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 CHRISTISIS. 
 
 HIGHER SOUL CULTURE. 
 
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 TEACHERS IN THE GREAT WORK. 
 
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 By R. Swinburne Clymer. 
 
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CHRISTISIS. 
 
 In placing these instructions of ' l Success and Soul Cul- 
 ture" before the student, I do not think it necessary to give 
 any prolonged explanation because they explain them- 
 selves as you progress in the work. 
 
 However, a word of explanation may be of value to the 
 earnest student, especially since religion is so often men- 
 tioned. The student may say that he has a religion and 
 does not need any other. I grant this, but does he really 
 know what religion means ? 
 
 On the other hand, these lessons may be taught to many 
 of the millions, who, belonging to some church, are still 
 seeking for something beyond. They are satisfied with the 
 church, but there is something within them that is seeking 
 continually for something, they know not what. 
 
 Thus we have two kinds of students, the one seeking suc- 
 cess upon the material plane, the other seeking something 
 which he possibly calls scientific interpretation of religion. 
 In these instructions the sincere student will find both, 
 for as he travels the path and develops or illuminates both 
 mind and soul, he will find that in the Christisis are success, 
 science and religion. 
 
 You, my student, believe that there is a God, or, if you 
 will, an infinite something which is, which rules and in 
 whom all things exist. 
 
 You must admit this or you must deny life. Accepting 
 this fact you must admit that this Infinite Being, this 
 Infinite Something, or God, is in all fixings and works 
 through all things. 
 
 If you accept this much, what difference will it make 
 whether you are priest or politician, whether a farmer or a 
 shepherd? God being the life principle in everything, 
 
CHRIST IS IS. 
 
CHRISTISIS. 
 
 ruling everything, He must as necessarily be in you, a 
 politician, as He would be were you a minister of the 
 Gospel. 
 
 It being impossible to contradict this, you must also 
 recognize the fact that no matter what your vocation may 
 be, if you are really a success, which means that if you are 
 really working in harmony with divine law, your work, 
 though it is politics, is to you a religion. If it is not, then 
 your work is being accomplished under wrong conditions; 
 you are working in and for darkness or the evil one. 
 
 Therefore, in this great work of self-development, no 
 matter what your vocation may be, you will think of that 
 development and its expression in your vocation as your 
 religion. Experience soon teaches that this work demands 
 a systematic understanding of truth, and a systematic 
 training, and as such it becomes a science. Thus we have 
 the wedding of science and religion, or, as we choose to call 
 it, the Christisis. 
 
 Furthermore, understanding this great law, the student 
 will no longer have one day out of seven set aside for wor- 
 ship and for religion. He will worship and have a religion 
 for every day in the week and every hour of the day, be- 
 cause his vocation, no matter what it is, is his religion since 
 he works under the Divine Law. 
 
 Therefore, the coming mankind will be a truly religious 
 mankind, because science will be religion and religion will 
 be science. This can only be accomplished by uniting the 
 two, by bringing forth the Christisis. This is the spiritual 
 life of the East and the material life of the West brought 
 together into one harmonious expression. It is the giving 
 of equal consideration to woman as to man, regarding her 
 his equal, for all these things are in Christisis. 
 
 R. Swinburne Clymer. 
 
8 CHR1STIS1S. 
 
CHR1ST1S1S. 9 
 
 LESSON ONE. 
 
 As the student comprehends truth and realizes that he 
 can daily develop within himself, now, the true likeness 
 and image of Christisis, his struggles will become less pain- 
 ful, because he begins to recognize what he really wishes to 
 accomplish and has faith that he can accomplish it. 
 
 With the new conditions come new powers; the student 
 becomes conscious of his ability to use all his faculties. He 
 begins to realize that he can regenerate his will and work 
 in the spirit. The basis of his work will be spiritual and 
 the being which he creates within himself and which gives 
 him all powers is a spiritual or soul being ; it is that which 
 we call the Christisis. 
 
 Gradually he learns to know what the mind is. He be- 
 gins to realize why he has a mind and he begins to recog- 
 nize the power of that mind when rightly used. 
 
 In due time the student realizes that the mind is a 
 dynamo and that it generates power and even has creative 
 force. He learns to know that he is the mechanic who has 
 the dynamo in charge and that the dynamo can create only 
 the power (thought) which he allows it to create. 
 
 He then begins to center his mind upon the building of a 
 wonderful temple, a temple not made with hands nor with 
 sound of hammer. This temple is the soul. He builds it 
 day by day, thought by thought, until he becomes the 
 Christisis. 
 
 As he thus develops he will have clearer insight into all 
 things. Nothing will trouble him for a long time; all 
 things will be as one to him, for he has laid prejudice aside 
 and he knoivs that all things that are are for some use and 
 are required in the building of his temple, just as the rough 
 wood is necessary in the building of a house. 
 
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 CHR1ST1SIS. 
 
CHfUSTJLSiS. 11 
 
 Man was placed upon earth to be a bnilder and this is 
 the meaning of that beautiful allegory concerning the 
 Temple of Sol-om-on. Man also must build such a temple 
 as did Sol-om-on. This temple is the soul. It is that which 
 will be known in the coming religion as the Christisis. 
 
 Man must be a creator. God has placed him upon earth 
 so that he might create. What then must he create? He 
 must create harmony, for to do this is to develop divinity. 
 
 He must overcome, for unless he overcomes he is weak 
 and will always remain weak. Only the soul that over- 
 cometh is might. You ask what he is to overcome? His 
 selfishness. Selfishness stands in the way of all true de- 
 velopment; man's selfishness must be changed, transmuted 
 into love and the feeling of brotherhood. 
 
 Remember that the soul is what we make it. "We make 
 or create it by the thoughts that we think. Thought- 
 mastery is the fundamental basis of all true building and 
 unless our thoughts are pure we cannot build a beautiful 
 and perfect temple. 
 
 What, then, is the Creator? The thoughts we hold are 
 the creator of our character. We can hold or entertain any 
 thought that we wish. It depends upon us whether such 
 thoughts shall be constructive or destructive. 
 
 In the religion of old it was said that "He that saith I 
 know Him and keep not his commandments, is a liar and 
 the Truth (God) is not in him." If we have the Divine 
 nature developed to any extent at all we do know Him, we 
 also know where He is, and what He is, and where He 
 dwells or lives. 
 
 True religion is no longer considered as something which 
 is good only on Sundays. It is becoming a living, vital 
 thing. It is becoming something which we must follow and 
 obey if we wish to be successf ul in any walk of life. Re- 
 ligion is coming to be considered as that which we are, that 
 which we build now and for all time to come. True re- 
 ligion is a laiv; a law of life which no one can disobey with- 
 out paying the penalty. 
 
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CHRISTISIS. 13 
 
 As the student builds this temple, this wonderful soul, 
 he will learn to live not only in harmony with his own soul, 
 but in harmony with all souls; his discriminating faculty 
 will become keen, clear, penetrating, yet always tempered 
 with the warm atmosphere of his loving heart. The true 
 life can only he based on strict justice, he will be a brother 
 to all, and this exact justice must always be allied with that 
 supreme quality which embraces all things, — Love. 
 
 The Masters of old have told us that the "Word became 
 flesh and dwelt among us." 
 
 This is not an idle saying, but an exact statement of 
 truth, and every student can verify it. The Word is 
 simply that which is truth. It is that which teaches man 
 the truth, that which teaches him the almighty power, that 
 which teaches him to build a powerful mind and a soul 
 that nothing on earth can overcome. 
 
 To make the Word flesh is nothing more nor less than to 
 build these truths into the soul. It is the material where- 
 with we must build the Temple of the Christisis, which the 
 ancient Masters called the Living God. Every student can 
 make the Word flesh that it may dwell with him. He need 
 but think the thoughts of truth, and live accordingly; thus 
 gradually he erects that temple which is mighty, not only 
 in a religious sense, but in a material sense as well, fur such 
 an one will be successful in his chosen work since a power- 
 ful mind can control all things. 
 
 In the continued practice of correct thinking and right, 
 living there will come to the student an increasing readi- 
 ness to adjust the thoughts, words and actions from the 
 spiritual point of view. With this practice will come an 
 increase of knowledge, the knowledge of how definitely to 
 adjust one's self to every relation in the natural and 
 material life. The knowledge of how to obtain the influx 
 of life, light and power from above will also come with this ; 
 therefore the student gains a threefold benefit. He gains 
 spiritual life and power; he learns how to adjust this 
 power so as to use it in the natural and material life; he 
 
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CHRISTISIS. 15 
 
 learns that he is a Divine being, having all the powers that 
 his Father had intended him to have. 
 
 This not only makes him a man, but it makes him a 
 priest as well, for he walks with God as did his fathers be- 
 fore him in the long ago. 
 
 As he goes onward with the work his judgment becomes 
 clear and this will be the balance between reason and in- 
 tuition, for the spiritual development must bring with it 
 intuition, that mighty power of the soul. 
 
 Keason will determine the use of intelligence on the 
 natural plane, while intuition reveals the light of intelli- 
 gence on both the natural and spiritual planes. Thus man 
 becomes a twofold being. 
 
 Attaining to that clear inner vision sometimes called 
 spiritual perception, and exercising the same intelligently 
 and conscientiously, one's whole character will be perme- 
 ated with the quality of equity, which is the spiritual side 
 of justice. This judgment faculty regenerated is the medi- 
 ator between the spiritual and the natural life. 
 
 Love, tenderness, goodness, and truth are four great es- 
 sentials for the development of the Divine or the Christisis 
 in man ; and the Divine must dwell within, the Divine must 
 grow, must create, must develop. 
 
 What is the Word? It is a fire from heaven, 
 a fire from the world of the soul. It is from the 
 Father. It is life. It is the "Light that lighteth every 
 man that cometh into the world — body — flesh." If man 
 does not accept this light it is his own fault, for if the light 
 is placed before him and he accepts it not, then he has no 
 excuse for failure in this world, no matter whether it be 
 upon the material or the spiritual plane. True success 
 always depends upon both planes and true religion is of 
 both planes. 
 
 In order to become that which it was intended for us to 
 be we must keep the Divine Laws in our mind and heart, 
 no matter what the world thinks of us, for we have nothing 
 to fear if we obey these laws and live in harmony with 
 
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CHR1STIS1S. 17 
 
 them. 
 
 In order to do this neither cant nor creed is necessary. 
 It is only required that we live natural lives, that we har- 
 bor neither hate nor thoughts of revenge, that love becomes 
 the ruling power in our characters, that we recognize our- 
 selves to be of the one Universal Creating Power and, as 
 such, Creators upon our plane of being. 
 
 Look into the center of your being and you will find there 
 a fire. This is your God — it is the Christisis. The more 
 you recognize this being, the more powerful it becomes 
 until the Great Universal Spirit overshadows you and gives 
 evidence that you are one with that which men call God. 
 
 If you endeavor to manifest love and yet continue to 
 think evil or hate, you are simply creating and feeding a 
 serpent which will grow strong. When this serpent be- 
 comes developed he will strike — you. It is necessary to re- 
 ject or change all evil thoughts. "We should think only that 
 which is good. Evil thoughts, unkind, impatient thoughts 
 are the weeds that choke out all flowers and ruin the gar- 
 den. Loving, kind, patient thoughts are only transmuted 
 evil thoughts. We suffer from evil because we think evil. 
 When we think evil we suffer more from these thoughts 
 and their results than any one else does. 
 
 We ourselves drink all the poison that is produced from 
 the evil vibrations or hate currents in our soul. It is there- 
 fore to our own benefit to improve our mode of thinking. 
 
 Mind is the creator or destroyer. Control the mind. It 
 is the thing to fear, it will beguile you, watch it. 
 
 When we say that we will do a thing with a settled in- 
 tention to do it, then we are in a positive state of mind. 
 Thought then is powerful and attracts to itself that which 
 is of like quality. We must then be careful, for our 
 thoughts are the magnet that will attract all other thoughts 
 of like kind to us. 
 
 To yield the mind to grief, anger or intensity of any 
 kind causes the thoughts to attract its kind ; or possibly this 
 yielding of the mind to intensity may submerge the whole 
 
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CHRISTJ SIS. 19 
 
 consciousness in that particular thought current or wave. 
 
 This intensity is good, provided it is in a worthy cause 
 and is directed toward the accomplishment of some great 
 and worthy work, but if it is in anger, fear or jealousy, 
 then it is decidedly destructive. 
 
 If you want to build up a powerful individuality, a 
 powerful mind and a more powerful soul, then avoid all 
 intense feelings that are closely allied with the passions. 
 
 To build, repeat again and again, whenever you think 
 of it, the highest truths that you know. Day by day estab- 
 lish the habit of right thinking and thereby establish a 
 center within yourself which is to become a dynamo of 
 mighty power. When you desire to accomplish any 
 specific work, sit down and think earnestly, quietly, yet 
 confidently, upon the subject. Formulate a picture of that 
 which you desire to accomplish ; if you cannot visualize it, 
 at least express it in a word or in a few words and then 
 center all your attention upon the accomplishment of the 
 object in view. This is to be thought of as an exercise in 
 concentration; as one may take breathing exercises or 
 movements in physical culture. At other times one should 
 concentrate his attention upon the duties in which he is 
 then engaged. 
 
 If it be knowledge that you wish to attain, formulate 
 your desire in specific terms, hold your attention ex- 
 clusively in that line for a time and seek for knowledge 
 that will help you to accomplish your desire. Keep the 
 mind fixed upon that special idea, allow only those thoughts 
 to find place in your mind for the time being and Eever 
 for a moment doubt your ability to succeed. 
 
 It is well to have a special time each day when you can 
 give your entire attention to the thing that you wish to 
 accomplish, focus the mind for ten minutes at a time, 
 gradually increasing the time until you are able to hold 
 your attention upon the thought as long as you desire. It 
 may be difficult at first, but it is with this as with all things 
 else, practice will make perfect. However, the student 
 
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CHJEUSTiSlS. 21 
 
 must not make the mistake of overdoing or of thinking he 
 should do this all the time. 
 
 Remember that only the listening ear catches the vibra- 
 tions from the higher realm; only the faithful heart is 
 worthy of revelations from the inmost — the Christisis, only 
 the discreet tongue is able to utter words out of the law. 
 
 Always remember that the natural law holds good in the 
 spiritual world, and that the spiritual law T holds good in the 
 natural world. We do not teach you a one-sided philosophy, 
 but w T e teach you the equal development of both the 
 material and the spiritual. We would teach you to suc- 
 ceed not only in the material world but also in the spiritual, 
 and therefore we teach you how to build a soul first, for 
 then all other things will be possible to you. 
 
 The success of the true man becomes his religion because 
 true success and religion are one. No success is lasting 
 unless it is founded upon absolute spiritual law, the law as 
 taught by the old masters, each one of whom made his re- 
 ligion his business and his business his religion. 
 
 It is one's duty, it is always to one's advantage, to keep 
 at all times responsive to the infinite intelligence from 
 which one may receive that which will upbuild the life 
 powers, and increase the knowledge of life. This one can 
 do in its fullness only by developing the Christisis within, 
 for thus one's own center becomes responsive at all times 
 to the infinite center of intelligence. 
 
 In this mighty work the hrw of old, "As a man soweth, 
 so shall he also reap," still is law. Whatever thoughts you 
 think, in due time will return to you again, laden with 
 good or ill as the case may be, for each thought that one 
 thinks becomes a part of his attracting power and helps 
 toward success or failure. 
 
 As you continue in this mighty work, your faculty of 
 judgment becomes more keenly developed. You become 
 more fully equipped in the use of your faculties on the 
 spiritual basis. In proportion as the natural man is made 
 obedient to the spirit, in that proportion does he become 
 
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CHEIST1SIS. 23 
 
 sensitive to the Divine Presence. This process of growth 
 we call the building of the soul or finding of the Christisis. 
 
 It is this development and consequent reliance upon the 
 divine that makes man an instrument of the Infinite and 
 qualifies him to be ordained for the Great Ministry. The 
 purpose of creation is to express perfection. Therefore it 
 is the destiny of man, the creation of the divine, to become 
 the perfect expression of {he Creator, in whose image and 
 likeness he is made, and even to become a creator himself. 
 
 The process of attainment is the building of the soul or 
 Christisis within. By the use of the faculties developed 
 through this process of growth all desirable things are 
 possible. 
 
 This growth refers not only to the things of the spirit or 
 the soul, but to the things of the physical and material as 
 well and it is utterly impossible for the man or woman who 
 has followed these laws and becomes developed in soul to be 
 a failure. 
 
 Develop this power, this being within, this soul ; use it in 
 order to attain still more and higher. It is only according 
 to your faith and your work that you will receive. 
 
 This is not intellectual apprehension, but a realization of 
 the soul. It is not a mere belief in facts stated by others. 
 Attainment means to know, and true knowledge does not 
 come from without but from the Christisis within. 
 
 All life, all love, all power belongs to the soul. When 
 the body has decayed the soul still retains these three 
 qualities, life, love, power. Therefore, you do not build for 
 the present only, but for all eternity. 
 
 In teaching you this science we teach you expression not 
 on one plane only, but on every plane of being. This ls 
 necessary in order to perfect the individual, and you be- 
 come not only a personality, but a perfect individuality, if 
 you desire to be such. 
 
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CHKIST1S1S. 25 
 
 LESS 
 
 In beginning the search for wisdom and knowledge the 
 student finds himself wandering here and there, unable to 
 catch the something definite or tangible which his soul 
 hungers for. It is true that he does not recognize that 
 this hunger is of the soul, because he thinks only of his 
 personality, but he dees know that he wants something, 
 something he is not able to find. This hunger for something 
 really comes from the soul. 
 
 When the word religion is mentioned the would-be 
 philosopher turns away in displeasure. He has had enough 
 experience with religion, he is seeking for knowledge, for 
 something more consistent with his own point of view. He 
 does not know that religion, knowledge and science are 
 really one. 
 
 When we mention philosophy to the would-be religionist 
 he aifrightedly turns away and flees from the horror of 
 what he believes to be a sacrilegious thought 
 
 Why is this ? Because neither of these seekers has found 
 the truth, and the real truth weds religion and philosophy 
 in an inseparable bond. 
 
 Several classes of seekers are found among the people 
 of the world. 
 
 There are those seeking they know not what. They are 
 hungry and would be filled, but they know not for what 
 they hunger. 
 
 Some think that they want religion. Others think they 
 want philosophy, and still others want science. All these 
 can be satisfied with the one thing, knowledge and develop- 
 ment of the powers of the mind and soul, and this knowl- 
 edge and training will bring them all three, for the three 
 are one. 
 
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CHR1ST1SIS. 27 
 
 True religion conies from the heart, from the within. 
 True knowledge also comes from within, and the two make 
 up science. The twain are one. 
 
 In the search for what he wants, the seeker has but one 
 thing for a guide, — that is desire. When he knows what he 
 really desires it is but a matter of time until that desire 
 can be fulfilled, provided he is faithful to the desire. 
 
 There are many cults, there are many creeds, many doc- 
 trines, so that there seems to be a religion for everybody — a 
 philosophy for everybody. 
 
 But he who reaches truth through the inner illumina- 
 tion or soul growth, has neither a special creed nor doc- 
 trine, for his religion is a religion-philosophy- science ; it is 
 his life; it is a part of him, and not something which he 
 merely believes. He knows. 
 
 In the study of cults, creeds, science and doctrines we 
 wander from path to path — wind from one theory or belief 
 (call it what you will) to another, until we find one that 
 seems to harmonize with our mind and thought; then we 
 accept it as the truth. We call it truth because it pleases 
 our own individual self. It is truth to us because it tallies 
 with our view of the truth. 
 
 But is it really the truth ? 
 
 The true seeker must be unbiased, he must seek not a 
 system nor a creed, but a truth, and the truth cannot be 
 found in externals^ but in internals — it is to be found only 
 through a system of seZ/-development which, like the miner 
 finding gold, the seeker finds within the earth (body). 
 
