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THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
THE TWO WORLDS 
 OF ATTRACTION 
 
 BY 
 
 ANNE ABBOTT 
 
 Oil* Christopher Publishing Hous« 
 Boston, Massachusetts 
 
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 Copyright iQ2i 
 By Thk Christopher Publishing House 
 
 A617083 
 
FOREWORD 
 
 This book deals in a new and vital manner 
 with the conditions of personal life after 
 bodily death. The subject is treated with a 
 dignity, a profound reverence and withal a 
 deep understanding which place it in a class 
 quite by itself. Specific answers are given 
 to questions that have been a cause of doubt 
 and concern to all real thinkers, and the laws 
 governing the after life are shown to be as 
 definite and as "natural" as the laws we find 
 operating in the realm of the physical life. 
 
 The entire subject of the continuity of life 
 is treated with an impressiveness that car- 
 ries with it deep conviction. Coming at this 
 crisis in our national life, it could not have 
 been more timely in its reassurances to 
 man of the invincible power of courage, 
 faith and absolute fidelity to the higher pur- 
 poses. It is not too much to say, that "The 
 Two Worlds of Attraction" will contribute 
 greatly to a far more joyous conception of 
 the land beyond the veil, than humanity, as 
 a whole, has yet been able to accept. 
 
 Of the approach to the transcription of 
 the material the author says: 
 
 "In November, 1919, I began receiving 
 automatic writing from my mother whom I 
 had never known, as she died when I was 
 less than a year old. 
 
FOREWORD 
 
 "This experience, which was a very beau- 
 tiful one, prepared the way for the book, 
 The Two Worlds of Attraction. I could not 
 face the possibility of signing my own name 
 to it when it was completed. Like count- 
 less others who have been confronted with 
 the same problem, I could not bear to give 
 up whatever claim I might possess to intel- 
 lectual respectability, so I planned to pub- 
 lish the book under a fictitious name. 
 
 "At the eleventh hour, I was asked by "A 
 friend of the cause" to sign my own name 
 to the book because of the connection of the 
 name of Abbott with the world of literature, 
 in the mind of the public, and I complied. 
 
 "I lay no claim to the book in any way, 
 save that for some reason which I do not un- 
 derstand, it came through my hand. With 
 the exception of one line, the few personal 
 passages were left out, at my request, by 'A 
 friend of the cause.' " 
 
 Anne Abbott. 
 
"It is always well to remember, in aspir- 
 ing to individual development to the high 
 place of communication between the two 
 worlds of attraction, that growth must be 
 slow, else it is not truly growth. God gives 
 the flowers of the field, the trees of the forest 
 and his earthly children, all the time they 
 need in which to grow. 
 
 "Approach the gates of entrance slowly 
 and serenely and all will be well. The stu- 
 dent who dares not be true to the law of calm 
 growth, would better wait patiently for the 
 development of some tried and trusted 
 friend, for soon there will be many of these 
 in every community and the race is not al- 
 ways to the swift but to those who conform 
 to the law as God has made it." 
 
 A Friend of the Cause 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 Sunday, December 21st, 1919. 
 The mother speaking: 
 
 "Dear Anne, You are to place yourself in 
 readiness for the transcription of the book 
 which is to follow, by allowing all of your 
 faculties to be used by us for the time being, 
 as effort along the line of any analytical pro- 
 cess of interpretation will make it difficult 
 for us to continue without breaking the 
 thread, and that we do not wish to do, if it 
 can be avoided. 
 
 Remember, you are not writing indepen- 
 dently now, you are being used as an instru- 
 ment of transmission, and in so far as you 
 realize this and act accordingly, you will 
 be of help to us. 
 
 Any active effort on the part of your mind 
 makes just that much more for us to over- 
 come, as we are using your brain as a sort 
 of clearing house for the purpose of reach- 
 ing many people to whom this functioning 
 is an unheard of thing. 
 
 There are countless - people who will 
 be impressed not only with the method but 
 with the ultimate results of the proceedings, 
 provided the message comes through clearly 
 and in a lucid way so that those whose minds 
 have not yet turned in the direction of inves- 
 
10 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 tigation along these lines, will at least look 
 upon the subject with more tolerance and 
 begin to wonder if after all, there is not 
 something more to the subject of psychical 
 research than they have thought; if it is not 
 worth investigating in spite of prevailing 
 prejudice against it. 
 
 You have only to trust us and to lend your 
 hand. The rest is done on this side of the 
 veil and may God strengthen and help you 
 and see you safely through your appointed 
 task. Goodbye, dear. 
 
 Your loving mother, 
 
 Emma." 
 
 A Master speaking: 
 
 "Dear child of earth, I am indeed glad 
 to be able to use your hand in this great un- 
 dertaking. You have been prepared for this 
 work for a longer time than you realize and 
 the hour has come when you are expected 
 to prove the value of training and sugges- 
 tion along these lines, together with the 
 power of what is called here thought trans- 
 ference, and we have every reason to believe 
 that the result will be highly satisfactory. 
 
 In the first place let me tell you this, that 
 no one, however developed upon the plane of 
 dense matter called earth, can fully realize 
 the significance of the work we are attempt- 
 ing to accomplish at this time. We are sur- 
 rounded on all sides by men and women re- 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 11 
 
 leased upon this plane, especially men, who 
 have been hastened into the life beyond your 
 own before their time. 
 
 This makes for confusion on both planes 
 and the result is we are taking advantage 
 of the appeal that is being made to us on this 
 side of the veil to break through the barrier 
 of prejudice and antagonism that exists 
 upon the earth plane in regard to this sub- 
 ject, and bring the two worlds into greater 
 union while the opportunity is so very much 
 at hand. 
 
 With the passing of the aftermath of war, 
 people return almost automatically to the 
 pursuits and interests of material life in a 
 way which makes them far more inaccessible 
 from the spirit world, so-called. Now in deal- 
 ing with this subject, it is well to bear in 
 mind two things, first, that the matter of 
 chief importance is the fact that inter- 
 communication between the two worlds is 
 possible and secondly that it is desirable. 
 
 For countless ages man has considered his 
 life upon earth to be a thing apart from 
 what is termed, generally speaking, spiri- 
 tual. Consequently, he has contended when 
 dealing with this subject of death and 
 of the world beyond the grave, that one 
 world at a time was sufficient and that all 
 people who were really well balanced and 
 what is called sane, felt very much the same 
 way, which is in truth a fact. The majority 
 of thinking people have certainly had the 
 
12 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 same inclination to accept this point of view 
 as the wisest and best for all mankind. 
 
 Now as a matter of fact this has never 
 been true, though in countless instances the 
 investigation along lines of thought called 
 psychic research to-day, has been fraught 
 with misunderstanding and terror of many 
 sorts, so that it is not strange that the aver- 
 age mind has shrunk from the subject and 
 felt the course of entire withdrawal from 
 any further interest in the matter to be the 
 best way to settle a most difficult problem, 
 and one which wiser men had failed for 
 centuries to solve. 
 
 This being the case, it would be strange 
 indeed if it did not take a very long lapse of 
 time before there would be so much as a 
 single ray pierce the darkness between the 
 earth plane and those beyond it and true it 
 is that those who have tried have attempted 
 their investigation for the most part, in a 
 manner ill-fitted to bring about results that 
 could possibly appeal to a highly developed 
 ego and naturally the whole subject has 
 fallen into very bad repute indeed. 
 
 Now then, these being the facts, the next 
 step upon the road of exploration and dis- 
 covery, was to make the attempt at least to 
 find out what the cause of so-called pheno- 
 mena really was, and thereby reduce the 
 danger of investigation to the smallest de- 
 gree possible. 
 
 There is no hindrance to the develop- 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 13 
 
 ment of any movement or other organized 
 plan of any kind in the world so great as fear. 
 It is paralyzing in its effect upon the mind of 
 man in a way that reduces his powers to a 
 minimum of efficiency, and the consequence 
 has been from the beginning that people have 
 always felt they were dealing with a 
 force of which they knew nothing, and the 
 most prevalent idea in connection with it 
 was the belief that in some way, all forms 
 of physical manifestation called spiritistic, 
 were the work of the devil and better left 
 alone. 
 
 This idea has been dominant in regard to 
 the whole subject until within a compar- 
 atively few years and the real reason for the 
 change in public opinion has been man's 
 inner longing for the truth of his own 
 being. In some way or other he has known 
 that he was destined to attain this knowledge 
 if his search were deep enough and sincere 
 in its purpose. 
 
 This state of things has brought about 
 what is called the open mind that is preva- 
 lent upon earth to-day which signifies to us 
 that the door between the worlds is about 
 to be opened, and what has seemed in past 
 ages to be wrapped in darkness and mys- 
 tery is no longer so, but revealed as a glor- 
 ious and wonderful evidence of the patience 
 and the love of God, and of His desire to 
 prepare His children a place of peace and 
 
14 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 of confidence in the plan of Creation while 
 they are still wearing the garment of flesh. 
 
 Do not try so hard to think when you lose 
 the thread for a moment; wait patiently and 
 the pencil will write again freely and ac- 
 curately. 
 
 To continue : We are naturally anxious to 
 do our best to improve this opportunity oc- 
 casioned by so great sacrifice of life upon 
 the earth plane, and we hope to be able to 
 interest countless readers in this most im- 
 portant subject by putting before them the 
 simple facts which relate to communication 
 in a way that cannot help making a wide 
 appeal and will eventually prove to millions 
 of men and women that their so-called dead 
 are not removed by transition but are far 
 nearer to them than in earth life. That 
 they may at will commune with them 
 as upon earth only on an infinitely more com- 
 prehensive and understanding basis, for the 
 matter of thought transference as it operates 
 between the two planes is far more highly 
 developed on this plane than upon the earth 
 plane, and consequently communication is 
 easier and of a much higher nature, nec- 
 essarily. 
 
 True it is, that it will be a long time 
 before a high degree of proficiency will be 
 developed by those to whom this subject is 
 wholly new and one which they accept 
 grudgingly, if at all, and who enter into their 
 attempts at proving the truth for themselves, 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION IS 
 
 with unbelief and even scoffing in their 
 hearts. 
 
 But to those who enter into this in- 
 vestigation in sincerity and in truth, and who 
 believe all things possible to those who love 
 God, to those the way will be shown and the 
 reward at the end of their seeking after 
 truth, will be great indeed. 
 
 Little by little the actual knowledge that 
 is bound to follow the many testimonies to 
 the truth of intercommunication will have its 
 effect upon all who dwell on earth, and the 
 time will come when in every home there will 
 be one who knows and appreciates the value 
 of this vast truth, and it will be their task to 
 convey to others in so far as that is possible, 
 something of the changed glory of life after 
 the point is reached when the individual soul 
 recognizes the unity of all life and its own 
 eternal unity with God. 
 
 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump, 
 and soon there will be students of this sub- 
 ject singing the song of truth over all the 
 earth world. They will not be hampered 
 by fear as their forebears have been, for all 
 men are looking at this time as never before 
 for some sign each day from heaven, and it 
 is coming so simply and directly to man that 
 only those who have kept the heart open and 
 the mind unbiased upon these matters, will 
 be able to recognize it without interpretation 
 from some one who has passed over the same 
 pathway before him. 
 
16 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 So the time is at hand when the attempt 
 is to be made, to assure the race upon earth 
 to-day that all life is a unified purpose, 
 created in the beginning for the destiny of 
 godhood achieved through overcoming and 
 by the mastery of all elements which it is 
 man's lot to meet upon the pathway of his 
 development and evolution. One day not 
 far distant, there will be some echo upon 
 earth of the song from on high: Peace on 
 earth, goodwill to men and the sword shall 
 perish from the face of the earth. There 
 shall be no more bloodshed nor any more 
 war, for the redemption of man, through 
 love in the great universal sense, will pene- 
 trate the dark recesses of man's brain, and 
 he will turn from sin and sorrow to the 
 dawn of a new day. 
 
 Then the intercommunication between 
 the two worlds called heaven and earth 
 will be an established fact and it will ex- 
 cite no more wonder than communication 
 between distant points upon the surface of 
 the earth does at this time in the unfoldment 
 of inventive genius, which has brought to 
 the relief of man all of the so-called discov- 
 eries which are only the revelation of truth 
 to the mind of the man who stops to listen 
 and who, having heard, carries out the pur- 
 poses of the Father to further the welfare 
 of His children in all worlds and in all gen- 
 erations. 
 
 Try to realize, all who read these words, 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 17 
 
 that they are an attempt to transfer the 
 thought force which is used upon a differ- 
 ent plane in a wholly different way; that 
 all effort to convey accurately the meaning 
 of great truths in the speech of earth is in- 
 adequate. An idea, however, that conveys 
 to some extent, the importance of the sub- 
 ject at this time is of great significance. 
 
 As the revelations of the plan on this side 
 for this work are made known, it will be- 
 come more and more apparent what is being 
 attempted and what is the best method of 
 carrying out the purpose of the book. 
 
 Now we will not tire our instrument longer 
 to-day, for she has made sufficient effort for 
 the first transcription. As time passes the 
 words will flow more freely through her pen 
 and it will not be long before the undertaking 
 becomes a pleasure and not a task. I thank 
 you. 
 
 A Friend of the Cause." 
 
18 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 II 
 
 Monday, December 22nd, 1919. 
 
 "Dear child, I want to congratulate you 
 upon the directness with which you conveyed 
 the message yesterday, for it was very nearly 
 accurate, and in every particular the thought 
 was expressed without interference in any 
 way by the processes of your own think- 
 ing. 
 
 This overcoming for the time being of 
 any conscious mental action save that which 
 is conducive to help the project in which we 
 are both so interested to as high a form of 
 expression as possible, is not a thing to be 
 easily accomplished in a short space of time. 
 To a person of your tendencies and develop- 
 ment, it is peculiarly hard not to dissect from 
 an analytical standpoint as you go along, and 
 that is why the work is harder for you than 
 it would be for a more submissive type of 
 mind. 
 
 However, in the end, this will all react 
 in favor of the book, for the more slowly the 
 investigator is content to make progress, 
 naturally the more significant his entrance 
 and his endeavors in this field of labor must 
 be to others who are considering the ques- 
 tion seriously and who have not up to this 
 time been by any means convinced that 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 19 
 
 people who are called rightfully, thinking 
 people can really be interested in the subject 
 of psychic research. 
 
 If they are, however, and it is no longer 
 considered a matter of disrepute, then he 
 can make the plunge in goodly company 
 he now begins to think, and in this frame of 
 mind, reading a clear and lucid explanation 
 of matters which have been entirely unex- 
 plained and mysterious to him before, will 
 have just that much more significance to 
 him and to countless others who share with 
 him the doubts and fears of all past genera- 
 tions from which it is a struggle to be freed. 
 
 However, to resume the subject matter of 
 the book where we left it yesterday. 
 
 There is in the mind of man to-day an in- 
 creasing desire to know truth. We no long- 
 er upon any plane say with Pilate : "What is 
 truth ?" But we are trying to discover for 
 ourselves whether truth is a purely relative 
 matter varying in the mind of the individual, 
 between different grades of honesty, of 
 morality, of order in regard to personal and 
 national affairs in proportion to his pre- 
 conceived ideas upon such subjects, together 
 with the influences of early environment and 
 many other things, or whether after all 
 there is an absolute standard which at some 
 time in our development we are to know in 
 full. 
 
 Truth will not remain the partial unde- 
 veloped vision which it now is to man- 
 
20 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 kind but will become a reality of increas- 
 ing value in the most constructive sense, 
 upon which man may build something defi- 
 nite to which he may hold throughout the 
 varying vicissitudes of life. 
 
 Through all the changing years this will 
 point ever to a definite purpose, a definite 
 goal and a unity of forces, so-called physical 
 and so-called spiritual. 
 
 The progress which has led to the point 
 of individual thinking along these lines 
 has been slow indeed, but now it is 
 world-wide, and the force with which it will 
 bear on the race consciousness to the point 
 of conviction in these matters, is swifter than 
 can be estimated at this time; but results will 
 prove the truth of predictions in so short a 
 period that it is idle to waste time and energy 
 in projecting thought of a conjectural nature 
 into the future of this great plan. 
 
 It says in the Good Book, "Be ye wise in 
 your generation:" the wise in the present 
 generation are those who are willing to re- 
 ceive the light which is being diffused in the 
 earth world to-day and which is priceless 
 in its value and in its effect upon the race, 
 can be compared to nothing more appro- 
 priate than the dawn of an entirely new day. 
 
 With the actual facts of communication 
 between the two worlds understood and ac- 
 cepted by this world as a great truth, advanc- 
 ing civilization and progress centuries in 
 evolution at a single bound, there will be a 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 21 
 
 change in the present apathy towards mat- 
 ters pertaining to the functioning upon other 
 planes than this one, which will affect every 
 human being still living on the plane of dense 
 matter called earth. 
 
 Here we come to the profound reason for 
 the revelations which are being made in all 
 quarters of the earth at this time pertaining 
 to these things, for there must always be as 
 nicely adjusted causes of all large move- 
 ments in life upon all planes, as the results 
 are great and that proportion is in exact 
 measure according to unchanging law. 
 
 But it is a reason almost too simple to be 
 accepted by many without combat, because 
 the average mind of man still looks for signs 
 from heaven. Where there are no signs, he 
 claims there are no evidences, simply be- 
 cause he personally rejects any other type of 
 what he himself calls proof and which mil- 
 lions of others, thinking of such matters 
 in much the same manner have also called 
 proof. 
 
 From the standpoint of sense alone there 
 is no "proof," while man is in the body, but 
 when man through his own seeking for truth 
 and through his willingness to take the step 
 that is necessary for the unfolding of his own 
 inner vision — namely, to ask of his Creator, 
 silently, humbly and with faith in his heart, 
 if he seeks he shall find, and if he knocks the 
 door shall indeed be opened unto him — to 
 every soul that in truth turns to the godhood 
 
22 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 within himself for guidance, the way is 
 shown. 
 
 This is an underlying law of life. We do 
 not create law, but we create reactionary- 
 force upon our own lives and all they contact, 
 by building up a defense against truth which 
 in turn acts upon the worn and troubled 
 spirit of doubting men and women, until they 
 see that this is not the way to seek the 
 spiritual kingdom. 
 
 To the world of sense certain things 
 and conditions are visible and provable, but 
 to the infinite world of spirit, of which the 
 world called the material world, is but one 
 form of manifestation, there is a form of re- 
 velation and of conviction which comes 
 through the inner man, which is forever 
 spiritual in actuality, and which persists 
 through all the varying forms it has assumed 
 and will yet assume to the point where it will 
 know that individuality, the continuity of 
 what is called identity does persist and ever 
 will persist in constantly changing and evol- 
 ving form. This is one of the great and 
 beneficent laws of creation, of which the 
 children of earth have been sadly and per- 
 sistently ignorant up to the present day. 
 
 Surely now, however, the clouds are dis- 
 appearing and there is more and more light 
 filtering through from the realm beyond the 
 veil and at no distant day there will be sing- 
 ing upon earth where there has been weep- 
 ing. In every home there will be event- 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 23 
 
 ually a voice through the power of thought 
 transference which is reaching such a high 
 form of development in these days, and the 
 voice will carry to the unseen world, as it has 
 always done, but in turn it will speak to the 
 sorrowing ones still in the earth world who 
 have mourned without hope, words of cheer 
 and consolation, and little by little conviction 
 as to the truth of this great law will become 
 an established thing. 
 
 It will no longer be a matter of scorn 
 and even degredation to claim that converse 
 between the worlds of earth and so-called 
 spirit is an established fact. Not only nat- 
 ural and as simple as the use of the telephone 
 and telegraph but far more so in fact, as it 
 will cease to be as complicated and difficult a 
 problem to many minds as the wireless pro- 
 cess is to those to whom the whole subject 
 of thought waves has previously been a 
 closed book. 
 
 The acceptance of the fact of intercommun- 
 ication will establish upon earth a certainty 
 of the purpose of life, and the worth-while 
 part of each and every human being upon the 
 path of creation in any given place and at 
 any period of evolution, so that the old time 
 standards which marked the belief in a short 
 span of life, dating from birth to death in a 
 material world, will vanish from the face of 
 the earth, and a new way to peace and hap- 
 piness and a new understanding of the first 
 meaning of unity and brotherhood will be 
 
24 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 established never to wane again while the 
 world called earth revolves in space. 
 
 This will continue as long as the race con- 
 sciousness calls it into action for the evolu- 
 tion of souls needing the lessons only to be 
 learned by the passage through dense mat- 
 ter for the schooling impossible to gain in 
 other ways. 
 
 Do not confuse the term dense matter 
 with the physical body alone or with the 
 earth plane as it is called, for there are 
 spheres and spheres of dense matter, more 
 dense than earth, but by way of expressing 
 the meaning of the term, earth world, it is 
 so often referred to as the plane of dense 
 matter that it sometimes leads to the con- 
 clusion that this plane is exclusively one 
 of dense matter, which it is not. 
 
 The time will doubtless come when it will 
 be possible to go into the subject of other 
 planes of existence which have superceded 
 this one, but that is not the object of this 
 book. 
 
 The object of this particular book is 
 to reveal to men and women upon earth the 
 fact of communication between the two 
 worlds in its simplicity and its beauty; also 
 to help them to realize the nearness of 
 the two planes and their interpenetration 
 and the needlessness of human woe from the 
 standpoint of death chiefly and from contrib- 
 utory causes as well. To those who really 
 seek for light and truth upon this vital sub- 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION . 25 
 
 ject there is no better advice to give than the 
 well-known passage so often quoted from 
 the Bible, "Seek and ye shall find." 
 
 The time is at hand and the way appears, 
 and it will not be long before the fruitless 
 search for so-called instruments through 
 whom our loved ones come to us by special 
 grace reserved only for the few, in an un- 
 accountable way will be done away with for- 
 ever, and we will seek and find our own 
 directly, as the Father of men intended that 
 we should. 
 
 When that day comes, we will wonder 
 that we ever lived in the old leaden world 
 ingloriously and without hope, facing al- 
 ways, and forever the door which shadows 
 all life to the end, and which shuts silently 
 and inexorably at the close of the journey. 
 
 We will marvel at the new day and 
 its glory and its possibilities and each new 
 morning will be as a new life undertaken in a 
 purpose for which the end is not only justi- 
 fied but made wholly worthy in spite of its 
 errors and its struggles. 
 
 Little by little the soul of man, awakened 
 to the realization of the eternal verities, and 
 aware of his infinite unity with the plan of 
 creation, will cease to magnify the import- 
 ance of things pertaining to sense and an- 
 swer the call from within to. fit himself 
 for higher planes of activity, which reach 
 out before him in endless glory. 
 
 Accomplishment will become divine in its 
 
26 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 mission, and all men will be benefited by each 
 and every life to which this knowledge comes 
 while yet upon the plane of earth. 
 
 This will finish the message for this morn- 
 ing. I thank you, dear child of earth. 
 
 A Friend of the Cause." 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 27 
 
 III 
 
 Tuesday, December 23rd, 1919. 
 
 The mother speaking: 
 
 "Dear Anne, The conditions this morning 
 are of the very best. Try not to think ob- 
 jectively; we keep repeating this admonition, 
 as it facilitates greatly the work we are un- 
 dertaking if you comply with our instruc- 
 tions in this regard as much as it is possible 
 for you to do so. Be of good cheer, dear, all 
 is well. Goodbye. 
 
 Your loving mother, 
 
 Emma." 
 
 "Dear child, we come to you this morning 
 with renewed conviction as to our ability to 
 transcribe through the agency of your brain, 
 which we are using as a reflector for that 
 purpose, this message of such great joy and 
 we ask you to accept the obligation in the 
 light of high service. 
 
 Do not think of the matter analytically. 
 Just do your part without too much intro- 
 spection in regard to it and all will be re- 
 vealed to you in due time when you have 
 grown in power and understanding, so that 
 the knowledge will be welcome to you and 
 easily assimilated, as it is not possible to be 
 at present. When that time comes you will 
 
28 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 look back upon your present frame of mind 
 as something far removed and difficult to 
 comprehend, for the vision and unfoldment 
 will be such that you will realize that all en- 
 deavor in connection with the cultivation 
 of the psychic powers within our souls, 
 is meant to be used for the betterment 
 of man's condition upon all planes and is 
 a thing to be desired above all else. 
 
 One day there will be thankfulness in 
 your heart beyond your power to express 
 that nothing stayed your hand and that no 
 amount of doubt and misgiving prevented 
 you from following the call of the spirit 
 within yourself. 
 
 Be not dismayed at the greatness of the 
 undertaking. Remember you are but one 
 component part and all the other parts of 
 this great plan are working out on this side 
 the end which has long been required of 
 them and which has taken time untold to 
 bring to the point of transmission. 
 
 So bear in mind always the fact that we 
 none of us carry responsibility alone; we 
 are inter-related in all forms and expres- 
 sions of life and no one bears all of the care 
 and the anxiety as to the outcome of any 
 movement, however great or small it may 
 be, and to no one entity does all of the glory 
 and joy of success belong. 
 
 This in itself is an humbling and helpful 
 thought, which it is well to bear in mind, 
 and all the sensitive souls of earth that 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 29 
 
 shrink instinctively from publicity of any 
 kind do well to remember this; and it is also 
 a help in the correct diagnosis as to the ex- 
 tent to which the individual unit is respon- 
 sible. 
 
