GREAT WHITE BROTHERHOOD AND WORLD PEACE

Before going further in the study of certain underlying laws and facts regarding the teachings of the Masters, it is well to consider the scope their vision covers. One must enlarge his mind and out-look upon life to that in which the Masters work in order to fully understand the full purport of their teachings. At this time we will deal chiefly with the field to be taken into consideration and the general trends of mankind in order that we may fully adapt ourselves to the work that is before us. It is necessary to know the nature and scope of a field of work before selecting the tools and laying down a plan for tending the field. We must know to what the field is adapted, what crops are to be raised, and to what end the cultivation is to be directed. There must be a purpose back of all work and it is far beyond the reaches of what we commonly call our own individual nature. Each man’s nature in one way and another is vitally associated with the life and well-being of every other individual in the world and what affects one must in some degree affect the rest of humanity.
I rather feel that this discussion of peace should be very general because everyone is interested. The fact is that the world is becoming peace-minded and that people are saying that we have had enough of war. People are beginning to understand that war is not a natural condition and to understand that all those who assume the role of providence by setting themselves up as the embodiment of perfect Justice—the creators of Happiness—are only deceivers. Peace and Happiness, the heart’s desire of all Humanity is not a gift to be bestowed upon mankind, but has to be earned by honest effort. There is not such a thing as political miracles. Man has to realize that he alone has the power to work out his destiny with his own intelligence.
This sweeping tide of human interest in that which will promote and guarantee peace is the inevitable working out of the Universal Law which always moves to promote the common good. God is no respecter of persons and this awakening of men along peace lines is their response to the movement of the Spirit of Peace which is fostered by the Masters. Only as the individual identifies himself with Universal Law can he expect to find his individual good for it is inseparably united with the common good. For this reason, true progress is slow and suffering is great.
There is a great brotherhood throughout the world who have been working for peace for thousands of years. They are back of every movement for world peace and are becoming stronger and stronger all the time. There are now about 216 groups throughout the world. There is always one central unit as a first or centralizing body and twelve units which surround that unit, giving it more force and power. They are working also for the enlightenment of the whole world.
These groups are really composed of human beings who are actuated by the high thought of the White Brotherhood. All of these groups work together. There is a very strong thought coming to the whole world for peace and enlightenment as well.
There are many misconceptions regarding the White Brotherhood. It must first be understood that they never make themselves known as such, nor are they exclusively back of any outer organization or organizations. They are Universal in their function and purpose. They definitely work with the Universal Law to universal ends and any individual or group working toward the same ends without selfish or group motives many receive their full support. This support may be known on the part of the man but it is more likely to come in the form of an unknown stimulus. That is, the help is not likely to assume the form of that coming from any definite place or person. Those receiving this support are conscious only of the help or influence.
The League of Nations originally was an instrument of the White Brotherhood but it was misused in many ways by certain nations and individuals. It will, however, come back under the guidance of the Brotherhood some time in the future.
The birth of a new order is in process; we are witnessing right now the destruction of an old civilization. The White Brotherhood will assert itself positively on the most important issues when the time is propitious.
The time has come when there can be no halfway ground in this purification of the race, whether or not individuals or groups array themselves against the common good in this day. The mills of God grind swiftly at times and also finely. Only from the siftings shall the selfish and aggressively grasping rear a new life’s structure. It were far better to unify oneself with purely creative motives that contribute to universal good, for thereby shall good come to the individual.
Often the influences working in Universal ideas come into being without much notice. It is something that seems to germinate and move forward as a contagion while the minds of many are still so engrossed in other things that they do not notice the change. Then, all of a sudden, each individual seems to realize that it has come into being and that it is in exact accord with his own secret thoughts. Thus, he very often slips into the new order rather unknowingly. The point is to be alert to these secretly developing forces within oneself and in the race, and here one will find the key to his most rapid progress and most vital service in the universal cause.
India has maintained peace by using methods identical to those used by these 216 groups about which I have spoken. It was brought about originally by twelve groups which have expanded and are still expanding. The influence of these bodies has been very great, entering into the whole fabric of Indian thought. Their work from the outer point of view has been largely educational. They release information orally which is acted upon under their direction. Results prove the efficacy of this method.
Gandhi studied the situation of non-violence for twenty years before he began his work, becoming a very deep student of it. The principle has been in existence in India for 600 years. Because of the Untouchables it was made operative through Gandhi in this generation. Gandhi went among the Untouchables, teaching non-violence, making it an effective force. The younger generation took it up immediately. They recognized the great effect of it and it spread throughout all India. The younger generation now have brought it before the people stronger than ever. This will eventually result in the dissolution of the caste system. The Untouchables became quite an issue there as they numbered some 65,000,000 and guidance was necessary because they had such powerful influence. Gandhi has been almost entirely responsible for their present emancipation.
Those in the groups mentioned that are working for world peace are persons of a very high spiritual understanding. One man of each group is always prominent as one of spiritual attainment.
There are some sixty in the United States who definitely belong to this association. They are very quiet concerning their connection with it. They do not give out the place of their group meetings or any information concerning their activities.
This is why many people are more or less incredulous concerning the great work being done by the illumined. They are so accustomed to outer show and display that they cannot imagine any great work being done in such a quiet, simple manner. But if one will stop to think for just a moment he will realize that all the motivating forces of the Universe are silent and those who work consciously with these forces move according to motives. There will come a time, however, when they will work more openly, but that will be when there are enough illumined people to know and understand just what they are doing. Study your own experiences. Are you not aware that silent influences working underneath the surface of your own being are those forces which control your life more than the outwardly manifest things which you express in words? However, just as these silent “broodings” of your own inner nature eventually find their outer expression when you are in an environment which harmonizes with them, you do not hesitate to express them. Study yourself and you will find everything working in you just as it is in the race. “What the Father sees in secret, He will reward you openly” is not an idle statement but it reveals the manner in which all things come into being in the outer world. To understand this fact will not only be to better understand yourself but also the manner of the universal spiritual work that is going on underneath the surface all the time. It is only through adapting oneself to this sort of conscious procedure that he will be able to clearly trace the workings of the Secret Brotherhood. Their activities are hidden only to those who do not discern the mode of accomplishment. We are accustomed to noise and display and the quiet yet most powerful forces in ourselves and the world about us go unnoticed. We follow the noisy people into bypaths and lose the path of life that moves in stillness through our own individual being.
This Brotherhood is not properly an organization, as anyone can belong who will work constructively either openly or silently for peace. It is rather an association of kindred spirits. They co-operate, in fact, with any association or organization that is for the benefit of mankind or the advancement of humanity.
The group in India works silently but it is its influence that brings these bodies together and co-ordinates their activities. It was the activity of this very group that brought the Nobel Peace Prize before the world.
Tolstoy was a great factor in making this principle practically effective. But it has always been presented through the nine rulers of India. Tolstoy was an advanced soul. He was working with the great Central Group all the time.
While no one knows its exact location, that Thirteenth Group has always been a very dominant factor in world education. That group of twelve are working in every educational center in the world.
These groups are not an organization here or anywhere that makes propaganda for world peace. It was seen that the spoken word, or the silent word, when sent out to the world, was of far greater influence than the written word. The written word can be garbled. The spoken word is an ever-expanding and ever-increasing influence.
Here again is the wisdom of the wise which has always been in evidence. So long as constructive forces work in “secret” they grow unnoticed by those who would destroy their effect. The world does not realize the advance of the Constructive Force until it has already undermined the sordid structures of the selfish and self-seeking and then it is too late. At the time of such helpless disintegration, and only then, are the activities of the Brotherhood likely to come out into the open to strengthen the Truth in the minds of all the people. This is not done through fear of attack but through knowledge of the most powerful way to bring about any great constructive movement for world betterment. The selfish have no access to it.
In a sense, all those who are working for India’s freedom or for the freedom and peace of the world are Avatars, as the Western World looks at the Avatars. Many of the Great Ones have been disseminating this teaching for thousands of years. Jesus has been and is working definitely for the betterment of the whole world.
The reason many people in the Western World do not recognize the work of Avatars is that they can conceive of them only as working on the surface, saying and doing spectacular and miraculous things in public. They do not know that the true miracles are always worked out in silence first.
Regarding arbitration as an instrument for world peace, this movement was started in the Punjab of India. It is a powerful instrument of world peace. It has completely outlawed aggression. India never did use an aggressive attitude, never did encourage open warfare in that territory at all, and the Punjab was the greatest influence back of this whole movement. It has been maintained throughout India for about three thousand years. Non-aggression and arbitration have been proved practical.
W. J. Bryan, consciously or unconsciously actuated by the silent influence, succeeded in getting peace treaties with all but four nations. So far no national character has since dared to take up his work. It will be taken up again some day in the future with the forming of a board of men, unknown to the outer world, that will have complete authority from the peace societies and groups working unselfishly for world peace.
If all the financial world were to get behind this movement for unity, it would be the greatest influence for peace. There could then be no finances for war. It could be impossible to finance war and hence there could be no war. If the cooperative system should be adopted universally, there could be no booms and no more depressions. It would also be of great influence in the abolition of war. As a matter of fact, cooperation is coming into existence. The people who do not cooperate and align themselves with the new order will be outlawed completely.
Following this spreading tendency to outlaw war, people will have their eyes opened to the causes of war, which are in the sole promotion of group or national advantages. The practice of non-cooperation will also be outlawed as a contributing cause of war. This brings the whole thing right down to the individual and each one must outlaw his own selfishness and self-seeking at the expense of others. He as an individual will find that the best way to promote his own interest is to promote the common interest and the only way to preserve his own good is to preserve the good of the whole. This silent tendency is now being awakened on a broad scale. But each individual must find its beginning in himself and one who will earnestly search his own soul will find the embryo of this movement increasing in his own nature every day. Spreading from individual to individual it will grow into a mighty world movement and will be the ultimate motive in all human activities. Just as the individual who does not obey this eternal trend of his inner nature is destroyed, so will such groups, institutions, religious organizations, races and nations be disintegrated, leaving the world for those who love the law of God and live that law in relationship to every other man and nation.
In all modern movements it is clearly revealed that the changes must be first in the individual for, unless his own nature is properly correlated with the movement back of outer conduct, he becomes a disintegrating factor in any movement that might otherwise accomplish untold good. One can scarcely do anything in the way of accomplishing universal peace until he has found peace within his own nature and he cannot find peace in his own nature until he has been long enough truly in touch with the unseen forces which move toward the common good.
There is no question but that the individual first must be at peace. Not only that but he must realize what it means to the individual as well as to the nation. If he is centralized in that idea of peace, he projects that influence and he becomes one of the great moving factors of the spiritual development of the age. The peace movement is one of the most definite factors toward spiritual enlightenment as well.
Politics will be broken down completely with this new system that is coming. But, so long as the present political set-up endures, no really effective program can be launched and carried to a successful conclusion. Everyone who keeps in step with the trend of the times is receiving all the help he is capable of receiving from these higher forces. Some of them receive this help consciously, some unconsciously, but nevertheless the help is there. Some have gone so far that they know and acknowledge this help.
Political parties, in the working out of the underneath movement of constructive forces, will probably merge into one great party for greater simplicity of government. These changes must come through our party system, moving into single chamber legislation and not divided. “A house divided against itself shall fall.” That will eradicate a great many of our political evils. This will all originate within the States due to changes brought about there. It is coming as a national movement in the United States.
Peace is here! When we relate ourselves definitely to that Principle, it makes us a working unit.

