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(3) Procreation a Secondary Function of Sex. (4) The Ultimate of Sex. (5) Place of Sex in Race Development. (6) Social Hygiene: Sex Education. Healing Words of Jesus. A Triumphant Democracy (A United States of the World). What is New Thought? 5c. Healing Card. 5c. HENRY HARRISON BROWN 589 HAIGHT STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Born in Massachusetts in 1840. Served in U. S. Volunteers during Civil War from August, 1862, until October, 18G5. Taught school ; worked upon newspapers ; lectured in various fields for 17 years; was 7 years a Unitarian minister. I entered my present work of mental healing and teaching in 1893. Editor and publisher of NOW >ince January, 1900. 1 have thus gained by experience that which I teach in my books. I consider none of them of more immediate practical value than this little book. Grateful for the gen- erous reception of former editons, 1 now send forth tins revised and enlarged edition, trusting it will also win me as many friends as the former has done. How To Control Fate Through Suggestion By HENRY HARRISON BROWN, author of "Not Hypnotism, but Suggestion," "Man's Greatest Discovery/' and editor of NOW. 62 pp., paper. Price, 25 Cents The principles dealt with arc: Unity. Revo- lution. Tendency of Thought. Fate. Man Logic. Matter. Evolution. Force. Spirit. The New Man. Finer Vibrations. All Knowledge Possible. Race Sensitiveness. Savior-. Progress. No Sickness. Liberty. Spiritual Gifts. Classification of Psychic Tower. Love. Love*- Pitch and Octaves. Concentration. Involuntary Concentration. One Power to Heal. Millennium Here. Wonderfully helpful to all. Following is one of the many good things said of this book : "The world is full of Xew Thought Litera- ture. It is helpful and inspiring to read. The latest to come to me is: 'How to Control Fate through Suggestion,' by Henry Harrison Brown. It is worth many dollars to any one who will live its philosophy.'' ELLA YYIil^F.LER WILCOX. The power of Suggestion, which has been verified, con- trolled and admitted, has at the same time reduced the number of impostors and miracles of past time. The most unlikely phenomena have regained this veneer 01* reality. They are no longer contested, because the) now appear to us natural, possible and verifiable. JEAN FINOT, in Century Review, 1906. Suggestion has but one purpose and it is the Mas- ter purpose of life; to develop the perfection of charac- ter, which is Self-Control. "' 'Do you control your thoughts? Can you control your thoughts? Do you wish the power of controlling your thoughts? Do you wish to learn the power of your thoughts? Then take a course in Hypnotism. Learn through it. thai you can think, upon your body, pain or its immunity. That you can think upon yourself a men- tal state of peace or of misery; learn that you can control your thoughts and thus create any condition you desire; learn that through voluntary concentration — which is all the hypnotist can teach you to do — you can be "Master of Fate and Captain of your Soul." " HENRY HARRISON' BROWN, in NOW. NOT HYPNOTISM, BUT SUGGESTION A Lesson in SOUL CULTURE BY HENRY HARRISON BROWN Author of "How to Control Fate through Suggestion," "Man's Greatest Discovery," "Concentration," "Success," etc. and Editor of NOW. So shall some Thought of mine yet encircle earth, And puff away thy crumbling altars, Jove. — Lowell. Logic and Sermons never convince, The damp of night drives deeper into my Soul. —Walt Whitman. A man for success must have ideas, must obey ideas, or he might as well be the horse he rides on. Of no use are the men who study to do exactly as was done before, who never under- stand that today is a new day. — Emerson. Fifth Revised Edition. HENRY HARRISON BROWN 589 Haight Street, San Francisco, Cal. 1918 < Copyrighted, 1902 Copyrighted, 1918 I»y Henry Harrison Brown MAY -8 1918 #£7218 fi -Ho *j TO THE Young Discjpi.es of Soul Culture Who Made "NOW" FOLK Possible. / hold the KEY To Health, Success and Happiness. Study me and find it. Meditation -rcill re7'CCll it. ■ Ipply it in Living, Then all THINGS desired arc thine. PROEM YOU! Wore you to learn that in a certain vault was untold treasure, and that, could you find the KEY, it would be yours, what would you do? Did you know that beneath your acres lie valuable mines of precious ore and only a certain amount of dynamite would rift (he hills and expose it, what would you do? Did some expert convince you that wells of oil lie under your field and only a certain drill would bore to it, what would vou do? Did you ascertain that a certain book held all the information to make you wise in your dealings with men ; that it would make each waking hour happy and each sleeping one peaceful, and that only by a great sacrifice could you obtain it, what would you do? You would sacrifice all you at present possess, for you would know that, possessing these, millions more would be yours. You possess now all these treasures. You arc able to pay for their revelation. Will you? I. 1 ]M>ur pos- session. It is the only Power that can give this to you. All that gold is yours. I have the KEY. All those mines are yours. 1 have the POWDER. All those wells are yours. 1 have the DRILL. All that information is yours. I have the BOOK. It is yours by birthright. You did not know it. It lies deep WITHIN. Knowledge is POWER. It unlocks the treasure. That Knowledge so long sought is found. Its name is WIS DOM. That KEY, that POWDER* thai DRILL, that BOOK, is SUGGESTION. "Jt seems to me that most of the objection to hypnotism arises from a fear or prejudice against the name itself and from misconception and misunderstanding regard- ing its power (or rather lack of power) to produce harm- ful results. The best authorities have found that sug- gestion may he made quite as effective while the subject is awake as by the use of hypnotism, except in some pe- culiar and unu.ual cases, hut thei e is no reasonable ground tor the denial or condemnation of hypnotism by New 1 nought people. "Hypnotism is only one form (a minor form) of sugges- tion and suggestion is the method by which all Christian Science, Divine Science and New Thought healme is ac- complished. "Affirmation for healing and self-development is sim- ply self-suggestion and is most effective when the con- scious mind is passive. "Hypnotism is simply a condition of induced sleep, dur- ing which the conscious mind is in abeyance and the sub- conscious mind i, free to carry out suggestions and mani- fest its powers. "In the hands of the trained physicians of Saltpetriere Hospital in Pans hypnotism has produced many almost miraculous cures, and modified and developed to a won- derful extent the nature of some of the criminal patients treated there. Many intelligent physicians in our own country have employed hypnotism in special and oeculiar cases with success." WM. E. TOWNE, in Nautilus. 10 PREFACE Phenomena, under the name "Hypnotism," draw in- creased and deserved attention. For nearly one hundred and fifty years it has been known and, under various names, produced for amusement, mystification, study, or physical benefit. It has been best known as ''Mesmer- ism" and "Animal Magnetism." It now has a literature of its own and occupies much attention in the secular press. Its friends are in every walk of life. Schools and mail courses of study are plentiful. It is destined to be a most powerful factor in the therapeutic, educational and reformatory growth of the new century. That these phenomena exist is now no longer doubted. Their im- portance is admitted by all who give the subject even a casual study. The author believes that the principle involved in them is the most important man has yet discovered, that it is destined to produce greater changes in man and his en- vironments than any previous discovery. Believing this, he is devoting his energies to assist the development of a proper understanding of this Principle in the popular mind. He believes it to be the one Thought needed to bring in the age foretold by prophet and priest. His intention is to explain these phenomena, to show their harmony with all other perceptions of Truth. The Law that underlies these phenomena is more practical than the multiplication table. But the author wishes to say, first of all. that lie u the word "Hypnotism" under a protest. The name is a misnomer. It comes from "hypnosis/' meaning sleep. 11 Sleep is not necessary to the phenomena nor to receive benefits from their use. In but few experiments is sleep necessary. Besides, the word carries with it the miscon- ceptions Oi a false theory. There is no such thing as "hypnotic power" ,, r "hypnotic phenomena." The phe- nomena occur, but they are not hypnotic. They arc not the effect of a power that the operator p, but are the effect of the subject's own mind. All the phe- nomena produced by a -'hypnotic'" subject arc as honest as those produced by him in school, home or workshop and arc as natural and normal as those— are really iden- tical in origin. In a subject, they arc artificially repro- duced and exaggerated. The only power the operator has is that which teacher merchant, preacher, mother or friend poss ,,ver Others. It is what, in ordinary speech, is termed "Inflll- Ihe only difference between the "Hypnotic Pro- 501" an-! men in other walks of life is that he under- lids and uses consciously the same power that men in other phases of life use unconsciously and instinctively. It is the object of this book to remove all mystery from Hypnotism, to prepare mental conditions for a clear un- derstanding of the principle of Suggestion, in accord with which all phenomena of life occur, and to prepare the way for its application in daily life. As I wr ite this introduction, there comes to my exchange table a valued journal showing that its otherwise very intelligent editor has a misconception of the subject of Hypnotism, lie says: "We are individuals and refuse to surrender the control of ourselves or our mentality to anyone." This book will show that when one shall understand what Suggestion is, he will see that, instead of a surrender of individuality, it is a development of individuality. It places him in full control of himself Suggestion is the road to self-control. It is putting in- 12 to practice the law which it is man's province to bend to hi* Will, the law of Concentration. To learn our powers and how to use them, is the prov- ince of education. There is no other way to self-know i- utee equal to a knowledge of Suggestion. The end of this knowledge is self-control and self-control is the acme of character. Those who oppose hypnotism do so lv through a misunderstanding of the law of Sugges- ■ on "If one can thus destroy another's will," it is said, then he can influence to evil and crime." Certainly, "If"! But that is impossible, as I shall later show. \s an expert. 