LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. PART ELEVEN.
Your life is governed by law, by actual, immutable
principles that never very. Law is in operation at
all times; in all places.
Fixed laws underlie all human actions. For this
reason, men who control giant industries are enabled
to determine with absolute precision just what per-
centage of every hundred thousand people will re-
spond to any given set of conditions.
It is well, however, to remember that while every
effect is the result of a cause, the effect in turn be-
comes a cause, which creates other effects, which in
turn create still other causes; so that when you put
the law of attraction into operation you must remem-
ber that you are starting a train of causation for
good or otherwise which may have endless possi-
bilities.
We frequently hear it said, "A very distressing
situation came into my life, which could not have
been the result of my thought, as I certainly never
entertained any though which could have such a
result." We fail to remember that like attracts like
in the mental world, and that the thought which we
entertain brings to us certain friendships, compan-
ionships of a particular kind, and these in turn
bring about conditions and environment, which in
turn are responsible for the conditions of which we
complain.
PART ELEVEN.
1. Inductive reasoning is the process of
the objective mind by which we compare a
number of separate instances with one an-
other until we see the common factor that
gives rise to them all.
2. Induction proceeds by comparison of
facts; it is this method of studying nature
which has resulted in the discovery of a
reign of law which has marked an epoch
in human progress.
3. It is the dividing line between super-
stition and intelligence; it has eliminated
the elements of uncertainty and caprice
from men's lives and substituted law, rea-
son and certitude.
4. It is the "Watchman at the Gate"
mentioned in a former lesson.
5. When, by virtue of this principle,
the world to which the senses were accus-
tomed, had been revolutionized; when the
sun had been arrested in his course, the
apparently flat earth had been shaped into
a ball and set whirling around him; when
the inert matter had been resolved into
active elements, and the universe presented
itself wherever we directed the telescope
and microscope, full of force, motion and
life; we are constrained to ask by what
possible means the delicate forms of or-
ganization in the midst of it are kept in
order and repair.
6. Like poles and like forces repel
themselves or remain impenetrable to each
other, and this cause seems in general suf-
fcient to assign a proper place and dis-
tance to stars, men and forces. As men of
different virtues enter into partnership, so
do opposite poles attract each other, ele-
ments that have no property in common
like acids and gases cling to each other in
preference and a general exchange is kept
up between the surplus and the demand.
7. As the eye seeks and receives satis-
faction from colors complementary to those
which are given, so does need, want and
desire, in the largest sense, induce, guide
and determine action.
8. It is our privilege to become con-
scious of the principle and act in accord-
ance with it. Cuvier sees a tooth belong-
ing to an extinct race of animals. This
tooth wants a body for the performance
of its function, and it defines the peculiar
body it stands in need of with such pre-
cision that Cuvier is able to reconstruct
the frame of this animal.
9. Perturbations are observed in the
motions of Uranus. Leverrier needs an
other star at a certain place to keep the
solar system in order, and Neptune ap-
pears in the place and hour appointed.
10. The instinctive wants of the animal
and the intellectual wants of Cuvier, the
wants of nature and the mind of Lever-
rier were alike, and thus the results; here
the thoughts of an existence, there an ex-
istence. A well-defined lawful want, there-
fore, furnishes the reason for the more
complex operations of nature.
11. Having recorded correctly the
answers furnished by nature and stretched
our senses with the growing science over
her surface; having joined hands with the
levers that move the earth; we become con-
scious of such a close, varied and deep con-
tact with the world without, that our wants
and purposes become no less identified with
the harmonious operations of this vast or-
ganization, than the life, liberty and happi-
ness of the citizen is identified with the
existence of his government.
12. As the interests of the individual
are protected by the arms of the country,
added to his own; and his needs may de-
pend upon certain supply in the degree
that they are felt more universally and
steadily; in the same manner does con-
scious citizenship in the Republic of nature
secure us from the annoyances of subordi-
nate agents by alliance with superior pow-
ers; and by appeal to the fundamental laws
of resistance or inducement offered to me-
chanical or chemical agents, distribute the
labor to be performed between them and
man to the best advantage of the inventor.
