,,to ,,the ,,evolution ,,of ,,the       
,,soul999999       ,,insights ,,and     
,,heresies ,,pertaining ,,to ,,the      
,,evolution ,,of ,,the ,,soul  by       
,,ammyeetis 7,persian7  ,second ,edition
 #aiaf        ,christopher ,publishing  
,house ,boston ,copyright #aiac by the  
,christopher ,press ,copyright #aiaf by 
the ,christopher ,publishing ,house     
,,dedication4   ,to those heroic minds  
who can truly say3 ,my soul is my own1  
and bravely maintain it through         
everything--in spite of ,church or      
,state--,i do offer with earnest        
congratulations and my loving greetings1
 these fragmentary thoughts of          
,,ammyeetis4     ,our revered ,emerson  
loaned his ,plato to a neighbor4        
,meeting him some time afterward he said
 to him3 ,how did you like ,plato8      
,very much1 the farmer answered1 very   
much indeed4  ,i see he has a great many
 of my idees4  ,and so1 my readers--if  
there be such--there may be herein set  
forth some of your own familiar thoughts

 which you may not have found           
opportunity to express in such guise as 
appears in this small book4             
,,contents4     ,no ,new ,thing         
,evolution   ,slowness of ,evolution    
,the ,work of ,nature   ,a ,new ,science
   ,world ,making   ,imperfections      
,revealed   ,world ,origin   ,spirit    
,individualized through ,matter   ,world
 ,signs   ,world ,growth   ,death a     
,benefactor   ,world ,progress   ,the   
,origin of ,evil   ,vibration   ,life   
,churches ,money ,makers   ,life in     
,nature   ,heaven   ,nature ,spirits    
,experience   ,spiritualism   ,phenomena
   ,mediumship   ,the ,migrations of our
 ,race   ,the ,discipline of ,life      
,homogeneity of the ,race   ,of ,god    
,of ,jesus   ,the ,gods   ,knowledge of 
,occult ,law   ,evanescence of ,mere    
,beliefs   ,the ,fount of ,inspiration  
for ,all   ,man versus ,death   ,fear of
 ,death   ,test of ,character           
,character ,forming   ,man the ,final   
,earth ,product   ,superstitions        

,self-,justice   ,symbolism   ,love     
,ideals of ,love   ,the ,needs of ,woman
   ,man versus ,woman   ,natural        
,cruelty of the ,undeveloped   ,the     
,worst ,sin   ,reincarnation            
,processes of ,reincarnation            
,education of ,children   ,egotism      
,responsiveness   ,hell   ,the          
,commonplace   ,petroleum   ,law        
,communism   ,happiness   ,pain   ,foes 
in the ,household   ,the ,inner ,life   
,root of ,evils   ,rest in ,change      
,miserliness   ,special ,providence     
,human ,destiny   ,ethical ,law   ,human
 ,life   ,animal ,likeness   ,natural   
,superstition   ,adaptiveness of ,man   
,devil ,worship   ,fanaticism   ,truth  
,christs   ,hero ,worship   ,reason     
,sympathy   ,new ,religions   ,the      
,growth ,processes of the ,human ,soul  
,necessity for ,phenomena   ,will       
,change of ,atoms   ,our ,limitations   
,final ,race ,experience   ,religious   
,performances   ,of ,teachers   ,wise   
,use of ,money   ,genius   ,thoughts    

,are ,things   ,unfoldment   ,inventions
   ,divine ,healing   ,surplus          
,analysis of the ,lord's ,prayer        
,absurd ,beliefs   ,the ,resurrection   
,the ,creator   ,retributive ,justice   
,the ,soul   ,woman     ,insights and   
,heresies  ,pertaining to  ,the         
,evolution of ,the ,soul   ,,no ,,new   
,,thing4  ,there is no new revelation to
 be given to man2 there is no need of   
it4 ,those who have labored most        
strenuously to evolve from their inner  
consciousness a new1 a better religion1 
have found themselves bogged in the mire
 of their egotism which has landed them 
in a police court1 or they have been    
confronted by exactly the same problems 
as those from which they have sought to 
escape4  ,few1 indeed1 have survived the
 test of time4  ,there is an ancient    
promise that stands yet for man's use3  
,to him that hath 7improved7 shall more 
be given1 and from him that hath not    
7improved7 shall be taken away that     
which he already has4 ,this was never   

meant to apply to material things--it   
could not--it was spoken in reference to
 the gift of understanding1 and of using
 the occult1 the psychic law4  ,many    
psychics have lost their spiritual gifts
 through failing to understand that     
endless progress is the law that forces 
souls along the way of life4  ,no       
stopping by the way to gather shells    
upon the shore1 no aimless looking back2
 but work with stout heart and resolute 
will4  ,it all means work1 overmastering
 habits of thought and action1 lifting  
the soul from the grooves of heredity1  
and in all ways making aspiration       
attract the inspiration that sustains   
the soul4     ,,evolution4  ,all        
subjects pertaining to our knowledge of 
the soul are too subtle to be weighed   
and proved by external intellect alone4 
,our lives are ruled by such a          
hotch-potch of inherited beliefs and    
tendencies1 that it is almost impossible
 for us to use any discrimination       
concerning them2 or to arraign ourselves

 before the tribunal of our own better  
judgment in such manner as to enable us 
to separate the false and effete ethical
 and religious influences1 from the wise
 and true1 which alone are abiding and  
permanent4  ,thus we grope and stumble  
along through our earthly lives1        
burdened with ideas which were set in   
motion far back in a crude age1 and     
which were so well adapted to their time
 that they still vibrate to the         
tendencies of our own day4  ,this       
applies to every department of human    
experience1 and were it not that we are1
 as a huge family1 better than our      
cherished beliefs1 higher in the scale  
of development than these would seem to 
indicate1 we should still be under the  
dominion of the so-called ,dark ,ages4  
,the most important and the dearest     
phase of human experience must come1 of 
course1 through its religious beliefs1  
and as they are narrow and              
superstitious1 on the one hand1 or grand
 with faith and understanding of law1 on

 the other1 do we judge of the status of
 the individual1 the community1 and the 
race2 and the advances made upon this   
line mark the progress of what we term  
civilization on this planet4  ,there is 
no time so trying1 so full of agony to  
the soul1 as is that hour when it first 
begins to doubt the absolute1           
unquestionable truth of the creeds it   
has hitherto blindly accepted1 and in   
which it has fully believed4  ,creeds   
are the swaddling clothes of the soul1  
and must inevitably be outgrown and laid
 aside as the mind of man grows more and
 more capable of comprehending the truth
 which is to set it free from the       
trammels of mere blind belief4  ,it is  
so comfortable to have our spiritual    
faith ready made for us1 our paths all  
mapped out1 and our final destiny made  
plain and sure1 provided only that we   
remain faithful in our adherence to them
 as they are set forth by our parents   
and spiritual guardians1 that when the  
great1 ever-surging1 resistless tidal   

wave of progress first reaches the soul1
 it can only stand in dumb agony1 like  
one upon the seashore watching its last 
hope go down beneath the waste of mighty
 waters4 ,torn from its anchorage of    
inherited beliefs1 it is sure to be     
tempest-tossed1 rent and torn1 buffeted 
by conflicting tendencies1 cast upon    
many a desert island of unfaith1 and    
haunted by miserable doubts and black   
despair1 ere it hears and heeds the     
pilot of truth1 the only guide to the   
peaceful haven of eternal life4  ,happy1
 indeed1 are they who tarry not upon the
 weary way2 but who have within them    
that aspiration1 that endless cry for   
light1 which shall always1 in ,god's    
providence1 compel the needed response  
and guidance2 for many honest1 earnest  
men and women1 lacking this attribute of
 the soul1 fail all through life to     
reach this only true solution of the    
riddle of human existence4  ,kind and   
sincere friends say of them3 ,oh6 if    
they had only remained faithful to the  

religion of their fathers1 they would   
have found happiness and peace4  ,but   
the law of evolution brings each and    
every soul to the point where it must   
stand alone with ,god1 there to discover
 and establish its relationship to the  
,divine1 irrespective of all            
preconceived ideas and notions1         
superstitions1 and ignorance4  ,this is 
exactly what every soul must come       
to--the aggregation of powers and forces
 of body and soul resulting in the fully
 developed and rounded-out individuality
 of any given personality4  ,these are  
the rare and unusual men and women1 the 
fully flowered out1 the richest fruitage
 of any and all races1 and it is to     
these that we must look for that union  
of sympathy with and comprehension of   
the needs and requirements of all which 
is to usher in the reign of peace1 and  
universal good will on earth4  ,jesus of
 ,nazareth went before us on the path1  
the only way cast up for earnest souls  
to walk in4  ,there has never been given

 to the world any system of ethics      
superior to his4  ,he recognized the    
homogeneity of the race--,each for all1 
all for each1 was the whole import of   
his teachings4  ,in him was epitomized  
the experience of the race4  ,each and  
every soul must wear its crown of       
thorns1 and bear its cross and suffer   
crucifixion1 ere the soul astray from   
,god1 immersed in1 and overwhelmed by   
matter1 can be forced to relinquish its 
hold on1 its love for the external1     
material things pertaining to this      
world4  ,but it has to be1 it certainly 
must be1 the experience of every        
creature born of woman4 ,be sure1 ,o    
soul6 if none of these experiences have 
ever been realized by you1 that you are 
but just now entering upon the          
inevitable rounds which must attend your
 connection with1 and relationship to   
this earthly sphere of being4  ,such are
 as the insensate clod1 having as yet   
neither spiritual sense1 nor moral      
responsibility4  ,nature's processes are

 slow2 but be sure that the goal is     
appointed1 and that ,god will be there  
and will wait till we come4  ,when      
,jesus said3 ,the poor ye have always   
with you1 he did not refer to dollars   
and cents only1 but to that poverty of  
intellect1 that barrenness of the moral 
nature which makes a human being a      
reproach and a terror to his kind4      
,these we shall always have to deal     
with1 to educate if we can1 to constrain
 from overt acts of evil1 and to protect
 ourselves from in all the works and    
ways of life4  ,so painful and slow is  
the process of character-forming that   
millions of souls pass on from this     
sphere of life to the spirit world so   
lacking in individuality that they have 
no more power for any expression of     
themselves upon that plane of being than
 they had when they were living here4   
,not as much1 in fact1 for the physical 
body and brain have always some possible
 function and use while they hold their 
relationship to the world of material   

life1 which function and use are laid   
aside when they are put through the     
sifting process of physical death1 and  
in all cases1 unless the powers of the  
ego as exercised here are supplanted by 
a sufficient growth of the spiritual    
nature to sustain the ego in its new    
relationship1 and give to it the impetus
 needed to start it forward upon lines  
of usefulness and growth1 it naturally  
fails to waken to any sort of           
realization of itself and its possible  
career in its new life4  ,this is       
specially true of those persons who have
 been psychologized by those teachings  
which relegate the souls of human beings
 to the cold clasp of the ground1 until 
the expected day of judgment2 or of     
those poor1 overworked men and women to 
whom heaven seems only a place to sleep 
and rest in2 or again1 of still another 
class of minds that has brought itself  
to a belief in utter extinction after   
the close of this external life4  ,these
 are the shades1 the shells we hear of1 

for there are times when the subtle     
inner sense of these sleeping ones is   
stirred to action by the wails of the   
loving1 longing ones left on earth to   
mourn2 and1 as is the case with one in  
somnambulic sleep1 the spirit walks and 
talks1 in response to the demands of    
friends1 through those persons who are  
gifted with the aura necessary for the  
medial agency4  ,these excursions of the
 soul into the realm of matter1 thus    
made by and through the offices of      
clairvoyants and seers1 the repeated    
arousings of the ego from its contented 
sleep are finally highly educational1   
and result in resurrecting the forces of
 the enfranchised being1 and setting    
them in motion on the lines of useful   
work for humanity4  ,for this medial    
service which is thus being rendered to 
the spirit world by such gifted persons 
still living here in the body1          
multitudes are daily and hourly         
expressing their gratitude and          
appreciation4  ,we have somewhat        

abolished our old1 long-established     
,hell1 and now1 to be consistent1 we    
must also do away with our preconceived 
ideas of a ,heaven of eternal rest2 for 
why should the souls of men be wrapped  
in useless slumbers1 until the strong   
overwhelming influence of the law of    
progress sweeps them up like dry leaves 
before a whirlwind1 and rushes them     
along to the gates of a conscious life1 
through a new relationship upon the     
physical plane8  ,the spirit does not   
weary1 and when the exhausted body is   
laid aside1 why not enlist the services 
of all to whom any appeal can be made8  
,thus shall we all be growing together1 
and ,death shall be forced to cast aside
 its grim and dreadful seeming and show 
for the angel it is4  ,ah6 how could we 
go on and on in the narrow limitations  
of this small beginning of a life1 if   
,nature did not kindly call a halt      
somewhere on the road1 while we1 taking 
fresh courage1 start out in our new     
career with our entire being adjusted to

 laws which are working in harmony with 
the divine will4     ,,slowness ,,of    
,,evolution  ,there have been times in  
the lives of all soul-grown people when 
the inner consciousness has clearly     
perceived that some given experience may
 mean an important crisis in the        
expression of their individual          
character4  ,but not frequently1 in the 
ordinary lives of human beings1 do they 
meet up with really great events1 or    
personal experiences that create for    
them special overturnings of their      
ideas1 or any change of personal habits4
  ,to the mind of youth1 life seems a   
plainly simple1 straight-forward way2   
but when overtaken by results of        
unconsidered actions1 for which there   
has been no preparation1 there dawns    
upon it the consciousness of appalling  
vistas1 and visions of future           
possibilities that are overpowering4    
,as we journey forward on the path of   
existence1 life becomes ever more and   
more complicated1 and the need1 the     

overwhelming demand for an understanding
 of the ever-varying problems presented 
to the mind for consideration1 and the  
constantly urgent necessity for wise    
decisions must call into action all our 
highest powers of the intellect and     
reason1 in order to secure to us the    
best results from the opportunities     
given us to acquire knowledge4  ,every  
one of our experiences are bits in the  
mosaic of our lives1 and without them   
the picture would be incomplete4  ,but  
with all1 we are forced to realize how  
unfinished and unsatisfactory are nearly
 all of our experiences of earthly      
existence4 ,it is1 indeed1 a thing of   
shreds and patches4  ,but we are caught 
in the web of material existence from   
which there can be no lawful escape1    
save by unpremeditated physical death4  
,we are thrust into the seething        
cauldron of formative life4  ,the entire
 race of man1 forced forward by the     
resistless power of the law of progress1
 is on the everlasting journey to the   

heights of perfected being4  ,to us1    
enmeshed in the ties of interest and    
affection1 the various heredities and   
the worldly ,karmas which hold us fast1 
the slow1 unnumbered processes of       
evolution on this1 our home world1 as   
recorded in history seem unendurably    
long4 ,but time is naught--eternity is  
unending--and ten thousand years are but
 as a day with ,god1 the great ,maker   
and ,moulder of our immortal souls4     
,,the ,,work ,,of ,,nature4  ,the planet
 itself is stirred to its very centre4  
,on one side1 the earth opens its       
horrible maw and swallows up uncounted  
numbers of her children1 or spews out   
her molten interior in vast lava tides1 
overwhelming and destroying all within  
their reach4  ,at the opposite side1    
great floods of gas and rock oil1 set   
free by the operation of the drill1     
shoot up in the air and fall back upon  
the soil in a luminous spray1 as like to
 liquid gold as aught not filled with   
the beloved auriferous metal could be4  

,the waters loosed from their fastnesses
 over-reach their accustomed bounds1 and
 great tidal waves are encountered in   
unexpected latitudes4  ,nature is       
rounding up her great circle1 and making
 conditions for a new era4     ,a ,,new 
,,science4  ,a science of ,spiritual    
evolution could be erected1 based upon  
the teachings and ethics of ,jesus      
,christ1 that would put souls           
consciously in their true rank and      
grade1 and make them known just as      
people are recognized by the college    
curriculums from which they have        
graduated4     ,,world ,,making4  ,the  
fire-mist and the mephitic vapors were  
finally swept away2 another era was     
preparing4  ,incorporate in the world   
substance of which the planet was made  
were the seeds and germs of all life4   
,its crude material was made manifest in
 the prodigious vegetable growths1 and  
the awful corresponding animal life4    
,birds and beasts and reptiles1 each one
 more hideously terrible than the       

others1 filled the air1 the earth and   
the waters of the earth with the        
abounding life of these horrible        
creatures4  ,into this unaccountable    
menagerie came also the foreshadowing of
 man--a huge hairy creature possessing  
size and power to do battle with his    
animal compeers for supremacy in the    
seething1 upgrowing land4  ,this was    
only the differentiation of the         
animal-man from the animal per se--the  
beginning of the form which stood upon  
its hind legs4  ,from such rudimentary  
forms was evolved intelligence which    
finally begot the human soul4  ,this1   
after vast ages1 grew into a state and  
condition through which spirit could    
manifest1 and the human race was finally
 started on its endless earthly career4 
,with the birth of the soul came what we
 call the religious instinct1 and man   
began to worship natural objects2       
animals and reptiles1 the sun and       
finally1 superior personalities were    
thought to be gods4  ,the phallic       

worship1 worship of the human organs of 
creative power1 gave the males great    
prominence4  ,the female1 woman1 the    
mere matrix was considered1 from the    
first1 of far less importance4  ,no one 
stopped to think1 what is one without   
the other in the great world processes4 
,nature1 ever on the alert so as not to 
lose any and every possible             
representation of her power1 buried here
 and there specimens of her handiwork1  
and the exhumed remains of prehistoric  
monsters are even now being restored and
 labelled with such titles as our modern
 scientists have been able to invent to 
somewhat describe the size1 the form1   
and the habits of these long extinct    
manifestations of the beginnings of life
 on this earth4  ,among these1 too1 have
 also been found the bones of huge      
human-like beings whose decadent progeny
 are still alive in limited number4     
,the gorilla is still the terror of some
 of the wild places of the earth2 as he 
booms his way through the impenetrable  

forests1 he sends forth his note of     
warning1 beating his great hairy breast1
 and all living things flee before him4 
,fancy what the awful first man--his    
progenitor--must have been6  ,science   
has never yet been able to discover the 
probable length of time it required for 
this crude age to endure in order to lay
 the foundation of the world2 for time  
was not1 and existence was recorded only
 by ages and aeons4  ,but seven times   
their infernal progeny were nearly all  
swept off the planet by awful cataclysms
 and the whole affair had to be begun   
over again4     ,,imperfections         
,,revealed4  ,the soul digs deep into   
the age-long deposits of knowledge1 the 
results of countless experiences1 and   
brings up the ,real4  ,this has to be1  
the most successful egotist1 the most   
deluded hypocrite must inevitably meet  
up with himself some day and begin to   
know the truth versus make-believe4     
,all souls are so veiled in the flesh1  
and held by the crowding necessities of 

their lives1 that it is only on rare1   
unexpected occasions that the individual
 soul can throw down the barriers and   
show of what it is capable4     ,,world 
,,origin4  ,to be able to understand1   
even to our limited degree1 something of
 our origin1 and the purpose of our     
existence is most comforting and        
sustaining4  ,in the beginning1 the     
,creator sent to this planet a given    
number of beings intended for the       
exemplification of the law of evolution 
and soul growth4  ,in the everlasting   
rounds of human life1 no new souls are  
being created and sent here to work out 
their salvation through their           
experiences incident to the life of this
 young planet1 earth4  ,what appears to 
our limited perception to be the        
beginning of new lives is so only in    
relation to their present embodiment4   
,all new souls now being born here are  
but returning from some other phase of  
existence4  ,the whole human race is one
 family4  ,bound to the wheel of life1  

every individual soul must pass through 
all of the varied experiences that are  
set for its evolution4  ,what they are  
not today1 they have been1 or must      
become4  ,but not all people march over 
just the same highway to reach the      
soul's status4  ,details of experience  
do not count4  ,it is the lesson        
learned1 and practically applied that   
forwards the unfoldment of the          
individual in a comprehension and       
understanding of ,god's eternal truth4  
,only results in all things1 temporal   
and spiritual1 attest the unfoldment and
 growth of each and every soul4  ,it is 
only when man has evolved to the point  
of being more than a man1 a little lower
 than the angels1 that the higher       
spheres of activity are necessary for   
his further progress4  ,to expect to    
develop in the worlds of finer substance
 than that of earth before he has       
learned all that earthly experiences can
 teach him1 is like placing a child in  
the higher classes of a school before he

 has mastered the lessons of the lower4 
,,spirit ,,individualized ,,through     
,,matter4  ,as spirit per se has no     
entity1 and only evolves individuality  
through its relationship with matter2   
and has no other conscious expression2  
the so long-talked-of ,fall of man was  
not a fall downward1 but it was a       
process upward1 necessary to his being1 
to his existence as man4     ,,world    
,,signs4  ,our planet1 true to her      
everlasting record1 has put forth her   
potent reorganizing power to celebrate  
the ushering in of the new era4  ,not   
less marvelous are the signs and        
indications of great changes taking     
place upon the visible planes of the    
lives of men4  ,hand in hand march the  
visible and the imponderable forces of  
this earthly life4 ,ignorance and vapid 
superstitions can no longer block the   
doorway of the living ,christ4  ,god    
wills to know1 and be known of his own1 
and to hold his love a free gift to all 
races of men4  ,the trump of            

recollection and of recognition has     
sounded4  ,the dead have already risen1 
all along the lines1 and no power can   
hale them back to their dreams4         
,onward1 ever upward points the finger  
of progress4  ,long hoarded wisdom and  
knowledge of the forces of nature are   
pouring into the minds of seers1 and of 
wizards of science2 and these long      
separated and divorced streams are      
evoluting to the unison of material and 
occult sciences1 which is destined to   
bring in the reign of peace and         
prosperity to all the peoples of the    
earth1 and to bring to light the relics 
of past ages1 cunningly hidden away in  
the vast womb of nature that they might 
be preserved and brought forth to our   
knowledge in these later days4 ,by the  
undeniable record yielded up from buried
 cities and storied crypts1 and in the  
skeletons of mummies of both animals and
 men of those most ancient times1 she is
 showing us where she began the present 
cycle1 now closing in about the race1   

with great clattering of forces and     
profound portents in earth and sky4     
,the equilibrium of the universe is     
maintained by the transition of its     
forces4  ,atlantis1 matured and ripened1
 sinks beneath the sea1 and her         
accumulated wealth of wisdom and        
knowledge is transferred to other       
continents to arise at the appointed    
time to enrich and bless the land of    
their adoption2 and all art and science 
is but shining today in the reflected1  
reawakened light of past ages4  ,in view
 of the revelations being made on all   
sides1 we may well reiterate ,solomon's 
wise saying3 ,there is nothing new under
 the sun4 ,there can be nothing         
absolutely new4  ,there is only endless 
iteration and readjustment of powers and
 forces to fit the need of the day and  
generation4  ,nature buffets her        
children bitterly and wipes out her     
surplus of human life as she destroys   
the overproduction of beast and bird1 of
 insect and reptilian life4  ,she       

inspires the minds of men with an       
overmastering desire for possessions4   
,she hides her wealth in inaccessible   
places and sets her jealous1 invisible  
forces to guard and determinedly hold   
all possible avenues of approach to     
them4  ,but this world was given to man 
to conquer and own and make much of2 and
 the glitter of a speck of useful metal 
in a stray boulder in the lonely caon2  
or the chance outcropping of rock which 
to the practised eye denotes the        
nearness of the deposit of oil--these1  
or any of the thousand and one signs1   
she hangs out along the path in which   
man is destined to march on his way to  
absolute sovereignty1 set his forces of 
intellect and will in motion1 and he    
will never rest from his labors until he
 stands upon the pinnacles of the gods1 
the crowned monarch of all nature's     
forces on this planet4  ,all phenomena  
are negative1 and are only the external 
garniture of the world of man1 the      
spirit1 the child of the ,eternal1 of   

the father and mother ,creators of him4 
,thus man is1 by absolute inheritance1  
the king1 and the ruler over all nature4
  ,but not without effort can he enter  
and possess and maintain his power over 
his own4  ,ice and frosts1 and searing  
sun1 and lonely wilds1 and trackless    
wastes1 and countless waters1 and evil  
beasts1 and horrible reptiles--all1 all 
he must encounter and set at naught in  
his trackless journey4  ,carefully must 
he force the wilderness to bloom1 and by
 his wise efforts make glad the waste   
places of the earth4  ,wherever the foot
 of man has been set1 there is it       
hallowed ground4  ,whatever may have    
been his intent or whatever his fate1 in
 his wake shall surely follow the       
manifest purpose of that ever-ruling    
,power which led him4  ,everywhere along
 the way1 ,nature trails her loose ends1
 well baited1 with which to catch the   
unwary1 and the whitening bones of the  
lonely emigrant family lost on the      
plains1 and the snowy hair of the dead  

mountaineer bleaching on high summits or
 woven in the nests of birds1 or the    
bodies of dead mariners1 or the lonely  
corpse of the treacherously slain1      
pulsing with the tide on foreign shores1
 or the miners in their pits1 forced by 
the deadly damps from all visible       
connection with human life1 or the child
 of a superior race held captive by     
savages1 or the beautiful white girl    
sold into the harem of a barbarous      
sultan1 or any or all other of such     
expressions of destiny in the isolated  
lives of men are but pioneering the way 
of the race to complete homogeneousness 
and unquestioned ownership of the whole 
wide earth4     ,,world ,,growth4  ,all 
of nature's processes are slow and      
always evolutionary4  ,the controlling  
laws are subtle and secret and can never
 be comprehended or understood save as  
they work out in visible results4       
,there is every indication that it has  
required an illimitable series of ages  
to evolve even the physical form of man 

in the unnumbered races of the human    
family from the first semi-human life to
 man as we see him now--clever and      
strong of brain and will1 daring and    
equal to great emergencies1 and in      
inventive1 creative and executive gifts 
a very god of power and might4  ,the    
laws of evolution refer primarily to the
 individual planet1 ,earth1 and include 
all that it contains--in a word1 all    
things in any way related to it4        
,mineral deposits and crumbling rocks   
nourish the vegetable world2 the        
vegetable world provides sustenance to  
the animal kingdom1 and it1 in turn1    
with all the others combined1 sustains  
all human life2 but its real root1 its  
permanent existence1 is in the planet   
itself4  ,each and all of these diverse 
manifestations of law coordinated1      
constitute the mysterious modes and     
methods of the evolution of life from   
the lower to the higher status of being1
 and it works on1 and ever on eternally1
 till human life finds its completion   