 Now know, that he who truly seeks for the truth or the 
 way to the truth, will not accept because of any self idea, 
 but that he will put all his ideas aside and follow the train- 
 ing and then as he develops, the truth luill come to him and 
 he will ~know the truth. The truth comes from the inner 
 soul, but a path must be made for it to come out over. No 
 creed, doctrine, religion or philosophy can open this path, 
 only a system of true development can accomplish this. 
 
 The seeker cannot attain wisdom and knowledge 
 
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 CHB1ST1S1S, 
 
CHRISTISIS. 29 
 
 through his own bigoted and conceited idea of truth. 
 
 And the student even with a slight degree of enlighten- 
 ment is capable of recognizing the truth when it is pre- 
 sented to him, no matter in what form — religious or philo- 
 sophical. 
 
 The skilled gem dealer knows the quality and purity of 
 the diamond, no matter what form it wears, when pre- 
 sented to him. It may be in the rough, it may be un- 
 polished and unskillfully cut, but that does not matter, he 
 knows the diamond in spite of flaws when he sees it. 
 
 Xo man can truthfully say that he believes in nothing. 
 He does believe in something. He believes in what lie says. 
 He believes in life, he believes in existence. Man, woman, 
 child believes in these positive and divine laws. The 
 most degraded man on earth believes in life, health, joy, 
 peace and harmony though he may believe that these are 
 not for him. 
 
 It makes no difference what sort of a life a man is lead- 
 ing, nor how wicked he is mentally, morally or physically, 
 he seeks life, health, joy, peace and harmony after the man- 
 ner in which he believes it to exist. If he is totally bad he 
 wants life anyway and he wants the best life can give, but 
 he fails to recognize that a true life is a true religion and 
 a bad life is a bad religion. He does not know that the 
 moral code is actually the religious code. 
 
 He is in reality seeking truth, God, the divine law and 
 
 1 itage of all men. but he seeks in a perverted sense. He 
 
 g but he seeks only for the self. He forgets that in the 
 
 limited self there is no power, but only in the universal 
 
 whole. 
 
 Self always says, '-Hunt that which will satisfy me." 
 
 And the hunt for it begins. 
 
 We have two selves to satisfy. 
 
 There is the better self, the higher self, which is the real 
 self, and there is the lower or mortal self, that which lives 
 for a short time and is no more. 
 
 We are bound to follow the one or the other. We cannot 
 
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CHRIST1SIS. 31 
 
 serve two masters. If we seek for self only we may be suc- 
 cessful for a time, but the success is not lasting. But if we 
 seek for the good of the real self, then we seek for the uni- 
 versal whole and in this seeking we are building a divine 
 temple, we are building the Christisis. 
 
 The true part of man is the soul ; his body is extremely 
 useful for it is his temple, it is the mode of being, the 
 vehicle through which he is able to work and to accomplish. 
 
 The truth has never been hidden from those who would 
 know and use with wisdom the great laws. But from the 
 ignorant and profane it has been hidden and will always 
 remain hidden, for a Master has said, ' ' Cast not your pearls 
 before swine, lest they trample them under foot." 
 
 This is a divine law and no one can open to the eyes of 
 the undeserving the law of wisdom. 
 
 But the wise man sees truth in every form, and is able 
 to read it in the hieroglyphs of the Ancients, the astrology 
 of the Chaldeans, the Yedas of the Hindus, or the Records 
 of the Jews. 
 
 Religion is nothing in the world but philosophy. It is a 
 system of living, not a system of believing. It had its root 
 and beginning in the philosophy of the Ancients. The 
 philosophy of the Ancients is the religion of the present, 
 but the majority of men simply believe in it, they do not 
 live it. Ancient philosophy is both the origin and the 
 destiny of man. And when we investigate, the deeper we 
 go and the more sincere we become we keep going farther 
 and farther back until we find that there is "nothing new 
 under the sun." We gain by experience and investiga- 
 tion. 
 
 Some believe only in that which they can see. They 
 want a material view of the religion or philosophy which 
 they seek. And yet, if they are faithful they can get this 
 view, for when they learn to know that religion, philosophy 
 and science are really a system of being, and not of mere 
 believing, they, through the living will become a new 
 creature. This then will be religion personified; it will be 
 
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 UHIUSTISIS. 
 
CHRIST J SIS. 33 
 
 more, it will be success personified and then the seeker will 
 know that in finding religion he has also found success, 
 happiness, health and immortality. 
 
 It is such a religion as this that the world demands, it is 
 such a system of culture that enlightened man wants and 
 in the building of the soul, the finding of the Christisis in 
 the temple, he will have found all. 
 
 "We may not be able to see the life force in any living 
 thing, plant or animal, but we know it has life force, be- 
 cause we can see that it grows. It is the same with success 
 and with religion; we may not be able to see the divine 
 spark, but we can see the growth of him who has it, be- 
 cause he personifies it in himself and in his works. 
 
 The foolish man is the man who believes only what he 
 sees. And another foolish man is the one who cannot 
 recognize truth wherever found ; even when it is perverted, 
 twisted, warped and ccnfounded in the views, theories, 
 reckonings and guesses of self-illusioned teachers, 
 preachers and leaders of the blind. 
 
 From the Masters of Egypt came the truth to the western 
 world. Egypt brought forth the philosophy or religion of 
 wisdom and knowledge and it was in Egypt, in the initia- 
 tion taught there, that man was first taught the mighty 
 secrets of the inner growth, then it was called the Osiris- 
 Isis. In later centuries came Jesus, the Christ, teaching 
 mankind this inner philosophy. He called it "the King- 
 dom of God which is within you." In the new cycle this 
 perfected inner life will be called the Christisis, because as 
 Jesus, a Maste - " had promised to return, so is the Christisis 
 now here among men. 
 
 It has been taught that the Egyptians worshipped idols 
 and the student must therefore learn that the symbols of 
 the Egyptian religion were not worshipped any more than 
 the Christian worships the paper and ink and the a, b, c 
 that imparts to him the knowledge he seeks in the Scrip- 
 tures. The symbol was the manner and degree of ex- 
 pression. "We see a picture of a cow. That picture is not 
 
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CHRISTJS1S. 35 
 
 the cow itself but it represents the cow. It is the symbol 
 of the cow. It gives us knowledge concerning the cow — 
 what it can do, what it can produce and how it can benefit 
 mankind. It is not the real cow, although it expresses the 
 real. 
 
 It is strange that the truths of symbolic religion have 
 been so misunderstood. It is just as sensible to say that we 
 worship the picture of a cow as to say that the symbols of 
 the sun were worshipped in their symbolic form. Natur- 
 ally, it is to be understood that millions in Egypt may have 
 worshipped the symbols just as there are millions in the 
 world at the present time who worship the image or symbol 
 of Christ and Mary. 
 
 All philosophies and religions are based on, and have de- 
 rived from sun worship their ideas of life, love and ex- 
 istence. 
 
 The sun as the sun was never worshipped by the In- 
 itiates of Egypt. The Christian religion of to-day is far 
 more complicated than the worship of the Egyptians and 
 really partakes more of the nature of symbol worship. 
 
 We all worship, seek, hunger for the force which sustains 
 the universe — life. 
 
 The Egyptians worshipped the Source of Life, the Giver 
 and Receiver of all good from the birth to the death of 
 man. 
 
 Is this different from any other worship of to-day ? 
 
 But we would do more for the student, we would teach 
 him not only to worship this source, but to find and de- 
 velop it within himself. We would show him how to de- 
 velop this force so that he not only will know it but may 
 also be able to use it. When we do this we teach him no 
 external or arbitrary religion. We teach him a system of 
 living, and this will make him religious. It will make him 
 a philosopher, and it will make him a scientist, for when all 
 things of the earth life have passed away this thing remains 
 with him, it is therefore greater, by far, than any so-called 
 science of earth men. 
 
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CHR1ST1S1S. 37 
 
 What do you seek? Is it life? Is it success? Is it re- 
 ligion ? 
 
 We give life, for we may become creators of beings. We 
 sustain life, because we feed it. We crave it, thirst for it, 
 and strive for it for ourselves. This immortal life, the 
 force that generates it and gives it, we call God, the Uni- 
 versal Life. 
 
 The Universal Life became dynamic in the individual. 
 The Egyptians called it Osiris because they could not speak 
 the true name of God. We will, in the new time, call it 
 Christisis, because we will not only believe in it, but we will 
 know it, understand it, use it. 
 
 Life, wisdom, science, philosophy and religion are all 
 within the soul of man. The soul is the fountain, the life 
 giver. The soul is the power and force of life. The true 
 man, the successful man, the religious man, the scientific 
 man, must know his own soul, and he must recognize its 
 powers and know how to use them. 
 
 The student does not praise himself, nor flaunt his wis- 
 dom and knowledge before the blinking, unseeing eyes of 
 the profane, self-seeking world. He knows better than 
 that, for he is living the life of the re-generate being. 
 
 In the work of obtaining health, success, peace of mind, 
 or whatever you seek, all these things must be taken into 
 consideration, for the student must remember that the very 
 same law that makes for success in his chosen field, can also 
 give him health, it can give him harmony and peace of 
 mind, and it is bound to be his religion in the true sense. 
 All these things are one and the same thing. 
 
 The student learns to understand the power of his mind, 
 then he learns how to use his mind in the development of 
 that higher and greater power within himself, the soul, the 
 immortal part of his nature. And as he accomplishes this 
 work, illumination is the result, and this is the great power 
 that will enable him to obtain all things needful. 
 Gradually the result of such a training becomes habit; 
 and the great thing to do is to establish right habits in the 
 
38 CHJiiSTlSlS. 
 
CHRiSTISIS. 39 
 
 thought world. It does not require a long time to estab- 
 lish right habits; not even right habits of thought. When 
 correct thought attitude is established then right thinking 
 and consequently right building of character become 
 habitual and man builds a mighty and powerful body, mind 
 and soul before he is aware of having accomplished so great 
 a work. 
 
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 CHiUSTlSiS. 
 
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 LESS 
 
 li 
 
 Life is concentration. Concentration is accumulation. 
 Through concentration of thought we accumulate that upon 
 which we concentrate and in that way we become a mighty 
 magnetic center for the attraction and accumulation of 
 that which we desire. 
 
 In this great work we naturally think of the student as 
 desiring all that is good and pure, for we believe that he 
 recognizes the fact that, after having found the soul and 
 having become illuminated, he will receive other things that 
 he may need or desire. 
 
 It was for this reason that the Master of old said, "Seek 
 ye first the kingdom of heaven, and all else will be added 
 unto you. ' ' 
 
 This is true, for by seeking the kingdom of heaven we 
 seek illumination of soul, and when that is obtained we have 
 become clearsighted and intuitive. Illumination of soul is 
 the greatest experience man can have, and through this 
 power it is possible in time to obtain all the other things 
 that we may desire. 
 
 The building of a soul means also illumination of soul, 
 and with this comes the re-generation of the body. The 
 student will therefore clearly understand that a deceased 
 body is an impossibility when the soul is illuminated, be- 
 cause true development is threefold. It is of the body, the 
 mind and the soul. It elevates all three and the three be- 
 come one in unity. 
 
 As a result of this spiritual unfoldment or regeneration 
 of life, the soul comes into a new consciousness, that is, 
 
 spiritual consciousness. The possibilities of such a soul 
 are unlimited. Even the possibilities upon the material 
 plane become unlimited. The development of these 
 spiritual powers bring with them a judgment that is good 
 
42 CHRIST1SIS. 
 
CHR1STISIS. 43 
 
 and this judgment gives the power to adjust conditions in 
 their natural and proper order. 
 
 The student will thus clearly understand that with this 
 illuminated soul, with this spiritual understanding, he may 
 accomplish the things that would otherwise be impossible. 
 
 The spirit of man is divine, it is that which he brings 
 with him to the great world of action. It will become, as he 
 accumulates, the connecting link between his body and his 
 soul. It is an offspring from the great invisible manifesta- 
 tion. It is always connected with its source and it will help 
 to bring the soul to its Father. 
 
 Mind has two aspects, active and passive. The rational 
 faculty is the intellect which is continually active, gather- 
 ing knowledge through reason or study; it is that which 
 believes but which has no way of knowing except by be- 
 lieving the authority of others. Intuition, the highest 
 power of man, which can come only through soul or spirit- 
 ual illumination, is the receptive faculty; it can receive 
 knowledge direct and without conscious reasoning. It 
 knows because that which it receives comes from within, 
 from itself, from that great temple God said dwelt with- 
 in us. 
 
 When the student understands that there is a spiritual 
 plane in man which is far more reliable than any outward 
 plane, he will seek this inner consciousness and receive 
 therefrom true knowledge. 
 
 With this building of the soul the light from the uni- 
 versal soul, the Father of Christisis, will begin to flood his 
 soul so that he will understand how to use his mental facul- 
 ties, and he will thus be able to control conditions on the 
 spiritual and on all lower planes. 
 
 Thus will the student gradually come to understand that 
 he is working in a circle. While in the state in which 
 practically all mankind live, which is called the natural 
 state, he blindly follows the laws of being upon that piano 
 yet gradually, as he uses his thoughts consciously for the 
 building of a real spiritual soul and as that soul becomes 
 
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 CHR1ST1S1S. 
 
CHKTSTrSTS. 45 
 
 illuminated, in short, as lie finds the Christisis within him- 
 self, be is also building a powerful mind. And so, while 
 he builds an illuminated soul, the illuminated soul in re- 
 turn builds a mighty mind, and the two help to build a 
 powerful body. This is Being- upon the threefold plane 
 and man becomes what the Gods had intended him to be. 
 
 Just in proportion as he raises his consciousness to the 
 Spiritual Invisible Center, in that proportion will be the 
 illumination of his soul. This illumination becomes the 
 light that will lead him onward and upward to greater and 
 grander things. 
 
 He who has attained even a slight degree of soul con- 
 sciousness has already connected with the Universal Father 
 of Light and has found not only Christisis within himself 
 to that degree but he is already in conscious touch with 
 Gcd and finds his life in Him. Just in proportion as he 
 does this, in that proportion will this great spiritual power 
 control his life as a rational being in a material world. 
 
 All Masters, in all times, have taught the few that they 
 are the children of God and that all the power that has 
 been given to the few will be given to the many, provided 
 they prepare a place within themselves in which this Di- 
 vine Being may live. 
 
 You cannot live an irrational life and expect to entertain 
 the Godhead, and you cannot live the life of the material 
 flesh and still be the temple of Christisis. In order to be- 
 come the temple of Christisis you must become truly a man. 
 To become such you must rid the mind of all such thoughts 
 as these of hate, jealousy, fear, revenge; for these do not 
 belong to the spiritual or rational man. These thoughts 
 belong to the beast nature within man and not to his God 
 nature. 
 
 What then is necessary? It is simply necessary that you 
 shall examine yourself carefully, find out the undesirable 
 tendencies of thought and the weak points within yourself, 
 ask yourself whether these really belong to the rational 
 man and the answer to vou will be that thev do not. 
 
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CHRISTIS1S. 47 
 
 Then place before yourself the ideal of transmuting 
 these unnatural qualities of your being. Recognize the fact 
 that these base passions do not give you strength, but lead 
 to weakness. Recognize the fact that good feeling towards 
 all mankind brings power, that love to all creatures brings 
 power. As the Father has said that all are His children, 
 realize that you also can be a son of God in very truth, and 
 that you can therefore prepare a place in your heart for 
 the coming Messiah. You prepare for the Messiah by culti- 
 vating the attitude of love. 
 
 Recognize the fact that you can be in the world even 
 while you are bringing these changed conditions about. 
 Recognize the fact that improving one's thoughts does not 
 take any pleasure or possibilities from one, but that it con- 
 tinually enhances and intensifies the joys and possibilities 
 of life, bringing one greater peace of mind, greater 
 pleasure, greater health and greater possibilities. 
 
 Thus will you, gradually, change from an unnatural life 
 to a natural one, and this change also brings you a new 
 consciousness, for little by little you come to know that 
 there is something within you which you had not previously 
 recognized. You will find that there is a voice, the cry of a 
 babe, within, constantly calling you and asking you to 
 listen. That is the awakening soul; it is the Christisis 
 which will bring you to all things. Thus, by heeding this 
 voice and obeying the dictates of the soul, in due time, will 
 you have changed from an unnatural being to a perfectly 
 natural or normal one with all spiritual possibilities become 
 dynamic. 
 
 Man, as he lives to-day, thinks that the only happiness is 
 in the gratifying of his senses, in having all his thoughts, 
 feelings, desires and sensations in the physical being. He 
 forgets that any difficulty in the physical organism di- 
 minishes his ability to enjoy even the pleasures of the 
 physical being. To be limited to the physical plane or to be 
 a slave to physical pleasures is not the natural or the 
 normal life. 
 
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CHRIST! SIS. 49 
 
 The person who is bound by this unnatural limitation 
 ignores everything that may be upon a higher plane and he 
 cannot recognize any better life and so long as he lives in 
 that state of mind he cannot rise to any other plane. 
 
 It is therefore necessary that the student should first 
 understand what it is to live a normal, natural life, and 
 then understand the power of thought. In this he has 
 taken the first great step that will lead him to all that is 
 good and true, while still not being deprived of happiness 
 or greater possibilities. 
 
 The student may have been taught that to lead a pure 
 life brings suffering and pain with it, but he forgets that 
 living an unnatural life also brings great pain and sorrow. 
 He does not consider that practically the whole lifetime of 
 man, with the exception of a few moments of pleasure now 
 and then, is spent in pain or in sorrow. 
 
 There may be trials for him who tries to live the normal 
 or spiritual life, but he must remember that the greatest 
 trials and struggles, the hardest battles really lead us to 
 glory and higher attainment, if we but stand to win. The 
 great test comes when we are tempted, mocked, and every- 
 thing seems to go wrong. There is no test in living a good 
 life when everything goes right. 
 
 How different is it in the world of pure sense? In the 
 sense life there are also bitter trials, bitter sorrows and 
 extreme pain, but instead of bringing higher attainment 
 and greater power, they simply bring weakness. 
 
 The student will thus see the great difference between the 
 sense life and the spiritual life; the immense gulf that 
 separates the two. On the one side is pain and suffering, 
 but leading to power and attainment. On the other side is 
 pain, sorrow and suffering, but leading to weakness instead 
 of power. 
 
 To be possessed of self-control, (and this comes with il- 
 lumination,) is to lead to high attainments. If the soul is 
 cleansed it will be able to bless those who oppose it ; it will 
 know how to forgive them in their ignorance, for the soul 
 
50 CHRISTISIS. 
 
UHRIST1SIS. 51 
 
 recognizes that these oppositions are not blocks to its own 
 progress,- but rather tests of its strength, and therefore 
 they are of the greatest help to attainment. Tests of 
 strength should be thought of as opportunities for develop- 
 ing strength. 
 
 Manifest that which you love. You will do that anyhow, 
 for if your life is one of trickery, though you may try to 
 hide this tendency yet every movement of your being, every 
 act, — even that which would seem to be one of love, — shows 
 that it is trickery that you really love. 
 
 If you love that which is good you may try to hide your 
 deeds from the world, but the world will feel the vibrations 
 in which you live and gradually come to honor you. 
 
 All great men have become such by concentration of one 
 purpose upon the object which they desired to accomplish. 
 Singleness of thought is like a sun glass which, being held 
 to one point a sufficient length of time, kindles a fire in the 
 things that obstruct the light, until a hole is burned 
 through dark matter to the source of light and heat. 
 
 "When the flame is kindled you will know that you have 
 a soul within you. You will know that the Christisis is in 
 process of formation, the embryonic state. The next effort 
 is to get within it, to blend and become one in mind and 
 soul. When in the soul, which is love, you are in God and 
 in time may become like unto God; but the process of gesta- 
 tion is slow. 
 