 Not that responsibility is not good for us 
 all. It fits in each case the shoulders upon 
 which it is placed, but there are those in 
 every plane who take it with too great a 
 sense of , distaste for the great debt which 
 it entails, and in such instances a little 
 enlightenment in regard to the subject is not 
 out of place. 
 
 To return to the subject matter of yes- 
 terday. We are now at a place in the evolu- 
 tion of man upon the earth plane where there 
 is a step to be taken in regard to matters 
 pertaining to the so-called spiritual kingdom. 
 
 The people themselves, the masses which 
 go to make up the bulk of humanity, are 
 demanding the right to look into these ques- 
 tions for themselves. 
 
 They are no longer content with the min- 
 istrations or with the doctrines which are 
 given them from all sectarian pulpits under 
 the sun, but are developing a remarkable 
 amount of individual thinking destined to 
 alarm the clergy and make them wonder as 
 to the cause of the increase of unrest 
 among the hitherto docile members of their 
 flocks. In many instances the ministers 
 themselves have been doing the heaviest 
 thinking and in some cases have been obliged 
 
30 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 to acknowledge that their tenets no longer 
 give them satisfaction or real help from the 
 standpoint of what they had always termed 
 spiritual. 
 
 The conditions arising to-day out of the 
 stress and tumult of the world beset by war- 
 time influences and the even more deadly 
 ones which follow in the aftermath of war, 
 are not met by the old-time creeds; and 
 the clergymen acknowledge to them- 
 selves, at least, that the old orthodox teach- 
 ings, to be strictly honest, have never 
 fully met the needs of the people or of 
 the church. They would inevitably at some 
 time and age, even without the hastening in- 
 fluences of war, have needed modelling and 
 reshaping, in order to be more nearly suited 
 to the measure of the desires of the heart 
 of man. 
 
 It is also true, in some instances, that 
 the ministry has been robbed of some 
 of its most promising members because of 
 this pressing sense of inadequacy which 
 filled their souls with a sort of spiritual 
 revolt and even made them feel at times 
 like the veriest charlatans taking money or 
 its equivalent under utterly false pretences 
 and longing for a life work founded on more 
 honest and more definite lines, where at 
 least they would not forever be passing 
 through a form of inner conflict, which made 
 life a harrowing and surpassingly difficult 
 thing to endure. 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 31 
 
 This has of late been more often the true 
 situation of many a clergyman than will 
 ever be known, and some of them have 
 sought in secret, help from the reading and 
 the study of books coming under the head of 
 psychical research in varied ways and bear- 
 ing varied titles. 
 
 Out of this unrest has come the movement 
 which has swept over England, plunging her 
 far into the field of research and placing her 
 at the head of investigators, speaking from 
 the standpoint of nations, and now America 
 is aroused. 
 
 None can withstay the power of the move- 
 ment that will follow this turning towards 
 spiritual law, which is already making great 
 headway unknown to the man or woman 
 who has not heretofore been deeply inter- 
 ested in the subject and who has up to the 
 present time looked upon all such matters 
 either as needless, not to say useless, or per- 
 haps even the work of evil spirits or of char- 
 latans at best. 
 
 This age has passed. It is a closed 
 chapter and in the future people who 
 have not truly the open mind upon this sub- 
 ject as well as others in the nature of dis- 
 covery and enlightenment, will be the ones 
 who little by little will be looked upon with 
 scorn, not unmixed with pity. Eventually it 
 will be a matter of pride not only to the 
 thinker but to the layman, to be able to speak 
 intelligently upon this subject and to be able 
 
32 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 to say "We do not have to seek outside our 
 own home circle for a voice to convey the 
 message to us from beyond the veil. ,, 
 
 The power is at hand which makes inter- 
 communication possible to the children of 
 men who have faith in their own godhood to 
 bring all things to pass, even to the breaking 
 down of old prejudices which have hitherto 
 prevented this simple and beautiful law from 
 operating as easily and as naturally as we 
 lie down to rest at night, assured of awaken- 
 ing in the morning. As we leave the rising 
 and the setting of the sun and the stars in 
 their courses to the benign law controlling 
 them, so we leave the working of this great 
 law of the interrelation of the two worlds 
 to the Giver of all gifts, and rest in the as- 
 surance that all is well and that life endures 
 in ever-increasing glory from everlasting to 
 everlasting. 
 
 Prejudice against the old methods will 
 continue for many ages to come and right- 
 fully so, but the new way will disperse the 
 instinctive feeling of withdrawal in a most 
 sweeping sense, and the detractors of all 
 phases of so-called spiritism, as it has been 
 comprehensively called, will be the first ones 
 to embrace what they will call the direct 
 route. 
 
 Another point which will have bearing on 
 the situation is this: there are countless 
 people upon earth to-day who have counted 
 and still do count their position in the given 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 33 
 
 place where they live as the one thing most 
 worth while preserving while they continue 
 to dwell there, and there could hardly be a 
 condition they would fear more acutely than 
 to be robbed of the high esteem in which 
 they are held in this community. With- 
 out the feeling of so-called esteem on the 
 part of their fellow-citizens, life would not 
 be worth the struggle and the maintenance 
 of a reputation of this kind is something 
 which the average man or woman holds far 
 more dear than they are aware of them- 
 selves. 
 
 It is in many respects a wise and goodly 
 attitude of mind, bearing in its train a host 
 of lesser virtues which would necessarily be 
 diminished in their value were the main- 
 spring of endeavor and of ambition removed 
 and nothing supplied to take its place. 
 
 Consequently it is a marvelously strong 
 and self-reliant soul that has the courage of 
 his own convictions sufficiently to heed the 
 voice from within calling him to join the 
 quest of truth individually, without sanction 
 or permission from any source and to find 
 out for himself what is being accomplished 
 in the world of psychic investigation. 
 
 He no longer contents himself with the 
 worn platitudes, of which thousands upon 
 thousands have exhausted the good, and 
 who cry out for food that will keep their 
 souls from death and calling find no answer- 
 ing voice, until they end by going on in the 
 
34 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 footsteps of their forefathers, convinced 
 that there can be no better way. 
 
 However, now and then, there has been 
 some courageous soul who has claimed the 
 right to know and has sought and found, 
 who has knocked and found that the door 
 has indeed been opened; but like all discov- 
 erers of laws simple and natural in their 
 working and wholly unable to attach to 
 them the least mystery or significance that 
 would count from a purely materialistic 
 standpoint they have for the most part kept 
 these revelations quite to themselves. 
 
 This has been necessary partly on account 
 of the fear of ridicule and partly because of 
 a very natural distaste to be confused in the 
 minds of their friends and even their fam- 
 ilies with the generally conceived idea of 
 people who have ever at any time in the 
 history of man, claimed to hold converse 
 with those who have passed through the 
 gates called death. 
 
 In ages past this has meant persecution 
 of the most iniquitous kind and in later days 
 it has meant persecution from the stand- 
 point of a certain unconcealed contempt on 
 the part of even the most liberal minded of 
 their associates. 
 
 The price has been so high that few in- 
 deed have attempted to do more than hold 
 the truth close to their own hearts and try 
 passionately to find an opening to pass on 
 their own light to those in need of comfort 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 35 
 
 and consolation through bereavement, but 
 have for the most part failed utterly in their 
 desire to reveal a tithe of what they pos- 
 sessed for the relief of suffering and have 
 been obliged to carry their golden secret 
 alone and unshared to the end of the journey. 
 
 This has been the sad condition of human 
 consciousness for countless generations, and 
 it would still continue to be so were it not 
 for the fearful suffering and reaction of a 
 world-wide war such as the one from which 
 humanity is just emerging. The war offered 
 the way to revelation and has proved the 
 open doorway through which the light has 
 entered, and whether it is possible to believe 
 it or not at this time, the door will never be 
 wholly closed again. 
 
 There is too great a multitude aroused 
 and calling through the open space way and 
 too many of us on our side have heard and 
 have answered, so that now it is largely a 
 question of revealing to a greater number 
 of the children of earth than are now awak- 
 ened, the possibilities of a new heaven and 
 a new earth, by means of literature which 
 is reaching the earth plane in numerous 
 quarters all over the world to-day and which 
 is destined to stimulate individual thinking 
 to a degree that will make restraint along 
 these lines impossible and eventually unde- 
 sirable. 
 
 The most inhibited religion and the most 
 fettered faiths must sooner or later respond 
 
36 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 to a message of such great joy, and the abil- 
 ity to prove individually in a most conclusive 
 way the fact of the survival of life and of 
 identity is going to be too great a factor in 
 the evolution of mankind to be defeated in 
 any way by any power on earth, for the 
 cause is in itself the cause of life and of 
 beneficent law. 
 
 Upon all planes throughout the universe, 
 man's acceptance of the fact of being in 
 unity with the supreme force which brought 
 all life to all spheres of consciousness both 
 here and reaching to infinity far beyond 
 the power of man's mind to penetrate, will 
 depend no longer upon other wills than his 
 own. 
 
 He will claim his birthright and take his 
 place in the ascending scale of evolution as 
 he was meant to do from the beginning. 
 Life will have lost its blind terror at the 
 thought of death and parting, and he will 
 know beyond all shadow of doubt the Fath- 
 erhood of God and His infinite tenderness to 
 the children of men. 
 
 This day is at hand, and those who are 
 wise in their generation are already listen- 
 ing for the voice of guidance, and it is speak- 
 ing, softly now, but with increasing power. 
 Soon the world will hear and stop to listen, 
 and never again on earth will there be strife 
 and conflict in the same sense as heretofore. 
 
 The new note of hope and the knowledge 
 of permanent value which has never been 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 37 
 
 properly accorded the earth span of life, 
 will become the corner-stone of the temple 
 which the builders rejected, and the tongues 
 of men and of angels will be more nearly in 
 unison than has ever been possible before. 
 
 The time will come when mystery will 
 no longer be mystery, and spirit will no 
 longer be a term applied to one world more 
 than another, for it will be known that all 
 is spirit in truth, and that the world called 
 the material world is as much a spiritual 
 world as any other, only its development is 
 at a different place in evolution from those 
 beyond the veil. 
 
 That is all this morning, dear child of 
 earth. Do not be disturbed by the occa- 
 sional halting of your hand. All will come 
 right. I thank you. 
 
 A Friend of the Cause." 
 
38 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 IV 
 Wednesday, December 24th, 1919. 
 
 "Dear child, we are endeavoring this 
 morning to assist you in every way we can 
 to make the transcription of the message a 
 matter of ease and pleasure rather than one 
 of strain, and as you seem more responsive 
 and somewhat more relaxed than heretofore, 
 I think we will not have difficulty in bring- 
 ing this condition about. 
 
 You are inclined to push your energies to 
 a high point of expression in practically all 
 things which you undertake, and it is not 
 easy in a few weeks' time to become the inert 
 receiver for another mentality. Still this 
 is necessary in order to reflect the messages 
 destined to be brought to human conscious- 
 ness in this manner, and the more the instru- 
 ment gives him or herself over to the pro- 
 cess, the more surely and swiftly the end is 
 attained. 
 
 Now to the subject at hand. Upon leaving 
 the subject matter yesterday at the given 
 point where we were obliged to put away 
 our task for the time being, it came to me 
 that possibly the matter of danger connected 
 with this subject of investigation which is a 
 factor not to be ignored, was one which it 
 was well to deal with at the outset. 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 39 
 
 There might be in my opinion people who 
 would naturally be inclined to read the book 
 with interest and a certain amount of real- 
 ization of its truth, who would nevertheless 
 be held back from the real purpose of the 
 book, namely, the stimulus of individual 
 thinking and research along these lines, by 
 the fear of untoward results in their own 
 lives, should they become deeply immersed 
 in the subject, and eventually take it up 
 themselves with the idea of proving the 
 statements herein presented. 
 
 Back in the depths of human conscious- 
 ness there is a lurking fear in connection 
 with all subjects pertaining to the so-called 
 occult, which it is all but impossible to still 
 and which should rightfully be taken into 
 consideration in the beginning. First of all, 
 most people have at some time in their lives 
 come in contact with some individual who 
 has lost his sense of proportion and his so- 
 called sanity by means of probing too deeply 
 into the realm of the unknown. 
 
 The result is in many cases lamentably sad 
 and is a cause of suffering not only on the 
 earth plane but to us beyond the veil, for we 
 realize only too clearly how great an effect 
 upon the progress of this research work such 
 cases are bound to have, and how far-reach- 
 ing they must necessarily be in their influ- 
 ence upon all men. The effect in fact can 
 hardly be over-rated in its bearing upon the 
 progress, or rather the withholding of prog- 
 
40 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 ress upon your side and upon our side as 
 well. 
 
 It is possible, I believe, to give some light 
 upon the subject of so-called obsession in 
 this matter, and to make clear the causes 
 and also point out the way to be absolutely 
 sure of never running the risk of its entering 
 into one's own search for truth along these 
 lines. 
 
 There is always a way in which this truth 
 can be investigated without the slightest 
 danger whatsoever of becoming upset as to 
 values in connection with the two worlds 
 we call the world of sense and the world of 
 spirit. In so doing, the students who follow 
 the teachings set before them as the way 
 in which to unfold and make themselves 
 ready for inspiration and direct communica- 
 tion with a source higher than their own 
 plane, not only help themselves but prove to 
 the world that it can be done and that the 
 result is worth the effort and preparation 
 needful to effect the realization of spiritual 
 intercourse. 
 
 Also that the results are constructive in 
 a measure which no one can deny once they 
 have seen and observed carefully for them- 
 selves just what the nature of this commun- 
 ication really is: how beneficent the actual 
 knowledge of the truth of spiritual commun- 
 ication is to the instrument concerned and to 
 all who touch his or her life when the direct 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 41 
 
 method is used of reaching friends on the 
 other side of the veil. 
 
 In time there will come to the people living 
 to-day upon the earth plane the conviction 
 that it is worth while chartering a ship to 
 make an unknown trip upon the unknown 
 sea called the realm of psychic research, and 
 they will also realize that there was never 
 any great movement forward in the lives of 
 either men or nations, that was not accom- 
 panied by fully as much, if not more danger, 
 than this particular field of endeavor. 
 
 However, there is this to be said; man has 
 rightfully held his supposed sanity to be his 
 most highly-prized possession, and the high- 
 er the development of that mentality, the 
 more it is prized, quite naturally. Now then, 
 this being the case, it is not at all strange 
 that men hesitate to embark upon a project 
 which, according to all their preconceived 
 ideas, imperils that which they hold most 
 dear. 
 
 Consequently, thousands upon thousands 
 of seekers turn back from this path, not 
 without regret, not without great longing in 
 the heart to pursue it to the point of some 
 sort of conclusion, whatever it may be, but 
 few dare continue in the pathway of investi- 
 gation which to their certain knowledge has 
 led able men and women before them to 
 their doom. So, reluctantly but persist- 
 ently the door is closed and those of us on 
 the other side who have been looking and 
 
42 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 waiting, for what seems to us endless time, 
 for the door between the worlds to be 
 opened even a little, so as to allow us a 
 small foothold, have had the repeated ex- 
 perience of having the door closed over and 
 over again by an instrument who would have 
 attained for the cause, what millions of souls 
 on earth to-day are really seeking; the 
 knowledge of the continuity of life and of 
 identity and of the intercommunication be- 
 tween the two worlds of attraction. 
 
 This, then, has been our experience and 
 great indeed has been our disappointment 
 when after years of endeavor in follow- 
 ing out our method of teaching and thought 
 transference from this side of life, we 
 find at the last, our advocate readjusting 
 himself to the old line of thought and the old 
 habits of life and settling back to the place 
 in his own consciousness where we found 
 him at the beginning of our attempt to make 
 of him a sensitive instrument attuned to the 
 marvelous message to mankind from the 
 spheres beyond his own. This condition we 
 have tried again and yet again to attain and 
 we are still trying. 
 
 Now as to the causes of obsession, so- 
 called. There are on this plane, as well as 
 upon the earth plane and the planes still more 
 dense than earth, forms of individualization 
 which it is difficult to describe accurately in 
 terms of earth language. At any rate they 
 come under the same law of attraction which 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 43 
 
 regulates the matter of supply and demand 
 which is existent everywhere in all king- 
 doms and upon all planes with equal force. 
 This is an underlying law of life and it is 
 very simple when once it is thoroughly un- 
 derstood. 
 
 In the first place, we do not need to attract 
 to ourselves upon our pathway at any given 
 point that which we do not desire. We 
 constantly do attract the thing which we 
 think we do not want, but we have at some 
 time, in some way, called it into expression 
 or it would not be there confronting us, to 
 be either accepted or overcome. 
 
 This is a difficult truth for many of earth's 
 children to accept, but it is nevertheless a 
 truth and one which has more bearing on 
 the evolution of the race from the standpoint 
 of what is called time to your sense, than can 
 be possibly reckoned, especially by those to 
 whom the acceptance of this law is impossi- 
 ble and to whom the thought is at this time 
 almost preposterous. 
 
 There is, however, upon earth today, a 
 large body of people called Scientists, which 
 they are to an extent undreamed-of by people 
 who look upon that religion as one which is 
 so impossible to them that they think its 
 followers not far from madness ; but mad or 
 not to the skeptic's way of thinking, they 
 are nearer the truth than the rest of the 
 world is aware of. 
 
 Some of their fundamental principles are 
 
44 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 the basic laws underlying all life and all 
 progress, and there are few on earth to-day 
 who enjoy so great a state of well-being, 
 both in mind and body, to say nothing of 
 spiritual welfare, as the body of the church 
 of Christian Scientists. 
 
 This illustration is used merely to give as 
 clear and vivid a picture as possible of what 
 it means for a body of people to build upon 
 laws of such significant value as the law of 
 attraction, which is so closely allied to the 
 law of supply as to be one with it, and to 
 make it apparent to the minds of those who 
 look upon these matters and the so-called 
 spiritual laws of being with unbelief that 
 they are far from fallacious. That they are 
 in fact extremely efficient and the way to 
 really know for one's self the truth of laws 
 believed heretofore to be wholly chimerical 
 and the institution of man-made religions of 
 one sort or another, is to try them out thor- 
 oughly in one's own life and watch the re- 
 sults carefully without reaching first in one's 
 own mind any foregone conclusion. 
 
 This is after all the only sane test of any 
 law of life, and by careful observation one 
 can make it for one's self in a comparatively 
 short time, without traveling far into the 
 field of investigation in any given line. 
 
 So the law of attraction, which applies so 
 accurately in the lives of countless multi- 
 tudes of human beings and which is so ably 
 exemplified by the religions of the present 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 45 
 
 age, is equally powerful and operates in 
 exactly the same degree upon the planes be- 
 yond the earth plane as in your own sphere. 
 
 Here as there thought force is the power 
 and the only power necessary to make active, 
 currents of mental energy which draw to 
 the individual always that which he seeks 
 by means of his own thought processes. 
 
 It is indeed true that the forces on this 
 side of the veil that are on a different plane 
 of unfoldment, will no more be drawn into 
 the thought current of purity and highmind- 
 edness, than that truly evolved souls upon 
 the earth plane will be found seeking expres- 
 sion through dense physical pleasures. The 
 operation of the same law attracts upon this 
 side in a similar way characters of highly 
 developed entities brought into relationship 
 with a force akin to that by which they them- 
 selves are actuated. 
 
 The result is a blending of the same 
 powers for constructive purposes. This 
 can bring only good to those who enter the 
 field of investigation with high aims and 
 with mind and heart consecrated to the 
 search after truth for truth's sake. 
 
 The effect under these conditions can be 
 only beneficent. More blessed indeed is he 
 who tries to avail himself of this great and 
 as yet unrealized wisdom than can be known 
 upon the earth plane until it is more widely 
 proved, but as time goes on and the moving 
 finger writes, it will spread more rapidly 
 
46 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 than the rays of the sun at dawn, and the 
 children of earth will wonder why they have 
 not known this simple law of communica- 
 tion since the beginning of the race. 
 
 Surely there are instances when in all 
 good faith apparently the seeker after truth 
 has found himself engulfed by alien forces, 
 and battle as he would has succumbed to 
 them for the time being, but people who in 
 utter sincerity of purpose enter into this un- 
 dertaking with prayer upon their lips and 
 sanctity in their hearts are few and far be- 
 tween, who meet with this misfortune. In 
 every instance of which I have known in 
 my entire experience, they were people who 
 found it difficult to keep the departments of 
 life in their proper relation to each other 
 under any circumstances, and who would 
 have been very likely indeed to have met 
 with a similar condition had they allowed 
 their religious convictions to carry them far 
 into any other given field of investigation. 
 
 There are many such of whom little is said 
 in other lines of sectarian endeavor and it is 
 probable that were it possible to estimate 
 the number of those who lose their sense of 
 proportion upon any subject whatsoever, es- 
 pecially those pertaining to religion, it is 
 quite likely that they would not vary much 
 in their several instances, nor would they 
 vary much in the form of their illusion. 
 
 Consequently, though there is always as 
 said before, an element of danger in all great 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 47 
 
 movements, there is in this one of such great 
 importance to the welfare of the earth 
 world, a minimum of that element and a 
 maximum of intelligent results. These go 
 far towards reconciling those who are turn- 
 ing their attention along this line of thought, 
 to the plan laid out for followers of this 
 truth in a way that cannot fail to convince 
 not only themselves but their immediate 
 world of contact of the actuality of spiritual 
 communication with their loved ones beyond 
 the veil. 
 
 Little by little the realization of the inter- 
 penetration of all worlds will become an 
 established fact, and when the knowledge is 
 universal that all denizens of higher worlds 
 than our own can avail themselves at any 
 time of the privilege they have of coming 
 into the vibrations of more dense matter 
 than the plane upon which they dwell them- 
 selves, those of us who still dwell upon the 
 earth plane to whom this great truth has 
 been revealed will hesitate to organize our 
 lives and to carry them out upon a sense 
 basis, such as has been prevalent upon earth 
 to so marked a degree that it took a world 
 war to awaken the children of earth to a 
 higher standard of living. 
 
 There will come with this knowledge a 
 deep sense of the need of making this little 
 span of life a beautiful and an ennobling 
 thing rather than a trivial and transitory 
 one, and the viewpoint of the world will be 
 
48 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 changed so much from the old world one of 
 days gone by, that it will be indeed a new 
 world and there will be a new conception of 
 heaven. 
 
 The tongues of all nations and of all 
 peoples will be more nearly one universal 
 language, and the kingdom of earth will be 
 changed to a garden of beauty resembling 
 the world beyond the veil more nearly with 
 each successive generation. 
 
 The people of earth in centuries to come 
 will look back upon the days when life was 
 not understood upon this plane to be one 
 continuous unity in harmony with all other 
 life upon all other planes, with incredulity 
 and will marvel that people could have lived 
 and died without hope and without the real- 
 ization of intercourse between the two 
 planes, as it will then be known. Sadness 
 and weeping will gradually cease from being 
 a factor of life as they are to-day, and a great 
 song will be sung in the spheres beyond the 
 ken of man, at the entrance of humanity in- 
 to its heritage of glory and of beauty, and 
 the knowledge of its kinship with all life 
 throughout eternity. 
 
 This will end our message for this morn- 
 ing. Each day finds us a little farther ad- 
 vanced with our task, and as time goes on 
 the work will be facilitated as the timidity 
 of our instrument is superceded by greater 
 strength and conviction. Some day the 
 pencil will not halt, and the message will be 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 49 
 
 unimpeded from the beginning to the end. 
 Until that time we must all have patience. 
 I thank you, dear instrument. 
 
 A Friend of the Cause." 
 
SO THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 V 
 
 Thursday, December 25th, 1919. 
 Christmas Day. 
 
 The mother speaking: 
 
 "Dear Anne, make yourself ready for the 
 Master's words of wisdom. Merry Christ- 
 mas, dearest, and many, many of them. 
 Your mother, 
 
 Emma." 
 
 "Dear child, attempt this morning to let 
 the flow of words come through your hand 
 as much as possible as if you were an instru- 
 ment for the transmission of the telegraphic 
 code, which, as you know, has nothing what- 
 ever to do with the hand which transmits it, 
 but which renders transmission possible. 
 The more easily you respond to this 
 purpose, which is that of the telegrapher in 
 every way, the more readily we will be able 
 to accomplish our task and resume our work 
 upon other planes. 
 
 We have both much important work to do 
 in connection with this matter, which per- 
 tains to other things than the writing of the 
 book alone. In the first place, there is pre- 
 paratory work to be done by you before the 
 right time will have arrived for the publica- 
 tion of the book. Like all other products in- 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 51 
 
 tended to further man's progress, it must be 
 carefully considered what means of presen- 
 tation will be the best fitted to make its in- 
 fluence far-reaching. 
 
 The publishers must be thoroughly well 
 grounded in their own hold upon the public 
 mind, so that when people upon reading the 
 book take particular note of the publishing 
 firm that produced it, they will be satisfied 
 that it comes from an authorized house and 
 one about which there can be no question as 
 to character, standing and integrity in every 
 way. This question is one of vital import- 
 ance, and one which will have to be carefully 
 considered when the time comes to take the 
 steps preliminary to publication. 
 
 To resume the subject matter of the book. 
 Yesterday upon leaving the matter of dan- 
 ger in connection with all great onward 
 movements tending to further the evolution 
 of race consciousness, it came to me that it 
 would perhaps be well to speak of the world- 
 wide effect of demoralization which has led 
 to the unscrupulous methods adopted by 
 heretofore supposedly honest and well-mean- 
 ing citizens in an effort to accumulate, while 
 there was yet time, a hoard of so-called 
 wealth upon the earth plane, to ensure them 
 in future against possible want or need of 
 any kind in a material sense. 
 