and satisfaction in the fulfillment of  
the law which merges the advanced and   
prepared soul in the ,universal ,spirit 
and crowns its final evolution with its 
at-one-ment with its ,creator4  ,nature 
does not duplicate her handiwork1 but   
cunningly sets her sign on every leaf   
and branch to insure individuality4     
,she throws protecting arms around all  
her growing life of fruit and vegetable 
in order that each shall reproduce of   
its own kind1 and thus keep intact the  
orderly succession1 and that there shall
 be no lack of nourishment for the      
children of men4  ,she gives without    
stint to all the peoples of the earth   
her world-stuff to be worked over into  
human flesh1 and animal fibre4  ,but no 
tiniest grain of her possessions has    
ever1 or will ever escape from her hand1
 and the daily debris from all          
earth-made bodies is her constant toll4 
,when the forms are set free from the   
life principle which has pervaded them  
in their earthly career1 the circle is  

rounded1 and when the grave-rite1 dust  
to native dust we here restore to our   
great mother is uttered1 she is the     
gainer2 for the operation of thus       
passing the material of which the planet
 is made through the highest created    
forms of life1 brings it into a certain 
relationship to spirit1 and thus the    
evolution1 the spiritualization of the  
world-stuff of the planet itself is     
going forward4     ,,death ,a           
,,benefactor4  ,death is a benefactor to
 the human race4  ,how could we bear the
 burden of existence if ,nature did not 
somewhere on the march call a halt while
 the angels of dissolution tenderly     
unloose our burdens of pain and sorrow1 
and disappointment1 and stultifying     
regrets1 and remorses for past ill      
doings and shortcomings8     ,,world    
,,progress4  ,it is known only to the   
lesser gods1 who keep the celestial     
accounts1 how many times the swaggering1
 bully-ragging1 brawling1 piratical1 and
 murderous human family has swept around

 this globe4  ,here and there relics of 
their status1 their growth in the       
external1 material conditions of life   
are being exhumed1 wrung from the       
faithful clasp of ,mother ,earth1 to    
excite the wonder of the day and time4  
,many of the attributes of these lost   
races1 their arts and their religions1  
have come to light2 but whence they     
came1 and how they perished1 is an      
unsolved mystery4  ,from the processes  
of disintegration--earthquakes1 and     
widespread volcanic action--now going   
on1 we can readily conceive of the      
manner in which vast multitudes of      
humanity have been removed from this    
planet to make room for still other     
races and peoples4  ,the great          
pilgrimage still goes on4  ,unnumbered  
hordes following the secret instinct of 
evolution1 unceasingly press forward    
from the ,east toward the setting sun4  
,this same army1 in a former            
incarnation1 went forth over the land   
where they lived to slay and            

exterminate2 in this embodiment1 here in
 ,america1 they hew out the rocks1 and  
toil in the mines4  ,they harvest the   
grain that is to feed the hungry        
multitude that is speeding on toward    
this new land as fast as the modern     
conveniences can fetch them4  ,thus they
 serve instead of destroying humanity--a
 great advance toward civilization4     
,there has been1 there will always be an
 unvarying round of tearing down and    
upbuilding in the whole wide realm of   
nature4  ,nothing1 not the tiniest grain
 or the most ponderous production of    
skilled hands1 ever stands still4  ,all 
things are in vibration1 and their      
permanency depends wholly upon the rate 
of vibratory motion4  ,here and there   
all the way along1 from the earliest    
times of which there has been any       
record1 great souls have blossomed out1 
and have carried aloft the ,god-given   
light of intelligence and culture4      
,these inspired minds1 great souls1 have
 persisted in announcing their message  

to a darkened world1 often in the face  
of direct want and persecutions2        
misunderstood and maligned1 they were   
and are the saviors of the people of    
this undeveloped planet4  ,even yet1    
they are known and valued by but a      
limited number of supposedly intelligent
 people4  ,while these inspired         
light-bringers were seeking to shed     
abroad in the minds of men the truths   
that shall make men free1 the ,church   
was devoted to closing1 and holding fast
 shut every avenue of the human mind    
that might have a tendency to teach the 
people anything outside of their tenets 
which were the outcome of their weird   
imaginations4  ,if anything could cause 
a doubt to arise in the ,creative ,mind 
as to the wisdom of letting loose on    
this small planet the pestiferous       
peoples that have swarmed over and      
possessed it1 it must have been aroused 
by their demoniacal performances in the 
name of religion1 that have disgraced   
the nature of man from the beginning of 

our knowledge of the world4  ,while a   
perception of beauty and harmony is     
latent in the minds of men1 it is the   
last of the attributes of the soul to   
develop4  ,the figured semblances of    
,god1 hewn out of stone or wood by the  
primitive races1 are mostly hideous     
inventions of the evil thoughts of evil 
minds4  ,from the terrifying ,african   
,god1 ,mumbo-,jumbo1 to the artistic    
bronze representations of the ,deity of 
the nations of the ,east all are marked 
with awe-enforcing ferocity and         
ugliness1 instead of by the             
soul-inspiring lineaments of love and   
beauty4  ,tremblingly the minds of men  
have groped their way along through the 
mazes of ignorance and enforced darkness
 to a degree of personal liberty2 and   
every picture painted1 every bit of     
sculpture achieved in the interest of   
harmony and beauty is testimony to the  
persistency of the inspiration          
vouchsafed to man of the ,creator's love
 of beauty1 and of the final state of   

harmony to be reached by humanity4      
,,the ,,origin ,,of ,,evil4  ,all evil  
is only undeveloped good has come to be 
the shibboleth of not only the          
,spiritualists1 but of many other of the
 latter-day cults4 ,it sounds fine1     
beautiful1 and is--,praise ,god6--in a  
large sense1 true4 ,it is a beautiful   
reaction from the ancient blasphemy     
taught by the priests and pastors anent 
hell and the devil4  ,the comforting    
belief that the above quoted statement  
settles the whole matter is accepted and
 believed in4  ,since the supposed      
dethronement of ,auld ,hornie1 as the   
,scotch named him1 as head devil1 it has
 not been thought necessary to give the 
matter much if any consideration4       
,mediums1 especially1 have gladly       
ignored the fact of the possibility of  
there often being in their sances the   
very presence of potent and powerful    
evil influences4  ,spiritualism has     
flung wide the doors and given ignorant1
 and undeveloped humanity an equal      

opportunity with the refined1 and good  
to express themselves4  ,it is thus the 
only truly democratic religion ever made
 known on this planet6  ,it recognizes  
all human beings1 good and bad1 as the  
children of one and the same ,father1   
and that not one can be lost from the   
hand of ,god6  ,the peculiar people who 
have developed the strange power of     
mediatorship between this material world
 and the plane of existence known as the
 spiritual world have always been helped
 and sustained in their great work by   
their invisible friends and appointed   
spirit guardians1 or they could never   
have carried forward their important    
mission to the people of this earth4    
,regardless of all the efforts of the   
enemies and traducers of ,spiritualism1 
the spread of the knowledge of the      
unfolding spiritual philosophy has been 
and is marvelous2 and the establishment 
of the fact of man's existence1         
continued after physical death1 through 
varied phenomena1 is in itself the proof

 of its being the work1 not of ,satan1  
but of a beneficent ,god4  ,and why not8
  ,the ,creator of us all must know his 
earth-children's needs for their further
 evolution and growth6  ,there have been
 great searchings1 at various times1    
trying to discover the origin of evil4  
,vast stores of uncanny legends1 and    
tales of wonders have been handed down  
to us in explanation of this most       
baffling mystery4  ,the destructive     
force in nature had no origin4  ,just as
 ,god1 the ,constructive ,force1 had    
none4  ,it was1 as ,god was4  ,it is and
 always will be1 while ,god and nature  
are4  ,it rides the whirlwind and the   
flood1 and differentiates itself through
 the smallest minutia of the affairs of 
human life4  ,it is the primeval        
element1 the pure cussedness which has  
to be conquered1 or adjusted in every   
human being4  ,it essays to bar all     
progress2 ,ignorance and ,superstition  
are its blinded handmaids4  ,it exacts  
the fearful penalties of scornfully     

misunderstood efforts1 if not ostracism 
and persecution1 for the use of the     
diviner faculties4  ,it is the spirit of
 unconquered ill4  ,it is the genius of 
the utterly selfish will of man4  ,but  
it is when it allies itself with the    
intellect and will of man1 and becomes  
the motive power1 and thus expresses    
itself in concrete form1 as is often the
 case1 that our sympathies are touched  
and our sense of justice aroused1 and we
 feel our lack of protection from the   
powers and principalities of the air4   
,our only refuge is in growing to and   
experiencing a perfect at-one-ment with 
the eternal law of the opposing1 the    
,constructive ,force--,god4  ,there is  
no protection1 no safety1 but in the    
,divine ,love and ,wisdom4              
,,vibration4  ,there was no beginning2  
there can be no ending4  ,there is a    
constant1 undeviating process of        
changing and readjustment of all the    
forces of the universe4  ,all is        
vibration4  ,none of nature's forces are

 at rest1 at equilibrium4  ,build you a 
fine dwelling1 and ere it is finished   
for your occupancy1 the disintegrating  
forces will have made a raid upon the   
material of which it is constructed4    
,take notice of the signs of            
decomposition going on in everything    
around you--the accumulation of fluff in
 your rooms1 in the innermost of your   
garments1 along the seams4  ,so also do 
the rocks and mountains yield themselves
 to dust1 and so does all the planet    
reverberate with the resistless onward  
march of the law of progress1           
unfoldment1 evolution from the lower to 
a higher form of expression4  ,lands    
edging the seas and the inland waters1  
from their constant erosion1 slip away  
and are lost4  ,continents disappear1   
undermined by earthquakes and similar   
convulsions of nature1 and new lands    
arise from the bowels of some faraway   
ocean to keep the balance even4         
,,life4  ,from time immemorial the      
researches of men in the vain effort to 

discover and make known to the world the
 origin of life1 of all life1 on the    
planet earth and elsewhere1 have been   
most anxiously considered4 ,these       
efforts of the inquiring minds of men   
have not been altogether fruitless of   
results2 because through them has been  
made manifest the most marvelous of all 
the facts in nature1 that there is no   
death1 that what seems so is transition4
  ,it has also become known and         
understood of late years1 that from the 
ephemera of life1 of an hour or of a day
 up to the highest archangel1 through   
all the intermediate grades of being1   
visible and invisible1 there are no     
vacant spaces4 ,everywhere there is an  
overwhelming volume of life1 actual     
though not conscious or individualized1 
until the higher ranges of human life   
become known and correlated4  ,comes the
 man with the scalpel4  ,he dissects the
 human brain1 and is disgusted at       
finding no clew to the secret cause and 
source of life4  ,he never suspects1 he 

does not conceive of the fact that there
 is in everyone1 an immutable1 invisible
 power--a spirit germ--nor would he     
believe in its potency if he knew it    
were true4  ,then there is the man with 
the retorts and the scales1 and the     
residues4  ,he announces to the world   
that he can create life without any help
 from the ,great ,spirit people talk so 
much about4 ,there is also the man with 
the bottle full of water1 with a handful
 of mud at the bottom4  ,he is sure he  
can produce living organisms2 might even
 set agoing a new race of beings1 if he 
only had time1 and a larger bottle6     
,back of every expression of life we    
know abides the source1 the cause of all
 existence1 so hid1 so truly an integral
 part of life as never to yield a       
knowledge of itself either to the       
scalpel of the physicians or to the     
electrical battery of the explorer of   
mysteries4 ,into this sphere can no man 
come4  ,herein can be no meddling of the
 human intellect4  ,through this        

searching for the source1 the cause of  
life1 man has been brought face to face 
with law1 with a force he can never     
understand or conquer1 or adjust to the 
demands or suggestions of his will4     
,from ancient expressions of            
intelligence have been handed down to us
 the name1 the title1 ,god1 as a        
concrete expression of this power that  
holds dominance over all created beings4
  ,another important revelation made to 
man is the fact that there is but one   
law1 per se4  ,it is an established1    
consecutive1 endless chain from the     
beginnings of human life here up to the 
absolute ultimate of the immortal soul4 
,it proves the homogeneity of the whole 
human race2 it declares the value of    
existence here1 and explains the logical
 sequence of its continuance beyond this
 fragment of life into nature's         
invisible realms4  ,what we shall do1   
each one of us1 with our individual     
portion of life2 how we shall work out  
our personal experiences1 and to what   

end is another matter4  ,there is our   
heredity which is1 in every case1 so    
mixed as to yield but little of the     
primal strain1 and which gives to each  
one of us unknown possibilities1 or     
undesired idiosyncracies to fight out   
and eradicate from the nature4  ,the    
many failures to discover the mystery of
 life surely ought to prove to all      
experimenters the truth that spirit     
holds the only key to its endless       
mystery4     ,,churches ,,money         
,,makers4  ,there is no detail of the   
ordinary human life of all who are in   
any way connected with the church1 which
 has not been exploited for money4      
,there is no end to the myths and fables
 that have been put before the          
superstitious and ignorant1 and each and
 every one has its price2 and every     
celebration draws its pay2 and all for  
the glory of ,god1 not at all for the   
help of man4  ,the peasants and other   
laborers starve1 and are overwhelmed by 
the riot of fatal disease4  ,as a       

money-making concern1 it leaves nothing 
to be wished for--it is a great success4
  ,there was no beginning1 there can be 
no ending4  ,whatever appears ended in  
our experience is only in seeming1 and  
in other shapes and in transformed      
relationships will appear again and     
again1 asserting ,there is no death1    
what seems so is transition1 change of  
elements and forces4  ,there is but one 
law2 one creative centre4  ,one model   
for advanced individualized life in any 
world2 in all worlds4  ,the whole       
purpose and intent of all creation is   
simply to render all inert1 unused      
matter into life4  ,the universal       
,spirit pervades all things4 ,mineral2  
vegetable2 animal2 human2 angel2 one    
unbroken chain1 from the sod up to      
divine perfection1 from the pigmy races 
we see here1 on this small globe1 up1   
forever upward and onward to the courts 
of the sons of ,god2 to the spheres of  
the eternally immortal4  ,ignorant      
mortals assert from time to time1 the   

day and the hour of the ,end of the     
,world1 and foolishly prepare for the   
final destruction of this planet4 ,it is
 true1 this earth is always coming to an
 end1 and always rehabilitating itself  
with its own unused materials4          
,mountains slide down and fill up the   
valleys4  ,the waters of the sea        
undermine and gnaw off big slices from  
the land2 all1 all is motion1 vibration2
 nothing stands still4  ,if it were     
possible for anything in the universe to
 stop1 to break the everlasting chain1  
there would be no universe2 there would 
be only chaos come again1 and all the   
work of setting the planets a-spinning  
round and round their centres and       
apportioning the orbits of the stately  
suns1 and their places in the           
precessions of their accompanying       
worlds2 all would go for nothing1 all   
would have to be begun again1 and on the
 same lines exactly4  ,there are no     
other2 there is no other law1 and the   
name of the law that holds all in       

imperishable harmony1 is ,love1 just    
,love4     ,,life ,,in ,,nature4  ,the  
microscope has revealed to us the life  
and habits of myriads of creatures of   
whose existence we had previously no    
knowledge4  ,we had not even a suspicion
 that what to our unaided vision        
appeared inert elements held a rampant1 
multitudinous life1 nowhere dead1 but   
always surging and changing1 ever       
replacing death and decay with a new    
life all its own4  ,nature's luxuriance 
everywhere fills us with wonder and     
delight4  ,the fragrant ferny depths of 
the forest1 and the lush growth of the  
rank marsh-land1 the immeasurable sands 
of the ocean-edge hiding in their       
mysterious sameness innumerable and     
beautiful shells and corals1 and the    
mountain top heaped up with boulders1 or
 crumbling by nature's processes into   
pebbly imponderance4  ,life1 swarming   
everywhere4  ,tiny leaflets giving      
succor and shelter to tinier animal     
life--its special fairy4  ,huge beasts  

couchant in majestic trees1 guarding    
against invasions1 with a fierce1       
jealous rage inherited from the gnomes  
and satyrs4  ,deep sea depths untouched 
by lightnings1 where the kraken makes   
his home2 jolly dolphins disporting in  
the sunlight1 responding to the cry of  
the hovering wild duck and gull4  ,human
 beings overcrowding in the oldest      
settled portions of the globe1 until    
nature's resources for their sustenance 
are wellnigh exhausted4  ,all these1 and
 many more1 might justly be enumerated  
to illustrate the bountiful and         
inexhaustible resources of the great    
creative1 reconstructive ,power in the  
universe of matter4  ,life1 everywhere  
life1 forcing out death and decay4      
,ever changing its form of expression4  
,reforming itself upon steadily         
advancing models4 ,all nature swinging  
in circles so wide and vast as to       
require centuries for their completion4 
,one of the most fascinating doctrines  
of the ,swedish ,seer is contained in   

the law of correspondences4  ,by it many
 things1 seemingly irregular1 fall into 
line1 and become parts of a great       
process of development4  ,following this
 method1 the earnest1 searching mind1   
looking through nature up to ,nature's  
,god1 seeks to go beyond the confines of
 the mere animal1 material existence1   
and come into sympathy with and get a   
knowledge of the world unseen1 but often
 felt and recognized1 spiritual life1   
filling all the spaces which seem to the
 earth-dimmed senses dull and void4     
,there is no death1 no vacancy in this  
realm of nature1 any more than in that  
other1 more tangible one1 the outgrowth 
and the necessity of this great         
storm-tossed planet4  ,but all the      
expressions of life in this sphere are  
different from those to which our       
material senses are accustomed1 and     
require the action of another1 a finer1 
more spiritual set of faculties in order
 to comprehend them even partially      
which1 at the best1 is all we can hope  

to do while we remain denizens of and   
subject to the laws which control this  
world of material substance4  ,jacob's  
dream was not a dream only4  ,it was a  
reality4  ,from supernal heights        
,ladders are ever being dropped down to 
our earth1 into our midst1 upon which   
forms immortal and real ascend and      
descend according to our need and our   
demand upon them for love and help4  ,we
 are continually overshadowed by this   
supermundane existence4  ,its influences
 are both positive and negative1 good   
and evil4  ,it has powers adapted to    
every issue of human experience2 because
 it is the outgrowth1 the fruitage of   
human life4  ,its roots are planted in  
this earth4  ,its topmost branches wave 
in the sunlight which flows from the    
,throne of ,god4  ,it is ,god4  ,not a  
separate and distinct being2 but an     
intelligent principle of love abounding 
in everything2 expressing itself through
 everything4  ,knowing no high or low4  
,seeing no difference between the just  

and the unjust2 showering down upon all 
alike1 benisons of wisdom1 and peace and
 good will4  ,gathering all together in 
one embrace2 the whole race of man1 one 
undivided family4  ,its divine ,trinity 
is ,evolution1 ,progress1 ,liberty4     
,many minds reject this assumption of   
facts1 because of the necessity which a 
recognition of them would involve for a 
readjustment of mental processes1 and   
religious beliefs affecting their daily 
experience4     ,,heaven4  ,millions of 
enfranchised souls pass from earth life 
and find the spirit world--the          
,summerland--a ,heaven1 and stay therein
 for vast lengths of time4  ,the change 
from this life of toil1 and misery to an
 existence of rest from all pain and    
sorrow of earthly existence is really   
,heaven enough for the average human    
mind4  ,a place of beautiful            
surroundings1 where everything necessary
 for their comfort is furnished them1   
without money and without price and1    
best of all1 where they no longer fear  

being grabbed up and punished by the    
devil for their sins of ignorance       
committed when in the body4  ,it is not 
possible for us1 plunged1 as we all are1
 into the vortex of this difficult      
existence1 to realize what all this     
means to the world-weary4  ,if one shall
 halt by the way1 or fall aside from the
 great unending procession nothing      
stops4  ,the terrible1 tumultuous waves 
of humanity roll on1 and the lost are   
not missed or mourned for1 save by the  
few that were responsible for their     
coming1 or for the awful lack of help   
and tendance that made them failures in 
the battle of life4  ,the great army of 
the commonplace1 the neither positively 
good nor the very bad1 is the largest   
class of all humanity4  ,the most       
pestiferous and difficult to adjust to  
the law of progress and advancement4    
,hold one of them out of hell by the    
hair of the head1 and when he is let go 
he only drops further in1 and nothing   
teaches him but the slings and arrows of

 misfortune1 and every dreadful         
experience that can be handed out to    
him4  ,much of this almost universally  
deplorable condition--it may be the     
whole of it--has been induced by false1 
unreasonable religious teachings4  ,the 
human mind needs every inducement to    
effort to overcome its natural inertia  
instead of being put to sleep by        
promises of being exempt from all       
responsibility connected with its final 
redemption4     ,,nature ,,spirits4     
,the dwellers at the threshold are the  
individualized entities of the elements 
of nature4  ,air1 fire1 earth depths1   
and seas4  ,these belong to the domain  
of nature1 pure and simple1 and are met 
and controlled by the affinities of the 
chemicals of the material1 physical     
organization of the individual4  ,the   
most potent of these leading in the     
degree of material success to be        
achieved in dealing with material life4 
,money getting in the mines1 earth      
depths4  ,all manufactories that require

 raging and continuous flame2 ships to  
sail1 and conquer water spirits2        
electrical and etherial forces that move
 in the air currents4 ,these are the    
soulless1 irresponsible goblins and     
gnomes1 ,fire spirits and ignes fatui of
 the nether world4  ,all human beings   
who progress at all have to deal with   
one or more of these forces4 ,beginning 
in blind ignorance1 through struggle1   
the mortal will is developed and the    
mere animal man has set his foot upon a 
low rung of the ladder of the ascending 
series4  ,next1 man has to deal with the
 primal races4  ,the ,missing link which
 will never be found save at the        
threshold where it combines its forces  
with those of man's other natural       
enemies1 and keeps jealous watch and    
ward at every point of egress of the    
soul which seeks to enlarge its domain4 
,finally the will of man1 with its long 
heredity of war with these              
potentialities1 at enmity with ,god1    
resisting the divine2 even as these have

 striven to hold him in a perpetual     
slavery1 is in its last struggle4  ,the 
vast aggregation of human will1 set free
 from the clog of the flesh1 knowing    
nothing of the divine1 seeing no guiding
 light1 combines its forces1 and        
commingles its powers with whatever its 
endless tentacles can reach4  ,these are
 the powers and principalities of the   
air4  ,these are the demons1 bad        
spirits1 devils and familiars of the    
literature of the ages1 and the         
presiding geniuses of many a phenomenon 
resulting from modern research into the 
mysteries of nature4  ,as their         
intelligence exceeds that of the        
underlying grades1 so just in that      
degree is their power increased1 and    
used1 to block the gateway that opens   
upon the path4  ,their abodes lie in    
outer darkness1 or are illumined only by
 flashes of fictitious1 and evanescent  
light from the expiring embers of       
earthly exhalations1 and the            
phosphorescent gleams of decaying forms4

  ,the soul that has received an        
illumination from the ,divine has in its
 keeping a talisman of power1 yet none  
can escape these watchful ones4  ,here  
eyes do regard you in eternity's        
stillness4  ,choose well2 your choice is
 brief1 but yet endless4  ,the winged   
fiend1 the ,appolyon1 must be met and   
settled with at every turn of the way   
that leads to the kingdom which the     
,christ came to establish1 and whose    
best name is peace4  ,in this grade1    
love finds no home1 but its great       
prototype1 the lust of the flesh1       
stealing ever the livery of heaven1     
lures on tender souls to their sad      
undoing4  ,by help of divine love alone 
can the soul journey safely onward and  
upward through this great concentrated1 
immediately-environing earth grade4  ,it
 is solidly compact1 sleepless and      
untiring1 seeking ceaselessly whom it   
may win to its realm4  ,it is the       
unrecognized longing of the soul for    
restoration to its divine heritage of   

love4     ,,experience4  ,experience is 
at the same time the surest and the     
slowest teacher of men4  ,wisdom1 the   
crowning glory of humanity1 is but an   
enlarged perception of man's needs1 and 
how to meet them1 based upon individual 
experience and observation of the       
effects of natural law upon all4  ,an   
individual is an epitome of the         
world--society4  ,discipline is         
everywhere considered indispensable to  
the individual4  ,far more is it so to  
the world of society4  ,anarchy and     
revolution are no more efficient for the
 body politic than for the individual4  
,growth1 slow and gradual1 aggregation  
of power and wisdom through the         
education and enlightenment of its      
individual members1 is the only safe and
 sure way to permanency and enduring    
life4     ,,spiritualism4  ,in          
,spiritualism alone is to be found an   
expression of the religion of ,jesus of 
,nazereth4  ,it is truly democratic1    
giving to saint and sinner alike both   

here1 in this life1 and after death1 an 
opportunity for redemption4  ,its first 
mission to the world is the proof it    
gives of a continued existence in which 
is still experienced all the            
idiosyncracies which marked the         
individual in earth life4  ,this fact   
has either been ignored by certain      
classes of minds1 or has been taken by  
them as proof positive of the hellish   
origin of its phenomena1 whereas in this
 very expression of characteristic life 
lies its wonderful power and potency4   
,from long-continued educational        
influence people out of churches1 as    
well as inside of the influence of their
 superstitions1 have come to idealize   
death1 its awe-inspiring mystery and its
 strange variety4  ,it is thought1 by   
them1 to be a sudden translation from a 
lower condition to a higher1 wherein1   
through some divine hocus-pocus1 the    
members of certain so-called            
,evangelical churches1 no matter how    
worldly-minded1 and selfish1 or however 

false to their teachings they have been1
 or how false their lives to the divine 
ethics taught by the ,lord1 whose name  
they assume as their prerogative1 that  
their through tickets to the supernal   
spheres are assured4  ,it is believed   
that death purges them of all their     
sympathy with and attraction to mortal  
life1 and that they are forever absolved
 from all their responsibilities1 and   
freed from dependence upon the          
inter-relationships between the two     
conditions4  ,exactly the reverse is    
true4  ,multitudes of souls only begin  
their true living1 their comprehension  
of life's meanings1 after death has     
sifted them out of the ashes and        
lifeless embers of their mistaken ideas1
 or vicious indulgences4  ,shall these1 
then1 be brought beneath the ban of     
limitless darkness1 and exiled from the 
many mansions of our ,heavenly ,father's
 and ,mother's house8  ,a tiny rap1     
untraceable to any material source1 a   
table moved by invisible force1 a closed

 and locked piano skillfully played upon
 by unseen hands2 these were the first  
links in an endless chain of eternal    
benefits pouring down from the smiling  
heavens upon the benighted children of  
earth4  ,again was heard the voice as of
 one crying in the wilderness of this   
world's marts for barter1 and selfish   
gain2 ,let him who hath ears to hear1   
let him hear4  ,the grave has lost its  
victory and death is but a halt called  
in mercy and loving tenderness1 that    
your weary souls may be refreshed by a  
draught from nature's founts and        
bountiful resources that you may mount  
upward as on the mighty wings of eagles2
 or discover for your wandering feet the
 path of rectitude and safety4          
,,phenomena4  ,all expressions of nature
 are phenomenal4  ,man is of all the    
most wonderful4  ,a tiny spark of spirit
 encased in matter1 by the irresistible 
law of progress evolving powers of      
brain1 thought1 consciousness1 reason1  
intuition2 unfolding1 expanding2        

realizing finally his at-one-ment with  
his source1 the cause of him--,god--man 
immortal1 illimitable4  ,at certain     
points of unfoldment seemingly lost1    
great hue and cry from many--pin        
heads--who think they have discovered   
,god1 a failure4  ,watch out and see4   
,give the ,lord a chance4  ,nothing is  
done with yet4  ,in a very old hook of  
,hebrew history1 there are recorded     
well-attested accounts of phenomena1    
which are so distinctly outside of the  
ordinary happenings of this material    
existence1 that they were always        
recognized as being of a purely         
spiritual origin1 method and purpose4   
,within the last century the same       
experiences have been vouchsafed to     
present humanity4  ,millions of people  
have attested the truth of a continuance
 of these same phenomena2 they having   
taken place within the range of their   
own personal experience4  ,and why not8 
,the ,creator knows what his children   
need in this1 as well as in other ages4 

