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VOL. XIX JULY, 1910

Statement of Truth T. G. Northrop . Success in Failure Anonymous Chips from the Old Block W illiam Walker Atkinson Mental Heal i ng S. A. Weltmer . Vedantism W illiam Walker Atkinson The Higher Life Felicia Blake . Reincarnation L. M. Hughes . Law of Crystallization Henry Harrison Broun Telepathy Department Ernest Weltmer

EDITORIAL C H A T : Sunshine vs. Moonshine Is Mysticism Pathological? New Thought Fiction . The Woman’ s S id e . New Thought vs. Socialism What is New Thought ? .

THE LETTER B O X : N ear-Su ccess...... 3 1 1 Rent vs. I n t e r e s t ...... 3 1 3 The Cosmic U r g e ...... 3 1 4 Marital R e la t i o n s ...... 3 1 3 Reincarnation...... 3 1 6 etc., etc., etc. NEW T H O U G H T N E W S : The Nevada Convention. The Big New York Meeting. The Cin cinnati Meeting. Julia Seaton Sears. A New Thought Wedding. A New Center in Ogden. News from Venice. Annie Rix Militz. Our Elizabeth. New Thought by the Ocean. Prof. Knox. Etc., etc., e t c ...... 3 1 7 —321

EDITOR : William Walker Atkinson Yearly Subscription SI.00 (Foreign and Canadian $1.25) Single Copy 10 Cents PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE NEW THOUGHT PUBLISHING CO. 2310 Calumet Avenue, Chicago Copyright 1910 by the New Thought Publishing Co. All rights Reserved. Entered as Second-class matter November 10. 1905. at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March .i, 1379. I FREE students and patients. 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Statement of Truth For July, 1910

“It is not sufficient for me to be alive; I must live for some purpose; must accomplish something; must have some object, and put forth my energy to effect it. “I do now abandon every way of doing, talking and thinking, which does not conform to the princi ples of right and truth. “I do now cultivate decision and persistency. “I allow nothing to discourage me. “I am courageous, I am determined. “I consider nothing too small or unimportant for me to meet in the Christ attitude. “I embrace every opportunity to assert my domin ion and prove the law. “I am strong, I am well, I am happy, I am free.” —T. G. Northrup. Success in Failure

Oh, long and dark the stairs I trod With stumbling feet to find my God, Gaining a foothold bit by bit. Then slipping back and losing it, Never progressing, striving still, With weakening grasp and fainting will, Bleeding to climb to God, while He Serenely smiled, unnoting me.

Then came a certain time when I Loosened my hold and fell thereby. Down to the lowest step my fall, As if I had not climbed at all. And while I lay despairing there I heard a footfall on the stair, In the same place where I, dismayed, Faltered and fell and lay afraid.

And, lo! when hope had ceased to be My God came down the stairs to me. —Anonymous. NEW THOUGHT A Journal of Practical Idealism EDITED BY William Walker Atkinson

Vol. XIX JULY, 1910 No. 7

Chips From the Old Block

By William Walker Atkinson

LIFE is one Divine Paradox after another. It is ever Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis. Everything has its Opposite Thing—the two combined forming the Thing-in-Itself. Thus: We gain Happiness only by giving Happiness to others. No one ever was or can be Happy all by himself. We enjoy wealth only by spending, giving, or sharing. No one ever enjoyed wealth by merely holding on to it. The miser does not enjoy—he fears. We acquire knowledge only by passing it on to others. We learn best by teaching. We impress our minds chiefly by expression to others. We gain by giving. We gain life only by losing it—that is, we gain the only True Life by losing the illusion of the separate life and entering into the consciousness of the Whole Life. We find the Real Self only by discarding the fiction of the separate self. We find the “I” only by realizing the illusion of the “Me.” We gain true Love only by Loving, not by “making love.” The one belongs to the Inner Life, the other to the outer, personal life. True Love consists in giving, willingly giving, without thought or expecta tion of return, and without any desire to “own” or tie another. The love that for ever demands of another: “give, give, give to me,” is not love at all, but mere selfish desire of possession and gain. The best way to “tie fast” is to “tie loose.” True love is killed by the strangle-hold. The Power of the Sun arises merely by its radiating its energy. The Sun, darkened, would not be powerful. The Divine Paradox is ever with us. This is the teaching of the Wise.

281 The Principles of Mental Healing

FOURTH LESSON—FACTORS IN HEALING

By Sidney A . Weltmer

THU it the fourth Lesson of the series of lessons upon “The Principles of Mental Hesling," from that masterof this subject. Prof. S . A . Weltmer. To attempt to praise the work of this earnest worker and pioneer in the field oi Mental Healing would be but to paint the lily or gild the rose. Prof. Weltmer's work is too wall known and firmly established to require any word of commendation from anyone else. In this series of lessons Prof. Weltmer gives us a plain, simple presentation of the fundamental principles underlying Mental Healing as practiced by him for many years past, the principles being set forth so that their relation to modern science may be plainly perceived. W e feel sure that this series will be welcomed by the hosts of students and friends of Prof. Weltmer, and will prove a worthy addition to his long list of writings.—The Editor.

“ ^IIE first activity of nature is that The process of healing is a simple one; T of creation. Whatever creates albeit, the simplest things require the |Q anything is mind, and there is no greatest effort and the longest time to creative power except that which exists learn. It requires nothing on the part in Infinite Mind. of the patient, nor does it require any The second activity of the Creative thing on the part of the healer except to Power is that the perpetuation of life secure the mental attitude on the part of within the form of being, governing and the patient whereby he allows the law keeping it in existence and also reproduc which has been transgressed to take up ing others like it. its normal course again. Following this is the work of renewal. The study of the mind and its pro At the beginning of physical life each in cesses, its attributes and powers, leads dividual is supplied with a stock of eneFgy us to understand that man's intelligence and this he must use in order to accom co-ordinates with ‘a Higher Intelligence; plish the work of evolution, unfoldment that man’s energy is dependent upon one and development. When he ceases his Original Source and that his existence activities and rests, the same power that and his capacity ' to know of hi's' exist gave the original store’ will replace the ence, are dependent upon the permeating energy expended and add a surplus to presence of that from which he came— the former supply. his Creator. Then there is another provision made with regard to this created thing, that of The faculties that work within the in repair, which .is the process brought into ner man, which built this body with all exercise in mental healing. of its intricate design and wondrous The Master-Builder who first created mechanism, began their work .with..the the human body is the only one who can division of the first cell'and with the suc repair it and He does this work out of cessive sub-divisions; the aggregation, His knowledge of how to do it. Man does expansion, growth and development, not consciously know how to do this, so made a complete body. he will have to learn some way by which The subjective mind, having perfect he can remove conscious interference and powers and being unlimited in scope, subconsciously allow the Original Build never forms a plan that is not perfect in er to repair His own handiwork. every detail; never conceives of any- Sidney A. Weltmer 283 thing that is not finished in every par what they have on hand, in order to ticular, an-ideal. meet the present demand. An ideal is a thought completed in the This working force never ceases its mind, perfect in every respect, and as activity and on this account it builds a 'soon as the mental plan is conceived these body much more perfect than environ inner forces at once begin to build that ment and observable conditions would structure and seek to give the thought seem to justify. objective expression. Very soon after man becomes’ an. in There are five silent workers within habitant of a completed body he begins the domain of the inner self, untiring to be impressed by things in his environ and ceaseless in activity; five intelli ment that are not in harmony with the gences, five separate functions building perfect powers within, and then he be this body. These all have the capacity of gins to initiate discord where before only acting perfectly, of adting in harmony the most perfect harmony had reigned; with and according to the plan of the and in this activity disease has its incep Master-Builder who started the division tion. of the original cell. But like all weli-or- W hat we do, we do because we think ganized intelligences there is one master it. The things that we think are often workman, doing all of the actual work created by the thinking. That is*- their and the others furnish the wisdom, the existence, as they appear to us, is depend needful impulses, the knowledge, the ent upon our thinking. Shakespeare means of communication and the record says “There is nothing either -.good or upon which to draw for desired infor bad, but thinking makes it so.” Think mation. ing evil of the good will not change the This master intelligence canTook down good but such a mental attitude will into the memory and find a record of prove an effectual means of blinding our how' other bodies were budded into form. vision to aught but that of which we Through the power of Response of Sug think. gestion it can appropriate the warmth Thinking evil of' one’s body or of one’s from the first sunbeam with which it strength does not destroy the health, the comes in contact. The mind can, through energy and the strength within the bddy, that same power to respond to sugges but prevents it from finding expression. tion, give the master builder, the chosen The health within each human body chief within, which we call the faculty today is as perfect as it was the day the of Physical Control, any desired impulse, individual had physical birth, just as per because the faculty of Response to Sug fect as the impulse of God’s own exist gestion gives direction. ence. Intuition tells this faculty how to ap Then the question confronting the sick propriate the needful material for all its person is how to realize this fact in con purposes and then Telepathy is the fac sciousness. The first thing to do is to as ulty which, if there is nothing in the im sume that the health is there, and then mediate environment fitted for the use wait until you have had time to prove of these four other faculties in the ac your assumption. When you think of complishment of their work, can, from your health conceive an ideal condition across the sea or out of heaven’s own for yourself; think of your body as you courts, bring a message that will tell these want to be; think of yourself as phys perfect working forces what to do with ically perfect, equal to whatever is re- 2&4 Mental Healing quired of you. When you do this you me and said he desired to engage in work eliminate the elements of discord from that required a great amount of strength your thinking; synchronism results and in his arms. He said he could readily se your thought and God’s thought become cure the position he coveted but he had one great symphony. not sufficient strength to do the heavy The one who thinks of himself as man work entailed. He wanted to know how ifesting greater perfection day by day, to develop the necessary energy'. thinks God’s thought about himself and I said to him, “There is some strength can safely go about his daily work, en in your arms?” “Yes.” “Tell your arms trusting the restoration of his health to what you require of them and then give the one Source from which his supply them time to acquire the power. Use must come. the strength you have today and add an Health is the perfect condition of life hour to your usual number of hours of that is within us and we can have it in sleep for the purpose of allowing the en perfect expression by consenting that ergy exhausted to be replaced and a sur our bodies shall be governed without plus added.” “Do you mean that work hindrance from the conscious self, by will make my arms strong?” “I do not the Mind that created them; just consent mean anything of the kind. Every effort that the manifestation of health and you put forth will deplete a part of your strength shall be perfect in our lives and energy and if you persist in your activ our determination and desire shall be as ities long enough you will exhaust it, but strong as the purpose we wish to accom I want you to get the stale energy out of plish. Then we have nothing to do but your body so that God can give you a to allow Infinite Power to come in and new supply to use.” refill us when we have exhausted the He begB| following my instruction stock of energy on hand. and in a w#fc came back and said that 1: One of the great things we have to was equal to anything required of him. learn in order to control the health of this He has since that time filled the position body is to be confident that we are en which he wished and has found himself titled to a perfect physical condition, and equal to every demand. All he needed then let health express itself. What we was to be convinced that he could respond think has everything to do with it. No in such manner and yet he had been matter how closely one guards his physi standing outside the pale of his most cal organism, no matter what perfect plans cherished plans because he considered are formulated in conscious thinking, no himself lacking in strength. When he one can make his body well. No one gave his consent Infinite Power filled him can think a thought of himself that will and enabled him to realize his hopes. make a hair white or black or create a One of the greatest hindrances that single cell in his body, but he can assume stands in the way of the suggestionist in an attitude of mind allowing the Mas his effort to secure normal thinking on the ter-Builder to have absolute control of part of a great many sick people is that his perfect faculties and through the they will not give their unqualified con harmonious relationship existing between sent to be well. As long as the patient him and Infiinte Mind, acquire what he expresses a doubt about his recovery he desires. We simply give our consent and has not given his consent that the Creator the work is done by Omnipotent Power. shall have freedom to repair his body. Some years ago a gentleman came to The most important lessor that man Sidney A. Weltmer 285 can .earn is that by his own choice, by his stant hemorrhage which was greatly aug own thought, he can control his health, mented at stated monthly periods. his success and his happiness; and he The patient was reduced to a mere needs to know all about human existence skeleton, weighing less than eighty in order to steer his life bark clear of the pounds. She was carried into the Insti shoals and quicksands which are often tution on a cot, examined and assigned found where there is but a slight ripple for treatment. In addition to the lacer to indicate danger in the pathway. ated condition which existed she was The more knowledge one possesses, found to be suffering from progressive the more capable is he of aiding in the pernicious anemia. fruition of the Divine plan and the broad The temperament and physical condi er will be the sphere of his activities in tion of this patent were carefully studied the direction of perfection. in order that the first assistance might Not many years ago physiologists arouse the positive attitude of hope, the taught that a cell in the human body, patient being assured that she could re once destroyed, was not rebuilt. Then cover. Then the intention to vitalize the little by little through the use of the blood stream and to unite and heal the microscope they delved into the mysteries wound was delegated to the hand and of the processes of creation until now it through the hand conveyed to her sub is a question with the most profound jective mind. thinker among these investigators as to This treatment was skilfully applied whether or not the human mind could daily and in three or four weeks manifest not, if it only believed it, replace any or improvement was shown, the patient hav gan of the body, if it were destroyed. ing gained in every way. Continuous skilful treatment and instruction were An investigation of the incidents of given for three months, when the patient healing will convince any one that within to all intents and purposes was well, with the physical organism is a subjective in the exception of the disposition to hem telligence that can repair a human body, orrhage at the monthly periods. restore cells that have been destroyed This gradually diminished until at the and reconstruct new tissue wherever an end of a year all disturbance ceased. injury has been wrought. Then a very careful examination re The following instance of healing illus vealed the fact that the lacerations were trates in a beautiful manner the intelli absent, the wounds having healed and gence of the cell in its capacity to respond the organ was as perfectly natural and to the trust in the subjective mind and in normal as it was before the injury took its ability to accomplish that which is place. necessary to bring about perfect repair This case is a beautiful illustration of where disease existed and injury had the effect of constructive thought when been wrought. the conscious mind can conceive of a The case in question is that of a lady perfect result and the subjective mind is who came to the writer for treatment five perfectly trusted to respond; it is equal years ago. She was suffering from an in its response to bringing about any re excessive internal laceration, extending sult which may be desired in diseased or nearly one-half the depth of the injured injured human bodies. organ, with three gaping wounds. This Five years have elapsed and this lady's condition was attended bv almost con health has been uniformly good, her 286 Mental Healing strength is greater than at any previous than that she would be restored to per time in her life and she is busily engaged fect1 health. She never stopped by the in carrying the message of hope and heal wayside to doubt, never gave way to dis ing to others, she now being in her forty- couragement, never allowed herself to second year. waver in her determination, never al The leading factors in the afore-men lowed her hopes to be dampened, but re tioned case were: first, the induced belief posed absolute, unqualified trust in her on the part of the patient that she could determination to be absolutely healed. recover; second, the constant presence of The Power that makes the body per hope aroused, of which the patient was fect works in the deeper unconscious momentarily conscious, which was largely self. We cannot feel the activity of the cultivated by inducing notice on her part Creative Power, we can only consent that of the continuous improvement which it shall find full expression through us. she was able to observe only by the clos It does not manifest in a sense of feeling, est analysis of her better feeling and the it is a vibration too fine for conscious habit of ignoring all adverse symptoms sensation. or recurrent pains. When health is given full expression, This is a beautiful example of the pow it enables the conscious mind to discrim er of the mind to act perfectly when be inate finer vibrations than if the body is lief is sincere and hope is constantly pres diseased, because the activity of the mind ent as a factor in the case. is not hampered by the weaknesses and The interesting phase of this case to imperfections of the physical organism. the psychologist is the attitude of mind In the next lesson we shall discuss the involved. There was no time during that correction of habits and the mental states year, in this lady’s life, when she. enter and emotions observed in instantaneous tained for one moment any thought other cures.

THOUGHT: THE HEALER

“Without the Co-operation of the mind of the patient, exer cised either consciously or unconsciously, there is no Healing result. No matter what the means used to assist the mind in its movements, the final dependence is mind.” —SIDNEY A. WELTMIR Philosophies of the Orient VEDANTISM * ‘ I By William Walker Atkinson

This is the fourth of a seriee of articles, in which will be given the several great philosophies of the Onen This senes forms part of a greater series which w ill include the Philosophies of the W orld, ancient and modern, giving a general outline of the thought of the greatest philosophers of all ages and countries, considered in connection with the pnndples of the New Thought. These articles will appear monthly, in this magazine, and will then be pub lished in book form. They will form a Condensed Library of the World's Great Philosophical Systems. It is of course understood that in stating these various philosophies the writer does not indicate his personal acceptance of their tenents —he merely records what he finds in each.

