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EVOLUTION 
 
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 INDIVIDUAL 
 
 A BRIEF EXPOSITION OF THE 
 
 NATURAL IvAWS OF GROWTH AND 
 
 HOW TO ATTAIN MENTAL 
 
 AND BODILY FREEDOM 
 
 BY 
 
 FRANK NFWIyAND DOUD, M. D. 
 
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 By Frank Newland Doud. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 Men and women are filled with phy- 
 sical and mental unrest. They are suf- 
 fering from an inexpressible and seem- 
 ingly unexplainable weariness. The 
 human mind is groping for relief. It 
 has revolted from "the pace that kills. "■ 
 Legislation has not affected a cure nor 
 afforded a panacea. But Somewhere 
 there must be a remedy. Nature nor 
 God never intended that the heart and 
 the mind should be deprived of content- 
 ment, ease and peace. Or, if so deprived, 
 that men and women might not restore 
 themselves to a normal state by the ex- 
 ercise of a reasonable amount of com- 
 mon sense. 
 
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4 PREFACE. 
 
 Natural laws have been in existence 
 since the beginning of things. They 
 are within the knowledge of any man or 
 woman willing to obey them. To per- 
 ceive and follow them is but to remove 
 from the eye of the mind the veil of pre- 
 judice, bias and ignorance. The Creator 
 of all Things never concealed the Truth. 
 If it cannot be seen the fault rests with 
 the human mind. 
 
 The law of rest, of mental equipoise, 
 of exerted will power, of mental as well 
 as physical strength, is to be known 
 through the mere willingness of any 
 one to know. The truths offered in 
 the following chapters are not a scien- 
 tific dissertation upon certain well- 
 known natural laws, not a treatise nor 
 thesis, but a few simple suggestions of 
 how to most easily and quickly reach 
 the Truth — knowledge of the law of 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 spiritual and physical contentment and 
 growth. Human life is hungry for Rest. 
 Rest is here offered. 
 
 The Author. 
 
CHAPTER I. 
 
 CHILD-GROWTH AND CONTENTMENT. 
 
 Human life has its inception in the 
 child and the growth or evolution of a 
 child from the suckling babe to posses- 
 sion of the qualities of perception, dis- 
 crimination and judgment is the most 
 wonderful phenomena the world has 
 had given to it by natural law, 
 
 A child yet warm upon the cheek 
 from cozening the mother's breast is a 
 god in freedom of action and first 
 thought-impressions. He passes from 
 one stage of development to another 
 with the ease and fleetness of a new- 
 winged Mercury. He is unhampered by 
 
O EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 the physical ailments of later years or 
 the future doubts, unrest and bias of the 
 mind. 
 
 The meaning of the swirl of life 
 about him is unknown. The cause of 
 
 human actions is to him as a sealed 
 book. He toils not, neither does he 
 spin, but (if he have ordinarily good 
 health) he is a fairy sprite in a wonder- 
 land he does not understand, but which 
 is marvellously fascinating. Be he de- 
 cently clothed and sensibly fed he is un- 
 hampered, a king in a world he does not 
 understand, master, without care of 
 knowledge; supreme. 
 
 As his eyes open more and more to 
 the apparent splendors of his possessions 
 he distinguishes bright colors and hears 
 voices. He does not pretend to separate 
 the colors into their prismatic classes, 
 nor to separate the gruff voice from the 
 
CHII,D-GROWTH AND CONTENTMENT. 9 
 
 sweet one, except that the former opens 
 his eyes a trifle farther than the latter. 
 In a little time he shall know his own 
 voice and not be startled by it. For the 
 present it is sufficient to him that his 
 juvenile sense of sight and hearing have 
 been appealed to. 
 
 In but a few weeks he is master of 
 the household. His nod is more potent 
 than the sway of scepters. His troubles 
 are the troubles of all. He dimly per- 
 ceives that any agitation upon his own 
 part brings him attention and caresses, 
 not so frequent when he is at rest. He 
 is the center of a household, whose 
 sweet mysteries he is to master before 
 the world outside shall be approached 
 by him. His growth is upward. All 
 his inward sources of energy are welling 
 upward. He is building, not destroy- 
 
10 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 ing. He is conserving or storing up, 
 not exhausting. 
 
 He passes into new stages. The 
 horizon of the household is now too nar- 
 row for him. He must look beyond. 
 His mind grows more retentive. Things 
 once unknown, or perceived and not 
 understood, now take on a definite mean- 
 ing. He is absorbing knowledge and 
 making more or less effort to classify 
 and assimilate the same. He is still a 
 great human reservoir of power, not 
 drained by leaks and wastes, not falsely 
 tapped by those thieves of the mind 
 through whom all human Unrest be- 
 comes the nightmare of living and being. 
 
 Thus the child, now boy, and now 
 young master, passes like a god from 
 one plane of life to another — each tran- 
 sition a step upward — until he enters 
 the age of reason. To this instant he 
 
CHILD-GROWTH AND CONTENTMENT. 11 
 
 has been bold, strenuous, confident, as 
 becomes a prince of the palaces and 
 kingdom of Nature. Life to this 
 moment has been to him a song, a 
 rythm of the heart, finding constant 
 expression upon the lips. All youth is 
 represented by poets and philosophers 
 as coming up to the serious responsibil- 
 ities of life with a song, the fanfare of 
 trumpets and the melody of sweet 
 strings. Intuitively, poet and philoso- 
 pher recognize that the first stages of 
 youth are guarded by the handmaid 
 Hope and her companion, Inspiration. 
 Why, then, should the song cease, the 
 singer's lips become dumb, when the 
 hand of Reason is taken for all future 
 guidance? Does Reason wear a shroud 
 or come ,to Youth with roses and the 
 wreath of laurel? 
 
 But, by false impressions, false intu- 
 
12 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 itions and false example, the youth now 
 approaching manhood faces Reason, 
 hesitates, halts, stops, and, at last, in 
 natural force, brain energy and bodily 
 strength begin to travel downward, 
 no longer upward, until all he gained in 
 earlier years is lost and he is laid in his 
 grave with the ashes of his hopes. 
 
 Since the world began, since man 
 first perceived his own possibilities, 
 there has been no problem so near to his 
 dearest hopes as that of prolonging 
 Youth, of banishing Age, of keeping 
 the song as sweet (if not sweeter) on 
 the lips at fifty than when the lips 
 were but sixteen. 
 
 Why should the decline begin with 
 the approach of Reason and the matur- 
 ing of the body? Why, after physical 
 maturity is reached, should the human 
 mind turn toward the open grave 
 
CHIIyD-GROWTH AND CONTENTMENT. 13 
 
 beyond and not fix its thought upon the 
 stars of the heavens? Why, because 
 the body is rounded out, the limbs in 
 full possession of their powers, should 
 the growth of thought, self-power, 
 mental vitality and acute comprehen- 
 sion cease? Where is there a law of 
 Nature that bids such stoppage of 
 growth? Why should man or woman 
 falter at that moment when they are 
 nearest to the greatest possible human 
 strength, turn back, and descend to 
 the grave with the falling of tears? 
 What arrests their onward growth and 
 progress? 
 
 These questions thinkers have been 
 asking since the days of Plato, since 
 Atlantis was and passed away, since 
 the Egyptians studied the stars, and 
 the Christ walked by Galilee and 
 taught the human being lessons of self- 
 
14 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL 
 
 denial. The answers to these questions 
 contain every principle upon which 
 life, growth and happiness depend. 
 The questions concern each individual 
 life in existence. The answers pre- 
 dicate the eternal happiness of each 
 individual life, if accepted in the 
 spirit of Truth. It is the duty of 
 the individual to seek these answers, 
 feeling that in the research and final 
 triumph, the first principles of life, and 
 therefore of the universe, will work 
 themselves out, bringing in their train 
 mastery of bodily ills and perpetual rest 
 and peace for the mental powers. It is 
 with the individual first facing the 
 realm of Reason that we pass on to a 
 consideration of the questions which 
 perplex all mankind. 
 
CHAPTER II 
 
 THE THEORY OF VIBRATIONS, 
 
 Science has long since accepted the 
 theory of vibrations as a fact. We 
 know now that objects appearing solid 
 to our vision are in reality composed of 
 atoms. These atoms are vibrating with 
 a rapidity not measurable by the ordi- 
 nary inventions of man. The X or 
 Roentgen ray passes between these 
 atoms as an arrow might be shot be- 
 tween the spokes of a rapidly revolving 
 wheel. 
 
