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COMPLETE COURSE IN
BIOPNEUMA
The True Science of the Great Breath
Opening of the Golden Gate Unto

The Healing of All Diseases
The Forgiveness of Sins
and Divine Illumination
By LEVI
SECOND EDITION
Healing by the Supefine Forces

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SHORT SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR
The true Illuminate who has so gladly prepared

this wonderful Course of Instruction needs no intro-
duction to the many students who have so often been
with him in the Pavilion of Silence and have listened
to his message direct from the Mount of Illumination.
He has spent forty long years “in the wilderness feed-
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his Father’s sheep” and in preparation for the

Swork of healing and teaching.
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‘- tice of Healing Diseases, Forgiving Sins, and Attain-
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of Silence without the help of books, excepting the
R‘ Bible, or of teachersupon the physical plane.
Of course, the literary, scientific and medical educa-
‘fition of Levi was quite liberal and his earlier years
fiwere spent in teaching, preaching and lecturing. He
was for some time teacher of Chemistry, Toxicology,
(,3 Physiology and Histology and lecturer on Electricity

‘in Medical Colleges, and for a few years was engaged
3~in the practice of Medicine and Surgery. And this
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ILLUMINATION
BY LEVI n’GUnU
There’s an ocean that men cannot fathom nor measure;

It lies just beyond the Dominion of Night;
’Tis the ocean of splendor, of infinite pleasure,
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Of fathomless beauty—the ocean of Light.

In the midst of this radiant ocean of glory
Rests the Island of Blessing, the gem of the sea;
The home of the Spirit, so famous in story,
Where angels are servants, and men are the free.
In the midst of the Isle is a flower—crowned mountain;
The sanctifled call it the Mount of the Wise;
From its summit pours forth a life-giving fountain
That waters the lands of the earth and the skies.
On the top of the mountain a Temple, all glorious,
Stands out in the light of the Illumined One.
Ten thousand bright angels and souls all victorious,
Surround it, and fill it—this House of the Sun.
And this is the Temple of Illumination
Where the courtiers of heaven and earth daily meet;
Where souls, cleansed from sin, elect from each nation,
Hold council with Jesus, and sit at his feet.
The way to this Island and unto this Mountain
Lies through the deep valley of Silence and Prayer;
But whoever will may drink from the Fountain,
And realize all that it is to be there.
Come up to this Temple of Illumination;
Come, bathe in the sunlight of a thrice blessed day.
There is room for the millions of every nation,
And Christ is the Truth and the Life and the Way.
In the Innermost Circle there’s joy and there’s gladness;
There’s peace and there’s freedom from sin and from
strife.
The Angel of Mercy will free you from sadness,
And Christ’s Benediction is Eternal Life.
BIOPNEUMA
The True Science of the Great Breath
LESSON I
WHAT IS BIOPNEUMA?
1. MEANING op THE WonD.—-Biopneuma is derived

from two Greek words, bios, life, and pneuma, breath,
or spirit; hence the word ineans the Breath of Life,
or the Spirit of Life. In the Sanscrit language this
universal force is called Svara, the Great Breath.
Biopneuma is the manifestation of Universal Spirit,
and fills all space. It is the creative energy of the
Infinite. In the Mosaic account of creation it is
written:
“And the earth was without form, and void, and
darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the
Spirit of God (Biopneuma) moved upon the face of
the waters." Gen. 1:2.
2. MEANING on THE TnIN1'rY.—Universal Spirit is
a Trinity composed of the individualities, Fire (or
Force), which is bi-sexual; 2. Intelligence, masculine;

3. Love, feminine. By the Hebrew and the Christian
the eternal Force, or Fire, is called God. That Fire
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raised to certain potency becomes Heat, which is

a
Intelligence; that Heat raised to a higher power he-

comes Light or Love; and so we have Biopneuma, the
Holy Spirit, Intelligence, the Heat of the Infinite
Fire, manifested to the world through the Light, the
Christ,
“Who is that True Light that enlightens every man
who comes into the world.” J no. 1 :9.
Men never know of fire until it is manifested to
their sense of feeling by heat; but heat cannot be seen
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until it is manifested as light. So the world knew not

God until he was manifested in the flesh as the Christ,
the light of the world.
3. Souncn or ALL L1r1~:.——There can be no life
without heat. Biopneuma is universal Heat, hence,
without Biopneuma there can be no life. In all times
agone this Spirit has been regarded as the source of
all life, and until the "Great Disaster,” which has
ever marked the period called the "Fall of Man,” men
fully appropriated this force and maintained perfect

health, and Love was pure, Intelligence perfect, and
Will divine. The Genesis historian (Chap. 6) de-
scribes the men of those primeval times as “Sons of
God,” and “giants" and long-lived.
4-. THE GREAT DISASTER.-—Tllere was a time when
a terrible disaster befell the earth. The word d_i>saste_r
means "an astral calamity, a trouble caused by the
stars,” and the Great Disaster, to which reference is
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here made, was so terrible that it shook the earth to

its very center, tipped it twenty-three and one-half
degrees from its original position, and disarranged the
order of all terrestrial things. A great planet whose
benign influences had been the energizing, vitalizing
force of the respiratory organs of men, was totally
destroyed, and the Great Breath ceased to find an
abiding-place in the human body. But the physical
Disaster was only a reflex of a great moral disaster,
for which the will of men was responsible,—a calamity
that inaugurated the despotism of Evil and alienated
the human race from the heart of the Everlasting
Father. As a result, the way to the Tree of Life was
obstructed. In that wonderful symbolic representa-
tion of the fall of man, and his exclusion from the
glorious Eden, recorded in Genesis, the statement is
made :
“And God placed at the east of the garden of Eden
the cherubim and the flaming sword which revolveth
to guard the way to the Tree of Life.” Gen. 3:24
(Lesser).
5. IMMEDIATE Rnsurxrs on THE FALL.—Spiritual
seers make known the fact that as a result of the
terrible disaster a perceptible decline of the vital
forces of men occurred, and the deep, free breathing
of the giants became a faint little pufling of air in
and out from the upper portion of the lungs; that
which is called breathing by the people of today. Of
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course a corresponding decline in health occurred, and

the years of human life were reduced from several
hundred to less than a third of a century. The work
of healer, teacher, prophet and priest of the present
century is to restore man to his lost Eden, that he
may again he a Son of God, a mighty giant with
perfect health and great length of life.
6. W031: on THE Srmrr AND or THE C1-m1s'r.--The
mission of the Illuminate of Bethlehem was not, pri-
marily,to save men from their sins, but to show them
the way to the lost Eden, to annul the Law of Evil
and restore the Biopneumic forces. In this manner
He was the Way unto the at-one-ment with the Su-
preme Parent. And how sweet it is for the long-
lost prodigal when he comes to the open arms of
parental love and the joys of the old home! The
mission of the Biopneuma, the Holy Spirit, is to open
the Golden Gate to the forgiveness of sins, perfect
health and Divine Illumination.
7. MEANING or INBPIRATl0N.—-To in—breathe is to
inspire; to out-breathe is to expire, and these are the
two activities of respiration—inspiration and expira-
tion—the positive and the negative manifestations of
the Great Breath. There are many degrees of in-
spiration from the little pufling of air in and out of
the lungs, that men call breathing, to the deep, vigor-
ous intaking of all the ethers required for the regener-
ation of the body and mind. This regenerative work

is the renewing of which Paul wrote:
“We faint not; but even if our outward man is
wasted, yet our inner man is renewed day by day.”
2 Cor. 4:16 (Literal Translation).
In ordinary breathing there is just enough Bio-
pneuma in-breathedto keep the little spark of life from
perishing. He abides not long in the poisonous at-
mosphere of an unregenerated person; no home for
him is there, but when the temple has been cleansed
and made pure by deep inspiration, he comes in as a
Holy Guest, sits down to supper and abides.
Paul taught that the in-breathing of Biopneuma
constituted inspiration. In the letter to Timothy he
wrote:
“All Scripture is given by inspiration (in-breathing)
of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for
correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the
man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished un-
to all good works.” 2 Tim. 3:16, 17. Literally he
said: “All Scripture is given by the in—breathing of
Biopneuma.”
8. RECEIVING THE S1=m1'r.—Theologians of all
times have made the reception and work of the Holy
Spirit so very mysterious that ordinary common sense
thinkers have deemed it useless, even sacriligious, to
attempt to understand it. For nearly two thousand
years church dignitaries have taught that the work of
the Spirit is limited to a few people who were lucky
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enough to get into a so—called church, which they could

easily do by subscribing to a number of man-made
Articles of Faith, and going through with a few con-
ventional forms and ceremonies. Evangelists have
made use of every means known to ward politicians,
including threats of a man—conceived hell, and the
powerful hypnotic influences developed in revival
meetings,to swell the number of converts. But no
matter how the conversions were obtained, the Holy
Ghost was promised.
Ghost is certainly a good word to use in connection
with such theological teaching, for a ghost is only
“an apparition,” “a shadowy form,” and the apparent
in-coming of the Divine Spirit is usually.so shadowy,
so lifeless, that in a few days after the revival excite-
ment is over, the "sanctified converts” are found in
their old haunts again, and the incident of the "great
revival” is made the butt of ridicule by the vulgar and
profane, and the average thinker of the better classes
is chagrined and deeply disgusted.
9. CANNOT BE CoNmNnD.—Biopneuma proceeds
directly Spirit, and can-
from the heart of Universal
not be circumscribed. Like the Father of all, he is no
respecter of person. His gifts are not intended for
the few, but may come without measure for all. The
Hebrew seer, Joel, tells of the measureless outpouring
of Biopneuma, and in his wonderful sermon on the
day of Pentecost, Peter repeats his statement. Note

the language:
“It shall come to pass in the last days, saith God,
I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and your.
sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your
young men shall see visions, and your old men shall
dream dreams; and on my servants and on my hand-
maidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit,
and they shall prophesy.” Acts 2:17, 18; Joel 2:
28, 29.
10. CANNOT BE Co1>Y1uGH'rEn.—Religious teachers
have attempted to secure a “corner” on the Divine
Spirit, as speculators do on wheat; but all their efl"orts
at copyrighting and patenting have been abortive. A
Chinese wall may be built around a Creed or Confes-
sion of Faith to keep it in; but when men attempt to
fence the Holy Spirit in by a church wall they succeed
admirably in keeping him out, for he is too large to
live in a narrow, contracted chamber.
Peter was once a narrow bigot and thought that the
Jews had a mortgage on the Spirit, and that their wall
was high enough to keep him in. But Peter was in-
tended for a cosmopolitan preacher and a man with
contracted views can never be world-wide in influence,
and so a great lesson was necessary. He must be
taught that the Spirit is universal; that he is not con-
fined to the Jews, no, not even to human beings, but
that every creature receives his blessing, and Univer-
sal Spirit made use of an object lesson to convert his
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chosen evangel. While Peter was in the Silence on

a housetop the lesson came. Note his own description
of the scene:
“I was in the city of J oppa praying, and in a trance
I saw a vision, a certain vessel like a great sheet de-
scending, being let down by the four ends out of
heaven, and it came to me. And‘ looking attentively
into it I observed and saw quadrupeds of the earth,
and wild beasts, and serpents and birds of heaven.
“And I also heard a voice saying unto me, Arise,
kill and eat. But I said, By no means, Lord, for a
common or impure thing never entered into my mouth.
“And a voice answered me a second time from
heaven, What God hath cleansed do not thou regard
as common.
“And this was done three times, and again all were
drawn up into heaven.” Acts 2:5-10 (Lit. Trans.).
Peter got a part of the lesson well impressed, for
when he was in the presence of Cornelius, the Gentile,
to tell the good news of the Christ he said:
“I perceive in truth that God is no respecter of
persons, but in every nation he‘ who fears him and
works righteousness is acceptable to him.” Acts 10:
34--35.
He did not, however, seem to grasp all the lesson of
the vision. He did not fully comprehend the thought
that all the creatures of God were receivers of the
Holy Spirit, as was intended to be impressed by the
representatives of all families of earth creatures in
the great sheet.
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The world is still slow in grasping the idea of the

"wideness of God’s mercy,” but in fact the Great
Spirit is as certainly present in the lower orders of
life as in man until he “purifies his heart by fait ,”
and prepares his body for a temple fit for a divine
dwelling place. Then, and not until then, is the dif-
ference marked. This purification is the new birth,
the incoming of Biopneuma, and with Biopneuma as
a Guest, men are in the Christ, the divine Way, and
"If any one be in Christ he is a new creation; the
old things have passed away; behold! they have be-
come new.” 2 Cor. 5:17.
11. A QUICKENING SPuu'r.——-Paul told the Roman
disciples that the Spirit of Life, Biopneuma, that
dwelt in them should quicken their mortal bodies,
Rom. 8:11 ; and that this same Biopneuma "had made
them free from the law of sin and death." Rom. 8 :2.
Dismiss from your minds forever the unreasonable
theological idea of the Holy Spirit, and accept the
strictly scientific scriptural idea, and ten thousand of
the hard problems of biblical interpretation will be
solved and you will be advanced many days’ journeys
on your way to Divine Illumination.
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LESSON II
PREPARING THE TEMPLE
12. THE Anmma PLACE.-—Men and women are the

Temples, the abiding places, of Biopneuma, the Holy
Guest. Paul says:
“Do you not know that your body is a Temple of
the Holy Spirit in you, which you have from God?”
1 Cor. 6:19 (VVilson).
All people are required to protect the Temple of the
Holy Guest against impurities and unholy things.
Defilementis punishable by destruction. Paul says:
“If anyone defile the Temple of God, him will God
destroy; for the Temple of God is holy, which Temple
ye are.” 1 Cor. 3:17.
The primary work of all aspirants to Illumination,
or even physical health, is to recognize the law of
forgiveness, which includes carting out of the body

all corrupt matter, fumigating it with pure ozone, and
bringing in for a sweet perfume the Roses of Sharon
and the Lilies of the Valley.
13. FALSE THEORY or THE GREAT BREATH.-F01’
many long years men have misunderstood the Great
Breath. They have taught that it is identical with the
air we breathe. Oh, how commonplace this doctrine
makes our dearest friend, Biopneuma! Chemists can
analyze the atmospheric air; can resolve it into origi-
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nal elements; but no laboratory ever yet contained a

retort of such exquisite fineness that the Holy Spirit
could be even confined for inspection for the smallest
fraction of a moment.
14-. A J OHN THE BAPTIST.-—Tl]e Holy Spirit is not
a scavenger to scrape up and cart out of the body
physical impurities. There is in the atmosphere a
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“Prepare ye the way for the Lord; make the high-
ways straight for him.-” Matt. 3:3.
After the cleansing has been completed, the way is
prepared, the highways straightened, the apartments
purified and the body becomes a “fit temple for the
in-dwelling of the Holy Spirit,” and he enters to abide
forevermore.
15. ALWAYS PnEsr:N'r.—People pray for the in-
coming of Biopneuma, when there is not a single word
of authority in any inspired Scripture for them to do
so. Pope, cardinal, priest and preacher are the only
authorities for such procedure. Might as well pray
for God to fill a vile casket with costly pearls as to
pray for him to fill an impure body with the richest
jewels of heaven. The Holy Spirit is not afar 011';
he is everywhere present and is ever anxious to take
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up his abode in prepared Temples. Through the

Patmos seer, he tells of his willingness:
“Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any.
man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in
to him and will sup with him and he with me." Rev.
3:20.
And so this universal, all-the-time and everywhere
present Spirit waiting at the seven million doors of
is
very person ready to enter with floods of blessing.
All that men and women have to do is to prepare their
bodies for the in-coming, and immediately his presence
will be felt.
16. THE CLEANsINa.—The scientific purification
of the bodyby the atmospheric breath is of great im-
portance. The Temple is often defiled with foreign
trafiic. Money changers and sellers of animals and
birds for sacrifice are quite apt to make in it marts of
trade. Mild measures will not exorcise these villain-
ous tenants. Physical exertion is ofttimes necessary,
and the scourge of small cords may be the only means
of cleansing. Jesus did not wait for the mild argu-
ments of reason to drive out the polluters of the Jew-
ish Temple in J ernsalem; he made a scourge, or whip,
of small cords and by the use of physical strength he
drove them out. And when the Temple of the body
is poITii1!EH, such force must be used as may be neces-
sary to cleanse it, if that cleanser be massage, water,
or even laxoids.
17. Pnopan BnEA'rH1NG.—We hear much about the

wonderful efiect of deep breathing, and, indeed, it is
difficult to compute the advantages of it; but modern
teachers, in their Courses of Instruction, would make
men think it a new discovery, whereas deep breathing
is normal, and shallow breathing abnormal, the result
of the careless habits of modern civilization. People
cannot break up the habit of shallow breathing at
once, and so many books have been written, and hun-
dreds of exercises given to help overcome the shiftless
habit; and while there is very much of the sheerest
nonsense in many of these Courses of Instruction,
which have been gotten up solely as money-making
schemes, they have all been more or less helpful to
the purchasers.
18. PHYSICAL CoNm'r1oNs.—To properly appreci-
ate the advantages of normal breathing it is necessary
to take a peep into the interior of an average creature
of modern civilization. The word that most fully ex-
presses the condition is “Collapsed.” Everything is
collapsed; blood vessels are collapsed; nerves are
contracted; brain and muscle tissues are shriveled,
and the cells in every part of the body are but little
over half their normal size. Everywhere is written
that terrible word, Collapsed. Why the collapse?
There are several causes; but tight clothing and shal-
low breathing are the causes pre-eminent. In follow-
ing lessons the wonderful destruction wrought upon
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the physical body, especially among women, by tight

clothing, will be explained. The breathing question
is now to be considered.
19. ORGAN5 or REsPmA'r1oN.—The lungs have,
usually, been considered the only organs of respira-
tion, but science has revealed the fact that there are a
vast number of such organs. The skin is a wonderful
covering. Through it there are about seven million
openings, infinitesimal doors called by physiologists
pores, and each of these openings leads to a coil whose
true work is just beginning to be understood. These
coils have functions very much akin to those of the
lungs; they are in every sense of the word organs of
respiration. They breathe, and the positive and nega-
tive manifestations of the Great Breath play out and
in through these doors with remarkable force. So
great is the value of these auxiliaryorgans of respira-
tion that if one-fifth of them be destroyed by burns
or otherwise, life itself is jeopardized.
20. Rnsurxrs or Nonmar. Baia:A'r1-uNo.—When pure
air is forced into the lungs with considerable vigor and
persistence, it enters every part of the body, tears
loose an adhesion here; breaks down a barrier there;
opens a closed avenue in another place and all the
intercommunications between the respiratory organs
of the skin and the lungs are made clear. In very
truth it makes plain the way and straight the highway
for the approaching Lord-—the Biopneuma.
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In the lungs pure air has a marvelous work to do.

Oxygen is absolutely essential to life, and the air cells
become the seat of exchange. By a system of exos—
mosis and endosmosis the pure oxygen enters the blood
and the impure, or waste—laden, air is thrown out. So,
as far as air-is concerned, normal breathing purifies
and furnishes the annealing substance for the up-
building.
21. FUNCTIONS or OzoNE.—There is a much finer
class of cells in the body than the air cells of the
lungs; cells into which atmospheric air cannot enter.
These cells have an especially prepared invigorator
and cleanser. It is a superfine ether, and is known
to scientists as ozone. This ether is intimately mixed
with air and when breathed through the nostrils comes
directly in contact with two nerves, which were called
by ancients the Sun nerve and the Moon nerve,(the
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the latter in the left.
These nerves were formed for ozone and eedil take
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it in. The molecules of air are too coarse to be ap-

mined by the nervous system; but ozone is rapidly
Solar Plexu ar
absorbed. These nerves are the feeders for the at
olar, sun, plexus, network,—a network of

the Sun nerves. The Solar Plexus is a great nerve
center just below and back of the stomach and is the
center from which most of the nervous stimuli radiates
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and it is fed directly by the nerves communicating

with the nostrils.
22. Souncr: or NU'm1MEN'r.—Scientists tell us that
in the air we breathe and in the rays of the Sun are
found every variety of food required for all living
creatures. In ordinary atmospheric air are all the
coarser varieties, such as enter into bone and muscle
and intercellular tissue; but the ozone carries the deli-
cate substances that enter into the nervous structures.
In order that these superfine nutriments may be car-
ried into the nerve centers and to the intricate ramifi-
cations of the delicate nerves, deep breathing is abso-
lutely essential, and in these lessons every instruction
for successful breathing and the introduction of the
Great Breath is given.
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LESSON III
THE HEALER HIMSELF
23. DIGNITY or THE PRorEss1oN.—There is no

gift of the Spirit higher than that of healing. No
profession brings a person into such intimate relations
with the great heart of the world as that of the true
healer; hence, no one has greater opportunities for
lifting men and women up to the high planes of the
Infinite.
24-. THOROUGI-I PnEpAnA'r1oN.——-The dignity of the
profession demands thorough preparation, for an un-
prepared healer is always an incompetent healer, and
incompetency means failure. Preparation means more
than a little development of magnetic powers, and a
few weeks spent in thought concentration, although
these are essential.
25. NATIVE Pow1ms.—All persons cannot become
independent healers; but all can develop considerable
ability in that direction. Some people are born with
marvelous powers. Some little children are veritable
magnetic batteries, and can, without contact, cure
many severe diseases. Some people are suddenly
baptized in a sea of healing water, so that great power
comes upon them all at once, and they are known far
and wide as mighty healers. It usually happens,
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however, that they who receive this gift suddenly,

lose it in like manner. Most people who become giant
healers grow slowly, becoming powerful by steady
effort in the midst of the winds of adversity.
26. BE CERTAIN or F11-Nn:ss.—This Course of In-
struction will prepare almost any person for the work
of healing; but he who possesses no native ability,
and has not an intense longing to become a healer, is
advised to take up some other work of the Empire of
Universal Peace, for in every department there is
much to be done, and willing laborers are few.
27. How To DETERMINE FrrNr:ss.—Many people
are undecided as to their life work, do not know for
what, by nature, they are best fitted. He who is thor-

oughly acquainted with himself has no such trouble,
because, to him, the way is clear.
28. PnEPAnA'r1oN—CucANLrNEss.—The physical
body must first be considered in the mighty work of
preparation for healing. Cleanliness is the stepping
stone to godliness, and the skin of a Healer must be
kep scru ulously clean. A sponge or pI'1'1'iiE'bath
must be taken at east ree times a week, and “salt
rub very frequently.
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29. THE CLOTHING.—-The clothing must never be
tight fitting, for no organ can be unduly pressed with
impunity. Ladies must discard corsets in toto, and
must suspend all skirts from the shoulders. Nothing
does so much to cause the falling or sagging down
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of the female sexual organs as suspending clothing‘

from the waist. When this habit is broken up there
will be far less sufiering among our sisters from that
very wide range of pathological conditions included in
the term “female weakness."
80. REGULARITY IN HoUns.—Rhythm is the law of
harmony; harmony is the law of symmetrical develop-
ment. All natural movements are euphonious. VVhen
the heart loses its true rhythm it is diseased; when
respiration becomes irregular the lungs are impaired,
and so nature calls for regularity in the activities of
all her children. Regularity in the time and quantity
of sleep is very essential. There is a trinity of eights
in a well-divided day,—eight hours for sleep,
hours for work or study, eight hours for rest or recre-
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31. REGULARITY IN EA'r1No.—Regularity in taking

nourishment is important. It matters not whether
you take two, three or five meals a day, take them
with the regularity of clockwork, and don’t eat at any
other time. The habit of simply eating when one is
hungry is destructive to every rhythmic process of the
organism, and conducive to dyspepsia in its various
forms.
32. Rmounanrrv IN DEFECAT10N.—Tl1e law of
regularity applies with wonderful force to the bowels
and urinary organs. Of course, individual conditions
will determine the number of times that evacuations
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are necessary; but special hours should be held sacred

to the business of discharging excrements, and noth-
ing should be allowed to interfere with these appoint-
ments. A vast number of distressing cases of consti-
pation and bladder difficulties are traceable to care-
lessness in this particular.
33. REGULARITY IN DEvo'r1oNs.———Every Healer
must have times for development in the silence—for
meditation and in-breathing of Biopneuma, and these
times must be fixed. Some individuals will find thirty
minutes twice a day suflicient; others can appropriate
one hour; but to secure the best results the times for
this development must be held sacred to the work in
hand.
34-. SEXUAL PUru'rY.—Nothing impedes spiritual,
or even psychic progress like licentiousness. Sexual
excesses deprive men and women of all power to ad-
vance. To use the sexual functions for personal
gratification _is sin, for these functions are intended
for procreative purposes only. Sexual passion results
from unholy thoughts and emotions, and all such are
sin, and will, eventually, lead to weakened bodies,
weakened intellects, contracted souls and complete
loss of individuality on the Spirit plane. The suc-
cessful Healer will “keep his body under,” and when
he reaches Illuminationhe will thinkno more of sexual
gratification than fratercide. “Blessed are the pure
in heart, for they shall see God.”
35. NORMAL Tasrrcs AND AppE'rrrr:s.—The so-

