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STEPS IN 
 HUMAN PROGRESS 
 
 BY 
 
 CHRISTIAN D. LARSON 
 
 AUTHOR OF "WHAT RIGHT THINKING WILL DO," 
 
 "THE GOOD SIDE OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE," 
 
 "POISE AND POWER," ETC. 
 
 NEW YORK 
 EDWARD J. CLODE 
 
■L373 
 
 COPYRIGHT, 1916 
 BY EDWARD J. CLODE 
 
 OCT 12 1916 
 
 CI. A 4 4 5 7 7 
 
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 CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Steps to the Higher Self 1 
 
 Steps to Higher Truths 47 
 
 Steps to the Spiritual 93 
 
STEPS TO THE HIGHER SELF 
 
Steps in Human Progress 
 
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 N the presence of modern thought 
 and aspiration what may we 
 consider the greatest, the wor- 
 thiest, the most important and 
 the most inspiring thing that man can 
 do. This is one of the leading ques- 
 tions of today, and we are face to face 
 with a new answer, an answer that has 
 never been given before. In the fields 
 of invention, art, discovery, music, litera- 
 ture, industrial achievement and special 
 mental attainment, man has accomplished 
 much, and he will, in all these fields, 
 accomplish vastly more. But there is 
 another field, the most important that 
 
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 was ever known, which we are about to 
 enter; and it is in this new field that 
 man will do his greatest work — work, 
 indeed, that will cause the wonder works 
 of history to pale into utter insignificance. 
 
 The age of real wonders has just 
 begun. The next one hundred years will 
 witness achievements so extraordinary that 
 the terms "marvelous" and "miraculous" 
 will not begin to describe them. Every- 
 thing that the master minds of today are 
 dreaming about will be realized, and 
 infinitely more. Even much of what can 
 now be discerned in the light of the 
 soul's vision will come to pass, and 
 hundreds of worlds, as yet closed to the 
 minds of the many, will open their limit- 
 less possibilities to the race. Accordingly, 
 the welfare, the happiness and the progress 
 of man will be promoted as never before. 
 All these things, however, will simply 
 mark the continuation of lines of progress 
 already in action; they will naturally 
 
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 follow the further development of fields 
 that are well known, and therefore will 
 not necessarily be the result of a new 
 step in advancement. But man is on 
 the verge of a new step. Among all the 
 known wonders there is a new wonder, 
 far greater than all the others, just appear- 
 ing at the dawn of the new day, and it 
 heralds the next step in the progress of 
 the world. 
 
 Thus far human attainments and 
 achievements have concerned themselves 
 principally with things, and with those 
 mental faculties that act directly upon 
 things; and the reason why is found in 
 the fact that we have understood only 
 those forces in man that can be applied 
 to things. But the coming of modern 
 metaphysics and the new psychology has 
 opened our minds to the consciousness 
 and the understanding of other forces — 
 higher and more powerful forces — forces 
 that can be applied to elements that are 
 
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 above things, in brief, the creative ele- 
 ments within man himself. In the past, 
 the various steps in progress have been 
 taken in those worlds that lie outside of 
 the being of man; but the next step will 
 be taken in those worlds that lie within 
 the being of man. The next step in 
 human progress will be to gain complete 
 mastery over the creative forces and the 
 creative elements within the human per- 
 sonality so that we can transform our 
 interior nature and our personal appear- 
 ance into what may be termed an Edition 
 de Luxe of man. 
 
 Men and women are something like 
 books — all kinds of editions, all styles 
 of binding and every imaginable subject 
 introduced in the contents; but there is 
 one difference. Among books we find 
 editions that have quality, richness and 
 worth, both as to contents and general 
 appearance. The subject matter in some 
 of these books constitutes the very essence 
 
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 of inspirational power, while the physical 
 appearance is all that high art can cause 
 it to be. Among people, however, it is 
 almost impossible to find rich interior 
 quality and rare personal appearance com- 
 bined in the same person. The finest 
 characters and the greatest minds do not 
 always dwell in beautiful personalities, 
 while persons who are exceptionally attrac- 
 tive to physical sight do not always possess 
 unlimited riches of mind and soul. True, 
 there are exceptions to all general rules; 
 but the fact remains that Editions de 
 Luxe of the being of man have not as yet 
 appeared. However, if we can have Edi- 
 tions de Luxe of books we can have Edi- 
 tions de Luxe of men and women. Man 
 has the inherent power to do far more 
 with himself than he ever did with things; 
 and the next step in his progress is to 
 learn how. 
 
 When we look at the human family we 
 find any number of paper editions, cheap 
 
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 cloth editions and the like; although 
 occasionally we find a few that approach 
 something far better, and it is the psy- 
 chological study of the creative elements 
 that are active in the personal natures of 
 these few that has given us the secret to 
 the next step in human progress. What 
 one person can do, all can learn to do; 
 what a few have accomplished more or 
 less unconsciously, all can learn to accom- 
 plish consciously and intelligently. And 
 where unconscious action has, under favor- 
 able conditions, produced results to a 
 certain degree, intelligent action can, under 
 any condition, produce results to the very 
 highest degree. This is the law, and no 
 law in life can ever fail when properly 
 applied. 
 
 The reason why people who are ex- 
 tremely attractive physically are not 
 always competent mentally or highly de- 
 veloped spiritually, is readily explained. 
 When the creative process in the human 
 
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 system tends to build up and perfect the 
 outer personality, nearly all the energy 
 generated in the system will be used for 
 that purpose, and in consequence there 
 will be but a fraction remaining with 
 which to build up mind and soul. In like 
 manner, when the creative process tends 
 to produce mental brilliancy, most of the 
 energy of the system will be drawn into 
 the mind, and the development of the 
 physical personality will necessarily be 
 retarded. In some people we find this 
 energy dividing itself into several forces, 
 one of which tends to build up the per- 
 sonality, while the other tends to develop 
 the various phases of mind, character and 
 soul. And this is the ideal arrangement; 
 therefore people who are built on these 
 lines, are always attractive in body, bril- 
 liant in mind, strong in character and 
 beautiful in soul; that is, if they are well 
 supplied with energy and do not waste 
 their forces in any form or manner. 
 
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 When the creative energies of the system 
 naturally divide themselves among the 
 various factors in human life, the greatest 
 possible results are not always produced 
 in any one place of action; the reason 
 being that in the average person most of 
 the energy generated in his system is 
 wasted; and if what remains is to be 
 divided among several factors, the amount 
 given to each will be small. There is 
 enough energy, however, generated in the 
 system to develop to the highest degree 
 desired, everything that Exists in the 
 entire being of man; therefore, when a 
 person properly saves his energy and 
 applies it according to the laws of human 
 development, he can secure just as great 
 results in all the factors of his being as is 
 usually secured in but one. In fact, he 
 can do far better because he will act 
 consciously, and will personally control the 
 laws through which results are to be 
 gained. 
 
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 When a person has learned to save all 
 the forces in his system, and has learned 
 to personally control the creative elements 
 of his being, he can develop a more attrac- 
 tive personality than was ever seen before; 
 he can develop a more powerful and a 
 more brilliant mind than was ever known 
 before; and he can develop the very 
 highest states of character and soul that 
 the finest consciousness has ever discerned 
 in the ideal. He can do all these things 
 at the same time; he has sufficient energy 
 when he saves it all; and what is so 
 strongly in his favor is the great fact that 
 when we develop the whole man we secure 
 greater results through any one part than 
 we possibly could if we developed that 
 one part alone. In this connection it is 
 well to remember that no chain is stronger 
 than its weakest link; but when every 
 link is strong — exceptionally strong — 
 the strength of the whole chain will be 
 great indeed. 
 
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 There are many inspiring scenes in 
 nature — scenes that lift the soul to the 
 very heights of empyrean realms; but 
 the most inspiring scene of all is the sight 
 of a human personality that reveals, in 
 visible form, all that is pure, all that is 
 rich, all that is high, all that is worthy, 
 all that is beautiful and all that is ideal in 
 existence sublime. When we are in the 
 presence of a human personality where 
 "the elements are so mixed" that we feel 
 as if we have met the very climax of 
 workmanship divine, our thoughts of man 
 cease to dwell upon earth. Man, to us, 
 is no longer a mere human creature; he is 
 something more, and we begin to gain 
 glimpses of what can be done with that 
 "something more." And as those glimpses 
 reveal the possibilities that lie before us, 
 we realizQ that we are beginning the study 
 of the most interesting, the most profitable 
 and the most fascinating theme that has 
 ever presented itself to the mind of man. 
 
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 When we meet people who express, 
 even to a slight degree, the richness and 
 the beauty that is inherent in human 
 nature, we realize that we are in the very 
 presence of the kings and queens of earth; 
 and new faith is awakened within us. 
 We no longer think of the human race as 
 "depraved," or as "almost hopeless," 
 or as "mere weaklings" of little more 
 consequence than the leaf that comes with 
 the wind, and with the same wind is 
 blown away. We can see in man the 
 Real Man; and as this Real Man appears 
 before us in all his majesty and power, 
 we begin to understand why "thou art 
 mindful of him." We also begin to see, 
 as never before, how much time and 
 energy we have wasted in building up and 
 tearing down useless things, while the 
 greatest world of all worlds — the world 
 within — has remained undeveloped and 
 unexplored. 
 
 The greatest ambition of the coming 
 
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 day will be, not to write the best book, not 
 to invent the most wonderful machine, 
 not to paint the most inspiring picture, 
 not to conduct the largest enterprise, not 
 to amass the greatest amount of gold, but 
 to develop and express the finest, the 
 strongest, the most perfect, the most 
 beautiful and the most inspiring per- 
 sonality in the world. To have the power 
 to manipulate the creative elements in the 
 world of things is truly a mark of great- 
 ness; but to exercise that same power 
 upon the creative elements in human life 
 is a mark of far greater greatness. And 
 to enter this new field and develop the 
 marvelous possibilities that are contained 
 therein, is the next step in human progress. 
 
 We must remember, however, that to 
 enter this new field is not to neglect other 
 lines of progress and achievement. You 
 may write an extraordinary book, or any 
 number of them, and at the same time 
 build and rebuild yourself, until you 
 
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 become an Edition de Luxe, both in human 
 quality and in personal appearance. You 
 may paint the most inspiring picture that 
 the world has ever seen, and at the same 
 time apply the divine art within your own 
 being until you become the most inspiring 
 living picture that the world has ever seen. 
 You may conduct a great business enter- 
 prise and be a power in the world of 
 practical things, and at the same time so 
 direct the creative elements in your own 
 being that you become as rich in personal 
 quality as the possessions over which you 
 exercise control; as noble in bearing as 
 the kingship that rules in your mind; as 
 strong in personal expression as the power 
 that governs your vast domain; and as 
 attractive in personal appearance as the 
 richly adorned mansion you call your 
 home. Whatever you do, you can become 
 a genius in your sphere, and reach the 
 highest places in practical achievement; 
 but you can, at the same time, do even 
 
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 greater things with yourself. You can so 
 rebuild and perfect your own personality 
 that you become an Edition de Luxe in 
 living, human form. 
 
 The personal worth of the man should 
 at least be as great as the actual worth of 
 his possessions; otherwise, he is not in 
 keeping with his world. And his personal 
 worth should be fully expressed through 
 every atom in his being. He should 
 "look" it in every sense of the term. 
 The woman should at least be as beautiful 
 as her gowns; otherwise, she is not true 
 to the matchless charms of her nature. 
 But this is but the beginning for her. 
 The adorner's art is as nothing compared 
 with the beautifying power that is latent 
 in the feminine soul. People in general 
 should at least be as attractive in them- 
 selves as are the houses they build or the 
 surroundings in which they live. True, 
 some are more attractive, but such attrac- 
 tiveness is born, not made. Henceforth, 
 
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 we must not depend on what we receive 
 through heredity, but must proceed to 
 make ourselves, and continue to remake 
 ourselves until we become precisely what 
 we wish to be. Nor is this a "mere 
 dream" or a "useless desire." Man posi- 
 tively can remake himself according to his 
 highest ideal of himself, and to do this 
 will be the next step in his progress. 
 
 The purpose we have in mind is to 
 consciously control and direct the creative 
 elements in the system so as to rebuild 
 the human personality according to our 
 highest conception of what we personally 
 should wish to be. These creative ele- 
 ments can be trained to act not only upon 
 that finer field of life that lies back of 
 and within the personality, but also upon 
 the tangible personality itself, even the 
 cell-structures of the physical body. The 
 use of these creative elements in furthering 
 the purpose we have in view will, at first, 
 result in a strong, attractive personality in 
 
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 man, and a beautiful, charming, fascinating 
 personality in woman. But this is but the 
 beginning; when man learns to control 
 the building power that is inherent in his 
 mind, and when woman learns to control 
 the beautifying power that is in her soul, 
 there is no ideal in connection with the 
 perfecting of the human entity that cannot 
 be realized. Then every individual may 
 certainly become an Edition de Luxe, and 
 according to his own ideal of what such 
 an edition should be. » 
 
 This new and wonderful goal, however, 
 is to be reached, not by acting upon the 
 personality from without, but by unfolding 
 the strong, the beautiful and the ideal 
 from within. The finer elements of mind, 
 thought, feeling, consciousness and soul 
 are to be given predominance in every 
 action and phase of life. And when these 
 elements are given the first place in all 
 that pertains to actual living, they tend 
 to work themselves out into actual ex- 
 
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 pression through the personality. Thus 
 the personality gradually changes from a 
 state of weakness and inferiority to a state 
 of richness, quality and high worth. You 
 no longer present a "common" personal 
 appearance; the ordinary has entirely 
 disappeared from your life, and you be- 
 come one of the "rare products" of 
 creative art divine. In other words, you 
 remove the cheap binding from your 
 personal appearance; you remove the 
 cheap paper, page after page, from your 
 nature; you insert high art illumined 
 pages instead, and you have your entire 
 personal self bound in de Luxe. 
 
 Man has the power to remake himself 
 and cause both his interior nature and his 
 external appearance to become as far 
 superior to the "average person" as the 
 highly cultivated rose is superior to the 
 weed. And the day is at hand to begin. 
 We are now in possession of the necessary 
 principles, the necessary methods and the 
 
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 necessary facts; we are ready for this 
 next step in human progress; we are ready 
 to remake ourselves in the image and 
 likeness of our highest ideals, and thus 
 become, in the true sense of the term, 
 the crowning glory of Nature's sublime 
 creative art. 
 
