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Magazine of Mysteries A MAGAZINE OF HEALTH, HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY COPYRIGHTED BY THE NEW YORK MAGAZINE OF MYSTERIES, 1903.
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f The Purer Life } T hrough the web of our life, should the shuttle fly askance. Breaking the golden tlirends we are striv ing to weave. Let us be not discouraged, for still there’s a chance, F ehruary : From the tangled ends a silver sheen to “Though winter howleih at the gate. leave. In our hearts 'tis summer still.” And should the whole fabric but a sad In all seasons the soul lindeth flowers! failure seem. In ancient days the Romans were wont With either of silver or gold never a gleam. to purify the mind and heart in February. The shuttle but flies from a loving Father’s hands. “February—free from passion, care and Who, of the warp and the woof, holds strife, wisely the strands. If an ameythst she cherish all her life.” Life in grass, tree and shrub now sleep- If under the cloud lie sees the shimmer of etk, but will soon awake! love. In a few days the warm Spring Sun will And the faint glimmer of duty faithfully dance in our hearts. done. Across the fields and hills we see the The task so puzzling here will be finished purifying snows preparing all nature for above its gladsome Spring! In the light which is brighter than the Come! sweet, eternal souls that live not noonday's sun. in seasons, let us awaken, open and purify minds by our pure living— now in this None of our efforts for good will ever be blessed month, when nature is covered with lost. Though the threads may become tangled the purifying mantles of ice and snow. and tempest-tost: "Across the hills the drifting snow cloud We shall gather them all tip in the better speeds, land. And soft, warm flakes fall on the frozen And weave the bright web without a miss ground; ing strand. Anon fierce winds pass o'er with sullen sound, And whirl the snow on high in glittering beads; And then the west wind, tender with good deeds, Touches the streams’ great storehouses, Good Advice W i s d o m and rills T iie I‘ni versa I Lover— the fervent God- Laugh downward to the plains, till Love God. Don’t be selfish. lover— exists in the realm of universal wis 'neath (lie hills Trials and troubles are good for 11s. dom : he is at-one with Omniscience and is A waking river warbles ’mongst Its reeds. Don't be a sceptic. a blessing to the W hole. Debt is slavery. A wise man is a universal harmonizer. “So wakes the God-gift, conscience, in a carrying with him peace, harmony and man! Love is the greatest thing in the world. Men are won by love. . melody, because he is fillet! with love for Oft through a dreary winter of his life Hope is the next greatest thing m the all. and is kind, gentle and considerate to It sleeps frost-bound—dead for a little •orld. all. span; A pessimist is to be pitied. A wise man is pure, sweet, calm and Then, roused by sleet of sorrow and by serene, and controls nature— internal and strife Do all the good you can: it means hap- iness. external nature— by the mighty power of Of varying winds of anguish and of pain, We are the diggers who make our own the eternal Soul, and not by mind or will. It leaps to fullness of spring strength oads. . „ ,, ,, , Wisdom comes only by full and complete again.” A grand rule— the Golden Rule. union with God, and in 110 other way. A wise man. without the utterance of one Prepare! Be up and doing all the time. Idleness never built a bank account. word. Is the most posit ire, forceful and I by awakening is near— thy sleep in Head! Read! Read! and Think! Think, helpful being in the world. dii0 al!f' illusion is to end. Wisdom makes one non-resistant : or. the lily, t|lt- buttercup and the clover 'hink! rather, non-resistance makes one wise; in will not always be hidden under the snow! Be kind to animals. non-resistance is all love, all knowledge and I repare'— it is February. Strong drink kills more than war. fam- le. or pestilence. , , , , all power. Don’t be a croaker; dont look on the Wisdom places man beyond all time, all Ah! lend me your little ear, love! places, and all events into the Blessed State Hark! ’tis a beautiful thing: janiv side of life. No man is a failure who tries to sue- — Eternal Bliss. The coldest month of the year, love, Wisdom is the sovereign good which Is shortest and nearest the spring." Aotivitv means health and long life. sages, seers anil prophets in all ages have aspired to— it is the blessed fruit of full I be love of God taker!) away all pride. But don’t be perniciously acuve. IVrvwse people luivt* h hard 11 nio or Iite. realization of the soul’s union and oneness « nCT.m'e' hatred, envy and lust, and puri- There is no wisdom in useless and liope- with the Eternal One. “«tb the mind and heart. In one way and another all beings are Economy will give you a sweet, tranquil working toward Wisdom ; all of 11s are on si/. V 7 10 'ovps wjll be loved by "II ar the blessed Eternal Path that leads to but ■ , 1 b.v all, because such a universal lovi one goal-—union with God— at-one-ment. is always a worker for the good of t! 1 The' Sabbath is not a day to feast onr odies. Imt to feed our souls.— Empress Blessed truth! All will reach the same "'.'''•„and becomes a magnetic centre tin goal. aim-ally, and without artv effort, drav "when a man lives with God. his voice Dost thou hear, precious, eternal soul? ami attracts „11 good— health, strengtl All will reach the same goal.— The Blissful 'I f r r n y and happiness. Work of tl tall he ns sweet 11s the murmur of Prophet. ■ rail ordor chooses such a soul: lie rook and the rustle of the corn.— Emtr- into the very highest service. A great soul is always earnest, sincere, " u t vour ascent to Heaven be gradual tolerant and reverent. i 'J lm this blessed age of progress and y making one of your own 011 earth. - u n in,'--v 's .test beginning to comprehend The doctrine of total depravity has [«r- Candor and good sense give one grace, in Lrea , ’ i"* countless blessings that are finish and buoyant optimism. s>ore for bin»—now and here and there. hed. Good! 136 The New York MaLga.zine of Mysteries
Extranets from Letters from Members of tKe Urviversa.1 Brotherhood of Mystic Adepts i THE UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD OF \ F o b the many who inquire as to the benefits to be derived from a membership in this grand 1 ANCIENT MYSTIC ADEPTS T order through the practice of its Degree teach ings we gladly submit the following spontan- B y B r o th e r J V o . 1 ous testimonials: It is almost beyond my powers to de I scribe the great benefits and powers which have come to me in the few weeks I have been practicing the teachings of the I'ni- Have you ever realized that real charity which makes every one in truth versal Brotherhood of Mystic Adepts. For seem to be your Brother? years I was searching for Light and Truth There seems to be one way above all others which will make it possil 1 on material planes, hut the satisfaction and for us, Beloved, to have this divine tolerance and sense of kinship which peace of mind never came, there was al ways a void left which brougiit on discour brings ns into unity with high and low, animal and human. This is to agement : but after a season 1 would start make it seem to yourself that you are a part of all, that yon are one witl in some other line of study, only to find a every condition, identified w ith every person. repetition of former experiences. Inciden Sometime when you are in your season of m editation try to look upon tally I came cross an old Magazine with different conditions which naturally repel you, and maintain this attitude the advertisement of the Journal of Mys toward them, upon the basis that there is hut One having many parts teries. I secured a copy, and reading on which ai>pear separate, yet belong to the One, and that all apparent per articles from the Brotherhood of Mystic Adepts, I was impressed to write toBrother fection or imperfection of the parts merely signifies different stages of No. 1.stating m.v feelings.desires and aspira development. You can for the time being assume that yon are that One tions. Me answered me very promptly, and Sitting for your meditation, then, yon may look ui>on all mental pic gave me great encouragement, and after tures representing the different' states and conditions of human or animal filling the requirements. I was enrolled as a life . Member of this Noble Order. The practice Put yourself into them. If the scene upon which you gaze is a battle of their teachings lias brought Light, knowl edge and peace to my soul. The conception field, realize that it is you who are fighting; you who are destroying; you of the Truths which they teacli unfolds by who are the hero, the slayer and the slain. degrees the Light, Truth and Knowledge of If it is a picture of poverty, famine or loathsome disease, from which life, and the soul will rise in praise to the your whole heart turns, realize that it is you who arc poor, destitute and Source of All Knowledge for guidance. A diseased. In fact, put yourself into everything and every circumstance, peace now comes to my soul to which for knowing that all these differentiations manifest different stages of con merly 1 was a stranger. Yours in Holy sciousness that bespeak experience, and through experience, knowledge. Fellowship, John Fernley, Fairhaven, Wash. W ill this not give yon charity? If it is yourself who oppresses, who is oppressed, who grieves, condemns, snffers, is it not possible that these very In regard to the practice of the degrees, realizations will make yon have a sympathy for those who are yet in these permit me to say that I have received more stages of progress? good than I ant able to express. With my Beloved, it is this sense of separation which makes us jndge harshly or whole heart T desire after closer communion feel superior. Let us away with it all. In order that we may begin to feel witli God. and I am aware that through the the pity for the beggar, let ns become the beggar. In order that we may practice of these degrees, strength of pur understand the feeling of the bigot, let us become the bigot, and in a brief pose, greater dependence in a loving Father space, while we are in the MOMENT OF IDENTIFICATION, a sweeping, in Heaven, who careth for all Ilis children without respect of person, a child-like faith, God-like sympathy will permeate our whole being. We cannot be other with a heart full of joy and Divine Peat« wise than charitable. We cannot do otherwise than give Brotherly ser and Love which endureth forever, is. and vice. It is THEN ONLY we can do as we would be done by. It is then only can be, obtained. Through the practice of we can have the love that is the fnlfillment of the law. these degrees, when the soul has holy com Do you say that this seems contrary to teachings heretofore given? munion with its Maker in the Sanctuary, Consider, my Brothers, that it is for the benefit of those whom you would the conditions will have been so changed help. It is that you may remove the barriers of separation from your mind, that the angelic anthem on Bethlehem’s plains will he fulfilled, and “Glory to God the mote from your eye, that these m ethods are suggested. Try and see if it and peace on earth and good-will toward he not a good method. You will find it better than volumes of precepts men” will he the outcome. Yours in Love unlived. It is not the head but the heart that saves. When it has saved for the Master, Jacob Vogt, Oarrothers. O. yon, through yon it will save all. Listen to the teachings of the heart, then, and if in any other way yon can be at one with those who are per ishing for w ant of your love, in thought, feel for them a little while, and SPECIAI, AN X01 NCEMEXT yon will then know the divine privilege of giving a cup of cold water, for THE UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD OF it will be your HEART that gives; your hands will be but the servants of ANCIENT MYSTIC ADEPTS has many your heart. members who desire to form a Chapter for Try in every way and by every means to remove the barriers. Let the advanced work. The time has now come, if you are ready to do your part. fresh, flowing crystal streams of sympathy flow through the fields and On payment of travelling and necessary meadows of yonr mind, watering them and making them beautiful. expenses. Mystic No. 1 or Mystic No. 7 will Never forget that perfection is the goal of all, and that whether now or go to any city or town and give a FREE a million lives from now, the seed of everlasting love will spring forth PREPARATORY LECTURE on The Best in the soul of every creature and bear its beauteous fruit. Methods of Developing the Latent Soul Have yon friends who annoy and irritate you? family conditions that Powers, giving to all the divine secret of seem unbearable? Consider that all these are but parts of yourself, and HEALTH. PROSPERITY, SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS. After the lecture arrange yon will be gentle, patient and loving. Consider also that NO ONE has ments will be made to organize a Chapter, trodden the path of mastership who has not first blazed a way through his and those ready for initiation will be duly wilderness, faced the beasts in his jungle, been stung to desperation by the initiated in the beautiful and sublime DE insects of his own marsh lands, yet, throngh all has worked and toiled and GREE OF THE MYSTIC ADEPT. struggled till the forest was cleared, peaceful conditions secured, and the The secret work of this Degree is exclu well-earned rights of the Master were his to enjoy. Remember this, Be sively for members of THE BROTHER loved, it is self-m astering, the victory of love over selfishness, that makes HOOD, and contains valuable Oriental and ancient methods for self-development. possible the soul attainm ents. Does not the root of all lie in yourself? THIS IS A RARE OPPORTUNITY.—Re "Is it not absolutely necessary to be free from the selfishness of the member, there is NO FEE for initiation. natural before we can attain the blessedness and beauty of the spiritual; But. in order that you may have a goodly yet, if we take all means and methods, if we live moment by moment with number of people interested to hear the the ideal always before us that the Brotherhood life is not merely an ideal, lecture, we desire EVERYONE to get sub but a real life, we shall find ourselves acting in Brotherly fashion and true scribers and readers for THE MAGAZINE to every one in all relations. OF MYSTERIES. THREE subscribers entitles you to exoteric membership In the Do not make a separation in yonr feelings of pity and kindness among Brotherhood, the forty-nine (49) degrees of animals nor among hum an beings. Look upon ALL life as divine, and every private printed instruction, and the initia creature as its divine expression. Despise nothing. Jndge no one. I* ** tion into the DEGREE OF THE MYSTIC not only in this daily, hourly consecration to our ideal that we identity ADEPT, with all the privileges of the ourselves with it, bnt that we allow it to reform our lives and to permi Chapter. the beautiful flowers of the spirit to spring forth and blossom. This valuable Magazine is spreading the Cultivate serenity—that unruffled composure which takes all experiences Gospel among all nations, and in all coun tries, and is full of rich, spiritual food. XT alike, which is placid in the midst of trouble, turmoil, confusion, wh»c“ IS GRAND. IT IS INSPIRING. IT IS does not spill the forces of the soul in heart-breaking emotions. Thns HELPFUL. It has generously opened its bound by a m utual ideal, by a unanim ous effort, we shall be as a great body columns for the Brotherhood, and the marching on to victory. Brotherhood should make every effort to It m atters not if the details of yonr experiences are different from mine, extend the circulation. We want to do a if our hearts are moved by the same motive and inspired with the snni grand work the coming year. Let each put aspiration, we shall be as one and shall he strong, going forth panopll his shoulder to the wheel and PUSH. For further particulars, address, with (though invisibly) with the armor of the trne knight, who has the shic stamped envelope. H. A. K., MYSTIC No. of faith, the breastplate of righteousness, and whose feet are shod 1 of the U. B. M. A., care of THE MAGA the preparation of the gospel of peace. ZINE OF MYSTERIES. Yours in Holy Love, ^°* 1 The New York Magaainc of Mysteries 137
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This is part of the Circle ministry, and we special composition rubber. | which gently cleans the pores trust that each member will have one or two patients besides the Circle and brings the glow <.>f beauty patients. to the skin in Nature's way: also removes wrinkles and In one of onr Brotherhood Circles where they are doing excellent work Alls out hollows In facennd each member is provided with a small notebook, in which are the names P f neck by bringing the blood to the “»'tissues. No more need for paints, and addresses of patients to be treated in the Circle: not only are they so lotions, drugs -- no more harsh treated at that time, but each member in his own home gives a treatment treatment. Sent prepaid on receipt of 5 0 cents. Trv it. and If not satisfied say “ M oney b a c k '*—You’Ll every day until the patients are healed. This will he a good method to be be the first. No bath or toilet complete without it. adopted by all Circles, Brings comfort tomen after.shaving. 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Into H arm ony T he sensitively stringed instrument when exposed to gentle zephyrs gives forth low, sweet melodies; the wind sighing The Mystic Success Clvib ' through the branches and the rippling music of the tiny rivulet, and many other similar examples, show how Nature endeavors to Health, W ealth, a Long, Useful and Blessed Career for You pour forth her harmonies wherever a fitting instrument can lie found to express them, says The World’s Advance Thought. The whole world around us, and the whole world within us are- So it is with the organism of man ruled by law.—T h e D uke op A r g y l l . whenever lie can bring himself into relatio- xvith the Divine harmonies lie immediati becomes a medium for their expression. An inspired poem, a painting, a sculptured 4 bit of clay are real melodies to the soul, and are the result of this bringing one’s OR a long time the. owner, publishers, editors, writers and ami self into harmony with the spiritual forces Mystic Adepts connected with T iie Magazine ok Mysteuies hav — the Soul of creation. been formulating and perfecting plans to organize T he Mystic Si r' What higher ambition can there he than to strive to so live as to lie able in some de cess Club for the benefit of all, but more particularly our readers' gree to attain this result? With our Psychic-Mental Powers we have a perfected plan Can the enjoyment of material surround ings— elusive at the best— ever equal tlie whereby You can be successful if you will but join us. delight which tomes from feeling one's self In union and co-operation there is tremendous strength. in accord with the very essence of all true joy-— ihe Kverlastiug Creative Forces— So, beloved, we are speaking directly to you, and wo desire ready at all times to yield us sweetest nec you to join T ile Mystic Success Club at once' and realize gH tar if we will but drink of the draught of purity -tnd high resolve? To learn how to the happiness and blessedness that will come to you through success in its eat. and dress temperately and humanely highest measure, that will come- to you through such membership. are two of the essential stepping stones up All connected with T he Magazine of Mysteries are pre-eminently suc to this grand attainment. cessful— the Magazine is the phenomenal success of this blessed centurv. That which others do for us hut encour All who join The Mystic Success Club and receive the four secret and ages our own weakness. Neither spiritual, mental nor physical strength can lie ours by mystic degrees will become phenomenally successful. the exertions that others make. Enduring We know the psychic and occult law of union, co-operation and reciprocity. happiness comes from earning our posses sions; it cannot come by gift. All life We desire you to become one of us at once. evolves from within the entity. Gifts from Read these great words of Emerson; the outside can. after all, only be dead "Men will lire and communicate, and plough, and reap, and govern, as tilings, like clothes, money and other prop erty. The "Kingdom of Heaven within by added ethereal power, when once they arc united; as in a celebrated experi you” can oitly come by self-growth.— L u c y ment, by expiration and respiration exactly together, four persons lift a henry A. M a llo r y . man from the ground by the little finger only, and without, a sense of weight." “The creative will finds its life nor in re You are asked to join us at once, take the four simple degrees, and get ception from without, but in activity from fully into our vibrations and become full of H e a l t h , have perfect Receptivity within. . . . The fruit of the first work of the will is a perfect mastery of sci and attract all the tremendous psychic and occult powers that will make you ence and art. The perfect mastery of the personally magnetic and cause you to realize fully, now and here, success in far greater art and science of human life is the second fruit. There is yet a its highest and most perfect degree. third. . . . We are at the last driven Come, beloved, join us this day, and with “a long pull, a strong pull, and back from indiv'iual to their source, the a pull all together" we can, in this psychic age of quick action aud great results, one Solti, wherein all are one. And the union of our separate selves with that im achieve phenomenal success. mortal and infinite All i the last an.! high What is that mystic something that makes for success? est task set us by our will. In the will is our peace. . . . It is the realiz.tion T here are but four steps to success, viz.: by the will of Ihe present immortal in us; First Step—Perfect Health. the victory over time and space is the re ward carrying With it an endless extension Second Steii—Receptivity. of our powers. . . . Therefore to in Third Step—Attractiveness—P ersonal Magnetism. herit this, is to inherit all the divine pow Fourth Step—Full Recognition and Realization of your Psychic- ers of the Soul, and with its nature; to enter Into the pure and vivid life of the Mental Powers. w ill: to live from within, by inherent and In a little while out Mystic Adepts take you through those Four Steps or divine energy, and not from outer sensa tions. And this is the very essence and Four Degrees, by correspondence, and you come into Health, Receptivity, heart of the Eastern teaching.— C lta r le * Attractiveness and Realization. Johnston. M. U. A. .S’., Benyal Gir.il ;S e r vice (Retired). You are also held in a psychic and occult way bv master adepts for success. At the very centre of our being there is a But you must read and re-read the occult and mystic writings we send something which, in our highest moments, knows itself more than conqueror over all with each degree, to fully realize success. things.— II. Emilio Gaily. .Much time and money have been expended in organizing and formulating I earn that i may eat ; get that I wear; our plans and preparing the degrees so that the four degrees might lx? simple owe no man hate; envy no man’s happi aud comprehensive to any one. ness; glad of other men's good, and content with my own.— Shakespeare. Beloved, Y ou can be successful. No matter how old you are, how many times you have failed, .what vour ’Tis Daybrea-k Everyw here present health is, or how far away you live, take on new hope and come and Goon tidings to you! good tidings to join and become a life-member of T he Mystic Success Club. you! Awake! awake, for in a short time In a way that you cannot now understand in the four degrees, our Mv>ttc these fragrances, which give life to the Adepts will stir your soul, your heart and your mind so that you will come soul, shall lie diffused and the lights, which disperse the darkness, shall shine univer into— sally. Blessed are the nostrils which shall New Life, inhale these sweet odors, and gladness to every eye which shall be enlightened by this New Hope, Light, sooner or later. Abba* Alula! Hi lia. New Courage,
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P'V»WWWVVWV\WWVWVWV\VWW\VW\WVW\WWWWWWWV\\\\\WVWVW O s NC LIFE IN THE CELESTIAL REALMS Ne f 0 '*VVV\WV\V\V\V*V**\WV\V\VVWWV\V\\VVW\V\V\\\V\VWW\\A\«V»V\\VVVVVO B eh o lo the wisdom of the ages garnered when the way is made plain unto you. and for your inspirations, yet ye will not attend the rewards heralded, and the shadows t " lessons given and in order to thor marked, when of your lives you fail to oughly comprehend the lessons of to-dav. ve make a worthy example? must search the old-time love and mvtlis Be diligent in your use of time, for the that comparisons may he made and ‘thus experiences of earth life are much easier »An. of us stumble at times.”— Theodore gam an understanding of the progress of Roosevelt. _____ and better accomplished while in the body the ages and the causes that from time to than when that instrument is no longer time have blocked the wheels of progress Strong character is formed by faeing ob yours to use. The flight of the soul may he to a great extent. Thus will ye gain a when you least expect, therefore make ready stacles, difficulties, sorrow and grief with a knowledge of how to avoid these times of cheerful and hopeful spirit. thy habitation in the celestial realms by seeming stagnation or deterioration, and pure, loving thought for others’ welfare anti understand how to make proper conditions by noble, generous endeavor to alleviate the Feed thy soul, heart, mind and body with lor more universal progress, writes Mrs. F tiie best foods. And what is best? That woes of thy fellow-men. A. Prosser in The Sunflower. This will build a foundation so fair that which the sweet and silent voice of thy soul We are glad to note each uplift of a tells you is beat in your serene moments of the angels will rejoice at the added beauty human mind, but we do desire to pierce the and lavish their beautiful thought upon calm and meditation. Intuition is thy best mentality of many- now slumbering in re guide in all things. Pray, listen, obey you, thus aiding you to perfect the struc gard to spiritual perceptions and unfold- ture and complete in all details this Heav and do. ment. If ye know not of the needs of to enly home made possible of erection morrow,^ will ye so truly- make ready for through the love power of the Infinite. Feed not thy eternal soul with the husks the coming need? The to-morrow is ever Thus are the homes "not made with hands, of Dogma and Creeds: let it grow and un with you. and the awakening into the new eternal in the heavens” builded. fold with pure and noble thoughts and birth may he yours in that near future. From day to day you should garner rich deeds, with love for God and the Whole. Then plan for its coming as you would store wherewith to equip your habitation. that of a little stranger in your midst, not This may be accomplished by the daily ex "When a man goes through life without that we would have your days filled with ercise of your spiritual powers and an an aim, he travels far and never arrives” apprehension, for we wish you to so under opening up of the windows of your soul to and 1ms to endure much misery and hard stand the laws of life that the to-morrow, let in the light of love, and the wisdom of ship. It is wise, therefore, to aim first to be it spent in the physical form or in the the angel world will be meted out to you he God-like and so live and work as to be spiritual alone, either to you may be met in due proportion to your unfolument. useful and helpful to yourself and others. with undaunted courage and fear have no How, think you, this soul growth will be God's Grand Plan will lie seen to have for foothold whereon to rest. accomplished if you strive not to attain it? its aim infinite perfection, arrived at by an But this passing time, this to-day, must Does the husbandman expect to garner intelligent and steady purpose. So far as not be flittered away. The material ex grain when naught but weeds lias been we are divine we will pursue the same plan periences must be met and the lessons sown? How, then, can you expect rich and course-—we will place our mortal will learned, with all due regard to the influence fruit and every blessing when you make at-one with the Divine Will and aim at ami you are having over your own life and that not conditions for such vintage? pcrseveringly strive to reach the Most of others. When you fail to set a light in In the shop or busy mart, you can lift High. the window for the wayfarer, then do you your soul into the realms of pure thought make a stumbling block for yourself. if you will. You can open the door to the Higher Thought is purer thought; that Remember that there is no surer way angel friends who watch over you. and sweet, calm and serene thought that makes unto the heights than that thou makest for through them come in touch with the high us gentle, kind, considerate and tolerant; thyself when thou takest from thy brother er power. Angel messengers they are, that clear, trustful thought that makes us that which to him is a burden and makest I »earing aloft your burden of prayer and feel and realize our oneness with God. the glad the hearts of the sorrowing ones. gaining wisdom of liow to impress you and loving Father of A ll: that patient attitude Into the homes of nil of earth's children others, how best to help you. Not always of mind that adds dignity, sublimity and come trials to hear, and it is your duty to does the help come as you wish or ask. but power to our whole being.— A. Z. help to lighten these burdens and make glad perhaps as is best in the great trend of the hearts of all you meet by kindly time. Seeming calamities are often dis Egoism and crudity are not marks of a thought, and deed. Then will you have guised blessings. pure and high thinker— a divine man. been instrumental in bringing the much de The pure in heart may ever trust the sired millennium, and perfected your ma loving care and wisdom of the all-wise ones. Health and Power come to man when lie terial experiences and made all in readiness Not that those who stray from virtue's way fully realizes the blessed truth that he is an for the coming of the bridegroom, who will are left forlorn, hut that the way is dark F.ternal Soul, progressing in an orderly and usher you into the new light of understand and sometimes impenetrable and the ange! divine way to the Source of All Power— ing and the glory of life everlasting. friends cannot pierce the veil through the Most High. Health and Power come Hills and dales of evergreen verdure and which they fail to perceive the medium or when the mind becomes sober and orderly beautiful flowers, while ga.v-plumaged birds cannot enter in. and identifies itself with its King and Mas carol and the angel friends welcome the Do not thus bar the door, my friends, to ter— works with the individual soul and new-born child. All this bright awakening those who would kindly minister nnto you God. is yours to behold and enjoy when you have and ease many a woe and lift your feet made of your earth life that w*liich you into the shining light of love even though We arc in the Silence, to a more or less should— a truli/ great example of well you perceived it not. For such is the min degree, whenever our minds dwell on the doing. . istry of love we gladly bring unto you and Most High— whether alone in the solitude Strive, then, to overcome all inclination mourn that our presence in your midst is of the closet or out in the busy, active to excess, of hitter feeling— strive for the not more widely known and understood. good and do all you can to make conditions But the world is awakening. Even those world, cheerfully serving God by doing long shrouded in the wrappings of supersti some part of the necessary work of the favorable for those around you; thus will you cause the shadows to flee from you and tion are throwing aside those cumbersome world. impediments and walking into the light of peace be with you. • truth concerning spiritual truths, thus aid A fervent mystic prayed earnestly and And you who have found the open door betwixt the material and spiritual planes, ing the angel world to strike the shackles patiently for years to God to know Him. from the minds of all mankind and hind llis one theme was to know God. At last, see to it that you hide not your light, but disseminate your knowledge, and make them close with the bands of love aud uni one day when he least expected an answer versal brotherhood. to his continuous prayer, the Voice said : glad the hearts of those who behold not the “I am all you see, feel and know; act and things spiritual, and hear not the messages of those gone into the larger experiences of The mind of man is tiie great overpower action and reaction : cause and effect, good ing force in the world, a principle dominat and bad, day and night; I am the killer and life. Hearken ye unto the words of wis dom. and follow the precepts given, thus ing everything. IIow important ir is, then, the killed ; the pereeiver and the perceived that we'early learn how to control and di —I am, sweet soul, thee, and thou art Me, making of your own lives a guide unto sal vation for those who follow after. W lij rect our thoughts that they may not cause and we are Eternal Existence.” In this discords in the grand Symphony of Life. connection, the following four lines is will any turn from the path of wisdom God’s answer to those who would know Him: ^(j^OOOOOOOtXXKlOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOObOOOOO “I am the earth. I am the sky. The night, the sunshine and the clod; I am the master, and the slave!_ Ju d g e Not I am Divine, Almighty—God!" .TriWE not; the working of his brain And of his heart thou eanst not see; When I am surcharged with the Holy What looks to thy dim eyes a stain. spirit I am all life and reach that plane of In God's pure light may only he consciousness known as the superconscious A sear, brought from some well-fought field or blissful state. This is not the subcon scious or trance state, but the wide-awake Where thou wouldst only faint and yield. state—-the Supreme State, when 1 live and vibrate with the Infinite. We nil have The look, the air that frets thy sight. these blessed and supreme moments at May be a token that below times, and it is this occasional touch with The soul has closed in deadly fight God that gives us new life, new strength, With some internal fiery foe, new hope and new courage to push ahead Whose glance would scorch thy smiling grace, aa. the Eternal Path of Progress.— I he And cast the shuddering on thy face. Blissful Prophet. — Adelaide A. Procter. •\11 growth and development is accoin- OOOOO OOOtXKMWKKKKWOOOOOOCOOOO 0 <>0<>000000000 Pnnied by more or less pain.— II illiam o^yexxyoooooooo II oiler A tkinson. Í42 The New York MaLga.zine of Mysteries