called “manly habits,” such as smoking and chewing
tobacco, drinking alcoholic stimulants, etc., are de-
moralizing in the extreme. They render impure the
very fountains of life, and throw the veil of uncer-
tainty and failure over every efiort to develop healing
powers, and must be shunned as deadly poisons. The
use of morphine, chloral, or other opiates is just as
reprehensible as the tobacco or whisky habits, and
must be rigidly avoided. But people are intemperate
and impure in many other ways—by the inordinate
use of meats, teas, cofiees, pastries or other dyspeptic
food. No rule of diet can be given, but that of the
Apostle: “Every man that striveth for the mastery
is temperate in all things." 1 Cor. 9:25.
36. PURITY IN S1=m«:cH.—“Out of the abundance
of the heart the mouth speaketh.” It is not diflicult
for any observer to determine the character of the
heart after hearing a few words from the lips. An
aspirant to Illumination must be chaste in language.
An impure or vulgar word must not be spoken, and
whenever there is a probability of contention, the
speech must be seasoned with wisdom. Let not a ray
of light fall upon you while in wrath or vulgar con-
versation.
37. EnUcA'r1oN.—True preparation for the work
of healing includes some education. Of course it is
not essential that one be a graduate of a University,
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or even of a High School, to become an efiicient Heal-

er; but all things being equal, the educated person
will have the greatest success, and in this age there is
no excuse for not having at least a good common
school education. One who is called to this ministry,
who is in no sense educated, should not enter into the
work until properly qualified, so that his person, his
language and methods may be as pleasing as possible
to the people. Boorishness, vulgarity and ignorance
are always hindrances to success. Personal magnet-
ism, refinement of manners, a knowledge of the body
and its diseases, and correct speech are some of the
essential qualifications, and aspirants to healership
must tarry in some Jerusalem until they be endowed
with these special gifts. Of course nothing can take
the place of a Personal Course of Instruction under
some Illuminate, but close application to study, and
frequent visits to the Silence, and attention to the
detailed instructions of this Course will be of great
advantage.
38. Nncmsssnv STUDIES.-—I11 addition to the in-
formation received in this Course of Instruction, the
Healer should make a careful study of Anatomy,
Physiology, Toxicology (the Science of poisons) and
Diagnosis, so as to be able, at a glance, to locate any
pathological lesion, and also to antidote poisons. The
ideas advanced by ignorant Healers of the various
schools that a knowledge of the functions of the body,
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of diseased conditions, and effects of poisons is not

only useless but absolutely to be discouraged, are only
cloaks to cover up ignorance, and the time has come
when the masks of such teachers should be torn ofl’.
There is little danger of Healers becoming too wise
in so-called physical sciences, and the time now is
when to be successful they must be somewhat efficient,
and reach a plane of at least ordinary common sense.
LESSON IV
METHODS or HEALING
89. CLAss1r1cA'r1oN.—Many systems of healing

diseases have been formulated and each one has some
praiseworthy features. The true system of cure in-
cludes the good of all methods, and such a system is
the Christopathian, now presented for the first time
in this Complete Course of Instruction in Healing by
the Superfine Forces. For purposes of study, all
methods may be considered in the following classifi-
cation:
1. Biopneumic Healing,
2. Magnetic Healing,
3. Physiologic Healing.
40. BIOPNEUMIC HEAL1No.—The Science of the
Great Breath, properly understood and applied to the
work of healing Diseases, forgiving Sins and attaining
unto Illumination is complete in itself; but Magnetic
and Physiologic helps are of great value in preparing
the way for the introduction of Biopneumic methods.
The Biopneumic Healer recognizes the following
steps:
1. Proper Breathing, so that the seven million
doors of the body may be opened to admit the eternal
Spirit of Life.
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2. Proper Willing, so that all unholy emotions

may be driven out, giving room for the purifying in-
fluences of Love-life. These two steps are to be taken
by the patient.
3. Forceful Thinking. The Healer makes use
of his Personal Magnetism and his Telepathicbattery
of thought to pour into the mental reservoir of the
patient, streams of health-vibrations. He who is an
expert in this work will always succeed in relieving
suifering.
Biopneuma is a Spirit-Soul treatment; the physi-
cal organs of the body are used only incidentally.
This being the case, no impurity from the Healer’s
body can be transmitted to the Patient, nor can the
disease of the Patient be taken on by the Healer.
4-1. MAGNETIC HEALING.—-The tissues of a living
body have a power unknown to modern Physiologists.
By a chemical transformation of organic substances,
eternal Force is appropriated so that the finer ethers
are thrown into vibration which reach the almost un-
thinkable number of thirty-six guadrillion vibrations
per second. And this modification of eternal Force
is‘c3lled-AnimalMagnetism, which is capable of trans-
mission through superfine ethers, and responds readily
to the commands of the Will. This Magnetism is es-
sential to the life of the body; when equally distrib-
uted, health reigns; when its equipoise has been dis-
turbed, disease results. Magnetic force from a good
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Healer restores the equilibrium, and health returns.

T erabmdanceof Ma et-
ism or he will soon be emptied, and will then, himself,
suffer a collapse, and may take upon himself the ail-
ments of his patient; or if he has any diseased condi-
tions, he may transmit them to the one he would heal.
42. PHYSIOLOGIC HEALING.-—The scientific use of
forces or substances for healing which are not trans-
mitted from the Healer’s body or mind constitutes
Physiologic Healing. The use of Tissue Salts, Elec-
tricity, Heat, Light, Color, Water, Drugs, etc., con-
stitute this method of cure.
43. D11-‘I-'imEN'r1A'1‘1oN.—There is a wide difference
between these systems of cure." The Biopneumic
Healer must be a man pure in thought, word and
deed; for his strength and power are from on high and
comethdown from the Father of Lights. He must be
found frequently in the Chamber of Silence, and the
Inner Circle must be his Garden of Delight. The
Fount of Every Blessing is his reservoir.
The Magnetic Healer must have a healthy body;
his habits must be good and his appetites and passions
must be held in subjection. His body is his reservoir.
The Physiologic Healer must be educated in the
so-called physical sciences. He must be a Chemist,
a Physiologist and a good all-around Physician. Per-
fection of body is not essential to success. His brain
is his reservoir.
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The truly successful Healer is the one who is fa-

miliar with all these systems; who is a well developed
Trinity, body, soul and spirit all being in tune with
the Infinite. Such an one is a power for good wherev-
er he goes.
44. THE HEALEa’s HEAL'rH.—A sick man is a poor

doctor. Sick people have little confidence in a Healer
who cannot heal himself. A true Christopathian is
never sick; for he who passes the Libra Gate in the
Inner Circle has absolute control over the conditions
of his own body. A large part of this Course or In-
struction is given up to methods of self—healing in
detail. Let every student master these details and
be very sure to heal himself of every ache and pain
before attempting to heal others.
4-5. FILLING rm: REsERvo1ns.—A Healer must not
only be in good health himself, but he must know how
to keep his reservoirs of power filled to overflowing
to be of use to others, and some of the more important
general requirements will be given.
46. PERSONAL MAoNn'r1sM.——There is in every per-
son a marvelous invisible power, which is known as
Personal Magnetism. Like Electricity, it has its
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positive and negative phases, so it repels and attracts.
It is this force that renders one person repulsive and
another attractive, for the well known law of Elec-
tricii_:1 obt§ins—1ike repels lik'e and attracts iiflikeg
that is, positive people attract negative people but
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repel positive,and vice versa. This is the law by

which opposites in temperament find their conjugal
aflinities.
47. UNKNOWN PowI«:n.—While every person pos-
sesses this power in a greater or lesser degree, few
people have ever discovered it, and only a few who

know of its existence have learned how to use it to
advantage. Efiiciency in the use of this power is
worth more to anyone than a fortune in property, for
with a good stock of Personal Magnetism there is no
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out afull rounded deve opmen o the Healer
is a failure.
4-8. MAGNETIC F 001) SU1=1=LY.—Whatever builds up
tissue of any kind is a source of supply for Magnet-
ism; but certain foods are of much reater value than
ugly.‘
The lungs and skin are great receivers of nutrition.
Much has been said and written about health foods;
millions of dollars have been invested in plants for
the production of various stuffs made from wheat, oats,
corn and other cereals, and from nuts, and people are
recommended to give up ordinary diet and adopt a
health food regimen. The vast sums of money spent
in advertising these products has convinced thousands
of people that the foods prepared by mothers, wives
and sisters are veritable poisons and should never be
eaten. The facts remain, however, that machine and
factory prepared stuffs are of no greater nutritive

value than home prepared food; that the weakest
people on earth are those who limit their diet to the
menus of food factories; that there are more cases of
dyspepsia and constipation caused by the restricted

bills of fare of Health Sanitariums than are cured;
that the exclusive health food eaters possess infinitely
less magnetic force than the average person; hence, a
good, wholesome food, as great in variety as possible,
prepared at home, gives the greatest strength of brain,
of muscle and magnetic power.
Pure water contains much that is valuable as food
and is preferable to tea, coflee or chocolate as a drink.
Usually people should drink at least two quarts of
water every twenty-four hours.
Pure air, deeply in-breathed, is a marvelous nutri-
ment, and when the skin is kept clean so that the
pores are not obstructed, deep breathing will decrease
perceptibly the amount of food re uired ior the
s
Wait, pure water and pure food, taken into the
system nature intended them to be, are all that is
as
ever required to bring the physical body, with its
magnetic force, up to the highest degree of perfection.

4«9. MUTUAL SYMPA'rHY.—The body and the mind
are so intimately connected that when either suffers,
the other enters into full sympathy. A vigorous mind
cannot long retain its high powers in an overworked
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body; the magnetic force is soon lessened. When the

mind is overtaxed with study or worry, the body im-
mediately shows its sympathy; all the tissues become
retrograde, and the Magnetism is soon exhausted.
1. Eat a moderate quantity of wholesome food.
2. Masticate every morsel of food thoroughly.
It is well to form the habit of bringing the teeth to-
gether upon every particle of food at least twenty
times before swallowing it. It is not so much what
one eats as how it is eaten that proves beneficial or
otherwise. If food be well masticated before taken
into the stomach there is little danger of indigestion
or dyspepsia.
3. Take food at regular intervals; never eat be-
tween meals.
4«. Be temperate in study and mental work.
5. Take large doses of “don’t worry” tablets
about fifty times a day.
6. Avoid sexual excesses.
7. Follow in detail the rules for Deep Breathing
that are given in other parts of this Course of In-
struction.
8. Take a liberal amount of out-door exercise
each day.
9. Keep the skin scrupulously clean by frequent
baths.
10. Control your temper; nothing is more waste-
ful of magnetic force than anger.
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on yourselfand others at least two hours a day.
12. Remember Ben Franl-zlin’s motto:
“Early to bed and early to rise
Makes a mu: healthy and wealthy and win.”
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LESSON V
THE SILENCE
51. IMPORTANCE.-—-N0 matter what spiritual gift

men covet, the Silence must be the School Room.
There is no measuring rod that can measure the im-
portance of the Silence. He who reaches the Mount
of Illumination must come that way. There is no
royal road to the King’s Chamber; King and Peasant,
Pope, Priest and People must climb the ascending pas-
sage upon their knees, and only by the most deter-
mined eiforts can any one climb the narrow, steep
way of the Grand Gallery. The strength that comes
through the Silence, and nothing else, can help the
earnest soul to reach the Divine Light, and the Foun-
tain of Wisdom.
52. THE LoRD’s PRAYEn.—The Master of Divine
Philosophy formulated but one prayer for the Inner
Circle, and this was a prayer of the Silence. Note
with care his instructions:
“And when you pray you shall not imitate the hypo-
crites, for they are fond of standing up in the Assem-
blies and at the corners of the open squares to pray,
so as to be observed by men. Indeed, I say to you,
They have their reward. But thou, when thou wouldst
pray, enter into thy private room (Silence) and having
closed the door, pray to that Father of thine who is
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invisible; and that Father of thine, who sees in secret,

will recompense thee." Matt. 6:5—6 (Wilson).
In the secret prayer of Christians of all times and
clinics the Silence has been recognized, and whatever
has been gained to the world by the work of the
Church has come directly from the consecration of
the blessed devotee who has seen the King in the
Silence—in the Secret Pavilion of the Almighty.
53. OBJECT or THE SILENcE.—The ultimate object
of the Silence is to bring men and women Divine
Illumination. It is the earth end of the avenue of
Power from On High. There is no other place where
people can get the mastery over self; where they can
learn to accumulate vital force and put themselves in
touch with the Immortals. It is here that they find
themselves before the Mercy Seat.
“There is a place where Spirits blend,
Where friend holds fellowship with friend.
Though sundered far by faith they meet
Around one common Mercy Seat.”
54-. THE PLACE or Su.ENcE.—A true Illuminate
can find a place of Silence anywhere, even in the
crowded thoroughfares of great cities, because his
power of concentration is such that at any time he
can cut ofi all external vibrations, whether of sight,
sound, smell, taste or touch; and then he is more
familiar with the phenomena of Soul and Spirit than
with events of the Physical plane. Just as one whose
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whole life is bound up in a loved form sees nothing
but that one in a mighty concourse of people, feels no
heart beat but that one, gets no vibration but from
that loved soul; so he who is in love with the Christ,
sees no face but his, bears no other voice than his,
and feels only the rhythmic vibrations of his eternal
heart of love, no matter what the surroundings may be.
55. THE SILENCE PLACES or run CHms'r.—Even
an Illuminate receives the greatest strength when far
removed from the busy marts of trade, from the whirl
of social life, and from earth friends, no matter how
dear. Christ sought the Silence every day. One of
the most tender statements of the Life of the Christ
is recorded in the last verse of John 7, and the first
verse of John 8. After a day of unusual activity, he
sought his customary strength—giving fortress:
“And every man went unto his own house; but Jesus
went to the Mount of Olives.”
From no other place on earth has there come such
power and spiritual enlightenment as from Mount
Olives. Oh, how sweet to the heart of every Illu-
minate is that name! Mount of Beatitudes! Mount
of the Silence! Mount Olives! But when the Master
was too far away from this sacred spot to make it
his chamber of Silence, he sought other mountain tops.
Before any great work was to be undertaken he found
a Silence for strength-giving. On the evening of
that wonderful day when he fed five thousand people
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with five loaves of bread and two little fishes he sought

the Silence for strength. The historian tells us:
“And having dismissed the crowds he privately as-
cended the mountain to pray, and remained there alone
till it was late.” Matt. 14:23 (Wilson).
But it was not alone for recuperation that he went
into the Silence; one of the most convincing works
of his life was to be performed that night—he was to
walk upon the waves of Geneseret—and he sought the
power from On High. All things are possible to the
Illuminate fresh from the Mount of Silence, and the
Master walked over the rough billowy waves of an
angry sea that night as securely as he had walked
upon the seashore in the quietude of the evening. See
Matt. 14.
56. A Room FOR SILnNcn.—-While the student
must learn to concentrate and find the Silence any-
where, it is best to have a “secret pavilion” in his
own home. When it is possible, one room should be
set apart, literally ordained, to the work of the Silence,‘
and while all cannot have an ideal pavilion, an ap-
proach unto it may be possible, and a description of
one is given in some detail. Let an outside room be
selected, where the sunlight and the pure air of heaven
can find ready access. In order to prepare it for your
reception, let everything he removed from the room.

Take up the carpets, take down the window shades
and curtains, remove all pictures from the walls. Let
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every part of woodwork in the room, including the

floor, be painted a delicate blue tint. If the walls
have been papered, tear it all oif and put on fresh
paper, which should also be an appropriate shade of
blue. Put up fresh window shades and curtains, and
if the room is to be heated by a stove, let it be freshly
polished. There should be neither carpet nor rug in
the room.
The furniture must be plain, and, if possible, new,
or at least freshly varnished. A table, an easy chair,
not upholstered, a cot with new coverings and pillow
should complete the furnishings. The cot and chair
should be insulated by glass knobs and a plate of thick
glass should be used on which to rest the feet while
sitting. Such a place would be a veritable Ante Room
to the Chamber of Divine Illumination. And this
place of Silence should, as nearly as possible, be held
sacred to one person.
57. REASONS.——It may appear quite unnecessary to
be so exacting in the preparation and furnishings of a
Chamber of Silence; but .when one is familiar with the
law of vibrations, registration and reflexion, the rea-
sons are plain. Every thought and every action of
every person who has ever been in that room is regis-
tered indelibly upon every piece of paper, wood or
other substance in it, and from these registrations the
whole round of vibrations is reflected upon the minds
of all sensitives who enter it. And this is the rationale
THE SILENCE 41
of a Psychometrist’s power, who can enter any room

and give quite an accurate account of every event that
has transpired within its walls, and describe in minutia
the appearance of the various persons who have visited
it. To efl’ace as far as possible the various vibrations
of former occupants of the room is the object of the
thorough house-cleaning indicated.
Of course, it is not absolutely essential to success to
have an Ideal Pavilion; any quiet retreat, any room,
will answer and excellent results can be secured in
the most commonplace apartment. The Ideal has
been described for the benefit of those who can afford
to have such, and, all other things being equal, results
will be realized more easily and with less eifort in
well prepared apartments than in ordinary rooms.
58. PREPARATION.—-Ab0VCthe door of every Cham-
ber of Silence there should be written in characters of
gold: Whoever enter: here must leave deceit behind.
Honesty of purpose is essential to any degree of suc-
cess. As far as possible, all the cares of life must be
laid aside, for the nervous vibrations of worriment
will interfere largely with your efforts. Never enter
the Silence when any unholy emotion is struggling for
the mastery of your mind. Anger, hate, jealousy,
envy, or any of this family,will stand in your way to
success. When from the heart you can say, “Peace
on earth; good will unto all men,” you are ready to
enter “with full assurance of faith.”
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59. CI.o'rH1No.—Loose-fitting clothing only, should

be worn in the Silence, for if you put your body into a
“tight jacket,” your soul will feel the influence and
will not, or cannot, expand. Freedom of every part
of the body is essential. Tight shoes are especially
to be discarded. Compress the feet, the understand-
ing of the body, and your mental understanding suf-
fers in like degree. Silk garments are antagonistic
to success in the Silence. Not the smallest article of
silk should be worn.
60. ENTERING THE SILENCE.-_-vvllen the clothing
has been properly adjusted and the conditions of the '
mind are right, enter your room, close the door, and
note the temperature and light. Both must be agree-
able. It is better for the room to be too cold rather
than too warm. Lower the window from the top so
as to admit fresh air, and let the light be subdued.
All things in comfortable order, take your seat in
your easy chair; set up straight, shoulders back; then
relax every muscle of the body and you are ready for
exercises.
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Powmn Fnou ON HIGH
61. Dnsxma son Pow1«:n.—Perhaps there never was

born into this world a child, who was not an idiot,
who had not a desire, more or less intensified, to be
the happy possessor of power. The inspiring cause
of covetousness is power. Men want nothing only to
make them powerful. Vain people strive to be beau-
tiful that they may be powerful. The evil are evil
only to be powerful. The good are good simply to
attain unto power. The meek are meek that they
may inherit the earth. To crave power is right, and
the Master made the possession of it one of the great
rewards of faithfulness. In his address to the seven
churches, as given in the Apocalypse, power, in some
form, was promised to the overcomers of each class.
62. Power: or rm: ILLUmNA'rE.—To be an Illu-
minate is to possess great power. They who have
attained unto highest Illumination can speak and it
will be done:
“They can expel demons; they can speak in new
languages; they can take up serpents; and if they
’drink any deadly poison, it will not injure them; they
canlay hands on sick persons and they will be well."
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But more than this; an Illuminate has such power

over the life of his body that no earth creature can
kill him, when he wills. Christ is the only true ex-
ample of a Divine Illuminate, and he said to his
disciples:
“No man taketh it (my life) from me, but I lay it
down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I
have power to take it again." John 10:18.
It was a willing sacrifice of his life when he per-
mitted his executioners to crucify him. He could have
commanded and they would have all fallen back as
dead men. It was no idle boast when he said to his
disciples:
“Dost thou think that I cannot entreat my Father
and he will send to my relief more than twelve legions
of angels?” Matt. 26:53.
And he did lay down his life, and on the morning
of the third day he took it up again. In this resur-
rection he demonstrated the possibilities of humanity.
He who attains unto the Illumination of the Christ
can command, and his body will disintegrate, and he
will vanish from view.
63. ATTAINING UNTO PowER.—The prime object
of the Illumination seeker is to possess this power,
and the way of attainment is open unto all; but the
wild desert of Temptation must be trodden, with fast-
ings and prayers; the scorn of the multitudes must be
heard; the scourgings of authorities must he suffered;
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the treachery and abuse of false friends and brethren

must be endured; the bitter dregs of the cup of Geth-
semane must be drunk; the Cross of Calvary must be
endured—the great sacrifice made; the corruption of
the physical must be buried before the gate of Domin-
ion will open. But the morning of the resurrection
unto power is as certain as the Gethsemane of Suffer-
ing or the Cross of Crucifixion.
64. Pownn FROM ON H1GH.—The tendency of pro-
gressive thinkers is to exalt self, and debase the
Eternal. Many vainglorious men and women claim
all for themselves; that they are the I Am, the All in
All. Egotism and Illumination are antipodal. It is
just as impossible for an egotist to attain unto Illu-
mination as for a bat to fly to Mars, for the reason that
the gate of Dominion must be passed long before
Illumination is reached, and dominion means absolute
mastery of the sensuous self, which is the center and
the circumference of the I Am idea.
Men must recognize the possibilities of humanity,
and the marvelousness of its inherent strength; that
there is a life and power within, but they must also
recognize the fact that Power is eternal and is never
originated within; that life is a gift of Universal
Spirit; so the fallacy of directing special attention to
“life and power from within” is apparent. And this
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introduces the statement that there is no life or power

that comes from within. These are gifts, and
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from
above, coming down from the Father of Lights, with
whom there is no change, or the least variation.”
J as. 1:17.
65. THE Sovacn: or PowEa.—All gifts are from
Universal Spirit, but Biopneuma, the Holy Guest,
brings them to men. In order to the attainment of the
gifts of power, a partnership is essential. “Biopneuma
and Man” is the name of the firm, and each has a work
to do. Man prepares the Temple, and opens the door;
Biopneuma enters with the gifts of power; but the
gifts are from above, from the Father of Lights.
66. MAN BUT AN Aer:N'r.—There is nothing of
which man is proprietor. In everything he is simply
an agent. Power is eternal; there is but one Power.
Love is eternal; there is but one Love. Intelligence
is eternal; there is but one Intelligence. Universal
Spirit is the proprietor; man is the agent. Force,
Love, Intelligence are talents given to men to use.
In the use of these, attributes of the Infinite, man is,
to large extent, free; and here is where man's re-
a
sponsibility comes in. He has Power, ’tis true, but

only power to act for another, and that other is the
Supreme Being.
67. Unsavnn MAN A PAUL-1an.—Men boast of their
possessions, just as the idiot or drunken man boasts

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of his great wealth. All are, at least partly, demented.

There is nothing that belongs to man, excepting his
Ideal self, and if that be not realized, of course, when
disintegration of the physical body and the soul body
takes place there is naught but annihilation. Physical
man and soul man are paupers. The physical body
is composed of universal matter; a part of one man
today, a part of a dog or may be of several other men
tomorrow. It is estimated that every atom that com-
poses a person now will be wholly lost in seven years;
so the body is not the property of any particular per-
son.
Brain is material; it is the organ of thought. With-
out it there is no objective consciousness, no objective
mind. Brain substance is universal property; it be-
longs to everybody in common. As it is on the physi-
cal plane, so it it on the soul plane. Soul bodies are
material and their components are universal proper-
ty; so with subjective consciousness. After all of
these things are relegated to the domain of universal
property, what is left to him who has not secured a
title to immortality, and the Christ Ideal? Nothing;
individuality is lost:
“Then the dust will return to the earth as it was,
and the spirit will return unto God who gave it.”
Eccl. 12:7.
With the Christ Ideal formed in man he is an heir
of God; joint heir with the Christ, and, hence, is all
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powerful, immortal. Without that Ideal he is sim-

ply a non-entity in the universe. No wonder the
Nazarene said:
"He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved;
he that believeth not shall be condemned.” Mark
16:16.
68. SEEKING THE PowEn.—The great Teacher,
who is, and ever shall be the Light of the World, said:
“Ask and it shall be given unto you; seek and ye
shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you:
For every one that asketh receiveth, and he that seek-
eth findeth, and to him that knocketh it shall be
opened.” Matt. 7:7-8.
In all the history of the world no honest seeker after
divine power ever failed to receive it. Honestyland
Faith are the two Foundation Stones of the Temple
of Attainment. Men are apt to deceive themselves,
and think that they are honest and full of faith when
the Intellect, only, has been active. Honesty and
Faith are the children of Love and Intelligence, and
so in true Temple-buildingboth Head and Heart must
be consulted. Honesty of purpose in seeking once
assured, ask in faith. A faithless prayer is an abomi-
nation before the Bountiful Giver. Note the advice
of a great Esoteric:
“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God,
that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not,
and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith,
not wavering; for he that wavereth is like a wave of
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the sea, driven of the wind and tossed. For let not
that man think that he shall receive anything of the
Lord.” Jas. 1:5-7.
69. Tansy ran ENnowMaN'r.—Men cannot cleanse
themselves from all impurities all at once. To think
about the cleansing is not enough. Some downright
hard work is required, both in the Silence and out of
it, in order to obtain the mastery over self. When
once this victory has been gained the Master says:
"Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem (the Silence‘of
Peace) until ye be endued with power from on big .”
Over anxiety is a hindrance to progress. Impatience
is a sin to be overcome. Blessings never come to those
who have not learned to -wait; hence the command to
"tarry.” To learn this lesson of waiting is necessary;
it is the last lesson of the series; it is the crowning act
of the subjugation of self, and when that has been
accomplished the days of waiting are over. The day
of Pentecost will come and Biopneuma will appear as
a rushing, mighty wind and will fill your whole Cham-
ber of Silence, and cloven tongues like unto fire will
come upon you and you will realize fully the promises
of the Father in the marvelous gift of Divine Illumi-
nation.
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ILLUMINATION
70. Dr-:1r1N1'rioN.—Illumination is enlightenment.