FOR THE TEACHER

Paragraph 1. It should be clearly developed in the beginning of this study that the people generally need a new perspective in the matter of spiritual progress. We have for the most part been pursuing the whole subject as that of bearing entirely upon the body and the things which we imagine the body should have. In reality, all the body is and has depends upon something infinitely beyond these.

Paragraph 2. Show by further illustration, if possible, how the general reaction of the people is in the direction of peace and that back of this is the coming of the purpose of the Universe, or God.

Paragraph 3. Show your students how this peace movement which is springing up is identical with their own ideals, awakening them to the fact that they are inwardly actuated by Universal movements that are the objectives of all the illumined.

Paragraphs 4 to 12. Show how brotherhood comes into being through obedience to innermost impulses toward general betterment and that the difference between one’s relationship to another in a sense of unity and the relationship of the White Brotherhood to the whole is but the difference in the degree to which they are actuated by these deeper impulses.

Paragraphs 13 and 14 doubtless will stand in your presentation much as they are unless your knowledge includes much that is only referred to lightly in these paragraphs.

Paragraph 15, 16. This should make clear why it is impossible for the average individual to understand why the Masters do not appear in the open with their work. Whole volumes could profitably be written along this line. It is the very reason that you sometimes do not venture to express your opinions even within your own home. You know as long as you are silent you have no opposition but once you have spoken the whole thing is open to controversy. Then again, you feel the right time comes to speak and it is all acceptable and everyone cooperates. What moves in the Universe also moves within man. To know himself in some of these most simple things is his key to great understanding and power.

Paragraphs 17 to 26. The motive is much the same and is but further emphasis upon the importance of silent cooperative work in the positive realization that the great Creative Spirit is working through all men in some degree; and the important thing so far as we are concerned is that we make it a more vital issue in our own lives.

Paragraphs 27 to 32 afford additional opportunity for amplification along the foregoing lines and can become a vital factor in liberating the people to progress. Teach the people to expect and prepare for changes. Become sensitive to the changes now moving underneath the political and economical structure. The change that will liberate is not in any of these outer forms but is in the hearts of men.