derness to blossom as the row!?haM.Wi1' make every thought we think *1.«» l ’ t0 the quality of the idea which ru’ ^ ” 8 0rtb HEART TALKS You are God’s Eternal Child. By Helen. Van-Anderson r Whatsoever is real is lasting—eternal. LoTer. Uuiverse belongs t0 ‘he Universal OW the heart warms in the love influence of another idea he thought, felt atmosphere! Is it not a blessed and acted in another way. Thus, he has forget. ° l0Ve G°d can for«¡vc and privilege to have friends, gra the clew to the significance of his own stage of development and that of his fel cious and true? Some lonely No one protests against religion-OUK souls feel that they have missed lows. He realizes most keenly that as a against the sham of religion. 01-v the gift of heartful friends and man thiuketh in his own heart, so is lie, and that it is wlmt men have thought that that for some unknown reason ‘T need not good fortune,” said Wall they are doomed to a life of loneliness and has made them what they are. Always misunderstanding. Let me tell you an they arc dealing with the creative sub Whitman: "I myself am good fortune." open secret. There is a way by which you stance, the Idea. Always they are mold ing it into form and shape according to The Spirit opens the mind to a Compre may become so lovable and attractive that hensive Conception of the Absolute-noth friends will come, anyway. Keep your their thought. From the great or all-in ing else can. u* heart open, like a flower bed. to the sun clusive Idea comes the differentiated and shine of life. There is plenty of it if you particular ideas. Inasmuch as they are all look for it. Look for the best in people, creative, it is they which are empowered see their best side. Judge them by the to move thought into expression. more spiritualized and finer, we can endure standard you would like to be judged by. Not only you, your character, yourself more ami do more. Be full of hope, joy, cheery words and as you appear, but your world depends smiles. upon the idea which you hold and which It is not sentimental consolation that Then take good care of your body. Feed holds you. humanity needs; it is love, truth, knowl it with good, wholesome food. Look your So of your idea of friendship? Is it edge and wisdom. prettiest. Not only by wearing a smile, that all-sympathetic, magnanimous, inspir but pretty clothes. Even a calico dress ing relationship between congenial souls? Character grows strong, powerful, mel may have the charm of neatness and ex If so, nothing short of the sympathy, of low and sweet as we learn to love all—as quisite cleanliness. Be sure to have every the magnanimity, the inspiration will sat we become Universal Lovers. thing clean. (This is for both brothers and isfy your ideal. You will seek to become sisters.) Make a practice every morning the friend you picture as the type of all Every so-called “good” or “bad” experi of going out in the fresh, sunny air. or friends. You will endeavor under all'cir- ence you have brings you one step nearer having plenty of air in your room, and tak cumstances to view every question concern to God— nearer to infinite perfection.— ing a five-minute exercise in deep breath ing your friend from the sympathetic point A. /. ing. When you have finished, spend a few of view. This means that you will nor moments in lifting your arms, one at a criticise nor condemn without fair and "If I could only believe,” say some. Why time, straight above .vour head, stiffening honest consideration of every question. It not say, 1 will aspire to know/ Aspire the fingers and holding upright for several means that you will not he bigoted, narrow earnestly to know, and not to believe, if seconds, then dropping to your side sud minded or sensitive, but on the contrary, thou wouldst reach the Most High. denly. Repeat five times. This will give gracious and magnanimous. It means that you magnetic equilibrium. Then repeat you will endeavor to fill your conversation “ Entrust to Truth whatsoever thou hast with animation and real earnestness these and service or association in whatever form from the Truth,” says St. Augustine, in his words, as a preparation for meeting your it may take, with that quality which shall confessions, “and thou shall lose nothing; day’s work with all its incidents and asso be an inspiration to your friends. It means and thy decay shall bloom again, and thy ciations : "I am resolved to be patient that at all times you will be true. That disease be healed, nnd thy mortal parts be and full of joy, no matter what happens you will say nothing and do nothing in the reformed and renewed.” this day.” absence of your friend which you could not Dear friend, you cannot help lieing at or would not do in his presence. Thus, if tractive, lovable and beautiful if you will you want to be a noble friend, become For how shall we serve nim from whom follow these suggestions. You will have possessed with the idea of friendship. One proceed health and sanity and love, save plenty of friends— lovely and charming of the iicautiful thought streams emanating by being healthy, sane, and loving? Shall ones. too. from this friendship idea is that of appre we sing hymns to the Author of Harmony, Then, again, you will lie enlarged and ciation. It is so closely allied to the feel who have neither harmony nor melody in beautified in your character if you hold the ing which makes friendship that it cannot our lives?— Stanton Kirkham Davis. right ideas. really be separated from it, and ever it is Have you ever stopped to consider what sending forth in beauteous forms that The physical body is made by the soul, idea /¡ossexucs you'! whether it be that which, like fragrant flowers, grows in the from the soul, for the soul, and is the soul's which would lead you into the larger, fairer restful meadows and sweet fields where greatest possession here on the earth-plane, realm of truth, or that which holds you . . .. , mi vi uqi «v» uiiug iv because it is the temple of Soul and its pinion-bound to earth ? The idea of char perfect blossom and fruitage these floweri Mind and Heart. How important, then, acter. for instance. What miracles it will of appreciation, it is necessary that tin that we build a pure, strong, healthy and work in your life when the idea is attrac thought be often expressed. enduring body ! tive, alluring, beautiful! You will be for If your friend brings you a gift, writes ever picturing a mode of conduct into you a letter or gives you other tokens ol which are poured your highest aspirations, his devotion, let him know that you appre I T P A Y S your purest purposes, your best resolves, ciate what he has done. Speak or act tin X o K n ow Pnctx About Coffee. and your finest accomplishments. You are thanks you feel, not necessarily in conven measuring what you are by what you may tional words of gratitude, but in suet be, and even unconsciously are absorbing sweet, spontaneous ways as your love may When man takes properly selected food every hint from the book of life and living prompt. This will lead you into anothei and drink Nature will most always assert pictures that will help you to become your idea akin to and inseparable from the ¡den herself and rebuild the structure properly. ideal. Yon are of friendship, namely, the idea of expres “ From my earliest remembrance I was sion. What the fruit is to the tree, ex “ Intent to trace the ideal path of right. pression is to the feeling. Under norma a confirmed coffee drinker,” writes a gen More fair than Heaven's broad causeway conditions and circumstances the feeling tleman front Marshallville, Ga., “taking paved with stars.” soul will express itself just as surelv as two cups at nearly every meal. While at under normal conditions and harmonious Y’ou see the exact proportion and exquis circumstances the healthy tree will bring college I became very nervous, dyspeptic, ite harmony in every transaction of nature forth fruit. One who loves but who doe.- irritable and unfit for study, and attributed and involuntarily imitate in your relations not express is not normal. Some idea for it largely to coffee, but did not stop its use. with your fellowmen. The appearance of eign to his feeling may overlap his con the rising sun punctual to the instant, for sciousness and cause him to repress instead “ When I was married I found m.v wife example, is to you an inspiration to be of express. For example, suppose he loves was troubled the same way, nnd we de punctual in your own comings and goings, his friend with devotion, his natural im to be exact, and, therefore, reliable in your cided to try Dostum Food Coffee. M.v wife pulse will be to express his feeling, but an made the Dostum according to directions promises and fulfilments. untoward circumstance, a misunderstand The creative Idea which actuated the ing. the belief that another friend hat and we found it superb. We used it ex Divine Mind in the putting forth of all usurped his place, the feeling that he is clusively for the morning beverage, and the these wondrous creations of nature, is the unworthy, all these and other thoughts taste of ordinary coffee became distasteful one all-ensphering, all-absorbing, all-per may prevent him from the expression meating Idea which rules the world. which his feeling prompts. to both of us. Like children working with clay, every So it is necessary that we select, not “ We have found a distinct gain in health. human being is working or playing at crea only a ruling idea which may change, tion. but though he touches and molds the Any amount of Dostum does not cause a modify and perfect our lives, but we must feeling of either dyspepsia or nervousness, substance into forms shapeless or beautiful, have harmonious corollaries or attendant it. is not until the light dawns upon him, ideas which will supplement and carry out while the return to coffee even for one meal revealing himself as a creator, that lie be the ruling one. has disastrous effects upon m.v nerves. My comes the master workman. He under Is there one among us who will sav Ik dyspepsia has entirely left me. and both my stands then his impulse to create through has been forgotten nnd left without tin his thinking. He realizes that it is his power of thinking and of creating? Whc wife and self are well and strong and feel thoughts which make him what he is. which that it is all due to the Dostum.” Name may make him what he wills to be. He can say so ? Not one. Whosoever we are traces his thoughts back to his idea of him wherever we live, whatsoever our name given by Dostum Co.. Battle Creek. Mich. race or condition, we are thinkers, there It is easy to replace coffee with Dostum self, and little by little he untangles every fore, creators. Our thought world is (hr knot in the line of life. He sees how. when which has. when properly made, a rich under the influence of one idea, he thought, soil we have been given to till: it mnv lit felt and acted in certain ways: under the sterile, strong and bnrren when we begin flavor and the color of coffee, with none of yet by continuous nnd faithful labor w< its injurious after-effects. The New York MagMine of Mysteries 143
Success, H appiness and the New Thought ^ Poise and Power of Soul ^ f By Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Copyright., 11KB) C lear your mind of every gloomy, sel 1X0 but the great and mighty fish, angry or revengeful thought. Allow God really knows what is souls that are eternal, souls that are in no no resentment or grudge toward man or yuoil and e d it l “ f.eo f F t e r . C'pWCre 0,1 any 1>atl1 but the fate to stay in your heart overnight. When we think and reason i aui oi Ijttirua) Progress. Let us live «ml Wake in the morning with a blessing for deeply and profoundly with whirled l«^^n 1Iigh and ****** 10 every living thing on your lips and in your holy thoughts and take not billed around in the tempestuous sea of soul. Say to yourself: "Health, luck, use superficial views, the less we pernicious activity, the sea of Ignorance. fulness, success are mine. 1 claim them." dwell on good and bud. ou‘‘ existence with the poise Keep thinking that thought, no ma^cr A great soul sees somewhat of divinity in what happens, just as you would put one all things— all circumstances. foot before another if you had a mountain What is bail for to-day was good for to climb. Keep on, keep on, and suddenly .. ... • — Omniscience. Let us you will find you are on the heights, luck yesterday, and what is good for to-day will live with men, our brothers, in true l.rotb- beside you. he bad for to-morrow. m'ly relation and with God as our Ail- The Blessed l ather. in Ilis omniscience, Whosoever follows this recipe cannot fail I'ather mid bring about the brotherhood of of happiness, good fortune ami a useful life. planned the Universe and the Great Evolu man and the Fatherhood of God. But saying the words over once and then tion, and it is only when we would make Let. us know and realize that no power in drifting back to anger, selfishness, revenge radical and quick changes in 11 is great plan the universe, except our own minds, can and gloom will do no good. that we disturb ourselves and others and involve us m any so-called bad or evil: that The words must he said over and over, retard progress. God is omnipresent: that Ilis mightv love and thought and lived whet; not said. All beings are parts of one beautiful always cares for us and protects us. Heal- The world is full of "New Thought Lit whole, and we exist for co-operation, not ize this grand truth and be poised. erature.” It is helpful and inspiring to for obstruction. Lei us know that all the teachings, read. The latest to come to me is: •*We are made for co-operation, like feet, preachings, sayings and writings of men “How to Control Fate Through ¡sugges like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the are partial and at most can only suggest tion,” by Henry Harrison Brown, "New” upper and lower teeth. To act against one the ways to Light and Truth; that, so far Publishing Company, San Francisco, Cal. another, then, is contrary to Nature,” said as men are inspired by God. can they in It is worth many dollars to any one who the great Marcus Aurelius. spire the eternal soul oil its eternal,'pro will live its philosophy. Aye! it is more— it is to oppose God and gressive flight: that those sweel and loving 1 showed it to a man who lias been study His grand and beautiful plan. words which calm, steady and balance the ing along these lines for some years. A soul with poise is never an obstructor mind and give the soul inspiration and as "Oh, I know all that hook contains.” he in the Father’s I’Ian— evolution. piration and hope and poise are true words said; "it is nothing new. 1 am perfectly Indeed, a soul with poise is almost as of the Iloiy Spirit; that hitter words that familiar with its philosophy.” powerful as the Omnipotent One. blast the mind and heart with withering Vet this man was continually allowing Such a soul is calm and serene and in so- fear are false. himself to grow angry over ttie least trifle called good or bad sees the Hand of God. T'lie test of ray divinity anu inspiration — he was quick to see and speak of the To him the words, "God is all in all,” are is how much love, hope, peace, calm, health faults in others; he was demanding more not empty, idle,or meaningless. and strength I can rouse in your soul, your of those he associated witli in tiie way of His mind is not lumbered nor oppressed heart and your mind— how much of spirit consideration and justice than he was will with thoughts of good or had, an angry and strength I can bring to your soul. ing to give, and he was untidy in his person God or a seductive Devil, or heaven and If 1 am poised, centered and balanced I and improvident in his use of money. hell, or conversion of souls and reformation need say nor write no word, and 1 am a Now, it is the merest waste of time for of the world. great bearer of Love. Light. Life and Truth this man to read “ New Thought” literature He is wise— almost omniscient: is never to the whole universe. 1 am then at-one or practice “deep breathing," since in* will a reformer, and yet by the silent power of with the Omnipresent One and a center or not put into daily and hourly practice what liis poised soul reforms all things. channel through which Omniscience in the is taught by the new religion. He lives on earth as a god and works in form of thought vibrations flows freely He is like the orthodox Christian who simple dignity— this poised soul. with omnipotent force to all open and re mumbles through the Lord’s Prayer and He is harmoniously related to all men ceptive minds. then goes forth to do exactly as he would and all things, and all men love him and vie But if my mind is weak and unbalanced not he done by in business, social and do with each other to he like him and serve with fear and doubt ami Fanaticism. I am mestic life. him. out of time with the Infinite and am a poor Man is what he thinks, not what he says, His soul is at-oue with the Universal instrument for the Holy Spirit to play on reads or hears. By persistent thinking Soul—centered, poised— and yood and bad, and vibrate sweet and pure strains of you can undo any condition which exists. and high and low, and Heaven and hell are melody that have the power to charm, en You can free yourself from any chains, not in his vocabulary. These are words trance. calm, soothe, inspire and fire the whether of poverty, sin. ill health or un employed by minds tlmt think they could souls of men. happiness. If you have been thinking these order and run the universe in a wiser and The mind does violence to itself when thoughts half a lifetime you must not ex better way titan God. ever it is not in a state of serene calm and pect to change the conditions you have Ilis words are: Eternal Progress! The so distresses tile soul that there is no poise made, or hatter down the walls you have poised soul knows that the soul or real man or power. built, in a week or a month, or a year. is eternal and appears good and bud to the Criticism, censure and condemnation of You must expect to work and wait, and unthinking world as it manifests in differ the ai ls of others and great zeal in con grow discouraged and stumble— and pick ent forms and different degrees of evolu verting o'r reforming the world to some par yourself up and go on again. tion; that in God’s great and wonderful ticular religion, philosophy or Utopian idea You cannot in an hour gain control over plan it renders service in countless billions always unbalance the mind to a more or a temper which you have let fly loose for of forms and on countless billions of planes, less degree and certainly disturb and dis twenty years. But you can control it without beginning or end. eternally. tress countless souls and destroy poise. eventually and learn to think of a hurst of The soul is eternal— ever going onward, If vou would have poise and power of anger as a vulgarity— like drunkenness or forward and upward towards its goal— soul, do not waste or dissipate your powers profanity— something you could not de Eternal Life in Eternal Light— the super- of mind, heart and soul in these zealous scend to. conscious state. labors and toilings. Which will bear no If you have allowed yourself to think So realizes the soul when it reaches that spiritual fruit for you, or the world, or the despondent thoughts and believe that pov universe. , ...... erty and sickness were your portion, for degree of evolution where it is centered and years, it will take time to train your mind poised and has real power— divine power. All great souls who have really helped the progress of tile world were calm, serene to more cheerful and hopeful ideas: but In a while all souls become poised. Not you can do it by repeated assertions and one soul in the universe can be lost or de and holy me filled with cheering optimism, men who had poise mid power o! soul to by reading and thinking and living the stroyed or kept out of poise long. beautiful New Thought philosophy. Ijet us try to hold the blessed truth that such a degree that they lived in the world and with the world in peaceful dignity; From Henry Harrison Brown’s book I we are all Eternal Souls in different de quote the following excellent rules for as grees of evolution under (lie guidance of the men who had hearts large enough to take in all beings and whose arms were long sertions. Say them over daily : great God. the loving and merciful Father "I am fearless. I dare to do anything I of all. Let us become calm, serene and enough to reach out and hold all mon in loving embrace; men who had no small or desire. Poised. “ I am life. I cannot know sickness. Let us cleanse our minds of the false and pettv God of rewards and punishments: men' who had an All-loving Father of in “I choose my life. I make it— all good depressing thought of time, of beginning ness. usefulness, success. I am peace, joy, and end, of creation; let us know and real- finite and eternal love and mercy and whom, through love, they came to know ns omnis prosperity, happiness.” !i(’ that with the Eternal Loving One there Add to this: I am love, wisdom, power to is not rime; that all beings arc His blessed, cient. omnipresent and omnipotent: men who fully realized that the real salvation do good: benevolence, opulence. eternal children. Let us be sober and And if you persist in saying, thinking poised. of the sold in each man came when he real ized his oneness with God and that he was and living these ideas, you cannot fail in Bet us once and for all time wake lip aii eternal. living soul, ever progressing to life. and shake ourselves out of this horrible ward the Eternal Light and Life of the nightmare-—that we are mere puppets of n In striving to lire tli< life, meditation is capricious God with low, human attributes Grant'me. O Almighty. Loving Father of absolutely necessary. Go into a quiet, holy and be eternally poised. VII' that 1 may never pray to thee for place, away from all disturbing vibrations, Let us live in the Eternal Light and stop more than Light. Understanding and \\is- and meditate upon Gon. and C u b is t and wasting time and energy and force in doni to he Thy simple, loving and trusting LOVE. Thoughtful reflection and considera minking. speaking and writing about good child, with balance of mind and poise of tion of the Mighty Love of G od, the Loving anu bad, and shout with joy that we are Father of all. and that yo u are his child, eternal souls, each an important part in the soul. Amen. and He is your blessed loving Father, will m, um! Progress of the whole. I say. let Blessed is the memory of those who have lift your soul into the vibrations of Love. n-'tn nl|d happy and sing glad songs kept themselves unspotted from the uorld. Light and Life, and then you will want to tin that joy and gladness Hint come with -v e t more blessed and more dear the mem pray (talk) to Gon and Christ and (he Holy Poise and balance. ory of those who have kept themselves un Angels. The Iiol.v Mystics spend ’ much os cast out of our minds all this time in holy meditation. ant, hypocrisy and sophistry of saving sifted in the world.— Mrs- Jameson. 144 The New York Ma^gatzine of Mysteries
The Light of the Wotld