1 declare that man has found no law of so much importance to his well-being as that explained in this book. San Francisco, Calif., January, 1902. cm lion 13 There is limitation, model, and suggestion, to the very archangels, \i we knew their histor EMERSON, m "Quotations and Originality." The best mind is that which is most impressionable A master can formulate his thoughts. Our thoughts at irst possess us. Later, if we have good heads, we come to possess them. We believe that certain persons add U) the common vision a certain degree of control over these -t;,tes oi mind; that the true scholar is one who Has the power tn stand beside his thoughts or to hold tuem Off at arm. length and give them perspective. EMERSON, in "Natural History of the Intellect." 14 PREFACE TO THIS FIFTH EDITION A few years ago hypnotic exhibitions were a common form of stage entertainment. That phase of hypnotism, having served its purpose of familiarizing the public with the fact that there is in the mind a subtle power, lias passed away. Hypnotism has been considered mys- terious and dangerous because of the belief that this subtle power resides in the mind and will of the oper- ator, who could use it, secretly and irresistibly, to the injury of his fellows. But we now know that this pow- er resides within each individual and that it can be exer- cised only by himself and upon himself. We know that hypnotic phenomena are always present in the every day life of us all. And since every man is controlled by his own thought, he is in a constant state of self-hypnotism. In fact, all human expressions are forms of self-hypnot- ism. I am that which, for the time, I think I am. We know, furthermore, that the stage phenomena are but the exaggeration of ordinary and natural expressions. The discovery that all mental action is incident upon thought proves the truth of the saying, old as history, '"As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." This is but a statement of the one Law under which all men live — the Law of Self-suggestion. The phenomena which were at first ascribed to the hypnotic power of a few individ- uals, a power which was supposed to reside in them alone, we now know are the manifestations of a power thai is res-dent in each individual and are due to the op- eration of the Law of Suggestion. This knowledge has become so widespread that comparatively little interest 18 now felt in stage hypnotism. On the other hand, there is an absorbing interest in the every day application of 15 the I aw of Suggestion. Many cults have arisen, each of winch., m ,ts ( ,wn peculiar way, applies this Law for a variety of purposes, especially for healing. But they f" hold the old, false conceptions of the 8 power and ganger oi hypnotism and arc still inculcating the old k>ar . ut IL } hv > a" ignorant of the great Law of Sug- gestion, under which they do all their work. The best Stage operator ha. no more innate power over his sub- jects than a babe has over a statesman. The power re- gies in the subject, and is merely his ability to control us own Noughts and voluntarily to accept as his own he dionolu suggested to him. The purpose of tins lit- tfc book IS to set forth with the greatest clarity this im- portant principle. The reasons why hypnotism has been so misunderstood are easily discovered. The chief reason is to he found "I the extraordinary character of the phenomena oh- served in the subject. These phenomena were so strange and inexplicable that they led to the false conception that they were due to the extraordinary and dangerous pow- er ol the- operator. Another reason for the popular mis- understand, no is found in the dishonesty of stage oper- ators, who have not been content with real phenomena, but have supplemented their exhibitions with tricks and takes. Such dishonest operators have strengthened the common belief that one person may have the mys- terious and compelling power to force others to act against their own will. I dare risk my reputation as a teacher on the affirmation that never yet has any hyp- notist compelled another person to act against his own will. Such tricksters are the worst of present day crim- inals, for they teach the dangerous error that one per- son can be made subject, unwillingly, to the thought and will of another. There are hundreds of people suffer- ing from the delusion that they are under the hypnotic 16 control of some other person. The) are found in every Stage of this delusion, from the simple one of fear to that of hopeless insanity. Every practitioner knows that these self-hypnotized persons are most difficult to re- store to normal conditions. Realizing the confusion in the public mind and knowing the dangers arising from the ignorant fear of hypnotism, I was inspired sixteen years ago, from my wide experi- ence, to write this little hook as a "mental disinfectant." I [aving daily evidence that there is still widespread ig- norance of the importance and heneficence of the Law of Suggestion, I issue this revised edition — the fifth — Lrusting that the little hook will continue its good work. Appreciating the kind reception it has had. 1 again send it forth, a modest candidate for public favor. HENRY HARRISON BROWN. San Francisco, Calif., February 14, 1918. 17 The Key to Wisdom, the Inlet to Power, And the road to Success, are all found In the Principle of Suggestion. This discussion is based upon a philosophy, called "NOW" Philosophy, or "Soul Culture" 18 NOT HYPNOTISM, BUT SUGGESTION TRUTH AND UNITY Truth is a fixed quantity. Man perceives but does not create Truth. Truth and the Universe are Coexten- sive. It is not Truth and error; it is only more or less Truth. The Universe is One. This Universe is divided, by my Consciousness, into myself and that which is not myself. This division is purely a mental one ; I make it when 1 say,- "I AM." There is a larger part of the Universe oi which I am not conscious. That of which I am con- scious I shall call myself; that of which I am uncon- scious is variously named God. Energy, Force, Nature, etc. These are but names, and names are only symbols for that which is. I am not a separated portion of the Universe; 1 am a manifestation of the whole of it. Jims my recognition of Self divides the Universe, to my con- sciousness, into what I call "I," which is the Within, and what I call "Xot I," which is the Without. This is the simplest of all philosophical statements It is as simple as Cause and Effect. "I" AND "NOT I" Through Sensation I am able to separate between the ''Me" and the "Not me," between the Absolute and the Individual. Consciousness abides in the power to sense 19 that which is the Me, and distinguish if from the Non me. Sensation is differentiated into five special senses. By means of these senses, 1 know that 1 am not that whlch l 5e nse. I am the "\" which senses. Because I sense, that is because I feel, I think. ! am something thai reels and thinks. What is this "I"? It is not that which is felt and is thought about. We name it Ego, Soul, Spirit, Self. This \ s simply naming the "1 A.M."' It names but does not explain. Now that "I A.M." be- cause I feel and think, the questions rise: Can I feel what I choose to feel? Can I think what I choose to think? It is with these questions that this book deals. It I can thus choose, I am a free man. If 1 cannot. 1 am a slave. POWER OF CHOICE Can I control the Non-Ale SO that it will make .Me feel and think as I choose. \m I an independent individ- uality in the Universe where I can use, at will, the foi Oi that I 'inverse? This is the most important question man has ever considered. Heretofore the answer has been, "No!" lint the twentieth century opens with the answer. "A'es!'* SENSATION How? To teach "how," is the object of this book. Briefly the answer is this:— The phenomena called Hyp- notic, but which are the daily phenomena of Suggestion, when once their significance is known, contain this need- ed knowledge. To nnderstand this significance, we must look, through the demonstrations of science, into the phenomena of sensation. Sensation is the recognition by the Ego of that which 20 is on the without <>i itself— outside itself. Sensation aris- es from contact of the Within and the Without. What contacts? To science, all is motion. The Ego is a form of motion. The Without is a form of motion. All con- tact is through radiation from centers. These radiations are called, when passing through space. Vibrations. All contact is that of some vibration upon the Ego. rhe body does not feel; it is only the channel through which vibrations impinge upon the Ego. A body which the Ego has left does not feel. Dead bodies have no tion. Vibrations differ in speed Pitch is the better word. Vibrations of different pitch produce different sensations. We call one sensation taste, another odor, another sound, another light, but these are only differ- entiations of the one sense of touch. EMOTION The begining of consciousness lies in Feeling. By it we are kept in touch with Unity, of which we are simply a manifestation. Unity is indivisible. Thus I, the Ego, am a necessity to Unity, for without an Ego then' would be neither sensation nor thought. Individuality is mani- fest in Unity, through thought, born of Feeling. What- ever 1 sense, be it pleasure or pain, joy or sorrow, beau- ty or goodness, music or love, is produced in me as a re- sponse of the Ego to some vibration. This respon call an emotion. "E" means out; thus we have an out- motion to meet the ''in"-motion ; an involution and an evolution. When the Ego does not respond to the \ ; bration, as in very young children; in the blind, and in the deaf; there i- in these neither light nor sound. But the vibrations from without, which would cause these sensations, were they received, still exist. Thus the individual make his own world. The blind lives in a world of darkness, and the deaf in a soundless one. 21 KEY TO WISDOM Can the individual who sees and hears refuse to see and lKar; Tllis is a question of more import than wireless telegraphy or aerial navigation. Ii one can so cho< he will see and hear only the pleasant. Happiness is ever his who shall achieve this power of conscious choice. I<» knew hovt to choose and how to live in the w< >rld oi chosen sensation, is the knowledge above all oth- er knowledge. To