CHAPTER II

THE ONE MIND

We have evidence of the control of the One Mind. In every field of action we will note the One Mind control. Even upon this boat you will note that there is one head; consequently there is one control, with many activities under that control, and all these lesser activities emanate from that centralized authority.
It is only through this centralization of power and authority that there is anything like harmony in the operations of any organized section of society or even within the individual. We all know what happens when there is a division of power or rather an attempt to divide authority without consideration of some central motivating source. The orders which go forth from two sources to the various centers of activity can result only in confusion and chaos. If power emanates from more than one central directive head, the authority is destroyed and the entire structure is broken down.
Where there is one controlling element which has dominion, power, or control of motivating action, we are brought directly to that One Element and, thereby, brought to one-pointed action which we have discussed before many times. It is through that action that we do accomplish and that action brings us into a harmony with that central control in that we do not scatter our forces but work with the One Force, or power, which is complete control.
*You always bring yourself into accord with that to which you have delegated power. That is, if you believe in the power of the world and its environment, you are seemingly receiving directive control from a thousand different sources and this is the source of your confusion. You do not know whether to obey the seeming demands made here, there, or some other place and this division in the consciousness breaks down the entire structure of man’s nature. He must know “Whom we have believed, and become persuaded that He is able to keep that which we have committed unto Him against that day.”
That one control does exist for every human being if he will but use it. Of course, the use of that control must be conscious; it must be consciously directed or used for the purpose which we decree or which we establish. It is through the establishment of that control that our thoughts are brought into that one power of action or one thought of expression. There they cannot help but express that which they send forth. In other words, the motivating principle we determine must come into existence. “His servants are ye, to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey,” and the manifest results must be determined by the outworking of that motivating force from which you receive your direction. The results can be no greater than is the power vested in the authority.
This central control of the Universe is often called Principle as well as Mind. Principle does not bind it as closely perhaps as the One Mind. Still, that Principle controls and governs and it knows what it is doing; it governs with intelligence, so it must be a Mind Principle. The Hindoo always puts it as Principle, or the All-Mighty, which means that man does become that mighty, controlling element. Man stands in his all-mightiness the moment he projects his thought to that one control, that one central directive authority.
It is all so simple if one looks at the entire situation with an open-minded and sane approach to it. You say in your own mind that this person or that condition has power to make you sad. This is delegating authority to a definite location or form. Obeying the authority which you have thus assigned, you embody in yourself the mental and emotional state which you recognize as existing in the nature of that authority. You could not possibly think of embodying joy from a source that you decree has only the power to make you sad. Then, through your obedience to the authority you embody the sadness which you have admitted it has power to manifest in you and you say “I am sad.” You become that which you embody. This is the whole secret power but, to manifest that Mighty power that is ours, we must obey that source and embody the characteristics which it possesses; then we should not hesitate to proclaim “I am that,” as the Hindoos put it, when that becomes the thing we have embodied. This will all become perfectly clear to anyone who will dwell on the matter for a time.
In this state will-power is not a method of control. Will-power gives us the impetus for bringing that control into existence but it is not the motivating factor back of the control. Will may differ entirely from control. Self-will never is able to project thoughts to one central point. Definite control or mind action is capable of carrying thoughts, feelings or actions to one central control, which is a definite attribute or element that man uses always and which he has dominion to work WITH. Not Over, but to work WITH. That is the very force which man brings into activity the moment he brings his thought to that focal point of Principle which activates all conditions.
Let us take a very simple illustration. Man has power to bring his mind into subjection to the principle of mathematics but he does not have the will to make the principle act. The principle acts of itself and is a single center of control within its sphere. Man may bring his will up to the point of the activity of the principle but from then on the principle is the motivating force and through this subjection of his will—to be more accurate—he finds the secret of his mathematical power. The principle of the human will is that it is to be brought into subjectivity to some higher authority and thus man becomes the embodiment of it and is possessed of the power of this higher authority. Man’s weakness is brought about through making himself subject to that which in reality has no power and this should be proof to him of the immense power which is possible to him. He must now learn to apply this principle of his own will and recognize power as existing only in the One Principle.
Our everyday life is a concrete application of this fact, in that our statements conform to the One Principle or One Mind. We vision or project an ideal. Let us say that that ideal is for perfection. We immediately come into direct accord with the One Mind control or Principle. We project an ideal for ourselves to accomplish. If it is a high ideal that Power immediately becomes active and brings that ideal into existence. The moment that ideal is projected and the force back of it becomes active through it, that ideal is complete. That is, the moment the ideal is released from the activity of our will and is projected into the activity of the One Principle, it is a completed thing.
So long as there is any dual sense it is difficult for anyone to see how this can be true on the manifest plane. The Masters do not take into consideration any plane outside of the Spiritual—the Spiritual made manifest. If we do not take into consideration any plane outside of the Spiritual, it must be in existence always after the statement is made, even before the statement is made. We quite evidently withhold from ourselves the accomplishment of our ideal because we look to three planes upon which it may manifest. It is found very conclusively today that it manifests only on one plane. It manifests on the Spiritual plane always. It is always fact.
Now if we hold to and remain within that Spiritual plane we would see it in its true expression. We would not need to look to the material at all for when we do we speak in terms of materializations and materialization is not spiritually a fact. The actual thing is the fact always. That is the Spiritual made manifest. Two plus two equals four in the mathematical principle, it equals four in the mind, and likewise in manifestation. This is not three planes but it is all the mathematical fact separated or differentiated at NO point whatever.
After the manifestation it is said that it does no harm to name it material or physical because you cannot harm the Fact. But it is always elevated or exalted to the Spiritual. That was Jesus’ meaning when He said: “If ye exalt all things to Spirit they are in existence already.” Evidently He had that very thing in mind when He gave the prayer: “Father, I thank you that you have heard me, and that you do hear me always.” He knew fully that that which He saw as His ideal was already accomplished. To Him it came forth instantly. Then He gave the statement that “if you go forth into the vineyard it is ready for harvest.”
Now, if we take that definite position, there is no question but that we would be out of all of this difficulty completely. He immediately rose above every difficulty by the very attitude that He took. It was not a long, arduous process to Him. It was instantaneous. He saw completely through the non-existence of them. That is not claiming that He denied them. It is quite evident that He never denied any condition. He always rose above it to the True Spiritual Condition and then there was no need for denial or for paying any attention to anything but the True Spiritual condition. He said, “I live always in Spirit.”
Our Bible says “I live always in a spirit,” being an entirely wrong interpretation. The interpolation of “a” where it does not belong makes a lot of difference. That is where many mistakes were made in our understanding.
The Christian Bible says “God is a Spirit.” The original was “God is Spirit,” never confining him to one attribute to one condition. One writer said: “It is like trying to crowd God into the quart measure of our intellect.” Spirit and Mind are synonymous. They are one and the same in vibratory influence. That which seems to make a difference is that we take our thoughts as indicating mind. Mind is consciousness, for mind and consciousness are inseparable. The element of consciousness is thought and when conscious of spiritual Fact there is no difference to us between mind and spirit. We are in a state of Spiritual Consciousness.
You are right in thinking of mind as consciousness in action but so is Spirit consciousness in action. They, too, are synonymous. Either may become quiescent or become submerged in the individual but they are not submerged in the outer condition. If the outer is like the inner, mind is never submerged in the individual but is only quiescent. The individual only thinks that it is submerged and to that person it may become non-existent because he is not conscious of it. The consciousness is always there and springs into existence instantly if one projects consciousness toward that which always is, the Spiritual Fact.
The element of consciousness is the directive rather than the motivating agency of mind. Thus, it is indispensable in the sending forth of the emanations of mind, or, as we put it, in stepping up the emanations of mind to their true state, providing the element of consciousness is true to the Spiritual Fact.
Today many scientists are approaching this same conclusion regarding the underlying cause of all things. They dissolve the whole structure of substance and resolve it all back to emanating energy identical with Spirit. Spirit is all-pervading; it manifests in everything. It is found that all elements, including radium, are reduced to that one primal element—emanating energy. But this energy, in the last analysis, is not blind force but intelligent force. It knows what it is doing. Scientists even admit that there is a certain form of “electricity” that seems to know what it is doing. This all-pervading, creative energy back of all things is aware of itself, aware of what it is doing, aware of how to do it, and we therefore call it Spirit or God. It is omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient as the Christian Bible puts it.
When man begins to assemble in his consciousness the activities of any principle, he begins to say “I am that.” This is the centralizing of the authority of the principle in himself. “I am” renders the mind dynamic instead of letting it rest in potentiality. It becomes dynamic the moment we focus thought upon I AM. That focal point is the center always and from it emanates the authoritative commands that control and determine the entire status of manifest man. The I AM must be used to indicate man’s true estate, that which he is in fact, and not what he has seemed to himself to be in manifest form. “I am THAT I am,” which is the embodiment of the motivating authority of the Universe. Beside THAT “I AM” there is no true existence but only delusion.
This name “I AM” was God to Moses. It has come down through the ages as “I AM.” To the Hindoos it is AUM, which means the same. Likewise to the Aryans it is AUM. The Chinese use it as TAU.
The so-called “blind spots” in the ether common in our radio and scientific fields is in a sense symbolic of the blind spots in human consciousness. The radio beam crosses right through these non-magnetic fields as if they did not exist. Our layers of atmosphere, the concentric bands of atmospheric conditions, are in motion. In our earth they are stationary. When a non-magnetic field moves over a magnetic field of our concentric bands a vacuum-like condition is established. When a magnetic field passes over a non-magnetic field of the earth’s surface it passes right through it and is lost. It is frequently more powerful at night than in the daytime. These non-magnetic fields are like the static states in human consciousness, more intense with greater darkness or ignorance. But the positive radiations of the Spiritual I AM, the declarations of that which man is in fact, penetrate through these static fields of his consciousness and it is as though they do not exist. The persistent declaration of Spiritual facts regarding man’s nature and his place in the Universe eventually will eliminate all these static fields in human consciousness as well as in his affairs.
The One Mind is not constantly creating new ideas. It is manifesting Ideas that have been created from the beginning, for the One Mind is and always has been Omniscient—all knowing. It has never been nor will it ever be more or less than ITSELF. It is all a process of reverberation. It is the same as our radio currents today. They are flooding back and forth or reverberating from one space to the other space. That is, from space to space as you might say.
Thought is, of course, the most potent of any radiations because it has control over the vibratory field of electricity and radio. In fact, both the vibratory field of electricity and of radio will impinge and reflect from the vibratory field of thought always. Radio follows a track in the atmosphere regardless of a conductor. It follows a true track or trend. It operates through the ether. But thought in this sense does not “travel” for thought is omnipresent. It is already there no matter to what point you refer. It is the impingement of thought upon the electrons that causes thought to appear to move. Mind is the motivating element, thought moving concurrently with mind and in striking upon the electrons produces all movement in the plane of manifest substances.
That which we call space is in reality the One Spiritual Mind. That is the Principle by which the human soul, which is the replica of the Spiritual mind, can overcome time and space, for there is no such thing as time and space in Spirit. In Spirit all is complete and in completeness there can be no such thing as time or space. This is what is meant by “letting the same mind be in you which was also in Christ.” It is a state of complete oneness existing in fact between the individual and the Universal soul and it must become a conscious fact to the individual. That is the complete Mind, the controlling mind, functioning through the individual consciously.
Physical man or man conscious of himself only as a physical being that thinks he is apart from God, the One Mind, and thinks in terms of moving from place to place, is only moving in illusion for himself and, hence, unhappiness. He really is in and of that One Mind and lives and moves and has his being in IT. In Jesus’ talks His greatest statement was “Peace be still.” It is never said in a loud voice, projected of the will of man, but in unison with the calm, knowing power that comes from a sense of Oneness. There is the greatest security and the greatest power. We have seen some of the greatest storms overcome by that simple statement. Likewise, the seeming “brain storms” of human mind are stilled until one can feel the controlling power of the One Mind.