,that human souls1 the lives of human   
beings1 persist after physical death1   
does not prove their eternal existence  
along the lines of highest soul         
evolution4  ,the greatest possible      
unfoldment is not a gift of ,god4  ,it  
is held only by the individual soul as  
the result of age-long study1 and toil1 
through manifold embodiments1           
long-continued self renunciation1 and   
sacrifices not yet known or understood4 
,its initiations are endless2 its       
revelations of the infinite law are1 at 
times1 too seemingly trifling for       
recognition2 but as the lapidary leaves 
no facet of the jewel uncut and         
unpolished1 so the guardians--the guides
 and teachers of the candidates for     
spiritual unfoldment--omit no least     
lesson or discipline that can aid in    
perfecting the individual soul4  ,it is 
the meanest kind of bosh teaching people
 that there will be eternal punishment  
for ignorant wrong-doings in this short 
kindergarten experience of life1 making 

them believe their last chance for      
anything better is gone forever4  ,half 
the sins that are committed here anyway 
are either sins against the             
conventionalities1 or they have been    
hatched up by some unsext priests and   
have nothing to do with the case4       
,besides1 the sins of the body in many a
 poor mortal are left with the body in  
the grave4  ,the ages1 the aeons        
required for the perfecting of any given
 soul1 are known only to its ,creator1  
or how great must be the accumulation of
 ages ere the whole human family--the   
children of ,god--will respond to the   
eternal roll-call that shall usher in   
the redeemed of every land and clime1   
not one ,lost1 or gone astray4  ,those  
who have stepped forth into the arena of
 this present manifestation of life on  
this planet1 have1 each in their place1 
their responsibility and task1 to keep  
alight the beacons of reason1 and       
intelligence1 as guides to truth1 and to
 pander never to the powers of ignorance

 and superstition1 however manifested by
 ,church or ,state4     ,,mediumship4   
,mediumship today is clearly an         
abnormalism4  ,but the history of the   
world has been that the so-called       
abnormalisms of one generation are the  
accepted1 commonplace realisms of the   
succeeding types4  ,sight1 the desire to
 see1 existed first in the mind of the  
unfolding human brain2 the will joined  
its forces to aid the work of liberation
 and the visual nerves began to form and
 grow4  ,the imprisoned soul within kept
 pushing on1 until gradually the        
beautiful1 complex organ of sight was   
evoluted and the soul possessed a window
 through which it could see things for  
itself4  ,the evolutionary processes    
attending mediumship quite correspond to
 this physical process4  ,man demands to
 know concerning those things that have 
long been hid1 and to understand the    
deep things of ,god1 and so the soul of 
him is saying1 ,i1 too1 have visions    
unspeakable1 and closing up the avenues 

of his external sight1 he sees and      
apprehends truth1 a light upon his path1
 of which in his previous1 darkened     
state he had never conceived4  ,the     
intuitional faculties being the true    
interpreters of the immortal soul1 are  
capable of unlimited cultivation1 unlike
 those of the intellect which have      
always the limitations of cerebral      
organization4  ,these powers are as     
limitless as ,god1 and only through the 
expansion and recognized rational1      
practical use and application of these  
faculties--now sometimes falsely named  
supernatural--can the human race pass   
out from its present environment of     
darkness1 and crime1 and reaching upward
 expand into a saving knowledge of the  
truth1 as made known by the ,christs4   
,,the ,,migrations ,,of ,,our ,,race4   
,vast numbers of times has the human    
race marched around this world on which 
we live4  ,each journey of the whole    
family has embraced a cycle of time4    
,each cycle has been rounded up by some 

great cataclysm of nature1 which has    
left the earth desolated1 in ruins1 to  
rest from the invasions of its nomadic  
children4  ,of the truth of these great 
convulsive throes of the planet we have 
many ancient legendary accounts4  ,the  
,biblical accounts1 and the irrefutable 
testimony of the globe itself1 as       
recorded in the veined strata which have
 held their record for ages inviolably  
concealed1 until man should finally     
bring to the unmasking of her secrets an
 intelligence clarified from the mists  
of superstition1 and illuminated by the 
intuition not only of the soul1 but of  
the intellect and reason4     ,,the     
,,discipline ,,of ,,life4    ,the mills 
of the gods grind always1   ,they grind 
exceeding small1   ,and with great      
exactness grind they all4  ,their       
hoppers are too numerous to be counted4 
,physical pain1 sorrow of many sorts and
 kinds1 losses and crosses innumerable1 
unending disappointments1 holding back  
the ambitions from all satisfactory     

realization of pet schemes1 and finally1
 physical death4  ,not one human        
creature escapes4  ,into the hoppers    
they go1 again and again1 time after    
time1 till the refining process is      
completed and the soul is fit to stand  
in holy and exalted presence1 and to be 
set to do the work of the ,master4      
,here and there some gifted soul        
realizes that its anguish means growing 
pains4  ,a was described as a good man  
who let the ,lord do anything ,he wanted
 to1 to him4  ,the discipline of this   
life is hard to bear2 but if people will
 not learn the lesson intended1 here and
 now1 they will be forced back through  
reembodiments until this life can teach 
them nothing more1 and they have finally
 earned a right to a place in the       
heavens--the home of the gods--where    
perfect peace abides4  ,men are         
naturally gregarious4  ,in all phases of
 life they seek sympathetic comrades1 or
 followers that they can hypnotize to do
 their will4  ,they instinctively set   

themselves off into classes1 and while  
this is useful as a protection from     
invasion1 conditions in ,india show the 
evils of class-caste distinctions       
carried to a ridiculous extreme4 ,the   
vast1 surging1 unyielding predatory     
classes on this earth consist of those  
who have but                            
lately--comparatively--emerged from the 
animal kingdom1 and have not yet been   
put through the mill of reincarnation   
times enough to rid them of their wild  
beast tricks and manners1 and make of   
them men and women fit to have around4  
,the dreadful thing is1 having to live  
on the same planet with them1 and endure
 their terrible onslaughts upon the     
peace1 and happiness of the unfolded1   
the civilized portions of the race4     
,but all are of common origin4  ,such as
 they are1 all have been1 and such as   
the highly developed1 educated and      
useful class are now1 they will surely  
become4     ,,homogeneity ,,of ,,the    
,,race4  ,the dreamer who passes through

 this life1 satisfied with the creations
 of his own fancy1 adds nothing to the  
practical needs or demands of his day   
and time4  ,in all the years and ages of
 the intellective life of the planet1   
such men and women have lived and walked
 their little round atween the two      
oceans which bound the shores of birth  
and death4  ,but a truer concept of the 
meanings of an earthly existence has    
arisen in the minds of gifted humanity4 
,the cloister gives way to the open     
court2 the inspired ones are seeking the
 roads which may lead out from hazy1    
unproven cloud-land into the brightness 
of the everyday1 practical life which   
the world must have experience of1 along
 all lines1 among all classes1 high and 
low1 ignorant and learned1 ere it can   
dislodge the incubus of superstition1   
and undevelopment under which it has    
staggered along1 through devious ways of
 despair and unbelief1 to awaken at last
 to a realization of the final destiny  
of humanity4  ,to the average mind the  

far-off1 unascertained and dim1 is what 
is most attractive4  ,sending           
missionaries to the so-called heathen1  
or speculating upon the social          
conditions of people supposed to be     
living on other planets1 is of vital    
interest to their soaring minds4  ,any  
amount of money and good red blood of   
humanity1 if need be1 are not too large 
a price to pay for the gratification of 
these projects of unsatisfied mentality4
  ,the vast body politic1 the           
struggling1 seething masses of humanity 
grope and dig along their appointed     
ways1 and the progress of the entire    
race of man toward an enlightened       
homogeneity is at a seeming stand-still4
  ,the homogeneity of the whole race in 
its absolute entirety1 is the key-note  
of the life which is to be here1 on this
 mortal earth1 and thus every experience
 of individuals or of nations becomes of
 vast importance4  ,every event1 small  
or great1 that serves to illustrate the 
possibility of fellowship1 and          

brotherhood among the children of men1  
is a milestone on the way to this       
recognition of the homogeneity of the   
human race4  ,in obedience to this law1 
this demand of the evolutionary forces  
our brave sons1 and lovely daughters1   
are1 all unconsciously to themselves1   
following the beckoning hand of noblest 
progress toward peace1 and mutuality1   
and are allying themselves with the     
representatives of races and peoples    
hitherto considered foreign and         
unrelated to us1 in all ways save the   
commercial4  ,what bonds shall ever be  
forged between the nations of the earth 
that can supersede such ties of love and
 fealty to family and home8  ,the       
external aspects of these alliances1    
though yielding honors1 and coveted     
opportunities1 are of the smaller       
importance compared with the amazing    
factors of peace and amity between the  
nations that are silently and certainly 
working themselves out toward the       
beautiful exemplification of the        

universal ,fatherhood of ,god1 the      
inextinguishable sentiment of the final 
unity of his earthly children4        99
      99      99      99      99      99
  ,one of the strangest phases of human 
life here is the almost universal       
resistance to improvement4  ,but this   
conservative attitude is also a balance1
 prevents running off on tangents4      
,,of ,,god4  ,it has been popularly     
reported that science has driven ,god   
out of the world4  ,science has refuted 
ignorant beliefs1 driven superstition   
out of the minds of people1 and opened  
many minds to the great facts of life as
 against the silly beliefs of primitive 
peoples4  ,it is thought by many that   
the history of all ,god's doings is writ
 in the ,holy 787 ,book--the ,bible4    
,from the study of his character1 one   
might fancy that ,great ,jove of ,mount 
,high ,olympus was come again with only 
his name changed from ,jove to ,jehovah1
 for ,he brought with him all the high  
days1 and ceremonies1 and every vice and

 delinquency1 and outrage that had      
marked pagan rule4  ,he gave special    
directions as to the killings-off of the
 ,hitites1 and the ,jebusites and all   
the other ites4 ,there weren't to be any
 ,ites or any other furriners left alive
 to pester his chosen people4  ,he went 
right on giving directions as to how    
these people were to be disposed of1    
making such awful suggestions1 specially
 as to the women1 that if ,he had not   
been known to be ,god1 ,he might have   
been recognized as the ,head-up ,devil4 
,it has been written3 ,by their fruits  
ye shall know them4  ,what are the      
results1 the fruits1 of the ,jehovian   
dispensation8  ,they are just exactly   
such as must naturally follow the       
teachings and influences of the spirit  
of hate and vengeance2 the suppression  
of reason1 holding back the progress of 
the race1 fettering the brains of men   
with bonds of ignorance and             
superstition1 a network of lies and     
myths4  ,through the dominance of       

selfishness and greed1 the boasted      
freedom of men has been lost--they are  
slaves to a man-made religion4  ,so     
science has served the highest interest 
of humanity in doing all it can to drive
 out this sort of a ,god1 with his hell 
and eternal punishment1 from the world4 
,the reasoning1 thinking world has      
outgrown such a wicked1 despotic ,god1  
and is demanding quite another sort of  
,deity4  ,humanity has to be taught what
 it must have to equip it for its       
higher1 nobler destiny4 ,justice to all 
in equal measure2 ,reason and ,love must
 abide and work out their results1 their
 fruits1 in human lives4  ,the unanimous
 refusal of the framers of the          
,constitution of the ,united ,states to 
set forth therein the will of ,god1 and 
his commands was wise and farseeing4    
,it has raised up a barrier against the 
encroachments of every form of popular  
religion and has given a semblance to   
freedom of thought and speech4  ,all    
along the way1 seers and                

prophets--inspired mediums--have wrought
 and sung of the days to come when all  
the earth should rejoice in peace and   
good will4  ,the magnificence of their  
inspired and inspiring words1 their     
immortal melodies of praise of the      
,creator will stand while this world    
lasts4  ,the fact that his people had   
diviner instincts than had ,he whom they
 worshipped as ,god1 showed that ,yahweh
 was only the guardian spirit of the    
great and wonderful ,hebrew race4  ,the 
greatest discovery of the past century1 
far greater than any revelation of      
science or knowledge of past ages1      
revealed by modern research is the      
discovery of a ,god of ,love4  ,not of  
that sentimental expression of maudlin  
emotion that soon evaporates in         
hypocritical make-believe2 but the      
profound recognition of the rightful    
consideration of every human being1     
regardless of race1 color or belongings4
     ,,of ,,jesus4  ,the knowledge we   
have gained through the study and       

research of earnest1 truth-seeking souls
 who have found that all known religions
 have a common root--have the same basis
 of truth--is a proof of the value of   
the revelations given to the world      
through the teachings of our ,christ4   
,from no other have we been given1 in an
 externalized1 practical form1 those    
great1 eternal religious principles     
which must forever stand as the rule and
 guide of human souls4  ,no ancient     
philosopher had evolved to a            
,god-likeness that enabled him to go    
beyond a high stand-point of moral      
perfection1 or to give to his disciples 
what was most needed by the world for   
its comforting in the accumulating1     
expanding experiences incident to       
earthly life4  ,jesus1 our ,christ1 the 
,christ of the religion named for him   
was the transmitter of heavenly truths4 
,to him the world owes forever a debt   
for making known a knowledge of the fact
 of the continued existence of the      
individual being after physical death1  

and it was given to him to point out the
 way of life that can alone lead to     
eternal happiness and peace4  ,he is our
 ,teacher1 our ,leader above all others4
  ,we have nothing to do with the       
impossible1 faked-up personality that   
the priests have so long exploited as   
the blood ,redeemer of the world2 it is 
to the inspired philanthropist1 the     
greatly-loving man that we owe our      
allegiance4  ,this will appear more and 
more as time goes on1 and a lot of      
untruths will fade out and give place to
 great realities4     ,,the ,,gods4     
,the pagan gods were innumerable and    
their distinctive attributes were       
understood4  ,they well might be1 as    
they were only deified men and women4   
,the next unfoldment caused them to     
raise altars to the unknown ,god4  ,then
 came ,jesus1 the ,nazarene1 who told   
them that the unknown ,god was their    
,heavenly ,father1 not of a chosen      
people only1 but of all the human race4 
,the new religion1 inspired by          

,jesus--our ,christ--and which was to   
bear his name1 naturally brought with it
 all the superstitions of the pagans1   
and these have been handed down through 
the ages1 and accepted and believed as  
true4  ,the primitive conception of a   
god was of a being with qualities like  
their own1 and as men delighted in      
rapine and every possible accompanying  
vice and crime1 so they endowed their   
gods in like manner1 fashioning beings  
to be feared and to whom must be given  
big offerings and sacrifices4  ,so long 
as these were limited to beasts it was a
 good thing1 because the priests who ate
 the flesh thus consecrated were sure of
 cheap meat for a long time thereafter4 
,but when the firstlings of the flock   
failed to bring satisfactory responses  
to the demands of the suppliants1 they  
began sacrificing human lives in the    
vain hope of allaying the anger and     
vengeance of the dissatisfied           
all-powerful gods1 and beautiful young  
maidens were thrust into the fiery jaws 

of ,moloch1 or crushed in the coils of  
sacred serpents1 or slain upon altars   
according to the special god whose      
propitiation was sought4  ,from all     
these inhuman practices to a recognition
 of a ,god of love and mercy was a step 
so long that even yet there remain in   
the teachings of religionists           
indications of similar ideas1 wherein   
not only nature's culminating efforts1  
but all the painful experiences of human
 beings are accepted and feared as      
expressions of the wrath of ,god4       
,,knowledge ,,of ,,occult ,,law4  ,the  
invitation of one of old to his         
followers1 and fellow believers3 ,come  
let us reason together1 marks the       
dividing line between knowledge and     
superstition4  ,the daring of the mind  
of man proves him to be1 in very truth1 
a child of ,god4  ,no arcana of         
knowledge are too deeply hid in mystery 
to escape the prying of his curiosity1  
his longing for enlightenment1 his      
long-sustained and vigorous efforts to  

surprise the hidden things of ,god and  
,nature4  ,livingston and ,stanley      
wrought in the jungles of ,africa1      
,audubon and ,agassiz in the fastnesses 
of tropical ,america4  ,these in the    
material world1 the world of effects4   
,gessner and ,varley1 ,darwin and       
,spencer1 together with a long list of  
other inspired minds1 have given their  
best thoughts1 devoted their noblest    
energies to the explorations of the     
world of causes1 the occult and         
invisible realms of pure principles in  
,god and ,nature4  ,back of all these   
there lies the richest bequest ever made
 to humanity in the discoveries and     
revelations of the most ancient adepts1 
the fathers of mystical lore1 in the    
light of modern discoveries and         
inventions1 mystical no longer2 but     
practical and full of earnest meaning in
 their adaptation and adjustment to the 
needs and wants of the citizens of the  
world today4     ,,evanescence ,,of     
,,mere ,,beliefs4  ,proclaim not mere   

beliefs today1 and be not labelled and  
pigeon-holed and held to account on any 
special line of thought or action lest  
the individual soul be barred out from a
 conception and knowledge of some far   
grander truth4  ,at best our view is    
narrow and contracted1 else were we     
gods1 and as we grow we discover our    
little1 vaunted beliefs to be but as    
tiny shreds of color in ,god's great    
mosaic1 our song of triumph and         
discovery but as the buzzing of the     
insect to the chorals of the chanting   
hosts of heaven4  ,so1 then1 an eternal 
negation is the safest attitude of the  
unfolding soul4  ,mere beliefs1 unproven
 by facts1 are so many barriers set up  
for the soul to overleap and leave      
behind on its onward march4     ,,the   
,,fount ,,of ,,inspiration ,,for ,,all4 
,the righteous shall inherit the earth4 
,just so far as we are able to prove our
 rightness1 the world--nay the whole    
universe of ,god--is ours4 ,our         
,heavenly ,father has never said3 ,thus 

far shalt thou go1 and no farther1 upon 
the road to knowledge4  ,everything     
invites us2 get wisdom1 get             
understanding1 and to thy knowledge add 
virtue are the recommendations from     
inspired sources1 and to the soul that  
fears not1 revelations upon every line  
stand invitingly open4     ,,man        
,,versus ,,death4  ,in all the domain of
 organized being1 it is only man1 who1  
in his crude egotisms1 and defiant      
resistance to nature's laws1 makes ado  
with death4  ,the dainty denizen of the 
air1 and the things that creep over the 
earth1 the leviathan in his nature      
element1 and his warmer-blooded brother 
whose passage causes the earth to       
tremble beneath his tread1 all the      
multitudinous expressions of the animal 
kingdom1 that disport themselves in fur1
 or feather1 in filament of scales1 or  
covering of hair1 each and all recognize
 the approach of their final experience 
on earth1 and hie themselves to their   
appointed coverts1 to keep their tryst  

with their old mother in utter privacy4 
,how well she loves her children6  ,she 
sheds over them her varied mantle of    
leaf1 and piney bloom1 or scented brake1
 and soothes them with softly falling   
rain1 or tender dew1 and woos their     
elements back into her bosom from which 
they sprang4  ,all this is in consonance
 with nature's arrangement for caring   
for her own4  ,there is no such thing   
known among these as a vulgar display1  
or a flaunting of the deposed forces in 
the faces of the creatures left behind4 
,in man's treatment of his kind1 there  
is everywhere betokened his unfaith and 
fear4  ,his undeveloped spirituality    
leaves him without even so much power to
 adjust himself to the divine order of  
progress1 by way of the gates of        
death--rebirth--as have his humble      
progenitors1 his representatives in the 
animal kingdom2 and so he plants himself
 upon his fancied prerogatives1 and     
turns his dulled senses away from the   
,god-call3 ,come up higher1 and moans   

and raves1 and howls his despair in     
sounds and terms indicative of his      
tribal1 or racial environment and       
relationship4  ,a voice of love has     
sounded down throughout the ages in     
unmistakable terms to the children of   
men4  ,my father has many mansions1     
invisible to your seared1 earthly       
vision1 but beautifully furnished forth 
for all your needs2 nor hath eye seen or
 ear of yours heard the wonderfulness of
 the great preparation ,he hath made to 
receive you into his kingdom4 ,and seer 
and sage have reiterated this in        
unmistakable language1 and the          
enlightened of the older races have     
caught the straying tones of the vibrant
 air of the beyond1 and have beheld the 
mirage of the homes of the blest1 and   
have sought to impress the truth of the 
living reality of the beyond upon the   
inchoate brains of their fellows4  ,but 
superstition rears its grizzled front   
alike in seats of learning1 in the homes
 of the cultured1 and in the hovels of  

the outcasts2 in this sense1 all the    
human family are of hellish kin1 and in 
a large percentage of them their whole  
lives are given over to their effort of 
resistance to the divine ordering which 
speaks ever to the soul of man in       
unmistakable terms of tender            
consideration1 saying3 ,thy poor days   
here are full of pain and sorrow1       
because of necessary crudities4  ,so    
live that when thy summons comes to join
 the everlasting cavalcade which sweeps 
across the world1 thou shalt apprehend  
thy high emprise1 and go forth          
exultingly to claim thine own meed of   
further existence in spheres yet        
undiscovered to thy longing ken4  ,earth
 loses thy pattern forever and aye that 
thou mayst be renewed and set up in the 
finer mould of thy most excellent       
,karma1 which is thy hidden reality of  
character4  ,rejoice then1 ,o mortal6 in
 the beneficence of nature and of thy   
,parents1 ,god1 for surely it is well   
that they call a halt for thee and thine

 beside the river of death1 and loosen  
thy burthens of pain and heart-breaking 
sorrow1 and let loose from thy soul that
 raven1 ,never more1 which has preyed   
long upon thy soul and held thee in the 
grip of unspoken despair and anguish4   
,this is of all demons the blackest and 
most subtle4  ,in tones of love it has  
been proclaimed by the divine mind that 
nought is ever taken away that shall not
 be restored to thee4  ,not as thou1 in 
thy small1 limited way1 wouldst hold it 
back from its own high place1 and       
mission in the universe and bend it to  
thy purpose2 but according to the wisdom
 of its ,creator and thine1 shalt thou  
see and know and claim all that belongs 
to thee1 be it the inspiration of thy   
nature1 unexpressed here amid the din   
and rush of this chaotic existence2 or  
power to carry forth thy grandly bold   
designs in conjunction with nature's    
illimitable chemistry2 or to perfect    
within thy mind a knowledge of her laws2
 or to fold to thy bereaved heart thy   

lover1 friend1 or child1 so lost to thee
 now in the great unexplored silences1  
that thou wilt not even try to see their
 way of life1 but art ever persistent in
 saying they are dead4 ,whatever thy    
soul shalt cherish as highest and best  
good to be longed for1 that shall be    
given to thee1 in its new and           
resurrected form1 over which has passed 
the chrism of the immortal and          
everlasting life4  ,we need a new       
perception of that great law of the     
survival of the fittest4  ,who are the  
fit8  ,the nomadic tramp who yields no  
meed of use to his fellows8  ,the       
willfully sin-sodden who poisons all his
 surrounding atmosphere with the noxious
 exhalations from his decaying organism8
  ,he who hoards and locks away from his
 fellows his treasures of gold or       
precious knowledge1 and he1 who having  
in his hands the powers of wealth and   
influence1 never deigns to stretch forth
 his hand to relieve the cruel stress of
 the needy or to protect the helpless1  

or to sustain and strengthen the weaker 
ones of earth8  ,nay6  ,the true        
survival is not here on this underdone  
sphere1 but outside1 beyond1 above1 in  
the realms of the spiritual where our   
burdens are loosed and the souls of men 
are set free1 and true liberty is       
accorded to each and everyone to be1 and
 to do1 all that in him lies toward the 
upbuilding of the great sum of the soul 
life we call ,god4  ,once this          
perception of the soul and even some    
slight degree of knowledge concerning   
the laws which hold over the destiny of 
each individual being becomes1 through a
 familiarity with phenomena now         
everywhere common1 understood and       
accepted1 the entire life on this planet
 will be changed1 elevated and          
happified4  ,fancy living day after day 
under the bondage of the fear and dread 
of what everyone knows to be as         
inevitable as is the experience of each1
 of physical dissolution2 and yet       
multitudes of people do so live4  ,it is

 debasing1 and disennobling in every    
way4  ,it robs the soul of all its      
natural dignity and sends it through the
 world orphaned1 and mourning1 where it 
might and should recognize its divine   
relationship1 and rejoice in its        
unfolding powers2 and so you who may be 
giving a moment to the reading of this  
brief testimony to the great truth of   
immortality1 consider1 and realize thy  
divine paternity and demand what is1 and
 has always been thine own by right of  
interblending of thy own inner nature   
with that of thy soul's origin1 the     
heart of ,him who hath made us4  ,the   
bond is eternal and indestructible4     
,god in all humanity and we in ,him1 and
 the sooner we see this and yield       
ourselves in obedience1 not like dumb   
driven cattle but as self-respecting1   
self-asserting mortals--within the law  
of accord with the highest--the sooner  
shall we enter into that ,nirvana which 
is peace4     ,,fear ,,of ,,death4  ,in 
the childhood of the race1 the time of  

its exclusively animal life1 it was     
necessary for its protection that there 
should exist in the slowly unfolding    
human mind a great1 overwhelming terror 
of death4  ,in fact at that time        
indifference to death would have        
involved the entire race of man in utter
 extinction4  ,from that time have come 
down to us superstitions and fears      
which1 while acting still in the minds  
of the ignorant as a preservative of    
human life even under most terrible     
conditions1 have at the same time       
shrouded countless numbers of good and  
useful lives with gloom1 overshadowing  
them with a horror from which they could
 not escape4  ,it has been less the     
actual fear of death1 but of what might 
be in store for them after they should  
have passed through this experience     
which is so inevitable to us all4       
,jesus prophesied of a time to come     
wherein death should lose its sting1 and
 thus be swallowed up in the victory of 
the spirit over matter4  ,the enjoyment 

