SOUL SCIENCE
The Rosicrucian Lectures of Aureolis
Volume 3 of 3

This article contains numbers 9-12 of the Soul Science lectures given to Peter Caddy by his Rosicrucian teacher Dr Sullivan (Aureolis). For more information see Lectures 1-4 and Lectures 5-8.

9. THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

It is necessary that you understand the Psychology of Positive Mind Suggestion; hence you will understand the nervous system. It is this understanding that gives your power through Suggestion to the Osteopathic or chiropractic treatments. Also in magnetic treatments you are to treat specially the plexus that controls the organs you wish to reach.

You cannot separate Suggestion from any other method of healing, and you are to use every method that will cure. But at the basis of each lies Suggestion. When you become sufficiently familiar with the Law of Suggestion, you will need no particular method but will instinctively do, by Thought alone, that which will produce the required result. I recommend that you study some physiology or encyclopaedia about the nervous system. Be able to understand the function of the various plexuses so that you may understand how the Soul builds and controls the body.

Study the brain so that you know that it is a large ganglion presiding over the whole system. Understand that the body is a commonwealth of individual cells, each independent within a certain limit, but all working together for the common good; that each cell is built and controlled by Thought. We know this but the physiologists do not teach it. You will learn it from the practice of this Art.

Study the special nerves of sense. If possible, study the biological development of each special sense. I wish you to understand that there is but one sense, that of feeling, and that that one is differentiated into the five senses. Since you are to educate and heal through direct appeal to the Soul through the nervous system, it is in your own interest to be as fully informed about it as possible. During your study, ever keep in mind that it is the Soul – the I Am of you – that builds and controls the body and not the body that limits and controls the Soul.

You understand that it is through the nervous system that the Soul unites with the body. Through this system it builds and restores the body. All disease, in its external appearances, is caused by lack of nerve force. Disease begins in the nerves. Since nerve force is Life, it follows that all disease originates in the lessening of the Life that finds expression in the body. All disease is Spiritual in origin (or mental, if you prefer to call it that). When the Soul manifests normally, it keeps its body well. Whenever anything comes to prevent normal spiritual expression, disease results. Disease in the body is the manifestation of dead cells, driftwood on the stream of life choking the currents. We have only to stimulate the life flow and it will be carried away. This stimulation is caused by new thoughts in line with the Ideal.

Thought is Life directed by consciousness. Its centre is in the brain. Thought is not a product of the brain anymore than electricity is a product of the dynamo. Heat in coal is converted to steam, and steam to mechanical power, and mechanical power to electricity. Nothing is created or lost. So Life in brain is converted into thought. Thought is then directed via the nerves to the cells of the body and there materialised into tissue.

Under the laws of heredity and habit, Life is also converted into tissue directly, without being subject to change of thought. The brute (which is the animal in man) converts Life to tissue without conscious direction, but Man, the Human Soul, is learning to convert Life into tissue consciously. This is your mission: to learn these principles yourself then to teach others consciously to direct Life in its body-building so that only that which is desirable is built into tissue.

We shall do this by educating the nervous system. We can tell the nervous system what sort of a body we wish, just as well as we can tell it what to do in walking up stairs. We walk by direction of the Will. We can build tissue by direction of the Will. This is Man’s later discovery. He learned to make arrows and bombs, huts and cathedrals by directing his nerves by his thought. Now he is learning to build his body in like manner.

Here is the power of Positive Mind Direction: we suggest to the Soul through the nerves (brain) of others, and others suggest to us. As we affirm through our nerves, the Soul does the work – for that which affirms is the “I AM”, the Soul. It is All-power within the body. We affirm Life, and these dead cells are eliminated in waste matter. At all times we must, under proper Suggestion, hold thoughts that will build normal cells filled with Life.

All disease arises in weakened nervous condition. You are, in all your health treatments, to seek to stimulate the Life current through the nerves. Concentrate upon this thought, hold in your mind the picture of strong healthful nervous conditions. In this way you centre yourself and send out strong telepathic vibrations that we call “magnetic” because they have attracting power. With the proper Mind Suggestion these vibrations are all centred and you become a powerful healer, even though you speak not a word. Thus you can develop “Absent Healing”.