True Illumination is that state of enlightenment in
which knowledge is received in its perfectness, with-
out the direct aid of either of the five senses.
The Illuminate lives not upon the Physical plane,
but upon the Soul-plane, and he is enabled to catch
glimpses of the eternal Home-land, and the glory from
the Mount of God fills all space.
71. REASON UNRELI.u3L1«:.—The Illuminate, like
Universal Spirit, never reasons. Reason implies lim-
ited mental resources. Logic is a stepping stone to
a true understanding of things terrestrial. Both
Logic and Reason are founded upon data obtained
from one or more of the five senses. Men have gone
wild in adoring the Age of Reason; they have been
extravagant in eulogizing its wonderful perfection,
and yet nothing but uncertain conclusions ever came
from syllogism.
Conclusions cannot be infallible unless the premises
are infallible. Neither of the senses can furnish in-
fallible data. All of them have deceived the most
careful observer times unnumbered. Sight and hear-
ing and smell and taste and feeling lead even honest
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men and women astray every day. The senses can-

not be trusted. Earthly wisdom is founded upon
sense data, and can determine nothing to a certainty.
No wonder that Paul said:
“The world by wisdom knew not God.”
He might have made the statement doubly strong.
In truth he might have said:
“The world by wisdom knows not anything.”
All sense knowledge is hypothetical. Men do not
know; they only believe, until they have passed the
domain of sense. I
72. Souncn or CHms'r’s KNowL1-:nGE.—It was an

exact statement of a fact when the oflicers who had
been sent out to arrest the Illuminate of Bethlehem
said to the Jewish rulers:
“Never man spake like this man.” John 7:46.
The historian, Matthew, to whom the world is in-
debted for the record of that marvelous Sermon on
the Mount gave to men this statement:
“He taught them as one having authority,and not
as the scribes.” Matt. 7:29.
In his mystic address to Nicodemus, Jesus said:
“We speak that we do know, and testify that we
have seen.” John 3:11.
The wisdom of the Master came from the source of
Universal Wisdom. In the inspired statements just
given the distinction between the “wisdom from above"
and the "wisdom from below” is apparent. The
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knowledge of Intuition stands out in bold relief in

comparison with the belief of Sense.
73. THE ILLuM1NA'ra’s INs'rRUc'roR.--Teachers on
the earthplane are experts in the -wisdom of the world;
the Illuminate lives beyond the realm of Reason; he
has food to eat that the world knows not of. The
Holy Spirit is the direct teacher of the Illuminate,
and whoever will prepare his body for an abiding
place for this Divine Teacher-Guest may be certain
of Illumination. Special attention is called to these
words of Christ, to his Inner Circle:
“I have many things to say unto you, but you can-
not bear them now; howbeit, when he, the Spirit of
Truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth; for
he will not speak of himself; but whatsoever he hears
he will speak; and he will show you things to come."
John 16:12, 13.
74-. Cmus'r’s Drscu=LEs.—None of the disciples of
the Christ were Illuminates until after the death,
burial, resurrection and ascension of their Master.
After the Manifested Light had returned to the glory
of the Eternal, ten days were spent by the Twelve in
preparation; this time was called the “days of wait-
ing.” No thrilling events transpired during these
days, but there were peace and harmony among these
men of God, and on the first Pentecost after the tragic
happenings of Calvary the Illumination came.

Marvelous, indeed, was the power manifested by
the in-coming Biopneuma. The disciples were amazed
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at their own gifts; they preached the Gospel in lan-

guages that they had never learned, and did many
wonderful works. Before the day was done three
thousand people recognized the power of the Holy
Spirit, and became converted from Reason to Faith.
75. LITERATURE. Illumination does not come
—
from the reading of books. Sense literature may be

helpful, or it may be poisonous. Perhaps one book
in an hundred will help; but the literature of the day
is, largely, rubbish, containing some wheat, but great
quantities of chafl’. When men and women can go
directly to the Divine Fountain and drink to their
full, why will they seek the little rill that comes
trickling down over dead carcasses, decaying vegeta-
tion and poisonous minerals?
The Illuminate goes to the unfailing Reservoir. He
does not approach it through the haunts of vice, the
hustle of business, the whirl of society nor the halls
of sense education. The path does not lead that way.
Purity in thought, word and deed must be attained.
The SILENCE is the School Room of the Prophet.
76. THE INNEn CmcLE.—Perhaps there is no
other place on earth where the candidate for Illumi-
nation can obtain such great help as in the Inner
Circle.
77. PnAYEn.—Thrice a day go to meet your God
in the Silence, and in that Silence, pray. Remember
the Master's instruction:
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- “When thou wouldst pray, enter into thy private
room, and having closed the door, pray to that Father
of thine who is invisible; and that Father of thine
who sees in secret will recompense thee.” Matt. 6:6.
Prayer is the recognition of a being superior to
man.
Prayer is the opening of the passage between the

heart of man and the heart of Universal Spirit. Man’s
will is the director of the force that clears the rubbish
from the way, and makes it possible for Humanity
and Divinity to meet. Christ is the Way; hence he
represents the great At-one-ment. Prayer is not an
efiort to change the intentions of the Everlasting
Father, nor to induce him to bless a bundle of cor-
ruption in the shape of man; it is only a forceful
cleansing of the avenues so that blessings, which are
universal, not special, can come pouring down into
the Soul and Body.
78. SPECIAL Gur'rs.—-There are no “special gifts”
from On High. God is no respecter of persons. His
rain falls upon the just and the unjust alike. His
Spirit is poured out equally upon all flesh. The char-
acter of the receiver determines the nature of the
gift. Study I Cor. 12.
79. RATIONALE or PnAYEn.—If prayer cannot
change the plans and purposes of the Father, what
is the use of praying?
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Why should men desire to change the purposes of

the Father? He is all Intelligence and knows what
is best for men; he is all Love, and will do what is
best for men; he is all Force and can do according to
his will. What, then, can finite men do in prayer to
better their own conditions if the All Wise, All Lov-
ing, All Powerful Father, unsolicited, will do every-
thing needful?
Prayer is a divine exercise in Thought Concentra-
tion. Prayer is an upward impulse of emotion. That
upward impulse, vitalized by a determined Will, held
in situ by Thought Concentration, formulates a Divine
Ideal which is Truth. When men know that Truth
it becomes all powerful for each individual, and the
consecrated VVill gathers up the blessings of the Infi-
nite and brings them in triumph to the waiting Body
and thewaiting Soul. Prayer is Will in motion, and
while it clears the way so that the blessings may be
down—poured, it intensifies the powers of the Soul to
ascend. Anything that energizes the Will when it is
inclined toward the heart of God, is prayer. So,
prayer becomes the lever by which man turns over
the obstructions in the way to Illumination;the ladder
by which the Soul ascends to the Fount of Blessings,
and the cornucopia of his greatest desires.
80. FonMuLAs.—Prayer is a formula, which by
frequent repetition lifts men up to God. .B.epetition
of an ardent desire is always potentizing. He who
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tells the same falsehood often, believes the lie to be

the truth after a while. He who constantly, or often,
repeats a great truth will clothe it in a form, by and
by, and it becomes his Ideal; so, when men formulate
in words an earnest desire of the heart and frequently
repeat those words, they will certainly be rewarded
with attainment.
81. FORMULA or THE SEExEn.—He who would at-
tain unto Illumination need have but one formula,
which must be repeated in the Silence day after day,
week after week, month after month and year after
year. And here is the formula, commit it to memory:
WIsI)oM! WIsnoM! IT MUST BE MINE; LIGI-Ir!
LIGI-Ir! I WILL sen THE TRUE LIGHT; ILLUMINA'rIoN!
ILLUMINATION! I wILL ATTAIN UNTO DIVINE ILLU-
MlNA'l‘ION, THROUGH Jesus CHRIST, MY Loan.
For forty long years this has been the Silence
Formula of the author of this Course of Instruction,
and at last the clouds have cleared away, the glory
of the Lord has appeared and the Mysteries of the
Ages are revealed and have become as an open book.
Patience and Perseverance will‘ always lead the
Christopathian to the palm of victory.
"They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their
strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles;
they shall 11111 and not be weary; they shall walk and
not faint.” Is. 40:31,
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CONCENTRATION or Tnouerrr
82. J U81‘ How To BEG1N.—The first thing to learn

is to control your own thoughts. This task may be
somewhat diflicult, but it must be accomplished.
Thoughts are subjects of the Will, and must be
brought into obedience. It is useless to say: Stop
thinkingabout the ordinary aifairs of the day. Might
as well command the great Mississippi River to cease
flowing. An Illuminate can command his thoughts

and he will be immediately obeyed; but a beginner
must approach the matter from the under side. Two
thoughts cannot occupy the mind at the same time;
so, if you would cut off outsideaffairs, give your think-
ing organs some especially interesting work to do on
the inside.
83. Nor ALL SILENCE WonK.—To become profi-
cient in Concentration requires much efi'ort. Eternal
vigilance is the price of success, and the steps leading
up to it are not all inside the Pavilion. There is
work for all times and places.
84-. THE Wonx IN rm: SILENCE.-—-The first steps
in Concentration can be made to far better advantage
in the Silence than elsewhere. The following is the
natural order:
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1. Rela.z'at:'on.-—It is no easy task for an active,

energetic person to become absolutely passive; to
make every nerve and muscle lax, limp, void of energy,
and then to continue in that condition for a few min-
utes. It will require considerable practice to do it,
but it must be done.
2. Centralize Thought.—-While in the passive
condition one thing, like a special movement of the
body, must be selected on which the entire thought is
to be focused. It will take some practice to become
efficient in this accomplishment.
3. Meditation:-This means continued thought
upon one thing. To succeed in this exercise it will
be found necessary to resort to dissection of the
special thing on which the thought is focused. It
must be analyzed; turned over in the mind; looked at
in detail. It is hard to meditate upon anything in
a general way for any length of time; but when you
separate that thing up into its component parts there

will be much to interest, and meditation becomes
easier.
85. EXERCISES IN THE Sn.nNcr:.——The necessary
steps leading up to Concentration have now been
given, and the resourceful student will be able to
produce a limitless variation, so that by them the
highest degree of success is attainable. Some special
exercises for the Silence are in place.
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1. Sit down in your easy chair and get quiet;

be perfectly still, fully relaxed; let your arms drop
down by your sides. Then slowly raise your right
arm, fully extended, until the hand is above the head.
Let this movement occupy the time that it takes for
you to count fifty very slowly. Let the hand slowly
descend while you count fifty in like manner. Then
go through the same exercises with the left hand.
2. Rest five minutes, sitting perfectly still, not
moving a muscle of the body. Then apply the exer-
cise above described to the feet, first with the right,
then with the left, lifting the feet as high as possible.
3. Lie down upon your cot, in as easy a position
as possible, faceupward, head not too high. Take
a few deep breaths, and then repeat the exercises
given above.
4-.Relax every muscle and nerve, close your
eyes, and then imagine that about ten feet from you
there is a point. Make this the center of a circle,
or the beginning of a line. Evolve from that point
everything possible. You will be surprised by the
number of new creations that will come before you.
Continue this exercise for ten minutes.
86. LENGTH or TIME.--The time spent in the
Silence during the first two weeks should not be ex-
tended too long, lest you become disgusted with the
efforts. Thirty minutes at a time is suflicient. The
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time of day must be selected that is best suited to

the convenience of each student. When possible, let
the hour be rigidly fixed, and let nothing interfere
with your work at that time. In the beginning two
visits into the Silence each day is enough.
87. REPEATING Exi-:Rc1sEs.—During the first week
the exercises given may be repeated at each visit to
the Silence. They will make you stronger, and better
prepared for the exercises to follow.
88. Oursmr: Humps To CONCENTRATION.-—0ne
cannot stay forever in the Silence, but to become efii-
cient in Concentration, efiort must be continuous; so,
the outside steps are important:
1. Observation.—No matter where you are, keep
your eyes open. Look attentively at buildings, trees,
flowers, living things, and note their various parts in
detail; observe the many special features of each and
every thing you see and hear.
2. Recollection.—When you have a moment
away from the whirl of business, re-collect the im-
pressions of your observations, and think them over
in detail.
3. Elimination.—In a city, or elsewhere, there
are many difierent sounds, and sights. Select one
and endeavor to think of nothing else. For example,
take the color yellow; notice every thing, even to a
part of a garment worn by a passing person, that is
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yellow. Note the shades of yellow, and cut every-

thing else from the mind. The number and character
of exercises along this line are unlimited. Practice,
and you will be pleased with the results.
4-. Projectz'on.——After mastering the steps al-
ready given, try your wings; maybe you can fly.
Concentrate your thoughts upon some individual and
demand, in a quiet, determined way, in your mind,
that he will give you his attention; that he will turn
around and look at you. It is not necessary to stare
at a person, so as to become disagreeable; only look,
and think hard. It will not be long before success
will reward your efforts. This exercise can be varied
in any number of ways.
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LESSON IX
NORMAL BREATHING
89. IMPOR1.‘ANCE.--T00 much stress cannot be laid

upon the importance of proper breathing. The air
is the carrier of Life and Death. In inspiration the
Life current enters the body. In expiration the cur-
rent carrying products of waste and death leaves the
body. Death will not leave until driven out by Life,
because lifeless atoms are motionless, have no force
and cannot move. In superficial breathing the air
does not penetrate the deeper tissues; so, impurities
are left to work havoc among the cells. Deep breath-
ing enables the pure ozone to reach all parts and thus
gives life to the whole body. Superficial breathing
invites death; normal breathing insures life.
90. R1-IY'rHMIc BnEA'rH1Na.—Remernber the state-
ment made in a previous lesson that the skin is filled
with organs of respiration, and these act in perfect
harmony with the lungs. While air is in-breathed,
inhaled into the lungs, it is out—breathed, expired
from the skin; while expiration from the lungs pro-
ceeds, the seven million doors of the skin open up
and receive the in-rushing current. So the two sets
of respiratory organs act rhythmically,exactly at the
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same time; when one set expires the other inspires

and vice versa.
91. RHY'rHM1c BLOOD C!RCULATION.—-The heart is
a rhythmic organ of wonderful efficiency, by which the
blood, which is the Life, is equally distributed through

every part of the Temple, by its movements, called
systole, contraction, and diastole, expansion. The
heart and blood vessels act in exact time with the
respiratory organs, making its chords on the basis
of four,—relaxing and contracting four times while
the respiratory organs make one round-one respira-
tion and one expiration.
92. RI-IYTHMIC LYMPI-I CIRCULATION.-—Thel'e is in
the human Temple a wonderful network of vessels
called Lymphatics. These vessels are in every part
of the body, and many of them are of exquisite fine-
ness. They carry a peculiar fluid, pinkish in color,
called Lymph. They have an immense number of
supplying stations, called Lymphatic Glands, varying
in size from a small pea to a large almond. The
Lymph is the great media of exchange in the Temple,
carrying in the well prepared building material, and
carrying out worn-out substances. This Lymphatic
System acts rhythmicallywith the Respiratory organs
and the Circulatory organs, also on the basis of four;
the impulses being four to one heart beat.
98. Rnvrnmc Nmnvr: F oncr:.—The nerves of the
Temple are delicate vessels which carry the finest of
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all the fluids. These vessels are everywhere present.
The nerve fluid is the great carrier of mental stimuli
to the brain. It is the principal stafi' officer of Gen-
eral Will, and carries his commands, with the speed
of lightning to every part of the body. The nervous
system acts in exact harmony with all the other sys-
tems, also upon the basis of four; its vibrations being
four times more frequent than those of the Lymphatic
System.
94-. THE RI-[YTHMIC SE1uEs.—The harmony of the
functions of the body is wonderful. The number of
respirations per minute is 18; the average number of
heart pulsations per minute is l8x4«=72; the aver-
age number of vibrations from the Lymph centers is
72x4«=288; the number of vibrations from nerve
centers per minute is 288x4« = 1152. Marvelous,
isn't it? The Trinity squared, 3x3 = 9, is the exact
divisor of the number of vibrations in each of the
series; 18-:—9=2; 72 -—:—9=8; 288-:—9=32;
l152+9=128. To the student of Numbers and
Symbolism this is significant.
95. THE RATE or Srmnn.—Breathing determines
the number of vibrations per minute, and the character
of the work of every system of the body. Under
superficial breathing there can be no animation any-
where. Inertia is liable to result and Disease and
Death are apt to be unwelcome guests. Normal
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breathing brings life and vigor and makes men and

women glad to live.
96. How To BREATHE.-—Tl1e mouth was never in-

tended for an air chamber. The opening from the
mouth into the Trachea, or wind pipe, has no filter
so that impurities taken into the mouth in inspiration
go directly into the lungs to work great havoc; hence

in-breathing through the mouth is most injurious.
God did not breathe into man’s mouth the Breath of
Life; he breathed into his nostrils; and so only
through the nostrils should breath be in-taken. The
nostrils are provided with veritable filters, small stifi
hairs, growing outward, so as to catch any dust or fine
substance that would he hurtful to the air chambers
in the lungs. Air taken through the nostrils is, thus,
filtered and rendered fit for service in the body.
97. EXHALING.-—-Many teachers of the Science of
the Great Breath insist that the air should not only
be inhaled through the nostrils, but that it should all
be exhaled through the same passages. This teaching
is not only false in theory but extremely hurtful in
practice.
The out-going air is the force that produces articu-
late speech, and it is the strengthener of the vocal
cords. Speech and laughter would both be minus
without permitting the out-going air to pass through
the mouth. Of course, in ordinary breathing the air
is exhaled through the nostrils. A good breather
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never sleeps with his mouth open. In violent breath-

ing exercises we have different conditions, and a part
of the air must be exhaled through the mouth if vio-
lence be not done to many delicate organs.
To unduly force the air through the nostrils, is to
send a poison to~ the brain, which produces dizziness
and weakness of the gray matter. It, also, causes a
reflex action along the Pneumogastric nerve, produc-
ing sickness of the stomach and other pathological
conditions. The vocal cords are not properly exer-_
cised, and weakness of the voice supervenes.
98. Usr: COMMON SENsE.—In taking breathing ex-
ercises the admixture of common sense will prove
beneficial. No disagreeable results are likely to fol-
low in-breathing through the nostrils‘; but forceful
out—breathing through these passages is to be con-
demned. When any unpleasant symptoms appear in
your breathing practices you may know that there is
an accumulation of poisonous air at some place; open
your mouth and let it out and then you may continue
your breathing exercises almost indefinitely.
99. THE FINER E'rHERs.—All the ethers that are
inhaled do not go into the lungs; only the coarser airs
are used by the respiratory apparatus. There are
ethers so fine that they are carried at once into the
great Life streams through the nerves that have their
receptacles in the nostrils.
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100. THE SOLAR PL1:-:xus.——Much has been said

and written about the Solar Plexus; how to awaken
it, etc. A few good things and many quite nonsensi-
cal things have been put into "print regarding this
great center of nerve energy and since it plays quite
an important part in the grand drama of Rational
Healing it is well to clearly understand what it is.

In another lesson reference has been made to its work
and a description given in some detail; but “line upon
line” is often necessary to make the fog clear away.
The Solar Plexus is one of a number of nerve cen-
ters along the spine; it is a large mass of interlaced
nerves at the back of the abdominal cavity and above
the kidneys. It is such an important center that in
olden times it was called the “Abdominal Brain.” In
deep inspiration the finer ethers are carried in great
quantities to this plexus of nerves and the revivifying
and purifying effect is at once marked. Normal
breathing not only wakes the Solar Plexus, but every
other Plexus of the body and the way is soon prepared
for the incoming of Biopneuma as an abiding Guest.
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BREATHING EXERCISES
101. OVERCOMING HAnrrs.—Man in all his parts

is a creature of habits.
It is hard to break up any
habit, as everyone knows who has tried. The habit
of shallow breathing has so fixed itself in the practices
of human beings for several thousand years, that it
has become what our grandparents called “second
nature,” and so it is one of the hardest of all habits
to overcome. This is the reason that it is necessary to
begin at the alphabet of respiration, and learn to
breathe as a child would learn to walk or talk.
The preliminary exercises already given in this
Course of Instruction will be exceedingly helpful in
efiacing the habit of false breathing and putting in its
place the habit of normal respiration, and the more
closely the following exercises are observed the more
quickly will results be reached.
102. Fnwr EXERCISE.-—G0 into your Chamber of
Silence, if you have one; if not, go where you can be
alone, and comfortable. Sit down and become thor-
oughly relaxed. Be sure to keep your mouth shut.
In-breathe through the nostrils. Let the clothing be
loose, especially about the chest, waist and abdomen.
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Begin in-breathing. Learn to fill the abdomen with-

out expanding the chest.
The first exercise is a Will strengthener. The
Organs of Respiration must become obedient to the
Will; so command, and see that you are obeyed.
Breathe with mathematicalprecision. Learn to count
and to observe your breathing at the same time.
Count just as fast as your heart beats.
Now inhale slowly, filling the abdomen first. This
in—breathing must consume the time that it takes for
you to count ten.
Then force the breath from abdomen into the upper
chest and hold it there while you count ten.
Then out-breathe very slowly. This out-breathing
must continue while you count ten.
103. SECOND ExEnc1sE.——~The rhythmic movement
of the air from the abdomen to the chest and back
again is called Pneumatic Pumping, and is a wonder-
fully helpful exercise. Care must be taken that the
shoulders are not raised; they have no part nor lot
in breathing. They must be well thrown back to be
kept out of the way. Pneumatic Pumping must not
be done violently. It is well to practice this exercise
five minutes at the beginning of the First Exercise,
and for a few minutes at the close of it.
104-. ‘Tim Tun: AND T1Mr:s.—In the beginning,
these normal breathingexercises should be taken twice
a day, morning and evening. Thirty minutes at a
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sitting is long enough. If you

are not very strong it
will be better to take your exercise after meals than
before. If, however, the stomach be in any abnormal
condition the exercise just after meals is liable to pro-
duce a qualmishness; in such cases let it be taken
midway of meals. After two weeks almost any one
can take any of the exercises given, at any time; even
before getting up in the morning and after lying down
at night. When the night and morning hours are
selected, a few minutes at noon must also be given
to the work in hand.
105. I’os1'r1oN.—As rule the best results will be

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obtained by dividing the time of each exercise; sitting
for the first fifteen minutes, and lying on the back the
remainder of the time. The application of a little
common sense will be necessary in determining the
best time for the exercises, length of time and position.
106. THOUGHT PRE1>AnA'r1oN.%It will, perhaps,
take a week to master the mechanical part of the First
and Second exercises, and while this is being done
strict attention must be paid to it. After the move-
ments have been mastered, mental strength-giving ex-
ercises must be considered. Before this time the
student will have had some practice in Concentration
of Thought, and this will now be of great benefit.
Before every exercise spend five minutes in prep-
aration. After becoming perfectly relaxed, concen-
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trate your thoughts upon yourself as in perfect health, '
and repeat many times, in deep earnestness:

I WILL BE IN PERFECT HEALTH; I WILL BE ABLE
TO I-[EAL OTHERS; THE Hour SPIRIT WILL BE MY
HELPER.
Allow no external thoughts to break into your medi-

tations. Five minutes spent in this attitude and in
such meditation will change your whole being, and
prepare you for profitable practice.
107. THE SECOND FonrN1aH'r.—-After two weeks
have been spent in practice on the exercises given,
the student will be prepared for something more
vigorous. The meditation preparation must be con-
tinued. F or the next two weeks continue the First
and Second Exercises, only increase the number of
counts for each part—inhalation, holding and expira-
tion—-from ten to fifteen, and be more vigorous in
Pneumatic Pumping.
108. WORK non SUCCEEDING MoNrHs.—-The First
and Second Exercises must be continued during the
second month, only the counts must be increased to
twenty, or even twenty-five, and each subsequent
month a like increase must be made until sixty, or
even a hundred, are counted for each step. Some
people can readily consume the entire five minutes
in taking a full breath.
109. Tmnn ExEnc1sE—THE Muscu-: SEARCI-IER.——
A new exercise is introduced at the opening of the
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second month that may take up a part of each day's

practice. It is really a muscle searcher.
Go into your Practice Room; observe the meditation
preparation; stand up straight; fill the abdominal
cavity, as in other exercises. Instead of up and down
Pneumatic Pumping, by force of Will, throw the air
to each side of the cavity. Let the pumping be trans-
verse instead of longitudinal. After the lateral pump-
ing has been mastered—all of the muscles of the sides

searched and tried-—-change to a backward and for-
ward movement; search out every muscle in back and
abdomen, and stretch them to their utmost.
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DISEASE AND rrs CAUSES
110. MEANING or THE Wom).—Our best lexicog-

raphers define disease as “a disorder.” To be in dis-
order is simply to be out of order, and when any
part of the body, or of the mind, is out of order disease
is present. Some metaphysical cults deny the exis-
tence of disease in toto; but the weakness of their
claims and arguments is too apparent for considera-
tion. While we recognize the possibility of any
psychic or physical machine being otherwise than
perfect, ever getting out of order, we must recognize
the possibility of disease.
The healing of diseases was one of the most im-
portant works of the Christ, and the Seers of all
times and climes have ever considered the power to
heal diseases one of the richest gifts of Heaven.
111. CAUSES or DIsEAsE.—In our medical text
book we find many causes of disease enumerated; but
there is no pathologist who has written a text book
who has gone deeper in his work than the seeming
origin of things, and, hence, only the apparent cause
of disease has been given. When once the true origin
of things is perceived a very different phase of disease
comes in view.
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All pathologists agree that disease springs from
mis-directed activities. Matter, per se, is lifeless;
hence matter alone cannot originate disease. Force
is the author of all activities; Force is universal.
Every complete organism has, through its own Will,
full control of the forces in that organism. Material
man is dual, possessing a soul body and a physical
body, each of which has a power of control, subjec-

tively or objectively, and through these motor centers
every activity of the body is directed. Whatever re-
quires force in order to be, must depend for cause
upon the mental centers. Disease is activity and
must therefore have a mental origin.
112. ONLY Two CAUsEs.—Every diseased condi-
tion can be traced directly to one of two causes:
1. Unholy emotions.
2. Inertia of will.
113. EMo'r1oNs.-—Before clear understanding of
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the causes of disease can be obtained a classification
of Emotions must be made. As all activities originate
in universal Force, the Fire attribute of the Infinite, so
all Emotions are children of universal Love, the ma-
terial attribute of the Great Spirit.
114-. FEAR AN ILLUs1oN.——Fear is not an attribute
of Universal Spirit; therefore it is not eternal. Fear
is but perverted Love; a normal heart has no Fear.
John, the Christian Initiate, instituted a comparison
between Fear and Love in these words.
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“There is no Fear in Love, but perfect Love casteth

out Fear, because Fear has restraint, and he who fears
has not been perfected in Love.” 1 Jno. 4:18.
115. CHILDREN or Lovn AND or FEAa.—Perverted
Love, known as Fear, is the origin of all unholy
Emotions, as true Love is the radiant center of all
holy Emotions. Fear is the progenitor of Anger,
Hate, Envy, Strife, Jealousy and such like. These
vile children of Fear are unholy Emotions, and are
peripheral in origin; that is, they always originate in
external vibrations, and proceed inward toward the
heart center.
Holy Emotions are centric in origin, always welling
up from the heart, the Love center, and radiating out-
ward, purifying everything with which they come in
contact in their peaceful course. The happy children
of Love are Joy, Sympathy, Trustfulness, Hope, and
all kindred Emotions, and are the health-producing
forces.
Unholy Emotions are veritable poisons, polluting
the streams of Life and producing disease and death.
116. VOLATILE Po1soNs.—Prof. Elmer Gates says:
"If an evil Emotion is dominant, then, during that
period, the respiration contains volatile poisons, which
are impelled through the breath and are characteristic
of that Emotion. By applying chemical reagents I
can detect the presence of these poisons, because a
precipitate is produced, and this precipitate generally
has some color. In the case of grief, for instance, if
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I use rhodopsin for my reagent, the color will be

‘pinkish. Other reagents will produce other colors.
I have isolated forty emotional products; but the
worst of all is that of guilt. If the perspiration of
a person suffering from conscious guilt be mixed with
salicylic acid we get a pink color.”
The emotional poisons produce a chemical change
in tissue and the magnetism of the body becomes dis-
turbed, the Tissue Salts are rendered inert, and dis-
ease supervenes.
From the results of Prof. Gates’ experiments, and
those of other progressive chemists, the disease-pro-
ducing tendencies of unholy Emotions are easily dem-
onstrated.
117. VV1-Iv EMOTIONS Pnonucn D1sEAsE.—Physical
bodies are but coverings for Soul forms. Souls are
known to the physical senses only through mental
activity. All Emotions are immediate products of
mind, and, hence, all physical conditions are first
formulated, then sufl’ered or enjoyed in the mind, and
are then precipitated upon the outer form, the body.
Fear is the first born child of perverted Love, and
lies at the foundation of every aflliction of the internal
organism. By resolving Fear to its simplest definition
it is Unbelief, and from it arises the miasms of sick-
ness, sin and death. Fear is always a reality in the
mind before it is proected upon the body.
118. ANGER.-—Feal‘ is the predisposing cause of
all pathological conditions, and the unholy Emotions
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which it produces, give the character of the disease.

For example, take Anger, which is a daughter of
Fear. The word anger is but the Anglicised form
of the Latin word “angor,” meaning “to contract, to
choke, to strangle.” And how well this definition de-
scribes an angry man! Everything about him is
choked. Every fiber of the body is contracted; the
caliber of the blood vessels is diminished, so that the
blood is driven from the face, and he is “white with
rage.” The eyes snap, and the teeth grind upon
each other. In all parts of the body there are signs
of fearful contractions within the mind, and their
precipitation upon the body. Shortly the heart is
involved; congestion ensues and some sort of a dis-
order is inevitable. A “fit of anger” has caused many
a case of inflammatory rheumatism, acute dyspepsia
and nervous collapse.
119. DISEASES or FsAn.—Fear alone frequently
sets up a train of conditions in the mind that becomes
pathological. A vision of typhoid fever, diphtheria,
smallpox, or some other virulent disease, floods the
mind and violent paroxysms of fear at once occur and
the malady is precipitated upon the poor body, and
death may result.
120. INERTIA or W1LL.—Many people who have
no unholy Emotions get sick and die. It is not neces-
sary to search the decaying tissues of the body for a
reason for such results. Any skillful coroner could
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write the truthful verdict: “Died from Inertia of

Will.” It is, perhaps, safe to say that most people
who die before a ripe old age, drop their mortal bodies
because they cannot make up their minds to not die,
but to get well. Will power asserted would have
saved them. They die from Inertia of VVi1l. Infants
sicken and die because their individual will is not
strong enough to enable them to pass hard places.
12]. SYMPTOMS or INERTIA.-—Any careful observer
is able to diagnose Inertia of Will at a glance; but if
any doubt exists as to the nature of the cause of the
ailment, note the thumbs; if they have a tendency to
fall in toward the palm of the hand, Inertia is the
prime cause. Among the first symptoms of approach-
ing death is the in—falling of the thumbs. If the
thumbs stand out, or are thrown back, Inertia of Will
is not the cause of disease; then the domain of unholy
Emotions must be searched for the cause.
122. PRIMARY LAW or CURE.-—Since Fear is the
primary cause of most diseases, Love must be the all-
potent remedy. Any System of Cure that does not
have this law incorporated in its Basic Principles can-
not be a success. The ingenuity of man may be taxed
to the uttermost to devise helpful methods to kindle
into flame the latent Love which has an abiding place
in every heart; but when that love-flame breaks out,
all darknessand disorder disappear and Health and
Forgiveness reign.
LESSON XII
DISEASE, SIN AND FORGIVENESS
123. SIN NOT UNnEns'roon.—The things with

which people are most familiar are the least under-
stood. Fire is so very common that men seldom stop
to thinkthat the most profound student of Nature has
never been able to analyze it; that it holds in its
flaming coat a profound mystery. Love is every-
where, and yet no one can define it. Force is mani-
fested in every living thing, and yet the manner of
its manifestations is past finding out. So, also, Sin,
the most common thing on earth, that which most peo-
ple roll as a sweet morsel under the tongue, has bafiled
the skill of metaphysician and theologian to analyze.
Thousands of books have been written, and tens of
thousands of sermons have been preached to explain
it, how to treat it and how to get rid of it, and still
it remains a mystery and the closest companion of
Priest and People.
124. SIN DErINEn.——John defines Sin as “the
transgression of law,” and for a general definition it
cannot be improved; but in this searching Course of
Instruction an analytical definition is required. Sin
is a voluntary act of the Will; but all acts of the
Will are not Sin. Will has elective powers and may
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act for weal or woe, so that “out of the same mouth

may proceed cursing and blessing.” Sin, then, em-
braces only those Emotions of the mind that are un-
holy.
125. Powmn or THE WILL.——Tl_1ere is but one Force
in the universe, which is, per se, eternal, and so the
same Power that results in Good may result also in
Sin, the character of the result being determined by
the Will. There is but one source of Emotion, and
that is Love, which is an attribute of Universal Spirit;
but Love may send forth Emotions that are holy or
unholy, the character being determined by the Will.
126. THE PARENTAGE or FEAn.—Fear is not an
attribute of the Eternal; it is only vitiated, impure
Love. Fear is a child of Love but it is an illegitimate
child. The personality of the law of carnal nature,
which has been called the Devil, is the Father of
Fear, while Love is the mother. No wonder that
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Fear acts so like a hybrid.

127. PARENTAGE or SIN.——Sin is not a direct child
of Love and the Devil. Lust is its mother and Fear
its father; so Love and the Devil are the grandparents
of Sin. Fear and Lust are the progenitors of every
unholy Emotion; so that Anger, Hate, Envy, Malice,
Jealousy, and so on, are the hideous children of this
unholy alliance. James recognized this fact when
he wrote: “When Lust hath conceived it bringeth
forth Sin.” James 1:15.
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128. PARENTAGE or UNI-IOLY EMOTIONS.-—-The un-

holy alliance of Love and Evil is not her only conjugal
relationship. Faith is her legitimate spouse. Love
and Faith are the parents of every holy Emotion.
Oh, what a wonderful family of children arise from
this divine union—Joy, Peace, Goodness, Gentleness,
Patience, Temperance, Hope, Brotherly Kindness,
Mercy! But these holy ones need not be considered
just now; only biographicalsketches of their wretched
half-brothers and sisters—the unholy Emotions—are
in place in this lesson.
129. FEAR I5 UNBELIEF.-—By a careful analysis of
Fear we find it identical with distrust, unbelief, infi-
delity. It is the father of Sin; so we have placed in
direct opposition Faith, or Belief, and Fear, or Un-
belief, and Paul says, “Whatsoever is not of Faith is
of Sin.” Rom. 14:23. With this interpretation, the
words of Christ are easily understood:
“He that believethand is baptized shall be saved;
but he that believeth not shall be damned.” Mark
16:16.
Fear, or unbelief, lies at the foundation of every
Sin. Faith lies at the foundation of every Obedience,
and every good work.
130. SIN AN ACT or run M1ND.—Sin is a deliber-
ate, unholy thought, whether it develops into a crimi-
nal action or not. The Master said: "Whoever 100kS
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after a woman to lust after her has committed adul-

tery.” Matt. 5:28.
But the Illuminates of the first Christian century
carried the definition of Sin into still finer veins.
‘James quotes a Mosaic commandment and then com-
ments upon it thus:
“If ye fulfill the royal law according to the Scrip-
ture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do
well; but if ye have respect to persons, ye commit
Sin, and are convicted of the law as,transgressors.”
James 2:8, 9.
It is evident that the smallest divergence from the
law of right is Sin, and "every transgression and dis-
obedience shall receive a just recompense of reward.”
131. MANIFESTATION or SIN is DxssAsn.—Unholy
thoughts are Emotions, and these alone constitute Sin,
and when Sin is fully developed it brings forth some
sort of physical trouble, and this condition is called
Disease, and this prepares the way for this basic
statement: Every Disease is caused by unholy Emo-
tions, either in the mind of the afllicted one, or of the
parents, or by Inertia of Will. As, however, the
questions regarding heredity do not enter into this
Course of Instruction, this hint alone must suflice.
132. SIMILARITY or SIN AND D1sr.Ass:.—While Sin
and Disease stand in the relation of cause and effect,
they are sufiiciently similar to require almost identical
treatment. The Great Physician so considered them,
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as is evident from several incidents in his practice.

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An example given in Mark, second chapter, is a good
illustration. One day he was in Capernaum preach-
ing the Good News of the Kingdom. He was in a
room by far too small to accommodate the people,
who were clamoring to be healed rather than to be
taught. Among the multitude there was a palsied
man who was carried on a stretcher by four persons,
who took him to the roof of the house, opened the
roof—door and let him down right into the presence of
the Healer.
"When Jesus saw their faith he said unto the sick
of the palsy, Son, thy Sins be forgiven thee.”
And when the people marveled at this language,
he said: -
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"Whither is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy,

Thy Sins be forgiven thee, or to say, Arise, take up
thy bed and walk? But that you may know that the
Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins (he
saith to the sick of the palsy) I say unto thee, Arise
and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thy house.”
And the historian tells us that he did arise, took up
his bed, and went forth before them all. Comment
is unnecessary.
133. PRESCRIPTION non FORGIVENESB or SxNs.—
The incident of the Great Physician healing the pal-
sied man and forgiving his sins with the same pre-
scription shows the similarity of the two conditions.
But this is not all. Every lesson of his wonderful
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life proclaimed the doctrine of salvation by Faith, and
he placed within the reach of every person the means
of attaining unto salvation from Sin and Disease, and
finally from Death.
Perhaps the most marvelous thing this man of In-
spiration ever did was to formulate the unfailing Pre-
scription for the Forgiveness of Sins; one that is
applicable to every sin-sick soul. Let this formula
be committed to memory by every Christopathian,
whether a Healer or not:
“FonaIvE MEN THEIR TRESPASSES AND YOUR HEA-
VENLY FATHER WILL FORGIVE You.”
There is no Balm in Gilead for soul sickness but

this; and to make assurance doubly sure the Physician
states emphatically that there is no hope for him
who refuses to make use of the remedy. He says:
“Is YOU FORGIVE NOT MEN THEIR TRESPASSES
NEITHER WILL YOUR FATHER FORGIVE YOUR THES-
mssns.” Matt. 6:14-, 15.
134-. RATIONALE or THE PnEscnI1>TIoN.—Forgive—
ness is the warrior child of Faith and when it begins
an aggressive campaign in the heart against unholy
Emotions, the children of Lust and Fear flee for their

lives. In the forgiving heart there is nothing but
Love, and the waters of Life come bubbling up, and
every Sin is washed away. This is the rationale of
the Master’s prescription for the Forgiveness of Sins.
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LESSON XIII
ELEMENTS or HEALING
135. ANTIQUATED ME'rHons.—Men of all times

have sought for eflicient means of binding up broken
hearts, healing diseases and washing away sins. Sac-
rifices, incantations, poisonous drugs, and fetish pray-
ers have been used by pope, cardinal, doctor, priest
and witch, and with varying success. Some cures
have been made, some broken hearts healed, and some
sins have been forgiven; but the lives that have been
ruthlessly taken, the sins that have been committed
and the heartstrings that have been snapped asunder
by these crude, and, usually, criminal methods have
filled the earth with groans and rivers of blood.
136. PRESENT Bansanous METHODS.-—IIl most
parts of the civilized world sacrifices, incantations and
fetish prayers have given way under the bright light
of civilization; but the antiquated doctor is still
abroad in the land with his calomel, arsenic, nux
vomica, morphine, rum, and a thousand other instru-
ments of death, and under the protection of semi-
barbarous laws, is still killing thousands of people
every year. The surgeon’s knife, in the name of ex-
perimental necessity, has come to be a veritable instru-
ment of torture, and the rivers of human blood—blood
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sacrificed upon the altar of professional ignorance and

bigotry—are still flowing on.
137. BETTER DAYS ARE CoMINo.—Signs are grow-
ing brighter for the coming of better days. Men of
culture and refinement are fast coming to realize the
fact that there is no healing virtue in poisonous drugs.
Some of the progressive thinkersof the most dogmatic
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and bigoted school of medicine are already bold and

honest enough to let the truth be known.
138. Some Srnona S'1‘A'1‘EMEN’1‘B.—Sir John
Forbes, M.D., F.R.S., late physician to Queen Vic-
toria, said:
"Some patients get well with the aid of medicine;
some without it, and still more in spite of it.”
Prof. Alonzo Clark, of the New York College of

Physicians and Surgeons, said:
“Every dose of medicine diminishes the patient’s
vitality.”
Prof. Barker, of the New York Medical College,
said:
“The drugs that are administered for scarlet fever
kill far more patients than the disease does.”
John Mason Good, M.D., F.R.S., said:
“The effects of medicine upon the human system,
are, in the highest degree, uncertain, except, indeed,
that they have destroyed more lives than war, famine
and pestilence combined.” {
139. MUCH NEEDED LEaisLA-rIoN.—The Millen-

nium of freedom from crime and disease would be
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greatly hastened if legislators could be made to

realize that it is their duty to, at once, wipe from the
Statute books every enactment savoring of class legis-
lation under the excuse of protecting human life
against what they please to call "quacks and char-
latans,” and to turn the course of justice back into
normal channels by enacting laws making it a crime,
punishable by fine and imprisonment, to administer
poisons to any person under any circumstance what-
ever.
140. A COMPLETE S'ronr:HoUsm.—The human body
contains within itself every element, every substance,
every force required to heal broken hearts, cure dis-
ease or forgive sins. Love, unsullied, casts out all
Fear, and when Fear is banished the way for Joy,
Health and Forgiveness is opened, and Biopneuma
enters to abide forever. Love, perverted, opens the
flood gates of Fear; Joy leaves, health suffers and
Sin rests, like an incubus, upon the Soul.
To restore conditions to normality, the Lovecenters
must be ‘purified; the wasted tissues of the body re-
plenished, and the Breath of Life must be in-breathed
so as to drive out the Breath of Death.
14-1. Tm: Trssun SAL'rs.—The body is composed,
largely, of organic substances; but these are only the
materials out of which nerve, and brain and muscle
and epithelial and bone and connective tissues are
builded. Without skilled workmen this vast quantity
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of building material would be useless. The Great

Architect has, however, provided the workmen—
twelve gigantic, skilled operators—each prepared to
do a special work. And these workmen are INOR-
GANIC Tissvr: Savrs; some build up the gray matter
of the brain, some white fibrous tissue, some bone
substance; some work only with albumen, others only
with water and others act as scavengers.
When these twelve salts are present in proper
quality and quantity, there never is a diseased condi-
tion in the body; when a deficiency occurs, disintegra-
tion results, and disease is in evidence.
14-2. Trssm-: Sarxrs ARE Foons.——These salts are
known chemically as the Phosphates and Sulphates of
Potash, Soda and Lime, the Fluoride of Lime and
Silica. They are not medicines; they are foods, ab-
solutely necessary to the life of the body. A pain, or
an ache, or a flushed face, or a rapid pulse, or a wast-
ing away of tissue is a call of Nature for a supply

of some deficient salt, and the educated Healer ad-
ministers the proper inorganic food just as he would
a drink of water to quench thirst or food to satisfy
hunger.
14-3. THE WELL-EQUIPPED HE.u.En.—He who
would be successful as a Healer must not be a hobby
rider. A definite, distinct object in life is not a
hobby horse. No one will succeed without a oneness
of purpose. The would-be Healer must keep the
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idea of healing uppermost in his mind at all times;

nothing must be permitted to swerve him from his
purpose. The great work of healing is so varied and
has so many auxiliariesthat to be a good Healer is
to be far-seeing, broad, practical and not bigoted.
It may be truly said that Faith will cure every
disease; but that is no sign that you should adopt the
9th article of certain Church Creed which says:
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"Wherefore that we are justified by Faith only is

a most wholesome doctrine and very full of comfort.”
We must remember that the Apostle James says
that "Faith alone is dead.” Read all of James 2nd
Chapter. The “Faith that works through Love puri-
ties the soul”; but to obtain that Faith, and lead
others to attainment is, often, a Herculean task, re-
quiring every known help. .
To be well-equipped the Healer must be prepare

for every emergency, and this Course» of Instruction
in Healing by the Superfine Forces, well mastered,
will be quite enough. The Bible and this Course of
Instruction contain the principles and the formulated
methods of the great work of healing so complete,
“That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly
furnished unto all good works.” 2 Tim. 3:17.
14-4-. NECESSARY HELPs.—When Faith and For-
giveness take full possession of a human heart, Dis-
ease, the physical manifestation of Sin, will disappear
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as the dew in the morning sun’; but ofttimes Faith

needs help to enable it to achieve the victory, and for
this very purpose the various Systems of Cure pre-
sented in detail in this Course of Instruction are
most important.
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THE HEALER AT Won]:
14-5. CoN1=n)ENcE.—No great success is possible in

any calling without perfect confidence. It is the
sheet anchor in the work of healing. Without confi-
dence in his own ability, and a feeling of certainty
that he is the recipient of Power from On High, 9.
Healer need not expect success. But confidence in
self is not enough; the confidence of the patient must
be secured. To attempt to heal without that is to
court failure. The Great Healer himself understood
the nature and cause of disease perfectly, and he
never attempted to cure without the full confidence of
the sick person. “According to your faith be it unto
you,” or some similar expression, accompanied every
healing.
Although Jesus was the especially Anointed of the
eternal Father, it was not possible for him to do any
wonderful work without confidence. In his home
province the people did not believe on him and he did
very little but teach. The historian records the facts
in the following language:
“And he could there do no mighty works, save that
he laid his hands on a few sick folk and healed them,
and he marveled at their unbelief. And he went
round about the villages teaching.” Mark 6:5, 6.
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146. THE Powaa or FA1'rH.———Disease has its ori-

gin in the mind; only its secondary efiects are pro-
duced upon the body, and so, when Faith can be sufii—
ciently intensified all diseases are instantly cured.
Jesus said to the frail woman whose Faith had im-
pelled her to press through a great crowd of people,
feeling certain that if she could but touch the hem of
his garment she would be healed: “Daughter, be of
good comfort, thy Faith hath made thee whole” ; and
Matthew tells us that “she was made whole from
that hourf’ Matt. 9:22.
14-7. UNJUST Cru'r1cIsM.—Men abuse, in the most
violent terms, the things they know the least about.
Theologian, doctor, charlatan and sufi'erer, who know
nothing of a “living Faith,” have said all manner of
harsh things about the “irrational treatment of dis-
eases by Faith,” and still the fact remains that no
disease has ever yet been cured when Faith was not the
largest dose of medicine administered. The very doc-
tor who sends forth the fiercest invectives against the
“FaithCure” would find his virulent poison absolutely
destructive to life without this sovereign balm. Faith
has snatched many a life from the open jaws of death
to which some poisonous drug was pressing it.
14-8. How FAITH Hr:ALs.—Christopathian Faith is
not of the blind kind. It lies imbedded in stern logic
and still rests upon the Rock of Ages. The Christo-
pathian does not blindly assert that Faith cures, but
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he is "reason for the hope that is within

ready to give
him.:2
The Rationale of the Faith Cure is no mysti-
cism. God pity the poor soul who cannot comprehend
it!
Recognizing the fact that Unholy Emotions and
Inertia of Will are the only causes of disease, it is
self-evident that Holy Emotions and Activity of Will
are the only means of cure. A knowledge of these
basic facts, and implicit confidence, or Faith, in the
potency of the remedy, constitute the magic power
that impels the Activity of Will, which may always
result in health. Will is all-powerful to drive out
every germ of disease, and Faith can inspire Will into
activity. In a nutshell, this is the Rationale of Heal-
ing by Faith.
149. Nor MYs'r1cAL.—The marvelous power of
Faith to cure is, certainly, not mystical. The very
moment that Fear can be driven from the mind, Faith
is supreme, and it matters not whether disease has
its origin in Inertia of Will or in Unholy Emotions,
Faith is the Balm in Gilead.
In the trinity of graces, Faith, Hope, and Love,
there is an omnipotent force, and while each grace
may seem to be separate, they are so interwoven that
neither can exist without both the others, and when
Faith comes to heal, Hope and Love throw their
divine arms around the sufferer, and in a tri-umphal
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chariot he is carried to the rosy banks of the river of
Health.
150. Do SoME'rmNa.—People who know nothing
of the merits of Scientific Healing are, usually, ex-
ceedingly prejudiced, and confidence cannot be gained
until this prejudice be overcome. Most people will
demand that you do something before they can have
Faith, and so, if there was no merit in the doing, great
good comes from it if confidence can thus be secured.
Many good people inveigh against doing things for
policy's sake; but in this matter they make a grave
mistake. Policy is simply “dexterity of management;
prudence; wisdom,” and the wise Healer will be an
active student of Policy. Paul was a policy man in
everything, as is evident from the following extract
from his letter to the Corinthians:
"To the weak I became weak that I might gain
the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I
might by all means save some.” 1 Cor. 9:22.
To simply sit and gaze at a sick person and tell
him that you are giving him treatment is far too
mythical in appearance to inspire a stranger with
confidence. James recognized the necessity of doing
something, although he declared Faith to be the true
healing and forgiving balm. In his general instruc-
tions on Healing by the Superfine Forces, he said:
"If any one among you is sick, let him call for the
elders of the church, and let them pray over him,
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anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and

the prayer of Faith shall save the sick, and the Lord
will raise him up; and if he has committed sins they
shall be forgiven him.” James 5:14, 15.
The oil may not be in itself eflicacious; but the
anointing—doing something——is. It was needed in
the days of the Christ; it is necessary in these days
of Biopneuma.
15]. WHAT 'ro Do.—First of all, do not lie. Don't
tell the sick man that he is not sick; that there is no
such a thing as disease. Do not cast reflections upon
his good sense by telling him that his ailment is all
in his mind; that it is a delusion, an imagination, or
something of the kind. Such talk is simply insulting,
and if the sick man be not able to arise and show the
insulter the door, his friends certainly ought to do so.
152. DuGNosIs.—Generalities are not relished by
sick people. Details are what they want, and so a
careful examination is important. Note the condi-
tion of the tongue, the circulation, the respiration, the
skin, whether dry or moist, whether there are any
swollen tissues, etc. The Healer must be able to
know the meaning of such pathological symptoms as
may appear. While making the diagnosis, chat pleas-
antly with the patient; but be careful to remember
the following
153. DoN’-rs.—Never ask a sick man how he feels.
Never ask where his pains are located.
Never ask him if he has the headache.
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Never refer in any way to pain, or severe symptoms,

such as night sweats, sufiocative coughs, weakness,
etc.
Never ask the patient about the condition of his
bowels, kidneys, or other organs. Get all needed
information from others.
Never whisper to any one about anything in the
presence of the patient.
Never ask about any symptom when there is the
least possibility of the patient hearing you, or sus-
pecting that you are talking about him.
Never call friends out of a sick chamber in order
to hold a consultation.
Never allow any expression to escape from our
your absolute confidence in your own ability to cure.

