moment, and the next moment sees us opening the door of our life to thought formswhich if entertained, will certainly become for us a poor relation, anddemand our support for ages. We daily open our lives to endless trampthoughts which dwell with us and in the end beggar us. 

We need hourly to set a guard on our field of unconsciousness, andabsolutely refuse to admit into our daily mind any thoughts less thanthose which distinctly relate us with all the beautiful things of life, and we must never forget the truth of the power of our own personalcreations. We can be what we _will_ to be; we can be related towhatever we choose to be related to; we can choose this day whom we willserve and start the hour of our rebuilding. 

Whatever we have or have not is a positive picture of our relationship andtells to every passer-by the story of just how well we know how tocontrol, and direct our own thoughts, and whether we are livingunconsciously or consciously. 

The way to get the Perfect Liberty for ourselves is to understand fullythe secret of relating ourselves with it through the power of consciousthinking. 

The moment that a life desires anything, be it health, wealth or love, itbecomes related with that thing, and the thought establishes a line ofdirect transference; desire is the first out-reaching for the things whichare necessary to fully develop our life. It is the God-push within ustrying to get our consciousness into expression. 

In the past, the educators often called this power of consciousrelationship, "persistency"; have you not seen people whom the worldcalled "hobby riders" or "freaks"? These people are only perverted in theexpression of conscious relationship; they hold their relationship to onething to the exclusion of every other thing in their life. 

It is just as much a form of misdirected energy to sink everything in lifeto one idea; to sacrifice health, friends, position, peace, everything, inorder to gain one thing, as it is to have a diverse, indefinite, falteringidea of relationships and purposes. The true position is between them: ALLthings work together for the final good of man, and union with _all_things, not _one_ thing, is the law of _universal_ development. 

Once we have decided what we want to be related with we can afford to leteverything take its own appointed time and place in our life, bringingeverything up in its appointed place. All that we have to do is to keepour fixed point of attachment with it and this attachment is made throughpower thoughts. 

Substance is always changing and so is our position to it under the commonlaw, but under the conscious law of creation we change our position overand over again, but we keep the same hope until in some expected hour westand face to face with our hope manifested in form. 

There is no use running after anything; no use straining after it! We gainliberty not by resistance, denial or renunciation, but through union;under the old law we worked on the plane of competition; in the perfectedimaging or thinking we are living under the law of divine attraction, andwhatever we relate ourselves with in thought must come and join us. 

When we are under this law thousands of unseen hands reach out to lift usinto peace-crowned heights, and into relation with what we desire. 

When sickness has taken the place of health in our life, when disease hascrowded out our ease and comfort, we can know that by a long line ofperverted thinking, perhaps both inherited and acquired, we have becomerelated with those things which are under the law of pain, destruction anddisintegration. We may have done all this thinking unconsciously in thepast, but there is now no excuse for us to go on with this oldrelationship; it is senseless to again fill up our field of consciousnesswith the old thought concepts. 

When we know the truth of this transference into form through thoughtrelationship, we have perfect liberty; we look at ourselves in a newlight, and begin to then and there pass this simple act of thinking intolines which will connect us with just these things which we desire; wequit forever our thought relationship with conditions which speak for lackor loss or limitations. 

We fill our field of consciousness with thoughts of the strong, and thehealth of life; we shut out the diseased, the dwarfed, the imperfect. Weforce the pictures of hospitals and sanatoriums out of our mind; we lookat our bodies no matter how they look, or how much of disease they arethen expressing, and we see only the _whole_, the new, the complete. We force ourselves to _know_ nothing but the great ALL HEALTHthoughts; we go back again and again to our relation with the abundance ofhealth; we make ourselves deaf and blind and dumb to the absence ofwholeness and our body slowly swings into line, and begins to express forus the nature of our conscious thinking. 

We cease to consider ourselves related to anything that we do not want. Disease, pain, lack of health may have its place in the lesserrelationships of the human plane, but it is not found in the kingdom ofconsciousness--the all-health within us; it cannot exist in this new worldof spiritual chemicalization with which we have taken up our relations. 