of this life demands that1 right here   
and now1 we should begin to know and    
understand how we are to establish our  
individual relationship to the          
invisible1 the real world--the world of 
causes1 the world of law--so as to bring
 to us a sufficient knowledge of the    
hidden mysteries of the future life to  
give us some certain grounds for faith  
in the unseen4  ,this can only be       
accomplished by the development of our  
own occult powers1 or by learning of the
 psychic experiences of others which    
serve to point the way to what we may   
come to know for ourselves4  ,it is all 
one1 here1 hereafter1 anywhere4  ,caught
 in the web of life1 there is no escape 
from its demands upon the individual    
soul4 ,somewhere along the way it has to
 decide its own fate4  ,upward and      
onward1 or down into the purlieus of the
 crude beginnings of things4 ,it is free
 to make its choice4  ,it can pursue the
 hard and toilsome path of earning its  
right to eternal happiness1 or it can   

flop around through all the hells of    
life unrelated to ,god1 and resistant to
 the ,christ4  ,it is the fear of death1
 of physical dissolution1 that is to be 
individually conquered4  ,this can only 
come as a result of a perception of     
spiritual law1 and the unfoldment of the
 spiritual nature4  ,the fear of death1 
of what may lie beyond1 has been        
nature's safeguard against a universal  
stampede out of this life when the      
miseries of existence on this earthly   
plane become too dreadful to be borne2  
when the tortures of the soul in the    
tortured body drives out all reason and 
all philosophy1 and the consciousness   
senses only the demand for surcease of  
agony4  ,but when the golden bowl is    
broken--the silver cord of human life is
 severed--by suicide--nothing has been  
gained by a changed environment4  ,there
 are the same responsibilities and soul 
needs1 and the miseries and unsatisfied 
desires of their minds are exactly the  
same4  ,nothing has been gained1 but    

much has been lost4 ,brave1 staunch     
souls one by one obey the call to march 
over the border land into nature's      
invisible realms2 they cannot help      
themselves1 no one can4  ,on they go1 an
 endless caravan into the land of       
revelations1 the place of reviews1 where
 the utterly selfish are fetched up with
 a round turn1 and made to realize that 
a real godliness is the only thing that 
can pass muster1 that mere beliefs do   
not count1 and only character tells4    
,how swiftly1 how inevitably their      
places are filled2 nothing stops2 prince
 or peasant1 it is all one2 the will of 
the gods--the guardians of this planet1 
is being fulfilled4  ,life here is just 
one link in the endless1 unbreakable    
chain of individual existence4        99
      99      99      99      99      99
  ,most fortunate is the soul that is   
started out to make the journey of life 
without being handicapped by some       
narrowing religious superstition or an  
intellectual bias that limits the mind1 

preventing all unfoldment of            
originality4     ,,test ,,of            
,,character4  ,sooner or later everyone 
who has character enough to make any    
sort of a test worth while1 has to have 
a regular bout with his evil genius4    
,christ said3 ,the devil hath desired   
thee that he may sift thee as wheat4    
,the form which the test takes depends  
entirely upon the organization of the   
individual4  ,but it is in every case   
the same thing4  ,the thorough arousal  
of the latent powers of the nature1 and 
the suffering which ensues from the     
results of its unbalanced actions1      
constitute the discipline of this life4 
,we can no more escape it1 or subvert   
the action of this law of evolution than
 we can put a stop to any of the        
upheavals of nature4  ,the volcano and  
the earthquake are but the expressions  
of power in the globe which we inhabit  
to throw off her old1 and ascend through
 violent agitation to higher conditions4
  ,there is a natural correspondence in 

the experience of her inhabitants and   
that of our old1 old mother6        99  
99      99      99      99      99      
,back of protoplasm1 back of organic    
human form is the soul--a thought of    
,god1 a spark of divine1 eternal life2  
imperishable1 immutable as ,god himself4
     ,,character ,,forming4  ,all       
animals1 the human creature included1   
are born blind and this physical        
condition of man absolutely typifies his
 life-long state1 owing either to his   
environment1 his heredity1 or his false 
education4 ,the great mass of humanity  
come into the world unmarked by any     
specially-developed individuality4      
,these are the legitimate prey of       
priests and teachers who have their     
place1 or use in the evolution of the   
lower grades of life on this planet4    
,the smaller number of advanced souls   
that are cast upon the shoals of time1  
the evolved thinkers1 the philosophers  
have by far the more trying1 and        
difficult life2 for the highly          

individualized man or woman cannot      
belong to any set school of ethics2     
there are no fixed landmarks1 religious 
or otherwise4  ,blinded by inherited    
prejudices1 if not by destructive       
tendencies1 with ideals for which there 
is no seeming avenue in this            
commonplace1 workaday world2 the life of
 such an one is ever a grope toward the 
light of truth4  ,lacking the sagacity1 
the primal instinct of self-protection  
in common with the nature children of   
the wilds1 he plunges forward on his    
unlit way1 and has many a fall into the 
bogs and morasses of life until he      
finally sees that only from the higher1 
the spiritual side of existence can come
 to humanity redemption from the errors1
 wrong thinking and action that is the  
cause of all sin and sorrow of the      
world4  ,blessed1 indeed1 are those to  
whom this understanding comes in time to
 harmonize conflicting beliefs and      
tendencies1 and to be the means of      
rounding out the life1 and perfecting   

that most potent and powerful of all    
things1 a noble human character4        
,,man ,,the ,,final ,,earth ,,product4  
,in man ,nature has reached her highest 
evolution4  ,his life and being are the 
topmost rung of the ladder1 but she has 
not finished with him4 ,it is           
universally believed that physical death
 severs everlastingly her dominion over 
him1 and thus ends all her service to   
him4  ,this is by no means true4  ,man  
is her offspring1 her child1 and to her 
he returns again and again1 drawing from
 her complex1 multitudinous1            
many-chambered heart such forces as     
shall bring to him the experiences he   
requires to further unfold his nature   
and bring forth all his possibilities4  
,not man alone but the planet itself is 
in the mills of the gods4  ,the seeds1  
the germs of life that were expressed in
 such ways in the beginnings of life on 
this world1 still exist in a greatly    
modified degree and the misunderstood   
phases of nature's ministry are the     

results of the out-working of these     
primitive elements still inhering in the
 world-stuff of which human bodies are  
made4  ,nature wields her powers of fire
 and flood and devastating epidemics    
mercilessly2 she constantly rids herself
 of her superfluous offspring1 and      
forces them to a new environment in her 
invisible realms1 through which they    
pass1 gaining more or less by the       
experience and from which each must     
emerge1 and continue to evolve and grow 
according to the law of his own being4  
,,superstitions4  ,fear of the unknown  
has given birth to all the superstitions
 that have afflicted the minds of       
ignorant and unthinking people4  ,few   
people escape some form of superstition4
  ,for instance1 the silly sayings1     
anent the moon1 ,fair ,priestess of the 
,night4  ,it is unlucky to see it in its
 newness--so and so--when the real fact 
is1 it is a merciful ,providence that   
permits us to see it in any of its      
phases1 over the left shoulder or over  

the right1 or through the glass1 or in  
any way at all4  ,there is nothing more 
lucky or glorious than to have good     
eyesight of one's own1 with which to    
behold this and all the other beauties  
of nature4  ,the man who chanced to be  
passing under a ladder just at the      
moment when a workman half-way up let   
fall a bucket of paint which struck and 
deluged him1 had some reason for        
thinking it unlucky to go under instead 
of around such an impediment to travel4 
,but not once in a lifetime would such a
 thing happen to any one1 and it is     
impossible to imagine what going under  
ladders or meeting loads of barrels1 or 
funerals1 or opening umbrellas in the   
house1 instead of outside of it1 or any 
of the hundreds of silly1 puerile1 fool 
superstitions that have sprung from no  
one knows where1 and that have no       
scientific meaning1 and no earthly      
bearing upon the realities of any life  
have to do with the case4  ,these are   
all the offsprings of minds tinctured by

 fear of they know not what1 and which  
are peddled around and handed down      
religiously from one generation to      
another1 to keep alive a sensationalism 
whose tendency is to blind those who    
accept them to the great living fact of 
,god's providence which is and has ever 
been ruling the lives of his earthly    
children4     ,,self-,,justice4  ,while 
self-abnegation is a valued experience  
in the spiritual discipline which goes  
to the formation of a perfect character1
 the reaction where the ego posits      
itself upon the law of justice to self1 
is in reality the beginning of salvation
 to the individual4  ,but preachment    
from any source cannot avail with any   
soul deeply immersed in work for others4
  ,there is too much in array against   
it4  ,the established heredity          
concerning the first duty of woman is of
 itself alone a formidable influence to 
be overcome2 then either the real needs1
 or the selfishness of others1 present  
obstacles beyond the power of loving1   

sensitive souls to resist4  ,the change 
must come from the consciousness of the 
individual of her own needs along these 
lines1 which alone can arouse one to    
sufficient will1 and purpose to be true 
to one's self if the heavens fall4      
,this is first1 and above all other     
considerations4     ,,symbolism4  ,a    
crude and inartistic symbolism is       
revolting to a spiritually-unfolded     
consciousness4  ,true mystic symbolisms 
must observe accurately the finer law of
 correspondences or they fail to appeal 
to such as these1 and become to the     
occult a mild form of blasphemy4        
,,love4  ,no phase of human             
character--of mental or spiritual       
philosophy--has engrossed so much       
attention or received such a variety of 
treatment as has human love4  ,nearly   
everyone who thinks at all1 has been    
brought1 at some stage of experience1 to
 an attempt at analyzing the emotional1 
sentimental nature1 asking3 ,what is    
,love8  ,in contradistinction to that   

which repels1 and disintegrates1 it is  
attraction4  ,love is ,god1 it draws    
elements together1 and holds them in    
proper spheres4  ,it centralizes and    
builds up4  ,it is controlled by fixed  
laws2 it is only blind to those who have
 not investigated its nature1 and office
 unshrinkingly1 with an eye to a        
complete understanding of its true      
function4  ,devoted humanitarians have  
shown us how to feed1 exercise1 and rest
 the physical system1 in order to       
produce health4  ,ministers of the      
,gospel have taught souls the way of    
life ever-lasting4  ,professors of the  
various sciences and arts1 useful and   
ornamental1 have instructed the         
intellects of men1 and now and then a   
woman2 but with all these1 the          
affections--the crowning--rather the    
integral element of all life and being1 
have had few1 or no exponents who have  
ever attempted to treat them from any   
basis which can be called philosophical1
 or which could ever serve as a guide to

 one uninitiated in their occult phases4
  ,the ordinary expression of this part 
of the nature1 is a vampyrism which is  
constantly on the alert to see what1 and
 how much it can gobble up for its own  
delectation4  ,this is the lowest grade4
  ,it begins with the selfism of the    
individual1 its manifestations are named
 lust4  ,it seeks expression through the
 sensuous nature1 but extends to the    
spirit and will4  ,o ,love6  ,what      
crimes are committed in thy name6  ,what
 laying waste of true and tender hearts1
 what defacing of sweet bodies1         
fashioned and set up as temples of the  
spirit6  ,this vampyrism extends through
 every department of the affectional    
nature4  ,it exists not only among men  
and women recognized as lovers1 married 
or otherwise1 but parents are ghouls to 
their children1 and friends devour each 
other without stint4  ,attraction is    
that law which draws together two       
opposite elements or forces1 positive   
and negative1 or male and female4  ,as  

the nature and attributes of a human    
being are multiform1 so are the         
attractions1 or loves1 numerous4        
,ignorance of the laws which ought to   
control and adjust these loves1 is the  
prime cause of all the misery and crime 
with which the earth is flooded4  ,two  
people of the opposite sex are attracted
 through the intellect on this plane1   
and realizing the limit of the law which
 draws them together1 they could be     
admiring friends forever2 but ignorant  
of their needs outside of this1 they    
attempt to force a conjugal relationship
 which too often ends in dislike4       
,every grade of lust and love finds     
representation in the so-called marriage
 relation1 as it stands today4          
,intellects and spirits without any     
bodies--worth mentioning--and gross     
mortal remains unvitalized by souls4    
,the former class ignore the claims of  
the physical1 and gather their robes    
together sanctimoniously indicating3    
,avaunt1 lest my purity be contaminated2

 while the latter laugh their spiritual 
pride and fastidiousness to scorn4  ,the
 war goes on between good and evil1     
whereas there is really no just ground  
for difference4  ,all that is needed for
 the attainment of harmony and peace is 
a wise adjustment of these forces in    
individuals and in society4        99   
99      99      99      99      99  ,the
 growth of all true character must be   
slow and gradual4  ,it is not enough    
that the soul perceives the beauty of a 
grand1 moral life1 it must also learn to
 live it humbly1 earnestly and truly4   
,,ideals ,,of ,,love4  ,greater love    
hath no man than that he shall give his 
life for another1 whether the scene be  
set upon the mimic stage1 or on the     
broad theatre of the world4  ,heroic    
rescues1 desperate efforts to save      
endangered lives1 care of the           
battle-wounded or fatally diseased meet1
 from great and small1 brutal and       
cultivated1 deserved recognition1 even  
to the extent of making the individual  

actors--so favored by the gods--famous1 
throughout the world4  ,the patient     
service of men and women to their       
families1 of children to their parents1 
or of friends who rejoice in serving1   
that goes on all around us conforms so  
entirely with our established ideals of 
what is right and becoming1 that it is  
unnoticed and wins no applause1 but     
oftener only calls out from the         
recipient demands for further sacrifice4
  ,in all such related service the real 
blessing comes to those who give far    
more than to those who receive4  ,the   
operation of this law hallows all the   
relationships of this life1 and must    
finally yield to the unselfish giver    
undreamed of compensations4  ,not here1 
perhaps1 but in that sphere of being    
where love is indeed the fulfilling of  
the law1 shall the patient givers1 those
 who have served at love's altars1 find 
themselves closely allied to the        
immortal ones1 who do his pleasure4     
,love1 garlanded1 and adorned with all  

that wealth can bestow1 enthroned in    
seats of honor1 and social recognition  
is accepted as our ideal of what love   
should claim1 and win from life2 but ,i 
have looked into the faces of humble1   
patient toilers1 and there ,i have seen 
that the sustaining influence with them 
was love1 and have marvelled greatly    
over the compelling power of their      
ideals of love4  ,remembering that      
foundations of love upon this earthly   
planet were1 of necessity1 laid in the  
selfish instincts of the race--a race as
 yet so undeveloped in all that makes   
for righteousness--we need not despair  
of the final outcome1 and realization of
 its high behest to the children of men2
 for no expression of love1 however mean
 in view of our own exalted ideals1 but 
is1 in reality1 an effort towards       
something higher and better4  ,the      
obdurate and selfish are unfolded1 and  
taught by its painful misunderstandings1
 and awful tragedies4  ,those poor souls
 who expect everything from this life1  

whose ideals are bounded by their own   
selfishness1 who have never discovered  
that ,god is ,love1 and that only       
through love1 purified1 exalted and     
idealized can any of his earthly        
children ever reach to any conscious    
relationship with our ,father in        
,heaven1 and who1 failing to realize    
even their low ideals1 pass on from one 
experience to another vainly searching  
for the realization of what their dimly 
perceived intuitions of love constantly 
assure them should be theirs--for even  
such as these there must be a final     
redemption2 for1 like one of old1 they  
have loved much1 and the sins of a vast 
ignorance are at last condoned by ,god's
 all pervading1 untiring1 illimitable   
law of love4  ,o ye6 who labor for      
humanity's uplifting2 ,o weary workers  
in the homely ways of the unskilled in  
every relationship of life1 unrecognized
 by your fellows be ye of good cheer6   
,as the circling waves of a calm lake   
spread wider1 and more widely from a    

center disturbed by some heavy          
substance1 so shall your least word1 or 
thought of pure1 unselfish love1 from   
your overburdened lives1 reach out and  
diffuse an influence throughout the     
universe of ,god1 and become a part of  
the life immortal6  ,love1 and love     
alone creates the desire for            
immortality1 lifts up and renews the oft
 fainting faith1 the faltering1         
changeful hope1 and perpetuates the     
expectations of the restoration of      
beloved companions1 the reunion of      
families1 and friends4  ,it inspires the
 spirit1 and seals the brokenhearted to 
the service of ideal love4  ,it leads   
the human soul onward1 and upward1 until
 it triumphs1 at last1 over this life's 
defeats and losses1 and its manifold    
despairs4  ,undeterred by the alarms of 
war1 the wails of the diseased and      
famine-cursed1 and the violent protests 
of the oppressed1 and misery-steeped    
unfortunates of this plane of being1 the
 ,prince of ,peace is calling together  

his scattered forces4  ,the beacon      
lights shine along the high places where
 dwell the exalted1 and powerful ones of
 earth1 and glimmer faintly from the    
lowlands1 where the dire enemies of     
mankind--ignorance and                  
superstition--are1 at last1 learning    
that ,god1 the true ,god1 loves1 and    
cannot hate4  ,the ground-swell of the  
ideal love cannot be resisted1 nor      
overborne by any competing power in the 
universe1 and with ever-increasing force
 and power to conquer all of earth's    
conditions of unrest1 and               
dissatisfaction1 born of false ideals1  
it will sweep resistlessly on1 until it 
is merged in ,god4  ,the recognition of 
the homogeneity of the race1 and the    
,fatherhood of ,god1 shall bring the    
longed for fulfillment of the ancient   
prophecy of ,peace on ,earth1 and good  
will to ,man4        99      99      99 
99      99      99  ,the priests endowed
 the gods with vices which they knew to 
be popular among their rich and powerful

 patrons4     ,,the ,,needs ,,of        
,,woman4  ,women need any and all       
disciplines which teach them            
self-justice4 ,there are many noble and 
good women who allow their whole lives  
to be picked away from them by demands  
upon their time and strength which come 
to them under the guise of duties4      
,viewed from a higher standpoint1 they  
are not duties1 in that they conflict   
with the great underlying principle of  
self-justice4  ,this is the pivotal idea
 of a true religion2 for it is          
impossible to be true1 to be just to    
others save as we are so to ourselves1  
and while no character can be perfected1
 except through the fiery ordeal of an  
entire self-abnegation1 there is a      
higher1 and a holier life in store for  
those who have the strength1 and the    
courage to plant their feet upon this   
,god-given and eternal law of justice to
 self4  ,it is comparatively easy to    
gird one's self for the conflict which  
is apparent1 nearly all women souls are 

equal to that heroism2 but it is in the 
daily round of the household1 in        
relation to the church1 and to society1 
or to the professions where women need  
to watch most jealously the weakness of 
self-sacrifice4  ,women have had the    
beauty of unselfishness1 and amiability 
dinned into their ears for so long that 
there is no depth of degradation1 or of 
abnegation of true womanhood to which   
they will not descend for the sake of   
being so considered by those whose      
interest it is to keep them where they  
virtually endorse the vices of others by
 their own lack of self-justice4  ,while
 we must grope along until we understand
 the wickedness of this1 and until we   
outgrow that weakness1 let us be ready  
for1 and equal to the hour which shall  
give us the laurels of the victor4  ,and
 why not laurels8  ,has it not been     
uttered by the mouth of inspired        
prophecy that the last shall be first1  
and that the stone rejected by the      
builders shall yet be the head of the   

corner8  ,it rests with us1             
individually1 to represent that         
truthfulness1 and faithful adherence to 
the justice due to womanhood which shall
 yet crown her with rejoicing4  ,to this
 end women must begin to gather in those
 pearls of unselfish devotion and       
self-abnegation which they have been so 
recklessly casting under the feet of    
ignorance and beastliness4  ,it is      
blessed for lovely and loving woman to  
bestow bountifully from the richness of 
her nature4  ,but every grace has its   
complement1 and the complement of this1 
for the present1 is the greater blessing
 of conserving herself until she knows  
her power as an individual1 and         
thoroughly comprehends what is due to   
her dignity and worth4     ,,man        
,,versus ,,woman4  ,man1 living entirely
 in his physical nature1 goes on and on 
in the gratification of the senses until
 he becomes satiated1 and blas1 and     
there is nothing satisfactory left for  
him upon the sensuous plane4 ,then he   

either crystallizes into a hard1 selfish
 being1 or plunges still deeper into the
 slough of sensuality from which ,divine
 ,love alone can rescue him4  ,this     
power is most often manifested by woman1
 the natural law-giver and redeemer4    
,for ages man has projected his selfish 
human will into all the affairs of life1
 thus setting aside the higher law4  ,in
 the love relations he has specially    
dominated woman1 reversing the divine   
order of nature1 and thus killing out   
all possible inspiration1 and consequent
 happiness4  ,everywhere he has set up  
his own lustful desires as the rule and 
right of life in his relationship to    
woman1 destroying the spiritual         
sacrament of marriage2 and by his       
selfishness and greed of power1 he has  
reduced her to a condition of           
prostitution4  ,he outrages the helpless
 ones who have confided their honor1 and
 their lives to his keeping1 and the    
law--the vile1 cursed1 man-made         
law--upholds him in this slaughter of   

all that should make his heaven of      
trusting love4  ,the wails of the       
wronged ones--specially those who suffer
 in the marriage relation--go up        
incessantly to ,god1 and the woe of the 
children who1 through these conditions1 
have inherited only animal love and     
instinct is enough to drown the music of
 the spheres4  ,parenthood being one    
phase of unfoldment1 each individual    
must at some period of incarnation      
exercise this important function4  ,to  
the uses of reproduction1 the animal    
love with its blustering activities of  
expression1 is1 rightly understood1     
adjusted4  ,but above and beyond this is
 the spiritual union which brings forth 
children of the mind1 the fruitage of   
the soul1 manifest in noble thoughts and
 brave deeds4 ,every expression of love1
 however crude and animal1 is an        
impulsion of the flesh-enveloped soul   
toward the source of all love1 and      
however distasteful one may seem1 to    
such as have evolved a spiritual        

consciousness1 and the demand for soul  
satisfaction1 it cannot be ignored4     
,through the pain of satiety1 of        
disease1 or suspended activity of the   
love nature1 the ego at last senses its 
need of ,god4  ,it comes to know that   
nothing less than divine love can ever  
satisfy this demand of the heart4  ,the 
constant tendency of the inspired human 
being is to extremes4  ,the golden mean 
is the high water mark of real          
cultivation4  ,we have on one side the  
suppression of the ascetic1 and at the  
other end of the line the abandonment of
 the debauchee--both sinful and false   
because extreme1 both casting a reproach
 upon the laws of ,god as outworked in1 
and through nature4  ,the ascetic1      
seeing the harmful results to the soul  
attending the usual unlimited1 and      
undisciplined expression of nature which
 man accords to his supposed            
necessities1 draws the line by cutting  
off all surplus of physical supplies    
and1 stifling the cries of passion1     

retires into a cave or cell1 and into   
himself1 thus totally ignoring all the  
necessary activities attending the      
development of this planet and of the   
human race4  ,he may thus reach a high  
altitude of purely spiritual perception2
 but it is1 after all1 a sublimated     
selfishness4  ,his example is of no     
benefit to the world's workers4  ,he is 
not of those who think and feel1 and who
 are in the way of divulging esoteric   
knowledges to the quest of the vast army
 of earnest seekers after light upon    
these underlying laws of human life4    
,for the control by man of the love1 and
 the life of woman there is a           
cut-and-dried sentiment and an enforced 
law concerning the segregated exercise  
of a natural function4  ,by her         
acceptance1 or rejection of this        
onesided morale1 is woman judged pure or
 impure1 blessed or cursed1 as the case 
may be4  ,if this rule could be enforced
 equally upon both sexes1 if there were 
not two distinct sets of moral laws1 one

 for man1 and quite another for woman1  
there would be no such injustice4 ,as it
 is1 there is but one way left open for 
woman4  ,she must develop the power and 
will to be a law unto herself1          
regardless of the suspicion1 and        
brutality of man1 and with this also    
indifference to the foolness and the    
weak protest of her fellow              
slaves--women4  ,these are long1 long   
thoughts4  ,ages must elapse ere the    
males of our kind will have evoluted up 
to a status where they will see that    
through justice to woman alone can they 
secure to themselves any degree of      
worthy1 or lasting happiness1 or        
satisfaction4     ,,natural ,,cruelty   
,,of ,,the ,,undeveloped4  ,the most    
unaccountable phase of the minds of the 
leaders of religions has been their     
persistent effort to make their fellow  
beings wretched and miserable instead of
 glad and happy4  ,we expect savagery   
from the ,comanchee ,indians and other  
primitive tribes and races2 but from    

self-styled ,christians the history of  
their cruelties is astounding4 ,it is   
pure devil worship--that is what it     
is--if they but knew it4  ,one of the   
beautiful plans of theologians and      
priests for scaring half-witted people  
into their individual folds has been    
telling them that they were in danger of
 committing the most dreadful of all    
sins1 the sin against the ,holy ,ghost4 
,the utterly unpardonable sin of all    
sins4  ,this blasphemous1 fiendish      
proposition has frightened numbers of   
half-baked folks1 and they have pestered
 their small modicum of brains over this
 mysterious say-so of priests and       
parsons even to the point of committing 
suicide1 or of landing themselves in    
lunatic asylums4     ,,the ,,worst      
,,sin4  ,the much speculated over sin   
against the ,holy ,ghost1 the so-called 
unpardonable sin is the sin that men and
 women commit against themselves2 for   
the most holy of all ghosts1 or spirits1
 is that portion of ,god--the universal 