Man is constantly seeking for light POWERFUL WORDS ON ter what his station or sphere of life umat‘ ? alizes that ignorance is darkness and th,,* * ' « RELIGION AND PHILANTHROPY such a condition true happiness k „ 13 found. Only the lower orders of the E * By “RABBI E. G. HIRSCH. TH.B., 7>.2>. creation shun the light of day and seek ,,,! dark, unwholesome places. Man under«,! Î that light is essential to the noblest „ S ! of both the body and the mind, and ural sequence darkness is antagonist,/,,, „ ELIGION teaches the truth that motive for organized, wisely balanced and the better conditions for w h i T E m E man is made in the image of God; effective work of redemption and social re seeking, and to which he has the divine religion whispers into the ears of adjustment. Religion whispers into our ears ilege of attaining The light which S millions that man is brother to that we are men. The Jew is told that he is trates the atmosphere with its electricami Another who once came to earth made in the image of God, and the Christian invigorating force is as essential to existence and assumed the raiment of hu remembers that he is brother to One who as air, food and water. If the light of the sun manity. This consciousness of the showed Divine feeling for the human race. is a positive necessity for man’s physical et dignity of our humanity is necessary to every But what we Jews are, every man is. Every istence and development, what slia'll be said effective and beneficial effort at changing man, therefore, is our brother, and we cannot of his spiritual being! The light shed abroad social conditions and uplifting the masses of afford to leave one single member of this hu in the heart and soul of man is the wondrons men. Religion supplies the proper motive man family to the influences and conditions engine through which is evolved the higher for philanthropic endeavor. Religion sug which make for his degradation as a or spiritual forces that raise mankind above gests the proper methods and calls attention man. the animal kingdom and make him but little to the proper means. Poverty, especially when it inclines to pau lower than the angels. “ This is the true light The materialist will have none of charity. perism, is opposed to the full and free devel which lighteth every man that cometh into To him the endeavor to lift up the fallen and opment of humanity. Therefore poverty that the world;’’ in other words, the manifestation to strengthen the weak is tantamount to the grinds down, poverty that crushes the human of the spirit which was in Christ Jesus and insane desire to tinker with eternal laws. The soul, is not to be tolerated where men are at this is the light of men. Mankind is now seek materialist says that man is woven of dust, their best—men who know that to be a man ing with greater zeal and earnestness than and that, being of dust, he is under the law is to be a brother unto Jesus and a sou unto ever before for this true light, “ before which which sweeps to dust again all that is dust. God, the Father of all. Therefore the battle pain, disease, poverty and suffering shall He reads in the stars, the stones and the with sin must be on, for«it is the movement speedily fade away, and soul and body shall spheres the decree that only the fittest and of the Divinity within us. rise to the grandeur of noble manhood and to the strongest may survive. The vocabulary of the economist who cal the realization of a more perfect life.” When According to the materialist, only in that culates cost and expense is limited by the the overshadowing rays of the “ light of the nation where the weak and aged die is the phraseology of the market. Supply and de world ’’ shall penetrate man’s inmost being proper appreciation of what society properly mand are the ideals which he worships. Re and shall become the energizing principle organized should demand and enforce. The ligion whispers into our ears, “ Not money, and all-potent agency in guiding thought and Romans that exposed the weak children to but men. Not cost, but condition.” The hu action, they shall attain to heights of wisdom, their fate and allowed them to perish were, manity of this world and the charity of that knowledge and power which shall fit them to according to the materialist, true philoso humanity cannot be expressed in pounds ster become, even as St. Paul said, “ Sons of God phers. They would not encumber society ling nor in the coin of the realm. Religion and joint heirs with Christ.’1 This is nota with members who would become a load upon teaches us that if one man is to help another mere fantasy of mind, for vast numbers the others and a drag upon the pace of those he must first be a man himself and come as a throughout the world are daily bearing wit who would run successfully. man to his fellow men. ness to the wondrous power resident in mind The economist, on the other hand, would The old prophets in Nazareth did not sit in through the recognition and unfoldment of urge the fulfilment of this social responsibil their closets and write statistical disquisi this spiritual and diviner self, resident in ity on the ground, really, of the figures ab tions on the wisdom of allowing certain so every human soul. stracted from the ledger of social bookkeep cial conditions to prevail. Perhaps they had It is apparent that there iss then, a certain ing. Every like reason of the economist is a no conception of the intricacies, and were and secure pathway by which the man of question of value. Every life, therefore, lost; utterly innocent of the effect of social influ courage and unfaltering determination may every limb, therefore, paralyzed, is so much ences. But what they did was something of emerge from the darkness of ignorance nnS lost in the productive process of the human far greater value than erudition in definitions sin, from disease and suffering, and escape system. Therefore the economist suggests and familiarity with social formula;. They the dismal consequences which are sure to that it is cheaper to help the weak than it is had a heart, and that heart drove them out follow in the train of his errors of thought not to help them. Every weak member of among the people. They preached from the and deed, a divine plan by which man, what the human family ceases for the time being housetops and at the street corners. They ever his failures or mistakes may have been, to be a consumer. Every consumer lost mingled with men. They touched men, and may become enfranchised, unbound and free, means so much profit wasted. They must be therefore their touch was a healing gift. with the strength to stand in his greater man brought to as high a degree as possible of And the great Prophet of Nazareth who hood and in his divinely inherited birthright the former power to consume. walked among men: He gave that which was “ as a child of God and joint heir with Christ.” This theory of the social relations is cer more than money to them. He gave Himself. This pathway will become consciously re tainly on a higher altitude than the cynical Socially speaking, the law of redemption vealed to man when he shall truly enter into philosophy of the materialist. But suppose through the suffering of another is as true as his princely estate, acknowledge his divine this calculation shows some defect some the law of redemption in the Higher World sonship, and recognize and assume the in where in the progress of its development. of the Spirit. Religion alone can bring men heritance of power which shall enable him to Suppose, to-morrow, we should come to the to use this law of redemption through per overcome darkness and disharmony and to conclusion that it were better to allow those sonal operation and personal sacrifice. And manifest the Christ spirit, which is most truly who cannot produce to go to perdition than religion alone can bring to us the understand the “ light of the world.” Then he will have to make an attempt or experiment to change ing of that truth that every man, poor or put on the “ whole armor of God,” so that he them into producers? What then? Where rich, clothed in rags or clothed in royal robes, shall “ stand against the wiles of the devil’’ would we stand then ? is a man with an immortal soul and with a and be endowed with strength to “ wrestle No. Religion alone can supply the proper personality. against the rulers of the darkness of the world.” Taft,[The appeared above condensedin Practical article, Ideas. byMr. Henry Taft is S. a The Truly Free Planets irv Relation to Man recognized authority on Metaphysics, and han dles his subject with a masterful pen.—EDITOR.) T he truly free are those unknown to fame, How many times have we all known of The careless ones who walk the ways of cases where men have thrown their lives light, away; persons whom we could imagine Unheeding baleful hope and tears of might, were in every respect suited to almost every Think Good Thoughts Content without the happy world’s acclaim. vocation than the one they were following, The merry minstrels of the soul who came and yet who seemed helpless to help them T here is no statement to-day resting upon Unbidden guests, to woo and win delight selves! a more false premise than that every evu From simpler ways between the shores of What is the cause of this unfortunate con thought will work evil upon someone else; night, dition, when nature has provided so boun that each person is subject to the evil Nor sought to write on shifting sands—a teously for all ? thoughts of other persons, or those thoughts name. Did we but realize that the first law of suc in the vast reservoir of the air. It is contrary cess is equipoise, the ethics of the soul, or to nature’s first law—the law of self-preserva And so I open wide my arms to those the knowledge of ourselves, the answer tion. Thoughts of evil fall from the spiritual Dear lowly ones of earth, who clearly see would not be far to seek, though many people armor of him who will not think them a In beauty's being cause that blooms the rose; imagine it to be the contrary, as though it water from the back of a duck. Evil thoughts Embodied souls of song through ways that be were beyond us. This can best be accom work, with the certainty of gravity, pain to mm All-wise because so meek that no man knows plished by understanding the things that who thinks tnem. Evil thoughts attract Their holy tears, nor yet how truly free. control our destiny; the thinker like vibrations, but safe is he w - P . H. B. There’s a divinity that shapes our ends. refuses to think anything hut Good, i ■ Rough-hew them how we will. conscience can never be violated by anyo Undoubtedly the after half of life is the save its owner. Even when in the most c • best working time. Beautiful is youth’s en A part of this destiny we assume to be the plete state of sleep, either self-induced or y thusiasm and grand are its achievements, but laws of the planets, as a divine right that Suggestion, the thought not in harmony the most solid and permanent good is done God has given them, which in turn affect us, the character of subiect, that is not his by the persistent strength and wide experi just as we observe that a hot or cold day, a mental habit, will be rejected.—Uccuit nr ence of middle life. Contentment rarely clear or cloudy one, affects the peculiarities comes till then; not mere resignation, a passive of the people of this planet. acquiescence in what cannot be removed, but This point being established, our deduction, active contentment.— Dinah M. Craik. then, is all the more natural when we em T he Magazine o f Mysteries is the title of phasize the fact that these planetary laws i new monthly published by Charles a{ W o n d e r at nothing that you find in the are a positive science—notwithstanding all vo. 22 NorthWilliam street. New York.« heart of a woman or the heart of a man. God the arguments to the contrary—not an ex ii.co a year. It Contains a large amount o has put everything there.—Henry Arthur ploded science, as some would believe._ nteresling occult matter, having 32 pag [ones. . Zodiac. :ach number.— Philosophical Journal. The New York Ma.ga.zi™ of Mysteries 145 The Psychology of Rest From »1/ ! Success VibraUions The Nauti his \!/ I'.NDEK this title, Joseph Stewart gives * some valuable advice nnd instruction in his beautifully printed and most helpful bi ••WHAT force least expected does the monthly, Realization, lie says: greatest damage to buildingsV” is the ques A tone repeated has greater power than Of course there should be seasons of tion which a representative of the In- reneet ne' H?» a 11 prnnte<'- Two instruments complete rest other than that of sleep. The dianapolis News asked a well-known archi- lepoiiing the same tone in the same time observance of Sundays, holidays and vaca ¡L t The architect's answer may be a have double the power. Therefore I tell tions lias unquestionable psychological war surprise to those who do not understand ii?Uthn USG and affirmation together, rant. It is, however, the need for this rest in the same rhythm, that you may exert above spoken of to which especial attention that it is the regularity of vibration that greater power for desired ends. makes it powerful. "It is difficult to tell,'’ is called. All activity is vibratory, and its degree There is no vocation which can right replied the architect, "but I will venture to of power ismultiplied by rhythmic repeti- sav that you would never expect violin fully usurp the noon hour or half-hour. f'rom YIiCM - H10 foHowin* item clipped Most of this should be given up to relaxa „laving to injure the walls of a building, trom Souths Companion and see how one l'ct it certainly does. There have been in tion. There may be a park near you unap limn by continued vibration demolished the preciated, it may be no more than a scant stances when the walls of stone and brick walls that hemmed in his soul. Then go structures have been seriously damaged by plot of green in the midst of the city ; you thou and repeat thy vibrations until thou may be fortunate in living near the wood vibrations from a violin. Of course these hast accomplished thy soul's desire« rases are unusual, but the facts are estab Listen: land. If so, get out into it and wholly re lished. The vibrations of a violin arc real lax. Dismiss, for the time, the duties of A jear ago three prominent physicians the hour, and blend yourself with this pro ty serious in their unseen, unbounded force, told a certain New Yorker that he was cess of renewal. If you can find a bench, and when they come with regularity they afflicted \\ ith locomotor ataxia and bevond lie seated and take a few psychic breaths exercise an influence niton structures of the power of cure. Thereupon this man,- and hold the thought of the inflow of life. brick, stone or iron. Of course it takes who, even when lie used two canes, ‘floun But make no exertion of it; simply invite. continuous playing for many years to dered around wherever his legs chose to If such an opportunity is not available, loosen masonry or to make iron brittle, but take him, went to a gymnasium. He took utilize that which you may have, and rest it will do it in time. I have often thought exercise in ten-minute instalments. It was wherever yon may be. You may think this of what the result might be if a man would torture, lint he persisted in it. and when he is impossible for you: you can t spare the stand at the bottom of a nineteen-story was not exercising he stayed out of doors time, or some other fancied obstacle is light, well, on the first tloor of the great Presently he began to ride a bicycle, too, raised in thought. Perhaps few spend a Masonic Temple, in Chicago, and play although ho could not stop his machine ex- busier life than the writer, yet he seldom there continuously. The result could be cept by putting on the brake and falling omits this noon relaxation. more easily seen there than almost any oil. After seven months of hard work his The fever of effort, of hurry, of work, of where else, because the vibration gathers legs were 'still wabbly.' hut he began to modern life, especially in the United States, force as it sweeps upward. A man can feel play handball. Through the winter lie keeps the mind absorbed in its material ob the vibrations of a violin on an iron-clad kept up regular practice in the gymnasium, jects and impoverishes it ns well as de ocean vessel, and at. the same time be un gaining all the time, surely though slowlv. pletes the vital force. Brain-fag becomes a able to hear the music. It is the regularity I Ins spring he had the reward of a year of common condition as a result, and sooner which means so much. Like the constant prodigious and painful effort, lie could or later premature old age and collapse fol dripping of water which wears away a take forty-mile rides on his bicycle. The low. I recently read of a business man stone, the incessant vibration of the violin doctors say he has perfectly recovered. He who hail become a victim of this condition, makes its way to the walls and attacks says he never felt better. Here is inspira who was advised by his physician to sit their solidity.”— Youth’s Companion. tion for invalids. Many a man might cure quiescent for a few moments daily, and to Are you hedged and limited by walls of himself of ‘incurable’ disease, as this mau hold a bell in his hand and sleep just long circumstances? Then repeat your vibra did, if he would only make a fight for enough to let it fall to the floor and wake tions until they give way. health.” ____ him. He did this, becoming fascinated Thoughts and words are vibrations. with the dreams he had during those brief Breathing is vibration. Combine them to A spiration periods. The short relaxation and rest the same regular lime and repeat until they completely cured him. O h, inspiration’s holy power, change things. Take full, even breaths, ex SpcaK through our lips in every hour, The point I wish to illustrate by this is panding the chest in all directions: and And let our inmost souls e’er burn that even the briefest period of complete re with each inhalation affirm I AM, hold the laxation in the midst of work is of vast With Love’s pure fire, from out that urn benefit. It furnishes the essential time for breath a moment, and with the exhalation Within the spirit’s holy shrine. affirm the thing yon want— Love, Wisdom, subliminal recuperation: it synchronizes The home of Love and Light divine. with the rhythm of psychic manifestation Health. Success— any one thing at a time. Speak! sacred fire divinely burning. Take I AM with the inhalation ; hold a mo and encourages the powers that follow the And ease the hearts for peace now yearn law of spontaneity. You will find not only ment ; sound W HO LE with the exhalation ing. —mentally. Do it easily, freely, rhythmi recuperation, but increased power to work cally, and keep at it. Fifty to a hundred Oh, speak in Truth’s clear trumpet tones, and higher quality of thought. such breaths and affirmations every day, And still the stricken heart’s sad moans, There are many opportunities during the standing straight before an open window, Speak thou in Love’s low tones that thrill day when these moments can be thus util will accomplish something. The walls of Through troubled hearts thy “Peace, be ized. By observing the details of one day your discontent will crumble and leave you still!” you will discover many moments when use free. And lift us up above the gloom less exertion in both thought and action is Of earth’s environments, and tune continued. These should be redeemed to Anything desirable can be accomplished Our souls to holier, sweeter lays. this purpose. in this way if you only keep at it. It takes That voice forevermore Lore’s praise. This aspect of rest so blends with poise years for the violin vibrations to weaken — Lizzie Pucker Lyncss. that it is difficult to draw a dividing line. walls of stone and mortar. It might take There is a way of doing a thing which em years for the vibrations of your breath and Life is Love Manifest, and according as ploys just the requisite energy and no more, words to shatter the walls of your circum to how much Love you manifest is your and the sufficient time, and is not hurried stances. but the probabilities are that it life happy. Thus a happy life does not de into less. This is poise in action, as I have would take only months, or weeks, or even pend upon living on earth or in the spirit heretofore explained. In the sense in days to do it. It all depends, first, on the spheres, but ou how much of Love you which I am now writing, it is also rest in solidity of those walls, and, second, upon manifest. The Immortal State of Con work. Employed in this manner, effort the rim anil persistence of your vibrations. sciousness is Love in its universal manifes seldom tires one who is not otherwise de Of this rest assured: "There is NO tation. People who leave the physical pleted. many striking examples of the truth THING thou const not overcome” by per sphere of existence with hearts full of hate, of which I could give. sistent rhythmic vibrations. live in a fashion, but they can know noth It has been my purpose to merely point .1/1 activity is vibratory. A lot of cattle ing of the Immortal State of Conscious out the psychologic law underlying rest and walking across a bridge causes great vibra ness.— Lucy A. Mallory. to suggest these commonly disregarded tion. But a single St. Bernard dog by ways in which we may synchronize with it trotting across that bridge will cause a to our great advantage. Try it. greater vibration and do far more toward Morning Song shaking it to pieces. By J. II. Rockwell, in Word and Works O ! not yet All violin notes are vibratory. It takes Mayst thou, O Freedom! close thy lids years for a violinist to weaken the walls of “Weeping may endure for a night In slumber; for thine enemy never sleeps, a building with his scales and exercises: But joy cometh in the morning. — P s . x x x , l>. And thou must watch and combat, till the hut let him sound one tone rhythmically, A w a k e ! awake! The long, dark hours are day for hours each day, nnd the walls would go Of the new earth and heaven. down in no time. Night disappears before the spreading Why? The walls have not the tensile dawn. . , , strength for rhythmic vibration, so their Awake! awake! She Is 121 Years Old atoms separate, instead of springing elas Whate’er thy hopes, they blossom with the A M adrid newspaper, following the lead tically as do those of the violin string. The of its New Y’ork contemporaries, has been walls are likewise so heavy that they do not Whatever thy possibilities, they pass away. scouring its own country in search of the at first catch the full degree of vibration, Awake! awake! oldest inhabitant, believing that the cool, and if the tone is continually changed ns Awake, tlion troubled heart, nnd let the dry air of the mountain regions of Spain m playing a tune on the violin, the wails would have produced a record-breaker. never catch the full vibration— they never Drive W away the terrors of the night. The best result thus far has been the set to moving as far, nor as quickly, in Awake! awake! discovery of a woman in a Granada hos Proportion, as do the violin strings. But pital. who was born Oct. 12, 1781. She has I wake! The Great Day soon will thus lived in three centuries, and is nearly one tone harped on the violin will keep the And what thou wouldst have done, must "'alls swinging further nnd further in an one hundred and twenty-one years old. Her now be done. age is proved by documentary evidence. She attempt to catch the full vibrations. Lack- Awake! awake! fail elasfic •'VC? “BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART”? Ae can easily find identical teaching' liy ,1. V. COOKE £ the sages of China: Confucius t ?gs ln Mencius and later \Vbates,, Lao’,»‘ Among the philosophers, look at a pronounced admirer and fo lio ™ .,’ Living, the Self-subsisting; neither slumber Pini,,. H.- believed in the one ¡od g! 0 see God truly is the apper preme, who controls Hie universe as 7s' ception, or the seeing through, seizeth Him, nor sleep: All that is the human soul controls the body The to the Divine Life, :i sun heavens and in the earth is Ilis. Who is he that can intercede with Him but by Ilis mos is a living organism. God is the sphere of the spirit, by the and Nature the body. Cicero considered finite spirit or inner life of own permission? He knoweth what is present with Ilis creatures and what is yet blasphemy to suppose Him ca p ab le of an man. it is written: "The ger or any other passion: he regarded riè pure in heart shall see God." to befall them. yet. naugnt of His knowl Our pcreeption of Deity is edge do they comprehend, save what He numerous tutelary deities as subordinate commensurate with our spiri willeth. Ilis throne reaches throu: ’> the agwnts of the Supreme Being. II,. thought tual development. heavens and the earth, and the upholding all spiritual knowledge was a reminiscence of both burdeneth Him not. And He is of experience obtained in former states of “ Blessed are the pure in being. I he eternal nature of the sou heart, for they shall see God,” the High, the Great.” is predicted upon the law This is true, too, for God is the Inner seemed to bun demonstrated bv its Imcdne of logical reality. Thus God is omnipres Life of all things— of the Cosmos in Ilis for immortality, its comprehensive fanti ent and perfect in spirit and in truth, and own Unity and glorious Being and of all if man, the finite part, were also perfect, creations. The inner life which manifests the climax of unity with God would then reason, intelligence and the many gifts of Life. Oh, Holy Light! he attained, and the child, seeing the one \\ it bout that spark of Divine Life in our ness, could say: "I and my Father are “One God the Arabian prophet preached to hearts, what is our life here but the per one.” The spirit, coming to its inner self- man. ception of matter in time and an eternal consciousness, sees the unity: the blessed One God the Orient still capacity for suffering. ness assured is not a passive reception of Adores through many a mighty span, But with that spark, a gift from God Divine favor, but a vivid consciousness of A God of Power and Will. vouchsafed us for a time, what joy of love Godhead. A God that, shrouded in His lonely Light or gratitude lo the Lord and giver of Life As we understand it. to see God is to ap Rests utterly apart shall be considered beyond our attainment'' preciate Him. conscious of Ilis present*, Every faculty, organ, capacity of the mind enjoying 11 is idea. As we are ourselves, From all the vast creations of His might. Front Nature, Man, and Art." is but a new path to the felicity of Dive’s spiritually, so is the God we apprehend. realization, whether in thought, word or As we change in development, so the Idea God controls all. through His own law, deed. Look at the resources contained iu of God changes to our apprehension. With grasping the inner life of each creature. Music, iu Art, in Literature, in Science, in every change that comes over our character The deeper and abler thought of phi benevolent work for humanity, the thou we shift our point of view. losophy sees this truth and grasps it. sand roads to Beatitude. God is never left Thus to know God truly is life, to do Spiritual science is founded upon it. without a witness in our hearts. His will is peace and joy. The living light is the very opposite of In proportion ns our inner love life is The invisible objects of the mind, the Hie atomic darkness of things, or the "outer unfolded, we draw near to God by spiritual everlasting ideas of the mind vary with the darkness” of dissolving nature. What ab attraction, and thus we see Him.- There is character and culture and spiritual devel solutely is. is a conscious spirit-subject in nothing between us and God but our own opment of the mind that views them. synthesis with one or more objects. The imperfections, our selfishness, our impiety The conception of God is held with very universal and the particular in cognition or our sitt. It needs but a heart purified different modifications by different ages and are also in all essential respects the univer from worldliness and self, from man and minds, though never, perhaps, wholly sal and the particular in actual existence, degrading associations to see God as truly, wanting to the race. Even the lower or expressed more popularly, the conclu though not in the same way, as we see the planes of human life betray some glimmer sion is unavoidable that every true and ab objects about us. For then everything ing of this Celestial light, though broken solute existence is a conseiousness-together- which we see will lie full of Ilis life and into strange refractions by the mists of with-its-contents, whatever these contents goodness. His presence will lie seen to In ignorance: and the highest, noblest cull tire may be. God Himself is conscious of some and spirituality grows deeper and more in form all Nature as its inner life. It will state or condition in every act of knowl smile upon us from every form of lieing timately into the blessedness of its illumi edge. The Divine Ego is the siiiiinuuu and pass before us with every joy of life. nation. genus of existence, no less than of cogni The onward march of Humanity may be We shall apprehend the meaning of that tion. Greatest of Teachers when he said: “I am measured by the progressive form of this Gotama never thought of denying the the way, the truth and the life: no man idea. The faiths of the world are demon inner life of all things; the sane, Divine strative of this truth. cometh unto the Father but by Me.” constitution of Nature. lie denies the im We shall realize the truth and justice of We may easily note the “ unities of the putations of Atheism as an ignorant mis spirit” by noting the basic spiritual ideas conception. lie says: “ When I lived on Theodore Parker’s lines: in which the great world and race religions earth and taught my disciples as to the re agree. lations which the soul maintained toward “Thy truth is still the light These fundamental harmonies are more the Creative Power, I found belief in this Which guides the nations groping on frequent and important than many sup principle of Re-incarnation of the spirit, so their way. pose. It is true that their discordant fea firmly implanted that I deemed it better Stumbling and falling in disastrous might, tures are dwelt upon by the over-zealous not to try to remove It by contradiction, al But hoping always for the perfect day. devotees, while their argume'nts or unities though I seriously doubt it. but rather Yes, thou art still the Life; thou art the are passed lightly by. hoped, by directing the mind to the attain way While "the evil that men do lives after ment of Nirvana, to enable it to outgrow The holiest know; Light, Life and Wav them and the good is oft interred with their the influence of the old thought, and thus of Heaven! bones,” let us look at the good and true transfer it from the field of human specu And those who dearest hope and deepest which abounds, while we may well ignore lation. I taught that the spirit perfected pray the priestly work of ritual, form and cere from the desire of the physical life, and Toil by the Light, Life, Way. which Thou mony. freed from the bondage of sensual passion, hast given.” Pythagoras held and taught that “ there imbued with the principles of kindness and is one Universal Soul diffused through all beneficence, and emancipated from the in We differ, yes. we honestly differ from creatures, eternal, invisible, unchangeable, fluence of anger or revenge, would escape those who believe that God has Imparted ot in essence like truth, in substance resem all the necessities of any further embodi Ilis truth only to Hebrew or Christian: bling light, not to be represented by any ment upon earth. I did not teach that its also from those who consider all systems ot image, but to be comprehended by the mind. relief would lie extinction, nor that the religion as the impostures of priestcraft. Not exterior to the world, but pervading spirit could escape from the condition that On the contrary, I regard the religious sen the universe.” This Being, in His Inner would be, to all practical effects upon it, a timent as always and everywhere sacred, it Life, is beyond the Ether Blue, in the new incarnation, for some of the wiser sincere. . . . „ "eternal now,” beyond space and time, in minds in spirit that I received ideas from In all ils forms I find much that is beau the Purity of His own Light, beyond our did not deny this when I questioned them, tiful and true, and in all 1 find more or le» conception. but I sought to raise the thought of my dis of that human alloy which results from The Spiritual Perception that, the Cos ciples to a loftier ideal titan the old" doc our schoolboy nature and uncompleted mic Inner Life is a living substance of trines, without wholly denying them.” growth. Light has been taught since the days of Thus we see that the Buddha knew and Manu, the lawgiver, by the Indian Brah taught of the Central Unity, the Heavenly I can scorn nothing which a nation shone mins. Light of Nirvana, which is the Light anil heart The holiest verse of Veda runs in this Atmosphere of God. Hath held for ages holy—for the heart way : “ Let us adore the supremacy of that The Parsees, only n remnant now. are Is alike holv in its strength and weakness. Spiritual Sun, opposed to the visible lumi the descendants of ancient Persians and It ought not to be jested with nor scorned. nary, who illuminates all, who re-creates followers of Zoroaster, a great teacher. all. from whom all proceed, and to whom The Parsees are worshippers of the Grkat Let us beware tbe canker of inR’i'nt*1 all must return. On, direct us aright in Set hit of L ig h t . or of faithlessness. Every heart hatn ■ • our progress toward Thy holy world.” All Intelligence is a manifestation of silent hour, and when sad tho>'?ht9 we One of the main objects of "concentra this great Spirit of Light. Life and Love. o'er us. as they sometimes wifi. „ tion” is to bring the mind into Ibis calm, Coining to the Hebrew teachers, tin- Old wrap ourselves in the Eternal Love, nn harmonious condition for the inward per I estament has many texts of a similar itn- is bright again, for well we know: ceptions of the spirit, for the development port: "My God is a Sun,” "The Lord our of tin' inward life. Thus the soul forces God is One! not to mention manv others f love, if love be love, If love be °llr" -i begin to stir and realize. 1 lie very word Je-bo-vali is a union of the 'aith and unfalth can ne er be eq In the "Koran.” the sacred book of the past, present and future tenses of a He- "Faithful" followers of Mohammed, we brew verb signifying Being. That is the Unfaith In aught is want of faith in have, in the famous second “ Sura,” the de internal Life of Being comprises the en- scription : t is the little rift within the lute tirety: Hie All of Life ami (ioodness. hat by and by will make the ™us‘° ® > "God ! There is no God but He— the As Tennyson reminds u s: And nvnr wlilpfllflff SlOWly SilGD • The New York Mag a.zine of Mysteries 147 C o u r a g e In our so-called troubles, woes and mis Marking the Best of Things eries the Soul is our only refuge. A. a A AAAAAAAAA^AAA/k/v A a AAA... . ^ The mind is of little aid. only ns it can become cool and calm— even thoughtless. -What is there that can justify tears and Thus we often see in dangerous maladies lamentations?"