LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL.
PART THIRTEEN.
Physical science is responsible for the marvelous
age of invention in which we are now living, but
spiritual science is now setting out on a career whose
possibilities no one can fortell.
Spiritual science has heretofore been the foot-
ball of the uneducated, the superstitious, the
mystical, but men are now interested in definite
methods and demonstrated facts only.
We have come to know that thinking is a spirit-
ual process, that vision and imagination precede ac-
tion and event, that the day of the dreamer has
come. The following lines by Mr. Herbert Kaufman
are interesting in this connection.
"They are the architects of greatness, their vision
lies within their souls, they peer beyond the veils
and mists of doubt and pierce the walls of unborn
Time. The belted wheel, the trail of steel, the churn-
ing screw, are shuttles in the loom on which they
weave their magic tapestries. Makers of Empire,
they have fought for bigger things than crowns and
higher seats than thrones. Your homes are set upon
the land a dreamer found. The pictures on its
walls are visions from a dreamer's soul.
"They are the chosen few--the blazers of the
way. Walls crumble and Empires fall, the tidal
wave sweeps from the sea and tears a fortress from
its rocks. The rotting nations drop from off Time's
bough, and only things the dreamers make live on."
Part Thirteen which is enclosed herewith tells
why the dreams of the dreamer come true. It ex-
plains the law of causation by which dreamers, in-
ventors, authors, financiers, bring about the reali-
zation of their desires. It explains the law by which
the thing pictured upon our mind eventually be-
comes our own.
PART THIRTEEN.
1. It has been the tendency, and, as
might be proved, a necessity for science
to seek the explanation of every-day facts
by a generalization of those others which
are less frequent and form the exception.
Thus does the eruption of the volcano
manifest the heat which is continually at
work in the interior of the earth and to
which the latter owes much of her con-
figuration.
2. Thus does the lightning reveal a sub-
tle power constantly busy to produce
changes in the inorganic world, and, as
dead languages now seldom heard were
once ruling among the nations, so does a
giant tooth in Siberia, or a fossil in the
depth of the earth, not only bear record
of the evolution of past ages, but thereby
explains to us the origin of the hills and
valleys which we inhabit today.
3. In this way a generalization of facts
which are rare, strange, or form the excep-
tion, has been the magnetic needle guiding
to all the discoveries of inductive science.
4. This method is founded upon reason
and experience and thereby destroyed su-
perstition, precedent and conventionality.
5. It is more than two hundred years
since Lord Bacon recommended this meth-
od of study, to which the civilized nations
owe the greater part of their prosperity
and the more valuable part of their know-
ledge; purging the mind from narrow pre-
judices, denominated theories, more effec-
tually than by the keenest irony; calling
the attention of men from heaven to earth
more successfully by surprising experi-
ments than by the most forcible demon-
strations of their ignorance; educating the
inventive faculties more powerfully by the
near prospect of useful discoveries thrown
open to all, than by talk of bringing to
light the innate laws of our mind.
6. The method of Bacon has seized the
spirit and aim of the great philosophers
of Greece and carried them into effect
by the new means of observation which
another age offered; thus gradually reveal-
ing a wondrous field of knowledge in the
infinite space of astronomy, in the micro-
scopic egg of embryology, and the dim age
of geology; disclosing an order of the
pulse which the logic of Aristotle could
never have unveiled, and analyzing into
formerly unknown elements the material
combinations which no dialectic of the
scholastics could force apart.
7. It has lengthened life; it has miti-
gated pain; it has extinguished diseases;
it has increased the fertility of the soil;
it has given new securities to the mariner;
it has spanned great rivers with bridges
of form unknown to our fathers; it has
guided the thunderbolt from heaven to
earth; it has lighted up night with the
splendor of day; it has extended the range
of human vision; it has multiplied the
power of the human muscles; it has ac-
celerated motion; it has annihilated dis-
tance; it has facilitated intercourse, cor-
respondence, all friendly offices, all dis-
patch of business; it has enabled men to
descend into the depths of the sea, to soar
into the air, to penetrate securely into the
noxious recesses of the earth.