possess it is to have the Key to Wis- dom. 1 his it is to be Self-Controlled,— to be the Ma °, ,,;itc '- ,ll,s J> l,) create each day the conditions we wish. I hat it can he done, thousands today, in their self-created conditions of health and prosperity, testify. Conditions may he as consciously determined and wrought out as are the statues and paintings in the gal- leries. '1 h^ knowledge comes as all other comes,— from Mother Nature herself; from observing the phenomena 01 dady life. RESPONSIBILITY OF CHOICE Each person now. in ignorance of his power and of the laws of mind (and foremost among them is the Law of Suggestion), creates his body and his surroundings from Ins choice. Each day's conditions are the result of choices made without knowledge of results. As proof witness these and many similar common expressions: It I had known more last year"; "Had I chosen dif- ferently : '-Had I forgiven"; "Had I bought or sold how ditterent my life would be." And one is condemned for his intemperance, his crime, his poverty, or his ig- norance, "because he could do better," thus implying a belief at least in a limited power of choice, and a limited responsibility for the conditions of life. Every one real- izes that his life would be very different today had he 22 made a different decision on certain matters a year ago. Thus do we shape destiny according to our intelligence. This proves the point I wish to emphasize: each one, whether he is conscious of it or not, creates his own con- ditions of life. Seeing it clearly in a few cases, we are compelled to say that it is the same in all. The cause of conditions is located within. Each person by his acts of choice in the past has produced the con litions in which he finds himself. And furthermore, by acts of choice he can change his present conditions. CREATIVE THOUGHT We have now only to apply the wisdom those facts of daily life teach us. All the choice comes from the one Law of Suggestion. Where lies choice? Not in sensa- tion, the primal recognition of the Ego — of Self — and that which is not Self, but in sensation when it is trans- formed into thought by that portion of the nervous sys- tem which the Ego created for that purpose. It is in Thought that nun differ. All feel alike. Sensation i one. The vibrations that make light in one cannot make sound in another. The sound once made, each person thinks his own thought, born of it. The car whistle causes the engineer and the traveler, the boy and the farmer, to think differently. In the wife of the engineer it may awaken emotions of fear; in that of the passen- ger, emotions of joy. Yet the sensation, caused by vibra- tion 011 the car, is one in all. But over sensations pre- sides the individual Ego, and it decides how sensations shall affect him. He is king in his domain, — the world of Thought. "The kingdom of Cod is within YOU!" said Jesus. Thus is Thought the creator of that real world in which the Ego lives. Thought-created are all the conditions of life. 23 UNLIKENESS Universal Energy is One. It manifests as Life, It is < me in all men. Life manifests first as Sensation which is the same in all. Hut sensation is transmuted into thought, then all are unlike; they become individuals. The Indian, the Californium the Mexican and the China Mian have all had the same sun, soil, wind and water in California. Hbw different the condition, of the four! What has brought about these- different conditions? Simply the difference in their thoughts- -the difference in the acts of choice which each one has made. RESULTS OF THINKING "Whatsoever a man thinketh in his heart, so is he,*' says an ancient book. So the Dhammapada, -aid to he the word of Buddha, says: "Whatsoever a man thinks, the result follows him like a shadow."' Thinking determines the effect of natural conditions upon the man. Think- determines how vibrations from the Without shall affed the Ego. Whatever the sensation, man. by Will ■<nce from your mind, they were from your body. Did you ever have a pain and have it leave when your attri- tion was turned to something else? A common case is the departure of a toothache when the dentist's tools 2\ are seen. This is all there is of hypnotism and all there is in the school of Mental Healing. By Suggestion, one is caused to think of something else and, when pain is forgotten, it does not exist. The strongest Sugg for the time rules the individual. Can we think pain, can we think health, whenever we choose? Yes. Each person has power, when he knows himself, ' what he shall feel and think. ( )therwise, he is a leaf on an infinite stream called ''Fate"; a machine wrought upon by some outside power. Within a certain limit, this power of choice and control is admitted. Now we remove all limitations, realizing that they are self-im- posed. Limitations are the direct results of ignorance. Man has the power of Self-Control. All one needs is to learn this as he has learned elsewhere, viz: — by experi- ence. That one may realize this power, it is necessary for him intelligently to apply the Law of Suggestion, lie ig- norantly applies it all the time. He should use the in- telligence the platform subject does when he sleeps at the word of the operator. A DEFINITION What is Suggestion? And what is a Suggestion? SUG- GESTION IS THAT WHICH CAUSES A SEJ TION OR A THOUGHT. A SUGGESTION IS ANYTHING USED WITH AN UNDERSTAND. ING OF ITS POWER TO PRODUCE A CERTAIN MENTAL RESULT WHEN ACCEPTED BY AN- l >THER PERSON. Suggestion is the objective side of life. The subjective is Affirmation. An Affirmation is a statement of Truth. Each person is controlled by his convictions of Truth. He cannot get away from these convictions. On arising in the morning, he sees a fog. The ther- 25 rnometer tells him it is 20 above zero These are *« tions and he says: "It is cold " ti, • ' b <-01(l. lis (U'ClMoll IQ -in \i finnation bom f the Su wstinn t>, c i i - ,. u 6sesuon. i lie Suereestion nm go for a December skate. Each makes his own world ge Suggestion awakens different thoughts in ' ' different emotions i„ each Suction being anything' from without coming to the consciousness, ,. follows that, when , person fcouires Power over himself so that he ignores , n,,l , ' ", fftionsand receives only those^e wishes^ h *has ac " be. He then rules the "Kingdom" within I ike a ;^„ UnTT , l ' n "" without ""'> *a« which he choos ^nVhtia^ """ Wtth the Credentials ° f * I AM POWER Subjectively, as a manifestation of Unity, man is po- **»> Power in every direction. In the objective ■ he « only unfolding that which he is in the S^thS «eing all potential power, why should he not affirm Aat power? Why limit the manifestation of the nmt- ■ , 'r> ', to * e ««« Power he has heretofore ' ' ,'■'.;' ' S "° reaS ° n ' CXCC " t habit - Let him saj henceforth: "I am power! Since, by thinking 1 ^ve power to direct the manifestations of the subjec- veT will think power. I do that which I desire to do! He who will so affirm, will do. 26 POWER OF THOUGHT This Affinr.ation is Suggestion transmuted into Auto- suggestion. This is the power by which the conscious man can, at will, through desire and reason, control the manifestations of his life. Thought is power. It is the power the Individual uses to direct the Absolute power in which, he. as an Ego, as an individualized being, lives and moves.* [n Self-Suggestion, Auto-Suggestion or Affirmation (for they are all one), lies the Diamond Drill, the Pow- der, the Key, that the Book promised in the "Proem." SELF-ASSERTION Through the U^c of Affirmation, life can be made what one desires, because all conditions, whether of good or ill, are controlled by one's will, and the will works through Affirmation. Affirmation is the will in action, the Self asserting itself. Affirmation, which is the power the hypnotist uses, is the only power any one possesses. Self-assertion is the key to chaiacter. Affirmation, to lift one from conditions not desirable, must rest upon that arch of character whose keystone is Self-assertion. Without that mental characteristic, there can be no suc- cess in any direction. Therefore one Affirmation in- cludes all others — 'T AM!" The Affirmations that fol- low this, that mean the Victory of Self over Fate are, "I Can" and "I Do!" The Will that uses these is a cul- tivated and concentrated one. Will that is scattered over several Affirmations at the same time means con- stant failure. •The reader is referred to the author's work. "Man's Greatest Discovery," 25c for ;i discussion of this fact. THE "OPEN SESAME" We have now reached the word of power, have found he open Sesame' to the hidden treasure of the Soul ft is the word, CONCENTRATION; one thought at a time. I ay attention to what you arc thinking Vest this i- the recognized key to success. But it is also the key to the failures in health, business and happiness Worry anxiety, fear, -net. doubt, arc all evidences of concent tion. I he question turns on the kind of thoughts for concentration. Concentration upon th< wrong thoughts produces all the evil. Evil is the power of an uncon- trolled nnn.l. Hie business man in business concentra- tion has awakened genii that make him a slave Such concentration is not the key to Peace and Victory Con- ation is the -Open Sesame," but the treasure is not his until he learns not only t<. open hut also to clo«e the caye, not Only to release the genii, hut imprison them •it will. I.ie opposite of Concentration is as important as concentration. This [ s the "Letting Go," the Giving up, the Relaxing, the Changing, at will, the thought up- on which to concentrate. This is the secret of Success rnis is the power the Hypnotic subject pos He has Learned that which, when learned by any one will nheve lum of worry, fear, pain and disease, and will •Ten to him. while in the flesh, the door of Paradise. All this lies in those phenomena which have been used here *<>. f ore, generally to amuse or at best by physician to relieve pam. The application of the Law 'is as limit- 5 as human experience. PHILOSOPHER'S STONE Voluntary Concentration upon a chosen thought is something better than the long sought "Philosopher's Stone." He who has acquired it. is Master. It is the secret of the power of hypnotic subject, of "Christian Science," and "Hindoo Fakir"; it underlies all occult phenomena of every name and is the secret of the suc- - of men in even- rank and walk of life. Is it worth attaining? [s it worth the time and effort? Can you afford to learn it? These are not questions for a wise man to consider. Can you afford not to have it Re- member, all possible power lies within the Ego, await- ing