 The vibratory and atomic theories 
 are intense realities now. Hence it is 
 no longer difficult for the reasoner or 
 
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16 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 the searcher for Truth to determine 
 that the only actual difference between 
 a piece of gold, a granite pebble, hy- 
 drogen gas or a limestone block, is 
 the speed and character of the vibra- 
 tions. It is easy to recognize then that 
 all matter in the universe is of but one 
 substance, whose attributes and seen 
 and unseen manifestations depend en- 
 tirely upon the nature of the vibra- 
 tions. 
 
 Nor is it impossible for the finite 
 mind to then comprehend that the terms 
 ' ' spirit' ' and ' 'matter" are but terms; 
 that in truth they are one, and that the 
 realms higher than the ordinary stage 
 of living are but planes on which higher 
 and finer vibrations prevail than those 
 affecting mankind living in ordinary 
 conditions. It matters not that these 
 vibrations of ethereal spheres seem to us 
 
THE THEORY OF VIBRATIONS. 17 
 
 unsubstantial; they would not if our 
 minds and bodies were fitted to receive 
 them. So it naturally follows if spirit 
 and matter are one, only changing 
 in characteristics as the vibratory force 
 changes, mind and matter are one and 
 not distinct substances. 
 
 The mind is but the higher vibra- 
 tions of the same origin as the order of 
 lower vibrations that produce the body. 
 In conformity to universal law the 
 higher vibrations dominate and mold or 
 shape the lower; the mind controls the 
 body. 
 
 Once the mind normally accustoms 
 itself to the thought that the universe 
 is composed of but one substance a 
 vast array of misconceptions are re- 
 moved. They are cast aside as useless 
 garments which have only served to 
 impede progress. Then the mind draws 
 
18 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 nearer to clear appreciation of the unity, 
 the oneness, of all things, and compre- 
 hends as never before the plan of 
 Creation. Omnipresence, the power of 
 the Universal Spirit, the Om Padme 
 Horn of the Buddhist, the Tao of the 
 Chinese, dawn upon the mind as reali- 
 ties, no longer shadowy outlines of a 
 dead and distant Past. 
 
 In serious thought of the law of 
 vibrations it must be taken into consid- 
 eration that the sun is now vibrating at 
 an infinitely higher rate than the earth 
 or any of the planets. This superb orb 
 is to us the source of all life-motion, 
 life-energy, and power. If it were not 
 giving off its fine vibrations gravity and 
 stasis would have full sway and not 
 even a blade of grass could force its way 
 through the bosom of the earth, up- 
 ward, to greet its source of strength. 
 
THE THEORY OF VIBRATIONS. 19 
 
 The fine vibrations which emanate from 
 the sun contain the only life or vital 
 power we know, and the only force we 
 can feel and measure. Without these 
 vibrations the earth could not support 
 a single living cell. 
 
 There would be neither microbes nor 
 men, for the power of the sun is practi- 
 cally the one and only power we know. 
 It is the great motive-energy center of 
 this planet. Make this knowledge 
 practical to yourself. Open your mind, 
 be receptive, and understand that in 
 listening to the chords of a symphony, 
 in rushing through space upon a loco- 
 motive, in cheering over the power of 
 an oration, in weeping or rejoicing, you 
 are but witnessing and manifesting the 
 power which comes to us from the sun, 
 and from the sun alone. 
 
 The candle light, the flash of elec- 
 
20 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 tricity, the drop of the rain, the swirl 
 of the wind, the flow of streams, as well 
 as the ebb and flow of human activity, 
 are all but different manifestations of 
 the power of the sun taken in, refracted 
 and reflected by earth and man. Growth 
 and development of power in plants, 
 animals and man hinge upon the abil- 
 ity of each to absorb the high vibra- 
 tions from the sun and assimilate them 
 with the lower earth vibrations. 
 Growth and life are but manifestations 
 of sun and earth vibrations. The sun 
 vibrations are the finer and work in- 
 wardly; those of the earth work out- 
 wardly and are the lower or coarser. 
 The earth vibrations predominate in 
 the bones and those of the sun in the 
 brain. 
 
 When the sun and earth, eons ago, 
 were both fiery balls of gas, life mani- 
 
THE THEORY OF VIBRATIONS. 21 
 
 festations on earth were not possible. 
 Life came only when the earth vibra- 
 tions were so lowered that a vast differ- 
 ence existed between their rate and 
 those of the sun. The sun remained, 
 and is fiery and homogeneous. Upon 
 the cooling and vibration-decreasing 
 earth individualized concrete matter 
 appeared. The difference between the 
 sun and earth vibrations produced the 
 phenomena of life. Individualized mat- 
 ter preceded the coming or evolution of 
 the individual. Rock cannot grow or 
 take on life form until it disintegrates; 
 takes on a greater vibratory motion. 
 For rock to produce even vegetable life 
 it must be blended with the higher 
 vibrations of water and the still higher 
 of nitrogen and oxygen. Then the com- 
 bined vibrations may rise to such a rate 
 as to permit the integration of still 
 
22 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 higher vibrations from the sun. Mani- 
 festation of life will follow such pro- 
 cess. 
 
 All life forms are composed of vibra- 
 tions, scaled from the individualized 
 matter of earth upward through those 
 of water and the gases of nitrogen, 
 oxygen and so on to the fine vibrations of 
 the sun. All sun vibrations are distinct 
 from earth vibrations. The sun vibra- 
 tion is the power that applied to the 
 ingredients of earth forms them first 
 into vegetable and then animal shapes. 
 Under their influence lime, soda, and 
 their kindred substances cease to be 
 inert matter and become living, potent- 
 ial factors. 
 
 In man the greatest sun-power or 
 vibration is not his bone, his blood, the 
 matter of his heart, the strands of his 
 sinew and muscle. There is but one 
 
THE THEORY OF VIBRATIONS. 23 
 
 center in man in which the sun -power is 
 fully and freely detected. In his brain 
 are the manifestations of the power of 
 the source of all light, heat and life. 
 The definition of mind is strangely like 
 that of sun-power or life. The sun is 
 the source of all life. It destroys the 
 inertia of earth. Vegetable life lifts its 
 tops away from earth to the sky under 
 its influence. The animal evolutes from 
 a few cells to a thing that moves freely 
 over the earth by force of this sun- 
 power. The complex body of man de- 
 velops under its influence gaining the 
 five senses and a rational mind. 
 
 It is not then illogical nor to be dis- 
 t puted by mere assertion to affirm that 
 the sun is the great mind center of the 
 earth and that all life forms are but 
 manifestations of sun- vibrations. This 
 does not imply either that the sun- 
 
24 evolution of The individual. 
 
 vibration is but material and that man 
 has but an animal origin and an animal 
 end. The sun can yet but be known to 
 us as a mass of fire and gas. Astron- 
 omers now believe that we only see an 
 envelope of condensed luminous matter 
 around the sun and that the great center 
 itself is to us invisible because too fine 
 and of too rapid a vibration for our eyes 
 to perceive. We owe to the sun light 
 and heat, and as life would not be pos- 
 sible with these absent we therefore owe 
 to it our very existence. If we owe 
 our material shapes to the sun why is 
 it not responsible for our finer con- 
 sciousness, that which we call mind, the 
 dominating factor of all human life. 
 There are invisible sun rays just as the 
 arc light or the gas jet gives off rays 
 unseen by the human eye. That we 
 have perception of any but the broader, 
 
THE THEORY OF VIBRATIONS. 25 
 
 coarser sun rays or vibrations is doubt- 
 ful. But it is not doubtful to science 
 or philosophy that so far as our exist- 
 ence is concerned it begins with the sun 
 and is controlled by it. 
 
 Mind and matter are inter-related. 
 The mind shapes and matter is rela- 
 tively inert. The sun and earth are 
 closely related, the sun molding, the 
 earth now relatively inert. The earth 
 vibrations are vastly less than those of 
 the sun and less potent. Is it not prob- 
 able that the mental element in all 
 human life is identical with the sun ele- 
 ment, which we know is an absolutely 
 essential factor of life? Consciousness 
 seems to be born where sun and earth, 
 mental and physical vibrations meet. 
 The ceaseless action of the internal, 
 directing sun life and the reaction of 
 the earth vibrations evolves the plane 
 
26 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 of conscious life. Psychologists have 
 always written of the threshold plane 
 of consciousness. 
 
