LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL.
PART NINETEEN.
Fear is a powerful form of thought. It paralyzes
the nerve centers, thus affecting the circulation of
the blood. This, in turn, paralyzes the muscular
system, so that fear affects the entire being, body,
brain and nerve, physical, mental and muscular.
Of course the way to overcome fear is to become
conscious of power. What is this mysterious vital
force which we call power? We do not know;
neither do we know what electricity is. But we do
know that by conforming to the requirements of the
law by which electricity is governed, it will be our
obedient servant; that it will light our homes, our
cities, run our machinery and serve us in many use-
ful capacities.
And so it is with vital force. Although we do not
know what it is, and possibly may never know, we
do know that it is a primary force which manifests
through living bodies, and that by complying with
the law and principles by which it is governed,
we can open ourselves to a more abundant inflow
of this vital energy, and thus express the highest
possible degree of mental, moral and spiritual ef-
ficiency.
The lesson which I enclose herewith tells of a
very simple way to developing this vital force. If
you put into practice the information outlined in
this lesson you will soon develop the sense of power
which has ever been the distinguishing mark of
genius.
PART NINETEEN.
1. The search for truth is no longer a
haphazard adventure, but it is a systemat-
ic process, and is logical in its operation.
Every kind of experience is given a voice
in shaping its decision.
2. In seeking the truth we are seeking
ultimate cause; we know that every hu-
man experience is an effect; then if we
may ascertain the cause, and if we shall
find that this cause is one which we can
consciously control, the effect or the ex-
perience will be within our control also.
3. Human experience will then no
longer be the football of fate; a man will
not be the child of fortune, but destiny,
fate and fortune will be controlled as
readily as a captain controls his vessel, or
an engineer his train.
4. All things are finally resolvable into
the same element and as they are thus
translatable, one into the other, they must
ever be in relation and may never be in
opposition to one another.
5. In the physical world there are in-
numerable contrasts, and these may for
convenience sake, be designated by dis-
tinctive names. There are sizes, colors,
shades or ends to all things. There is a
North Pole, and a South Pole, an inside
and an outside, a seen and an unseen, but
these expressions merely serve to place
extremes in contrast.
6. They are names given to two dif-
ferent parts of one quantity. The two
extremes are relative; they are not sep-
erate entities, but are two parts or aspects
of the whole.
7. In the mental world we find the
same law; we speak of knowledge and
ignorance, but ignorance is but a lack of
knowledge and is therefore found to be
simply a word to express the absence of
knowledge; it has no principle in itself.
8. In the Moral World we again find
the same law; we speak of good and evil,
but Good is a reality, something tangible,
while Evil is found to be simply a nega-
tive condition, the absence of Good. Evil
is sometimes thought to be a very real
condition, but it has no principle, no vital-
ity, no life; we know this because it can
always be destroyed by Good; just as
Truth destroys Error and light destroys
darkness, so Evil vanishes when Good
appears; there is therefore but one prin-
ciple in the Moral World.
9. We find exactly the same law ob-
taining in the Spiritual world; we speak
of Mind and Matter as two separate en-
tities, but clearer insight makes it evident
that there is but one operative principle
and that is Mind.
10. Mind is the real and the eternal.
Matter is forever changing; we know that
in the eons of time a hundred years is but
as a day. If we stand in any large city
and let the eye rest on the innumerable
large and magnificent buildings, the rail-
roads, the electric cars, the telephones, the
electric lights and all the other conven-
iences of modern civilization, we may re-
member that not one of them was there
100 years ago, and if we could stand on
the same spot in a hundred years from
now, in all probability we should find that
but few of them remained.
11. In the animal kingdom we find the
same law of change. The millions and
millions of animals come and go, a few
years constituting their span of life. In
the plant world the change is still more
rapid. Many plants and nearly all
grasses come and go in a single year.
When we pass to the inorganic, we expect
to find something more substantial, but
as we gaze on the apparently solid con-
tinent, we are told that it arose from the
ocean; we see the giant mountain and are
told that the place where it now stands
was once a lake; and as we stand in awe
before the great cliffs in the Yosemite
Valley we can easily trace the path of the
glaciers which carried all before them.
12. We are in the presence of continual
change, and we know that this change is
but the evolution of the Universal Mind,
the grand process whereby all things are
continually being created anew, and we
come to know that matter is but a form
which Mind takes and is therefore simply
a condition. Matter has no principle;
Mind is the only principle.
13. We have then come to know that
Mind is the only principle which is oper-
ative in the physical, mental, moral and
spiritual world.
14. We also know that this mind is
static, mind at rest, we also know that the
ability of the individual to think is his
ability to act upon the Universal Mind and
convert it into dynamic mind, or mind in
motion.
15. In order to do this fuel must be
applied in the form of food, for man can-
not think without eating, and so we find
that even a spiritual activity such as
thinking cannot be converted into sources
of pleasure and profit except by making
use of material means.
16. It requires energy of some kind to
collect electricity and convert it into a
dynamic power, it requires the rays of the
sun to give the necessary energy to sus-
tain plant life, so it also requires energy
in the form of food to enable the individ-
ual to think and thereby act upon the
Universal Mind.