— Saying* of the livddha. make* for m .r T POwib,e.' evPn ¡f hard, to ■ ;'k nlor ourselves new interests and new Nature kindly makes the mind for days anti Y e st e r d a y I met n woman whose fam nud so create another home for our weeks a blank— unconscious— and the in ily had “come down in the world." as the selves. But to do this after a great up- flux of the Holy Spirit makes a healing. And so it is with courage and hope—-if saving is; I was not left to infer this. She wn T,Lr^ res ,m“'h "fforu l)ut ,l"’ of«« told ate so— not once only, but half a dozen vw II bring its own reward, and we shall tie we can but rest and quiet and even stop the limes in the course of the afternoon, till I far happier for having made it mind for a while and let God have full and srew weary of the subject. complete control, we are greatly strength love beg et s love ened, uplifted and encouraged. 1 wonder if it is that we women are more Often men in the lowest sloughs of des given to looking backward than men? Cer helphe!!? wherever».'h arP Ple“ we ty may of .PeoP'elie, and to if welove make and pond give up entirety all their mental tain it is that you very seldom find a man efforts in trying to overcome, and lo and transgressing in tins particular way; and. this loving and helping of others the first thing in our lives, we shall have no need behold a miracle! The Divine Mind ami after all, it is what we are now. and not Will takes possession of their souls, hearts what we were in former times, or what our to regret the days that have been. Love begets love, and if we have those we iove and minds, and in a little while they are grandmothers were, that wins us our place lifted up into the realms of the highest in the world and interests others. and those who love us around us. we have the greatest essentials to happiness. hope and courage. Not long ago 1 saw a woman standing Look to thy self— thy soul— God— if amid the ruins of what lmd come under the “Love is not free to take, like sun and air, thou wouldst be strong and courageous and auctioneer’s hammer through no fault of Nor given away for naught to anyone: not faint and fall. hers: but there were no tears and lamenta It is no common right for men to share— What else can help thee? tions there, though the home had been very Like all things precious It is sought and With a full recognition and realization dear to her. won. that we are soul, and not mind or body— "What am I going to do? she said the eternal child of the Eternal God-—we cheerfully In response to a friendly query. "So if another is more loved than you, get courage to overcome and endure in • Why, just make the best of things.” And Say not, 'It is unjust.' but say,’ 'If she peaceful tranquillity anything that may she is doing it bravely, too. But she docs Has earned more love than I, it is her due; happen in our Earth Existence. uot talk about things she had lost. When I deserve more it will come to me.’ “O Father. lift our souls above. THE RIGHT WAY Till we find rest in Thy dear love." And, believe me. this making-the-best-of- “ But if your longing be for love indeed. Courage to give up all mortal and mental tltings attitude is by far the wisest to I'll teach you bow to win it—a sure way; aids and external remedies, and call on the adopt. Our friends will appreciate us far Love and be lovely, that is all you need, one Father to take thee gently by thv hand And W'hat you wish for will be yours and lead rhoe as a little child out of the more if we go to see them in a cheerful some day." mood, ready to interest ourselves and lie mire of thy weakness and despond, makes interested in everything that is going on, What matter if things are not so smooth for the greatest strength, hope and courage than if we sit down and discourse to them for us as they once were, or as we think there is. of the glories of the days that are gone. they ought to lie? The soul is always courageous; the mind We cannot always keep the remembrance Our thoughts go hack to the Son of Man. is timid and cowardly— until it recognizes of the golden days out of our thoughts, or who “had not where to lay Ilis head." and God as the A l l . the sigh from our lips that will sometimes reproach us that we. who have so much to Courage comes by either changing the well up at the thought of what might have be thankful for. should spend our time in mind from its lower depths to its highest been, but we can prevent ourselves front lamenting the things that have passed vibrations: or. h.v closing and emptying it from us. entirely of all external thought. To often morbidly talking about them. close the mind «entirely to all external Itut there is another side to the question. So if we are inclined to this habir of things is to thus renew hope and courage No one who bad not experienced it can looking backward and talking of the riches and occult and psychic powers. realize the terrible home-sickness that that have taken to themselves wings, let us In disturbed conditions we think too comes over one at times at the thought of not indulge any longer in such vain regrets. much and pray too little. the things that are gone. Nothing can The world about us is still as beautiful as Paradoxical as it may seem— it is when quite make up for what we have lost, and, ever if only we open our eyes to see it. we give up all we gain all. though we can help talking about it, we There is still plenty of work waiting to be How frequently we see men and women cannot always keep our mind from dwell done, so instead of hugging to our breasts in sickness given tip to “die.” and at that ing on the might-have-beens. It is like and discoursing to our neighbors of the lux very moment a recovery begins. tearing up a tree by the roots to leave for ury in which our grandmothers lived, let He who lives in the Spirit will have ever a home which has been sacred to ns us rather strive to do our duty in that state great courage without any effort or even from our very earliest recollection. of life in which it has pleased God to place desire for it. So don’t let us lie too chary of our sym us. Honest toil is no disgrace to any one. Courage is the natural effect of living pathy to those who have suffered in this It was only the tree which liore no fruit of with God. way. which it was said : "Cut it down; why ctim- Who can fear who knows and realizes But for our comfort we may remember bereth it the ground?" his oneness with the great God? Who lacks courage who is wholly and solely sustained by the Eternal Sustainer For Nervovis, Lonely, Life and Sorrow of All things? "I s a id to Sorrow, 'Thou and I shall part: Our only support when we are discour and Weak People Hereafter I must seek the open way, aged is the Omnipresent God. One of the most helpful and inspiring Before the wine of life leaves dry niv heart. O Pure and Blessed guardian Angels of hooks for all aspiring souls is one by Susie That I some destined eve to Death may all those who struggle with fear, doubt and 0 . Clark, entitled "A Look Cpward.” From say, discouragement, strengthen, encourage and the chapter containing "Suggestions for "The cup Is drained, so welcome now thou defend them against the dark and false Treatment” in all diseases, we make (lie nrt; thoughts of their own minds, ami help them following extract with respect to spiritual Deep did I drink, and I have had my to rely on God and their omnipotent souls. healing of mental disorders: day!” Amen. A nervous, frightened patient can some “Alone in her dark chamber Sorrow wept. We are nil learning, each from the other, times lie quieted by the simple impressive And I went forth by field and fragrant and to progress, we must be tolerant and repetition of that beautiful text : "Thou lane, , avoid personal abuse.— Susan ./. Finck. wilt keep hint in perfect pence whose mind And reached a wondrous garden Pleasure is stayed on Thee, because lie trusteth in kept - „ .. “ A knowledge of Spirit laws and life will Thee." It falls like soothing balm on the In that fair land where never fell the throw a luminous splendor over even the troubled mind, and a wave of courage ami rain : happiest human lives." itope cotnes with the “ Perfect trust casteth And gailv down to me this woman slept out fear.” To the lonely and longing for Between her roses, and l laughed again. Multitudes are sick and suffering because companionship: "Lo, I am with you al- they are spiritually starved. Feed thy soul wa.v,” and " lie shall give His angels charge “I was most happy in that laud of flowers, with Love and Truth if thou wouldst be concerning thee.” To the faltering and Oiilv at times the old life I lindknown ir hole. timorous: "Lord, I believe, help Thou ray As in the night the sound of passing tmoelief.” and "I can do all things through As man unfolds bis power and possibili Some'far' and deep autumnal undertone ties. new and greater demands will be made Him who strengtheneth me.” .lust for to Awoke and flashed across the languid day. “ His grate is sufficient” ; and to the upon his larger self, which cannot be ig nored without doing violence to his higher sorrowing ami despondent: “ Lift up your Where 'f still watched, unhappily alone. heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up. ye nature.— Susan ■ !. Finck. everlasting doors: and the King of Glory “ Entombed amid a thousand roses there shall come in." "(> trust in the Lord, trail I stood walled round by rowers I could Believe in the good. Look for prosperity patiently far Him, and lie shall give thee llOt StHi ! , and not failure. If thou hast failed in thy heart's tlesircsf anil "Commit your But still the keeper of that garden fair most things, know it was because thou way unto Him. and lie shall hr.tig it to Laughed at my fears, and still withheld didst not have full and complete faith in pass.” God. Pray, and listen, and obey. Beach Then wept I for some little cross to hear out for the highest attainment. Thy soul \nd Sorrow came by night, and set me commands thee to aspire. Heed the Voice To a life hid in God. encompassed and ‘' free!” — Arthur Stringer. within. Go into the Silence and Isisten. ensphered by Divine Love ami Strength, no Angels are ever near trying to lead and weakness can come, no harm befall.— S. C . guide thee. Love and trust them, and in < lurk. The power of bright, cheery thoughts to cure disease is greater than all the drugs the Silence listen— then you will hear their sweet voices and feel their strengthening in the materia mcdica. . Heal thy bodily and mental ailments by and inspiring presence. invoking the Holy Spirit to rouse thy mind Listen to the Voice heard only in the .Tudge not. and condemn not. to a true conception of its relation with thy Inner Silence. •Tal self— the soul. 14 8 The New York Me^gaLzine of Mysteries Let ns try to extract the good from everything and everybody. Live more and O ptim ism F oo d more in the Spirit— in the spirit of loving I f there is any one thiug that kindness and gentleness and broad toler make the world brighter and bet* ll> ance. Thus we broaden and deepen in Klla Martin, that one thing is onti’„-a}s soul, heart and mind, and come to find good Let Parkhurst and his emuiatore wlmT' in things that, in a narrow and limited lieve that evil can I* exterminated bv ,l± ' view, seemed to be evil. There is some gmg it forth to the light and exhibiting fr fh ovigh t thing spiritually good in all religions. Let to the public gaze, ai the risk of co a ! • us strive more aud more to live in peace, natmg purer minds, keep on in their harmony and brotherhood, and promote work ; let Sam Jones continue to war d civilization and bring men to a realization audiences in emphatic and convincing on« that they are travelling the road that ‘ T he Lord is my portion, saith my soul; of the Sovereign Good of the Universe. ,n i,„it • ii,„ ...... j „ )ead more “leads therefore will 1 hope in Him.— Lamenta to hell" ; the optimist will lead’more peopjc tions iii, 21. The awakened soul that treads the Path to Heaven than all of these,iesc, God bbless kis Äinni ? ’ of Light is calm, serene and peaceful in all B e meet him occasionally,nially, and \yweTliw e fe e | The Unknown is knowable to the extent events, and beautifies (spiritualizes) any >l>eTfellowshiplowship with which That we think, hope and aspire. Persistent environment in which it may be.— A. 'A. he is impregnated. How>' this Sortof sort of iiim™ aud untiring desire to know will lead us to diffuses good will and brotherly brother!v lovt love! it ways and means of acquiring knowledge. encompasses one like a dense perfume’ ami In the death of the physical body of a envelops one like a mantle. We feel th,‘ As long as the mind says that it is impos sensual man or woman, or, rather, when sible to know the Unknown and he related penetration of his personality with Z, the soul passes out of such a gross body, it warm, hearty hand-clasp lie bestows, and with the Infinite Ocean of Knowledge— sleeps for a while to quiet down the vibra Omniscience— little or no progress in un it invigorates the system like wine. tions of its earth life. At and during the Always looking for good in the world the derstanding, knowledge and wisdom is "passing”— the transition called death, made. Knowledge is a power that relates optimist finds it (for people generally do blessed and holy angels are at hand to care bud "’hat they look for), and he himself or unites us with the Infinite Power of the for the soul, whether it comes from saint Universe and makes us whole and at-one or sinner— to help it rest in peace.— 1. ’/.. is happier than he could be were lie em with the Omnipresent. Omniscient and Om ployed in overturn lug stones to seek for nipotent One. The Unknown is knowable vermin beneath. He sees all the good there to him who worships at the shrine of Truth, How much time dost thou give to serene is in you. and is oblivious of your foibles with love, hope and faith. and holy contemplation of the Infinite He loves you because you are you, but more Good— God? Dost thou know that calm especially because you are a fellow-crea The soul is the star that lights our path meditation aud holy, fervent prayer to the ture. to all beauty. It having as its only light great Father of Love is the most refresh Recognizing his own frailties, he doesn't Infinite Light, it sees and partakes of only ing. inspiring and recreating psychic-men demand perfection. He does not condone that which is sweet, pure and beautiful. tal exercise there is? Dost thou know, faults, lie simply ignores them; and were All men love a soulful man, for he ex sweet soul, that health and strength of lie desirous of working some reformation in presses beauty in its highest expression— mind and body depend upon soul-culture— you, in no surer way could he accomplish his tone, his serenity, his sanity and his psychic-mental exercise? Dost thou know it. His brotherly interest aud sympathy dignity inspire love. It is the soul that life in its fullest, highest aud most beauti inspire in you an ambition to come up to holds the occult and psychic power to ful expression here on the earth-plane de the standard of which yon feel sure he charm by its great beauty. pends solely and wholly upon thy psychic- would approve ; or at least to be as good as mental powers— thy exercise of soul and he seems to believe you are. Subscribe for this Magazine if you would mind? Live in the eternal Spirit and not He may never have distinguished him have a year of hope and sunshine. in the ephemeral senses if thou wouldst self, owing to the lack of opportunities, lint have real life and manifest the God within. he makes others happier and more at peace Love God and all that is pure and true if The joy and peace of Perfect Bliss— life in with themselves because of his tenderness thou wouldst attain to the highest. its fullest and highest— cannot be described. and good will. Those who occasionally It is attainable by all now and here. Live catch glimpses of the inner man may guess Woe, misery, peril, disaster and adversity in Spirit! Live with God ! Trust in God ! at ambitions crushed and obstacles unsur melt into thin air when we turn to the Love, prag. listen, obey and do! Contem mounted. At times the eyes betray rest Blessed God that dwells within. plate the Infinite Good! Meditate on our lessness, unsatisfied longings, the aspira Blessed Father of Love!— The Blissful tions of the lofty soul. But the heroism, the Come, sweet souls, let us close the gates Prophet. bravery of the invincible spirit that takes to our lower natures and open the doors of life as it comes, and makes the best of it as our souls and hearts to the Most High; let The fully spiritualized man (an holy it is, not once succumbing to that destroyer us get beyond temptations to live in the adept) has no problems of life to solve; the of happiness, cynicism, though commend senses, and live now and here in a blessed problems of life naturally solve themselves, able in the extreme, is apt to he overlooked, state— with Infinite Bliss. "He who is in in truth, most of these problems work for he inflicts iiis disappointments on no temptations is in the hells. Place is of no themselves out— quickly and naturally— if one. consequence, but all depends on state.” they are severely let alone, and if undue How gladly you turn from the pessimist, prominence or recognition is not given who finds no good in anything, not even in Is it not written “We are saved by them. Fight and resist “evil” if you would himself, who sees nothing to live for ami hope,” and is not hope a something which give it real and lasting power; wholly ig very little to die for. to the genial, optimis the mind feeds upon? Is it not the spirit nore it and it will quickly pass away. The tic individual, who is in touch with human ual element which, after all, gives tone and Master not only taught non-resistance, but ity in general, and, whilst in your company, rigor to the entire nature?— Rainbow Say lived it. All great souls who really help with you in particular! lie makes you feel ings. the Whole are too good and wise to give as if melancholy has no business in the any power to what men call “evil” or the world, lie also knows your needs, ami that Look to God. and He will lift thee from “devil” by even mere recognition of them. lectures and criticisms will do you less good thy gulf of woe, if thou art in despair. There is a mighty and lasting positive than sympathetic interest and encourage power for good in non-recognition and non- ment. M y s t e r i e s resistance— that the thoughtless and super In one sense the man of this type is a ficial often term the negative state. Cer leader; for, in deeming the world a very W hen we realize the infinite perfection tainly the Master was not negative. We good place, despite the vicissitudes of life, pervading all of God's universe— our uni are only positive and divinely powerful as his spirit of optimism is imbibed by the verse— all mysteries ore solved and cease to we can bring universal love into our being, persons with whom he comes in contact, exist. "Mysteries” are such to the un- and are modest, kind and gentle to all and anil looking through the same “ rose-colored awakened. With a recognition and realiza can see the good and not the bad in all glasses,” they conclude that, after all, life is tion of the Christ within, we come into beings and all things and all events.— The worth living. oneness with the blessed O m n i s c i e n t O n e , Blissful Prophet. and truth dissipates and scatters forever all error into thin air. The rubbish of our G et Into the Light minds is consumed by the burning fires of Many in this great Age of Light are L ight is purifying: let sunshine into a infinite Love— God. As all language that learning to unlearn much that for ages has dark cellar, and it soon becomes pure. pertains to the Psychic-Mental realm is been labeled knowledge and wisdom. Light, is vivifying; expose a withered more or less paradoxical, psychic and oc plant from a dark room to the sun. aud it cult students, and seers aud adepts under Oh. why and whither?— colors lip. stand that the title. M a g a z in e o f M y s - God knows a ll; Light is power: all sources of fuel are TEttlES means far more than the ordinary I only know that ntintl will comprehend. As a mat ter of He is good, directly from the sun, coining in rays ot light. truth this title was given to us and not. And that whatever Light is joyous; nothing contributes so selected. The tremendous success of the May befall. much to making a brilliant assembly as a M a g a z in e o f M y s t e r ie s — its large, grow Or here or there. flood of light upon it. . , ing and far-reaching circulation— is a clear Must be the best that could. Light is comforting; a dark day is al demonstration that we are now living in — Whittier. the beginning of the SOUL AGK of this ways a gloomy day, hut a burst ol sunsmno brings a cheer. Idnnet— the Age of Love— the real Golden “ Ovir” Magazine Light is strengthening: a puny child ma. Age. We have evolved from the Age of grow strong if lie can play in the sunsliiic. Fear and Ilate to that of Love, and this M a n y of our readers when writing letters So you should get into the light lhai magazine is one of the signs of the times; to us allude to T h e M a g a z i n e o f M y s streams from the Sun of Righteousness. it was founded on love, and is sustained by t e r i e s as “Our” Magazine; they feel that His presence purifies the heart, energize, love, and will always vibrate with Univer they are a part of It, and that is just the sal Lore for all. way the owner, the editor, the publisher tho mind, brightens the life, cheers the spi and the Mystics desire them to feel. This its and strengthens the whole man. Only the Master shall praise ns. and only Magazine is for A l e , and t o each one of you the Master shall blame: souls who read it. it Is “OUR” MAGAZINE. Hold persistently and calmly to jo" And no one shall work for money, and no Many of our subscribers make presents of ideals and in time they will 1«?.realizedla one shall work for fame; a year's subscription. Have you not some fulfilled, and then new and higher ideas But each for the joy of the working, and “shut-in” friends whose lonely hours might will come to you. In this way. from each in his separate star, b e made brighter each month b y T h e ideal to a higher one. we progress. 1 Shall draw the Thing as he sees it for the M a g a z i n e o f M y s t e r i e s ? It’s a reminder discouraged or give up an ideal ■ ... God of Things as They Are! of the giver for a whole year. than to stand still— it means retrogiis. The New York Me.ge.zine of Mysteries did he use coffee, tea or tobacco. His face was of pure health and without a wrinkle, | THE WORLD IS GROWING 1 By even near the corners of the eyes, where in most people they are prevalent. RFTTF R £• GERALD fit | Dt» I 1 ILK. | C A R .L T O N | This goes far to show that fruits and vegetables and cereals arc ihe life-givers and life-sustainers of the human race! Apart from this the artist-Yopi was a man I pbopose to speak tliis montli on the (though of a pronounced nervous tempera changes for the better which have taken ment ) who never lost his poise. nlace during the last decade. It is. no doubt, well remembered by most and penitent M to g “r rf*timSp'iSt “ UmblC So much has the great Yivekdnanda done of us the advent in this country of a power- Hn¡a l ogo is divided into eight steps." in establishing health, good feeling and fid Hind u Teacher, the Sicdnri Vive- says the SwCtmi, "non-killing, truthfulness. good will since the All-Good directed him kftnanda. He first made his appearance then1T „ ? ,.and noaTew‘iving of any gifts, to these shores for the regeneration and bet (luring the Parliament of Religions at the then cleanliness »contentment, mortification terment of humankind 1 When he first ad World’s Fair, in 1892. His eloquence elec self-surrender to God. A Yogi must dressed the vast audiences at the World's trified the vast audiences he addressed; not think of injuring any one. through Fair in '92, Mental Science was barely among them were the most able theologians thought, word or deed, and this applies not dreamed of. It was professed by so few of ail countries, many of whom came from only to man but to all animals. Mercy that one might count them on the fingers remote parts of the earth, listening spell shall not be for men alone, but shall go be of two hands. But what a change since bound to his Ileaveu-born utterances. yond, and embrace the whole world.” How then 1 The Psychic Age is truly with us. A* often has the writer’s heart been wrung to Conditions are improved, and with the grace of the Spirit they will continue to From that hour to the present a great its inmost depths by tlie harsh and thought ' s 8 treatment of poor horses, in our great improve until the Millennial Note is struck Spiritual and Psychic wave has swept over that will free man forever from the fetters the United States and found its way to the city of_ New York. This stupid cruelty to man s best friend has been happily on the of fear, ignorance and superstition. Yes, countries of Continental Europe, journey the world is better and growing better! ing on and on to the Antipodes. Prom it wane more and more each year, since the dated a new era of Spirituality, such as has late gentle-hearted and philanthropic Mr. made the world wiser and better. Bergji stepped in and founded his Society The Two Sides of It J* for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. People have grown better and more merci T here was a girl who always said We have emerged from periods of deepest ful, it is true, but still much remains to be Her fate was very hard; depression, financial and otherwise. But done to mitigate the sufferings of onr four- From the one thing she wanted most all that is past; the good time has come to footed friends! She always was debarred. stay, and in this great work, in no small dt There always was a cloudy spot measure, we may thank the great Hindu In passing along our city streets one Somewhere within her sky ; Teacher, who came upon us unheralded and comes occasionally across a brutal driver. Nothing was ever quite just right, so changed conditions by his matchless pow His team is drawing a load far beyond their She used to say, and sigh. ers and Spiritual virtues that the world has utmost strength. It is winter; the roadway grown more tolerant, more merciful, more is slippery with ice: the poor brutes them And yet her sister, strange to say. in sympathy with the Universal Brother selves are badly shod and trembling in Whose lot was quite the same, hood of Man. But VivekAnanda oniy gave every limb in their double fear of the slip I''ound something pleasant for herself us what was known in the East long ages pery pavement, where it is out of the ques In every day that came. before. tion to get a footing, and the savage treat Of course things tangled up sometimes As the reader may desire to know more ment of the man in charge of them; they For just a little while, of this great Hindu Teacher and what he touch the hearts of the merciful in spirit But nothing ever stayed all wrong. has accomplished in the Spiritual World, I as nothing else will. The owner of the She used to say, and smile. can do nothing more serviceable, I think at horses in this case is as much to blame as this time, than to cite occasional passages the driver. No matter, they are beaten and So one girl sighed and one girl smiled front his sayings while in the United States, cursed until some good man or woman Through all their lives together; ltut before going so far, 1 will detail one comes up, in whose heart is a glimmering, It didn’t come from luck or fate, instance of liis wonderful psychic powers. tender spark of pity, and, calling in the aid From clear or cloudy weather— This 1 heard from the lips of a Jirothcr of a policeman. In does the rest. The reason lay within their hearts. who is himself a Yogi. And colored all outside: When SwCtmi Vivekdnanda had made Jt One chose to hope and one to mope, such a profound impression in Chicago, in But let us follow the Hindu 'Teacher. He And so they smiled and sighed. 1892, by his brilliant, intellectual and spir says a series of exercises, physical and — Priscilla Leonard. itual gifts, a certain wealthy man came to mental, is to be gone through every day, as him to test him as a psychic. Everything an initial stage to the study of liuja Yoga, The time is coming, either in this world that savored of Occultism the great Hindu until certain higher states are reached. or the next, when the cloud will be swept was (without openly condemning the prac Therefore. It is quite necessary, lie declares, away and the fulness of God’s light and tice) personally reticent of, his object, no that we should find a posture in which we wisdom poured around you. If your life is doubt, being to avoid discussing a subject can remain long. That posture which is dark, then walk by faith; and God is that was not pleasing to him. It is the easiest for each one is the posture to use. pledged to keep you as safe as if you could nature of all Ewamis to avoid contention in For one man it may be very easy to think understand everything.— Horace liushnelt. discussion as much as possible. His visitor in a certain posture, but this may he very pestered the great Hindu with question after difficult for another. 1 know that Mental All God’s creatures have rights, and man, Scientists, as a rule, prescribe a certain the noblest of God's creatures, should be question, and finally said, as he could not taught from the dawning of reason to treat get Yivekunanda to give him the informa posture for every one. Now this is mani festly wrong. Each person must: have his kindly the dumb brute, which is also God’s tion he was in search of, ‘T do not believe creation. I firmly believe that unless chil that you know anything about the Occult. own "method— that which is least cumbrous and awkward to him— in his effort to per dren are taught to be kind to the brute The question to my mind lias ever been— they will be brutal and dangerous, as they does the Occult exist in fact, or is it a fect himself in subluminal thought, this is onlv within reason. What one man can advance in years, to their fellows. Oue of mere bugaboo of Eastern Mysticism? I am the most distinguished lawyers of the further convinced since meeting you that do in "one way with absolute ease, another cannot. United States, a man of learning and re the latter is the case. I am a stranger to jt finement, told me some years ago that in you; I challenge you to give one single his study of criminal cruelty lie found in page of my life, past or present!” “We will find later on that in the study almost all instances the assassin and mur The Sw&mi looked at bis visitor for a of these psychological matters’." says derer commenced their brutal careers by moment calmly, and the man afterward con kiinanda, “there will be a great deal of cruelty and brutality to animals. To be fessed that every secret of his soul was laid action going on in the body. Nerve cur gentle and humane to every creature of bare in that one look! rents will have to be displaced and given a God is the duty of every man, but more d* new channel. New sorts ot vibrations will especially of every Christian man who begin, the whole constitution will be re claims to be a follower of Oue who went “I will satisfy your curiosity,” said Yivc- modelled. as it were. But the mam part about doing good.