,spirit--embodied in their own separate 
personalities1 and it is only           
unpardonable in that it sets the soul   
back from its possible and intended     
progress toward its ultimate perfection4
     ,,reincarnation4  ,the objections  
to the acceptance of a belief in the law
 of reincarnation are based upon the    
imperfect teaching1 and the consequent  
inadequate understanding of the laws    
controlling such experiences4  ,some of 
the reasons for disbelief are utterly   
illogical4  ,for instance1 one view is  
this3 ,i never want to come back to this
 earth after ,i once leave it4  ,the    
fact is1 that there could be no return  
to today's recognized conditions of     
life4  ,if one were to return to this   
planet and become reembodied1 he would  
find himself in some other country1 and 
under such entirely changed conditions  
that he would be totally unconscious of 
being on the same world where he had    
formerly lived4 ,then1 again1 the law of
 vibration is so immanent in material   

things1 the changes are so constantly   
undermining conditions and setting up   
quite others that if one were to return 
in one hundred or even in fifty years1  
it could not be the same1 and that      
person could not be in any way subject  
to the same conditions1 or to the same  
experiences4  ,furthermore1 it is       
nature's wise and provident law that    
there is hardly ever any memory of any  
previous life here4  ,still1 after the  
soul has passed through many lives and  
has accumulated great knowledge1 a vast 
consciousness which can not be laid     
aside1 there come to individual souls   
faint gleams of memories of past        
experiences which1 if heeded or         
understood1 might become helpful and    
instructive1 if not altogether          
consoling4  ,there has never been a time
 when the needs of humanity have so     
reached the great spiritual overlords of
 this planet as at present4  ,or1 that  
those needs have been so responded to by
 the return to earth of wise1 and       

godlike spirits as now4  ,many of these 
have sought to approach humanity through
 personal reembodiment in the flesh4    
,it would be well for the world if1     
instead of cramming the brains of       
children with effete ideas and          
superstitions1 the messages of these    
wise ones could be listened to and      
heeded4  ,a thorough understanding of   
the laws of reembodiment1 so far as we  
can know them1 entirely refutes the     
belief and the feeling of the injustice 
of the ,creator towards any human being4
  ,the law of evolution carries the soul
 along from one expression of life to   
another giving to each individual the   
opportunity to accumulate such          
knowledge1 and to grow such character as
 shall finally bring it to a state of   
perfection4  ,the discrepancies in human
 life are largely external4  ,the       
millionaire1 envied by less fortunate   
beings1 may be far below the poor1      
struggling laborer in point of real     
unfoldment of soul4  ,and again1 people 

so favored in this material experience  
of life may be forced by the very nature
 of existence to return into humble     
conditions to learn the real lessons of 
life here4  ,we are not the arbiters of 
our own destiny1 and the sooner we      
conceive the idea of non-resistence to  
fate1 realize that our lives are guided 
by unerring law1 and simply set         
ourselves to trying to understand the   
meanings of our experiences1 and to     
trying to wring from each one all that  
it is intended to teach us1 seeking to  
learn from it all that we possibly can  
in order that we may not be forced to be
 taught the lessons over again1 the     
better for our growth and happiness4    
,this earth1 our birth place1 our       
kindergarten school1 and the university 
from which we must each graduate1 having
 once received us1 can never let go its 
hold upon one of its children until this
 final result is attained4  ,over and   
over again1 the lives of all who belong 
to this planet pass into the invisible  

realms of ,nature to rest from the      
sordid and wearisome experiences of     
material life1 and again return to seek 
out further growth and understanding1   
until the final culmination is reached4 
,the soul is hurried on through its     
experiences of departing and returning1 
until earth has no further lesson1 no   
further service to perform4  ,then1     
indeed1 it may graduate and ascend to   
its place among the gods4        99     
99      99      99      99      99      
,newly-embodied souls might be          
considered as raw material flung out    
upon the sea of life to be ground and   
polished by experience1 and grown into a
 semblance of perfection befitting the  
children of ,god4     ,,processes ,,of  
,,reincarnation4  ,spirit has no        
consciousness on the material plane1    
except through the vibratory action of  
the human brain1 the mortal mind4  ,the 
individual ego gathers up from each     
incarnation--if it is true to           
itself--some knowledge1 some wisdom1 and

 stores it away in the spirit brain4    
,its experiences cover every opportunity
 to understand1 from lowest to highest1 
all that any single one in the whole    
human family has ever known4  ,this is  
the justice of the great ,creator4  ,the
 king today has been in some previous   
life an oppressed laborer1 and if he    
could for a moment lay aside his        
egotistical pride of power and place1 he
 might remember and know how 'tis       
himself4  ,men and women of thought1 of 
great character have returned from each 
separate incarnation1 for rest from the 
destroyed physical1 loaded like the     
honey bee with the results of labor and 
effort4  ,when the practised soul       
familiarizes itself with the newly-born1
 fleshly tabernacle it is to inhabit and
 use for a long or a short time1 it     
broods over the unconscious being1 and  
at the first indication of intelligence1
 pours into the human brain-cells its   
own spiritual life1 and what thus comes 
in is there to stay4  ,the growth of the

 child1 the development of the          
individual1 depends mostly upon the     
capacity of the brain to receive and    
adjust this knowledge and inspiration to
 its use upon the earth plane upon which
 it is to live1 the place1 the          
environment in which it is to learn its 
next needed lessons4  ,the soul1 the    
ego1 thus placed1 is bound and shackled 
by its human heredity4  ,this is        
inevitable1 it has no choice as to its  
lineaments or figure4  ,it in a sense   
bears the sins of the world2 it can in  
no way separate itself1 really1 from the
 whole human family4  ,when the         
experiences of the dual nature1 the body
 and soul1 from any cause1 bring the    
body1 or the brain into conditions where
 it can no longer respond to the uses of
 the spirit1 then occurs what is called 
death--physical dissolution4  ,but this 
change is simply the unclothing of the  
spirit from its earthly conditions1     
setting it free to return again to its  
home1 there to review what it has       

gained1 and added to its previous stock 
of knowledge4  ,the individual soul in  
each incarnation forms for itself ties  
more or less real and lasting--with the 
mother1 the fleshly vehicle1 through    
whose mysterious service it enters upon 
its earthly life2 with the male parent  
whose service to humanity may1 or may   
not be godly or godlike1 though natural 
and necessary2 with family relations2   
and with friends1 public and private4   
,nearly every person who passes through 
this unveiling comes to the grave-side  
with trains of friends to whom he is    
attached1 and whom he will not forget1  
and he will stay on and on in his heaven
 till every claim upon his love1 or     
service is fully satisfied4  ,no more   
severing of ties2 no more broken hearts1
 or disappointed hopes4  ,no injustice1 
full fruition in heaven4  ,this         
adjustment measured by earthly reckoning
 may take long reaches of time1 but     
finally1 the soul1 stirred by the       
eternal law of progress1 of unfoldment1 

repeats its former experience1 drinks of
 the cup of forgetfulness1 and returns  
again to learn in the great university  
of unfolding life on this planet4  ,a   
vast multitude1 it is coming and going1 
unceasingly moving on4  ,no two alike2  
each in its place pressing forward to   
the station which the totality of its   
experiences through many lives entitles 
it4  ,there is but one law1 but one     
method that abides4  ,it is the         
spiritual law of evolution2 everyone is 
held by it2 all who seem exempt today   
from its influence upon their lives1    
have already passed the crucial tests1  
or are traveling forward to meet them4  
,sooner or later every human soul must  
inevitably take its turn1 until it      
passes up through the whole gamut of    
earthly experience4  ,whatever character
 anyone achieves belongs to the         
individual eternally4  ,it is the reward
 of patient service1 of consecrated     
effort for the truth4 ,great souls are  
what they are1 in the places they now   

occupy by virtue of their many          
incarnations4  ,through the great       
variety of experiences gained1 they have
 come to know4  ,they have earned the   
right to be what they are4  ,there are  
usurpers in all the ways of life1       
ignorance and hypocracy masquerading as 
the real thing1 but they do not last4   
,pretenders are soon unmasked and taken 
at their true value4  ,sometimes the    
spirit is strong enough to ignore its   
present surroundings and rise above all 
the obstacles connected with its        
material heredity4  ,it depends upon the
 unfoldment of the spirit whether it    
shall espouse the cause of progress and 
truth1 or yield to the pressure of its  
environment and shrink back into a lower
 grade1 and lose the opportunity for    
further growth4     ,,education ,,of    
,,children4  ,nearly all so-called      
civilized people set to work to cram the
 minds of their children1 at the first  
indication of any degree of             
intelligence1 with a religious bias such

 as they themselves have inherited or   
have been taught4  ,then the intellect  
must be shaped1 forced and driven into  
accepted moulds1 and the human being is 
considered ready to be turned out into  
the world to fight the battle which     
everyone1 in one way or another1 must   
fight all along the way of human        
life--to begin to test the value of the 
ideas and principles with which the soul
 has been furnished to meet all the     
exigencies incident to the pilgrimage   
from birth to the final exit from this  
state of being4  ,it has taken uncounted
 ages to produce the perfected types of 
physical humanity we see on earth today4
  ,here ,nature calls a halt1 saying3   
,as the handmaid1 the co-worker with    
your ,creator1 ,i have brought you along
 to the point where you look and seem   
almost as gods4  ,there is in each of   
you a divine ego--a thought of your     
,creator--a sure guide to perfection4   
,to reach this goal must be now your    
constant endeavor4 ,there is a spiritual

 body1 the outgrowth of the physical4   
,thousands of children1 too young to    
choose for themselves1 are being        
fettered in spirit by the chains of old1
 effete superstitions2 their intellects 
are being stultified by the absorption  
of narrowing creeds and vulgarizing     
ideas of ,god and his universe4  ,there 
are numbers of ,spiritualists and       
liberal men and women who expose the    
tender minds of their children to these 
same influences for society's sake1     
knowing though they do1 from hard       
experience1 what an effort it costs to  
free the mind of such serious bias1 and 
re-educate it aright4        99      99 
99      99      99      99  ,the noblest
 teaching is that which puts us en      
rapport with our own inner1 unspoken and
 unrecognized perceptions4  ,no truth1  
however manifested1 can adjust itself to
 our soul's needs1 save as it finds in  
us a response through that preparation  
which comes from a certain degree of    
previous knowledge4     ,,egotism4      

,egotism is the perception1 and         
recognition by individuals of the rights
 and the possibilities of their real    
selves1 their ego4  ,without it human   
beings would not stand up on their hind 
legs1 they would crawl4 ,it is at the   
same time a necessity and a danger4  ,it
 has never been settled which is cause  
and which effect1 whether insanity      
creates the awful manifestations of     
egotism or the unbalanced egotism       
induces insanity4  ,keep us sane is the 
wisest of all prayers1 the greatest     
demand one can make upon his            
consciousness4  ,people pass into the   
spirit world in the full bloom of their 
egotism2 hordes of them return to tell  
their friends things they know          
absolutely nothing about1 and the folks 
on this side believe all they say1 and  
so fool ignorance is passed along and   
stays in the minds of those who listen  
to the messages of egotism and          
ignorance4  ,there are dead loads of    
people who think this is all there is of

 ,spiritualism4  ,while it is blessed   
that friends can return1 and comfort the
 mourning ones by their assurances of   
remembrance and love1 this should never 
be the final result sought for4  ,those 
who have lived but a limited time in the
 spirit world--the world of causes1 of  
law--cannot teach people here the       
knowledge that can satisfy their souls4 
,but there are educated souls1 who have 
once lived honored and useful lives     
here1 who are only too glad to respond  
to the needs of inquiring humanity1     
teaching them the ways of wisdom1 and   
lifting them out of ignorance and       
darkness into the light4                
,,responsiveness4  ,surely we are trying
 to solve the biggest problems before   
the class4 ,the people who are our      
profoundest teachers1 through whom come 
our largest experiences and knowledge   
are often most unconscious of their     
influence on other minds2 and this is   
lawful1 for the moment a human soul     
begins to wriggle either from anxiety or

 egotism1 the divine chemical affinities
 are disturbed4  ,long before we get up 
to ,god1 our nearer relative1 ,mother   
,nature1 is most gracious in her methods
 of unfoldment1 standing ever ready to  
whisper in the devoted1 or willing ear1 
her open sesame to the manifold workings
 of her secret laws4  ,it is ever the   
same old exhortation3 ,seek and ye shall
 find1 ,knock and it shall be opened to 
you1 and the most wonderful of all is1  
the amount of unexpected testimony1 and 
endorsement which she will contrive to  
bring to bear to prove to you the truth 
of what she asserts through your own    
individual experience4  ,elective       
affinities hold their own royally4  ,you
 shall think and feel deeply1 and the   
first friend you meet shall tell        
you--quite spontaneously--of his        
ponderings which tally with your own1   
never suspecting that they are held to  
you by a subtle1 and beautiful          
chemistry1 the response of soul to soul4
  ,there is but one integral law4  ,all 

others are but its radiations4  ,the    
natural tendency of the human mind is   
ever toward being satisfied with its    
present limitations1 instead of which we
 ought to constantly exercise our will  
and aspiration to fling off the mists of
 prejudice which so easily envelop the  
soul1 and strive ever to enlarge our    
horizon1 and push on to higher and      
better things4     ,,hell4  ,such men as
 ,j4 ,knox in ,scotland and ,j4 ,edwards
 in this country must have had chronic  
indigestion or cancers in their insides1
 or they could not have revelled so in  
hell1 and eternal damnation as they did4
 ,what unreckoned miseries would surely 
have been spared their listeners if     
they1 and thousands of their sort1 could
 have developed a modicum of ,christian 
feeling and a little kindness toward    
their hypnotized hearers6  ,not only    
from their immediate1 personal teachings
 came awful fears of what must be the   
fate of all who were under the judgment 
as set forth by the unbalanced minds of 

such as these2 but the long ineradicable
 chain of influences that haunt1 and    
torture the minds of good folks1 even to
 this day4  ,the utter lack of wisdom   
and knowledge of ,god's laws and        
providence1 in the realm of theological 
teachings1 is undoubtedly the cause of  
much of the diablerie of the world      
today4  ,if all the priests and parsons 
who have ever infested this earth with  
their blasphemous theology were to unite
 their fiendish forces in a concentrated
 effort to doom one human soul--one     
spirit--to be burned forever in the     
endless hell fires which they have so   
long exulted in holding up over poor1   
wretched1 ignorant peoples1 they could  
not do it6 ,they have had a glorious    
time persecuting1 torturing1 burning and
 slaying human bodies1 driving millions 
of innocent inhabitants off the planet1 
who had just as much right to           
this--their home--as had1 or can ever   
have any set of bloodthirsty ruffians1  
claiming their commissions from ,god    

,almighty6  ,how thoughtless1 expecting 
the religionists to put aside this1     
their most cherished dogma1 of eternal  
punishment in hell fires6  ,what would  
they have left to scare folks with1 and 
make them hand over their dollars1 and  
what1 ,o what6 vent could they have for 
their own natural1 pure cussedness8     
,,the ,,commonplace4  ,great is the god 
,commonplace1 and his prophets of the   
accredited order of the ,common1 ornary 
,kusses are legion4  ,they are of both  
sexes and of every race1 age and        
condition4  ,consent to render homage to
 their ,deity by confessing by word and 
deed that every man is as good as       
another and better too1 and they will   
continue to smile openly2 but1 in       
secret1 they will prey upon you4  ,their
 capable emissaries go around with      
measuring line and shears1 alert to     
discover1 and ready to reduce to the    
proper dimensions anyone who shall dare 
to outgrow their prescribed proportions4
  ,you can never know when you are safe 

from their incursions4  ,the dignified  
old man who sits next you at your hotel 
table seeming to be entirely preoccupied
 by the discussion of his dinner1 may   
only be biding his time1 waiting an     
excuse to deliver you over to their     
insatiable maw1 to be dealt with        
according to the rules of their society4
  ,or1 perhaps the lady who in the first
 flush of your acquaintance quite       
dazzles you with her fluent chat upon   
multitudinous topics1 suddenly1 upon    
finding you unguardedly expressing      
opinions not approved by the high       
priests of mediocrity1 lets fall her    
mask1 and shows herself to your         
astonished gaze a secret emissary1 a    
determined servant of their most ancient
 and established order4  ,thus far1 so  
far as we can accompany you1 shalt thou 
go and no farther at your peril4  ,woe  
to the soul that yields a ready         
obedience to the master's voice1 that is
 ever calling to all who can hear3 ,come
 up higher4  ,the sash with which he    

would gird up his loins1 the latchet    
with which he tightens his sandals that 
he may run more swiftly the race set    
before him1 the staff upon which he     
would lean shall all be turned by these 
demon worshippers into scourges4  ,he   
shall be beaten with many stripes1 for  
so it hath been ordained from long time1
 until the pain of his wounded heart and
 hurt brain shall deaden his            
sensibilities so that he can no more    
hear the voice nor see the helping hand4
  ,defy1 resist1 and the limp1          
sprawling1 accommodating ,god becomes a 
sinuous1 hydracrested1 overpowering     
dragon1 stopping at nothing to put you  
where you belong--his favorite battle   
cry--himself judge1 jury and            
executioner4  ,this he has not the power
 to do unless he can prove to you that  
you belong where he seeks to place you1 
for his veins are full of mud4  ,he is  
of the earth earthy1 and in the rarified
 atmosphere of noble ambition and great 
achievements1 he is utterly blind and of

 no account4  ,take heart1 then1 ,o     
aspiring soul6  ,prove all things2 hold 
fast that which is good4  ,render unto  
every true principle that which is its  
due2 but beware how you worship or lean 
upon teachers1 leaders who1 beneath     
their proudly-worn garb1 and insignia of
 leadership1 may be all the time wearing
 the robes of the high priests of the   
god ,commonplace4     ,,petroleum4      
',pears like the affairs of life on this
 planet are dreadfully                  
higgledy-piggledy2 but in reality1 there
 is a divine purpose1 a use in it all4  
,it is the soul's kindergarten4  ,it is 
interesting to observe the curious and  
round-about ways ,nature takes to insure
 the greatest good to the greatest      
number of her needy children4  ,long    
before the first nitro-glycerine        
go-devil was sent down1 down1 to the    
uttermost depths1 to shatter the        
oil-bearing rock1 and set free the      
wonderful deposit that was destined to  
mark a new era in the affairs of men1   

rang out the ,biblical mandate3 ,let    
there be light1 and in due time the     
whole world was illuminated4  ,the      
sorcerers1 who have abstracted vast     
wealth from this earth product have     
fancied it was for their special benefit
 and use1 that nature had garnered up   
her stores to be thus liberated1 and    
chemicalized into a thousand forms1 by  
their sagacious work4  ,not so6  ,quite 
indeed1 not so6  ,came--at last--the    
kerosene lamp4  ,how marvelous the light
 of its clear flame1 after tallow dips  
and pine knots6  ,how the little lamp of
 the first experiment grew1 and grew    
into gorgeous centers of sun-like       
radiance1 shining everywhere1           
illuminating hitherto darkened1         
impenetrable places1 carrying the torch 
of civilization round the entire world4 
,alike in slum and palace1 in homes of  
poverty1 and set to shine in the gilded 
resorts of the noble and wealthy2       
blessing the student1 and the vast army 
of enforced workers2 lighting the paths 

of men1 and the ways of the multitude2  
making vice and crime more difficult1 by
 dispersing the darkness from hidden    
purlieus4  ,through primeval depths and 
mountain fastnesses1 wherever the       
footsteps of men have wandered1 the     
magic lamp has pioneered the way4  ,all 
war is horrible4  ,through what agonies 
of loss1 and orgies of death1 and       
tortures of the weak driven to the wall 
by unscrupulous men the war against     
material darkness on this planet has    
been carried on is utterly unimaginable 
and impossible ever to be known4  ,the  
end has been reached1 the great needs of
 humanity at large have been and are    
being served1 and while superior sources
 of light have largely taken the place  
of the oil lamp1 it still shines calmly 
on in the homes of the poor1 and will1  
for ages yet to come4        99      99 
99      99      99      99  ,as a man   
thinketh1 so is he4  ,this may be only  
measurably true1 in consequence of the  
stress of circumstances2 but sooner or  

later1 the thought moulds the individual
 beyond the power of disguising the real
 character4     ,,law4  ,it was all in  
order for ,yahweh1 the guardian spirit  
of the ,hebrew race1 to hetchel the     
,jews--and from all accounts they needed
 it--but the most anomalous phase of    
this whole affair consists in the fact  
that after having set forth to the world
 that the church1 and all were to come  
under the rule of the new dispensation1 
and represent the teachings of the      
,master1 they should turn back to the   
old1 old history of the ,jews1 and      
incorporate bodily into the so-called   
,christian religion1 and into the       
political life and jurisprudence of     
nations1 the restrictions1 the          
penalties1 and1 in a word1 the ,hebraic 
law in its entirety4  ,law1 as it is    
applied in ,america1 is a process       
lacking in equity and justice4  ,it is  
circumvented by -s for the benefit of   
the rich1 a menace to the poor man1     
binding on the needy burdens that kill1 

or lead to despair4  ,jesus ,christ did 
not make law2 he only indicated the     
presence of the higher law--the         
scientific law--that must rule all life 
on this planet ere justice to all can   
ever prevail4  ,the gospel of           
,jesus--the ,nazarene--was the first    
that ever brought hope or promise of any
 possible good to the outcast1 and the  
children of poverty4     ,,communism4   
,communism is the beginning1 and not the
 culminating state of societies and     
peoples4  ,all efforts on this line     
fail1 because they are based upon the   
false and impossible premise of the     
absolute equality of all men4  ,there   
never has been1 there never can be any  
such adjustment of the forces of nature 
on this planet2 because no two souls are
 alike and there can only be equality in
 alikeness4  ,spirits come here in      
groups4 ,they start simultaneously on   
their pilgrimage across the sands of    
time2 but at the very outset there are  
obstacles and handicaps innumerable4    

,at once there is heredity4  ,there is  
no equality in heredity4  ,it is good1  
bad or indifferent as the case may be4  
,but the great divergence is in the soul
 itself2 it grovels or aspires1 and     
unfolds its powers according to the laws
 of its own individual being1 and all   
men1 and women should not be held       
accountable or judged alike4 ,it is not 
just4  ,communism would seek to suppress
 all individuality and reduce everyone  
to the dead level of the commonplace1   
under the mistaken idea of universal    
equality4  ,gifted persons daring to    
lift up their heads above the common    
ruck of mankind1 are at once shoved back
 into the narrow groove the heads of the
 cult have decided to be the proper rut 
for human beings to run in4  ,in this   
view1 persons of ignoble and narrow     
natures may sit in judgment upon people 
of genius and refinement1 and may force 
back the most aspiring seer into        
expressionless life by the utter lack of
 any comprehension by their dull1       

selfish fancy4  ,ye gods6  ,how they    
exult in doing it6  ,this trick is      
played upon sensitive1 modest1 gifted   
people everywhere4  ,fools set the pace 
and rule1 and those who know the least  
of the responsibilities of living are   
the first to rush forward and grab them 
up4  ,envy and jealousy have it all     
their own way1 and so it is the world   
around2 everyone is forced to pay a     
fearful price for his superiority4  ,at 
different times poets and writers1 good 
people of distinction and philanthropy1 
weary of the storm and stress of life   
and of invasions and intolerable        
bumptiousness of the vulgar and         
indiscriminating1 have tried to secure a
 place and surroundings where high      
thinking and simple living might order  
their days and secure to them           
companionship fit for the gods2 but the 
noblest and best of humanity are not    
permitted to go off by themselves in    
such ways and have a little heaven on   
earth all to themselves4  ,this cannot  

be4  ,they must stand apart each in     
their place1 out in the world--in the   
open--that they may each one stand as a 
beacon light1 object lesson1 leader1 and
 thus assist in leavening the whole lump
 of ignorant and unregenerate humanity4 
,,happiness4  ,happiness is the final   
achievement of the human soul4  ,perfect
 happiness can only come as the result  
of absolute at-one-ment with ,god1 the  
divine will1 and in this conforming     
there is no loss of personality1 or of  
individuality2 it only rounds out the   
soul into its godlike completeness4  ,it
 is unimaginable that there should come 
loss of any attribute of the soul on its
 way up to the rendez-vous with its     
,parent1 ,god4  ,rather1 that its powers
 should increase in every possible      
direction with use1 in conformity with  
divine law4  ,this is the only true     
happiness4  ,the ideals of happiness    
cherished by men take in an immensely   
wide range1 and bring into action all   
the peculiar attributes of the composite

 natures of man4  ,the brutal instinct  
cries out3 ,kill6 kill6 ,bloodsheding is
 its ravishing delight4  ,when it       
arrives at a point where it may not     
destroy its fellows1 the whole created  
animal kingdom--including woman--is its 
prey4  ,wars and rumors of wars will    
never cease on this planet until        
humanity at large develops out of this  
grade which expects to find happiness in
 the exercise of its very lowest1       
primitive instincts4  ,further along in 
the line of the evolution of the soul1  
ideals of happiness pursued by man are  
simply futile and childish2 the         
awakening to a realization of this is a 
commonplace1 world-wide experience1 and 
only repeated embodiments can purge the 
soul1 educate the minds of men1 and turn
 their attention to the only true and   
lasting ideals of happiness4     ,,pain4
  ,physical pain beyond a certain point 
ceases to be pain and becomes an        
ecstasy4  ,the same beneficent law      
controls mental and spiritual agonies4  