 In the minute vegetable and animal 
 forms the play of life forces is slight 
 and consciousness is only perceived 
 through the microscope of logic. 
 
 But as the forms grow from the 
 comparatively stolid vegetable to the 
 more complex animal plane, the measure 
 of consciousness increases with the en- 
 ergy until in man it reaches a degree 
 designated as self-consciousness. 
 
 Consciousness after all is but the 
 attrition of outward and inward forces, 
 one upon the other, and all having their 
 origin in the sun and the earth-mass 
 itself. Attrition produces change and 
 change provokes knowledge, and knowl- 
 edge is but consciousness of things. If 
 concentration of mind be attempted, 
 
THE) THEORY OF VIBRATIONS. 27 
 
 reduction of thought to a single focus 
 follows, sense of life ceases, and we 
 have what is termed sleep. And sleep 
 is but conscious life absorbed for the 
 time in the inner and finer sun vibra- 
 tions of the mind. It is but renewal, 
 fresh preparation for a return of con- 
 sciousness, and participation in the 
 affairs of earth life. 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 
 THE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN. 
 
 We have taken the child from his 
 birth to where he faces Reason, hesi- 
 tates and retreats. We have seen how 
 plausible and logical it is that the force- 
 giving power of life, the basis of the 
 brain and the body, the support of spir- 
 itual and physical life, radiates from 
 the sun, aided by individualized earth 
 vibrations. We have taken into due 
 consideration the scientific fact that 
 many, perhaps a majority of sun vibra- 
 tions as well as those of earth, are not 
 only unseen, but so subtle in their in- 
 fluence that they are not even felt con- 
 sciously. 
 
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THE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN. 29 
 
 Let us further consider the things 
 seen and unseen, that which we know 
 by sight and that which we realize but 
 by logic, although capable (with devel- 
 opment) of knowing. Two phases of 
 one force, two influences from one 
 source, cause all the phenomena of the 
 visible world. The forming of a sun, 
 the flaming of a candle, the production 
 of a poem are but manifestations of 
 these common yet differing influences. 
 
 Use of the eyes, of a microscope or 
 a telescope but reveal the working of 
 these twin phases. The man lifting 
 steel bars, the builder of a steamship, 
 the writer of a sonata, is only in a sense 
 the servant of these powers. But let 
 us add a thought to this truth. That 
 is, that all things or forms, whether 
 celestial or terrestial, sun or river, star 
 or forest, came from an unseen to a seen 
 
30 EVOLUTION OF THK INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 stage, and must inevitably return to the 
 unseen. This journey to and return, is 
 to man — life — to matter — eternity. All 
 the operations of the universe of which 
 we are cognizant take place during this 
 journey. Is this doubted ? 
 
 Stand in the Iyick Observatory on 
 that great point overlooking the Pacific 
 and glance through the lens made by 
 Clark, the largest in the world. You 
 see nothing but a blur of light, a white 
 mass filled with dark holes, some rings, 
 and the like. L<et an astronomer take 
 your place and he sees just what has 
 been asserted, the journey of matter 
 from the unseen to the seen, the forma- 
 tion of solar systems upon precisely the 
 same plan as our own was evolved from 
 a space filled with gas or ether. 
 
 He sees out of the invisible the first 
 leap of the nebula — that which we call 
 
THE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN. 31 
 
 the Milky Way. He sees it swirl to 
 that form in which it is light and heat- 
 giving. He notes the appearance of 
 the floculi, the shaping of a fiery ball 
 which for a time has a flaming tail. 
 This ball has a diameter of millions of 
 miles. Condensation comes, the diam- 
 eter is reduced, portions of the ball 
 shoot off, satellary planets are formed, 
 rings and a central part or hub. Vapors 
 sweep over the new formed planets 
 until they are reduced to water; and 
 when the waters part and seek their 
 final place the concrete earth appears 
 and is kissed by the dawn-dip of a sun. 
 This sun is still luminous, fiery, but 
 the planets in which the work of con- 
 densation has been more rapid are com- 
 paratively inert. Why? What is the 
 underlying principle of this creation of 
 something from nothing. What has 
 
32 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 dragged matter from the invisibility of 
 space? Natural philosophy, science, 
 answer — loss of motion, loss of certain 
 activities, a slowing of the vibrations. 
 Think you this is impossible? Attach 
 a steel rod to an engine which can give 
 it vibrations as rapid as 1,000,000 or 
 2,000,000 a minute and you shall see part 
 of that self-same rod dissolve and disap- 
 pear into space, unseen, then when the 
 vibratory power ceases there remains 
 but a lessened lump of steel needing 
 again the fashioning of man. 
 
 So in the formation of the planets 
 when from the invisible some vibratory 
 force was taken through a law we need 
 not inquire into, there appeared a 
 vapor of light and as the loss of activity 
 continued this vapor condensed and 
 shaped until a solid earth rose from the 
 Unknown to the Known and the seas 
 
The seen and the unseen, 33 
 
 laved the sands upon which primeval 
 man was to trace his way upward and 
 onward to the goal of rest and perfec- 
 tion. This is the process, through 
 which our earth passed and all there is 
 upon it and the cycle will have been 
 completed when all manifestation shall 
 have ceased and that which is seen 
 returns to the unseen and is one with 
 the beginning and the end. 
 
 Thus we see that the two phases 
 influencing all natural phenomena are 
 those of loss of motion and its reaction, 
 an absorption of motion. They have 
 two other names perhaps more plain to 
 the ordinary mind — integration and dis- 
 integration. Integration is the loss or 
 cessation of vibratory force and the 
 coming into the seen or known; disin- 
 tegration is the absorption of motion 
 or activity and return to the invisible. 
 
34 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 We may then venture another asser- 
 tion. The quality of all life, whether 
 vegetable or animal, depends upon 
 whether integration or passing into 
 * the visible, or disintegration, passing 
 into the invisible, is dominant, and in 
 what proportion. The seed in the 
 ground will disintegrate without sun- 
 influence. When the warm rays enter 
 or integrate, it bursts its casing and 
 moves upward to the surface of the 
 earth to obtain a still greater integra- 
 tion. So long as a tree or plant can 
 absorb sun-energy integration proceeds; 
 when this is no longer possible disin- 
 tegration follows. Any slowing of 
 vibrations or hardening in plant or 
 animal life means a consequent shutting 
 out of sun-energy and then disintegra- 
 tion, or dissolution follows. With dis- 
 integration completed — absorption of 
 
?HE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN. 35 
 
 motion and raising of vibration — there 
 is a new storage of sun-energy, an ability 
 to again vibrate in harmony with the 
 sun, and a return in a life-form to the 
 seen or integrate. 
 
 It is important that the conception 
 of disintegration be as clear in the mind 
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 visible and returning to the invisible; 
 integration and disintegration might be 
 illustrated by taking as an example the 
 different characters of hydrogen and 
 oxygen gases as manifest during differ- 
 ent rates of vibration. 
 
 In this case integration or slowing 
 of vibrations and condensation begins 
 
36 EVOttmON OF THE) INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 when two items of hydrogen unite with 
 one of oxygen forming steam which is 
 also invisible. A further lowering of 
 vibrations produces steam vapor which 
 is the same as we see escaping from loco- 
 motives or issuing from the teapot. 
 More loss of vibratory force gives water 
 and the additional loss of motion gives 
 solid ice. All these changes were pro- 
 duced solely by the lowering of the 
 vibrations of the atoms. As motion is 
 absorbed the same stages are passed 
 through back to the unseen gases, which 
 corresponds to disintegration. 
 
 Returning to the tree when it first 
 pushes through the ground as a tiny 
 green shoot its atoms vibrate about as 
 rapidly as water. There is, however, 
 a gradual hardening or slowing of the 
 vibrations until in time it becomes so 
 low a rate of vibration that it is no 
 
THE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN. 37 
 
 longer attuned to the sun vibrations, 
 then integration ceases and disintegra- 
 tion begins. Disintegration is a slow 
 burning which raises the vibrations and 
 resolves most of the form into invisible 
 gases leaving only a handful of earthy 
 matter or ashes. When the tree stops 
 growing it is like the ice and like that 
 when motion is absorbed the atoms go 
 towards the invisible and are ready to 
 become part of another form. 
 
