LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL.
PART FIFTEEN.
Dear Friend:
Experiments with parasites found on plants indi-
cate that even the lowest order of life is enabled
to take advantage of natural law.
This experiment was made by Jaques Loeb, M.
D., Ph. D., a member of the Rockefeller Institute.
"In order to obtain the material, potted rose bushes
are brought into a room and placed in front of a
closed window. If the plants are allowed to dry out,
the aphides (parasites), previously wingless, change
to winged insects. After the metamorphosis, the
animals leave the plants, fly to the window and then
creep upward on the glass."
It is evident that these tiny insects found that the
plants on which they had been thriving were dead,
and that they could therefore secure nothing more
to eat and drink from this source. The only method
by which they could save themselves from starva-
tion was to grow temporary wings and fly, which
they did.
Experiments such as these indicate that Omnis-
cience as well as Omnipotence is omnipresent and
that the tiniest living thing can take advantage of it
in an emergency.
Part Fifteen will tell you more about the law un-
der which we live. It will explain that these laws
operate to our advantage; that all conditions and
experiences that come to us are for our benefit;
that we gain strength in proportion to the effort
expended, and that our happiness is best attained
through a conscious co-operation with natural laws.
PART FIFTEEN.
1. The laws under which we live are
designed solely for our advantage. These
laws are immutable and we cannot escape
from their operation.
2. All the great eternal forces act in
solemn silence, but it is in our power to
place ourselves in harmony with them and
thus express a life of comparative peace
and happiness.
3. Difficulties, inharmonies, and ob-
stacles, indicate that we are either refusing
to give out what we no longer need, or re-
fusing to accept what we require.
4. Growth is attained through an ex-
change of the old for the new, of the good
for the better; it is a conditional or recip-
rocal action, for each of us is a complete
thought entity and this completeness makes
it possible for us to receive only as we
give.
5. We cannot obtain what we lack if
we tenaciously cling to what we have.
We are able to consciously control our con-
ditions as we come to sense the purpose of
what we attract, and are able to extract
from each experience only what we require
for our further growth. Our ability to do
this determines the degree of harmony or
happiness we attain.
6. The ability to appropriate what we
require for our growth, continually in-
creases as we reach higher planes and
broader visions, and the greater our abil-
ity to know what we require, the more cer-
tain we shall be to discern its presence, to
attract it and to absorb it. Nothing may
reach us except what is necessary for our
growth.
7. All conditions and experiences that
come to us do so for our benefit. Difficul-
ties and obstacles will continue to come
until we absorb their wisdom and gather
from them the essentials of further growth.
8. That we reap what we sow is mathe-
matically exact. We gain permanent
strength exactly to the extent of the effort
required to overcome difficulties.
9. The inexorable requirements of
growth demand that we exert the greatest
degree of attraction for what is perfectly
in accord with us. Our highest happiness
will be best attained through our under-
standing of, and conscious co-operation
with natural laws.
10. Thought is creative and the prin-
ciple upon which this law is based is sound
and inherent in all things, but in order to
possess vitality the thought must contain
love.
11. It is love which imparts vitality to
thought and thus enables it to germinate.
The law of attraction, or the law of love,
for they are one and the same, will bring
to it the necessary material for its growth
and maturity.
12. The first form which thought will
find is language, or words; this determines
the importance of words; they are the first
manifestation of thought--the vessels in
which thought is carried. They take hold
of the ether and by setting it in motion
reproduce the thought to others in the form
of sound.
13. Thought may lead to action of any
kind, but whatever the action, it is simply
the thought attempting to express itself
in visible form. It is evident, therefore,
that if we wish desirable conditions, we
can afford to entertain only desirable
thoughts.
14. This leads to the inevitable conclu-
sion that if we wish to express abundance
in our lives, we can afford to think abun-
dance only, and as words are only thoughts
taking form, we must be especially careful
to use nothing but constructive and har-
monious language, which when finally crys-
tallized into objective forms, will prove to
our advantage.
15. We cannot escape from the pictures
we incessantly photograph on the mind,
and this photography of erroneous concep-
tions is exactly what is being done by the
use of words, when we use any form of
language which is not identified with our
welfare.
16. We manifest more and more life as
our thought becomes clarified and takes
higher planes. This is obtained with
greater facility as we use word pictures
that are clearly defined, and relieved of the
conceptions attached to them on lower
planes of thought.
17. It is with words that we must ex-
press our thoughts, and if we are to make
use of higher forms of truth, we may use
only such material as has been carefully
and intelligently selected with this purpose
in view.
18. This wonderful power of clothing
thoughts in the form of words is what dif-
ferentiates man from the rest of the animal
kingdom; by the use of the written word
he has been enabled to look back over the
centuries and see the stirring scenes by
which he has come into his present inheri-
tence.
19. He has been enabled to come into
communion with the greatest writers and
thinkers of all time, and the combined rec-
ord which we possess today is therefore
the expression of Universal Thought as it
has been seeking to take form in the mind
of Man.
20. We know that the Universal
Thought has for its goal the creation of
form, and we know that the individual
thought is likewise forever attempting to
express itself in form, and we know that
the word is a thought form, and a sentence
is a combination of thought forms, there-
fore, if we wish our ideal to be beautiful
or strong, we must see that the words out
of which this temple will eventually be
created are exact, that they are put to-
gether carefully, because accuracy in build-
ing words and sentences is the highest
form of architecture in civilization and is
a passport to success.
21. Words are thoughts and are there-
fore an invisible and invincible power
which will finally objectify themselves in
the form they are given.