When we want this perfect law of liberty, we do not recognize theexistence of the old, we simply occupy our whole thought time with the newthings with which we wish to make union. 

Every condition of life that we consider desirable for ourselves weconvince ourselves is already ours, we reach out and lay hold of it, andgive it a line of transference into our life. This is not castle building, this is Divine Relationship--the Perfect Law of Liberty!

We see the truth that the strong, the healthy, the happy, the powerful areliving in the same world, in the same universal energy that obtains forthe diseased, the weak, the sick, the unhappy; there is no reason why theymay not have every good and perfect gift. 

There are almost as many healthy as there are sick in every hospital--thedoctors, nurses, porters, cooks, and servants, all hale and hearty, putting in their whole time caring for those who are half dead withdisease. What makes the difference? Just the difference of relationship. They have not accepted mentally the same conditions, and even surroundedas they are with the sick and diseased, they refuse to be bound by thelaws which these patients have endowed with power over themselves. 

They have learned the two great truths: There is nothing in all the worldthat has any power over us except that with which we endow it, and thereis nothing in all the world of which we need be afraid. Disease andsickness are signals of great negative conditions of mind which we haverecognized in thought, and exalted to the _king_ chair in our lifeand endowed with power to hold us in bondage. 

We may escape in just that hour that we sense the power of our ownpersonal creation, and set up a conscious relationship with the positiveconstructive things in our own consciousness. We become lords of ourphysical conditions and our environment just as soon as we cut out allthought relationship with the laws which make for loss and lack. "Thespirit beareth witness with our spirit day by day that we are the Sons ofGod, " and as soon as the soul knows this it senses its divinerelationship, and is born again on the planes of a higher consciousness, and in the wisdom of its understanding it builds itself new conditions, and lives in a new world, surrounded with the objects of its own creating, at first subjectively, but in time manifested on the objective plane, tobear witness to the truth which its soul knows and obeys. 

When this is done we live in a new world made perfect by our own inspiredworkmanship; we know nothing of disease and pain, we have never a morrowof fear, "our today of content is eternal. "

There are many who have mastered health, because it was the first thingthey demanded, and after they have done this, they find that they arestill related to the laws which make for poverty and lack in materialpossessions; they have liberty in flesh but not the perfect law of it inenvironment. There are those who have known the grinding hand of need, whohave stood with crushed lives, hopeless; with courage dead and the devilof despair crouched on their shoulder, whispering words of disappointment;there are those who are homeless in a land of homes, and those who arestarving in a world of plenty; what can we say to them? How can we comfortthem and point them to the hope of a new endeavor?

The world is full of these half-fledged lives and we must answer them. Inorder to meet this expression we must go back again to our first truth, our first statement:--"We _have_ and _express_ in our being andour environment just these things with which we have related ourselves, either through inherited or acquired lines of thinking; no one gives to usbut ourselves, no one takes away from us but ourselves, no one is to blamebut ourselves whatever we have or have not; we, and we alone, are thearchitects of our own fortune or misfortune. "

As soon as we can teach a life to know the truth of its own power ofconscious thought relationship, it can face about and begin a new line ofattraction and accumulation. It is an unwritten law that we pass on as webecome fit, and we can at any moment begin a new thought attitude which, if persisted in, will relate us with everything which we conceive to beopulence or abundance. 

When we want to come into perfect liberty for wealth, we must neverrecognize poverty or the things which make for it; we must refuse to sensea separation from whatever we desire; the universal abundance is for all, and we get and express just the amount we have power to connect. 

The ALL WILL wants us to have whatever we want, remember this! And it willaid us to secure what we want and help us to keep it just so long as weshow we can make intelligent connection with it. 

We must believe in our divine kinship with supply, and the divine kinshipof every other soul with it; over the same line which we send out ourdesire for abundance there will pass back to us the answer to our prayer;the things we seek are seeking us; this is a great psychological truthwhich we can prove to ourselves if we try. Under the lines of the higherspiritual affinity the lines of transference never cross; our gain neverbecomes another's loss, and _vice versa_. 