FOR THE TEACHER

Paragraphs 1 and 2 give ample opportunity to conclusively point out to the individual that so long as his mind is divided he has, by that act of division, lost his sense of power and direction. Only from some definite premise can any structure be builded and until one has arrived at this premise he cannot proceed to do anything. This must have been what Jesus meant when he said, “Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve.”

Paragraph 3. This one underlying principle of Life, God, is the controlling and ruling force of the Universe and man can find himself only in relationship to this principle. The only adjustment that will harmonize man’s being is a realignment of his entire nature with the facts from which he came.

Paragraph 4. Man himself has assigned power to the external world for there is no power there originally, nor is power there even when he has seemed to delegate it. That power still remains within himself and that which seems to be power in environment or anything outside of his own I AM, his central identity, is the perversion of this same power within himself. The power is always within man and it works according to the direction given it. But back of it all is the controlling force of the Universe and that which I am individually must be one with the I AM which is universal. Perfect accord must exist between cause and effect for the movement of the cause is the life of the effect.

Paragraphs 5, 6 and 7 can be further extended along this same line and the lesson made of eternal benefit to every individual. Nothing else so completely tallies with the true message which Christ tried to give to the world as this. “Greater things than these shall ye do” was His estimate of man’s potential capacity.

Paragraphs 8 and 9. The most helpful lesson and liberating practice can be developed from these two paragraphs. The willful attempt to force thought into the place of manifestation is a hopeless task. It is destructive to the individual who practices it. The acceptance of Universal Power, a central executive emanation that produced heaven and earth as the already-completed manifestation of itself and the self-existent fact back of every constructive idea of man, is the way to liberation.

Paragraph 10 shows the method of procedure in so-called demonstration which is, in the last analysis, stepping aside from our sense of incompleteness and imperfection to accept the Facts.

Paragraph 11 shows more accurately what happens in this matter of manifest results. A freeing of the mind from all duality is the solution to the whole matter.

Paragraph 12 is a further extension of this same idea.

Paragraphs 13, 14 and 15 can be made to strengthen foregoing.

Paragraph 16. Can we not once and for all make clear that the different “minds,” as we call them, are but a difference in thought? Mind functioning as what we call mind is this same spiritual capacity in man functioning in its lowest capacity through perverting it to lesser purposes. When man “thinks the thoughts of God after Him” his mind is then spiritualized or functioning in its true field with God thoughts, thinking as God thinks or, more accurately, knowing as God knows. The human mind thinks; the God Mind KNOWS.

Paragraphs 17, 18 and 19 give excellent opportunity to extend this idea further and to drive home the idea that man is not truly living until he consciously functions in harmony with his source.

Paragraphs 20 and 21. The true use of the “I AM” is to maintain man’s original identity in and with his source, not allowing it to descend to include within his nature that which he is not. Man is not his experiences. He is what he IS. Experiences with that which seems less than himself should never be admitted into his estimate of himself. I am always that which “I AM IN SPIRIT,” not what I seem to be in experience or what I have experienced in the world. No matter what I have gone through or seem to be going through, I still remain what I am in the original sense, the Image and Likeness of God.

Paragraph 22 shows the far-reaching influence of spiritual fact as transcending all sense of limitation. Spirit takes no account of evil, of loss, lack, poverty, disease. These are but blind spots in human consciousness. To the mind that KNOWS, there are no such things and it goes right on with that which it KNOWS and IS.

Paragraph 23. The mind which is God is the same yesterday and forever. That which seems to be a new idea to us is but our discovery of what always was. Healing and so-called demonstrations are not bringing something into being but are an awakening to that state which has always prevailed in fact.

Paragraph 24. Power of thought, so-called, is not the power of thought. Thought is only a conveyor of power. Power is in Spirit and thought conveys or carries power only to the extent that it conforms to the standards and purposes moving in Spirit. “My words are spirit,” said Jesus, meaning that his words accurately conformed to the Universal trend which he called the Will of God.

Paragraphs 25 and 26 present man as an integral part of infinite space and not an isolated being among isolated forms. “By one spirit are we baptized into one body.” Finding our calm in this eternal unity of all things is our position of power where all contrary illusion is dissolved into the peace and tranquility of illumination.