expression. The only safe ways of manifestation are those directed by Self. The more faith in Self, the more power. The) who have influenced the world have been those who had faith in themselves. Self-Assertion led to CONCEN1 RATION. The Affirmation of suc- has ever been. "I CANT' Here is the quatrain worth memorizing for the Philos- ophy of Life it contains. Jt is from Mrs. Helen \Yil- niaiis : "lie who dares assert the I, May calmly wait. While hurrying Fate Moots his demand with sure Supply." Outside Emerson's essay on "Self Reliance," no better words than these have been uttered. To that essay I recommend the reader as we turn to another phase of the subject. PROF. GATES' EVIDENCE "But what has this to do with Hypnotism?" will again 1" asked. K\ crything. The phenomena under that name demonstrate the truth, of all this philosophy. My words are as true, based upon these phenomena, as are those in the works of physics in our schools. Like the physical scientist. I go to nature for my fact-. Telepathy has as clearly demonstrated Thought to be Force as have the experiments in the Laboratory demonstrated elec- 29 tricitj to be a mode of motion. Prof. Elmer Gates has demonstrated by chemistry that thoughts of envy jea 1 - ousy, hate, anger and all others we call evil, produce a poison in the system which ultimately causes disease Hiought controls bodily conditions. This again demon- strates the efficacy oi Mental Healing, Study the stage performance. Learn how to do it and then repeat it In your parlor, go farther and experiment upon yourself. Remove sensation from your body Pierce your arm with a needle without pain. " Watch the patient m the hospital as he submits to a surgical opera- tion with only Suggestion as an anesthetic and thus leam the meaning of Suggestion in daily life If the boy <.n the stage, the patient in the hospital, can at a word concentrate upon the thought of painlessness what is impossible through intelligent use of concentration in (l:nl - v llfe? rhc boy on the stage throws away the sold com saying, "Mot.- Later yon can see the blister upon his hand. Disease is created in the same way by think- m S ol lt Wave not these phenomena a meaning for each person? Nave they for you? What is the power thai produces such marvelous results? Merely the thought, the Affirmation, of the person: "It does not pain me': "] do not feel it"; "It is hot"; "It burns Til/' me PRIMAL MANIFESTATION Thoughts are equal in power because they are all from one source. They derive their power from the sub- conscious. The difference lies in the individual's pow- er of concentration. Whether it shall be directed upon one thought or diffused over many, is for each individ- ual to determine, and that determination controls the conditions of his life. 30 Remember. Suggestion is whatever causes an emotion or a thought; it will then be seen that it is an everpres- ent factor in life. No intellect is possible where Sug- gestion is not — no conscious manifestation of mind un- til Sug-gestion calls its latent faculties into expression. The primal manifestation of consciousness is a recogni- tion of Suggestion. Affirmation is a primal manifesta- tion of self-consciousness. This is why Affirmations, or, what is the same thing, convictions of truth, govern life. Truth is only the Affirmative of existence as in- terpreted by the individual who affirms. Each individual is therefore subject to Suggestions from without, until he shall learn, by experience, his power of choice. That power of choice can be developed only through doing and this doing we call experience. Each one has the power of Affirmation ; and in the power of choosing Affirmations, lies the power of creating Des- tiny as desired. Fate ceases where choice begins. De- sire, through choice, becomes master of life. OBJECTIVE LIFE All things center in the simple fact of sensation — I feel, and its corollary, because I feel, I think. Now affirm, would you be master, "I have learned what to think that I may feel what I choose, and I have learned not to feel or think that which I do not wish to feel or think.'' In this development is seen the necessity of the objective life. It awakens the Ego into a consciousness of itself. Without the objective, no manifestation of life; there would be only the possibility of life. Thus are the subjective and the objective one. They cannot be separated. And without argument, it is here affirmed that they are one forever. It has already been asserted that each person has the power of choosing and of ignoring Suggestions. One 31 can at will determine his life. At will is used under- standingly, rhese two words arc mighty. When this Statement is seen to be truth, it will also he seen that tins is the most important fact mankind has u -t found. Its significance cannot he measured for a century. Thi< is the statement: When man knows his power, Tie will never more he the slave of circumstances. He will mould circumstances to his x „ii. This is demonstrated by the simple phenomenon of the hypnotist's suggestion to his subjects. "You cannot open your hand."' The hand remains fast because the Suggestion, taken as truth, becomes in him an Affirmation. lie says: "J cannot open my hand." His saying so makes it'impos- iiblc tor him to open the hand until he .shall say. can." This demonstrates the powei of concentrator Ihe subject concentrates his mind upon the thought, '"I can't open my hand." Since Thought is power. Thought holds his hand fast. lie simply concentrates upon the thought and lets Thought, as a vibration from the In- finite One. have its wax with his hand. It is a scien- tific demonstration of the Affirmation, "As a man think- eth in his heart, s,, is he." It also demonstrates some- thing as important, that which makes the Principles un- derlying the fact practical: A MAX CAN THINK WHATEVER Ilk: WISHES, AND CAN MAKE THAT THOUGHT A REALITY IX THE o\\\\ TIVE UFE. SOURCE OF POWER I his is the key to human destiny. This is the most im- portant fact man has ever discovered. It means the evolution of all that now is into something beyond the dream of poet or the vision of seer. Each man can af- firm and be that which he wishes to be. All he has to 32 do is to follow the lead of the hypnotic subject and choose, at will, the view of Truth that is to him most desirous, and then hold the chosen view in concentrated attention as the subject does — let it control him. The pqwer of Thought is limitless. All power comes from the sub-conscious. This sub-con- scions is the Human Soul, the Ego. It docs nothing that is not willed by the Conscious mind. The Snh-conscious is to the Conscious man the only fountain of power, in- telligence, and love. The conscious man controls the expression of this fountain by his Will. To learn how to Will is the most important thing in education. When one has so trained his Will that it will seize upon a chosen thought with the same tenacity that it seizes in ordinary men upon a thought horn of chance Sugges- tion, and will hold that chosen thought as long and as persistently as does he whose body fails under the un- welcome strain of worry, anxiety, fear, sorrow, remorse, and kindred conditions, then is that individual Self- Centered, Self- Poised, Self-Controlled. He will then hold closely thoughts of pleasure, success and health as realities; be the master of conditions. This is the con- dition temporarily of the hypnotic subject. It can be the permanent condition in life, and will he his who chooses determinedly what Affirmation to make and what sen- sations shall he horn of the Suggestions that come to him from the objective life. The hypnotic subject has this power; he can accept or reject Suggestions. When the operator says ''hot," he can Laugh or can say "cold"; and what he says is so to him. He has then, and ever has. his choice. lie chooses to accept the Suggestion of operator as Truth, and so choosing, he affirms that this dollar is hot and the thought produces the sensation of burning', and will, if persisted in, raise a blister. 33 THE LAW OF LIFE This is the real, constant condition of every man. He accepts the Suggestions of the weather, business, social life, of economic, political, bodily and financial condi- tions and says "Yes" to them and affirms that he is cold or hot, prosperous or unlucky, well or ill, happy or mis- erable. Lonesome or contented, that times are good or hard, and they are as he affirms. Life is to him only a Li$1 of Affirmations born in the Suggestions of the ex- ternal world or from experiences which, by Affrmation, become again realities. These conditions are produced in him just as they are produced in the hypnotic sub- ject. The Law i^ one. just as the flash of the electric spark in the laboratory is one with the lightning's flash. But there is this differenee. The flash in the Laboratory is under control of an intelligent Will and does a lire- determined work. That in the bolt from the cloud has no conscious Will to guide it but follows the law of the Absolute, and it may destroy. So with Thought in the ordinary affairs of life. It works its way without being understood ami directed: it tears down as well as builds When one -hall learn to choose and to direct, as the subject on the platform has learned to do, then all Thought will be chosen to build up and to make happy. Suggestion itself is merely a blind vibration. Feeling is a blind, unintelligent response; but Affirmation is the act of a Soul, is the choice of an individual. To the ex- tent that one exercises consciously this power of choice in his Affirmations, does he develop the one feature that distinguishes him from the brute and which makes him man — and that is the power of Self-control. 