17. You may know that thought con-
stantly, eternally is taking form, is for-
ever seeking expressions, or you may not,
but the fact remains that if your thought
is powerful, constructive, and positive,
this will be plainly evident in the state of
your health, your business and your en-
vironment; if your thought is weak, criti-
cal, destructive and negative generally, it
will manifest in your body as fear, worry
and nervousness, in your finance as lack
and limitation, and in discordant condi-
tions in your environment.
18. All wealth is the offspring of
power; possessions are of value only as
they confer power. Events are signifi-
cant only as they affect power; all things
represent certain forms and degrees of
power.
19. A knowledge of cause and effect as
shown by the laws governing steam, elec-
tricity, chemical affinity and gravitation
enables men to plan courageously and to
execute fearlessly. These laws are called
Natural Laws, because they govern the
physical world, but all power is not physi-
cal power; there is also mental power, and
there is moral and spiritual power.
20. What are our schools, our univer-
sities, but mental powerhouses, places
where mental power is being developed?
21. As there are many mighty power
houses for the application of power to pon-
derous machinery, whereby raw material
is collected and converted into the necessi-
ties and comforts of life, so the mental
power-houses collect the raw material and
cultivate and develop it into a power which
is infinitely superior to all the forces of
Nature, marvelous though they be.
22. What is this raw material which is
being collected in these thousands of men-
tal power-houses all over the world and
developed into a power which is evidently
controlling every other power? In its
static form it is Mind, in its dynamic form
it is Thought.
23. This power is superior because it
exits on a higher plane, because it has
enabled man to discover the law by which
these wonderful forces of Nature could be
harnessed and made to do the work of
hundreds or thousands of men. It has
enabled man to discover laws whereby
time and space have been annihilated, and
now apparently the law of gravitation is
to be overcome.
24. Thought is the vital force or en-
ergy which is being developed and which
has produced such startling results in the
last half century as to bring about a world
which would be absolutely inconceivable
to a man existing only 50 or even 25 years
ago. If such results have been secured by
organizing these mental power-houses in
50 years, what may not be expected in an-
other 50 years?
25. The substance from which all
things are created is infinite in quantity;
we know that light travels at the rate of
186,000 miles per second, and we know
that there are stars so remote that it takes
light 2,000 years to reach us, and we know
that such stars exist in all parts of the
heaven; we know, too, that this light comes
in waves, so that if the ether on which
these waves travel was not continuous the
light would fail to reach us; we can then
only come to the conclusion that this sub-
stance, or ether, or raw material, is uni-
versally present.
26. How, then, does it manifest in
form? In electrical science a battery is
formed by connecting the opposite poles
of zinc and copper, which causes a cur-
rent to flow from one to the other and so
provides energy. This same process is
repeated in respect to every polarity, and
as all form simply depends upon the rate
of vibration and consequent relations of
atoms to each other, if we wish to change
the form of manifestation we must change
the polarity. This is the principle of
causation.
27. For your exercise this week, con-
centrate, and when I use the word concen-
trate, I mean all that the word implies;
become so absorbed in the object of your
thought that you are conscious of nothing
else, and do this a few minutes every day.
You take the necessary time to eat in order
that the body may be nourished, why not
take the time to assimilate your mental
food.
28. Let the thought rest on the fact that
appearances are deceptive. The earth is
not flat, neither is it stationary; the sky
is not a dome, the sun does not move, the
stars are not small specks of light, and
matter which was once supposed to be fixed
has been found to be in a state of per-
petual flux.
29. Try to realize that the day is fast
approaching--its dawn is now at hand--
when modes of thought and action must
be adjusted to rapidly increasing knowl-
edge of the operation of eternal princi-
ples.
Silent thought, is, after all, the might-
iest agent in human affairs.
--Channing.
PART NINETEEN.
181. How are extremes placed in con-
trast?
They are designated by distinctive
names, such as inside and outside,
top and bottom, light and dark, good
and bad.
182. Are these separate entities?
No, they are parts or aspects of one
Whole.
183. What is the one creative Principle in
the physical, mental and spiritual
world?
The Universal Mind, or the Eternal
Energy from which all things pro-
ceed.
184. How are we related to this creative
Principle?
By our ability to think.
185. How does this creative Principle be-
come operative?
Thought is the seed, which results in
action and action results in form.
186. Upon what does form depend?
Upon the rate of vibration.
187. How may the rate of vibration be
changed?
By mental action.
188. Upon what does mental action de-
pend?
Upon Polarity, action and reaction,
between the individual and the Uni-
versal.
189. Does the creative energy originate
in the individual or the Universal?
In the Universal, but the Universal
can manifest only through the indi-
vidual.
190. Why is the individual necessary?
Because the Universal is static, and
requires energy to start it in motion.
This is furnished by food which is
converted into energy, which in turn
enables the individual to think. When
the individual stops eating he stops
thinking; then he no longer acts upon
the Universal; there is consequently
no longer any action or reaction; the
Universal is then only pure mind in
static form--mind at rest.