LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL.
PART TWENTY-FOUR.
Enclosed herewith you will find part twenty-four.
This is the final lesson.
If you have practiced each of the exercises a few
minutes every day, as suggested, you will have found
that you can get out of life that which you wish, and
you will probably agree with the student who said;
"The thought is almost overwhelming, so vast, so
available, so definite, so reasonable and so usable."
The fruit of this knowledge is, as it were, a gift
of the Gods; it is the "truth" that makes men free,
not only free from every lack and limitation, but
free from sorrow, worry and care, and, is it not
wonderful to realize that this law is no respector of
persons, that it makes no difference what your habit
of thought may be, the way has been prepared.
If you are inclined to be religious, the greatest
religious teacher the world has ever know made the
way so plain that all may follow. If your mental
bias is toward physical science, the law will operate
with mathematical certainty. If you are inclined
to be philsophical Plato or Emerson may be your
teacher, but in either case, you may reach degrees
of power to which it is impossible to assign any
limit.
An understanding of this principle, I believe, is
the secret for which the ancient Alchemists vainly
sought, because it explains how gold in the mind may
be transmuted into gold in the heart and in the
hand.
PART TWENTY-FOUR.
1. When the scientists first put the
Sun in the center of the Solar System and
sent the earth spinning around it, there
was immense surprise and consternation.
The whole idea was self-evidently false;
nothing was more certain than the move-
ment of the Sun across the sky, and any-
one could see it descend behind the west-
ern hills and sink into the sea; scholars
raged and scientists rejected the idea as
absurd, yet the evidence has finally carried
conviction in the minds of all.
2. We speak of a bell as a "sounding
body," yet we know that all the bell can
do is to produce vibrations in the air.
When these vibrations come at the rate of
sixteen a second they cause a sound to be
heard in the mind. It is possible for the
mind to hear vibrations at the rate of
38,000 a second. When the number in-
creases beyond this all is silence again;
so that we know the sound is not in
the bell, it is in our own mind.
3. We speak and even think of the Sun
as "giving light." Yet we know it is sim-
ply giving forth energy which produces
vibrations in the ether at the rate of four
hundred trillion a second, causing what
are termed light waves, so that we know
that what we call light is simply a form
of energy and that the only light there is,
is the sensation caused in the mind by the
motion of the waves. When the number
increases, the light changes in color, each
change in color being caused by shorter
and more rapid vibrations; so that al-
though we speak of the rose as as being red,
the grass as being green, or the sky as
being blue, we know that the colors exist
only in our minds, and are the sensations
experienced by us as the result of the
vibrations of light waves. When the vi-
brations are reduced below four hundred
trillion a second, they no longer affect us
as light, but we experience the sensation
of heat. It is evident, therefore, that we
cannot depend upon the evidence of the
senses for our information concerning the
realities of things; if we did we should be-
lieve that the sun moved, that the world
was flat instead of round, that the stars
were bits of light instead of vast suns.
4. The whole range then of the theory and
practice of any system of metaphysics
consists in knowing the Truth concern-
ing yourself and the world in which you
live; in knowing that in order to express
harmony, you must think harmony; in or-
der to express health you must think
health; and in order to express abundance
you must think abundance; to do this you
must reverse the evidence of the senses.
5. When you come to know that every
form of disease, sickness, lack and limita-
tion are simply the result of wrong think-
ing, you will have come to know "the Truth
which shall make you free." You will see
how mountains may be removed. If these
mountains consist only of doubt, fear, dis-
trust or other forms of discouragement,
they are none the less real, and they need
not only to be removed but to be "cast into
the sea."
6. Your real work consists in convinc-
ing yourself of the truth of these state-
ments. When you have succeeded in doing
this you will have no difficulty in thinking
the truth, and as has been shown, the truth
contains a vital principle and will manifest
itself.
7. Those who heal diseases by mental
methods have come to know this truth, they
demonstrate it in their lives and the lives
of others daily. They know that life, health
and abundance are Omnipresent, filling all
space, and they know that those who allow
disease or lack of any kind to manifest,
have as yet not come into an understanding
of this great law.
8. As all conditions are thought crea-
tions and therefore entirely mental, disease
and lack are simply mental conditions in
which the person fails to perceive the
truth; as soon as the error is removed, the
condition is removed.