Passes in treatment have a double power. First, as Suggestion, they centre the mind, and help bring it into receptivity to the Suggestion. Passes also direct the nerve fluid of the body, draw it into weak organs or to extremities. Passes from head to feet along the spine awaken all the nervous systems. Passes along the limbs stimulate the action of extremities; passes down the arms stimulate the action of nerves in the fingers. Rubbing the plexus between the shoulders, or in the region of the kidneys, stimulates all the vital organs. The stimulant applied to the solar plexus stimulates digestion and all allied functions. As the nerves increase in power so does the circulation improve, respiration becomes stronger and health is assured.

I believe from many years of experience that we can impart spiritual power through contact. Hand clasp, touch, is like connecting the wires to a battery. When we become developed in the use of telepathy, we can heal, as Jesus did, by word or thought, but the wise man will use every natural means, will meet the patient on the plane of the least mental resistance. Suggestion, however, is an ever present factor. Limitless is the power of Man under this law. Ignorance is the only limitation. When we know how to suggest (and affirm) we have the key in our hands to all success. Mind is all; mind acts only through Suggestion and Affirmation. It is the only way Mind has of expression. To understand Mind Suggestion is to know the method of Infinite Mind in its manifestation.

You are learning in this Art WHAT TO THINK and HOW TO THINK. This is the sum total of possibility.

Positive Mind Suggestion, as you are learning it, is only Conscious Living. Is Man coming into his own ? From the dominion of the animal he is coming to the Self-control of the Human. Here is the Law which is to be your constant thought until you automatically through habit obey it: AS I THINK, I AM.

In all your healing you are to think that which you wish to be and to do. Affirm:
I HEAL. I AM POWER TO HEAL. I AM ONE WITH THE ONLY POWER IN THE UNIVERSE. I AM LIFE, AND LIFE HEALS. I CARRY HEALTH WITH ME, I RADIATE LIFE. MY WORDS ARE LIFE.

Not these words, but this THOUGHT must become a constant Affirmation. It will then be a constant Suggestion to others, and you DO heal.

Practice

Repeat the above Affirmations often. Sleep with them. Health will be your own and you will heal.

Whenever anyone in your presence complains of a headache, say “I will relieve you, if you desire”. If they consent, do it. If they are not willing simply remark “no matter, if you wish to keep it I am willing”. Show indifference.

If they are willing seat them comfortably but not lazily, and say something like this: “be passive, relax every muscle and I will soon relieve you with my hands. Then make passes, any passes – the kind does not matter. THINK HEALTH. In imagination SEE him free, and this thought “acting telepathically” will, with the suggestion of words and pass, make the cure.

Wherever there is failure, it lies either in the lack of positiveness of the patient or the lack of concentration and faith of the healer.

Take every opportunity to relieve pain. Acute pain will readily leave, chronic pain will often leave at one treatment. Cures take longer, so promise only to relieve. Never promise to cure without a systematic course. Report success in self healing and in treating others. Once you have learned these principles and are using them successfully, your mission is to teach them to others through demonstration. As you live your life, so will others observe and either reject or admire and take up your way of living, thinking and serving.

10. THE SYMPATHETIC NERVE

In Lesson 8 I said there was a “region beyond sense”, and that it was desirable to live there sometimes, also that we reached the Soul through the five senses. There is a seeming paradox when I now say we reach the Soul only through the Sympathetic Nerve.

There is a prevalent explanation of psychic and hypnotic phenomena upon the theory of a “dual mind”. I will show you the unity of Mind and its dual action.

The Soul-self is a unit. It has a sub-conscious action: an action that is not present to our consciousness. There is also an action of which we are conscious. The last is subject to our volition; the other has heretofore been supposed not to be so subject.

But it is the very centre of our glory in this science to be able to show that all the actions of the Soul may become voluntary, may be under control of consciousness. We can as well control the action of heart, kidney, liver, generative organs, circulation, and so forth, as we now control our hands and feet. Upon this fact all Suggestive, all mental healing rests.