8. This then is the true nature and
scope of induction. But the greater the
success which men have achieved in the in-
ductive science, the more does the whole
tenor of their teachings and example im-
press us with the necessity of observing
carefully, patiently, accurately, with all
the instruments and resources at our com-
mand the individual facts before ventur-
ing upon a statement of general laws.
9. To ascertain the bearing of the spark
drawn from the electric machine under ev-
ery variety of circumstances, that we thus
may be emboldened with Franklin to ad-
dress, in the form of a kite, the question
to the cloud about the nature of the light-
ning. To assure ourselves of the manner
in which bodies fall with exactness of
a Galileo, that with Newton we may dare
to ask the moon about the force that fas-
tens it to the earth.
10. In short, by the value we set upon
truth, by our hope in a steady and uni-
versal progress, not to permit a tyrannical
prejudice to neglect or mutilate unwel-
come facts, but to rear the superstructure
of science upon the broad and unchangeable
basis, of full attention paid to the most
isolated as well as the most frequent
phenomena.
11. An ever-increasing material may be
collected by observation, but the accum-
ulated facts are of very different value
for the explanation of nature, and as we
esteem most highly those useful qualities
of men which are of the rarest occurence,
so does natural philosophy sift the facts
and attach a pre-eminent importance to
that striking class which cannot be ac-
counted for by the usual and daily obser-
vation of life.
12. If then, we find that certain per-
sons seem to possess unusual power, what
are we to conclude? First, we may say,
it is not so, which is simply an acknowledg-
ment of our lack of information because
every honest investigator admits that there
are many strange and heretofore unac-
countable phenomena constantly taking
place. Those, however, who become ac-
quainted with the creative power of
thought, will no longer consider them un-
accountable.
13. Second, we may say that they are
the result of supernatural interference,
but a scientific understanding of Natural
Laws will convince us that there is nothing
supernatural. Every phenomenon is the
result of an accurate definite cause, and the
cause is an immutable law or principle,
which operates with invariable precision,
whether the law is put into operation con-
sciously or unconsciously.
14. Third, we may say that we are on
"forbidden ground," that there are some
things which we should not know. This
objection was used against every ad-
vance in human knowledge. Every indi-
vidual who ever advanced a new idea,
whether a Columbus, a Darwin, a Galileo,
a Fulton or an Emerson, was subjected to
ridicule or persecution; so that this ob-
jection should receive no serious consider-
ation; but, on the contrary, we should
carefully consider every fact which is
brought to our attention; by doing this we
will more readily ascertain the law upon
which it is based.
15. It will be found that the creative
power of thought will explain every pos-
sible condition or experience, whether
physical, mental or spiritual.
16. Thought will bring about conditions
in correspondence with the predominant
mental attitude. Therefore, if we fear
disaster, as fear is a powerful form of
thought, disaster will be the certain result
of our thinking. It is this form of thought
which frequently sweeps away the result
of many years of toil and effort.
17. If we think of some form of ma-
terial wealth we may secure it. By
concentrated thought the required condi-
tions will be brought about, and the proper
effort put forth, which will result in bring-
ing about the circumstances necessary to
realize our desires; but we often find that
when we secure the things we thought we
wanted, they do not have the effect we
expected. That is, the satisfaction is only
temporary, or possibly is the reverse of
what we expected.
18. What, then, is the proper method
of procedure? What are we to think in
order to secure what we really desire?
What you and I desire, what we all desire,
what every one in seeking, is Happiness
and Harmony. If we can be truly happy
we shall have everything the world can
give. If we are happy ourselves we can
make others happy.
19. But we cannot be happy unless we
have, health, strength, congenial friends,
pleasant environment, sufficient supply,
not only to take care of our necessities
but to provide for those comforts and lux-
uries to which we are entitled.
20. The old orthodox way of thinking
was to be "a worm," to be satisfied with
our portion whatever it is; but the modern
idea is to know that we are entitled to the
best of everything, that the "Father and
I are one" and that the "Father" is the
Universal Mind, the Creator, the Original
Substance from which all things proceed.
21. Now admitting that this is all true
in theory, and it has been taught for
two thousand years, and is the essence of
every system of Philosophy or Religion,
how are we to make it practical in our
lives? How are we to get the actual,
tangible results here and now?