13. If Plato could have witnessed the
pictures executed by the sun with the as-
sistance of the photographer, or a hundred
similar illustrations of what man does by
induction, he would perhaps have been re-
minded of the intellectual midwifery of his
master and, in his own mind might have
arisen the vision of a land where all man-
ual, mechanical labor and repetition is as-
signed to the power of nature, where our
wants are satisfied by purely mental opera-
tions set in motion by the will, and where
the supply is created by the demand.
14. However distant that land may ap-
pear, induction has taught men to make
strides toward it and has surrounded him
with benefits which are, at the same time,
rewards for past fidelity and incentives for
more assiduous devotion.
15. It is also an aid in concentrating
and strengthening our faculties for the re-
maining part, giving unerring solution for
individual as well as universal problems,
by the mere operations of mind in the pur-
est form.
16. Here we find a method, the spirit of
which is, to believe that what is sought has
been accomplished, in order to accomplish
it: a method, bequeathed upon us by the
same Plato who, outside of this sphere,
could never find how the ideas became real-
ities.
17. This conception is also elaborated
by Swedenborg in his doctrine of corre-
spondences; and a still greater teacher has
said, "What things soever ye desire, when
ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and
ye shall have them." (Mark XI, 24 R.V.)
The difference of the tenses in this passage
is remarkable.
18. We are first to believe that our de-
sire has already been fulfilled, its accom-
plishment will then follow. This is a con-
cise direction for making use of the cre-
ative power of thought by impressing on
the Universal subjective mind, the particu-
lar thing which we desire as an already ex-
isting fact.
19. We are thus thinking on the plane
of the absolute and eliminating all consid-
eration of conditions or limitation and are
planting a seed which, if left undisturbed,
will finally germinate into external fru-
ition.
20. To review: Inductive reasoning is
the process of the objective mind, by which
we compare a number of separate instances
with one another until we see the common
factor that gives rise to them all. We see
people in every civilized country on the
globe, securing results by some process
which they do not seem to understand
themselves, and to which they usually at-
tach more or less mystery. Our reason is
given to us for the purpose of ascertaining
the law by which these results are accom-
plished.
21. The operation of this thought proc-
ess is seen in those fortunate natures
that possess everything that others must
acquire by toil, who never have a struggle
with conscience because they always act
correctly, and can never comport them-
selves otherwise than with tact, learn
everything easily, complete everything they
begin with a happy knack, live in eternal
harmony with themselves, without ever
reflecting much what they do, or ever ex-
periencing difficulty or toil.
22. The fruit of this thought is, as it
were, a gift of the gods, but a gift which
few as yet realize, appreciate, or under-
stand. The recognition of the marvelous
power which is possessed by the mind un-
der proper conditions and the fact that this
power can be utilized, directed, and made
available for the solution of every human
problem is of transcendental importance.
23. All truth is the same, whether stated
in modern scientific terms or in the lan-
guage of apostolic times. There are timid
souls who fail to realize that the very com-
pleteness of truth requires various state-
ment--that no one human formula will
show every side of it.
24. Changing, emphasis, new language,
novel interpretations, unfamiliar perspec-
tives, are not, as some suppose, signs of
departure from truth but on the contrary,
they are evidence that the truth is being
apprehended in new relations to human
needs, and is becoming more generally un-
derstood.
25. The truth must be told to each gen-
eration and to every people in new and dif-
ferent terms, so that when the Great Teach-
er said--"Believe that ye receive and ye
shall receive" or, when Paul said--"Faith
is the substance of things hoped for, the
evidence of things not seen" or, when mod-
ern science says--"The law of attraction is
that law by which thought correlates with
its object," each statement when subjected
to analysis, is found to contain exactly the
same truth. The only difference being in
the form of presentation.
26. We are standing on the threshold
of a new era. The time has arrived when
man has learned the secrets of mastery and
the way is being prepared for a new social
order, more wonderful than anything ever
heretofore dreamed of. The conflict of
modern science with theology, the study of
comparative religions, the tremendous
power of new social movements, all of these
are but clearing the way for the new order.
