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DELMER EUGENE CROFT</p> + + <p>If you catch the gleam of a possibility to-day that seems too + good to be true, grasp it, believe it, endeavor towards it, and + tomorrow it will be true.</p> + + <h1 align="center">Supreme</h1> + + <h1 align="center">PERSONALITY</h1> + + <h2 align="center">BY</h2> + + <h2 align="center">DR. DELMER EUGENE CROFT</h2> + + <h3 align="center">Psychotherapist and Lecturer.</h3> + + <p align="center">Personality is founded upon self-consciousness, + with self-governed intelligence and self-directed action.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">The purpose of this Course of Lessons is to + kill Doubt, Fear, and Worry, Cure the habit of growing old, + develop your limitless Psychic, Mental and Bodily forces, bring + you back to Nature, renew your cosmos, and help you lay a pipe + line to the power house of the Universe to supply forever your + Supreme Capacities.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">PRICE TWENTY-FIVE CENTS</p> + + <p align="center"><b>For Sale Everywhere All News and Book + Stands</b></p> + + <p align="center">NEW HAVEN PRINTING COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, NEW + HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.</p> + + <p>If the word "Death," had never been known to human thought, or + language, and some such term as "Passing to the New Life," had + been adopted, crepe would have been a drug on the market, painful + funeral discourses unheard of, and long, somber funeral + processions unknown.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">Thousands of human lives are blasted by + negative goodness.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p>A little country boy whose mother everlastingly nagged him + about being good, but whose father was ever telling him about the + beautiful things in the city, ended his prayer with this: "O, God + make me such a good boy, that when I die I can go to New + York."</p> + + <p align="center">1915</p> + + <p align="center"><i>One Hundredth Thousand</i></p> + + <p>Observe your opportunities to be kind. A little boy was + sitting in his father's lap in the street car when a charming + young lady entered, and as the little fellow observed there was + no seat, he quickly jumped off his father's lap and said to the + young lady, "please take my seat."</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">It is not wealth, or position that gives health + and happiness.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p>A mighty Emperor was stricken with a malady; his court + physicians gave him up to die. He called in his magicians and + they told him if he would wear the shirt of a happy man he would + recover. He ordered his kingdom searched for a happy man. They + found him, up in the silent mountains, but alas, he had no + shirt.</p> + + <p>No, Satan did not bring the temptation to Eve instead of Adam, + because woman was a weaker, and man a superior being. He brought + the temptation to Eve because a woman isn't afraid of the Devil. + If he had brought it to Adam, he would have been running yet.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">Some people are so stupid in passive goodness, + that their whole life wouldn't fill three feet of a moving + picture reel.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p></p> + + <h2 align="center">Dedication</h2> + + <p>This book is gratefully dedicated to the kindly memory of two + eminent physicians, long since gone from this earth plane, who + professionally observed my fourth physical eclipse by rheumatic + fever; and who hopefully assured me, as I fluttered weakly from + the shadow, that I could never pass thru it again. When I + received their bills I was sure I could not.</p> + + <p>The Author.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p>If you are "A Self-Made Man," don't say too much about it, + someone may suspect you "loafed on the job," and tell the + Union.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p>Prayer should always prepare you for action. For example, + little Willie was saying his prayer, and his sister, seeing his + pink toes sticking out from under his nightie, tickled them. + Willie grew red in the face and suddenly exclaimed: "O God, + excuse me a minute while I get up and knock the stuffing out of + Susie."</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p></p> + + <h2 align="center">The Fore=word</h2> + + <p>Life is self-realization. Every birth is divine. We are born + anew every morning. My wish is that you may catch the gleam, be + freed from limitations and enter upon your boundless + possibilities. Your endowments are so rich and rare. There is no + other person in the world just like you. You have genius, which, + if it were brought forth into the sunlight, would glorify with + brilliant inspiration a thousand lives. You have insight that, if + it were energized, would make the desert blossom as the rose. You + have initiative that once illuminated would create an empire + fairer than any ever raised in marble. You have harmony lying + latent in the vast octaves of your being, which if awakened into + melody would sooth, comfort, restore, and purify the passions of + a world. You have beauty, matchless in forms of grace, which if + breathed into marble, or spread in soul colors upon the canvass + would adorn the palaces of kings. You have thoughts which if + given expression would burn and shine thru countless ages and + bear their messages of hope and power to fainting multitudes.</p> + + <p>To bring you into the throne-room of your being, that you may + awaken in self-realization, is why I have prepared this course of + lessons. Should you give five minutes a day to them, in a year + you will know the joy there is in Life, in Power, and in + Service.</p> + + <p>THE AUTHOR.</p> + + <p align="center"><b>Supreme Personality</b></p> + + <p align="center">Your Psychic Nature possesses limitless power + and possibilities, which you may have as life realities.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p></p> + + <h2 align="center">CONTENTS</h2> + + <p align="center"><a id="chap1" name="chap1"></a><a href= + "#lesson1">LESSON FIRST</a></p> + + <p align="center">SUPREME CONTROL OF CONDITIONS.</p> + + <p align="center"><a id="chap2" name="chap2"></a><a href= + "#lesson2">LESSON SECOND</a></p> + + <p align="center">SUPREME CONTROL OF AGE.</p> + + <p align="center"><a id="chap3" name="chap3"></a><a href= + "#lesson3">LESSON THIRD</a></p> + + <p align="center">SUPREME DAILY-LIFE METHOD.</p> + + <p align="center"><a id="chap4" name="chap4"></a><a href= + "#lesson4">LESSON FOURTH</a></p> + + <p align="center">THE SUPREME LAW OF SUCCESS.</p> + + <p align="center"><a id="chap5" name="chap5"></a><a href= + "#lesson5">LESSON FIFTH</a></p> + + <p align="center">SUPREME BODY BUILDING METHOD.</p> + + <p align="center"><a id="chap6" name="chap6"></a><a href= + "#lesson6">LESSON SIXTH</a></p> + + <p align="center">SUPREME LAW OF INTERNAL VIBRATION.</p> + + <p align="center"><a id="chap7" name="chap7"></a><a href= + "#lesson7">LESSON SEVENTH</a></p> + + <p align="center">SUPREME METHOD OF MENTAL HEALING.</p> + + <p align="center"><a id="chap8" name="chap8"></a><a href= + "#lesson8">LESSON EIGHTH</a></p> + + <p align="center">SUPREME POWER OF MAGNETISM.</p> + + <p align="center"><a id="chap9" name="chap9"></a><a href= + "#lesson9">LESSON NINTH</a></p> + + <p align="center">SUPREME LAW OF TELEPATHY.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">You cannot bring Health, Success, Happiness and + Power to others without bringing them to yourself.</p> + + <h2 align="center">This Supreme Day</h2> + + <p>Out of the tomb of night a day has risen. Be not anxious, this + day is all your own. Do not hurry, for in time it is like all + other days. Neither delay, for NOW is opportunity.</p> + + <p>Early turn your face to the dawn and let its beams bathe away + all stains of the night. Then, should the noon be dark with + storms, your smile shall wear the serene promise of confidence + and realization.</p> + + <p>This Supreme day can only be saved by spending it. Therefore, + to its burden give your strength; to its confusion give your + patience; to its sorrow give your comfort; to its trial give your + nobleness; to its peril give your heroism; to its sacrifice give + your love.</p> + + <p>During this Supreme day step softly among human hearts and + leave so much of kindness along its path, that in golden days, + gladness shall spring up bearing its tribute to other weary + hearts in the cool eventide of the world's glad Easter.</p> + + <p>Set eternity in your heart, let Truth be your fadeless Day + Star, then over your life of service, sacrifice, courage, + cheerfulness, patience, kindness and love, time shall have no + power.</p> + + <p>THE AUTHOR.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p></p> + + <h2 align="center"><a id="lesson1" name="lesson1"></a><a href= + "#chap1">Lesson First</a></h2> + + <h2 align="center">SUPREME CONTROL OF CONDITIONS</h2> + + <p>Conditions are thought made. Change your thought and you will + change your condition. To agonize and struggle in a bad condition + is like struggling in quicksand, you get in deeper. Tell your bad + conditions to another and you multiply them. If the heavens are + falling and the earth is slipping under your feet, grab a big + Turkish towel, walk briskly into the supreme sanctuary of the + body,—the bath-room, take a thorough salt-water bath, with + a few drops of perfume in it to awaken your self-respect. Then in + a quiet, darkened room take a good sleep of ten to fifteen hours. + Then rise and eat slowly, quietly and happily some nourishing + food. God, Himself, could do nothing with Elijah, until He had + given him a long sleep and a good meal. Then Elijah went forth + and crowned a King, appointed a Prophet, established a Kingdom, + and rode Home in chariots of fire. Once you make a start, the + world is at your command. Let go of the past. Stop the foolish + thinking that conditions hold you, it is you holding onto + conditions. Quit your self-pity, blaming others, and saying you + are the victim of circumstances. Stop whining, and begin singing, + then will your feet be loosed from the stocks and the iron gates + open outward before you. Look away from yourself.</p> + + <p><b>IS YOUR WILL ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL?</b> Awake it. See if you + are sailing, or drifting. Set the compass of your Mind to new + thoughts, fresh purposes, selfless desires, fill your sails with + boundless hope, and let your daily voyage spell SERVICE in a big + way. You are not a chip on the River of Life, you are a Supreme + Master in a Universe of Facts. You think you are stuck in the + harbor mud, but it is only that the tide is out. Command your + Will to put up the sails, God will send you wind and tide to bear + you out of the stale, sordid mental and bodily conditions you are + living in, give you wider horizon, and a limitless ocean of + experience. If anybody does not wish to sail with you, leave them + on the shore. Let go of your past, break away from conditions + that hold you in slavery. Seek new scenery, form new + surroundings, begin a new Supreme Life.</p> + + <p><b>KEEP YOUR BODY SUPREME:</b> Go back to Nature; be a fine + animal. Get into the sunshine, the silent woods, the open fields. + Magnetize your body by walking thru the dew barefooted, by + sleeping on the grass, or half buried in the sand. Tuberculosis, + rheumatism, insomnia are unknown to wild animals. Our bodies are + sick and weak because we have denatured ourselves. Make friends + of the wild animals, they will teach you how to keep well. They + have not a single case of nervous prostration in all their vast + forest home. Learn to relax. Drop your tension and you check + confusion. Stop a few minutes sometime in the day and quiet your + nerves, rest your muscles, calm your senses, sooth your thoughts, + somewhere in the sunshine, or under the shade of an old + apple-tree. Eat simply, slowly, nuts, dates, cereals, fruits. + Drink abundantly of water between meals. Dress less somber, study + your personal appearance, give it harmony. Keep your body well + groomed. A bath and hair cut will change the out-look of life. + Quit habits that weaken the body. Never talk about your bodily + weakness, illness, or condition, nor listen to those of others. + Criticise your body and it will fail you. Praise your body and it + will serve you. Take air-baths, cold water plunges, or cold water + sponges, every morning. Fix your mind upon having a sound and + energized body and you will attract it. Exercise, walk, run, + play, work, and learn to rest. Change your habits of living. Cut + out the grouch. Stop nagging. You're sour because your pores are + stopped up; get a buck-saw and take a sweat. You're morbidly blue + because your solar plexus has gone to sleep; give it half an hour + of internal vibration. Don't knock the weather, like it, get into + it, let it put iron into your blood. Plunge into a storm, it will + act as tonic on your spirit. A dip in the ocean will add + magnetism to your body. Your body is a mighty fine engine of + marvelous energy. Over-fed, under-fed, over-burdened, neglected, + abused, weakened, shamefully talked about, yet year after year it + goes on generating the divinest thing in the universe—Life. + It transmutes profane elements into divine energy, washes a river + of blood free of tons of poison, supports a brain that builds and + rules limitless empires, sustains a vision that dissolves + darkness into light, the unknown into the known, upholds the + image of, and is "the Temple of the Living God." Your body is + Supreme. Keep it divine. Strip your body bare and lie in the + sunshine. Let it soak deeply into the tissue, it will magnetize + your body, and renew it with youth. Take these sun-baths every + sunny day possible by lying on a couch before a large window, or + even better, out in the open air. If you want a magnetic body + that is supple, elastic and youthful give it sun-baths and + air-baths daily.