 This is the process of self-development or illumination 
 and time is required, but all may accomplish this who are 
 truly willing to reach the highest on all planes of being. 
 
 The great center of thought is in the nerve ganglion or 
 network of nerves known as the Solar Plexus, just above 
 the back of the stomach. The effect that true concentration 
 cf thought will have on you as a person or individualized 
 identity will be a warm feeling in this center and this 
 gentle heat or flame will become a ranting flame until the 
 vibratory forces are so strong that it fills the whole body 
 with intense heat and the dew of heaven is felt upon the 
 
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CHRISTISIS. 53 
 
 brow, the;more you concentrate the greater the falling of 
 dew until it is like a summer shower. 
 
 These intense vibrations, like wireless waves, are in con- 
 nection with all other vibrations of like nature and this 
 explains why it is possible for us to become that which we 
 truly will to be and possible for us to obtain the things that 
 we really desire to obtain. Herein is the whole law. 
 
 There is also a center from which ideas are evolved, and 
 this center is developed in harmony with the great center 
 mentioned above. Thus, all centers in our being are de- 
 veloped when we develop the one great center just as the 
 planets and stars evolve in their circle in harmony with the 
 sun. 
 
 The student will therefore easily understand that if he 
 hates any one he is developing the center of hate and that 
 all other centers in his being will develop with this center. 
 The same law governs the development of the love center, 
 the center of justice, the center of genius and all other 
 centers, for all conditions have a center within man just as 
 every planet and star in the heavens has a circle of action 
 and influence. 
 
 If we develop the love center, the vibrations of love come 
 to us with words of instruction, and we know that God is 
 love as well as wisdom. 
 
 Love and truth — Christisis — are one; infinite, unlimited 
 freedom, but being divided in the soul, love is hungry for 
 truth — Christisis — or in love with it, and keeps searching 
 for what it desires. The soul sends out from itself forces, 
 as telegrams, in order to obtain a reply. In order to re- 
 ceive an answer to its quest the soul opens a receiver in the 
 mind, a cell or womb into which the answer comes as 
 thought which germinates into ideas. This empty reser- 
 voir, which opens as a flower into which the universe may 
 deposit itself, may be called the ideal center, the center 
 which evolves ideas. We are fed from this center with 
 truth, if we are in search for truth. This is the place where 
 telegrams from the infinite meet the listening ear, and 
 
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 CHK1ST1S1S. 
 
CHKIST1S1S. 55 
 
 intellect and perception are born of the light radiating 
 from the infinite. If yon make yonr centers positive, de- 
 siring only the truth and that which is good, then you will 
 receive truth only, and gradually the messages that you 
 receive in the soul will become more and more positive until 
 you come into conscious touch, through intuition, with all 
 that is. 
 
 What is love? Love seeketh not its own. Love is God; 
 it is a radiance, a warming, drawing power (magnetism), 
 attracting us on and on to perfection; radiating on us, 
 through us, around us. 
 
 Manifest that which you love, bring forth the thing you 
 love. You love what you bring forth or manifest. Learn 
 to love — learn to bring forth or manifest only that which 
 is true and good and great, for as you do this so will im- 
 perial and glorious power come to you. 
 
 If you are illuminated by the light of love in your 
 emotional nature, you are inspired by the true feeling 
 which will find expression in the thoughts and actions that 
 are true and good. This action will be of the spirit, and 
 you may trace it to the spirit of love, the soul, which is in 
 sympathy with all that is good and true. 
 
 Why was man placed upon earth ? The destiny of man, 
 or of the soul in man, is to express the heavenly, that which 
 is of the Father, through the earthly. It is therefore es- 
 sential that knowledge concerning the divine and every 
 step of progress necessary should be known by man. When 
 he knows this all things are possible to him. 
 
 In the accumulation of good we become one with God 
 and therefore a part of Him, which places us into sonship. 
 Therefore, by making the weak points strong and the 
 strong ones still stronger, we can reach the highest ; we will 
 be able to find the Christisis. 
 
 There is but one way — the way of Christisis — the coming 
 Saviour. 
 
 Watch the mind. Control its thoughts. They will de- 
 ceive you. Listen to the voice of consciousness (soul knowl- 
 
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CHRISTISIS. 57 
 
 edge), it is the guide (angel). Give heed to the awakening 
 of ideas, tnoughts, light, the soul of gods who are mani- 
 fested to the soul receiving sight and illumination. 
 Mind is the builder of the soul — of Christisis. 
 
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 LESSON FOUR. 
 
 The undeveloped soul within man is like the seed planted 
 in the ground, capable of growing. Some seeds spring 
 up but are crushed back into earth ; some push through the 
 earth and become beautiful flowers in the garden of the gods. 
 
 The soul holds within itself the essence of the Creator of 
 man, the world and all flesh. 
 
 This divine essence of life is the spark from which to de- 
 velop the Christisis. It creates life and sustains all life. 
 No one can deny the existence of life. No one can deny the 
 creating power of life, and no one can deny its force. 
 
 That life is creator of man is the true Esoteric teach- 
 ing of the Masters. The ancient Masters did not recognize 
 God as a person. They did not worship God as a being 
 apart from the one supreme divine life, but as the one life 
 in all things, as the principle of good, as the life giver, the 
 Creator. The beautiful in all its forms and phases was 
 recognized as being identical though designated by dif- 
 ferent names in conformity and harmony with the Supreme 
 Creator of the beautiful. We have mind, heart, soul and 
 body. 
 
 "We make gods of mind, heart, soul, body and the so- 
 called gods of the Ancients were simply the names given 
 to mind, heart, soul, body and the flesh. The real Masters 
 always taught the one God. They taught that God is the 
 Supreme Being. They taught one Saviour and this 
 Saviour is the Christisis, the developed being within us, the 
 God which is in the temple. 
 
 These gods of the ancients were parts of the whole — the 
 governing soul of all from which all sprung and which all 
 contains. 
 
 "I am yesterday, to-day and to-morrow, for I am born 
 
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 again and again. I am that whose force is manifest and 
 nourisheth the dwellers in the West. I am the guides in 
 the East. The Lord of the two forces who seeth by His own 
 light. The Lord of resurrection who cometh forth from the 
 dusk and whose birth is from the house of death.' ' 
 
 1 ' Ye two divine hawks upon your station ; watchers of the 
 material world ; ye who go with the bier to its eternal home, 
 and you who conduct the ship to the sun; advancing on- 
 wards from the highest heaven to the place of the sar- 
 cophagus. ' ' 
 
 "This is the Lord of the shrine which standeth in the 
 center of the earth, He is in me; and I am in Him." 
 
 1 ' In Him we live and move and have our being. ' ' 
 
 It is the same to-day as in the foretime. These extracts 
 from the "Book of the Dead, ,, of the Egyptians are very 
 similar to those from the Bible, the bo_ok of the Christian. 
 This book was in existence, was an old book 3733 B. C. 
 From this we see that the Egyptian faith or religion, or 
 philosophy was the "shrine," the center or creator of all 
 religions or philosophies that have ever existed. 
 
 From the Egyptians we have learned of God. 
 
 From the Egyptians we have learned all the laws of be- 
 ing, all the evolutions and developments of mind, soul and 
 body. 
 
 From the religion of Christisis we will now learn the 
 mysteries and greater development of the soul, the highest 
 that there is, the highest that man can know or be. For 
 Christisis includes all that can be found in the soul, and in 
 the soul is all that there is or can be. 
 
 What is God? Who is He? Where is He? 
 
 All nations, all creeds, all philosophies agree that He is 
 the Father of Light, He is life, He is love. 
 
 Light, life and love, if understood, would give the wisdom 
 and knowledge of the gods. 
 
 There are those who ask us, "Who are the gods?" 
 
 The gods are those who have perfected the soul life, who 
 have overcome the world and all flesh and are in conscious 
 
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CHRIST] SIS. 63 
 
 and supreme harmony and union with the Father. 
 
 Then there are beings who have never been born into the 
 earth life, the flesh, but who are pure, perfect and moulded 
 in the image of the Father. 
 
 All these are of the One Supreme Ruler, living in con- 
 scious harmony with His laws — controlling, guiding and 
 assisting in the shajping of events and the destiny of em- 
 pires and mankind. All nations, all laws, all humanity are 
 under control of these great souls who are ever watching to 
 assist and protect those who reach out for help and who 
 are struggling to overcome the flesh and the world. These 
 are the gods which the heathens are supposed to have en- 
 graved in stone. They are supposed then to have wor- 
 shipped the stone as a god. 
 
 That the heathen literally worshipped stone is not true. 
 Did the Hebrews worship the tablets of stone or the law 
 and truths of the commandments? Do the Christians 
 worship the water they baptize with or the idea of the birth 
 of the spirit? All creeds agree that God is the Father of 
 light, of life, of love, but none of them know what that 
 light is, what that life is, or what that love is. 
 
 The awakening of the Christisis within you will teach 
 you all things; the emblems of Christianity remain the 
 same, but we teach you the Spirit, not the law merely. 
 
 Where is God? Where are the gods? "Ye are the 
 temples of the living God," has come down to us in thunder- 
 ing tones and the Christisis not only tells you this, but tells 
 you how to find God. 
 
 Love is the creator of all. The creator of light and life. 
 
 Love is the life of God — the fire that creates being and 
 beings. 
 
 No mere theologist or creed believer can know God, nor 
 ivhcre He is. 
 
 He is the "Lord of the shrine which standeth in the 
 center .of the earth. He is in me; and I am in Him." 
 
 "I shine forth as the Lord of Light and life and the 
 glorious law of light." 
 
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CHRISTJS1S. 65 
 
 The science of dhristisis teaches you how to find this 
 light, and when you find the light, then you will know that 
 ' ' He is in you ; and you in Him. ' ' 
 
 Did the ancient priests and philosophers know this ? 
 
 They did or they would never have been able to teach 
 mankind the most mighty philosophy ever known. 
 
 Why, then, did not they teach all nations ? 
 
 Why does not God teach all nations ? 
 
 The great truths have been taught from all times to the 
 few who were willing to receive them and follow them. 
 ''Pearls cannot be thrown before swine," nor can great 
 truths be taught to the undeserving. The truth can be 
 taught to those only who are really willing to receive ; and 
 even to receive the truth is not sufficient ; the student must 
 live the truth if he would learn to know the power of the 
 truth. 
 
 God is wisdom and only the wise learn wisdom. 
 
 It is not enough to learn about God — we must learn to 
 knoiv God. We must find Him. When we learn what He 
 is, through the development and awakening of the soul, 
 then we know what He is and where He is. 
 
 Man is the ruler and maker of his destiny. He is of God. 
 He is made in the image of God, and God rules and will 
 always rule. Man proceeded from God and may return to 
 God. If he does not become like unto God with His 
 creating powers then it is his own fault, for God has placed 
 within him all the powers, or rather, the spark from which 
 he may develop all the powers that belong to God, after 
 whose image man was made. 
 
 God does not cease to exist. He is everlasting, and all 
 things that come, from Him may_be everlasting. It is with- 
 in the power of man to choose his own destiny. 
 
 When we truly realize our relationship to God we will 
 realize our supremacy over flesh and all its illusions. 
 
 God is not Father over religious matters alone; He is the 
 good of all things, no matter whether it be spirituality, 
 health, success, happiness, or all that is great. Therefore, 
 
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 he who is most like unto God has most of His powers. It 
 therefore follows that the development of the Christisis 
 within us will give us the power of God. 
 
 All that is mortal must die — all that is immortal will live 
 and that which is mortal has no power over that which is 
 immortal. The weaker cannot control the stronger — nor 
 the less the greater. 
 
 The body cannot control the mind. The mind controls 
 the body. "What we think and how we think, draws us into 
 the realm or plane of the illusions of the senses or away 
 from the senses. 
 
 If we think right we will build right and no law of evil 
 can prevail against us. 
 
 The material around us has no power over us when we 
 realize and acknowledge the supremacy of the spiritual — 
 the soul over matter. 
 
 The soul is the real man. The soul is the father of man, 
 the maker and sustainer of all that is. God is simply the 
 greater soul. The soul of man is a miniature of the greater 
 soul, a child of the supreme soul with all its powers and 
 possibilities but in a lesser degree. 
 
 Soul is all that lives, and if we do not develop soul then 
 there is nothing to live and it will not matter what faith 
 we hold or to what creed we subscribe. Unless we develop 
 the soul, find the Christisis within us, then there is nothing 
 to live forever. Soul is the essence of life. It is that which 
 sustains life, and the more of soul we have and the greater 
 its development, the more of real life will we have. 
 
 Soul is light, it is the divine image — fire. Man is in the 
 image of God, but the developed soul is the divine, the fire 
 image, of God. 
 
 The vital spark of the soul is in every human being, but 
 it will depend upon the human being himself whether the 
 soul is to live forever or to die. Soul is God made and for 
 that reason it may become all powerful. God made man, 
 man did not make himself. God gave the vital spark of the 
 soul, but He gave man the privilege to develop it or to let 
 
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 it die. 
 
 Many past philosophies and religions have erred because 
 they taught and believed that man was something apart 
 from God — that he is sufficient unto himself — his illusioned, 
 mortal flesh-loving self. And after making himself in his 
 own image man attempts to make God in the image he con- 
 ceives Him to be. 
 
 Man's conception of God is not true because his concep- 
 tions through wrong living have become clouded and totally 
 unreliable. 
 
 As man learns that there is a God and that he has been 
 made in God's image and that the vital spark of immor- 
 tality is within himself and that he may, if he wills, de- 
 velop this spark into the Christisis, his vision will clear, 
 and he will see and know God as He is. 
 
 Is it any wonder, then, that the God men have blindly 
 worshipped has failed them? Is it any wonder that the 
 real God will not conform to the rule, law and thought that 
 mortal man in his ignorance and stupidity has endeavored 
 to make for Him ? God will not conform to the laws made 
 or held by man. Man must conform to and obey the laws 
 of God. 
 
 The trouble all came through wrong thinking, through 
 wrong beliefs, through thinking that man can be saved by 
 believing. Man can save himself only through right living, 
 through the development of that vital spark of immortality 
 which God has planted within him. 
 
 God has never turned and will never turn from man; 
 man turned away from God and His just laws. God is 
 always the same, His laws are the same. Man is not the 
 same, he is constantly changing. Just as long as man al- 
 lows his body to rule, allows the desires of the flesh to usurp 
 the desires of the spiritual self and the mind to be clogged 
 with lust and evil imaginings and desires, just that long 
 will he continue to turn away from the center of light, of 
 life, of love and of great achievement. 
 
 Merely to say a thing will not remove the cause of evil 
 
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 unless one does what lie says. To believe in immortality; 
 will not make one immortal. To believe in success, even 
 though one has a successful plan or system, will not bring 
 success; it is only in living one's plan that he will be able 
 to succeed. 
 
 You may say that you worship God, you may go through 
 the proper formula, but unless you live the worship you are 
 not worshipping in truth but only in the form. Immor- 
 tality can be yours only as you worship God in spirit and 
 in truth. 
 
 You cannot live the life and still think thoughts of lust, 
 evil, and self. You cannot hate your neighbor and be a 
 true servant of God at the same time. Unless you serve the 
 One in whose image you are, you cannot become immortal, 
 you cannot build the divine image, you cannot be per- 
 manently successful. 
 
 Religion and science, religion and success, (that is true 
 success,) are one and the same thing; it is the Christisis. 
 
 You cannot covet anything that is your neighbor's and 
 serve God at the same time. You are serving the flesh 
 when you covet. You yield to illusions, for the flesh has no 
 true power, it is only temporary. Flesh is not the real man 
 and that which seems to be success is but temporary and 
 fleeting. 
 
 Soul is the real man. Soul is the thing that suffers, feels, 
 knows. Soul is of the divine spirit — it is God, and it is 
 within every man, woman and child. To conform to the 
 coming Messiah, He that is now but newly born, we call the 
 awakened soul, the Christisis. 
 
 It is all that there is. The flesh has no power. It is help- 
 less, dull, lifeless, without soul. When the soul has left the 
 body, the body is dead. The soul, if it has found the light, 
 the divine center, will live on throughout eternity, it was 
 successful. 
 
 Every materialist, mentalist and spiritualist must admit 
 the truth of these statements. 
 ;When the soul leaves the body, the body is dead, The 
 
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 soul lives, even the most orthodox admit this. If soul is the 
 only real part of man and is the only part of man that 
 lives after so-called death, then soul is all that is of per- 
 manent value ; soul in man, the divine spark from God the 
 oversoul, the life of all there is. 
 
 Man's soul, woman's soul, both are from God and are a 
 part of God. 
 
 The flesh is the manifestation of soul — it is the temple of 
 the soul — hence in reality all belongs to soul. There is 
 nothing that lives and moves, that creeps, that grows, out- 
 side of this influence. God always loves. He is Love. He 
 is the Fire of life, the Soul of being. 
 
 It is this greater life that we teach the student. It is this 
 great law which we would have him live. For if he does so, 
 then he will develop the mighty soul within himself, and he 
 will become immortal, a master in material things as in 
 spiritual things. 
 
 The lure of the flesh and the illusion of sin and all lusts 
 and all covetousness may attract for a time, but they are 
 not real. They are the vampires that do not really exist, 
 for they have no life except that which they sap from man- 
 kind. 
 
 Only the divine soul or image is permanent. This is 
 what man really is, always was and always will be. Illusion 
 is not the real man. The senses and the lusts of covetous- 
 ness, greed, spite, jealousy, envy and the like are not real. 
 "When man lives in the senses he is living a transient, 
 imaginary, unreal existence. 
 
 All temptations of the flesh are but illusions, snares. The 
 soul is never tempted — it is the senses that are tempted. 
 The soul will struggle against all the evils and illusions of 
 the world. Even the worldly grow weary and disgusted 
 with the transitory pleasures and illusions the world offers 
 them. 
 
 How many have in desperation tried to stifle the cry of 
 the awakening soul life, the soul which cried out against 
 sin and illusion? But when the soul cried out they grew 
 
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 weary. The pleasures turned into ashes, and the worm- 
 eaten rose fell from its stem. 
 
 To find the soul is to live. To really live is to be both 
 successful and immortal. To become immortal is to become 
 like unto God. 
 
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 LESSON FIVE. 
 
 The whole external universe is the outpicturing of the 
 thoughts retained within the infinite soul. 
 
 God first had the picture of the universe in His mind, 
 and then from these thoughts held by the infinite mind He 
 built the universe. In the same manner was man, in the 
 divine image, made. He was given all the powers held by 
 the infinite mind and soul, though in a lesser degree. For 
 this reason can man become the creator of worlds and con- 
 ditions, but on a limited scale. 
 
 That which is good is never lost. When we realize that 
 all that God made is good we realize that all good is eternal, 
 immortal, and is retained, but all outside of good is not 
 retained in the good. When consciousness becomes intro- 
 spective or interior, the inner vision may see soul images, 
 which either have not yet been externalized, or which, 
 having become externalized, have passed from the external 
 plane. The soul is the mirror and image of everything 
 tenable, real, immutable, that transpires or takes place. 
 As for example, books have been written that may have 
 been destroyed, yet the ideas which they expressed, and 
 even the forms of the expression still remain in the interior 
 soul world and it is these images which the developed soul, 
 the Christisis, can open and come into touch with, and re- 
 ceive knowledge from, through the divine gift of intuition, 
 the master passion of the soul. 
 
 God is Soul — universal Soul — the universe or world is 
 His body. Everything is imaged in the soul of God, other- 
 wise it could not exist. The soul of God is the universal 
 mirror of God and reflects or retains or images every idea 
 expressed by the soul of God, the Christisis. This is the 
 interior world, the universal world which is the universal 
 
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 soul. 
 