,they each have their limit4  ,to the   
keenest of sorrows1 the deepest of      
griefs our ,maker has spoken3 ,thus far 
shalt thou go1 and no farther4  ,nurse  
them as we may1 draw them as deeply as  
we can into our soul's recesses1 and    
make them1 in our morbid states1 idols  
to cherish1 they yet lose their power to
 hold our souls in subjection4  ,both   
physically and mentally1 the nerves of  
feeling refuse to respond4 ,they have   
their limitation1 and time holds for    
every heart-breaking experience a       
consolation4  ,if it were not so1 this  
world would be turned into a vast1      
howling lunatic asylum4  ,unseen and    
unrecognized by stricken hearts1 ,the   
,angels of ,his1 who do ,his pleasure   
stand ever ready to pour healing balm   
upon all our wounds1 and to teach the   
great1 eternal truth that afflictions   
are the real educators of the soul4     
,,foes ,,in ,,the ,,household4  ,a man's
 foes shall be they of his own          
household4  ,this saying referred to the

 religious differences which the great  
prophet saw would arise in consequence  
of his peculiar teachings4  ,there are  
no ill feelings between people so       
rancorous and lasting as those which    
spring from such causes1 and as hate is 
but love inverted1 the nearer and dearer
 the relationships1 the more bitter is  
the feeling likely to be engendered4    
,proverbially1 family feuds are the most
 deadly and difficult to eradicate4     
,the friend1 the relative who knows you 
best1 who has seen you in your hours of 
weakness when you have been entirely off
 guard1 is the one who can most injure  
you should anything occur to sever your 
hearts4 ,there is no help for this save 
in that growth of charity and           
forbearance one toward another which    
teaches us to seek not our own1 but to  
try to help each other in the great     
struggle of life4        99      99     
99      99      99      99  ,who are the
 pure in heart8  ,those who aspire to   
the good1 and sacrifice self to attain  

it4  ,what is virtue8  ,that which is   
best for the individual2 not on either  
the animal or the spiritual plane alone2
 but in every lawful expression of the  
nature2 the epitomization1 and          
spiritualization of all past karma from 
the sod up to ,god4     ,,the ,,inner   
,,life4  ,how unreal seems the existence
 of the inner life6  ,how vain our      
intent to catch its meaning1 and portray
 its deepest lessons1 and yet1 it is the
 reality4  ,it forms the center around  
which all external life revolves1 from  
which all outward being receives its    
vitality and assurance of existence4    
,the passive soul heeds not the         
ever-recurring changes which its very   
continued life indicates1 and will1 when
 unveiled by the transforming hand of   
death1 wonder at its wealth of life4    
,the conscious being1 ever alert1 notes 
the changes and the indications of      
ever-progressing life with delight1 and 
awe1 and a profound recognition of the  
law of its being which sets the star of 

its existence higher and higher in the  
heavens1 and lures it on for its own    
perfection even unto the perfect day4   
,to such a soul there is little peace1  
or rest by the way2 but it may finally  
learn a godlike heroism and patience    
which will enable it to trace its steps1
 and see in all its life's experiences a
 sequence which is divine and           
beneficent4        99      99      99   
99      99      99  ,power is silent2   
power does not fume and bluster4  ,it   
holds firmly and steadily on its way1   
and wins by force of its resistless and 
relentless sway4     ,,root ,,of        
,,evils4  ,the most unaccountable phase 
of philanthropic effort put forth by    
good people for the help of humanity is 
their utter failure to apply their      
remedial suggestions1 or helpful        
agencies to the real roots1 or causes1  
of great matters needing attention4     
,everything is approached and dealt with
 entirely from the external4  ,either   
from ignorance or fear of the probable  

results to be met with upon close       
inspection1 the beginnings1 the real    
causes of evil doings are let alone to  
grow until they become unbearable4      
,then comes the hue and cry joined in by
 all who seek to have wrongs righted4   
,such has been1 and is the white slave  
evil4  ,ignorance is the cause of all   
evil2 but the special cause of this     
great1 terrible1 devastating wrong      
starts with the utter lack of the       
education of children by their parents1 
especially of the necessary instruction 
of girls regarding their own natural    
functions1 and their relationship to    
men4  ,the most vitally important       
knowledge that can ever be theirs is    
left entirely out of their home         
education1 and the natural curiosity of 
the young left to the foolish ignorance 
of their young mates1 or of designing   
underlings4        99      99      99   
99      99      99  ,woman is the magnet
 that draws souls to this life4         
,,best ,,in ,,chance4  ,there is no     

method so surely successful in barring  
the progress of the soul as that of     
permitting a prejudice for one phase1 or
 presentation of occult law to so blind 
the perceptions of the mind as to cause 
it to entirely disregard all such views 
as are not already set forth1 and       
accepted4  ,it is as the old story of   
the two who fought over the shield with 
a gold side and a silver side2 because1 
as neither could see both sides at once1
 each considered the statement of the   
other a willful falsehood4  ,let us try1
 at least1 to bear in mind that our     
relationship to this universe has been  
of long enough duration to permit of the
 evolution1 and establishment of many   
series of laws which do not1 as would   
seem at the first glance1 conflict1 or  
force us to a disbelief in our own      
well-accredited experiences4  ,the whole
 united universe is moving forward upon 
evolutionary lines1 and what was1 and is
 true in the beliefs of the ,east1 must 
be today supplemented by the further    

knowledge revealed by the seers of the  
,west4  ,the extreme likeness which     
exists between the different religions  
of the world is everywhere apparent1 and
 the devachan of the ,theosophists      
corresponds to the expected rest in the 
tomb1 until ,gabriel sounds his horn on 
resurrection day of the orthodox        
,christian4  ,the only way the priests  
knew to prevent the knowledge of their  
ignorance coming to their followers was 
to draw a veil over the future of the   
invisible soul1 and promise a long1 long
 rest to the weary and heavy-laden ones1
 to whom this1 alone1 seemed            
compensation for their earthly cares4   
,people are just as tired today as they 
have ever been in the history of the    
world1 but they are growing1 through    
their superior knowledge of occult      
things1 to see how to separate spirit   
and soul from matter1 and to render unto
 each its just due in its proper sphere4
  ,in laying aside the physical body1   
and perceiving that the new life opening

 up before the spirit offers the truest 
possible rest to the enfranchised soul1 
through congenial activities1 and       
obeying its behest finding a real       
heavenly experience through their       
recognition1 and obedience to the       
undeviating law of uses4        99      
99      99      99      99      99  ,we 
do want ,god in the ,constitution2 but  
not the ,god of any creed or ism1 but of
 the great moral principles1 the ethical
 philosophy taught by ,jesus1 the       
,christ4     ,,miserliness4  ,there is  
such a thing as being miserly of        
thoughts and ideas as well as of lucre4 
,one is as foolish as the other4        
,circulation is necessary to health and 
comfortable living4  ,cast off the      
leading strings of other minds4  ,out of
 the abundance of thine own heart speak 
thine own truest1 highest thoughts4     
,think not thy supply will fail1 or that
 by withholding thou shalt increase thy 
store4  ,it is not possible to make a   
corner in this realm1 or to take out a  

mortgage on ,god's gifts4 ,freely ye    
have received1 freely give and thy      
measure shall be pressed down and       
running over4     ,,special             
,,providence4  ,if the absolute         
homogeneity of the race were once       
understood and established in the minds 
of men1 it would put an end to the      
varying modes and methods of thought    
which now only tend to separate their   
minds and hearts4  ,to know1 to feel the
 unity of soul with souls1 and of the   
minds of men with the ,infinite would   
forever wipe out the discord and        
inharmony which now prevail everywhere4 
,not my erring1 and human will1 but thy 
,will of ,wisdom and ,love be done on   
earth as it is in heaven1 must be1      
finally1 the attitude of every aspiring 
soul4  ,too long the ,christian world   
has accepted the legendary ,hebraic     
,god1 in the place of our real ,father  
who art in heaven4  ,the teachings of   
,jesus--the testimony he gave of the    
love of ,god1 if taken to the           

heart--must dispose forever of the      
perception of ,god as a ,being of       
cruelty and revenge1 and given over to  
low attributes4  ,the ,creator of the   
universe--without whom was nothing      
made--manifests to us through the action
 of eternal and unchangeable law4  ,this
 is demonstrated to us by and through   
his vice-gerents1 the angels of his who 
do his pleasure4 ,down1 down from the   
supernal regions1 from the supernal     
plane of being1 comes the ,divine       
,mandate which is made known to the     
human soul through the instrumentality  
that can penetrate the surroundings1 and
 best make manifest the inspiration1 the
 warning1 or the perception of the      
undeviating law which holds all human   
experience and its sure results in its  
care and keeping4  ,and those who dwell 
upon the threshold of the door which    
opens upon the life eternal are those   
who have loved and who still do love the
 children of earth--fathers1 mothers1   
children1 friends who have walked the   

earth by our sides1 and whom no starry  
crowns1 and no glorious heaven could    
tempt away from the work of blessing and
 comforting the sorrowing souls still   
left on earth to mourn the loss of their
 loving companionship1 and sympathy4    
,and this is ,god's ,special ,providence
 made manifest in our lives whenever and
 wherever we have eyes to see and ears  
to hear4        99      99      99      
99      99      99  ,once the soul      
really looks forth and sees1 there can  
be1 after that1 no more sleeping4  ,all 
is effort1 weighing1 balancing1         
deciding1 groping painfully along1 or   
running swiftly the race1 bracing       
against fearful odds1 or bravely        
out-riding the storm4  ,taking it all as
 it comes1 it is increasing action1     
motion1 change4     ,,human ,,destiny4  
,confucius1 long considered the oldest  
and wisest of all the ancient teachers1 
when he was consulted upon an abtruse   
point of ethics1 said in effect3 ,ask   
the ancients4  ,i do not know4  ,the    

results of modern research are          
constantly undermining the              
first-recorded ideas concerning the age1
 and the degree of scientific and       
religious culture of the race1 and we   
may well feel like turning from the     
authenticated historical records with   
which we are familiar to ask of the old1
 old world the occult meanings of the   
messages graven on pillar and on        
chiselled stone4  ,the records which    
have survived the storm and stress of   
the ages bringing down to us unexpected 
knowledge of the lives1 the             
achievements1 and the histories of      
far-off1 long-buried1 hidden and lost   
peoples1 communities1 and even distinct 
personalities1 were carefully planned   
and exactly executed by those who1      
already perceiving the mutability of all
 human life1 and all its affairs1       
who--in a word--realizing that the      
fashion of this world passeth away1     
sought to immortalize and perpetuate    
forever an absolute history of their    

own1 and kindred races1 by the uprearing
 of vast1 imperishable monuments and    
temples1 and abodes of men4  ,the       
pyramids1 majestic rock-hewn places of  
worship1 and subterranean crypts are but
 the fingerposts of destiny4 ,the voice 
of the weird spirit of ,memnon who sits 
enthroned within the awful wastes of the
 desert sands1 moans on and on1 ever the
 same awe-inspiring warning4  ,listen1  
listen1 vain1 evanescent1 puerile       
chrysalis1 man6  ,such as thou art1 so  
were these most ancient of days over the
 history of whose toilsome1 groping     
lives we keep forever jealous watch and 
ward4  ,as they are today1 so shall ye  
become4  ,a little space1 a few cycles  
of time1 and all that lives and stalks  
abroad in the full plentitude of energy 
and ambition shall become resolved into 
the unfathomable the unreadable         
mysteries of the ages4  ,not after such 
fashion shall we of this age of         
widespread enlightenment write our      
history on the annals of the planet's   

life1 and evolution4 ,all that has gone 
before this time--the closing in of the 
vast cycle--has been1 in a way1         
fragmentary1 comet-like2 the whole race 
of mankind has marched around the globe 
again and again4  ,the leaders--the     
head--were the favored few1 priests and 
kings1 warriors and nobles2 the vast    
tail1 the untaught1 the unawakened1 the 
ignorant1 servile masses1 the grovelling
 slaves1 but a remove from the beasts of
 burden4  ,the spur of necessity1 the   
development of ambition1 and avarice1   
and the unfolding of the ego in man     
forced him along upon unknown paths1    
kept him separate from his kind1 and    
built up the distinct races1 in order   
that the individuality of each might    
become distinctly marked and recognized1
 that each1 in his own special          
environment1 might become the highest   
possible expression of what climate1    
soil and other influences1 incident to  
the natural heredity could evolve in the
 lives and beings of given races of men4

  ,it is as though ,nature had disported
 herself in bringing to life an infinite
 variety and diversity among her        
perfected children4  ,but men1 here and 
there1 have always shown the golden cord
 of kinship to astonish and bewilder the
 unwary and unthinking4  ,the virtue and
 honor of a race are considered mere    
superstition and a perpetuation of      
injustice and wrong1 or are accepted as 
a lesson in charity and brotherhood4    
,thus is ever growing and becoming      
established the entire homogeneity of   
the race4  ,we have girded the earth1   
and established our fiery rule in the   
depths of the seas2 the time for the    
fulfilling of a prophecy far reaching in
 its results is even now at hand4  ,that
 which is spoken in the closets1 shall  
be shouted from the housetops4  ,far and
 wide it is whispered in secret places1 
lest it be known of selfish greed or    
ambitious tyranny1 and this it is that  
the human heart conceives1 and human    
lips proclaim3 ,liberty6 liberty66      

liberty666  ,room for noble thought1    
freedom for grand and acceptable work in
 the cause of human enlightenment1 and  
the soul's redemption4 ,the whole vast  
aura of the earth1 the illimitable ether
 trembles and thrills with the majesty  
of the word4  ,high above the           
thunder-roll of human discontent and    
awful pain1 blazes the lightning of     
thought1 and the undying aspiration of  
the soul4  ,and thus shall we tell our  
story--thus record the history of the   
now oncoming race4  ,not in material    
emblems only1 consecrated to the forces 
of nature2 but in the spiritual records 
which tell of the freeing of humanity   
from the tyranny of effete religions1   
and the upbuilding of a new composite   
race1 fear free1 and worshipful only of 
recognized universal truth4             
,,ethical ,,law4  ,setting aside all our
 hereditary beliefs1 all our theological
 teachings let us try to consider the   
true teachings of ,jesus as             
differentiated from the instructions    

given by ,moses for the guidance of the 
,jews4 ,moses never told his people to  
love and forgive their enemies4  ,jesus 
made a strong point of this1 even       
bidding his disciples to forgive        
injuries to the seventieth time4  ,moses
 impressed upon his people the          
excellence of revenge1 always demanding 
an eye for an eye1 a life for a life4   
,jesus said all that sort of            
compensation rested forever with ,god1  
that ,he alone1 who saw and knew the    
hearts of men1 could deal justly with   
them4  ,the old ,jewish law stoned to   
death the immoral woman--not the man--,o
 no6 certainly not6  ,jesus said to a   
flagrant woman brought before him by a  
rabble of men3 ,let him that is without 
sin cast the first stone4  ,what divine 
sarcasm1 and how they are said to have  
slunk away under his perception of them6
  ,how is it now with the ,christian    
religion in the so-called ,christian    
nations8  ,where on the face of the     
earth is there a community or a people  

that is governed and controlled by the  
real teachings of the ,christ8  ,all our
 jurisprudence is based upon the laws   
given to the ,jews by their leader and  
lawgiver4  ,we take the lives of those  
people who are guilty of breaking       
certain laws of ours based upon the laws
 of ,moses1 and while we do not stone   
the life out of those women--not        
men--whom we prove guilty of breaking   
the seventh commandment1 we do build up 
against them walls of conventionality1  
and of uncharity harder than the rocks  
once used for the killing of their      
bodies4  ,consider this beautiful law   
now in operation in the state of ,new   
,york4 ,if a poor1 starving1 homeless1  
hopeless human being1 maddened by the   
bitter woes of life1 seeks surcease of  
pain by throwing off his own individual 
life1 by committing suicide1 the law    
insists that such a one shall be not    
only forced back to a continuance of a  
horrible existence here1 but that each  
and every one of such sinners shall be  

punished by imprisonment and fine4  ,if 
that isn't serving the devil1 what in   
the name of common sense is it8  ,where 
are the good ,samaritans among the      
pretended followers of the loving       
,christ8  ,what sort of a reckoning will
 such lawmakers have to meet1 and what  
penalties undergo under the applied     
judgment of the ,great ,teacher and     
exemplars8  ,woe to him through whom    
offences come1 he said1 and again3      
,because ye did not give aid and comfort
 to the least of these1 ,i will not call
 you of my flock4  ,could anything be   
more brutally unmerciful than such a law
 as this in its dealings with the most  
helpless1 forlorn1 and seemingly        
,godforsaken of all earth's             
children--the voluntary suicide8  ,how  
the demons must gloat over the lost     
souls who formed and enforced such a    
fiendish law6  ,why this everlasting    
harking back to ,moses1 while posing as 
followers of teachings utterly at       
variance with his8 ,let us admit that we

 are ,jews and stop persecuting them    
because they are not ,christians1 or let
 us try to know what ,christ ,jesus     
really meant us to understand by his    
ethics of love and good will to men4    
,many people have lost all their faith  
in the immortality of the soul1 because 
,moses did not preach it4  ,it is quite 
possible that even the worshipped ,moses
 did not know everything that men may   
yet come to know about this1 and anent a
 world of other things4  ,neither did   
the troglodytes1 nor the cliff dwellers 
know of electricity or the ,x-ray6 ,but 
,jesus knew of the life--the eternal1   
unquenchable life--of the soul beyond   
this mortal existence1 and he knew and  
taught the way and the life that leads  
to that higher life4  ,all through his  
teachings run this under-current of     
belief in the value of the individual   
soul1 and instructions as to the highest
 and best way to evolve it from its     
lowest estate up to the ,infinite4      
,fancy what a revolution would come to  

the whole so-called ,christian world if 
the ethics of ,jesus1 so plainly set    
down in his legacy to the children of   
men1 were understood and lived6  ,what  
wrong and injustice would be done away  
with1 what works of mercy would be      
wrought6     ,,human ,,life4  ,from the 
earliest soul consciousness to this very
 hour the mystery of human life has     
been1 and is the subject of greatest    
interest4  ,what is the origin of man8  
,what is he here for8  ,what is the     
everlasting purpose of him8  ,and what1 
,o what is his destiny1 here or         
hereafter8  ,the woeful story told in   
the ,bible of the origin and the ,fall  
of man1 entailing untold miseries and   
uncomprehended anguish upon the whole   
human race1 has never been believed in  
by thinking minds4  ,especially all that
 rot about ,god's repenting ,himself of 
having made man in his own image1 and   
then setting ,himself up in his only    
,son--a sacrifice to ,himself--for the  
sins of the folks ,he had just made and 

set agoing1 and told to subdue and      
master the planet ,he had made for them 
to live on2 but this yarn caught the    
fancy of infantile and puerile minds1   
and also of the designing priests and   
theologians who have never1 to this day1
 tired of baring the backs of humanity  
to this devil's rod1 increasing1 and    
multiplying the tortures of the minds of
 such as could be made to accept such   
stuff by fears which could never be     
comprehended or justified even in the   
minds of such children4  ,our ,heavenly 
,father has never set metes and bounds  
to the souls of his earth children2     
there is no hidden mystery that cannot  
be fathomed by them2 there is no        
knowledge withheld from the earnest     
seeker after truth4  ,but first of all1 
the mind must be clarified and set free 
from the blasphemous superstitions      
engendered by the crude beliefs taught  
by theologians4  ,the developed mind1   
and reason must arouse to rage and      
resistance in view of the wreck and ruin

 of untold millions of lives1 the result
 of false teachings4     ,,animal       
,,likeness4  ,people have a way of      
saying of those they admire greatly3    
,she has the face of an angel1 or ,she  
is a perfect beauty1 ,beauty beyond     
compare1 et al1 according to their ideas
 of what constitutes absolute beauty2   
but the human countenances that have in 
them no faintest suggestion of the      
kingdom below us are very rare4  ,if one
 looks attentively at the faces of the  
crowd as it surges along the most       
attractive street1 there may be seen on 
review surprising resemblances4 ,a man  
looking like an elephant1 another like a
 toad1 bull dogs and wolves galore1     
beneficent faces of old people1 calm and
 patient1 resembling work-worn horses1  
always folk of both sexes who suggest   
sheep1--now and again a cantankerous    
billy goat4  ,you may be sure that the  
vast numbers of reptiles are not left   
out of the human representation1 and the
 birds1 too4  ,the eagle eye1 and the   

carnivorous beak require no introduction
 to the menagerie1 they belong there4   
,but the felines have it1 the cats1     
little and big1 monopolize the show4    
,men regard a recognized resemblance to 
the king of beasts--the lion--a         
compliment to their natural powers and  
rightful rulership1 while women have to 
put up with being considered cats1 and  
many of them prove by their cattish     
doings their resemblance to their animal
 ancestry4  ,there are babies everywhere
 about4  ,it is disheartening to peer   
into their tiny faces and see in so many
 of their eyes no speculation1 no       
suggestion of intelligence4  ,they      
remind you of the eyes of a fish4       
,human beings have through them strains 
suggestive of the animal kingdom4  ,it  
seems quite right to expect each one to 
act like the creature he resembles1 when
 under the stress of violent emotion4   
,,natural ,,superstition4  ,at the      
creation of the race there was thrown   
around it such safeguards as should tend

 to its continuance4  ,these were1 of   
course1 implanted in the crude mentality
 of undeveloped man4  ,underlying all   
the rest and the most important to its  
perpetuation was fear4  ,the ignorant   
child has no fear of consequences       
attendant upon any action2 experience   
teaches him to know what they are1 and  
how to protect himself from them4  ,this
 was the first lesson of primitive man1 
and when1 through the exercise of his   
inventive faculties1 he had mastered his
 visible foes1 the animal monsters      
surrounding him and threatening his     
life1 and he found himself confronted by
 the action of terrible forces which he 
could not grasp or see1 he1 by analogy1 
endowed them with personality1 and such 
attributes as he knew himself to be     
possessed of1 adding thereto powers and 
possibilities which were limited only by
 his own imagination4  ,this was the    
very beginning of the working of the    
mental in him1 and while it was most    
grotesque and unreasoning1 it yet drew a

 sharp line between the mere animal and 
the animal man1 and his whole life being
 spent in conflict with his foes1 he    
naturally carried forward his growing   
perceptions of the existence of         
supernatural powers which were          
influencing his life upon the same      
basis1 i4 e41 of an unending warfare1   
wherein he must always be the one       
attacked and vanquished4  ,fear of the  
animal world developed into a shivering 
terror of the invisible1 and so deep and
 lasting was this first impression of   
the spiritual world upon his crude      
faculties1 that it was made an universal
 heredity among all races and peoples4  
,it exists everywhere today1 even among 
those who profess to be living in the   
light of a higher revelation of ,god's  
purpose in the life of man4             
,,adaptiveness ,,of ,,man4  ,the most   
surprising and extraordinary quality of 
mind manifested by man is his ready     
power of adaptation to whatever may     
become a part of his earthly            

experiences4  ,it1 alone1 assures his   
continual progress upon all lines of    
growth connected not only with his      
earthly but also his immortal career4   
,great inventions1 unexpected           
discoveries1 and astounding revelations 
may stagger him for a moment2 but the   
facility with which he finally absorbs  
all the hitherto unknown outworkings of 
science and natural law1 and assimilates
 them to his inner sense of the fitness 
of things1 changing all his relationship
 to his material life1 and forcing      
himself to a readjustment not only of   
his mental perceptions1 but also of his 
external existence gives proof          
sufficient of his being not only favored
 of the gods1 but also of his near      
kinship with them4  ,the marvels of     
mechanics1 the divinely beautiful       
representations of art1 and the exalted 
inspirations of literature were never so
 sought after1 or so appreciated by     
large portions of the race as at the    
present time4  ,the peasant's cot today 

is made comfortable and beautified by   
accessories which within our historical 
knowledge could not be commanded by     
kings and princes possessed of great    
riches4  ,the spiritual origin of the   
splendid architecture of the great white
 city and later of the southern         
expositions is perfectly apparent to the
 eye of the mystic and the seer1 and    
these vast1 concentrated exhibits of the
 world's work are object lessons of     
which the influence can never be        
outlived even by the careless and       
unobserving4  ,today the great leaders  
of men1 led by inspiring thoughts which 
would have appalled their forefathers1  
perfect schemes for overcoming the      
obstacles inhering in the vast forces of
 nature1 and harness them into          
subservience to the growing needs of the
 race4  ,what devil-worshippers those   
old chaps were6  ,to him they ascribed  
all power over things animate and       
inanimate1 and the effrontery of the man
 who should have even mentioned the     

possibility of talking over a wire1     
thousands of miles1 or of utilizing the 
forces of ,niagara1 or of hundreds of   
inventions now in use in the most       
commonplace surroundings would have been
 met with condign punishment4  ,our     
inventors would be in dungeons instead  
of their comfortable laboratories1 and  
our great engineers would long ago have 
lost their heads4  ,what a time we have 
had getting the devil out of our        
mechanical life6  ,now he can only rule 
in the immaterial world1 in the crude   
imaginations of the ignorant and        
superstitious4     ,,devil ,,worship4   
,the ,infinite ,mind is in all things1  
everywhere what we are not4  ,where we  
are full of impatience1 ,he is calm and 
unmoved2 wherein we grope blindly1 ,he1 
seeing the end from the beginning1 is   
well content with his own handiwork1 and
 with the final outcome of the souls of 
his earthly children4  ,many of the     
imperfections and individual            
shortcomings of people are laid aside in

 the dark crucible of physical death and
 the grave4  ,such of these tendencies  
as are carried over into the next plane 
of being1 persisting in the spirit1 are 
there dealt with as disease or          
ignorance1 the results of malformation  
or bad environment4  ,god is love1 not  
hate1 and rejoiceth not in the death of 
the wicked1 nor in the punishment of the
 wrongly educated2 for a large portion  
of the sin and seeming iniquity of      
humanity is the result of heredity and  
of a misunderstanding of the laws of    
,god expressed through nature4          
,undoubtedly there have been good men   
and true among those who sought to      
interpret ,god's law aright and         
formulate a code for the guidance and   
discipline of humanity in accordance    
with justice and equity4  ,but their    
premises were all wrong4  ,they took for
 their foundation the old ,jewish       
history wherein the ,god of the ,hebrews
 was always represented as a jealous    
being1 rejoicing in revenge and rapine1 

and in all that the enlightened world   
can conceive of as characterizing a     
devil4  ,so the modern world has been   
committed to a devil worship4 ,nowhere  
is the ethical teaching of ,jesus       
recognized in our laws4  ,it is the old 
,hebraic attitude toward life and ,god4 
,,fanaticism4  ,physical death is the   
fulfilling of a natural law everywhere  
prevailing2 a change1 which the         
mutability of all material creations    
renders necessary1 and salutary1 and1   
when received without the prejudices    
engendered by education1 pleasing4      
,religion has nothing to do with it1 and
 more than that it ought to influence   
every act of life4 ,no more has religion
 anything to do with the intercourse of 
disembodied spirits with those in the   
form4  ,that also is wholly controlled  
by laws inherent in the nature of       
things1 and will1 when the ridiculous   
hue and cry raised by sensualistic minds
 has somewhat abated1 resolve itself    
into a fixed fact having no more direct 

bearing upon human affairs than any     
other form of social intercourse4  ,it  
has taught no new code of morals2 it has
 not overthrown1 so much as it has      
revealed the true state of things4  ,it 
has revived the spiritual teachings of  
him by whom the world--called from him  
,christian--professes to be guided and  
controlled4  ,fanaticism is the law of  
some minds1 and it will display itself  
in whatever arena they are engaged4  ,in
 politics the man they vote for is      
almost a god4  ,in mechanics1 they have 
invented a machine which shall ensure   
perpetual motion2 in chemistry1 the     
elixir of life1 or a cure for all the   
ills of human life2 in morals1 the      
kingdom of heaven is speedily coming    
through the intervention of their dead  
friends4  ,the truest religion is that  
which adheres most faithfully to        
nature's laws2 for strive we ever so    
hard1 we must return to them4  ,they are
 ,god's will made manifest1 and the mind
 most free from prejudice engendered by 

false education is the one which secures
 to itself the most harmony1 making     
possible that removal of mountains so   
often quoted--meaning the inevitable    
obstacles of spiritual life4  ,christ   
said3 ,the kingdom of heaven is within  
you and he might have added that of hell
 also4  ,here is the beginning1 if not  
the ending of all growth and reform4    
,there seems to be a universal tendency 
or wish to escape from one's self1 and  
most so-called reforms begin at the     
surface--the ultimate--rather than at   
the centre4  ,this should be an         
education to children1 teaching them    
that their temptations are to be dreaded
 only as they are responded to by       
something within1 and that loses all    
power with them as they gain            
self-knowledge and self-control4        
,,truth4  ,the demand for a knowledge of
 the truth1 ,god's truth1 is as old as  
the world1 the world of intellect and   
knowledge1 the world we know about1 and 
of which we have a more of              