</p> + + <p><b>KEEP YOUR MIND SUPREME:</b> Your mind is limitless. You + were born to lead, not to be always led. Think for yourself. Do + your own planning. Make new plans. Train your mind to think + alone. Misery is rust on a mind that has stopped working. Train + your mind to delight people. Don't follow the crowd, but step + softly among human hearts. Train your mind to think big. Expand + your mind until it encircles the universe. Stop fussing over + little things, over useless people, and fill your mind with new + ideals and fresh purpose. Stop wailing over flowers that will + never blossom on the north side of your house; go around to the + south side and make a new garden. You have a temperament that is + likely to be misunderstood; that's fine. So did Sarvonarola, + Columbus, Galileo, Luther, Whitfield, Emerson, Lincoln and + Christ. "Seven cities fought for Homer, dead, thru whose streets + the living Homer begged his bread." The reputation of Christ was + just the opposite of His character. These, stood thinking their + brave thoughts on the horizon where Truth asks you to stand. You + are better than you think; or as good. You are the sum total of + your thinking. Build thought palaces, not mud huts. Create, + originate, produce new ideas. Beware of dead monotony, it kills + the brain. Unfetter your thoughts from notions, prejudices and + limitations. Think well of yourself, think well of what you have, + think well of what you do, think invincibly, think persistently, + think with unflinching resolve. Concentration is getting at a + thing, thinking it, planning it, preparing for it, working on it, + DOING IT. Your conditions, mental, physical, financial, are + thought made; fill your mind with different thoughts and you will + have different conditions. Thought gathers around you the things + you want, when you stop thinking of them they pass away. Thoughts + are seeds, they produce after their kind. A little thought will + shake off useless conditions and confused environment. Think some + fun into your daily events. Don't be over-serious; it breeds + disease germs, just as anger and hate thoughts induce cancer, + tumor and liver troubles. Start a hurricane of jollity. Break + loose in a thunderstorm of mirth, it will clear the atmosphere + under a roof, just as a thunderstorm clears the air over the + roof. On the other hand "there is a season to weep." Never + smother your emotion, to choke it back stifles the heart. Lift + the flood-gates and let your tears water the garden of your + heart. "Be renewed in the spirit of your mind." That is the life. + Be renewed every morning, for each day is a new life, a fresh + world, the beginning of eternity. Think your thought created + enemies into thought created friends. Think your thought created + suspicions, into thought created confidences. Thought has drawn + you into your conditions, it will pull you out. Your Soul, your + Mind, your Body cannot become ugly, useless, imprisoned so long + as you think supreme harmony, dominion, and love. Thought makes + your body a hovel, your mind a madhouse, or thought makes your + body a temple and your mind a shrine where angels commune with + you. Environment, conditions, circumstances are not your masters, + they are materials out of which thought makes the beautiful + mosaics of character. Light the candle of a new thought and + diligently sweep every corner of your mind, and you shall find + the rare treasure—happiness. Put fun into your thinking. Do + not take yourself so serious, put the red blood of mirth into + your daily thinking.</p> + + <p><b>KEEP YOUR WILL SUPREME:</b> Your will is divine energy, + therefore it is a Supreme Power. Christ said: "Be it unto thee + even as thou WILLED." It is inertia that suffers. Fate, Fear and + Doubt are children of the imagination. The power of the will + dissolves them into mist. Will power into your Being. Will power + into your work. Will power into your ambitions. Will power into + your expressions. Will power into your words. And you shall be "a + fellow workman with God, a master builder that needeth not to be + ashamed." Your Will gives infinite clearness, infinite strength, + infinite ideals, infinite aspirations, for infinite realities. + Your Will tells you that if there is anything to-day that seems + to you too good to be true, believe it, endeavor toward it, reach + forth to receive it, and tomorrow it will be true. Will is the + engine in the depths of the ship that drives it thru the + buffeting waves and storm to the distant harbor. Will puts your + back-bone where your wish-bone is now. Will puts iron into your + blood, tightens up your vertebrate and makes you "a + self-starter." You may have lost your battle, your Will stands + ready for another better campaign. You miss an opportunity, your + Will stands ready to open the door to a hundred new ones. Delay + is the mother of most failures. One thing worse than "a quitter," + is the person afraid to begin. Your Will gives purpose and makes + you stick to it. Get grit for a new siege. Will makes desire. + Will makes brains. Will gives decision. To decide means "to cut"; + cut deep into the world of possibilities, cut out of your prison + of difficulties, cut thru your jungle of opposition to liberty, + to health, to success, to supreme power. THINK, PLAN, DO IT. Will + heals disease. Will drives poisons out of the system. Will makes + the body immune. Will illumines the brain with brilliant + perception. Will sweeps misfortunes aside and rebuilds a nobler + success. Julius Caesar trained his supreme will until it became + the dominion of the Roman Empire. The goddess Diana said of + Hercules: "When I saw him, whether he sat or stood, I knew he was + a god, so majestic is his will." Like the magnetic mountain in + the "Arabian Nights," your Will can draw the nails from your + enemies' ships, so they shall fall to pieces before they reach + your shores. Will is a dynamic, cosmic energy from whence eternal + things proceed, and immortal organisms are constructed. Will is + the glory of the Divine universe, and you are a part of that + Will. In your Will sleep the oracles of prophecy. You were made + master over this world. In your Will is enthroned Sovereignty, + Dominion, Kingship. With force of Will, Pygmalion carved his soul + dream into the marble until its loveliness of form and grace + became so real as to take on life and motion. With force of Will + Dante created his Hell, and with force of Will Milton created his + Paradise Regained. Put your Will into command. Start new. Realize + that you are Supreme. Get a mind picture of what you want, what + you want to be, what you want to do, THEN ACTUALIZE IT. Get above + doubts. Do not wait to be well, to be happy, to be rich, all of + these will be added unto you. Climb out of your prison of doubts, + worries, fears. Begin where you are. Let your Will create, even + as God creates. "He that believeth shall not perish, shall not + abide in darkness, shall have the light of life, shall have + everlasting life; all things are possible to him that believeth." + Come down out of the gallery of supine hero worshippers, get into + the arena and be the hero. Quit the drivel of matinee idol + longing, and get onto the stage of life and get the bouquets for + yourself. The world is waiting to ring up the curtain for your + star part in life.</p> + + <p><b>YOU CAN WORK MIRACLES</b>: A miracle is a wonder, a marvel, + a supernatural occurrence, a result obtained by suspension of + natural processes. You can do that any day. The miracle is that + so few do it.</p> + + <p>You know Ibsen's play, "The Doll House." How the wife forged a + note, raised the money to send her husband to regain his health. + How he did regain it, returned to great prominence and wealth as + a banker. Then the blackmailer threatened to reveal the crime. + How the husband rushed to his wife in anger that she should have + done such a thing, that it meant ruin to him in his high + position. How the wife replied: "Why, I expected the miracle. + That you would save me as I saved you. That you would say that + you did it." If he only had, what a marvelous, what a wonderful, + what a supernatural thing it would have been. Christ made whole + and useful a withered hand. People say, "O, that I could do so + wonderful a thing." Well, why don't you. See the withered hands + around you. A young woman with a beautiful voice, but no means to + cultivate it. You have a thousand or so in the bank? You can save + that voice to a world that needs song. A young man with a fine + mind, helpless to go thru college, you have means to give that + mind to a world in power and usefulness. The natural thing is for + you not to do it, the supernatural, the miracle, is that you are + divine enough to do it. A man, a woman, is forsaken, friendless, + cruelly judged by the world, their goodness blasted, their spirit + crushed, their hearts bleeding, their lives made useless, + withered. The natural thing is to avoid such, stand aloof, be + quite scornfully indifferent. The miracle would happen if you + went to them, lifted them up, restored them to society. I have + said avoid useless people, I mean selfish, lazy, purposeless, + aimless people. Sir Humphrey Davy worked a miracle when he took + the boy Farrady out of a stable loft and gave him a chance to + cultivate his genius. The Sistine Chapel is Angelo's miracle. + When the band on the deck of the Titanic, under the pale light of + the morning stars played "Nearer My God To Thee," to give hope + and strength to men and women struggling to be saved, each + player, as the voice of his melody was forever hushed behind the + shining emerald gates, in the crystal tomb of the sea, went down + crowned with the glory of a selfless miracle. The natural thing + would have been for them to have frantically fought to save + themselves. What superb opportunities to work miracles have + passed you! What magnificent possibilities are still right before + you! The cripple is always at your Gate Beautiful. Are you divine + enough, wonderful enough, marvelous enough, supernatural enough + to say: "Such as I HAVE, GIVE I unto thee"? Do it quickly. Do it, + and you shall know daily the joy of hearing the Father say: "This + is My Son in whom I am well pleased."</p> + + <p>If there is any one person on this earth to whom I take off my + hat and wait until they safely pass, it is a school teacher. The + most obscure teacher, back in the country hills, unknown, + unthought of, unpraised, but with loving patience unfolding the + secrets of knowledge to little frowzy headed boys and girls, can + look into her mirror at evening and behold the face of an + angel.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">Flowers cast their wealth upon the vacant air, + and rich fathers oft cast their wealth upon the vacant heir.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">Some people are so sensitive that if you call + them "Honey," they will break out with the "hives" the next + morning.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">Do not divorce your husband because he has cold + feet, perhaps he got them since you were married.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p>Christ stopped every funeral that came his way and sent the + mourners home singing. Funeral sermons were too sad for Him to + preach. Every sick room He entered became a health resort. He + made grave-yards unpopular.