They may have destroyed traditional forms
which have become antiquated and impo-
tent, but nothing of value has been lost.
27. A new faith has been born, a faith
which demands a new form of expression,
and this faith is taking form in a deep con-
sciousness of power which is being mani-
fested, in the present spiritual activity
found on every hand.
28. The spirit which sleeps in the min-
eral, breathes in the vegetable, moves in
the animal and reaches its highest develop-
ment in man is the Universal Mind, and it
behooves us to span the gulf between being
and doing, theory and practice by demon-
strating our understanding of the dominion
which we have been given.
29. By far the greatest discovery of all
the centuries is the power of thought. The
importance of this discovery has been a
little slow in reaching the general con-
sciousness, but it has arrived, and already
in every field of research the importance
of this greatest of all great discoveries is
being demonstrated.
30. You ask in what does the creative
power of thought consist? It consists in
creating ideas, and these in turn objectify
themselves by appropriating, inventing,
observing, discerning, discovering, analyz-
ing, ruling, governing, combining and ap-
plying matter and force. It can do this be-
cause it is an intelligent creative power.
31. Thought reaches its loftiest activity
when plunged into its own mysterious
depth; when it breaks through the narrow
compass of self and passes from truth to
truth to the region of eternal light, where
all which is, was or ever will be, melt into
one grand harmony.
32. From this process of self contem-
plation comes inspiration which is creative
intelligence, and which is undeniably supe-
rior to every element, force or law of na-
ture, because it can understand, modify,
govern and apply them to its own ends and
purposes and therefore possess them.
33. Wisdom begins with the dawn of
reason, and reason is but an understanding
of the knowledge and principles whereby
we may know the true meaning of things.
Wisdom, then, is illuminated reason, and
this wisdom leads to humility, for humility
is a large part of Wisdom.
34. We all know many who have
achieved the seemingly impossible, who
have realized life-long dreams, who have
changed everything including themselves.
We have sometimes marveled at the dem-
onstrations of an apparently irresistible
power, which seemed to be ever available
just when it was most needed, but it is all
clear now. All that is required is an un-
derstanding of certain definite fundamental
principles and their proper application.
35. For your exercise this week, con-
centrate on the quotation taken from the
Bible, "Whatsoever things ye desire, when
ye pray, believe that ye receive them and ye
shall have them," notice that there is no
limitation, "Whatsoever things" is very
definite and implies that the only limita-
tion which is placed upon us is in our abil-
ity to think, to be equal to the occasion, to
rise to the emergency, to remember that
Faith is not a shadow, but a substance,
"the substance of things hoped for, the
evidence of things not seen."
Death is but the natural process
whereby all material forms are thrown
into the crucible for reproduction in
fresh diversity.
PART ELEVEN.
101. What is inductive reasoning?
It is the process of the objective
mind by which we compare a number
of separate instances with each other
until we see the common factor which
gives rise to them all.
102. What has this method of studying
accomplished?
It has resulted in the discovery of a
reign of law which has marked an
epoch in human progress.
103. What is it that guides and deter-
mines action?
It is need, want and desire which in
the largest sense induce, guide and
determine action.
104. What is the formula for the unerring
solution of every individual prob-
lem?
We are to believe that our desire has
already been fulfilled; its accomplish-
ment will then follow.
105. What great Teachers advocated it?
Jesus, Plato, Swedenborg.
106. What is the result of the operation
of this though process?
We are thinking on the plane of the
absolute and planting a seed, which
if left undisturbed will germinate
into fruition.
107. Why is it scientifically exact?
Because it is Natural Law.
108. What is Faith?
"Faith is the substance of things
hoped for, the evidence of things un-
seen."
109. What is the Law of Attraction?
The Law by which Faith is brought
into manifestation.
110. What importance do you attach to
an understanding of this law?
It has eliminated the elements of un-
certainty and caprice from men's
lives and substituted law, reason and
certitude.