 The mind, therefore, that withdraws itself from the ex- 
 ternal, and becomes, through the training which we here 
 teach you, consciously active in the inner realm, may per- 
 ceive, through the divine gift of intuition, and thus may 
 appropriate and re-express the ideas or types of soul 
 images, which are indestructible. This explains why many 
 an inspiring speech, poem or invention may be uttered or 
 given to the world in the same form or expression as that 
 which voiced it in ages past. It explains why the same 
 truth may be expressed in various forms, according to the 
 individual channels through which it passes. 
 
 The student will thus perceive ivhy it is possible to make 
 a far greater success in the material world after going 
 through this training than tvoulcl otherwise be possible. 
 And besides this, while he undergoes this training he comes 
 into conscious touch with the true religious-science world 
 and he becomes a religious master at the same time that he 
 becomes a master of his soid. 
 
 Thus understanding this great law, we can say with the 
 Ancient Masters, that " there is nothing new under the 
 sun." As the external man breathes the same air, eats the 
 same food, yet uses what he appropriates according to his 
 individuality, (if he is fortunate enough to have built one,) 
 so does the spiritual man, while using the same thought 
 substance, while being subject to the same universal soul 
 influences, appropriate the ideas and express them accord- 
 ing to his individuality. This explains the differentiation 
 of all soul expression. 
 
 The greater knowledge brings the greater light, and with 
 every ascending step in the ladder of perfection there is an 
 increased understanding of the infinite soul, because the 
 student becomes more harmonious, and therefore is better 
 able to receive vibrations from the infinite soul. 
 
 This understanding of the universal law and the com- 
 plexity yet simplicity of living in this light, the light in- 
 herent in every soul, the light which brings revelations of 
 
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 God, can be had only by building the soul through the 
 power of the mind • this building must always result in the 
 Christisis, the Son of Man and of God, the two in one. 
 
 This light — this Christisis — intelligence awakening in 
 the consciousness, illuminates all things, and is, as it were, 
 like a universal sea, in which souls exist as souls, and from 
 which they may imbibe all knowledge. Those who have 
 gone through this illumination are said to belong to the 
 Church of Divine Illumination, because they are illumi- 
 nated souls. 
 
 This wonderful sea of intelligence or light, like rivers 
 running in all directions, has many channels or currents, 
 but all leading to the one great sea. 
 
 These thought rivers contain thought images on all sub- 
 jects. For example, all thought imaging fear forms a river 
 with the quality of fear predominant. Fear, however, is 
 unreal. It is not indestructible — it is subject to destruc- 
 tion and change. It is transitory ; it is undesirable. There- 
 fore it cannot be truth, but it can be changed or trans- 
 muted into truth. 
 
 Fear is an illusion which the mortal endeavors to convey 
 to the soul, but it is sooner or later recognized as unreal 
 and transitor3 r , something undesirable. All thoughts repre- 
 senting love, truth, praise, joy, gladness, constitute the 
 river of light, whose quality is joyous. This is the divine 
 or infinite source or soul and the river goes on forever. 
 "For men may come, and men may go, 
 But I go on forever." 
 
 Positive, bright, happy thoughts are like sunny, spark- 
 ling streams, invigorating and buoyant, and it is your duty 
 to come into touch with this stream for it will mean health 
 and youth to you. 
 
 Poetry, art, science, religion, all have as many streams in 
 the universal ocean, as there are differentiated classes of 
 thought on these subjects. God contains only the positive, 
 true, everlasting thoughts for He is the creator. The earth, 
 His spouse, contains all the negative thoughts and that is 
 
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 why the undeveloped earth man is negative, hateful, spite- 
 ful, jealous, revengeful and inclines toward all other 
 thoughts that are evil and negative. These negative 
 thoughts exist only on earth, and cannot reach the God- 
 head, but so long as they are held by man they will govern 
 man. It is the duty of the student to become positive, to 
 raise himself, through development and soul building, to 
 the great ocean of divine religion and science and to bathe 
 in its currents of true, loving, beautiful, health-inspiring 
 thoughts. 
 
 The physical, mortal man thinks that evil brings him 
 pleasure, good and truth. This idea is an illusion of the 
 flesh. It is a negative and dark thought and produces cur- 
 rents of muddy, thick, polluted water which brings disease, 
 sorrow, misery and want. 
 
 "Whosoever is susceptible to fear of any type, will attract 
 to himself the fear that belongs to his type — fear of acci- 
 dent, for example, or of sickness, or death, and he may 
 also become submerged in the fear current of the thought 
 ocean. On the contrary, whoever formulates and holds 
 happy thoughts, will ally himself with the thought currents 
 of happiness or courage or knowledge, according to the 
 quality of his thoughts. 
 
 It is for this reason that the general in the army who is 
 fearless will stand in the center of the field, bullets flying 
 all around him, hundreds of his soldiers falling at his very 
 feet, and will himself remain untouched by bullet or 
 sword. 
 
 This may be the reason why the man who, tired of life, 
 rushes into all kinds of danger in order to be killed, emerges 
 without harm. He desires to die, he courts death, but he 
 does not fear it. 
 
 This may also explain why the promising young man, 
 having many opportunities before him, is suddenly stricken 
 by some disease or some accident befalls him, and he is 
 ushered into eternity. He fears that he may not live to 
 enjoy the good things before him. 
 
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 Cast out fear. Build the soul of conscience, and know 
 that if you do your part, if you build a soul of love and 
 trust, you will be given all the time that you require in 
 order to accomplish your work. 
 
 Do you want understanding on any special subject? 
 Then open your soul to the influx from the thought river 
 containing such knowledge. Seek its fountainhead, the 
 supreme source. Put your question definitely, withdraw 
 all thought from the physical self or external world and 
 become still; that is, cease thinking just as you become quiet 
 and wait for an answer, when you have asked a question of 
 a friend who stands by your side. In the interior stillness, 
 wherein is to be heard the soul voice and the interpretation 
 of things in the ideal world, you will receive the answer; 
 if not in that moment, in a similar one at another time, for 
 you should have a special hour each day when you hush the 
 flesh desires and worship or seek in the spirit. 
 
 You are asking your question of infinite soul or intelli- 
 gence. This brings omnipresent knowledge into your mind 
 in such form as will best appeal to your understanding. 
 ''Peace be still, and the wind ceased and there was a great 
 calm. ' ' 
 
 David said, "Be still and know that I am God." 
 
 You have the ability to be still ; this ability grows by de- 
 velopment and enables you to receive the intelligence. It 
 may be conveyed to you as a feeling, a wordless under- 
 standing, or by a vision or image, which is symbolic of the 
 idea to be conveyed. If you do not understand it at first, 
 wait also for understanding. Even though you are un- 
 answered for days, keep the mind receptive toward the 
 subject and explanation will come. The interpretation will 
 be given as you are ready to receive it, and thus will you 
 begin the practical life in the thought realm. 
 
 You will learn that in the interior world there is nothing 
 to keep you from receiving what you are ready to appro- 
 priate, whether it be knowledge or power, patience, cour- 
 age, or any gift of the spirit, You will perceive that you 
 
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 are living on a new foundation, that of the soul. You are 
 learning the language of soul, and all the various ex- 
 periences which come to the soul will enlighten you and 
 add to your knowledge of the law. You will also begin to 
 realize that on the soul plane spiritual qualities exist and 
 that they form connectiong links between you and God, 
 between you and all souls. You will learn to know that 
 true religion, like science, is something to knoiv, to under- 
 stand, and not something to believe. You will know that 
 religion means to live and not merely to believe, it is not a 
 creed but a system of living. 
 
 In proportion as you appreciate and feel the depth and 
 greatness of this spiritual quality it will become manifest 
 in your individuality. Remember that as you develop these 
 powers, you will have a new system of understanding, you 
 will have a new teacher, you will have a messenger direct 
 from the universal intelligence. This messenger may be 
 called Intuition. 
 
 Spiritual quality is but the radiation of God's love in the 
 soul. When this radiation is consciously recognized (as it 
 is after a sufficient degree of soul development), it makes 
 the character spiritual; for the vibrations of God's love 
 breathe into that character all the tendencies and graces 
 which love alone can bestow. To covet earnestly the best 
 gifts is first of all to covet the supreme love that radiates 
 from God; for this is the foundation of all good gifts and 
 makes life the expression of the divine. 
 
 You can see that not until self is lost or set aside can soul 
 predominate in life and character. Man made God to suit 
 his mortal belief. He limited God, but God never limited 
 man. God made man after His own likeness, "in His 
 image made He him," and man in his realm is in reality 
 limitless and boundless as God is in His universe. Man has 
 limited himself by following false beliefs, false creeds, false 
 gods. These false ideas must be set aside, he must recog- 
 nize his divine heritage, and when he does so he will in 
 truth become a creator, made in the image of God. 
 
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 The experiences that come to one who is seeking to 
 establish his life on this foundation will be many and 
 diverse. They will affect his life on the threefold planes of 
 being, physical, mental and moral. On the physical plane 
 he will meet with opposition, with menacing conditions. It 
 is for him to overcome opposition, and change that which 
 has the semblance of opposition, to positive affirmation of 
 good, truth, and soul supremacy. The effect which any ex- 
 perience has upon us depends upon our own attitude of 
 mind toward it. If we are determined to extract good from 
 every condition, we find that so-called misfortunes become 
 blessings in disguise. 
 
 On the mental plane the student will find much to de- 
 press his mind and to deflect his aims. It will be for him 
 to conquer depression, and to make his moral purpose high 
 and holy and powerful; for, the more trials he meets and 
 the more he overcomes the greater will be his strength. 
 
 This can be accomplished only by realizing the nature of 
 his real being, by taking his stand on the spiritual basis. 
 In his soul, which is the offspring of God, there is omni- 
 science — all knowledge ; omnipotence — all power ; and omni- 
 presence — all presence. But much training is necessary to 
 enable the student to realize the divine element in his own 
 soul. 
 
 As a spiritual being, therefore, he knows not only ab- 
 stract truth, but relative truth. He can say, "I know, for 
 the knowledge that I have comes not from books, nor from 
 the authority of men, but direct from the universal soul, 
 through the mighty medium of intuition, for I have de- 
 veloped the Christisis within me — / know." 
 
 Man is soul, created in the image of the Supreme. Soul. 
 He may express the spirit knowledge and power if only the 
 soul awakens and claims his divine birth and inheritance. 
 
 In the midst of relative conditions to assume spiritual 
 knowledge, is the first step toward adjusting conditions. 
 By so doing man is merely acting upon this basis that the 
 soul is the real being, the immortal and the perfect "I 
 
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 that which was, is, and will be. 
 
 This inner being, this Christisis, is not subject to any 
 earthly condition, hence it may say, "I am Master. As 
 Master I direct, govern and change all undesirable rela- 
 tions and conditions. As soul I know, as soul I have all the 
 graces and gifts of the Father, I live in the Father as the 
 Father lives in me." One becomes master of external con- 
 ditions only by mastering his own thought-kingdom and 
 living the Christ-love, the Christ-truth, the Christ-power. 
 
 This is what we mean when we tell you of the soul basis, 
 the only true basis that there is. 
 
 You can see how it is that, although you may meet with 
 obstacles on the physical plane, yet having knowledge of 
 the power of soul, your wisdom will enable you to control 
 and wisely master unsatisfactory conditions. You will 
 understand the transitory illusions and temptations of the 
 flesh and will know how to banish them. 
 
 Soul, being superior to all, may overcome and banish all 
 that is undesirable. If you acknowledge your spiritual 
 power you will win the victory over every temptation. 
 
 Soul wisdom brings understanding, and you are able to 
 deal with what is commonly called your lower nature as 
 with a child that needs training and discipline. Yet having 
 not only the wisdom, but the love inherent in the spirit, you 
 will neither severely condemn nor harshly criticise, but will 
 at all times have the patience, yet firmness which wisdom 
 alone can give. It is a great mistake for the student to feel 
 impatient even with his own shortcomings. 
 
 Love is not only the redeeming and re-generating power, 
 but is that which makes for perfection. He who has in his 
 soul love, although invisible, will finally make manifest the 
 fruits of love, which is the visible perfect character of soul. 
 This is the Christisis. 
 
 In love there is no condemnation, there is no partiality, 
 there is no evil, there is no limitation, there is no respect of 
 person. 
 
 To find that love which is of God, is to find the light that 
 
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 shall shine upon you and mate glorious your own real 
 nature. It is the mighty Christisis, the developed, con- 
 scious soul. 
 
 In the morning and at night, let your first and last 
 thoughts be of the Supreme Divinity, in which you live and 
 move, and have your being. Live continually in the shining 
 light of this thought : 
 
 <% I realize that my body is created in the image of the 
 Father who is the Light of the World. I realize that my 
 soul, as it develops, will be in the image of the universal 
 soul which is pure light. I know that I can become the 
 creator instead of being the plaything of men and of my 
 own passions, and I know that I can become the Master, the 
 Christisis. the consciously developed soul which will be in 
 touch with the divine Creator, through the glorious gift of 
 intuition. ' ' 
 
 No words, however harsh, will hurt you ; no discord will 
 move you from your serenity; and whether you speak or 
 are silent, whether you sleep or are awake, the power of 
 your spirit and your consciousness will be felt and known 
 as a light to those who sit in darkness. 
 
 If for a time you lose your lofty outlook, the remem- 
 brance of your soul power, recall yourself quickly; fly to 
 the rock, which is your only foundation, His all encircling 
 presence. 
 
 Let the light of love grow within you, seek the radiance 
 of the light of the soul, become the Christisis. 
 
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 LESSON SIX. 
 
 That great Master of Mysticism, Jacob Boehme, said: 
 ' ' God introduces His will into nature for the purpose of re- 
 vealing His power in light and majesty to constitute a 
 kingdom of joy. " 
 
 The will is a lever that lifts in any desired direction. 
 Yet it may also be a power that decides the direction. It is 
 the great factor in human experience, which makes or mars 
 character, and fulfills or defeats every promise of nature. 
 Unguided, except by the caprice of the senses, it is the un- 
 worthy helmsman that steers the ship directly on the rocks. 
 But exalted, trained, and consecrated through powerful 
 soul development, it leads into the harbor of peace, power 
 and safety. 
 
 So subtle and wonderful is this grand faculty, that only 
 the closest study and most careful analysis will reveal 
 either its nature, its modes or action, or its possibilities. 
 From the standpoint of ordinary human experience, it is 
 forceful and sometimes violent, yet always successful in 
 the accomplishment of its ends. 
 
 There are two aspects to every force ; one is the positive, 
 the other is the negative. Sometimes this duality which 
 runs through everything is called masculine and feminine. 
 Masculine corresponds to the positive, feminine to the 
 passive or negative. 
 
 The masculine is always the aggressive, pushing, active, 
 positive power. The feminine is the passive, receptive, 
 hidden, unmanifested potency. Both are requisite to the 
 operation and fulfillment of any project, but either may be 
 too much in excess, thereby causing a lack of balance be- 
 tween the two, and a consequent defeat of the end to be 
 attained. As to will, it is too often onlv the masculine 
 
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 phase, which is recognized or brought into activity. Will 
 in the sense-man means what is commonly called brute 
 force, because it is the same exhibition of violent energy 
 directed by will as that seen among animals, the wild beast 
 attacking his prey, or defending his little ones. This is 
 really not will, but simply animal force. 
 
 Masculine will force is powerful, but convulsive and 
 short lived ; hence while it may accomplish wonders with 
 its explosive energy, it is not to be relied upon for the ac- 
 complishment of great ends, unless specially trained, unless 
 in wedded harmony with its other half, the feminine. 
 
 This perfect duality of force is seen in the male and 
 female parents. The male acts arid gives. The female re- 
 ceives and silently and secretly carries that which she re- 
 ceives to perfect fulfillment. She is the carrying power, 
 bringing to pass, and while the first exhibition of energy 
 was active, the final and crowning result could only be 
 attained by the patient, persistent, secret work of the 
 female. 
 
 So in the dual will the positive or masculine must act, 
 remove obstructions, build conditions, put forth energy in 
 the initial step of the undertaking, and then subside into 
 the background until necessity again demands active asser- 
 tion. The feminine meantime quietly holds, nurtures, and 
 brings to fruition. 
 
 Note the man of the world, who has made a success of 
 himself or his work. Do you find him the noisy, boasting, 
 blustering talker? No, you find him rather the quiet, 
 plodding, tenacious worker. He may be left far behind his 
 more brilliant comrade. He may seem to sink even below 
 mediocrity as compared with his associates in the social 
 scale ; yet, there comes a day when his achievements are 
 known, when all the plodding, self-denying toil of years 
 reaps a rich harvest. And all this, not so much the product 
 of his brain as of his will, his feminine will. 
 
 Mark you, first he uses the explosive, powerful, masculine 
 will to set the work into motion and then he sets to work. 
 
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 gradually, coolly, passively, and holds this will to the one 
 point set into motion by the masculine will, until the end in 
 view is accomplished. 
 
 No soul comes into this world without will, although 
 people declare they have no will, and bewail the lack. But 
 look deeply into their fundamental nature and character. 
 Have you found one who has not will, and who does not 
 exercise it in the direction of his wants? There is not one 
 such, no matter what he may be. It may be that only with 
 his lips he wants this or that. It may be because a friend 
 has suggested something that he wants it. It may be he 
 dislikes to be different from his neighbors. For all these 
 reasons he will often fail in attaining, but if in his soul he 
 wants a thing, so that his very being demands it, then, 
 
 though all the world stands between him and his desire, 
 he will have it. 
 
 The surface of the water will make but a light wave that 
 recedes quickly, causing no damage, but beware when the 
 whole body of water returns in the same direction at the 
 same time. This is an illustration of the dual force and 
 action of will, the upper and lower, the outer and inner, 
 which acting in concert are absolutely invincible. This is 
 true White Magic. 
 
 The first step in cultivating and using the magnificent 
 power of the will is to concentrate upon a single thing de- 
 sired, and then with single eye, and unswerving purpose 
 work to attain it. 
 
 If you have found your aim, shall you not now learn how 
 to focus your will upon its attainment? Heed then the in- 
 structions we give you and follow them faithfully. Con- 
 centration of will upon a noble purpose is the holy privi- 
 lege of every soul. Your purpose is noble, you seek to live 
 the true, the spiritual life, meaning by this, the life that 
 accords with jouv highest conception of what is God-like. 
 You have learned that the first step is to transmute self, 
 and enthrone God ; that is, your appropriation of God, 
 which is your higher self. 
 
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 Are you willing to say : ' ' Whatever it costs I will to at- 
 tain," and to follow that? If so, then quickly will the 
 positive force of your will sweep all obstacles aside, and 
 make conditions by which the gentle feminine may bring 
 to pass the thing you desire. 
 
 But to the great work. You have no doubt found that 
 the subjection and dethronement of the senses, and hence of 
 the lower self, is not accomplished by a mere wish. 
 
 So deeply ingrained in the very fibre of your being are 
 the erroneous views, ideas and principles inculcated by 
 ages of perverted sense use on the part of your forefathers, 
 as well as your own years of crude ignorance, that many 
 a time, even after you have intellectually and earnestly ac- 
 cepted higher truth, your old habits and inclinations will 
 force a battle wherein yen will be victor or vanquished. You 
 may be tempted to judge some one, or to yield to a sensual 
 desire. This is your opportunity to prove the value of the 
 concentrated will. 
 
 Will you or will you not be true to your highest in this 
 emergency? "True as life," says the soul. The heart 
 seconds it and the will, the positive will, gathering all the 
 forces of soul, heart and mind, hurls them full upon the 
 temptations and they are no longer temptations. Strength- 
 ened and encouraged by victory, both phases of will gain 
 in power and accumulative force until final victory is won. 
 
 In the meantime, between these crises in one's experience 
 there is a steady growth in power, a steadily increasing 
 capacity for adjustment to the new standard, provided all 
 means are taken to feed the will, and keep bright the fire of 
 true purpose. 
 
 No inner or higher development can take place without 
 first understanding what part the will plays in that de- 
 velopment. 
 