34 SELF-PROTECTION That any one has consciously, even for a short time, ex- ercised his power of choice in his Affirmations proves that it is possible for every one to do so. As the sub- ject can, by his Will, make his body insensible to the prick of a pin, so may every person become insensible to pain. As one person can master, through necessitv, a condition of weakness by an Affirmation, as in case of a mother when sick but recovering when her child is injured, so may all become immune to disease by re- fusing to receive a Suggeston that will result in disease. Your body is your castle. Xo vibration can enter it ex- cept through your neglect or by your invitation. Vibra- tions affect only body ; they have no power over the Soul. Nothing touches the Soul except as the Soul through its will permits it. When anything is felt, one should refuse to think of it and should call the Will into activity and hold a pleasant thought instead. Then has the vibration done its work of creating happiness. Al- low it to awaken a thought of pain and allow the Will to hold that thought of pain and disease results. THE UNITY OF POWER To attain this power, study the conditions necessary for the subject to receive his Suggestions and cultivate them until you can suggest and affirm to yourself that which you desire. All vibrations are merely vibrations until, through sensation, they are converted into Thought, just as vibrations of light that do not reach the eye arc only vibrations of light, so we can close sensation to those which produce pain or sorrow ; and then for us pain and sorrow will not exist. Thus is life made one continual round of peace. Study these phenomena la- beled "Hypnotic" just as the phenomena of lightning 35 have been studied, and the results will be, to him who studies ami demonstrates, similar to those that have fol- lowed in the wake of "Spiritualism," "Christian," "l)i vine," and •■.Mental" Science and the various schools of magnetic healing and metaphysics. All these arc demonstrating some of the infinite possibilities that lie in Suggestion and its counterpart. Affirmation. NOT OPERATOR'S WILL Whatever may have been the past Opinion, or whatever he that of many now to the contrary, it is not the Will of the- operator that produces the phenomena of h\p- notism. It is the concentrated Will of the subject. This fact is one that will, when its significance is understood, revolutionize all thinking and living and lift this studs, now ignored by the cultured, into the first place in the Philosophy and the Art of Living. The only principle concerned in the phenomena is the constant one of concentration upon an Affirmation that is the result of a chosen Suggestion. Three words form the shibboleth of the \ew Thought (which means the New Civilization), viz: SUGGESTION, AFFIRMA- TION, ami CONCENTRATION. Understanding these, forms the true Science of Mind; properly using them, constitutes the Art of Living. POWER OF WILL The stud}' of Suggestion removes from the mind all fear of evil i esults from the control of one mind over anoth- er, for such control is impossible. The Will can be used only b\ the individual upon himself. This is an import- ant tact in this study. The person of the cultivated Will, the person of Concentration, always has the ad- 36 vantage of the one of diffused Will. Leaders, com- manders, 1 losses, masters, operators in Suggestion, all owe their position to the fact that they use their Will upon themselves and give the Suggestions that will pro- duce, when accepted by those of less concentration, the desired mental conditions. It is not a question of "can" or "can not" in the battle of life: it is the "will" and ''will not." The healthful and successful WILL health and success. The others do not use what they possess in like proportion. All have equal power to do. It is the difference between doing and not doing. The subject has learned to choose and to will himself into acceptance of the Suggestion for the time being, knowing that he can, at any time, will himself not to ac- cept it. Having accepted it, it rules him. He has learned to lay it aside at will. UNTRAINED WILL Xow, even a good Suggestion, if held too long, maw un- der changed condtions, become bad and produce ill ef- fects, because the person has not developed the power to control his will. Yv\ has never brought it into obedi- ence to his thought. He has not taught his Will to dis- miss, at the proper moment, from his mind the sugges- tion that has once found lodgment there. His mind is so obsessed by the suggestion which he has once enter- tained that it can neither dismiss it. now that it has lie- come injurious, nor admit a better suggestion that may present itself. It is of the utmost importance that vou should be able not only to admit a suggestion but also to dismiss it at will. 37 ACTIONS So important is the fact thai the subject is controlled only by his own will that, even at the risk of repetition, I wish to emphasize it. No person acts under the will of an- other. Even the hypnotic subject acts fundamentally under his own will because be lias willed to submit to the commands of another, and has, at every moment, the power to accept or reject the commands laid upon him. I trust that ibis is so clearly seen that no reader of this book will hereafter claim that one person acts under the will of another, but that each reader will affirm that cry person acts that which he wills to act. HYPNOTISM INNOCUOUS This fart understood, away goes the fear of hypnotism and all belief that one person can hypnotize another to commit crime. This is a groundless fear, a fear that arises in ignorance. 'Idle editor of the "Suggester and Thinker.*' in a recent number of his magazine, says of this belief in the evil of hypnotism: "It originated in fancy alone and belongs to the age of superstition, dark ness and witchcraft and cannot exist today upon any legitimate grounds." Every Suggestion that is repugnant to a person is by him rejected. This principle of Self-Protection is the most deep-seated in our lives. Ever alert to protect against danger are all the instincts of man. In this Art the reason is never appealed to. Should one attempt to reason with the subject to induce him to accept a Sug- gestion, every condition of acceptance would be des- troyed. Perfect tranquillity of mind is the necessary condition for hypnosis. This tranquillity can be obtained only through consent of the subject. Consequently, whenever a Suggestion given antagonizes the Will or 38 jtMMkUUUU\ II 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 II 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 II III II ■ 1 1 1 1 1 Hi 1 1 1 1 1 Conscience of the subject, he passes out of the condition of subject and is under the control of his own Auto- Suggestion. It is utterly impossible for a person to ac- cept another's Suggestion to perform an act which his conscience does not approve and which he would not freely do at his own suggestion. "his fact is well known to practitioners in Suggestion and to all careful investigators. Each person controls his own life at all times. He does nothing that he does not will to do. The only way one can be brought to do that which he has previously willed against is not by using hypnosis, but by using, when he is in a normal condi- tion, the ordinary Suggestions in persuasion, argument or command. All of these are powerless in hypnosis. SAFETY OF HYPNOSIS In hypnosis, the frontal brain of the subject is, to a greater or less degree, inactive, and that portion of the brain, the cerebellum, most closely connected with the Ego, is most active. When conversing with a person in hypnosis, that is, with a somnambule, it is with the Ego, through the sympathetic nervous system, that all our conversation is carried on. One converses thus with the spirit of the man, and talks to the seat of moral con- sciousness. Conscience is supreme. Any Suggestion given to the Ego that runs counter to conscience is im- mediately repelled. An antagonistic Suggestion insist- ed upon will awaken the subject. A person in hypnosis is in the state most safe from evil Suggestions, for here all the external glamour is removed and only the enormity of such a Suggestion is present to the soul. Here lie the great possibilities of this Art in the re- demption of man. From this source come the cures in all the fields of healing. The Soul is stimulated on the 39 way it desires to go. The operator, the teacher and the healer are helping the evolution of the Ego by open- ing to it the possibilities of the objective life. Illustia- tions of this fact frequently occur in my classes. I had a fine subject and, causing him to see a lizard, told him to take it up. lie would not. 1 insisted. This caused him to awaken with a start. Another fine fellow was asleep. 1 Suggested that, as we were on the street, we go in a saloon and get a glass of beer. "No, sir! 1 don't drink heer." "But come, you must." He awoke with a start. "What awakened you:" 1 asked. "1 don't know, hut some one hit me," was the reply. The impact of the two wills — his will and mine, for he willed against me — was to him like a blow. SELF-HYPNOSIS — DEGREES OF \ow that hypnotism is being made the excuse for wrong doing, when the press is telling of persons mai- rying, stealing and committing all sorts of crime be- cause they were hypnotized, it is well to dwell upon the impossibility of this so that all may feed hereafter that it offers no excuse for any evil. None can hide under this cloak. All these reported cases, if they are facts, are cases of Auto-Suggestion — of Self-Hypnotism. This is the condition in which all persons are whenever an abnormal condition is encouraged. If a woman thought a man was hypnotizing her and concentrated her mind upon that thought, she would pass into this condition through self-hypnotism, although the man not only had no desire to hypnotize her but was even un- conscious of her existence. The press, by telling these stories, creates these imagined conditions in susceptible persons. Past education has developed a feeling- ot non-responsbility and fear in the indivdual which pre- 40 " in nun iiiiiiiiiiii i mi in n i mi i iiiii minimi nlin.1....!.... I pares him to receive these Suggestions from the press and eon vert them into Auto-Suggestions and give them thus control over their lives. Herein lies the great evil of press reports of crime. INVOLUNTARY SUGGESTION From self weakness, therefore, comes the present fear of hypnotism. No person of self-reliance will claim to be hypnotized to do a foolish or an evil thing. The weak and the silly, the very ones that have not concen- tration enough to be hypnotized by an operator, are the ones constantly susceptible to self-hypnotism. They are constantly receiving Suggestions from the crowd they are in. They thus become the tool of the fashions, fads and follies of the day. They are the ones who need most to place themselves under the care of a good oper- ator and, through his instructions, learn to concentrate and to protect themselves from the consequences of their willing but ignorant acceptance of Suggestions. Involuntary Suggestion, involuntary concentration, in- voluntary and unconscious choice, are to be avoided. When one has learned the Art of Suggestion, he knows too well the power of a Suggestion of evil ; for, whether it is accepted by the subject or not, if he has given it with a desire to work evil, that evil will work in him- self and as surely follow