The whole scheme of life is for freedom; it is only the perverted buildingof the minds of men that have externalized lack and bondage. We haveforgotten the eternal promise, "With what measure ye mete it shall bemeted unto you, " we have related with lack of supply, never knowing thetruth that no one limits us but ourselves. 

Under the law of liberty, we place ourselves in the very heart of divineopulence and though at first we cry abundance from the very depth ofpoverty, if we hold our life servant to this relation, all lack willslowly slip away from us, and we can, and _do_ walk out into newrelations of attraction, and become one with all that our Father hath. 

This, then, is the truth of perfect liberty:

 "To him that hath shall be given, and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which be hath. "

Those who have laid hold of the Divine truth of abundance of supply andrelated themselves with it through the power of conscious thinking may goon in calm security from demand to supply, coming each day deeper into theuniversal cosmic opulence of health, wealth, love and usefulness. 

The word, then, to the sick or poverty-stricken or loveless is this:Recognize your union with whatever you desire; reach out and make relationwith it through the power of conscious thinking; look with wide open souleyes straight into the face of the Universal Being, and taking your wantsfirmly into your mind walk on in your daily life demanding them andexpecting them to manifest; never lay down your consecration until it doesexpress for you. 

Make every conscious relationship one with health, wealth, love andusefulness, accompanied by peace, power, plenty and divine realization. 

As soon as we lift our personal life to the level of the universal life inpositive recognition of our own, it will come to us and abide. 

Union with the cosmic life is a possible thing here and now; the humanlife is but the remote picture of our place in the universal; our life'srelations may become the flowers on our tree of life, and our manifoldexperiences the fruits of our own growing and all life be one perfectround of liberty born from conscious righteous choice. 

Cosmic Therapeutics

"_And He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague wasstayed_. "

The greatest secret of the age is the connection with and manipulation ofthe cosmic energy. 

In every age and every race men have stumbled on to relationship withtheir atmospheric environment and have each demonstrated it in their ownway, but it remained for the twentieth century investigators to give usthe real key to our continuous connection and the methods by which thisconnection could be demonstrated to the thinking world. 

The minds of the past taught us the existence of an atmosphericenvironment and to a degree manifested our connection with it, butaccomplished it through the medium of objective lines of connection andtransference; today we are finding the new truth that man is able tocreate his own environment even to the most minute thing and create itfrom atmospheric energy lifting his creations aloft in his life in finiteform through the medium of a power that, in its first expression, fartranscends sight and touch. 

Today we know that the great Cosmic currents in which the whole worldlives, and moves, is nothing but a vast undifferentiated sea of energy. This energy is acting always in the formless as electrical currents; thesecurrents are always waiting to be set in motion with any other currentwhich corresponds with them in electrical reaction either positive ornegative. 

Man's whole atmospheric environment is formed of these currents and he isa localized attracting center, registering in himself and his environmentjust those electrical reactions with which he relates under the greatCosmic law of correspondence. 

We have found in the past that these atmospheric currents can be sent asvibrations through the medium of any object that is brought into relationwith them and the degree of registration depends upon the instrument used. 

In some rates of vibration these waves may be made to become heat; inothers, cold; in others, light; in others, sound; in others, just motion, without sound being separated. Physical science has given us examples toonumerous to mention of the positive expression of enforced vibration inrelation to objective things, but it was left for Marconi to showconclusively that these vibrations may be produced and transmitted throughthe medium of the atmospheric waves themselves, and psychology has shownthat any instrument, either mechanical or human, may register vibrationsin the very moment they are attuned to them. 

Atmospheric environment has passed deeply into the development stagescientifically, and even in this it does not yet really appear what it maybe, but it is easy to see how all atmospheric energy becomes really asubstance from which every skilled mechanic may create his own expression. 

Metaphysically, it is plain to see that man is only one part of this greatcosmic energy, and that standing as he does, a localized point in theocean of formless vibrating ether, he becomes a specialized, attractingcenter and the lines which connect him with this ocean of energy are hisown thoughts. 