When your confidence in yourself begins to weaken,
you had better withdraw from the case at once, for
your usefulness is at an end.
154. CoNcLUs1oN.—Enough has been given to en-
able the painstaking, observing student to prepare
himself for the great work of healing, and to heal
many of the grave disorders of the people. He who
becomes eflicient in the Theory and Practice of the
True Science of the Great Breath as already given,
can, himself, realize the sweet consciousness of For-
giveness, and be advanced far toward Illumination.
Moreover, he can lead others in the bright Way that
the Divine Master hath trod.
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SELECULTURE
A COURSE OF LESSONS ON
DEVELOPING THE PHYSICAL

UNFOLDING THE SOUL '83 AT»
TAINING UNTO the SPIRITUAL.
By LEVI
Transcriber of
THE AQUARIAN GOSPEL
of
JESUS THE CHRIST
SECOND EDITION
E. S. DOWLING, Publisher
Los Angeles, California
1921
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Copvrlzht in England. 1912
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CONTENTS
LESSON PAGE
I. Practical Methods of Developing Thought Power.
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II. A Retentive Memory for Everyday. Practical
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Studies in How to Remember .............................

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III. Colors, Nature’s Medicines and Beautifiers.
What Colors to Wear to be Attractive and
Healthful 82
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IV. The Secret of Popularity and Leadership. Short

Cuts to Personal Magnetism 45 ..............................
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V. Unfolding the Powers of the Soul ..

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VI. The Helpfulness of Unseen Forces in Individual
Unfoldment; Magical Operations .......................
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VII. The Holy Spirit. The Holy Ghost of Modern
Theology as :1 Myth and a Fealty. Its Iden-
tity the Secret of Jesus. -Its Reception the
Culmination of Spiritual Unfoldment. ...............
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SELF CULTURE
Practical Methods of Developing
Thought Power
LESSON I
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This Course of Instruction on Self Culture is in-

tended to cover all the requirements of the perfect
man, and it seems well in the outset to make a critical
inquiry into the meaning of the word Self.
When Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist,
and Mary, the mother of Jesus, were pupils in the
Esoteric School of Elihu and Salome in the city of
Zoan in Egypt, Elihu taught them a lesson that is
truly remarkable in its clearness and conciseness of
expression. I will repeat it as a basic Postulate.
THE LESSON or ELIHU, “There are two selfs; the
higher and the lower self.
“The higher self is human spirit clothed with soul,
made in the form of God.
"The lower self, the carnal self, the body of desires,
is a reflection of the higher self, distorted by the
murky ethers of the flesh.
“The lower self is an illusion, and will pass away;
the higher self is God in man, and will not pass away.
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“The higher self is the embodiment of truth; the

lower self is truth reversed, and so, is falsehood mani-
fest.
"The higher self is justice, mercy, love and right;
the lower self is what the higher self is not.
“The lower self breeds hatred, slander, lewdness,
murders, theft, and everything that harms; the higher
self is mother of the virtues and the harmonics of life.
“The lower self is rich in promises, but poor in
blessedness and peace; it offers pleasure, joy and
satisfying gains; but gives unrest and misery and
death.
“It gives men apples that are lovely to the eye and
pleasant to the smell; their cores are full of bitterness
and gall.
“If you would ask me what to study I would say,
yourselfs; and when you well had studied them, and
then would ask me what to study next, I would reply,
yonrselfs.
"He who well knows his lower self, knows the illu-
sions of the world, knows of the things that pass
away; and he who knows his higher self, knows God;
knows well the things that cannot pass away."
"Thrice blessed is the man who has made purity
and love his very own; he has been ransomed from
the perils of the lower self and is himself his higher
self." Aquarian Gospel, chapter 8.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUALITY. T h e s e two
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words are often used interchangeably, as though they

meant one and the same thing, when in truth they
differ widely in signification. The Personality is the
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lower self; the Individuality is the higher self. Put

in more comprehensive language: the Personality is
the physical body with its eccentricities and its senses;
.the Individuality is the soul with its characteristics
and its senses. We develop the Personality; we
unfold the Individuality.
Of course these are so intimately connected that
while we are in the body it isdiflicult to consider them
separately, because the body and its functions are
but exponents of the soul and its characteristics.
Example: Intelligence is an attribute of soul; Intel-
lection is a function of the physical organism. The
Intellect is really the organ through which Intelli-
gence is manifest.
INTELLIGENCE, per se, is a universal ether per-
vading all space; the Intellect is a machine that
seizes these ethers, concentrates them and makes
them serve the lower self and all manifest things.
The lower self is, in fact, the connection between the
psychic world and the world of manifests; so while
we tabernaclehere in the flesh we must recognize the
value of the lower self, restrain its carnality and de-
velop that which is needful in psychic and spiritual
unfoldment.
THE Pmrsrcsr. Bomr is the Temple of the Holy
Breath and it is the manifest abiding place of the
soul. Paul had a clear conception of this idea when
he wrote to the disciples at Corinth: “Know ye not
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that ye are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit

of God dwelleth in you?
“If any man defile the Temple of God, him will
God destroy (that is, this particular Temple because
of its defilement will disintegrate, die), for the Temple
of God must be holy, which Temple ye are.” I Cor.
3:16, 17.
THE CARE or THE PHYSICAL Bony is of paramount
importance and this course of Self Culture will cover
in detail the most approved methods of Self Healing
and of developing every part of the body, including
the intellectual faculties, the memory and the senses.
SELF‘ CULTURE carries one beyond the development
of the Personality into the domain of the higher self,
and comprises the most approved methods of Psychic
and Spiritual unfoldment, which, likewise, will be
covered in this Course of Instruction.
THOUGHT-POWER lies at the foundation of all cul-
ture, and our very first work must be to develop that
power, and this lesson is to be devoted largely to the
most practical methods of making thought powerful.
WHAT Is I'r 'ro THINK? It is to keep the ma-
chinery of the Intellect in motion so that the ethers
of Intelligence, which are everywhere present, may
be concentrated, formed into ideas. There are two
kinds of thinking: Voluntary and I rwoluntary. Some
people find the mechanism of Thought feebly running
soon after birth, and they just let it continue to run,
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directed by whatever influences happen to surround

them. They make no efiort to change the trend of
thought, nor to make it more powerful. These peo-
ple are Involuntary Thinkers; they are thought autom-
atons; they are contented to follow in the wake of
ancestors and early teachers. They are creatures of
circumstance and have no faith whatever in the
Powers of Thought to control anything. They are
firm believers in luck, and when things go awry, they
say, “It is just my luck.” If they are successful in
anything,they call it “a streak of good luck.”
VOLUNTARY Tmnxnss are those whose wills are
practical engineers, and are able to control the ma-
chinery of thought. Mark, there is a world of difier-
ence between the conditions of persons who are con-
trolled by machines, and those who control the
machines. This not being a lesson on Theory we
cannot here make a study of the Will and its place
in the dual man. We are now looking for practical
things and men have long since learned that Will
controls destiny, and is the arbitrator of Luck; so we
assume that you are suiliciently versed in the philoso-
phy of the Intellect to recognize the fact that Will is
the true power behind the throne in all matters per-
taining to the selfs.
How To Dnvnnop WILL-POWER is of first impor-
tance in this study of the development of Thought-
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WILL AND Dmsmn must not be confounded. Desire

springs from the heart-side of things. Desire be-
longs to the lower self wholly; personal satisfaction
is the inspiration of desires. I love, and I have an
intense desire to be with and serve my loved ones;
this is a source of personal gratification. In the do-
main of the higher self, desires are in abeyance.
Tm: Bony or Dnsnucs, of which we will speak
later on, must be disintegrated before one can enter
the realms of true spiritual consciousness. In this
work of evolvement Will must be absolute Lord of
desires. It is, therefore, evident that the student
must first learn how to strengthen the powers of Will.
The poet gave us more than an intimation of the
philosophy of Attainment when he wrote‘: “We rise
by the things that are under our feet." When we
come to recognize the full significance of this truism
we find that we must reverse the current order of
thought, for we have been taught in school, family,
church and Sunday school that we gain heaven by
our virtues; but our virtues ought never to be under
our feet. The advancing Neophite firmly plants his
feet upon his Vices, and so rises into the light of
God, and so we are brought face to face with the
fact that there is some good in our Vices, for we
rise by the things that are under our feet.
A STUDY or Vxcms is in place at this juncture.
Every man, woman and child is a householder, and
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has a large herd of unclean animals in his pasture.

A good Astral seer can see these animals as they
continually follow the householder about, and there
is always a great, big, many—headed monster who is
nearest to him. In unembellished language, these
monsters are his vices, and everybody has one vice
considerably larger than any of the rest. Paul calls
this one, “The sin that doth most easily beset us."
Let every one pause for a moment and take a peep
into the pastures of the heart, and view his family
of devils, little and big, and see if hecannot name
the big fellow who continually dogs his steps like a
shadow of the night. What is your principal vice?
STRENGTHENING THE WILL is the immediate object
ofthis study, and with this host of heliomonsters to
be destroyed we certainly have opportunities for ef-
fort. Nothing is ever strengthened by inertia. Ac-
tivity and nothing else, will make strong a muscle,
an organ, a faculty; so in order to strengthen the
Will, an enemy and a battle ground must be found;
for every advance must be made by antagonisms.
In the first round, what is the antagonist of Will?
Her name is Desire. This is the family name. The
family is large, and every child a lusty fellow. Note ,
the names in the Directory: Lust-Desire, Theft-

Desire, Envy—Desire, Revenge-Desire, Greed-Desire,
Jealous-Desire, Slander-Desire, Tobacco-Desire, Al-
cohol-Desire, Trouble-Desire—but the ‘Directory is
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too full of names for all to be mentioned. The Will

has just let these children grow and every one is
now a master.
Mark, the Will is weak, and no matter what the
resolution may be, the Will cannot down all these
enemies at one fell stroke; and, furthermore, the
captain of the host is too powerful to be attacked at
first. I have known men whose greatest foe was
the liquor habit, or the morphine habit, or tobacco
habit, to enter into a solemn agreement with them-
selves that they would throttle the monster, and they
began the fight well but their Wills were too weak
and the monster came out the victor, and the poor
fellows sank down into deeper sloughs of despon-
dency. They simply tried too much at first. '
You well know the results of continuous failure.

The marshy grounds of discouragements are nearby.
But when people catch the contagion of Aspiration
they are apt to attempt the conquest of everything in
sight all at once and, to use an American phrase,
“They fall down.” American people in particular
are extremists. You are apt to find them well up
toward the top of the mountain, or lying in the muddy
slough of despair. If they cannot be great oaks or
tall sycamores they are apt to be skunk cabbages, or
rushes growing up from quagmires or stagnant pools.
It is hard indeed for people to learn that an oak
does not attain unto its majority in a day. Substan-
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tial growth makes haste slowly. Reformations that

are solid to the core are never instantaneous. They
may manifest themselves all at once, as was the case
in the conversion of the Christian Apostle Paul.
Perhaps most people can call to mind instances of
so-called miraculous conversions, when a veritable
devil became a saint in a night. And some of these
conversions (a very few of them) are genuine. In
all these instances, however, men see only results.
The leaven had been working for years. The divine
plant had been growing under a cover for a long
time and some master-hand succeeded in lifting the
lid, and the full-fledged convert pops out like Jack
from a magic box.
THE Pnocnss or WILL-STRENGTHENING is not a
rapid one, and the student must not try to force the
growth in a day. One should not attempt to throttle
the great demon of his life the moment he is awakened
to moral consciousness. He should try his Will on
little things.
THE Tans: or Dssmn is not an ordinary shrub.
It is a deadly Upas tree, and grows like the great
Banyan tree of India and the West India Isles. One
center stock shoots up from the soil and when it has
attained a height of from twenty to eighty feet it
throws out immense branches which bend to the earth,
the tips of which take root and grow; so every tree
has many offsprings, and while each shoot originates
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in the Parent tree and ever holds its relationship with

the center tree, it nourishes itself from the soil.
Likewise the Desire Tree of every person is a unit,
is one from which every other desire springs. He
who can analyze himself and know the name and
character of the great stock of his Desire Tree has
done something toward its destruction; but he must
know that all his lesser evils spring from the parent
evil; but like the branches of the great Banyan tree,
every branch or sin bent to the earth takes root and
may have an independent existence.
THE CHARACTER or THE PARENT TREE is the char-
acter of the Person.
Avamcn may be the name of the Parent tree; if
so, we have an avaricious person, and every sin of
his life springs from, and takes on the complexion of
the parent.
LUST may be the name of the parent tree; if so,
every action of the life is "steeped in lust and all the
ofi'shoots are lustful and the man’s chief desire is to
gratify lust.
SELFISHNEBS is the name of a great majority of
the stocks of Desire from which all evils spring.
Every thing that a selfish person does can be traced
directly to the great desire forpselfish gratification.
He who is a ‘good student of motives, can tell by the
acts of a person the name and character of his parent
Desire Tree.
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IN WILL-STRENGTHENING one must begin and de-

stroy these hideous children, for while springing from
the parent, each has become an independent ‘tree.
Mystic brethren and sisters, take your ax from the
Lodge Room, sharpen it up and go to work on the
little trees that have originated in your great Upas
Tree of sin. These are the little foxes that spoil
the vines, of which a Hebrew prophet wrote.
Your Will may now be strong enough to overcome
what seems to be a little sin, like evil speaking, harsh-
ness in word and deed, ungratefulness, egotism, self-
importance, self-righteousness, etc. One such evil
overcome by sheer force of Will, and the Will is
strengthened so that other evils may be destroyed,

and, by and by, the great Upas Tree itself may be
dominated by VVill.
THE Wnsxnsr PEOPLE we meet are the ones who
believe their Wills are strong, but are afraid of put—
ting them to the test. Men and women are plentiful
who tell us that their habits are under the control of
the Will. These people are apt to assert, “I can
quit smoking, or chewing tobacco, drinking booze, tea
or cofiee, taking morphine, visiting vile dives of cor-
ruption, gambling, etc., whenever I please.” These
are all hot-house plants and are the weakest creatures
on earth. They haven't Will power enough to be
truly respectable when invited into our parlors and
drawing rooms. In an experience of many years in
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aggressive temperance work I have met hundreds of

men and women who insisted that they could quit
drinking if they wanted to; but not one per cent of
the entire outfit ever did quit. “Let him who thinketh
he standeth take heed lest he fa ."
He who can control his personal desires, has his
Thought-machinery under control, and can easily
make the elements of the earth, the water, the fire
and the air come and go at his bidding.
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LESSON II
A RETENTIVE Mrmomr non EVERYBODY——PRAC’1‘lCAI.

Srumns IN How To Rnmmannn
A memory is a. wonderful accomplishment;

good
when possesses such be readily accumulates
one
knowledge; when one has a poor memory he is handi-
capped at every turn of life's intellectual highway.
It is evident, then, that in this course of lessons in
Self Culture we should make a careful study of the
best methods of developing this mental capacity.
MEMORY is the faculty registering impressions and
thought-concepts upon certain sensitized films of the
brain.
Rr:coLI.Ec'r1oN is the faculty of reproducing, bring-
ing to objective consciousness, the registered impres-
sions and thought-concepts.
A Goon MEMORY registers impressions and concepts
with suflicient power to make the record indelible.
A Poor: MEMORY registers, them in such a super-
ficial manner that they cannot be readily reproduced.
MnMon1z1Na.—By this we mean the processes of
registering impressions or thought-concepts. We may
well recognize two processes of memorizing.
INvoLUNfrsnY.—This word quite well indicates the
character of the first process. Some teachers call this
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process Sensuous memory, because the memorizing is

efiected by and through the senses. We see scenes,
hear sounds, taste flavors, smell odors and feel sen-
sations without the will acting in any perceptible
manner; but these sense-functions make indelible im-
pressions upon the sensitized films of the brain, and
sometimes there is so much power back of the sensa-
tions that they may be re-called, or may come without
any effort of the Will to recall, at any time. Such
memorizing may be automatic.
This involuntary memorizing may be carried fur-
ther than the reception of impressions through the
senses; for there is such a thing as
INVOLUNTARY TI-IINKING.—-All space is surcharged
with the atoms of thought, and every sort of an in-
tellect automatically,involuntarily,makes use of some
of them; so, some concepts are registered upon the
brain films without the action of the Will.
These two processes cover the ground suggested
by the caption, Involuntary Memorizing. These au-
tomatic memorizers may find their impressions to be
so powerful that they may be greatly annoyed, even
made frantic by the vividness of their recollections.
A simpleton may be frightened to death by the in-
voluntary recollections of past events.
VOLUNTARY Mnmomzmo is THE SECOND Paocrcss
To an CoNsxna1u::n.—-This process may be improved
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and this lesson will be devoted to the “How to do it."

Poor Memorizers are everywhere in evidence. It is
no especial disgrace to be born with a poor memory,
but it is a disgrace to keep one. Many people seem
to be contented to heap all their spiritual, and moral,
and intellectual imperfections upon a poor memory.
They will not enter into the deeper studies of Occult-
ism because they “cannot remember”; these people do
not seem to understand that in these days of universal
opportunities it is a shame and a disgrace for one to
continue to have a poor memory.
It might be interesting for us to make a study of
the cause of poor memories; but as there could be no
helpful results from such a study we dismiss the
theme, and begin with the acknowledged fact that most
people have aggravated symptoms of poor memories.
THE THREE-FOLD CHARACTER or VOLUNTARY MEM-
omzmc may here be considered. The senses may be
strengthened by the potentized habit of accurate ob-
servation, so that external impressions that ordinarily
are not recognized, may be recorded on the brain-film
in a lasting manner. An automatic observer will pass
along the streets of our city and sense only such things
as appeal to his idiosyncrasies, while a cultured ob-
server will sense everything. This potentized habit
of accurate observation makes the voluntary memo-
rizer strong in Sensuous Memory.
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INTELLECTUAL Paocnss or MEMORIZING is the sec-

ond and higher stage of memory. This brings one
in touch with the soul of things. All manifests are
but results of thought-concepts, and the educated
thinker is constantly in contact with the real, or the
things that the physical senses cannot recognize, and
does not need to receive sensuous or illusive impres-
sions.
Thought in action, and dealing largely with the
soul-side of things, intensifies the power of the mem-
ory. The man who thinks in a systematic manner
becomes a giant in memorizing.
INSPIRATION is the highest process of developing
the memory. This is the only process that is truly
Occult. The atmosphere is charged with a purifying
ether that has the power of disintegrating the re-
sistance molecules that render the brain—films non-
receptive.
To make use of this process the student must be
somewhat familiar with what the Orientalists call the
Yoga of Discrimination; know how to call to" his as-
sistance just what he needs, being well assured that
Will is master of the ethers, and that they will re-
spond when conditions make it possible for them to
do so.
Without now entering into a critical study of the
Hindu Viveka we may give a single exercise that will
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well cover the helpfulness of the process of Inspira-

tion.
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ExIcnc1sr:.—-Assume an easy position and by some-
what vigorous breathing, throw out of the body what
may with some propriety be called “the dead breath”;
then concentrate your thought upon the specific ether,
the spiritual ether of purification, and with this
thought uppermost slowly inspire through the nostrils
until the lungs, yea, the whole body, is filled with the
breath; and this is the Holy Breath, the purifying
breath of the Spirit.
If this exercise is taken properly you will feel a
tingling sensation in all parts of the body; the brain
will become clear as a bell, the memory films will be
cleansed, and you will, with a single effort, realize that
there is much more in divine inspiration, or inspiring
the superfine ethers, than you have ever thought.
T1-In THREE Pnocsssns or Inrnovmo THE MEM- '
our must be kept in mind:
1. Potentized habit of accurate observation;

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2. Systematic, concentrative thinking;

3. Inspiration, or taking in the purifying ethers.
ATTENTION lies at the foundation of every process
of memory building. A celebrated French teacher
thus defines attention: “The Will directing the activ-
ity of the Intellect into some particular channel and
keeping it there. A weak Will is a sure symptom
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of a The Intellect can not be directed

poor memory.
by a weak VVil1; so the first work to be done in mem-
ory development is to strengthen the Will, and in the
first Lesson of this Course some instructions were
given in practical methods of increasing the strength
of the VVi1l.
MIND-WANDERING is the opposite of Attention, and
men sometimes speak of mind-wandering as a species
of lunacy; so it is evident that the person who cannot
fix his attention upon a given proposition or subject
and hold it there, is only a little way from the friendly
doors of an asylum.
INTEREST lies at the foundation of Attention.
Everybody, the involuntary thinker, the mind-wan-
derer and the scientific thinker, each finds it easy to
fix attention upon anything in which he is deeply
interested, and people are usually deeply interested in
all matters that concern themselves personally. This
is so nearly a universal truism that it may well he
said that inabilityto fix and hold the attention upon
a given matter results from a lack of interest in that
matter.
All impressions in which men and women are deeply
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interested are indelibly fixed in the brain—films, and

at any time in life they may be recalled with tolerable
alacrity. One often hears people who complain of
poor memories tell of some thrilling event in life,
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even in early life, that made such a deep impression

that they recall it in minutest detail, and say, “I never
can forget tha .”
The number of things in which the average person

is interested is small, indeed. The selfish person has
no care whatever for matters that concern others and
not himself. Most people are hobbyists, or faddists,
and have but little interest in matters outside of their
narrow, contracted world, and so their memory bumps
are ill-shaped; having just one prominent spur, the
rest being depressions, full of dead leaves and passing
shadows.
It is only the broad-minded, cosmopolitan man or
woman, who can enter fully into the thought-world
of humanity and have a heart-felt interest in that
which concerns others.
INTEREST IS A CREATURE or EDUCATION, and it must
be educated before the memory can be developed; and
the question of paramount importance just now is:
"How can we become interested in matters that do
not concern us personally?" This question takes us
back to the first process of memory improvement,
ACCURATE OBsEnvA'r1oN.—There is something in
everything to excite sympathy, admiration, curiosity
or disgust, and concentrative thinking will bring into
prominence that thing. Some minds love detail;

others are content with generalities. The detail
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thinker is the accurate observer, and so it is essential

to form the habit of thinkingin detail.
EXERCISES non rm-3 DEVELOPMENT or THE HABIT
or Accumrrn OBsEnvA'r1oN.—Take any object, either
an object of nature, as a flower or tree, or a machine
made by the hand of man, and in the mind take it to
pieces, and study its parts. In the case of the ma-
chine, study the mechanism of the different parts;
note the materials entering into its structure; the
kind of wood that would be best suited for the pur-
pose, whether beach or maple, or oak, or ash, or pine,
or redwood. Note the kind of metals required in its
construction. If iron or steel or copper be used,
determine in what part of the earth they were, prob-
ably, found. You can then with profit turn to your
Encyclopaedia and learn where the various metals are
mined and prepared for use.
One of the best helps in developing the habit of
critical observation is the study of manufacturing.
Go to the foundry, where they take chunks of pig-iron
and melt them in a great furnace; observe the various
processes of converting the crude material into sheets
or into rails for car tracks. A little Yankeeism is in
order; ask questions until you are familiar with the
whys and the hows on all processes.
The student must have his eyes and ears open con-
tinually. Much help may come from sigmreading.
As you walk along the street observe the various stores
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and the order of their location. Read all the signs

from First to Seventh street, in any city, and then
recall the order of their location.
Go into a library and note the books; first those on
a single shelf; then all in the case; observe the titles
and the order in which the books are placed.