22. In the first place, we must put our
knowledge into practice. Nothing can be
accomplished in any other way. The
athlete may read books and lessons on
physical training all his life, but unless
he begins to give out strength by actual
work he will never receive any strength;
he will eventually get exactly what he
gives; but he will have to give it first. It
is exactly the same with us; we will get
exactly what we give, but we shall have to
give it first. It will then return to us
many fold, and the giving is simply a men-
tal process, because thoughts are causes
and conditions are effects; therefore in giv-
ing thoughts of courage, inspiration, health
or help of any kind we are setting causes
in motion which will bring about their
effect.
23. Thought is a spiritual activity and
is therefore creative, but make no mistake,
thought will create nothing unless it is
consciously, systematically and construc-
tively directed; and herein is the difference
between idle thinking, which is simply a
dissipation of effort, and constructive
thinking, which means practically un-
limited achievement.
24. We have found that everything we
get comes to us by the Law of Attraction.
A happy thought cannot exist in an un-
happy consciousness; therefore the con-
sciousness must change, and, as the con-
sciousness changes, all conditions neces-
sary to meet the changed consciousness
must gradually change, in order to meet
the requirements of the new situation.
25. In creating a Mental Image or an
Ideal, we are projecting a thought into
the Universal Substance from which all
things are created. This Universal Sub-
stance is Omnipresent, Omnipotent and
Omniscient. Are we to inform the Omnis-
cient as to the proper channel to be used
to materialize our demand? Can the finite
advise the Infinite? This is the cause of
failure; of every failure. We recognize
the Omnipresence of the Universal Sub-
stance, but we fail to appreciate the fact
that this substance is not only Omnipres-
ent, but is Omnipotent and Ominscient,
and consequently will set causes in motion
concerning which we may be entirely ig-
norant.
26. We can best conserve our interests
by recognizing the Infinite Power and In-
finite Wisdom of the Universal Mind, and
in this way become a channel whereby the
Infinite can bring about the realization of
our desire. This means that recognition
brings about realization, therefore for your
exercise this week make use of the prin-
ciple, recognize the fact that you are a
part of the whole, and that a part must
be the same in kind and quality as the
whole; the only difference there can pos-
sibly be, is in degree.
27. When this tremendous fact begins
to permeate your consciousness, when you
really come into a realization of the fact
that you, not your body but the Ego, the
"I," the spirit which thinks is an integral
part of the great whole, that it is the same
in substance, in quality, in kind, that the
Creator could create nothing different from
Himself, you will also be able to say,
"The Father and I are one" and you will
come into an understanding of the beauty,
the grandeur, the transcendental oppor-
tunities which have been placed at your
disposal.
Increase in me that wisdom
Which discovers my truest interest,
Strengthen my resolution
To perform that which wisdom dictates.
--Franklin,
PART THIRTEEN.
121. What is the method by which natural
philosophers obtain and apply their
knowledge?
To observe individual facts, care-
fully, patiently, accurately, with all
the instruments and resources at
their command, before venturing
upon a statement of general laws.
122. How may we be certain that this
method is correct?
By not permitting a tyrannical prej-
udice to neglect or mutilate unwel-
come facts.
123. What class of facts are esteemed
most highly?
Those which cannot be accounted for
by the usual daily observations of
life.
124. Upon what is this principle founded?
Upon reason and experience.
125. What does it destroy?
Superstition, precedent and conven-
tionality.
126. How have these laws been discovered?
By a generalization of facts which
are uncommon, rare, strange and
form the exception.
127. How may we account for much of
the strange and heretofore unex-
plainable phenomena which is con-
stantly taking place.
By the creative power of thought.
128. Why is this so?
Because when we learn of a fact
we can be sure that it is the result of
a certain definite cause and that this
cause will operate with invariable
precision.
129. What is the result of this knowledge?
It will explain the cause of every
possible condition, whether physical,
mental or spiritual.
130. How will our best interest be con-
served?
By a recognition of the fact that a
knowledge of the creative nature of
thought puts us in touch with Infinite
power.