9. The method for removing this error
is to go into the Silence and know the
Truth; as all mind is one mind, you can do
this for yourself or anyone else. If you
have learned to form mental images of the
conditions desired, this will be the easiest
and quickest way to secure results; if not,
results can be accomplished by argument,
by the process of convincing yourself abso-
lutely of the truth of your statement.
10. Remember, and this is one of the
most difficult as well as most wonderful
statements to grasp. Remember that no
matter what the difficulty is, no matter
where it is, no matter who is affected, you
have no patient but yourself; you have
nothing to do but to convince yourself of
the truth which you desire to see manifest-
ed.
11. This is an exact scientific statement
in accordance with every system of Meta-
physics in existence, and no permanent re-
sults are ever secured in any other way.
12. Every form of concentration, form-
ing Mental Images, Argument, and Auto-
Suggestion are all simply methods by
which you are enabled to realize the Truth.
13. If you desire to help some one, to
destroy some form of lack, limitation or
error, the correct method is not to think of
the person whom you wish to help; the in-
tention to help them is entirely sufficient,
as this puts you in mental touch with the
person. Then drive out of your own mind
any belief of lack, limitation, disease, dan-
ger, difficulty or whatever the trouble
might be. As soon as you have succeeded
in doing this the result will have been ac-
complished, and the person will be free.
14. But remember that thought is cre-
ative and consequently every time you
allow your thought to rest on any inhar-
monious condition, you must realize that
such conditions are apparent only, they
have no reality, that spirit is the only reali-
ty and it can never be less than perfect.
15. All thought is a form of energy, a
rate of vibration, but a thought of the
Truth is the highest rate of vibration
known and consequently destroys every
form of error in exactly the same way that
light destroys darkness; no form of error
can exist when the "Truth" appears, so
that your entire mental work consists in
coming into an understanding of the Truth.
This will enable you to overcome every
form of lack, limitation or disease of any
kind.
16. We can get no understanding of the
truth from the world without; the world
without is relative only; Truth is absolute.
We must therefore find it in the "world
within."
17. To train the mind to see Truth only
is to express true conditions only, our
ability to do this will be an indication as to
the progress we are making.
18. The absolute truth is that the "I"
is perfect and complete; the real "I" is
spiritual and can therefore never be less
than perfect; it can never have any lack,
limitation, or disease. The flash of genius
does not have origin in the molecular mo-
tion of the brain; it is inspired by the ego,
the spiritual "I" which is one with the
Universal Mind, and it is our ability to
recognize this Unity which is the cause of
all inspiration, all genius. These results
are far-reaching and have effect upon gen-
erations yet to come; they are the pillars of
fire which mark the path that millions fol-
low.
19. Truth is not the result of logical
training or of experimentation, or even of
observation; it is the product of a devel-
oped consciousness. Truth within a Caesar,
manifests in a Caesar's deportment, in his
life and his action; his influence upon social
forms and progress. Your life and your
actions and your influence in the world will
depend upon the degree of truth which you
are enabled to perceive, for truth will not
manifest in creeds, but in conduct.
20. Truth manifests in character, and
the character of a man should be the in-
terpretation of his religion, or what to him
is truth, and this will in turn be evidenced
in the character of his possessions. If a
man complains of the drift of his fortune
he is just as unjust to himself as if he
should deny rational truth, though it stand
patent and irrefutable.
21. Our environment and the innumer-
able circumstances and accidents of our
lives already exist in the subconscious per-
sonality which attracts to itself the mental
and physical material which is congenial to
its nature. Thus is our future being deter-
mined from our present, and if there
should be apparent injustice in any feature
or phase of our personal life, we must look
within for the cause, try to discover the
mental fact which is responsible for the
outward manifestation.
22. It is this truth which makes you
"free" and it is the conscious knowledge
of this truth which will enable you to over-
come every difficulty.
23. The conditions with which you meet
in the world without are invariably the re-
sult of the conditions obtaining in the world
within, therefore it follows with scientific
accuracy that by holding the perfect ideal
in mind you can bring about ideal condi-
tions in your environment.
24. If you see only the incomplete, the
imperfect, the relative, the limited, these
conditions will manifest in your life; but
if you train your mind to see and realize
the spiritual ego, the "I" which is forever
perfect and complete, harmonious; whole-
some and healthful conditions only will be
manifested.
