LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL.
PART TWENTY-TWO.
In Part Twenty-Two you will find that thoughts
are spiritual seeds, which, when planted in the sub-
conscious mind, have a tendency to sprout and
grow, but unfortunately the fruit is frequently not
to our liking.
The various forms of inflammation, paralysis,
nervousness and diseased conditions generally, are
the manifestation of fear, worry, care, anxiety,
jealousy, hatred and similar thought.
The life processes are carried on by two distinct
methods; first, the taking up and making use of
nutritive material necessary for constructing cells;
second, breaking down and excreting the waste ma-
terial.
All life is based upon these constructive and de-
structive activities, and as food, water and air are
the only requisites necessary for the construction of
cells, it would seem that the problem of prolong-
ing life indefinitely would not be a very difficult one.
However strange it may seem, it is the second or
destructive activity that is, with rare exception, the
cause of all disease. The waste material accumu-
lates and saturates the tissues, which causes auto-
intoxication. This may be partial or general. In
the first case the disturbance will be local; in the
second place it will affect the whole system.
The problem, then, before us in the healing of
disease is to increase the inflow and distribution of
vital energy throughout the system, and this can
only be done by eliminating thoughts of fear, worry,
care, anxiety, jealousy, hatred, and every other de-
structive thought, which tend to tear down and de-
stroy the nerves and glands which control the ex-
cretion and elimination of poisonous and waste
matter.
"Nourishing foods and strengthening tonics" can-
not bestow life, because these are but secondary
manifestations of life. The primary manifestation of
life and how you may get in touch with it is ex-
plained in the part which I have the privilege of en-
closing herewith.
PART TWENTY-TWO.
1. Knowledge is of priceless value, because
by applying knowledge we can make our
future what we wish it to be. When we
realize that our present character, our
present environment, our present ability,
our present physical condition are all the
result of past methods of thinking, we
shall begin to have some conception of the
value of knowledge.
2. If the state of our health is not all
that could be desired, let us examine our
method of thinking; let us remember that
every thought produces an impression on
the mind; every impression is a seed which
will sink into the sub-conscious and form
a tendency; the tendency will be to at-
tract other similar thoughts and before we
know it we shall have a crop which must
be harvested.
3. If these thoughts contain disease
germs, the harvest will be sickness, decay,
weakness and failure; the question is,
what are we thinking, what are we creat-
ing, what is the harvest to be?
4. If there is any physical condition
which it is necessary to change, the law
governing visualization will be found effec-
tive. Make a mental image of physical
perfection, hold it in the mind until it is
absorbed by the consciousness. Many
have eliminated chronic ailments in a few
weeks by this method, and thousands have
overcome and destroyed all manner of
ordinary physical disturbances by this
method in a few days, sometimes in a
few minutes.
5. It is through the law of vibration
that the mind exercises this control over
the body. We know that every mental
action is a vibration, and we know that all
form is simply a mode of motion, a rate
of vibration. Therefore, any given vibra-
tion immediately modifies every atom in
the body, every life cell is affected and an
entire chemical change is made in every
group of life cells.
6. Everything in the Universe is what
it is by virtue of its rate of vibration.
Change the rate of vibration and you
change the nature, quality and form. The
vast panorama of nature, both visible and
invisible, is being constantly changed by
simply changing the rate of vibration, and
as thought is a vibration we can also exer-
cise this power. We can change the vibra-
tion and thus produce any condition
which we desire to manifest in our bodies.
7. We are all using this power every
minute. The trouble is most of us are
using it unconsciously and thus producing
undesirable results. The problem is to
use it intelligently and produce only desir-
able results. This should not be difficult,
because we all have had sufficient experi-
ence to know what produces pleasant vi-
bration in the body, and we also know the
causes which produce the unpleasant and
disagreeable sensations.