 Disintegration means the destruction 
 of the individual tree or life form, but 
 the restoration of the atoms to a vibra- 
 tory rate that again puts them in the 
 current of life. 
 
 The journey is unceasing. It knows 
 no such word as "Death." It is a 
 process of formation and reformation 
 regulated by the rate of vibration. It 
 is a pendulum perpetually swinging 
 
38 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 from the seen to the unseen and back 
 again. It cannnot end until earth and 
 moon and sun and stars have gone their 
 appointed way and swung back again, 
 for the last time, into the ethereal, 
 unseen region from which they first 
 came. 
 
 Man's body, it is estimated, when 
 resolved into its elements occupies at 
 least twenty times the space it does as 
 a living organism, and when disinteg- 
 rated leaves only a handful of ashes. 
 The three gases, oxygen, hydrogen and 
 nitrogen alone form 83.6 per cent, of its 
 entire weight. The marvelous human 
 manifestations of power are obtained 
 by the reduction of these gases and still 
 finer sun vibrations to the living form 
 with but a little individualized earthy 
 matter as a foundation. Just as in- 
 
The seen and the unseen. 39 
 
 visible steam when it loses some of its 
 vibratory force becomes visible and 
 gives this force to move the engine, and 
 electricity loses some of its invisible 
 vibration when it lights a lamp or pro- 
 pels a motor, human power is produced 
 by the invisible becoming visible. 
 
 There is no manifestation of life 
 motion or power in the universe, except 
 as it comes primarily from a slowing 
 or an increasing of the vibration of the 
 atoms. 
 
 All forms are continually receiving 
 atoms from the invisible, or losing them 
 into the invisible. The animal bodies 
 are both receiving and giving off. The 
 atoms which are just coming into a 
 visible structure by losing motion, that 
 is integrating, or just leaving it, dis- 
 integrating, produce the aura of matter 
 
40 
 
 EVOLUTION OF The individual 
 
 visible under certain conditions, as 
 shown in Reichenbach's experiments. 
 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 THE CHECKING OF GROWTH, 
 
 Returning to the child we will en- 
 deavor to make clear the manner in 
 which youth gradually shuts out the 
 integrating growing force, and comes 
 under the dominance of disintegration 
 and dissolution. 
 
 Physiologically, we know, that the 
 body and brain of the child develop at 
 a higher rate of vibration than those of 
 the grown person. The child's physique 
 and brain structure, are soft, pliable, 
 elastic, contain more gases and less 
 earthy matter than those of the adult. 
 Their fine, high rate of vibration brings 
 them into clear harmony with those fine 
 
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42 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 and higher vibrations of the sun, and 
 we have seen that it is the influx of the 
 sun-vibrations or energy which produces 
 life and growth. 
 
 Because the child is in harmony with 
 the sun-energy it grows stronger and 
 more powerful each year in spite of the 
 enormous amount of energy it gives off 
 in performing the functions of living. 
 But as time passes the child mind be- 
 comes filled with the images of the 
 material shapes surrounding it. Its 
 thoughts and desires are concentrated 
 upon the low earth vibrations, those far 
 removed from the sun's force. 
 
 This concentration upon the vibra- 
 tions which are low enough to be rec- 
 ognized by the senses gradually serves 
 to bring the body to the same low rate 
 of vibration, turns the mind away from 
 the invisible, and prevents the influx or 
 
the checking of growth. 43 
 
 integration of the sun energy. The 
 body and brain become like the trunk of 
 a tree, sans the fine, soft leaves — the 
 leaves that alone can receive the sun 
 vibrations which give the capacity to 
 grow. 
 
 Upon the same principle the musi- 
 cian who thought only of business 
 would in time have little in common 
 with his art. The woman who becomes 
 a household drudge gets into an en- 
 tirely different world from that of her 
 girlhood days, and she can no more take 
 up their arts and accomplishments than 
 she can those of some unknown business. 
 
 As stated, there is a gradual dimin- 
 uition of the vibrations and a drawing 
 closer together of the bodily atoms after 
 the flush of youth, which continues 
 during the passage from thence to full 
 maturity and old age. It is not sufficient 
 
4 4 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 for healthful existence to keep the body 
 supplied with pure food and air; with 
 the absorption of these earth and in- 
 direct sun vibrations the mind must 
 absorb some invisible vibrations direct 
 from the sun. If this does not take 
 place the system expends more energy 
 than it receives, and the deficiency is 
 supplied by the bodily atoms drawing 
 closer together, following a well-known 
 law. 
 
 The mind can receive vibrations 
 from the sun directly and the body, 
 indirectly, through food and air. The 
 system of the child is open to receive 
 freely both direct and indirect sun 
 vibrations, and there is as much crea- 
 tive force in existence for the parents 
 as the child. The one advantage which 
 the child has over the parents is in the 
 recent and fresh poising of the mind, 
 
THE CHECKING OF GROWTH. 45 
 
 a mind not yet warped by an accumula- 
 tion of sense-impressions or images of 
 material things. The rate of vibrations 
 is higher in the child than in the parents 
 and therefore more in harmony with the 
 vibrations of the sun. 
 
 Creative power does not lie in things 
 or shapes, for all forms are partly, at 
 least, under the domination of the disin- 
 tegrating principle. Creative power is 
 only manifested by passage from the 
 unseen to the seen. It cannot be taken 
 out of things but must come from the 
 unseen. 
 
 Things or shapes bar an influx of 
 power, as rocks in profusion destroy the 
 richness of a garden. Man's past and 
 present anxiety has been confined to his 
 relations to the material things and 
 personalities he can perceive with his 
 five senses. He has blinded brain and 
 
46 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL,. 
 
 its capacities to knowledge of the finer 
 power which alone gave him life — which 
 alone can sustain life and make it 
 one perpetual growth upward. His 
 mind is like the plant which hidden from 
 the sun by banks of earth, droops, fades 
 in the darkness and damp and finally 
 dies. Yet the plant when first drawn 
 from the earth by the sun power, when 
 first influenced by it, was vigorous and 
 growing. Deprivation of necessary sun 
 power ended its existence. 
 
 The entire question of prolonging 
 youth indefinitely, of discovering Ponce 
 de Leon's Fountain of Youth; of draw- 
 ing always nearer and nearer to the 
 Happy Isles, the Land of EJlysia, is 
 simply the decipherable problem of 
 maintaining body and brain at the same 
 high rate of vibration, that is, in har- 
 mony with the fine vibrations given out 
 
THE CHECKING OF GROWTH. 47 
 
 by the sun, and receiving a persistent and 
 unending influx of them. The necessary, 
 certain result is a perpetual growth in 
 strength, power and mastery. 
 
 As the vibrations of the body are re- 
 duced in rate they are less in harmony 
 with the sun vibrations. In time the sun 
 power is barred. The body finds closer 
 relations with the low, earth vibrations. 
 It literally descends to the earth level 
 and yields itself a slave to the force of 
 gravity. The aged no longer move 
 about with the freedom once given by 
 sun energy. Their bodies incline toward 
 the earth. The lines of the face crease 
 downward. The mental and physical 
 environment grows narrower. The in- 
 evitable end is the inability of the sun 
 power to penetrate the organism, to 
 longer affect it. 
 
 When integration from the unseen 
 
48 EVOLUTION Otf THI$ INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 ends, individual life on this sphere ends, 
 and disintegration has full sway. 
 
 Sun power has created and animated 
 every form upon the earth. Science 
 has proven that primeval forms were 
 crude and coarse compared with those 
 of to-day. With the progress of the 
 ages finer forms, with more complex 
 natures developed. Finer, more potent 
 vibrations became shapes. This pro- 
 cess of the embodiment of finer vibra- 
 tions, more mind or sun vibrations, less 
 earth vibrations, can be clearly traced 
 in the entire growth of the material 
 world and humanity, from the first begin- 
 nings to the man of to-day with his 
 complicated life; and his possession of 
 more mastery than ever before. 
 
 Evolution then is the continued en- 
 trance into shapes of finer and finer 
 vibrations. It is not a rapid process. 
 