 This lust for gold is so widespread and 
 so pernicious in its effects upon the race that 
 it seems wise to speak of some of the direct 
 
52 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 results that are bound to follow in its train. 
 
 This is indeed a reaction and a back- 
 ward movement to be feared, and in this 
 case the element of fear is not misplaced. 
 If full realization could be awakened in 
 the minds of the people of earth in suf- 
 ficient numbers to combat it successfully, 
 there would be an arresting of destruc- 
 tive forces at this time which would go 
 far towards redeeming the world from the 
 old-time pillage and plunder which were 
 wont to follow the condition of war in past 
 ages, but which in the present stage of 
 man's evolution take the form of what is 
 called profiteering upon earth to-day. 
 
 It is in a word plunder or even the spoils 
 of war would perhaps be a still more accu- 
 rate term, for the man who profits from the 
 necessity of his neighbor and who is willing 
 and glad to take advantage of poverty and 
 want to the extent of making himself rich 
 thereby, does not differ in actuality, from 
 the man who, in days gone by, sometimes 
 called the Dark Ages, took it upon himself to 
 appropriate whatever was left unguarded in 
 the aftermath of war. 
 
 He used force or any other means at his 
 command, feeling it his right beyond ques- 
 tion to accept the boon of unearned riches 
 with the same willingness that he went to 
 war to defend his country and his hearth. In 
 those days, war was not supposed to be any- 
 thing more than a question of supremacy 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION S3 
 
 through the force of arms. Might was right, 
 and whoever failed to claim the spoils of ter- 
 ror and of bloodshed would have been con- 
 sidered weak and in every way unfitted for 
 actual combat upon the glorious field of bat- 
 tle. 
 
 So in these days of so-called advanced civ- 
 ilization there is a vast army of profiteers 
 who correspond in kind with the vulture-like 
 army in days gone by, which followed in the 
 wake of war, sweeping all before it, and 
 sparing none who could contribute to its 
 own personal gains in any way, and the ef- 
 fect is so colossal upon the advance of hu- 
 man achievement that words in terms of 
 earth language, are inadequate to express 
 it. 
 
 It violates the first law of progress at the 
 outset. It is the exact opposite of the law 
 of cooperation, and incites in the heart of 
 man a sense of separation from his fellows 
 which is bound to cultivate within himself 
 something very similar to the instinct within 
 the lower animals which prompts them to 
 consider all other animals their natural foes, 
 which they must either conquer or be con- 
 quered by. 
 
 Consequently the result is, that man under 
 these conditions considers all men his natu- 
 ral enemies and resorts to the means used by 
 the lesser kingdoms of life, or in other words, 
 processes of protection and 1 of aggrandize- 
 ment, which stand in the way of growth both 
 
54 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 of the individual and of the race to a degree 
 that is incalculable. 
 
 Hence the result is chaos on every hand; 
 no cooperative spirit, which is the only pos- 
 sible remedy for world strife, can possibly 
 be achieved while men combat each other 
 and are inimical to all other interests save 
 their own. Consequently there must be es- 
 tablished upon earth some sort of concep- 
 tion of the inter-relations of human interests 
 before a plan, embracing the all important 
 law of human advancement, can be made ap- 
 parent to the children of men and change 
 their present unintelligent attitude towards 
 their fellow beings into one of fellowship 
 and cooperative action. 
 
 This attitude alone will act as a corner- 
 stone upon which can be erected block by 
 block, a new understanding of the meaning 
 of life and of all processes with which the 
 race of men upon earth today is concerned. 
 
 When this new standard, which can come 
 only out of the true conception of man's re- 
 lation to man and thereby to God, is estab- 
 lished to ever so small a degree upon earth, 
 it will be bound to increase in a way that is 
 inconceivable at this place of development 
 upon the path of human progress, but true 
 it is, and time will prove the truth of this 
 statement as it proves all others. 
 
 There is nothing that can prevent the es- 
 tablishment upon earth of a new manner of 
 life and a new code of conduct, when once it 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 55 
 
 is known and thoroughly understood that all 
 life is inter-related so closely that no part 
 can be in any wise affected without affect- 
 ing the whole. 
 
 This law applies to all conditions of 
 life, both upon the earth plane and upon all 
 other planes, and when the day comes that 
 men know that they cannot injure the least 
 member of the body of consciousness with- 
 out injuring themselves they will waken 
 fully to the conviction that the age of force 
 from the material standpoint is past for 
 ever. 
 
 The knowledge that it does not avail is 
 penetrating slowly but surely the conscious- 
 ness of all men and all nations, and every- 
 where the question is being asked openly or 
 in secret, "What is spirit?" "What is this 
 unseen force that rules the world, that keeps 
 the stars in their courses and the sun in its 
 orbit, and the minor laws in action, in a way 
 that the hand of man can never stay?" 
 Which is never beheld, save as a result bear- 
 ing significant testimony in its unfailing 
 support of the righteous ending of all human 
 conflict in events of great moment, such as 
 wars and revolutions, and working with 
 corresponding power in the every-day af- 
 fairs of men and women if they think deeply 
 enough about such matters to recognize the 
 underlying laws which act always through- 
 out the progress of human affairs. 
 
 And even though the race is un- 
 
56 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 conscious of the processes by which it is 
 moved in its evolution, it always makes 
 greater headway when obedient to the 
 deeper laws which underlie all life, and which 
 direct man towards his own greatest good, 
 if he will but listen to the guidance of his 
 own inner soul through which they work. 
 
 Who can deny these promptings? There 
 is no human being at any state of unfold- 
 ment whatsoever, who can truthfully say 
 that the voice of the spirit does not speak to 
 him in secret. The children of men are apt 
 to differ widely in their definition of what is 
 meant by the term spirit, as it is used on 
 earth, but in effect they mean much the same 
 thing, whatever the method of definition 
 may be. 
 
 As time goes on, it will not be an unusual 
 thing to find that those who have been 
 wont to express a certain amount of in- 
 difference at least upon all subjects called 
 spiritual, will come to recognize the fact that 
 there is no differentiation in the term, that 
 all is spirit, varying not at all in its nature 
 or in its power; varying infinitely, however, 
 in its manifestation and bearing no resem- 
 blance to a lighted lamp to which it has ever 
 been likened set high upon a rock, guiding 
 the sailors upon the tempestuous seas of 
 earth to safe anchorage in some secluded 
 bay. 
 
 This beacon light is something from which 
 men have turned in much the same way as 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 57 
 
 from the lighthouse reefs since time immem- 
 orial. Nothing is farther from a true illus- 
 tration of spirit than the similarity, supposed 
 to exist between it and a lighted lamp, send- 
 ing out a few flickering rays upon a dark and 
 uncertain world, for the true meaning of the 
 term spirit is such that the human race at 
 its present point of evolution cannot accept 
 it in its fullness. 
 
 They only see in part and their acceptance 
 of light is only in part, but they are awaken- 
 ing to the truth of being and to the truth 
 of spiritual forces underlying all life as never 
 before, and the day is at hand when the 
 terms spiritual and material will not be dis- 
 tinct and separated as they are now, but it 
 will be recognized and accepted as a fact, 
 that all is spirit. That there is nothing else 
 and that no amount of reasoning or so-called 
 scientific research can determine action or 
 movement or vitality of any kind in any way 
 which has not its origin in the spiritual cause 
 of creation, which time alone can prove to 
 have been benign from the beginning. 
 
 Conflict, however, is a law ultimately ben- 
 eficent without which there could be no such 
 thing as creative effort on the part of the in- 
 dividual ; which means that without a strug- 
 gle for supremacy within the heart of man 
 for the survival of constructive forces over 
 the destructive forces also working in their 
 pwn way in order to produce conflict, there 
 could have been no creative energy possible 
 
58 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 £ to man. Lacking this there would have been 
 po progress, no unfoldment, only a quiescent 
 state of being and of consciousness which it 
 is apparent to all thinking men would have 
 been unbearable in its monotony and im- 
 possible to reconcile with a plan of evolution 
 demonstrated in every way and in all king- 
 doms to be one of activity, of progress, and 
 of forward movement, which could not have 
 been co-existent with inertia. 
 
 Here we come to the point so often dis- 
 cussed in the pulpit and by individuals as to 
 the question of how far free will is an asset 
 of development in the life of human beings, 
 and how far a detriment, though it is com- 
 paratively seldom that it is discussed by in- 
 telligent people from the negative side of 
 the question. 
 
 It seems as if it were quite apparent that 
 without free will there could have been no 
 conflict and without conflict no progress, 
 and so forth and so on indefinitely, but 
 right here it might be wise to say a 
 word as to the question of time as con- 
 ceived by human beings, in its bearing upon 
 the matter of free will; also upon the work- 
 ing out of the great problems of life upon all 
 planes, and its relation to the question of 
 eternal progress, as well as the progress 
 which it is possible to make in the passage 
 of a single span of life upon the plane of 
 earth. 
 
 Time is not an asset in the plan of 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 59 
 
 evolution, it is not a consideration. This one 
 learns in passing to a consciousness only 
 slightly beyond that of earth. As the indi- 
 vidual emerges from one plane of unfold- 
 ment to another higher still, he realizes that 
 he is privileged to take the eternal cycle of 
 time so-called, if he chooses, in which to 
 work out his own individual problem in his 
 own individual way. His personal problem 
 is his own, and none may solve it for him. 
 
 He may take aeons of time, if he likes, or 
 one short span of life in the earth world 
 as well as in other worlds, to accomplish the 
 same given task, but the thing which is in- 
 evitable and which must be seriously con- 
 sidered, is the fact that the task must be 
 accomplished, whatever it may be. If man 
 chooses the longer route of suffering and 
 so-called sin, and his journey is lengthened, 
 and he goes over a similar pathway beset 
 with thorns over which he- walks with bleed- 
 ing feet, unlearning and still unlearning, that 
 is his course, which he himself has chosen, 
 and none may change it, none. 
 
 Not even the power of God can alter these 
 immutable laws, for law is changeless and 
 established in the heavens. As above so 
 below; it must ever be as the individual 
 orders his own plan of unfoldment, be it 
 long or short, and the most that any one 
 given soul can do towards helping, or as he 
 may think, hastening the evolution of an- 
 other human soul, is to pass to him his own 
 
60 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 light when the one with less light finds his 
 night no longer bearable. 
 
 When the dawning soul of awakening in- 
 telligence seeks for something which he him- 
 self has not yet attained, he finds by a law at 
 the heart of life that his need is unfailingly 
 met in some way unknown to the working 
 of man's mind, but he must reach toward the 
 light himself, none other may do this for 
 him. 
 
 Here we come to the sad spectacle which 
 is witnessed over and over again upon the 
 plane of earth, of one enlightened soul at- 
 tempting fruitlessly and recurringly, with 
 unending zeal, to live or to help live the life 
 of another, when there is no such thing pos- 
 3ible, here or elsewhere, and the end is in- 
 evitable from the beginning. 
 
 Sad indeed are the results from too great 
 a love upon the plane of dense matter called 
 earth, with its laws of life and relationship, 
 so apparently a transitory thing. The very 
 fact of the brevity of life here and the utter 
 hopelessness of attaining a higher degree of 
 understanding and of ability to cope with 
 the desires of the flesh are a cause of con- 
 fusion. 
 
 Many in their turning towards spiritual 
 teaching, which will give true sustenance 
 are disheartened beyond hope because of 
 their failure to find in any church or in any 
 creed assurance which is really convinc- 
 ing as to the continuity of life and of iden- 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 61 
 
 tity, which alone can make the struggle 
 worth while, and give incentive enough to 
 life to make the never-ceasing sacrifices of 
 human existence, possible to endure. 
 
 This will be all for this morning. The 
 holy Christmas Day dawns clear and fair 
 upon earth, and the promise of a new dawn 
 spreads over the world like a mantle of 
 light, and surely it will penetrate to the dark- 
 est corners of earth, until all life upon the 
 earth plane becomes radiated with the 
 knowedge of the love of God and His won- 
 derful tenderness to the children of men. I 
 thank you, dear instrument. 
 
 A Friend of the Cause " 
 
62 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 VI 
 
 Friday, December 26, 1919. 
 
 The Mother speaking: 
 
 "Anne dear, remember you are in God's 
 keeping and you are doing His work in the 
 highest way you know. No harm can come 
 to you, because you are following the inner 
 law of your being. Let not your heart be 
 troubled; follow in the way appointed for 
 you by yourself, and all will be well, and 
 great good will come to you and to your 
 world in all ways. Goodbye, dear. Try and 
 still your own thoughts as fully as possible, 
 and become a mirror for the time being for 
 the reflection of thoughts beyond your own 
 plane of life. 
 
 Lovingly, 
 
 Mother Emma." 
 
 "Dear child of earth, you are surely tried 
 by fire in this purpose of such great im- 
 portance upon earth at this time, in the evo- 
 lution of man's consciousness. Few indeed 
 upon earth to-day are able to stand firm in 
 their own convictions of the truth of being 
 and remain unmoved by outer conditions, 
 which react always with more or less tur- 
 moil and conflict upon the minds of all in- 
 struments awaiting further knowledge and 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 63 
 
 instruction along the line of this develop- 
 ment, for the transmission of messages from 
 the world beyond the veil. 
 
 This is hard beyond conception to the 
 soul that has not been led to the point 
 of decision in accordance with this higher 
 inner law, up to the time when the 
 most supreme test confronts him: namely, 
 that of following in the old approved way 
 of his fathers or fearlessly stepping out 
 into the great field of research, hereto- 
 fore unexplored save in the few cases of 
 the seeker after truth, who could not be 
 inhibited or withheld by prejudice or fear of 
 any kind, and who taking a stand resolutely 
 and positively against all interference on the 
 part of any power whatever outside himself, 
 has claimed once and for all, his right to 
 know truth beyond all question. 
 
 He has claimed the right to know whether 
 the inner voice of guidance in the heart of 
 man leads him truly towards the fountain- 
 head of all life, all love and all truth, or 
 whether, as in the sad instance of the seeker 
 for truth in this field who finding himself 
 overcome by influences which he has in some 
 way, though quite unconsciously, allowed to 
 enter, is deterred from the attainment of 
 his goal and enmeshed in the confusing 
 forces of destruction and deceptive purposes, 
 that he did not believe existed upon the 
 earth plane or upon any other plane which 
 
64 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 he himself could contact, because of the pur- 
 ity of his purpose. 
 
 Purity of purpose has much to do with 
 the realization of high processes of devel- 
 opment in this work, but it is not all. It is 
 also necessary that the instrument be suf- 
 ficiently strong and well balanced mentally, 
 so that he is fully capable of keeping the 
 departments of life in their right relation to 
 each other and under no condition to allow 
 the matter of spiritistic investigation to be- 
 come an absorbing thing to the exclusion of. 
 other purposes and interests, which go to 
 make up a rounded and well balanced life 
 upon the earth plane. 
 
 Those who aspire to become instruments 
 of communication between the earth world 
 and the one beyond it, do well to remember 
 that they are less than useless to the cause 
 if they are unable to preserve this equili- 
 brium. 
 
 Given the aforementioned balance of 
 power in the individual, there is no more 
 danger of being overcome or obsessed, to 
 use the best-known definition of this phase 
 of confusion, than in any other intensely in- 
 teresting and absorbing subject in any field 
 of investigation or endeavor anywhere upon 
 any plane. But the fact of communica- 
 tion between the so-called "dead" and 
 ,the living, having always been regarded 
 as a matter of doubtful respectability if not 
 of danger, the consequence is that people 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 65 
 
 very generally hold to this thought them- 
 selves, and hold it powerfully over any as- 
 pirant in this field of development with the 
 result that they have just that much more 
 to combat. 
 
 In every case, high purpose is the greatest 
 protection; in the second place, mental 
 health is required, and in the third place you 
 yourself have among the friends and loved 
 ones who form a group of workers on this 
 side particularly interested in seeing you 
 progress to the point of being an expert re- 
 ceiver of messages from higher worlds, en- 
 tities of a degree of attainment and of char- 
 acter that it would be difficult to describe ac- 
 curately in terms of earth language. Suffice 
 it to say that it is the privilege of few to 
 be so surrounded and protected, even though 
 from the previously explained standpoint of 
 protection there is no need whatever. Now 
 to return to the book. 
 
 The question which we were discussing 
 yesterday at the end of the chapter was one 
 pertaining to the continuity of life and of 
 identity, as affecting the purpose of earth 
 life to an extent which it is impossible to 
 gauge. 
 
 If it were possible for the average per- 
 son, we will say, to start upon his earthly 
 career with a well-defined idea as to its 
 permanent usefulness in his own unfold- 
 ment and his realization of truth, which 
 was destined to enlarge his productiveness 
 
66 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 and his value in all ways, both as a denizen 
 of the earth world and of all succeeding 
 worlds which he would at some time inhabit, 
 is it not reasonable to suppose that all cit- 
 izenship upon the earth plane would be 
 greatly increased in its capacity for high en- 
 deavor and accomplishment, while its at- 
 tainment was possible by means of the dense 
 physical instrument which we call the ma- 
 terial body? 
 
 Does it not follow that man would pur- 
 sue less purely worldly purposes and aims 
 had he from the beginning, a definite goal 
 which led him to his own certain knowl- 
 edge to a plane of activity growing di- 
 rectly out of his endeavors in the present 
 field of labor, wherever and whatever that 
 might be? 
 
 Does it not seem wholly rational to ac- 
 cept the truth of this statement that 
 while in the dense physical body there 
 would be an increased energy in the daily 
 task which would raise the percentage of 
 efficiency from the present low rate to a 
 much higher one, more in keeping with the 
 larger prospect of final achievement, if only 
 for the definite and established fact in the 
 minds of men that the earth life was not 
 a mere fragment of accidental circumstances 
 but part of a perfected plan? A plan as yet 
 not revealed, to be sure, in its ultimate pur- 
 pose but nevertheless proving the outcome 
 of struggle and of work well done upon all 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 67 
 
 planes of existence, to mean an exact ratio 
 of return for sincerity of effort and honest 
 attainment. 
 
 It seems as if it would not be difficult for 
 the dwellers of earth to realize that much 
 of the wasted time and energy, which is a 
 matter of great regret to those who are re- 
 leased upon a higher plane of activity and 
 who understand the value of the short span 
 of time given to mortals upon this plane, 
 could be averted, if it were possible to know 
 while still in the body, the fact of connec- 
 tion between all life that has preceded the 
 earth life and all that is to follow. 
 
 It would be then impossible for any man to 
 regard himself from the accidental view- 
 point. He would be obliged to relate people 
 and conditions in some way, even if against 
 his will, and he would in all probability give 
 the matter the attention which is due the 
 question of the survival of individual entity, 
 as he has not done during the ages when man 
 has feared and deprecated every search of 
 any kind that has previously been made into 
 the truth and value of this all-important 
 subject. 
 
 First of all, it would necessitate individ- 
 ual thinking, something which is as des- 
 tined to follow the awakening consciousness 
 of man as that night follows day, and the 
 result of individual thinking along these 
 lines, once roused and in action, is impossible 
 to estimate in its effect upon the present 
 
68 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 code of modern living and its extreme frailty, 
 when it comes to the matter of facing the 
 eternal verities in any one single aspect. 
 
 The average man to-day does not wish to 
 become aware of another world than the 
 world of flesh and sense. It is enough; in a 
 certain way it gives him a feeling of satis- 
 faction to deal with one world at a time, as 
 the saying goes, yet knowing all the time 
 that really he is not satisfied; that there is 
 not realization here of any kind whatever 
 which remains in an exalted sense beyond 
 the fleeting moment of happiness, which it 
 is given to all mortals to know at some point 
 of contact in earth life as a foretaste of 
 heaven. 
 
 Take life as a whole, however, from 
 the cradle to the grave, man as man does 
 not, save in rare individual instances care to 
 concern himself with any other world than 
 the one in which he is functioning at the 
 present moment. 
 
 Many reason somewhat in the following 
 manner: 'What difference does it really 
 make? I shall know some time as we all 
 will. In the meantime it is a little more 
 pleasant and secure to think that if after all 
 there is no such thing as the continuity of 
 the individual, and no one has proven that 
 there is so far, then I will have drained the 
 cup of pleasure upon earth to its dregs. 
 I will not have missed in the physical life 
 the enjoyment of the senses, which I might 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 69 
 
 have found less satisfying had my conscience 
 been more active and troublesome than it is 
 with my present code of living as a guide 
 in the ordering of daily life from a less exact- 
 ing plan of conduct/ 
 
 Truly many men on earth to-day come 
 under this head, who accomplish much that 
 is worth while and who put tremendous 
 energy and active purpose into all their pur- 
 suits in the phases of life through which they 
 pass. 
 
 They would be shocked indeed were 
 they to realize that this very attitude of 
 mind, accepted by such countless numbers 
 of citizens of good standing all over the 
 world, was the very thing which bound them 
 to the processes of physical life recurringly 
 and unendingly, until the soul in turmoil 
 and tempest turns from the various vicissi- 
 tudes occasioned by loss and grief upon the 
 earth plane to the inner spirit of guidance, 
 to be found within each human heart, and 
 asks humbly and in utter sincerity for guid- 
 ance into the light of higher understanding. 
 
 Then only will the answer come showing 
 the path to peace and happiness to have been 
 always at his command, but revealing also 
 the fact that no truth is revealed to man 
 save by the processes of his own seeking. 
 When the first revelation of this law is made 
 known to man, he realizes that the rest lies 
 with himself, that he is his own arbiter as 
 
70 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 to the course forever after that he shall 
 pursue. 
 
 He also awakens to the inevitableness 
 of ultimate choice, realizing once and for 
 all that the destiny of the children of 
 earth and all other worlds is an important 
 one, that nothing can stay this purpose 
 and that all conform in the passing of time 
 to the laws of growth and unfoldment. He 
 also knows that the sooner rnan seeks the 
 spiritual kingdom, the less his period of 
 travail upon earth, and the more swift his 
 release upon planes of greater attainment 
 and activity, than the one he knows as the 
 plane of earth. 
 
 When this knowledge is disseminated 
 among men, and the children of earth little 
 by little take up their definite tasks with 
 the sense of having a lesson of paramount 
 importance embracing many phases of un- 
 foldment by means of which they are carry- 
 ing out their part of the whole purpose of 
 creation, it is reasonable to believe that there 
 will be upon the earth plane an increase 
 in the quality of thinking about the so-called 
 spiritual laws, which will result in a tre- 
 mendously intensified power of accomplish- 
 ment and a great release from the hamper- 
 ing fetters of prejudice in connection with 
 the whole subject of psychic investigation. 
 
 First of all, it would soon be known how 
 simple and natural a function the law of 
 communication between the two worlds 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 71 
 
 really was, and instead of regarding the 
 whole question as one fraught with terror 
 and with mystery because of its being a 
 matter pertaining to the invisible world, the 
 children of earth would marvel at its sim- 
 plicity and also that they could have lived 
 so long and not known this truth of life when 
 it was so possible to be known and had been 
 from the beginning. 
 
 Suppose, for a moment, by way of illus- 
 tration, that there was in every home or 
 virtually so an instrument who was willing 
 for the sake of all to dedicate himself 
 to the purpose of this investigation, tak- 
 ing the direct method of proving to his 
 own entire satisfaction whether the mat- 
 ter of communication between the plane 
 of earth and the one beyond the veil was a 
 fallacious theory or indeed a probable truth ; 
 that he should consecrate himself to this 
 purpose in the highest sense of which he 
 was capable. The condition is also implied 
 £hat the aspirant must possess high aims and 
 pure processes of thought as a first require- 
 ment; added to that a well-balanced mind 
 and the capacity to keep the departments of 
 life well related, so that none infringe upon 
 another, thereby ensuring in the beginning a 
 groundwork of substantial value upon which 
 the structure of transmission could be suc- 
 cessfully built and we could then proceed to 
 the point where the applicant for this high 
 
72 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 stewardship would be able to make the test 
 of truth for himself. 
 
 Above all, the instrument must make him- 
 self free from worldly confusion and inter- 
 fering interests for the time being and 
 humbly and quietly prepare his own mind 
 for the reception of thought from a plane of 
 life he believes to be existent, and higher than 
 his own. The next thing is to realize that 
 all things are possible to those who love God 
 (Good) and that the revelation of so great 
 importance which his certain knowledge of 
 the intercourse between the two worlds 
 would be to him, is no greater than revela- 
 tions that have been made before in all ages, 
 but which have fallen upon stony ground 
 and have failed to bring forth fruit. 
 
 That the revelations have nevertheless 
 come since the beginning of man's passage 
 through matter in individualized form is a 
 point it is well for the instrument to bear in 
 mind, for the more he realizes that he is 
 merely a transmitter of truth that is ageless 
 and changeless, the more apt he will be to 
 become impersonal in his own mental atti- 
 tude, and the higher the form of communi- 
 cation he will be able to receive. 
 
 These conditions which have to do with 
 the carrying out of the actual transmission 
 of communications are of importance in this 
 order; first, sincerity of purpose; secondly, 
 protection from even the thought of alien in- 
 fluences, so-called, by the quality of one's 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 73 
 
 desires and the wish to help others besides 
 one's self to the conviction of immortality, 
 and thirdly, freedom from the curiously ex- 
 perimental attitude of mind. 
 