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p>Many a lonely bachelor looking back over the stretch of years, + recalls the charming moonlight nights, when the cool summer air + was perfumed with old fashioned flowers, and he looked into the + loving eyes of his sweetheart; recalls how the crimson glow of + youth flushed her velvet cheeks as he took her warm hand in his; + recalls sadly that if he had only given that hand "a square + deal," played it in the game of life, he would have had "a full + house" now.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p>Would you like to become young? Then tap new reservoirs of + youthful thoughts, irrigate your alkali desert from the fountains + of youth, become youthfully active in some new field of work. + Vanderbilt added $100,000,000 to his fortune after he was eighty. + Wordsworth earned the Laureateship at seventy-three. Theirs + established the French Republic and became its first president at + seventy-two. Verdi wrote "Falstaff" at eighty. Sir Walter Scott + was $600,000 in debt when he was fifty-five, but thru his own + efforts he paid all and made himself a lasting name.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p>Book knowledge is not all. A wealthy, fond father, fearing his + son would be contaminated by college life, had him educated at + home. When he was twenty-one, he took him to ride thru the + streets of the city. They passed a female seminary just as the + doors opened and a crowd of young women came out. The dear boy + grabbed his father's arm and cried, "What are those?" His father + replied, "They are only goslins." Later in the day, the fond + father said: "My son, you have obeyed me, have faithfully + completed your education, now I am ready to spend $50,000 to give + you the highest ambition of your life." The boy looked up in glad + wonder and said: "O, dad, give me a goslin."</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p></p> + + <h2 align="center"><a id="lesson2" name="lesson2"></a><a href= + "#chap2">Lesson Second</a></h2> + + <h2 align="center">SUPREME CONTROL OF AGE</h2> + + <p><b>YOUTH IS ETERNAL:</b> Nature never grows old. The flowers + that bloomed in Eden are blooming to-day. Just as lovely, just as + sweet, just as fresh and unchanged. The roses your life-mate + brings home to you, have the same fragrance as the roses Adam + brought to Eve, if he thought of it. The lovely stars that + glitter in the azure fields above you tonight, have the same + loveliness that gleamed in tremulous glory down upon the + shepherds beyond Bethlehem. The radiant, life giving rays of the + sun that ten thousand, thousand years ago warmed mother earth + into vernal spring life, are the same life giving rays that shall + bring again the spring-tide. Life never grows old, it only + changes form. Your life is perpetual, then your youth may be + perpetual. The human race is ever young, its units fall off. You + should be younger at sixty, than at sixteen, because you have + more of life. Growing old is a habit. People travel along the + years up the hill of life, till they reach a certain point where + they begin to THINK they must be growing old. Think its time to + sag. Think its time to droop. Think its time to begin the process + of decay. Then begin to talk about it. To write letters about it. + To feel around for it. To look for it in others. Finally the + habit they inherited from the race is on, and they are old. Life + is endless, but you can think it short, "The power of an endless + life," is within you, but by thinking you can turn it to the + white ashes of old age. THINK YOUTH AND YOU STAY YOUNG.</p> + + <p><b>YOUTH IS GROWTH:</b> Keep growing and you keep young. A new + idea will make you feel younger. Develop it and it will develop + you. Quicken your mental throb with new ideas. Begin now. Stop + talking about being too old to grow. You pass by trees daily, a + hundred, two hundred years old, still they are growing. The rose + bush on a wall in China is supposed to be over a thousand years + old, it bears more roses now, than when it was a mere slip of a + vine of only one hundred. Gladstone at eighty-two was a growing + statesman, and elected prime minister of England for the fourth + time. Cato at eighty began to study Greek, and renewed the youth + of his mind. Donald Davis is a growing hunter at one hundred and + three. Goddard Diamond was a growing teacher of health, when he + was one hundred and eleven. I know a bright, cheery lady who is + just beginning a new study for decorating china, along with her + household cares, and she is eighty-eight. Also another woman who + has taken up a new process of enlarging drawings into + water-colors and she is eighty-one years young. The fig tree + withered when the Master of Life found it not growing, producing, + creating. When you stop growing you will wither by the same law. + Grow something, create something, produce something and the law + of youth will pervade your Being.</p> + + <p><b>YOUTH IS OBSERVING THE LAW:</b> Observing the law of + health, the law of mind, the law of growth, the law of harmony, + the law of production, the law of expression, the law of beauty, + the law of selflessness. Keep your bodily forces up. Rebuild + destroyed tissue. Keep the system free of waste. Stop poisoning + your body with anger, hate, jealousy, fear. Keep your mind sweet. + Think cheerfully. Avoid mental turmoil and excitement. Two great + enemies of youth are worry and fear. The next is selfishness. + Think every morning when you rise—"This new day is new + life. It is fresh from the hand of God. It is mine to use. I will + increase it unto the Perfect Day." Grow in each day, and make + each day grow. Check discord. Quit useless discussion for it + weakens and withers. Stop quarreling. Check complainings. Root + criticism out of your life. You are bigger than these things. Get + into harmony. You are of the world, upon worlds, universe unto + universe. Study your words to make them have beauty, your walk to + have grace, your personality to make it magnetic, your smile to + give courage and comfort, your presence to have it healing, + helping, inspiring. "If there be any virtue in whatsoever things + are lovely, think on those things."</p> + + <p><b>YOUTH IS LOVING WORK:</b> Like what you do. Do what makes + you and others happy. Enter your daily work with joy. Adjust it + until you do like it. Learn to love work for the happiness it + brings. Put joy into your work in the morning and you will find + it multiplied into happiness at night. Work is a law of youth. + Inaction is decay. Inertia is death. Men and women do not usually + lose their positions, they drive their positions away from them. + The law of work will not stand personal abuse, any more than the + law of beauty will endure brutality. Form an ideal of your work, + make a mental picture of it, simplify it, orderly it, beautify + it, then glorify it. Start the process in the slightest degree + and you will get a result. Put a new shock absorber on your + disposition. Bring your fine sensibilities to your work, be big + morally, be deep mentally, and work with confident expectation. + Put rules and system into your daily task. Exercise your + self-control, your self-possession, self-mastery, march up to + your task with efficiency backed up by a dominant will. Realize + your Supreme Personality in your work. Put the absolute "I AM," + into your purpose of toil. Put dominating decision "I HAVE + DECIDED," into your efforts. Put invincible determination, "I + WILL," into your complex problem. Put irresistible confidence, "I + SHALL ACHIEVE," into your ardent desires. You will then love + work. When you come to love work you will not exhaust yourself in + it, you will not tire your brain and body with its friction, + because you will not work with selfish purposes, but work to + enrich the world. "Love is the fulfilling of the law."</p> + + <p><b>YOUTH IS SUPREME CHEERFULNESS:</b> To be funless is to be + lifeless. Good cheer is the tonic of youth. If you are so sad you + cannot laugh at something, then laugh at nothing. "Laugh and the + world"—you know it. An ounce of smiles will give you more + real life than seven tons of solemncholy. Cheerfulness and + prosperity go hand in hand. Bathe in mirth. Frolic in some + sunshine daily, even if you live in Pittsburgh and have to make + your own sunshine. Make fun, don't always buy it. You can cure + disease and kill the Devil with laughter. Cultivate an infectious + laugh. Mirth makes work easy. Read humor and learn to tell it. + Practice telling a good, funny story. Be a quick wit. There is a + bright side to everything in this world, even to a dark-lantern. + The end of the film is sure to be jolly. Good cheer attracts good + luck. Cheer up. If you haven't a smile get one of somebody and + wear it as your own. "Let thine heart cheer thee." Give it + out-let. Go to sleep with a smile on your face and you will + awaken with a joy in your heart. Let your humor be rich humor. + Laughter is the cipher-key to a man. It is one of the most + delightful sounds of earth. Most utterly lost is the day you + laugh not. Mirth clears the mirrors of the mind. A person who + does not laugh is not healthy. "A merry heart doeth good, like a + medicine." To forget your sorrow begin to cultivate joy. Keep + away from sad people, or you will be sad. Stop rehearsing your + grief, you only enlarge it. If you suffer grief, find someone in + trouble and cheer them, encourage them, help them, and you will + deliver yourself. You will comfort yourself when you comfort + another. You cannot lose a loved one, tho absent from the earth + plane they are nearer than ever. Life and love never change. + Death is an unreality thought made. Our friends take on a new + embodiment that is glorified in life and spirit. When you believe + you were "created in His image," and "are a partaker of the + divine nature," it is easier to believe, "you shall arise in His + likeness." Some day we shall all believe we have not disfigured, + morally broken natures, but Divine Natures, supreme in limitless + power. Traditions, teachings, education, environment of + generations of thinking have disfigured, morally broken, sin + burdened humanity. All are thought created conditions. Thought + made limitations. Thought made original sins. System cultivated + human wrongs. Institutionalized teachings of error. But you + should know the universe is one undivided Soul. You are a + yoke-fellow with God. You are a part of One Complete Life. You + are a lobe of the Infinite Brain. You are a Supreme Personality + of Absolute Personality. Nothing that has life is God-damned.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">Where love is only a dream, the marriage is an + alarm clock.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">If you cannot endure your mother-in-law, you + can begin your plans at once to live alone, when your children + are married.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p>A quarrel between two people to settle things, is a good deal + like a dog fight in a flower bed, the only things that get + settled are the flowers.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p>Nearly always when you hear the lusty wail of a boy with + energy plus filling the air, you can look in at the window and + find a woman's hand at the seat of his trouble.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p>You can over-work your notion of neatness. A woman in Vermont + crippled her usefulness for life, by mopping a hole thru her + kitchen floor and falling into the cellar.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p></p> + + <h2 align="center"><a id="lesson3" name="lesson3"></a><a href= + "#chap3">Lesson Third</a></h2> + + <h2 align="center">A SUPREME DAILY-LIFE METHOD</h2> + + <p><b>A CENTRAL PLAN:</b> Do your mental work in the morning, + your manual work in the afternoon. Do not dictate letters in the + afternoon; from ten to twelve in the morning is best. The brain + is usually at low ebb at three o'clock in the afternoon. Do not + have your desk so that you have to look side-wise at persons + approaching you. It blunts your personality. By no means have + people enter behind you, it is the most negative psychic + influence possible. Let your position in your office be such that + when anyone approaches your eyes will fall upon them as near a + straight level as possible. Plan your workroom for efficiency. No + matter how small, how large, or if it be but a bench. Put your + character stamp on the plan of the work you do. Go to that work + as a King goes to his throne. Centralize your work. Plan it. Work + your plan.