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FROM YOUTH TO PARADISE 
 
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 YOUTH to PARADISE 
 
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 HENRY F. STEVENSON 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 IN giving this book to the public it is the intention 
 of the author that the coming generation shall 
 have their eyes open to the true state of facts as pro- 
 duced from nature and not walk blindly in obscure 
 by-paths as their fathers have done before them. 
 All the laws of nature when analyzed are found to 
 be perfect and open to all mankind. When we trust 
 them we find they are true; we violate them either 
 through ignorance or intention and we suffer the pen- 
 alty; we fail to master them and the loss is complete. 
 
 In analyzing nature's laws I find nothing to base 
 transmigration upon. Experience has taught me that 
 man can turn into a tiger, but I find no basic foun- 
 tain reversing the rule in man's development through 
 progeniture. 
 
 Our successes are enjoyed by others, our failures 
 we bear alone. Nature has given us a body of great 
 physical strength, but we are told by our superiors 
 that we are without experience and must listen to 
 older trained minds, while we know that all should 
 think for themselves, to build the mind up in har- 
 
mony with the body. When the mind becomes 
 strong enough to be master, the abuses of the body 
 cease. 
 
 Some fiction has been added to these pages to 
 induce us to cultivate our minds for the purpose of 
 preparing them for the great struggle in the world 
 theatre, conducted by brute force over mind. We 
 are needed in the mental army now forming for the 
 purpose of restoring reason, join it now, and may 
 these pages assist you in your proficiency. 
 
 These thoughts are given with a kindly feeling 
 to all mankind and my best wishes for a higher 
 civilization. 
 
 H. F. Stevenson. 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 CHAPTER PAGE 
 
 I. Is a nation justitied in war except to 
 
 protect its people ? 1 
 
 II. The soldier's dream. ..... 15 
 
 III. Impressed with effulgence of love. . 36 
 
 IV. We learn through mental science how 
 
 to build the body. ..... 48 
 
 V. The development of our progenitors. . 75 
 
 VI. Reviewing the process of turning animal 
 
 life to the use of man. .... 89 
 
 VII. Earth's historic panorama 97 
 
 VIII. Seeing mankind climb up the rungs to 
 to the broad fields of religion by many 
 shrines 118 
 
 IX. The black man's struggle with civiliza- 
 tion 180 
 
 X. The dawn scenes before the awakening. 219 
 
March on ! march on ! toward paradise, 
 
 For you have a very long way to go, 
 
 You may miss your opportunity to the city eternal, 
 
 By bayonets, shrapnel and gore breaking your radio. 
 
THE SOLDIER'S DREAM 
 
 IX 
 
CHAPTER I. 
 
 IS A NATION JUSTIFIED IN WAR EX- 
 CEPT TO PROTECT ITS PEOPLE ? 
 
 The occurrence was at mid- 
 night. In the wet trenches a gun- 
 ner lay on a battlefield, waiting 
 for the order from the command 
 to commence the operation of his 
 gun, it was a deadly weapon, a 
 machine gun of the latest type 
 which could exterminate any 
 enemy within range. Many a 
 man had received such orders be- 
 fore this and many others will 
 receive them this night, of such 
 is cruel war. 
 
 He shifted his position in the 
 mud and water to better his view 
 as the night was extremely dark. 
 
Having satisfied himself that he 
 could overlook the enemy's posi- 
 tion, he adjusted his field glasses 
 to his eyes and with the assistance 
 of the great searchlight (behind 
 him, could see the enemy's line. 
 He could see a movement in the 
 line, a movement which convinced 
 him that the enemy was march- 
 ing in the distance toward him, 
 massed in solid formation, mov- 
 ing without a wabble, man to man. 
 The gunner arose and spoke as to 
 himself. As he laid his hand upon 
 the gun he said to it, "art thou 
 ready for the death slaughter, 
 thou who has been invented by 
 man to limit death in war, or shall 
 I find this a fallacy? Are men 
 yet but savage beasts howling for 
 the blood of their kind? If this 
 be so may I defend this attack as 
 from an assault of wild beasts, 
 
may my eyes be clear, my hand 
 steady and my range perfect, for 
 it is possible that love has melted 
 in the hearts of men and the gall 
 ducts are wide open, throwing 
 rancor poison through his system, 
 turning him into a raving savage 
 with all the bitter hate of a de- 
 mon. Is there no way whereby 
 man can be turned back into the 
 right road for his own benefit and 
 for others? 
 
 All the others of the gun squad 
 lay asleep with their equipment 
 on, resting in the wet trenches. 
 May their rest be long, bad as it is, 
 under the loving care of an angel 
 who directs and guides the eleva- 
 tion of mankind from his lowly 
 estate to the perfect man, and 
 through this influence prepares 
 them for the conflict which may 
 decide the fate of nations. May 
 
the decision, whatever it may be, 
 terminate for the right. He lis- 
 tened and heard the howl of the 
 jackal and could see the glisten of 
 the wings of the air scavengers 
 as they hung over the darkened 
 heavens. His teeth were tightly 
 set as if to receive a blow from 
 some mighty hand. The icy beads 
 stood upon his face. Every mus- 
 cle in his big six feet of body stood 
 drawn to their utmost tension 
 and as hard as Bessemer steel. 
 The boom of the big guns the ter- 
 rific fusillade of the monster 
 projectiles, the deadly shrapnel 
 bursting overhead, were suffi- 
 cient warning of the coming 
 events. The gunner examined 
 his gun with great care and 
 waited the call to make ready, 
 would it never come, was there 
 some mistake? Was it possible 
 
that the command had overlooked 
 the movement of the enemy? No, 
 he could now hear the buzz in the 
 distance of the war autocars, 
 loaded with the infantry, whir- 
 ring like mad toward the front. 
 Through his glass he could now 
 see the enemy in mass formation 
 coming on and on, every fibre of 
 his body was tense, almost to 
 parting. He lifted his hands and 
 turned his eyes toward heaven 
 and said: 
 
 "Oh God — Hear this my nightly 
 prayer. Thou who has estab- 
 lished fixed and divine laws which 
 man must obey or remain an in- 
 definite time without the portal of 
 Heaven, even after death until 
 his submission. As I stand to- 
 night away from home, may I be 
 under thy care, and within the 
 radius of thy power. May thy 
 
wisdom fall over me like a 
 friendly covering mantle, and in- 
 vest me with the power of correct 
 solution of right from wrong. To- 
 night I stand in a country, far 
 from my native land, fighting for 
 a cause I believe to be for the 
 right. The protection of civilized 
 man. The family, father, mother 
 and children. Jesus said: 'Suffer 
 little children, and forbid them 
 not to come unto me: for such is 
 the kingdom of heaven/ Is it not 
 a trust upon all christian mankind 
 to protect the children in their 
 earthly homes; to protect them 
 with might as their natural guar- 
 dians? If I am wrong, let my eyes 
 be opened through Thy divine 
 wisdom. I pray thee that this 
 night I shall not violate the teach- 
 ings of Jesus, who further said: 
 'Thou shalt do no murder/ Dear 
 
God — I am confused and blinded. 
 I knowest my way only through 
 my own heart. Sometimes I feel 
 sure and at other times I doubt, 
 has the race of men themselves 
 really improved in moral and in- 
 tellectual capacity during the 
 many centuries which have 
 passed since they were savage? 
 Is man within the element that 
 controls him, a cruel brute, re- 
 strained only by a pack-thread of 
 civilization and custom which 
 bind him and which he may snap 
 asunder at any moment, showing 
 himself for what he actually is? 
 Oh, no, something within me re- 
 volts at the thought. Man with- 
 in has inherited a spark of thy 
 intellect. It may be small: but it 
 is a sufficient germ, growing into 
 and becoming a part of the uni- 
 versal wisdom and uniting with 
 
many others of its kind. I do not 
 believe in the inferiority of man. 
 I realize the qualities in different 
 individuals are not alike and vary 
 at different periods of their life. 
 I believe the germ-plasm in the 
 individual possesses the power 
 and develops to an upward tend- 
 ing to the better man. I believe 
 the cultured savage is not a civil- 
 ized man, he is a cultured savage 
 and nothing more. If he violates 
 Thy divine laws, he must suffer 
 thq penalty. From this conclu- 
 sion, I reason I am justified, as a 
 civilized man to defend with all 
 my power the homes of those who 
 are of the 'kingdom of heaven/ 
 
 "I pray Thee for Thy blessing 
 upon all mankind, family, friends 
 and Thy servant. Have them all 
 guided by Thy angels, in this 
 their earth work and when fin- 
 
ished in this life to Thy kingdom 
 of heaven. May I tonight possess 
 the love taught by Jesus our Sa- 
 vior and may it be in control of 
 my actions. I ask Thy blessing. 
 Amen." 
 
 "He prayeth best that loveth best, 
 All things, both great and small : 
 For the dear God, who loveth us, 
 He made and loveth all." 
 
 And when he had made an end 
 of praying, he said to himself: 
 you can not love your country and 
 hate your fellow man, you can not 
 love your own race and despise 
 others. 
 
 Then he looked and the enemy 
 had covered half the distance be- 
 tween the lines. His prayer had 
 gained for him composure, per- 
 fect respiration, a moist skin, 
 bright and clear eyes. Every cell 
 
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 in his body was high in exubera- 
 tion. All intelligence throughout 
 the man made quick response: he 
 realized that God can make the 
 most of body, mind and heart. 
 This scientific method he recog- 
 nized as the one mode of discern- 
 ing or discovering truth. 
 
 The electric ions or electrones 
 revolving in the heavenly ether 
 about him responded in perfect 
 harmony with the body of the 
 man, even the tingling of the 
 finger tips, making the man alert 
 and full of energy. As the enemy 
 crawled up, snuffing the lines like 
 dogs on a scent, they came within 
 range of the masked guns at the 
 moment, the signal "to arms" 
 sounded. Every man of the squad 
 bounded to his feet and stood in 
 his place by the gun, no word was 
 uttered. The gunner's mind had 
 
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 become so animated, he could feel 
 a heavenly force behind him. His 
 thoughts were of such brilliant 
 character, vibrating through his 
 companions' mind as from na- 
 ture, they grasped the thought 
 itself, his bright, cheerful, elevat- 
 ing and confident thoughts, trav- 
 eling swiftly and mingling with 
 others of their kind lifting one as 
 into realms akin to Heaven. Every 
 man stood erect, ready for duty 
 as he understood it, if in error, it 
 was an honest mistake. The en- 
 emy moved to the obstruction of 
 barbed wire, apparently not see- 
 ing the masked guns. The first 
 column commenced to cut the 
 wire, when the signal to fire was 
 sounded. 
 
 Every gun responded as if 
 operated by one man, although 
 composed of more than a score of 
 
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 guns. The bullets of the machine 
 guns rattled on the enemy. Shall 
 all soldiers learn to disregard 
 guns by experience? The first 
 column fell in their tracks, the 
 next stepped in their places, the 
 buzz of the machine guns contin- 
 ued, column after column went 
 down until the stacks of men 
 made it impossible to advance 
 under the terrific fire, the remain- 
 ing units retreated. The machine 
 gun is the master of this war. 
 When the command came to cease 
 firing, the gun squad was ex- 
 hausted. 
 
 The gunner examined his 
 watch; it pointed to three a. m. 
 and he whispered to himself: 
 "Hearken, therefore, unto the 
 supplications of Thy servant, and 
 of Thy people Israel, which they 
 shall make toward this place; 
 
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 hear thou from thy dwelling- 
 place, even from heaven and 
 when Thou hearest, forgive." 
 "But will God in every deed dwell 
 with men on the earth?" 
 
 With his eyes all aglow, his 
 prostrate form fell upon the 
 ground. His active mind worked 
 rapidly in his struggle to solve 
 the horror of the occurrence. 
 This is one of the most fatal dis- 
 asters and blot upon the earth. 
 Civilized life must adjust man- 
 kind on entirely different lines 
 and under new conditions. This 
 world must conform and submit 
 to the control of more divine laws. 
 Christ is the light and in Him is 
 no darkness. He opened the eyes 
 of the blind; He will open the eyes 
 of the world, may my eyes be 
 opened, may the coin through 
 which man looks drop from his 
 
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 eyes and he see God's light once 
 more. 
 
 "Were half the power that fills the world 
 
 with terror, 
 
 Were half the wealth bestowed on camps 
 
 and courts 
 
 Given to redeem the human mind from error, 
 
 There were no need of arsenals or forts." 
 
CHAPTER II. 
 
 THE SOLDIER'S DREAM. 
 
 At this moment he seemed to 
 see coming toward him, crossing 
 the bloody battlefield, his earthly 
 father. Impossible; a man who 
 had passed the four-score and six 
 mile stone of his life. It could be 
 no other. As he walked with his 
 staff, and with his calm face, his 
 son knew him and spoke to him. 
 
 "How came you at this scene of 
 horror?" 
 
 "My son, I am on a long journey 
 and I desire your company. Come 
 go with me to the far away land." 
 
 "Father, while I have always 
 obeyed your commands, I can not 
 forsake the colors; they must be 
 
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 protected for the enemy may re- 
 turn at any moment, and every 
 man will be needed." 
 
 "My son, many a man has been 
 compelled to lay down his arms 
 and leave his work to be finished 
 by others; when he is called to un- 
 dertake greater work. Come, my 
 son, join me in this great under- 
 taking. You may yet return to 
 finish your work." 
 
 "But, my father, I am without 
 money or means of support for a 
 long journey. I will perish upon 
 the way." 
 
 "No, my son. No purse nor 
 script will be needed on this jour- 
 ney; no hunger; no starvation; 
 we will feed upon the mind. This 
 is the food of eternal life. Come, 
 let us be away." 
 
 The gunner rose and followed 
 the man of science, long master 
 
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 of the human body and chemis- 
 try; profound student of animal 
 and vegetable life. For a man of 
 his age, he walked with elasticity, 
 as one with a determined pur- 
 pose. 
 
 The son waited for something 
 to be spoken by his father. He 
 expected something to be said of 
 the undertaking, but not a word 
 was spoken. 
 
 Presently he said, "Father, you, 
 for a long time, have made a 
 study of the science of the world. 
 I, in my work, have found many 
 things I do not understand as to 
 our duty to God and to man. I re- 
 call many things you taught me 
 in my youth and have since fol- 
 lowed your writings for light. I 
 recall some things said by you in 
 a public address many years ago. 
 These impressions come to me 
 
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 afresh from reading a recent re- 
 port published. The address was 
 delivered September 16, 1858. In 
 part I recall you said: 
 
 "The earth is given to man as a 
 place of abode and the first great 
 necessity that presses itself is to 
 provide food and protection 
 against the vicissitudes of the 
 climate. There is no natural pro- 
 vision made anywhere for man's 
 subsistance without labor. In the 
 most favored climate, it is neces- 
 sary for man to gather the fruit 
 that constitutes his food. And 
 nowhere is he secure without 
 some sort of shelter or dwelling 
 as a means of protection. Rai- 
 ment is also indispensible. Food, 
 raiment and shelter are essen- 
 tials, making imperious demands 
 that must be supplied." 
 
 "I have given you every herb- 
 
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 bearing seed which is upon the 
 face of all the earth, and every 
 tree in which is the fruit of the 
 tree yielding seed; to you it shall 
 be for meat. And every beast of 
 the earth, and every fowl of the 
 air, and to everything that creep- 
 eth upon the earth wherein there 
 is life, I have given every green 
 herb for meat; and it was so. This 
 paradisical state has been 
 changed by the fiat of the Al- 
 mighty and the stern denuncia- 
 tion is uttered from Heaven. 
 "Cursed is the ground for thy 
 sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of 
 it all the days of thy life; thorns 
 and thistles shall it also bring 
 forth to thee; and thou shalt eat 
 the herb of the field; in the sweat 
 of thy face shalt thou eat bread." 
 Such are the written decrees of 
 Him who changeth not. 
 
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 "The unwritten law of nature 
 is equally plain and equally im- 
 perious. Man is required to go 
 forth daily and labor to supply his 
 physical wants; and it is no small 
 portion of his time that is thus re- 
 quired, but he must plod on and 
 continually. Thorns and thistles 
 are the products of the earth. 
 Without labor man is the most 
 destitute of all living beings. The 
 beasts of the field find ready sus- 
 tenance in the native herbs of the 
 broad pastures spread out before 
 them; their drink is the running 
 brook. Nature has provided suf- 
 ficient garment to protect them 
 against the inclemencies of the 
 seasons. They are filled and find 
 sufficient shelter beneath the 
 trees of the forest. The feath- 
 ered tribes find ready food in the 
 myriads of insects that creep 
 
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 upon the earth or float upon the 
 atmosphere; the most dainty and 
 varied food is ever spread out be- 
 fore them. They are clothed with 
 a feathery garment, not only an 
 ample protection, but of hues the 
 most varied and beautiful. Thus 
 provided for, well may song of 
 thanksgiving be uttered from 
 every bush and shrub by the 
 whole warbler race. Even the 
 finny tribes that inhabit the wa- 
 ters, in the ample provision made 
 them, may bask in their native 
 element or sport themselves on 
 the broad surface of the ocean, 
 unconscious of want. 
 
 "Man alone is unprovided for. 
 The most needy creature of the 
 whole. He looks out upon the 
 universe with wonder and delight 
 as he beholds the beauties of all 
 created things. Delighted and 
 
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 joyous he might remain, if he 
 were not suddenly aroused by the 
 inward gnawings of hunger, to a 
 sense of his unprovided condition. 
 He is here admonished of the de- 
 cree of heaven, the unalterable 
 law of nature, 'in the sweat of 
 thy face shalt thou eat bread/ 
 
 "Although man is thus placed 
 below all created beings in the 
 provision for his natural wants, 
 in the gift of reason he is placed 
 high above them all. This rich 
 gift is given to man alone in a 
 high degree. Thus he is enabled 
 to see and properly appreciate his 
 wants, and make provision for 
 them. The promptings of unsup- 
 plied wants arouses first the great 
 mental power of man and he soon 
 conceives the idea of domesticat- 
 ing the wild beast of the forest 
 and appropriating them to the 
 
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 supply of those wants upon which 
 his existence depends. Herds are 
 soon collected — and here labor 
 commences. The first occupation 
 of man is that of a shepherd — a 
 tender of flocks. As these in- 
 crease, pastures are sought and 
 folds erected. Labor thus begun, 
 intellectual light increases at 
 every step, and, as flocks increase, 
 new modes for their sustenance 
 are soon devised in the cultivation 
 of forage plants. 
 
 "To cultivate the useful, the 
 useless must be rejected, and 
 working as well as thinking, is 
 fairly begun. The ability to sup- 
 ply all natural wants is beginning 
 to be understood. The unsatisfied 
 appetite prompts to the seeking 
 of other supplies, and it is soon 
 found in the seed-bearing plant. 
 'I have given you every herb- 
 
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 bearing seed/ A rich supply here 
 offers itself but not without labor. 
 Thorns and thistles continue to 
 grow and must be extirpated 
 from among the seed-bearing 
 plants. The hands must perform 
 the duty and the decree is ever 
 present 'in the sweat of thy face 
 shalt thou eat bread.' 
 
 "The necessity to labor is very 
 plainly seen in the neglect to per- 
 form it. Nations living without 
 work are destitute and degraded. 
 Instances enough are at hand in 
 the aboriginees of the continents. 
 This degradation depends upon 
 the want of a proper system of 
 labor. In Africa, where flowers 
 and fruits grow spontaneously, 
 and an ever abiding spring re- 
 mains, man without labor, is still 
 a savage, degraded and miser- 
 able. Man without labor, is not 
 
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 only deprived of necessaries to 
 supply physical wants, but is alike 
 deprived of the necessaries for in- 
 tellectual improvement. Labor 
 is indispensable to intellectual 
 growth, as well as to the supply of 
 physical wants." 
 
 I know some things and I 
 know that I know them. I know 
 that I exist. I know that you 
 exist. I know I have a body. I 
 know this body must be supplied 
 with the proper food or it will per- 
 ish. I know from actual experi- 
 ence I must toil to supply these 
 wants. I know that my thoughts 
 grow and multiply as I attempt to 
 solve these problems of life. 
 What is this mind and what is the 
 connection with the body and how 
 far reaching is its functions? 
 
 "My son, reason is not individ- 
 ual; it is universal among men 
 
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 and absolute and consequently 
 infallible; every serious convic- 
 tion must cover a concealed faith 
 in thought, in reason and in God. 
 
 "The Mind, like the diamond in 
 its original state, is rude and un- 
 polished; but as the effect of the 
 chisel on the external coat soon 
 presents to view the latent beau- 
 ties of the diamond, so education 
 discovers the latent virtues of the 
 mind, to display the summit of hu- 
 man knowledge." 
 
 By education and the school of 
 experience, the mind is prepared 
 throughout the brain and the 
 cells in the body, to reason and 
 master the functions and powers 
 given by the Creator. A study of 
 the mind is calculated to impress 
 upon you a firm belief in the being 
 and existence of a God. The drill 
 
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 of the mind develops the memory, 
 no matter how simple the lesson it 
 must retain for future use. When 
 an idea which we have once had 
 is used again, there is simply a 
 reproduction of the same nervous 
 currents over the same nerves 
 and the same intelligent cells, 
 with the additional feeling that 
 they have produced the same re- 
 sults before. This reproduction 
 fastens upon the subconscious fa- 
 culties and becomes knowledge. 
 We see it in the child learning to 
 walk. He tries it again and again 
 until he has gained the knowl- 
 edge. He uses the same rule in 
 talking. When the subconscious 
 faculties of the child grasp the 
 lesson which he has learned by 
 the sweat of his face he has 
 earned his bread. 
 The mind is so constructed and 
 
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 directed through the wonderful 
 system and mechanism of the 
 nerves and cells of the body act- 
 ing- upon the cells of the brain, 
 combined, they become a power- 
 ful sending and receiving station 
 through the mental currents pro- 
 duced in the intellect of man over 
 the instrument so wisely given by 
 the Creator. These mental cur- 
 rents or thoughts are delivered in 
 two ways; through the voice and 
 upon the electrones in the air 
 about us. These electrones ap- 
 plicable and supplied for sending 
 the thought messages are the 
 most sensitive in nature yet dis- 
 covered by man. They are much 
 more refined than the electrones 
 used for sending a wireless mes- 
 age; to give a crude comparison, 
 the difference is greater than the 
 mechanism of the finest watch is 
 
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 over the sundial. We all have 
 seen men with such highly devel- 
 oped mental currents that it was 
 unnecessary for one word to be 
 spoken in order for him to lift our 
 own mental powers into a higher 
 field of thought. 
 
 Every cell in the human body 
 has a mind of its own; its activity 
 is controlled by the health of the 
 body. The cellulary mind is 
 closely linked by a perfect nerve 
 system with the brain. In fact, it 
 is so close that the action of the 
 man is thereby directed to the 
 mental or the animal, due to the 
 development of the physical or 
 reasoning cells. The Biblical 
 statement is literally correct, "as 
 a man thinketh in his heart, so is 
 he." We are all creatures of our 
 own mental creating. My son, 
 thoughts are things, most power- 
 
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 ful. This is the reason I explain 
 them to you. Unless we under- 
 stand this fact, we are at the mer- 
 cy of a mighty force, of whose na- 
 ture we know very little, and 
 whose very existence many of us 
 deny (as we have all discoveries) 
 until we investigate them. From 
 this I conclude that if we under- 
 stand the nature and laws govern- 
 ing this powerful force, we can 
 master it and render it our instru- 
 ment and assistant. All cells not 
 clarified by the labor of man in his 
 life work under the divine laws, 
 will exhibit a material difference 
 in the specific gravity or relative 
 importance in the growth under 
 the law between the clarified and 
 unclarified upon his future life, 
 more marked even than the dif- 
 ference between the civilized man 
 and the savage. From this I con- 
 
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 elude, that the first step in polish- 
 ing the mind is by healthy labor, 
 both physical and mental. This 
 we learn from the Bible, as well 
 as by observation. All advanced 
 educators now realize there must 
 be a balancing between mind and 
 body. If nature, through climatic 
 conditions, supplies food to man 
 for his sustenance and he be- 
 comes an idler, his mind remains 
 undeveloped or deteriorates. The 
 divine law requires diligent labor 
 to develop intelligence. The 
 idler, whether rich or poor, be- 
 comes a burden, a care upon man- 
 kind with master minds, who are 
 battling for the elevation of hu- 
 manity so they may be fitted for 
 the kingdom of heaven. The law 
 is a fixed law and provides that 
 man must place himself within its 
 rules to receive its benefits. La- 
 
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 bor or application is the first step 
 in the development of the mind. 
 The idle nature demands some- 
 thing. He is too dumb and can 
 not realize the trouble. He takes 
 to sports. This does not satisfy. 
 Then to alcohol, morphine, co- 
 caine or opium. The idle class 
 have been largely responsible 
 directly or indirectly, in all ages, 
 for the poisoning of the human 
 mind. 
 
 Every thought created by our 
 minds is a force of greater or 
 lesser intensity varying in 
 strength according to the power 
 behind it when delivered. If the 
 thought comes from a highly civ- 
 ilized man, we are lifted into a 
 higher zone in the mental world, 
 but on the other hand if it comes 
 from a cultivated or uncultivated 
 savage with force, we feel the 
 
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 virus enter and flow through our 
 entire system, when nothing but 
 a heroic effort on our part will ex- 
 tract it. I mean by the cultivated 
 savage, a man who lives with civ- 
 ilized people but never becomes 
 civilized; he conceals it from his 
 fellows but never stops the prac- 
 tice. 
 
 The uncivilized man is a sav- 
 age. We live in the hope that he 
 will embrace civilization some 
 day. Joining the savage with the 
 civilized man in an effort to bring 
 about a higher civilization will 
 stop the poisoning of the human 
 mind and will give rapid momen- 
 tum to the uplifting and elevat- 
 ing of all mankind as one mass. 
 I call your attention to the culti- 
 vated savage, the hidden cur 
 masked behind good people, for 
 the reason a mistake is in the 
 
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 public mind; does civilization up- 
 hold and make it possible for the 
 uncivilized man to rob, cheat and 
 deceive his f ellowman? No. This 
 is a mistake. The laws are right, 
 but the law can not force you to 
 investigate before you part with 
 your property to the cultivated 
 savage. The fault is our own. If 
 we would only stop to think, the 
 warning will be given us. Our 
 own eager desire for gain may 
 overcome or dull our faculties, 
 then we are unable to judge. 
 