THE CHECKING OF GROWTH. 
 
 49 
 
 Individual life which can maintain the 
 necessary rate of vibration, increasing 
 it ever so slowly, may keep har- 
 monious step with all the ages and 
 remain young with all life. The rosy 
 child grows and thrives upon the same 
 air and sunshine as surrounds the par- 
 ents and old age tottering by its side. 
 The sole difference between child and 
 parent is ability to receive integrating 
 power — that power surrounding both, 
 within the grasp of all. 
 
 Man has sought the fountain of 
 youth in things outside of himself. He 
 has in the search turned his back upon 
 the real fountain within himself, choked 
 with the false growth of sense impres- 
 sions. The fountain of youth, of eternal 
 life, is within. When sought in man's 
 own consciousness, disappointment and 
 failure will no longer be his lot. 
 
SO EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 When the law of integration and 
 disintegration, of higher and lower 
 vibrations, has received the same study 
 as has been given to electricity, the 
 results will be infinitely more astonish- 
 ing, infinitely more beneficial to human 
 kind. The true understanding of this 
 most simple of laws means the solution 
 of every problem of life, the drawing 
 into close communion with the one great 
 heart of the Universe— living and mov- 
 ing in the radiance of the One power* 
 
CHAPTER V, 
 
 LOVE AND DESIRE. 
 
 We understand now the first prin- 
 ciples of life and we may have a glimpse 
 of the laws of love and life. But that 
 this knowledge should be of any value 
 to us we must take the first step in 
 making application of the principles 
 to ourselves. We cannot do that unless 
 we see clearly what we ought to love 
 and what we ought to desire. Desire 
 and love alone decide whether we shall 
 progress upward or downward. 
 
 Some think that will power decides 
 character. On the contrary it is our 
 desires, back of will, that decide in what 
 direction the latter shall be used, The 
 
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52 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 man who plans highway robbery is fol- 
 lowing the desire, which he thinks will 
 bring him the most pleasure, the miser 
 pursues his desire, the drunkard is 
 dominated by his. No man really rises 
 to and improves upon a higher plane 
 without having higher desires. 
 
 What all men are seeking is perma- 
 nent contentment or happiness. 
 
 One thinks money will secure this, 
 another believes fame to be the panacea, 
 another seeks it in art. All these have 
 good in them but as an ultimate they 
 fail entirely to satisfy. They cannot 
 give full human satisfaction. When 
 won they prove to be but bagatelles. 
 They do not change the condition of the 
 real man. Man has desired and secured 
 every object upon the face of the earth. 
 Not one has brought permanent happi- 
 ness. 
 
LOVE AND DKSIRE. 53 
 
 If then, all earthly things turn to 
 ashes in his hands, what shall he desire? 
 Simply No-thing, but the creative power 
 that forms all things. 
 
 Man should desire creative and creat- 
 ing power instead of created things. 
 Instead of longing to possess certain 
 earthly objects or external conditions 
 and making them the ultimate of his 
 desires, he should aim to make himself 
 the conductor through which finer and 
 finer vibrations will find expression 
 upon this plane. Man still needs money, 
 jewels, paintings, fine horses and beauti- 
 ful homes and other treasures. But a 
 new era is dawning in which they will 
 be but mile stones that mark his pro- 
 gress upward, not the aim or object of 
 his journey. 
 
 Fame and friendship, then, will no 
 longer be the aim of the enlightened 
 
54 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 man but that which flows naturally to 
 him because of his refinement, his power 
 and his growth. Barthly objects as a 
 sole aim do not bring to man content- 
 ment and happiness, but slavery. For 
 they can never be the real objective 
 point of his life. No man that is normal 
 can be really satisfied to have everything 
 he needs given to him. What he most 
 desires and seeks, more or less blindly, 
 is the power to command what he needs, 
 and to attract those who can aid him. 
 In this lies the key to the true philos- 
 ophy of life. The key that will liberate 
 man from his slavery to earthly com- 
 missions and enable him to begin im- 
 mediately a magnificent, all conquering 
 march towards perfection. 
 
 Man does not wish to beg money but 
 to control the power that commands it. 
 Man does not wish to solicit another 
 
I,OVE AND DESIRE. 55 
 
 man or woman to love him but to mani- 
 fest such lovable qualities and power 
 that he commands it and it comes to him 
 naturally and without effort. 
 
 Power, then, more and finer power, 
 is in reality the object, the goal of man's 
 desire. If it is ample it will gratify 
 every craving. The continual influx of 
 finer and more potent power will bring 
 to man from all parts of the world that 
 which he needs, with a certainty as un- 
 erring as gravity draws water down- 
 ward. This power cannot be resisted— 
 this sun power — and no one but man 
 himself can prevent himself from receiv- 
 ing its invincible strength. 
 
 From the mind a great burden is 
 lifted, once unity of desire is recognized. 
 Much of our anxiety and suffering is 
 caused by the conflict of different de- 
 sires. But unification of desire gives 
 
56 EVOLUTION OF the; individual. 
 
 a new poise and a clear focus to the 
 mind. Each advance in unification 
 brings greater permanent freedom and 
 a new illumination of mind and body. 
 The steady influx of finer powder brings 
 harmonious surroundings. Each man's 
 environment is an expression of the 
 kind and character of his power. When 
 the mind is clearly concentrated in one 
 direction no obstacle can remain in its 
 path. Nothing but a conflict of desires 
 hinders our permanent success. There 
 are countless instances of poor men with 
 slight mental capacities who have gained 
 fortunes by concentration of mind upon 
 money making. They won, but the 
 object of their desires ended in enslav- 
 ing them. Many people desire money 
 above all things but they also desire 
 many things that prevent their saving 
 money. Other people like ease and 
 
I,OV# AND DKSIRS. 57 
 
 would rather think of pleasure than bus- 
 iness. Thus they are swayed from 
 side to side with a sacrificing of power 
 through conflicting desires. Progress 
 under such conditions is almost impos- 
 sible. 
 
 The desire for power will bring bus- 
 iness success and at the same time 
 happiness and freedom. Every individ- 
 ual should then strive for power, more 
 power and finer power, for the finer is 
 always the more potent. If man desires 
 power he must look for it where it 
 abides, and open his consciousness to it. 
 The highest and finest power is cer- 
 tainly not to be found in any integrated, 
 or so called material object. Man, in- 
 stead of looking to things for the aim 
 and object of his life, must open his 
 mind to integration of the finer vibra- 
 tions of evolution. He must study his 
 
58 EVOLUTION OF The individual. 
 
 relation to the one power and learn how 
 he can favor the integration of more 
 and finer vibrations into his brain, body 
 and surroundings. Man now shuts out 
 from his mind the growing perfecting 
 principle. This is why he does not 
 manifest greater and greater power. 
 This is why he does not progress 
 toward perfection and does not thor- 
 oughly master this plane of life To 
 succeed he must concentrate all desire 
 upon power and not upon a number of 
 objects. Power must be the only desire. 
 This removes desire from out of the 
 realm of the visible world and leaves 
 man not a single object to pin his desire 
 upon. It compels him to move desire 
 toward the source of life, to carry it 
 into the realm of the invisible. Man's 
 eyes are lifted away from the earth and 
 his mind is opened to the invisible vibra- 
 
I.OVE AND DESIRfC. 59 
 
 tions of power which are too fine to be 
 seen and too powerful to be imprisoned 
 in any earthly object. 
 
 This recognition of the one desire 
 which comprehends all others not only 
 causes the harmonious growth of the 
 individual, but tends to unify humanity 
 by attuning each and all to the One 
 power. 
 
 Great is the revelation, too, when it 
 is realized, that by this recognition the 
 poorest, lowest and humblest can receive 
 these all conquering invisible vibrations 
 as easily as those who seem more 
 favored with earthly fortune. In fact, 
 far more readily, for the rich and favored 
 are apt to be more attached to earthly 
 objects than the unfortunate. 
 
 This knowledge makes each man the 
 arbiter of his own fate. All the world 
 cannot deprive him of the invisible vibra- 
 
60 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 tions, nor can all the world resist them. 
 The invisible mental, sun rays, like the 
 visible ones, shine for all alike and each 
 individual should absorb them and grow 
 upward through them according to his 
 own individual genius and character. 
 