</p> + + <p><b>HAVE A SYSTEM OF ORDER</b>: Set your mind in order first. + If you are living as I have taught in the lessons that have gone + before, then your mind will assume a supreme command of order + almost at once. Classify what you do. Keep matters separate. Do + the big things first. As you classify, drop the non-essentials. + Weed out the useless. Never spend a minute of your morning hours + winding up a string or folding a piece of wrapping paper. Do that + when your brain tide has ebbed out in the afternoon, or not at + all. Don't hunt for a pin, or sharpen a pencil, or manicure your + nails after you reach your work of the day. Classify your + movements, eliminate the useless. Energize your movements. Move + with enthusiasm. Put elastic cheer into your step. Wear rubber + heels of quiet manners. Simplify your work. Keep it straight, + after a little it will keep you straight. Don't fall over your + work, nor step on it, or sit on it. Simplify by stopping the + waste of words, waste of material, waste of time. Jollify your + work. Put fun into each day's round of toil. Be original in plans + and ideas.</p> + + <p><b>CULTIVATE YOUR EFFICIENCY</b>: To all the above add mental + energy. Develop insight, grow new business brain cells. Do not + overload your stomach with food, nor your body with clothing. + Study directness. Master application. At Niagara Falls I saw two + giant dynamos generating twenty-five thousand horse power, their + efficiency was kept in perfect balance by a little automatic + nickle gate. Your efficiency is kept in balance by little, + invisible and automatic thought neurons. A clear brain is the + test of efficiency. Plans, orders, system, application, give + efficiency. Efficiency is positive thinking. Freedom-thinking, + above fear-thinking. Get out and keep out of negative thinking. + Just as soon as you drop negative thinking your mind will begin + to rise to a new brilliance of expression. One big element in + efficiency is silence. It is the strongest thing to be silent. + Noise is emptiness, weakness, inefficiency. Silence is the law of + greatness; noise the breaking of the law.</p> + + <p><b>DEVELOP YOUR POWER TO REST:</b> That person is wise who + knows how to rest. It is a powerful thing to rest successfully. + Over-fed persons, or animals, do not rest, they are stupefied. + Rest is filling your capacities with energy. "Sleep knits up the + ravelled sleeve of care," or it should. Rest is relaxing the + nerves and muscles. Rest is reconstructing broken down cellular + tissues. Rest is restringing the harp of the senses, retuning the + rhythmic harmonies of the spirit. Rest lets down the tension. + When you sit down, let what you sit on hold you. When you lie + down, do not try to hold yourself on the bed. Rest is the + opposite of labor. Rest is recreation. Rest with sleep is a + divine restorative. When you cannot rest, or sleep, you are + expending energy without production. Try this little code for + rest and sleep: "My mind is empty, my soul is at rest." Repeat it + with your eyes closed and your body relaxed. Say it just as you + would imagine the swing of the pendulum of an old fashion hall + clock. I never knew it to fail of inducing sleep. Never rest or + sleep with light falling on your eyes. Shut out the world and + noise.</p> + + <p><b>GROW THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT:</b> Love, Joy, Peace, + Gentleness, Goodness, Faith, Meekness, Temperance, against such + there is no law. Do not sit down and wish for them, nor wait for + someone to bring them to you, even God will not bring them to + you. Grow them. Cultivate them. Produce them. No power on this + earth can defeat you, make you fail, or over-throw you if you + fill your Spirit with them. As you work, use them. Take them with + you to the store, the factory, the shop, the mill, to your bench. + Take them with you to the office, the counting-room, the + court-room, and to your throne-room. Take them with you to the + battle field, to the halls of justice, to the senate chamber, to + the presidential chair. Take them with you thru the streets, + along the highways, and over the unbeaten paths of your life. + Take them with you down the rivers, and out into the storm driven + sea. Chain them to the wheel of your ship, sail on thru the + starless night alone. Trust them, for they are the initiative of + the Supreme in you.</p> + + <p><b>TRAIN YOUR VOICE:</b> Take your snarling, growling, + snapping, whining voice away into the jungle and leave it to the + wild beasts. Take your sobbing, sniveling, trembling, dolorous, + sanctimonious voice down into some dismal swamp and bury it. + Train your voice as you would tune a harp. Your voice is an index + of character. Keep it on the level. Let it "speak as one having + authority." Charm it with modulation. Make it ripple with music. + Allow no thrust of anger to ruffle it. Intensify it with + determination. Strengthen it with courage. Give it dominion and + power. When other voices are hot and spuming around you, keep + your voice cool. Never allow your voice to become dull, dubious, + uncertain, shrinking, or hollow. Voice tones that are round, + rhythmic, full measured. Have a serene and reposeful voice. Look + at what you speak. Reflect your soul in your voice. Let the + manner of your voice be calm, smooth, collected, but energized + with positive forces. Have a cheerful voice, a voice that makes + one think of sunshine and smiles.</p> + + <p><b>HOW TO LOVE RELATIVES:</b> To love your relatives be away + from home all you can. To have them love you keep about three + hundred miles between you and them. Thousands of homes and lives + are wrecked by two families of the same family trying to live + under the same roof. Noah would have foundered with the Ark ten + days after the flood started if he had taken more than two out of + any one family with him. Cain would never have killed Abel if + Adam hadn't made the fool blunder of trying to keep his two sons + everlastingly with him. Of course there was some excuse in the + fact that in those days New York and Paris were not brilliantly + attractive cities. If there is any one thing outside a church + row, that tickles the devil into a frenzy of laughter it is when + a young married couple go home to live with the family. There is + about as much real life joy and harmony in it as there would be + in a jungle picnic of monkeys and parrots. There is just one + place where large families can dwell together peaceably—the + grave-yard. It is contrary to natural law that families of grown + ups, should live together. When a cub bear is old enough, big + enough to hunt for food, and comes back after he once goes out, + his mother gives him a mauling that makes him feel he would + rather starve than come back again. Does she love him? Of course + she loves him to the limit of her instinct, loves him to the + point of pride that she wants him to be a brave, daring, + self-reliant master of the forest. When the whelps of a lion get + to be more than playful kittens, the mother leads them into the + jungle, slips away, leaving them to hunt. The young lions may + return to the old home, but their father and mother have moved + away to a distant den. To evolve their natures, to become supreme + denizens of the forest they must rely upon their own prowess. + Take the eagle, when the mother eagle by instinct knows the wings + of her babies have become strong enough to support their bodies, + she pushes them out of the eyrie. They fly, or will be dashed to + death on the rocks. They always fly. But you say human beings are + not bears, lions, or eagles. Well, humans could well afford to + attend the Nature College of the wild animals of the woods, to + learn the ethics of health, happiness and the development of the + individual.</p> + + <p>Treat your relatives royally, then let them alone. Keep out of + their affairs, try to keep them out of your affairs. Be kind, + generous, sympathetic. But keep out of the danger zone. Insist + upon living by yourself, living your own life, thinking your own + thoughts, playing your part in life's drama. Parents wish they + could hold their children, the way to hold them is to let go of + them. If you love them you will let go. Love is unselfish. God + sent His only Son on the loneliest journey ever taken, and He + came back crowned with glory. God can live with lots of people + you and I can't. Abraham amounted to something, God said to him: + "Get thee out." "And he went out, not knowing whither." He staid + until he became the head of a people as numberless and brilliant + as the stars of the heaven. But Isaac hung around home, lived on + his father's greatness, and the only real thing he did that was + worth while was to re-dig some wells his father had dug before + him. The first time he saw his sweetheart Rebecca, whom another + man had to go and get for him, he lifted up his voice and cried + like a boob. He had become soft on the mutton and grape juice of + his father. Tender little doves flit around the home cote, but + the eagle sweeps from sun to sun. Anyhow, in these modern days + children are very largely bringing up their parents.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">To kill a quarrel, shut your mouth.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">There is a world of sense in the saying; "Sell + your hammer and buy a horn."</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">There is one place we can bear a boil, and + smile—on the other fellow's neck.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">Many people possess more than a thousand acres + of possibilities, and have about half an acre under + cultivation.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">The best way to exterminate mosquitoes would be + to start a plan to cultivate them as a money making + commodity.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">Stop nagging, twitting, insinuating, suspecting + those whose love you wish to hold. You assassinate love when you + ridicule it.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p>Temper is the yeast of personality. No man or woman ever rises + in the world without it. A razor, knife, ax, or writer, actor, + minister, without it, isn't worth a damn in any market. Never + lose your temper, lose all things, but keep your temper.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p>When I see people who are great stickers as to form, or + attitude, in prayer, they remind me of my old neighbor, Saxby, + who fell into Bill Smith's well. He said: "The prayingest prayer + I ever said, was in that well standing on my head."</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p>Do you know the meanest thing about the worst boy on your + street? I will tell you. It is the fact that you do not like him, + and he knows it. God never made a mean boy. Parents have made + some, towns have made some, and cities have made a host.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p></p> + + <h2 align="center"><a id="lesson4" name="lesson4"></a><a href= + "#chap4">Lesson Fourth</a></h2> + + <h2 align="center">THE SUPREME LAW OF SUCCESS</h2> + + <p><b>SELLING POWER</b>: Study out plans. Approach your customer + or the public, with a definite plan. Here is one of simple power: + Attract the attention, secure the interest, carry the conviction, + demand the decision, then in any line of business you will have + your order book full. Selling power is confidence backed up by + the will. Success is ambition and desire driven by the will. Do + you desire success? How much? When you desire it as a starving + man has hunger for food, you will win. Want to attain your + ambition? How much? When your ambition becomes a thirst, a + burning consuming thirst, such as the lost traveler has in the + blistering sands of the desert, then you will achieve. What you + want is not opportunity, the world is flooded with golden + opportunities. What you want is not a fair chance, chances gleam + in your future sky fairer than the endless myriads of stars that + encrust with glittering splendor the evening heavens. What you do + want is concentration, confidence, self-reliance, desire, + ambition, PERSONAL POWER.</p> + + <p><b>POWER OF ATTRACTION</b>: Make your purpose brilliant. Keep + it clear. Seek to energize it with positives. Do not lumber up + your plan. Centralize it. Modify it. Create it as a necessity. + Form into it the indispensable. Then embody yourself into it. See + that nothing about you defeats, or neutralizes attraction. Have a + burning interest in your proposition. Look for fulfillment. + Anticipate success. Make the world feel that you know you are + right. Stop asking folks if they think you will succeed. Of + course they do not, because they have not. Hold your mind relaxed + in Silence. Make your desire active. Set your wishes in motion. + Confidence attracts confidence. Positives attract positives. + Bring out your latent forces, they only need arousing. THINK AND + ACT.