In the physical plane men use wires and machines and objectivelocalization, but on the higher planes of consciousness we only need touse the vibrations of that plane, and the higher connecting thought wiresbecome as tangible to those who use them as do the objective connectionson the physical planes. 

On the human plane our thoughts become the metaphysical avenues ofconnection; with thoughts we reach out into this formless ocean of cosmicenergy and create through recognition the things which we desire, and ourenvironment under this law becomes the world-picture of just what we havehad the power to create for ourselves. 

This cosmic substance is neither great, nor small, finite nor infinite, itsimply is substance from the highest to the lowest expression of life. There is no escaping this universal product of energy. We ourselves areIt!

The physical universe, and everything that we call matter, is simply_universal energy_ manifested in form; everything expressed on thephysical plane is cosmic energy materialized; and every human being isonly this cosmic energy localized and expressed in human flesh and form. Form is only the physical side of Divine mind. 

In this ocean of universal energy or atmospheric environment which we callformless, there is always some form of some kind, but the formless is aform too high for our human mind to comprehend, we have not yet reachedthe plane of unfoldment where we have cosmic recognition. 

As we investigate this atmospheric environment, we find it has twodistinct forces at work within it, and these forces are the positive andnegative reaction of its atoms. This positive and negative reaction of theatoms is continually going on, and they each have their correspondingembodiment in the eternal world of matter; they act independently ortogether, and when one has learned how to blend these two reactions in hisconsciousness, as do the skilled magi, he has come to the center of hisown and universal being. 

In the manifested world of substance, mankind takes its place in one orboth of these energies; it is drawn into their expression by the universallaw of attraction. Each life is in its first expression, positive ornegative in its cosmic polarity. In the universal interpretation, we learnto look upon the positive life as the creative, and the negative life asthe receptive. 

Every individual is just what he is by the natural law of his own cosmicrelationship, and he will remain just what he is at any point of progress, and express himself in his own way until he grows into a deeper state ofcomprehension, and knows the method of changing his cosmic positions. 

When we get the truth of the universal energy in our minds and realizethat this energy is really positive and negative, and that both thesereactions have their corresponding material manifestation in ourselves, then we are ready to go farther into the study of the registration of thisenergy, and from this into the higher psychology of function. 

There is nothing in this atmospheric environment of ours that is notendowed with intelligence. Everyone who postulates a _first cause_begins with the universal _intelligence_. This _intelligence_ isgiven to us as a beginning, it remains with us to the end. 

The acceptation of the truth of the unity of intelligence is the firststep toward investigation. All finite life is an embodiment of universalsubstance and intelligence in some form--this is truth. 

Physical scientists everywhere are showing us the infinitesimal livesworking continually and in ways that are wonderful. 

Psychologists are opening daily the hidden chambers of this physical andmetaphysical world, and giving us high lights on what we once thoughtimpossible of investigation; they are showing us astounding examples ofconscious ideation in every order of life, and are aiding us to drawinteresting conclusions. 

There is a great universal intelligence and a remote finite expression ofthis intelligence; the lesser is always dependent upon the greater and ourhuman life becomes the microcosmic pattern of the macrocosmic world. 

With this premise firmly under our feet let us go on to the question ofthe intelligence of the physical tissues of the human body, and ourrelation to disease, health, poverty and opulence. 

Every cell of our physical body is intelligent and capable of beinginstructed into finer grades of expression; this is the process by whichwe refine matter into spirit and by which we pass from a lower to a higherexpression of wholeness and build our cells into a grade of consciousnessso high that we produce objective expressions of such perfect responsethat we become the higher revelation of the cosmic consciousness. 

The higher we go in intellectualizing ourselves, the closer we draw to thecosmic consciousness, and the more familiar we become with its laws. Thehighest life is the one that includes the most. 

It is a natural law that we have at all times unconscious thought relationto the universal abundance and our thoughts are the conscious agents ofconstruction and destruction, and we work through them as soon as we areold enough to think and reason. 