 This attitude of mind is in itself a deter- 
 rent influence, and usually does not proceed 
 beyond a first faint effort which lasts only 
 long enough to tire the aspirant and call 
 forth antagonism and criticism of the sub- 
 ject in all its phases, in a way that is bound 
 to injure the cause so dear to mankind and 
 to those who have passed beyond the veil, 
 and reacts against all progress in this direc- 
 tion to a greater degree than can be calcu- 
 lated. 
 
 Let no man approach the sacred place of 
 instrumentality, which must exist to make 
 communication possible, save with sincerity 
 and high purpose in his heart, as he will 
 better serve the purposes of creation and 
 of evolution to remain in the old ways of 
 thinking and do less harm to the cause if 
 he keeps open-minded upon the subject and 
 willing to be convinced, though not active 
 in the pursuit of knowledge, than to enter 
 upon a mission so high in its purpose that it 
 can only be attempted by the truly pure in 
 heart without retarding the progress of the 
 greatest number, which must always be con- 
 sidered. 
 
 By the term "pure in heart," it should 
 not be taken that none but the ecclesias- 
 tically minded are supposed to come under 
 
74 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 this head by any means. It indicates only 
 that the aspirant shall himself be sure of 
 his own integrity of purpose; that he shall 
 exact of himself the full assurance that he 
 is truly endeavoring to accomplish his task 
 in the spirit of faith in the unseen world of 
 so-called spirit. 
 
 He should believe in the beneficence 
 to mankind of the overruling law of 
 love, which governs the children of men, 
 if it can be revealed beyond question and 
 all shadow of doubt, that direct commun- 
 ion with our loved ones in a world beyond 
 the plane of earth is not only possible but 
 desirable, and that it has been the purpose 
 of a benign force actuating life in individ- 
 ual form from the beginning, that love 
 should find its own upon all planes of con- 
 sciousness. 
 
 He should hope that the day will 
 dawn when all worlds will become con- 
 scious that they interrelate, since there 
 is no such thing as distance or as past and 
 future from the standpoint of time, once the 
 individualized ego is released from the phy- 
 sical body and enters into a larger vision of 
 life than it is possible to comprehend while 
 still upon the plane of dense matter called 
 the earth world. 
 
 This, then, is not so difficult after all, and 
 there will be found people who from time to 
 time all over the earth's surface have reached 
 a point of inner conviction as to the truth 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 75 
 
 of immortality and who will not only prove 
 unquestionably to themselves but to their 
 own world of contact that all life is a unified 
 and glorious purpose without the element of 
 so-called accident and chance, so greatly 
 misunderstood and misrepresented upon 
 earth, but a holy, beautiful unfoldment of 
 the infinite quality of the Creator of all 
 worlds and of all life. 
 
 Little by little the reasons for struggle and 
 for suffering will become so clearly under- 
 stood that there will be far less bitterness 
 and complaint in the world than now, and 
 there will be a fuller realization of the move- 
 ment on the earth plane to-day towards re- 
 construction. In all departments of human 
 and national life, the terror of unprincipled 
 power working against the interests of the 
 masses, will be turned by means of spiritual 
 alchemy into a process of achievement des- 
 tined to bring about the good of the whole, 
 as over against the good of the individual, 
 in a way impossible to believe or even to 
 conceive at the present state of man's un- 
 foldment upon the path of progress to-day. 
 
 This will end our chapter for this morning. 
 To-morrow we will pursue the process of 
 approach to revelation in the personal sense 
 a little further before leaving it for other 
 subjects of enlightenment. The matter is one 
 of paramount importance and cannot be 
 handled with too much care in detail in order 
 to insure to all who read this book the fullest 
 
76 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 knowledge of the subject before entering 
 the field of investigation to establish the fact 
 of communication with a plane of life beyond 
 the one of earth. 
 
 I thank you, dear instrument. This has 
 been the longest and the most satisfactory 
 transmission up to the present time. 
 
 With salutations. 
 
 A Friend of the Cause/' 
 
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 VII 
 
 Saturday, December 27th, 1919. 
 
 The Mother speaking: 
 
 "Dear Anne, Follow our instructions of 
 yesterday. Approach this work with con- 
 fidence of its accomplishment with ease and 
 facility and all will be well. 
 
 Your loving Mother, 
 
 Emma." 
 
 "Dear child, we hope as time goes on to 
 make this task which at present is more or 
 less arduous to you, one of pleasure and in- 
 terest so that the transcription of messages 
 through your hand will become a thing of 
 slight physical effort and nothing more. 
 When you cease the activity of your own 
 thoughts enough to become a truly quies- 
 cent instrument through which another 
 force can work, it will greatly expedite the 
 completion of the book, and hasten the ul- 
 timate purpose which we are jointly serving. 
 
 To return to the subject matter. Yes- 
 terday upon leaving our task for the day we 
 were at the point of constructing a basis of 
 approach on the part of the aspirant to the 
 place of transmitter between the two worlds 
 to the actual ability to sit down with pencil 
 in hand and receive the thoughts of others 
 
78 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 in another realm of existence, accurately 
 and well, so that there will be no further 
 need of seeking outside the home circle for 
 communication between the members of the 
 family upon earth and those who have passed 
 beyond it. 
 
 Little by little as confidence is established 
 in this very simple proceeding and more and 
 more devoted students espouse the cause, 
 there will be an increased activity in the gen- 
 eral direction of seeking for the truth of life 
 and of the important question of immor- 
 tality, until the time comes when there will 
 be no longer an attitude of scornful forbear- 
 ance upon the subject, but it will be eagerly 
 reached for by countless men and women 
 who now believe such an idea to be the re- 
 sult of disordered thinking on the part of 
 any adherent to so-called spiritistic theories. 
 
 As time goes on it will also be found 
 that the methods so widely adopted among 
 the advocates of spiritual intercourse up to 
 the present day will slowly but surely be 
 done away with. Even the followers of the 
 old methods of establishing some means of 
 communication, whatever it might be, ma- 
 terial or otherwise, will themselves realize 
 that there is a higher and a far more uni- 
 versal way. 
 
 The true spiritist, whatever his walk 
 in life may have been, will be the first 
 to lay down his old methods in favor of 
 the new, and will unfurl his banner on the 
 
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 side of the widespread movement to con- 
 vince the world that communication between 
 mortals and the inhabitants of the plane 
 beyond the veil is not an unnatural pheno- 
 menon confined to any one class or sect, or 
 in any way a matter of selection, but is the 
 human birthright awaiting only to be 
 claimed. 
 
 Here again we recognize the working of 
 the law of demand and supply, which con- 
 trols all worlds upon all planes of life. There 
 can be no supply in the real sense of the 
 word without a reaching towards it in some 
 way, even if not apparent on the part of the 
 individual. 
 
 True it is that many people on earth 
 to-day are unfamiliar with the law of 
 demand and supply, but it is being constantly 
 recognized by an increasing number and the 
 time is not far distant when the world will 
 attend to this most important inquiry on 
 the part of the questioning masses because it 
 confronts it in so widespread a way that it is 
 impossible to evade the issue. 
 
 The thinkers in all classes will be forced 
 to study into the movements of the day in 
 which they live in order to keep anything 
 like an equal pace with the mass movement 
 which had its beginning in the causes and 
 the results of the world war not yet ended. 
 These causes and results will in time to 
 come, be looked upon as a beneficent mani- 
 festation of the law of progress and spirit- 
 
80 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 ual unf oldment, rather than merely the curse 
 and terrible consummation of lust and greed 
 of material power, presumably the active 
 force in having brought about this great con- 
 flict. 
 
 Now to go back to the matter of prepara- 
 tion which is required of the true aspirant 
 to become a transmitter of knowledge and 
 of consolation from the world beyond the 
 veil. First of all as before stated he must 
 be high in purpose and lacking in the desire 
 to gratify the natural curiosity of man upon 
 this unknown subject, and also recognize 
 his obligation to his own higher self and to 
 the best in the race consciousness which 
 reaches for this truth in its real significance, 
 else he will fail. 
 
 He will even lay himself liable to a 
 confusion of ideas upon the subject, which 
 will forever during the rest of his phy- 
 sical life upon earth render him unable 
 to become convinced of anything con- 
 structive or helpful in regard to the subject 
 on account of his own ineffectual efforts 
 along the same line of investigation. 
 
 There is no proof to the individual in any 
 line so wholly convincing as the fruit of his 
 own investigation. There can be no com- 
 parison made between the attitude of mind 
 a man will hold towards any subject what- 
 soever (about which there is a great dif- 
 ference of opinion) which he himself has 
 explored to his own entire satisfaction 
 
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 and the attitude of the man who looks on 
 and even credulously attempts to follow his 
 friend's effort to convince him of the same 
 given thing. His friend may be just as well 
 prepared to pass on actual knowledge as any 
 one else but no man is so fully convinced 
 of any truth in that way. 
 
 That is why the increase in the move- 
 ment is so dependent on the increase in 
 the number of volunteers who prove them- 
 selves eventually to be fitted for the 
 task of transcription and who find that 
 this law is as actual in its working pro- 
 cesses as the law of gravitation or any other 
 well-known physical law, only it has never 
 been fully understood. 
 
 Consequently, it could not up to this time 
 become general knowledge. The so-called 
 "proof" of all things registering in the sphere 
 of dense matter is something which most 
 people feel must be attested to only by means 
 of some physical sense, such as sight, hear- 
 ing or touch or any one of the given five. 
 Few there are who realize that the func- 
 tioning of the processes of the brain of the 
 individual is a matter which carries in its 
 train all the possibilities of discovery and 
 of successful research that could be asked 
 for by the most exacting type of man on 
 earth to-day. 
 
 Within its scope not only as an instru- 
 ment for the registration of daily events 
 and the stored-up knowledge covering 
 
82 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 the brief span of earth life, there is 
 also the so-called subconscious strata. 
 About this subject so much is being said and 
 written these days that it sometimes makes 
 the dwellers upon other planes, released to 
 a greater field of activity and wider vision 
 feel that it is a stupendous task indeed to re- 
 veal to man the sublimity of the subject 
 covered for the sake of making speech intel- 
 ligible between all worlds, by the term sub- 
 conscious mind. 
 
 It is wholly beyond the power of 
 earth speech to convey in anything like 
 intelligible terms the vast significance 
 of the phrase subconscious mind. Those 
 who have passed to a more revealed 
 state of being, realize this truth within a 
 comparatively short space of time and try 
 to deal with it much as they attempt to cope 
 with the thought of eternity, something 
 which the mind of man in any individual- 
 ized form upon any plane, at the present 
 point of evolution in the history of creative 
 achievement, cannot grasp nor if he is wise 
 does he attempt to do so. 
 
 Surely it is too great a subject to deal 
 with except in the most contributory sense 
 in the compiling of this volume for the en- 
 lightenment of its readers along the line of 
 spiritual law governing communication be- 
 tween the worlds of matter and of spirit, as 
 they are called. 
 
 Suffice it to say that when the time comes 
 
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 upon earth that the least ray of real light 
 becomes visible to man upon this great sub- 
 ject, there will have been attained an 
 established order in regard to the sequence 
 pi all life, the following out of established 
 principles governing the relations of all 
 worlds to each other and of the inhabitants 
 of all spheres, which is at this time impos- 
 sible to convey in terms of earth language 
 or in the language of any other world, re- 
 moved by aeons of time and evolution from 
 the world of dense matter, called earth. 
 
 The attempts upon earth to solve the 
 problems of universal significance reaching 
 in their bearing upon life to all forms of life 
 and every existent part of God's universe 
 is one of the sad spectacles to men 
 and women released to a plane of larger 
 vision, and who thereby comprehend the 
 difficulty confronting the pursuit of the 
 cause of life and the subsequent errors which 
 follow the purely mental conception of the 
 origin of the species. 
 
 This attitude is more often than not 
 accepted by the most brilliant thinkers 
 and has been in all ages. The futil- 
 ity which confronts the seeker along the 
 line of mental attainment alone ignoring 
 the power of what is called spirit, which is 
 rejected by the thinker as spurious and a 
 most misleading and unauthorized force, is 
 the most difficult problem with which the 
 
84 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 denizens of other worlds are faced in their 
 attempt to reach the, plane of earth. 
 
 From the standpoint of the revelation of 
 great spiritual truths important above all 
 else to the manifestation of a higher form of 
 life and achievement in the world of sense 
 to-day, we are at times convened for the 
 purpose of working out a method which will 
 combat the thinking man's processes over 
 and against the general level of the thought 
 processes of the mass mind. 
 
 If the approach to earth could be made by- 
 means of the arms of advanced mental de- 
 velopment being laid down first of all, the 
 rest of the battle for the conquest of earth 
 and its conviction as to the fact of interrela- 
 tion and communication between the two 
 worlds, would be small indeed compared to 
 what is before us now in the field of scienti- 
 fic antagonism to the subject of spiritistic 
 research in all its phases. 
 
 Truly the task which lies ahead is one 
 which all devout followers of any and 
 all creeds embracing the quality of faith in 
 the power of spirit, as an all-ruling force in 
 the worlds throughout space, should unite 
 to accomplish, as well as to overcome the 
 wave of scepticism and unbelief which fol- 
 lows in the wake of war as surely as the sea 
 responds to the pulse of the tide. 
 
 There should be no effort spared in the 
 consecration to this work on the part of all 
 mortals to whom has been vouchsafed suffi- 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 85 
 
 cient light upon this subject, so that they 
 are able to be of service to their fellow-men, 
 and lift their world of contact as they pass 
 through the battlefield of human endeavor 
 at this time. 
 
 There has never been a time in the 
 history of man when he has been so 
 torn and so uncertain as to which way he 
 should turn and which side he should join 
 as to his future allegiance from the stand- 
 point of the constructive or the destructive 
 forces of life as in the period which followed 
 immediately the cessation of actual war- 
 fare in Europe at the signing of the armis- 
 tice over a year ago. 
 
 There is far more at stake in the affairs 
 of men and nations than is conceived 
 of upon earth to-day and a checking 
 up of individual effort on one side or the 
 other must be faced as time goes on. There 
 is no possible alternative under the present 
 conditions of extreme moment to the race. 
 
 Now as not again in a cycle of many thou- 
 sands of years may the individual choose 
 for himself whether he will follow the forces 
 which are deterring the forward movement 
 of the race and holding it back in the con- 
 sciousness of past ages or turn towards the 
 constructive movement of the day. This 
 forward movement is leading all men if they 
 will but heed the voice of inner guidance to 
 the light of understanding and glorious 
 
86 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 achievement, which is possible upon the 
 earth plane to-day, as never before. 
 
 The individual teacher of spiritual revela- 
 tion has thousands upon thousands ready 
 and waiting to follow the call of the voice 
 of the spirit wherever it can be heard upon 
 earth. To those to whom revelation comes, 
 there is no other course than to pass on the 
 light of the new day and to strengthen the 
 conviction of a new purpose and a powerful 
 incentive to new lines of conduct which come 
 out of living in a greatly changed and in- 
 creased sense, for of those who have the 
 light to give much is required. 
 
 They must hold the torch until that time 
 comes when the day dawns in fullness and 
 the light of knowledge floods the earth with 
 an effulgence not of this world and people 
 turn towards its radiance with gladness in 
 the heart which cannot now be known, but 
 which will regenerate the world of sense in 
 a way not yet possible to reveal. 
 
 Few indeed will be able to accept the truth 
 of immortality and of intercommunication 
 between the two worlds without a more or 
 less bitter struggle within their own souls. 
 
 Strange as it may seem the mind of man 
 refuses to accept the thought of actual con- 
 tinuance in individualized form of the per- 
 sonal identity which also inhabited the earth 
 world before transition, without a great deal 
 of resistance. It is preached and it is held 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 87 
 
 theoretically to be true, but it is not really 
 believed. 
 
 Since no man has yet come back in 
 form perceptible to sense as it functioned 
 upon the earth plane, it is beyond proof, 
 therefore in truth beyond belief. Yet count- 
 less people assure themselves and others that 
 they believe in the continuity of life. They 
 think themselves that they do, but if this is 
 so why the mourning in the prolonged sense 
 which follows death so-called and why the, 
 fear? 
 
 If it were truly so that mortals be- 
 lieve, actually believe, in the continuity of 
 life and of identity, they would not think 
 more of the parting caused by death than 
 they do of the separation upon earth caused 
 by the divergence of paths which makes it 
 necessary for the time being but about which 
 they are far from inconsolable, knowing full 
 well there will be a day of reunion and of 
 rejoicing. 
 
 It should be similar in its effect upon the 
 human mind to think of death if humans 
 really believed in the reunion with their 
 loved ones, when they too have passed 
 beyond the veil of sense, but they do not. 
 
 This is an established fact, generally 
 speaking, and it is why human life is robbed 
 of so great an amount of value from the eco- 
 nomic standpoint of time and from the far 
 more important standpoint of the banish- 
 ment from the heart of man of the element 
 
05 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 of fear and shadow, which haunts the path- 
 way of earth life from the beginning to the 
 end, and which if dispelled would add to the 
 sum total of human happiness and achieve- 
 ment greater intensity and balance of power 
 than can possibly be realized. 
 
 With the fact of the continuity of life 
 established upon earth, it would not be pos- 
 sible to estimate the increase in usefulness, 
 to say nothing of joy and peace in the attain- 
 ment of human ideals or the consequent 
 raising of the standards of perfection and 
 the sum total of effort upon all fields of 
 expression. 
 
 Endeavor would be greatly intensified 
 by this attainment if only for the reason 
 that unbelief in this world has its natural 
 reaction in other worlds beyond it for no 
 man liveth to himself alone. The intricate 
 alliance of individual and even world life 
 is such that grief upon one plane causes its 
 counterpart upon another and yet another, 
 and there can be no such thing as detached 
 relationship upon any plane of life. 
 
 All life being interrelated so closely and 
 space being a term designating so little to 
 the more highly developed consciousness 
 than that of the earth race to-day, it is 
 impossible to affect one world in ever so 
 slight a measure without affecting all 
 others as well. As the one is elevated 
 and developed to a higher plane of under- 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 89 
 
 standing, so all worlds are raised in the plan 
 of creation in that exact measure. 
 
 If only a few in each generation realize the 
 significance of universality in this compre- 
 hending sense, it helps the race consciousness 
 along just that much and the more to whom 
 this truth can be imparted, the greater the 
 development of all life in all phases of evo- 
 lution. 
 
 True it is that this concept seems stag- 
 gering in its application to any one unit or 
 individual but it is nevertheless a great truth 
 and when we realize the importance of each 
 human life over and against the old idea of 
 insignificance in the sight of God, when we 
 know that what we are is of value, not only 
 to our immediate world of contact but to the 
 whole as well, we are bound to attach far 
 more importance to our own individual de- 
 velopment. 
 
 We then do our part with renewed 
 power and a greater sense of responsi- 
 bility than can be possible to the man or 
 woman who still belives in an unrelated uni- 
 verse and chaotic conditions both above and 
 below. There is either law and order 
 throughout all space or there is none. 
 
 Few indeed there be in this age who really 
 believe in chaos, it is true. On the other 
 hand it is rare to find the man who definitely 
 takes a stand for truth, for truth's sake with- 
 out fear in his heart of the opinion of other 
 men, or groups of men, but who stands firm 
 
90 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 in his own convictions of truth as revealed 
 to him through his own search for know- 
 ledge, and who passes his light on at all times 
 to those who turn to him for help. These 
 are the true friends of the cause of enlight- 
 enment upon earth. This will end the trans- 
 cription for to-day. 
 
 Do not become discouraged, dear instru- 
 ment. The tide is not always with us, it is 
 sometimes against us, and we must learn to 
 do battle when there is need, but you are 
 making a good fight and in the end you will 
 win. I thank you. 
 
 A Friend of the Cause/' 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 91 
 
 VIII 
 
 Sunday, December 28th, 1919. 
 
 "Dear Anne, be sure and follow out our 
 previous instructions as nearly as you can 
 for if you are careful to relax from the be- 
 ginning and, as the Master says, make only 
 physical effort, you will find the process less 
 fatiguing and eventually one of pleasure and 
 interest, deepening interest as the book ad- 
 vances in its unfoldment. 
 
 Love, dear, always, 
 
 from 
 
 Mother Emma." 
 
 "Dear instrument, we approach the task 
 this morning with renewed strength and 
 vigour as a result of the overcoming of the 
 difficulties which beset us yesterday, for it 
 was surely a matter of distinct achievement 
 for you to have counteracted the processes 
 of your own mind which at one time bid fair 
 to make it necessary to lay aside our work 
 until another day. 
 
 This morning, however, it is quite dif- 
 ferent and despite the fact of a few rip- 
 ples upon the surface of your thought 
 processes which are not perceptible to you — 
 the prospect is good and I think the message 
 will be productive of results very much 
 worth while. 
 
92 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 Try and remember that if you can 
 keep the pencil in motion, even if there 
 should be an erroneous term used now and 
 then which could be easily corrected after- 
 wards, it helps far more than to stop and 
 ponder, for that starts independent action 
 of the brain which I in turn have to counter- 
 act. Now to the book once more. 
 
 We were speaking yesterday of the 
 matter of the inclination of the individual 
 away from the subject of investigation as to 
 the continuity of life, and the preservation 
 of the personal equation after so-called 
 death. 
 
 It is interesting to note that from 
 an experimental standpoint on this side of 
 .the veil we have often proven to our own 
 complete satisfaction the fact that incredu- 
 lity upon this subject is an established thing 
 upon the earth plane, and one which it is 
 all but impossible to eradicate, save in indi- 
 vidual instances. Even those are accom- 
 plished only by the most persistent and 
 loving efforts and in comparatively few in- 
 stances does the knowledge become really 
 knowledge to them. There is still in almost 
 every case an element of the conjectural 
 about it. 
 
 This is true even of people who have 
 evidence heaped high on the positive 
 side of corroboration in connection with 
 events in a given life, for instance, which 
 could not under any circumstances have been 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 93 
 
 known to but two parties, one still upon the 
 earth plane and one beyond the veil. Yet 
 every sort of reasoning process possible to 
 the one still upon the earth plane is resorted 
 to, to account for what is commonly called 
 phenomena in order to dispense with the 
 possibility that it is really only accounted 
 for upon the simple grounds of spiritistic 
 communication between the two worlds of 
 sense and spirit. 
 
 The reason for this is that all men 
 deep down in their own inner being 
 think that if communion between the worlds 
 were really so simple a thing, it would have 
 been known upon earth before; that it is 
 impossible that anything of such great im- 
 port should be revealed to him instead of to 
 his fellows and he establishes in his mind a 
 reason of some kind which accounts for the 
 manifestation of communication not being 
 valid. 
 
 He tries as a rule to keep the whole 
 matter in the background of his mind as 
 much as possible. Then, too, he has always 
 the lurking fear in his heart which haunts 
 so many children of earth that danger be- 
 sets this pathway on every side and that the 
 machinations of the so-called devil are ap- 
 parent in the least whisper from the voices 
 of those whom we have loved and lost to 
 sense. 
 
 He thinks that in order to retain his 
 position as an orderly and respected citizen 
 
94 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 on the plane where he is living his earthly 
 life, he would better pay all his attention to 
 matters pertaining to this same earth world, 
 which is after all so comfortable and dear 
 in many of its aspects in spite of its woes 
 and keep to the old adage "One world at a 
 time." 
 
 This is a sort of slogan in connection with 
 the questions pertaining to psychical re- 
 search in all its phases, just as in war it is 
 supposedly the thing to keep to the study 
 and the advancement of one battle or one 
 manoeuvre at a time, rather than to try at 
 any one given time to project one's thought 
 too far ahead as to the solution of the whole 
 process of war and its ultimate effect upon 
 history. 
 
 The wise commander does more com- 
 prehensive surveying of the whole in so 
 far as he can grasp it, than is generally 
 known. Few victories indeed would have 
 been attained by means of a lesser scope on 
 the part of the one in command over all the 
 troops upon the battle-field if the vision was 
 not far-reaching and the power to analyze 
 the situation far beyond the significance 
 of a day's work. 
 
 Although this is an ineffectual paral- 
 lel and cannot be likened to the view- 
 point which could reasonably be held by 
 any thinking individual in connection 
 with the question of life in its permanent 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 95 
 
 sense, still the two relative subjects have 
 their points in common. 
 
 The soldier does his part in obeying the 
 highest law he knows, which is the com- 
 mand of his superior officer. We in turn 
 are placed in very much the same position, 
 only from the standpoint of spiritual un- 
 foldment there is no superior officer save 
 that court of truth within the human soul 
 which adjusts for the individual the differ- 
 ing conflicts of daily life and of moral 
 struggle if he will but permit it to do so. 
 
 As he goes on in life, learning each day to 
 turn within for guidance, he slowly but 
 surely becomes convinced that the only way 
 to light and to the understanding of life 
 from a higher standpoint than he has pre- 
 viously known is to follow the instinct which 
 prompts him ever and with increasing power 
 as he listens to this means of guidance until 
 that hour strikes when he can trust it utterly 
 and without misgiving. 
 
 From that day there is an' indication 
 to all the world of contact which he 
 touches in passing that this man or 
 woman as the case may be has undergone 
 some process of achievement, which is not 
 known to others, and they at once begin to 
 wonder what the change may be and if there 
 is a way in which this truth or light may 
 not be passed to them as well. 
 
 One such life is a great stimulus to all life 
 which it contacts in any way and countless 
 
96 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 instances of this kind may be found among 
 Christian Scientists to-day. This is espe- 
 cially true whenever the person concerned 
 has previously been difficult in his or her 
 relationships with other people, and in many 
 cases the change is so marked as to cause 
 wide-spread comment and countless con- 
 jectural opinions on the part of the co- 
 workers as to the cause and the probability 
 or rather improbability of the change being 
 a lasting one. 
 