8. All that is necessary is to consult
our own experience. When our thought
has been uplifted, progressive, construc-
tive, courageous, noble, kind or in any
other way desirable, we have set in motion
vibrations which brought about certain re-
sults. When our thought has been filled
with envy, hatred, jealousy, criticism or
any of the other thousand and one forms
of discord, certain vibrations were set in
motion which brought about certain other
results of a different nature, and each of
these rates of vibration, if kept up, crys-
tallized in form. In the first case the re-
sult was mental, moral and physical
health, and in the second case discord, in-
harmony and disease.
9. We can understand, then, something
of the power which the mind possesses
over the body.
10. The objective mind has certain ef-
fects on the body which are readily rec-
ognized. Some one says something to
you which strikes you as ludicrous and
you laugh, possibly until your whole body
shakes, which shows that thought has con-
trol over the muscles of your body; or
some one says something which excites
your sympathy and your eyes fill with
tears, which shows that thought controls
the glands of your body; or some one says
something which makes you angry and
the blood mounts to your cheek, which
shows that thought controls the circulation
of your blood. But as these experiences
are all the results of the action of your
objective mind over the body, the results
are of a temporary nature; they soon pass
away and leave the situation as it was be-
fore.
11. Let us see how the action of the sub-
conscious mind over the body differs. You
receive a wound; thousands of cells begin
the work of healing at once; in a few days
or a few weeks the work is complete. You
may even break a bone. No surgeon on
earth can weld the parts together. He
may set the bone for you, and the subjec-
tive mind will immediately begin the proc-
ess of welding the parts together, and in
a short time the bone is as solid as it ever
was. You may swallow poison; the sub-
jective mind will immediately discover the
danger and make violent efforts to elimi-
nate it. You may become infected with a
dangerous germ; the subjective will at
once commence to build a wall around the
infected area and destroy the infection by
absorbing it in the white blood corpuscles
which it supplies for the purpose.
12. These processes of the sub-con-
scious mind usually proceed without our
personal knowledge or direction, and so
long as we do not interfere the result is
perfect, but, as these millions of repair
cells are all intelligent and respond to our
thought, they are often paralyzed and ren-
dered impotent by our thoughts of fear,
doubt and anxiety. They are like an army
of workmen, ready to start an important
piece of work, but every time they get
fairly started on the undertaking a strike
is called, or plans changed, until they fin-
ally get discouraged and give up.
13. The way to health is founded on the
law of vibration, which is the basis of all
science, and this law is brought into opera-
tion by the mind, the "world within." It
is a matter of individual effort and prac-
tice. Our world of power is within; if we
are wise we shall not waste time and effort
in trying to deal with effects as we find
them in the "world without," which is
only an external, a reflection.
14. We shall always find the cause in
the "world within"; by changing the
cause, we change the effect.
15. Every cell in your body is intelli-
gent and will respond to your direction.
The cells are all creators and will create
the exact pattern which you give them.
16. Therefore, when perfect images are
placed before the subjective, the creative
energies will build a perfect body.
17. Brain cells are constructed in the
same way. The quality of the brain is
governed by the state of mind, or mental
attitude, so that, if undesirable mental
attitudes are conveyed to the subjective
they will in turn be transferred to the
body; we can therefore readily see that if
we wish the body to manifest health,
strength and vitality this must be the pre-
dominant thought.
18. We know then that every element
of the human body is the result of a rate
of vibration.
19. We know that mental action is a
rate of vibration.
20. We know that a higher rate of
vibration governs, modifies, controls,
changes or destroys a lower rate of vibrat-
tion.
21. We know that the rate of vibration
is governed by the character of brain cells,
and finally,
22. We know how to create these brain
cells; therefore,
23. We know how to make any physi-
cal change in the body we desire, an hav-
ing secured a working knowledge of the
power of mind to this extent, we have come
to know that there is practically no limita-
tion which can be placed upon our ability
to place ourselves in harmony with nat-
ural law, which is omnipotent.
24. This influence or control over the
body by the mind is coming to be more
and more generally understood, and
many physicians are now giving the mat-
ter their earnest attention. Dr. Albert T.