In the study recommenced in the last lesson we have learned that the nervous system is divided into two parts. The senses and the will use one; while the other is used by the Soul in its subconscious Action. One controls the movements of the body; the other controls digestion, circulation, respiration, assimilation and alimentation. This is called the Sympathetic Nerve.

The Soul has developed one system through which to become acquainted with the external universe. Through it the Soul, by experience, becomes aware and so unfolds. When you can use the sense-life of a teacher more unfolded than your own, you will unfold faster.

Suggestion makes this happen. My sense-life, my sense-experience, my unfoldment become my subject’s. He as a soul learns from my unfoldment, and need not himself pass through the same experiences. In other words, we are using our knowledge to help the Soul directly, through the Sympathetic Nerve, and not reaching it through the intellectual region of the nervous system, as is presented in ordinary teaching.

The teacher, counsellor, practitioner or operator in Mind Suggestion, Soul-Culture, Mental Science, Divine Science, talks to the Soul through its connection with this nerve, the Sympathetic Nerve, and speaks not as doctors, teachers, preachers do, through its connection with the cerebro-spinal nerve. It would take a treatise to explain this, but, if you have studied the nervous system, you will understand.

When you remember that all conscious thinking and willing is done with the cerebro-spinal system, especially with the frontal brain, you are prepared to see that all FEELING is in the sympathetic nerve. We transmute FEELING into Thought through the other system. We think with the Cerebro system of nerves (with the brain); we feel with the Sympathetic system (the whole body).

A study of the biological development shows that the sympathetic was first developed, whereas the brain was a later development. We also learn that the proportion of the brain to the rest of the nervous system is increasing; the larger the brain and the finer the tissue, the stronger the vital and intellectual power. As the brain develops, brute (or the animal in man) develops. As man has increased his brain so has he increased in power. The area of control of the body through the will is proportionately increased. The area of the cerebro-spinal system is encroaching upon the sympathetic system. Man can cause his body to obey his will much better now than did primitive man – the athlete, sailor, boxer, all demonstrate that we can still further form our body from our thought.

Mental Science extends our knowledge yet further. From positive facts we know that every organ of the body is subject to the will of man. This is the feature that disting-uishes him from the animal self, the brute. The brute-self cannot control either body or environment. Man, mind, can control both. This principle is the most powerful factor in Human Evolution yet discovered. By it the Teacher comes into direct touch with the Soul, and helps its evolution. The Conscious Man comes into touch with the Subconscious, and brings subconscious knowledge and power into conscious expression. He can learn to do this at will. It comes now in flashes which he calls intuition and impressions. He will learn to make these intuitions constant, and to draw from the subconscious, as he now draws from memory.

In sleep all the processes of body building go on. The Soul uses at that time only the sympathetic system. In the baby, before it became self-conscious (or conscious of its consciousness) these processes went on in the same way. The wisdom manifested in babyhood and in sleep transcends that of all the schools. You are learning to trust it, to depend upon it, and to bring it into conscious use at will. How to tap this subconscious fountain has been the question. We have the “Aaron’s rod” – Positive Mind Suggestion and its personal side, Affirmation. (*Aaron’s Rod – rod used by the biblical Aaron to produce miracles)

The realm of the infinite wisdom lies open to you when you have learned how to affirm and obey the Affirmation. It is also open to you when you have found a subject who can take Suggestions, and has a mental and moral development which will enable him to reveal what he receives in the Silence.

Remember that in all your treatments for health, habits, education, and so forth, you are talking to the Soul via the sympathetic nerve. As the operator of these principles you will then have nothing to do with the frontal brain. You use the developed intelligence that the Soul has acquired through the use of the brain. He has, as the Subject, no use for this portion of his brain until he has accepted the Suggestion. You are to be to him the brain; you are to join your brain to his sympathetic nerve, and be the brain for him. This is at best only a partial union. The more complete, the more satisfactory the result.

In all manifestations of the principles of Mind Suggestion, you are to be the thinker, the subject merely the doer or reporter. The moment he thinks, he passes from the condition of a subject to the control of some suggestion of his own.