 In some instances the improvement, the 
 almost miraculous change from a fractious, 
 fault-finding type of man, we will say for 
 purposes of illustration, into a helpful, con- 
 siderate companion or instructor of some 
 kind, is so stupefying in its effect upon people 
 who have had no previous experience of the 
 marvelous effect of the law of love and 
 truth operating upon earth in its natural and 
 harmonizing fashion, that it is beyond the 
 power of speech to express it adequately. 
 
 In consequence the less the comment of a 
 critical nature which follows this condition 
 constantly increasing upon the earth plane 
 and exhibiting itself in most unexpected 
 places, in most unlooked-for ways regardless 
 of race, creed, kind or color, and bearing 
 with it an increase of goodwill and brother- 
 hood upon earth, the value of which it is 
 impossible to estimate. 
 
 This great movement to-day is being re- 
 garded by many thinking people wholly out- 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 97 
 
 side the fold of Christian Science followers 
 themselves as a fact with which it is well to 
 reckon and countless doctors and men of 
 science in different lines have given to the 
 subject far more study and attention than 
 they would care to have made public. 
 
 Taken as a class these people who in a 
 sense are onlookers and would call them- 
 selves open-minded observers are not unim- 
 pressed by the advance of this line of thought 
 by any means and many reasons are offered 
 for its acceptance by what they would call a 
 highly intelligent class of people from any 
 other standpoint. 
 
 Some of these reasons are interesting 
 and amusing, and some come very near 
 to being the true reason for the wide- 
 spread favor with which Christian Science 
 is received by millions of children dwelling 
 upon the earth plane to-day. 
 
 One of the most amusing theories, which 
 is offered by the man who rejects Christian 
 Science as impossible of acceptance, and its 
 followers not far removed from aberration 
 in the minds of all sane thinkers, is the one 
 which puts forth the claim that when 
 people speak of science it can deal only 
 with matter and with force, which it is pos- 
 sible to know something about from the 
 standpoint of actual knowledge. Therefore 
 the term Christian Science is in itself a mis- 
 nomer as no one could possibly connect the 
 word Science with the matter of religion, for 
 
98 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 the two are as removed as the sea and the 
 sky, and there could be no relation between 
 them at any point. 
 
 So he discards it at the outset without 
 more than a statement pertaining to its 
 utter unfeasibility and turns to matters 
 more worthy of his own attention, leav- 
 ing the question of religion in all its 
 phases to a different type of mind than his 
 own, glorying in the fact that he is engaged 
 with affairs of far greater importance and 
 glad that he is not a weakling to whom mat- 
 ters called spiritual are of paramount signi- 
 ficance. 
 
 It is enough for him to safeguard hu- 
 man life in the span which exists here and 
 now in the physical body. With this matter 
 he is greatly concerned, but in his heart he 
 sometimes wonders if after all the seekers 
 of spiritual truth so-called have not the ad- 
 vantage in a world so fraught with mystery. 
 
 He also wonders at times at the action of 
 natural law upon the plane which we wit- 
 ness in its daily working and to which we 
 become only too well accustomed for it to 
 cause us the least sense of awe or even of 
 particular interest. 
 
 He thinks of how we accept the law 
 of birth and growth from the human 
 standpoint as well as that of all the 
 lesser kingdoms, how it ceases almost alto- 
 gether to cause any feeling of wonder con- 
 cerning the working of laws not yet under- 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 99 
 
 stood any more than the so-called spiritual 
 laws. Yet we accept them as easily as we 
 breathe and function on the physical plane, 
 which is in every way as miraculous as the 
 continued functioning upon another plane 
 differing from this one little save in the 
 rapidity of its vibration, rendering it for that 
 reason impossible of perception by the 
 human being still vibrating at a lower rate 
 himself. 
 
 He therefore assumes that whatever 
 he cannot perceive by means of the five 
 senses of being upon the plane where he him- 
 self exists, cannot exist upon any other. In 
 this way he satisfies himself for the most 
 part, but he has his dim moments when he 
 wonders if he is right and who will in the 
 long run turn out to be the weakling after 
 all. This attitude of mind is never wholly 
 revealed, however, to his most intimate com- 
 panions, hardly indeed to himself. 
 
 However, to continue with the reasons 
 which are offered by the opposition to all 
 the newer forms of religious attitudes of 
 mind to-day, there is another which is in- 
 teresting and has some foundation for being. 
 It is the reason often used to prevent people 
 from allying themselves with any church 
 outside the old established order because in 
 so doing the morale of the masses is weak- 
 ened, and if the power of the body of the 
 church wanes in the land, the result would 
 indeed be lamentable. 
 
100 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 None realize even by making special 
 mental effort what the life of any na- 
 tion would become without the influence 
 of the church at its heart and with- 
 out its influence to counteract all power 
 from the standpoint of destructive forces 
 were it for one day removed from the inner 
 and public life of man. The conception is 
 too difficult of attainment and should not 
 be attempted if only for the sake of energy 
 uselessly wasted in the process. 
 
 The Church will stand, of that there 
 has never been question, but that the in- 
 terpretation of truth and the word of 
 God, as it is called, should change is as 
 inevitable as that in the present age men 
 travel by all modes of locomotion over 
 and against the caravan of ancient days. As 
 inevitably as they now accept the reality of 
 thought waves as demonstrated by the Mar- 
 coni system of establishing a registering 
 point for the receiving of thought waves, 
 just so surely is the time coming when 
 thought transference will no longer be looked 
 upon as a matter of mysterious and even 
 questionable value but as one of the recog- 
 nized forces in the life of all men upon all 
 planes. It will be the medium of direct com- 
 munication between the children of earth 
 and the loved ones who are still living and 
 breathing entities swayed by emotions, sim- 
 ilar to those which they experienced while 
 in the dense body upon earth and awaiting 
 
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 with enduring patience the time when the 
 loved ones left upon earth work out their 
 own way to truth and light upon this vast 
 subject of communication between them. 
 
 This condition to the inhabitants of other 
 worlds awakened to the realization of this 
 great truth is so desirable and so simple that 
 they feel they must pass the knowledge 
 which floods their own souls with joy and 
 radiance hitherto unknown to all who cross 
 their path and who in turn reach out for 
 light and still more light as to the purpose 
 of life. So many hunger and yet fear to ad- 
 mit even to themselves that if they knew 
 this truth to be truth to them, they would 
 not follow in the quest of increasing knowl- 
 edge and power for this reason. 
 
 There is in the world to-day, a great sen- 
 sitiveness in regard to being considered 
 "queer" or different from one's fellows, and 
 the moment that a human soul is singled out 
 as being a believer even, to say nothing of be- 
 ing a transmitter between the two worlds, 
 people begin at once to wonder if he really 
 can be like the rest of the human family, or 
 if he does not function on a slightly different 
 plane. 
 
 It is not strange that people hesitate 
 to take the first step in this direction, es- 
 pecially from the standpoint of outside crit- 
 icism, for they know only too well what the 
 results to follow will be; but the time is at 
 hand when instead of its being something 
 
102 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 to cover (this fact of a family upon earth 
 being able to develop a transmitter), it will 
 be a matter of the greatest rejoicing and 
 there will be every reason that it should be 
 known and shared. 
 
 As time goes on, the influence of the occa- 
 sional convert will be widespread and great 
 interest and stimulus along the line of in- 
 dividual thinking will follow as a result of 
 more and more attention being given to the 
 subject. 
 
 This process will penetrate to all classes 
 of men and women regardless of condition, 
 until from the ranks of every calling and all 
 walks of life there will be recruits and an 
 army formed of true seekers after knowl- 
 edge of the laws which govern the commun- 
 ication between the dwellers upon earth and 
 those upon the planes beyond it, and none 
 shall say them nay. 
 
 No power can withstay the knowledge of 
 this great truth and of its importance to the 
 children of men once it reaches to the shores 
 of earth so that the mass mind stops to lis- 
 ten. 
 
 The matter of greatest significance per- 
 taining to the revelation of this truth is the 
 fact that it is entirely demonstrable to the 
 individual himself in some way; whether 
 through his own instrumentality or through 
 that of some one whom he knows and trusts, 
 the revelation can and will come if he truly 
 wishes for the unfoldment of this momentous 
 
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 truth in his own life, but it lies with him to 
 claim it. 
 
 This must ever be borne in mind, that 
 no truth is for any individual soul at any 
 point of progress upon the path save by means 
 of his own desire. So it is always well to 
 study our own desires carefully if we would 
 like to see for ourselves how truly they 
 regulate the manifestation of results upon 
 our path. 
 
 Was there ever an instance known 
 when a man filled some great place of power 
 and responsibility that he did not at heart 
 desire that such a condition should at 
 some time and in some way be realized in 
 his life and lead him to the height of 
 his ambitions, whatever they might be? 
 He might desire manifestation to come when 
 it did come in an altogether different form 
 from the one in which it finally precipitates 
 itself upon his path, but if he is honest with 
 himself he will acknowledge that he has 
 brought about all conditions which are con- 
 tributory causes to the one ultimate goal 
 which he has placed before his eyes as a 
 guiding star, even though a great way off. 
 
 If he analyzes the processes intelligently 
 enough, he will recognize the truth of this 
 statement, that although we do not by any 
 means arbitrate the method to be used in 
 the development of a plan of life, which will 
 make our desires a thing of actuality, we are 
 our own arbiters as to the nature of our 
 
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 desires even though the specific work which 
 we thought to be the object of our pursuit is 
 not what we had definitely in mind in the 
 beginning at all. 
 
 For instance, a man may be attached 
 to a plant or organization of some kind, 
 which he finds to be not altogether to 
 his liking as far as his own present re- 
 lationship with the management is con- 
 cerned. He may admire the object and the 
 aim of its purpose; be wholly in sympathy 
 with the production of cotton or wool or 
 steel, as the case may be, but not at all in 
 sympathy with the management or the way 
 the output is being handled from the begin- 
 ning to the end. 
 
 Consequently, he finds himself wishing 
 ardently that he was in a position to 
 convey to those in authority some of 
 the valuable suggestions which he con- 
 siders himself capable of passing on to the 
 good of all concerned, but sees no way of 
 accomplishing this object, which upon being 
 analyzed reduces itself to the immediate re- 
 sult of his desires. 
 
 Now by the working out of law which we 
 can best call the law of cause and effect, he 
 sets in motion forces caused by the trans- 
 mission of desire thoughts along the line of 
 accomplishment. Thoughts being no longer 
 considered ephemeral processes of mind 
 which evaporate with the passing moment, 
 he thereby sets in motion thought currents 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 105 
 
 which connect with his own mental pro- 
 cesses. 
 
 The result is they act in a perfectly 
 orderly way to put him in touch with forces 
 or conditions which will bring about a real- 
 ization eventually of the desire which has 
 intensified in his own heart to fit him- 
 self into the constructive end of the organ- 
 ization with which he is connected in a way 
 that will please him far more and prove to 
 his employers that his suggestions are worth 
 while. 
 
 However, this unfailing law of cause 
 and effect does not always act as we would 
 have it, and the aspirant soon finds that 
 although his position is unaccountably 
 changed, still the change is one the nature 
 of which he would have questioned greatly 
 had he been consulted before it was made. 
 The reason for this is because he thinks that 
 he is fitted for a place in the constructive end 
 of the undertaking for which he is not really 
 fitted at all. 
 
 He has not served his apprenticeship and 
 until we all learn the true meaning of the 
 word apprenticeship, we do not progress at 
 a rapid rate, for service and preparation for 
 all great achievements and movements of 
 every kind, are as necessary to the indivi- 
 dual as rain and sun to the growth of 
 flowers. There is no other way to reach a 
 high place of value to the construction of 
 any plan leading to heights of power and of 
 
106 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 attainment, save through the knowledge 
 that desire must be correspondingly high. 
 
 The willingness to accept the working out 
 of the results of our desires in just that pro- 
 portion that they are high and fine reacts 
 in accordance with the rule of well-being 
 which has its mainspring in the honesty of 
 purpose with which any man surmounts the 
 obstacles which confront him in his strug- 
 gles upon the plane of earth. 
 
 When he admits to himself that his de- 
 sires are often for power for the sake of 
 power and realizes only too well that the 
 price required for their attainment is too 
 high, too great for him to pay without a 
 form of self-development which he is not yet 
 ready to undertake, then and only then will 
 he begin to be truly fitted for the larger task 
 and find its apprenticeship a joy and not an 
 irksome and laborious process. 
 
 This will end the chapter for this morning. 
 The purpose has been well served to-day, 
 dear child of earth, and we hope that this 
 unbroken method of communication may 
 continue throughout the completion of the 
 book, as it will greatly facilitate matters for 
 us both. I thank you. 
 
 A Friend of the Cause." 
 
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 IX 
 
 Monday, December 29th, 1919. 
 
 "Anne dear, approach your task with the 
 same confidence which you displayed yes- 
 terday and all will be well. The pencil runs 
 astray once in a while over a word or so, 
 but never over the sense. 
 Goodbye. 
 
 Your loving mother, 
 
 Emma." 
 
 "Dear child, try as much as you can from 
 the beginning to the end of each message to 
 realize that the pencil will form the next 
 word without your help in any way if you 
 will let it. In this way and only in this way 
 does writing called automatic become purely 
 that. 
 
 In no case have you failed in the trans- 
 cription of the subject matter itself, but in 
 a few instances there is a phraseology which 
 would not have been used in quite the same 
 way, were it not for the recurring tendency 
 upon your part to interpolate from time to 
 time, always however in a way which does 
 not detract in the least from the meaning or 
 significance of the papers. 
 
 It is doubtless valuable information to 
 you to know that in no case where there 
 has been an able transmitter, willing and 
 
108 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 glad to do the part required of him in 
 this process, have I known of an in- 
 stance where the writer was not more 
 or less handicapped in the same way, 
 for there is always the intense desire to be 
 of the utmost assistance in the proceeding 
 on the part of the instrument. The phase is 
 a necessary one which must be met and 
 overcome in order to accomplish the greatest 
 amount of accurate work within a given 
 space of time. 
 
 Yesterday's work was accomplished more 
 easily than that of any two days to- 
 gether that has been done hitherto, and 
 in the remaining time which we are to 
 use for the production of the book we are 
 so deeply interested in, I am sure there will 
 be no more drawbacks and the end will be 
 greatly facilitated by the acquiescent atti- 
 tude of your mind. 
 
 Do not read over any given passage if you 
 can avoid it and hold the pencil in as light 
 a grasp as possible. Now to the book. 
 
 Yesterday we were discussing towards the 
 end of the chapter the matter of the chang- 
 ing attitude in the minds of men upon the 
 earth plane in regard to the matter of spirit- 
 istic investigation in all its phases. 
 
 It is a most interesting fact to note that in 
 every instance where a community of people 
 is dwelling outside the rush and turmoil of 
 the city, there is to be found a certain per- 
 centage of the population that is more open 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 109 
 
 to the suggestion of spiritual influence and 
 guidance than the mass of people living in 
 the rapid and ever-changing flood of events 
 in a large city. 
 
 There it is found more difficult to reach 
 the attention of a possible instrument than 
 in a locality where the environment is such 
 that they are more quiet in mind and in their 
 bodily pursuits than they would otherwise 
 be. 
 
 That is why it is to us a matter of great 
 rejoicing when a soul sufficiently developed 
 to be of service to the cause on both sides of 
 the veil, takes the step of withdrawal from 
 the perplexities and complications of life in 
 a great city and comes into the realization of 
 the great benefits accompanying this change 
 of plan. And who also learns at last that 
 it is only in quiet and more or less natural 
 and harmonious surroundings that the voices 
 of the so-called spirit world can reach the 
 souls of men and awaken in them the impulse 
 to seek for light and still more light upon 
 this unexplored subject. 
 
 Under such conditions they come to know 
 more of spiritual truth than has been re- 
 vealed on the plane of earth before, and 
 they find for themselves that the con- 
 viction within the human heart cannot be 
 false, that love doth find its own in all 
 realms of life and upon all planes of con- 
 sciousness. 
 
 Now as never before the heart of man is 
 
110 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 calling upon his Maker for a sign. There 
 are undried tears upon the earth plane in 
 this generation that cannot be wiped away 
 without the hand of pity from above, which 
 is indeed ready and waiting to perform this 
 glorious task for all suffering humanity if 
 they will but listen and hasten to the door- 
 way bidding the loved ones enter and re- 
 ceive the blessing which comes out of re- 
 union, such as has heretofore been dreamed 
 of as possible only in another world. 
 
 When the door between the worlds of 
 sense and spirit is opened a little farther than 
 it is now, there will be a growing movement 
 among the masses as well as among the 
 thinkers and philosophers of the race to 
 demand an equal right to truth concerning 
 the matter of spiritual communication. 
 
 There will be great need of ability to deal 
 with this problem in a way that is sufficiently 
 broad and comprehensive to cover the neces- 
 sity of establishing centres where people can 
 be taught this truth; where they will be told 
 intelligently and competently how a process 
 of enlightenment may be built up which will 
 be within their scope of comprehension and 
 which will satisfy them as to the universal- 
 ity of the message. 
 
 That point after all is the mainspring of 
 all spiritual law, its universality. If truth 
 which is called spiritual, (though in fact all 
 truth is spiritual,) does not comply in all 
 ways with this requirement, it is invalid. 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 111 
 
 It is the supreme test of truth that it 
 applies to all classes and all conditions 
 of men. Otherwise it cannot be truth, 
 for truth applies unfailingly in all cases 
 of a like nature in exactly the same way 
 just as in the instance of a man rich or 
 poor, high or low, who in falling from a great 
 height, reaches the ground precipitately in 
 answer to the working of the law of gravita- 
 tion, so the laws we call spiritual are equally 
 immutable and work with the same fine 
 exactness in all cases, else they are not 
 laws. 
 
 Nothing in the creative plan permits of 
 suspension from the processes of operation. 
 There is no cessation of the laws of growth 
 and consequent evolution from time to time, 
 as there is in the apparent onward progress 
 of man as an individual during his span of 
 life upon earth. Were it possible to enter- 
 tain such an idea for a moment by way of 
 illustration, there would be resultant chaos 
 in all processes of law which would permit 
 of no further order on any plane, whatever. 
 
 The world of dense matter and all other 
 worlds would be irretrievably lost to their 
 own orbit and the momentum of endless 
 years of movement would precipitate the 
 stars and all their satellites into space in 
 a way impossible for the mind of man 
 to follow in the least degree. Conse- 
 quently save by way of making clear by 
 means of a vivid word picture, it is not well 
 
112 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 to think at length upon the subject of the 
 suspension of law. 
 
 Sufficient it is for us to realize that 
 it does not, that it cannot suspend, and 
 to so conduct our lives in accordance 
 with the laws of spirit, as they are re- 
 garded by men, that we reach a place 
 where we honor them and are actuated by 
 them as much as by the so-called physical 
 laws of life. 
 
 Without due respect for the laws which 
 govern matter in its varying forms of mani- 
 festation, there would be few indeed who 
 would achieve the stature of manhood upon 
 earth. They would be cut off at the first 
 serious offense in childhood were there no 
 one to guide them through the early years 
 of their journey through life, and later, often 
 unconscious of certain laws of the physical 
 world, they learn them only by means of 
 hard lessons fraught with suffering and 
 remorse. 
 
 It is also true that as man evolves and 
 questions within himself as to the why and 
 wherefore of existence which seems at times 
 to be like nothing so much as a blind alley 
 leading to a blank wall over and around 
 which there is no passage, he learns that one 
 of the most profound things in his whole ex- 
 istence, when he comes to analyze it care- 
 fully, is this fact: that in spite of facing the 
 inevitable end of man from the beginning of 
 life, in other words the certain climax of all 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 113 
 
 transitory life, the grave, he is still content 
 and at times even happy in the present mom- 
 ent and the enjoyment of life upon the physi- 
 cal plane, and bothers himself in countless 
 instances very little if at all with philoso- 
 phies as to the uncertain nature of the world 
 to come. 
 
 Underneath the exterior of the most 
 careless life upon earth, there is a haunting 
 dread of the future, but this type of man is 
 not sufficiently evolved to be acutely un- 
 happy or distressed over any matter per- 
 taining to another world than the one with 
 which he is for the moment engaged. 
 
 Consequently any thought which has to 
 do with the final outcome of life, is to him 
 one of little moment because the present 
 world is all that assumes any importance 
 whatever for him and he wonders that any 
 other world can interest other people, es- 
 pecially any of his friends, which by the way 
 it seldom does. 
 
 By the law of attraction it is seldom in- 
 deed that the thinker drifts into the environ- 
 ment of the pleasure-seeking type or vice 
 versa. However such things are not un- 
 known, but when they do occur it inevitably 
 means a parting of the ways. 
 
 To resume the subject of a bureau or 
 centre of some kind for the distribution of 
 such knowledge as must in some way be 
 made possible for the masses to acquire, it 
 seems as though it might be that a group of 
 
114 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 co-workers, all of whom have enjoyed the 
 high privilege themselves of direct commun- 
 ication between the two worlds, could or- 
 ganize in a small way at first a cooperative 
 force for the particular purpose of working 
 out this problem. 
 
 Little by little, it would grow in its 
 departments until it met the needs of the 
 many as well as the few, for there should 
 be some sort of concentrated effort made in 
 order to disseminate the methods of in- 
 struction along this line of development, so 
 that people would be able to approach the 
 subject intelligently and not hysterically. 
 
 In the end there would be a far 
 greater condensed body of instruments able 
 to transmit accurately and well who had pre- 
 served throughout the process the strength 
 of poise and purpose with which they 
 entered the ranks of aspirants for the 
 power of transmission, and far greater 
 good would be achieved than as if people 
 impelled by great desire and longing here, 
 there and everywhere, over the whole world, 
 directed their own efforts. 
 
 With help and guidance from those who 
 had passed over the same pathway before 
 them, who could show the way and avoid for 
 others the stumbling blocks which they 
 themselves encountered, much time and 
 strength would be saved, which might far 
 better be spent in a more constructive way. 
 
 It seems as if it would be highly advisable 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 115 
 
 to have these centres wherever the need 
 might arise and as they develop and enlarge, 
 there would be more and more of the con- 
 verts to this truth urge upon others the ne- 
 cessity for intelligent cooperation. 
 
 The time is not far off when it will be as 
 much and more of a necessity to attain some 
 knowledge of the laws governing the sur- 
 vival of bodily death than it is now a matter 
 of pressing necessity that each and every 
 child in all enlightened countries in the world 
 shall enter upon their birthright of a liberal 
 education. 
 
 This is admitted to be the first requi- 
 site in these days to any field of endeavor 
 upon the earth plane that is worth consider- 
 ing from the standpoint of real progress. 
 
 When this time comes there will be un- 
 accountable resources from which to draw 
 for the establishment upon earth of a body 
 of workers fitted in many ways to become 
 instructors in the teaching of so important 
 a process in the unfoldment of race con- 
 sciousness, and it will grow to a point which 
 is unbelievable at this time, but which is 
 less incredible than it would have been even 
 a decade ago. 
 
 Who would have believed ten years 
 ago that upon the shelves of the best 
 and most well-established book concerns 
 in the world to-day there would be piled 
 high at this time the records of automatic 
 writing of any and all kinds coming un- 
 
116 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 der a high order of transcription, but 
 which do not in any measure meet the 
 demand which is being made for them by the 
 public in ever-increasing volume? 
 
 The time is indeed near when people will 
 not be withheld from the pursuit of this 
 knowledge in an individual way. Conse- 
 quently the thing which is at this time of 
 paramount importance is that they should 
 be led to the point of conviction in the mat- 
 ter for themselves, intelligently and wisely 
 by those who have had the experience be- 
 fore them and who know. 
 
 It would be better for people from the 
 standpoint of the masses and in every other 
 sense as well if there could be some organ- 
 ized field of endeavor especially designed for 
 the purpose of preparing leaders to be able 
 to direct and guide the race thought along 
 this line from the standpoint of his or her 
 world of personal contact. 
 
 After all, we can none of us do more than 
 lift our own world of contact as we journey 
 through all worlds, for the mere effort to 
 think of numbers beyond the scope of im- 
 mediate personal attention in connection 
 with a subject so vast and so important as 
 the one concerning the survival of the indi- 
 vidual, is indeed depressing and even incom- 
 prehensible. We must confine eourselves in 
 our thought processes as well as in our activ- 
 ities to the relative world which we our- 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 117 
 
 selves come in touch with daily throughout 
 all life. 
 
 As we grasp the fact that there are work- 
 ers along any and all given lines of endeavor 
 doing very nearly the same thing as we are 
 doing and endeavoring in turn to pass on 
 their light such as it is, we get some idea of 
 the endless chain of influence which starts 
 with the few and increases in a ratio impos- 
 sible to calculate in numbers or in value. 
 None know how great any one individual in- 
 fluence may be or how great a number of 
 followers may in their turn increase the sum 
 total of human knowledge through his 
 teaching. 
 
 There could also be a series of schools in 
 time, built up for the process of enlighten- 
 ment in the truest and best sense along this 
 line of the action of thought and its devel- 
 opment, which would do much towards facil- 
 itating the growth of sincere aspirants to 
 the position of transmitter in a given family 
 or community. 
 