Disease and poverty would never manifest for us if we did not some timerecognize it in our atmospheric environment with our thoughts, and work itout on the objective plane through the law of atomic attraction. 

Whenever doubt, worry, anger and negative thoughts take possession of ourfield of consciousness (the everyday mind), we are creating these thingsfor ourselves in the cosmic currents and they cannot refuse to register inform either in our body or in our environment. 

It can be seen that if, year after year, we separate ourselves from thepositive creative cosmic intelligence, and put up our images of personallimitation, the creative intelligence is joined to the weaker energy andcannot refuse to work out the conditions with which they are related. 

The human mind is the agent which must be taught to stand as sentinel andforce our minds to people our currents with thoughts which make only forthe perfect health, perpetual opulence and divine realizations. 

The minor intelligence of our cells would just as readily work out theuniversal law of perfection if we only knew enough to intelligently directthem and not overpower them by our negative personal directions. 

When we have once established in our minds the truth of this universalcosmic intelligence, in which there is no sickness, poverty or death, unless we recognize it, it does not take us long to work out betterconditions for ourselves in the physical body and environment. 

No matter what our lack may be, we can know that it is because we have setour human thought to work under a personal negative law instead of apositive creative universal one. We have only to stop, face about, andbegin to direct our thoughts intelligently, and in union with the higherplan, and solicit co-operation with all the finite forces around us. 

If we find ourselves diseased, with pain, and physical mal-positions wecan speak to our physical cells as we would to a friend and connect themwith the higher creative currents and help them to get into a higher formof building; they are ready at any moment to answer, "The sheep know theirshepherd's voice and obey it. " They must begin to build in the newlikeness and in the very moment that we consciously direct them; this isthe law, there is no appeal from it. 

Everything comes to us from the Infinite atomic ethers through the law ofDivine attraction, and when we have built and rebuilt our cells into anintelligent relationship with absolute wholeness, we become a magnet, sohighly sensitized and so magnetic and carefully polarized, that we are anattracting center for everything in our atmospheric environment, and ourphysical body and our environment become the expression of our thoughtworld. 

When we know enough to send our thoughts into the universal energy withonly the recognitions of positive creations, such as health, wealth, love, divine realization and actualization, then our material world must be madethe immediate reproduction of these things. 

The sick world passes along with all its thoughts poised in thedestructive recognition; we meet them upon this pathway, and knowing thelaw of the higher constructive power of building we must meet theirquestioning with some answer that will restore them to the state ofconsciousness they have lost. 

The very first truth that every sick life must know is that thoughts are_things_, and make themselves felt in form, and that in the greatatmospheric energy, like attracts like. Our consciousness becomes for usthe wireless stations which attract and register the universal messages, and each station attracts its own from whatever plane or state ofconsciousness it vibrates. 

The invisible world is _something_ and its substance is_something_, and that we do not understand it and have impropercorrespondence, is no proof that the power of correct correspondence doesnot exist. 

There are great occult laws of relationship always awaiting our deepeningcomprehension:

 "_Till one appears who bears, All nature silent is, Silent for evermore, Beating its waves of force On an unanswering shore Till one appears who bears_. "

The cosmic atmospheric energy in which we live, move and have our being isalways ready to become manifested in form, and may become manifested byanyone who knows how to create a form for himself. 

It has been manifested in many varied forms by the children of men, but ithas not yet entered into the hearts of men to conceive of the glories thatare yet awaiting them when one appears who really does hear, and knows thefull truths of cosmic power. 

This is the secret of Cosmic Therapeutics, and those who know this secretreally do become the twentieth century mystics and are rulers over themanifestations of finite and infinite energy. When we come to this pointof demonstration we are the world's greatest physicians. With thisknowledge we may conquer not only disease and poverty and despair, but wemay overcome the last enemy--Death, and live and have being in a world ofuniversal power. 

There are grades and grades of intelligence both in the human and theAbsolute mind: All grades of cosmic currents are ever ready waiting torespond to those who touch them; there is nothing mysterious orunattainable about them; they are the natural results of natural laws, andwe come into union with them through growth and recognition. 