I need not give more special exercises in fixing the
habit of observing. Every one, anywhere, can find
opportunity for practice; but practice, and that con-
tinually, is absolutely essential.
REMEMBERING WHAT You READ.—The habit of
rapid reading, so much in vogue among novel readers,
destroys the sensitized films of the brain and leads
to quasi idiocy, if not to insanity. Rapid readers are,
usually, superficial thinkers, and care little for any-
thing but the lightest conventionalities, and seem to
pride themselves in their poor memories. What we
mean by
READING is not saying over the words of a book;

it is the absorption of the ideas; making that which
is offered in the way of intellectual food, a part of
one’s self. A book is a table spread with things sup-
posed to be good for the stomach of the mind to ap-
propriate, and the same discrimination must be exer-
cised as is in order in selecting food to supply the
wants of the physical body. No two persons get the
same nourishment from a book; in fact, it is diflicult to
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find two persons who need the same intellectual food,

and it takes considerable discretion to know just what
is required in a given case.
In reading, as in listening to lectures, we come
across ideas that appeal to us, while other ideas that
may be equally as important, do not command a mo-

ment's thought.
The second reading of a book will usually reveal
much appropriate food that did not appear on the
first reading. It is fallacy to stufi the mind-stomach
with all the intellectual food a book contains at first
reading.
USELESS FooD.—Almost every book contains much
that the reader does not need, in the form of indi-
gestible ideas, and ideas that have already been appro-
priated. In reading, that which one well knows need
not concern him. With this restriction we are ready
to open the book.
THE SUBJECT MA'r-r1m.—The first question of the
scientific reader is: What is the scope of the work?
Every well prepared book has a Table of Contents
that gives a general idea of the subject matter. A
thorough study of the outline therein given will in-
tensify the interest of the reader, and if he wants to
know all there is in the book suitable to his stage of
advancement he must approach it with the greatest
possible interest.
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A Fonnwonn, on PREFACE, usually precedes the

opening chapter. This frequently gives the rate of
vibration of the author's thoughts; this should be
carefully read, and its relationship to the Table of
Contents noted, if for no other purpose than to bring
the reader en rapport with the author.
INTRODUCTIONS are sometimes prominent features
of books. These are usually written by the author
for the same reason that the young artist wrote under
his sketch: “This is a horse,” for fear no one would
be able to tell what it was. A clear—cut, concisely
written book needs no Introduction. If, however,
there is one, and its very presence does not make you
feel that the intellectual food the author has placed
upon his table is raw or not well cooked, read it, just
as you read the Table of Contents. By this time
expectancy is on tip-toe, interest has reached its ex-
altation and you are ready to read the first chapter.
A celebrated French instructor once said: "What
is one’s object in reading a book? Simply to retain
the Ideas in it that are new and useful to him, as
well as the new uses that are therein set forth of old
and familiar ideas.”
Slow reading with concentrative thinking is just as
important in memory building as thorough mastication
of food in the upbuilding of the physical body.
PENCIL AND PAPER are indispensable for the critical
reader until he has taken the degree of M. M.——
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Master of Memory. Now you are ready to begin;
read the first paragraph, and note the new ideas that
it contains and the uses to which old ideas are put.
Jot down in the most concise manner the information
you have received, continue in this way through the
chapter and through the book.
ABSTRACT MAKING is a science as well as an art
which everyone can formulate for himself. After a
while the reader becomes familiar with his own marks,
which may be simply hieroglyphs, and he can reread
from his marks every new idea he has found in the
book. This process closely followed will enable al-
most any one to become familiar with all the new
ideas he has found in the book.
Boox VIBRA'.l‘ION.—-Boolis that have never been
read are more diflicult to master than books that have
been read by a concentrative thinker. If you are a
sensitive you have observed this. The eye of the
reader magnetizes the page; the thoughts that lie
back of the letters of the book are brought out by the
critical reader, are taken into his thought amplifier,
magnetized and returned in an indelible manner to
the page of the book. These returned magnetized
thoughts give a marvelous value to the book. A mas-
ter will give much more for a book that has been read
by another master than for one just from the press.
In buying books I always try to find those that have
been in the libraries of master minds.
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READING Booxs UNOPENED.—A sensitive seldom

finds it necessary to open a book that has been read
by a master, in order to become familiar with its
ideas. He simply places the book under his head
before going to bed and while he sleeps he accumu-
lates the most valuable thoughts that it contains. It
is very diflicult to get any information in this manner
from an unread book.
ACCUMULATION or KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT Books.
—This is possible. Whatever others have thought is
public property; it is registered upon the ethers, and
he who is qualified to do so may read the ideas as
readily as he can read from the pages of a printed
book. This is the reason that ideas are contagious.
A hundred or a thousand men who live in various parts
of the earth may simultaneously receive the same idea
without reading a book. The true master is not a
reader of books, he need not be.“ The fi1:e.a.t_Bzeath
is sur with all the ideas that have been formu-
lated and when he is familiar wi e rue cien e
of the Great Freath he is filled with the wisdom ‘of
the ages, is com letel sat r d with the Eowledge
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of masters,‘ living and departed,7_as he sits in his cham-

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These are the incomparable advantages of Illumina-
tion, and every soul who stands upon the cusp of the
Fifth-Sixth races is competent to attain unto these
great heights.
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LESSON III
Conons, NATUnE’s MEDICINES AND BEAUTIFIERS;

WHAT Conons To WEAR To BE ATTRACTIVE
AND HEALTHFUL. LIGHT!
THE MANIFESTER on ALL THINGs.—-The creative

God, the Hebrew Elohim, called by the Mystic John
in the account of his visions on Patmos, the Seven
Spirits of God, were the embodiment of Light, “And
God said, Let there be Light, and there was Light.”
THE ORIGIN or LIGHT need not be considered here;
it seemsonly necessary to state the accepted theory
that Light is the result of etheric vibration; that
where the ethers are made to vibrate so. many times
per second the phenomenon called Light is produced
(therequired rate of vibration per second is given by
scientists at about thirty-five and one-quarter trillions,
insuring an outward speed of the moving ethers of
186,000 miles per second).
LIGHT ANALYSIS reveals the fact that there are
seven distinct tones, and seven colors in it, and we
are informed by the great esoteric masters that each
of the creative spirits appropriated one musical tone
and one color, as follows: Michael, the color red and
the tone C; Raphael, the color orange and the tone D;
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Gabriel, the color yellow and the tone E; Samael, the

color green and the tone F; Uriel, the color blue and
the tone G; Zadkiel, the color indigo and the tone A;
Cassiel, the color violet and the tone B.
Of course, in the multitudes of combinations of the
seven colors we have an indefinite number of shades
and tints, and in the combinations of tones we have
a great variety of tone waves; but every one can be
traced back to its parentage in the Septonate.
It matters not to us just now how colors are pro-
duced; .it is enough to know that there are seven
fairly distinct colors, corresponding to the seven notes
of the musical scale.
COLOR MEANINGS.-—Tllel‘e are seven creative prin-
ciples, as we have already intimated, and each prin-
ciple has its own specific color and tone. These
principles are manifest in the planets of our Solar
System and in everything that has been evolved. He
who understands the language of colors can read the
history and philosophy of all manifests; even of un-
manifest things in vegetable and mineral life.
Powmns or CoLons.—Everything is more or less
powerful, and each entity has its own specific charac-
ter, and the color is the indicator of character.
Conoa DlCTl0NABY.——RED is life, vitality; Blood
is red, and an ancient physiologist said, “The blood
is the life.” Red is the color of Force, and taken
alone it is blind, nngoverned Force. While it is one
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of the creative colors, it never was capable of acting

alone, and the other of the dual primary colors was
immediately in evidence.
BLUE, the color of Intelligence, flashed into exis-
tence and like a great mantle covered the power that
seemed to be struggling for manifestation. And Blue
directed the energies of Red, as Intelligence must ever
direct Force.
In celestial chemistry we learn that the pigments
of all colors were embraced in Blue and Red, although
in the chemistry of our school days we were taught
that all other colors could not be made by combining
Red and Blue, and our best artists at the present time
have not succeeded in doing so. In this operation
Transmutation is essential and modern science knows
but little about Transmutation.
YELLOW is the color of next importance, and it
makes but little difierence whether we concede that
it is the result of the alchemic union of Red and Blue,
or is an original pigment, it embraces the character-
istics of Force and Intelligence, and the word Love
quite well defines it.
Old-time Theosophists tell us that Yellow means
Intelligence and Blue, Love. But one of the most
critical seers of the present day says that Blue means
Intellect, Thought, Truth, and that “Yellow is Intui-
tion, Divine Wisdom”—Grumbine, of the order of
the White Rose.
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In the mystic nomenclature, Yellow is accepted as

the color of Love.
AMONG CREATIVE ATTRIBUTE8Red is power; Blue
is concentration and cohesion, and Yellow is attractive
Discrimination.
ORANGE results from the union of Red and Yellow;
alchemically speaking, of Force and Attractive Dis-
crimination and so it is to a great extent a selfish
‘color. Alchemically, it is defined as “Aspiration for
the self."
GREEN results from the union of Yellow and Blue,
or of Concentration and Attractive Discrimination,
and is a much higher color than Orange, although
it has not in it as much of the vital principle. Green
is the color of growth and is the symbol of Immor-
tality. We speak of it as the color of Aspiration and
Hope.
INnxao is but a deeper Blue and means Spiritual
Intelligence.
PURPLE manifests the highest conception of Spiri-
tual unfoldment and is well called the Truth.
In the best dictionaries of colors, Purple is Royal-
ty, Exaltation, Honor, Illumination.
IN “Sr:cmc-r Doc-rmma.-” we have the following
Table given, which you will observe adopts the mystic
color scale, which makes the manifest color of Intel-
ligence, Indigo Blue.
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State of
Color Matter Principle:
Red Ice Kama-Rupa, Animal Life.
Orange Air Prana, or Life Principle.
Yellow Water Buddhi, Spiritual Soul.
Green Air Lower Manas, Animal Soul.
Blue Steam Auric Envelope.
Indigo Air Spiritual Intelligence, Higher
Manas.
Violet Ether Chhaya, Shadow or Double.
PRACTICAL APPLICATION or CoI.on.——In these stud-
ies we are to consider the advantages of color in
Personal Attractiveness and in health. Every person
is dominated by one of the seven colors, and this
domination is so complete that when we know the
color that appeals most powerfully to the individual
we may have a tolerably clear conception of that
person's characteristics. The carnal races and per-
sons, those closest to the physical, admire Red—and
these persons are prone to wear red colors—red
blankets, red dresses, red hats, red neckties. And
they are usually the people of Force, but are not apt
to be dominated by Intelligence.
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The thoughtful, studious person admires Blue, and

if they are spiritually inclined the higher shades of
Blue and the Purple appeal to them; and when they
can have their own way their garments are decidedly
Blue or Purple.
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The pure emotional nature, the one who believes

that Love is the Universal Savior and whose actions
accord with his belief, is ever an admirer of Yellow
and this is the predominating color in his attire.
Some masters tell us that the mother Love is the
highest manifestation of true Love, and that the color
of this Love is a delicate Pink.
I would not for one moment depreciate the exalted
nature of mother Love, and still we must confess that
it is selfish and clannish. The cord that binds a
mother and child is truly sacred, but it is of the flesh,
and could not be otherwise than Red in color. It is
not the Universal Love of the Christ, which is almost
free from the colors of the carnal. Another may
have the deepest and most spotless love for her child
and not have a shred of love for somebody’s else child
or for Universal Life. We must not let sentiment
destroy judgment.
ATTRACTIVENESS THROUGH COLOR-BLENDING.--As
-in the indiscriminate mingling of tones we have dis-
cordant sounds, so when colors are not blended ac-
cording to the principles of harmonics, we have a lot
of vibrations that are akin to the filing of a saw.
When a lady appears with the colors of her garments
thrown together, with no reference to the principles
of color blending, every sensitive observer cringes as
though in a nettle-bed. A few suggestions may be
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made that will help the lady with non-artistic taste
to render herself attractive.
The lady with blue eyes, fair complexion and au-
burn hair, might wear a light blue dress, trimmed with
a darker shade of blue, with white collar, or the entire
dress might be trimmed with white. Such a person
always looks attractive attired in white. The light"
blue dress and auburn hair form a harmonic contrast.
If, however, the red pigments be prominent in the
hair, blue attire is discordant.
The author of Principles of Light and Color says:
"Blondes look well in light colored dresses; brunettes
in darker ones, while rubicund (reddish) countenances
can wear to advantage subdued tints of red.
"If a countenance is too pale, a greenish element
will enhance the rosy color by contrast, while a purple
tint near the face will bring out the yellow, and give
a bilious, sickly appearance.
“If a person's countenance be over-flushed and
rosy, a condition which is rarely seen among American
ladies, a red ribbon worn near the face will give a
paler cast.
“Contrasts of positive colors, such as red and green,
blue and orange, yellow and purple, are too glaring to
be in good taste, except for military or theatrical cos-
tumes. The grays of the same colors are much more
tasty and modest.
"Too much of the dark elements in clothing de-
grade the light into heat, and prevents its finest
chemical action on the human system.”
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PRACTICAL Usss or Conoas IN HEALTH AND DIS-

sAsE.—Sunlight is the combination of all colors, and
is the ne plus ultra of medicines. Houses and cloth-
ing are the causes of much of the weakness and misery
to which humanity is heir. He who will institute a
comparison between the so—called civilized nations and
"the uncivilized nations will find proofs of this state-
ment. Civilization, disease and drunkenness seem to
go hand in hand.
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Some years ago Rev. J. G. Wood published a re-

markable. book on “Uncivilized Races of Men” in
which he paid a high tribute to these children of
nature. He tells us that they are rarely sick, always
strong and are blessed with strong lines of beauty.
Nearly all of the women and many of the men of
America are hot-house plants, who look sickly, smell
sickly, act sickly and are sickly. They imagine that
houses are built to live in and that clothes are made
to wear; so they bundle up with clothes and shut
themselves up in houses for fear the sunshine and air
might strike their precious forms.
In his balmy days, the great natural hygienist, Dr.
Dio Lewis, wrote: “Don't you seea good many pale
girls in your stores, girls with a bloodless, half baked
sort of face, whose whole expression is void of spirit
and force? Those girls are in a green state. Look
at their lips and cheeks. They are not half ripe.
Send them out into the country; let them throw away
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their parasols and live out in the sunshine three

months and I would give more for one of them in any
work requiring spirit than for a dozen of those pale
things that live in the shade. The only girls with
red cheeks and sweet breaths, the only girls who be-
come fully ripe and sweet, are those who baptize
themselves in sunshine. For many years I have ad-
vised, in the case of a weak, emaciated child, the sun-
bath. These little frail half-baked creatures that
die of marasmus, would, in hundreds of cases, recover
if they could be thoroughly cooked, or baked over in
the sun. With magical rapidity I have seen little
ghostly, dying things recover by two or‘ three hours’
daily sleeping or rolling about naked in the sunshine."
Some years ago our rustic poet, Walt Whitman,
wrote: “Twelve years ago I came to Camden to die;
but every day I went into the country, and naked,
bathed in sunshine, lived with the birds and the squir-
rels, and played in the water with the fishes, I re-
covered my health.”
Blaurv is always enhanced by the sunshine. Dr.
Babbitt once said: “Sun-exposed bodies gain such
activity of the blood forces as to prevent any exces-
sive forming of adipose matter, and hence the ugli-
ness of obesity is avoided. On the other hand, the
solar raysquicken the nutrient functions so that lean-
ness may be averted or remedied. From these and
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many other facts that could be given, the beautifying

effect of sunlight is evident.”
If our cadaverous, white-faced ladies would throw
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away their superfluous clothing,their paints, powders,

sunshades and body jackets, fling wide open the
doors and windows of their houses (never mind the
mosquitoes and flies) and spend every possible mo-
ment in God's pure air, and his magnificent sunshine,
they would soon begin to be beautiful instead of
pretty, the fat and the lean would meet upon a com-
mon plane of symmetric figures; sick headache, sick
stomach, sick liver and sick lungs would be numbered

among the things of the past and a high type of
beauty and healthfulness would be the heritage of
their children, and they themselves would be loved for
what they are and not for what they seemed to be.
But people are creatures of education, and reforms
V
are of slow growth.

People will not give up their luxurious houses, their
superfluous clothing and their sunshades all at once,
so we must make a critical study of how we may best
help them in their present degenerate stage of civiliza-
tion.
Canouoryrnv, or the system of curing diseases by
colors, is perhaps the most practical of all systems
of healing now knocking for recognition at the doors
of science. The atmosphere contains every substance
in nature, and the prismatic colors are nature's elimi-
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nators. These select and apply to all manifests just

what is needed for beauty, health and strength.
table of the healing qualities of colors is here in order.
“RED is warming, and especially stimulating to the
arterial blood, and is called for in cold, pale or bluish
conditions. It is contra-indicated in inflammable and
over-excitable conditions.
“YELLOW, aided by some red (yellow—orange), is
animating to the nerves, being laxative, diuretic, stim-
ulating to the brain, liver, etc., and especially desir-
able in paralytic and stupid conditions. It is contra-
indicated in delirium, fluidic conditions, etc.
“BLUE, INDIGO AND VIOLET, being cooling and
contracting, are nervine, astringent, refrigerant, anti-
septic, anti—inflammatory,narcotic and anti—spasmodic.
They are contra-indicated in cold bluish and chronic
conditions, unless considerable excitability is present.
"GREEN is mainly cooling and much like the blue as
strained through ordinary green glass, though the
yellow part of green gives some nerve stimulus.
“PURPLE combines the blood warming red and the
cooling antiseptic blue, and is excellent for lungs,
stomach, kidneys and other parts where animation
without irritation is needed.
“ORANGE arouses the nerves and to some extent,
the blood.”
How To APPLY THE CoLoRs.——Many ways have
been suggested, but one of the best methods is by the
clothing that is worn, and the colorings of the rooms
in which one lives.
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If one is suffering from inertia, lack of vitality,

collapse, because of blood poverty, paralysis, etc., the
color red is indicated. All other positive colors
should be removed from the living room and the
clothing; red should predominate in every way; the
under clothing should be red. In most cases of con-
sumption where the blood is greatly impoverished, this
red medication will prove curative.
In all inflammatory conditions, fevers, inflammatory
rheumatism, the red treatment is contra-indicated.
All red should be eliminated from the ceilings and
furnishings of living rooms and from garments worn.
Red flowers increase the suffering of persons afliicted
with inflammatory conditions.
If the system be sluggish and all parts of the body
are clogged; in all conditions where cathartics are
seemingly called for, attention should be directed at

once to the color Yellow; it is of more value than
aloes, podophyllum,Syrup of Figs, Little Liver pills
and salts, combined. Yellow furnishings of living
apartments, yellow clothing, and foods that contain
yellow pigment will speedily restore harmonious con-
ditions and insure health. Yellow is contra—indicated
in all fluidic conditions.
Blue is the fever remedy par excellence. This
color and Indigo have such power over inflammatory
conditions that when a patient is entirely dominated
by these colors other remedies are seldom called for.
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These are also narcotic, anti-spasmodic and nerve

sedatives, and since most American women are
troubled with insomnia, some sort of spasms or what
they call nervousness, these should constitute the
prominent colors in all dress goods and head wear.
Frequently blue might not be especially becoming
to a certain style of beauty; still for health’s sake
one may be forced to outrage aesthetic taste for a
little time.
Green has many of the effects of the blue, and in
some conditions may be substituted with profit.
COLORED Gnsss occupies a prominent place in the

armamentarium of a Chromopathic healer; but as the
directions given in the matter of wearing apparel
cover the entire philosophy we need not now consider
the methods of using glass.
Conons ARE Pownnrur. ELIMINATORB; and with the
aid of proper appliances will gather from the atmos-
phere any substance ever reqnired in healing.
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LESSON IV
T1-u: Sncnnr or POPULARITY AND Lnannnsmr; S1-IOR1‘

CU-rs T0 Ptnsorur. Maarmrxsn
.
The well-poised, symmetrically developed person is

always popular. Cranks are just on one side of the
grindstone, and though they may everlastinglykeep
things turning and stirred up, and may be popular
with many people for a little time, and a few people
for a long time, they never attain to anything like
universal o ularity.
When men or women attain to leadership and popu-
larity, their characters demand critical study; there
is something in them more than the ordinary, and
whoever can find the key to their successes may be
benefited.
W1-raw Is -rm: SncnnrPoPULAR!'1‘Y?—It is not
or
education; for among those not educated we find as
many popular people as we do among those who are

educated. It is not piety, for the rough man of the
world is just as apt to he the idol of the populace as
the most devout religionist. It is not aesthetic cul-
ture, for the woman with only a moiety of refinement
may outstrip her cultured sister in popularity.
In searching for the secret of leadership we find
an undefinable something in the personality of the
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individual. When you stand in the presence of a
people's favorite you intuitively feel a force that
seems to draw you almost irresistibly to his person.
That something is the secret of popularity, and that
something is an inherent quality of all people, and
may be developed so that popularity will be universal.
NATIVE POPULARITY is no uncommon thing. Some
babies are everybody’s favorites before they are a
week old. And this is not because they are so en-
trancingly beautiful, or so markedly intelligent; but
somehow they differ from other babies and every
passer~by has an overpowering desire to snatch them
up and kiss them.
And it isn't a question of heredity; for coarse,
crude parents may bring into the world a little one
who is the center of attraction from the moment of
birth. These children may with propriety be called
NATURAL FAvonrrEs.—But Theosophists tell us
that there are no such personalities; that the All-
Loving Father is no respecter of persons; that he
pours out his choicest blessings upon all alike, and all
just persons cannot help saying, Selah; for God
would not be just if he did otherwise.
But that seeming favorites do appear everyone
knows, and we appeal to a Mahatma for a solution
of the mystery, and the Mahatma answers:
"This life is but a little span of the great life of
man. The true home of every individuality is in the
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realm of the Invisibles, and all are born into this

e -
very requently for experiences—for the
en .
purpose of unfolding every attribute of th Infin’te
One, which
I'1'1The course of Ages one may have visited these earth
planes of experience many times and gradual un-
foldment is marked. That brilliant child that men
call a favorite has spent many years amid the buf-
feting of earth scenes in order to attain unto its
present place of popularity and leadership. No one
knows what it has had to sufier and endure in other
lives. The child that is not now a favorite will, some
day, be born a favorite, for the blessings that are in
store for one are in store for all.”
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Paomams ARE FoUNn.—And this philosophy ac-
counts for the many that come to earth—our wonder-
ful child musicians, mathematicians, artists and
orators.
But the popular baby may not be in any sense of
the term a prodigy; what, then, is the secret of its
popularity? Look at it well and you will note strange
IQ’es radiating from its person; it is a living mass of
attrac 1V6 magnetism; its magnetic aura reaches out
to E . This magnetic soul is not the
ofi'-spring a
of few months. By determined efforts
in other lives it has developed this magnetic power;
but you may be sure that it has gained all that it has
by heroic efi'ort, and every one will do the same; but
in this marvelous age of spirit one may crowd his
development so that in this life he may enjoy much
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of the rich fruit of his labors. And this brings us to
the consideration of
Acouumn POPULARITY.-—All leaders of the people,
all favorites, are magnetic personalities, and most
magnetic personalities are, in a great measure, favor-
ites, and so a study of personal magnetism and how it
may be obtained along the lines of least resistance is
the question ofthe hour.
In the mystic analysis of man and his bodies, for
he has more than one, we have the beginning of the
true explanatory philosophy. For our present pur-
pose we may look at man as a pentad, as possessing
five bodies. Omitting all O an'dT'1fiu
no re, we find that the three primary bodies
correspond withthe three primary tones of the musical
scale C, E and G, and the three primary colors, red,
yellow and blue. Paul recognized the bodily trinity
when he said: “I pray God that your whole being,
body, soul and Spirit, be preserved blameless in the
presence of the Christ."
THE HUMAN TRINITY and its correspondences may
be thus stated: The physical body is the red of color
and the C of music; the soul is the yellow of color and
the E of music; the Spirit is the blue of color and
the G of music. As in music, C is the key-note and
G is the dominant note, so in the human scale the
physical body is the key-note, because it manifests
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the rest of the scale, and the Spirit is the dominant

note.
CONNECTING Bonn:s.—-Between the physical body
and the soul we find a correlative body as a connecting
link, and this uniting body is to all appearances
exactly like the physical in form. This body is some-
times called the Etheric body; sometimes Desire body,
for in it lie all the strains of desire that must be
worked out before one can complete his-. circles of
_carnal births. It corresponds to the orange in color
and D in music. The elements of selfishness are
found in this connecting body, and we learned in our
study of color meanings in our last lesson that orange
means: "Aspirations for self."
Between the soul and the Spirit we find another
connecting body that is in form exactly like the physi-
cal or the soul, but in character it is higher than either,
because it is largely free from carnal desires. We
call this connecting body the magnetic and corre-
sponds to the green of the color scale and the F of
music. It is this body that carries in to both soul
and the physical, the true genius of the higher Ego,
the Spirit.
And thus we have before us the man as a pentad—
five-bodied. Thus considered, he is the vital star, the
star of promise, the star of Bethlehem, the star of
hope.
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Tm: PRIME CHARACTERISTICS of these five bodies

may be expressed thus:
1. The physical body exhibits the carnal nature.
2. The etheric body the emotional nature.
3. The soul body the aspirational nature.
4. The magnetic body the dynamic nature.
5. The Spirit body the Spiritual or God nature.
In the magnetic body we find the potentialities, the
force, of the entire being, and when this is properly
unfolded the individual upon the higher planes, and
the person upon the physical plane, becomes a power
that is simply irresistible, and this is what we mean by
PERSONAL MAGNETISM; and this is that indefinable
something that elevates failure into success, and is the
true key of popularity and leadership. How, then,
may we develop this magnetic, this fourth body of the
human pentad? How may we become magnetic and
be able to exclaim with the resurrected Nazarene,
"All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.”
Foous.—These are required in order to insure the
growth of anything; but no two kinds of entities re-
quire exactly the same kinds of food.
These five bodies of man must be fed, and the great
oversoul, who formed the bodies, created and scattered
through all worlds with a lavish hand the food that
each requires.
Souncn or Foon.-—The so-called atmospheric en- ‘
velopment of our earth is a wonderful compound; but
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mark, it is not a compound in which the in-

chemical
gredients indissolubly bound together as we find
are
them in the ates and ides of the chemical laboratory.
It is a mechanical mixture, in which the almost end-
less kinds of life foods are mixed, as we might mix
beans and corn and barley and wheat. In this at-
mosphere we find five principal kinds of food designed
for the five lower bodies of man.
Now, each body is a learned discriminator and se-
lects from these boundless granaries of nature the
specific food that will nourish it.
How To Appnopnmwn THIS F oon that the world
knows not of, he bread from heaven, is the question
of paramount impor . ese e ers that contain’
the foods for all life is the Great Breath, which is a
matter of theoretic analysis. Ancient mystics, even
more modern Orientalists have done much in the way
of analyzing the Great Breath, but their elaborateness
in analysis has carried the subject entirely through
the domain of clearness into a dense murkiness, and it
takes a pretty good reasoner to understand what the
Hindus mean in their analysis. In the clearer lan-
guage of Western thought we may present the matter
thus:
There are five kinds of food in the air we breathe,
and each kind has a special aflinity and is drawn
toward one or the other of the five bodies of man. Be-
cause of man’s descent into matter the receptive
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avenues for the prehension of these foods have been
charged with numberless resistance molecules, and
they are not readily appropriated. The carnal emo-
tions, such as fear, anger, hate, jealousy, envy, rc-
venge, offer strong resistance, and nearly cut of the
food supply from the higher bodies.
This resistance must be overcome, these foreig
substances that the carnal self has injected into the
g w,
t fyin sthe
early Christine teachers taught. That all these food-
ethers may have free accessto the bodies they are
designed to nourish, the aspirant must be pure in
thought and word and deed.
THOUGHT is the thing in the universe that can “fix
the volatile and volatilize the fixe ," and, hence,
Thought potentized by Will, is the great Scavenger
of life's highways.
Men once knew how to breathe and thus to fully
appreciate the Great Breath; but in their mad rush
for wealth and carnal pleasures they have forgotten
their muck-rakes, their shovels and their brooms and
all the avenues of breath have become so clogged with
alchemic filth that even the lungs have shriveled up
CT
so that their capacity is only a fractional part of what
it should be. Not more than one-fourth of the lung
cells are engaged in the process of ordinary breathing;
in the majority of people the upper lobes of the
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lungs, yes, and the lower lobes, too, are absolutely _
inert for lack of use. Stagnation is and sooner or

on
later inflammation will set in, resolution will follow
and the undertaker and grave digger will shortly close
the scene.
ScmN'rIs'rs everywhere are busy with the solution
of the Consumption problem, and medical experts are
delving down into the depths of all manner of filth,
hunting for a serum or lymph that will cure this dread
disease. Oh, the foolishness of modern Science! It
it just tampering with the topmost boughs of the great
Upas tree while the roots are getting stronger every
day.
An ounce of prevention is worth a car-load of cure,
and the critical masters of all times tell us no organ
is ever diseased amid the environments of judicious
activity. No natural breather ever had the Consump-
tion; and so the great work of the humanitarianis to
teach men and women how to breathe.
Tm: ORGANS or BREATHING are not confined to a
few inches in the chest embracing the lungs, only.
The natural breather breathes with every inch of his
body, provided the sm
ii'1"?>1'dinary person contains over seven million res,
mmam n-
.m .atmg.
and every one of them is a
There aretwo processes of life——E.1:pam:'on and