 There is a type of person valuable too 
 from the standpoint of this work who 
 would be attracted by the dignity of a 
 more or less established custom of edu- 
 cation in all lines of progress and of learn- 
 ing, who would be less likely to be impressed 
 to the same degree by any individual teacher 
 whoever he might be. 
 
 These are suggestions which it would 
 be well to bear in mind when the time 
 
118 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 comes, for there will be need for the 
 most expert treatment of the situation 
 at this place in its development where, as in 
 all great forward movements there is not 
 the supply at hand to meet an unexpected 
 demand. 
 
 No man is wise enough to predict with 
 any measure of accuracy what the results of 
 present-day thinking will be, but this is 
 known at this time upon the plane called 
 spiritual; that the increase in this direction 
 is bound to be beyond what is thought by 
 man to-day upon earth to be possible, but 
 only proof will convince him that the state- 
 ments made in this book as well as in other 
 writings of a similar nature are true. 
 
 Time, however, proves all things. This is 
 a consoling fact and the sooner we realize 
 that we may lay down the varied problems 
 which confront us in our evolution upon all 
 planes of existence and leave them when it 
 seems wise to the kindly ministrations 
 known as the softening influence of time, 
 the sooner we awaken to the fact that time 
 is a greater factor in the working out of life 
 in its true sense than can be fully realized or 
 accepted while still upon the plane of dense 
 matter. 
 
 This is difficult for mortals to understand 
 as they gauge so much of their earth life by 
 means of hours and days and even moments, 
 but to those who are released upon planes of 
 activity where the asset of time is not con- 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 119 
 
 fined to that of the governing of a sequence 
 of events in the material world, there comes 
 the realization that there it acts as a medium 
 pure and simple in which people work at 
 leisure, without the impending sense of 
 disaster which haunts the earth dweller, if 
 he loses for more than a few moments of 
 time his sense of the passing hour. 
 
 With this realization of the release from 
 bondage which the slavery to time requires 
 of mortals upon earth, there comes a more 
 full and free acceptance of the goodness 
 and kindness of the Father of men and His 
 enduring love for his children. 
 
 There also comes to the individual upon 
 a higher plane of life than that of earth 
 the healing - power which is imparted to 
 all peoples, all races and to all move- 
 ments with the passing of the sense of 
 time, so that he grows to be content and 
 allows the beneficent process to take its own 
 allotted method in the working out of the 
 most remedial power known on earth to-day. 
 
 He becomes confident that the age will 
 come when mortals, never fully freed from 
 the eternal recurrence of the demands of 
 routine and from the necessity of the divi- 
 sion of the day into spaces which must be 
 used in a certain way or frustrate the plans 
 of others equally dependent upon the knowl- 
 edge of the hour and its obligations, will 
 have learned the lesson of the futility of 
 haste and of feverish activity. 
 
120 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 Do not misunderstand the purpose of the 
 statements which have been made as to the 
 relative sense in which the term time is used 
 upon different planes. The marking of time 
 is actual and necessary, and its bearing upon 
 human life unquestionable but the point to 
 be remembered is that countless people make 
 a greater factor of time than they need and 
 they are not always by any means the care- 
 fully punctual type who consider other peo- 
 ple's time as much as they do their money. 
 
 They do, however, pass through the plane 
 of dense matter as if this life were a thing 
 which they must make the greatest possible 
 haste to accomplish and in this way they 
 render the entire journey one of more or 
 less futility and discomfort, not only to 
 themselves but to everyone around them. 
 
 Do we not all know the hurried type of 
 man or woman who is seldom poised for a 
 moment, except in flight and who has never 
 very much time to give to matters which 
 are not above all else of paramount import- 
 ance to themselves? It is a rather unhappy 
 story, that of the hurried life of an eager 
 and adventurous soul, for such they usually 
 are, but the fact remains that they are tired 
 of the struggle in a way unknown to those 
 who wear the mantle of human affairs 
 with more ease and grace and who do not 
 feel the extreme sense of pressure which so 
 often afflicts the high-strung nervous type. 
 
 The man who can for the time being throw 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 121 
 
 off the fettering claim of time and rest 
 peacefully in the thought that the hour at 
 least belongs to him and that he may use it 
 in any way he chooses, has attained a place 
 of peace within his own soul which the hur- 
 ried man does not yet know. Time is an as- 
 set here; about that there can be no mistake. 
 
 The fact remains, however, that the man 
 who becomes a slave to the sense of neces- 
 sity of increasing activity in the earth world 
 on account of the passing of time, without 
 the uplifting and supporting sense in the 
 background of his mind that time is eternity, 
 that we are just as much in eternity now as 
 we ever have been or ever will be, that man 
 has a heart-breaking period of unfoldment 
 ahead upon his pathway through which he 
 must pass, or learn meanwhile that there is 
 no need for haste. 
 
 Man will yet learn that there is time 
 for all things in their appointed order, 
 that he needs only to prepare himself 
 from day to day with a sense underlying the 
 least and the greatest thing he attempts to 
 do, that it is of permanent value and that 
 no effort is wasted. 
 
 He will learn too that all true endeavor 
 is a means of helping not only himself to a 
 higher level of consciousness but also that 
 of his entire world of contact, and that upon 
 this basis life becomes infinitely more beau- 
 tiful and worth-while. 
 
 Eventually he will question for himself in- 
 
122 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 to the matter of personal existence after so- 
 called death and he will no longer be satis- 
 fied with what is given him by others who 
 have thought for him hitherto, but will reach 
 towards the light of fuller knowledge and 
 understanding for himself, and will find it 
 to be beyond money and beyond price in its 
 bearing upon life and happiness throughout 
 all earthly existence. We will consider this 
 the end of the chapter for to-day, as our in- 
 strument is tired. We must not tax our 
 transmitters too severely, for our need of 
 them is great. 
 
 I thank you, dear instrument. 
 
 A Friend of the Cause." 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 123 
 
 X. 
 
 Tuesday, December 30th, 1919. 
 
 The Mother speaking: 
 
 "Anne dear, do not feel hurried or a sense 
 of needless obligation to the exact minute. 
 We all understand that you try hard to keep 
 the appointments promptly, but if you are 
 delayed a little, do not let it worry you, es- 
 pecially when it is occasioned by your get- 
 ting out into the open air for a little, for that 
 always helps. Goodbye, dear, until later. 
 Your mother, 
 
 Emma." 
 
 "Dear instrument, it looks this morning as 
 if conditions were most favorable, so we will 
 begin upon the message without delay. 
 
 Yesterday we were dealing with the fac- 
 tor of time in its relation to human affairs. 
 To-day we will take up the subject of the re- 
 velation to men which is at hand also in its 
 relation to the matter of time as the instru- 
 ment in marking the approach of events 
 which stand out as landmarks, in man's jour- 
 ney throughout eternity. 
 
 There is a distinct relation between the 
 entrance of so many thinkers and educators 
 of the race into the field of psychic investi- 
 gation and the processes which brought to 
 
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 a high point of achievement the navigation 
 of the air which is called air-plane service 
 upon earth to-day. 
 
 Time and space are to be mastered in a 
 corresponding and a surpassingly short space 
 of time, as gauged by the terms of earth lan- 
 guage. The similarity of conquest between 
 the elements of time and space which enter 
 into the life of man upon earth to so great a 
 degree is something few people in all proba- 
 bility connect as being one of significance 
 with the development of the progress of the 
 race. 
 
 It is, however, exceedingly significant 
 and the follower of spiritistic research and 
 its consequent results, calculated to change 
 the plan of life upon earth more than 
 any other one revelation made to man 
 up to the present day, will find a marked 
 relation between the processes along the 
 line of the development of aviation and that 
 of psychic investigation. 
 
 The term "death" when used in the 
 compiling of this book is a purely rela- 
 tive one, and is used with reservation be- 
 cause the idea expressed by that one 
 word stands in the minds of all men for 
 the end of man, but from our viewpoint here 
 stands for such a different thing that it is 
 difficult to use the word at all without qual- 
 ifying it in some way. 
 
 However, as to the similarity between the 
 two methods of development referred to 
 
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 above, it is interesting to note that in the be- 
 ginning of the valiant attempts to conquer 
 the medium of space called air, there were 
 tremendous casualties, there still are and 
 will continue to be until the time comes 
 when the elements going towards the make- 
 up of forces acting independently of the 
 force called the law of gravitation, are far 
 better understood than they are now. This 
 cannot be until some recognition is made of 
 the fact that although human beings are 
 operating upon a plane called the physical 
 world, still they are inextricably related with 
 the laws of other worlds of which this is a 
 part, though separated by the processes of 
 sense from processes similar in nature but 
 responding to a higher rate of vibration 
 upon succeeding planes. 
 
 When the time comes that man in the 
 race sense forms his own conclusions, does 
 his own thinking and investigating, and is 
 not afraid to stand with the minority if need 
 be, there will be revelations upon the earth 
 plane as to the methods best fitted for the 
 perfecting of processes calculated to bring 
 benefits and pleasure to mankind beyond 
 their present hopes. 
 
 These methods are now in a state of 
 incompletion where they are destined to 
 remain indefinitely, unless the higher powers 
 of man's mind are freed and he acts in 
 accordance with his own inner sense of 
 guidance which if followed would lead 
 
126 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 many laymen as well as teachers and 
 philosophers to a place of understanding of 
 hitherto unexplained laws of being and of 
 life upon the plane of earth. 
 
 This realization would reveal to them in 
 their hearts at least that the kingdom of 
 God is indeed within and whoever would 
 conquer the external world in any of its 
 phases must first seek the inner man for the 
 true light of understanding. 
 
 Once having attained this knowledge to 
 his own complete satisfaction, he will not 
 look only to external means for the help that 
 is needed to bring any inventive or produc- 
 tive faculty to a high point of attainment. He 
 will have found the way to high achievement 
 and no other way will be the right one for 
 him after this revelation takes place within 
 his own being. 
 
 It is often said that the books and 
 writings which come from the other side 
 of life are vague and more or less futile 
 in their effort to make clear to the 
 dwellers of earth the actual meaning and 
 significance of many of their attempted mes- 
 sages of an instructive nature, and so the 
 particular object of this book has been to 
 deal with all subjects upon which it touches 
 with as sure and exact a form of speech as 
 could be used to convey the meaning in a 
 simple and direct way whenever that was 
 possible. 
 
 In dealing with abstract subjects this 
 
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 course is never possible, but in all instances 
 when the matter in hand is one of objective 
 character the attempt has been made and 
 will continue to be, to deal with it as nearly 
 as possible as if it were a fact facing the 
 writer in the same limited sense which it 
 must be remembered controls all functioning 
 upon the earth plane and which after be- 
 ing freed from the fettering influences of 
 thought forces surrounding the earth plane, 
 it is easy indeed to forget. 
 
 So to resume the subject in hand, 
 please let it be borne in mind that this 
 effort is being made constantly through- 
 out the book, and if there is a failure now 
 and then to render the exact meaning in the 
 most accurate way, it is because the disem- 
 bodied entity from the earth standpoint 
 finds all language other than his own a more 
 or less difficult medium of expression and 
 begs all readers to be as tolerant as possible 
 in this regard in the reading or the study of 
 this book. . 
 
 To return to the subject of aviation: it has 
 been noted and accepted as a fact by all who 
 have given the matter almost any thought 
 that the death toll among the ranks of aspir- 
 ants for service in the field of navigation of 
 the air, is higher than in any other phase of 
 earthly activity, speaking relatively from 
 the standpoint of numbers. Where there 
 were a thousand recruits for the army or the 
 
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 navy during the recent world war, there was 
 one for the ranks of the aviation corps. 
 
 The reason for this was because up to 
 recent years it has been a practically un- 
 known and consequently unsafe calling, 
 and few indeed have there been until the call 
 of patriotism sounded in the land, who had 
 courage enough to venture into so insecure 
 and precarious a field of endeavor. 
 
 When the call to arms was made, how- 
 ever, over pretty nearly all the earth there 
 was instantaneous response. None failed 
 who had the leaning towards sacrifice at 
 any cost to do the utmost for their coun- 
 try's need, and out of the millions of men 
 who sprang to the aid of righteous warfare 
 there were a few to whom the call of the 
 air service duty was one which they could 
 not withstand. 
 
 Many served in this way who were con- 
 fident from the beginning that it would 
 mean in the most certain sense, a short 
 career upon the earth plane, but a high 
 record of valor within their own hearts 
 and the hearts of those who loved them 
 and held the honor of placing the good of 
 the greatest number over and above the 
 good of the individual, to be priceless. 
 
 There were many instances of this kind 
 which will never be known in any way for 
 the battle, the real battle, was fought in 
 secret with only the God of all men as a 
 witness, but it was fought nevertheless. 
 
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 The faithful soldier who was at that time 
 true to his inner self and followed his 
 highest convictions to the end, was as 
 great a hero, though he came through 
 unhurt with the earth span of life yet 
 to run, as if his life had been required 
 of him upon the field of battle. His battle 
 had been won at the beginning and the re- 
 sult from the standpoint of the physical self 
 had no bearing upon the evolution of the 
 man's progress while upon earth. 
 
 The spiritual progress of man means noth- 
 ing so much as the result of his own inner 
 conflict and its effect upon his character in 
 its final outcome. Thus it is that motive has 
 more to do with real victory than humans 
 are accustomed to attribute to it. 
 
 Few indeed realize the meaning of a truly 
 successful life upon the earth plane, for the 
 signs of success as they are established and 
 accepted here by all classes alike, are the on- 
 ward indication of accomplishment. 
 
 The average man or woman upon the 
 earth plane can in no wise connect failure 
 with the man who wears good clothing, rides 
 in his own car, keeps up an establishment 
 befitting his position of place and power in 
 the world of affairs; yet it is often true that 
 in the real and permanent sense this man is 
 one of the most utter failures that the world 
 has ever produced. 
 
 Sad indeed it is to allow the mind to 
 dwell upon the processes of unfoldment 
 
130 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 and enlightenment which he is destined to 
 realize upon the pathway ahead leading at 
 last to the light of understanding, if his so- 
 called success has been built up at the cost 
 of suffering and sacrifice on the part of those 
 who by the laws controlling need and sus- 
 tenance from the physical standpoint alone, 
 are drawn into the sphere of operations of a 
 selfish man. 
 
 In the world of commerce or production, 
 the man who thinks only of the accumulative 
 end of his enterprise, and forgets the labor- 
 ers who are working for him to his advan- 
 tage, fails to keep the balance between cap- 
 ital and labor. 
 
 This must ever be maintained on a basis of 
 equity of some kind in order to keep chaos 
 out of the land and darkness from covering 
 civilization from the ends of the earth to 
 the ends of the earth. 
 
 There can be no organized plan of 
 cooperation, however, in this great prob- 
 lem which confronts the life of men 
 and of nations upon earth to-day, save 
 in the intelligent cooperation of both forces, 
 and at this time there is an almost equal divi- 
 sion of responsibility. 
 
 The working man is no longer con- 
 tent with a reasonable wage but wants 
 to batter down the whole plan of life as 
 it has hitherto existed, taking the exploita- 
 tion of large interests which he is in no wise 
 fitted to organize or conduct, into his own 
 
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 hands and gradually usurp the place 
 which has been occupied so long by the plu- 
 tocrat. This is as impossible of accomplish- 
 ment as that the plutocrat should suddenly 
 and unexpectedly leave his own field of en- 
 deavor, and for sheer weariness of spirit 
 from the bearing of his heavy load of care 
 and responsibility, try for the time being to 
 change places with the worker who knows 
 only his daily task. 
 
 Impossible as this may seem, he some- 
 times envies the workman, freed from 
 the necessity of complicated thinking pro- 
 cesses, who lives his life according to his light 
 in his own way, untrammeled by the chains 
 of convention in the sense called social, and 
 able to eat and sleep in a far more nat- 
 ural and satisfying fashion, provided of 
 course he is a good workman, and uses his 
 wages thriftily and well. 
 
 In the end, the result of any such disor- t 
 ganized and unprofitable thinking along 
 this line is destined to add confusion unto 
 confusion and only the most unhappy and 
 dangerous outcome can possibly follow. 
 
 There can be no change in the relation- 
 ship between labor and capital under the 
 present conditions, for there must be first 
 of all a fundamental change in the think- 
 ing processes of the capitalist to whom 
 after all falls the greater share of responsi- 
 bility, for he can and does think logically 
 and clearly on many subjects, and would be 
 
132 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 able to do so to the benefit of all concerned 
 upon this most vital one of capital and labor 
 confronting the world to-day, were it not 
 for the fact of his own interests making him 
 blind to the interests of the many. 
 
 If it could be made apparent to even a few 
 of the leading men of to-day in the earth 
 world who come under this head that there 
 is no such thing as independent interests of 
 any kind; that the mere fact of an interre- 
 lated world apparent to the least observant 
 upon all sides, refutes such a thing as abso- 
 lutely impossible, it might be the ground- 
 work of a more constructive plan of achieve- 
 ment. 
 
 The time might be more nearly at hand 
 when the first step at reorganization with a 
 more fair and impartial code of by-laws could 
 be established upon earth out of which good 
 untold would come. It might indeed be the 
 forerunner of established forms of rela- 
 tionships between employer and employee, 
 which would change the present state of 
 hostility, for such it really is, apparent or 
 veiled, which exists so widely between the 
 opposing parties, into a question of allied 
 interests, and the result could not fail to be 
 effectual upon the race beyond the power of 
 human thought to-day. 
 
 True it is that this is a vision of the future, 
 but how distant a future depends upon the 
 ability of man himself to demonstrate the 
 power of the cooperative spirit upon the 
 
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 earth plane, and the power of united effort 
 over and against fragmentary individual 
 effort in a way which leaves the matter no 
 longer a conjectural one but one of entire 
 subjugation to the welfare of all mankind. 
 
 This step has already been taken upon 
 earth in detached instances but there has not 
 been sufficiently widespread interest in the 
 movement to make it a force of vital enough 
 importance to claim the attention of people 
 who are most closely and powerfully con- 
 cerned in the bearing of the question upon 
 their own lives. 
 
 Until that time comes, there will be little 
 change save through an occassional chan- 
 nel caused by the awakening of an en- 
 lightened soul upon the pathway of pro- 
 gress to-day and bearing fruit in a way 
 which if multiplied many thousandfold 
 would turn the old world of woe and sor- 
 row into one of joy and light. After this 
 realization became widely accepted the man- 
 ifestation of war and pestilence would van- 
 ish from the face of the earth forever and 
 there would then indeed be a new heaven 
 and a new earth. 
 
 This day though distant still is not un- 
 dreamed-of in this era, and it would have 
 been hard to conceive not so very long ago, 
 for the effects of war, difficult as it may be 
 to believe, are more benign than mortals 
 know, and the common suffering of human- 
 ity has brought about an equalizing standard 
 
134 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 that makes itself felt in all walks of life. 
 
 This change is perceptible to an extent 
 that cannot be over-estimated or over-val- 
 ued. In turn, however, the reaction of war, 
 the reaching toward joyous expression upon 
 the plane of material well-being, is such that 
 in the aftermath of all war there follows a 
 tendency on the part of all peoples to in- 
 dulge in the greatest depth of physical and 
 material pleasure which they are capable of 
 experiencing. 
 
 In many instances this applies to types 
 of men and women who have hitherto 
 lived wholly aloof from the pleasures of 
 sense from that standpoint alone, but 
 who find themselves suddenly immersed 
 in enjoyments of a physical nature which 
 they have never courted before, and many 
 times people who find themselves in this 
 unwonted and unexpected situation are at 
 a loss to explain to themselves the meaning 
 and significance of it all. 
 
 "Cest la guerre/' as they say over there, 
 and it accounts for about all the immediate 
 problems which confront men to-day and 
 many which they will yet find themselves 
 forced to face. 
 
 These problems must be met before the 
 trend of affairs in the lives of earth dwellers 
 becomes more orderly and consequential in 
 its constructive activity in all fields of labor, 
 which are within the reach of every human 
 being who truly aspires to high attainment 
 
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 upon the plane of earth today as never be- 
 fore. 
 
 Never has there been so great need as now 
 that the race consciousness should be ar- 
 rested and its attention held until it has heard 
 in the great universal sense the song of hope 
 which is reaching from the spheres beyond 
 man's ken to the shores of earth, in an effort 
 to still the raging conflict and settle once 
 and for all time the important question of 
 the worth-while nature of all human life; to 
 establish the knowledge of its enduring se- 
 quence upon constantly changing and evolv- 
 ing planes of consciousness and the reality 
 of spiritual communication between the 
 plane of sense and time and the one beyond 
 the veil. 
 
 Nothing can do more for the children 
 of earth towards the process of their 
 own enlightenment as to the purpose of life 
 than the knowledge that all life is an orderly 
 sequence, and that as we evolve we grow to 
 the point of this realization slowly but sure- 
 
 ly. 
 
 We learn that life is intended to include 
 from the beginning all that we have ever 
 hoped for of attainment and of joy and also 
 the ultimate victory over sin, disease and 
 death, as they are called, and that the time 
 is at hand when the processes of communi- 
 cation between the two worlds will be 
 known and recognized as widely and as un- 
 reservedly as the process of communication 
 
136 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 now exists between mortals in varying 
 forms about which there can be no dispute. 
 
 This will end the chapter for to-day. It 
 has been almost wholly satisfactory in the 
 process of transmission. I trust the instru- 
 ment will continue to lay herself at our dis- 
 posal in the same quiescent way, as it 
 greatly facilitates the work on the part of 
 all concerned, and helps us greatly on this 
 side, as we have no conflict and can in con- 
 sequence put our entire energy into the mat- 
 ter of conveying the transcription, as well 
 and as rapidly as it is possible to do so. 
 
 With best wishes and congratulations 
 upon this morning's work. 
 
 A Friend of the Cause." 
 
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 XI 
 
 Wednesday, December 31st, 1919. 
 
 The mother speaking: 
 
 "Dear Anne, the morning promises as 
 good results as the product of yesterday's 
 work, so be of good cheer and approach your 
 task with new strength and confidence, and 
 all will be well. 
 
 Your loving mother, 
 
 Emma." 
 
 "Dear instrument, I think this morning 
 we can approach the subject matter of the 
 book without any preliminaries whatever. 
 
 We spoke yesterday of the meeting place 
 between the unreal subject of spiritistic in- 
 vestigation and the field of endeavor called 
 aviation. It is indeed of interest to us to 
 realize that gradually upon the earth plane 
 there is seeping through the consciousness 
 of man the knowledge that he has hereto- 
 fore been altogether too unapproachable 
 from the standpoint of matters concerning 
 so-called mystical subjects of all kinds. 
 
 He rather wishes in a good many instances 
 that he had given a little more time to this 
 matter of investigation himself instead of 
 having shut himself off so utterly from all 
 avenues of information along a line of 
 
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 thought which without doubt is occupying 
 the minds of all classes of people to-day, es- 
 pecially thinkers, to an extent unbelievable 
 a short time ago. 
 
 However, it is never too late to learn, es- 
 pecially in regard to a matter which looms so 
 large before the public eye, and he is begin- 
 ning to think that the best possible course for 
 him to take in connection with this subject 
 is to read up upon it and to discuss it with 
 other able men and women as fitted as he, if 
 not more so, to reach an intelligent conclu- 
 sion as to the advisability of giving it serious 
 attention. 
 
 Soon he finds that his interest has deep- 
 ened to an extent which makes all seeking 
 for advice in regard to the matter unneces- 
 sary and even superfluous, for he knows for 
 himself that this is the truth he has been 
 seeking so long, and also knows that he does 
 not need counsel save that which he can find 
 within his own inner consciousness, which 
 is in all cases of indecision and vacillation 
 the last court of appeal and resorted to in 
 extremity by all the children of men. 
 
 Men make it necessary for themselves that 
 they should go here and go there, as the 
 Apostle Luke was quoted in olden days as 
 saying the disciples of Christianity were 
 wont to do, seeking for that which was for- 
 ever and eternally within their own souls; 
 which could never be revealed to them until 
 they realized that there was this spiritual 
 
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 fountain of light and healing within the heart 
 of man, to which they could turn in time of 
 need if they but would, and that its wisdom 
 and processes of enlightenment would do 
 more for their welfare and unfoldment than 
 any other course of action they could take. 
 
 Few there have been, speaking in a com- 
 parative sense, who have found this court 
 of appeal within themselves and have taken 
 counsel with it sufficiently to know that it is 
 divine it its source and meant to be forever 
 the guide and protector of man; that it 
 always awaits his approach with an ever- 
 listening attitude hoping from day to day 
 for some response and recognition on the 
 part of mortals to the unseen forces which 
 govern and control all functioning in form 
 upon all planes, answering the least whisper 
 of appeal made by man to the God within 
 himself, if he will hear in turn and be guided 
 by its voice. 
 
 Many indeed would claim they do not 
 recognize an inner voice, that they would 
 welcome a guiding power within them- 
 selves to point the way to higher things, 
 but this is never strictly true. 
 
 We do hear the voice. It speaks to us in un- 
 numbered ways not only in the faint prompt- 
 ings of what is called conscience but by 
 means of countless quick perceptions which 
 if ignored are destined to become dim 
 and still more dim until that time comes 
 when it is not of any use for the voice of 
 
140 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 the highest selfhood to attempt to make; 
 itself heard by the outer man. 
 
 The external man has built up a wall of 
 defense between himself and the still small 
 voice which reaches to him from within, and 
 he does not choose to hear, consequently 
 closes every possible avenue of approach as 
 far as he is able to do so and goes about his 
 activities in the material world as if there 
 were a distinct and definite way of separat- 
 ing the two. 
 