CHAPTER VI 
 
 EVERY DAY PROBLEMS. 
 
 The relation between the formation 
 of a planet, health, happiness and bus- 
 iness success may seem remote. But 
 each point in the preceding- chapters 
 has been explained for the sole purpose 
 of aiding the individual to meet and 
 master the every day problems of life. 
 The value of all knowledge is dependent 
 entirely upon its helpfulness to the 
 individual. 
 
 Ifife upon this planet is the expres- 
 sion in shapes of the one power which 
 finds its highest practical expression to 
 us in the sun. The vibrations of this 
 power expressed through shapes become 
 
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62 EVOLUTION OF THK INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 steadily finer and more potent and pro- 
 duce what is called evolution. 
 
 When any life form ceases to receive 
 the finer invisible vibrations it loses its 
 power of individual expression and 
 leaves the manifestation of greater per- 
 fection to the succeeding generations. 
 Man's one desire in order to bring him 
 contentment, growth and victory must 
 be to receive more and finer vibrations 
 of power from the invisible, that these 
 fine vibrations may flow forth into the 
 visible and thus continually change him 
 and his environment. 
 
 There is no evidence that a man's 
 body cannot exist forever. If he should 
 so live as to always be receptive to the 
 integrating vibrations he might continue 
 to receive the growing power and retain 
 the qualities of youth indefinitely. The 
 steady influx of the invisible vibrations 
 
EVERY DAY PROBLEMS. 63 
 
 of creative power is worth more to man 
 than all the riches and fame of the 
 earth. In receiving this power he gains 
 exactly what he needs, besides that 
 which is greater than riches and fame. 
 He is freed from all disappointments 
 for his life grows steadily more perfect. 
 
 How can the occupied man or 
 woman, girl or boy receive more of this 
 power now and make such use of it as 
 to give them growth and mastery? 
 
 It is plain that the recognition of 
 the unity of desire and the adoption of 
 the principles supporting it means a 
 complete reversal of the polarity of the 
 mind, yet it is the same as has been in a 
 measure adopted by all great men. It 
 is taught by the best in all religions and 
 is the lesson to be learned from the 
 Greatest of all teachers. The individual 
 who begins to apply these principles 
 
64 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 will find the highest in religious life 
 and the most practical in mental and 
 business life uniting to produce growth 
 toward absolute individual freedom and 
 perfection. These principles reveal 
 that our mental attitude toward the 
 unknown or invisible, even in the 
 smallest detail of daily life, is of far 
 greater importance than our relation to 
 people and things. Let the individual 
 then seek within and not without for 
 the creative power which is to give him 
 mastery over the affairs of each day. 
 Then his needs will be supplied from 
 whatever direction this power may draw 
 them. Men who succeed draw only that 
 which the power within them is able to 
 command. Successful men create the 
 conditions surrounding them instead of 
 being sub j ec t to them. Napoleon believed 
 that a power presided over his life against 
 
EVERY DAY PROBLEMS. 65 
 
 which nothing human could prevail. 
 He was invulnerable until he turned 
 from within to without and became 
 disturbed over his relations to the 
 aristocracy. In this attitude of mind 
 he gave personalities more power over 
 him than the invisible within, thus 
 breaking integration. Wellington, who 
 was more unswerving, and controlled by 
 the power within remained a master to 
 the day of his death. 
 
 To aid the power-seeking individual 
 the methods by which the influx of the 
 creative power can be favored are 
 indicated as follows: 
 
 1st. Attitude of mind. 
 
 2nd. Taking power and higher 
 vibrations into consciousness. 
 
 3rd. A sound hygiene. 
 
 4th. Mental breathing. 
 
 The divisions are purely arbitrary as 
 
66 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 the sole question in reality is what is 
 taken into the consciousness and the 
 sole aim is to dwell in the presence 
 of the creative power instead of forms 
 and disintegration. 
 
 ATTITUDE OF MIND. 
 
 When the individual has once de- 
 cided that his supreme desire is for 
 creative power his view of and relation 
 to the entire world is changed. He 
 identifies himself with the only power 
 manifested to him. He regards all the 
 world as a varied expression of this one 
 power. No matter whom or what he 
 meets he recognizes the animating prin- 
 ciple as the same as that within himself, 
 and he determines by absorbing the 
 fine vibrations to rise superior to the 
 lower and less potent. He realizes that 
 
EVERY DAY PROBLEMS. 67 
 
 all things are partial shadows contain- 
 ing much earth and a little sun vibra- 
 tion. He discovers that when he wills 
 he can absorb the power direct instead 
 of taking it as a weak reflected light 
 from things. He knows that by think- 
 ing of his relations to the creative power, 
 instead of worrying about his relation 
 to things, he becomes a channel for the 
 receipt and radiation of the light of 
 power and life; a potency in a universe 
 of activity. 
 
 To-day he thinks only of the Now 
 and the Here because if he does not he 
 cannot open his mind to the influx of 
 power. He will realize that the more 
 he thinks of time and space the less he 
 can think of power; that thinking of 
 limitations continually cannot give 
 power. It will dawn upon him that he 
 is not subject to any earth power for he 
 
68 EVOLUTION OF ?HE INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 can receive the creative power direct 
 from its source. Parental limitations 
 imposed at birth may grow less. Hered- 
 itary traits may be softened or removed. 
 Things of lower vibrations that seem 
 obstacles are overcome by a mind re- 
 ceiving potent vibrations. In all 
 the individual finally understands that by 
 taking this attitude of mind, of looking 
 to the sun power and receiving its 
 vibrations, mastery over all things is 
 given. 
 
 TAXING POWER AND HIGHER VIBRATIONS 
 INTO CONSCIOUSNESS. 
 
 E)ach individual life is given charac- 
 ter by what it takes into the conscious- 
 ness. The man who thinks only of how 
 he can get ahead of his fellows will 
 never become a philosopher and the man 
 
EVERY DAY PROBLEMS. 
 
 69 
 
 whose only anxiety is for himself will 
 not be a philanthropist; a horse dealer 
 will not become a diamond expert. The 
 individual who can take up a new line of 
 thought and leave agreeable or disagree- 
 able pictures out of his consciousness 
 can to that extend eradicate heredity. 
 Heredity is a straw man built to 
 frighten people into the belief that they 
 can only think and breathe through 
 their parents. Who could have told 
 what Newton or Spencer would become 
 by their parents, ancestors or even their 
 own lives at maturity? A single change 
 in thought and habit may make lines of 
 heredity grow fainter and fainter. 
 
 Heredity does make certain habits 
 and thoughts and activities easier, but 
 it does not prevent the mind from 
 selecting a new line of thought, cultivat- 
 ing new desires and living a free individ- 
 
70 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 ual life distinct from the hard limitations 
 of the parents. 
 
 The development of each individual 
 depends absolutely upon what is taken 
 into the consciousness; heredity gives 
 direction to desire. 
 
 The man who is poor may take 
 opulence into his consciousness but 
 heredity has given him a mental bent that 
 makes it easier for him to worry or to 
 be content that he is poor or to suffer 
 from the thought that his condition can- 
 not be remedied. Let him realize that 
 he is not limited from without but from 
 within, that when he can think inde- 
 pendently of his surroundings he can 
 conquer them; that by taking the crea- 
 tive power of the universe into his 
 consciousness he may grow steadily 
 stronger, clearer-headed, more master- 
 
EVERY DAY PROBLEMS. 71 
 
 ful and he will begin to demonstrate 
 these qualities in his daily life. 
 
 Grain is stunted when it receives no 
 direct light from the sun. The human 
 mind is stunted when it feels that hered- 
 ity and environment make it. I^et the 
 individual worry, grow angry and strive 
 to work and conquer in the world way 
 and he feels but the low vibrations- 
 reflected rays from the sun of life. 
 What the individual needs to learn is to 
 constantly think of his relation to the 
 universal mind— life or light within- 
 then anxiety as to relations with things 
 and people disappears as shadows before 
 the dawn of day. 
 
 The mind cannot be darkened by the 
 shadow of anxiety and open to the light 
 of power at the same time. Which 
 should we choose? 
 
72 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 Mental food is obtained from two 
 sources. 
 