 One of the strong evidences 
 that thoughts are things. Take 
 the patent office in any civilized 
 country, for instance, who stim- 
 ulate their people to development 
 by invention. For civilized man 
 long has realized, the race that 
 exhibits the greatest inventive 
 genius, that is the divine nature 
 
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 to better conditions, which is in- 
 nate in every man will develop 
 when he knows the reward will 
 come to those he loves. A close 
 observation of the information 
 gathered through the above 
 channels will demonstrate that 
 many persons are working on the 
 same subject, although widely 
 separated from each other, with 
 no publicity of any kind; but they 
 will obtain practically the same 
 results. Another example. The 
 result of a great battle is known 
 to keen minds long before the 
 news channels proclaim the facts. 
 When the news does come, it is 
 only a confirmation by the official 
 report. This mighty force is open 
 to all, as much as the learning of 
 the alphabet and will not take 
 much more time. 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 
 IMPRESSED WITH EFFULGENCE 
 OF LOVE 
 
 Love is the turning of darkness 
 into light in the human mind. It 
 is joy, rapture, radiance, gener- 
 osity, the very sole of good fellow- 
 ship, the very essence of life it- 
 self. It is the thing that acts 
 direct upon the mind, the reason- 
 ing power of mankind; the thing 
 that makes the human being like 
 the image of God. The mother, 
 sister and wife show the very 
 highest development of love, con- 
 trolling and directing their men- 
 tal powers as seen in this life. The 
 man often terms this intuition, 
 and thus excuses his own def ec- 
 
37 
 
 tive knowledge. The very essence 
 of her mind is love, which we see 
 exhibited in her through her off- 
 spring and which the child re- 
 turns with such a fondness that it 
 could only be given in the pres- 
 ence of angels. Nature seems to 
 provide in the heart of the honest 
 mother, a direct connection with 
 the higher influence and a higher 
 state of development of love ex- 
 hibited through the mother's love 
 for the child. She seems to real- 
 ize in the children, "for of such is 
 the kingdom of heaven." The 
 mother, wife and sisters are the 
 makers and keepers of a mina- 
 ture heaven itself — a happy home 
 for man to repose in after his la- 
 bors of love for those near and 
 dear to him, which lifts him into a 
 sphere akin to heaven. 
 The child at birth comes into 
 
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 the world with pure nature's love, 
 which would remain so if not 
 changed by the law of contact or 
 absorbtion. We unintentionally 
 teach him fear in early infancy, 
 instead of showing him how to 
 solve the lessons of life in the 
 school of experience. Youth can 
 be directed through the law of 
 reason, if given at an early period 
 of life. All adults recall lessons 
 given them by their parents at a 
 very early time in their life, a 
 lasting impression, a mother's ad- 
 vice, a heavenly command. If we 
 violate these divine lessons that 
 are fixed in our intelligence, in 
 fact our very being, we overrule 
 the law of intelligent love and 
 take in its place nothing for the 
 better; it can not be acquired. 
 More likely we take in its place 
 fear, envy, jealousy or hate. 
 
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 Every one is given the power to 
 drive these savages from their 
 door with a command to begone. 
 When love is once fixed upon an 
 object, and we violate it without 
 just cause, we bring upon our- 
 selve a very disastrous mental 
 condition, although we may deny 
 it to ourselves and the world, we 
 can not hide the mental shock 
 upon our senses. The brain cells 
 become abnormal, congested, fev- 
 erish, the nerve system conveys it 
 to every cell center in the body 
 and are easily inoculated with the 
 degraded germs, which, in time, 
 will develop into bodily or mental 
 derangement. Thus it gathers 
 force until disorder, either dis- 
 ease of the body or mind, is propa- 
 gated therefrom of a like kind. 
 When one realizes that hate, envy 
 and jealousy have opened the gall 
 
40 
 
 ducts of the body and thrown out 
 the poison into the whole system, 
 killing all intelligent love and 
 making of man a savage, he un- 
 derstands why he casts aside the 
 woman who has given him her 
 whole life; left family and all the 
 ties of her youth and bestowed 
 her love upon him. He either 
 gathers her love up in his arms, 
 places it with his own, where it is 
 grafted with that given him by 
 his Creator, and the grafted 
 product brings forth a higher de- 
 velopment in life itself, or he 
 casts it aside like a savage. When 
 one discards divine love it pro- 
 duces a state of mental atrophy, 
 with nothing for sustenance save 
 the body. I mean by divine love 
 that spark given us and which 
 dwells within the intellectual 
 mental circle, which directs us in 
 
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 our labors upon the earth. This 
 spark is in no way a part of the 
 body or the animal instincts of 
 man which he gathers from expe- 
 rience upon the earth. This love 
 is a gift from the Divine Creator 
 of man and we find it very often 
 retained in its purity, and I think 
 I can safely say, more often 
 among the humble and lowly than 
 among those that have had 
 greater opportunities. We often 
 find among the poor, one wielding 
 this divine power like some pow- 
 erful magnet over all who come in 
 contact with him. This force is 
 so great that they have been 
 known to direct the destiny of na- 
 tions. The nature of this divine 
 love when highly developed and 
 has retained its purity, is such 
 that the talent is multiplied so 
 rapidly that it ingrafts itself 
 
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 freely and acts as an anondyne to 
 all who infuse its principles. 
 
 Mankind found at a very early 
 period in his occupancy of the 
 earth, that if they retained the di- 
 vine gift of the Creator, they 
 must protect it from its natural 
 and destructive enemies, such as 
 hate, anger, fear, destruction of 
 mankind and all kindred enemies 
 ever ready to destroy the power 
 intended for the use in his eleva- 
 tion, but he had not yet learned 
 that the Creator had also given 
 him the power of defense through 
 the law of mental force yet undis- 
 covered; that mental power which 
 will brush aside as a speck of dust 
 by the wind; the brute force in 
 use by man to overpower those 
 who oppose him in the gratifica- 
 tion of his desires. The mind be- 
 ing undeveloped, man learns 
 
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 largely by observation. He sees 
 this brute force in active opera- 
 tion; that is, defense behind a 
 barrier. He then uses the appli- 
 ance for his own protection, the 
 same as in use in modern battles, 
 such as you were engaged in 
 when I found you. This is the 
 brute method of robbery and de- 
 fense. No one can deny that man 
 is a savage brute, who follows 
 these methods in this time of the 
 world's civilization. Man learns 
 from these object lessons while 
 yet in his lowly estate, to protect 
 himself from his enemy by a for- 
 tress. He constructed for him- 
 self at first a shelter, a barrier. 
 Likely only four walls was the be- 
 ginning. He then learns that 
 unity is strength, and he takes 
 unto himself a companion to 
 strengthen the divine love within 
 
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 his own soul and adding thereto 
 the divine love given by the Crea- 
 tor to woman and retained by her 
 in much greater purity than is 
 possible by man as shown by the 
 history of the world. These 
 united powers or talents of both, 
 elevate the home so that it is no 
 longer just four walls, but is 
 turned into a miniature of the 
 house not made with hands. It is 
 a place where he realizes the full 
 reward for his labors, the place 
 where ambition is ingrafted into 
 his life, a place where he learns 
 the benefits he will receive from 
 knowledge; its power in protect- 
 ing this asylum constructed for 
 the helplessness of childhood, of 
 old age, in illness, in grief, a shel- 
 ter for all those he loves and that 
 are near and dear to him. The 
 place where the weary may seek 
 
45 
 
 guarded repose and drop earthly- 
 mask to look with heavenly hon- 
 esty into the true eyes of those he 
 loves. Home to man is the place 
 where the heart's dearest are gar- 
 nered; where faith, mercy, peace, 
 tenderness, self-sacrifice and 
 kindness are cultivated in the soul 
 of mankind. The home is the re- 
 treat that in a moment of need 
 becomes a stronghold which the 
 world may not meddle with or 
 enter, if violated, destroyed or 
 polluted by man will bring upon 
 him a penalty more horrible than 
 death. He can not be justified by 
 ambition, conquest, church or na- 
 tional pride; no excuse will avert 
 the penalty. I mention these as 
 but a portion of the attributes 
 that make home the earthly sanc- 
 tuary for whose maintenance, 
 fostering care and defense, all of 
 
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 which its creators are indebted to 
 the divine law of love. Remem- 
 ber, I do not speak of love in the 
 limited sense of affection, but as 
 to that divine law of love, that ad- 
 hesive quality in nature that 
 binds the universe together into 
 one mass, gathering the scattered 
 units of life into a oneness. Love 
 is found in the animal, vegetable 
 and mineral kingdom. Man has 
 taken advantage of this knowl- 
 edge in supplying his wants. He 
 uses the knowledge in the forma- 
 tion of compounds he needs for 
 promoting life. 
 
 Love is priceless and can not be 
 purchased with money or earthly 
 value. You must purchase it in 
 kind and give the best that you 
 have and it will come back to you 
 many fold. Remember, you can 
 not bestow divine love upon your- 
 
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 self. Every one can see deceit ex- 
 cept yourself. 
 
 LIFE'S MIRROR. 
 
 "There are loyal hearts, there are spirits 
 brave. 
 
 There are souls that are pure and true ; 
 Then give to the world the best you have, 
 
 And the best will come back to you. 
 
 Give love and love to your life will flow, 
 A strength in your utmost need; 
 
 Have faith and a score of hearts will show 
 Their faith in your word and deed. 
 
 Give truth and your gift will be paid in kind, 
 
 And honor will honor meet, 
 And a smile that is sweet will surely find 
 
 A smile that is just as sweet. 
 
 For Life is the mirror of king and slave, 
 
 'Tis just what we are and do ; 
 Then give to the world the best you have 
 
 And the best will come back to vou." 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 WE LEARN THROUGH MENTAL SCIENCE 
 HOW TO BUILD THE BODY- 
 
 "WHILE I LIVE." 
 
 "Since it has been my lot to find, 
 
 At every parting of the road, 
 The helping hand of comrade kind, 
 
 To assist me with my heavy load ; 
 And since I have no gold to give, 
 
 And love alone must make amends, 
 My humble prayer is, while I live, 
 
 God make me worthy of my friends." 
 
 Man's life upon the earth is a 
 very short time for him to per- 
 form the labor of developing the 
 mental talents given him by the 
 Creator at the beginning. These 
 talents are so small that he is 
 given a body for the home of the 
 
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 talents only large enough for the 
 purpose. As he gathers and adds 
 to the talents with mental food 
 taken from the resources about 
 him, he grows strong mentally 
 and bodily, very rapidly and to 
 hold his equal poise as at the be- 
 ginning, his casement must be 
 added to from time to time in har- 
 mony with his gathered talents. 
 So his mother has supplied his 
 body at the beginning and taught 
 his mind to sustain him through 
 the law of nature, thereby adding 
 to this outer garment necessary 
 in covering the delicate mechan- 
 ism used in the gathering of men- 
 tal talents from the network of 
 richly ladened harvest all about 
 him. 
 
 The method of the process used 
 by the mother and afterwards by 
 the young under her teachings is 
 
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 much like the bee gathering 
 woodpulp to make a casement or 
 cup for the honey. These little 
 cups perform much the same pur- 
 pose in protecting the honey as 
 the body in protecting the intel- 
 lectual parts of man. The prop- 
 erties come from the same source 
 but through different channels; 
 that is, from the earth. The 
 methods are very different in ex- 
 tracting the products from the 
 earth. The bee gathers the wood- 
 pulp direct from the decaying 
 plant, working it into casements 
 for the protection of the germ- 
 life deposited for their own repro- 
 duction in the honey gathered 
 from the very essence of plant 
 life, while mankind gathers 
 scientifically treated woodpulp 
 from nature's laboratory. He con- 
 sumes the plant or its fruits as 
 
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 experience has taught him is the 
 best for the body building. At 
 first mankind consumed large 
 quantities of animal food pro- 
 cured by the chase, and he after- 
 wards domesticated the animal 
 for his convenience. While the 
 two processes are different, the 
 difference is largely that the 
 earth's products in one instance 
 is longer in the manufacture than 
 the other; the result is largely the 
 same. I think it is safe to say that 
 the body of mankind is of the 
 earth when we analyze the source 
 of the food he consumes; then we 
 have it confirmed by divine rec- 
 ords. We can see how this body 
 is produced through the process 
 of storing fibers in much the same 
 way as was provided in our begin- 
 ning through the mother, being 
 added thereto until we behold a 
 
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 fully grown man to be continually 
 cared for under these laws of na- 
 ture. The more direct from the 
 soil, that is the nearer the product 
 consumed in building the body of 
 man is to the earth, the more per- 
 fect the tissues. The animal food 
 consumed by man, while flavored 
 with enticing juices that stimu- 
 late the appetite with an inclina- 
 tion to over feed, their consump- 
 tion is not so conducive to the 
 rapid development of the civil- 
 ized man as food taken almost 
 direct from the soil, like the fruits 
 in plant life grown either in or 
 above the ground. The chemical 
 development from vegetable food 
 in the machinery provided by na- 
 ture for the growth of man's body 
 is less taxed than from animal 
 food as well as giving better re- 
 sults. In properly building the 
 
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 organism of man's body which is 
 very important for the reason 
 that all life cells must be bedded 
 with exactness and tension, so 
 that the lower cells will distribute 
 through the body and maintain 
 their full intelligent force and 
 properly gather intellectual tal- 
 ents from nature and add to those 
 of the mind. By lax bedding in 
 the body of the life cells man will 
 become prematurely old, through 
 the bedding process of the life 
 cells if the casement should be- 
 come diseased or overloaded by 
 excessive feeding and it will 
 effect the whole intelligent sys- 
 tem in a greater or less degree 
 according to the extent of the 
 disturbance. 
 
 The fluids or flavors mixed with 
 the solids taken in flesh furnish 
 the lubrication for the body and 
 
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 assist in the distribution of the 
 solids to the parts needing addi- 
 tions and repairs. 
 
 Under the laws governing a 
 healthy man, it is necessary that 
 he be always well balanced in his 
 bodily properties and his mental 
 functions. If he fails in either, 
 the other becomes abnormal or 
 shrinks through nature's effort 
 to balance the man and generally 
 leads to a failure of a successful 
 life. 
 
 Every intellectual cell linked 
 by the Creator to a man's intelli- 
 gence is necessary as a part of 
 the machinery used in adding to 
 his talents and every cell must be 
 well and not over bedded to re- 
 tain its function when it comes 
 in contact with the great law of 
 force; that is, in the contest 
 mapped out by the Creator in this 
 
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 battle of life. I am more and 
 more impressed as I near the end 
 of a long and healthy life, that 
 man, to harvest a great crop of 
 mental talents in the Creator's 
 vineyard, is in need of every mo- 
 ment of his allotted three score 
 and ten years to gather a full har- 
 vest. When his harvest season is 
 shortened by his own acts or his 
 neglect or even from his own ig- 
 norance, he passes into the great 
 beyond with a short harvest ac- 
 count, a failure unfit to proceed. 
 He is out of the orbit of the divine 
 course, wandering without any 
 control; no guide to show him the 
 way. I am satisfied that as man 
 climbs up the rungs of civiliza- 
 tion, he will realize more and 
 more in his struggles, how great 
 the loss sustained through his 
 shortened time upon earth, so 
 
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 that the coming man will abso- 
 lutely refuse to contribute his 
 time to anything that will take 
 from his mental work necessary 
 for his development. The de- 
 struction of the physical stops 
 the growth of the mental so far as 
 can be seen by man, or a partial 
 destruction of the physical great- 
 ly impairs the mental growth, the 
 imparity loses the harmony. 
 
 Through the laboratory, scien- 
 tists have discovered many 
 things heretofore unknown to 
 man, his connection with the 
 earth, the proper food for body 
 building, the purpose of the 
 physical man and how to properly 
 develop it with the mental. We 
 also have learned through mental 
 science how to build the body so 
 that it will develop the mind into 
 the civilized man instead of the 
 
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 savage. Science has discovered 
 that the evolution of man is not 
 through selection any more than 
 it is through light and dark or hot 
 and cold or any other varying 
 condition, but is worked out 
 through the divine wisdom called 
 mental force, carrying out a 
 great divine plan of the Creator. 
 The tide of the minds of men 
 ebbs and flows like the sea. The 
 seventh wave often destroys 
 many things accomplished by the 
 workers in carrying out the di- 
 vine plan and which must be done 
 all over again, for man is under a 
 law as fixed and unchanged in the 
 final result as time itself. It is 
 something like the law govern- 
 ing the seasons; the changing 
 events make many hardships and 
 give many pleasures. We know 
 through mental reasoning, which 
 
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 we sometimes call experience, 
 that time will solve the most diffi- 
 cult problem if we use the force in 
 our minds in an honest endeavor 
 to overcome them. By the use of 
 brute force or blind force, we 
 often see men working under dif- 
 ficulties hard to surmount, not 
 realizing that he has run counter 
 with the laws of nature and his 
 failure is for the reason that he is 
 against an impenetrable wall. 
 Then we blindly ask ourselves, 
 why the short time is allotted to 
 man for this life in which we 
 must work out our successes; if it 
 were for a thousand years we 
 would do no better if we followed 
 the same method. It is only a 
 case of the "buried talent" we can 
 only hope to return that which 
 was given us without additions. 
 This great partnership between 
 
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 mind and body is the joining link 
 between heaven and earth, to be 
 successfully connected both must 
 perform their functions. The 
 mind being the senior member, 
 must perform the work of plan- 
 ning the business and directing 
 the execution of all necessary acts 
 that are required to be done in 
 this life partnership with labor; 
 the work must be so planned 
 within the limit of the capacity of 
 the combined members of the 
 partnership. The work must be 
 so planned for each day that the 
 labor can be disposed of in a full 
 day's work and laid away at the 
 completion as well done. On the 
 other hand, the duty of the junior 
 partner which is endowed with 
 the brawn, is to perform the work 
 planned by his partner mind. He 
 must do it well and labor with in- 
 
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 dustry. Idle hours, pleasure, 
 commercialism, dishonesty, de- 
 bauchery and crime will produce 
 failure in the purpose of the firm, 
 or in the end absolute ruin. The 
 business must be conducted 
 under the Universal laws and 
 when man's laws or even usage 
 comes in conflict with the Univer- 
 sal they must be abrogated. Man 
 has learned through the long ex- 
 perience recorded in the world's 
 history that this firm, we know as 
 man, to accomplish success must 
 be as near perfect as possible in 
 both mind and body. So when 
 mind expects to accomplish a dif- 
 ficult task he must see to it that 
 body is in condition to perform 
 the labor, thus in developing the 
 functions of the mind the mental 
 units must be well seated in a 
 healthy body. For this reason the 
 
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 mind turns to the science of the 
 laboratory to gain knowledge. He 
 discovers that the food for the 
 body comes from the earth and 
 the more direct, the better the re- 
 sult for body building. He learns 
 in this way that the fungus of 
 some kinds give splendid results 
 although produced over night. 
 From this he learns that food 
 taken from very near the earth 
 gives splendid body fibre. The 
 science of chemistry developed 
 through mental labor is slowly 
 solving the problem of tissue 
 building according to the divine 
 law. Man driven to the necessity 
 of keeping both mind and body in 
 order stop his development, 
 learns that these delays will be- 
 come vexatious if not serious on 
 account of the short time for his 
 development. 
 
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 William Shakespeare has given 
 a very good description of man's 
 progress upon the earth and his 
 trials. He says: 
 
 "All the world's a stage, 
 And all the men and women merely players ; 
 They have their exits and their entrances; 
 And one man in his time plays many parts, 
 His acts being seven ages. At first the in- 
 fant, 
 Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. 
 Then the whining school boy, with his satchel 
 And shining morning face, creeping like snail 
 Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, 
 Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad 
 Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a sol- 
 dier 
 Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the 
 
 pard, 
 Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, 
 Seeking the bubble reputation 
 Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the 
 
 justice 
 In fair round belly with good capon lined, 
 With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, 
 Full of wise saws and modern instances; 
 
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 And so he plays his part. The sixth age 
 
 shifts 
 Into the lean and slippered pataloon, 
 With spectacles on nose and pouch on side ; 
 His youthful hose, well saved, a world too 
 
 wide 
 For his shrunk shank; and his big manly 
 
 voice, 
 Turning again towards childish treble, pipes 
 And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, 
 That ends this strange eventful history, 
 A second childishness and mere oblivion." 
 
 The world may be a stage, but 
 it can not always be at play or 
 seek pleasure. There must be 
 honest work to improve the sev- 
 enth stage of man so that man 
 will not return to the infant at the 
 end. By careful thought the 
 mental cells will remain almost as 
 well bedded in the body at old age 
 as it is at full development. The 
 trouble comes from the neglect 
 by the mind over the body. Again 
 
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 man meets with two great diffi- 
 culties in his work in this life to 
 keep himself in perfect order. 
 First, the thing we call sickness 
 of both mind and body. We have 
 advanced in the mastery of these 
 ailments only through the school 
 of experience. The rapidity of 
 our development in this school 
 depends wholly on the talents we 
 possess at the beginning and the 
 cultivation of its power and 
 strength through thought. The 
 termination of life through sick- 
 ness brings about a mental disso- 
 lution and generally gives time 
 for the adjustment of nature, al- 
 though the occurence may seem- 
 ingly be premature. 
 
 Secondly. Violent dissolution of 
 mind and body can not help from 
 disarranging the fixed laws un- 
 der which man is governed and 
 
 
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 controlled while on the earth. 
 How disastrous the effect I am 
 unable to determine at this time, 
 although I am satisfied that it 
 does a very great injury and de- 
 flects him from his path. If it had 
 been trifling we would not have 
 had the command, "Thou shalt 
 not kill." The result must be ap- 
 palling, for the command makes 
 no exception, not even in battle or 
 in self defense. He who violates it 
 must suffer the penalty. The 
 Book of Revelations gives as a 
 penalty, "He that killeth with the 
 sword must be killed with the 
 sword." This should be sufficient 
 warning to mankind that the 
 Creator does not approve of the 
 violent dissolution of man in this 
 school of experience. I have 
 nothing but pity for the man sent 
 out of this life, an unfinished 
 
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 product, yea for the man respon- 
 sible for the failure, whether he 
 be prince or pauper, rich or poor, 
 his loss is no one's gain. 
 
 War, war. There is no need of 
 war. It is only to satisfy the 
 greed of some one. Gold. How 
 many men have lost their lives 
 for the King's gold, or the King's 
 greedy eye on gathering the 
 crops off the neighbor's adjacent 
 fields. It impresses me with the 
 old Parable of Life: 
 
 "The fox once came near a very fine 
 garden, where he beheld lofty trees 
 laden with fruit that charmed the eye. 
 Such a beautiful sight, added to his 
 natural greediness, excited in him the 
 desire of possession. He fain would 
 taste the forbidden fruit, but a high 
 wall stood between him and the object 
 of his wishes. He went about in search 
 of an entrance, and at last found an 
 opening in the wall ; but it was too small 
 
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 for his big body. Unable to penetrate 
 he had recourse to his usual cunning. 
 He fasted three days and became suffi- 
 ciently reduced to crawl through the 
 small aperture. Having effected an en- 
 trance, he carelessly roved about in this 
 delightful region; making free with its 
 exquisite produce and feasting on its 
 most rare and delicious fruit. He 
 stayed for sometime and glutted his ap- 
 petite, when a thought struck him, that 
 it was possible that he might be ob- 
 served, and in that case he should pay 
 dearly for the enjoyed pleasure. He 
 therefore retired to the place where he 
 had entered and attempted to get out, 
 but to his great consternation, he found 
 his endeavors vain, — he had by indul- 
 gence grown so fat and plump that the 
 same place would no more admit him. 
 
 'I am in a fine predicament,' said he 
 to himself, 'Suppose the master of the 
 garden were now to come and call me to 
 account, what would become of me? I 
 see my only chance of escape is to fast 
 and half starve myself.' He did so with 
 great reluctance, and after suffering 
 hunger for three days, he with difficulty 
 made his escape. As soon as he was 
 
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 out of danger, he took a farewell view 
 of the garden, the scene of his delight 
 and trouble ; and thus addressed it 
 
 "Garden; garden; thou art indeed 
 charming and delightful, thy fruits are 
 delicious and exquisite; but of what 
 benefit are thou to me? What have I 
 now for all my labor and cunning? Am 
 I not lean as I was before?" 
 
 "It is even so with man. Naked 
 comes he into the world — naked must he 
 go out of it ; and of all his toils and labor 
 he can carry nothing with him, save the 
 fruits of his righteousness." 
 
 In this great world's war, na- 
 tions are much slower than the 
 fox in seeing the lesson of life. 
 They should receive the warning 
 before it is too late. The master 
 of the garden is sure to return 
 and render retribution. 
 
 Nations find it easy to get into 
 war, but very hard to get out. 
 Those left upon the battlefield 
 never gain anything nor profit 
 
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 by victory, although their country 
 wins the day. They lose their 
 chance, the universe loses them, 
 it is a loss to their families and 
 friends; although their masters 
 may occupy the "garden" for a 
 little while, until the great law of 
 force drives them out, as a just 
 judgment of the mind of man- 
 kind, for "he that leadeth into 
 captivity shall go into captivity/' 
 This is an unbroken rule evi- 
 denced by the history of man on 
 the globe, not only in history but 
 nations are forewarned by writ- 
 ers and poets: 
 
 "Rome shall perish — write the word 
 
 In the blood that she has spilt; 
 Perish, hopeless and abhorred, 
 
 Deep in ruin as in guilt. 
 Rome, for empire far renowned, 
 
 Trample on a thousand states ; 
 Soon her pride shall kiss the ground — 
 
 Hark ; the Gaul is at her gates." 
 
TO 
 
 All nations that live by the 
 sword must die by the sword is 
 according to nature's laws and 
 there is no escape. All things 
 have an affirmative and a nega- 
 tive side, a dark and a light side 
 of its life. This rule is never 
 broken by nature. No day is so 
 long and beautiful but that it 
 must have its night. The magnet 
 has two poles and so with all 
 things in nature. It is the load- 
 stone of life, the linking of the 
 ethereal with the solids. There 
 can be no divine creation that is 
 not well balanced. 
 
 Mankind is the only living 
 thing that has attempted to vio- 
 late these fixed laws of nature. 
 How successfully he has accom- 
 plished it no one but God himself 
 can determine the effect upon the 
 cosmos. Our knowledge is too 
 
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 limited for us to fully determine 
 beyond our limited knowledge. 
 Some things we see man has done 
 to upset his natural development. 
 We see that war stops the repro- 
 duction of the very pick of a race, 
 stopping the earth work of the 
 male and leaving the female des- 
 titute and the home unprovided 
 for and the coming generations 
 stultified and dwarfed in mind 
 and body. I never walk over a 
 battlefield upon the ashes of the 
 dead bodies left from the battle 
 without feeling that here under 
 my feet lie the bodies of the flow- 
 er of their race. What has be- 
 come of the minds of these men? 
 Is this air loaded with the frag- 
 ment of the minds which have 
 been violently cast out of their 
 body and shattered in bits upon 
 the four winds of the universe, 
 
_2 
 
 the particles scattered and forced 
 into many different cycles of the 
 cosmos, apart and separated from 
 each other, floating with others of 
 the unfortunates, like a human 
 nebula utterly disarranged as 
 fixed by nature, each particle 
 grasping at any luminous waves 
 or radiating heat to gain their 
 own in the network of chaos. Man 
 knows not how long this fight 
 must go on to regain their orig- 
 inal units, that the mind of man 
 may commence their life work 
 anew. I see these monuments 
 erected to mark these acts and 
 deeds of valor, that the coming 
 generatians may know of the 
 battle but not of their terrible 
 sacrifice. I pray that these monu- 
 ments may be of some assistance 
 to the perished upon the battle- 
 field for the location and the as- 
 
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 sembling of their mental frag- 
 ments blown asunder by these 
 high explosives, that they may be 
 a beacon light for their camp- 
 fires at the great assembling of 
 rank and file in reformation under 
 divine laws. No one except the 
 Creator can determine the time 
 necessary to complete the work 
 of repairing the destruction done 
 to man. When they gain this 
 knowledge wars will be at an end. 
 Man has gained a slight insight 
 into the effect of high explosives 
 upon the mind through the un- 
 surpassed tests made in this war 
 and how the mind is disturbed 
 even in soldiers escaping compact 
 with the explosives, the effect 
 above being from concussion and 
 in many cases the mind is never 
 restored as far as can be seen in 
 this life. As man grows stronger 
 
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 mentally he will be very reluctant 
 to give so much even for his coun- 
 try. Is pollution or self-preserva- 
 tion, the divine essence of the 
 mind? 
 