While the control one has over oneself through Affirmation is perfect, the control of Mind Suggestion over a subject is but partial – it is limited by Auto-Suggestion, born of experience, conscience and reason, wisdom and good judgement. You are ever to remember that at all times the best subjects have more or less control of themselves. The more your Suggestion harmonises with the character of the subject, the better will be the manifestation. Give a boy who loves fishing the suggestion that he is fishing, and he will be fine. Give it to one who dislikes fishing, you will fail. Character is a permanent factor. The Soul cannot resign the control of the body it has grown about itself to any foreign power.

You are now ready for a definition of Positive Mind Suggestion:
MIND SUGGESTION ON THE PART OF THE OPERATOR IS THE SCIENCE AND THE ART OF SO CONVEYING THOUGHT TO ANOTHER, THAT THE SUBJECT SHALL VOLUNTARILY, CONSCIOUSLY AND AS FAR AS POSSIBLE, COMPLETELY ACCEPT IT AS HIS OWN.

POSITIVE MIND SUGGESTION ON THE PART OF THE SUBJECT (OR PATIENT) IS THE ART OF RECEIVING A THOUGHT FROM ANOTHER CONSCIOUSLY, VOLUNTARILY, AND AS FAR AS POSSIBLE, COMPLETELY AS HIS OWN.

Memorise this. Become familiar with it. Consider what the words “voluntarily”, “consciously”, “completely” and “as far as possible” mean.

There are no unwilling subjects. You cannot cure the person who wills against you. Willingness is the first requirement; no one was ever hypnotised against his will. He knows what he is doing when, as a subject, he accepts a Suggestion. He does not know when he accepts at in auction, in a store, or at a revival meeting. It is easy for the masses to accept Suggestions unconsciously; and therefore the power of priest, politician, street fakir, or confidence man can easily affect him.

It is a sign of a mind well in hand, to sit down and lay aside all thought, and accept the one selected for it by the brain of another person. You will find that some people are difficult to work with as subjects. This would include those who are mentally retarded, those who are overly agreeable and those who reject and are in total disagreement with what you have to say or do.

Practice

Memorise the Definition. Consider the many ways a thought can be conveyed. It need not be open or verbal.

Try to convey your thoughts to others in various ways. Note how many persons will misunderstand a plain proposition. You will see the need of careful selection of words when you wish to convey your thought. Notice the difference in persons as to receptivity of thought. Some follow readily the words of one whose opinions they respect. Notice how few can hold steadily to a thought; most people wander, turn conversations quickly, talk of many things in a few minutes. Suggesting to such, you will use tact. You can win them easily to your opinion. They are constantly unconsciously susceptible to suggestion. With such as these you will have poor success when you come to use it as an Art, and ask them to be subjects.

Practise Concentration. Try to cause persons to FEEL your thought. Try your first subjects now. Stand them with their backs to you. Tell them they will feel themselves drawn backwards, that they will fall but you will catch them. You may place your hands on their shoulders and tell them that when you remove your hands, they will fall. If you desire you may have them close their eyes during the first trials. Then try with them open. Next, place them facing you and do the same.

This experiment will rarely fail. It is the first test, and the best, of the susceptibility of a person to Suggestion.

You may also begin your practice in telepathy. Tell the person, after you have him or her well used to falling thus as you stand behind them, that they will follow your hands, will fall the way you move your hands. Then concentrate your thought that the person is falling to the right, or to the left. After due practice the subject will fall as you will.

Persistent practice in these simple exercises will prepare you for the more complicated ones to follow. But more than that, they will develop in you a greater POWER through Concentration.

11. AUTO-SUGGESTION: THE OPERATOR’S POWER

In the definition of Positive Mind Suggestion, the terms voluntarily, consciously, completely and as far as possible are of great importance. The definitions of these terms need to be kept in mind at all times. In these definitions lies the epitome of the whole science of Mind Suggestion.

Voluntarily, the subject must be willing. It is impossible to guide the mind of any person who holds any mental reservation against you. The most important of all conditions is receptivity. This is a voluntary acceptance of the Suggestion. When any person is not willing, you are not to try.

Consciously, means that the subject knows what they are doing. This for ever lays aside the objection, made by those ignorant of the Art, that the operator can make his subject do anything. The subject will do nothing he is not willing to do, and he should know what he is to do.