— Father Ducey. kdnanda, gently and with pity: “but, if I of the action will lie along the spinal col do, you must first promise that you will umn. so that the one thing necessary for Det fraud, and wrong, and baseness shiver. change the manner of your life, and become the posture is to hold the spinal column For still between them and the sky more conscientious and honorable in your free sitting erect, holding ihe three parts The falcon Truth hangs poised forever dealings with God’s creatures. You have the chest, neck and head— in a straight And marks them with his vengeful eye. added terribly to the suffering of human line” Then lie goes on to say: Bet the — Lowell. life! Make amends while the lime is left whole weight of the body be supported by you. ltepent! Do good— lead a better, The ribs, and then yon have an easy, natuial “The only garments that endure more sincere plan of being, and a newer and position, with the spine straight. Are kindly gifts to clothe the poor. brighter future will open to you.” For neither ratter, time nor moth ,* I had occasion to note the effect of these Shall fray that silk or fret that cloth.’ The solemn words of the great Hindu exercises recently in an artist who is also Teacher struck a chord in his visitors « Vom- He was of perfectly symmetrical heart that was touching and pitiful. build" having one of the finest expressive Before the man left he was melted to faces 1 have ever seen. and. without reson- tears and wept bitterly. The good Swinnt embraced him, consoled him by a few kind words, and. leading him to the door, said, as a parting injunction, “You only wanted your heart touched; I have found your soul! it will grow purer and whiter hence forward. Farewell, brother: be of good cheer— the Heaven which you have ignored within is open to yon at last, clay tjie All-Good send you grace and pity! ll’e isicumi had gone so far into this man s secret history (as a proof of the power ot srffiu® «it &. >—■ 150 The New York Msyg^zine of Mysteries the elements of God-nature is nece«„,a IA/e. and life implies action. God w t S life and resultant action would be - - thout tity anand ’ unimaginable,----- M d From H the prcmS a Development of the «> ofof God-perfectionGod it is deduced that Go? Hr and God-actionGt must be perfect ; and herè n is the• startling implication that God-acti™God-action ¡„“ « God Idea, in Mind £ not vacillating or alternative. God roust ”« « according to His nature; His action cannot B y E'DXVA'R'D HETtGES TKOMTSOJV be the result of choice. Omniscience k «fr above the necessity of choosing. Ignorant- <»<»S alone is the parent and user of choice • Another in ference deducible from the nee«, L manner of men agree that that fruitage—a fruitage that will supply unnum sary perfection of God’s nature is that the limitless Entity denominated bered wants and aspirations of the human resultants, the creations of God-action are “ God " is infinite in its range of mind and heart. perfect. The tangible and intangible t-rea occupancy and power. To this Can the mind look down prophetically along tions of God must reflect His perfection- dual nature all but those viewing the vista of time and behold the new God and hence, we have as a corollary the fact that Deitv as blind force Concede a the new life that await humanity ? It is pos there can be no real tragedies in Nature third factor of all knowingness. sible to do so, provided the necessary condi What the world calls error and evil ate non These concepts are often very glibly, if not tions of such vision are observed. Are the existent in reality, and, to the extent of their discerningly, phrased by saying that God is conditions revolutionary or in any way oner apparent existence, are the products of man’s omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient. ous? No. They simply demand a new, misjudgments and are related to man only In his own opinion man is so limited in his rational and unprejudiced attitude, which Hut it may be said, parenthetically, that even relation to time and space that he does not comprehends; (i) a freeing of the mind from under such restricted view error and evil undertake to relate himself to God through the environing conventionalities of thought; have ethical uses and are powerful factors in these obscure media. In his relation to space (2) the rejection of preconceived notions and the spiritual evolution of mankind. he feels localized and confined, and his con dogmas handed down from the mediieval The properly conditioned mind, searching scious hold on time seems limited in dura theologians, unless such are supported by reverently without and within, discovers tion. But man has found that he has a one's own acquired or intuitional knowledge; another element in the nature of God that is broader scope and range of relation in his (3) a willingness to allow the mind some scope startling to the uninitiated. There is found intellectual, moral and spiritual nature. He in the realm of mental abstractions, and a to be a power, or rather a limitation, that feels that he is nearer God on one of these realizing sense that the Infinite cannot be dis arently transcends God. It is the law of planes; but they are intangible, and the com cerned by reference to, or comparison with, ecessity." But this is in reality God in monality of mankind has been loath to apply the concrete or physical; (4) a consciousness another aspect—the aspect of Divine Neces here the same methods of gaining knowledge of the value of idealizing, and an aspiration sity. Herein is revealed the fixedness of of God that are used in. acquiring facts con to realize the highest ideal: (5) a reverence God. Every entity lias necessarily a fixed, cerning the physical world. Man denies free for Truth, and a desire to know it; (6) an constitutional nature; and God, in truth] dom of action to his intellect. He is born into open and receptive state of tile heart to the must be subject to God-nature. Such ap a creed-bound world, and is seldom inspired to “ still, small voice," and to such truths as are parent limitation is but proof of God’s perfec break the bonds and demonstrate truth for too refined and spiritual to enter into the con tion. To conceive God as a volitional Being himself. He attentively reads the Scriptures, sciousness through the intellect; and (7) a is simply to deny His perfection and lower but he does so with preconceptions acquired discriminating and enlightened faith. Him to the plane’ of human limitation. by the complaisant acceptance of interpreta When one has taken possession of some Allow the mind to flash back to the re tions handed down by the theologians of the such detached viewpoint, has reverently com motest reach of imagination. No void of past. 'The aphorism that spiritual things are muned with the great Nature about and be mere nothingness can be found. Such vacuity to be spiritually discerned has for him no yond him, and has persistently inquired at cannot even be imagined. But the projected practical application, because of his intel the door of his own soul, he is irresistibly led consciousness realizes the presence of God— lectual bias and limitations. Unwittingly he to conclude that God is something more vast, the limitless All-in-all. This consciousness is becomes confined in the narrow groove of fixed and truly divine than the human mind partly the product of an intuitional sense scholasticism. Though his mind is active has heretofore conceived. To the God-seek that baffles the power of language to convey and his soul aspiring, intellectual and social ing soul thus untrammeled bv the accumu the conception from one mind to another. environment holds him to conventional inter lated and hereditary error of the ages, there Such comprehension of God as results from pretations. His idealism is satisfied—his soul appears a new revelation—a revelation first this sense comes through the medium of is at peace. glimpsed in historic times by Jesus of Nazar spirit, and must be spiritually discerned In this fancied completeness there is no eth, but which has subsequently been gener through the gateway of introspection. The welcome for the offerings of science. The ally veiled from human understanding by intellect alone can but poorly and inadequate teachings of the modern evolutionist as to the idolatrous influences and tendencies begotten ly apprehend God; for God is the Absolute, cosmic processes are disdainfully refused a of creed, greed and a bigoted dogmatism. and necessarily unfathomable by finite intel hearing: for man fears that such teaching This new revelation, first vouchsafed to the lect. But man, spiritually in particular and aims to minimize God. To him things known generality of mankind in the closing years of physically in common with the physical uni are natural—on the world plane—while things the nineteenth century, is the last great gift verse, is related to God as effect to cause. unknown are divine. To his mind it is pre to man of rationalistic science—co-operating, Mediately or immediately, the ulterior cause sumptuous and sacrilegious to bring the un it must be said, with a newly recognized in must be identified witli God—First Cause. known—the divine—down to the level of the tuitional sense that even now" is and ever may On this law of Cause and Effect is predicated natural. From this status the modern relig be beyond the formulation and analysis of all that pure intellect may ever know of God. ionist defines God. Since man is a being of science. All phenomena witnessed are readily judged intellect and feeling, God is assumed to pos And how stupendous is God as seen in this bv the intellect to be the effect of some cause. sess similar attributes, only in a higher de new revelation! How inadequate are the old, Though observed effects arc greatly varied gree; as man is vacillating and subject to anthropomorphic, human limited “ He "and and apparently infinite in number, it is found change of purpose by petition, argument and “ His" in their application to Deity! God is by tracing them back through the more or prayer, likewise God is changeable and sus indeed seen to be “ all in all," fixed, unchange less numerous intermediary causes that they ceptible to entreaty. Man entertains wrath able and impersonal. As human intellect can converge toward a final, common cause. and anger, and these passions are accord not cognize the Infinite, so no human vocab Specifically, explosions, earthquakes, cy ingly accredited to God. God is assumed to ulary can furnish a word fully to express the clones, volcanic eruptions, etc., are traceable possess attributes, and from the standpoint God idea—an idea revealed to tile soul partly to chemical affinity, gravitation, or some other of assumed relations is reasonably deemed an through channels that are non-intellectual unseen physical "force. All phenomena of anthropomorphic being, above man, and un .and need not word vehicles. Perhaps the most growth in the vegetable and animal kingdoms like him only in possessing a greater degree adequate terras, appealing to the cognition are referred back to vital force, supplement of perfection. of intellect and expressive of so high an idea, ed by environment. Volitional action by Such views'have the mighty support of are “ The Absolute” and “ The Great First animals and men is seen to originate in men- naturalness, and took their rise in the first Cause." The aspiring mind and heart, centred talitv. Higher than all these, on the plane dawn of consciousness—in the necessary rec on these words, lead the seeking soul beyond of altruistic human life, there are observed ognition of some power higher than man. the confines of personality, onward and inward the effects of some ethical force so refined That early man should have personified this to the great heart of Nature— the unchanging and spiritual that the human intellect willing power and localized it in the mightiest things reality of all that is—the uncreate, subsistent ly concedes it to be the product of that great of Nature— the wind, the ocean, the sun, etc. Principle, involving all that human mind can est of God-refiections—Spirituality. So 't is —was as natural as any other impulse in the be conscious of in the tangible world of mat seen that all observed phenomena can oe early human life. From many gods, focal ter or the intangible spheres of mind and intellectually traced through a series ot ized in various elements of Nature, he has spirit. This infinite Entity cannot be pre ulterior causes that gradually converge to grown gradually to the substitution of one sumed to possess attributes, because, being ward a centre. . . subsistent God, permeating and manifesting Itself the Great First Cause, there are no an All the diversity of the universe is apparent throughout all Nature. And this develop terior powers to confer attributes; therefore ly referable to unseen physical, vital, mental, ment and all its attending concepts, from God cannot be defined in common with man or spiritual forces. But what are tiny- polytheism to monotheism, nave been a con as being wise, intelligent, good, etc.; but He forces, and what is anterior to them, stant movement from cause to effect; an evo is Himself the Principle of Wisdom, of Intelli mortal knows. But the logic of analogy le ■ lution—a part, indeed, of the eternal cosmic gence, of Goodness, etc.—the Source whence us to believe that there is a further conver process. these qualitative elements of man are de gence, and but a step beyond is the one ,," The heretofore prevailing idea of God is rived. seen Centre of alf-th c incomprehensible the result of two operating factors; namely, God may be said to have a nature : and Source of all that is. Incomprehensibler first, an intellectual activity drawing its con this nature encompasses, includes, and is Certainly not to the extent of forbidding clusions largely from the concrete, the pres identified with the abstract Principle approach to some definite conception o • entations of the senses; and. second, an ever whence are evolved to the Conscious recog Even a conviction that God is iiicoinpreh growing and expanding ethical sense. The nition of man all the mental and spiritual ble differentiates the concept of the God idea God idea as it stands in the present age may attributes that make for righteousness and from other concepts, and to that extent g be likened to a plant grown from a tiny germ wholeness (holiness), as well as the other us, in a sense, comparative knowledge. ® to a magnificent tree in full bloom. It is manifestations of God as expressed in the if we cannot get near God. viewed as a j beautiful, it is fragrant, and in many particu physical universe. Thus, God-nature must we can approach Hun measurably t ? lars satisfying to the possessor; but the be viewed as coeval with God. Whatever it the media of His aspects. We see in the greater hope and prophecy remain unfulfilled is. it is as eternal in origin as is God, and world the activity of life—the living, a —it has yet to bear fruit. ' If evolution in its must be conceived to inhere in the divine En reasonably infer that the source of !’uc... nt. latest and broadest sense is a fact—and all tity. Hence, as God is infinite and perfect— must be life— God is Life. Man is nitcll.genG Nature proclaims it a fact—the God idea has a fact forced into our consciousness bv the God must be Intelligence. We are c k _ ^ not yet reached its full fruition. There is, largest grasp of the idea of First Cause—so of substantiality; then God must; ' ¡f indeed, prophecy of a great and glorious must God-nature be perfect. Now, one of stance. We see evidences of spiritualit), The New York Ma.ga.zine of Mysteries 151 it exists, then God, as its Source, must be Snirit. We are conscious of a force, inherent f u ll harmony oj environment. Tims physical in the nature of the universe and of man, a “Marry Young,” Says living, continuous force that makes for the Farther Hogan betterment of man and his environment; its source must be the Good itself—God. And R e v . T h ao d eu s H og an , of the Sacred Heart finail)' we find implanted in the human soul Parish of Trenton, N. J., who has been urg an ethical tendency, a responsive affection, a ing the younger members of his church to loving nature: man is loving—God is Love. the Karii, r P Splru " f man back to marry early, finds many returns to his preach But what of matter? Is it the body of God? 1 other—God. In other words, more con ings. Engagements are being announced A physical body implies sides and face, form cretely expressed, Science and Religion are rapidly. and limitation, relation to space. God is £ l i t e ? n W ‘ " hich tlle eternal push Father Hogan's advice is to niarrv early in limitless, and hence cannot be imagined to shall lilt man to his eternal godship. life, thereby shunning evil associates, thus have a body. As God is seen from all other rue science and true religion are one in saving earnings, no matter how small they viewpoints to be Spirit, not a Spirit, may not Sves^ni 1 |6re ‘S- “ distincti«n- Religion may be, remaining at home with one’s family matter be analogously predicated on a' like h!Vfn UV cea s; sotence points the way to instead of walking the streets and placing Basis? Conceive a rod bisected— one-half i'u n rca ua” I,n' R<-*Ugion enthrones Love; one’s self in full view of the temptations of cast away and the other half equally divided. science approves the coronation, and pro- evil. Mathematically, this process could be con poses a rational scheme of government, " The question of salary," said the priest, tinued ad infinitum. Practically, what would tlvn w e 1S hencef,,rth to be the normal “ should be no bar against this step. A be the result of, say, the billionth bisection? lorn thu SrowmR and expanding .Man young man earning $io a week and upward within, and science shall be religion's regu- could keep a wife just as well as he can pay $5 Manifestly, nothing, as we know it, physical ltitor, arbiter and poise. If it be desired to a week for board and attend the theatre and ly. Surely the halves of the last piece can get a nearer and more specific view of the take in all sorts of amusements. have no more tangibility than mental con pre-emtnent phases of these man-perfecting “ The young girls should take this advice cepts. They can exist only in the mind. forces, we may substitute for science the home to" themselves, too. They are as re May not, after all. the term "physical world" word volution, and for religion the word sponsible as the young men. They will not be a misnomer? Can we be quite sure that Christianity. In the last analysis these are marry a young man nowadays unless he is what we call the physical world is a physical the wings on which man shall soar Godward. earning a large salary, so they can dress in world ? We know that the densest matter is I heir divine purpose is one and the same, silks and satins and make a great showing on onlv another form of the most rarefied gas. bach is a method of creation. Each has the the streets. If this step is not taken early in May not another transmutation expand it to— one purpose of making more perfect living life the young man generally abandons the Thought ? Science does not oppose such a human beings. Both do their work through idea of ’ marrying after he has passed the hypothesis. In fact she is now busily mar the same medium—Love. Both have the twenty-five-year mark." shaling facts and arguments to prove it. same Author, the same end, the same spirit. Father Hogan has been preaching thus for If, now, this foreshadowing of science be Christianity did not drop like a bolt from a long time, but not until recently did he in accepted ns truth, it will be conceded that eternity at the beginning of the Christian sist upon the matter being considered seri God involves all the seen and the unseen, and era. Its spirit was abroad in the world cen ously. The population of the Sacred Heart that all that is. is an evolution from God; hence, turies before, and recognized of men. The Parish is the largest in the city of Trenton, all that is must be an emanation, a reflection, spirit of it is as old as Nature; but, like and there were more marriages in this church an expression of God, and must indicate God- Evolution, its higher meaning has but in the past year than any other Roman Cath nature to the extent and perfectness of such recently come into the consciousness of man. olic church in Trenton. expression. Science has patiently traced Man, having found himself, has the unique Father Hogan has been in his parish for these evolving expressions from the lowest privilege of being the intelligent spectator nearly thirty years. He is the oldest priest to the highest. At tile bottom site found of the evolutionary process of which he is in Trenton.” chaos of matter; at the top she has just dis the culminating point. Reason and intuition [Marriage is a sacred thing and is the Divine covered—Religion. In her youth, Science have at last explained to him his status in Command; a happv marriage usually brings was inexperienced and unskilful. She over eternity. He understands. He realizes his great fortune; it is good for the soul.—Key;- looked much, but latterly she has instituted dignity, knowing now for the first time that anandai] a new investigation of the beginning of the universe has been in travail for ages to things, with tlie searchlight of broadened bring hitn forth. His greatest wonder is that knowledge. In this newer exploration she he has wondered so little. The revelation Comfort One Another has found law and order, even in primeval fills him with new inspiration. He desires to chaos; and. most glorious fact of all, she dis be in harmony with Nature. Turning his By Mrs. Margaret E. Songster covers there the seeds of a world-producing eves to the future, he gazes upon the Ascent and world-redeeming Love. She names them o”f Man. What a glorious vision! Love is Comfort one another; Mutual Attraction and Chemical Affinity. se e n leading all the children of men to the For the way is growing dreary, Chemical affinity may have produced a kind Kingdom wherein God and man are eternally The feet are often weary, of polygamous union; but. when two mole one. And the heart is very sad.” cules came forth from chaos and joined them There is heavy burden-bearing. selves together by the power of mutual at U t o p i a n i s m When it seems that none are caring, traction, there was witnessed the first love- And we half forget that ever we were glad. marriage of tlie xlniverse. Other molecules Tins is another of the devil's pet words. I came into the circle, and the first families, believe the quiet admission which we are all Comfort one another; tribes, societies and nations of molecular in of us ready to make—that because things With the hand clasp close and tender, dividuals were successfully founded in the have long been wrong it is impossible they With the sweetness love can render, realm of matter. should ever be right—is one of the most fatal And the looks of friendly eyes. Thus Nature was organized by Divine sources of misery and crime from which the Do not wait with grace unspoken; Love. And if this power was necessary to world suffers. Whenever you hear a man While life’s daily bread is broken, organize worlds, how supremely necessary dissuading you from attempting to do well, Gentle speech is" oft like manna from the was it to the organization of later and more on the ground that perfection is “ Utopian," skies. complicated forms of life! Biology informs beware of that man. Cast the word out of us that love was not only a potential but an your dictionary altogether. There is no need Comfort one another; active ruling force in the” first life-cell. His for it. Things are either possible or impos By the hopes of Him who sought us tory teaches that it lias been an ever increas sible—you can easily determine which, in any In our peril—Him who bought us, ing force, botlt qualitatively and quantita given state of human science. If the thing Paying with His precious blood; tively, in the development of human life. is impossible, you need not trouble yourself By the faith that will not alter, And ethics and sociology, as prophets of the about it; if possible, trv for it. It is very Trusting strength that cannot falter, future, tell us that Love is at work on the Utopian to hope for the entire doing away Leaning on the One divinely good. task of unifying all nations, and establishing with sin and misery out of the world; but the forever the brotherhood of men. It is a force Utopianism is not bur business—the Work is. that has brought forth from a mere bestial —Ruskin. progenitor a mother and a father, and in Forgiveness, Agreem ent stituted among men a family, a home, a a n d P r a y e r society. Without Love, Life itself would W hat the World Demands vanish from the earth within a generation. T h e world does not demand that you be FORGIVENESS.—Technically speaking, The old aphorism that self-preservation is come a great lawver, a great physician or a man cannot forgive another. He alone can the first law of Nature is challenged by great merchant; but it does require that you forgive who can so present truth that his modern science. With selfishness was born a shall so carrv voursetf through life as to up brother can perceive forgiveness, who can twin brother—unselfishness. The struggle lift and not blight vour fellow men. so as to free himself from his burdens. Letting alone for life has been equally a struggle for self help and not hinder, so as to elevate and not is the best sort of forgiveness. Chronic crim and for other selves. degrade them. It does ask that you shall inals are made so by the attitude of mind God is law and order. He has manifested ain riches by impoverishing those who toward the criminal”. Punishment comes Himself in an orderly, consecutive manner, you to become wealthy, that your dol- from the outraged public sentiment against through the physical, vital, mental and ftall be clean and not smirched with the the transgressor. One cannot atone for a spiritual, all higher manifestations being of trying to get ahead of your eompeti- crime; it is already committed. ever potential in the lower. Physical force sharp practice; it demands that your The qualification of an executioner—he has built countless growing worlds from the i shall not be stained with the blood of must be a sinless man. This is advanced materials of chaos. Its wTork is done. Hence ivs and orphans, that you shall not lift thought. The world is not ready for its pro forth it will be mainly occupied in keeping iclf up by tearing others down. mulgation, but the principle is the same. In its machinery in order. Vital force has been tlie evolution of the years it will become a the decorator of at least one of these worlds. ,s f o r T h e M a g a z i n e o k M y s t e r i e s , I race thought. It has had a tremendous task, ar.d apparently d e r i t an excellent magazine. 1 lie AGREEMENT is harmony. Where many has been recklessly extravagant, as witness ,r shows good taste. He certainly is not agree, it is a symphony. Tlie voice of one is the fossil wrecks along the path of time. But id the tim es.”— T h e A d e p t , the voice of all. One man speaks for all. at last it, too, has finished its work. It made a A dett. published in Minneapolis, is One sweep across a musical instrument in full unnumbered cells of protoplasm, grouped V read and cleverly edited.- E d i t o r ,] tone produces harmony. Where human souls harmonize they form an invincible power. them, functioned them, and, after struggling als are the world's masters. That self for ages with many apparent failures, brought PRAYER is the positive attitude. Prayer t thinks, and judges, and knows is all is also the passive attitude with a proper con upon the scene the perfect and complete ma in advance of that other self which terial manifestation of God—physical man. ception of what we need. and acts and lives; and all the spare Every successful achievement is an an As to this planet, we are forced to the con a] of the soul is invested in ideals.— / 1 »>• viction that there will never be a higher swered prayer. creation than man. Organic evolution, there Titcvmh. fore, has also finished its task, it has pro A h o l y life is a m iracle. duced a physical being that has attained a THE COOD IS ETERNAL. 152 The New York Ma^a^ine of Mysteries A deptship Spiritual Growth T he Adept reaches oneness with God by S p i b h t a l growth, or rather soul awak burning, fervent and persistent love of the ening, is man's most blessed degree here on the Silence!— B . P . All Good. He takes up the one idea of love the earth-plane. It is in this grand degree for God and n il— universal love. That one of the great and Grand Evolution that he idea is his only theme, and by h o id h u j it begins to have fellowship with the angels, above all other Ideas he in a while reaches lie then walks and talks with the great the Blessed State. God; his intuitional gateway is widely Swami Vivckananda, in his excellent opened. "The Voice of the Lord speaking work on Baja V iga. says: "Give up. once in the garden of the soul is never heard for all, this nibbling at things. Take up while the intuitional gateway is closed." m m one idea. Make that one idea your life; In taking and completing the Spiritual De dream of i t ; think of i t : live on that idea. gree the soul transcends the intellect and AND Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves, is beyond mind and reason. The human every part of your body, be full of that mind is the instrument or means of lifting idea, and just leave every other idea alone. the soul to the Most High— intellectual This is the way to success, and this is the perfection is not the goal of man. “The way great spiritual giants are produced. human mind is not the avenue through Others are mere talking machines.” which conscious connection with Divinity Arc sent on "I will drink the whole ocean of Uni is made. The only gateway to the king o n e y e a r s versal Love," says the soul that aspires to dom of heaven opens from within the soul, the Most High. In love the aspiring soul however rusty its hinges may have grown. reaches eternal bliss and tremendous power It opens into a sphere of Light aud Wisdom — he becomes one with the eternal aud more vast than can be comprehended by the blessed Omnipresent, Omniscient and Om senses." Infinite Knowledge is attained trial nipotent One. Now he is in peace and har only by fully arousing and awakening the Direct Fro!H Factory to mony with a ll the parts and the W h o le , soul first; it will then spiritualize tlie mind Home— Saving One-Hall because he lo v e s a ll, lie is the great Adept and merge it into the soul and heart. The Cash or Easy Payments. FROM $155. because he k n o w s and liv e s beyond all ap soul, heart aud mind become one. which in An offer from m aker to hnyrr, which U unequnlril In turn is merged into the Eternal and Infi goncroaily of tern», and which puix n line Inatru* pearances. The Adept helps uplift the men« within the reach of every pur«*. Whole to a higher plane of consciousness nite One. This is the great at-one-ment, Ton Advance no Honey. We Prepay the Frch-ht. and is the great and tremendous worker of which each and every soul in the universe You Shoulder no ltUk. We Guarantee Saturation. all workers in the world because he is a co makes, sooner or later. It is the full reali worker with God and the Angels— and be zation that the Supreme Soul is the self in Miniature Pianos z i i Organs Free to every Intending purchaser cause he works only in Love and Bliss. all beings. “That which exists is One : They are urcurai«: represent» Adeptship is reached only through tre sages call it variously.” th.ns of our ruotltd» of the la te ti mendous love for A l l , tremendous perse styles in Cornish Piano* and Or O Blessed One, my self is Thy self. Be gans. Thot-e miniatures c< u*ti- verance, tremendous patience, tremendous hold All is One ! Glory ! Glory ! ! Glory ! ! ! tutc the most costly a d i e r t m - hope, and tremendous optimism.