 LIFE'S ENDEAVOR. 
 
 "I expect to pass through this world 
 but once. Any good thing, therefore, 
 that I can do, or any kindness that I can 
 show to any fellow being, let me do it 
 now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for 
 I shall not pass this way again." 
 
CHAPTER V. 
 
 THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR 
 PROGENITORS. 
 
 Back in the early ages of man's 
 existence upon the earth he lived 
 in the mountains, which was nat- 
 ural for his own self -protection. 
 He had not yet learned to protect 
 himself from his enemy, so he 
 was compelled to live in caves in 
 the mountains, that being the 
 easiest place for his protection 
 from wild beasts and a safe dwell- 
 ing-place. As a cave-dweller he 
 could easily protect his young 
 from being destroyed in their ten- 
 der years. This kind of a dwell- 
 ing place in the wilds of the earth 
 
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 was near to the game on which he 
 depended for sustenance for him- 
 self and family, His intelligence 
 was of a low order and what he 
 possessed was almost useless 
 through the terrible fear that 
 overcame him. His knowledge 
 was limited to the first instruc- 
 tions, without culture but as na- 
 ture gave them; just a savage 
 man, little above his neighbors, 
 the wild beasts of the earth. On 
 these wild beasts he must rely for 
 food. The washing of the moun- 
 tains by storms carried away the 
 fertile soil and left no vegetation 
 to supply him with food. He had 
 not yet learned of these provis- 
 ions of nature, so he learned to 
 rely alone upon flesh of the ani- 
 mals for his food and their skins 
 fox his clothing to protect him 
 from the rigorous elements about 
 
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 him in the winter. Through these 
 habits of sustaining his body by 
 preying upon the beasts of the 
 mountains they became afraid 
 and treated man as a deadly en- 
 emy. They avoided him as best 
 they could and from this fear, 
 man found his food more difficult 
 to obtain and at times he was 
 hungry and half starved. From 
 this he was forced to resort to his 
 mind for assistance. He made 
 pits and traps that he might in- 
 crease his capacity for securing 
 food for if he did not, he must go 
 hungry. This started his mind to 
 work and as it solved these diffi- 
 cult problems it became stronger, 
 reason came to him and con- 
 sumed his fear and he was a 
 stronger man in mind and body. 
 His intelligence produced ambi- 
 tion and love within his heart; 
 
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 ambition brought a desire to bet- 
 ter his condition and to do some- 
 thing for those he loved. To sat- 
 isfy these desires he left the lim- 
 ited territory he was accustomed 
 to follow through the mountains 
 and the shadows and traveled out 
 into the valley and sunlight. 
 
 The marks of these old dwell- 
 ing places have not been entirely 
 obliterated even to this day. They 
 are yet to be seen in a number of 
 places upon the earth and are a 
 monumental history, an open 
 book to teach the coming genera- 
 tions the lesson of development 
 made by their progenitors. 
 
 After the cave dwelling period 
 had passed man seemed to take 
 on a new life in mind and body. 
 That is, he apparently com- 
 menced the development of him- 
 self after his changed conditions 
 
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 of life, not alone in body by the 
 use of mixed foods, but he grew 
 strong mentally, through the 
 seed of the Creator within him, 
 the only link whereby he may 
 connect with the cycle about his 
 Creator. This embryo generative 
 atom is joined with this parent 
 cycle. I might say, something 
 like a key is fastened to a great 
 key ring by the little ring head, 
 these heads representing the in- 
 telligent cycle within man made 
 up of the long line of cells which 
 controls his senses and are con- 
 nected with those of his Creator. 
 It is possible that his intelligent 
 cycle may be of such low order or 
 so imperfect that the connection 
 is never properly made with the 
 cycle about the Creator, no mat- 
 ter how heavily charged the pa- 
 rent cycle is with magnetism. 
 
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 This condition seemed to exist for 
 a long time, this dormant state in 
 man. Then it came quickly to life 
 under proper conditions like the 
 dormant seed in vegetable life 
 after a warm rain, as man's in- 
 tellect is warmed through the de- 
 velopment of the connecting cells 
 of his mental powers, completing 
 the cycle of the mind at its high- 
 est unit the seed of God imbedded 
 in man for the germination of his 
 wisdom, we have a working plant 
 for man's development. 
 
 The seed of God does not mean 
 that man is a God any more than 
 the acorn is the great oak tree, 
 The acorn being the seed of the 
 oak tree, is given the opportunity 
 of developing into a like tree. So 
 with man's intelligence, being 
 crowned by the seed of God, al- 
 though it is a very diminutive 
 
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 part, he is given the opportunity 
 to develop into a God. 
 
 How long it will take man to 
 develop into a God, I am unable 
 to determine. It depends upon 
 the circumference of the circle 
 around the God head, although I 
 feel satisfied that it is a long time 
 to work by the most direct route. 
 This I can determine by nature's 
 laws that are all about me, as the 
 seeds, especially those that take 
 such a long time for their devel- 
 opment, like the great forest that 
 are still in course of development, 
 and generation after generation 
 of men pass before they attain 
 their full growth that they may 
 be turned to a lasting and useful 
 purpose in the development of a 
 civilized earth. These laws I 
 know from personal experience, 
 by watching the operation of the 
 
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 law, although the result is not 
 everlasting in the product ob- 
 tained. It is vastly more perfect 
 than the plants that are so tender 
 that they are destroyed by the 
 changing seasons. From this I 
 assume that the seed of God, from 
 which is to grow an everlasting 
 man into an image of God, the 
 task being so great it must be 
 under and by a long process of de- 
 velopment to build an everlasting 
 mind. If in the building of an 
 image of the Creator time is not 
 required in such a gigantic un- 
 dertaking, it would be a violation 
 of all other of nature's laws on 
 development. When I compare 
 the gigantic distance between 
 God and the average man I real- 
 ize that it must take time and 
 labor to accomplish the divine 
 purpose, and then it will be in 
 
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 harmony with the other laws of 
 nature we see every day all about 
 us in all life. 
 
 We can see, as a natural result 
 of man's progress, in body and 
 mental development, his confi- 
 dence in himself grew so that he 
 left his abode and wandered into 
 the rich valley at the foot of the 
 mountains. These valleys man 
 found ladened with fruits of all 
 kind. He found from experience 
 that they would sustain life; that 
 he could live upon them and that 
 they were obtainable with much 
 less danger of losing his own life 
 than he was under while chasing 
 the wild beast of the mountain. 
 
 These pleasant surroundings 
 induced him to tarry in this na- 
 ture's garden before he returned 
 to the mountains. The longer he 
 remained the better he liked the 
 
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 surroundings. He felt more se- 
 cure from danger and also gath- 
 ered the benefits produced from 
 the washings of the best soil from 
 the deposits of years in the moun- 
 tains and washed into the valley 
 below. He learned by digress 
 how to prepare a home in the val- 
 ley lands, at first by burrowing 
 in the earth, and then later he 
 learned to protect himself and 
 family by building barriers about 
 his dwelling place, which soon 
 developed into a house. The com- 
 forts and conveniences were 
 added to this house as the man's 
 mind developed in his battle with 
 the elements, so that he was able 
 to solve the problems of life as he 
 came in contact with them. These 
 lessons of the mind stimulated 
 and started the growth of the 
 seed of God within him until it 
 
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 was not long before this divine 
 ambition developed to such an ex- 
 tent, that man asked himself to 
 whom he was indebted for all 
 these rich gifts bestowed upon 
 him through nature. Who was 
 the Creator? The mind had not 
 yet attained the power to solve 
 the problem from the divine atom 
 within him; that is through the 
 master cell in his own body. He 
 could realize there must be a 
 Creator, but he had been unable 
 to find Him. Man doubtless con- 
 ducted an extensive investigation 
 seeking a Creator. The largest 
 object by sight and the one of 
 which he was able to learn very 
 little, was the sun, so that he was 
 not long in this field of life until 
 man became a Sun worshipper. 
 The sun was an object he could 
 see and vaguely comprehend with 
 
his infant mind. He could see the 
 warm effect upon plant life, and 
 from this he reasoned that if the 
 sun could stimulate the plant into 
 life, it must have a live effect on 
 man. So at the coming of the sun 
 each day he faced it with adora- 
 tion and devotion, praying to be 
 blessed for another day. This 
 established the custom of the sun 
 rise meetings and the building of 
 the open temple for worship. This 
 was necessary so that all of the 
 congregation could see the sun 
 rise without their view being ob- 
 structed, it being impossible in a 
 covered temple. We learn of 
 these temples in history, their ex- 
 istence and of their passing. It 
 has been said that the sun wor- 
 shippers faced the East in their 
 congregation at the time of wor- 
 ship, facing the rising sun, their 
 
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 object God. No one except the 
 presiding priest dared to turn his 
 back upon God, and he, only while 
 conducting the services. This 
 mode of worship did not long 
 satisfy the man with the expand- 
 ing seed of God within him. He 
 cast about for some other solution 
 of the great question of the Crea- 
 tion, while his brother with the 
 dormant seed was content. Thus 
 man drifted into many channels 
 of worship. He had not yet at- 
 tained sufficient mental or divine 
 development to see the broad 
 highway of enlightenment and 
 came to the erroneous conclusion 
 that the way was a very narrow 
 one and so taught all he came in 
 contact. From this he turned the 
 broad divine highway into com- 
 mercial channels until it became 
 so intolerable that God was com- 
 
pelled to send a warning through 
 Christ, to all mankind to turn 
 aside from the commercial meth- 
 od of enslaving man through 
 greed for commercial power back 
 into the broad highway that leads 
 mankind into a higher civiliza- 
 tion and prepares him for life 
 eternal. 
 
 It has taken some thousand of 
 years to grind away the carnivor- 
 ous teeth of man that he brought 
 out of the mountains with him 
 and they have not yet disap- 
 peared in all mankind and will 
 not likely be ground away for 
 many thousand years to come. 
 
 "So many Gods, so many creeds, 
 So many paths that wind and wind ; 
 When just the art of being kind 
 Is all the sad world needs." 
 
CHAPTER VI. 
 
 REVIEWING THE PROCESS OF TURN- 
 
 ING ANIMAL LIFE TO THE 
 
 USE OF MAN. 
 
 After man had become well set- 
 tled in the broader field opened up 
 for his development, he became 
 scattered into tribes and classes. 
 Some were formed in search of 
 knowledge, others from the de- 
 termination to remain in their 
 original state, others from the de- 
 sire for earthly gain. All these 
 three classes have thrived with 
 the the aging of the earth. I 
 think the last class has outgrown 
 all others. The use of their car- 
 nivorous teeth, intended for use 
 against the beasts of the earth, 
 
they readily turned against their 
 fellowman who came in the way 
 and retarded their greed for gain. 
 We learn from the world's history 
 how well they have succeeded, 
 from the crimes upon its pages. 
 None of these crimes are divine 
 rewards but are only approved by 
 man's self-made laws in direct 
 conflict with the divine. If they 
 had not been in conflict or if they 
 had been according to the divine 
 laws, Babylon would be standing 
 today as well as many other cities 
 of like kind. But by their con- 
 struction upon greed they crum- 
 bled under the divine laws and 
 left no marks except bloodstains 
 upon man's pages of history. The 
 divine purpose of man's creation 
 was not for him to organize great 
 bands of murderers to slaughter 
 his f ellowmen that might come in 
 
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 conflict with his commercial plans 
 he may have mapped out for his 
 followers to gain earthly power. 
 Apparently these plans may have 
 succeeded for a time by the pay- 
 ment in the loss of mental powers 
 but are too great for the value re- 
 ceived. The loading of brute 
 force upon his followers by such 
 violation of the divine laws, must 
 be repaid in long time at labor to 
 place all back in the mental zone 
 they formally occupied. 
 
 When man came down out of 
 the mountains he stood as if in 
 the light of God's countenance. 
 All about him was just the things 
 he needed to sustain life and 
 plenty of it until he commenced to 
 multiply faster than the unculti- 
 vated soil could produce. Then it 
 was necessary for him to labor- 
 to increase the supply of food. He 
 
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 was very reluctant to earn his 
 bread by the sweat of his face and 
 cast about him for assistance. 
 This assistance he found in the 
 beasts of the earth. From this 
 necessity he domesticated some 
 of the animals he found; others 
 he found impossible to domesti- 
 cate. All of the animals that 
 would not submit to his direction 
 retained a full set of carnivorous 
 teeth and lived upon flesh alone, 
 with a very few exceptions. Man 
 soon found that the animal that 
 lived on the products grown from 
 the earth were much more tract- 
 able than the carnivorous beast. 
 This development work done by 
 man in the domesticating of wild 
 beast has been a very interesting 
 task both mentally and physi- 
 cally. After the capture, the task 
 of forcing to man's commands the 
 
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 will of the captive, is undertaken. 
 The wild horse was trained to 
 carry his master many miles 
 farther in the day's travel than 
 possible for him to cover on foot. 
 By this assistance the range of 
 man was extended over the earth. 
 To extend the power of the horse, 
 man looked to the breeding and 
 development of his speed, so that 
 the horse has carried man miles 
 from his home. In fact the horse 
 has carried man around the earth, 
 in business and in war. His noble 
 body has responded for any use 
 man has desired, in shape and in 
 form to accomplish any purpose 
 man wishes to accomplish. The 
 same can be said of the bovine or 
 ox. While he has no qualities of 
 speed, the bovine supplies many 
 wants for man unattainable by 
 the horse. His field of usefulness 
 
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 is very large and his body has 
 yielded to man's shaping into the 
 form desired. All animals that 
 have submitted to domestication, 
 have been developed in body to 
 fulfill the purpose of man's needs. 
 Thus far the development is in 
 harmony with the divine laws. 
 On the other hand, while man has 
 worked successfully in develop- 
 ing the body of animal, he has ut- 
 terly failed to develop the mind. 
 The domesticated animal has no 
 advantage mentally over his wild 
 brother, other than the habit of 
 doing certain things over and 
 over again until it is fixed as by 
 instinct. Man has never been 
 able to teach any animal to rea- 
 son, talk or apply its mind to the 
 solution of any task. We can 
 only conclude that the seed of God 
 is absent within the circle of their 
 
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 life cells, that they are not con- 
 nected with the magic circle 
 about the Creator of the uni- 
 verse; that the purpose of the ani- 
 mal is to serve those who possess 
 the seed of God, and can never be 
 connected with the divine mind in 
 that great plan of uplifting into a 
 higher life. Therefore, when 
 man has once received the seed of 
 God, it is impossible under the 
 divine laws to fall into a life as 
 limited as animal life. He must 
 go on or remain in a dwarfed con- 
 dition unfit to influence the men- 
 tal course. How important it is 
 for every man to make the effort 
 to start the growth of the divine 
 seed within him. Shall he leave 
 it dormant in the casement until 
 his eyes shall be opened, like some 
 mountain avalanche that uncov- 
 ers seed buried for thousands of 
 
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 years and exposes them to the 
 rain and warm sunlight for their 
 development. All hope that the 
 law of nature will give this endur- 
 ing power to the precious gift 
 possessed by every human being 
 and that it will never be lost, a 
 thing so priceless and which can 
 only be used by the possessor and 
 can never be cultivated by proxy. 
 I hope it will never decay and that 
 we may be given another oppor- 
 tunity to follow the divine law if 
 we fail in this life. The animal 
 seems under nature's laws, to be 
 limited to a life and at the end to 
 be annulled like the tender plant 
 at freezing, but as to man, his life 
 on the earth is in a hot bed, for his 
 starting on a life eternal, of which 
 we see strong evidence in na- 
 ture's laws. 
 
CHAPTER VII 
 
 EARTH'S HISTORIC PANORAMA. 
 
 A MILE WITH ME. 
 
 "0 who will walk a mile with me 
 
 Along life's merry way? 
 
 A comrade blithe and full of glee, 
 
 Who dares to laugh out loud and free, 
 
 And let his frolic fancy play, 
 
 Like a happy child through the flowers gay 
 
 That fill the field and fringe the way 
 
 Where he walks a mile with me. 
 
 And who will walk a mile with me 
 Along life's weary way? 
 A friend whose heart has eyes to see 
 The stars shine out o'er the darkening lea, 
 And the quiet rest at the end of the day — 
 A friend who knows and dares to say 
 The brave, sweet words that cheer the way 
 Where he walks a mile with me. 
 
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 With such a comrade, such a friend, 
 I fain would walk till journey's end, 
 Through summer sunshine, winter rain, 
 And then ? Farewell, we shall meet again. 
 
 I see a time upon the earth 
 when the lands now so crowded 
 by man and ornamented with his 
 labor, were uncultivated wastes 
 and inhabited alone by the brute 
 creation. No ray of human in- 
 tellect lighted the scene, although 
 life was abundant; none of God's 
 creatures comprehended a Crea- 
 tor. This fact has long since been 
 confirmed by divine revelation 
 and severe investigations of the 
 geologist. 
 
 I see the coming of man. The 
 extending of our view to the 
 globe. We have the Caucasian or 
 Iranian occupying a territory on 
 one side, dividing the continent 
 of Asia, a line running from west 
 
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 to east in the direction of the 
 longest diameter of the Euxine, 
 passing at first along the chain of 
 Caucasus, dividing the Caspian, 
 going along the Oxus nearly to 
 the source of that river, thence 
 turning to the southeast and fol- 
 lowing the direction of the Him- 
 alaya range and descending to 
 the Gulf of Bengal; on the other 
 side the Mongol or Turanian. 
 
 I see to the south of the Medi- 
 terranean Sea the negro tribes. I 
 see these subdivisions follow 
 through various occupations and 
 climatic influences and affection, 
 as it is borne out in plant life. 
 
 I see the same effect in animal 
 life, from which I must conclude 
 that the law is a divine law, ele- 
 vating not only man but the 
 whole globe in varying degrees, 
 subject to the changing condi- 
 
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 tions. The mineral life changes 
 much slower than plant life, as 
 the surrounding conditions move 
 slow in one and rapid in the other. 
 In man, those who occupied the 
 fairest, most fertile and temper- 
 ate sections of the world devel- 
 oped faster. 
 
 I see man scattered into tribes 
 like a delta of a great river com- 
 ing together in the sea to be re- 
 mixed into one great mass. 
 
 I see races of men gone before, 
 the fragments of which blending 
 in the ones following. 
 
 I see them ascending into a 
 higher intelligence by way of a 
 slow and ragged path, part of the 
 mass becoming cultured savages 
 and a part civilized men. The lat- 
 ter gaining on the former under a 
 slow but sure process. 
 
 I see under varied conditions 
 
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 and influences, the people of these 
 three great subdivisions devel- 
 oped under different methods. 
 Part have been slow to separate 
 from the habits of the original 
 population of barbarous nomads, 
 whose former existence was simi- 
 lar to the Bushman of Australia 
 of the present day. 
 
 I see the superior tribes, some 
 grown strong mentally, others 
 physically, conquerors of the 
 weak. The uncivilized negro and 
 the semi-civilized Mongol were 
 inhabitants of the earth when the 
 first of the Caucasians were ush- 
 ered into the world and is so 
 proved by sacred history, which 
 gives the age of each of Adam's 
 antedeluvian descendants, in di- 
 rect line, thus computing the time 
 which elapsed between the birth 
 of Adam and the Noah deluge. 
 
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 As I see, Adam was the first civ- 
 ilized man working with power of 
 the mind over body, or the break- 
 ing away from brute force dor- 
 mant in man up to that period. 
 
 I see the hand of man changing 
 and shaping sacred history to 
 conform to his diabolical ideas or 
 commercial whims. 
 
 I see man building a God after 
 his own image instead of develop- 
 ing himself into the image of God, 
 until the world is full of fanatic 
 Gods, the innocent not knowing 
 whom to follow as their doctrines 
 are so far and wide apart. 
 
 I see a time when the breath of 
 Boreas was less to blame for the 
 scattering of the tribes of man 
 than the sword. 
 
 I see men formed into great 
 murderous bands for commercial 
 conquest instead of promoting 
 
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 the uplifting of man through the 
 divine laws. 
 
 I see a time extending through 
 the history of men upon the earth 
 when the flower of the civilized 
 men was almost wiped out by 
 these organized murderous bands 
 under the guise of patriotism. 
 
 I see the patient toil of the sur- 
 vivors and the offspring of the de- 
 stroyed, working to rebuild civili- 
 zation so desperately attacked by 
 savage man. 
 
 I see a time coming when the 
 savage man grows too small in 
 numbers to impoverish the ranks 
 of the civilized man, and then the 
 divine plan will be developed with 
 great rapidity. 
 
 My understanding of the 
 meaning of civilized man is the 
 man who makes the effort to de- 
 velop the seed of God within him- 
 
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 self, to the best of his knowledge, 
 under the divine plan and to do 
 unto others as he would have 
 others do unto him. 
 
 I see a time when the wild bush- 
 man tribes battle with and among 
 themselves and scatter over the 
 face of the earth and form them- 
 selves into new tribes under dif- 
 ferent climatic conditions, their 
 skins gathering tints from the 
 air, like the flowers in nature, 
 some delicate tints like the rose, 
 others like the tan. 
 
 I see in time men from abso- 
 lutely the same origin and with 
 the same seed deposited by the 
 Creator look at each other as if of 
 different species. 
 
 I see the only difference in these 
 tribes of men, recognized by the 
 Creator, is the mental culture 
 which is the growth of the seed of 
 
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 God within them and his hygienic 
 treatment of the body. 
 
 I see at the beginning God plac- 
 ing his seed at the head of the in- 
 tellectual cells in man's body and 
 granting man full power to de- 
 velop the growth of this seed into 
 the image of God. 
 
 I see man blindly sublet the de- 
 velopment of this precious seed to 
 another without regard to its 
 sacred trust, turning his labors to 
 the gathering of the commercial 
 harvest of the earth or neglecting 
 both through a wasted life. 
 
 I see mankind teaching their 
 offspring to fear the death of the 
 body by starvation when the cul- 
 ture of the mind would open the 
 eyes to the rich harvest all about 
 them and ungathered, awaiting 
 the mental harvesters. 
 
 I see men pass out of this life 
 
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 with the seed of God unsprouted 
 in the body as a beast of burden, 
 with nothing but the lower cells 
 or feeding cells in use and uncon- 
 nected with the parent cell. 
 
 I see that it matters not 
 whether man's abode is north or 
 south of the Himalayas or south 
 of the Mediterranean Sea, he is 
 the recipient of the gift from 
 God of his divine seed, the gift is 
 made whether he cultivates the 
 divine essence or not, the neglect 
 is his personal loss. 
 
 I see men conducting temples 
 established by the disciples of 
 Christ, or the offspring of these 
 established sanctuaries, in open 
 violation of the very essence of 
 Christ's teachings. Poor, blind 
 mankind can not they see that the 
 endowment is a personal one and 
 without price or mediation. "And 
 
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 Jesus went into the temple of God 
 and cast out all of them that sold 
 and bought in the temple, and 
 overthrew the tables of the 
 money changers, and the seats of 
 them that sold doves, and said 
 unto them, it is written, 'my 
 house shall be called the house of 
 prayer, but ye have made it a den 
 of thieves.' And the blind and 
 the lame came to him in the tem- 
 ple; and he healed them." The 
 true temple of God is opened to 
 all mankind regardless of human 
 classification or race. 
 
 I see a time coming when the 
 temple will be equipped with 
 sanitary bath and clean white 
 robes for the worshipers that all 
 men may be seated side by side on 
 comfortable undecorated seats 
 without regard to class or bodily 
 plumage, fulfilling an aim to 
 
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 stimulate the growth of the seed 
 of God within them, that hallowed 
 glory which opens the broad road 
 traveled by mankind to their ele- 
 vated mental state and to safe- 
 guard them as by a screen, from 
 the byways traveled by savage 
 man in seeking the gold of the 
 earth gathered by others. 
 
 I see the orthodox followers of 
 Moses, through his hygienic 
 teaching, succeed over all other 
 races of men although they are 
 scattered to the four parts of the 
 earth and surrounded with oppos- 
 ing influences, they have grown 
 in mental power, especially ex- 
 celling their kinsmen, the follow- 
 ers of Mahomet, who have not 
 been affected with the difficulties 
 of migratory influences. The ad- 
 vantage is in depending more on 
 the mind as the working power 
 than that obtained by brawn. 
 
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 It does not seem strange that a 
 race must be enslaved to force 
 upon them the necessity of devel- 
 oping the mind to meet difficul- 
 ties. While the body is controlled 
 by the master, the mind is at work 
 formulating a plan to extract 
 himself from the difficulties he 
 finds overcoming his whole being, 
 diverting his course of life from 
 the eternal. It does seem that 
 man would reason when forced 
 to use both mind and body to keep 
 himself out of voluntary slavery, 
 thus leaving his mind dormant 
 and using his body to serve the 
 man who does his thinking, if the 
 service is not in a direct way it is 
 in an indirect way, for he is using 
 less than half his power in his 
 earth work, that he should claim 
 his own and not go through the 
 world like an ox. 
 
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 I see a time at an early period of 
 man's habitation upon the earth 
 when some one discovered the 
 power and diligently set himself 
 at work developing his own mind 
 and became so advanced over his 
 followers that he was looked upon 
 by them as divine, thus he created 
 a following or a tribe for himself 
 and dividing the parent body, his 
 followers became a distinct tribe 
 of men. Through his mental 
 powers he influenced them not 
 only to labor for him but they 
 adopted his peculiarities and his 
 tribe became different from other 
 tribes and known in time as a 
 race of men, not for their superior 
 knowledge but on account of 
 their peculiar traits, the master 
 retaining the power of the mind 
 for himself, very seldom being a 
 teacher of the development of the 
 
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 mind to his followers, so that it is 
 easy to see how tribes and nations 
 are formed with so little mental 
 development. If the master had 
 dropped the commercial end and 
 become a teacher of mental devel- 
 opment his lessons would have 
 made masters of all of his follow- 
 ers. Develop the minds of men 
 and they become self-governing, 
 following the broad highway 
 created by God for mankind to 
 travel on his journey back into 
 the high estate from which he has 
 fallen. 
 