CHAPTER III

DUAL MIND

Many of the Western World look at duality instead of to the One Mind or Principle. That scatters the forces and one is not able to hold his mind in accord as when he sees but the One force or One Principle and himself and all things as integral parts of the One.
“Behold our God is One,” say the Scriptures, and it is only in the preservation of this fundamental truth that man lives in harmony with his own nature. Man is not a separate being, projected away from his source, but is created within the image of God and like unto God. It is only in the sense of his isolation, which is the root of all unrighteousness, that he loses the beneficent influences of the Creative Cause, which are his by the natural order of things. In this sense of aloneness he has imagined all sorts of contrary actions to his well being and is often inclined to blame the Universal system for his misfortunes. In reality they are all of his own doings, for the Universe does not isolate him nor is it accountable for the difficulties that arise because of his own isolation. “Return unto me and I will return unto you, saith the Lord,” is the offer of the ONE to him who will accept his rightful place in the divine order of the whole created scheme.
Duality is brought into existence through thought and action without regard to the whole. But, by reversing the dual thought or bringing the thoughts to One point of action, duality is eliminated completely. It is a well known fact that we cannot accomplish with a dual purpose or even with a dual nature.
In reality there is not duality in nature. There is the positive and negative, good and evil, hot and cold, all of the opposites, but the opposites, when related and brought together, bring the thought to one purpose, one action, one Principle. In connection with the opposites it is not necessary to recognize them as opposite or opposed. The essential recognition is the single purpose. Jesus always said that His greatest accomplishments were with the single attitude or steadfast purpose, as He related it. That steadfastness does bring us into unity where Principle exists always. That is where Principle is always immanent. Then, instead of duality, there is that “single eye” or single I AM.
Many Hindoos use the I, while many use the I AM. It is thought by some that that was where duality began to manifest first—between the I and the I AM—many believing that this practice involved two attitudes or purposes, where in reality, it is but one correlation or subjugation of everything to the One Purpose. There is no duality of Principle but the union of Principle in all things. They (the words “I AM”) even pronounce the exact Principle or Truth. As they put it, the exaltation of the One principle allows it to work in that Principle conclusively. We do not see, either, the duality of nature and thus we do not recognize it. As duality has no recognition it becomes harmonized.
Summer and winter are not two things but phases of one Nature. Winter is as essential to the growth of vegetation as is summer and only depicts two phases of a single process. What we call evil contains the germ of good and, when looked through to behold the good, the sense of evil disappears and there remains only the sense that all things are working together for good. The apparent evil surrounding conditions of poverty and pain that are shunned by human beings, if faced for the good within them, would vanish. Jesus taught that blindness was not an evil nor the result of evil but an opportunity to show forth the “glory of God.” A problem is not foreign to the principle of mathematics nor is it an obstacle to one who wishes to become a mathematician. The problem is only a statement of certain conditions through which the principle may be applied to produce a desired result and is a means of growth to the individual who so faces it. Conditions in life that seem opposed to our highest good are but points of practice until we attain that strength of character to see and manifest only the perfection of the One. When life is seen in this way all unpleasantness vanishes and everything becomes a sort of practice game in which we see, live, move, and have being that the existing good may show forth in our own character and in our world. Nature then is harmonious. All is harmony. All is working under the influence of the One Purpose.
Just as the difference between a perfect chord and discord is apparent even to the novice, so is the individual able to know within himself that which is in harmony with the Universal Principle and that which is at variance with it. Any inharmonious condition in the nature of man is evidence that he is out of harmony with the natural order of things and the secret of his perfect progress is to always approach every condition in such a manner as to preserve his sense of inward calm. This is impossible so long as there exists any sense of separation from the innate good that runs through all things. Man’s nature is eternally attuned to the good for he is the offspring of God, and God is good. When one is conscious that his good is eternally and unvaryingly seeking to manifest itself in all things and in his own nature he is in harmony with himself and the Principle of his being. By working to uncover the good contained in every experience man is instantly in that state where that which to others seems evil becomes the source of his good.
Of course, with the relation of the opposites we find that we come to the same attitude. It is said that there may be many opposite manifestations but they are not opposed unless the individual allows the opposition. The individual must harmonize the opposites in his attitude toward them for, in reality, they are never out of harmony. When we come to that attitude where all is harmony, then we see the harmonious relation in all things as well as in ourselves. It becomes one simple attitude of complete harmony. Then there can be no discord. There can be no discord in life or in living. There can be no discord between the opposites for they have their perfect relationship to each other in Principle.
Many scientists, through their research today, are making the same statement: The only discord that exists is with the human or the individual and that discord is brought about by discordant thoughts. It is said today that the American people are the most discordant in their thinking. It is quite evident that this fact is brought about by the many attitudes of thought held by the numerous nationalities which are brought together here. These nationalities have not yet been fully assimilated. It is found, however, that the great assimilating process is going on very rapidly now.
The mathematical axiom that only things that are equal to the same thing are equal to each other is, after all, the key to all harmony. It is only as the peoples of America become actuated by a common impulse that any semblance of harmony can be established. This is also true of the world generally, just as it is true of the individual. Only when all the forces involved in a single organism, or in many organisms, become animated by a single impulse and move in perfect unison toward a given objective is there complete harmony.
There is no question but that Jung in his work struck a very deep key in the attitude of harmony in relation to all things when he related his experience of going into a cave. In many portions of India the people retire to caves in order to become perfectly silent to work out a definite conclusion about certain determining factors. In every instance where these reports are available it is found that when they go to the place where they are perfectly silent to conditions around them they come into the greatest activity of life. They see further as they project their vision further. They see completely through the material or physical to what they say is that perfect condition wherein all activity is harmonious. Then that which they see as true universally is merely related to the world of things. It is not that the world is subjugated to the spiritual but merely related to its original state; and then the perfection of the spiritual world is immediately manifested. That activity, in harmonious accord, works perfectly under their guidance.
In reality this is the same procedure which all men follow in the application of any principle. It is first necessary to leave the outer forms—through which principle is expressed—alone until there is clear discernment of the movement of the principle involved. This movement of principle is then related to the outer form and we have harmony and rhythm in music, correct answers to problems, perfect architectural structures, perfect paintings, and perfect statues. All these manifestations are brought about because of the individual’s ability to identify himself with underlying reality and this reality is then brought forth through the form with the same beauty and harmony that is seen in principle.