As far as possible, means that each person is constantly under the complete guidance of suggestion which he or she accepts as Truth in daily life. But in the Art of Positive Mind Suggestion, when you tell the person they cannot get up out of the chair, they know they can; they agree however, to put that knowledge aside and to think as you wish them to think for the time being. While so thinking the person is playing a part. This he has instinctively told himself. This is Auto-Suggestion; or Self -Suggestion; a Suggestion to Self. A better term is Affirmation. He cannot completely accept your Suggestion as true, but he does accept it tentatively and far enough for the thought to control his conduct. He is honest when he jumps at the cry of “fire !”. Still underneath this is the subconscious thought born of the Auto-Suggestion. Remember this, and you have your answer to all who claim to fear these principles as leading to the possibility of crime.

Auto-Suggestion is the only protection a person has in life. It is the strongest personal power. Each person decides what is right, and that affirmation protects him.

WE ARE CONTROLLED BY OUR CONVICTION OF TRUTH

These convictions sink into the subconscious as Auto-Suggestions, and determine conduct. This is the power of Affirmation. We call this sub-conscious monitor, conscience. No matter how deeply or forcefully the suggestion moves the subject, no subject was ever lead to violate his conscience. In waking hours there may be an appeal to reason; by argument or persuasion you may be led to the commission of an act that is repugnant to the moral sense. But never can you so influence your subject.

In a previous lesson you have been told: “Never antagonise”. The moment you antagonise the will of the conscience of your subject, you will find him to pass from the control of the Suggestion you have given, to that of some Auto-suggestion, or he will reject your suggestion and begin to reject the principles. Remember this in all your work. This is why the Art of Suggestion is harmless to the subject, should there be a desire in the mind of the operator to injure.

It is here that every person should understand the power of Suggestion in daily life. Otherwise he will unconsciously accept Suggestions as Truth and be led by them. Never fear the operator, nor the guide, nor the healer by Suggestive Therapeutics, nor anyone who says: “I am going to hypnotise you”. Knowing that the operator is trying to do so, protects you from any possible evil by an Auto-Suggestion, even if you consent.

Not understanding the power of Suggestion, and your susceptibility, you are likely to act under the Suggestion of a shopkeeper, auctioneer, priest, politician, newspaper, book or TV commercial. This unconscious acceptance of Suggestion has no danger in it; there is none in the conscious.

No person can afford not to study the Science, Art and Principles of Thinking, and thus know when they act, whether they are acting under their own calm convictions, or under those given them by another. There is not at present any knowledge of as much value to the individual in the line of protection from all evil, the development of your own individuality, and the opening to you, through Suggestion and Affirmation, of health, happiness and prosperity. You will learn to think these and through thinking, BE them.

Conscience is your protector. Cultivate opinions of your own; have a moral standard of your own and know that no power in the universe can cause you to violate conscience or do a thing you will not do. Assert the “I” and you are invulnerable.

When you are operating upon a subject, you are talking to the “I”, to the seat of the moral consciousness, to the reservoir of all experience and of convictions. The “I” has a self-protection in its previous decisions. Experts are of the opinion that no subject was ever led to harm his person, his property, or do a thing against his conscience. From my large experience I believe this; I have never known of a case.

Cases of self-hypnotism and of insanity occur where persons claim to be under the spell of another. They are under the control of a dominant idea, as is the inventor when he is haunted by the machine he later invents or as is the banker who only thinks of dollars and percentages. No operator has such control over his subject either consciously or telepathically. Until the “I” makes a place in its own mind for the lodgement of a thought, no thought can enter.

Hold fear thoughts and fears will come. Hold evil thoughts and evil thoughts will be received. Evil thoughts are like buck-shot upon a suit of armour to one who thinks only good thoughts. Your protection at all times will lie in your faith in yourself and in the All-Good. These Affirmations will make you safe at all times and anywhere. “ALL IS GOOD: I AM FEARLESS.” Use them until they become a part of your mental constitution and you will unconsciously act under them and find all your desires gratified.