 I see, through the improvement 
 made under mental development, 
 the improvement of the law of the 
 elective affinity, which we feel 
 largely by the sense of the touch, 
 it being the binding cord of fam- 
 ily ties and which have been so 
 often cut through long ages 
 
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 passed down to the present, by 
 social commercial ambitions. This 
 enemy will only be eradicated 
 through mental culture which is 
 now almost at hand and when 
 once seated in the mind will ele- 
 vate civilization to a very great 
 height. 
 
 I see a time upon the earth, that 
 man gains mental development 
 without the greed and desire for 
 power over his fellowmen and is 
 satisfied to become a mental 
 teacher without gain, while these 
 come long periods apart, their 
 work is lasting and founded on 
 truths. This class is very small 
 but their work is very large and 
 extends into many tribes and na- 
 tions. Their teachings tend to 
 elevate mankind for good and 
 noble acts. Their development is 
 the divine seed of God coming to 
 its own. 
 
IIS 
 
 I see the terrible effect of war 
 directed by man with mental de- 
 velopment, who has retained his 
 greed for power and gain over the 
 products of the earth, especially 
 the fertile fields, the rich coal beds 
 and all other rich deposits of ore 
 in the earth, that his nation may 
 outclass his neighboring nation 
 or be able to throw a pittance to 
 his surviving followers, with a 
 monument for the dead. 
 
 I see the true sufferers of war 
 standing beside the monument 
 erected on the battlefield to the 
 memory of the destroyed, in her 
 widow's garb, praying that this 
 great calamity on mankind may 
 be quickly dissolved by a return 
 to the normal, or in her devas- 
 tated home caring for the re- 
 mains of her family, likely with a 
 maimed husband or son to care for 
 
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 the balance of their lives. She is 
 the true mental giant of civiliza- 
 tion, the power sealing the con- 
 tents into one mass; on her it 
 rested from the first, no civiliza- 
 tion could have been built by man 
 alone. The world has had a few 
 highly developed men but it has 
 been filled by highly developed 
 women. She started the struc- 
 ture in the cradle, her mind 
 has grasped mental development 
 much faster than her companion, 
 likely for the reason that she has 
 been much enslaved through the 
 nature of her occupations; she is 
 the rock upon which civilization 
 stands. She must mend the rents 
 caused by war in the ranks of civ- 
 ilization. She must and will teach 
 the coming generation the hor- 
 rors of war and of its terrible 
 effects on the destroyed under the 
 
115 
 
 present methods. She must teach 
 them of the long years required to 
 return the mental balance to its 
 normal condition, that humanity 
 may march again on the divine 
 highway. Mothers may have 
 bravely given up their loved ones 
 when under a mistaken patriot- 
 ism or an excited moment, but in 
 her silent hours she sees the 
 wrong done and commences to 
 right it in the sanctuary of the 
 cradle. 
 
 I see in the future, the earth 
 pass as if into the hollow of God's 
 hand and as from his breath, 
 miasma blown from the earth's 
 surface directed through mental 
 science permitting mankind to 
 inhabit all parts of the earth even 
 into its tropics, thereby blending 
 all races and tribes of men in one 
 vast melting pot and assembling 
 
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 them into a oneness of God's peo- 
 ple, pursuing their mental devel- 
 opment under a highly sanitary 
 condition of the body, unattain- 
 able by man's agreement or 
 treaty vows, which can be broken 
 at any childish whim. Through 
 the laboratory of science man is 
 being prepared for mental and 
 physical work in all climates, with 
 the proper sanitary surround- 
 ings, he can continue his mental 
 development as well in one part 
 of the earth as another. The 
 tribes are reunited through the 
 removal of the cause that scat- 
 tered them. 
 
 In the development of mankind 
 we may legitimately borrow some 
 glimmering of light by the con- 
 templation of the mode in which 
 the Creator has been operating 
 under analogous combinations of 
 
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 circumstances. From the law of 
 progress in creation, established 
 and confirmed, as it is by all the 
 vitalities that have successively 
 come into existence from the be- 
 ginning, we may fairly infer that 
 when different races of men have 
 appeared on the earth, those of 
 the lower development have pre- 
 ceded those of the higher and 
 more perfect organization. The 
 advance in the procession of life 
 has ever been upward. The his- 
 tory of mankind generally up- 
 holds this law of nature, the di- 
 vine plan of creation. All that 
 has taken place on the earth, 
 within the knowledge of man, tes- 
 tifies that the inferior is ever re- 
 ceding and ultimately fades away 
 in the presence of the superior 
 race. 
 
CHAPTER VIII 
 
 SEEING MANKIND CLIMB UP THE 
 
 RUNGS TO THE BROAD FIELDS 
 
 OF RELIGION BY MANY 
 
 SHRINES. 
 
 I see, in the material world, the 
 operations of the laws of nature 
 are constantly disturbed, and will 
 expect to find in the mental world 
 disturbances equally active. Such 
 aberrations proceed in both in- 
 stances, from minor laws, which 
 at particular points meet the 
 larger laws, and thus alter their 
 normal action. Of this, the effect 
 of the climate affords the most 
 striking example, feelings, views 
 and reasoning. This is a law 
 pregnant with great results; it is 
 
110 
 
 connected with those important 
 mechanical resources in nature, 
 the composition and resolution of 
 force; no one acquainted with the 
 evidence on which it stands ever 
 thought of questioning its truth. 
 Still, and although the results of 
 the law are incessantly disturbed, 
 the law itself remains intact. 
 Man's anxiety about his future 
 state has induced him to leave 
 some records of his experience 
 and for the guidance of the com- 
 ing generations. These testimo- 
 nials show the effect of climatic 
 disturbances, and mental devel- 
 opment surrounding the instruc- 
 tor at the time of his teaching. 
 
 The progress made by man in 
 work upon the earth has come 
 down to us through his religion or 
 governing powers assumed over 
 his fellowman, history has given 
 
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 us little else to determine how he 
 has grown from the savage into a 
 better man. We have no history 
 of the plain or common man's 
 achievements, his influence upon 
 society, what part he has per- 
 formed. We know nothing. We 
 must assume from his absence in 
 history, that the common man in 
 all ages of the world, was either a 
 commercial slave, a military slave 
 or a church slave, one of the three. 
 As so little is mentioned in history 
 of commerce I am inclined to 
 think that commerce must have 
 been the master of the other two 
 so often mentioned in history, 
 which condition is easy for us to 
 conclude from the part taken in 
 the period through which we have 
 had our own personal experience. 
 That at all times commerce must 
 have been the power behind 
 
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 man's throne and had much to do 
 with directing the church other 
 than the spiritual benefits re- 
 ceived by the members for their 
 own elevation; that is, the church 
 has been used at times to gather 
 the people's earnings in money 
 centers far from the donor's dom- 
 icile; in fact, too far from him to 
 receive any benefits either 
 through the society in which he 
 lives or to him spiritually. Dona- 
 tions made out of man's earnings 
 to societies formed for spiritual 
 uplifting must be an investment 
 on some permanent lines, where- 
 by the society fund when planted 
 will gather a harvest of the same 
 spirit kind as in the donor's spirit 
 mind at the time, and not allowed 
 to drift into commercial channels 
 through investment or beautiful 
 architecture in foreign lands. I 
 
122' 
 
 do not make this as a charge 
 against the church of a deliberate 
 wrong, but as the result of fol- 
 lowing a custom of an ancient re- 
 ligion, when the natives believed 
 that the head of the church was 
 the Supreme Being; although it is 
 still practiced, the people have 
 grown too enlightened to further 
 believe it. What mankind wants 
 is more light and they are going 
 to have it and are willing to work 
 for this great divine blessing. 
 What one expects in return for 
 his contribution is to be taught of 
 his Creator and the wonderful les- 
 sons of an everlasting life. When 
 he learns this, you have left him 
 in the broad highway of life, 
 without any knowledge of the 
 great laws of his Creator and how 
 he is governed by these fixed 
 laws. He is in almost as bad a 
 
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 state as he was before, if he is 
 unable to further contribute. 
 There he stands without a guide 
 or helping hand, his offspring 
 without a teacher. Chance! A 
 time may come when the seed of 
 the Creator within him may de- 
 velop to such an extent that he 
 will see the way and lead himself 
 and his offspring along the Crea- 
 tor's highway, without further 
 assistance from mankind. This 
 is a great danger in the pathway 
 of the future church. The church 
 must render full value to the 
 highly civilized man in the con- 
 gregation, for they will be com- 
 posed of both rich and poor. 
 
 Let us look into archaeology to 
 see what we can find, when the 
 poor and common man's troubles 
 commenced. and how he has been 
 treated as a silent factor in the 
 
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 world's development and so little 
 credit given by the historian. I 
 assume that the common man 
 was so generally used as a slave 
 of commerce and a bullet stopper 
 in war and a small unit in church, 
 that he held no place in history. 
 Let us take Confucius, the cele- 
 brated Chinese philosopher, as his 
 teachings are the same as prac- 
 ticed by the Chinese people before 
 the building of the Great Wall 
 and fully put in force after the 
 completion of the wall of China. 
 
 Confucianism. Properly, the 
 ethico-political system taught by 
 him. He sought unsuccessfully 
 to remedy the degeneracy and 
 oppressions of his time, and to se- 
 cure peace and prosperity to the 
 empire, by the spread of learning 
 and the inculcation of virtue, set- 
 ting up as models to imitate, the 
 
125 
 
 ancient kings, Yao and Shun, 
 about 2356-2204 B. C, who by 
 their virtue and the force of their 
 individual character, were said to 
 have removed evil, poverty and 
 ignorance from the empire. The 
 system of Confucius was essen- 
 tially mundane in its methods and 
 aims, being based upon the 
 proper discharge of the duties in- 
 volved in the five relationships of 
 life, namely: those of prince and 
 subject, parent and child, brother 
 and brother, husband and wife, 
 and friend and friend. By many 
 Confucianism is called one of the 
 three religions of China, the 
 others being Taoism and Bud- 
 dhism. In this sense the term in- 
 cludes both the Confucian scheme 
 of ethics and statecraft and the 
 ancient native religion, for which 
 the name Simism has been pro- 
 
126 
 
 posed, existent in China from the 
 dawn of Chinese history and still 
 observed as the state religion. In 
 this sense the term also includes 
 both the Confucian scheme of 
 ethics and statecraft and the 
 ancient native religion (for which 
 the Simism has been proposed) 
 existent in China from the dawn 
 of Chinese history, and still ob- 
 served as the Supreme Being 
 (Shang-ti), the emperor on be- 
 half of the people; (2) the wor- 
 ship of "the host of spirits," as the 
 gods of the winds, of the rivers, 
 of the mountains, the grain, etc., 
 by the officials and dignitaries; 
 and (3) the observance of ances- 
 tral worship and filial by all. The 
 Doctrine of the Mean by Confu- 
 cius, I will give in part from the 
 translation by James Legge in 
 "Chinese Classics." 
 
127 
 
 "That Heaven has conferred is 
 called the Nature; an accordance 
 with this nature is called The 
 Path of Duty; the regulation of 
 this path is called instruction. 
 The Path may not be left for an 
 instant. If it could be left it 
 would not be the path. Chung-in 
 said, The superior man embodies 
 the course of the mean; the mean 
 man acts contrary to the course 
 of the mean. On this account the 
 superior man does not wait till he 
 sees things, to be cautious, nor 
 till he hears things to be appre- 
 hensive. There is nothing more 
 visible than what is secret, and 
 nothing more manifest that what 
 is minute, therefore, the superior 
 man is watchful over himself 
 when he is alone. 
 
 "The master said: There was 
 Shun; he indeed was greatly wise! 
 
128 
 
 Shun loved to question others, 
 and to study their words, though 
 they might be shallow. He con- 
 cealed what was bad in them and 
 displayed what was good. He 
 took hold of their two extremes, 
 determined the mean and em- 
 ployed it in his government of the 
 people. It was by this that he was 
 Shun/ 
 
 While there is no stirring of 
 pleasure, anger, sorrow or joy, 
 the mind may be said to be in a 
 state of EQUILIBRIUM. When 
 those feelings have been stirred, 
 and they act in their due degree, 
 there ensues what may be called 
 the state of Harmony. This equi- 
 librium is the great root from 
 which grow all the human acting 
 in the world, and this Harmony 
 is the universal path which they 
 all should pursue. 
 
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 Let the state of Equilibrium 
 and Harmony exist in perfection, 
 and a happy order will prevail 
 throughout heaven and earth, 
 and all things will be nourished 
 and flourish. 
 
 Chung-na said: "The superior 
 man embodies the course of the 
 mean; the mean man acts con- 
 trary to the course of the mean." 
 
 "The superior man embodying 
 the course of the mean is because 
 he is a superior man, and so al- 
 ways maintain the mean. The 
 mean man's acting contrary to 
 the course of the mean is because 
 he is a mean man and has no cau- 
 tion. 
 
 "The master said, Perfect is the 
 virtue which is according to the 
 Mean ! Rare have they long been 
 among the people, who could 
 practice it. The Master said, 
 
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 I know how it is that the path of 
 the mean is not walked in. The 
 knowing go beyond it and the 
 stupid do not come up with it. I 
 know how it is that the path of the 
 mean is not understood; the men 
 of talents and virtue go beyond 
 it, and the worthless do not come 
 up with it." 
 
 "There is nobody but eats and 
 drinks. But they are few who 
 can distinguish flavors." 
 
 "To show forbearance and gen- 
 tleness in teaching others; and 
 not to revenge unreasonable con- 
 duct; this is the energy of South- 
 ern regions, and the good man 
 makes it his study 
 
 "To lie under arms; and meet 
 death without regret; this is the 
 energy of Northern regions, and 
 the forceful make it their study. 
 
 "Therefore, the superior man 
 
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 cultivates a friendly harmony 
 without being weak. How firm is 
 he in his energy! He stands erect 
 in the middle, without inclining to 
 either side. How firm is he in his 
 energy! When good principles 
 prevail in the government of his 
 country, he does not change from 
 what he was in retirement. How 
 firm he is in his energy! When 
 bad principles prevail in the coun- 
 try, he maintains his course to 
 death without changing. To live 
 in obscurity, and yet practice 
 wonders, in order to be mentioned 
 with honor in future ages; this is 
 what I do not do. Great as heav- 
 en and earth are, men still find 
 some things in them with which 
 to be dissatisfied. Thus it is, that 
 were the superior man to speak 
 of his way in all its greatness, 
 nothing in the world would be 
 
132 
 
 found able to embrace it, and 
 were he to speak of it in its mi- 
 nuteness, nothing in the world 
 would be found able to split it." 
 
 "The way of the superior man 
 may be found, in its simple ele- 
 ments, in the intercourse of com- 
 mon men and women; but in its 
 utmost reaches it shines brightly 
 through heaven and earth. The 
 path is not far from man. When 
 men try to pursue a course, which 
 is far from the common indica- 
 tions of consciousness, this course 
 can not be considered the path. 
 When one cultivates to the ut- 
 most the principles of his nature, 
 and exercises them and the prin- 
 ciples of reciprocity, he is not far 
 from the path. What you do not 
 like, when done to yourself, do not 
 do to others." 
 
 "In the way of the superior man 
 
133 
 
 there are four things, to not one 
 of which have I as yet attained. 
 To serve my father as I would re- 
 quire my son to serve me; to this 
 I have not attained. To serve my 
 prince as I would require my min- 
 ister to serve me; to this I have 
 not attained. To set the example 
 of behaving to a friend as I would 
 require him to behave to me; to 
 this I have not attained. Earnest 
 in practicing the ordinary vir- 
 tues, and careful in speaking 
 about them, if, in his practice, he 
 has anything defective, the supe- 
 rior man dares not but exert him- 
 self; and, if in his words, he has 
 any excess, he dares not allow 
 himself such license. Thus his 
 words have respect to his actions, 
 and his actions have respect to his 
 words; is it not just an entire sin- 
 cerity which marks the superior 
 man?" 
 
134 
 
 "The superior man does what is 
 proper to the station in which he 
 is; he does not desire to go beyond 
 this. In a position of wealth and 
 honor, he does what is proper to a 
 position of wealth and honor. In 
 a poor and low position, he does 
 what is proper to a poor and low 
 position. Situated among bar- 
 barous tribes he does what is 
 proper to a situation among bar- 
 barous tribes. In a position of 
 sorrow and difficulty, he does 
 what is proper to a position of sor- 
 row and difficulty. The superior 
 man can find himself in no situa- 
 tion in which he is not himself. In 
 a high position, he does not treat 
 with contempt his inferiors. In a 
 low situation, he does not court 
 the favor of his superiors. He 
 rectifies himself, and seeks for 
 nothing from others, so that he 
 
135 
 
 has no dissatisfactions. He does 
 not murmur against heaven, nor 
 grumble against men. Thus it is 
 that the superior man is quiet and 
 calm, waiting for the appoint- 
 ment of Heaven, while the mean 
 man walks in dangerous paths, 
 looking for lucky occurrences/ ' 
 
 "Happy union with wife and 
 children is like the music of lutes 
 and harps. When there is concord 
 among brethren, the harmony is 
 delightful and enduring. Thus 
 may you regulate your family, 
 and enjoy the pleasure of your 
 wife and children." 
 
 "How abundantly do spiritual 
 beings display the powers that 
 belong to them. We look for 
 them, but do not see them; we lis- 
 ten to, but do not hear them; yet 
 they enter into all things, and 
 there is nothing without them. 
 
136 
 
 The approaches of the spirits, you 
 can not surmise; and can you 
 treat them with indifference? 
 Such is the manifestations of 
 what is minute! Such is the im- 
 possibility of what is minute! 
 Such is the impossibility of re- 
 pressing the outgoing of sincer- 
 ity." 
 
 "How greatly filial was Shun! 
 His virtues was that of a sage; his 
 dignity was the imperial throne; 
 his riches were all within the four 
 seas. He offered his sacrifices in 
 his ancestral temple, and his de- 
 scendants preserved the sacri- 
 fices to him. The admirable, ami- 
 able prince displayed conspicu- 
 ously his excelling virtue, adjust- 
 ing his people and adjusting his 
 officers. Therefore, he received 
 from Heaven the emoluments of 
 dignity. It protected him, as- 
 
137 
 
 sisted him, decreed him the 
 throne; sending from Heaven 
 these favors, as it were, repeat- 
 edly. We may say, therefore, that 
 he who is greatly virtuous will be 
 sure to receive the appointment 
 of Heaven." 
 
 Confucius lived and gathered 
 his philosophy from the Rulers of 
 the Chinese people. Little credit 
 was given to the mean man. 
 
 For the purpose of establishing 
 a perfect society, the authorities 
 deemed it necessary to relieve the 
 government from the degrading 
 and contaminating influence of 
 the common or mean man before 
 China could hope to become a 
 Heaven on earth. The Himalaya 
 Mountains and the desert not be- 
 ing sufficient to hold them back 
 after being cast out, it became 
 necessary to build the great wall 
 
138 
 
 of China to assist in driving them 
 away after they were condemned 
 and taken to the other side of the 
 wall, which the authorities could 
 guard much easier than through 
 the mountain passes into India 
 and likely they became the fol- 
 lowers of Buddha whose teach- 
 ings bear some striking resem- 
 blance to those of Confucius, al- 
 though he advocates greater per- 
 sonal sacrifice. 
 
 The dogmas of Confucius 
 were practiced by the Chinese 
 people as far back as their an- 
 cient history is recorded, many 
 years before the establishment of 
 a civilization in Babylonia. The 
 Chinese people in a very ancient 
 time in their civilization gained a 
 crude knowledge of navigation, 
 especially as to coastwise travel. 
 Their long shore line made it a 
 
139 
 
 necessity in this early civilization, 
 thus they became the ancient 
 mariner in truth. 
 
 The banished from the tem- 
 perate zone of China, the bright 
 sunshine and her beautiful flow- 
 ers, found themselves in a very 
 cold and lonely place outside of 
 the great wall of China. This 
 country, now called Siberia in 
 Northern Asia, they found unfit 
 for habitation for those who had 
 become accustomed to the ancient 
 civilization of China and its cli- 
 mate, they were unprepared for 
 the rigors of the Siberian winters. 
 Those who did not escape through 
 the Himalaya Mountains into In- 
 dia pressed on eastward to the 
 sea. From their experience in 
 navigation they prepared to ex- 
 tract themselves from their ban- 
 ishment by the sea. A part fol- 
 
140 
 
 lowing the coast line south and 
 working their way along shore, 
 avoiding recapture until they 
 came to the African Continent, 
 and meeting no resistance, they 
 followed the Red Sea and inhab- 
 ited the valley of the Nile, where 
 they formed the Egyptian civili- 
 zation known in history. The bal- 
 ance of the people that traveled 
 to the east, probably more timid 
 than the others, from fear of re- 
 capture traveled east by boat 
 through the Behring Sea, along 
 what we call the Aleutian Islands, 
 to the shores of the American 
 Continent, thence south along the 
 American shores until they came 
 to a very mild climate in Central 
 America, where they found rich 
 fruits to sustain life. Here they 
 proceeded to build and establish 
 their civilization, the remnants 
 
141 
 
 of which were found by Cortez on 
 his invasion of Mexico. The arch- 
 itecture, the stucco work, the arts 
 are direct evidence that they are 
 from the same race. The balance 
 of these banished people that 
 withstood the rigor of the Sibe- 
 rian climate passed to the west 
 through the mountain ranges to 
 the fertile valley of the Euphrates 
 river in Babylonia, where they 
 joined with Adam in forming the 
 Babylonian civilization. 
 
 Under the "Doctrines of the 
 Mean," all who did not accept it as 
 the law of the "Heavens," and 
 without a Creator were held by 
 Confucius and his followers as 
 "Barbarious" and unfit subjects 
 for China. This view was fostered 
 until a very recent date. The 
 Great Wall of China is the wonder 
 of the world, and took long years 
 
142 
 
 and years of labor and patience to 
 complete the erection. It is the 
 largest artificial structure on the 
 face of the earth, a barrier ex- 
 tending for about fifteen hundred 
 miles in the north of China 
 proper, of which it partly forms 
 the boundary. Its western end is 
 in the deserts of Central Asia, a 
 desert destructive to life, its east- 
 ern boundary reaches the sea to 
 the north eastward of Peking. 
 The explanation by the Chinese 
 rulers for the erection, it was to 
 be a barrier against the barbar- 
 ous tribes. While the commence- 
 ment of its erection is unknown 
 to the world, it is known to be in 
 existence two hundred fourteen 
 years B. C. It is carried over 
 height and hollow and avoided no 
 inequality of the ground, reach- 
 ing in one place the height of five 
 
148 
 
 thousand feet above the sea. 
 Earth, gravel, brick and stone 
 were used in its construction, and 
 in some places it is much more 
 substantial than in others. Its 
 greatest average height, includ- 
 ing the parapet on its top, is about 
 fifty feet, and it is strengthened 
 by towers at regular distances. 
 On inspection of this great struc- 
 ture one is impressed, that the 
 progenitors of the architects of 
 the world must have been in- 
 structed at this great school. The 
 lesson we learn from the "Doc- 
 trine of the Mean" is the impossi- 
 bility of elevating a civilization 
 by the process of elimination. 
 Under such a process you elimi- 
 nate the progressive minds and 
 leave the civilization dormant. 
 This position is confirmed by Con- 
 fucius when he says: 
 
144 
 
 "There was Shun; he indeed 
 was greatly wise! Shun loved to 
 question others, and to study 
 their words, though they might be 
 shallow. He concealed what was 
 bad in them and displayed what 
 was good. He took hold of their 
 two extremes, determined the 
 mean, and employed it in his gov- 
 ernment of the people. It was by 
 this that he was Shun." He 
 further says, "There is nobody 
 but eats and drinks. But they are 
 few who can distinguish flavors." 
 Otherwise but few that can judge. 
 
 Under the teachings of Confu- 
 cius the Chinese have long been 
 an honorable and honest people in 
 spite of their exclusive ideas and 
 practice. "To show forbearance 
 and gentleness in teaching others 
 and not to avenge unreasonable 
 conduct." "When one cultivates 
 
146 
 
 to the utmost the principles of his 
 nature, and exercises them on the 
 principles of reciprocity, he is not 
 far from the path." And further, 
 'To set the example in behaving 
 to a friend, as I would require him 
 to behave to me." I mention 
 these, a few of the beautiful les- 
 ions of Confucius which, if fol- 
 owed would make any man bet- 
 ter and wiser. Many of these les- 
 ions have some resemblance to 
 ;hose taught by Christ and still 
 ^ery different as no mention is 
 made of a Creator. 
 
 Buddha in his teachings gath- 
 ered much from Confucius philos- 
 ophy. Buddha, "The Wise" or the 
 Enlightened, the sacred name of 
 he founder of Buddhism, an Li- 
 lian sage, who appears to have 
 ived in the fifth century B. C. His 
 personal name was Siddhartha, 
 
146 
 
 and his family name Gautama; 
 and he is often called Sakya-muni 
 from Sakya the name of his tribe, 
 and muni, a Sanskrit word mean- 
 ing a sage. His father was King 
 of Kapilavastu, a few days' jour- 
 ney north of Benares. Siddhartha, 
 filled with a deep compassion for 
 the human race, left his father's 
 court and lived for years in soli- 
 tude till he had penetrated the 
 mysteries of life and become 
 Buddha. He then began to teach 
 his new faith, in opposition to the 
 prevailing Brahmanism, com- 
 mencing at Benares. Among his 
 earliest converts were the mon- 
 archs of Magadha and Kosala, in 
 whose kingdom he chiefly passed 
 the latter portion of his life, re- 
 spected, honored and protected. 
 The religious system was founded 
 by Buddha. The most prominent 
 
147 
 
 doctrines of which is that Nir- 
 vana, or an absolute release from 
 existence, is the chief good. Ac- 
 cording to it, pain is inseparable 
 from existence, and consequently 
 pain can cease only through Nir- 
 vana; and, in order to attain Nir- 
 vana our desires and passions 
 must be suppressed, the most ex- 
 treme self-renunciation prac- 
 ticed, and we must, as far as pos- 
 sible, forget our own personality. 
 In order to attain Nirvana eight 
 conditions must be kept or prac- 
 ticed. The first is in Buddhistic 
 language, right view; the second 
 is right judgment; the third is 
 right language; the fourth is 
 right purpose; the fifth is right 
 profession; the sixth is right ap- 
 plication; the seventh is right 
 memory; the eighth is right medi- 
 tation. The five fundamental 
 
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 precepts of the Buddhist moral 
 code are: not to kill, not to steal, 
 not to commit adultery, not to lie 
 and not to give away to drunken- 
 ness. To these there are added 
 five others of less importance and 
 binding more particularly on the 
 religious class, such as to abstain 
 from repasts taken out of season, 
 from theatrical representations, 
 etc. There are six fundamental 
 virtues to be practiced by all men 
 alike, viz.: charity, purity, pa- 
 tience, courage, contemplation 
 and knowledge. These are the 
 virtues that are said to conduct 
 the man to the other shore. The 
 devotee who strictly practices 
 them has not yet attained Nir- 
 vana, but is on the road to it. The 
 Buddhist virtue of charity is uni- 
 versal in its application, extend- 
 ing to all creatures and demand- 
 
149 
 
 ing sometimes the greatest self- 
 denial and sacrifice. There is a 
 legend that the Buddha, in one of 
 his stages of existence, for it is 
 claimed he passed through in- 
 numerable transmigrations be- 
 fore becoming "the enlightened," 
 gave himself up to be devoured by 
 a famishing lioness which was 
 unable to suckle her young ones. 
 We learn of the legends in Sir Ed- 
 win Arnold's "Light of Asia," 
 from which we gather a knowl- 
 edge of Buddha's mental condi- 
 tion at the time and his belief in 
 former lives through which he 
 passed. 
 