HE Vedanta Philosophy is gener- the necessary correlated truth that all else m ally held by the authorities to rep- is illusory. Max Muller, speaking of M l resent the highest flight of the this quality of universality, says: “The Hindu philosophical thought. The Vedanta Philosophy leaves to every man term “Vedanta” means “the last of the a wide sphere of real usefulness, and Vedas,” and signifies that this philosophy places him under a law as strict and as is based on the later Vedas, generally binding as anything can be in this tran known as the “Upanishads.” The date sitory life; it leaves him a Deity to wor of the founding of this school is in dis ship as omnipotent and majestic as the pute, the best authorities generally agree deities of any other religion. It has room ing that it antedates Buddhism, and has for almost every religion; nay, it em about the same age as the Sankhya sys braces them all. Other philosophies do tem, its great rival school, that is to say, exist and have some following, but Ve it dates back to about 700 B. C'., al danta has the largest.” Overshadowed for though, of course, the principles upon a time by the rapid rise of Buddhism, the which it is based belong to a still earlier Vedanta has again emerged and now era. Some of the authorities hold that shines in redoubred force and splendor, the Vedanta system was founded’ by Shri Sankaracharya (A . D. 800) often 1 Radarayana, while other accredit it to termed “the second father’* of Vedanta, Vyaka, a legendary Hindu sage. It is havihg given to this school a great im based principally upon the Upanishads, petus by his work of expounding and the purpose and object of which is “the commenting upon the teaching. inquiry into Brahman, or the Universal There are many divisions, and sub Spirit, 4he all-pervading essence of the schools, of the Vedanta Philosophy which universe. must be ignored in a brief paper like the Thfe Vedanta system of philosophy is present one, but I think that we lose lit Wonderfully broad—so bfoad in fact that tle by devoting our consideration to the "it givfe khdter to cotintless minor most advanced and extreme sub-school, school and Sects. By many it has been which is known as the Advaita, or Mon called “the Universal System,” about the istic school. Accordingly, in this paper, ohly point insisted upon as a fundamental we are considering the extreme or most principle 6f belief being that of the One advanced conception of the Vedanta, re Reality, or Brahman, the Absolute, and membering, however, that many who call

287 themselves Vedantists shrink from pro flood of heavenly glory of the noonday ceeding so far along the way of Monistic sun, faltering and feeble, and ever ready Idealism as do the Advaitists, and con to be extinguished.” And note Max Mul tent themselves with compromises with ler’s glowing encomium: “Vedanta holds other beliefs. Advaitists carry the Ve- a most unique position among the philos dantic ideas to the final logical conclusion ophies of the world. After lifting the and do not shrink from the result. Self or the true nature of the Ego, Ve The Vedanta Philosophy asserts as a danta unites it with the essence of Divin fundamental axiom that “There is but ity, which is absolutely pure, perfect, im One Reality,” and that, consequently, all mortal, unchangeable, and one. No phil else that seems to be is but illusion or osopher, not even Plato, Spinoza, Kant, Maya. This One Reality is called Brah Hegel, or Schopenhauer, has reached that man or The Absolute. Brahman is held height of philosophical thought. . . . to be “beyond qualities or attributes; be None of our philosophers, not excepting yond subject and object; the efficient Heraclitus, Plato, Kant or Hegel, has cause of the universe in its mental and ventured to erect such a spire, never material appearance; creator and created; frightened by storms or lightnings. Stone doer and deed; cause and effect; self- follows upon stone, in regular succes existent; absolute, infinite, eternal.” In sion, after once the first step has been short, Brahman is held to be “all there is; made, after once it has been clearly seen all that ever has been, and all that ever that in the beginning there can have been can be.” Max Muller gives us the mat but One, as there will be but One in the ter in a nut-shell when he says: “In one- end, whether we call it Atman or Brah half verse I shall tell you what has been man.” taught in thousands of volumes: Brah The Vedantists account for the phe man is true, the world, is false, the soul is nomenal universe, and the apparent sep Brahman and nothing else," The One arateness of the individual souls, by the Reality being above phenomena, then the theory of Maya, or Illusion. Briefly phenomenal must be naught but illusion—- stated, this theory is that the Universe is such is the fundamental principle of the a day-dream or reverie of Brahman, hav HU: Vedanta, which, followed to its inevita ing no reality except that semblance ____ ble logical conclusion wipes out the ma which may be attributed to a dream or terial universe and the individual exist effort of the imagination. Brahman is ences. Everything is held to be the One held to indulge in periodical states of r 5 Self at the last. reverie or dream, in which the idea of No wonder that this daring conclusion the Universe is gradually evolved. In has excited the admiration of the West the imagination or dream of Brahman, i Ul • ern philosophers. It has been styled the material universe is gradually built up “The highest pinnacle of philosophic by descent from finer to gross substance, thought which the human mind can pos and then upward by evolution into com sibly attain.” Schlegel said of it that, plex combinations, until at last living “Even the loftiest philosophy of the things are evolved, Man finally appearing. Europeans, the idealism of reason, as it is Brahman is the animating life and soul set forth by the Greek philosophers, ap of the living things, but, under the illu pears in comparison with the abundant sion of Maya, Brahman imagines itself light and vigor of Oriental Idealism, like as existing in countless living forms—as a feeble Promethean spark in the full countless living souls—subject to the lim- itations of sense and mortal mind. The Some of the sub-schools of the Vedanta dream of Maya continues for immense hold to the existence of an Ishwara, periods of time, but is eventually ter which is variously conceived of as either minated and Brahman once more regains a Personal God or else as an Oversold. its original state of pure Spirit and passes This Ishwara is held to be the One Life immense periods of time (dwelling in in which we live, and move, and have our eternity) in a dreamless state, which in being, and in whom the individual souls turn is once more disturbed by the be are as but units in a unity. But other ginning of the dream of a new Universe. Yedantists brush aside the conception of These periods are called “the Days and an Ishwara, and fix their minds directly Nights of Brahm.” upon Brahman or The Absolute. It must Brahman is held to be above attributes, be remembered that even those who hold qualities or properties—these things be to the conception of an Ishwara, admit longing to the phenomenal world. Brah that even in its transcendent greatness the man is held to be Pure Intelligence Abso Ishmara is merely an appearance in the lute, dwelling in a state of Sat-chit- dream of Brahman, and must disappear ananda, or Absolute Existence, Absolute when the Day of Brahm comes to an end Knowledge, Absolute Bliss. All else than —when The Absolute once more reigns Absolute Brahman is held to belong to alone, without even the shadow or reflec the plane of Maya, or Illusion. The Ve- tion of Maya. The Vedantists have many dantists find it difficult to explain the na shades of doctrine and opinion regarding ture of this Maya, or Illusion—they hold the nature of Maya, and regarding the that it lacks Reality, and yet has a shadow matters connected with the material uni of reality. It is considered as a reflection verse—but the blanket of the Vedanta is or shadow, rather than as an emanation sufficiently broad to cover them all, in or condition. It has no real existence, spite of their differing theories and and yet has what might be called a prac points of doctrine. But even these dis tical existence. Max Muller has well ex puting sects agree that viewed from the plained this difficult point of the teach absolute position any discussion regard ings, as follows: “For all practical pur ing the phenomenal universe is futile and poses, the Vedantist would hold that the a waste of time. The ancient teachers whole phenomenal world, both in its sub have held that “the total period of the jective and objective character, should be creation, existence, and death of the uni accepted as real. It is as real as any verse is but as a twinkle of an eye to thing can be to the ordinary mind; it is Brahman.” Other points of difference not mere emptiness, as the Buddhists are found in speculations regarding the maintain. And thus the Vedanta phil “W hy?” of the Universe—the Ultimate osophy leaves to every man a wide sphere Question as to the reason that Brahman of real usefulness, and places him under indulges in the dream or reverie, or falls a law as strict and binding as anything into the illusion of Maya. Of course, can be in this transitory life.” This rea- such a question cannot be answered by oning follows the idea that has been ex any teacher to the satisfaction of all pressed by the poet as, “Dreams are true, thinkers, and so the dispute has always while they last.” An authority has said existed and will always exist. that, “Maya is the inexplicable illusion, The Vedantists generally believe in Re self-imagined, that is illusorily over incarnation and Karma, both, however, spread upon Brahman.” being held to be but the result of Maya 29C Philosophies of the Orient

or Illusion arising from Avidya or Ignor dea, merely echoed the teaching of some ance. The teaching is that when the still older civilization—and this is indeed scales of Ignorance fall from the eyes of very probable. the advanced soul, then will that soul see Monistic Idealism seems to have al that it has no separate existence, in real ways been with the philosophers of the ity, but is merely an appearance in the race, since there were any philosophers to mind of Brahman with whom it is iden think, and speculate. It- is held to repre tical in essence—that the Self of Brah sent the highest. peaks of philosophical man is the Real Self of each and every and metaphysical speculation. From individual soul—that all is but One at the those high points one may view the val last, and that Brahman is the One. leys of thought spreading out below for Therefore, to the Yedantin, evolution and miles in every direction—may see the advance are merely the steps of dawning connection between the various schools, recognition of the Real Self of the Uni and the distances separating others. The verse. i heights of Monistic Idealism give one the The student will readily perceive that extreme philosophical Overlook. But, this fundamental conception of the Ve alas! the air is very rare on those peaks— danta is< identical with the fundamental the chill of pure intellect penetrates to thought of many systems of philosophical one’s bones—and one, after attaining the and religious thought of both Occident and Orient, ancient and modern. These highest peaks, may long for the fertile old Hindu thinkers cleared a path over valleys lying far below, where the air is which many a mind has since traveled. It balmy and the flowers are in bloom, is difficult to imagine any phase of phil where birds sing and lovers breathe their osophical or religious thought that is not vows, where the blood is warm and the found to have an older counterpart in the human emotions are in evidence. And, Vedas and Upanishads. One who has after all, who can say which is the wisest, studied the Vedanta Philosophy may be he who remains in the valleys or he who excused from smiling when he hears or climbs to the highest peaks of human reads the teachings of some of the many thought and there shivers in the awful new schools of philosophy and religion solitude—the one feels more, the other philosophy. The German Idealists of to- sees more—which is the wisest. Which is •’ day, as well as the Greek Idealists of two the happiest, Man'or Superman? Which thousand years ago, have but traveled is tire better/the I lead or the Heart? But over the same paths laid out by the- after all, each must Answer this question founders of the Vedanta. And every for himself or herself—each will seek shade of teaching in the modern meta that Which his or her nature prompts. physical cults may be traced back to For at the last— ' those old thinkers of thousands of years “Each for the joy of the working, and each ago in India. It has been claimed that in his separate star, ‘ __ even these ancient teachers of India, as Shall draw the Thing as he sees It, for the well as those of Egypt. Persia and Chal ^God o f Things as They are.”

Take your own wherever you find it, and let the rest go.— William Walker Atknison Practical Living of the Higher Life By Felicia Blake

““1M0NG those' who are looking happened.” Tut, tut, where is the ac V more deeply into the way of liv- knowledgement of our own responsibility m i lg and into the meaning of life for what comes to us. Look back a little there is a growing acknowledgement that further; do we expect someone else to the cause of what' 'we are and of what we refrain from doing something that we have lies within ourselves; that we are re cannot refrain from, zee told the person sponsible for even what comes into our who told someone else, who told someone e.Nperience according to the attitudes we else who told our erstwhile friendly as live in. In such discussions, where the sociate. The beginning of the wrong underlying principles of life are consid then was with ourselves and we did bring ered, and we arc thus drawn away from upon us that unpleasant occurrence. We the details of living, we come into a glow need not blame any other person. ing good will toward men, we find our-, Later in the day we meet the person in selves willing to withhold blame from whom we found our confidence had been even those who despitefully use us, we misplaced; how do we feel? Have we are filled with what seems to be an en that same friendly regard for him, do during sense of brotherhood. we realize that there is as much reason to In that enthusiasm we step out into like him as ever and, without accusing daily affairs again, into the thick experi him of any injustice toward us, can we ence, and what happens. accept his companionship as before? This Suppose we walk a little distance and can be done and it will be done if we live meet some one with whom we have asso up to what we acknowledge is true. And ciated for some time. Instead of the us yet. to accept “that companionship as be ual friendly greeting he begins to re fore" does not mean that we shall contin proach us, he heaps abuse upon us be ue to repose confidence where we ought cause, he says, we—whom he had always not to. The only time when it is safe to trusted—have betrayed his confidence. tell what we do not wish to have repeated Are we somewhat brought down from is when the other person sees the situation our calm brotherly love, do we feel in just as we do, when there is equal judg clined to blame him for bringing such un ment and loyalty in both. Still we can pleasantness into our experience? But accept the companionship of anyone for perhaps we remember that we did tell just .what it should be, if we can under something—just a little—to a person stand and can give it its proper place. whom we felt sure we could trust. It Can we have a person lie to us—or was not much and we saw no harm in about us—and retain our feeling of telling the bit of news but—how do we brotherly love; can we stand, the object feel toward the person who “betrayed of someone’s anger and not allow that our confidence?” We may say, “If that blast to dry up the welling springs of person had not told, this would not have good will toward a ll; can we find our best 292 Higher Life words, acts and intentions misunderstood good may manifest differently, yet it is and our sincerest offered friendship “de always good. We have only to ally our clined with (or without) thanks” and still selves with truth absolutely and we shall retain the poise, the calm which comes live true brotherhood. from not only knowing that we are re It is possible to be so grounded in sponsible for our own lives but from ap brotherhood that the experience of others plying that knowledge to practical living. is as much a joy to us as our own would Only through such application do we be; it is possible to do something of value make that knowledge of value. 'for another and to have the doing of it so What is brotherly love anyway? Some much a part of our own living that we seem to believe that universal brother really feel surprised if gratitude is ex pressed. We do not require “thanks” hood means universal association; that we shall make companions of all persons; when we are doing what we can for our that we shall welcome one as warmly as selves and if we are one with someone else, why should we look for thanks another; that there shall be no individual when we have done all that we can for preferences. him? Not so do I understand brotherhood. And yet it is not to be forgotten that It seems to me that one may have a genu brotherhood is just, it does not permit ine consideration for the good of others, sacrifice. It is not brotherhood that de a willingness to give just assistance to mands of us to overlook what is just to others, (justice works both ways, you ourselves in order to grant to another know, toward yourself as well as others) what he may think he desires. What the an unfailing care not to overlook other’s just, true out-working of brotherhood is interests in carrying out one’s own, and can only be known with real insight, and in such ways fulfill brotherhood many each must see for himself. times where there may be no association Understanding must be back of every at all between ourselves and those toward thing after all. We must not only under whom we feel that abiding union. We stand the principles of life, but also how are indeed one life and if we live as such to live them out in experience. we cannot violate another’s rights, al It is agreeable to be raised out of con though, because we are not cast in one ditions into that quiet poise where the mould, because we have individuality and deeper truths of life are known, it exalts different purposes, we may have no right one to feel one’s deeper insight and guid or reason for close association with ance, thus recognizing one’s own respon many. Association grows out of our fit sibility for what is in one’s life, it is good ness for one another, but brotherhood is to feel the farm enthusiasm of brotherly fundamental, is in the order of real life love; but all this is of no real value if we and in true living brotherhood never fails. do not carry it out into all our experience Life, truth, is not partial, it works the life and apply it in all our dealings with good of one as well as of another; the others.