 Through the senses or back door we 
 acquire knowledge and act or react upon 
 things. Through the front or inner 
 door we grow by absorbing direct from 
 the universal mind. The first gives us 
 comparison and discrimination. The 
 second changes our attitude toward 
 things and carries us to higher and 
 higher planes. The front door is wide 
 open in childhood and gradually closes 
 as year after year we only look out of 
 the back door of the mind at things. Yet 
 the front door may be perpetually open 
 and the invited guests from the world 
 of creative power be freely passed 
 through, bringing in their hands to the 
 individual, strength, growth, love and 
 power. 
 
 To be strong, masterly and success- 
 
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 ImisibleSiinVubroUons ///. L 1 
 Creative Energy ///Hi. 
 
 Inspiration //f/j 
 
 Sight 
 
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 Smelt- — 
 Taste- -* 
 
 73 
 
EVERY DAY PROBLEMS. 75 
 
 ful, weakness and failure and servility 
 and things must not be thought of. 
 The mind must direct itself to the real 
 source of power and by concentrating 
 itself upon that, realize that one of the 
 direct rays are more powerful than all 
 the earth's reflections; thus it will 
 become a channel of light and strength. 
 In reality we are at one with the uni- 
 verse. We are part of its infinite power 
 and freedom. Why then should we be 
 crushed by the things and conditions 
 around us? We are like the fish of the 
 sea which has left the depths and 
 ascended river, creek and rivulet until 
 it finds itself hemmed in by rocks and 
 crowded by the shallow bottom. All 
 the world seems to be forcing it out 
 of its life element. That is the way 
 the individual feels at some time dur- 
 ing life. 
 
76 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 The fish was once free in his uni- 
 versal element — water — but his head 
 turned away from the sea and he is 
 lost until he reverses his position and 
 then once more the boundless ocean 
 opens to him. Just so the individual 
 has had his face turned toward the 
 concrete, the lowest vibrations. The 
 instant he faces about and begins to 
 receive the finer invisible vibrations he 
 travels rapidly toward the ocean of 
 universal mind. His limitations then 
 begin to fade. He is free. He turns 
 toward the center of power and is 
 master of all earthly things. 
 
 A SOUND HYGIENE. 
 
 In the light of the law relating to 
 vibrations many errors in daily life are 
 discovered. It is ascertained that the 
 
EVERY DAY PROBLEMS. 77 
 
 vibrations of disintegration or decay 
 must not be taken into the physical 
 system. It is harmful to breathe the 
 fumes of decay. Why is it not harmful 
 to fill the stomach with decaying 
 matter ? Yet flesh and fermented 
 foods including acoholic beverages, vin- 
 egar, etc., are taken into the human 
 system without the slightest regard as 
 to their being unfit, unwholesome and 
 disastrous to the mind as well as to the 
 body. Chemical or inorganic sub- 
 stances should be avoided including 
 salt, baking powders, soda, etc. Their 
 vibrations are low. Biology has proved 
 they can not be assimilated. We 
 should guard the stomach as carefully 
 as we should the mind. Especially 
 true is it that with physical deep 
 breathing, reasonable exercise, whole- 
 some and frequent bathing, regular 
 
78 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL,. 
 
 hours of sleep, association with the 
 best and not with the mediocre, with 
 good common sense, we should study, 
 look inward, work inward, conquer 
 disintegration, invite integration, rise 
 to mastery and not fall to decay. 
 
 MENTAL BREATHING. 
 
 Life depends upon breath. Food is 
 but a secondary support. This is a 
 new illustration that the finest power 
 is the most potent. 
 
 Food, the lowest vibration incor- 
 porated into our life, may be dispensed 
 with for a month or more. Water, a 
 higher vibration, is far more necessary. 
 Air, a still higher vibration, cannot be 
 excluded from the lungs five minutes. 
 It is probable if the mind could be shut 
 off entirely from receiving new in- 
 
EVERY DAY PROBLEMS. 79 
 
 visible vibrations life would cease 
 instantly. 
 
 Much attention is paid by man to 
 food and water. Occasionally he gives 
 a little thought to his breathing. But 
 there is scarcely one in a thousand 
 whose mind ever takes in a strong 
 breath of the mental atmosphere of 
 universal mind or creative power. Our 
 minds only live when changing con- 
 stantly from one state to another. In 
 our hours of activity it flashes from one 
 idea to another with ceaseless motion. 
 Nearly all our thoughts are of things 
 or concrete ideas. This focusing of 
 the mind upon concrete things is 
 parallel to contraction of the lungs. In 
 other words thinking constantly of 
 things contracts the mind and prevents 
 it breathing or receiving stimulating 
 power from the mental atmosphere, as 
 
80 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 contracting the chest shuts out the 
 physical atmosphere from the lungs. 
 If it were not for moments of abstrac- 
 tion which come upon us almost 
 unawares, the mind might not be saved 
 at all. They do relieve it. Sleep also 
 is a saving power; with it our con- 
 sciousness passes into finer vibrations. 
 The philosophy of sleep is not more nor 
 less than this— that the mind cannot 
 remain focused upon the low vibrations 
 of the material world for any length of 
 time without complete loss of power. 
 Thus, this being true, consciousness 
 for about one-third of our lives retires 
 to the finer vibrations of creative or 
 sun energy and by such retirement the 
 mind receives an influx of new power. 
 If this were not so the mind as we 
 know it would cease to be. 
 
 Innumerable men and women fix 
 
EVERY DAY PROBLEMS. 81 
 
 their minds so closely upon material 
 things during their waking hours that 
 the plane of consciousness is unable to 
 pass fully into the finer vibrations to 
 light and they have comparatively 
 little sleep, rest or growth during the 
 resting hours or retirement. This is 
 especially true among those individuals 
 who have kept up for the longest time 
 concentration of mind upon the material 
 things, or those who daily master the 
 largest number of details requiring 
 special mental effort. These two 
 classes are represented by the aged and 
 the high pressure business men. They 
 suffer from insomnia, and steadily lose 
 strength. 
 
 It is essentially the business worker 
 of life who needs to cultivate mental 
 breathing and thus increase his or her 
 supply of finer vibrations and with 
 
82 EVOLUTION OH THE INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 them added life. In the train of 
 added life follow wisdom, happi- 
 ness and mastery; more and more 
 of the universal and less and less of 
 the concrete. To return for an instant 
 to a previous statement, the mind 
 vibrates during waking hours from one 
 idea to another. 
 
 There is no consciousness except 
 there is a continual change or vibration 
 of the mind from one subject to 
 another. Many have made the mistake 
 of trying to concentrate the mind upon 
 a single object or idea. If then the 
 mind must continually change we 
 should instead of keeping it focused 
 upon concrete things allow it to vibrate 
 from things to power. For power is 
 now the aim of our desire, and that 
 which we take into our consciousness 
 flows out into expression. The man 
 
EVERY DAY PROBLEMS. 83 
 
 whose consciousness alternates images 
 with invisible power will be very 
 different from the man whose mind 
 travels the eternal round of things. 
 
 To express it differently, between 
 our succession of images we can take 
 the finer vibrations of power into our 
 consciousness. The mind, then, instead 
 of vibrating from one thing to another 
 will go from an object or idea to power 
 and then to another object and again 
 to power and so on ad infinitum. This 
 changing of mind from things to power 
 must be practiced regularly. Time 
 should be taken for it. The habit 
 must be created. The mind must be 
 accustomed to breathing in this man- 
 ner. Eventually it will involuntarily 
 act and keep on taking power through 
 established custom. This new activity 
 of the mind may be practiced in the 
 
84 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 midst of business cares and results will 
 be obtained, impossible in the old 
 mental attitude. 
 
 Mental breathing means only estab- 
 lishing a continuous flow of new and 
 finer thoughts into the mentality and an 
 expulsion of the old exhaustion, anxiety 
 and laborious work. 
 