— T h e With separateness banished, ali doubt, fear, moot* ever is a u e d and , nabh anyone to Mioctar instrument Blissful Prophet. woe and misery are eternally banished. no matt, r »twhal d i t t a n x Oin Braise God forever! lire—na the Piano inu Organ in exact color at to wood, etc., Our perfect duties are those thoughts is exactly reproduced. Thl* and acts which are the outcome of p e r fe c t elegant ombooged set in tent Good from Books f r e e and with It the C o rn U h love for all— universal love. When we American Souvenir fatalof, continuously burn with fervent love for the “H e was reading a book.” Thus naively handsomely illustrated with the newspapers told us how Mr. Roosevelt presentation plate in coh r» Whole, we live in exact justice with all the an.1 fully depicting a»d dc- parts. When we live in' Universal Love beguiled the tedium of enforced confinement icribiug 50 Exposition SlodrU life is pure, sweet and simple, and not em to his couch, after the surgical operation of Cornish American Piano» and Organ«. S- nd mb void ad- T bittered or complex— not disturbed and in which he recently underwent, says Mar dresn to day and we will n ail terrupted. Perfect Love is the principle garet Saugster in the Christian Herald. catalog nnd miniatures HIKE, underlying all justice— all right living. To The President is a successful writer of i f you motition this paper. the degree we love, to that degree we are books, and it goes without saying that he is FROM $2 5 . Established 50 Years. just and charitable and unselfish. Perfect a successful reader, too. 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The book one cares 5 Aster, ig Poppy, 18 Portulaca. 20 • for is like the comrade who makes the • Pansy, lo Candytuft 10 Four O’clock. £ The ultimate analysis of the Grand De • But. Button, 10 Morn. Glory, G Mari gold. 18© rough road smooth, and the acquaintance • 10-W ks Stck'* ;k.5 Eschsolioazi.i. Sw't William, 8 © sign— I)ivin. Plan— demonstrates that back who cheats the dull hour of its dreariness. 0 Sweet Peas Zenuia. 12 Petunia, 10(1 of, in. and beyond all Nature is tnat which Larkspur, c Sweet Alyssum.* Books harvest the experiences of the ages. Nasturtium, 10 Calllopsis, 8 Z we call Infinite Wisdom Infinite Perfec They fit into every mood. They sharpen Balsam, 13 Pinks, 10j tion. AH Natuie ultimately obeys the law Sweet Mignonette. • one's wits. They enable one to converse All of the above sent to any © of Eternal Spirit. Religion. .philosophy, brightly and agreeably. They make one address, post-paid, for 1 0 c. © morality, are Loth means and results of well informed and ready for the occasion. silver or six two-cent stamps. £ man's spiritual unfoldment. All aspiration As a premium, and to intro- The habit of skimming a page with divided (luce c ir seeds into every if and all experience ultimately lead eternal attention is not reading, it is merely killing household, we will also send a • man, through Nature, to the Most High— time. When one reads, one should pay the collection of fine beauti-£ beyond all Nature. At this stage of our fill bulbs free with C/ita'oquc.Q author the compliment of heeding his SOM. UVIU E Nt'RKF.ttl, • evolution it is of vital importance that we words, precisely as. when one listens to a w __ Somerville. HI ass. • awake from our dreams and nightmares talker, one does not look away and indulge and begin to realize that we are all eternal in absence of mind. Neither should one souls going onward, forward and upward thus treat a book. SECRET OF GENIUS to the blessed state— Eternal Bliss. The sons. Classes in or out or city. Among my pupils arc ultimate analysis of advanced souls— those We only k n o w as deep as we think and the following persons of prominence: Surah Coweu who are far on the Blessed Path— elearly Le Moyne, Elizabeth White. Clark Bull. 0- J-Gude, live. If thou wouldst know Life, liv e th e Prof. Semmacher. Particulars for stamp. C. \\ IN' shows that the goal of each and every soul life .— A . Z . is the same— it is oneness with the eternal TEKBUKN, 260 W. 23d «1., Now York City.______and Blissful One. BY While I look on my physical body with 81.ÚZ. amazement and wonder at its simple and yet complex construction. I am moved to marvel more at its Architect and the dweller within. “The tenant is more than the house.” The builder and occupant of this hoi.v temple excites all the psychic- mental power I possess. I think and think, and meditate, and pray, and aspire to know the Architect and tenant. I lis te n . Lo V A I I «*" ?.,rn ‘t1;1" »»a » buiJr.d oUw >, -m, lo, qnlctlj >»4 ««lly by Introducing UU'Df your trieu H a.ve No R.egrets S e l f - H e l p W HAT THE WORLD WANTS. Hints on Self Hein H ave no ivgrets, for time spent thus is It lias often been said that true Freedom Hi*,,! lost. is to lie found only in conformity to l a w - Inlluence, . 1 , . KveryihluJ **• Per. nuiko life higher. happier, healthier niSfvni?114* <* Whnte'er is post has passed beyond thy conformity to the law of our own Being. eussful. Full of grand and Inspiring ttao?..o?.0r® pe- reach. Every true teacher continually refers the enkindle the kind of e n t h u s K thlS Be still, and think upon what is. student back to himself, emphasizing self- t«piles on es nlillliy bv awakening s Im m «, " out- reliance as a cardinal virtue. 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And if it could discern another world coming, on this side of eter nal life, a beginning glory, the best which SANDOW’S MAGAZINE earth can bear, it would be a kind of im will contain more than 1 , 0 0 © page« of the most mortality to enjoy that prospect before authentic and Interesting inform at ion on hand, to see, when this theatre is dis solved. where we shall act next, and what Physical Culture, Hygiene and Recreation. parts, what saints and heroes, if l may so Send sex. age. height, weight, vocation, t he general condition say, will appear on that stage, and with of your heart, lungs, stomach and nerves, and I will imme diately make up and forward you a per so n al course of what lustre and excellency. How easy it exercises which, if practiced 10 minute* daily. would be, under a view of these futurities, to despise the little mops and honors, and Will Keep You in Perfect Health and the momentary pleasures of mortal life.— Lord Bacon. Fully Demonstrate My System. Address Our minds are much disturbed by vain EUGEN SANDOW, b o s t o n , m a s s . imaginations, and dis-ease in both mind and Mr. Eugcn Sandow's recent tour around the world has been nothing else than a triumphal march. From body is often created. Much of our misery America to Australia he bus been welcomed by the most intelligent people of every country it Is a most is due to our thinking we need this tiling hopeful sign of the times—this recognition of perfect physical manhood. Mr. Sandow everywhere proclaims and that tiling to make us happy, or this that robust healt h can readily be secured and retained by the practice of simple exercise a few minutes dally and that place to reside in. Our ambitions at home. His generous otler to supply these exercises, adapted to Individual cases, practically without, cost, is are usually far beyond our powers to real worthy of the man and invaluable to the public at large. ize them. The soul whispers patience and a rational contentment, and when the mind obeys its voice we are more at case. To mnuifest the divine within, we must not [Are You Under Somel look for power without. External condi tions are always adjusted to a right bal ance by Internal action of the soul. The One Else'sThumb? Yogi Adepts say : "Each soul is potentially divine. The goal of all souls is to manifest this divinity within by controlling Nature —external and internal. Do this either by BE A MASTER YOURSELF. Work, or Worship, or I’sychic Control, or Do you wish to be a man of mark, a man of power in your community? Do you crave wealth, sociul position, influence or fame? Would you win Philosophy, by one or more, or all of these in business life, in politics, in love, in alt that you undertake ? It is for you —and he Free. This is the whole of Re to choose whether you will go through life in an ordinary commonplace ligion. Doctrines, or Dogmas, or Rituals, wav, or whether you will he eminently successful, looked up to, honored and'respected among your associates; happy, contented and at peace with or Rooks, or Temples, or Forms are but in the world, with every comfort that money can provide, with every enjoy cidental and secondary details.” ment that the gratification of your ambitions can give Personal magnetism — 1 he power that rules the world—can be mastered by all. 1 housands of men and women who had practically given up in despair, for whom the “ E^t Some Air” future seemed without hope, have been able to realise their heart s desires after they have learned the wonderful secrets of this marvelous science. “The remedy for fear: 1. Say to your The lives of great and successful men such as Napoleon, Lincoln, Car self. ‘There’s nothing on earth to be afraid negie Rockefeller, showed that they all possessed in a marked degree the Ai?..- I power to influence others. You can develop this wonderful power to even of. I’m not afraid.’ greater extent than such famous men ns these; you can become a master "2. Repeat five times. instead of the mastered, a leader instead of a follower. You can learn in a "3. Keep on repeating it. i short time at your own home how to exert an almost magic influence "Y. Stand erect when in the throes, and I over your friends and associates, cure diseases and bad habits without dru B y « “ 1900” FAMILY \ Matte AQVILLA RICHARDS WASHER FREE. N iny previous article 1 showed in a and the nitrogen combines with the silver. general way the deductive relation It has found a new love, a new affinity, and C reatest Invention of the Age between matter and spirit; and if breaks loose from its old companions to L a b o r and Expense of Wash the physicists of the day gave as enjoy the charms of a different existence. much care and study to spirit as After a while the silver has disappeared ing Clothes Cut in Two. they do to matter, our knowledge from its solid state. Now insert a piece of of both would be more extensive copper in the solution; instantly the fickle No More Stooping, Rubbing than we now possess, for they are inter- nitrogen leaves the silver and embraces the Boiling of Clothes existent and interdependent. copper, and the silver, freed from its The object of the present article is to bonds, drops to the bottom of the vessel— Every H o u se h o ld Needs One. show more in detail the characteristics of still vibrating and awaiting_another sympa the motion of matter, and how this motion thetic touch to be wedded again. And so, develops affinities, which lead into the in from this simple illustration we could fol tangible, or spirit, as we are pleased to low along an endless chain of imitation. call it. But what has this to do with spirit? My A peculiarity of matter is the fact that friends ! here is where the philosopher must it is always attempting to follow a straight start to know spirit. lie must reason by line somewhere, but resistance at some deduction that something starts these atoms point either brings it to a state of rest, or in motion, and upon the principle that like compels it to describe a curve. In all the produces like, he must infer that the mo complicated movements of matter there are tion of matter is exactly coincident with but two laws: one pulling the atoms or the motion of that something we call spirit. worlds (as the case may be) to each other, We have as much chemistry in a thought and the other pushing atoms or worlds as there is in that pot of acid and silver away from each other. All atoms attempt and copper. Did not the nitrogen display to describe circular motion, and all worlds preference when it first left the oxygen and THE "1 900" BALL-BEARING do describe circular motion. No character hydrogen to join its vibrations with the of matter can follow a straight line with silver; and did il not display a repeated FAMILY WASHER will be sent absolutely free to anyone answering this out that interruption to its course, in the preference when it left the silver to har advertisement. without deposit or advance payment, shape of friction or retardation, which will monize its vibrations later with the cop of any kind, freight, paid, on 30 days' irlai. The 1900 eventually check its speed in that particu per? There was involuntary intelligent ac Ball-Bearing Washer Is unquestionably the greatest lar direction and give its course a curve. tion. In other words, the nitrogen was labor-saving Machine ever invented for family use. .Entirely new principle. It is simplicity itself. On this principle all heavenly bodies are doing some thinking in its own way— There are no wheels, paddies, rockers, cranks or com* kept rotating, and suns and constellations without brain cells. That is more, in one plicated machinery. It ^revolves on bicycle hall- build their orbits by their own labor, in sense of the term, than the philosopher can heurlngK, making it by tar t he easiest running wash er on the market. No strength required. A child can trying to keep along a straight line of do. Now, if these atoms ilid not have a operate it. travel. Sir Isaac Newton, who gave the constant motion, they would he of little No more stooping, rubbing, boiling of clothes. Hot law of gravitation a mathematical demon use to the brain structure or to the spirit water and soap all that Is needed. It will wash large stration, proved that bodies in space at that tries to express itself through their «liinntltloM of clothe« (no matter how soiled) per fectly clean in minute«. Impossible to iujnre tract each other inversely as to the square aggregated mass. Spirit, in this sense, is the most delicate fabrics. As t he Supt. of the Savan of the mass acted upon by this law. With used more in the meaning of thought. This nah Yacht Club says: all his great mind he could simply show ceaseless motion of matter in the brain " I t is a w o nd ir. O ur w ashing is very Uirw ami nr the speed of matter in motion, lie could gives to every particular brain what might “ lw vr alw ays hud tw o w The Golden (Cod Mining i 'o . owns outright and absolutely free of debt, what w ecouslderto bo FOUR OF THE yV 13 R ichest Gold Claim s Ever Staked EVEN IN THIS ELDORADO. Keoent developments thoroughly substan tiate this statement and the ore grows rich er and richer as work progresses. Assay» run IVotn to Ktlitil per One thing have / desired of the Lord; thy Soul, and thus link thyself with it until t o n . Money is wanted to develop these val thy consciousness, like a veil of glory, uable properties into what we believe will that will l seek after; that l may dwell in prove the house of the Lord all the days of my would enshroud thee and it, and make ye life to behold the beauty of the Lord and twain as one. to inquire in his tang le.— I’s. xxvii. 4. ’Tis given thee to choose what thought Bonanza Mines. shall rule thee, and when thou wilt, to They are only a short distance from the OMEST thou disheartened, my summon this fair image before thy mind's famous Dewey group— (estimated ns having child? Hast tried and failed, eye. Vet unless thou lovest it. O my child, $10,000,000 of gold ore In sight) and quoted sayest thou? Hut thou art to in the Experts' Otticiu) Reports as being with a love surpassing earth, in tli.v mo the richest gold territory in the U. S —If come into the Temple unclothed ments of forgetfulness, yea, even if thou not t he whole world. of care or thought or even the look one instant on thy natural self, com I’nlike the great majority of companies remembrance of failure or de paring it with thy beauteous ideal, thy which sell stock to buy and pay for their properi les.The Golden Rod sellsT re n m iry sire for reward— yea. un heart fails and this cankering worm of con Stock only for active development work clothed. If thou const drop these feelings demnation has begun its work. and machinery. which encumber thy heart, so do, but if See. then, that thou art true to thy privi You can buy this stock for a very limited thou swiliest unable, come— yea. come, be lege. Think of the goal before thee, and time at loved of m.v heart. 1 will comfort thee as the days pass and the night’s stillness with silence and touch thee with tender falls about thee, walk thou side by side Cents per Shavre. ness. 1 will pour oil upon thy head and with thy Pattern, out and on and up to the 1 0 P A R V A L U E $1.00. whisper to thee Peace, and in that moment summit of Truth's mountain, over the path Capital stock. 1.500.000 shares, par value thine eyes will be opened to know the secret way of life’s experience, and carrying ever $1 .00. full paid, non-assessable. 80 per cent, of thy failure to unclothe thyself. Thou or 1.200.000 shares t reasury stock. There are in thine eyes, thy voice, thy touch, the syal no debts, no bonds and no »nlnrled wilt see as in a Hash of light that thy dis of my exalted I,ove, for as surely as thou o ffice r» . heartening. thy gloom of regret, and all art faithful. () my child. I shall anoint This is no "wild-cat” scheme, but an hon thy piteous failings came upon thee, first, thee, clothe thee and seal thee with this, est. bona tide mining proposition which you because thou didst condemn thyself. Thou will do well to investigate. Write for pro my miracle-working gift. spectus No. 404. Map and Engineers' Re who shouldst keep ever before thee thy In all thy ways strive, for strict, match ports. Booklet *Tlow to Judge Mining ideal self, looked upon thy shortcomings, less calmness which shall hold thy forces Stocks.” free. and thy heart failed. Thou hadat no longer in perfect poise and such fine placidity that courage to go on. Thou wast bowed down thy mind. like a mirror, may catch reflec with grief and hopelessness and direst tions from all thought forms, beautiful and UNION SECURITY CO., shame. Know this for a sure and certain good, that float in the ethereal thought INVESTMENT BANKERS, truth. Beloved, Self-Condemnation is a realm. Thus mayst thou minister to those 404 Goff Bldg.. Chicago, III. worm that will gnaw the heart of the fair whom thou lovest. Wert thou not calm, est rose in the Soul's garden, so that its thou couldst not know. If thou knowest fragrance is gone, its petals withered, its not how to serve, thy aim falls short, and .y\vwwv\\\v*\\v\wv\v\v\w\\v\v\v beauty vanished. Self-Condemnation blight- mayhap fails. A new and glorious minis eth the Soul's courage and maketh it try awaits thee. () my Beloved, when thou * Y O U C A N naught. Then come creeping back the old art free: yen. utterly free from condemning vices, the petty words, the cruel sensitive-, ¿W ash Your Fat Away thoughts of thyself or others. This the * WITH---- ness that maketh thee to shrink and cower beginning of calmness and the beginning of and weep in thy misery, until thy heart is power. OBESITY heavy and thy mind dark. Then speaketh Is thy heart light again, my Beloved? HOWARD OINTMENT. Self, saying: "It is all for naught to strive Art ready to travel again through the S im p le, llnmnlcNN and for light, when there is no light : to strive mazes of a day's routine of thought and Inexpensive for love and its witching gifts, when there action? In tli.v new beginning, then, hav is no love: to strive to attain, when there EXTERNAL REHEDY, ing fixed tli.v gaze upon the ideal one. see It. removes fat. from that is no attainment, neither reward nor ef that thou let thine eyelids look straight »art of the ImrIv to which It fort.” before thee, turning neither to the right s a pp led—rest even before he is old enough tn this is the Beautiful Thought Place Whr If there are several children in the hn let each, singly— never together 1» J on!e' ted to enjoy this room. It will iL1*?""' sacred place. 111 then be a There is an infinite 8Ugeestlv»n»~. . this, which grows upon me as"l write dear mothers, will see it, and nef Yo5' ingly. Who knows what wonderful S ’ may come from such training? n« lts be discouraged if it seem, impo^ible 8? S M t g consideration6^)?^ We talk much of the suh-conscions amt conscious state of m’a„. but scarcely all,,*! to the Supcr-consnoun state— the love for the beauty of sky and landscape, state Possibly this is due t o V f a c t h For the Parents of sunset and mountain, of tree and flower, outside the great adepts the Super-con! Meta-physics and Prayer of bee, bird, butterfly, and squirrel— of scions state is incomprehensible: it liy Helen Van-Anderson, in Mind every creeping thing; and see how his heart only be comprehended by those holv adept" who haw fully realized onencsx; it is ,i NE mother voices the feeling of will grow big with love's pulses, and how he can sympathize in fellowship with all highest state— the ultimate goal of Ji many when she says: “ It Think about i t !— 77,c M s s fu l Prophet. seems to me metaphysical teach things. Then make plain to him the omni ing does away with praying. I potence of the strength of the Good in all am completely at a loss to know its varied phases: in the force of the water With the expansion of consciousness that carries great ships from shore to com- more energy and a larger sense of how to teach my children. power.— Frederick IF. Hurry. Please help me.“ shore: in the rushing river that turns the Don t think for a moment of letting your mill-wheel; in the gentle showers that bathe children grow up without praying, heal the earth and cause the flowers and fruits At My Shrine metaphysics teaches prayerfulness, which is to grow. Make him realize the wondrous Gon dreamed a dream of a lovely soul, the very essence of religion. Emerson out phase of this Power that makes his body And you are His dream come true' lined with marvelous clearness the meta and takes cane of it while he sleeps as well That I for battle be made love-whole, physical view when he said : "Ineffable is as when he wakes, and tell him how all the God scut me to kneel to you. great men of the world are studying the the union of man with God. in every act of — Mind. the soul. . . . When we have broken law of this Power and trying to learn how our god of tradition ami ceased from our to use it, as they have already learned The belief in the eternal existence of god of rhetoric, then may God fill the heart through it the use of electricity, steam, etc. mans soul is as old as mankind itself. with His presence.” Frequently sum up your teaching by point Prayer, an prayer, is the expression of the ing out the unity of life, love, and power in The highway of holiness is along the soul’s reverential consciousness, whether in Nature and in man. and how by knowing commonest road of life— along your very the words of Master, psalmist, or prophet life, love, and power as different aspects way. In wind and rain, no matter how it of old. or in the spontaneous overflow from of God, or Good, it is comparatively easy beats, it is only going hand in lianil with the individual heart. Earnest desire, to live in harmony with It and let It show Him. ------thankfulness, reverence, awe— these inspire Itself in all our ways— to us. in us, and Some may say : “ Now since God willelh true prayer. It is not the words so much through us. and desireth and doth the best that maybe as the prayerful feeling that, we need to in When the child understands the cvery- to every one, lie ought so to help each man culcate in our children's thoughts and lives, vherencss of God, and the feeling that is in and order things for him, that thev should although words are helpful for guidance in every soul that knows God, you can teach fall out according to his will and fulfill his expressing the feeling. him the Lord’s Prayer and the spiritual in desires, so that one might he a Pope, an Begin by teaching reverence— not by a terpretation that reveals the unity between other a Bishop, and so forth.” Be assured, form of words, hut by awakening in the man and man, and between man and God, he who helpeth a man to his own will, lielp- baby mind a recognition of the beauty and anil the need of God’s thought as food in eth him to the worst that he can. For the beneficence in Nature. This can be done daily life. You can teach him the words of more n man followeth after his own self- in the same way that fear is aroused. IIow that grand old Twentv-third Psalm, and he will. and self-will groweth in him, the far often we hear something like the follow will understand how David felt when, look ther off he is from God. the true Good, for ing !— ing upon the green meadows and the shin nothing burneth in hell but self-will. There “ No, n o! Baby must not touch the fire. ing waters of the peaceful river, he lifted fore it hath been said. "Put off thine own Naughty fire! Fire will burn baby!” up his heart to say, “The Lord is mv Shep herd.” will, and there will be no hell." Now God Why not say, instead?— is very willing to help a man and bring “ See. baby! See the pretty fire! Fire Having awakened within him the real re him to that which is best in itself, and is of is good to warm baby’s hands. Fire ligion, your child will revel in the beautiful all things the best for man. But to this is kind when baby doesn't touch it. There! words of poet, prophet, or priest of the past who has voiced the prayers of humanity, end. all self-will must depart.— Selected not any nearer, or the fire will hurt. See from Occult Wisdom. the pretty flame-finger! It is playing with lie will formulate and utter true prayers the wind. The wind is hiding in the chim out of the depths of his own soul. They ney.’’ (There is a wonderful lesson in the may foreshadow the poet, prophet, or priest DID YOU EVER KNOW wind.) of the future. Encourage him to pour all You will note that the first form of talk his childish feelings into your sympathetic That Improper Food Often (.'anKC* the ing to the child awakens not only fear but ears, and give him your thoughtful, loving, iAqtior Tlahlt ? hate. Calling the fire “ naughty.” as if it and constant comradeship. “ Let. the foun had an evil will, creates a revengefulness in dations of the wall of the city be garnished even a little child. Who has not seen a with all manner of precious stones.” baby strike the floor, chair, or table against As a help in religions training, the little Tt’s a great proposition to get rid of a which he has bumped his head? This silen ce every day will he found invaluable. taste for liquor by changing food. fear-teaching is the prevailing kind. It Have some place in the house, either a “About three years ago.” writes a man succeeds in making children conscious of room or a corner, where a child can go and from Lowry City. Mo., “my appetite failed something evil lurking everywhere and in be perfectly alone. Call it the Best Cor me and my food disagreed with me. I everything. And how baneful and far- ner, or the Thinking Place, or the Beautiful got weak and nervous and felt dull and reaching the effects! Thought Place, or by some other name that entirely unfit for business: then like a fool Try the /ore-teaching. Show that the will catch the mind. Let it be the place of I went to taking liquor to stimulate an goad something that exists everywhere and all others in the house where good and appetite For a time that seemed to help in everything is the cause of all Beauty, beautiful thoughts can be gathered— where Law, Order, Life, and Love. Tell the a refuge from all noise or disturbance or and I congratulated myself on finding so child, when he is old enough to ask ques naughtiness can he found. If possible, simple a remedy. Blit, alas! I had to take tions, that this yood is what we call God. have a room for this purpose, or a closet more and more all the time until I got so It is not a man. with man’s body, but with a window in it. Put beautiful rest that I could not. get along without the thinks as man thinks: and all the beautiful ful, inspiring pictures on the wall. Have whisky, and I was in a pitiable condition. things in the world are what It has nothing in the room to suggest amusement “ 1 tried to quit, but that seemed impos thought. It is the life of every creature— or diversion. Provide a couch and an eas.v- sible, as I needed nourishment and my the law for the whole world. It is this chair. hut nothing superfluous. A child stomach rejected food, ami the more whis good, or God. that makes us nble to love one that has licen brought up to believe in the ky I drank the worse I got. I kept fight another— to love everybody and everything. omnipotent Good can easily be led to realize ing this battle for more than two years, And the more we love the more of this that here in this room he can think and feel and almost gave up all hope. Good is in us. and the more will. It uses the power and the presence of the Good ■ “ I noticed an advertisement of Grape- us as Its body. Its voice. Its hands and that here, if he is quiet a little while, the Nuts in the paper and concluded to try it- feet. We cannot know about It except by Good will rest him if be is tired, will calm letting It see and think and feel in us. So, and soothe him, and will give him joyous, I found I could eat Grape-Nuts with a when we feel naughty, we should say, away loving thoughts. Do not require him to sit relish, and it was the first food that 1 down in our hearts: still or go through anv outer form. Simply found nourished me in a long time, con» “ I don’t want to be naughty. Dear God, teach him to go to this place and find the my stomach trouble stopped, my appetite will Yon please fill me with good feeling, Good. Let him have his nap in this room. increased, the craving thirst relaxed until and will You take my mouth and fill it with all desire for drink was gone. I have use, beautiful words?" •Some years ago a little son of the writer Grape-Nuts constantly for over a year amt Ts not this prayer? And if a child were was successfully carried through scarlet I am now strong and robust: entirely cure, taught to say something like this, night and fever and its variations, with the Twenty- from drink and able to work hard every morning and every time through the day third Psalm as the only “medicine.” Many day. My gratitude for Grape-Nuts is un that he might need to do it. do you not times the little fellow would say: “Sing think he would live the prayerful life easily, speakable. as it has saved my life arid repu it again, mamma. It makes me so cool and tation.” Name given by I’ostum Co., Bat naturally, devoutly? Inspire him with a sleepy. tle Creek, Mich. The New York MagaLZine of Mysteries 161 HE truth shall make you free.” These are no idle words. They embody a principle as deeply laid ns the very essence of being it Hudson s Bay Methods in South Am erica* self. Again and again the deep truth involved in this simple statement Hashes upon the stu dent of occult