 "Long after — when enlightment was come — 
 They prayed Lord Buddha touching all, and 
 
 why 
 She wore this black and gold, and stepped so 
 
 proud. 
 And the world-honored answered, "Not me." 
 
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 This was unknown, albeit it seemed half 
 
 known; 
 For while the wheel of birth and death turns 
 
 round, 
 Past things and thoughts and buried lives 
 
 come back. 
 I now remember, myriad rains ago, 
 What time I roamed Himala's hanging woods, 
 A tiger, with my striped and hungry kind ; 
 I, who am Buddha, crouched in the kusa grass 
 Gazing with green blinked eyes upon the 
 
 herds 
 Which pastured near and nearer to their 
 
 death. 
 Round my day lair ; or underneath the stars 
 I roamed for prey, savage, insatiable, 
 Sniffing the paths for track of man and deer 
 Amid the beasts that were my fellows then, 
 Meet in deep jungle or by reedy jheel, 
 A tigress, comeliest of the forest, set 
 The males at war ; her hide was lit with gold, 
 Black broidered like the veil Yasodhara 
 Wore for me; hot the strife waxed in that 
 
 wood 
 With tooth and claw, while underneath a 
 
 neem 
 The fair beast watched us bleed, thus fiercely 
 
 wooed. 
 And I remember, at the end she came 
 
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 Snarling past this and that torn forest lord 
 Which I had conquered, and with frowning 
 
 jaws 
 Licked my quick heaving flank, and with me 
 
 went 
 Into the world with proud steps, amorously. 
 The wheel of birth and death turns low and 
 
 high." 
 
 A legend may come from the 
 abnormal mind of the devotee 
 and not be founded on facts. It is 
 not my purpose to dwell on them. 
 There are other virtues, less im- 
 portant, indeed, than the six Car- 
 dinal ones, but still binding on be- 
 lievers. Thus not only is lying 
 forbidden, but evil speaking, 
 coarseness of language and even 
 vain and frivolous talk must be 
 avoided. Buddhist metaphysics 
 are comprised in three theories — 
 the theory of transmigration, the 
 theory of the mutual connection 
 of cause, and the theory of Nir- 
 
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 vana. The first requires no ex- 
 planation. According to the sec- 
 ond, life is the result of twelve 
 conditions, which are by turns, 
 causes and effect. Thus there 
 would be no death were it not for 
 birth; it is therefore the effect of 
 which birth is the cause. Again, 
 there would be no birth were 
 there not a continuation of exist- 
 ence. Existence has for its cause 
 our attachment to things, which 
 again has its origin in desire; and 
 so on through sensation, contact, 
 the organs of sensation and the 
 heart, name and form, ideas, etc., 
 up to ignorance. This ignorance 
 however, is not ordinary igno- 
 rance, but the fundamental error 
 which cause it to attribute perma- 
 nence and reality to things. This, 
 then, is the primary origin of ex- 
 istence and all its attendant evils. 
 
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 Nirvana or extinction is eternal 
 salvation from the evils of exist- 
 ence, and the end which every 
 Buddhist is supposed to seek. 
 Buddha left no writings, we are 
 informed that his doctrines were 
 written by his disciples after his 
 death. 
 
 Let us turn to Brahmanism, a 
 religious and social system preva- 
 lent among the Hindus, and so- 
 called because developed and ex- 
 pounded by the sacerdotal caste 
 known as the Brahman. It is 
 founded on the ancient religious 
 writings known as the Vedas and 
 regarded as sacred revelations, 
 of which the Brahmans as a body 
 became custodians and interpre- 
 ters, being also the officiating 
 priests and the general directors 
 of sacrifices and religious rites. 
 As the priestly caste increased in 
 
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 numbers and power, they went on 
 elaborating the ceremonies and 
 added to the Vedas other writings 
 tending to confirm the excessive 
 pretentions of the new predomi- 
 nant caste, and give them the 
 sanction of a revelation. The 
 earliest supplements to the Vedas 
 are the Brahmanas, more fully 
 explaining the functions of the 
 officiating priests. Both together 
 form the revealed Scripture of 
 the Hindus. In time the caste of 
 Brahman came to be accepted as 
 a divine institution, and an elab- 
 orate system of rules defining and 
 enforcing by the severest penal- 
 ties its place, as well as the in- 
 ferior castes, was promulgated. 
 Other early castes were the 
 Kshattriyas or warriors, and the 
 Vaisyas or cultivators, and it was 
 not without a struggle that the 
 
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 former recognized the superior- 
 ity of the Brahmans. It was by 
 the Brahmans that the Sanskrit 
 literature was developed; and 
 they were not only the priests, 
 theologians and philosophers, but 
 also the poets, men of science, 
 lawgivers, administrators, and 
 statesmen of the Aryana of India. 
 The sanctity and inviolability 
 of Brahman are maintained by 
 severe penalties. The murder of 
 one of the order, robbing him, 
 etc., are inexplicable sins; even 
 the killing of his cow can only be 
 expiated by a painful penance. A 
 Brahman should pass through 
 four states: First, as Brahmach- 
 ari, or novice, he begins the study 
 of the sacred Vedas and is initi- 
 ated into the privileges and the 
 duties of his caste. He has a 
 right to alms, to exemption from 
 
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 taxes and from capital and even 
 corporal punishment. Flesh and 
 eggs he is not allowed to eat. 
 Leather, skins of animals, and 
 most animals themselves are im- 
 pure and not to be touched by 
 him. When manhood comes he 
 ought to marry and as Grihastha 
 enter the second state, which re- 
 quires more numerous and min- 
 ute observances. When he has 
 begotten a son and trained him 
 up for the holy calling he ought 
 to enter the third state, and as 
 Vanaprastha, or inhabitant of 
 the forest, retire from the world 
 for solitary praying and medita- 
 tion, with severe penances to pur- 
 ify the spirit; but this and the 
 fourth or last state of a Sannyasi; 
 requiring a cruel degree of ascet- 
 icism, are now seldom reached, 
 and the whole scheme is to be re- 
 
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 garded as representing rather 
 the Brahmanical ideal of life than 
 the actual facts. 
 
 The worship in the oldest Vedic 
 literature is that of natural ob- 
 jects; the sky, personified in the 
 God of Indra; the dawn, in Ushas; 
 the various attributes of the sun, 
 in Vishnu, Surya, Aqui, etc. These 
 gods were invoked for assistance 
 in the common affairs of life, and 
 were propitiated by offerings 
 which, at first, few and simple, 
 afterwards became more compli- 
 cated and included animal sacri- 
 fices. In the later Vedic hymns a 
 philosophical conception of relig- 
 ion and the problem of being and 
 creation appears struggling into 
 existence, and this tendency is 
 systematically developed by the 
 supplements and commentaries 
 known as the Brahmanas and the 
 
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 Upanishads. In some of the 
 Upanishads the deities of the old 
 Vedic creed are treated as sym- 
 bolical. Brahman, the supreme 
 soul, is the only reality, the world 
 is regarded as an emanation from 
 him, and the highest good of the 
 soul is to become united with the 
 divine. The necessity for the pur- 
 ification of the soul in order to its 
 reunion with the divine nature 
 gave rise to the doctrine of me- 
 tempsychosis or transmigration. 
 
 The philosophical development 
 of Brahmanism gave rise to a dis- 
 tinct separation between the edu- 
 cated and the vulgar creed. 
 Whilst from the fifth to the first 
 century B. C, the higher thinkers 
 amongst the Brahmans were de- 
 veloping a philosophy which rec- 
 ognized that there was but one 
 God, the popular creed had con- 
 
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 centrated its ideas of worship 
 around three great deities — 
 Brahma, Vishnu and Siva, who 
 now took the place of the con- 
 fused old Vedic Pantheon. Brah- 
 ma, the Creator, though consid- 
 ered the most exalted of the 
 three, was too abstract an idea to 
 become a popular god and soon 
 sank almost out of notice. Thus 
 the Brahmans became divided 
 between Vishnu, the preserver, 
 and Siva, the destroyer and re- 
 producer, and the worshippers of 
 these two deities now form the 
 two great religious sects of India. 
 Siva, in his philosophical signifi- 
 cance, is the deity mostly wor- 
 shipped by the conventional 
 Brahman, while in his aspect of 
 the Destroyer, or in one of his fe- 
 male manifestations, he is the 
 god of the low castes, and often 
 
160 
 
 worshipped with degrading rites. 
 But the highly cultivated Brah- 
 man is still a pure theist, and the 
 educated Hindu in general pro- 
 fesses to regard the special deity 
 he chooses for worship as merely 
 a form under which the One First 
 Cause may be approached. 
 
 The sharp division of the peo- 
 ple of India into civilized Aryans 
 and non- Aryans has had a great 
 influence upon Brahmanism, and 
 thus the spiritual conceptions of 
 the old Vedic creed have been 
 mixed in modern Hinduism with 
 degrading superstitions and cus- 
 toms belonging to the so-called 
 aboriginal races. Suttee, for ex- 
 ample, or the burning of the 
 widows, has no authority in the 
 Veda, but like most of the darker 
 features of Hinduism is the result 
 of a compromise which the Brah- 
 
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 manical teachers had to make 
 with the barbarous conceptions of 
 the non- Aryan races in India. The 
 Buddhist religion has also had an 
 important influence on the Brah- 
 manic. 
 
 The system of caste originally 
 no doubt represented distinctions 
 of race. The early classification 
 of the people was that of "twice- 
 born" Aryans (priests, warriors, 
 husbandman) and "once-born" 
 non- Aryans (serfs), but inter- 
 marriages, giving rise to a mixed 
 progeny, and the variety of em- 
 ployments in modern times, have 
 profoundly modified the simple 
 classification. Innumerable mi- 
 nor distinctions have grown up, 
 so that amongst the Brahmans 
 alone there are several hundred 
 castes who can not intermarry or 
 eat food cooked by each other. 
 
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 The Brahmans represent the 
 highest culture of India, and as 
 the result of centuries of educa- 
 tion and self-restraint have 
 evolved a type of man distinctly 
 superior to the castes around 
 them. They have still great influ- 
 ence, and occupy the highest 
 places at the courts of princes. 
 Many, however, are driven by 
 need or other motives into trades 
 and employments inconsistent 
 with the original character of 
 their caste. 
 
 Moses, as a teacher, his lesson 
 and history is so well known that 
 it is unnecessary to mention him. 
 The distress of the people in the 
 desert, the conflicts with hostile 
 races, the jealousies of the elders, 
 endangered the authority and 
 even his life, despite the miracu- 
 lous attestations of his mission. 
 
163 
 
 During the term of the encamp- 
 ment at Sinai he is said to have 
 received the Ten Command- 
 ments, which speak for them- 
 selves, and also the code laws for 
 the regulation of the lives of the 
 Israelites which are known and 
 given to the world for the eleva- 
 tion of mankind. The wander- 
 ings of Moses had much to do with 
 his preparation as a teacher and 
 leader of men, this experience 
 started the growth of the divine 
 essence within him and his eyes 
 were opened to the purpose of this 
 life. 
 
 Jesus in the part of his life of 
 which we have no written ac- 
 count, must have traveled very 
 extensively, and gained a great 
 fund of knowledge, which 
 brought about the awakening of 
 his duty in this life, even as the 
 
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 Christ, these absent years must 
 have been used in some prepara- 
 tory work to have given to the 
 world such matchless lessons and 
 a faultless life, a life of simplicity 
 and kindness, free from caste, 
 opening to all mankind the way 
 to approach the Creator. The dis- 
 appointment of Jesus refusing to 
 become the King of the Jewish 
 people was so great that after he 
 was crucified many of these peo- 
 ple looked for another leader to 
 take the place of Moses. As these 
 people were disappointed in their 
 expectations, Mohammad or Mo- 
 hammed, the founder of Islam- 
 ism, appeared as a teacher in five 
 hundred and seventy-one A. D. 
 Mohammed was an Arabian by 
 birth, of the tribe of the Koreish, 
 and was born of poor parents. His 
 parents died early, and he was 
 
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 brought up by his uncle, Alu 
 Talib, who trained him to com- 
 merce, and with whom he jour- 
 neyed through Arabia and Syria. 
 In his twenty-fifth year his uncle 
 recommended him as an agent to 
 a rich widow, named Chadidja, 
 and he acquitted himself so much 
 to her satisfaction that she mar- 
 ried him, and thus placed him in 
 easy circumstances. He seems to 
 have had from his youth a pro- 
 pensity to religious contempla- 
 tion, for he was accustomed every 
 year in the month of Ramadhan, 
 to retire to a cave in Mount Hara, 
 near Mecca, and dwell there in 
 solitude. By Christians his creed 
 is known as Mohammedanism. 
 His followers call their creed 
 Islam (entire submission to the 
 decrees of God), and their com- 
 mon formula of faith is, "There 
 
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 is no god but Allah, and Moham- 
 med is his prophet." The dog- 
 matic or theoretical part of Mo- 
 hammedanism embraces the fol- 
 lowing points: First, "Belief in 
 Allah, who is without beginning 
 or end, the sole Creator and Lord 
 of the universe, having absolute 
 power, knowledge, glory and per- 
 fection. Second, Belief in his an- 
 gels, who are impeccable beings 
 created of light. Third, Belief in 
 good and evil Jinu (genii), who 
 are created of smokeless fire and 
 are subject to death. Fourth, Be- 
 lief in the Holy Scriptures, which 
 are his uncreated word revealed 
 to the prophets. Of those there 
 now exists, but in a greatly cor- 
 rupted form, the Pentateuch, the 
 Psalms, and the Gospels; and in 
 an uncorrupted and incorruptible 
 state, the Koran, which abrogates 
 
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 and surpasses all preceding rev- 
 elations. Fifth, Belief in God's 
 prophets and apostles, the most 
 distinguished of whom are Adam, 
 Noah, Abraham, Jesus and Mo- 
 hammed. Mohammed is the 
 greatest of them all, the last of 
 the prophets and the most excel- 
 lent of the creatures of God. 
 Sixth, Belief in a general resur- 
 rection and final judgment, and 
 in future rewards and punish- 
 ments, chiefly of a physical na- 
 ture. Seventh, The belief, even to 
 the extent of fatalism of God's 
 absolute foreknowledge and pre- 
 destination of all events both 
 good and evil." 
 
 The practical part of Moham- 
 medanism inculcates certain ob- 
 servances or duties, of which four 
 are most important. The first is 
 prayer, including preparatory 
 
168 
 
 purifications. Prayer must be en- 
 gaged in at five stated periods 
 each day. On each of these occa- 
 sions the Moslem has to offer up 
 certain prayers held to be or- 
 dained by his prophets. During 
 prayer it is necessary that the 
 face of the worshipper be turned 
 towards the kibla, that is, in the 
 direction of Mecca. Prayers may 
 be said in any clean place, but on 
 Friday they must be said in the 
 mosque. Second in importance to 
 prayer stands the duty of giving 
 alms. Next comes the duty of 
 fasting. The Moslem must ab- 
 stain from eating and drinking, 
 and from every indulgence of the 
 senses, every day during the 
 month of Ramadhan, from the 
 first appearance of daybreak un- 
 til sunset, unless physically inca- 
 pacitated. The fourth para- 
 
16P 
 
 mount religious duty of the Mos- 
 lem is the performance at least 
 once in his life, if possible, of the 
 pilgrimage ( el-Had j) to Mecca, 
 after which he becomes a Hadji. 
 Circumcision is general among 
 Mohammedans, but it is not abso- 
 lutely obligatory. The distinc- 
 tions of clean and unclean meats 
 are nearly the same as in the 
 Mosaic code. Wine and all intox- 
 icating liquors are strictly for- 
 bidden. Music, games of chance 
 and usury are condemned. Im- 
 ages and pictures of living crea- 
 tures are contrary to law. Char- 
 ity, probity in all transactions, 
 veracity (except in a few cases), 
 and modesty are indispensable 
 virtues. After Mohammed's death 
 who should become his successor 
 led to a division of the Mohamme- 
 dans into the two sects known as 
 
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 Shilites and Sunnites. The for- 
 mer, the believers in the right of 
 Ali to be considered the first suc- 
 cessor, constitute at present the 
 majority of the Mussulmans of 
 Persia and India; the latter, con- 
 sidered as the orthodox Moham- 
 medans, are dominant in the 
 Ottoman Empire, Arabia, Turk- 
 estan and Africa. 
 
 In this review of the great 
 lights of this life, it is not my pur- 
 pose to overlook the lesser lights, 
 but these mentioned have attract- 
 ed the larger following and more 
 lasting than those we call lesser 
 lights. Neither is it my purpose 
 to criticize any of these creeds I 
 have mentioned. My sole and 
 only desire is to determine wheth- 
 er it is possible for mankind to 
 develop the spark of the divine 
 within him faster than the devel- 
 
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 opment made under these teach- 
 ers. We can only determine the 
 fruits of the harvest of any one 
 of them, by the mental condition 
 and also the physical power of 
 their followers. I further greatly 
 desire to know fully in my own 
 mind that I am following the 
 right guide to this life, for we all 
 have been warned. "Take heed 
 that no man deceive you, for 
 many shall come in my name, say- 
 ing I am Christ; and shall deceive 
 many." 
 
 From the instructors of the 
 world, we must look for a cause in 
 its slow or fast development. 
 Their shortcomings will have a 
 great effect on the man who 
 allows himself to be influenced by 
 the mental thoughts of his mas- 
 ter, his development will be ac- 
 cording to the master's wishes 
 
1?2 
 
 and creed. He receives the mas- 
 ter's thoughts without question, 
 he does not even ask himself 
 whether the creed of the master 
 is the broad way to eternal life 
 or upon a narrow by-way? He 
 does not ask himself if this creed 
 is supported by the evidence with- 
 in his own intelligence? Does the 
 doctrine conform with the divine 
 laws of nature all about one's 
 existence? Under an analysis by 
 the divine laws we call nature's 
 laws, we must conclude that many 
 of these creeds have violated 
 nature's laws, especially as to the 
 effect on the elevation of man- 
 kind from his humble estate to 
 the higher and better man, both 
 mentally and physically, from 
 youth to old age, and followed by 
 the higher generations of man- 
 kind. Our analysis in many cases 
 
m 
 
 will show that the subject has vio- 
 lated the teachings of his master 
 and become a savage again. This 
 can be no fault of the master. 
 
 Let us analyze the teachings of 
 Confucius. His philosophy seemed 
 to be founded upon the experi- 
 ence of the rulers of the people 
 for hundred of years before him. 
 All that did not accept the creed 
 were banished, the result of these 
 methods was a civilization full of 
 honest and industrious people, 
 but they received no knowledge 
 gained by other nations. In fact, 
 China became a hermit Empire, 
 until recent years, when the force 
 of the world's civilization rent the 
 barriers. The upward tendency 
 of the Chinese civilization, for a 
 long time has been imperceptible. 
 The elimination or suppression 
 of the natural tendency of man- 
 
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 kind towards development into 
 the higher man of the masses, 
 caused disintegration of the men- 
 tal force, thus we see the Chinese 
 civilization floating like a de- 
 relict. 
 
 No civilization can obtain a full 
 success without the recognition 
 of a Creator and the assistance 
 through this, the divine purpose. 
 Confucius knew "the path of 
 duty," and that "the regulation of 
 this path is called instruction." 
 Was instruction given to the Chi- 
 nese people as a people? Was the 
 young given instruction? They 
 were told that "the path may not 
 be left for an instant," were they 
 shown the path and told how to 
 keep on it as an intelligent man? 
 I quite agree with Confucius that 
 if it "could be left, it would not be 
 the path." The path to eternal 
 
175 
 
 life is broad enough for all, so 
 that it is entirely unnecessary for 
 the latter-day religions to wander 
 from the path to create a follow- 
 ing. All mankind knows the path 
 when he uses his mind to locate it. 
 The neglect of early civilization 
 to train the mind from the birth 
 seems to have been the greatest 
 weakness of the early civilization 
 and one of the causes of their slow 
 development and early decay. 
 This neglect has not yet been 
 overcome, although there has 
 been some improvement. Force 
 must be turned upon the young 
 minds of the world to increase the 
 mental development. Jealousy 
 will prevent this being done ex- 
 cept by womankind. 
 
 In Buddhism, in order to to at- 
 tain "Nirvana/' our desires and 
 passions must be suppressed, the 
 
176 ! 
 
 most extreme self-renunciation 
 practiced, and we must, as far as 
 possible, forget our own person- 
 ality. If all mankind in the world 
 should attain Nirvana, love would 
 fly away, development would stop, 
 man would become a hermit, the 
 fields would become a desert 
 waste. The divine laws of the 
 Creator would be inoperative. 
 Man must follow the purpose of 
 this life, he must use the talents 
 given him by the Creator, and not 
 waste the time allotted to him for 
 his life upon earth. 
 
 In Brahmanism, we have evi- 
 dence that the Vedas was added 
 to and developed by the priests, 
 theologians and philosophers 
 which is an acknowledgment on 
 its face of imperfection or greed 
 of the sacredotal caste. The evi- 
 dence of the civilization devel- 
 
m 
 
 oped under it, point strongly to 
 the latter fact. Castes have 
 thrown a shadow over the earth 
 that we have not yet passed out 
 from under. 
 
 I will say nothing further about 
 Mohammed as his religion was 
 promulgated after the coming of 
 Christ, just as were many other 
 dogmas. 
 
 "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, 
 except a man be born of water 
 (solids) and of the Spirit, he can 
 not enter into the Kingdom of 
 God. That which is born of the 
 flesh is flesh; and that which is 
 born of the Spirit is spirit. Mar- 
 vel not that I said unto thee, ye 
 must be born again. The wind 
 bloweth where it listeth, and thou 
 hearest the sound thereof, but 
 canst not tell whence it cometh, 
 and whither it goeth; so is every 
 
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 one that is born of the Spirit." 
 These are words of authority 
 spoken by Jesus, and are so true 
 to life, that no one can doubt their 
 truth who has had any experience 
 in mental and physical develop- 
 ment. However, what evidence 
 have we that he had the authority 
 to utter such words? The proph- 
 ets foretold of his coming and the 
 wise men expected him. We also 
 have the testimony of John. "The 
 next day John seeth Jesus coming 
 unto him and saith, Behold the 
 Lamb of God, which taketh away 
 the sin of the world. And John 
 bare record, saying I saw the 
 Spirit descending from heaven 
 like a dove, and it abode upon him 
 (Jesus). And I saw and bare 
 record that this is the Son of 
 God." Then we have the testi- 
 mony of Paul, he says, "Grace be 
 
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 unto you, and peace from God our 
 Father, and from the Lord Jesus 
 Christ. I thank my God always 
 on your behalf, for the grace of 
 God which is given you by Jesus 
 Christ." Many others I might 
 add to this direct evidence, but 
 the best evidence is the life he 
 lived and the great lessons he 
 gave to mankind, no other can be 
 found that is his equal. "And lo, a 
 voice from heaven, saying, This 
 is my beloved Son, in whom I am 
 well pleased." We have the warn- 
 ing of Jesus Christ. "It is written, 
 man shalt not live by bread alone, 
 but by every word that proceed- 
 eth out of the mouth of God." 
 "Verily, I say unto you, whosoever 
 shall not receive the Kingdom of 
 God as a little child, he shall not 
 enter therein." His beautiful 
 words are the greatest guide to 
 life eternal. 
 
CHAPTER IX. 
 
 THE BLACK MAN'S STRUGGLE WITH 
 CIVILIZATION. 
 
 I am still very far from the time 
 when it is possible for me to re- 
 duce, by the operation of thought 
 the divine purpose of the creation 
 of the negro race, who has existed 
 so long unchanged in Africa. He 
 is not a mere Aboriginal; this I 
 can not perceive by the senses 
 after long years of study of the 
 race. They have not yielded to 
 absorption like other aboriginal 
 races. The question is a very per- 
 plexing one, and it may even be 
 doubted if a victory of the solu- 
 tion of the divine purpose can 
 ever be achieved in the field of 
 
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 natural philosophy. We must be 
 satisfied with the solution by some 
 other method much longer than 
 has been practiced in the develop- 
 ment of other aboriginal races. 
 
 After long years of coming in 
 contact with the black man forced 
 into civilization by slavery, I am 
 satisfied that mentally the black 
 man has within his mental cycle 
 more or less, the essence of the 
 Creator; although it has been dor- 
 mant, in darkness, for thousands 
 of years. The sole cause is lassi- 
 tude. The climate may have had 
 something to do with the slow 
 mental growth. The story of a 
 noble black man will throw much 
 light on what can be done when 
 ambition is created through en- 
 vironment. Durham in the year 
 1802, was a boy living with his 
 parents in the Congo River Val- 
 
182 
 
 ley. His father was the King of a 
 negro tribe in Africa. This tribe 
 was composed of people with very 
 large stature; they were above 
 the average men in height, and 
 very kindly disposed. There never 
 had been a murder in the tribe 
 within the memory of man. This 
 young son of the king was about 
 fifteen years old, as near as could 
 be ascertained by the crude meth- 
 ods of counting time in use 
 among the tribe, through the 
 passing of the sun overhead in 
 midsummer. The mother told 
 him he had seen fifteen passings 
 of the sun. The tropic climate 
 had developed him into the size 
 of a man. He knew no language 
 except the guttural tongue spok- 
 en by his people. He had no 
 brothers, but possessed great love 
 for his mother and his two sisters. 
 