 In practicing mental breathing it is 
 best to rest lying down or sitting in an 
 easy chair, relaxing body and mind. 
 Draw in a full, deep breath — one of those 
 physical breaths, that is from the 
 stomach, which affects the abdominal 
 muscles, and is not from the top of the 
 lungs. Drop all thoughts of the world, 
 or things and persons. Obliterate them 
 from your mind. Let the feeling come 
 upon you that you are journeying 
 toward the mental sun. Feel as if you 
 were resting in an infinite sea of life, 
 
EVERY DAY PROBLEMS. 85 
 
 law and power which contains all the 
 potentialities but no forms, or in 
 absolute spiritual Being according to 
 the conception that appeals most to 
 you. As soon as your lungs are com- 
 pletely filled and as you slowly exhale 
 permit the consciousness to return to 
 ordinary thought; taking in power as 
 the breath is inhaled again. This 
 alternating the mind from things to 
 power should be continued for from 
 twenty to fifty breaths or until a per- 
 fect restful condition is produced. If 
 you know aught of physical exercise 
 you know the value of deep lung 
 breathing, how it not only expands and 
 enlarges but gives greater power of 
 blood. It produces a greater activity 
 in all physical life. Mental breathing 
 accomplishes for the mind precisely 
 the same result, bringing rest, pros- 
 
86 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL,. 
 
 perity, happiness and an influx of crea- 
 tive power. 
 
 Success may not come at first. 
 Letting go of things or concrete ideas 
 may not be possible on the instant, or 
 in a day or a week. This only shows 
 the greater necessity for perseverance. 
 Every effort produces some effect. No 
 one can fail. The universal center of 
 power will draw nearer and become 
 more real and potent after each ex- 
 ercise. Absolute individual freedom 
 will be the end. In addition to this 
 special practice when performing any 
 act, shut out the thought of other 
 things, shut out calculations and 
 worry, open the mind to the influx of 
 creative power. Adapt the mind to 
 thinking of but one thing at one time. 
 Many times during each day as a 
 
EVERY DAY PROBLEMS. 87 
 
 physical breath is inhaled, let the 
 mind inhale power also. 
 
 Reverse the polarity of the mind. 
 Instead of looking for happiness and 
 success, seek the power to command 
 them where it is, in the invisible 
 within. Youth will be prolonged 
 indefinitely. Mastery over conditions 
 will come. Growth toward perfection 
 will be steady. Mighty as are the 
 results of mental breathing, the prac- 
 tice is simple and without trouble. 
 Hundreds of times a day the busiest 
 man or woman can find time to flash 
 the consciousness from things to the 
 realm of power. He or she will be 
 f learning to master by mental growth 
 instead of working in the treadmill 
 of the earth plane. The way for 
 continual inspiration will be open. 
 The individual has but to inhale 
 
88 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 power with the mind as he inhales 
 air with the lungs and he must grow 
 finer and more powerful. 
 
 It is because the lungs, like a pend- 
 ulum, vibrate from the conscious to the 
 subconscious, from the voluntary to the 
 involuntary, from the individual to the 
 Universal that they and their cor- 
 responding mental function act as a 
 powerful lever, enabling man to loosen 
 the hold of heredity and environment 
 and let in the creative power that will 
 regenerate and free him. The first 
 and most positive effect of the mental 
 breathing will be apparent when the 
 individual is under the influence of 
 anger, hate, worry, anxiety, fear, crav- 
 ing for stimulants. 
 
 No matter how strong these emo- 
 tions, the consciousness can be carried 
 into the finer realm of power for an 
 LofC, 
 
EVERY DAY PROBLEMS. 89 
 
 instant as the breath is inhaled and 
 this is sufficient to let in the finer 
 vibrations of new creative power. 
 The cloud will pass away and the 
 mind will be illuminated by the full 
 light of the sun. These emotions 
 darken life and bar the influx of crea- 
 tive energy. Anger, just or unjust, 
 is a cloud that stops growth and 
 injures. Worry of any kind shuts out 
 light from life. It is absolutely impos- 
 sible to desire light and growth and 
 at the same time worry as to your 
 relations to things and people. The 
 individual can afford to drop the 
 burden and breathe in power just as he 
 can afford to drop pain for a pleasure 
 or an unprofitable for a profitable 
 thought. 
 
 The purpose is to break our attach- 
 ment to the earth and things, to be- 
 
90 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 come so filled with creative power, so 
 poised that mastery of the lower vibra- 
 tions upon the plane of things is cer- 
 tain by the mere force of being a 
 channel for creative power. Nothing 
 is easier to accomplish and yet nothing 
 is harder because through ages we 
 have been maintaining the wrong 
 polarity of mind. 
 
 The laborer and clerk, the poet 
 and saint can reach this end. Inspira- 
 tion will become a constant lamp to 
 guide and illuminate the life of all 
 instead of a fitful torch in the hands 
 of a few. 
 
 The time has come when man can 
 poise himself in the one power and 
 Principle instead of in things. The 
 era of blind race growth is closing 
 
EVERY DAY PROBLEMS. 91 
 
 and the day when the INDIVIDUAL, 
 must evolve consciously towards per- 
 fection is here. 
 
CHAPTER VII 
 
 THE DOCTRINE OP LOVE, 
 
 The vibrations of the One Power 
 continually manifested through forms 
 or shapes has been variously called 
 creative power, mental vibrations 
 and sun vibrations, but it has also 
 a name more properly belonging to the 
 plane of emotions and feeling. In the 
 realm of mind it is INTELLIGENCE, 
 in the realm of feeling it is LOVE. 
 
 Since the appearance of the first 
 nebulous mist — the initial or starting 
 point — there has been naught but ex- 
 pression or manifestation of this love. 
 All earth-changes have spoken its lan- 
 guage. All changes from the beginning 
 
 92 
 
THE DOCTRINE OF I^OVE- 93 
 
 to the present time have been in reality 
 working in harmony to perfect indi- 
 vidual consciousness. Little matters it 
 what our experiences, or to what point 
 we may look, we meet naught but love 
 and its evidences. And by strange but 
 wise contradiction every man or woman 
 living under a cloud of distress is gain- 
 ing just that experience needed to per- 
 fect him or her. Their development is 
 as though there was not another indi- 
 vidual in existence. 
 
 The lesson which humanity must 
 learn, the lesson for which it was 
 destined, the lesson which will free it 
 from the travail, the woe and sorrow, 
 is to seek love or its synonym, light and 
 power, at their source within, instead of 
 vainly striving for satisfaction through 
 earthly objects and things without. 
 
 Love means the concentrating or 
 
94 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 growing together of all, while the 
 darker emotions mean repulsion, scat- 
 tering, disintegration. 
 
 When the individual lifts his eyes to 
 the sun and in doing so sees only the 
 one life light, his inner consciousness 
 becomes so filled with power that he 
 radiates love to all the world, imitating 
 the source of life or becoming part of 
 it. He ceases to join in the scramble 
 for the faint glimmerings and weak 
 power found in things and personal- 
 ities. 
 
 All distinctions and differences of 
 caste, religion, political conditions, color 
 and race are obliterated. It leaves but 
 one desire and that the wish to receive 
 power, to help others to look upwards. 
 Love surrounds the individuals that so 
 desire and they learn that light and 
 love can alone bring the peace, the com- 
 
THE DOCTRINE OF LOVE. 95 
 
 fort, the strength they vainly sought in 
 the mystic world of things. 
 
 There is but one problem connected 
 with the pursuit of happiness and nec- 
 essary to the perpetuation of youth. It 
 is the problem of receiving and radiat- 
 ing love. The measure of our life vital- 
 ity and life power is the measure of our 
 love. That is the name of the one and 
 only power. Love is not a physical 
 manifestation. True love is not per- 
 ceptible through the five senses. Its 
 palace is in the world of the invisible. 
 Its gardens and pleasure grounds are 
 by the fountain of the source of life. 
 Its truths are within the radiance of 
 the sun power which first gives us ex- 
 istence and which has maintained the 
 human identities of this globe for mil- 
 lions of years. Love is not to be pur- 
 chased, not to be bartered for. The 
 
96 EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 
 
 human being can but become a channel 
 for the receipt and radiation of the one 
 life and love. 
 
 The desire for things brings to the 
 individual a false sense of separation, 
 physical death, hate, anger, envy, lust, 
 and all that is called evil. The desire 
 of the individual to become identified 
 with the One power which animates all 
 nature and life brings mastery over 
 things, peace illumination, growth, and 
 love. All human unhappiness is caused 
 by the former, all happiness will come 
 with the latter. In this, there is grati- 
 fication of every right desire. In this, 
 there is the approach to a realization of 
 the perfect. There is gain of new life 
 and youth. There is final approach to 
 the Ultima Thule. 
 
 END. 
 
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