him as his shadow. No per- son is so chary of Suggestions which are not of good as one who has practiced the Art. PRESS LIBELS The daily press is scattering broadcast the seeds of this belief and fear in stories born in the brain of the report- er. The}- are his interpretation of facts. They are nev- er sustained by the opinions of experts. When the rc- 41 ported cases of evil arc investigated, they are not sus- tained by evidence. It has been reported that hypnotism has been made the plea of extenuation in courts. Never has a criminal been condemned, or a person acquitted, in this country upon the plea of hypnotism. Never has any judge con- sidered such a plea. 1 will cite only one typical case. ies it- round in the p' ral times a year. Con- cerning it. 1 give a- high an authority as exists upon the matter. Chief Justice Albert II. HortOn, of the Kansas Supreme Court, in an address reported in the "State Journal" (Topeka), for April the 6th, 1, pays: "In affirming the conviction of Gray, no new doc- trine was announced, no new rule of evidence estab- lished. Hypnotism ZVOS not considered nor ruled upon in any way. The reports are therefore wholly unfound- ed." But Judge Horton's statement is ignored and the lie of a reporter is made the hasis for creating fear hy teacher, preacher and editor. EVIL ADVERTISEMENTS But more injurious than the press reports are some of the advertisements of the teachers and schools in which the woid-. "secret power," "subtle power," and others are used to convey the idea that they have something mysterious and hidden and that the possession of this something will enable it- possessor to influence any person to do his will, and will enable a graduate of their school to win easily everything he wishes in the battle of life. These claims are false. They mislead. No such power exists. All persons may cultivate and attain all that is claimed for "Hypnotism" and "Personal Mag- netism" by a simple application of this Law of Sug- 42 The Soul of man is perfect. All Souls are alike. Each contains a spark of Infinity. All that any one needs is to let the god in him (the good in him) manifest. Sug- gestion opens the way. There is no patent right held by any person, or any class of persons, upon any meth- od of this unfoldment. No method is universal. No limitations are possible. All is one principle. The prin- ciple of Suggestion is limitless and its methods will be adapted to the time and place. Once understand the ,aw of Suggestion, the Principle of Concentration, and you have entered the Holy of Holies ; have the key to all the ancient mysteries; have knowledge of the way to the Occult Powers of the Soul. SELF-PROTECTION There are schools and teachers that advertise their abil- ity to impart the power of "protection" against evil in- fluences. Especially is this true of those who gather the press reports of the evils of hypnotism. With this claim they induce people to become their pupils. "Pro- tection ' from what? The Ego is all powerful. The only evil is ignorance. The only safeguard is knowl- edge. Knowledge of what? Of Self. No person can ho protected from his thoughts. He must protect him- self. All the possible evils there are in Suggestion are those that lie in thinking. A person must think. Now think no evil and none is possible. PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY Thought is creative. It creates every condition in lite What shall I think ? is the supreme queston that con- cerns every man. What are the results of thoughts and how are thoughts controlled? should be his questions. 4.? \<> power, no statute law con protect a man from him- self. Neither can they change him or canst- him to think to order. As long as he fears, he must suffer the effects of fear; as long as he thinks pain, he must suf- fer pain; as Long as he thinks he must be protected, he will be weak and will not protect himself from self created evils. Each person is responsible to himself for the thoughts he encourages. He cannot escape the results of his own thinking. If he will not keep harmful thoughts, "tramp thoughts/' from his mind, he must take the conse- quences oi such company. The School of Suggestion is the University of the Soul. All other schools are of the intellect. This school opens the door through which to reach the Ego itself. None othci is equal to it. MISREPRESENTATION Telepaihy is now brought in as a ground for fear an i people are warned in adverisements to go to certain teacher> of hypnotism that they may learn to protect themselves from the evil thoughts of others. "This mysterious silent power," one advertisement reads. 1 affirm postively that it is more difficult to influence one silently to do what is not in harmony with his own thought than it i< by oral Suggestion. A Suggestion is at all times a Suggestion. Its effect is the same whether given orally or telepathically. Those that do not conflict with desire, will or conscience will he readily received when silently given. It then docs not meet with the intellectual limitations that are often put upon it when conveyed orally. But positively I repeat: no Suggestion repugnant to a person will be received telepathically. It falls as unnoticed, as harmless, as buckshot on an iron-clad. 44 THOUGHT HARMONY When n thought is sent that meets with acceptance in the person to whom directed, then it will, if conditions are favorable, be responded to in action. A case in il- lustration :— A friend and I were riding in the street- car, and, as we were about to pass the home of a lady friend, my companion remarked: ''I wonder if Mrs. B. will see us?" I thought it not likely. But, as the car stopped at the crossing, she came to the window and recognized us. Later we enquired why she came and she said : "While standing overseeing my dinner. I felt to go to the window." Our thpught had reached her and, being a pleasant one, and her mind not being concentrated upon anything in particular, she was ready to respond. Had her mind been occupied with some necessary thought, or had our thought been unpleasant, she would not have responded. AUTHORITIES ( )perators in I [ypnotism are unanimous in the assertion that no evils result from it. Earlier authorities think it "possible," but give no instances. Later ones declare that it is not possible. T. J. Hudson, the author of "The Law of Psychic Phenomena." says in a magazine arti- cle: "That hypnotism and its chief handmaiden, Sug- -tion. have been proven to be an unalloyed blessing to millions of the human race, can not be successfully con- troverted." Hudson Turtle, as good an authority as there is in the ranks of Spiritualism, says of the trance which, he calls "The Hypnotic State": ''There is noth- Ibig in the trance which affects the physical senses; on intrary, il gives them rest similar to normal sleep." Of all the European and American authorities that I have been able to find, none report any instance' of evil results. American Operators who have hypnotized thousands and have seen some persons used as subjects for many years are most positive as to its harmlessness. The best authorities are those who, from the platform, give exhibitions, for they meet all classes and have the most extended practice. 1 have never conversed with one whose experience has not been that of my own, which is, that we can not cause a subject to do that which he wills not to do. or that which is morally re- pellent to him. TESTIMONIES Professor A. K. Carpenter, who probably has had as large an experience in this line as any living operator, told me twenty years ago that such was his experience. Professoi Caldwell, one of the well known operators twenty years ago, told me the same. Professor Connet SO taught his pupil-. Mis j aw was: "You can not cause a pupil to work against his will, against his conscience, or to injure his person or his property. " 11. I,. Flint, as well known upon the hypnotic stage as any person in the Mississippi Valley, in a late interview reported in the press, said, in reply to the question as to whether or not a man can be hypnotized to commit crime. "I should -ay unconditionally, \\o! When under hypnotic influence, the subject's moral sensibilities are more acute than in the normal state and often, when in hypnosis, he cannot be made to do those little pecca- dillos that he will do when normal. It is correct to say that he will never do anything that he will not do at any other time, as far as his moral nature is concerned. " Thomas L. Adkin, dean of the New York Institute of Physicians and Surgeons, says in an article in Practical Psychology. — ''I have hypnotized in pub- lic and in private about 15,000 people. I have seen 46 fully 25,000 people under hypnosis in the past fourteen years. I have never seen the slightest harmful results. Anyone who has had any practical experience with the subject is well aware that no harm can be done by hyp- notic Suggestion. . . I was a subject myself for five years; was hypnotized thousands of times and, if harm- ful results were produced, I am not aware of it. . . I know a subject who has been hypnotized twenty or thirty times every night by different public hypnotists for the past twenty-five years, and he is just as sound mentally and physically as he ever was. . . To hyp- notize a man, you ask him to think a certain way; or, in other words, ask him to concentrate his mind upon a certain subject. Xow, then, if it does not injure one to think, it does not injure one to be hypnotized." This is the testimony of experts and will close the case with every reader of this book. SELF-SUGGESTION Another phase of Suggestion, intensifying the position 1 have already taken, is that reported of several who have acquired a development of Auto-Suggestion so that, without operator, they can throw themselves at will into all the conditions they have seen produced in subjects. The press has recently told of a man who permits his flesh to be pierced without feeling pain. Any person can do this when he has overcome the fear of pain. Man\- of my students do it. By Self-Suggestion, they can produce any chosen phenomenon by simply thinking, "It is so!" thus demonstrating that it is the subject, not the operator, that does the work. This power, when developed and rightly applied, lifts one out of any undesirable condition and enables him to make life each day, in body and in estate, to his or- der. For thought is creative, and whatever a man 4/ builds in his thought and concentrate upon lie will surely realize m his objective Inc. This is the Univer- sal Law. THE ONE LAW The classic statement of this Law is: I AM THAT