 The same power, the same efficiency, 
 the same insight and the same genius that 
 we have demonstrated in the world of 
 things, we can now demonstrate in that 
 world that is above things — the world of 
 ideal human life; and we can cause every- 
 thing that is ideal in that finer life to 
 become ideal in actual, personal life. 
 This finer life, and the world from which 
 it springs, is within man; therefore, it 
 cannot be acted upon through physical 
 means; nor can it be reached through the 
 channels of objective actions. To act 
 upon that world subjective actions, applied 
 through the elements of mind, thought, 
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 necessary. That world, however, is almost 
 wholly undeveloped; it is virgin soil, but 
 its productive capacity is limitless. Rich 
 rewards, therefore, are in store for those 
 who will learn to cultivate the new fields 
 of that vast domain. And anyone can 
 learn to begin at once. Moreover, to be 
 just to ourselves and the people with 
 whom we come in contact, we must learn 
 to begin at once. 
 
 The fact is that no person has the right 
 to present a cheap, common, ordinary 
 personal appearance to the world when he 
 knows how to build in himself a superior 
 personality. If we carry upon us a com- 
 monplace personal appearance, we invari- 
 ably produce a cheap impression upon the 
 mind of every person we meet; and cheap 
 impressions lead to cheap thinking and 
 inferior living. It may seem somewhat 
 far-fetched, but it is the truth that every 
 person who presents a cheap personal 
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 into inferior thought and life. The idea, 
 however, is not that every person, to 
 produce good impressions upon others, 
 must be elegantly dressed; dress does not 
 constitute personal appearance; besides, 
 it is those things that are alive — the 
 living appearance — that produces the 
 deepest impressions upon our minds. 
 Dress as well as you possibly can; it is 
 very important to do so, and remember, 
 it is not the price of your clothes, but the 
 way you wear them, that constitutes whole- 
 some appearance. But dress is secondary; 
 real personal appearance is in yourself, in 
 your countenance, in your bearing, in 
 your conduct, in your attitude, in your 
 movements and in the general expression 
 of your personal life. This being true, 
 we all can have a fairly good and whole- 
 some personal appearance, and when we 
 learn to use the finer creative elements 
 within us, this appearance may become 
 extraordinary. 
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 When you develop a superior person- 
 ality, you become an inspiration to every 
 person you meet; which fact we shall 
 admit when we realize that a superior 
 personality does not simply constitute a 
 well-shaped physical form, but a refined, 
 wholesome physical form, that is actually 
 alive with the richest qualities and the 
 highest states of sublime worth that can 
 possibly be found in body, mind and soul. 
 Shape is secondary; any shape becomes 
 strong and attractive when alive with 
 supreme power and high worth; and any 
 shape becomes charmingly beautiful when 
 animated with the very life, the very 
 essence and the very soul of the beautiful. 
 But the shape of any personal form can 
 be so modified as to correspond exactly 
 with the ideal personality we have under- 
 taken to build. The human form is not 
 only very plastic, but is constantly being 
 reconstructed by the renewing forces in 
 nature; therefore superior creative art 
 
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 from within will find no difficulty in 
 remolding the personal form according to 
 the finest pattern that we may have 
 selected. 
 
 A beautiful woman, if she be truly 
 beautiful in body, mind and soul, is doing 
 more for the race than the richest and 
 most liberal philanthropist. She is awak- 
 ening those finer things in human life 
 that alone can make living truly worth 
 while. And every man who is in posses- 
 sion of a strong, attractive, wholesome, 
 spirited personality, is leading hundreds, 
 possibly thousands, to greater things. 
 There is nothing that is more conducive 
 to greater things than a human personal- 
 ity so constituted, that it tends to inspire 
 in everybody a living desire to do greater 
 things. And all men and women can 
 exercise this inspirational power through 
 their personal appearance as well as 
 through their thoughts and deeds. These 
 are facts, therefore it is not only what we 
 
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 think or say or do, but also "how we 
 look," that determines our value to the 
 race. But personal appearance has been 
 ignored, or simply dealt with in the most 
 superficial manner. An attractive per- 
 sonality has been looked upon as a luxury; 
 now we know it to be a necessity. And 
 the reason why is found in the fact that 
 the power of appearance is one of the 
 great powers in the world, not only in the 
 life of the individual himself, but also in 
 the life of every person that he may 
 meet. 
 
 The world is governed by mental im- 
 pressions, and everything we meet, in 
 any manner whatever, produces a mental 
 impression; but those impressions we 
 gain from the people we meet are the 
 strongest of all, and therefore exercise the 
 greatest power upon our mode of life, 
 thought and action. Happy, then, is the 
 man whose personality gives only impres- 
 sions of the strong, the worthy, the high, 
 
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 the superior, the beautiful and the ideal 
 to every person that may come his way. 
 
 The foregoing facts prove conclusively 
 that the next step in human progress is a 
 necessity if we are to promote general 
 progress as perfectly and as extensively 
 as we would have the power to do if we 
 could take advantage of all our present 
 possibilities. But we cannot take ad- 
 vantage of all those possibilities so long as 
 we, ourselves, continue to be, in many 
 respects, an "inferior product." So long 
 as the human personality produces inferior 
 impressions upon the mind of the masses, 
 the progress of mankind in general will be 
 retarded. But, on the other hand, the 
 more inspiring personalities we have in 
 the world, the greater will become that 
 power in the world that leads upward and 
 onward. And here is our opportunity. 
 
 In taking this next step in human 
 progress, however, we are not simply 
 becoming benefactors. It is the individual 
 
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 who takes this next step who will realize 
 the greatest gain. To prove this we might 
 mention hundreds of incontrovertible facts, 
 and shall at the outset present two of 
 these, though these two are by no means 
 the most important. First, we know that 
 a man who has a strong, wholesome, 
 attractive personality can accomplish fully 
 twice as much, and more, with the same 
 talent as the man who is personally weak, 
 spiritless or unattractive. Second, we 
 know that a woman who is beautiful in 
 person, sweet in disposition and lovely in 
 soul, can get almost anything she may 
 want in this world. And there is a reason 
 why — a reason that is not based upon 
 selfish love, physical desire or personal 
 vanity, but a reason that can only be 
 found higher up in the finer life of ideal 
 soul existence. 
 
 Should we have no other grounds upon 
 which to base the value of this next step 
 than the two great facts just presented, 
 
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 the subject before us would deserve all 
 the time and attention that could be 
 possibly given; but we are yet to look 
 into the vast realms that this new step 
 will open up to the mind, to the intellect, 
 to the soul, to the fields of consciousness, 
 to the physical senses and to all the 
 faculties, functions, forces and elements in 
 the entire being of man. In fact, the 
 human world will be so enlarged, so 
 enriched, so beautified and so perfected 
 that the joy of living will be multiplied 
 even hundreds of times. * 
 
 We have found unlimited interest and 
 fascination in exercising creative power in 
 the world of things; we can imagine what 
 our interest and fascination will be when 
 we learn to exercise this creative power in 
 the limitless domains of real human life; 
 and also the supreme delight that we shall 
 naturally enjoy when we begin to note 
 results. Surely, we can think of no step 
 in human progress that could add so richly 
 
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 to the happiness and the welfare of life as 
 this next step before us; we shall therefore 
 proceed with more interest and with more 
 pleasure than we ever knew before. 
 
 To proceed, begin in the beginning; 
 and the first essential is to picture in your 
 mind your ideal of yourself. Then con- 
 tinue to see this ideal picture, no matter 
 what external circumstances or conditions 
 may be. You will daily grow more and 
 more into the likeness of that picture until 
 you become in the real what you have 
 seen in the ideal. And the reason why is 
 found in the fact that the energies of the 
 system invariably select your predominat- 
 ing thought, or leading mental picture, as 
 the pattern for their work. What you 
 habitually think of yourself is your pre- 
 dominating thought of yourself; and it is 
 this thought that your creative energies 
 use as their model in building and rebuild- 
 ing you. Therefore, when you improve 
 your thought of yourself by picturing in 
 
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 your mind your highest ideal of yourself, 
 your creative energies will have an im- 
 proved model, and will, in consequence, 
 begin to rebuild you according to the 
 likeness of this new and better model. 
 This is the basic principle in all human 
 advancement, and there is absolutely no 
 limit to its possibility and power. And as 
 it is very easily applied by anyone, there 
 is no reason why we all should not make a 
 beginning now that will culminate in far 
 greater results than we ever dreamed. 
 
 To picture in your mind that ideal of 
 yourself that you wish to realize in per- 
 sonal form, it is necessary to incorporate 
 in that picture every ideal quality that 
 you can think of. The imagination 
 governs completely all the creative forces 
 of the system; therefore the imaging 
 faculty must be trained to picture only 
 those qualities and conditions that you 
 wish to express in the new and improved 
 personality. 
 
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 To give all these ideal pictures predomi- 
 nance in consciousness, live in the con- 
 sciousness of every ideal quality that you 
 have begun to picture. This will so 
 deepen the ideal in your life that all the 
 elements of the ideal will become living 
 elements throughout your being. You thus 
 cause ideal qualities to become actual parts 
 of your personality, and as you continue, 
 you personally will be composed entirely 
 of such qualities. When this is accom- 
 plished, you will have eliminated the cheap 
 and the inferior from your personality, and 
 the very cells in your body will have 
 become as rich in texture as the petals of 
 the highly cultivated rose. 
 
 When you have clearly formed in mind 
 a complete picture of the new personality 
 that you have begun to build, that is, 
 when you can distinctly see yourself as 
 you would actually appear after you had 
 become an Edition de Luxe in human 
 form, live with a deep, constant desire to 
 
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 build and express such a personality. 
 What you constantly desire to do, you 
 will inspire your creative energies to do, 
 but this desire must be so deep and so 
 strong that it becomes, not only a per- 
 manent power, but a ruling power in your 
 life. The entire system must continue in 
 perfect health and in perfect harmony. 
 When the health is not perfect, the natural 
 building processes of the system are inter- 
 fered with, and it is not possible to build 
 the strong, the beautiful and the ideal 
 without perfect harmony. 
 
 To eliminate all adverse mental states 
 is one of the first essentials; the reason 
 being that everything that is taking place 
 in the human system is more or less 
 affected by the states of mind. Anger 
 wastes energy and invariably tends to 
 produce a mean expression. But you will 
 need all the energy you possess if you wish 
 to remake yourself; and if you wish to 
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 expression, all your expressions, even the 
 slightest, must be of the very best. Worry 
 dries up the cells and produces old-age 
 conditions as well as those "dried up" 
 conditions that are so detrimental to 
 health, youth, vigor and personal charm. 
 Every dried-up cell is a dead cell, and 
 every dead cell adds so much more to 
 personal weakness and personal inferiority. 
 Fear retards natural and full expression; 
 it also produces negative conditions and 
 weakens the entire personality. No one 
 can develop a strong, powerful, attractive 
 personality until he has overcome fear, 
 because every action of fear is an action of 
 retreat; it moves to the rear; it gives up 
 and drifts further and further back toward 
 nothingness. The way to strength, power 
 and higher development of every descrip- 
 tion, however, leads forward and forward 
 continually. It is therefore most evident 
 that no person can take the next step in 
 human progress until anger, fear and worry 
 
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 have been removed from his life absolutely. 
 But this is not impossible. Anger, fear 
 and worry can be eliminated completely 
 by anyone without any difficulty whatever. 
 
 Among other mental states that must 
 be removed, we find grief, disappointment, 
 discouragement, excitability, moroseness, 
 the negative attitude, the critical attitude, 
 the antagonistic attitude and states and 
 attitudes of a similar nature. Cultivate 
 the opposite states in every case, and the 
 adverse ones will disappear. Live in per- 
 petual sunshine; in fact, be sunshine; be 
 the very spirit of joy, as there is nothing 
 that is more conducive to the purpose you 
 have in view than real, whole-hearted joy. 
 Live in perpetual happiness, and inwardly 
 feel the fullness of unbounded joy. And 
 you can, when you learn to look at life 
 from the proper point of view. 
 
 Another great essential is to love with 
 every fiber of your being. The power of 
 love is a great building power, provided 
 
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 it is love — the love that loves because 
 it is love, and not because it wants some- 
 thing in return. Love that demands rec- 
 ompense or reward is not love; it is a 
 misuse of the forces of mind, and therefore 
 an obstacle in the way of greater things. 
 Love with the love that wants to love; 
 love all things with such a love, and with 
 every fiber in your being; you thus, not 
 only arouse the finest creative elements in 
 your system, but you direct those elements 
 to build in yourself the strong, the beauti- 
 ful and the ideal. 
 
 The rebuilding of your personality must 
 be carried out from within; the interior 
 life must be reconstructed according to the 
 ideal before the ideal can be made real in 
 the external personality; and since the 
 interior life is almost entirely controlled 
 by the power of feeling, it is necessary that 
 you train yourself to deeply feel every 
 quality, condition or force that you wish 
 to express. In the last analysis "you look 
 
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 the way you feel," and the way you feel 
 depends upon what you imagine concern- 
 ing yourself and what you habitually and 
 subconsciously think about yourself. So 
 long as you habitually and subconsciously 
 feel ordinary, you will look ordinary; but 
 as soon as you have trained your deeper 
 feelings to feel the richness, the worth and 
 the superiority of your true being, you will 
 begin to express superiority and high 
 worth in your personal appearance. 
 
 Continue to feel mean, ugly, miserable 
 or disgusted, and you will finally look 
 these things. Continue to feel disagreeable 
 every hour for a year, or even less, and 
 you will not only look disagreeable, but 
 you will become personally repulsive. 
 These are well-known facts; but the law 
 works both ways. Continue to feel within 
 yourself all those qualities that naturally 
 attract admiration, and you will become 
 so attractive, first in your nature and then 
 also in your personality, that you will 
 
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 attract the admiration of every person 
 you meet. Continue to feel any desirable 
 quality, and that quality will become a 
 living power in your nature. Later it 
 will express itself in your personality, and 
 you will look what you feel. This feeling, 
 however, must be continuous; it must 
 become habitual and subconscious, and 
 must be thoroughly alive every hour. 
 