Shofield, who has written several impor-
tant books on the subject, says: "The
subject of mental therapeutics is still ig-
nored in medical works generally. In our
physiologies no reference is made to the
central controlling power that rules the
body for its good, and the power of the
mind over the body is seldom spoken of.
25. No doubt many physicians treat
nervous diseases of functional origin wise-
ly and well, but what we contend is that
the knowledge they display was taught at
no school, was learned from no book, but it
is intuitive and empirical.
26. This is not as it should be. The
power of mental therapeutics should be
the subject of careful, special and scientific
teaching in every medical school. We
might pursue the subject of maltreatment,
or want of treatment, further in detail
and describe the disastrous results of
neglected cases; but the task is an invidi-
ous one.
27. There can be no doubt that few pa-
tients are aware how much they can do for
themselves. What the patient can do for
himself, the forces he can set in motion are
as yet unknown. We are inclined to be-
lieve that they are far greater than most
imagine, and will undoubtedly be used
more and more. Mental therapeutics may
be directed by the patient himself to calm-
ing the mind in excitement, by arousing
feelings of joy, hope, faith and love; by
suggesting motives for exertion, by regu-
lar mental work, by diverting the thoughts
from the malady.
28. For your exercise this week con-
centrate on Tennyson's beautiful lines.
"Speak to Him, thou, for He hears,
and spirit with spirit can meet, Closer is
He than breathing, and nearer than hands
and feet." Then try to realize that when
you do "Speak to Him" you are in touch
with Omnipotence.
29. This realization and recognition of
this Omnipresent power will quickly de-
stroy any and every form of sickness or
suffering and substitute harmony and per-
fection. Then remember there are those
who seem to think that sickness and suffer-
ing are sent by God; if so, every physi-
cian, every surgeon and every Red Cross
nurse is defying the will of God and hos-
pitals and sanitariums are places of rebel-
lion instead of houses of mercy. Of
course, this quickly reasons itself into an
absurdity, but there are many who still
cherish the idea.
30. Then let the thought rest on the
fact that until recently theology has been
trying to teach an impossible Creator, one
who created beings capable of sinning and
then allowed them to be eternally punished
for such sins. Of course the necessary
outcome of such extraordinary ignorance
was to create fear instead of love, and so,
after two thousand years of this kind of
propaganda, Theology is now busily
engaged in apologizing for Christendom.
31. You will then the more readily ap-
preciate the ideal man, the man made in
the image and likeness of God, and you
will the more readily appreciate the all
originating Mind that forms, upholds, sus-
tains, originates and creates all there is.
"All are but parts of one stupendous
whole,
Whose body nature is, and God the soul."
--Pope.
Opportunity follows perception, ac-
tion follows inspiration, growth follows
knowledge, eminence follows progress.
Always the spiritual first, then the trans-
formation into the infinite and illimit-
able possibilities of achievement.
PART TWENTY-TWO.
211. How may sickness be eliminated?
By placing ourselves in harmony
with Natural Law which is Omnipo-
tent.
212. What is the process?
A realization that man is a spiritual
being and that his spirit must neces-
sarily be perfect.
213. What is the result?
A conscious recognition of this per-
fection, first intellectually then emo-
tionally brings about a manifestation
of this perfection.
214. Why is this so?
Because thought is spiritual and
therefore creative and correlates
with its object and brings it into
manifestation.
215. What Natural Law is brought into
operation?
The Law of Vibration.
216. Why does this govern?
Because a higher rate of vibration
governs, modifies, controls, changes
or destroys a lower rate of vibration.
217. Is this system of mental therapeutics
generally recognized?
Yes, there are over a million people
in this country who make use of it in
one form or another.
218. What is the result of this system of
thought?
For the first time in the world's his-
tory every man's highest reasoning
faculty can be satisfied by a demon-
strable truth which is now fast flood-
ing the world.
219. Is this system applicable to other
forms of supply?
It will meet every human require-
ment or necessity.
220. Is this system scientific or religious?
Both. True science and true religion
are twin sisters, where one goes, the
other necessarily follows.