Keep your feet on the Earth, though your gaze be fixed on the Stars. —William Walker Atkinson Studies in Reincarnation

NO. XI.—SUFFERING AND DESIRE. By L. M. Hughes

This is one of the series of Studies in Reincarnation by L. M . Hughes, which have been running in this magazine for several months past, and which have attracted much favorable comment The subject of the present study, "Memory of Past Lives", is most important in the general subject of Reincarnation, and occurs naturally to all who first begin to consider the matter. Many New Thought people accept the teaching of Reincarnation usually in some one of its modified forms; many others reject the idea in favor of the doctrine of Spiritual Progression from plane to plane without the necessity of return to an earthly body; while many others combine the two general ideas. In either case, the present series of studies must prove interesting as setting forth the teaching which are held as true by a very large proportion of the earth's inhabitants. The New Thought has no fixed Articles of Belief, but extends to each of its followers the right of individual interpretation, judgment and belief. In a general w ay, however, it may be stud that New Thought people generally accept the fundamental idea of the Oneness of Life, and the idea that each Ego in evolving divinity and moving Godward. But just how the evolutionary process is proceeding is a matter which the individual decides for himself, and he usually does so decide, in fact, he frequently changes his opinion several times as his ideas develop and his spiritual insight grows clearer.— The Editor. T some period of his life, every endure brutal treatment by drunken par thoughtful person has taken cog ents, and to suffer one long agony of ter nizance of the frightful amount ror, neglect and disease. Or why two of pain and suffering in the world, and little boys who have harmed no living has marvelled that a good and loving soul, should go out to amuse themselves Creator should permit such a state of in a public New York park—as recently things to exist. Many have been driven happened—and become the victims of a to utter disbelief in any God at all, by wandering assassin, one of them linger what appears to them practical evidence ing through many days of pain in a hos of universal cruelty in nature; while pital, where his physical sufferings were others have found the explanations of enhanced by the mental horror of still fered by the religions, of suffering either believing himself at the mercy of the as a punishment for sin, or as a means murderer. of purifying and ennobling those who No. The mind that has evolved suffi undergo it, to be inadequate and unsat ciently to think for itself and that is no isfactory. They note how frequently longer content to accept and echo the the largest share of suffering falls to the thoughts of others, requires some more lot of the best and saintliest people who reasonable elucidation of this mystery, apparently stand least in need of purifi and I suggest that reincarnation offers cation; how much of it is laid upon in just such a reasonable theory in assuring nocent children and animals; how often us that while suffering is essential to the the “wicked” seem to escape it alto progress of the Ego on his difficult up gether. Christian teachers have been ward path, he can suffer nothing except forced to allay the perturbation of their as a result of his own past thoughts, as followers by assuring them that all will pirations and action. With regard to the be straightened out in a future life of physical sufferings of animals, it must bliss or damnation. But this teaching in be remembered that although they have no way explains why—for instance—a not yet received the Divine spark of child with a soul newly created and com Mind, and are therefore not responsible ing fresh from the hand of God (as the to the same extent as man, they are sub churches maintain), should be born to ject to the same law of cause and effect;

293 294 Reincarnation and since every living creature preys up the desire for Fame, for leadership, for on some lower organism, or has done so love, that urges men of a larger growth during the long struggle for existence, to heights which they would not other while it passed from form to form, we wise attain, and it is during the climbing can see that there must be an enormous of these heights that he endures pangs accumulation of Karmic debts of phys of mental anguish which are unknown to ical pain, to be paid off in the animal the less developed man. The artist de kingdom. sires to express his ideal—“the thing as Suffering is very closely related to de he sees it"—on canvas, and his repeated sire. Almost every form of suffering failures cause him very real mental suf may be traced to the thwarting or non- fering; the sculptor desires to awaken fulfilment of a more or less definite de from out the cold marble, figures that sire. All action is prompted by desire— seem to live; the musician desires to call desire for the fruit of action, not the ac forth from his instrument, combinations tion itself—and when this fruit is ob of sound which will convey to all the tained, it is often found to be bitter to the world, the pent-up longings and sorrows taste and a cause of suffering. If unob and joys that lie hidden in his own soul. tained, the desire grows in intensity, and Failure, in each case, produces mental suffering, once more, results. To take a suffering. If, on the other hand, the de few very simple illustrations: sire is gratified and the man finds himself An infant cries, not because it enjoys raised to the pinnacle of fame, crowned the act of crying, but because it has de by the world’s approval and admiration, sire for food, for change of position, or he suffers again. “Is this all?” he asks some other creature comfort, having himself. “It does not give me the pleas learnt that the satisfaction of its desires ure I expected. The world knows noth is the usual response of its cries. Should ing about my art. It only praises because no one be at hand to attend it wants, the So-and-so has made me the fashion. I hunger or discomfort increases, until suf am not satisfied with my attainment." fering follows. Men labor, not because Of course, he is not satisfied, because it they love the action involved in is only the struggle that is worth while. labor, but because they desire its When the desire has been gratified, we fruits,—money, ease, good food, lux no longer value it. We want something uries. It is the desire for sentiment more. It is of the very essence of the that binds us all to the necessities of Divine Monad manifesting in each of our reincarnation, and therefore the necessity little lives, that it should be forever striv of suffering Desire, at the present stage ing upwards; forever seeking what lies of our evolution, is not, in itself, wrong. beyond; forever desiring more than it has Without its spur, primitive man would already acquired. And by this very de have no incentive to begin his upward sire and longing we are goaded on climb. The savage—through whom an through the lower to the higher attain infant Ego is manifesting—hates work ment. Turning to the analysis of an of any kind. He would spend bis time other form of suffering—that which basking idly in the sun, but that hunger reaches us through the affections—we —the desire for food—compels him to go shall see, once more, that desire is at the out hunting or fishing, and prompts him root of our pain. Suppose we have a to the exercise of his ingenuity in order dear friend whose mind has been poi the more easily to entrap his prey. It is soned against you, or who goes away to a distance and forgets us. We suffer keenly, and tell ourselves that we do so because we have lost our friend; but I think if we subjected our feelings to a frank investigation, we should find that the real cause of our suffering lay in the which underlies the statement that all recognition that our desire for affection personal consciousness ceases when we was denied, and our friendship not suffi reach the Nirvanic plane. ciently appreciated. W e r e o u r lov e tru e, Reincarnation teaches that in Nirvana sincere, and untainted by all desire of re we are no longer limited to earthly con turn, there would be no suffering. We sciousness, but become one with the uni might feel some regret that our friend versal; that all sense of separateness— had not yet learned the value of love, but of “you” and “I"—is at an end, but that we should know that he would awaken each individual, although immersed in to the knowledge some day, resting con the One Eternal Life, is still an individ tented, meanwhile, in the certainty that ual. just as a drop of water when swal our friendship was not wasted—-no love lowed up in the ocean is still a drop of can ever be wasted—and that it followed water,—a part, and a very real part of our friend and hung around him like a the whole. bright cloud, warding off evil from his If we wish to escape from pain and path and helping him, even though he suffering, we must seek to reduce the was unconscious of its presence. number and strength of our desires. To When one whom we love passes over perform our daily duties, not in order to to the Other Side, are not our violent receive any reward, but just because in grief and suffering traceable to our per performing them Ave are serving the sonal sense of loss ? To the bitter knowl world, be it in ever so small a degree. To edge that our craving desire to see him love, not because this person is related daily as of yore, to hear his voice, to en to us, or that person loves us, but because joy his sympathy, can no longer be ful all humanity is one with ourelves and filled? Were ours the perfect love of with God. To carry out any work that which all human will one day' be capable, may fall to our share in the very best we should not suffer, but rejoice rather, way possible, not because we want to see that he had lived through one more iife and gather in the fruits of our work, but period, and was so much the nearer to because it was given us to do, and we are bis final liberation. carrying out the Divine intention in it* Thus we see that although desire is a right execution. Then, when we no necessity of human evolution, it is at the longer have any desire except—as Jesus root of all our suffering, and is the causa expressed it—“To do the will of Him of our continued generation of fresh that sent us,” \\^ shall no more be forced Karma, which leads us back into incarna to resume our weary pilgrimage on earth, tion. The higher we evolve, the grander but shall pass on to higher and more- and nobler become our desires, until we glorious phases of evolution, onward and reach a point where we realize the transi ever onward, until we reach the absolute tory nature of all manifested life, and bliss of re-union with the One great begin to long for freedom from re-birth, Consciousness who sent us forth in order —for the attainment of Nirvana. that we might, through aeons of varied Many people have an idea that Nir- experiences, evolve into His own image. The Law of Crystallization

By Henry Harrison Brown

‘See the Workings of that Law by Which the Foundations of the Earth were Laid—the Law and the Mystery of Crystallization.”—John Burroughs.

HOUGHT is Power! Thought is wisely says: “Beware when God lets Individualized Power. Thought loose a thinker. It is as when a confla is Omnipotent Power realizing gration breaks out in a cityd” Itself. Thought is the manifestation of A great error is born in ignorance of the Self-Consciousness of Absolute Pow this fact. Efforts are made to organize er which we term, God. and hold people together by thought. So He who thinks, is to that degree indi cieties, churches, orders, parties, and like vidualized. To the degree that one does organizations, are formed, with articles not think, he is but the instrumentality of faith, statements of principles, plat through which omnipotent power works forms and creeds; but they hold only as by the same methods which IT works in prisons hold by forbidding one to think. all realms, where scientists, finding the Where there is freedom of thought, or regular occurrence of phenomena, term ganizations are few, are weak in num this perception of regularity—Law. bers, but the Power. Vide the Unitarian The Human Individual controls cir and other liberal churches. Co-operative cumstance, controls environment. The communities and associations are formed Individual that has not yet evolved out of those who accept certain principles, of the animal matrix is still subject to but they dissolve for want of that one these same methods and is slave to Law. thing alone that can hold them together. The perfect Individual is Law unto him —The Law of the crystal is not in them. self. Man in the units that make the race, “What God has joined together" man should be so individualized that he con cannot break asunder. The crystal is so trols the ALL to his Desire and Will. joined no matter into what microscopic By his thought, each member of the pieces a crystal of any mineral is broken, race is differentiated from his fellows. that piece is a perfect crystal still, and in No such thing as “unity of thought” is shape like its parent. It will break thus, possible. The mathematical problem, the and if dissolved, it will recrystallize in the same strain of music, the same scene, same form. It has no choice. The abso the same poem, do not awaken the same lute—the God—works Its will in it. thought in any two who hear, or see When Man—the Son of God—shall them. use this same method in forming his so Thought is a disintegrating force in cieties and homes, using the same form state and society. Therefore, Emerson of Omnipotent Power, using the same 296 Henry Harrison Brown 297

Mode of Motion the Father uses, then I AM 1 For nothing but thought makes will his crystals of Humanity not be me that “I” which I am. broken. All mankind feel the same sensations Crystals of rock, or of Human individ of pleasure and pain of joy and sorrow; ualities, are not drawn together by intel of health and disease; of love and its ab lectual perceptions of Truth. They come sence. There is no difference in kind, together because the ARE truth. There from the anger of savagery and of educa is no choice in mineral, vegetable or ani tion ; between mother-love in Indian and mal forms of life. The Human alone in English poet; but there is a difference has choice. To the extent one exercises in degree and in manner of manifesta choice he leaves the animal matrix, in tion. which he was incarnated that he might W e have here a key to the crystalliza outgrow it, behind him. He becomes tion of society, of family and of state. through the exercise of Choice, Desire All organizations must be founded upon and Will, a Human Being. Man is com a common FEELING. There is no com ing. As long as an individual has any of mon thought. Founded upon percep the animal submission to environment tions of Principles, they fail. Found and to the instincts and tendencies which ed upon the FEELING which that he brings up from the animal with him, or those Principles awaken, and there he lacks that much of being Human; is cohesion. It is the esprit du corps lacks that much of being— Man. that makes the army; the “spirit of the school,” that makes the real Man is distinguished from animal by school; it is the enthusiasm in the order, his power to convert the Life he is in into or party, that gives it power; it is the Thought. The Principle of conversion is Love in the reformer that enables him to identical with that by which gravity is stick under rebuffs; it is the Love of cre converted into electricity, and elecericity ating that holds the inventor, and it is into light. Life is converted into that LOVE that binds man and wife, and the which i s o n e i n all, and allies him with inmates of the home. brute and vegetable life and that is SEN This LOVE is G od! God. or It, is but SATION. Man feels before he thinks. that sub-conscious Reality, lying below Must feel first. His Manhood is meas the thought of man, below the instinct of ured by his power to control and to con brute, the heredity of vegetable, and the vert FEELING INTO THOUGHT. will of the mineral. Love (the human The position taken above that it is in form) is that Attraction, everywhere I Thought that individuals differ, that present, that holds universes and atoms Thought differentiated Man from brute, together^ Attraction is called by various is explained. Man is the only TH IN K names; but in the Human alone is it ER. He i s not a thinking animal. Ani Love. Love is as different from the self mals have nothing in common with protection, and reproductive instinct of Thought. They FEEL and act. Man brute, as is sunlight unlike tone. Both under animal control, acts as he feels; are vibrations of the ONE acting upon but Man emancipated from the animal the Ego, but are unlike in pitch; so Love feels, THINKS and then acts. Because in the Human differs in pitch from all Man is Thought, the Law of Suggestion other forms of attraction. God is LOVE, is the one only Law to which he is sub only in MAN. God is Gravity between ject. I AM T H AT W H IC H I T H I N K masses; is cohesion between atoms, but 298 Crystallization between Human expressions of ITSELF Spiritual attraction is the Human bond. IT is LOVE. It is not that of the body, not that of mat The New Thought movement recog ter. It does not indite sonnets to eye nizes this, for it deals with that which is brows, and tell of taper fingers. Without Subconscious. It teaches the GREAT words, it communicates, soul to soul. EST LESSON Man ever had taught With this form of Love, children begot him, namely—HE AS A CONSCIOUS ten, will be men and women. In them the INDIVIDUAL CAN, BY HIS brute will have been crushel out and the THOUGHT, CONTROL TO HIS DE tiger muzzled by non-expression. Love SIRE, THE GOD THAT IS IN HIM : is the strongest form of Universal At — That through belief in himself as GOD traction. W e go hunting for it and make manifest he can direct his Life. Through mistakes. Burroughs, in the little poem this direction he realizes the truth of the from which I take my title, asks the ancient prophet, “He hath given Man maiden why this anxiety, for he says: dominion over all things!” This domin “Lo, thy lover seeketh thee.” ion lies wholly in his power of thought. Love seeketh and is drawn to its own, Thought to control that sub-conscious but its seeking is in thought; in truth! manifestation of Absolute Power; and This faith is sung in that song of Hugh this sub-conscious Power in Man, is Conway's: LOVE. "The world is wide— but Love, at last, Therefore the Power which makes the Our hands and hearts shall meet some Human crystals of whatever name, is day.” LOVE. Love fights and wins every bat The Love that is ours in other souls tle ; for it is LOVE of country, and not will come to us when we have developed thought of country, that wins. It is attraction to draw it—that is when we LOVE of Truth and not its intellectual , love enough. I f we love on the animal perception that is of attractive and hold plane we draw love in that plane. If we ing power. To see Truth is not to LIVE love on the commercial plane, we draw Truth. We live that which we Love. the same. If we love spiritually, then There is but one thing to teach— spiritual love will be ours. Love for us Brotherhood—“That ye LOVE one an exists like all Supply in “The All Embrac other !” Where there is LOVE there the ing Good,” whence Miss Philura, in the best manhood is born and bred. Where story, drew hers. Faith in the Soul as love is lacking, there vice and illness Love,—then Love comes. Such a union breed. Love alone can bring the Soul can have no divorce, and the children into perfect manifestation. LOVE can born of it will be spiritually unfolded. do all things. It can change the brutish has a fine word human, into a lovable one. For “Love with which to close these words: never faileth.” "God measures souls by their capacity But that which is called Love by For entertaining his best angel, Love. the masses, which theologians call Love Who lovest most is nearest kin to God, in their opposition to divorce, is merely Who is all Love or nothing. . . . the animal instinct of reproduction, plus . . . What God wants of us a little of the human. Eliminate the ani I v that out-reaching bigness that ignores mal and you have that pure form of at A ll littleness of aims, or loves, or creeds, traction with which God joins individuals And clasps all earth and heaven in its together, i. e., the attraction of soul. embrace,” (Telepathy means “the transmission of thought direct from one mind to another." Is it unreasonable to think that the Mind of Man which has evolved and by the use of great blunt fingers budded the delicate Wireless Telegraph Machine which transmits thoughts through space, is able to transmit thought directly without the use of a machine of of any kind? The editors have been interested in Telepathy for many years, and this department is devoted to the conduct of a gigantic Telepathy Experiment. The original purpose of the Experiment was to gather data proving that one man could reach and influence large numbers of people at one time; to develop a great many sensitive Telepathy receivers; to discover as many as possible of the laws of Telepathy; and to bring into the lives of the receivers a force for good health, success and happiness in the study and thought of these things and in the weekly periods of communion with the sender and each other. The Experiment has over four thousand enrolled members in every part of the civilized world, who make an effort to receive simultaneously a message sent from Nevada, Missouri, at nine P. M. each Thursday night. The first message was sent September 12, 1907. Since then not a Thursday night has come and gone unobserved by the sender, Sidney A . Weltmer, and the thousands of receivers enrolled. Much has already been achieved, but much more is yet to be learned. M any have been healed, many turned upon the road to success and happiness, and many have developed a high degree of psychic power. Membership is free to all interested studentsnts of these subjects— there being no strings attached to this free privilege. Anyone making appli cation will be enrolled, given a number, and sent free our complete course of lessons in Telepathy and Success—our “Telepathy Calendar." The messages and results are reported each month in these pages.)