 Continue to feel life, power, purity, 
 refinement, sweetness and loveliness, and 
 these qualities will be expressed more and 
 more in your personality. By feeling these 
 things you cause them to become living 
 forces in your interior life; and whatever 
 is made alive and built up in the life 
 within, will at once begin to work itself 
 out and build itself into the external 
 personality. You thus, through the ele- 
 ments of deep feeling, cause the ideal to 
 actually become real; or, in other words, 
 you cause the possibilities within to become 
 living factors in the without. 
 
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 To cultivate this high art of feeling in 
 the within that you wish to express and 
 build up in the without, live in the con- 
 sciousness of the ideal and constantly 
 feel the fullness of the ideal. When you 
 feel the interior fullness of a quality you 
 develop that quality, and the development 
 will be similar in every respect to the ideal 
 that animates what you feel. At first, 
 special attention must be given to the 
 continuous feeling of every quality that 
 you wish to develop in your nature and 
 in your personality; but gradually, as 
 every feeling becomes subconscious, it will 
 be second nature for you to feel the way 
 you want to feel; and when you feel the 
 way you want to feel you will look the 
 way you want to look. 
 
 To apply the principle of feeling to the 
 best advantage, the man should live in the 
 consciousness of strength, power, capacity, 
 quality and worth; and the woman should 
 live in the consciousness of purity, refine- 
 
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 ment, beauty, loveliness and soul. Con- 
 tinue to feel inwardly the beautiful, and 
 the beautiful will unfold itself in every 
 atom in your being. Continue to feel the 
 thrill of loveliness, fascination and personal 
 charm in every fiber of your being, and 
 you will not only become charmingly 
 beautiful in personal appearance, but you 
 will also gain that irresistible fascination 
 that all the world admires so much in the 
 truly developed feminine soul. Train your- 
 self to feel refined, and you will express 
 refinement in life, thought, speech, action 
 and outward appearance. Train yourself 
 to feel the sweetness of your ideal feminine 
 nature, and you will become, in body, 
 mind and soul, all that the term "human 
 sweetness" can possibly imply. 
 
 Continue to inwardly feel strong and 
 you develop a strong, attractive, masterful 
 personality. Continue to feel in the within 
 the fullness of strength and power, but do 
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 overwrought or aroused beyond your abso- 
 lute control. Be calm and poised while 
 masterful and strong. Feel inwardly calm 
 and inwardly strong, and you have the 
 secret. 
 
 To continue to possess a personality 
 that may rightly be termed an Edition de 
 Luxe in human form, it is necessary to 
 perfect such a personality more and more 
 so long as we remain in personal existence. 
 When we cease to promote progression we 
 return to the ways of retrogression. An 
 ideal personality can come only from an 
 ideal life that is inwardly, actually and 
 continually lived. When we cease to in- 
 wardly live the ideal and outwardly apply 
 the ideal, our personal charms will begin 
 to fade away. But those charms, when 
 once gained, can be retained as long as we 
 live, provided we continue to live charm- 
 ingly, and continue to develop more and 
 more every ideal quality that may exist in 
 our nature. 
 
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 You will never lose your strength or 
 your power so long as you live to gain 
 more and more strength and power. You 
 will never lose your beauty, your loveli- 
 ness or your sweetness so long as you 
 live to become sweeter, more lovely 
 and more beautiful than you ever were 
 before. 
 
 The principles, methods and ideas pre- 
 sented in the preceding pages constitute 
 the bridge, so to speak, over which we 
 may pass into that new and vast domain 
 where we may begin the next step in 
 human progress; and having entered this 
 domain, we are ready to take possession 
 of the finer creative elements in the 
 wonderful being of man, and direct those 
 elements in such a manner as to produce 
 any desired results in any special part of 
 this new field. To begin, subjective con- 
 centration becomes the practical instru- 
 ment through which these finer creative 
 forces may be successfully applied; and 
 
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 we shall appreciate the great value of this 
 instrument when we learn what can be 
 accomplished through its scientific use. 
 
 Concentrate subjectively — in deep feel- 
 ing — upon any part of the body, and 
 you change the form of that part of the 
 body to correspond with the ideal you 
 clearly hold in mind during the concentra- 
 tion. This is a scientific fact, and one of 
 the most important that this age has 
 produced. You can prove it yourself. If 
 there is a certain part of your face that 
 you desire to have filled but, concentrate 
 subjectively upon that part for a few 
 minutes every hour, and in a few weeks 
 you will note the desired change. You 
 can do the same with any part of your 
 body, because, through subjective con- 
 centration, you gain control of the finer 
 creative elements of your system — those 
 elements that are within and back of the 
 cell structures, and that can produce any 
 amount of new or improved cell structure 
 
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 as desired. Through subjective concentra- 
 tion you can not only modify the shape 
 and the form of the body and build for 
 yourself a more beautiful body, but you 
 can also improve the quality of every 
 fiber in your system; that is, you can 
 increase or decrease the number of cells 
 in any part and also change the fineness of 
 those cells, just as the horticulturist de- 
 velops a common-looking group of leaves 
 into a most beautiful and highly cultivated 
 flower. 
 
 Concentrate subjectively upon any 
 quality in your nature, and you increase 
 the power as well as the worth of that 
 quality. And here we have a method 
 through which any person can entirely 
 change, for the better, his nature, his 
 disposition, his character and his entire 
 mentality. Concentrate subjectively upon 
 any force in your system, and you not 
 only increase the active power of that 
 force, but you gain perfect control over 
 
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 the force itself, as well as its sphere of 
 action. Concentrate subjectively upon 
 any mental faculty or talent, and you 
 awaken the- real, interior power of 
 that talent — that power that produces 
 genius. 
 
 Concentrate subjectively upon any phase 
 of consciousness, and you expand that 
 consciousness continuously until you be- 
 come conscious of worlds, realms and 
 domains that you never dreamed of before. 
 In brief, through subjective concentration, 
 we may gain control of all the elements 
 and forces that exist in the vastness of 
 human life, and direct those elements in 
 the re-making of ourselves according to our 
 highest ideal. But this concentration is 
 not the mere holding of attention here or 
 there as we may elect. Subjective con- 
 centration is a special art — a very high 
 art, and a most extensive art; it is the 
 entering into the real essence of all sub- 
 stance and all force; it is the conveyance 
 
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 of a mental state or an ideal condition to 
 any special part anywhere in the human 
 system; it is the living of the superior in 
 that part where you wish the superior to be 
 expressed. 
 
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 [HEN we proceed to consider what 
 we know about the highest truth 
 conceivable in our present state 
 of development, we shall meet a 
 very great paradox, and we shall also meet 
 the reverse of this truth; that is, what we 
 may term the only real sin possible to the 
 human ego — the coming down from the 
 perfect consciousness of this highest truth, 
 which would constitute the great fall. 
 And when we inquire to what this highest 
 truth has reference, our answer must be 
 that it is the truth concerning the most 
 sublime principle of which we are con- 
 scious; and this can be nothing less than 
 our own real or supreme self. 
 
 We understand that we may know 
 many things concerning the external, but 
 we may naturally know more about our 
 
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 own innermost nature than anything else 
 that may have existence in the universe. 
 Therefore, this highest truth necessarily 
 declares something definite concerning our 
 innermost or supreme self; and when this 
 highest truth reveals itself we discover 
 that the real or eternal self, that is, the 
 soul or spirit of man, is now in possession 
 of what we may term the All in All, and 
 accordingly, has no needs or requirements 
 whatever. 
 
 When we consider life in the external 
 we find that existence has seemingly many 
 needs and requirements; but we find that 
 the spirit of man, the real eternal you, 
 does not need anything whatever, being 
 supplied abundantly with the All in All. 
 Accordingly, the soul of man can, in 
 justice and truth, ask for nothing, pray 
 for nothing, desire nothing, hope for 
 nothing, because the soul does have every- 
 thing— "All that the Father hath is 
 mine." 
 
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 However we may consider the life of the 
 individual, the needs of the personal man, 
 or the requirements of the human phases 
 of existence, we come invariably to the 
 conclusion that everything that the per- 
 sonal or human side of life can possibly 
 desire or require does, even now, exist in 
 the human soul. The great kingdom has 
 been given to man. The eternal I Am is 
 in itself sufficient unto itself — having all 
 life, all wisdom, all power, all joy, and is 
 complete, perfect, and finished in the larg- 
 est and highest significance of those terms. 
 
 When we consider this great truth, 
 admittedly the highest truth that we can 
 discern at the present time, we will, if our 
 analysis be complete, meet the reverse; 
 that is, the ignoring of this truth, which 
 would involve the desire of the ego to 
 seek for things in the external. And here 
 is where we find the original sin, or the 
 fall of man — going out or down into 
 the external for anything whatever, when 
 
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 the soul or, the spirit is already in posses- 
 sion of everything heart could wish for, or 
 that the most perfect states of life 
 might require. 
 
 Realizing the great truth that the 
 human spirit, or the I Am, has everything 
 needful for eternity, then we understand 
 that if the Human Ego goes out into the 
 external in search of pleasure, or wisdom, 
 or power, or possessions, or help, or any- 
 thing whatever, the Ego falls; and this is 
 the only fall, the original fall, or the origi- 
 nal sin of which we have Heard so much 
 during centuries past. 
 
 In the last analysis, there is only one 
 sin possible to the Human Ego, and only 
 one real mistake that the human entity 
 can possibly make; and that sin is to 
 leave the marvels and the riches of the 
 spirit, wherein everything may be found — 
 to leave the joys of the kingdom and the 
 glories of the heaven within, and go out in 
 search of lesser things. 
 
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 Thus we must come inevitably to the 
 conclusion that whenever we seek pleasure, 
 or wisdom, or power directly and exclu- 
 sively in or through external sources, we 
 are committing again the original sin — 
 we are repeating once more the great 
 fall. And here is where we meet the great 
 paradox; that is, what we should do with 
 external things; if we should seek any- 
 thing in the external; or try to enjoy any 
 phase of existence that may appear on 
 the outside of spiritual consciousness. 
 
 The great problem is this, if the soul in 
 its glorified state always is in full posses- 
 sion of the Great Good, why should we 
 seek anything whatever in the external. 
 Why should we care for anything existing 
 upon the outside. Indeed, could this be 
 right under any circumstance. And how 
 would it be possible to seek external joys, 
 external wisdom and power, or anything 
 that might seem of value in the external — 
 how would it be possible to seek those 
 
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 things if the mere going out in search of 
 them would constitute a sin or a fall? 
 This is the great paradox, a seeming 
 contradiction of the highest truth. 
 
 Turning our attention to an expression 
 that reveals much light in this connection, 
 we may quote a familiar statement, which 
 declares, " Whenever you come to a place 
 in supreme spiritual consciousness where 
 you actually know that you are in need of 
 nothing whatever, then you will find that 
 everything in external life will begin to 
 come into your world from every source 
 conceivable." 
 
 There are a great many enlightened and 
 powerful souls that have applied the 
 principle of this law; and it proves itself 
 invariably; but it is only the enlightened 
 that can understand the reason why. 
 
 Considering another phase of the same 
 idea, we realize that so long as we are 
 going out, here and there, in search of 
 what we need or desire, we are not true 
 
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 to ourselves; that is, we are not true to 
 our highest and best self — that highest 
 and best self that does possess everything 
 we need. Briefly stated, we step down 
 from our lofty position whenever we seek 
 anything in the external; and accordingly, 
 we become confused and lose our power. 
 Therefore, whatever we may try to secure 
 under such a circumstance, we shall fail, 
 or at best we shall secure only fragments; 
 and what comes into life through a mere 
 attempt to search in the external for the 
 needs of life will neither give real joy nor 
 higher power. 
 
 This explains why the multitudes are 
 never satisfied, because if they do not 
 have what they want they are dissatisfied, 
 and when they do receive what they 
 thought they wanted, they are, in like 
 manner, dissatisfied, because what they 
 do receive under such a circumstance is 
 but a fragment of the All in All. The 
 soul, however, must be filled with the 
 
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 highest and best, and must be conscious 
 of the All in All, if real joy is to obtain; 
 and as the soul does possess inherently the 
 All in All, being sufficient unto itself, we 
 can readily imagine how we violate all the 
 laws of life when we go out into the 
 external in search of anything whatever. 
 
 Another great truth, or a vital phase of 
 the same highest truth, is this, that so 
 long as we retain our lofty position, 
 realizing that we have everything, being 
 all sufficient, having need of nothing from 
 any source, and being so complete in 
 ourselves, in our real supreme self, that 
 we do not even need the universe, but 
 could abide in serenity and perfection even 
 though the universe should disappear — 
 when we continue in that sublime realiza- 
 tion, we establish ourselves in the very 
 midst of the greatest power that the soul 
 can possibly exercise. Indeed, at such a 
 time consciousness lives and moves and 
 has its being in the very center of the 
 
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 Great Life, in the very light of the Great 
 Wisdom and at the very heart of Limitless 
 Power. Accordingly, the I Am, at such a 
 time, is related perfectly to the Infinite, to 
 the cosmos and to the entire world of 
 things; that is, the I Am has its hold, so 
 to speak, upon the entire situation, and 
 can, not only master everything within 
 its own world, but functions from that 
 divine center of consciousness in supreme 
 existence toward which the All-Good is 
 moving eternally. 
 
 To state it differently, when you ascend 
 to that supreme state of consciousness 
 where you know that you have all things, 
 including all power, you come into posses- 
 sion of the power to bring to yourself any- 
 thing whatsoever, if you should so wish 
 or desire. 
 
 When we appreciate this highest truth 
 to the fullest degree, we shall indeed 
 inquire again and again what we are to do 
 with external things. But the problem is 
 
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 readily solved because the question is, not 
 whether we are to ignore the external or 
 to try to adapt ourselves to the external 
 according to the light of this highest 
 truth — these are not the questions in- 
 volved; but the question is, whether we 
 are to consider the external as of first 
 importance, or look upon the manifested 
 universe as something that is not abso- 
 lutely necessary to our real existence, but 
 that is a coming forth into external 
 appearance of the All in All, the full 
 possession of which we now have, and 
 always will have for all eternity. 
 