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 They enjoyed many pleasant 
 hours within the correl, the seat 
 of government for the little 
 kingdom. No one of the tribe 
 ever left their hunting ground, 
 except the king and one or two of 
 his great men, who traded with 
 some Egyptian town; of these ex- 
 periences Durham knew little. 
 He remembered that on one occa- 
 sion his father on his return gave 
 him a hunting knife, which was 
 not only his pride but the pride of 
 the tribe. The tropical forest sup- 
 plied them with abundance of 
 game; life was easily sustained 
 with very little labor, the rivers 
 were full of fish, a breech clout 
 supplied the clothing, which was 
 made from the skins of the wild 
 beasts of the forest. This young 
 prince of the forest was raised in 
 this scant attire, with no instruc- 
 
184 
 
 tions as to labor, no one in the 
 tribe labored or thought it neces- 
 sary to better their condition; 
 they knew nothing of ambition or 
 honest toil. Under these environ- 
 ments this son of the forest had 
 grown almost to manhood; he had 
 never seen a missionary nor 
 heard the church bell. He knew 
 nothing of priest or preacher, he 
 had never heard of a Creator, 
 had not even thought it was nec- 
 essary in the creation of the 
 world. He knew nothing of 
 Christ or his work upon the earth. 
 Christ's teachings had never pen- 
 etrated these dense forests. He 
 knew not shame at the exposure 
 of his person, he had never seen 
 any one that knew of civilization, 
 he never knew that man navi- 
 gated the sea, he knew nothing 
 of fire arms, of teaching, of les- 
 
185 
 
 sons, of books, of letters, of writ- 
 ing, he was just a child of nature. 
 One day this young prince of 
 the forest, seeking pleasure with 
 his hunting knife, left his house 
 and traveled up the river toward 
 the great pool, some distance 
 from home in search of game; 
 after wandering a long ways he 
 saw coming through the under- 
 brush, a young gazelle after 
 water. He secreted himself be- 
 hind a large tree and as it passed 
 he slew it with his hunting knife. 
 He was truly a happy hunter as 
 he turned homeward with his first 
 capture. His burden, he carried 
 with the ease of a giant. He had 
 no thought of danger, he knew no 
 enemy except the wild beasts of 
 the forest. To avert this danger 
 he followed the wash of the river, 
 which had left an open way as the 
 
166 
 
 stream was at low mark. Having 
 returned about half the way- 
 home, he was thrown upon his 
 back by some great weight on his 
 burden he carried. Before he 
 could recover himself, he was 
 seized by four strong men. He 
 looked at them; he could not un- 
 derstand; they were white men. 
 He had never seen white men be- 
 fore; no, he had never before 
 heard of white men, did not 
 know that they even existed, 
 but they were men just the 
 same. Surely they would not 
 harm him? With this thought in 
 his mind he concluded not to 
 struggle against their numbers. 
 Chains were fastened upon his 
 wrists and ankles, then he was 
 placed on his feet, his game was 
 thrown upon his shoulders, with a 
 man on each side holding his 
 
187 
 
 arms, he was made to understand 
 he must walk with his shackles 
 the best he could. He could not 
 understand the language they 
 spoke, but followed their direc- 
 tions the best he could. After fol- 
 lowing the river about a mile they 
 came to a house located on the 
 river; he was later informed it 
 was a boat. He was thrown into 
 the boat on his back, his shackles 
 were chained to the boat. There 
 were a number of men on the 
 boat when he was received, his 
 captors returned to the forest and 
 he heard them come on the boat at 
 dark. In the morning on the re- 
 turn of daylight, he knew that the 
 boat had moved far down the 
 river from the place they occu- 
 pied yesterday. This he could tell 
 from his knowledge of the river. 
 The boat lay for a number of days 
 
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 along the river but the hunters 
 never returned with any of his 
 people. One night the men all re- 
 turned and spread great drab 
 sheets overhead. The next morn- 
 ing the river had grown so wide 
 that the prisoner could just see 
 the land on one side; the boat he 
 was in lay alongside a very much 
 larger one. He was thrown out of 
 the small one on the deck of the 
 ship where the captain examined 
 him from head to foot. He exam- 
 ined his eyes, his teeth, his mus- 
 cles, his height was taken. This 
 captain was a desperate-looking 
 man with a cruel face. When this 
 ordeal was over, Durham was 
 shoved under an awning and fast- 
 ened to a long chain which held 
 many more negroes, all in native 
 garb. Their food was thrown on 
 the deck, which they gathered up 
 
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 as best they could with the chains 
 on them. The crew seemed to be 
 composed of wild beasts; their 
 conduct toward the captives was 
 very cruel. Durham soon learned 
 that he was unable to talk with 
 any of the captives as they did 
 not understand his language. 
 Many of them were able to com- 
 municate but the language was 
 strange to him. On the next day, 
 while the crew was at mess, an old 
 negro approached Durham. He 
 was very tall, bent with age or 
 work; he spoke to him in his own 
 tongue, he spoke very kindly and 
 respectfully. He told Durham 
 that he was a captive on a slave 
 ship, and that he would never see 
 his home again, that Durham was 
 the first of his own race that he 
 had seen for many years, never 
 since he had been confined on this 
 
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 ship, where he served as the ship's 
 cook. He advised him to obey 
 orders, but never learn to be a 
 sailor if he hoped to go ashore and 
 run the chance of getting with a 
 good master. He also said that 
 the captain had on shipboard two 
 instructors in language, one for 
 Spanish and one for English, that 
 if a man with a long black mus- 
 tache came to him and com- 
 menced to point to objects and 
 call them names, that he was to 
 be so dumb that he could not un- 
 derstand; when the time came 
 that he called the old cook, the 
 cook would tell him that he never 
 would learn Spanish; then he 
 would be turned over to the Eng- 
 lish instructor. When this oppor- 
 tunity came, he must work hard 
 to master everything he told him. 
 If he could learn English he 
 
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 would stand a better chance for a 
 good master. He must tell no one 
 of the conversation. He followed 
 the instructions of the old negro 
 to good advantage, as the slave 
 ship cruised up and down the 
 African coast for months to come. 
 The raiders brought in many cap- 
 tives from day to day. They were 
 all the time on the lookout for 
 other ships, as the captain was 
 careful to avoid meeting any one 
 at sea. After a long time, when 
 the ship was well loaded with 
 slaves, they stood off the shore of 
 Africa far south of the equator. 
 One morning very early, full sail 
 was set and a course westward 
 was taken and followed for many 
 days. It is unnecessary to men- 
 tion the suffering of these unfor- 
 tunate people. 
 After two or three months, as 
 
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 they drifted in a fog they came to 
 land. Durham's instructor in- 
 formed him that it was South 
 America. For many days they 
 worked the coast traveling north 
 and disposing of their slaves 
 along the shore. In the West In- 
 dies, all the Spanish-speaking 
 slaves were disposed of, leaving a 
 small number among which was 
 our young Durham, who had be- 
 come fairly proficient in speaking 
 English. Again they set sail out 
 in mid-ocean, avoiding all ship- 
 ping. One day a small boat came 
 along side, one man came on 
 board, conferred with the captain 
 for a little while and then left the 
 ship. The ship lay in a fogbank. 
 Just before sunset a fair breeze 
 filled the sails and after dark 
 they entered a harbor of great 
 beauty. The old cook told Dur- 
 
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 ham that they were entering the 
 Chesapeake Bay and would soon 
 come to the city of Baltimore. The 
 ship kept as far from all shipping 
 as possible; about eleven o'clock 
 they passed a large number of 
 ships at anchor, the city was 
 passed, when they came to a 
 wooden dock, made fast, and 
 from a gang plank all the remain- 
 ing slaves fastened to a chain, 
 were marched off the ship and 
 taken in charge by men on shore. 
 Immediately the ship released her 
 fastenings and was lost in the 
 darkness. 
 
 Their new masters conducted 
 them to a large building which 
 proved to be a warehouse, where 
 they spent the night. In the 
 morning Durham was awakened 
 by a voice, the voice of a child, 
 clear and sweet, singing the first 
 
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 song he had ever heard. As he 
 raised his naked body from his 
 bed of straw, he felt the chill of 
 an early spring morning in the 
 north. The first song sounded to 
 him strange. He never was quite 
 sure just what the words were. It 
 may have been something like 
 this: 
 
 Lead, kindly light, amid th' encircling gloom, 
 Lead Thou me on! The night is dark, 
 And I am far from home : lead Thou me on ! 
 Keep Thou my feet ; I do not ask to see, 
 The distant scene; one step e-nough for me. 
 
 More likely it was "My Mary- 
 land/' on account of the period 
 leading up to the war with the 
 Mother Country in 1812: 
 
 Hark to an exiled son's appeal Maryland, my 
 
 Maryland, 
 My mother state to thee I kneel! Maryland, 
 
 my Maryland. 
 
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 For life and death, for woe and weal ; 
 Thy peerless chivalry reveal, 
 And gird they beauteous limbs with steel, 
 Maryland, my Maryland. 
 
 For one or two months the cap- 
 tives were driven by an overseer's 
 lash until the great sale day in the 
 market. The day was fine, the 
 slaves were plentiful, the pur- 
 chasers were numerous and stood 
 in groups around the slave block, 
 while the auctioneer announced 
 the name of the slave, his age, his 
 height, his capacity for work and 
 the condition of his health. As 
 the day passed, the purchasers, 
 when satisfied, left with their hu- 
 man purchasers. As the crowd 
 began to grow less in numbers, 
 the auctioneer announced "that 
 he yet held the very best bargain 
 of the day and would offer him 
 last." At this time a highlander 
 
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 entered the group of purchasers; 
 his dress was of a frontiersman's 
 garb. He looked much fatigued 
 from travel. He seemed to be 
 acquainted with quite a number 
 of the groups who asked him, 
 "how he liked the western coun- 
 try?" He replied to them "that it 
 was far better than he expected, 
 and that he expected to return 
 when he had made a few pur- 
 chases he might need." The con- 
 versation was stopped by the auc- 
 tioneer's announcement that he 
 would make the last offer of the 
 day. "Negro Durham, twenty- 
 six years old, an experienced 
 farmer, a good foreman, six feet 
 six inches tall, made as you see 
 him, without a blemish, perfect 
 health, how much am I offered for 
 black Durham?" The first bid 
 seemed very low; the auctioneer 
 
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 stormed and worked to excite the 
 purchasers. He had received his 
 tenth bid, when he turned to the 
 highlander and said, "Come, 
 Scotchy, give me a bid." The man 
 raised the last bid ten dollars and 
 the slave was knocked down to 
 him. He did not suspect that this 
 giant was just from the wilds of 
 Africa, with his clean, unbleached 
 linen clothes. The highlander 
 paid his bid and turned to the 
 blackman and said, 
 
 "My man, I have purchased 
 your body, but not your soul. I 
 am a frontiersman living in the 
 great forests of the west. Follow 
 me and I will do the best within 
 my power for you." 
 
 Durham did not understand 
 all that was said to him, but 
 his spirit turned to this kind man 
 and he loved him with all his 
 
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 heart. They had walked a very 
 short distance when the master 
 observed the irons upon the 
 wrists when he called to the auc- 
 tioneer to unlock them. When 
 done, the master wondered why 
 the wrists were so rough, but said 
 nothing. He surmised that they 
 had been on for months. 
 
 They first went to the stable 
 where the master's horse was 
 kept. Here it did not take long 
 to discover that Durham knew 
 nothing about a horse; his 
 master taught him how to feed 
 and care for the fine animal, 
 which he did with willing hands. 
 Durham's obedience was perfect 
 in everything; he seemed to be 
 anxious to learn and would re- 
 member the instructions, never 
 seeming to forget. After a num- 
 ber of days of trading by the mas- 
 
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 ter, he told Durham that in the 
 morning at day, they would start 
 for the west, a journey of over 
 seven hundred miles. The next 
 morning before sunrise they 
 started for the west via the old 
 Tennessee trail, the master on 
 horseback with a load of pack- 
 ages, Durham following on foot 
 with part of the burden. The first 
 night or two they obtained shelter 
 but after that they camped in the 
 forest. 
 
 After the camp life commenced 
 the master inquired of Durham 
 about his past life and received a 
 full and frank account up to the 
 day of sale, about as above re- 
 lated. When he had finished his 
 master promised to become his in- 
 structor. On this journey Dur- 
 ham learned the use of firearms 
 and readily became a good 
 
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 marksman; he learned camp 
 cooking as by nature, his skill in 
 preparing game was unexcelled. 
 While his master rested the horse 
 for the day he filled the camp with 
 fresh game. When his master 
 told him of God, he listened with 
 wonder and asked many ques- 
 tions, and when he was told of the 
 coming of Christ and his wonder- 
 ful teachings, he said to his mas- 
 ter how thankful he was to re- 
 ceive this knowledge; he never 
 could have gained it in his savage 
 state. His face expressed his 
 great joy and the comfort in these 
 teachings. At night, by the 
 camp fire, the master would read 
 to him the lessons of Christ and he 
 was always very attentive. After 
 many days of travel, the master 
 said to him one morning when 
 they were ready for travel, while 
 
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 they faced the west with the ris- 
 ing sun at their backs, 
 
 "Durham, from what you have 
 told me about your life you must 
 not be over seventeen years old, 
 in the mental world you are a 
 mere infant, but if possible I 
 would like for you to remember 
 what I say to you." The frontiers- 
 man turned his horse across the 
 way, faced himself to the west. 
 
 "Durham, do you see the broad 
 way cut through the forest free 
 from trees, like a great highway 
 constructed for the convenience 
 of mankind? This highway was 
 in existence when the first white 
 man came to this country and 
 found it inhabited by the Indians. 
 
 "The Indians say of this great 
 highway, 'that when their fathers 
 came to this country seeking a 
 hunting-ground a very long time 
 
202 
 
 ago, in fact it has become a tradi- 
 tion among their people, even 
 then, the highway was in exist- 
 ence, that it was built by the 
 Spirit Father as a guide into the 
 hunting fields/ 
 
 "Even the forest has respected 
 the ground as sacred, for you can 
 see from where you stand, clear 
 lines of the way. I have traveled 
 it to the Mississippi River and it 
 shows the evidence of a great 
 highway all the way. It evidently 
 must have been built by some pre- 
 historic race of mankind un- 
 known to us. This landmark must 
 have been left for some purpose, 
 to guide some civilized race of 
 men into the wilderness, to fulfill 
 some wise purpose of the Creator. 
 
 "By some means man became 
 possessed of an idea to form a 
 government where all men would 
 
203 
 
 be equal in their personal rights, 
 as given them by the Creator, as 
 the feeling of many had become 
 so fixed in their minds that all 
 could not have the opportunity 
 under the old civilization to de- 
 velop their natural talents. As 
 the feeling grew into a mighty 
 force, this young government was 
 formed for the express purpose of 
 developing such a civilization; 
 that all races and all walks of life 
 might be blended together, in- 
 grafting the best mental powers 
 in a race of ambitious people and 
 thereby produce an elevated civ- 
 ilization. 
 
 "Why, Durham, in your own 
 case, you are of a race that has 
 had little or no experience in civil- 
 ization and know nothing of its 
 advantages. It will take a long 
 time for your people to receive 
 
204 
 
 what is just and due them from 
 time to time, but by patience it 
 will come, likely not in your or my 
 time, but the reward is sure to 
 come if pursued to the end. The 
 force behind the new govern- 
 ment believes the battle is waged 
 for the right and all its advocates 
 will do their part. I expect to do 
 my part. I am satisfied you will 
 do yours." 
 
 "My master, as I know it, I will 
 do my part with patience." "Well 
 done, Durham, I will help you." 
 
 "It will now be necessary for us 
 to leave the guiding path and 
 turn into the wilderness, go by 
 the mountain passes down into 
 the state of Kentucky where our 
 work is awaiting us and also my 
 little family is now in the wilder- 
 
 ness." 
 
 The travelers turned aside into 
 
205 
 
 a rough, mountainous country, 
 heavily wooded and thick un- 
 derbrush. They passed through 
 the town of Versailles and about 
 sunset on a high hill overlooking 
 the surrounding country in the 
 thick forest they came to a cabin. 
 They were welcomed by the wife 
 and the one-year-old male child. 
 The negro housekeeper, one of 
 those wonderful works of the 
 Creator, prepared a meal fit for 
 the occasion of the masters's re- 
 turn. 
 
 After a few days of rest, the 
 master commenced the lessons of 
 teaching Durham to become a 
 frontier farmer and he found him 
 a very apt scholar. Five years of 
 this kind of instructions placed 
 him as the foreman of his mas- 
 ter's farm. He was faithful, will- 
 ing and proficient. He endeared 
 
206 
 
 himself with the whole family, 
 and especially with the son; they 
 became almost constant compan- 
 ions. When the son became old 
 enough to commence his educa- 
 tion, he became the instructor for 
 Durham. In this way Durham 
 learned to read and to read well, 
 and spent all his time in reading 
 everything his young master 
 could procure for him. His in- 
 tellect seemed to expand from 
 day to day, the mind seemed to al- 
 most overtake his great body in 
 development. Remember this de- 
 velopment of the black man was 
 not under the tutelage of a highly 
 educated college professor, as 
 young princes are usually in- 
 structed, but he received all his 
 instructions while a slave, at the 
 arduous work of clearing a wood- 
 ed farm, overseeing other slaves, 
 
207 
 
 with a child as his teacher after 
 the day's work was over. 
 
 The young government had not 
 yet attained the elevating power 
 of the public schools for either 
 freeman or slave. All the mas- 
 ter's children were instructed at 
 home by the mother; the number 
 had grown to the usual size of the 
 family of a frontiersman. 
 
 Early in the year eighteen hun- 
 dred and twelve the master called 
 Durham to him and said to him, 
 "Durham I am called to defend 
 my country against the Mother 
 Country. Tomorrow at daybreak 
 have my best saddle horse ready, 
 my gun in order, saddlebags well 
 filled. Durham, take care of your 
 mistress and the children, to- 
 gether with the other slaves. If I 
 don't return, see that the children 
 are educated properly and God 
 
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 will reward you." The next morn- 
 ing the master rode away, leaving 
 sorrow behind him in the hearts 
 of his loved ones. 
 
 On the departure of the mas- 
 ter, Durham pursued his duties 
 well and faithfully. When the 
 products of the farm were ready 
 for market, the slave sold them at 
 Lexington, nine miles away. In 
 order to get the benefits of the 
 early market he would start at 
 three in the morning. His young 
 master, then a lad of ten years, in 
 his fondness for the slave, in- 
 sisted on accompanying him on 
 these market trips. The boy would 
 listen with delight to the negro 
 songs as they traveled along the 
 roadway at these early hours, the 
 melody of the negro's voice fas- 
 cinated him. These songs seemed 
 to have been gathered by Durham 
 
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 from every place. He never 
 seemed to forget a song he heard. 
 
 "Soft o'er the fountain, lingering falls the 
 
 southern moon ; 
 Far o'er the mountain breaks the day too 
 
 soon! 
 In thy dark eyes' splendor, where the warm 
 
 light loves to dwell, 
 Weary looks, yet tender, speak their fond 
 
 farewell. 
 Nita, Junita, ask thy soul if we shall part ! 
 Nita, Juanita, lean thou on my heart. 
 
 Weeks had passed and no tid- 
 ings from the master. On one of 
 these market trips Durham 
 seemed to have a heavy heart, 
 and the young master inquired of 
 him "if anything was the mat- 
 ter." 
 
 He said, "I am much depressed 
 over not hearing from the mas- 
 ter; I fear something has be- 
 fallen him. I should have gone 
 
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 along to care for him. I believe 
 in the great principles of this gov- 
 ernment that have done so much 
 for me. I should be allowed to de- 
 fend the right, as well as receive 
 its benefits. To be chained as a 
 slave, with no opportunity to help 
 those who have helped me in my 
 hours of need, is all wrong. Every 
 man should be a freeman, no mat- 
 ter how noble his master, if his 
 master is his friend he should 
 have the opportunity to defend 
 him from his enemy. My young 
 master, slavery is wrong. We 
 must all of us be allowed to fol- 
 low the commands of our Creator 
 and not those of man." 
 
 Durham bowed his head and 
 was silent for a long time; he 
 heard nothing until he heard the 
 child's voice, this manly rugged 
 boy, said, 
 
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 "Durham, when I get to be a 
 man, if it is within my power, you 
 will be free." 
 
 The seed was sown in the 
 young man's mind, many times 
 thereafter it was discussed by the 
 two until they were satisfied that 
 the question had been settled for 
 the right. 
 
 Finally they heard, through the 
 return of two hunters and trap- 
 pers, the news of a great battle 
 that had been fought between the 
 Indians and the white men at a 
 place afterwards known as the 
 Tippecanoe battlefield in which 
 the white men were defeated. 
 Some weeks after the master's 
 brother returned on foot and re- 
 ported to the family that his own 
 horse had been killed in the fight 
 He had escaped in the dark and 
 had walked back home, but that 
 
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 he greatly feared that his brother 
 had not been so fortunate. After 
 weeks of waiting, the master was 
 returned by his comrades, suffer- 
 ing from a wound in the temple 
 from which he never recovered. 
 
 This noble black man was ever 
 faithful to his trust. He cared for 
 his helpless master, educated the 
 children by his labor and when 
 his young master was established 
 in his profession, he did not even 
 feel then that his life work was 
 over. The master was laid away, 
 Durham still bent t/> his task of 
 doing for others, but the young 
 master had never for one moment 
 forgotten his promise. He knew 
 now too well that slavery was 
 wrong and he commenced to right 
 the wrong. He commenced by 
 showing his family the wrongs of 
 slavery and that all the slaves 
 
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 should be free. Finally all were 
 convinced save one, a new mem- 
 ber of the family, just joined by 
 marriage, but he insisted he was 
 too poor to make the sacrifice. All 
 joined with the brother in the 
 effort but it was of no avail. He 
 finally agreed if one of the slaves 
 were sold and he was given one 
 thousand dollars he would sign 
 the paper for the freedom of all 
 the rest. To sell one of the slaves, 
 it could not be thought of for a 
 moment. It would be like selling 
 one of the family. The older 
 slaves had been with the family 
 for a long time; had helped bear 
 their hardships; the younger ones 
 had been born on the farm. What 
 could be done? The young mas- 
 ter, in his perplexity turned to his 
 old advisor and companion, Dur- 
 ham. He listened with attention 
 
214 
 
 to all the young master said. He 
 had no sooner finished, when Dur- 
 ham said, 
 
 "My master, you must sell me 
 to raise the necessary money. 
 These young negroes can not be 
 sold; they have their whole lives 
 before them and I am half 
 through mine and have no family 
 in this country. I am the proper 
 one to make the sacrifice, if one 
 is made." 
 
 The young master stood like 
 one turned to stone from a blow. 
 After a long time he said, "I can 
 not do it." 
 
 Then said Durham, "Today 
 there was a man in Versailles 
 looking for help and was willing 
 to hire on a long time contract. 
 Likely you can arrange with him 
 to raise the money?" Through the 
 strong force of Durham, a con- 
 
215 
 
 tract was made with the man 
 from Tennessee to pay fifteen 
 hundred dollars for three years' 
 labor, one thousand cash and five 
 hundred dollars to be paid to Dur- 
 ham at the end of the term. 
 Under this arrangement the pa- 
 pers for the freedom of all were 
 executed. 
 
 Just before the expiration of 
 the three years, the young master 
 left to see that the contract was 
 fulfilled. It being at a time long 
 before railway, he was delayed on 
 his journey. As he hurried to 
 overcome the loss of time made 
 by the delay, he came upon a body 
 lying beside the roadway. He dis- 
 mounted from his horse, and re- 
 ceived the shock of his life; it was 
 Durham, his long and faithful 
 friend, left for dead. On exam- 
 ination he found that there 
 
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 was still life. He administered 
 restoratives and Durham spoke 
 to him. He said, "My young mas- 
 ter, I knew you would come to me. 
 I have been robbed of my five 
 hundred dollars and left for dead. 
 No matter about the money. I 
 have been well paid for this life. 
 I know that my Redeemer liveth, 
 which I never could have known, 
 except for this experience. If I 
 could only have informed my peo- 
 ple. Notwithstanding this, all is 
 well." He passed into the Great 
 Beyond and was buried by the 
 young master. Can any one 
 doubt that this noble black man 
 was under the guidance of the 
 great Creator of all? 
 
 BE STRONG. 
 <r We are not here to play, to dream, to drift. 
 We have hard work to do, and loads to lift. 
 Shun not the struggle, face it. Tis God's 
 gift. 
 
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 Be strong! 
 Say not the days are evil — who's to blame? 
 And fold the hands and acquiesce — shame ! 
 Stand up, speak out, and bravely, in God's 
 name. 
 
 Be strong! 
 It matters not how deep intrenched the 
 
 wrong, 
 How hard the battle goes ; the day how long. 
 Faint not, fight on! Tomorrow comes the 
 
 song." 
 
 The slow process of develop- 
 ment of mankind is caused by the 
 tendency of the savage to cling to 
 the animal side of life. When the 
 savage is introduced into civiliza- 
 tion he is more strongly attracted 
 to the uncivilized part of society, 
 that part nearer his accustomed 
 condition, under which rule, if 
 persisted in, will produce sure 
 failure. He is compelled under 
 the law of nature to persist in 
 
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 climbing up the rungs of life or 
 be exterminated as so many abor- 
 iginal races have been heretofore. 
 For instance, in the recent case of 
 the North American Indians. So 
 many of them refused to take on 
 the higher civilization, and very 
 largely for this reason the race 
 has been absolved. 
 
 "With malice toward none, with charity 
 for all, with firmness in the right, as God 
 gives us to see the right. 
 
 Let us have faith that right makes might, 
 and in that faith let us do our duty as we 
 understand it." 
 
 — Abraham Lincoln. 
 
CHAPTER X. 
 
 THE DAWN SCENES BEFORE THE 
 AWAKENING. 
 
 CROSSING THE BAR. 
 "Sunset and evening star 
 
 And one clear call for me 
 And may there be no moaning of the bar, 
 
 When I put out to sea. 
 
 But such a tide as moving seems asleep, 
 
 Too full for sound and foam, 
 When that which drew from out the bound- 
 less deep 
 
 Turns again home. 
 
 Twilight and evening bell, 
 
 And after that the dark ! 
 And may there be no sadness of farewell 
 
 When I embark. 
 
 For tho' from out our bourne of Time and 
 
 Place 
 The flood may bear me far, 
 I hope to see my Pilot face to face, 
 When I have crost the bar." 
 
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 The pilgrims proceeded upon 
 their journey until they could see 
 from their position, up an eleva- 
 tion far above them a black wall, 
 blacker than jet itself, overshad- 
 owing their pathway. The ob- 
 struction seemed to be endless in 
 length and impenetrable by man 
 or beast. They looked and could 
 see others approaching the bar- 
 rier from all points as far as the 
 eye could see. Their experience 
 for the remainder of the journey 
 is given by the younger man. 
 What we saw was a concourse of 
 humanity moving onward toward 
 this great wall, like a great 
 avalanche violating the laws of 
 gravity, passing on within the 
 barrier. They were composed of 
 both young and old. We see upon 
 them the marks of disease result- 
 ing from the ravage of the en- 
 
221 
 
 emy, known as fatal to the human 
 race. They were so marked from 
 the disease we could quickly rec- 
 ognize the cause of the changed 
 condition. We also saw many 
 marked by wounds which must 
 come from the violence of man, 
 demonstrating the low mental in- 
 stinct within man, and showing 
 that the grinding of time upon 
 his carnivorous teeth has been too 
 short to grind away the savage 
 state of man and elevate him into 
 the highly civilized state. Many 
 of the numberless pilgrims 
 seemed to be composed of single 
 travelers while occasionally they 
 would flock as from a battle field. 
 We tarried not, but traveled in 
 the same direction with the flood 
 of humanity up the elevation. 
 Our approach brought us in front 
 of the great barrier which we dis- 
 
222 
 
 covered to be the darkest forest 
 ever encountered by man. We 
 needed no warning of the danger 
 or the result of the encounter. 
 Man at the moment realizes that 
 the task before him is the great- 
 est battle of his life. A longing to 
 avoid the task possesses his very 
 soul, not of fear, but awe. The 
 magnitude of the undertaking. 
 How can one accomplish the task 
 and not be torn asunder, scatter- 
 ing the vital forces of man in the 
 winds of eternal destruction, the 
 far away, the unknown? We 
 looked upon the great trees and 
 the tangle beneath at their feet. 
 Our eyes were unable to pene- 
 trate the blackness. Our sight 
 was as one blind, no spark or ray 
 of light nor shadow, the barrier 
 extended upward beyond our vis- 
 ion with depths unknown. I 
 
223 
 
 looked upon my father's face. It 
 cast a glow as of the bravest of 
 the brave, of noble bearing. He 
 moved on into the blackness and 
 I followed. The struggle was as 
 for our very lives. No night in 
 my life had ever cast such black- 
 ness. We were entirely blind and 
 sightless. My anxiety on account 
 of my father's weakness in his 
 life so well spent, seated in me a 
 desire to take the burden of the 
 fight. I passed him by groping 
 my way and commenced the 
 struggle with the undergrowth. 
 It rent and tore me as if every 
 fibre would be torn away piece by 
 piece. The struggle continued 
 until every intelligent cell within 
 me seemed to lose its vital force. 
 My father laid his hand upon my 
 shoulder as if to give me strength. 
 The effect was magic, and I 
 
9?4 
 
 pushed on and on until I fell from 
 sheer exhaustion. In time I had 
 the feeling that I was in the light 
 but totally blind and helpless. 
 