WHICH I THINK I AM. Thought IS P° wer ' N " 11 Should realize this and then direct your thought to build according to your desire. Otherwise u will run riot, as it does i,, most f us now. You must bring your undirected thought, which is ,„.w harmful to you, under the control of your will in order that it ma) work t<> your good. POST-HYPNOTISM \ ery convincing of tin truth of our theory, are the phe- nomena called "Post llypnoticT While in hypnosis a buggestlOU IS given the subject that he will, al a certain future time, do a certain thin- This also, through misunderstanding, has given rise to fears that the great sons from it are not perceived. For illustration- A young man while asleep in my class was told that when he awok,- he would i\n<\ an unnamed article which the gentleman who gave the Suggestion had hidden. The young man awoke, took part in the exercises of the class tor over an hour. Suddenly he went to a lady and asked her tor the nickel she had. "What nickel?" Looking very stupid, he said, "1 don't know. I only felt to ask yon." She gave him the nickel which the gentleman had previously given her. A DEEPER LESSON Post-Hypnotic Suggestions can he carried out only on the plane of the intelligence or the conscience of the 48 subject, for these are the ever-present factors with which he deals. It is impossible to execute a post-hyprfotic Suggestion which conflicts with the intelligence, prej- udices, will or conscience of the subject. Consequent- ly, the operator, in giving post-hypnotic, as well as oth- er, Suggestions, is compelled to act within the limits of his subject's intelligence, conscience, prejudices, and will. But a deeper lesson is here. Xo thought is ever received by a mind that does not remain there to in- fluence future conduct. The words of the teacher, the admonition of the mother, the advice of the father, the loving greeting of a friend, all, like post-hypnotic Sug- gestions, fall into the subconscious storehouse to influ- ence future conduct. Let no person be discouraged be- cause it seems his efforts for good are lost. Xo word that is upward tending is ever lost. It is a seed-thought of power sown in the soul. Sleeping or waking, words of love or truth react upon the Ego and bring forth fruit. "My word shall not return to me void," said the old prophet. "One accent of the Holy Ghost The heedless world hath never lost." Dy the use of this principle of Suggestion, every latent power of the mind can be stimulated. It is the most potent and successful method of education. The reten- tion by the mind of each Suggestion given it and the ability to intensify this impression by first rendering the intellect non-resitant by repose, offer the teacher an opportunity, by making Suggestions in the line of the ideal, such as is found in no other system of education. THOUGHT SEEDS Suggestions given in sleep are retained. Like seeds in the ground awaiting spring, rains and sun, they lie in 49 the subconscious, reach to spring into activity at the first opportunity. This is the reason why .Mental Heal- ing is so successful. This explains the cures by Sug- gestive Therapeutics. Post-Hypnotic Suggestion is the best method to cure all such vices as intemperance, pro fanity, worry, fear and licentiousness. All lite., health and power within the Soul lie open to Suggestions giv- en in sleep. To utilize this knowledge with children w ill hapten the "New Day." SUGGESTIONS DURING SLEEP Tlu- healing power of Suggestion during sleep is well known to practitioners of Suggestive Therapeutics. It- possibilities in the cure oi habits are beginning to be knowa The mother has, ii, the Law of Suggestion, power to wield lor the intellectual and moral develop- ment of her child whih ii lies sleeping. By its use, she can then sow in the subconsciousness of her child the germ-thoughts of any study, can correct any habit, can awaken any slumbering power and can lead it in the way of her ideal. She has only to use this Art to make her home an Eden. INCIDENTS A young man. one of my subjects, was complaining that he could not perform his problems in mathematics. When he was asleep, 1 suggested to him that he was now in the Divine Mind and could learn and master the Law of Numbers and that he would do so. before he awoke, he solved the problems and had no further trou- ble in the study. Had he dreamed this out in his ordi- nary sleep, it would have been a somewhat common oc- currence. In fact, hypnotic and ordinary sleep are iden- tical. They differ only in the way in which they are 5U produced. So he did in hypnosis, at will, only what oth- are doing without the knowledge of the Law. I asked a lady to go to sleep and find a lost article. She did so. ( )thers go to sleep and dream of finding lost articles. In her case, advantage was taken of the Law of Suggestion and at will >he slept and found. A young man said that he was trying to invent a certain machine that puzzled him. I placed him in Hypnosis and said : "Now you are in the Divine .Mind where all machines lie. Find that which you wish. If it is possible, you can find it." In a few minutes he said: "How simple that is." "Remember it when you are awake," was my command. Me did so; it was a success. "A dream," one says. Ves, but a dream induced at will. A lady was puzzling over an essay. In hypnosis, she found and. on awaking, wrote what she found. A lad;.' was to take part in a concert but was full of fear. In hypnosis I suggested that she was confident of success and would, in the joy of the occasion, lose all fear. She enjoyed the evening. This condition can be readily cultivated so that one can bring from the subconscious, at will, any desired manifestation of Truth. A student of mine suggested that he would awaken in the morning with the material of a sketch that he had for some time wished to write. The morning brought the sketch. A student who had newer written a poem thought that he would try Suggestion. Upon retiring at night, he con- centrated upon the affirmation: "I will awaken and write a poem in the morning." Earlier than usual, he arose and the poem wrote itself. Thus will a knowl- edge of Suggestion lead the Conscious man to direct the manifestation of the Eero in his daily life. 51 SUGGESTION UNIVERSAL This understanding of Suggestion explains the phe- nomena called "occult" and "spiritual." It explains the wonder- of the Hindoo fakir and Buddhist priest, of Egyptian hierophant and Grecian sybil, of Roman seer and Mohammedan shiek, of mediaeval occultist and modern evangelist, of medium and clairvoyant, of psychometrist and hypnotic subject, of Christian Sci- ence, of Mental Science, and of the magnetic healer. All these find in Concentration under the Law of Sug- gestidn their power. In the knowledge and applica- tion of this I, aw lies the future evolution of man. Some idea of what lies within the possibilities of Suggestion may he obtained from the consideration of the fact that the greatest re form movement during the last century, if not for several centuries, arose from its application, namely, "Metaphysical" healing. Under "Metaphysical" healing we include all forms of suggestive therapeutics, known under a great variety of names, such as New Thought, Mental healing, Divine healing, Divine sci- ence. Truth Students. Christian Science, Stfggestive Therapeutics, and the like, all of which derive their ef- ficiency from their use of the Law of Suggestion. HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE LAW OF SUGGESTION Tt is interesting to trace the recent history of the devel- opment of this Law of Suggestion, which is the present- day form of Hypnotism. We can trace its theoretical, or philosophic, side from the philosophy of Emerson, and its practical side from the feats of Mesmer, through the theory and practice of Andrew Jackson Davis, and then through the phenomena of Spiritualism into all 52 the cults which today may be grouped under the head "New Thought," or "Metaphysical." EMERSON'S PHILOSOPHY Ralph Waldo Emerson in his Essays gave expression to that philosophy which has ramified into so many practical movements, all of which may be designated as "\c\\ Thought," or "Metaphysical." MESMERISM, ANIMAL MAGNETISM Although Hypnotism had been practiced for centuries under various forms in many occult religions or cults, for our purpose we need not go back beyond Mesmer. Hypnotism, as he practiced it, was called Mesmerism. Its theories and the practice of them were gradually enlarged and improved. It was also called "Animal Magnetism.*' Under this name it began to be frequent- ly used in healing disease. From "Animal Magnetism," as practiced by the famous Dr. Quimby, of Portland, Me., two movements arose, one including all the forms of present-day metaphysical healing, or suggestive ther- apeutics, the other known as Christian Science. The former of these was developed chiefly through the writ- ings of Dr. W. F. Evans, who was one of Dr. Quim- students. In the course of a few years this move- ment has been split up into a large number of inde- pendent cults under various names, * such as New Thought. Metaphysical healing, Divine healing, Spirit- ual healing, .Mental healing. Suggestive Therapeutics, and so forth. They arc ail alike in principle, and dif- fer only in their methods. HARMONIAL PHILOSOPHY Andrew Jackson Davis made a wide application of his philosophy to healing and other demonstrations of life in his system which he called "Harmonial Philosophy.'' While a little boy. having never read through a single book, Davis became a hypnotic subject and from this developed into a wonderful teacher. Through the hyp- notic trance, subconsciousness was awakened and, in this state, be gave the lectures published under the ti- tle. "Nature's Divine Revelations." Davis SOOn grew into an independence of his operators and developed what he calls the "Superior Condition," a better name than the phrase now in common use: % 'ln the Silence." SPIRITUALISM The next step in advance is found in the movement called Spiritualism, which was a further development of the principles and practice of Davis. Spiritualism, through it- magnetic healers and clairvoyants, gave a great impetus to "spiritual" and "mental" healing. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy was, in her early career, a Spir- itualist Medium. Dr. Quimby, of Maine, had, from his stndie> in Suggestion, then called ''Animal Magnet- ism," discovered that disease is a belief. He developed a system of mental treatment. .Mrs. Eddy, then Mrs. Baker, was a patient and a student under Dr. Quimby. This was her start. Accepting in its essentials the practice of Dr. Quimby, she denied the Law of Suggestion, although basing all her practice on it. In the place of this fundamental law 54 •he put her interpretation of the Bible, which she worked out into an extensive system, which she ealled Christian Science. Her interpretation of Scripture may be original, but there is no originality in her practice, for it is nothing more nor less than an application of the Law of Suggestion. WHAT OF THE FUTURE? Such movements, resulting in so great blessings, af- fecting every avenue of modern thought and activity, are only prophecies of what shall be when Suggestion is generally understood. Enough has been accom- plished to warrant all the assertions made in this book of its future use. We have now only to learn the Law and its mode of operation and then to take the same ad- vantage of it that has been taken of other Laws, to make living a Fine Art. LIFE A FINE ART To live conscious of one's power; to understand the principle of Concentration and apply it ; to understand the Law of Suggestion and make it a servant of Will ; to affirm each day that which is desired as the only re- ality, this is to be an artist in life. To all who do this, Living has become A FINE ART. It is the object of this hook to help its readers to become such artists. The whole secret lies in DOING. Many read New Thought literature and think that, as the schoolboy attains knowledge of letters and memorizes geographical names, they can attain this power of self-control. Not so! It comes, as comes the ability of the artist to handle the chisel and hammer in bringing the statue from the marble; as comes the power of the architect to place on paper the structure already in his mind ; the power 55 of the mechanic to build a machine that he sees only In possibility; the power of expression that enables the poet to place in ever living words the bright ideal of beaut} that haunts him. All these grasped the princi- ples, first intellectually, then they practised until they made the channel within themselves for Thought to manifest under the direction of their Will. When they were ready, the statue earved itself; the palace drew its own design; the machine built itself; the poem forced it- self into expression. The way had been prepared by doing at it. not trying, hut by doing each day the very best possible and thus each day coming nearer to the real, which is eternally within the mind. MATERIALIZED WILL The piano player teaches us how to build a nervous structure to order. Me begins awkwardly and bungling- ly t<» fumble the keys. Bach day his fingers learn bet- ter to obey his Will. After a long practice, they have learned t<> play what is in the mind. They find the keys and strike them without the conscious direction of the player. The Will has been materialized in them and has produced nerve cells which act automatically. Af- ter the nerves have thus been reconstructed under the direction of the Will, the player forgets his fingers, lets them do the mechanical part, while he plays men- tally only, lie listens to the internal music while the fingers play. John Fiske says: 'This result is possi- ble only because of a bodily change which has taken place in him. Countless molecular alterations have been wrought in the structure of sundry nerves and muscles, especially in the grey matter of sundry ganglia and nerve centers. Every ganglion concerned in the need- ful adjustment of eyes, fingers, wrists, or in the repeti- 56 tions of musical sounds has undergone a change more or less profound. It is enough for us to know there is such a registration of experiences." In relation to this "registration," he says: "Any creature's ability to per- ceive and act depends upon the registration of experi- ences in his nerve centers. It is either individual or an- cestral experience that is thus registered; strictly speak- ing, it is both." I fere we have all the physiological evi- dence necessary to demonstrate scientifically the facts of mental healing and to prove our theory as to the place and power of Suggestion. Experiences register themselves in brain and nervous changes. MASTERY OF FATE Each Suggestion affects the nerve tissue. It builds it- self into bodily expression. The body is the material- ized experiences of the individual. All experiences are those of thinking and feeling. The body is therefore only materialized feeling and thought. This is the itest discover)- man has made of his power over Na- ture. He can. by the conscious use of his Will, mold her into the semblance of his own ideal. He does now, as far as his body is concerned, mold her unconsciously. He is learning consciously to build not only body but environment to his ideal, through the use of his Will. Nature's side of the expression is in the building of the external, the physical, man. The director of the finei force- is Suggestion. Man's side is Auto-Suggestion, or the better word is Affirmation. We have found in this word, Affirmation, the Key to Power. Science found it for us. Tint she never opened the treasure- house. \'o\v the key is placed in the lock. Will you turn it and In this book arc the necessary di- rections. They have been found by the effects of 57 Thought conditions artifically produced by Suggestion and Hypnotism, Suggestion being the Law, or princi- ple, and Hypnotism, the Art. Hypnotic experiments nave- taught us the principle, power and use of Sugges- tion. Now become to yourself both subject and Sug- gested You have learned the Law. All yon need now is practice. Practice leads, through Demonstration, to Realizaton. This won. you are the Master of Pate. THE MANIFEST IDEAL No knowledge is superior to this. It is all that an. healer, seer or conqueror ever learned. With this word, the portals of sense may be passed. Its word of pow- er is AFFIRMATION. Its bugle .-all is SUGGES; HON. | ( , (l ll who enlist under this banner, there is nothing but victory. Victory means Health, Success, Prosperity and Blessedness. The Way: AFFIRM '''"'•- IDEAL HOLD To IT THROUGH CON- CENTRATION. LET Till- [DEAL MANIFEST. FAITH l.\ SELF must give birth to the Affirmation, 1 AM! The end is Self-Control. ny 58 Formulas For Self-Hypnotism AFFIRMATIONS The benefit of this book lies in the fact that it has stim- ulated you to right thinking- and right living. To think and to live rightly, you must constantly practice the principle of Self-suggestion. By practice, you are to make conditions to your desire. By CONSCIOUS WILL, you are to Master Fate. If you find it difficult to hold the thought silently, it is a good plan to talk aloud to yourself. Treat the con- scious man as subject and the "I" as operator. Persist until you yield to the Affirmation as the subject yields to the command of operator. Use these thoughts in any language to suit. Remember: According to the amount of Will that you put into your thought is the benefit received. Therefore, when affirming, throw back the shoulders, hold head erect, sit or stand firm, and feel the spirit of the Affirmaton. Use your own name in place of John Smith. For Pain, say: — Xow. sir, you are Life! You cannot have pain. All pain has left you. Now go about your work. Attend to your business, John Smith, and T will attend to mine. 1 (Mind) built this body and I will restore it when you let me alone. For Nervous Conditions: — Xow. sir, sit down in that chair and relax. Let go! T.e 1 r. of old thoughts! Let go of your body. Forget 50 yo« have one. Imitate the baby, the cat and the doe "to» they rest There now, you fee] better already rnere, sir, how much relaxed you are. You are rested already. Now keep peace in your mind and oo to work i ou arc- Peace. For Insomnia: — Daring the day, when you think of the night, say "1 shall sleep well tonight." When bedtime come s ; say: u ( ,\ lmv slee PV am - ' a,,va(,v y*wn." Now yawn, whether you feel to or not. Keen yawning till von do feel, then let u yawn itself and continue to say "I'm sleepy, till you lose yourself in sleep. For any kind of Sickness :— Mow John Smith, you are Spirit, for I am Spirit and f made you. Spirit cannot be sick. Therefore this con dition is purely a mental one and you are to change it Ever remember that / am not sick. I am Life. Life manifests ; just as perfectly as you, Mm Smith, let it. It you will repress it by thinking disease and pain, then you will have them. Now you have forgotten them and onl^ remember that I am LIFE. This you will repent '"' I have made your body over anew: I \M I IFF' I AM UFE! ' uirni For Discontent: — Now, sir, you have everything you desire. Life is yours ^ Life contains all. You are Contentment. For Poverty: — Weil si,-, you have all that is. You have Life and all that Life needs. God is within you. God is all! Let U>d manifest as He will. Let Life manifest. Polarize yourself and draw what you desire. Stop saying, "I am 60 I poor." Say, "J have all. I am rich, for I have all 1 can use.'' Stop this economy. Jt will lead yon to the poorhouse. 1 cannot lead you to things you wish when I you fill your mind with these thoughts of poverty. Hereafter, keep full of Faith in the Good. Call your own to you by this Affirmation. I am with you and I am Power. Attend to your business of using- to your desire what you have. Use it now. It is my business to bring more when this is gone. The Affirmation, My SUPPLY IS INFINITE, will cure all poverty when it becomes Faith. For Bad Habits:— To cure any bad habit, say to yourself whenever you treat yourself or whenever you think of the habit: You are the Master of Self. You do just what you desire. Tobacco has no power over you. (Or beer, or worry. or anger, or gossip, or fault-finding, or argument, or talking of your pains or troubles. Use any one that fits the case.) You are temperate in all things, for I, the Soul, now guide you. Tell yourself: "Sir, I am Master." Affirm : "This old habit has passed from me. I love the good. Good fills me so full that there is in me no place for anything else. I am happy for old things are passed away." For Fear: — Fear is the one cause of all the evils of life. Use this formula in its thought, changing the words to suit : I am fearless. All is good. No evil can come to me. I am courage. I am guided from within. I can make no mistake. T have banished all fear. T trust myself. I have confidence in myself. I rely upon myself. I am equal to any emergency. There is for me protection at 61 all times. N fearless. o evil can come near my dwelling, I am Post-Hypnotic Self-Suggestions :— Have yon forgotten something? Then say: "J know. 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