 To use another expression, external 
 things are not necessary to our happiness 
 or wisdom or power any more than the 
 rays from the sun are necessary to the ex- 
 istence of the sun; but because of the 
 existence of the sun, the rays will continue 
 to come forth perpetually; and in the 
 same manner, because of the existence of 
 the All in All in the soul and in the 
 
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 spiritual world, the manifestation of things 
 will continue perpetually; and we can 
 enjoy them as an expression, just as a 
 genius enjoys his work, although knowing 
 that his work is simply the result of what 
 he is in himself, and of what he is doing 
 with what he does possess within himself. 
 When we consider the element of happi- 
 ness, which has been described as the 
 highest good, we learn that we never find 
 happiness if we go in search of happiness 
 itself. True, we may find a few mo- 
 mentary pleasures through such a search; 
 but those pleasures invariably produce 
 undesirable reactions. The truth is, that 
 we find happiness, not by seeking happi- 
 ness directly, but by doing something that 
 will result in happiness; and in all our 
 doing, that is, if we wish to exercise our 
 highest and greatest power in whatever 
 we do, we must ascend to the conscious- 
 ness of the Great Power existing in the 
 soul. Therefore, by reasoning correctly, 
 
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 we understand that if we would live and 
 work in the consciousness of the highest 
 power of the soul, we would naturally 
 produce those activities in consciousness 
 that would result in the greatest happiness. 
 In other words, the greatest happiness 
 comes from the greatest work; and the 
 greatest work is possible only in the con- 
 sciousness of the greatest power — the 
 power that we exercise and apply when 
 we live and think in the realization of the 
 great truth that the soul now is in posses- 
 sion of the All in All. 
 I We may consider all forms of conditions 
 and things, and we invariably find that 
 they prove unsatisfactory so long as we 
 go in search of them directly; that is, by 
 seeking things in the external that we 
 imagine may minister to our needs, we 
 never find more than fragments; and the 
 personal mind is half starved most of the 
 time. However, when we remain in our 
 lofty position, realizing that the soul is 
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 all-sufficient, having no need whatever — 
 "All that the Father hath is mine" — 
 then we discover that all kinds of desir- 
 able conditions, things, environments and 
 situations begin to aggregate in our world 
 — not because we need them absolutely, 
 but because we invariably produce the 
 aggregation of desirable conditions and 
 things in the without whenever we begin 
 to dwell in the consciousness of their 
 spiritual correspondents within. In other 
 words, while we are deeply conscious of 
 the All in All within, we will attract the 
 all-good from all sources in the without. 
 Thus we explain the great mystery; that 
 is, why the soul in its lofty position, 
 where it feels that it has need of nothing, 
 begins to draw towards itself everything. 
 To state the same truth in a different 
 manner, we may emphasize the statement 
 that when we enter that place in spiritual 
 consciousness where we find everything, 
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 and perfect position — when we live in 
 that place we find that external conditions 
 and things will begin to readjust them- 
 selves on every hand, working themselves 
 out right, transforming themselves in every 
 form and manner so as to harmonize, in 
 their external state, with the perfect 
 harmony and right position of what we 
 have become conscious of, in that sublime 
 state in the soul, where all is always well. 
 
 Here we discover how we create for 
 ourselves a new heaven and a new earth, 
 and how all things become new in the 
 external when we have realized that 
 which is forever new in the sublime within; 
 that is, when we find the real heaven 
 within, or become conscious of the newest 
 and the highest states of being that we 
 can realize in our present state of develop- 
 ment, we observe that all external condi- 
 tions will change to correspond; and thus 
 we have a new earth — an external life 
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 the new heaven is in the realms of inte- 
 rior consciousness. Furthermore, when we 
 arise to this lofty state and assume our 
 true position, which is to be conscious 
 eternally of the supreme self, the Human 
 Ego will again place itself in the midst of 
 the Great Power — the Power that can 
 do anything in the within or in the 
 without — cause all things to rearrange 
 themselves harmoniously, beautifully and 
 perfectly to correspond with the perfect 
 vision of the soul. 
 
 When we look upon the world in the 
 without, we observe that vast multitudes 
 are constantly looking in the external for 
 what they think they need, never find- 
 ing what satisfies, or coming in contact 
 with what they describe as "the real 
 thing." And the reason is, that the Hu- 
 man Ego in each one has stepped down, 
 committed the original sin, searching in 
 the without for that which we already pos- 
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 and again the great fall. Thus every indi- 
 vidual has, for the time being, lost the 
 great power, come down from the lofty 
 position of spiritual consciousness, and is 
 to that degree out of place, out of tune and 
 out of harmony, more or less, with every- 
 thing and everybody. Thus multitudes go 
 through the world dissatisfied and heart 
 hungry — miserable creatures physically 
 and mentally, never finding exactly what 
 they desire, and always dreaming of some 
 future time when all needs shall be sup- 
 plied and all wrongs shall be righted. 
 
 This is the condition of vast multitudes; 
 but how readily they could change their 
 condition — how soon they could abso- 
 lutely transform their personal life and 
 their entire world of manifestation, chang- 
 ing everything, causing everything to 
 become as they wish it to be; for in- 
 deed, the very moment they would arise 
 and re-establish themselves in their true 
 position, in the full consciousness of this 
 
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 highest truth, they would know that we 
 have the All in All now — that the All in 
 All does exist in the spiritual life of every 
 individual this moment and forever; and 
 that we all may live in the spiritual, 
 should continually live in the spiritual, 
 upon the heights of supreme consciousness, 
 in the realization of the limitlessness 
 inheritance of the Supreme Self. 
 
 When we understand these things we 
 realize the uselessness of working so hard 
 to change conditions and environments in 
 the external, as many do, literally working 
 the body to death in order to produce 
 certain external conditions that we imagine 
 to be desirable — wearing life away in 
 producing conditions which in the end 
 prove themselves to be entirely inadequate 
 to the real needs of the real man. We 
 understand clearly how useless it is to 
 pursue such a course when the eternal I 
 Am, the spirit of man, already is in 
 possession of the All in All, being sufficient 
 
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 unto itself, having its true being in that 
 lofty state where the soul has received 
 the kingdom — where we fully realize the 
 largest and highest significance of the 
 great statement, "All that the Father 
 hath is mine." 
 
 When we proceed to apply in practical 
 life the principle of this highest truth, we 
 may in the beginning inquire whether or 
 not we can accept that principle in full, 
 when we see on every hand in the visible 
 world the lack of things needful, as well 
 as any number of unrealized ideals; and 
 the answer is, that so long as we continue 
 to live down among things, expecting to 
 secure what we desire through the search 
 of things, we shall not be able to appre- 
 ciate the real meaning of this highest 
 truth. But the moment we arise to that 
 lofty position of the spirit wherein we 
 know "what God has prepared for them 
 that love Him," we find ourselves in the 
 very midst of the great light of this truth, 
 
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 and in consequence we can say, in all 
 conviction and sincerity, "I have every- 
 thing." 
 
 Whenever we have made efforts in the 
 past to cause consciousness to transcend 
 the temporal and enter into the light of 
 the spiritual, we have met with experiences 
 of a very striking nature; that is, so long 
 as we lived down in the temporal, or in 
 that state of material consciousness that 
 has been described as "this world," we 
 were constantly confronted with what we 
 might term the awfulness of adversity, 
 trouble and wrong; and upon many 
 instances seemed so engulfed in confusion 
 that we did not know where to turn; 
 and all of those distressing conditions 
 seemed, not only very real, but seemed to 
 combine sufficient power to overcome us 
 completely. However, when we began to 
 look up towards the lofty places, and 
 began to lift the mind, causing conscious- 
 ness to rise more and more until we found 
 
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 ourselves upon the heights of the spiritual 
 — when we found ourselves in that posi- 
 tion, we realized that adversity had be- 
 come so insignificant as to mean practically 
 nothing. Trouble and sorrow had van- 
 ished into the distance and was scarcely 
 discernible any more, while confusion and 
 darkness had completely disappeared be- 
 neath the glory and the light in which we 
 now were living, moving and having our 
 being. 
 
 We all have had experiences of this 
 kind, illustrating how real adversity and 
 confusion seems to be while we are down 
 among things; and how insignificant 
 trouble, evil and wrong become when we 
 permit the soul to take wings and ascend 
 to the loftier heights. In other words, 
 while we are down among things, we do 
 not seem to have anything that is satis- 
 factory, and mostly everything seems to 
 be against us; but when we transcend 
 "this world" and enter the light of the 
 
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 spirit, then everything changes. We find 
 ourselves in possession of everything that 
 we wanted — we are conscious of the 
 fullness of the all-good; and instead of 
 conditions being against us, everything 
 is for us, coming more and more into our 
 world, bringing from every source the spirit 
 and truth of the heart's desire. 
 
 Considering this experience we may 
 justly inquire as to its real significance, 
 whether or not it is a demonstration of 
 the law, or merely a seeming change for 
 the better due to a change of attitude; 
 and it may seem to be the latter at times; 
 that is, we may enter into a state of mind 
 wherein everything seems better, although 
 in the world of hard cold facts there may 
 be no change whatever; and this may be 
 true at times and for a period; but we 
 all shall discover most positively that even 
 the hard cold facts of the practical world 
 will respond and change absolutely pro- 
 vided we continue to live upon the 
 
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 spiritual heights, and continue to affirm 
 this highest truth that we have everything 
 now — that we have the all in all, being 
 sufficient unto ourselves, created as we 
 are in the image of the Supreme, and 
 having in our possession the riches of the 
 Infinite. 
 
 We shall find, through actual demon- 
 stration, that so long as we maintain our 
 lofty position in the spiritual consciousness 
 of this highest truth, never under any 
 circumstance coming down, or giving way 
 to any seeming contradiction of this truth 
 — so long as we continue in that lofty 
 position, we will gradually and surely 
 cause everything, both in the without and 
 in the within, to change more and more 
 until our entire world, visible and invis- 
 ible, tangible and intangible, has become 
 exactly similar to our own sublime reali- 
 zation of truth. 
 
 Approaching again the great paradox — 
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 that you have everything, and therefore 
 need not go in search of anything, it is 
 then that everything that you have ever 
 desired, or wished for, or asked for, will 
 come to you in boundless supply from 
 every source — when we consider this 
 paradox from other viewpoints, we. may 
 well ask ourselves, "Why should it be 
 necessary for everything to come to us 
 that we might have desired in the past 
 when we have become conscious of that 
 sublime state of being where we feel that 
 we are not in need of anything?" This, 
 however, is something that we can under- 
 stand only as we become spiritually con- 
 scious, and discern clearly the true 
 relationship between that which remains 
 forever in the absolute, and that which is 
 forever coming forth into manifestation. 
 
 In reality the soul or the spirit is not in 
 need of things; and therefore if we wish 
 to live in perfect harmony with the life 
 of the soul, we must not think it necessary 
 
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 to go in search of things in order to secure 
 pleasure, wisdom or power. But aside 
 from this great truth, the soul, when 
 living its full life, will give expression to 
 its own joy, to its own wisdom, to its own 
 power; and all such expressions will find 
 manifestation through those external things 
 that correspond to the life and the ideals 
 of the soul. 
 
 Again, the soul is sufficient unto itself 
 in every form and manner; and yet it is 
 not the purpose of the soul simply to live 
 merely in the consciousness of that state 
 of all-sufficiency. It is also the purpose 
 of the soul to bring forth, in ever-increasing 
 measure, the elements and qualities of that 
 state of all-sufficiency; and this bringing 
 forth will cause life in the personality to 
 be related to the world of things, and 
 related harmoniously in proportion to the 
 perfection of our consciousness of this 
 all-sufficiency of the soul. 
 
 To state it differently, if we are only 
 
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 partially conscious of the all-sufficiency of 
 the soul, we will be harmoniously related 
 to the world of things only in isolated 
 places, while more or less at variance with 
 the larger part of the visible world; but 
 as we grow in the consciousness of this 
 all-sufficiency of the soul, we will manifest 
 more and more of the life and wisdom and 
 power of the soul, and thereby cause a 
 larger measure of the world of things to be 
 related harmoniously to our own personal 
 existence. To use a kindred expression, 
 the more of the harmony of the soul we 
 become conscious of, the more harmony 
 we will establish in our own world of 
 things; and also the more of the fullness 
 of the life of the soul we become conscious 
 of, the more of the good and the true and 
 the perfect will we realize in the outer 
 world of things, proving the law that 
 external things, as they exist or act in our 
 personal world, will correspond exactly with 
 our state of consciousness in the within. 
 
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 It may require much deep thought to 
 discern the significance of this analysis; 
 but if we look upon external things as 
 merely channels for expression, and never 
 think of things as absolute necessities to 
 the real life of the soul, we will understand 
 more perfectly the meaning of this highest 
 truth. To use a simple illustration: We 
 cannot find real pleasure among things 
 provided we seek such pleasure among 
 things exclusively, being at the time 
 unconscious of the real joy of the soul; 
 but when we become conscious of the real 
 joy of the soul, and proceed to express 
 that joy through external things, it is 
 then that things serve their true purpose, 
 adding thereby to the joy of the soul; 
 because here it is most important to 
 understand that the inner consciousness 
 of the higher joy of the soul increases in 
 proportion to the measure of that joy we 
 express. 
 
 We can find an illustration of this truth 
 
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 in the world of music; that is, however 
 great the joy and the privilege of the 
 musical genius may be in the mere fact 
 that he is conscious of his power to give 
 music, his joy and privilege will increase 
 remarkably the moment he proceeds to 
 express that music through a perfect 
 instrument. In like manner, the joy of 
 the soul, in its own sublime consciousness 
 of the all-joy, may be marvelous beyond 
 words; nevertheless, when the soul begins 
 to express that joy in the world of things, 
 immediately the feeling of joy in the 
 within will increase accordingly. 
 
 Thus we understand that, although the 
 world of things is not necessary to the full 
 life of the soul as lived in the spirit, 
 nevertheless, the life of the soul becomes 
 infinitely more wonderful and enjoyable 
 as it is given expression in the outer 
 world; and that is why we have the 
 manifested universe with its innumerable 
 spheres, visible and invisible. 
 