Because I have been hindered in writing of these days. A good chat that will not this report until the magazine will have to be be dignified and restrained and be stilted held up in order that it may go in at all, and by the title “article,” in which I can tell space will have to be made for it, and added "you,” not “the reader,” what “I” not “the length will mean only added delay, I shall writer,” think about certain matters. But not condense it just as much as possible and delay this time. the public announcement of the program for April 7. the future of the Experiment until next The Message:—Mind Controls Matter. month. Reported results:—Not very encouraging. I find through the enrollments coming in One lady whose number is 2.S45B, Minn., and the mention made of the Experiment in reported as follow s:—“I am king in the men letters, not to mention the interest manifested tal domain.” This might be construed as m in a lecture I gave in Cincinnati on this some way related to “Mind controls matter,” subject last week, through these sources I and while it is not very close, it does still find that a great deal of attention is now be seem to embody something of the idea, and ing paid to the subject of telepathy and I in view of the fact that it is such a welcome believe that, when we have fully reorgan relief from the “God is loves” and “Love ized our class and got started on the new one anothers” with which the most of the program of experiments, now preparing, we receivers constantly regale me, I think that, shall find that we can print very different in gratitude, we mav be allowed to call reports than the strict honesty, which com 2,545B a sensitive. mon decency compels us to observe in the Mr. A. A. S., Pa., was very much impressed writing of this report, now enables us to do. in this test with the vivid appearance of the 1 believe that interest is one of the prin receiver to him, both at the time of sitting cipal factors in making telegraphy experi for the message and next day while he was ments s u c c e s s f u l . plowing. This often happens and is rather But here, this is not the way to set about an indication that the one who sees the abridging this month’s report! I'll have to “vision” is clairvoyant, or at least has a forego the pleasure this month but I prom tendency in that direction, and such “vision” ise myself a good chat with my readers one should be discouraged, for success i:i tel- 299 300 Telepathy epathic receptivity, dnce it tends to bring sciousness of the subconsciously received idea ibout symbolic representation of the mes which the sender was trying to impress upon sages, which is always more or less con her mind, there being a pretty general figura fusing. There is also a certain danger con tive connection seen between climbing moun nected with the cultivation of irresponsible tains and overcoming difficulties and grasp and uncontrolled clairvoyance which lack of ing opportunities. space prevents my explaining but which is Then, Miss C. E. S. M., Mass., reports “My of sufficient importance to lead me to gen strength is sufficient” which might, “in a erally advise against its cultivation. pinch” be construed as the expression of C. E. S. M., Mass., suggests that a strong what is necessarily implied in the message bond of friendship is necessary between send which was sent. er and receiver in order that telepathic in Of these three T think perhaps the first terchange may be effective and accuses the is the best, but none of them are as good "spirits” of failing to keep promises they as I would want them to be if I were to have made that they will carry messages call them “sensitive” as I ordinarily classify for her. I think that such a bond is an un these reports. I leave the matter of the de doubted assistance, but that it is not nec cision to the reader. essary and does not suffice to produce such April 21. communication is obivious. Her experience with the “spirits” and mine are similar. I The Message:— I A m F u l l o f H o p e. This should like to hear if anyone else has had message was sent by Prof. S. A. Weltmer, any experience w’hich proves that “they” who generally sends the message, and, be really can carry such messages. cause he was away from home and I did not know but that he might forget it, I sent April 14. another, as follow s:—

The Message:— W a k e t o Your Opportu Thoughts Are Seeds of Destiny. nities. Reported results:—Were far from en Reported results:—Again, I have to report couraging and indicate that, so far as the that none reported the message correctly, reports received are concerned, at any rate, but here are three which seem to me to all of the hard thinking that I did that night show some slight sensitiveness, although not was wasted, that it beat itself to silence upon of a character which would stand very well some invisible shores and unattuned ears, in a rigid investigation. For the reason that if indeed it created any disturbance what they are of such doubtful character, I give ever in the ether, while the message sent by them as they come to me in order that “the my father fared little if any better. reader” may judge for himself whether they One report might give him a little hope if show more or less sensitiveness than I have read with enough leniency and desire to credited to them. find there a rendering of the true message. It is “I know that I have a protector and re Mrs. G. E. H., S. C., reports, “Arise, shine, deemer above” W. A. A., Tex. If the other for thy light is come.” That seems to me to sender can find any comfort in that report embody the same idea as “Wake to your he is welcome to it, for that would not make opportunities” expressed quite differently. It me feel that I had been successful. It may is likely that in the sender’s mind there were be that I feel this way about it because I many forms of this idea during the time did not reap even a very doubtful measure that he was meditating upon it, some definite of success. and some indefinite as to wording, and it might well happen that some of these might April 28. suggest the idea reported, the wording be The Message:—Sleep and be Restored. ing supplied and finished out in the receiver's mind. Reported results:—The preceding three weekly tests were brilliant successes compared Receiver L. L., N. Y., reported seeing “a with this one. I have never read a more very steep mountain and two teams coming “wide-awake” bunch of reports. It often down it on one side, I climbing up on the other happens that someone has been sleepy but side and it did not tire me.” This might this week that seemed to be the one thing be a possible symbolic representation to con farthest from their thoughts. EDITORIAL CH AT By William Walker Atkinson

Iu this department the editor will relieve his mind of sundry matters which are found to be pressing for expres- sion—matters grave, or matters trivial, it makes no difference.% In so doing he makes no pretense to gravity or serious demeanor, but, feeling that he is talking informally to a circle of friends gathered around the family table, the fireplace, or even around the big stove in the cross-roads store. Those who insist upon perpetual gravity and seriousness are wsmed away from this department— there is enough seriousness in other parts of the magazine, and the editor is determined to keep one place at least where he may relax and talk to his friends informally. There is a grave danger in taking oneself too seriously—and this department is the safety-valve. In this department, also, we shall answer criticisms of New Thought (the movement, not the magazine; which may appear in other publications, whether such be favorable or unfavorable, together with comments upon the same. T h e favorable criticisms we shall welcome, of course, and the unfavorable we shall likewise welcome, for we believe that, in the end, “every knock is a boost'' Moreover, if New Thought cannot stand its share of adverse criticism, so much the worse for New Thought At any rate, we think that w e can take care of our end of the discussion in such cases. In our comments, we shall endeavor to be fair and tolerant. If w e depart from this principle, we trust that you will call our attention thereto, and we will “fess up." W e must confess, however, that we find within us a disposition to be intolerant of intolerance. We feel so strongly that no one has any corner upon truth — no monopoly of knowing — that when others claim to be "the only real thing" we are apt to vigorously dispute the claim. If such sucl feeling crops out too strongly in our "comments", pray remember that it arises from no personal grudge or spirit of partizanship, but simply from the desire and demand for the maintenance of “the open door” to truth. - W e ask that our readers clip and send to us anything relating to the New Thought movement, favorable or adverse, that same may be noticed in this department. SUNSHINE VS. MOONSHINE. likewise, by “psychic” is not meant the N the teaching of the ancient oc normal psychological or mental pheno cult and esoteric societies, broth mena, but, on the contrary, it implies the erhoods, and orders, we find a abnormal and unhealthy subjective states constant reference to “the sun” and “the of mind which have always existed to moon” aspects of occult teaching. To plague the teachers of true spirituality. the uninitiated these terms may seem to The symbol of the “sun” has always have merely some astrological or per stood for true knowledge and mental and haps astronomical significance, but the spiritual strength, while the “moon” sym initiate knows that these terms are really bol has always stood for the wierd, un figures of speech, or symbols, employed canny, abnormal, terrifying and un to convey the teaching regarding the two healthy psychic phenomena which has several phases of occult teaching, i. e., the served as the ignis fatuiis or “will-o’-the- ‘‘spiritual” and the “psychic,” respective wisp” to delude seekers after Truth, ly. These terms are in use today among which lures them away from the main students of the esoteric philosophies, and road and into the morasses and quag retain their ancient significance. The mires of the abnormal psychic states. “sun” i^ always the symbol of the inner The sun has ever been associated with spiritual'teaching, while the “moon” is the life-giving power and sustaining always the symbol of the psychic phase strength, while the moon has ever been of the teaching. But, by “spiritual” is associated with unreality, falsehood, ab not meant the religious emotionality normality and unhealthy mental states. which to many is indicated by the term The Latin word for- moon, lima, served —on the contrary, it implies the teaching as the root for the words, “lunatic," “lun which deals with the spirit or essence of acy,” and their derivatives—in the cur things, and its manifestation through the rent idiom, “loony” and “moon-struck” phenomenal or objective forms. And, are in common use, and need no defini 301 302 Editorial Chat tion, and the term "moonshine" is fre around in a dazed condition of mind, and quently used to indicate fanciful and un exerts a baneful, depressing, unnatural real statements, teachings or theories. influence. There is nothing “soulful" or I have mentioned the above facts in “spiritual" about these states of mind— order to explain why I use the terms they are caused by emotional excesses “sunshine” and “moonshine” to desig and subjective debauches. They are akin nate certain opposing tendencies in the to the morphine, opium, or cocaine hab New Thought movement. History has its—they are the result of psychic “dope” repeated itself here, and we find the nothing more and nothing less. It is no same old conditions which have ever mark of “spiritual attainment" to be able confronted the teachings of the esoteric to “see things”—it is no mark of soul truths and inner teachings of philosophy growth to be able to “feel things.” To and metaphysics. Starting with the “sun make oneself “sensitive” to the sugges shine,” and enjoying its beneficient rays, tions and mental states of those around some of the New Thought folks have one is certainly not “development”—one been attracted by the “moonshine” of somehow sympathizes with those who "psychism” and have been lured away call the whole psychic business "dcvil- from the main road—many have found opment" when he thinks of, or worse themselves floundering in the morass and still, actually sees these cases. stuck fast in the quagmire. But the most I meet persons evert’ week who seek to annoying feature is that many of these impress me with their wonderful “prog “psychic” people and teachers boldly ress” in attaining these states of hyper claim that theirs is the true spiritual sensitiveness, hyper-aesthesia, hyper-sug teaching,” and that those who refuse to gestibility—they gaze at me in indignant follow them into the swamp marshland wonder when 1 mildly mention the fact “lack spiritual understanding.” This that 1 think that their progress has been would be most amusing to those who backward. They regard me as one "lack know the history and principles of the ing understanding of the higher truths,” esoteric philosophies, were it not so piti and again seek their accustomed mental ful. When one sees well-meaning and opium-joints and dope-parlors. I have honest people deluded into cultivating listened to some of the teachers who queer psychic “states” under the belief seemingly seek to bring about in their that they are “acquiring spirituality”— pupils the same state of mental daze— when one sees them striving to induce the same condition of vacant-stare—as abnormal and unhealthy psychic “condi they, themselves, have acquired. Those tions” under the belief that they are “un who are familiar with the final condition folding their souls”—then the pity of it of some of these blind leaders of the all is realized. blind—these evangelists of “psychism I tell you friends that these “states” —need no further lesson, but alas! those and “conditions” are abnormal, unhealthy who flock around and after them do not and opposed to true spirituality. The know of these things. One has hut to Truth never weakens, nor does it make gaze into the eyes of these people to one "daffy”—it builds up, strengthens, see the facts—their eyes fail to show the develops a keener, stronger and more sunshiny radiations of strength and efficient mentality. The psychic “moon normality—their eyes reflect the "moon chine," on the contrary, weakens the rea shine" which is within their minds, the soning faculties, causes one to wander dazed, dreamv, far-awav stare of those Editorial Chat 303 who bask in the light of the moon. “By mental cocaine, morphine, hasheesh or their fruits shall ye know them !” “loco-weed" in them. Let us adopt the True New Thought has nothing to do Sunflower as our emblem, and leave the with these states of “moonshine,” nor Deadly Nightshade to those who love it. with the teaching which induces them. True New Thought belongs to the “sun “IS MYSTICISM PATHOLOGI shine” side of life—it strengthens all CAL?” those upon whom its rays fall—it arouses I ask you to read the following from the spirit, stirs the mind into activity, the pen of the dramatic critic of Hamp and causes the soul to blossom and bear ton’s Magazine (I haven’t his name at fruit. It has nothing whatever to do hand), which appeared in the “Plays and with the baleful, ghostly glare of the Players” department of a recent number “moon” side of things, which is but a of that excellent magazine. The critic distorted reflection of tbe true light. The says: “moonshine” never caused anything to “That eighteen-stone springbok of a con grow, on any plane of being—there is no versationalist, Mr. Gilbert K. Chesterton, strength to be extracted from its rays. once endeavored to prove to me that mysti cism is pathological. And the more I see of The sun governs the plane of natural these symbolistic plays, the more I—grudg growth and development—avoid any ingly—incline to believe that the Behemoth thing that seems unnatural, in teaching of Battersea is right. The brain which deals or practice. There is always a positive in abstract materials, which continually re and a negative side, phase or pole to jects concrete matters, which ‘refuses to come down to earth,’ has lost at least one of the everything—the “moon” side of things is attributes of the normal mind. It has lost this negative side of things which it is the sense of humor. Humor acknowledges well to avoid. It is not necessary to the eternal realities. It admits that while a fight off these “moonshine” things—just man has a weeping soul and a psychic pain, he also has a red necktie and a pair of dirty let the rays of the “sun” fall on them and ears. Humor is a great, bland, tolerant qual they will disappear at once, just as the ity. The lack of it is manifest in insane per rays of the sun neutralizes those of the sons and seems to point that a man without moon. humor is a man with a decadent brain. Let us ever hold fast to the positive “But I am not willing to abandon my sym bolists yet. I see their point. They claim side of the teachings of Truth and not that we none of us say what we really feel; allow ourselves to be deluded by the that the harsh words of everyday conversa negative aspect. The test is ever: “Does tion by no means interpret those spiritual this make me stronger?” Whatever weak bells which are ringing in all of us. There fore, they disdain to use the harsh, everyday ens one's mental or physical power is not words. The First Blind Gent, instead of Truth. Avoid as one would a pestilence saying: ‘Gee, I feel blue today,’ remarks the psychic “dope” when it is offered sepulchrally: ‘The mists, the mists, the mists. you. Refuse to deaden your mind and They rise in my soul, in my soul. Today. soul with the psychic opiate. Refuse to Today.’ Talking this way, he has done the square thing by his soul. Talking in the indulge in the psychic “jag.” Refuse to other way, he seems somehow to have gone develop (?) strange “states” and “con back on his soul, to have gone over to the ditions,” even though they be labelled jeering public, and to have allied himself with with the name of “” the vulgar crowd. “It is a pretty good theory, in its own sweet, or “the silence—the real “higher con foggy way. But it won’t work out in plavs sciousness” and “the silence” are far dif acted before the riffraff. You'll have to pick ferent things, and have nothing of the your audiences carefully, or somebody is go 304 Editorial Chat