 After you understand this part, you are then ready to 
 proceed in the great work and you will begin to develop 
 the God within yourself which we call the Christisis. 
 Christisis is a wedding of Science and Religion, the East 
 
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 and the "West, the love 'nature in man and the master 
 nature. Heretofore man developed only the possibility of 
 being master ; not master of his soul and higher nature ; 
 but simply master of the brute. Now he is to be taught 
 how to be master of self, to know his soul, to develop the 
 love nature which is feminine, and to make his religion a 
 science instead of a mere belief. 
 
 The more you realize the will's mightiness, the more you 
 desire to be one with it, to let it use you as its channel. To 
 repeat these words under standingly and reverently puis 
 the will in the right attitude toward the divine. Selfishness 
 shrinks to nothingness in the majesty of omnipotence. 
 
 To be fdled with the consciousness of the highest, is to 
 forget and forego the lowest. In the second step wherein 
 you are to look at the ideal picture, have you not already 
 found the effect to be like the loving faith of a true friend, 
 who believes in your best only ? Is not your heart warmed 
 and your mind fired with an increased desire to be all that 
 you admire in that fair ideal ? Will you not press on with 
 unflagging zeal to the perfect unfoldment of the mighty 
 soul spark that God has placed within you, that part of 
 yourself which it is your privilege to bring forth in might 
 and glory. This is your individuality. All men have a 
 personality, for that is born with them, but few men have 
 an individuality, for that is the part of themselves which 
 they must bring forth — develop — that which we call 
 Christisis, the God within the temple. 
 
 You will now understand that the method of transmuta- 
 tion of the old into the new, is the explosive power of new 
 interests and new affections. Love the right and the wrong 
 will die of starvation and be used as food for the develop- 
 ment of the new. Love the ideal, for then you gradually 
 develop up to the ideal. Think only of this ideal, hold it 
 up before yourself as a pattern. Follow it as much as you 
 can, admire it, for to admire is to want it. And gradually, 
 just as the rose unfolds its beautiful petals, so will ycu 
 absorb the ideal, and become a part of it, transmuting the 
 
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CHRISTISIS. 105 
 
 base into the good and true, changing weakness into power 
 and thereby yon will be able to accomplish the things which 
 seemed to be impossible before. 
 
 The third step, and that which will be taught you in 
 future lessons, is the alliance of the human with the divine 
 will. Herein lies the secret of all power and all possi- 
 bilities. You must therefore face this great question and 
 ask yourself whether you desire to continue in the same old 
 rut, live as men now live and have lived, in misery, want 
 and darkness or whether you are ready to live a better and 
 higher life, suffering when suffering is necessary, knowing 
 that it will not weaken but strengthen you and gradually 
 developing into an individuality, knowing the good from 
 the evil, choosing the good not only because it gives you 
 power but because you know that it is your birthright, and 
 gradually developing the divine within yourself which we 
 call the Christisis. 
 
 Hold this ideal night and day, and build up some ideal 
 picture of what you want to do or what you want to be. 
 Hold your thoughts to the one purpose, draw a picture in 
 your mind of something that represents this desire. If a 
 picture of it is impossible, then let a word represent it. 
 
 As a means to this end, try and set apart some time of the 
 day or evening and go through the following exercise as 
 you would through any physical culture exercise to develop 
 some part of the body. And bear in mind that you are now 
 starting to develop the soul within } T ou which is far greater 
 than the body : 
 
 Sit upright in a straight backed chair, with feet squarely 
 touching the floor and with deep, slowly indrawn breath 
 think mentally, ' ' I will know the soul. ' ' With the exhaling 
 breath think, "I will develop the Christisis within me and 
 know Him." Take several such breaths, then sit quietly, 
 assuming that } t ou are verily developing this potent and 
 mighty being within yourself. Keep this up for fifteen 
 minutes each time. 
 
 Remember that every effort that you make to overcome 
 
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CHRLST1SIS. 107 
 
 conditions is so much gained in the right direction, for 
 every time yon go through this drill faithfully you do just 
 as the carpenter does Y\iio nails a board to the house he is 
 building, gradually he will have it finished and lo, it is 
 beautiful to behold. 
 
 Even in the ordinary routine of daily life you will find 
 many opportunities to prove your sincerity and to test your 
 strength. Some person may wilfully misrepresent you, 
 may say that which in other eyes might be an injury to 
 you. Human will would resent and oppose as well as 
 punish such offense. To you it will be simply as a trial, 
 for you will know that to oppose is simply to add fuel to 
 the fire and make it burn brighter. You will, therefore, 
 simply conclude that the one having said it is one of the 
 ignorant masses and that you, now developing the Christisis 
 within yourself will simply ignore it and therefore, instead 
 of adding weakness to yourself by becoming disturbed, you 
 will add strength by forgiving it in love and controlling 
 your feelings. By doing this you become strong for you 
 are transmuting — changing — base feelings into the nobler 
 ones of love, strength and power. 
 
 If it seems hard to do this, then simply hold the thought : 
 1 'As I am developing the Christisis, the soul of power with- 
 in myself, I must not give way to base feelings, but accept 
 this experience as a test of my strength." 
 
 If you will do this, then you will come into touch with 
 that divine will which rules ail things wisely and at the 
 same time gives all men free will to do as they wish, but 
 punishes them justly for all wrong that they do. This will 
 give you strength, while to give way to your feelings will 
 bring you weakness in soul and will. 
 
 In this progress toward the higher life, and especially in 
 the training of the will, you will find that the law of growth 
 in this, as in all realms is, that only as the lesser is lost or 
 changed, is the greater gained. 
 
 In the great kingdom of nature we find that the tiny 
 bird, featherless and helpless, breaks and destroys the only 
 
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CHRISTISIS. 109 
 
 protection it has, its shell, in order to emerge into the great 
 unknown. The bird does not know where it is going nor 
 does it question, but the divine law, forever ruling all 
 things, has provided it with a mother, and in the breast 
 of that mother is planted the law of love, the law that rales 
 all things if ice live within the laic. 
 
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 GHAIST1SIS. 
 
CHRJSTISIS. Ill 
 
 Mind is not magnetic. 
 
 The mind and soul and body are electro-magnetic when 
 combined, but the mind is the electrical center of soul and 
 body, because it gives out — it makes and creates soul and 
 body. 
 
 To be electrical is to be positive or creative. 
 
 To be magnetic is to be receptive or to receive. 
 
 The mind is electrical, because it creates and gives out 
 its own forms, ideas, and thoughts. 
 
 It is the electrical center of the soul. 
 
 It creates the soul and gives to the soul the thoughts, 
 works and substances on which it grows. Thus the mind is 
 the builder, and the soul is the receiver and substance of 
 the mind. 
 
 If we take a steel bar, start up the dynamo and run a cur- 
 rent through the steel bar, it becomes a magnet, and is 
 magnetic. 
 
 The mind is the dynamo, it is the electrical generator in 
 the form of thoughts, ideas, images, etc. It charges the 
 soul with these thoughts, images and desires and the soul 
 becomes magnetic. 
 
 Herein is the great secret of personal magnetism, but the 
 mind must always be creating — generating, and continually 
 charging the soul with new force. 
 
 The soul is magnetic. It responds to and receives from 
 the mind all the electrical currents or vibrations sent out. 
 
 It evolves and draws to it the electrical forces in form 
 of thoughts, ideas and desires that promote its growth and 
 enable it to direct and use properly its powers and sub- 
 stances for building eternal life for itself. 
 
 The body is only the reflector of the soul. 
 
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 CHK1STJSKS. 
 
CHRISTISIS. 113 
 
 The body is charged with electricity and magnetism, 
 making it electro-magnetic. 
 
 Every thought is substance. Thought creates and moulds 
 or destroys and tears down. Thought is also electro-mag- 
 netic. When positive or creating it is electrical. When 
 receiving or negative it is magnetic. 
 
 Everything that exists is either positive and electrical, 
 or negative and magnetic. The plant or vegetable is 
 creative and forming, it also becomes receptive or draws to 
 it necessary electrical substances to promote its growth. 
 The germ of life in the plant is its mind and is the electri- 
 cal center of its soul or body. The creative germ or life 
 force of the plant never dies for every specie is constantly 
 reproducing and creating. The electro-magnetic forces of 
 the plant are one aspect of the dual forces in all nature — 
 positive and negative. They emanate from the greater 
 forces into vibrations or currents. 
 
 A current shoots out into the ether sphere. Substance is 
 there to receive it — these forces generate life, and life pro- 
 duces all things. The receptive substance must be in har- 
 mony or in tune with the electric force that it draws. The 
 grosser the drawing magnetic substance, the coarser will 
 be the electrical force it attracts. The electrical substances 
 that produce animal life cannot produce vegetable life. 
 
 The substance that produces the lower animal cannot 
 produce or create man. Personal magnetism is the highest 
 grade of magnetism because man, as he evolves toward 
 divinity and develops spiritually becomes finer and lighter 
 and the nearer he attains to divinity his mind and soul 
 (electro-magnetic substance) becomes finer and higher, and 
 the coarse and gross vibrations are cast out or left behind. 
 
 A pure, true mind cannot receive the electrical charge or 
 vibration of a coarse, impure mind. 
 
 Hence an evil thought has no power over a pure, whole- 
 some mind. Minds are receptive only to that element of 
 vibrations that attract them. These vibrations must either 
 be of the same key or but slightly finer or coarser. 
 
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 CHRISTISIS. 
 
CHR1STIS1S. 115 
 
 "We think only what our mind bids us think. 
 
 "When we think we produce something — we create a some- 
 thing that lives. The soul then builds upon the thoughts 
 produced. It is similar to sorting out good and bad apples. 
 We receive a basket cf apples. Some are good, some are 
 bad. We take the good and lay to one side — then we throw 
 out the bad and keep the good. We have something good 
 and wholesome and nourishing, something that satisfies 
 hunger, helps to eliminate certain poisons in our system 
 and helps to build up health and strength. Such is the 
 mind that eliminates the gross, evil thoughts and builds up 
 a perfect soul. If we allow the apples to lay mixed up to- 
 gether and do not make any effort to sort them, the bad 
 ones will corrupt the good and eventually destroy them. 
 Such is an inert, lazy, savage mind. It will destroy its own 
 soul. The inert, sensual mind never gives out anything but 
 slime and filth. It is a charnel house of disease and all evil. 
 It is both contageous and infectious. It draws to it only 
 the minds and souls like itself, for all is in harmony with 
 nature's laws. The most evil thought or law in existence 
 attracts and draws to it certain thoughts and laws in har- 
 mony with it. 
 
 Whatever the mind desires it creates for itself and draws 
 to itself all other desires of similar kind. 
 
 Love is the ruling vibration of all creation. 
 
 The savage loves his own coarse, ignorant life, and is re- 
 luctant to forsake it. The hog loves his pool of stagnant, 
 dirty water, the ignorant love their own class, evil loves 
 evil, hate loves hate and all thoughts in harmony with it. 
 
 Goodness loves goodness, truth and virtue and manifests 
 and attracts all laws in harmony with it. This love is the 
 ruling force of the universe. 
 
 Love is divine only when all the grossness, the cruelty, 
 the hog-nature, the ignorance, the evil, the hate, jealousy, 
 envy and malice have been cast cut and consumed by the 
 eternal fire or divine love — the Christisis. 
 
 We respond to the things we love, mentally, spiritually 
 
116 
 
 CHRIST1SIS. 
 
CHBiSTiSlS. 117 
 
 and physically. If an evil thought or vibration is sent by 
 an evil mind into our aura or circle of soul, we respond to 
 that thought if we love the evil thoughts. Our spirit also 
 responds, our body responds and manifests the dominating, 
 controlling influence or thought. That evil thought lodges 
 within the mind and creates and produces its likeness. A 
 sensual mind produces and creates a sensual soul. This 
 soul creates a sensual body. The features of the face, the 
 walk, the movements and mannerisms are all indications of 
 the senses or sensual mind. 
 
 Such a body, such a face, such a manner draws and at- 
 tracts the sensual mind or the mind in harmony with it. 
 Anger hates harmony. Jealousy hates purity, and these 
 are all antagonistic to good. The jealous, envious, hating 
 heart cannot build up a beautiful soul. 
 
 The beautiful mind creates a beautiful soul. 
 
 Root out every evil weed, tear out the thorns, the tares 
 and the thistles and draw to you the vibrations that never 
 destroy. Love is the highest, the strongest vibration in the 
 universe. It can destroy all evil by responding to that 
 which is good. Hate cannot enter the portals of love. 
 
 For instance, if two people love each other the force of 
 the electrical charge and magnetic inductions from one to 
 the other can entirely destroy any foreign or evil thought 
 force that comes within their presence. Love can build up 
 a wall of protection around the object loved, and no energy 
 can encompass it. Love is not lust nor evil desire. Love is 
 desire only when the object of desire is purity, goodness, or 
 truth. Everything loves its own, but true love is not neces- 
 sarily present in passion. Strong passion may be devoid of 
 true love. 
 
 Man is good only in as much as he reflects goodness. He 
 loves that which he reflects. For instance, the gourmand 
 expresses by his abnormal weight and superfluity of flesh 
 that he is a gourmand. The miser scon tells tales on him- 
 self by his looks, his voice, his actions. An artist or 
 musician is easily recognized in a crowd of people — by his 
 
118 CHRISTISIS. 
 
CHRlSTlSiS. 119 
 
 personality — or his looks. The musician's soul is reflected 
 in his body. And we need not look long upon the lazy, the 
 shiftless, the sensual to determine character. Their real 
 portrait is ever with them. No one lives behind a veil. The 
 soul dees not veil itself. It reflects itself in the body. 
 
 The sun is the soul of the universe. The universe reflects 
 the sun. It is the likeness or image of the sun. And, as 
 the sun is the soul of the universe so is the soul of man the 
 sun of his body. As the universe reflects the sun, so also 
 does the body reflect the soul of man. 
 
 No matter how beautifully formed the features or body 
 may be, they cannot hide the soul. 
 
 The soul looks out through pure, clear, straight-forward 
 eyes, or blears out at the world in greedy, lustful, sensual 
 eagerness. The tendencies of the soul may be concealed for 
 a while, but let the object that attracts it most come near 
 and in a flash the real nature of the soul discloses itself. 
 
 The attracting influence may be the grace and outlines 
 of a beautiful form, or it may be the glitter of gold, or the 
 sparkle of the diamond. To one who knows the secret the 
 true character is ever unfolded and no mantle of pretense 
 or hypocrisy can hide the truth. Even in the voice the soul 
 of an individual is recognizable. And the speech is the 
 betrayer in unguarded moments or in flashes of anger, re- 
 proof or debate. 
 
 The soul makes no effort to hide itself. The mortal only 
 seeks to hide the soul. And though the mind may be 
 ashamed of the soul we must not forget that mind built it. 
 The mind is not immortal. The mind dies when the body 
 dies. 
 
 It is the soul that lives on and retains the likeness, the 
 image, or the form of the Creator. 
 
 Just as the dynamo that made the magnet may break and 
 be totally destroyed, so does the mind that built the soul, 
 die and is totally lost. 
 
 In the different stages of reincarnation the mind and 
 body are changed; but the soul changes only as it is 
 
120 CHRISTIS1S. 
 
CHRISTISJLS. 121 
 
 changed by the minds that mould it in its different in- 
 carnations. 
 
 As an illustration — a wicked scul could not be created 
 by a pure, noble mind. The mind that creates a fiendish, 
 evil soul is abnormal, negative, evil or perverted. It builds 
 just what it thinks. Its soul, no matter how small, receives 
 what the mind thinks. Thus are thoughts things. 
 Thoughts are substances. They are real. They are forces. 
 "When the soul leaves the body at the change we call death, 
 it dwells in the sphere of other souls in harmony with it- 
 self, just as we associate with the people whom we like and 
 who like us. Then at the time of conception at rebirth, the 
 soul responds to the minds or desires of the souls in har- 
 mony with it. Thus he who dies a murderer in the present 
 life, passes to the beyond and associates with the same class 
 there. When it reincarnates, as it must, it can only be 
 drawn to parents who are themselves murderers either in 
 act or in thoughts. 
 
 The mind of parents being electrical and positive at this 
 moment sends out an electrical flash, a spark, which is re- 
 ceived by the soul in affinity with the thoughts or desires 
 of the parents and in this manner the soul seeks another 
 chance for development. 
 
 The development of the reincarnated soul depends on 
 the people it comes into contact with while in that life. 
 Its development also depends on whether it becomes 
 awakened to its condition and becomes obedient to the laws 
 of improvement. 
 
 Evil thoughts destroy. Careless, sensual, fearful 
 thoughts are evil. Thoughts of hate, envy, malice and 
 jealousy are evil. They produce a current of poisonous 
 substances and are manifest in the body, as disease or 
 idiocy or insanity. All the ills of the body are caused by 
 the evil thoughts accumulated either in the present or in 
 previous existences. 
 
 When the mind learns to reject the evil and to send forth 
 good, the good destroys the evil. 
 
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CHKISTISJS. 123 
 
 Mind is not always divine. The mind of God is divine. 
 The soul of God is divine. The body of God is divine. God 
 is not formless. The mind of God is good, is the electrical 
 or positive thought of good, of truth, of love, of purity. 
 The soul of God is the accumulation of good, truth, love, 
 purity and life. 
 
 The body of God or Good is the reflection or image of 
 goodness, truth, love, purity, life. This is slightly sym- 
 bolic, but can easily be understood if one wills to under- 
 stand. All is not mind, and mind is not all. 
 
 "We have the Trinity — the Father, the Son, the Holy 
 Ghost. The positive, the receptive, the transitional. The 
 Father (mind) creates, the Son (soul) receives, the Holy 
 Ghost (body or transitional) manifests or reflects. 
 
 If all were mind, and God were all mind, then there 
 could be no existence. God Himself could not exist. There 
 must be a receptive principle. To become Christisis we must 
 become receptive to the creative forces or thoughts or ideas 
 of God, that is, of good. 
 
 If there is a receptive principle there must be a tran- 
 sition of the receptive to the creative principles — hence the 
 body is the transitional between soul and mind. 
 
 Mind is electrical. It is the creator, the builder, the 
 maker. To be electrical is to send out, to give. Mind being 
 electrical is the creator, but not the submissive or magnetic 
 principle. If mind were all, since it is electrical, it would 
 all go out ; that is, it would scatter itself into annihilation. 
 There could be no building up. It could not exist. 
 
 Therefore God is not all mind. He has soul and He has 
 body. But the soul is not mind. The soul cannot be electri- 
 cal. It is magnetic. The body is both. It is electro- 
 magnetic. It is the transitional principle. 
 
 Have you a mind? 
 
 If you have mind you can think. If you think you pro- 
 duce, you create. If you create you can have a soul ac- 
 cording to your liking. 
 
 If you have a soul you have a body. Your body reflects 
 
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CHKIST1SIS. 125 
 
 both, soul and mind. Your looks, vour movements, vour 
 
 V J « 
 
 actions, all you do and say constitute the image and re- 
 flection of your creator, your mind and your soul. 
 
 If you are veil and strong your mind and soul are 
 healthful and strong. Weakness of all kinds are reflectors 
 in the same way. 
 
 Have you a soul? 
 
 Do you know where the soul is? 
 
 Some people have no souls. "Why \ 
 
 The Master said to His disciples. "Fear not them which 
 kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather 
 fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in 
 heU." 
 
 WTio is this who is able to destroy both the soul and 
 body? 
 
 It is not God. for God does not destroy. 
 
 God creates and builds up, and what God creates lives 
 forever and cannot be destroyed. 
 
 You. yourself, are your own creator, and you are your 
 own destroyer. There is no power on earth greater than 
 yourself if you but knew it. 
 
 You can create and build up and live forever, or you can 
 destroy both soul and body. No one can do that but your- 
 self — your own mind. There is no power on earth able to 
 destroy your soul if you do not will it. 
 