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 The same truth, if applied in another 
 direction, would lead us to the conclusion 
 that all the souls in the cosmos, frequently 
 described as "the great white throng," are 
 as necessary to God as God is necessary 
 to that innumerable host; and to express 
 this idea briefly, we would simply say 
 that, although the Infinite is sufficient in 
 the fullest and highest significance of that 
 term, nevertheless, the expression of Divine 
 Life, individualized in countless millions of 
 human entities, is a privilege far beyond 
 the power of any mind to conceive; 
 because the joy of Infinite Life increases 
 in proportion to the measure of expression 
 of that fife in the consciousness of human 
 souls who have the power to partake and 
 manifest that joy. If we are spiritually 
 conscious we can discern this very clearly; 
 and it is a truth that is wonderfully rich 
 with spiritual wisdom — a truth which 
 when discerned will change remarkably 
 our understanding of the Supreme. Fur- 
 
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 thermore, when we know that we exist as 
 spiritual entities, not in some vague, 
 indefinable realm only, but because we 
 are necessary to the greatest joy and 
 privilege of the Supreme — that we are 
 necessary in this manner throughout eter- 
 nity — when we realize this great truth, 
 we shall indeed pause to think as we 
 never thought before. 
 
 Returning to that phase of the subject 
 that we shall have to consider in living up 
 to this highest truth, we must constantly 
 bear in mind the principle that we must 
 become conscious of the allness of life 
 and power in the within before we can 
 demonstrate the power to cause all things 
 desired to come to us in the without; 
 and when we realize further that things 
 have no value in themselves, but become 
 valuable only as channels for expression, 
 we understand how absolutely necessary 
 it is to continue in that lofty position 
 where we are fully conscious of the posses- 
 
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 sion of everything that can possibly exist 
 in the life of the soul. But as the soul 
 lives perpetually in a desire to express its 
 all-sufficiency — it is when we become 
 deeply conscious of that desire that we 
 can really appreciate the true purpose of 
 things; and it is then that we make 
 a most important discovery concerning 
 the true relationship between the spirit 
 of things and things themselves. And 
 through this discovery we find that we 
 do not secure power from things; but we 
 can, when we live in the spirit, give power 
 to things — give power to everything, and 
 thereby manifest our own power in the 
 external in perfect accord with our con- 
 sciousness of that power in the within. 
 And again, we must remember that how- 
 ever great our joy our wisdom or power 
 may be in the perfect consciousness of the 
 soul, that joy wisdom and power will 
 consciously increase through expression. 
 
 In this connection we might with much 
 
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 interest consider another phase of the same 
 principle; that is, that the privilege of 
 being alive, although very great, is not 
 nearly as great as the privilege of living 
 life; and the reason is, that when we 
 are simply alive we are conscious of life 
 only in its passive or inactive state; but 
 when we begin to live life, then we cause 
 life to go forth in a thousand different 
 directions; and accordingly, life becomes a 
 thousand times more interesting. This 
 fact, if considered in connection with all 
 other modes of expression, will give em- 
 phasis to the statement made, that the 
 soul although all-sufficient in itself, finds 
 far greater joy in its all-sufficiency when 
 that all-sufficiency begins to manifest 
 throughout the visible and tangible world 
 of things. 
 
 To consider this idea in a very practical 
 manner, we will turn our attention to the 
 fact that nearly every mind of ambition is 
 constantly in search of external advantages 
 
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 or more worthy opportunities. Accord- 
 ingly, we find all such minds going out in 
 search of greater opportunities, or in search 
 of external channels for more worthy or 
 more wonderful accomplishments; and in 
 a measure these things are found; but 
 only in a measure, and for the time being 
 — no permanent satisfaction ever arising 
 from such a mode of procedure. However, 
 if these minds would first search for the 
 greater power within, that is, the all- 
 sufficiency of power, realizing that every 
 advantage, opportunity or privilege exists 
 potentially in the life of the soul even 
 now — if the mind would first enter into 
 that extraordinary realization, the power 
 desired would at once arise in conscious- 
 ness; that is, that power within through 
 which every individual can create his own 
 opportunities, his own privileges and his 
 own channels of richer expression. Thus, 
 instead of going out into the external in 
 search of something that will have to be 
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 created from the within before it can 
 possibly exist in the external — instead of 
 taking that round-about way, usually 
 finding nothing, we may, by entering 
 directly into the consciousness of the 
 all-sufficiency of the soul, secure the very 
 power through which we can create for 
 ourselves any external opportunity, privi- 
 lege or advantage that we may wish to 
 apply in connection with any object or 
 ambition we have in mind. 
 
 When we understand these things we 
 realize that there is no contradiction in 
 the statement that, having everything 
 already we should not go in search of any- 
 thing. But there is a seeming contradic- 
 tion so long as we view this highest truth 
 from the consciousness of the personal only. 
 The fact is, we should not go in search of 
 things for the mere sake of possessing 
 things, or in the mistaken belief that we 
 can find in things what we need or desire. 
 We should take another course entirely, 
 
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 and first seek the consciousness of that 
 higher power within that can, when mani- 
 fested in the without, do anything desired 
 with things — a power that can create any 
 condition among things, or attract any 
 combination of things or quality of ele- 
 ments or forces whatever according to the 
 object we have in view. 
 
 To use a familiar statement, we can do 
 anything desired with effects when we 
 gain the power to master completely the 
 original cause of all such effects. But that 
 power we cannot gain so long as we live 
 down in the world of things, believing that 
 we are subject to things or dependent 
 upon things, or that we can secure happi- 
 ness, wisdom, power or a richer life 
 through a certain peculiar combination of 
 things. Such a belief is the very reverse 
 of the highest truth, which declares, that 
 we are not directly dependent upon any- 
 thing in the external, because we have, 
 not only the all in all in spiritual conscious- 
 
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 ness, but through the possession of the all 
 in all we have that power that can, when 
 applied externally, do everything conceiv- 
 able with the external world. 
 
 Another important statement to hold 
 constantly before mind is this, that we 
 secure a certain desirable combination of 
 things in the without only as we gain the 
 consciousness of the ideal of that combina- 
 tion in the higher life of the real and the 
 true. But we cannot become conscious of 
 that ideal excepting in this sublime state 
 where we know that we have everything. 
 
 When we consider the needs of the 
 personal life, as found among those who 
 live exclusively in the world of things, 
 we discern on every hand persons that 
 feel as if they could not exist another day 
 unless they secured certain conditions, 
 certain privileges or certain tangible things 
 that seem absolutely necessary. And they 
 live constantly in that attitude, receiving 
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 never securing what they think they posi- 
 tively must have in order to live. And 
 the reason is, that they are looking in the 
 world of effect for that which cannot 
 appear in the world of effect until it has 
 been created by the natural cause in the 
 within. 
 
 We may grope in darkness for ages, 
 thinking we cannot exist another moment 
 until we receive the light, and yet so long 
 as we continue to grope in darkness, never 
 thinking of how we might produce the 
 light, we will continue in the blackness of 
 the darkness without change. But the 
 very moment we go to the source of light, 
 and give attention to that source, we 
 produce the light, and the awful darkness 
 disappears completely. 
 
 However, the great source of everything 
 that we may desire or need can be found 
 only in that sublime state of consciousness 
 wherein we know that the soul is in 
 possession of the all-sufficiency — in need 
 
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 of nothing, having within itself the limit- 
 less life, wisdom, power and riches of the 
 Infinite. It is then that we can give 
 real action to the sublime source of the 
 Great Light; and when we do give such 
 action, the Great Light will go forth 
 throughout the entire world of conscious- 
 ness. And what we become conscious of, 
 that we shall invariably bring forth in the 
 visible world. 
 
 When we understand this highest truth, 
 we discover for the first time the meaning 
 of that wonderful statement, "Be true to 
 yourself," because it is only as you take 
 this lofty position where you realize that 
 you are the true self, that you become 
 conscious of the all-sufficiency of the soul; 
 in other words, we can be true to the self 
 only when we know what the self really 
 is, and what the self really can do. But 
 on the contrary, we cannot be true to the 
 self so long as we go in search among 
 things for those needs of life that the self 
 
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 alone can provide. This is what it means 
 "to grieve the spirit away"; to deny 
 Higher Power, believing that we can find 
 what we want in "this world." How- 
 ever, when we arrive to that higher 
 consciousness where we realize that the 
 all in all is in the spirit only, in the 
 spiritual life of the supreme self, then we 
 no longer deny the Holy Spirit, nor the 
 Christ, nor the Infinite. We rely upon 
 the whole truth, the highest truth; and 
 we receive that greater power that in- 
 variably appears in consciousness when 
 we discern this highest truth. 
 
 To state it differently, when we find our 
 true position in life — and we find our 
 true position only as we establish ourselves 
 in our loftiest position — when we begin 
 to live in that lofty position, which is the 
 true position, we understand that it is 
 then and then only that we can live life 
 as life should be lived, and relate ourselves 
 to things in such a way as to use all things 
 
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 according to the law of manifestation and 
 the law of growth and advancement in 
 personal life; that is, it is only after we 
 have taken our true place in life and 
 consciousness that we can do anything 
 right. And when we begin to do every- 
 thing right, then we can readily understand 
 what a marvelous change must come over 
 our entire world. 
 
 The more we think of this highest truth 
 the more clearly we appreciate its real 
 significance; but while we are on the way 
 to the full understanding of this highest 
 truth it is well to consider the immediate 
 value of accepting this truth, even though 
 its greatest power has not as yet become 
 manifested. To illustrate: When we ac- 
 cept the idea that the human soul, being 
 in possession of everything necessary to 
 life, and when we realize that the spirit of 
 man can, therefore, need nothing, or lose 
 nothing — when this startling truth is 
 realized, we shall never be depressed, 
 
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 dissatisfied or disappointed with external 
 conditions, no matter how disappointing 
 those conditions may for the time being 
 seem to be. 
 
 When we take that lofty position, 
 realizing that we have it all, and therefore, 
 we can in reality experience neither loss, 
 grief nor disappointment — when we take 
 that higher ground, what an immense 
 change we will produce, not only in our 
 own attitude towards life, but in our own 
 state of mind, in our own feelings, desires 
 and mental actions; in fact, our mode of 
 thought and action will change absolutely; 
 and instead of grieving when conditions 
 seem to be adverse, we will continue in the 
 consciousness of the great truth that we 
 have everything and that all is well. 
 
 In the beginning, the practical value of 
 such an attitude will simply be to give us 
 sublime peace of mind no matter what 
 may transpire; but the taking of that 
 higher ground will work wonders in the 
 
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 course of time, because if we continue to 
 live in the conviction that we have it all, 
 and that all is well, we will continue to 
 create the perfect and the ideal in our 
 own consciousness, creating the perfect and 
 the ideal more wonderfully, and upon a 
 grander scale every day; and according 
 to the great law, whatever we create in 
 consciousness we will invariably experience, 
 attract, produce and possess in the external 
 in due time. In consequence, we do not 
 simply give the mind peace by living in 
 the conviction that the soul is all-sufficient 
 now, in need of nothing, beyond all loss, 
 grief or disappointment. We accomplish 
 infinitely more than merely this peace of 
 mind, because, while living in that lofty 
 position, we continue to live the highest 
 truth — to express and manifest the life, 
 the wisdom, the light and the power of 
 the highest truth. And in due time, such 
 expression will appear in the visible and 
 in the tangible, which will mean the 
 
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 transformation of the external according 
 to the image and likeness of the highest 
 truth — the consciousness of which we 
 have lived so faithfully and so well. 
 
 Thus we realize that whatever the per- 
 son may think or feel, or however condi- 
 tions may appear in the external, we have 
 everything to gain by taking this higher 
 ground now; and we all can. Then as 
 we proceed, we will demonstrate more and 
 more that the law is absolutely true; we 
 shall not have to live very long in that 
 lofty place, in the consciousness of the 
 power of the spirit, until that power will 
 begin to make changes for the better in 
 mind and body and in external conditions. 
 Furthermore, we will demonstrate con- 
 tinuously the power of that great state- 
 ment, "When one is lifted up, hundreds 
 and thousands will be lifted up." When 
 we take this great step, we will become 
 instrumental in leading, first, a few to do 
 the same, then a larger number, until 
 
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 later we may inspire a vast throng to take 
 the same higher ground, the final results 
 of which will be marvelous beyond words 
 to describe. 
 
 We know that the greatest movements 
 in the world have originated in this 
 manner — some great soul taking higher 
 ground, and a few coming up to the same 
 lofty place later; and gradually a larger 
 number began to apply the same idea until 
 the movement itself became an inspiration 
 to the race. We can do this very thing 
 now upon a larger scale than anything 
 ever attempted in the past, because we 
 are not dealing simply with the light of 
 some valued idea — we are dealing with 
 nothing less than the light of the highest 
 truth; and therefore, the possibilities of a 
 spiritual movement having for its purpose 
 the living up to this highest truth — the 
 possibilities of such a movement are so 
 numerous and so wonderful that we shall, 
 in order to appreciate the outcome, cause 
 
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 our imagination to extend its power into 
 the highest and largest realms conceivable; 
 and even then, we shall be able to imagine 
 only a part of what we may accomplish in 
 taking such a course — proceeding now 
 regardless of time, circumstance or condi- 
 tion to live up to this highest truth — to 
 know that we have everything that heart 
 can desire — living in the very life of the 
 Supreme. 
 
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 >HE first essential in giving scien- 
 tific attention to the study of the 
 spiritual world is to realize that, 
 what we speak of as the spiritual 
 world, is not necessarily synonymous with 
 the invisible world. And here we find one 
 of the chief obstacles to spiritual advance- 
 ment; that is, that we have, in too many 
 instances, made the terms " spiritual' ' and 
 "invisible" synonymous, and accordingly 
 have come to the conclusion that an ex- 
 perience in the invisible is also a spiritual 
 experience, or that a gain made in our 
 understanding of the invisible would also 
 imply a gain in our understanding of the 
 spiritual. 
 
 The fact is, however, that these two 
 terms are not synonymous — the invisible 
 does not necessarily contain any more of 
 
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 the spiritual than does the visible; but 
 wherever we do proceed in the belief that 
 the invisible is synonymous with the 
 spiritual, we are very liable to turn our 
 attention away from the spiritual, instead 
 of entering into higher realizations of the 
 spiritual. 
 
 We must begin this study by under- 
 standing, in the first place, that the invis- 
 ible world, so-called, is only an extension 
 of the visible world; and therefore, what 
 we speak of as the invisible universe is 
 simply elements and forces found in the 
 physical universe manifesting in higher 
 grades of vibration. 
 
 As an illustration, we may take the 
 force of light, which manifests in the 
 visible through certain grades of vibration, 
 but manifests also in a number of higher 
 grades of vibration, spoken of as the 
 higher octaves of light; but the only 
 difference between visible light and the 
 higher octave's of light is this, that the 
 
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 vibrations in the latter are more rapid than 
 in the former. Therefore, we cannot speak 
 of the invisible rays of light as spiritual, 
 any more than we can speak of the visible 
 rays of light as spiritual. The only differ- 
 ence between the visible and the invisible 
 is a matter of speed in the vibrations. 
 