</p> + + <p><b>YOUR MENTAL ATTITUDE:</b> Have faith in yourself. Arouse + faith in others. Think in the affirmative. Assert your hope and + confidence. Root out every doubt. Help someone out of their + slough of doubt and despondency. Believe in the world, in life, + in growth, in possibilities. Let your faith be as big and bright + as the sun. "Cast not away your confidence which hath great + recompense of reward." "Dwell in confidence." "Hold fast your + confidence and hope unto the end." Keep your mental attitude + independent. Keep it brave. Think of money as a means, not as an + end. Seek wealth for the power of service it gives. Have a + generous mental attitude. Help others succeed. Banish fear, + worry, indecision, timidity, irresolution, anxiety from your + mental attitude, they paralyze effort. Trust yourself. Trust + others. Have a mental attitude that is supreme, divine, and + absolute. Spend your last dollar like a king. Gird the loins of + your mind with "I WILL." "I CAN." All the mountains of difficulty + will melt before your presence.</p> + + <p><b>AMBITION AND DESIRE:</b> Ambition is idealism. Desire is + faith. You cannot have either without the possibility of their + fulfillment. Desires come from Supreme Intelligence in the + Universe, and they are divine. Therefore, they are real, possible + of positive realization. Keep them sacred. Let them become the + ideals of your life. Make them glow with the fires of your + energies. They spell success and victory. They will crown your + life, if you will breathe your life into them. Let your ambition + make you irrepressible. Avoid reactionary influences. Keep away + from dull, stupid, inactive people.</p> + + <p><b>CREATIVE FORCE AND HARMONY:</b> Be original. Think original + thoughts, put them into form. Invent and produce. Create ideas. + Feel complete in yourself. Do not stand in wonder at what others + have done, right at your feet lies a secret that will enrich the + world and make you famous. A thinker discovered a substitute for + the artist camel's hair brush by taking the hair from inside a + cow's ear. If you work in an office think up some out-door + vocation. Grow something, raise something, get interested in + animals. Study the market near you, create, produce, or raise + something to sell. If not for money, for the forces of life the + work gives. It will keep you from habits, from speculating, from + gambling, from politics and other evils. Build something, raise + chickens, pets, sheep, cattle, or grow flowers, fruits, berries. + WORK WITH NATURE. This is the very harmony of success. In it you + will be in touch with Universal Intelligence, will get the inflow + of Infinite Life, and thru it will keep growing.</p> + + <p><b>YOUR LATENT POWERS</b>: Take account of your personal + abilities. Your gifts, talents, forces, equipment. What per cent + are you using? Most people are not using over 20 per cent of + their capital of personal power. The 80 per cent lies dormant. + Why have only 20 per cent of your share of Life, Success, Harmony + and Happiness, when you should have 100 per cent. There are big + prizes awaiting your latent powers. At every turn of the way, you + can read the sign: "Wanted. Men with Power." There is an + unexplored continent in your Being. Go into it, bring out its + riches, for yourself and for the world.</p> + + <p><b>PERSISTENCE AND PLANNING</b>: A plan is a mighty source of + power. Do not work and live "hit-or-miss" in your activities day + by day. Have a plan. Sit in Silence a few moments each morning + and create a plan. You can double your efficiency. Think out a + plan, open a way. Get an effectual insight. Keep your plan under + your cap, and work it out. Persist in your plan. Stick to it. + Never grow sour or negative in your manner. Keep sweet. If your + plan is blocked, dig in another direction. Build a new + foundation. Shake off doubts and start new. Unless your success + makes you happy it is not success. Deep at the heart of the + Universe lies happiness. Live closely to that heart, in + persistent power of service.</p> + + <p><b>IMPERSONATE YOUR DESIRES:</b> Impersonate greatness and you + will become great. Impersonate loveliness and you will become + lovely. Why do actors become matinee idols? They could readily + marry a hundred times a month. It is quite impossible for an + actor to remain unmarried. What is the secret? Can a person get + it? Certainly; here it is. Actors impersonate heroes, villains, + model husbands, daring lovers, in a real way. They think, plan, + and train themselves to impersonate the character, they make it + so real that people think it must be a part of their nature. You + can do it, young man, bachelor, widower. If you are only half a + man, half a lover, impersonate a whole one. If you are so bashful + that it makes you blush to walk with your best girl, in the + garden where the flowers are in bed, impersonate a dashing, + dare-devil, scamp of fascination, and your sweetheart will faint + from adorable bliss and fall into your arms. If you are a coward + impersonate a hero, until you are one. Do not stand on one foot, + or bite your fingernails, or tear the rim off your hat, trying to + tell a beautiful, healthy twentieth century young woman you love + her. You'll be all to the mustard. Do something brave. Go hire a + kid that is a good swimmer, to fall into the lake as you and your + sweetheart are walking past, then throw back your shoulders and + tear off your coat and leap in, the kid will get you to shore, + but you'll be a hero in her eyes. Impersonate the hero, and you + will win the heroine.</p> + + <p>Young woman, if you would marry a hero, impersonate beauty. + Maiden lady of quite impossible age, if you would marry the best + man in the world, impersonate youth and beauty. Dear languishing + widow, if you would marry a real man, impersonate youth, beauty + and wealth. You will win. The odds are much against you here in + the East, where in every state there are thousands and thousands + of more women than there are men, but you will win. Men follow + actresses around the world because they impersonate love, + passion, beauty, virtue and nobleness. The men really think + actresses must possess what they portray. You see, it is all a + matter of thinking. It does not matter how many times a man has + lost on the races, if he is a good sport he will bet on the next + horse that looks good to him. Women need to impersonate looking + good, better, best. Not on occasions only, but all the time. Men + like women who are good pals. So ladies impersonate sympathy, + kindness, patience, good fellowship, enthusiasm, in the things + that interest men. If you belong to the Citrus family, + impersonate the Peach. If you belong to the Nettle family, + impersonate the Violet. You may be so homely that your face pains + you, but think of the impersonations of beauty you can buy at the + drug store. Impersonate silence. A young lady in Philadelphia + lost her voice and she had nineteen proposals that year. + Impersonate form. You may be as angular as the streets in Boston, + yet almost any department store will shape you up. You may be so + fat that you haven't seen your feet in years, still you can + impersonate so much good nature that men will be attracted to you + as flowers to the sun.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">Have confidence in everything you do, even when + you eat sausages at a quick lunch next door to the + dog-catcher.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">Hell is not paved with good intentions. Hell is + paved with sanctimonious pretensions.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">When you get up, where does your lap go? When + you love, where does your hate go?</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p>After you have walked the floor all night trying to get the + baby to sleep, you can at least be thankful that you do not live + in Greenland where the nights are six months long.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p>Avoid hot words in anger, you might tell the truth. A Chicago + father thrashed his son for being out late at night. Then added: + "When I was your age my father would not let me be out after + dark." The boy answered: "Then you must have had a devil of a + father." The old man came back hotly: "I had a damn sight better + father than you have."</p> + + <p align="center">Fretting is like a rocking chair, you can do a + great deal of agitating in it without getting anywhere.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">Do not kick at the squirrel that runs up to you + in the park; it may be only mistaken identity—he thought he + saw a nut.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p>Children radiate truth, they intuitively feel and express it. + Elsie had been bad and her mother sent her upstairs to talk it + over with God. After an hour she came down stairs singing; her + mother asked her what God had said to her. "O," she replied, "God + said, Great Scott, Elsie, don't feel badly, there are a lot of + worse people in this house than you are."</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p></p> + + <h2 align="center"><a id="lesson5" name="lesson5"></a><a href= + "#chap5">Lesson Fifth</a></h2> + + <h2 align="center">SUPREME BODY BUILDING METHOD</h2> + + <p><b>HEALTH, HARMONY, POWER, SERVICE:</b> That is what a supreme + body gives. Do not always be taking care of your health, take + care of your body and you will generate health. Thought animates + the body with health. This is an age of electrification. We are + fed, lighted, heated, and transported by electricity. In the + lightning pace we are going, the body is neglected. Give three + minutes morning and night to the exercises below and you will + straighten, develop, heal, and energize your body. Enter upon + these exercises as you would an arena of conquest where you + expected to win the great prize of life.</p> + + <p><b>THE BREATH IS LIFE:</b> Take a deep, full, abdominal breath + with each body building exercise, inhale through the nose and + expel forcefully through the mouth. NEVER HOLD YOUR BREATH.</p> + + <p><b>FIRST EXERCISE:</b> Stand erect, drop hands to the side, + clinch your fists tightly, then with muscular tension raise fists + and arms slowly high above the head, taking a deep, full, + abdominal breath as you raise them, relax and expel the breath + forcefully through the mouth. Repeat 5 times.</p> + + <p><b>SECOND EXERCISE:</b> Place the left hand flat in the right, + clasp them, resisting with the left, lift with the right, putting + full strength into the effort, until the hands are lifted above + the head, taking deep breath as in the first exercise. Relax, + expel breath. Then repeat with the right hand resisting the left. + Repeat exercise 5 times.</p> + + <p><b>THIRD EXERCISE:</b> Grasp the hands firmly above the head, + letting them be at rest on top of the head. Then pull hard from + right to left slowly, taking the deep, full abdominal breath with + each movement, relaxing and expelling as above. This and the + above exercise are wonderful in their effect in developing the + lungs and rounding out the development of the shoulders and + chest. Repeat 5 times.</p> + + <p><b>FOURTH EXERCISE:</b> Grasp hands in front, level with + chest, pull from right to left hard, taking deep, full abdominal + breath with each movement. Relax and expel breath same as + above.</p> + + <p><b>FIFTH EXERCISE:</b> Grasp the hands behind the back, taking + deep, full abdominal breath, lift the hands as far up on the back + as possible. Relax, expel breath. Always draw in the breath as + you move through the exercise, having a full breath when the + movement is completed, then expel.</p> + + <p><b>SIXTH EXERCISE:</b> Place right hand over right hip, clench + the left fist, raise it slowly, drawing the deep breath, and + bending the body to the right as far as possible. Relax, expel + breath. Now repeat with the left hand placed over the left hip. + Repeat 5 times.</p> + + <p><b>SEVENTH EXERCISE:</b> Grasp hands in front of breast, + pulling hard, swing the body as far right and left as possible + without moving the feet, take deep breath with each movement. + Repeat 5 times.</p> + + <p><b>EIGHTH EXERCISE:</b> Raise hands above the head, take a + deep breath and bend the body, try to touch floor with finger, + not bending the knees. Repeat 5 times.</p> + + <p>You can add other exercises to these, only be sure they have + the deep breathing. These will build a vigorous, developed, + supple body. Will ward off every form of asthma, catarrh, + bronchial or lung trouble. Stop indigestion, increase + circulation, renew and make blood.</p> + + <p>Do all exercises in well ventilated room, have clothing loose. + The best time is on rising and on retiring. If they make you ache + at first it is sure evidence of their doing you good. You will + soon be too strong to have aches and pains.