In your work you are to remember that all your power lies in the use you can make of the ever-present Law of Suggestion. You can give the Suggestion, you can change it and you can remove it. The subject can accept or he can reject it. He can will with you; he can will against you. You have only to seek union of wills. This accomplished, your way is clear as long as you keep within the limits of the subject’s experiences, prejudices and moral convictions. When you try to make a temperate man drink whisky, or an honest man pick a pocket, you will fail. Remember these conditions.

The first thing you have to do in the Art of Suggestion is to prepare your subject. The theatrical hypnotist does it with mysterious passes, strange music and puffs of smoke; the preacher with hymn and prayer; the political candidate by praising your company or kissing a baby. Had the subject said: “Now I know his object” and affirmed to himself

protection, he would have kept control of his judgement. You tell the subject what you wish, he then instinctively suggests to himself safety, and is protected.

Simple suggestions that are directed by you and followed by the subject will give both the confidence and the assurance of the workability of these principles. If it works on the simple things then it will surely work on the more complex needs such as suggestions for perfect health, prosperity, perfect relationships and success in business.

12. THE MASTER KEY OF SOUL SCIENCE

All possession is based on consciousness. All gain is the result of an accumulated consciousness. All loss is the result of a scattering consciousness. That much gathers more is true on every plane of existence, and that loss leads to greater loss is equally true. Mind is creative, and conditions, environment and all experiences in life are the result of our habitual or predominant mental attitude. Attitude of mind necessarily depends on what we think; therefore the secret of all power, all achievement and all possession depends upon our method of thinking. That is true because we must be before we can do, and we can do only to the extent which we are, and what we are depends upon what we think.

We cannot express powers which we do not possess, and the only way to acquire possession of power is to become conscious of power; and we can never become conscious of power until we learn that all power is from within.

There is a world within: a world of thought and feeling and power, of light and life and beauty and, although invisible, its forces are mighty. The world within is governed by the mind. When we discover this world, we shall find the solution for every problem, the cause for every effect and, since the world within is subject to our control, all laws of power and possession are also within our control.

The world without is a reflection of the world within. What happens without is what has been found within. In the world within may be found Infinite Wisdom, Infinite Power, Infinite Supply of all that is necessary, waiting for unfoldment, development and expression. If we recognise these potentialities in the world within, they will take form in the world without.

Harmony in the world within will be reflected in the world without by harmonious conditions, agreeable surroundings, the best of everything. It is the foundation of health and a necessary essential to all greatness, all power, all attainment, all achievement and all success. Harmony in the world within means the ability to control our thoughts, to determine for ourselves how any experience is to affect one. Harmony in the world within results in optimism and affluence. Affluence within results in affluence without.

The world without reflects the circumstances and conditions of the consciousness within. If we find wisdom within, we shall have the understanding to discern the marvellous possibilities latent in this world within, and shall be given the power to manifest those possibilities in the world without.

As we become conscious of the wisdom of the world within, we mentally take possession of this wisdom. By taking such mental possession, we come into actual possession of the power and wisdom required to manifest the essentials necessary for our most complete and harmonious development.

The world within is the practical world in which the man or woman of power generates courage, hope, enthusiasm, confidence, trust and faith by which he or she is given the fine intelligence and practical skill to see the vision and to make the vision real. Life is an unfoldment, not a growing inward; what comes to us in the world without is what we already possess in the world within.

We are related to the world without by the Objective Mind, the brain, which, being the organ of the mind and the cerebro-spinal system of nerves, puts us in conscious communication with every part of the body. This system of nerves responds to every sensation of light, heat, odour, sound and taste. When the mind thinks correctly, when it understands the truth, when the thoughts sent through the cerebro-spinal nervous system through the body are constructive and harmonious, these sensations are harmonious and pleasant.

The results are constructive: we build strength, vitality and all constructive forces into our body but it is through this same organ of the Objective Mind that all distress, sickness, lack, limitations and every form of discord and inharmony are admitted to our minds. It is therefore through the Objective Mind, by wrong thinking, that we are related to all destructive forces.