 We are surrounded with elements on 
 every hand that are purely physical, and 
 yet not visible to physical sense — the 
 atmosphere, as an illustration; but we 
 have learned, through experiments, that 
 there are also finer grades of atmosphere 
 so delicate and so high in the scale of 
 vibration that they cannot be discerned 
 through any of our physical senses. How- 
 ever, those finer grades of atmosphere are 
 not necessarily spiritual simply because 
 they are beyond the discernment of physi- 
 cal sense. 
 
 We might analyze the entire tangible 
 universe in the same manner, and we 
 would find, in each instance, that forces 
 
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 and elements manifesting in the physical 
 universe may and do manifest through 
 higher and finer grades of expression, as 
 high in the scale as we may wish to go; 
 but in no instance are these so-called 
 higher expressions of force or substance 
 any more spiritual than those expressions 
 of force and substance that we can feel, 
 weigh and measure upon the physical 
 plane. 
 
 The reason for this is found in the fact 
 that spirituality is something entirely 
 different from the mere manifestation of 
 life, force, substance or power upon any 
 plane, no matter how high, delicate or 
 wonderful that plane may be. 
 
 We may illustrate the same principle 
 by comparing two human beings, one very 
 crude in expression and appearance, while 
 the other very refined and highly de- 
 veloped, so far as mind and personality 
 are concerned; but this would not prove 
 that the refined personality would neces- 
 
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 sarily be more spiritual than the crude 
 personality, although if the individual of 
 refinement should undertake the develop- 
 ment of spirituality, he would advance far 
 more rapidly towards the spiritual heights 
 than the individual who was still lacking 
 in refinement of personality, thought and 
 mind. 
 
 You may examine two distinct forms of 
 intellect in the same manner, one de- 
 veloped to a very high degree, as far as 
 intellect is concerned, while the other 
 decidedly undeveloped in the intellectual 
 world; but again the intellect with high 
 development would not necessarily appre- 
 ciate the spiritual, nor even the moral any 
 better than the intellect that was lacking 
 in purely intellectual development. But 
 the same would be true as in the former 
 illustration, with regard to possibility of 
 spiritual development; that is, the finer 
 the intellect the more rapidly can the 
 mind develop along all lines, even spiritual 
 
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 lines, provided such development is under- 
 taken. 
 
 We know, however, that a great many 
 highly intellectual people are absolutely 
 lacking in spiritual appreciation and cosmic 
 consciousness; although their minds are 
 wonderful in the intellectual world, still 
 they are practically blind when it comes 
 to things spiritual. 
 
 Then on the other hand, we find a 
 great many people who are not developed 
 intellectually, but who may have a certain 
 degree of appreciation of the spiritual. 
 This does not prove, however, that in- 
 tellect is an obstacle to spiritual develop- 
 ment. On the contrary, it is a most 
 important essential, provided we undertake 
 spiritual development in earnest. But, 
 knowing all these things, we realize that 
 intellect itself, no matter how refined or 
 how wonderful it may be, does not, in 
 itself, constitute spirituality. 
 
 The truth is, that an individual may be 
 
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 wonderfully developed in personality, in 
 mind, in talent, in genius and in all the 
 higher and finer elements and qualities of 
 life, and yet be totally unconscious of the 
 spiritual side of life. 
 
 In like manner, an individual may be 
 highly developed in the so-called psychic 
 world and be practically master of all the 
 phases of the sixth sense, thereby having 
 the power to look into the invisible world 
 as if it were an open book, and yet be 
 totally unconscious of the spiritual world 
 and without the least spiritual develop- 
 ment. 
 
 All these facts prove that what we speak 
 of as the higher, or the finer or the in- 
 visible, does not produce or constitute 
 spirituality. The truth is, we may rise to 
 the very highest states of attainment in 
 the so-called invisible universe, without 
 taking a single step in advance into the 
 spiritual world. And the reason why we 
 understand when we realize that spirit- 
 
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 uality is something entirely different from 
 anything that appears anywhere in the 
 manifested universe, no matter how high 
 in manifestation the appearance may come 
 forth. 
 
 Regardless of our development along any 
 line, we must add something entirely 
 different if we wish spirituality, or if we 
 desire to enter into the spiritual world. 
 
 In many instances, that something else 
 appears in minds that are neither refined 
 nor developed; but minds that are lacking 
 in refinement and development cannot go 
 very far into the spiritual; so that we 
 shall find it an advantage to further our 
 own development along all lines when we 
 have higher spiritual attainments in view. 
 
 We may know something about the 
 spiritual without having gone very far in 
 the development of mind, personality, life 
 or character; but the farther we go in the 
 development of personality, life, mind and 
 character, the higher we may go in spirit- 
 
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 ual development, provided we find the 
 key to the spiritual world. 
 
 But we must, under every circumstance, 
 have that key; because if we do not have 
 the key to the spiritual world, we shall not 
 find spirituality, no matter how wonder- 
 fully we may be developed along all other 
 lines, including the understanding of the 
 invisible universe. 
 
 On every hand we find people who 
 have undertaken the study of the invisible, 
 thinking that they may, through that 
 source, gain absolute knowledge of life, 
 and in that manner find the real solution 
 for all the problems of life. But here we 
 must remember again that the so-called 
 invisible universe does not contain the 
 secret, because the invisible, as well as 
 the visible, is merely an effect. The cause 
 of all manifestation is found only in the 
 great within of the spiritual world. You 
 will not get any nearer to the real principle 
 of life or wisdom by furthering your study 
 
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 of the so-called invisible forces and ele- 
 ments of life, nor will you become more 
 deeply conscious of the presence of the 
 Infinite through development along these 
 invisible lines. 
 
 The reason is, that in any case, you will 
 be dealing simply with manifestation; and 
 you will not enter into that marvelous 
 something that exists back of manifesta- 
 tion until you enter into the real con- 
 sciousness of the spiritual world. 
 
 The power of the spirit can be found 
 only in the spiritual world, and may not 
 be found in matter or force, no matter 
 how high in the scale of the invisible world 
 matter or substance or force may manifest. 
 
 To find the spirit of things, we must 
 enter into the spirit of things; and we 
 enter into the spirit of things only when 
 we become conscious of the spiritual world 
 — that world of reality and principle and 
 life that has its being within the entire 
 cosmos, but that does not appear in 
 
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 differentiated form anywhere in the world 
 of manifestation. 
 
 We also realize that we can understand 
 cause only by entering into the conscious- 
 ness of cause; but here we should re- 
 member that cause does not exist in the 
 invisible any more than in the visible. 
 On the contrary, cause exists back of the 
 invisible as well as back of the visible, 
 these two being, under every circumstance, 
 merely effects of the Real Cause of every- 
 thing, which may be found only in the 
 spiritual world. 
 
 It is clearly evident, therefore, that we 
 cannot understand the spiritual world 
 merely through a study of the invisible. 
 We must turn our attention in another 
 direction; and when we do, we shall find 
 that there is just as much spirit in the 
 within of visible substance as there is in 
 the within of invisible substance; and 
 also, we shall find the power of the spirit 
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 force as it does in invisible force, although 
 a greater measure of this power may some- 
 times be found expressing itself in the 
 higher grades of invisible life, the differ- 
 ence there would be, not in kind, but in 
 quantity. 
 
 When we consider the subject from this 
 true understanding of life, we will naturally 
 inquire what we really do know about the 
 spiritual world. It is quite true that we 
 know a great deal about the invisible 
 world. Modern science is making it possi- 
 ble for an individual to gain direct infor- 
 mation concerning what we have spoken 
 of as things invisible. We may, through 
 certain instruments, discern higher octaves 
 of light, such as the X-Rays and the 
 N-Rays — forces of light that cannot be 
 discerned through the physical eye unaided. 
 We are also able to measure higher vibra- 
 tions of sound that cannot be heard by 
 the physical ear unaided. In like manner, 
 we are able to detect substances and 
 
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 elements higher up in the scale of mani- 
 festation — elements that appear intangible 
 to physical sense, and yet prove them- 
 selves, through experiments, to be just as 
 tangible as the solid rock with which we 
 all are familiar. 
 
 We are exploring the unknown in every 
 realm of the invisible universe, and we are 
 finding facts and information of inestima- 
 ble value; but this information gives us 
 absolutely nothing about the spiritual 
 world, the reason for which our preceding 
 analysis has demonstrated conclusively. 
 
 A scientist may be able to use the 
 X-Ray and the N-Ray, and any number 
 of higher and finer rays of light, under- 
 standing them perfectly, comprehending 
 the laws through which they manifest, but 
 this power does not make him spiritual. 
 
 An occult scientist may be able to 
 discern some of the finest forces in the 
 invisible world, and may be able to detect, 
 through the sixth sense, all kinds of mani- 
 
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 festations and modes of life upon higher 
 planes; but this does not make him 
 spiritual, or give him the least added 
 insight into the spiritual world. 
 
 In many instances, this so-called higher 
 knowledge of invisible things will, for a 
 time, become an obstacle to real spiritual 
 understanding, because the individual may 
 imagine for a time that he has found, 
 through his knowledge of the invisible, 
 the real secret of spiritual things. 
 
 The same may be true of the physical 
 scientist. He may become so enthused 
 over his ability to penetrate the unknown 
 with his wonderful instruments that he 
 may imagine for a time that the unknown 
 is nothing more than an extension of the 
 known, and that it is all force and matter 
 after all, appearing in different grades of 
 vibration. He defines the invisible, or the 
 unknown, as simply more rapid vibrations 
 of force and matter; but, to his mind, it 
 is all force and matter; and in conse- 
 
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 quence, he remains, in his conception of 
 things, as materialistic as he was before. 
 
 We realize that knowledge along all 
 lines will, in the long run, prove ad- 
 vantageous, both in our ability to master 
 the visible and the invisible, and in our 
 ability to discern the spiritual. But, as 
 stated previously, we must find the key 
 to the spiritual world before we can enter 
 that world; that key, however, cannot be 
 found simply through a knowledge of 
 visible or invisible elements or forces. 
 We must search in an entirely different 
 direction. 
 
 The first essential will be to realize 
 clearly and absolutely that the spiritual 
 world and the invisible world are not the 
 same. The second essential will be to 
 realize that we cannot find the spiritual 
 world by going up in the scale of vibration 
 of manifested expression; but that we can 
 find the spiritual world only by entering 
 into the spirit of the unmanifested within 
 
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 that exists back of all manifestations; or 
 in other words, that has its being in the 
 Changeless Soul of the universe. When 
 we enter the spirit of all life, we find a 
 state wherein all being is as it is for all 
 time; and in that state we find the All in 
 All — a state to which nothing can be 
 added and nothing taken away. 
 
 When we examine the various visible or 
 invisible states of life, however, we invari- 
 ably find conditions to which something 
 can be added, or from which something can 
 be taken away. And herein we shall find 
 the real secret to the spiritual life, or to 
 the spiritual state of being; that is, when- 
 ever you discern a state of being to which 
 nothing can be added, or nothing taken 
 away, then you may know that you are 
 conscious of the spirit, or that you have 
 entered into the spiritual world. 
 
 On the other hand, whenever you meet 
 a state of existence wherein you find that 
 something might be added, or taken away, 
 
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 you are not dealing with the real spiritual 
 world, but with the manifested world, 
 the world of change and growth and de- 
 velopment, existing as it does, not only 
 upon the visible plane, but upon millions 
 and millions of invisible planes, ascending 
 higher and higher in the scale of ever- 
 advancing manifestation. 
 
 When we enter the spiritual world we 
 find real being itself; but real being is 
 something that cannot be defined in words. 
 It is something that we must become 
 conscious of individually; and we do 
 become conscious of real being when we 
 experience that consciousness of being 
 that reveals to us unmistakably the great 
 truth that to this being nothing can be 
 added or taken away. 
 
 When we analyze the great universe of 
 manifestation, visible and invisible, we find 
 that it is eternally becoming; it is incom- 
 plete everywhere, and subject to develop- 
 ment along all lines for eternity. But this 
 
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 is not true of the spiritual world. The 
 spiritual world is finished even now; it is 
 complete in the absolute sense, containing 
 within itself the All in All; and when we 
 actually enter into the spiritual world, and 
 become conscious of the All in All, we 
 shall know for ourselves that within the 
 spiritual world nothing can be added or 
 taken away. Thus we may declare with 
 the illumined Mind of other days, "It is 
 finished, and it is all very good." 
 
 When we approach the study of the 
 spiritual we must invariably bear in mind 
 the truth that everything existing in, or 
 pertaining to, the spiritual is in itself 
 complete; and also that our mental atti- 
 tude, when undertaking such study, must 
 proceed in the conscious recognition of 
 this great truth — recognizing definitely 
 and continually the principle of absolute 
 perfection and completeness in everything 
 that involves the elements of the spiritual. 
 
 In approaching the study of the soul 
 
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 we must employ the same method, because 
 the soul is absolutely spiritual, and there- 
 fore contains within itself everything that 
 is necessary to the life and eternal exist- 
 ence of the soul. We know that mind and 
 body are incomplete, which is true of 
 everything finding expression in the ex- 
 ternal; that is, wherever we find expres- 
 sion, there we shall find completeness, 
 because expression is at best only a partial 
 coming forth of the limitless that exists in 
 the spiritual within. 
 
 This being true, we realize that develop- 
 ment and advancement would involve the 
 continual increase of expression in every 
 form and manner — an increase that is 
 necessarily perpetual, because there can 
 be no end to the increase of that which is, 
 in reality, limitless. 
 
 When we proceed with the analysis of 
 anything in life, we meet the same princi- 
 ples and conditions; that is, we find 
 incompleteness in the external no matter 
 
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 how high in the scale the external may 
 manifest; and we meet absolute com- 
 pleteness in the within of everything, 
 whether it be a quality, a principle, an 
 entity or a universe. The spiritual within 
 of everything is complete and changeless, 
 and that is the reason why it is spiritual. 
 