We first come to a consciousness of our universal, atmosphericrelationship with all that is, then we learn to understand the responsethat comes to us from every person and everything; then we reach out inperfect faith with our deep of need, calling to the deep of supply, andthe doors of a thousand hidden chambers of nature open bringing divinerevelation into our souls. 

Absent Treatments

The sick world has always had its scientific and religious investigation, and in addition to this new-found power of atmospheric creation there isanother great truth which the sick world must know in order to make itsown union, and this is the truth of the power to manipulate these Cosmiccurrents not only of our own creation, but for anyone who touches ourlife; we cannot only think and realize and actualize for ourselves, but wecan reach out into the formless energy and create, direct and controlthese great universal currents so that they will have the power to rebuildanother's life. 

We have a great psychological Cosmic truth known as "absent treatments"but which is really COSMIC THERAPEUTICS in our new understanding; we usecosmic currents to heal ourselves and we manipulate them for anotherthereby eliminating time and distance; we get behind the things createdand understand and deal with the Energy which creates. 

The sick world has tried all the things of the physical world through themedium of objective lines of transference--drugs, electricity, diet, bathsand what not, each one a part of the cosmic consciousness, but it findsthat the laws still exist, and as long as they remain related with thelaws of disease in flesh it will manifest for them in flesh. 

Absent treatments is the power to connect with and direct the Cosmicatmospheric currents which make for positive expression of health, andwhen we have laid hold of this power, we can change at will any vibrationof negativeness with which we find ourself or others expressing, and we doit through the power of thought, feeling and revelation. 

These higher laws of relationship are only mysterious and strange to thosewho do not understand; the Hottentot stands in wonder and amazement at theX-ray machine, but the skilled operator turns on its power in spite ofthis ignorance and disbelief, and it works whether he believes it or not. Just so the skillful operator in Cosmic Therapeutics can generate, controland direct the power of the Cosmic consciousness which he understands, andit brings its results whether the skeptical mind of man accepts or denies. 

This power to manipulate nature's finer forces is only hidden from thosewho do not seek to find; in the moment a soul knows that it is possible toconnect through thought and to manipulate through consciousness, it isborn into union with the Energy that creates and can say, "Let there belight" over its own world. 

We can stand in the great Cosmic Energy and with tools a thousand timesfiner than the finest X-ray or vibratory machine known to science andproject our thought power into regions of an ether so fine, so vibrant, sovital that the very touch of them upon our being fills us with the greatpulsing energy of the universe. In just the instant we connect with thesecurrents our old vibratory rates of living are changed and we have passedfrom death into life; we are healed to stay healed through conscious unionwith the ALL-HEALTH currents of the Universe. 

There are many clumsy operators in any field of science, and there areplenty of them in this new world of Cosmic Therapeutics, but investigationand application give unfoldment and skill, and we will soon pass into sucha complete understanding of these higher laws of being that it will be anovelty to find a life unacquainted with them, and everyone will be usingCosmic Therapeutics in some degree. 

The fundamental law of absent treatments is the truth of the Oneness oflife and intelligence, and the ready response of the Absolute intelligenceto the finite mind. 

Each life has its own direct line of thought connection with thisUniversal Energy, and no matter where it stands in its comprehension, itcan be taught to understand this simple truth of thought relationship. 

We can think ourselves to the outermost rim of things and there connectwith the diverse differentiated energy which can only make for disease andlack, or we can think ourselves to the very center of the Cosmic heart andfind there the "peace that passeth understanding. " We find this center andattract its energy through human thoughts of power, love, hope, faith, joy, purity, patience and consciousness of infinite union, and our everyaction carries with it into the external world a power that manifests forus as health in our body and wealth in our environment. 

When we know that all life is universal atmospheric intelligence and thatit responds to us from any point we touch it, we need then only to throwourselves into conscious thought union with everything which we desire;forgetting all the weak negative things we do not desire, and thisconscious connection leads us into relation with the energy that musteventually manifest in form. 