22. Words may become mental palaces
that will live forever, or they may become
shacks which the first breeze will carry
away. They may delight the eye as well
as the ear; they may contain all knowledge;
in them we find the history of the past as
well as the hope of the future; they are
living messengers from which every human
and superhuman activity is born.
23. The beauty of the word consists in
the beauty of the thought; the power of
the word consists in the power of the
thought, and the power of the thought con-
sists in its vitality. How shall we identify
a vital thought? What are its distinguish-
ing characteristics? It must have princi-
ple. How shall we identify principle?
24. There is a principle of Mathemat-
ics, but none of error; there is a principle
of health, but none of disease; there is a
principle of truth, but none of dishonesty;
there is a principle of light, but none of
darkness, and there is a principle of abun-
dance, but none of poverty.
25. How shall we know that this is
true? Because if we apply the principle
of Mathematics correctly we shall be cer-
tain of our results. Where there is health
there will be no disease. If we know the
Truth we cannot be deceived by error. If
we let in light there can be no darkness,
and where there is abundance there can be
no poverty.
26. These are self-evident facts, but the
all-important truth that a thought contain-
ing principle is vital and therefore con-
tains life and consequently takes root, and
eventually but surely and certainly dis-
places the negative thought, which by
their very nature can contain no vitality,
is one which seems to have been over-
looked.
27. But this is a fact which will enable
you to destroy every manner of discord,
lack and limitation.
28. There can be no question but that
he who "is wise enough to understand"
will readily recognize that the creative
power of thought places an invincible
weapon in his hands and makes him a mas-
ter of destiny.
29. In the physical world there is a law
of compensation which is that "the ap-
pearance of a given amount of energy any-
where means the disappearance of the
same amount somewhere else," and so we
find that we can get only what we give; if
we pledge ourselves to a certain action we
must be prepared to assume the responsi-
bility for the development of that action.
The sub-conscious cannot reason. It takes
us at our word; we have asked for some-
thing; we are now to receive it; we have
made our bed, we are now to lie in it; the
die has been cast; the threads will carry
out the pattern we have made.
30. For this reason Insight must be ex-
ercised so that the thought which we en-
tertain contains no mental, moral or physi-
cal germ which we do not wish objectified
in our lives.
31. Insight is a faculty of the mind
whereby we are enabled to examine facts
and conditions at long range, a kind of hu-
man telescope; it enables us to understand
the difficulties as well as the possibilities
in any undertaking.
32. Insight enables us to be prepared
for the obstacles which we shall meet; we
can therefore overcome them before they
have any opportunity of causing difficulty.
33. Insight enables us to plan to advan-
tage and turn our thought and attention in
the right direction, instead of into channels
which can yield no possible return.
34. Insight is therefore absolutely es-
sential for the development of any great
achievement, but with it we may enter, ex-
plore and possess any mental field.
35. Insight is a product of the world
within and is developed in the Silence, by
concentration.
36. For your exercise this week, concen-
trate on Insight; take your accustomed po-
sition and focus the thought on the fact
that to have a knowledge of the creative
power of thought does not mean to possess
the art of thinking. Let the thought dwell
on the fact that knowledge does not apply
itself. That our actions are not governed
by knowledge, but by custom, precedent
and habit. That the only way we can get
ourselves to apply knowledge is by a de-
termined conscious effort. Call to mind
the fact that knowledge unused passes from
the mind, that the value of the information
is in the application of the principle; con-
tinue this line of thought until you gain
sufficient insight to formulate a definite
program for applying this principle to your
own particular problem.
"Think truly, and thy thought
Shall the world's famine feed;
Speak truly, and each word of thine
Shall be a fruitful seed;
Live truly, and thy life shall be
A great and noble creed."
--Horatio Bonar.
PART FIFTEEN.
141. What determines the degree of har-
mony which we attain?
Our ability to appropriate what we
require for our growth from each
experience.
142. What do difficulties and obstacles in-
dicate?
That they are necessary for our wis-
dom and spiritual growth.
143. How may these difficulties be avoid-
ed?
By a conscious understanding of and
co-operation with Natural laws.
144. What is the principle by which
thought manifests itself in form?
The Law of Attraction.
145. How is the necessary material se-
cured by which the growth, develop-
ment and maturity of the idea take
form?
The law of love, which is the cre-
ative principle of the Universe, im-
parts vitality to the thought, and
the law of attraction brings the
necessary substance by the law of
growth.
146. How are desirable conditions se-
cured?
By entertaining desirable thoughts
only.
147. How are undesirable conditions
brought about?
By thinking, discussing and visualiz-
ing conditions of lack, limitation, dis-
ease, inharmony and discord of every
kind. This mental photography of
erroneous conceptions is taken up by
the subconscious and the law of at-
traction will inevitably crystallize it
into objective form. That we reap
what we sow is scientifically exact.
148. How can we overcome every kind of
fear, lack, limitation, poverty and
discord?
By substituting principle for error.
149. How may we recognize principle?
By a conscious realization of the fact
that Truth invariably destroys error.
We do not have to laboriously shovel
the darkness out; all that is neces-
sary is to turn on the light. The same
principle applies to every form of
negative thought.
150. What is the value of Insight?
It enables us to understand the value
of making application of the knowl-
edge which we gain. Many seem to
think that knowledge will automatic-
ally apply itself, which is by no
means true.
"To every man there openeth a way,
And the high soul climbs the high way,
And the low soul gropes the low;
And in between on the misty flats,
The rest drift to and fro.
But to every man there openeth
A high way and a low
And every man decideth
The way his soul shall go."