 If the children of men could realize 
 the futility of this attitude of mind, there 
 would be a great difference in the beginning 
 of all earthly careers, for there would not 
 then be a division in the minds of children 
 at the start in regard to the physical laws as 
 they are taught them, and the spiritual ones. 
 
 About the spiritual laws so-called, most 
 mortals have a vague sense as to their bear- 
 ing upon life in the earth world, but there is 
 so much insecurity in the probable working 
 out of them that just as there are many 
 churches, many creeds and many religions 
 upon earth, so there is also an infinitely 
 varied schedule of conduct, as far as the in- 
 dividual is concerned, for if he believes this 
 way, his rule of life is so and so, if another 
 way, then a different rule of conduct, and so 
 forth and so on. 
 
 The illustration could be infinitely en- 
 larged upon but suffice it to say that 
 the average man finds some sort of a 
 
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 spiritual code of law which fits his particular 
 need, and governs himself accordingly, none 
 too sure at any time that his own code is 
 really operative but knowing well that he 
 must have something to which to turn for 
 help in time of need, when nothing but the 
 laws of spirit will avail, if indeed anything 
 will. 
 
 He fears deeply that his own or any other 
 code will not attain a point of conviction as 
 to the evidence needed on the earth plane to 
 convince men of the action of the laws of 
 spirit. 
 
 Consequently regarding it as a matter 
 too indefinite and too unexplored to be 
 accepted by him as a certain process in 
 any sense, he goes on the old basis of re- 
 specting the well-known laws of the physical 
 world, content that in doing his best along 
 the line of the known and the provable, he 
 is doing the best for himself, his family and 
 the generation in which he lives. 
 
 This type of man is far beyond in the 
 journey of life, the type of man who makes 
 sport of all that cannot be evidenced to him 
 by means of the five senses. For the man 
 to whom all invisible influences are a closed 
 book, there is a period of unfoldment 
 through which he must pass according to 
 the creative law of evolution, which will be 
 to him a difficult, not to say painful process. 
 
 The reason for this is that he cannot be 
 taught in a way less poignant and less ef- 
 
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 factual, for it is only through the sense of 
 loss and deprivation of what he has cher- 
 ished most from the purely material side of 
 life that he can be awakened to the truth of 
 the eternal march of life, of which he is 
 part. 
 
 With this he must keep pace either of his 
 own free will or else, by means of cosmic 
 law forever underlying life upon all planes, 
 be brought to a realization of the necessity 
 for recognizing the laws of life and growth 
 by a series of misfortunes so-called upon the 
 plane of earth. 
 
 These misfortunes will eventually lead 
 him into the light of higher understand- 
 ing which he could have reached by a 
 less painful pathway had he chosen to 
 respect all attitudes of mind and of religion 
 while dwelling among men and not made of 
 their most sacred hopes a theme for jest 
 and careless bantering, ill-fitted to the sub- 
 ject so vital to all men. 
 
 Therefore it is well to keep the mind open 
 and to guard as much as possible against the 
 inclination felt by many fine people in all 
 walks of life to criticise and to tear down 
 the religions of others, who construct the 
 foundation of their material existence upon 
 the underlying element of faith called blind, 
 because it has no justification save through 
 the so-called perceptive qualities of man's 
 mind. 
 
 Who has not known of some life touch- 
 
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 ing the divinity of Christ's life upon earth 
 by means of its purity and its selflessness? 
 
 Its faith in things unseen bearing upon 
 its present plane of existence to such a de- 
 gree that it was more influenced by another 
 plane of life that the one in which it dwelt 
 while in the physical body? Nearly every- 
 one knows of some such existence, and 
 sometimes more than one, and they remain 
 unexplained and unfathomable to most of 
 their world of contact. 
 
 At the same time their own special world 
 of contact is raised just that much by means 
 of the passing touch of a life so much higher 
 in its essence than the average life of man 
 upon earth. 
 
 It is never possible to estimate the value 
 of the power of such a soul nor is the length 
 of their sojourn upon earth in any way rel- 
 ative to the depth of their effect upon human 
 life. These spiritual lights which illumine 
 the pathway of human progress from time 
 to time are souls incarnated in the dense 
 physical body for a most definite purpose, 
 be their sojourn long or short. 
 
 They are luminaries from a far removed 
 sphere of being so different in its activities 
 from that of earth that the plunge into dense 
 matter is for them similar to the situation of 
 a clergyman here upon earth, sincere in heart 
 and devoted to the liberation of men from 
 following vain gods, deliberately and with 
 conscious purpose leaving his own field of 
 
144 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 endeavor to ally himself with a plane of life 
 between which and his own there is little, 
 if anything in common, save the underlying 
 law of brotherhood; and who, carefully omit- 
 ting any allusion to a larger field of vision 
 works out his destiny among the deni- 
 zens of a world which would be an under- 
 world to him, in the way best fitted to bring 
 to the realization of his associates the beauty 
 of an ideal undreamed of in their present 
 state of development. 
 
 The two are closely parallel, the one 
 in a conscious, the other in an uncon- 
 scious sense, for it is the working of a 
 merciful law, eternal in its beneficence 
 that the memory of man is withheld upon 
 the lesser plane of activity throughout the 
 processes of growth and unfoldment in all 
 spheres of life, for were it not so it would 
 not be possible for the mortal, once released 
 into a realm of greater power and scope to 
 consent willingly to the fettering limitations 
 of the flesh, and learn the lessons which can- 
 not be mastered in any other way. 
 
 Consequently the law operates in a way 
 which robs him of any possibility of compar- 
 ison and for the time being he looks upon this 
 world as the only one which to his knowl- 
 edge, he has ever inhabited. This applies to 
 the people referred to above who give them- 
 selves freely as a willing sacrifice for the 
 purpose of the enlightenment of the race, as 
 well as to those who blindly and with no 
 
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 response in their hearts to the call of the 
 voice of the inner man, are bound to dense 
 physical planes by laws of their own mak- 
 ing, namely their desires. 
 
 These souls are chained to the plane of 
 physical manifestation somewhere, upon 
 some level of consciousness until that time 
 when it no longer lures them, when they 
 know that there is a fairer and more beauti- 
 ful sphere of life somewhere could they only 
 find it. 
 
 At that moment when the soul of man 
 turns inward for help and guidance it is 
 always at hand and the voice speaks to 
 him in a way about which there is no mis- 
 take, and the way from that time on for him 
 is changed. The gradual overcoming of the 
 purely sense meaning of gratification in all 
 its phases reveals to him that he can no 
 longer be confined to the processes and the 
 capacity for enjoyment of the physical plane 
 alone. 
 
 Once interested in this process of un- 
 foldment and realizing by degrees the won- 
 der and joy of life when intensified by 
 the interrelation of the laws of spirit and 
 those of matter so-called, man never again 
 under any circumstances wishes to separate 
 the two. 
 
 He recognizes the fact that they are 
 irrevocably bound together in action and 
 does not seek pleasure for its own sake 
 on the physical plane alone, for he knows 
 
146 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 that it is not to be found there but that 
 it is to be found in the great underlying 
 processes of spiritual development latent in 
 every human soul. 
 
 Then he has reached the place in his own 
 evolution where he knows that spirit is the 
 ruling force throughout the kingdoms of the 
 universe and that all life resolves itself into 
 the manifestation of spirit in its countless 
 myriads of changing form, that spirit abides 
 in whatever form is best fitted for the time 
 being to carry out the divine purpose 
 back of its activity, to bring to the knowl- 
 edge of all men the fact that we now exist 
 and have ever and ever shall exist in a spir- 
 itual universe. 
 
 He realizes that the universe is com- 
 pounded of elements spiritual in their con- 
 ception but material in form, that there is 
 nothing but spirit varying in its endless 
 formation upon different planes of expres- 
 sion but ever returning in essence to the 
 cause of all life for its own life and that he 
 is renewed in spirit eternally though in ever- 
 changing form, from one age to another 
 even from everlasting to everlasting. 
 
 The phrase everlasting to everlasting is 
 used only as a relative term to denote in- 
 finity, for infinity is not possible to be con- 
 ceived by mind now working in form, which 
 is finite in its purpose and construction. 
 
 Infinite mind. is the all-inclusive sense of 
 God-consciousness, of which the human mind 
 
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 is a partially developed fragment, potential 
 nevertheless, within itself, of infinite unfold- 
 ment as man emerges from the thought 
 processes which confine him to dense planes 
 of manifestation and attains by processes of 
 growth a larger mental and spiritual stature 
 which could not have been achieved in any 
 other way. 
 
 There is none who can by taking thought 
 add one cubit unto his stature but if his 
 thought processes be constructive and he 
 follows the light of his highest understand- 
 ing as a result of them, he is bound as inevi- 
 tably as the sun in its course to attain the 
 revelation of still higher and higher realms 
 of existence. 
 
 He acquires this increasing stature from 
 the standpoint of character and power, as he 
 conforms to the law of growth and moves 
 with the tide of marching humanity rather 
 than against it. 
 
 It is also true that the man who with no 
 knowledge in the sense he would call actual, 
 helps his neighbor in his journey through life 
 at every turn without understanding as to 
 the motive which actuates him, but realizing 
 the fact that this way is the best way for 
 him, vaguely knows that he is blessed; that 
 when he has lightened his brother's load even 
 though for the time being he has apparentry 
 impoverished himself, there comes out of 
 the friendly deed a sense of peace and of 
 
148 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 attainment too difficult to analyze, but which 
 is nevertheless most real. 
 
 In many instances a man makes the effort 
 in every possible direction to help his own 
 world of contact and asks no questions con- 
 cerning the matter in any way, of any one, 
 not even himself. He follows a truly blind 
 impulse but it is an ennobling one, and one 
 which has very significant bearing upon the 
 length of time it takes him to learn by means 
 of his passage through dense matter what 
 universality really means. 
 
 Once having learned this great lesson, 
 it is so inclusive in its illumination as 
 to the meaning of other laws of being 
 that usually this man's life upon the 
 planes of dense matter is a less prolonged 
 and difficult process from the standpoint of 
 supply. 
 
 This means in other words that the man 
 who learns that in giving he is not himself 
 impoverished has gone far on the road to- 
 wards realization that all life is supported 
 by means of spiritual abundance, even 
 though that term must be translated into the 
 term material abundance in order to relate 
 to the world of affairs called the earth world. 
 
 When any man reaches the place upon his 
 own pathway where he realizes that supply 
 in some way, unknown and indefinite though 
 it may seem to him, does come from God, 
 that the wants of men are in truth met by 
 means of the operation of law of which they 
 
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 know but little as yet, but which they recog- 
 nize in its daily relation to earthly activities, 
 then indeed he has started on the true path 
 of progress. 
 
 This realization will eventually bring 
 him under the law of adjustment which 
 will fill his need at the right moment and he 
 will also know that faith is so great a factor 
 in the working out of spiritual law that it is 
 necessary to believe first before the full 
 manifestation of the law of demand and 
 supply can be realized in all its truth and 
 beauty. 
 
 Nothing needs to stand in the way of 
 man's realization of this great truth of 
 being, and nothing does save the fact of his 
 own intense desire to demonstrate upon the 
 plane of sense above all else the matter of 
 supply and sustenance in his own particular 
 way. 
 
 He wishes to do this exactly as he has 
 always felt it should be done and as his 
 fathers did before him, garnering where he 
 may, saving by means of hardship and 
 through fear, which is instilled in the heart 
 from earliest childhood that one day poverty 
 may overtake him and that he may become 
 what is called a dependent upon earth to- 
 day, and which he would rather die than be- 
 come. This also goes to prove the basis upon 
 which so-called charitable institutions are 
 founded for the most part upon the plane 
 of earth. 
 
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 Consequently he trusts no power save that 
 of which he is himself certain, namely, the 
 power of his hands or of his brain. He allots 
 to the different departments of life to the 
 best of his ability their rightful share in 
 claiming his attention. He then settles down 
 to the established facts of life without pro- 
 test or any great degree of wonder that man 
 should be forever harassed as to the where- 
 withal to sustain physical life in an orderly 
 and seemly fashion, but accepts it as inevit- 
 able that there must be numberless poor, a 
 sizable class called the middle class and a 
 few belonging to the class of the so-called 
 rich. 
 
 This fallacy in its effect upon the lives of 
 men is perhaps more pernicious than any 
 other accepted fetter, which handicaps the 
 progress of man from the beginning of 
 earth life to the end. 
 
 If it could be realized by all men in 
 any degree as fully and as generally as 
 it is known and understood by the body 
 of Christian Scientists on earth to-day — 
 this process of change from a world of the 
 old consciousness of hard earned necessities, 
 based upon the effort of the hand or brain 
 alone, to the new consciousness of the bene- 
 ficent law of demand and supply it would 
 mean a revolution in the adjustment of all 
 human affairs. 
 
 It could not fail to make all warfare and 
 chaos coming out of labor crises an impossi- 
 
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 bility, and the relative needs of the human 
 family would be met in a way that would do 
 far more towards proving to the children of 
 men that spiritual laws do indeed rule the 
 universe, than any amount of teaching which 
 could be given to the individual follower by 
 any known means. 
 
 This does not for a moment mean that 
 effort and labor would cease from the earth 
 and cessation from all activities ensue as a 
 natural result, far from it. Activity would 
 be stimulated and increased just in the pro- 
 portion that the individual had reason to 
 believe that supply was sufficient for all 
 men; that the very fact of belief in a law 
 superior to the laws under which the earth 
 world has lived heretofore for so many cen- 
 turies, was a factor in all human achieve- 
 ment of any kind and in nothing so much 
 as the releasing of higher spiritual forces 
 which are reaching the earth plane at this 
 time with greater power than ever before 
 in the history of man. 
 
 Achievement would be greatly intensified 
 by the knowledge of these laws waiting only 
 to be allowed to act upon the evolving con- 
 sciousness of man, if he will let himself be 
 helped out of the realm of materialism and 
 unbelief, and know that the Father wishes 
 to give to his children the kingdom of plenty. 
 
 He knoweth that we have need of all 
 these things and that if we will begin a 
 new way of thinking and of making our- 
 
152 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 selves receptive in connection with these 
 great questions so vitally at stake to-day, 
 we will realize by degrees that by means of 
 strengthened faith the children of earth will 
 come under the operation of the beneficent 
 law of supply. 
 
 The world will waken to a voice which 
 has hitherto cried in the wilderness indeed 
 saying "Hearken unto me, children of men; 
 in the storehouse of the Father of all men is 
 supply for the sustenance of all his manifest- 
 ations in form, even unto the smallest known 
 form of life," if the children of men will 
 only listen to the voice of pleading to-day 
 and cease to disregard the rights and priv- 
 ileges of others in the pursuit of their own 
 to such an extent that as a result there is 
 hardly an unbroken family circle to be found 
 the world round on account of the devasta- 
 tion of war. 
 
 Think for a moment of the blood that 
 has been spilled, of the time that has 
 been lost and of the mighty army of re- 
 cruits that passed into the realm of the 
 unknown, as you believe it to be, at the call 
 of patriotism, to champion a cause which 
 stood for eternal progress and freedom of 
 the soul of man and think for a moment of 
 its accompanying waste. It is impossible to 
 fathom so profound a calculation as this 
 would be so it is useless to attempt it. 
 
 Suffice it to say that the world waste in 
 the processes of war covering the entire 
 
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 period of recent conflict, would have kept 
 another world similar to the earth world in 
 its needs and its evolution, in supply suffi- 
 cient for the ample care of all its inhabitants 
 for a quarter of a century. 
 
 This includes in a comprehensive sense, 
 the reconstructive period which is to follow, 
 and all its accompanying demands, taking 
 from the processes of constructive labor 
 which would have been existent upon the 
 earth plane to-day in corresponding measure 
 had there been no world war. 
 
 It is true that before the war there 
 was want in the world, there will ever 
 be want until the sense of the brotherhood 
 of men claims first place in the hearts of 
 earth dwellers, until they know that whereas 
 there can never be an equal distribution of 
 property in the radical sense advocated by 
 rash and unbalanced agitators upon the earth 
 plane at this time on account of the unequal 
 development of men dwelling upon a given 
 plane at a given time, still there could be 
 great progress made along the line of intel- 
 ligent cooperation, in regard to the much 
 discussed law called the law of supply and 
 demand. 
 
 This could be accomplished by the volun- 
 tary action of foremost leaders of thought 
 and of great movements upon earth from 
 the human standpoint, which would prove 
 to the entire satisfaction of the poorer 
 classes that capital was not afraid to try 
 
154 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 out the processes of cooperation which are 
 in all cases the forerunners of the release of 
 still higher spiritual laws of life upon all 
 planes. 
 
 Once cooperation is established between 
 labor and capitol upon earth, the rest 
 will follow as the night the day. Labor will 
 not be outdone by capital in the spirit which 
 induced the cooperative method into action 
 and it will respond in kind. 
 
 This is a law of life,, not widely under- 
 stood upon earth as yet but when labor is 
 convinced that the capitalist is sincere in his 
 search for a common meeting place between 
 them and the cooperative spirit extends to 
 the masses of workers hitherto divorced in 
 their viewpoints and standing against each 
 other, it would follow that the plan called co- 
 operative would be adopted in other and les- 
 ser phases of life, to an extent which would 
 soon prove whether the law of plenty and of 
 supply was a fallacy or a most significant 
 factor in human life. 
 
 Time will prove this truth also, as it 
 proves all other truths. That is all for this 
 morning. This has been a long transcrip- 
 tion and our instrument is weary. I thank 
 you. 
 
 A Friend of the Cause." 
 
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 XII 
 
 New Year's Day, January 1st, 1920. 
 
 The Mother speaking: 
 
 "Dear Anne, it is indeed a happy New 
 Year and one that will be long remembered 
 upon the earth plane as marking the differ- 
 ence between the old order and the new. 
 Goodbye, dear. 
 
 Your loving mother, 
 
 Emma." 
 
 "Dear instrument, it is with joy indeed 
 that we come to you this morning renewed 
 in purpose and strengthened in our con- 
 fidence that this work shall be fully com- 
 pleted through your hand in a comparatively 
 short space of time and that there will be 
 no great delay in its consequent production. 
 
 The title of the book we will give to you 
 soon, as it will make clear to you in concise 
 form the exact meaning and purpose which 
 the contents of the book are intended to con- 
 vey. This will accompany the last trans- 
 scription or chapter of the book, which is at 
 hand. 
 
 When that day comes we will give 
 you the necessary instructions as to what 
 steps to take in regard to its publication and 
 how to go about it as nearly as possible. 
 
156 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 Do not think that because of our larger 
 vision on this side of the veil we overestimate 
 the value that such literature as this is 
 going to have upon the earth plane, for 
 we know better than it is possible for mor- 
 tals to know how hungry the human heart 
 is for the truth concerning immortality, 
 and we know that the tide cannot be 
 stayed; that one way or another man is 
 bound to persist in his search until the way 
 is shown and he no longer works out his 
 destiny blindfolded but illumined with the 
 light of marvelous understanding. 
 
 We know the day is coming when he will 
 enter into his birthright as a child of the 
 realm henceforth and forever more unbound 
 by the fetters of sense and materialism and 
 released upon a plane of activity intensified 
 by his knowledge of the spiritual nature of 
 his being. 
 
 This will change the old world of care 
 and anxiety and unbelief into one of 
 radiance and faith and the whole plan of life 
 upon the earth plane will be from that time 
 on one of joy instead of weeping, of con- 
 struction instead of destruction and of song 
 without sadness. 
 
 Man will know that he is redeemed 
 through his own belief in the reality of 
 spirit and of the tenderness and loving 
 kindness of his Maker, the fountain of 
 all life, called God by the children of men 
 because they must name some power which 
 
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 is creative in action and powerful enough 
 to cause life by a term expressing as best 
 they may their own conception of deity. 
 Now to the book. 
 
 We left the transcription yesterday at the 
 point of discussion in regard to the cost to 
 man of the reconstruction of old-world 
 ideals in material form in a way that could 
 not fail to rob constructive present day activ- 
 ities, had there been no world war, of their 
 significance in a large sense for the next fifty 
 years or thereabouts. 
 
 This is a conservative estimate for the ef- 
 fects of world waste so devastating and so 
 vast in area as that which has actually oc- 
 curred within the last five years are quite 
 incalculable from any standpoint so all es- 
 timates must necessarily be conjectural. 
 
 However, it is safe to say that half 
 a century must surely pass before there 
 will be upon the earth plane working along 
 the same laws of progress which have 
 hitherto been operative a generation living 
 freely and fully restored to a basis of life 
 which obligates it no longer to the payment 
 of accumulated debts of warfare in any way. 
 
 The people even in that generation would 
 have the handicap throughout their lives of 
 the conflict still existing upon the old plane 
 of thinking between the adherents of pre- 
 paredness and the force opposing it, in a 
 measure which would be necessarily bound 
 
158 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 to affect their freedom, their resources and 
 their peace of mind. 
 
 Freedom cannot be attained unless in the 
 meantime there is established upon earth 
 some sort of a realization that the whole 
 system is wrong, that there can never be a 
 so-called successful issue of war; that war- 
 fare in itself is a deadly enemy to civiliza- 
 tion, that it is the relic of barbarism and the 
 most pronounced recurrence upon earth of 
 testimony from the standpoint called evi- 
 dential as to the origin of the species. 
 
 It is incalculably destined to withhold the 
 spirit which will eventually actuate all men 
 upon this plane to a degree that will render 
 arms a superfluous possession and one which 
 retards progress in a way fitted only for pur- 
 poses long since obsolete to man. The word 
 obsolete is used advisedly. 
 
 The time will come when firearms as they 
 are called at this time will be relics of a by- 
 gone age and people will marvel at them 
 upon seeing them in museums and places 
 where exhibits of a nature intended to en- 
 lighten the public as to the customs of a past 
 race, are displayed. 
 
 It will not be uncommon in ages yet 
 to come, to find actual disbelief in this 
 regard on the part of the inhabitants of 
 a friendly cooperative world, functioning 
 in a way impossible of conception at 
 this time and an attitude of question- 
 ing as to the authenticity of such re- 
 
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 ports concerning the relations of men upon 
 earth in any age. 
 
 But a condition of this kind is indeed 
 remote at this day and even humorous 
 to many who under no circumstances 
 could conceive the relationship of men 
 and women upon the physical plane of 
 existence to be other than one of conflict. 
 Nevertheless that age is destined to arrive 
 at some future day regardless of how far in 
 the future its advent may be but this stage 
 of development save from the standpoint of 
 interest and of conjectural discussion is not 
 one which has immediate bearing upon our 
 subject. 
 
 The subject which is immediately at hand 
 and which interests us vitally on both sides 
 of the veil, is how to reveal to the present 
 bruised and bleeding hearts of men of all 
 nations upon earth to-day, just how to begin 
 the work of regeneration and reconstruction 
 in the realm of spiritual achievement which 
 will set in motion laws which have been 
 hitherto unreleased by the thought processes 
 of man. 
 
 The most important question is how to 
 make it possible for a sufficient number 
 of workers to operate from this plane so 
 that the whole world will look upon the sub- 
 ject of the eternal purpose and aim of life 
 as one upon all planes and also make men 
 realize fully that truth is an open book to 
 those who truly seek its revelation. 
 
160 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 No longer need the earth race stay in its 
 old habits of thought, bound by the fear of 
 death and the vicissitudes not to say futility 
 of all earthly achievement, but it may know 
 that all life is related so closely that we have 
 only to open the door between the worlds 
 ourselves to know that there is no barrier 
 and no closing off of the relationship between 
 those embodied in the form of so-called flesh 
 and those embodied in a higher form of 
 manifestation. 
 
 Mortals may know if they so desire that 
 there is no reason whatever that whoever 
 aspires to the place of transmitter between 
 the two planes cannot attain it securely and 
 permanently, provided he is willing to accept 
 the terms upon which so high a calling is 
 necessarily based. Provided also that he 
 follows out these conditions exactly, with 
 implicit faith that they will bring him into a 
 realm of understanding and of light which 
 he has previously regarded as fatuous and 
 impossible while still walking the pathway 
 of earth handicapped as he thinks by the 
 garment of the dense physical body. 
 
 Herein lies the distinct element of faith 
 without which nothing is attained which is of 
 great and enduring value to the race and the 
 seeker for truth must bear this ever in mind. 
 The Master said during his pilgrimage upon 
 earth "By faith ye shall remove mountains" ; 
 He also said, "Greater works than I do, ye 
 shall do." The time is at hand when many of 
 
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 the followers of Christ will be called upon 
 to demonstrate their real faith in the teach- 
 ings of Christianity, for such are the under- 
 lying basic laws of the manifold forms of be- 
 lief in the Master's teachings upon earth that 
 the groundwork of them all, whatever else 
 may be added, is faith. 
 
 Without faith there can be in a so-called 
 material world, no definite purpose in pur- 
 suing the study of the teachings of any reli- 
 gion for it is the corner stone of construc- 
 tion and without it nothing can be erected 
 which will not fall in time. 
 
 Nothing can come out of the attempt to 
 disqualify faith, which has endured through 
 endless ag*es of persecution and rejection, to 
 the point where the tide of race conscious- 
 ness having suffered much and wearying of 
 the old processes of life under the varying 
 vicissitudes of sin, disease and so-called 
 death upon the plane of earth, rises superior 
 to all inimical thought force which obstructs 
 its headway and proves to a doubting world 
 that life does survive bodily death: which 
 proves also that what we call the individual 
 in form upon earth still inhabits, in a form 
 impossible to perceive on account of its in- 
 creased vibration, a world interpenetrating 
 and surrounding the one called earth in a 
 way which makes communication a simple 
 and a natural thing. 
 