ing to snicker, somebody is going to put a afflicted by the appearance of such inant dime in the candy box, and somebody is going prattle.” to snore—all at the most psychic times. You The second class of letters seem to must compose your audiences altogether of have been written by persons who are folks who are strong on giving their souls a square deal. Folks that are used to talking friendly to some fiction writers, whom this psychic conversation. Folks aesthetic-like, they imagine I have been attacking. (Of and limp and free, that are intense and can course, I am attacking no persons— stand oodles of moans; for, in these plays, many of these writers are really good no matter what the play is about, everybody groans dismally and carries on something writers, but they seem to lose their awful. power when they attempt to build a “I once knew a football player who had story along New Thought lines. It is what he called a ‘baby skin.’ Every time the very hard to “preach" and tell a story at teams smashed together, the referee had to the same time.) One friend, of this stop and carry Jim out to the side lines and class, calls my attention to a recent New let him groan a while. He wasn’t really hurt. It was just his skin. He claimed that the Thought story written by a very capable nerves came up too close under his skin and writer, which she states is quite good, made him touchy as Sam Hill. Now, I and “is really a New Thought story', imagine it’s the same way with your soul. If with just a touch o f Osteopathy.” Now you monkey with it too much, it creeps right up under your cuticle. Then, no matter what that is just the point—that “just a touch little earthly disturbance comes along, the of Osteopathy.” Why lug in Osteopathy blamed thing hurts frightfully. And you in a story ? W hy should Osteopathy be have to go on to the side lines and groan a worked into a tale any more than Hy while before you can get back into the game. dropathy, Homeopathy, Allopathy, the If you could get a lot of people together who had been in the habit of babying their souls Kneipp Cure, or any other “pathy”? until they had ‘baby soul,’ you would have an What have these things to do with fic ideal audience for a symbolistic play. But tion, pray? In the same way Vegetari there aren’t enough of that sort of people in anism and Fletcherism, the No-Breakfast a new country. Your country would have to I Man and Nut Diet have served as a text be as old as veil-lidded Asia or frozen Nor way. Youth laughs! Youth has a stomach, for New Thought (?) stories—often not a soul.” love stories at that. I remember one story in which the lovers partook of a NEW THOUGHT FICTION. nice little lunch, in which the “proteid elements" had been calculated to a nicety, I have received a number of letters and of which they partook a la Horace commending my attitude upon New Fletcher, so many bites to the minute in Thought fiction “as it is.” I have also fact. Now just imagine a pair of real, received several whose writers seemed to live, red-blooded lovers acting in that think that I had been too severe in my way! Pshaw! criticism. As a sample of the first class The heroes of these tales are usually of letters, the following will serve: pale, anaemic mollycoddles, and the her “I have read in your magazine, New oines emotional neurasthenics — both Thought, what you say in regard to New sadly needing “treatment" along sensible Thought fiction. My hat is on the ground lines. And, worst of all, there is evidenced to you. That is the most sensible thing I an almost total lack of the sense of humor have read in a long time regarding the class in these tales. A good hearty laugh of stories appearing in the various magazines of New Thought. I am glad to know that would bring the majority of them to a the readers of your magazine are not to be finish, and send their characters scurry- Editorial Chat 305 ing to get in hiding. They are hot-house another magazine. That’s fair enough, people—the sun has never shone upon isn’t it? them, neither has the air ever swept over the poor things. The best New Thought THE WOMAN’S SIDE. stories are not called New Thought fic A friendly reader has written me, mix tion at all. They are usually written ing her words of approval with the criti without any purpose of preaching, and cism that I don’t “give the woman’s side the New Thought comes in “natural of things an equal place with that of the like/’ in the shape of optimism, self-help, man’s.” Very likely, good sister! It is bits of sane philosophy of life, sugges hard for a man to get or give the wo tions, examples of mind-power, and the man’s viewpoint. Personally, my own like. Ever read the Life of Abraham idea is that a magazine of this kind Lincoln (any good one) ? Lots of New should be jointly edited by a man and a Thought in that—see the point? Lots of womans—each expressing himself or her New Thought in many a good novel of self freely and without reference to the current life, not to speak of many a good other’s views, and yet working in har old story written before .the term “New mony because of a common ideal of Thought” was coined. Lord bless us all, what the magazine should be. I believe New Thought isn’t preaching—it’s just that a man and a woman working for living, that’s all. You will find lots of it the same end can accomplish more than twice as much as either working separ in any tale of “live ones,” and precious ately. For instance, I believe that Louise little of it in the recital of the doings of Radford Wells and William Walker At the “dead ones.” New Thought means kinson, working together, could turn out being things, and doing things—not in a much better magazine than could either talking and preaching about things in of the said individuals working alone. If long drawn out, wearisome discourse, I had my way I would make such ar filled with vague, mysterious terms, and rangement, but, as the publishers and expressed with “intense” emphasis. New Miss Wells have some say in the matter, Thought, the best of it, at the last, is this arrangement is not possible. I am just plain, practical coimno?i sense— not trying to be anything else but my there it is in a nutshell. And the fiction self; for a man attempting to present the which best expresses the phase of hu “woman’s side” would be funny indeed. man activity in which human beings Mr. Bok, of the Ladies’ Home Journal, manifest the individuality within them— does it fairly well, but even he strikes in which people live and do—that is the the wrong note quite frequently—and best and only real New Thought fiction. then, I’m not Eddie Bok. It seems to I wish we could have more of it in place me, however, that there are many things of the mollycoddlish, anemic, bloodless, that should prove of equal interest to neurotic, faddish vagaries which are men and women alike—a common usually labeled “New Thought Fiction.” ground of interest upon which both can If some one will call my attention to a meet on perfect equality and comrad- good real New Thought story along these ship. It seems to me that upon a great lines I will give it the biggest sort of a number of things the “woman’s side” and free advertisement in these columns, the “man’s side” are practically the same. even though it happen to be running in Of course, the man will always look at a 306 Editorial Chat t

thing in a man’s way, and a woman in her aims, expounding her desires, and speak the woman’s way—but what of that? ing for her sex as a part of the community Isn't it really true that the best possible that deserves to be heard.” view is that which is built up of tbe com Not so bad for the “Thunderer," is it? bination of the man’s and woman's I he Suffragettes have evidently had an view? I have noticed that the most suc effect upon the editorial mind—or cessful men are very glad to get woman's nerves. opinion on their affairs—many of them Here is something which I enjoyed freely admit their indebtedness to their very much. It appeared in the Ncv. wives or private secretaries; and I have York Times: also noticed that the most radical “eman THE ANTIS. cipated" women find it advantageous to She was an Anti-Suffragist, from somewhere up the State, thrash out their plans with some intelli Who, thought it was her duty to offset the gent man. I think that the mind of each coming fate, sex acts as a balance upon the mind of the So, altho she was a spinster, she went lectur opposite sex, and that in this way tbe ing here and there “two heads are better than one.” There On “Wife and Mother, Home and Child, the Nursery, and Prayer.” are lots of things that a man’s mind misses that a woman’s catches easily; and Another of the Antis—a mother of thirteen— there are lots of things that a woman’s Saw Votes for Women coming and stepped mind usually overlooks that a man’s boldly on the scene; mind sees naturally. And there we are. She packed her little carpetbag and went from A man and a woman working together Troy to Rome, Just preaching to creation that “A Woman's will easily overbalance any two men, or Place is Hom e!” any two women, of equal intelligence and experience. Some men will not admit And there was still another—with a husband this—and some women refuse to ac meek as sand— knowledge it—but that’s the way it She used to tell the neighbors “she could train him with one hand!” seems to me, at any rate. - She said “he didn’t know as much as their But, looking over the magazine this old Texas mule,” month, I find that I have emphasized the But the text of all her lectures was, “Wives, “woman’s side” a little in one part of the Let Your Husbands Rule!” “Letter Box.” And, here are a couple of The next one was a widow who would gladly more items along the same lines which wed again; may help to balance up things a little. To her the weighty question was not alto The staid old London Times is being gether plain; affected by the New Woman, and an But thruout her lengthy lecture all the subject nounces that it will publish a “Woman’s matter ran That she wouldn’t vote for woman, but she Supplement” every Saturday. Its editor would vote for a man! says: “Special historians of the future may not The last had done the housework and the unlikely record that the most prominent fea farmwork all her life, ture of the present day was the outburst of Altho there was a farmer and she was this what might be called the collective conscious farmer’s wife. ness of women...... Only in our own She’d churned and hayed and gardened, paid day has there been heard, in all tones, from the taxes, saved the farm— the shriek of defiance to the grave softness of But she lectured on “The Comfort of a Mans good counsel, the voice of woman, declaring Protecting Arm!” Editorial Chat 307 * I can hear some old fellow growl: tive or destructive elements (conquest, en "Thought you were going to ‘stick to slavement, fraud, exploitation) all parts of the one must be benefited. The weak among your last.' Whitt'* all this to do with us cannot now acquire much strength from New T h o u g h t ? ” V e r y much, brother— New Thought teachings because the negative these are straws which show how the pressure comes in upon us in so many wavs wind is blowing in the direction of one- we are nearly crushed.” half of the race asserting its individu I think that the correspondent fails to> ality and right to think, feel, and act for see my position in refusing to devote itself. It is the sounding of the note: this magazine to Socialism, or the dis "I Can, I Will, I Dare, I Do,” by repre cussion of economics. There is much sentatives of fifty per cent of the race. truth in what she says about co-opera There’s lots of good sound New Thought tion, and much more could be well said working in this New Woman movement. along the same lines—is being said, in There's lots of hysteria also evident— fact, by many able Socialistic writers in but, talking of hysteria, did you ever see their publications. If no one else were a great crowd of men on the night of a saying it, there might be some reason for Presidential election, or gathered this magazine saying it. But we have our around a bulletin board watching the own little field to cultivate, and that is progress of the deciding game between as much as we can do. We cannot un the Giants and the Cubs? Watch ’em dertake to harvest the entire crop in one next July when the Jeffries-Johnson dis little field, can we? One field is used for cussion comes off! Oh, that’s different, raising wheat, another for potatoes, an of course! Quite so! other for fruit, and so on. There are many good Socialistic magazines—and NEW THOUGHT AND SOCIAL they stick pretty well to their text. Sup ISM. pose that some New Thoughter, who was also a Socialist, were to write to the A correspondent says: editor of The Appeal to Reason or some “Now if you do not find my blunt criticism too severe (I make it in friendliness and other Socialistic journal, telling him how with a desire to promote New Thought) I well New Thought fitted into Socialism,, hope that you will bear with me a little. and asking him to open his columns to If it is a New Thought truism that ‘There New Thought articles and discussion. is no success unless you get joy out of your Would he do it? Not a bit of it—and he work, and to get joy you.must share it with would be right in refusing. Some New others,’ it seems to me the more widely the joy is shared the greater the spread ©f New Thought people are Socialists, and some Thought. The plea of industrial co-operation are not. Those who are get their New pressed upon your notice by some of your Thought in one set of magazines, and readers means a systemmatic and world-wide their Socialism in another set—just as application of the Social Principle of Help they buy their bread at the baker’s and fulness. If to he helpful is to express Xe Thought, I cannot see how the advocacy of their meat at the butcher's. Nc, ma’am, wholesale helpfulness combined with per this shoemaker is going to try to stick to sonal and group helpfulness can lessen the his last—his friends must go the force of a New Thought publication. Since blacksmith’s for their horse shoes and to the least developed of us are parts of • h" the glovemaker for their gloves. Peo one, and therefore a drawback to the m ,re ple have a right to ride their own hob developed, when society can consciously ap ply *he positive or building principle (help bies—ride them to death if they choose— fulness, co-operatihnf and eliminate the nega hut they should not insist upon everybody 308 Editorial Chat else riding the same hobby. Give the question—nor could they ever do so. It other hobbies a chance. Individualism is is equally impossible for anyone today to just as true as Socialism—the real truth state clearly and expressly “just what probably lies between their two extremes, Emerson stands for.” But it is compara a fact that is often borne upon me when tively easy to state what he does not stand I listen to a discussion between a Social for. ist and a Philosophical Anarchist. I have I once wrote a hook in which I at listened to several of these in my time, tempted to state my own conception of and each time (after I had tied cold wet New Thought. The publisher chris towels around my aching bead) I have tened the book “The Law of the New thought, or said, “Me for the Middle of Thought,” which title was not in accord the Road!” But yet, at the same time, with my desires, inasmuch as I did not I have always recognized that there claim to lay down any “law,” but merely would be no “middle” were it not for the to give my own conceptions of the move two opposite sides. So, I guess it’s all ment. The book fills many pages, and right—there’s a better day a-coming, al even today gives as good an idea of my though we cannot exactly fix the date. conceptions as when it was written—but to many good New Thoughters it does “WHAT IS ‘NEW THOUGHT’?” not cover the ground fully. So, how 0. H. C. writes: “Referring to May issue of could I expect to answer the question in N ew Thought—if you repudiate these things, a few lines? In the sub-title of this astral bodies, a ‘Circuit Rider’s’ conception of magazine, “A Journal of Practical Ideal New Thought, etc., as not of New Thought, would you be kind enough to tell us, as inter ism,” I have tried to express my concep ested observers, what New Thought is, stating tion of New Thought in two words, concisely and precisely your foundation laws, “'Practical Idealism,” but even as I write precepts, and your platform, placing about it the words I am conscious that I am giv its boundaries and limits, so that we can dis ing but a view of one of the many phases tinguish and differentiate between what is and what is not New Thought, and can determine of New Thought. Several years ago a what field you cover and what you do not ?” writer in this magazine gave the follow This question will doubtless bring a ing definition of New Thought, in ten smile to the face of many old “New words, which I then, and now, consider Thoughters,” for it is a sample of the excellent. The definition was: “The rec question that is often hurled at them in a ognition, realization, and manifestation of tone, and accompanied by a manner, the Cod in me.” But, to show the va which seems to indicate that the ques riety of opinion, the then publisher of the tioner expects the “New Thoughter” to magazine considered this answer worthy be squelched. Inasmuch as the New of only the last place in the list of prize Thought has no set creed or platform, it winners in the competition. is almost impossible to say exactly what I do not know the inquirer in this case, New Thought is—it is much easier to but the wording of the question has a- say what it is not. In Emerson’s life decidedly theological color, to my mind— time, he and his fellow Transcendental - its “concisely and precisely” ; its “foun ists were frequently met with this de dation laws, precepts, and platform” ; its mand to “define” themselves—to state “boundaries and limits,” are reminiscent their creed or platform. It is unneces of the type of mind which evolves creeds, sary to add that neither Emerson nor the dogmas, rules of belief, catechisms, and Transcendentalists ever answered the articles of belief. I may be mistaken in Editorial Chat 309 this, but I have my suspicions. Did you frankly give up trying to do. Under ever hear the anecdote related of Ber stand me, please, my position is this in nard Shaw? He was once opposed at a the article referred to: I believe in public meting by a clerical dignitary, who throwing the New Thought doors open finally addressed him in a patronizing to persons of all shades of belief and dis manner, demanding: “Come, sir, now belief, allowing them to hold fast to tell us your principles.” Shaw replied: whatever notions and ideas they like— “Principles, my good sir ? I haven’t any. but I object to have their “side-ideas” I make ’em up as I proceed!” I fear that labelled as distinctively New Thought be like Emerson and Shaw, New Thought liefs, as did the “Circuit Rider’s” wife in must confess that it cannot be “defined.” the story. And, as I said in the May So far as “astral bodies” and “sich” number, about the woman calling on the are concerned, I would say that Theos “Circuit Rider” : “I think I know what* ophy teaches them as part of its beliefs, New Thought people are like—but never, but New Thought does not. Many good never did I meet such a person as this New Thoughters believe in astral bodies New Thoughter who shocked the good and reincarnation, while many others preacher.” But, my experience is limited equally sound in their New Thought, after all, of course, and there may have take no stock in such ideas. And yet, been such a person. But why should her both classes are in good standing in New idiosyncrasies be attributed to her New Thought, however they may differ about Thought, any more than another’s idi these particular teachings. In the same osyncrasies be attributed to his Method way many good New Thoughters are be ism. The “cranks” are not confined to lievers in spirit return, while others re any one fold—no belief has any monop ject it. Some are Christians, others oly on “freaks.” Biscuit is bread, but Jews, others Buddhists, others Brahmins, all bread is not biscuit—jackasses are some Theosophists, while other are Ag- quadrupeds, but all quadrupeds are not notics, Monists, Freethinkers, and still jackasses—a “queer person” may be a New Thoughter, but all New Thoughters others Pantheists of various shades of are not “queer persons,” nor are the belief. And yet all are good New “queer ideas” of the “queer people” hall Thoughters, and hold to the general idea marks of the New Thoughtism. There of “The recognition, realization and is a simple rule of logic which should be manifestation of the God in me” ; and in remembered in such matters, examples of the idea of “Practical Idealism” ; and in which we have just given. Oh, no! this the belief that “Thoughts are Things." is not intended as a definition of New But, bless you, brother, some of us are Thought—most decidedly not! I would Mental Scientists, while others are Chris be glad to hear from this inquirer, O. H. tian Scientists in all but allegience to Mrs. C., with his definition of New Thought, Eddy, while others take various places if he is equal to the task. I will print it between, these, two. poles—and how are in the magazine, providing ( 1 ) it is brief, you going to.“define” and classify such a. and (2 ) it is worded so as,to be “print heterogeneous “bunch” ?• If you can do it, able.” Fair play for all sides! Come on, you will accomplish something that I brother! THE WRONG PEW. You will notice that there is a pretty I receive many letters from subscrib full “Letter Box" this month. 1 have ers and others regarding the matter of consolidated the “Experience Meeting” renewing subscriptions, changing ad and the “Letter Box” by making the lat dresses, complaints about magazines go ter absorb the former. 1 think that it ing astray in the mails, wrong address, wrong expiration dates, and the thousand will work out better this way, for many and one things which belong to the busi of the inquiries really contain experi ness end of a magazine, and which are ences, and many experiences contain in daily features of every magazine office. quiries. Moreover, I have placed in that Now, friends, please don’t write ME department several things that ordinarily about these things. In the words of the would have had a place in “Editorial song, “You're in de right church, but dc Chat." Good reasons for that, too, I feel. wrong pew.” When letters of tills kind Do you know, I find that “Letter reach me, I have first to read thenl Box” about the most interesting depart through carefully, then place them itt ment in the magazine? It is full of hu another envelope and re*fhdil then! man interest, as manifested by real, to our business office, which is in live people who write in to me— another part of the city. This and I find that these letters draw means time lost for both writer ftttd out of me much more than I myself, all of which may be avoided if would ordinarily write in a regu such letters are addressed simply to lar article in the magazine. Nothing like "New Thought Publishing Co.” instead a question of drawing out one's idea— of to “William Walker Atkinson." Won't you please try to remember this in old Socrates was right about this; he the future. Then again, please, please taught his pupils in that way, you re don't imagine that I personally am re member. I trust that all of you will read sponsible for the running of every little this month’s “Letter Box”—it isn't at all cog in the business machinery of this cut and dried, I assure you. One of my magazine, with its many thousands of cir friends says that the “Letter Box” re culation, and so take me to task for any minds him of “restaurant hash,” for the little slip up in the same. I have troubles reason that he can “always find so many enough of my own. I believe that in things in it that he didn't expect to run work, as in tooth-brushes, every fellow across”—that fellow is inclined to be should stick to his own. If you feel that funny, though. Some of these letters are you must scold some particular person, please take it out on Mr. S. W. Weltmer. very kind, and some are very critical— who is the business manager of this or but, bless 'em all. for I like them even ganization. When you scold him, tell when the writers seem like Are keeper at him that I suggested it to you—he will a zoo I once visited who was vi mt to appreciate the kindness on my part. But “poke up” the animals with a stick that if you have any word to say about the “they might show all sides of ’em" to the reading-matter of the magazine, good or bad—why. I’m the fellow you're looking visitors. Poke away, friends—it doesn't for, for I certainly am responsible for hurt me, and it pleases you. (To tell the that end of the work and am ready and truth, I rather like it.) •* willing to listen to you. THE LETTER BOX Answers by The Editor