</p> + + <p>Do not exhaust yourself in the exercises, just take them till + the body glows and the muscles are well exercised.</p> + + <p>Faithfully persist in these exercises and breathings.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">Marrying a goose does not assure one of a bed + of swans-down.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">Never ask a man who gave him his black eye; + nobody gave it to him, he probably had to fight hard for it.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">When discussing the modern dress, keep in mind + that a bare statement is not necessarily the naked truth.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p>There is a difference between notoriety and merit. A thousand + dollars worth of roses will barely fill a room with perfume, but + with a dollar's worth of fried onions you can scent up a whole + town.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p>The American people lose three million years every twelve + months by being sick. The doctor's fees amount to a billion and + two hundred and twenty million. Wonder what the Master of Life + meant when he said: "I am come that they might have life, and + that they might have it more abundantly."</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p></p> + + <h2 align="center"><a id="lesson6" name="lesson6"></a><a href= + "#chap6">Lesson Sixth</a></h2> + + <h2 align="center">SUPREME INTERNAL VIBRATIONS</h2> + + <p><b>GOOD DIGESTION RULES THE WORLD</b>: Digestion is a matter + of vibration. Indigestion is on the increase because people are + more and more sedentary in their habits. Walking is life's finest + exercise, but people walk less now than ever. The human body's + great vibrator is the diaphragm. Arouse it and you will arouse + action in your digestive tract, your liver, and kidneys. Continue + vibration from one minute to as long as you please. If these + vibrations are continued a few minutes each day, no cancer or + tumor would ever develop, and the thousand different stomach ills + would disappear. The DIAPHRAGM is a great muscle area stretched + out for the stomach, intestines and vital organs to exercise on, + and to give them freedom.</p> + + <p><b>VIBRATIONS FOR INTESTINES:</b> Begin slowly, take a deep + breath, then vibrate your abdomen in and out by using the inner + muscles of the diaphragm. Vibrate slowly then more rapidly. Force + the vibrations downward upon the intestines. You may feel a + little pain at first, which shows the weakness of the intestinal + muscles, that passes away. The DIAPHRAGM is the great digestive + engine of the body, work it all you can.</p> + + <p><b>VIBRATIONS FOR STOMACH and SOLAR PLEXUS:</b> Raise the + vibrations upward, just as before you forced them downward. + Repeat the series with full breath several times. Also give the + vibrations with a little twist of the body, so as to get the + circular movement over the stomach. VIBRATE THE SOLAR PLEXUS with + short, sharp vibrations far up into the chest, this will cover + the muscles of the lungs and of the heart. This is a very + essential work as it gives new strength to those muscles of the + heart and lungs to ward off acute attacks of any kind.</p> + + <p><b>VIBRATION FOR TORPID LIVER:</b> Direct the vibrations to + the right side. Do them strongly so as to arouse the liver + thoroughly. This is a very important exercise as it bears + directly on RHEUMATISM, it releases the acids, starts secretions + flowing. Rheumatism calls for dry climates, non-acid diet. Avoid + sweets and starch, take salt water baths, drink lithia water. + Walk all you can. Change your work. BE SURE TO DRINK A CUP OF HOT + WATER EACH MORNING on rising. Put a little salt in to help + cleanse the stomach of septic acids. Drink two cups, all the + better.</p> + + <p><b>CONSTIPATION:</b> The best vibration and advice is that + above for this trouble. Be regular about going to the toilet each + morning. Eat vegetable diet, rye bread, or graham. Eat little + meat, chew your food to a liquid mastication. Keep up the + intestinal vibrations, in 20 days your constipation will be a + trouble of the past.</p> + + <p><b>HEADACHES AND BILIOUSNESS:</b> These are the results of + AUTO-INTOXICATION, the worry, hurry, eating fast, eating too + much, over exerting, anxiety, all of these poison the process of + digestion and assimilation. Take a dose of epsom salts, castor + oil, or cascara sagrada, then regulate your diet. REST IN BED FOR + A DAY. This done at once will save many a siege of sickness.</p> + + <p><b>OBESITY:</b> Keep up the internal vibrations all over the + body. Keep up the exercises of Lesson Seventh. REDUCING IS A + MORAL RESOLVE TO EAT LESS. If you are a coward you cannot reduce, + if your appetite, that is unreal, unnatural and dangerous, makes + you its slave so that you eat 5,000 units of food when 3,000 is a + great sufficiency, then you lack MORAL WILL FORCE TO REDUCE. + Drink the hot water as above, or put into it a little lemon + juice. When you feel hunger come on drink a cup of the lemon hot + water, just a few drops of the lemon juice. Get so you can go + without your noon lunch except one-half slice of bread and a cup + of hot water one-quarter milk. KEEP UP WALKING. KEEP UP THE BODY + BUILDING EXERCISES. RUB AND MASSAGE THE FACE AND NECK. Do not eat + fat, pastry, confection, or starchy foods. Eat slowly, + Fletcherize each mouthful, it will reduce you, give you a new + taste of flavors not known to the glutton. Abhor being fat, + unshapely, and be unhappy over it, but never tell others how you + feel. Keep your deficiencies to yourself, master them, be free of + them, then living will become a joy, your body a daily delight, + and you shall possess a Supreme Personality.</p> + + <p><b>HAVE A NEW BODY:</b> There is no condition physical or + mental that cannot be changed, even deformities, and deficiencies + can be improved. SET YOUR MIND ON WHAT YOU WANT TO BE, THEN WORK + FOR IT. Set a mark at what you wish to weigh and then bravely, + happily, with joyous courage seek to attain it. YOU WILL. COMMAND + YOUR BODY. KEEP MOVING TOWARD YOUR IDEAL.</p> + + <p>Health is a result of Harmony. By the force of the WILL acting + in obedience to the mind, is the body made perfect.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">You are no fool if you know how to sin + charmingly.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">The most fertile source of family trouble on + earth is an inheritance.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">Do not spend your life leading asses to + fountains of wisdom, for you cannot make them think.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p>The life path of many people is like York Street in New Haven, + it begins with a hospital, is populated with doctors and ends at + the cemetery.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p>All Nature is Triune: Earth, Water, Atmosphere. Her agents + are: Heat, Light, Electricity; Ether, Magnetism, Aura. Her + kingdoms are: Mineral, Vegetable, Animal. Her animal life is: + Aquatic, Terrestrial, Aerial. Her formations are: Angular, + Circular, Spiral. Man, her highest creation is: Physical, Mental, + Spiritual.</p> + + <p align="center">If you cannot realize your ideal, idealize your + real.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p>Sleep is one of Nature's sanctuaries; an alarm-clock has no + more right to disturb it than a fog-horn has to blow off in a + prayer-meeting.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">Be glad when you meet "A Crank," he may give + you a suggestion that will make you "A Self-Starter."</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p>Very few men are smart enough to fill five reels with genuine + dare-devil acts of villainy, and get away with it, by coming out + an angel at the end of the film.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p>Heart failure is largely acute indigestion from selfishness. + Sunstroke is quite likely brought on by anger and anxiety + "het-up" by relatives. Apoplexy is hate breaking up housekeeping. + Paresis is free-love embellished with champagne. Appendicitis is + a six-cylinder appetite hitched to a half horse power ambition. + Nervous prostration is a self-love "Movie" trying to cover the + earth in a single-reel. Pneumonia is vanity over-heated in seal + skin.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p></p> + + <h2 align="center"><a id="lesson7" name="lesson7"></a><a href= + "#chap7">Lesson Seventh</a></h2> + + <h2 align="center">SUPREME MENTAL HEALING</h2> + + <p><b>THE SUPREME MIND:</b> The previous lessons give you the key + to Supreme Mental Healing. Your mind is limitless. Begin where + you may, conditions do not count. No matter how weak, how + isolated, how deep in the mire of trouble, you can rise, you can + be free, you can be renewed. You may have a whole library of all + sorts of books and treatises on healing. You may have a library + of biology and pathology, but you can never read yourself well. + What you need is what I have sought to give you, POSITIVE WORKING + PLANS. It takes some WORK to build a hut, more to build a + comfortable home, still more to build a palace of luxury. How + much MIND AND WILL WORK are you willing to devote to build your + body into a Temple of the living God?</p> + + <p><b>MENTAL CONFUSION:</b> Make an easy PLAN for each day. Relax + your mind tension, let down your body tension, eat less, drink + water, walk in the open air. Change your thought to new plans, + new work. LET GO OF THE PAST. Have nothing to do with the future. + Sweep aside the odds and ends that litter your mind. Let go by + denying them any place in your mind. TALK WITH STRONG PEOPLE. + Leave weak, useless people alone. Take a salt bath, by going into + the ocean, or in your own tub, using a full pint of common salt. + Do not tell your troubles to another, HELP another in trouble to + get out, and you will get out yourself. MAKE NEW PLANS.</p> + + <p><b>WORRY AND FEAR:</b> Ask yourself this question: "How many + things I have worried about and feared ever happened to me?" You + will see how few, and only those you attracted. Worry is lost + energy. It is like a rocking chair, keeps going but never gets + anywhere. It is like a mill-owner starting all the machinery of + his mill, then going away, leaving it running to injury and + destruction. It is a miserable habit. It makes you and others + near you unhappy. It destroys your usefulness, injures your + health, kills joy. QUIT THE HABIT. How? By forming new PLANS of + thought, work, expression, activity, and living only one day at a + time. Stop resisting, struggling, let go of selfish purpose, and + start loving. Make a change. Start new. Grow something, make + something, laugh when you think you are going to cry.</p> + + <p><b>DEPRESSIVE MOODS:</b> Dress in light colors, Pink, + Lavender, Green, Red, get away from browns, blacks, and dead + colors. Try blue if you are nervous. Eat very lightly, walk till + tired, take the salt water bath, not hot but cool. Stop + self-pity, change your surroundings, even if all you can do is to + turn your bed around. Seek new people. MAKE NEW PLANS DAILY.</p> + + <p><b>NERVOUS TROUBLES:</b> Build your body with my Lesson Fifth. + Take plenty of nourishment, sleep in the middle of the day, + simplify your daily living, keep away from sick and unhappy + people, stop talking about your own trials. LET GO. Drop fretting + over trifles, check selfish desires, go afield with the sheep and + cattle, do not let your house-work make you a slave. PLAN some + new outlet, do something different. Banish anger, forget self, + help some lame dog across the street, borrow a poor child and go + out to the zoo, lift up someone who is down, do strong things, + avoid excitement, keep out of the crowd, check strife and + antagonism, GET THE HAPPY HABIT. Think one thing at a time, let + that be a PLEASANT THING.</p> + + <p><b>INSOMNIA:</b> Retire loving the world, letting go of self. + Drink a cup of hot water, quarter milk, with a bit of salt. Relax + mind and body, say the word, SLEEP just with the rhythmic swing + of a clock pendulum slowly. YOU WILL SLEEP.