Contraction, and the average person is an e
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use of the latter; he knows how to contract, but he

hasn't the slightest conception of expansion. In even
ordinary breathing, if it is performed with half the
zeal that one exhibits in other matters, its force will
increase the size and intensify the power of any part
of the body on which thought is concentrated. Re-
member that thought is the cleanser and the creator,
and he who my
shrunken or diseased tissue as he inhales and exhales
to the limit of his capacity, will bring that part into a
condition of wholeness.
PERSONAL MAGNETIBM, which insures popularity
and just recognition among the masses, depends main-
ly upon this first one of the divisions of the Great
Breath, which with propriety might be called: The
Breath of Animal L:'fe——the breath that gathers from
the atmosphere the true food to sustain and develop
the physical body.
The true Science of the Great Breath must be
understood before one can know the value of breath-
ing. The color ofig the Breath of Animal Life is red,
and its‘musical tone is C.
PlRATION is recognized as the
Second of the vital breaths. The ethers of Aspiration
for self are everywhere abundant, and these constitute
the food of the Desire body, that etheric connection
between physical body and soul. Its color is Orange
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and We have already learned
that Orange is the color of Aspiration for self.
The most prominent characteristic of this etheric
body is Ambition, which in its place must not be
handicapizd,-gr‘ there can be no development. The
person who lacks Ambition is a sluggard, is never
popular, cannot be a leader, and is too indolent to be
led. The man without Ambition knows nothing about
the power of this Orange breath. If he could only
get one taste nt food he would rise
as if by enchantment from his bed of carnal security
and littleness into a new world.
THE BREATH on THE HEAn'r.—By this name we
know the Third of the Vital Breaths. It is the"
breath that brings in the food to feed the soul. It
enhances the powers of the deeper emotional nature,
and fills the entire being with that indefinable some-
thing that distinguishes the true lover from the
Platonist. He who mderst makes daily use
of the Breath of the Heart is universally loved. Love-
sic swams pay vast sums of money or a e nostrums
to compel the prime object of their heart's desire to
love them. The world is full of love powders, and
honeydrops and passion-charged candies that foolish
lassies take from the hands of designing culprits,
which temporarily set their poor brains on fire, and
they imagine they love, only to find out that their
forced love is a mushroom that will wither when the
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illusion is dispelled and the true sun shines forth.

Then love is turned into disgust.
Men and women, if you want to be loved, make
—T'
yourself lovable. .Learn how to breathe the Breath
of the Heart, and you need never meddle with the
heart-strings of another in order to provoke love.
The color of the Breath of the Heart is Yellow,
and its musical note E.
TH]: MAGNETIC BREATH is the appropriate name
of that truly higher breath that brings in the sus-
tenance of the magnetic body which unites the soul
and the spirit. This breath is one of superior power,
and when a person knows how to appropriate the
three inferior breaths he may use the magnetic breath
in such a way as to make him a Lord among Lords,
and bring him to the highest plane of leadership.
Men sometimes speak of this as the Breath of Hope;
but I think that it carries one to the realms far be-
yond hope; it is the Breath of Realization. Its color
is Green, and its musical note is F.
Tin: Biuwrn or THE Snarr, sometimes called the
Holy Breath, or the Holy Spirit, is the ne plus ultra
of the breaths that men can appropriate while they
tabernacle here in the flesh. Once the Christian
Apostles breathed upon certain fa
ms
bre.5fli'5T'trne Inspiration brings one into the higher
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ethers where the River of Life flows unsullied from

the Divine Throne, where the Trees of Immortal Life
grow in their beauty; where the Fountain of Wisdom
flows on forever and where the Sun of Righteousness
floods all the plains with the light of health and death-
lessness. The color of the Spirit Breath is Blue
and its musical tone is G, the dominant tone in the
Divine Scale.
This is the breath referred to by the great Nazarene
when he said: "I have yet many things to say unto
you, but you cannot hear them now; but when she,
the Spirit of Truth (the Holy Breath) is come, she
will guide you into all tru .”
Glorious Breath! and the encouraging part of all
is that every human being may become the abiding
place of this Divine Breath.
esson. The master of the
Science of the Great Breath is the master of time and
eternity. Men and women, the gates are wide ajar;
arise and enter into the joys of your Lord.
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LESSON V
UNFOLDING THE POWERS or THE SOUL
The spirit of man is the true Ego; the soul is the

shadow of the Ego; the physical body is the shadow
of the shadow.
In a sense, ‘both soul and body are illusions, for
both will pass away; the spirit is the only real; for
it only abideth forever. In another sense, both the
soul and the physical body are realities, for in both
these are essences that are imperishable. The Chris-
tian Apostle Paul referred to this enduring quality of
all parts of the triune man when he wrote: “I pray
God that your whole being, Spirit, soul and body,
be
preserved blameless in the presence of the Christ.”
In this sense Mystics believe in physical immor-
tality, the age enduring character of the body.
THE PHYSICAL BODY is an entity capable of devel-
opment, whether we view it as an illusion or a real,
and the higher it is developed, the more tangible and
powerful will the immortal essence of it become. It
has ever been considered by great masters as a Tem-
ple, an abiding place for the Great Breath and, there-
fore, should be kept pure, and developed in all its
parts.
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THE Sour. B01)? is capable of being unfolded, not

developed. It is thought that men usually under-
stand what we mean by the Soul Body much better
when we speak of it as the Mind Body, since it em-
braces all the faculties, functions and attributes of
mind. Our intellectual powers and emotions, our
loves and jealousies, our hates and our desires have
their origin in the soul. On this carnal plane they
are manifest through the physical body, and the char-
acter of the machinery being more or less gross, the
emotions are liable to partake of the nature of ani—
malism.
THE SPIRIT is the true Ego, the germ formulated
in the Divine Breath; really the seed from which
perfected manhood must spring. The life of man on
all planes of existence is evolved as a helper in the
unfoldment of this true Ego.
The old catechism asks: “What is the chief end of
man?” The answer is, “To glorify God and enjoy
him forever.”
The new catechism asks: "What is the chief end
of man?” The answer is, "To unfold the Spirit germ,
and bring the Ego into the perfection of its kin ."
So while we develop the body and unfold the soul,
we are perfecting the true man. Nothing is ever
lost that is done to enhance the beauty of form or
feature; for all such efforts add to the perfection of
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the spirit. True beauty is deeper than the skin and

abides forever.
The unfoldment of our moral, intellectual and
spiritual powers is never lost; but is so much gain in
the chief work of man—the perfection of the spirit.
We sometimes thinkthat when a young man or woman
has spent the springtime of life in study and research,
in attaining intellectual power and aesthetictaste, and
is then called away by death, that all is lost, I tell
thee, nay; not one effort in the way of true develop-
ment or unfoldment is ever wasted. The accountant
of Eternity puts every efiort to the credit of the Ego,
and when the final balance sheet is. struck, every efiort
will appear on the credit side of the ledger, and it
matters not whether these efiorts have, in the eyes of
men, resulted in success or failure. It is the efiort
that counts and not what men call results.
It is, indeed, hard for men to judge accurately of
successes in life. One may put forth ordinary efiorts
and achieve great success, and another may put forth
efforts equally as strong and fail in every particular,
and the short-visioned human critic elevates one to
the throne of honor, and relegates the other to the
depths of degradation. But God knows and judges
in justice. There are drunkards in the ditch, so-
called criminals in the penitentiary, and courtesans in
brothels, who are immeasurably higher in the sight of
God than the juries and judges and the white-washed
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men and women who have still about them the gauzy
cloak of respectability, and were the instruments by
which these so-called failures in life have been con-
signed to their filthy prisons. Oh, the sham and
shoddy of modern respectability. If half of the secret
corruption of so-called respectable society could be
revealed the hideous glare of the red light district
would pale into utter insignificance.
UNroLmNo '1‘!-IE Powsns or THE SoUL; this is the
theme of this study, We have already noted that the
powers of the soul are the powers of the mind, so our
work comprises the unfoldment of intellectual, moral
and spiritual strength, and aesthetictaste.
THE Soul. is a body like the physical; or perhaps
it would be better to say that the physical is built
according to the pattern of the soul. The soul senses
correspond exactly with the physical; the soul sees,
hears, smells, tastes, feels and telepaths. Through
these senses it obtains its information, and through
these senses we must approach it in our work of
unfoldment.
Tm: Garnwav or THE Soun, or the door between
the soul and thephysical body, must be opened up
before we can intelligently enter the work of soul
unfoldment. Without opening up this door the work
may go on; but when one is not conscious of what he
is doing it is indeed hard to retain an interest in his
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work, and, he is liable to give it all up in despair. I

may tell you that, separate from the body your soul
makes journeys in the Astral, night after night, but
if you cannot bring back to the plane of objective
consciousness a knowledge of such soul flights the
whole afl'air is to you a myth, and you can scarcely
be blamed when you say that I just_ imagine such
things; that there are no soul activities apart from
the body.
So our first step in soul-power unfoldment is to
give to you the key that will unlock the
Door: or THE VE1L.—We speak of the door, as
though there were but one; and still we may recognize
things by the help of either of the senses. We may
see, hear, feel, smell or taste the living ethers of astral
things, and thus find an inspiration to faith.
UNFOLDING THE SENsn:s.———Physical beings quite
readily sense perfumes that come from the plane of
the soul; and so the door of the veil may most easily
be opened by the sense of smell. It is no uncommon
thing for most persons to recognize odors that are not
products of any earthly object. As men have passed
'
over the burning sands of the desert, many miles from
any sort of vegetation, they have been regaled with

the perfumes of roses, lilies, violets, pinks and other
flowers. They have caught the peculiar odor of the
pine, the eucalyptus, the acacia, the magnolia and the
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cinnamon tree, though no such trees were within a

hundred miles of them on the earth plane.
And they have asked, from whence? and physical
science answers; no such perfumes were there; it is
all the result of imagination; but the Occult master
says, those delicious perfumes were there; they came
from the blooming flowers in the gardens of the soul
world, and from the great trees that grow on the banks
of the River of Life.
But these perfumes come to us at any place, and
we may unfold the sense of smell, so that we may
at will open up this gate of astral odors.
OPENING -rm: GATE or Sour. PEn1rUMr:s.—Go into
a room entirely free from substances that could pos-
sibly produce an odor or perfume. Take a comfort-

able position and enter the Silence, according to the
rules we have often given. Take one full breath,
followed by a searching, purifying, or cleansing breath
according to the formula given. Put in abeyance all
of the senses except that of smell, and then in mind
bring before you a particular flower, or a substance
that you know will emit a particular odor; rivet your
attention upon this imaginary object for some minutes,
and then imagine that you can smell that particular
odor, and in a large per cent of such efforts you will
be rewarded with a true materialization of the desired
odor. But don’t be discouraged; if you do not succeed
at,fi1_’st, make other efiorts and success will come.
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OPENING THE GATE or Sour. FLAvons.—Next to

the sense of smell, that of‘taste is the most sensitive.
Smell and taste are so very closely related that when
the nostrils are closed taste is not perfect.
The method given for unfolding the sense of smell
may be used in opening the Gate of Soul Flavors,
except, that all the sense avenues except that of taste
are closed, and then by‘ force of Will we bring the
Astral flavors to the taste bulbs.
OPENING THE GATE or V1s1oN.—It is thought that
men and women find more pleasure in the sense of
vision than in all the others. People are everywhere
intensely anxious to see that which is beyond the veil,
and while it is much more diflicult to see Astral scenes
than to smell Astral perfumes or taste Astral flavors,
people have put forth such great efforts to see that
clairvoyance is a nearer universal accomplishment
than either of the others. However, many of the
methods that have been employed to “develop” clair-
voyant vision have been exceedingly harmful to the
person, in many ways, often driving the experimenter
into insanity.
Sun Mn:THons.-——There are many of them; and
these we will give without describing those that are
unsafe. The first question that may with propriety
be asked is, why can some people see clairvoyantly
while others can not? A little study of Alchemic
physiology will discover the answer. The connection
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between the optic ganglia of the physical eye and

that of the soul eye has been charged with opaque
molecules, and these are mostly accumulations de-
posited by carnal desires and unholy emotions. Some-
times, however, they are inherited obstructions, and
sometimes physiologic deposits. But they are so
nearly all the results of the carnal desires of this or
preceding lives that an Occult poet was once moved
to write:
“No curtain hides from view the sphere elysian
Save these poor shells of ha1f—transparent dust;
And all that hides the spiritual vision
Is pride, and hate and lust.”
This poetic sentiment is not absolutely correct, for
if it were none but the pure in heart could see clair-
voyantly, while we all know that often villains and
licentious people see as clearly on the ‘lower planes
of the Astral as do true saints. In the light of spirit-
ual clairvoyance, however, the sentiment of the poet
is correct, for none but the pure in heart can see God
or the sacred scenes of the spiritual planes.
DEPENDENT AND INDEPENDENT VISION are possible.

By Dependent Vision we mean lucidity produced by
the help of other influences; by Independent Vision
we mean a lucidity attained by personal efforts alone.
Drugs and hypnotism are the two most_ powerful
helps in the production of Dependent Clairvoyance;
but as both are dangerous and transitory in elfect,
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they ought never to be resorted to. The only clair-

voyance that is worthy of the name is that which
may be acquired without extraneous helps, and this
only may he considered in this study of Unfolding’
the Powers of the Soul.
Tm: Mr'.'rHon.—Prepare as in opening up the gates
of ‘perfume and taste. Go into the Silence andtake
the full Breath of Life, which must be followed by
the Master’s Psychic Breath, so well described in
other courses of Instruction. Then make of thought
a “sharp two-edged sword which is able to pierce to
the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the
joints and marrow,” as Paul intimated in Heb. 4:12.
Now close the eyes tightly and look intently, and you
will see_thousands of points of light; select a single
point, and bring into service your sharp sword -of
thought, and extend the selected point of light in
every direction. These points are but small openings
in the veil that separates the photospheric light from
the atmospheric light, the physical from the astral.
Most people are surprised at the results of the first
sitting; The veil seems to open as if by enchantment,
and the whole realm of the soul spreads out like a
panorama of beauty.
OPENING THE GATE or HEARING.-—-Our atmosphere
is filled with sounds too refined for human ears to
hear. The auditory apparatus of the human head is
only able to bring the ethers up to a given rate of
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vibration, which enables one to hear certain crude

sounds, while the sweeter melodies of nature are not
heard. These sweeter sounds are astral, where the
"music of the spheres” is produced. Whatever in-
creases the rate of vibration of the sonoriferous ethers
extends the range of hearing; so if we can find a
means of doing this we have found the key to the
Gate of Soul Hearing, or clairaudience.
We know that naught increases the rate of etheric
vibration but Thought and he who can potentize his
Thought and bring it to bear in the proper manner,
has accomplished his purpose.
Mm-Hon.—Find the Silence and take the Psychic
Breath as directed in Opening the Gate of Vision.
Shut 05 all the sense avenues except that of hearing;
first listen for the tinkling of a bell in the dreamy
distance. Hold this thought until the bell really
rings; then listen for other sounds, never yielding nor
giving up the thought until you have heard the sound
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you have idealized.

In the Book of the Golden Preoepts the master
gives the steps in hearing in these words:
“Before thou settest thy foot upon the ladder’s
upper rung, the ladder of mystic sounds, thou must
bear the voice of thy inner God in seven manners:
“TI-In Fmsr is like the nightingale’s sweet voice,’
chanting a song of parting to its mate.
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“THE SECOND comes as the sound of a silver cymbal

of the Dhyanis, awakening the twinkling stars.
“THE THIRD is like the plaint melody of the ocean-
sprite imprisoned in a shell.
“THE FOURTH is a sweet melody, like the chant of
vina (an ancient musical instrument like the lute).
“THE FIFTH is like the shrill sound of a bamboo
flute, which suddenly changes into the Sixth, which
resembles the trumpet blast.
“Tim SEVENTH is like a roll of distant thunder,
which swallows all the other sounds; then sound dies
away and is heard no more forever.”
Mark, this realm of the Soundless Sound is the
plane of the spirit, where the help of senses is never
required. Here are the ethers of universal knowledge
where men know without hearing, seeing, feeling,
smelling or tasting. '
OPENING THE GATE or-' ToUcH.—This sense en-

ables one to gain information by coming in contact
with objects. The sentient nerves extend to all
parts of the body, and every one is provided with a_
receiving apparatus, so exceedingly sensitive that it is
able to recognize the slightest movements of the
ethers. In highly organized persons the breath of a
passing angel or of certain of the astral entities is
perceptibly felt. This delicate sense enables one to
gather a wonderful fund of information, that is often
ascribed to the higher sense of Intuition.
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properly unfolded, a vast range

When this sense is
of psychic knowledge may be brought under the do-
minion of the individual.
METHOD or UNFOLDMENT.—-The first steps in the
unfoldment of each sense is the same. When the
Silence has been reached, concentrate attention upon
some particular part of the body (the forehead, cheek,
lips and back of hand are super-sensitive), and then
Will that this part shall become more sensitive, con-
tinue this Willing for a few moments and then relax
every muscle of the body; just wait in an expectant
attitude, and note impressions.
A passing astral form may fan the part, or it may
breathe upon the part, and you feel as though you
were sitting in a draught of air. When you have
succeeded in feeling impressions on the selected part,
then choose another part. If you have succeeded in
putting all the other senses in abeyance for the time
being, you are pretty sure to receive impressions at
the very first sitting.
These impressions may not always be pleasurable,
for we must know that the astral world is full of
entities of all kinds, good, bad and indifierent, and
until one has become a master of Sensation, and can
put his aura in a condition of safety, so that evil
influences cannot penetrate it, he is liable to be
annoyed with ungodly raps and uncanny brushings by
unpleasant forces.
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IMPORTANCE on THE SENsE or ToUcH.—It is, in-

deed, hard to overestimate it. It is so near akin to
the higher sense of Intuition that when it is well
unfolded one seems to know almost all things without
learning them in the usual way, and this is an accom-
plishment that is within the reach of everybody.
THE HIGHER Wonx or UNFOLDING Sour. PowEns
will be considered in our next lesson. In this lesson
we have simply revealed the five keys to enable one
to open up the gates of the soul. Through these doors
everyone should be able to come into the presenceof
his own soul, where he may learn of its qualities and
attributes, and be prepared to do much in the way of
unfolding them.
I
He who can recognize his own soul in its own

domain has the key to all power in heaven and on
earth.
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LESSON VI
THE HELPFULNES8 or UNSEEN Fonczs my INDIVIDUAL

UNFOLDMENT; MAGICAL OPERATIONS
MAa1c.—Men have talked about it in all ages of the

world. It has been praised as the ne plus ultra of
Sciences; it has been cursed as the philosophy of
demons. Nothing has received more attention at the
hands of the masses, yet nothing has been so com-
pletely misunderstood.
THE MAGICIAN is the Master of Magic, and in one
age he is branded as a vile wizard; ‘in another age he
is worshipped as a god. In centuries recently gone
he has been esteemed a criminal, a culprit, and has
been persecuted because of his supposed intimacy with
devils, and “wicked spirit in the regions of the air.”
In some countries even to this day, every misfortune
that befalls men or their possessions; every evil that
comes upon village, city, state or nation, is charged
to the account of these so-called nefarious demons
scornfully called magicians.
The best men of earth have been ostracized from
society, spurned, yea, put to death because they pos-
sessed powers beyond the ordinary herd of humanity;
because they were magicians.
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THE MAGICIAN IS THE TRUE INI'.l‘IA'l‘E.——A. hundred

years ago the great mystic, Elephas Levi, referred to
Initiation and the common fate of Magical Initiates
in language worth preserving. He wrote: “Initiation
is the preservative against the false lights of mysti-
cism; it equips reason with its relative value, and
propositional infallibilityconnecting it with supreme
reason by the chain of analogies. Hence, the initiate
knows no doubtful hopes, no absurd fears, because he
has no irrational beliefs; he is acquainted with the
extent of his powers, and he can dare without danger.
For him, therefore, to dare is to be able. Here is a
new interpretation of his attributes; his lamp repre-
sents learning, the mantle which enwraps him, his
discretion, and his stafl’ is the emblem of his strength
and daring. ‘He knows, he dare: and is silent.’ He
knows the secret of the future, he dares in the present
and he is silent on the past. He knows the principles
of all symbolism and all religions; he dares to prac-
tice or abstain from them without hypocrisy and with-
out impiety; and he is silent upon the one dogma of
supreme initiation. He knows the existence and
nature of the great magical agent; he dares perform
the acts and give utterance to the words which make
it subject to human will, and is silent upon the mys-
teries of the great arcanum.
“So you will find him often melancholy, never
dejected or despairing; often poor, never abject or
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miserable; persecuted often, never disheartened or

conquered. He remembers the bereavement and mur-
der of Orpheus, the exile and lonely death of Moses,
the martyrdom of the prophets, the tortures of Apol-
lonius, the crossof Jesus. He knows the desolation
in which Agrippa died, whose memory is even now
slandered; he knows what labors overcame the great
Paracelsus, and all that Raymond Lully was con-
demned to undergo that he might finish by a violent
death. He remembers Swedenborg simulating mad-
ness and even losing reason in order to excuse his
science; St. Martins and his hidden life; Cagliostro,
who perished forsaken in the cell of the inquisition;
Cazotte, who ascended the scaffold.
“Inheritor of so many victims, he does not dare
the less, but he understands better the necessity for
silence. Let us follow his example; let us learn
diligently; when we know, let us have courage, and
let us be silent.”
Thus hath deposed one of the greatest lights of
modern times, who well knew of the powers and the
dangers of a true magician, and we must enter the
domain of magic with a knowledge of the fact that
while we may be able to comprehend something of
the true magical agent we will incur the enmity of
the ignoramuses who know nothing unless they can
taste it in their tea and coffee or smell it in their
tobacco. It is the very little man who believes that
there 3': nothing that he cannot see, and that the sum
of all knowledge rises and sets in his diminutive head.
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Maarcar. OPERATIONS all belong to the realm of

unseen forces, and he who can make use of these
forces is in very truth a magician, and in our study
of “The Helpfulness of Unseen Forces in Individual
Unfoldment,” we must enter the domain of magic. '
DEF!NI'1‘10N.—-A celebrated occult writer has given

this definition of magic: "The highest science, or
wisdom based upon knowledge and practical experi-
ence.”
Another definition of more practical value is given
by the same author in these words: “The art of magic
is the art of employing invisible or so-called spiritual
agencies to obtain certain visible results.” God, the
supreme magician, makes all things according to the
eternal law of magic.
Paul wrote: “Through faith we understand that .
the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that