 To consider the more practical side of 
 the subject, we may examine the principle 
 of health and wholeness; and we shall 
 discover the existence of a principle of 
 health having its being within the life of 
 all kinds of health, and that this principle 
 contains every element of health that is 
 conceivable or possible. In other words, 
 the principle of perfect health contains so 
 much health that it would be impossible 
 to contain any more; and therefore the 
 real principle of health is purely spiritual, 
 containing within itself an unlimited 
 measure of real or absolute health. 
 
 This being true, we realize the necessity 
 of going to the inner or spiritual source 
 
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 for health, wholeness, life, vitality, power, 
 if we would secure the largest possible 
 measure and the finest and most perfect 
 conceivable quality. 
 
 We may examine any quality in the 
 same manner, or any state of the mind, 
 or of consciousness; and we shall find 
 that even though the external expression 
 may be incomplete, the inner source is 
 absolutely complete, so that the without 
 can continue to draw upon the within for 
 an endless period of time, constantly 
 receiving more without at any time ex- 
 hausting the source of supply. 
 
 This being true, we realize that no 
 matter how much we may possess of the 
 richness or perfection of life, either in 
 personality, in mind or in soul, we can 
 always receive more from the spiritual 
 within, and continue to receive more 
 without any end — rising thereby in the 
 scale along all lines perpetually. However, 
 we must, before we can apply this wonder- 
 
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 ful law, understand perfectly the great 
 truth that the spiritual is perfect, complete 
 and inexhaustible, and that the spiritual 
 is the real, immeasurable source of every- 
 thing that appears in the outer world. 
 
 When we consider individuals in the 
 light of this idea and speak of them as 
 spiritual, we cannot possibly mean that 
 they are spiritual through and through, or 
 in the absolute sense, but that they are 
 growing in the consciousness of the spir- 
 itual, and thereby drawing more and more 
 upon the perfection of the soul for external 
 expression in mind and personality. 
 
 The outer life is always incomplete, 
 always growing, always developing, always 
 advancing, while the inner life is constantly 
 giving forth more and more from its inex- 
 haustible perfection for the purpose of 
 increasing the perfection, the richness and 
 the worth of external life; and any indi- 
 vidual who is constantly bringing forth 
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 of the richness, the quality and the life of 
 the spirit, is constantly becoming more, 
 spiritual in consciousness and in realiza- 
 tion; and therefore we can speak of. such 
 an individual as being upon the great 
 spiritual path. 
 
 An individual, however, who has not 
 become conscious of the spiritual within, 
 and is accordingly depending exclusively 
 upon the limitations of the outer life, has 
 not as yet entered upon the spiritual path, 
 and therefore reveals in personality, in 
 mind and in thought only those elements 
 that pertain to personal life, or the earth, 
 earthy. 
 
 But we all are destined in due time, to 
 become conscious of the spirit, and thereby 
 begin the expression of the spiritual through 
 every phase of external life; but as this is 
 an endless process, no individual soul will, 
 at any time, come to a place where the 
 full expression of the spirit will become 
 tangible in external life; and this is well, 
 
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 because if we should reach such a state, 
 then life would come to a standstill, and 
 there would be nothing further to live for 
 in the future. 
 
 When we realize the full significance of 
 life and its development, we find that we 
 live in two worlds, or that we all should 
 live in two worlds if we would be true to 
 the great purpose that existence has in 
 view. These two worlds constitute the 
 great within and the great without, or the 
 spiritual within which is inexhaustible 
 perfection, and the external without which 
 is eternally receiving a greater and a 
 greater degree of expression from the 
 spiritual, and thereby ever becoming more 
 wonderful, more beautiful and more ideal. 
 
 The majority, however, live almost 
 entirely in the without, and only upon 
 rare occasions come into conscious contact 
 with the spiritual within. That is the 
 principal reason why the majority is 
 materialistic and live in bondage to illness, 
 
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 adversity and pain, meeting the wrong on 
 every hand and gaining only fragments of 
 that which is conducive to goodness and 
 
 joy. 
 
 To live in such a state of mind, how- 
 ever, is to depend almost exclusively upon 
 the limitations of the without, and there- 
 fore such an existence will not mean very 
 much under any circumstance. But when 
 we proceed to live as much in the spiritual 
 within as we do in the tangible without, 
 we shall find that every moment will 
 become larger, more wonderful and more 
 desirable, because we are constantly draw- 
 ing upon the richness of the spiritual for 
 perpetual increase in the external; and 
 we know that there can be no greater joy 
 than the consciousness of continuous ascen- 
 sion into the larger, the richer and the 
 higher in life, thought and sublime realiza- 
 tion. 
 
 To make practical application of this 
 mode of living, we should enter as fre- 
 
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 quently as possible, and as deeply as 
 possible, into the consciousness of the 
 purely spiritual — into the realization of 
 that world wherein all things are abso- 
 lutely perfect and inexhaustible, so that 
 we may receive an ever-increasing measure, 
 not only of life, but of all the elements 
 and qualities of life, thereby increasing 
 constantly the value, the worth, the 
 meaning and the power of personal exist- 
 ence; that is, we should be conscious of 
 the spirit continually, and should contin- 
 ually aim to build up, refine, develop and 
 perfect everything in mind and personality. 
 But in order that we may proceed in the 
 application of this principle, we must live 
 in two worlds at a time; we must live in 
 the tangible without and also in the 
 spiritual within. 
 
 When we appreciate the real significance 
 of the spiritual world, and know that it is 
 a world permeating all other worlds in the 
 vastness of the cosmos, and that this 
 
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 spiritual world is so constituted that it 
 contains within itself everything that eter- 
 nity may require for life, advancement and 
 ascension, we will naturally inquire how 
 we may know more about the spiritual, 
 and also examine our minds with a view 
 of ascertaining how much we know about 
 the spiritual at the present time. 
 
 When these questions have been an- 
 swered, we will ask ourselves how we 
 learned what we know about the spiritual, 
 or how we became conscious of those 
 spiritual elements that we know we are 
 conscious of in our present stage of 
 realization. When we know these things 
 we shall be better able to proceed further, 
 and therefore such questions are most 
 important. 
 
 When we attempt to define the spiritual 
 we begin by declaring that the spiritual 
 world is absolute; and we know that that 
 which is absolute is in a state wherein 
 nothing can be added; but we do not find 
 
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 it possible to conceive of such a state so 
 long as our consciousness is purely per- 
 sonal. The appreciation of the spiritual, 
 therefore, is something that cannot be 
 gained until we first develop at least a 
 measure of spiritual discernment; but we 
 all do possess a certain measure of spiritual 
 discernment, and therefore we have a foun- 
 dation upon which to build the great struc- 
 ture of limitless spiritual consciousness. 
 
 We speak of the Divine as absolute 
 because we realize that we can add nothing 
 to the wisdom, the power, the life, the 
 light and the glory of the Supreme. We 
 say that God is All in All, but we can 
 say the same of the spiritual world. 
 
 When we examine the external world, 
 however, we find the very reverse. We 
 may ascend continually in the scale of 
 development until we become marvels, 
 far beyond the power of imagination to 
 picture, and yet we can still go higher. 
 We can still attain greater power, greater 
 
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 wisdom, greater attainments. The same 
 is true of everything that exists in the 
 great without. No matter how wonderful 
 it may be, we can still make it more 
 wonderful, and we can continue to make it 
 more and more wonderful during the 
 innumerable aeons of eternity. 
 
 Thus we appreciate the fact that that 
 which manifests in the great without, no 
 matter how marvelous or how high in the 
 scale it may be, whether it exists in the 
 visible or in the very highest phases of 
 the invisible, it is nevertheless external — 
 you can always add something more, you 
 can always make it more perfect or more 
 wonderful. 
 
 But this is not true of the spiritual 
 world. The spiritual world is, even now, 
 at the apex of absolute perfection, so that 
 there is no law in the cosmos through 
 which anything could be added to the 
 completeness of that world. 
 
 However, the spiritual world, even though 
 
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 it appears to be the very reverse of the 
 external world, is not a thing apart. It is 
 not a universe that exists beyond or away 
 from the physical or external universe. 
 The spiritual world is, in truth, the very 
 soul of the external world, and therefore is 
 present everywhere. But it cannot be 
 found by going up, so to speak, in the 
 scale of development, nor can it be found 
 by entering the invisible, because the 
 invisible spheres are also in the external. 
 
 We can find the spiritual world only by 
 entering into the spirit of the within; and 
 spirit is neither visible nor invisible — 
 spirit is neither high nor low in the scale 
 — spirit neither changes nor disappears, 
 but always is what it is — the All in All. 
 
 This being true, we find the life and 
 the principle of spirit everywhere, in every 
 quality, in every manifestation, in every 
 expression; and for an illustration, we 
 may consider the spirit of music. We 
 know that music, as generally appreciated, 
 
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 is an external expression, involving har- 
 monies of tone; but that expression has a 
 source in what we speak of as the soul of 
 music. And we know that whenever we 
 enter into the soul of music, or enter into 
 that state of appreciation where we feel 
 that we discern the spirit of music, it is 
 then that we appreciate and enjoy music 
 far beyond previous experience. 
 
 We know that those who appreciate real 
 music are familiar with the fact that the 
 finest artists invariably approach the spirit 
 of music, and also that the more deeply 
 an artist enters into the spirit of music, 
 the more wonderful his music becomes. 
 We say that the music of such and such 
 an artist has soul — in brief, it is some- 
 thing more than the mere harmony of 
 tone — something infinitely more — some- 
 thing that can never be defined or 
 described. And the reason for this we 
 understand when we know that the soul of 
 music contains within itself all the music 
 
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 of existence; that is, so much music that 
 it would not be possible to add to its 
 volume, quantity or quality in any form or 
 manner. 
 
 In this very place we will make a great 
 discovery, if our minds are open to the 
 higher and the greater. We will discover 
 the secret of becoming a great or a wonder- 
 ful musician; and this secret consists of 
 the power of entering into the soul of 
 music instead of simply performing in the 
 external. We know that an artist in- 
 variably gives expression in the without 
 to what is felt in the within; and there- 
 fore, if the artist can enter so deeply into 
 the spiritual within of the soul of music 
 that the real divine source of music is 
 felt and discerned, we understand that 
 such an artist would naturally give expres- 
 sion to music that would be far superior 
 to anything we had ever heard before. 
 We know that there are any number of 
 musicians who are technically perfect in 
 
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 their expression, but there are only a few 
 who reveal the real spirit of the Great 
 Symphony. 
 
 However, if all these musicians who are 
 technically perfect would realize that music 
 has soul, or that there is a spiritual world 
 within the tangible world of music, and 
 then try and become conscious of that 
 spiritual world so as to feel and realize 
 the marvels, the wonders and the inde- 
 scribable beauty of music as it is in its 
 sublime perfection — if our technically per- 
 fect musicians would take such a course, 
 we can well imagine what the music of 
 the future would be. 
 
 We may examine any art or any quality 
 in life, and we will discover the same 
 principle. To illustrate again, we may 
 take human character, and we shall find 
 that certain characters are strictly proper 
 in their conduct and in their relationship 
 with human life, but there is something 
 about their conduct that appears to be 
 
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 purely mechanical, and therefore they 
 produce no special impression upon those 
 with whom they come in contact. But 
 occasionally we meet characters who have 
 soul, and we are aware of the fact that 
 they are not only living in harmony with 
 the great laws of life, being true to the 
 truth in all their actions and expressions, 
 but in addition they are giving soul not 
 only to everything they do, but they are 
 also giving soul to their very presence, 
 so that when we find ourselves in the 
 presence of such characters we are wonder- 
 fully impressed with the beauty, and we 
 might say divinity, of the life that is being 
 expressed through them. 
 
 We meet the same conditions in the 
 human mind, and also in the various 
 faculties of the mind. Some minds are 
 brilliant, but are purely mechanical in 
 their brilliancy, while other minds add 
 what we might call a "finer touch" to 
 every thought or expression; and the 
 
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 reason is that such minds are in touch 
 with the soul of life — such minds are 
 becoming conscious of the spiritual world 
 existing everywhere, within the mind, 
 within all things. 
 
 In any individual mind we may find 
 certain faculties that are spiritualized, so 
 to speak, while the other faculties remain 
 purely material; and the reason is that 
 the majority of those faculties have not 
 been sufficiently developed to discern or 
 express the soul of mentality, while one 
 or a few of these faculties may have 
 received such development. That is why 
 certain individuals sometimes are so ex- 
 traordinary and so superior along one or 
 a few lines of expression, while very ordi- 
 nary or even inferior in every other 
 respect. 
 
 Thus we appreciate the importance of 
 training the entire system to give expres- 
 sion to the life and the power of the 
 spiritual world that permeates all things; 
 
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 but again we cannot find spirit by trying 
 to go up into the invisible, as so many 
 have tried to do; but only by directing 
 consciousness upon that wonderful state 
 within where everything is changeless, 
 absolute, complete, containing eternally 
 the All in All. 
 
 Illustrating further, we find this same 
 wonderful principle revealed in our idea 
 of the beautiful. We may think that we 
 appreciate the beauty of things, and yet 
 our appreciation may be insignificant com- 
 pared with what it might be if we were 
 conscious of the soul of the beautiful 
 everywhere. 
 
 The more we analyze the subject, the 
 more perfectly we realize that within 
 everything that is beautiful, or back of 
 every expression of the beautiful, we shall 
 find the real soul of the beautiful, and this 
 soul is infinitely beautiful; that is, the 
 soul of the beautiful involves so much of 
 the beautiful, and to such a wonderful 
 
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 degree, that it can only be described as 
 infinitely beautiful — beyond all thought 
 or expression in its splendor and glory. 
 
 We find the same to be true of the 
 ideal; that is, we shall find that every 
 ideal has soul, and that the ideal of the 
 soul is infinitely higher than the ideal itself. 
 Therefore, if we would learn to approach 
 the soul of every ideal, we should find 
 that our ideals would become higher and 
 higher eternally; and we know that the 
 higher our ideals ascend, the higher we 
 shall rise, not only in life, but also in 
 expression and true spiritual attainment. 
 