 You can l>c what you will to of. 
 
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CHRISTISIS. 127 
 
 LESSON EIGHT. 
 
 On the physical plane the senses attach men to earth 
 conditions. On the soul plane, they interpret to him earth 
 conditions. To be attached to things or conditions is limita- 
 tion. Limitation is bondage. It is not real — it is not life. 
 Life is universal, unlimited, and in order to have unlimited, 
 universal life we must be in touch with that law which 
 governs universal, unlimited life. It is possible for us to 
 come into harmony with that law because the Father made 
 us, like Himself, unlimited in our capacities. 
 
 The earth or physical man is a slave. The spiritual man 
 is a blaster. On the physical plane, through his senses, he 
 is attached to persons, places, things, conditions and these 
 attachments bring joy or sorrow. "When he develops into 
 the spiritual being he is no longer slavishly attached to 
 these conditions, but he is in harmony with them. He can 
 therefore have all the joys he had before with none of the 
 sorrows. 
 
 The physical or sense man is but a child, for his desires 
 are based on what he sees, hears, smells, tastes or touches. 
 He eats and drinks that he may enjoy, that he may possess. 
 
 And thus the whole round of experience on the physical 
 plane is pursued with eagerness until the end, when no 
 longer do the vibrations of sight, sound, smell, taste or 
 touch enslave the senses. To him whose soul is surfeited, 
 no longer is there glad or even fair response. Then comes 
 dullness, indifference, death, the extreme limitation. 
 
 But when the universal's supreme light of truth and 
 understanding shines upon the illusioned soul, the awful 
 dullness breaks, indifference flees away, and what was 
 earthly sight becomes far reaching vision, revealing every 
 show of sense to be but the clothing of a thought, earth 
 
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CHRISTISIS. 129 
 
 made or heaven made. The over-arching skies, with all 
 their splendid pageantry of day and night, the beauteous 
 garb of nature and nature's denizens, all the varied, 
 wondrous details of this earth, become alive with meaning. 
 
 A new world breaks upon the enraptured vision, a world 
 so rare and fair and beautiful that this, beauteous as it is, 
 is but a shallow image, though it be the jewelled gateway 
 into that other, the realm of the ideal. 
 
 As the sense of inner sight becomes illumined, quick to 
 see and interpret the real world, wherein all things are but 
 as symbols, made to set forth thought deep with meaning, 
 so does the sense of hearing convey to the soul the reality 
 back of sounds that fall upon the quickened ear, and the 
 senses turned to seek the inner meaning are become as 
 ministers to the soul, and no longer serve as body slaves. 
 As it is with seeing and hearing, so with all the other 
 senses, their function is a dignity, a blessed honor con- 
 ferred by the one within — the Christisis — the one who sees 
 and hears, feels and tastes, smells and moves, yet knows 
 that it is not he himself, but his transformed senses, his 
 avenues of contact with the world without, that in this 
 higher use serve as connecting links between the earth and 
 the universal above, the sphere of the immortal souls. He 
 lives in the same world as before, but he interprets things 
 differently because his senses have been transformed from 
 earthly conditions to the higher vibrations which under- 
 stand things as they are, and not as they seem to be. 
 
 This being within us, this illuminated spirit, or Christisis, 
 free, untrammelled, ever perfect, called variously the child 
 of God, the higher self, the soul, the matchless spirit, but 
 with any name, and in any language the indivisible, the 
 changeless, the absolute and only real, who in the guise of 
 soul or spirit, or deific child, or spark of eternal fire, thus 
 expresses or reveals infinity, and its glorious individuality 
 in what is commonly known as the human ego. 
 
 "When the student becomes enlightened, illuminated, he 
 becomes a Master, he is unconquerable, always going forth 
 
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CHRISTiSIS. 131 
 
 to conquer, now apparently overcome, but always to rise up 
 and begin anew because lie knows that he has not failed 
 until he himself admits failure. 
 
 The first arena of conflict is his body, his desires. His 
 first conquest is over the senses, for unless he can control 
 his senses, desiring only the things that are a benefit to 
 him, he has not made progress. 
 
 The great question which the student must answer is, 
 "Have you been faithful to your highest ideal, the ideal 
 you have had a vision .of in the exalted moments when the 
 heart spoke and told you what you really desired to be ? " 
 
 There is nothing truly existent outside of the soul. God 
 as the universal soul flows into all things. God is life and 
 life exists in all things, but life as existent force is good, 
 indestructible, immortal and invisible. The life of man is 
 in connection with this universal life, and he can either 
 strengthen the cord which holds him to it or he can sever 
 the cord and stop the supply. 
 
 The illuminated man is the reflection of the father. He 
 bears the image of that life. In the cleansed and en- 
 lightened mind God sets a fair picture of the ideal self as 
 a pattern for the new-found life. This new life finds rich 
 and full expression in a Godlike character. 
 
 It is for the student to draw a picture in his mind of 
 what he wishes to be. No matter what he may be interested 
 in, whether his inclinations are in the direction of being a 
 successful business man, a master builder, an artist, a 
 musician, a philosopher, the law that governs is always the 
 same. Keep ever before you in your mind's eye the ideal 
 self. Note its way of dealing with all conditions incident 
 to daily life. Picture your ideal self as displaying sweet 
 patience in your countenance under sore provocation. See 
 renunciation marked upon your unruffled brow when dis- 
 appointment comes. Watch its calmness in days of dark 
 or sunny skies. Note its repose and its serenity in failure 
 and in success. Gradually as you continue to hold this 
 picture before you. you will grow into this condition and 
 
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CHRlSl:>iS. 133 
 
 you will become tJu 
 
 The building of a character or of any 
 the building of the hou in. There must firsl 
 
 the architect who will craw the plan. Cnl 58 n . 
 
 him an idea of the h: a wish oild he cannot draw 
 
 the plans. The same with youi : ler or what yon 
 
 sire to be or accompli'. hit " what ; :- 
 
 desire, then your mind, as the arc] will 
 
 the building, then you must sf rfc q t( work even 
 
 as the contractor sets his men rk in order U Id b 
 
 house. Your worl re y more 
 
 intense they are, the more >i sntrato i] n fchc 
 
 work, the finer will 1: I ling and the more 
 
 will it be finished just ~ rained 
 
 workmen jf . :::i:t" -an finis i sooner 
 
 : ::::: than the work bedieni and un- 
 
 trained. 
 
 Rememt jr that you at 
 and jr, that you o f His 
 
 are faithful you can 1 U the pos- 
 
 sessed by Him. though in a 
 
 you can be as calm as He sun s He 
 
 is, that you jan be as fire . -ntle. an I 
 
 You are living in the world of souls. The world man 
 calls flesh, but in reality it is soul. rod is all and con- 
 
 trols all. God is the life you see about you and within you. 
 You know you have God. for you kntw you have life, i nd 
 you also know that no power is able tc rthi iniversal 
 life, and it is therefc your privilege, to 
 
 come into touch with that universal life. It is the soul 
 that sen—:- things in their reality. When the body is dead 
 innot see, hear, taste, touch or smell. It was the lite. 
 the soul that controlled it and gave it the power c 
 In cultivating the higher use of V first you must 
 
 rectify your thought of them, rem mnation or 
 
 stigma that in your ignorance you may have put upon 
 them. ~ rmember tit: all things in themselves arc pure. 
 
134 CHR1ST1S1S. 
 
OHKi&TJLSlS. 135 
 
 All things have a right and holy use. If you have felt 
 contempt or repugnance toward anything, it is because of 
 your ignorant judgment, so the first step is always the 
 removal of every mote from the eyes and every obstruct ion 
 to the view. If you have called anything impure it is be- 
 cause of your false views, your own perverted vision. All 
 is good and pure for life has given all and there is no evil 
 in life — God. 
 
 The senses rightly used are good, else they would never 
 have been given to man. It is only the false belief and 
 their perversion and abuse that have brought reproach and 
 contumely upon them. "What God has cleansed call thou 
 not unclean," so then beware of making the mistake the 
 world makes and calling that unclean which only man's 
 unclean beliefs have made so. 
 
 This admonition refers not alone to your senses but to all 
 judgments concerning men, women or conditions based 
 upon this impure view. You will find more and more as 
 you go on in the higher life, that charity is substituted for 
 criticism, and love for harsh judgment. 
 
 The soul's insight or illumination is able to interpret 
 the material sight and to understand. For beyond and 
 behind act is motive ; as you look for motive you will under- 
 stand and perhaps condone it, or if you discern no motive 
 you may perceive the simple ignorance out of- which the 
 act was born, and compassion rather than condemnation 
 will move you to brotherly kindness. 
 
 "With your own emancipation from ignorance and dark- 
 ness you will understand those who are still enfolded in the 
 darkness of ignorance and error and gradually you will 
 become free, for you will pass harsh judgment upon noth- 
 ing nor condemn anything, for you will know that the soul 
 is the only judge. 
 
 With and through the senses comes attachment, but it is 
 not wise to try to kill or destroy the senses. It is well to 
 have keen senses, but it is necessary that they shall be 
 under perfect control. Have the senses highly developed, 
 
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 but have them under control: be master jf the ^i^^ 1c 
 not let them be master over you. 
 
 Do yon love father, mother, brother. :r staae friend? 
 We all lOj but ■:: to it that this love is not based upon 
 selfishness or uj m the law >f possession. Let your love I 3 
 love for the soul, think :: the beauty of its being, of its 
 life that is :: : :r eternal. Admit tc yourself that each soul 
 is an individual and must be left free. You have nc right 
 to exercise arbitrary sontrol ;*":: the :ne you love. Re- 
 member that love ::.n only truly exist when there is an 
 •;i"::::;i^i i :i equality. Love is :f the soul; if it is not 
 »d uj m that law then it : ; limited and sonsequently not 
 en luring. 
 
 Follow not pleasure foi pleasure's sake, noi anything 
 that san be given or taken away, but as : wise one of old 
 has : ;:t. "set your affection on things above" foi here 
 alone are the treasures vrhiz-h neither attth nor rust ean 
 corrupt, where thi ..at:: break through nor steal. 
 
 E r ai in mind that pic are not f :t": idden yc t . I nt y : n 
 
 are warned not to ft the slave :t pleasure. Enjoy all 
 things, but when anything would iraw you from your 
 high estate then it is time tc pu ray from you 
 
 With the illuminated senses all things . "tt be enjoyed 
 with an infinitely great r joy, because the] — ill 1 a rightly 
 understood audi tuedfoi what they i ^present, rather than 
 for what they se em to be. 
 
 "Seek first the king lorn of jod and all these :k:uc.^ si 
 idded unto you. 
 
 We c^o not : tc Scriptui > as an arbitrary authority. 
 If thi- statement were given tc us by any man it would I . 
 just is t iwerful, for it rightly teaches that if the mind is 
 illuminated, if the soul is leveloped, if the Christisis is 
 born within us, then all things may be ours foi we are the 
 mas-Ti- if our destiny. 
 
 q the beauty :f a sunrise be less beautiful because you 
 see in it a fair symbol :t the lawn of perpetual day, a 
 sym fci law that keeps the tt. moon and 
 
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CHRISTISIS. 139 
 
 stars in their places and makes possible the succession of 
 day and night ? 
 
 Can the world he less attractive when it is known as the 
 vast schoolroom where the soul is taught life's lessons and 
 the unity of the real and greater soul within itself ? 
 
 First let your mind be opened to truth, then let the mind 
 build the illuminated soul, and the soul will then interpret 
 all and you will see and hear greater wonders and beauty 
 than mortal eyes ever beheld or mortal ears ever heard. 
 You will then know things by intuition, as the animal 
 knows by instinct. God, the Universal Father, gave the 
 animal instinct and it is seldom wrong. He gave man in- 
 tuition, but through wrong living, wrong thinking, and 
 wrong acting man has lost his divine heritage. Learn to 
 know that within yourself shines the image of God, the 
 glorious and sublime Chiristisis. 
 
 God made you a soul, He gave you a body as a working 
 tool. He made you perfect. You are His soul reflected, 
 imaged, and you are in reality a perfect and sublime soul. 
 But even that which is God-made, even the most perfect 
 building, may be disfigured so as to be unrecognizable. 
 
 Man is false to himself when he invents imperfections or 
 an imperfect God or soul. It is wrong living and thinking 
 that disfigures his ideas, thoughts and ideals. Soul is per- 
 fect. We are all with a soul, though we may have buried 
 it under tons of filth and slime, and we must dig away this 
 filth and slime, bring forth the divine spark, develop and 
 polish it until it becomes as perfect as the Great Soul, just 
 as the small diamond is as, perfect and brilliant as the 
 large diamond. 
 
 Free your soul from the senses and their illusions. Prac- 
 tice thinking of the One, and your conscious union with it, 
 and ere you are aware all your thoughts, speech and acts 
 will accord with your new and true basis, the recognition 
 that you as a soul live in the realm of soul. 
 
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 LESSON NINE. 
 
 "I and the Father are one." "I am in the world, but 
 not of the world." This is a proof of the fact that man 
 may be living upon the earth plane, but that it is not neces- 
 sary for him to be of that plane. 
 
 All states are but conditions of mind and soul. The good 
 man can be on the same earth, in fact, live in the same 
 house as the bad man. Their external conditions may be 
 the same ; but their attitude of mind and soul may be very 
 different. 
 
 Then again, "I and the Father are one," shows the 
 student that as is the Creator so is the creature. In other 
 words, man, through a process which we teach him, may 
 become like unto the Creator. He has all the virtues of 
 the Father. He has all the power, though these are in less 
 degree. But the virtues may be hidden and need to, be 
 brought into expression. The power may be latent and 
 need to be developed. 
 
 Through the imagination of man God walks and talks 
 with man. 
 
 Through the voice of the conscience the Creator will talk 
 with man, instructing him, warning him, telling him what 
 to do and what not to do. 
 
 The only thing that the Father demands of the son is his 
 obedience, his honor, his love and his fellowship. If the 
 son is willing to give this, the inheritance of the Father 
 belongs to the son. This means all things that man may 
 need or desire so long as it is in harmony with the divine 
 law and all that which is not in harmony with the divine 
 law is not lasting. It is fleeting, and of the moment and 
 the end is sorrow. 
 
 As you grow in soul illumination you will become con- 
 
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CHR1STISIS. 143 
 
 vinced that the laws governing all things are fixed and 
 absolute and that as you live in harmony with this law you 
 will obtain the results promised by the law, no matter 
 what they may be. 
 
 He who has lived the life, having trained his thoughts 
 and developed the soul, thereby finding the Christisis with- 
 in, will gradually be able to prove to himself and to others 
 the efficiency of the divine law and power. The result, in 
 his own life, will be health and strength, success and peace, 
 and the power to provide for every need as it actually 
 occurs. He will have strength to bear the burden that 
 earth conditions place upon him and to fear nothing. 
 
 Such an one, having travelled the path, will be able to 
 speak as one having authority and be able to teach others 
 the way. 
 
 There is no failure possible when man obeys. The laws 
 are fixed and this explains why soul development, rational 
 thought or divine illumination is a science; it deals with 
 divine laws, and with divine passions ; it is a religion. Thus 
 man cannot be truly scientific unless he is truly religious. 
 
 As your own re-generation began with right thinking 
 and therefore right building of character, you will know 
 the law of right thinking and you will know every step of 
 the path you have travelled. You will know that all the 
 evil that there is, all suffering, ill-health and failure are 
 due to wrong mental conditions, and that only in right 
 mental conditions is the eradication of these ills possible. 
 
 You will be able to help others to the perfection of their 
 own spiritual being, and to tell them of their higher possi- 
 bilities and explain to them the unfoldment or development 
 of the soul. Thus your life becomes a ministry to your 
 fellow beings. 
 
 It is an established fact that all success comes through 
 observing a set system of action. This being a fixed law, it 
 is one's duty to have a regular time for this great work. 
 Dedicate some part of the day or evening to the work and 
 during that time follow your soul development exercises 
 
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CHRLSTISIS. 145 
 
 much as you would take physical culture movements. For 
 as physical culture exercises are for the development of 
 the body so are these soul culture practices for the de- 
 velopment of mind and soul. When you are through this 
 exercise, let your attention be given undividedly to the 
 duty of life that comes next. Trust the invisible forces to 
 continue the work of development in harmony with your 
 heart's desire, even when your consciousness is directed in 
 other channels. 
 
 When you enter the silence for the development of your 
 ideal, always remember that you have a noble cause in 
 view, namely, bringing your soul into communion with the 
 Universal Soul in the great beyond. 
 
 Know that this can be accomplished only through the 
 thought forces, through the mental powers; for it depends 
 upon the mind whether you can hold the attention concen- 
 trated on certain thoughts or not. 
 
 The mind also has the power of imagination, the soul 
 being the great receiving station. Let your thoughts there- 
 fore be upon that which you wish to accomplish and re- 
 member that this ideal can be created by the mind only 
 through imagination, for the mind images or pictures 
 what you would be, were you to accomplish that which you 
 desire to accomplish. The mind must imagine what it is, 
 how it is to be accomplished and why. 
 
 The imagination is the faculty by which ideas are con- 
 ceived of ultimate truth. Truth, aspiration and hope, have 
 their roots in the imagination. 
 
 Through this function of imagination God reaches man 
 and ivalks and talks with man. 
 
 It is not enough merely to image a certain thing, it is 
 necessary to hold this image through the power of the mind 
 until it photographs itself upon the soul and thus becomes 
 a drawing center. 
 
 Imagination in man becomes alive through intense desire 
 and prompt action. All operations of the will must neces- 
 sarily act through imagination, the invisible workshop of 
 
146 CHRISTISIS. 
 
CHR1ST1SIS. 147 
 
 man and God. 
 
 The realm of imagination is limitless, co-extensive with 
 the whole universe. All that was or is to be is at the com- 
 mand of the imaginative mind, and if the desire is intense 
 enough, the imagination will photograph it upon the soul 
 as the camera will photograph an object upon the sensitized 
 plate and bring forth a satisfactory likeness when de- 
 veloped. Thus does the mind, through imagination bring 
 forth the personified idea or desire. 
 
 The universe is full of an endless variety of material 
 from which the imagination can create thought forms. 
 Therefore our storehouse must be full of knowledge gained 
 from close observation in order to equip the mind with 
 material for its best ideation. 
 
 It is not only possible for mind to construct and create 
 in thought form as well as restore but it is a positive fact 
 that mind does construct, create and restore. This faculty 
 may be called reproductive, constructive and creative im- 
 agination. 
 
 Constructive imagination can execute its work only 
 through will power. It is not only necessary to imagine, 
 but it is also necessary that the student, through the in- 
 tense desire of what he wishes to accomplish, should print 
 or stamp upon the soul the thing that he wishes to accom- 
 plish. This stamping of desire upon the soul is accom- 
 plished by systematic practice in thought concentration. 
 This systematic practice is possible only through resolute 
 will power. 
 
 Fancy must not be confused with imagination. Between 
 imagination and fancy there is a distinction that fully 
 exhibits the nature of each through different manifestations 
 of the same power. The highest exercise of the two aspects 
 is imagination, it creates by laws more, closely connected 
 with reason; it has strong emotional (a moving of the mind 
 or soul) powers, as its actuating and formative cause, aim- 
 ing at results of a definite character. 
 
 However, in the undeveloped man, imagination is noth- 
 
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 ing more than a fancy, because it is not based upon any 
 law whatever and may be totally wanting in the matter of 
 fact person who is not even emotional. 
 
 Imagination expands consciousness arid often carries 
 one to exaltation ; for in its highest office it is the vision of 
 an inspired soul reading arguments and affirmations in all 
 nature of that which it is impelled to manifest. 
 
 If the student will investigate another phase of the 
 mind's activity he will find that imagination is prolific 
 (generative, fruitful, productive) ; giving expression to all 
 literature, science and art, as well as that wonderful ele- 
 ment of beauty — equilibrium (equal balance) of will and 
 intelligence. 
 