science with new meaning. m a d e m i l l i o n s f o r i t s stockholders . Again and again we are surprised to find how many of the perplexing problems of life the application of this far-reaching T h e r e is being offered for sale principle will solve. to-day a lim ited am ount of the Really, what else is there to depend upon for the ultimate solution of the many prob stock of one of the strongest lems which are now confronting ns? Free dom ! What else does the soul of man need? Trace the miseries of man to their com panies of the kind in A m er source, and see if you do not find that thev all begin with some kind of bondage— some ica. 1 he Com pany has 5 0 0 , 0 0 0 thing that limits or binds tlie soul and tints prevents tlie right exercise of its powers. The endless struggle of life is nothing but a shares— all com m on— no bonds. fight with the limitations by which we find ourselves held from that which we most I h e y o w n 1 , 4 0 0 square m iles desire. of territory or about 1 , 0 0 0 , - Brother, are you a victim of strong drink? I.et me tell you why you are en slaved by such u ruinous habit. That habit 0 0 0 acres on which are grow- is only the outgrowth of a false belief. You think you crave strong drink, perhaps, hut m g in their native soil and ele you do not. I t is something else your soul is clamoring for. You have blindly made the mistake of supposing that strong drink m e n t , 6 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 Rubber trees is the object of your desire. .So, after all, it is truth that you lack, and truth only can 1 5 years-and-over old. Each break the fetters with which you are bound, if you only knew the truth of your own condition, your burning appetite would be tree w ill yield 5 lbs, of rubber found to lie only the yearning of your soul for something higher, and the truth would per season at a cost of not ex teach you the true object of your desire, the attainment of which would make you free, indeed. c e e d i n g 3 5 cents a lb. and sells J* What is true in the case of the drink- in N ew York to-day for 8 8 c t s . habit is true of every habit by which human beings are enslaved. The slavery is not bondage to tiny external condition or tiling. a lb. Two thousand men will It is primarily and radically a limitation due to a subjective condition. The fetters e a r n 6 per cent, on the Com are forged by false belief. Learn truth, tny brother, and these limitations, with all their attendant evil habits, will vanish like pany’s capital. The Com pany mists before the rising sun. All had habits are alike. They spring from false belief, will em ploy 4 0 , 0 0 0 laborers, and vanish at the dawning of truth. that number being available. Again, my brother, do yon find it hard to feed, clothe and educate your children, and bring into your home all those comforts and Operations will be conducted conveniences which characterize the ideal home of modern civilization? I meet you along the sam e lines that m ade every day and every day I see you busy and anxious. Time is furrowing your brow. You are wearing yourself out, and you can the H UDSON ’S BAY CO M not see that you are 1 lettering your condi tion in any respect. Y'ottr children are PA N Y’S stock worth four growing up to take your place, aud you can see looming un before them l lie same dreary succession of years of thankless labor, thousand for one, and which which lias ground nil the sweetness out of your life, and the contemplation of it sug built up the Astor fortunes. gests to you the old, foolish bitterness of the one who said. “Curse God and tlie.” The Secretary will be pleased I.et tlie spirit of truth fill the souls of the poor and (lie rich alike, ami the scepter of to forward an illustrated book the old many-headed tyrant. Mammon, is gone. let, descriptive of the Com J* The cure for nervous exhaustion is to pany and its m ethods, to any frequently relax all tension of nerves and "rain and go into tlie Silence and com mune with the Spirit. Think of the Most one on request. High and lie bathed in tlie soothing calm of the Holy Spirit. Buddha said: "All that we nr»' is tlie result of what we have thought. It is founded on our thought. E. M. CRAW FORD, S e c r e t a r y , H a man thinks fear-thought he is more or less nervous. “The nervous system in its conditions affords a constant and unerring register of the state of the mind.” Hwclj Dept. C, Exchange Court Building, New York City. on Hod within- aud he calm, serene and whoie (holy). Souls are crying to be freed. Good. Sprrim™,' ..r Y o u r H a n d w ritin g T h e N o w and 10 cents nnd I will seud you u reading of your D O Y O U R H A N D S B E T R \ Y character and ihcll nations. Mme. Paulina .Spitz, By Eugene E. Ware Expert Graphologist. 1472 N. Halsted St.. Chicago. 111. 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Ner nic tew cosmic conscious minds stock and have it handed to vous Debility, Neuralgia, of the last 3,000 years. Final you at your own door or Insomnia. La Grippe, Bron ly the basic fact in cosmic con- placo or business. If you chitis. Paralysis, etc. like the Diamond, and uro zr. - tl.er f./, ®fl0llsn«?s implied in its name convinced that it is from 10 K rv. K. E. ,\Iuniting, that fact is consciousness of the cosmos— to 20 per cent better value / S i Sufit. of Baptist City Mis than you can get elsewhere. sion Society, Chicago, 111., that is what is called in the East the pay one-flfth of the price writes:—*• More than three Btahmic Splendor.’ which is in Dante’s and keep it. paying the bal yenrs ago when my wife was phrase capable of trans-htimanizing a man ance in a series of eight very poorly she used Oxy equal monthly payments donor. and her health wa* into a god. Whitman, who has an im that you will hardly miss greatly Improved. SI net mense deal to say about it, speaks of it in from your earnings. that time she has been able ,P ?{'e ;!s. ‘ineffable light— light rare, to do t hat which hus saved LOFTIS’W A Y j ^ n untenable, lighting the very light— beyond success In modern Diamond many times the cost of Oxy selling, because the goods donor. 1 have always been a .cfiS18' desl:rifrtfons, languages !’ are the best; prices the low glad t hat 1 was Induced to make I bis consciousness shows the cosmos to est aud terms the easiest. the trial.” consist, not of dead matter governed In- Every Diamond is sold un- der a GUARANTY CERTI Oxydonor lasts a lifetime, and serves unconsciousness, rigid and uninteudin'g FICATE of quality and the whole family. Beware of dangerous law , it shows it on the contrary as entirely value. Every Diamond is Imitations. The name of Dr.sanche—the also sold with a perpetual Inventor and Orlglnaior-ls engraven on immaterial, entirely spiritual and entirelv option of exchange at full the genu Ido Oxvdonor. Look for that name. alive, it shows that death is an absurdity, original price paid, for other Write for Instructive literature. that every one and everything has eternal goods or a larger Diamond, i I O F T I^ ’ " n l y reqnire- I |)R. If. SANCHE A: CO. life; tt shows that the universe is God and L U r i l J nient ig a dls. j Av*s, New York. 61 Fifth Si., Detroit, Mich, that God is the universe, and that no evil position to do as you agreo ate St,, Chicago. 2268 St, Catherine St., ever did or ever will enter into it : a great to do. and a sufficient earn Montreal, Can. ing capacity to enable you deal of this is, of course, from the point of to spare a few dollars from view of self-eonscionsuess, absurd—it is your income each month — usually from <3 to $10. You nevertheless undoubtedly true. Now. all simniy make a selection of this does not mean that when a matt has a Diamond ring, brooch, locket, earrings, stud, cuff cosmic consciousness he knows everything buttons or a Watch—L o ft is about the universe. We all know that does the rest. There Is no risk or expense involved when at three years of age we acquired in asking to have a Dia self-consciousness, we did not at once know mond sent for inspection, all ourselves: we know, on the contrary, for LOPTIS pays all express that after a great many thousands of years charges. of experience of himself man still to-day Loftis* Establishment Is the largest Diamond knows comparatively little about himself, Credit Business in the considered even as a self-conscious person world, and one of the oldest H O W T O B E ality. So neither does a man know all (Established in 1-S58.) It is responsible beyond ques about the cosmos merely lieeausc he be tion. and refersto any bank comes conscious of it.’’ in America, for Instance: GOOD LOOKING Ask vonr local banker how The above is taken from "Cosmic Con LOFTIS is rated inthecom- I sciousness,’’ by Dr. Richard M. Iiueke. To mercial world. He will tell l ILL-SHAPED NOSES, OVERHANGING EARS you that-no house stands' Spoil an otherwise beautiful face. me. this work and "Leaves of Grass." by higher in credit, prompt Walt Whitman, are the most valuable ness and reliability and that WRINKLES make you look older than you feel. books of modern times. Both are tilled its representations may be with the thought of universal good. What accepted without question. PIMPLES, BLACKHEADS, ECZEMA, ERUP- we once called evil is good or God in the Loftis’CASH OFFER: TIONS complexion and Indicate bad Pay cash for any Diamond process of unfoldment from the primitive and you will bo given a bill expression to that which is ideal. We need, of sale with the option of Beautiful skin without a blemish, perfect feat returning the Diamond at ures. youthful contour are obtainable. with Walt Whitman, to believe. in our any time within one year souls, in ourselves. When we have full havinguJlyoupeid refund-d i XO.SK« Roman noses made ideal, depressed faith in self we have faith in all. To know in spot cash— less ten per noses (accident or disease) raised: broad, bulbous cent. If you selected a fifty - hoses reduced; pug noses straightened; large self is to open the windows of the soul, and dollur Diamond you coufd overhanging E A R S corrected: puffy, saggv. dis looking out broadly, see ourselves in the wear it for a whole year and sipated E Y E.S cured: W K I X R L E « under or universe, the universe in ourselves, and then return ft and get $15 in over the eyes, forehead, sagging of the cheeks, cash, thus having the pleas uulekly removed without cutting or plaster (no God in every human being, no matter what ure and prestige of wearing a beautiful Diamond for less than ten cents per detention indoors). 151 RTH M ARKS and all the seeming. How can this lit- accom week. We can make this offer for the reason that FACIAL BLEMISHES removed; all skin plished? By daily and hourly striving for we are direct importers of Diamonds, buying from and scalp diseases cured. Varicose veins per the condition of feeling no condemnation the cutters of Amsterdam in larger quantities than manently cured. Patients in all parts of the any other house in our line of business, and from world. 6,000 personal references. Years of skilled for any thought, word, act, condition or the further fact that Diamonds are increasing in experience. organ of ourselves, then, and then only, value at the rate of about twenty per ceut annually. will we cease to condemn others, remem LOFTIS’ MONEY BACK OFFER: A. L. NELDEN. M. 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Consultation free—11-55 or 7-8. experienced to a greater or less degree LOFTIS BROS. (Sb CO., 155 East ‘¿Bth Street, S ew York City. their oneness with Infinite Life and Love. Diamond__mond Importers and Manufacturing Jewelers, It mav he only a flash in a lifetime, hut DDept.ept. B53,B53. 92. 94, 96 and 98 State St.. Chicago,111 there is no going back to the old idea of Copyright 1902, Loftis Bros. & Co. Opp. Marshall Field & Co separateness. One flash from the Light $ 0 7 i| £ Organ which lighteth every man, one recognized flash from the light which is universal, and ™ I Pay After Received we have stepped over the boundary tenveen Offer! One Year’s Free Trial! the old idea of limitations into the new 25-Years’ Binding Guaran thought of immortality now and here, tee! All explained in our "lord have mercy upon ns. miserable sin F R E E M U S I C ners.” belongs to the seif-conscious indi CATALOGUE. We vidual, while "I am one with l iee>r ^ ‘; sell pianos from $ 8 9.0 0 rind ” is an expression of Cosmic v on to $165.00, the e Free Astrological Delineations are given to all yearly sub scribers to THE NEW YORK MAGAZINE OF MYSTERIES pro vided the request is made at tlic time the subscription is sent. IF we have not space to print the delineation we will either write you a special delineation, or mail you free a printed deline ation which will apply to your birth. These printed delineations were specially prepared by the MYSTIC ADEPT who conducts this department, and are very valuable to any aspiring Soul. Address A MYSTIC, Astrology Department, New York Magazine of Mysteries. 22 North William street. New York City. ************** ************** yet it costs no more than ordinary soaps, only 5 cents at all dealers. Au The soul that hopes for future light rise above the conditions of the average, honest, undisguised soap, with its Must shed its little ray, and you cannot be kept down. 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The dial shows its every hour, 21st of December, or between the 21st of Lever Brothers Limited For him to read who can. March and the same date of April of any year. The chief illnesses to which you are New York Hold fast then: Learn to watch and wait liable will affect the nervous system, the Till Love the power regains; heart and the kidneys. Your birth-stones Till Life and Love unite as one are the diamond and the ruby. To wash away all stains. M iss G e o r g ia n a W.. Manila, P. I., EAT And as the mighty work goes on, born April 4. 187!).— Aries is your birth- According to His plan. sign. The sign is a fiery one. and is the You'll find all that will be, or was, First sign of the Zodiac. It is a positive, SOME Is, in perfected man. commanding sign. This causes many of — Zam ael. your impulsive actions. The positions at M a n it o b a F a n n i e . Selkirk.— The day the time of your birth give excellent indi AIR! cations as to mental development and show of your birth. Feb. 1, 1875, was ruled by l)nep breathing pro the Moon, Monday. You were born with that you would do well in some line of cler motes health. Head strong magnetic forces acting upon the ical or professional work in which there is *• J U M t H o w t o a great deal of writing to be done. Y'onr W n k e the Molar Earth, at the time, to induce psychic forces I*lexn»,n by Eliza of a good quality, which, if cultivated, memory is retentive, and you are inclined beth Towns. could lie made of excellent service. You to hold enmity longer than you should. It gives occult breathing exercises of great value, have power by which you could often calm You should avoid being impulsive or head tells how to control tne emotions, develop con strong. You are firm in your convictions centration, KILL FKAK, banish miner, hate, and control the insane by merely being worry, etc., thus insuring the development of a with them. There is something soothing and adhere to them. You would make an strong, poised self-hood. All this Is accomplished to most persons in your presence. You excellent leader, and will hold many strong by awakening the Solar Centre of the human l>ody. are quite progressive. You have much love friendships. There are strong indications Ella W heeler W ilcox wrlies of this book In the of travel in your horoscope, and you are New York Journal as follows: "It contain' a fortune for scientific work and are capable of mak in rahic if you follow the simple rules Qiven." Scud for ing high attainments. You are an earnest shown to take journeys by both land and a copy NOW. student. Your fortunate days for starting wafer. Your fortunate days for commenc PPICE 25 CENTS. on a journey, or commencing a new under ing a new undertaking of any kind are Address W ILLIAM K. TOWNE, Dept. taking, will he Mondays and Saturdays, Tuesdays, and your astrological colors are HOLYOKE, MAMS. and your astrological colors are white and red and white. The ruling planet of your for sale which sign is Mars. treat, of the .blue. The planetary ruler of your birth- m y s t r r ions», sign is Saturn. M r. .1. R a y , Oswego, Kansas, born Dec. fascinating 4. 1854.— You were born under tin* ruling ______« o c c u l t sci .T. 1’.. Andersonville, born October 24, of the Zodiacal sign Sagittarius. You are ences. such as Personal MaguCtisra, Astroh-ry. 1H(,C.— This date brings you under the rule shown to be both impulsive and excitable, Palmistry, Theosophy, etc. I will send descrip .of the eighth sign of the Zodiac, the watery tive circulars of these bocks,copy of 51-pnge book ;sign Scorpio. It is a peculiar fact that and.should try to overcome these tendencies on Astrology, by which you can read your own most persons who are born under this rul in order to become more successful and fortune, and samplos of two New Thought pa happy. You are liable to make enemies In- pers, all for lOcents. Address W ILLI A M E. ing go to one extreme or the other in intel speaking your thoughts too freely. You T O W N E , D e p t. 8 , H O L Y O K E , M ASS. lectual development. You need to decide sometimes give offence by this and by your upon a definite plan of work; when you abrupt, manner. You have spiritual and .1 LADY'S BEAUTIFUL FRENCH do this you have the firmness or persist- clairvoyant power, and could develop the SEAL FUR SCARF .eney which will bring you good results. Thes® faculty of projecting your thoughts into srarfa ar® There is much capability in your nature the minds of others. This will sometimes the height and you can acquire a large amount of of fashion: knowledge. Many of the most powerful give you the reputation of being a prophet ■ made of or seer. You can often foretell the state rich, dark brown, durable fur; tnl.-ic persons this world has ever known have of the weather or the coming of an event and sott, and the ah pe venr run, been born in your sign. Among these I trimmed at the ends with full taus, may mention Martin Luther, Paderewski by your feelings. When you are governed fastens with hook and chain- y® by your first impressions you are very give il I-1. K K to any Indy lor and King Edward and President Roosevelt. selling only a •» Your vitality is so strong that you are not rarely wrong in your prognostications. our I I.OWI-K SI'*1* You shouhl always avoid any exhibition of Collection* Hie most fra- frequently troubled with colds, and recover grant varieties —all color*. quickly if attacked. You have strong appe anger, and cultivate kindness and sympa You can earn tills line Scarf thy toward all those whom you meet and in an afternoon by selling 1» tites and desires, which you should study v o. know. Or yoor choice or to control. In commencing a journey, or do them as much good as you possibly can. You are most liable to illness of a rheu 150 OTHER ELEGANT PRESENTS in beginning any new enterprise, you will ‘ Your friends and raren*r find Tuesdays and Wednesdays your most matic nature. The planet ruling your w ill buy them fromi you w birth-sign is Jupiter. s p help yon. I.'o n«.t favorable days. Your astrological colors [ ii. o n e .-.•nr . I m one y. SiruP1! are brown and red. the red being a peculiar . write that you want to earn the brarr shade, almost a crimson. Feb. 12. ISS5.— The Sun at the time c /and we will Mini you ll* b ' ; your birth was located in the Celestial sigi f enre. tmating to your honesty. I ''' { J e n n i e M i l l e r , Manchester, N. 8 .. born only a few lim. s time lo earn it. andI you Aquarius. This sign is one which belong r surprised ami delighted. 11 rile c^odsy. . Aug. 20, 1836.-—The sign ruling your birth chiefly to the mercantile sphere. It give RLD'SEED CO. i Fur Pent.) Boston. Mas» was Leo. This makes the Sun, with his you a strong attachment to city life or cut noble characteristics, your ruler to some toms. The Earth at the same time wa .extent, throughout life. The day of your situated in the Zodiacal sign Leo. Tlies Valuable booklet*, giving complete, reliable and birth, as shown by the above, was Friday. Important information regarding the oil and mm g positions endow you with magnetic or liyt Industries, tbo best compiinles, lnsido ® -This day, according to the ancient Egyp notic forces which, if cultivated, could b dends, etc., showing bow large fortunes are easny tian and Chaldean rulings, was supposed' to made of excellent service. You make made from small Investments: also detail* or v have been governed by the goddess Venus. faithful friend and can be depended upo whereby the success of any Investment can be nr You have strong ambitions and a desire to absolutely certain. 1>0 not fall to write for • to accomplish nlmost any mission witi A. L WISNI5U & CO.. (Inc.), 33 Broadway, N. *• The New York Magaz irie of Mysteries 165 which you »re entrusted. When you exer cise reasoning power, you form just con your ruling or birth-sign. It is a negative, clusions, anil your ideas will he accepted magnetic, earthy and domestic sign. The ! v others. You can save money quite well, Larih at the same time was located in the „'■ id do not need to be stingy in any wav. Zodiacal sign Cancer. These positions in You have much love of do.ug good. You cline you to have a philosophical nature, should never go in debt for the sake of ap and give you excellent reasoning powers, pearances or personal desires. In select- there is that in your nature which would tie a companion for business or for domes give you excellent success in managing nnd tic affairs, you should choose one who is guiding others and would make you very horn between the 2 0 th of February and the oecapa t ¡oil' and^shonId udy" \^.rthi^Vong well located at the head of a department olst of March, or between the 21st of July enough to gain the full « t of youl in some large corporation. There is also and the same date of August of any year. are outhusmstic. hut you scat- shown to he a strong inclination for study The chief illnesses to which you are liable much ns vm1,1™ a,l\ ITS LIKE FINDING MONEY • . , To Possess ana be “ Behold, the angel of the Lord appeared un every opportunity to be useful, not only in . able to use In dally Ilf» to hiui in a dream."—St. Matthew 1, 20. cases of great need, when large service may , the wonderful power Per be required, as was the case in your dream, sonal Magnetism. It sharp- A Dream, to have significance, must oc ens your wits, strengthens cur to the sleeper while in a healthy and but also when some simple, common kind your memory, develops within traiiiiuil sleep. ness is called for. You are kind and sym you marvelous will power and pathetic, and the message the dream brings opens your eyes to wonderful Those dreams of which we have no vivid to you is that you radiate kindness and money-making opportunities. It conception or clear remembrance have no sympathy to all, for therein lies your sal enables you to draw people to you and significance. influence them secretly without their To have beautiful dreams and night va tiou. knowledge It puts you In touch with visions one must have a high spiritual “C a l a m it y J a n e .” Angel's Camp. Cali the soul forces of man and enables you nature. fornia.— The very name you have chosen to break down all harriers to vour suc to head this interpretation is an index to cess. It Is this marvelous power ot • The Angels do appear to us in dreams. personal influence that made Carnegie The Bible says so. (Head Bible authority your pessimism. If you are always think Morgan, Rockefeller and the Vander at head of this column.) But aside from ing of calamity, calamity is bound to fol bilts the money kings of this country the Good Book, wise and God-loving seers low you, both in your sleeping and waking If you wish to be on the easy side of of all ages have interpreted dreams, and moments. Incidentally, too, it mars your life; if you want to be pointed out as a will continue to do so in.the future. dreams. You must pay more attention to sueeessful. self-made man or woman your physical being. God gave it you to learn to control and direct the minds of Much discredit— and rightfully so— has others. There is an absolutely sure and been brought upon interpreters of dreams perfect from day to day, every whit as simple way. a way that never falls. Our because so many alleged '•fortune-tellers” much as your mind. The soul can speak free book tells you how. and charlatans have fooled the credulous— only through the body. The loveliest spirit for a money consideration. or the sweetest thought cannot benefit hu I never receive any money for this work, manity unless the physical being is in the A Great Book Free. outside of a regular salary, and never will. condition to retied or communicate it. You Our elegantly Illustrated free book tells I will gladly interpret your dreams, and must eat less of the fine fruits of the you how to master the wonderful se will be pleased to hear front the subscribers • earth. Then only will you become what crets of Influence; how to develop your to this Magazine with accounts of their you wish to be. “ Plain living and high inward powers so as to become a veri dreams. table store-house of vital magnetic en thinking" would oftentimes insure the per ergy. It treats of a system of easy I belong to a great brotherhood of Mystic fect man. Let your thoughts dwell more drills which are guaranteed to develop Adepts, and in the name of that High and on this wonderful saying of the great your magnetic powers. You do not have Sacred Order 1 pledge myself to treat all Emerson. to be born magnetic in order to learn correspondence as sacredly confidential. how to influence people. Any Intelligent We will now honor our spiritual guides “C a t h e r in e o f A r ag o n ," Harper’s person can learn to exert a power and controls and ask them to aid us in in Ferry. Virginia.— Now your dream happens ful silent Influence over any one be may terpreting the following dreams: to mean that you can be a queen in your choose within a short time at his own own realm. Life holds a great deal for home. VVe guarantee success or forfeit One Thousand Dollars in (iold. "B a s s e P a r t o c t ,” Canandaigua. New you, and incidentally for all with whom Our offer is absolutely genuine. There ' orb.— Equality in heaven, did you say? you come in contact. Never be afraid to are no strings to it whatever. We mean Surely a man of your intelligence cannot be yourself. Many of us have the courage just what we say. The book is free. It reason so. The Bible declares the con of our convictions, but very few of us have is the most intensely Interesting and trary to l>e the fact. There is one glory the courage of our emotions. We are sel remarkable work of the kind ever writ of the sun and another glory of the stars, dom afraid to define our beliefs; indeed, ten. It is Indorsed by ministers of the Gospel, prominent professional and bus for one star differeth from another star in too often do we force them upon unwilling iness men. It bears directly on your glory. So also is the resurrection of the ears; but somehow we shrink from defining future success in life. It tells how to dead. St. Patti's statement is very clear. our hopes and fears. Why? Because we learn to cure all diseases and bad habits Heath is no more a leveling process than are afraid to reveal ourselves as we really by vital magnetic power. You can per birth. We no more enter heaven equal are. This is a serious mistake, and one to form startling and thrilling scientific than we are equal here, or than emigrants be rectified by meeting it with absolute experiments which will puzzle and mystify your friends: you con give the enter this land of freedom on an equal foot fearlessness. If we have to wait until our most delightful entertainment ever wit ing. The cultured student, the man of faults are told to us. our regeneration will nessed. Is there no one sick around education and property, begins his life as be slow. "Who would be free, himself you whom you would like to restore to a citizen on a far higher plane than does must strike the blow.’ perfect health and streugth? Would you the ignorant peasant, who has come here like to better your condition in life; in quest of freedom and advancement. "F r a n c e s c a da R im in i,” Tombstone, make more money or rise higher in Equality is an iridescent dreatu never to be Arizona.— To dream of the concord of your business or calling; are you inter fulfilled here or hereafter, except in the sweet sounds is always beneficial in some ested in the many marvels of the won way. The effect of music upon the mind der science of the age? If so, write to value of souls, and in the love that God day for a copy of our new book. Re has for all. But in that life beyond the is generally recognized as soothing, in that member it is absolutely free. Address differences will come from the choice we it lifts the entire being into a higher state. Music, of necessity, teaches obedience to New York Institute of Science, Dept. C V 5, made here. Your dream is a self-evident Rochester, N. 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A. »JOYCE. does, which expresses the worth of a man, pepsia, Obesity, TTi?adavheN, Constipation, and but what he is. all M alarial Dl«eaneN C a m br id g e. Md., ,* Ang. 7,1900. The opposite of rest is not work— it is in,, ~ wnui uinj.s miiflfl oy tne internal Hath P ro f. C n a s . A. T yrrell: restlessness. Do you know that it goes to the root of all disease and eradicates th< Dear Si r I deem it a duty cause / Do you know t hat many of the greatest physicians of tho work jt I owe you, as well as my fel He who fears being conquered is sure of endorse and prescribe this treatment? Do you know that such ominenl defeat. people as the following use the Internal Bath? C. S. Senator A. P low man, to say I have been Gorman. Maryland; Ex-Governor Goodoll, Vermont: Admiral Tyrtoff restored to perfect, health by n L T Cp„rS.’i'rK' P ; V ^ A\0 ;>Gri;:,K"r- (;irHrd Building, Philadel Be kind to your four-footed friend. plua, P a., Gen.T. S. Peck, G. A. R.: Miles Devine. City Attorney, Chi the us© of tho flushing treat cago. III.; Marguerite 8ylva, and a nost of others 1 1 ment so easily accomplished ''That which prevents men from realising Were it possible to reproduce here our file of voluntary letters oi by tho “ J. B. L. Cascade.” commendation received from prominent people who do not ordinarily Previous to its us© 1 waf the presence of divine power within them permit the use of their names m advertisements, no douht could exist selves is the fact that they regard nothing in one s mindlas to the extraordinary meritof the “ ,J B I CASCADE’ very bad health, suffering ns something real, and reality ns nothing °S,w.h?t the ciutcadc treatment wiil do we call from dyspepsia, nervous ness.” says Franz Hartmann, to which we your attention to the adjoining letter from Mr. JI. \ Joyce one of the prominent merchants of Cambridge, Md. ’ 5ce,ouc 1 UK ness, constipation, insomnia» would add that they overvalue the seen am! and in fact was almost in undervalue or ignore the Unseen. Of t£ ,!iVl,<.1/ ren. (° .ev,'ry IX'^on. sick or well, a simple state course, both on their plane are real; he treatment. It contains matter which must despair of ever getting «ell. who lives wholly on the material plane is a eslK'7 iivttefVtohe H If 8,0,1 New York you are earn but thanks to you and your slave to matter, while he who lives in the " t K h i T i u p w ir v ,?aU-writ® r" r our pamphlet wonderful invention, and universal Spirit has all matter and all na application, together with our great speiiaUffer for IhU month oMy?' the loving kindness of a ture serve him. So we are either royal merciful God, I am uow u> masters or abject slaves; whole or partial; splendid health. dis-onsed or healthy ; fearful or peaceful and Tyrrell’s H ygienic Institute Gratefully yours. blissful.