things which are seen were not made of things that
do appear.” Heb. 11:3.
UNDER THE Law or MAGIC creation proceeds; all
things grow; psychical and spiritual life unfold. The
so-called natural man knows little of causes, and,
bat—like, blinded by the brilliant photospheric light,
he declares against cause and says: “There is no
God; magic is a myth.”
Hartman said: “A seed does not become a tree,
nor a child a man, by having substance added to its
organism by some outside workman, or like a house
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that is built by putting stones on the top of each
other; but living things grow by the action of an
internal force, acting from a center within the form.
To this center flow the influences coming from the
universal store house of matter and motion, and from
there they radiate again towards the periphery, and
perform that labor which builds up the living organ-
n
ISIII.
THAT UNSEEN FoncE.—We often speak of forces,

as though there were many, when in fact there is but
One, and that is one of the Attributes of Universal
Spirit. There are, however, many forms of power
that spring from the one force. There are seven
such forms of which we might speak; but the three
primary powers well cover all the work of the present
study. These are Electricity, Magnetism, Asothel.
These are all free agents, filling all space.
ELECTRICITY has been studied by our scientists;
they have gathered it from the atmosphere in immense
quantities; they have harnessed it, made it carry our
messages, light our streets and homes and turn our
machinery. Men would scarcely know how to exist
today if the current knowledge of Electricity should
be at once lost. But we have learned only a little
about this wonderful agent. Electrical science is yet
in its infancy. In fifty years from now the knowledge
that men will possess of it will enable it to be used
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in every department of business activity, and the
end will not be yet.
l\IAGNE'r1sM is a much finer form of power, of which
men know but little. We know that it is the power
that swings men and women upon the popular tide,
that makes the orator irresistible, that inspires leader-
ship, that makes the healing of disease a possibility.
But it is too fine to be readily seized by the best
machines that man has yet invented; so he has not
been able to harness it up as he has Electricity. In
this field we have wonderful opportunities for experi-
mentation and invention.
AZOTHEL is the name given to a power immeasur-
ably finer and more powerful than either Electricity
or Magnetism. In Bulwer-Lytton’s wonderful book,
“The Coming Race,” this power is called
VRIL, and the prophetic author was able to look
along the vista of coming years and see this marvelous
force harnessed up as we now harness Electricity,
only by means of machinery simple in form and inex-
pensive. This power is now unconsciously used by
Tesla, Marconi, Edison and others in their wireless
telegraphy, telephone and other modern inventions in
transmission of scenes, pictures, thoughts and dynamic’
energy.
This universal Azothel is the mighty agent that
will revolutionize all the alfairs of men, and many
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who hear me now will live to see the display of its
marvels.
THE OPEnA'rons.—Power itself is not intelligent;
it is simply dynamic energy, and must be operated by
intelligence. These three powers of which we are
now speaking, have their intelligent operators every-
where in space. We speak of them as living Spirits
—the Spirits of Electricity, of Magnetism, of Azothel;
and this is well. It is only through these legions of
little operators that men can come in touch with these
powers. Physical science, that knows but little of
the resources of thought, has sought to capture these
Spirits by mechanical appliances, and harness them
up with physical straps and iron gearings, and it has
succeeded admirably; but the coming race will repudi-
ate all such appliances, and because of the superior
spiritual intelligence of the people they will call
directly to their aid these unseen powers, and they
will be able to speak and it will be done, to command
and it will stand fast.
Some or NA'rUnE’s MANIFEST Opmuvrons may be
mentioned. Birds and fishes have always made use
of these powers without any appliances, except their
own bodies. Birds will dart through the air and fish
through the water great distances without moving a
feather or a fin, and scientists have been content to
say, “They do so according to natural law”; but they
have no means of explaining that natural law. The
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next generation of scientists, who will know more of
the laws of Celestial Dynamics, will tell us how birds
fly and fishes swim.
HUMAN DvNAM1cs.—These must be considered in
answering the question of the hour: How to use
unseen powers in individual unfoldment.
The human body is a universal dynamo. It is

organized in such a way that it may appropriate every
power in the universe. It is a natural steam engine
forever running, and the steam is generated by the
fires of life. Every human being is a fire-eater; he
breathes in the oxygen, which in the system is burned
up to produce the heat of the body, and keep the
dynamo nmning, so that it can make use of the'Elec-
tric, Magnetic and Azothic ethers, or powers.
THE GREAT BREATH contains every power; Will
is the discriminator and when man puts himself in a
receptive attitude, he can command and the desired
power will come, which will be appropriated by his
powerful dynamo, and the work is done.
ME'rHons.—How to attract the specific powers.
This is the culminating problem of our present study.
Bearing in mind these postulates:
1. All the powers exist free and untrammeled in e
the air we breathe.

2. All the powers are subject to the will of man.‘
We are ready to proceed with the magical operation.
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_- CLEANSING THE DYNAMO.-—N0 machine can do good

work until it is thoroughly cleansed, and the human
dynamo is exception. Oxygen and its soul mate
no
are the scavengers of body and soul, and when these

are properly inhaled and exhaled, all worn out sub-
stances and resistance molecules will he removed, and
the dynamo will be in condition to do good work.
How.-—-That which we concentrate our thought
upon in a commanding manner, while we breathe, will
materialize. We then place ourselves in a comfort-
able position, and with the thought of cleansing upper-
most in mind, we inhale, through the nostrils, of
course, filling the lungs, yea, every part of the body,
with pure air; then, with the thought of cleansing still
in mind, we exhale, throwing the air out through the
mouth, forcibly, in a series of pufis, like the effort
made in blowing out a candle light. '
This process must be backed by faith, or a feeling

of certainty that the system will be cleansed. A
sacred writer omits referring to the breathing but
refers to the fact that the heart must be purified by
faith. In Hartman’s translation of the works of
Paracelsus we find this clear-cut statement:
"A S-mono FAITH AND IMAGINATION are the two
-pillars supporting the door tothe temple of magic,
without which nothing can be accomplished. Imagin-
ation is.tl|e creative power of man, and it may act
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instinctively and without any conscious efiort of the

will.
‘Man has a visible and an invisible workshop.
“
The visible one is his body, the invisible one his mind.
The sun gives light, and this light is not tangible, but
its heat may be felt, and if its rays are concentrated
it may set a house on fire. The Imagination is a Sun
in the soul of man, acting in its own sphere as the
Sun of the Earth acts in that of the latter. Whenever
the latter shines, germs planted in the soil grow and
vegetation springs up, and the Sun of the soul acts
in a similar manner and calls the forms of the soul
into existence.
‘Visible and tangible forms grow into existence
“
from invisible elements by the power of the sunshine.

Invisible vapors are attracted and collected into visible
mists by the power of the Sun of the outer World, and
the inner Sun of man works similar wonders.
‘The great world is only a product of the imagina-
“
tion of the Universal Mind, and man is a little world

of his own, that imagines, and creates by the power
of imagination.
‘If man's imagination is strong enough to pene-
“
trate into every corner of his interior world, it will-

be able to create things in those corners, and whatever
man thinks, takes form in his soul.’
”
This great man who knew man well, has thus given
us much light on the powers of man, and following in
the wake of his thoughts we are doubly impressed
with the fact that man can, by the power of will,
faith, and imagination, bring unto himself all the pow-
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ers of the Universe; hence the Spirits of Electricity,

Magnetism and Azothel will come to him who Wills.
ENTERING THE ALCHEMIC LABonA'ronY.—Having
purified the heart by Faith, and with a vivid Imagina-
tion, one is ready to enter the workshop of mind as
creator or unfolder.
First, concentrate Thought upon the Electric Ether,
which is everywhere abundant. Mark, this is the
ether that will eifect the brain; it is the intellectual
ether, itis cool and invigorating. Desire and expect
this ether to pour into your receptive brain with
power. Take a deep full breath and hold it for a
long time; then exhale slowly. In mystic lore seven
is the number of the Electric Ether, and one may
take seven such Breaths; but care must be exercised,
and if dizziness supervenes, the exercise must cease.
This Breath may be taken at any time; but the best
time is at the rising of the Sun, and one should face
the east. Practice on this breath until you feel a
true intellectual glow.
THE MAGNETIC Bnm'rH.—This is taken very much
the same as the Electric Breath, only the thought is
centered upon the Love—side of life. The heart will
be mostly afiected. One must simply reach out for
Magnetic power. Mark, the results of this Breath
are warm, not cool. Five is the number of the Mag-
netic Breath, and ordinarily five breaths may be taken
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at one sitting. It is best taken at sunset or the full
of the Moon.
Tun Azon-uc, on Smnrwar. BREATH is the most
powerful of the Breaths that man can with safety
take. It is to be taken like the Magnetic Breath,
only the thought is concentrated upon one's_ highest
ideal of Spiritual power. Reach up for that wisdom '
that comes only from above, and he who can close up

all the avenues of the senses will see God face to face.
Three is the number of the AzothicBreath, and never
more than three such Breaths should be taken at one
sitting.’ It has the most power when taken at noon
or midnight.
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LESSON VII
Ti-II: How SrnuT—Tmc Hour Gnosr or Momcnn

THl:oLoaY‘—As A MYTH AND A REALITY; ITs
IDENTITY '1‘!-IE Tam: Sncunr or Jmsus; ITs
Rmcnrrxox. Com-Lnrns SPm1'ruAI.
UNFOLDMENT
Tm: Hour Srmrr! One of the most sacred appel-

lations in the English language, yet one so little
understood. Theologians of all the centuries of this
era have quarreled about it, have fought about it and
have made it the cause of many divisions in the
Church, and even at the present day the great ecclesi-
astical lights seem to be at sea with reference to its
identity and its ofiices.
As the reception of the Holy Spirit by man is the
culminating step in his complete unfoldment, its con-
sideration is certainly in place in this concluding
lecture on Self Culture.
Dn:nN1T1oN.-——The word Holy "is derived from an
old Anglo-Saxon word, “hal,” from which came the
English word “hale," from which we get our word
“heal.” The word really means whole or entire.
Arbitrarily it has been made to mean “a complete
setting apart for sacred or divine purposes." The
word Spirit comes from the same word from which
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we get our word spire and spiral, which have refer-

ence to form and motion, indicating that which moves
in spirals. The word having direct reference to air
would seem to mean, “the movement of the air in
spirals.”
The word spirit is Latin and means the air, or the
breath, corresponding with the Greek word, “pneuma,"
which in the authorizedversion of the New Testament
isusually translated spirit.
According to the meaning of words we would, then,
define the Holy Spirit as the “Breath of God moving
in spirals.”
Gnosrs.-—This word is derived from the Anglo-
Saxon word “gost,” which means “a breath, a specter,
something very thin, transparent, etheriaI.” In time
it came to mean “a spirit.” The current use of the
word differs much from the ancient use of it. Now
it means a spook, an apparition, something ghostly,
terrifying. It is certainly unfortunate that our learned
ecclesiastics still use it as an appellation for the most
lovable of all the beings in the Universe.
MODERN Onrnonoxv is not monotheism. It is a
system of polytheisticphilosophy from beginning to
end. Every recognized theologian pours forth his
supplications to three God.9—-God the Father, God
the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, and still he resents
with vigor the accusation that he believes in more than
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one God. He attempts to harmonize his polytheistic

monotheism by saying: These three are one; and
this gives him an opportunity to preach a lot of ser-
mons on the Unity of the Trinity to the utter disgust
of thinkers and the applause of the faithful.
THE Pi-iinosopi-nr or Oar:-xonoxv is sound, we can
take no exception to its monotheism nor its poly-
theism. It is right in assuming on one day that
there are three Gods, and on the next that there is
one God. We only take exceptions to its illogical and
irrational attempts to prove that they say the same
thing both days, and that three are one. A parallel
case is found in an attempt to prove that a father, a
mother and a child are one; but the absurdity requires
no comment.
Tm: Wonn Gon means only good; but it has so
long been used to denote the Infinite One that it
would be worse than folly to try to restrict it to the
original idea underlying the word, and so we fre-
quently make use of it in the place of the word Aum,
the universal spirit. In this sense God is one, and
monotheism is true. In one, however, there is not,
and never was, and never can be, any creation, for
unity is inert.
In the Unity-God there were forever the two prin-
ciplesof generation, the masculine and the feminine,
and when the Universal Spirit would manifest, the
one became two; and the masculine Jehovah, and the
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feminine El Shaddi stood forth as the first manifests

with all the creative potencies that were concealed
from all eternity, in the one-—-the Aum; and so from
the beginning of creation polytheism was true.
Jnnovan is the Almighty God, the God of force;
El Shaddi is the omniscient God, the God of Intelli-
gence, or Wisdom; so Force is masculine; Intelligence
is feminine. In the activities of the masculine and
the feminine, Jehovah and El Shaddi, the Logos came
forth as the only begotten Son, the Love, and Jehovah
became “our Father who art in heaven," and El
Shaddi became “our Mother who art in heaven," and
the Logos, the eternal Christ, "our Elder Brother,”
and the universe recognized the trinity, God the
Father, God the Mother, and God the Son.
THE HOLY Spun-r .of Orthodoxy is the El Shaddi
of the Hebrew theogony; is the Wisdom or Intelli-
gence of the one God; is feminine, and is the Second
person in the trinity and not the third.
THE Homr Sr-mu‘, the Holy Breath, the feminine
principle of the God-Head_; how may she be received,
and what are the advantages of such reception is the
subject of this study.
The word Wisdom comprises the essential qualities
of the Holy Spirit.
Among -the wisest things that Solomon ever said
was:
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"My Son, get Wiadom, get understanding; forsake

her not and she will preserve thee; love her and she
will keep thee. Wisdom is the principal thing; there-
fore, get Wisdom; exalt her and she will promote
thee; and will bring thee to honor, when thou dost
embrace her. She will give to thy head an ornament
of grace; a crown of glory will she deliver to thee."
Prov. 4:.
Note that Solomon always refers to Wisdom as the
feminine.
In Prov. 3rd Chapter, Solomon breaks forth in a
sublime eulogy upon Wisdom; and this eulogy is
'
worth committing to memory. He says:

“Happy is the man who findeth Wisdom; for the
merchandise of her is better than the merchandise of
silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is
more precious than rubies; and all the things thou
canst desire are not to be compared unto her. Length
of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand
riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasant-
ness and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of
life to those who lay hold upon her, and happy is
every one who retaineth her."
When you come to recognize the fact that nearly
the entire Book of Proverbs is a descriptive com-
mentary upon the Holy Spirit you will probably read
it with greater interest.
James,_ the Christian Apostle, refers to this same
Holy Spirit when he writes: “The Wisdom that is
from above is first pure, then peaccable, gentle, easy
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to be entreated, full of mercy andgood fruits, without

partiality and without hypocrisy." James 3:17.
The Holy Spirit is taken from the domain of in-
comprehensible things and the realm of uncertain and
uncanny mysticism when we realize that she is Wic-
dom, pure and simple.
With this idea in mind, the parting words of Jesus
to his disciples are recovered from murkiness. He
said: “I have yet many things to say unto you, but
ye cannot hear them now. Howbeit when she, the
Spirit of Truth is come, she will guide you into all
truth.” John 16:12, 13.
Tina is Now SAcnu.a:axoUs.—In this rational study
of the Holy Spirit we do not degrade this second
person of the Sacred Trinity; but we exalt Wisdom,
something that no earth-lexicographer has yet been
able to define.
WISDOM [8 Nor KNOWLEDGE; it is‘ the Great Spirit
that leads the way to knowledge, a thought so well
expressed by Jesus.
Wisdom is a Universal ether, one of the three
Attributes of the Eternal One, and it is this ether
that we receive by inspiration. This Holy Breath, or
Holy Spirit is that to which Paul referred when he
said, “All Scripture is given because of the in-
breathing, or taking in of God”; and this gives us a
hint as to the manner in which we must receive the
Holy Spirit. ‘Jesus made prominent the idea that
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the Holy Spirit was received by breathing; for after
his resurrection it is said of him that he breathed upon
his disciples and said, “Receive ye the Holy Spirit."
John 20:22.
Rncmvmo THE Honv Srnu'r.—We have had many
lessons upon the true Science of the Great Breath,
and we are familiar with almost numberless forms of
breathing; we have learned how we may insure health
by appropriate breathing; how we may become clair-
voyant and clairaudient by taking in, in certain ways,
the Great Breath; and we know of the advantages
of these Breaths in psychic and the lower trend of
Spiritual unfoldment, but we now come to a place
where methods seem like idle talk.
Orientalists have told us of a Breath that is too
high to be taken by carnal beings with safety, and we
know that there is such a Breath, and that it opens
up the door to the very presence-chamber of God, and
still it pales into insignificance when we come to stand
in the presence of the Spirit. This is the plane of the
Breathless Breath, the Voiceless Voice, the Soundless
Sound; a place that cannot be entered until one has,
by ages of efiort in self control and self purification,
brought himself in rapport with the Great Over Soul.
Here one breathes, but it is unconscious breathing;
one hears, but it is unconscious hearing; one sees, but
it is unconscious seeing; one feels, but it is unconscious
feelings; one knows, but it is unconscious knowing,
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for he has “come unto the Mount Sion, and unto the
city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to
an innumerable company of angels, to the general
assembly, and church of the first born, which are
written in heaven, and to. God, the Judge of all, and
to the spirits of just men made perfect.” Here he
is wholly absorbed by the ethers of Divine Wisdom;
fully baptized in the Spirit.
Tm: SPIRITUAL MIND, or that which is recognized
in Hindu Philosophy as the Sixth Principle of man,
is here unfolded. You cannot breathe it in; it is
Trammutation; it is the man himself spiritualized.
Paul referred to this transmutation when he wrote
to the Corinthians, "Behold, I show you a mystery;
we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed;
this corruptible must put on incorruption.”
This is the plane of spiritual consciousness; itris
attained by a godly life. A Hindu teacher once said,
“As a man’s spiritual consciousness begins to unfold,
he begins to have an abiding sense of the reality of
the existence of the Supreme Power, and, growing
along with it, he finds the sense of Human Brother-
hood—of human re1ationship—gradually coming into
consciousness. He does not get these things from
his Instinctive mind, nor does his Intellect make him
feel them." The Spiritual Mind is the source of the
inspiration which certain Poets, Painters, Sculptors,
Writers, Preachers, Orators and others have received
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in all times, and which they receive today. This is

the source from which the seer (spiritual) obtains his
visions; the prophet his foresight. Many have con-
centrated themselves upon high ideals in their work,
and have received rare knowledge from this source,
and have attributed it to beings of another world—
from angels, spirits and from God himself, when all
came from within; it was the voice of their higher self
speaking to them.
“When man learns of the existence of his Spiritual
Mind, and begins to recognize its promptings and
leadings, he strengthens his bond of communication
with it, and consequently receives light
of a greater
brilliancy. VVhen we learn to trust the Spirit, it
responds by sending us more frequent flashes of illu-
mination and enlightenment. As one unfolds in spirit-
ual consciousness he relies more on this Inner voice,
and is ableto distinguish it from impulses from the
lower planes of the mind. Many of us have learned
to know the reality of being "led by the Spirit.”
Pnoors or SPIRITUAL CoNsc1oUsNEss are called for
by the disciples every day. How may one‘ recognize
the promptings of the Spirit? An Occult teacher of
considerable power has said something that will help
to answer this question. He said:
“With many, spiritual mind unfolds gradually and
slowly, and while one may feel a steady increase of
spiritual knowledge and consciousness, he may not
have experienced any marked or startling change.
Others have had moments of what is known as ‘Illumi-
Zimhzaf :3’,
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nation,’ when they seem lifted almost out of their

normal state, and where they seem to pass into a
higher plane of consciousness or being, which left
them more advanced than before, although they could
not carry back into consciousness a clear recollection
of what they had experienced, while in that exalted
state of mind. These experiences have come to many
persons in diiferent forms and degrees under all forms
of religious beliefs. * * * *
"These experiences vary according to the degree of
unfoldment and previous training; but certain char-
acteristics are common to all. The most common
feeling is that of possessing almost complete knowl-
edge of all things—almost Omniscience. This feel-
ing exists only for a moment, and leaves one at first in
an agony of regret over what he has seen and lost.
“Another feeling commonly experienced is that of
a certainty of immortality-—a sense of actual being,
and the certainty of having always been, and of being
destined to always be.
“Another feeling is the total slipping away of all
fear, and the acquirement of a feeling of certainty,
trust and confidence, which is beyond the comprehen-
sion of those who have never experienced it.
“Then a feeling of love sweeps over one-—a love
which takes in all life, from those near to one in the
flesh to those at the farthest parts of the Universe;
from those whom we hold as pure and holy, to those
Ivhom the world regards as vile and utterly unworthy.
All feelings of self-righteousness and condemnation
seem to slip away, and one's love, like the light of the
Sun, falls upon all alike, irrespective of their degree
of development or goodness.”
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Tun: RArron'r.—Such experience is what is with

propriety called the Rapport. In its fullness it may
not come toperson
a than
more once in a lifetime,
but when it does come it leaves an impression that
cannot be forgotten. We always remember that time
with unbounded joy. One of the early Christian
fathers referred to such an experience as a glimpse
of heaven; he said, “In all of my life I have experi-
enced it once; a brother minister has experienced it
twice, but the bishop has never been blessed even
once with it." An Occult historian says:
“From the writings of the ancient philosophers of
all races, from the songs of the great poets of all
peoples, from the preachings of the prophets of all
religions and times we can gather traces of this
Illumination which has come to them—this unfold-
ment of the Spiritual Consciousness. One has told
of it in one way, the other in another way; but all
tell practically the same story. It is the song of the
soul, which when once heard is never forgotten.
Though it be sounded by the crude instruments of the
semi-barbarous races, or the finished instrument of
the talented musician of today, its strains are plainly
recognized. From old Egypt comes the song; from
India in all ages; from ancient Greece and Rome;
from the early Christian Saint; from the Quaker
Friend; from the Catholic monasteries; from Moham-
medan mosque; from the Chinese philosopher; from
the legends of Hiawatha, the American Indian hero-
prophet—it is always the same strain, and it is swell-
ing louder and louder, as many more are taking it up
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and adding their voices or the sound of their instru-
ments to the grand chorus."
Our own Walt Whitman must have had snatches of
this ecstasy, for once he said:
"As in a swoon, one instant,
Another sun, inefiable, full dazzles me,
And all the orbs I knew, and ‘brighter, unknown
orbs
instant
’
One of the future land, Heaven's land."

And then the great soul comes -to himself and
exclaims:
“I cannot be awake, for nothing looks -to me as it
did before;
Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before
has been a mean sleep."
Of the ecstasy of one moment of divine Illumina-
tion tongue cannot ‘tell. Even the versatile Whitman
was forced to say:
“When I try to tell the best I find, -I cannot;

My tongue is ineifectual on its pivot;
My breath will not be obedient to its organs;
I become a dumb man!"
ILLUMINATION! Inexplicable word! The goal is
high, but not too high for "human possibilities; but it
cannot be reached by any of the clumsily made
machines of man. You cannot attain it by forms
and ceremonies, by ablutions and sacrifices; it is the
culmination of nothing but A Holy Life. '
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COMPLETE COURSE IN

Opening of the Golden Gate Unto

Healing by the Supefine Forces

SHORT SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR

The true Illuminate who has so gladly prepared

his Father’s sheep” and in preparation for the

(,3 Physiology and Histology and lecturer on Electricity

There’s an ocean that men cannot fathom nor measure;

Of fathomless beauty—the ocean of Light.

1. MEANING op THE WonD.—-Biopneuma is derived

Force), which is bi-sexual; 2. Intelligence, masculine;

raised to certain potency becomes Heat, which is

Intelligence; that Heat raised to a higher power he-

until it is manifested as light. So the world knew not

fully appropriated this force and maintained perfect

here made, was so terrible that it shook the earth to

course a corresponding decline in health occurred, and

ation of the body and mind. This regenerative work

enough to get into a so—called church, which they could

day of Pentecost, Peter repeats his statement. Note

chosen evangel. While Peter was in the Silence on

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The world is still slow in grasping the idea of the

12. THE Anmma PLACE.-—Men and women are the

forgiveness, which includes carting out of the body

nal elements; but no laboratory ever yet contained a

up his abode in prepared Temples. Through the

17. Pnopan BnEA'rH1NG.—We hear much about the

the physical body, especially among women, by tight

In the lungs pure air has a marvelous work to do.

it in. The molecules of air are too coarse to be ap-

olar, sun, plexus, network,—a network of

and it is fed directly by the nerves communicating

THE HEALER HIMSELF

23. DIGNITY or THE PRorEss1oN.—There is no

however, that they who receive this gift suddenly,

what, by nature, they are best fitted. He who is thor-

of the female sexual organs as suspending clothing‘

31. REGULARITY IN EA'r1No.—Regularity in taking

are necessary; but special hours should be held sacred

35. NORMAL Tasrrcs AND AppE'rrrr:s.—The so-

or even of a High School, to become an efiicient Heal-

of diseased conditions, and effects of poisons is not

89. CLAss1r1cA'r1oN.—Many systems of healing

2. Proper Willing, so that all unholy emotions

Healer restores the equilibrium, and health returns.

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The truly successful Healer is the one who is fa-

44. THE HEALEa’s HEAL'rH.—A sick man is a poor

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repel positive,and vice versa. This is the law by

people have ever discovered it, and only a few who

factory prepared stuffs are of no greater nutritive

dyspepsia and constipation caused by the restricted

magnetic force, up to the highest degree of perfection.

body; the magnetic force is soon lessened. When the

11. Practice concentration of magnetic force up-

51. IMPORTANCE.-—-N0 matter what spiritual gift

invisible; and that Father of thine, who sees in secret,

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