25. As thought is creative, and the truth
is the highest and most perfect thought
which anyone can think, it is self-evident
that to think the truth is to create that
which is true and it is again evident that
when truth comes into being that which is
false must cease to be.
26. The Universal Mind is the totality
of all mind which is in existence. Spirit is
Mind, because spirit is intelligent. The
words are, therefore, synonymous.
27. The difficulty with which you have
to contend is to realize that mind is not
individual. It is omnipresent. It exists
everywhere. In other words, there is no
place where it is not. It is, therefore, Uni-
versal.
28. Men have, heretofore, generally
used the word "God" to indicate this Uni-
versal, creative principle; but the word
"God" does not convey the right meaning.
Most people understand this word to mean
something outside of themselves; while ex-
actly the contrary is the fact. It is our
very life. Without it we would be dead. We
would cease to exist. The minute the spirit
leaves the body, we are as nothing. There-
fore, spirit is really all there is of us.
29. Now, the only activity which the
spirit possesses is the power to think.
Therefore, thought must be creative, be-
cause spirit is creative. This creative pow-
er is impersonal and your ability to think
is your ability to control it and make use
of it for the benefit of yourself and others.
30. When the truth of this statement is
realized, understood, and appreciated, you
will have come into possession of the Mas-
ter-Key, but remember that only those who
are wise enough to understand, broad
enough to weigh the evidence, firm enough
to follow their own judgement, and strong
enough to make the sacrifice exacted, may
enter and partake.
31. This week, try to realize that this
is truly a wonderful world in which we live,
that you are a wonderful being, that many
are awakening to a knowledge of the Truth,
and as fast as they awake and come into a
knowledge of the "things which have been
prepared for them" they, too, realize that
"Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither
hath it entered into the heart of man," the
splendors which exist for those who find
themselves in the Promised Land. They
have crossed the river of judgment and
have arrived at the point of discrimination
between the true and the false, and have
found that all they ever willed or dreamed,
was but a faint concept of the dazzling
reality.
Though an inheritance of acres may
be bequeathed, an inheritance of knowl-
edge and wisdom cannot. The wealthy
man may pay others for doing his work
for him, but it is impossible to get his
thinking done for him by another, or to
purchase any kind of self-culture.
--S. Smiles.
PART TWENTY-FOUR.
231. Upon what principle does the theory
and practice of every system of Meta-
physics in existence depend?
Upon a knowledge of the "Truth" concern-
ing yourself and the world in which
you live.
232. What is the "Truth" concerning
yourself?
The real "I" or ego is
spiritual and can therefore never be
less than perfect.
233. What is the method of destroying
any form of error?
To absolutely convince yourself of the "Truth" con-
cerning the condition which you wish
to see manifested.
234. Can we do this for others?
The Universal Mind in which "we live and
move and have our being" is one and
indivisible, it is therefore just as pos-
sible to help others as to help our-
selves.
235. What is the Universal Mind?
The totality of all mind in existence.
236. Where is the Universal Mind?
The Universal Mind is omnipresent, it
exists everywhere. There is no place
where it is not. It is therefore with-
in us. It is "The World within." It
is our spirit, our life.
237. What is the nature of the Universal
Mind?
It is spiritual and consequently creative.
It seeks to express itself in form.
238. How may we act on the Universal
Mind?
Our ability to think is our
ability to act on the Universal Mind
and bring it into manifestation for
the benefit of ourselves or others.
239. What is meant by thinking?
Clear decisive, calm, deliberate, sustained
thought with a definite end in view.
240. What will be the result?
You will also be able to say, "It is not I that
doeth the works, but the "Father"
that dwelleth within me, He doeth the
works." You will come to know
that the "Father" is the Universal
Mind and that He does really and
truly dwell within you, in other
words, you will come to know that
the wonderful promises made in the
Bible are fact, not fiction and can be
demonstrated by anyone having suffi-
cient understanding.
Temples have their sacred images, and
we see what influence they have always
had over a great part of mankind; but, in
truth, the ideas and images in men's
minds are the invisible powers that con-
stantly govern them; and to these they
all pay universally a ready submission.
--Jonathan Edwards.