 In our personal development, and espe- 
 cially in the development of the powers or 
 talents of the mind, we shall find in this 
 connection a most practical idea. Briefly 
 stated, if you have a certain talent, and 
 know that that talent is but a partial 
 expression of an interior or spiritual talent 
 which is so wonderful that it contains 
 within itself the absolutely limitless, you 
 
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 are on the verge of a wonderful experience 
 in development. You realize, in the first 
 place, that the more deeply conscious you 
 become of the limitless and infinitely 
 perfect talent within you, the more you 
 express from the within through the 
 external manifestation of your talent. 
 You thereby not only give your external 
 talent soul and spirit and a greater 
 measure of life and power, but you con- 
 tinually bring forth into the external 
 an ever-increasing measure of talent, so 
 that in the course of time the external 
 expression of your talent will necessarily 
 become prodigious. But again, we shall 
 have to remember that we cannot find 
 the spirit of anything unless we direct 
 our minds towards the spiritual within 
 and recognize the great truth that in 
 the spiritual within we shall find the 
 All in AU. 
 
 We may apply the same principle in 
 personal development along any line, or 
 
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 with reference to any quality or any 
 power, or any possibility we may possess. 
 Within them all we shall find the spirit, 
 or the soul, or the spiritual world; and 
 the more deeply conscious we become of 
 the perfection and the limitlessness of the 
 spirit within everything, the more we 
 shall express through everything; and 
 this is especially true of life itself, the 
 greatest and most wonderful gift that 
 the individual has received from the 
 Supreme. 
 
 The majority, however, live their life 
 in the external, almost unconscious of the 
 spiritual source, and therefore they never 
 realize the life more abundant. But the 
 moment we begin to become conscious 
 of the inexhaustible life in the great 
 within, or discover the very spirit of life 
 itself — the very moment we meet this 
 experience, we find that the gates are 
 ajar, and we proceed to enter a state of 
 existence that is infinitely larger, more 
 
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 wonderful and more desirable than any- 
 thing we have ever experienced before. 
 
 In other words, when we enter the 
 spirit of life, we find that we become 
 conscious not only of life in its highest 
 and most wonderful state of being, but 
 we also become conscious of limitless, 
 inexhaustible life — the glory and splendor 
 of which the illumined soul, in its master 
 state, alone may behold and understand. 
 
 For the purpose of illustration, we may 
 again consider the quality of health; and 
 we find that the principle of health in 
 itself is in truth the spirit of health, or 
 has its origin and existence in that some- 
 thing that we may define as real and 
 unchangeable and invincible health — a 
 state or spirit that contains health to such 
 a perfect degree that it would not be 
 possible for anything to contain health 
 to a more perfect degree; and further- 
 more, that the health of the spirit is so 
 powerful that it could not be changed or 
 
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 removed by any power in the external 
 world with which it might come in contact. 
 
 If we could realize absolutely such an 
 idea of health, we understand what a 
 difference we would experience in our 
 possession of health. The majority feel 
 that they have reasonably good health, 
 but have no idea as to what the ideal of 
 absolute health might signify, nor do they 
 for a moment think that there is a deeper 
 and a finer state of health which consti- 
 tutes in itself the perfection of health. 
 Accordingly, the majority are in a condi- 
 tion where their health is not fully 
 established, and frequently their possession 
 of health is limited or uncertain. 
 
 With this condition we may well com- 
 pare that consciousness of perfect being 
 into which we enter when we realize that 
 we possess, within ourselves, a principle 
 or spirit of health that is absolutely perfect 
 and complete; and having made this 
 comparison, we will inquire as to how we 
 
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 may pass from the condition of the former 
 to the consciousness of the latter. The 
 answer is this, that when in search of 
 health, and we all are in search of more 
 health, we must begin with the realization 
 of the great truth that the source of 
 absolute health is found in the spiritual 
 world, that wonderful state of being that 
 exists everywhere and that permeates all 
 things. Furthermore, we must realize that 
 health itself is spiritual; that is, real 
 health, which is experienced by the few 
 as compared with the limited expressions 
 of health, which is experienced by the 
 many. 
 
 When we understand that real health 
 is spiritual, and that such a state of health 
 contains so much health and such perfect 
 health that it could not be increased or 
 improved upon in any form or manner, 
 and then proceed to enter into the con- 
 sciousness of the spirit of real health, we 
 understand fully that the expression of 
 
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 health throughout our entire system will 
 steadily increase until in time the per- 
 sonality will become so powerful with the 
 real spirit of health that it would be 
 immune under every circumstance. 
 
 For further illustration, we may con- 
 sider the attitude of peace, or the con- 
 sciousness of the serene; and although 
 many have the power to become peaceful 
 and quiet to some degree, nevertheless 
 there are only a few who ever become 
 conscious of the peace that passeth under- 
 standing. The reason why is this, that 
 real peace is spiritual, existing only in the 
 consciousness of the spiritual world, a 
 world into which the mind may enter only 
 as spirituality is developed. 
 
 When we understand that the peace 
 that passeth understanding is so perfect 
 and so deeply calm that it possibly could 
 not contain higher or finer or more perfect 
 elements of peace, we have an ideal of the 
 consciousness of peace that is so wonderful 
 
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 that we shall have to think for days and 
 weeks and months upon its possibilities 
 before we can really comprehend its full 
 significance. 
 
 In like manner, we may consider the 
 state of harmony; and we shall find that 
 what the majority call harmony is not 
 real harmony itself, but just a limited 
 expression of concordant activities. If we 
 would experience real harmony, we must 
 enter the spirit, because such harmony is 
 spiritual, and exists only in the spiritual 
 world. Accordingly, real harmony is so 
 complete and perfect in itself that it could 
 not become more harmonious. 
 
 Here again we have an ideal that 
 deserves deep and sublime thought; and 
 we shall find that the more we think of 
 real harmony as existing in its perfect 
 state in the spiritual world, the more 
 harmonious we shall become in thought, 
 life, feeling and action until we shall have 
 gained remarkably in this direction. 
 
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 When we consider these various qualities 
 or states of being, we find invariably that 
 in reality they are spiritual; and as we 
 trace them out to their source and origin, 
 we invariably enter the spiritual world, 
 that world in which every quality or state 
 of being is so perfect and so complete and 
 so ideally placed, in its own existence, 
 that it could not be improved upon in any 
 form or manner. 
 
 We may trace any quality in the same 
 way; and if we try to find that quality in 
 its perfect state, we invariably enter the 
 spiritual world; and here we begin to 
 understand what we mean by the term 
 "spiritual." It is not a state of invisi- 
 bility, or something that is beyond the 
 external merely; but it is that world in 
 which all things are perfect and complete, 
 wherein nothing can be added or taken 
 away — a world that exists in all things, 
 and surrounds us everywhere, permeating 
 everything, from the simplest of the visible 
 
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 to the highest and the most marvelous of 
 the invisible. 
 
 When we look into the soul, or into the 
 inner life, we find this spiritual world 
 established there as it is established in 
 every entity; and we find all the qualities 
 of life existing in the soul in a spiritual 
 state, that is, absolutely perfect and com- 
 plete; and when we ask ourselves what 
 we really know about the spiritual world, 
 we shall find the answer in those experi- 
 ences that we have enjoyed while the 
 mind took wings, so to speak, and we 
 transcended the incomplete and entered 
 into the realization of things as they are 
 in the perfect — in the sublime — in the 
 real spirit of all that is. 
 
 To state it differently, whenever we 
 have experienced a joy that we might 
 describe as the fullness of joy, or a state 
 of harmony that we might describe as the 
 fullness of harmony, or a state of health 
 that we might describe as the fullness of 
 
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 health, or any state that we might describe 
 as the fullness thereof, we have been 
 conscious of the spiritual world. 
 : Therefore, it is not what we may 
 speculate concerning the invisible that 
 gives us the key to the spiritual world, 
 but what we become conscious of in that 
 realm of being wherein all things are 
 eternally perfect, absolute and divine. 
 And the word " divine" may be employed 
 only when referring to qualities or states 
 of being that contain so much of their 
 own reality that they could not contain 
 any more; that is, they are, in truth, the 
 fullness of their own nature. 
 
 Therefore, perfect health, or the fullness 
 of health, is divine health. Likewise, 
 perfect joy, or the fullness of joy, is divine 
 joy; and perfect music, or what we may 
 describe as the full expression of harmony 
 through music, would be divine music. 
 Briefly stated, perfect expressions of any- 
 thing in nature, are divine expressions, 
 
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 provided we use the term "perfect" as 
 implying the fullness of expression, real- 
 izing that the fullness of anything is all 
 there is of that particular thing — a 
 statement that becomes too large for 
 objective comprehension when we realize 
 that the all of anything is limitless. 
 
 When we develop spiritual consciousness, 
 we may take many journeys into this 
 inner world, either into our own interior 
 nature, or into the spirit of everything 
 existing in nature; and we shall find that 
 the spirit of a flower is as much a part 
 of the limitless spiritual world as is the 
 spirit of our own soul. In brief, the spirit 
 of everything does exist in the spiritual 
 world, and is a part of the spiritual world, 
 just as a drop of water in the sea is a part 
 of the sea itself, no matter where that 
 particular drop may be found. 
 
 Wherever we may turn our attention, 
 therefore, if we go into the spirit of the 
 thing itself, into life itself, into harmony 
 
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 itself, into peace itself, into music itself, 
 into art itself, into any quality as it is in 
 itself, we shall meet the spiritual world, 
 the world in which all things exist in their 
 fullness — without limitations or imper- 
 fections or incompleteness in any mode or 
 manner. 
 
 Realizing this important truth, we may 
 learn infinitely more about the spiritual 
 world if we will continue to seek for the 
 real source of every quality, or expression, 
 or manifestation of which we may be 
 conscious. 
 
 To illustrate: When we try to be peace- 
 ful, we should turn our attention towards 
 the spiritual within, and try to realize 
 the great eternal calm. In like manner, 
 whenever we try to be harmonious, we 
 should turn attention to the spirit of 
 harmony, and try to experience more and 
 more of that state of harmony that is so 
 wonderful that it could not possibly be 
 more harmonious. Then when we think 
 
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 of health, we should, instead of thinking 
 about the body, turn attention to the 
 spirit of health, which exists in the soul, 
 or in the spiritual world, permeating all 
 things. 
 
 We know that the majority, when in 
 search for health, think too much about 
 the body, believing that health has its 
 origin and expression in the body only; 
 but this is not the truth. We know that 
 it is well to care for the body in the best 
 manner possible, to follow all the laws of 
 life on the physical plane and be in perfect 
 harmony with nature as manifested either 
 mentally or physically; but when we 
 think of real health, or go in search of 
 real health, we should realize that health 
 itself does not have its origin in the body. 
 Real health has its origin in the spirit of 
 health, and the spirit of health abides in 
 the spiritual world. 
 
 Accordingly, the more deeply we enter 
 into the consciousness of the spirit of 
 
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 health, the more perfect and more powerful 
 will become the expression of health 
 through the mind and body, because when 
 we find the limitless source of any expres- 
 sion, the expression itself will increase 
 more and more as we become more deeply 
 conscious of that source. 
 
 Here we should remember the great 
 law — whatever we become conscious of in 
 the within, that very thing we will manifest 
 in the without 
 
 When we are in search of power we 
 must realize that the source of power is 
 not found in the physical world, nor even 
 in the mind. The source of power is 
 found in the spirit of power which exists 
 in the spiritual world; and if we will 
 search in that direction we will not only 
 find greater and greater power, but we 
 will, at the same time, develop our 
 spiritual consciousness, so that we may 
 become better equipped for the finding of 
 the spiritual source of anything that we 
 
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 may desire in life. This is clearly evident, 
 because as we become more and more 
 conscious of real power in the spiritual 
 world, we will not only grow in power, 
 but also grow in the consciousness of the 
 spiritual world itself, which is indeed our 
 purpose, whatever our external object at 
 the time may happen to be. 
 
 Our one continuous aim, therefore, in 
 this study should be to find more and 
 more of that wonderful something that 
 exists back of, or within, or at the source 
 of all things; that is, the spiritual world 
 itself — not a world that we may define 
 as something finer than the physical — 
 not an invisible world merely, but a state 
 of being existing within everything, back 
 of everything, beyond everything, and 
 containing the fullness of everything. 
 
 When we consider the term "in all its 
 fullness," we may well ask ourselves if we 
 really appreciate its vast significance. We 
 may repeat this expression "in all its 
 
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 fullness" again and again, in our own 
 mentality, trying to comprehend every- 
 thing that it might imply; and the more 
 we think of it, the more vast and more 
 wonderful it becomes. And when we 
 realize that any quality or state of being 
 becomes spiritual only when it appears 
 in all its fullness, we begin to understand, 
 not only the real meaning of the term 
 1 'spiritual," but what an immensity that 
 term represents; and not only immensity, 
 but degrees of perfection beyond degrees of 
 perfection, going deeper and higher per- 
 petually into infinity. 
 
 When we pause to consider life in all its 
 fullness, joy in all its fullness, health in all 
 its fullness, harmony in all its fullness, 
 power in all its fullness, wisdom in all 
 its fullness — when we pause to consider 
 all these things, we realize that we are 
 in the presence of wonderful ideals; and 
 the more deeply we enter into the con- 
 sciousness of those ideals, the more closely 
 
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 we approach the spiritual world, until 
 finally we enter into the full significance 
 of the spiritual world. 
 
 The pathway to the spiritual, therefore, 
 is not as difficult as we have thought in 
 the past, although it implies everything 
 that is ideal and wonderful and marvelous. 
 The moment we begin to take our spiritual 
 journey upon this path we realize that we 
 are in the presence of elements and possi- 
 bilities that are too vast, too immense and 
 too sublime for the outer mind to com- 
 prehend; but we know that so long as 
 we continue to search for the fullness of 
 things, or to enter into the consciousness of 
 the spirit of things, we are upon the 
 straight and narrow path; that is, the 
 path that leads directly, without wavering 
 or turning, into the full consciousness of 
 the spiritual. 
 
 In consequence, we should no longer 
 think of the invisible, or any phase of the 
 invisible, when we are in search of the 
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 spiritual; but should, instead, think of 
 the perfect, the complete, the absolute, 
 and that state in which everything exists 
 in all its fullness — a state where life is so 
 perfect that additional life could not be 
 added; where peace is so perfect and so 
 deeply calm that it is beyond all under- 
 standing; where light is so brilliant that 
 it could not become more brilliant; where 
 harmony is so perfect that it could not 
 become more harmonious; where all the 
 elements of life, consciousness and being 
 are so wonderful and so divinely ideal that 
 they could not become more wonderful or 
 more ideal — this is what it means to be 
 spiritual; and as we grow into this deeper 
 and finer and higher understanding of all 
 things, it is then that we develop real 
 spirituality. 
 
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