Now these same people will tell you that it is not necessary for each individual to become as they are in order to get into that harmonious relation but that it can be brought about in the ordinary walks of life. They purposely take that attitude to find out what happens, to come to a definite conclusion. After that conclusion is reached they are able to teach others but they do not teach others to do as they have done. They teach that it may be made practical; that it is not necessary to spend long years in meditation to bring this about because they have found a shorter method or an easier way; that the instant you become silent you are one with harmony or accord. Thus, from that very moment you begin to progress; the attitude of thought changes from turmoil to harmony; strife is not evident; consequently you have raised your body’s vibration to the vibration where strife does not exist.
If one is able to accomplish that condition, all can, but all need not take the long and arduous way. Once a fact is revealed one needs but to accept that fact. The thought of the Masters is: We have gone through the process of making the discovery, we know what the determining factors are, and the rest of mankind need not make the discovery for themselves but may accept what has been revealed. Consequently, it is not necessary for the mass to sit in Samadhi. They express it by stating that one who sits in Samadhi is able to teach others what he has discovered. All may go through the practice of Samadhi if they wish although it is unnecessary for this reason: Through accepting the conditions which have been revealed, that acceptance brings about a certain leveling influence, a certain vitalizing condition wherein one sees more readily. By beginning with the revealed knowledge one is more easily adjusted to the silence, or the harmonious conditions and facts about him. Therefore, by following the conclusions of those who have gone through the preliminary steps, he moves forward directly into the Samadhic state. Those who have gone through to this state are the way-showers or teachers. As they say, it is not necessary to follow the teacher step by step, because they have cleared the way. They have realized the condition which has then become general and the projection has opened the way for all.
This is the truth back of the vicarious atonement of Jesus. He, as the way-shower, explained that we are one with the Father even as He was one with the Father. We do not have to fight our way back to this state for He revealed it as an established fact. Our work is but to assume as being true what He proved as true. We do not have to prove that the sum of all the angles of a triangle is equal to two right angles after it has once been proved. When it is a revealed fact, all we have to do is accept it. If that were not true, each one would have to prove for himself every movement of mathematics, mechanics, art, etc. But, when others have proved these things, we vicariously enter into their labors, begin where they left off, and proceed to the next condition under that principle.
The larger the group or the greater the number of persons in a group, the greater the influence. The greater the influence the greater the impetus always. Therefore, it is said that if a group of one hundred would sit in Samadhi, or complete silence, that influence created would suffice for thousands. Therefore, thousands would be elevated to a greater enlightenment by that one hundred.
This is where the Yogis play a very vital part. They purposely give up a certain portion of their lives to putting out that influence, especially the influence for body perfection. And it is often said that it is not necessary for all people to go through the system of Yoga to perfect the body because they have gone through and made that perfection possible for all. That is what was expressed when Jesus gave His life upon the cross. They, as well as Jesus, knew that they were not giving up their lives. They were giving that certain portion to a higher expression that all might see and follow. They became the way-showers or teachers. Therefore, the people who could progress would go further and in greater strides.
These are the reasons why it is said that it is not necessary to go through all the many stages of Yoga or Joga. Many accomplish these steps in just a few hours because added impetus is given by those who have given greater time to service and greater impetus for that service. There are certain select groups who are working along that line all the time. That influence can be picked up, as it is radiated out from different groups and different centers all of the time.
This influence is picked up on the spiritual plane just as radio music is picked up on the electrical plane. But, as radio music picked up from the electrical plane is heard and felt on the material and mental planes, so are these spiritual influences manifest upon every plane below, for it is all-inclusive. It is all a spiritual plane, One Universal Plane working in perfect unison with itself when the individual awakens to see it as it truly is. The contact is made, not by seeking the masters or their influences, but by seeking the plane of harmonious thought and spiritual influence which permeates all time and space and in which they work.
A line may seemingly have two opposites but bring these opposites together and you have a circle and the opposites have thus disappeared. Extend the circle and you have a perfect sphere, which is complete, synchronized relationship of all elements. As Millikan says, “The Cosmic becomes the globe.” Then you have completed the circle in every way and brought about perfect unity. The point becomes the line, the line becomes the circle, the circle becomes the globe. This is true of every line of thought and through the continual process of relating all things to the One instead of separating everything, the point of unity or oneness is established. This is One-pointedness.
When the individual attains concentration in thought, he enters the Samadhic condition and that is where he begins to accomplish—when he reaches that One-pointedness.
It should be remembered, however, that this concentration or One-pointedness is an expanded state of mind and not a contracted state. It comes through the principle of relating all things rather than through the mistaken idea of excluding anything. Samadhi permits the individual to see directly through to the whole, the Truth or Principle.
This eliminates what the Western World teaches about the conscious and subconscious minds. In reality there is but ONE MIND, and that, we could call the Superconscious. That is where you bring the conscious and subconscious into accord. You are then conscious of the whole. It is complete consciousness. Then there is no division whatever and if we make no division we are in complete conscious accord.
The division of the mind into conscious, subconscious and so forth was first put forth as an assistance in teaching. Now, however, the reverse is true. We can best understand mind and progress consciously in spiritual unfoldment by thinking and working in terms of One Mind. The divisions were a part of the teaching of symbolism now past. It may have been a necessary classification in that period but the race has now worked through symbolism completely. We are accepting the completeness of all symbols. When we become One with that one attitude of thought, there is where we begin to accomplish.
I have talked with men of great achievement and find that they for the most part work with the One Mind, with the consciousness that everything is always here and always present. That has been their attitude. That very attitude is coming out so dominantly now that we will find it is going to change all of our economic system. If we could be wholly at one with that Mind there would be no cross-purposes. Consumption of energy would be 90 per cent less. That energy is rapidly and increasingly being used for higher and greater purposes instead of being dissipated in efforts to take away from the other fellow what he needs for himself. The truly Great never have to go out and take away from the other fellow in order to produce. With them everything that is here belongs to them and that which belongs to them they are free to use.