,transcriber's note3 or8 less true      
history4  ,this cry of earnest and      
thoughtful men and women for truth1     
nothing but the truth has rung adown the
 ages from the pagan1 and the nature    
worshipper through all the countless    
phases of belief to our modern          
presentations of inspired faith4        
,everyone who dares to think must       
realize how this longing of humanity has
 been met and exploited in times past by
 ignorant and self-seeking people1 and  
suffering humanity has been imposed upon
 by superstitions and false teachings   
which have left it in sorrowful         
dissatisfaction1 or lost in the mazes of
 doubt and unbelief4  ,the fool hath    
said in his heart there is no ,god4     
,life is too short and too full of      
interest in other directions for us to  
turn aside to combat fools of any sort4 
,if we admit into our inner             
consciousness the absolute recognition  
of the existence of a supremely loving  
and wise ,god whose attributes are more 

marvelously great and grand than it can 
ever enter into the heart of man1 or the
 mind of the highest archangel to       
conceive1 we shall have taken the first 
step toward so positing ourselves toward
 him1 as we perceive him embodied in his
 works1 as to begin to see some faint   
indications of the divine purpose       
concerning the souls of men created in  
his image4  ,all that we know of his    
laws and his intentions toward us1 as   
indicated by our experiences here and   
now1 embodied as we are in matter1      
supplies the whole of the data from     
which we infer truth1 the truth as it is
 in ,god4  ,we find1 first of all1 that 
we are set here a homogenous race1 for  
as the means of communication between   
widely separated branches of the family 
become established and easy1 our        
horizons expand1 racial prejudice and   
antagonisms vanish1 new interests and   
fresh sympathies arise1 and we are thus 
brought to recognize the fact of our    
common origin4  ,what a dull and deadly 

uninteresting place this planet would be
 without the differentiation of the     
races6  ,what if the whole united world 
were ,irish or ,german1 ,russian1 or    
even loudly pervading1 assumptive       
,american6  ,what an awful element of   
boredom would be added to our existence2
 and yet there are people so blind to   
this most wonderful expression of ,god's
 ,providence1 that they limit their     
sympathetic regards to a chosen few1 and
 virtually cast all other peoples into  
outer darkness4  ,this applies          
especially to religious prejudices and  
beliefs4  ,let's see about this3 your   
antecedents were1 so far as you know1   
,scotch and ,english1 but by some       
providential intervention you are now   
,american4  ,you are expected to scorn  
and despise all other clans and races1  
and to condone all the faults and crimes
 of these which have been so honored by 
you1 and this is called patriotism1 and 
makes you feel virtuous and popular1 and
 it is necessary and right--politically 

considered--but not from the standpoint 
of the occult1 the spiritual side of    
existence4  ,there is a wise intention  
and purpose in the blending of the races
 in their intermarriages1 it is for the 
breaking down of prejudices as old as   
the race itself1 that have ever kept the
 peoples of the earth apart4  ,there is 
but one law of evolution1 and that which
 holds for the individual epitomizes    
that of a nation1 or a world4  ,so as we
 see people at a certain stage of their 
unfoldment of individuality exhibit an  
extreme egotism1 amounting almost to an 
insanity1 by isolating them1 by         
confining them to the radius of their   
own mentality1 so it is with the        
different tribes and races and nations  
of the world4  ,they are set apart to   
grow their own peculiar traits of       
character1 possible only to their       
prescribed environment1 that they may   
thus push forward their own special     
gifts and endowments to their own       
ultimates4  ,this is but a phase of     

their evolutionary process1 a class     
preparation looking toward a wider      
experience1 wherein it shall come to be 
seen that all the world is akin4        
,referring again to the unit man4  ,the 
shibboleth of the just present past time
 has been individualism which1 rightly  
understood1 means simply that the soul  
of man has progressed to a point where  
occult forces can lay hold on the crude 
being and shape it into a worthy        
likeness of its divine ,maker1 and it   
must there stand alone1 until it feels  
its at-one-ment with the ,divine and    
sees and acknowledges the higher law and
 purpose of its being1 and furthermore  
recognizes why it has been called into  
existence4  ,truth is like certain      
chemicals4  ,it can only be retained by 
the mind wherein it finds an adapted    
affinity1 and then it has in each a     
distinctly individual expression        
according to the mental and moral status
 of that mind4  ,but laws and principles
 are stationary and unchangeable2 it is 

our own personal knowledge which varies 
and changes with our growth4  ,we may   
ignore and denounce certain phases of   
phenomena1 but the phenomena work on    
just the same1 unaffected by our beliefs
 or disbeliefs4  ,the loss is ours if we
 willfully close our eyes and ears      
against the enlightening message which  
it would bring to us in passing our way4
     ,,christs4  ,confucius1 the        
moralist1 ,buddha1 the intellectualist1 
,jesus1 the loving4  ,why reject the    
teachings of any one of this trinity of 
inspired and inspiring ones8  ,all are  
of ,god1 light bringers to a darkened   
world4     ,,hero ,,worship4  ,all along
 the individual life1 the soul's        
development through matter1 are strewn  
experiences which mark the dawning force
 which is finally to culminate in its   
marked individuality1 and separation    
from the mass of organized1 created     
beings4  ,these experiences are the rare
 awakenings of the soul to the          
realization and use of its own native   

powers which flow from its divine       
paternity and origin1 and which         
constitute its birthright and ultimate  
inheritance4  ,at times1 the gifts and  
powers of certain beings burst into     
bloom and fruition when least expected1 
and cast a radiance and a halo around   
the personality1 which mark and award it
 a place among its fellow men1          
altogether superior to the general trend
 and outworkings of the recognized      
character4  ,around such illuminated    
points of high expression of the soul's 
possibilities gather other personalities
 and1 by the action of a natural law1   
crystalize about the central magnet of  
the inspired1 and the inspiring thought 
or action1 and thus is leadership       
created4  ,barely does the entire life  
outwork itself upon lines which         
harmoniously express the inspiration    
which begot the godlike union of the    
human with the divine1 and thus through 
the natural falling away from the ideal1
 those who seek the higher life through 

imitation or emulation of the model so  
set up are finally forced to put aside  
their hero worship and seek their own   
individual growth on the lines upon     
which they can lawfully unfold4  ,the   
varying moods1 and idiosyncrasies of the
 hero or the saint turn away their      
followers to the contemplation and study
 of those great moral principles which  
rule the world and control the universe4
  ,on the physical plane great strides  
are being made4  ,the suppleness of one1
 the power of balance of another1 the   
feats of the acrobat1 the will of the   
juggler which commands the action1 and  
the seeming suspension of natural law2  
all these expressions are ever          
increasing and varying through the      
industry and the ingenuity of man1 and  
point to the possibilities of the       
hitherto undreamed of physical          
perfection of development1 and grand    
unfolding of unknown powers4  ,man must 
master the earth by controlling the laws
 of the material world4  ,this is the   

foundation of all things1 and upon it   
shall be built all that the soul must   
have for its unfoldment1 within the aura
 and the radius of this external plane4 
99      99      99      99      99      
99  ,if there can be one thing more     
pitiful than all others it is to see    
little human bugs and reptiles mount    
their egotistical stilts and declare the
 non-existence of the ,creator4  ,if the
 blatant critics would only give over   
blowing their individual horns1 and     
remark for a little the value of quiet  
introspection1 many mysteries would     
reveal themselves and much good would be
 realized4     ,,reason4  ,human reason 
is the outgrowth of the intuition4  ,in 
its final analysis1 it is the           
comprehension by the soul of the reality
 of truth and of its just relationships 
and values4  ,it is the power of        
discriminating and deciding between the 
perception of the intuition and the     
testimony of facts gathered by          
observation and experience4  ,the       

intuition of man is of the will1 that of
 woman is of the affections2 thus it is 
more spiritual than man's4  ,just as the
 doctors have prospected and laid out   
and defined the functions of the        
physical body1 so are the psychologists 
and the mental scientists seeking a way 
and method by which the attributes of   
the real being may be divided off into  
sections and labelled accordingly4  ,the
 fact is1 the individual soul is all the
 time struggling to reach its own       
at-one-ment with itself4  ,when it comes
 under the tuition and discipline of the
 gods1 and begins to perceive their     
methods1 it can understand the whys and 
wherefores of the intentions of life's  
experiences4  ,they are to consolidate  
and make practical vagrant emotions and 
tendencies1 and lop off and scorch out  
the idiosyncrasies of heredity and      
custom1 and rouse the soul to a         
knowledge of its need of harmony with   
divine law4  ,into the real soul depths 
can no divulging line and plummet reach4

  ,this domain belongs to its ,creator  
alone4  ,it is only as the tests of     
living and doing manifest hidden motives
 and meanings that we catch glimpses of 
the ego that abides within and through  
this life1 submerged as it is in the    
flesh4  ,we can know but little of what 
is now1 or of what yet shall be1 when   
the wholeness of the individual is      
established4     ,,sympathy4  ,be not   
beguiled by pity masquerading in the    
guise of sympathy4  ,real sympathy comes
 only through an understanding of       
conditions as the result of the same1 or
 of exactly similar experiences4  ,but  
though experiences differ in details1   
according to the organizations and      
idiosyncrasies of individuals1 the      
results in awakening the mind to a      
realization of truth1 and final         
evolution and growth of the soul are    
enough alike to foster a real sympathy1 
and mutual understanding4 ,souls thus   
linked together are truly friends and   
comrades4     ,,new ,,religions4  ,there

 is a great demand among the people of  
this1 and probably of every past age1   
for something new in the revelations of 
religious thought and knowledge4  ,when 
it has not been forthcoming according to
 the desires of aspiring worshippers1   
the imaginations of would-be teachers   
and leaders have set to work to devise  
new schemes for the beguiling of their  
fellow mortals that should hypnotize    
them1 and hold their allegiance to some 
new revelation of religion1 or so-called
 science4 ,the following that some of   
the isms1 and newly-hatched cults are   
getting together is simply amazing4     
,they seem to reach out and pervade the 
world1 and they are not confined to any 
particular grade or class of people4    
,the ,zionists1 the ,adventists1 the    
,perfectionists1 the ,holy ,rollers1 the
 ,christian ,scientists1 the            
,spiritualists1 and unnumbered other    
forms of belief leave a wide margin for 
all sorts and kinds of people of        
peculiar idiosyncrasies4  ,so much has  

been promised1 and so little realized in
 the way of comfort and satisfaction    
that wails of doubt1 and sorrow are     
undiminished4  ,every bit of this       
groundswell of seeking1 tortured souls  
is just the reaction from slavish1      
blasphemous1 orthodox religion4  ,from  
the perceptions of the primitive man to 
the understandings of the unfolded      
brains of the thinking1 reasoning people
 of today is indeed a far cry1 and the  
queer vagaries1 and the impossible      
goings on of the reputed gods1 in       
partnership with ,nature1 that were once
 received with awe and profound belief1 
have now nearly lost their hold upon the
 credulity of modern humanity4  ,as man 
has unfolded and his perceptions have   
enlarged1 his fears of the wrath of     
,god1 and of his possible interference  
with man's schemes and purposes have    
given way to man's own will1 and to his 
determination to succeed in proving     
himself master of nature's forces1 and  
of the whole planet4  ,he has created   

the ,new ,earth of material comfort and 
satisfaction that has been so long      
foretold2 while from the heavens        
countless multitudes of awakened1 arisen
 souls throng all the ways of life1     
proclaiming the truth of the absolute   
present existence of a ,new ,heaven     
also4  ,this is not a perfect time1 by  
any means1 even with all this           
manifestation of progressive power4     
,perfection in anything1 in all things1 
is a matter of growth1 of evolution1 and
 the whole world is swinging along in   
the pathway of progress toward that     
goal1 the knowledge of spiritual law    
which is ,god1 as fast as time can move4
  ,but we are actually living in the    
enjoyment of the fulfillment of a       
profound prophecy1 with but little      
thought or realization of all it means  
or portends4     ,,the ,,growth         
,,processes ,,of ,,the ,,human ,,soul4  
,it is pitiful to think of all the woe  
and sorrow that have been shed abroad in
 the hearts of men and women1 and even  

of little children1 by the teachings of 
ignorant and designing beings anent     
,death4 ,fortunately1 all our modern    
cults are emphasizing the fact that it  
is the fear of death that is the last   
enemy of humanity that is to be put down
 and shorn of its terror4  ,physical    
death is only a step in our evolution4  
,it cannot be otherwise than a          
progressive motion of the spirit4  ,it  
recalls the spirit from the             
make-believe1 and misunderstandings of  
its earthly environments1 and           
experiences1 and shows up the real and  
true status of life4  ,vast numbers of  
human beings1 passing out of the        
chrysalis of the fleshly embodiment     
leave with the body sins for which they 
have been condemned1 and idiosyncrasies 
for which they are not accountable3     
there are1 too1 packs of people who have
 been so bamboozled by orthodox         
teachings1 so set up in their egotism1  
that they die believing in their        
superior claim to recognition by the    

gods1 but who find themselves elected to
 a long sit down in purgatory1 or       
devachan--or whatever the place         
is--while they get acquainted with      
themselves as they really are4  ,the    
most deplorable state is that of the    
souls who cannot rise from the earth    
conditions with which they are loaded   
down4  ,they fill the atmosphere2 they  
walk the earth dismayed and helpless2   
their whilom friends and beloved ones   
will have none of them4  ,even if one   
such is fortunate enough to find a      
medium through whom he can communicate1 
he gets little or no recognition or     
welcome1 unless he can absolutely       
conform to the wishes of the purblind   
folk1 who1 knowing nothing of spiritual 
law1 try to insist upon making          
conditions1 and getting tests which are 
so outside of the law that even the     
,creator could not meet their demands4  
,for those who have no aspiration toward
 the spiritual life1 the only way is to 
plunge back into matter through another 

incarnation in the flesh4  ,there are no
 new souls created and relegated to this
 planet4  ,their number is fixed4  ,they
 pass and pass1 and come again2 good1   
bad and indifferent all come under the  
same1 the only law of evolution4  ,the  
gates of life are crowded with such as  
these who1 weary of prowling to no      
purpose1 seek re-embodiment on this     
plane of existence4  ,the process       
through which they thus pass is of      
itself one of refining and of           
readjusting to changed conditions1 which
 means growth for the soul2 for         
throughout the universe1 the ,great     
,law1 the law which holds all things in 
equilibrium1 is the law of progress1    
evolution1 unfoldment4  ,it must be     
remembered always that back of all the  
recognized greetings1 and the assurances
 of the continued1 conscious life of our
 spirit friends1 back of all the lesser 
gods1 who were human beings1 like unto  
ourselves1 back of all the inspired     
teachings of all the seers and prophets 

is ,god1 our ,heavenly ,father1 in whom 
we live and have our being4  ,through   
his appointed teachers is vouchsafed to 
his earthly children a knowledge of his 
love and wisdom4  ,it is boundless and  
free for all1 and there are no chosen   
people4  ,he is the source1 the fountain
 head from which flows all life1 and all
 sustaining power4  ,the heavens declare
 the glory of ,god--the ,creator2 and   
the arisen souls of men proclaim his    
wondrous and unfailing interest in all  
his created beings4     ,,necessity     
,,for ,,phenomena4  ,some people are    
born so spiritual-minded that the proper
 adjustment of the several functions    
pertaining to the moral or religious    
nature stand clearly defined4  ,their   
immortality is never doubted1 their     
faith in the unseen never obscured by   
clouds of passion1 or dimmed by pressure
 of material necessities4  ,these are   
the beacon lights in the world's        
progress4  ,these are the mariners to   
whom has been given a sure guide and    

compass4  ,the others are those who have
 little or no perception beyond what is 
seen to befall animal life1 and their   
growth into a finer possibility must be 
slow and tedious4  ,it is in fact       
necessary that many should rise from the
 dead and jam tables and chairs and     
things around their apartments1 ere they
 can fancy the possibility of any       
existence separate from this material   
life4  ,the most abominable of all      
egotisms is that which forever studies  
to limit the possibilities of the       
,creator1 to announce firmly that there 
is no further consciousness1 and no need
 for human faculties after this life is 
ended4  ,the most dignified attitude    
would be to give him the benefit of the 
doubt1 to admit that ,he has the power  
to continue1 and remould1 and readjust  
through all time and all eternity4  ,but
 this is not a class of subjects which  
can be settled by logic4  ,it is based  
upon a conviction of the inner soul1 and
 the most that anyone can do is to place

 himself as nearly as possible in       
harmony with some one law1 and this will
 form a center around which a perception
 of more shall come1 and revolve around 
it grandly and in perfect time1 thus    
completing the rounding out--the        
fullness--of the character of the       
individual man or woman4     ,,will4    
,will1 human will1 is the result of     
concrete perceptions of the conscious   
mind4  ,its development depends upon the
 experiences of the individual soul1 and
 its expression upon the environment1   
the education1 and spiritual discipline 
of the individual4  ,having its         
foundation in the functions necessary to
 the sustainment of the mortal life of  
man1 it naturally overrides all         
considerations outside of the objects of
 its own pursuit4  ,it is the quality   
par excellence1 the power of the gods1  
but only as it comes to relinquish all  
its selfish determinations1 and yield   
obedience to the all-pervading ,higher  
,will1 the will of ,god1 in whom all    

life has its source and continuance of  
being can it march along the royal      
highway that leads to perfection4 ,this 
must be so eternally2 for there can be  
no division of purpose or of interest in
 the divine ,mind4        99      99    
99      99      99      99  ,all        
religions based upon or derived from    
sorceries obstruct the progress of the  
race1 and will be1 in the fullness of   
time1 disintegrated and readjusted to   
meet the growing demands of humanity4   
,,change ,,of ,,atoms4  ,there is       
nothing so great that it cannot be      
undermined and destroyed4 ,there is     
nothing so established and sanctioned by
 age-long1 consecrated usage that shall 
not finally be swept along into oblivion
 and utterly forgotten4  ,there is no   
combination of material atoms--no       
mechanism1 however strong and           
useful--that shall not dissolve and be  
rearranged1 and take on ever higher     
forms of expression4  ,this is1 and has 
always been the unfailing law of        

progression1 of the outworking of the   
ascending series4  ,it involves all     
circumstances1 and all earthly          
experiences4  ,happy are those who take 
,paul's advice1 who can equip themselves
 with the armor of faith1 which begets  
knowledge1 and prepare to fight the     
battle of life with courage and         
fortitude4     ,,our ,,limitations4     
,much of our successful conduct of life 
depends upon our recognition of our     
limitations1 and largely our limitations
 depend upon the will4  ,the test lies  
in the power to discriminate between    
what one owes to one's self1 and the    
duties and obligations imposed by       
responsibilities inherited or assumed4  
,temperaments are so variable1 no two   
human beings alike4  ,much1 too1 depends
 upon the power and habit of            
observation4     ,,final ,,race         
,,experience4  ,the fear of             
death--shared in by all created         
beings--is nature's safeguard against a 
universal stampede from this life by    

physical death1 when the miseries of    
existence on this earthly plane become  
too dreadful to be borne1 when the      
tortures of the soul1 in the tortured   
body drives out all reason1 and all     
philosophy1 and the consciousness senses
 only the demand for surcease of agony4 
,probably most people have experienced1 
for a moment1 in a time of terrible     
crisis1 a thought1 if not an impulse1 to
 seek thus to end all suffering by      
flinging off the bonds of life here1 and
 thus pass out into--what8 ,simply life 
in a changed environment1 with exactly  
the same responsibilities and soul      
needs1 and the same causes of their     
miseries1 and unsatisfied desires still 
existing in their minds4  ,life here is 
just one link in the endless1           
unbreakable chain of existence4  ,it is 
all one1 here1 hereafter1 anywhere4     
,caught in the web of life1 there is no 
escape from its demands upon the        
individual soul4  ,somewhere along the  
way it has to decide its own fate1      

upward and onward1 or downward into the 
purlieus of the crude beginnings of     
things4  ,it is free to make its choice4
  ,it can pursue the hard and toilsome  
path of earning its right to eternal    
happiness1 or it can flop around through
 all the hells of life unrelated to     
,god1 and resistant to ,christ4  ,one by
 one all human beings must obey the call
 to march over into the border land1    
into nature's infinite invisible realm2 
they cannot help themselves2 no one can2
 on they go1 an endless caravan1 to the 
land of revelations1 the place of       
reviews where the utterly selfish are   
fetched up with a round turn and made to
 realize that a real ,godliness is the  
only thing that can pass muster1 that   
mere beliefs do not count1 and only     
character tells4  ,how swiftly1 how     
inevitably their places are filled6     
,nothing stops2 prince or peasant1 it is
 all one2 the will of the gods1 the     
guardians of this planet1 is being      
fulfilled4     ,,religious              

,,performances4  ,it is to laugh to see 
the heathen rage and devise a vain      
thing4  ,no hierarchy of earth1 no      
multitudinous howl of ignorance and     
stupidity that having eyes that see not2
 and having ears that hear not can block
 the wheels of progress4  ,it has worked
 in the past1 quite some1 routing out   
tortured souls and bodies by the        
millions1 sending them flying off from  
this planet which was1 and is their real
 home1 turning rack and screw1 and      
setting baleful fires on tender flesh1  
threatening further eternal hell fires2 
all for what8  ,why1 to prove that      
tweedle dee1 is greater than tweedle    
dum1 and this is the record of religion 
at the hands of the theologians and the 
priests6  ,this is the story of accepted
 orthodox religion4  ,why1 then1 have a 
religion8  ,why not try the altruism    
taught by the great ,master in a system 
of ethics that can never be superseded  
by one higher and more truth-inspiring1 
better adapted to the perfect unfoldment

 of the human race8  ,no more of these  
awful persecutions1 and massacres1 and  
killings for the glory of ,god2 for the 
amusement of devils1 really6  ,practical
 common sense1 and reason will surely   
be1 in time1 the salvation of this      
world4     ,,of ,,teachers4  ,the wisest
 teacher is the one who shows the       
gradual processes of unfoldment and     
growth in the mind and body1 and in all 
the outworkings of the material world4  
,he who breaks down arbitrary           
distinctions in every realm of life does
 the most toward liberating and         
enlightening the world4  ,we are from   
infancy so accustomed to petty          
distinctions which have originated in   
ignorance1 and from long use have been  
formulated into laws1 fixed and binding1
 that were some person clear-sighted    
enough to the truth to show us our      
invisible bonds1 and how to sever them  
with the scalpel of common sense1 and   
reason1 we would be amazed at our great 
freedom1 and astonished to see the light

 coming through thousands of loopholes  
and windows of the mind which are now   
closed by an accumulation of dust and   
cobwebs of the petty superstitions of   
ages4       99     99     99     99     
99     99  ,millions of beings are born 
so starved that no after nourishing can 
make up for it4     ,,wise ,,use ,,of   
,,money4  ,the money that has been spent
 in building up blasphemous theologies  
would have rid the whole world of       
poverty1 and ignorance1 if it had been  
beneficently employed with the kind     
intention of doing the peoples of the   
earth good1 in every way1 instead of    
trying to fix upon them damnation now1  
and also arrange for it in their life   
hereafter4  ,here and there1 scattered  
along the way1 are souls who have       
escaped the drag-net of theology1 but   
there are at this present moment great  
spirits that1 even after having passed  
through death's dark crucible1 are      
haunted by damning fears of bad results 
possible from too much freedom4  ,the   

trail of the serpent is felt by them    
still4     ,,genius4  ,genius means     
simply a high and true sympathy with    
inanimate and human nature1 and the     
power to voice their various moods and  
tenses4  ,paradoxes seem to run riot in 
all occult things4  ,extremes in all    
departments are rare4  ,there are a far 
greater number of indifferently good and
 indifferently bad people than of the   
superlatively good or bad4  ,so ,nature 
everywhere keeps the equilibrium1 and   
the eternal processes of evolution go   
on1 and ever onward toward perfection4  
,all the pains of this human life come  
in consequence of the resistance of the 
souls of men to the law of progress     
which is always1 and everywhere1 laying 
hold of them to force them from the sod 
up to ,god4 ,they squirm1 and wriggle1  
and howl1 and make no end of fuss1      
because the ,lord calls upon them to    
awake from their animalism1 and sloth1  
and arise1 and seek the kingdom4  ,he   
knoweth our frame1 no more comforting1  

or encouraging words than these have    
ever been spoken4  ,he1 the great       
soul-,father1 knoweth us as we are4  ,he
 knows how to inspire with hope1 and    
courage the most sorrowing and lost4    
,the felon in his cell1 the outcast from
 all that men call good1 are1 with those
 of superior spiritual attainments1     
subjects of this beneficence4  ,nearly  
every soul feels1 at some period of     
existence1 its subtle relationship to a 
something1 a power outside of its       
material life and surroundings4  ,the   
experiences of this life are calculated 
to strengthen and perfect that          
relationship4  ,jesus ,christ is        
credited with saying1 ,be ye lifted up  
even as ,i am lifted up4  ,that is1 in  
spirit1 to a perception of the          
relationship of your souls to the great 
,over soul4  ,be ye1 then1 patient with 
yourselves1 and with each other4  ,be   
sure that you are being taught1 lifted  
up to a perception and knowledge of     
these things1 as fast as it is lawful   

for you to be4  ,in ,god's good time ye 
shall blossom and bear a goodly         
fruitage4     ,,thoughts ,,are ,,things4
  ,but thoughts1 as potent entities1    
must pass from the formative1 nebulous  
condition into a crystallized state by1 
and through some form of externalization
 of language1 spoken or written4        
,thoughts must be created--born--through
 the absolute form-creation of the human
 brain1 in order to secure to them      
potentiality1 and immortality4  ,the    
status of the individual brain1 decides 
its products1 the character of its brain
 children4  ,thoughts that are not      
caught1 clung to1 and crystallized1     
through the action of the external brain
 can have no place in the external life 
of this world1 although they do have    
their power and influence in the        
incorporate1 silent1 ever-working world 
of cause4        99      99      99     
99      99      99  ,the mind digs deep 
to bring forth the real4  ,the soul     
dreads the edicts of its ignorant       

prototypes4  ,the ego comes forward with
 its battle-axe1 and the spirit rejoices
 and exults4  ,body1 ,soul1 and ,spirit2
 ,nature's trinity4        99      99   
99      99      99      99  ,as spirit  
per se1 has no entity1 and only evolves 
individuality through its relationship  
with matter1 and has no other conscious 
expression1 the so-long-talked-of fall  
of man was not a fall downward1 but a   
process upward1 necessary to his being1 
to his existence as man4                
,,unfoldment4  ,the persistence of the  
human soul after physical death proves  
only that it is a candidate for         
immortality4  ,the race is just begun4  
,the path that leads onward to the      
eternal heights is so long1 so beset    
with difficulties1 with pains and       
penalties1 losses and crosses1 and all  
the paraphernalia of evolution and      
growth that the stoutest heart1 the     
strongest will would fail to respond to 
the call to come up higher1 were one to 
at once become aware of what inevitably 

lay before him4 ,when any individual    
soul has dwelt long enough in the spirit
 realm to begin to feel the unrest of   
the law of eternal progress1 he senses  
the law of reincarnation1 and his       
earthly home draws him by attraction4   
,he is preferred the cup of             
renunciation1 and forgetfulness1 and is 
shown the way to his next embodiment4   
,,inventions4  ,the inspired thinker    
sends out a thought to the world1 it is 
taken up and passed through other       
brains1 it becomes distorted or is      
recognized by them in its integrity     
according to the caliber of mind1 or the
 idiosyncrasies of the one representing 
it4  ,a thought or idea1 once given to  
the world1 becomes common property4  ,it
 is not possible to put on mortgages or 
limit the use that may be made of it1 or
 how it may be made to bring in returns 
to commercially-inspired minds4  ,a     
woman devised a style of dress which she
 wore for her comfort at her own        
convenience4  ,another woman gave       

exactly the same pattern and details to 
the public1 and is now living in        
elegance on the income derived from     
another4  ,a man--a worker--invents an  
improvement1 or a better method of doing
 things4  ,the firm adopts and makes    
money out of it1 and its originator is  
forgotten4  ,there are1 however1 clever 
people who know how to protect their    
inspirations1 and get the benefit       
themselves4  ,the greatest              
disappointment comes to the originator  
when the thought is intended to indicate
 and outline action4  ,so few people can
 achieve the same point of view1 so few 
can be depended upon for united1        
harmonious action that the best         
organizing power is at times fetched up 
with a round turn1 and the progress of  
the good work intended becomes greatly  
impeded1 or virtually lost4     ,,divine
 ,,healing4  ,there are today many cults
 professing to have healing powers2 but 
whether they are named ,christian1 or   
,mental1 or ,spiritual1 or ,divine      