 How long I remained in this 
 condition I am unable to tell. I 
 could not remember how I came 
 or whither I was going. I had an 
 indistinct recollection that my 
 father came with me, but what 
 had become of him I could not re- 
 call. I felt that he was not lost in 
 our wanderings but I was too ex- 
 hausted and helpless to search for 
 him. I felt like one lying on the 
 surface of the sea, although there 
 was no water. I could feel the ebb 
 and flow of the tide. There was 
 no moisture about me, still I was 
 going on swaying, swaying, up 
 and down. I finally concluded 
 that it was the disturbed condi- 
 tion of the brain, likely fever, al- 
 
225 
 
 though my mind never in my life 
 seemed so clear, and I soon de- 
 cided that I was alive and in per- 
 fect condition except for weak- 
 ness and loss of sight. 
 
 My reason told me to wait, time 
 might overcome these defects. I 
 could do nothing better than wait 
 and see if, through nature, or per- 
 haps through some unknown 
 force, I might be restored to my 
 fully balanced powers. 
 
 As I lay in my prostrate condi- 
 tion, a sound came to me as that 
 of a silver bell, so clear, so pure, 
 so sweet. Again and again it 
 sounded. I finally realized that it 
 was not a bell, but it was the 
 sound of the human voice, clear, 
 pure and sweet. It far excelled 
 any voice I had ever heard in my 
 life, in its purity and culture. It 
 must be the result of years in long 
 
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 training. The voice came nearer 
 and nearer until it stood by me. 
 It was the voice of a female, one 
 of extreme culture, beautifully 
 attuned. The voice of my mother 
 was something like it but not the 
 same. I have heard other very 
 pleasing voices but this was dif- 
 ferent. It must be the voice of an 
 angel. Peace on earth, seemed to 
 fill the air in her presence. 
 
 She said, "My brother, all is 
 well, fear not. The time is near 
 at hand when thy eyes will be 
 opened and the result of the work 
 done by thy hand will be shown. 
 In this test they will be measured 
 by the scales of true justice, every 
 one will receive the just reward 
 for all the talents he has com- 
 pleted." 
 
 Then I asked, "Where am I and 
 what has happened to me that I 
 am in this destitute condition?" 
 
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 "You have just passed through 
 the great black belt that some call 
 'death/ but there is no death, life 
 is eternal. What God has given 
 lives forever. You are now far 
 from the great struggle through 
 which you have just passed. You 
 will soon be restored to your nor- 
 mal condition." 
 
 "My good angel, may I ask who 
 my benefactress is and how I may 
 know you after I recover my 
 sight, if we meet again?" 
 
 "My name is Veruna. I have 
 been in the work of assisting 
 others for over three hundred 
 years, as mankind counts time. 
 Each day I leave my dwelling- 
 place which is in a much higher 
 zone than this, and devote all my 
 power to assist those that need 
 more light and help to better their 
 condition. From my long experi- 
 
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 ence in this work I am enabled to 
 help others accomplish many 
 things they must do before they 
 can elevate themselves into the 
 higher zone of life, which all hope 
 to attain. We are all controlled 
 by divine or fixed laws and must 
 obey before we can progress. Life 
 is eternal, never ending, and it 
 must go on in some form. In the 
 uplifting, we must do unto others 
 as we would have others do unto 
 us. We ask not of others what 
 we would not grant. All human- 
 ity is equal before the divine law, 
 if thrown away it is your loss. No 
 preference is shown under the 
 gauge on account of birth, earth- 
 ly possessions count not to ad- 
 vantage, one over the less for- 
 tunate, in the scales or test of the 
 law, they are true to the divine. 
 The true test is the intellectual or 
 
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 developed talent received from 
 the Creator, no difference how 
 small. We must start its growth, 
 using every opportunity for its 
 development, that one may have 
 the knowledge and be able to 
 judge the law and apply it as lib- 
 erally upon others as we do upon 
 ourselves. 
 
 You are upon the scales con- 
 trolled by nature's laws. The 
 waiving sensation you feel, as of 
 one being lifted in the air, is the 
 true vibration. You have just 
 passed out from under the influ- 
 ence of the law of the center of 
 gravity, which controlled you at 
 one time and had its uses. The 
 law that takes its place you will 
 find has been wisely planned. The 
 test is at hand, fear not, you will 
 soon see that justice has been 
 given you. 
 
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 Veruna stooped and placed her 
 fingers upon my eyelids and I 
 could feel a tingling sensation vi- 
 brate through me. She then said 
 to me, "I have been with you a 
 long time, in fact, since you were 
 a baby. I was with you when your 
 parents thought you would die, 
 You were a very little child. Then 
 again when you were a grown 
 man you had a long sickness, I 
 was also with you. You may call 
 me any time now when you need 
 me and I will come." 
 
 She moved away a short dis- 
 tance and I heard her speak and 
 my father answer. I heard other 
 voices, both male and female. I 
 could not hear all that was said 
 but I realized that some one was 
 being assisted. I now realized 
 that my sight was returning for 
 I could see as through a mist. 
 
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 The atmosphere near me was 
 quite clear so that I could see a 
 group of people, ma le and female, 
 and many children. I could see 
 my father standing- in their midst 
 dressed in a robe not unlike the 
 dalmatica robe. 
 
 The whole group looked so pure 
 and white, as they turned and 
 came to me. I had never seen 
 such happy, kind and loving 
 faces. The children were singing 
 a beautiful song, so sweet that it 
 warmed my very being. As they 
 approached me, I could feel the 
 magnetic influence thrown out, 
 assisting me, like a great dynamo 
 sending the current along the 
 wires. I felt life as I never had 
 before. I was so strong that I 
 stood upon my feet. 
 
 As they approached, Veruna 
 said, "You are now pilgrims on 
 
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 the Testing Plains of Justice. The 
 plain is very extensive and is bor- 
 dered on one side by the forest 
 through which you have passed 
 which is now far from you. These 
 banks of clouds are the shadows 
 from the misdeeds or wrongs 
 committed by mankind. We all 
 hope to see the day when this 
 plain may be free from this mist, 
 and shine forth from the good 
 deeds of mankind, as bright as 
 the faces of these little children. 
 
 "It is not our purpose to teach 
 you your lessons. Experience 
 must be your instructor. You will 
 find many wise provisions for 
 your convenience, learn them as 
 soon hereafter as you have the 
 opportunity, they will assist you 
 on your journey. May your am- 
 bition elevate you soon into a 
 much higher zone of life. We will 
 
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 now leave you to pursue your 
 journey. Remember, 'Ask and ye 
 shall receive/ " 
 
 These dear new friends faded 
 away out of our vision into the 
 unknown world, a world new and 
 unknown to us both. We stood, 
 as we supposed, on the plain alone, 
 and from the little knowledge in 
 our possession of the laws under 
 which we are controlled, through 
 the wise provision of the Creator, 
 we knew we must rely upon our 
 minds. 
 
 My father said, "My son, I am 
 very anxious to gain a full knowl- 
 edge of these wise provisions 
 made by the Creator of the uni- 
 verse for the government of all 
 mankind. To stand in this place 
 will accomplish very little. We 
 must use all the power within us 
 to seek wisdom. Let us proceed 
 
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 upon our way to the higher sphere 
 spoken of by our benefactors. 
 They have experience unknown 
 to us." 
 
 I followed him and soon real- 
 ized that we were ascending the 
 plain by easy stages. We came 
 upon many people and some 
 seemed to pass us, traveling 
 faster than we were, as my father 
 was walking very leisurely, look- 
 ing for knowledge. 
 
 We came upon a man on the 
 plain. I remember him especially. 
 He was thin and sallow, eyes set 
 close together, wearing gold coin 
 spectacles; the coin fully con- 
 trolled the vision. His hands were 
 full of chattel mortgages which 
 he hugged to his breast. We 
 could not see his eyes for the 
 coin spectacles, which reflected 
 throughout his body. He grum- 
 
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 bled and was much dissatisfied. 
 He complained to us over the non- 
 payment of his mortgages. As 
 he stood in a black mist we passed 
 on. 
 
 The next object that fixed our 
 attention, as we passed a clear 
 spot, gloriously lighted, was one 
 of those noble women like we had 
 seen before, leading a beautiful 
 little child. We followed them for 
 sometime. The glorious light was 
 always with them; seemed to be a 
 protection to them. Finally they 
 were lost to our view. 
 
 We next came upon another 
 man, loaded down with a coin bag. 
 The burden bent him over in a 
 stooping position as he walked. 
 He was traveling in the opposite 
 direction from the one we trav- 
 eled. He also wore coin spec- 
 tacles upon a hook nose, which ob- 
 
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 structed a clear vision of nature. 
 We could see him tottering away 
 in a black mist. He stumbled like 
 one almost blind and did not seem 
 to observe us. He trod on with 
 his burden, his mind absorbed 
 with the one object, nothing else, 
 but greed for the yellow metal, 
 gold, gold, how many we have 
 met before, not always to hoard 
 but frequently to use in debauch- 
 ery. 
 
 The next persons we saw were 
 a mother and two children with 
 her arms about them, love radiant 
 from all their bright and happy 
 eyes, no obstruction of the radius 
 about them, love and refinement 
 marked their faces. They climbed 
 the elevation rapidly, evidently 
 following the instructions of 
 some wise guardian angel. 
 
 As we ascended, we heard off to 
 
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 our left, a great commotion; we 
 looked in the direction, through 
 the blackness and could see with 
 great difficulty a number of per- 
 sons clothed in pure white, talk- 
 ing to one whom we could see 
 evidently must class himself as a 
 great war Lord. From his bear- 
 ing we knew he must hold this 
 opinion with a death-like grip. He 
 was out of tune with all mankind. 
 The men and women in white 
 were making a determined effort 
 to convince him he was only a 
 man and not a lord over men and 
 must act as men even unto obedi- 
 ence. They told him he was di- 
 vested of all the authority he for- 
 merly held over his fellowmen 
 and must now submit as a little 
 child. Just then a squad of sol- 
 diers passed near us on their as- 
 cent and he commenced his ges- 
 
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 ticulation anew, commanding the 
 soldiers and crying out with rage, 
 demanding that they halt and 
 obey him, but they passed on their 
 way without a word or halting. 
 His face was one of terror. My 
 father asked one in white passing 
 near us how long he had been in 
 this place and in that condition. 
 
 She said in answer "It may 
 have been for a day or a thousand 
 years, as no reckoning of time is 
 made in this field. You are now 
 out from under the shadow of the 
 earth by which you have been ac- 
 customed to count time. This sub- 
 ject must learn and obey the law 
 or stay where he is confined in the 
 darkness." 
 
 I could see his face well again 
 and by a close study it seemed to 
 me I could see through the long 
 line of ancestry running back 
 
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 into the stone age. It may not 
 have run back so far although his 
 face looked it, likely into the iron 
 age would cover his line of pro- 
 genitors or his lineage may have 
 run back to the "fire tender" in 
 the early civilization when the 
 housewife must be provided with 
 fire when it burned out during her 
 absence at her labor in the field, 
 thus ingrafting himself in the 
 good graces of the people until 
 they rewarded him by making 
 him their ruler. From this pure 
 blood sprouted the great ances- 
 tral tree which produced this 
 great monarch. I looked again. 
 I must have misjudged in part the 
 line, for I saw some of the marks 
 of the hunter coming out of the 
 mountains into the fertile valley 
 of the Euphrates and feeding 
 upon the rich fruits of the tropics 
 
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 and from these idle hours, when it 
 became necessary for him to labor 
 in sustaining life he built this 
 wonderful tree for the production 
 of rulers of men that others 
 might labor for him, or he might 
 have come through a line of an- 
 cestors which were driven into the 
 north and overlooked by Caesar 
 in his wars or perhaps left by the 
 Yellow Race at the time of their 
 conquest. It matters not from 
 whence they came, they must 
 obey the divine law, all mankind 
 alike; there is no escape, just one 
 way. The gloom overshadowed 
 his countenance and I could see 
 no more. You have seen the like 
 in every walk of life. 
 
 I quietly followed my father up 
 the ascent. We saw many more 
 pilgrims and many good super- 
 visors in white robes, in fact we 
 
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 saw so many pilgrims it is impos- 
 sible to mention them all. After 
 a time we realized that a change 
 ,was taking place in the conditions 
 about us. We could feel that we 
 were passing into a higher zone 
 or cycle of intelligence, an uplift- 
 ing, the absence of sin. We 
 pushed on with all the force we 
 could command. The atmosphere 
 cleared; the mist stood in banks 
 at our backs, the pure, clear and 
 sweet air brushed gently past our 
 faces. We breathed a new life, 
 full of energy and promise of ac- 
 complishment of the purpose in 
 our lives. We had the knowledge 
 of gaining our atonement, it 
 mattered not now, whether it was 
 of sin or our mistakes, we were 
 at last out into the bright light, 
 the beautiful golden glow was all 
 about us, more radiant than the 
 
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 sunshine, although we saw no 
 source from whence the light 
 came. We could see no sun and 
 if it was from the sun it must be 
 obstructed by the elevation of the 
 great plain before us. 
 
 We traveled on and on; every 
 one we saw seemed to be travel- 
 ing in the same general direction. 
 We finally met one in white, of 
 whom we asked for information 
 as to where we were. He told us 
 to face about and look back at the 
 great cloud bank in the sky over 
 the plains we had just left. As we 
 turned I observed overhead that 
 the sky was one great brilliant 
 mass, more brilliant than any 
 rainbow I had ever seen and far 
 more extensive. The brilliant rib- 
 bons of color commenced at the 
 horizon at our front and passed 
 over the heavens and blending 
 
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 into one great mixture of colors 
 shot against and pierced the cloud 
 banks from under which we had 
 just passed. These colors seemed 
 so vivid and rich that they im- 
 pressed one that they might be 
 reflected from some great hidden 
 gems; the color effect was much 
 like those reflected by and seen in 
 the Turquoise, the Topaz, the 
 Opal, the Sapphire, the Moon- 
 stone, the Ruby, the Sardonyx 
 and the Onyx; all of these colors 
 are to be seen upon the sky; or 
 the colors may have been reflect- 
 ed from a bed of gigantic size and 
 fragrance of beautiful colors 
 taken from the air by nature. 
 They may consist of such rich and 
 rare blossoms in plant life with 
 many kinds and colors as seen in 
 the Snowdrop, the Primrose, the 
 Cosmos, the Galgardia, the Cor- 
 
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 iapsis, the Violet, the Daisy, the 
 Chrysanthemum, the Hawthorn, 
 the Honeysuckle, the Lily, the 
 Poppy, the Morning Glory, the 
 Rose, the Holly, the Magnolia, the 
 Orchids and the Lotus. One could 
 easily believe all things possible 
 in such elements either mineral 
 or vegetable life. We watched 
 these great bursts of colors thrust 
 across the sky, like a contest be- 
 tween myriads of varying colored 
 searchlights. They dash to mid- 
 air and force these many colors 
 into one mass spilling out in 
 blended rays at the apex and 
 again bounding as a unit into the 
 black banks hanging over the 
 Testing Plains, just passed by us 
 in our journey. Although a bril- 
 liant light many times more bril- 
 liant than the sun shone over- 
 head, it reflected a soft light on 
 
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 the plain upon which we stood. 
 The man in white said, "You are 
 now standing on the Plain of Ob- 
 servation, the adjacent plain to 
 the Testing Plain. 
 
 I looked and could see as indi- 
 cated by him, indelible letters il- 
 luminated on the black banks by 
 the intense light of the blended 
 rays in the sky above. He spoke 
 again, and said, "These are the 
 world's permanent records of the 
 acts of mankind, read them if you 
 like or pass upon your way as 
 it seems your pleasure." He then 
 left us to work out our own des- 
 tiny in the way of knowledge we 
 might gather from the great 
 scenes now before us in the illu- 
 minated records. The scene was 
 stupendous; the records were so 
 plain and distinct that you could 
 not mistake the separate acts of 
 
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 the individual, his weakness, his 
 strength, his wrongs, his good 
 acts, his love, his hate, his sym- 
 pathy, his neglect, his philan- 
 thropic deeds, his degradation, 
 his purity of mind, his murderous 
 acts, his fidelity, the discharge of 
 his duties according to his mental 
 attainment, the force given him 
 at the beginning and the total of 
 man's own made account. As I 
 looked I was astonished and filled 
 with wonder. No one escaped 
 these self-made Aerial Records. 
 The laws of the eternal violations 
 burnt in the heavens, like a fringe 
 of fire, possessed of force, light, 
 grace and beauty. The observa- 
 tions at the time were made by 
 thousands, the plain within the 
 radius of my eyes were covered 
 with mankind. The evidence was 
 conclusive that man held the 
 
power to a very large extent, over 
 his own destiny, his own culture 
 produced the fruits for his har- 
 vest. 
 
 "Go ye also into the vineyard 
 and whatsoever is right, that 
 shall ye receive." 
 
 The question was fully settled 
 in my mind; no further answer 
 was necessary. You can not hire 
 any one else to do your work. 
 What he may do for you will show 
 in his record and not in yours, the 
 acts done by you will be under 
 your name. 
 
 My father turned and resumed 
 the journey and I followed him. 
 As he led the way I observed he 
 was erect and walked like a young 
 man, his staff he carried under 
 his arm; he breathed a new life. 
 The observers of the phenomenon 
 passed out of sight as we jour- 
 
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 neyed on our way; the plain still 
 retained the golden glow, the air 
 increased in purity. After a time 
 we realized some kind of a change 
 was rapidly taking place, a dif- 
 ferent feeling came over us. In 
 this air we would soon be carried 
 into another cycle of nature. We 
 pushed on with good cheer and 
 great energy until we became sat- 
 isfied the change was upon us. 
 We looked long over the plain and 
 as far as the eye could see the 
 ascent was very slight. We trav- 
 eled on upon the seemingly end- 
 less plain. It was different from 
 all others we had traveled hereto- 
 fore. No landmarks, no guide 
 post, not even a shadow, nothing 
 except the sweet and pure zephyr 
 always blowing from the direc- 
 tion that the brilliant lights came 
 as from the same land. This must 
 
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 be the dwelling place of God or 
 His administering angels selected 
 to send the truth to all mankind, 
 so that all alike may have the op- 
 portunity to know and to follow 
 the divine laws, or it may be the 
 beautiful grounds about His tem- 
 ple of justice, a place for the final 
 rest outside the gates, where one 
 may have time to collect himself 
 or remove the outer garments, to 
 go over again the lessons of life 
 and try to round out this life of 
 battle, the weak spots, the lessons 
 neglected in our idle hours. This 
 feeling was upon me, that I might 
 have, through some neglect, over- 
 looked something that would 
 make me unfit for the position I 
 now occupied in this realm of per- 
 fection. 
 
 After a long time of travel 
 upon this plain we came to a large 
 
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 gathering of soldiers of all coun- 
 tries mingled together in one 
 mass, listening to an address by a 
 man who had a remarkably 
 strong face, the bearing of one 
 with long experience, a scholar, 
 love and tenderness in his face. 
 His address was on the cruelty of 
 war and its murderous results, 
 the injury to mankind. 
 Other things, in part, he said: 
 
 Tarry thou ye pilgrims returned, 
 
 For a moment's instruction and friendly ad- 
 vice. 
 
 To help thee appreciate the value 
 
 Of the knowledge gained through this ad- 
 vance. 
 
 Remember, thou, at the beginning, 
 
 You left paradise lowly and unlearned, 
 
 The Great Ruler of the universe 
 
 Gave thee at the parting his assurance of 
 your safe return. 
 
 And strictly commanded thee, 
 
 That thou shall not destroy mankind, 
 
 Nor cultivate the beast within thy frame, 
 
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 Neither the disposition of the snapping cur 
 
 unkind. 
 The untamed tiger, the cunning serpent, 
 Are no part of mental man's organism. 
 The Deity made no such uncanny gift, 
 If thou ever possessed them they must have 
 
 been reflected from some unhallowed 
 
 prism. 
 
 The purest gift of the Deity, 
 Upon his fallen image was bestowed, 
 His guarantee to all that humble 
 Lowly man, of every kind in time will be re- 
 stored. 
 This spawn of the Creator 
 Needs time and honest nature's culture 
 To produce the mankind like unto his Creator, 
 The return demand of paradise for his future. 
 Is not the bestowal love, 
 Memory and all the power dianoetic. 
 This spark of the divine given to all, 
 Comes alone from influence dialytic. 
 Remember thou man after Adam and Eve, 
 Although this gift is small it is a perfect 
 
 germ. 
 Your honest culture is a necessity to 
 Germinate this divine bulb into a mental gem. 
 You know the result of this just test, 
 
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 Good or bad has been the culture of this 
 divine seed. 
 
 I pray you labored industriously, 
 
 Your mental force with all might and speed. 
 
 You gave the best your condition could pro- 
 duce, 
 
 Of this might out of your mental soil. 
 
 On substitution I hope you did not rely, 
 
 If by others the work done you have foil. 
 
 Power expended in the chase of 
 
 Mental things with a golden lining, 
 
 Are as dross in paradise, 
 
 Long ages have established the result of this 
 finding. 
 
 Poor and humble was the 
 
 Experience of the noble Nazarene. 
 
 This may have been your lot, 
 
 Force development was a blessing in disguise 
 before unseen. 
 
 When the earth grew cold 
 
 Enough to form an outer crust, 
 
 The Lord of Hosts placed quadrupeds 
 
 On the sphere to walk in the new made dust. 
 
 These animals had big broad feet, 
 
 So they would not break through. 
 
 In the crevices some did fall, 
 
 Sealed for ages in the earth's maw. 
 
 Reptile and insect life, 
 
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 Quickly followed in their wake. 
 
 This kind of life did industriously work, 
 
 To place the leaven in the earthly cake. 
 
 Their lives were short season or for a day, 
 
 Thus served their purpose well, 
 
 Of the Creator in their stay. 
 
 The Lord conceived the plan, 
 
 He placed upon the earth a thing eternal. 
 
 Then followed man, God's fallen image, 
 
 With the opportunity of discarding all that 
 is infernal. 
 
 As man stood in the arena, 
 
 A savage clothed in animal garb. 
 
 He looked for friends of his kind, no assur- 
 ance, 
 
 He could see, nothing but his biceps as his 
 guard. 
 
 Stripped to muscles as he stood, 
 
 No other protection, save a skiny casing 
 around him spread. 
 
 So compelled by divine command, 
 
 To labor with hands and mind to cover his 
 head and earn his bread. 
 
 The Lord of Hosts partially relented, 
 
 On seeing man's lonely state. 
 
 He selected from out the mental world a fe- 
 male as near his condition for his 
 mate. 
 
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 She was prepared with added care, 
 
 Silken adipose-tissue as bedding for the ex- 
 ternal membrane. 
 
 Other things unexplained by the Deity, why 
 she was given, 
 
 Added cells for use more than man when he 
 to earth came. 
 
 Broad of foot and thick of head, 
 
 Hast thou become earth bound ; 
 
 Through thy worship of material things, 
 
 Bounded thee as a worshiper of the ground. 
 
 Oh ! happy returning pilgrims, 
 
 Hast thou brought rich cultures as the re- 
 demption price. 
 
 March on then with heroic tread, 
 
 This reward will admit thee into paradise. 
 
 We listened a long time, until 
 my father became anxious to pur- 
 sue his journey. 
 
 We next encountered a very 
 large school of children. The 
 first school I had ever seen con- 
 ducted in the open, out upon the 
 plain. From what we heard, the 
 instructors were masters of the 
 
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 art. Nothing was left undone to 
 develop the children and by the 
 shortest method, nature itself, 
 that great law. We learned from 
 the instructions in the lessons we 
 heard given, that we were on the 
 Plain of Development; that the 
 opportunity was given us on this 
 plain that we might supply men- 
 tal defects and round out our 
 learning of work, neglected in 
 our lives, through the effort now 
 in these schools at work on this 
 plain. We saw and visited many 
 places of learning. The instruc- 
 tors were the finest I ever had the 
 pleasure of hearing and far in ad- 
 vance of my instructions and 
 work, all were masters of their 
 subjects, all of high mental at- 
 tainment and evidently long in 
 this work. We heard lectures on 
 man, civilized and savage, beast, 
 
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 birds of prey, reptiles, memory, 
 common sense, education, science 
 and culture. I learned from these 
 lessons that the greatest task be- 
 fore mankind is the mastery of 
 himself. When he learns self 
 mastery, he will master every 
 task thereafter which he under- 
 takes, provided always that his 
 undertakings are right. If wrong, 
 it is self evident that he has not 
 mastered himself and he will fail 
 in his undertaking. Desire is not 
 mastery of oneself. Ambition at 
 the expense of others is not mas- 
 tery. You may succeed for a time 
 but you will fail in the end. You 
 must master yourself for perma- 
 nent attainment. There are so 
 many cross-roads in life that one 
 can easily fail, although the 
 straight road is always open to us. 
 Master yourself by following it. 
 
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 We carry a little guide with us 
 which points to the way. Obey it 
 and you will be guided right. It 
 will never fail you until you be- 
 smear it with mud then it be- 
 comes illegible, and you are lost 
 on your way. What do you do 
 then? Either you go pleasure 
 mad or place coin spectacles 
 over your eyes, then you could not 
 see the way if it were a mile wide. 
 Pleasure mad is a more common 
 disease than gold coin spectacles, 
 although either are bad to over- 
 come. It takes a long time to re- 
 cover and get back into the right 
 way. Either leaves a stiff neck 
 and when once fastened on to you, 
 they do not care if they can not 
 stay with you, but a few days in a 
 short life, that in the endless time 
 to come you are compelled to get 
 rid of them no matter how they 
 must go. 
 