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NEAR-SUCCESS. I do not, never have, recogniz’cd fear or worry. I am highly optimistic and reverses Inquirer.—This correspondent writes as follows: “When you were in the habit of never discouraged me, in fact I am never happier than when I am on the firing line. going to church, did you often want to ‘Stand up in meeting and ask a few questions of the I have assumed responsibilities many times minister?’ I did! And I’m so glad you that few women would care to, in fact my friends all wonder at my willingness to have a letter box where we can send some tackle some problems. I believe my greatest questions when we get full to the brim and running over. I find many students of New- fault is lack of continuity of purpose. The Thought say that they do not realize results, moment a new business is well on its feet and running smoothly, I begin to get restless and I am one of the unsuccessful ones. All and plans for new ventures fill my brain, my life, without knowing it, I have practiced some of your teachings, and without dipping and I lose interest in the one well started. I have a business that gives me a good, com too deeply into personalities I want to state fortable living, but I am holding to the de my case. From a child I have been a natural mand for wealth, and its accompanying free 'leader.’ In earlier days ‘teacher’ relied on me dom from the daily grind now present. This to head the marches, start the singing, and seems to be a long discourse on myself, but he a prize pupil on entertainment day. As perhaps some other women have gone through a young girl my chums copied my clothes the same experiences, and will appreciate and came to me as a general counselor. As a wife my husband was more than willing also your judgment in the matter. New Thought has brought new life, new content to let me take the head. I look back now ment, to an extent, but I must have more. and wonder what would have happened if he had been a leader! As a widow early in How can I get it?” life I made many business ventures. Never It seem? to me that this inquirer has done really failed in anything and had several much in the direction of answering her own ‘near successes.’ I have always believed in question when she says: “I believe m y grea t the nimble penny, spent freely, always feel est fault is lack of continuity of purpose. ing ‘there will be more come in when this The moment a new business is well on its is gone.’ I have never saved or hoarded, feet and running smoothly, I begin to get and for years have had a constant mental restless and plans for new ventures fill my picture of myself as wealthy, really wealthy, brain, and I lose interest in the one well with money to gratify highly luxurious and started.” In order for anyone to bring a artistic tastes, and most of all to give those business to a successful conclusion, it is nec I love the advantages mainly produced by essary to stick close to it even after the ex wealth. While I have ‘desired’ strongly for citement and interest of the first stages have myself, my greatest desire has been to benefit died out. It is necessary to keep the flame others. Have lived with this mental picture of interest and desire burning steadily in for many years—why have I not realized it? order that one’s best work may be given The fault is mine, but where is my lack? to the task—one’s best mental activity em 311 312 Letter Box

ployed in it. “Stick-to-itiveness” is an im other side, the joy of creating does not pay portant factor in business success, and all the butcher’s and grocer’s bills half so well the authorities lay great stress upon it. But as the selling energy. Now, this is all very unfortunately many of us whose creative personal, but I feel better now that I have imagination is active find that after a thing it out of my system—and after all, doesn’t is finally launched and moving in deep water it fit in with the case of this inquirer. Can’t there comes a feeling of ennui and an in you see that she is suffering with just the clination to create some new thing—to build same trouble that I have mentioned? I a new craft for a new launching. I, per know just how she feels when she “begins to sonally, know this only too well. Here is a get restless and plans for new ventures fill personal confession: I have never built a my brain, and I lose interest in the one well thing and got it running nicely but that I started.” The creative instinct is like a began to lose interest in it and found myself grain of sand in a shoe, it gives one no planning an entirely new thing. I have written peace until the thing is shaken out. It is many books, but as soon as they were completed a good thing in moderation, but in order to I lost interest in them and found my mind be made profitable it must be well balanced planning out a new one along different lines. by the steady going faculty of continuity and Sometimes I started in to sell my own books, stick-to-it-iveness. It reminds me of the British and just when I got things running smoothly general who always used his Irish regiment I would chafe under the detail of selling, and for the charge, and his Scotch troops to back would feel that I was wasting time that up the movement. But, to get back to the should be used in purely creative work. That inquiry: Hasn’t this good lady met with a is the reason that all my books are now fair degree of success, after all? Is she a owned and published by other people. This failure, in view of what she states? There “creative instinct” is very fine in its way— are many who would be glad to have been but it interferes with plodding, steady busi as successful as she. Hasn’t she proved the ness managing. The inventor, designer, ar force of desire, after all? Didn’t she get tist or writer seldom is a good seller of his what she wanted, so long as she wanted it? own wares—as a rule others profit by his Isn’t it true that the trouble with her is that work. The ideal combination is a partnership she didn’t keep on wanting the same thing between one good creative mind and one good long enough. Didn’t she grow tired of want selling mind—these two things are seldom ing the same thing. She scattered her de combined in one person. Personally, I can sires and interest, instead of wanting the create things that sell well—and I can sell one thing right straight along until she got things with a fair degree of success—but I it? Its that way with me, I know. There are can do only one of these things at a time, many things that I know I could get today and when I attempt to combine them I do —but I am not willing to pay the price. I neither very well. The writer in me is al want the cake and the penny, too—and the ways chafing at the repression of his crea law says: “Nay, nay 1” The law of com tive instinct, while the salesman in me growls pensation is in full operation, as well as the at the writer for interfering with his push law of attraction—they are both the same ing of the business. So far, the writer part law in the end. We can get many things we of me has always “downed” the salesman of want—but we must pay the price, every time. the firm—much to my financial loss, for We must give up the penny before the piece there’s far more money in selling books than of cake is handed out to us. Is this thing, or in writing them. When I get the idea of a that, worth the price—are we willing to pay new book in the back part of my head, it the necessary price—are we willing to give up begins to work its way forward, and then this in order to get that? Ah, that is the the trouble begins. I get no rest until I get question we must answer, in the New it “out of my system,” and in the meantime Thought as well as out of it. Did you ever I am not much good for ordinary business think of this—every person who ever attained and money-making. Oh, yes, of course I success in any line of human endeavor, must get paid for my books, but nothing like I have, and certainly has, paid the price. The could make by using the other part of my wise man knows this and says “Yea, I have brain as hard and as long. And, after all, paid the price and am glad of it,” or “Yes, there is a pleasure in creative work that mere I must pay the price, and I will have the money-making cannot supply—but, on the thing nevertheless.” Those who have not Letter Box 313

learned this lesson, cry out: “Oh, I want this more or less than his rightful share. To n,y thing, but I cannot bear to pay the price”; mind, we cannot believe and trust in a be or “I have got what I sought out to get, but nevolent, impartial Higher Power (God) alas! 1 have had to pay, have paid to the without at the same time believing these full.” Success is open to us, but we must pay points, for they are the only logical deduc for it in full measure—it is a case of “take tions. Marie Corelli, in ‘Temporal Power,’ it or leave it; those are the only terms.” And, says: ‘To me it has become evident that the in the end, the chief joy of any success lies laws of Nature make for Truth and Justice; in the doing, the planning, the creating, the while the laws of man are founded on decep achieving, rather than in the actual value of tion and injustice. The two sets of laws the prize. What boy but gets more fun out contend, one against the other; and the finite, of the game, than from the handful of mar after foolish and vain struggle, succumbs to bles which he wins. Life is a Great Game the infinite. Better, therefore, to begin with —play it the best you know how, and try to the infinite order than strive with the finite enter into the spirit of it. If your interest chaos.’ If J. M. will begin with ‘the infinite is in your work, then the task is transformed order’ he will work his way out to Socialism into a game. Blessed is he who is able to which teaches that rent, interest and profit play his game in his work. He who finds the are the results, not of infinite order, but of game aspect of his work has before him a finite chaos. Socialism, when fully under source of joy which is without an equal. He has stood, is clearly but a recognition of the in a new game to play every day in the year. finite law and an effort to understand and Things may come and things may go—per apply it to life. It is mostly spiritual but sons may come and persons may go—but the includes the material adjunct of life—worldly game goes on forever to the man who man ‘life.’ Mr. Pentecost, by the way, was a ages to see the game aspect of life, for he Socialist, hence he taught that we should is ever the boy. And, when, at last that gather and enjoy money by faith, each day. comes which must come and will come— Now, take Helen Wilman’s words once more: when old Dame Nature, the good old nurse, ‘To put money out on interest, etc. It is a takes him into her lap and lulls him into the position that would wreck me.’ To me site sleep which the ignorant call death, he will plainly indicates here that she draws the line close his eyes, and smiling contently, will sharply between infinite law and order, and murmur: “It was a Great Game. I played finite laws and chaos. One of them leads to fair, without flinching, without fouling! I wreck. Absolute choice is here indicated. enjoyed every minute of it! I am glad to We must interpret it so because infinite order have had the chance!” and finite chaos will not mix. We may have Strayed quite a way from my text, didn’t just finite laws, in so far as they are based I? Well, what’s the difference? Good thing on the infinite law. Why not then put aside to think about once in a while, isn’t it? Thank the finite and make the infinite effectual in you, Mrs. “Inquirer,” for giving me the all cases? We will—sometime. New Thought, chance to express myself so fully. Socialism (pure), Pragmatism, etc., are but different expressions of one great movement RENT VS. IN TEREST. to that end.” C. E. R. This correspondent writes as fol lows: “I was quite interested in J. M.’s in This letter is evidently written more for quiry regarding money put out to interest, the purpose of the writer’s expression, than according to Helen Wilman’s idea, quoted in for the purpose of securing an answer. So, Letter Box. If J. M. will read ‘Compensa I shall not attempt an answer. Moreover, I tion,’ by Hugh Pentecost, I think he will draw the line on sociological, economical, the have no trouble in seeing how and why Helen ological, or political discussion in this de was quite right and logical in her observa partment for obvious reasons. In passing, tions on money. To me it is quite clear that however, I would like to say, mildly, that to Helen Wilman was able to distinguish fully me it would seem that the writer’s zeal in between finite laws and infinite law. This behalf of Socialism has led her to ignore the once established, questions of worldly inter real point at issue, i. e., Helen Wilman’s rea est are much more easily understood and dis sons for not putting her money out at interest. posed of. Mr. Pentecost held that ‘all goes If Helen had displayed an equal aversion to by law;’ that we never really get something putting her money to work in earning rent, for nothing; no one, in the long run, gets I could readily understand her position. For, 314 Letter Box