,science1 or whether the place of       
healing be in some shrine sacred to an  
accredited saint1 or only in the        
presence of the patient receiving the   
benediction2 they all operate under the 
same law2 there is no other4  ,jesus was
 the great transmitter to humanity of a 
knowledge of the power of divine        
healing2 he never specialized4  ,he     
never said3 ,i have cured your liver    
complaint1 or your lungs are healed1    
etc41 according to the ailment of the   
person seeking his aid4  ,he only told  
them3 ,thy own faith hath made thee     
whole4  ,it was spoken of ,god long ago3
 ,he healeth all our infirmities4  ,the 
quality and the amount of personal      
magnetism possessed by the healer--the  
transmitter of the divine healing--does 
make a vast difference in the results of
 such efforts4 ,the ,nazarene was devoid
 of egotism1 and selfishness1 and his   
desire to heal and bless humanity was   
with him an overwhelming passion4  ,that
 ,jesus knew the value of right physical

 habits is evidenced by the way he had  
of admonishing his patients to go and   
sin no more1 that is1 stop breaking     
nature's hygienic laws4  ,he had all    
along told them that right thinking was 
necessary to right doing4        99     
99      99      99      99      99  ,the
 transcendentalism of one age1 shorn of 
the peculiar shading given to it by the 
individuality of the mind through which 
it first manifests itself1 becomes the  
hard common sense of the next4        99
      99      99      99      99      99
  ,what is ,truth8  ,truth is ,god4     
,god is ,truth4  ,nothing in the        
universe could exist for one instant    
unless it had in it some faint intuition
 of truth1 and it is this that we are   
here to discover4     ,,surplus4  ,human
 beings slaughtered on battle fields1 or
 carried off by pestilence and famine by
 thousands1 or perishing by accidents by
 sea or by land by hundreds1 are        
individually dear and useful1 and are   
mourned2 but in the great aggregate of  

moving life on this planet1 they count  
as surplus4     ,,analysis ,,of ,,the   
,,lord',s ,,prayer4  ,how shall we pray8
  ,to whom shall we pray8  ,shall we    
pray at all8 ,these are unsettled       
questions in the minds of many good     
persons who are striving to perceive the
 highest truth and to be guided thereby4
  ,the tests that have been applied to  
the usefulness of prayer by a large     
class of religious people have been1 for
 ages1 purely materialistic4 ,the ,lord 
has been importuned for the bestowal of 
personal favors1 from the manufacturing 
of the right kind of weather to the     
slaying of enemies1 and from the        
righteous putting down of infidels1 to  
the spending of dollars with which to   
build high steeples4  ,then1 too1 ,god  
has had the benefit of the very best    
advice concerning the way ,he ought to  
deal with the heathen1 how ,he should   
treat sinners of every sort1 so as to   
show himself equal to managing his      
fractious subjects1 and1 finally1 how to

 carry things along generally after such
 a fashion as should win and hold the   
respect of his earthly advisers4  ,this 
utter misunderstanding of the true      
function of prayer has caused many      
earnest souls to sorrow over lost faith 
in what should have been to them a      
source of strength and uplifting4       
,jesus said3 ,ask1 and ye shall receive1
 and as all his teachings referred to   
things of the spirit1 he must have meant
 to indicate to his followers that      
whatever was sought for in the line of  
true spiritual enlightenment would      
surely be given4  ,no one prays for     
houses and lands1 for gold and other    
forms of material wealth1 for ,jesus    
,christ's sake4  ,amen4  ,all through   
the teachings of ,jesus run the mention 
of his and our ,heavenly ,parent1 ,our  
,father1 and since much of our knowledge
 of spiritual things comes through our  
perception of the law of                
correspondences1 we naturally feel and  
believe that we have not only a ,father 

but also a ,mother in heaven4  ,the     
recognition of the mother element--the  
,divine ,mother--has always been a most 
potent factor in the power of the ,roman
 ,catholic ,church to retain the        
unchanging devotion of its faithful     
adherents4  ,the reaction from a bigoted
 belief in1 and a blind reliance upon a 
jealous and tyrannical ,overseer sitting
 in state to judge and condemn to       
everlasting torment all but a few of    
earth's children--a terror-inspiring    
,god--has naturally turned the minds of 
many from recognition of any sort of    
relationship between humanity and a     
superior1 divine and beneficent ,power4 
,the atheist glories in his disbelief1  
and calls exultingly upon those whose   
faith has become the stepping-stone to  
knowledge for proofs that he is not     
right in assuming to occupy the superior
 attitude of mind4  ,suppose for a      
moment1 that all the world were brought 
to coincide with him4  ,how would it    
benefit the race to prove it to be      

wholly orphaned--utterly left out of all
 consideration for its future care and  
happiness8  ,like as an earthly father  
pitieth his children1 ,jesus affirmed1  
is the love of our ,father1 ,god1 for   
the human-race4  ,i and my ,father are  
one4  ,my ,father worketh hitherto1 and 
,i work4  ,these are some of the        
references made by ,jesus to the        
relationship that he constantly asserted
 was established between his own soul   
and that of his ,father1 in the supernal
 world1 and thus he taught his followers
 to pray3  ,our ,father which art in    
,heaven4  ,this is the first recorded   
utterance of the modern shibboleth3 ,the
 ,fatherhood of ,god and the            
,brotherhood of ,man4  ,in this now     
universally employed invocation1 ,jesus 
claimed for himself no other mention    
than that in which he instructed all of 
earth's children to join4  ,hallowed be 
thy name4  ,in a sacred name there is   
power to hold the wavering thought2 so  
may thy name be hallowed6 i4 e41 held   

sacred4 ,it is affirmed that every      
created thing has a real appellation1 a 
name given to it by its ,creator4  ,we  
pass through this rudimentary state of  
existence known as ,john or ,mary1 or by
 some other of the thousand or more     
titles in vogue that are indicative of  
different personalities2 but it was long
 ago shown to an inspired teacher that1 
at a given point of development1 each   
soul should be given its true name1 a   
new one that should be written in the   
forehead4  ,our ,puritan progenitors had
 a dim perception of a higher and inner 
meaning to names4  ,by calling their    
children ,grace1 ,mercy1 ,patience1     
,charity1 etc41 they sought to embody   
spiritual principles4  ,thy kingdom     
come4  ,no heavenly kingdom can ever be 
let down to the earth4  ,the earthly    
must become developed and               
interpenetrated by the spiritual1 and   
thus be lifted up into an harmonious    
co-relationship with the ,divine4  ,thy 
will be done on earth1 as it is in      

heaven4  ,there is but one will2 so make
 it known to us that we may realize out 
,transcriber's note3 our8 at-one-ment   
with the ,divine1 even as do the angels 
in heaven4  ,give us this day our daily 
bread4  ,the earth is the ,lord's and   
the fulness thereof4  7,make us         
partakers of thy bounty1 that our bodies
 may have needed nourishment4           
,illuminate our spiritual understanding 
that we may take to ourselves each day  
such spiritual food as we are best      
fitted to appropriate and use47  ,and   
forgive us our debts1 as we forgive our 
debtors4  ,up to this point there is    
simply suggested the personal           
relationship between the petitioner and 
the ,being to whom he prays2 but into   
this phrase quite another element is    
introduced--a new factor2 forgive us1 as
 we in turn forgive our enemies4  ,this 
puts upon one who utters these words the
 responsibility of answering his own    
prayer1 or of making the conditions     
whereby he shall be forgiven and        

accepted1 that thus may be established  
the eternal vibrations that bind the    
very lowest to the ,highest4  ,and lead 
us not into temptation2 i4 e41          
graciously protect us from following the
 devices of our own ignorance2 but if we
 willfully go our own way1 and are      
overcome with grief and disappointment  
because of our misdoing1 deliver us from
 the evil consequences thereof1 by      
inspiring our minds with courage to bear
 our pains and penalties with true      
heroism1 and teach us through our       
experiences wherein lie our highest     
growth and wisdom for all our future    
lives4  ,for thine is the kingdom1 and  
the power to create and destroy1 and the
 glory4  7,all things begin and end in  
,god47  ,forever and ever4  ,amen4      
,jesus had undoubtedly learned the pure 
ethics of this all-embracing appeal4    
,principles are unchanging2 but1 as the 
law of evolution carries each succeeding
 representation of the underlying facts 
of spiritual science ever higher in the 

ascending series1 on the spiral pathway 
that leads to the kingdom of ,god1 so in
 each is embodied a more advanced phase 
or externalization of such facts4  ,the 
revelations vouchsafed to the world     
through the teachings of ,confucius1    
,buddha1 and other saviors of men       
appealed only to the intellect4  ,jesus 
was the first to announce to the        
heart-hungry that ,god so loved the     
world that he sent one of his best      
beloved sons to bear witness to his own 
eternal love1 and to show how all may   
become participators in its             
boundlessness4  ,the potency of prayer  
corresponds to the power of the thought 
or to the exalted aspiration of the soul
 projecting it4  ,there are some who1   
seeking divine aid1 are too weak in this
 respect to realize any special results1
 while the prayers of others ascend as  
on the wings of eagles4 ,this attitude  
of the soul is not to be confounded with
 the communion of saints4  ,communion   
indicates the existence of a degree of  

equality which1 in the relation of      
finite man with his ,maker1 cannot be4  
,an occult wave has swept round the     
world4  ,the seals are being broken1 and
 the sphinxes are speaking wherever they
 find ears to hear and minds to         
comprehend4  ,the heart of the mystery  
is this2 there is no new thing to be    
proclaimed4  ,spiritual things are      
spiritually discerned1 and1 with the    
divine illumination vouchsafed to all1 a
 wayfaring man1 though a fool1 may see  
and know the deep things of ,god4  ,but 
no door will be opened1 no angel or     
minister of grace or spirit friend will 
descend the ladder of light that leads  
to the realms supernal1 no inspiration  
of ,god will ever come to any soul on   
earth without prayer--in response to    
either conscious supplication or        
unconscious aspiration toward the ,giver
 of every good and perfect gift4  ,the  
ultimate function and use of prayer is  
simply to establish our relationship    
with the divine and ever-lasting forces 

that rule and guide our lives4  ,these  
are ever operating to help us to live   
above the purely personal relationships 
that limit our growth and advancement   
along the lines of spiritual unfoldment1
 and to open to our souls vistas of     
perfectness on the higher planes of     
wisdom and understanding of the         
mysteries of immortal life4     ,,absurd
 ,,beliefs4  ,the supreme egotism of man
 has been largely corrected through the 
influence of education and experience   
which have made him conscious of the    
ridiculousness of his demands for       
recognition of his supremacy4 ,each one 
of those high1 old eastern ,emperors had
 to have his pedestal1 and his title of 
god1 without reference to his real      
character4  ,modern men do not expect to
 be real head-up gods4  ,they know too  
much to be so ridiculous4  ,but there   
are those who seem to feel that they are
 at least little tin gods on wheels4    
,when the ,nazarene appeared among men  
possessing godlike qualities1 it was    

entirely in line with the custom of the 
time to call him a god4 ,there was      
neither logic nor common sense in the   
role ,jesus was to play4 ,he was ,god of
 all gods4  ,he was1 at the same time1  
the ,only ,begotten ,son of ,god1 and1  
as the idea of sacrifice to the numerous
 gods was an important part of the      
religious orgies of the time1 they could
 only bring that into their new scheme  
for entrapping souls by making the      
,son--who was really ,god--a sacrifice  
to himself1 to propitiate himself1 and  
keep himself from utterly destroying and
 damning the folks ,he himself had      
created4  ,so they made it out that this
 good man should be a propitiation for  
the sins of the race4  ,silly2          
improbable2 unlawful2 incredible2       
impossible4  ,the more useless and      
undeveloped people were1 the more they  
believed that the sacrifice of a very   
,god--to their egotistical minds--was   
not too much for the salvation of their 
infinitesimal1 pinhead souls4     ,,the 

,,resurrection4  ,it has been believed  
that dead folks stayed boxed up under   
ground waiting--ages perhaps--for the   
last trumpet to sound to call up the    
sleeping billions to the surface of the 
earth to the final day of judgment1 when
 they should all swarm up out of their  
graves to be let to know by the great   
,judge of all to which class they       
belong1 the sheep or the goats--there   
was to be only those two kinds--sheep to
 go straight to heaven1 all the others  
to be cast into hell fire to burn       
forever4  ,the air would be full of toes
 and fingers and legs and heads coming  
from all directions to join themselves  
to the bodies from which they had been  
detached in their physical life2 it was 
understood that in every case there     
would be no mistakes made1 no white     
person1 minus a member of his body in   
life1 would find himself persistently   
chased up by arms or legs--especially by
 heads--of a different color1 and form1 
from what he would know were his own2   

but1 by some unaccountable magic1 some  
divine law of attraction each dissevered
 member would instantly recognize its   
true belonging and fly to its former    
familiar location4 ,where this great    
final round up is to be held has not yet
 been made known to the true believers4 
,chautauqua has been suggested1 and also
 the lot back of the ,white ,house in   
,washington1 ,d4 ,c4  ,there are        
objections1 however1 to these and some  
other places because of the limited     
area1 but as with ,god all things are   
possible either spot might be made to   
answer4  ,the great open-air university 
at ,chautauqua is known everywhere on   
earth--and possibly beyond--and         
certainly would be a good point for the 
saints to hail from1 in their upward    
journey1 and the ,white ,lot in         
,washington would shorten the journey   
for those who are booked for the trip in
 the other direction4  ,out of this     
belief has grown quite a little sect    
which takes it upon itself to decide    

upon the fate of all the world outside  
of its very limited number4  ,it is hard
 upon the ,methodists and ,presbyterians
 and all the other cults and sects      
scattered about over the whole earth    
that they should all be doomed to       
everlasting hell fires because of a     
little difference of opinion with these 
self-elected judges6  ,the more insane  
of them have ignored all the claims of  
citizenship1 have burned their fences   
and their barns1 and given away all     
their earthly belongings1 and refusing  
to be taught by the repeated failures of
 the many times set for the final ending
 of the planet1 have donned their       
unbleached cotton ascension robes1 and  
have sat around on the hill-tops and    
waited long for the end of all things   
earthly1 and the fun of seeing all the  
people who did not agree with them      
switched off into hell4  ,the real      
beginning of this came from two sayings 
purported to have been the words of     
,christ4  ,while hanging upon the cross 

a man nailed to another cross1 begged   
,jesus to save him4  ,jesus was an      
adept1 highly clairvoyant4  ,he saw that
 the man was good--probably better than 
the people who had hung him there to    
die--and that if he was a thief1 as they
 said1 he had stolen things for the     
benefit of his people for food and for  
sandals and things for the family4  ,so 
he said3 ,this day you shall be with me 
in the spirit world4  ,some clever      
person caught on to this and said to    
himself3 ,that settles it1 if one man   
can go straight through without being   
laid up in the ground after death1 all  
can4 ,this view furnished an altogether 
different outlook and gave people a new 
idea of the law4  ,jesus assured his    
disciples that the kingdom of heaven    
would come on earth very soon1 in fact1 
while they were yet alive4  ,well1 he   
knew a lot about the soul1 and          
immortality and all that1 but nothing at
 all about evolution1 or electricity1 or
 what wonderful unfoldment of brain and 

magnificent works man should achieve4   
,the ,nazarene1 like all seers and      
prophets1 was simply mistaken in point  
of time4  ,he did not give the ,creator 
time enough to bring all things to pass1
 and if the people who think this world 
is actually coming to an end pretty soon
 would just think once that the ,creator
 does not set things agoing solely for  
the purpose of destroying his work1 and 
let him have his own way and time1 they 
would save themselves much trouble4     
,,the ,,creator4  ,god--the all-creative
 ,spirit--is the most positive element1 
or force in nature1 and nothing is or   
can have existence in the external world
 that is not conceived and formed first 
in the matrix of the spirit4  ,so it is 
in the realm of the invisible that the  
law of progress1 of unending evolution  
takes its rise and becomes operative4   
,still1 however clearly defined may be a
 truth1 a law in the mentality of the   
higher powers1 it can only be           
externalized to the degree comprehended 

by the mind through which it is given to
 the world4  ,all that saves this world 
from being in a state of utter darkness 
is the fact that from its very beginning
 there have been souls capable of being 
illuminated by the light from the higher
 life1 spirits so grounded in a faith in
 its certainties that they have shone   
out upon the stern and awful path trod  
by the human race like beacon lights    
above a stormy sea1 or beaming stars    
shedding a calm radiance upon a         
trackless waste4     ,,retributive      
,,justice4  ,we know so little of the   
mysteries of occult1 divine law1 and yet
 taking thought of the entire history of
 the human race1 such as we have1 and   
our own personal experience and         
observation1 we must recognize that     
there are certain fixed principles1     
certain laws1 indicating the undying    
value of right living4  ,to understand  
and apply these laws to the all around  
conduct of life1 to the practical       
affairs of human effort1 is in its      

highest1 its spiritual sense the real   
business of earthly existence4  ,those  
religious teachers who have had a degree
 of spiritual enlightenment have wrapped
 up their perceptions of moral law1 and 
disguised them with creeds and dogmas1  
and have used them to further their     
personal ambitions1 and to hold their   
power over such people as they have been
 able to hypnotize into believing in    
them as the vice-gerents of the ,most   
,high4  ,all this has been going on for 
long1 and has been handed down through  
unnumbered generations until it has     
crystallized into forms and ceremonies1 
and unmoral conventionalities which     
stultify the race4  ,dead loads of good 
people believe they are doing ,god's    
service in trying to live up to these1  
never knowing how much they are the     
result of fanaticism and ignorance1 and 
the concentrated intention of every sort
 of priests to keep their power over    
unthinking minds4  ,here and there1     
scattered along throughout the realms of

 intelligent being1 there have always   
been noble and true men and women who   
have brought a sufficient comprehension 
of the out-working of the eternal       
principles of unswerving moral law to   
make their conduct of life here wise and
 dependable1 and to give to them the    
assurance of a successful continuance of
 individual life in other spheres of    
being1 beyond earthly limitations4      
,those untrammelled souls who thus      
unfold grow up into an at-one-ment with 
the divine1 all-pervading principle we  
call ,god4  ,they have been1 and are    
light bringers1 and saviors of humanity4
  ,the perfection of individual         
character can only be achieved by       
determined effort1 by unshrinking1      
concentrated labor4  ,this simply means 
an acceptance of all the inevitable     
experiences incident to this life1      
coupled with a brave determination to   
wring from each and every one of them1  
good1 or seemingly bad and unfortunate1 
all the lessons it can teach1 and all   

the truth it can possibly reveal4  ,this
 evolution of the soul is from the      
innermost sacred precincts of the       
personality1 and it is often            
unrecognized by those who have the most 
inclusive development of the attributes 
and innate resources of their own souls4
  ,those people who are thus intent upon
 their souls' growth do not flaunt      
themselves in forms and ceremonies4     
,life is too short4  ,the chief1 the    
most important moral law is the law of  
justice1 absolute unerring justice4     
,this law is the very least comprehended
 of men1 because its majesty1 its       
even-handedness has been so             
misinterpreted1 so travestied by various
 kinds of religious teachers1 rulers1   
and self-appointed judges4  ,man-made   
laws which everywhere prevail tend      
always to segregate people into classes1
 producing results devoid of equity1    
favoring the materially superior4  ,it  
is quite common for people who know     
nothing whatever of the operations of   

occult and spiritual law to ignore all  
responsibility for their unhappy earthly
 experiences1 and blame it all on ,god4 
,a child dies1 the mother accuses ,god  
of making her the special subject of his
 unkindness in taking away from her the 
object of her love4  ,everywhere1 among 
all classes of people this is not at all
 an unusual experience4  ,the fact is1  
the prevailing ignorance of natural     
law--moral1 spiritual law--is alone the 
cause of nearly all the misery of       
humanity4  ,god has nothing whatever to 
do with it4  ,there is this about it3   
there are the eternal verities1 the laws
 which speak ever to the consciousness  
of man1 and whether they are broken in  
ignorance or willfully set aside1 the   
results are nearly the same2 the        
penalties exacted by beneficent justice 
are unalterable2 only in one case1 there
 must finally be regrets for ignorance2 
in the other1 great remorse for         
wickedness and ill-doing4  ,but these   
results are not eternal1 though the     

dreadfully cruel teachings of religion  
have made people believe so4  ,the      
faintest stirrings of desire to be      
better1 the least aspiration toward the 
higher life is sure of a response from  
loving1 compassionate beings in angelic 
ministrations4  ,the priests of         
different religions who have been most  
valiant and positive in preaching hell  
fire and eternal damnation have entirely
 lost sight of this fact4  ,not the most
 strenuous of the whole lot has ever    
been able to follow one miserable wretch
 into the spirit world to find out      
whether his prognostications anent his  
hypnotized victims1 have come true4  ,au
 contraire1 great numbers of reputed    
sinners have come back in their real    
personality to report to their friends  
that there is no such fate for anyone1  
that it is one great lie4  ,but it must 
not be supposed that there are no sure  
enough hells4  ,there have to be places 
for the hellish to stay till they come  
of a better mind4  ,nature provides for 

them other opportunities for their      
gradual redemption through              
re-embodiments in the flesh on this     
earth4  ,there is besides a constant    
outpouring from the dark abodes of      
estrayed and benighted souls1 for the   
all-embracing love of our               
,father-,mother reaches even the        
horribly suffering lunatics1 made so by 
their selfish1 vicious lives here on    
earth4  ,there is1 indeed1 the greatest 
possible difference between an intended 
eternal punishment of sin1 such as has  
been preached for ages for the purpose  
of scaring people out of their wits1 and
 a recognized1 just retribution for     
broken law4  ,punishments such as have  
been believed in suggest a punisher1 and
 our ,father in heaven has been         
blasphemously represented as angry with 
the wicked every day and glad to have a 
chance to pour out his bottles of wrath 
on their elected heads4  ,the torturing 
remorse of the slowly awakening         
consciousness of those who have lived   

selfishly and viciously is far beyond   
the pains of the burning1 material      
fires4  ,every human being that has in  
it a living germ of spirit shall be     
liberated and helped toward the light1  
not by any so-called personal           
redeemer--that is not possible--but by  
the power of its own aspiring soul1 and 
even moderately decent folk shall come  
to enjoy all that they have imagined and
 longed for1 and all great souls shall  
find the peace they have dreamed of4    
,all souls everywhere in the spirit     
world will have all they have truly     
earned in their earthly lives4  ,while  
we stay here we are hardly protected    
from the envious thoughts and deeds of  
evilly disposed and vengeful people4    
,once safely landed in that superior and
 satisfactory realm no such invasions   
can reach us ever4     ,,the ,,soul4    
,the soul is the vehicle of the spirit4 
,it passes from the earthly life along  
with physical death1 its uses ended4    
,developed by earthly experiences1 it   

grows and has the power to detach itself
 and represent the personality of the   
individual to which it belongs1 but only
 while on earth2 it is not employed thus
 after the spirit leaves the body4  ,it 
is the similacrum of the body1 and is   
often mistaken for the immortal part1   
the enfranchised spirit4  ,but the      
spirit is generally unawakened and can  
only grow with the pabulum of spiritual 
influence1 in harmony with spiritual    
law4  ,it is this that complicates this 
life and retards the at-one-ment of the 
greatest of all trinities2 body1 soul   
and spirit1 the natural three in one4   
,the soul element is the bequest of the 
parents--especially of the mother--to   
their progeny4  ,if the conditions are  
at all in harmony with divine law1 the  
mother pours out all her soul's         
influence upon the forming body of her  
child in the divinest love ever         
manifested on earth4  ,its birth and    
manifestation are of the immortal       
spirit1 and create in her offspring some

 consciousness of1 some desire for      
immortality4  ,of all earthly phenomena 
this of motherhood is the most          
marvelous1 and naturally the least      
understood1 and the most slightingly    
regarded4  ,its universality reduces it 
to the commonplace4        99      99   
99      99      99      99  ,the        
conventionalities are not intended to   
keep people apart who really belong     
together and who ought to meet1 but to  
protect those who wish to live good     
lives from the invasions of envious     
curiosity4     ,,woman4  ,woman is the  
constructive1 the upbuilding force4     
,with what patient endurance she awaits 
the slow growth of the bodies she       
shelters beneath her heart that are to  
hold souls here and give them human     
instruments with which to do their work 
on the material plane of life4  ,in this
 sphere1 the destructive jealousy of man
 of the power of woman does not avail1  
her kingdom is everlasting4  ,crushed   
and enslaved she is1 and always has     

been1 but only to gather to herself     
greater power4  ,she is the natural     
lawgiver1 the supreme ruler4  ,man1 the 
intimate holder of the material forces1 
dreads the power of woman1 and fears her
 invasions of his long-established      
rights in his chosen domain4        99  
99      99      99      99      99      
,unwilling motherhood has filled the    
world with vice and crime4  ,when men1  
women and children began to return to   
earth after physical death and give     
their recognized testimony to the fact  
of their spiritual resurrection1 and of 
their continued real life with all its  
personal endowments exactly as they were
 here1 the crude ideas of ignorant minds
 were forever set aside by millions who 
can now testify to the absolute truth of
 spirit return1 instead of being buried 
in the earth waiting for an impossible  
time of reckoning and judgment4  ,do you
 call all this blasphemous8  ,open your 
eyes4  ,look6  ,listen6 ,discriminate6  
,know where is the real1 high blasphemy4

  ,god bless us every one4   ,,adieu4