 By this force in the creative energy of man, all things 
 are possible by developing and intensify ing the idea which 
 first exists in the realms of thought. 
 
 Imagination is the creative energy of man. If it is put 
 into action by thought, which is the cause of action, and 
 the result is an image or picture, an idea is therefore con- 
 ceived; then by contemplation the mind gradually begins 
 to perceive that the idea can be used, that it is practical; 
 desire then springs into play and by the action of the will 
 (which is the projective power) this idea is developed into 
 manifestation. In this way the passive conception of the 
 idea is converted into active imagination which is capable 
 of creating things not yet manifested. 
 
 Imagination is the power that moulds mental forms, it is 
 the builder of all forms in the mind realm. Unless, how- 
 ever, imagination is controlled and directed by reason, it 
 is liable to create negative pictures or just what fear, anger, 
 pride or grief suggests, i.e., images of disease, accidents, 
 evil, death, and these are photographed upon the soul in 
 exactly the same way as the positive creative thoughts. 
 
 No mind can be free to act as a master if hampered by 
 such pictures as these. And as thought or mental attitude 
 is the builder or destroyer of all power, both physical and 
 spiritual, it is vitally important to control the imagination, 
 
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 the image or pattern maker, and compel it to create only 
 right images or patterns. 
 
 Thus, if the mental images are not just what you want, 
 discard them at once, ere you build yourself an undesirable 
 habitation. 
 
 Pessimistic thoughts will diminish power for good. Opti- 
 mistic thought works directly the opposite, bringing out 
 the good and forming better thought-habits. Imagination 
 is for all powers like a telescope: you can use either end, 
 but its use will determine its value. 
 
 Brilliant ideas are not necessarily more intense than dark 
 or evil ones; both produce results, but the results will be 
 opposite the one to the other. 
 
 That kind of idle thinking called reverie is even more 
 difficult to control than evil thinking. The constructive 
 imagination of the brain-worker is very different from the 
 kind that indulges in reverie. 
 
 Brain workers seek along the lines of greatest resistance, 
 i.e., the literary, artistic construction. The line of greatest 
 resistance involves severest mental discipline resulting in 
 substantial mental products. 
 
 The student now has all the laws. His first work is to 
 purify the thought, to think only thoughts that are con- 
 structive, for thus the mind is cleared for greater work. 
 Gradually the imagination becomes a perfect working 
 machine, the student can imagine clearly the things he 
 wishes to accomplish or that which he wishes to be; he 
 forms a picture of it in his mind and this he holds intently, 
 day after day, until it becomes protographed upon his soul 
 with the power of fire, and as he does this he will un- 
 consciously start to work along the lines that will bring 
 him in touch with that which he wishes to do or wishes to 
 be, and then the accomplishment will be but a matter of 
 time. 
 
 The student must, however, always remember that there 
 can be no perfect thought power or perfect imagination if 
 the physical body is imperfect. The physical is an instru- 
 
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CHR1STISIS. 153 
 
 ment used by the mind and soul for the expression of life 
 and power. As an instrument of equal value with the mind 
 and soul for the time being, the body should be kept in 
 good order ; since every organ has its proper function, care 
 should be taken that each one does its duty and does it 
 well and punctually. 
 
 Clean, wholesome conditions as to environments must be 
 provided ; simple but nutritious food is necessary. 
 
 In following the higher life, it is of greatest benefit to 
 do all things at regular times, and with absolute faithful- 
 ness. This is important in your habits of life, in your work 
 as well as in your development exercises, for only in system 
 can there be perfect growth. 
 
 The body, as well as the mind is subject to habits; and 
 any habit can be easily established through forced 
 obedience to certain laws even for a short time. 
 
 There is a simple exercise which the student may take 
 every morning or evening, one that requires but a little 
 time and will help him to health and illumination of body, 
 mind and soul. A cool or cold bath is of great benefit when 
 taken either morning or evening, but is best in the morn- 
 ing. After taking such a bath and when the skin has been 
 dried by friction, open the window in your room, stand 
 erect facing the East, and while taking a deep breath, hold 
 the thought, "I will gradually develop the Christisis, the 
 being of all-power." With each exhalation, hold the 
 thought, "Peace and love to all my fellow beings." Re- 
 peat this seven times. Wait three minutes then repeat 
 again seven times. Wait another three minutes, then re- 
 peat again seven times. If you have little time you need 
 wait only three breaths between each repetition. Follow 
 this drill every morning. If you do not wish to take a bath 
 that often, follow the drill anyhow. 
 
 Should you be in ill health, the same process will bring 
 about health, but the mantrim is different. In that case 
 you should fellow such rules for your mode of living as 
 may be prescribed by some good teacher of physical poise, 
 
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CHRISTISIS. 155 
 
 and the "bath, may be taken as before. A hot bath should 
 never be taken except for cleanliness; cold bath always 
 for invigoration of the system or for development. The 
 bath need not be cold, but it should be cool. 
 
 Standing as before, and while drawing in the breath, 
 hold the thought, ''I will come into conscious touch with 
 the center of health and will draw vitality and the life 
 principle from the air. ' ' While exhaling, hold the thought, 
 ' ' Health and happiness to all humanity. ' ' 
 
 It is essential that the exhaling process should always be 
 dedicated to others, because we must establish an equi- 
 librium in all things and in order to receive the things of 
 the soul we must give of the things of the soul. 
 
 You must become a master of thought in order that you 
 may overcome all things, for in the thought realm lies the 
 power of being. ^Vhen you control thought ycu control 
 desires, habits, action and all things that may either help 
 or harm you. 
 
 By continuous practice, even if only a few minutes at a 
 time several times a day. you can easily overcome wrong 
 habits of thinking, you will be able to remove all obstruc- 
 tions from the mind; it will become filled with constructive 
 thoughts. All good thoughts are constructive whether in 
 the line of music, art, politics, mechanics, or any other 
 subject. 
 
 "When the mind is filled with constructive thoughts there 
 is naturally no place for destructive ones, thoughts of fear, 
 hatred, jealousy, malice, disease, and the many other 
 varieties of thoughts that are always destructive. 
 
 The student must always remember that he is the creator 
 of his own being, that he can change his body, his mind, his 
 soul and make each what he wants it to be. That he can 
 change failure into success, fear into hope, irreligion into 
 science and religion, mortality into immortality, the soul 
 from a dead weight into the illuminated Christisis. How- 
 ever, it should be remembered that this change must come 
 about gradually. The process of development demands 
 patience and persistency. 
 
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CHRIST] SIS. 157 
 
 LESSON TEN. 
 
 The new life that you desire to live, that you should live, 
 is the life formulated and moulded into the soul of being. 
 You have taken a momentous step when you have taken up 
 this great work, — when you try to find the universal life 
 and to find the Christisis. The Christisis, you must under- 
 stand and always remember, is the Son of God — the highly 
 developed soul, and as such has all power, whether in the 
 material or the spiritual. Bear in mind that spiritual de- 
 velopment does not only mean that you will be good and 
 pure, but it also means that you will have power on the 
 different planes of life. 
 
 The illumination of your own soul brings you into har- 
 mony with and into understanding of the Universal Soul — 
 the Father, the Universal Intelligence, or whatever you 
 wish to call it. And when you respond to the call of the 
 greater soul, it means (though you may not know it) that 
 you have come to the end of your present state of being, 
 that you are about to enter into the real life. 
 
 This world is a place of existence, it is the plane in which 
 bodies live, enjoy, suffer and pass on; as a condition this 
 world is simply a great school for souls, continually divided 
 against itself, now full of discord or peace, vice or virtue, 
 sorrow or joy, dislike or affection. And for this reason is 
 it a school, to examine all souls and find out what they love 
 best. 
 
 The soul is the life of man. The body is the vehicle while 
 the mind is the motive power. The soul is the life of all 
 things. Everything that lives, exists and grows in soul or 
 in spirit. That which has no soul lives in the spirit, which 
 is only a connecting link between body and mind or be- 
 tween bodv, mind and soul. The mind dies when the body 
 
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CHEISTISIS. 159 
 
 dies. The spirit goes back to the Creator because it is the 
 universal media, but the soul of all things under the sun 
 lives on unless it has destroyed itself. 
 
 This present world gives torment. It is the soul that 
 feels, that suffers, that is wicked or good. Man is in reality 
 soul, either good or bad. It is this which by the fine in- 
 visible cord of self-interest, binds the soul to itself and 
 impels it to eat of the bitter husk of experience rather than 
 the sweet fruits of truth. Yet at last, like a wayward child, 
 the soul comes through very weariness of the husk to ask 
 for the fruit. Sick unto death of the illusions and glamour 
 of the material world, the soul says at last, "This so-called 
 existence is not life. I want no more of it. Give me death 
 or give me life that is not mockery. " 
 
 The soul comes into touch with infinity through evolution 
 or consciousness gained by experience or development. The 
 soul must, after reaching the finite, begin anew upon a 
 higher plane. It must be awakened, resurrected into 
 spiritual life, it must be illuminated through a systematic 
 practice of thinking and living. And through this training 
 it will become at one with its source, for all true develop- 
 ment or illumination leads to this one thing, At-one-ment. 
 By tliinlcing and living the soul life, man comes into touch 
 with the higher life. 
 
 This process of development, of building, of finding the 
 Christisis, is to rise from death of the flesh into resurrec- 
 tion — it is initiation into immortal life, 
 
 When you have come to the willing renunciation of this 
 world of existence, you are then like one who has been lost 
 and is found, or more like one who has awakened from a 
 long, long sleep, for in reality you did not live, you simply 
 existed. 
 
 The universal soul life is not relative, but absolute. It 
 is that which is. It does not change, it cannot be changed, 
 it is ever upward. It is that which nothing can change, to 
 which nothing can be added, and from which nothing can 
 be taken away. It is one, indivisible, perfect whole. It is 
 
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CHKlttTlSJiS. 161 
 
 tlie cause of all that is. A life, that is, an individual life, 
 is merely one expression of the life. 
 
 Life is of the soul, not of the flesh, hence as the soul is 
 alive, it is that which feels, knows, acts. The soul is like 
 the sun, while the flesh is like the world, for as the sun is 
 the soul of the world so is the soul of man the sun of his 
 flesh. 
 
 As the sun warms the earth and gives it life, and makes 
 possible its fruitfulness, so may the soul warm the. earth 
 nature of the flesh, and make possible its usefulness and 
 power. 
 
 There is but one life, one soul, the one substance of all 
 soul, in which and of which all exist ajnd subsist as in a 
 sea of omnipresent being. Every soul is an individualized 
 soul and a center of deific power. 
 
 There is but one universal soul, of which all souls are 
 inlets, and as there is one soul, all pervading and all in- 
 clusive, nothing in existence should be separated from it. 
 
 Another phase of the Infinite One is Being, — Being 
 which includes all beings and from which all beings came 
 forth ; it is the Divine One, the Creator, the Most High and 
 only one. 
 
 To know and to understand the process of thought, 
 creation, activity and expression, by which the Divine One 
 operates in the boundless realm of infinity ; to know and to 
 understand the relation of God to man and of man to God, 
 is the goal toward which all development tends. "Without 
 this knowledge, there is the sleep known as death, the night 
 without a morning. 
 
 From the absolute, there can be nothing but perfection, 
 the changeless, the omnipresent — speaking from this plane. 
 Thus, in man is "the resurrection and the life." However, 
 every man has been given free will, and he may allow him- 
 self to fall into matter and darkness just as far as he 
 wishes. 
 
 All men can change the darkness within into light. They 
 are at liberty to draw from that universal source of light 
 
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 which always contains enough for all. Thus, while they 
 are individuals, they may still come into connection with 
 this universal light which will illumine their souls and 
 minds ; they draw from the universal, but still remain indi- 
 viduals. 
 
 There is but one light in the physical universe, that 
 which comes from the sun. The light of the moon and of 
 the stars is but the showing forth of that one light. That 
 which glows in the fire, or radiates from the flashing gem, 
 is from the One. So there is but one soul light, but there 
 are many channels of expression, many jewels that reflect 
 the light. The expressions are millions in number, but the 
 source is ever one. 
 
 It is the same with the One Soul, the Boundless. Its 
 tangible expression is vitality — life. Its sensible or intel- 
 lectual expression is thought. Its visible expression is the 
 body. 
 
 In man the tangible, the sensible, the visible, makes what 
 is called the relative or differentiated expression of soul. 
 Man, therefore, is but a channel through which God reveals 
 Himself, for something of the universal life shows in every 
 expression of being. 
 
 In order that man may know the Infinite he must study 
 the finite, but he cannot know the Infinite through the 
 outer expressions nor through the body alone. He must 
 go far deeper than that. He must purify the mind so that 
 the thoughts may be pure. He must illuminate the mind 
 so that it may reflect light instead of darkness, and he must 
 develop or awaken the soul so that he can come into con- 
 scious touch with the Infinite ; then he may know. 
 
 The key that unlocks the door to knowledge is love. Hate 
 will close it tightly, so will anger, jealousy, malice and the 
 ether dark passions. Love for all things is the only key 
 that will fit the door to true knowledge and without it 
 nothing can be accomplished. 
 
 Love is not of the body, it is from the soul. Love was 
 before man had being, it was the light that lighted the way 
 
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 for the soul. Love is within the soul and the more of love 
 there is in the soul the more light there will be in it. Love 
 is the essence of deity, the light which lighteth every man 
 that comes into the world. 
 
 Mind, soul and body are simply the channels through 
 which love reveals itself to mankind or to the individual. 
 
 Love is not confined to God alone, but it is man's privi- 
 lege to love purely. It is a great and mighty power given 
 to man with which he may do good and accomplish great 
 things. Man alone can love. All things can show affection, 
 for that is of the spirit and forms part of the life of things, 
 but only man can truly love. 
 
 It is the Infinite Intelligence that knows, thinks and acts, 
 not the creature. It is that which was, is and always will 
 be. God is soul, and as surely as you have a soul, have you 
 God within you. 
 
 Think of your inmost and brightest as the epitome of 
 God, and the outward as the expression which ma3 r be true 
 or perverted. The pure, unsullied, selfless love is of God. 
 The tainted, passionate, self love is of God also, but it is 
 polluted, obstructed, it is tainted and of the flesh. It is 
 your duty to purify the love nature within you, to develop 
 it, illuminate it, so that it will be a true reflection of the 
 Universal Love. 
 
 Understanding neither the finite nor the infinite, man 
 knows nothing of his beginning, of his present nor of his 
 future. He is groping in the dark without a light to lead 
 him in the right. In this state he comes into contact with 
 the different expressions of life on the sense plane. He is 
 simply a sense being. In this state of being he can find 
 nothing but fleeting pleasures, disappointments, sufferings 
 and even disgust. Now and then he seems to have power to 
 do things, he accomplishes something, but always there is a 
 loss, a falling backwards and many regrets. 
 
 Through the suffering and disappointment something 
 within him stirs, it asks for that which is not all illusion 
 that which has a firm foundation. The soul or inner man 
 
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CHR1STISIS. 167 
 
 is stirring and wants to be awakened from its sleep. It 
 cries out for the real life. It wants to be heard. Thus will 
 man start to seek, he knows not what he seeks, but he feels 
 that there is something that he wants, something that is 
 real, something that he must have. He must find a meaning 
 in the expressions of life, or they become mockeries, a curse 
 from God instead of blessings. And, if he is taught 
 properly, he will find that he is the Creator of his own be- 
 ing, that it rests with him whether he wants reality or il- 
 lusion. He begins to learn that the soul of man is the ac- 
 cumulated experience of man, no matter what his ex- 
 perience may be, good or bad. 
 
 "When he awakens to this fact it is but_a step to that other 
 principle which teaches him that first of all he must think 
 right, that he must purify the mind so that his thoughts 
 may be good and true, in order that good and true acts may 
 follow. 
 
 If the student longs for the true life, the real life, then 
 he will start to think differently from what he has been in 
 the habit of thinking. He will cleanse the mind of the 
 thoughts that hurt and darken the soul. 
 
 He will consider his desires and search himself to find 
 out what he really wishes to accomplish, and when he 
 knows what his most sacred desire is, he will start to build 
 it into accomplishment. He will formulate the desire in 
 word or picture and around that word or picture he must 
 build. 
 
 The greater includes the lesser, therefore the infinite soul 
 includes the soul of man and his desires. It is, therefore, 
 true that we live and move and have our being in God. 
 
 These facts will not help us in any way unless we put our 
 knowledge into acts. It is not enough to know that there is 
 a universal soul, and to believe that we possess a soul. "We 
 must think, live and act so as to be able not only to know 
 that we have a soul, but to know the soul itself, to be con- 
 scious of the soul. 
 
 All this can be accomplished through living the true 
 
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CHRIST1S1S. 169 
 
 life. By thinking the proper thoughts we will build the 
 proper soul, and when we have accomplished this we will 
 know the soul, for it has become illuminated, the Christisis 
 is found. 
 
 As the student grows in the work he will feel the change. 
 He will find that he is becoming endowed with a new and 
 peaceful consciousness, something he did not possess before. 
 There will be a sense of peace, of health, of strength and of 
 power totally unknown before. 
 
 He will come to understand that he is never alone ; that 
 in him there is a great, powerful, divine something, speak- 
 ing to him, advising him, yet ever voiceless, present and 
 felt but not always seen, ever guiding, protecting, in- 
 spiring, counseling, uplifting, empowering him, according 
 to his need and according to his willingness to accept. The 
 more true he becomes and the more willing to obey, the 
 oftener will be hear the voice and feel the help of the 
 mighty invisible force. 
 
 It is the new life that ycu have entered, and it will help 
 you in all things. Whatever you desire to do, when right, 
 you need but to formulate so that you know what you really 
 desire and then hold it before you just as you would the 
 picture of a friend whom you truly love. Trust in your 
 power, have courage, let not fear nor doubt enter, and you 
 will accomplish. 
 
 In the life it is always well to have a mantrim of power. 
 The student may formulate this himself for no general rule 
 can be given since certain words have greater potency for 
 one than for another. Thus, it may be that one can 
 easily steady all his power by means of the words : ' ' God is 
 the Universal Life and Soul, and as I am a part of Him, it 
 is within my power to accomplish that which I desire to 
 accomplish." Another may find some other statement of 
 truth better suited to his purpose. But each, if he is in 
 earnest, will be guided by the Light within to formulate a 
 statement adapted to his every need. 
 
 Tvhen you are weak, or timid, when eaten up with 
 
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 anxiety, or in fear of something, then hold yonr rnantrini, 
 speak it firmly, persistently, trustfully and your weakness, 
 your fear, your anxiety will be blown aw_ay as by the winds 
 of a passing storm. 
 
 Can you be weak when infinite strength like an exhaust- 
 less fountain is springing up within you, filling your soul 
 with the subtle elixir of life and strength and power? 
 When you fear, speak your words of power, fall back upon 
 the infinite, through the light of your soul, and you will 
 accomplish. 
 
 Breathe forth the omnipotent words : "I have found the 
 Christisis within myself, and I therefore know the fountain 
 of all power, all health, all strength, I can be what I will 
 to be." Call upon this great light within for all things. 
 Breathe it forth in the accomplishment of all things and 
 know that it will not fail you. 
 
 God is all. That is but to say that love is all, or that 
 truth is all. God is all these ; God is all, or in all that has 
 life or existence ; but it is possible for you to pervert Him 
 and His power and then it becomes an evil force and a 
 force for destruction. This you should not do. 
 
 God is omnipresent, therefore He is in all things. God 
 is the Absolute, therefore He is Goodness, Harmony, 
 Beauty, Strength, Power, Holiness, Peace. Your soul, at 
 the command, will rise with quivering, joyful wings and 
 make its flight upwards as does the eagle. Time and space 
 will not be to it, for the soul that is awakened, illuminated, 
 is limitless, timeless and spaceless. 
 