 This attainment is possible to all who 
 accede to the provisions made by those wha 
 
162 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 have been released into a larger field of con- 
 sciousness and wider vision and who are 
 able and eager to help the cause as much as 
 it is possible to do so in a secure and wholly 
 rational way. The first requisite of all as- 
 pirants, as has been already stated, is faith. 
 This is the starting point upon which all else 
 depends. 
 
 If a mental experimenter, pure and 
 simple, attempts to explore a field of en- 
 deavor unthinkable and impossible of cre- 
 dence under any circumstances, and to 
 enter the ranks of seekers after spiritistic 
 phenomena, but not necessarily spiritual 
 truth, it would be better far to let the sub- 
 ject wholly alone. To him and only to him is 
 there any danger of conflict which might 
 arise between the forces of construction 
 working on this side for the betterment of 
 man in every way and the destructive forces 
 known as the forces of evil in the earth 
 world. 
 
 This expression, constructive and de- 
 structive forces, is a relative term when 
 looked upon from the standpoint of the unity 
 of all force in the sense of its actual out- 
 come. 
 
 They must nevertheless be designated, 
 for the purposes of illustration, by the 
 terms constructive and destructive for 
 the reason that they have been necessary 
 from the beginning of so-called creation to 
 produce an evolving world. They have been 
 
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 necessary in order that the creative energy 
 centered in man's inner being should work 
 out by means of apparently opposing forces 
 the method and plan of achievement which 
 could not have been his without the element 
 of choice. Free will and the ability to choose 
 must consist in the existence of two forms 
 of expression, different in nature else the 
 term choice would be rendered futile, not to 
 say senseless. 
 
 Without the so-called constructive and 
 destructive forces of life, progress would be 
 impossible and the strata of all existence, 
 provided there could be any under such con- 
 ditions, a dead level which would be of little 
 or no value to men possessed of the immortal 
 birthright which is called creative energy. 
 True it is that the plan of creation is a more 
 orderly and well advised sequence than the 
 mind of man in any stage of evolution can 
 compass. 
 
 It is also true that were it not for 
 the few who bear the torch in all ages, the 
 darkness which now covers the earth from 
 our point of vision would be far more dense. 
 The flickering rays that are sent out here 
 and there, which we can see penetrating the 
 shadows, are impossible to estimate in their 
 value to the race and without them the pro- 
 gress of human development would have 
 been held back many centuries of time. 
 
 Weary years of the same process of 
 thought which have brought about the 
 
164 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 world-wide predicament of man to-day 
 would have intervened had not the faith- 
 ful clung to their purpose and to their 
 trust in a just and benign God in spite 
 of all external evidences of chaos and 
 accident, and the world has need to thank 
 these toilers in the pioneering pathway of 
 human progress in all ages. 
 
 Many of the children of earth are in- 
 clined to scoff at the words of wisdom which 
 proceed often indeed from sources most un- 
 expected, and too many people are hampered 
 and have always been by the necessity of 
 having truth revealed to them in properly 
 appointed form, else it is indeed, not truth 
 to them. 
 
 This is one of the saddest of all the falla- 
 cies of earth, the labelling process for some 
 reason considered authentic and of distinct- 
 ive value in the minds of the so-called best 
 people, of all truth in its bearing upon their 
 own personal lives. Many accept truth for 
 others which they do not accept for them- 
 selves. 
 
 For instance, it is often said upon the earth 
 plane by a type of man or woman who lays 
 high claim to the possession of an open mind, 
 that if people get pleasure or comfort from 
 the acceptance of Christian Science or even 
 Spiritualism, as to that matter, they have 
 nothing whatever to say in objection, for it 
 is really a personal matter and one to be de- 
 cided in all cases by the individual. There 
 
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 can be no connection in their minds between 
 the underlying current of truth which con- 
 stitutes the basis of religions or philosophies 
 of every kind and their own, for this reason; 
 that in their own minds their conception of 
 truth is a separate and distinct thing, and 
 whereas it may not necessarily be truth to 
 others it is truth to them individually, and 
 they ask no one to accept it any more than 
 they wish others to ask them to accept an 
 alien doctrine of any kind. 
 
 It is a more or less broad standpoint ac- 
 cepted by countless thousands upon earth 
 and having strong points in its favor but 
 nevertheless lacking the kernel of truth; in 
 other words realization that all truth is the 
 same. Truth cannot war with itself. It un- 
 derlies fundamentally all religions in all their 
 varying forms of expression and no truth is 
 separated from the whole save in its form of 
 manifestation. The outward form of mani- 
 festation is the one thing of least conse- 
 quence in the final attainment of the unity 
 of all races, all creeds, and all national or- 
 ganizations, which is one day destined to 
 become established upon earth. 
 
 Even in the advanced ranks of thinkers 
 known as Christian Scientists upon the 
 earth plane, this mistake of labelling truth 
 is sometimes made and thereby numerous 
 converts are lost from time to time. 
 
 This is occasioned by the attitude which 
 is at times evidenced by teachers all un- 
 
166 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 knowingly in practically every instance, in- 
 dicating that the truth revealed to them as a 
 body, organized more efficiently than any 
 other upon earth to-day from the standpoint 
 of its voluntary support, is the ultimate goal 
 of all men in future ages. It is sometimes 
 claimed that the sooner the children of men 
 now living in the present generation come 
 into this knowledge, the better it will be 
 not only for them but for the entire race in 
 all its phases of unfoldment. 
 
 "Ultimate" truth as it is presented upon 
 the human plane though having a ground- 
 work of sincerity and a partial basis in 
 truth is never final or really ultimate. It 
 cannot be for the reason that man is in the 
 beginning of his spiritual unfoldment in the 
 great sense in which it is being conceived 
 upon earth to-day, and no one method of pre- 
 sentation however advanced its teachings 
 may be over and against the old ways of 
 thinking and of human relationships, can 
 possess full realization of truth as a whole. 
 
 In succeeding planes of evolution, beyond 
 the possibility of calculation, there is only 
 a steadily increasing knowledge of the whole 
 as we progress, for now we see through a 
 glass darkly but then face to face. 
 
 This truism does not apply to the plane 
 of the earth world alone, but to countless 
 succeeding planes as well. 
 
 Now then to carry this thought a little 
 further; when the children of men come to 
 
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 the place in their unfoldment where they 
 know that there are no special dispensations, 
 that we all come under the same immutable 
 laws of change and of progress, then they 
 realize with increasing conviction that truth 
 is an established factor, not relative but ab- 
 solute. 
 
 They learn that its revelation is par- 
 tial and undeveloped as yet, but that it 
 nevertheless is established and known 
 from the beginning to the creative force 
 which we call God, which was, is now and 
 ever shall be. They realize little by little 
 that the following of truth leads the chil- 
 dren of men in all worlds according as they 
 turn towards it in sincerity, to more life, 
 more light and far greater capacity for en- 
 joyment than they have ever known until 
 they learn the truth about truth for them- 
 selves. 
 
 In no other way can any mortal soul be 
 convinced of immortality or of the actual 
 working out upon the physical plane of the 
 laws which are called spiritual by way of 
 distinguishing them from what to human 
 consciousness is purely material. 
 
 The way to light and understanding rests 
 entirely with the individual as to what path- 
 way he will choose; whether he will take the 
 long, hard way of development through the 
 processes of trying out all known material or 
 physical means to reach a more secure basis 
 of content, by means of the events and vary- 
 
168 THE TWO WORLDo uF ATTRACTION 
 
 ing calamities of earth life, from the stand- 
 point of sense, or whether he will choose the 
 swifter process of evolution, through the 
 acceptance of the guiding power within the 
 heart of man. 
 
 In spite of constant rejection and turn- 
 ing away on the part of millions of 
 souls upon earth's pathway, this power will 
 not be repelled. It calls recurringly and un- 
 tiringly to the hungry heart and bids man 
 listen to himself, his own best self, never 
 wholly silenced under any condition of life, 
 which would seem to render its voice un- 
 heard or even forever stilled. 
 
 It rises over and over again above the 
 sound of all other human conflict until finally 
 each and every child of earth shall waken 
 to the knowledge of the kingdom of heaven 
 within, and then indeed shall there be a new 
 day and a new earth, and the inhabitants of 
 all worlds will enter the kingdom of 
 brotherhood and of universality in its 
 true sense as never before. The attain- 
 ment of all life in its potential sense will be 
 added to by this new conception of brother- 
 hood in a measure that cannot be realized 
 in the present state of man's consciousness 
 upon earth to-day. This will finish the chap- 
 ter for this morning. 
 
 As we go on in this work, our instrument 
 is learning to still the objective mind more 
 and more and the day will come, I think, 
 when subjects of a most abstract nature will 
 
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 be possible of transmission through her hand. 
 In the meantime I imagine she considers the 
 subject matter in hand abstract enough and 
 so do we, at any rate entirely so for the 
 purpose destined for this particular volume 
 upon earth to-day. 
 I thank you. 
 
 A Friend of the Cause." 
 
170 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 XIII 
 
 Friday, January 2nd, 1920. 
 The mother speaking: 
 
 "Anne dear, all is well, let not your 
 thoughts be troubled. You are constantly 
 gaining in strength and there will be a 
 time of leisure ahead in which we can speak 
 of many things which will help clear up the 
 matter of values upon the earth plane. Till 
 then keep on as you are now, serene in mind 
 and confident that all is working on this side 
 of the veil as well as on yours, for the good 
 of all. 
 
 Good bye dear, 
 
 Mother Emma." 
 
 "Dear Instrument, We approach our task 
 this morning with redoubled interest and en- 
 thusiasm for the reason that the completion 
 of the book is a matter of which we are 
 assured and it is now only a question of ac- 
 quiring the right publishers for the pre- 
 sentation of it in the most approved way, to 
 enable it to reach the greatest number of 
 people in the shortest space of time. 
 
 Yesterday we were intimating towards 
 the end of the chapter that there were not 
 at this time upon the earth plane the mani- 
 festations of brotherly love which, as a mat- 
 
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 ter of fact were noticeably increasing before 
 the war, but that is not quite the idea that 
 is meant to be conveyed, in making state- 
 ments as to the willingness in this age of 
 desperate methods, to further the well-being 
 of the individual at any cost. 
 
 This, however, is intended to be made 
 clear: that while the willing spirit is be- 
 ing manifested upon all sides in special 
 instances to take advantage of man's 
 need and his blindness at this time, still 
 there is in the world to-day an increas- 
 ing number of men and women who have 
 been awakened to some extent to the true 
 meaning of brotherhood. There was no such 
 concept of the human family in the universal 
 sense before the war as there is now. 
 
 No one, however poor and destitute he may 
 be, is outside the pale of human sympathy 
 and help, whereas before the war, people 
 who gave lavishly of their substance and 
 even went so far as to support institu- 
 tions unknown in many cases save to the 
 trustees and lawyers, to whom such 
 knowledge was necessary, had never during 
 the entire period of their lives up to the be- 
 ginning of the war in Europe actually done 
 things themselves which were more or less 
 irksome to them. 
 
 For example, there were numberless cases 
 of women pinning themselves down to hours 
 of concentrated labor in order that some 
 man in France might live ; that he might pos- 
 
172 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 sibly survive his wounds by means of the 
 ability of the surgeon or nurse in attendance 
 to work quickly and to have always at hand 
 the rolls of cotton and the bandages which 
 go towards making the fight for life a more 
 successful one. 
 
 In many instances this supply proved 
 to be the means and the only means of 
 allaying suffering otherwise too great to 
 be borne, and which would in itself 
 have hastened the end of earth life, whereas 
 a bandage of cotton or of gauze suited to 
 the purpose, made recovery possible. Tens 
 and tens of thousands of women everywhere 
 during the last five years have put away the 
 thought of self as never before. 
 
 They have grown in grace and beauty of 
 spirit for the reason of having done this 
 thing and now there has come as a result, a 
 ray of flickering light at least to the multi- 
 tude of workers for humanity, enlightening 
 them upon this whole question of interre- 
 lated interests. 
 
 The time is not far distant when the 
 man or woman who once considered his 
 world a thing apart from the great 
 masses of humanity whose pursuits and 
 habits of life were a thing removed indeed 
 from his own, will come to a sense of realiza- 
 tion that in some magical sense hitherto not 
 understood in any measure, all life is one. 
 The realization will grow that through life, 
 with its constantly changing tide of affairs 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 173 
 
 and events among all so-called classes, there 
 is a thread which cannot be cut or broken, 
 no matter what attempts are made in that 
 direction; that there is some law felt blindly 
 to be true by all men at times during their 
 earth life which remains for ever active in 
 its working towards the reconstruction of 
 the race upon a united basis rather than a 
 separated one. 
 
 The result of this thinking has been 
 far beyond what is known in a general 
 sense upon earth to-day for the simple 
 reason that few people acknowledge it 
 even to themselves. Although they vaguely 
 realize its truth they still cling to the old 
 order, much as kings and queens who now 
 find their crowns and erstwhile glory a 
 somewhat superfluous possession in the pres- 
 ent age of growing democracy, are well 
 aware that the age will come upon earth 
 when it will not be a thing to be desired to 
 wear a crown or boast of heraldry and pomp 
 and power. 
 
 They know that this age will pass and 
 something finer and far more satisfying to 
 the heart of man will take its place. In the 
 meantime however, the growth of indivi- 
 duals and of nations will have had to keep 
 pace with the ever-increasing beauty of the 
 ideals of the race, else they will find so 
 great a discrepancy between their concep- 
 tions of a new government and the actual 
 
174 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 processes of government that only conflict 
 and disappointment will follow. 
 
 There can be no high form of government 
 in control of the affairs of any nation with- 
 out high attainment and concentrated pur- 
 pose on the part of its rulers to give to the 
 people who have nominated them to their 
 office the best they know. 
 
 This code of proceedings should be re- 
 quired of men who are willing and glad 
 to put the good of the many before the good 
 of the individual, and when the day comes 
 that national officials look upon this matter 
 from such a standpoint of obligation, there 
 will be upon earth a sublimity of purpose and 
 of joyous achievement on the part of mor- 
 tals that would seem at this time too vague 
 and unreal to be considered by the average 
 man as even a possible dream of the far-dis- 
 tant future. 
 
 Such, however, would be the Utopian 
 government of any nation upon earth to-day 
 were it possible to maintain for even one 
 year's time a group of men bearing in their 
 hands and upon their shoulders the responsi- 
 bility of the nation's affairs, who were each 
 and all of them content for the time being 
 at least to look upon all matters of state as 
 questions about which they were personally 
 disinterested. 
 
 The result of such a state of govern- 
 ment would do more towards ending 
 warfare and the fear of warfare upon earth 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 175 
 
 than any other one factor in the influence 
 upon the affairs of men in the next century. 
 
 Water cannot rise above its level and if in 
 the management of large affairs and the 
 conflicting rights of empires and nations, 
 those who are supposed to represent the 
 great body of citizens whom they serve, are 
 divided in mind and constantly in a state of 
 warfare among themselves, it requires little 
 reasoning to see that here as in the spiritual 
 sense the quotation "As above so below" 
 holds equally good, for nations generally 
 speaking do not excel their representatives. 
 
 No nation can emerge triumphantly from 
 the horrors and the blood-stained battlefields 
 of war if it proceeds to war in its own partic- 
 ular field of activity, especially when the 
 interests of so many governments are con- 
 cerned, that there can be no protection from 
 outside, without a corresponding condition 
 of unity within. 
 
 This passage may seem to some of the 
 readers of this book as being particu- 
 larly applicable to the condition of af- 
 fairs in this country at this time but that 
 is not by any means the idea which it is in- 
 tended to convey. It is a general truth ap- 
 plicable to all men and nations in all ages, 
 and seeming at this time to adjust itself 
 to the fitting of many needs not only in 
 connection with large affairs of state and 
 international importance but also to count- 
 less lesser affairs pertaining to the lives of 
 
176 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 individuals living on the same old earth 
 which they inhabited before the war; not, 
 however, being in their own minds at 
 least the same people they were before en- 
 tering the activities which gave them a 
 glimpse of a world they had not believed pos- 
 sible and which once having seen they are 
 unwilling to relinquish. 
 
 Here it is interesting to note the fact that 
 there are countless women who, before the 
 world-war thought only of the interests 
 which had to do with the passing hour, and 
 who are now vitally interested in matters 
 which are of moment to others in a specific 
 or even a general sense. 
 
 In some cases women lacking special 
 training along any given line have gone 
 out of their way to find some occupa- 
 tion which would engage at least part 
 of their attention, as the mere thought 
 of returning to the old, ineffectual, aim- 
 less habits of life which at one time were 
 all they knew, becomes abhorrent to them. 
 They grasp at anything which promises to 
 be a possible outlet for their abilities in 
 some constructive way and the rest follows 
 naturally, a gradual unf oldment and develop- 
 ment in the realm of spiritual force. 
 
 Sooner or later, the novice in the world of 
 aspiration to the field of worth-while en- 
 deavor reaches a place of revelation which is 
 obtained only by her seeking for the truth 
 of life and the mystery of being, in a way 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 177 
 
 which has opened the door of understanding 
 for her for all time. 
 
 She finds she has only to explore for 
 herself the beauty and the orderliness of 
 life if she cares sufficiently to do so, to find 
 out the causes for the interrelation of life 
 and of interests, which to her coming as they 
 did after years of misconception of the 
 matter, seem quite like a personal dis- 
 covery and one which has in it countless 
 blessings both for herself and the world of 
 contact in which she now moves. 
 
 Consequently there can never be on the 
 path of an aspirant for conclusive evidence 
 as to the unity of life and its oneness of pur- 
 pose any more doubt as to which way leads 
 to peace and happiness and lasting joy, for 
 she has found the road to understanding for 
 herself. 
 
 Nothing could again make a comparison 
 other than unfavorable between the two 
 pathways of life from that time on, so that 
 each convert from the old detached way of 
 thinking to the new one embodying so much 
 that makes life beautiful and useful, be- 
 comes convinced that she in turn must try 
 to assimilate the truth of what she has 
 learned through the ravages and miseries of 
 war in order that her life may reflect at least 
 a little of her own inner joy, and radiate to 
 others something of her newly-acquired 
 light. 
 
 Little by little, she realizes that she 
 
178 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 must pass on that which makes of all life a 
 thing to be approached with thankfulness for 
 our own part in it, whatever it may be, and 
 makes more and more wonderful the journey 
 of life as it advances, rather than a matter 
 of declining power after the age of the indi- 
 vidual upon earth has passed the middle 
 mark of fifty. 
 
 It is a great factor in the life of the human 
 family, this taking of one's self and one's 
 world so seriously and so impressively that 
 at times it seems as if association in the earth 
 world is a matter of such fine discrimination 
 that it must be a wearisome and a fettering 
 task to be always able to determine whether 
 the neighbor or the new acquaintance is 
 really eligible to the inner circle of one's 
 social sanctuary or not. 
 
 And it seems more than reasonable to 
 believe that countless people do find these 
 boundaries which they have fixed for 
 themselves hampering to a degree which 
 makes them at times envy the man or 
 woman born into the middle or even 
 lower classes, so-called, where at least the 
 freedom of the individual is not trammeled 
 in this way. 
 
 Who has not witnessed upon earth sad 
 instances of parting on account of the dif- 
 ference in their environment, between chil- 
 dren or even people of adult age who, hav- 
 ing become by means of some of the afore- 
 mentioned interrelated interests of life, at- 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 179 
 
 tached to each other, are occasioned bitter 
 suffering? Who has not witnessed this as 
 a result of a wholly unnecessary process 
 of man's mind which need not add to the 
 sum total of woe upon earth were it only 
 possible to make clear this significant truth 
 to all the children of man that there are no 
 elect in God's kingdom? 
 
 We are what we are by reason of our 
 own efforts, nothing more nothing less 
 and the sooner the human family can 
 understand that by elevating others we 
 elevate ourselves, and by belittling or de- 
 grading any human creature we also de- 
 grade ourselves, it will be possible to bring 
 about a condition of mind which will go far 
 towards establishing true brotherhood upon 
 earth. 
 
 This realization will also do more for 
 the increase of individual development 
 than perhaps any other one factor in human 
 life could possibly do at the present state 
 of man's consciousness from the standpoint 
 of the race. 
 
 The law working in this way would soon 
 reveal to men that the hitherto despised 
 method of association with the children of 
 men from a broad democratic standpoint was 
 the one and the only one by which it is ever 
 possible to truly elevate the individual. 
 
 However, this truth is recognized so dimly 
 and so intermittently is it put into practice 
 even when recognized, that it seems almost 
 
180 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 impossible of achievement to the workers on 
 the earth plane who realize the depth and 
 the purpose of the movement towards de- 
 mocracy, which has so many fanatical divi- 
 sions that the very zeal of its supporters 
 hurts the cause far more than it helps it on. 
 
 Socialists and even anarchists through- 
 out history, in a mistaken way to be sure, 
 have dreamed about a new order, a new dis- 
 tribution of values impossible beyond ques- 
 tion but nevertheless based upon the same 
 foundational idea as that of union on the 
 part of all nations, which is the point at this 
 time upon which the history of the world 
 will turn. It is often misguided, this instinct 
 towards the universal movement which in 
 some way is attracting attention to itself all 
 over the world, but it is nevertheless the 
 same in essence in all its forms, and it will 
 not be put down in such a way that it will 
 not rise again. 
 
 For that reason, if for no other, it is 
 wise for all classes and conditions of 
 men in all walks of life to listen and to 
 set about finding a way of attaining the 
 desired results bearing directly upon the 
 welfare of all men, which will not be detri- 
 mental and occasion great loss and conse- 
 quent suffering to countless members of the 
 so-called classes. 
 
 Those who stand for special rights 
 and privileges must either prove and 
 protect them by force or adjust from 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 181 
 
 a more rational and equitable basis of 
 action the rights of the masses of people 
 awakened to-day who are struggling to 
 express themselves in a way not removed 
 from other classes in its actual significance 
 but differing greatly from higher methods 
 in bringing about a unified purpose among 
 men. 
 
 The only way it is possible to obtain 
 results which will be lasting and which will 
 be satisfying to all parties is for the classes 
 who are distinguished upon earth as the 
 upper classes to offer of their own free will, 
 not to make concessions to the work- 
 ing classes from the standpoint of the 
 redistribution of property by any means but 
 to realize that the force they have been deal- 
 ing with called the working classes, is a 
 force to be reckoned with indeed at some 
 time in some age, and that these people so 
 removed exteriorly from the world of the 
 classes, are just the same potentially as 
 themselves. 
 
 The classes so-called must some time real- 
 ize that there is no radical difference what- 
 ever between men save in the use they have 
 made of their faculties and the purposes 
 which they have served; how long and to 
 how great an extent they have served the 
 purposes of construction or how long and to 
 how great an extent they have served the 
 purposes of destruction, these are the things 
 which count. 
 
182 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 
 
 If a man thinks that because he is 
 born into the earth world in an environment 
 of wealth and protection that he is immune 
 from any law throughout the working of 
 God's universe, he has much to learn and 
 much indeed could be spared him were he 
 able to acquire some of the most essential 
 lessons while he is still walking the pathway 
 of life upon earth. 
 
 There could be no greater boon to human 
 beings at this time than the knowledge that 
 the justice of God fills all space, all worlds, 
 and all manifestations of his creative force; 
 that all individual centres of being called 
 entities upon all planes of life, come under 
 the working of this law. 
 
 The human family must one day learn 
 that there is no escape from eventually 
 facing the truth of life and of being. 
 The longer the process is deferred, the 
 harder and the more severe the methods 
 to engage the attention of men and fasten 
 it for their own good upon matters pertain- 
 ing to spiritual unfoldment and advance- 
 ment. 
 
 This is one of the manifold objects of 
 this little book, to stimulate as much as 
 possible individual thinking along the line of 
 development in the way best fitted to apply 
 to the needs of each and every human being 
 to whom the book itself or the influence of 
 it shall reach. 
 
 In conclusion, let it be remembered that 
 
THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 183 
 
 we are all children of one common Father 
 and that the nature of man is spiritual; that 
 all men are brothers and that the attainment 
 upon earth of that glorious ideal is the same 
 as that held before us by the Master of men, 
 who walking by the Sea of Galilee, said to 
 his brethren, "Love one another, be ye 
 kindly disposed one towards another," and 
 also, "Ye are my sheep, the sheep of one 
 pasture." 
 
 Therefore it is well to remember as 
 the Master said, that we are not divided 
 but that we are of one pasture, and when we 
 realize that God's pasture is our world 
 wherever we may be at any moment of time 
 in any and all forms of existence, then we 
 know that the kingdom of heaven is truly 
 within the heart of man. Whosoever 
 turneth for light to the inner recesses of his 
 own being, will not fail to find the God 
 within, and he will walk in peace and in 
 great joy all the rest of his days upon earth 
 and throughout all worlds to come. 
 
 This is the end, dear instrument, at least 
 the end of this particular volume and I hope 
 that I may again use your hand for trans- 
 cription. When the opportunity comes you 
 may be sure I will avail myself of it with 
 eagerness and I trust that the second vol- 
 ume may be only one of many. With many 
 thanks and congratulations on the comple- 
 tion of our task. 
 
 A Friend of the Cause." 
 
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