FOR THE TEACHER

Paragraphs 1 and 2. Every principle with which we deal begins from a definite premise and only through adherence to this basic premise is any structure possible. The reason man’s life has seemingly gone into decay is that he has disregarded the basic fact of life. This basic fact of life is that the entire system of the Universe is one single unit and that man is an integral part of this system. He is in no sense separated from it and it is only his notion that he is an isolated being that has lost for him his rightful place and authority.

Paragraphs 3 and 4. In these paragraphs it can be clearly pointed out just how the sense of duality was developed and, thereyby, we may learn how it may be overcome.

Paragraphs 5 and 6. “I” in the individual is the first movement of his nature, the central point of his identity. “Am” is that which embodies, or embraces within the “I”—individual identity—whatever it encircles. The “I” is a positive assertion and the “Am” is the qualifying element. “I” is masculine and “Am” is the feminine principle. The “Am” brings forth into being whatever it embraces or conceives. The “Am” must become immaculate in its embracing power if man is to bring forth that which is in Spirit. “I,” which is my identity in Spirit, “Am,” that which embraces or embodies all that is in God, is the true use of these words. “I am THAT I am,” which is the embodiment of God. I can never in reality be anything but THAT which it is in Spirit. “I am THAT I am, and beside me there is no other.”

Paragraphs 7 and 8 afford a wonderful opportunity to show the necessity and advantage of completely harmonizing everything. It is impossible, of course, to harmonize everything with our own thought and notion but we can at least recognize that since a thing has being at all it must to some extent contain the elements of the whole. By seeing it in relationship to the whole and harmonizing it with the All, we at least escape the discord that arises in our own nature, and thereby preserve ourselves in our true relationship. “God moves in a mysterious way” and even though we do not see just how all things are working in ultimate harmony with the Universal purpose, it would not require a great stretch of the imagination to admit that it must be so because of the very nature of God.

Paragraph 9. There is no discord in the natural order of the Universe. All discord is our reaction to that which we imagine to be wrong or out of its rightful place. It is only to the degree that we are not in tune with things as they are in Fact that there is discord in our own nature. Discord is not without, it is within our own nature. To prevent this discord we must harmonize with the spiritual reality back of all appearances. The mixed thought of America is only symbolic of the mixed thought of the individual American mind and all will be harmonized as we progress toward a common goal.

Paragraph 10. Illustrative of paragraph 9.

Paragraphs 11 and 12 show clearly how harmony may be established. All who achieve let the world’s thinking and doing alone and concern themselves with what ought to be done.

Paragraphs 13, 14 and 15 point out clearly the short cut to spiritual attainment and should be made clear enough to forever free the individual student from the idea that he must do a lot of overcoming before he can reach his spiritual estate. He must accept his spiritual estate as has been revealed by every illumined teacher since the beginning of time and this illumined state is in itself the overcoming.

Paragraphs 16 and 17 afford an excellent opportunity to point out the value of individual and group meditation upon spiritual things. This is the real ground work of any center or class movement and to neglect it is to lose sight of the most potent force in the building of a spiritual ministry and individual power for accomplishing the tasks of everyday life.

Paragraphs 18 and 19 are illustrative of the same facts brought out in paragraphs 13, 14 and 15.

Paragraphs 20 and 21 are illustrative of the principle of harmonization and can be exemplified profitably.

Paragraph 22. This paragraph should forever free the student from the idea that concentration is a state of mental fixity or focusing the mind on thoughts, ideas, pictures, or objects. Concentration is that expanded state of mind to take in the Oneness of all things rather than an attempt to exclude anything from the thought. It is a process of relating all things to the Source.

Paragraphs 23 and 24. The so-called subconscious mind is but a reactionary phase of mind to intellectual thought that has cut off a person from the natural activity of Universal thought. There are no eddies in a stream unless the flow of direct current is impeded in some way and there is no subconscious mind, so called, when the stream of illuminating thought is uninterrupted. When one is in the stream of life as it is, there is only radiant consciousness of reality.

Paragraph 25 is illustrative and may be enlarged upon according to the knowledge of the instructor.