I believe, that sociologists regard interest and us elsewhere. I believe that is a part of us rent as practically the same thing. In fact, which knows better than our conscious selves this correspondent says that Socialism “teaches just what is good for us, and which exerts that rent, interest, and profit, are the results, a constant influence over us. More than this, not of divine order, but of finite chaos.” Ref I believe that the cosmic urge is constantly erence to J. S.’s question, and my answer there pressing upon us, influencing us for our own to, in the Letter Box of May New Thought, good and the good of the race, the future of will show that Helen built houses, rented both being considered as well as the present. them, and made profit on them. In fact, J. S. I believe that we are all “parts of one stu asked: “What is the difference between build pendous whole,” and that the welfare of the ing houses, and money on interest?” Anu whole is being considered as well as the wel Helen, herself, spoke of using “the law in the fare of the individual. It has seemed to me work of ‘building houses with it.’ ” In absence that we are like tiny boats upon the surface of further light, I must adhere to my original of some great river—we are able to row this opinion that Helen disliked money at interest way and that way, from side to side, back because she felt that she could make her ward and forward, but nevertheless, always money “work” better in building, improving, being irresistibly borne with the river toward and developing under her own supervision, some great ocean of being. The tiny boats than in loaning it to others to work with. represent the individual lives while the river Helen liked to “get behind” her money, and represents the life of the race, and the ocean mix herself up with its employment. I think the cosmic life. The figure of speech is some that in this feeling is to be found the answer what faulty, but it will serve to illustrate the to J. S.’s inquiry. idea. We row and guide our little boats with varying degree of skill, wisdom and power— THE COSMIC URGE. but we are all being borne onward by the H. F. H. writes as follows: “I have been mighty power of the river, and we shall all taking the position that there is a power reach the ocean in time. In the river are superior to any judgment that I am capable many currents—but the general movement of exercising in regard to my environment is forward. And, remember that the ocean and the disposition of my affairs. Or, as is good: and the river is good; and the boats Shakespeare puts it ‘There is a Divinity that are good. Some seem to fear the movement shapes our ends, rough hew them as we will.’ , of the river, but I have learned to feel a Now, after using my judgment as best I can, trust, faith and confidence in the mighty move I am trying to accept all of my circumstances ment, and feel secure while resting on the and conditions as good and for the best, bosom of the mighty waters of life. To me irrespective of appearances to the contrary. the idea conveyed by the old song, “Rocked Or, in other words, I do the best I know in the Cradle of the Deep,” is very comfort and am trying to trust that it is the best. ing. While no more than a tiny boat on the What do you think of such an attitude of face of the infinite ocean of life, nevertheless mind.” I feel that I am safely supported by its I think that the general position indicated mighty power, and that “calm and peaceful above is sound. I believe that man is pos do I sleep, rocked in the cradle of the deep. ' sessed of wonderful powers and privileges, There is a “peace that passeth all understand and that he may perform work of self-de ing” in this consciousness that I wish all velopment and attainment which may seem could feci. It cannot be described in words almost like miracles to those who hold to —it must be ecxperienced to be realized. the old mental attitude. But, at the same Sometimes the feeling grows dim and faint, time, I believe that personal attainment and but it usually is revived in moments of trial achievement is but one phase of life, and and stress. When one realizes that the waves that there are cosmic forces at work which of life are friendly and not antagonistic, move us along by their might. I believe that then one learns to yield to them in their rise there is going on constantly a process of cos and fall, knowing that it is good. It is only mic evolution and progress which all indi when we interpose the resistance of separate viduals must and do obey. T believe that ness to these waves that they break over us some of these forces act through our sub and rock our boat in a dangerous fashion conscious and superconscious mentality, urg When we rise and fall with them we are ing us here, pushing us there, and restraining always on the surface—always “on top”— Letter Box 315 whether riding on the crest of the wave or treat them more as they did when they were buried in the trough of the sea. One who courting them—if they would treat their realizes the movement of the waves, and ac wives just as they would like other men to commodates himself to the motion never “goes treat their sisters and daughters—then would under.” they find the women manifesting a different attitude toward them. It would be well for MARITAL RELATIONS. the majority of men if they would take the H. H. writes regarding certain teachings time and trouble to understand the woman’s concerning marital relations: “The question attitude toward certain sacred relation; of involved is a vital issue at the present time. life, and then, instead of trying to drag the Wives are leaving good husbands, and thou woman down to their own undeveloped sands of women are ignoring their plain duty, plane, would endeavor to live up to the best because of the teaching that the marital rela ideal of the woman. The unrest and rebellion tions are impure, degrading, and an obstacle of woman is more that a “fad”—very much to their spiritual development. My wife re more. It is a part of the Cosmic Urge, and volted and deserted me, and yet I am far like all such movements it will eventually from being a sensualist. I like Filmore and sweep away thing' which obstruct it. It will Conable, but I think that their teaching re not do to dismiss the matter with a sneer, garding these things is doing a big damage. or a shrug of the shoulders. The women may If the women continue to drift in the way at times act foolishly, and lay themselves in which they are going now, hell will be to open the charge of “pose, ecstasy, morbidity pay sooner or later. This refers of course and hyperaesthesia,” now at the start—but. to the higher and educated class of women, mark you, Mr. Man, they will find their for the ordinary class seem to be contented balance before long and then there will be with the old established order. What do “something doing” in earnest. The Mo you think of this matter?” hammedan ideal of woman is passing away Well, in the first place, I do not intend —the most advanced men are beginning to to throw open this column to a general dis see the truth, and many of the most advanced cussion of the sex problem. There are other women are going on a strike. This doesn’t publications which go deeply into the subject, mean that w'oman is going to refuse to be a from different points of view. Secondly. I wife and a mother—on the contrary, it feel that these matters must be decided by means that she is going to be just those par each individual according to his or her best ticular things in their highest and truest judgment, experience and conscience. I do sense, and not something else. More than not know of any general rule which will fit this, I don’t intend to say. Man has had all cases. There is a big problem here which “the say” about these things too long, any is pressing for settlement, and which the race way—give the woman a chance in this mat ter which is far nearer, closer and more will have to settle some way in time—‘but, sacred to her than it can be to man, for has frankly, I do not know the solution or an not nature made it her very life? To those swer. There are so many sides, aspects and who think and say that the new woman angles to it, that have to be considered. I will overturn civilization. I would say that believe that in the final settlement the women man, by his bungling methods, has overturned will have the final word to say—and I believe many civilizations—the pathway of the ages that this is right. There may be, as this corre spondent says, “hell to pay sooner or later,” is strewn with his failures—then why not hut is it not also likely that after the hell give woman a chance at saving the present stage is over Heaven may be attained when one? She’s going to take the chance, any the race enters into a purer, cleaner, saner way—so what’s the use of endeavoring to view of these things? Do we not have to stem the tide of evolution? I didn't intend undergo the pangs of hell in order to reach to say all this, but it just had to come out. the joy of heaven, in the majority of things Please don't ask me to reply to any more —both as individuals and as a race? In the questions on this subject, though—listen to meantime, would it not be as well for the what the women are saying on the subject. men to realize that “husband’s rights” are There are certain things that “Every Woman too often “wife’s wrongs”? It seems to me Knows"—certain secret doctrines of the that if men would get over the idea that they universal sisterhood—and now the women are own their wives, body and soul, and would beginning to talk “out of lodge. Let us 316 Letter Box mere men keep our mouths dosed and our Pearls Before Swine. ears open, it will be far better for us in the (2) I find it somewhat difficult to answer end. this question intelligently, not knowing the exact circumstances of the case. 1 will say, REGARDING TREATMENTS, ETC. however, that as a general rule I do not A. H. A. and Olliers. —I cannot attempt to advocate forcing one’s beliefs upon unwill answer questions relating to treatment of ing and unsympathetic persons—I believe special physical troubles. I could not hope that no good results from this, and often to do justice in such cases. I hope to con antagonism is caused. When people are stantly present general principles which, if ready for a teaching, it generally reaches employed will tend to bring about a restora them in some way, naturally and without tion of normal physical health, but I can friction. If the inquirer means whether she not undertake to give specific advise to in should permit the teachings, which seem true quirers regarding their special complaints. I to her to be jeered at and reviled by others do not wish to appear unsympathetic or not in sympathy with them, I should say selfish about this matter—I would do much that I do not see why any one should willing to help anyone in this way if I could—but ly place themselves in a position to be hurt the circumstances of the case prevent me in this way. W hy should one? One should from complying with these requests. I do not wear one’s heart on one’s sleeve to be not give treatments of any kind, nor can I pecked at by the daws. We have very good attempt to give personal advice in special authority for believing that pearls should cases—my time is too much taken up to do not be placed before swine—and this, by the either, in justice to the patient. And, as for way, is no reproach to the swine, for they giving advice of this kind through the are as nature made them and are all right in columns of a magazine, I feel that it would the way and place of development. It is just be worse than useless. Consultation with as desirable to keep the lips closed, as it is to some practitioner, personally or by mail, is keep the ears open, in many cases. If the in far preferable in such cases. I trust that my quirer’s friends, or relatives, wound her by position in this matter may be fully under jeering at the teachings which are dear to stood. her, as contained in this or any other maga zine, I think it would be well to keep the REINCARNATION. magazine out of sight of the other persons. A R e a d e r w rites: “How old is the doctrine Avoid friction and disputes, when this can of reincarnation, and by what class of people be done without sacrificing principle or self- was it first recognized. Also (2) is it well respect—and it usually can. to allow my New Thought magazine to be read by those who are not in sympathy with PRENTICE MULFORD’S WORKS. its teachings and who combat the same?” Mrs. A. H. w rites: “W ill you kindly tell (1) The doctrine of reincarnation is one me, through ‘Letter Box’ what books of of the oldest in the history of human thought. Prentice Mulford should be read first by one It existed before the days of written history, who has not read any, and who cannot buy and it is impossible to state definitely just all?” when it was first advanced. Although it It is hard to select any of Mulford’s books has attained greater popularity among the from the others. There are six volumes Hindus, still it is found in the religions of in all, each being made up of several essays. the past, among nearly all peoples. The The essays are also published separately, in Egyptians, Persians, Medes, Greeks, He pamphlet form. I think it would be well brews, and other ancient peoples entertained to secure a list of these pamphlet essays, and the belief in some one of its many forms. tfien select the ones the titles of which ap The ancient Romans seem to have been al peal to you. The following are some of most the only one of the old races who did Mulford’s best essays: “The Drawing not hold to the doctrine in some form. The Power of the Mind;” “Faith, or Being Led present day interest in the subject on the by the Spirit;” “The God in Yourself;” “Con part of our Western people is largely due to sider the Lilies.” I think these essays, in the influence of Theosophy, the movement pamphlet form, retail at 25 cents each. The instituted by Madame Blavatsky and con bound volumes of Mulford’s works retail at tinued by her successors. $2.00 each. NEW THOUGHT NEW3 Gathered by 'The Editor In this department we shall publish bits of news; items of personal interest; “gossip"; and sundry other items of news regarding the New Thought movement and the workers in its field. W e shall be glad to receive from any of our readers, or others, information along these lines. Send us the news of the opening of centres, reading-rooms, classes, lectures, etc., in connection with New Thought work. Let us hear of the publication of new magazines along these lines— or of special articles in other magazines in the general field, in which there appears items of interest to New Thought readers. W e shall have much to say in this department regarding the other magazines in our own field —while we are trying to make our own magazine the best in the field, we do not forget that "there are others”— we believe in “the open door", and “the glad hand." j If our readers and friends will assist us in this matter, we will be able to make this department of great interest to New Thought readers, and to keep it filled with live, timely “news" regarding the movement and its "doings." If you will send us the items, we will gladly do the rest. A ll items of news should reach us not later than the first day of the month preceding the date of publication, as otherwise they will have to be held over for a month.— T he Editor. THE NEVADA CONVENTION. Work Before U s;” the Rev. John Kershaw Bear in mind the third New Thought con of Pittsburg, Pa., spoke on “The New vention to be held in Nevada, Mo., during Thought and the New World,” Anna B. the week beginning August 22, next. From Davis Parker, M. D., of Boston gave an ad advance reports it would appear that this dress entitled “The New Wine of Life.” convention will be one of the most popular The closing speaker, Mr. Richard Ingalese of and interesting gatherings of New Thought this city, had for his subject, “Spirit, Mind, people ever held in this country. Emi Matter.” nent speakers and teachers will be present At 7 :45 o’clock a business meeting was and some of the best known people in the held. A reception for members and friends movement will attend the meetings, as speak was held at the Empire hotel from 9 to 11 ers or hearers—usually as both. W rite to o’clock. Mr. Tracy C. Weltmer, Nevada, Mo., asking On Saturday afternoon, May 14, at 3 that details of the meeting may be mailed o’clock in the Belasco, West Forty-second you from time to time. Better make your street, near Broadway, a symposium was held, plans to attend this great meeting. The man Ellis B. Guild, M. D., presiding, Miss agement give details and particulars in the ad V illa Faulkner Page, New York, opened vertising pages of this issue. the subject “Psychotherapy,” and was fol lowed in ten-minute speeches by the Rev. THE BIG NEW YORK MEETING. W. J. Vinall, Brooklyn; Mr. Walter C. The New Thought convention, under the Goodyear, New York; Miss Agnes S. auspices of the National New Thought Al Stewart, Nashville, Tenn.; Mr. Edward E. liance, held its meeting in New York City, Beals, Chicago; Clifford Grave, M. D., May 13-15, and from all accounts the ses Nevada, Mo.; Mrs. Caroline B. Downing, sion was a great success. I received no in Brooklyn; J. W. Winkley, M. D., Boston; vitation to, or notice of the gathering, and Dr. C. O. Sahler, Kingston, N. Y .; Mrs. only knew of it by hearsay, but I couldn’t Mary C. Chapin, Boston. have spared the time for the trip anyway, so Saturday evening, May 14, at 7 :45 in the it did not matter. The following account of Belasco theater Dr. C. B. Patterson presided, the meeting I gather from the New York and speakers and subjects were as follows; papers, copies of which were most kindly The Rev. Martin Kellogg Schermerhorn, sent me by Dr. Julia Seaton Sears, of New Poughkeepsie, N. Y., “Therapeuties of York City; Socrates and Jesus;” Dr. Charles Brodie “Under the auspices of the National New Patterson, Detroit, Mich., “What the New Thought Alliance the convention met Fri Thought Offers to Those Who Seek;” the day evening, May 13, in Carnegie Lyceum, Rev. Henry Frank, New York, “Science, James A. Edgerton, president of the Al False and True;” Julia Setjon Sears, M. liance, presiding. An outline of the pro D., New York, “The One Mind.” Musical gramme shows the scope planned. At numbers were rendered at each session under this opening session the Rev. Stephen H. direction of Don Morrison, musical director Roblin, D. D., of Boston spoke on “The New Thought Church service. .118 New Thought News

THE CINCINNATI MEETING. the school and rest home at Oscawana are The New Thought convention held in Cin Boston New Thought rhurch and school, cinnati, Ohio, May 29-31, under the auspices Chicago New Thought church and school, of the National New Thought Alliance, was School of Life Science, Mrs. B. Northing- also a great success judging from the re ton; Food Scientist, Eugene Christian; In ports received from that city. I received dependent Liberal Congregation, the Rev. a very kind invitation to attend from Harry Henry Frank; Church of Western Occultism, Gaze and others interested in the meeting, Richard Ingalese; Voice Placing and Method but was unable to get away from Chicago for Pure Diction, Mrs. Ella Jocelyn Horne; at the time of the meeting, although I should Foreign Languages, Mrs Helen M. Austin; have enjoyed attending the meetings. I have Spanish, Professor Antonio Nattes; National not a list of the speakers at hand, at this Society Musical Therapeutics, Eva Vescelius, writing, but I understand that well-known president; Arcam and Scientific Methods of speakers addressed the meetings, and that Healing, Alice Gertrude Herring; Modern great interest was manifested. I am glad Mysticism, W. N. Keeler. to hear of these meetings for they promote Dr. Sears says: “Oscawana will be called and keep up an interest in the work, and the New Thought City. W e believe that the call the attention of the public to the growing new civilization is built on co-operation and strength of the movement. not on competition, and all the teachers and members who gather there will come under our New Thought law of attraction rather JU LIA SEATON SEARS. than the law of competition. Each teacher The following account regarding Dr. or centre or school w ill open its own head Sears’ work is clipped from the New York quarters and attract those interested in that press: special line of work. Students come from Dr. Sears has a busy season before her. every state in the union.” In September Dr. Her rest she finds chiefly in change of Sears will go to London, having received activity. In an interview she said substan repeated calls from there in the last four tially : years. She proposes to give a season’s work “I expect to go to Oscaw'ana” (referring there. The New' York work will be in charge to Mount Airy, the New Thought summer of her helpers. Between this date and the school and rest home, at Oscawana, on opening of O cawana she will lecture in the Hudson, thirty-six miles from this city, Cincinnati, Chicago and Pittsburg. an organization founded and conducted by Dr. Sears) “and to be there during the sum mer to look after the interests of the students. A NEW THOUGHT WEDDING. We have received an interesting account There are many professional people, artists, of a New Thought wedding, which was per actors, teachers, ministers, and doctors, who formed by Professor S. A. Weltmer, at in their vacation want a place where they Nevada, Mo., on May 5, 1910, at the close of can study, and they find in our city a centre the first-year class at the Weltmer institute. of attention to higher metaphysics and This wedding was the culmination of an at modern mysticism. Several teachers will be tachment existing between two of the stu associated with me who will not only teach dent:; of the class, and who wished Professor my work, but also their own understanding Weltmer to unite them in matrimony that of metaphysics. The school will be formally they might add one more benefit to the many opened on June 11, and will be in session un til September IS. The faculty will include received from him during the class term. Mrs. Jean Norton, associate principal; Mrs. The following description of the ceremony R. Northington, president of the Washington w'as written by Miss Ella Coons, whom all Centre; Miss Emma C. Poore, president of students of the institute know very well. the Boston New Thought church and school; Miss Coons says: Mrs. I. Jaros, assistant teacher in New York “Those who have had the good fortune to New Thought school, and F. W. Sears. Mrs. be intimately acquainted with Professor will be the guest of honor, Weltmer are never surprised at the unassum and among the speakers wall be James A. ing manner and perfect ease with which he Edgertoti, Richard Ingalese and the Rev. meets every emergency, proving himself equal Henry Frank.” to the multitude of demands made upon him The “associated centres” identified with in every department of life, a beautiful ex New Thought News 319 ample of a wonderful philosophy, but when A DOCTOR’S EXPERIENCE. it was known that he had acquiesced in the request of these friends there were many Medicine Not Needed In This Case. expressions of wonder among his students and employes as to how he would meet this new position tendered him. It is hard to convince some people that "Preceding the entrance of the wedding coffee does them an injury! They lay party, Professor Weltmer took his place up their bad feelings to almost every cause on the platform in the auditorium of the in hut the true and unsuspected one. stitute and with the same quiet grace and dignity which characterizes all of the actions, P>ut the doctor knows. His wide ex made a few remarks, stating that he had perience has proven to him that, to somtf been licensed as a baptist minister thirty systems, coffee is an insidious poison that years ago but had never married any one and had never attended any wedding except undermines the health. his own, assuring the audience that the cere Ask the doctor if coffee is the cause of mony which they were about to witness constipation, stomach and nervous trou would be unlike any other they had ever seen. bles. At the close of these remarks the room was filled with the strains of Mendelssohn’s “I have been a coffee drinker all my wedding march, and the wedding party life. I am now 42 years old and when marched down the aisle and took their places taken sick two years ago with nervous upon the platform, facing Professor Welt- prostration, the doctor said that my nerv mcr, who joined the hands of the bride and ous system was broken down and that I groom and then pronounced the following would have to give up coffee. unique ceremony: “Mr. Castle—Mrs. Hach, you are both of “I got so weak and shaky I could not mature years. You understand very clearly work, and reading your advertisement of without my preaching to you the step you are Postum, I asked my grocer if he had any about to take. You have each found in the of it. He said, ‘Yes,’ and that he used it other some reflection of yourself. You have found that in each other which you in his family and it was all it claimed to feel blends into one purpose, into one plan, be. one subject. You have settled all the ques “So I quit coffee and commenced to tions of agreement, of your possible dif use Postum steadily and found in about ferences of temperament and you stand here tonight as an evidence to the world that you two weeks’ time I could sleep soundly at have decided to make each other’s thoughts night and get up in the morning feeling and feelings identical with your own, each fresh. In about two months I began to to live for the other, each to live and act gain flesh. I weighed only 146 pounds for the other. You have settled the whole when I commenced on Postum and now I question as to your preference for each other; weigh 167 and feel better than I did at you have pledged many times this fealty, this love, and this agreement will stand regardless 20 years of age. of the acts of other men; and just as long as “I am working every day and sleep you have that same feeling and that same well at night. M'y two children were thought for each other you will be pledged as you are now. You are free to love each great coffee drinkers, but they have not other, free to cherish each other. There is drank any since Postum came into the no law outside of that agreement between house, and are far more healthy than two souls that can bind them together. When they were before." two souls unite their interests or assign them to each other they have then done more than Read “The Road to Wellville,” found any legal act can do, and as you stand here in pkgs. “There’s a Reason." holding each other’s hands, ready to take Ever read the above letter 7 A new one the first public step in life together, each of appears from time to time. They are genuine, (Continued on next page.) true, and full of human interest. you attesting this, the minds of the people ers, and her magnetic personality and through their law, have seen this as your thorough methods have been an inspiration pledge that you are taking this step de to thousands of pupils. I consider Mrs. liberately. You have made the contract and Militz one of the foremost workers in the we leave it with you, wishing you happiness, New Thought ranks. Had she decided to wishing you all of the joys that can come head a “movement” in the New Thought to two souls united to travel together, to live body, she would have met with great success, with each other and for each other, and the for she is a natural teacher and leader. I world will so receive you. Going out into heartily recommend her work to the atten the world you carry with you our blessing, tion of my friends in her vicinity—not that our best wishes for your success, your happi she needs any “recommendation” from any ness ; all that can come to two human souls one, though, but merely as a token of my we give in our blessing to you.” appreciation of her and her work. “The bride and groom gave silent assent to the contract and a justice of the peace stood by the side of Professor Weltmer, OUR “ELIZABETH.” giving legal sanction to the union. At the I understand that our Elizabeth Towne close of the ceremony, the ftridal party took (for she really does belong to all of us in the their places in the audience with their fel movement, after all) has taken a flying trip low students and participated in the com to Europe, principally for the purpose of mencement exercises, after which they re witnessing the “Passion Play,” at Oberam- ceived the hearty congratulations of their mergau. She has now returned and will give friends, together with a plentiful supply of her readers in Nautilus an account of her rice and flowers. The whole affair was trip in her own inimitable style. I look for characterized with that spirit of freedom and ward with much interest to the forthcoming good will, which is ever so manifestly a part numbers of Nautilus, for her recital of the of the Weltmer institute and its president, view's and scenes and sights, sounds and and will ever be remembered as one among feelings, of “Elizabeth on the Other Side of the many bright and beautiful pictures of the Pond.” Elizabeth could write a series institute life.” of “Little Journeys,” w'hich would make mighty interesting reading. Better do it, Elizabeth. Another thing that she should do NEW CENTER IN OGDEN. is to pay Chicago a visit and give a lecture I am pleased to hear that a new Unity or series of lessons, here—or both. We gave Truth Centre has been organized in Odgen, her a big crowd in 1903, and she could fill Utah, under the management of Mrs. Miller the Auditorium now if she wanted. Elizabeth, and Miss Lula E. Sharp. These Unity Cen with her “Just Hows,” is worth listening to. tres do good work, and I am always glad I wish she would go to Philadelphia and to hear of an addition to the list. stir ’em up a bit.