 How majestic is this new being, the being thus baptized 
 with the fires of illumination. It is with different eyes 
 that you see now for vision is no longer vision of darkness 
 but of light. 
 
 Still, this great, new wisdom will not take from you the 
 obligation or desire to meet every condition, with exactness 
 and justice. Far from it. You still have all your duties 
 to perform as you had before, but you will perform them 
 not as duties but as blessings, knowing that you are here 
 
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 to work, to bless and to save. 
 
 Your work in the material world may be hard, you may 
 have little time for meditation and development. Fear not. 
 Use wisely every moment that you have to use. Care for 
 naught that would retard you. Keep on faithfully, cheer- 
 fully, regretting nothing, but conscientiously giving every- 
 thing demanded. 
 
 "When you least expect it conditions will change and 
 your opportunity will appear before you like an open door- 
 way; or some fair promise to your faithfulness will sud- 
 denly be fulfilled, giving you that which you have desired 
 and which is in line with your progress forward. 
 
 Thus will the old house of self pass away and in its stead 
 will be reared the beautiful mansion which the illuminated 
 mind has been building, — the house built upon the Rock, 
 the Christisis, which neither hell nor death can sweep 
 away. 
 
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 CHKJSTIS1S. 
 
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 A PARTING WORD. 
 
 INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY. 
 
 The student Trill now understand that he cannot escape 
 from the law of cause and effect, neither upon the mental 
 nor the physical plane. 
 
 This responsibility, known in Eastern countries as 
 Karma, which is in reality action of the spirit, whether in 
 the inner consciousness, or in outward acts, is the secret 
 force which directs our journey through infinity, driving 
 us down into the gloomy regions of evil, of matter, and of 
 selfishness, or up toward the luminous fields of good, of 
 spirit, of love. 
 
 The student must understand that each effect has an 
 adequate cause, and that each cause works infinite conse- 
 quences. That which we do to-day is the result of former 
 acts, and by our present actions ice are building the law 
 that ivill govern our lives in future time. 
 
 It is this law which rules all mankind, for it is the law of 
 absolute justice. However, as we are the masters of our 
 destiny we can start to work in harmony with this law, and 
 instead of living a lawless life we may live the life that 
 satisfies the law. The first thing to do, therefore, is to start 
 to think right, for when we begin to do this, we will start- 
 to act right, we will start to build in the proper manner, 
 and while we must work out the result of past acts we will 
 no longer commit other acts which must be worked out or 
 other acts for which the penalty must be paid. 
 
 To-day we are building for future eternity by our 
 present actions. We determine our own destinies. We are 
 therefore accountable for all, either for salvation or con- 
 
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CHBIST1SIS. 177 
 
 demnation; by our own individual will, we construct our 
 own fate. 
 
 Knowing this law, it is also much easier to forgive our 
 enemies and those who are trying to injure us in some way, 
 for we know that they, too, are living out past Karmic 
 laws and that we in some way are responsible for the part 
 they take in bringing about the fulfillment of our punish- 
 ment. 
 
 We face the absolute fact of an infinite, all-comprehend- 
 ing power, of which nature is the pulsating body, an 
 eternal reality shaping the shadowy appearance of time, 
 variously named force, fate, justice, righteousness, love, 
 mind, God. The most essential feature of this unfathom- 
 able being or principle is, that it is an almighty reality. 
 Confronting this fact is the other fact, our spiritual per- 
 sonality enveloped in matter, shrouded in personal re- 
 sponsibility. 
 
 The thought that we must always associate with these 
 principles is individual responsibility. The inevitable out- 
 come of grouping these two actualities — God and personal 
 responsibility — is the conception that the Universal Sus- 
 tainer is giving to every creature the thing that is best for 
 it, and that each soul is in some way accountable for its 
 condition. Suffering is only necessary to bring us to a 
 knowledge of the law, to bring us to a certain point, and it 
 will persist until that point is reached; until we have 
 learned the lesson. The Universal Sustainer gives to each 
 life that which is best for it. But each life is held re- 
 sponsible for extracting good from these experiences. 
 
 What we have passed through alone makes it possible 
 for us to stand where we are to-day. Consequently, what 
 we do and think to-day will largely govern our experience 
 of to-morrow and all future days. 
 
 To-day is the day of salvation and each happy, sympa- 
 thetic thought of love sent forth and each willing act of 
 kindness here, there, bringing a ray of sunshine into some 
 dreary life, will not only bring us nearer to the apex of the 
 
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 golden Trinity, but it will lift each one to whom we ad- 
 minister a degree higher. Thus we will prove that we are 
 channels through which the Infinite speaks, and that He 
 can, through us, administer to his little ones. 
 
 Through our individuality something is bound to come 
 forth for the resistless power of Almighty Good is behind 
 it. This is our fate. This fact that something is bound to 
 result from our acts is our destiny. Our freedom lies in 
 choosing whether we be progressive or retrogressive. It is 
 therefore a matter of real economy to learn the true course 
 of events as soon as we possibly can, since the law of action 
 and reaction is eternal. 
 
 To seek after wisdom and illumination is our highest 
 privilege. The key that unlocks the store-house of future 
 heaven-bought treasures is love and right thought. A life 
 in which love is the end aimed at, is the key to true de- 
 velopment, it is the key to knowledge and to all future be- 
 ing for through the love nature and consequent right 
 thinking all things are possible. 
 
 Every time we hate we break the law of love. We are 
 not love, we are hate, and our companions of thought are 
 hate, envy, malice, and jealous3 r . Thus we receive as we do 
 to others. 
 
 In the great work we must transmute or change these 
 undesirable thoughts into these that are finer and higher. 
 "We must come to recognize that mankind, almost uni- 
 versally, does not do what it wants to do but rather what it 
 is forced to do on account of having created the conditions 
 in times past. If you could teach men the laws of Jhought 
 and of justice they also would start to build differently, 
 but it is not an easy matter to reach them. 
 
 Salvation begins with self. You know the law and there- 
 fore it is your duty to obey it. There is no excuse for you, 
 a student of truth, to do to others as they are doing to you. 
 If you return hate for hate you are not better than the 
 other, you are even on a lower grade because you know 
 better while the other may not. 
 
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CHKISTiSiS. 181 
 
 If you persecute those who persecute you, you are not on 
 a par with them, you are below their grade, because you 
 know the law, but in spite of it do that which is contrary 
 to the law. 
 
 The successful life, the life that is building not only im- 
 mortality, but success in earthly things as well, is that 
 which considers only the question, "Is it right for me to 
 do so and so 1 ?" The question usually asked of self, "Would 
 another do thus and so?" is pure selfishness and brings 
 about evil conditions and failures instead of success. 
 
 There can be but one rule, is it right? No matter if all 
 humanity would do differently, that does not give you any 
 privilege to go contrary to your sense of right. 
 
 We are what we think. Each of our thoughts is held by 
 the soul and becomes a part of the souL From these 
 thoughts spring action, good actions or bad actions, as the 
 case may be. 
 
 We cannot build success, we cannot become immortal and 
 a part of the infinite unless we think the thoughts of the 
 infinite. In order to be truly and lastingly successful we 
 must hold the thoughts of success and we must plan and 
 build according to the law of success. 
 
 The only way in which it is possible for us to destroy 
 that which is evil and undesirable is to stop holding those 
 thoughts or giving them place in our mind, for to give 
 them a foothold is to give them life and to entertain one 
 bad or failure-producing-thought is to kill one life-giving, 
 success-producing thought. 
 
 You cannot kill the tendency to evil thinking or wrong 
 thinking by trying to force these undesirable thoughts from 
 your mind; that will only antagonize and intensify them. 
 The only way to get them out of the mind is to think suc- 
 cess-bringing, soul-building thoughts for then you use up 
 the forces given to that which is wrong in the building of 
 that which is right ; this process is called the transmutation 
 of thought. "Overcome evil with good." Remove dark- 
 ness by bringing in the light. 
 
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 CHKISTIS1S. 
 
CHRISTISIS. 183 
 
 You have been taught the laws, these laws are absolute 
 and cannot fail. If we obey these laws failure is impossible 
 because the laws are fixed and infinite. If they were to 
 fail, then the infinite would fail, which is utterly impossible 
 and unthinkable. 
 
 It is admitted that time may be required in order to show 
 results. But you must bear in mind that m the building 
 of a mansion upon the site where an old building stands, 
 you must first tear down the old building and you must get 
 all the old material away, it may even x >est that you de- 
 stroy it or burn it up as useless wood. After you have done 
 then you must build your foundation and the stronger 
 you make it the better for your building ; after your 
 foundation is finished you can start with your building, 
 constructing it step by step until you have it finished. All 
 "ill require both time and patience and it is the same 
 with the mansion of the soul, the mighty Christisis. 
 
 Be sure to search yourself, body, mind and soul and find 
 out what you truly desire, when you know the heart's de- 
 sire, then imagine the result to be accomplished and w 
 you have accomplished this formulate your plans 
 thoroughly. 
 
 "YThen this is done, then search yourself, note your weak- 
 nesses, your many different desires, and take these one by 
 one and transmute them into the qualities of goodness and 
 strength ; thus vou build them into the new being. 
 
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 SOUL SCIENCE. 
 
CHRISTISIS. 185 
 
 SOUL SCIENCE. 
 SOULltr EVliND. BODY. 
 
 SOUL SCIENCE is the Philosophy that teaches 
 EQUAL DEVELOPMENT of the PHYSICAL, MEN- 
 TAL and SPIRITUAL, giving perfect balance and har- 
 mony in their culture. 
 
 SOUL SCIENCE is not a Religion antagonistic to 
 Christ, the Great Master. It is not founded on theory but 
 on FACTS, material, tangible facts — the teachings of the 
 MASTERS. 
 
 Mind is mortal and dies with the body, but that which 
 the mind builds, the Soul, lives on through eternity. This 
 power, which the mind is able to build, and which we 
 recognize as the Soul, is the GREATEST power that man 
 can know, — a power that is a thousand times greater than 
 the mind. 
 
 The power of the Soul can be used to regain health 
 when you are ill, to maintain it when you are healthy, TO 
 HEAL OTHERS, in fact, to attain perfect Development 
 and Success in every branch of endeavor, IF YOU KNOW 
 HOW TO USE IT. Soul Science teaches HOW to use it. 
 It teaches even hew the poverty-stricken man can rise 
 above his condition and become a success in the business 
 world and a credit to himself and his God. 
 
 Beyond all, Soul Science answers the ever-asked ques- 
 tion, "Whence?" and "Whither?*" It shows man absolutely 
 that Death does not end all, but that there IS a Great Be- 
 yond. It PROVES to him that he HAS a Soul and shows 
 him where and what his Soul is. It is not guess work. It 
 is Doctrine. It is proof born of TRUTH. It makes Im- 
 mortality a CERTAINTY. 
 
 Are you certain you have a Soul? A 
 
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 Do you know where it is? 
 
 Do you know what it is? 
 
 Is its Immortality insured? 
 
 Are you satisfied with your life and its results as they 
 now are? 
 
 Are you satisfied with your Philosophical or Religious 
 future? 
 
 Are you satisfied with your Social Attainments ? 
 
 Emphatically "XO !" if you have not built on the Rock 
 of Truth. 
 
 ALL RESTS WITH YOU. 
 
 Your body, your environments, your finances, your op- 
 portunity are ALL OF YOUR OWN MAKING. It is 
 only necessary to KXOW the Great Laws as the Great 
 Master taught that he who had an Awakened (Developed) 
 Soul should have all other things. 
 
 This Philosophy tells HOW to Develop— AWAKEN— 
 FIXD — your Soul. 
 
 As a son of the LIVIXG GOD, these things are yours 
 by Divine Right. 
 
 If you do not know them it is YOUR fault. You cannot 
 blame your fellowman. You cannot blame your God. 
 YOU alone are to blame. 
 
 Man was born a Creator by God. Christ taught that 
 the things He did we could do also, and still more, for He 
 told us plainly that "EVEN GREATER things shall ye 
 do." YOU are a Creator now, though not understanding 
 the laws that Soul Science makes clear as crystal. You 
 may be creating for yourself misery, failure and sorrow, 
 for perhaps you are reversing the Great Laws. 
 
 Do you know you have the power to make yourself 
 WHAT YOU WILL? 
 
 It rests with you whether you become a Success or 
 Failure. Success in all things lies within the palm of your 
 hand if you but knew the laws that control Body, Mind and 
 Soul. It is the knowledge of these great laws which this 
 
_CHBISTISIS. 187 
 
 philosophy teaches. 
 
 The Philosophy of Soul Science requires very little faith, 
 for when the student obeys the laws RESULTS MUST 
 FOLLOW. It is simplicity itself, for all who will CAN 
 follow it. 
 
 There can be no failure for, as he who works at the 
 building of a house, if the plans are correct, RESULTS 
 ARE SURE. 
 
 Man, made in the image of his God and given all the 
 godlike qualities of his God, contains the spark or germ 
 of Godhocd within him. It needs but the proper De- 
 velopment of this germ or spark to attain Health, Wealth 
 and Happiness, for these are his birthright from God. Had 
 man OXLY decreed it would have been different, but it 
 was God Himself who made man in His own image. 
 
 Man's Soul is a mighty Magnetic Force. It attracts or 
 draws to it that which it likes, repelling the things that it 
 dislikes. 
 
 SOUL SCIENCE TELLS 
 
 The Philosophy of SOUL SCIENCE shows HOW a 
 Soul can be built. It shows how it can be built so as to be 
 PERFECT and Just As You Want It. You are told how to 
 build Success in the financial world and to DRAW the 
 things TO YOU that you NEED and DESIRE. You are 
 shown how to build a healthy body, if you are weak and 
 sickly, so that you can make yourself strong and robust 
 and full of vitality. The path one should follow to step up 
 from a poor, uncultured man or woman to a being of 
 culture, is laid out clearly and concisely. 
 
 The mission of Soul Science is Unity. You can believe 
 in any Religion you desire and still accept every word of it. 
 Its predominating mission is to show humanity that the 
 Great Teacher is here NOW, and is ready and willing to 
 help you find the Christ at His SECOND COMING— the 
 PRESENT. 
 
 This is the only Philosophy that will help you in ALL 
 
188 CHK1STIS1S. 
 
 conditions of life, as it develops all the elements of Physi- 
 cal, Mental and Spiritual existence on an equal plane. De- 
 velopment along- one line to the neglect of others would 
 make of you a Physical, Mental and Moral cripple. 
 
 Your happiness demands good Health, a Prosperous 
 Business, Harmonious Social conditions, and a sane under- 
 standing of a TRUE Philosophy or Religion. ALL these 
 desirable and NECESSARY things will be yours when 
 you understand Soul Science Philosophy, when your soul 
 becomes strong enough to control the affairs of your life. 
 
 The Great Law is that the desire within us to do a thing 
 is PROOF that we have the CAPACITY within us to DO 
 that thing. It is our sacred duty to realize such desires 
 and to recognize and develop to the utmost these powers 
 within us. 
 
 The time is past when men, and especially women, will 
 sit down and fold their hands and wait for things to come 
 to them — things which may NEVER come without the 
 exercise of a great power of SOUL FORCE. 
 
 You perhaps feel that you possess a Power, a Force, 
 which, if you could but learn the proper use of, would 
 help you get the things you want. It is the Development 
 of this Power that we teach, that you may fulfill your 
 desires. 
 
 THE POWER OF THOUGHT. 
 
 If you knew the powers of Thought Force, its laws, its 
 principles, its might, you could dissolve the earth by a 
 single thought and create another one by another thought. 
 Even a limited knowledge of the Laws of Thought, to- 
 gether with the power of thought control, which is gained 
 by Soul Development, will enable you to gratify your every 
 wish. 
 
 This "Magic of the Mind" has been proven time and 
 again to be most powerful for directing things in the way 
 that they are wanted. It has been said that "Mind is All." 
 This is not true, for Mind simply acts as a Builder, and 
 
CHR1ST1S1S. 189 
 
 unless a man builds a soul all dies when the body dies, and 
 the opportunity for an eternally existing soul is forever 
 lost. 
 
 Thought being thus powerful, think how much more 
 powerful must be the Soul which is built by a Mind that 
 understands the Laws, Principles and Powers of thought. 
 
 The thinking of Creative Thoughts, by the AWAKEN- 
 ING of the Soul, or INNER SELF, is the true method for 
 obtaining power, and if this is accomplished in the right 
 way, such a soul, built in such a way, is eternal. 
 
 SPECIAL INSTRUCTION OFFER. 
 
 In order to meet the popular demand for the teachings 
 of SOUL SCIENCE, we make the following offer. 
 
 Those who enroll at once will receive the two text books, 
 "Christhood and Adeptship" and "Soul Science anl Im- 
 mortality," without any extra cost but as part of this 
 course of instructions. 
 
 These instructions are arranged so that one lesson can 
 be mailed each week or every two weeks, as the student 
 may desire. 
 
 These lessons explain Health and Healing, or what is 
 known as Healing Culture. They explain Success Culture, 
 known as Social Science and Success, showing how it is 
 possible to succeed. They explain Special Culture. And 
 last, and most important, they explain SOUL CULTURE 
 or DIVINE Illumination. 
 
 Each student will also receive, without extra cost, the 
 regular lessons of the Church of Divine Illumination, en- 
 titled the International Esoteric and Illuminated Bible 
 Lessons. 
 
 Expressions of voluntary appreciation for the purposes 
 of this movement may be contributed by the students, re- 
 ceipt of which will be recorded. 
 
 This course covers a period of one year and the student 
 is at liberty to write and ask questions upon any part of 
 
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 these studies and will receive personal reply to all such 
 letters. 
 
 Groups of students will be formed at any place where it 
 is possible to do so, for work in unison. 
 
 Students may enroll at any time, the instructions to com- 
 mence immediately after enrollment. 
 
 COST OF COURSE. The cost of the entire course of 
 instructions, including the two text books and the privi- 
 lege of personal letters, is but $25.00. When necessary, 
 special arrangements can be made. 
 
 NOTE. It should be borne in mind that the regular 
 Bible lessons fully explain the teachings of the Bible in the 
 Light of Mysticism and Soul Science. They contain the 
 ESOTERIC meaning received by Divine Illumination. 
 
 THE AWAKENING. People are universally awaking 
 to the fact that Scriptural teachings underlie all successful 
 achievements, whether in business, leadership, character 
 or government, and that when the Scriptures are inter- 
 preted Esoterically they are the best and safest guide. 
 
 Spiritual Teachers. 
 
 The prejudices of the past centuries have been swept 
 away, and never in the history of the world has there been 
 such a demand for TRUE TEACHERS. 
 
 The time has come when workers are needed. The field 
 is large and the workers are few. The Soul cannot ad- 
 vance unless it is active. It must have the chance to Ac- 
 cumulate Force from the planes of those who have 
 achieved great Spiritual Knowledge and Development. It 
 cannot advance if it slumbers any more than man can exist 
 without work. The world is actually starving for Truth. 
 There are many hungry, thirsty, seeking for paths of 
 LIGHT, and we must reach them. 
 
 The Masters of all the ages are with us, lending us 
 
CHRIST1SIS. 191 
 
 strength and power, for the time has come for a great 
 change in the Religious World. 
 
 The Messiah is here and the world knows it not. He has 
 come again even unto His own, but His own know it not. 
 
 It is necessary to send out messengers of Truth, to band 
 all together in one complete order. Souls are worth more 
 than all else, for through Soul all can be achieved. 
 
 Xot only should you enroll for YOUR own Success, but 
 you should take up the great work of Teaching and Heal- 
 ing others. 
 
 Millions are ready and waiting. Your friends who are 
 sick, discouraged and in sorrow will be only too glad to 
 grasp at the Life-line that you will throw to them. 
 
 May we hear from you? 
 
 Address the Director: 
 
 DR. R. SWINBURNE CLYMER, 
 Allextowx, Pa. 
 
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