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 I also learned from these les- 
 sons that through the law of self 
 mastery, we find the very essence 
 of the law of attraction, which is 
 the adhesive quality of all civili- 
 zation. Society is sealed together 
 by the law of attraction and firm- 
 ly held so long as it exists, but 
 when selfish hate overshadows 
 self mastery, the law of attraction 
 dissolves and the savage becomes 
 the master. Perfect society can 
 come only from perfect self mas- 
 tery or the higher development of 
 the life cells. After we have mas- 
 tered ourselves it is easy to learn 
 the application of all things in 
 nature for our own use. All things 
 are at hand when we look for it 
 and need the instrument. We see 
 many a man that has thrown his 
 tools away and does not realize 
 his loss. He lays it to something 
 
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 else when it is his own fault and 
 no one's else. 
 
 We visited these institutions of 
 learning until the time came for 
 us to continue our journey. On 
 our way again, after this period 
 of instruction, we revolved over 
 in our minds the application of 
 these lessons; how they could be 
 of use to mankind. As we trav- 
 eled on I observed that my father 
 walked like a man young in 
 years. The full vigor of life was 
 upon him again, the devastation 
 wrought by time had fled and I 
 believed had gone forever. The 
 air upon the plain was pure and 
 invigorating; all life within me 
 was in a perfect state, sight, hear- 
 ing and respiration. We moved 
 rapidly over the plain as if guided 
 by an unseen hand or through the 
 wisdom of nature's gift to us. Our 
 
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 sight soon became so illuminated 
 that we could see far in the dis- 
 tance an object of gigantic size 
 having all the appearance of a 
 crystal mountain range of great 
 height across our way and re- 
 flected like a beacon light. Its 
 brilliancy far excelled any light 
 we had heretofore seen. Our les- 
 sons of self mastery served us 
 well for we marched on until we 
 could examine the structure be- 
 fore us, a great wall or building 
 of gigantic size, and great height, 
 the walls were interfulgent, very 
 clear, shining from within, exhib- 
 iting living records portraying 
 the successful lives lived by man- 
 kind, just as they occurred at the 
 time of the act of these celestial 
 deeds. We walked along for a 
 long distance, far enough away to 
 see and view these wonderful 
 
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 illuminated everlasting records 
 of eternal accomplishments upon 
 which mankind is lifted from his 
 low and fallen estate back into a 
 proper mental condition befitting 
 him for a habitation in the Eter- 
 nal Kingdom. 
 
 All these acts, in which a re- 
 ward of merit is attained in a 
 permanent record by which the 
 world is illuminated and guided, 
 are all the resultant acts of love 
 or some deed of noble intent with 
 the divine fidelity never failing 
 essence within our very soul, 
 which creates the desire to help 
 our f ellowman. As I looked I was 
 impressed with how thorough the 
 details of the views were, as no 
 act was too small to pass unre- 
 corded if it was part of the noble 
 act itself. The illumination of 
 these pure acts alone and sep- 
 
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 arate from misdeeds gives a per- 
 fect impression on your mind free 
 from confusion and you judge the 
 act alone and the result of the 
 conclusion is a lesson of the very 
 highest order. As I reflected the 
 full comprehension of the lesson 
 of these views and the ones we 
 had seen before on the cloud 
 banks came to my mind and I 
 knew that they were the actual 
 experiences of men. These views 
 before us gives the reward re- 
 ceived from noble deeds, the at- 
 tending effect to lift mankind 
 from the fallen estate he finds 
 himself in back into a higher life 
 free from contamination. The 
 other records show both good and 
 bad deeds and leave us to strug- 
 gle with our own accounts and 
 improve them through and under 
 the divine laws as we understand 
 them. 
 
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 Both of these wonderful rec- 
 ords as seen by us on our journey 
 greatly impressed me. I could 
 gather in my mind the full force 
 of the first records and the lessons 
 they taught of the wisdom of al- 
 lowing us to work out our own 
 destiny and without price. By 
 price I mean that a man is not 
 compelled to give his labor to an- 
 other man to purchase his own 
 salvation. The reward is attained 
 by his own labor and not by the in- 
 tellect of others. But as to these 
 views before us my mind is some- 
 what confused. I can see why the 
 walls are interfulgent. That is 
 for two reasons: 1st — so that the 
 light of heaven is not obstructed 
 in its full radiant power, direct- 
 ing the work of all mankind to its 
 fullest development. 2d — that 
 these noble deeds are an example 
 
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 to all and live in the soul of man 
 forever. The intellectual trans- 
 missions of these lessons here 
 seen are likely made through the 
 mother before his birth by a con- 
 tinuous intellectual current from 
 the noble performer to and 
 through this agency into the com- 
 ing generations. 
 
 As I reasoned with myself, I 
 realized how mighty were these 
 divine illuminations thrown out 
 as a life buoy to mankind, their 
 reflection is thrown out for all 
 and all receive it, except the men- 
 tal blind. As I stood and reflected 
 the great words of Jesus Christ 
 came to my mind, "For the Son of 
 man is come to seek and to save 
 that which is lost." How did these 
 great illuminated words come 
 down to me if not under the above 
 rules, they were uttered almost 
 
265 
 
 two thousands years ago. They 
 are just as vivid in the mind of 
 mankind today as the day they 
 were spoken. They were divine 
 lessons, these many lessons of 
 Jesus, and are thrown into the 
 life of mankind with great force 
 and radiance. Under great op- 
 position they have lived and will 
 live on forever, never being lost 
 sight of, except in the bloody field 
 of battle where man's intellect is 
 cauterized and he believes God 
 has his dwelling place within him- 
 self, he is blind to any illumina- 
 tion; though an intellectual cur- 
 rent moves over the mental wires 
 of the universe that can be gath- 
 ered by an effort, he sees it not, 
 he has lost his mental control. 
 Thus man may not receive these 
 great illuminated messages. He 
 must be attuned in his own men- 
 
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 tal instrument to receive the 
 beautiful glow of these messages. 
 No savage man possesses the 
 power to gather the full effect 
 of divine messages. It flashed 
 through my mind "When the 
 wicked are multiplied, transgres- 
 sion increaseth; but the righteous 
 shall see their fall." 
 
 Again my mind turned to the 
 illuminated words of Jesus, "For 
 the kingdom of heaven is as a 
 man traveling into a far country, 
 who called his own servants and 
 delivered unto them his goods. 
 And unto one he gave five talents, 
 to another two, and to another 
 one; to every man according to 
 his several ability, and straight- 
 way took his journey. Then he 
 that had received the five talents 
 went and traded with the same, 
 and made them other five talents. 
 
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 And likewise he that had received 
 two he also gained other two. But 
 he that had received one went and 
 digged in the earth, and hid his 
 Lord's money. After a long time 
 the lord of those servants come- 
 eth and reckoneth with them. 
 And so he that had received five 
 talents came and brought other 
 five talents, saying, Lord thou de- 
 liveredst unto me five talents; be- 
 hold, I have gained beside them 
 five talents more. His Lord said 
 unto him, "Well done, thou good 
 and faithful servant; thou hast 
 been faithful over a few things, I 
 will make thee ruler over many 
 things; enter thou into the joy of 
 thy Lord." He also that had re- 
 ceived two talents came and 
 said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto 
 me two talents; behold I have 
 gained two other talents beside 
 
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 them. His Lord said unto him, 
 "Well done, good and faithful 
 gervant; thou hast been faithful 
 over a few things, I will make 
 thee ruler over many things; en- 
 ter thou into the joy of thy Lord." 
 
 As I looked upon these views 
 the lesson was very plain to me 
 and I understood the divine wis- 
 dom that man could not get too 
 far away to receive the benefit of 
 these illuminated lessons as the 
 divine power is always cast upon 
 us, "but ye are not in the flesh, but 
 in the Spirit, if so be that the 
 Spirit of God dwell in you. Now, 
 if any man have not the Spirit of 
 Christ, he is none of his." 
 
 My father turned to me and 
 said: Jesus has said to us, "With 
 men this is impossible, but with 
 God all things are possible." We 
 could see that the effect of noble 
 
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 deeds was the clearing of the 
 brain cells, to clear the brain cells 
 we must perform the act our- 
 selves and the effect in the clear- 
 ing of our minds. 
 
 For example, I will take one of 
 the views before us. 
 
 That of a mother working over 
 her sick child, everything was so 
 clear, she was surrounded by pov- 
 erty but cleanliness of heaven 
 was seen everywhere. Her very 
 determined effort, the effort that 
 could only be made by a mother, 
 saved her child in spite of over- 
 whelming difficulties. The effect 
 on her mind was a radiant illumi- 
 nation and cleansing of the cells. 
 The other cells of her body were 
 in perfect order. Doubtless this 
 clearing must have attained their 
 perfection at some previous time 
 in her development, for the dis- 
 
270 
 
 tressed conditions under which 
 she worked did not seem to affect 
 or destroy the lower cells of her 
 body. They were in good condi- 
 tion even after she had attained 
 success. We could see the blood 
 rushing through the brain cells 
 with the effort she made and as it 
 receded, we could see the clearing 
 effect, as if washed by some magic 
 hand. 
 
 Another view we saw. I call 
 them views for the reason, not 
 knowing just how they were pro- 
 duced or how close the subject 
 was from the barrier; it might 
 have been very near or a long 
 way from the obstruction. The 
 light was so intense that I could 
 see every part of the object to its 
 most minute detail, just as dis- 
 tinct as if every part had been 
 divided and held up to me for in- 
 
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 spection, such brilliant and re- 
 fined rays were passing through 
 the object that it developed the 
 details far in excess of the perfec- 
 tion attained by the X-ray. 
 
 This view was of a strong man 
 of splendid bearing, with a slave 
 girl crouched at his feet. When 
 we first saw him he seemed to be 
 holding some one at bay, then he 
 stooped and cut the slave collar 
 from her neck and stamped it un- 
 der his feet. The brilliancy of his 
 eyes would stop, almost incin- 
 erate, the most hardy slave hunt- 
 er; his brain glowed with perfect 
 development and triumph for the 
 right. 
 
 Another view and the last I will 
 mention, was that of a perfect 
 man. No one could mistake his 
 perfection that saw him. To see 
 was to believe, for his face would 
 
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 convince the most skeptic he was 
 giving to the people of the earth 
 the Holy Bible. The gift was the 
 greatest view of all we had seen, 
 although we could see very high 
 upon the wall by the refulgent 
 splendor all were very clear. We 
 could not mistake the lesson. 
 
 We concluded, after a careful 
 examination, that from the purity 
 of the air on the other side of the 
 wall, in this zone beyond the bar- 
 rier, the air had been purified by 
 some unknown process to us 
 whereby the poisonous gases and 
 solids were extracted leaving the 
 air absolutely free from obstruc- 
 tion, making it possible to see a 
 long way, likely for miles into the 
 dwelling place of these noble 
 actors. 
 
 As we feasted upon this mag- 
 nificent barrier, we tried to deter- 
 
978 
 
 mine how it was constructed and 
 the material in it. From the ex- 
 terior view it was one solid mass 
 without seams. No masonry of 
 man could have constructed this 
 solid mass, which looked as if 
 from nature itself, or even, this 
 transparent barrier likely was 
 constructed by God through His 
 most trusted angels. If the ma- 
 terial was composed of mineral, 
 no mineral of this transparency 
 has ever been found upon the 
 earth by man. If so he has never 
 applied it to his use in the con- 
 struction of buildings. The sub- 
 stance was so clear that you could 
 not see it while standing close to 
 the wall. You were compelled to 
 stand far enough from it to see 
 the reflection before you could ob- 
 serve the barrier. Not a line or 
 defect could be found by us after 
 
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 a long and diligent search for 
 seams and defects. We found 
 that no one could pass the barrier, 
 no one could scale it. The condi- 
 tion of the wall was impregnable. 
 We determined that some way 
 had been provided wherein to 
 pass, so we started out to find an 
 opening or get information from 
 some one who could direct us the 
 right way to follow. After a long 
 journey along the barrier and ob- 
 serving the endless views of the 
 great deeds of mankind, we came 
 to a great gateway under a gi- 
 gantic arch. The arch seemed to 
 be constructed out of a very pure 
 kind of Alabaster, unusually 
 white; the steps were out of the 
 same material. The great gates 
 looked as if constructed from 
 Amethyst. They were standing 
 open and seemed to give us a 
 
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 warm welcome. We climbed the 
 beautiful steps and entered a 
 great foyer, which seemed to be 
 about a thousand feet deep. The 
 floor was spotless white, the ceil- 
 ing was an arched canopy very 
 high above the floor and seemed 
 to be covered with the richest 
 gems ever seen by man, reflecting 
 all colors upon the floor, the light 
 passing through them and com- 
 ing from some place overhead. 
 The panels upon the walls were 
 of a rich light green color. They 
 were of that rich soft green we 
 see in the springtime. It con- 
 sisted of some rare substance un- 
 known to either of us. One felt as 
 if he was entering the springtime 
 of life; the soft mellow shades 
 cast throughout the foyer gave 
 one the feeling of spring. We 
 could find no one to direct us, so 
 
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 we wandered about and examined 
 the great panels forming the 
 walls, their peculiar color, their 
 foliation as given by the act of 
 nature, the feathery ornaments 
 embossed on the crystalline sub- 
 stance traversed throughout the 
 entire structure as if constructed 
 under nature's art. 
 
 As we approached the side of 
 the curving wall opposite the 
 great gateway through which we 
 had passed, we came to two mas- 
 sive columns of some polished 
 substance not unlike pure white 
 marble. The columns were joined 
 together at the top by a great 
 cornif orm, giving it the effect of 
 a panel or frame on the wall. We 
 stopped to examine and as we 
 passed to the front, to our aston- 
 ishment, the columns formed the 
 framework to a great doorway. 
 
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 The great crystal doors stood ajar 
 with no obstruction save a 
 great black silken rope stretched 
 from side to side and hooked to 
 the frame at the ends upon two 
 hooks. At each side of the door 
 were standing two men. I call 
 them men not knowing a better 
 name for such specimen; men in 
 fact are only a very imperfect im- 
 itation of these great masters 
 standing beside this portal. They 
 were without defect and in stat- 
 ure towered over me. They were 
 robed in black robes of fine and 
 soft material. Their heads were 
 uncovered except the covering of 
 jet black hair provided by nature, 
 the eye was large and perfect 
 with a kindlyexpression, the high 
 forehead, the perfect nose and 
 ear, the oval face, all made up the 
 grace and bearing of an angel 
 
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 itself. I looked and expected to 
 locate their race but I could find 
 no resemblance of any race 
 known to mankind. They seemed 
 to be the finished products of the 
 ambitions of all races of men, the 
 marks of their freedom from care 
 and the influence of degradation 
 and sin, no lines upon the face 
 that would indicate that they had 
 ever entertained unhallowed 
 thoughts. If the mind had ever 
 been poisoned by sin it did not 
 show upon the face or the degra- 
 dation had been thoroughly 
 washed out of the soul, leaving 
 them pure and clean. These men 
 could not have been of one dis- 
 tinct race of men, without they 
 had been born again and by some 
 process of nature had become a 
 composite man through this 
 power, for they undoubtedly pos- 
 
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 sessed many of the strong points 
 of all races upon the earth; as you 
 study their faces these points un- 
 fold to you. The dress seemed to 
 be only the emblem of the past 
 and not a mark of distinction. I 
 conclude that the black must 
 mean that we were yet on the 
 dark side of life, that we must 
 pass this black barrier before we 
 come to the light side of life. 
 
 As we approached these mas- 
 ters, I had a feeling within my 
 breast, a yearning and longing 
 like a lost child feels, that if we 
 could pass this barrier we would 
 be able speedily to return to our 
 home, that home of all mankind. 
 As we came near the portal one of 
 them spoke to us and said in a 
 very kindly voice, "We welcome 
 you pilgrims upon your return." 
 This was all I heard, although I 
 
280 
 
 could see that he was talking 
 further, I could not hear one word 
 more. I moved nearer, hoping to 
 hear more but alas it was of no 
 avail! I was deaf, deprived of the 
 power of hearing, no sound could 
 pass my ears. I could see clearly 
 and I realized that a discussion 
 was going on between them and 
 my father over something, I knew 
 not what. After a long time the 
 parley seemed to be over, one un- 
 hooked the heavy black rope from 
 the fastening and stepped beside 
 his companion and we passed into 
 a broad aisle with a sloping floor 
 and about ten feet wide. The floor 
 where we entered was at its high- 
 est point and fell away down the 
 long aisle for a distance, I should 
 judge, of a thousand feet, falling 
 away of easy descent. The long 
 gray pavement looked splendid to 
 
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 the eye under the mellow and soft 
 light reflected from the golden- 
 gray panels which formed the 
 walls of the aisle. These walls 
 were too high for me to see over 
 or discover what was beyond, the 
 top of the wall fell away on a line 
 parallel with the floor so that it 
 was always at one height from 
 our position on the floor. The 
 panels of golden-gray were not 
 only embossed with wonderful de- 
 signs running through the mate- 
 rial itself, but were also decorated 
 by a hanging vine of delicate 
 green, the color of young oak 
 leaves at the budding in the 
 spring, the vines falling all along 
 the upper part of the panels the 
 entire length. These vines were 
 leafed with clusters of leaves 
 formed in budlike shape all along 
 the long and graceful branches 
 
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 hanging over the wall. My espe- 
 cial attention was attracted to 
 these leaves of light and delicate 
 green gathered in clusters, like a 
 full bloom of a rose, and they also 
 reminded me of a family gather- 
 ing, all performing their duty in 
 the home-coming. We walked 
 along this long aisle, admiring 
 the beauty of the scene. The effect 
 upon us was like magic, develop- 
 ing the occult powers of nature 
 long dormant within us, although 
 my father could not make me un- 
 derstand a word he uttered. 
 
 As we approached the supposed 
 end of the aisle, we found that it 
 turned sharply to the right at an 
 angle of about forty-five degrees 
 and at the place of the turn of the 
 aisle we found another obstruc- 
 tion across our way, guarded by 
 two men very much like the other 
 
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 two except as to dress; they were 
 clothed in light gray robes. As 
 men they were as perfect in form 
 and development in every respect 
 as the others and looked as if they 
 had taken the same mental test 
 required by nature's laws. The 
 only difference I noticed in the 
 aisle was that the green in the 
 panels gave way to a golden- 
 white color, all things else were 
 the same. My father talked a 
 long time with the guards and I 
 realized that they were reluctant 
 in allowing me to pass, but they 
 finally unhooked the loop of the 
 gray rope used as a barrier in- 
 stead of the black and allowed us 
 to pass on our way. We passed 
 on and found that our view was 
 still confined to the aisle. It was 
 a great disappointment to me for 
 I had great hopes that we might 
 
384 
 
 be able to see the occupants of the 
 amphitheatre, for the construc- 
 tion even from our position, we 
 could see was for the reception of 
 great throngs of people. I made 
 no doubt but what they were 
 massed in great numbers at this 
 time for some purpose. My inner 
 sensibilities impressed me that on 
 this perfect atmospheric condi- 
 tion about me, I could feel that 
 the air was full of music unex- 
 celled in quality. I could see the 
 pleasure pass over my father's 
 countenance as we proceeded on 
 our way. At this point I made a 
 discovery. In passing along I 
 came in very close contact with 
 one of the beautiful green roses 
 of the wall, my sense of smell 
 gathered the fragrance, no 
 aroma will ever equal its frag- 
 rance. The aroma filled my whole 
 
285 
 
 being with pleasure, especially 
 my memory seemed to expand. I 
 could remember every act of my 
 life clear and distinct. I needed 
 no living records on the cloud 
 banks to assist me in remember- 
 ing. Now I know that these are 
 the Green Roses of Memory like- 
 ly gathered by the Creator from 
 the overhanging walls. The dis- 
 covery made me very happy; 
 these sweet memories of long ago 
 were not forgotten. The turn of 
 the aisle came at about the same 
 distance as before, except the 
 aisle turned to the left at the same 
 angle. This time the barrier was 
 a silken cord guarded by two 
 robed in white. I recognized that 
 these were the emblem of purity 
 following the gray dawn of life. 
 The men were of like kind and 
 bearing as before. They stopped 
 
286 
 
 us and after a long time per- 
 mitted us to pass on our way. I 
 was again doomed to disappoint- 
 ment; the great paneled wall still 
 obstructed our view. The panels 
 showed a much deeper shading of 
 gold in the coloring with a slight 
 tint of white, although the wall 
 still retained the beautiful vining 
 green rose upon it as a decoration. 
 As we looked down this long aisle 
 I could see two guards dressed in 
 golden robes across the aisle a 
 golden chain barred the way. I 
 felt that we were coming to the 
 golden age of mankind, that 
 highly developed stage of life. As 
 we slowly approached I felt that 
 an epoch was about to occur in my 
 life. The soft light increased in 
 brightness, the heavens lighted 
 up so I could see that this house, 
 not made with hands, was covered 
 
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 only by nature. The brilliancy in 
 front and beyond the guards 
 shone like some Aurora-Borealis 
 surrounding the Wisdom of the 
 Universe. When we stood before 
 the guards my father communi- 
 cated with them; all the time I felt 
 like one transfixed under the 
 beautiful lights, amazed by the 
 splendor. 
 
 After a very long time my 
 father turned to me and placed 
 his mouth to my ear and whis- 
 pered to me. I could hear his 
 whisper, "You must leave me 
 now; your time upon the earth is 
 not finished. Take my blessing 
 and return my son." He placed 
 his hand upon my head and 
 handed me his staff. I obeyed and 
 turned about. The spectrum 
 seemed to blind me. I felt sick at 
 heart when I felt the touch of 
 
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 some unseen and kindly hand 
 guide me up the aisle. At the 
 first turn I looked back and my 
 father stood watching me. I then 
 was fully satisfied. I quickly 
 passed out of the gates; the bal- 
 ance of the way I seemed to travel 
 like a flash of ligtning. 
 
 Morning light seemed to arouse 
 the gunner to the importance of 
 action, and the call of duty 
 cleared his mind, but the stiff 
 limbs refused to perform their 
 functions in their numb condi- 
 tion. He thought clearly of the 
 happenings of the long night; the 
 impressions were indelible; his 
 partner, the body had failed him. 
 Poor limbs must have been over- 
 worked; they are now useless. 
 Two stretcher men carried him 
 through the by-passes of the 
 trenches, off the battle field out of 
 
280 
 
 danger, thence to a large hospi- 
 tal, where he spent weeks in pain 
 of the body. When he finally re- 
 turned home to learn of his fath- 
 er's death on the night of the bat- 
 tle, he was not surprised, neither 
 was he surprised when handed 
 his father's walking stick with 
 the message "give this to my 
 son." He was told that his father 
 talked long to the family of many 
 things he had learned in life and 
 of their uses and benefits. Final- 
 ly he said, "Life is eternal; we live 
 forever. To demonstrate this [I 
 will perform the last act of this 
 life in your presence." He arose 
 from the bed on which he was 
 resting, walked to the clock on 
 the mantel, stopped it at the hour 
 of three o'clock A. M., returned to 
 the bed and passed into another 
 life. 
 
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 The eye root of the mind is am- 
 bition's desire for knowledge. It 
 is bedded by the Creator and cul- 
 tivated by its possessor or lies 
 dormant in danger every moment 
 of some ungrafting, unhallowed 
 branch to sap the strength from 
 the divine purpose. When it is 
 cultivated to full development, its 
 possessor would not allow the 
 smallest twig to sustain life for 
 one moment at its fountain. Fill 
 your churches full of developed 
 minds. The gold limb grafted 
 below the forks of the mental 
 tree consumes the strength from 
 the great forks of this tree of life, 
 love and wisdom. Both are the 
 topmost essence of the mind, both 
 can be possessed by all of man- 
 kind, created through God, when 
 not infected through obnoxious 
 channels. 
 
291 
 
 The mind is the greatest pos- 
 session in this life when it has at- 
 tained that high development in- 
 tended by the Creator. When we 
 think of it as the tree of life and 
 its culture we must see that these 
 obnoxious sappers, such as hate, 
 jealousy, anger, spite, greed, cov- 
 etousness or any noxious thought 
 which bear fruit of many kinds 
 never can live beyond an earthly 
 life. Cut away these obnoxious 
 sappers and you will find that you 
 are at peace even with your sup- 
 posed enemies. What matters if 
 you do not all see alike the whims, 
 dogmas or religious faith of 
 others if you have the fruit from 
 the unadulterated branch of love, 
 blended with the fruit from the 
 other branch, wisdom. A falling 
 out with others over a vital ques- 
 tion only starts the obnoxious 
 
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 mental growth in both and no 
 good comes from it. If you hope 
 to convince, you must stand out in 
 the broad highway of the Creator 
 and turn the mental force upon 
 your adversary and if you are in 
 the right you will succeed. If your 
 adversary is in the right you will 
 be convinced that he is in a higher 
 mental zone and you will receive 
 the benefit. Fair and honest 
 minds is the divine will. When we 
 think of the mind as like the dia- 
 mond in its original state, is crude 
 and unpolished, we realize that 
 through the long ages that the 
 workers have been few and that 
 many a mental gem has passed 
 unpolished and the world never 
 knew of its brilliancy, although 
 the art is given by the Creator to 
 all mankind. It has been very slow 
 in developing, largely on account 
 
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 of the fear of starving the body. 
 Man is willing to starve for the 
 purpose of acquiring wealth, but 
 he is reluctant to make the small- 
 est sacrifice to acquire the master 
 mind. Man as a chemist has been 
 willing to go through any sacri- 
 fice to master the problems of the 
 life of man from a chemical point 
 of view. The lives of many men 
 have been spent in the laboratory 
 in an attempt to solve the prob- 
 lems of life through chemistry 
 and with a marked degree of suc- 
 cess as to the anatomy; while the 
 mental workers have been less in 
 numbers, it must be admitted 
 that they have not kept pace with 
 the chemist. The work of the 
 laboratory has advanced in the 
 line, but has been unable to solve 
 successfully many difficult prob- 
 lems encountered by mankind, 
 
994 
 
 especially as to his control under 
 a government. The laboratory 
 can not produce explosives that 
 will settle disputes between all 
 nations formed by men. If the 
 velocity of the explosives is in- 
 creased you destroy reason; with- 
 out reason man is a mere brute 
 and only stops through exhaus- 
 tion. If stimulated through 
 chemical science to retain his nat- 
 ural force, under great stress, 
 when the limit of power is ex- 
 pended the destruction is com- 
 plete. For this reason the dis- 
 agreements and difficulties be- 
 tween mankind can not be set- 
 tled through chemical science, it 
 takes more than chemical anal- 
 ysis of liquids and solids; it takes 
 the science known as the mind, 
 that unlimited force given by the 
 Creator. The mind and the mind 
 
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 alone and when at its highest de- 
 velopment can analyze and solve 
 the difficulties of man. It was so 
 at the beginning and it will al- 
 ways be the seat of justice. 
 
 This mental force is not given 
 to one man or one set of men; it is 
 given to all as a dowry with our 
 creation. May the chemist assist 
 us to care for this endowment; 
 may we guard it and develop it as 
 the one thing sacred, the gift of 
 our Creator. 
 
 These beautiful thoughts that flow 
 Through our minds in waking moments, 
 
 Are they not our friends from 
 Source unknown working for our atone- 
 ment. 
 
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