NEWS FROM VENICE, . NEW THOUGHT BY THE OCEAN. A new “” has been .opened I would once more remind our Eastern at 822 Trolley way, Venice, California, a sea readers that Oliver C. Sabin of Washington, side resort near Los Angeles. Mrs. M. M. D. C., editor of the News Letter, and well Hunter-Jones, formerly of Toronto, Ont., known teacher and lecturer upon the subject Canada, is in charge. The opening exercises of Divine Science, will deliver a course of were conducted by Mrs. Annie Rix Militz, lectures at Atlantic City, N. J., from July of Los Angeles, far-famed for her “Home Sth to July 25th, inclusive. The talks will of Truth” work. be given in the Greek Temple of Young’s new million dollar pier, which extends a mile from shore, over the ocean. The hall holds ANNIE RIX MILITZ. about 1,000 people, and will doubtless be well I understand that Annie Rix Militz has filled. A special feature is announced for been lecturing in Vancouver, B. C., during the July 8th, when Elizabeth Towne will deliver month of May. Mrs. Militz is one of the a talk. Of course everybody within travel best known and popular New Thought teach- ing distance will be present—or should be. New Thought News 321

PROFESSOR KNOX. A DETERMINED WOMAN. The following item is clipped from the Taco Finally Found a Food that Cured ma (Wash.) News: Her. In an address at the Temple of Music yester day afternoon, Professor Knox, Ph. D., urged “When I first read of the remarkable all his hearers never to be healed except in just effects of Grape-Nuts food, I determined the way they want to be healed. He assured to secure some,” says a woman of Salis them also that humanity is “now in that evolu bury, Mo. “At that time there was none tion to know that healing can be taught as kept in this town, but my husband or easily as arithmetic.” According to his plan dered some from a Chicago traveler. every man will be his own healer. “All systems of healing,” said the professor, “I had been greatly afflicted with sud “have carried a superstition, in that it has some den attacks of cramps, nausea, and vom iting. Tried all sorts of remedies and superstitious or unknowable power that had done the healing. Yet with all the advance in physicians, but obtained only temporary science, the doctors’ calendar, registering for relief. As soon as I began to use the new various so-called diseases, is on the increase. food the cramps disappeared and have never returned. The laws of this state have permitted a super stitious veil to be lifted as never before in the “My old attacks of sick stomach were world’s history and the people can now be a little slower to yield, but by continuing taught how healing is performed understand- the food, that trouble has disappeared ingly and how health is maintained, which is entirely. I am today perfectly well, can the ‘Law of Mental Healing,’ the understand eat anything and everything I wish, with ing of which will produce permanent health to out paying the penalty that I used to. We one and all. would not keep house without Grape- “The first personal healer the race had was Nuts. the snake, and this superstitious healing is car ried on with the Aztec people today. The Chi “My husband was so delighted with nese were the original drug venders and this the benefits I received that he has been system has been perpetuated when there is recommending Grape-Nuts to his cus positive proof that the drugs taken will make tomers and has built up a very large a ‘well man sick.’ In mental healing we have trade on the food. He sells them by the no power to do the healing outside of the in case to many of the leading physicians dividuals themselves. The healing power is not outside of the person to be healed. Many of the county, who recommend Grape- people have been healed temporarily by coming Nuts very generally. There is some sat into the presence of those whom it was said isfaction in using a really scientifically had power to heal. Get the kind of healing prepared food.” that you want to be healed by, for certainly you will not be healed in any other way than Read the little book, “The Road to the way you want to be healed. Wellville,” in pkgs. “There’s a Reason.” “The reports show that the white plague is Ever read the above letter? A new one on the increase after all these years that the appears from time to time. They are genuine, doctors have doctored, the preachers have true, and full of human interest. preached, and the divine healers have prayed. What is the remedy ? Each person must know for himself that he alone has the power to heal You can get about anything you himself. We are now in that evolution to know that healing can be taught as easily as want, if you only want it hard arithmetic. The body is the only piece of enough. mechanism that has the power to build and re build itself and as this is known each person — William Walker Atkinson. will be his own healer.” New Thought—Advertising Section

The Triumph of Drugless Healing By Ralph Waldo Tyner, M. D. Some facts about the development of Drugless Healing during the past several years— How the different schools have merged and blended their methods—The rise of Mechano- Therapy, the great eclectic school of Drugless Healing—Its wide scope and broad principles— How it has chosen the best, and discarded the undesirable features—Its peculiar and exclusive fea tures—Demand for practitioners—Chances for ambitious men and women all over the country —The plain, practical and thorough instruction given—How to obtain a FREE illustrated book on the subject. HERE has been a gradual evolution in the idea or method which it may meet with. It idea of Drugless Healing during the past “takes its own wherever it finds it,” and rejects T ten years—a gradual drawing together of that which is weighed in the balance and is found the two extreme? of the movement—a gradual wanting. As a natural result it is able to, and formation of a common basis of agreement and does, make improvements, discoveries, and meth practice upon an eclectic basis, which the ideas ods of its own, resulting from the practical of Mental Healing, Manual Therapy, and Hy- experience gained by applying the eclectic meth gieo-Therapy are blended and combined, bal ods in its extensive clinical work. The American anced and adjusted, so as to form a most efficient College of Mechano-Therapy, of Chicago, 111., the and successful system of Natural Healing. This oldest and largest school of Drugless Healing in new system is moving rapidly forward, without the world, is the center of this Advanced system “circus advertising” or sensational press-agent of healing. methods, and careful observers predict that dur S uggestive Therapeutics.—The school of ing the next few years it will move to the first Mechano-Therapy was among the first to recog place in the list of the great healing systems of nize the wonderful value of Suggestive Thera the age, leaving behind it the older and more peutics, and to apply its best methods in the greatly exploited schools and systems. treatment and cure of disease. Not being ham Fortunately for the health of the nations, pered by fancial metaphysical theories and philo in each of the three great schools of Drug sophical abstractions on the one hand, and or less Healing were found liberal and ad thodox medical prejudice against the employment vanced practitioners W'ho, while holding of Mind-Power on the other hand, it was able fast to what was best in their own particular to glean the wheat from the chaff in this great system, reached out for and adopted the best in method of healing. Today it easily leads all the other systems. And, likewise, many liberal the other schools of healing in its practical ap minds in the ranks of the orthodox schools of plication of the Power of the Mind in the allevia medicine were quick to appropriate the valuable tion and cure of diseases of all kinds. Instead features of the several systems of Natural Heal of giving its treatments in a hap-hazard manner, ing And, others noticing the marked success of based upon the denial of matter or of the dis these advanced practitioners, were quick to fol ease, it recognizes that the disease exists largely low their lead. And so, arising from these as a result of improper methods of thinking and causes, there has arisen in our midst this great living, and endeavors to readjust and reform the new eclectic school of Natural and Drugless existing mental conditions. By practical experi Healing of which we have spoken, and which is ence it has devised the methods which will stir making rapid strides every day toward the fore into activity the mental forces in the most most place in the ranks of systems of cure. This efficacious and vigorous manner and in the short great system is known as “Mechano-Therapy ” est time. It searches for the mental cause of the Mechano-Therapy is, first of all, an eclectic disease, and then applies the scientific mental system of Natural Healing. The term eclectic cure, without expecting or insisting upon the is derived from the Greek roots, meaning “to patient accepting any special metaphysical theory, select; to pick out.” The dictionary definition is : doctrine or teaching. "Selecting, choosing, picking out at will from M anual Therapy.—The use of the hand in the doctrines, teachings, etc., of others; not fol healing work is as old as the race. At the pres lowing or adopting the leading of others.” And, ent time the various schools of Osteopathy, thus, does Mechano-Therapy select at will the Chiropractic, Swedish Movements, Scientific best features and methods of all the great nat Manipulation, etc., have a large following, owing ural schools of healing, while at the same time to the efficient work performed and the marvel refusing to follow the leading of any particular ous results obtained. Mechano-Therapy makes school. These best features are then blended, an important feature of Manual Therapy—the balanced, adjusted and harmonized one with an use of the hand in corrrecting physical ills. The other, the result being a system which combines best principles are employed, and the most ap the strong points of all systems, while eliminat proved methods practiced. The teachings of ing the weak points of each. Not being bound Mitchell, Taylor, Virchow, Zablubdowski, and to follow implicitly the leading or theories of any other eminent authorities are practically applied. particular school in order to be consistent, it is Scientific Manipulation is applied when indicated at full liberty to accept, reject, improve upon, by the symptoms and nature of the disease. The adapt, and balance any particular feature, theory, most approved methods of Swedish Movements

tVhen writing to advertisers please mention N ew Thought. 9 Neic' Thought—Advertising Section arc used. The valuable features of Osteopathy must be an enormous demand for capable prac have been extracted and its impractical and ex titioners of this popular school of Drugless treme features eliminated. Mechano-Therapy Healing. From all parts of the country is aris recognizes the fact that all diseases imply de ing a call for capable and efficient Mechano- ranged functions of the circulatory system, and, Therapists. From the smallest town to the the nervous and circulatory systems being so largest cities we find the need of men and women closely corelated that it is impossible to deter of this kind. This is one of the few professions mine as to which is the positive and which the in which the demand exceeds the supply. This negative factor of influence, by necessity, an im condition, of course, will not always exist, bi t paired function of the nervous system ; that an those who get into the field first will reap the impaired circulation implies a predisposition to golden harvest of the present opportunity. No disease; that many chronic diseases may, under matter what one’s present occupation, it will pay favorable conditions, successfully be cured by him to seriously consider the splendid money scientific manipulation; that man, being a ma making possibilities in Mechano-Therapy for chine, physical health as well as a balanced ambitious men and women. Here is a new' and mentality, necessitates a harmonious adjustment uncrowded field for improving one’s social posi of every part of the complex organism constitut tion and money-making powers. Hundreds of ing man. men and women in all walks of life have taken up the practice of Mechano-Therapy and many H ygieo-Therapy.—The established principles of them today are financially independent and of Hygieo-Therapy are employed in Mechano- have attained social prominence in the respective Therapy. Hygiene, or scientific living, is em communities. Anyone of average intelligence ployed to insure that the patient be surrounded and common-school education can learn Me with an environment conducive to recovery. chano-Therapy, and the earnings of the practi Dietetics, or scientific feeding, is carefully em tioner are limited only by the amount of time de ployed. Food, being the basis of all the phe voted to practice. With a good practice one nomena of nutrition, and nutrition being one of should earn an honest income of say $3,000 to the vitally physiological functions, the value of $5,000 a year. Among the ranks of the success Hygieo-Therapy must be recognized. In the ful practitioners of Mechano-Therapy are to be same way, the Mechano-Therapist recognizes found men and women who were formerly and employsemploj the most approved methods of ministers, clerks, farmers, stenographers, tele Hydro-Therapy, or the Water-Cure. The vari- graph operators, insurance agents, railway em ous forms of hot, cold, tepid, alternated, pack, ployees, in fact, nearly every former occupation is compress, Kneipp method, Kuehne system, etc., represented. are employed when desirable. The importance of Scientific Breathing, etc., are realized and ap P lain and Simpl e Instruction.—The student plied in this wonderful system. The most ad of Mechano-Therapy does not have to devote vanced principles are employed, and the most time and labor studying Latin terms and obsolete practical methods practiced. theories—he is brought right to the practical point, and is taught to get right down to actual Dia g n o sis— One of the most important of work from the beginning. He is aided by scien the special features of Mechano-Therapy is that tific charts, and scientific tables of information. of Simple Diagnosis. The practitioner, instead Everything is simplified, instead of being made of being bewildered by mere outward and con complicated and abstruse for the purpose of im fusing symptoms goes at once right to the cause parting foolish mystery and feigned knowledge. of the trouble, and is thereby enabled to apply Mechano-Therapy is taught according to Twen the methods indicated. To his trained eye the tieth Century Methods and not according to the evidences of the real cause of the disease are as customs of the Dark Ages. It is taught either an open book, and he is moreover able to dis in class or through the mails by Correspondence. tinguish and differentiate between similar effects One can learn it in his or her own home—and produced by differing causes. Instead of being the cost is quite moderate and within the reach bewildered by conflicting symptoms, the Me of nearly everyone. chano-Therapist, by reason of his having fully mastered the fundamental principles of the func F ree Book.—The leading men behind this great tions of Circulation, Digestion, Nutrition, As school of healing, wishing to spread information similation, Elimination, Respiration, and Nerve regarding their system, and in order to awaken Action, is enabled to detect the real cause of the public interest in its wonderful features, furnish trouble, just as easily as the skilled electrician at their own expense, absolutely FREE, to any is able to put his finger on the point of the sincere inquirer, an illustrated book entitled telegraphic system which is making trouble over “How to Become a Mechano-Therapist,” w'hich the whole line. And, having located this point of contains information of the greatest value. YOU trouble, the Mechano-Therapist applies the ap may obtain a FREE copy of this book by writ proved methods of treatment of his school, many ing to The American College of Mechano-Ther of which are entirely original with his college apy Dept. 190, 120-122 Randolph St., Chicago, and all of which represent the result of systema III., stating that you are a reader of N ew tized experience of many years of scientific ob T hought and have read this notice of their work. servation and practical application. Tt will cost you nothing to possess this book, and its reading may prove the turning point of your Demand for Practitioners.—From w hat has career. Better send for a copy today, lest you been said it will be readily seen that there forget it until it is too late.

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