— B . P. Clerk 5 3 W, 1 5 6 2 Broadway, N. Y. H. A. JOYCE. T h e N ew York Ma.ga.zine of Mysteries 169 G e m s of T h o u g h t Tjik test of your Christian character All a,mild'he (hat you are a jo.V-bearing angel lu i he world.— ISeechcr. Ages— 5 to85 The Stone Method It is not ilie mere station of life that Y ears . nips the value on us, hut the manner in which we act our part— S chiller. a p p L ii?Id ■ 2 K 5 1,„ V P tem of e*ercise "-»¡eh requires no room inv iw 0 y ,°,t0 20 ,n,nuU‘s tlmo each Hugged strength and radiant beauty. These were one in Nature’s plan; Humble toil and heavenly duty, These will form the perfect man. Among the last articles written by the late Rev. George II. Hep worth was found the following on the power and scope of thought. Let Bis words set you to think ing and to thinking right: A word of scorn or of praise hurled into the spiritual universe from a heart that loves or hates becomes a living force, not lost in the general confusion, but going straight to the man or woman against whom or in favor of whom it is directed. That other heart is the receiving station of this' wireless telegraph. Your t hought, critical or gentle, strikes it with an impact OJO DE BUEY, that either hurts or helps. You may not know that your thought has taken its THE MARVELLOUS MYSTICISM OF THE Bight, that other person may not know whence it comes, but all the same he is up lifted or depressed by it. This may seem si range and even incred ible, but while it is to-day a possible fact, it may to-morrow become a demonstrated O X ’S truth, and the next day it may change the whole outlook of the spiritual world. It has the appearance of a miracle, but pro- tounder knowledge always seems miracu lous. A New Problem for Students of the Occult. A spoken thought is even now recognized From the Semi-Orlent-bome of mystery and heir scenes of the past and future, places remote and in as a force when speaker and hearer are to the wonderful wisdom of count ¡ess ages-u new cidents occurring at the moment, at a distance or near problem Ims come, the problem or OJode Buey. or the bjt. Faces and movements of lovers, friends or ene within earshot of each other. An oath, a -Ox's Kvc." It is a problem of absorbing Interest, mies, with their vary in# expressions, appear to the compliment, a hit of vocal flattery go and students of occult research throughout the word gazer with a vividness that is startling. through the ear to the heart and kindle a are uniting In a supreme effort to solve it. Jo Such a power gives the jewel an inestimable value flame of resentment or of happiness. What achieve this end. every Individual Interested in to Its possessor, and accounts for the widespread in such things is urged to assist In the Investigation by terest it has created. Naturally the number of Ojo you say becomes a part of another man's means of personal experience and discover}. de Buey is limited, but t he National Research Society hfe and excites passion or stimulates OJO do Ituev (pronounced "ohodobway ) Isa beau was fortunate enough to secure all that were avail friendship. Why may there not be a quicker tiful lewel-llke product turned out fromtbegre.it l.ib- able, and for tho purpose of obtaining the experiences oraiorv of Nature, in site and appearance it resem- of intelligent people to assist, in solving the great transit than the slow and dull car affords? b l« an ox's eye For thousands of years the Simple secret of the “ Ox's Eye.” they will be distributed "hv may not the time come when we can among those interested in this country and England. lMMTiilc of the Semi-Orient were ibeonly human beings Accordingly the following opportunity is ottered convey our thoughts without the coarse whereby you can obtain one of t hese priceless Jewels. medium of words? There are no words SSrjBBsaasittWtt This wonderful ami most beautiful of Jewels will be between us and heaven. A prayer is a sent in a jewel case, with fnil instructions for observ thfe« oMhnL faroff iand firmly believe that tho poa- ing its phenomena, on receipt of one dollar, the only bulging of the soul, "uttered or unex condition beingthat those receiving it write us de pressed.” God speaks to hearts. There scribing their experiences umi Impressions (except, we “unseen beings who walk the earth of course, those of a private character). Anyone Snd S i n be FtiKTtJNATK and SUCCESSFUL choosing to do so may return talisman within SO days both when we wake and when we sleep, and receive deposit dollar back. To obtain this jewel but they use no words. They make us feel call on or address GKO. E. BENTON ,|,0 „«»I three # 5.0 0 each. > 85.0 0- To the next Eve .1S alaive. postmarked on or before February 1. Is eligible to compete. not speak to each other without this cum Any person send ng for tnix „purred must reach us on or before February 25th. Tho prîtes w ill be bersome factor of spoken words? Wc catch Desorlptlononhe à„d the names of the Frite Winners will be published In the April Issues of sntnpses of the possible already. A look, a pressure of the hand, and sympathy or thomngMines in which this or in any way connected with the hrm of Ueo. E. Benton & Co can No person either a mem 1 • yUiternpt are complete. Enlarge ihe cir compete for the above prîtes. cumference and you have a new truth. i70 The New York Ma.ga.zine of Mysteries Healing Thoughts G od’s K iss From The Life A little lad at I.ady Henry Somerset’s Y our Character Home tor Slum Children, after he had fin True health and strength we know, nor ished his prayers, put in another petition »per"'»1'1- w lu"'Up\Vc,n il''r,ec»to1r^ !j,,*V «!! know in doubt, as a kind of postscript, “ And please, Cod, When our true Angels fire the false ones would you mind giving my mother a kiss?'' ____Pitt. TO IX VIvSTOKs. Pi.e a s e , God, 1 have finished my prayers. Cuttle In Moutuim Is sufe unit pays 80 ““I enlire personality of any man HmaH Investment now itrows inui a larm, A woman is made up from past But there’s one thing I want to say. years. Ovor:it)U men. women anrt chiirt^0? entai acts and attitudes. My mother lives up at the top of the stairs. cattleMind sheen on „,,r ranches \V - ,e 0r'T h[lte The way to make a harmoni- And she’s lonely now I’m away. ts body is lirst to have a har- onious mind. You’ll be sure to know her. because When we have performed a There ain't nobody half so good: C a n B e good act we lose all reward by blowing a And she’s just the dearest that ever was— horn about i t ; so all we have to do. is to do I'd die for her if I could. Learned right, and then let go results, for the results Send postal for booklet The neighbors are not very bad. TACT are then sure to go right. After going wrong once, people have to But, of course, they aren’t like me. in Human Nature, Tucu learn the Way of Life. I’ve got for to think what will make her netlsm by correspondence- nnlMl,B- And since there is but One Way. it is glad, SCHOOL OF HUMAN NATURE important to enter early into the right un And to get her a cup of test. A thens, Ga. ’ derstanding of Life. I)o not pile up treasures of external And sometimes, please. God. she ain't M ETA I'll VS I CAL (ON T 1{<7iT things, but have everlasting treasures that strong. are not subject to change. She have got such a lot to do. i h’o ".''i^ r r,T. « And it frets her so much when folks does trial, uwuket, at any desired time s i t d i S Z God sustains and beautifies the fiehl- diseases ami had habits, control tliolr drranw » m tlowers that are to be cut down to-morrow. wrong the minds of rrlends and enemies. vlsIt nnv h.IfiJ Much more will He clothe and beautify And she thinks no end of you. the earth, solve hard questions and pm blemVM man who is immortal. sleep a ml remember nil when awake. ThUse-™ im Mental Vl-lon Lesson will he sent to anyone fornix You will always receive if you ask of When she's tired she likes to sit l» c . (silver). Sold on credit. Act,¡ah -V n . f i God. Or. the floor and lean against me, von to do the above before any charge whatever To judge righteously is health-giving, for For it comforts her aching head a bit Prof. R. E. DUTTON. Lincoln. Nebraska, tl. S. A you are judged as you judge, and Right To rest it upon my knee. eousness always produces perfect health. First receive the truth yourself, and then I sit all so still and don't stir. you will be able to impart its light to And she calls me her bit of joy, others. And tells me I'm like a mother to her, An impure man. one who thinks impure As well as her sonny-boy. •• r--.v.-c, „„„ ¿«mi may aevemn thoughts, is the last thing on earth that thorn I can give you tho Key to your Nativity should undertake to do “ healing” ! People It does hurt me to think of her. and teach you how to escape from failure and are only in need of healing on account of All alone by the firelight. /««l«*? MRS. JAMES FRENCH! evil thinking! Can an evil thinker heal? And she ain’t got me to comfort her. KING. Lock Box 1107, New York City. Beware of false teachers that extol their To love her and hold her tight. .______Bend fob C ircular, powers, while inwardly unclean, unsancti Health, Strength, Grace, Beauty, and Happiness, fied. First know them by examining the So please. God, I hope you won’t mind fruit they bear. If I ask you just to do this— The Ailing Made Well and the Weak and Infirm aml Rollout. Ingenious Inventions Offer your healing services when health I'm sure she’d take it so very kind vvnlen hilmlriate Disease, Insure Erect and Graceful is incorporated in your own body from be If you’d please to give her a kiss. Carriage, making nods and goddesses of Health ing comprehended in your mind. Strength. Courage. Happiness, and Beauty. Csorsoi our Remedies and Appliances attract attention wher "How can a corrupt fount bring forth She’ll miss me before going to bed. ever seen- people turn and look after them, for their pure water?" (Read Tim othy in, i-S.) And she’ll feel so lonely then; entire being .s radiant with that which excites won Only by holy thinking can health be It will be nice if you'll kiss her instead. der and admiration. We prove all this or refund And I'll thank you. dear God.— Amen. your money. Write to-day for further part iculnrs: reached ! Set that down. they are free. Address: SELF-m.Tt KE And it cannot be sustained when reached, — Mark Guy Pcarsi, in Wisdom. SOCIETY. Dept. MM «», Oakland. Cal. if the thoughts return to dwelling upon im pure things. “Hope for the best, get ready for the ELEANOR KIRK’S IDEA Let us come forth into the pure sweet, Worst, and take what God sends.” calm. 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A promi- L ike. nent Protestant divine who made All is Life. a short visit to the Orient, says Life is Infinite. that he considers the faiths of the l .AII thing* are manifestations of One Kast "futile to give the soul peace with God. to remove the Life is constant, there is as much I ife weight of guilt and grief, to lay as there ever was til I i . i, „, 1 . the foundation of a vigorous individual anil ever will be L “ e ,hat uow 18 national morality and to brighten the earth I am Life. with the light of a blessed immortality.” .Such is bis statement: and it is evident of'lnfiirite L if f estati0n of ,lle Life: that this orilie is not of the broad-minded Life is in me Infinitely, enlt. l'«t of Utat narrow obsolete faith to whom the late Professor Drummond alluded tiblc 111 me ‘S 1)0UUtli88s 811(1 inexhaus- m ? S YOU LOOKING YOUNG in his address when in this country. Me Life is ever present and ever constant. This Elegant Dressing for nu n .n ! women has out quoted from the author of "Natural Re stripped all rivals ami -iritis tod.tv foremost among i (,ne is inexhaustible, h nr preparations, th- ■ nly HAIR HEALTH. Nevor ligion," that the average scientific man ever-present Life. falle to restore youthful color and beauty to worshipped at present a more awful and. as I cannot escape Life. Life cannot elude gray or faded hair. Feeds the r«. ts. heal- the it were, a greater deity than the average scalp, positively removes dandruff, stops hair falling anti hastens luxuriant growth. Is not greasy or sticky, Christian. I can never have more nor less Life than not a dye, will not stain skin or linen. It was supposed that all progressive I now have. Satisfy yourself ot once C D C C Send for a sample bottle r theologians repudiated the "bankrupt” tra Each day I am manifesting all the Life Enclose five cents to cover postage and on receipt we ditionalism of the stone age of theology and I u ill to manifest. wilt send HAY'S HAIR HEALTH. :• rake of HARFINA SOAP (medicinal) and 1-ooks with beau the doctrine of total depravity, and accept I vary the manifestations of Life, but tiful engravings, 32 pages giving best treatment for ed the evolutionary views that the able and Life is constant and Infinite. Scalp, Hair. Skin and Blood. Address Phiio Hay Specialties Co.. 331M Lafayette Street, Newark, N. /- scholarly theologians of to-day hold. I control the expression of Life by my Large .»O-Cent lloUtf* at ail Li-mltne Drngcifct*. A far greater theologian. Itev. Dr. Ly will. ' J A*k for liny’» Ilalr llrnltb. Refuse Mi Substitutes* man Abbott, in his address at the Parlia I Control Life by Thought. What I ment of Religions, said : "The old teachers think. Life manifests. of the old religions, they, as well as the Life is God Individualised. T E A S E T old teachers of the Hebrew religion, did I am an individuality. A conscious I see rhat truth which Herbert Spencer has AM in the ONE Life, that is God. FREE 3 2 PIECE S put in axiomatic form in these latter Because I am «Self-Conscious I have days: ‘Amidst all mysteries by which we power to direct the Manifestations of Life. are surrounded nothing is more certain I direct my Thought. than that we are in the presence of an When 1 affirm weakness I am weak, for infinite and eternal energy from which all I close the door to the manifestation of things proceed.’ We do not think Mod has Life. 8jze.for family Use, beautifully decorated, artis- only spoken in Palestine. We do not think When I affirm strength I am strong, for r»i * » if’ « v/iwvt: 1 o io p 1 mmv 1 siiin o ¡xiint he lias been vocal in Christendom and dumb then 1 give the current of Life full power. 1 luted. piece* are full uifor family use. This everywhere else. No! We believe He is a When I affirm "I am Health,” f am lea set. Free for selling 50 packages of otir F lo w e r 0*1 Health, for then Life flows normally in me. «ee GEORGE FROST CO., Makers, Boston, Mass., U.S.A, Every “ VELVET GRIP” Rubber Button Clasp has the Name Stamped on the Metal Loop. U a a m C u sh ion rtO S G Button S u p p o r t e r !W B e Sure It’s There on in this way. The inaction kills me i will go away with only vour plight»,! „ } and by my individual efforts 1 will i, ,"1'1' little home for you. Then 1 vib e ' back and nobody shall prevent me from taking you to it: not my father, not v i," not even yourself. I)o you not see m,: darling how impossible it is for me to liii o'! »» tllia fashion? Mv father thinks the silence you have imposed upon me is , " yielding. He has my sisters to keen th£ g.r here; she is very beautiful ami good and they say she loves mo. If that be tri e to stay is dishonor, for she thinks me fr«.' as they have told her, while I am eternaflv yours, sealed heart and spirit yours yours Let me go, my love, and come back for you. Just then we heard the laborers comimr along the path, to their noonday meal Wo parted with one swift, sweet good-by ' Ah that unreasoning fibre in a woman’s heart that makes praise of another woman from the lips of our lover unpalatable spirit, food! All that day, all of many days 1 heard those words echoing and re-echoing- "She is indeed beautiful, and she is good and they say she loves me.” I could not escape this haunting sentence. I tried to feel that I wished him to stay, to grow interested in this lovely girl, to let me free AM about to reveal to you a part and let us try Time's gentle mediation. him to wed her and make his people happy. of ray inner life— the brief part He fretted, pleaded, yielded. With one She would be happy, too; and lie—why into which was compressed all of long kiss of love and pain we parted, each not? Do not men soon learn to love joy and woe. of mad happiness and safe in the other's faith, secure of a union where they are loved, if beauty anil good agonizing grief, that in most some day to he, but bitterly burdened by ness are found there, too? women’s lives is spread over the the present parting. Soon 1 learned that One wild thought of self-sacrifice rose in period from girlhood to old age. another bride was chosen for Philip, and ray mind— to write him that I had yielded To many, a portion of this history will was even then in his home, the guest of his to my father’s desires and would marry seem unbelievable. To them I have noth beautiful sisters. My father had already Ethan Hal). It would make matters so ing to say. Being truth itself, it stands sternly commanded me never to see m.v smooth for all concerned, I tried to argue. independent of belief or unbelief. lover, and to receive encouragingly the at But I repelled the idea and told myself that When I was nineteen I had been in love tentions of Ethan Hall, a neighbor's son. Philip’s true happiness, as my own. could with Philip Gilman two years, and I had poor as ourselves, industrious, kind, and only lie secured by our being faithful to known that he loved me all that time. I sturdy. 1 obeyed him in so far as not to these best feelings, highest loves, of our did not need the full joyous words in which write to Philip' for the time being, and I natures. Let everything else yield to this. he outpoured his heart to me that night was never rude to Ethan. But I kept the In those few days I came to hope that lie among my white jessamines in the little poor fellow at too great a distance ever to had gone, that lie had understood my con garden. I did not need them, I mean, in call my cool courtesy encouragement. sent, and was already working to lay the order to understand his passionate devo Months passed, and spring was nearing. foundation of that, future home in which tion ; but for the completion of my bliss, Philip had been away, I heard, but had we two were to find the sweetest joys of the consummate blossoming of my flower returned; and again Evelyn Glade, the earth. I had heard no mention of his of gladness, I did require them. And when heiress chosen for him by his father, was name since that day in the beech-wood, and those words were said, and he held both my visiting his sisters. I trusted him per I never asked questions about him. hands up to his warm lips— when a splen fectly. ami yet this trust could not rescue April closed, and my birthday came— dor from the stars had dropped into his me from the wretchedness of our situation. May-day. We had dreamed, during those eyes, and a joy from the heavens into my It was a day of April frowns and smiles— blissful summer nights now almost a year soul— I was calmly conscious that it was billowy avalanches of cloud-snow suddenly in the past, that this should be our wed the supreme moment of my existence; that overwhelming the blue and obscuring the ding day. I went that morning to visit whatever the future held, I had touched the brightness, and just as suddenly the glory the same sick neighbor to whom 1 had car zenith of emotion. Among the jessamines, bursting back. I had been down to a ried mother’s basket of food in early April. heavy with their sensuous scent and alive neighbor’s, half a mile away— on an errand But I came home by the highway instead with glowing lire-flies and the midsummer for my mother— and was returning slowly, melody of mocking-birds, he left me, tak ot' through the beech-wood. Perhaps it drinking in Nature’s spring sweetness like was au inexplicable impulse that guided ing with him my plighted troth and my new’ wine. Adowm the deep slope I was heart, and leaving his ring of promise on coming, bonnet in hand, basket on arm, and my feet; perhaps I dreaded the memories my finger, his kiss of faith on my lips, his haunting that green slope. There was no a song of gladness bubbling unconsciously song on my lips this time for the hoof- words of trust and tenderness in my mem on my lips, for the year and I were both beats to startle away. But as I gazed at ory. young and I was in love, even if not happy. After a month of meetings like these, a the two riders my heart grew faint within Hoof-beats pulsing through the leafy me. My lover looked a little pale and month that held all of Eden for both of us, reaches stopped my song. I soon saw’ the Philip told me one day that he thought it horse and his rider. It was my lover thin, but he was smiling brightly into the time to speak to my father and also to an fair young face beside him, and Lontme moutited on I.ontine, the most magnificent was moving along magnificently. Evelyn nounce to his family our marriage as deter beast I had ever seen, but one I had often mined upon for the next, spring. I was bogged him not to vide because of bis wild, Glade— I needed no intuition to tell me it vaguely troubled. My father was poor and uncertain ways. Philip did not see me at was she— was indeed beautiful to look proud: Philip’s proud and rich, w e lived first, as with madly beating heart l stepped upon, attired all in pale green, broken only in a dovecote among the blossoms and the quickly aside from the path and among the by gold hands on her skirt and the massed murmuring waters of the valley: they in a gold of her hair. The Spirit of May she shadowy beech-trunks. lie was riding seemed to me, the delicate creature, sitting mansion on the grandly wooded hill. ’ Each moodily, hat over his brows, looking down morning I could lift my humble eyes to the so proudly on her white horse, yet looking at the toe of his boot, w’hich he was tap up so worshipfully into the dark eyes bent 'If I I shining turrets of Philip’s house: each ping mechanically with his whip. But evening he must guide his feet along a de Lon tine’s eyes, quick as those of his Arab upon her. He did not see the shabbily vious way, by rill and bush, to find the sires of the wild, glimpsed me, and he gave dressed, dusty figure by the roadside until worn old stile that admitted him to my tiny a sudden lurch which somehow loosened the lie was directly opposite. Then he lifted jessamine garden. Was it strange.' then, girth. His master, sitting carelessly, bare his hat, in grave salute, and a dark llusn that I pleaded for a little longer space of ly escaped a serious, perhaps fatal, fall. mounted to his brow. Her lustrous gaze blessedness?— “Just a month, Philip, just Alarmed for him, I forgot everything and swept me wonderingly one moment s space, one mere month, with the secret all our darted forward from my hiding-place. and they hud passed. “Beautiful and goon, own.” There w’e were, by none of our ow’h seek and she loves him,” a voice within whis “But. Ilonora, we will be yet happier ing, face to face— my lover and 1. This pered, adding maliciously those words he when they all know and join in prepara much good had Fate provided. had never said: “ Moreover, she is .nut tion for our marriage. I want to claim “ Philip,” I cried, “what made you ride equal and his father’s choice, and certainty you before the world.” him? I begged you not to. He will hurt he has already a tender feeling for her. I knew that love had blinded him. but X you some day. You frightened me so.” It was a many hours’ battle I fought for said no word to shake his faith in the fu But his strong arms were around me. my faith in my lover, but I won. ivitn a ture. My noble boy, who always thought “ Sweetheart, sweetheart,” he wms murmur perfect trust in him I fell asleep near nm - to find each nature he touched respond in ing, “ I have you now, I can never let you night. I awoke with an oppressive sense nobleness to his own! When next we met go again.” of something imperatively summoning me there was a stormy trouble in his eyes, and Noosing the bridle-rein about a sapling, to arise. I opened my eyes, collected m a throb of passionate pain in his voice. He he left the horse contentedly devouring the faculties, but could not explain a W j “ cried: young grass and leaves within reach, hav sensation any more than I could comp “ Give you up, my love? Not for all the ing escaped without punishment or even a bend it. A t any rate, I was wide awake, fathers, all the wealth, all the pride in all word of rebuke for his bit of bad conduct. as much so as if it were sunrise ana l n the universe. Not in time, not in eternity, A little of the old happiness and heart- enjoyed a full night's rest, although the om Honora!” lightness came back to us as we sat there clock in the sitting-room was only str The story is well-nigh as old as Adam's upon the turf beneath the murmuring leaf lug twelve. No need to try to sleep exile. His father would never consent for age. But soon Philip began to entreat me at once. I arose, and throwing a ah. him to wed me, a paui>er. and if Philip per to marry him secretly and let him go away about me approached the window sisted would cut him off from the estate. and work for me. I could not do that. threw it open. The moon was full,, ami My father would never, never consent for “No, dearest, let us wait,” I begged. “We in the clear light I saw a figure stand'ng me to wed him, a rich man's son, without are young; our love is perfect. Time will in my little garden. It was * *V ... the sanction of his family, lie would lock in some kind way alter circumstances.” wondered why ho was there. He me up first, and save his name the dis Then ho said, solemnly: nearer, stretched out his arms to mo . l grace. I asked my lover to wait a little, “Honora, I must go off. 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New York City. 174 T h e New York Macga^zine of Mysteries suffer through ignorance and ¡n„„; delusion of the »iin Atheism is a disease of the soul before it h e a l i n g b y d i v i n e becomes an error of the understanding.— ALCHEMY S f t S p K H l 0 ’R cilly<: Cff0n t0 make 0thers happ'y.± Before long, alas! this body will lie on Hy Charles IF. Smiley tiie earth, despised, without understanding, like a useless log; yet our thoughts will en dure. they will he thought again, and will HIO older records of our world, produce action, (rood thoughts will pro such as those of Egypt, whose duce good actions, and bad thoughts will civilization is not exceeded by produce had actions.— Buddha. ours, are lilled with allusions to ¡ S ’ f exi’anslvc reason .— John IF. Chad- . four “elements,” called fire, There are two things which make life earth, air. and water. Modern No man, woman, or child can tell what worth living: ( 1 ) the absolute worth and chemists are all misled by sup- g.1'0™’ out. of >heir present fidelity. I>er- significance of man's spirit in its complete nosini chemical elements, solid earth, haps it may be our chief judgment in the ness, and hence the absolute value of cul water air and fire, which we handle, were other workl to learn how much tins grown ture and growth, in the deeper sense of the snoken of. Such was never purposed. As ont of our unfaithfulness.— Chanmng. words; and (2 ) the relevancy of actual ex- in man's physical body is a non-material irnn n i n » friii ------—^ perienoe aud me the actual actual world world to to these these end ends. soul so in earth, air, fire, and water are E S ^THoTt ?? ™ AI> OF THE «ABVELOt S q. AKEK non-material or spiritual forces. These A GRAND Vi7 KH »OCT»«« AND 31EDICIK EH FAILED. astral or spiritual forces, by vibratory Grateful Usem t a b «- # t ^ y8*®,an8 astonished and Thousands of ^ union "'ith man's spiritual body, mold it, • B m . ui.'i. . ?..Marvelou* Reault# Obtained From The and thereby his physical body and his mind. Kach of the four elements has a mission in producing good health of mind and body. m If we receive an unlimited supply of each, ^ ^ ^ vAp°R BA™ TREATMENT our bodies and minds are nourished. God i KS^t’c!tSmarVel0USp0wer- B man to act in an unseemly or undignifio.i way, and disturbs no one "guinea The Spirit of Love and Truth makes neighborly— sanely relates one to the In no way does truth limit or restrict I man ; it courts and encourages all gat ton : it says the All is comprehensible ¡tended" m0' C- tbe A I1 muat be comp£ In .this blessed Age of Light the great God is being comprehended, ami as eon prehended, the eternal Voice within mr sistently and continuously cries out l0 VhV. inmd to know . (o know ! The true apostles of progress and hn inanity are now in the land! Fear is the dungeon of the mind.— Rob Each man is his own Redeemer and saves This ¡s the Golden Age of Liberty and ert Love. Light. Life— God— is always pres We should not. like the Pharisee, thank greatly benefiting the general health. D'j ent and ready to manifest fully and com God that we are nor as other men, but that them— Free. 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I am tempted to quote my Fifteen years I have not lived. I have simply existed. I could first remark after patiently listening to your Patients’ praise of not eat. I could not sleep. I was low spirited, dull, indifferent, the work of N ERVE-FORCE. T have lost all faith in Doctors despondent, and the future loomed up like a wretched nightmare. ami in Medicines!’ I had— and the only thing that made me even Now I sleep every night soundly. I get up feeling refreshed and listen in patience to the proposal that I ‘try once more' was that hopeful, my appetite is splendid, and I am springy and buoyant. your proposition was so widely different from anything 1 had ever I can talk convincingly and sell goods, and that is what I am on heard of. much less tried. But I was not satisfied until I received earth for. I expect to make a success of life in spite of these your diagnosis of my case. I thought it wonderful, because you wasted years of sickness, and it will he duo to the Remedy called had not seen me. and after a time I took up the use of your NERVE-FORCE, sold by Mr. and Mrs. Geo. A. Corwin, of New Remedy. I suppose you thought it strange that 1 should mnkv a York City. trip to New York City before beginning it : hut I wanted to see "I give these few words in all earnestness, nnd hope they may for myself your faces, your offices and your general environment. lighten the load for some one who is suffering and in despair. 1 had paid out so much hard-earned money that in breaking my sol “Yours respectfully, JOHN T. ELLIS, emn word that I would doctor no more I wanted full justification. “With Armstrong, Cator & Co., Baltimore, Md." NEW FRANKEN, WIS Corwin to advertise NERVE-FORCE in tho Catholic Papers and “To C l e r g y m e n : w . , , “This is a testimonial for XEK\ E-FORCE that I hope will Magazines with my name attached. 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