CHAPTER IV

BASIS OF COMING SOCIAL

REORGANIZATION

In taking up this subject of social reorganization we will begin with Hawaii and the situation there. There is a great similarity in the thought of the Hawaiian people and our own, especially when brought about by experiences. You can take an Hawaiian anywhere in the ocean that you want and you cannot lose him. Never have they gone out in their canoes but that there was at least one man in each canoe who could tell where they were as though they had the best compass in the world in that canoe. It was the concern of the others to work the boat and his business to pilot it at all times. They have brought this capacity down through the ages with them.
At one time we took one of the Hawaiians out into the Atlantic ocean where he had never been before and discovered that this sense of direction was bred in him. We put this man in a boat with sailors who knew nothing of navigation and he directed them to the Cape Verde Islands hundreds of miles away. The Hawaiians keep quiet and find a solution readily. They use this quality very definitely.
The great inventive capacity of the American mind is the functioning of this same sense. The difference lies chiefly in the field into which it is directed. Also we are all making use of it to a much larger extent than we realize. When we know how we naturally function and then proceed to consciously work in harmony with ourselves, we will make much greater progress in every direction. Did you ever note how you yourself very often function in certain ways through an inner sense, or hunch, or feeling and then all the reasons develop afterwards which show the whys and wherefores? Many people try to think it all out first, then they never do anything but think, for there is no apparent solution for anything until after it has been done. The feeling that it can be done, or that it should be done, or it were better so and so is the first activity of this sense and, if one would be still, the rest of the information would come, completing his whole plan of action. Then the intellectual explanation or the thoughts defining the process would be readily formulated. The reasoning mind, as we commonly know it, only travels over the same grounds it has previously been over, but reason is never complete until this other sense is taken into account. The new social order will come just as the inventor’s ideas come. It will be a flash of revelation, so to speak, and then the mind may put it together and carry it out. Man’s description for this new order will be complete only as it is in operation. Reason is descriptive but this other sense sees and goes beyond reason, opening the way for larger reason.
This is not a phase of the super-conscious as many style it nor is it a phase of the sub-conscious. It is the power to penetrate into either. With the Hawaiians it is a perfectly conscious thing. It is brought about by involution. It is presented to them and is worked out through them. When they used to go on foot around the islands, before they had transportation at all, they were drawn to places where they were needed. I have seen forty or fifty of them go across the island to find that some of their people were in trouble there. Sometimes their friends across the island would come to them. They never missed in those things. They were in constant touch with each other all the time. I have inquired of them and they think nothing of it. They simply function that way because they have never been given the impression that it is anything but natural.
Where the interest of those on one side of the island centered wholly within themselves they would not be concerned about the needs of those on the other side. They are unified through common interests and are concerned with the welfare of those about them and it is this interest that makes them sensitive to needs outside their own circle or location. Where there is need among their fellows they draw this sense of need into themselves through the bond of sympathy which makes them one and the needs of one group become instantly known by another. Selfishness and self-interest separate us, isolate us from the rest of humanity, and this sense of separateness makes people immune to their needs, thus throwing the social structure out of balance. It is in this way that greater and greater needs develop in one group while greater and greater abundance develops in another and the whole social structure is thrown out of balance. This is where war and strife develop. Can you imagine two groups going to war, each striving to meet the needs of the other? “Nature abhors a vacuum” and just as violent storms occur because of extreme differences in atmospheric pressure, so do wars develop primarily from extremes in the human status.
This faculty of the Hawaiians is mostly memory going back to former generations. They have never been out of it. There are no barriers put up between them and their former lives. They say, “It isn’t that we have lived in this spot all the time. We see all of these places at all times from one point. We have never been separated from it. It is only necessary to become quiet and then we know where we want to go.”
In a sense this is the same faculty of instinct which the animal uses but, just as the man is much higher form of being than the animal, so are all his faculties comparatively enlarged. In the animal it is instinct but in man it is very much extended in its capacity, call it intuition or spiritual discernment if you will. The animal has it only to an extent but the human goes right through. He can see just what he is going to accomplish. The animal returns over the same ground it has traveled but the human being can go to any position without going over the same ground.
It cannot be accurately determined to what extent this faculty leads the animal into new fields but we do know that it is the primary function of this faculty that has paved the way for human advancement in every field of human progress. The only difference between men of great achievement and those who remain in mediocrity is that the great pay little attention to what has been done and what obstacles or apparent reasons may stand in the way of achievement but devote themselves to contemplating what can or ought to be done. Those who allow their mental and emotional natures to recoil, refusing to let this sense reach out into the undiscovered, destroy their own capabilities and this keeps them always in the prison house of limitation. But it should be noted that prison is only the recoil or reflex of their own nature. Genius is that which goes on through conditions and circumstances and keeps eternally in the process of expansion and extension of achieving power.
The ability to use this sense for unlimited progress applies to everyone. It is not for the select individual. It is for all to use. The Hawaiians are far more conscious than any others we know of, except the Polynesians. The latter will come to Hawaii on a visit from a distance of three thousand miles. The true Polynesian and Hawaiian are true Caucasian. It seems that this faculty runs more definitely in the true Caucasian race. If they do not submerge it by doubting its existence or allowing it to stop with apparent limitations, it seems to be greater always.
This is what Theodore Roosevelt encountered in Africa. It is evident also in Alaska and Siberia. When I went out in 1905 to take relief to Amundsen there was no evidence of a trail at all but, when we were within thirty or forty miles of that village, the villagers came out and met us, told us how many dogs and sleds we had and generally all about our party and its equipment.
One reason the Americans do not possess this faculty is because they have too many accommodations. We have just let it slip by and have not retained it consciously. Subconsciously or unconsciously the American has this faculty to a great extent. Most Americans have had the experience of it but hesitate to use it generally or to say anything about it.
The average American thinks it a sign of being a bit off if something is suggested for which there is no apparent reason. Such a feeling is the result of ignorance regarding the true capacities of the individual and the most vital means he has for any degree of achievement. It is his doubt of himself and his ability that holds him back. “If ye believe and doubt not, nothing shall be impossible to you,” said Jesus. This faculty is the first requisite to sound reason, while the other processes of reason commonly relied upon as the only basis of intelligent reason are secondary. Great achievements have been accomplished from realms beyond reason and the reasons appeared after. Sound reason is brought about by first looking clear through the limitations, catching the vision of the unapparent, yet entirely possible, and then building the other processes of reason as these facts are worked out. “To faith add knowledge” say the scriptures but most of us attempt to attain faith by first knowing all about a thing objectively.
Then, too, we let others do our thinking for us. We rely upon them to think everything out, to give it form, and then we rely upon the thing produced. The producer becomes more and more capable and the dependent one becomes more and more dependent. Emerson said as much when he referred to the fact that what we gain on one hand we lose on the other. We have watches but have lost the ability to tell the time of day ourselves. To neglect the development of self through dependence upon anything outside yourself is to weaken your own nature.
The Chaldean astronomers got their information on astronomy through the use of the intuitive faculty—or the power of the mind to penetrate through to fact. They would depend on this completely and then work out all theories. These ancient Chaldeans included the workings of this faculty in their history. It has always been in evidence. The influence is still in existence. If we want it we must become one with it. That is all.
This is the “eye of the soul” about which the Mystics wrote. Through it men have read and will continue to read the Akashic records. Through it we may perceive things happening at a distance or envision future events with the speed of light—186,000 miles per second. It comes to us at times during an earthquake or other extremity. “Coming events cast their shadows before them.” Everything happens first on higher planes; then reflection occurs here. It functions in the Devachan period between consciousness and form. It is the two faces of the Gargoyle at the temple gate. Looking one way it admits limitation of delusion into the temple, man’s being. Looking into the realm of Spirit it admits the freedom and power of illumination.
The Hawaiians possess a great natural insight into things and they prophesy and prognosticate. There is a certain group of Hawaiians who will get together and tune in impending influen