</p> + + <p><b>BE RID OF HABITS:</b> Quit making excuses for the habit, + stop lying about its being hereditary. RESOLVE, AND YOU ARE FREE. + Keep away from the cause of your habit. Shame yourself when you + commit it. Praise yourself when you master it once. Destroy the + desire of your habit, by putting a good desire in its place. Stop + buying tobacco, or drink, and buy flowers, music, or a farm. + ROUSE YOUR WILL. SEVERELY CALL YOURSELF TO ACCOUNT WHEN YOU SLIP. + Stop talking about how you suffer, or how hard it is, talk about + the victory. When you are tempted, SIT IN SILENCE TEN MINUTES AND + SAY, "I AM SUPREME." You will win over any habit that you may + have. Change your position. Change your work. Change your + associations. Drinking and smoking are the major habits that + enslave men. The moment you become disgusted with a habit it + loses power over you. When you get moral courage enough to hate + it, it will flee from you. You may conquer in five days, or it + may be five weeks. Just set aside a vacation of that time, and + fight a battle for Supreme manhood. Have confidence in yourself. + Arouse your will to splendid self-mastery. Have a motive for + being rid of your habit. Have enthusiasm. Be determined not to + travel thru life loaded with a kit of bad smelling smoking tools. + Smoking does not stimulate, nor aid digestion, it does not clear + the brain, nor sooth the nerves. It is quite the opposite. The + same is true of the liquor habit. A habit is a deficiency, it is + a vicious enemy that mars and defeats Supreme Personality.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">We become like the things we think.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">Retire from business every night, start in + business anew every morning.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out, + it is the grain of sand in your shoe.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p>All life is divine, limitless in sensation, supreme in + expressions. Get life, get well, get strong, get wisdom, get + expression, get in love. "And men seeing your good works will + glorify your Father which is in heaven."</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p></p> + + <h2 align="center"><a id="lesson8" name="lesson8"></a><a href= + "#chap8">Lesson Eighth</a></h2> + + <h2 align="center">SUPREME POWER OF MAGNETISM</h2> + + <p><b>OUR MAGNETIC MONOCHROME:</b> You can prepare your own + Magnetic Monochrome by careful study of the colors which most + influence you. These will vary with the physical temperament of + different people. The primary healing colors are: Crimson, + Scarlet, Dark Blue, Dark Green, Lively Yellow, Violet, and + Purple. The primary inspirational colors are: Light Blue, Pale + Green, Rose, Pink, Lavender, Lively Red. From these you can form + your Monochrome of almost endless results. It is wise and best to + select and use just those colors which will give the greatest + intensity of vibration. Once you have found your responsive and + sympathetic colors, those grouped together form your Magnetic + Monochrome. Magnetism is the highest form of physicalized power + in the universe. It knows no resistance, it passes thru all + substances and pervades all space. It is the most vital power in + the universe. Our modern life presents a magnetic paradox, it + affords the greatest development of magnetism and is the greatest + destroyer of it. It is generated by the brain, flows to the right + thru the body in form of a figure 8. From the brain to the solar + plexus, across to the left side, then down to the procreative + organs and thru to the right side, and up to the solar plexus + again and thru to the left side and up to the brain. The solar + plexus is the body's great life centre.</p> + + <p><b>PERSONAL MAGNETISM:</b> Keep steadily cultivating + Magnetism, or your supply of Human Electricity. The solar plexus + is the great sympathetic centre of the nervous system. Keep it + aroused and active, and you will increase your magnetic forces. + Sensation, emotion and intensity of expression rise from the + solar plexus. Magnetism is generated by brain forces focalized by + thoughts, the nerves are the medium of transfusion, colors + increase the vibrations. The moist palm of the hand forms an + electrode when applied to any affected part. The brain, by + thought, starts the magnetic currents of healing force thru the + arm into the part treated. Let your eyes rest on the color of the + Monochrome used, the current will then be complete. By practise + you can greatly intensify the healing thoughts and so increase + the flow of magnetism. While giving yourself the treatment, or to + others, breathe deeply and regularly. Have the body relaxed while + treating, better lying down. Have your eyes on the color, also if + treating another, have them look at the same color.</p> + + <p><b>MENTAL DISORDERS:</b> In all mental disorders, like + Hysteria, Grief, Distress, Fear, Melancholy, select that color + from your Monochrome that most soothes your particular + temperament. It may be light green, or yellow, or pink, or one of + the blues. You will soon be able to quickly tell which gives the + greater relief. Use only one color at a time. You will find that + after a little you can summon to your mind the color you desire + without even using the actual color in the Monochrome.</p> + + <p><b>IN CASE OF INJURIES:</b> In case of injuries, swellings, + inflammation, local pain, apply both hands where possible. Have + the palm of the hands always moist. To start the process of + thinking that will arouse the magnetic currents, think of the + affected part as WELL. Think of the pain as LEAVING. Now, in + treating the heart for palpitation, think of it as quiet, as + strong, praise the heart for its wonderful endurance and power + thru the past years, think of the strong abounding heart of an + ox, or moose, and think that strength into your heart, that your + heart is like it in power. You will see a decided improvement. + Use the colors of the Monochrome in such cases as will give you + the best vibration, the color that best responds to you. Try the + Red, Violet, Blue. Most "heart troubles" are not heart troubles + at all, but troubles of digestion. Give attention to diet, and + keep your intestinal tract clear.</p> + + <p><b>TREATING THE EYES AND EARS:</b> In all troubles of the eyes + and ears apply the hands over the eyes, letting the palms rest + firmly but not pressingly upon the eye, with the fingers up over + the forehead, of course having the eyes closed. Also treat with + one palm over the eye and the other at the base of the brain. Use + the colors of the Monochrome that give the highest intensity of + magnetic response. The Purple, Violet, Blues, and Green. In + treating the ears, do the same. Place the palm on each side of + the neck. Also treat the throat with both palms, and with single + treatment of one palm. IT IS NOT NECESSARY THAT BOTH HANDS BE + USED AT ONCE, but it increases the force to do so.</p> + + <p><b>TREATING THE SOLAR PLEXUS:</b> Treat the solar plexus daily + by resting both hands lightly but firmly over the pit of the + stomach. Use the colors crimson, dark blue, violet, and purple. + Untwist your solar plexus by cheerful thinking, get new life + force into its withered and neglected condition. Invalidism is + only a withered solar plexus. Cultivate laughter to arouse it, + work at laughter until you sweat profusely, do the same by + walking, and other exercises. Stimulate life in your solar plexus + and you will return to youth. As I have said, the solar plexus is + the great magnetic centre, keep it actively healthy, bathe it + with sunshine. In treating the kidneys, place the palm of the + hands over them flatly, and use the colors as above.</p> + + <p><b>TREAT THE STOMACH AND LIVER WITH THE SAME COLORS.</b> Also + treat the LUNGS. The length of time for a treatment can vary from + 2 minutes to any length. Oft'times the soothing effect will + induce sleep. As placing the palms over the temples for nervous + headache. The more you develop the magnetism the more readily + will the effect be accomplished.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">Provoke an evil and you produce it.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">The place to feel for the poor is in your + pocket.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">A kiss is something like gossip, it goes from + mouth to mouth.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">Chewing gum is like worrying, a useless waste + of energy.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">Keeping close tabs on the calendar and clock, + induces the creepy feeling of old age.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">Have nothing to do with useless people, you + cannot get wool by shearing a hydraulic ram.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">The Mothers of America will in a near by day, + reset the cornerstones of this Republic.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p>Never stop a man running with a hat box in his hand, it may be + his wife's hat that he is trying to get home before the style + changes.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p>Dress youthfully, keep out of shadows, love the sunlight, + fresh air, the world, and the people in the world. LIVE FOR + OTHERS.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">"Let the howlers howl,<br /> + Let the growlers growl,<br /> + Let the scowlers scowl,<br /> + And the gee-gaws go it.<br /> + You keep in the light,<br /> + Be brave in your fight,<br /> + You'll win alright,<br /> + And I know it."<br /> + <br /> + —<i>Anon</i>.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p></p> + + <h2 align="center"><a id="lesson9" name="lesson9"></a><a href= + "#chap9">Lesson Ninth</a></h2> + + <h2 align="center">THE SUPREME LAW OF TELEPATHY</h2> + + <p><b>LIFE IS SPIRIT:</b> "The spirit of man is the candle of the + Lord." Just in the degree you THINK AND EXERCISE your Supreme + Nature will you know the Power of the Spirit. Spirit is the + essence and manifestation of life. Thru it you shall Realize, + shall Experience, shall See, shall Know, shall Live. "His + ministering spirits go to and fro thru all the earth doing His + good pleasure." Nothing can come except we attract and draw it. + Nothing can stay with us when we LET GO. All are made one by the + spirit. You are an enthroned BEING. Around you are forces of the + spirit waiting to do your bidding. The moment you attract them, + the windows of the Universe are opened and the power of the + spirit is poured upon you. It is everywhere. It's glory fills the + earth, radiant in the glories of the sunset, shining in the soft + light of the moon, gleaming in the lovely stars. Waiting to + minister to your needs, to fulfill your desires, to comfort you, + to restore you, to endow you with power. YOU ARE OF THE SUPREME + SPIRIT.</p> + + <p><b>THE LAW OF TELEPATHY:</b> It is a supreme law whereby one + soul may reach and minister unto another soul. It is spirit + manifested thru thought waves. It is magnetism spiritualized. It + is a mystical wonder of spiritual manifestations. It inspires + visions, dreams, premonitions, and thru vibration of + wave-thoughts gives universal communion, soul companionship, to + the children of Light. To use the law, sit in Silence, relaxed. + Summon a mental picture of the person you wish to reach. Get + clearly as possible the actual presence in your mind. Then begin + to send the wave thoughts by repeating impressively to yourself, + or aloud, the message of your code. Never try to do this when + tired, exhausted, or excited. THINK INTENTLY on the message and + your desire to reach the mind of the person you wish to aid. + Students should practice both sending and receiving Telepathic + messages and influences daily. Never think that the will, + condition, or temperament of the person to whom they are + directed, will retard, obstruct or destroy your work. Act in + Supreme command. Put all the intense force of your WILL into your + wave-thoughts, magnetic ethers will be your messengers. You will + likely get a direct response in a wave unison, or it may come + later after your work is done. The student should bear in mind + also that they may and should develop original work, make new and + personal codes. The purpose of codes is to unify the wave motion + and keep the mind intense. Beware of selfish purpose, revenge, + hate; these are the Destroying Angel, sure to return to you.</p> + + <p><b>TELEPATHIC CODE FOR HEALING:</b> I bring you healing. You + are Supreme over all bodily conditions. You shall not suffer. + Pain shall leave you. Strength is thine. You shall not die, but + live. Perfect Good is in you and you are a part of it. I see you + well. You are delivered. You are uplifted. Arise and walk. Go + forth to thy desire. Every organ and function of your body is + full of health. I see you as a part of the Supreme Life whole, + active, happy, strong.</p> + + <p><b>TELEPATHIC CODE FOR GUIDANCE:</b> No evil shall befall + thee. You are safe. Fear shall not assail you. You are greater + than all dangers. You shall have light with you. Wisdom shall be + a lamp to thy feet. Courage shall illumine you. Faith and Hope + shall be close to you. You shall not be deceived. You shall + prevail. That which you seek shall be revealed unto you. Your + heart's desire shall be granted. You shall not err. You shall + reach your aims, and shall achieve your purpose.