We are related to the world within by the Subconscious Mind. The Solar Plexus is the organ of this mind; the Sympathetic nervous system presides over all subjective sensations such as joy, fear, love, emotion, respiration, imagination and all other subconscious phenomena. It is through the Subconscious that we are connected with the infinite constructive forces of the Universe.

Let us remember then, that it is through the brain, the organ of the Objective Mind, that we are put in relation with the world without. It is through the Solar Plexus, the organ of the Subconscious Mind, that we are related to the world within. It is the equalisation of these two centres of our being, and the understanding of their functions, which is the great secret of life. With this knowledge we can bring the Objective and Subjective Minds into conscious cooperation and thus coordinate the finite and the infinite. Our future is entirely under our own control; it is not at the mercy of any capricious or uncertain external power.

All agree that there is but one Principle or Consciousness pervading the entire universe, occupying all space and being essentially the same in kind at every point of its presence. It is Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent. All thought and things are within Itself. It is All in All.

There is but one Consciousness in the Universe able to think and, when it thinks, Its thoughts become objective things to it. As this Consciousness is Omnipresent, it must be present within every individual; each individual must be a manifestation of that Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent Consciousness. As there is only one Consciousness in the Universe which is able to think, it necessarily follows that your consciousness is identical with the Universal Consciousness, or in other words: all Mind is One.

There is no dodging this conclusion. The consciousness which focuses in your brain cells is the same consciousness which focuses in the brain cells of every other individual. Each individual is but the individualisation of the Universal, the Cosmic Mind. The Universal Mind is static or potential energy; It simply IS. It can manifest only through the individual, and the individual can manifest only through the Universal. They are ONE.

The ability of the individual to think is his ability to act on the Universal and bring it into manifestation. Human consciousness consists only in the ability of man to think. Thought is the vibratory force formed by converting static Mind into dynamic Mind.

As the sum of all attributes is contained in the Universal Mind (which is Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent), it follows that these attributes must be present at all times in their potential form in every individual. Therefore when the individual thinks, the thought is compelled by its nature to embody itself in an objectivity or condition which will correspond with its origin. Every thought therefore is a cause, and every condition an effect. For this reason it is absolutely essential that you control your thoughts so as to bring forth only desirable conditions.

All power is from within and is absolutely under your control. It comes through exact knowledge and by the voluntary exercise of exact principles. It should be plain that, when you get an exact understanding of this law and are able to control your thought processes, you can apply it to any condition. In other words you will have come into conscious cooperation with Omnipotent Law which is the fundamental basis of all things. The Universal Mind is the Life Principle of every atom which is in existence. All are continually striving to manifest more life, all are intelligent and are seeking to carry out the purpose for which they were created. The world within is One with the Universal world, the world in which we live and move and have our being, the great creative principle of the Universe. It is therefore creative, and everything which you find in your world without has been created by you in the world within.

This teaching will bring you into a realisation of the power which will be yours when you understand this relationship between the world within and the world without. The world which is the Cause is within; the world without is the Effect. To change the effect, you must change the cause. You will at once see that this is a radically new idea and a different idea. Most men try to change effects by working with effects; they fail to see that this is simply changing one form of distress for another. To remove discord we must remove the cause, and this cause can only be found in the world within.

The world within is the Universal fountain of supply, and the world without is the outlet to the stream. Our ability to receive depends upon our recognition of this Universal Fountain, this infinite energy, of which every individual is an outlet, and so is one with every other individual.

All growth is from within: this is evident in all nature. Every plant, every animal, every human is a living testimony to this great law, and the error of the age is in looking for strength or power from without. A practical understanding of this law will replace abundance for poverty, wisdom for ignorance, harmony for discord and freedom for tyranny. And certainly there will be greater blessings than these from a material and social standpoint.

The three steps necessary to bring desire into realisation are: Idealisation, Visualisation and Manifestation. The first step, then, is to sow the seeds; this should be done in the Silence, but few of us know what the Silence is. It is a physical stillness. Select a place where you can be alone and undisturbed, sit erect, comfortably, but do not lounge. Let your thoughts roam where they will but be perfectly still. Give yourself fifteen minutes of this each day. Plan to live by and use these ancient principles. Peace be with you.