If we want to heal ourselves we stand with our whole life open to thepositive creative Cosmic currents and let them beat through us and aroundus; we WILL then and there to pass our whole being into union with everycreative universal force, and to feel the power of its energy sweepingthrough us; we hold our life to this higher understanding until the greatflood tide of the universe comes sweeping along our veins and through ourbeing, washing away in its resistless force all the lesser moorings whichhold us to the thoughts of disease or decay; we have then the life moreabundantly than is promised and we feel that we have entered into thatplace that is prepared for the people of GOD; we are healed to stay healedfor the very life blood of the universe is in our veins. 

If we then want to give an absent treatment, and send to another thisEnergy that creates we just take the thoughts of our Cosmic atmosphericrelationship in our mind, and reaching out first in perfect thinking webuild for them a perfect thought body, and place it in the Cosmic Energy;holding fast to this image we pass with it into the deeper states of beingwhere thinking ceases, and KNOWING is the law, and we bid them stand forthwith us in conscious union whole, complete, the God-child, one with theALL-HEALTH of the Universe. 

When we can do this, our work is finished, and we can let them go, securein the consciousness that they are one with us in strength and power. Whenwe have really understood this higher law of recognition we look withall-seeing eyes into the face of Cosmic Intelligence, and we see theinfinite supply answering our finite lack, we abide in a position ofknowing which passes us externally into health of body and environment. 

How to Give Absent Treatment

Concentrate your mind on the one whom you wish to heal, then build amental vision of him; see him in consciousness just as whole and perfectas if he was really radiant with health. Make believe that he is standingbefore you a perfect picture of physical perfection, work on your visionuntil you can produce and hold the most beautiful idealized picture ofhuman beauty of flesh, form and character. Never forget to illumine yourperfect thought-patient with a divine light of spiritual radiance. Thisperfected "make-believe-self" must be the risen God within them and itmust come forth resplendent in a new glory. When you can hold a perfectvision of him and make yourself blind to anything but this image ofbeauty, health and power--then place him in the Divine Life and leave him. God, the great universal intelligence, will make the balance good. He willfinish what you have begun. There is concerted action between the atomicmind of infinite substance and the mind of man, "and as the Father raisethup the dead and quickeneth them, so has he given the son the power toquicken whom He will. "

This vision held daily and intensified by belief and conscious commandwill be accepted by the spiritual consciousness of the patient and whetherhis surface mind accept it or not, his deeper consciousness gives thestimulation to his body and this registers it in form and he is healed tostay healed through the silent laws of mind. "And he stood between theliving and the dead and the plague was stayed" because by his owntranscendent consciousness he set in operation the higher laws ofintelligence in substance. 

It is written that in the Psychological Institute in France, ProfessorPrisbram, in one of his psychological experiments, asked a patient tothink powerfully and concentratedly upon a make-believe vision of abottle--he did, with his hand on a sensitive plate in a developing fluid, and slowly the picture of the bottle registered upon the plate. 

Just as this make-believe bottle registered upon the plate, just so doesthe make-believe perfect flesh-body register in the cells of the old, andunder the law of renewal of tissue, it is developed into form. This visionis the true self that is latent in every life. "The first man, Adam, wasof the earth, earthy, the last man, Adam, was a living soul. " "There is abody terrestrial and there is a body celestial, and the glory of theterrestrial is one and the glory of the celestial is another. " And withthe vision of the celestial body, in which the consciousness vibrates as aliving soul, our treatment is accomplished and we have made our mind aconscious part of the mighty plan and we can ask whatsoever we will and itwill be granted. 

How often shall we treat an absent patient?

Three times daily and between these times forget them utterly, give themto the Cosmic forces, the Absolute. Holding on to a patient in thoughtoften delays his recovery. When you have done your spiritual visualizingpowerfully and perfectly, stop! The Universal Law will do the rest; nevergive an anxious thought to them, nor recognize death; vibrate life andmore and more life to them and just as the current runs along the wirejust so this silent Cosmic intelligence will flow from you to them, andhealth will come, sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly, back along theirveins.