</p> + + <p><b>TELEPATHIC CODE FOR SUCCESS:</b> All power is yours. You + are supreme. Wealth, possessions, friends, position and happiness + are for you. Ways shall open before you. Opportunity will be + revealed to you. Bright possibilities shall be made manifest to + you. You shall see an open door. Abundance is yours. Power to + supply your needs will be given to you. Doubts shall clear away + leaving you free. The eyes of your mind shall be filled with + light. You shall be guided to plenty.</p> + + <p><b>TELEPATHIC CODE FOR FRIENDS:</b> All ways are open between + us. I am calling to you. My soul and mind are open to you. No + wrong shall endure between us. The springs of kindness shall be + open to us. I am listening to your spirit. We shall be led into + Truth, Love and Happiness. Our love is perfect. We shall not err. + You hear the voice of my wish for you. You know my mind. All + promises in truth are perfect. All is light, there is no darkness + between us. There is no distance, or obstacle between us. Your + mind answers to my mind, your heart to my heart, your soul to my + soul. When tempted, I am near to with-hold you. When disheartened + I will inspire you. Day and night are the same, you shall not + falter. Our vision shall be made real. Our desires, heart + longings, soul hunger shall be satisfied. Our future hopes shall + be actualized. Our destinies realized in the pavilions of + Silence. Your life and my life are the radiant units of the Life + Perfect.</p> + + <p><b>BUILD THE WORLD WITH THOUGHT WAVES:</b> The dire curse of + this world is idleness. Some are working too hard, while a vast + multitude idly look on. Don't be a looker, be a doer. Don't be a + knocker, be a booster. Idleness is a sin: "The wages of sin is + death." That is why people who stop working soon die off. "If a + man will not work, neither shall he eat." He can't eat long. He + loses his appetite, spoils his digestion, gets heart failure. + When you retire from business, from work, from active aggressive + occupation, you want to buy your lot in the grave-yard at once. + "If I were rich", do you say? Stuff and nonsense, if you were + rich you would be unbearably meaner than you are now, a hundred + times more stupidly useless. What you need is PUNCH. You have + lost your Grip, Grit and Punch. And no matter if you are ninety + years old you can get them all back. How? Listen.</p> + + <p>Build the World with Thought Waves. Begin with your WORLD, + what is it? The kitchen or the school-room? The ditch or the + mayor's chair? The field or as superintendent of a railroad? A + brickyard or a bank? A bench or a pulpit? A loom or grand opera? + A pick or a pen? Take a look at your world, what is it? Now plan + it, then breathe life into your plan. You cannot help others + until you help yourself. You cannot save others and not be worth + saving yourself. You are Supreme and this is your ultimate hour. + You are under the law of liberty, go to your own. Free of all + outward restraints, forms, commands and laws you are an absolute + unit of God power in the universe. You shall be judged only by + this law of liberty, the best in you and the highest good of + others.</p> + + <p>Use this personal code as you work:</p> + + <p><b>PERSONAL CODE:</b> I am power. I am life. I am energy. I am + fearless. I am strong. I am free. I am success. I am well. Faith + is clear, bright, shining within me. I shall be guided. I shall + be given wisdom. I shall triumph.</p> + + <p>That personal code given ten minutes a day will double your + power of efficiency in six months. Stick to it. Each day drive it + harder. Bring out your abilities, insight, courage, daring, and + boost yourself. Energy is something you generate just as the + dynamo generates electricity. Start your mental and physical + dynamo. Freight thought waves with your desires and send them + out. They will come back richly laden for you. Load your smiles, + heart throbs, good wishes, onto thought waves and send them out, + to serve others, cheer others, give hope to others, to help + others across the hard places. They will come back bearing to + you, "some thirty fold, some sixty fold, and some an hundred + fold." Happiness comes thru loving service.</p> + + <p>The student should have faith in the work entered upon. It is + founded upon law and fact. Some day the law will be made fully + clear and operative in all departments of life. The wireless + telegraph is a step in the demonstration. Recently a young woman, + in Elizabeth, N.J. was awakened by thought waves after all + medical applications had failed to arouse her from a six days' + sleep. An acquaintance of the author's was warned by wave + thoughts from his mother to avoid danger. He was so deeply + impressed that he delayed a day, his western trip, and so missed + the train that went down at Ashtabula. A husband who was some + miles distant transacting business received the thought waves + from his wife that she was in danger. He hastened with all speed + and found his home in flames. A young lady felt the impress of + thought waves from a young man to whom she was engaged, and + decided not to join a boating party. On the return trip the + pleasure launch took fire and six of the party perished. A whole + volume could be filled with most interesting cases of positive + results of Telepathy, or thought waves. But let the student begin + and test the marvels of this mystical power.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">Never "squeal." Live with, stand by, die for, + your friends. The seventh circle of hell is reserved for + "squealers."</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p></p> + + <h2 align="center">THE LAST WORD</h2> + + <p>Start now. "Get thee out." "Launch out into the deep." + Darkness shall be a pavilion around you. Angels of Light stand by + your side. This Supreme hour is yours. Set sail. Realize yourself + as Supreme, Infinite, Immortal, then Divine. Crown with glory + your individuality. "Now are we the Sons of God." Limitless life, + boundless capacities of power. Shut your eyes to the flesh, shut + your ears to the world, shut your heart to fear, shut your soul + to hate. Stick to the chase until you get the trophy. Search for + the Holy Grail until true love's untiring ministry the cup in + your unselfish hand sparkles and flashes in the crimson and + sapphire glory of your quest. Burst from your chrysalis of doubt + and the Supreme wings of the Spirit shall sweep you forward to + triumph. There is no gloom in God's universe except what we make + ourselves. The skies sparkle with possibilities, calling you into + their glowing fields of power and service. Get passion into your + chilled soul. Master fate. Span the universe. Hurl forth the + thunderbolts of your energy and the mountains of difficulty will + be cast into the sea. Take your place in the sun. Stop reviling + God by saying you are a worm of the dust, a miserable sinner, and + that there is no good within you. Quit damning yourself. Nothing + is impossible. You hold the key to the Universe. Mind is Supreme. + Thought limitless. Weave your Spirit out of sunbeams. Seize the + glittering stars and they will become your chariots. You and the + Universe of God are one. To-day is eternal. This shining moment + is everlasting. Lift your eyes to Visions that gleam thru the + purple clouds of loveliness, from the matchless forms of Beauty, + and YOU SHALL SEE THE INVISIBLE. Listen to the Voices that unseal + the velvet lips of Silence, and YOU SHALL HEAR THE INAUDIBLE. Put + forth your Supreme hand unto Dominions, Principalities and + Powers, and YOU SHALL DO THE IMPOSSIBLE.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">If you wish time to go fast, use the spur of + the moment.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">Women were never so attractive, never dressed + so beautifully as now, and they never wore so few clothes.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p>Blame no one if you are unhappy, for every law, force and + influence in the Universe is for your Harmony and Happiness. USE + THEM.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p>Cheer up. You are all right if you are bald headed outside, if + you are not bald inside. Remember, Samson did his biggest killing + after he lost his hair. Your bald head is like Paradise, there's + no parting there. Your teeth may be out, and your hair may be + thin, yet there's many a good tune in an old violin.</p> + + <p>The Optimist sees the doughnut, the Pessimist sees the hole. + The Pessimist asks: "Is there any milk in that pitcher?" The + Optimist asks: "Will you please pass the cream?" A Pessimist is a + man who winds an eight-day clock every night. An Optimist is a + man who gives his clock away so as not to lose any good time + winding it. A Pessimist is a person so disagreeable, he won't eat + anything that agrees with him. An Optimist is a person who can + eat a cottage pudding so agreeably that you think he is enjoying + a brown stone palace on Riverside Drive.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <blockquote> + "God give us men! A time like this demands Strong minds, great + hearts, true faith, and ready hands; Men whom the lust of + office does not kill; Men whom the spoil of office does not + buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor, + men who will not lie; Men who can stand before a demagogue, And + damn his treacherous flatteries without winking! Tall men, sun + crowned, who live above the fog In public duty and in private + thinking." + </blockquote> + + <blockquote> + J.G. HOLLAND. + </blockquote> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p>The Author of these Lessons has been a student of + Psychotherapy, Mental Suggestions, and the Laws of Personal + Power, for twenty-eight years. During that time has lectured + extensively in the United States, and by direct and indirect + personal advice has helped many thousands of men and women to + overcome severe forms of mental, physical and personal + conditions, restoring them to active usefulness.</p> + + <p>If your friends cannot secure these lessons of their + bookseller, have them send direct to the Author, enclosing + twenty-five cents coin.</p> + + <p align="center">No person among all the millions of the earth + can make you unhappy, except yourself.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p></p> + + <h2 align="center">MY NEW METHOD OF MENTAL INDUCTION with + PERSONAL ADVICE AND INSTRUCTION</h2> + + <p align="center"><b>Develops Four Psychic Forces</b></p> + + <p>Let me help you solve your difficult personal problems, + situations, or conditions. I can aid you to be free of mental + confusion, distracting circumstances, and entangling + difficulties. I will help you to open new paths, create new + conditions, obtain new vision, and achieve a positive mastery. A + world of new realities, rich opportunities, brilliant + possibilities awaits your gifts, talents and abilities. You may, + and should have, success, happiness, harmony and love. You + possess sources of dynamic energy, intuition, initiative and + inductive power. Your age does not matter, you can start anew. + STATE YOUR CASE CLEARLY AND BRIEFLY. I will also answer for you + five questions upon personal matters concerning which you may + desire special information, advice, or guidance. Your confidence + is kept inviolate. Thru my new Method of Mental Induction, I work + for you and with you daily for the full realization of your + desires. My terms are $2 in advance, your money back, if I fail + to help you. Write your name and address clearly. Address: Dr. + Croft, New Haven, Conn.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">No power on this earth can keep you down, if + you WILL to rise.</p> + + <p align="center">Smile while you can, young man, for some day + you may marry your employer's daughter, and become a millionaire; + then you can't smile.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p align="center">The Devil laughed over-time when he inspired + the alarm clock.</p> + <hr width="65%" /> + + <p>There once was a man who found a fat white grub eating his + cucumber vines; he did not swear at it, but took it out to sea + and caught a shad with it that supplied food for himself and + family of nine children for a whole day. That is initiative.</p> + +<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 13193 ***</div> +</body> +</html> + + diff --git a/13193-h/images/001.jpg b/13193-h/images/001.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..f7f9dbb --- /dev/null +++ b/13193-h/images/001.jpg diff --git a/13193-h/images/002.jpg b/13193-h/images/002.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..9bf0036 --- /dev/null +++ b/13193-h/images/002.jpg |
